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August 15 2014

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DO THE WRITE THING Award-winning screenwriter and young adult author Gabrielle Prendergast is the Vancouver Public Library's 2014 Writer in Residence. See story page 21. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Renfrew versus the park board Membership fee spat sours community centre association Bob Mackin

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A dispute with the Vancouver park board over membership fees could dampen next month’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Renfrew Park Community Centre. Renfrew Park Community Association president Hazel Hollingdale said the board ordered community centre staff to not charge the association’s $3 membership fee when registration for fall programs opened Aug. 11. During a trial period that began last September, membership fees were waived and

low-income users could register for seasonal programs at half-price, with the remainder subsidized. The association previously charged $8 for families, $6 for adults and $3 for children, seniors and youths and the program subsidies were capped at $50. Subsidy costs rose from $3,000 to $11,000, so the association imposed the ﬂat $3 fee. “Park board had requested that we raise our program fees in order to cover the excess costs of this enhanced subsidization,” Hollingdale told the Courier. She said her board felt raising program costs would be unfair to low-income users and membership sales would be a sustainable revenue source.

Association memberships are sold upon request, but Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper told the Courier “we’re not going to force our staff to force these memberships on patrons.” The park board sought to eliminate membership fees after imposing the universal OneCard across the city’s 22 community centres last year. It claimed 7,000 OneCards have been issued at Renfrew Park, of which 536 were to low-income users. Hollingdale said a meeting last week with board general manager Malcolm Bromley and director of recreation Thomas Soulliere was fruitless. She said elected ofﬁcials of the

Vision Vancouver majority park board have not responded to her emails and commissioner Sarah Blyth, liaison to Renfrew Park, has not attended association meetings. Bromley did not respond for comment. Jasper deferred to a prepared statement sent to the Courier by city hall’s communications department. That statement branded the association membership fee “regressive and out-of-touch with the community’s desire to have fewer barriers to accessing the city’s network of community centres.” The statement said it violates the interim agreement between the centre and the park board. Continued on page 5

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Denike and Woo hope to be First Expelled former NPA school trustees join new civic party

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Former NPA school board trustees Ken Denike and Sophia Woo are running in the November election with a new civic party called Vancouver First. “During the past few years we’ve heard a lot from parents from ethnic communities. They’re saying that both the Vision [dominated] school board and the NPA [dominated] school board, they do not listen to parents, they do not listen to ethnic communities, they [do] not [have] enough representation, especially about the multicultural communities,” Woo said. “So we decided to join Vancouver First because they won’t force the party line.” The NPA expelled the pair in June after they hosted a press conference arguing the school board’s revised sexual orientation and gender identities policy could hurt real estate in Vancouver by deterring

Former NPA school board trustees Ken Denike and Sophia Woo have joined a new party Denike says has "a power base. . . in the Chinese community." PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

international buyers. The duo also ran into trouble in 2012 for comments they made in two videos, one about a link to a website that featured graphic sex scenes from a gaypositive provincial teaching resource, and the other about a supposed special anti-bullying policy in the works to

protect queer students. Jesse Johl sits on the executive for Vancouver First. The former president of the Riley Park/Hillcrest Community Association was ousted from his position last month and faces allegations that he redirected membership funds to a charity called Way to Give Founda-

tion, for which he was listed as director. Denike said he wasn’t bothered by the controversy surrounding Johl. “I wouldn’t say there’s concern,” Denike said. “But we’re aware of it and we’ve heard the arguments.” Johl was initially an NPA candidate in the 2011 civic election but the party

dropped him before Vancouverites cast their votes. The NPA considered renaming itself Vancouver First in 2010 but Denike said he wouldn’t characterize Vancouver First as the older party’s offshoot. “We have a power base, if you want to put it that way, in the Chinese community,” Denike said. “It’s going to be very difﬁcult for either of the two main parties to win without that.” Besides Johl, Denike would only specify actor Brent Chapman, who’s married to the Minister of National Revenue, KerryLynne Findlay, is vice-president for Vancouver First. Denike said representatives with links to the federal Conservative and Liberal parties are involved with Vancouver First. Even as opposition trustees, Denike and Woo say they made a positive difference. They got a professional day in 2015 shifted to mark the Lunar New Year. “It should have been

done a long time ago,” Denike said. They’ve pushed for improved safety for students, advocated maintaining drug prevention worker positions in schools and got Mosquito devices, which deter young vandals from schools by emitting a high-pitched sound, switched back on. Denike said they want the school board to focus on ﬁnancial management instead of concentrating on lobbying the provincial government for more money, as he says the Visiondominated board does. They also want the VSB to address “internet gaming disorder,” or compulsive gaming, which is being considered for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association. Denike said Vancouver First candidates for park board will be announced within two weeks with candidates for city council after that. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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bottom to the top of the Orpheum. The chandelier is lowered and being repaired by scaffolding. It was once tended to by using tall ladders. The original projection room now houses spotlights. A concrete wall sealed the room from the house until 1974 as film was highly flammable and fires had to be put out often. The case for a Charlie Chaplin film brought in for the Orpheum’s 85th anniversary sat in the corner and is about five feet in diameter. “Isn’t that amazing?” said an elderly visitor. “Now the films are on little discs.” In the dome of the Orpheum, behind the painted frescos, visitors can see the ceiling suspended by wires. When asked if the wires have been changed since 1927, Haynes said, “Absolutely no.” Guests were invited to try the organ on stage, which was originally raised by hydraulics. The organ was unintentionally lowered during intermissions due to water pressure to from the theatre’s toilets. It then had to be raised again. As for the theatre’s bottom, Haynes admitted he believes in spirits. He

had always felt a chilling presence in the downstairs men’s room that some tour visitors have asked him about. Paranormal investigators claimed it was a former restroom attendant. Following their investigation, Haynes did not feel anything again. Other spirits allegedly spotted over the years include an acrobat that fell to death on stage, a seated woman in a dress applauding and another woman who sits on the original coat check counter where usherettes gathered after performances to shoot the breeze. Haynes was told by an investigator: “I don’t know who she is but she’s in a uniform and telling all sorts of stories.” It’s a colourful history for a theatre that still hosts diverse acts today, from the symphony to bands like Alice in Chains, where, as Haynes says, “everyone is as drunk as skunks.” Tours are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 11 a.m. until Aug. 30. Visitors are urged to arrive 10 minutes early or better yet to make a reservation by phone as large groups often make bookings. Admission is a $10 donation to the hall of fame.

