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Lake named for soldier killed in Korea North Shore Rescue assists historian in campaign to mark ‘forgotten war’

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DEEP in the North Shore backcountry, far past where any hiker should be attempting to go, there sits a quiet lake that has been renamed and will soon be dedicated to the only North Shore resident to die in the Korean War.

North Shore Rescue volunteers assisted in a campaign organized by Port Moody resident Guy Black to make sure the “forgotten war” stays in the minds of today’s generation, 60 years after its end.

What NSR volunteers used to call the “The Lake with No Name” on the east side of Mount Seymour Provincial Park is now Hastings Lake — named for Pte. Donald Hastings. Hastings died in South Korea on Oct. 15, 1952 while on patrol in no man’s land with the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, according to Black’s research. His body was never recovered and he has no known grave.

Late in the evening of June 21, NSR volunteers met with Black and escorted him up a trail to the parking lot at the top of Mount Seymour. Black had been on foot since early in the day, traversing a path from Coquitlam, to Simon Fraser University at the top of Burnaby Mountain and over the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing stopping for ceremonies with students, dignitaries and Korean War veterans along the way. Each stop on the trip included collecting stones for use in a special “Gapyeong See Lake page 3

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THE thrill of blasting along a raceway on the back wheels of a modified pickup truck might be long gone for Sylvia Braddick, but her love of cars remains.

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Braddick, along with the Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society, is hosting a car show Sunday at the parking area beside Shipbuilder’s Square near Lonsdale Quay.

The event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will showcase between 50 to 55 cars that include a variety of hot rods, roadsters and classic cars such as 1932 Model B Fords and 1923 T-Buckets. There will also be a beer garden and food carts.

For Braddick, who quit racing in 1981, the show is a labour of love.

“My husband passed away 11 years ago, so it’s for him,” said Braddick. “We’re car people, we just love cars.”

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Howe Sound users protest gravel mine More than 150 vessels show support for protecting fjord’s health John Gleeson Coast Reporter

A flotilla of more than 150 vessels came together in a remote part of Howe Sound Sunday to make a collective statement about protecting the most southerly fjord in Canada from heavy industry.

“If you were told there was gold in Stanley Park, would you mine Stanley Park?” Lions Bay Mayor Brenda Broughton asked over a loudspeaker from the Future of Howe Sound Society flagship vessel, La Feline. “Never, never would we mine Stanley Park, and never would we mine McNab Creek — certainly not for 12 jobs, certainly not for 1,200 jobs.”

The June 30 SOS Save Our Sound Mariners’ Rendezvous was held north of Gambier Island near the mouth of McNab Creek, where the flotilla formed from noon to 2 p.m., protesting plans by Alberta-based aggregate giant Burnco Rock Products to transform the estuary into a gravel mine.

With boat horns blasting in unison, paddle boarders and kayakers weaving among the yachts, and live music performed by the band Bylaw 283, Broughton and other speakers pointed to the economic benefits that stem from Howe Sound’s environmental recovery.

“B.C. has 14 billion worth of tourist dollars and 15 per cent of those dollars are attracted by the corridor we’re in,” Broughton said. “Our film industry, our cruise ship industry, our fishing industry and tourism industry come alive for British Columbia here in Howe Sound.”

Tim Turner, a teacher and director for Sea to Sky Outdoor School of Sustainability, named seven long-established summer camps on Howe Sound and noted that for children from the

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THE band Bylaw 283 plays from the upper deck of the Future of Howe Sound Society’s flagship vessel, La Feline, during the SOS Save Our Sound Mariners’ Rendezvous on Sunday near the mouth of McNab Creek.

Lower Mainland, “there has been a long tradition of coming to this beautiful breathing place.”

The choice facing decision-makers, Turner said, is to embrace either “sustainability or stupidity.”

Among Sunshine Coast participants, John Roper and Pamela Proctor ferried a delegation from Gibsons on their cutter Mistress.

Roper called the flotilla “amazing” and noted the serious money tied up in it.

“I’ve been boating for 29 years and I’ve never seen anything like that,” he said.

Bill Anderson of the Elphinstone Community Association also pointed to the combined value of the pleasure boats involved.

“The amount of money that contributes to our economy, we don’t need a piddly gravel pit,” he said.

Lee Turnbull, West Howe Sound director for the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD), described the event as “pretty incredible,”

considering the number of vessels that took part. “That represents quite a lot of economic development, all by itself. So we need to keep that in mind,” Turnbull said.

Burnco’s gravel mine proposal is being reviewed under a joint federal-provincial environmental assessment process, while the company’s rezoning application to permit a processing facility is awaiting a decision by the SCRD board, which has deferred the file until the environmental assessment is complete.

“For me what happens will probably be connected to what the Squamish decide, and we’re waiting,” Turnbull said. “We haven’t heard that yet.”

The rendezvous opened with a prayer by Squamish Nation official Linda Williams and two traditional Squamish songs, including “The Welcome Song,” which had been sung by Chief Joe Capilano and two other B.C. chiefs when they had an audience with King Edward VII in

London in 1906, former Coun. Randall Lewis said over a loudspeaker.

Lewis, who serves as environmental officer for the Squamish Nation and oversees project negotiation and development, said in an interview after the event that he was “there to observe and understand what was going on.”

While the Squamish Nation is continuing to review the Burnco file before making a referral supporting or opposing the project, Lewis said there are definitely concerns about environmental impact.

“One of the things we’re very concerned with,” he said, “is surface water and ground water.”

Although the McNab Creek watershed has been logged, “it is starting to grow back and there is some viable habitat being created there — viable enough to sustain species of salmon.

McNab Creek is coming back to life,” he said.

With herring returning after about a halfcentury absence, and whales and dolphins following the herring, Lewis said the nutrients provided to Howe Sound by waterways such as McNab Creek are essential to its continued recovery.

“We need these tributaries. They are significantly vital,” he said. “But at the end of the day, it’s chief and council who make the decision on this.”

Following the rendezvous, a barbecue was hosted by Burrard and Thunderbird yacht clubs at Ekins Point, on the north side of Gambier Island.

In a brief speech on the dock, West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country Member of Parliament John Weston called the event “a long train coming” and “really appropriate for Canada Day.” The next day, in an open letter to the Future of Howe Sound Society, Weston suggested he work with the group to try to secure federal funding for a preliminary study of the Howe Sound area, as a first step toward the group’s goal of developing a comprehensive management plan.

“This may be the beginning of a long journey, but one well worth travelling together,” Weston wrote in the letter.

Lake stones will go to Korea From page 1 ceremony” — a symbolic offer of stones as a memorial to the close to 200,000 South Korean and allied soldiers killed in the conflict.

North Shore Rescue volunteers, using donated services from Talon Helicopter, flew to Hastings Lake and collected stones for a Gapyeong ceremony in Mt. Seymour’s parking lot for Black’s late night arrival.

The Seymour stop, however, was only about the halfway point of Black’s 72-kilometre trek, as he walked overnight to a ceremony with South Korea’s consul general Yeon-Ho Choi in Central Park in Burnaby the photo submitted following day. Choi will take the Gapyeong stones back to Korea A lake on the east side of Mount Seymour is now Hastings Lake in honour of where they will be placed in a Pte. Donald Hastings, a North Shore resident killed in the Korean War. cemetery for war veterans.

Black got the idea to request that the province rename Black’s hike is meant to symbolize the many hills and mountains soldiers routinely fought their way to the top of the lake after attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in Victoria Park and seeing Hastings’ name on the during the war.

The ambitious memorial campaign was a fitting tribute, monument. The amateur history buff has taken the trouble to rename several B.C. geographical features after war dead. said Tim Jones, North Shore Rescue team leader.

“The more that I see and the more that I know about it, “A forgotten lake . . . you never want to go to, a forgotten war you never really knew about and wouldn’t want to go the more I know could be done for remembrance and more to either and this forgotten soldier that everybody forgot could be done for veterans. I feel I that maybe I can make about,” Jones said. “To me, it was a very appropriate thing a difference and change things,” he said. “He has no final for us to be there to support this young man who wants to resting place. It just stood out to me. Someone’s got to do recognize Donald Hastings. It’s our commitment to him something to remember this guy.”

The Korean War came to an end with a fragile ceasefire because this is a very noble thing that he’s done in memory on July 27, 1953. Canada contributed to the military conflict of this young man who went to war and was never found.”

Jones said his team will fly Black out to the lake in fall to under the banner of the United Nations. Five hundred and sixteen Canadians, including 36 from B.C., died in the war. place a plaque honouring Hastings’ memory.

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DONALD Hastings, second from left, in his Canadian Army uniform. Hastings was the only North Shore resident to die in the Korean War.

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NV man charged with filming for sexual purpose Jane Seyd jseyd@nsnews.com

A 52-year-old man from North Vancouver has been charged with the unusual offence of “voyeurism” after he was arrested for filming girls at a local gymnastics competition, allegedly for a sexual purpose.

Andrew James Greenwood was arrested after he was spotted filming girls at a rhythmic gymnastics meet held at Capilano University, March 24.

A parent who was at the event called the North Vancouver RCMP after becoming suspicious about what Greenwood was doing at the meet.

Evidence in the case is expected to include video footage of the gymnasts seized from Greenwood’s camera that allegedly includes portions that zoom in on their buttocks and crotches.

All of the girls were wearing gymnastics costumes at the time.

Greenwood was allowed out on $25,000 bail, with conditions not to be alone with any girls under 18 years old and to stay away from any public parks, swimming areas, daycare centres, schools, community centres or gyms where children under 18 are likely to be present.

He was arrested for a second time June 11 at the West Vancouver Recreation Centre and charged with breaching bail conditions after being spotted there by a parent who recognized him from the North Vancouver gymnastics meet.

At the time, Greenwood was allegedly again taking photos of girls performing gymnastics at the rec centre.

He has also been charged with breaching his bail conditions two days earlier in Port Coquitlam — again for going to a recreation area or event where girls would be present.

The charge of voyeurism is relatively unusual. Crown prosecutors must prove that any recording was done for a sexual purpose.

None of the charges has been proven in court.

Greenwood has not yet entered a plea to any of the charges.

Among his current bail conditions, he has been banned from possessing electronic devices capable of taking photos or recording video.

His next court appearance is scheduled for later this month.

‘Ecstacy’ raced high From page 1

Braddick started drag racing as a teenager back in the ’50s and continued competitively into the ’70s, when she switched to wheel standing competitions. She quickly made a name for herself, becoming the sixth licensed wheel stander in North America and the only female.

“I grew up drag racing,” said Braddick who met her husband, Stewart, that way. “We liked hot rods, classics. We’d build things ourselves.”

Stewart helped Braddick build her trademark vehicle, a 1967 Dodge A100 pickup truck named Ecstacy. “My husband put it all together.”

The GVMPS recognizes “the contributions of those who were pioneers of motorsport.” Every year, the organization inducts individuals into the society. Braddick and her husband were both inducted in 2002. She said the society prints a book every year that will be available at the show.

Braddick hosted her first car show on First Street in North Vancouver back in 2004 as a memorial to her husband who had passed away

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SYLVIA Braddick pops the front wheels of her modified pickup, Ecstacy. two years earlier. She said it was “like flying by the seat of your pants.” Braddick had expected only 20 cars but after word got out, she ended up with 40, including some from Vancouver Island.

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UR first reaction was relief and thankfulness that Canada’s birthday had not been marred by a Boston Marathon-style bombing of the innocent.

Great job, we thought: the RCMP got their man before the homemade, pressure cooker bombs went off on the grounds of the legislature in Victoria.

But there are some troubling holes in what we know about the alleged “selfradicalized” terrorists, John Stewart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody.

For a start, the RCMP say the pair were “inspired by al-Qaida ideology” but did not have support from abroad.

What the RCMP did not reveal was whether Nuttall and Korody are alleged to have received help from others in acquiring components and manufacturing their bombs.

The picture that is emerging of the

two alleged bomb-makers suggests they might have difficulty in setting an alarm clock, never mind creating a detonator.

What assistant RCMP commissioner Wayne Rideout has said is that the devices were “completely under our control, they were inert and at no time represented a threat to public safety.”

If so, why not hold off on the arrests and roll up the rest of the helpers?

Or were the helpers actually RCMP or government agents acting out a terrorist version of the Mr. Big sting?

That scenario would be just as troubling as homegrown terrorists acting alone. The FBI presently spends more on counterterrorism measures, including stings, than it does on targeting organized crime. Is this “security” or entrapment of the stupid?

1300-block compromise will please few

LIKE much in life, the Grosvenor development issue isn’t a choice between yes and no.

It’s between two somewheres.

Somewhere between the four storeys under the West Vancouver toothless official community plan (OCP) guidelines and the six- or seven-storey edifice that Grosvenor proposed for the 1300-block Marine Drive, a satisfactory compromise had to be found.

It wouldn’t please everyone. Compromise never does. It always bears the invisible adjective “reluctant.”

The true believers on either side go away angry.

Like No More Than 4 leader Christine Ballantine.

Who couldn’t sympathize with her? Council’s 4-2 vote to send the Grosvenor plan to the next stage promises to cost her. Big developments are always hyped as collective benefits: making Podunk a snappier place to live, boosting the local economy,

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Trevor Lautens reaping bigger taxes and bigger salaries for town hall bureaucrats, enriching the media with fresh advertising.

But they hurt individuals.

Ballantine, a 14th Street resident, will lose some of her view. Not just esthetic damage, not just a loss of a piece of the sky, but a financial hit to her property values and many others’.

(Expect similar opposition to the Laljis’ plan for two big towers on Park Royal’s White Spot site.) Vancouverites hardly need advice that the only way to guarantee a view

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Nobody backs the status quo for the 1300-block, anchored by a police station that has served its sentence.

Mayor Mike Smith has solidly good reason to press for the deal. There’s nothing like a retired politician for having a shrewd and pretty impartial take, and former mayor Ron Wood has supportively pointed out that over the years other developers had a cup of coffee to feel out 1300’s possibilities, but only Grosvenor set the table — and maybe had to put out best silver to do so.

The arithmetic, still floating numbers, even suggests that Grosvenor will have to put out so much aristocratic skin that healthy profit is no cinch.

(Millennium, remember?)

That said, it’s astounding — even suspicious — that town hall staff hadn’t served up an independent market study of the development in time for the tense-as-aviolin-string June 17 council meeting. Bad, really bad.

Strange, too, that opposing

Coun. Nora Gambioli was left uncertain whether the design review committee had given its nihil obstat (little Latin, little religion for you there), as assured by director of planning, lands and permits Bob Sokol.

Coun. Craig Cameron, the other opponent in council’s 4-2 decision to lob the issue onward to the development consideration process, said he felt terrific pressure from all sides. Coun. Bill Soprovich, who has a “little-guy” image, apparently agonized till the last moment before dramatically joining Smith, and Couns. Trish Panz and Michael Lewis in favour.

Cameron was in the compromise camp but couldn’t support this one, and was hard-eyed that condo units priced between $2 million and $5 million would ease the housing crisis. (Cameron delicately reminded me that in the 2011 election I pegged him as a pro-developer guy. Wrong, spoiling my perfect record.)

This quiet corner opposed Mary-Ann Booth’s candidacy

because her husband works for a Grosvenor-connected company. A plain conflict of interest. But the electorate unwisely ignored me. Big mistake, voters. Booth doesn’t debate or vote regarding Grosvenor-related motions, and, when asked, assured me she doesn’t take part in council in-camera discussions either. It’s still ridiculous to have one-sixth of councillors silent on this major West Van issue.

••• There was no buzz about it, but WV chief administrative officer Grant McRadu — town hall’s top and highest paid (north of $230,000 a year) bureaucrat — retired June 28, after almost 35 years, “most as a CAO and five here in West Vancouver,” he noted in an email. McRadu turns 61 this year, his wife retired last year, and he decided “we needed to embark on new adventures.”

The icing on the cake at his send-off spelled it out: “Thanks for taking us from good to Great!”

••• It’s a total, disgusting travesty of justice that most of the morons who trashed Vancouver and its image in the 2011 riots have received patty-cake punishment, while Guy Earle, an unpaid comedian who got into an escalating slanging match with a lesbian on openmike night at a Vancouver restaurant, was ordered to pay a crazy (but absolutely normal in Human Wrongsland) $15,000 to the woman, who claimed she suffered “lasting physical and psychological effect.” Absurdly, the restaurant was hit a further $7,000.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jon Sigurdson upheld this ruling, a mockery of “let the punishment fit the crime,” while fools doing criminal acts of palpable damage and theft get teeny-weeny slaps.

••• Easy prophecy: Garde Gardom’s remembrance service at 2 p.m. July 17 at Christ Church Cathedral will be standing room only. rtlautens@gmail.com

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Budget balance will hit government services BRITISH Columbians are about to find out what it means for a government to balance its budget when money starts to perform a vanishing act.

With less money coming in, it means the government has to cut spending to achieve its balanced budget goal — and it’s inevitable some of that reduced spending is going to result in some howls of outrage from those affected the most.

The B.C. Liberals were re-elected almost solely on the issue of economic management, and that included its promise to deliver balanced budgets, year in and year out. But the budget update provided last week contained some unsettling numbers that underscore how hard it will be to balance the books without creating controversy.

First of all, the forecast for tax revenues has been slashed by more than $200 million.

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The projected surplus is now down to a mere $153 million, which is almost a rounding error on a $44 billion budget.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong is balancing his budget on a razor’s edge, so a revenue hit of that magnitude can very quickly wreck the best laid plans.

Also worrisome for de Jong has to be a decline in the projected performance of some key economic indicators from the budget three months

ago: GDP (gross domestic product), personal incomes, corporate profits, retail sales — all are expected to perform worse than was envisioned in February.

On a more positive note, natural gas is making a bit of a comeback. Once a vital contributor to the government’s revenue base, natural gas revenues have collapsed in recent years but are now expected to come in more than $100 million higher than was forecast in February.

But, overall, there is little reason for any significant optimism on the revenue side.

This brings us to the spending side of the budget, and this is where the public is going to feel the impact.

The B.C. government presents its budget as part of a three-year fiscal plan, and the next two years don’t look much rosier than the current year — although the 2015-16 budget does contain significantly more breathing room when it comes to

achieving a surplus.

On paper, de Jong is looking to chop at least $130 million over the next three years from his budget. On top of that, he is allocating funding increases to the health-care system that are a little more than half of what they have been for years.

These moves will undoubtedly impact government services for several years. It’s hard to see how wait times in the health-care system will be reduced in any meaningful way, and in fact they may well increase.

