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THE North Shore Heritage Preservation Society says the North Shore’s municipalities need to tighten their rules around heritage homes or risk losing them to developers’ wrecking balls. This, after the group has learned a heritage designated home in Edgemont Village has been demolished, only to have the lot listed for sale with plans for a five-bedroom, sevenbathroom “McMansion” to occupy it. “This is ideal for someone who wants to build their dream home ASAP right in the heart of the village,” the lot’s MLS listing states. Designed by noted local architect Fred Hollingsworth in 1950, the home at 2895 Newmarket Dr. was razed after the District of North Vancouver issued a demolition permit on July 3. NEWS photo Kevin Hill Buildings that date back to the North Shore’s formative PETER Miller, president of the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society, looks glumly at the cleared lot at 2895 Newmarket Dr., history or homes once lived close to Edgemont Village. It used to be the site of a heritage designated post-modern home designed by Fred Hollingsworth. Scan in by important people have with Layar for photos of award-winning heritage preservation and a video on heritage issues. an intrinsic value worth That’s better than a McMansion, Miller said, but it “Why would you buy a heritage a home only just to tear it protecting, the group argues, comparing the homes to family down?” Clay, asked. “If they just want an empty lot to build their still amounts to “Disneyfication” when new materials and heirlooms. “The heritage buildings we see around us are our link to our dream home, they should go find some rundown bungalow that workmanship are used to mimic the real thing. “There is an emotional attachment that an old building has past and sweeping them away means we sweep away all evidence isn’t on the heritage register and do it there. There’s plenty of to the past. If you go up to a front door, which was there almost of where we come from,” said Peter Miller, society president. those kinds of houses around.” The group is also in mourning for a 1910 home, part of 100 years ago, and touch it, you can feel that people have been “In this particular case, we regret very much that the system Finlay’s Row on the 200-block of East 19th Street, which City going in and out of that door for 100 years,” he said. “When you permitted this to happen. It’s very sad.” District staff met with the owner, as is standard practice when of North Vancouver council debated vociferously before issuing go up to a door that looks essentially the same but came from someone wants to demolish a heritage home, to discuss other a demolition permit in a split vote. Council had already funded a Rona, there’s none of that emotional connection to the past.” In the meantime, the group is left to try to persuade a options that would see the house preserved, said Jeanine Bratina, $10,000-study into the costs of renovating the home and offered to put up $25,000 of the approximately $745,000 needed to homeowner or developer to stay the bulldozers. district spokeswoman. If done correctly, it’s cheaper to repair than rebuild, Miller “Ultimately, the decision does rest with a property owner,” raise the structure, pour a new foundation, and bring the floor and ceiling joists up to code. Rebuilding from scratch would run said, and keeping a heritage home comes with a much smaller Bratina added. But real estate speculators shouldn’t be seeking out historic about $651,000, city staff concluded. The owners are pledging environmental cost than building a new one, taking into account homes for their lucrative property flips, said Jennifer Clay, society to rebuild a new home on the lot with a design aimed to fit in the landfilling, transportation and raw resources needed. “The greenest building is an existing building,” said Miller. with the rest of Finlay’s Row. vice-president.

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SUNDAY FOCUS FIRST WEEKEND CLUB

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A monk seeking solitude can scale the slopes of a lonely mountain, or he can fork over 10 bucks and head into a theatre showing a Canadian movie. The movies of the Great White North have been a tough sell ever since Ten Years in Manitoba failed to lure audiences away from the gramophone craze of 1902. About 100 years after that early Canadian film shone its light on empty seats, Lynn Valley resident Anita Adams raced to the movies to watch the Vancouver premiere of The Rhino Brothers. By the time the projector whirred to life and the familial hockey drama skated across the celluloid there were only five people in the theatre — and one of them was Adams’ mother. “How does that happen?” Adams recalls thinking. “Where are all the actors in the film? Where’s the director? It’s opening night!” Far from an anomaly, the aspiring actress discovered that fanfare-free premieres are the plight of many Canadian movies. “So what’s the problem with Canadian film? We are. We don’t watch them,” writes film critic Katherine Monk in her book Weird Sex and Snowshoes and Other Canadian Film and Phenomena. “Canadians have grown to respect the rhetoric of self-loathing more than the language of love.” Adams decided to change that. The intrepid organizer used her Gastown script-reading series to make a case for Canadian film. Shortly afterward, The First Weekend Club was born. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the seven-member organization has a singular mission: finding audiences for Canadian movies. FWC has promoted movies ranging from It’s All Gone Pete Tong to Shake Hands with the Devil to The Trotsky and American Mary. While the subjects are wildly disparate, the stories tend to be united in their telling. “When you’re looking at a Canadian film versus an American film, just as an example, I think our stories are more character-driven than they are anything else,” Adams says. Whether the plots circle around vengeful medical students, high school communists, clueless headbangers, or headbangers with sociology degrees, the movies tend to be modestly budgeted pictures with deliberate pacing and patient editing. “We’re just really looking at the quality of the storytelling and the film,” Adams says. With a recently reduced annual budget of $106,000, FWC isn’t in a position to rent towering billboards or to saturate television screens with 30-second spots. Like the films they promote, they need to be just a little different. In the spring of 2003, 10,000 Vancouver drivers found tickets tucked under their windshield wipers advertising the comedy The Delicate Art of Parking. That movie found an audience. In certain cases, FWC’s online marketing, wine receptions, special events and industry contacts are all that stand between a movie and oblivion. After spending 15 years as a stunt double, Kirk Caouette moved behind the camera to make his debut film Hit ’n Strum, a story about an uneasy relationship between an office worker and a homeless busker living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Caouette wrote and directed the film, starred in it, and composed the music.

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FRUSTRATED with reading for generic young mom roles, Anita Adams left acting to support Canadian movies through the First Weekend Club. The production was challenging. “The ﬁrst failure was in fundraising,” Caouette recalls. “Basically we just bit the bullet, realized if we wanted to do it we had to fund it ourselves, and so I cashed out some RRSPs.” Without enough money to pay the crew properly, Caouette says he relied on workers with “good souls.” He also relied on good luck. When Caouette needed to shoot inside an airport, the crew told security they were making a wedding video. But while the movie came together over nearly two years, Caouette watched his health deteriorate with overwork and stress. “There are so many bad movies made. It really did look like I was going to make a bad one,” he says. “You’re at a risk of losing a year of work and all of your money.” Despite some good responses at test screenings, the movie seemed destined for the same fate as Ten Years in Manitoba and countless forgotten Canadian ﬁlms. “We were rejected by everybody,” he says. “We were stunned when not a single festival, even Vancouver, would program it.”

