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Cityinstallsmid-blockcrosswalkonEastHastings MIKE HOWELL Staff writer

he City of Vancouver has installed a mid-block crosswalk across a dangerous stretch of East Hastings between Main and Columbia streets in an attempt to reduce the number of accidents involving pedestrians. The crosswalk, which includes a pedestrian-controlled stop light, travels from the north side of East Hastings near the Insite supervised drug injection site and links to the sidewalk outside the Regent Hotel on

the south side of the street. Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s director of transportation, said the $250,000 crosswalk was installed mid-block because the city’s research showed there were 49 accidents at that spot over a six-year period. “That was a high crash location,” said Dobrovolny, noting the research included data from the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Simon Fraser University and the University of B.C. The installation of the crosswalk comes as Pivot Legal Society lawyer Douglas King and several members of the drug users’ organi-

zation complained to the Vancouver Police Board Tuesday about the disproportionate number of tickets issued to Downtown Eastside residents for jaywalking. Pivot obtained statistics from the police department via the Freedom of Information Act that revealed 76 per cent of the 2,699 jaywalking tickets issued in the city between 2008 and 2012 were to people in the Downtown Eastside. Another 17 per cent were issued in downtown while none was handed out in Shaughnessy, Point Grey, Oakridge, Marpole, Killarney and several other neighbour-

hoods in the city. King pointed out studies show jaywalking and crashes involving pedestrians occur all over the city, as a City of Vancouver pedestrian safety study indicated in 2012. The study revealed there were 3,066 reported collisions involving pedestrians between 2005 and 2010 in Vancouver. The neighbourhoods with the highest number of pedestrian collisions per 100,000 residents and employees included Strathcona, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland, Shaughnessy and Kensington Cedar Cottage, the study said. See CROSSWALK on page 4

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CLASS NOTES: VALID CHOICE BY CHERYL ROSSI

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CASH AND CARRY BY MIKE HOWELL The demolition bill for the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts could be $55 million, not counting the cost of modifying streets and parks.

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PowellStreetoverpassworkstartsMonday CONSTRUCTION TO IMPROVE MOVEMENT OF GOODS AND PEOPLE TO LAST A YEAR NAOIBH O’CONNOR

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onstruction on the $50million Powell Street Overpass Project gets underway Monday June 24, requiring the closure of Powell Street between Clark Drive and Hawks Avenue for a year. Only local traffic and businesses will have access. The city is responsible for delivering the project, but it’s only paying for a small portion of the cost. Port Metro Vancouver is covering the bulk — $19.5 million. Transport Canada is kicking in $18.5 million, Canadian Pacific is contributing $4.5 million, while TransLink and the City of Vancouver are each paying $3.75 million. “The project does two things,” explained Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s director of transportation. “One, is it takes the road up and over the railway — it’s called grade separation, by building the bridge. And the second thing it does is shifts Powell Street south so the alignment of the road is also changing to free up additional space on the Port land, which allows them to, in the future, put one full additional lane of rail track on the Port. It’s significant because it goes for kilometres and that’s the pinch point on that whole corridor on the Port land. So, it frees up a major pinch point to create more space and more rail capacity and it also eliminates the at-grade crossing for Powell Street with the

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Construction on the $50-million Powell Street Overpass Project starts Monday June 24. Businesses in the area are worried about customer access and getting goods in and out. The city says an advisory committee has been struck to deal with concerns that crop up during construction, which will take a year. rail tracks.” The overpass will feature four lanes for trafﬁc and also separate cyclists and pedestrians from trafﬁc. Dobrovolny noted the city has held open houses about the project and has gone door-to-door to businesses to address concerns about the disruption construction will cause.

“We’ve made a number of changes working with businesses to provide access. In one case, a business had access from one of two streets. We were eliminating one of them and there was a light pole in the way for big trucks, so we moved a light pole, so that they could access from a different street,” he said.

An advisory committee has been set up to allow business owners and other interested parties to deal with other concerns that might crop up over the next year. “They’ve had one meeting now pre-implementation. They’ll have another meeting post-implementation after a couple of weeks to talk

about how it’s going,” Dobrovolny said. “So there’s a continual discussion going on now around specific details of access.” Joji Kumagai, executive directive of the Strathcona BIA, said businesses, especially those just west of where the closure will take place and in the Franklin Street area, are worried about the impact of construction noise and dust, along with customer access and getting goods in and out. “We have a few businesses — more retail-based business — that rely on traffic going in and out of downtown. So with that access being restricted, it obviously makes it more challenging to get people into their businesses,” he said, adding, “There’s going to be challenges in reconfiguring the commercial truck accessing area and getting out.” Some business owners, according to Kumagai, feel there should have been more consultation and communication. He said the city has done its best, and has tried to be available for information, but “to some degree it’s out of the city’s ability to really influence the project because it’s something that’s very much dictated by the federal government and the province in terms of trying to increase the capacity of the Port,” he said. “The city, in terms of funding has contributed the least amount, so [the project is] really being dictated by higher levels of government.” noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh

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The new pedestrian cross walk between Main Street and Columbia Street on East Hastings gets occasional use.

CONTINUED from page 1 “There has to be a fundamental change to the policies that the VPD is using on bylaw enforcement, and it has to be a recognition that these policies that have been in place for the last ﬁve or 10 years have been incredibly harmful to the relationship between the department and the residents of the Downtown Eastside,” said King, pointing out commissioner Wally Oppal recommended in his ﬁnal report on the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry that the city and VPD take measures to reduce the number of tickets issued and charges laid for minor offences. The police board ordered an investigation of Pivot’s complaint but Police Chief Jim Chu defended the ticketing of people in the Downtown Eastside for jaywalking. “It is dangerous for drivers who are going through that neighbourhood,” said Chu, noting a pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle

June 4 while attempting to cross East Hastings mid-block near Carrall Street. “When you go down there and you can see some of the wanton disregard for our trafﬁc rules on the road, there are safety concerns that arise.” Two years ago, the city lowered the speed limit along that stretch of East Hastings to 30 kilometres per hour. The city also increased crossing times at crosswalks and installed countdown timers. Though the penalty for a jaywalking ticket is $100, Chu said if a person can’t afford to pay the ticket, “they don’t have to,” although he said community service work could be ordered instead. He said the purpose of issuing a ticket is to educate the public about the danger of jaywalking, which not only occurs mid-block but with pedestrians crossing at a red light. A report on Pivot’s complaint could go before the police board at its next meeting in July. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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Transgendered student makes history as class valedictorian CLASS NOTES

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ancouver’s ﬁrst openly transgendered valedictorian will speak at his school’s graduation July 25. Theo Cultum garnered twice as many votes as each of the other three students in the running for two valedictorian spots for the alternative school Total Ed. “I was so proud and really very heartfelt that the graduating class was able to vote for a student that they cared about, not about a student’s sexuality,” said Sue Monti, youth and family worker and the safe contact for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer students at Total Ed. “I’m proud of Theo but I’m almost more proud that the students made that choice... Gay is one thing, but transgendered is a whole other element that I think a lot of people in general just don’t understand.” Cultum felt “very proud of myself and very honoured” to be chosen. “I really didn’t think that they looked up to in me such a way,” he said. Cultum was in a dark place for Grades

7 to 9 and in Grade 10, he dropped out of school. Then known as Tayah, he was struggling with traumatic events that occurred in his early teens, depression, drug and alcohol addiction and questioning his sexual orientation and gender identity. He enrolled in Total Ed in September 2010 and completed treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. “The people at this school have really given me a lot of conﬁdence and courage and hope is the big one there,” Cultum said. “…Just by accepting me for who I was and encouraging me that it’s OK to express myself in any way that I feel is myself.” The just over 100 students at Total Ed don’t often get to hear guest speakers, but a visit by Jeremy Dias of Jer’s Vision, Canada’s Youth Diversity Initiative inspired them to take action. Monti says one-ﬁfth of Total Ed students participate in its gay-straight alliance and photos from this year’s Pink Day against bullying, discrimination, homophobia and transphobia illustrate how enthusiastic students were about its message. Monti thinks Total Ed’s 32 Grade 12 students voted overwhelmingly for Cultum because he’s outgoing and full of energy, a far cry from how worthless and hopeless he felt in the past. Monti believes Total Ed helps students

succeed by providing the feeling of an extended family and abundant support. “Mainstream schools have counsellors. Their lists are 300-plus students. We have three youth and family workers and our lists are 30 students,” she said, adding offering multiple student groups for a small population gives every student a place to belong. Cultum worked with the other valedictorian, Ben Wilks, on their speeches Wednes-

day. “I deﬁnitely feel like I need to thank the people at this school for their patience… for really being there for me when I needed it because I have been through a lot and I really don’t think that I would be in this position that I am now without the support of this school,” he said. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi 2 0 1 2

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news Will new AG crack down on unpaid helmet fines? 12TH & CAMBIE with Mike Howell

here was a time when I could call Suzanne Anton on her cell, leave a message and expect a call back within minutes, or at least the same day. But that was when Anton was a city councillor. Now that she’s this province’s minister of justice and attorney general, she’s got people — communications people, who take my calls and see what they can do about getting Anton to call me back. I found this out last week when I wanted to hear from Anton on what she was going to do about all those unpaid tickets issued to cyclists for not wearing a helmet. We’re talking more than $300,000 in fines over the past five years. Some background: A few weeks ago, I learned the Vancouver Police Department issued almost 1,800 tickets in 2012 to cyclists for not wearing a helmet. A few of those were given to parents for allowing their child to ride without a helmet. The statistics, of course, begged the question: How many of those people issued the $29 fine actually dutifully plunked down their cash and accepted responsibility for having a good hair day? I called up the Insurance Corporation of B.C. and gave them a few days to crunch the numbers for me. But I just didn’t want to see the data for 2012. Go back at least five years, I asked. And they did — and the statistics were

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A cyclist, former city councillor and now B.C.’s new Attorney General, Suzanne Anton did not return Courier calls asking her as AG what she might do about the $300,000 of unpaid helmet fines the police issued over the last five years in Vancouver. She’s seen here in St. John’s, NL. on a cross-Canada cycling trip. alarming/not surprising/interesting in a city where cycling is becoming more popular, as Mayor Gregor Robertson and his ruling Vision Vancouver council will tell you. As I reported June 12, more than 11,000 cyclists who were issued tickets in Vancouver over the past five years for not wearing a helmet refused to pay their $29 fine. The statistics

showed only 1,771 cyclists of 13,154 paid their ﬁnes between 2008 and 2012. So when you do the math, you arrive at that $300,000 ﬁgure I mentioned at the top of this entry. To provide some context, $300,000 would sure help pay the $700,000 tab for the city’s latest cycling upgrades along Union Street, on the edge of Chinatown.

So that brings me to my phone call to Anton. I was told by the woman who answered the phone at her office that Anton had only been on the job a couple of weeks and needed to be briefed on a number of issues, including unpaid fines. Understandable, I guess. What I did receive is an emailed response from Sam MacLeod, the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles. His answer to my question about whether the government would just simply repeal the helmet law…well…was not exactly an answer. Instead, MacLeod said the government was committed to reducing injuries and fatalities on the roads and “our mandatory helmet law is consistent with that goal.” Which, I assume, means the government won’t be repealing the law. As for what the government plans to do to recoup the $300,000 in unpaid fines? The government sent me a response from Adam Grossman, a spokesman for ICBC. Here, in part, is what he said: “ICBC will look to use a collection agency when we’ve exhausted all previous avenues via refusing to issue both a driver’s licence and/or insurance for any debt owed. A refuse to issue is placed on debt after it is 30 days overdue. If a licence or insurance goes more than a year without being renewed, we will send the debt to a collection agency. If a person’s driver’s licence renewal is more than three years into the future, we will look at sending the debt out. We will typically not use a collection agency for debt that’s less than $50.” Again, the 11,000 tickets were worth $29 each. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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Viaduct removal could cost $55 million Staff writer

t would cost up to $55 million to demolish the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts and replace them with a new link from Georgia Street to existing roads in Northeast False Creek. The tab for such a project climbs to more than $130 million when costs are calculated to modify existing streets, parks, utilities, build more parks and conduct soil remediation on what were former industrial lands. City staff outlined the costs in a report released Wednesday that strongly suggests the 1970s-era hulking structures be demolished to open up the area for parkland, housing and better connections between neighbourhoods. Butthereportstoppedshortofrecommending city council give the green light to take down the viaducts until more planning work is done on the feasibility of the demolition and the future of the eastern core of the city. “The issues under study, related to the potential removal of the viaducts, are complex and there is a signiﬁcant amount of work still to be done before a ﬁnal report is brought before council,” said the report authored by Brian Jackson, the city’s head planner. Approximately $1 million has been spent to date on the planning and engineering work related to the viaducts’ removal. But city staff wants two more years and $2.4 million to spend on a “work program” to examine the bigger picture of what removing the viaducts will mean for the neighbourhood and surrounding communities. There’s also the problem of what to do about the 43,000 vehicles per day that use the viaducts, which are well-used links in and out of downtown for the movement of goods. The report notes, however, that as time passes, the cost of removing the viaducts will become “more and more challenging,” given the need for temporary roads and deconstruction sites to facilitate the removal of the viaducts. Retaining the viaducts would cost up to

