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Two women are dead and seven others have been injured after an SUV crashed into a wedding party in West Vancouver Saturday evening.

Police, fire and ambulance were called to an address in the 400 block of Keith Road Aug. 20 with a report of collision with multiple injuries, said Const. Nicole Braithwaite, spokesperson for the West Vancouver Police Department, Monday morning. Braithwaite said the incident happened after the driver, a woman in her 60s who was exiting a shared driveway driving a 2016 Range Rover, collided with a group of people who were attending a wedding at a neighbouring property. Eleven ambulances and an air ambulance were dispatched to the scene by BC’s Emergency Health Services. Despite first aid by witnesses and emergency Continued on page 12

Cpl. David Noon of ICARS and Const. Nicole Braithwaite of West Vancouver Police brief the media Monday about an SUV crash that claimed two lives and injured seven others at a wedding in West Vancouver Saturday evening. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

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It’ll soon be a quicker ride to zip to the peak of North Vancouver’s iconic Grouse Mountain.

Grouse Mountain Resort will start work next month on a project to add a state-ofthe-art gondola system to carry skiers and

tourists up the mountain. Work will start Sept. 9 on the $35-million project, which will replace the 56-year-old blue tram which has been used only for carrying freight and resort employees for the past several years. When finished, the new gondola will operate alongside the current red Skyride

tram, approximately doubling the number of people per hour who can be whisked from the parking lot at the base of the mountain to the chalet at the top. The two lifts will be able to carry about 1,900 people per hour and cut down on line-ups at peak times, said Melissa Taylor, spokesperson for the resort.

The red Skyride, which can carry 900 guests per hour, will still be in use for the foreseeable future. The new gondola will have a capacity of 1,000 guests per hour, making the trip in 5.5 minutes. Plans are to complete the gondola project by the spring of 2024 – in time for Continued on page 18

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As back-to-school time gets closer, an urgent plea is being put out for host families for international students in several parts of the Lower Mainland, including North Vancouver, Burnaby and Vancouver.

After more than two years of pandemic travel restrictions, teens from many parts the globe are keen to experience high school in Canada before they graduate, said Cheryl Lee, chief operating officer of MLI – one of two companies that arrange homestays for international students in North Vancouver. But changes during the pandemic mean there are often fewer host families to go around. In some cases, locals are still working from home, with home offices occupying spaces that might previously have been an available bedroom, said Lee. In other cases, adult children or elderly parents are living in the family home, or families remain cautious while COVID-19 is still a concern. Local families are also opting

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to travel more – making it harder to commit to staying put during the school year, said Lee. There’s also more competition for host families. Many language schools that cater to post-secondary students weren’t operating during COVID but are now back up and running, said Lee. Finally, inflation that has sent

food prices skyrocketing could give some people pause when considering another mouth to feed, Lee acknowledged. Host families are paid an amount to cover costs (which typically ranges from $800 to $1,500, depending on the school community). This year, North Vancouver is

expecting to host approximately 530 fee-paying international students – the same number as last year. Last week, MLI was still looking for host families for between 10 to 15 students expected to arrive in Canada in the next week to 10 days. The need for host families is particularly keen in the Seycove area, added Lee. With many in-person events still on hold, Lee said her company has relied on everything from going door-to-door to setting up in mall parking lots to get the word out. Host families can come in many shapes and sizes, including single adults, young couples without kids, and empty nesters whose children are already grown, said Lee. But the host must be more than 25 years of age and willing to take on a parental-type role for international students who come to stay with them. “These are minors. They are kids. It’s not room and board. It’s not room without board,” she said. “It’s very much a family. It’s very much people that are there

to act in that caring family mode while a teen is here in Canada.” International students heading to the North Shore are typically 15-17 and are “pretty independent cool young people,” said Lee. One of the changes that’s happened since the pandemic is that more international students are coming from Europe – especially Germany, Italy and Spain, said Lee – while fewer are coming from China, which has been subject to more COVID lockdowns. About 400 international students will also be landing in West Vancouver soon, said Tricia Buckley, spokesperson for the West Vancouver School District. In West Vancouver – where the school district handles its own homestay program directly – administrators started searching for homestay families back in March, said Buckley, and cut off admissions early, to be sure of having enough homestay families willing to host students. Most families who’ve hosted international students find it incredibly rewarding, said Lee, with bonds that often continue for years after the student returns to their home country.

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Avis bills North Van woman for driving 36,000 km in three days BRENT RICHTER

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A North Vancouver woman nearly got taken for an expensive ride by her car rental company, which claimed she drove more than 36,000 kilometres in three days.

Giovanna Boniface picked up a Yukon Denali from Avis Car Rental at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Aug, 13. She drove it to Kitchener to help her daughter get moved back in for university and returned the vehicle to Avis at the airport three days later, a round trip of about 170 kilometres. Boniface’s work requires her to travel frequently and she rents cars often, so she thought nothing of returning the vehicle to the airport, handing over the keys and going on her way. It was only after she left and was waiting to board her flight that she saw the receipt indicating she’d driven 36,482 kilometres in 68 hours, along with an $8,079.76 charge to her credit card.

Giovanna Boniface shows her car rental bill that claims she drove more than 36,000 km three days. CONTRIBUTED / GIOVANNA BONIFACE “I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh,’” she said. “It’s pretty nuts.” If Boniface were to skip all washroom and fuel stops, she’d have to maintain a speed of 536.5 kilometres per hour, or 148.8 metres per second, to go the distance Avis’s bill claims she did. That would be roughly the top speed of the fastest drag racer, and

significantly more than 176 km/h the SUV is capable of. Given the proper bridges being built, it would be enough for her to drive from Toronto to visit her family in Cape Town, South Africa and back and still have a few thousand kilometres to spare, Boniface pointed out. Had she set out to drive around the circumference of the Earth at the equator, she would have made it 91 per cent of the way. Had she been able to drive the Yukon straight upward, she would have been at risk of hitting satellites in geostationary orbit. It’s an obvious error, either by a human or computer, and, to put it lightly, Boniface disputed the claim and the bill. Boniface and her husband tried calling Avis’s Pearson airport location non-stop for about 90 minutes. No one picked up, and she didn’t have the option to leave a voicemail. When she finally got through to a customer service agent, she explained the situation. “And they didn’t really care. I asked to

be put through to a supervisor, because sometimes that’s what you need to do, and they just hung up on me. And I don’t know if they do that purposely, but I just kept getting hung up on,” she said. For days after, there was “Nothing from Avis. Not a peep,” she said. Boniface asked VISA to cancel the charge, but their process for a dispute could take at least 45 days. On Friday morning, she confirmed the charges had gone through. Boniface said it should have been flagged as soon as it went into Avis’s system that something was amiss. After receiving a request for comment on the story from the North Shore News on Friday, Avis contacted Boniface with an apology and a promise that she would have the extra charges refunded in three to five business days. When it comes to car rentals in the future, Boniface said she would advise anyone against using express drop-off service. “It’s meant to be fast, but look at what’s happened,” she said.

