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HAPPY MEAL: In the ﬁnal instalment of our Vancouver Special neighbourhood series, the Courier visits Marpole where chef April Pringle and a volunteer prepare Marpole Place’s Thursday night community dinner at St. Augustine’s Anglican Church. See story on page 15. To view a photo gallery, scan this page using the Layar app.

Mayor sees decrease in homeless numbers SHELTER OVERFLOWING AS METRO VANCOUVER COUNT UNDERWAY MIKE HOWELL Staff writer

ayor Gregor Robertson expects to see a decrease in the city’s homeless population this year now that more permanent and temporary housing has opened to accom-

modate people who were living on the street and in shelters. Robertson made the assessment Wednesday morning after participating for two hours in Metro Vancouver’s homeless count. The mayor spent his shift in the West End, where he said he did not ﬁnd any homeless people. “I expect the numbers to be down from last

year based on all the housing and shelter investment — and hopefully that’s the case,” Robertson told reporters outside a homeless count headquarters near Nelson and Burrard streets. The Metro Vancouver count is done every three years. Although Vancouver participates, it also does its own counts in the years between the Metro count. Last year’s

city count in March recorded 1,600 homeless people, with 1,327 in shelters and 273 on the street. Since the count, the city opened the 95room former Biltmore hotel and 57 rooms at a former Ramada hotel on East Hastings. See HOMELESS page 5

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lways put the money up top in a story. One of my journalism profs drilled this into my head way back in the day when my word machine was a typewriter and I was actually allowed to speak to the person in charge instead of an email exchange with a “media relations specialist.” Did that come off as complaining? Sorry about that, it’s just that… Anyway, to the money — the money that your city council pulled in last year and the amount of money they spent on trips and conferences all for the greater good of this world-class city. Yep, it’s that time of the year when the city releases the annual remuneration and expenses report for 2013. Exciting stuff, right? You be the judge. Mayor Gregor Robertson pulled in $148,849 and spent $7,116 on local expenses such as $780 for Board of Trade annual membership dues and $732 for red pocket envelopes for Chinese New Year. He received a $7,175 transportation allowance and shelled out $6,591 for travel and conferences, including trips to New York (Citylab: Urban Solutions to Global Challenges conference, which was partially

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Mayor Gregor Robertson describes Police Chief Jim Chu (left) as “Vancouver’s best chief to date.” paid for by the host), Guangzhou, China (business mission, which was paid for by the Vancouver Economic Commission, which receives the majority of its funding from the city) and St. John’s, N.L for a Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) board of directors meeting. FCM duties drove the majority of councillors’ expenses, with Vision councillors Raymond Louie ($6,860), Heather Deal ($6,473) and Tim Stevenson ($6,255) racking up the biggest bills for their trips to Ottawa, St. John’s and Prince George. Councillors, by the way, pulled in an average of $68,320 in salary last year, with An-

drea Reimer and Tony Tang earning $71,061 for extra deputy mayor duties. The grand total for all of council’s travel and conference expenses was $49,711 and local expenses totaled $29,304. The grand total for all of council’s transportation allowance was $46,515, including $11,795 to Kerry Jang because the city forgot to pay the councillor between December 2008 and December 2012. ••• In other money news, you may have heard Police Chief Jim Chu will get his $300,000-plusa-year contract extended until August 2017. That means he will be on the job as the

city’s top cop for 10 years. The rationale for the extension? I’ll let the chairperson of the Vancouver Police Board answer that. “Chief Chu has been Vancouver’s best chief to date,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson, who doubles as chairperson of the police board. “When you look at the drop in crime across our city — and under the chief’s tenure — it’s remarkable.” The mayor gave me that answer last week in a scrum following a press conference. Robertson joined Chu and representatives from Vancouver Coastal Health, the Insurance Corporation of B.C. and the school board to give reporters an update on the city’s work to reduce the number of pedestrian accidents and deaths in Vancouver. Apparently, enforcement coupled with engineering upgrades such as countdown timers at crosswalks, better lighting at intersections, red light cameras and changes to turning lanes is helping. Still, eight pedestrians died last year and more than 500 were injured. Sadly, a few days after the press conference, a woman was struck March 8 by a semi truck at West Hastings and Richards streets. She was transported to a hospital where she died. The mayor’s goal is to get to zero pedestrian fatalities. “There’s no reason that we can’t achieve that,” Robertson said. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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The Hollow Tree at Stanley Park.

As reported earlier in the Courier, the 2006 windstorm that ravaged Stanley Park accelerated the decline of the Hollow Tree, which was already leaning. In January 2007, a crew installing a metal brace to help hold the 800year-old tree in place accidentally set it on ﬁre with a spark from a welder’s torch. By March, the popular tourist attraction was being held in place by steel braces and cables and, according to a staff report at the time, the eastern half of the root ﬂare was rotted away. In 2008, park board staff recommended removing the Hollow Tree citing safety concerns. But the ad hoc group the Stanley Park Hollow Tree Conservation Society quickly formed and raised the $60,000 needed to stabilize it. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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Continued from page 1 The city also purchased another Ramada hotel on Kingsway, which is expected to open this week to accommodate tenants from the Old Continental at the north end of the Granville Street bridge. Renovations to Taylor Manor on Boundary Road are also underway. In addition, nine of 14 social housing buildings to be built under an agreement involving the provincial government, the city and the Streetohome Foundation are now open. The remaining ﬁve buildings are expected to be completed this year. Altogether, the 14 buildings have more than 1,500 housing units. Once all the housing opens, Robertson said he expected the homeless population to drop by “hundreds” of people. When Robertson was elected mayor in November 2008, he set a goal to end street homelessness by 2015. The number of homeless on the street has dropped from 811 in 2008 to 273 last year, although that number has remained steady since 2010. The mayor said Wednesday he expected to reach his goal as long as “we have full commitment from our partners, from the B.C. government in particular.” “We’ve seen the numbers come down dramatically over the past ﬁve years but we’ve got to follow through on this and make sure everyone has an option to get off the street,” he said, noting more shelters may need to open next winter. A shelter on Central Street near Main and Terminal had a waiting list of 16 people Tues-

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t looks like the city and park board have backed off from development of any kind in Hadden Park for a very long time, if not in perpetuity. Kits Point resident and community activist Megan Carvell Davis said recent documents from the city show the park will finally be protected as it was always meant to be. More than 85 years ago, millionaire land speculator Harvey Hadden donated the land under the condition the city “shall keep the property as near as possible in its present state of nature.” Carvell Davis argued a recent proposal to build a $2.2-million, 12-foot wide paved bike path through Hadden Park contravened that deed. “It looks like I’ll finally have an opportunity to talk to the park board about Hadden Park and the deed,” said Carvell Davis. Last October, the park board approved a plan to construct a bike path through Hadden and Kits Beach parks as part of the Seaside Greenway plan connecting Canada Place to Stanley Park to False Creek and finally Jericho. The path was to be an extension of the Cornwall-Point Grey bike lane. At the time, residents accused the city and park board of burying the details within the Seaside Greenway report. In response, the ad hoc group Save Kits Beach Now Coalition was formed and protests were organized. The group then approached Carvell Davis to file a lawsuit against the city and park board in B.C. Supreme Court in an attempt

to halt the bike path, which she did last November. She also successfully petitioned for an injunction to postpone construction until a decision could be made regarding the path. In a public statement released in February, the park board said it had abandoned plans to build the bike path. Carvell Davis says recent correspondence from the city states in part, “The interim injunction in the Petition remains in place so long as the Petition remains extant (in existence)… In the hypothetical event that either respondents pass a new resolution directing and authorizing the commencement of work on a paved bicycle path on Hadden Park, the respondent will be at liberty to request pursuant to Rule 16-1 (17) of the Rules of Court that the Petition (possibly amended) be set for hearing…” All of which I believe means the court case won’t become active unless the park board and city proceed with new development plans for Hadden Park. “I guess they know that if we went to court once we will go to court again,” said Carvell Davis. A town hall meeting at Heritage Hall on Main Street tonight (March 12) 7 p.m. will lay out how the residents, armed with support from lawyer Bob Kasting, halted the bike path. The event has been dubbed, “It Takes a Lawyer to Beat City Hall in Vancouver: Legal Update on City’s Back-down and ﬁnal Settlement on Hadden Park and Kits Beach Bike Lanes — the ‘done deal’ is not happening.” “Done deal” is a reference to a comment Vision Vancouver park board commissioner Aaron Jasper made to the Courier last October in response to the plan. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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estled among Marpole’s wide diversity of churches and cultural groups, the Marpole Baptist Church houses three separate congregations under one roof. It hadn’t always been this way, explained Pastor Charlie Nishi, who has been a member of the church on 64th Avenue and Osler Street since 1975. An engineer by profession, Nishi stepped in to help out with the service as the congregation shrunk and the financial resources weren’t available for a full-time minister. “We could’ve decided to go elsewhere for services, but we didn’t think it was the right thing to do,” Nishi said. “We had a responsibility to the older members to keep it going.” The modest church, built in 1954 through volunteer labour, catered solely to an English-speaking congregation until 18 years ago. “In our denomination there were one or two Filipino congregations years ago and some of the families wanted to move out into this area, so they came to me and said would you consider letting us use your facility?” Nishi said. “We said sure. We have a building and some resources, so why not share it.” Nishi considers the addition of the Filipino Maranatha Baptist Church congregation to be a benefit. As the number of members attending the church steadily decreased due to people moving away or passing on, the money and resources needed to keep the church going dwindled. The new congregation helps finance the church and provided younger members to help maintain the building. Ten years later, another group now known as the Marpole Baptist Chinese Church asked to share the space. “They came in after one of the people helping us here, a retired missionary with our mission in India, came back to be a professor at the Bible college,” Nishi said. “One of

Part-time Pastor Charlie Nishi at the Marpole Baptist church. his students, a Chinese lady had a desire to reach some Chinese folk. So we said, sure, by all means, come on in.” Holding services in Cantonese and Mandarin as well as weekly English conversation classes, the Chinese congregation welcomes newcomers to the country and acclimatizes them to Canadian customs while allowing them to practice their religion and have a sense of identity, a goal both the English and Filipino congregations supported. Their shared goals have allowed the three groups to successfully share the space ever since.