$120 million, if rehabilitation, maintenance and eventual replacement costs are factored in over 40 years, the report said. If the viaducts were demolished, it would free up 10 acres of land worth up to $110 million. Although staff’s desire is to have the land devoted for public open space, affordable housing and other public uses, the report notes some of the land could be sold for development. The report also points out removal of the viaducts has “significant positive impacts” to Concord Pacific’s lands, which are adjacent to the viaducts and would require an agreement with the city to accommodate a new street network. “For Concord, this will produce new development parcels which will need to consider tower placement and density, park configuration and programming and soils contamination,” the report said. The suggestion to demolish the viaducts continues an emerging trend in North American cities. The report mentions Boston, at great expense, eliminated its elevated waterfront freeway and connected that city’s downtown to the waterfront. In San Francisco, politicians elected to tear down the Embarcadero freeway and reconnect several of that city’s neighbourhoods. “In every city’s evolution, there are rare opportunities to take bold city-building steps to advance the city’s goals and livability, or correct a past planning wrong,” the staff report said. “The potential removal of the viaducts provides an opportunity for the City of Vancouver to do both.” With city staff wanting at least two years to plan for the removal of the viaducts, the next opportunity for council to make a final decision on the viaducts’ fate may not come before a new council is elected in the fall of 2014. If the council of the day decides the viaducts should be demolished, it could take up to six years before they come down. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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f and when the Big One hits Vancouver — and experts say there is more than a one in 10 chance of a major earthquake hitting the city in the next 50 years — the first responders on the scene are expected to be members of the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) task force. However, Vancouver Fire Chief John McKearney is worried the team might not be fully prepared to jump in after the federal government axed $400,000 from the unit’s annual operating budget. “The final funding to the HUSAR team ended as of April 2013,” McKearney told the Courier. “If we can achieve a $400,000 a year commitment from the federal government, that gives us the full funding model necessary to keep the team at its current state.” The money was part of the Joint Emergency Preparedness Program (JEPP) cut from last year’s federal omnibus budget bill. Similar teams in cities across the country also had their budgets slashed. Vancouver’s Canada Task Force 1, which in 1995 became the first heavy urban search and rescue team in the country, is made up of volunteer firefighters, police officers, medical personnel and engineers who train on the weekends at a $1.54 million facility off Malkin Avenue in Strathcona designed to simulate earthquake conditions and burning buildings. Along with maintaining equipment capable of keeping them self-sufficient for 10 days, they practise

techniques for rescues from collapsed buildings and high angles, as well as technical search strategies and the use of search dogs. Members of the team recently responded to deadly mudslides on the North Shore and Johnsons Landing, as well as helping with rescue operations in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. McKearney said the team receives $200,000 in annual provincial funding and $150,000 from the City of Vancouver, which isn’t enough to maintain the level of service necessary to respond to a major catastrophe. “What we’ve done is we’ve made an application to the federal government to maintain a national HUSAR program with four teams that are capable of responding to all hazardous events across the country,” said McKearney. “We’ve done the analysis and said for $400,000 a team, or $1.6 million a year, for the next three years, the teams will be able to maintain their current state and that will give us enough time to look for other funding models.” The federal government argues local and provincial governments should be responsible for the funding, and McKearney said they will likely have to scale back the highly-trained response team if the feds don’t change their mind. When the Courier expressed surprise there hasn’t been more coverage of the issue given the level of public outrage that greeted the closure of the Coast Guard station in Kitsilano due to lost federal funding, McKearney gave a sad chuckle. “You and me both.” aﬂeming@vancourier.com twitter.com/ﬂematic

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trathcona resident Judy Kenzie has always loved plants and estimates she had 38 at one time in her bedroom as a young girl. “I’ve loved plants as far back as I can remember,” Kenzie told the Courier during a visit to the family’s tree-lined character home. So it made sense that while mulling over a second career, the advertising and marketing professional turned to plants and flowers for inspiration. Today, Kenzie is the founder of Strathcona 1890 Urban Seed Collections, which sells heirloom seeds packaged specifically to help gardeners with little or even no yard an opportunity to produce a portion of the food they eat. Kenzie put her background in marketing and illustration to good use for the launch of her online business creating historical botanical labels meant to capture the feel of early Vancouver for each seed collection. Kenzie has carefully grouped heirloom seeds into collections for sale with titles such as Salsa Garden, Quick and Dirty, Salad Sampler, Edible Flowers, Junior Farmer and Bee Garden. Even Kenzie’s business cards are made from tiny envelopes packed with seeds. Kenzie has taken an offbeat approach to advertising her online business. Last year, Kenzie stumbled upon the website for Truckfarm.org, a mobile garden education project founded in Brooklyn, NY. The food and film project chronicles the adventures of a group of urban gardeners who travel the streets of Brooklyn with a full-fledged garden planted in the bed of a pick-up truck. On the website, the founders encour-

age other urban farmers to follow their lead and the idea for the Strathcona 1890 Truck Farm was born. Kenzie said it helped that the family already owned an aging 1993 Mazda pick-up truck that hadn’t been driven for six years. With the help of a friend, Kenzie sawed off rusty bits, taped up others and lined the truck bed with plastic and landscaping cloth. “I was surprised to find out the truck already had drainage holes,” said Kenzie. “Who knew?” Kenzie then loaded up the back with soil and planted as many vegetables and edible flowers as she could fit into the four-bysix-foot truck bed. Last December, Kenzie planted a small spruce tree in the truck and decorated it with battery-operated Christmas lights. Kenzie said while the tree was a hit everywhere she drove, it was unfortunately stolen in the New Year. “People really stared at truck then,” said Kenzie, who was garnering attention for the mobile garden. “Bus drivers would give me the thumbs up and one lady blew me a kiss. It was really nice.” Kenzie now uses the Truck Farm to encourage gardeners of all skill levels and raise awareness of the fact they can create their own local, sustainable food resources. In keeping with that theme, the truck’s licence plate reads NON GMO. Kenzie attends community events, such as the recent Car Free Day festival and the Pacific National Exhibition to speak about sustainable gardening, and will visit almost any community group or school that asks. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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ACCIDENTS AND REDUCED EARNING CAPACITY What if you can’t earn as much now because you were hurt in a car crash? You may be forced to find an easier but lower-paying job and be unable to earn as much income as before the accident. Mark Epstein Lawyers call this loss “diminished earning capacity.” This work-related loss is just one of many losses you could be compensated for if the crash was caused by another’s fault. It’s often part of a compensation claim by personal injury plaintiffs. But what if your earnings don’t go down after the accident? Can you still get compensation for “diminished earning capacity”? After all, you might think that because your income didn’t decrease, your ability to earn hasn’t been reduced. Not true. A recent BC case illustrates that this approach is too simple and can be unfair to the injured person. Colleen, 46, was injured in two car accidents, one right after the other. She hurt her neck, shoulder and upper back, resulting in chronic widespread pain (later diagnosed as fibromyalgia). Before the accidents, she was a highly energetic and motivated individual. She had a fast-paced job as an executive secretary to the president of a large organization, which she loved and was ideally suited for. All that changed. Because of her chronic pain – which she only endure with large amounts of pain killers and antiinflammatory medications – she could no longer handle the demands of her job, nor the three-hour (both ways) commute it involved. Colleen sold her house to move to a smaller home with fewer stairs. Because of her injuries, she also found a new easier job where the commute was only 20 minutes. Having to switch jobs “was a huge blow”

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t shouldn’t surprise you to know another Vancouver neighbourhood is girding for battle with city hall. The neighbourhood in this particular ruckus is Grandview–Woodland, the heart of the East Side of Vancouver. Its main artery is Commercial Drive, a thriving part of this city inhabited by small independent businesses serving families with mostly modest incomes or singles — hipsters and counter culture practitioners — who can still find affordable digs in houses divided into suites. The battle is over the neighbourhood community plan. It has been kicked around for a year and a half now. It reached the point where the city’s planning staff should have presented the community with options. Instead, a couple of weeks ago they published something called “Emerging Directions.” Before I get to that, let me make this point: Mayor Gregor Robertson and his crew regularly strike committees to fend off criticism including a recently created Engagement Committee for which they gave themselves great public pats on the back. But it’s just window dressing. Once again they are failing to engage. Community consultation on development has been turned into a joke. Just ask the folks who tried to reason with the city on the 60 storey Marine Gateway at the south end of Cambie or those who thought reason would win out at the Rize on Kingsway. While the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood was quite willing to accept some density at Hastings and Commercial and at Commercial and Broadway, no one was prepared for what the city rolled out. The plan contained provisions for a 36-storey tower at Commercial and Broadway surrounded by 10 other towers of 22 to 28 storeys. To put that in perspective, the towers in Yaletown are about 22 storeys. The tower at Knight and Kingsway is 17 storeys. The local community types were stunned. Grandview-Woodland Area Council president Jak King says it represents a “shocking upscale” of density. Towers were not even part of the discussion his group had with the city. The plan will, as it stands, threaten the livability of an area King describes as “an extremely successful single family neighborhood.” He adds that “all we can do now is write a note” in protest but it won’t do much good. Planners at the city are going “full tilt boogie,” as King describes it, to have their report in front of city council before the year’s end. (I am informed that there has been more pressure than usual over this and the city may back off. But we will see.) A week ago and not long after the city released the proposed plan, former Vancouver city planner Frank Ducote posted a brief observation and asked a question on journalist Frances Bula’s blog site that frequently deals with development issues. During his tenure with the city, Ducote worked on its transportation plan and the redesign and preparation of guidelines for a number of neighbourhoods including Broadway and Commercial. He said that 15 years ago when the Millennium Line was going in, council thought the area was ripe for densification but “it would have been suicidal to try and impose those kinds of pro-development ideas then, completely against community values.” Now he wonders rhetorically: “Is this a community-based vision or one being imposed from above? A TransLink wet dream” aimed at building population to make a new subway line from Broadway and Commercial out towards UBC more likely. I think we know the answer to that. And we also should know we are a long way from days more than a decade ago of citizens driving the vision and community plan for their neighbourhoods. It is debatable as to whether those plans ever led to much that was concrete, but they were swept aside when Sam Sullivan became mayor in 2005 and introduced the top down strategy called “eco-density.” When Robertson and Vision arrived on the scene, the push for centralized control over development and increased densification intensified. Whether it was spot zoning for rental housing in the West End or what we are seeing in Grandview-Woodland around transit stations, solutions were prescribed and city staff merely ticked the boxes to say they have engaged. But not really. And an increasingly cynical citizenry is on to them. (Note: The Grandview-Woodland Area Council has called a public meeting for July 8 at 7 p.m. the East Side Family Place to discuss the Community Plan.) agarr@vancourier.com

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very once and a while some media item will burrow its way, insect-like, into my brainpan and set up such an unholy buzz it can only be exorcised through writing. This is one of those times. I recently watched CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interview a survivor of Oklahoma’s recent F-5 tornado. “You gotta thank the Lord. Did you thank the Lord for that split-second decision?” he asked the woman of her choice to leave the house with her infant son, saving their lives. “I’m actually an atheist,” she replied with a laugh. I would have played it differently and told the bearded cable news fixture that as a Hellene I worshipped Cerebus, the three-headed hound that guards the Gates of Hades. The tornado was just another “Act of Dog,” I’d insist. Then again, it would probably be difficult to joke with my home flattened behind me and a swath of missing neighbours. There are several disturbing things here, beyond Blitzer’s crowbarring religion into disaster coverage. His routine had a subtext; God either targeted or ignored a number of tornado victims while saving others from death. As soon as you start thanking an interventionist deity for close shaves, you have to rationalize all the miseries, afflictions, deaths and disasters He or She engineered or approved. As Stanford professor of biological sciences Robert Sapolsky observed, “the God concept gets mighty infuriating when you spend your time thinking about, say, untreatably aggressive childhood leukemia.” I’m reminded of a speaking tour by an African-American evangelist who survived the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers. He insisted his survival was proof of God’s love, though it sounded to me more like one man’s posttraumatic spiritual inflation. History is full of challenging theological moments. On the morning of Nov. 1, 1755, Father Manual Portal awoke from a nightmare in which Lisbon was destroyed in an earthquake. He went to mass and prayed. A few hours later his monastery was in ruins, just as he had dreamed. “Tens of thousands of pious citizens were on their knees in their Churches on the All Saints’ Day of 1755, listening to the familiar exhortations to rejoice in praise of their Lord, when they felt the first faint shuddering of the earth beneath them,” writes Otto Friedrich in his history of apocalyptic beliefs, The End of the World. The earthquake was centred just offshore of Portugal, but it caused tremendous damage hundreds of miles inland, with worshippers unwittingly scheduled for burial in collapsing churches. It’s not known if Vatican officials asked any survivors if they “thanked the Lord.” After the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, there were a rash of “Where was God” editorials and commentaries, with pundits inquiring how a supreme being could have allowed thousands to die in such a manner. In a world where hundreds of thousands of children die routinely and unnecessarily every day, it takes a class of comfortable, blinkered people — who’ve never been troubled by lack of food, fresh water or reliable shelter — to imply their SkyGod has an ADHD problem. For his part, Blitzer unwittingly dragged the baggage of “theodicy” onto the plains of Oklahoma. That’s the branch of theology that attempts to reconcile human suffering and evil with a loving Creator, a problem that dates back to The Book of Job. A pious man, Job suffers through a nightmarish raft of afflictions after God and Satan place a wager on his faith. As scripture, it makes for compelling reading — even if it makes the CEO of Smite, Incorporated seem a bit sociopathic. Let the octave-climbing diva give a shout out to God for her Grammy win. Let the college football star drop to his knees in praise for a winning field kick. I won’t argue for or against the existence of a supreme being or beings, or that people aren’t entitled to faiths that sustain them, including atheism (which is just another doctrine beyond formal logical proof or empirical validation). But I will argue there are very good reasons to remind CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and his contemporaries on Fox News and Canada’s Sun Media for keeping church and state separate. As history shows, those two are very bad company together. Hybridize them with mass media and we’d have a genuine three-headed hound on our hands. www.geoffolson.com

