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Charges have now been laid against the alleged drunk driver accused of running down and killing a North Vancouver man on March 31.

Aldo Trinetti, 48, is facing three criminal charges that include impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and failure or refusal to provide a sample.

According to police, the 31-year-old victim was crossing Lonsdale Avenue in the Fourth Street crosswalk just before midnight on Thursday when Trinetti failed to stop for him.

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Chess players ousted from food court JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Chess players strive to think several moves in advance, but not one of the knight-traders who frequent Park Royal anticipated the mall’s move to eject them after 50 years of play.

The shopping centre informed approximately 30 chess enthusiasts their game was over as of April 1, warning of arrest for loiterers.

Threatening senior gentlemen playing a quiet game of chess with arrest was “not a terribly shrewd move,” according to Mayor Michael Smith.

Smith recently reached out to mall management on behalf

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of the chess players. He was told it came down to a business issue of balancing the needs of tenants and customers with increased gatherings of players.

“I think Park Royal will probably take a hard look at the issue and see if it couldn’t have been handled in a better way,” Smith said, adding that was only a guess.

“It’s a vicious move,” said George Ingham, a West Vancouver

resident and frequent chess player at the mall. “It destroys Park Royal as a community hub.”

Whoever made the decision is misinformed regarding the nature of the community, Ingham said.

“I would suggest to you that that person doesn’t have a clue what West Vancouver is all about or its people are all about, or the function of the mall,” he said. “(It’s) people meeting people for the last 50 years.”

Ousting the players has meant the loss of one 16-year-old girl’s “chess family,” according to Sophia Hague.

Hague’s daughter, Ashley “Chess Girl” Tapp, started learning the game from Park Royal regulars when she was eight.

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Aquarium wins injunction in filmmaker fight NV documentarian ordered to re-edit controversial exposé JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has ordered a North Vancouver filmmaker to remove over four minutes of video footage from his controversial documentary about whales and dolphins in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Watchuk made the order Monday afternoon.

Filmmaker Gary Charbonneau said he considers the ruling on the injunction a partial victory because even though parts of his film must be removed, most of it can remain online while the case is before the court.

Charbonneau said he’s hoping the court fight over the documentary Vancouver

Aquarium Uncovered will inspire more people to watch the film and get involved in debates about whales in captivity.

Charbonneau made his comments after the judge ruled on a request from the Vancouver Aquarium asking for an injunction ordering that Charbonneau’s film be removed from Internet sites like YouTube and Vimeo as well as his own website vancouveraquariumuncovered.com.

In her decision, Watchuk didn’t order that the film be taken down, but did order that 15 segments of the documentary – containing video footage or photographs of whales and dolphins at the aquarium – be edited out of the film.

Those segments amounted to between four and five minutes of footage in the 60-minute film. The judge gave Charbonneau and his company Evotion Films Inc. seven days to comply with the order.

In a press statement, representatives of the Vancouver Aquarium said they were pleased with Monday’s court decision, adding the aquarium feels its programs need to be “fairly

represented and protected from those who choose to deliberately make false claims.”

Charbonneau and his lawyer said outside the court the changes will not make a significant difference to the film or its impact.

“I don’t think the critique of the aquarium is in any way diluted when those photos and footage are taken out,” said Arden Beddoes, Charbonneau’s lawyer.

According to court documents filed by Charbonneau, the film was viewed about 9,000 times on YouTube between July 2015 and February 2016, when the aquarium launched the lawsuit. Since then, the number of times it has been viewed has climbed to about 19,000.

The Vancouver Aquarium launched a lawsuit against Charbonneau and his film company in February, claiming parts of the film violated copyright law by using material from the aquarium’s website without permission. The aquarium also argued the filmmaker used video footage from a visit to the facility last year that he was forbidden to include.

Beddoes argued the filmmaker is exempt

from the copyright restriction under part of the law that permits fair use for public and educational purposes.

He added those issues have not yet been determined by the court on a permanent basis.

In court documents, Beddoes argues the aquarium is using the issue of copyright as a roundabout way of attacking the content of the documentary. “It’s an important and timely piece on an issue which has galvanized a lot of Canadians – which is whales and dolphins in captivity,” said Beddoes on Monday.

Charbonneau said the 2013 movie Blackfish brought renewed attention to the issue. The recent decision of SeaWorld in San Diego to ban breeding of orcas in captivity also has highlighted issues in the debate.

In a website post that responds to Charbonneau’s film, the aquarium described it as “an inaccurate movie that misleads the viewer” and disputed specific claims in the film about how the aquarium acquires some of the whales and dolphins at the facility.

No trial date has been set for the case.

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Trinetti has since been released on bail with conditions that he abstain from alcohol and refrain from driving.

BC Coroners Service has not yet released the name of the victim. Trinetti is due back in court on May 18.

Notwithstanding the charges and the nature of the case, residents in Lower Lonsdale say the street is dangerous to cross, even in ideal conditions.

