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Homeless count reveals cold truths More people sleeping on the streets, advocates say

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On a chilly and damp March afternoon, Darren Guild and Ken Falconer chat with a group of men outside the North Shore Bottle Depot on Donaghy Avenue.

The two have yellow buttons pinned to their jackets indicating they are volunteers in the 2017 Homeless Count, a Metro Vancouver Regional District initiative being run by the BC Non-Profit Housing Association to get a snapshot of the Lower Mainland’s homeless population.

For 24 hours, volunteers armed with pens and surveys fan out around the Lower Mainland to meet face to face with people “living rough.”

The results of the street census are intended to be used for shaping policies to combat homelessness.

Guild took at two-hour shift starting at 5 a.m. walking around Norgate Park, under the Lions Gate Bridge, through Bridgman Park and the wooded areas along Lynn Creek.

While he didn’t find anyone on the street or under a bridge, there was plenty of evidence someone had been there recently, Guild said – shopping carts and bicycles or makeshift cardboard mattresses left abandoned.

The last time the count was done in 2013, volunteers found 119 people living homeless on the North Shore. The total numbers from across Metro Vancouver from this year’s count won’t be available for a few weeks but both Falconer and Guild are predicting the numbers from the count will be down in 2017.

That, however, belies what they know to be true from their work in the nonprofit sector. Activists and professionals who deal with homeless people on the frontlines say the 24-hour snapshot is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

“Things are way worse today than they were three years ago,” said Falconer.

North Vancouver RCMP members assist City of North Vancouver staff and shelter workers in breaking down a temporary homeless camp on a foot path near Third Street. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD “What we’re seeing is more seniors presenting as being homeless. We’re seeing more people living in vehicles. We’re seeing more people who are living hard on the street and in tents.”

To be counted, someone must first be found by the volunteers and be willing to fill out a survey. Many would rather not be found. Many opt to not take the survey because it asks some deeply personal questions, including things like whether they identify as transgender.

Conducting the survey in March also means homeless people will call in favours to get inside.

“That’s what it seems to suggest to me because normally I certainly do see a lot of people sleeping rough in the area,” Guild said.

Others, Falconer said, reject the notion that they are homeless, arguing that their situation is just temporary, that they’re just between apartments, that they’ve got something lined up for the future.

“There’s a lot of denial, a lot of self-deception. They just don’t want to acknowledge it because there’s such a level

of stigma attached to being homeless, and especially in an area like North Vancouver where there’s a great deal of prosperity,” Falconer said.

North Vancouver RCMP members also perceive actual homelessness on the rise.

Oftentimes, officers are called to help break down ad hoc homeless camps that crop up in wooded areas.

“Camps or shelters … are on the increase. It’s often the public that advises us that they’re in the park or creek bed area. They get dismantled either by the city or the district. These people are living there out of necessity.

They truly are. They’ve tried, perhaps, some additional supports,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. “We don’t want to just tear things down and leave people more destitute so we’ll try to get them into a place like the Lookout (shelter) or connected to services that can be of assistance to them.”

Although there appears to be more people of all age groups, the RCMP is also noticing more seniors, De Jong said.

“Which is always heartbreaking because they are less

resilient to the weather and the hardships of living on the street.”

There are any number of tipping points that put a person on the street: The loss of a breadwinner’s income, the death of a spouse, renoviction, demoviction. And often there are other more challenging underlying issues – mental illness, addiction, unemployment, family abuse.

Under B.C.’s welfare system, recipients only get $375 a month for their housing budget, a number that hasn’t budged in years. To supplement, people on welfare have to find other ways to make ends meet.

“That’s why I’m here every day, trying to make a couple bucks,” said a man outside the bottle depot who goes by the name One-way.

One-way didn’t want to take the survey because of its personal questions. He didn’t mind sharing how he wound up on the street however.

“I got kicked out my house on the reserve because I was the No. 1 dealer and well known. Too much activity at my house. Too many fights and all that bullshit so the band asked me to step aside

and I did because I was tired of it myself. I’ve been at the shelter ever since,” he said.

That was about seven months ago. It’s been a cold winter to spend most of his time outside, One-way said, but he still opts to spend a lot of his time away from the shelter where conflicts frequently arise.

“Everybody’s got their problems,” he said.

Beyond those living rough, there’s an even larger population living at imminent risk of being homeless.

“Eighty per cent of Canadians are only 12 weeks away from actually needing to access services like a food bank if they were to lose their job,” said Falconer. “We spoke to one person today who is clinging. We couldn’t count him but he knows he’s only weeks away from being homeless.”

That’s something Don Peters, chairman of the North Shore Community Resources’ community housing action committee, sees all too much of.

“I get so many people in here who are terrified. Just terrified,” he said.

A 2016 study found 8,990

households on the North Shore, 13.6 per cent, are experiencing “core housing need” – that is, they are spending more than 30 per cent of their income on housing alone. Half of them are spending more than 50 per cent.

But regardless of how someone wound up on the streets, Falconer, Guild and Peters are in agreement, it’s a lack of affordable units being built that keeps them there.

“As a region, we’re going in the wrong direction. We are not improving this situation.

I don’t think it’s overstating to say that lives are at risk,” Peters said. “The last I heard, there were over 10,000 people in one situation or another on BC Housing’s wait list.”

Peters is front and centre whenever any of the three local councils is debating a project that has an affordable housing component, even if it’s just market rental units, which the private sector essentially stopped supplying when federal subsidies were cut 30 years ago.

But while we could be buying prevention by the ounce, we’re buying cure by the

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Housing advocate Don Peters says we need to demand more of our politicians when it comes to creating and protecting affordable housing. PHOTO KEVIN HILL

More affordable housing units desperately needed From page 4 pound, Peters suggested. We spend massive amounts trying to mitigate the impacts of homelessness when it would probably be cheaper to get people into apartments.

