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Citiesurgedtouse developmentfees tofundtransit URBAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE SAYS FEES COULD HELP PAY FOR MORE BUSES AND SUBWAY TO UBC MIKE HOWELL
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GP Mendoza, project lead with Keys to the Streets, tickles the ivories near the Creekside Community Centre Monday afternoon. Scan this page with the Layar app to watch a video of Mendoza playing.
Songs in the key of free PROJECT PUTS THREE PIANOS IN PUBLIC PLACES CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer
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t the piano under the trees between the Creekside Community Centre and False Creek, passersby paused to listen to GP Mendoza improvise from a Coldplay song. After he’d finished, a boy slid
onto the bench and played a tune. A woman, possibly his mother, yelled, “Throw down your hat.” When Mendoza played again, a man with an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt stopped and said, “That’s awesome.” Those are some of the scenes Mendoza has experienced or seen as part of the Keys to the Streets project
that’s placed three pianos in outdoor Vancouver locations until Aug. 24. Mendoza, who heads the project, admits he’s been practicing since the instruments hit the streets at the start of the month so he can perform on demand. A recent political science grad from Simon Fraser University, he was a member of a class at CityStudio. See GROUOP on page 4
he Pacific region branch of a national non-profit association representing the development industry is pushing for Vancouver and other municipalities to consider using development fees to pay for transit upgrades. Anne McMullin, president and CEO of the Urban Development Institute’s branch in Vancouver, said fees developers pay when rezoning property could help get more buses on the road and contribute to major projects such as a subway from Commercial Drive to the University of B.C. Although government estimates put such a subway at $2.8 billion, McMullin said the anticipated growth of developments along the Broadway corridor could generate significant funding over time towards the project, which the government has not committed to build anytime soon. The City of Vancouver collected $68 million in community amenity contributions, or CACs, in 2012. Historically, that money is used to build community centres, libraries, daycares, neighbourhood houses and for improvements to parks. “Transit is an amenity and it benefits the home buyer and it benefits the community,” said McMullin, who believes the need for transit improvements in the region is at a crisis level. McMullin cautioned she isn’t proposing that transit upgrades replace all other amenity-financed projects such as daycares. Rather, she said, city council should consider the needs of the community when a developer applies for rezoning of a property in a neighbourhood. “Daycares? Yes, there’s an absolute need,” she said. “Other things? I think it’s worth discussing. Is there a crisis for more community centres? I don’t know.” McMullin’s comments come on the heels of the mayors’ council on regional transportation rejecting Premier Christy Clark’s plan to hold a referendum for Metro Vancouver residents to ask whether they will pay more money for transit upgrades. See COUNCILLLOR on page 4
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Rod Hoffmeister is retracing the route taken by his father and the Seaforth Highlanders during the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.
12TH & CAMBIE: BY THE NUMBERS BY MIKE HOWELL A pollster who got the provincial election wrong explains what happened and why you can still trust poll results.
CLASS NOTES: TAKING A STAND BY CHERYL ROSSI Steps Towards a New Direction will help two graduates of alternative schools with their post-secondary career training.
OPINION DAMN BONES BY MATTHEW CLAXTON The early days of fossil hunting in North America were marked by petty feuds and bitterness between rival scientists.
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CouncillorskepticalaboutUDIproposal The mayors’ council believes the provincial government has to make a commitment now to spend more money on transit, as it has done in twinning the Port Mann Bridge and funding major road projects in the region. In the absence of a sustainable funding mechanism for transit, including the government’s rejection of using revenue from the province’s carbon tax, the council is floating the idea of road pricing. Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs said he is skeptical about using CACs to fund transit upgrades or push for solutions that are not driven by the provincial government. “At this point, CACs are heavily oversubscribed in the city as it stands and transit is not on the list,” he said. Meggs said he supports more development around transit hubs so that people don’t have to drive. But, he said, he doesn’t think people should assume the city can extract enough money from developments to pay for transit upgrades. “It’s something that has a lot of appeal,” he said of using CACs for transit projects. “But when you dig into the specifics, it doesn’t work as well as it seems to on first blush.” Meggs added that as the region grows, commuters — many of whom faced $1.47a-litre gas prices Monday — will make more noise about the need for better transit services. The provincial government, he said, will have to respond. “They can’t keep hoping that the mayors will come up with some magic funding solution that will fix everything,” he said. City manager Penny Ballem is a member of a committee appointed by the regional mayors’ council to look at funding mechanisms for TranLink. She told council last fall that many cities in the world were con-
The Urban Development Institute believes city council should consider using developers’ fees to fund transit upgrades. Seen here is construction in the background of the Marine and Cambie development along the Canada Line. Photo Dan Toulgoet sidering development-related funding for transit. “This is one of a number of options — it’s
certainly something the city has control over in terms of looking at and it’s obviously something that council would need to agree
on and process,” Ballem said at the time. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings
Free pianos attract pros and amateurs CONTINUED from page 1 CityStudio is a collaboration between six post-secondary institutions, the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Economic Commission to get students working with city staff and the community on projects that further the city’s Greenest City 2020 Action Plan. His group had heard about public pianos in other cities like London, England, Barcelona, Spain and Montreal. They found a free piano on Craigslist in April and set it up at MacAuley Park, the little triangle of grass near Les Faux Bourgeois restaurant at Kingsway and Fraser. The scale of positive response was so great that CityStudio hired Mendoza to lead a public piano project this summer to animate public spaces in new ways. “It’s a big conversation starter,” Mendoza said. Anyone can slide onto a bench and plunk away. A polka-dot piano at Spyglass Place near the southern foot of the Cambie Bridge has received much attention. The piano first appeared at Robson Square at the launch of the city’s VIVA Vancouver project, which aims to enliven public
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spaces. “We had some pretty professional guys come up,” Mendoza said. “You wouldn’t think that they’d be professionalsounding pianists but they’d just come up and rip apart the keys and then just leave. It would be awesome. People would take photos and people would clap. It was exciting, interesting, weird all at the same time.”
From his perch at CityStudio at Spyglass Place, Mendoza has witnessed a Beatles sing-a-long. His favourite sights have appeared on Twitter and Instagram. Musicians performing on an upright bass, kick and snare drum and the piano jazzed up the path in front of Creekside last week. Whitecap fans wearing their scarves gathered at the polkadot piano to celebrate after the team’s recent win. Mendoza takes care of the piano at Spyglass. Creekside Community Centre staff makes sure the one on the seawall is covered at night and staff of a youth substance abuse program look after the piano in Robson Park at St. George and Kingsway. The Mount Pleasant piano will be donated to the nearby Boys and Girls Club after its stint outdoors and the Creekside piano will go to the community centre. The pianos and benches are chained together. The piano at Creekside has been hit with minor graffiti. Mendoza expects a fourth piano to pop up near the information booth near the entrance to Stanley Park by August. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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Deconstructing poll results with a pollster 12TH & CAMBIE with Mike Howell
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ast week, several reporters in this town, including yours truly, wrote and broadcast stories about a new poll saying a majority of respondents support the downtown separated bike lanes. Like many of you out there, I’m even more skeptical about polls these days after pollsters got the outcome of the May 14 provincial election so very wrong. So why then should I, or you, believe a poll saying 64 per cent of Vancouver residents support separated bike lanes? “That’s a very fair question and I thank you for asking it,” said Mario Canseco, vicepresident of public affairs for Insights West, the company that conducted the poll. Canseco was employed at the Angus Reid polling company during the election campaign — the same company that forecast the NDP was the party of choice for 45 per cent of voters. But, as we all know now, it was the Liberals that won 44.4 per cent of the vote, giving the Liberals 49 of the province’s 85 seats in the B.C. Legislature. Please explain, Mr. Canseco. “When you’re assuming — let’s say, for the sake of argument — a third of your electorate is going to be 18 to 34 and then at the end of the day it’s actually 11 or 12 per cent, then that changes everything. And I think that was one of the major difficulties that we encountered. I don’t buy the argument
that voters lied to us or that they thought the NDP had it in the bag and they stayed home.” Canseco pointed out the poll about bike lanes was about policy and didn’t ask respondents would they vote for the ruling Vision Vancouver party in the 2014 election so it could bring in more bike lanes. “When you’re taking something behavioural such as, ‘Are you actually going to vote and are you going to change your mind?’ then you have another two or three layers of the exercise that needs to be taken care of,” he said. “It’s the first time in 36 tries that I’ve done this that something went as dreadfully wrong as it did.”