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City says Renfrew not ‘in good faith’

Continued from page 1 “A planned evaluation to assess the impact of the Interim Agreement is currently being carried out by a joint committee and the association’s attempt to exit from the agreement before this is completed is not acting in good faith,” read the statement. The non-proﬁt association said it has attracted $2 million in grants over the past decade to support

artists, lunch programs and services for children and youths and it has reinvested $15 million into the community centre for renovations, equipment and funding park board staff positions. For the year ended Aug. 31, 2013, Renfrew Park Community Association reported $827,715 revenue and $804,337 expenses for a $23,378 surplus. The lion’s share of revenue

($638,935) came from program operations. It also sold $4,570 in memberships, down from $5,937 a year earlier. The association was among the majority of community centre associations that entered talks with the park board aimed at a new joint operating agreement. An interim agreement was reached in June 2013. Six dissenting associations seeking to retain

autonomy sued the board. A Jan. 17 B.C. Supreme Court judgment blocked the park board from cancelling their joint operating agreements. Hollingdale said negotiations are taking a toll on the volunteer board. “The only reason we’re there is

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Stong’s Market plans to stay in Dunbar — and expand its business, according to an update posted by company president Cori Bonina. The update was in response to neighbourhood residents’ questions after two recent open houses for development projects along Dunbar Street. Henriquez Partners Architects unveiled its revised proposal for properties from 4508 to 4560 on Dunbar Street and 3581 West 30th Avenue at a July 31 open house. Stong’s leases space at 4560 Dunbar St. on that site. Meanwhile, a company called Dunbar Partnership, owned by Dunbar residents, owns properties nearby at 4219-4295 Dunbar St. and hosted a meeting July 29 to seek input on its development plans for that site. A neighbourhood group called Dunbar ReVision, which was formed to inﬂuence the City of Vancouver’s planning process, summarized reaction from both meetings on its blog where Bonina also posted a message to Stong’s customers to clarify its future. Bonina did not return a call from the Courier, but her update indicated that that the company has signed a long-term lease with Dunbar Partnership to open a new grocery store in the 4200 block of Dunbar Street “that will offer our customers more choice and selection than ever before,” subject to the approval of that development project. “As for the current Stong’s site, we are committed to staying at this location as part of the redeveloped site, with additional offerings that may include a restaurant and expanded health and wellness services. “We love being part of the Dunbar community and want to assure you that, while we’re growing and changing, after 80 years… we aren’t going anywhere. Thank you for your ongoing

Names and biographies of Grandview-Woodland Citizens’ Assembly members were released Aug. 12. The 48 volunteer participants were selected through an Aug. 6 blind draw, which ensured representation from an equal number of men and women, a proportionate number from six neighbourhood zones, a proportionate number from each of four age groups, and a proportionate number of people who rent their home, own their home or live in a co-op. The group’s make-up includes 10 representatives from the 16 to 29 age group, 17 from age 30 to 44, 15 from age 45 to 64 and six who are 65 or older. Two members live in co-ops, 28 rent and 18 own their homes. There are two business owners and one nonresident property owner on the assembly, according to organizers. Seven members have self-identiﬁed as aboriginal — at least four spots had been reserved for that community. “It was easy for us to meet all of our demographic criteria,” Rachel Magnusson, director of MASS West — the company running the assembly and the assembly’s chair, told the Courier earlier this week. She added that there were a total of 504 eligible applications. More than 200 residents also indicated they were unable to participate but want to receive periodic information concerning the citizens’ assembly. The group meets for its ﬁrst session Sept. 20. Meantime, Magnusson’s team is meeting with its advisory board, working on agendas and considering who might speak to some of the different issues that will be discussed. “Making sure we get a broad range of perspectives,” she said. A report is expected to be delivered to city council by June 2015. twitter.com/naoibh

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Past is present with culture stuck in time

Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com

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Aboriginal children in care will get a fair share of attention at the upcoming meeting of Canada’s premiers, thanks to the efforts of Ted Hughes. The Victoria advocate who redesigned B.C.’s child-welfare system and, more recently, probed a failure in Manitoba’s system has been assured some of the issues he raised in that case will be under consideration at the Council of the Federation meeting. Premiers will meet in Charlottetown starting Aug. 26, and Hughes has rounded up at least two premiers — B.C.’s Christy Clark and Manitoba’s Greg Selinger — who are committed to championing the issue. Specifically, it’s the huge number of aboriginal children in the care of governments, far out of proportion to the population. Selinger responded earlier, in the wake of the public inquiry conducted by Hughes on assorted falldowns in the Manitoba child-care system that contributed to the death of five-year-old native girl Phoenix Sinclair. One of the recommendations was aimed directly at Selinger. It called on the premier to speak to the disproportionate number of aboriginal children taken into provincial care at the next council meeting and seek national solutions. Hughes subsequently sought a meeting with Clark on the same topic. She and Stephanie Cadieux, minister of children and family development, met with Hughes a month ago to go over the issues common to both provinces, and the country as a whole. In a recent conference call to discuss the agenda, all the premiers agreed to allot some time to the problem. A meeting with aboriginal leaders is already on the agenda. Single-handedly getting an item placed on the agenda of an annual council meeting is no small achievement, since the premiers always have a long list of problems to address, and not much time to deal with them. So it’s a tribute to the clout that Hughes carries across the country, based on too many contributions over the years to list here. But conference talk is one thing, real action on the problem is another. Anyone who was present at the Kelowna Accord will remember how quickly firm commitments and inspiring words can evaporate. Almost two years of prep work went into a summit meeting of First Nations leaders, premiers and then-prime minis-

ter Paul Martin in Kelowna in late 2005. They unveiled a $5-billion plan to tackle all the social problems on Canada’s Indian reserves and there was a remarkable sense of hope at the conclusion. Summing up all the determination to do something, then-premier Gordon Campbell borrowed from court judgments and told Martin directly: “Prime minister, the honour of the Crown depends on our meeting these commitments.” Three days later, Martin’s government fell and the Kelowna Accord dried up and blew away.