The government is also signalling it intends to put the brakes on any increase for physician fees. This could result in a confrontation with doctors, which is the kind of fight governments rarely win.

All in all, the three year fiscal plan suggests that anyone who relies on government services should not expect an improvement in them any time soon. In fact, the budget squeeze could result in the

elimination of some of those services, or at the very least deterioration in their quality.

And B.C.’s teachers should realize there is no money put aside for wage increases. Any pay hikes will have to come from “savings” found within the education system, a difficult if not impossible task.

But there is what appears to be an inconsistency in this three-year restraint program.

While government programs are being squeezed, frozen or eliminated, the provincial debt will continue to climb at a remarkable pace.

Capital spending on such things as schools, hospitals, roads, bridges and BC Hydro facilities mean the province will rack up a further $7 billion in debt over the next three years (this, after climbing almost $30 billion since 2006).

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Hatchery pavilion a lost opportunity Hugh Nevin Contributing writer

A hundred years from now, the Harper administration will be remembered as the government that didn’t get it.

They don’t get climate change. They don’t get renewables. Where scientific consensus is concerned, this is a government that’s oblivious to the long term. Fisheries management, as neglected as it was, is about to get worse. Pity the salmon.

The Fisheries and Oceans Canada hatchery pavilion in Capilano River Regional Park, where nothing has changed in 40 years, is a symbol of the salmon’s predicament: one of the most valuable renewable resources on earth in need of responsible stewardship.

From the wooden models in the display case to the fishing tackle on the wall, the treatment given this remarkable fish is akin to the bum’s rush. Rather than alive, celebratory and informative, the atmosphere inside is forbidding and funereal. The sign outside — Salmonid Enhancement Program — is a throw-back to another era.

Indeed the hatchery itself is an anachronism. The release of millions of fry each year, a worthy enterprise on the face of it, is a distraction from the real problem.

Common knowledge among marine biologists for decades is the politically inconvenient recognition that industrial over-fishing, not fresh water habitat, is the critical factor in salmon survival. Ever more efficient technology and competing ownerships have put paid to habitat restoration and the release of hatcheryraised fry. Stable returns have been replaced by manic population swings, favouring one competing interest one year, another the next, in keeping with the rise and fall of individual species and

particular runs. Self-serving fisheries management theories abound. It’s a conundrum and a testament to the power of denial in the presence of supply side economic theory.

As a public relations venture, in competition with Canada’s other natural wonders, salmon barely even register. Inside the Capilano pavilion you’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of the salmon’s role as a keystone species in the food web, its singular place in B.C. history, or the trials and tribulations associated with responsible management. What could be an engaging (interactive even) educational experience and a promotional tour-de-force, is a glorified restroom with colour photographs. If there’s a message to be had, it’s that salmon are a fixture, a given, a passive resource waiting to be extracted like coal or oil.

While the standard for public displays has moved on and up, the hatchery signs are worthy of a high-school science project.

B.C. Ferries does a better job of promoting salmon.

Recent advances in soil sampling techniques have uncovered a startling new dimension to the salmon’s role in the food web. Its See Give page 11

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INQUIRING REPORTER IN recent months, homegrown terrorism has beenincreasinglyunderthe spotlight. From the Boston Marathon bombing to the recently thwarted attack on the B.C. legislature, we’ve seen people close to home attack, or attempt to, the very countries they were born and raised in.

After the attempt on the legislature, Premier Christy Clark told reporters the government was back at work, “undeterred and unafraid.” But does domestic terrorism worry Canadians? Should we be watching our back for anyone with a pressure cooker and a radical streak to strike?

— Anne Watson

Kylee Epp Kitsilano “No, I feel OK about it.

I’m not really worried that it’s going to explode.”

Are you worrying more about homegrown terrorism?

Russ Rozell North Vancouver “No, not so much here but some bigger city might be a target.”

Rupert Common East Vancouver “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about that. Focusing on it and being scared about it isn’t going to stop them if it’s going to happen.”

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DOZENS of volunteers from four search and rescue outfits spent hundreds of hours searching for a lost hiker and his dog near Coquitlam’s Buntzen Lake on Monday and Tuesday, but it was North Shore Rescue that brought him home.

The man and his dog had set out on the Dilly Dally Trail early in the day on July 1 but lost his way on the convoluted trail system and called for help around 6 p.m. Unfortunately, Coquitlam’s Search and Rescue members only gleaned his general area before the man’s cellphone battery died.

“They were not handed a great set of cards. Right off the bat, they had no cell contact other than a couple texts,” said Tim Jones, North Shore Rescue team leader.

The lost hiker had been in the woods for a day and a half when a search helicopter pilot spotted him as he was returning to base.

NSR’s long-line helicopter rescue team was on standby at Bone Creek just five minutes away and was able to fly to the spot and lower a rescuer down to the dehydrated and confused hiker and his pooch. From there, NSR brought the pair to a waiting ambulance at the Buntzen Lake beach.

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VISITORS peer at salmon smolts being raised at the Fisheries and Oceans Canada hatchery pavilion in Capilano River Regional Park, North Vancouver.

Give the pavilion to Metro

From page 9

environmental niche is now known to extend far beyond the riparian zone. A keystone marine species, salmon also contribute to the complex soil chemistry where the roots of temperate rain forest biodiversity begin. In a timeless relationship between water and land, predators and scavengers miles apart harvest and then recycle the remains deep into the forest. If there’s any such thing as a “gift” from the sea, the salmon must be it.

Incredibly, considering First Nations’ legendary relationship with salmon, there’s no salmon art on display or aboriginal narrative.

In a perfect place for Musqueam, Coast Salish, and Nootka iconography, the public is expected to engage with a scale model of the hatchery and a faded provincial map. The only hint of an aboriginal presence is a carved logo attached to the DFO sign outside. The Squamish Nation has

its own “ichthy-ography” — where is it?

There’s nothing to show visitors how salmon socially and economically figure into the big picture. A hundred years ago, canneries employed thousands of workers up and down the coast, determining where and which particular settlements got their start. Only the forest industry had a greater impact. As a promotional undertaking, a project with “sex appeal,” an attempt to convey the true value of the resource, the Capilano pavilion fails big time.

The responsibility for the fish hatchery pavilion should be passed to Metro Vancouver.

Judging from the first rate job it does looking after the park, and that the pavilion is right in its backyard, Metro is the natural steward here.

Hugh Nevin is a recovering elementary school teacher/citizen gardener, currently working on The Winterman: the Art and Science of Wilderness Living in B.C.

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Neil Currie, Bobbi Hayward and Tim Walters Representatives of the B.C. SPCA West Vancouver branch celebrated 30 years at their current location with Salud! Toast to the Animals May 26 at the West Vancouver Community Centre. Guests enjoyed wine, appetizers, live entertainment and a silent auction. Funds raised from the evening support the local branch. Info: spca.bc.ca/ westvancouver.

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Friday, July 5, 2013 - North Shore News - A13

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things to do this weekend 1. Coldwater Road: Peak Performance Project 2013 band playing set at Cates Park tomorrow at 5 p.m as part of summer concert series.

2. Ron Thom: West Vancouver Museum opens new exhibit celebrating the work of architect.

3. Girls Provincial B Cup Championships: 48 U13-U18 teams vie for B.C. titles at North Vancouver’s Inter River Park July 4-7.

4. Rumba Calzada: Latin jazz ensemble perform tonight at Edgemont at 7 p.m.

5. The Drawer Boy: North Vancouver Community Players production at Hendry Hall July 5 and 6.

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JEET Thayil, author of the award-winning novel Narcopolis, is participating in two events at this year’s Indian Summer Festival. On July 11 he’s part of an all-star cast of writers talking about urban subcultures and on July 13 Thayil appears with filmmaker Deepa Mehta.

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■ I Don’t Want To Choose: Deepa Mehta in conversation with Jeet Thayil. Saturday, July 13 at 6 p.m. Tickets $20. SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver) For more information visit indiansummerfestival.ca.

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“BOMBAY, which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story,” writes author Jeet Thayil in the opening lines of Narcopolis.

Thayil’s semi-autobiographical novel is a poetic meditation on self-destruction and drug addiction set in what has become one of the biggest cities on the planet.

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With a population of 13 million jammed into an area not much bigger than two Kamloopses, Mumbai has become synonymous with India’s rapid growth.

The city’s claustrophobic density urged writer Suketu Mehta to opine: “Bombay is the future of urban civilization on the planet. God help us.”

Despite being renamed in the mid-1990s, the city is still Bombay to Thayil.

“It’s always been the city that I’ve returned to from other parts of India and the world and so in that sense when I’m asked where I’m from, I say Bombay,” says Thayil, speaking to the North Shore News from Delhi.

The son of an itinerant writer and editor, Thayil returned to Bombay in the late 1970s after a decade in Hong Kong.

“I hadn’t noticed much of a change during that time and I don’t think that the kind of change that roiled that city was visible until the ‘90s. That’s when you saw it happening in front of your eyes. . . . The pace of the city changed. It became much faster, more chaotic, and also politically much more volatile because although the Hindu/Muslim communities and the antagonism between the Hindu and the Muslim

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communities had always been underneath, bubbling under, it didn’t explode until later,” he says, referring to the riots that took the lives of hundreds of Muslims and Hindus in the early 1990s.

In Narcopolis, Thayil describes India as “a deathmad, religion-obsessed country of living saints.”

Thayil’s dialogue is replete with humour and a music that is the distinct property of Bombay. Voices in the city are tinged with colonial tongues and a mixture of dialects forming a polyglot language.

“You will hear Urdu and English and Hindi floating about in the same conversation,” Thayil explains. “It’s a great thing about the kind of Hindi spoken in Bombay, and you don’t hear that kind of Hindi in any other city in India. . . . When I was writing that part of the book, that came very easily. The actual language of the book, that took a much longer thought process and I kind of re-wrote the book about halfway through working on it. I think it was then that I found the voice in the book and then of course the language followed and everything fell into place.”

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GALLERIES Artemis Gallery: 104C4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: TuesdaySunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Info: 778-233-9805 or artemisgallery.ca.

The Bakehouse: 2453 Marine Dr., West Vancouver.

Hours: Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 10 a.m.4 p.m.

The Bakehouse in Edgemont Village: 1050 Queens Rd., North Vancouver.

B.C. Mills Museum at Lynn Headwater Park: 4900 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: 604-2245739.

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Bellevue Gallery: 2475 Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and outside gallery hours by appointment. Info: bellevuegallery.ca.

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CALENDAR From page 14 9820.

BrushStrokes Gallery: Lonsdale Quay, 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. Hours: Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Info: nsartists.ca.

Members of The North Shore Artists’ Guild display a variety of original art including oil paintings, watercolours, acrylics and mixed media on an ongoing basis with new works every month.

Buckland Southerst Gallery: 2460 Marine photo Weegee Dr., West Vancouver.

Info: 604-922-1915 or bucklandsoutherst.com.

Café for Contemporary Art: 138-140 East Esplanade, DIRECTOR Stanley Kubrick sets up a shot during North Vancouver. Hours: production of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1963. The film will be 7 p.m. and Saturday and screened at Empire Theatres Esplanade on Wednesday, Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

July 10 at 7 p.m. in conjunction with Presentation Info: 778-340-3379 or House Gallery’s current exhibit Strangelove’s Weegee cafeforcontemporaryart@ (presentationhousegallery.org/exhibitions/now/). gmail.com.

Caroun Art Gallery: 1403 artists utilizing images of the nest in Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver. Info: caroun. contemporary paintings, sculpture and textile net, 778-372-0765 or artgallery@caroun.com. art will run until July 20.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8 Art Rental Salon: An ongoing art rental p.m. programme with a variety of original artwork Centennial Theatre: 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: centennialtheatre.com. available ranging from $10 to $40 per month.

Coastal Patterns Gallery: 582 Artisan CityScape Community Art Space: 335 Lane, Bowen Island. Hours: WednesdayLonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604Sunday, noon-5 p.m. or by appointment.

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Cove Creek Gallery: 4349 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

David Pirrie Studio: 1210 Arborlynn Dr., North Vancouver.

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David Neel Gallery: 104 West Esplanade, North Vancouver.

Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Info: 604-9889215 or davidneel.com.

Delany’s Coffee House: 2424 Marine Dr., West Vancouver.

Info: 604-921-4466.

Delany’s Coffee House: Park Royal Village, West Vancouver.

District Foyer Gallery: 355 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Info: 604-988-6844 or nvartscouncil.ca.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of acrylic paintings by Maxine Wolodko and model ships by Kenneth Mitchell will be on display until Sept.

3, District Library Gallery: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North

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The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of paintings by Anne Gudrun until July 16.

Ferry Building Gallery: 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver.

Admission to all shows is free. Info: 604-925-7290 or ferrybuildinggallery.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mondays.

In the Presence of Light: Lil Chrzan’s oil on canvas works will be on display until July 14.

DepARTures: The North Shore Artist’s Guild will hold an exhibition from July 16 to 28. Opening reception: Tuesday, July 16, 6-8 p.m. Meet the artists: Saturday, July 20, 2-3 p.m.

The Gallery at Artisan Square: 587 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island. Info: 604-947-2454 or biac.ca. Hours: Friday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m.

Gallery YoYo: 312 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 1-5:30 p.m. or by appointment.

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Horseshoe Bay Art Walk: Twelve local artists at nine destinations will display and sell their work Sunday, July 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The route can be done on foot in 45 minutes or on a free shuttle bus from Gleneagles Community Centre, every half hour, that will circle to all artists’ locations. Info and map: horseshoebayartwalk.com.

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North Vancouver Museum: 209 West Fourth St., North Vancouver. Open by appointment only. Info: 604-990-3700, ext. 8016.

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Presentation House Satellite Gallery: 560 Seymour St., Vancouver. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m.

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Ron Andrews Community Space: 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922.

Just Imagine: Acrylic paintings with themes of landscapes, flowers and abstracts by Catherine Janusz and metal jewelry by Helen Sperry will be on display until July 21.

Seymour Art Gallery: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Info: 604-924-1378 or seymourartgallery.com.

The Knot: An exhibition by Troy Gronsdahl that juxtaposes projected video with a pair of text based works and a full scale wooden reproduction of Deep Cove’s iconic lifeguard chair will run until July 27. Artist Talk: Sunday, July 7, 2 p.m. Reception: Sunday, July 7, 3-5 p.m.

Shelton Art /Studios Gallery: 3540 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Studio visits by appointment. Info: 604-922-5356 or sheltonart.com.

Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver.

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BLUES-HOP/SOUL singer ZZ Ward joins a stellar list of performers (including Charles Barclay, Blue Rodeo and Ndidi Onukwulu) at the 14th annual Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival on Saturday, Aug. 10 in Deer Lake Park. To reserve tickets go to burnabybluesfestival.com/tickets_2013.htm.

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Ardour: Clay works by Ekta Nadeau and paintings by Leanne Christie will be on display until July 14.

Silent Poetry Art Studio: 1079B Roosevelt Cres., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-312-1184, 604-7814606 or silentpoetryartstudio.wordpress.com.

Original Art, mentoring and classes with Sharka Leigh and Sandrine Pelissier.

Space Emmarts Studio: 1432 Rupert St., North Vancouver. Hours: Wednesday and Friday, 2-5 p.m. and by appointment. Info: 604-770-2545 or originals@emmarts.ca.

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Capilano University Textile Arts Grad Show: A group show of works by graduating students will run until July 26.

West Vancouver Municipal Hall: 750 17th St., West Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 p.m. Info: 604-925-7290.

Art in the Hall: A collection of landscape, still life and floral paintings in oil on canvas by Margaret Thoma will be on display until July 5.

West Vancouver Museum: 680 17th St., West Vancouver. Museum hours: TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: 604-925-7295 or westvancouvermuseum.ca.

West Coast Points East — Ron Thom and the Allied Arts: A multifaceted exhibition of Ron Thom’s architecture will run until Sept. 21.

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Cates Park Concert Series schedule: July 6: Colin Easthope, Coldwater Road and Heard in the Mountains July 13: The Written Years, Laurelle & Alexander and Old Man Canyon July 20: Brocken Spectre, Danny Echo and The Oceanographers July 27: No show Aug. 3: Old Mare, Melissa Endean and Oh Village Aug. 10: Corey Abell, The Oh Wells and The Archers Aug. 17: Hooves, Little Wild and Beekeeper Aug. 24: Tessa Mouzourakis, Joel Willoughby, Barry Ross, Ben Rogers, Connor Roff, Steph Macpherson, Alea Rae, Steel Audrey and Jeremy Allingham

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SUN in the sky, toes in the grass and music in the air.

Nothing says summer quite like an outdoor concert, and with the Lower Mainland’s most anticipated, yet fleeting, season heavy upon us, Musart Cultural Society is all set to host its annual concert series at Cates Park.

Every Saturday from July 6 to Aug. 24 (with the exception of July 27) between 4 and 7 p.m. the North Vancouver waterfront park will resonate with the sounds and songs of emerging local musicians.

The quintessential summer series kicks off this weekend with alt-country artist Colin Easthope taking the stage at 4 p.m., lyrical folk band Coldwater Road at 5 p.m. and indie rock quintet Heard in the Mountains at 6 p.m.

Concert-goers can expect the entire series to have a distinct “folk-pop” flavour.

“A lot of people are riding the folk-pop wave,” says festival and concert co-ordinator Pé Tolfo, who explains the success of bands such as Vancouver’s Said The Whale — known for their hook-heavy, upbeat sound — has had an undeniable influence on local up-and-comers.

“A lot of the music that we hear this year is derivative of that style because it’s such a West Coast thing,” Tolfo says. “Bands that didn’t even sound like that five years ago, they’re sounding more and more like that.”

Marked by acoustic instrumentation and catchy melodies, the easy-listening genre is one Tolfo hopes will appeal to the broad demographic Cates Park attracts on summer weekends.

“That is something that everybody can listen to,” he says.

Other headlining performers include Old Man

DANNY Echo perform on July 20 as part of the Cates Park Concert Series.

Canyon (July 13), The Oceanographers (July 20), Oh Village (Aug. 3), The Archers (Aug. 10) and Beekeeper (Aug. 17). The series wraps up Aug. 24 with a showcase of nine singer-songwriters and the next day, Sunday, Aug. 25, is the annual Deep Cove Daze community celebration. The all-day event runs from noon to 8 p.m. at Panorama Park and features live entertainment, children’s activities, vendors and more.

