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It’s more than a bike – but it’s definitely not a car.
The North Vancouver developer of the Veemo is hoping the pedal-powered vehicle he’s co-created will be the missing link and the next big thing in the way we get around our cities with sustainability in mind. “We see this as modal shift – getting people out of cars and into active transportation like cycling,” said Kody Baker, chief technology officer for VeloMetro. “We wanted to take that concept of a threewheeled, stable, electric-assist, enclosed vehicle and make it more approachable, more user-friendly.” Inside the enclosed cabin, the rider straddles a transmission hump with pedals on either side. The Veemo has handlebars with front and rear brakes, as well as turning signals and a touch-screen display for navigation. Its top speed is 32 kilometres per hour. Baker, who hails from Central Lonsdale, co-founded the company with an aim to woo the demographic of people who want the functionality of a car without the greenhouse gasses. “We’re all very passionate about electric vehicles and see an electric vehicle future as one of the solutions to climate change,” he said. “We wanted to tackle the challenge of how
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North Vancouver resident Kody Baker, co-founder of VelvoMetro, shows off the Veemo – a lemon-coloured pedal-powered three-wheeled streamline baby - which he hopes will become part of a new approach to urban transportation by combining the benefits of bike and car. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
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If the City of North Vancouver mayor has his way, he’ll put a price on all your butts – cigarette butts, that is.
That’s the message Mayor Darrell Mussatto had for all the smokers who flick their filters, stubs and cigarette butts throughout the City of North Vancouver’s streets, sidewalks and parks. In an effort to stem the yellowing tide of litter,
Mussatto is proposing a province-wide deposit on all cigarettes sold in B.C. Smokers would pay an extra $1 per pack and get five cents back for each cigarette stem returned. If working with the province isn’t fruitful, Mussatto said the city may consider a North Vancouver-wide deposit program – provided such a program is legal. “Do we have the authority to require a deposit?” he asked. “That’s what we’re going to ask … our lawyers.”
While a lack of ashtrays may exacerbate the proliferation of cigarette butts, Mussatto said he’s not anxious to bring back the bins. “We don’t want to normalize, or make smoking acceptable,” Musssatto said. “We don’t want to make it look like it’s OK.” The situation is a bit of a conundrum, according to the mayor. “On the one hand, we want to keep a clean city.
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Exploring the Antarctic Peninsula in inflatable boats is one of the activities intrepid travellers from around the world will enjoy when they join the 2041 Foundation on an expedition to the world’s southernmost continent this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED THE 2041 FOUNDATION
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Antarctica can be described in a series of superlatives.
It is, on average, the coldest, driest, windiest place on Earth. It has the highest average elevation of the seven continents and it is the least populated with no permanent human residents. On March 14, 61-year-old North Vancouver resident Abby Antal will board the Ocean Endeavour in Ushuaia at the southern tip of Argentina. The ice-class ship will spend two days crossing the legendary Drake Passage, where large waves and gale force winds prevail, before reaching the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. “It’s the trip of a lifetime,” says Antal, sitting in her Lynn Valley living room just days before her departure. “I’m like a little kid at Christmas time, you know, I can’t wait.”
Due to its hostile environment and remote location, Antarctica is not the first vacation choice for most people. But for Antal, who has always felt at home in the great outdoors, the icy landmass at the bottom of the world, sometimes referred to as the world’s last great wilderness, has an almost magical quality. She’s making her two-week trip down south with the 2041 Foundation – an organization dedicated to preserving Antarctica by promoting recycling, renewable energy and sustainability to combat the effects of climate change – and will join more than 100 other people from around the globe who were hand-picked from thousands of applicants. The expedition is being led by 2041 founder Robert Swan, an explorer and environmentalist from the U.K. who became the first person in history to walk unassisted to both the North and South poles in
the 1980s. His foundation is named for the year the current moratorium on mining and drilling in Antarctica is up for renegotiation. Antal subscribes to Ted Talks and Swan’s lecture, Let’s Save the Last Pristine Continent, showed up in her inbox one day last year. “He’s quite an amazing speaker and when I listened to his story it just grabbed my heart,” she says. “I didn’t even think twice. I went to the website after I listened to the talk and found out that he does the expeditions on a yearly basis, so I just clicked on ‘apply’ and wrote from my heart.” Antal was accepted to join last year’s expedition, but participants must pay their own way and there just wasn’t enough time to find the money. So, she deferred to this year and has spent the last several months raising the $12,000 (U.S.) needed to make the trip a reality.
That has meant selling off possessions, renting out her basement suite, crowdfunding online, and securing two corporate sponsors, Conergy and BrainTest, to help cover her expenses. Fortunately, Antal already owns most of the coldweather gear needed to survive the frigid Antarctic temperatures thanks to her previous travels up North. Now, with everything in place, she’s looking forward to a packed itinerary that includes shore landings in inflatable boats, visits to penguin rookeries, glacier hikes and pitching tents on the ice. “I’ve been looking at so many pictures and videos and the landscape, to me, it’s awe inspiring,” she says. “There’s so few wildernesses left out there and to be able to witness that is totally amazing.” ! ! !