The movie was brushed off by about 40 different film festivals. “We hit rock bottom. I couldn’t believe that we could have a film that was an eight out of 10, a four-star movie, that could not even get into a festival,” he says. “I wasn’t expecting it to get distribution, but I was expecting to get into the Calgary Film Festival.” While the movie didn’t make it into the Toronto International Film Festival, a smaller festival in Toronto mercifully accepted Hit ’n Strum. “At the end of the film we got a standing ovation. In Toronto. And the First Weekend Club was there. That’s how it started. . . . They started championing it across Canada.” The Whistler Film Festival had already rebuffed the movie, but FWC were able to persuade the festival’s new programmer, Paul Gratton, to give the movie a look. “He actually went to his hotel room and watched it at TIFF. Which is just incredible. I don’t know what the First Weekend Club told him.” At the time, Caouette had no idea FWC had interceded on behalf of his film. “I got forwarded an article in the paper

where Paul Gratton was talking about programming our film. It was like, ‘What the hell? We’ve already been rejected from Whistler, how can the programmer be raving about it?’” he recollects. “That was completely the First Weekend Club.” After playing in Whistler, Caouette’s movie made it to Fifth Avenue Cinemas in Vancouver. Hit ’n Strum packed them in for five weeks. “If First Weekend Club had not been at that little Toronto film festival where we got the standing ovation, than my film would’ve been shelved and it would’ve never seen the light of day. Right now it’s playing on Super Channel and we’re going to be on iTunes,” Caouette says. The director is nearly fully recovered from the production, he says, discussing his ordeal during a break from overseeing editing on a monster movie called To Hell in a Handbag. “This is a fun vampire/zombie/werewolf movie, but that’s really all that the market can bear,” he says of the flick. “I’d like to create our own industry here where we have our own star system. If we could take what Montreal has done and do that across Canada we would have our own industry, we would have our own movie stars, we would have our own directors.” Since 1986, six Quebec films have received Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film. The province has its own movie stars and iconoclast directors. “We’ve spent a lot of energy building that star system,” remarks François Macerola, the former head of Telefilm Canada. Macerola currently serves as president of SODEC, a crown corporation that reports to Quebec’s Minister of Culture and Communications. He’s enjoyed a front row seat to the benefits of cultivating local talent. “We know that with Michel Côté . . . that if he plays in a film, that film will automatically gross close to $2 or $3 million,” he says. “The Quebec government has always been there to help, to invest, to subsidize, to finance.” Quebec’s approach to supporting film is distinct from the methods used in Englishspeaking Canada, according to Macerola. “In English Canada it’s a bit different,” he says. “There’s a question of commerciality. We don’t have that in Quebec.” The debate over when a business-friendly tax incentive becomes an obscene corporate subsidy has taken centre stage in Victoria recently, as the B.C. Liberal government has elected not to match the incentives offered to film crews working in Ontario and Quebec. Efforts by Premier Christy Clark to establish a uniform system of tax credits are controversial in Quebec, according to Macerola. “I would not recommend to the minister . . . reducing the tax credit for foreign films,” Macerola says, discussing the importance of the incentives. While B.C. and Toronto are Quebec’s main rivals, Macerola says he’s keenly aware of similar tax credits employed south of the border; as well as the lure of Eastern Europe, where pitiable wages can translate into major savings for a film studio. While B.C.’s labour tax credit may not be as attractive to producers as the deals offered by Quebec and Ontario, the province does boast skilled workers. B.C. lost out on the mega-budget Fantastic Four reboot, but the Matt Damon science fiction film Elysium was almost entirely made in Vancouver. “It’s a huge showcase of what we can do in this city with the talent we have,” says colourist See More page 5

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O a layman — that’s us — it seems unambiguous: Margaret (Margot) Bentley, while of sound mind, left a living will in 1991 that states she does not want liquids or nourishment if diagnosed with an incurable disease with no reasonable expectation of recovery. “I direct that I be allowed to die,” she wrote. Bentley, a former nurse, would have had a clearer idea than many of what end-of-life care might entail, and rejected being kept alive by artiﬁcial means. Yet Fraser Health has directed the Abbotsford care facility where she has livedinavegetativestateforthepastfour years to continue feeding her against her family’s wishes — and despite the legal directive she had the forethought to create some 13 years before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

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“The street was kneedeep, ﬂowing like a river.” Braemar Road resident David Mueller witnesses the effects of a ruptured water main on St. Marys Avenue that damaged ﬁve properties and sent a torrent down nearby streets (from an Aug. 4 news story). ••• “She collided with one of the vehicles going by and then collided with the vehicle behind where she was trying to park and the vehicle parked in front of where she was trying to park. It was a little bit of a pinball game.” West Vancouver Police Department Sgt. Ed Pearce recounts the misadventures of an 80-year-old driver that resulted in a multi-car crash (from an Aug. 4 news story). ••• “The reason I knew it was pink grapefruit juice is because my wife prepares a pink grapefruit for me every morning.” North Vancouver taxi driver Christopher Kay discusses being pelted with fruit on consecutive evenings while driving on Lynn Valley Road (from an Aug. 7 news story).

Dear Editor: I would like to respond to Jeremy Shepherd’s, Aug. 4 story, NV Water Main Break Damages 5 Homes. I am one of the homes on the south side of Braemar Road that sustained extensive damage due to the ﬂood waters caused by the break in the water main. I would ﬁrst like to thank all our friends and neighbours that came to the rescue of our home on Braemar Road on July 29 after the water main broke on St. Marys Avenue. If it was not for your initiative, quick thinking, action, kindness, help and support the damage to our home would have been much worse. You are all an amazing group of people and we can’t thank you enough. At this time the District of North Vancouver does not know why this happened. However, it was not mentioned in your story that on the same day as the water main break, the district was working on pipes under the road surface at the bottom of St. Marys Avenue near the site of the pipe break. A neighbour overheard workers that afternoon comment on a water issue and that they were not sure where extra water was coming from. She approached them and was assured there was not a problem.

Three hours later the water main broke and several houses and yards were flooded. At the corner of St. Marys and Balmoral Street is a construction site where a large private home is being built. On the property sits a very large excavator that has been used on this job site for a long period of time. Putting these events together makes me think that maybe there is an explanation behind why this pipe broke. Before the flood waters had even stopped running around and through my house, a note was put on our door by district staff explaining how the district was not responsible for any damage on personal property. The timing of this note was in poor taste. Your story states that Braemar Road was cleaned up beautifully by the next day. The part of Braemar in front of my home was not cleaned up. The two drains on the road were still plugged with debris, and dry mud was still two feet up on my rock wall, and the sidewalk was covered in mud, rocks and other debris left by the flood. Three days after the flood, this area remained the same. I will finish by again thanking our neighbours and friends. Without your help who knows what could have been the end result for our home. Susan Keast, North Vancouver

MLA Thornthwaite says B.C. ﬁlm industry’s future is bright Dear Editor: In response to George Heyman’s July 12 letter, Libs Need to Act on Film Industry, I want to assure the B.C. ﬁlm industry that I share their concerns and am working diligently to ensure we remain competitive. The B.C. Liberal government has increased labour tax credits three times since 2004, from 11 per cent under the NDP to 33 per cent today. For Canadian-controlled production companies, the rate is 35 per cent. This year, $378 million in tax credits have been earmarked to help the industry.

