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Rottweiler attack sends 91-year-old to hospital JANE SEYD

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Police and bylaw officers in North Vancouver have seized a local dog from its owner and are investigating after a 91-yearold man was attacked by a Rottweiler in Norgate.

The senior, who regularly walks in the neighbourhood, was out for a stroll on Rosewood Crescent on the morning of April 17 when he was knocked to the ground and bitten on the arm by the dog.

“The dog got away from the owner.

The first person the dog saw was this man and attacked him,” said Const.

Mansoor Sahak, North Vancouver RCMP spokesperson.

Neighbours who witnessed the attack ran out on to the street to perform first aid and call for an ambulance. The elderly victim was rushed to Lions Gate Hospital where he immediately underwent surgery on his arm. He remains in hospital being treated for injuries more than two weeks after the attack.

Sahak said it’s not clear yet how the dog got away from its owner, who

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But Sahak confirmed there have been previous reports of the same Rottweiler attacking and biting other people.

“We understand the community is upset. We’re taking it very seriously,” he said.

Police accompanied District of North Vancouver bylaw officers to the owner’s home recently, where the Rottweiler was seized.

Police are still investigating the circumstances of the incident, which will include reviewing nearby home security video that may have captured the dog attack.

The dog had been with its owner on the owner’s property when it managed to get away, run into the street and attack the senior, said Ryan Schaap, spokesperson for the District of North Vancouver.

Schaap confirmed the dog has a “previous history” which led to it being deemed “aggressive” by district staff.

Under the District of North Vancouver’s dog bylaw, any dog that Continued on page 35

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Ministry tells demonstrators to cease overpass occupation NICK LABA

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A group of demonstrators that has gathered regularly on a North Vancouver overpass has been told by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to immediately cease its occupation of the area.

While the demonstrators have gathered on the Mountain Highway Interchange on Thursdays for months, displaying anti-vaccination and government conspiracy signs on the guard rails to be seen by drivers on Highway 1 below, recent anti-trans messaging by the group has been denounced by local officials and community members as hate speech. As a result, the city and district of North Vancouver have both released statements expressing that they have contacted relevant authorities, as the structure is not under their jurisdiction.

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A notice from the Ministry of Transportation affixed to the Mountain Highway Interchange in tells a group that has been gathering on the structure to cease immediately. NICK LABA / NORTH SHORE NEWS 1 recently near the Mountain Highway overpass, you may have seen some incredibly hateful, derogatory, and false messages about the LGBTQ2SAI+ community,” North

Vancouver City Mayor Linda Buchanan said in a statement on Thursday. A banner reading “Gender Ideology = Child Sex Grooming” was displayed on the overpass in April, and images

of the banner have been widely shared on social media.

“These messages go against who we are as a community.

Hate speech has no place in the city,” Buchanan said, adding that her office had reached out to the Ministry of Transportation for support.

On Friday, several notices were attached to the guard rails of the Mountain Highway Interchange stating that the ministry prohibits use and occupation of the interchange lands – which are under its control – without authorization from the transportation minister, as per the Transportation Act. In the attached notice, the ministry said it had become aware of the regular gatherings and that participants had attached banners to the structure and drawn attention to them. “Anyone participating in these gatherings must immediately cease their occupation and must remove all personal property from the lands.”

Failure to comply may result in the transportation minister taking steps to remove the occupants at their expense, the notice reads.

Speaking to the North Shore News, the ministry said the banners appearing on the overpass “are hateful and raise a serious safety issue for people who use the highway.”

The ministry added that its staff are in contact with the local municipality and law enforcement to understand options that can address the safety issue going forward.

“Enforcement is the responsibility of police,” a ministry spokesperson said.

‘No criminal offence committed,’ police say Const. Mansoor Sahak of North Vancouver RCMP said that the messaging is hateful in nature, but it doesn’t meet the threshold for hate speech under the Criminal Code.

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Electoral boundary change could have political impacts JANE SEYD

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Upcoming changes to provincial electoral boundaries on the North Shore could make the West Vancouver Seato-Sky riding — won last time by the narrowest margin in B.C. — even more hotly contested.

Earlier this month, B.C.’s Electoral Boundaries Commission published its final recommendations, which include adding six more electoral districts to keep up with population growth in B.C. Those changes have now been introduced in the legislature, with the intention of having them in place before the next provincial election.

The changes will see the number of ridings grow from 87 to 93, while the

boundaries of 72 electoral districts will be changed.

Riding boundary changes could have political impacts On the North Shore, the biggest change will be in West Vancouver where all neighbourhoods east of Cypress Creek currently part of the West Vancouver Sea-to-Sky riding, including Sandy Cove, West Bay, and Bayridge, to Rodgers Creek and south of Highway 1 will be cut out and added to the West Van-Capilano riding.

The change will cut 3,650 voters from the West Van Sea-to-Sky riding, bringing the total population of the riding down from the current 65,811 to 62,161 – closer to the province’s target population for each riding of 53,773.

Politically, the change could also remove some of the key areas of Liberal (now BC United) support from the riding that was narrowly won by the party during a judicial recount in the last election, after initially being declared for the Greens.

In the 2020 provincial election, the BC Green Party won nearly every poll north of Horseshoe Bay, including every poll in Whistler and Pemberton, and came within a hair of taking the riding from the BC Liberals, who have held the riding by strong margins since 1991.

The BC Liberal Party won the riding by just 60 votes, after a judicial recount confirmed the win by a margin of just 0.24 per cent, the closest race in the province.

Liberal MLA Jordan Sturdy’s narrow victory was largely due to him taking West

Vancouver by healthy margins, winning a dozen polls there by more than 60 per cent.

Under the redrawn boundaries, some of these areas will now be in the neighbouring West Vancouver-Capilano riding.

“There’s clearly been a trend for that West Van Sea-to-Sky riding that was once overwhelmingly Liberal becoming less so over time,” said pollster and political researcher Greg Lyle of Innovative Research.

While non-Liberal voters in West Van Sea-to-Sky tended to split between the NDP and Green Party supporters in the past, during the last election, Green support surged in the riding, said Lyle. That was particularly true in the Sea-to-Sky communities like Squamish, an area that’s been undergoing rapid growth. “When you think Continued on page 26

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CNV to develop policy in light of planned Flight 752 memorial

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The City of North Vancouver has endorsed the development of a commemoration policy for erecting memorials and monuments, as plans get underway to put in place a memorial for the victims of Flight 752.

The policy, penned for completion in October this year, will help “establish equity” in commemorating people and events, said staff in a council meeting April 24.

Staff said a policy-driven approach to decision making can “help ensure a fair and transparent process,” clarify the city’s roles to “support, curate and regulate,” provide guidance and help support “a trauma informed process.”

In January of this year, during a protest for the passengers of downed Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, Premier David Eby announced the province would be providing $100,000 to the City of North Vancouver for a memorial for the victims.

In Monday’s meeting, staff said the policy would serve as a road map for the Flight 752 memorial and all other monuments, memorials and plaques that would come after it, proposing that work begin on the tribute immediately after the policy is approved.

Staff have been looking to other creative tributes, like the Sailor’s Point Memorial in Waterfront Park and the Workers Memorial plaque in Victoria Park, for inspiration and to gauge how long it would take to complete.

The process will likely take just under a year, said staff, with a month given to finding an artist through a planned open call, the selection and design process each taking a month, and the installation taking six months.

A location is still to be determined.

Amid fears that the process would take too long, however, Coun. Shervin Shahriari proposed an amendment that would see the policy and the memorial worked on concurrently.

“We need to do better in order to speed up the process here in any way, shape or form we can,” he said.

The amendment received pushback from both Mayor Linda Buchanan, who said she appreciated its intent but couldn’t support it for concern of rushing the project, and staff, who said combining the two wouldn’t gain any efficiency and would make it difficult to create the policy in an unbiased manner.

“Our city and this council takes this extremely seriously, which is why it is really important that we get this right,” said Buchanan.

It was announced in January that $100,000 in funds will support the creation of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Flight 752 tragedy. MINA KERR-LAZENBY / NSN “Policy, what we do at this table, is what guides us. It’s what provides the guidance, the consistency as well as the accountability of what we are doing in the community and making sure that we don’t get it wrong.

Because getting it wrong can further traumatize people.”

Buchanan said it was particularly important to her that the families impacted by the tragedy feel that the council built a commemorative memorial correctly.

Couns. Angela Girard and Jessica McIlroy also commented on their appreciation in the urgency for getting the memorial installed, but said they didn’t want the process rushed to a point of hindrance to the finished tribute.

McIlroy said she wanted to see more time for community engagement to “prevent further trauma by getting it wrong.”

Despite concerns, Shahriari’s amendment to work on the commemoration policy and the Flight 752 memorial concurrently was passed by council 6:1, with only the mayor voting in opposition.

