October 23, 2024

Flooding wreaks havoc on B.C. Election Day

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Oct. 19 was a historic day on the North Shore – in politics and weather.

Voters elected their first-ever BC Green Party MLA, along with a new Conservative and returned two NDP incumbents, all while near-record amounts of rainfall pelted the North Shore.

Jeremy Valeriote of the BC Greens topped the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky polls with 38.15 per cent of the vote. In West Vancouver-Capilano, BC Conservative Lynne Block won a seat in the Legislature for the resurgent rightwing party, while voters in North Vancouver-Lonsdale and North Vancouver-Seymour re-elected incumbents Bowinn Ma and Susie Chant by comfortable margins – 64.6 per cent and 52.6 per cent respectively.

With nearly all the votes counted Saturday night, the NDP finished with 46 seats – one short of a majority government. The Conservatives finished with 45 and the Green Party, two. If those results hold and no ridings flip via official recounts this week, Valeriote is likely to hold a disproportionate amount of influence in the new legislature, said Sanjay Jeram, senior lecturer in political science at SFU.

“I think it’s pretty straightforward, especially as we have 2017 in the bag,” he said, referencing the minority

Flood damage

Evacuation order issued for six homes in Deep Cove area

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Flooding hammers Deep Cove homes and businesses

NICK LABA nlaba@nsnews.com

An evacuation order remained in effect on Tuesday for a half-dozen homes in Deep Cove near a retaining wall that was compromised during historic rainfall last weekend.

While the waterfront properties on the 2700 block of Panorama Avenue in North Vancouver are now in a state of relative calm compared to the torrent of water that pummelled the area on Saturday, extensive damage visible from the street echoes the intensity of Saturday’s storm.

A stream of water now trickles over huge chunks of upended asphalt on a steep driveway, with a sinkhole more than a metre wide near the bottom.

Next to the sunken earth is a retaining wall running parallel to the property line that was compromised during the rainstorm.

That piece of affected infrastructure was at the core of a decision to declare a local state of emergency Sunday evening and evacuate six homes on the block, said District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little.

As engineering crews assessed pieces of overwhelmed civil infrastructure on Saturday, they came across the retaining wall, which had a torrent of water spilling over and through it.

“What was happening was basically a lot of material in and around and at the base of the retaining wall was being removed by the river,” Little said. “We recommended that people vacate the

property on Saturday night, and most did.”

But as the district looked at the situation more closely, and felt the compromised wall could be a threat to the group of homes, the evacuation order was issued around 7 p.m. Sunday.

Of the 18 people evacuated, all of them are uninjured, but it’s been a confusing time for Marjorie Goodman, who has lived at 2780 Panorama Dr. for 50 years.

Her son David Goodman, who lives with her, said he thought they were in the clear

after battling to get water out of the house late Saturday evening. That changed when district staff and the mayor knocked on their door on Sunday.

“It was understandable,” he said. “My mom did not want to go.… She’s in her 80s. She doesn’t really know too much about what’s going on.”

Marjorie has dementia and has been staying with her daughter for the time being.

“This is horrible, what she’s going

through, and I just have the feeling that it’s going to cause more damage,” David said. “We’re trying to get her home as soon as we can.… I’m just sort of surfing couches right now, figuring out what’s going on.”

Little said there’s no exact timeline yet to lift the evacuation order, but work to secure the retaining wall would likely start Tuesday and Wednesday.

While this group of residences was the hardest hit, Little said hundreds of homes across the district experienced flooding to some degree during rainfall that brought more than 200 millimetres of rainfall in a day and a half.

Little lives near Fire Hall No. 4 on Mt. Seymour Parkway.

“My own basement flooded about a half inch, with water coming back up through the drain under my hot water heater,” he said. “The amount of rain coming down in such a short period of time was so intense that it was coming back up some of the pipes.”

Akin to residences in the district, businesses were also affected by the flooding, the worst hit also in Deep Cove.

At the top of Gallant Avenue, a large catch basin for Gallant Creek was clogged with large chunks of woody debris, causing water to gush out onto the street on Saturday. Most of it flowed down the north side of the road, which is lined with a row of businesses.

Some of the shops, like caf/EH and The Seymour Art Gallery, remain closed due to flood damage. Others, including Deep Cove

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West Vancouver still assessing damage from destructive storm

BRENT RICHTER

brichter@nsnews.com

Four days after an atmospheric river dumped buckets of rain on West Vancouver, the clean-up continues.

According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, West Vancouver got upwards of 292 millimetres of precipitation over the course of the weekend, 134.6 mm of which came down on Saturday alone.

West Vancouver Fire and Rescue Chief Gord Howard said it appeared about three dozen homes had sustained severe water damage and crews were kept extremely busy after two creeks in Dundarave jumped their banks and the storm water system became overwhelmed.

“The system is only designed for so much water, and we had much more water coming in a short period of time,” he said.

Howard said numerous people left their homes with the help of rescuers.

“We had some people self-evacuate. We assisted some people out of their homes for their safety. There were some tactical evacuations,” he said. “Crews placed a ladder across an area of water and helped carry people out of their house.”

North Shore Emergency Management opened an

emergency reception centre at the Mickey McDougal Recreation Centre for those who would be out of their homes for the night with nowhere else to go. One family of four from West Vancouver reported there on Saturday, according to the municipality and others have since checked in.

On Tuesday morning, Howard said district engineering were still out assessing the storm’s impacts.

“There is damaged

infrastructure. We’re looking to get a really accurate picture on the extent of that and what steps we need to take to remediate it,” he said.

The business community in Dundarave is now reckoning with some of the worst damage. Because of its low-lying elevation, businesses on the 2400 block of Bellevue Avenue were particularly hard hit, said Maureen

An excavator clears debris from a catch basin near the top of Gallant Avenue in Deep Cove on Monday. Large debris clogged the basin on Saturday, causing water to flood out onto the street and into several nearby businesses. NICK LABA / NSN

Conservative Lynne Block wins West Vancouver-Capilano

NICK LABA nlaba@nsnews.com

Lynne Block has been elected as the new MLA for West VancouverCapilano, comfortably outpacing her NDP opponent as well as the incumbent MLA who ran as an independent candidate.

As results from electronic ballots came in at lightning pace Saturday evening, Block of the BC Conservatives was declared the clear winner in her riding less than an hour after polls closed at 8 p.m.

With Saturday’s initial count wrapped up, Block secured 11,692 votes for 46.90 per cent of the total count. That’s significantly more than Sara Eftekhar of the BC NDP with 6,721 votes (26.96 per cent).

Incumbent Karin Kirkpatrick – who ran as an independent after the BC Liberals folded in late August – got 5,141 votes (20.62 per cent).

Archie Kaario of the BC Greens received 1,374 votes (5.51 per cent).

As heavy rain continued to pour onto the sopping grass at the West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club Saturday night, shouts of celebration rang out from inside the clubhouse as the projection of Block’s victory showed on the TV.

At the centre of the jubilation was Block herself, sipping champagne and speaking to her supporters in the room.

Block says she will focus on taxes, cost of living and public safety

“I am thrilled, honoured, delighted, and I feel very blessed to have this riding and these people supporting me, the voters,” she said. “I am very thankful, very thankful.”

In a speech, Block started by acknowledging the devastation being caused by flooding across the North Shore.

“Businesses have been affected, homes have been damaged, cars have been flooded. My heart goes out to everyone affected at this time,” she said.

Block said it was only a few weeks ago when BC Conservative Leader John Rustad asked her to be the MLA candidate for West Vancouver-Capilano.

“John took the oldest party in B.C. from two per cent to a mighty one today,” she said. “This was an election that pivoted on our values, freedoms and democracy.”

Reflecting back on the campaign period, Block said that “divisiveness, bullying, fear tactics and falsehoods” were used to distract the public from the real issues in the province.

As she becomes an MLA, Block will have to give up her position as trustee for West Vancouver Schools.

“I wanted to also express my sincere appreciation for my West Vancouver School District trustees for my six years of experience with them that has given me a fuller perspective of education in our province,” she said.

In her new role, Block said she’ll focus on issues including cost of living, taxes, transportation and public safety.

Outgoing MLA Kirkpatrick said she thought the race would be closer.

“But I’m also not surprised,” she said. “I knew running as an independent there a lot of people who are going to vote based on a brand, not based on a person, and so that’s what happened here.”

“Many people were voting against something instead of voting for something,” Kirkpatrick added.

Her loss followed a trend with other independent candidates not gaining much traction in their ridings either.

But Kirkpatrick, who considered retiring from politics earlier this year, said her career is far from over.

“There’s my colleagues who also were not successful, and other MLAs, and people across British Columbia who are contacting me to say, ‘We need to rebuild the centre,’” she said.

“We’re going to build something good and something positive, trying to show British Columbians that we can actually look forward to things now instead of just complain about what’s wrong,” Kirkpatrick said.

Lynne Block celebrates her win as the newly elected BC Conservative MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano Saturday night. NICK LABA / NSN

Wine & Cheese Open House

Susie Chant wins North VanSeymour to earn second term

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

North Vancouver-Seymour has been won by BC NDP incumbent Susie Chant.

According to preliminary results tabulated on Saturday, Chant received 15,641 votes, 52.6 per cent overall.

BC Conservative challenger Sam Chandola finished with 10,676 votes, or 35.9 per cent.

Independent candidate Mitchell Baker, who ran on a centrist platform, won 5.8 per cent of the vote, while the Green Party’s Subhadarshi Tripathy, who did not actively campaign at all, had 5.6 per cent.

Following the end of the campaign, Chant expressed relief and gratitude, saying she’d like to give her constituents “a big hug.”

“I’ve been very fortunate. I have moved along at a steady pace and I’ve got lots left to give,” she said.

Chant was quick to credit her campaign team with the win.

“We’ve got lots of people downstairs that did a lot of work. The ground game was really, really effective. People were out every day – lots and lots of people – getting out the vote, talking to people, encouraging people to think about what it meant to have an NDP government, and so here we are.”

In 2020, Chant upset former BC Liberal MLA Jane Thornthwaite, winning the seat

for the NDP for the first time, with 46.8 per cent of the vote. The fact that she increased her share of the vote locally in 2024 at a time when the NDP’s popularity fell provincewide probably had something to do with the amount of face time she put in with constituents in her first term, she said.

“I talked to a lot of people,” she said. “I think people recognize that I am all about people and the NDP, we’re all about making it better for people writ large, not just particular populations.”