The Filipino congregation, being the largest, has shared resources, such as a full set of band equipment, with the other groups. “They said what’s ours is yours, so feel free to use it,” said Nishi. He said the collective attitude has made the congregations close and feel be part of the same family. Philip Oliveros, one of the founders of the Filipino congregation, said the group has about 100 members. He said the service, which has always been in English, has brought in members of other ethnicities. Outside of their regular service and Bible studies, Oliveros said

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they also do missionary work every two years. “When the typhoon hit the Philippines, 14 people paid their own airfare and went there to help out,” Oliveros said. “We were able to provide some funding from our church resources and raised about $10,000 to send supplies to families that were devastated.” He said they always welcome newcomers of any ethnicity. The congregation is considering removing the Filipino title from its name to make it more open to everyone. kristenmoran86@hotmail.com twitter.com/EastVanKristen

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he residents of a Marpole housing complex slated for demolition fear their fate is sealed. Concord Pacific, the owner of the property at 445 SW Marine Dr., plans to knock down the 70 rental townhouses and replace them with two high-rise towers at 27 and 21-storeys in height with 514 units and a third mid-rise 6.5storey tower with 70 affordable units to replace the units that were demolished. The property would need to be rezoned to allow for the development. Marine Gardens residents have been told by the city’s planning general manager Brian Jackson that saving their homes from demolition “would not be considered an option.” Resident Jillian Skeet brought the demolition to her neighbours’ attention and formed the Marine Gardens Residents Association. After sending a letter to the city and Concord Pacific in December 2013, Skeet said she was shocked by Jackson’s response and thought the demolition was a “done deal.” Kimberley Bowen, who has been a resident at Marine Gardens for over six years and has two young daughters, said the group has tried to meet with Concord Pacific ever since they were given offers of compensation.

“Concord was putting together their plan and they wanted to know what they could offer us, what they could do to compensate us for losing our home,” Bowen said. “We kind of said, we aren’t going there. We want to ﬁght to keep our community what it is now.” The complex was built as a project for the United Nations Habitat Forum held in Vancouver in 1976. It has an enclosed courtyard open to all the townhouses, making it an ideal place for children to play outside safely. Bowen said the safe environment is an essential component for child development. “Obesity in children is getting worse and for us, we feel like we are doing something right because our kids have a chance to ride their bikes around and be active, while still being safe,” said Bowen. “The saddest part for us is that a high-rise condo doesn’t replace a townhouse. What do you tell your children? Go play in the hallway or the elevator? It’s a shame to be able to take that type of community and tear it apart.” Besides the fear of losing their tightwoven community, the increased cost of living was another concern. Resident Charlene Gunn said that Marpole is the last place in Vancouver that could be considered affordable, which by deﬁnition is housing that does not exceed 30 per cent of a household’s income.

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“Instead of allowing these large towers to be built and having to relocate current residents in affordable housing and have vacant sold condos … They should come up with a better plan or solution,” said Gunn. The Marine Gardens Residents Association held a meeting last week and invited Concord Paciﬁc to attend. The company sent Prompton Real Estate’s senior property manager Kim Love to answer their questions. “She wasn’t able to give us the details, she didn’t really have any,” said Bowen. “She would go back and get some answers, but it’s not fair that Prompton has been put in the middle as a messenger. It would be a lot easier if Concord would just talk to us.” Bowen said that Concord has offered four months’ rent and the option for residents who have lived there over ﬁve years to move back in after two years and be given a 15 per cent discount off the market value of the new condos, which Prompton said will be around $2,300 per month for a two bedroom, up from current cost of $1,100 monthly. According to Nancy Eng, the communications coordinator for the City of Vancouver, the city has no anticipated timeline for the rezoning application. kristenmoran86@hotmail.com twitter.com/EastVanKristen

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Answers needed in mill fire deaths

hief Coroner Lisa Lapointe entered the fray Monday over the accountability issue surrounding the Burns Lake mill fire fatalities. The B.C. Liberals have been under fire for weeks about the refusal to call a public inquiry into the fire and explosion that killed two sawmill workers and injured 20 more two years ago. WorkSafeBC did a major investigation into the fire. But when its report was submitted to Crown counsel, government lawyers rejected laying charges because the case wasn’t handled properly. One of the issues is whether the mill was operated correctly, given the fact that exceptionally dry sawdust from milling beetle-killed lumber was a safety hazard. WorkSafe presented some evidence that it wasn’t. But the Criminal Justice Branch said much of it couldn’t be used, because the investigation didn’t follow the rules required for probing a regulatory or criminal offence. It was treated more as a compliance inspection. That means the mill might eventually get an administrative penalty, but no other sanctions will be imposed. It left the hard-hit town unsatisfied. Several survivors visited the legislature last week and told harrowing stories of the disaster in pressing the case for a public inquiry. Premier Christy Clark rejected the call, saying a subsequent report from her deputy minister, John Dyble, showed the way for improved processes. Lapointe held a news conference to explain her role in the next steps and said the coroner’s inquest will go a long way toward answering the town’s concerns. Her remarks had the effect of defending the government’s decision not to hold an inquiry. But she made it clear she was acting on her own. The office is statutorily independent and she said she consulted no one before addressing the media. “I’m very conscious of the fact the coroner’s service is independent of government and needs to be seen to be independent of government.” She said she was concerned about the view that important questions weren’t going to be answered. “I know they will be answered and I wanted to provide reassurance that most definitely there will be a thorough public review of all the circumstances.” Lapointe will take the unusual step of conducting the inquest herself, rather than delegating it to a regional coroner. It will start next fall. She made a strong case that an inquest is a good venue in which to get to the bottom of what happened at the mill. It will be an open, transparent, fact-finding process where witnesses will have to answer all questions. The jury will be composed of people familiar with how sawmills work, something allowed for in the cases of workplace fatalities. Lapointe said the normal rules of evidence don’t apply to testimony, so there will be very broad questioning, and participants’ answers can’t be held against them, “so there is much more openness.” The inquest will thoroughly review everything to do with the explosion, including the provincial standards in effect, who ensures they’re followed and whether they are sufficient. “For some reason, there is the notion that accountability must include punishment,” she said. “We do not find fault but there is definitely public accountability… . The jury can certainly point out where there are deficiencies. “They don’t find legal fault, but if there are deficiencies in practice, that certainly comes out in the inquest and recommendations can be made to address the deficiencies.” She said it’s the best venue for public accountability, “in the sense there is no impediment to people answering fully and frankly; they don’t have to keep their own self-interest in mind.” But the inquest isn’t likely to touch on why charges were not approved, or the problems in how the evidence was collected. NDP critic Harry Bains said a big piece of the story about who was directly responsible for the fire, “who failed,” will be missing. “The issues are much deeper than what will be discussed at the inquest.” No one will be led away in handcuffs after the inquest. But anyone who’s seen how quickly a public inquiry room fills up with $400-an-hour lawyers, and how they drag on for months, can take some small comfort in Lapointe’s views. lleyne@timescolonist.com

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few years back I visited a filmmaker friend whose home is decorated with artwork from Port-au-Prince. The semi-abstract masks hammered from oil drums impressed me. In spite of the Haiti’s perpetual troubles — or perhaps because of them — street artists were producing work that radiated a comic, defiant spirit. My friend’s partner had bought these eye-catching works — from artists off the international gallery grid — for a few hundred dollars total. In contrast, a Francis Bacon triptych depicting artist Lucian Freud netted $159 million CAD in November 2013, making it the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Then this February, another portrait by Francis Bacon sold for $78 million CAD at a Christie’s auction in London, well over it’s pre-sale estimate price of $52 million CAD. At the same auction, the reflective sculpture “Cracked Egg (Magenta)” of a big cracked egg by American artist Jeff Koons fetched $26 million CAD. Ironically, as institutional, big-money art has become more juvenile over time, the lingo around it has become, if anything, more pompous and complicated. (Anyone who’s stood in a gallery puzzling over the text accompanying a piece of art will know what I mean.) Artspeak may be exhausting bafflegab to the casual museum-goer, but for posers and scenesters it’s the write stuff. As an experiment for this column, I picked a copy of the voguish journal Art Forum from the local newsstand. I opened it to a random page and found this: “This limbo, I argue, constitutes non art. But for this limbo to acquire theoretical consistency, a fourth factor is needed: the explicit denial of all artistic qualities — and I mean denial in a quasi-Freudian sense, that is, an involuntary admission of a truth in the guise of its negation. The word no must be uttered, and its true, unacknowledged meaning must be “yes.’ The context doesn’t really matter (a study of the late nineteenth century art scene). The important part is that this passage communicates exactly nothing. Either I’m a dimwit or language of this kind is a sophisticated fraud. The speculative art game of high-end auction houses has long been one of the favoured recreations of the hyper-wealthy. And it’s the job of the fine arts managerial class — curators, critics, academics and public relations gnomes — to clothe the works of art emperors like Jeff Koons in clever jargon. The occasional child or adult who shouts out ‘he’s naked!’ can safely be ignored. They don’t have Artspeak decoder rings. Of course, this kind of lingo goes back a long way. In author Tom Wolfe’s slim 1975 book The Painted Word, he describes an a-ha moment that came to him while reading The New York Times arts section in his bathtub. The ‘text’ — that is, the word from on high by art critics, publicists and curators — was required to properly interpret any given piece of art. “In short: frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can’t see a painting,” he wrote. Then as now, art theorizing demands run-on sentences thick with pseudo-profound paradoxes and radical posturing, punctuated with enough obscure terms to stump a Scrabble champion. In the epilogue to his short book, Wolfe imagined twenty five years in the future, when paintings by the big names of his time — Pollock, de Kooning and Jasper Johns — would be reduced to small reproductions on gallery walls, dwarfed by “ huge copy blocks, eight and a half by eleven feet each, presenting the protean passages of the period,” from the East Coast’s three reigning art critics: Greenberg, Rosenberg and Steinberg. “Every art student will marvel over the fact that a whole generation of artists devoted their careers to getting the Word (and to internalizing it) and to the extraordinary task of divesting themselves of whatever there was in their imagination and technical ability that did not fit the Word.” Wolfe overshot the mark for comic effect, but not by much. I think back to those Haitian masks in my friend’s apartment, and I wonder why I find them so immediate and vibrant, yet often find the institutional art scene here and other North American cities dull as dishwater. Could it be partly because people living in the margins of the developed world don’t labour under the painted word, unlike many graduates of expensive art schools? geoffolson.com

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To the editor: Re: “Oakridge public hearing attracts diverse crowd” March 11. I am a resident of the Main Street corridor neighbourhood. My family and I have lived in this area for over 20 years. I am opposed to the current redevelopment plans for Oakridge center. I ﬁnd it hard to understand the need for highrise towers of 30 storeys plus at this location. Currently there are six towers in the City of Vancouver — all in the downtown core — with more 40 storeys. The Oakridge plan proposes two towers of 45 and 42 storeys and four towers of 36, 36, 30, 30 storeys and seven other lower towers of 18 or more storeys. This will put at least two of the towers in the top 10 tallest buildings in Vancouver and four towers in at least the top 20. All in an area with no other building greater than about eight storeys, which includes the existing towers at Oakridge Mall. By any measure, the proposed tower heights are excessive for the Cambie and 41st. area. These highrise towers are being proposed for vanity reasons only. They suit the needs of the devel-