Both the concert series and Deep Cove Daze are put on by Musart, a non-profit society whose mandate is to provide opportunity and exposure for artists in the community. Every year two student organizers take on the job of event planning. Tolfo, who just completed secondyear commerce at UBC, and his partner Sara Wahedi, who is studying international relations

at UBC’s Okanagan campus, are working under the supervision of Musart artistic director Tyler Pearson.

“You kind of just get thrown into it,” Tolfo says, recalling his first two weeks on the job in late May as a blur of email writing, Facebook browsing and Bandcamp listening in order to figure out which 27 artists to book on which dates.

Several of this year’s acts have been selected to participate in the Peak Performance Project, an annual artist development program and battleof-the-bands style competition hosted by 102.7 The Peak.

Current project members performing this summer in North Vancouver are Coldwater Road and Melissa Endean, while project alumni include Danny Echo, Beekeeper, Steph Macpherson and

The Oh Wells.

Tolfo is no stranger to the stage, having played at Cates Park with his former band two years ago. He says the concert series is not only a good way for people to learn about budding musical talent, but also gives new bands the chance to gain sought-after stage experience.

“It’s not always easy to get yourself started in Vancouver,” Tolfo says, explaining start-up musicians are often expected to self-promote and bring their own fan base to the bars and nightclubs where they land gigs.

“We’re just expecting them to come out and enjoy themselves on the stage that we’re providing for them, so it’s less of a stressful environment for them,” Tolfo adds.

DCM Studios is continuing its annual tradition of mastering a Cates Park Concert Series compilation CD, featuring one track from every artist performing this summer. All proceeds from sales of the 27-track, two-disc album will be given back to the artists.

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Austin Mahone enjoying the ride on Red Tour Teen pop star opening for Taylor Swift on select dates around North America over the summer Nicholas M. Pescod Contributing Writer

TWO-YEARS ago Texas pop star Austin Mahone had a feeling he was doing something right with his music when a couple of his fans noticed him wandering around the mall.

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AUSTIN Mahone’s musical journey began in June of 2010 when he started posting YouTube videos of himself covering songs in his bedroom.

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Last Saturday night Mahone opened for Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran at BC Place as part of the Red Tour. He says being able to tour with Swift and Sheeran has been a valuable experience.

“They’re incredible,” Mahone says. “Taylor and Ed are so nice to me. They treat me so nice and they’re really humble.”

Being able to open for Taylor Swift is a huge step for me and it has been an honour,” he adds.

Earlier this month Mahone released his latest single “What About Love” to iTunes. The track will be part of his debut album, which is slated for release later this year.

“It’s got that EDM feel and it’s going to be really good and I can’t wait to put it out,” he says.

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So far 2013 has been a busy year for the 17-year-old.

Mahone was a presenter at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, and performed at the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto. He recently eclipsed the three-million follower mark on Twitter.

The Taylor Swift tour is not the first time the San Antonio native has performed in Canada. The one thing he remembers about previous trips north of the border is Tim Hortons.

“I love their donuts,” he says.

Mahone’s musical journey began in June of 2010 when he started posting YouTube videos of himself covering songs in his bedroom.

“I started to learn to play the guitar and the piano,” he says. “Once I started playing those instruments I fell in love with it.”

As Mahone’s fan base grew, he spent hours each day interacting with fans over Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Skype. Eventually his popularity got to the point where he had to drop out of high school and become home schooled.

“I love my fans and the support I get,” he says.

Even though Mahone has experienced a wealth of success in such a short time, there were times early on his YouTube video logging days where he doubted himself.

“When I was in school and on YouTube people would always say ‘you’re never going to make it and why are you doing this?’ and I sort of thought maybe they’re right.

Why am I doing this?” he says.

“But then I just keep doing it and following my dreams and here I am.”

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“I felt I got somewhere,” he says. “I’ve made it a long way but there is still so much work to be done and I still have long ways to go. I am just excited for the ride.”

Mahone has been working with Grammy-award winning producer RedOne. The Moroccan producer has collaborated with a long list of established artists including Justin Bieber, One Direction, Usher, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Sean Kingston and the Backstreet Boys.

“He’s so talented. He’s done a lot of big records and I am really honoured to be working with him,” he says.

“He’ll teach me how to write songs and be creative.”

Mahone is influenced by a wide range of artists such as Ne-Yo, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Drake and Justin Timberlake. He hopes to someday have a career as successful as Timberlake’s.

“I really want to have a successful career like him because he started out in a boy band and he’s still doing music today and he’s very successful.

He’s one of the biggest artists in the world today.”

Mahone’s debut single “11:11” was released in February of 2012 and charted as high as 11 on Billboard’s Heatseekers songs chart. In December he put out another track, “Say You’re Just a Friend,” featuring Flo Rida.

According to the teen, he is often inspired to write music based on things that have happened to him in the past.

He says he often gets inspired to write by simply sitting on his balcony.

“I am very superstitious,” Mahone says. “I always pray before shows with my group and if I ever see a black cat crossing the road I always go the other way.”

The teen heartthrob has received plenty of comparisons to Justin Bieber, and has even been called “Baby Bieber.”

While he appreciates the comparisons Mahone says he has his own unique style.

“It’s cool but I tell people that I am different and that I am my own person and my own artist. It all comes down to me being myself. I’m Austin and I am my own person and my direction of music is going separately.”

Mahone’s advice to young artists thinking of making a career in music is simple.

“Keep working hard no matter what,” he says. “Always follow your dreams no matter what people say and always keep a good group of friends around you.”

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CALENDAR From page 17 Schedule: July 6, Colin Easthope, Coldwater Road, Heard in the Mountains; July 13, The Written Years, Laurelle & Alexander, Old Man Canyon; July 20, Young Pacific, Danny Echo, The Oceanographers; July 27, no show; Aug. 3, Old Mare, Melissa Endean, Oh Village; Aug. 10, Corey Abell, The Oh Wells, The Archers; Aug. 17, Hooves, Little Wild, Beekeeper and Aug. 24, Tessa Mouourakis, Joel Willoughby, Barry Ross, Ben Rogers, Connor Roff, Brett Wilderman, Alea Rae, Steel Audrey, Jeremy Allingham.

Deep Cove Coffee House: Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver. Info: lindabates@shaw.ca or 604929-4019.

Edgemont Village: Edgemont Boulevard, North Vancouver.

Evenings in Edgemont: A free weekly summer concert series Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. Schedule: July 5, Rumba Calzada; July 12, Headwater; July 19, The Adam Woodall Band; July 26, VOC Sweet Soul Gospel Choir; Aug. 2, Jake & Elwood’s Blues; Aug. 9, Smith & Jones; Aug. 16, Three Row Barley and Aug. 23, House Party.

Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: kaymeekcentre.com or 604981-6335.

Unplugged: An evening of original music by four up-and-coming singer/ songwriters from the North Shore Saturday, July 20 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $10.

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Concert Series Sundays: A free summer concert series Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m.

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Live in Lynn Valley Village: A free weekly summer concert series Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. Schedule: July 5, House Party; July 12, The Steel Toe Boots; July 19, Mazacote; July 26, Souled Out; Aug. 2, Clive’s Timing; Aug. 9, The Twisters; Aug. 16, Sweat Pea Swing Band and Aug. 23, The Bobcats.

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Ground zero for mid-century modernism New exhibit explores work of Ron Thom

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A prodigy from a young age, Ron Thom had a promising career as a concert pianist in his sights.

However, in his late teens he switched gears entirely, changing his focus from music to art, enrolling in art school.

“Usually when you read stuff like that it’s totally irrelevant to a person’s work,” says Aπdele Weder, a Vancouver-based architectural writer who started researching Thom in 2008. She was interested in penning a biography of the man who went on to become one of Canada’s most innovative and influential architects and has his roots on the West Coast.

However, after spending countless hours poring over photos courtesy West Vancouver Museum Thom’s personal papers, drawings and sketches held THE 1962 Forrest House in West Vancouver earned Ron Thom one of his many Massey Awards for architectural excellence. in the Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of B.C. Binning and alongside peer Gordon Smith — informed both Calgary, Weder came to realize just how relevant his passion for the way he worked as an architect as well as what his works looked music was. like. Thom never went to architecture school, rather he apprenticed In a dozen or so of Thom’s hand drawn house plans, he at Thompson, Berwick & Pratt. included a piano — a grand no less — sometimes at the design’s An exhibition, Ron Thom and the Allied Arts, opened last night core, paying particular attention to the way the light would hit the at the West Vancouver Museum and sheds new light on the Order instrument. of Canada recipient.

Weder also heard from the daughters of one of Thom’s “There’s a lot of ways to look at Ron Thom. This isn’t a typical Vancouver clients, Dr. Harold Copp, about a disagreement they’d architecture exhibition. You could call it a hybrid of art, architecture had over the use of a particular space as a piano room — which and artifact,” says Weder, the show’s guest curator.

Thom was an advocate for — versus a carport, which was what The exhibition’s subtitle, “allied arts,” is a term that refers to Copp wanted.

Thom’s early love of music, as well as his subsequent visual arts training at the Vancouver School of Art — under the tutlelage of See Very page 34

FAMED Austrian architect Richard Neutra in 1949 after a talk at the Vancouver Art Gallery, as a young Arthur Erickson (centre) and Ron Thom (centre right) pay rapt attention.

THE belltower at Massey College in Toronto, was designed by Ron Thom and completed in 1963.

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CALENDAR From page 21 Danderfer Trio; July 20, Holly Burke; July 27, Double Helix; Aug. 1, Amanda Wood and Malcolm Aiken; Aug. 15, Trilogy; Aug. 17, Blackstick; Aug. 22, Don Hardy’s Guilty Pleasures and Aug. 24, Locarno. Tickets: $25/$20.

Rae Armour, singer/songwriter will perform Thursday, July 11 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15/$12.

Poncho & Sal will perform Thursday, July 25 at 10:30 a.m.

Tickets: $15/$12.

THEATRE Anne MacDonald Studio: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Grand Theft Impro: An improv sketch show that uses audiences suggestions to create 90 minutes of stories, scenes, songs and comedic chaos, the last Saturday of every month at 10:30 p.m. Tickets: $12.

Granville Island Revue Stage: 1601 Johnston St., Vancouver.

NO BORDERS Dancing on the Edge

CHOREOGRAPHER Sandra Botnen’s Wobble Tops (featuring dancers Keely Sills and Lindsey Shepek spinning and twirling 15 feet off the ground) will be performed in SFU Woodward’s Atrium free on July 9, 10 and 11 at 12:15 and 1:15 p.m. as part of this year’s Dancing On the Edge Festival of Contemporary Dance. For a complete schedule of events visit dancingontheedge.org.

Book review

Natural space provides backdrop for Art Parks

■ Art Parks by Francesca Cigola, Princeton Architectural Press, 224 pages, $41.

In most parks we enjoy an exposure to nature that offsets the man-made urban environment. With outdoor art installations we bring a creative expression into an open air space that can allow for a more physical interaction with the artwork. There are places that bring both elements together, providing a natural backdrop for artistic creations. These are often referred to as Sculpture Parks and they can be found in a wide variety of locations.

Francesca Cigola has documented 57 Sculpture Parks and Gardens from all over the United States. She presents them in three groups: Leisure Spaces, Learning Spaces, and Collectors’ Spaces. The information she provides allows the book to act as a guide to help identify their distinct characteristics and how best to enjoy them.

Each park is described in detail giving information on the artist, the setting, and the scale of the installations. Every one is presented with colour photographs showing some of the pieces and providing a sense of what the property looks like.

The size of the parks varies tremendously. The Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York sits on close to five hundred acres, featuring more than 120 sculptures. It includes the undulating Wave Field, one of the newer approaches that uses the actual landscape to create the sculpture. In Seattle, Wash. the Olympic Sculpture Park has ten acres of green space as an urban oasis that features seventeen permanent installations and a stunning central pavilion that accommodates changing exhibitions year round.

At the back of the book Cigola includes maps where she collects the parks into regions for easier understanding, and then closes with a listings of other parks that were not featured.

— Terry Peters

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

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NORTH Shore resident Marc Morisset of Str/ke Mvmnt has designed a line of simple athletic apparel for the Crossfit community.

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These shoes were made for training Str/ke Mvmnt gear unites fashion and functionality

Jeremy Shepherd jshepherd@nsnews.com

THE topic of discussion was the meaning of life and Cliff Clavin, that oracle of bar wisdom gave the crowd at Cheers the answer in just two words: comfortable shoes.

For North Shore resident and former competitive snowboarder Marc Morisset, comfortable shoes have become a way of life and the cornerstone of his business, Str/ke Mvmnt.

Taking the company name from the theory that a runner’s foot should strike the ground near the

front of the foot, Str/ke designs shoes intended for avid cross-trainers.

The simple, sleek shoes were stirred into existence when Morisset found himself fatigued in the water.

Never far from a board, Morisset had taken to surfing the tides and swells in Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Tofino, or “anywhere I can get in the water.”

But he found his surfing trips were burdened by

his need to get in surfing shape.

“I wanted to be back in the kind of shape where I could go and get in the water and just be strong day one instead of spending a few days getting warmed up to feel good,” he says.

Morisset turned to Crossfit, a “super highintensity style workout,” featuring a wide array of exercises.

“I got into Crossfit to stay in shape as I was getting on a little bit,” Morisset explains.

But there was still the problem of his feet.

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McConaughey apparel coming soon to Sears MATTHEW McConaughey is the latest Hollywood celebrity to develop his own clothing line and the brand will soon be available north of the border.

Sears Canada recently announced it had reached an agreement with Grand National Apparel to exclusively launch McConaughey’s just keep livin collection. The retail giant will begin selling JKL men’s apparel in store and online at sears.ca for the fall 2013 season.

A press release from Sears says the JKL collection is inspired by McConaughey’s “signature laid-back style.”

The sportswear features “technically advanced fabrics, performance details and a relaxed, casual esthetic.”

“An important part of our trading strategy is to increase our relevance with men in the 25-to-45 age range, and we expect that JKL’s attractive yet rugged design will help bring these customers to Sears,” states Calvin McDonald, president and CEO of Sears Canada.

A portion of every sale will go to Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada. The money will provide after-school fitness and wellness programs for youth in Canada based on the curriculum of the just keep livin Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by McConaughey that supports after-school programs in areas that need them most. These programs encourage young people to improve their

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ACTOR Matthew McConaughey’s JKL clothing brand will be available at Sears Canada this fall. A portion of the sales will support wellness programs for youth. physical and mental health through exercise, teamwork, gratitude, and positive life choices.

The Dazed and Confused star was inspired to start the foundation after his father passed away in 1992.

“It was about keeping his spirit alive and continuing to get incentive from the

things he taught me,” states McConaughey. “The tag line is a compass for me and serves as an approach to life: No matter where we’re headed, where the road takes us, what’s up ahead or what’s behind us, we’ve got to ‘just keep livin.’ That’s the philosophy.”

— Christine Lyon

Footwear marked by minimalism

From page 25

I couldn’t believe what the actual selection was,” he said. “Nothing I would want to wear.”

Even when a shoe was somewhat welldesigned, it still looked more like the spaceship in a 1950s comic book than something you would put on before going for a run.

“We wanted the shoes to be supertechnical but we also wanted the esthetic to be palatable. There’s a lot of crazy false-tech looking stuff for footwear, and we really wanted to get away from that,” Morisset says.

Just about three years ago Str/ke shoes first hit the shelves and then the gyms and trails. The brand had a distinguishing feature: simplicity.

That philosophy extends to the tank tops, hoodies, hats, shorts, and T-shirts made by Str/ke. Each item features clean, uncluttered styling and is made from durable materials.

“It was the beginning of a minimalist movement in the market,” Morisset says.

“The beauty about designing minimalist footwear is you don’t have to create all these fake bells and whistles.”

The shoes are designed for running and for lifting weights.

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STR/KE Mvmnt’s interval cross-trainers are designed for running and lifting.

“If you’re lifting weight you don’t want a really rounded heel. You want something that’s fairly flat,” Morisset says. “Because you’re running off the front of your foot you can really design the heel however you want.”

The shoes are lightweight and flexible, allowing the foot to find its most comfortable position, Morisset says.

Available in blue, grey, green and black, the shoes retail for $125.

Based in Vancouver, Str/ke equipment is available through the company’s website strike-mvmnt.com.

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Enter to win tickets to this year’s Vancouver folk fest

THE 36th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival offers a weekend of musical discovery July 19 – 21. The three-day festival at Jericho Beach Park features more than 60 acts from around the world this year including Loudon Wainwright III, Nomadic Massive, Natalie Maines, Danny Michel with the Garifuna Collective, Hayden, Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Cold Specks, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Pharis and Jason Romero, Kobo Town, Mo Kenney and The Waterboys. For a chance to win a pair of weekend passes to the festival (Friday night and all-day Saturday and Sunday) tell us the name of the magazine Loudon Wainwright III’s father wrote for. Place Folk Festival Contest in the subject line and email your entry to thisweekcontest@nsnews.com. Deadline for the contest is July 12, 9 a.m. Only residents living in the Lower Mainland/ Greater Vancouver area are eligible to enter. Winners will be chosen in a random draw. For more information on the festival and a complete schedule visit thefestival.bc.ca.

From page 23 capilanou.ca/nscucentre.

Huri: Choreographed and directed by Delara Tiv, an Iranian flamenco dancer based in Madrid with Nieves Hidalgo, Juan Triviño, Alvaro Antona and Manuel Montero. Tickets: $40 by calling the following phone numbers: 604-721-2176 or 604-7206033.

CLUBS AND PUBS Beans on Lonsdale: 1804 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

Info: 604-985-2326. Live music every Thursday, 8 p.m.

Brewster’s Coffee: 2436 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-925-9820.

Casa Nova Café: 116 East 14th St., North Vancouver.

Reservations and info: 604-983-2223 or info@casanovacafe.ca. light Room: 170 West Third St., North Vancouver.

East Side Marios: Lonsdale Quay, 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver.

Electric Owl: 928 Main St., Vancouver. Info: 604-558-0928.

A Concert Series that brings together Steve Dawson’s Black Hen House Band with special guest artists each month.

Tickets: capilanou.ca/nscucentre or at the door.

Jack Lonsdale’s Pub: 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

Info: 604-986-7333.

Live music every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m.

Larson Station Restaurant: Glenegales Clubhouse, 6190 Marine Dr., West Vancouver.

La Zuppa: 1544 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604986-6556.

Legion #118: 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. Info: 604985-1115 or info@legion118.com.