As of about 10 p.m. Saturday, the NDP had won 46 seats in the legislature – one short of a majority – while the Conservatives had 45 and the Green Party, two. Chant said it was too early to say how the balance of power might look when the next session of the legislature begins.

“It just means that we’ve got lots of work to do, and we’ll figure out how to get that done once we know who all the players are,” she said.

BC Conservatives react

As the final result of the North Vancouver-Seymour race was becoming apparent, Chandola said he believed it was going to be a much closer race.

“Obviously we’re a bit disappointed,” he said. “I don’t feel that bad because I don’t think we could have done anything better

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Susie Chant (red and black jacket) celebrates with supporters after earning re-election in the North Vancouver-Seymour riding on Saturday. ABBY LUCIANO / NSN

WV-Sea to Sky goes Green in tight race

BRANDON BARRETT

bbarrett@piquenewsmagazine.com

Jeremy Valeriote is certainly familiar with close calls; he’s less familiar with coming out on the winning end of one.

Four years after coming within 60 votes of toppling incumbent Liberal MLA Jordan Sturdy in the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky riding, Valeriote won a tight race of his own Oct. 19, beating the upstart Conservatives’ Yuri Fulmer by less than three percentage points. Valeriote garnered 10,221 votes, representing 38.15 per cent of the count. Fulmer, meanwhile, had earned 9,554 votes, 35.66 per cent of the vote, while the BC NDP’s Jen Ford garnered 7,017 votes and 26.19 per cent.

“I’m extremely grateful for the people that helped me get here and the voters of West Vancouver-Sea to Sky who saw a different way, and chose it,” Valeriote said when reached at his election watch party at Howe Sound Brewing in Squamish after the results were announced.

In the end, Sea to Sky voters went with their conscience on election

night, Valeriote said, countering what he called a two-party “binary narrative” that effectively boiled down one of the most unpredictable elections B.C. has ever seen to a choice between the governing NDP and the out-of-nowhere Conservatives.

“It just feels like the message that we need more Greens resonated here,

and that’s really important. People see we are a serious party, we recommend science and evidence, we’re professional and capable of influence at all levels of the B.C. Legislature and I think that allowed us to move forward,” he said.

“I’m really sad about Sonia’s

BC Green Party candidate Jeremy Valeriote gives a speech at Howe Sound Brewing in Squamish, alongside his wife, Ginny Cullen, after winning on Election Night in the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky riding. DAVID BUZZARD / DAVIDBUZZARD.COM

Questionable period

Capitalizing on voter frustration on a number of issues, the BC Conservatives took a big bite out of David Eby’s B.C. on Oct. 19. As we await final recounts, it appears the BC NDP will have 46 seats in the legislature – one shy of a majority government. The Conservatives meanwhile have 45, and the Greens have two.

If he is in opposition, Conservative Leader John Rustad said he will be looking for any and all opportunities to bring the government down and trigger another election.

Eby scheduled a press conference for Tuesday afternoon, after North Shore News deadline. Pundits say the most likely path forward is a series of ad-hoc negotiations and agreements with the two Green MLAs to pass budgets and throne speeches.

In short, we are in for a period of division and instability.

In the last term, the NDP adopted some transformative changes in housing, child care and health care, but like any policies, it takes time for the impacts to be felt. Perhaps longer than voters have patience for.

If the NDP are able to play nice enough with the Greens to keep government alive for a term of any length, they’ll need to deliver, and not just feasibility studies, funding promises and iterative changes. We’ve had seven years of those. They’ll need to deliver the concrete, literally and figuratively, and lots of it – the homes, transportation and health infrastructure that we need to make people’s lives better.

Despite having more seats in the legislature and a slightly higher share of the popular vote, they’re going to have to play like they’re down by a goal in the third period, because right now, Rustad has the momentum.

Navvy Jack restoration plans looking a little less quaint

KIRK LAPOINTE

KLaPointe@glaciermedia.ca

When we last heard, the venerable Navvy Jack House on West Vancouver’s waterfront was going to be restored with a small café to fulfill the vision for the site: “a coffee, muffin and a side of history,” as a heritage advocate put it.

Seems now there will be quite the spread.

And, I suspect, quite the spirited debate. If you’ll recall, the historic 1873 home lived in by John ‘Navvy Jack’ Thomas and his Sḵwxwú7mesh wife, Sla-wiya, was slated for demolition in 2020. Following community pushback, in 2022 the previous council committed $1 million and the community was required to raise an additional $1.6

million to restore the dwelling, the oldest in the Lower Mainland. Of note: a small bistro was in store, a large bistro was ruled out by district staff.

In March 2023, newly elected Mayor Mark Sager announced that a contractor had been found to restore the site and operate the café. He hailed the plan as a formidable rescue mission. He told North Shore News: “It will be a lovely place to go and have coffee, at no additional cost to the taxpayers.”

And it seemed, quaintly, to be planned as such.

The formal contract was awarded last fall to a property management company. The district said the company would complete construction within three years and bear any costs in excess of the district’s $1 million contribution. It would add “a coffee

shop, wine bar, or a combination of both” in a 500-square-foot space. It was granted a 25-year lease, with an option for it to renew for another 15 years, at which time it would return the land at no cost.

But that was then, and this is now.

In mid-September, a new proposal was filed with the district, and it’s like a Beach House in Ambleside – only in its case with, I guess, a side of history.

The proposal would see the home of the North Shore’s first settler adjoin a two-level restaurant, nearly six times larger than the original plan, at 2,772 square feet. “Bistro Navvy Jack” proposes to seat 112 indoors and have an open patio with a retractable roof.

Remember, Sager said back when: “It will be a lovely place to go and have coffee, at no

additional cost to the taxpayers, so I think this is a nice outcome.”

Former mayor Mike Smith sees it as a horrible outcome for the community donors. “They’re calling me to say they want their money back and can’t get it,” he told me.

The architectural drawing says the “donor commemoration location and design to be determined.”

Smith points to the process here – that if the objectives of the mayor and council involved an ambitious waterfront attraction, shouldn’t we have known?

“It’s preposterous,” he says. “There’s never been a hint of this.”

To be fair, we are many moons away from a bustling bistro.

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MAILBOX

WEST VAN SHOULD JOIN THE FUN WITH A CRAFT BREWERY DISTRICT

Dear Editor:

RE: Craft Beer Week Pours Back Into North Vancouver, Oct. 7 story

The Craft Beer Week that was in the North Shore News recently sounds fantastic! Unfortunately, we here in West Vancouver won’t be able to participate in our area as we have no breweries here.

I’m writing to ask the question, “Why not?” As a resident who loves seeing vibrant businesses take root, it would be great if we had a few around. Given the changing demographics, with more young professionals and families moving into the area, this seems like a missed opportunity.

Craft breweries don’t just offer great local beer – they serve as community hubs, gathering spaces where neighbours can connect, events can flourish, and local culture can grow. They contribute to the economic vitality of an area, supporting jobs and partnerships with other local businesses.

While I understand that zoning or licensing policies may play a role, I’d love to know what’s stopping more of these businesses from opening here. Other neighbourhoods (hello, North Vancouver!) have seen success with breweries sparking economic development and drawing in foot traffic. So why not us in West Van?

With some attention from city planners, community stakeholders, and maybe even developers, I believe we can create the right

conditions for craft breweries to thrive here (the space beside the funeral home in Ambleside that is now a daycare would have been perfect).

Let’s raise a glass (hopefully soon at a local brewery!) to make this a reality.

Steve Bridge

West Vancouver

EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE SAFE ON OUR ROADS

Dear Editor:

RE: Gaudreau Tragedy Should Spur Critical Discussion on Safety For Cyclists, Oct. 16 letter

I am so very pleased that Aloïs Gallet addressed the devastating Gaudreau story. I would like to add to that letter by addressing the safety of everyone on the streets of the North Shore whether it’s walking, biking, or driving.

Since COVID, the streets have been a free-for-all. What happened to common courtesy? People crossing the street checking their phone blocking others from passing. Is everyone a doctor speeding to a hospital to perform a life-saving operation? Where are the traffic police?

I suggest the city hire and train half a dozen people to ticket speeders, those using the phone while driving, and making a full stop at a stop sign and not yards past it for a start. Bikers who want to pass slower bikers please ring your bell or call out on your right or your left. Think of the possibilities The city shortfall will be erased in no time.

Anita Karp West Vancouver

Will donors clash with diners?

The plan is in the hands of district staff for comments. Building on the waterfront is no can of corn, as they say in baseball. There are natural hurdles, and the management company’s application seeks an environmental development permit and a foreshore development permit. Lawson Creek runs along the site’s eastern property line and work will be done within the 15-metre setback of watercourse bank. There will need to be alterations to the house within 15 metres of the ocean boundary. And given there are two legal lots to the site, a permit is needed for the new property to straddle them. Oh, and the Navvy Jack House will need to be raised.

Somewhat like the ongoing kerfuffle involving the proposed addition to beachfront property at 30th Street to restrict

Repor t card on riding impac t

The key reason most elected officials will tell you they ran for office is to make a difference.

Being the Member of Parliament for North Vancouver has taught me there is no shortage of such opportunities –at multiple levels – to do just that.

Over the past nine years, I have had the privilege of serving in several Cabinet roles that have enabled me to have an impact on pressing provincial, national and international issues.

My first priority, however, has been and continues to be here in North Vancouver – advocating on behalf of the people who ‘hired’ me in the first place.

As we move into the last year of the current Parliament, it is perhaps timely to provide you with a better sense of the impact your MP has had – as a sort of “report card.”

The focus of this particular column is my impact at the riding level.

Measuring effec tiveness

There are, of course, a number of ways to measure impact. Perhaps the most gratifying type of impact lies within the realm of direct advocacy for constituents.

federal supports that respond to the priorities of North Vancouverites.

A few examples of this impact would include:

Major economic investments - $21.9B in Coast Guard contracts to Seaspan Shipyards for vessels to renew our Coast Guard fleet, plus $6B for two Royal Canadian Navy support ships. Seaspan is now the largest employer in North Vancouver

Housing - $135M for initiatives across the North Shore since 2020 plus $18M to the City of North Vancouver this year through the Housing Accelerator Fund.

Environment - $212.3M to the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant; nearly $1M to the Seymour Salmonid Society for the Seymour River slide mitigation project; $3M for local stewardship initiatives.