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Vancouver residents examine a model of the proposed Oakridge tower development during an open house last fall. oper, but the proposed highrise towers are completely out of scope with the current and future needs of the Oakridge neighbourhood community. Very few Vancouver residents oppose the need to increase the population density in the city and it does make some sense to continue to expand the highrises in the downtown where they already exist. One of the reasons put forward for highrise towers is to allow young families to stay in Vancouver. How many of the apartments proposed for the Oakridge site have three bedrooms? Where

will all these young families go to when they have a second child? Developers don’t like to add a third bedroom as it cuts into the proﬁt margins. Some jurisdictions require a certain proportion of the development to have the third bedroom to allow for family growth. Sadly, the creation of a highrise complex on this scale is going to be aesthetically and socially regressive. The community is not asking for a development on this scale. We should not let it happen in it’s current form. Mark Stoakes, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Cedar Party doesn’t think Vision Vancouver Is Awesome,” March 12. Bryan Stewart: I happen to live in East Vancouver, and Vision Vancouver’s vision is not my vision. My Vancouver includes all citizens, not just rich developers who can afford $25,000 a plate lunches. Transparency in government? Why not allow the media to your $25,000 a plate lunch meeting? If you really have nothing to hide, why not be above board? Chernen is not alone! There are many people who are fed up with being ignored and disregarded. Greenest City by 2020? Is that greenest as is in people with most money get to stay in Vancouver? And everyone else out? Apparently Vision Vancouver thinks you should live in a million dollar condo shoebox or in a DTES Soviet-style social housing experiment. Trevor Boudreau @tb_comms: Oh brother! Another day another lawsuit against Vision #Vancouver. Leon Williams: Seeing these Kerrisdale/Point Grey types jumping up and down freaking out at Vision only makes me like them more, though the Point Grey road closure is a benefit to the people living on it. The wealthy in this city have had it their way far too much, the fact the Canada Line is buried is a prime example of that. COURIER STORY: “Casa Mia opponents unleash the lawyers,” March 12. Merry: This is ridiculous. It’s a senior’s care facility not an apartment building. My mother-in-law stayed in a property owned by this group. I have nothing but the best to say about their facilities and care. Everything they do is immaculate. I would be thrilled to have a this facility in my neighbourhood that would cater to my parents. Who more deserves a beautiful property in a gorgeous location than the elderly of our community? COURIER STORY: “Coleman’s praise for nonprofit sours with financial probe,” March 12. Hunter Eaglefeather: B.C. Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay is the spouse of Janice Abbott, CEO of Atira Property Management — how corrupt is that? And how corrupt is Ramsay’s investigation into PHS? The mind boggles at the many layers of deception and corruption at work here but when it comes to poverty pimps and politicians in the DTES, there is no bottom. COURIER STORY: “UBC softballers stunned by demotion,” March 5. Dave Gosnell: “She said UBC student fan support was lower for softball than for other sport.” That’s a pretty tough comparison to make when UBC has never provided a softball facility. What are fans supposed to do? Attend their practices at the baseball field? Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews

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hatever form of revitalization plan city council decides to implement in the Downtown Eastside, Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer stated the obvious at Wednesday’s public meeting at city hall: Not everybody is going to be happy. Reimer’s assessment came on the first day that 126 speakers lined up to tell council what they thought of the proposed $1 billion, 30-year plan to revitalize the city’s poorest community. “If anyone comes today and says they agree with every part of it, I will be very surprised,” Reimer said. Planning director Brian Jackson opened the meeting with another conclusion that supporters and opponents acknowledged about the plan: it’s complicated and probably the most complex of its kind in the city’s history. The plan calls for more social housing, business spaces, community facilities, preserving heritage, adding more parks and open spaces and upgrading transportation infrastructure. The majority of the plan’s cost — $820 million — is directed at housing and relies heavily on senior levels of government, nonprofits and developers to contribute $770 million over the next 30 years. Resident Herb Varley of the “low-income caucus” told council of the deplorable conditions in much of the housing in the Downtown Eastside, particularly the single-room-occupancy hotels that serve as cheap accommodation but are often rodent-infested and unsafe. “If we really want senior levels of government to reinvest in a social safety net, we must show them the depths of despair— the depths of poverty that people live in, “ said Varley, who delivered two petitions to council with 6,000 signatures asking for the creation of a “social justice zone” and to “control business gentrification.” Several speakers, including Victoria Bull, requested that an aboriginal healing cen-

tre be built as part of the plan. Aboriginal people in the Downtown Eastside, many of whom are homeless, overrepresent people with addictions and mental health issues. “I have a dream about this beautiful aboriginal healing and wellness centre in the Downtown Eastside,” said Bull, a longtime resident who is raising her 10-year-old granddaughter. “This would be for people who are not too pleased about going into treatment centres.” Architect and developer Michael Geller stirred up many of the residents in the council chambers with his criticism of the plan’s proposal to create a no-condo zone in a roughly 16-block area around Oppenheimer Park and along a section of East Hastings. “I do not believe that banning condominiums will achieve the goal of creating new social housing without the need for public subsidies,” Geller said. “Rather than serve as a catalyst for East Hastings Street, I worry that this could prevent the revitalization that I think we all want to see.” Housing Minister Rich Coleman told the Courier last week that his government will not contribute money to the plan. The federal government has left the provincial government to decide on what it does with federal money for housing. Reimer, however, has said the city can deliver a signiﬁcant number of housing units over the next 10 years, without investment from senior levels of government. Henry Tom of the Vancouver Chinatown Revitalization Committee also expressed doubts about the plan for the Oppenheimer district, which calls for new buildings to have 60 per cent social housing and 40 per cent rental. “This narrow focus has led to a proposal that seems to reserve the Oppenheimer district for social and rental housing and to constrain commercial activities,” Tom said. Council also heard from representatives at the Urban Development Institute and Vancouver Heritage Commission, who said they support the plan. More speakers are scheduled to address council Friday at 4 p.m.

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Marpole banners display ‘young, fresh’ attitude STREET ART PART OF PROJECT BETWEEN EMILY CARR AND COMMUNITY SANDRA THOMAS Staff Writer

treet banners depicting a boat on the Fraser River, the Arthur Laing Bridge and an airplane are the latest examples of an innovative project between Vancouver’s most famous art school and one of the city’s most historic neighbourhoods. The colourful banners lining Granville Street are meant to portray contemporary life in the South Vancouver neighbourhood. “We’ve had many banners in the past 13 years representing our history, including ones showing tugboats on the north arm of the Fraser River,” said Claudia Laroye, executive director of the Marpole Business Improvement Association. “And while some

people love them, some don’t.” Laroye said a ﬁve-year collaboration with students from Emily Carr University of Art and Design to create public art for Marpole gave members of the BIA an opportunity to see the community through fresh eyes. The BIA has sponsored a street banner program since 2000, as part of an effort to not only beautify the area but also identify Marpole as a distinct neighbourhood. This year’s banner project began last fall as a design competition in collaboration with the university’s chART: The Marpole Public Art Project. Illustration student Set Narathipphatthara created the winning design. “It was great to work with young people as part of their curriculum,” said Laroye. “They look outside through a different lens and attitude that’s young and fresh.” The banners depict a boat on the Fraser River, the Arthur Laing Bridge connecting Marpole to Richmond, and an airplane ﬂying overhead in homage to the nearby airport. According to a press release from the BIA, Narathipphatthara’s “subtle use of negative space and dark humour in his illustration work reveals the notion of adaptation, which represents his experience of growing

up independently in various places in both Asia and North America.” Narathipphatthara was born in Thailand. “We are thrilled to showcase the talented work from the student design competition through our partners at Emily Carr University,” said Laroye. The BIA has also been working with Dr. Cameron Cartiere, dean of graduate studies at Emily Carr, Illustration Program professor Derwin Talon, and Ashley Guindon, chART coordinator for Marpole. In an earlier interview, Cartiere told the Courier the long-term project focuses on the sustainable, cultural, environmental, social and economic impact of public art within a community. Other public art projects created through chART Marpole include the transformation of

an abandoned B-Line bus shelter, a street mural, a temporary sculpture and Park-a-Park, a disposal bin on wheels transformed into a mobile community space complete with benches, tables, plants, shrubs and an umbrella. Artist Julien Thomas designed the mobile park. The new street banners will be on display until June and will be hung again next spring as part of a regular rotation. Laroye said the BIA uses a different banner each season and a new version is in the works for this winter, which will hang along Granville Street between November and February. “They won’t be holiday speciﬁc, but they will celebrate our cultural diversity and the holidays,” said Laroye. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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MARPOLE a journey through our city’s neighbourhoods Vancouver Special is a year-long journey through each of Vancouver’s unique neighbourhoods. This is the ﬁnal instalment. To see past neighbourhoods proﬁles, visit vancourier.com/vancouverspecial.

Community created at weekly dinner

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AT A GLANCE Bounded by Angus Drive and Ontario Street and West 57th and the Fraser River, Marpole encompasses 1,386 acres and is one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods. The Marpole Midden, a recognized ancestral Musqueam village dating back 4,000 years, is located near the north end of Arthur Laing Bridge. It became a Canadian heritage site in the 1930s. Known as Eburne Station in the 1860s, Marpole was renamed after Richard Marpole in 1916. The community joined Vancouver in 1929. More than 23,800 people live in the area, which acts as a gateway into Vancouver for visitors ﬂying in through the international airport in Richmond. Major roads cutting through the neighbourhood include Granville, Cambie and Oak streets, West 70th and Southwest Marine Drive. It’s home to 11 parks, although some need upgrading and improvement and there’s a lack of greenspace in the apartment area south of 70th Avenue. Only 25 per cent of Marpole’s waterfront is publicly accessible. It’s one of the few West Side neighbourhoods that’s considered relatively affordable in terms of rents and condo prices, but single-family homes are still priced into the millions — even teardowns. Its population turned feisty when the City of Vancouver released details of the draft Marpole Community Plan last year. The plan will guide growth and change in the neighbourhood over the next 30 years. Residents fought the city over a thin-street proposal, which it quickly abandoned, as well as proposed rezoning of some single-family areas to allow stacked townhouses and low-rise apartment buildings. The city backed down and a revised plan focuses growth along or near major streets where transit stops and services are available. Council votes on the plan this spring, but “Stop Marpole Rezoning” signs still dot the neighbourhood. Growth and change, which promises to attract a younger, hipper demographic, is nonetheless well underway in locations such as the new Safeway development at 70th and Granville, which is partially completed, and at Cambie and Marine Drive where construction has started on the massive Marine Gateway development known as MC2.