Narrows Pub: 1979 Spicer Rd., North Vancouver.

Mist Ultra Bar: 105-100 Park Royal, West Vancouver. Info: 604-926-2326.

DJs spin classic dance music from the 80s, 90s and today.

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TRAVEL

photos Neville Judd

A visit to the Fernwood Coffee Company in Victoria (left) will ensure you never feel like this guy looks. The fine art of tea-and-chocolate pairing (right), presented by Emara Angus at Silk Road in Victoria.

TWO-WHEELED GUIDE TO THE BEST OF VICTORIA’S CAFE CULTURE

Neville Judd Contributing Writer

Delicious cycle

IT started as a compromise. With a few hours to see Victoria, the idea of a bike tour came up.

According to Stats Canada, Victoria is the cycling capital of Canada. Any beer drinker knows it’s also the craft-brewing capital of Canada. The Pedaler, a new bicycle tour-company in town, offers Hoppy Hour, a three-hour guided tour of Victoria’s best breweries and brew pubs with some tasting thrown in.

“What about the kids?” my wife asks.

Ryan and Emma are teenagers, I point out.

This doesn’t seem to answer my wife’s question.

“When my parents stopped at a pub, I got a packet of crisps, my brothers and the car radio for company,” I explain. “Sometimes there was a pub garden to play in.”

Apparently times have changed.

So we end up on The Pedaler’s Beans and Bites tour, a leisurely three-hour ride punctuated by frequent stops for great coffee, indulgent baked goods and a tea-and-chocolate tasting. As compromises go, this one turned out to be great.

We’re staying at The Parkside on Humboldt Street and walk just a few blocks to The Pedaler on Douglas. Within a few minutes of being fitted for bikes and helmets, and meeting our coriders, we cycle right back to The Parkside. Tre Fantastico is on the ground floor of the hotel and it’s our first stop.

Coffee is very much integral to the ‘Tre’ part of the name — the other drinks being ale and wine. With floor-to-ceiling windows and salvaged wood tabletops, the décor is simple, rustic, but elegant — much like the menu, which features fresh pastas, a charcuterie board and a Red Devil ale sausage for which I’d really like to return.

I’m served a caffe macchiato and I photograph the pretty leaf design in the foam.

Sitting across from me is Jazelin Maskos, a coffee aficionado and Pedaler-guide-in-training who will soon be leading the very tour we’re on. I

tell her that coffee never seems to be quite hot enough for me. Pretty soon she’s taking me into uncharted coffee territory.

“Ordering an extra hot latte, along with the milk and the sugar, changes the chemical breakdown of the coffee,” she says. That can border on sacrilege if the beans happen to be Ethiopian Tchembe, which apparently has a red wine and blueberry pie aroma, or Guatemalan with its hints of chocolate and raisin.

A trained barista, Maskos is part of Victoria’s burgeoning coffee scene. That scene includes ‘barista throwdowns’ in which contestants must prepare espresso, latte/cappuccino art and original drinks in timed performances and be judged on everything from their knowledge and creativity to the taste of their drink.

“Victoria is the best coffee city in Canada,” says Maskos, without hesitation. For a place with such great beer, that’s fitting, I think to myself.

I wolf down some of Tre Fantastico’s excellent banana bread and soon we’re back on the road, cycling through Beacon Hill Park. We briefly ride along Dallas Road and enjoy the ocean breeze before heading inland again to Fernwood. Maybe it’s the cool graffiti or the piercings and tattoos per square foot, but Fernwood feels a bit like East Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, and like Commercial Drive, excellent coffee is here.

The Fernwood Coffee Company is a small roastery and café, serving great locally-sourced food and coffees fine-tuned over numerous samplings. With bikes locked and helmets in hand, we troop into the back of the café with resident barista, Rek Feldman. Surrounded by sacks of beans from Rwanda, Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica, Rek serves us some of Fernwood’s Cold Brew. It takes eight hours to brew with ice water through a drip in a glass tower that looks like a science experiment. It tastes unlike any iced coffee I’ve had because it’s not really iced coffee – just cold. As Rek explains, most iced coffee is brewed hot first then left to cool and chilled with ice – diluting the coffee’s flavour and altering its chemical makeup.

Fernwood’s Cold Brew tastes sweet even without sugar. For those who like a little bitterness, Rek adds tonic water, which completely alters the flavour and the aroma. It actually smells like lemon or green tea. We finish our visit with an espresso and now, three coffees into the tour, I feel ready to cycle to Nanaimo.

Instead we head back downtown to Silk Road, a tea store on Government Street.

Tea expert Emara Angus has our settings arranged at the tasting bar and because there aren’t enough stimulants already coursing through our veins, there’s chocolate paired with each tea. The sight of chocolate almonds, Ecuadorian dark chocolate and Ginger Elizabeth milk chocolate thrills Ryan and Emma, for whom chocolate is an essential ingredient with any hot beverage.

Emara starts us off with Silk Road’s Angel Water tea, a blend of mint, rose, lavender and elderflower. We let it melt the milk chocolate on our tongues and there’s a chorus of “mmmmms.” That’s followed by Japanese sour cherry tea that smells so creamy and is so good

with the dark chocolate from Ecuador. We finish with Vanilla Plantation from Sri Lanka, which apparently makes a great chai tea latte and certainly tastes good with chocolate almonds.

Silk Road’s teas are all organic and have won numerous awards. We cycle away with small store bags of tea swinging from our handlebars, but we don’t have far to pedal. Bon Macaron Patisserie on Broad Street is our final stop, which, given the level of indulgence on offer here, is probably just as well.

David Rousseau is behind the counter and guiding us through an eclectic mix of flavours available in sweet, bite-size macaroons: curried mango chutney, white chocolate-wasabi, baconcream cheese and goat cheese-fig catch our eyes. Prior to this I’d only ever eaten my mum’s coconut macaroons, so I’m somewhat in a state of shock. A tiramisu-salted caramel macaroon helps me recover.

“It’s a very versatile piece of pastry,” says David, who makes about 1,000 macaroons a day See Beans page 30

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Butchart Gardens welcomes in summer Neville Judd Contributing Writer

SOME time ago as a small-town newspaper editor, I wrote a column under the headline “Gardening: What’s the point?” I lamented the futility of trying to manicure paradise in a rainforest.

I whined about my dad not letting me play soccer on the lawn as a kid and I concluded that everyone should just back away from their garden hoses.

In response, some of the town’s garden centres threatened to pull their advertising, my wife’s uncle called me a jerk, and I reconsidered the next column I’d planned: “Golf: What’s the point?”

Butchart Gardens near Victoria is my kind of horticultural experience. I can see it, smell it and walk it without breaking a sweat or getting dirt under my fingernails.

It’s almost summer when we visit and flowers of every imaginable shade contrast with the blue skies above. Delphiniums — mostly blue — line the Rose Garden, and the first of hundreds of roses are coming into bloom.

A Torii gate marks the entrance to the Japanese Garden where Himalayan Blue Poppies line the pathway, which meanders by streams and ponds. At the wharf near the bottom of the garden, boat tours of Tod Inlet are available in summer. Beyond the Japanese Garden, it’s hard to miss the Italian Garden with its arched entrances, bronze statue of Mercury and a crossshaped pond.

More than 900 varieties of plants grow in Butchart’s summer displays and I know the names of about three of them. I recognize pink and white Hydrangeas from my dad’s garden and I’m pretty sure those are Fuchsias in the hanging baskets.

My mother-in-law helps me with the names as we wander among the swallows, dragonflies and the butterflies through Butchart’s Sunken Garden. Worryingly, my wife is beginning to get ideas for our patch of scrub back on the Sunshine Coast.

But then it’s not surprising that anyone with even a hint of a green thumb could be inspired by this place and its history. More than 100 years ago this was a cement plant! Robert Butchart began developing the area’s rich limestone deposits, building a quarry and manufacturing cement for a market stretching from Victoria to San Francisco.

Today, the only reminder of the gardens’ industrial past is the cement works’ tall chimney — a surreal sight among the overwhelming array of colour.

When Robert had exhausted the limestone supply, his wife Jennie lined the floor of the quarry with tonnes of top soil brought in by

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A century ago, the Sunken Garden was a limestone quarry. The tall chimney on the right is all that’s left of Robert Butchart’s cement plant. Victoria’s massive Butchart Gardens complex is open year-round. horse and cart from nearby farmland. There the spectacular Sunken Garden took shape. The quarry’s barren rock face was no obstacle for Jennie, who hung in a bosun’s chair to plant ivy in the crevices of the rock walls.

Not content with a converted quarry, the Butcharts created the Italian Garden where their tennis court used to be, the Rose Garden and the Japanese Garden on the seaside of their property.

Ian Ross picked up where his grandparents left off, devoting 50 years of his life to developing the gardens into a world renowned attraction. He added outdoor symphony concerts and began the gardens’ annual Magic of Christmas light display in 1987. Beginning in 1977, Ian’s son Christopher started summer fireworks shows choreographed to music — a Saturday-night tradition that continues today.

But it’s the flowers — more than a million

bedding plants; 300,000 flowering spring bulbs — that are the main attraction, drawing almost a million visitors to Butchart Gardens every year.

More than 500 staff keep the place running (Doesn’t seem enough to plant 300,000 bulbs every fall) and more than 100 employees each count more than 25 years’ service. Last year, a husband and wife team called it quits after a combined 99 years of service.

Still a family-run business, Butchart Gardens continues to complement its main attraction with engaging features. In 2009, current owner, Robin-Lee Clarke, great granddaughter of Jennie Butchart, added an impressive hand-carved Menagerie Carousel for kids to ride, although adults have been known to ride it, too. Nearby are two imposing totem poles, carved by artists of the Tsarlip and Tsawout First Nations.

Just added this year is a giant outdoor chess set, complete with solid Teak pieces weighing up to 50 pounds each. You might want to limber up before playing!

If you go: Butchart Gardens is about 20 kilometres south of Swartz Bay ferry terminal – roughly halfway to Victoria. It’s open year-round and partners with numerous hotels to offer accommodation/admission package deals. The gardens are almost entirely wheelchair and stroller accessible. Visit butchartgardens.com or call 866-652-4422.

B.C. Ferries offers numerous summer package deals to Vancouver Island, including a Victoria Getaway from $109 per person, based on double occupancy. The package comprises one night at the Chateau Victoria Hotel, round-trip ferry from Vancouver for two adults and a car, plus complimentary parking.

For more information on this and other deals, visit bcferries.com/vacations or call 1-888-BC FERRY. For all other matters-Victoria, visit tourismvictoria.com.

Beans and Bites tours leave daily From page 29

and clearly enjoys inventing new flavours. (He was busy making a bacon-maple syrup batch for Father’s Day.) Thankfully it’s a short ride back to The Pedaler and even shorter walk to The Parkside.

We agree that Victoria reminds us of one of our other favourite weekend getaways — Portland, Ore.: cool people doing innovative things with food and drink in stylish settings.

Must get back for that beer tour though!

WEIGHING in at up to 50 pounds, the chess pieces in Butchart Gardens’ outdoor set are not for the fainthearted. Think hard before you make your move!

If you go: The Beans and Bites tour leaves daily from The Pedaler on 719 Douglas St. at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. It costs $79 per person. Also on offer is the Hoppy Hour guide to Victoria’s brewing scene ($79; leaves daily at 1:30 p.m.) and Castles, Hoods and Legends, a tour of Victoria’s historic

neighbourhoods and landmarks. Visit thepedaler. ca or call 778-265-RIDE (7433).

Victoria’s Parkside Hotel and Spa is a short walk from the Royal B.C. Museum. It offers a family package from $179 a night, including family admission to the museum, two-hour rental of the hotel’s private movie theatre, plus a snack basket with pop, popcorn and candy. Call 1-866941-4175 or visit parksidevictoria.com.

B.C. Ferries offers numerous summer package deals to Vancouver Island, including a Victoria Getaway from $109 per person, based on double occupancy. The package comprises one night at the Chateau Victoria Hotel, round-trip ferry from Vancouver for two adults and a car, plus complimentary parking. For more information on this and other deals, visit bcferries.com/ vacations or call 1-888-BC FERRY. For all other matters-Victoria, visit tourismvictoria.com.

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CULTURE

Everything fell into place in Narcopolis

From page 13

At its core, Narcopolis is an attempt to salvage something from Thayil’s trials with addiction.

“I’m always surprised and grateful that something; I don’t know if useful is the right word, I don’t know if positive is the right word; but I’m grateful that something came out of those years,” he says. “If it hadn’t been for this book, it would’ve been entirely useless, I think. It was just a lot of waste of time in every sense of the word, ‘wasted.’”

His characters flee to opium dens to escape from pain, to take refuge after being on the wrong side of a war, or the losing side, which amounts to the same thing according to one character, and for reasons that defy easy explanations.

Much of the novel revolves around Dimple, a eunuch who provides insight on sexuality and laments that Jesus Christ didn’t spend his days feeding loaves and fishes to the poor of Shuklaji Street.

Thayil describes his story as a collection of “nighttime tales that vanish in sunlight,” but it is also an attempt to preserve something of the forgotten See Narcopolis page 35

Bollywood Grooves

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DURING this year’s Indian Summer Festival the Shiamak Davar Vancouver Dance Team will host free dance classes in Woodward’s Atrium (111 W Hastings St., Vancouver, opposite London Drugs): Friday, July 5 at 7 p.m., Wednesday, July 10 at 5 p.m., Friday, July 12 at 5 p.m. and July 6–7 and 10–13, daily at 5 p.m. For more information visit indiansummerfestival.ca/events/bollywood.

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FILM

Tonto takes charge in The Lone Ranger Julie Crawford Contributing Writer

■ The Lone Ranger.

Directed by Gore Verbinski.

Starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer.

Rating: 4 (out of 10)

JOHNNY Depp’s name appears first, showing us who’s highest in the saddle in Gore Verbinski’s imagining of The Lone Ranger, while Armie Hammer comes second in every respect. If you ask me, the real star of the picture is the horse.

At 6-5 Hammer certainly has the frame to pull off the hero with the giant white hat but he never cuts an imposing picture (even against Depp, who is only 5’10”): his Lone Ranger is neither heroic nor hunky, he’s boring. And Depp, buried under caked-on makeup, only occasionally elicits a chuckle from his audience. The horse(s) who play trusty steed Silver, however, can always be counted on to steal the scene.

The story is fairly straightforward, but there’s a sense of overkill from the get-go. The film opens with a bang, and a spectacular train wreck that ends in the dusty outpost of Colby, Texas. A straight-arrow District Attorney named John Reid (Hammer) heads home just as the railroad is pushing through, thanks to a visionary (Tom Wilkinson) with a less-than-altruistic agenda for linking America’s east and west.

John feels inferior to his heroic older brother, a Texas Ranger, and covets his lovely wife ((Ruth Wilson). When

a gang of bad guys threatens the peace, John is quickly deputized and the lawmen head off to save the day.

(Guess how many return?

That’s why it’s called the lone ranger.)

Tonto (Depp), who was also in the opening train wreck, reappears at John’s side. He’s the one who suggests that John go incognito. “What’s with the mask?” is a recurring joke.

A white “spirit horse” also comes to John’s as the two men chase down the villains, try to stop the railway’s bloody payload, and save the girl (of course).

“If men like him represent the law, I’d rather be an outlaw,” is the turning point for John, who decides that he’s not so anti-gun after all.

Sadly, Depp and Hammer quickly become pawns plunked down in the middle of Gore Verbinski’s frenetic action sequences, rather than their driving force.

There isn’t much time for character development in between all the spectacular stunt sequences, making for a strained “buddy movie” format and an non-credible love story.

The framework for the story has Tonto narrating decades later to a young Lone Ranger fan. It serves to reinforce Depp’s leading role and interrupts the pace of the story. Further diluting the tale’s impact are its weighty themes – white man’s extermination of native peoples – paired with incongruously childish poop jokes. Extra characters – Helena Bonham Carter as a madam with an ivory leg, Barry Pepper as a duped army commander – add colour to the film, but not much else.

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ARMIE Hammer and Johnny Depp do their best in Gore Verbinski’s retelling of The Lone Ranger but the horses steal the show. Use Layar app to view trailer and showtimes.

It ends perfectly with a screaming damsel, a villain with a twirly moustache, a runaway train and the famous William Tell overture, which will be forever linked to cowboys and Indians.

Filmmakers are free to use as much artistic license as they like, given that most viewers only vaguely remember the hero of radio and TV in his prime; if only Verbinski had infused the story with more heart and heroism, he could’ve created a new classic franchise for Disney.

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Star Trek Into Darkness —Fri-Thur 12:15, 3:35, 6:40 p.m.

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Grown Ups 2 (PG) — Thur 7, 9:55 p.m.

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Despicable Me 2 (G) — Fri-Wed 1:40, 4, 6:40, 9; Thur 4, 6:40, 9 p.m. Thur 1 p.m.

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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls — Mon 7; Tue 11:30 PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., 604-688-FILM www.cinematheque.bc.ca.

Castles in the Sky: The Return of Studio Ghibli Major retrospective of the films of Studio Ghibli, the world-renowned anime studio founded in Tokyo in 1985 by animation directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, was first presented in December. By popular demand its back with two additional features.

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CALENDAR From page 28 Queens Cross Pub: 2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: queenscross. com.

Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Sunday, 7:30-11:30 p.m.

The Raven Pub: 1052 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver.

Info: theravenpub.com.

Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Thursday, 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Red Lion Bar & Grill: 2427 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. Info: 604-9268838.

Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty will perform every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m.

Rusty Gull: 175 East First St., North Vancouver.

Live music every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly Marley performs every Sunday, 7 p.m.

Sailor Hagar’s Brew Pub: 235 West First St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9843087. Live music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

The Village Taphouse: Park Royal Village, West photo supplied Vancouver. Info: 604-9228882.

Waves Coffee House: 3050 Mountain Hwy., North VANCITY Theatre’s After Effects: Guatemala and El Salvador focuses on a series of films spotlighting two Central American nations Vancouver. struggling to exorcize years of violence. As part of the series Gold Fever (directed by JT Haines, Tommy Haines and Andrew Sherbourne, The Celtic Medley Song and USA, 2013) a documentary which witnesses the arrival of Goldcorp Inc to a remote Guatemalan village, 500 years after the conquistadors, String Player’s Showcase screens tomorrow night at 7:15 p.m. followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. The film will be shown again on July 10 at 6:15 p.m. For comes to Waves the first a complete schedule of films visit viff.org/theatre/films/search?field_series_tid=6093.

Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604-985- there ever nothing? Info: 778-782-8000 or philosopherscafe. net. Meet by the concession stand.

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Vancouver.

Open Mic: Actors, musicians, poets and spoken word artists SFU Philosopher’s Cafe: Everyone is welcome to join a discussion with moderator Martin Hunt Wednesday, July 17 at 7 p.m. Topic: If you can’t get something from nothing, was See more page 35

After Effects

Very little has been written on Thom From page 22 the “idea that all the disparate arts were part of one inter-engaged whole. . . . His teacher Bert Binning. . . . was one of the leading proponents of that idea, that art and architecture and craft and furniture and ceramics can all be intertwined, embedded within one another,” she says.

Weder, who has degrees in architecture and journalism, has a special fondness for the local mid-century architectural greats.

“This was ground zero,” she says. “This was the epicentre of midcentury modernism in the 1950s and ’60s. This is where it really developed.”

She’s credited as a co-writer on a number of recent books on the topic, including Selwyn Pullan, B.C. Binning and A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver, as well is a Vancouver correspondent for Canadian Architect magazine and a contributing editor of Azure Magazine.

Weder’s interest in Thom followed her realization that, while a number of people are currently working on projects related to his life and work, very little has been written or done on him thus far, despite the fact he was a “brilliant genius.”

“He’s in danger of being lost,” she says.

“This is the time to celebrate Ron Thom. I’m hoping that collectively we, who are doing these Ron Thom projects, will reintroduce him to a new generation,” she adds.

Thom was born in 1923 in Penticton and grew up in Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood. He moved to North Vancouver in the 1940s with his first wife, Chris Millard. They initially lived on Peters Road, convincing some of their art school friends, including Molly and Bruno Bobak, to join them.

Thom called North Vancouver home, living in three different homes that he designed, until he moved to Toronto, Ont., in 1963.

“His favourite place in the world remained the West Coast. He always yearned to come back here. . . . He had friends and family that he loved in both places but he missed the nature of the West

Coast. He missed the landscape and the beauty,” says Weder.

Thom passed away in Toronto in 1986 at age 63.

The exhibition at the West Vancouver Museum, made possible through the support of a number of collaborative partners, including Public: Architecture + Communication, a firm that designed the displays, spotlights three of his masterpieces. Among them is the West Coast House, with five examples featured that are still standing (three of which are in West Vancouver); Toronto’s award-winning Massey College, completed in 1963; and Peterborough, Ont.’s Trent University, which opened in 1964.

With both Massey College and Trent celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year and next, respectively, the timing was right to honour Thom, explains Weder. The exhibition has been designed to travel and following its stint in West Vancouver, will be shown at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum Feb. 3-May 7, 2014 and at the Trent University Gallery Aug. 7-Oct. 22, 2014 as part of the institution’s anniversary celebrations, the impetus for the show overall.

Weder has been working on the exhibition for the last year and a half. While she has worked on a variety of curatorial initiatives before, this is her first time leading such a complex and large-scale project.

“Unlike Arthur Erickson who spoke and wrote prolifically and very eloquently, Ron wasn’t much of a speaker or a writer, he kept it mostly inside,” she says.

“He was an intuitive designer so it was hard to get at him, except by piecing together little bits of his work ethic and his work values and design values through interviews with family, friends and colleagues,” she adds.

The show features both personal and professional artifacts, including ceramics, paintings, furniture design and lighting, all of which Thom considered and incorporated in his designs. Two films are also screening in the gallery, a new short Weder helped produce, as well as a 1965 CBC documentary on Thom.

“This is architecture as made by an artist. It’s not just rhetoric or hyperbole, he really thought and drew and designed like an artist,” she says.

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

Floor display

KAT Williamson and Alfredo Melendez dance to the music of the Jen Hodge All Stars at Lonsdale Quay on June 30 as part of Summer Fest 2013. Karen Fowlie performs at the Quay on Sunday, July 7 at 1 p.m.

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CALENDAR From page 34 are invited to take the microphone every second and last Friday of the month from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

New Works: Readings of new work by local playwrites every third Thursday, 7-9:30 p.m.

Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver.

Info: 604-925-7292 or silkpurse.ca.

Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway Baker will share show biz, film and concert music stories past and present the third Wednesday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Admission by donation.

North Shore Cric Crac Storytelling Evenings presented by the Vancouver Society of Storytelling take place the first Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Admission: $7/$5.

West Vancouver Memorial Library: 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-925-7407 or westvanlibrary.ca.

Monday Movie Nights: The library will screen movies on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. Schedule: July 8, Life of Pi; July 15, Late Quartet; July 22, Hitchcock and July 29, Hyde Park on Hudson.

— compiled by Debbie Caldwell. Email information for your North Shore event to listings@nsnews.com.

Narcopolis delves into the minutia of ritual From page 32 opium den denizens who have vanished like smoke in a breeze.

“It did feel like an obligation at points,” he says of writing the novel. “It happens when you’re close to someone who dies, a brother or a wife, somebody very close who dies and you feel burdened by that person’s dreams and hopes and consciousness, and you feel that you’ve been left to carry that forward into the future. I felt in some ways that many of the people that I’d known during those years who were no longer around who had died from one thing or the other, I felt that all those stories would have disappeared if it weren’t put down, so that was an obligation and a responsibility. I don’t know if I honoured the obligation, but I certainly gave it my best shot.”

Why so many people are drawn to dangerous drugs remains impossible to answer for Thayil.

“It’s the biggest question and it is the unanswerable one because a lot of people who are drawn to it are often people with a lot going for them and they’re often intelligent and creative and sensitive and you could imagine them living very

full and beautiful lives if it weren’t for this particular thing that is destroying them from inside.”

“It something I’ve thought of. People say it’s genetic and it’s something you’re born with, I’m sure that’s true, but it doesn’t explain it, it doesn’t explain what it is that makes some people want to destroy themselves as quickly as they possibly can and find in that process a romance and a glamour and a meaning to life that they’re denied normally.”

The story is set in the subculture Thayil defines as: “the city of opium and the drug of Bombay.” The story delves into the minutia of opium as a ritual, painting a spare picture of a cooking needle being dipped into a brass dish.

“Once it was done, I realized that it had been not exactly the healthiest place to visit in my head. I was kind of incapacitated for almost a year after finishing work on Narcopolis,” he says. “There were times I could’ve imagined slipping back into that world. I don’t think there was anything cathartic about writing it. I think it in fact worked in exactly the opposite way that catharsis works. Instead of liberation it felt like a servitude.”

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71 Lonsdale Ave, N. Van. 604-980-4316

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Local favourite Cindy’s Café is now open for diner every Friday and Saturday night.Come for the good food,stay for the friendly atmosphere and enjoy our free BYOWine policy.

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Truffle House & Café

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The Truffle House & Café is truly a warm place to eat European cuisine with friendly service and reasonable price. Philippe & Fabienne Chaber have created a cozy and comfortable atmosphere and offer a delicious combination of French, Italian and West Coast specialties that your taste buds will love.Already well known for their brunch & lunch, the Truffle House is pleased to offer you DINNER! Join us Friday & Saturday evenings from 5-10 pm for delicious seasonal menus.

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FRENCH Chez Michel

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For over 34 years, Chez Michel has treated guests to only the best.

Traditional seafood and meat entrees, dressed in rich, tempting sauces, are specially featured alongside a superb selection of wines and a decadent dessert list.

Superior service with a waterfront view helps complete your lunch or dinner experience.

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The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Marine Dr. @ Pemberton, N. Van. 604-980-9993 & OUR NEW LOCATION: 6640 Royal Ave., Horseshoe Bay, W. Van. 604-913-0994

Montgomery’s Fish & Chips$

The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market 604-929-8416

THAI Thai PudPong Restaurant

$$

West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner.

1474 Marine Dr., W. Van. 604-921-1069 www.thaipudpong.com

WEST COAST The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel

$$$

Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood and the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Open 7-days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night lounge.We are located on the corner of Lonsdale & Esplanade.

The Lobby Bar: We now have Live music every Friday night from 8-11pm!

138 Victory Ship Way, N. Van. 604-973-8000 www.pinnaclepierhotel.com

WATERFRONT DINING The MarinaSide Grill

$$

Enjoy your Waterfront dining experience with our extensive menu.

From eggs benny to juicy burgers during our popular brunches to our famous prime rib,hot scallop salad, clam chowder,king crab,steaks, seafood style cordon bleu.Rooms available for private parties and free parking.Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner seven days a week.View full menu www.marinasidegrill.com.

1653 Columbia St, N. Van. (2 blks South of Main & Mtn Hwy under the bridge) 604-988-0038 www.marinagrill.com

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INDEX Community Notices ....................................1000 Announcements ...............................................1119 Employment..........................................................1200 Education .................................................................1400 Special Occasions...........................................1600 Marketplace ..........................................................2000 Children ......................................................................3000 Pets & Livestock ...............................................3500 Health............................................................................4000 Travel & Recreation ......................................4500 Business & Finance .......................................5000 Legals ............................................................................5500 Real Estate ..............................................................6000 Rentals .........................................................................6500 Personals ...................................................................7000 Service Directory .............................................8000 Transportation ....................................................9000

CONNECTING COMMUNITIES Sales Centre Phone Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8:30am - 5:00pm Sales Centre Office Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9:00am - 5:00pm Email: classifieds@van.net

Fax: 604-985-3227 delivery: 604-986-1337

classifieds.nsnews.com

604.630.3300

ANNOUNCEMENTS 1170

Obituaries

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Obituaries

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Classified Display Ad Deadlines Wed. Newspaper Fri. 3:50pm Fri. Newspaper Tues. 3:50pm Sun. Newspaper Wed. 3:50pm

Obituaries

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Lost & Found

2010

Appliances

Sales • Service • We buy

604-987-7330

Obituaries LOST DOG, 'Mitzi' - Mon. May 13, Lynn Valley Rd. Small Female Shi-tzu/Poodle X. Call if seen, 604-219-9321 * REWARD*

MCALISTER, Wilfred Blaine

CORFIELD - Captain Michael Egerton

Born June 25, 1928 in Duncan, B.C. Mike died on June 25, 2013 in Comox, B.C on his 85th birthday. Mike is survived by his wife Jean Corfield. Mike and Jean were married 54 years ago in Vancouver, B.C on October 11, 1958. Mike began his marine career with Canadian Pacific Steamships in 1946 for 12 years.

He then joined Northland Navigation for 12 years. In 1969 he joined the B.C Coast Pilots Ltd. He was a Marine Pilot for 24 years also serving at the company president and a board member for the Pacific Pilotage Authority during his years with the B.C Coast Pilots. Mike retired in 1993.

In 2004, Mike and Jean moved from West Vancouver to Comox to be closer to family. Mike is also survived by his son, also Captain Michael Corfield, of the Canadian Coast Guard, his daughter-in-law Joanne, grandchildren Mark and Jessica Corfield, his daughter Janice Ricciardi of San Francisco, CA, son-in-law Andre and grandchildren Tallula and Delilah Ricciardi. Jean and family would like to thank Oceanview Extended Care and Dr. Konway for their help with caring for Mike the past 5 ½ years. The family will have a private service at a later date in Duncan, B.C where Mike will rest in the Corfield family plot. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada.

“We joked around and laughed a lot And talked for hours on end.

How did I get so lucky?

You’re my lover and best friend And this little note I’m writing Holds the special love we shared.

It’s the part of me that goes with you.

Always, everywhere” Love always, Jean

It is with great sadness that the family of Wilfrid McAlister (Poppa) announces the passing of our brother, father, grandfather and friend on Monday, June 24th.

Poppa is survived by his sisters, Bernice and Jeannette, his children, Bonnie, Brian and Ann Marie, his grandchildren, Tiffany, Meghan, Trevor, Chantelle, Laurel, Skylar, Jared, Amanda, Ruby, Maggie, Anna, Patrick, James and Matteo. Poppa was born on May 9, 1929 in Blackfalds, Alberta and graduated from high school in Red Deer before joining the Canadian Navy where he served for five years. Upon leaving the Navy he joined Canadian Pacific Airlines and lived in Calgary before transferred to Vancouver with his first wife, Doris McLachlan. Then moving on to work at BC Electric, then B.C. Hydro and finally as a Realtor.

Poppa’s final home was in West Vancouver which he shared with his second wife, Margaret McAlister. Margaret passed away shortly before Poppa on November 11, 2012. Together they enjoyed sailing, playing golf and attending their grandchildren’s many sporting events. Poppa particularly loved hockey and was very involved with his son’s and grandson’s hockey activities. He was a leader in his community including serving as the Council Chairman of three large condominiums. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, and as an enthusiastic Canadian he was very active in politics. He was a lifelong devoted member of the Liberal Party and In his younger years he volunteered in every election.

Poppa was very much a part of every family activity and will be deeply missed by all. The family would like to thank Dr. Jenny Shaw and the Palliative Care team at Lions Gate Hospital.

Poppa choose to have a celebration of life party while he was alive so there will not be a memorial service at his request.

For those wishing to share a memory of Wilfrid, please go to www.hollyburnfunerals.com

Hollyburn Funeral Home 604-922-1221

SENENSE - Florencia (Flor)

Nov. 10, 1961 – July 1, 2013 We are greatly saddened to announce the loss of Flor who passed away peacefully at the North Shore Hospice surrounded by family and friends. She is survived by her husband Rolando and her daughter Nichelle. Flor will be remembered for her generous spirit and kind heart. A Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday July 6, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. at St. Pius Roman Catholic Church, 1150 Mount Seymour Road, North Vancouver.

Visitation to follow from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at First Memorial, Boal Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Rd., North Vancouver “Rest In Peace Flor”

North Vancouver, BC www.firstmemorialfuneral.com 604-980-3451

STUART, F Douglas Sept. 1930 - Jun. 30 2013 It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of Doug Stuart. Predeceased by his wife Doreen, Doug is survived by his children, Leslie, Craig (Jacqui), Susan (Steve) his four grandchildren, Adam, Kate, Alexandra, Jack, his sister Christine, his brother Jack and numerous nieces and nephews.

After missing mom for five years, he was so fortune to meet Helen who welcomed him into the Weaver Clan. They laughed everyday, enjoyed many exotic trips and time at both their cottages. It is hard to capture the essence of a life lived in a few short paragraphs but Doug was a wonderful, positive, generous, and loving man who only saw the good in people and situations. His favorite things in the world were his family, the cabin, and planning. We are all diminished in losing him. A celebration of his life will be held at Boal Chapel, North Vancouver on Tuesday July 9th at 2pm. In lieu of flowers we ask that you make a donation in Doug’s name to JDRF or Heart and Stroke.

Celebrate the lives of loved ones with your stories, photographs and tributes on

legacy.com/obituaries/nsnews

SUTHERLAND - Russell

1924 - 2013 Passed away peacefully at LGH, leaving behind wife Mary, daughters Paula & Kimberley. partner Denis Jaqueme and granddaughter Daisy, sister Grace Ralph, greatly missed, no service by request.

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Announcements

LOST ACOUSTIC GUITAR! Upper Lynn elementary SENTIMENTAL VALUE-PLEASE HELP FIND Will offer REWARD email:sue_callahan@shaw.ca

LOST CAT 1 yr old neutered male black with white chest and paws and blue eyes. Lost near 22nd and Jefferson Ave, W Van. Call 604-805-0793. Reward.

FOUND in Lighthouse Park Chain, Talisman keepsake with tuft of hair attached.

Call: (604) 561-7095

Teak Furniture, Native Art/ Artifacts, Buying Old Items, books, records, art, knick knacks, empty your garage, basement etc.

Call 604-657-1421

Coming Events

Every Sat/Sun all year 9:00 - 4:30 365 tables with old/new items

ANTIQUE SHOW Saturday, July 13th

Tables ONLY $35 each Vendors Wanted!

Open 8:30am to 4:30pm Admission: $1.75

All advertising published in this newspaper is accepted on the premise that the merchandise and services offered are accurately described and willingly sold to buyers at the advertised prices. Advertisers are aware of these conditions.

Advertising that does not conform to these standards or that is deceptive or misleading, is never knowingly accepted. If any reader encounters non-compliance with these standards we ask that you inform the Publisher of this newspaper and The Advertising Standards Council of B.C. OMISSION AND ERROR: The publishers do not guarantee the insertion of a particular advertisement on a specified date, or at all, although every effort will be made to meet the wishes of the advertisers. Further, the publishers do not accept liability for any loss or damage caused by an error or inaccuracy in the printing of an advertisement beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by the portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred. Any corrections or changes will be made in the next available issue. The North Shore News will be responsible for only one incorrect insertion with liability limited to that portion of the advertisement affected by the error. Request for adjustments or corrections on charges must be made within 30 days of the ad’s expiration.

For best results please check your ad for accuracy the first day it appears. Refunds made only after 7 business days notice!

Come find your treasure!

Classified Line Ad Deadlines Wed. Newspaper Tues. 11:30am Fri. Newspaper Thurs. 11:30am Sun. Newspaper Fri. 11:30am

Lost & Found

LOST CAMERA, Nikon Coolpix S9100, July 1, between ICBC prkg lot & Seabus. Irreplaceable photos on card. 604-988-4206 LOST IPHONE in white case, middle of West 15th North Van small reward. 604-983-2251.

Furniture

CHILEAN WICKER chair $25; pine table (with leaf) and 3 chairs $60. 778-316-7206 Walnut Dining ste, hutch, 6 chrs, & table: $450 obo. 6 kitchen chairs: $200 obo. Office furniture $100 + more. 604-340-3378

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Recycler

BEIGE COLORED floral sofa & loveseat, good conditiion, you pick up. 604-929-0542.

BRITISH INDIAN Rug (wool) yellow & blue colors: 10x14. Bird of Paridise Glass Window Panel: 27'x53' must pickup, Call 604-985-8627

DONATIONS NEEDED We need your support.

Give where you live.

Lions Gate Hospital Thrift Shop 128 West 15th Street North Vancouver Mon.-Sat. 10:00 to 4:00 (604) 987-5938 Any good saleable items would be greatly appreciated. All proceeds are used to help purchase equipment and add to the comforts of the Lions Gate Hospital. Call: (604) 987-5938 or email: lghthriftshop@shaw.ca.

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Burial Plots

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FREE FILL - Delivered for free.

North & West Van. Minimum 5 yards. 604-985-4211

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Wanted to Buy

CASH PAID! TEAK FURN. + All RETRO & ANTIQUE items & collectibles Derek 604-442-2099 Thanks!