Transportation - $66.6M for the Lynn Valley Bridge replacement; $21.9M for Lower Lynn Highway 1 improvements; $16.1M for a third Seabus; $20.5M for bus facilities and exchanges; $200K contributed to the feasibility study for Rapid Transit to the North Shore.

public access, there is a similar flavour to this proposal, in that there were changes to what the public thought was in store without an opportunity to put the prospective plan out for bids in the market.

Two differences in this proposal are notable.

For one, the public has an early heads up to refine or argue against what it doesn’t like, and one would expect there will be public discussions on whither bistro. We will then hear what council thinks.

I suspect we will very much hear what the steamed donors think, too, the ones who thought they were financing a side of history and not a side dish of a restaurant.

Kirk LaPointe is a West Vancouver columnist with an extensive background in journalism. His column appears biweekly in the North Shore News.

My constituency case files bear witness to the stories of thousands of individuals and families I and my staff have helped in dealing with bureaucracy, immigration issues, access to government services, housing and more. We’ve also gone to bat for many North Shore not-for-profits seeking help with federal funding.

I have zero hesitation in saying that my constituency office is one of the best in all of Canada.

Direc t benefits

Another way to measure impact is to look at the direct benefits your MP has brought to the riding. In this regard, I have worked very hard to solicit

Reconciliation - $19M to the Squamish Nation for wastewater, housing, education, and infrastructure projects; $413K to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society for commemoration and reconciliation projects.

Local impact is obviously critically important. But there are many issues of importance to North Vancouverites that lie beyond strictly local needs.

In the next few columns, I look forward to exploring how my work as your representative has also enabled North Vancouver to make an outsized difference in provincial, national and international arenas.

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Bowinn Ma earns re-election as North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA

ABBY LUCIANO

aluciano@nsnews.com

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

BC NDP MLA Bowinn Ma was re-elected in the North VancouverLonsdale riding Saturday night, winning a two-candidate race by a comfortable margin.

Under the initial count tabulated on Election Day, Ma garnered 16,165 votes (64.61 per cent) compared to 8,853 (35.39 per cent) for Conservative Party candidate David Splett.

“I’m humbled that the people of North Vancouver-Lonsdale have put their trust in me again to be their MLA. I know it is a privilege and an enormous responsibility that I don’t take lightly,” Ma said.

Ma has been serving as the MLA for the area since May 2017, marking her third term in office.

Ma came together with other BC NDP candidates such as North VancouverSeymour winner Susie Chant and Sara Eftekhar, who ran for West VancouverCapilano, to watch the results unfold Saturday night. Cheering filled the room from campaign managers, friends and

others as the preliminary votes were coming in on the screen.

When Ma’s votes came in, people clapped and cheered loudly in celebration of her win.

During the campaign, some of Ma’s top issues were housing affordability, improving access to health care, addressing homelessness and public safety, and advancing Indigenous reconciliation.

“My commitment to my community members will remain the same as it always has. I will be there to work for them, to fight for them, and to serve them to the best of my ability,” Ma said.

Ma carries a civil engineering degree with a background in transportation engineering, serving as the Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness in the Eby government. Before becoming an MLA, she managed terminal expansion and redevelopment projects at the Vancouver International Airport, according to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s website.

However, Saturday marked a unique election day for voters in B.C., as an

Ma thanks voters for braving rain

atmospheric river hit the region, with flooding across the Lower Mainland. With the circumstances, Ma said she’s grateful voters still came out to cast their ballots.

“The election day was not great weather for a lot of folks, so I’m really grateful to the folks who donned their rain jacket and umbrellas and braved the storm to cast their ballots,” Ma said.

Although Splett lost the race, he’s not giving up.

“I am disappointed,” Splett said the day after the election, adding that the votes spoke to the hard work his team did campaigning over the last two months and the “value proposition of the conservative message.”

Splett said he spent election night at Palermo Cucina with his wife, his campaign manager Danielle Pistilli, various donors and others from the community interested in seeing the results.

The North Vancouver-Lonsdale candidate carries more than 30 years of experience in financial and operational management globally from Mexico to Peru. He was the chief financial officer for Newmont Goldcorp Corporation in Mexico and VP finance and administration at Antamina, a copper and zinc mine in Lima, Peru. Since Splett returned to Vancouver

four years ago, he worked as a CFO for a mining corporation in Vancouver and left in July to focus on the provincial election.

Some of Splett’s policy promises were expanding a home ownership program, allowing new buyers to purchase homes at 60 per cent of market value, improving access to health care and focusing on economic development and attracting more businesses to B.C.

This marked the first provincial election for Splett, but the journey isn’t over as he’s working on building a riding association.

“We are going to take the fight to the NDP, and this thing is not over by any means,” Splett said. “I’m in a good position where I can take a little bit of time and I can think about what [the] next steps are … and our team is going to be back.”

Ma said she looks forward to going back to the office soon and continuing to working for the people of her riding and the province.

“We’ve been receiving emails even during the election period from people who require that advocacy, so I’m looking forward to being sworn back,” Ma said. Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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Bowinn Ma is all smiles after earning re-election as MLA for the North Vancouver-Lonsdale riding on Saturday. ABBY LUCIANO / NSN

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Paranormal sleuths uncover haunted theatre’s secrets

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Sitting inside a pitch-black empty theatre, Leah McLean calls out into the darkness.

“Is there someone here trying to communicate with us?” she asks. “If you’re here, do whatever you can to let us know.”

A pregnant silence follows until the faintest thump interrupts it.

“Did somebody just move? Did you hear that?” McLean reacts.

It’s someone working upstairs, mostly likely.

But maybe not.

Presentation House Theatre is one of the oldest buildings on the North Shore and, according to the Vancouver Paranormal Society, likely one of the most haunted.

Researchers from the society are preparing to share the findings of their investigation into spirits who still dwell in the theatre at a one-night show scheduled for Oct. 29.

Ghosts in the machines

Searching for proof of an afterlife here on earth doesn’t involve a séance or a Ouija board. Instead, paranormal researchers prefer more sophisticated tools – night vision cameras and infrared spectrum lighting, proximity sensors that emit light if something interrupts the electromagnetic field around them, devices that scan radio frequencies for unexplainable interruptions.

The most important piece of equipment though is a simple digital voice recorder that the investigators say is capable of capturing voices that our naked ears can’t hear.

More than passively listening or scanning for activity on their instruments, investigators like McLean speak out to the seemingly empty room and find answers only when they’re analyzing their recordings at home.

All of it is based on the theory that, even after a person has died, there remains a spirit that is tangible.

“We’re all made up of energy, right? And that energy of ours is housed in our body,

but when we no longer have a body, we’re in a spirit form. We’re just energy,” Kelly Berge, president of the Vancouver Paranormal Society, explains.

Rather than attributing every flicker of light or bit of static on the radio to a presence from beyond the dead, they first look for corroborating evidence from their other instruments.

Other times – rarely – our own senses

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Berge said she’s always felt since she was just a kiddo that there was something more beyond the corporeal. As she was peering into her closet one night when she was about 10, she got all the proof she’d need for a lifetime.

“I saw a floating opalescent skull. You know when you do that thing where you rub your eyes and you look again, and it was still there,” she said. “I never slept in that room again, but that experience stuck with me.… I always knew I wanted to figure this out.”

Typically, at least three or four of the non-profit’s team of 11 volunteers are out every weekend carrying out investigations on behalf of clients who’ve requested them. Importantly, the team never charges a fee of any kind, Berge notes.

Most of their work comes from residential homeowners who want to know what’s making things go bump in the night, but it’s the public buildings with long histories that offer the most promise.

Thanks to rumours already swirling about it in the community, Presentation House Theatre had long been near the top of the list of places that the team was itching to get into, Berge said.

Presentation House Theatre’s haunting inhabitants

The building itself dates back to 1902 when it was built as a school. It later became the City of North Vancouver’s municipal hall, a police station and jail, and offices for the city’s engineering department

Leah McLean and Mike O’Dell of the Vancouver Paranormal Society scan for paranormal activity inside North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre. The group will present their findings at a one-night show on Oct. 29. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

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before finally becoming a museum and arts facility in the 1970s.

Araceli Ferrara, marketing co-ordinator for Presentation House Theatre, said she began hearing about the building’s ghosts on her first day of work, and she’s tagged along with the investigators on all of their visits.

Actors have reported feeling a strange

presence while backstage. One of the technicians has heard the sound of footsteps sprinting toward him while working alone late at night. Once, after one of his gloves went missing on the job, it turned up the next day folded neatly in the middle of the set. And everyone gets “bad vibes” from the third floor, Ferrara said.

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said. “I’ve never been here past midnight. I don’t want to be.”

Investigators have made five official visits to the theatre since 2023, with more planned in the future.

“Every time we come, we get more and more confirmation that there’s something here. So, we just keep coming back,” said McLean, one of the Paranormal Society’s volunteers. Until the recent investigations, the most authoritative source on paranormal activity at Presentation House Theatre was the word of Cecil Halsey, the building’s caretaker for more than 25 years. Halsey, who sometimes slept in the 122-year-old building, was well acquainted with Frank, one of the most frequently encountered spirits there.

Berge said they found plenty of evidence that Frank is still there and that he is “kind of inappropriate.”

He likes whiskey, they learned, and among the phrases they captured him saying were “bad and beautiful” and “shut up, bitch.”

“People are usually the same personality in death and spirit as they were in life,” she said. “He’s just being a jerk. He’s being who he was in real life, but he’s not going to harm me. He’s not going to harm the staff.… It’s not like those TV shows where everything is demonic and all that. That’s extremely, extremely rare.”

That doesn’t mean though that wayward spirits can’t still send a chill down the spine of even a seasoned paranormal researcher. On their last visit to Presentation House, the batteries in the team’s cameras all died simultaneously and unexpectedly. Moments later, Berge saw an apparition in the very seats where Presentation House’s guests pay to sit.

“I saw a black shadow figure, very stark, crouch down and lean into the aisle chair, and then it was gone,” she said. “That was something that shouldn’t have been there.”

There’s also another spirit of a younger girl on the third floor, according to the team. And it appears as though there’s someone new to keep Frank company: the old caretaker Halsey died in 2019, but he identified himself, albeit faintly, to the investigators at the theatre, Berge said.

I ain’t afraid of no ghosts

Whether it’s in a home or place of business, more than anything after an investigation, clients get some peace of mind, Berge said.

“Peace of mind, and (knowing) they’re not crazy. They weren’t making this up in their heads. They did experience these things, as did we, and that is a huge thing,” she said.