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To the editor: Re: “Liberals have helped the poor,” Letters, May 24. George Vytasek, in his letter published May 24 ,2013 says that the B.C. Liberals have purchased more than 25 hotels for the homeless and will construct 14 housing complexes on city land while funding shelters. What he does not say is that when the B.C. Liberals introduced harsh measures and policies for people on social assistance in 2002, they helped create the tsunami of street homelessness that plagues us still. Instead of doing anything to ﬁx the damage by repairing the huge tears they put in our social safety net, started by the NDP under Mike Harcourt, they are using a stop gap approach that has put only a small dent in street homelessness and has done nothing to repair or strengthen infrastructure. Neither have they done anything to apologize or admit wrongdoing to the poor of this city. So then, whose comments are without merit? Aaron Zacharias, Vancouver

FISHING POND MAKES READER CRINGE To the editor: Re: “Sanctuary pond a birdbrained idea,” June 14. I’m cringing reading about this idea. I have several bird loving friends in New York City where

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they allow fishing in their ponds in places like Central Park and Prospect Park, and it is a nightmare for birds and anyone who cares about them. Birds are constantly being caught in discarded fishing line and even getting hooked with fishing hooks. I can’t believe they would come up with such a dumb idea for Vancouver. Will these fishermen also pay to have birds rescued and treated from their fishing line/hook injuries? There are endless articles about fishing and birds in New York City, including a Times article that reported: “The issue has become so bad that the Prospect Park Alliance has stepped in to post new signs around the lakes to highlight the rules. In addition, they have reached out to fishing clubs, and will start an educational campaign in multiple languages this spring.” The fact is fishermen and their children are not going to care about birds. It’s bad enough with unleashed dogs and kites being left in the pond in the park I go to in Vancouver. And now fishing? I’m stunned someone in Vancouver thinks this is a good idea. Marion Ambler, Vancouver

PORT SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITY ON COAL EXPORTS Re: “Climate Kid Deserves to be Heard,” Letters, June 5. It appears that Port Metro Vancouver has taken a defensive stance over the exporting coal issue and that is an unwise move. Good public opinion is important to the running of any business. PMV seems to be shirking responsibility and

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excusing its lack of consciousness, which is in its mandate, as a “means to a way out” — a rather big pollution in itself. Maybe the coal is not so damaging to our environment here as it will be somewhere else, but PMV’s attitude certainly looks to be diseased. It is unfortunate that being selﬁshly tunnel-visioned can be a problematical trait in humans. This refusal to accept accountability is a “sickness” and could possibly be very harmful in the long run. People have every right to be involved and included in anything that will affect their health and well-being. Port Metro Vancouver wants to expand its facilities to accommodate American coal. The American ports will not ship this stuff out to their Asian customers. Why is that? Maybe because it’s a ﬁlthy product that these ports (or the people living around the ports) don’t want to deal with? Did PMV not expect to run into any opposition here for possibly the very same reason? There is another reason I feel disturbed by Port Metro Vancouver’s expansion development plan. Could these expanded facilities be used as a possible destination point for an oilsands pipeline route proposal in the future? I understand that the Kinder Morgan company is drawing up a new route plan for their crude oil pipeline. Not caring that people have worries and anxieties about health, and not having a conscience regarding the consequences or effects these commodities have on others and the environment, borders on negligent. Frances Dietz, Vancouver

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ick Havlik’s business grew out of “a really out-of-control home-brewing hobby.” There’s a lot of waiting around when brewing beer, so he and his brewing buddy explored other doit-yourself projects. “There’s this satisfaction that you get when you hold up a beer in your hand that you brewed and realize it’s actually pretty good and it actually wasn’t all that hard,” Havlik said. “It’s almost an addicting rush where you start asking other questions like what else can I make?” Owner of Homesteader’s Emporium, Havlik wanted to make cheese, jam and roast coffee but he wasn’t sure where to begin. He searched around town, ordered supplies online and on his ﬁrst try made “sour milk, fruit syrup and burned beans,” according to his website. Now the 28-year-old apartmentdweller provides the know-how and the supplies that make activities, including composting, doable in a small, urban space. Havlik says customers of his shop on East Hastings near Heatley Avenue include people in their 20s who are discovering “heritage skills,” homesteaders who aim to be self-sufﬁcient, “preppers” who are preparing for a breakdown of the global supply chain, and regular people who wish to learn the pickling and sausage-making skills

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Rick Havlik from Homesteaders Emporium takes care of half of the garden at the Strathcona Green Zone Resource Park on East Hastings Street. their families failed to pass on. Homesteader’s Emporium started monthly workshops on gardening last fall. Havlik, a member of the Strathcona Business Improvement Association and its sustainability committee, saw an opportunity to take the sessions outside and into the BIA’s Resource Park, which includes commercial recycling and composting and 27 garden beds on a former parking lot. “The ﬁrst time I went over there they were full of weeds and it seemed like no one had really been paying attention to them for a full season,” Havlik said. Charlotte Fesnoux, Resource Park site coordinator for the BIA, says a restaurant was keen to manage the urban garden, but the arrangement faltered. Now the BIA is renting 14 of the plots to Homesteader’s. It will use 10 of the plots for workshops and participants who pay $5 to $10 per session (prices slated to increase in July) will take

produce home. At least a quarter of the harvest will go to the meal program at the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, and Havlik has invited the neighbourhood house’s gardening group and representatives of The Salvation Army Grace Mansion to use two plots. Flax is sprouting on two other beds for the Urban Weaver Project. Havlik believes interest in beekeeping, pickling and preserving is here to stay. “It is sort of trendy to trend almost toward Portland-style hyper awareness of what’s happening with your food,” Havlik said. “Learning to take on do-it-yourself food projects or prepare or process food in different ways, that kind of goes hand-in-hand with just a generalized increase in the amount of attention that you pay to what food you eat.” For workshop information, see homesteadersemporium.ca. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

A new overpass will be built on Powell Street in Vancouver to improve the ﬂow of buses, cars and trucks and create safer and more convenient cycling and walking routes. The new overpass will replace the streetlevel rail crossing near Raymur Street. Powell Street will be closed for construction between Hawks Avenue and Clark Drive from Monday, June 24 until summer 2014. Please use alternate routes during this time. Businesses on Powell and Cordova streets will remain open and accessible to local trafﬁc throughout construction. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Phone: 3-1-1 TTY: 7-1-1 Outside of Vancouver: 604-873-7000 Visit: vancouver.ca/powellstreetoverpass Transit information: translink.ca/servicechanges

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The City and TransLink are launching the Downtown Vancouver Local Bus Service Review to create a ﬁve-year vision for the downtown bus network that will match rider needs and the City’s transportation goals.

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The Vancouver Park Board has integrated input from a previous open house into a draft master plan to improve Hillcrest and Riley Parks, site of the former Vancouver Curling Club, Riley Community Centre and Percy Norman Pool. Drop by an open house to review the plan and provide feedback. Tuesday, June 25, 5 – 8 pm Hillcrest Centre, 4575 Clancy Loranger Way (outside the main doors or room 322 if it rains) An online comment form on the draft master plan will be available at vancouver.ca after the open house. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 604-257-8402 or steve.wong@vancouver.ca

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Because laneways in the West End are 33-feet wide compared to a city average of 20 feet, WERA president Christine Ackermann thinks they’d be good for rental housing.

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est End laneways are the widest in Vancouver, measuring 33 feet compared to most others in the city, which are typically 20 feet. How to take advantage of them is among a host of topics that have emerged during discussions about updating the West End Community Plan. Community plans address subjects including transportation, land use and development, parks and open space, heritage and culture, sustainability and public amenities and facilities, and guide neighbourhood change over the next 30 years. The city is updating four community plans, including the West End’s. The median income for West End residents is $38,000, below the citywide median income of $48,000. Half of the residents are between 20 and 39 years of age and 80 per cent of the housing is rental housing — it provides 30 per cent of the city’s total. “It’s doing well providing a great service to the citizens of Vancouver by providing affordable rental housing near a lot of jobs in the central business district,” Kevin McNaney, the city’s assistant director of planning, told the Courier. But West End neighbourhood challenges include the need for more affordable housing, particularly for families. McNaney said it has one of the highest densities of children in Vancouver, but it doesn’t have many two or three bedroom units. That’s where laneways come in. “We are looking at some strategic and surgical inﬁll approaches through lanes. A lot of people complain in the West End that they’re quite ugly and that they could be used better in such a dense area. So what we’re

thinking is these lanes provide an opportunity to generate some of that rental family housing — some of the two or three bedroom units in small infills,” he said, adding, “That rental housing could also provide additional revenue to help the property owners reinvest in the rental buildings.” The subject interests Christine Ackermann, president of the West End Residents Association, who noted the city developed a selfguided laneway tour — a link can be found on the city’s and WERA’s websites. “There’s a lot of opportunity to change the laneways. Of course we’re looking at Mole Hill laneway as sort of the Holy Grail. They’ve done such a good job, so we’re trying to learn from what worked well there and what didn’t work well,” Ackermann said. “But I’m kind of excited about the opportunity to have some affordable housing specifically for families in the laneways. I think that’s exciting because that’s the one area of affordable housing in the West End that we don’t really have — a lot of places for families, three bedrooms. We have a lot of bachelors, a lot of one bedrooms, but not much apart from that. And it would be great to see some families come back into the West End. It’s only one of the issues under discussion. In-depth information about the West End Community Plan can be found on the city’s site at vancouver.ca/westend. Information about the plan will be available at open houses at the Strawberry Festival at Barclay Heritage Square from 1 to 4, June 22 and at Blue Horizon Hotel, 1225 Robson St. from 4 to 7 p.m., June 25. McNaney said once further feedback is gathered from these events and through online efforts, staff will create the draft plan, which will be revealed to the public in the fall for a final look, and then to council on November for adoption. noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh

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LeaduptoPowellFeststartswithOrientique clude improving the entrance experience for visitors, refreshing and enhancing the exhibition space, and safeguarding its archives and collections. On Tuesday, June 22, the museum will host the second in a series of community consultation events to be held across the province, at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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CHINATOWN The 36th Powell Street Festival takes place Aug. 3 and 4, but there are already smaller celebrations planned leading up to the main event, which highlights Japanese-Canadian and Asian-Canadian arts and culture and encourages members of those communities to take a leadership role in the development of the arts. These events are considered part of the “Season” leading up to the main festival. To that end, fashion and art come together in The Orientique June 22 at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St. The evening of performance features designs by Yasuhiro Tomita of Rukus, Terry Sasaki and Akihiko Izukura. A fusion of Western and Eastern inﬂuences and old and new Japan, The Orientique includes the sounds and beats from DJ LKS and performances by musician Caroline Jang and dancers Ralph Escamillan and Katerina Leppard.

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The city’s annual Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life takes place at Killarney Park this Saturday, June 22, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Everyone’s invited to take part in the relay, which this year has a new Carnival theme. Besides actually walking or running, this 12hour relay includes live performances and ac-

WEST END As part of the West End Community Plan, West End Arts has organized an open house to ask residents what it is they’d like to see in the community when it comes to the arts. The Arts Open House event will allow residents to give an opinion on everything from how to build community through the arts to their own arts recommendations for the West End. The open house takes place June 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites, 1763 Comox St.

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Fashion and art come together in The Orientique show at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden June 22, which is part of the lead up to the 36th Powell Street Festival in August. tivities for all ages organized to celebrate cancer survivors and remember loved ones lost. Find out more at relaybc.ca. Killarney Park is located off Kerr Street and East 49th Avenue.

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The Friends of Southlands Society is holding a farmers market on Saturdays this summer (except long weekends) at 6767 Balaclava St. from 4 to 7 p.m. to support local agriculture in the city. The market launches this Saturday with tours of the Southlands Heritage Farm, Diana’s Famous Pies, Ruth’s Coffee, City Farms Co-op, Lifebites and more.

TROUT LAKE Annual Aboriginal Day celebrations take place at Trout Lake today, June 21, from noon to 5 p.m. with songs, traditional games, dances, food and more. sthomas@vancourier.com

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he story Daniel Gomez and his wife, Patricia, are telling isn’t one theyimaginedwouldincludesomuch frustration and disappointment. Life was supposed to be much better when they left Mexico City with their two young daughters for the promise of good fortune and happiness in Vancouver. “For me, since I was a little kid, I always thought about Canada,” says Daniel before his wife added: “Canada is famous in Mexico. We always saw the advertising for this country and how it was beautiful.” The couple is sitting at a table in the Hogan’s Alley Café at the corner of Union and Gore streets. It’s late Tuesday afternoon and they are the only people in the place. There’s a reason for that: They own the café. There’s also a reason the café, which they took over in February 2012, is closed early: Business hasn’t been as good as they were told it would be and they can’t afford to hire extra staff. “I thought I would be a successful businessman but now I’m a barista,” says Daniel, a

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Mexican immigrants Patricia and Daniel Gomez feel they were misled by an immigration consultant in Mexico and local business people in Vancouver about the Hogan Alley’s Cafe they purchased before coming to Canada. trained accountant who looks drained after another day at the café. “But I’m really happy, despite all the troubles, and ready to start our new life in Canada.” Their story of immigration is a complicated one they told in painstaking detail. It involves being misled by several people, including an immigration consultant in Mexico and business people in Vancouver.