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Who is “the most courageous politician in Canada” right now on the transit file? a) Mayor Gregor Robertson. b) B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone or, c) Premier Christy Clark. Actually, none of the above, according to North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton. He believes that designation goes to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. It’s because Wynne is not backing off on raising taxes or fees to fund improved transit in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton — unlike Clark, who wants a referendum to ask Metro Vancouver residents whether they want to spend more money on transit. “What’s the difference between investing in transit and investing in freeway interchanges?” said Walton, who heads the mayors’ council on regional transportation that recently rejected Clark’s call for a referendum. “It’s all the same issue.” mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings
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ccording to the park board, the services of the negotiator hired to help the city’s community centre associations navigate their way through the proposed joint management agreement are no longer needed. As first reported in the Courierin 2001, the park board has been negotiating with the city’s communitycentreassociations to finalize a new joint management agreement. More recently, the Vision Vancouver-dominated park
board wants to change the way community centres operate, including centralizing “core programs.” The most contentious of the recommendations would see the park board take all revenues from room rentals and programs — money traditionally retained by the associations. The park board argues the money should be pooled into a general account to be distributed amongst “havenot” centres. The park board and representatives from 12 community centre associations have been meeting on most Saturdays for months now in an attempt to hammer out an agreement both sides can live with. Until last week, professional mediator Terry Harris was part of those discussions. But that is no longer the case. In response to inquiries from the Courier, Vision Vancouver park board commissionerNikiSharmaconfirmed Harris will no longer be involved in the ongoing talks.
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The park board launched its all-access OneCard at some community centres this week. “The project is now moving into the phase of discussions around finance and risk management which requires a special area of knowledge and expertise,” Sharma wrote in an email. “We are seeking a new facilitator with experience in these areas of negotiation who will enable both parties to address their concerns.”
According to Harris’s resume, he has a degree in psychology from the University of B.C., a law degree from the University of Victoria, a certificate in conflict resolution from the Justice Institute of B.C. and attended an Advanced Mediation Workshop at Harvard University. Harris did not respond to a request for comment prior
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centre has had its own membership cards, but if approved the OneCard will allow access to all centres. The move, say some community centre associations, will basically make individual membership cards obsolete, a move they say can be problematic because government funding for non-profit organizations is often based on a membership list. To that end, the six associations not in negotiations with the board sent Sharma a letter July 5 asking for a meeting to discuss concerns regarding the card, such as a loss of revenues from conventional membership cards. Sharma said there will be no financial loss to the associations. “Mostoftheassociations’ revenues are obtained through user fees, this will not change,” she wrote in an email. “Also, the interim agreement contains provisions for community centre associations to be compensated for any financial losses associated with accepting the flexipass and delinking membership fees with access.” Should the meeting between Sharma and these associations go ahead, I hope to update readers here in the near future. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10
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with Cheryl Rossi The STAND Foundation, which gives educational grants only to graduates of Vancouver’s and North Vancouver’s alternative schools, is extra busy this time of year. Troubled teens who’ve graduated need to figure out what they’re going to do next. “If it wasn’t for the financial assistance they’re receiving, several have told us, they would be taking a minimum wage job and trying to get their diploma, which would take a lot longer and some of them would probably give up,” said Sophie Mas, co-founder and president of the STAND Foundation. STAND, short for Steps Towards a New Direction, is poised to give $2,200 to a graduate of Vancouver’s Pinnacle Program for his tuition, fees, transportation and special equipment for an auto service technician course and $2,900 to a graduate of the Spectrum Program to study psychology and sociology at Langara College. Grant applicants don’t need top grades. They need to be referred by a teacher or counsellor, explain in a letter the challenges they’ve faced, their educational and career goals and provide a budget of what they need to complete their first year of post-sec-
ondary training. Mas said most applicants hail from singleparent homes. Some have fathers in jail and mothers on welfare. Problems with mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction abound among applicants and their families and most teens have been kicked out of their homes. “There was one kid who was a 14-yearold living on the streets, addicted to heroin and also dealing with the fact that he was homosexual and came out to his parents and [it] didn’t go well,” Mas said. “Sometimes I think it’s just a miracle that they’ve been able to get through Grade 12 because of what they’ve had to deal with.” Mas and her friend Jeff Sinclair, who works in the mining industry, started STAND in 2007 to give back to the community. The volunteer-run STAND has raised half a million dollars and given $176,000 in 63 grants. Many of its donors are individuals and organizations in the financial and mining sectors. STAND holds an endowment fund with the Vancouver Foundation. Recipients have become accountants, mortgage brokers and legal assistants. Many of them volunteer or enter helping professions, Mas said. But first they need to be bolstered by an organization that believes in them enough to give them the money they need to complete that first year. For more information, see standfoundation.com. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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news Son retraces dad’s footsteps in Operation Husky JOURNEY MARKS 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF INVASION OF SICILY SANDRA THOMAS Staff writer
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n honorary lieutenant colonel with the Vancouver-based Seaforth Highlanders of Canada will begin a journey July 10 that will take him 300 kilometres in 20 days across the Italian island of Sicily. Rod Hoffmeister is joining a small group of walkers who will retrace the footsteps of the First Canadian Division on a route as close to the original as possible. The journey marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Husky, the Second World War Allied invasion of Sicily. “The organizers tried to keep to the same timetable as much as they could,” Hoffmeister told the Courier prior to departing for Italy where he is attending a ceremony at Delfino Beach July 10. In 1943 a ship carrying vehicles for the Canadian troops was torpedoed en route to Sicily. The sinking forced the soldiers who landed to march 300-kilometres by foot at a gruelling pace under the scorching Sicilian sun to prevent enemy forces from setting up additional defenses. The Allied goal was to make a successful incursion into Europe for the first time since France had fallen to the Nazis three years prior. More than 25,000 Canadians landed on the beaches of Sicily during the invasion, including Hoffmeister’s father, then Lt.-Col. Bert Hoffmeister of the Seaforths. For his valiant ef-
Rod Hoffmeister’s father was a Seaforth Highlander who took part in the 1943 invasion of Sicily. photo Dan Toulgoet forts as a leader Hoffmeister, who died in 1999, was awarded the first of three Distinguished Service Order medals and was later promoted to major general. But despite the fact the Canadian soldiers played a vital role in liberating Italy from fascist control, there is very little to mark their contributions. One of the goals of the Operation Husky 2013 Legacy Tour is to change that by raising funds for a permanent memorial. “Everybody remembers D-Day,” said Hoffmeister. “But very few people remember that 11 months earlier this first invasion against the Nazis was held in Europe.” Hoffmeister is not only looking forward to