Knowing you have a spirit present is one thing. But ghosts, she added, are not in need of “busting.” Instead, some frank communication (no pun intended) is probably what’s most needed – letting the spirit know that the living inhabitants of today have a right to be there and that everyone can coexist harmoniously.

“We’re going to give the client a tool to be strong and to take their power back in their home. And quite often, when that happens and they’re feeling more settled, the activity tends to settle down a bit,” she said. “One of the things I always say is ghosts are people too. They’re just further along in the journey than we are, but we’re going to be there someday, right? So we have to come with the utmost respect.”

Do you believe?

Running into skeptics comes with the territory, and

Berge acknowledges none of the evidence they’ve collected will be enough to meet some people’s standards. But, she added, those who are committed to their closed-mindedness are robbing themselves of the possibility that there may be something else “out there.”

“You can’t certify it as haunted, because we’re dealing with a science that isn’t recognized by mainstream science, right? So the jury’s still out, because there is no definable proof,” she said. “We’ve experienced it over hundreds of investigations, but they still just make up their mind so they’re not open. And that’s unfortunate.”

And more people are closer to believing in the paranormal than might be prepared to admit, suggests Mike O’Dell, another of the Vancouver Paranormal Society’s volunteer investigators.

“I know there’s skeptics out there – I’m one of them –and people who don’t believe in this, and that’s fine.… But for me, it’s when I can’t apply logic or science to something that makes me go ‘hmm,’ and if I can’t explain something, then that’s the definition of paranormal,” he said. “I would say 99 per cent of the time, it’s just an entity or an energy that wants to be acknowledged, wants to communicate, wants to say ‘Hi,’ and just wants to live in peace.”

This is a busy time of year for the Vancouver Paranormal Society. Around Halloween, people are more willing to explore the big questions that ghost stories pose about the nature of mortality. Or they just want to have some good, clean seasonal fun and have the wits scared out of them in the process.

“People, especially around Halloween, are very interested in the paranormal. They want to know if it’s true or not. They want to have that little bit of a thrill and some people may have had their own experiences,” Berge said. Because of that innate desire to know the unknowable, Ferrara said she expects the Haunted Histories show to be a hit for the true believers, the skeptics and those caught between worlds.

“I think there’s a lot of interest in death. I know it’s macabre, but, because there’s a stigma around it, we don’t talk about it as openly,” she said. “It’s very interesting to delve into something that you don’t know.”

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ABBY LUCIANO aluciano@nsnews.com Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

An ongoing Metro Vancouver water supply tunnel project crossing the borders between Burnaby and the District of North Vancouver has won an award from the Tunnelling Association of Canada.

The Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel has been selected for this year’s Canadian Project of the Year Under $300 Million Award, an annual honour presented to a team that has significantly contributed to a project in Canada, demonstrating high levels of engineering skills and understanding of underground construction.

“I’m so proud that this major drinking-water infrastructure project, which will help us keep delivering water even after earthquakes, is being celebrated,” said Metro Vancouver board of directors chairman Mike Hurley in a press release.

The water supply tunnel project is being built 30 metres below the bottom of the Burrard Inlet, east of the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows

Workers examine the Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel project in progress in 2021. The ‘complex’ project was recently given an award by the Tunnelling Association of Canada.

Crossing, the press release said. The tunnel will replace three existing water mains created between the 1940s and 1970s that are vulnerable to earthquake damage and are reaching the end of their lifespan.

After the tunnel is built, it will connect to the existing drinking water system.

But it’s not just Metro Vancouver working on the project – other partners include Delve Underground, Traylor Aecon General Partnership,

AECOM, WSP/Golder, Mott MacDonald, Malcolm Drilling and Herrenknecht AG.

This project is just one of the regional water supply tunnels that are being designed to ensure reliable drinking water in the region in the event of a major earthquake, the press release said.

“The Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel is one of the largest tunnels ever built by Metro Vancouver,” said Malcolm Brodie, chairman of Metro Vancouver’s Water Committee. “These kinds of water-supply projects are extremely complex, yet so important to our health and well-being. It’s an honour to see this one recognized for its exceptional quality.”

Construction began in 2019 and is expected to be mostly complete by the end of this year, the press release said. The three new water mains will be tied into the drinking water system over the next few winters and expected to be in service by 2028.

Metro Vancouver manages three water supply areas – Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam – supplying 2.8 million residents with clean drinking water.

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‘Blue Hat’ installation a reminder of devastation of opioid crisis

ABBY LUCIANO

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Thousands of blue and purple flags fill a large green patch of grass in long rows near a the foot of Lions Gate Bridge in West Vancouver. But they are more than just tiny flags

in the ground. Each of the 15,000 flags represents a life lost to the toxic drug crisis since 2016.

Ron Kerr, born and raised in North Vancouver, created The Blue Hat Memorial to illustrate the scale of the opioid crisis in a way that was more than just numbers.

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“We become extremely numb to numbers,” Kerr said. “Whether it’s budget numbers or the number of people dying in wars, they just become numbers.”

He’s hoping that seeing the installation in-person will change that.

The Campbell River city councillor had the memorial on display before Campbell River on Aug. 31, marking International Overdose Awareness Day, before bringing it to the North Shore to be displayed prominently in a busy urban corridor. More than 20 people came to help put the flags into the ground in a process that took more than two hours, he said.

Kerr is a longtime mental health advocate for men and boys. When the province declared the opioid crisis an emergency in 2016, he quickly saw statistics that showed that men and boys were hit hard by the crisis, especially those working in the trades or blue-collar jobs.

Men working in the trades industry are over-represented in the number of overdose deaths, a 2022 B.C. Coroners report found. The report said that of the 35 per cent of people who were employed at the time of their death, 52 per cent of them worked in the construction, trades or the transport industry.

But 3,000 of those flags are marked purple to remember the women who have also died from the toxic drug crisis, Kerr said.

“I am pleased to bring this important project to Vancouver so that a greater audience can experience what the 15,000 deaths of men and women look like in a powerful visual statement,” Kerr said. “No one can help but be emotionally moved by 15,000 flags representing the 15,000 individuals and their families, blowing in the wind.”

No one can help but be emotionally moved by 15,000 flags representing the 15,000 individuals and their families, blowing in the wind.

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Kerr hopes to bring the art installation to other parts of B.C. soon, with Victoria as the potential next location.

The art installation will be on display near Lions Gate Bridge until Oct. 31. Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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With the atmospheric river event featured heavily in weather forecasts leading up to the weekend, Little said the district did work to clear out catch basins and sweep streets clean of smaller debris.

“There was just so much material coming off of the trees and entering into the system as soon as the storm hit, a lot of those spots flooded, failed simply because the amount of debris that was newly coming down,” he said.

But the increased likelihood of extreme weather events like this means the municipality needs to take another look at the infrastructure currently in place, Little said.

“We have just done tens of millions of dollars of work in and around the Gallant Creek storm drain space, and it still failed,” he said. “As we have increasing intensity of weather systems and events like this,

it’s really going to challenge our ability to manage it with the infrastructure we have.”

Little expressed his appreciation for all the crews that came out stave off the worst impacts the storm could have had.

“I was also very impressed with the number of people in our community who volunteered to help out,” he said. “I think this will be very well-prepared community for future emergencies.”

District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little said the homes on the 2700 block of Panorama Drive were evacuated due to a compromised retaining wall that was hit by a torrent of water on Saturday. NICK LABA / NSN

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West Van council considers adding exemptions for paid parking in parks

ABBY LUCIANO aluciano@nsnews.com

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Pay parking in West Vancouver’s regional parks could be removed soon for those who have vehicles with a veterans or Memorial Cross license plate or a valid accessible parking permit.

This comes after several groups have been asking for exemptions to the pilot program the District of West Vancouver launched in April.

Council announced the new possible changes in an Oct. 7 meeting. Exemption requests ranged from non-profit and community groups, but also veterans and people with disabilities, Jenn Moller, director of engineering and transportation for the district, said in August.

Visitors currently pay $5.22 per hour for parking at Lighthouse, Nelson Canyon and Whytecliff parks, while West Vancouver

residents can pay $20 annually.

Around $430,000 was collected for paid parking between February and August, according to a September council report. Council asked staff to report back on a policy of waiving the parking fees. Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

West Vancouver council is discussing the possibility of adding new exemptions to paid parking in its regional parks. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

City fire department’s little library a replica of its fire hall

ABBY LUCIANO aluciano@nsnews.com Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

North Vancouver City Fire Department members have come up with a hot new idea for educating people about fire safety, launching a new little library outside the city’s fire hall.

And not content to just build a book box, the firefighters got creative by dreaming up a little library that is a replica of their fire hall. Created by Victoria-based artist Ray Young, the mini fire hall is part of the Little Free Library initiative, a non-profit organization based in the United States where people from the community create free book-sharing boxes to remove barriers to book access.

The fire hall’s library includes books about fire safety alongside other general titles, and the sides of the box have pamphlets about fire prevention including QR codes for easy access. This was

Deputy Fire Chief David Owens, adding that they’re hoping the information will help increase fire safety and literacy amid a concerning trend of increasing home fires and deaths across the province.

“Fire prevention is very important to us,” Owens said. “We’re always trying to look at different ways to do that, so we just really like the concept of a little library where it brings the community together.”

As with other little libraries, people can take a book and replace it with another, Owens said.

“If people are walking by, we encourage them to take a book,” Owens said. “We’re trying to make these materials available to the public, and we hope that we’re going to engage people of all ages to read and learn about fire prevention.”

Since 2018, fire related injuries and deaths have been increasing in youth and older

2022 report from the office of the fire commissioner Fire deaths have increased

report found in 2019 there were 28 deaths, 2020 saw 56, 2021 with 59 and 2022 had 86. In 2023 there

cause for concern as home fires are increasing as well, Owens said.

He’s hoping the little library helps reverse those trends.

“[There’s] an alarming number of home fires in the province that we respond to where people don’t have a working smoke alarm, so there is a concerning trend going on at the moment,” he said.

The timing of the library is also linked to Fire Prevention Week, which took place Oct. 6 to 12. This year’s theme was smoke alarms.

Since the opening of the library, Owens said he has seen a lot of response from the community. People can check out the permanent little library at North Vancouver City Fire Department’s fire hall at 165 East 13th St.

Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local

North Vancouver City Fire Department Deputy Chief David Owens makes use of the department’s new little library, which is modeled after the city’s fire hall. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

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Mulgrave is one of the few preschool to Grade 12 IB continuum schools in the Vancouver area, offering a liberal arts style of education that gives students the tools necessary to thrive in tomorrow’s world and gain the skills needed for university and life. Through involvement in the arts, athletics, service and leadership, outdoor education and entrepreneurial programming, students benefit from holistic learning, alongside a rigorous academic curriculum. “We aim for a whole-child education and not just the pursuit of scores,” says Kailan Leung, vice principal and Enriched Pathways coordinator “Our focus is on the pursuit of personal best and individual growth, which is different for each student.”

A key differentiator for Mulgrave is that students are ‘seen’ and ‘belong’ Jack McKillop, Senior School principal explains, “Faculty have the time and the capacity; class sizes in Grades 11-12 are maximum of 18 students and all students also have an advisor teacher who is their go-to person, in addition to other resources.”

Julia Clark, vice principal (Student Wellbeing, Life and Leadership) adds, “Students participate in a Character Education programme which teaches life skills to support student mental wellbeing through an understanding of the signs of anxiety and related strategies, and learning to recognise when someone close to them needs assistance. It is effective in helping students, not only during their time at Mulgrave but for whatever comes next.” This is in addition to having access to a dedicated personal counsellor and a robust peer counselling network

Diversity and inclusion are core values of the school. The International Baccalaureate (IB) programme focuses on teaching perspectives and challenges students to think critically about the world through broad research and global thinking. “This comes from our own faculty and student body as well as through classroom learning – such as literature and the opportunity to study Mandarin, French or Spanish in class or Persian as a school-supported self-taught language – as well as active participation in Indigenous education in support of Truth and Reconciliation and hands-on experiences throughout our city and beyond,” explains Aziz Batada, vice principal & IB Diploma programme coordinator

Ms. Clark adds, “There is also incredible value in learning from one’s peers, since all of them bring different perspectives of the world. This is one of the reasons we are so committed to needs-based financial assistance. It includes more than just tuition; having the Mulgrave experience extends to participation in trips, and access to transportation and technology, for example.”

Mulgrave prepares students to thrive in a diverse, interconnected world and encourages them to confidently embrace their responsibility to support others and serve their communities locally and globally

With their youngest students set to graduate in 2039, Mulgrave strives to be forward-thinking in the needs of students and the world that they will enter well into the future Through opportunities to develop collaboration and leadership skills, engage in entrepreneurial programming, and learn how to think about complex systems, Mulgrave students build their agility and resilience. They are also well-supported by a team of University and Career Counsellors who focus on course planning and post-secondary pursuits. This includes guidance with university and scholarship applications, and opportunities to interact with representatives from post-secondary institutions across Canada and abroad. Additionally, students gain practical assistance in areas such as resume writing and interview preparation as well as networking opportunities with professionals from diverse industries.

“Mulgrave offers students a lot of opportunities to figure out who they are and what their future trajectory can look like,” concludes Mr McKillop “It’s a place where young people can discover, grow, and build their confidence.”

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Two North Van residents headed to BC Sports Hall of Fame

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Two North Vancouver residents are receiving the province’s highest honour for achievement in sport.

NHL veteran Ray Ferraro and sports psychologist Saul Miller are being inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame class of 2025.

“Honouring the past – and inspiring the future – is at the very heart of the mission of the BC Sports Hall of Fame,” organization chair Tom Mayenknecht said in a statement. “This year’s honourees truly exemplify the best of sport in this province and beyond.”

Mayenknecht said he looks forward to honouring the inductees in person at a gala scheduled for May of next year.

While you might recognize his broadcast personality filling the airwaves during Vancouver Canucks games, Ferraro’s professional hockey career spans decades.

During his 18-season NHL career (19842002), he was among the most-consistent goal scorers ever who were born and raised in B.C. Playing for six teams – the Hartford Whalers, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, Atlanta Thrashers and St. Louis Blues – he topped 20 goals in 12 seasons and 40 goals in two.

Compared to other B.C.-born players, his 1,258 NHL regular season games, 408 goals and 898 points rank fourth, fifth and seventh of all time. Ferraro’s best season was 1991-92 with the Islanders, scoring 40 goals and 80 points in 80 games, earning an appearance in the 1992 NHL All-Star Game.

He represented Canada three times at the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships, helping Canada to silver medal finishes in 1989 in Sweden and 1996 in Austria. Before that, he

was named the WHL’s Player of the Year in 1984 after scoring a league record 108 goals in 72 games with the Brandon Wheat Kings, a record that still stands to this day.

Since 2002, he’s been an on-air analyst and colour commentator for various NHL broadcasts, most recently on Sportsnet covering Canucks games.

Meanwhile, Miller has earned world renown as an influential sports psychologist, working with athletes and teams in B.C. and internationally for more than 40 years.

The author of 10 books on athletic performance and well-being, he’s been credited with helping to raise the profile of sport psychology worldwide. Over his career, Miller has consulted with Canadian national teams and athletes in various sports competing at the Olympics, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games.

He’s also worked with professional teams from the NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA, USFL and pro hockey teams in Europe.

In B.C., Miller has worked closely with the Vancouver Canucks, BC Lions, Vancouver Canadians, Vancouver Giants, UBC hockey and the Vancouver Grizzlies.

He’s well known locally as well, helping athletes in many community and high school teams in North Vancouver.

A third person with North Shore connections is also headed to the Hall of Fame. Mountain biker Cindy Devine was born in Venezuela, raised in North Vancouver and Maple Ridge, and currently resides in Rossland, B.C. A pioneer in the sport, she won the first-ever official Union Cycliste Internationale world downhill mountain bike championship in 1990, one of many victories in her illustrious career.

Former NHL centre Ray Ferraro, who played 18 seasons in the NHL, is now a hockey broadcaster for Sportsnet. COURTESY OF BC SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Students hold mock election to get a real taste of democracy

ABBY LUCIANO aluciano@nsnews.com Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

As adults across British Columbia lined up to cast their ballots for the provincial election and practice their right to vote, youth did so too.

Dozens of Grade 5 to 12 students at Brockton School in North Vancouver voted in a mock election for the official candidates of the North Vancouver-Seymour riding early Wednesday morning.

15-year-old Paloma Wylie and Lucas Johnson were two chief electoral officers who helped run the election smoothly. As the process unfolded, they highlighted the importance of having these elections before the real deal.

“I think it was a really interesting process, it widened my whole view on [politics] and how the whole system works of having different candidates and MLAs,” Wylie said.

“I’ve learned a lot more about

what it really means, and when I’m voting, what will it do?” Johnson said. “Before this, I’m thinking I could just vote and then it wouldn’t really affect me.”

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Gearing up to the Oct. 19 provincial election, as many as 175,000 elementary and secondary students cast a ballot across the province.

Before election day at Brockton, six weeks were dedicated to preparing for the election. Grade 10 students created what social humanities teacher Shannon Leggett describes as an electoral scrapbook – a step-by-step project about learning the electoral process.

This included researching MLAs in the riding as well as the party leaders and their platforms.

Leggett has played a big part in keeping the program running at Brockton for years, and says instilling the habit of voting is vital.

“If they’ve already been paying attention to the political process and seeing that it’s important to get involved locally … once they become adults, they

really are engaged and can play a role in shaping the future of their communities,” Leggett said.

The Student Vote program is part of CIVIX, a Canadian charity dedicated to strengthening democracy through civic education. Their programming focuses on elections, government budgets, elected representatives and digital media literacy, the organization said.

“It gives [youth] a voice that they would not necessarily have until they are 18,” Wylie said.

“The youth are the voice of the future, because they are the ones that will be running it soon.”

When all the votes were counted, students in the four North Shore ridings picked the same four MLAs that their parents did. Visit nsnews.com to read about the full results of the mock election.

Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

Grade 10 Brockton School students Paloma Wylie and Lucas Johnson were the two chief electoral officers who helped run the mock provincial election in the North Van school Wednesday morning. ABBY LUCIANO / NSN

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seat,” he went on, referring to Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau losing in her riding, “and I think it reinforces that two-party narrative that I don’t think serves British Columbians and that we want to get away from.”

Valeriote fought through a related narrative his political opponents latched onto at every opportunity throughout his campaign, and one he will likely have to continue fighting once in office: that a Green in the legislature amidst a sea of orange or blue will not be able to affect major change in Victoria.

“We’ll see in the next few weeks if that narrative has any validity,” he said. “We don’t even know the results of tonight and where the final [seat] count lies and I think the speculation that I won’t be able to be effective or be of influence, I think it’s a mistaken understanding of what an MLA is, which is to serve the people of the riding and not necessarily be a part of the government or opposition.”

However things pan out, the Greens look to hold considerable leverage with their pair of seats in Victoria.

An ocean of difference

While only 667 votes separated Valeriote and Fulmer on election night, there was an ocean of difference between their respective campaigns. Fulmer relied on his economic acumen and message of financial prudence, where Valeriote focused on environmental innovation and his opposition to a Woodfibre LNG project and “sunset” fossil fuel industry that he believes should be left in the past. Fulmer was a political newcomer who only came on the scene in recent months, where Valeriote was a known entity throughout the corridor who began his campaign in earnest a year and a half ago.

“I think it showed a commitment to run again and finish the job that we started in 2020,” Valeriote said of his early campaigning. “It definitely put us in a good position and allowed me to meet with hundreds of people, attend meetings, and understand the riding better and made me a better candidate than I was in 2020.”

Although Fulmer undoubtedly turned some heads with his oratory skills and grasp of policy at the Oct. 1 Whistler All-Candidates Meeting, it may have been his relative lack of presence in the Sea to Sky that made the difference on election might. After missing an environmentally themed debate in Squamish to attend an economic forum with BC Green Leader Sonia Furstenau and former NDP Minister Moe Sahota, Fulmer skipped the Pemberton All-Candidates Meeting on Oct. 8, explaining he was focusing the remainder of his campaign “engaging with voters directly” door-to-door. (Days before Oct. 19, his campaign told Pique Fulmer would not be taking calls on election night, instead referring media to Conservative Leader John Rustad’s speech that night.)

Fulmer also had to contend with a party and leader whose social, Indigenous and environmental policies certainly rubbed a segment of British Columbians the wrong way. Fulmer got most defensive at the Oct. 1 debate in Whistler when asked about Rustad’s stance on COVID vaccines, climate change, and Indigenous land rights, which may have ultimately swayed voters who would have otherwise been drawn to his economic vision.