“That street is terrible. It’s getting worse, honest to God,” said Michele Matheson. “It is a gong show.”

Matheson said there have been numerous collisions with pedestrians, near misses and even a dog hit and killed by a car over the last year.

That intersection is particularly bad for visibility, she said.

“When you’re driving up the hill, you can’t really see the crest of that crosswalk all that well, especially at night, especially in the rain.

Idiots are in dark clothing wearing headsets,” she said.

Lonsdale and Fourth, and other crosswalks like it, should be better lit or include fastblinking lights, Matheson said.

Worse still is the speed drivers tend to do up and down Lonsdale, Matheson added.

While a six-foot speed bump or spike belt would do the job, Matheson said she’d like to see a slower speed limit or a sign that warns drivers when they’re over the speed limit.

The morning after the fatality, neighbour Britta Dansereau took it upon herself to install poster board signs asking drivers to slow down. The signs were removed a short time later but the city has plans to install a new pedestrian controlled signal at Fourth, according to Mayor Darrell Mussatto. The city has also begun installing traffic bulges on the

A sign taped to a lamppost on Lonsdale at Fourth marks the site where a pedestrian died Thursday. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD corners in Lower Lonsdale, which are meant to create a greater buffer between traffic and pedestrians and force drivers to slow down.

Before moving ahead with any more major changes, there would have to be a proper traffic audit “to make sure that the proper solution is applied to the right problem,” Mussatto said.

“You don’t want to just start throwing things at it that may or may not work.”

Mussatto said he generally favours slower speed limits over faster ones.

“The biggest problem is drivers. They’re in too much of a hurry, trying too quick to get where they’re going and not paying attention, driving irresponsibly. That’s a problem.

Maybe we need to work with the RCMP to step up enforcement,” he said.

And pedestrians too must take an active role in their own safety, Mussatto said, especially when it comes to making themselves visible.

“As a paramedic, I did so many ambulance calls where people were in crosswalks and if they had dark clothing on, they were almost impossible to see,” he said.

Project manager Dave Harper, of the BCIT Rivers Institute, lashes tree trunks together to create fish habitat at the mouth of Lynn Creek. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

Salmon enhancement project on Lynn Creek estuary complete JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Accommodations are cosy, close to nature, and government-subsidized: they’re also for fish.

The District of North Vancouver recently wrapped up work on the Lynn Creek estuary leading to Burrard Inlet in the hopes of creating a refuge for juvenile fish and spawning salmon.

The $335,000 project involved three excavators passing 100 logs into the creek’s gravel bars. If the plan works, the bars will grab hold of the debris that makes for good fish habitat. The project also included building intertidal islands at the head of the bar earmarked for plant life.

Workers pulled blackberry, ivy, holly, and broom from the shores of the creek, replacing the invasive species with grass

and clover. After the pull, workers put down fabric designed to stop the unwanted plants from cropping up again.

Prior to the work, the gravel bars were too rocky for plants to take root. However, an accumulation of sediment should allow the district to plant seagrasses, according to Stephanie Smiley, District of North Vancouver spokeswoman.

The DNV project was done in partnership with the City of North Vancouver, Port Metro Vancouver, the BCIT Rivers Institute and the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Fisheries and Oceans Canada made the biggest contribution with $100,000 while the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation chipped in with $50,000.

Viterra, a grain company, contributed $40,000.

When it comes to returning salmon, it will take several generations to see if the project was a success, according to Smiley.

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DNV debates traffic vs. affordability on parkway BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

District of North Vancouver may be easing off the brakes when it comes to development in the Seymour area.

Since March 2014, district staff have been advising would-be developers of lots in the Seymour Local Plan area that their applications would be considered “premature” until March of this year. The original motion, which included an exemption for the north side of the 3500-block of Mount Seymour Parkway, the old Dollarton Shipyards, and small single-family subdivisions of up to three new lots came from Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn after his wife demanded to know what he was doing about traffic in the Seymour neighbourhood.

Excluding a seniors’ rental housing project, the parkway area has added 171 strata units over a 13-year period and another 24 townhouse units have been approved by council on the exempt blocks. Another 95 units are under construction next to Cates Park.

But a motion to extend the policy (and add two more blocks to the exempt area) for another two years went down to defeat Monday night with Couns. Mathew Bond, Roger Bassam and Robin Hicks voting against.

(MacKay-Dunn was not present for Monday night’s meeting and council motions must get a majority to pass.) It was the exemption for single-family homes that took up most of council’s discussion.

“I will be looking carefully at development in Seymour. ... What I believe makes the Seymour area special is its green spaces, its lower density compared to other regions of the Lower Mainland and I believe my mandate, for the most part, as a councillor is to protect the Seymour area in its current form,” said Coun.

Jim Hanson.

This time around, the focus of the debate wasn’t so much on how limiting development would impact road users, but rather how it

would impact home prices.