Coun. Tony Valente said that even if there isn’t a gain in efficiency, they should still try to move forward on the memorial nonetheless.

“I think we need to realize this work has a very strong emotional component,” he said.

“For some this memorial may be a part of attaining some form of closure.… I think we want to show as much as we can how we’re moving ahead with this process.”

Closing the discussion, Buchanan said the public can rest assured that for January 2024, whether a monument is in place or not, a commemoration event will occur for the seven North Shore residents lost during the tragedy. The event would likely include a march, as has been the case in previous years.

Mina Kerr-Lazenby is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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Letter grades to be scrapped for junior high JANE SEYD

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Changes to high school report cards mean students in Grades 8 and 9 will no longer be given letter grades and percentages for marks, starting next year.

Instead, students in their first two years of high school will be given a description on a four-point provincial “proficiency scale” to indicate how they are doing in class.

Students in senior secondary Grades 10 to 12 will still receive traditional letter grades and marks. Letter grades have already been phased out at the elementary school level.

Parents will still receive comments from teachers, describing how students are doing in class, areas they are doing well and others where they need to improve. The latest changes to scrap letter grades for students in their first two years of high school are being directed by the provincial Ministry of Education and apply to secondary students across B.C. Report card changes are meant to better reflect curriculum changes first adopted in 2016 which emphasized

“core competencies” and “big ideas” rather than learning of particular content.

Currently, there are a wide variety of proficiency scales already in use in various school districts. In North Vancouver, for instance, several International Baccalaureate programs have been using assessments like a proficiency scale since 2018.

The changes mean that all schools in B.C. will now follow the same scale to assess students up to Grade 9. The scale includes designations of student’s work as “emerging” “developing” “proficient” or “extending.” Under the new system, all students – including those with disabilities or who are neuro-divergent – will also receive a regular assessment.

In a parent information session hosted by the North Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council last week, parents asked questions about the changes, including how students in high school will adapt to the sudden change to traditional marks in Grade 10, and how families from cultures that traditionally value achievement of certain marks will deal with the change.

Others asked if the change would put students who plan to attend university, including universities outside of B.C., at a disadvantage. Greg Hockley, North Vancouver district principal of curriculum and assessment, said that’s one of the reasons marks and percentages have been kept for the senior high school grades – so B.C. students won’t face additional hurdles when applying for university admission.

Other changes include providing families of high school students with a “graduation update” which tells parents and students all the courses they have taken so far and the courses they still need to complete for graduation.

Another change taking effect during the next school year is a requirement that all students complete four credits (generally one course) of Indigenousfocus course work in senior high school in order to graduate. Most students will meet the requirement by taking one provincial social studies or English course in their senior years of high school with a specific focus on Indigenous material.

Some First Nations language courses and some locally developed courses will also meet the requirement.

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ost people have been content to ignore the anti-vax, pro-conspiracy messages that have been regularly hanging from banners on North Vancouver’s Mountain Highway overpass.

But recently, the tone and target of the messages changed, prompting reaction from public officials over the new anti-trans content.

Such baseless attacks on trans rights are the latest battle in the ongoing fight for human and civil rights, in which some groups – including the bridge banner group – are determined to be on the wrong side of history.

Unfortunately the local malcontents aren’t alone in spreading their truth-challenged vitriol. Efforts to restrict or walk back transgender rights or foment public opinion

against them has become the latest issue for social conservatives to rally behind across North America, reaching into areas including discussion in schools, medical treatment and participation in sport. Laws limiting trans rights south of the border have been on a frightening trajectory.

As in previous battles over issues like same-sex marriage, human rights are only advanced when they are fought for. The North Shore Pride Alliance does a lot of heavy lifting locally on that front. Every year, the organization also faces some kind of vandalism to pride symbols. They never waver from their message of acceptance and love.

Anyone concerned about the anti-trans banners would do well to support the alliance in their work. Trans rights aren’t just about transgender people. Our willingness to stand up to hate says much about all of us.

North Shore’s newest specialty: clutch hockey players ANDY PREST

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Are you in need of a player to score an incredibly important hockey goal?

Perhaps an overtime marker in a pressure-packed playoff game? Maybe a huge game-winning goal for a Canadian national team, or perchance a series-clincher for a storied NHL franchise looking to shake off the collective shame of generations to win its first Stanley Cup in more than half a century?

Do you need one of those? If so, I have good news for you! I know where to find lots of those players. If you need an OT hero, look no further than right here on the North Shore. We’re full of players who

score those goals! Over the past year, players with ties to North Vancouver and West Vancouver have been scoring those goals in big games all over the world. It’s uncanny. You could seemingly head down to Lonsdale Avenue right now, take a few slappers down the sidewalk and chances are one of those pucks would clip the shins of some hockey player or another who recently scored a monster overtime goal.

It all started with Kent Johnson, who isn’t technically from the North Shore (he’s a Port Moody boy), but we claim a piece of him due to the time he spent playing for the North Shore Winter Club.

We particularly claim him when he scores goals like the one he notched last August

for Team Canada at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Edmonton. In overtime of the gold medal game against Finland, Johnson took a pass from teammate Logan Stankoven, put a nifty deke on the goalie, got robbed on a backhand shot but stuck with it, shoving home the rebound to give Canada a championship victory with a golden goal.

Four months later the World Juniors were back in their regular Christmas holiday spot, and North Vancouver phenom Connor Bedard provided a timely gift to the whole country with one of the most impressive overtime winners you’ll ever see. You remember this one, right? Canada and Slovakia were battling

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in the quarterfinals – winner goes to the medal round, loser goes home – and the Canadians were having an incredibly hard time getting past goaltender Adam Gajan.

Time to call on Connor Bedard.

The North Van forward corralled the puck at the blue line, deked one defender, deked another defender, deked Gajan and slid the puck into the net to send the country into a frenzy. It looked like he could have spent all night deking the entire population of Slovakia without anyone laying a glove on him before calmly destroying all their hopes and dreams with a simple backhand.

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MAILBOX NORTH SHORE IRANIAN COMMUNITY EAGER TO GET TO WORK ON FLIGHT 752 MEMORIAL Dear Editor:

RE: CNV to develop commemoration policy in light of Flight 752 memorial, April 25 story On behalf of our many friends in the Iranian community and other communities at large who lost their loved ones in the Flight PS752 tragedy, we would like to thank the North Shore News for their coverage last week regarding the announcement of a monument to be built in North Vancouver.

We also wish to thank the B.C. government and the honourable MLA Bowinn Ma’s efforts for allocating a budget for the monument. Lastly, we thank the council of the City of North Vancouver for the proposed amendment to speed up the process.

The community wishes to see the monument built by the next anniversary of this horrific tragedy, or a few months after.

The building of the monument is a

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major concern among many Ukrainians, British, Swedes, as well as Iranians. They believe the monument should reflect this cultural diversity in its artistic design.

North Vancouver-based ICANDOEducation wrote a letter to the mayor and the council and staff that we are willing to help the city in this process.

ICANDO members are professionals in a variety of areas: architects, designers, engineers, and educators, including six PhD’s in areas as diverse as structural design, arts, physics, math, history, archaeology, and education, as well as 10 members with masters degrees in a variety of other disciplines.

Our volunteer board members are from a variety of different ethnic groups, some of whom had lived and were educated in the countries that had victims on the flight.

It would be inspiring to see the monument designed by North Shore professionals. We are waiting for the city staff to contact us for required assistance so that the designers can begin their deliberations in order to prevent further delay.

Sid Mirhashemy ICANDOEducation President North Vancouver

Need a big goal? We’ve go it covered Continued from page 8 West Vancouver buddies went double dragons last week, scoring back-to-back overtime winners to help the Toronto Maple win their series against the Tampa Bay Lightning and advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since Paul Martin was prime minister.

First it was Morgan Rielly who flipped a wrister from the blue line, through traffic into the back of the net in Game 3 to give the Maple Leafs a 2-1 series lead. Two days later Rielly ripped another long wrister to tie Game 4, completing a comeback after the Leafs fell behind 4-1 in Game 4.

Overtime heroics were then performed by fellow Hollyburn Huskies alumni Alex Kerfoot, who scored a devilish tip-in off the post and in to give the Leafs the win in overtime.

To finish off the parade of overtime heroes we’re heading back to the youth department. The latest monster goal came from North Vancouver’s Macklin Celebrini, who practically went Bedardian in scoring an epic overtime marker to clinch a 4-3 win

over Slovakia in the bronze medal game at the U18 World Championships on Sunday.

Celebrini – who already has a Hall of Fame great hockey name – found himself in alone on the Slovakian goalie and absolutely froze him with a fake, followed by a slick deke to the backhand to slide in the medal-winning goal.