Antal’s relationship with the outdoors began in the Toronto neighbourhood
where she was raised. “I guess I was fortunate enough to be brought up in the age where parents would let their kids out and they’d say, ‘Don’t come home until the lights come on.’ So, I pretty well was sent outside in the morning as a young girl and I just explored all around me. My parents gave me a microscope one year for Christmas and I hauled it around to the local pond to try and see if I could find any swamp creatures,” she recalls. Her father was a naturelover and the two of them would often go fishing together. He encouraged her to participate in sports and sent her to summer camp, “which I just loved immensely because I was able to go outside and be free.” In her adult years, her passion for sports and recreation continued to grow. “I became a long-distance
runner. I’ve run seven marathons, did one ultra (marathon),” she says. Her outdoor adventures include sea kayaking and camping in the High Arctic, Baja Peninsula and West Coast of B.C., and ice climbing in the Rocky Mountains. For a time, she operated a dog sled touring business in Edmonton where she would wake up every morning and feed 65 dogs (and chip their poop off the ice) in -25 C temperatures. “Just the exhilaration of working with the dog teams was pretty exciting.” Antal lived in the Lower Mainland 30 years ago and raised her children here. She resided in Calgary until recently, but returned to the West Coast just last September and settled on the North Shore. “It’s great to be back because I’m close to the
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Abby Antal will be bringing her Canadian flag, along with plenty of extreme cold weather gear, when she heads to Antarctica this week. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD pointing to an increase in westerly winds as one of the major change-makers. “Those west winds would bring a lot of warm, moist air from the oceans to the area of the peninsula.” Those conditions lead to sea ice melt, retreating glaciers, an upwelling of CO2 enriched waters, and a change in surface reflectivity, which means more heat energy is absorbed, she explains. And all of these environmental changes impact local plants and animals. “With the loss of sea ice, researchers have found that krill stocks are declining in some areas and krill are sort of the foundation of the food chain in that area,” Schreader says. “Some species would be able to adapt to some of these changes over time, and some species, if their limits are exceeded, could face a real downturn in their population and possible extinction in the years to come.” As to what we can do to mitigate or possibly reverse the effects of global warming, Schreader encourages people to support climate science and be aware of their carbon footprint.
“It’s hard because a lot of these impacts we’re seeing would have been triggered decades ago, but I think that if we continue to move forward and really consider our reliance on fossil fuels and what a transition to more renewable, less CO2 fuels would be, I think that’s really important.” ! ! !
Tapping into renewable energy sources is something Antal supports wholeheartedly. She has two granddaughters, ages six and nine. They call her Mountain Grandma and they are a huge part of the reason she wanted to join this expedition in the first place: to share the story of Antarctica with the younger generation. When she returns home, Antal hopes to set up speaking engagements in schools to talk about her experience on the fragile continent, to teach youth the importance of global sustainability, and to encourage them to go outdoors and learn from nature. “You protect something that you love, and so if kids get outside and really appreciate nature and love it, then they will hopefully do things that will keep it that way.”
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On the other, we don’t want to . . . support any smoking at all.” The first step will be to contact West Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver, according to Mussatto. From there, the city hopes
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do we provide an electric vehicle for the masses?” Within the next couple months, the City of Vancouver’s staff will be getting a fleet of 10 through a city program which allows clean tech startups to test their products and services in real-world conditions. With its automatic transmission and torque sensor, the 120-kilogram Veemo’s electricassist motor will give the rider an extra boost when heading up a steep hill. It’s designed to tackle hills with a grade of 20 per cent. “It makes it really easy. You’re putting barely any effort and energy in at all,” Baker said. “We’d be able to get up Lonsdale very easily.” The Veemo got some sunny praise from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at last week’s GLOBE 2016 sustainability conference. “He loved it,” Baker said, although Trudeau’s security detail doesn’t let him get in any vehicle they haven’t approved. “As a concept, he was really supportive and really interested to hear about our plan and our vehicle.”
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more modern studies have shown it does little to reduce energy use – or may even increase it. And we pay for our chronographic hubris with our health. Studies have linked daylight savings (both forward and back) with an increase in traffic accidents, workplace injuries, heart attacks and strokes. And hell hath no fury like a cat that perceives its breakfast is being served late. Yes, leaving the office at 5 p.m. to glorious sunshine in mid-March is a nice thought, but most of our hemisphere remains cold and dreary this time of year regardless of the hour, and getting up in darkness is also unappealing. There’s little agreement on the issue, even in the U.S. where the clock-switching scenarios tend to dictate our own. It’s time we saw the light and left this semi-annual illogical ritual behind.
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ROBYN BROWN Allowing seniors who rent to have a pet is extremely beneficial to their health and happiness. They provide companionship, joy, exercise, and a daily focus and purpose. Most older folks would have a smaller pet, dog or cat...I agree that there are many pet owners that are very responsible ... often the few that aren’t make it difficult for those that are.
CARL LINNAEUS: What if the next tenant is allergic to pet dander? Sure, you might not need to replace the carpets every time, but it is a major contingency to consider. All pets and owners are different. But the market has spoken, property owners are reluctant to rent to pet owners — even the ones that also have their own pet family members.