Our Digital Animation or Visual Effect initiative provides a refundable tax credit to help companies with their digital animation or visual effects work. In 2010, our government added the B.C. Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit to help businesses that develop interactive digital media products. Tax credits are only one factor that companies use to decide where to base their productions. This is why we’re listening to the industry to keep B.C. at the forefront of ﬁlm production. In January 2013, we launched BC Creative Futures,

a three-part strategy to support sustainable, long-term success for the creative sector. In my party’s platform, we have pledged to work with Ontario and Quebec to establish a rational film incentive policy across Canada to prevent unaffordable industry support systems, open a B.C. Film office in Los Angeles to encourage television and film production in B.C., and include post-production in the digital tax credit. Over the next few weeks, my government and I See Talks page 7

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Unplugged is the opposite of tranquil

IF some villain like the Joker or Count Chocula or Karl Rove really wanted to drive everyone in the world insane, I’ve recently experienced the one thing that would work ﬂawlessly.

Through an unfortunate series of events my family was recently left without an Internet connection in our home for 38 straight days. The horror mercifully ended this past weekend. Who knows what I would have gotten into if the crisis had gone on any longer? Start a rock ﬁght with a hydrangea bush? Cut off my left arm below the elbow? Watch So You Think You Can Dance? Thankfully it didn’t get to that point, but it was harrowing nonetheless. Some day when I’m very old, I’ll gather the grandkids out on the porch — assuming we’re allowed to have porches in our UVrepellent hydro bubbles — and tell them about the time we lost our Internet. Here’s how it went down. Day 1: This isn’t so bad. The sun is setting on a beautiful warm evening, the kids are in bed and the beer is cold. Who needs the Internet? Day 2: Ahhhhhh, I need the Internet! This is the worst ever!

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Do we have any poison in the house? What’s this, soy butter? Close enough. Scoop, slurp, gulp. Day 3: I awake from my soy coma alive, barely. The doctor says if it’d been the crunchy soy rather than the smooth I’d be a goner. I make it back home but can’t relax without my normal evening routine of reading every new posting on the websites for the New Yorker, The Economist, BBC World and Bieber Fever. Day 9: In a related but slightly less traumatic occurrence, we’ve also lost all of our high deﬁnition television channels and the use of our DVR. We’re left watching basic cable in regular deﬁnition, which is a lot like watching HDTV if someone had

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smeared the screen with deadly soy butter. Day 14: Sure, The Weather Network television program. I don’t mind waiting seven excruciating minutes before you’ll tell me what the forecast is for next week. Take your time. Oh, it’s muggy in Toronto? What a shocker! Day 15: I write an apology letter to The Weather Network and the little girl who made the smiley sun/rainbow drawing that they showed before getting to the forecast. I shouldn’t have said her drawing was “too ugly even for regular deﬁnition.” Day 20: I can’t take it anymore. I go to a local coffee shop to do some important work on Facebook. At the counter I ask for a decaf blended iced mocha, the WiFi password and a washroom key. I’m gonna be here a while. I come pretty close to going back up to the counter and asking what it would cost to move my bed in here. Day 29: As you all know I’m a famous and highpowered newspaper columnist, so it’s getting a little tiresome carting my column back and forth from home to work on a memory stick like some carrier pigeon or hobo. I bet Mitch Albom never had to carry his own column on a memory stick. Some day I’ll write a book called Tuesdays With No Internet. Spoiler alert: it’ll suck. Meanwhile my wife is spending her time doing crossword puzzles from a book instead of spending all our money online. I guess this thing isn’t all bad. Day 33: At my wit’s end, I go for a bike ride. Things are getting ugly.

Day 36: It’s not just me who is suffering. We can’t Skype with the Grandparents and they’re getting testy. My mother-in-law is threatening to board a flight to Vancouver, find the person responsible for this mess and beat them senseless with our dusty modem. Also, my son has been out of sorts because we can’t play him his favourite time-to-poop YouTube video (it’s astronaut Chris Hadfield singing “Space Oddity,” if you really must know). Day 38: With no Internet to distract us, my wife decides to make the most of it and calls a “family meeting.” It’s just me and her in the kitchen for two hours talking about how we

need to step up our vacuum schedule. Happy Friday! Day 39: Like a haunted jukebox, the YouTubes crackle to life all on their own. “This is ground control to Major Tom, you’ve really made the grade.” What a relief, particularly for my son. I don’t know how I made it. I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t get a single drop of rain during the troubles. Oh, and I still had access to the Internet all day at work. And I suppose it should be said I had Internet available at all hours of the day through the 3G network on my phone. But the screen is so tiny! How am I supposed to get a good look at Prince George’s Royal Onesies so I can buy

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The Pacific Salmon Foundation doled out the grants totalling $75,000 this summer to both the Seymour Salmonid Society and the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. The Seymour Salmonid Society received $50,000 for a new roof and upgrades to its Seymour River Fish Hatchery and Education Centre. “The aging structure is a vital resource for public education, outreach and local salmon enhancement in the community,” said Seymour Salmonid Society spokesman Matt Casselman. The Tsleil-Waututh received $25,000 for restoration of the Indian River watershed with the creation of critical over-wintering habitat for Coho salmon and trout. “Over-wintering pools are like nurseries for young salmon, providing refuge from winter’s fast water flows and supporting food sources for salmon,” said Ernie George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation director of the treaty, lands and resources department. The foundation grants were financed with partial support from Newalta, an environmental-services company, and proceeds from the Salmon Conservation Stamp, a decal that salt water anglers must purchase annually with their licences if they wish to retain salmon. The grants were part of the more than $464,000 the foundation granted to 57 projects in 45 communities across B.C. On July 24, North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton met with local stream-keeping volunteers during a visit to Mackay Creek, an urban salmon stream in Heywood Park. Saxton said salmon conservationists could expect more funding for similar projects after changes he pushed through in the March 2013 federal budget. The federal stamp program would also be making more funds available for projects in the future. “For many years, stream-keeping volunteers were only seeing about one dollar from each six-dollar Salmon Conservation Stamp, with the balance going to the federal government,” said Saxton. “With this change in the federal budget, we will now be directing every dollar raised through this angling user fee back to community projects to restore and sustain our Pacific salmon fisheries.” North Shore Streamkeepers volunteer Ron den Daas said Mackay Creek is home to Coho, chum and pink salmon, and cutthroat and steelhead trout. “As volunteers we want our community and elected officials to understand that we have wild salmon right in our midst in some of the most developed and urbanized parts of North Vancouver,” said den Daas. “We also want people in the community to know that with hard work, year after year, we can maintain these critically important parts of our ecosystem, but we all have to do our part.” Don Swoboda, a North Vancouver resident and volunteer board member with the foundation, said highlighting the impact of volunteer groups such as the North Shore Streamkeepers helped convince Saxton and other MPs from British Columbia to push for a fairer distribution of stamp user fees. “Our message to the government was all about the power of volunteers to significantly magnify the impact of every dollar generated through the Salmon Conservation Stamp,” See Volunteers page 9