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Music/Dance Instruction

For Sale Miscellaneous www.DRIFTWOODDANCE.com A fun and inclusive environment for all ages. Classes start July 8!

WHOLE BODY VIBRATION Fitness Machine Clearance Sale. WBV machines from $99!

819 West 1st Street, North Vancouver, V7P1A4 604-985-4398 email: doug@dztfitness.com

MOBILITY SCOOTER Mint condition Fortress 2000 Scooter.

Practically new 4 wheel model.

Charger included. Asking $1800 OBO. Call: (604) 805-4512

classifieds.nsnews.com

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Cats

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

BECOME AN OPTICIAN IN ONLY 6 MONTHS

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FOUND LADIES SUNGLASSES AT Ambleside dog beach, late Wed aft 5pm, pls call to id.

604-925-3503

2015

Art & Collectibles

FOREST LAWN CEMETERY PLOT, Ascension section $7900 obo. Call 604-987-2948

★ CASH PAID ★

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SPROTTSHAW.COM

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ILAC APPLIANCE & VACUUMS

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HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT

Celebrate with a Birthday Greeting in the classified section!

604-630-3300

Optical Dispensing is a high-growth industry with good pay and job security. Train for a “Career With Vision”. START YOUR OWN BUSINESS. startsFeb. Sept.

• 6-month program . . . starts 20th,9th, 2012 2013 • Financial assistance available • Hurry . . . enrolment limited!!

B.C. COLLEGE OF OPTICS 208 - 10270 King George Blvd., Surrey, BC www.bccollegeofoptics.ca

604.581.0101

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Cats

GARAGE SALES 2080

CFA Himalayan Kittens Show cattery pet $500.00+alter prefer home W/no cat/dog Port Moody (604) 939-1231

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Dogs

GERMAN SHEPHERD, 6 left, pure bred, dewormed, shots, $650 ea, Abbot 604-614-0363

GOLDEN RETRIEVER pups CKC reg, vet ck’d, ch parents, health tested. Ph 604-794-3786 PLEASE HELP! Foster & Adoptive homes urgently need for homeless dogs. Call 604-535-2188

SAVE A LIFE. Wonderful rescue dogs from Foreclosed Upon Pets. Spay/neutered, regular vaccinations & rabies, microchipped. $499 adoption fee, avail at your local Petcetera stores.

Garage Sale

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Garage Sale

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Garage Sale

General Employment

West Van MULTI FAMILY MOVING SALE Sat & Sun, July 6 & 7 8am-noon 1159 Eyremount Dr Golf clubs, bags & carts, bikes, garden tools, kitchenware, crystal, clothes & more! Lots of freebies!

WEST VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 1301 Sinclair Street Sunday July 7, 9 AM - 1 PM Family clear out!

Lot’s of toys, books, and household items. Antique armoire, double mattress and more!

WEST VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 1484 Mathers Ave Ambleside: SUN. July 7, 11 AM - 3 PM Amazing selection.

Everything and anything you could want. Full basement and garage full of great stuff.

Lane entrance Rain or Shine.

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General Employment

NEED EXTRA INCOME

PROVINCIAL CREW SCHEDULER BC Ambulance Services Based in Vancouver, Schedulers coordinate and produce work schedules for paramedics. Schedulers are integral members of a fast paced, dynamic team and must be available to work a flexible 24/7 schedule.

Excellent customer service, phone, and computers skills are required.

Please visit our website to apply: www.bcas.ca (Click on Careers » Job Postings » Keyword search Crew Scheduler)

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Earn extra cash to supplement your current income or pay off your bills. Now hiring delivery contractors for the Sun, Province & National Post in the West Vancouver area. Must have reliable vehicle and be available from 2am to 6am daily.

Earn up to $900/mo.

Call to find the route closest to you.

778-968-4400

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West Vancouver

Garage Sale Sat July 6th, 10-1 1171 Inglewood Ave (In the Lane)

Books, videos, dvd’s, men’s clothing, drum gear, electronics, games, furniture & houshold items

WEST VAN GARAGE SALE Sat&Sun July 6 & 7th 9am - 3pm 2249 Queens Ave. Collectibles, toys, tools, books, furniture, householdand more!

WEST VAN

Multi Family Sale Sat, July 6th 9AM - 12noon 2045 - 27th St.

Household, furniutre, kids toys, girls clothes, china,

West Van GARAGE SALE Sat July 10am-12pm 1125 Inglewood Ave Kids Items, clothing and lots more!

N. Van

ESTATE SALE

Sat. July 6th 10am-4pm #337 340 - West 3rd Street furniture, household and art.

LOWER British Properties: Garage Sale, 1141 Ottaburn Road Sat. July 6, 8 AM - 12 PM OUTDOOR TEAK Table & Chairs, Art Prints, Office desks, shelving units, bookcases, sporting goods, books, miscellaneous Come Rain or Shine.

NORTH VAN

Moving Garage Sale

Sat July 6th, 9-1 525 West 28th St Household items, hardward etc. etc.

Job Listings From A-Z

From advertising executive or banker to x-ray technician or zookeeper, you'll find it in the Employment Section.

Garage Sale

Multi Family Sale

Lots and Lots of STUFF!

★Sat/Sun 9- 2pm★ 275 W. Keith Rd. (at Mahon)

Good Household Items & small furniture!!

★GARAGE ★ SALE Sat. July 6th 10am- 4pm 645 East 3rd St. Lots of goodies!

Goals: 1. Work from home.

2. Help a young person.

3. Be fulfilled.

Priority: PHONE PLEA

Live in Caregiver req’d to look after an Elderly Lady in West Van. Must have certificate & ref’s.

Email to: w.landry@shaw.ca or Fax Resume to: 604-926-6802

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Trades/Technical

EXPERIENCED PAINTERS required. 2-7 yrs exp, n/s. North Shore & Van. Call 604-727-2700

TRUTH IN ''EMPLOYMENT'' ADVERTISING Glacier Media Group makes every effort to ensure you are responding to a reputable and legitimate job opportunity. If you suspect that an ad to which you have responded is misleading, here are some hints to remember.

Legitimate employers do not ask for money as part of the application process; do not send money; do not give any credit card information; or call a 900 number in order to respond to an employment ad.

Job opportunity ads are salary based and do not require an investment.

If you have responded to an ad which you believe to be misleading please call the Better Business Bureau at 604-682-2711, Monday to Friday, 9am - 3pm or email inquiries@bbbvan.org and they will investigate.

NORTH VAN Garage Sale SATURDAY July 6th.

9AM - 1PM. 1260 Silverwood Cres, in Norgate area.

Lots of clothes, household items, etc in good condition.

UPPER LONSDALE MOVING SALE; All must go!

SUNDAY July 7 9AM - NOON 735 Regal Cres Kids toys and games, furniture, sporting equipment, kitchen stuff, clothes and much more.

NORTH VAN

Travel Agency in West Vancouver requires a full time RECEPTIONIST/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT to start immediately.

Responsibilities include answering phone and directing calls, working with travel consultants and clients, general office administration and daily monitoring and upkeep of social media.

Excellent command of the English language, communication skills and understanding of Social Media advertising as well as being able to interact well as a team player are required. A thorough understanding of basic computer programs is also required.

Forward resume to: bhartman@cruiseshipcenters.com Only applicants accepted for interviews will be contacted.

Home Support

Office Personnel

FNDA Architecture seeks Receptionist/Admin Assistant Responsible for organizing & managing a welcoming & efficient office environment.

Ability to multitask essential.

Email CV, cover letter and salary expectations to: melissa@fndesign.com

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Garage Sale

NORTH VAN

WEST VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 5540 Greenleaf Road Sat. July 6, 9 AM - 1 PM Furniture, Clothes, Office Furniture, Garden Tools, patio furniture, bookcases, and lots more.

PLEASE, no early birds.

Rain or Shine.

EMPLOYMENT 1240

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See what s possible.

Become a PLEA Family Caregiver.

It just makes sense.

PLEA provides ongoing training and support.

604.708.2628 caregiving@plea.bc.ca www.plea.ca

HEY KIDS! The North Shore News is accepting applications for the following routes: 1110210 – Belloc St., Berkley Rd., Keats Rd., Shelley Rd., Swinburne Ave. 1150012 – Chaucer Ave., Fromme Rd., Milton Ave., Shakespeare Ave., 1000215 – E. 6th St., E. 7th St., E. Keith Rd., Queensbury Ave., Sutherland Ave 1170013 – Crestwood Ave., Delbrook Ave., Genoa Cres., Greenway Ave., Hermosa Ave., Vienna Cres.,

Please call 604-986-1337 or e-mail distribution@nsnews.com

NORTH VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 4396 Nottingham Road Upper Lynn Valley: Saturday July 6, 10 AM - 1 PM Lots of kids stuff (boy’s) train table, furniture, sports equipment, rugs and more.

LYNN Valley Moving Sale 1991 Cedar Village Cres.

Sat. July 6, 9 AM - 1 PM Big moving sale of houseshold items, furniture, dishware, wall decorations, pictures, toys, luggage, back -packs, purses, clothes, coats, shoes, tv, books, toys,exercise equipment, music instruments.

Multi Family Garage Sale Sat July 6th, 9-3 3430 Mahon Ave

bunk beds, patio furn, sporting goods, comic books, household items, kids stuff!

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Garage Sale North Van

MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE Saturday, July 6th 9:00am -2:00

Kerry Place North Van

NORTH VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 2602 Kilmarnock Cres Lynn Valley: Saturday July 6, 8 AM - 1 PM Furniture, kids toys and clothes, and a whole lot more!

North Vancouver

Multi Family Garage Sale

Sat/Sun July 6 & 7, 9-2 Emerald Drive & Wellington Cres Rain Shine!

Something for Everyone!

NORTH VANCOUVER, Garage Sale 609 Baycrest Drive Dollarton/Deep Cove: Sat. July 6, 10 AM - 4 PM Sun. July 7, 10 AM - 2 PM Girls toys, stuffies and other household items.

N. Van

★GARAGE SALE★ Sat. July 6th 10am- 4pm 645 East 3rd St. Lots of goodies!

MOVING / GARAGE SALE Sat, July 6, 10am-noon 5507 Stellar Place Grousewoods Lots of odds / ends & even give aways!

NORTH VAN

Moving Sale Sat July 6th 8am-3pm 5665 Nancy Green Way

Furniture, teen clothes, books, sports, puzzles, bikes, Bradford Exchange plate collection, player piano, bmw tires & wheels, 32 ft painters ladder!

NORTH VAN GARAGE SALE Sat July 6th 8am-2pm 4235 Mt. Seymour Parkway Tools, furniture, computers, boys/adult clothes, antiques, sports, dishes, toys, nerfs, camping gear, garden stuff, electronics, china & silver.

North Van MASSIVE MULTI FAMILY SALE Sat July 6th 9am-noon 403 East 14th St. Lots of selection of good quality items. Vinly records, toys, furniture & much much more!

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Legal/Public Notices

Notice to Creditors

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Own a Vehicle?

Borrow Up To $25,000

No Credit Checks!

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www.PitStopLoans.com 604-777-5046

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Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS ERNEST SIBLEY HAYNES, also known as ERNEST HAYNES, Deceased, formerly of 3964 Westridge Avenue, West Vancouver, BC. Creditors and others having claims against the estate of the Deceased, who died on January 31, 2013, at West Vancouver, BC, are required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executor at #2700 - 700 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V7Y 1B8, on or before August 5, 2013, after which the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

BMO Trust Company, Executor.

Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, Barristers + Solicitors. classifieds.nsnews.com

Notice is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Philip John Harrison, otherwise known as Philip J. Harrison and Phil Harrison, formerly of 190 East Braemar Road, North Vancouver, British Columbia V7N 1P9, Deceased, are hereby required to send the particulars of their claims to the Administrator c/o Fast & Company Law firm, #5080 - 8171 Ackroyd Road, Richmond, BC V6X 3K1 on or before August 31, 2013, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed among the parties entitled to it, having regard only to the claims that have been received

Apartments & Condos

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North Van Apt. Rentals

INTERNATIONAL PLAZA 1989 Marine Drive NORTH VANCOUVER

Bachelors!

1 Bedrooms!

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Body Work

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Punjabi, Thai, Caucasian. Great Massage Now Hiring. 10amMidnight every day. 2263

Kingsway at Nanaimo St. Van.,

604.294.8038

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Escort Services

GENTLEMEN! Attractive discreet European lady is available for company.

604 451-0175

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Apartments & Condos

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North Van Apt. Rentals

1 BR, 10th flr, W 13th Lonsdale, ss appls, view, prkg, locker, gym, insuite w/d, now 604-617-0905 1 Br, $930, 2nd floor, August 1 Heat & h/w incl. quiet. gated, free outside prkg, no pets 1 yr lease.

310 E. 2nd. 604-700-7572

1 BR+ den, large, Time Bldg. decks, wd, ug prkg/2 storage, ns, np Aug 1. $1700, 604-614-7589 1 BR sunny, balc., 21/Lonsdale np, $900 incls heat, h/w & cable.

Aug 1, 604-985-0537, 318-9252 1BR $930, Avail. Aug 1st Heat incl’d, quiet, gated prkg. n/p, walk to seabus. 1 year lease 163 West 5th. 604-980-7501

1BR W. 20th & Lonsdale, heat, hw & prkg, no pet, ns, Aug. 1st.

Refs req’d. 604-960-0452

$20/HR. Quality House cleaning.

604-983-3477 www.qualityhc.com ✫✫A CLEAN SWEEP ✫✫ Reliable Housecleaning service.

778 836-9970 ✫✫ 604 987-9970

ENVIRO MAID INSURED and BONDED. Residential. Exc.refs.

Free est. $25/hr. 604-685-1344 enviromaid.net

Concrete

NEW CONSTRUCTION Concrete Work, Framing & Forming. John 604-562-1122

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Demolition

DEMOLITION

Old garage, carport, house, pool, repair main waterline, break concrete & removal.

Licensed • Insured • WCB

604-716-8528

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Apartments & Condos

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North Van Apt. Rentals

2 BDRM, 2 Bath, #1002 - 175 West 2nd St. view, 880sf, balc. ns np, Now, $1950. 604-353-8689

2 BDRM Apt, 1180sf, 2 baths, h/w flrs, balcony, partial view. 120 E. 4th, $1550. Call 604-984-2030

2 BR large, $1200, July 1st, heat, hot water, hardwood flrs, storage, ns, np, 604-971-2456

1 BDRM $985, quiet bldg, 17th/ Lonsdale, sec prkg, reno’d, incl heat h/w, 604-990-8262 985-1658

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Cleaning

Excavating - Drain Tile

RENTALS 604-980-3606

1 & 2 BR’s, view, avail Now, 1 year lse, 125 West 19th, N/S, No Pets, coin w/d, 778-554-0537

ARCHER Carpentry Finishing.

See archercarpentry.com or call Marc at 604.812.6112

N.C.B. CONCRETE LTD. Specializing in residential concrete. Repair, removal and new installation. Patio specialists.

604-988-9523, 604-988-9495

2 BR $1130 Aug 1, 2 BR $1150 Aug 10th, cntrl Lonsdale, carpets, incls heat & hot/water, no pets, 604-986-6418

CENTRAL LONSDALE ★Av. Aug 1 Spacious 1 BR corner ste . Features large kitchen, lots of storage, heat/ hot water incl. N/s, n/p. $990 604-983-0634

Carpentry

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City & Mtn. Views. Includes heat & hot water. Pool, Jacuzzi, sauna & tennis courts on site.

Security & video monitoring.

On major bus route.

rentals@caprent.com www.caprent.com

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CLEANING SERVICE. Reas rates, specializing in homes. Guar work. Refs avail. 604-715-4706

RENTALS 6505

HOME SERVICES

2 BR, south corner, top flr, $1200, balc, heat/hw inc, h/w fl, Adult bldg, ref’s. ns, np. 604-904-9507 2 BR, ste, $1100, Avail July 15 Gated prkg, quiet, drapes, heat incl. no pets, 1 yr lease, 321 East 2nd. 604-987-5802

2 BR ste’s avail July & Aug. Lynn Valley, from $1195.

Parklike Setting, Outdoor Pool, Playground. drapes, heat & prkg. incld. 1 yr lease. no pets 1228 Emery Pl. 604- 987- 4922

2BR $1250, incl heat/hotwater, prkg, hw flrs, balc, quiet bldg, E 21st, Aug 1, no pets, 604-990-4088 2BR NR Cap U, very spacious, reno’d, ns/np, $1300 incls ht/hw, 1 prkg, avail Now, 604-921-4384 3 BR $1500 Aug 1st, h/w flrs, incls ht, hw, Mile E of 2nd Narrows. NP, refs, 778-320-1554

Delbrook Gardens 777 W. Queens, 2 br $1595, 3 br $2100 604-990-2971, Wkends 778-227-5042

Drainage

RNC DRAINAGE

−Augering −Water & Sewer line repair & replacement −Sumps −Drain Tile −Concrete Work −Foundation, −Excavation −Retaing Walls −Site restored Call Ron 778-227-7316 or 604-568-3791

DELBROOK

DRAINAGE & PLUMBING Specialize in Waterlines 604-729-6695

★RITE-WAY★ DRAINAGE & SEWER 15% OFF - 604-925-8711

8075

Drywall

AFFORDABLE, Reliable, Quality Guaranteed. Boarding, Taping, Spraytex.

Dave 604-984-7476 FRAMING-BOARDING-TAPING Walls don’t talk, my work speaks for itself. Free Est. 604-512-8670 VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling & textured ceiling repairs. Complete drywall & taping. 604-307-2295

8080

Electrical

#18405 Electrician Best Rates, Local, Reliable, 24-7, All jobs 100% satisfaction. 604-765-8439 Adam A LICENSED electrician #19807 semi-retired, small jobs only.

604-689-1747 pgr 604-686-2319 ALL YOUR electrical & reno needs. Lic’d electrician #37940.

Bonded & insured 604-842-5276

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

8080

Electrical

ALP ELECTRIC #89724 Low price, big/small jobs, free est Satisfaction guar 604-765-3329 DNE ELECTRIC Lic #89267 ALL Your Electrical Needs.

Panel Upgrading. Reasonable Free Estimate 604-999-2332 LOOKING FOR A NORTH SHORE Electrician? #39593 Call POSITRON 778-859-4154 YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402.