“The financial cost of maintaining the current homelessness approach is staggering. If you step back from Canada, it’s about $7 billion per year,” he said. “In the region, it’s about $55,000 per homeless person when you factor in all of the services, the involvement of the police and ambulance and all of the emergency wards and even courts and this horrible overlay of the drug epidemic. I have no idea how you get at the cost of that but it’s horrific.”

Guild agrees.

“It’s hard to stabilize when you don’t have food in your stomach, you don’t have a place to live, nowhere to sleep.

That’s a tough place to start. I think that having shelter leads to a lot more success for a lot of people,” Guild said.

Metro Vancouver has adopted the “Housing First” approach to dealing with homelessness and its array of spin-off problems, but municipalities only collect eight cents out of every tax dollar in Canada, leaving them at the mercy of senior levels of government to fund new affordable housing units like they once did.

Last year, the province announced $500 million for

A proposal for backyard hens The District is considering allowing Volunteers with the 2017 homeless count wore yellow buttons when surveying. PHOTO KEVIN HILL affordable housing projects, although none of the money is earmarked for the North Shore.

Similarly, the federal Liberals promised the return of a national housing strategy but on the eve of the feds’ second budget, there have been no details released.

“We’ve got to get an increase in the affordable rental housing supply. We’ve got to support municipalities who are trying to retain buildings that are at risk of demolition and get them to push hard to contribute land for the construction of new units through the provincial program,” Peters said.

In order for there to be the political will for change, North Shore residents first have to confront the problem for what it is, rather than stay willfully blind to the man sleeping in an alcove, Falconer said.

“How we look after the worst and the poorest people in our community really speaks to what a community we are and I think we need to look at ourselves when we look at that,” he said, holding back tears.

With an election coming up, there’s no better time to send the message to politicians that we find this unacceptable, Falconer added.

“It’s unacceptable for people to be sleeping on the streets. It’s not acceptable that people who have health issues around addiction are dying.

It’s unacceptable. We need to have this change. If we look at this provincially, federally as well as locally, we can do something. Not today. Not tomorrow. It’s going to take a long-term vision but we need to have that long-term vision and be prepared to make those changes now.”

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The mayor won the room but can the room win West Vancouver?

That was the question Wednesday night after Mayor Michael Smith beseeched the sold-out West Vancouver Yacht Club crowd to reinvigorate the community with new development and political advocacy.

“I’ve lost a lot of friends in the last few years,” Smith said. “They move out.”

To underline the political inertia he sees as problematic, Smith quoted a district report prescribing more diverse and affordable housing options for seniors and young families.

“This is a 1991 council report,” he told the audience, which included representatives from developers including Cressey, Milliken and Larco.

“We have twice as many bedrooms in West Vancouver as we had in the 1970s and half the number of kids,” he said. “We need young families and we need a place for them to live.”

That housing shortage may make it a challenge to hire the best teachers, noted school board chairwoman Carolyn Broady, who spoke during the evening’s question-and-answer portion.

“We are facing a crunch,” Broady agreed. “Eight per cent of our educators and administrators live in the school district, 92 per cent are commuting every day.”

West Vancouver council recently voted 6-1 to defer new development proposals pending an official community plan review. The decision includes

West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith addresses a crowd at the West Vancouver Yacht Club Wednesday evening. PHOTO KEVIN HILL wiggle room in the case of projects with significant social benefit.

“I would submit that every application has significant benefit,” Smith said.

A frustrated Smith suggested council was shirking their obligation to deal with development proposals in a timely fashion.

“This should be the No. 1 place that people want to put money into,” the mayor said. “We’ve got to step up our game as a community. In this room are the community leaders who can do that.”

Smith struck a collegial tone when an audience member requested council members in attendance state their reasons for voting to slow development.

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“This is my night and I don’t see the purpose of putting them on the spot,” he said. “They all have valid reasons.”

As the lone council member to oppose the moratorium, Smith argued a previous “exhaustive” OCP review failed to revitalize Ambleside.

“The only legal place to take (a friend) for a glass of wine in Ambleside is the Squarerigger Pub. . .” he said. “At some point you’ve got to stop hiring consultants and writing reports.”

The only project to bring excitement to West Vancouver’s seaside neighbourhood is the Grosvenor development – which required an OCP amendment, Smith noted.

Smith defended the contentious Grosvenor deal. Selling the “broken

down police building” site for $46 million allowed the district to pay cash for Vancouver Coastal Health’s $16-million parcel at 2195 Gordon Ave. The land is rich with housing opportunities, said Smith.

While the police building generated about $60,000 in annual tax revenue, Smith predicted Grosvenor will generate approximately $1 million each year.

The stars of West Vancouver’s inaction movie are a small, vocal group who “were fortunate” to buy houses in the district 40 years ago, said Smith.

“That group is going to oppose virtually anything that we propose,” he said.

Smith also called attention to the upcoming provincial election, asking: “Who’s looking out for us?”

Smith cited the $350,000 the district pays to RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, noting he convinced fellow mayors to establish a payment model that would save West Vancouver $150,000 by placing more weight on crime statistics.

That submission made it to Victoria, “never to be heard from again,” according to Smith.

The provincial government also took a drubbing for dragging their feet on funding the new Lion’s Gate Wastewater Treatment plant.

“What are we going to do, go back to septic tanks?”

Smith was noncommittal about running for mayor again in 2018, but promised to be politically active.

“If people want to know my advice then I think I’m going to share that with them.”