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Performer Peter Paulus The North Shore Seniors Picnic was held at midday in West Vancouver Community Centre on June 27. The Canada Day-themed festivities included entertainment, live music and the rarest of all meals: a free lunch. More than 20 businesses sponsored the outing, which also included a best-decorated hat contest judged by North Shore mayors. Karmen McKeller and Mark Senner

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in April and it’s based on letting go of the negatives that you may have grown up on,” says Greenwood. Using Goble’s photography background and Greenwood’s dedication to empowering youth, the two came up with an idea that has participants writing down a word they were taunted with, then using positive words to create an anagram. They are then photographed with the boards, each in colourfully ornate frames, as a keepsake they can share. “This word has deﬁned them for too long and they don’t see themselves as that anymore,” says Goble. “They’re seeing the positive things in themselves and they See Founders page 12

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think that Be Bold has given them the conﬁdence to do that.” The idea has been incredibly popular, especially on social media, and the two have been receiving calls from people all over the world. Greenwood says the moment they launched the ﬁrst photo on Facebook, the feedback was very positive. “I didn’t realize that it was going to be so powerful and that people were going to embrace it as much as they have,” she says.

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Dog Days of Summer: Gather up the kids and the pooches for an afternoon of fun on Sunday, Aug. 11, 12-3 p.m. at Union Steamship Marina, Bowen Island. Info: bcguidedog.com.

byoV (bring your own voice) Community Choir is now accepting registrations for the 2013/2014 year. The year is divided into three terms that cost $40 each, with rehearsals on Thursday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Lynn Valley United Church, 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. The choir sings all kinds of music and emphasizes singing for the joy and love of singing. Info: lynnvalleychurch.com or 604987-2114. Waterfront Theatrical Walking Tours: Shipyard Sal and Sam will sing, dance and tell stories about Burrard Dry Dock during the Second World War Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:30-3 p.m. during August at Shipbuilder’s Square, 15 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver. Free. Info: 604-990-3700, ext. 8008. Summerfest 2013 will return to Lonsdale Quay Market and will run every weekend until Sept. 1. This family friendly festival will feature a variety of free activities for all ages. For a full schedule of events and info: lonsdalequay.com.

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, Aug. 13, 2:30-4 p.m. at Parkgate library, 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. Registration required: 604-9293727. Info: nvdpl.ca.

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Outdoor Movie Night: Shrek will be shown on a giant inﬂatable screen Thursday, Aug. 15 at dusk (8:30 p.m.) at Delbrook Park, West Queens Road and Delbrook Avenue, North Vancouver. Free admission, but donations of non-perishable food items or cash will be gladly received for the Harvest Project. First Annual Zombie Dance will be held on Saturday, Aug. 17, 5-10 p.m. Central Lonsdale on the west side between 19th-20th St, North Vancouver. This fun ﬁlled evening will have a zombie fashion show, zombie music, zombie dogs and so much more. — compiled by Debbie Caldwell Email event info to listings@ nsnews.com.

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COMMUNITY CONNE IONS NEWSLETTER North Shore ConneXions Society (ConneXions) is a non-pro!t organization that supports families and serves children and adults living with a developmental disability. Our vision is a community where all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to lead active, ful!lling lives and are recognized as contributing members of the community.

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AUGUST 2013

Michael !nds his job match Michael joined Employment ConneXions in 2012, after working several recyclingrelated jobs. As a mature worker, his employment options at the time seemed limited and he enlisted the assistance of his Vocational Counsellor to !nd work. Job search activities were targeted after the ‘Discovery’ process was completed. The job development phase of his program included revising his resume and !nding out what work he was interested in by focusing on the tasks he had performed at previous worksites. Michael’s Vocational Counsellor’s job marketing efforts resulted in two interviews: one at a major clothing retailer and the other at a pet food manufacturer. Unfortunately, these jobs proved to be unsuitable. Michael, who

admits he is shy and quiet with people he doesn’t know, found this process to be overwhelming; he wondered when he would !nd work and began to question the job market. However, he persevered. In February 2013, his patience and endless effort resulted in being hired as the weekend dishwasher at the Rockford Bar and Grill on Marine Drive in North Vancouver. The job at the modern grill has been a wonderful experience for Michael and it has positively changed his life. He has been with Rockford Bar and Grill for several months now and is a welcomed and valued member of the kitchen. He is sociable and open with the team he works with and takes full responsibility on his shifts.

Rockford Bar and Grill’s Managing Chef, Aaron Adams comments that Michael is a valued employee who can be counted on when the restaurant gets busy. He said management is pleased with Michael’s progress and couldn’t have asked for a better dishwasher! Adams also mentioned that the restaurant strives to reach its goal of building diversity in the community. By hiring workers with challenges such as Michael’s, ConneXions is helping them accomplish this. Meanwhile, Michael is happy when he’s busy at work and with the income he is receiving. He can now afford to operate his car which he drives around the North Shore to go to appointments and see friends. Great job Michael!

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Does the word “exercise” make you think of a fun evening of lively music and friends on a dance "oor? No? Well think again! This fall, thanks to the Active Living Grant from Vancouver Coastal Health, ConneXions will be partnering with Zumba Vancouver to provide free weekly Zumba classes at The Summit. The Active Living Grant is designed to increase participation in physical activities and decrease barriers. This will provide ConneXions with the means to introduce a new and fun !tness activity for the individuals we support. Let’s face it, working out can be grueling at the best of times, taking classes can be expensive

and trying to follow the fast moves of a professional instructor in a crowded room of strangers can be intimidating. That’s why The Summit will attempt to make !tness fun for individuals of all abilities. Classes will be free, and friends and families of The Summit participants are welcome to join in on the fun. Anyone who takes part in any of the free Zumba classes will be asked to complete a short, voluntary survey at the end of December to give feedback about their experience. In the New Year, we hope to continue classes at a low cost. During spring 2013, The Summit hosted a Zumba demo night where

over 20 members of The Summit, families and friends tested out the new-to-them form of !tness. The instructor was impressed with our keen and energetic participants, and everyone had a great time. ConneXions and The Summit hope to bring increased health and wellness levels to individuals with developmental disabilities this fall, all while keeping it fun, inclusive and accessible! Class Information: Location: The Summit Day: Monday Nights Time: 5:30pm – 6:30pm Date: Sept 9 – Dec 16, 2013 Cost: FREE

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Jazzin’ good time at this year’s picnic

Thank you for helping make this year’s Annual Friends and Family Picnic a huge success! The event held on July 7, 2013 was enjoyed by participants, families and staff. The new venue, Capilano Rugby Club, proved to be a hit and everyone enjoyed a day of fun in the sun with great food, body art and most of all dancing the afternoon away to Bollywood Jazz. We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank our

fabulous volunteers, Sura and Safeeya of Shiamak’s Victory Arts Foundation for leading a stellar dance routine and for getting the crowd involved in the fun. We look forward to having you join us again next year at ConneXions Annual Friends and Family Picnic. Like our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/nsconnexions) to see more photos of the event.