MIKE O’NEILL I feel the pain. Try finding a place with three dogs and a two year old. People will discriminate against anything – kids, pets even against specific breeds of pets. I have three pit bulls – as soon as they hear that “oh no only small dogs.”
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ABA autism treatment worthy of tax funding Dear Editor: Re: Elizabeth James’ column on autism and ABA, March 2. Kudos to James for writing an informative and valuable column on autism and the unrivaled efficacy of Applied Behavioural Analysis treatment (ABA). This is a subject that deserves much more attention, and government action, than it has received to date in Canada. As a director of the Medicare for Autism Now! Society, and a former trial lawyer, I read the column with especial interest. In her column, Ms. James does make one important factual error: In its 2004 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the leading Auton case, did not overturn
the 2000 decision of the B.C. Supreme Court, insofar as it concerns the trial judge’s central finding of fact, based on all expert medical evidence introduced at the trial, that ABA is “medically necessary.” Nor did it overturn her related, and equally important, finding of fact that there were “no effective competing therapies,” a situation that exists to this day. The B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously accepted the trial judge’s two essential findings of fact. The Supreme Court of Canada, ruled that the section 15(1) charter rights of children with autism had not been violated by virtue of the government’s failure to provide funding for their ABA treatment, and held that it was for the legislature
to determine how public monies were to be spent on health care or other social programs. While the B.C. courts focused their decisions on whether, as a matter of fact, the treatment was medically necessary, the SCC concentrated on a legal analysis of the relevant statute, the BC Medicare Protection Act, which provides that only “physician-provided services” were to be considered “medically required” and fully funded. This intentionally narrow statutory definition is irrelevant to the crucial question of whether, in fact, ABA treatment is medically necessary and worthy of proper funding by taxpayers. David Marley West Vancouver
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Victim blaming unhelpful Dear Editor: Re: Teen Girl Allegedly Assaulted at Unsanctioned Grad Party, March 2 front-page story. The headline for your story is misleading and does a disservice to the community you represent. The fact is there was an assault on a young woman – no allegations, just fact. Furthermore, it is disheartening to read the school district representative’s quotes relating to the situation where the assault occurred
(“Michaud said the school district strongly encourages families to speak to their teens about only attending officially sanctioned grad events, which the school makes parents aware of”). This suggests that she became a victim because she attended an unsanctioned grad event. There is no mention of outrage over the fact that this person became a victim simply because of her sex. The real discussion that parents should be having with their children (and peers) is that it is wrong for this to
be happening in our society, what is the root cause, and what can be done to stop it. Focusing the majority of your coverage on the situation where the assault occurred rather than the real crime and its causes is detrimental to this discussion and an insult to the victim. She did no wrong by attending the event. Her parents did no wrong in allowing her to go. She deserves more from her community. Phil Dupasquier North Vancouver
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Both drivers claim to have had the right of way.” — North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong recaps a collision between a West Van Blue Bus and a Mercedes that knocked a fire hydrant off its fittings (from a March 9 news story).
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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath Readers Choice Awards The 20th Annual North Shore News Readers Choice Awards winners reception was held at North Vancouver’s The View on Lonsdale Wednesday evening and saw business owners and representatives of community groups and service organizations on hand to collect their award plaques. After a record 5,000 votes tallied this year online and in print, 115 winners and more than 200 finalists were selected in a wide variety of categories, from favourite places to eat, shop and exercise to places to enjoy the great outdoors. North Shore News publisher Peter Kvarnstrom presented the awards to winners, some of whom were celebrating their first time being honoured while others received Platinum Awards for winning their category five years in a row. See winners at nsnews.com/community.
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Those behind a new non-profit society offering cancer patients free rides to and from medical appointments are looking to the community for support.
The Volunteer Cancer Drivers Society was launched earlier this year and started serving patients Feb. 29. Community members are encouraged to come on board as volunteer drivers, sign up as clients or make monetary donations. “We’ve basically done everything we can do. Now it’s up to the public and businesses to support us,” says Garth Pinton, society president. The 67-year-old retired North Vancouver resident was part of a group of people who banded together to get the Volunteer Cancer Drivers Society up and running in the wake of the closure of a similar service long offered by the Canadian Cancer Society. “The Canadian Cancer Society’s Volunteer Drivers Program was closed in B.C. in October 2015. We made the difficult decision for a number of reasons, including decreasing volunteer numbers and ridership, the existence of similar government-funded driving programs and increasing operating costs. We are pleased to hear of volunteers starting their own program to drive people to their cancer treatments and follow-up care. We applaud any organization that supports those fighting cancer or aims to make their lives a little easier,” says Leanne Morgan, director of support services, Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. and Yukon.
