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2 rescued from Woodcroft blaze Jane Seyd jseyd@nsnews.com

FIREFIGHTERS rescued two elderly residents from a 10th floor apartment Thursday morning after a fire broke out in one of the Woodcroft highrise towers at 2012 Fullerton Ave. District of North Vancouver fire crews raced to the scene off Capilano Road after smoke and flames were reported coming from the window of an apartment on the Pemberton building’s ninth floor. When they arrived, “There was heavy smoke and flame coming out of the ninth floor window,” said assistant fire chief Mike Cairns.

Residents of the 13-floor apartment building had already evacuated after the fire alarm went off.

One fire crew went into the building to tackle the fire on the ninth floor. One of two occupants of the apartment — a See Exterior page 5

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A large dump tuck lies on its side after its load shifted while backing into the driveway of a construction site in the 1100block of Eyremont Drive in West Vancouver Thursday morning. There were no injuries, but police closed the road until the truck was towed. Scan with Layar for video and more photos.

Mayor sings developer’s praises

Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com

HE was no Mick Jagger, or even Rod Stewart for that matter, but Michael Smith puts on a decent unplugged show.

The District of West Vancouver mayor drew a substantial crowd of the West Vancouver business community to a chamber of commerce function Thursday to talk candidly about the most pressing issues facing the district and what he thought should be done about them.

The jam session covered a number of topics but it was Ambleside and Grosvenor that were the fan favourites.

The developer’s latest redesigned proposal for six- and seven-

Mike Smith delivers ‘unplugged’ performance to WV chamber

storey towers on the 1300-block of Marine Drive was being evaluated by the district’s design review committee as Smith rapped with his audience and the project is expected to be back before council at the June 17 meeting.

After years of bouncing around in public process and redesign, it was time to “man up,” put it to a vote, and pass it, Smith said.

“When it finally does come back to council, it’s gone through an exhaustive process and I really think it’s time that we give it

the stamp of approval and move ahead with this thing,” Smith said drawing applause from the audience.

The sale of the land would bring in about $36 million to help finance the new combination of police headquarters and fire hall in a pubic safety building, millions more in community amenities and $1 million annually in tax revenue, all while rejuvenating the neighbourhood and giving Ambleside businesses a badly needed boost, Smith said.

The opposition opinion that building above four storeys would ruin the character of the neighbourhood doesn’t wash, Smith said, noting there are 50 buildings south of Esquimalt between 13th and 19th streets that are taller than Grosvenor’s proposal.

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SUNDAY FOCUS NORTH VANCOUVER BOY SURVIVES 2 OPEN HEART SURGERIES IN 4 DAYS

‘Perfect’ is a good word

Martin Millerchip mmilllerchip@nsnews.com

SHANNON Westerlund’s Christmas plans for her family went out the window on Dec. 22.

Her son Andrew, 12, had come to her the previous night after the last day of term at Braemar elementary and said his tummy muscles hurt.

Westerlund didn’t think too much of it, but 30 minutes later she saw he was walking hunched over and shuffling his feet like an old man. She suggested they go to a walk-in clinic and Andrew immediately agreed — which gave his mom pause. “Twelve-year-old boys, they never say that!”

The doctor at the clinic thought Andrew’s spleen was enlarged but didn’t know why.

He suggested they go to Lions Gate Hospital’s emergency department for tests. They spent the night there and Westerlund’s husband Mike spelled her off the following afternoon so she could go home and shower. Mike phoned shortly afterwards to say the doctors thought Andrew might have a type of mono and would be sending him home with antibiotics once he’d had his lungs Xrayed to double-check that the “gurgling” wasn’t serious.

When Westerlund got NEWS photo Kevin Hill out of her shower there was another message from Mike ANDREW Westerlund is full of life and flaunts his scars less than four months after a heart transplant at B.C. Children’s Hospital. The 12on the phone. Everything had year-old is back at school, is skiing again and plans to attend the Canadian Jamboree with his scout troop this summer. changed. Andrew was being Andrew’s family were shown photographs of what would transported by ambulance to B.C. Children’s Hospital. The lung him back to Children’s on Jan. 9.

“One echo (echo cardiogram) and one ECG happen to Andrew, but were told that the reality would be X-ray had revealed that Andrew’s heart was enlarged — a lot. different. “However nothing can ever prepare you. I mean, he Westerlund would later learn it was more than three times bigger (electrocardiogram) later it’s off to the little room we go.”

They were told Andrew would be immediately admitted to looked dead under all that equipment. than normal.

“But after the surgery, I asked him, ‘Do you feel better today?’

“In the time it takes you to have a shower, your life completely the ICU and listed for a heart transplant.

“I knew Andrew was worse and I had packed a bag and put — you know, after seven hours of open heart surgery — ‘Or did changes.”

When the Westerlunds got to the hospital they were met by it in the car without my husband knowing, but you can never you feel better yesterday?’

“He looked at me and said, ‘I feel better today. This is so the cardiologist who had already seen Andrew. He asked to talk prepare yourself for that sort of news.”

Andrew was officially placed on the transplant list Jan. 11, but much better.’ And that was only 12 hours after the surgery.” to them.

Andrew’s heart function had been so bad that all of his organs “You’re thinking, OK, he’s pulling us into a room to talk. his condition continued to deteriorate. Westerlund overheard a conversation between doctors in the ICU about how poorly his had started to shut down — the explanation for his enlarged This is way more serious than I had thought.”

The doctor told them their son had dilated cardiomyopathy, heart was functioning. Ejection fraction references the percentage spleen — and his lungs had 1.5 litres of fluid in them.

Despite the fact that the Berlin heart has its own backup a condition in which the enlarged and weakened heart cannot of blood pumped out of the ventricle with each contraction. “You properly pump blood. “I will always remember him saying to us, want that number to be between 55 per cent and 70 per cent. systems and a mechanical fail-safe device — think manual bicycle Andrew’s number in December was 20. That day in the ICU it pump — the next bed in ICU was cleared so that a second ‘This will be life changing for Andrew and your family.’”

Andrew was admitted to the intensive care unit at B.C. was ‘undeterminable’. I later learned that they were guessing it $300,000 heart machine was within easy reach.

Westerlund stayed at the hospital the entire time her son was Children’s for a few days and then spent a few days more on a was about 11 per cent.”

Andrew was so sick, they did not want to transfer him by there, sleeping in a small room with a Murphy bed. On the night general ward before being released on Dec. 30.

Westerlund says the hospital goes to town to try to make ambulance to St. Paul’s Hospital to await a heart transplant. of Jan. 21 she was woken by a nurse who told her Gandhi was Christmas special for not only the young patients, but their His cardiologist and Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, the head of pediatric on the phone for her.

“So I’m walking to the ICU looking at my watch and trying families as well. When Santa came, Andrew’s two sisters, Sidney, cardiac surgery at Children’s, decided the best course of action was to give Andrew a Berlin artificial heart while he waited for to figure out why the surgeon wants to talk with me at 2:24 in 9, and Katherine, 14, received presents too.

When Andrew was released, he was told he would need a a donor heart. Essentially, the pumping action of his heart’s the morning. I was actually worried about what might have gone pacemaker and a defibrillator within the month and that there left and right ventricle would take place outside of his body, wrong in the three hours since I went to bed, before I realized was a chance he might need a heart transplant within the next controlled by a $300,000 machine the size of a two-drawer filing that this might be the call.”

It was, with Gandhi expressing cautious optimism that the cabinet. He would be the first patient at Children’s to undergo five years — potentially within the next year.

Westerlund didn’t want to hear that. “I was having trouble such an operation — one that had been envisaged for the larger right heart for Andrew might be available the next day.

Westerlund phoned her husband and relayed the news. Mike with ‘defibrillator’ and ‘pacemaker.’ I thought, OK, we’ll deal operating rooms planned for 2017 in the new hospital, but not reminded her that at 9 a.m. he was scheduled to meet with a with it if we have to, but I didn’t want to think about that. I was in the cramped operating rooms of the present facility.

Gandhi, a Nova Scotia native and a graduate of McGill major company in the mining industry about a possible job. terrified.”

Andrew had lost weight, and was reacting poorly to the University, had performed similar operations in St. Louis, Miss., Despite the fact that he had been out of work for five months medication he was taking. But there had also been an outbreak and is considered one of the premier heart surgeons in North since his last employer downsized, Mike felt he should be at the hospital in the morning for the operation. of flu at the hospital just before he was discharged, so Westerlund America.

Westerlund disagreed and told her husband his job was to get “So, we had to trust this man. We walked Andrew into the wasn’t overly worried by Andrew’s continued weakened state at home. But after days with no improvement and Andrew no OR on Jan. 16 and stayed with him while he fell asleep and then See It page 9 longer able to climb the stairs to his bedroom his parents took we had to leave. Boy, was it hard to leave that room.”

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Area covered by OCP Amendment & Zoning Bylaw Amendment

Area covered by OCP Amendment, but not Zoning Bylaw Amendment

Proposed Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 4360, 2004, Amendment Bylaw No. 4756, 2013; and Proposed Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw No. 4757, 2013 (both bylaws regarding Ambleside Waterfront) Notice is given that a PUBLIC HEARING will be held in the Council Chamber of the Municipal Hall of The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver at 750 17th Street, West Vancouver, BC on MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013 at 7 P.M. to consider: APPLICANT: The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver SUBJECT LANDS:

Land along the Ambleside waterfront south of the railroad tracks between 13th Street and 18th Street as shown and described on the map above.

PURPOSE:

These proposed bylaws replace those considered and abandoned by Council after a public hearing on April 22, 2013 and are intended to respond to comments received at that public hearing.

The proposed Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw amendments are intended to provide for greater public enjoyment of the Ambleside waterfront and recognize the park as a system that includes accessory uses intended to support the vitality of the park and improve opportunities for year-round use and enjoyment, such as arts and culture facilities, outdoor performances, festivals, food and drink, and water-related activities.

PROPOSED OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT:

The proposed amendment to the Official Community Plan would: - Refine, clarify and update Policy BF-C 4.7 to better reflect the District’s goal to have the Ambleside waterfront function as a park that includes accessory uses to support the vitality of the park and improve opportunities for year-round use and enjoyment, such as arts and culture facilities, outdoor performances, festivals, food and drink, and water-related activities. Language would be added recognizing the heritage values of the Ferry Building and the Navvy Jack House, the importance of the Sailing Club, an enhanced shoreline to protect against sea level rise, and the need to keep the character and scale of new structures consistent with the waterfront landscape; and - Update Policy P7 to emphasize the District’s commitment to its ongoing policy of acquiring all of the privately held lots on the Argyle Avenue waterfront.

PROPOSED ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT:

The proposed amendment to the Zoning Bylaw would: - Create a new CU5 Zone (Ambleside Waterfront Community Use Zone 5); - Rezone certain lands (as shown on the map above) from RD1 (Duplex Dwelling Zone 1), C2 (Commercial Zone 2), and RS5 (Single Family Dwelling Zone 5) to the new CU5 (Ambleside Waterfront Community Use Zone 5); - Create a new definition for park accessory uses that provides opportunities for year-round use and enjoyment of the park such as arts and culture facilities (specifically those that are already present within the waterfront area), festivals, a restaurant, mobile food vendors, and water-related activities.

Changes from the previous bylaw include: deletion of food and beverage concessions; deletion of child care; deletion of community and recreation buildings; deletion of liquor primary premises; reduced size of restaurant (bistro) to 3,000 square feet; and limits arts and culture facilities to four existing buildings.

ENQUIRIES:

All enquiries regarding the proposed bylaw amendments may be directed to the West Vancouver Planning Department at municipal hall or by calling 604-925-7055. Copies of the proposed bylaw amendments and other related documents may be inspected from May 24, 2013 to June 10, 2013 at the municipal hall at 750 17th Street, West Vancouver, BC on regular business days (Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays) between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

For convenience only, some of the documents may also be available for viewing on the District’s website at westvancouver.ca or at the West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver BC (phone 604-925-7400 for current information on hours of operation).

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaw amendments will be given an opportunity to be heard and to present written submissions at the Public Hearing. Submissions received for the Public Hearing will be included in their entirety in the public information package for Council’s consideration and for the public record.

Submissions received after the close of the Public Hearing will not be considered by Council.

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Grosvenor project logical: Smith From page 1

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

WEST Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith answers questions Thursday as the guest of the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce at the WV Yacht Club.

“There are people opposed, which is fine. I don’t mind intelligent discourse about contrary points of view, but sticking on a button that says No More Than Four is not my idea of intelligent discourse,” he said.

“If you go down to the pier and look back, you realize that the Grosvenor project is not destroying the quote ‘village atmosphere,’ whatever that is. The Grosvenor is going to fit in exactly with what’s there.”

But the proposal won’t be a slam-dunk on council, as at least three members are on the fence. And with Coun. Mary-Ann Booth forced to recuse herself from discussions on Grosvenor because of a familial connection to the developer, Smith does not have a tie-breaking vote on council. A 3-3 vote in council would kill the project, but Smith is optimistic.

“I think the overwhelming logic of approving the project will win the day,” Smith said. It would be financially irresponsible to borrow the money Grosvenor is offering for the land to pay for the public safety building, Smith said.

“If you borrow $36-million, right off the top, that’s a twoper cent tax increase in perpetuity just to pay the interest and then we start cutting programs and services to repay that debt every year,” he said.

Smith also voiced a number of crowd-pleasers, including putting TransLink and Metro Vancouver on notice that they cost too much for too little in return for West Vancouver, and reminding the crowd that the district held off tax increases and posted surplus budgets for the last two years.

As an encore, Smith took an audience request and weighed in on the snowballing Rob Ford crack cocaine scandal in Toronto.

“What can you say? He’s given Toronto publicity around the world,” Smith said.

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But flames raced up the exterior wall and began a second fire in the 10th floor apartment directly above where the fire started, said Cairns.

Two elderly occupants, one of whom had medical issues, were unable to get out without assistance and were still in the apartment when a second fire crew went into the building.

Fortunately the fire was contained in a bedroom and the door remained shut, keeping smoke out of the rest of the apartment. Fire crews were able

to help the couple out of the building.

Cairns said fire inspectors believe the fire started in one of the bedrooms of the ninth floor apartment but likely will never determine the exact cause. He added the heavy fire damage — likely in the order of $400,000 — makes the task more difficult. The fire isn’t being considered suspicious however.

By Thursday afternoon residents had been allowed back in to the building, with the exception of the ninth and 10th floors.

The 13-storey apartment building was built before sprinkler systems were mandatory and does not have sprinklers.

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HIRTEEN years ago, a group of environmentalists took the Vancouver Park Board to court, demanding an injunction to stop the board from cutting down any trees to widen the Stanley Park Causeway.

The argument was that the park board could only remove trees to facilitate traffic within the park, and that the causeway was only used by people commuting through the park to and from the North Shore. The court challenge failed and we got wider roads.

Not more lanes to accomodate more users. Just wider lanes — for cars.

In the decade since, alternate transportation, including pedal power, has occupied a much bigger space on the public agenda. But the causeway — an avoidable route for anyone going downtown from the North Shore — remains a concern for cyclists.

You said it “A lot of birdwatchers, after they’ve been birdwatching a number of years, they realize the environment is getting hammered.”

Naturalist Kevin Bell on why birdwatchers become environmentalists (from a May 26 story).

••• “He found the Kentucy Fried Chicken.”

Corp. Richard De Jong of the North Vancouver RCMP comments on a bear that broke into a North Vancouver chicken coop (from a May 29 story).

••• “Life goes on. You don’t have to have that brand of pickle.”