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retracing his father’s journey, but also to placing memorial posts as close as possible to the location where a Seaforth soldier fell with the First Canadian Division. Hoffmeister said pipes and drums of the Seaforth rallied the troops along their treacherous journey. In total, 61 Seaforths were killed in action during the invasion, including a record 26 during a battle in Leonforte that took place July 21 and 22, 1943. Hoffmeister plans to place 26 memorial posts on July 21 at the location. Hoffmeister said that original march was torturous to the soldiers who suffered dreadfully from many non-combat ailments, including foot problems, malaria and severe sunburn. Hoffmeister is being joined on his sojourn by, among others, Mark Zuehlke, author of Opera-
tion Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10-August 7, 1943. During the last week of his march, Hoffmeister will also be accompanied by two other members of the Seaforth, their spouses and his sister. “The last missing piece is the CBC, which was there broadcasting at the time. They were asked to get involved [on this trip], but so far they’ve shown no interest.” Hoffmeister has promised to update the Courier along his journey — as long as he has Internet access. Visit vancourier.com for updates. Memorial posts can be sponsored in memory of a soldier killed during the invasion by visiting operationhusky2013.ca. Scan page with Layar for Operation Husky’s website. sthomas@vancourier.com
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here was a bit of a public thrash last week about the future of newspapers, after CTV aired stories questioning the future of the Vancouver Sun and The Province. It was prompted partly by dismal financial numbers from Postmedia, the company that owns those papers and used to own this one. It started a Twitter exchange among various news colleagues. Mainstream media’s dilemma is being put down variously to mismanagement, the Internet, demographics, the Internet, price resistance and the Internet. A Sun man took offence at the pessimism and predicted a better future. He was alone in that stance. (He could have been alone in the newsroom at the time, too, since they just bought out 100 employees.) Others expressed general gloom at the current business model, which is transitioning to a more firmly monetized synergistic digital presence, if I understood the last briefing right. During this time of flux, new readers are becoming more and more valuable. So what’s needed is a primer for people on how to actually read a newspaper. You represent an elite market segment. It’s important that you reflect that. Here are some very useful tips: • To prepare for reading a newspaper, always dress your best. Aim for casual elegance. You want to look as if you’re killing some time while your private jet is being vacuumed. Wear a really expensive watch, so it shows while you’re holding up the newspaper. I have a counterfeit Patek Philippe ($60 in Hong Kong) that goes over well. • Always read it in a public place, preferably a nice bistro. Everybody else is going to be gazing into their phones or laptops, reading made-up crap on the Internet, with their junk strewn all over the place. Newspaper readers stand out. Because you’re smart, attractive, elite leaders. Walk confidently into the shop with the newspaper under your arm. Sit down and open it with a snap. Flick your wrists while doing that, so it sounds like a small firecracker. People will look up and realize something special is going on. A person is reading a newspaper. A murmur may pass through the room, but you’ll ignore it. • Work on your eyebrow cocking. Always read a newspaper with a cocked eyebrow. You’re one smart cookie. You know about everything the newspaper says is happening. Hell, you made some of it happen yourself. You’re just checking to make sure we got it right. • Always go to an inside page first. Find a really obscure story buried in the back. “IMF to collateralize Lichtenstein debt swaps.” Something like that. Hold the paper so everyone can see what you are reading. The more boring the story, the smarter you look reading it. • It’s OK to talk to yourself when reading the paper, but it has to be done properly. For example, you may be reading Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s thoughts on a stimulus package. Stop partway through, shake your head and sigh: “Marky, Marky, Mark ...” This not only puts you on a first-name basis with the governor of the Bank of England, it denotes that you argue with him regularly. • Newspapers can be helpful in meeting people. If you’re a single woman, go to the sports section. Murmur something like: “Starting a right-hander against the Red Sox. Yeah, right.” Men will definitely take notice. If you’re a single man, go to the home section. Remark to no one in particular: “That aubergine moulding really makes the wainscotting pop.” This will go over very well. • Call a friend while reading your newspaper. Just bark: “No, I said Flaherty to health, and Baird to finance. Got it? Bye.” That gives you street cred. You’re a newsmaker who’s reading the newspaper. • B.C. newspaper readers are the smartest newspaper readers in the country. So if you see someone else reading the newspaper, be careful. Take it from me, they can spot a phoney a mile away. Just So You Know: Plagiarism is just a quaint old notion these days, given that everything ends up posted everywhere. But to be safe, the above is informed by a vaguely similar piece I read years ago, and have been unable to locate to credit properly. lleyne@timescolonist.com
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t’s summer, which means that instead of sitting in the shade and sipping cool drinks, hundreds of paleontologists and fossil fanatics are spreading out into the badlands of Canada and the U.S. right now. They’ll be digging up the millions-of-years-old remains of dinosaurs, mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians and plants. This annual rite has been observed for more than 130 years, and its first incarnation was so vicious and competitive, it was dubbed the Bone Wars. Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh were both paleontologists in the 1870s and 1880s, when the discipline was brand new and only a handful of dinosaurs were known in North America. By the time their war petered out in the early 1890s, they had each identified dozens of new species, including not only dinosaurs but sea-going reptiles, prehistoric fish and mammals. Both men travelled to the western United States, or more frequently sent teams of bone hunters, to scour exposed stone bluffs and valleys. They brought back petrified bones, and Cope and Marsh would each rush to be the first to describe and name the new species. From this mad rush came dinosaurs like Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus and Coelophysis. Aside from massive numbers of new dinosaurs, bile was generated in great quantities by the two men. Cope and Marsh hated each other. When Cope reconstructed an Elasmosaurus with the head on the wrong end (hey, both ends are kind of skinny) Marsh had it pointed out. Publicly. Cope started keeping a journal of every mistake Marsh made. Both men then either resorted to bribing each others’ workers, or sneaking into their opponents fossil quar. ries, or smearing each others’ reputations in the newspapers. On one occasion, their competing crews threw rocks at each other. Clearly, this was the high water mark for science. Another product of the Bone Wars was a great deal of confusion that took more sober scholars years to unravel. Consider Brontosaurus, which does not exist. In 1877, Marsh named a new species, Apatosaurus, a long-necked, long-tailed sauropod, which we now know lived more than 150 million years ago. Two years later, along came a new skeleton, a different size (the original Apatosaurus was a juvenile when it died) and, sadly, without a head. But what can you do? Almost every fossil skeleton is missing parts, and you’re lucky indeed if you have even half a skeleton, or anything more than a few teeth and scraps of backbone. So this new skeleton was more than enough for Cope to name a new species — Brontosaurus. A museum mount created a cast of a head, based on another type of sauropod dinosaur. The error was actually noticed and corrected as far as science was concerned in 1903, but the name had entered the public consciousness. Both Cope and Marsh eventually tired of the feud, and their later years were difficult, with financial problems and political scandals. If I had to pick a winner in the war, I couldn’t. Both men contributed much to science, more good than bad. But the next generation was better. Charles H. Sternberg, who had worked for Cope, and his sons later competed with Barnum Brown in Alberta and the American west. Their competition was friendly, however, and still turned up amazing fossils, including the first good remains of Tyrannosaurus rex, the tyrant lizard king. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com
MATTHEW CLAXTON
This annual rite has been observed for more than 130 years, and its first incarnation was so vicious and competitive, it was dubbed the Bone Wars.