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Pinton, a founding partner of PFM Executive Search, and former Greater Vancouver Food Bank board member, volunteered as a driver with the Canadian Cancer Society’s Volunteer Drivers Program for five years. He was compelled to get involved after supporting his own mother, a Vancouver resident, through her cancer journey. The challenging time led him to wonder how other patients could cope, particularly those who lived far away from their treatment centres and were without family members or friends to offer rides, particularly those who were unable to afford private, fee-for-service options like taxis or caregiving service providers. Further troubling to him was the knowledge that following certain treatments, patients can feel quite ill. Having to then worry about how they’re going to get home seemed like an unnecessary stress. Pinton became a volunteer with the society’s program in 2010 and from day one realized the positive impact it had on both the patients and volunteers. “It was just incredible. . . . My expression is, ‘At the end of the day I felt badly because I felt so good,’” he says, explaining the positivity expressed by those he drove, despite the difficult situations they found themselves in, was truly overwhelming. He drove people from diverse backgrounds, for example, those living in subsidized housing as well as those in the British Properties. While the majority of clients were in their 60s and 70s, he also drove patients as young as 10 and as old as 85. The news of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Volunteer Drivers Program closure came as a shock to Pinton as well as many of his fellow drivers. “They were devastated, not because they didn’t have somebody to drive, because they knew how those people were going to be affected,” he says. Not wanting to see the service disappear, Pinton and a group of like-minded individuals started taking steps to launch their own program. “When we started to talk about it, we thought, ‘You know? We can do this,’” he says. The Volunteer Cancer Drivers Society is now up and running and is awaiting charitable status. They’re maintaining a virtual office to limit overhead costs and
everything is made possible through the efforts of volunteers. “Obviously family, in this day and age, can’t always be available five days a week,” says Pinton. “We take the stress out of the transportation issue, focus everything on getting better, not, ‘how I’m going to get there and how I’m going to get back,’” he adds. So far they’ve attracted 50 volunteer drivers to the society, 35 of whom were involved in the former cancer society program. Interested drivers are encouraged to apply, asked to complete an application form and submit an ICBC driver’s abstract along with proof of $3 million third party liability insurance. The society hopes to eventually be able to pay driver mileage. “It’s the perfect job because you set your own hours, days, times,” says Pinton. Clients are also encouraged to get in touch and so far 10 have registered. “It will only continue to grow the longer the word is out there,” says Pinton. There is no charge for the service. Clients can make donations if they like, but they’re by no means pressured to do so. Drivers offer door-to-door personalized service, and the society’s dispatch system is set up to ensure patients are dropped off and picked up as per their time-specific needs, whether their appointment lasts 10 minutes or six hours. The Volunteer Cancer Drivers Society is currently offering rides to those in North and West Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam, Port Moody, New Westminster, Langley, Delta, Surrey, White Rock and Abbotsford. Society drivers are also happy to pick up those arriving in Horseshoe Bay via ferry. Common destinations include the B.C. Cancer Agency Vancouver clinic, B.C. Children’s Hospital as well as other area hospitals and medical offices. “It’s a vast geographic area from east to west and, as everybody knows, going back and forth to the cancer clinic over those bridges is not easy these days and I think it’s very stressful for a lot of the residents,” says Pinton. North Vancouver’s Ann Roberts, 77, is one of the society’s first clients. “I am absolutely ecstatic that they’ve come back,” she says. Roberts started using the Canadian Cancer Society’s Volunteer Drivers Program in 1998 in light of a diagnosis
back,” she adds. Having some upcoming appointments with her oncologist and no family living locally, she’s grateful for the return of the service and for the support of the newly founded society. “It’s important to me as a person and it’s important for people on the North Shore to know that this program is coming back. It’s our duty as people to help each other. I think that the (new society) is going to be wonderful,” she says. According to Morgan, the Canadian Cancer Society
with breast cancer followed by uterine cancer. “They picked me up and took me to the cancer agency and brought me back. Good service, local men or women driving and they got to know their patients and the people they were driving. They were very kind. If I wasn’t down at the appropriate time they would go upstairs to whatever department I was in to see if I was alright and when I was coming home,” she says. “They talk to you about your family and if you’re in the dumps about something with cancer, they jolly you
continues to support cancer patients in B.C. through a variety of programs, including two intended to reduce the burden of travel on people with cancer. One is the Travel Treatment Fund, where clients receive a subsidy to help offset the costs of transportation (i.e. feefor-service providers) and the second is its four cancer lodges. In many cases, it can be more cost-effective and less tiring for clients to stay near their treatment location rather than commuting for hours a day, she says. The Freemasons Cancer
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CASUAL FRIDAY NIGHT ART CLASS Join artist Lori Bagneres and work from your intuitive side as you build up textures and layers with acrylic mediums and image transfers for your own images Friday, March 18, 7-9 p.m. at Maplewood House, 399 Seymour River Place, North Vancouver. Cost is $35; materials included. nvartscouncil.ca or 604-9886844 ENGLISH CORNER Enjoy English conversation while making new friends Friday, March 18, 10-11:30 a.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca IPAD LEARN AND LOAN Allow the staff at the West Vancouver Memorial Library to introduce you to the iPad. No experience is necessary in this
GARDEN MAINTENANCE Bee Friendly Native Bee Conservation Society is looking for volunteers to take care of community garden (maintenance and upkeep) through the spring and summer. SPECIAL EVENT VOLUNTEERS Volunteers of all ages are needed to help with special events such as Big Bikes and other short-term events. Volunteers will be involved in activities such as reception/site registration, greeting, etc.