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Addressing the United Nations in 2013, Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said: “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”

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In that spirit, 338 young women sat in the seats of power at the House of Commons in Ottawa Wednesday, which was International Women’s Day. “When more women are promoted, (when) more rights for women are guaranteed, society moves forward,” said North Vancouver’s Thi Tran, who settled into MP Jonathan Wilkinson’s seat Wednesday as part of the Daughters of the Vote event.

The event, organized by the group Equal Voice, was held to celebrate 100 years of women’s right to vote in Canada while promoting a greater involvement of women in politics.

Sitting in Parliament and looking up at elected officials consigned to the gallery was an exciting role reversal,

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However, 57 years after indigenous women first voted, there’s still work to be done, Tran noted.

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It was the government’s own deeply entrenched culture of secrecy and avoidance of accountability that led to the triple-delete scandal in 2015, in which the practice of public servants routinely eliminating potentially embarrassing records to shield their political masters was revealed.

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Smoke signals, Snapchat and burner phones don’t seem out of the question.

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This was a signature election promise of Prime Minister Trudeau that led many

voters to believe that he was serious about being an agent of change.

Secondly, I’m tired of hearing Liberal MPs saying that there was no consensus with regard to changing the electoral system. Three national political parties, representing 62.6 per cent of those who voted in the 2015 election were in favour of electoral reform. There was a recommendation in the report by the Standing Committee on Electoral Reform that the government hold a referendum, in which the current system is on the ballot and that the referendum propose a proportional electoral system. In the mydemocracy.ca national survey, 70 per cent of the respondents favoured having

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To me, this represents a clear consensus against our current first-past-thepost system and for a proportional representation electoral system.

In comments following the electoral reform U-turn, Wilkinson also referred to the decision not to move forward as being at the present time – implying that the government would be open to changing Canada’s electoral system at some time in the future. However, I have heard nothing from the

prime minister nor from his newly appointed democratic institutions minister that would substantiate this possibility.

Wilkinson went on to say that he intends to continue the discussion of electoral reform with his colleagues from all parties. But, this discussion has already been held through the all-party Standing Committee on Electoral Reform.

I have lost confidence in elected politicians determining what is the best electoral system to improve democracy in Canada.

I think that this can best be determined by a nonpartisan group of experts or a citizens’ assembly.

Peter Scholefield West Vancouver

Special medal available to World War II vets Dear Editor: I am a former resident of North Vancouver and past member of Sixth Field Squadron.

Since 2014 the government of France has been awarding their highest medal, the Legion of Honour, to Canadian veterans who participated in the liberation of France in 1944.

Many veterans have now received this great honour but many may not know it is even available and have not applied. The Legion of Honour is a very significant official medal that is equal to the Order of Canada. Living Canadian veterans who saw service in France or directly supported the liberation between June 6, 1944 and Aug.

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Bike lane spending shows lack of fiscal responsibility Dear Editor: Re: North Vancouver City council gives $1.1M Keith Road bike lane the green light, Feb. 26 news story.

When will City of North Vancouver residents end the lack of fiscal leadership at city hall?

After spending hundreds of thousands on the white elephant Jones Avenue bike lanes, I hoped more than one councillor would have had enough. Sadly, council voted to spend an additional $230,000, a nearly 25 per cent increase, on an another misguided project. Surely after two years of work, budgeting and estimates for this unwanted project should be

far more accurate. What leadership is there when council decides that, in a time of tight budgets, $230,000 grows on trees for council to recklessly spend?

The Jones Avenue bike lanes are not used. From my observation from a few doors away, 90 per cent of cyclists heading north use the street – not the bike lane. Heading south all cyclists fly round the corner to Keith Road and routinely ignore the stop sign.

If Coun. Linda Buchanan’s quote is correct, I trust she walks or cycles to every council meeting or community event. Most of us do not function in such a delusional world.

The public meetings for the Keith Road section were a fait accompli and a joke.

No option was ever available to say no, enough, stop. All options – some crazier than the final proposal – were presented as something that must be built. So much for community consultation.

When will it end? And when will the city’s residents clean out and defeat the big spenders and impose some fiscal restraint at city hall? It can’t come soon enough. Sadly, we’ll have to wait to see how far over budget this project goes to get another example of wasteful spending.

W. Joseph Whiteside North Vancouver

Lions Gate ER provides Astounded excellent patient care by CN’s attitude

Dear Editor: I had the unfortunate occasion to visit the Lions Gate Hospital emergency department recently. I was attended to immediately and then moved to an inner waiting room where there were a lot more (patients) waiting.

Within about half an hour I was called aside to one of the private rooms and my problems discussed with a nurse. Next, I was visited by the doctor, who suggested that a blood test could answer some critical questions. Within minutes I had my blood test and then I waited.

It was now about two hours plus and I was getting very tired and sleepy.

Suddenly, the doctor joined me and confirmed that my problem did not require any immediate care and that the worst had been ruled out.

Although in a fair amount of pain and discomfort, I am extremely happy with my experience and want to thank all the staff on duty on the night of March 7.

I remember talking to Dr. Brian Day when he headed the Doctors of BC and relaying my experience in Dubai where on visiting the Iranian hospital for an emergency, I was seen twice by a specialist, underwent some tests, was given a shot and some tablets from the in-house pharmacy all within a couple of hours and for $226.

I would like to now say that our system is just as good and should be celebrated for the fine people who deliver every day.

Thank you Lions Gate emergency. I will not forget your kindness.

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Dear Editor: Re: CN Sues West Van Over Seawalk Access, Feb. 24 frontpage story.

It is with disbelief that I am read CN Rail is holding the District of West Vancouver’s Seawalk hostage to extract millions of dollars per year for the use of one of the most beautiful and well-used walks on the North Shore.