Persian grocery store owner Sam Garman comments on how sanctions on Iranian exports could impact his business (from a May 31 news story).

••• “We spend too much money on enforcement and not enough money on treatment and not enough on recovery. . . .”

District of North Vancouver Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn, speaking on the decision to approve an alcohol recovery house (from a May 31 story).

The tragic death last week of a North Vancouver woman who fell off her bike on the sidewalk into the path of a West Vancouver transit bus has renewed calls to re-examine the issue. Protective barriers and wider sidewalks are among the options being promoted. As last week’s accident horrifically showed, it’s past time we looked at this.

If we want to get more people cycling, they need to feel safe. Dedicated and separated bike lanes are essential on busy thoroughfares.

If it’s the environment we’re concerned about, maybe it would be worth giving up a few trees to get more people onto a greener mode of transportation.

Drivers who bemoan the encroaching bicycle infrastructure should consider that cyclists could do more to lighten the traffic load than wider lanes could.

Brave new economy going to pot

I dreamed I woke up this morning and found a plastic me.

— Len Chandler

THE post-election lull with its pie-in-the-face consequences for fresh environmental thinking surely brings a heavy karmic burden.

Traditionally, the key to election success in the political barnyard has been in determining the right mix of cliché and originality. Two weeks ago everything got simplified.

At least we’ve got the script clear for B.C.’s next four years. The future for our kids is about burning oil, coal, gas, plenty of it, and selling lots and lots more of it to Asia: that was the deal, right? Fooey on greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and related freak natural catastrophes. As the Class Queen explained, it’s about the economy, stupid.

OK, the Greenies keep telling us that more and more we’re like polar bears, trying to live on melting ice. But global

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Trevor Carolan warming is too complicated to think about when you’re voting, or shopping. Besides, it’ll be years yet before we end up like Mars — desolate, lifeless, burnt to a crisp. Never mind the Nobel Prize-winning scientist guy that the Greens elected near the University of Victoria. What would a bunch of intellectuals know about anything?

Fellow endangered Earthlings, sleep tight. With Adrian Dix and the socialist hordes beaten back by the fashion police, we can return to collective political amnesia,

confident like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, that the future is in petroleum and plastics.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author of the famous underwear poem we all tittered over in high school, says “Capitalism is an outrageously extravagant form of existence.”

Believe him. Paying for it is even more expensive than those lacy knickers in Victoria’s Secret. Not to start a Happy Hour panic buying spree on Zig-Zag rolling papers, but unless somebody was fibbing — I mean, if it’s really about the economy and not just scaring the pants off people about losing their jobs — and if the oil and gas pipedream fizzles like my five BRIC shares, then there’s no alternative to getting on with things same as Washington and Colorado to the south.

We’re talking serious capitalist tax dollars, comrade, and there’s no plausible reason to allow organized gangsters to continue running the bazilliondollar action.

When more than 60 per cent of the nation — that’s

nine per cent more than voted in B.C. — says repeatedly that it prefers a less hostile approach on the use of soft highs like cannabis, the Harper administration’s federal gettough policy is a throwback to the Stone Age, no pun intended. At my age, I’d probably dematerialize with a toke of what they’re smoking nowadays, but a little research does seem in order.

It’s about the economy: we need facts. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

After she secures a safe seat in the kind of riding where they elect a donkey if it wears a B.C. Liberal jacket, perhaps on one of her forthcoming trade missions across the Pacific, Premier Clark can check out the state of Western Australia. They deal with the issue by allowing interested gardeners to grow up to two plants for personal use. That sounds about right. It’s highly ornamental and the sale of assorted bongs would boost B.C.’s struggling glass-blowing industry as well. Clear out the geriatric deadwood on the issue and get some glowing minds

involved.

Like my amigo Trevor Lautens from Tiddleycove, a veritable David among Goliaths, who courageously called the correct shot in the election. Remember that you read it here first.

Meanwhile, a coast to coast drive in North Vancouver with my old mum a few days back — Deep Cove through Lynn Valley out to the wilds of upper Capilano and back through the wicked City — provided a few pointers about what’s on local minds. Uncanny how often public transit issues arise. People are serious about getting around more often without the car. One spark here should be the election of Peter Fassbender, the popular mayor of Langley City, as MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood.

Fassbender has served as chairman and vice-chairman of Metro Vancouver’s mayors’ council, so he knows well the challenges ahead, and I think we can finally expect to see substantive action concerning Lower Mainland See Transit page 8

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 - North Shore News - A7

Put your lips together to gather the clan THE other day my friend Elle was standing at the top of her stairs in Deep Cove, trying to call her teenaged son in the basement. Instead of hollering his name, she whistled.

It wasn’t the sharp tweet of an athletic coach. It was a beckoning whistle, with three syllables — if that’s what you call them in whistling. It was the kind of whistle you might use if you were Huck Finn on a raft at night, trying to signal Tom Sawyer on the Mississippi riverbank.

“What are you doing?” I asked, laughing, although I’ve always suspected that intrepid Elle has a little of the Huck Finn in her.

“It’s our family whistle,” she said. “Don’t you have one?”

“I didn’t even know they existed,” I replied.

“When we want to catch each other’s attention in a crowd, we use the family whistle,” she said. “One time I used it when we were in Whistler, and a woman stopped me and said ‘Are you from Deep Cove?’ I said, ‘Yes, why?’ She said, ‘That’s the Deep Cove whistle!

Everybody who lived in Deep Cove in the ’70s knows that whistle.’”

Elle had only moved to Deep Cove a few years before, so her family’s use of this array of notes was sheer coincidence.

I was astonished by this story. “How did you even come up with the idea of a family whistle?”

“My husband’s family is Czech. I guess lots of people

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Kate Zimmerman there have family whistles,” Elle said. She proceeded to use her own family’s whistle a few more times that day, just to make me laugh.

Is my family the only one that doesn’t have its own whistle? It seems like such a good idea. Wikipedia says the shepherds in Spain’s Canary Islands once whistled to communicate over long distances. In Oaxaca, Mexico’s Mazateco Indians also sent messages that way. No word on whether these tactics were only used professionally, or also at home. Maybe it depended on whether crackers were on the menu.

When asked, two Facebook friends revealed that their parents used a distinctive whistle to assemble their scattered clan. They’ve continued the tradition with their children and dogs. A third FB pal noted that in The Sound of Music, Captain von Trapp summons his seven children using different toots on a boatswain’s call. (Maria disapproves.)

Googling “family whistles” unearths various stories. One BBC listener, for example,

contributed a tale to its Radio 4 Home Truths show about a father who trained sheepdogs using whistles. By osmosis, his kids learned these sheepdog commands, but when their dad began using them as a handy way to control his children in public, they were mortified. They retaliated by refusing to come, insisting on polite verbal invitations instead.

Another story, on a website called lovelarken.com, tells of a dying parrot doing her owner’s family whistle.

You can also find a video featuring an earnest father who says his entire brood is outfitted with manmade whistles while camping, hiking, at parades, and even in playgrounds, which seems to be carrying things too far. I picture an alarmed family of six blasting the eardrums out of everybody in the area because Sissy scraped her knee. Surely the gentler whistle formed by the unaided human mouth is preferable.

A more convincing endorsement of Elle’s family practice appears in the preface of a book called The Family Whistle: A Holocaust Memoir of Loss and Survival, by the late Simon Eichel with Lee S. Kessler. Eichel, who, in his later years, lived in Westchester County, N.Y., wrote that he and his wife used his childhood whistle to find each other while shopping at the supermarket.

It had been used first by his older brother, Salo, when Simon was just a baby in Poland.

As a young man, Salo would sometimes return to their family’s apartment

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building after its iron gate was locked for the night. Rather than waking up the landlord by shouting, he would “whistle up a short, happy melody for a signal,” wrote his younger brother, and his sister or mother would go downstairs and open the gate.

The tune Salo chose was a German song he’d learned at Boy Scouts, whose title, appropriately, translated to “Hear what’s coming in.”

Eichel’s parents and siblings adopted the tune

themselves and, he wrote, they could even tell from a distance which of them was whistling it. Perhaps for a Holocaust survivor, reusing this shard of melody that had brought his Polish family together in happier times always held some small comfort.

The New York Times’ death notice for Eichel, who passed away in 2008, said the message he left for his survivors in his book was “Value your family. Never lose

hope.” A family whistle seems like a daily reminder of both those things.

Though my children are now fledglings, rarely within earshot, I might propose the notion of a family whistle myself.

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gentlemanly presence. You’ll hear newly elected Marvin Hunt, a longtime Surrey councillor and another former chairman of the Metro Vancouver board, speaking on these issues too, but he’s of different cloth. Unless he’s radically changed his spots

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“So it turned out that the same day our son had a heart transplant, my husband got a job. It was quite the day for us.”

It was also something of a roller-coaster ride. They were told the donor heart — the Westerlunds know nothing about the identity of the donor — was a 90-minute plane ride away. That didn’t sound far away until Westerlund looked outside after a 7 a.m. meeting with Gandhi and realized “this was one of the worst days of fog in Vancouver ever.”

The time of the operation — only the third heart transplant ever done at Children’s — kept getting pushed back.

Westerlund found out later that the retrieval team delayed photo supplied removing the organ because the chances of the plane making ANDREW Westerlund lies in bed with his Berlin bear that wears the T-shirt for both it to Vancouver were so slim. left and right ventricles that are lying on his belly but connected to his own heart.

When the weather forecast The oxygenated blood from the left ventricle is much lighter in colour. for Vancouver International Airport indicated a slight chance of clearing around 5 p.m., a It wasn’t until almost 6:30 p.m. that a nurse came to tell them decision was made to go ahead and hope that even if the plane Andrew’s heart had arrived and the operation was beginning.

To kill time, they went back, hospital pager in hand, to the could not land at Vancouver, it might be possible to land at Abbotsford or even Bellingham and drive the heart that much same restaurant they had eaten at during Andrew’s Berlin heart farther on foggy roads. A heart is only viable for a maximum of surgery and sat at the same table and ordered the same food.

“I remember sitting there and thinking what a surreal six hours once it has been taken out of a donor’s body, so there moment. My son is a few blocks away getting a heart transplant. wasn’t a lot of time to complete the journey and the operation.

Westerlund later learned that the doctor who went to retrieve And if I’m sitting here having dinner, what’s going on in that the heart initially heard that the plane would be diverted and person’s life and that person’s life? And I’m sure that to anyone then was told to increase its speed since the fog was lifting. else looking at us, we looked like two normal people having a “He literally saw the fog open up as they approached and then burger. Our server asked us at the end of the meal, ‘Any big plans roll back in as soon as they landed. He said, ‘It was like a scene for tonight?’”

As they walked back into the hospital at 8 p.m., their pager from a movie. If I hadn’t been on the plane myself and seen it, I went off, so they went back to their room somewhat worried that wouldn’t have believed it.’

“But it happened. This was the heart that was meant for it had gone off less than two hours after the heart had arrived.

“But when Dr. Gandhi came in the room with a smile, I knew Andrew.”

In the meantime, while the Children’s transplant team and the operation must be over. He said that the operation had gone Westerlund family fretted about the weather and the time, well and that the heart was ‘perfect.’ A word that I will always Andrew began to bleed internally. One of the stitches from the remember.”

A few days earlier, Westerlund had watched and listened to Berlin heart surgery had torn.

“That was one of the only times I was really thrown at the Gandhi give a talk at Andrew’s bedside about the Berlin heart hospital. But the care was so calm and orderly. Six doctors and and its uses to about 50 people. One of the doctors there asked nurses around his bed working as a team and co-ordinating a Gandhi about the reported cases of those patients who had gone back to using their own heart after a spell on a Berlin heart. plan of action.”

“Gandhi responded that ‘You always have to be careful with The team waited for Gandhi to finish a surgery he was doing, re-prepped the same operating room and then rushed Andrew in your words. Is it a success if you have taken the patient off the Berlin heart and they are back on their own heart and everything shortly after 1 p.m. to deal with the bleed.

Although Westerlund says “rushed” is a relative term. “There’s is fine and the doctor writes a paper on the successful procedure Andrew on his bed, and blood and medications in bags on poles, and it’s published and a month later that person dies? Is that a and the Berlin heart on casters that has to stay close to the bed, success? That’s why you have to always choose your words very and all these people pulling and pushing and we have to travel carefully.’

“So when Dr. Gandhi was in front of me maybe four days down narrow corridors and make two tight turns to get to the OR where I’m standing on tiptoe to avoid knocking equipment later saying, ‘It’s perfect,’ I totally believed him.”

Andrew recovered quickly. He was up and walking within 24 in very cramped quarters. It was a slow parade.

“Having been there twice with Andrew, I can tell you that hours, albeit just to a chair, but he was already feeling better and fundraising campaign they are running now for bigger ORs in refusing the extra pain meds that were offered. He was moved out of the ICU on Jan. 24 and up to the third floor. A few Children’s is so true and the need is there.”

Andrew would be kept under anesthetic for almost eight days later he wanted to go down to the teen lounge and play video games, so Westerlund walked him there and was preparing hours — the second time in less than a week.

Westerlund went back to the family cubbyhole with Mike and eventually fell asleep having had little rest the previous night.

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Tests find hole in sister’s heart; family copes From page 9

to leave the room that was designated “teens only, no younger siblings, no parents” when one of the two other teens in the room came up to her and said, “It’s OK if you want to stay.”

“I said, ‘I think Andrew needs his space and I need to do this.’

“He says, ‘Are you sure?

Because there’s no adults in here.’

“I said it would be fine, and he says, ‘But what if someone scares Andrew? Wouldn’t that be bad for his heart?’”

Westerlund calmed the obviously worried teen, asked him to please not scare Andrew and gave him directions to the nursing station in case of trouble. Then she went back to their room and wondered if she had done the right thing.

“But I thought: He is ANDREW Westerlund and 12, and I can’t put him in a to live life to the fullest. bubble. If I do, he is not living — and that’s what this is all about. He’s got a second chance at life. That’s what we want for him and that’s what his donor wanted for him.”

Andrew was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 5.

Initially, he was going back to the hospital three times a week for checks and physiotherapy. But that dropped to twice a week and then once and now it’s just once a month. He will be on anti-rejection medication for the rest of his life and must take weekly blood tests to ensure his body is metabolizing it at the correct rate.

Cardiologists have since tested Andrew’s sisters to see how their hearts are functioning. Sidney’s results are normal “for the moment — and that’s the wording they use.” Genetic testing results have yet to come back. Katherine’s tests came back abnormal and on May 15 she was diagnosed as having a hole in her heart. “So, we’re going down the road again, but it’s nowhere

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ANDREW recovers two hours after his heart transplant in the intensive care unit at B.C. Children’s Hospital. More photos at nsnews.com.

near as serious as what Andrew’s condition was. She will need a surgery. We’re hoping the MRI will show it’s a small hole and in a good position and she won’t need major surgery. ” Westerlund says the experience hasn’t changed her son. “He’s still the fun-loving goofy kid he’s always been.”

He went back to school on April 2, but the doctors were ready to let him do that in February. Westerlund was shocked that doctors could suggest school only three weeks after the operation, knowing Andrew’s immune system is compromised for life and that school is a trading centre for infections.

Westerlund decided to wait until after Spring Break — in part to give Andrew more time to catch up on missed school via homework. But on March 22 he got the OK to go skiing. The family was told to take it easy and no jumps, but that Andrew — who enjoys skiing — should be fine.

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went down that everyone stays behind me. It’s me, then Sidney, then Andrew, with Katherine at the back keeping an eye on Andrew. I get halfway down The Cut and I stop and ask Andrew how he’s doing.