Volunteer Amanda Lee, 12, takes food out to guests at St. Augustine’s church hall. NAOIBH O’CONNOR Staff writer

roceries cover the kitchen island in St. Augustine’s church hall. They include carrots, yellow potatoes, broccoli, onions, tins of coconut milk, limes, fresh ginger, cans of diced and stewed tomatoes, herbs, spices and bags of raisins and almonds. Chef April Pringle sorts through the provisions and adds chicken marinated overnight in yogurt and masala. It’s 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon in Marpole and preparations for the weekly three-course community meal begin. Tonight’s menu: Indian spicedtomato soup, Tandoori chicken, curried potatoes and mixed vegetables, followed by rice pudding sprinkled with almonds for dessert. Marpole Place Neighbourhood House runs the dinner, although due to a major ﬂood last December, it’s

been moved to the Anglican church on Hudson Street from the organization’s base at 1305 West 79th. Repairs won’t be complete for four to six months. With just over two hours before service starts, Pringle puts chief volunteer Doug Cruthers to work. Tasked with prepping vegetables, Cruthers silently and single-mindedly peels ﬁve pounds of carrots. “Doug is Mr. faithful. If the other volunteers don’t show up, I can always count on him,” Pringle says. A perpetually cheerful Allan Minichiello watches from the pass-through while making coffee and tea. “She’s the best,” he says of Pringle — a compliment he applies to almost everyone he meets, including a writer from the Courier. Several other volunteers set up and lay the tables. Although the dinner, designed to create social connections, started out years ago as a potluck for seniors, it now attracts a more diverse crowd of between 30 to 40 people. Many seniors still pop

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in for the made-from-scratch meals and the company, but the event also draws young families, those with mental health concerns, those with intellectual disabilities, as well as the homeless or those at risk of homelessness. “Everybody knows food brings people together in many signiﬁcant ways,” Cindy McMillan, executive director of Marpole Place Neighbourhood House, told the Courier. The grocery bill is about $150 and the aim is to break even — diners pay $6 per person, volunteers eat for free and vouchers are given to those in need. Leftovers are sold at a discounted price. Guests come for a variety of reasons, according to Pringle. “It’s good food, good company, good price. [People] deﬁnitely come for the company. It’s a real community,” she explains. “For me it’s a job, but it’s a community for me too and it’s a job that I look forward coming to.” Continued on page 16

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Guests come to dinners for a variety of reasons Continued from previous page

Pringle’s recent multicultural menus have ranged from Chinese roast pork, rice and veggie stir-fry to Moroccan stew with rice and vegetables. On this occasion, Pringle wonders if the South Asian fare will scare off regulars — a fear that isn’t realized — but there’s not much time to worry as she and Cruthers work to meet their dinner-time deadline. Spicy aromas build. Milk and basmati rice simmer on the stove, while Pringle sautés carrots, onions and garlic for the soup base. Michael, a 22-year-old volunteer originally from Vietnam, arrives at 4:30 p.m. to help. He places chicken on baking pans before sliding them into the oven. Under Pringle’s guidance, he hand-juices limes and chops cilantro for the soup, pausing briefly to teach Pringle the Vietnamese word for herb. She struggles with the pronunciation before abandoning the effort with a laugh. Bags of donated bread arrive and three pre-teens from David Lloyd George elementary — volunteer servers for the dinner — slice it before guests begin to trickle in. Diners claim their usual tables, saving seats for friends before grabbing cups of coffee or

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Edwin and Amelia Mui have been attending the community meals for the past three years and rarely miss them unless out of town. tea. Amelia and Edwin Mui are among them. The couple, originally from Hong Kong, lived in Toronto before moving to a singlefamily home in Marpole 22 years ago.

They saw the community meal advertised for years before ﬁnally stopping in. Now they rarely miss a week. “It’s quite interesting. You see neighbourhood people. It’s good to know our neigh-

bours, right?” Amelia says. “I’m a fan of April. She’s a professional chef, first of all, and she really cooks from her heart and with consideration of our health. I like the community feeling and I like the chef. We can talk to people and make acquaintances. It’s very diversified [company]. That’s the one thing I like.” Edwin adds: “Most of the next table are regulars. We know most of them by name. [The meal is] good especially for senior people — they get some social life.” Like at a typical family dinner, a few grumble about minor details — the temperature of the soup or the number of raisins in the rice pudding, but almost all scrape their plates clean. The results of more than two hours of preparation are devoured in less than half that time. Most leave by 8 p.m., save for seniors playing Rummoli — a post-dinner tradition. Volunteers clear tables and do dishes. Pringle is satisfied. “We had a nice turnout. We had one extra piece of chicken. We fed all the volunteers, so that’s always good, and I had lots of compliments. So, yeah, it went really well tonight,” she says. noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh

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The number of parks in Marpole ranging from the largest — Winona Park (5.31 hectares) to the smallest — Marpole Park (.27 hectares). Percentage of Marpole’s waterfront that’s publicly accessible.

The number of residential towers (14 and 19 storeys) in the Safeway development at 70th and Granville. There is also a seven-storey podium with rental housing and townhouses at street level.

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In dollars, the cost of a Niçoise salad, bagel and bottle of Kirin Ichiban beer served for lunch at Café de l’Orangerie, a Japanese-fusion café at 1320 West 73rd Ave. The year Thomas built The Colbourne House at 8743 Southwest Marine Dr. The house was sold to Henry Colbourne in 1936 and was occupied by his family until 1981. The Marpole Museum and Historical Society restored it to illustrate how families lived in the early 20th century. The number of screens that will be in the Cineplex movie theatre in the Marine Gateway development dubbed MC2 that’s currently under construction at Cambie and Marine Drive.

Size of Marpole in hectares. The year the Land Conservancy of B.C. bought the historic Joy Kogawa House. Kogawa, who was sent to an internment camp with her family during the Second World War, wrote Obasan, a semi-autobiographical novel.

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Property: Colbourne House, 8743 Southwest Marine Dr. The Marpole Museum and Historical Society restored the Colbourne House to illustrate early 20th century life in one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods. Small by modern-day standards, the 900-square-foot working class Dutch colonial home features three bedrooms upstairs and a kitchen, living room, dining room and bathroom downstairs. Tom Thomas built the house in 1912. The Colbournes bought it in 1936. Henry and May raised three children in the home — Evelyn, Myrna and Neil — on a CPR conductor’s salary. The Colbournes sold the property in 1982. The person who bought the property soon moved away and it fell into disrepair. The city took over the land and planned to run a road through it but the plans fell through. In 1994, the city leased the house to the Marpole Museum and Historical Society for 60 years. Founded by Val Anderson, a United Church minister and former Liberal MLA, the society has spent years restoring Colbourne House, which ofﬁcially opened in 2005. The Colbournes’ daughter, Evelyn Bulteel, is former society director who died about ﬁve years ago. Bulteel donated many items owned by her parents to furnish the home, including a wringer washing machine that her mother used until she moved out in 1982. “We have a lot of other things that have been donated from people within the community and some of them are turn-of-the-century,” explained society chairperson Yvonne Robinson. “Some of them were war letters, and wedding dresses from that period when they were all handmade. We’ve been very, very fortunate in what we’ve received and we try to display it so that people have an idea what it was like then.”

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Then: The northeast corner of Granville and West 64th in 1929. Then photo: Frank Leonard, courtesy Vancouver Public Library, 11956.

Then: Ferguson’s Furniture store, 9090 Hudson St., in 1948. Then photo: Photographer: Artray, courtesy of the Vancouver Public Library, 80579A .

Now: The northeast corner of Granville and West 64th in 2014. photo: Dan Toulgoet

Now: The approximate location of 9090 Hudson St. in 2014. photo: Dan Toulgoet

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n a corner restaurant in a small strip mall near southwest Marine Drive at Hudson, surrounded by low-rise apartment buildings and bucolic trees, diners enjoy a midweek lunch. Customers chat with friends or sit alone tapping their phones. Yamato Takahashi, owner of Café de L’Orangerie at 1320 West 73rd Ave., which serves Japanese-fusion food, is busy in the kitchen preparing orders. The well-worn lunch menu offers items including Masago De Creamy Spaghetti, Japanese-style Napolitan spaghetti, Japanese curry & beef stew, Niçoise salad with a mini bagel and Teriyaki hamburger steak. Takahashi initially opened his restaurant in a smaller space on Granville and 70th in August of 2010, but decided the kitchen wasn’t big enough to prepare more elaborate dishes and there wasn’t room for sufﬁcient seating. In 2013, he moved to his current location. He’s a relative newcomer to Canada, having moved from Japan to Vancouver in 2005. “I didn’t know Canada is so good until I came here,” he said last month during a short break between orders. Takahashi wants to improve his English, although he communicates well. The 33-year-old worked at a sushi restaurant in West Vancouver until 2009. He considered moving to Montreal and visited the city for a month during the winter, but decided Vancouver offered

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Owner Yamato Takahashi works in the kitchen at Café de L’Orangerie . Scan this page using the Layar app or visit vancourier.com to see more photos. a more promising future, partly due to a larger Japanese community, making it easier to start a business with help from Japanese-speaking professionals such as lawyers and accountants. Takahashi wasn’t familiar with Marpole, but rented his ﬁrst Granville Street space in the neighbourhood because the lease rate was “reasonable” for Vancouver. “I thought I just needed to start if I wanted [to do it],” he said. His father, who owns an electric company in Japan but always wanted to open a restaurant, invested in the business. Takahashi’s training is in French cuisine. He studied in Tokyo for two years after high school and spent a year in Lyon, France for further

study. He also worked at a French restaurant in Tokyo. “My dream [in Vancouver] is to do more French cuisine, but it’s not easy, so I just started my own style,” he says. L’Orangerie attracts Marpole and Richmond residents, as well as many customers of Asian origin. Some have even suggested menu items — and Takahashi has obliged with a few tweaks. Masago De Creamy Spaghetti is one of the most popular orders, as well as Chicken Nanban. Starting a business from scratch hasn’t been easy, Takahashi acknowledged. “At the beginning I didn’t have customers. I was working by myself,” he says. These days he works six days a week from about 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., or mid-

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LEO’S LOVE FORECAST: The first seven months of 2014 are a little low on the romance meter, Leo. Much of your luck remains in background areas such as counselling, managing and government interfacing. Still, during these same seven months you might correspond with a lively, assertive person and you wonder, will he/ she ever break out from the narrow confines of casual friendship to become something more profound to/with you? A light, casual “we need each other” romance might fill these months. One thing, Leo: don’t enter a love affair just to feel emotionally secure. It would bind you, eventually, with uncomfortable ropes.

Thursday will end your weariness and solitude, Aries. Until then, continue to rest, contemplate and plan — and deal with government agencies. Sunday’s for chores. Signiﬁcant relationships confront you Sunday eve through Tuesday. Take care Monday afternoon/eve (power struggles) but welcome everyone earlier Monday, and Tuesday.

A month of chores, health concerns and general drudgery ends Thursday. That day starts a month of relationships, new horizons, relocation, dealings with the public (anything from being a store clerk to being famous) negotiations, agreements and litigation. The whole spectrum, from co-operation to opposition, will face you. Treat all these things lightly, Libra, don’t make them your primary focus, now to November 2015.

Enjoy your fun while you can Taurus. A quiet, rest-oriented month begins Thursday. Before that, Sunday is romantic, beautiful, pleasure-ﬁlled — love, or a creative project, could climax — or you might heedlessly throw everything at a gamble or risky investment. And it might reward, if you do so before 10 a.m. Still, it’s like buying stocks at the market peak.)

Keep pursuing romance, love, beauty and/or a creative or speculative project, Scorpio. You could capture a last-moment success, right up to Thursday (especially Sunday morning, Wednesday, or Thursday). Thursday begins a month of chores, health issues and care of dependants. Don’t give everything to this sphere, Scorpio, not only for the month ahead but until November 2015.

A month of career striving, and of dealing with authorities, ends Thursday. Until then, remain ambitious, and protect your reputations (for you have at least two, probably several). Sunday’s for home, family, R&R – and a possible climax in your urge to quit or begin anew, in career areas. This night through Tuesday bring romance, beauty, pleasure, charming kids, and the urge to take a chance.