Fast same day service guar’d. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087

Excavating

Excavating - Drain Tile Demolitions. Fully insured • WCB 604-716-8528

8090

Fencing/Gates

★ Beautiful Cedar Fence ★ Best Price, European Craftmanship, ERWIN 778-835-5015 BEAUTIFUL North Shore Gates, Fences, Arbors. 778-322-8645 johngormleycarpentry.com

NORTH SHORE FENCES

Quality work by professionals Repairs and construction 604-230-3559

Flooring/ Refinishing

8105

Golden Hardwood & Laminate & Tiles. Prof install, refinishing, sanding & repairs. 778-858-7263

6505

MOUNTAIN VILLAGE APTS 3 BR’s Apt Avail Now/Aug 1 Call 604-988-3828 www.mountainvillage.ca

2 BDRM, 2 bath, waterfront apt, 6th flr, new kitchen, insuite laundry, over 1100 sf, $3200, np.

Shows like new. 604-377-7616

MOVE-IN BONUS Vista Del Mar

2109 Bellevue h/w floors, incls hwater & heat, np/ns, 1 BDRM $1100 newly reno’d, avail July1 Call 604-986-1294

145 West Keith Road.

Studio (Now); 1BR’s (Aug 1); 2BR’s (Aug 1) Beautiful views. Indoor pool.

Heat & Hot Water included.

Small pet ok.

604-986-3356

PARKRIDGE TERRACE 110 E. Keith Rd. Great location, park like setting, sauna, indoor pool, parking available. ★ Studio $965, 1 BR $1100, 2 BR $1395 No pets, 604-988-7379 www.glassmanpm.com

THE PIER 9ft ceiling, air/c, 7 appl, 1 prkg, 100 E. Esplanade: 2 & 3 br $2,450 - $3300, 162 Victory Ship Way 1 br $1,600 hotel/gym access Anson Rlty Helen 604-671-7263.

TUCKTON PLACE 1520 Chesterfield. Studio apt there for $850. and a 1 bdrm for $995. 604 990-2971, wknd 778-340-7406 WOODCROFT Fullerton Av 1 br, Seymour Bldg, updated & westfacing, quiet, gated & guarded.

Short walk to Park Royal alongCap Rivr, pool, gym, u/g pkg,utils, $1200, Aug 1, 604-612-8267

AMBLESIDE TOWER

Studio (Aug 1); 1 BR’s ( Now & Aug 1); 2 BR’s (Aug 1) Mnt/Ocean views, incl. heat & h/w. Tennis courts, indoor pool, saunas, exercise & games rooms. Walk to beach & shops. Small pet ok.

Apartments & Condos

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

604-922-8443

Luxury Over The Seawall!

BACHELOR, pool, rec. room, pet ok, 2190 Bellevue Ave 604-926-6287

Park Royal Towers

STUNNING OCEANFRONT LOCATION Shorewood Manor 2020 Bellevue Avenue Large 2 BR from $3000 Unobstructed Water Views Professionally Managed Indoor pool, No Pets, Incl Heat & Hot Water Call 604.926.2713 www.austeville.com

6510

Co-ops

2BDRM/1BTH 871A West 17th Street, North Vancouver 2 Bed Townhome, Avail. Aug 1.

Families Only, $2500 Share Purchase, Small Pets OK, $1,089 monthly. Email: joulee sweet@gmail.com

6522

Furnished Accommodation

FURNISHED STE, working person, own w/d, private entry, bus stop, np ns $860.604-985-3408

All Utilities Included

Spectacular City & Ocean Views’ Huge Balconies Walk to Shops & Transit Hardwood Floors Gym, Swimming Pool

604-922-3246 935 Marine Drive

GRANDMANOR GUESTHOUSE Furnished Accom, Day/Wk/Mo grandmanor.ca 604-988-6082 HOMAWAY INNS Specializing in furn accom at reas rates. call 604-723-7820 or visit www.homawayinns.com N Van, AVAIL NOW! Fully furn self contained 1 BR ste, own wd, alarm, ns, np, wkly clean, suits 1, $975 all inclusive, 604-990-4835

CONNECTING COMMUNITIES

ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!

From the City to the Valley

604-630-3300

The Pink Palace on the Seawall

3 Bdrm

Indoor/outdoor pools.

Fitness centre & billiard room, no smoking 2222 Bellevue Ave. To view: 604-926-0627

Hardwood Floor Refinishing

PACIFIC WEST APTS. INC. Beautiful 1 br furn hi-rise apts, Max 2 prof, np/ns. short/long term

604-715-9184

SHARE MY apartment, 1 furnished bedroom, use of kitchen, all inclusive. Working male prefered. $625 per month. Lonsdale & Quay area. 604-980-2285

8125

NORTH SHORE GUTTER DIVISION Call 604-987-7663

Century Hardwood Floors 604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

8125

Gutters

No More HST! BOOK NOW! • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention 25 year Warranteed Leaf & Needle Guard

WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

604-340-7189 ACCREDITED BUSINESS

atyourhomeservicesgroup.ca

Gutters

★RITE-WAY★ GUTTERS 15% OFF - 604-925-8711

Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

8130

Handyperson

CAPILANO HANDYMAN

● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Renovations Demolition Plumbing Drywall Carpentry ● Cabinetry Painting ● Electrical Kitchens & Bath Flooring ● Paving Fences & Decks Insured & WCB

Tel: 604-219-0666 Carpentry, flooring, tiles, drywall, trim work, fences, repairs. Small job ok. Francisco 604-710-9837 www.chulavistalandscaping.ca 604-761-7745 ARMS & Minds Renos Carpentry cabinets, doors, finishing, flooring, tile, drywall, paint, deck, fence, siding, electrical, plumbing. 25 yrs exp.

ABBA RENOVATION carpentry, plumbing, wiring, painting, tiling. Work guar, Refs. (604)805-8463/ 986-4026 ABLE RENOVATIONS All home repairs & renos, large & small, North Shore only 604 319-2677

Installed • Cleaned • Repaired

604-876-4604

6522

Furnished Accommodation

★VICTORIA PARK SHORT STAY ★ 1 & 2 BR Apts, from $1500/mth. Ideal for 1-6 mo stay.

Renos, families, pet ok.

604-329-3272 www.vicparkshortstay.ca

6525

Garages

GARAGE - SECURE 600SQFT LANE ACCESS $650 Monthly 604- 218-7964. 604-985-5333

6535

Homestay

HOST FAMILY wanted. Please contact us at 604-688-1811 or e-mail: globalstudyedu@gmail.com

6540

2 Br, Edgemont Village, big yard, sunny, quiet, h/w flrs, w/d, $1500, n/s, Avail now. Call 604-988-7338

W.VAN SEMIWATERFRONT VIEW. 4 bdrm + den home, Whytecliff area. 2.5 bath, NS/NP. Avail. Sept 1. $3,400 monthly.

Call: (604) 921-7175 after 6 pm.

BRITISH PROPERTIES, view 4br, 3 bath, office, 2 kitchens, up/ down cov’d decks, lrg yrd, garage $2900+util July 1. 604-725-4873 WEST VAN, Dundarave, 4 bdrm, walk to shops/seawall, $3600/m, no pets, Details @ 604-319-7674

6565

AGRIOS HOME IMPROVEMENT Home Maintenance & Repairs.

Experienced, Reliable Service, Reasonable Rates Call Michael – 604 619-1126

6595

Shared Accommodation

6595-45

North Vancouver

Bright Furn room, tv, w/d, kitch, in lovely quiet home for NS healthy female $495 inclusive or less for small help 604-987-3726

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR, large, private home ns np, Grand Blvd area $900. avail immed 604-987-3031 1 BR & office, garden lvl, bright S. exp. Sentinel Hill, West Van, ns/ np, suit 1, July 1st, $1225 incls utils, shr’d w/d, 604-925-1250

Houses - Rent

1 BR, 1 bath, Blueridge, w/d, lrg yard, NS, pets negot, avail Now, $1200 + utils, 604-728-7709

Office/Retail Rent

150sf - 600sf Prime Office Space Avail for Lease. Excellent Rates!

Call Jeff or Ross 604-980-3003

www.parkroyaltowersapt.com

WATERFRONT LUXURY

Flooring/ Refinishing

6 BR, 4.5 bath, Central Lonsdale, includes legal 2 br ste, reno’d, dbl garage, nr school, quite area, $4700+util immed. 604-725-4873

Completely Renovated 1 BR (700-770 sq.ft.)

2 BR (1070 sq.ft.)

3 BR (1370 sq.ft.)

Penthouse (1650 sq.ft.)

8105

AT YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

Westwind Apts 2025 Bellevue Ave, 2 br ully reno’d, mtn view Cat OK Senior discount 604-913-0734

BACH $800 avail Now, 2 BR $1200 Aug 1, uper Lonsdale, incl patio, heat/hw nr bus/shop, No dogs, NS, 778-996-1263 BACH $850/mo New Reno’s, June 15th, heat, hotwater, h/w floors, ns, np, 604-971-2456

8073

PRIVATE OFFICES, Meeting Room/Boardroom, Kitchen 3 MONTHS FREE RENT Call Farhad at 604-765-0000 or email leasing@palagon.com

2 BDRM bsmt, Central Lonsdale, 2 yrs old, 5appl, $1325 incl utils, n/s n/p. Now Call 604-716-8507 2 BR, great ste, Blueridge, new kitch, inste wd, ns/np, $1380 incl utils, Now/Aug 1, 604-787-6245 2BR, FULLY furn, nr Cap U, w/d, lrg yard, NS, pets negot, Now, $1000 incl utils, 604-841-6344 GRAND BLVD area, Upstairs 2BR, lg liv.room, f/p, 550sq’ of sundeck, beautiful view. $1800.

Aug 1. 604 255-1952, 980-0226

1BDRM/1 FULL BATH GORGEOUS SUITE 9 ft ceilings, radiant heat, gas F/ P, SS appl., in quiet cul-de-sac close to bus, amenities, Deep Cove & much more. Shared util.

N/S, N/P, $1,200 /Mo. Justin 604-209-0965 jrkemp@shaw.ca On Grand Blvd, new home 1 BR ste, 5appls, hw flrs, ns/np, Aug 1, incls util/cbl, $1125, 980-4974 Upper Lons, 2 BR + den, 2 bath, upr flr of house, Aug 1, $1400 + utils, ns/np 604-868-1210

6605

Townhouses Rent

2 BDRM, 2 level, grd flr entry, 5 yr old bldg, patio, concrete bldg, in heart of Dundarave, np. Shows like new $2850. 604-377-7616

BOOK YOUR AD ONLINE classifieds.nsnews.com

HOME SERVICES 8130

Handyperson

SUNRISE PAINTING Drywall repair, textured ceiling & mouldings. Cell 604-657-6465

8150

Kitchens/Baths

8180

Home Services

THUNDERBIRD GLASS Glass canopies, ext/int glass rails, frameless glass shower enclosures. Rick/Wayne 604-980-7511

8185

BATHROOMS & much more. 30 yrs on the North Shore. Working within your budget. 778-387-3626

Moving & Storage

1175 W.15 St. North Van

Landscaping

604-518-5623

20 Years Experience Retaining Walls, Paving Stones, Rock Garden, Fences Water Sprinklers SPECIAL SUMMER CLEAN-UP (Garden) Design - Consultation- Installation 604-518-5661 KatsuraLandscaping.ca

8160

Garbage Removal • Deliveries

MOVING

Licensed & Insured

Y.K. Landscaping Co. Ltd.

Lawn & Garden

A.A.BEST PRO GARDEN SERVICES LTD.

Lawn Maintenance, Moss Control, Trimming, Topping, Pruning, etc.

Call Sukh

604.726.9152 604.984.1988

A.All Area Gardening Service Lawn Maintenance • Aerating Moss Control • Power Raking Trim • Prune • Top • Gen. Clean-up

604-726-9153 604-926-1526

Give us an estimate and we will beat it!

Call 778.994.5403

DA LU moving experts, over 10 yrs exp, 2 men $55/hr Loc/long distance 778-855-4252 LOCAL MOVERS big/small Moving, rubbish removal, recycling, etc 604-603-3533, 604-925-3186

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

JB’s PAINTING • Interior/Exterior • Professional • Reliable • North Shore company since 2001

604-773-4549 ★ PARS PRO PAINTER ★

SUMMER SPECIALS ■ High Quality Wrk ■ WCB/Ins ■ Re-Paint ■ 10 yrs exp ■ Team Work ■ Comm & Res. ■ Powerwashing ■ Ref’s North Shore Co. Free Est. 604-868-9440

604-518-5661

Performance Garden Service

LAWNCUTS Free Estimates

Graig 604-986-3463

APPLYING LASTING BEAUTY Exterior/Interior Specialist Quick & Clean Quality Craftsmanship Insured, Free Est., WCB Carter: 604-790-4554

Serafina Garden Services Maintenance, Design, Organic References Avail , 604-984-4433 GREAT LOOKING Landscapes Full service landscape & garden maint. Call Dave: 604-764-7220 JB GARDEN'S Hedges, trimming & cleanups, pruning, weeding.

Call Terry 604-354-6649 LIONS GATE Landscaping Ltd. Your Maintenance & Landscape Specialist 604-788-9687 Ny Ton Gardening Trimming, Shrubs, Pruning, Yard Cleanup, 604-782-5288

ALLEN ASPHALT concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187 TERRY’S DRIVEWAY SEALING Anniversary Special • Free ests North Shore Co. 604-980-7507

8220

SUNRISE PAINTING & DECORATING

Cell 604-657-6465 or 604-987-6560 A CLEAN PAINT JOB. Quality 1 room from $137. Int-ext, WCB 22 yrs exp. Cell: 604-727-2700 ALL HOME PAINTING & RESTORATION Comm/Residential 604-290-7176 Excellent Pro Painting Service 20 yrs exp, refs, warranty. Reas, res/comm Richard 604-618-0205 EXTERIOR & INTERIOR PAINT & WOOD STAINING Call 604-281-0807

PAINTING FOR LESS $$$ European quality Since 1982 Lowest Price Guaranteed! Interior experts. Paul 778.919.2213 www.finnlineinteriors.com ★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reas. rates. BBB, 604-809-3842

8200

Renovations & Home Improvement

BAMFORD CONSTRUCTION Ltd. Quality Renovations.

604-986-2871 www.bamford.ca ★Ext/Int Specialist ★ PRO PROPERTY PAINTING Quick & Clean Quality, Insured, Free Est. Carter 604-790-4554 James Walter Construction & Project Management: renovations, structural, sundecks, insured. Call 604-788-8863

Actual Plumbing & Heating, Boilers, Furnaces, Tankless, Hotwater tanks, 24/7, Seniors Disc.

Lic. BBB, 604-874-4808

RNC RENOVATIONS Ins, WCB, Member of BBB, 778-227-7316 www.rncrenovations.com

SAVE ON PLUMBING Licensed Plumber/Gas fitter, $68/HR. Same day service. Insured, BBB member Call 604-987-7473 Samy

SN TOTAL HOME RENO New bathrooms, remodelling kitchens, finishing basements, decks. Free ests 604-318-4054

Power Washing

604-773-4549 Summer Cleaning: Driveways, walkways..Get rid of that moss & mess around your home or work.

Pars Pro Painting.

Power Washing. Comm & res.

604-868-9440

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

TOTAL HOME A RENOVATIONS

8250

Roofing

AT YOUR HOME ROOFING SERVICES

No More HST! BOOK NOW! • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Duroid, Cedar, Torch-on • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs

WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

Complete Renos & Additions, incl.: Kitchen & Bath Improvements • Roofing • Sundecks • Door & Window Replacements

604-340-7189

Bill 604-298-1222

atyourhomeservicesgroup.ca

ALL HOME RENOVATIONS LTD. Kitchen & Bathrooms, Additions,Wood & Vinyl Decks, Railings

604-290 -7176

NORTH SHORE ROOFING LTD.

778.233.0559

AMBLESIDE ROOFING

HOME SERVICES Find the professionals you need to create the perfect renovation.

ARCADIA STONEWORK bricks, blocks, natural, cultured & paving stones. Alex - 778-895-6170

604-630-3300

THUNDERBIRD GLASS

604-980-7511

www.thunderbirdglass.com

ACKER’S RUBBISH REMOVAL Quick. 7 days. Fast & reliable.

Spencer 604-924-1511 ● BIN RENTALS ● ★ Top Soil Deliveries ★ 7 days a wk. Fast service 604-985-4211 orangebins.com BIN SERVICES for your Dirt Fill, Rock, Concrete or Asphalt Jobs. ● Load up to 8 c/yd-Demo 20 c/yd Sand, Gravel, Soil, Rock Deliveries

Dalton Trucking 604-986-6944

BIN THERE DISPOSAL Disposal Bin Rentals. Same day service. 604-980-7600 ROD’S RUBBISH REMOVAL Prompt, reliable, reasonable. Big/ small loads. 7 days 604-985-7193 RUBBISH REMOVAL & Demolition Mark 604-219-0666

DC STUCCO LTD. 21 years exp.

Fast, friendly service. All types of Finishes & Repairs. 604-788-1385

8309

Tiling

A & Wes Tile top European quality Tile install custom bath-kitch 604-657-0343 AandWesTile.com

renovateme.ca

all tiling, repairs, remodels, bathrooms, kitchens, patios ★★★ 604-761-2421 ★★★

8310

Top Soil

DALTON TRUCKING LTD.

Top Soil, Garden Soil, Fill Soil, Sand, Gravel, and More.

Small and Large Deliveries.

- Or you can pick up Dump Site for Dirt, Concrete, Asphalt.

Dirt,Rock,Demo Bins, U-Load.

Recycled Products, Blast Rock, Round Rock, Sorted Rocks

604-986-6944

87 Mountain Hwy, N.Van.

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-02

Abbotsford

6020

Houses - Sale

6020-14

IMMACULATE TOP fl 963sf 2 br condo, insuite laundry, +55 building, $121,500 604-309-3947 see uSELLaHOME.com id5565

Top Soil

Headwater Management TOP SOIL, SAND, GRAVEL, etc.

Pick-up or Delivery 175 Harbour Ave. North Vancouver

604-985-6667

8315

Tree Services

TREE WORKS

Tree & Stump Removal Done Right!

Trimming & Pruning.

Fully Ins. Best rates.

604-787-5915 604-291-7778 treeworksonline.ca

10% discount with this ad

ROBIN’S 604-986-4091

Expert Tree Care - Cert. Arborist 25yrs Experience. Fully Insured.