Splitting the progressive vote

Progressive voters in the Sea to Sky had a tough call to

make on Oct. 19, especially those whose primary objective in the voting booth was keeping Conservatives out of office, an outcome that is essentially a toss-up at this stage. Do they vote for a Green candidate who came within a whisker of heading to Victoria in 2020, or a homegrown and highly accomplished NDP candidate who nonetheless belonged to a governing party that had left many British Columbians wanting these past seven years?

It was that dichotomy that arguably defined and, in some cases, dragged down Jen Ford’s bid for higher office in 2024. Undoubtedly the candidate with the most political experience, Ford, a three-term Whistler councillor, former Union of BC Municipalities president, Squamish-Lillooet Regional District chair, and Whistler Housing Authority

board member, seemed at times caught between highlighting her extensive and laudable political record and relying too heavily on her party’s talking points.

Although her performance improved at the Squamish and Pemberton debates, Ford spent much of the Oct. 1 debate in front of a hometown Whistler crowd on her backfoot, often reading from her notes and at times interspersing her responses or questions to the other candidates with long pauses.

Even still, the Whistler councillor’s campaign drew a respectable response for a NDP party that has never had much success at the ballot box in the riding. (Ford did not immediately return a call and text requesting comment on election night.)

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Dundarave businesses hit hard

O’Brien, executive director at Ambleside Dundarave Business Improvement Association.

“It’s been a mess. It really has,” she said. “The water got in there probably three feet or more…. We’ve got probably a dozen businesses that are going to have to find new homes for the next six or so months until

the renovations can get done.”

O’Brien said she was struck by how the community came together in the emergency with volunteers stepping up to place sandbags.

“There was one guy who was out there trying to divert water, and someone said, ‘oh, what business do you own?’ He said ‘I

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don’t. I came to buy dog food at Bosley’s, and I saw this happening so I’m just here to help,’” she said. “Our tagline is ‘It takes a village to make a village,’ and it really showed in spades.”

The cost of the remediation work should be covered by insurance, O’Brien said, adding that more needs to be done to prevent similar damage in the future. As contractors hired by the BIA have been cleaning up, they’ve been pulling scores of tree roots out of the sewer system, she noted.

“What I’d like to see come from it is the district to be more proactive than reactive. And I think it would be a wise thing for them to do a sewer blitz,” she said. “This would have flooded anyways, because there was so much rain in such a short time, but it wouldn’t have been as bad if the sewers were working properly.”

Anticipating heavy rains, the district brought in extra staff to work overnight and ensure culverts, sewer intakes and catch basins were clear, but Howard said, when rainfall hits the volumes seen on Saturday, there is simply no way of safely keeping up.

Thanks are owed to crews across the North Shore who stepped up in difficult conditions to stave off the worst possible outcomes, Howard said.

A Dundarave business is partially submerged following the Oct. 19 atmospheric river. AMBLESIDE DUNDARAVE BIA

“When you see the volume of water coming down and bringing with it debris, it can be quite dangerous, and we need to be keeping crews safe,” he said. “We empathize with the citizens who are impacted. Our job is to minimize those impacts and protect life and property. It is frustrating when we can’t save everybody’s property, but I hope people recognize that this could have been a lot worse.”

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LYNN VALLEY

Youth centre plan stalled for decades could come back to life

NICK LABA nlaba@nsnews.com

Community advocates in Lynn Valley are wondering why a youth centre hasn’t been built, after discussions started and funds were set aside more than two decades ago.

At an Oct. 7 meeting, District of North Vancouver council voted unanimously for staff to report back on the history of discussions and financial commitments for a youth centre in the area.

The current conversations at municipal chambers were sparked by a strongly worded letter sent to council by the Lynn Valley Community Association.

“The District of North Vancouver has failed [two] generations of youth in Lynn Valley,” it begins.

Much of the letter focuses on a sum of $175,000 that was set aside in 2001, which was not enough to go ahead with the project at the time. By July 2017, the balance was $250,000.

“If we had invested the original $175,000 in a balanced mutual fund, it would be worth over $529,000 today. I realize that we would not have invested in a balanced mutual fund as the time frame was not expected to be this long, but my point is on the opportunity that has been lost for taking so long to even get this project started,” the letter reads.

The association points out that Lynn Valley is a designated town centre with a growing population, yet there is a lack of investment for youth.

“We now need mayor and council to support and

prioritize this long-overdue project.”

Coun. Jordan Back said the purpose of his motion is to bring the discussion back after promises were made years ago.

“And as we look to some future developments, as we

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look to refurbish the Karen Magnussen rec centre and facilities like this, to potentially take another look at a youth centre as part of that,” he said.

Coun. Catherine Pope expressed concerns about what happened to the money set aside.

“I don’t understand how we can have this money sitting in the pot and it was never activated,” she said.

And as we look to some future developments, as we look to refurbish the Karen Magnussen rec centre and facilities like this, to potentially take another look at a youth centre as part of that.

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Currently there’s $268,000 set aside in a reserve fund, according to staff.

A history of challenges to find home for Lynn Valley youth centre, mayor says Mayor Mike Little said he has some history with the plan for a youth centre in Lynn Valley.

First the 1300 block of Frederick Road was proposed, but the community came out opposed to that, citing theft incidents and late night parties, “which arguably is a reason for a youth center,” Little said.

Then a room on the west side of Cardinal Hall was used for a while, with some couches, a TV and even some video games put in, as Little worked for Electronic Arts at the time.

“Then after a year, nobody was using it. It wasn’t receiving programming,” he said. “And it just wasn’t a popular place to go and hang out, and it wasn’t in great repair.”

Then the public library was proposed as a potential location, with a youth librarian to help engage young people, but that was opposed by the community association, Little said.

“It has a challenged past of finding consensus,” he said.

Since then, Little said he’s seen the success of the Parkgate model, which has an adjacent skateboard park and gym.

“The youth centre actually functions relatively well because we can use those extra areas,” he said. “Then the idea was that we would earmark the space between the lacrosse box and the Karen Magnussen facility, and the next time we updated the facility we’d look at building a youth centre that could take advantage of that – maybe put some skateboard infrastructure into the space as well.”

Given this history, Little said he was “challenged” by the tone of the letter from the community association. The letter doesn’t reference the $42-million, brand-new École Argyle Secondary, he added, which has youth lounge areas with couches, food service and WIFI.

“It’s ignoring something that actually is extremely popular with the youth in the neighbourhood, because you go by the school and it’s busy into the evening because the spaces are so great,” he said.

While $268,000 won’t be enough to create something like that, “there’s no question further south in Lynn Valley, as we do an upgrade to Karen Magnussen, that we need to incorporate youth-appropriate spaces into there,” Little said.

Karen Magnussen Community Recreation Centre has been suggested as a potential site for a youth centre in Lynn Valley. Coun. Jordan Back brought a motion to council, after the issue was sidelined for more than two decades. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

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in terms of how we ran this campaign.”

The Conservatives have a “demographic challenge” in North Vancouver-Seymour now, he added, saying he believes people were motivated more by the NDP brand than by the individual candidates. But, he said, his party’s showing across B.C. bodes well for conservatism in the province more broadly.

“I think the party has done a tremendous job just going from where it was to where it has come. Does it still need to roughen our edges a little bit and cross the t’s and dot the i’s? Yes, and I think that’s a good lesson for us to learn as we look for the next four years.”

Chandola said Chant should take note of the Conservative Party’s substantial standing in the province and feel free to poach some of their ideas.

“I hope that she takes some of the points that we had raised in our debates and our messaging and helps the community, specifically with the traffic and the bridge proposal that we had. I think everybody in the community benefits, regardless of whether it’s an NDP government or a Conservative government that brings that to the North Shore,” he said.

Chant praised Chandola’s campaign and pledged to represent his supporters equally as well as her own.

“When I’m an MLA, I represent everybody, and I am more than happy to hear their concerns, and I’m more than happy to lobby, represent and advocate on their behalf as well. It’s my job,” she said.

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Here is a photo of a dredger known as the Mastodon. In the early 1910s it was used to dredge the waters of Burrard Inlet.

A dredger picks up sediments off the ocean floor and moves the sediment elsewhere, usually to make it easier for ships to pass through. The process, however, did significant damage to the natural waterways of the inlet.

This photo was taken in 1912 before the Mastodon was converted at Burrard Dry Dock into an oil tanker for the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War

Visit monova.ca for more information about the history of the North Shore and to learn about MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver, now open at 115 West Esplanade in The Shipyards. MONOVA: Archives of North Vancouver is located at 3203 Institute Road in Lynn Valley Contact: archives@monova.ca

INNOVATIVE DESIGN

Two homes by a one-of-a-kind architect for sale on North Shore

NICK LABA nlaba@nsnews.com

Projects by architect Daniel Evan White, a.k.a. Dan White, don’t look like other homes.

That’s plain to see in two properties currently for sale on the North Shore.

rocky beach.

The 3,300-square-foot residence is built so that nearly all the rooms are south facing, with exterior decks to take in the oceanfront views of the Eagleridge neighbourhood. The home was built in 1980 and won an architectural award in 1982.

The Bjorknas House at 2724 Panorama Dr. in North Vancouver has been listed for just shy of $7 million. And the Máté House at 5934 Marine Dr. in West Vancouver is on the market for just less than $5 million.

While its lot is lithe, the waterfront home on Panorama Drive is deceptively spacious, with nearly 7,000 square feet of interior spread across four floors.

The tiered design of the home almost suggests a child’s block tower par excellence. But its symmetry conveys an elegance that continues through the interior of the home.

Natural light fills the residence through numerous skylights and windows overlooking Deep Cove Marina and the surrounding landscape.

Features include a large indoor pool, sauna, suspended fireplace, elevator and 2,660 square feet of outdoor deck space.

Over in West Van, the Máté House boasts another distinctly geometric design: four rectangular blocks set one in front of the other in ascending order.

Also giving the home’s exterior a distinct look is a platform of patterned tile that covers the foot of the property almost entirely – a sharp contrast to the adjacent

Lesser-known architect was first employee of Arthur Erickson and Geoff Massey White was the first employee of Arthur Erickson and Geoff Massey’s famous firm, but ultimately went down a different path than other West Coast Modern architects. Notoriously shy from any kind of publicity, White never received the same recognition as peers like Ron Thom and Barry Downs.

Yet his homes, often built on lots considered unbuildable by other architects, speak for themselves.