“And he says, ‘I’m grrrreat. I even went backwards for part of it.’

“I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ and he says, ‘ Well, you said that I had to go slow, that I had to stay behind you and that I couldn’t do any jumps — but you didn’t say I couldn’t go backwards.’

“So I took pictures of my son skiing two months after a heart transplant while not really believing we were doing that.”

Andrew’s prognosis is excellent, but the fact is that a transplanted heart does not last as long as an original. At some See Organ page 11

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Organ donors bequeath life to others

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point, it’s likely that Andrew will be back on the list for another donor heart.

“Statistics are hard to really, truly know. They say 50 per cent of heart transplant patients make it to 10 years. Those are not heart-warming statistics. But the only number that really matters is your number. We’ve got life now and that’s what we’ve got to enjoy.”

Westerlund is hoping that by telling Andrew’s story, others will sign up to be organ donors and tune in to B.C. Children’s Miracle Weekend, broadcast live on Global BC from Saturday, June 1 at 7 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 2 and perhaps pledge support to the hospital and its plans for a major rebuild.

The Westerlunds will be interviewed around 2:40 p.m. on Sunday.

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About 500 people in B.C. are currently waiting for lifesaving organ transplants. To register to be an organ donor go to transplant.bc.ca.

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The occupational therapist is currently serving as a vocational counsellor at Vancouver Coastal Health’s North Shore Adult Community Mental Health, which provides a range of mental health services.

Walker is currently representing approximately 40 people, working to help them both get and keep jobs through a new program, referred to as Individual Placement and Support, which has been offered since January. She’s interested in building up the number of local employers she works with to help those she represents get back in the workforce as soon as possible.

“Finding a job is a real fundamental part of someone’s recovery,” says Walker.

“A lot of the clients I work with want to go back to work,” she adds, which is consistent with research that’s found that 70 per cent of people in recovery from mental health issues desire to do so. However based on the person’s particular challenges, or the stigma that is at times associated with mental illness, it can sometimes be difficult.

Historically, North Shore Adult Community Mental Health staff members would assist their clients in getting jobs by referring them to outside agencies, and other employment workshops and programs.

“It worked, but the evidence is suggesting it’s better to have the vocational counsellor sit on the mental health team for communication and just for continuity of care,” says Walker.

To increase their clients’ level of success, the North Shore

agency has adopted an evidencebased practice, referred to as the supported employment model, and with the assistance of their peers in Vancouver who have already been using it, staff launched their own program earlier this year.

“Part of my role is to help people from behind the scenes,” says Walker, explaining she offers support to clients who apply for positions in the traditional manner, including dropping off resumes and going for interviews.

“Another part of my job is approaching employers,” she says, hence her interest in connecting with more local employers to help find suitable jobs for those she represents.

North Vancouver resident Lachlan Mowatt, 38, is one of the program’s success stories.

Mowatt has been a client of North Shore Adult Community Mental Health since 1997.

Through the new Individual Placement and Support program, he recently got a job at Prosource Property Services, a property maintenance management company, and performs weekend site maintenance and relief work at a large North Shore complex.

“I feel a lot of support,” says Mowatt. “I feel enough support that I can keep on working and not drop the job when I suddenly have a recurring symptom, because they do recur. And if I don’t feel the support, then I tend to just bail and I’ve bailed often. But I’ve also had jobs where I had trouble performing and I didn’t have very good communication with the employers,” he says.

With the help of Walker and her co-workers, he feels confident that he’s been able to establish a good rapport with his Prosource employers.

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LACHLAN Mowatt (left), his employer Shari Webb, of Prosource Property Services, and Gill Walker, vocational counsellor at North Shore Adult Community Mental Health, encourage local businesses to come on board with a new supportive employment program focused on helping people with mental health issues obtain and retain jobs.

Prosource’s Shari Webb, vice-president, client services, was approached by the program directly and is pleased to have come on board for a number of reasons. Finding it difficult to

staff the position appropriately as it’s low-supervision and only two days a week, Mowatt’s suitability and interest were positives. “I thought that with the program that there would

be a sense of accountability because whoever was going to be hired was also working with the occupational therapist,” See Program page 15

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Program also offers on-site job support From page 13

says Webb. “I also just thought it was doing good. It was getting somebody working that wanted to work in a position that they were suited for.”

After Mowatt was hired, Walker and a colleague assisted with on-site job coaching, attending on the job with him for his first four days — consisting of two training and two solo shifts.

“That’s part of what the program (offers), there’s on the job support as fits for the employer and the client to make it successful and then there’s follow-up supports as well,” says Walker.

Mowatt started working at Prosource in March and Webb continues to be impressed by his reliability, task completion and work ethic.

Mowatt encourages other employers to get involved. “Don’t be afraid to hire people with mental illness because they’re more likely to be keen to work hard and prove themselves,” he says.

There is no fee to participate in the program. “I think there’s a misconception that some of the employers that I approach think that I’m a recruiter and so then there’s a payment they have to make.

But because it’s a government-funded program that’s not the case,” says Walker.

Wages are paid by the employer to the employee in the traditional manner with no additional payment to Walker or North Shore Adult Community Mental Health. In some cases, wage subsidies through other programs may be an option.

Examples of other successful jobs obtained by clients through the program include positions at a gas station, a home improvement store and in the North Shore News’ distribution department.

Local employers looking to connect with Walker and find out more about the program and eligible candidates, are encouraged to phone her at 604-983-6020 or email her at gill.walker@vch.ca.

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AT left, North Vancouver participant Marieta Todorova prepares for the Gutsy Walk for Crohn’s and Colitis, Sunday, June 9, at 10:30 a.m. at UBC’s Thunderbird Park, intended to raise money to find a cure for inflammatory bowel disease through the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada. Info: gutsywalk.ca. Above, Dorothy McKay, Christian Larsen and Marilyn Campbell raise awareness of Strides for Strokes, the North Shore Stroke Recovery Centre’s annual walk, run or wheel fundraiser Saturday, June 8, at 10 a.m. at West Vancouver’s John Lawson Park.

Funds raised go towards capital expenditures such as iPads, which help stroke survivors in their speech therapy and brain fitness. Info: nssrc.org. feeling healthier and reducing disease with raw foods at a presentation with author and personal energy coach Deborah Rossouw Thursday, June 6, 7-8:30 p.m. at Parkgate library, 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. Registration required: 604-929-3727.

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THIS week, the Pedal Pushers are taking a break from answering pressing cycling questions.

Instead, we quizzed five of our North Shore politicians about their two-wheeled habits: District of West Vancouver Coun. Nora Gambioli, District of North Vancouver Coun.

Roger Bassam, City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto, Naomi Yamamoto, MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, and John Weston, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country.

Here’s what they had to say: Why do you ride a bike?

Gambioli: To lower my CO2 footprint, to breathe fresh air, and to get my butt in shape!

Bassam: I most often ride with my children recreationally or as a means to get some exercise.

When my minivan is being serviced, I use my bike to get to and from my mechanic.

Mussatto: I love riding my bike for a number of reasons.

First, it is a great way to get exercise and stay fit, or as fit as I can be! I try combining riding my bike with my transportation needs and ride as often as possible to get to meetings on the North Shore. I also enjoy riding as a pastime with my girlfriend as it is a great way to experience our city.

Yamamoto: I ride for exercise and the opportunity to enjoy our beautiful parks and community.

Weston: It’s all about the bike!

I love how I feel when I get on my bike — and when I get off my bike! It’s good for health and fitness, an environmentally friendly mode of transport, and a more sociable means of getting around than in cars.

Where is your favourite place or route to cycle?

Gambioli: Anywhere that there are as few cars as possible.

Bassam: Seymour Demonstration Forest trail is the favourite place for us to bike as it is easy for everyone to ride on and long enough to get a good ride in. My son really enjoys the BMX park at the Inter River sports complex.

Mussatto: Riding the Spirit Trail from the Northshore Automall area through the District of North Vancouver to Ambleside beach in West Vancouver.

Yamamoto: My favourite place to ride is the Seymour Demonstration Forest multi-use trail;

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DISTRICT of West Vancouver Coun. Nora Gambioli (at left), and John Weston, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country (at right), were among the North Shore politicians asked to weigh-in on their two-wheeled habits. though my favourite holiday was cycling through the hilltop towns in Tuscany.

Weston: Up hills (non-cyclists will never understand this) and in the most beautiful place on earth (where we live).

How do you carry stuff on a bike — backpack, pannier or basket?

Gambioli: After I drop off my four-year old at preschool, I carry all my stuff in her seat!

Bassam: Backpack only.

Mussatto: I use panniers on all my bikes.

Yamamoto: I use a pannier.

Weston: Backpack — and I use my backpack even off the bike.

What is the weirdest or largest thing you have ever carried on a bike?

Gambioli: I once had several bags of groceries, my purse, my (then) five-year-old son, and then his Spiderman lunch bag on the handlebars (all at the same time of course!)

Bassam: 50 pounds of suckers. During the Canada Day parade I used Mayor (Richard) Walton’s bike trailer to pull 50 pounds of lollipops that were handed out to the spectators.

Some people don’t like politicians but everyone likes candy.

Mussatto: As a B.C. Ambulance bike paramedic I have carried a number of odd things.

Probably the most unusual was a spine board to attend to an injured employee when I was working at YVR. I had to ride with the spine board under one arm through the airport!

Tricky.

Yamamoto: Several bottles of Therapy Vineyards wine from Naramata.

Weston: I carry my laptop and a suit and tie. The secret to getting out an unwrinkled suit?

Use a dry clean bag.

What is your strategy for hills?

Gambioli: Stay away from them, and if that is not possible, gear down and try not to cry.

Bassam: I go downhill only. . .

Truthfully, I put my head down and grind away until I reach the summit. I find it better not to keep looking up at how much more I have to climb.

Mussatto: For hills, I try and

find the most gradual, even if it’s a little longer, route when I am riding my normal bike. I also own an electric-assist bike, which I use on warmer days when I am wearing my suit and tie and when I need to go up hills (Lonsdale!) In those cases I call it my cheater bike and arrive with normal breathing and dry clothes.

Yamamoto: When going up a hill, I look straight down and grind away.

Weston: Don’t look up — except for cars! Also, use the zigzag method if the going gets tough!

the leaking patch and then I go to Canadian Tire and buy a new tube.

Mussatto: I fix my own most of the time but have been relatively lucky in this regard.

Yamamoto: I can fix a flat tire, but others usually help.

Weston: I do sometimes, but confess I share this role with my friends at the awesome North Shore bike stores.

Who fixes your flats?

Gambioli: Never had one yet (but if I had, my husband is the fix-it-man!)

Bassam: I have a repair kit so the process usually sees me apply a patch, then I try to fix

The Pedal Pushers are Dan Campbell, Antje Wahl, Anita Leonhard and Heather Drugge, four North Shore residents who use their bikes for transportation.

They can be reached at bike@ northshore-pedalpushers.com.

Thank you to everybody for taking the time to respond, and happy cycling — down or up hills, whichever tickles your fancy.

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Appointments: Lonsdale, 604-980-3661 or Park Royal, 604-9269616. Fee: $20. Info: healthblog.londondrugs.com/new-londondrugs-womens-health-clinic.

Seek the Peak: Test your fitness, stamina and overall mental toughness alone or tackle a 4,100-foot climb with a team of four Saturday, June 15 at 8 a.m. The 16-kilometre route starts from Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, heads up the Grouse Grind to the top of the Peak of Vancouver. Funds raised will go to the B.C. Cancer Foundation’s work against breast cancer. Registration: seekthepeak. ca.

The B.C. Balance and Dizziness Disorders Society Support Group will meet the fourth Thursday of every month at 2 p.m. at The Summerhill, 135 West 15th St., North Vancouver. There will be the occasional guest speaker. Free. RSVP: 604-878-8383 or bettymacm@shaw.ca.

The Art of Healthy Living: A series of workshops with Vancouver’s top health and wellness professionals will run until June 23 in West Vancouver at the Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave., Ambleside Youth Centre in Ambleside Park and Lawson Creek Studio, 1756 Argyle Ave. Info: ferrybuildinggallery.com. Registration: 604-925-7270.

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Through trial and error, the Sutherland secondary student taught himself HTML and website-building skills, and started brainstorming business ideas.

Today, at 21 years old, he is CEO of Edukaans, an online platform that allows clients to distribute educational material on the web.

“Basically we build the software that makes it easy for anyone to monetize their educational video content,” Ugarte explains.

What that means is organizations that hold seminars NEWS photo Mike Wakefield or training courses, and want to sell that content online, can hire RUBEN Daniel Ugarte, 21, heads up his own homeEdukaans to take care of video based business that helps clients deliver educational conversion, video delivery, materials on the Internet. account management, and whatever else is required.

He worked with the company to convert all Ugarte, who moved to North Vancouver from Honduras with his family when he was 12, its DVDs into online videos. Now customers can rent access to the online videos for periods founded Edukaans with his father.

They settled on the business concept after of time.

Another client in Texas invented a medical talking to a number of local professional device used by U.S. doctors. associations that hold conferences and seminars.

“They have a lot of doctors buying the device “They kept telling us that if they could find a way to deliver that content online, back to their but they wanted to provide training on the device members, that could be something they’d be to the doctors,” Ugarte says.

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Volunteers pitch in at North Van camps As the children play in the middle of the field, a single figure drifts toward the sidelines, alone.

It’s doesn’t happen often during summer camps, but when it does, a good volunteer can be the one to bring that child back into the fray, or at least into the fun.

Callum Glass, 17, and Ava Thompson, 13, are two of the approximately 65 volunteers scheduled to help make North Vancouver camps a little brighter and a little better this summer.

“I did the summer camps when I was a little kid and I always thought the leaders and volunteers were pretty awesome people,” says Glass. “I just think it was really cool that I got to hang out with the older people when I was a little. They were kind of role models to me.”

Motivated by the prospect of having fun and gaining work experience at the same time, Glass has volunteered for the last four years.

Before volunteering he attended a seminar to learn how to run activities and handle difficult situations.

“They basically told me how to be a role model. They helped me build my confidence,” he says.

That seminar was useful for Thompson, but she says nothing can replicate the experience of actually being in camp with the kids.

“Each kid is different so until you have an experience you can’t really be taught how to

deal exactly with certain scenarios. You can’t be taught what each leader would like. Each camp is different. Two are never the same even if it’s the same theme. They always go differently,” she says. “The more you do the easier it becomes because you know what to expect.”

For Thompson, helping out with day camps and birthdays are usually the most rewarding.

“Sometimes the older kids get tired of something and they’ll want to do something else so you have to adapt.”

In the rare case of a child on the sidelines, Glass says he’ll always try to get them involved with something.

“If I see someone by themselves I always try to go over and play with them,” he says.

“I haven’t seen it that often but there’s the rare case where someone’s just sitting on the side doing nothing and they don’t want to do anything. You have to go over there and try to get them to do something because it’s a waste of their day if they’re not having fun, so you want to help them.”

— JEREMY SHEPHERD, jshepherd@nsnews.com

“I like the ones where you play a whole bunch of games for about an hour and then you play freeze dance. It’s so funny to just watch them dancing,” she says.

Both Glass and Thompson have learned how to defuse difficult situations and keep the camp running smoothly.

“If it’s them being tired typically you’ll ask them if they need food,” says Thompson. “If it’s between two people you just have to offer them more things to do versus playing with each other. That’s one of the things we learned in the volunteer course, which I enjoyed as well because we just learned so much about how to deal with different experiences.”