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Pamela Hollington and her sisters grew up to the sounds of their mother at work. “She was the fastest two finger touch typist ever — and accurate,” recalls Pamela, whose university digs were close to her mother’s office at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. “I’d go Memory Lane to meet her at the office and there she’d be, banging away, Laura Anderson a mile a minute.” The memories go back even further. In the evenings, out would come the knitting or the sewing machine. Jean’s four daughters did their homework to the clickety-click of the needles and the hum of the sewing machine as it turned out winter coats and Sunday dresses. “My mom could knit as fast as she could type. It’s a family story that she could knit a sweater in two days: the front and back while on the train to and from work, then do the two sleeves the next day. All while reading a book.” Jean was working as a data entry clerk in Belfast, Northern Ireland when she met Arthur Boal, an architectural draftsman who worked in the same company. They married in 1955 and immigrated to Canada to begin their life together. Art was called to the ministry and as Jean helped with his studies, she, too, felt the call. They decided Jean’s turn for education in the ministry would come once Art was established. The family was living in Climax, Sask., where Art was completing the settlement requirements for a minister in the United Church when he died suddenly. It was 1967 and Jean and her daughters were on their own. They returned to Toronto where Jean found work with the United Church and went back to school. “I was not aware that my mother was going to school in Toronto until she was graduating,” says Pamela. “I truly don’t know how she managed in those times, as a single mother with a job, four children and schooling.” Though content to serve the church as a deaconess, Jean followed her minister’s advice and was ordained as a minister. After an active career as chaplain with Women’s College Hospital, Jean retired in 1993 to spend more time with her second husband, Bas Crabtree. Cottage life and travel filled their lives until Bas died in 2011. The following year, Jean moved west to North Vancouver where she has become an active member of Highlands United Church. For the church, Jean knits prayer shawls and for the Mission to Seafarers in Vancouver, she knits caps for the sailors. With Pamela, she volunteers at North Vancouver’s Lookout Shelter.

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JEAN Crabtree and her daughter Pamela Hollington sew baby blankets, breast-feeding pillows and incubator covers for the neonatal nursery at Lions Gate Hospital. Jean and Pamela were looking for another volunteer project they could do together. They found it in the neonatal nursery at Lions Gate Hospital. The connections with the hospital and with the babies and their families made sense for mother and daughter. Jean cherishes her memories of the babies in the nursery at Women’s College Hospital and Pamela had donated her sewing expertise to neonatal nurseries in hospitals in Toronto and in Vancouver. “I made up a pattern for incubator covers and mom and I got to sewing. The day we started was interesting. My mother had taught we four sisters to sew. Well, I’m not sure she taught us, but she made all our clothes for us growing up so we could have just ‘absorbed’ the skill. Mother had never used a serger

so I got to teach her how to use my machine,” recalls Pamela. “I never thought to keep track of how many covers or receiving blankets we made. Once we got going, the projects just keep rolling in.” Their next project: covers and blankets in seasonal colours and patterns. “The sewing we do for the nursery is a real boost for both of us. Delivery days are great. The nursery is cheerful with brightly coloured blankets and we both light up at the sight of the little babies. Sewing for the babies helps everybody: the babies, the parents, hospital staff and it helps us, too.” Laura Anderson works with and for seniors on the North Shore. Contact her at 778-279-2275 or email her at lander1@shaw.ca.

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Health and Wellness Lecture: Healthy options for those involved in elder care or rehabilitation Thursday, Aug. 15, 7-8 p.m. at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver. Free. Info: 778-340-1114 or northshorewellnessadvisors@ gmail.com. Concerts in the Square — Strawberry Tea: Tea, strawberry shortcake and refreshments will be served during a free concert geared towards seniors Sunday, Aug. 25 from

noon to 4 p.m. at Shipbuilders’ Square, 15 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver. There will be entertainment by The Dal Richards’ Orchestra, Langley Ukulele Ensemble and Pals Chorus. A Poetic Review of Seymour River Recollections: The Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia will host a free dance performance and author reading with Christine Elsey Monday, Aug. 26, 11 a.m. at a private home (location will be given upon registration). Registration required: 604-986-4892 or eliseroberts@shaw.ca. Seniors Cyclists: For a schedule of rides visit westvancouver.ca/ seniors. Routes vary between 25 and 50 kilometres and are about three hours long. Snooker: Everyone from novice to expert is welcome Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m. at Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East 22nd St., North Vancouver. Fee: $4 per month or $40 per year. Info: 604-980-2474 or silverharbourcentre.com. See more page 19

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PIANIST Mike Goodsell and guitarist Andy Aitken belt out a bluesy tune during an Acoustic Jam at Lynn Valley’s Molly Nye House. The jam sessions take place every Monday and Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Scan this photo with the Layar app to view video of the jam.

what’s going on for seniors From page 18 Table Games: Drop in and play bridge, scrabble, tile rummy, or other board games Tuesdays, 1-2 p.m. at Mollie Nye House, 940 Lynn Valley Rd., North

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AT our house we have a tradition that revolves around pulling the garlic we planted last year. The occasion usually occurs in the heat of late July or August, when the bulbs are ready but not yet cured. This year’s ceremony took place last week, involved liberal amounts of raw garlic and tomato and, as usual, a bottle of dry Riesling. As luck would have

it, our Riesling supply is pretty healthy these days, thanks to the marketing gurus at Andrew Peller. They’ve decided to discount Peller Okanagan Private Reserve Dry Riesling 2011 (Similkameen, perhaps, but the label doesn’t say)— currently at just $11 at BC Liquor Stores. The far from shy, crisp, stone fruit, zesty grapefruit and mineral toned drop — which in previous vintages has scooped its share of awards (including a BC Lieutenant Governor’s), was already a deal at $16 (90 pts.). But for $11? We’re all over it. And so, perhaps, will you be, as long as stocks last. That’s the good news. The bad news? I wonder for how much longer we’ll see this wine, and the Peller Okanagan label in general, which appears to have been eclipsed by the Wayne Gretzky brand, the rights to which Peller acquired a couple of years ago. (Kudos to them: the Wayne Gretzky Foundation receives a small

share of each bottle sold.) Recently, under Howard Soon protege and winemaker Stephanie Leinemann, Peller Okanagan has had plenty to cheer about, raising the bar considerably. Unfortunately, however, Peller Niagara has rarely given the Okanagan operation its due. Should we be concerned that Andrew Peller’s name— who in planting Rocky Ridge Vineyard (Similkameen) way back in the 1960s displayed tremendous vision—could be shufﬂed aside in the name of hockey? Let’s hope not. (If you do head down to your local BCLS to grab a bottle or two, you might also want to consider the Family Reserve Syrah ($14.99) which also consistently delivers good value for money.) More proof that Similkameen Riesling is a comer can be found in Oroﬁno Home Vineyard Riesling 2012, a complex wine which yields bright lemon lime and green apple, with appealing minerality, and