Money was at the root of it — a lot of money the Gomezes spent that they believe they will never get back on what was supposed to be an investment in their future. The experience left the couple bitter, stressed and reaching out to politicians, lawyers and the local Mexican consul, whom the Gomezes say, were not able to provide any solace to the family. “Somepeopletoldusthatwasthewayitisinthis

country for immigrants — that it is a struggle and welcome to Vancouver,” said Patricia, who is a trained massage therapist whose credentials are not recognized in Canada. Daniel acknowledges he should have spent more time investigating his options for a business before immigrating but he is at a loss for words when attempting to reconcile the trust he put in people to get him here. “That, I don’t understand, why people do that,” he says. “But maybe I lost my mind in this big dream of coming to Canada. I don’t know.” So here they are, the couple says, not exactly living the dream but making the best of a situation in a community that was built largely on the struggle of immigrants from China, Italy and Japan. They’ve made some friends, their daughters enjoy their schools and they are learning more about the vibrant community in Strathcona, where they live in a basement suite. And like immigrants before them, the Gomezes have relied on their heritage to carry them through. They’ve added Mexican food, served at breakfast and lunch, at a café sought out by locals more for coffee. “Is it a coffee shop or a restaurant?” Daniel says of the question he gets from customers. “I say it’s both. It doesn’t matter to us why the people come here but as long as they leave happy.” Adds Patricia: “When the people smile, you forget everything.” mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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f your kids are prone to asking The Bank of Mom and Dad for money to buy what they want, ask them to consider working for it. And if they need money-making ideas, here are a few to get them—no matter what age—started.

YARD MAINTENANCE In the summer when the weather is sunny and warm, yard maintenance is easy. Think mowing the lawn, weeding, or watering the garden. Your child could offer all of these services under the umbrella of yard maintenance.

BOTTLE RECYCLING Your child can collect bottles for a deposit refund. He can make ﬂyers asking neighbours for their returnable beverage containers. Then all he needs to do is return the containers to bottle depots for the deposit refunds. He could also hang out at local parks (where teams often play ball games and leave behind beverage containers) to pick up empties that are left behind.

younger children for a couple of hours a day. Parents are already scrambling to keep their kids occupied, booking them at summer camps and other activities and them rushing to get home from work in time to pick them up. Your child can bridge the gap by offering to pick the kids up and looking after them for an hour or so after a day camp has ended.

PET CARE Summer is a busy time for vacations— vacations that may leave a pet behind. Your child can offer pet-care and petsitting services, ensuring that ﬁsh are fed, dogs are walked, and litterboxes are cleaned. If your child is an animal lover, this is a good way to match his interests with a job that pays.

CLEANING HOUSE If you have a child who is meticulous, cleaning house for neighbours is a great idea. Just make sure your child knows the basics of cleaning before you send him out on a job. He could specialize in a certain type of cleaning, like ﬂoors and vacuuming, or bathrooms and kitchens.

BABYSITTING If your child has taken the babysitting course, she could offer to babysit

TEENS MUST ‘UNLEARN’ ENTITLEMENT HABITS Teresa, a 40-year-old Vancouver mom, says that her 15-year-old son Lucas was motivated to work when she said wouldn’t pay for a video game he wanted. So, he canvassed the neighbourhood offering his cleaning services to neighbours and landed a couple of gigs. “I didn’t expect him to actually go out and get work,” Teresa admitted. “Honestly, I thought by suggesting he work for it, he would just give up on getting the video game. After a few weeks, he ended up earning enough to buy a few games.” Lucas has been working steadily since then. He’s 17 years old now, and earning an honest day’s wage on the grill at McDonald’s. His goal now? To buy his ﬁrst car!

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“The crystalline lens in children’s eyes is less capable of ﬁltering UV than in adult eyes, resulting in greater risk for internal eye damage later in life,” says Dr. Ahmed.

Because exposure is cumulative, direct contact with sunlight for even short periods of time can cause several longterm eye health problems, many of which begin symptom-free. For children, the ﬁrst years are formative to their future vision and eye health, says Dr. Ahmed.

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While tests have shown that inexpensive sunglasses can provide full UV protection, the quality of materials and consistency of the tints may be inferior. Such imperfections can distort children’s vision, causing a mild headache or eyestrain when sunglasses are worn. “Before choosing sunglasses, children should have a thorough eye examination to ensure their eyes are healthy and to take any current eye conditions into consideration,” says Dr. Ahmed. “At the very least, have their sunglasses assessed by a doctor optometry to ensure that your child is wearing a good quality product.” More information can be found in the Eye Heath Library at doctorsofoptometry.ca. Article courtesy newscanada.com.

The World Health Organization estimates that up to 80 per cent of a person’s lifetime exposure to damaging UV radiation occurs before the age of 18. Conditions directly related to it include: cataracts, macular degeneration, cornea sunburn, tissue growths on the surface of the eye that can eventually block vision, as well as eyelid skin cancer and malignant melanomas in the eye. Protecting your child now will decrease the potential for serious eye problems later in life. A close-ﬁtting, wrap around style frame that protects both the skin around the eye, as well as the eye itself, is recommended. So, too, are 100% UVA and UVB blocking lenses. A widebrimmed hat tops things off.

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he volunteer executive director of the Philippine Women Centre of B.C. wants to resurrect the group’s Strathcona building, which has been closed since 2008 due to a lack of funding and a dire need for repairs and renovations. “The centre was such an important place because we were the ﬁrst ones to offer services to Filipino women,” said Cecilia Diocson. “It was also a space where women pushed out of their employer’s home could come. We considered that a rescue operation.” Diocson said the centre took the lead working with academics and the federal government on important research studies affecting Filipino women. Some of those studies focused on gender equality, discrimination and the challenges and needs of Filipino nurses doing domestic work in Canada. Other studies conducted with the help of government funding included one regarding Filipino mail-order

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Cecilia Diocson goes through some of the stored boxes at the Phillipine Women Centre of B.C. at 451 Powell St. brides and another that dealt with issues that concern domestic workers in Canada, such as employer tactics to dampen wage claims and extend working hours, structuring conditions, dignity on the job and suggestions for policy change. According to research completed by the centre, in 2005 Filipino women accounted for 95.6 per cent of the live-in caregivers in Canada. In 2008, the centre received $262,212 from the Women’s Community Fund of the Status of Women Canada for its project, Breaking the

Silence: Eliminating Violence through Filipino Women’s Empowerment. Due to federal government cuts to funding, the majority of Status of Women Canada ofﬁces across the country have since closed. Marc-David Seidel, the chair of organizational behaviour with the University of B.C.’s Sauder School of Business, said these types of centres are vital to struggling immigrants. “In a crisis that social support is critical,” said Seidel. She advised that once an immigrant’s life has stabilized, it’s a good idea for them to

expand their social circles beyond dedicated services. “These centres are very positive, but after a person get through a crisis it’s important they learn how to expand their social circles,” said Seidel. Diocson noted government funding enabled the centre’s staff to purchase offices at 451 Powell St. in 1996. A lack of government funding closed the building in 2008, when the building fell into disrepair and mould started to grow due to a leak in the roof. At the time of the centre’s closure, Diocson had been living in Montreal helping her ailing mother, but now that’s she’s back the volunteer is determined to re-open those offices. “We’ve been meeting at my apartment every Saturday to discuss how we can build it back up,” said Diocson. “And we’ve been going to the building to clean it up, even though there’s mould and no water or lights.” Diocson said selling the building in this economy doesn’t make sense financially, so she hopes that by making the centre’s plight public, volunteers and businesses will step forward to help with renovations. “Real estate prices are down right now,” said Diocson. “But if we can renovate with donated materials, we’ll be back in business.” For more information about the Philippine Women Centre of B.C. visit pwc.0.tripod.com. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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news Buskers to take over Granville Mall SECOND ANNUAL FESTIVAL UNFOLDS CANADA DAY WEEKEND DREW MCLACHLAN Contributing writer

n Canada Day weekend, Granville Street will become a cacophony of street music, as musicians and performers from around the world descend on our city’s downtown for the second Vancouver International Busker Festival. Five blocks of Granville Street, from Smithe to Pender, will be closed to traffic from June 29 to July 1, allowing pedestrians to crowd around local and international talent, including contortionist Bendy Em, sidewalk artist Chalkmaster Dave, and a multitude of musicians. Despite the first festival officially taking place in July 2012, the seeds were planted during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Barbara Fairbrother of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association reached out to local buskers to fill the streets and entertain tourists. “[This year’s festival] is the same format and same place,” said Mike Bonnici, founder and artistic director of the festival. “Prior

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Musicians and buskers like Dawn Dreams will occupy Granville Street for the second annual Vancouver International Buskers Festival, June 29 to July 1. to the Olympics, Barbara sent out emails to the busker communities in order to activate the streets during the Olympics. It was a massive success, there was a diversity of art and some epic, epic, epic shows.” Bonnici has travelled around the country and abroad, taking his craft — knife juggling and unicycle riding — to the streets of Ottawa, Amsterdam and London, among other cities. Bonnici said the festival isn’t only about entertainment, but an opportunity to rethink how the public uses public space.

“From a Canadian history point of view, the outdoors are for public use,” Bonnici said. “The more it is regulated and the more uses are prohibited, the less people interact at the same level. When it’s successful and well coordinated, everybody wins. Artists can communicate to each other without a boardroom.” On Granville Island, Bonnici is active in the ongoing battle against licensing changes imposed by the Granville Island Cultural Society. The new rules include a ﬁre ban, a doubling of licensing fees (from $55 per sea-

son to $110,) a reduction in “circle shows” (where an audience gathers around the performer) and mandatory auditioning for buskers. Bonnici also said that he disagrees with how the city handles noise regulation. The current limit is only 75 decibels in six metres, which he claims is almost inaudible, and wants to see the distance moved to 20 metres. However, he said that he is very grateful of how supportive the city has been with the Busker Festival, and pleased with how Vancouverites compare to audiences in other cities. “The most exciting thing about Vancouver crowds is the politeness, intelligence and diversity,” Bonnici said. “People here are very articulate, but also respectful — they like to get engaged. In other places, you’ll sometimes get drunk people yelling at you while you perform, but its pretty rare in Vancouver.” Bonnici said he hopes the festival will inspire attendees, and bring more variety to Vancouver’s busking community. “The arts matter, the arts inspire people,” Bonnici said. “When people are inspired they’re better friends and they’re better neighbours.” The Vancouver International Busker Festival takes place from June 29 to July 1, on Granville Street from Smithe to Pender. Over 150 performers will be in attendance. Drew_McLachlan@hotmail.com twitter.com/LachedAndLoaded

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Cannabis devotees to descend on city for Kush Cup EVENT CELEBRATES MEDICAL AND RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA DREW MCLACHLAN Contributing writer

he nation’s dankest weed will soon descend upon Vancouver for the second annual Kush Cup, a celebration of medical and recreational cannabis that includes a Canada-wide growers’ competition. The event, which runs June 28 to 30, was started as part of the Vancouver Health Expo last year by Mark Klokeid, who wants to see a reversal of the negative stigma surrounding the substance.(Kush is a strain of marijuana.) “It’s important to normalize [cannabis,] so the Vancouver Health Expo is very useful,” Klokeid said. “It helps us attract a lot of people interested in health and wellness and shows people that it is a health issue.” Klokeid was diagnosed with stage two lymphoblastic lymphoma in 2003, and underwent four rounds of chemotherapy, several spinal taps, and stem cell and blood transplants. He found comfort in medical cannabis as it provided him a means to improve his appetite and relieve himself of physical pain without having to worry about addiction or liver damage. Along with years of illness and rigorous treatments, it also helped him change his outlook on life. “When I was sick I promised myself that I would live like there was no tomorrow,” Klokeid said. “I decided to travel the world — to make travelling my passion.” Klokeid regularly produces travel videos for his self-titled YouTube channel, all of which focus on or incorporate cannabis. His most recent trip was to Turpan, China where he visited a 2,700year-old mummy that was found with the oldest known marijuana stash. The grower’s competition will feature different strains from medical marijuana growers from across Canada. Judge positions will be open to any attendee with a valid medical license. They will grade each strain based on ﬂavour, potency, psychological effect and cleanliness. Six awards will be given out. Klokeid, who was born in Calgary, said that Vancouver is an ideal city to hold the Kush Cup and that he has seen virtually no opposition to the event. “Most people in Vancouver are friendly towards [marijuana] usebecauseoftheprevalenceofdruguseinthecity,”Klokeidsaid. “But there’s still a part of the population that doesn’t know the facts. The VPD is very educated on drugs and is one of the most liberal police forces in Canada. There are a lot of vapour lounges and dispensaries downtown, and it’s legal for recreational use just across the border in Washington. The city is getting more and more liberal, and going in the opposite direction as federal law.” Klokeid said that although education is a primary goal, he also wants to focus on the spectacle of the event, noting that there are several annual beer and liquor events in the city. “I want the expo to not just be a health show, but a place where people can have a memorable experience,” Klokeid said. “A lot of people said that they had the time of their lives last year and were grateful to have a pot-friendly event. A lot of events in Vancouver are alcohol-based, but cannabis is becoming more accepted in the mainstream — not just as medicine, but as recreation.” The Kush Cup will feature 20 keynote speakers, including authors, doctors and lawyers, live glass blowing sessions, deprivation tanks, a boat cruise and three musical concerts. It takes place at various venues including the PNE Forum, Green Room restaurant, Yaletown Dispensary and the Centre for Performing Arts. For more information, go to kush.ca/kushcup.html. Drew_McLachlan@hotmail.com twitter.com/LachedAndLoaded