The area’s original single-family houses were first built and lived in by everyone from doctors to janitors, Bond said, arguing denser housing is needed if the North Shore is to remain home to those same types of people.

“Now, when you look at who can afford a single-family house in Seymour, it’s not doctors, it’s not engineers, it’s not janitors. It’s people that have $1.5 million to come in to buy a single-family house and another $1 million to build a brand new one,” he said. “I think families my age are expecting and are realizing that our homes are going to be smaller, on smaller lots and they’re going to cost a lot more than they did for people who lived here in the first place, but if we don’t build these, who is going to live here?”

But the affordability train has left the station, Coun. Lisa Muri countered, with even older Seymour townhouses listing in the $1-million-plus range. “No amount of housing, in my opinion, is going to bring the price down.

The prices are rising based on speculation and amendments to building and it’s just not going to be affordable mostly due to the geography of where we live.”

And any growth happening outside the district’s town centres would be a form of urban sprawl, Muri added, which couldn’t be considered sustainable or in keeping with the official community plan. The intent was to phase developments in the area, Muri noted, something other neighbourhoods looked at in green-eyed jealousy.

“I can only apologize to those other areas in the district that didn’t get the same treatment as the residents in Seymour got,” she said.

After the quasi-moratorium went down to defeat, all six council members present agreed to salvage the original plan to begin considering redevelopments on the 3300-3500 blocks of the parkway and to discuss the single-family subdivisions in more detail at a future council workshop.

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Tantric sex therapist handed conditional sentence Judge says counsellor’s actions violated therapeutic relationship

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A former North Vancouver man who told a counselling client he was a tantric sex master who could help her with sexual problems has been handed a six-month conditional sentence after being found guilty of sexual assault.

Richard Harold Matthews, 68, was found guilty following a trial in North Vancouver provincial court of sexually assaulting a 29-year-old woman who came to him for counselling in 2013. He was sentenced Jan. 19.

The woman went to see Matthews on a roommate’s recommendation to seek help regarding the break-up of a

relationship and a move to another community.

Matthews had no formal training or qualifications as a therapist but had “self-studied tantric teachings and practices and then introduced them to his lay counselling practice,” according to the judge.

“Mr. Matthews saw himself as a person with a skill set that, in his view, allowed him to assist females to reach their full sexual potential,” the judge noted.

During the trial, the woman testified Matthews steered the counselling sessions towards sex therapy, despite her initial reasons for seeking help, and suggested they practise various kinds of massage, along with tantric “ecstasy or fire breathing.” Matthews told the woman the sessions would involve “breaking boundaries, which the victim understood to be mental boundaries,” according to the judge.

But the sessions soon turned physical.

By the third session, “He told her he wanted her to go

further and she took this to be a reference to her breathing and mental state.”

Instead, Matthews touched the victim sexually under her clothes without her consent.

When she protested, he told her he was touching her “trauma spot” and continued his actions.

The woman left and later exchanged a series of text messages with Matthews expressing her lack of consent and upset at his actions. She later went to police.

Crown counsel asked for a sentence of nine to 12 months followed by probation, arguing the court should give significant weight to the fact the incident involved a breach of trust by a person acting as a therapist.

During the trial, Matthews suggested the woman’s accusation that she didn’t consent to the sexual touching was false and the result of being “overcome by guilt resulting from her Catholic upbringing.”

Matthews’ lawyer argued during a sentencing hearing

the touching was brief and did not result in any sexual gratification for Matthews, noting “the victim was an adult who had willingly engaged in learning tantric sexual techniques.”

In handing down her sentence, Judge Joanne Challenger said Matthews’ actions were a violation of a particularly intimate and trusting therapeutic relationship and needed to be denounced.

“He imposed his own agenda on her,” the judge noted, adding Matthews should have got clear consent before touching the woman in the manner he did.

Matthews has since given up his counselling practice and moved from North Vancouver. Under the conditional sentence order, he must obey a curfew between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and perform 30 hours of community work service. Challenger also placed him on probation for three years and on the sex offender registry for 10 years. Matthews is also banned from offering counselling services.

Fourth mysterious wad of cash turned in Once again, a mysterious wad of cash has turned up on the ground and been turned in to police by an honest citizen.

It’s the fourth such occurrence of members of the public literally tripping over piles of money on the

North Shore in the past month. Large sums of cash were found recently at a bank machine, on a North Vancouver sidewalk and on a local trail.

This time, a senior citizen came across the cash lying on the ground near

the intersection of 19th and Marine in West Vancouver, just before lunch time on Saturday. She turned it in to the West Vancouver Police Department.

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he death of a 31-year-old North Vancouver man because of an allegedly impaired driver behind the wheel last week was an absolute tragedy and we grieve for his family.

And we look forward to the accused having his day in court.

But residents in Lower Lonsdale say the avenue is perilous for pedestrians and cyclists even when alcohol isn’t a factor.