good fruit and acid balance. Extra heft and texture results from some time in neutral oak. Track it down at the winery ($29/90 points) and at private stores. While Riesling may never in this province compete with the mass appeal of Chardonnay, it’s interesting to watch its ascendance, especially in B.C.’s newer regions. Case in point: Kamloops’ Harper’s Trail, which is beginning to hit its stride from its 2009 plantings. Riesling’s versatility (in that you can shape it from bone dry to off-dry and sweeter styles, especially as icewine) makes it a natural choice. Also, its early ripening ability and tendency to quickly show the terroir further enhance its appeal. Harper’s Trail Silver Mane Riesling 2012 is a crowd pleasing, off-dry apple and stone fruit toned drop with a nice touch of acidity and some mineral hints that reﬂect the limestone makeup of the vineyard ($20/89 pts). Think

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THE 2012 offering from Harper’s Trail has mineral hints and a drop of acidity. Alsace inspired cheese and onion tart. ••• No time like the present to book for this year’s Feast of Fields, which returns to the idyllic surroundings of Langley’s Krause Berry Farms

this year. In the 20 years since the ﬁrst Feast was held to raise funds for FarmFolk CityFolk, the late summer celebration has spread to the Okanagan and the Island. Aside from showcasing some of the region’s best chefs and restaurants, this year’s Metro Van Feast also offers plenty to pair in the glass, from wineries such as Gray Monk, Quinta Ferriera, The View Domaine de Chaberton and Vista d’Oro, Long Table and Pemberton distilleries, and a clutch of excellent ciders and beers, including Left Field Cider (near Logan Lake), Delta’s newly hatched Four Winds Brewing, Driftwood, R&B and more. Feast of Fields details and tickets are available at farmfolkcityfolk.ca.

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what’s going on Info: Diana, 604-922-3414. North Shore Cric Crac Storytelling Evenings presented by the Vancouver Society of Storytelling take place the ﬁrst Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Each month features a different theme. Fee: $7/$5. Info: 604925-7292 or silkpurse.ca. Polynesian Dance Classes: Beginner classes for adults and children, Sundays and Mondays at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-982-8311.

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TRAVEL

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Valencia: Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC. The city is situated on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, fronting the Gulf of Valencia on the Mediterranean Sea. Its historic centre is one of the largest in Spain, with approximately 169 acres. The origins of the present day Autonomous Community of Valencia date back to the former Kingdom of Valencia (Regne de València), which came into existence in the 13th century. James I of Aragon led Christian conquest and colonization of the existing Islamic taifas with Aragonese and Catalan people in 1208 and founded the Kingdom of Valencia as a third independent country within the Crown of Aragon in 1238. — Wikipedia

YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE WORLD OUTSIDE

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STROLLING through mountains near Segorbe, 70 kilometres north-west of Valencia, in the coastal province of Castelló.

EXPLORING VALENCIA, SPAIN FAR OFF THE BEATEN PATH

Walk this way

The article describes three separate vacations in the Valencia region with Walks in Spain (walksinspain.com). They offer small group travel and comfortable minibuses are used to transfer guests from airports and to and from trailheads. They are specialists in Spain, offering programs in several different regions such as Catalonia, Andalucia and the Orange Blossom Coast. The walks are led by a bilingual father and son team who are extremely knowledgeable about the various regions and their history. Most programs offer a free day during the program, for your own independent exploration.

Mandy Trickett Contributing Writer

A walking holiday? Moi? The very concept conjures up blisters, sore muscles, daily dehydration; dragging my weary bones along, desperately trying to catch up with a group of hearty, bushwhacking colleagues who can yodel and tickle trout with equal ease. It does not conjure up visions of jetted tubs, turquoise swimming pools, sinful desserts . . . in other words, my kind of holiday. But I don’t mind admitting that I was wrong on all counts.

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MOORISH castle above Cullera was originally constructed before the 10th century — during the Spanish War of Independence against the French forces of Napoleon, the fortress was hit by artillery.

Walking holidays through the Valencia region of Spain offer soft adventure of the best kind, tailor-made for those who want the pleasures of walking but who nevertheless appreciate being pampered at the end of the day: restful accommodations, excellent food, congenial company. There are no Olympic medals for staggering or heavy breathing — our backpacks contain only sunscreen, cameras and water bottles. They obviously created the term ‘slackpacking’ for just this kind of not-too-strenuous, where’s-my-glass-of-red-wine vacation. The whole point of a walking holiday like this is to get beyond the tourist spots, to discover a more authentic, traditional Spain, far from the crowded See Valencia page 23

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TRAVEL

Valencia dubbed ‘the breadbasket of Spain’ From page 22

green vegetables, rabbit, chicken or duck and beans. After this amount of food, all we’re ﬁt for is sitting, chatting, relaxing and pretending to have some laid-back Latin blood in our veins as we sip tiny cups of espresso. Our companions on these holidays are an eclectic bunch, a mixture of young and young-at-heart, married couples and singles. An Irish railway worker, two sisters from Connecticut, both in their 70s, a retired dentist and his wife from England, a guide dog puppy trainer, a water-colour artist from Oxford. We may all speak English, but we chat in a rainbow of different accents and dialects. “Divided by a common language,” quips our host. The important thing we have in common is our desire to be travellers rather than tourists. No one speaks Spanish, but we are greeted with a cheerful “Hola!” by local hikers, and elderly dowagers clad in sombre black call out “Un dia superba!” as we pass by. Ask for a glass of wine in a café and the whole bottle is passed across the bar … apparently quite normal in these backroads villages, and a mark of trust by the landlord that guests won’t be greedy. We get by with lots of smiles, gestures, body language and oodles of good will. Between the walking, eating and socializing, there is little time to worry about our accommodations. But we have our creature comforts. One year, our group of 14 takes over a tiny, family-run hotel. Beneath it are the medieval cellars that were originally the old bake-house. Now it’s our dining room. Local artifacts are stacked everywhere: amphorae, Victorian china, weigh scales, weapons — the word “unique” doesn’t begin to cover it. On another trip, the group of eight takes over a hacienda