It’s good that they will talk about it. It would be even better if they do act on it.

The number of aboriginal kids in care stems from all those problems the accord was aimed at solving. The issue was secondary to the details of the horror story that was Sinclair’s life, but Hughes has called it a serious problem requiring action at the national level. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s representative for children and youth, has stressed the same issue numerous times. More than half the B.C. children in care are native, but only 5.4 per cent of the population identifies as aboriginal. Manitoba is 10 per cent aboriginal, but 80 per cent of children in care are native. It’s good that they will talk about it. It would be even better if they act on it. Just So You Know: I covered the Kelowna Accord and despite what happened to it, have a specific good memory of the conference. Mingling in the crowd was former Vancouver Canuck Gino Odjick. What was a hard-nosed hockey enforcer doing at a federal-provincial conference? He was trying to make a difference. The Algonquin from northern Quebec had an arrangement with the Assembly of First Nations. He often visited troubled reserves when suicide clusters broke out, trying to offer hope. “I talk to them about finding someone to love, about eating and sleeping right, and how important it is to stay in school,” he told me then. He’s facing a serious health challenge now and deserves our best wishes. lleyne@timescolonist.com

Geoff Olson Columnist

Whatever happened to socially observable time? For most of the last century, the North American cultural landscape — its art, music, design, entertainment and fashion — transformed every 10 to 20 years. “But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new,” Kurt Anderson observed in a 2011 Vanity Fair article. In the three years since Anderson’s article, there has been little to contradict the author’s words. Other than our electronic gadgets and their associated services, striking originality has been in short supply for over a decade. Automobiles have barely changed in design. Musical styles are recycled, from ’90s grunge and hip hop to ’80s synth to ’70s soul. Architecture hasn’t really moved past Frank Gehry’s melting edifices of the ‘90s. As for films, in the late ’80s, Hollywood producers began to rifle through the back catalogue of ’60s-era Marvel and DC Comics, and we’ve been flooded with superhero sagas and sequels ever since. Fashion is also in suspended animation, confined to a bowerbird aesthetic that gathers handbags and glad rags from previous decades. The vintage look — with its porkpie hats, plaid shirts and moustaches — is more about Depressionera chic than hipster originality. Online commentators have pegged this phenomenon of stalled time “hauntology,” in homage to the late postmodernist thinker Jacques Derrida. The French prof mused about a supposed “end of history,” in which the present would be defined in terms of the past, with people orienting themselves towards ideas and aesthetics that are antiquated or “oldtimey.” Hence the “haunting” of the present by the “ghost” of the past. Derrida’s clever wordplay raises more questions about cultural stagnation than answers. The most practical explanation I have found yet is from the blog of BBC documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis. In a recent lengthy post “Now Then: The Hidden Systems That Have Frozen Time and Stop Us Changing The World,” Curtis begins with a capsule history of surveillance, from private detective agencies to tiny, Bond-like spy

cameras to the data-mining server farms of corporations. This takes him toward “the incredibly powerful computer network” Aladdin, which guides the investment of over $15 trillion of assets around the world. Aladdin examines all possible future financial outcomes and guides investments toward those with the best possible outcome. It’s owned by the big money manager Blackrock, which “manages as much money as all the hedge-funds and the private equity firms in the world put together.” In effect, “Blackrock’s system is shaping the world — it’s more powerful in some respects than traditional politics... its aim is to not change the world — but to keep it stable,” Curtis observes. If you’re looking for dark forces behind this, the filmmaker observes that Blackrock is not run by some moustache-twirling villain, but a “very cautious man” called Larry Fink. The computerized financial systems midwifed by technocrats — Aladdin is just one example — do not just hedge against risk. They help ensure transformative futures are nixed — the architects of the so-called free market are not big on massive unpredictability. Curtis gives a parallel example from the world of politics, from the field of “opposition research.” Political candidates are frequently trailed by videographers recording their public remarks. The videographers’ employers aren’t just patrolling for gaffes. As big game hunters in the digital age, they use videoclip databanks of the candidate’s previous public appearances to identify contradictory statements of any kind. It’s all in the service of attack ads. “So the politicians become frozen and immobile — because they have to have a blameless history. Which again seems laudable. But it means they can’t change their mind. They can’t adapt to the world as it changes.” The old ways of doing things electorally — of gerrymandered, mud-slinging, first-past-post politics — are not altered by information technology, but frozen into place by it. Machine intelligence is quickly evolving under the careful tending of software engineers, while our political systems are still marooned in the past, along with much of our art, architecture, design, film, fashion and music. There are undoubtedly other forces at work keeping our culture on repeat play. But Curtis has made a good start in identifying a few of the significant ones. geoffolson.com

The week in num6ers...

Out of 31, the number of sell-out games held so far this season at Nat Bailey Stadium, including today's nooner against Everett.

10 90 68 5.4 10

The number of writers in residence who had a stint at the Vancouver Public Library.

The number of years Western Canada Vulcanizing Shop was in operation before closing last week.

In metres, the depth beneath the ground of the bottom of the Riverbend Cave in Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park.

The percentage of B.C. residents who identify as aboriginal, although more than half of children in government care are native.

The number of viewpoints along the Diez Vistas trail near Buntzen Lake.

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C’s pitcher makes baseball history

Aug. 16, 1989: Tom Drees pitches his third no-hitter of the season for the Vancouver Canadians as they beat the Las Vegas 51s 5-0 in a seven-inning first game of a Pacific Coast League doubleheader. Drees was the first pitcher in PCL history with three no-hitters in a year after pitching two consecutive ones May 23 and 28. Drees won 12 games overall for Vancouver that year with a 3.37 earned run average but nonetheless didn't get called up to the big leagues until 1991. Drees appeared in only four major league games in total, all for the Chicago White Sox and all as a reliever, giving up 10 earned runs in seven innings. He played just two more seasons at the AAA level before retiring.