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place ads online @ classifieds. nsnews.com

REAL ESTATE

6030

Lots & Acreage

Langley/ Aldergrove

ALDERGROVE SXS DUPLEX 80K below assessment. $3100mo rent $529,900 firm 604-807-6565 see uSELLaHOME.com id3428

6020-26 TOP FLR 762sf 1br condo, in-ste laundry, 45+ building Mt. Baker view $85,000. 778-822-7387 see uSELLaHOME.com id5553

6008-28

LANGLEY NR town fully reno’d 2474sf home on 5ac ppty, bsmt suite $1,150,000 604-825-3966 see uSELLaHOME.com id5582

6008-42

PLACE YOUR GARAGE SALE ADS 24/7 Place your ad online

classifieds.nsnews.com

SUN 2-4, # 2111 Queensbury Ave, North Van. 3BR + den, 3 ba, dble garage, 3037sf, $950K. Eunice Century 21, 604-961-0898

6020-34

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.

6052 Surrey

Real Estate Investment

FLEETWOOD RENO’D 2140sf 4br 3ba, large 7100sf lot, bsmt ste $515,000 firm 604-727-9240 see uSELLaHOME.com id5617

6020-38

LANGLEY RENOD sxs duplex +1/2ac lot, rental income $2,300 /month $489,900 604-807-6565 see uSELLaHOME.com id3186

6065

Recreation Property

Vancouver East Side

S. Surrey/ White Rock

PARTIAL OCEAN view, 920sf 2br+den 2ba quiet condo, kids, pets ok. $309,000 778-294-2275 see uSELLaHOME.com id5575

Houses - Sale

6020-06

North Vancouver

Richmond

STEVESTON VERY large 1284 sf 2br 2ba top fl condo amazing mtn views, $455K 604-275-7986 see uSELLaHOME.com id5376

6020

· Quality Custom Glass Canopies · Interior/Exterior Glass Rails · Frameless Showers & Skylights

CALL RICK/WAYNE:

A RESPONSIBLE NORTH VAN MAN with truck ONLY $25 + dump charges 604-377-3175

to advertise call

Patios/Decks/ Railings

Masonry

10% OFF with this ad w w w.student worksdisposal.com

604-987-ROOF

ENGLISH LAWNS, new lawn installs, replace old, drainage, landscaping, pavers, etc.

Any size job. Nick, 604-929-7732

8175

$49

John 778-288-8009

8310

ALL STUCCO, chimney concrete and cement work. Professional, reas rate reliable 604-715-2071

B i n s f ro m 5 - 3 0 y a rd s a v a i l .

(7663)

All types - Reroofs & Repairs Insured/WCB 778-288-8357

Precision Craftsmanship Professional Service

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

All Types of Roofing

604-715-0404 www.allinwonder.ca

Carpentry, Flooring, Bathrooms, Kitchens, Exteriors, Home Repairs, Odd Jobs & More!

Trips start at

• Liability Insurance • A+ Rating BBB • WCB

A-1 Contracting & Roofing ReRoofing & Repair. WCB. 25% Discount. Jag, 778-892-1530

RENOVATE & REPAIR

Student Works

8300

ACCREDITED BUSINESS

GENERAL CONTRACTOR From building permit drawings to construction One call does it all!

WCB • Insured • Licensed

We do it all and within your budget.

778-387-3626

Rubbish Removal Disposal & Recycling

H 604-986-3986 C 604-537-9452

www.RenoRite.com Bath, Kitchens, Suites & More Save Your Dollars! 604-451-0225

8225

8255

2 OLD GUYS 2 YOUNG TO RETIRE WE DO IT ALL!

Plumbing

Adding a 2nd income property to your home or renovating your old bathroom?

COLOURED Cedar Painting. A small, house painting company offering high quality, well priced ext/int painting (778) 988-4162

8240

★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com

www.chrisdalehomes.com

2013 Special Aeration, moss control $95. Lawn maintenance 604-726-9153 & 604-926-1526 All West Garden Services Lawn maint, moss control, trimming, pruning topping, general cleanups... CALL SUKH 604-716-8479 or 604-984-1988

Driveway, Walkway & Parking Lot Garage Apron / Speed Bump / Pot Hole / Patch Commercial & Residential www.jaconbrospaving.com

Since 1983

since 1975

Certified Horticulturists Design • Planting • Maintenance Yard Clean-ups. Call Scott. www.KatsuraLandscaping.ca

ASPHALT PAVING

FROM DESIGN TO FINISH

SUMMER SPECIAL

Garden Services

Paving/Seal Coating

604-618-2949

MOVING & STORAGE

8155

8205

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Chilliwack

CULTUS LK gardener’s dream 1160 sf 2 br 1.5 ba rancher, a/c 55+ complex $63K 604-858-9301 see uSELLaHOME.com id5400

WESTSIDE HOME in 'Vancouver Heights'. Open House, 3629 Yale St, Van. Sat/Sun July 6 & 7, 2-4pm Brand New Custom 4200sf Residence, incredible views, 5 patios, roof top deck, 800sf legal ste, 3 car gar w/bath, 18ft folding glass walls expands the main flr.

Exotic Italian Marble & Caesarstone countertops! Call: Marla @ Sutton 778-896-5972

6030

Lots & Acreage

LANGLEY BUILD your dream home, secluded 5 ac view ppty, well inst $630,000 604-825-3966 see uSELLaHOME.com id4513

BEST LAKE FRONT FROM VAN only 1 hr, nr Bellingham, 2,900 sft, 5 br, 4.5 bath, 19 yr old home.

Beautiful low bank waterfront, $679,000. Call 604-734-1300

HATZIC LAKE 1 hr drive from Vanc, 2 vacant lots 1 is lakefront $65K is for both 604-240-5400 see uSELLaHOME.com id5588

HATZIC LAKE Swans Point, 1 hr from Vanc incl lot & 5th wheel ski, fish, $134,500. 604-209-8650 see uSELLaHOME.com id5491

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STK 952500

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I spent this Canada Day outside of Canada, staring at the odd little cars which trundled toand-fro past my window, and thinking about the sorts of machinery I’d be seeing back home.

that’s slightly reminiscent of a Volkswagen product, a sportier, slightly lower suspension than the base-engined Forester, twin rear exhausts, fog-lights and an integrated rear spoiler.

It’s still basically a box on top of another box, but simple looks turn out to be a good thing when you climb inside.

Environment Subarus have traditionally sold based on the surefootedness and zest of their powertrains, rather than interior build quality. After a few years, most of them start sounding like there’s a maraca stuffed in the glove compartment.

The new Forester is slightly improved in this department,

This led to some musing on the peculiarities of the Canadian automotive landscape, and an attempt to try and put my finger on what, exactly, driving in Canada is all aboot. I mean, about.

It’s a hard question to answer. After all, while many of the cars that we purchase and drive around our vast, sparsely populated nation are actually built here, it’s not like you’d notice, apart from the kilometres on the speedometer.

Basically, while Canadians tend towards smaller compact cars, we buy roughly the same sort of vehicles as our American cousins. The F-150 pickup truck is the bestseller in both countries.

And so, I thought about more Canadian efforts: the Montcalm, the Acadians (never built here), the Frontenac — most of these were just re-badged American cars.

Everyone’s probably familiar with the New Brunswick-built Bricklin, Canada’s answer to the DeLorean, but as none of the 3,000-odd gull-winged Safety Vehicles were ever sold in Canada, it’s not really a Canadian car.

Idle musing turned, as it so often does, to idle Internet

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THERE are two types of trail mix: that which has chocolate in it, and that which does not.

Frankly, I’m not sure why the latter even exists, unless it’s because you just spent a delicious afternoon picking all the Smarties out from between the peanuts and sunflower seeds. The point is, sometimes a little sweetness makes the hike just that little bit better.

Here is Subaru’s equivalent of the chocolate chip studded handful, the all-new turbocharged Forester XT. Totally redesigned for the 2014 model year, the Forester is now more spacious, a little bit larger in exterior dimensions, and engine size has shrunk a bit.

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Let’s not overreact. Yes, the new Fozzie is cleaner, and leaner, and a little bit greener,

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Design Somebody once described a turbo’d Subie as having the Sydney Opera House stuck on the hood. That’s a good one.

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browsing, and I stumbled across a funny little plastic-bodied car with a cute bug-eyed face, parked next to a flamboyantly posing model with more than a passing resemblance to Tim Curry.

“Made in Quebec,” I read, hmm . . . that’s a bit interesting. I delved further.

What I had discovered was the Manic GT, a rear-engine, rear-drive sports car of exceeding rarity, designed, manufactured and sold entirely in Canada. And, like our country, it has deep French roots.

In the late-1960s, you could still buy a Renault in Canada, and the French company was considering whether or not to bring over their Alpine sportscar. They hired a likely young Montrealer with the un-likely name of Jacques About and tasked him with finding out whether a two-seater sportster would have any appeal to Canucks.

The answer was yes, we did want a lightweight, fun-to-drive runabout in the European style. “Good to know,” replied Renault, and then promptly did nothing about it.

Monsieur About, on the other hand, thought he might just have stumbled on a gold mine.

Encouraged by the results of his survey, he formed a company with a view to building his own version of the Alpine, a super-lightweight sportscar built off the chassis of a rear-engine Renault 8 sedan.

First, startup funds were needed, so the fledgling company — L’Ecurie Manic, so-named for the nearby Manicougan River — decided to go racing. Success came almost instantly with their Alfa-Romeo-engined racer setting a lap record.

The charming Jacques was able to line up funds from Bombardier, the Federal Government, a major supermarket chain and the Quebec pension fund. Seems a bit of an odd mix,

but so too was the car.

The prototype Manic GT took the running gear and chassis of the Renault 8 and added a curvy fibreglass-plastic body, attached directly to the frame not by bolts, as in some other similar machines, but fibreglassed directly on.

Power came from any one of three 1.3-litre Renault engines, the most peppy of which pumped out just 105 horsepower — not great, but with a 658-kilogram curb weight, plenty enough to be plenty quick. The car had disc brakes at all four corners, handled a bit like a low-slung Lotus Europa, and looked like a cross between a Saab Sonett and a Triumph Spitfire. It was a little bit of home-brewed European flavour made right in Canada.

When the first cars showed up at the Montreal International Auto Show, public response was very good, just as the survey predicted it would be. The public loved the hot little two-seater, and while at $3,400 it was about the same price as a Mustang or Camaro, the Manic GT was entirely unique. The orders poured in.

With a 60,000 square-foot factory set to go, and plenty of money in his war chest, M. About could hardly fail, right? Désolé, mes amis, because Renault’s lack of interest in Canada would again be a problem.

Despite having workers ready to go, and customers with ready money, Manic just couldn’t get the parts from Renault. There was a strike, there was a problem with the paperwork, the time difference created issues, nobody was available in Paris having gone home early for the weekend.

Delay after delay. In desperation, Manic began sourcing parts from local dealers and warehouses in the United States and Canada.

The cost and further delays were simply too great. Frustrated by supply chains, Manic fell victim to their creditors in 1971, having built

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A Manic GT gets set to roar along the snowy roads of its Canadian homeland. The roadster was poised to be a hit before problems getting parts shut it down. just 160 cars.

Extremely few of these remain today, as small French cars do not do well in harsh Eastern Canadian winters, and the Manic GT’s frame rusted right out within a few years. Worse, restoring a survivor is extremely difficult because of the glassed-on body — surgery must be done, and it’s very tricky.

But there are a still a few out there, and while the company was ill-fated, the car itself is something special. It’s uniquely Canadian: small, scrappy, modestly powered but making the

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and looks both well screwed together and sort of nice. That seems like faint praise, but like the Impreza, it’s actually quite a leap forward, and solidly mid-pack when compared to competitors like the CRV or CX-5. Speaking of which, isn’t it nice the Forester still has a real car-name emblazoned on the hatch?

Rear cargo room is up by around 10 per cent — it was already pretty good — the rear seats are nice and roomy, and far more comfortable than in something like a Ford Escape, and proper raised roof rails to bolt your skis/kayaks/in-laws to are standard.

Up front, the driver has a mix of chunky, easy to use controls, and somewhat outdated feeling instrumentation. There’s also a lot of very easily scratched hard plastic in the doors and centre console, though Subaru has made efforts to increase the amount of soft-touch plastic in the dash. Like all Foresters, I’d expect this one to start looking a little shopworn after a few years of hard use, and pretty much keep that appearance for the next 20 years.

Everything except the basic 2.5i model comes with a standard reverse camera, which is about the size of an iPhone4 screen and about the resolution of a Nintendo Game Boy (i.e. a bit grainy). It’s better than nothing, but others have managed better integration of this technology.

Performance Standard versions of the Forester retain the old 2.5i pancake, now strapped to either a six-speed manual transmission (yay!) or a CVT (boo!). All trim-levels of the XT get a 2.0-litre direct-injection turbocharged engine that makes 250 horsepower and 258 foot-pounds of torque.

While I’d like to take a moment of silence for the zanily torquey old 2.5-litre turbo-four . . . . . (there, done.), this new four cylinder is peachy-keen and I can’t wait until it finds its way into the new WRX — or into the BRZ, hot diggity! Unlike previous smaller-displacement Subaru mills, there’s little in the way of lag while the turbocharger spins up.

Paired with the CVT, it’s a very compelling powertrain.

While the powerboat feel of a continuously variable transmission might not be everyone’s cup of tea, I really like the way the never-shifting CVT constantly holds the engine in boost all the way down an on-ramp, or in a passing situation.

The turbo spools, the torque comes in a long steady wave, and like the Looney Tunes Road Runner, you are outta there! Things get better when you put the adjustable throttle response in its sharpest setting, which is called — you guessed it — Sport Sharp.

The Forester’s right-sized steering wheel is also flanked

by paddle shifters, and flicking things into manual, these do a creditable job of simulating a quick-shifting autobox.

Certainly Mazda’s CX-5 has a crisper gearbox here, but as you can’t get it with paddles, sporting points to Subaru.

Carving into the corners, some of those points are perhaps clawed back as the Forester is a bit roly-poly and hardly a WRX XL. The steering is somewhat lifeless, not quite as good as the new Imprezas, and while everything feels very planted thanks to the electrically controlled all-wheel drive, it’s not exactly a tarmac scalpel.

This is not going to sound very flattering, but it feels like a sort of combat-spec shovel, with a long-travel suspension and decent ground clearance for handling the rough stuff.

This it is absolutely fantastic at, and I can’t think of another crossover that I’d rather be in if tackling the gravel route from Pemberton to Harrison.

Actually, the XT feels a bit like Subaru’s rally roots are down there somewhere and the pit crew has just set the trucklet up for a gravel stage, rather than tarmac. Families who are trading up out of a hatchback WRX to fit all the kid stuff can probably tighten things up with a set of stiffer aftermarket springs and anti-roll bars. I’d be tempted to just strap on a set of driving lights and go racing across Siberia.

Features The standard ($25,995) Forester 2.5i comes in a base trim with Bluetooth handsfree, automatic headlights and heated seats to keep your buns all nice and toasty as you drive to Yellowknife for the weekend. There’s also a choice of transmissions at this level, either six-speed manual, or CVT. The Convenience package, at $29,795, adds a power driver’s seat, foglights, backup camera and 17-inch alloy wheels. Buyers also have the option of stepping up the Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle rating, a trim developed for California’s strict environmental ratings. The PZEV isn’t a hybrid — it just has upgrades to the catalytic converter, fuel injectors and engine-management to run even cleaner.

The $29,995 Touring package has a power sunroof and power liftgate, and is the other trim level where a sixspeed manual is an option. This is also the first trim where the 2.0T turbocharged XT comes in, at $32,495.

Limited editions are essentially the leather model, $33,295 for the base 2.5i fourcylinder and $2,200 more for the 2.0-litre turbo engine. Also available is Subaru’s Eyesight suite of technologies, a camera

The checkered flag The Subaru badge up front should have clued you in — amongst all the small crossovers out there, this one is as sturdy as a hiking shoe and as spacious as a metal-frame backpack.

Competitors Mazda CX-5 ($22,995) If a little more zip in your SUV is required, then the new 2.5-litre CX-5 is nearly without peer in the crossover segment.

It’s sensible looking, nicely laid out inside, and (as tested by yours truly), actually quite impressive off-road.

It’s also a much nicer driver’s car than the Forester, a corner-carver that’s more fun-to-drive than you’d expect from a car-truck with a high

based safety system that includes collision detection and all the rest, and also automatic cruise control.

Fuel economy for the Forester XT is rated at 7.2 litre/100 km on the highway (just a litre more than the four-cylinder), and 8.9 l/100 km in the city. As with any turbocharged car, actual observed economy is going to mostly depend on how heavy your right foot is.

Green light All-road capabilities; plenty of cargo space; great sightlines; handsome new looks; much improved fuel economy.

Stop sign Soft suspension set up; somewhat numb steering; hard plastic interior in places.

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REAR cargo room in the Forester is substantial and all of the seats are spacious and comfortable. centre of gravity. It is, however, quite a bit bumpier when the going gets rough, and it lacks practical touches like raised roof-rails. Also, the straight-line

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The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. †Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2013 Elantra GL 6-Speed Manual / Tucson L 5-Speed Manual/ Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto with an annual finance rate of 0%/0%/1.99% for 96 months. Bi-weekly payments are $92/$99/$145. No down payment required. Cost of Borrowing is $0/$0/$2,291. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,495/$1,760/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2013 Elantra GL 6-Speed Manual for $19,094 (includes $750 price adjustment) at 0% per annum equals $92 bi-weekly for 96 months for a total obligation of $19,094. Cash price is $19,094. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,495. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. !Fuel consumption for 2013 Elantra Sedan GL 6-Speed Manual (HWY 5.2L/100KM; City 7.1L/100KM)/ Tucson L 5-Speed Manual (HWY 7.7L/100KM; City 10.4L/100KM)/ Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto (HWY 6.7L/100KM, City 10.1L/100KM) are based on Energuide. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. "Price of models shown: 2013 Elantra Limited /Tucson Limited AWD/ Santa Fe 2.0T Limited AWD is $24,794/$34,109/$40,259. Prices include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,495/$1,760/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. ΩPrice adjustments are calculated against the vehicle’s starting price. Price adjustments of up to $750/$1,250/$500 available on 2013 Elantra GL 6-Speed Manual/Tucson L 5-Speed Manual/Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto. Price adjustments applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. †Ω"Offers available for a limited time, and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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Jim Pattison Hyundai Northshore 855 Automall Dr. North Vancouver, 604-985-0055 D#6700

A44 - North Shore News - Friday, July 5, 2013

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