West Vancouver’s Taylor Residence, for example, was built like a bridge of glass and concrete above a river gully that pours over an oceanfront cliff face.

After a 55-year career designing more than 100 custom homes, White died in 2012. A year later in 2013, Museum of Vancouver hosted an exhibit to highlight the lesser-known architect.

“Daniel Evan White knew exactly how to play with houses,” reads a description of the retrospective show. “The modest Vancouver architect drove innovation along the West Coast from 1960 to 2012, creating homes that his clients claim were life changing.”

The Máté House at 5934 Marine Dr. sits on the waterfront in West Vancouver’s Eagleridge neighbourhood. REDFIN.CA

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Rainfall records set Election Day

government led by NDP Premier John Horgan and propped up by Green party leader Andrew Weaver. “I’m sure that the elected Green members and Sonia Furstenau and David Eby have had conversations already, as we are speaking.”

But, Jeram added, he doesn’t expect Eby to get so smooth a ride from the Greens this time. The relationship between the party leaders isn’t so close as it was in 2017, and it’s likely the NDP will have to negotiate for their support on a case-by-case basis if they want to pass key confidence votes and keep the government from falling.

“They may want to only commit to support the government through the throne speech and the budget if the budget has X, Y and Z,” he said. “I think the Greens might be a little more assertive this time around.”

Based on the number of votes counted by the end of the night on Election Day, North Vancouver-Seymour had the highest local voter turnout at 65.3 per cent. West Vancouver-Sea to Sky came second at 62.1 per cent. North Vancouver-Lonsdale and West Vancouver-Capilano came in between 57.3 and 57.6 per cent.

Provincially, Elections BC estimates a voter turnout rate of 57.4 per cent. It’s hard to know whether the torrential rain impacted voter turnouts, Jeram said. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, on Saturday alone, 134.6 millimetres fell in West Vancouver.

“That puts this day as the third-wettest day we have on record for that area,” said Ken Dosanjh, meteorologist.

The only two days with higher rainfall totals were Jan. 18, 1961, with 138.2 mm, and Oct. 16, 1975 with 141.4 mm.

The previous high for precipitation on an Oct. 19 on the North Shore was 34.8 mm.

At times on Saturday, the rain was coming down on the North Shore at a rate of 10 to 12 mm per hour, Dosanjh said. Over the course of the weekend, the Point Atkinson weather station in West Vancouver recorded a whopping 292 mm of rain.

“That’s a lot, definitely. For a threeday event, really anywhere, that’s a lot of precipitation,” Dosanjh said.

A separate station near Cypress Bowl Road recorded 203 mm in that time span, while stations at Horseshoe Bay and Eagle Ridge came in at 171 mm and 153 mm, respectively.

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BOTWRIGHT, Dave

On Tuesday, October 15th, 2024, Dave was called home by his mum: Molly, dad: Ron, and sister Mary. We have all lost a true English gentleman, a husband, dad, son, brother, granddad and sportsman.

Dave married his first wife, Marietta in 1973, and they had one son, James. Dave met his second wife, Janet, they married in 2013. Dave became the step dad to Janet’s four children, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Emily, and Nicholas. Dave was also an active Grandpa to D’artagnan and Xander.

Dave was brave and kept his sense of humour during his 3-year battle with MSA and Lewy Body Dementia. Dave was born in London, England, on August 13th, 1948. He always had a wanderlust and by the time he was 14, he would spend his summer holidays away from home. He enjoyed working on farms in England and eventually in Europe. In 1968 he immigrated to Vancouver, and he was hired as a draughtsman at Sanitherm Engineering. Dave loved working and when the opportunity arose to purchase the company with a partner, he didn’t hesitate. David was a very wellrespected voice in the commercial wastewater industry. His company thrived and grew. The company was eventually sold, and Dave retired. Only to be pursued out of retirement by competing companies. Outside of his family his main love was playing sports. Soccer, cricket, and field hockey being his favourites. He will be remembered fondly as both a great teammate and a coach.

Dave’s siblings, Andrew (June), Jane, Anne (Nick) and his many nieces and nephews will miss him dearly.

There will be a Celebration of David’s life held at West Vancouver Cricket Club, Sunday, December 1st at 1:00pm.

May9,2003 September 18, 2024

It is with broken hearts that we announce the unexpected death of our child, Charlie.

Charlie is survived by parents, James and Lisa; siblings Kelly (Samantha), Evan, and Jenna; grandparents David and Janice Ishee and Wayne Crocker; uncles Paul, Mike, Michael, and Peter; aunts Pam, Lynn, Karen, Judy, and Kari; cousins Jennifer,Austin, Eric, Sarah, Sean, Leif, Darton, and Raine; and many other relatives and friends.

Charlie was born and lived surrounded by the woods and creeks of North Vancouver.After homeschooling through grade 12, Charlie attended Langara College for two years before deciding on another path. Charlie was in the early stages of a career as acook, the details of which we’d hear about every night over the dinner table Charlie was full of passion for the job and ideas to make it better, and had begun planning an apprenticeship to earn the Red Seal as aLevel 3Cook.

Charlie wasn’twith us for long but did awhole lotin those years. Charlie was astrong, determined person, apassionate advocate forvarious causes, and avoice for society’s most marginalized. Charlie was amusician, playing piano, guitar, and bass, as well as being an avid fan of awide variety of musicalgenres. Charlie was atalented makeup artist with aflair for dramatic, unique looks. Charlie was pursuing ablack belt in Tae Kwon Do. Charlie lovedanimals, includingthose many people find ugly;spiders,slugs and snails all held aspecial place in Charlie’s heart. EverythingCharlie did was done well, and the accolades Charlie received over the years are too numerous to count.

In remembranceofCharlie’slife, the family requests that any charitable donations be made to the Crisis Centre of BC.

Celebration of Life will be heldat 750 Grand Boulevard, North Vancouver, on November 3, 2024, at 1:00PM

KLEINSORGE, Patti

Patti Kleinsorge (a.k.a. Nana P) passed away peacefully surrounded by friends and family on Saturday, October 12, 2024 on the Sunshine Coast, after a courageous 6 year battle with cancer. Throughout her journey, Patti remained vibrant and hilarious and continued to live each day with a sense of adventure.

Patti’s family was her heart and she persevered to provide core memories for her grandbabies. She loved family dinners, trips to Mexico and Las Vegas, as well as camping, hiking, and fishing in BC’s great outdoors. Patti always found a way to seize the moment and never shied away from taking risks, saying yes more than no, and encouraged others to live life to the fullest. She was never one to complain, and she faced her illness with strength, bravery, and hope. Patti’s zest for life, her infectious smile, and her ability to brighten any room will be deeply missed by all. She is survived by her partner Doug, her siblings Corri and Shay, her daughters Randi and Shannon, her nine grandchildren, extended relatives, as well as countless friends who were like family to her. In lieu of flowers, Patti asks that prosecco and tequila be sent to her family members… just kidding, please consider a donation made in Patti’s name to the Ruby Slipper and Black Boot Fund, a charity close to her heart: www.rubyslipperblackbootfund.com

A celebration of life will be held in the spring of 2025, where we will eat, drink, and swim at the beach to honour in a way that was so meaningful to Patti.

“Yesterday is gone, tomorrow never comes, today is the day we live!”

ISHEE, Charlie Emma Louise

Marjorie Fisher

It is with deep sadness we announce the loss of a truly beautiful and caring soul. Marjorie Fisher (formerly Greenwell) left this world on August 23rd with her usual impeccable grace, in peace knowing she had experienced an incredibly full life and with her proud sons Paul and Cris at her side. Mom was Grandmother to Kyle (Sarah) and Crofton (Stacey), Great Grandmother to Abby, Jack and Braxton.

Mom was born the youngest of four children on the north-east coast of England during tumultuous times. She lost her father at the age of two. She then became a wartime evacuee at age five, spending those tender years in the Lake District, away from family and safe from the barrages overhead. “The Lakes” continued to hold a very special place in her heart throughout her life and this experience would add a fierce independence to her gentle nature. Back home after the war with a family she barely knew, Mom did household chores after school while her mother and much older siblings worked to put food on the table and pay the bills. It was never easy but the family was always thankful for what they had and the tight bond they shared. Those early struggles and triumphs would result in a deep strength in Mom that would serve her well as life hurtled along As her mother always told her, “don’t worry about the little things pet, save your energy for the big ones that will surely come your way”.

The next chapter in Moms’ life would take her to Vancouver to embark on an exciting adventure in search of a better life, far away from familiarity and kin. Married now with two small boys the family settled amidst the rugged beauty of Lynn Valley, but as fate would have it she ended up a single mother just a few years later Drawing on her mothers’ wisdom, Mom forged ahead, finding work with the North Vancouver School District as a secretary, maintaining a household and raising her young children on her own. It was during these very difficult yet rewarding times she formed many lifelong friendships with coworkers and so many others that crossed her path. Mom would go on to spend 35 years in the schools, and was known to many by her distinct “Geordie” accent and lovely caring nature. Her amazing ability to recall names and faces of those from her past was legendary and continued to the end.

Her little family was everything to Mom. Growing up we were made to feel important, supported and much loved. There was never a dull moment at our house as Mom welcomed in all of our fr ends and it quickly became a hub of activity It was the best of times. Many a night were spent in deep conversation into the wee hours, Mom never wanting to miss a thing. She was very openminded and curious, always encouraging us to follow suit.

Mom was never one to shy away from an adventure

On a summer morning Mom announced to us that she and her very dear friend Florence were going on a little vacation. We were thrilled for them both until the details of the trip became apparent. Two school secretaries in their late forties were about to drive across Canada and back, sleeping in the back of a borrowed GMC Jimmy SUV to keep the costs down and cooking on an old Coleman gas stove. With sleeping bags packed, and not to be deterred, they set off on their epic road trip. We were terrified. A call from Thunder Bay eight days later to say they were in a motel watching the Royal Wedding (of course) allayed our concerns somewhat. Mom kept a detailed log of where they had camped across our vast country, from B.C. to Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick and even venturing down into New Hampshire and New Yo rk Stat e. Six weeks la ter they arrived home She always spoke of it as her trip of a lif et ime , often recounting the hila rious pre dicame nts they found themselves in. We wer e so pr oud of the ir achie vement and never happier to see them both home.