Lower Lonsdale is certainly meant to be the North Shore’s most walkable neighbourhood but people must take their life in their hands when they cross its namesake street.

In a more civilized time, electric trollies shuttled people up and down the spine of North Vancouver but with cheap gas and plenty of road space, our

culture soon started to conflate speed and free parking with quality of life. And we began to plan our cities and public spaces accordingly.

In his sweeping 260-page report Where the Rubber Meets the Road, provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall unveils some telling numbers on road safety and some bold recommendations. Each year, about 280 people are killed and another 79,000 are injured on B.C. roads, and speed was to blame in approximately one-third of those cases.

Among Kendall’s proposed remedies is prioritizing pedestrian and cyclist safety in designing our streets and lowering the speed limit to 30 kilometres per hour in urban areas. Of course, it would be a shock to our culture that tells us streets are for cars and cars for speed but we say it’s an idea worth considering. It’s time we shifted gears.

Health care top of mind but not top of budget

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o doubt the B.C. government and other provinces are still basking in the after-glow of the Trudeau government’s big spending budget that sends potentially billions of new dollars their way, but there was one glaring omission in that budget that has yet to be addressed.

That would be the federal government’s share of spending in the most expensive part of all government departments: health care.

Next year, in 2017-18, federal health transfers to the provinces will increase by less than three per cent.

That is about half the size of the annual increase that provinces have enjoyed for the last 10 years or so.

This change was initiated by the former Harper government, which arbitrarily decided to tie annual funding increases for health care to the increase in the gross domestic product (which rarely exceeds three per cent).

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Ottawa’s current share of public health-care spending sits at about 22 per cent, but is projected to decline further to just 18 per cent within the next 10 years.

View from The Ledge Keith Baldrey The difference in percentages may seem small, but because provincial healthcare systems are so vast and so expensive, the gap between a three per cent lift and a six per cent hike can equal hundreds of millions of dollars.

The latest federal budget gives no sign of departing from the new rules set down by the previous federal government.

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It’s conceivable the federal government may want to make any additional increase to be made available only with some strings attached. For example, it may insist any additional money go into something like home care, which was a major plank in the federal Liberal election platform (but which did not materialize in this budget).

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spending, something that began in earnest during the federal Liberal governments of the 1990s. Ottawa’s current share of public health-care spending sits at about 22 per cent, but is projected to decline further to just 18 per cent within the next 10 years.

In any event, some tough bargaining may lie ahead for the provinces. They may take some solace in the fact that the Trudeau regime shows no hesitation when it comes to spending gobs of money, and the deficit be damned.

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be allocated. The current rules, called the Canada Health Transfer, distribute the money on a per-capita basis.

That seems fair until one realizes that not all people incur the same health costs at the same rate. The vast majority of any individual’s use of the health-care system occurs before the age of five and, in particular, after the age of 70 and onwards.

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, an always reliable body, the average annual health-care costs for Canadians under the age of 65 is about $2,500 (even this number is skewed high because infant care costs far more than anyone else in that age bracket).

But as we age, our annual health-care costs increase rapidly: almost $12,000 annually for those older than 65, and close to $20,000 a year for those over 80.

B.C. and the Atlantic provinces have the oldest populations by far, so they

will pay a disproportionately high penalty in this new arrangement. For all of B.C.’s attractiveness for retirement, its appeal may lessen if the health-care system is compromised for those retirees.

The Canadian Medical Association has suggested amending the CHT to include a “top-up” that reflects shifting demographics among the provinces.

One estimate is that would cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion a year, with the top-up increasing as the population ages.

Time for those new health accord talks to begin in earnest, or else all those smiles over the federal budget will turn to frowns in no time. Building transit lines and green infrastructure is one thing, but providing good, timely health care is something far more precious.

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Harbourside street parking a battleground Dear Editor: An open letter to City of North Vancouver mayor and council re: Pay Parking to Come to Auto Mall and Area, March 23 front-page story.

I am a medical service provider (registered physiotherapist) and employer of 24 people, a taxpayer to the City of North Vancouver, located at 850 Harbourside Dr. I am beyond offended and utterly frustrated that council made a decision (March 7), with no consultation whatsoever, to make this business zone a pay parking area.

As a business owner, I already pay $1,100 a month in addition to my $14,000 a month rent to accommodate my patients who come for treatment.

I need street parking as does every other business, to accommodate the staff needed to service our

businesses. The street space available is in itself a daily battleground since there is not enough for any of our employees: most spots are two hours only, necessitating my employees to have to run out and move their cars two to three times per shift, in the rain as is often the case.

Morning parking for all-day spots is an equal disaster with my staff coming in earlier and earlier to get a spot.

This is an utterly inhuman, unreasonable and untenable expectation for businesses and for staff that are the heartbeat of the city and for the staff we need to service that business.

Meanwhile, we are forced to look at four empty city lots that could easily be coopted for parking pending the upcoming development.