AUTHOR TALK Mark Winston, author of Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive, reads from his publication at St. Catherine’s Church recently. The evening was hosted by 32 Books and Gallery. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
VOLUNTEER “ROADIE” Seniors Acting Up are looking for a volunteer “roadie,” someone who will help them transport sound equipment to performances twice a month and, if possible, help with setup.
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LITERACY MENTOR Writers’ Exchange is looking for volunteer literacy mentors to get inner-city kids excited about reading and writing. Mentors work in small groups with the kids (six-13) to complete literacy projects. The kids benefit from the programs, but mentors also have lots of fun while helping the kids.
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New tools help seniors age well Sometimes a column almost writes itself. I had that thought recently when my editor sent me a copy of a B.C. Ministry of Health press release highlighting some new tools to help British Columbians age well. The late Bette Davis once said, “Aging isn’t for sissies.” That’s a bit harsh but growing older is a part of life. There are nearly three times as many people over the age of 65 living in B.C. today compared to 35 years ago and the older population is projected to double over the next 25 years. So finding resources to help seniors stay healthy throughout their longer lives is important. The latest version of the B.C. Seniors’ Guide is now available in print, PDF and a new ebook format and contains information on a
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ST. PADDY’S PARTY The Londoners invite community members to the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day Pub Night and Singalong, Thursday, March 17 at West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre. A fish and chips dinner will begin at 5 p.m. followed by entertainment at 5:15 p.m. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN up the federal Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement, are all well covered. The B.C. Seniors’ Guide
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SENIORS CALENDAR ELDERCOLLEGE — AGING IN PLACE WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY Presentation and facilitated discussion that focuses on the question of whether modern online technology can assist seniors in living long, healthy and safe lives at home Monday, March 14, 10:15-11:45 a.m. at Capilano library, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. $10. nseldercollege.org MOVIE MATINEE — BUILDING OUR LOG CABIN ON MOUNT SEYMOUR IN 1948 A documentary narrated by Ross Regan on the building of his cabin Thursday, March 17, 11:30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m., at North Shore Volunteers for Seniors, 275 21st St., West Vancouver. Cost: $5, which includes a pizza lunch. 604-922-1575 NORTH SHORE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE BUS TRIP Join a trip to Mahony & Sons, an Irish restaurant, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day,
Thursday, March 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Meet at North Shore Neighbourhood House, 225 East Second St., North Vancouver. Cost: $13 (lunch not included). nsnh.bc.ca ST. PATRICK’S DAY Celebrate at Amica at West Vancouver with live performances by Celtic dancers Thursday, March 17, 2-3 p.m. at 659 Clyde Ave. Participants are encouraged to wear green. RSVP: amica.ca/event/wv-2016-stpatricks-day-celebration/ or 604-921-9181. FABULOUS FIRST FRIDAYS Live music and socializing Fridays, April 1, May 6 and June 3, 7-9 p.m. at Parkgate Community Centre, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver. $9/$7. Info: 604-929-3642. Registration: 604-983-6350. Compiled by Debbie Caldwell Email upcoming event information to listings@nsnews.com.
Site helps prepare for the future From page 20 at no charge from your financial institution. Aging Well is a new website from the B.C. government’s Healthy Families Initiative and is designed for British Columbians in their early 50s and 60s to plan for a healthy future. The site, which was developed with input from seniors, includes videos, articles and quizzes about preparing for the years ahead. Topics covered include, wellness, finance, transportation, housing and social
connections, although my preference would have been to cover these topics in a little more depth. The latest edition of the B.C. Seniors’ Guide is available for free by calling 1-877-952-3181, toll free throughout British Columbia. To access a copy online visit gov.bc.ca/seniorsguide. You can find the Aging Well website at healthyfamiliesbc.ca. Tom Carney is the former executive director of the Lionsview Seniors’ Planning
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One of my friends wouldn’t even talk to me about money during the latest stock market turmoil.
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COMMUNITY PROFILE: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
Exploring empathy, emotion through acting ROSALIND DUANE rduane@nsnews.com
“If I never get to experience your true response in any given situation will I ever get to know who you really are?”
Russell Porter stands in front of a group of 16 teens. He is holding up a cellphone. “Who here has a phone?” he asks. Not surprisingly they all raise their hands. What follows is a discussion about true communication, the resonance of the intention of feeling, and what it means to live without a protection system like a phone. When texting you can strategize your response and control the narrative more than when you are talking to someone in person, he notes. As he kneels on the ground in front of the group, Porter poses a question: what is missing from texts? “Your beautiful, flawed, interesting, unique handwriting,” he suggests quietly, tying it in to the expression of honesty, individuality and personality. There is no sound from the audience as Porter adds more layers. He talks about
Trinity Zylstra and Jasmine Gish work on an improv exercise at The First Step Actors’ Workshop in North Vancouver. The scenario presented them with a challenge to stay connected during a fake phone call involving another person. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN getting down to the deepest, most powerful place of creative decision-making. He talks about the teens battling
their brains to reach back to an instinctive empathy they were born with but may have forgotten.