RESTORE PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE TO FRASER VALLEY
To the editor: Re: “Metro Van mayors seek funding magic for transit,” July 3. Very pleased to see the Vancouver Courier focus on our transit problems and see mention of the desire for light rail system south of the Fraser. For those of us travelling to and from the Fraser Valley for work, school, friends and family, we are desperate to have passenger rail service restored, to have the old Interurban resurrected, to have an alternative to using our cars, to have a safer, faster, cleaner alternative to the highway. As to the funding, “road pricing” seems a bit harsh for those of us having to drive for lack of an alternative. We don’t need a disincentive; we don’t want to be driving. Also, we do pay the tax on the gasoline, and are already hurting having to pay for the gas and having to endure the frequent unpleasantness on the highway — four-car accidents, vehicles on fire, broken semi trucks that lost a wheel or pickups leaking diesel. The daily traffic reports should be enough to have us all yelling: “Get the train on the tracks!”
D’Anne Davis, Vancouver
BIKE LANE POLL NEEDS MORE SCRUTINY To the editor: Re: “Bike lanes remain divisive, according to recent poll” July 5. Congratulations to Mike Howell for giving the Insights West poll closer scrutiny than did the
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Globe and Mail in a July 3 story. After the B.C. election polling fiasco, I am surprised that any pollster would have the audacity to publicize the results of an online poll about Vancouver bike lanes in which only 40 per cent of respondents were Vancouver residents. It is unfortunate that the poll’s design — a type associated with unreliable results — was buried deep in Howell’s story. With the city using such erroneous data to support its frenetic planning, it behooves the media to highlight information relevant to city public relation stories. The majority of respondents to the poll demonstrated ignorance of ICBC statistics on the increase in accidents along bike lanes, particularly the Burrard bike lane. Which leads me to question why Howell omitted disclosing ICBC ratings for intersections with the most accidents on the West Side of Vancouver (Kits)? Traffic along Point Grey has few accidents (see ICBC) and would flow quite smoothly were it not for the traffic hold-ups caused by the continual demolition of older houses and construction of new ones along the waterfront. The same safety record cannot be claimed for the other main arterial routes through Kits.
Gerri Patriquin, Vancouver
PLANS FOR TRANSIT COMMUNITY A PLOY FOR SUBWAY FUNDING To the editor:
Re: “Tower plan Drive-in East Side residents mad,” June 21. The City of Vancouver is presenting community plans
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in Marpole, Norquay, Mount Pleasant and Grandview Woodlands. There is a common theme to each of these. The affected stakeholders (i.e home and business owners) remain largely unaware of, and upset about, the radical changes proposed to their neighbourhoods. Yet in each case the city claims that a lengthy consultation process was used. In my neighbourhood, Garden Park, which is a real treasure that has a true sense of community and heritage, will be seriously affected by proposed zoning changes. Here, the city is proposing to destroy 341 single-family residential homes in favour of four-storey townhomes and eight storey apartments. They also propose to box in the few parks and schoolyards in the area with similar building types. Additionally, a 36-storey mixed-use building is proposed for the Safeway site, and a cluster of 22 storey buildings adjacent to the Broadway-Commercial Drive SkyTrain Station. Those who attended earlier workshops on a variety of topics such as social issues, housing, parks, arts, transportation, and heritage say that the radical transformation proposed was never mentioned or explored. It appears that the city has an agenda that it wishes to force upon its residents that favours unnatural development under the cause of densification. Some of us think that the transit oriented community proposed around Safeway is an attempt by the city to secure funding for a subway on Broadway ahead of promoting mass transit improvements south of the Fraser. Philip Hill, Vancouver
SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION: “Homeless transit plan 20 years in the making,” July 5 Nursebetty @ddrkayotic: And how is a great economic benefit?! Yet again, hard working taxpayers footing the bill. COURIER POLL: “Would you agree to ‘road pricing’ (eg tolls on roads, vehicle access to downtown) if the revenue collected helped fund better transit?,” July 5 Kevin Quinlan @KQ_VanCity: Hells yeah. Squidhayes @Squidhayes1: Do not resist you will be assimilated. KUDOS & KVETCHES: “Commercial break,” July 5 Franci Louann @flouann: Best movie prices at New West Station (Landmark) make this easier to accept - $5-10. Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews
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DANCING IN THE STREETS: Victoria Lim and Ahmed Medhioub, right, show off their Latin dance skills during the fifth annual Carnaval del Soul, which took over several blocks of Granville Street this past weekend to celebrate Latin American arts and culture in Vancouver.
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BEAU KNOWS HOCKEY: Beau Peterson doesn’t let a slightly too-large stick damper his
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DO THE TWIST: Residents of Rose Street held their 25th annual Rose Street Block Party this past Saturday with road hockey, live music, food and games of Twister.
the hat) has a chat with one of his younger neighbours during the Rose Street Block Party.
lived on Rose Street for 25 years. She says she loves it and there’s “not one person I don’t like.” For related story and more photos, go to vancourier.com or scan this page using the Layar app.
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FunontheagendaatPlayland’sGayDay run the July 20 event offering services in everything from barbecuing 6,000 meals and wheelchair repair for those who need it. A DJ will also be on hand mixing up the summer tunes. This year’s menu includes 6,000 chicken burgers, 6,000 smokies, 1,500 pounds of coleslaw, 1,500 pounds of pasta salad, 1,000 pounds of pickles, 6,000 cans of pop and 6,000 Freezies. The barbecue is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 20 at Oppenheimer Park, located on Cordova Street between Dunlevy and Jackson.
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HASTINGS SUNRISE From what I hear, Gay Day at Playland is one of the most fun events taking place this month leading up to Pride Week, which this year culminates with the hugely popular parade Aug. 4. Gay Day begins at noon Saturday, July 13 at Playland and carries on until late with the Free Zone, which this year will offer not only a beer garden and barbecue, but also the return of the Queentastic Legends hosted by the city’s own Symone. The action takes place outside the gates of Playland, with easy access to rides, games and enough cotton candy to guarantee sugar highs for everyone. The organizers are asking everyone attending to wear pink to support anti-bullying, Gay Day style. For more information, visit vancouverpride.ca.
MARPOLE
The 13th annual Marpole Summerfest takes place Saturday, July 13 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. along Granville Street between West 63rd and West 71st avenues. Marpole Summerfest is a free, family-focused community celebration that brings Granville Street alive with live entertainment including the 323’s, the Sand Northrup One Woman Circus, Sylvia the balloon artist, magic shows, Whistles the
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DOWNTOWN
Learn how to use key Scottish family history records and Internet resources to trace your Scottish family history. Genealogy in Scotland is a free workshop taking place at the Central Branch of the
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St., sponsored by the B.C. Genealogical Society, Thursday July 11 from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
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Union Gospel Mission is hosting its 15th annual summer barbecue complete with a kids mini-carnival, including a bouncy castle, face painting, water fights, games and cotton candy. A major sponsor of this year’s barbecue is Concert Properties, which is providing more than 100 volunteers to help
This Friday, July 12, the Vancouver International Airport is launching its first Paper Airplane Workshop & Competition from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The special event, part of the summerlong YVR Take-Off Fridays program, features prizes and expert guidance on paper airplane making. BCIT Aerospace Technology Campus instructor Ralph Heldt will be on hand to teach the basics behind building a paper airplane that will go the distance. Once guests have perfected their own design, there will be a chance to compete for prizes for the first 15 people who sign up. The grand prize winner will receive a “Staycation Destination,” consisting of $250 in YVR bucks, an airside tour and a one-night stay at the Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel. Special parking rates of $5 for up to four hours are in effect for YVR Fridays or grab the Canada Line for easy access. The action takes place in the Observation Area on Level Four of the domestic terminal. For more information, visit yvr.ca. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10
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There is a new simplified application process for young people with developmental disabilities who are applying for Persons with Disabilities (PWD) assistance, effective today. Youth and their families can now use an existing assessment by a registered psychologist or certified school psychologist, instead of completing the PWD designation application form — a part of the full disability assistance application process. By reducing the number of steps and new documentation required, this simplified process reduces the application burden on families. There are about 600 youth with developmental disabilities who will benefit from this simplified approach each year.