When it comes to dealing with older campers, Glass says it’s key to offer variety.

“They can’t do the same activities as the younger ones because they’re older and they get bored of it pretty fast,” he says.

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Callum Glass and Ava Thompson are two of the many volunteers who will be working at North Vancouver Recreation Commission camps this summer.

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Outings part of camp program It’s that time of year when the sidewalks resound with the clip-clop of flip flops and the smell of sunscreen mingles with burgers on the grill.

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For many children, it’s also the time of year when they venture into the uncertain world of summer camp. For more than 30 years the North Shore Neighbourhood House has been providing summer camps for children across the North Shore.

NSNH was founded in 1939 when a group of Lonsdale-area residents leased a building for the reasonable price of $1 and swung open their doors to neighbourhood children. More than 70 years later, NSNH provides before and after school care that transforms into full-day summer camps once school lets out. The camps tend to be divided into a junior group of children between kindergarten and Grade 2, and an older group between Grade 3 and Grade 6 children.

In that season when the living is easy, NSNH runs summer camps out of Westview, Lynn Valley, Ridgeway, and Capilano schools.

“Those are all before and after school cares, and they go to full-day summer camps,” explains NSNH executive director Lisa Hubbard.

Each camp accepts about 25 children.

The five-day camps tend to feature three outings each week, allowing the children to take in the nature of Stanley Park and the culture of local museums.

They also get to feel the sand under their toes at Spanish Banks. Some camps will also venture to Aldergrove to view some of the 800 animals at the Greater Vancouver Zoo.

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North Shore Neighbourhood House campers gather around the program’s bus, which helps with transportation throughout the summer.

One thing that sets NSNH camps apart from some other options is their ease of transportation, according to Hubbard.

“A real positive for us is that we hire our own bus. We have our own bus driver,” she says. “We can bring along all our equipment that we need when we get there.”

The bus is packed with badminton rackets, Frisbees, and a tent to provide a little extra shade, says Hubbard.

Some NSNH camps also include science experiments as well as an arts week, which offers children an opportunity to sculpt, create visual art, and participate in theatre. While NSNH hires facilitators for specialty camps, such as Lego week, the majority of the staff are very experienced, according to Hubbard.

“The one thing that really differentiates us is that we run before and after school care all year so these staff are our regular staff. This is not new to them,” she says.

“Having our own bus does make a big difference. We’re able to access more interesting field trips but, as well, we feel the kids are safer,” she says.

It’s not unusual for children to feel shy on the first day, but that nervousness usually fades after the kids get to know each other, says Hubbard.

Having those school buses at the ready also means children at each camp get to spend some time together.

“The four summer camps interact with each other to share ideas so the kids have a connection. There’s some sort of competition there I guess, in a friendly way,” says Hubbard.

“By the end of the week mostly they’re setting up play dates and getting their parents connected,” she says.

— JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

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PART FOUR

This is the final part of a fourpart original camp story.

Our story began when Tabitha discovered a map and our four heroes set out to search for monsters on the other side of Lake Anatoga. So far all they’ve found is leftover broccoli, but when we left off last time there was something wrapping itself around Henry’s wrist. Will Tabitha, Rufus, Fres, and Henry make it back to camp in time? Our story ends here, dear reader.

“Oh yeah,” Tabitha said.

“There might be evil seaweed, too.”

It gripped tighter on my wrist, pulling me toward the water.

“Henry, you okay?” Fres asked.

The seaweed was getting stronger. It moved up my wrist, past my elbow and around my shoulder.

“Henry!” Fres yelled.

The seaweed was pulling me overboard.

“Henry!” Rufus yelled. “I’m sorry I called you a dolt!”

That was the last thing I heard before I went underwater.

It pulled me deeper and deeper.

It was a wisp of seaweed, no bigger than a spring dandelion. But then it got thicker. It was like fat asparagus below the water, and it kept pulling me down.

I kept falling until I was on the bottom of Lake Anatoga, and then it was as thick as a telephone pole. It was green, brown and yellow and it made me think of last winter.

We were staying with my aunt and uncle and on the first night my older cousin read me a story. He wasn’t supposed to, but he did it.

It was an old comic book. I remember he ran his hands over the wrinkles and I saw the cover. There was a man in the centre and all around him were creeping tentacles, and each of the tentacles was green, brown and yellow.

There were a lot of scary things in the book, but nothing was scarier than the tentacles.

They were old. Older than my mom. Older than dinosaurs. And everything belonged to them. No matter where we went were always on their property.

That’s how old the seaweed was, and I was trespassing.

There were two small pools of grey in the centre of the seaweed.

I stared into the grey glow. It disappeared, and then it came back.

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I waited until I was good and close and then I snatched Cassandra’s awful, putrid, pitiful broccoli out of my pocket and stuffed it into the seaweed’s mouth.

The line around my wrist went loose. The seaweed chewed and let out a disgusting burp. I’m not sure, but I think it winked at me before I swam away.

I climbed higher and higher through the lake until I felt something else around my wrists. My friends pulled me up and helped me into our canoe.

I told Rufus I forgave him for calling me a dolt. I told Tabitha you had to go to the bottom of the lake to find someone who liked Cassandra’s broccoli, and I just told Fres I was OK. Tabitha and Rufus paddled back to camp while Fres and I rested.

The sun was just coming up when I saw the totem pole. The raven was still on top and we were home.

“There’s just one thing,” Rufus said as we pulled into shore. “Tab, how’d you get the map in the first place?”

“Oh that,” Tabitha said. “I made it myself.”

Fres and I looked at each other.

Rufus’s jaw was hanging down. “Wait, wait, wait,” he said. “But then, how on earth did you know where the monsters were?”

“Easy. I just followed the map.”

I laughed so hard I fell out of the canoe.

I really hope we all see each other next year.

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Teen takes to the outdoors Fifteen-year-old Cody Hume admits he didn’t have any food fights at camp, but he did try a few new things.

“I didn’t really think that I would be into sailing, but I went and it was really fun,” he says.

Cody is a Grade 9 student at Sutherland secondary and has attended Keats Camp, a Baptist summer camp on Keats Island near Gibsons, for two years.

He first went to Keats when he was 12 years old. It was the first time he had ever been to a sleep-away camp, and he says he wasn’t nervous at all. “I just thought it would be a fun opportunity.”

Along with sailing, archery and other sports, Cody also learned more about religion at the camp but says the extent of a camper’s involvement in religion there is a personal choice. “I think really anyone can enjoy camp even if you’re not religious,” he notes.

Although they didn’t tell ghost stories, Cody and his friends did sit around a campfire from time to time to just “relax and hang around.”

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With 12 campers and two counsellors per cabin, that’s plenty of people to get up to some real hi-jinks but Cody and his buddies didn’t sneak out at night (although the counsellors did arrange a supervised sneak-out night for fun).

Cody says he was never bored at camp because there was a lot to do, and he met lots of campers from the North Shore and from farther a field, including New Westminster and California.

“I always meet new people,” he says.

Being friendly helps. “Go in with an open mind. Don’t worry about anything because there’s nothing to worry about. Everyone is really welcoming.”

This summer, Cody will be going back to Keats to volunteer for two weeks in the kitchen. He says it’s a good idea to give back to the camp for all that he has gotten out of it. He’ll also be attending for a week as a camper.

When asked if he has a favourite memory from camp, Cody answers: “Just every memory from camp is awesome.”

— ROSALIND DUANE, rduane@nsnews.com Cody Hume first went to camp when he was 12 years old. At 15, he is now a volunteer.

The North Shore News’ Send A Kid To Camp Program is a partnership with the Family Services of the North Shore and various local businesses.

With this program, children who otherwise don’t have the opportunity to go to camps get try out new experiences and meet some new friends and all the wonderful excitement that summer camps bring.

With Send-A-Kid To Camp Program, deserving local children just get to be ‘kids’.

We would like to thank these generous local businesses who donated their camps to this special program:

photos Paul McGrath/supplied

Sunday, June 2, 2013 - North Shore News - A27

KIDS

BiZ

Creative process explored

Some people think art just happens indoors, but plenty of creating goes on outdoors as well.

Plein air painting is painting outside, and it is part of the program on offer for kids at the North Vancouver Community Arts Council this summer.

The council’s summer camps are held at Maplewood House in North Vancouver, and a new feature this year is use of an outdoor green space at the location.

Claire Halpern, the council’s programs and communications coordinator, says a lot of the summer camp art and theatre activities will take place in the outdoor space.

“It’s going to be really fun,” she says, noting one of the classes will focus on drawing and painting outdoors, including drawing trees, insects and other things campers might see outside.

Also new this year is a movement camp called Act, Move and Sing, which will culminate in a group musical performance with dancing and singing. From Design to Stage is a similar

class that won’t feature as much singing and dancing, and will end with a small-scale performance. Small class sizes allow kids of different creative ability to participate, explains Halpern, adding the focus of the programs is exploring the creative process and is not particularly results oriented.

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“It’s for anyone who just wants to have fun and be a bit creative,” she says.

She describes the morning programs as more “sit-down fine arts” and the afternoon programs as more “run around and be creative.”

Kids enjoy art because they love working on and photo supplied completing projects, and it’s a different way of learning, notes Halpern. “They get to touch gooey things and make a mess and they’re allowed to get dirty,” she says, adding it also helps kids learn to use their imaginations and “they get to choose where that leads them.”

— ROSALIND DUANE, rduane@nsnews.com

Mt Seymour Eco-Adventure Camps

Pick your summer adventure!

Are you a pirate? Or a Hero? Maybe you want to explore the kinds of creatures that live on our local shores, or maybe you just want to slip, slide, splash and play. We’ve got a camp for you!

Trampoline and Tumbling: This camp is jam-packed with two hours of trampoline and tumbling on a full sized in-ground trampoline and fully sprung tumbling board. You will flip for this camp!

Trampoline and Diving Camp: Love to run, jump, bounce and splash?

This camp introduces children to the sport of Olympic springboard diving in a fun and safe environment. Spend the first part of the camp on the trampolines, and the second part on the diving boards!

Experiential summer camps and youth leadership programs for 5-15 year olds that incorporate fun, self awareness, skill development and meaningful connections to nature.

Adventure Playground: Campers are in for non-stop action building forts, playing their favourite games (sticks, camouflage & survivor!), slip’n sliding the dirt off, and taking trips to the beach and more!

(Some camps also have sleepovers).

2013 Camp Dates: July 8 - August 23 5 Day Camp: $250

Skim/Skate/Scooter Jam Camps: Skimboard, skateboard or scooter in one week! Explore the best of Vancouver’s skateboard parks & the West Coast’s premier skimboarding beach, Spanish Banks! Choose Skateboard Jam, Skim and Skate Jam, or Scooter and Skate Jam. Lighthouse Park: Connect with nature and leave the city behind! Get ready to explore and learn about the fascinating natural environment right in our own backyards! Play games, explore tidal pools and take trips to the beach. Sleepover camps also available!

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A28 - North Shore News - Sunday, June 2, 2013

KIDS

BiZ

Recently, the North Shore News received a handwritten letter to the editor with a message we thought was worth sharing.

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North Star Montessori students Jacob Wiebe (left) and Jalen Hudda display the letter they wrote and sent to the North Shore News urging readers to take better care of the environment.

Sunday, June 2, 2013 - North Shore News - A29

KIDS

BiZ

Bike to school week at Lynn Valley school Grade 4 students at Lynn Valley elementary recently participated in a Ride Your Bike to School Week program, which featured a bike rodeo. During the rodeo, instructors from Escape Adventures offered students safety and ride tips. The week also included RCMP and bike technicians helping with bike safety checks, among other activities. At one time during the week, there were 120 bikes lined up against the school fence.

Scan the photo below to watch a video of the bike rodeo.

NEWS photos Mike Wakefield

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A30 - North Shore News - Sunday, June 2, 2013

community bulletin board Brockton School Summerfest: Fun for everyone at this annual event that includes a bake sale, North Shore green market, Vera’s burgers, games, prizes, bouncy castle, dunk tank and more Sunday, June 2 from noon to 4 p.m. at 3467 Duval Rd., North Vancouver.

Coho Bon Voyage: Release young salmon, take a guided tour of the Terminal Creek Fish Hatchery and discover the ecological importance of the salmon life cycle Sunday, June 2, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Crippen Regional Park, Bowen Island. Free. Info: metrovancouver. org.

Dogsafe Canine First Aid will hold an open house at Until We Meet Again Pet Memorial Centre Sunday, June 2, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at 4-839 West First St, North Vancouver. Info: info@dogsafe.ca or 778-340-0855.

One-on-One Computer Assistance: Sign up for 30 minutes of personalized help with the Internet, email, word processing, social media or an e-reader Tuesday, June 4 from 10 a.m. to noon at Parkgate library, 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver.

Registration required: 604-929-3727.

Gifts of the Crow: Author and scientist John Marzluff will discuss the intelligence of crows and share true stories highlighting their characteristics, behaviours and connection to humans Wednesday, June 5, 7-8:30 p.m. at the West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Info: westvanlibrary.ca.

Parenting Lecture Series: Parenting specialist Christopher Burt will give a lecture about issues that affect parents of preschool, elementary and teenage children. The Family System will take place Wednesday, June 5, 7 p.m. at the North Shore Jewish Community Centre, 1305 Taylor Way, West Vancouver.

Admission: $35 per couple, $20 per person. Info and registration: 604-925-6488 or office@harel.org.

— compiled by Debbie Caldwell Email information for your non-profit, by donation or nominal fee event to listings@nsnews.com.

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

MAC Harmon, 13, stands in front of some of the mail he has received from fans of his inspirational online videos. This summer, he hopes to visit Belgium, home to his largest following, where he plans to produce a new short film. Scan photo with Layar to watch a three-minute documentary about Harmon.

Teen grows global following Christine Lyon clyon@nsnews.com

FOR someone who has made a name for himself sharing words and ideas on the Internet, 13year-old Mac Harmon certainly receives a lot of conventional snail mail.

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The West Vancouver secondary student’s room is plastered with drawings and letters — some of them written in foreign languages — sent by kids who have been inspired by Harmon’s online videos that address bullying, youth homelessness and diversity.

“It is something that I can do really well and send a message too,” Harmon says of filmmaking. “My videos can be sad, serious,

funny and they can reach people from all over the world.”

All social media networks combined, Harmon has amassed some 60,000 friends and followers over the last few years.

Recognizing his interest in film, Harmon’s Grade 6 teacher encouraged him to make his first awareness-raising video in February 2010 for Pink Shirt Day. His antibullying film proved a hit with his fellow students and, as a result, he was invited to appear on Breakfast Television.

Since then, he has made videos about youth homelessness and the aftermath of the 2011 Stanley Cup riot. He has presented his work at a number of elementary schools and also appeared in the video for “To This Day,” a spoken-word poem by Shane Koyczan that examines the lasting impact of bullying on an individual.

Harmon’s largest following is in Belgium and his online fans have extended an invitation for him to visit. He hopes to make a 10-day trip to the country in July and, while there, film a short video about “the courage to come back.” But his trip is contingent on raising $5,500 to cover his and his mom’s airfare and accommodation.

To help, he has set up a crowd-funding campaign at indiegogo.com/projects/ dream-wish-believe.

Though the trip is not yet booked, he has already lined up a tentative itinerary of public appearances and media interviews.

“As wonderful as the trip sounds, this will be a working trip for Mac,” says his mom Karen, explaining he will be producing, filming and editing. He will also perform hip-hop dance routines and speak with as many young people as possible, she says.