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to five huge, very sketchy RVs that park daily and weekly all year, occupying precious spaces needed for those who need to get to work to make their living.

This is just the tip of the very huge iceberg of noncreativity that is currently defining North Vancouver planning across the board.

I, my staff and patients, demand an immediate explanation and functional alternative so that I can continue to provide both medical service and employment.

I will be circulating this letter to the other stakeholders here with the expectation that our input can create a more sensible, less punitive solution to this issue.

Siobhan O’Connell Trimetrics Physiotherapy Clinical Pilates and Complementary Health

Traffic woes are no easy fix Dear Editor: Re: Burning Bridges, March 18 Viewpoint.

We are experiencing terrible traffic congestion problems on the North Shore.

The proposal by Delta Mayor Lois Jackson addressed this issue (and others).

The merits (or otherwise) of the case are undoubtedly very complex and warrant detailed discussion.

However, one thing is simple and clear.

We will never be able to solve our problems if proposals are met with immediate selfinterested knee-jerk reactions. The responses of the North Shore mayors are depressing evidence of our collective inability to deal with these issues in a constructive manner.

Leo Fernig North Vancouver

Big issues trump Zika concerns Dear Editor: Re: Mosquito an Ill-Chosen Moniker, March 20 Mailbox.

When the North Shore News offers locals a voice to express their approval or not of local issues, I am in awe someone would take up space to complain about a name that has been a part of the North Shore for more than 50 or 60 years. North Vancouver is being overrun with highrises, traffic is frustrating, with only two bridges, the rush hour is continually getting worse, this area used to be a beautiful,

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She’s competed at the World Youth Chess Championships and promoted chess for girls, but if not for the Park Royal players she might never have learned the game, according to Hague.

“You have to sit at a board and not at a computer,” Hague said. “It’s the only place and only people in the city that welcomed her.”

The loss of that space left Hague “close to tears” she said.

As Park Royal has expanded, the chess game has been a mall mainstay, allowing children to learn the game and offering pensioners a place to swap rooks over coffee and conversation, according to Ingham.

“It’s an unwritten law down there that you look after the people,” he said. “I don’t know how many guys I’ve bought coffee with.”

The move to eliminate the chess tables is myopic from a business perspective, according to Ingham, who said his children and grandchildren frequent Park Royal as shoppers because he brought them there so often.

The mall sent a letter to one of the frequent chess players, offering them $500 assistance in finding a new venue.

Ingham, a Sentinel Hill resident, was nonplussed by the offer.

“You’ve got to be out of your tree. They’re trying to bribe us to bloody well move?”

Ingham is hopeful things can still be resolved peacefully, but he’s adamant it will be resolved.

“None of us want war,” he said. “One thing you can rest assured on, this is not going to disappear.”

Management at Park Royal declined to comment.

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At the recent Canadian Open Boulder Nationals, local climbing champ Alannah Yip faced eight problems.

In climbing lingo, the word “problem” refers to the path a climber takes to complete a climb. Each “problem” is a specific challenge set out by competition organizers, and each is designed to be complex. For both the semifinals and the finals of the nationals, held at the The Hive North Shore climbing gym in North Vancouver late February, Yip bested four problems to take the title.

It was only the second time Yip competed at this competition; the last time was in 2011 when she finished fourth. Winning it this time “felt really good,” she says.

Sean McColl, another local climber and nine-time Canadian national champion, won the men’s division. It was McColl, six years

her senior, who inspired Yip to try climbing when she was nine years old. Family friends, the McColls had two kids climbing at the time and Yip, who looked up to the older siblings, decided to give it a try.

“It was really fun,” she says of why she got hooked. “It’s exhilarating to climb, it’s a challenge.”

Now 22, Yip is also the current provincial champion and a six-time member of the Canadian National Youth Team. The Lynn Valley native is also a mechanical engineering student at UBC. Next week, she is leaving for Switzerland and the first of eight world cup events in different countries, leading up to the world championships. It’s the first time Yip is participating in the entire world cup bouldering circuit. Completing the series is a long-held goal for Yip, who says this is a good time in her life to give it a try. She’s going to use it to gauge where she’s at in the sport and where she wants to go with it.

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Moving into April with warmer soils and weather, we can direct-seed more vegetables into the garden. Try getting your favourite salad greens, peas and a batch of root crops into the ground this month (carrots, beets, radishes and turnips will do well).

Speaking of radishes, cool wet spring weather will give your radishes a mild flavour, perfect for enjoying with butter and a pinch of sea salt on warm bread. If you leave your radishes in the ground too long (anything over five weeks is questionable but it depends on the variety) they will get hollow and woody on the inside, and will not be as tasty.