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travel Molokai valley offers glimpse into‘old Hawaii’ SANDRA THOMAS Staff writer

olokai, Hawaii—The moment I stepped off my small aircraft onto the tarmac of the Molokai Airport in Hoolehua, I immediately sensed this would be a visit to Hawaii unlike any I’d experi-

enced before. The tropical island had been previously described to me as an example of “old Hawaii,” but those words hardly do Molokai justice. During my visit, the tiny island seemed alive with Hawaiian ancestors, legends and spirits of days long past. That feeling remained for the duration of my ﬁve days on the island, but never so much as when I had the opportunity to

watch Kupuna (respected elder) and storyteller Anakala Pilipo Solatorio make poi (paste made from taro plants) from scratch using a well-worn, shallow wooden bowl treasured by his family for decades. As Solatorio worked, he told the small crowd gathered for the demonstration stories about the great tsunami and flood that swept through Halawa Valley on Molokai in 1946. I wasn’t the only one transfixed as the elder brought us back to that fateful night when the waters tore through the fishing village also known for its taro farms. Today, Halawa Valley is considered a sacred site. It’s thought the valley was first inhabited as early as 650 AD and still today there’s evidence of former heiau (places of worship). History aside, the valley is stunning with towering waterfalls and a

beach that on this day was inhabited by about six other tourists swimming and sunning themselves on the sand. That’s right, not 60, 600 or 6,000, but six, and I instantly had a feeling of privilege in that I had access to this sacred valley and beach. After spending some time near the crystal, blue ocean, my tour guide for the day, Molokai native Julie Bicoy, took me on a short hike through the jungle past the home and taro fields of Kupuna Solatorio. It was at the far end of the property when Bicoy stopped at the modest dwelling of Solatorio’s nephew Kumu Pa’a Lawrence Kalainia Kamani Aki. Standing at the edge of the outdoor living area, Bicoy sang a beautiful chant asking for permission to enter the space. In response, “Lawrence,” as he’s known to friends and family, came out of his home to welcome us with offers of juice and chocolate. Kumu Pa’a Lawrence Kalainia Kamani Aki is a 50th-generation descendent of storytellers and teachers of Hawaiian knowledge. Today, Lawrence’s knowledge, passed down from Kupuna Solatorio, is sought after by groups from around the world and he regularly travels to share Hawaiian culture and stories. Despite his title as a revered elder, on this day Lawrence looked more like he was ready to go surfing rather than impart the wisdom of his ancestors. Dressed casually in a sarong and muscle shirt, his long black hair flowing loosely down his back, the handsome Hawaiian jokes with his unexpected guests as he tells stories of his recent travels while showing photos on an iPad. Also on the property this day, was Lawrence’s apprentice Mano O Kahiko LLC. Kawika, who was also quick to welcome us as guests by touching foreheads and sharing an exchange of “ha,” the Hawaiian word for the breath of life. As I stood on the lush green property surrounded by mountains, waterfalls, swaying coconut trees and taro plants, in the company of two of the most revered teachers of Hawaiian culture in the world, I could almost feel the spirits enveloping us. And while the bright lights of Waikiki were just minutes away by plane, I felt like I had been granted a rare glimpse of old Hawaii. Guided hiking tours are available through Halawa Valley Hiking at 808-551-1055. (There is no email or web address.) For more information on Molokai, visit visitmolokai.com/visitorcenter.php. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10 (Go to vancourier.com or scan page with the Layar app to see more photos.)

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Buddhist temple provides solace in ever-changing world

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AT A GLANCE As Vancouver’s oldest residential neighbourhood, Strathcona has a long and rich history that is stained with soot, fire and grinding poverty. Despite plots of gentrification, however, its residents have always held on to the working class soul of the community. Strathcona is bordered by Burrard Inlet to the north, Clark Drive to the east, False Creek to the south, and Chinatown to the west. Before European settlement, the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations people occupied the area. Strathcona began as a camp of cabins built around Stamp’s Mill (later renamed Hastings Sawmill.) The early neighbourhood served as a hub for labourers migrating from across the country, China, the U.S. and Europe, who were drawn to Canada’s western frontier. As a result of the mass influx of workers and their families, Strathcona was the location of Vancouver’s first school: Hastings Mill School, a single-room schoolhouse that also served the children of Moodyville (now North Vancouver.) The Hastings Sawmill was one of the few structures to survive the Great Vancouver Fire of June 1886 and its unlikely survival would later reflect the perseverance of Strathcona’s heritage throughout the next century. Strathcona takes its name from Lord Strathcona (Sir Donald A. Smith,) who drove the last spike completing the first transcontinental railway at Craigellachie, B.C. During the 1960s, Strathcona was considered a slum by many. City planners considered demolishing a large portion of the neighbourhood to make room for an interurban freeway that would have also affected much of Gastown and Chinatown. The first part of the freeway, the Georgia Viaduct, was completed and effectively destroyed a section of Strathcona called Hogan’s Alley. Hogan’s Alley was Vancouver’s predominantly black neighbourhood. The rest of the freeway never became a reality. Though many treat the neighbourhood as a temporary home before moving to other areas of the city, a sense of pride and activism remains. On April 1, 200 residents protested what they saw as a hastily made plan by the city to remove the viaduct. The result, they say, would be an increase in traffic and congestion in Strathcona, which remains one of the few affordable options for real estate in Vancouver.

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lthough Strathcona carries a strong image of a working class monoculture, the shadow of a mostly forgotten community still lingers. The blocks between Jackson and Main to the east and west, and Cordova and the waterfront to the south and north were once a landing point for Japanese immigrants seeking a new start in Canada at the turn of the 20th century. This small district within Strathcona was once called Japantown. A few remnants of the lost neighbourhood still exist, such as the Vancouver Buddhist Temple. Located on 220 Jackson Ave. across from Oppenheimer Park, the three-storey, cream coloured temple stands out from the rest. The building moved across Strathcona, from its original place on

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32 Alexander St. in 1906, to several other sites until the group purchased a Methodist church at its current location in 1954. In 1979, the Buddhist temple was built. Bob Akume, who serves as president for the Vancouver Buddhist Temple and assistant to Reverend Tatsuya Aoki, says that like Strathcona’s Japanese community, the membership of the temple has also dwindled. What was once a hub for Vancouver’s Japanese-Canadians now only has 370 members. “In the last 15 to 20 years, many children who grew up around the temple have chosen to build homes outside of Strathcona,” Akume said. “Many want the opportunity to raise families and buy homes in newer areas. In Strathcona and other neighbourhoods, housing can be very restricted. A lot of businesses and stores have closed or moved elsewhere as well… In a previous generation almost every [member] had some connection with the neighbourhood.” Continued on next page

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Japanese-Canadians make up most of temple’s membership Continued from previous page Jodo Shinshu Buddhism is the most practiced sect of Buddhism in Japan as it does not enforce many rules onto individuals. Akume said that a main drawing point for converts is the focus on self-reﬂection through meditation. Jodo Shinshu is a “Buddhism of the family,” as the temple is run by the community rather than monks or nuns. Reverend Aoki holds religious services, while an elected board of directors runs takes care of administration. The decline of Japantown began in 1942, during the Second World War. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese-Canadians were branded as “enemy aliens” by the federal government. Any Japanese-Canadians living within 160 kilometres of B.C.’s coast were relocated into internment camps in the province’s interior or Alberta. “After the ban was lifted by the government, most went back to Vancouver and the coast,” Akume said. “Many chose to go back to Strathcona, but it was reduced quite a bit — because of racial discrimination, some people chose to return to Japan.” Akume’s family was forced from their home in Steveston, just south of Richmond, and chose to move to Lethbridge, Alberta. Families who chose to stay in B.C. were often separated, as

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A group of women in the “shigin” or Japanese folk singing club at the temple. men were required to work for the government on railways or labour camps. Akume moved back to Steveston after the ban was lifted in 1952 and resumed high school before studying dentistry at UBC. Enough members of the temple returned after the war for it to return to life. Akume’s wife’s family ran a tofu shop just across from Oppenheimer Park, and many Japanese businesses

were able to thrive in the neighbourhood until a few decades ago. Today, just over 30 of the temple’s 370 members are non-Japanese — residents of Strathcona and the Downtown Eastside, who have sought solace at the temple. However, Akume said these members can sometimes be transient. “It’s a shifting population, and the duration of attendance is limited,” Akume said. “In two

or three years many stop attending, and we don’t know the reason.” The temporary status of outside members in some ways reﬂects Strathcona’s population — people are drawn to the temple and to Buddhism when they need it, but will leave when they no longer do. Yet many who were born as members feel a sense of pride and community surrounding the temple. Greg Chor grew up on the city’s East Side and has been a member of the temple since 2007. Chor said that he was drawn towards Buddhism after reading a book by Buddhist author Kenneth Tanaka and found that both the temple and Buddhism have given him “an outlook on living life with gratitude.” “[The temple] is a place where people can discover themselves,” Chor said. “Their own views, sense of mindfulness and gratitude. It’s accessible to everyone, the door is always open.” The temple’s philosophy, said Akume, is about ﬁnding meaning in the individual. “Having large growth in terms of membership isn’t in our teachings. We’d like to show people what the temple can offer but it’s certainly not an aggressive stance we assume.” Drew_McLachlan@hotmail.com twitter.com/NotDrowzyD

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Bassist and vocalist ESPERANZA SPALDING’s June 23 concert at the Vogue Theatre is one of dozens of highlights at this year’s VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL, which takes over the city June 21 to July 1. Other performers include Michael Kaeshammer, Alex Cuba, soul singer Bettye LaVette, the swinging sounds of Gypsophilia and music legend Herbie Hancock, among others. More details at coastaljazz.ca. Some are calling Noah Baumbach’s latest ﬁlm, FRANCE HA, a love letter to New York City. Shot in glorious black and white, it’s also getting plenty of comparisons to Woody Allen’s Manhattan for its dry sense of humour masking a big heart. Add the irrepressible GRETA GERWIG as a 27-year-old dancer going through a post-college identity crisis, and you’ve got one charmer of a ﬁlm. FRANCES HA opens June 21 at Fifth Avenue Cinemas. We were somewhere around the Rio Theatre, on the edge of Commercial Drive, when the drugs began to take hold. Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of HUNTER S. THOMPSON’s hallucinogenic road trip FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS starring JOHNNY DEPP as Raoul Duke and BENICIO DEL TORO as Dr. Gonzo screens June 21, 11 p.m. at the Rio Theatre as part of ifs Friday Late Night Movie series. Paul Anthony hosts. More info at riotheatre.ca.

There isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t ask friends, family, loved ones, even strangers on the street, “Who’s got the funk?” Thankfully ﬁlmmaker-historian Nelson George aims to answer that age old question in his documentary FINDING THE FUNK, which explores the colourful and, dare we say, funky history and ongoing inﬂuence of funk music. It screens at Vancity Theatre June 23, 8:30 p.m. at as part of the BEST OF HOT DOCS series, which runs June 21 to 23. For more details, call 604-683-FILM (3456) or go to viff.org.