The shorter, simpler process will help to make the transition to adult services easier. A new brochure on the simplified process for youth with developmental disabilities applying for disability assistance can be viewed at www.sd.gov.bc.ca/publicat/pdf/ pwd-youth-application.pdf
URBAN ORCHARD OPENS
What’s being billed as the largest mobile urban orchard in North America has opened on an acre of land where a Petro Canada gas station once stood at the corner of Main Street and Terminal Avenue. The property sat vacant for more than a decade until the non-profit group Solefood saw potential in the once contaminated land. Today, the orchard is home to 800 plastic contain-
ers full of perennial herbs and a variety of fruit, as well as 400 trees, including lemon. The property is being leased to Solefood from the city for $1 a year. The orchard was planted in portable boxes, which will allow it to be moved should the need arise.
ORPHEUM BACKSTAGE TOURS
Ever been to the Orpheum? Well, maybe you have. But have you been backstage? Now is your chance to take a tour for the price of one of those overpriced fancy coffees and a scone. For $10, you can be part of a 90-minute tour of the “Grand Old Lady of Granville Street.” Funny, I thought the address was on Smithe Street. No doubt, you’ll find out the answer to that contradiction when you arrive at the theatre 10 minutes
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ore than 200 people crammed into a sweltering second floor room at Eastside Family Place off Grandview Park on Tuesday night to express anger over the city’s plans for dramatic changes to the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood. Most expressed frustration at the perceived lack of community consultation that went into drafting the so-called “Emerging Directions” land use rezoning proposals released in June, which could lead to highrise buildings added to the Commercial Drive area as well mid-rise densification along Nanaimo Street, East First Avenue and East Hastings Street. Many residents accused the city planning department of ignoring community recommendations made over the past year at several workshops and open house sessions. “Hundreds of us have participated in the community planning process in good faith over the past year and none of this type of density was discussed,” said resident Blair Redlin, a researcher at Canadian Union of Public Employees. “To call the report Emerging Directions is kind of dishonest because it is only emerging from the planning department. It is a very aggressive set of proposals that you’ve put out, so naturally it is generating a lot of hostility and anger and this dynamic does not make for good planning.” City of Vancouver plan®
ner Andrew Pask countered that the plan is still very much in the early stages and pointed out that one of the more contentious proposals, a 36storey tower at the corner of Commercial Drive and Broadway, has already been taken off the table. “We’ve had the first kick at the can this past weekend on the Broadway and Commercial options … and we’ll be looking at different options than what we proposed,” said Pask. “We heard loud and clear that we made a mistake regarding this and we want to go back to the drawing board to work on this. By no means is this a finished process.” The tower was just one of many of the plans that rankled residents, whose complaints ran the gamut from lost views, heritage buildings and parking spaces to increased traffic, higher property taxes and low income residents being pushed out of the neighbourhood. Eric Fergie, who coowns Fets Whisky Kitchen, said that while increased densification would probably improve his Commercial Drive business’ bottom line, it wasn’t worth losing views of the North Shore mountains. “As a business owner, more density is good because more people means more business,” said Fergie,” but it is called Grandview for a reason.” The deadline for the public to give feedback on the plan has been extended by an extra month to Aug. 2, and city planning staff will give their report to city council in September. More than 500 people
have signed a petition at change.org calling on the city to delay the report and prolong the consultation period by six months. Green Party Coun. Adrienne Carr, who attended the meeting, said she would raise the issue of
giving additional time to receive more public feedback at the July 9 city council meeting, after the Courier’s print deadline. afleming@vancourier.com twitter.com/flematic
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sports historian who is writing a book about the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games said “it’s disappointing” Empire Field will be a construction site next summer during the 60th anniversary of Vancouver’s first major international multi-sport event. “[The Empire Games] still is one of the most well-known and well-remembered sports events in Vancouver and B.C.’s history,” said Jason Beck, the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame’s curator. “Every year that goes by, more people that were involved in the Games either as an athlete or spectator, we lose a few more. It’s an opportunity for people to gather and remember.” On Wednesday, city council is expected to rubber-stamp the building of a $10.5 million destination park, sport and recreation facility on the former site of Empire Stadium at the southeast corner of Hastings Park. The project is costing $2.1 million more than originally budgeted and scheduled for a fall 2014 opening — a year later than planned. Staff recommend hiring Tybo Contracting for $8.2 million plus GST, but did not disclose the bidders and their prices in the report to council’s finance and services committee. Empire Stadium was built for the July 30 to Aug. 7, 1954 Games, which were featured in the first edition of Sports Illustrated and
climaxed with the Miracle Mile between Britain’s Roger Bannister and Australia’s John Landy. The moment Bannister passed Landy en route to victory is immortalized in a statue at Hastings and Renfrew. “That wasn’t just the big sports story of the day, that was the big news story,” Beck said. “All these dispatches going out with the Vancouver placeline, Vancouver was top of mind, at least for a day, around the world.” The project includes two synthetic turf fields with a warm up area and bleachers for 400 spectators, a rubberized running track, parkour urban obstacle course, fitness equipment, sand volleyball courts, street soccer, ball hockey and basketball court, BMX dirt jump area, improved access to the Leeside skateboard tunnel and 3.25 kilometres of new bike and pedestrian paths. Historical signage is planned. Empire Field has been off-limits to public play since the spring 2010 erection of a $14 million, temporary 27,500-seat stadium for the B.C. Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps while B.C. Place Stadium was closed for renovations until September 2011. B.C. Pavilion Corporation donated the floodlights and $2.8 million AstroTurf synthetic field to the city, but the city plans to spend $673,000 to replace the lights and power and buy 10,000 square feet of extra synthetic turf for $160,000 to stitch into the field. 2010goldrush@gmail.com twitter.com/bobmackin
Everyone has a story, what’s yours? The Vancouver Courier is calling on all filmmakers—young, old, students, hobbyists, talented or otherwise. Following on the success of our neighbourhood series, Vancouver Special, we’re launching Vancouver Minute—a contest giving city residents the opportunity to share thoughts and stories about your neighbourhoods in the form of a sixty second video. Your “minute” can be shot in any style or genre—documentary, mockumentary, drama, comedy, an animated story, even a music video. There are three categories of prizes—first, a Juried Prize of $1500, second, a People’s Choice Prize of $1000 and finally, two Voters’ Prizes of $250 each drawn randomly from those of you who’ve voted. All prizes are in the form of gift cards courtesy of London Drugs. To submit a video and to browse the small print, go to contest.vancourier.com. Final date for entries is July 17, 2013. Everyone has a story, let’s see yours.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go to the movies, the Rio Theatre screens the original summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s classic 1975 chomp fest JAWS, July 10, 9 p.m. But if 1987’s completely unnecessary JAWS: THE REVENGE accompanied by live snide commentary courtesy of local comedians Patrick Maliha, Eric Fell and Shaun Stewart is more to your liking, then stick around for the GENTLEMEN HECKLERS at 11 p.m. Either way your evening will be sharky and snarky. We’re going to copyright that catchphrase, by the way. More details at riotheatre.ca. The Biltmore Cabaret’s monthly PING PONG NIGHT is back July 10, 8 p.m. with host Michael “the Hunger” Unger and music by DJ Dustin Bromely. All skill levels are encouraged to participate in the “round-the-world” style dance floor elimination tournament with prizes galore for your table tennis prowess. Admission is a mere three bucks at the door. More details at biltmorecabaret.com. We’re well acquainted with free jazz, free will and the movie Free Willy, but a free rock show? Apparently that’s what it costs (or doesn’t cost) to see local psych pop bands CAPITOL 6 and the Gay Nineties at Electric Owl (928 Main St.) July 10, 8 p.m. For more information, go to electricowl.ca.