beaches of the Costa Brava. And we do. We walk between 10 and 18 kilometres each day, some days with the company’s owners, a father and son team who have lived in this area for most of their lives and who know every nook and cranny. Some days our small group sets out alone on trails carefully chosen for their unique character. Near Bunol, an uphill slog on rocky trails rewards us with 360-degree views of distant plains fringed by far-off mountain ranges. In temperatures reaching the low 30s Celsius we stride out, crunching on dry pine needles, kicking up squirls of dust. We don’t see a soul as we step through stands of pink oleander and terraced groves of olive trees, pruned so that they seem to be wearing great wreaths of silvery leaves above their gnarled trunks. We stride around ancient Moorish forts overlooking the great Valencian rice paddies that provide Spain with the staple ingredient of paella. They call the Valencia region “the breadbasket of Spain”: shouldn’t that be “the rice basket”? We visit the “Valley of the Myrtles,” clambering alongside a 600-year-old aquaduct that still brings sweet mountain water to a historic monastery. Surrounded by the fragrance of pine and wild herbs amongst clusters of convolvulus, daisies and wild chicory, terraced olive and almond trees, we try to concentrate on the long vistas across the mountains. We learn about harvesting cork from cork oaks and how carob trees, with their valuable pods, may have been introduced here by the ancient Moors. The walks are leisurely, with frequent stops for chatting and re-hydrating. On wobbly legs, we complete the steep scramble up to an ice house at Nevera de Castro — a 19th century structure once used to store packed snow each winter. Inside the depths of its stone pit, piles of snow would be compacted under flat stones to form ice, which would then be cut into huge blocks, loaded onto packhorses and taken down to the nearby coast in summer for sale to heat-weary housewives for food preservation. Other walks bring us to secluded churches like the Santuario del Remedio, where we picnic under the cool vaulted ceilings of its ancient exterior. We trek the cramped alleyways of Chulilla, cascading down the mountainside beneath ancient castle ruins. Chulilla has no bus service passing through it: its lanes are simply too narrow and twisting. It’s gorgeous, in a slightly dilapidated, sleepy Spanish way. We leave behind its tiled balconies to walk along the river gorge — the same River Turia that ends up in Valencia. We feel puny beneath massive cliffs: jammed up against sheer overhangs, we linger photo Mandy Trickett between stone and water. We must cross the river three times, balancing gingerly PICNIC in the cloisters of the Santuario del Remedio. on stepping-stones and pausing to sample pomegranates straight from the tree. All this daily exercise creates hearty appetites but the with metre-thick walls and heavy, bronze-hinged shutters to program provides outstanding food, from picnics to fine dining. repel the midday heat. The only sound we hear is the lazy coo “Is it a walking program with an eating addition, or an eating of a dove in the surrounding orange grove. The group relaxes program with a walking addition?” we ponder. We have to on an upstairs patio, with its terracotta tiles, looking out across a get into Spanish time, which means not having lunch until 3 sea of lustrous green trees offset by the turquoise of a swimming p.m. or dinner until 10 o’clock at night . . . and even then, our pool. At another small inn, we enjoy our own private valley, a group is often the first in the restaurant. Our hosts seek out dusty “secret garden” of orange groves and ponderosa pines. genuine, mom and pop, hole-in-the-wall cafés for our lunches, The inn squats beside an elaborate water feature garden. Plump, and upscale restaurants for dinners. The cafés may lurk behind white sofas invite laziness. The historic tiled floors and original beaded fly curtains and have plain metal chairs, paper tablecloths ceiling beams transport us back to a more sedate age — if only and no-frills cutlery that we keep for the entire meal. But it weren’t for those darned walks every day, we could sit here we’re the only Anglos in these places, which are usually full to forever. We have nothing that qualifies as a complaint. overflowing with local folks. I’ll never be a back-country hiker, leaping up inclines like a “If you can’t pronounce it, I can’t serve it,” declares our mountain goat, but I have learned to love my boots and doublewaiter Enrico, and so begins the group’s first, impromptu thick socks. My inner wimp is under control and I have become Spanish lesson. To his delight, hunger helps our pronunciation. a confirmed walking holiday junkie. Yes, there are blisters on Other days, our hosts translate the menu items for us — feast aching feet, muscles shocked by sudden activity, ankles scratched after feast — until we know everything by heart. At each meal, by thorny vegetation. But each time, on our final day, we realize platter upon platter arrives at the table: endless tapas with spicy the week has flown by far too quickly. Our waistbands are patatas bravas, Spanish tortillas, “pistos” (pastries similar to significantly tighter; our hearts are significantly lighter. We’re Cornish pasties but filled with tomatoes and peppers), wedges sad to think of leaving such a warm and inviting country. To of the sharp local cheese with its black rind, tender calamari in quote from one guest book, “We go home fatter but hopefully batter or garlic sauce. Olla soup is to die for. It’s a meal in itself, fitter, with sun-tanned shoulders and weary livers.” a thick concoction made from various kinds of beans, chunks of beef and black pudding. IF YOU GO We usually realize far too late that these are only the Getting there: appetizers, to be followed by even larger platters of lamb Several European airlines, such as Lufthansa and Swissair, fly chops, baby squid in its black ink, or that identifying symbol from London to Valencia but their flights typically go via their of Valencia, paella, which originated in this region. Water vole home country, meaning longer travel time. Iberia (iberia.com) was once the staple meat in a Valencian paella: fortunately and British Airways (britishairways.com) fly out of London for us, today’s version includes not rodent but white rice, Heathrow via Madrid. EasyJet (easyjet.com) has direct flights

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PETS

Make training fun for better results

IN last week’s column I discussed the importance of a reliable recall for your dog.

A recall is the training term used when teaching a dog to come on command. Last week I mentioned that in order to have a truly reliable recall, you have to have a strong, trusting bond based on benevolent leadership, fairness and fun. Finding an activity that you and your dog can participate in together and enjoy is one of the best ways to solidify a long-lasting canine-human relationship. Your dog certainly has fun participating in activities with other people or with other dogs, but it actually gets more enjoyment from any pleasurable activity it participates in with its enthusiastic owner. When your dog sees you having fun, it enjoys the activity that much more. That is why going to a dog park and allowing your dog to run amok while you meander at a distance does very little for your canine-human relationship but does a whole lot for your dog’s relationship with other dogs. Once you begin to participate enthusiastically in activities with your dog the training of the recall becomes almost effortless with quick and long-lasting results. As I mentioned last week, my preferred method of training a recall is with the use of an extendible leash. To start, bring a bag full of the best treats ever for your dog. Attach the extendible leash to your dog’s collar, then ask your dog to sit in front of you. If your dog can’t sit for a treat, then you need to begin teaching that exercise and save