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Re: “Is Putin demonization really about gas?” Aug. 8. I was intrigued by Geoff Olson’s dismay at the West’s renewed campaign to vilify Russia and, by extension, his defence of Vladimir Putin. It seems the Western media has Mr. Putin more in their sights than Western leaders, who whimper away, quietly coveting Russian gas and naval ship contracts. I don’t doubt reports of Mr. Putin’s thuggery or his cozy kleptocracy, as he rewards his oligarchs while annexing and occupying sovereign territory (Crimea, South Ossetia, Abkhazia). George Kennan would have a conniption reading Olson’s tirades as he would little differentiate between the menace of Stalin’s brutality and Putin’s venality. Fanatical, ignorant, nationalist thugs control eastern Ukraine. With Russia’s help and weaponry, they destroyed MH17, a horriﬁc event, hurling conscious passengers 33,000 feet to Earth. But, still, Mr. Olson sees a Western ploy. No doubt, he could never be duped as Hitler fooled Chamberlain or Mackenzie King. Maybe it’s time for Mr. Olson to take a sabbatical and try writing antigovernment rants for Pravda, TASS or Izvestia. I suspect he would soon wish he was orbiting with Laika, as far away from Mr. Putin as possible. Gwil Roberts, Vancouver

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Aug. 16, 1910: Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier cuts the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Pacific National Exhibition, known at the time as "The Industrial Exhibition." The fair was seen as a showcase of British Columbia to the rest of the world and was once known as the second largest event of its kind in North America after the New York State Fair. The 17-day annual event now typically draws more than 900,000 visitors. Two attractions at the PNE, the Pacific Coliseum and the wooden roller coaster, were both named as heritage sites in 2013.

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To the editor: Re: “City cyclists dodging helmet laws,” Aug. 8. Given the extraordinary frequency with which many Vancouver cyclists ride on sidewalks (illegal under city bylaws), blast through red lights and stop signs, and hurtle at dangerous speeds through areas thronged with pedestrians of all ages and levels of mobility, it certainly comes as no surprise that they also ﬂout helmet laws. The difference, of course, is that in the latter case they endanger only themselves, instead of those trying to avoid being struck by them. G.M. Watson, Vancouver ••• The cycling movement continues to feel that because of their innate goodness, road laws do not apply to these morally superior members of the community. When drivers shirk seatbelts because they are uncomfortable or unnecessary because they drive defensively, the police and the public condemn their stupidity at full volume and continue to issue enforceable ﬁnes that are collected. When driving it is easy to spot cyclists who it seems feel their shorter travel time to be more important than other road users, riding through stop signs and failing to yield to pedestrians. While it is predictable who will come out the best in a car-cycle collision, it is often less certain in a cyclepedestrian encounter. Why can’t enforcement go back to

square one: obey the law or suffer meaningful consequences? Rick Angus, Vancouver

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COURIER STORY: “Kirk LaPointe promises accountability bylaw,” Aug. 13. Eugene: LaPointe articulates a policy to bring openness and trust back to City Hall. Vdovine tries to change the subject. Meggs attempts to redirect. Another F for Vision. Baaaah @_Sheepster_:The former chief propagandist @VancouverSun talks transparency. Excuse me while I vomit. KUDOS & KVETCHES: “Goodwill tweeting,” Aug. 13. Laura Ballance @LauraBallance: This is exceptionally well written. Ironically funny. TundraGlobal @TundraGlobal: I’ll play the game. What did federal politicians tweet about #MountPolley tailing pond? COURIER COLUMN: “Increase in speed limits is a step in the right direction,” Aug. 8. Michael Geoghegan: An excellent column. It is also worth noting that Germany’s accident and death rate on its autobahns is much lower than on Canada’s highways. Perhaps we should have speed limits than maximize safety rather than government revenue. Al Gullon: “Happily, the raised speed limits also reduce frustration over our 40 km/h excessive speeding law.” 40+120 = 160. That was the cruising speed for an overnight drive (with carefully timed stops for a short snooze) from the Austrian/German border to Maastricht, Holland at the start of a two week trip to present my eleventh traffic safety paper. I was not of course “over the flow of traffic” but rather at best 75th percentile and was kept alert by the necessity of keeping an eye on the rearview mirror so I could safely accommodate the Bimmers, Audis and MBs in their attempts to cruise at 180+. And all that on a motorway infrastructure not as generous as the 400-series here in Ontario with its abysmally stupid 100 km/h limit. Note that those autobahns have a crash rate every bit as low as any other country with a limit on their motorway. talonz51: Finally, an article written that makes sense and knows the facts on this subject.

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Helping churches to get online ‘This is the major way that people are connecting’ PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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Checking out church websites a couple of years ago, Matt Morrison realized that most were a decade or more behind the times. As a volunteer, he had created a website for the church he belonged to and, as these things happen, other ministers started knocking on his door for help. Things got so busy, Morrison realized he’d found a niche, and he partnered with Luke Cowell to create ChurchOS, a company that now builds websites for churches. The name is a play on “operating system,” a term perhaps more familiar to the digital set than the traditional church crowd, but it’s taken off. Few people fantasize about becoming rich doing small jobs for churches. Yet, Matt and Luke (I wasn’t the ﬁrst to suggest they really need to hire a Mark and a John) created a formula that seems to be working quite divinely for them and has so far worked for close to 100 churches. Morrison is a bit of an evangelist for technology. He says the internet is the place where people search for a religious home base now. “Ninety-ﬁve percent of people are coming to the website before they walk in the door,” he says. “In other words, 15 years ago, a church would’ve made sure their lobby was vacuumed,

Luke Cowell and Matt Morrison of ChurchOS have a thriving business creating web pages for churches needing an online presence. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the walls were painted nice, so that when someone walked in the first impression was great. That’s no longer the first impression. Now it’s ‘does your website look great?’ You have about five seconds to show someone that you are a welcoming community before they click away to another one, so it is a prominent part of whether your community’s going to grow.” Design is important, but Morrison insists content is even more crucial. “What I want to know as a potential person coming to your church is what is the heart of your church, why

are you doing all of this?” Morrison says. “And I think that’s what churches need to do, start to bring the story of why they exist to the forefront and talk about how it is changing lives … Is this a community that ﬁts my family, that would be welcoming for us? From day one, we wanted to make the content forward. Who are you as a church that will actually enrich people?” But can creating sites for churches be enriching for web developers? This is where Morrison and Cowell applied the age-old economic adage of volume to their business idea.