Upon retiring in West Vancouver Mom volunteered at the schools assisting young children with reading difficulties. She found it immensely rewarding. She was also very active and well known in the local art scene, in particular volunteering at The Silk Purse gallery for many years into her late 70’s. A frequent fixture at the West Vancouver Senior Centre, Mom was well known for her fashion sense, cheeky sense of humor and bombing around in her Miata convertible which gave her so much joy She was an avid collector of art and plants for her lovely deck. Her home was her sanctuary providing her with an inner solace, resplendent with all that she loved. Mom always remarked that she perhaps filled her world with beautiful things as a result of having so very little growing up, and fill it she certainly did. Our mother will be missed beyond measure She truly was a bright light and a gift to us all.

We wish to extend a warm thank you to all Moms’ friends within the Kiwanis community and at the West Van Senior Centre for your thoughtfulness during this time. We also must extend our deepest gratitude to the amazing staff in Palliative Care at Lions Gate Hospital, especially Chelsea, our mothers’ day nurse. We will never forget how incredibly kind you were to Mom and to us as well As per Moms’ request there will be no service at this time. She was never one for wanting a fuss bless her

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Obituaries

Peter (Pertti) Kalevi 1956 - 2024

With profound sadness, we announce the sudden passing of Peter, age 68, at his home in Keremeos, BC. He will be missed by all who loved him, a man of many facets and phases. In our hearts forever, Peter is survived by his mother Irja-Liisa, sister Eeva, sons Neal, Daniel, Wayan, Samuel, and grandson Atlee. He was predeceased by his father Erik and brother Ollie.

Born in Jyvaskyla, Finland, Peter’s family immigrated to Canada in 1959, first settling in Elliott Lake, Ontario. A few years later, they moved to North Vancouver, where Peter resided most of his life until retiring to Keremeos, BC, in 2015.

Peter grew up playing baseball and hockey. He loved golfing, downhill skiing and travel.

When Peter was 12 years old, he joined his father in salmon fishing every summer with his family and purchased a boat of his own, the Moonbeam, at age 21.

After graduating from Kwantlen College in Horticulture in 2000, he worked in the Parks department of the City of North Vancouver until his retirement. He became a member of the local Seventh Day Adventist Church, which he embraced as his spiritual home.

A celebration of life will be held at 4pm on November 10, 2024, at the Lynn Valley Community Room (across from the library), 1277 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver, for family and friends.

Each Loss

Each loss is very different, The pain is so severe. Will I ever stop missing This one I loved so dear?

Good times we had together, The moments that we shared

We didn’t have to tell each other

How much we really cared.

never dreamed you’d go away, Never thought of sorrow. So sure you’d always be here

Took for granted each tomorrow.

Now my life is all confused Since you went away. You took a part of me And for help I daily pray.

But when God sent you to me He never said that you were mine, That I could keep you always –Only borrowed for a time.

Now, He’s called you home, I’m sad and I shed tears. Yet I’m glad He loaned you to me And we had these many years.

LANTELA,

CHAN, Sandra Lynn 1959 - 2024

Sandra was the middle born and only girl in a family of three children who grew up together in Victoria. She completed her BA (with Distinction) and MPA at the University of Victoria. She was articulate and had uncommonly well developed writing skills. But most important, she had a heart of gold. She was caring and generous to a fault. When it counted, she put others’ needs above her own. She had a trademark chuckle and projected a natural warmth. She could be roguishly mischievous. She loved life and loved family. She was a cherished wife to Ted in a blended family with Chris and Meghan. During more recent years, she treasured her role as Poh Poh to two young grandsons whom she routinely spoiled with mystery parcels and loot bags.

In her early adult years she relocated from Victoria for a position as a Research Officer with the BC Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver. Thereafter, her keen sense of fairness in combination with a desire to make a difference drew her towards a position in the BC Office of the Ombudsman (now Ombudsperson). Her undertakings as an Ombudsman Officer formed the backbone of her career as a public servant. Following closure of the Vancouver Office she preferred to stay in Vancouver and continued employment as a Classification Specialist with the BC Public Service Agency until retirement. Later, during retirement, by way of Order-in-Council Appointment she served as a Member of the Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal. As well, on a part-time basis she dipped her toes in the water with Seaspan in a role associated with security clearances. She loved learning and thrived on new challenges.

She was reflective, accepting, and strong but understated. For her, actions spoke louder than words. She was an ardent reader, a curious / adventurous world traveller and yes, a very enthusiastic shopper. To the delight of family she was also a self-taught baker and cook, and became a very earnest foodie. Born of necessity she was, in addition to everything else, the master of all technology on the home front!

From her beloved armchair she enjoyed viewing select K-dramas, accompanied by a fresh bag of chips. In every outdoor jacket she pocketed a few peanuts for feeding squirrels encountered during walks. She loved meeting with others over lunch, and for all who knew her she was just such great fun to be with.

Early in 2020 she was faced with a cancer diagnosis. While her remaining lifespan was estimated to be mere months, she took exhaustive measures to extend it for more than four years. In recent months her strength, energy and joie de vivre markedly deteriorated, and she thoughtfully chose to conclude life on her own terms by way of MAiD. She was gutsy and had her wits about her until the very end. For immediate and extended family and friends, the experience of her loss is profound. She was much loved and will remain with us forever in our hearts.

In honour of her memory a private dinner gathering of family members was held. Sandra’s wish otherwise would be to be remembered by all who knew her through shared stories and personal reflections. Sandra, thanks for everything.

“Nothing gold can stay”

- Robert Frost

MARTIN (nee Butchart), Patricia Edith June 23, 1933 October2,2024

Pat "Nanny" passed away after alongand wonderfullifeatthe age of 91. Mom was adevoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend to all who knew her. She will be remembered as elegant and beautiful, hardworking, fun loving, a wonderful hostess and homemaker with alove of cruising, fashion, dancing, music, WestVancouver, her family and friends, and dogs big and small. Pat was predeceased by the love of her life, Donald Martin.

Survived and deeply loved and missed by her children Doug McNee (Kim) and Patti Wickins (Brad); grandchildren Sean, Megan, and Brockton; and great grandchildren Jackson and Max.Special thanks to her dear friend, Aileen, and also the staff at Amica White Rock for their compassion and care.

No Service by request. Interned at Mountain View Cemetary Vancouver, BC.

"Love you, Mom."

MOSELEY, Charles (Charlie)

On September 28, 2024, Charles (Charlie) Moseley passed away surrounded by family at the age of 74.

Charlie was born in Vancouver on June 6, 1950, into the family of William and Mary Moseley and is survived by his 4 sisters, Anne, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Grace. He resided in North Vancouver from 1983 to 2024 with his wife of 41 years, Dorothy, and is survived by his two kids, Cameron and Kristina, and two grandkids.

Charlie lived a full life of being a business owner (Spectrum Skyworks), traveling, boating, kayaking, and socializing. He hosted many parties with music/singing and made sure you had a party hat and a full glass of wine. A celebration of life will be held at the West Vancouver Yacht Club on November 2, 2024, at 3:30 pm.

SCHMID, Robert G. P.

September 22, 1928 - September 5, 2024

Bob was born in Nelson, B.C. to John and Freida Schmid (nee Almendinger), both of whom had immigrated to Canada from Germany.

A few years later the young family moved to the South Coast, where Bob and his four siblings grew up in Vancouver, then Burnaby. While still in high school, Bob met the lovely young Nancy Turnbull. They married in 1952, and raised their five children in South Burnaby, then Eagle Harbour in West Vancouver.

Most of Bob’s working life was with the family construction company, which built hundreds of quality homes in the Lower Mainland in the 1950s and 1960s.

Bob spread good cheer wherever he went, with his ready smile, friendly manner, and willingness to break into song or tell a joke. A loyal brother and friend, devoted husband, and kind, supportive Dad, he was loved by many.

Predeceased by his wife Nancy in 2011, his brother Walter, sister Doreen Titus and brother-in-law Reg Titus, Bob is survived by his brother Ernie (Bonnie), sister Barbara, and sister-in-law Donna; children Linda (John), Rob (Zynet), Paul (Heather), Sandy, Jason (Nasrin); grandchildren Rose, Jessica, Martin, Cayley, Maya, and Ellie; great-grandchildren Julian and Destiny, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Heartfelt thanks go to the staff at Inglewood Care Centre, who took such good care of Bob for his last two and a half years, especially Mila, with whom he had a special bond.

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Obituaries

SIMPSON, Thomas Elwood

August 15, 1938 – September 15, 2024

Our family said goodbye to our father and grandfather as he left us to join his wife, Jackie, who predeceased him in 2020. He will be so greatly missed by his daughters Shannon (Nelson), Stacey (Norry), and his grandchildren Amanda, David, Hannah, and Mikaela (Kieran).

Tom had an incredibly wonderful and full life. He is fondly remembered for his dry sense of humour, his strong will, and not holding back his opinion. He also had a huge heart and a fierce love for his daughters and their families. His other loves in life were scotch with his son-in laws, playing bridge, golf, Hallmark movies, travel, and foul language (which he so generously passed down to his daughters and grandchildren). He cherished time spent with his family and friends over the years.

Life is all about the memories.

“Love you Papa”

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the North Shore Hospice, where their compassion and care touched us deeply. To write a condolence to the family, please visit: www.mckenziefuneralservices.com

Obituaries

SMITH, Richard(Dick) Lea

April 19,1933 September 9, 2024

Richard (Dick) Lea Smith passed away peacefully at age 91, surrounded by his loving family. Dick was born at Grace Hospital in Vancouver, BC, to Robert (Lea) and Elizabeth (Betty) Smith. The family livedin theDunbarneighbourhood of Vancouverwhile spending long summer months on Hornby Island. Dick met his future wife and love of his life, June, while working at Woodward’s Department Store. They were married in 1957, settled in West Vancouver, and welcomed two sons, David and Douglas. Dick worked as an elementary school teacher in several East Vancouverschools before "retiring" to work at West Vancouver United Church. For many years, June and Dick divided their time between West Vancouver and their beloved Hawaii, where they had many friends and wonderful memories. Dick was predeceased by his sister Clara Peters. Loved by hiswife, June; two sonsand their spouses, David (Rebecca) and Douglas (Catherine); and grandchildren,Robert, James, William, and Freya. He will be truly missed. Aspecial thank you to all the staff at both Lions Gate Hospital and the North Shore Hospice for their caring and compassion.

ACelebration of Life service will be held at West Vancouver United Church on November 3rd, 2024, at 2:00pm. If it feels in alignment,please consider donating to the LGH Foundation, North Shore Hospice, or West Vancouver United Church.

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