You might have felt conﬁned or supported, suffocated or warmly embraced the past few weeks. Home, kids, security, real estate were big tropics. This continues to Thursday. Sunday might bring a brief dilemma between your ambitious and your security urges. Your hopes rise Monday/Tuesday. Mild popularity and mild social delights are slated – light romance too.

Your time of daydreaming, of seeing far and placing your life in perspective, of intellectual pursuits ends Thursday when a month of much more immediate concerns begins. These concerns will be ambition, reputation, interacting with higher-ups — practical things. So you switch from understanding to exercising your power. Sunday continues a weekend of visits, travel, errands and communications.

A restless, active, communication-ﬁlled month will end Thursday but in the meantime, be as active as you can Sunday morning and Wed./Thurs., when you will tend to contact simpatico people, and will discuss very workable ideas (theirs or yours). Ambition and dealings with higher-ups ﬁll Sunday night through Tuesday.

Most mysteries are being solved or you’re growing less fascinated by them. Thursday starts a month of understanding, light, love and compassion. You might travel afar, attend/apply to a prestigious school or become involved in the media in the weeks ahead. Let these things play a lighter role in your life than usual: accent the casual over the profound, “just friends” over a wedding, conversations instead of a contract, etc.

A “money month” will come to an end Thursday. Meanwhile, seek to enhance your income prospects, especially Wednesday (best) and Thursday, when your “cred” with VIPs, bosses and parents will be high and strong. You could also be “freed” by an authority, cop, judge from a bad situation. Earlier, Sunday’s for secrets, research, sex, intimacy, investments — all before 10 a.m.

The heat and intensity of relationships is starting to ebb, Virgo, as your links veer from open and honest (or confrontational) to quieter and deeper areas of interaction — though one or two of these might grow even more intense. For example, a bright, nervous bond might enter intimacy or a potential business partnership shifts from agreement to commitment. You move from talk to funding.

Your energy, charisma and clout remain high, but Thursday turns you quietly away from developing your personal talents and begins a month of money, earnings, possessions and sensual contacts. Don’t fall in love with these things, though, as they are not likely to yield much and might even cause disappointment or loss, now to November 2015.

Monday: Rob Lowe (50). Tuesday: Queen Latifah (44). Wednesday: Ursula Andress (78). Thursday: Spike Lee (57), Friday: Gary Oldman (56). Saturday: William Shatner (83). Sunday: Catherine Keener (55).

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MUSIC INTIMA’S THIRST FOR COLLABORATION by Cheryl Rossi

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Twenty-two years after a group of friends formed a classical choral group so they could sing challenging repertoire and drink wine, that collective, Music Intima, has moved beyond living rooms to gain national and international recognition. The vocal ensemble has performed in France, Ireland and Denmark, won a Western Canadian Music Award for Classical Album of the Year in 2010 and received three Juno nominations.

Sometimes best friends skip a generation.

“We’ve never won [a Juno] because it’s always in the same group as opera,” said Bess Albrecht, former alto and now general manager of Music Intima. “You know, heck, we never win against Measha Brueggergosman.” Rehearsing, performing and functioning as a collective sets Music Intima apart from other vocal ensembles. cont. »

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CENTRE STAGE SPRING 2014 cont. » “We tend to choose formations that we feel serve the content of the music we’re singing,” Albrecht said. “And we’re always looking for devices and ways to engage audiences and give them an access channel to help them interact with or understand the music.”

organizations and artists. The vocal ensemble has worked with Coastal Sound Music Academy, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra and participated in recording projects with the VSO, composer Owen Underhill and rock musician Matthew Good.

Its next collaboration is a performance called Thirst, which will be presented in the Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Musica Intima, chamber instrumental group Turning Point MUSICA INTIMA. BY WENDY D PHOTOGRAPHY Ensemble and the Nu:BC Collective will each perform pieces by MontrealWhen singers performed Rodney based composer Ana Sokolovic at Sharman’s piece “Love” as part of this inaugural show of the Chan’s the Terminal City Soundscape show Radius Series. Musica Intima and produced by Music on Main and presented as part of the PuSh festival Turning Point Collective will perform a 27-minute-long piece on the poetry in 2011, they shunned the stage and of water by American composer instead gently drifted in to sing the Julia Wolfe called Thirst, and Music subdued piece among the audience. Intima and Nu:BC will perform a piece “We were trying to encircle the commissioned by the Chan Centre by audience or invite the audience to Montreal composer Michael Oesterle. complete this circle that we try to “It’s actually a new music form, so the audience as the 13th superpower-type performance,” member of 12 with that particular Albrecht said. piece,” Albrecht said. Music Intima will also host an intimate In addition to an annual series of selffundraiser at VanDusen Botanical produced concerts, Musica Intima Garden May 14, with only 75 tickets commissions and premieres works available to those keen to experience by Canada’s leading composers the elements of song and wine. and collaborates with other arts

THEATRE ARTS CLUB 604-687-1644, artsclub.com Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage: Helen Lawrence until April 13. Monty Python`s Spamalot May 8 - June 29 Granville Island Stage: Kim`s Convenience April 24 - May 24 Revue Stage: The Bomb-itty of Errors April 10 - May 10 BOCA DEL LUPO Azano March 20 - 23 Anderson Street Space (Granville Island) Tickets at bocadellupo.com/tickets THE CULTCH 1895 Venable St., Box Office: 604-251-1363, thecultch.com Whose Life is it Anyway? until March 22 Underbelly March 18- 30 Mies Julie March 25 - April 19 The Vancouver South Africa Film Festival presents Mies Julie March 30 Dvote – May 27 - 31

METRO THEATRE 1370 Southwest Marine Dr., 604-266-719, metrotheatre.org There Goes the Bride until March 22 The Mikado April 5 - May 3 What I Did Last Summer May 17 - June 14 PI THEATRE Between the Sheets – March 14 - 26 Admiral Seymour Elementary School, 1130 Keefer St. pitheatre.com QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 630 Hamilton St. 604-665-3050. queenelizabeththeatre.ca Blue Man Group March 25 - 30 Wicked May 28 - June 29 Tickets at vancouver.broadway.com PACIFIC THEATRE 1440 West 12 Ave., 604-731-5518, pacifictheatre.org The Seafarer until March 29

THE FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE 280 East Cordova St., 604-689-0926, firehallartscentre.ca Chelsea Hotel: The songs of Leonard Cohen March 18 - 29 Proud April 5 - 26 B.C. Buds Spring Arts Fair May 9 - 11 The Arts of Stealing May 28 - 31 The Concessions June 5 - 14 JERICHO ARTS CENTRE 1675 Discovery St., 604-224-8007, jerichoartscentre.com The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens March 28 - April 20 Spring Awakening April 29 - May 17

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Schubert & Schumann The Art of the Romantic Era

8pm Friday, March 21, 2014 Ryerson United Church (Kerrisdale) Vancouver Chamber Choir | Linda Lee Thomas, piano Jon Washburn, conductor Enter the realm of the Romantic super songwriters - Schubert and Schumann. Hear both choral and solo music sung by the superb vocal artists of the Vancouver Chamber Choir.

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CHORAL VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR Schubert & Schumann: The Art of the Romantic Era March 21 Ryerson United Church, 2195 West 45 Ave, 604-266-5377 Tickets at ticketmaster.ca and at the door. Eternal Light: Mozart and Lauridsen April 18 The Orpheum Theatre, 601 Smithe St. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca

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MUSICA INTIMA Thirst: Music of Ana Sokolovic, Julia Wolfe and Michael Oesterle March 29 and 30 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd., chancentre.com

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FESTIVALS VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL until March 29. Various locations including: the Roundhouse, the Vancouver Playhouse, Woodward’s Atrium, 604-662-7441 Box Office 604-662-4966, vidf.ca REEL TO REAL FILM FESTIVAL International Film Festival for Youth April 4 -11 604-224-6162, r2rfestival.org All films shown at Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. SEASONS ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL April 19 Pacific Coliseum. All ages event with 19+ VIP area THE REVOLVER THEATRE FESTIVAL May 12 - 25 The Cultch, 1895 Venables St. Box Office: 604-251-1369, thecultch.com DIVERCINÉ FILM FESTIVAL: WORLD CINEMA FROM LA FRANCOPHONIE until March 16 Various locations. Tickets available at door, divercine.com

STANLEY PARK EASTER TRAIN – March 15 - 30 and April 16 - 21 (Easter weekend) Tickets sold onsite CAROUSEL THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE The Waterfront Theatre, 1412 Cartwright St. (on Granville Island) Box Office 604-685-6217 Richard Scarry’s Busytown - A Musical until March 30 Wondrous Tales of Old Japan April 4 - 20

MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER Rewilding Vancouver until Aug. 31 1100 Chestnut St., 604-736-4431, museumofvancouver.ca VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby St., 604-662-4700, vanartgallery.bc.ca A Terrible Beauty - Edward Burtynsky until May 26 Scorned: Emily Carr March 1 – May 26

MUSIC WITH MARNIE March 16 Champlain Heights Community Centre, 3350 Maquinna Drive. SCIENCE WORLD Speed, Sail and Soar March 15 - 30 1455 Quebec St. 604-443-7440, scienceworld.ca

OPERA CHAN CENTRE UBC Opera Ball March 22 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd., chancentre.com Box Office: 604-822-6725 VANCOUVER OPERA 604-683-0222, vancouveropera.ca Don Carlo May 3, 8, 10 and 11 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre THE YORK THEATRE 639 Commercial Dr. 604-251-1363, thecultch.com Pauline May 23, 25, 27, 29 and 31

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Zee Zee Theatre presents the world premiere of Dave Deveau’s LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR March 14 to 30 at PAL Studio. Billed as a controversial and riveting play that explores the world of intergenerational relationships and “unleashes the darkness that exists just underneath a thin skin,” LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR is directed by Cameron MacKenzie. We just thought the picture of a guy eating an egg was kind of cool. Details at zeezeetheatre.ca. It wouldn’t be a St. Patrick’s Day weekend without SPIRIT OF THE WEST performing their annual show at the Commodore Ballroom. This year, the Celtic rockers take to the soon-to-be-beer-andwhisky-soaked stage March 15 to sing along with the audience to such favourites as “The Crawl” and “Home for a Rest.” Dustin Bentall & The Smokes open. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca.

It’s a night of tribute concerts: RICH HOPE AND HIS BLUE RICH RANGERS drop by the Biltmore March 15 for an early show to play the landmark 1968 Byrds’ album SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO in its entirety. Tickets at Redcat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca. com. Across town, the cleverly named POGUES tribute band SHANE’S TEETH runs through the Irish band’s boozy back catalogue for its annual St. Patrick’s Day bash at the WISE Hall. Tickets at the WISE Lounge, Red Cat Records, Highlife Records and brownpapertickets.com. Details at wisehall.ca. However if it’s less debauchery, more integrity you’re after, recently deceased folk legend and humanitarian Pete Seeger gets the tribute treatment at the Rickshaw Theatre, with a little help from The Sojourners, CR Avery and Carolyn Mark, among others. Tickets at Highlife, RedCat, Zulu, Neptoon Records and online at northerntickets.com. And wouldn’t you know it, proceeds go towards ongoing music education programming through the Power of Hope and Metaphor facilitators, beneﬁtting the Burnaby Youth Custody Services Centre.