Former Slackers saxophonist DAVID HILLYARD and his New York-based ska jazz band THE ROCKSTEADY 7 bring its heady mix of Jamaican “roots” rhythms, Caribbean, Latin, jazz and soul music to town July 11 for a sure-to-be hoppin’ show at Vancouver FanClub (1050 Granville). Tickets $12 at the door. More info at vancouverfanclub.ca.
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arts&entertainment KUDOS& KVETCHES WE’RE NUMBER ONE, AGAIN! It’s been said that competition brings out the best and worst in a person, and for British Columbia it’s no different. For the past decade, B.C. has beaten out all other provinces and enjoyed the spoils that come from being number one… numero uno… the top dog… or, to quote Tina Turner, “simply the best.” But with that kind of success comes complacency. Thankfully, B.C. has managed to dig deep and find the will to win again. That’s right, after a minor setback, B.C. has regained its top ranking as the highest child-poverty rate in the country. Boo ya! Sure,B.C.nowhastosharethisdishonourwith Manitoba, but if you ask us, Manitoba is a chump compared to B.C., which has had the highest child-poverty rate nine of the last 10 years. In fact, newly released Statistics Canada numbers reveal B.C.’s child-poverty rate rose to 11.3 per cent in 2011, up from 10.5 per cent in 2010, the only time in the last 10 years B.C. wasn’t atop the heap. In your face, Prince Edward Island! According to First Call: B.C. Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition, much of the credit for B.C.’s number one ranking can go to single mothers, whose poverty rate jumped from 16.4 per cent to 24.6 per cent, representing 27,000 children in poverty. Way to go, guys. Not to be outdone, the poverty rate for B.C. children in two-parent families climbed from 7.7 per cent in 2010 to 9.4 per cent in 2011 with the number of poor children in two-par-
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ark Twain wrote a number of short prose pieces in the voices of Adam and Eve between 1893 and 1910. It was only after Twain’s wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, died that they were all published together. That could be because Twain’s understanding of the biblical couple’s relationship was autobiographical, speculates C.W. Marshall, who directs The Diaries of Adam and Eve at the Jericho Arts Centre. The production is part of the Ensemble Theatre Company’s festival of three plays in repertory July 12 to Aug. 10. “Certainly as someone who’s married, I find myself directing and choreographing conversations that I have had with my wife,” Marshall said. Written in diary form, The Diaries of Adam and Eve recreates their first days, portraying Adam as a bit of a recluse who is ill-prepared for the arrival of Eve, a talkative, emotionally charged woman. “This is an honest relationship that we see developing over time,” Marshall said. “And it’s one that is uncluttered by other people so that the couple are forced to engage with each other and really come to terms with what it is to live with somebody else, what it is to feel things and experience things with somebody else when you know that fundamental sort of otherness, that we never really do know what’s going on in the minds of the people that we share space with.” David Birney adapted Twain’s work for the stage in 1990 and he and his then-wife Meredith Baxter, of TV’s Family Ties fame, acted in the “two-hander” that Marshall says explores their budding romance alongside the traumatic Fall, after Adam and Eve disobey God and are expelled from paradise. “I find it moving every time I watch it,” Marshall said. After the Fall, Adam and Eve need to figure out how they’re going to move forward. Marshall sees The Diaries of Adam and Eve as a reflection of the changing world
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Ensemble Theatre Company presents an adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve at the Jericho Arts Centre. To watch a video clip of the play and access web content, scan this page with your smartphone or tablet using the Layar app. Twain inhabited in the late 1800s. “The way that humans relate to one another was changing fundamentally in the 1890s and in some ways that process has continued to accelerate,” he said. Tariq Leslie, the artistic director of Ensemble Theatre Company who will play Adam and direct one of the three other plays, Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women. Leslie asked Marshall to direct The Diaries of Adam and Eve because he knows Marshall, a senior Greek professor in the Classics department at the University of B.C., favours directing text-heavy plays. “I don’t want to direct a play that I think someone else can do as well,” Marshall said. “I’ve spent my life reading ancient Greek poetry. It’s just a different experience. I spend my life looking at plays that only survive in words; everything else needs to be brought to them. I find a value in… finding something to dramatize in what could just be a series of recited speeches.” Marshall also delves into popular culture. He founded improv comedy troupes for “beer money” in the late
1980s and early 1990s that are still going and co-edited a book called Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica. He is pleased the ambitious folks behind Ensemble Theatre Company are producing plays not often chosen by other Vancouver companies. In addition to The Diaries, Ensemble will present Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention, a true story about a 14-year-old farm boy who invents television in 1921 and goes up against a corporate giant, as well as Women Beware Women. “People want to be challenged by theatre,” Marshall said. “Putting on a play — I don’t know if it’s ever been done in Vancouver before — but Women Beware Women, something that isn’t Shakespeare where you’re going just for the name recognition but you’re being transported back to one of the most dynamic periods of English theatre, ever, is valuable to make available to the community.” For more information, see ensembletheatrecompany.ca. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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SPORT SHORTS NERDS TEAM UP WITH ‘HEROS’
Two Vancouver companies have joined forces to reach out to disadvantaged youth on Vancouver’s East Side. The coalition is comprised of Hockey Education Reaching Out Society (HEROS) a non-profit outreach group that offers free hockey-based programs to children living in the Downtown East Side, and Nerd Corps Entertainment, a private animation and production studio. Both companies are based on the city’s East Side and co-hosted a workshop July 4 at Britannia Centre in Grandview-Woodland. HEROS has been active in the community since 2000 when former WHL forward Norm Flynn gathered a handful of volunteers and corporate sponsors to bring the rink to the youth of the Downtown Eastside. Since then, they’ve run programs in 10 cities across Canada and Ireland. Flynn, who grew up in Winnipeg’s rough north end, said that hockey “gave him a healthy outlet to channel his energy and vent his frustrations.” His goal is to use the sport as “a catalyst for positive behavior” for East Side kids. Nerd Corps is a new face in the community, having first cut their philanthropic teeth last year with HEROS. The company has previously given lectures at elementary schools, but took a more personal approach at the workshop, guiding the small groups of kids through the fundamentals of character design, acting, animation and game design. “We’re trying to provide a different perspective,” Nerd Corps co-founder Chuck Johnson said. “HEROS does great work with hockey, but we want to get [youth] interested in different aspects of the arts... Creative expression is important for everyone to cope and get through life, especially at-risk kids.” Nerd Corps designed their classes to be especially accessible, as many of the participants may not have access to a computer, let alone a proper suite of programs. However, Johnson said that several of his employees hail from similar neighbourhoods and that a career in animation is “absolutely achievable for anyone.” “Some of the best artists in B.C. come from the Downtown East Side,” Johnson said. “Adversity breeds creativity and an appreciation for the world around you.” The workshop at Britannia Centre was attended by 40 children and was followed by a presentation by the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services, the Vancouver Police Department and an ex-Hells Angels member, who spoke about drug awareness. — Drew McLachlan
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Norm Flynn (right) and Chuck Johnson speak with a group of kids at the Britannia ice rink. Scan this page with Layar for a link to the HEROS website.