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 - North Shore News - A31

CELEBRATE SENIORS WEEK

June 2 – 8

Storytelling goes digital at Silver Harbour centre

Rosalind Duane rduane@nsnews.com

“LORNA, Helen and I went to Europe in 1957. We sailed from Montreal on July 12 and landed in Liverpool five days later.”

So begins Shirley Lytle’s video titled Have You Been To Tromo, which is posted on You Tube. The Tromo she refers to is a city in Norway that she visited during her trip to Europe with her two friends. One of the friends had family in Norway with whom they stayed for 12 days. The trio toured other spots along the way, and the journey is documented in a video that is just over three minutes, and includes photos from the trip with Lytle’s narration.

The project is the latest in a series Lytle has worked on as part of the Digital Storytelling class at Silver Harbour Seniors Centre over the past seven years. She is one of two members of the class who have attended since it began.

Lytle has always had an interest in both storytelling and electronics. Her interest in the latter she shared with her father, who built a radio in the 1930s. He lived to be 100 years old, and Lytle bought him his own computer when he was 90. He used it to write his autobiography.

Although she didn’t use a computer for the first time until after she retired as a teacher and was doing some secretarial work sometime in the late ’80s or the early ’90s, she is now comfortable with the technology and easily discusses the software she uses, including Final Cut, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and more.

The Digital Storytelling class is a combination of instruction about storytelling and about the

media used to tell the stories. Students work on video projects that they write and edit themselves.

The class culminates in a showcase of the students’ work.

Last year, Lytle made the switch from iMovie, a video editing software that is popular and userfriendly, to a more advanced program called Final Cut, which she used to edit her latest video.

“I was a little hesitant about it,” she admits about the switch. She says she was afraid of Final Cut, but once she started using it, she soon found it was also user-friendly and she could do a lot more with the program than she could with iMovie.

“It’s really fantastic,” she says of the types of software currently available for media projects.

The hardest part of the class is not learning how to use new software, but editing the stories, says Lytle.

“The hardest part is editing out stuff, realizing that you don’t need that much.”

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield/supplied at left

SHIRLEY Lytle (left), Anne and Ed Jackson, and Suzanne Humphreys review footage in the Digital Storytelling class at Silver Harbour centre. The photo at left shows a clip from Lytle’s movie, called Have You Been to Tromo, about her 1957 trip to Europe. Scan the above photo to watch the video.

After seven years of digital storytelling projects, Lytle says she isn’t worried she is going to run out of material. “There’s lots of stories to tell.”

When asked what her favourite part of the class

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A32 - North Shore News - Sunday, June 2, 2013

CELEBRATE SENIORS WEEK

June 2 – 8

IF you’re heading out into the woods for a six-hour hike, it helps to have a sizeable group of buddies along with you.

Click on the Outdoor Activities tab of the West Vancouver Seniors Activity Centre website, and you will be greeted with a list that includes cycling, hiking, pitch and putt, skiing and snowshoeing.

Among those activities are two hiking programs that regularly attract large groups of participants.

The Ramblers are a hiking group that meets for eightto 10-kilometre hikes and monthly bus trips. There is also another hiking group that meets for 12- to 25-kilometre hikes during May to October.

These longer hikes can last up to nine hours, and, not surprisingly, participants must be active and in good physical condition.

Caroline Brandson, a coordinator with the District of West Vancouver, notes that the hiking groups at West Vancouver Seniors Activity Centre have been popular for many years. Participants enjoy the challenge, the activity, the camaraderie and the safety that comes with hiking in numbers.

For those who prefer to whizz around town on two wheels, the centre also hosts a number of cycling groups.

Depending on the group, cyclists venture forth for rides of varying lengths, for which a helmet is mandatory and a spare tube, light, pump, bell and mirror are recommended.

Experienced cyclists get together in the Norwest Cycle Club for rides of up to 50 kilometres.

Whether they are hiking, biking, swimming, skiing or snowshoeing, North Shore seniors are not just staying active, they are seeking out fun and challenging activities that take full advantage of the outdoors.

Members of hiki ng Vancouver Seni groups, including the Rambler ors Activity Cent s, re get ready to from the West hit the trails.

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Rosalind Duane rduane@nsnews.com

Wakefield

Hikers head for the hills

Why we hike:

I started hiking with the hikers (from the West Vancouver Seniors Activity Centre) about six years ago.

I hike for the love of the outdoors; the opportunity to explore North Shore trails and to see some of our urban walks in winter; to keep in shape for daily living; and to travel safely with a congenial, welcoming group of like-minded people. The best part is hiking on a beautiful day, at any time of the year and seeing the views of our amazing city, lakes, forest and maybe wildlife. I enjoy the close camaraderie of

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 - North Shore News - A33

“I Love My Scooter!”

Now that I don’t drive anymore, having a scooter gives me the independence I thought I’d lost when I turned in my car keys. It gives me the freedom to meet my friends for coffee, shop for my own groceries, or get out on the seawall with my friends. And I don’t have to call my kids every time I need to go somewhere!

Whatever your requirements, SelfCare Home Health Products, in consultation with you and your health care professional, will assess your needs and help you choose the scooter model best suited to your lifestyle.

Scooters have proven to be very useful for people who can walk short distances, but need help for the longer treks.

“While helping you sort through a wide variety of choices, we take into consideration whether the scooter is to be used inside your home, for trips outside the home or both.We look at how long your average trip will be, whether you have hills to climb and any other relevant factors,” explains SelfCare’s Seating and Mobility Sales

Consultant, Charlotte Skelton.“We will bring the scooters to you, so that you can try them out in your home and surrounding environment.”

Scooters have proven to be very useful for people who can walk short distances, but need help for the longer treks.

Owners report that scooters give them a real sense of freedom and independence; the only regret we hear is “Why did I wait so long?”

Scooters range from small travel scooters that can be easily disassembled for storage in your trunk to the larger sizes that can carry you with confidence up those extra long hills.They come in three-wheel models with better manoeuvrability, or their four-wheel counterparts for extra stability.

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A34 - North Shore News - Sunday, June 2, 2013

SENIORS

West Van man shares internment story Parliament to honour kind actions of camp commandant

DESMOND Power was almost seven when he ran away from home, fleeing the consequences of an unfortunate incident involving matches and a sofa.

Out on the dykes at the edge of the city of Tientsin, China, young Desmond appealed to a rickshaw driver to transport him far, far away.

Request denied. “Aren’t you the grandson of ‘lao taitai?’ It would be more than my life is worth,” he was told.

Desmond’s grandmother, Agnes D’Arc, whose title translates loosely as “aged matriarch,” was well-known.

“Even grandmother’s mynah bird would suddenly screech out for the whole city to hear, “Lao tai-tai! Lao taitai!” Desmond remembers.

Desmond was born in 1923, the youngest child of the D’Arc’s only daughter, Grace, and Stephen Power, an Irishman who had immigrated to find work in Tientsin’s British concession on his brother’s advice: “There’s a living to be made out here.”

Beginning in 1860 in Tientsin and in Shanghai as far back as 1842, the Chinese had assigned concession territories to most European countries. By the 1930s, the mix of cultures had produced

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When the Second World War broke out on the other side of the world, Desmond enlisted in the local Volunteer Defense Corps. He was only 17 but the uniform got Desmond into nightclubs where he was introduced to hot jazz and swing performed by expatriate musicians like Earl Whaley.

By 1943, prison camps had been established in China by the Japanese. Black American musicians, who had found a haven from racism in the cosmopolitan environs of Shanghai and Tientsin, were not discriminated against by the Japanese, who interned them equally with the allied nationals.

The musicians brought the life-enhancing sounds of jazz and swing with them into the camps. Years later, Desmond remembers in his book, Little Foreign Devil, “What a godsend, that band, lifting the camp’s morale as nothing else could.”

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DESMOND Power plays a guitar in London in 1947 that had been given to him by musician Earl West whom he had met when they were in a Japanese prison camp in China during the Second World War. At 20, Desmond entered Pootung, the first of three Japanese prison camps which would confine him for the duration of the war. The next camp, Lunghua, was a vast improvement, not least due to the humanitarian actions of the camp’s Commandant Hayashi towards the prisoners.

Hayashi arranged for Desmond to be transferred to the Weihsien camp where he was reunited with his mother,

half-brother and half-sister.

There he became friends with another expat musician, guitarist Earl West and his wife, Deirdre. After liberation, Earl gave Desmond his resonant guitar, which he took with him to England and New Zealand.

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BORN in Tientsin and interned in Japanese prison camps, West Vancouver’s Desmond Power now writes about those days and assists others in their search for family members. puter systems. They moved to Canada, settling in West Vancouver in 1960 and raising four children.

In demand all over North America for his expertise in new technology, Desmond found time to locate and connect fellow prison camp veterans by sharing research through the Old China Hands network.

One gratifying discovery was the daughter of Earl and Deirdre West, whom Desmond had known when she was a toddler in Weihsien camp. In another case, a researcher had been using Desmond’s online resources for some time before chance

revealed they are both residents of West Vancouver.

In retirement, this thirdgeneration China hand wrote his autobiography, Little Foreign Devil, and articles on things like the jazz scene and daily life in the prison camps, the experience of his D’Arc grandparents in the Boxer Uprising and the story of their internationally acclaimed marionette troupe. They’re an eclectic portrayal of periods, places and events, the effects of which continue to exert their influence.

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Gogo power HEATHER Fraser (left), Ginger Shaw, Ann Frost, Joan Buckham, Landra Robinson, Martha Veerman and Arlene Watson invite community members to join them for the Stride to Turn The Tide of AIDS event in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign.

The all-ages walk is being held Sunday, June 9 at 10 a.m. at West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park and is intended to raise funds to improve the lives of people in Africa who have been affected by AIDS. The North Shore walk is being presented by members of the West Van, Lions Gate and Capilano Gogos. Info: westvangogos@gmail.com.

Centenarian Shuffle: A balance walking fundraiser event that supports InspireHealth Sunday, June 2 at 9 a.m. in Stanley Park, Vancouver. The goal of the walk is to encourage participants to become part of a movement towards healthy life habits and aim to reach the age of 100. Info: centenarianshuffle.ca.

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Hiking: Tuesdays throughout the year and Thursdays, MayOctober from the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre, 695 21st St. Tuesday hikes are four-five hours and eight-14 kilometres and Thursday hikes are six-nine hours and 12-25 km. Fee: $12. Info: 604-9257280.

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A Chinese Lunch will take place Wednesday, June 5, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at St. Andrews United Church, 1044 St. Georges Ave., North

Vancouver. There will be a guest speaker from the Community Response Network. Fee: $5.

Info: 604-982-8333.

The Hidden Ecology of the Forest — Mushrooms, Mosses and Microbiology: The Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia will host a free botany walk with Terry Taylor Thursday, June 6, 10:30 a.m. at the Heritage Centre, 1620 Mount Seymour Rd., North Vancouver. Registration required: 604-986-4892 or eliseroberts@shaw.ca.

Meditation Classes: Seniors drop-in classes on chairs led by members of North Shore Zendo Thursdays, 9:10-10 a.m. until June 20 at Mollie Nye House, 940 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Fee: Suggested donation of $2.

A Support and Discussion program for Filipino seniors and their families Friday, June 7 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver. Free. Registration: 604-982-8333.

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Tomohiko Hayashi, who helped Desmond and countless others, will be recognized in the Canadian Parliament with a statement of thanks for his efforts to save and preserve the lives of prisoners in Shanghai.

Desmond continues to write, most recently about his standoff with a bear on a daily walk. As the bear moved on to the home of Desmond’s neighbours, a Chinese family, Desmond reverted to his mother tongue, alerting them in Mandarin about the gou-xiong.

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Dogs can turn that frown upside down MY new little dog Raider is turning into a wonderful addition to the family.

The first few months were expectedly rocky with house training, establishing his role and position within the pack, teething and understanding boundaries set by both the humans in the home as well as the two high-ranking senior dogs.

But as he comes up to six months of age he is growing into a very charismatic and sensitive little man.

When I say sensitive, I don’t mean insecure or that he behaves like a drama queen or even has a tempter tantrum when things don’t go his way.

What I mean is, he has an incredible ability to sense your emotional energy, especially worry and doubt.

My other two dogs Piper and Zumi are the same way. Piper is sensitive to the emotions of sadness and depression and Zumi is sensitive to the emotions of anger and anxiety. But my dogs are not unique in having this gift of sensing emotional energy. In fact, all of our dogs do it. There is overwhelming evidence, both scientifically as well as anecdotally, of dogs — and horses for that matter — being able to sense and soothe the emotional energy imbalances within human beings.

Energy, specifically emotional energy and its imbalances, are caused by a number of things such as eating processed foods, environmental toxins, chronic infections, emotional trauma, and negative thought patterns, all of which cause blocks

conclude that dogs have the ability to balance our energy, which creates better mental, emotional and spiritual health.

After the shootings at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, “comfort dogs” where brought in to help the children recover from the trauma. Many of these children who had not spoken about the incident began to share the experience with counsellors after spending just a few moments simply being with and petting these incredible creatures.

Anecdotal evidence is the best evidence and we have all experienced it to one degree or another. It is when you are feeling a bit down in the dumps and your dog decides to crawl into bed or on the couch with you and lie with its back against your chest and heart in the classic spoon position.

You then feel an immediate sense of safety, relief, comfort and, of course, unconditional love as if the dog is magically transmuting the negative emotions into positive ones.

But according to research, it’s not magic at all. It is really happening!

With the connection between dogs and humans as powerful as it is, it is clear that dogs play a very important role in our lives that transcends the faithful companion. We are just beginning to not only understand that they play a bigger role, but to accept and bear witness to the power of it.

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in the energy flow or “qi” (pronounced chi). The blocks are released and brought back into balance through energy healing.

Energy healing is a term used to describe any therapy that stimulates the energy flow in or around the human body to restore balance on all levels, thereby enabling the physical body to heal itself. Some examples of energy healing techniques are acupuncture, reiki and yoga.

The health of our energy systems determines our mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. If our qi is unbalanced or blocked we are less capable of coping with stress, which has a negative impact on our physical health.

Over prolonged periods this imbalance leads to disease. If our qi is clear and balanced, we will be in a better position to deal with stressful situations.

Research on the healing power of dogs suggests that people who own dogs are 30 per cent healthier than their non-dog owing counterparts.

Pet owners have lower blood pressure, cholesterol levels and stress levels. And since stress is linked to an imbalance in our energy field, we can

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Wine shop and education centre impresses

L’Imaginarium a unique wine attraction WINE touring takes many forms.

Depending on your level of interest, resistance to palate fatigue, and maybe how many kids you have in tow, your mileage, as they say, may vary.

During my recent swing through Burgundy, I was intrigued to be introduced to L’Imaginarium. It’s a not so little “destination” wine store and education centre just outside Beaune, run by global winery giant Boisset.

If you like to drink even just the occasional bottle, chances are along the way you’ve tasted something from the French group that includes among its varied stable such names as J. Moreau, French Rabbit, de Loach and even Neige apple icewine.

We were there to taste crémant, the sparkling wine which, even if they don’t talk about it much, Burgundians do very well. But as we pulled into the parking lot, which might rival that of

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any Vancouver area Costco, I realized the aptly named “Imaginarium” was far removed from your typical wine shop. And even further from what you’ll ever find here in B.C., at least for now.

Walking in, the first thing I noticed was a throng of school-aged children, absorbed in a multi-media display that documents the cycle of the vine. Considering how inextricably intertwined wine is with the economy and overall culture around these parts, not a bad idea, I thought.