Can the CN officials really be so callow that they would put dollars ahead of people?

Well, of course they can, and are. But this time we should not let them (as CP did with the Arbutus corridor).

Please, everyone who enjoys the Seawalk – and there are thousands of you – let your MP, MLA and anyone who has influence know your concerns.

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DFO seizes WV prawn traps Traps near Passage Island had entangled prehistoric glass sponge reefs in banned area

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is investigating after recreational prawn traps were discovered in an area closed to bottom fishing to protect glass sponge reefs.

The traps found near Passage Island, between Bowen Island and West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park, had entangled glass sponges that could have been thousands of years old.

Those reefs near Passage Island are among nine in Howe Sound and Georgia Strait covered by the ban, announced in June, 2015. DFO has also asked First Nations to voluntarily avoid the areas.

Fisheries officer Eric Jean said DFO began enforcing the ban in 2016 and is trying to educate people about the ban and the importance of protecting the sponges.

“We’ve been pulling traps ever since,” he said. “The fact these traps are being set is often because [people] don’t hear a lot about [the ban]. Whether people are understanding that there are closures in the area that they’re fishing, or they’re unaware, that’s what we’re trying to accomplish.”

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“For girls it’s dolls and cooking toys and a sewing kit … for boys it’s engineering caps,” she noted. “It’s just reinforcing the idea that we don’t belong in certain fields, in certain professions, just because we’re women.”

Being surrounded by hundreds of inspiring women in the House of Commons felt momentous, according to Callista Ryan, who sat in the seat of West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones.

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Ryan said she hoped some of the young women who were in Ottawa Wednesday will also consider putting their name on a ballot. “I believe that every single female and female-identifying person in that house has a voice to share,” she said.

While Wednesday’s event focused on women in politics there were also moving speeches touching on different forms of bias, Tran noted. “As an Asian woman, for example, I do feel discrimination and I do understand the sentiment of not feeling like you belong,” she said, discussing a speech that addressed Islamaphobia.

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Slashes of pink, red and yellow mark the untouched snow like Arctic graffiti.

At least half a dozen species of candy-coloured algae are in the North Shore mountains, swimming, dividing and spreading in what appear to be dramatically increasing numbers, according to molecular biologist Lynne Quarmby.

“It’s one of the positive feedback loops of climate change,” she said, speaking from her lab at Simon Fraser University.

As red algae divides and stretches, the snow doesn’t reflect light, it absorbs it.

In the Arctic, that absorption has resulted in a dramatic increase of melting ice, according to a 2016 study conducted primarily by scientists from the University of Leeds in England.

But while there is some knowledge about what the algae does, there is scant understanding of what the algae is.

In 2016 Quarmby and a team of citizen scientists tried to remedy that ignorance by collecting algae from Hollyburn Mountain, Goat Ridge and West Lion, as well as other B.C. mountains.

While Quarmby and a handful of undergraduate students managed to cultivate a few species in her lab, the work is still in its formative stage. “I don’t even have a grant to fund

Citizen scientist Crystal Burchert investigates pink algae in snow near Semaphore Lake near Pemberton. PHOTO KLAUS TATZLAFF the work yet,” Quarmby said.

While the algae can be relied on to bloom each spring, scientists are uncertain if it’s deposited by wind or snow, or if it swims to the surface.

There’s also uncertainty around how the unicellular organisms spread. In a temperate region, the algae population can increase 16-fold in a day.

“Some of these guys have really cool cell division processes that we don’t understand at all yet,” Quarmby said.

Quarmby is hoping the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada will fund her work with about $30,000 a year for the next five years.

The money could mean a stipend for some graduate students as well as access to “very expensive” genetic sequencing that could help determine how the red algae forms.

“Maybe way down the

road we can have some sort of an impact,” said Vista Namdarian, an undergraduate student working with Quarmby.

The algae’s role in raising atmospheric temperatures was enough to make Namdarin volunteer in the lab.

“It could have the same effect in our local regions,” she said. “It’s important to explore that potential.”

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“It hit me like a punch in the gut that our governments were not going to step up,” Quarmby said.

“Because I’m a biologist and really feel a deep connection to nature, I see the importance of the big environmental issues because I know how ultimate that is in terms of human well-being.”

Quarmby realized her 20 years of molecular biology gave her unique tools to examine a “seriously understudied problem.”

The former Green Party candidate rejects the notion that her activism somehow detracts from her scientific research.

“Science is in crisis right now and part of it is our neo-liberal politics, but part of it is a lack of activism on the part of scientists,” she said.

“We’re citizens, too. We need to have a political voice, we need to let people know why what we’re doing matters.”

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Quarmby agrees.

“On the one hand we don’t have any of the tools, we don’t know how to study these guys,” she said. “On the other hand, everything we discover is new.”

The algae is truly revealed under the microscope, according to Quarmby. Scientists can

study life cycles, differentiate species, and determine how algae survives an environment that appears to offer cold temperatures and little else.

Quarmby said the impetus for her work is concern and curiosity.

“Some of the greatest discoveries through human history have come unexpectedly through curiosity-driven research,” she said.

Quarmby previously delved into the parallels between people and pond scum, with surprising results.

“It’s not a keystone species … it doesn’t have any importance per se, but its importance is that it’s life, and all life is related.”

Because humans and pond scum share an ancestor, Quarmby’s lab was able to extrapolate the genetic causes of polycystic kidney disease.