South Vancouver’s minor little league team lost to Hastings 29-1 at a July 3 game in John Hendry Park.
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wo major all-star players with South Vancouver Little League will be allowed to compete with their team after Little League Canada determined the boys live in the league’s catchment area. The Courier reported Thursday that the boys’ families were accused of falsifying their home address in order to play for South Van, but a review determined no wrongdoing, according to Little League Canada president Roy Bergerman. “Information provided to Little League to establish the eligibility of the players in question in the original instance met all the rigid requirements of Little League Baseball,” Bergerman wrote in an email to the Courier on Thursday afternoon. Little League Baseball requires at
least three different documents proving the address of a child’s parent or primary guardian. The rules were strengthened in 2001 after a New York little league coach falsified the birth certificate of his own son. In fact, the player was two years too old. The coach was banned for life from Little League Baseball. The 11- and 12-year-olds who are selected to little league all-star teams compete for the chance to represent their community at provincials and then nationals. A win on the national stage means they wear the Maple Leaf at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA. Lying about a player’s age or residence is considered cheating. Bergerman said Corinne Chow, the administrator for District 6, which includes South Van, received documentation and other material that alleged the information supplied by the boys’
families was inaccurate. Chow told the Courier she received audio recordings in addition to paper documents. “This information was assessed by Little League Canada, and the original documentation was reviewed as well. Based upon this review, the regional director for Little League in Canada, Joe Shea, declared that the original documentation is accurate, and the subsequent information did not provide any clear or convincing evidence of the ineligibility of the players to play for South Vancouver Little League,” wrote Bergerman. Shea determined both players are eligible for tournament play. District playoffs begin Saturday. The ruling is final. “The parents of the players in question have been advised of this ruling,” wrote Bergerman. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart
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As the Coho Trail approaches the Cable Pool Bridge, you might notice the top of an extremely tall fir tree towering over other trees in the area. The base of the huge tree is worth finding and it’s located across the access road. At 80 metres tall and still growing, it is documented as one of the tallest Douglas fir trees in all of B.C. Next to it is a massive cedar stump over four metres in diameter. A visit to the salmon hatchery (no charge) is a great way to finish the day before heading up the relatively steep Palisades Trail back to the Cleveland Dam parking lot. Mike Hanafin is an avid backcountry hiker who can see the forest and the trees. Reach him at mhanafin@shaw.ca.
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The Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development intends to amend the UEL’s, Land Use, Building and Community Administration Bylaw to establish a new fee structure for applications for a change of Land Use District (rezoning) and/or Official Community Plan (OCP). Schedule 2, section 2 of the Bylaw will be amended to require applicants to pay a base fee of $1,500 for costs associated with processing an application for a change of Land Use District or OCP amendment. For applications for a change of Land Use District combined with an OCP amendment, the combined base fee will be $2,500. In addition, where lawyers or consultants are required to process the application, incurred costs will be recovered from the applicant.
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OFFICE/CLERICAL ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ADMINISTRATOR A well established Outdoor Power Equipment Business in Surrey seeks a well-presented, well-organized, self-starter who is efficient in multitasking for a full time position available immediately. Duties include office operations, accounts payable, bank reconciliation’s, as well as strong intermediate computer skills in Microsoft Excel and Word. Daceasy and Epass would also definitely be an asset. Must have minimum of 5+ years of office experience in administration/accounting. Please send a cover letter with salary expectation and resume including references by email. Terry@fraservalleyequipment.com. No phone calls please.
GARAGE SALES VANCOUVER
STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS UP TO 60% OFF! 30x40, 40x60, 50x80, 60x100, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call: 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca
FURNITURE CAR BED Little Tyke Red Car bed with trunk toy box. $200. (604) 943−1551, email: rrkl@dccnet.com
HEALTH PRODUCTS Restless Leg Syndrome & Leg Cramps? Fast Relief In One Hour. Sleep At Night. Proven For Over 32 Years. www.allcalm.com Mon-Fri 8-4 EST 1-800-765-8660.
FOR SALE - MISC AT LAST! An iron filter that works. IronEater! Fully patented Canada/U.S.A. Removes iron, hardness, smell, manganese. Since 1957. Visit our 29 innovative inventions; www.bigirondrilling.com. Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON. HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best Price, Best Quality. All Shapes & Colors Available. Call 1-866-652-6837, www. thecoverguy.com/newspaper
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MARKETPLACE BUILDING SUPPLIES STEEL BUILDING - DIY SUMMER SALE! - BONUS DAYS EXTRA 5% OFF. 20X22 $3,998. 25X24 $4,620. 30X34 $6,656. 32X42 $8,488. 40X54 $13,385. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-6685422. www.pioneersteel.ca
MEN’S XL Bicycle 22" $300. Explorer 2, Jamis bike,gel seat, bike rack, saddle bags. 604−946−1950. gwenmcw@hotmail.com OCEAN VIEW Burial Park, Burnaby, Burial Plot for sale, peaceful, attractive setting in Calvary 11 Section. $10,000. 604-736-1732
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This proposed Bylaw amendment is available for review at the UEL’s website and at the UEL office from Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm.
University Endowment Lands Administration Building 5495 Chancellor Boulevard Vancouver, BC V6T 1E2
FRONT DESK Agent/Night Auditor. Howard Johnson Vancouver Boutique Hotel, 1176 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z1L8, requires full−time Front Desk Agent/Night Auditor for afternoon and night shifts. Keep inventory of vacancies/reservations, register guests and assign rooms. Deal with enquiries on hotel services, local resources/ attractions and respond to complaints. Take payment. Check guest accounts and receipts, balance all accounts. Effective English required. Additional language(s) and hotel experience helpful. Salary: $13.50/hr. Mail or fax resumes to: (604) 688-8335
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BUSINESS SERVICES
STEVESTON VERY lg 1284 sf 2br 2ba top floor condo, mtn views $455k 604-275-7986 uSELLaHOME.com id5376
DUPLEXES FOR SALE
FINANCIAL SERVICES BUYING ANTIQUES & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES, WW1 / WW2 ITEMS Sterling flat− ware, estate jewelry , old signs .. etc .. $ Cash Paid $ CALL: 604-401-3553
BUSINESS PERSONAL **RELIEVE ROAD RAGE** 604-739-3998
If you own a home or real estate, ALPINE CREDITS can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit/Age/ Income is NOT an issue. 1.800.587.2161 MONEYPROVIDER.COM. $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.