After all, why wouldn’t you want kids growing up to fully understand the significance, workings and, yes, even the caveats of the industry that touches just

about everything here?

There’s more, of course, from an introduction to the world of wine-growing, through to all aspects of the harvest and beyond. It’s educational but the mood is fun and lighthearted, with lots of hands-on opportunities from a sensory “squeeze and sniff” aroma display to a giant bubble you can climb inside to “imagine” what makes sparkling wine so special.

Beyond the fanciful displays there’s also a more serious side, with a state of the art tasting room (complete with changeable mood lighting). Although, as far as I know, given France’s strict drinking laws, youth are not allowed to sample from the dispenser that offers tastes of everything from Domaine de la Vougeraie Grand Cru Clos de Vougeot to Boisset 1er Cru Clos de la Roche and Bouchard Echezaux Grand Cru. Needless to say, you can order what you desire and have it shipped to you.

The original inspiration for the facility came from an idea to promote Louis Bouillot sparkling wines, but the range of products offered in the store encompasses all of the companies’ worldwide

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THE wine store and education centre called L’Imaginarium is located just outside Beaune in France. It offers wine displays and activities, as well as a tasting room with wine dispensers. The photo below shows a serving of Errazuriz Max Reserva Syrah. brands. My Bouillot vintage sparkling wine sampling yielded lots to like, especially in the Grands Terroirs range (not in B.C. as of now), as well as Crémant de Bourgogne Rosé Perle d’Or 2008 (solid mousse, strawberry notes, good pinot character; 89 pts.). You can buy non-vintage Bouillot Perle d’Aurore Rosé at BCLS ($26.99) and non-vintage Bouillot Crémant Reserve at Everything Wine ($27.99).

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Maille Mustard Summer Tasting Tour: French mustard maker Maille is coming to the Vancouver area with a tasting tour. On June 8 and 9, the Summer Tasting Tour will welcome mustard lovers to Park Royal, and will visit other locations around Vancouver on following weekends. The event will include mustard tastings at Parisian-style “mustard cafes.”

The Taste of Ambleside: Participating businesses will offer a variety of appetizers, drinks, giveaways and more Thursday, June 6, 5-8:30 p.m. from 13th19th streets along Marine Drive and Bellevue Avenue, West Vancouver. Tickets: $20/$5.

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Civic Plaza Farmers Market: Wednesdays from noon to 5 p.m. at 141 West 14th St., North Vancouver. Info: 778995-9461.

Dundarave Village Farmers Market: Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in the 2400-block Marine Drive, West Vancouver. Info: isabellebottin@yahoo.ca.

Maybe a Little Bacon: Ambrosia Adventures will host a class with chef Karen Barnaby Friday, June 14, 6:45-9:30 p.m. at Y Franks store, 503 15th St., West Vancouver, with a menu of dishes that include bacon. Fee: $74.50. Info: ambrosiaadventures.com or 604-218-2084.

Ambleside Farmers Market: Sundays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on

Lonsdale Quay Farmers Market, Saturdays, 10 a.m.3 p.m. at the East Plaza, 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver.

Shipyards Night Market: Fridays, 5-10 p.m. at Lonsdale Shipyards, 15 Wallace Mews.

Info: northshoregreenmarket. com.

— compiled by Debbie Caldwell

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SENTINEL’S Roy Cheng blasts a serve during North Shore league play at Murdo Frazer Tennis Club. Sentinel went on to win the AAA provincial title — their fifth straight — while their West Van neighbours from Collingwood claimed their sixth straight AA title.

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WHEN you cover sports in one area for a few years you notice a few stories popping up again and again, year after year.

Now that it’s the first week of June, it’s time to write one of those annual stories — the dominance of the tennis programs at West Vancouver schools Collingwood and Sentinel. Last week the teams both continued their reigns at the top of the high school tennis world with Collingwood earning their sixth straight provincial AA title and Sentinel claiming their fifth consecutive B.C. AAA championship.

The dynasties may leave a reporter scrambling for new angles but the real story here is continued excellence and commitment from a pair of schools

Collingwood and Sentinel continue to rule high school tennis

that have figured out how to harness the natural tennis talent found on the North Shore and make the game an integral part of their sports program.

“We make it a big deal at the school here — our tennis team at Collingwood is well-recognized,” said Cavaliers head coach Al Rose. “If you can make it important for the kids and they can see the value in it, they usually fall in love with it.”

Sentinel, meanwhile, has been the standard bearer for a decade now — they’ve won the North Shore title

10 years in a row to go with their five-straight B.C. titles — and coach Anthony Cheung said the sport is still growing in popularity at the school.

“I think the great thing this year is that I’ve seen more kids involved,” he said. “I carry a big team of about 21 players going to provincials and I can put in any of them and they can still play and do the job. . . . I have more and more teachers helping out too. There’s a general buzz about playing tennis in the school. Seeing the kids coming out and playing in the morning or at lunchtime — it’s fun.”

Sentinel earned this year’s B.C. championship with an 8-3 win over the combined St. George’s/Crofton House team in the final held at Langley Events Centre.

Championship MVP players have not yet been chosen but the Spartans were led by Grade 11 girls’ singles See Tennis page 40

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Tennis academy helps bring talented players to Sentinel From page 39

player Dominique Beauvais, who won all of her matches at the provincial championships, as well as the boys’ doubles team of Grade 12 player Roy Cheng and Grade 11 Daniel Raw who also were perfect at the tournament.

Coach Cheung said his team has an interesting blend of highly skilled players that he can just pencil in and let them go as well as mid-level and entry-level players that learn and grow during their time on the team. The school also boasts a tennis academy that brings in players who are not always superstars but are definitely passionate about the sport.

Theacademy,combinedwiththeteam’ssuccess over the last several years, make Sentinel a soughtout destination for tennis playing students.

“We bring in a lot of kids who are interested in playing tennis,” said Cheung. “When other players see there’s a good team they try to enroll in the school too.”

At the AA level Collingwood’s championship win came in thrilling fashion over a very familiar rival. The Cavaliers beat Brentwood College 6-5 in the final, needing a win from the mixed doubles team of Iacopo Beltramo and Kyla Jarrar in the 11th and final match.

“The whole court was ringed with kids from both teams and parents and other spectators watching the game,” said Rose. “It was quite exciting.”

In the end the Collingwood duo, two of the team’s best players, were far too strong for their opponents, whipping up a 6-0 victory to win the match and clinch the championship. This was the fourth straight time that Collingwood has defeated Brentwood in the final and this was the toughest fight yet.

“This was their chance to get us,” said Rose, adding that Brentwood had several graduating players on their team. “A lot of those kids have lost to us for four straight years and every year it’s gotten closer and closer and closer. This was the closest one. They were a very classy team, very gracious in defeat, great sportsmanship. I’m sure they were hurting but they were very classy in defeat. It’s not easy for them but they deserve a lot of credit too — they did very, very well.”

The Collingwood kids, champions so many times, were happy to be pushed to the edge in this year’s final.

“They were thrilled because it was so tight and the kids knew that this would be a real competitive match,” said Rose. Beltramo was named the boys’ singles MVP while Jarrar earned girls’ singles MVP honours. MVP awards also went to the girls’ doubles team of Hailey Reeves and Tomoe Yazawa and the mixed doubles team of Alex Oubari and Jarrar.

There’s a lot of tennis talent that lands on the Collingwood doorstep but the team atmosphere See Team page 41

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WEST Vancouver’s Helen Crofts ended her Simon Fraser University running career in fine style last weekend, winning the 800 m title at the NCAA Div. 2 Outdoor Track and Field Championships held in Pueblo, Colo.

Crofts led wire-to-wire, coming home in 2:08.18 to take the win by more than a second over Jaylen Rodgers of Angelo State.

North Vancouver’s Lindsey Butterworth finished fourth. No one, however, could overtake Crofts down the final straight even though she took the potentially risky tactic of running out front.

“I’m used to leading races so I’ve become fairly comfortable out in front,” she told the North Shore News after returning home. “I kind of decided before I ran that I wasn’t going for a fast time necessarily, more focusing on running a smart race and trying to win.”

Win she did, earning her second NCAA title following a victory over the same distance at the indoor championships earlier this season. Crofts also leaves the program with several NAIA championship wins that

were racked up before SFU made the move into the NCAA. “It was great to see her win but it will be sad to see her leave the program,” said coach Brit Townsend in an SFU release.

“Helen has been a great leader. She was so positive and confident throughout and the whole team draws from that.”

Honours poured in for Crofts as she wrapped up her fifth and final season at SFU. Following the national championships she was named an NCAA All-American, as was Butterworth. Crofts was also named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference all-academic team after scoring a grade point average of 4.14, the highest in the conference.

Crofts was also named the west region’s female athlete of the year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

The awards, honours and medals all reinforce the West Vancouver secondary grad’s decision to join the powerhouse SFU track program that has produced many great middle-distance racers, including fellow North Shore runner Jessica Smith who ran in the 2012 Olympic Games.

“I came into the program and there were people ahead of me who I was really inspired by and focused on trying to get to their level,” said Crofts. “I’ve had Jess there the entire time and she’s just a fantastic

training partner, I couldn’t ask for a better one. And it’s great when you see the new people come in and everyone improves. I think it’s just because you’re there working together and everyone is committed and it’s a ton of fun. Once you see one person succeed you believe that you’re capable of doing the same thing. That’s kind of where the team aspect comes in. Through working together and watching other people’s successes, you kind of can build on that and work from there.”

Crofts will run in the Canadian national championships later this month and then travel to Russia for her second crack at the World University Games. In the fall she’ll evaluate her career, athletic and educational options — she graduated with a bachelor of science with honours in biology and is keen on doing post-grad work — before deciding where to run to next. For now, though, she’s retiring her SFU singlet but she’ll still be one of the gang hanging around the team on top of Burnaby Mountain, training hard and going fast.

“I couldn’t be happier,” she said, summing up the triumphant finish to her SFU career. “I’m sad to see it go but I’m very happy I’m going to be able to continue training with the team for the foreseeable future. SFU proved to be a really great experience and I definitely wouldn’t have done things differently.”

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“A lot of the kids have told me that when they were in Grade 7 or 8 they were going to quit tennis, they didn’t like it anymore, it was too stressful and they wanted to do other things. I tell them to just give the team concept a try for a year and see if you like it. Some of those kids have gone on to big success.”

So who wins when these two powerhouse West Vancouver programs collide? The answer, almost always, is Sentinel, and Al Rose is OK with that. He, in fact coached the Sutherland team that

was the last to beat Sentinel for the North Shore title way back in 2003. The level of tennis on the North Shore is high, which helps all of the teams improve, said Rose, adding that his team in particular gets fired up every time they play the Spartans.

“Just having Sentinel to play against, even though they beat us almost every time, is still great for our kids,” he said. “Sentinel is stacked, they’ve got top players in B.C. right through their lineup.”

Collingwood obviously has some great players as well. It’s a story that may sound similar every year but, for all those players who keep the Sentinel and Collingwood trophy cases stocked, it’s one that never gets old.

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Exemplifying the humble grace with which she lived, and surrounded by the love of the family she raised and selflessly loved, it is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Mom and Oma, on Saturday May 25th 2013, at the age of 89. Lieselotte was predeceased by her loving husband Waldemar, parents Franz and Ida Rosinski,and brothers Hartmut, Dietmar and Reinhard. She will forever and always remain in the hearts and souls of her three children, Rose (Andres), Claus (Audrey) Iriss (Jim), seven grandchildren Andres (Kathy), Michael (Marc) Jessica (Brian) Claus, Ryan, Pamela, and Iris, and two greatgrandchildren Portia-Liese and Madeleine, as well as many cousins overseas. Lieselotte will also be greatly missed by her many dear friends who shared wonderful times together. Mom leaves us all with endless memories of all the moments and things she loved and shared.

Mom loved to cook and bake for her family and friends. She was welcomed into all circles young and old. Everyone loved her positive outlook and fun loving attitude. She always had a kind word to say or a compliment to give. Mom so enjoyed travel, all nature, music, arts and crafts, gardening, singing, playing the harmonica and walking her dog Nikki. Her strong faith accompanied her throughout her life, and she was always grateful for everything and welcomed each new day with thanks. We have been so blessed with having had her as our role model. A celebration of life with be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations to the BC heart and Stroke foundation would be appreciated. For those wishing to share a memory of Lieselotte, please go to www.hollyburnfunerals.com Hollyburn Funeral Home 604-922-1221

HUNTER, Christine May 03, 1919 - May 15, 2013 Hunter, Christine Joan (Braidwood), born May 3, 1919, died peacefully on May 15, 2013, just after her 94th birthday.

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Born June 24, 1922 in Yugoslavia, sadly passed away on May 27th, 2013, at Lions Gate Hospital. She was predeceased by her loving husband of 46 years Frederick Lake and her son William Gordon Lake. She will be greatly missed by her daughter Fran Stewart (grandchildren, Samantha, Jimmy and Travis) Regula Wifp, Beverley Harris.

Karen Lake, (grandchildren Michael, Alison). Loving family Chuck (Gail, Josh, Brieanne, Joey and Billy) Judy, Rob and Barb. Dear friends, Dez, Janet, Bent, Julie, Tina, Paul and David.

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LE CHATEAU

1 BR + DEN, 188 E. Esplanade, 735 sf + balc, $1500 incl hw/ht, a/c, f/p, ss appl, ns, pets ok, walk to Seabus, July 1. 604-985-8689

Bright clean apts - Lynn Valley Spacious 1 BR $1050 + hydro, extra $35 for u/g prkg, bike & locker room avail, coin operated laundry in bsmt.

1 BR+ den garden apt, E. 2nd St ns, pet ok, hydro/heat storage/ prkg incl. $1,275 604-813-1985

Call Michele 604-980-9219 lechateau1110@gmail.com

1 BR, Fab View, all new bath/ kitch/appls, 800sf, top corner, avail now, $1600, 604-986-4927

MOVE-IN BONUS Vista Del Mar

1 BR, top flr 3rd & Mahon, n/s, n/p, $985 incl heat/hw/ 1 prkg, lease. 604-990-9388

151 W. 2nd St. 604-908-7368, 1 BR on 11th flr., balc, pkg, no pets, lease, $1400.

1BR, ste, $925, Avail June 1 Gated prkg, quiet, drapes, heat incl. no pets, 1 yr lease, 321 East 2nd. 604-987-5802

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

Refs req’d. 604-960-0452 1 BDRM, Central Lonsdale, 2nd floor, newer reno’s incl’d new appliances, faces north, heat & h/water incl, no pets, $1150 June 1, 604-838-5020, 604-699-5264

DODWELL STRATA MGT

2 BDRM, Central Lonsdale, 3rd floor, very lrg suite, newer reno’s incl’d new appliances, faces south, heat & h/water incl, no pets, $1750 June 1st, 604-838-5020, 604-699-5264

DODWELL STRATA MGT

2 BR $1130 July 1, cntrl Lonsdale, carpets, incls heat & h/w, no pets, 604-986-6418

145 West Keith Road.

Studios (Avail Now & June 1) 1 BR’s (Avail June 1) 2 BR’s (Avail June 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. ★ Bachelor $850 No pets, 604-988-7379 www.glassmanpm.com

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

AMBLESIDE TOWER

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

604-922-8443

BAYVIEW APTS

1550 Duchess Ave, W. Van. Studio & 1 Br avail Fitness facility, Key less entry, Move-In Bonus, outdoor pool, nr shops, transit & Seawall. 1 yr lease, N/pets. Heat, hw incl’d.