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Restaurant faces fine for skirting 2021 COVID-19 laws JANE SEYD

A North Vancouver restaurant is facing a possible $2,300 fine for allegedly refusing to check customers for vaccine passports when they were in effect last fall.

The Anatoli Holding Company Ltd., corporate owner of Antoli’s restaurant in Lower Lonsdale is scheduled to have the issue heard by a judge in North Vancouver provincial court next month. The restaurant was handed a ticket for violating COVID-19 laws in effect in October, under the Emergency Program Act, alleging it was failing to request vaccine passports from patrons, as required at the time by a public health order of Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s medical health officer. Court documents point to Oct. 20, 2021 as the date of the violation. Last fall, the City of North Vancouver confirmed bylaw services had received 16 complaints from the public about Anatoli’s not checking for vaccine passports or identification. “We have also received similar complaints involving other restaurants in the city that are usually addressed after an educational visit by bylaw services,” added Pardeep Purewal, manager of communications, at the time. The city’s role is “to do education and outreach seeking voluntary compliance with provincial health orders,” she said at the time. In cases where businesses didn’t comply with rules voluntarily, investigations were sent on to Vancouver Coastal Health, said Purewal. Vancouver Coastal Health refused to confirm last fall whether any North Shore businesses had been ticketed for not asking for vaccine passports. One North Vancouver woman told the North Shore News she was surprised when

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she went to Anatoli’s with her sister for a birthday lunch last fall and was told by staff they wouldn’t be checking for vaccine passports. “I was shocked and really disappointed,” she said. “This is a place I’ve been going to for years.” Last week Iani Makris, owner of Anatoli’s, blamed the failure to check for vaccine passports on “a lack of education” rather than a deliberate decision to sidestep the rules at the time. “We started checking after we got that ticket,” he said. B.C. brought in a requirement for customers in public restaurants as well as at gyms and other non-essential indoor gatherings to show proof of vaccination in September of 2021. The requirement was lifted at the beginning of April 2022. A number of North Shore residents were also handed tickets for violating restrictions on private gatherings in the earlier phases of the pandemic. As COVID-19 cases surged in November of 2020, Henry banned all gatherings of over 10 unrelated people – a ban which lasted through to the spring of 2021. Some people who received those tickets have since disputed them in court. Former tennis great Grant Connell failed to lob a disputed $2,300 COVID-19 ticket out of the court earlier this year. The ticket was handed out in May 2021 for hosting a “non-compliant” gathering at his home on Southridge Avenue in West Vancouver, after West Vancouver Police got a complaint about a party at his house. In another case, prosecutors later dropped a $2,300 fine against a West Vancouver real estate agent who was handed a fine in Jan. 8, 2021 after police responded to a complaint about loud music coming from his office on Clyde Avenue shortly before midnight. The agent told the North Shore News he was fighting the ticket because there was no gathering.

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The Government of Canada is poised to ramp up efforts to decarbonize the country’s 16.5 million buildings.

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced in North Vancouver Aug. 17 the federal government is launching consultations on its $150-million Green Building When it comes Strategy, a to climate suite of polchange, I think icy changes we can all agree aimed at it’s no longer drawing down a question of greenhouse whether we gas emisshould act. sions from NATURAL RESOURCES Canada’s MINISTER homes and JONATHAN WILKINSON businesses. “When it comes to climate change, I think we can all agree it’s no longer a question of whether we should act. It is ‘how’ we should act to address what is clearly an existential crisis for the world. And

the crisis is of particular importance to people of their age,” he said gesturing to a group of youths present for the announcement. Buildings account for about 13 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Canada (18 per cent if you include the electricity sources they run on), the third-highest contributing source behind oil and gas (27 per cent) and transportation (24 per cent). There are about 16 million dwellings in Canada and more than 482,000 commercial buildings, Natural Resource Canada estimates, 70 per cent of which will still be standing in 2050 when Canada has a commitment to net-zero emissions. “They’re all going to need to be retrofitted and deeply retrofitted if we are to achieve our net-zero goals,” Wilkinson said. “This is no small task but we have already gotten started, and we need to accelerate those efforts going forward.” The government already offers grants of up to $5,000 for home energy efficiency improvements like the installation of heat pumps, and $40,000 no-interest loans for larger projects. The new Green Building Strategy, which is due to be finalized in 2023, will likely

expand on those, Wilkinson said. As for new buildings, Wilkinson said they will figure heavily in the strategy. “We do intend to move forward with regulations that will eventually require net-zero building codes. That obviously involves provinces and territories who must implement a national building code,” he said. Canada’s Green Building Council estimates there will be 1.5 million jobs in the sector by 2030, up from 462,000 today. Wilkinson said the plan includes a strategy already adopted in the Netherlands to standardize retrofits, which should make the business case strong enough for the private sector to join in willingly. “We are going to need to think about innovative ways to attract private capital to help us to do this. Governments will not have enough money to be able to do all of that on their own,” he said. “It’s about creating good local jobs because when you renovate, retrofit and build buildings in your community. The best people to hire are the folks who are already there.” Comments from the public and industry stakeholders are now being accepted by Natural Resources Canada online.