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ummer is here, and you know what that means: night markets. If you’re after sensory onslaught, head to Richmond for the sheer extravagance of food, dog costumes and knockoffs. But if you want something a bit smaller, more manageable, and dare I say it — more soulful — then head over to the Vancouver Chinatown Night Market. Nestled on Keefer Street between Main and Columbia Streets, the Chinatown market offers a patchwork of food and merchandise vendors, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, selling everything from crepes to socks (eight for $10!). New this year, there’s also hip, urban programming aimed at breathing new life into a market that, in the past, seemed a little bit stale. When I arrive, I make a beeline for an egg waffle or daan jai. It’s like an inverse waffle; instead of square hollows, it has oval puffs. Though they come in flavours such as green tea and strawberry, I opt for a plain one. After trading cash for a poker chip with the number 10 on it, I watch as the waffle maker bounces between four irons, pouring batter, spinning irons and depositing the finished waffles in paper bags. When they call my number, I trade in the poker chip for my prize — it’s crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, and it tastes like my childhood. I wander a few metres up the street to the wheel cakes: small cakes, cooked to order on an enormous griddle and filled with your choice of red bean, custard, peanut butter, or nutella. I ask the woman next to me what they’re like, and she says, “I don’t know, but I just bought six of them.” Next to the wheel cakes is CyCone,

which offers all things deep-fried: Mars Bars, Churros, Pop-Tarts. They try to coax me into a deep-fried Ferrero Rocher, but I decline and leave the booth with a deep-fried contact high. Closer to Columbia Street, I ﬁnd Cocolico, featuring Wendy Boys’ addictive dessert sauces. Next to her, Patricia Yam is surrounded by tea — but it’s her ginger-lime caramels that catch my eye. They’re the real deal: spicy, sweet and delightfully chewy. Had I not started with dessert, I’d visit the smattering of food trucks lining Columbia Street. Instead, I ogle the beautiful people on the Keefer Bar patio as they watch the people on Keefer Street, and listen to a few stories from Rain City Chronicles. The Chinatown night market also has plenty more to offer: hip hop karaoke, ping pong tournaments, open-air movies, and a dumpling weekend, to name a few. “We want to attract new people and new energy,” says Ken Tsui, the market’s program director. He and Tannis Ling (Bao Bei) have partnered with the Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association to invigorate the market. Given there are two night markets in Richmond, Tsui wanted the Chinatown market to be different. “We’re Vancouver. We have a lot of culture and independent vendors doing great work. We wanted to tap into that.” At the same time, Tsui is careful to acknowledge the role that the original vendors play. “The night market wouldn’t be the same without them. The energy wouldn’t be there. We’re just putting a fresh coat of paint on it… putting it back on the map as place to be.” With a constant rotation of vendors in the works, you never know what you’ll get at the Chinatown night market. But that’s sort of the point. Bring your appetite, plenty of cash and an open mind. You won’t be disappointed. twitter.com/eagranieyuh For more photos and web content, scan page with

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his eagerly-awaited offering from Electric Company is so far from what I expected that the day after opening night I’m still in a state of disbelief. I anticipated You Are Very Star, on location at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, would be lights and lasers and everything spacey and hi-tech. But the ﬁrst hour — after we opening nighters, clutching hand-drawn “maps” and milling around the foyer in a state of confusion for 10 or 15 minutes — was spent in the lower level auditorium where creative writing professor “Dougie” (Michael Rinaldi) goes off on spaced-out tangents in front of his students Rachel (Dalal Badr), Winnie (Kathleen Duborg), Esther (Marsha Regis) and Frank (Chirag Naik). The date is Dec. 21, 1968 at 4:55 a.m. and Apollo 8 is just about to be launched. But due to the power being turned off by the building custodian (Patti Allan), Dougie misses the televised take-off. A ﬁght breaks out and we go whirling back 10 minutes, then 10 days earlier, six weeks prior, three

days earlier. A puffed-up Earle Birney (Allan again) makes an appearance, Dougie tries to seduce the already pregnant Winnie, Esther goes on a rant about how stupid the class is and I’m so lost. Best lines from the first hour: “The Georgia Straight is looking for reporters comfortable with obscenity” and Allan (as Earle Birney) announcing, “I’m all into women stepping into men’s roles.” After a 20-minute “Interlude” during which we are encouraged to complete “stations” (like sticking your hand in a bag to “feel your personality”), we climb three flights of stairs to the big dome. Best part of the stations: Skyping with a woman who, after telling her how old you are, is supposed to recount what she had been doing when she was that age. Turns out she and I were exactly the same age so we talked about dogs. Up, up to the Big Dome. Starry skies. Three hundred and sixty degree horizon. Comfy tilt-back chairs with legroom that goes on forever. It’s now 2048. Humans are “augmented” — they can read minds. Communication with old, “pre-augmented”Starr(Allaninclearplasticraingearand carryingaclearplasticumbrella)isdifficult because language as we know it, seems to have gone extinct. Who needs it when you can read minds? Actor Rinaldi has become Neil, Ava’s dead (I think) father (I think).

But no, he comes back to life. My guest, discovering I’ve fallen asleep, is just about to nudge me awake when I come to. Soft reclining seats under a huge star-filled sky will do it to me. Best thing about this part of the program is the emergence of Harold, the gigantic star-projector from deep in the bowels of the planetarium. He rises, turns slowly and the dome fills with stars and asteroids streaking across the sky. Oh, if only the music had been Pink Floyd I would have gone hurtling back, back in time, to my younger, firmer self and to a concert of truly cosmic proportions. Part One, written by Craig Erickson with story development by Kevin Kerr, is called Orbiting the Cusp of Greatness. The Interlude is created by Georgina Beaty (with Kerr, Naomi Sider and Veronique West). Part Two, Transcendence, is written by Kerr with Sarah Sharkey. David Hudgins directs. YouAreVeryStar is, apparently, the name of a song by the Rheostatics; Rusty Ford, featured for what seems to be a very long time in a video clip, is a self-taught, amateur guitar player of whom I’ve never heard. Sorry, Electrics, but except for the fantastic online promo at yavs.electriccompanytheatre.com, I fear you’ve experienced a brown out. — Jo Ledingham

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POOL PARTY: More than 500 guests shelled out $300-aticket to attend the seventh Night at the Aquarium Gala at Stanley Park. Tina Rowntree and Lindsay Lambert fronted the food and wine grazing, which raised more than $350,000 for the marine science centre’s education, research and conservation initiatives, including its Ocean Wise program, created to address overﬁshing. FARM HANDS: The city’s top young philanthropists gathered for the Youth Education Farms (YEF) Gala held at Birks. Founded by brothers Riley and Brandon Mari, the Vancouver-based charity provides tuition assistance to at-risk Swazi youth through the promotion of sustainable business enterprises. YEF funds, develops, and manages the growth of commercial farms in rural Africa. Farm proﬁts support the education of orphaned children, a direct result of AIDS. Upon graduation, YEF provides loans to entrepreneurs to start a business, generate income, and create jobs in their community.

Clowning around at Night at the Aquarium were Paciﬁc Institute of Culinary Arts executive chef Julian Bond and student Amanda Yu.

The Courier’s Megan Stewart picked up some base running advice from baseball hall of famer Tim Raines at the ﬁrst Strike Out Heart Disease Celebrity Softball Classic.

Party chairs Tina Rowntree and Lindsay Lambert reeled in $350,000 for the Vancouver Aquarium’s research, education and conservation programs.

Riley and Brandon Mari’s Youth Education Farms microﬁnance model aims to provide youth with a hand up rather than a handout.

Vancouver Canadians Baseball League Commissioner Bill Maclagan and president Andy Dunn kicked off the 2013 Strike Out Heart Disease campaign with a charity softball game.

Shangri-la executive chef Wayne Harris and his son, Joshua, cook up a Farmers Market brunch on Father’s Day.

Goldenlight Entertainment’s Dancers Lila, Camille, Mariah and Vanessa greeted partygoers to Youth Education Farms’ Great Gatsby-themed gala at Birks.

Cactus Club owner Richard Jaffray now has two celeb chefs in his kitchen: Iron Chef Rob Feenie and recent Top Chef Canada season 3 champ Matthew Stowe.

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convenient locations — Gastown, Yaletown and downtown Vancouver — that everyone can come see us and the other bands performing that night. Practically anyone can be exposed to our music,” said Joey Slithers, vocalist for the Twitch. Make Music Vancouver was inspired by Fête de la Musique, an initiative launched by the French Ministry of Culture in 1982. Since then, similar Make Music events have expanded to more than 460 cities in more than 100 countries around the world. The event is run entirely by volunteers, with organizers and musicians donating their time and skills in order fulﬁll the festival’s mandate of celebrating musical diversity for all. “I have been an audience member of previous Make Music Vancouver festivals in the past,” said Duncan Lee, guitarist and vocalist for We, The Sheeple. “And the thing that I like about it the most is the fact there is music for everybody. There are hundreds if not thousands of people walking around [so] someone’s musicality is bound to catch the ear of someone.” More details at makemusicvancouver.ca. For videos and added web content, scan page with

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PRIESTS INTEGRAL TO 25TH DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL Taoist priests will be at the docks in False Creek this Friday to perform the annual eye dotting and blessing ceremonies for the Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival. The 25th anniversary of the race will feature more elaborate rituals and celebrations, many which will take place near the water at Creekside Community Centre at the foot of Ontario Street. Priests and members of the Evergreen Taoist Church will take part in a 40-minute public service, which is performed each year by Stephen Kwong. Kwong and others will cleanse the racecourse by “awakening the dragons” from their winter nap to ensure speed and safety for paddlers on the water, according to information from festival organizers. Invited guests and dignitaries have the chance to officially wake the dragons by “dotting the eyes” on the dragon faces at the prow of each boat, which they will do with a pinpoint of red cinnabar paint. The event concludes when the priests throw 18 coins and coloured beans, representing the five elements and five directions (east, west, south, north and centre), into the air and water. The altar will be set up on the dock where paddlers board their boats before racing. According to festival organizers, the goddess of the sea, the saints and the immortals are invoked through the priests’ chanting, allowing for competitors and their boats to be charged with the strength of the dragon. The free, weekend-long festival kicks off Friday from 5 to 10:30 p.m. and dragon boat races follow all day Saturday and Sunday. Other happenings on opening night include a welcome barbeque, acrobat performances, paddling and boating demonstrations, a breast cancer survivor flower ceremony and a fire and light show. For more details visit dragonboatbc.ca. — Sumbul Vallani

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hen Amy Pon talks kung fu with people who know little about the martial art, she asks if they’ve seen any movies. Inevitably, these same people — her prospective students — reference Bruce Lee, considered the most influential martial arts pop culture icon of the 20th century. “Depending if I was trying to recruit them, I would stress getting a good work out and working on flexibility,” added Pon. And there’s much more to the practice, she said. The discipline can tap physical and spiritual depths, promote health and respect, plus give more backbone to an individual’s self-esteem. “The benefit would be learning how to hit and kick to defend yourself and improve your self-confidence,” she said. “You feel powerful if you’re a woman and that’s always important.” Lee developed Gun Fan Gung Fu, a form of kung fu that takes his name. Pon practises Choy Lee Fut kung fu, a martial art that combines styles from northern and southern Chinese systems, including techniques from the Shaolin animal forms along with extended, circular body movements and nimble footwork. “I like that it has a variety of moves, short fists and long fists, different kinds of kicks,” Pon said of Choy Lee Fut kung fu. “I know a few styles that are just limited to a few moves and some weapons, so it’s broad-based. There are more areas you can focus on if you want to.” The kung fu Pon teaches was established more than 200 years ago through different sources and continued through a lineage of sifus, or master instructors. It also incorporates 53 different weapons, including the cane, single and double sword, knife, spears, staff and fan. The fan is used closed and can be brutal. “It’s more for striking, hitting pressure points,” said Pon, adding with a laugh, “only after you finish smacking the guy a few times, then you can use it to cool down.” Pon teaches at Hon Hsing in Chinatown and will soon start classes in Burnaby at Metrotown. Her sifus included Peter Wong and Matthew Wing, with whom she teaches Choy Lee Fut at the Strathcona Community Centre, where kung fu has been taught for at least 25 years. Pon and Wing teach one system at Strathcona while George Yung teaches another, My Jung kung fu. Strathcona’s recreation supervisor Har-

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Amy Pon teaches Choy Lee Fut kung fu at the Strathcona Community Centre. vey Eng said different martial arts clubs brought their disciplines to the community centre nearly three decades ago. They may teach and practise different styles, but the kung fu community in Strathcona and Chinatown is close-knit although membership has slowly declined. “Both have been in the community centre for along time,” said Eng. “When they started, there were different forms [of kung fu], like most martial arts. They’ve created their own kingdoms and they can manage it that way.” Pon and other instructors will host a kung fu demonstration at the Chinatown Night Market June 28. “Many styles and many institutes all gather together to help for big events like the Chinese New Year parade,” she said. Martial arts could break through to an

even broader international stage if wushu, a broad term for standardized Chinese martial arts, is selected as an official Olympic sport. Wushu and kung fu differ in important ways, said Pon. “They’re not interchangeable. Wushu has more flowery, acrobatic moves […] but kung fu is more a fighting style.” Choy Lee Fut appealed to Pon when she was in her early 20s. Now in her 40s, she continues to compete — she won first place in the national trials and was selected to Team Canada in 2006 — and also judges bouts. A regional black belt champion, Pon has not been tested outside of training or sparring. “I have never had to use skills to defend myself,” she said. “And I’d kind of like to keep it that way.” mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

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and natural shooting talent. “I’d always have a ball in my hand,” she said. “Playing sports throughout school, I usually like the ones that were contact sports.” B.C. School Sports prevents high school athletes from stacking their schedule with two sports in the same season as Viña did, but Britannia and the Vancouver school board secured permission from B.C. sport associations. Viña plays in a women’s basketball league with other Britannia graduates and although she reluctantly stepped away from the hardwood, she is passionate about her place on the mat and will compete for Simon Fraser University. In February she qualified for nationals after only eight months in the sport. “It was a big accomplishment for me,” said Viña, 17, whose first bouts were against boys and whose nails are often painted bright pink and red. “She moves as if she was born for this,” said her Howard Gairy Academy wrestling coach Frank Mensah. Born for sport, whichever she chooses. ● q tezis onekipn

s a 13-year-old boy, Marc Magano was drawn to the flash and fame of the WWE, a scripted entertainment venture that could no longer be called a sport “federation.” Nearly five years later, the wrestler is a self-disciplined and committed athlete who won bronze for his country at the 2011 Pan Am Games and has twice won the Canadian national championship, once as a Grade 10 student and then two years later during his graduating year. Magano, 18, doesn’t have to fake anything. The Grade 8 boy who wanted to get jacked like his idols and run the ring is a mellow, soft-spoken older brother to five siblings. He has gained the confidence to know his dedication and hard work are reward enough. His national championships came two years apart because Magano walked away from wrestling to try boxing and to turn his back on the unreasonable demands of a former club. “I was overtraining,” he said in a characteristically low, hushed voice. “I burnt out and I just wasn’t having any fun.” Once again a spectator, Magano