If you don’t know the name Celebrini, you will soon, as he is projected to potentially go first overall in the NHL draft ... in 2024, one year after Bedard is going to go No. 1 overall. Could we have two No. 1 overall picks from the North Shore in two years? Yes. Yes we could.

And we have already proven that North Shore players come through in the clutch.

I don’t have the official stats, but we must be near the top of the world in per capita overtime goals over the past year.

Remember that, North Shore residents, the next time you need to come up big in a tight situation. We have a reputation for just such a thing.

Andy Prest is the acting editor of the North Shore News. His lifestyle/humour column runs biweekly.

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A suspected drunk driver caused extensive damage when she drove her SUV into an office building in North Vancouver on April 25.

North Vancouver RCMP got a call around 2:30 p.m. saying a woman in an Infiniti SUV had driven into a building in the Capilano Business Park, the complex on the 900 block of West 1st Street.

The driver subsequently panicked, reversed at high speed, hit a parked car and flipped her own vehicle on its side, said Const. Mansoor Sahak, North Vancouver RCMP spokesperson.

Luckily nobody was injured.

When officers arrived and spoke to the driver, they noted signs of possible impairment, said Sahak. The woman was asked to blow into a roadside screening device but “failed to provide a sample,” he said.

Police are recommending charges of failing or refusing to provide a breath sample against the driver, a North Vancouver woman in her 40s.

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Sahak said as a result of the crash, building managers were advised to consult engineers to assess the damage to the building’s structural integrity.

“In the case of this incident, we are just so glad that none of the patrons inside the business were injured.” said Sahak.

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West Vancouver was the birthplace of West Coast Modernism. It was also the birthplace of master LEGO builder Paul Hetherington. It was only a matter of time before these two got together.

Over the last two years, Hetherington has faithfully recreated eight Modernist masterpieces set to go on display at the West Vancouver Memorial Library for the Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show.

At the height of the pandemic, Hetherington started work on recreating Arthur Erickson’s Eppich House 2 simply as a passion project. It was West Vancouver author and artist Douglas Coupland who suggested the West Vancouver Art Museum and Hetherington collaborate for a fullscale exhibition, and they curated a list of surviving homes designed by Erickson, B.C. Binning, Fred Hollingsworth, Paul Merrick and Geoffrey Massey, among others.

The West Coast Modern movement sought to make buildings fit in with their environment rather than dominate it, breaking down the barriers between nature and living space. It popularized floor-to-ceiling windows, low-pitched or flat roofs with large overhangs, and open concept interiors. But, where Hollingsworth and Binning emphasized using local materials, Hetherington’s preference is Danish brick.

“LEGO is whatever you want it to be. It depends on your intention,” he said. “To some people it’s a toy, but to a growing number of people in the world, it’s an artistic

Master LEGO builder Paul Hetherington and West Vancouver Art Museum curator Hilary Letwin check out a model of West Vancouver’s iconic Pink Palace apartment building, part of the Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN medium.”

To make sure the likeness of the models was spot-on, Hetherington reviewed the original architectural drawings, studied photos, video and Google Earth renderings and conducted site visits so he could accurately build them from the inside out.

Hetherington grew up around the West Coast Modern style, but getting to know its most stunning examples up close brought a

new level of appreciation for them, he said.

“They’re just so cool. That’s the short answer,” he said. “It just draws you in. You want to go and knock on the door and explore.”

One model – almost certainly the most recognizable of the group – isn’t technically West Coast Modern. Villa Maris, better known to locals as the Pink Palace, is actually a rare Canadian example of

New Sensualism, a Miami Beach strand of Modernism. But it’s so well recognized and loved, Hetherington couldn’t resist recreating it in detail, right down to the placement of the trees in the private garden terrace designed by famed landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander.

Unlike other works of art, West Coast Modern homes are all privately owned, and you’d have to be trespassing to see and appreciate most of them. That’s why museum curator Hilary Letwin said they were especially drawn to the exhibition’s innovative way of educating the broader public about West Vancouver’s cultural contributions to the world.

“Through this new and kind of whimsical way of looking at the buildings, it gives us a whole new perspective, or introduces us to this architectural movement,” she said, adding that too many West Coast Modern homes have already been demolished, and those that remain always seem to be under threat of redevelopment. “West Vancouver just holds such an important place in the history of West Coast Modernism.”

Hetherington’s other pieces have been shown all over the world, although it’s rare for his work to be on display at home in Canada. The Bricktacular show will be his first ever solo exhibition. Its grand opening is on Friday May 5 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and coincides with the start of West Coast Modern week in B.C. What: Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show Where: West Vancouver Memorial Library When: Grand opening Friday, May 5, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The exhibit runs until July 31.

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The quest to find a location and finances for a new purpose-built space for studios, a gallery, rehearsals and small performances has stretched on for years and became one of the key issues in the 2022 municipal election.

When a 2020 proposal to build a $34$38 million facility within Ambleside Park proved divisive in the community, council ordered a new round of consultations looking into such things as preferred

vision and governance model for a hypothetical new arts facility.

In their final report to council, the committee recommended the facility run on a “hybrid model” wherein a board of community volunteers would provide direction for the facility while day-today operations would be handled by municipal staff, similar to how the West Vancouver Community Centre operates now.

Council voted unanimously Monday to accept the committee’s report, but stopped short of endorsing the recommendations they’d produced after a year and a half of work.

Also, excised from their report was their work on the all-important financing of the multi-million-dollar facility.

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Continued from page 14 troubled by the withholding of the funding analysis, but urged council to go a step further and endorse the committee’s recommendations.

“I really believe that we need to show our support for this work,” she said. “I believe that there’s been very extensive consultation that’s been going on really for dozens of years,… I think it’s more than enough.”

In response, Mayor Mark Sager clarified the rationale behind keeping the funding strategy out and not readily endorse the committee’s governance model.

There may be a potential donor or donors in the community who could help get the facility paid for but whose financial support is contingent on having a hand in crafting the governance model themselves. That, he noted, was exactly how the Kay Meek Arts Centre was built.

“Kay very much wanted to be involved in the setting up of the governance model.

Fair enough. She put up $17 million and made that facility a reality. She was a wonderful lady and she helped,” he said.

“If we are going to have a really great arts centre in West Vancouver, it’s going to take a few people like Kay Meek who are

going to help us, and I know that they are there and I know they feel as passionately as most of us in this room feel.”

Prior to the vote, about a dozen members of the local arts community and their supporters spoke up, urging council to get on with it.

“It felt odd that this 20-year conversation about the value and role of arts in the community would be waffling around through repeated studies, working groups, consultants and councils,” said Elaine McHarg. “Especially given the fact that West Vancouver is known to have a strong community of artists, architects, musicians, performers, and supporters, including collectors living here.”

Critics, however, urged council to hold off accepting the recommendations until the community had more time to digest what was in the lengthy report, which was only released with the agenda a few days earlier. Others reminded council about the segment of the community who’d like to see the vision scaled back.

“As all of you experienced during the campaign, there is generally … no community desire or no large community desire to build a grandiose destination arts facility,” said Barbara Chaworth-Musters.

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North Shore school districts are signalling that difficult choices could be ahead as budgets for the next school year are squeezed by inflation.

While costs for everything from salaries and sick leave to new computers have gone up, some traditional sources of revenue – like fees from tuition-paying I would prefer international not to continue students – to rely on using remain down our operating following surplus. both COVID19 and global We need to economic prioritize. challenges.

SD44 SECRETARY TREASURER In North JACQUI STEWART Vancouver, secretary treasurer Jacqui Stewart warned trustees recently that even with an increase in projected enrolment and the

provincial operating grant, expenses will exceed revenues next year unless changes are made.

“I would prefer not to continue to rely on using our operating surplus” to balance the budget, Stewart said. “We need to prioritize.”

Scott Stanley, director of human resources for the school district, said just as local families are feeling the financial pinch these days, so is the school district, on a much larger scale.

It will cost more in the upcoming school year to maintain buildings, hire the same level of staff and buy necessary supplies, he said.

Both teachers and support staff have already negotiated a wage increase of 5.5 per cent, with a possible additional cost of living pay hike of 1.25 per cent. While the province pays for those pay increases, it does not pay for similar pay hikes for non-union staff which must be funded out of the district’s operating budget, said Stanley.

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International student numbers down Continued from page 16 Money for technology upgrades must also come from the school district’s operating funds.

A similar budget crunch is facing schools in West Vancouver.

As in North Vancouver, the West Vancouver school district has historically relied on money from its international student program to help balance the books.

But that program has faced pressure from both a global economic crunch in Asia and a shortage of homestay families.

West Vancouver is also grappling with how to pay for technology upgrades needed for schools without breaking the bank.