Member of Crime Free MultiHousing Program 604-922-4322

CONDO 1 Whole Floor, 2800 sf, 3 br, den, on Seawalk, $6,495 long term. 604-926-9818

Park Royal Towers

Completely Renovated All Utilities Included

1 BR (700-770 sq.ft.)

2 BR (1070 sq.ft.)

3 BR (1370 sq.ft.)

Penthouse (1650 sq.ft.)

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

604-922-3246

SMALL PEACEFUL farm set up for horses right beside South Langley riding trail. Bright & comfortable older 2 bd home, f/p, barn, riding rings, pastures. $849,900. Call 604-323-4788 See Propertyguys.com ID: 76788

6020

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

At WE BUY HOMES We CASH YOU OUT FAST! We Also Take Over Your Payments Until Your Home is Sold. No Fees! No Risk! Call us First!

(604)- 626-9647 www.webuyhomesbc.com

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-13

Other Areas Apt. Rentals

Seniors’ Assisted Living A brand-new place to live, available July 1 <226 % ,+78! % -3?>;>?>+! % 07=4/#5 -!!>!?743+ % :23>78 >4?+#73?>24 % -332662/7?+! !>4"8+!

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Dale Manor

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6515

Duplexes - Rent

1800sf, 3 Bdrm, master, ensuite w/double jetted tub, walk-in closet, back yard with huge deck & huge mature trees, $2900/mth.

Refs req’d. 406 E. 4th St. By Appt only. 604-984-2030. Pics avail

6522

Furnished Accommodation

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

935 Marine Drive

Woodcroft 1 BR apt, Seymour bldg, balcony, prkg, storage, $1100 incl utils. 604-318-4778 WOODCROFT CAPILANO Bldg, lrge 2 bdrm, patio, updated,i/door pool, jacuzzi, gym, n/s, n/p July 1st $1,550/mth. 604-982-4017

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

Westwind Apts 2025 Bellevue Ave, 2 bdrm mnt view & bach. Cat OK Senior discount 604-913-0734

1 & 2 BDRM

2 BR 2 bath, bright, brand new building, high ceiling, ss appls, gym, nr Cap Mall, bus. Furnished $1850, unfurnished $1650, avail June 1st, np 604-356-2639

Recently reno’d, available in quiet waterfront building, spectacular ocean view, No pets, non-smoking.

2180 Argyle Ave. West Vanc. 604-913-1849 for viewing appointment

2 BR, corner, Lonsdale & 6, hardwood, storage, new paint, cat ok $1275, Now, 604-986-4927

2 BR, Marine/19th, view, 7th flr, 3 appls, $1675 incls heat, hw & cable, np ns. 604-925-8851

PACIFIC WEST APTS. INC. Beautiful 1 br furn apts, in hi-rise Max 2 prof, np/ns. 604-715-9184 STUNNING OCEANFRONT LOCATION Shorewood Manor 2020 Bellevue Avenue 1 BR for $1390 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

WATERFRONT LUXURY 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

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QUALITY SHORT TERM 1 - 2 BR mtn/city view suites www.lionsgatesuites.com ★VICTORIA PARK SHORT STAY ★ 1 & 2 BR Apts, Ideal for 1-6 mo stay, Renos, families, pets ok, Execs. Call 604-329-3272 www.vicparkshortstay.ca

6525

Garages

GARAGE 600 sqft lane accessQueensbury $675 Monthly.

604-985-5333; 604-218-7964

6540

GALIANO EXECUTIVE Home & Cabin on priv beach, completely furn’d, many extras, ready to move in. Reduced to $849,000!

Global Force Rlty. 604-802-8711 www.yourlinktorealestate.ca

2010 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport Auto, only 48,000kms.

Stk# 13044B

@

6spd manual, black, hard top.

Stk#P5708B

$19,995

2007 Jeep Wrangler Sport Unlimited 2011 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT Quad Cab Auto, hardtop, 51,500kms.

Stk# P5820

$20,995

Very clean, local.

Stk#13136A

$26,995

place ads online @

classifieds.nsnews.com

6540

Houses - Rent

1 BR House, Central Lons, newer paint/carp, 2 appls, carport, lrg yd, ns, np, $1195/mo, 778-865-7455

3BRM/2BA FURNISHED West Windsor Rd, all incl, avail July1, N/S, $3,850/month. vitamacd@ hotmail.com WEST VAN, Dundarave, 4 bdrm, walk to shops/seawall, $3600/m, no pets, Details @ 604-319-7674

6565

Office/Retail Rent

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

Call Jeff or Ross 604-980-3003

6595

Shared Accommodation

6595-45

North Vancouver

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

2005 PT Cruiser Convertible

2011 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited

$9,995

$39,995

Great condition.

Stk# 13181A

Scorpion lift, diffs, monster tires, on board compressor, Stk# P5823

2012 Dodge Challenger

2010 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT Quad Cab

$25,995

$32,995

Black, only 42,500kms, leather, Bluetooth.

Stk# 13208A

Low kms, loaded, park assist.

Stk# 13218A

1600 MARINE DR., N.V. 604.980.8501

www.destinationchrysler.ca

“You could’ve had it all!”

(Adele)

SHARE 3 BR furnished house, near bus stop, shops, professional or student, internet, avail Now, $490/mo, 604-929-9667

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR, Dollarton, bright, above grd patio, priv garden entry, share w/d nr bus, shops & park, ns np. $900 incl util, immed. 604-929-4592 1 BR garden lvl ste, Lynn Valley, nr bus/trails/shops, $875 + utils, ns, w/d, July 1, 778-872-0971 1 BR, priv sep waterfront cottage. nr Cap U/bus, ns, own wd July 1 $1200 incl cbl/net 778-998-1921 2 BR 1100 sq ft, renovated, Central Lonsdale, shared w/d, np $1250 incls utils. 604-805-6505

2 BR main flr. East 1st St, North Van. Lrg south facing deck, n/s, n/p, refs, newly reno’d bath, new carpet/paint, 1 yr min lse, $1350 incl utils, shrd w/d, June/July 1, 604-683-6109 2 BR, West Van, 5 appl, nr bus, $1200 incl utils, N/S, N/P, Avail July 1. 604-926-4653 BACH glvl, inste wd, nr Caulfield Village/bus, hw flrs, $750 incl utils, ns/np, Jun 1, 604-897-7155

6605

Townhouses Rent

2 BR, quiet, near Edgemont Village, 4 appl, patio, $1350/mth, no pets. July 1st. 604-980-2885

Houses - Rent

2558 Queens Ave, West Van. 12,000 sqft property, 5,500 sqft Home. Terrific Views. 4 bdrms, 5 baths, open plan. Comes Furnished. $8,000/mth, 1 yr lease Call Kim Hambling 604-808-5122 or for more info/pics go to: www.kimhamblingrentals.com

SUPER SPECIALS

$27,995

2 BR above grnd ste, reno’d, f/p, no pet, ns, nr Edgemont, $1,025 incl utils 778-879-3842 lv mess.

www.parkroyaltowersapt.com RAVENWOODS 2 br,2 bath, 4th flr, lrg deck, ns /np, w/d, 2 prkg, storage, bike rm, bus rte July 1st $1,800 incl. Refs 604-690-9100

Recreation Property

6065

AUTOMOTIVE

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AUTOMOTIVE 9110

Collectibles & Classics

9155

SPRING SAVINGS

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

07 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE GTP

07 VOLVO C70 CONVERTIBLE

STK CD41381 WAS $18,900

STK 952570 WAS $27,900

Leather, 5spd, 80,000kms.

1990 JAGUAR XJ6, auto, 40AJ6 eng, 6 cyl, good cond. well main, 4 new winter & 4new summer tires $3,000 obo. 604-987-9068

1997 LANDROVER Defender(s) 90, 5 spd diesel, mint, 160,000km, from desert $23,900 1-780-945-7945 604-926-7087 lancebright@hotmail.com

NOW $15,488

10 CADILLAC SRX AWD

12 FORD EXPEDITION MAX LTD

STK 952500

STK 952230 WAS $48,900

WAS $38,900

1989 Bentley Turbo R Automatic, 37,000 kms, V8 LWB. Impressive Luxury sedan.

Service records immaculate all options, Air Cared Certified. $24,500. Call: (604) 802-2203

9125

NOW $36,900

2007 NISSAN Titan, exc cond, 1 owner, all options, leather, tow package, line box & canopy, 92,000 kms, $20,000. Pls call Steve 604-985-3733 after 6pm Serious enquires only

2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited Affordable Luxury 35,600 kms.

2.4L GDI DOHC. $19,999. Email: sjscot@shaw.ca (604) 794-3428.

10 JEEP WRANGLER SAHARA Hardtop, 6spd.

9160

STK 952250

WAS $25,900

NOW $23,900

2009 Nissan GT-R Premium 49K kms, original owner, cdn car, gun Metal, nav., XM sat. radio, bluetooth, custom exhaust, Eibach springs, Euro clear marker lenses, V-One radar wiring, service records, CarProof available, excellent condition. $68,888. Email: t3940@telus.net

2012 AUDI A4 Quattro, Premium, 29,000km, $41,500, panorama s/roof, auto, black lthr int, Snow tires opt 604-764-8044

Scrap Car Removal

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200

Cleaning

Cleaning

Top notch house cleaning, references avail, over 15 yrs exp.

Kathy’s Cleaning 604-990-4674

8060

Concrete

AGGRESSIVE CONCRETE Professional Polished Concrete Floors Grinding, polishing, sealing, beautifying. Perfect for new radiant heat concrete floors.

North Shore Company

778-919-7707

EXP’D CEMENT Finisher. I can form, place & finish any concrete job. Peter 604-988-8856 anytime

STK 952640 WAS $35,900

NOW $32,900

EVAS CLEANING SERVICES Licensed & Bonded Quality Cleaning ★ Move in/out We do the work personally!

Ewa 604-220-0467 Eva 604-290-6061

09 MERCEDES BENZ ML 320

Diesel, leather, navigation.

NOW $26,900

NOW $34,900

STK 952650 WAS $28,900

8068

Demolition

DEMOLITION

Excavating - Drain Tile Old garage, carport, house, pool, repair main waterline, break concrete & removal.

Licensed • Insured • WCB

Stk 951661 WAS $36,900

With everything life throws at you, who has time to clean?

604-716-8528

Call Merry Maids.

604-980-6100

11 CHEV EQUINOX LT

13 CADILLAC ESCALADE HYBRID

WAS $28,900

STK CD95401 WAS $81,900

12 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY

11 FORD F150 XLT SUPER CAB

STK 952530 WAS $32,900

STK 952330 WAS $26,900

AWD, loaded, only 35,000kms.

Stk 205201

Loaded, only 5,000kms.

NOW $26,900

NOW $78,800

www.merrymaids.ca

$20/HR. Quality House cleaning.

604-983-3477 www.qualityhc.com

8073

Drainage

TROY TEATHER DRAINAGE & SEWER 15% OFF - 604-925-8711

8075

Drywall

A & A MILLWOOD QUALITY DRYWALL SERVICE

• Repairs • Renovations • New construction • Textured ceilings Prompt service. Free estimates.

Richard Wood

Cell 604-671-0084 Email: rkmillwood@gmail.com ACE DRYWALL. Avail immed.

Board, tape, spraytex, repairs. 16 yr exp. No job too small. Mike 604-808-2432, 604-985-4321 AFFORDABLE, Reliable, Quality Guaranteed. Boarding, Taping, Spraytex.

Dave 604-984-7476 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 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? Call Positron 778-859-4154 cont. on next page

9515

4x4, loaded.

NOW $23,900

12 CHEV SILVERADO LT

13 FORD MUSTANG GT CONVERTIBLE

STK 952320 WAS $49,900

STK 952420 WAS $39,900

Crew cab, long box, 4x4, diesel.

Leather, loaded.

NOW $46,900

NOW $37,490

11 CADILLAC CTS

02 GMC SAFARI

STK 952470 WAS $35,900

STK 8G64501 WAS $9,990

Rare cargo van, mint.

Luxury pkg, only 27,000kms.

NOW $32,900

NOW $7,900

09 VW JETTA TRENDLINE 2.5

09 TOYOTA VENZA

STK CD13732 WAS $14,900

STK 952310 WAS $26,900

NOW $12,900

NOW $24,900

12 CHRYSLER 300C

11 GMC SIERRA

STK 952520 WAS $33,900

STK 951950 WAS $18,900

Boats

14FT MIRRO craft alum boat & trlr, used once, w/seats, top, $4,400 obo 604-987-2691 1986 ZETA 26 ft C. bridge, twin Volvo diesel, with outdrives, $16,000. 604-922-8365 Aluminum Boat Wanted, 10, 12 or 14 ft, with or without motor or trailer. Will pay $. 604-319-5720

Leather, 5spd, sunroof.

Hemi, navigation, sunroof, leather.

NOW $30,800

SOME OF THE BENEFITS THE HONDA PRE-OWNED PROGRAM OFFERS: • 6-year / 120,000km transferable Powertrain warranty coverage, with options to upgrade to comprehensive extended warranty.

8055

12 FORD F150 XLT

Auto, loaded

NOW $29,900

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

1991 Ventura Royale Immaculate condition, have all service records, a must to see. $3,800. Call: (604) 850-8742

FINISH Carpentry and Cabinetry Great design, exceptional value and seamless execution Call: (778) 855-1814

8055

EUROPEAN CLEANING Service. 15 yrs experience, excellent refs. Call Ivana 604-987-9290

2004 INFINITY G35 sedan, blk/ lthr int exc cond in/out, serviced every 6,000 km since new, $7,900 1 owner 604-828-7875

Luxury Cars

than New! NAVI, lease or Buy? $45888. Bal 6-yr & 110km. Lexus Warranty D10578 AutoDepot 604-727-3111

Cabinet Making

EcoBoost, CreCab, 4x4.

Navigation, Stow ‘N’ Go, mint.

2011 LEXUS IS350c V6 Better

SERVICE & PARTS. Licenced & Insured. Washers, Dryers, Stove, Fridge, Dishwashers. 604-346-8925

It’s one less thing to worry about.

Sports & Imports

1997 TOYOTA Camry LE. 4 drs, 4 cyl, auto, a/c. Well maintained.

Aircared. $3700. 604-936-1270

9145

NOW $44,900

Domestic

2006 Mitsubishi Lancer. Mfr wrty until 2016. Ralliart Ed. Auto, recent brks/tires, 116k KM. 1 owner. All records avail. $7,900 OBO. 604.340.3145

9130

Leather, navigation.

Appliance Repairs

ALL CEMENT WORK rock walls patios, sidewalks, drainage, repairs, 30+yrs exp. Exc Ref’s 604-992-7994

12 MINI COOPER CONVERTIBLE

9129

NOW $25,900

8015

8025 Luxury performance pkg, only 32,000kms.

2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT 99k kms, original owner (U.S. spec, lived in U.S. & bought it new in Nov. 2006), no accidents, Chrysler ext. warranty to Nov, 2013, service records, rear camera, nav., satellite radio, remote start, Bluetooth, Mopar exhaust & cold air intake, V-One radar wiring, excellent condition. $28,888 email: t3940@telus.net

Loaded, only 47,000kms.

HOME SERVICES

• 7 days / 1000km exchange privilege • 100 point inspection • Carproof Vehicle History Report (carproof.com)

AWD, low kms, one owner.

One owner, mint.

NOW $15,900

• Manufacturer’s warranty • 30-day/2500 km no-hassle exchange privilege • 150 + point inspection • 24-hour roadside assistance

Northshore 816 AUTOMALL DRIVE, NORTH VANCOUVER

604-984-0331

www.pacifichonda.ca

1-877-212-0735

Northshore Auto Mall, 800 Automall Dr. North Van www.carternorthshore.com

Answers to Wednesday's puzzle.