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ne of East Vancouver’s oldest and most culturally diverse neighbourhoods will soon be home to an exciting new six-storey boutique building. Because of its blend of eclectic urban sophistication, South of Main Street (or SOMA) is emerging as one of the most sought-after postal codes in the Lower Mainland. This is where Shine will rise. Shine is a selection of 93 residence condominiums that combine the best of old-meets-new. Ranging in size from one-, two- and three-bedroom residences and starting from $268,800, Shine is unmatched for quality and great value. Designed by the leading edge, awardwinning firm of Shift Architecture, Shine offers everything the urban condo dwell-

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Mary Macintyre, the owner of Little Nest coffee shop on Charles Street, is closing down her business July 21 after her landlord increased the rent by $2,000 a month. lowing these guys to be as scarce as hen’s teeth.” Rent control on commercial property is rare in North America and falls primarily under civic government authority. New York City Council is currently considering a requirement for mandatory arbitration if a commercial tenant and landlord can’t agree on a market rent when a lease expires. Berkeley City Council in California had commercial rent control until 1988, when the state government banned cities from implementing such

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et’s face it: no one with a car-loving bone in their body ever woke up one day and said, “I can’t wait to get a minivan!” Rather the opposite, I’m afraid. To the gearhead, the speed-merchant, the weekend racer, and even the mom and dad clinging to that last vestige of cool factor they once had 400 million years ago, a minivan is giving up. It’s purgatory. It’s the automotive equivalent of sweatpants with baby-food stains. But it shouldn’t be. The young couple down the street from me recently decided to replace their faithful four-door VW hatchback with something a bit more commodious. They have a two-year-old son, a

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Hip parents may think a minivan spells doom for their street cred but the massive yet stylish Honda Odyssey may change your mind about what’s cool. desire to go on family trips, and overseasbased grandparents who visit regularly. A crossover? Well perhaps, but after measuring their needs against the space available in even the biggest such cars, a

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Honda released the current-design Odyssey on the market in 2010, and it’s still a remarkably fresh-looking design. A large front corporate grille provides a handsome face and a trapezoidal dipsy-doodle in the rear gives some sort of character to the side-profile. It is also bloody enormous. “Mini” van my foot. At five metres long and two metres wide, the Odyssey is bigger than the boat which once propelled Homer’s classical hero on his epic journey around the Mediterranean. It’s hard to believe families once made do with regular sedans. Still, in a sea of SUVs and crossovers, even a vessel of such hefty proportions doesn’t look that big. Optioned in Dark Cherry Pearl paint, the Odyssey is large and imposing, but still a pretty good-looking rig. Continued on page 48

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Dr. Who’s Tardis is famous for being bigger on the inside than on the outside. As you’d expect from a barn-on-wheels (an attractive barn, mind you) like the Odyssey, interior space is exemplary. The Odyssey strikes a solid balance between adult-sized seating and usable space for kids. Both the mid and rear rows are less canted back than some competitor offerings, which allows for easy installation of both booster seats and rear-facing child seats. The mid-row seats are probably too heavy for smaller kids to tilt forward and squeeze past — luckily they can just scamper between the twin captain’s chairs.

Load-height levels are a bit higher, so smaller kids will again need to be lifted in. However, strapping in an infant is super easy for an average-height person to accomplish, and the ability to control all the power doors from either the key fob or driver’s seat (as well as switches mounted in the rear door jambs) is handy. Loading ﬁve adults into the Odyssey showed that the front four seats are plenty comfy and the rear seat is entirely workable if you’re not six-foot-plus. When it comes to cargo, this thing has more cubby holes and secret compartments than the Millennium Falcon. If it’s not a pocket, pouch, shelf or storage bin, it’s a cupholder. Oh yeah, the cupholders: if you put a water bottle in each one of these, you’d have enough H20 to ﬁll an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

line, instead building up inertia and speed with strong midrange power. This is an exceptional long-distance tourer. Wind noise from the extra-large side mirrors is perhaps a bit noticeable, but with everybody comfortable and entertained, the driver won’t be bored either — this six-cylinder can be wound up easily to pass any lugging 18-wheeler and the steering isn’t as numb as others. For most vehicles, the dynamic assessment stops there, but let’s talk about parking. As land prices go up, parking spot width goes down, so manoeuvring a van into place can get tricky. Luckily, a backup camera is now standard on the Odyssey, and with an extra-large display screen, getting out of tight spaces is not the trial it could be.

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Probably no other vehicle segment can boast the kind of features you get aboard a modern minivan. The top-spec Touring Odyssey is like a luxury sedan hooked up to an air-compressor. At the peak of the range, you get a multi-view rear camera, an ultra-wide rear-entertainment system, 15 Gigabyte on-board hard-drive to load up with Sponge Bob sing-alongs and a 650watt system to blast them through. Of course the cost for all this is not inconsiderable: $47,190 plus freight. Better news for families who’ve got tuition to save up for is the enhancements made to the base-model Odyssey ($29,990) this year. A rear-view camera, USB connectivity, Bluetooth streaming audio, a seven-speaker audio system and two GB of on-board storage. Mid-range models add alloys, power-sliding doors and other amenities. It should be noted that Touring models have a slight mechanical advantage over the LX, EX ($34,090) and EX-L ($41,190) trim, with a six-speed automatic transmission. The sixspeed option gives slightly better in-city fuel economy at 10.9 litres/100 kilometres in-city versus the ﬁve-speed’s 11.7 l/100 km. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com twitter.com/brendan_mcaleer

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arlier this month saw the beautiful city of Montreal become a battleground for top-tier racing: Formula One came to town. After some interesting hijinks during qualifying, the race turned out to be an easy win for whiz-kid Sebastian Vettel in his Red Bull/Infiniti car, running out ahead early on and maintaining a lead through to the finish. Infiniti must be very happy that their sponsorship is working out so well, victory-wise. The real battles were farther back in the pack, particularly between Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, who squeaked by Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes-Benz to steal second. Not necessarily a clean victory for the Spaniard: rumours has it there was a pass under a yellow flag, which is a definite no-no. Sadly, while there would be much champagne sprayed post-race, there was also terrible news. A volunteer track worker was crushed by a crane while attempting to remove a crashed F1 racer from one of the corners. Details are slim, but apparently the veteran track worker slipped and fell out of sight of the moving crane, and was caught under its wheels. It’s worth remembering that in the fraternity

When it comes to performance-oriented electric vehicles, Tesla has been soaking up the spotlight for too long. Let’s turn that light on a growing battle between two traditional manufacturers locked in combat on the legendary Nürburgring. Audi threw down the gauntlet with its Etron R8 — an electric-only version of Ingolstadt’s supercar. With a lap time hovering around the low eight-minute range, the R8 made its bones as a fairly impressive machine, though slower than its gasoline-powered compatriots. However, Mercedes has firmly established itself as current electric King of the ‘Ring, shattering Audi’s times with a seven minute, fiftysix second lap that’s faster even than the V-8powered R8. They did so with their SLS Electric Drive, which is ... well, you can figure it out. With all-wheel drive and the equivalent of 751 horespower., the electric SLS is quite the machine, though it should be noted that it’s handily trumped by the normally powered version (which is also half the price). Still, with carmakers focusing on electric performance as well as efficiency, it’s good news for our inevitably battery-powered future. Watch this space for all the week’s best and worst of automotive news or submit your own auto oddities to brakingnews@gmail.com.

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Dogs

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3508

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4060

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Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE ESTATE OF TOMMASO PAULETIG ALSO KNOWN AS THOMAS PAULETIG DECEASED, LATE, OF VANCOUVER WHO DIED MARCH 16, 2013 TAKE NOTICE that all persons having claims upon the estate of the above named must file with the undersigned Executrix by the 15th day of July 2013 a full statement of their claims and securities held by them. OLGA PAULETIG EXECUTRIX 3361 Queens Avenue VANCOUVER, B.C. V5R 4T9 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: THE ESTATE OF YAEKO SUZUKI, Also known as YAE SUZUKI, and YAIKO SUZUKI, DECEASED NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Yaeko Suzuki, late of #238 - 2125 Eddington Drive, Vancouver, BC, who died on November 5, 2012, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor c/o 700 - 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 5A1, on or before July 27, 2013 after which date the Executor will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which he has notice. Christopher James Torao Suzuki: Exectors Richards Buell Sutton LLP Attention: Patrick (Rick) Montens

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5505

Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Re: BERTHA MARGARET MATHISEN, Deceased, formerly of 3989 Angus Drive, Vancouver, BC. Creditors and others having claims against the estate of BERTHA MARGARET MATHISEN who died on November 1, 2011, at Vancouver, BC, are required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executor at #2700 - 700 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V7Y 1B8, on or before July 15, 2013, after which the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received. William John Mathisen, Executor. Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, Barristers + Solicitors.

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2080

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2080

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2080

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VANCOUVER

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8531 Shaughnessy St

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MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE 900 blk of E 30th Saturday June 22 9am - 12pm

EMPLOYMENT 1240

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Dogs

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6693 Doman St. Oil & Watercolours, Landscapes & Florals.

7015 The Vancouver Courier has partnered with the BC SPCA to encourage responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals. Before purchasing a new puppy, ensure the seller has provided excellent care and treatment of the animal and the breeding parents. For a complete guide to ﬁnding a reputable breeder and other considerations when acquiring a new pet, visit spca.bc.ca.

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Pet Services

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2080

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7005

HIMALAYAN Show Cats 5-6 Yr M/F $250.00 home w/no dog/cat Kittens $500.00 up + alter Port Moody Day 604 939-1231

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5070

3 indoor cats, 5 - 7 years old, require homes immed. Owner has passed away. Fur and Feathers Rescue 604 719-7848

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5060

A51

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

RE: The Estate of Noel Joyce Taylor, otherwise known as Noel J. Taylor, Noel Taylor and Joyce Taylor, deceased, formerly of Broadway Pentecostal Lodge, 1377 Lamey’s Mill Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 3S9 Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Noel Joyce Taylor, deceased, are hereby notified under Section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the undersigned Executor c/o Cohen Buchan Edwards LLP, Lawyers & Notaries, Suite 208 - 4940 No. 3 Road, Richmond, BC, V6X 3A5, on or before July 15, 2013, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice. DATED at Richmond, BC, this 4th day of June, 2013. K. BRUCE PANTON COHEN BUCHAN EDWARDS LLP, Solicitors for Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, Executor

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HOME SERVICES Appliance Repairs

8015

8030

Carpentry

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Since 1989

RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

732-8453

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HOUSE CLEANER needed Kitsilano area, prefer university student; $20 per hour. Call: (604) 736-9343

8060

6005

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-42

Rates are going Up! Call Now. 2.60% 5 year Variable 2.79% 5 year Fixed Self Employed, Credit Damage OK, Commercial & Residential Martinique Walker, AMP Verico Assent Mortgage Corp Call: 604-984-9159

6008

S. Surrey/ White Rock

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

For Sale by Owner

6015

Concrete

A Concrete Specialist sidewalks, bsmts, paving stones, patios. Santino 778-892-5559

REAL ESTATE Real Estate Services

Cleaning

A QUALITY CLEANING exp res /comm. low rate’s senior’s disc 778.239.9609 or 778.998.9127

VAN APPLIANCE SERVICES Repair home appl. Low rate guar. Permit/Lic. Tom 604-323-8063

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8055

6020

Abbotsford

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

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

6008-18

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

6020-14

6020-01

Real Estate

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6020-06

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

6020-34

Surrey

6008-40

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp. For free estimates call Mario

604-253-0049

A 1 Retaining Walls, Foundation, Stairs, Driveways, Patios, Sidewalks. Any concrete project. Free Est. Since 1977. Basile 604-617-5813

6040

Okanagan/ Interior

Concrete

L & L CONCRETE. All types: Stamped, Repairs, Pressure Wash, Seal Larry 778-882-0098

8068

Demolition

DEMOLITION

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

8073

Drainage

RNC DRAINAGE

−Augering −Water & Sewer line repair & replacement −Sumps −Drain Tile −Concrete Work −Foundation, −Excavation −Retaing Walls −Site restored Call Ron 778-227-7316 or 604-568-3791 10 ACRES OF OKANAGAN VIEW PROPERTY FOR SALE Located 6 km from Penticton Hospital on the eastern hillsides above the city. Numerous building sites with view to the north up Okanagan Lake. One of the few remaining 10 acre country residential parcels that has not been developed. On paved road with power to the lot line. For sale by owner at only $289,000. Contact donaclair11@gmail.com or 250-493-5737

TROY TEATHER DRAINAGE & SEWER 15% OFF - 604-722-1105

8075

Drywall

W.End/Down/Yaletown

OPEN SUNDAY, 2-4PM • MLS# V994147 #401 - 1132 HARO ST., WEST END VAN. FABULOUS 2 BDRM., 2 BATH APT. • $649,000

• 1088 Square Feet • New Pipes 2012, Wood Floors • 1 Block to Robson Street • 2 Secured Parking Spots • 1 Large Storage Locker • Full Size Washer/Dryer • Quiet South-East Facing, Bright • Sundeck for Sitting • Walk to Stanley Park, Shopping

JUDY KILLEEN • 604-833-8044 Personal Real Estate Corporation

732-8453

MERRITT HERITAGE style 3070 sf 4br 5ba on 9.9ac lot detached shop, view $895K 250-378-8857 see uSELLaHOME.com id5592 GUILDFORD 1900SF 3br 2ba w/basement suite on huge 8640 sf lot, $489,000 604-613-1553 see uSELLaHOME.com id5608

6020-38

6050

Out Of Town Property

Vancouver East Side CRANBROOK 2060SF 4br 3ba reno’d home w/side suite on 2 lots $239,900 778-887-4530 see uSELLaHOME.com id5304

WESTSIDE HOME in 'Vancouver Heights'. Open House Sun June 23rd 2-4pm Brand New Custom 4200sf Residence, incredible views, 5 patios, roof top deck, 800sf legal ste, 3 car gar w/bath, 18ft folding glass walls expands the main flr. Exotic Italian Marble & Caesarstone countertops! Call: Marla @ Sutton 778-896-5972

6030 RARE CUSTOM built 2146 sq ft rancher in very desirable Sardis Park neighbourhood. 3 large bedrooms plus den, 2 1/2 baths. Master bedroom boasting 2 large walk-in closets, ensuite with walkin tub. Rec Room with gas fp. New furnace, A/C, HWT, elec air filter. and new thermal windows and wooden blinds. Huge garage, lots of storage, crawlspace. Workshop. Rear yard access, RV parking. 12 x 24 covered patio in back yard. .23 acre. Asking $479,900. Call 604-858-8354.

RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

FLEETWOOD RENO’D 2140sf 4br 3ba, large 7100sf lot, bsmt suite $529,000. 604-727-9240 see uSELLaHOME.com id5617

Chilliwack

TOP FLOOR quiet side of bldg 650sf 1br+den condo nr Hosp, & Sky train $244K 778-241-4101 see uSELLaHOME.com id5580

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

Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, remove & replacing

Langley/ Aldergrove

Houses - Sale

New Westminster

Richmond

CONCRETE SPECIALIST

8060

Since 1989

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

6008-28

Concrete

604-716-8528

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-02

8060

Lots & Acreage

6052

Real Estate Investment

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

Recreation Property

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

604-630-3300

Max: 604-341-6059

Lic. 22308

ALL YOUR electrical & reno needs. Lic’d electrician #37940. Insured, bonded & WCB. Free est Reasonable rates 604-842-5276

ALP ELECTRIC #89724 Low price, big/small jobs, free est Satisfaction guar 604-765-3329

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

Apartments & Condos

ROCHE POINT Tower, nice clean, view ,1 bdrm+den, 2 bath, patio, ugrnd prk, 5 app, 1000sf, close to shop/bus/library $1180/mnth 604-460-1125 Ann

A Lic’d. Electrician #30582. Rewiring & Reno, Appliance/ Plumbing. Rotor Rooter and Hydro Pressure Jetting Service, 778-998-9026 or 604-255-9026 Free Est / 24/7 YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guar’d. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087

Excavating

# 1 BACKHOES, BOBCATS, EXCAVATORS & DUMP TRUCKS Drainage, Paving, landscaping, stump / rock / cement / oil tank & demos, dirt removal, paver stones, Jackhammer, Water / sewer line / sumps. Slinger avail. 24 hrs. Call 341-4446 or 254-6865

Concrete ★ driveway, drainage, sidewalk, pavers, excavation, retaining walls, landscape, backhoe & bobcat services 604-833-2103 Excavating - Drain Tile Demolitions. Fully insured • WCB 604-716-8528

8090

Fencing/Gates

S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING Cedar Fence Install Call 604-275-3158 FENCES & DECKS front steps, retaining walls, repair or renew, John 778-998-5591 tarasoffconstruction.com KB METAL PRODUCTS LTD. FENCE & GATES : CHAIN LINK & ALUMINUM ORNAMENTAL. ✫Free Estimates: 604-619-8434 West Coast Cedar Installations New, repaired or rebuilt ★ Fences & Decks ★ 604-435-5755 or 604-788-6458

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

Hardwood Floor Refinishing

6508

7th & Clark, East Van. Lrg 2 BR, hardwood, reno’d. VIEW. Av July 1. $1100 + utls. 604-218-7660

Oak & West 14th Studios (Avail. July 1) 1 BR’s (Avail Now & July 1) Well maintained building close to all amenities and VGH. Some pets ok.

604-731-2714

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944 CELTIC HARDWOOD FLOORS Installations & refinishing. Quality work. Reas Rates. 604-293-0057 Golden Hardwood & Laminate & Tiles. Prof install, refinishing, sanding & repairs. 778-858-7263 ** HARDWOOD FLOORS ** Installed, Repaired, Refinished Free Est. Peter 604-329-4498 INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices. Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8120

Glass Mirrors

Commercial/Residential

Store Fronts • Windows & Doors Broken Glass • Foggy Glass Patio Doors • Mirrors • Etc. 2837 Kingsway, Vancouver

Tel: 604-603-9655

8125

Gutters

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Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

Gutter & window cleaning, power washing. Prompt, professional. 30 yrs exp. Simon 604-230-0627

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TROY TEATHER GUTTERS 15% OFF - 604-722-1105

Century Hardwood Floors

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HARDWOOD FLOOR SERVICES Sanding & Refinishing Installation Quality Workmanship Free Estimates Fully Licensed & Insured

604-771-8885

ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing. Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

6508

Apt/Condos

1 BR Furnished Coal Harbour $2500-$3000 Available NOW www.rentYVR.ca 778.888.8888

8130

LANGARA GARDENS

Handyperson

AaronR CONST Repairs & Renos, small repairs welcome. Insured, WCB, Licensed. 604-318-4390 aaronrconstruction.com

6540

Houses - Rent

2BDRM/1BTH CENTRAL Lons. Coachhouse w/d, f/s, dw, on de -mand hw,fp,strge,pkg.Aug1 N/P 2495+Ref sec dep.604.349.2083

6602

Apt/Condos

AMBER LODGE

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

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6505

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

2&3 BDRM MOBILES in Surrey & Langley. $19,900-$65,000. Call for great mobile! Lorraine Cauley Royal Lepage 604-889-4874

8080

LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309 Commercial & residential renos & small jobs. 778-322-0934.

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

Mobile Homes

Wayne The Drywaller

Quality Drywall Finishing. Textured Ceilings & Repair. Renov Specialist. No job too small. 837-1785

Licensed & Bonded

6065

6035

VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling & textured ceiling repairs. Complete drywall & taping. 604-307-2295

8080

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR rear bsmt ste, priv entry, patio, Langara area, nr amen., no w/d, np ns, suits 1 person, lease, $660. July 1. 604-322-0639

#101 - 621 W. 57th Ave, Van Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments & Townhouses. Heat, hot water & lrg storage locker included. Many units have in-suite laundry and lrg patios/balconies with gorgeous views. Tasteful gardens, swimming pools, hot tub, gym, laundry, gated parking, plus shops & services. Near Oakridge Centre, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School & more. Sorry no pets. www.langaragardens.com

1BDRM GROUND level, 51st & Fraser, bus stop in front, n/s, n/p, ref’s. $750 plus util. Avail Now. Call after 6pm 604-708-0589

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*5-year/100,000 km worry-free comprehensive warranty. Offer(s) available on select new 2013 models through participating dealers to qualiﬁed customers who take delivery by May 31, 2013. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. All offers are subject to change without notice. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and

upgrades available extranew cost. pricing through includesparticipating delivery anddealers destination fees upcustomers to $1,650,who other and certain (including levies) $100for A/C charge applicable) anddealer excludes licensing,details. registration, insurance, other variable dealer administration feesinclude (up to optional $699). Other dealer and charges may available Offer(s) available on atselect 2013Allmodels to qualified takefees delivery by Aprillevies 30, 2013. Dealerstiremay sell and or lease less. Some(where conditions apply. See for complete All offers are subject to taxes changeandwithout notice. Vehicles shown may accessories upgrades be required at the time of purchase. Other lease and financing options also available. **0% purchase financing is available on select new 2013 Kia models O.A.C. Terms vary by model and trim, see dealer for complete details. Representative financing example based on 2013 Sportage LX MT FWD (SP551D) with a selling price atof extra cost.financed All pricingat includes and destination fees up to $1,650,equal other$295 feesper andpayment certain levies tire levies) and $100 A/Cofcharge (where applicable) excludes registration, insurance, other taxes, variable dealer administration fees (up to $699)between and down (if applicable andfrom unlesstheotherwise specified). $23,767, 0% APRdelivery for 36 months. 78 bi-weekly payments with a(including down payment/equivalent trade $0. Ω“Up to $4,000 cashand savings” offerlicensing, is available on the cash purchase of select new 2013 models from a participating dealer Maypayment 1–31, 2013, is deducted selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease and finance offers. Some conditions apply. Cash purchase price for 2013 Optima LX MT (OP541D)/2013 Sportage LX MT FWD (SP551D)/2013 Soul 1.6L MT (SO551D) is $19,072/$19,992/$16,467 and includes a cash savings of $4,000/$2,775/$1,500 and a Clearout Bonus of $500/$1,000/$500 (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease and finance offers). Retailer may sell for less. ‡$4,000/$2,775/$1,500 cash savings on the cash purchase of an eligible new 2013 Optima LX MT (OP541D)/2013 Sportage LX MT FWD (SP551D)/2013 Soul 1.6L MT (SO551D) from a participating dealer between May 1-31, 2013, is deducted from the selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease and finance offers. Some conditions apply. ¥Clearout Bonus of $500 is available on all cash, finance and lease offers of new 2013 Optima LX MT (OP541D)/2013 Soul 1.6L MT (SO551D) or $1,000 on 2013 Sportage LX MT FWD (SP551D) from a participating dealer between May 1–31, 2013, and is deducted from the selling price before taxes. Customers will receive a cheque in the amount of $500/$1,000 (excluding taxes) or can apply it to the selling/lease price before taxes. See your dealer for complete details. Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2013 Optima SX Turbo AT (OP748D)/2013 Sportage 2.0T SX Navigation (SP759D)/2013 Soul 2.0L 4u Luxury AT (SO759D) is $35,550/$39,145/$27,345 and includes delivery and destination fees of $1,455/$1,650/$1,650 and A/C charge ($100, where applicable). Licence, insurance, applicable taxes, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies), variable dealer administration fees (up to $699) and registration fees are extra. Retailer may sell for less. Available at participating dealers. See dealer for full details. Highway/city fuel consumption is based on the 2013 Optima 2.4L GDI 4-cyl (A/T)/2013 Sportage 2.4L MPI 4-cyl (A/T)/2013 Soul 2.0L MPI 4-cyl (M/T). These updated estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods. Refer to the EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.

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Grocery Department

Meat Department L’Ancetre Organic Cheese

Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

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33%

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assorted varieties

2/7.00

4.49

34%

product of Canada

750ml

Deli Department

product of France

47%

Valley Pride Organic Half and Half Cream

Orangina Beverage

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37%

SAVE

25%

2/3.00

Attitude Eco-Friendly Diapers

35%

2/6.00

SAVE

32%

6.49

SAVE

34%

regular or spicy

regular or chipotle

4.69

2.79

227g • product of USA

Applesnax Apple Sauce

Sophie's Kitchen Frozen Vegan Fish Dinners

assorted varieties

assorted varieties 796ml

4.99

product of Canada

20% off regular retail price

Health Care Department

250g

Organic Multigrain Bread

25.99

from .50 off

regular retail price

6” or 9” Sour Cherry Rhubarb Pie

from 1.50 off

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regular retail price

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Rice Bakery Trio O’Chocolate Biscotti 50g or Rice Banana Bread 150g

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1.00 off regular

SierraSil Joint Formula 14™

26.99

Inno-Vite Inno-Q-Nol AquaSorb™

32.99

30 soft gels

Inno-Q-Nol AquaSorb™ is the most bioavailable and bioactive form of CoQ10 available to maintain and support cardiovascular health. T

retail price

250g • product of Asia

90 capsules

Reduces pain and stiffness and promotes active lifestyles by aiding the body's healthy anti-inflammatory response.

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240g

Organic Wheat Grass products are made up of nature’s most potent and powerful sources of green leafy vegetable nutrition.

regular or half loaf

2/7.00

142g • product of USA

bags or bins

Bakery Department

250g product of England

Boulder Canyon Rice Chips

Bulk Department

Amazing Grass Organic Wheat Grass

assorted varieties

12.99

Flamous Organic Falafel Chips

284g product of USA

product of Canada

Choices' Raw Energy Mix

reg 7.49

King Soba Organic Noodles

product of Canada

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20.00

Bari Mozzafina di latte Cheese

6 pack • 112-126g product of Canada

Texas or California

assorted sizes

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All of this for

4.99

2.98lb/ 6.57kg

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454g bag

B.C. Grown

500ml

Amy's Frozen Veggie Burgers

473ml +deposit +eco fee product of USA

2.98

Hot House On the Vine Organic Red Tomatoes from Origin Organics

product of Canada

assorted varieties

500ml product of Canada

20%

Mexican Grown

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Roasted Chicken with a Family Size Salad

SunRype Fun Bites

2.39

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A Mouth-Watering Meal : Specialty

3.99

3.98

170g pkg product of USA

Organic Limes

4.99lb/ 11.00kg

+deposit +eco fee

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product of Canada

7-11%

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value pack

assorted varieties

4.99

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grilled, natural, buffalo and herb

Spring Creek Lean Ground Beef

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

skim, 1, 2 or 3.25%

Artichoke Hearts from Monterey Farms in California

product of Canada

assorted varieties

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650g

Dairyland Milk

2/7.00

200g

Efferve Sparkling Lemonade or Orangeade Beverages

Olympic Organic Yogurt

30%

4.99

34-38%

1.53kg product of USA

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11.29lb/ 24.89kg

assorted varieties

26.99

Produce Department

Double Loin Lamb Chops

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