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he BCGEU has begun job action in their labour dispute with the province, demanding raises in keeping with the rise in the cost of living. Unions representing B.C.’s teachers, hospital employees and nurses are also poised for difficult contract talks. To have so many big-ticket public sector labour contracts coming up for renewal after two years of COVID-era spending and during the highest inflation we’ve seen in decades certainly is a perfect storm for negotiators. It’s true that even without the current spike in inflation, wages haven’t been keeping up with the rising cost of living, especially in Metro Vancouver. Economists, however, are warning against signing new labour contracts that assume rapid inflation will continue into the years ahead. That not only impacts the budgets of these important services we all rely on, but it also leads to

higher costs for taxpayers and yet more inflation. Current and imminent labour talks will certainly be a test of whether the NDP is deserving of its union-friendly reputation, particularly when that butts up against the task of governing. Here on the North Shore, the 150 Blue Bus drivers and staff are warning of escalated job action if they can’t get a new contract by Sept. 7. It appears the District of West Vancouver has made an offer for an increase, but is otherwise taking a holdthe-line strategy. The rhetoric from the Amalgamated Transit Union is so bellicose, it’s hard to imagine the two sides getting any closer to one another without a full strike. We have faith that, through the bargaining process, fair contracts will be signed. But whether it’s buying a bottle of wine or getting to work, everyone is going to have to brace for some labour pains ahead.

West Van housing bylaw changes cause massive backlog

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Unintended consequences can be an unfortunate upshot of decision-making. What you thought was a positive move might create a problem you didn’t foresee.

Take, for instance, West Vancouver council’s decision last year to follow through on home design and construction recommendations from the district Neighbourhood Character Working Group. What was devised with best intentions to act upon the advisory body’s work to refine a range of housing bylaws also prompted a protracted, unplanned problem. In providing the community six months to digest and adapt to the new rules, council instead provoked a stampede to beat the punch. The grace period was hardly graceful. A deluge of plans and proposals overwhelmed staff. What had been 40 homebuilding permit applications per month in the previous three years turned into 82 in November, 129 in December and 209 in January before the bylaw took effect at month’s end. It was 10-and-a-half months of activity shoved into

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three months. Many months later, West Vancouver is still quite deep in the hole. Here we are in late August and the district still hasn’t dealt with 35 new single-family home applications filed way back in the last week of January. All told, there are 79 new home applications in the queue. What had been an eight- to 12-week period to review a single-family home permit has turned into a gangly 24 to 29 weeks. Permit applications for renovations and additions, many of them fairly simple in nature when you review the data, are taking 12 to 16 weeks. The district says it might be the spring of 2023 before there is a return to the typical review durations. In many ways these delays couldn’t have struck the community at a more inopportune time. What had been a fairly orderly system in somewhat stable industry conditions for eons – remember near-free borrowing? – has turned into a gnarled, volatile economy of supply-chain breakdowns, labour unavailability and construction-related inflation higher than even the high-single-digit inflation others of us are experiencing. And time is money. The inundation has been anything but inexpensive.

Even though many district staff worked evenings and weekends to sort out the easier and tougher plans and ease the congestion, homeowners and developers have assumed hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars in additional costs in contending with a clogged artery at municipal hall. It has issued 55 single-family home permits and reviewed 115 since the change, which means more than half of the applications needed more information. Unsurprisingly, some chose to abandon their plans in recent months, which somewhat inflates the backlog statistics. I suspect the most frustrating of these delays would be to find yourself in the logjam with a low-impact, low-cost renovation. I had a look – a quite tedious look, let me tell you – at the applications and approvals in the months before and after the changes, and there were loads of three- and four-figure renos that in this triage could have been granted the benefit of the doubt without an ensuing calamity. And, if I might be granted an opportunity to play 20-20 hindsight, here is where council had an opportunity to think steps

ahead, more like a chess than a checkers player. It could have sanctioned some sort of commonsensical exemption for projects of a certain size by certain contractors or tradespeople – companies and names familiar to the district that could be placed on an accredited list. Yes, still subject them to inspections, strike them off the list if they deliver substandard work, but meantime let them proceed with the more modest renovations. Focus staff on the bigger projects with more funds at stake and the complex bylaw to abide. This is a time when all governments ought to be entering an era of frugality and of placing guardrails on galloping taxes. That also means helping people save money. A gesture of good faith to clear the least complex of the plans would have delivered more efficient government and swifter (and presumably less inflationary) renovations to help residents, many of whom are working more often from home in the pandemic. Hey, electioneering council, perhaps it’s not too late. Kirk LaPointe is publisher and editor-in-chief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president, editorial, of Glacier Media.

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MAILBOX COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE SHOULD INCLUDE LEGAL ACTION

Re: Editorial: Courting disaster, North Shore News Aug. 17, 2022

Dear Editor:

Thank you for your recent article on suing Big Oil to help pay for climate costs. Vancouver’s North Shore is already facing climate impacts (wildfire smoke, heat waves, landslides, etc.) and will likely need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with sea level rise. A North Shore News headline earlier this year proclaimed that the winter legacy of B.C.’s coastal mountains could be “on the brink of collapse.” Currently, North Shore taxpayers are on the hook for all of these costs. But we believe those most responsible for causing climate change should pay their fair share for the damage. The world’s top 20 polluters are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. These companies have known for decades about the climate harms they are causing, yet they continue to make billions in profits while blocking climate action. That’s why West Coast Environmental Law and other community organizations are calling on B.C.’s local governments to sue Big Oil – to make polluters pay their fair share of local climate costs. As your article notes, there is a discrepancy between the results of a province-wide poll that we released showing widespread support for suing fossil fuel companies for climate costs, and a NS News poll showing lower levels of support. These differences could, in part, be due to the wording of the NS News poll question. Your question presumed that recovering funds to help cover increasing North Shore climate costs is not a local issue, while incorrectly implying that the lawsuit is intended to shift all of those costs to fossil fuel companies. Sue Big Oil advocates for suing the

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world’s largest oil companies to make them pay their fair share of climate damages – in other words, proportionate to their role in causing global greenhouse gas emissions. We all bear some responsibility for climate change, and taxpayers will pay for many of the resulting costs. However, Big Oil is far more responsible, and must also pay a share. For those concerned that a lawsuit is a pipe dream, recall the successful lawsuits against Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and asbestos. Suing Big Oil can help change business practices, mitigate climate change, and build safe and healthy communities. We are thrilled that the City of Vancouver has voted in support of suing Big Oil, and we are hopeful that other B.C. municipalities, including those on the North Shore, will join this historic initiative.

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Dear Editor:

The legal process is slow but there is a very real potential of a settlement if enough pressure can be applied on Big Oil. Moreover, our society’s efforts to address the issue of climate change on a multi-level approach should include legal action. Big Oil actively mislead society about climate change given what I have been reading over the last year. The parallel to what Big Tobacco did regarding cancer is very real. The lawsuit is but one of many ways to address the issue in our society. Hopefully such legal action will encourage Big Oil to put more of its money into renewables. Corporations have significant power in our society, and once they reach a certain size take on an independence that needs to be brought under control by people acting through their government, be it at the municipal level or otherwise.