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FIRST WISH: Children’s Wish Foundation’s inaugural gala was an impressive and very swish affair. More than 150 stylish guests filed into the Vancouver Art Gallery for the inaugural Wish Gala: an unforgettable dining experience and celebration, in support of the Canadian charity’s efforts to grant wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses. Party chair Lana Bradshaw fronted the David Hawksworth-catered black-tie dinner. Poised to raise $80,000, the lavish luau attracted some of B.C.’s biggest names.

MORE BLING: Since its inception two years ago, the Canadian Diabetes Association’s signature soiree Baubles for Banting has generated more than $200,000 for programs and services to support children and youth living with Type 1 diabetes. Set to raise another $100,000, the gala drew several hundred supporters to Birks’ flagship store downtown for an evening of fun and philanthropy. Themed as an evening of “Fire and Ice,” sparkling gems, lavish hors d’oeuvres, and scorching auction items headlined the third running sponsored by the Vancouver Courier. Yours truly was master of ceremonies at the bling fling. FRESH FACES: Kasondra Cohen’s Face of Today Foundation was founded to help young, underprivileged leaders achieve their dreams by creating an infrastructure for them to flourish. Cohen, along with her board of directors (all under the age of 40), welcomed guests to her fifth Face of Today Gala, held at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia. This year’s punk couture-themed shindig, which yours truly emceed, featured an exclusive auction, balloon lottery and diamond raffle.

Financial advisor Shalini Kumar modelled a 1ct. diamond pendant (valued at $3,700) donated by Birks’ Russell Jones (left) and Yvonne Zawadzki to the Canadian Diabetes Association’s Baubles and Banting benefit.

Party chair Lana Bradshaw, right, aimed to raise $80,000 for Jennifer Petersen’s Children’s Wish Foundation, B.C. and Yukon chapter. Every year, the national charity grants 1,000 wishes to children, 100 from this province.

Rick Blickstead, president and CEO of the Canadian Diabetes Association, and chief fundraiser Rebecca Taylor saw more than $100,000 raised at their annual bling fling.

Children’s Wish Foundation board chair Jan Grude (left) and CEO Chris Kotsopoulos flanked gala emcee Sonia Beeksma, who sparkled in Alan Anderson jewels and a Nicole Miller dress.

Chef Taryn Wa, Matthew Bicknell, and Timoth Tejuco of Savoury Chef won the inaugural Curry Cup from Chef Table Society of B.C. president Scott Jaeger. Their lamb rendang bested seven other teams at the Chefs’ Table Society benefit.

Barbara Jo welcomed a capacity crowd who shelled out $700 to hear from and meet culinary icon Ferran Adrià, of elBulli, widely regarded as the world’s best restaurant until its closure in 2011.

Face of Today’s JJ Wilson and Kasondra Cohen marked the foundation’s five years with a rockin’ $500,000 benefit at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia.

Actors Brent Butt and Nancy Robertson at the Vancouver premiere of the Canadian-made, Carl Bessai-directed movie No Clue at Scotiabank Theatre.

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Paciﬁc Rim’s Rawbar sous chef Will Lew shows off some the sushi bar’s Ocean Wise fare.

as another Daily Catch at UBC’s Westbrook Village. It’s a sign that Vancouverites are catching on in a big way to the idea of sustainable seafood.

LUNCHTIME QUICKIE While food carts may get all the glory — some deservedly so — the Hired Belly has noticed the return of the once near-extinct quick lunch. Taking it to the next level, South Granville’s Farmer’s Apprentice (1535 West Sixth Ave., 604-620-2070) is renowned for its extraordinary evening tasting menu and unswerving local fare. Not so well known is the lunchtime soup and sandwich deal, which is one of the best values around. Drop by for smooth and delicious lentil and chorizo soup, before getting your chops around the city’s best (and

Vancouver is riding a renaissance of all things craft. No further proof needed than the recent, lively Barrels ‘n Bottles all-day sip-a-thon at the Blackbird Pub & Oyster House (Dunsmuir at Hornby). This joint fundraiser for B.C.’s Craft Brewers and Distillers Guilds offered an opportunity to taste a wide cross section of what’s being brewed and distilled across southwestern B.C. Of note, Railspur No. 1 White — a ﬁrst taste of Liberty Distillery’s (Granville Island) triple distilled “white whiskey,” which yields a smooth, rich and almost honey nuanced sip. Also discovered: the superb Stair’s Pear Brandy, a smooth, pear-skin tasting drop from Merridale Ciderworks. The Blackbird — a step up from the more pubby Donnelly haunts — is emerging as a worthy downtown stop, with tastes ranging from a respectably spicy, delicious salsiccia thin crust pizza, and a no holds barred “signature” burger, with ground chuck steak, applewood smoked bacon, caramelized onions and white cheddar.

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MARPOLE UNLEASHED: Thanks to an abundance of pet-friendly apartments and condos, the once-

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sidewalks and cute little rainspouts that drip taffy. To the end, we’d like to dust off our old Marpole poems and reprint them here… for you… now. You’re welcome.

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Back in the summer of 2010, K&K wrote several odes to Marpole for a poetry contest organized by those animals over at the Marpole Business Association in conjunction with its annual Summerfest. Unfortunately our genius was never recognized and the poems were never selected. That said, why should the public be denied our sensitive observations about one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods and home to a handful of the Courier’s more streetwise and sophisticated employees? As we mentioned in our original K&K post, Marpole is a place we like to go to in our mind when we dream of a better tomorrow, ﬁlled with candy cane streetlights, butterscotch

“Marpole Heat” Just got a perm at Hair Reﬂections, Perfect for those summer breezes that await my journey to pick up some crumpets and jam. So sweet, so sticky like a heart that beats…. for Marpole. ••• “Marpole in My Pocket” Hangin’ out on South Granville waiting for the HandyDart to take us to the casino. This pocket full of nickels isn’t the only thing jingling. So is my heart… for Marpole. •••

“A Valediction Forbidding Marpole” Hark, who goes there, through slippery shade of cherry blossom boughs and the come-hither scent of cinnamon buns and exhaust? “T’is I,” said a voice, as old as ages and loud as dew. “I’m one of the oldest neighbour hoods in all Vancouver, but you wouldn’t know it judging by my vitality, vim and affordability. Explore my long streets. Feel my warm limbs. Embrace my many whimsical charms that have reinforced these ruddy bones for o’er a century. For if you do, you will surely enter a world of wonder and conveniently located amenities, not to mention public transit stops, or my name, humble reader, isn’t… Marpole.” twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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Long-running Metro Theatre looks to the future ATTRACTING NEW AUDIENCES, DIVERSIFYING PRODUCTIONS KEY TO THEATRE’S SURVIVAL CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer

olunteering on a production of Guys and Dolls at the Metro Theatre in 1968 set Les Erskine on his career path. He went from helping out backstage at the non-professional theatre near the foot of the Arthur Laing Bridge to working on lighting for CBC television series The Beachcombers to working as director of photography for Da Vinci’s Inquest. The 64-year-old resident of Ladner returned to the Metro four years ago. “My career started here,” said Erskine, who’s now the theatre’s general manager. “And I hope that can be passed on.” However, Erskine fears the Metro is becoming a dinosaur. “If we don’t make a move, then we’ll be dead in a few years,” he said. Before a ﬂy loft and balcony were built in 1963, the Metro Theatre was a movie theatre. Back then the area was a bustling retail hub with the old Fraser Arms Hotel up the street and the Eburne Sawmill in the back. But that all changed after the Arthur Laing Bridge was constructed in the 1970s. John Duncan, who’s known as “Mr. Metro” around town, helped revive the indebted theatre starting in 1975 and served as theatre manager from 1989 to last year. “We used to be full Saturday night,” Duncan said of the time before 1979 when the Arts Club operated a theatre on Seymour Street. The theatre accommodated nearly 400 seats then. Now it holds a cushier 308. Duncan, a former pantomime actor from Liverpool, England took over writing and directing the December pantos about 15 years ago. Now these comedies are the biggest moneymaker for the Metro. “It’s become a tradition for a lot of people,” Erskine said. “Three or four generations of family have come year after year.” Metro Theatre mounts seven plays and one panto each year. Its loyal audience is typically aged 60 to 75. “We’re trying to change that but that’s hard to do without alienating,” Erskine said. “The demographics have changed for everybody,” the 84-year-old Duncan said. “Richmond used to be our biggest

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“Mr. Metro” John Duncan (l) and general manager Les Erskine have put a lot of hours into keeping Marpole’s Metro Theatre running throughout the decades.

market. They’re all Chinese and they don’t go to this type of theatre … We cater to the English type of community theatre, the older people … and they’re dying off.” The English farce There Goes the Bride runs at Metro Theatre until March 22, followed by a traditional staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. “The set is amazing,” Erskine said. The coming of age play What I Did Last Summer ends the season.

“The entertainment is quite high calibre,” said Erskine, who also touts the area’s mostly free street parking and the theatre’s cozy and welcoming atmosphere. “We don’t stand back on our amateur status. We go for the best quality we can.” The theatre elected a new board that includes younger members last September and has been boosting its visibility via social media. Their play committee has also been considering works that are a little more challenging than its traditional offerings of farces, pantos and Agatha Christie murder mysteries. The Metro will mount its first co-production next year, Rebel Women, which recently played at the Jericho Beach Arts Centre, will modify its run schedules and hopes to drum up additional rentals. Schools and dance studios already keep the lights on with performances in June and non-profits buy out performance nights for fundraisers. A staging of a Chinese opera is also planned. The Metro has never received government funding, once a source of pride, but these days box office proceeds aren’t enough. Erskine hopes to help the Metro survive long enough to draw occupants of new condo developments in Marpole, including the Marine Gateway project at the foot of Cambie Street. The Metropolitan Theatre Cooperative Society owns a scene shop beneath the Oak Street Bridge and the theatre building outright, but its location on the Marpole Midden, which is believed to be ancient burial ground of the Musqueam, means further uncertainty. “It means the building’s pretty much not worth the land it’s on,” Erskine said. But for all the challenges, the Metro maintains a stable of devoted volunteers including Duncan, who staffs the box office, and the crew of 17. Erskine expects to show up on the 23rd to tear down the There Goes the Bride set. “It can be very creative,” Erskine added. “For me it’s always been a creative outlet.” For more information, see metrotheatre.com. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Curling club fosters wheelchair winners MARPOLE-BASED ‘TEAM NEIGHBOUR’ IS FRIENDLY TO VICTORY JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing writer

here are champions in Marpole’s midst. Wheelchair curling’s Team Neighbour, which practises out of the Marpole Curling Club, won the 2014 B.C. Wheelchair Championship in January and is headed to the 2014 Canadian Wheelchair Championship in Quebec at the end of April. Members of Team Neighbour — skip and namesake Darryl Neighbour, third Frank LaBounty, second Vince Miele, lead Alison Duddy and alternate Gary Cormack — have four B.C. titles and gold and silver from the nationals to their credit. Neighbour has ice-cred all his own having won gold with members of Team Jim Armstrong at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics. Alternate Cormack, 63, also won Paralympic gold with Team Canada in Turin, Italy in 2006, the ﬁrst year wheelchair curling was included in the Games. Team Canada has won gold ever since — medal games for the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi take place March 15. Cormack used to curl as an able-bodied person, before he was diagnosed with MS

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Darryl Neighbour, Gary Cormack and Vince Miele (from left to right) curl for Marpole’s Team Neighbour. in 1984. He said he loved being able to start wheelchair curling in 2002 and be part of the community at the Marpole club. “We’re not only competing against other wheelchair clubs, but … we put teams together to compete against able-bodied

teams,” he said. “We do fairly well.” According to, Miele, 63, wheelchair curling is just like able-bodied curling, except that players use a pole to push rocks down the ice and there is no sweeping — so it is actually harder.