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HOUSES FOR SALE
CULTUS LK gardener’s dream 1160sf 2br 1.5ba rancher, a/c 55+ $63K. 604-858-9301. uSELLaHOME.com id5400 GUILDFORD 199SF 3br, 2ba w/bment suite on huge 8640 sf lot, $489,000 604-613-1553 uSellaHome.com id5608
1br+den, glvl ste, Victoria & Prestwick Dr, ns/np, $850mo w/hdro Aug 1 604-325-7991 2 BDRM new bsmt ste, ldry, incl, utils incl, Boundary & 22nd. near transit, Avail immed $1,100 ns, small dog ok 604-433-7153 3 BR bsmt, kitch, bath, $1200 incl util/cbl/net, ns/np, no drinkg or drugs, coin wd. Call 604-879-4325
HOUSES FOR RENT
3BR/1.5BA $1,550 Upstrs;nr Fraser & 49;Immed NS/ NP;50%util 604−322−6356
FARMS/ ACREAGES SMALL PEACEFUL FARM set up for horses right beside South Langley riding trail. Bright & comfortable older 2 bd home, f/p, barn, riding rings, pastures. $849,900. 604-323-4788. PropertyGuys.com id 76788
PROPERTY FOR SALE
ABBY TOP flr 762sf 1 br condo, in-ste, laundry, 45+, Mt. Baker view. $85,000 778-822-7387 uSELLaHOME.com id5553
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SRY/WHITE ROCK partial ocean view, 920sf. 2b, den, 2ba quiet condo, kids, pets ok. $309,000 778-294-2275 uSELLaHOME.com id5575
SPORTS & IMPORTS 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe 4cyl manual 131,000kms Brown $5200 MJ Auto Wholesale.com Dealer #30332 604 466 6007 2006 MINI COOPER, grey, 58k, loaded, $16,988.. Downtown,nissan.ca 604-1 (604)257-8900
2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK mint low kms auto loaded new tires serviced $23,800 604.734.8861
SPORTS UTILITIES & 4X4S 2002 Rav4 AWD 4cyl Auto 135,000kms Silver $8800 MJ Auto Wholesale.com Dealer #30332 604 466 6007 2006 Dodge Durango (SUV), 4x4, leather, s/r, DVD, V8, 161K, no acc. $7800. 604-888-9799
WATER VIEW LOT - PRICED BELOW ASSESSED VALUE! Walk to all Lower Gibsons has to offer! Call Shauna or visit www.shaunagold.com for details 604−218−2077. $180,000
2006 DODGE Caravan Cargo, 70k, shelves, ladder rack, $9900 Downtown,nissan.ca 604-1 (604)257-8900
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LANGLEY NR town fully reno’s 2474sf home on 5ac ppty, suite $1,150.000 604-825-3966 see uSELLaHOME.com id5582
AUTOMOTIVE DOMESTIC CARS 2006 CHEV COBALT LT, White. 69k, alloys, power group, $5995. Downtown,nissan.ca 604-1 (604)257-8900
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GALIANO EXECUTIVE Home & Cabin on priv beach, completely furn’d, many extras, ready to move in. Reduced to $849,000! Global Force Realty. 604-802-8711 www.yourlinktorealestate.ca
2008 Pontiac G5 28,244 kms, Automatic SE 4Dr Blue Sedan, 2.2 litre DOHC engine, cruise control, AC, remote side mirrors, power door locks, keyless entry, theft system, CD MP3 Player, $9,900. Call: (604) 873-9579 Email: pmgw@shaw.ca 2008 Chev Aveo 4cyl Auto 64,000kms Silver $6200 MJ Auto Wholesale .com Dealer #30332 604 466 6007
HATZIC LAKE 1hr drive from Vanc. 2 vacant lots, 1 lakefront $65K/both 604-240-5400 uSELLaHOME.com id5588
2008 Pontiac G5 coupe 4cyl Auto 114,000kms White $7300 MJ Auto Wholesale.com Dealer #30332 604 466 6007
SPORTS & IMPORTS 1998 BMW Convertible 328i Auto 162,000kms Black $7800 MJ Auto Wholesale.com Dealer #30332 604 466 6007
HAZTIC LAKE Swans Point. 1hr/Vanc. incl. lot & 5th wheel, ski/fish $134,500 604-209-8650 uSELLaHOME.com id5491
2002 Ford Mustang Convertible 6cyl Auto Silver $4900 MJ Auto Wholesale.com Dealer #30332 604 466 6007
CONCRETE
CERAMIC TILING STONE & TILE SETTING, embellished tile decorating. Call Steve 604-888-1285
CLEANING CLEANING SERVICE. Reas rates, specializing in homes. Guar work. Refs. 604-715-4706 EUROPEAN DETAILED Service cleaning. www.puma-cleaning.ca Sophia 604-805-3376
CONCRETE A Concrete Specialist sidewalks, bsmts, paving stones, patios. Santino 778-892-5559
CONCRETE REMOVAL & Replacement. Small jobs okay, Fence repair. Free est. Call Mario 604-254-0148 CONCRETE SPECIALIST patio sidewalk, driveway, exposed aggregate reas. rate. Mario @ 604-764-2726
HOME SERVICES LANDSCAPING
L & L CONCRETE, All types: Stamped, Repairs, Pressure washing, sealing 778-882-0098
DEMOLITION DEMOLITION
Excavating - Drain Tile
Greenworx Redevelopment Inc. Hedges, pavers, ponds & walls, returfing, demos, drainage, jackhammering. Old pools filled in, decks, concrete 604.782.4322
S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING Cedar Fence Install
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~Augering~Water & Sewer line repair & replacement ~Sumps~Drain Tile~Concrete Work~Foundation~Excavation ~Retaining Walls~Site restored Call Ron 778-227-7316 or 604-568-3791
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SCRAP CAR REMOVAL LANGLEY BUILD your view home, secluded 5 acre ppty. $630,000 604-825-3966 uSELLaHOME.com id4513
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Old garage, carport, house, pool, repair main water line, break concrete & removal. Licensed - Insured - WCB
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1 BR well kept quiet bldg, cls to downtown Kerrisdale, $1000 incls hw/heat, ns, np, ref’s req’d, min 1 yr lease, avail Now,604-218-8208
SUITES FOR RENT
AUTHENTIC CHINESE bodywork, gentle or deep tissue 15 yr exp’d 10a-9p 604-3298218. S.E. BBY
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT 1 BR’s - Kerrisdale, great location! Close to shops, transit & schools. $1010-$1165 Available Now. 604-677-3205 www.lougheedproperties.com
GOLDEN RETRIEVER pups CKC reg, vet a, ch parents, health tested. (604)794-3786 PLEASE HELP! Foster & Adoptive homes urgently need for homeless dogs. 604-535-2188
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EXCAVATING EXCAVATING - DRAIN TILE Demolitions. Fully insured WCB 604-716-8528
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BOBCAT Services - Leveling Grading, Dump Trailer, Topsoil, Gravel, fill removal. 604-356-2546
LAWN & GARDEN GARDENING Services 21 yrs exp. Tree topping, West & East Side & Richmond. Michael 604-240-2881 Ny Ton Gardening Trimming, Shrubs, Pruning, Yard Cleanup, 604-782-5288
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Bone-In Rib Steaks
Lamb Sausages
Extra Lean Ground Beef
Sockeye Salmon Fillets
Top Sirloin Patties
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Authentic Montreal Smoked Meat
Large Navel Oranges
Lemons
/lb $28.99/kg
$139
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Mangoes
$199 each
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Everland Coconut Milk
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