Archie Kaario North Vancouver

A controversy brewing for over a year in North Vancouver’s popular Shipyards District continues to simmer even as the pace of discussion to ﬁnd a solution has picked up over the summer. At issue is an application from shipbuilder/repairer Seaspan to expand its existing drydock operation - which gives the area its name. To meet growing business demand and create 100 new jobs, Seaspan has applied to the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority for permission to add two new smaller drydocks and a work pontoon – expanding its operation 40 meters to the west of its existing operations. Where this gets sticky is that while the Port has jurisdiction over the offshore water lot space, the City of North Vancouver has zoning authority over the land shorefront. A few years ago, the City fostered the development of the Shipyards area, including the construction of high-rise residences that will sit in the shadow of where Seaspan wants to expand its operation. Some area residents say the westward expansion will make an already bad situation worse – citing dusty air, noise and light pollution from the existing drydock operation that they argue have not been adequately addressed. Shipyard residents asked Seaspan to consider expanding to the east instead, where Seaspan already has an industrial water lot lease - a position supported by North Vancouver City Council. However, Seaspan says that’s not feasible – for both ﬁnancial and operational reasons.

Decision rests with Port The decision to approve or deny Seaspan’s application rests solely with the Port Authority – an independent federal agency. Rejection of an application to use a water lot already zoned industrial would need to be driven by signiﬁcant adverse impacts that simply could not be effectively mitigated. Earlier this summer, Seaspan publicly released its planned mitigation measures and extended its public consultation period to September 14th. I encourage anyone interested to read the consultation document and

provide your online feedback at www.drydockprojects.com. However, opponents of the westward expansion say the consultation is a stacked deck because it does not encompass consideration of a move to the east. They’re not conceding Seaspan’s decision to take that option off the table and have asked Seaspan to disclose its detailed rationale for ruling that out.

Path to a solution As the Member of Parliament for North Vancouver I have a duty of care for the interests of the residents, Seaspan and the broader community. I have met numerous times over the past year with Shipyards residents and their supporters, with Seaspan, the Port Authority and city officials. Mayor Linda Buchanan and the entire City Council have also taken a keen interest in this issue. My goal has been to help facilitate a dialogue that encourages deep listening, surfaces key issues, explores options and identifies areas of potential compromise that might lead to a durable solution. I believe there is an opportunity for both sides to build some trust and good will by demonstrating a willingness to listen and act on what is heard. For Seaspan, that could begin by providing a more detailed rationale for ruling out the eastern option the residents are requesting. If residents feel they are entering into a sincere dialogue with Seaspan on the merits and challenges of that option, they could reciprocate by entering into a parallel discussion/examination of Seaspan’s mitigation plans for a move west – and perhaps through this dialogue, find ways in which Seaspan can more fulsomely address some existing concerns with the drydock operation overall. While the outcome of all of this is still far from certain, one thing is clear – at the end of the day, the path to a sustainable resolution is likely going to require some compromise on both sides. And for that to occur, there needs to be more genuine dialogue that creates an environment of trust and good will.

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Woman loses final appeal of bid to be declared ‘wife’ of slain millionaire JANE SEYD

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A Chinese woman who was one of five mothers who had children with a West Vancouver millionaire prior to his slaying has lost a final legal battle to convince the justice system that she was the man’s wife.

The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the woman’s application to appeal her case to Canada’s highest court His actions Aug. 4. As is usual, demonstrate the court that his intentions were did not give reasons for to live the life choosing not to of a wealthy hear the case. bachelor ... The decision marks the end a playboy, of a lengthy without being legal fight by committed in a the woman, marriage-like referred to in way to any court documents as woman. “Mother 1,” to be declared the legal spouse of Gang Yuan, a West Vancouver multi-millionaire who was slain on the North Shore seven years ago.

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The dismissal of the appeal means the woman will not be entitled to a share of half of Yuan’s estate, worth up to an estimated $21 million. In a earlier decision, handed down Dec. 9, 2021, a panel of three B.C. Court of Appeal justices dismissed the woman’s appeal of an original B.C. Supreme Court decision that had ruled she was not a spouse of 42-year-old Yuan prior to his killing in May 2015. The end of the legal fight means the estate will instead be split between Yuan’s five children. Yuan left no will when his body was found chopped up in his British Properties mansion in 2015. While Yuan was not legally married, following his death, two women came forward, each claiming to be his wife. One of those women reached a settlement and withdrew her claim part way through the civil trial over the estate. The other woman, Mother 1, (whose name is shielded by a publication ban) argued in court that she considered herself Yuan’s wife. She met and moved in with Yuan in China when she was 16 and he was 30, had a child with him and continued a close relationship with his family over a number of years. Her claim was complicated, however, Continued on page 11

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Several women had children with ‘playboy’

Continued from page 10 by the fact her relationship with Yuan was happening “at the same time as relations with four other women who testified at the trial,” who also had children with Yuan, the original trial judge, Justice Elliot Myers, noted. In their testimony at the original trial, each of the five mothers described how Yuan pursued them, told them he wanted to settle down, met their parents and paid for apartments for them. He also encouraged the women to have his children – in two cases flying the pregnant women to other countries so they could give birth there and obtain citizenship for their children - while conducting similar relationships with the others. The original trial judge pointed to Yuan’s lack of intent as a significant reason for rejecting the woman’s claim that she was in a marriage-like relationship with Yuan. “Rather, his actions demonstrate that his intentions were to live the life of a wealthy bachelor ... a playboy, without being committed in a marriage-like way to any woman,” the judge wrote. The B.C. appeal court ruled that the original trial judge’s decision that there had never been a marriage-like relationship between the two still stood. Li Zhao, the 60-year-old husband of Yuan’s cousin, was found guilty of manslaughter in Yuan’s death and of

interfering with his body by cutting it up with a saw into more than 100 pieces at the British Properties mansion the two shared. During the criminal trial in B.C. Supreme Court, the court heard the two men got into a violent altercation after Yuan made a business proposition to Zhao that included allowing Yuan to marry Zhao’s daughter, Florence. At the time, Florence Zhao, who was in her 20s, was starring in the Vancouverbased reality TV series Ultra Rich Asian Girls, and the mansion where Yuan, Zhao and their extended families lived had been featured in the series. Justice Terence Schultes found that Yuan was shot twice at close range by Zhao, with a small-calibre .17 rifle, in the driveway of their home at 963 King Georges Way after an earlier fight involving a hammer inside the mansion. An autopsy found Yuan died of a gunshot wound to the neck. But Schultes said he was left with a reasonable doubt that Zhao intended to kill Yuan during the violent altercation – convicting him of manslaughter rather than murder. Zhao was handed a 10-and-a-half year sentence in October 2020. But that sentence was reduced by the lengthy period of time Zhao had already spent in jail, so that Zhao would only serve an additional two years and four months in jail for his crimes.