“A fellow [once] said sweeping was just an admission of imperfection,” said Miele with a laugh. Miele took up the sport 10 years ago when he was working for the Rick Hansen Foundation and looking into upgrading curling rinks to make them more wheelchair accessible “Once I found out what it was like, and that some of my buddies were involved, I thought I would give it a try and I have been curling since,” he said on the phone from the Marpole rink where he and the team were about to hit the ice for practice. Neighbour said the Marpole club, built in 1959, was the ﬁrst in the Lower Mainland to actively promote and support wheelchair curling. “It is pretty much where wheelchair curling got started, where it really took off,” he said. There are now approximately 45 wheelchair-accessible clubs in British Columbia. The Marpole club’s simple boxy exterior, in the light-industrial area of Marpole, just off of Marine Drive, is deceptive according to Neighbour. Everyone at the Marpole club has always gone out of their way to be warm and friendly and to accommodate wheelchair athletes, he said. In 2007, Neighbour supervised the installation of an elevator in the club so curlers can go upstairs to the lounge after a game. “It is a great atmosphere,” he said. For more information on the club, go to marpolecurling.ca thuncher@shaw.ca

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magine for a moment you are 16 years old and you have just been given your own very ﬁrst car. In this dream, your car will be the only vehicle you will ever own. You can never sell it, give it away, buy a new one or trade it up. How would you treat this car? I am assuming that you would cherish this vehicle; spending time and money on regular checkups and car washes every month. You would splurge on premium gas and replace parts as soon as they worn out. I would like to think that you would do everything in your power to make this car last as long as possible and looking as good as possible for

your lifetime. Am I not correct? If this is how you would treat your one and only car, is your body not worth more than a vehicle? In the health and ﬁtness business, the majority of people I meet are looking for a personal trainer because they haven’t taken care of their bodies and need to reverse the effects of several years or decades of abuse. Luckily for us, the body is extremely resilient and ﬂexible. It doesn’t hold a grudge when it has been consistently and repeatedly damaged by high stress, lack of sleep, over eating, under eating, over caffeinating, over exercising, under exercising and the list goes on with all of the other damaging things we do to ourselves. It will usually forgive and sometimes even forget. But instead of trying to paint a new coat of colour on an old car, it is always better to simply maintain the freshness of the original paint instead. Prevention is much easier and

less costly than repair. The medical industry has just recently begun to preach the importance of prevention instead of intervention but it is up to us to make this happen. It is in our best interest to maintain what we were born with instead of trying to ﬁx problems that we have created. Even though it is tough working and living in one of the most expensive cities in the world, we can’t forget that none of this is possible if we don’t have our health. If we are sick or injured, taking care of children, building a career and doing all of the duties required to live life become more difﬁcult and sometimes impossible. The things we valued as having a higher priority than our own health now become irrelevant. Everyone’s needs and requirements for living a healthy lifestyle will be different depending on where they are starting from and the life they wish to lead, but here are a few simple habits that everyone can start

with. By adopting these habits, they will help reverse some the damage done already and may help prevent future issues. 1. Drink at least 10 glasses of water every day. 2. Sleep eight hours every night. 3. Exercise at least 30 minutes every day. This could be as simple as going for a power walk. 4. Eat ﬁve small meals a day instead of two or three large ones. 5. Limit fried, processed and empty calorie foods or beverages. 6. Find healthy ways to manage stress. Some ideas that you can start with are: yoga, meditate, exercise, walk a dog, play with kids, volunteer, read, pick up a new hobby, be creative. Instead of making these changes all at once, try adding just one habit every two weeks. At the end of three months you will have created a healthier lifestyle for yourself without having added extra stress. Small steps makes for big changes. kristina@kitsenergy.com

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A Vancouver College player gets past a Pitt Meadows Marauders opponent in provincial play at the Langley Events Centre.

Irish overcome fierce Marauders VANCOUVER COLLEGE’S CAMPBELLAXSON LEADS SCORING JONNY WAKEFIELD Contributing writer

t the B.C. Boys High School Basketball championship, there are bound to be both blowouts and nail-biters. Wednesday afternoon’s quad A match between Vancouver College and Pitt Meadows was without a doubt one of the latter. The Vancouver College Irish beat the Pitt Meadows Marauders 74-68 in group play at the Langley Events Centre. The win guarantees a semifinal berth for the Irish, who edged No. 2-ranked Winston Churchill secondary 89-85 late last month to become the surprise Lower Mainland champions. It was a game where no lead was safe. Pitt Meadows dominated in the early minutes of the first quarter. Zach Villanueva and Graham Smith (the smallest and largest players on the hardwood, respectively) led the early Marauder scoring effort with six points a piece. Vancouver College point guard Elijah Campbell-Axson put together eight in the first, but it wasn’t enough to make up for the Marauder’s early lead. The Irish ended the quarter down 21-14. Early in the second, Vancouver College scored eight points to get within one of Pitt to make it 22-23. Pitt clawed its way back on top, but Campbell-Axson’s run of five in the dying minutes of the second evened things up 33-33, the game’s first tie. Another four points from Grade 11 forward Jordan Lum-

Tong pushed them over the top. The score was 38-37 at the half. The game remained a back-and-forth affair through the final 20 minutes. The teams traded the lead twice in the third, wrapping up the quarter with a 54-54 tie. Lum-Tong led the Irish with 12 points in the fourth to secure the win. Campbell-Axson was rarely off the hardwood and led scoring with 31 points. “He’s our rock,” said Coach Lloyd Scrubb of the Grade 12 player. “We’re not the same team without him.” Pitt Meadow’s Smith led his team with 29. Vancouver College came out of an early season slump that included a five-game losing streak. A private Catholic boys school, the team plays in a separate league from other Lower Mainland high schools, in part because it recruits heavily. Earlier this season, both Vancouver College and St. George’s successfully appealed a decision by the Lower Mainland High School Boys Basketball Association that would have seen only one of the two private schools guaranteed a berth in the regional tournament. Vancouver College will face the Crusaders of Holy Cross secondary in the quarter finals Thursday at 8 p.m. The Surrey team crushed Cowichan Secondary 91-56 in an earlier game. The game was played after the Courier’s Thursday print deadline. The championship game will be played March 15 at the Langley Events Centre.

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ne game down, three more to go. The boys from East Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper secondary took one step down the road to bringing home a third banner in one season on Wednesday with a 59 to 37 win over the Nelson’s L.V. Rogers secondary in round one of the 2014 B.C. High School Boys AAA Basketball Championships at the Langley Events Centre. This season, the Tigers won the Vancouver City championship banner — which head coach Jeff Gourley hung in his living room window as is a Gourley tradition — and the 2014 Lower Mainland Zone Tournament championship banner and now they want to make it three-for-three. But if they want to make it to the ﬁnal game, they are going to have to play more like they did in the third quarter of this opener than they did the rest of the game. The No. 2 ranked Tigers’ team was ner-

vous and it showed from the tip off. The Tigers hit the net just 25 per cent from the field (22 out of 88) against the No. 15 ranked Bombers. And they were just 27 per cent (10 out of 37) from distance — a huge difference from the 69 per cent from distance they achieved at the Lower Mainland final against the powerhouse Saint Thomas More Knights. The jitters are something Gourley expected due to the intimidation of the Big Dance. Everything from the opening night banquet to the pre-game photo shoot ramped up the pressure and the excitement, he said. “I told them before the game started. I said, I have been in this situation 100 times as a player and a coach, you are just going to miss, it is as simple as that, and boy did we ever,” said Gourley. The Tigers seemed to have tackled most of the nerves by the half up 27 to 16, but the game was definitively won in the third quarter. Captain Saurav Acharya, a Grade 12 student who’s a leader on and off the court with plans to become a doctor and acceptance at both UBC and McGill University , got his first points in the third and that relaxed the team, said Gourley. Five-foot-eleven Acharya scored 10 points before the final buzzer, including two threepointers with two assists.

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record amount of rental housing is in various stages of development in Vancouver while other parts of the Lower Mainland are seeing renewed interest in buying or building rental projects. Developers, consultants, appraisers and city planners are describing it as a rental renaissance. The City of Vancouver approved a record 1,097 rental units in 2013, surpassing the previous record of 1,021 in 2012 and prompting Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson to tout the success of his rental stimulation programs, which provide city incentives. Other factors, however, include higher costs of buying rental buildings compared with building new ones, consumer demand for higher-end suites and the fact that most of the purpose-built rental buildings have 30 or fewer units. “If we want to grow in this market and we

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ere is a very important vehicle and, judging from the squint, it’s forgotten its bifocals. Kidding aside, the Cherokee represents a vital sales segment, both for Jeep/Chrysler and its new Fiat owners. Based on the same Italian underpinnings as the Dodge Dart, if this crossover does well, it’ll have the profits flooding in. Overall, you could claim Jeep’s been having a bit o f a renaissance of late. They’ve had the good sense not to fiddle with the Wrangler’s burly character too much and the Grand Cherokee is, frankly, excellent, a sort of Americanized Range Rover. The SRT version is possibly my favourite SUV of all time. With the resurrection of the Cherokee nameplate, not seen in over a decade, Jeep hopes to offer a smaller version of its successful full-size SUV. Never mind the way this rig’s giving you a suspicious glare — it’s how it fares from behind the wheel that’s important.

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Obviously, we first have to talk a little more about that front end. It’s certainly striking. Striking, that is, in the manner of a frying pan to the face. When it first showed its squinty schnozz, the Cherokee generated all kinds of hilarious jests, jeers and japes. Having seen the thing in the flesh, I actually kinda like it. I know, I know: maybe it’s me who needs the bifocals. Here’s the thing though, in the Trailhawk trim, with big burly boots and plenty of plastic cladding, the Cherokee looks like something that could have rolled right off the set of the original Robocop. It’s futuristic and polarizing and I’m sure you’ve already got an opinion on it. This Limited Trim tester came with 18” polished alloys and I will say that the more basic versions of the Cherokee can’t quite pull off the scowl as well as those with the beefier wheel and tire packages.