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POWER OF RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL Two short films about CBT Vietnam, a communitybased tourism initiative that works with ethnic minority villages in the Sapa region of Vietnam, followed by a panel of speakers who will share their expertise about the topic of responsible, sustainable and ethical travel Thursday, April 7, 6 p.m. at the Bosa Centre at Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way., North Vancouver. powerofresponsibletravel. eventbrite.ca QUEEN MARY COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE Students benefit from this annual garage sale Saturday, April 9, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at 230 West

THE ART OF HOPE Grade 12 Handsworth secondary students Emily Kosichek and Ava Safai rehearse for The Art of Hope, an original play featuring 200 students in the school’s theatre, dance, film, technical production and visual arts programs. The sold-out production runs April 7-9 at Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. centennialtheatre.com. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH Keith Rd., North Vancouver.

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Classic eatery continues to impress I feel a certain fondness for enduring dining institutions.

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I am pretty far from conservative by nature, but there is still something reassuring to me about the ability of a venue or culinary tradition to sustain the constantly shifting winds of the restaurant industry. It’s a dynamic, often fickle business that is heavily influenced by trends and evolving tastes. The sheer

number of failed and defunct businesses in this industry is a testament to its volatility.

Andreas Restaurant, the ambitiously large, Greekthemed venue on 16th Street near Chesterfield Avenue, is a North Shore dining institution. The restaurant has been in operation since 1984. If you’ve lived on the North Shore for any length of time, chances are you have eaten there at least once. If you’re

a night owl or a restaurant industry professional, the odds are even greater that you’ve had an Andreas experience; this is a spot known for being open considerably later than most other places on the North Shore, serving large portions of reasonably priced food from a rarely changing menu, and for offering familiar, inexpensive drinks from a decidedly unpretentious list.

The down-to-earth, fewfrills formula continues to work for Andreas, it seems, based on a recent birthday visit there with my family during which we encountered a beleaguered server who was being run ragged by an interminable dinner rush. Despite the alleged chaos behind the scenes, our server maintained a friendly, casual disposition that helped disarm the

mounting tension at our table as hungry children began bickering, fiddling with condiments and elongating their syllables in the signature whine of exasperated young minds. “Da-aad, where is our dinn-errrrr?”

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Andreas simply doesn’t do small, as evidenced by my Combo BBQ Ribs and Chicken main, a massive pairing of half a chicken, half a rack of spareribs, thickcut, butter-drenched garlic toast, salad and, just for fun, a cheese-laden side of baked rigatoni that would have been a sufficient meal in its own right.

The meats were fallfrom-the-bone tender and proficiently seasoned, though suffered from a heavy smokiness in the barbecue sauce, a flavour that is not to my personal taste, but is nevertheless a common and popular interpretation of what barbecue should be.

The rigatoni was a gooey and indulgent “side” with an ample portion of fat noodles in a simple tomato sauce buried under a solid half-inch of mozzarella. This was a well executed dish and represented good value at $18.

My wife DJ went for a signature Greek dish, the Spanakopita Platter, probably the best selection of

FUN FOR A GOOD CAUSE North Shore Rescue’s Wally Kerchum and Vanessa Abbott flank Pemberton Save On Foods store manager Randy Davies at a fundraiser Saturday at the store. The event featured a barbecue by donation, a spin-the-wheel game, raffles, and prizes, with all proceeds going to North Shore Rescue. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH the meal. The spanakopita was part of another very hefty plate of food featuring two sizable rectangles of the spinach and feta pie, seasoned rice, Greek salad, tzatziki and two slices of the aforementioned garlic bread.

Though perhaps not a dish of sufficient distinction to rival some of the North Shore’s other popular Greek fare, Andreas’s spanakopita was, again, a perfectly respectable take on a classic dish, ably executed and generously portioned enough to warrant a doggie bag.

My daughter, Blondie, chose Baked Ravioli in Meat Sauce with garlic bread.

The dish had simple, predictable but warmly familiar flavours, well suited to a child’s palate, if not appetite, given the overwhelming amount of food.

The uniformity of the ravioli and consistency of the filling suggest they were not made in-house, but the dish still delivered on a promise of filling, tasty enough fare, well priced for the portion and quality at $12.

My son, The Boy, whose affection for pepperoni pizza must surely represent one of the world’s most committed loves, ordered a small pie, priced at just over $10, and soon fell into silent, boy-witha-sated-appetite paradise as he tucked into Andreas’s deep dish, cheese heavy, don’t-mess-with-a-classic rendition of his favourite meal.

A complimentary slice of berry cheesecake arrived as a gesture of goodwill for the wait on our meal and was not only a hit with the kids, but with DJ and I, who were afforded a bit of extra time

to sip our wine, a bottle of Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon from California. The wine is well-made, straightforward, reliable, and wholly lacking in pretense or airs; it is the perfect metaphor for the Andreas dining experience.

Our meal for four was $98 before gratuity, including a bottle of wine. Andreas is located at 153 West 16th St. in North Vancouver. andreasrestaurant.ca 604-985-0414 Chris Dagenais served as a manager for several restaurants downtown and on the North Shore. A self-described wine fanatic, he earned his sommelier diploma in 2001.