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Continued from page 1 services, two women in their 60s were declared dead at the scene. “It was a tragic incident that happened on what should have been someone’s happiest day,” said Braithwaite. Ambulance paramedics attended and transported nine injured people to hospital, including two people in serious condition and two in critical condition, according to BC EHS. West Vancouver Police said seven people were taken to hospital. The driver of the car was among those rushed to hospital, said Braithwaite. Her condition was unknown on Monday. Two of the injured – both adults – had “life altering” injuries, said Braithwaite.

The 400 block of Keith Road was closed on Sunday as investigators from the RCMP’s Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service examined the scene. So far, there’s no word from police on possible causes of the crash, although nothing has been ruled out at this point, they said. “The investigation is still in its early stages and our investigators are working hard to determine the cause of the collision,” said Braithwaite, describing the investigation as “complex.” “In the upcoming days and weeks we will be collecting an abundance of evidence that will determine if charges will be laid. And we will be providing a subsequent update once we have those that information,” she said.

Police have the Range Rover which drove into the group of wedding guests and will be filing a search warrant application to do a more detailed examination of the vehicle, said Corp. David Noon, a forensic reconstructionist with the Lower Mainland Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service. That model of Range Rover does contain a so-called “black box,” said Noon, which could provide information for the investigation. In response to questions from reporters on Monday, Braithwaite said police don’t have any estimate of how fast the Range Rover was being driven when it plowed into the crowd of about 50 wedding guests on the Keith Road property. “This is a tragic, tragic incident for everyone involved,” she said.

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Homeowner lets lawn go wild to boost biodiversity

wealth, privilege and colonialism … and the American dream of the 1950s, which was predominantly white, moving into a house in the suburbs with a lawn and picket fence,” he said. “We’re just beyond that now, I think. I think we need to think more about resource use and the stuff we put on the ground, and think more about biodiversity. We’ve lost many, many of our pollinators because of that obsession with the bowling green type lawn.” In the U.S., manicured lawns make up about two per cent of the land but they account for 60 per

cent of the municipal water use, he noted. Sunderland has been an advocate for fostering “urban meadows” but there’s more it than simply being lawnmower lazy. Left alone, it’s likely that only one or two weed species will thrive at first. If you really want to kick-start some biodiversity, packets of wild meadow seeds would be a good start, he said. “Over time, that will increase, and you’ll get colonization from other species coming in,” he said. Sunderland also said it’s totally appropriate to plant woody

species like buddleia, lavender or rosemary along the periphery of a yard, which will attract happy pollinators without casting too much shade on the rest of the species trying to grow. And you do have to manage the space and be ready to fend off invasive species like blackberries and Japanese knotweed, which will be more than happy to take advantage, Sunderland added. Local and regional governments could lead by example and start swapping their own manicured lawn space for planned meadows, he said. “It’s great for biodiversity. It’s great for pollinators. It’s great for drought conditions, when water is scarce,” he said. “It can only be a good thing.” Not everyone may be keen to have their neighbour commit an act of suburban landscaping rebellion, though, no matter the environmental benefits. A friend of Sunderland’s attempted a wild meadow, but in the first year, nothing grew but dandelions, which then spread to his neighbours’ garden. “Which they weren’t very happy about,” he said. Luckily, the folks who live next door to Robins have been on board with his wild lawn. It’s something he’s hoping a few other folks will adopt in the summers ahead. “I sit out here and I listen to the endless cacophony of weed whackers, lawnmowers and leaf blowers and wonder: could we not eliminate much of that noise pollution and air pollution and provide a home for our little critters that we need so badly?” he said.

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Greg Robins was something of a “lawnmower man.”

“I used to come out here once a week and just turn it into basically a par-three golf course,” he said, gesturing to his Lynn Valley backyard. It looked pretty, he said, but it was lacking something. In fact, apart from the grass, it was pretty devoid of any life at all. Today, his backyard along the Hastings Creek greenbelt is blanketed in a verdant patch of ranunculus leaves – more commonly known as the weed buttercup. Elsewhere, there’s clover. But it’s also literally buzzing with bees and other insects. Robins is letting his yard “go wild.” It’s a growing trend (pun somewhat intended), among people concerned about the environmental impacts of our obsession with manicured lawns. “I’m worried about our planet. I’m worried about the loss of habitat and the loss of fruit for insects and the decline in insect populations,” he said. “I’m concerned that if we don’t turn our own little patch of grass into a home for a certain number of insects and bugs, we’re going to be in trouble.” The lawn is green enough you might mistake him for a “grasshole” – someone who turns the sprinkler on their yard even when it’s against Metro Vancouver’s watering restrictions. But Robins hasn’t watered at all this year. He has mowed a few times in a few spots where things were getting out of hand, which is actually what’s best for biodiversity. A 2018 study published in the

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journal Biological Conservation found that being “lawnmower lazy” – mowing every two weeks – was optimal for attracting pollinators to yards in Massachusetts. It’s a different look, but Robins said he can’t identify many drawbacks to the decision – although he concedes it’s harder to spot where his dog Luna has left something for him in need of scooping. Our obsession with manicured lawns is no more natural than the lawns themselves, said Terry Sunderland, UBC professor of forestry. “The green lawn has its roots in

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The federal government is kicking in $2.2 million for upgrades to the 1967 rec facility, aimed at extending its life and making the building more energy efficient. North Vancouver MP Jonathan Wilkinson announced the funding for the project Aug. 17. It dovetailed with a larger announcement about Canada’s efforts to wind down greenhouse gas emissions from the country’s 16.5 million buildings. The federal funding will cover about 80 per cent of the cost of the mechanical upgrades needed for Flicka to take over the site when the new Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre opens in 2025. The city will cover the remaining cost. When the work is done, the building’s main entrance will be moved to the east side so it faces the street access roundabout and lawn bowling greens. The building’s roof will be replaced and mechanical systems modernized. The windows and insulation will be brought up to today’s standards and the building envelope will be made more energy efficient. It will also have accessibility improvements, with ramps and renovations to the washrooms.