Friday's puzzle was incorrect; we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

A46 - North Shore News - Sunday, June 2, 2013

HOME SERVICES Electrical

cont. from previous page

Industries Inc.

www.wizardscreens.com

604-299-8878

8080

Electrical

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

Good Neighbour Fence & Deck Cedar, Chain link, Gates, Arbours Reasonable rates. 604-987-4522

Our Products are Custom Made & Professionally Installed

“Experience The Magic” Security Screens

NORTH SHORE FENCES

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

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

8135

Hauling

CHEAP LOADS Fast Reliable Service 604-922-5101

8140

Kitchens/Baths

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

8155

Landscaping

GREAT SERVICE GREAT RESULTS GREAT LANDSCAPING - EVERY DAY -

Hardwood Floor Refinishing

Retractable Screens

Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

Seymour Lawn Maintenance Spring Package $109.99* (Aeration, Lime, Fertilizer, Moss Control)

Aeration Lawn Cutting

Spring Clean-up, Pruning and Hedges, New Lawns, Manicuring, Landscaping and More!

References available in EVERY neighbourhood on the North Shore!

604.990.1252

greatcanadianlandscaping.com

AT YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

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

No Bars, No Grills!

Security with a view!

H.D Slider Screen

DisappearsWhile not in Use!ExperiencetheMagic!

Installed • Cleaned • Repaired

604-876-4604 TROY TEATHER GUTTERS 15% OFF - 604-925-8711

Retractable Awnings

NORTH SHORE GUTTER DIVISION Call 604-987-7663

8130

Handyperson

AGRIOS HOME IMPROVEMENT

Maintenance & Repairs. ★ Fast Reliable Service ★ Reasonable Rates ★ Experienced

ExpandYour Living Space!

Motorized Screens

Pergola Canopies

Michael 604 619-1126

-

604-761-7745 ARMS & Minds Renos Carpentry cabinets, doors, finishing,

flooring, tile, drywall, paint, deck, fence, siding, electrical, plumbing. 25 yrs exp.

2012 PNE Prize Home

ABBA RENOVATION carpentry, plumbing, wiring, painting, tiling. Work guar, Refs. (604)805-8463/ 986-4026 HANDYMAN - framing, decks, tiles, re-roof. Total additions & basements. Ken 604-500-2426

Lawn & Garden

TOP SOIL, sand, gravel, etc.

Pick-up or Delivery. Headwater Management, 175 Harbour Ave, North Van 604-985-6667

8175

Masonry

CUSTOM STONEWORK & LANDSCAPES FOR OVER 50 YEARS! Fully Insured - Work Safe

Aldo

604.834.8643

A.A.BEST PRO GARDEN SERVICES LTD.

778.321.2536

Lawn Maintenance, Power Raking, Moss Control, Aerating, Trim, Top, Prune, etc.

604.726.9152 604.984.1988

604.924.5296

Anthony

ARCADIA STONEWORK bricks, blocks, natural, cultured & paving stones. Alex - 778-895-6170 MASTER STONEMASON, Local, Experienced, fireplaces, facing, walls, stairs. Ivan 604-649-2271 T-A STONEWALL. Rockwalls, paving stones, Allan block walls, etc. 987-8155 / 250-4117 ww.tastonewall.com

8180

Home Services

AGGRESSIVE CONCRETE Professional Polished Concrete Floors. 778-919-7707 Labourer Available rain or shine North Shore Odd Job Services Michael 778-868-5079

CUSTOM STONEWORK & LANDSCAPES FOR OVER 50 YEARS! Give us a call for a free, professional estimate Fully Insured - Work Safe

Aldo 604.834.8643 Anthony 778.321.2536

“The Grass is Greener”

• New Lawn Installs • Replace Old Lawn • Lawn Drainage • Landscaping • Pavers Paving ~ Any size job ~

Nick 929-7732

www.EnglishLawns.com CHULA VISTA LANDSCAPING General carpentry, patios concrete & stone work. Power washing. Retaining walls, decks, fences.

Walkways, pavers & tiles. chulavistalandscaping.ca

Francisco 604-710-9837

Al Isaac & son Colin

BOOK YOUR LAWN CUTTING NOW! 604.986.0003 Office 604.561.9100 Colin 604.218.7644 Al

greenclipperlawnservices@gmail.com

Call Jungle George Local North Shore

★ Spring Yard Cleanup ★

■ ■ ■ ■

HEDGES & TREES POWER RAKING LAWN & GARDENING JUNK REMOVAL

George’s cell ★ 604-317-3552

Garden Services

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

604-518-5661

Greenworx Redevelopment Inc. Hedges, pavers, ponds & walls, returfing, demos, drainage, jackhammering. Old pools filled in, decks, concrete 604.782.4322

ROCK WALLS, stairs, interlocking pavers, patios & sidewalks.

Repairs & installation.

Call Bruno 778-895-1964

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

8185

Moving & Storage

AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men

1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 Ton $ From

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We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

FREE ESTIMATES Seniors Discount

604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com

MOVING & STORAGE

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

1175 W.15 St. North Van

Garbage Removal • Deliveries

MOVING

Licensed & Insured

Give us an estimate and we will beat it!

Call 778.994.5403

604-726-9153 604-926-1526 2013 Special Aeration, moss control $95. Lawn maintenance 604-726-9153 & 604-926-1526 604-723-2468; Tran the Gardener.

Lawns, cutting, weeding, trimming, cleanups. Reliable. 604-723-2468 All West Garden Services Lawn maint, p/raking, moss control, aerating, trim, prune top, general cleanups... CALL SUKH 604-716-8479 or 604-984-1988 Cert. horticulturists 604-518-5661 Scott H. Design & Maintenance KatsuraLandscaping.ca GREAT CANADIAN LAWNS New lawns & repairs, lawn mtce, landscaping, lighting, patios 604-924-LAWN (5296)

GENERAL HELP

Labour / Odd jobs Home & Garden Indoor / Outdoor Clean up, removal, etc.

North Shore Odd Job Services Michael 778-868-5079

8160

PACIFIC WEST LANDSCAPE SUPPLY. Soil, sand, gravel. We accept green waste. 1990 W 1st, North Van. 604-980-8334

www.seymourlawnmaint.ca

Call Sukh

604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

Gutters

$45.00* $23.00*

* Prices Based on 2000sq.ft. + HST

Century Hardwood Floors

8125

Lawn & Garden

Heating

Actual Plumbing & Heating, Boilers, Furnaces, Tankless, Hotwater tanks, 24/7, Seniors Disc, Lic., BBB, 604-874-4808

8150

8160

GREAT LOOKING Landscapes Full service landscape & garden maint. Call Dave: 604-764-7220

Low Budget Moving.com

★ 604-652-1660 ★

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

AAA

PRECISION PAINTING • Exterior/Interior Projects • Written Warranty • Years of Experience • Fully Insured • WCB Covered Residential Specialists

QUALITY WORK. DONE RIGHT.

778.881.6096

GREEN PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Hedge trimming, tree pruning, yard maintenance, removal, Mike 983-3586 JAPANESE GARDENER Landscape & maintenance, clean-ups, trimming.

Reas, free est, 25 yrs exp 604-986-8126 JB GARDEN'S Hedges, trimming & cleanups, pruning, weeding.

Call Terry 604-354-6649 JIM’S MOWING 604-310-JIMS (5467) www.jimsmowing.ca

Summer Special

3 Rooms - $495 incl. 3 gallons of PREMIUM CLASSIC PAINT • Professional & Reliable • Speedy Response • Warranty

Call Peter: 778.858.5793

HOME SERVICES 8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

David James & Associates Inc Fine Painting & Decorating.

Painting homes on the North Shore since 1987.

DAVID JAMES

Tel: 604.988.7898

FAIRWAY PAINTING

Fully Insured 20 yrs. exp. • Free Est. Call 604INTERIOR & EXTERIOR SPECIALS 10% OFF

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MASTER BRUSHES PAINTING

8220

Plumbing

10% Off with this Ad! For all your plumbing, heating & reno needs.

Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005

LOCAL PLUMBER - Licensed, insured,GASFITTING, renos, Repairs. VISA 604-929-6956

High Quality, Clean, Reliable

PLUMBING BY BILL Installation, repairs Honest & reliable 604-980-0993

ALL-WAYS PAINTING. Quality work at an affordable price. Int/ext Visa. 604-985-0402

PAINTER -Interior & Exterior Professional & Reliable ANDREW 604-765-1676

Plain & Simple Painting. The best painting & customer service ‘Plain & Simple’ 604-770-0515 ★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reas. rates. BBB, 604-809-3842

8200

Patios/Decks/ Railings

THUNDERBIRD GLASS

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

604-980-7511

www.thunderbirdglass.com Atlas Vinyl Sundecks 'Your complete Sundeck Specialists' Vinyl Waterproofing, Deck Rebuilds, Custom Built Railings, Patio Covers, 778-285-2107

8205

RENOVATIONS & CUSTOM HOMES

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604.987.5438

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

8225

Builder, Renovator

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604-984-4147 ALL-WAYS Pressure Washing Driveway, sidewalk, deck, patio, houses. Visa. 604-985-0402 POWERWASHING. GUTTERS & Windows. Best rates. Free est.

Call Doug 604-985-4604

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

AT YOUR HOME SERVICES GROUP

Free Estimates!

We are pleased to offer High Quality Home Improvements • New construction • Renovations - Basements • Additions - Decks • Kitchens - Bathrooms • Laneway Houses - Drainage *No job too big or too small

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Book your ad online: classifieds.nsnews.com or call: 604-630-3300

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

Renovations • Additions Kitchens • Bathrooms Sundecks • Fences

Call Brian Cell 604-916-1086, 604-988-1086

Call Hummingbird 778-387-3626

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

604 451 0225

Bath Kitchen Suites & More 2 OLD GUYS 2 YOUNG TO RETIRE WE DO IT ALL!

drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

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Roofing

B.K. CONSTRUCTION

www.RenoRite.com

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

Advantage Aluminum Products Ltd. 143 - 14488 Knox Way, Richmond, B.C.

Tel: 604-276-2323 Fax: 604-276-2313 Toll Free: 1-877-440-2323 www.advantagealuminum.ca

HOME SERVICES

778.233.0559

ASPHALT PAVING

You Buy It! We Build It!

Award-Winning Renovations ■ Rendering to Reality ■ ccirenos.com

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Precision Craftsmanship Professional Service

Paving/Seal Coating

Patio Covers

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Power Washing

• Power washing • Gutter cleaning/repairs • Window cleaning • WCB insured • Free estimates

PATIOS, DECKS, RAILINGS

www.buildpros.ca

RENOVATIONS

NO TAX Special! *

CALL RICK/WAYNE:

778-322-2229

Licenced Plumber 604-729-6695

Excellent Pro Painting Service 20 yrs exp, refs, warranty. Reas, res/comm Richard 604-618-0205 Complete Painting Package delivered on time & budget.

Call: (604) 836-9675

Complete Residential Site Services

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DELBROOK

PROFESSIONAL PAINTERS

A CLEAN PAINT JOB. Quality 1 room from $137. Int-ext, WCB 22 yrs exp. Cell: 604-727-2700

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Come see us during Lynn Valley Days!

604-317-7102

LARTERS PLUMBING. Bradford & White h/w tank, 50 g. elec. $725 & 40 g. gas $850 604-984-7814

Free Estimate

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Construction Ltd.

604.987.7473

604-377-5423 778-545-0098

604-338-1321

Demolition • Excavation Soil Removal • Backfill • Boulder Retaining Walls • Storm Sewer & Sanitary • Precast Foundations

RAVENWOOD

• $69/hr • 24/7 • Insured

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

Lic. BBB, 604-874-4808

SITE SERVICES

DESIGN • BUILD • MAINTAIN

Licenced Plumber & Gas Fitter

PLUMBING & DRAINAGE

Interior – Exterior

CALL THE EXPERTS

GLOBAL PLUMBING

Exterior Painting Experts

25 Years Experience Excellent Workmanship Reasonable Rates • 15 Yrs Guaranteed

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B.K. CONSTRUCTION. Renos, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, sundecks, fences. Brian Cell 604-916-1086, 604-988-1086 PAINTING, LAMINATE flrs, baseboards, tiling, blinds. Clean, reliable. Free est. 604-338-1321

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

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atyourhomeservicesgroup.ca

NORTH SHORE ROOFING LTD. Est. 1968

• Cedar Shakes • Flat Roofing • Asphalt Shingles • Roof Maintenance • Liability Insurance • A+ Rating BBB • WCB

Call Sean Today

604-987-ROOF (7663)

AFFORDABLE QUALITY ROOFING All types. BBB, insured, references. www.affordablequalityroofing.com 604-984-6560

Roofing 8250 AFFORDABLE QUALITY ROOFING LTD. Trusted since 1986!

A+ Rating - BBB Residential/Commercial 25 yr. workmanship warranty Call for FREE ESTIMATE & SUMMER PROMOTION A+

604-984-9004 604-984-6560

All Season Roofing

Re-Roofing & Repairs Specialists 20 year Labour Warranty available

604-591-3500

Bros. Roofing Ltd. Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

Liability Insurance, WCB, BBB, Free Estimates

604-983-0133

10% DISCOUNT. MG Roofing & Siding. WCB. Re-Roofing, New Roof, Gutters. 604-812-9721

8255

Rubbish Removal

604-RUBBISH Free Est’s • Large or Small Jobs

10% OFF WITH THIS AD www.604rubbish.com

1 A STUDENT JUNK REMOVAL Best prices! Friendly service.

Free est. Jamie 604-961-0466

#1 TRAILER TRASH BOYS

We haul everything, no load too big or small, we do it all. Free est. 604-317-2500/ 929-7194 BELL MINI BINS 604-922-5101 Small or large household jobs & Mini bin service. 7 days a week Fast ★ inexpensive ★ reliable. ● BIN RENTALS ● ★ Top Soil Deliveries ★ 7 days a wk. Fast service 604-985-4211 orangebins.com ROD’S RUBBISH REMOVAL Prompt, reliable, reasonable. Big/ small loads. 7 days 604-985-7193

8310

Top Soil

DALTON TRUCKING Top Soil, Garden Soil, Fill Soil.

Gravel, Sand, Rock & More.

Dirt Bins, Dump Sites, Trucking Deliveries 604-986-6944

AMBLESIDE ROOFING

All types - Reroofs & Repairs Insured/WCB 778-288-8357 THE ROOFER (since 1978) Roof tune-up from $149. 24 hr repair.

WCB, insured 604-985-1913

BIG

or small...

Find all the help you need in the Home Services section

Top Soil

Headwater Management

782-2474

* We Remove & Recycle Anything*

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

8310

TOP SOIL, SAND, GRAVEL, etc.

Pick-up or Delivery 175 Harbour Ave. North Vancouver

604-985-6667 PACIFIC WEST LANDSCAPE SUPPLY Soil, Sand, Gravel & more We accept green waste Pick-up or Delivery 1990 West 1st, North Van 604-980-8334

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 NORTH SHORE TREE & Hedge Certified arborist. Fully Insured Call Daryl 604-988-4479

ROBIN’S 604-986-4091

Expert Tree Care - Cert. Arborist 25years exp. Fully Insured.

8335

Window Cleaning

WEST COAST Home Services Window & gutter cleaning, power washing. Guaranteed lowest price WCB insured 604-984-4147

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