“Is this hard?” he asks the group at the end. “Yes,” they answer almost in unison.
“And that’s a good thing,” Porter tells them. It’s a regular rainy Thursday night outside
in North Vancouver, but inside The First Step Actors’ Workshop there’s something interesting unfolding. It’s an acting class to be specific, but it also seems like something else. Something not so specific. After Porter finishes his instruction, the class breaks into two groups and heads to separate rooms to participate in an improv exercise. Two students sit facing each other. A phone rests on a table between them. They start to have a conversation, but are interrupted by a call. One student answers the fake phone and has a conversation with the person on the other end. It is that student’s job to then somehow include the other student in the conversation without explicitly telling them what’s going on. Throughout the exercise, the students are reminded to consider who each person is in the conversation and what their relationship is to each other. “We’re already in the middle of life,” one instructor suggests, explaining how the scene starts in the middle
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Exercises encourage improving instinct From page 23 of the action. In this way, no scene starts at the beginning. The theme is connected empathy, and the teens are asked to dig down to the truth inside themselves and the truth inside each other. As the next half an hour unfolds, the two groups tackle serious subjects in their phone conversations, including cancer, crime, and abusive boyfriends, all
unscripted. The students, whether they are part of the scene or not, seem highly engaged. Each scene is just a moment in life and they are all present for it, one of the instructors tells the class. The scenario may be pretend, but what they’re doing in the scene is not, explains 17-year-old Jasmine Gish in an interview after the class. “It’s not putting on a show it’s being able to actually
have some truth with someone,” she says. At school everyone figuratively wears a mask or carries a security blanket, but in this class they don’t. “People who come here really do want to feel something and want to explore,” says Gish. “It teaches you about yourself and it helps you grow.” It’s not surprising to Porter that the teens brought up somewhat dark subjects during their improv exercise. Although the instructors give them the broad narrative, the students migrate to where they will most be able to feel, he says. “They choose to be in a moment that elicits the most feeling,” he explains. “Isn’t that interesting? Because where are they getting that out there in the world?” One of Porter’s life theories is that everything we do, every day all day long, is about feeling. Feeling, empathy, and connection are themes that come up
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Russell Porter leads a teen acting class at The First Step Actors’ Workshop in the photos above and below. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN repeatedly in our discussion about the teen acting class, which seemed more like an exercise in human study than an exercise in scene study. “They get to feel, they get to be connected, they get to be respected, they get to listen, they get to have empathy. They don’t get to walk down a high school hallway and be empathetic,” says Porter of the young students. “We’re inviting them to be in the reality that they want to be in.” Craig Shand has been attending one of the adult classes at the studio for about four years. He was hooked after the first class and enjoys the emotional element of acting. “It’s exciting to be on the edge of different feelings,” he says. “It’s really just portraying life, which is what people struggle to do.” Shand has been in some commercials and had a small part in a Bollywood film, but says although he would enjoy pursuing acting as a career, he’s not relying on that to happen and enjoys the weekly classes as an opportunity to open up to different sides of his personality. Although students also do scripted scene study, Shand enjoys the improv exercises because they hone instinct and encourage being in the moment. “Just live and be human and don’t be afraid to go with how you feel,” he says. Reflecting on the socialemotional exploration he witnesses and guides each week at the studio, Porter suggests he has had a revelation of sorts. Although he didn’t set out to, after 17 years of running his business, he now wonders if he has found something he didn’t know he was missing.
“Maybe after all this time maybe I’ve learned something: that none of it’s about acting. Maybe it was a journey, maybe it was a search. I’m finding something through them.” A graduate of Balmoral and Carson Graham schools, Porter found a safe place in their drama programs as a teen. What got him into acting was a need to be seen and heard, he notes, and fortunately he got what he needed then. After high school, Porter went on to act professionally and has appeared in popular movies and TV shows, including The X-Files, Head Over Heels, Supernatural, and Arrow. However, he now admits that in the early days of his career he didn’t know what he was doing. “I had no idea what acting was then,” he says, adding he knew what the TV and film industry was about, what getting an agent was, what going to an audition was, but didn’t truly understand the craft. “Then I realized, wow, the person you are really is the catalyst. It’s all personal.” Acting, as in life, he now believes, is about being connected and being in the moment without fear and without strategy. And he’s hoping to pass that message on. “I would say it’s about
feeling, it’s about defining character, meeting our own character, and rediscovering our instinctive empathy,” he says, adding there’s something that might be lacking in his students’ everyday experiences that they get through acting. “It’s a place where everybody walks through the door and they’re recognized for who they are, not who they’re supposed to be.” Porter says he is constantly amazed and inspired by the work he watches in class every week. And probably without meaning to, he makes a statement about the students that could just as much be about life in general as it is about his acting workshops: “We’re all so different, we’re all so unique and yet we are all so essential to this experience.”