Part of the problem was that churches need more from their website than the average business does. Most businesses need a simple advertisement and engagement platform. Churches are trying to build communities using the web. And that costs more, for features like sermon players, bulletin email servers, and online tithing tools. But Morrison and Cowell realized that, while churches need sites that are different from businesses, most churches ultimately need a website that is pretty similar to what every other church needs. “All of a sudden, I had

the dawn-on-me moment that they’re all looking for the same kind of thing,” says Morrison. “The idea was to build the skeleton of the site once, build it really well, and then kind of put different skins on it so that each church would be different.” Morrison says churches were getting quotes of $10,000 to $15,000 from web developers and the response was predictable. Unlike most web designers (or businesses of any kind), they list the full costs right on their site. A church can be set up with a basic site within three weeks for $995

and a monthly fee of $39. Add-ons are likewise priced up-front so the inevitable committees or tightfisted church treasurer knows exactly what they’re getting into. Moreover, the monthly fee means ChurchOS takes care of everything, so typically understaffed churches do not need to worry about web hosting or domain renewal. “They’re getting their own websites, but not having to reinvent the wheel every time,” Morrison says. They started ChurchOS in 2009 and launched the first five sites in 2010. They are at about 90 sites now, including six in the city of Vancouver and about 70 per cent within B.C. They are emphatically ecumenically Christian — they are happy to work with any Christian church across the not insignificant denominational divides. And they are expanding — hiring staff and branching out to build sites for charitable organizations that do good in the world. The entrepreneurs admit there remains some systemic suspicion about the Internet among some religious folks — and this needs to be overcome. “This is a major way that people are connecting,” Morrison says of the Internet and social media. “You would just be missing out on a massive opportunity. Obviously the Internet can be a scary place because of what lurks there. But the world is that way. And we are called to go into the world as Christians.”

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Journey into darkness on Vancouver Island Horne Lake Park offers a horn of plenty for underground community

Andrew Fleming

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When deep inside a cave and about to rappel further into darkness down a rushing waterfall, it was a bit disconcerting to discover that the drop is known as “Fleming’s Folly.” Particularly since my last name happens to be Fleming. My tour guide, an affable 34-year-old Yorkshireman named Paul Blood, wasn’t sure how the ﬁve-metre cliff earned the name but assured me it probably had something to do with a fellow Fleming who simply fell into the shallow pool of water down at the bottom rather than any kind of fatal folly. I had to take his word for it, much as I had to for every other step (and occasional crawl) of the way as he led me and two other inexperienced cavers 20-storeys below the surface of the earth as part of the ﬁve-hour “Extreme Rappel” tour of the Riverbend Cave offered at Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park. The park is located a short drive from Qualicum Beach, a small oceanfront town known for being a popular Vancouver Island summer destination. There are plenty of ways to escape the heat for visitors but few as guaranteed as exploring

a cave where the average temperature is around eight degrees Celsius. Vancouver Island has a whole lot of holes in the ground, more than anywhere else in North America with more than 1,000, which are the result of a unique combination of the heavy rainfall, dense vegetation and mountainous landscape on limestone rock made from the compressed skeletons of marine creatures more than 300 million years old. There are three things necessary for a hole in the ground to be considered a cave, according to Blood. “The first thing, it needs to be naturally formed as opposed to something man-made like a mine,” he explained. “It also requires the complete absence of natural light and be pitch black inside 24 hours a day. Last but not least, it needs to be big enough to fit a person inside of it. If you throw a baby on a string in hole, you can’t call it a cave. It’s called a crime.” Caves have offered shelter to humans since the dawn of time but speleology — the study and exploration of subterranean passages as both a recreational and scientific pursuit — is relatively new. Frenchman Edouard-Alfred Mar-

tel, known as the “father of modern speleology,” pioneered the multi-disciplinary pursuit of all things underground in the late 19th century, combining chemistry, biology, geology, physics, meteorology and cartography. After the First World War, interest in “spelunking” or “potholing” exploded in popularity across Europe and it was from there that the activity gradually spread. The local First Nations tribe, the Nuu-chah-nulth, surely knew about the network of caves but little is known about how or if they used them in any capacity. From the time of early contact with European explorers, an estimated 90 per cent of the Nuuchah-nulth died from malaria and smallpox. Many were also reportedly killed in raids by neighbouring tribes. Adam Horne, a Hudson’s Bay surveyor who the park is named after, was the ﬁrst Westerner to cross the middle of Vancouver Island and he was greeted upon his arrival at the Strait of Georgia by the grisly sight of a village massacre by Haida warriors. The Main and Lower Main caves were ﬁrst reported by of a visiting geologist in 1912, and the larger Riverbend Cave was

Tour guide Paul Blood ascends a cliff beneath a metal ladder.

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discovered in 1941. They soon became a popular tourist attraction and, unfortunately, many of the fragile stalactites, stalagmites and other glistening calcite formations known as soda straws, bacon strips, ﬂowstones and cave coral were damaged or removed as souvenirs. The cave system was granted protected status in 1971 and, fortunately, most of the damage was conﬁned to near the openings. Most of the Riverbend Cave, for example,

Teresa Lee checks out a glistening calcite formation inside the Riverbend Cave in Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park on Vancouver Island.