At the same time, West Vancouver receives one of the lowest amounts of provincial funding per student in B.C., according to the school district.

West Vancouver schools receive $9,533 per student from the province. Other school districts in the Lower Mainland typically receive amounts ranging from about $9,600 to $10,200 per student.

Some of the most remote and rural school districts in the province receive between $20,000 and $30,000 per student.

While each school district receives

funding based on the number of fulltime students enrolled, they also receive money based on the number of special needs students, English Language Learners and Indigenous students enrolled in the school district. Some school districts also receive money to operate in sparsely populated rural locations or in communities where enrolment has declined sharply.

Spencer Capier, president of the West Vancouver Teachers Association, said he’s worried the budget crunch could lead to cutbacks in teachers who work outside of individual classrooms, like librarians and counsellors.

While there’s often an assumption everyone on the North Shore is wealthy, “that isn’t true,” said Capier. “All socio-economic groups are represented in our schools.”

Last year, both the North and West Vancouver school districts balanced their preliminary budgets by dipping into surplus “rainy day” funds to the tune of several million dollars.

That has meant, however, that both school districts now have less money left in those funds that they can draw on for budget emergencies in future.

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Birarda, 56, was sentenced in November to two years in custody – including 16 months in jail and eight months of a conditional sentence – for sexual offences involving teenaged soccer players he coached over a 20-year period between 1988 and 2008.

During those two decades, Birarda was a prominent figure in the soccer community, running a soccer academy in the Lower Mainland and coaching at both provincial and national levels.

For the past decade, offenders sentenced for sexual crimes have been automatically required to register in Canada’s sex offender registry.

Just days before Birarda was sentenced, however, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down mandatory registration of all

sexual offenders, ruling the law was unconstitutional, because it imposed onerous conditions on people who did not pose a high risk to reoffend.

The Supreme Court suspended its decision for a year but left the door open to offenders to apply in the interim for an exemption to the sex offender registry.

Birarda’s lawyers sought that exemption, arguing that Birarda has been deemed a low risk to reoffend by psychological assessments, has taken steps towards rehabilitation and made “significant efforts” to understand the actions that led to his convictions.

Defence lawyers added there is no evidence that Birarda is a pedophile and that at least 14 years have passed since his most recent offence.

The Crown prosecutor had argued that Birarda should be placed on the sex offender registry for 20 years.

On Friday in North Vancouver provincial court, Judge Deanne Gaffar granted the exemption sought by Birarda, ruling the former soccer coach will not be required to Continued on page 19

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Continued from page 18 register as a sexual offender.

In handing down her decision, Gaffar noted that inclusion in the registry is not imposed as punishment for offences but is meant to help police prevent and investigate sex crimes.

Gaffar noted the requirements of the registry involve ongoing reporting of extensive information and continuous state monitoring of those registered, representing a serious impact on their liberty.

Gaffar said central questions included whether Birarda is at increased risk for committing another sexual offence and whether the information contained in a sexual offender registry would ever prove useful to police.

In granting Birarda an exemption, Gaffar noted psychological assessments had found Birarda was at a low risk of reoffending.

Other factors, including a lack of any other offences over a lengthy period, extensive counselling, family support, and shame over the very public nature of his convictions also made the risk of Birarda’s reoffending low, the judge said.

“While a low risk to sexually reoffend may still represent a risk, it does not qualify as an increased risk,” Gaffar said.

She added it was “remote or implausible” that the information in the registry would be ever needed by police to find Birarda, given his strong personal and professional connections in the Lower Mainland and wide public knowledge of the case.

In striking down the mandatory lifetime registration for sex offenders last October, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that provision was unconstitutional because it included people who did not present a lifetime risk of reoffending.

The court gave the government one year to fix the problems it identified as unconstitutional in the registry.

Most recently, the government has proposed legislation that would limit automatic registration in the registry to repeat sexual offenders, and serious child sexual offenders. Others convicted of one of the crimes listed in the sex offender registry law can apply for exemptions if they can prove they do not pose a risk to the community.

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The work is part of Phase 1 of the Esplanade complete street project, an effort intended to make the arterial corridor safer for pedestrians and cyclists by widening sidewalks and adding protected mobility lanes. Work was originally slated to wrap up last summer, but the city said it faced delays due to supply and labour shortages.

During May’s paving work, the city said that single-lane vehicle traffic in both directions will be maintained, as will access to all nearby residences and businesses. There will be rolling closures at Rogers, Lonsdale and St. Georges avenues, but the city said

only one of the three intersections will be closed at a time.

“Delays of up to 30 minutes may occur for short periods at driveway access points,” the city said.

The city is directing cyclists to use an alternative route through Carrie Cates Court and along Victory Ship Way. Signage will be in place to show other routes, with flag personnel on site. On-street parking will be restricted in the work zone, but transit access to Lonsdale Quay will be maintained.

“Some noise, vibration and dust should be expected,” reads the city’s statement.

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The drivers of two luxury BMWs who crashed their vehicles while racing in North Vancouver have been given driver’s licence suspensions, one for four months and the other five months.

In January the two men, both in their 20s, smashed into a concrete barrier and a street pole near the Lloyd Avenue exit of the Trans Canada Highway after racing down the highway around midnight.

The drivers, from Burnaby and Richmond, were issued tickets for

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“This is just a lesson for other drivers out there thinking of doing similar actions with similar behaviours that could have dangerous consequences,” he said.

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when the two brazen BMW drivers flew past at speeds up to 145 kilometres per hour in an 80 km/h zone.

The officers followed the cars to conduct a traffic stop but found they had already come to a halt, having driven into a stop sign and a concrete barrier before crashing outside a church.

Neither driver was the registered owner, with the vehicles owned by their family members.

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CMHA and VCH unveil new mental health initiative JORDAN COPP

Contributing writer

For many, the first step can be the steepest.

The Canadian Mental Health Association North and West Vancouver branch has partnered with Vancouver Coastal Health to create Recovery College YVR, a new community learning center with a focus on addressing the transitional gaps some patients experience moving from one support system to another.

Julia Kaisla, executive director of CMHA North and West Vancouver, said one of the main values of the CMHA is always striving to encourage help-seeking behavior.

According to Kaisla, “About 20 per cent of Canadians with mild to moderate mental health or substance use problems can’t access appropriate resources and support.

“Sometimes they’re told they’re not sick enough to access help yet. That first stage is where we really see Recovery College having a place,” she said. “So, as people are striving to find the right resources for them,

whether that be counseling or psychiatric services, they can access support groups within Recovery College.”

Recovery College YVR will offer free courses to support mental health and substance abuse which will be available online and in-person.

Kaisla said the other focus of the college will be helping patients transition out of different levels of care and move towards greater independence with others who have similar experiences.

MJ Moore is a trained peer support worker who has been a volunteer co-ordinator with the CMHA for the last six years.

With previous experience working with Vancouver Coastal Health, she now works at the Kelty Dennehy Mental Health Resource Centre which she describes as “a mini-Recovery College.”

Like many in her field, Moore said she was inspired in part by the care she received when in need.

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Continued from page 22 met this amazing psych nurse and because of that, I enrolled at BCIT to become a psychiatric nurse,” said Moore. “The motivation for me was to take something that was like the worst thing that had ever happened to me in my life and turn it into a positive.”

According to Kaisla, co-operation between organizations and dedicated volunteers are essential elements in addressing gaps in support care systems.

“What I’m proud of is that this is a

partnership between a Community Mental Health Organization, CMHA and Vancouver Coastal Health and that we’ve been able to come together and share values and a purpose to build this together,” said Kaisla.

“And I really am so proud of the team that came together to build this. There’s a lot of people with lived experience who are bringing their expertise to the table.”

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Coach Faly Basse brings international passion to Altitude FC JORDAN COPP

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Altitude FC is returning for their second season of semi-pro soccer in North Vancouver, led by a coach who brings a wealth of international experience with him every time he steps on the pitch.

Faly Basse is a well-known name in North Shore soccer circles, and he’s back for his second season coaching both the men’s and women’s teams for Altitude FC in League1 BC. Sports such as soccer that are played extensively throughout the world have varying play styles from region to region.

Understanding different ways to play the sport provides coaches with a greater understanding of how the game is played, and how to teach it.

Before coming to Canada, Basse played in France, where he grew up, as well as England, Germany, and Switzerland.

Since coming to Canada, Basse

Faly Basse is entering his second season as head coach of both the men’s and women’s team for Altitude FC, a semi-pro soccer club based in North Vancouver. Basse is well-known in North Shore soccer circles as the founder of the Faly Academy. JORDAN COPP / NSN has been able to expand his reach.