However, Quarmby is clear that her investigation of the North Shore’s neon snowbanks is also rooted in the 2009 United Nations Climate Conference.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath Night at the Museum The Friends of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives Society hosted its fourth annual Night at the Museum fundraiser at the Gordon Smith Gallery Friday, Feb. 24. More than 150 guests attended the soldout gala, enjoying drinks and hors d’oeuvres as they put down bids on fabulous silent auction items including a private dinner for six aboard a restored 1890s CP Railway business car and a private tour of the museum’s collection warehouse. Kevin Evans acted as MC for the evening, with the society’s board members mingling in the crowd while portraying historical figures from the North Shore’s past. The more than $11,000 raised during the event will help in the opening of the new museum in 2019 on the 100 block of West Esplanade and support programs, exhibits and activities of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. nvma.ca

Donna Oseen and Donna McGeachie Bob McCormack and Robin Hicks

Mike Jarvis, Abegael Fisher-Lang, Mike Ewan and Siamtnaat portray North Shore historical figures.

North Vancouver Museum and Archives director Nancy Kirkpatrick and event MC Kevin Evans

Society president John Gilmour and vice-president Terry McAlduff

Caroline Jarvis with Deep Cove Heritage’ Society’s Janet Pavlik

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While working as a cab driver many years ago, Graham Harrop once picked up a passenger while wearing a gorilla suit.

But he had a good reason.

It was his brother’s birthday, after all. He got a call to go to his brother’s office and when his brother got into the backseat of the cab, Harrop turned around in the driver’s seat wearing a full gorilla suit.

Surprise!

“It was actually hilarious,” recalls Harrop.

Harrop’s practical joke makes more sense when you know what he does for a living: Harrop is a cartoonist.

For more 25 years, he drew the comic strip Back Bench for the Globe and Mail.

“It was neat, it really was.

It was really an amazing opportunity,” says Harrop of working at the newspaper. He agrees it’s a unique venue for artists because his work was seen and published by a large audience on a regular basis.

“It doesn’t get much better to be honest.”

Harrop now has an online comic strip called Ten Cats, and draws the editorial cartoon for the Vancouver Sun. The Norgate resident also just released a new book called Happy 150th Birthday Canada! featuring cartoons of iconic Canadian animals enjoying a “wildlife party” in honour of the country’s anniversary this year.

“I’ve always seen the fun side of things,” says Harrop of his personality, noting he knew as early as high school that he wanted to draw for a living. “I always knew that I was going to be a cartoonist.”

In 1960, at the age of 16, Harrop became a copy runner at the Vancouver Sun. In the days before any part of the production process was digital, copy runners would stand in the newsroom and wait for reporters to finish typing a story (on a typewriter) and hold the paper up, yelling “Copy!”

The copy runner would then collect the story and deliver it on foot to the news editor. It was Harrop’s first foray into the world of newspapers, but it wouldn’t be his last. He was already

Longtime cartoonist Graham Harrop works in his North Vancouver home studio. His new book, Happy 150th Birthday Canada!, is now available. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD getting some of his cartoons published in the Powell River paper and would soon start sending ideas to larger syndicates. In the meantime, he moved on to work in a variety of different jobs,

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including as a cab driver and at a paper mill. He also sold his homemade greeting cards door-to-door.

In the 1970s “there probably wasn’t an office building I hadn’t gone into,” he says,

admitting there were also a number of buildings, including the airport, he got thrown out of for trying to sell his cards. Finally he was hired as a full-time editorial cartoonist. As politics and all things

Candiana were the subjects of his Back Bench comic, he was never short of material or inspiration. A lot happened in politics over 25 years, and

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West Vancouver has a lower level of child vulnerability (22%) than the provincial rate (32%) on one or more scales of the Early Development Instrument (EDI), which assesses school readiness on five scales: physical health and well-being; social competence; emotional maturity; language and cognitive development; and communication and general knowledge. However, EDI reports in 2013 found that the British Properties has a higher level of child vulnerability (33%) than other areas of West Vancouver.

How the Foundation is Helping.

Studies have shown that the level of child vulnerability in the British Properties is related to the high proportion of immigrants settling in the area who are not accessing family support and educational services. In response, the Properties Family Hub was formed to offer multigenerational community health and education programs for families, seniors, singles, and children. The Foundation has supported these activities with grants in 2015 and 2016.

TEAMWORK A young participant in the VASS (Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports) Cup tackles a slalom set up at Grouse Mountain March 4. Sledge hockey player Kyle Gieni demonstrates his puck handling skills at the Grouse ice rink in the photo at left.

The annual VASS Cup event is a fundraiser for the non-profit group, which helps people with disabilities access winter sports on all three North Shore mountains. For more photos visit nsnews.com. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

FIREFIGHTERS POUR Fr COFFEE AT DENNY’S North Vancouver firefighters team up with servers to pour coffee at Denny’s restaurant, 2050 Marine Dr., on Sunday, March 12, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

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NOROUZ FESTIVAL AND MARKET Celebrate the arrival of spring with entertainment and business showcases Sunday, March 12, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Capilano Mall, 935 Marine Dr., North Vancouver. 604-800-1977 info@cif-bc.com AFRICAN DRUMMING WORKSHOP Beginner drummers and those with some experience can learn basics of the West African djembe drum Saturday, March 25, 3:30-5 p.m.

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Team EcoBomb from Handsworth secondary recently took home top spot in a Capilano University student-led project geared toward high school students.

Team EcoBomb won Best Business Overall in Capilano University’s Enactus Business Competition on March 6. The competition also included teams from Argyle and Carson Graham secondaries.

The students are members of marketing classes at their schools, and each team spent three months creating a sustainable busines for which they prepared a marketing plan, produced

an item and sold it after receiving $100 from Enactus for startup costs. The groups then presented their projects to a panel of judges at the university.