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wasn’t even discovered until 1969 after an intrepid caver named Stephanie McLeod decided there might be more beyond the shallow pool of water that was considered the cave’s end. Like the crew of a popular new television show at the time, she decided to boldly go where no one had gone before. “She stripped down, tied a rope around her leg and began digging,” said Blood. “Unfortunately, the rope wasn’t long enough so she simply untied it and kept going, which no doubt scared the heck out of the group she was with when there stopped being resistance on the line. But she made it through to the other side.” The pool is now drained by an installed sump pump, which allows cavers to crawl on their bellies through the narrow passage — not an experience for the claustrophobic — and onto a far more extensive system of caverns, which require rappelling down a seven-storey cliff and back up a metal ladder suspended from the ceiling. Blood said the first section of the Riverbend Cave receives around 10,000 visitors a year but only 400 or so follow McLeod’s footsteps (so to speak) to see the rest of it. The Horne Lake Outdoor Centre offers tours for all ages and fitness levels, but if you don’t have a fear of heights, the dark and/or confined spaces, this trip is literally a hidden gem.

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PREAMBLE: Recently it was announced that the European Space Agency had successfully awakened their satellite, Rosetta, which will monitor and conduct experiments. Apparently it is reminiscent of a rubber ducky, the Universe clearly has a sense of humour) Comet 67P/Churyumuvo-Gerasimenko. Over the upcoming year there will be loads of data sent back to the ESA. It is hoped the study of this mass of rock and ice hurtling towards the Sun, roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, will give us clues to the origins of our solar system. Comets are believed to be leftover bits that were not caught in the gravitational tug during the prepubescent birth of our planetary system. But the shape of a rubber ducky, now that is a seriously comic, excuse the pun, a cosmic joke!

Obstacles, hindrances and delays occur and arguments can ensue over the resources, the ﬁnancial scene of your partner over the next few days but by Aug.27 the coast is clear. Ride out any adverse repercussions by not saying,, “I told you so.” Your creative esprit has never been so high. Indulge your inventive zeal, attend parties, get out and live the dream.

Your social network, dealings with large groups and your hopes, dreams and wishes for the future, all receive a huge push over the next 20 days. You are treated in “royal “ fashion by friends and this moment also inclines single Libras towards ﬁnding love within your social circles. A special love interest is deﬁnitely putting out the “L.O.V.E.” vibe.

Sunday your energy is good but don’t expect or sign a contract or deal, it is simply not a good moment. Monday through Tuesday, your personal ﬁnances undergo a change and with the Moon hovering in your solar house of personal possessions,money liquidity you have an opportunity to look at your budget. Look at your creative ventures, projects or with cost associated with your children.

You have 30 days to put into action, complete your agenda and realize the success you having been building brick by brick, Scorpio. You are not one to sit back, you need to push for what you want but once you have set the ducks in a row, you prefer to sit back and watch the event unfold. Scorpios do not attack. It would be against their code of honour.

Your charisma, charm and eloquence soar late Sunday right through to Tuesday. Your revitalized interest in your home and family continue for the next 18 days. Use your analytical acumen to assess what is needed and what must go. Your ruler Mercury is exalted in Virgo. And like a conquering hero you can sweep in and change your family, your home, your real estate situation with alacrity and aplomb.

With your planetary ruler, Jupiter in Leo until Aug. 2015, have you made plans for an exciting foreign trip yet? You do realize if you plan it months ahead of time you can be excited and ebullient about it, researching all the best places to see, the best restaurants to dine in. I mean, half the fun is in getting it together and being excited about your future. Monday through Tuesday is relationship focused.

As get togethers over the weekend come to a close, it is a good time to rest, recharge, recuperate and relax. Follow this advice until Tuesday. Your Solar house of neighbours, siblings and communication is enhanced with exalted Mercury in Virgo. If you don’t know your neighbor, now is a good time to invite them to your backyard BBQ and get acquainted.

Your skill, wit and talent have been going through a complete overhaul and those Capricorns born between Jan.1 to 6 will see this long transit by Pluto up close and personal through to the end of 2014. For those born before this date you have had your cosmic transformation and for those born after the mentioned dates, your moment in this alchemical hopper is yet to come. It is a cathartic experience.

The good news just keeps coming, Leo. And over the next 17 days your personal assets and your possessions are up for an analysis, a rethink. With Mercury exalted in Virgo, your analysis, or that of your ﬁnancial advisor is sound. Do what they or you plan. Your mind and actions are fueled with success as Jupiter enhances your charisma and allure but you need to be practical.

Sunday is best spent resting and relaxing. The waning Moon is a wonderful time to dream, imagine and nap. Your career has been particularly active and the action continues for the next 28 days. Your communication skills, interpretation and translation of ideas is involved. And for those Aquarians born between Feb. 1 to 6, an argument or defensive response from a boss or person in authority seems over the top.

Mercury, your ruler is in your sign, Yeah! Analysis, contracts, communication and your career all manifest good outcomes, perhaps a bonus at work is the result. Certainly a project or recognition comes to you and lands right in your lap! Regardless, the next 17 days gives you added zeal and focus to accomplish what is required and more. Your Solar house of secrets, large institutions such as hospital, prisons and corporations are involved.

The world of imagination, the unconscious or meditative states are really your ken. Speciﬁcally, Pisces born between Feb.24 and 28, your imaginings are downright visionary. The consensus is that Neptune is the higher octave of Venus, and has been around since its discovery. From my experience, the problem with Neptune, if not properly channeled, is a proclivity for drug and alcohol abuse. If you are a conduit for this visionary insight, do it without the drugs or alcohol.