“When I moved here, I started coaching girls, to get to understand more about the philosophy and how things work here in Canada,” he said. “Because back in the day in Europe, soccer for

women was totally unknown. And I ended up coaching a women’s team for over seven years on the North Shore.”

Basse also runs the Faly Academy. Named after coach Basse, the bilingual

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According to Basse, some of the biggest differences between soccer in Canada and France comes down to how athletes are introduced to the game.

“In France, soccer has a culture like hockey here basically, so when you go there every single player, they learn how to play on the street first,” Basse said.

Without the same cultural emphasis, Basse said many Canadian athletes learn at a different pace.

“We have to go back to basics which is teaching them how to run with the ball or without the ball, co-ordination and all that, which in France is all natural because they have the street smarts first,” he said.

Mark Marshall, co-founder of Altitude FC, said that they have two main focuses this season, skill development of the athletes and

expanding the club’s community engagement.

“We spend a lot of time with our players, getting them to understand that this is a great opportunity for them and great platform, but they have a responsibility to really reach out and pay it forward, so to speak with the community,” he said.

With their home opening game approaching May 7, excitement is building within the club.

“I think the fans are going to see that the quality of soccer this year picks up even more from last year on both the men’s and the women’s side,” said Marshall.

Altitude FC will hit the pitch for their home openers against Unity FC May 7. The women kick off at 1 p.m. followed by the men at 3:30 p.m. at North Vancouver’s Kinsmen Field.

For more information on Altitude FC, visit altitudefc.ca.

Jordan Copp is an intern reporter with the North Shore News. He can be contacted at jordan.copp@ hotmail.com.

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Continued from page 4 about the demographics of who is moving there, who finds the idea of living in Squamish appealing … those people tend to be people that find the Green message appealing,” he said. “That West Van Sea-toSky riding is going to be a really interesting seat to watch in the in the next election.”

The BC Green Party has confirmed that Jeremy Valeriote, a former District of Squamish staffer and former Gibsons councillor who ran for the Greens in the last provincial election, will once again be the party’s candidate in the next election.

Sturdy, a former three-term mayor of Pemberton who was first elected MLA in 2013, has not said yet if he intends to run again in the next election.

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That’s only slightly more than the populations of most urban Lower Mainland ridings.

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Continued from page 4 “We don’t condone that type of behavior in our community,” he said. “It’s not acceptable behavior, and it does not belong in this community.

“With that being said, there are certain protections afforded to them by the Charter of Rights – as you know – freedom of expression and free speech,” Sahak continued. “We’re in a bind by those rules…. We don’t agree with the messaging, but there’s been no criminal offence committed, as of right now.”

He added that his detachment has been in touch with local government and the ministry, and is

monitoring the situation closely.

Regarding enforcement under the Transportation Act, “that is potentially something we can look at … but that’s not being considered right now,” Sahak said.

North Shore Pride Alliance co-founder Gary “Fluffer” Woods wonders what the demonstrators are trying to achieve, except to spread hate in the community.

“If they have a message that they want to take to Ottawa, or they want to take to the MLA, to the B.C. legislature, then that’s what they should do,” he said.

Pride Alliance members have reached out to some of the

overpass demonstrators, but they aren’t interested in having a discussion, Woods said. “They’d rather just showboat.”

Woods said the messages of hate need to be countered with love, and is co-ordinating with other community groups and police to organize a counter protest.

“Our youth who are seeing these messages [that are] causing grief to them – it’s important for us to let them know that they are not alone.”

A member of the demonstrator group did not immediately respond to a North Shore News request for comment.

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North Vancouver team named finalist in national space food contest NICK LABA

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Compared to the seemingly limitless potential of space travel, the list of fresh options on the menu for astronauts is slim.

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But a new growing system developed by a team at Ecoation Innovative Solutions in North Vancouver could be a cosmic source of fresh produce and protein sooner than you might think.

The crew at Ecoation has been selected as one of four finalists in a national Deep Space Food Challenge.

An announcement was made on Thursday by the Canadian Space Agency, which is awarding each of the entrants $100,000. The challenge is being run in tandem with NASA, which has named 11 finalists from the U.S. and internationally.

In May, representatives from the Canadian teams – which include Concordia University, McGill University and University of Guelph – will meet the other finalists at an event in New York.

When Gavin Schneider, vice-president of agronomy at Ecoation, learned his team made the finals, he ran out of his office and screamed at the team. “It was pretty exiting,” he said.

Judges impressed by protein-mycelium product Reflecting on remarks from the judges’ panel, which visited the North

Ecoation Innovative Solutions vicepresident Gavin Schneider shows off tomato seedlings grown via his team’s modular system. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN Vancouver company in January, Schneider said his team received positive feedback on the diversity of food offerings, the ingenuity of the climate system and the data gathering components.

But what the judges were most impressed by was the part of the system that produced protein from mycelium, the vegetative body of fungus.

“They pointed out that was new and novel to them, and they hadn’t seen that before,” Schneider said. “I think

they’d like to see that incorporated more heavily into this next part of the challenge.”

Instead of a previous mix of 80 per cent plants and 20 per cent mycelium, Ecoation’s next iteration will be 50-50, he added. The “mycoprotein” product is made by Maia Farms, where Schneider is the co-founder and CEO. The $100,000 prize will go toward building version two of Ecoation’s CanGrow modular system, which is designed to supplement astronauts’ diet for a three-year mission to the moon or Mars.

The crew will incorporate lessons learned during the first part of the contest, as well as a new set of requirements for the next phase. Judges will want to see more sophisticated automation and robotics, Schneider said.

“We’re going to try to do everything as closed loop and as automated as possible,” he said.

The next leg also might involve running the system in a remote area like the Arctic, Schneider explained.

With a grand prize winner being announced a year from now, the timing could be auspicious for the Artemis III mission to the moon in 2024.

“I can’t speak for what they fully have planned with this, but maybe there is a possibility,” Schneider said.

“I think the timing of this looks pretty good.”

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Here’s how to learn more about Black history NICK LABA

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Legendary track and field siblings, a trailblazing politician and Canada’s first full-time Black daily newspaper reporter. These are some of the individuals who have contributed to North Vancouver’s rich Black history.

But diving into that history hasn’t been easy to do. That’s why MONOVA: Archives of North Vancouver has launched its new Black History Guide.

The guide provides tips on how to find names in MONOVA’s collections, records from other archives and other sources. It also gives an overview of several prominent figures and families that have made a lasting

mark on the community.

MONOVA doesn’t have any large Black history collections – like the Jerome family’s at Simon Fraser University – explained archives attendant George Twiss.

“It just means that those stories are kind of trickled throughout the archives, which makes it a little bit more challenging to find, which is why we wanted to create the guide so that people can access it without having to dig through everything,” she said.

The guide notes that census records are a powerful search tool, but still have limitations. While records go back to 1881 in British Columbia, there isn’t a way to search for Black individuals in older

searches. The issue is complicated more by the fact that many Black families were listed as Irish.

At the time, Irish people weren’t classified as being white, and were considered less than subjects.

“So Irish could have served as a catch-all term for people of color, because they might have been British citizens, technically, but they weren’t white,” Twiss said. Also, some Black families did have Irish last names, like those in the West Indies with family names passed down from colonizers.

“The example that we show is the Sullivan family – Sullivan is an Irish last name, but the family is from the West Indies,” she said.

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I also wrote that my children grew up believing that sleep is delicious. I cannot say where that intuitive declaration came from – a feeling perhaps, or an experienced appetite for peace and restorative healing that I knew could be sated by sleep.

Until relatively recently, when our nest emptied, I was entirely too busy with motherhood and the business of business, to spend sufficient time reflecting on the lifestyle cultures and habits – good and bad – that I passed on to our children.

Food gardening and writing about food gardening has provided me many gifts, not the least of which is time for quiet

contemplation, reflection and a pseudo-scientific form of neurogenesis that bypasses conventional wisdom.

All that means really is that food gardening on a larger scale has afforded the time, the calm, the quiet and the connection to nature necessary for proof of concept.

Creating our urban permaculture gardens generally, and food gardening specifically, has proven to me that the fundamentals of health and wellness today are as simple as they have always been.

Eat well, sleep well, live and love well within the context of a healthy ecosystem, more-or-less sums it all up. Though to what extent we might be able to achieve all of this depends on so many variables inside and outside of our control. Easier said than done to be sure, but it can be done, at least incrementally.

We can, for example, place fundamental importance on eating clean and sleeping deeply. Improving just those two areas of our lives can help improve all other areas, Continued on page 31

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Organic chamomile, mint, rose petal, fennel, cardamom and lavender steep in unsweetened almond milk. LAURA MARIE NEUBERT

Tea warm in winter, cold in summer

Continued from page 30 increase our health-span, and demonstrate to our children that respect for mind, body and nature are non-negotiable.