Environment:

On the inside, the Cherokee beneﬁts from a great deal of parts-sharing across the Chrysler line-up. While I’ve heard other colleagues complain about the odd bit of ﬂimsiness in the plastics and stitching issues here and there, my particular tester didn’t seem to have too many foibles.

Jeep delayed the launch of its new crossover signiﬁcantly, focussing on tweaking things based on early reviewer feedback, and this mostly shines through in the Cherokee’s interior. It looks good and the infotainment controls are among the best on the market. It’s worth noting, for instance, that both Maserati and Ferrari use similar versions of the Uconnect system, with its big, bright icons and easy-to-use interface. Compared to others in the class, this Jeep is not quite the utilitarian box the old Cherokee was. It’s ﬁne for passenger space, especially as it’s equipped with a sliding rear seat, but the overall cargo room is smaller than either an Escape or a CR-V. As a Limited, this tester came fully equipped with leather and the highest grades of interior trim, and was actually a fairly snazzy ride. Both of the volume-selling Japanese vehicles in this segment, the CR-V and RAV4, seem to have a greater amount of hard plastics. The Cherokee does look like a little Grand Cherokee from behind the wheel.

Performance:

It also drives like one, but not all the time. As mentioned, this crossover sits on a Fiat platform rather than the Grand Cherokee’s Mercedes-Benz underpinnings, and it feels it. The Cherokee is more like the base car, with somewhat numb steering, a ride tuned for comfort rather than speed and an overall woolly and isolated drive. That’s ﬁne. We already have several crossovers that pretend convincingly to be sports cars, from the Mazda CX-5 to the Ford Escape. Comfort and smoothness are favoured in the Cherokee over corner-carving, and thus it’ll probably appeal to a broader range of tastes. However, a little more feel could be wished for, and slightly better behaviour from the nine-speed automatic transmission. You read that right: nine speeds — wasn’t eight supposed to be enough? Is this thing a crossover or a mountain bike? The 3.2L V6 engine can’t really be held to blame here. It’s not crazy powerful but does have a worthy 271hp, if only a modest 239lb/ft of torque. It does feel slightly less grunty than other offerings, particularly the turbocharged

ecoboost offerings from Ford, but it’s a durable powerplant and quite smooth. Software updates for the nine-speed are probably on the way. The electric power steering and the slight sponginess of the brakes are unlikely to change. Having said that, the Cherokee is entirely competent, and then there’s what happens when you take it even mildly off-road. It’s a tank. Jeep’s active drive system has the ability to adapt to nearly any terrain, and the chassis is composed and unstickable even in the non-trail-rated version. The Trailhawk looks the toughest, but this city slicker Limited could quite easily follow a Wrangler down even a difﬁcult trail. Frankly, I’d almost call the Cherokee’s capabilities an unfortunate temptation. So you’re on the run to pick up the kids from school? You might take a shortcut right up the side of Grouse. Picking up the groceries? Why not check the back-country for morels instead of shelling out for them? Add in a 2000-kg towing capacity and you’ve got the makings of a Jeep-serious utility vehicle with relatively smooth and composed road manners. When the going gets rough, the Cherokee proves itself worthy of the seven-hole Jeep grille it wears out front.

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Like the Grand Cherokee, this smaller Jeep has an overwhelming amount of tech on tap. The 8.4” touchscreen display pairs with a customizable gauge cluster and voice commands are easy to use. For safety, available features include the usual blind spot monitoring and lane departure warning but also extend to automatic cruise control and adaptive highbeams. The $1795 technology package also includes forward collision mitigation and parking assist. The only drawback to all the goodies available is the way the cost for this compact crossover can shoot up. Equipped with a luxury group including power liftgate, nine-speaker audio, towing package, and a dual-pane sunroof, this tester Cherokee cracked the $43K mark. That’s quite a bit. Keep your Cherokee a little less grand and it’s competitive with others in the segment.

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he Audi Q5 successfully combined attributes such as the handling of a sporty car, the higher ground clearance of an SUV and the cabin of a luxury car into one tidy package. As a result, it is a winner in the luxury BY DAVID CHAO davidchao@leansensei.com crossover market and has been a hot seller since its introduction. This year, Audi introduces an even sportier version (along with the fuel efﬁcient 3.0 TDI) to the line-up, which already includes the 2.0T, 3.0T and Q5 hybrid. The SQ5, the ﬁrst S variant for any Q model, takes this comfy people-mover to the next level and advances this SUV into a new territory. The SQ5 is designed for drivers of Audi’s S4 or S5, who need a bit more cabin space and utility but don’t want to lose the performance and elegance offered by the S line. And as a current owner of a 2013 Audi S4, I can personally comment that the SQ5 comes pretty close — but not exactly — the feel of S4 sports sedan.

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The SQ5 shares its chassis with the base Q5 but borrows its engine from the S4/S5 and receives a unique suspension setup. It looks stunning from all angles and continues Audi’s longrunning trend of producing sophisticated-looking vehicles. Prominently displayed upfront is Audi’s signature grill. If there was any remaining doubt, LED daytime running lights give the SQ5 an unmistakable Audi look and feel day or night. The side proﬁle is dynamic and sporty. The SQ5 receives brand exclusive exterior mirror housings and standard 20inch wheels, which allow a peek at the S model brakes. Twenty-one-inch wheels are available. The rear features LED taillights which are integrated into the hatch. There is a second set of smaller taillights lower in the bumper, set above the quad exhaust pipes which complete the sporty look. The interior design of the SQ5 is typical Audi: very clean, concise, and beautifully articulated. Otherwise the interior is very similar or nearly identical to the regular Q5.

While the SQ5 is an SUV, most people are not going to take it off-road. However, on a little gravel, snow or ice, this Audi — with its standard quattro AWD — will not have any problems and will perform like a tank. Where the SQ5 truly shines is on the open road. The supercharged 3.0-litre TFSI direct-injection V6 produces 354 hp and 347 ft-lbs of torque. That’s enough to propel it from a standstill to 100 km/h in 5.3 seconds and on to an electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h. This is a true sports car territory – something not often achieved in a luxury SUV. Like the S4, the SQ5 handles well and has just the right amount of power to allow you to enjoy the driving experience. The exhaust note made when on the throttle can be intoxicating and adds to the satisfying feel. Continued on page 47

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inlays are very handsome and actually extremely unique. The SQ5 has adequate head and legroom to comfortably seat a family of ﬁve. The sport-style seats, with their higher side bolsters, provide nice, ﬁrm support for front passengers and the rear seats slide and recline. Cargo capacity is good at 29.1 cubic feet but the rear seats conveniently fold to increase volume to 57.3 cubic feet. There’s also not much of a lip in the cargo area making loading and unloading easier. The highlight of the SQ5’s cabin though is the build quality. Everything you touch just feels expensive.

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The cabin of the SQ5 is filled with luxurious and functional amenities. These include a multifunction flat-bottom steering wheel with contrast stitching, gray instrument panel faces with white needles, and SQ5 specific shift knob wrapped in leather and aluminium. Fine Nappa leather seats are standard with a comfort package also available. The optional black wood decorative

The SQ5 has a starting price of $57,000. Standard equipment includes panoramic glass roof, power tailgate, electronically foldable auto dimming heated exterior mirrors, three-zone climate control, heated front seats, satellite radio and Bluetooth. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include adaptive headlights, rearview camera, adaptive cruise control, heated rear seats, rear seat entertain-

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6.49lb/ 14.31kg

180g product of USA

product of Canada

2/7.00

30%

37%

650g product of Canada

Kashi Cereal assorted varieties

SAVE

3.994.99

4/5.00

85g

product of Asia

Annie’s Homegrown Bunny Crackers, Bunny Grahams and Snack Mixes

product of USA

.99/100g

142-213g product of USA

reg 1.49

Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Beverages Maple Hill Free Range Extra Large Eggs assorted varieties

SAVE

33%

1.89L

product of USA

Nuts to You Almond Hazelnut Butter

SAVE

24%

8.99

50%

3.99

31%

27% 2.19

assorted varieties

2/4.38

2/6.00

39%

product of Canada

Delverde Italian Pasta

assorted varieties

213-227g product of USA

+deposit +eco fee • product of Canada

Avalon Organic Sour Cream

Dairyland Lactose Free Milk

3.49

assorted varieties

500ml product of Canada

4.29

Choices Raw Energy Mix

20% off

Health Care Department Hylands Leg Cramps with Quinine

9.99

160 -300g or 4 packs

Genesis Goji Juice

Organic Country French Bread

32.99

white or 60% wholewheat

3.99

480-530g

946ml

Relieves symptoms of cramps and pains in lower back and legs often made worse by damp weather without contraindications or side effects.

Enerex Osteo Calcium Magnesium

St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes, Cookies or Pistachio Shortbread

32.99

180 tablets

Chelated calcium and magnesium for optimal absorption. In a base of certified organic raw kale. Includes Bamboo silica, boron, D3 and K2.

1.99-4.49 assorted sizes

2L • product of Canada

100 tablets

Relieves symptoms of cramps and pains in lower back and legs often made worse by damp weather without contraindications or side effects.

Gluten Free

2.19

450g product of Italy

4x200ml tetra

Bulk Department

3.49-4.99

Amy's Kitchen Frozen Pot Pies

SAVE

product of USA

St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes, Cakes or Cookies

170g

product of USA

740ml

500ml • reg 6.99

Bakery Department

assorted varieties

Kiju Organic Juice

2/4.98

5.49

1 dozen • product of Canada

SAVE

2.98

1 lb package

assorted varieties

Annie’s Homegrown Classic Macaroni & Cheese

500g product of Canada

Echoclean Dish Liquids

SAVE

Happy Planet Canadian Inspired Soup

SAVE

3.99

Strawberries

Choices’ Own Green Garbanzo Hummus

! New

3.79

27%

265-460g

4/5.00

product of Mexico

Deli Department

assorted varieties

SAVE

139g

Large Size Hass Avocados

9.99lb/ 22.02kg

assorted varieties

SAVE

4.98

Organic Roast Outside,Inside or Tip

Gold Seal Tuna Snacks

assorted varieties

SAVE

from

33%

400g

Olympic Organic Yogurt

25%

3/7.98

SAVE

Earthbound Farm Power Bowl Meal: Tomatillo, Black Bean and Baby Lettuce

Newton’s Corned Beef

assorted varieties

Produce Department

A St. Paddy’s Tradition: Corned Beef and Cabbage Did you know cabbage is one of the healthiest veggies you can eat and it’s incredibly affordable? Compounds called glucosinolates and a high-fibre content are both implicated in cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention. And this benefit can be enhanced by light cooking.After slow-cooking your corned beef, add root vegetables like carrots and potatoes to the broth and cook until tender. Then add in loads of shredded cabbage and cook for only 5 minutes until softened. Avoid cooking the cabbage for too long or it will lose some of its health properties. Have a moderate serving of meat (2.5 oz) with a hearty serving (1-2 cups) of cabbage plus the other veggies for a traditional Irish meal. Don’t forget the pint of Guinness! 2010 - 2014 Awards. Your loyalty has helped Choices achieve these awards. Thank you!

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