Monday: Robert Redford (78). Tuesday: Bill Clinton (68). Wednesday: Amy Adams (40) Thursday: Kenny Rogers (76) Friday: Kristen Wiig (41). Saturday: Barbara Eden (83). Sunday: Stephen Fry (57)

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Aug. 15 to 19, 2014 1. She doesn’t give a damn about her reputation, she hates herself for loving you and she loves rock ‘n’ roll. Legendary rocker and arguably one of the coolest women in the world, Joan Jett and her band the Blackhearts bring some much needed grit and anti-Air Supply musical sensibilities to the PNE’s Summer Night Concerts series Aug. 17, 8 p.m. Admission is free with entry to the PNE. Details at pne.ca. 2. It’s been a long and winding road for Mark Kleiner. More than a decade ago, the power-pop savant and leader of defunct local bands Sister Lovers, Jungle and Mark Kleiner Power Trio left the rock to join the flock. Now an ordained Lutheran minister serving two congregations in Biggar, Sask., Kleiner joins his Power Trio bandmates drummer Kurt Dahle (New Pornographers) and bassist Pete Mills (Flash Bastard) for the group’s first performance in more than 12 years. It all goes down Aug. 15 at the Fox Cabaret. Wett Stilettos open. All proceeds from the evening go towards Syrian refugee relief. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu Records and at the door. Details at foxcabaret.com. 3. The Dude abides this Friday as the Rio Theatre screens Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski, Aug. 15, 9:30 p.m. The star-studded affair features Jeff Bridges as a pothead bowler, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, John Tuturro, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, kidnapers, nihilists, porn mobsters and 292 f-bombs. Details at riotheatre.ca. 4. Feel-good indie pop band with tropical leanings BESTiE gets extra sunny with an outdoor show Aug. 19, 12 to 1 p.m. as part of the fifth annual CBC Musical Nooner series. The free festivities take place Monday to Friday at the CBC outdoor stage at CBC plaza on Hamilton Street (between West Georgia and Robson).

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As reported in the Courier earlier this week, Marpole — the Statler and Waldorf of Vancouver neighbourhoods — is bucking the trend and getting its very own strip bar, sorry, “gentlemen’s club.” Much like video stores and newspapers, the strip club industry has seen its customer base dwindle over the last decade due to shifting demographics and the ease in which one can get their ya-yas out on the Internet for free. And like the g-stringed buttocks the club will be showcasing soon, the response among Marpole has been decidedly divided. Although 1312 SW Marine, Dr. where the Gallery Show Lounge will open in the next few months, has previously been home to such upstanding establishments as Wild Coyote and is near the former site of the Fraser Arms Hotel, which employed exotic dancers until 2004, some residents have voiced concerns over the club’s proximity to elementary schools and suggestive billboards. One resident went so far as to call the club “a pedophile’s dream” and worried about the negative effect the club’s “riffraff” will have on her quaint little neighbourhood where fun takes a midafternoon nap. Having frequented our share of exotic nightclubs over the years (for research

We’re also partial to Lap Time. It rhymes with nap time, something most Marpolites are familiar with. purposes only), we think the problem lies with the club’s marketing strategy. Gallery Show Lounge is not a particularly scintillating name, but its very benignness raises suspicion, kind of like a quiet, middle aged neighbour who dresses completely in beige and has a moustache. The name also doesn’t integrate itself well with the neighbourhood or reﬂect Marpole’s rich history and salt-of-theearth inhabitants who like their toast dry and Salisbury steak even drier. • Right off the bat, a strip club called Mar-poles sounds like a no-brainer. Not only is it a pun on the neighbourhood’s name, it’s upfront about what’s inside. Plus it’s more upbeat than The Shame Room. • To that end, we thought about suggesting the name Pole Cats, but worried it might be construed as sexist. A deﬁnite no-no in the strip club industry. • If the club owners really want to tip their hat to the area’s longtime residents, they’d be wise to consider Blue Rinse, which conveys old age, raciness and onstage

showers, all at the same time. • Same goes for Afternoon Delight, which evokes a bygone era of easy loving and pubic hair, which again, like video stores and the newspaper industry, have seen better days. Damn you Craigslist, Netﬂix and Brazilian waxers! • We’re also partial to Lap Time. It rhymes with nap time, something most Marpolites are familiar with, but it’s also honest enough to say, “Yes, we have exotic dancers who will writhe around on stage to Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” but in order for Brandi, Taylor and Jasmine to feed their kids, they’ll need to make some real money offering private lap dances, so won’t you please join us.” • Then again, the club could always take ownership of the issue and speak directly to the concerns of residents in a language they understand. Hear ye, hear ye, coming soon to Marpole: A Daily Burlesque of Strumpets and Trollops Performing for Jailbirds, Miscreants and Denizens of Ill Repute. twitter.com/MidlifeMan1

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Lest we forget. Sixty-nine years ago this week (Aug. 9 to be precise), an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing between 60,000 and 80,000 Japanese, mostly on the ﬁrst day. Not to diminish the horror of that world-shattering event, approximately 2.3 million men, women and children died of AIDSrelated death worldwide in 2005. That ﬁgure is dropping thanks to antiretroviral therapy. The life-giving “cocktail,” however, is not universally available and it is estimated that 1.6 million AIDS-related deaths occurred in 2012 – mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia and the Caribbean. Here at home, we now hear infrequently of deathby-AIDS. But back in the ’80s, it felt like an epidemic. It was an epidemic. The theatre community was hit especially hard. Amongst the many Vancouverites was Larry Lillo, then one of the best artistic directors the Vancouver Playhouse has ever known. A diagnosis of “HIV-positive” was a death sentence — either sooner or later and never pretty. Larry Kramer’s 1985 play The Normal Heart begins with a heart-wrenching scene in which David (Matthew Beairsto), a young gay man,

gets that devastating news. “I’m gonna die,” he tells his friends. And he does. The play is largely autobiographical; Kramer was an outspoken co-founder of the GMHC – so controversial in the ’80s that it didn’t even risk spelling out its name: Gay Men’s Health Crisis. In the play, Ned Weeks (Kazz Leskard) is Kramer’s surrogate and he is loud, opinionated, confrontational and at odds with the other, more cautious members of the organization. Leskard begins angry and escalates from there making Weeks a hard-to-like hero. Weeks’ message – “Gay men should stop having sex” – can’t work but his passion is admirable. In complete contrast to Weeks is Bruce Niles (Zac Scott), a closeted gay bank manager. But Niles’ cool attitude makes him even less likely as a hero. There are 11 in the cast, directed for Ensemble Theatre Company by Tariq Leslie, the company’s artistic director. Ten are men; one is a woman. But if you’re looking for a hero in this play, it would be Dr. Emma Brookner (Rebecca Walters). The character is based on real-life Dr. Linda Laubenstein who, along with Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien, published the ﬁrst article linking AIDS with Kaposi’s sarcoma. Like Laubenstein, Dr. Brookner is portrayed as a polio survivor in a wheelchair. It is Brookner who rages against the poor media coverage by the New York Times despite