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the recall for another day. Find a place to practise with no distractions — so no parks unless there is nothing around to distract your dog. You must be able to keep 100 per cent of your dog’s attention. With ﬁve treats say your dog’s name and the word you will be using for your recall. For example, my dog Raider’s recall is “Raider this way.” So I start with him sitting in front of me and I say his recall ﬁve times, giving him one treat each time I say it. It looks like this: Raider sits in front of me and I say, “Raider this way.” Then he gets one treat. With Raider still sitting, I do the same thing. I say, “Raider this way” and he gets another treat. I will repeat this exercise exactly for the remaining three treats. Practise this three or four times for an entire day. The next day the training changes a bit. For example, I will start with Raider sitting in front of me and say, “Raider this way” and give him one treat. For the next treat I will start with Raider sitting in front of me, say, “Raider this way,” then begin to quickly walk backwards away from him while allowing the leash to extend, but I will not

turn my back to him. I will continue to face him while I shuffle my steps quickly backward. Raider then gets up and enthusiastically runs to me. Once he reaches me I wait (without telling him) for him to sit, and then he gets the treat with a whole bunch of fun praise. I will do this running backward exercise three more times. After another day or two of this training in a distraction-free area, you can take the training outside to an area with minimal distractions and practise this last sequence for another day or so. Then the fun begins. You begin shaping the exercise to resemble a more natural recall rather than a contrived one. Take your dog for a walk with the extendible leash along a quiet trail. While your dog is at a distance and is sniffing or generally distracted, watch its behaviour. When it stops sniffing or stops its interest in something other than you, you have about a three-second window of opportunity to recall your dog before it gets distracted again. When you see this window, immediately call your dog and when Fido comes, immediately give him a treat and a ton of fun praise. The extendible leash gives you the ability to monitor your dog’s behaviour and watch for that perfect moment when it is away from you but not so far that you can’t engage with it. After about a week of this you can begin to try it off leash. And remember to make it fun! Joan has been working with dogs for over 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her at k9kinship.com.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

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TIM Mason takes time out from a practice round in advance of the Canadian Lawn Bowling Championships. Mason is both the chairman and a player in the tournament, scheduled to run Aug. 19-25 at both the North Vancouver and West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Clubs.

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North Shore clubs to co-host lawn bowling nationals Andy Prest aprest@nsnews.com

WEST Vancouver’s Tim Mason has a lot on his plate as the Canadian Lawn Bowling Championships draw near. The championships will be hosted jointly by the North Vancouver and West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Clubs Aug. 19-25 and Mason will be front and centre as the tournament’s chairman. He’s got a few other hats as well, keeping up his duties as president of the West Van club as well as the director of sport development and promotion for Bowls Canada. That’s all though, right Tim? “It’s even worse,” Mason said with a laugh when the North Shore News caught up with him Thursday. “I shot myself in the foot — I went and won the pairs (at the B.C. Championships). Not only am I chairing it, I’m playing in it.” If anyone can pull it all off, it’s Mason — a relatively young bundle of energy in a sport that has a decidedly slower-paced reputation. Since taking up the sport after a pro hockey career, Mason has worked to raise the awareness of the game while also turning himself into a world-class player. He’ll team up with Vancouver Islander Hiren Bhartu in the men’s pairs event at this year’s championships, reuniting a team that took home the 2006 national title. Other North Shore players taking part in the championships include the women’s pairs team of Nancy Speers and Barbara Gandy as well as men’s triples player Malcolm Taylor, all of whom are from North Vancouver. This is the ﬁrst time that the doubles, triples and fours nationals will be held in the same location at the same time, said Mason, making this the largest Canadian Championships ever held. This isn’t going to be your normal quiet little roll in the garden. “With that many people around it’ll be pretty wild,” said Mason. “It’s a little louder — it’s not your normal draw. People are out there cheering and loud.” The week will begin with an opening reception Sunday, Aug. 18 starting at

7 p.m. at Chief Joe Mathias Centre in North Vancouver, an event that is open to the public with a $5 entry fee. Round robin rolls Monday to Friday with 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. draws every day at both clubs. The championship ﬁnals are scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 24 with the women hitting the green at 10 a.m. and the men at 3 p.m. Tickets are $2 per day or $10 for the week. With nearly 200 competitors, 250 volunteers and a host of other fans and friends in action every day, Mason said he feels like he’s throwing a week’s worth of weddings. “That’s the way it feels from the hotel rooms to dealing with our sponsors to reaching out to the media and everything like that,” he said. “It’s been a whirlwind couple of months for me. I’m waiting for the 25th to roll around pretty fast.” But, like a good wedding, at least the setting will be nice. “Both clubs look immaculate,” said Mason. If the weather holds steady they’ll have that in their favour as well, although the current long string of sundrenched days has Mason a little worried that the rain will come at the wrong time. “It scares me a little bit, to be honest with you,” he said. “I can’t lie to ya, I’ve been looking for a couple of days (of rain) here and there because it’s almost been too nice out there. This is the stuff that we want for that week. But it doesn’t matter — rain or shine, we’ll be prepared for it. We play right through it, unless it gets completely terrible out.” The North Shore’s hosting duties come as a result of a fruitful partnership developed between the two old clubs, said Mason. North Vancouver has been rolling since 1923 and West Vancouver since 1934 and they’re both as strong as ever. “Last year we had 42 new members at our club, they had 40,” he said. “We’re two clubs that have really been pushing for growth, and probably I would say the leaders across the country in that. . . . Our relationship between the two clubs has been great, it’s really opened up a new element for both of our clubs.” Mason would love to see a large North Shore turnout to support a sport that has a long history here and, with events like this raising awareness, hopefully a long future as well. “Experience something new, support the community,” he said. “Support something that’s part of your history.” For more information visit bowlscanada.com.

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North Shore scores at Canada Games

NORTH Shore athletes cleaned up during the first week of competition at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Que. As of Friday North Shore athletes had a hand in winning 15 medals, one quarter of the 60 podium finishes Team British Columbia racked up in the first week to sit in third place in the overall standings. West Vancouver swimmer Emily Overholt led the way with a monster haul of four medals, including three golds. Overholt was the first to touch in women’s 200-metre individual medley, 400-m freestyle and 400-m individual medley while also earning silver in the 200-m freestyle. Fellow West Vancouver swimmer Sergey Holson also climbed the podium multiple times, earning gold in the men’s 50-m breaststroke, silver in 50-m freestyle and bronze in the 4x100-m freestyle relay. Sailor Natalia Montemayor also struck gold, winning the women’s single hand laser event. The North Shore also scored on the pitch with the women’s soccer team, coached by North Vancouver’s Jesse Symons, earning gold with a 2-1 win over Ontario in the championship final. North Vancouver’s Rachel Jones and West Vancouver’s Margaret Hadley and Nicola Mawson all suited up in the win. The women’s volleyball team, featuring North Vancouver’s Emily Oxland and Katie Wuttunee as starters, also found the podium, finishing second after losing a tough five-set match against Alberta in the final. Other silver medalists included West Vancouver sailor Ryan Wood in men’s double handed 29er, West Vancouver’s Alexis Prokopuik in women’s tennis singles and North Vancouver’s Stacey Fung in women’s tennis doubles. Prokopuik and Fung were joined by West Vancouver’s Kyryll Kryvchun on the provincial squad that took silver in the team tennis competition. Rounding out the medal haul was North Vancouver wrestler Brandy Perry who took bronze in the women’s 60-kg class. The Games continue this week, wrapping up Aug. 17.

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NORTH Vancouver’s Spencer Quon scores for Team Canada during the World Inline Hockey Junior Championships held last month in California. North Shore players Spencer and Dyllan Quon, Evan Anderson, Sam Curleigh, Eric Margo and Garret Oliver suited up as Canada claimed bronze.

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