Team EcoBomb designed and produced eco-friendly bath bombs that they sold at school and to family and friends, raising more than $600 for water.org. All money raised from the event was donated to charity. Carson Graham won Most Original Business Idea and Ryan Russell from Argyle secondary won Best Individual Presenter.

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Artist likes to make people laugh From page 13 although Harrop doesn’t have a particular favourite event, he says he always enjoyed drawing former B.C. premier Glen Clark because it was fun and people enjoyed it.

“He was very easy to draw,” says Harrop. “He was great to draw because he had the moustache and he had little tufts of hair that came out on either side. He was just such a fun individual to draw.”

No topic was off limits, but Harrop explains all had to have something inherently humorous about them.

“Politics sometimes is baffling, it really is baffling,” he says. “I try to understand what the reality is of the situation then see if there’s something that I can make humorous.”

Editorial cartoons have to be clear, understandable, and something people will react to, he adds. And that’s all in one panel. About five years ago Harrop started an online comic called Ten Cats after being inspired by his friend’s cats.

“I love cats,” he notes.

“They’re lovely and (have) individual personalities.”

But a multi-panel comic requires a different type of approach than a one-panel

editorial cartoon.

“With a comic strip you can tell a bit of a story, you’ve got four panels to tell a story,” explains Harrop. There’s timing involved too.

“You can tell the story and you can pause on the third panel where the character reflects, and the fourth panel is the punchline. It’s quite different. With the single panel it’s just the immediacy of it.”

Harrop says his style has evolved over the years (and hopefully improved, he adds

with a laugh), and he has no plans to stop.

“I like the idea of making people laugh,” says Harrop.

“I believe that’s what I’m supposed to be doing, so for as long as I can I will do that.”

Harrop’s latest book Happy 150th Birthday Canada! is available North Shore at 32 books in Edgemont Village, Under the Umbrella on Lonsdale Avenue, IGA in West Vancouver, Indigo Park Royal, and on his website gryndstoneandfusspotpress.com.

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HEALTH NOTES DIVORCECARE A weekly support group for people who are separated or divorced meets Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. until April 20 at West Vancouver Baptist Church, 450 Mathers Ave. $30 for a book.

A DivorceCare 4 Kids for ages five to 12 runs simultaneously with the adult program. Cost: $20 per family. Registration: westvanbaptist.com or 604922-0911.

IN STEP Runners make their way along the five-kilometre route of the West Van Run on March 4. The annual weekend event also featured 10-kilometre runs on Sunday, as well as five- and 10-kilometre walks, and a one-kilometre kids run. See more photos from the race at nsnews.com. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

DRAGON BOAT PADDLERS NEEDED The Perfect Catch dragon boat team, based out of Deep Cove, is looking for new paddlers to practice Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 5:30-7 p.m., April-September with participation in regattas throughout the summer. karin_bews@hotmail.com MEC TRAIL RUNNING CLINIC Teens, adults and seniors are encouraged to

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Book looks at Zen and the art of calligraphy TERRY PETERS Contributing writer

From the hand and heart of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh comes this thoughtful collection of teachings drawn in beautiful calligraphy.

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This led me to think about ageism and the many myths that abound about seniors.

There are myths about aging and declining intellect, declining sexuality, an older person’s inability to learn new things, their lessening ability to cope with change, the growing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in seniors, older workers’ declining capabilities, changing personalities (socalled grouchy old people), and so on.

In Facts on Aging Quiz (2015) by Breytspraak, L. & Badura, L., the authors provide evidence about two misconceptions of aging: lessening of intelligence and the ability to learn new things. Their evidence shows that intellectual performance for healthy older adults holds up well into old age.

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As for learning new things, older adults, if they regularly practise their learning skills, maintain learning efficiency over their life span.

The authors also question the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in seniors. In their report, they say that according to the 2014 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures Report published by the Alzheimer’s Association, one in nine people 65 and older (11 per cent) have the disease.

About one-third of people age 85 and older (32 per cent) have Alzheimer’s disease. Of those with the

disease, the vast majority (82 per cent) are age 75 or older.

In the CBC podcast, author and journalist Anne Karp said, “You really need to make a distinction between resisting aging and resisting ageism. Resisting ageism is a really good thing to do . . . resisting aging is an absolutely futile task.”

Ageism is defined by Wikipedia as the stereotyping and discriminating against individuals on the basis of their age. And according to Thomas G. Wellner in a Huffington Post article (July 13, 2016), “ageism is by far the most tolerated form of social prejudice in Canada, way ahead of racism and sexism.”

As we age, our bodies and minds do undergo changes.

We experience some memory loss and losses of strength, perhaps we have trouble sleeping, we are at risk for more chronic conditions, and we lose some of our abilities with our five senses.

The Fact in Aging Quiz noted that “Many of these can be compensated for through increasingly sophisticated assistive devices (hearing aids, glasses, etc.) and through modifications

of the older person’s environment.”

But why should these natural aging processes affect how we treat seniors or why the myths abound?

It seems that society has created a situation where seniors are often treated as irrelevant, infirm, feeble, losing their abilities to make judgements. They can also be infantilized (we know what’s best for our aging senior).

Wellner suggested people check their assumptions: “Ask an older adult if they want you to do something for them, rather than jumping in. Whether it’s doing an errand or making a financial decision, never assume you know what they want.”

Karpf said we need to recognize that all stages of life are about both gains and losses, in both our younger and older years.

“One loses certain things and one gains other things.

And that is true for the whole of life.”

Words to live by.

Margaret Coates is the co-ordinator of Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society.