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Pipers win junior provincials
Swant scores 44 in final ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com
A big serving of breakfast basketball – topped off with a sweet performance from star point guard Georgia Swant – helped the Argyle Pipers win the junior girls provincial championships last week at Langley Events Centre.
Swant was sublime in Argyle’s 71-65 win over Langley’s Walnut Grove Gators, scoring an incredible 44 points while also dishing out five assists – all in a game that lasted just 32 minutes. The biggest play of all, however, may have come on the defensive end where Swant took a charge against Walnut Grove superstar Tavia Rowell with less than two minutes left in the game. The defensive stop gave the ball back to the Pipers with a 68-65 lead that they never relinquished and The Argyle Pipers junior girls team celebrates a championship win at the provincial tournament held last week at Langley Events Centre. The fourth-ranked it also handed Rowell her Pipers beat the No. 1- and No. 2-ranked teams to score gold, led by a 44-point performance from Georgia Swant in the final. PHOTO SUPPLIED fifth foul, sending her out of Chloe Walton, the coach said. and it paid off at the end of the season.” early-morning workouts, said Beyrouti. the game. “Chloe took the reins and helped get us The Pipers came into provincials ranked “We’ve done something called breakfast “I’ve never had a player score that many to the final,” said Beyrouti. “She really made fourth and battled their way into the seminclub at our school where kids would come points before,” said head coach Anthony a huge impact for our team.” finals where they were matched up against shooting at 7:15 in the morning twice a Beyrouti, who has been coaching on the After beating the No. 1 team, the Pipers No. 1-ranked Lord Tweedsmuir from Surrey. week,” he said. “It was totally optional but North Shore for more than a decade. “But had the pleasure of facing No. 2 Walnut The Pipers were cruising to an upset but we started with four kids, then we got to five then to also get the assists and get the Grove in the final. trouble brewed when Swant fouled out of kids. By the time we got to our last session charge on top of the points, it makes it even “We came into the tournament thinking the game with six minutes left. The topwe had 10 kids out. High school kids find cooler.” we could win the thing but we also knew ranked Panthers seemed poised to pounce, every reason not to come out at 7:15 in the Swant was the star of the final but morning to shoot, (but) our kids bought into but the Pipers held on to their lead thanks the team has been building up steam all to some inspired last-minute play from it and they came out and they did the work season long, thanks in part to optional See Swant page 26
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Seyhawks score AA silver ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com
The Seycove Seyhawks senior girls claimed silver at the AA provincial basketball championships last week at Langley Events Centre, falling just a few points shy of an upset over top-ranked Duchess Park.
The third-ranked Seyhawks knocked off defending champs and secondranked Immaculata with a strong 78-66 semifinal win to set up a final against Prince George’s Duchess Park, but couldn’t quite top the Condors in the final, losing 80-71 in a well-played slugfest. “We ran out of time,” said Seycove head coach Darcy Grant. “It was one of those games where we had some of our
girls play their best basketball games of the year, but that being said, we couldn’t stop some of their better players. … Full credit has to go to the Duchess girls. There wasn’t really anything that we did poorly. We played a very good game, just Duchess Park played better.” Forwards Claudia Hart and Sage Stobbart both earned spots on the tournament first all-star team, while the Seyhawks also got standout play from starters Stephanie Laube, Lindsey Bott, Kayla Krug and super sub Ashley Bradshaw. All of those players except for Hart are in Grade 11, giving the Seyhawks hope that they’ll be in contention for a return trip to the final next season. This year’s team topped their ranking in winning silver, but Grant admitted that they were shooting for more.
“I think from an outsiders perspective looking in, most people would say it was a great success,” he said. “I think after the game sitting in the locker room with our three coaches and 13 players, I think we looked at it as disappointing. We looked back and reflected on our first meeting where we said our goal was to win a provincial championship. And then coming so close, failing by nine points, we were upset, we were disappointed. But I think at the same time we left that dressing room and that game with all of us committed to doing more to be back there again next year. … Knowing the girls and the character of the room, I think they will be very motivated to be doing things over the summer and to come back in September ready to work.”