The building will still run on a high-efficiency natural gas boiler, but the amount of energy consumed and carbon emitted should drop by about a third, Wilkinson said. “This revitalization will modernize the centre for gymnastics training in the community, from toddlers learning somersaults to Olympic athletes with big dreams,” he said, noting his daughter was among Flicka’s members when she was young. The club has vaulted six athletes to the Olympics, and thousands more – mostly young girls – have benefited from the physical literacy they learned there, said Tyson Carvell, a member of Flicka’s board. “It will be significant to the community to keep our home in the urban core of the North Shore. It is extremely important,” he said, adding the club’s members were grateful for all the support they’ve had. “For the city to enable us to move into Mickey McDougall, that took a lot of work.” Mayor Linda Buchanan, who also had four kids go through Flicka’s training, welcomed the funding and the improvements it would bring for the club and the community at large. “This will enable the club to continue their legacy of raising and training future Olympians here on the North Shore. Gymnastics is a fundamental building block in a child’s development, and Flicka has long been an athletic pillar in the city, particularly for young girls,” she said.

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France’s Constant Lestienne and Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece came away as champions as the Odlum Brown VanOpen tennis tournament returned to West Vancouver’s Hollyburn Country Club for the first time since 2019.

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Grammatikopoulou got championship Sunday started in fine style, completing an epic run of upsets with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over second seed Lucia Bronzetti of Italy to win the women’s title. In doing so, Grammatikopoulou became the first woman to claim the VanOpen singles title after fighting through the qualifying round to make it into the tournament. It was also the first career WTA title for the 25-year-old. “It feels very special because I came without a coach and I had a lot of support from my friends here. I enjoyed Vancouver so much that in the end, I was really relaxed playing tennis,” Grammatikopoulou said after the win. “This year [has been] really tough, I had a lot of anxiety and depression because when you don’t have results, it really affects your life and on the court as well.” On the men’s side it was two countrymen battling in the final, with Lestienne topping fellow Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 to win the title. Lestienne, who claimed his third Challenger title of the last

Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece fires a shot on her way to a win in the Odlum Brown VanOpen women’s final Sunday in West Van. BO MON KWAN

two months, also beat a Frenchman in the VanOpen semifinals to make Sunday’s final. “The match with Arthur was tough, we know each other, we’re friends and it’s never easy to play against each other,” said Lestienne. “You have to forget that you are friends and try to give your best, so today it went to me, it was really tight and maybe the next one will go to Arthur – he’s a good player.” British Columbia native Vasek Pospisil had a strong showing in the tournament, reaching the semifinals before losing 4-6, 4-6 to Rinderknech. This was the first year that the tournament held ATP Challenger Tour 125 and WTA 125 level designations, offering more points and prize money than any other event in VanOpen history.

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Grouse Mountain spokesperson Melissa Taylor, in a photo taken last year, shows off the proposed gondola to replace the resort’s old blue tram. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

Continued from page 1 celebrations marking the ski hill’s centennial year in 2026. The first double chairlift was built at the North Vancouver ski resort in 1949. The blue Skyride tram, which the gondola will replace, first opened on the mountain in 1966. In addition to being much newer, the gondola will be a different lift system than the Skyride tram currently used to carry guests up and down the mountain. The current system is often referred to as a gondola, but it’s actually a tram, said Taylor. Trams operate by pulling one or two larger cabins attached to a cable up and down the mountain. Gondolas involve loading multiple smaller cabins continuously as part of a looping system. The new lift system at Grouse will include 13 towers and 27 eight-person gondola cabins, which the resort

said would allow the ski hill to return to its original capacity when both the blue and red Skyrides were fully operational. The first phase of the project this September and October will be clearing trees on the easement for the existing blue tram to allow for construction of the 13 tower bases. An environmental assessment pointed to low environmental impact, said Taylor, because construction will take place in previously disturbed areas of the mountain. Building of the tower foundations and plateau stations is planned between January and August of 2023, said Taylor, with tower construction and cable line work scheduled for the fall of 2023. Some of the clearing and construction work on the new gondola may be visible from the Skyride, said Taylor, but that tram and the chalet won’t be impacted by construction. Public feedback on the project so far has been “incredibly positive,” said Taylor. “People know it’s needed.” A second phase of the project is also planned that will include new offices and retail space at the base of Grouse, and expanded parking that will add 193 spaces for a total of 1,047. That work won’t get underway until work on the gondola is complete. So far there’s been no decision about what will happen to the old blue tram, said Taylor. “It’s a piece of our history, of course,” she said. “So we want to make sure that we do honour it.” Since 2020, Grouse Mountain Resort has been owned by Northland Properties.

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There were 13 youths in West Vancouver police custody last week – all there by choice.

The lucky 13 were accepted into the West Vancouver Police Youth Academy, a five-day program that got them up close and personal with police and sent them home with new leadership skills. It was started by Const. Nicole Braithwaite in 2021. The teens get face time with the most visible policing units in Metro Vancouver, including the patrol and traffic sections, the RCMP’s Air 1 helicopter, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) and Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service (ICARS). Braithwaite also called on some of the partner agencies police work closely with, including West Vancouver Fire & Rescue, who sent them up a 100-foot ladder. “It’s getting kids out of their comfort zones,” she said. On Aug. 15, the group met up with North Shore Rescue members at their Bone Creek Search and Rescue Station. They were instructed on how the team rigs up for long-line helicopter rescues and they learned from a team doctor how rescuers perform CPR and package a patient for evacuation. “The coolest part is they got helicopter rides,” she said. “They had an amazing day.” It’s a tough program to get into, partly because it was only Continued on page 26

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Continued from page 21 trail near Tim Jones Peak. Despite cajoling by his owner, Duke was done. “The dog wouldn’t go any further,” said Don Jardine, search manager for North Shore Rescue. At first, the hikers thought the recalcitrant retriever might have been suffering from heat exhaustion. But upon closer inspection, they found the dog had injured his paws on some sharp rocks. Duke’s significant size – no shrinking canine, the pup weighed in at about 112 pounds – also complicated If it’s the prospect of a something rescue. like a dog Jardine said rescue, that’s the dog’s predicnot what ament involved they were several calls and set up to do. discussions with DON JARDINE, the provincial NORTH SHORE emergency proRESCUE gram. The team is mandated to rescue people, but not pets and animals. “If it’s something like a dog rescue, that’s not what they were set up to do,” he said. However, faced with the prospect of people attempting to carry the dog out themselves over tricky terrain in the dark, provincial funders relented and a helicopter was called in.