A healthy and modest home-made meal followed by some low-tech wind-down time, a cup of sleepy herbal tea and an early bedtime can be our proof of concept – all that we need to reap the benefits of truly delicious and restorative sleep. Perhaps that can happen just once a week or even once a month. What matters is that it happens at all.

I used to think it wasn’t that simple, that life is too busy, that there isn’t enough time or opportunity to care deeply about sleep.

But I was wrong. We make it happen to whatever degree we are able within the context of our lives and economy, and we ask for help. We ask friends, neighbours, family, and the universe quite frankly, to show us how. It is innate, and it comes naturally if we let it.

It can start simply, with a cup of tea

– sleepy tea grown at home in whatever space you have. For us, it is beautiful calming chamomile, lavender, wild rose, lemon balm, mint and fennel – harvested by hand, then tied, air dried and crumbled into an empty jam jar. It’s served cold in the summer, to inspire napping in the shade, and warm in the winter to ritualize an early bedtime.

Indeed sleep is delicious, but an increasing body of research confirms that sleep is life-extending and nutritious. Adequate, good quality sleep, together with regular exercise, a healthy mindset and a diet low in refined starch and sugar, can beneficially influence the expression of our genes and contribute to the extension of a happy, vital, self-directed life.

Happy gardening. Sleep well.

Laura Marie Neubert is a West Vancouverbased urban permaculture designer. Learn more about permaculture by visiting her website upfrontandbeautiful.com, or email hello@upfrontandbeautiful.com.

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Weezer, Third Eye Blind headlining this year’s Ambleside Music Festival BRENT RICHTER

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The dream of the ‘90s is alive in Ambleside.

Weezer and Third Eye Blind have been named as the headliners of this year’s Ambleside Music Festival, to be held in West Van’s beachside park on Aug. 19 and 20.

GSL Group, the nostalgia-tinged festival’s promoter, announced the full concert line-up on Wednesday including Weezer, Third Eye Blind, Canadian guitarist Bahamas, Vancouver indie rock darlings Said the Whale and ‘90s hip-hop collective Bran Van 3000. More acts will be announced in the coming weeks, according to GSL. Beyond the rock and/ or roll, the festival will have merch, food trucks, craft beer, wine tastings and

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Notable Black figures featured Continued from page 28 The guide also points to newspaper searches and city directories as ways of unearthing more information.

Notable Black figures story North Vancouver’s past As a jumping off point, the second part of the manual lists several families and individuals of note.

That includes the Sullivans, which settled in Moodyville in the 1870s and ran the cooking department at the Moodyville Sawmill Co. They later built Sullivan’s Hall on Cordova Street in Vancouver, which held early Methodist and trade union meetings.

Also featured is the famous track and field sibling duo, Valerie and Harry Jerome.

Both earned multiple athletic accolades before attending the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Later, both would go on to become teachers.

Born in Toronto in 1918, Fred Wilmot was later turned away from enlisting in the Second World War because of his race. He was then conscripted as a “zombie” before being discharged and sent to work as a holder-on at the Burrard Dry Dock. There, Wilmot wrote a regular column in the union newspaper, and eventually became Canada’s first Black daily newspaper

Siblings Valerie and Harry Jerome both participated in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. MONOVA: ARCHIVES OF NORTH VANCOUVER reporter with the Winnipeg Citizen in 1946.

In 1956, John Braithwaite moved to North Vancouver to work at the North Shore Neighbourhood House as director of the male program. He eventually became executive director, and served in the role for more than 20 years. In 1972, he was elected as a councillor in the City of North Vancouver, one of three black politicians in B.C. at the time.

Braithwaite was also an avid basketball coach and received the Freedom of the City Award from North Van City in 2003.

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Owners of aggressive dogs must keep their dog muzzled and on a leash when on a public street and must ensure their dog is securely confined when on the owner’s property.

Owners of aggressive dogs must also provide proof of $1,000,000 in liability insurance before being given a dog licence and must pay a higher dog licence fee.

Schaap said district staff did not apply to have the dog destroyed after the previous incident. He said it hasn’t been decided what will happen following the attack on the senior.

“Right now, it’s still an ongoing investigation,” he said.

Schaap added the owner had been co-operating with the investigation.

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Doreen Adele JONES Died May 6, 1996 Remembered with love

SIMON WILDE 1959 - 1991

So sadly missed and, so lovingly remembered.

- The Wilde Family

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BERNARD, Esther Marguerite June 10, 1928 − April 22, 2023 Esther was born in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in her early 20s. She worked as a secretary, met her husband and started her family in their first home on Knight Road in 1952. They moved from North Vancouver to Primrose Lane in 1960. Esther rejoined the workforce full−time in 1964 with Schlage Lock and stayed with them until they closed their doors in 1983. Never one to sit still, she started working at BC Railway shortly after that, where she made many friends and enjoyed working until her retirement at age 65.

She loved her family, travelling, Tai Chi, gardening, and reflexology and filled every free moment reading her books. After retiring to Prince Rupert, she indulged full−time in these passions but continued to share her genuine desire to help others with her ability to heal through reflexology.

Esther enjoyed the love of many pets throughout her life, from her childhood bulldog, Bozo, to her beloved companion in retirement, Whiskey.

Adopted from the SPCA, Whiskey was her best friend for 17 years.

Esther will be fondly remembered for her kind and gentle manner, straightforward ways, sense of humour and, of course, her jam. Over the years, she endured many losses, yet she remained positive and always looked to the bright side of life.

She will be truly missed by all those who knew her but particularly by her family − daughters Laurie and Heather; son−in−law Michael; and her grandchildren and their partners, Vincent (Marvin), Jessica, Madison (Jan), Patrick and her brother Jack and his family.

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To honour her wishes, there will be no funeral service. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the BC SPCA.

May the Sunshine of Comfort Dispel the Clouds of despair

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DALE, Margaret January 24, 1929 - April 22, 2023 Margaret passed away peacefully on April 22 at her home in North Vancouver, at the age of 94, predeceased by her husband Peter in 1991, her sister Hilda, and her brother Vincent. She will be sadly missed by her two sons, Martin and Michael (Anna), and her grandsons, Nicholas, Matthew, and Jacob, as well as many friends and acquaintances, near and far.

Margaret immigrated from Yorkshire, England, in the late 1950’s, and lived with what became a very close group of friends in an all-girls apartment building in Vancouver, before marrying Peter. She was very involved in the St. Edmund’s Parish Community, serving in the CWL, and Legion of Mary, as well as working as a committed volunteer with the North Shore Pro Life Society until shortly before her death.

Prayers will be offered at St. Edmund’s Parish on Monday, May 8, at 7:00 PM, with the Mass of Christian Burial on Tuesday, May 9, at 10:30 AM, again at St. Edmund’s, followed by a reception.

The interment will be the same day at 1:00 PM at North Vancouver Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the North Shore Pro Life Society.

Condolences for the family may be left at www.kearneyfs.com Kearney Burnaby Chapel 604-299-6889

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ELLERMAN, Vivian M. Vivian M. Ellerman passed into the presence of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and was reunited with the love of her life, Roy on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. She will be greatly missed by her sons and daughters-in-law, Christopher and Carlene, Mark and Linda; six grandchildren, Chellena (Mike) Kessler, Trista (Dan) Bohaczyk, Andrew (Beth) Ellerman, Raissa Ellerman, Christina (Jensen) Davis and Jordan Ellerman; 11 great-grand children, nieces, nephews and friends.

Vivian was born in Pennant, Saskatchewan to Edgar and Miriam Kenzie. She is predeceased by her beloved husband of 54 years. They lived in Flint Flon, Manitoba; Elliot Lake, Ontario; Riverton, Wyoming, USA and moved to North Vancouver in 1965.

Vivian lived a life full of grace with character and purpose. She shaped our lives with her faith in God, her commitment and unconditional love for her family, church family and her generosity, hospitality and kindness to everyone she met.

Vivian will be laid to rest alongside her beloved Roy at North Vancouver Cemetery at a private interment, the morning of Friday, May 5th, 2023.

The Memorial Service will follow at 11:00 AM at Boal Chapel at First Memorial Services, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver. A reception for family and friends will be held immediately thereafter. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Freedom In Christ Canada.

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JAMIESON, Carole Katharine WOODWORTH, Candace (Candy) “God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers”- that was Candy.

She was an incredible wife, mother, sister, daughter, aunt, friend and to most that knew her, a saint. Candy was the fiercest fighter cancer had ever seen and the battle went on for almost 10 years until March 17, 2023, where she took her last breath surrounded by the love of her family.