He can be reached via email at hungryontheshore@gmail. com. North Shore News dining reviews are conducted anonymously and all meals are paid for by the newspaper.

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The last time golf was contested as an Olympic event was in 1904 during the St. Louis Games at the Glen Echo Country Club in nearby Normandy, Missouri. There were men’s team and individual competitions, and 46 year-old George Lyon was on the Canadian team, having won the Canadian Amateur Championship in 1903.

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“He is my great-grandfather. His daughter Kathleen Lyon married James Cosgrave, my grandfather,” said Roger. “My father Lawrence’s middle name was Seymour after him. When I was born, my parents named me Geoffrey Lyon Cosgrave only to change it days later to Roger Barton Cosgrave . . . go figure.”

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Americans dominated the team event but Canada’s George Lyon proved a formidable opponent in individual match play.

Having dispatched John Cady 5 and 4 in the opening round, Lyon went on to defeat Stuart Stickney 11 and 9, Albert Lambert 5 and 4 in the quarter-finals and Francis Newton 1-up in the semifinals before facing Chandler Egan for the gold.

They could not have been more different. Egan was from Chicago, a Harvard educated 20-year-old and a long hitter. He was the reigning U.S amateur titleholder and won the long drive competition that opened the Olympic tournament.

Lyon was 46, suffered from hay fever and sold insurance.

The final was a 36-hole competition. While Egan had a reputation for long hitting, Lyon kept outdriving him. Ahead by three on the 34th hole of play, Lyon watched as Egan hooked his ball into a pond. Lyon putted out for par and the gold was his, 3 and 2.

Always a colourful character, when it came to the medal presentation, Lyon turned himself upside down and walked up on his hands to receive his prize.

Golf was also scheduled for the 1908 Olympics in London. Lyon made the voyage to defend his title, but the English and Scots could not agree on a playing format, so wouldn’t play, and the Americans decided it was too far to go, so stayed home.

The Olympic committee offered Lyon the gold by default but he turned it down, having not won it through competition.

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The men’s competition runs Aug. 11-14 and the women’s competition starts on Aug. 17 and goes until Aug. 20 at the new Olympic Course in the Reserva de Marapendi, a coastal nature preserve in Rio de Janeiro. It promises to be a great event and, somewhere, George Lyon will be smiling.

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Banff Court, North Vancouver.

Registration required as group size is limited to 12. 778-3728002 heartandstroke.bc.ca/ livingwithstroke PREPARING FOR RESIDENTIAL CAREALZHEIMER’S WORKSHOP North Shore families facing difficult decisions may attend this workshop presented at the Alzheimer Resource Centre,

212-1200 Lynn Valley Rd. North Vancouver, Saturday, April 9, 9:30 a.m.-noon. The program is free and registration is required 604-984-8348 SATURDAY NIGHT BOXING A showcase of amateur boxers from around B.C., Alberta and Washington Saturday, April 9, 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Griffins Boxing & Fitness, 326 East Esplanade.

North Vancouver. $25. 604-9801900 griffinsboxing.com/events

Kids Stuff PAWS FOR STORIES Kids ages six to 12 with reading challenges can practise their oral reading skills by signing up to read with a certified therapy dog Wednesdays until April 13, 4-5 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Registration required in the youth department or by phone, 604-925-7400. westvanlibrary.ca START WITH ART An exhibition where established artists who work in a diverse variety of media will have artwork hung at “kids-eye-view” and priced in a kid-friendly range runs from April 6 to May 7 at Seymour Art Gallery, 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

There will be a special free reception to meet the artists and participate in button-making and face painting Sunday, April 10, 2-4 p.m.

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Plant sale set for May 7 From page 14 The money we make goes to all kinds of local community gardening-related projects, from local seed libraries that enable people to try growing their own vegetables, to supporting gardening initiatives at hospices and care centres.”

At the plant sale you will be able to buy vegetable and herb seedlings, perennials and shrubs for shade, sun, and drought tolerance, and access the minds of Master Gardeners available to answer your toughest gardening questions. Admission is free, but bring cash for your purchases.

Happy gardening!

Emily Jubenvill grew up on the North Shore and is passionate about growing fresh organic food. When she’s not in the garden you’ll find her on a mountain or by the sea.

She’s the manager of the North Shore Neighbourhood House’s Edible Garden Project, and you can reach her at emily@ ediblegardenproject.com or ediblegardenproject.com.

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Twins start season with a bang North Shore squad swinging for repeat title ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

The North Shore Twins put together likely the best season in their storied history last year, so there’s no way they could come close to matching those results this season … right?

Well, don’t tell that to this year’s crew who picked up right where they left off, scoring 25 runs in a two-game sweep over the White Rock Tritons to open the 2016 BCPBL season in a doubleheader Saturday at Parkgate Park. The Twins started the double dip with a strong 7-1 win before following up with an 18-13 slugfest that was kicked off by a huge second-inning home run from one of the smallest players on the field.