Sometimes rescuing someone’s pet is the lesser of two evils, said Jardine. “You either go in and get the dog or you end up with people overnight in the bush, possibly getting injured. It’s not a great area to be carrying a big dog over,” he said. Luckily the helicopter was able to land on a nearby helipad on Tim Jones Peak, while one of North Shore Rescue’s experienced dog handlers got Duke into a dog harness and into the helicopter with his owner. Unlike some dogs they’ve rescued, Duke was well behaved and seemed grateful to have a helping hand off the mountain, said Jardine. Jardine added he was once in a similar situation when a dog he was looking after – also a golden retriever – bolted and got struck on a cliff ledge on the Howe Sound Crest Trail. In that case, a helicopter and rope rescue was also necessary, but Jardine had to pick up a chunk of the $1,600 helicopter tab – something that dog owners should consider, he said. He added anyone who owns a big dog needs to be aware that pups who seem robust down at street level might run into difficulties on steep and sharp alpine trails, particularly in the heat. “It’s not the best place to have a dog,” he said. In this case, however, the hikers did the right thing by calling 911, he said.

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comfort food recipe for salt cod cakes shared with me by Lori McCarthy, author of the beautiful recipe and food story book entitled Food, Culture, Place: Stories, Traditions, and Recipes of Newfoundland. It was a breeze to grow potatoes in grow bags, and we will absolutely do it again next year. I do love the vibrancy and beauty of potato plants for about half of the time they spend in our garden, but can live without the impertinent sprawl of fading stalks spilling heavily over each other and into the paths – their lives cut short by the sharp wooden edges of the raised beds. We learned a thing or two about grow bags, namely: round shapes are more manageable than square, and rectangles are ridiculous (flopping open midway down the long side). Grow bags may need a wash between uses, as soil and solution-borne minerals produce a patchwork of stains (easily removed with dish soap). The bags are a breeze to move using handy built-in handles, and they rest sturdily atop wheeled pot coasters, ceramic feet or upended nursery trays. I chose black, non-woven bags for our garden, and green felt for my mother-in-law. She was tickled as she now gardens in limited space on her patio. On average, moisture evaporates quicker from bags than from pots, but by using living soil, and mulching well, one needn’t worry. Continued on page 25

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Continued from page 24 To keep sprawling arms and legs in check and in place, use a peony hoop or a homemade version made from wire coat hangers. Potato plants and flowers are as beautiful as any tender annual from a garden centre, and promise a bumper crop of tasty ground apples to squirrel away until winter, when we can cook what we grew with our own hands, for those we love. Grow bags “air prune” the roots of plants grown in them, which helps prevent root binding. Hot air “burns” away (dries) small roots as they hit the fabric, encouraging healthy new growth throughout. When I upended our grow bags into galvanized tubs for harvesting, I could see the tiny roots stuck to the sides and bottom of the bags. The gorgeous soil, still alive with worms and billions

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CHARALAMBOUS, Niki On August 13th, 2022, our loving Niki fell asleep at the young age of 71 in the presence of family and friends after a 4-year battle with cancer. Niki will always be remembered as a hard-working, selfless woman. She was very dedicated to her family, her home, her work, her friends, and her faith. Niki will be missed by her husband Nick, her two children Joulia (Andre) and Kika (Sean), her 5 grandchildren, 7 siblings, and all her nieces, nephews, inlaws and other relatives both near and far. May her memory be eternal.

Jacquelyn “Jacquie” Angela Whittaker August 20th 1982

Jacquie, you were loved by many. So much promise. What might have been. My sweet sister, you are missed by many and forever in our hearts.

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MICHEL, Joyce Michel, E Joyce I, 96 years old, passed away peacefully on August 10, 2022. Predeceased by husband Dick and sons Ken and John. She is lovingly remembered by Peggy, Nancy, Kathy (Jim), Geoff, and daughter-in-laws Karen and Pat and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. The memorial will be held at Boal Chapel and Memorial Gardens on August 26th at 10AM at 1505 Lillooet Rd., North Vancouver. A reception and interment will follow at 11AM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to a charity of your choice. The family would like to thank the staff of Home Instead and Amica Lions Gate, who cared for Joyce.

In our hearts and thoughts, always. Dearly missed .

She was happily married to her husband George for 48 years. They settled on Canterbury Crescent in North Vancouver. Here they had 3 children and hosted many dinners and parties. They enjoyed travelling to Reno, Australia and cruising to Hawaii and South America. Following George’s passing in 1996, Mary moved to her condo on Lonsdale and continued to stay social and active with bowling, line dancing, playing cards, knitting, golfing, and shopping. She was also known for a few guilty pleasures, including power reading Danielle Steele novels, pulling slots at the casino, driving her silver bullet Mustang, and White Spot burgers and fries. Mary had a love for holiday cards and birthday celebrations. She looked forward to these special occasions, particularly birthdays (often sneaking an extra slice of red velvet cake baked with wax paper wrapped quarters). She was most proud of two things: her family and her Greek heritage. She loved to prepare dolmathes and baklava for special occasions and to get together for family gatherings. She lived independently until the age of 94 and at that point she moved into Berkley Care Centre. Mary made many friends and quickly earned the reputation of being one tough cookie. She jumped into their social scene, participating in art class, manicure sessions, happy hours and movie nights. She will be remembered for her warm smile, charm, determination and the ability to chat with everyone. Her influence touched the lives of many people. Mary will be forever missed by George (Oy), Penny (Jack), Susan; grandchildren Aud, Alikie (Jeff) great-granddaughter Lucy, Nicholas (Melinda) and Cody (Shane).

We have decided to forgo a formal farewell service and we will celebrate her life with our immediate families. As a way of saying your goodbyes, we hope you’ll take a moment to recall a happy experience that you shared with Mary.

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Our matriarch and beloved “Yia Yia” passed away peacefully on August 3, 2022 at Berkley Care Centre in North Vancouver.