Seycove’s Stephanie Laube fires a shot during the AA provincial championships. PHOTO SUPPLIED LOGAN HART
Swant steps up with title on the line
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Tournament MVP Georgia Swant leads the break for Argyle at last week’s junior provincial championships. PHOTO SUPPLIED
that we weren’t the favourites to do it,” said Beyrouti. “We had an underdog mentality to us and it was good for the kids – they played with a little bit of a chip on their shoulder and they executed the game plans flawlessly. We took care of business.” Walton and Teagan Mackay took turns guarding Rowell who had torched earlier opponents. Rowell still dropped a hard-earned 24 points in the final but it was her lowest point total of the tournament. “She’s a hell of a player,” Beyrouti said. “To do what (Walton and MacKay) did is unbelievable. It’s a 1-2 punch. It’s one thing if you’ve got one kid who
can guard the ball, but then when you put two people who can really guard the ball, it allows for some pretty cool things to happen.” Argyle got into some foul trouble in the game, which shifted the scoring load further onto Swant’s shoulders, said Beyrouti. “That’s what we needed from her,” he said. “She goes out of her way to get everybody involved and she really wants to achieve big things. … We had some foul trouble, we used a lot of the clock on a lot of our possessions to try to limit the amount of defence we had to play. We ended up going 1-4 low for her a lot, but that was mostly to keep our big kids out of foul trouble. To
keep everybody in the game we needed her to (score), and she did and she was fantastic, obviously.” Swant actually played on the Argyle senior team last year as a Grade 9 player so that she could suit up beside her sister Sophie, who is now a first-year player carving out a nice role on the Simon Fraser University team. This year, however, the Argyle coaches decided to drop Georgia back down to junior to play with her cohort, a strong group of Grade 10 players. “We’re trying to change the culture of the school so we thought it would be in everyone’s best interest to keep the kids together and really getting them working hard and buying into the
culture that we’re trying to set,” said Beyrouti. “We’ve got a couple other very talented kids as well and we’ve kept them all together and said let’s see how we can do as a group.” They obviously did well this year, winning the North Shore, Lower Mainland and provincial titles. Swant was named provincial tournament MVP while Brianna Joyce was named to the first all-star team. The junior showing bodes well for the future of the Argyle senior program, said Beyrouti. “We’re very exited,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of strong seniors coming back, so to add to them the strong Grade 10s, it’ll make a good team for next year for sure.”
Canadian Iranian Foundation Presents the 11th. Annual Norouz Gala
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SEVENS HEAVEN Canadian national rugby player Nanyak Dala talks with North Shore youth rugby players during a clinic held Thursday at Carson Graham secondary. The event was one of several held in and around Vancouver in conjunction with the Canada Sevens international rugby tournament running this weekend at BC Place. North Shore players Harry Jones and Adam Zaruba will suit up for Canada at the event which features top teams from around the world. For full details visit canadasevens.com. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH
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Solutions can be found in next Sunday's issue. CLUES ACROSS 1. Birds 5. Quills 11. Coniferous tree 12. Type of vessels 16. Used for baking or drying 17. Promotion of product or service 18. Many wombs 19. “On the Waterfront” actor 24. Air conditioning 25. Heart condition 26. Curved shapes 27. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet 28. Let it stand 29. Famous actor 30. Mated 31. High and low are types of these 33. Marsupial 34. African nation (Fr.) 37. Huge 38. Mountainous area in Puerto Rico 39. Crooked 42. Canadian law enforcers (abbr.) 43. Neat and smart in appearance 44. Intent 48. Reptile genus 49. A way to make full 50. Merchant 52. Michigan 53. Manifesting approval
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LAST SUNDAY'S CROSSWORD SOLUTION:
YOUR WEEKLY HOROSCOPE
Solve the code to discover words related to music. Each number corresponds to a letter. (Hint: 10 = m)
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WEEK OF MARCH 13-19, 2016 ARIES
MAR 21 – APR 20 A recent development may bring you luck and turn out in your favor, Aries. If financial deals seem lucrative, go ahead and trust your instincts to move ahead.
LIBRA
SEPT 23 – OCT 23 You are feeling helpful and generous this week, Libra. Spread that spirit to others who may be less fortunate than you by volunteering at a soup kitchen or pitching in elsewhere.
TAURUS
APR 21 – MAY 21 Taurus, maintaining a longdistance relationship or friendship can be challenging, but you have what it takes to make the most of the situation.
SCORPIO
OCT 24 – NOV 22 Scorpio, joint ventures are the way to go this week. Pooling your resources provides the chance for you and a friend to go bigger and better on something you both want to do.
GEMINI
MAY 22 – JUN 21 Gemini, fun is ahead if you are willing to take some risks. Take a chance and hang out with a new crowd this week. These might be just the people to add some hop to your step.
SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 – DEC 21 Unresolved issues might crop up this week, Sagittarius. However, you can tackle anything that comes your way if you think out all of the angles.
CANCER
JUN 22 – JUL 22 This is a terrific week to sit down and talk with someone you have not seen in a while, Cancer. Enjoy this reunion and all the laughs that come with strolling down Memory Lane.
CAPRICORN DEC 22 – JAN 20 Capricorn, it is important to speak your mind, even when you are not sure how your opinions will be received. Share your opinions and ask others for theirs.
LAST SUNDAY’S ANSWERS: A. coffee B. tea C. chocolate D. cola
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell something pertaining to music.
TAU G R I LAST SUNDAY’S ANSWER: ENERGY
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LEO
JUL 23 – AUG 23 Your love life may take an exciting turn, Leo. Prepare for what’s ahead by letting someone else take control for a little while. Expect something to happen out of the blue.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 – FEB 18 Aquarius, communication is your best bet this week. Make an effort to speak openly with loved ones and you will be glad for having made the extra effort.
VIRGO
AUG 24 – SEPT 22 Virgo, you may feel a bit more free now that you have unburdened yourself of some debts. Enjoy this newfound financial freedom but remember to watch your spending.
PISCES
FEB 19 – MAR 20 Now is a great time to work on new relationships, Pisces. Pay extra attention to a newfound friend or love interest.
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