Candy was born on August 25, 1949 to her surviving mother Norma Willet and deceased father, Bruce Carmichael. She is survived by her loving husband Archie; her children Carrie (Patrick Tomasi), Courtenay, and AJ (Russell Biles); grandchildren Lachlan, Wilson and Charlie; sister Lesley (Wes Walker), brother Bruce Carmichael; and many loved nieces, nephews and cousins.

Candy grew up in Kerrisdale, Vancouver before moving to West Vancouver. From an early age, Candy’s kindness and strong spirit led her to meet her high school sweetheart Archie while attending Hillside Secondary School and then West Vancouver Secondary School.

For the past 57 years Candy and Archie balanced a perfect partnership from owning Coniston Lodge, a Residence for War Veterans, running a transport trucking company, developing The Stafford, a high rise building in Vancouver and most importantly owning and operating The West Vancouver Care Centre for over 34 years. This was our family’s pride and joy, our second home, where so many lifelong relationships and memories were made. It was a very special place in the West Vancouver community and in our hearts.

Spending time with Candy always made you want to be a better person. Her kindness, thoughtfulness and selflessness will continue to inspire us all. Through the greatest of times and the hardest of times, Candy’s light always shone so bright. She had the very rare quality of making you feel that you were the most important person in the room - even if she had a thousand other things to do in her incredibly full life.

What Candy really loved more than anything was her three daughters. Candy often referred to them as “my girls.” They formed a tight pack of love around Candy while trying to support and slow down a devastating diagnosis of ovarian cancer in 2014, when she had only been given 12-18 months to live. Candy was such a force and advocate for better cancer care in our community and she helped change lives because of her generosity and vision. Candy and Archie donated generously to Ovarian Cancer Canada and Candy was also chosen to share her success story with BC Cancer while also speaking directly to companies such as AstraZeneca about the importance of cancer research.

Her diagnosis never defined her. We believe her life extended significantly beyond her diagnosis due to her love for her family, unwavering positive attitude and spirit. Not to mention her incredible oncology team. A special shout out to Dr. Dianne Miller, Dr. Anna Tinker and Dr. Paul Klimo.

Some of Candy’s favourite memories and joys over her lifetime would be spending summers at the cabin at Thormanby Island (Buccaneer Bay), cruising to incredible destinations with best friends, and vacations in Birch Bay, Maui, Palm Springs, and Silver Star. Candy loved to host gatherings and decorate the house for Christmas and all the holidays. She also enjoyed baking (she was best known for her almond florentines!), gardening, knitting, and reading. Candy loved having kitchen dance parties with her grandkids and eating a good old hot fudge sundae. Truly her greatest joy was being a mother and grandmother and spending every moment possible with her family. She cherished family the most, as did we all.

Candy leaves an incredible legacy of love, kindness and inspiration. If you had an opportunity to meet or know her, you would feel her warmth. She was exceptional and truly one of a kind.

Until we meet again.

We would like to say a special thank you to Dr. Dianne Miller, Dr. Paul Klimo, Dr. Anna Tinker, Dr. David Huntsman and the entire team at BC Cancer and OVCARE. We would also like to thank Dr. Walter Leemo from Integrative Cancer Care Inc. Lastly, the family would like to thank the Dr. Paul Sugar Foundation and Marco and his team at I CARE Best for the exceptional care and support.

There will be a celebration of life for Candy on May 15, 2023 at 1:00 p.m at the Polygon Gallery 101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver .

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating in Candy’s honour to OVCARE BC ( http://www.ovcare.ca/ )

Carole passed away peacefully with loved ones by her side on April 21, 2023. Born in Toronto on February 11, 1934. Survived by loving husband Bruce (married 66 years). Loving mother of Murray (Mary Ann), Gale (Paul), Blair (Barbara). Cherished grandmother of Jacqueline (Ryan), Kyle, Nathan, Christine (Derek), Tyra (Cody), Dylan (Taylor), Alycia (Brett), Carly, Stephanie. Loving great grandmother of Callahan, Brexlee and Mitchell. Carole was predeceased by sister Barbara and survived by sister Marilyn “my friend”.

Playing out of Strathgowen Badminton Club as a teen, Carole was named Junior Ladies Champion.

Later she was Ladies Double Winner at Vancouver Lawn.

Carole worked as an insurance broker culminating in a partnership at Park Royal.

For Carole and Bruce travel was a passion, visiting 68 countries, every continent except India and Antarctica.

For five years Carole was a tour director for Evergreen Tours.

An active member of Highlands United Church.

Carole cherished her friends and immersed herself in the community in a giving and caring way.

She will be dearly missed.

Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

JOHNSON, Mary Irene (nee Crowther) February 26, 1934 - April 21, 2023 Mary passed away peacefully at Lions Gate Hospital the morning of April 21. Predeceased by her husband of 45 years, Ross, in 2009 and her sister Jean in 2019. She is survived and missed by her children Garth (Cara) of Black Creek, Heather (Rick) of New Westminster, and grandchildren Stefanie (Christian), Kristin (Jackson), Ivana and Natalia as well as extended family and many friends.

Our family would like to thank Dr. Haaf and the caregivers from Home Instead who helped mom stay independently in her home for the last few months.

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McNICHOL, Nancy Jean Nancy passed peacefully April 15, 2023. She was born in Burnaby, BC and spent her childhood in North Vancouver. Nancy, trained as a dental hygienist assistant and worked for offices throughout the Lower Mainland. She moved to Maple Ridge in 2011. Nancy was a free spirit and loved renovating the apartments she lived in. She was an avid reader and was passionate about working out. She loved all of her cats of which there were many. Her recent cats Lynnus and Reana were a great comfort to her these last few years. Nancy is survived by her father William (Liz), mother Jean, brothers Daniel (Kim), Patrick, nephew Paul (Brittany) as well as nephews Ethan, Kale and nieces Sydney, Sophia, Jordyn and Madeline. She was predeceased by her nephew Jeffrey. No service by request.

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METCALFE, William October 6, 1928 − March 19, 2023 Beloved husband, father, grandfather and great− grandfather Bill Metcalfe passed away peacefully at home in West Vancouver on Sunday, March 19th, 2023. Survived by his loving wife, Joy; children David, Michael, Peter, Todd and Megan; grandchildren Claire, Becky, Andrew, Peter, Mason and Charlotte; and great−grandchildren Joseph, April, Hazel, Pearl, Finley, Rose and Noah. Daughter Elizabeth passed away several years ago.

A thoughtful, quiet soul, the retired Vancouver firefighter of 31 years found great pleasure in family dinners, close friends, his dogs, the music of yesteryear, playing the ukulele, piano and organ, the cabin at Boundary Bay and tinkering with his "baby," a 1960 Austin Healey Sprite.

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength." − Saint Francis de Sales.

A celebration of life is planned for this summer.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Bill’s name to the Vancouver Fire Department Burn Unit, The BC Kidney Foundation and the Vancouver SPCA.

SMITH, Wayne William Musgrave April 8, 1965 - December 2, 2022

POLLOCK, Roy G. September 7, 1940 − April 23, 2023

Wayne passed away peacefully at Lions Gate Hospital at the age of 57. His laughter was contageous along with his witty personality.

Roy Grant Pollock passed away with his family by his side on April 23rd, 2023, at the age of 82 years.

Wayne graduated from Carson Graham Secondary School. He went on to build Landmark Catering, a well known and successful business serving the North Shore and Burnaby. He also served, Seaspan drydock, Capilano Rugby, English Bay Fireworks and many condo developments for over 27 years.

He will be sorely missed. Wayne is survived by his mother Anita; brothers Todd and Lee; nieces Paige and Kaylyn; sister-in-laws Chaz and Cathy.

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Roy will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 60 years, Norma; children Leah (Darren), Vince, and Bryce (Tammy); grandchildren Toni (Antonio), Amanda, Nick, Declan, Lachlan, Riley, and Marcus; sister Debra (Gord); son−in−law Stuart DiCastri and daughter−in−law Linda Cronin; as well as numerous relatives and friends.

Roy was predeceased by his brothers, Gary and Dan, and his parents, Grant and Jean.

Memorial donations may be made in Roy’s name to Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, BC, V7L2L7.

The family wishes to send a special thank you to the staff at Lions Gate Hospital for their care and compassion.

MILES, Mary Comber February 2, 1933 - February 10, 2023 Mary was the youngest of three children born in Edinburgh to botanist Harold and artist Lilian Comber (brothers James and Richard).

Mary had a remarkable life, starting with an active childhood in the English countryside. She spent her time drawing and painting with her mother, whilst absorbing her father’s extensive plant knowledge.

This unique upbringing led Mary to be offered a scholarship in botanical illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. It was there she met fellow art student Victor Miles, soon to be her husband.