Our family would like to express our sincere thanks and gratitude for the special care and love that the staff at Berkley Care Centre provided to her over the last four years.

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CHRISTOPHER, Mary December 18, 1923 - August 3, 2022

Now Mary is finally home again and is “Forever 29”.

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Peacefully, on Sunday August 14, 2022 at Royal City Manor Care Home, New Westminster, BC, at the age of 94, God called Sister Ethel Devlin home. Sister Ethel was born September 7, 1927 to Matilda L’Heureux and Bertram Peter Devlin in Vawn, SK; the fourth of 7 children. Ethel entered the Sisters of the Child Jesus January 15, 1946 in North Battleford, SK. She took the Holy Habit on July 22, 1946 and was given the name Sister Pierre Celestin. She made first vows August 15, 1948 and final vows August 15, 1953. Her first mission was at Our Lady of Fatima School in Coquitlam and then she taught in Sechelt and North Battleford. Ethel attended Normal School in Vancouver and graduated from UBC with a B.Ed. She spent many years working with the First Nations people in Babine Lake, BC, St Paul’s, North Vancouver, and Williams Lake, BC. She spent 4 summers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia taking counselling courses where she obtained a Specialist Certificate in 1973 and, from 1967 until 1981, Ethel was stationed in Williams Lake, BC where she was employed by the Department of Indian Affairs as a counsellor. A new calling came for Ethel in later years. She attended St. Paul’s University in Ottawa from 1981-1983 and obtained her Licentiate and Masters’ Degree in Canon Law. Ethel served as both canon lawyer and judge for the marriage tribunal in Winnipeg, MB, for many years before returning to BC. where she served as one of two provincial assistants. Ethel moved to Chilliwack in 1996 where she assisted then Father Gary Gordon with native ministry as well as doing part-time marriage tribunal work. Shortly after celebrating her 94th birthday in her little house in Chilliwack, Ethel had a fall and she moved to Royal City Manor where she had good care and made new friends. Although we will miss her physical presence with us, she lives on in our hearts. We, the Sisters of the Child Jesus want to say “thank you” to her for all she contributed to our religious family. “Well done good and faithful servant!” Ethel is predeceased by her parents, her brothers: Leonard and Fred; her sisters: Elva and Louise and many of her religious sisters. Left to mourn her passing are her brothers Omer (Carmi) and Lloyd (Ann), numerous nieces and nephews and the Child Jesus family. Her Funeral Mass was celebrated at 11:00 am, Monday, August 22, 2022 at St. Paul’s Indian Catholic Church in North Vancouver, BC. Condolences may be offered at www.kearneyfs.com Kearney Columbia-Bowell Chapel 604-521-4881

GOODMAN, Jocelyn Eileen Our dear Mom, Amma, and Grandma, Jocelyn Eileen Goodman, was born in Winnipeg, November 22, 1932, the fourth of five children of Jack and Eileen Bell. Their home was always a happy, busy, loving hub for friends and family; a quality that Mom carried throughout her life. In 1955, Jocelyn married her sweetheart and husband of 57 years, Roger Goodman. Their adventures and Roger’s work took them to Dauphin, Edmonton, and North Vancouver while raising their five children, Paul, Warren, Gordon (Celia), Jocelyn (Bill) Purcell, and John (Cindy). Our home was always filled with laughter and love, celebrating all occasions or simply getting together for a big family dinner. Mom’s motto was “the more the merrier” and everyone was welcome with often a request that Grandma make her delicious garlic bread. Mom loved going for drives which likely started with our dad many years ago when they took a couple of hours on a Sunday morning to enjoy each other’s company and explore. The drives got longer and each year they would head down south to Palm Desert where we all enjoyed so many great family holidays together. Mom’s passion for the past thirty plus years has been her grandchildren - Erica Purcell (Lukas), Sam Purcell, Sophie (Liam), Max, Kelly and Michael and family friends Cassandra, Nicole and Cameron Mah. She loved hearing about what’s going on, encouraging and celebrating their accomplishments, big and small, and attending a lot of field hockey, soccer and football games. Everyone is welcome also meant everyone’s pets. Mom enjoyed the company of Chy, Bailey, Luna, Nemo, Abbie and most of all Saela, our beautiful border collie. Mom was predeceased by her beloved husband, our dad, Roger Goodman, sisters Yvonne Larner and Shelagh Lyons and brothers Brian and Robert Bell. Also left to remember a life well lived, full of love, are sister-in-law, Phyllis Bell (Winnipeg), many nieces and nephews, cousins and dear friends. Mom was in the center of our lives and we cherish all the wonderful memories and traditions she has left us. An open house will be held for family and friends in September. Details to be announced later. In lieu of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice.

McMILLAN, Doreen Evelyn October 9th, 1928 - August 9, 2022 Doreen was born in Vancouver, BC. where she spent her early years. Moving to Victoria she accepted early entrance at the University of Victoria, then located at Craigdarroch Castle. Eventually, Doreen would attend the University of British Columbia where she met John Henry Hayes McMillan (May 1927 - Feb. 2022). They married in 1953. Before Doreen left UBC, she would graduate with her Master’s in Social Work Class of 1954. Starting in 1955, she had five children Nancy, Janet, Susan (Pat), Diane (Spyros) and John. She loved her seven grandchildren Laura (Jay), Tyler, Kelsey (Dillan), Sean, Mariah, Evie, and Will. She had five great grandchildren who she was absolutely enthralled with: Finley; Marlowe; Brynn; Lachlan and recently Lennon. Doreen and John were avid travelers and enjoyed many trips throughout Europe and visited Greece many times. Doreen took continuing education classes in Fine Arts and tried her hand at oils and acrylics. Little known fact: she was an accomplished marksperson from her wartime cadet training. Also, Doreen spent years as a golfer, skier, and windsurfer. She was a respected Social Worker in North Vancouver and two other municipalities. Upon retirement, Doreen and John purchased property in Point Roberts which became the focus of family gatherings. The cottage was a passion in her later years, both Doreen and John happily spent most weekends there over the 28 yrs. they owned it. A kind, patient, and thoughtful Mom to us all and she will be sorely missed. Our family thanks the staff of Hollyburn House and Sunrise of Lynn Valley for their provision of care for independent and supported living over Doreen’s final years. Celebration of Life at a future date. Donations to your favourite charity, in lieu of flowers.

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