Lead-off hitter Brandon Currie, generously listed at five-foot-nine, cranked a two-run homer that flew over the scoreboard, over a second fence at the top of a steep incline and into the trees not too far away from the tee boxes for the 11th hole at Northlands Golf Course.

“That hasn’t happened in a long time,” Twins general manager Rick Elstone said of a player hitting one into the woods behind the left field fence. “He just blasted it. … He’s got great bat speed and he can see the ball very well. I think he just surprised everybody with where that ball ended up.”

It’s a particularly early start to the season for the Twins as these two games were originally scheduled for July but had to be moved to resolve a scheduling conflict for the Tritons. There aren’t any other games on the schedule until the BCPBL’s planned opening day this Saturday. Add in the fact that there were numerous rainouts during exhibition play and the Twins and Tritons came into Saturday’s games without getting many practice reps. That certainly didn’t affect the bats for the Twins, although both teams struggled at times with pitching and defence.

Cole Ensing of the North Shore Twins turns a double play during last year’s BCPBL championship tournament. Ensing is expected to be a team leader again this year as the Twins try to defend their 2015 regular season and playoff titles. PHOTO SUPPLIED CHRISTIAN J. STEWART PHOTOGRAPHY “The first game was actually a baseball game,” Elstone said of the Twins’ 7-1 victory that featured standout pitching performances from both starter James Bradwell and reliever Jack Decooman. “The second game was a gong show. It was a three hour 20 minute horror show, really, as you can tell by the scores. …

Defensively we made a lot of stupid mistakes.

Just plain physical errors. You can’t blame the weather so I think it’s just early-season jitters.”

It was, nonetheless, a perfect 2-0 start to the season as the Twins began their quest to replicate their incredible 2015 campaign that saw them claim the BCPBL regular season title for the first time in club history before going

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on to win the league championship and finish second at the Baseball Canada 18U National Championships. The major difference from last season to this season is that all four of the team’s ace pitchers have moved on.

“We lost the best pitching staff we’ve ever had with (Will) McAffer and (Matteo) Vincelli and (Braeden) Toika and (Robert) Hemer,” said Elstone.

This year Decooman, Bradwell and Tim Walters are expected to lead a young pitching staff. Both Decooman, a student at West Vancouver’s Mulgrave School, and Walters earned spots on the junior national team for a round of games against MLB rookie league

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“The fact that you’re getting a tap on the shoulder from Team Canada indicates that you’re doing something right,” said Elstone, adding that he hopes the young staff can keep scores low enough for the powerful Twins offence to win the games.

The pitchers should benefit from the wisdom of head coach Brooks McNiven, who had a long pro career and also pitched internationally for Team Canada.

“We’ve got a young pitching staff,” said Elstone. “We’ll see. Brooksy is one of the better,

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As indicated by the monster numbers put up in the first two games, offence should be a strong suit for the Twins. Several strong hitters from last season are back, led by third baseman/ catcher Steven Moretto, who also earned playing time with the Junior National Team this spring.

“We’re counting on him to be the team skipper this year in terms of keeping the guys honest and everything like that,” said Elstone. “And he can hit.”

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“He’s been around for a lot of years – he started as a prep when he was something like 12,” said Elstone. “He’s pretty confident when he goes up to the plate.”

Other returning batters expected to make big contributions include centre fielder Trevor Fonseca from West Vancouver secondary, first baseman Spencer Lindeman from Rockridge, and second baseman Cole Ensing from Seycove.

The team will again benefit from the wisdom of Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer John Haar who will oversee the entire Twins program – including the prep and junior teams – as the club’s director of baseball operations and player development.

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Over the past decade the Twins have developed into a team that is nearly always challenging for top spot, building success upon success by bringing in new stars to replace outgoing players. In addition to last year’s championship win the Twins took three straight BCPBL titles from 2007 to 2009.

“Over the last three or four years our junior team has been right at the top of their league, so we’ve had success at both levels,” said Elstone, adding that Haar is there to help the junior players make the jump to the senior level.

“It is a significant (jump),” he said. “The pitchers throw harder, the hitters hit harder.

But these kids seem to be able to step in because they’ve had success at the junior level.

The junior coaches are doing a good job and the guys are pretty well ready when they get there.”

So with a loaded offence; a defence working through some early-season jitters; and a young, work-in-progress pitching staff, will these Twins be able to match last year’s heroics?

“We’ll do OK,” said Elstone with a chuckle. “I think the talent is there and I think we’ll be a contender again this year.” !!!

The Twins will go on the road this weekend for the prestigious Best of the West tournament in Kamloops where they will face many of the elite teams from Western Canada, including their chief BCPBL rivals the Langley Blaze.

A four-pack of home games for the Twins will come April 23 and 24 with the Nanaimo Pirates in town for a Saturday double-header starting at 1 p.m. followed by a Sunday double-header against the Victoria Eagles starting at noon.

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