After art school, Mary emigrated with her parents to Gresham, Oregon. Victor followed shortly afterwards, and they started their life together just north in Canada. They arrived in West Vancouver and, as both were artists, were naturally drawn to the beauty and drama of Howe Sound/Lions Bay. This is ultimately where they chose to build their dream house, and to bring up their three children.

In 1975, Mary chose to go back to her painting fulltime and became Resident artist to Vandusen Botanical Garden. This sparked many opportunities for her to paint as a guest artist internationally.

Mary painted the flora of Tasmania, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia and Chile, all while promoting her father’s life work and legacy. She exhibited in multiple galleries throughout her career: locally; in the US, and abroad. Mary was an active member of the Rhododendron and Alpine Garden Societies; she also sat on the board of Milner Gardens in Qualicum. In her mid 70’s, fueled by her desire to protect native plant species, Mary initiated a community garden project in Lions Bay. Now the Mary Comber Miles Indigenous Plant Garden, it is part of the UNESCO Howe Sound Biosphere region.

The Howe Sound and Squamish regions were embraced by Mary and Victor. The mountains were hiked, the waters were sailed and the native plants were identified and painted. The home in Lions Bay was a vibrant spot full of artwork, spectacular sunsets, handpicked treasures, classical music, exuberant dinner parties often featuring Mary’s cooking from her latest travels and, of course, Victor’s renowned Martinis. Victor still resides in the family home.

Mary died peacefully in her sleep; a private family service has been held. The family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you for all the community support Mary was given to fulfill her dream. As well, we owe much gratitude for the care, love and support she received during the last chapter of her life.

Mary is survived by her loving and proud family.

Husband Victor, children Andrea (Brian), Raeff (Cathy), Cynthia (Paul), and her beloved grandchildren, Katrina and Eric, Fast, Miles (Taylor), Michaela and Nathanial Vince, and Alex and Samantha Balfour.

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OBITUARIES WIENER, Rita With great sadness, the family of Rita Wiener announces that Rita passed away peacefully at the North Shore Hospice on April 18, 2023 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

She will be remembered and cherished by all who loved her kindness, humour, tenacity, caring, personal strength and engaging story telling. A special thanks to the numerous health-care providers who caringly assisted her on this journey. She was that “little engine that could”!

SMITH, Mary Violet Edith

SOJONKY, Audrey Florence (née Remenda)

Let my sins be all forgiven, Bless the friends I love so well; Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy there with Thee to dwell.

- Jesus, Tender Shepherd, Hear Me

At 83, Audrey passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at her home in West Vancouver, BC, surrounded by family.

Mary was born November 28, 1931 in London, England - died December 16, 2022 at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C. Pre-deceased by her husband Michael and survived by her children Phil, Jules, and Sarah, sons-in-law Ross and Carsten, and grandchildren Sebastian, Jeanette, and Lukas.

Mary was born in London, England where she became an RN (first training and then practicing at the famed Middlesex Hospital there) and married before emigrating to Canada in 1959. After spending the next five decades in North Vancouver, she moved to Victoria in 2012 and quickly became known both in her building and Oak Bay for her kind and generous nature. With her sparkling wit combined with a gift for story-telling, Mary made many new friends there in the last decade (aided perhaps just a little by the judicious dispersal of jars of her amazing home-made marmalade and chutney).

Those who knew Mary know that she was sustained throughout her life by two equal joys: a love of music and a love of words. A fraternal twin, and the only daughter amidst four brothers, Mary came from a musical family (her father a pianist, a church organist and choirmaster) and delighted in both listening to and participating in musical endeavours. Choral music was her particular favourite, being a soprano in the Vancouver Bach Choir for close to three decades including their tours of Britain and Japan (the latter with a large-scale production of the opera Aida) as well as a long-time member of the Saint John’s and Saint Catherine’s church choirs in North Vancouver.

She equally adored words and reading, being a voracious consumer of all manner of writings: books, spiritual literature, poems, and journalism and as a dedicated crossword aficionado. She also engaged in her own writing activities, from a voluminous number of letters to diaries and journals (some going back to World War Two), and hand-written collections of aphorisms and sayings to help those friends needing solace in troubled times. While still physically able, she would love to volunteer her time to various charitable causes, spending a long period with the Meals on Wheels and Hospice programs in North Vancouver.

Most of all though, Mary was one of a kind - bright, cheerful, full of gratitude and always willing to help whomever and whatever their need might be. In addition to her friends and neighbours, a special thanks to the amazing care teams at Care & Company and Island Health who over and above the call of duty supported her family supporting Mary staying in her home and are a testament to the friendships she forged with so many. She will be missed by us all.

In lieu of flowers, any donations in Mary’s memory to the Victoria foundation are welcome at: https://victoriafoundation.bc.ca/make-a-donation/#

She was born on May 15, 1939 to Joseph and Margaret (Hrytsak) Remenda in Oakburn, MB. Soon after, the family moved to Mikado, SK, where Audrey attended grade-school. In order to study at Nutana Collegiate high school in Saskatoon, she resided at the St. Petro Mohyla Institute, where she received a rich Ukrainian cultural education and forged lifelong friendships.

To write a condolence to the family please visit www.mckenziefuneralservices.com.

Audrey’s post secondary studies laid the foundation for initial work in educational planning and research; first in Regina, then in Vancouver, where she moved in 1974. There, she also immersed herself in the Ukrainian Orthodox community for the rest of her life - serving too many lay and cultural organizations to list - both locally and nationally. Audrey was a team leader of the 500 Canadians deployed to Ukraine, to observe the country’s controversial presidential election of 2004.

Audrey’s public endeavours ranged from Chair of the West Vancouver School Board, to running for Member of Parliament in the 1993 federal election, to her senior staff position as Policy Coordinator for the BC federal Ministers’ Regional Office, where she retired in 2000.

During and after her work life, Audrey also contributed deeply to the local community. To name but a few roles: President of the United Way of the Lower Mainland, and Board Member of the Vancouver Port Authority, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Public Aquarium, Vancouver Foundation, Kay Meek Arts Centre and West Vancouver Foundation.

In life, Audrey valued family above all, and cherished her friendships. She cooked and entertained with gusto and laughter. She felt most alive when travelling or admiring art. She was a staunch Ukrainian-Canadian and Vancouverite.

Audrey was predeceased by her brother Zane and sister-in-law Levenia; and leaves behind to grieve her loving son Toma (Leigh), her grandchildren Alexa and Lukas, and countless other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 11:00am at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 154 East 10th Avenue, Vancouver, with refreshments afterward in the church auditorium. A local celebration of life will also be planned in the coming weeks; in the meantime, Audrey will be laid to rest near her father in her hometown of Mikado.

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A private gathering will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be made to the Chemotherapy Unit at Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, 231 East 15 Street, North Vancouver, BC V7L 2L7.

In lieu of flowers, please donate in Audrey’s memory to the UN Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.

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9. Education-based groups 13. Not behind 14. Runners run them 15. Japanese ankle sock 16. Grave 17. Japanese industrial city 18. People of southern Ghana 19. Particular designs

21. Device fitted to something 22. Infections 23. Pirates’ preferred alcohol 24. Expression of sympathy 25. Rock guitarist’s tool 28. Neither 29. Ancient city of Egypt 31. You __ what you sow 33. Ruined 36. Narrations 38. Body art (slang)

39. Fencing sword 41. Apartment buildings 44. Type of missile 45. Fathers 46. Extremely high frequency 48. Type of school 49. Incorrect letters 51. Two-year-old sheep 52. Nasty manner 54. One who accepts a bet 56. Indian prince 60. Asian country

61. Rhythmic patterns in Indian music 62. “Uncle Buck” actress Hoffmann 63. Detailed criteria 64. Son of Shem 65. Talked wildly 66. Discount 67. Not good 68. Growing out

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1. Actor Damon 2. A call used to greet someone 3. Part-time employee 4. Emaciation 5. “Westworld” actor Harris 6. Gains possession of 7. Relaxing spaces 8. 23rd star in a constellation 9. Northern grouse 10. Monetary unit of Bangladesh

11. Manila hemp 12. Unites muscle to bone 14. Makes deep cuts in 17. 18-year period between eclipses 20. Member of a people inhabiting southern Benin 21. Synthetic rubbers 23. Unwelcome rodent 25. Expression of creative skill 26. Some is red 27. Seems less in impressive

29. Harry Kane’s team 30. Gland secretion 32. Action of feeling sorrow 34. Disallow 35. Deceptive movement 37. More dried-up 40. Crimson 42. Actress Ryan 43. Adherents of a main branch of Islam 47. Accomplished American president 49. Side of a landform

facing an advancing glacier 50. Sheep breed 52. Appetizer 53. Broadway actress Daisy 55. Influential film critic 56. NY Giants ownership family 57. Type of script 58. Assist 59. London park 61. Bar bill 65. In reply indicator

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