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SCARF LOOMING Marina Rojas weaves a scarf made of hand-dyed silk on one of the looms at Silver Harbour Centre. Rojas paints, weaves, and does metal work along with an array of other art-related activities at the centre. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

SENIORS MALL AND GROCERY SHOP Capilano Community Services Society Seniors Hub offers a weekly shopping program that includes door-to door-transportation and in-store assistance (if required) Tuesdays, 1-2:30 p.m. Seniors will be taken to Capilano Mall and Save-On -Foods. A team of volunteers provide assistance ranging from reading labels to helping lift items off shelves.

604-988-7115 capservices.ca LADIES GOLF GROUP Women 55 and older are invited to join a group that plays Wednesdays at 9 a.m. from April to September at Murdo Frazer Golf Course, 2699 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver. The group is intended to offer fun, friendship, fresh air and a little fitness. Cost: $20 for the season, $7.50 per game. 604-986-5023 lindagoodall@shaw.ca EXERCISE FOR MOBILE SENIORS North Shore Keep Well Society offers free classes at seven venues across the North Shore. The programs include one hour of fitness to music followed by blood pressure checks, health coaching, massage, speakers and social times. 604-988-7115 X27 keepwellsociety.ca SINGALONG MONDAYS Drop in and sing along with Donna Crook at the piano Mondays, 10-11 a.m.

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MADHATTERS TEA PARTY Wear a fancy hat and enjoy an afternoon of live music, sweets and tea Tuesday, March 14, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at The Summit, 1095 Churchill Cres., North Vancouver. $5.

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SENIORS GATHERING – A PERFECT CUP OF TEA A free drop-in program for an informal get-together and chat from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday of every month at North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. At the March 14 drop-in Kyla Wilson, from Murchie’s Tea and Coffee, will discuss the history of tea and how to brew a perfect cup. 604-998-3460 nvcl.ca SPRING SOCIAL AND AGM The Seniors Tennis Association of the North Shore will hold a social and annual general meeting Wednesday, April 12, 4-6 p.m. at the West Vancouver Seniors Centre, located at 695 21st St. All members welcome.

Refreshments provided. seniorstennis.ca; ns.seniortennis@gmail.com ROUND ROBIN The Seniors Tennis Association of the North Shore will host a round-robin event Friday, April 28 at the North Shore Tennis Club, 280 Lloyd Ave., North Vancouver. Registration will begin at 7 a.m. with games until 9:30 a.m. followed by a social. Cost: $10 or $4 for the party only. seniortennis.ca ns.seniortennis@gmail.com

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Life’s better here For Marlene and Richard, love began with a “hello”, right here at Cedar Springs PARC, and took them to the altar a year later. They say they never would have expected it at this time in their lives! A love of walking in the outdoors brought them together, and a love of learning, fitness and travel is keeping them together.

That’s how it is at Cedar Springs PARC: it’s easy to strike up new conversations and meet others with similar interests.

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DARE TO BE HEARD – A LITERARY SALON Read your story, poem or memoir piece at this free drop-in session hosted by the North Shore Writers Association, which celebrates local writing without critiquing the first Monday of each month (October-December and February -June), 6:30-8:45 p.m. at North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. Authors at all stages of the writing journey and interested listeners welcome. nswriters.org LET’S TALK Develop English language skills by discussing current events at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Beginners: Mondays, March 13, 20 and 27, 10:15-11:15 a.m. or 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Intermediate: Tuesday, March 28, 7-8:30 p.m. 604-9257400 westvanlibrary.ca HELPING TROUBLED FIRST NATIONS YOUTH A talk by Samaya Jardey of the Snuneymuxw First Nation who heads the program Through an Aboriginal Lens sponsored by the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association Tuesday, March 14, 9:45-11 a.m. at West Vancouver Presbyterian Church, 2893 Marine Dr. All are welcome. 604-770-4570.

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Blues No. 2 at basketball finals

Capilano women and men claim provincial silver ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

Capilano University got a double dose of silver last weekend as the Blues men and women both finished in second place at the PacWest Championships held at Quest University in Squamish.

Here’s how it went down up the Sea to Sky Highway.

MEN’S FINAL: VIU 94 CAPILANO 77 On the men’s side Capilano took on Vancouver Island University in the championship final, going toto-toe with the top-ranked team in the province for the first half before falling behind in the second. The Mariners, ranked fourth in the country, sailed away down the stretch for a 94-77 win to claim the PacWest title and earn a spot at the CCAA national championships. For the Blues men it was the first provincial medal since a bronze in 2011, and the first time they’d competed in the final since 2004.

“A silver medal is a great accomplishment for the athletic department, for the men’s basketball program,” said head coach Cassidy Kannemeyer. “It’s bittersweet. It’s a great accomplishment.

I think if you asked our guys what their goal was, their goal was to make nationals. My goal as a coach was to be the hardest working team in the league. I thought in the playoffs we were almost there.”

The Blues men, who finished third in regular season play, faced a tough road at provincials having to win three games in three nights to take the title (the two top-ranked teams get a bye into the semifinals).

Capilano started the tournament with a grinding 76-69 win over sixthranked Camosun, getting a big game from guard Hassan Phills who shot 7/13 from the field and 6/8 from the free throw line for 23 points.

That win earned the Blues a semifinal date with second-seeded Langara and Capilano came through again, slowing down the high-flying Falcons to claim a 68-63 win. Phills again led the way with 15 points and eight rebounds while Greet Gill, who earlier in the week was named a PacWest regular season first-team all-star, scored a double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds while adding a block and three steals.

The back-to-back wins earned the Blues a spot in the final but also took a lot out of the team, said Kannemeyer.

“Camosun is a big team, a

veteran team that really like to hit the weight room. I think they wore us down a bit,” he said. “(Langara) is a team that’s fast, a team that can shoot the ball well, a team that can get to the rim at will if you don’t contain them. .. I think playing those two tough teams with two really good coaches really wore us down.”

In the final the Blues and Mariners were tied 40-40 at the half but it all fell apart for Capilano in the third frame as VIU got hot and the Blues did not. The Mariners outscored the Blues 32-16 in the quarter to open up an insurmountable lead.

“We had a really amazing first half against VIU but in the end they were just better in the second half,” said Kannemeyer. “I think we lost a bit of our legs, lost a bit of our focus and that’s why they’re going to nationals and we’re not.”

Tired legs translated to poor shooting for the Blues who were just 6/32 from behind the three-point line in the game. VIU was led by league MVP Usama Zaid who scored 24 points with seven rebounds, three assists, a block and two steals.

“In their big stretch where they put the nail in the coffin in the third quarter … their role players hit three-point shots and ours didn’t,” said Kannemeyer. “We didn’t have a good shooting night. You’ve got to shoot the ball well.”

Gill and Phills, who were both named tournament all-stars, again led the way for the Blues in the final, with Gill scoring 22 points with eight rebounds and Phills dropping 21 points with four rebounds.

Gill, an Osoyoos native who transferred from UBC Okanagan to Capilano this season, was the team’s cornerstone all year, finishing the season fourth in the league in scoring, second in rebounding and fourth in assists. Phills was a late-season revelation, coming off the bench in all three playoff games and adding a much-needed scoring boost.

“His whole career he’s been pretty much a defensive specialist and energy guy, and this year we not only got the defensive specialist and energy guy, but then we got 10 or 11 points a game,” said Kannemyer. “It was huge. Down the stretch he was probably averaging 16 points per game and really emerged as our second scorer. … A lot of credit to Hassan for stepping up, a lot of credit to his mindset for being aggressive and listening to the coaching.”

The Blues earned more hardware with point guard Wowie Untalan, a

Capilano University’s Wowie Untalan, recently named the PacWest Rookie of the Year, makes an athletic play during the provincial championships played last weekend at Quest University. PHOTO SUPPLIED PAUL YATES Delta native, grabbing league Rookie of the Year honours.

“He’s an amazing transition player, one of the fastest players in the league with the ball in his hands,” said Kannemyer, adding that if Untalan adds consistency to his jump shot he could be a force in the league. “I think if he can figure that out he can be a second- or firstteam all-star.”

Other players who chipped in during the playoff run include Chris Loreth, who had a monster stretch of eight straight points against Langara; Handsworth grad Mo Karimirad, whose three-point

shooting was crucial in the first two games; and steady two-way players Malik Holmes, Jesse Mushiana, and EJ Mabone.

“We had contributions in that tournament from everybody who played,” said Kannemeyer. “It was a rollercoaster in the regular season but in the end we came together and played our best basketball in the playoffs.”

WOMEN’S FINAL: DOUGLAS 70 CAPILANO 63 On the women’s side the topranked Blues cruised into the final with a 76-37 win over Camosun but

their title hopes were dashed by the second-seeded Douglas College Royals.

Capilano racked up an impressive 16-2 record in regular season play but the Royals came through on the biggest stage, earning the championship banner and a trip to nationals with a 70-63 win.

The teams were tied after the first quarter but Douglas built a four-point lead at halftime and extended it to 11 after three quarters. Capilano mounted a comeback in the fourth quarter – closing to

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within three points – but it was not enough as the Royals sealed the championship win with strong free throw shooting down the stretch.

Capilano settled for silver for the second year in a row, let down by their shooting in the final. The Blues shot just 31 per cent from the field – including 20 per cent from three – and only 46 per cent from the free throw line, missing eight shots from the charity stripe in the second half alone.

Rachel Beauchamp led the way for the Royals with 15 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks while Amber Beasley scored a teamhigh 17 points with four assists.

The Blues were paced by the inside combination of Carmelle M’Bikata and Karyn Nelson, both of whom earned tournament all-star status after picking up double-doubles in the final.

M’Bikata battled a bit of foul trouble in the final but still scored 16 points with 16 rebounds. Nelson dropped 12 points with 13 rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block while Reiko Ohama put in a team-high 19 points.

M’Bikata, a fourth-year forward from Abbotsford, was recently named the PacWest MVP after leading the league in scoring with an average of 15.8 points per game while shooting 56 per cent from the field. On the last weekend of regular season play M’Bikata passed former teammate Michelle Errico to become the highest scorer in team history.

M’Bikata has amassed 916 points in her four

years while Errico collected 881.

“The scouting report on Carmelle out of high school was that she was a player that was very athletic but lacked intensity, work ethic and leadership,” stated head coach Ramin Sadaghiani in a Capilano press release.

“Carmelle has proven her critics wrong and has shown that she is exactly the opposite. She has shown incredible commitment to improving her skills, bringing consistent energy to the team, and being a leader on and off the court. Although the Player of the Year award is an incredible recognition by the league, I think Carmelle would tell anyone that her biggest accomplishment as a player is being voted as one of our team captains this season.”

Sadaghiani also took home some hardware this season, earning PacWest Coach of the Year honours. The Blues were terrors on defence all season, allowing just 51.1 points per game, the lowest mark in the country.

Guards Sherrie Errico and Ashley De La Cruz Yip also got in on the awards this season, both earning second-team all-star status. Errico, a Windsor secondary grad (and Michelle’s younger sister), nailed 58 three pointers this season while shooting a league-leading 40.6 per cent from behind the arc. Fourth year point guard De La Cruz Yip led the league in assists by a wide margin, her total of 102 in 18 games topping the second-highest tally by 44. Her 257 assists in 78 career games is the highest total in team history.

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