that fact that, at that time, more gay men were dying in that city than in any other city in the country. And she exposes the appalling lack of funding for AIDS research. Walters, spotlit by lighting designer Darren Hales, lets go a stream of vitriol that captures all the fear, frustration and fury of the period. It’s the speech that Kramer has been leading up to since the beginning of the play. Not the one to ask, I didn’t feel much sexual excitement between Weeks and his lover Felix (Daniel Meron) and I found it hard to believe that Weeks would forget a night of sex with Felix some time in the past. But Meron is a sweet, likeable character whose death is a heartbreaker. The Normal Heart is an awkward play probably because the intended hero – the playwright himself – is both heroic and anti-heroic. But it is undeniably faithful to the period fraught as it was with panic and pain. From Canadian AIDSactivist Stephen Lewis’s 2013 address: “The painful truth is that the international community is losing interest in AIDS. Everyone – including governments and UN agencies – talks of an “AIDSFree Generation.” Funding is plummeting. It’s as though the pandemic is over.” It’s not over. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca. The Normal Heart runs until Aug. 16 at the Jericho Arts Centre. Details at ensembletheatrecompany.ca.

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SMOOTH SAILING: More than 21 crews took to the waters off Jericho for the National Bank Easter Seals Regatta in support of Vancouver Easter Seals House. Matt Saunders and Sunanda Kerr fronted the 24th edition of the West Coast’s largest charity race, once again hosted by the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. The sun shone, spinnakers flew and more than $150,000 was raised for Easter Seals House, a home-away-from-home for out-of-town families to stay while their children undergo medical treatment in the city. Last year, the 49-unit house provided more than 30,000 beds to families requiring short and long-term accommodation. Among the spectators was three-time Olympian Nikola Girke, who will team up with fellow Canadian Luke Ramsay for the new mixed crew catamaran competition at the Rio Summer Games in 2016. OFF TO THE RACES: The Vancouver Firefighters’ Charitable Society (VFCS) is an organization operated by our everyday heroes, on their personal time, in support of local causes. Sale of their annual Hall of Flame Calendar has been a major source of revenue for the organization’s philanthropic efforts. To continue its charitable ways, the VFCS held its first Firefighters’ RunDown @ SunDown fundraiser at Hastings Racecourse. A dozen corporate teams, including a foursome from the Vancouver Courier, fundraised to compete in a relay race around the track for bragging rights and a coveted first place trophy. The inaugural RunDown generated a reported $26,000, which will be disbursed among local charities helping families, seniors and kids.

Araxi's James Walt and Neil Henderson brought their longtable dinner to Vancouver. The impressive table was set for 300 guests making it the largest outdoor dinner to date.

Matt Saunders and Sunanda Kerr skippered the 24th National Bank Easter Seals Charity Regatta. The West Coast's largest charity regatta raised more than $150,000 for Easter Seals House.

Robbie Kane's winning brunch and lunch hotspot Cafe Medina moves to a bright, spacious and refurbished location at 780 Richards St. Medina's trademark Mediterranean-inspired dishes will appear alongside executive chef Jonathan Chovancek's new seasonal creations.

Canadian sailing champion Isabella Bertold, who hopes to compete in 2016 Summer Olympics, attended the Easter Seals Charity Regatta kickoff party at the BMW Store.

Liberal nominee Pamela Goldsmith Jones was decked in her party red at House Wine principals Michaela Morris, right, and Michelle Bouffard's Best of the West Harmony Arts Festival event. The red and white wines flowed at the wine and food grazer featuring B.C.'s finest VQA wines.

TABLE FOR 300: Whistler’s Araxi Restaurant has been winning over diners for years with its exceptional farm-to-table cuisine and seasonally focused menus. Led by executive chef James Walt and restaurant director Neil Henderson, the restaurant has been a permanent ﬁxture on Canada’s culinary scene. One of Araxi’s signature offerings in the summer is its Longtable Dinner, a spectacular al fresco dinner staged at North Arm Farm in Pemberton and Lost Lake in Whistler. It was only a matter of time that it would make its Vancouver debut. It was 18 months before Walt and Henderson set up at Christopher Gaze’s Bard on the Beach site at Vanier Park for the inaugural $175 four-course, family-style dinner. The impressive table was set for 300 guests making it the largest dinner to date.

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Hastings Racecourse general manager Darren MacDonald and Great Canadian Gaming VP Chuck Keeling sweetened the Vancouver Firefighters' Charitable Society purse with a $5,000 cheque to support the firefighter's philanthropic efforts.

The Vancouver Firefighters' Charitable Society executive director Nils Gorseth, right, welcomed firefighter Don Robinson and Tara Flanagan to the organization's first RunDown @ SunDown charity relay race at Hastings Racecourse.

Owner John Blakeley and chef Chef Spencer Watts brings a taste of casual French to their Left Bank Bistro. The Denman Street establishment incorporates nice touches of Asian and African influences to its tasty and very approachable French cuisine.

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down the street with her punk rock hair and she’s Chinese-Canadian so that’s the girl who ends up in my story because I’m writing about today’s kids in today’s environment,” said the 47-year-old resident of Cedar Cottage. Prendergast feels passionate about pushing novels for youth written in verse because it’s an easy form for struggling readers. “They have less words and they have more space on the page… They’re not as daunting,” she said. “They are published as fulllength books... They look like a regular book and so there’s that point of pride, too, that for a struggling reader that they’ve read a full-sized book.” Prendergast, who’s received the most acclaim for her 2002 award-winning children’s ﬁlm Hildegarde

and the 2013 precursor to Capricious, Audacious, said readers respond most strongly to impulsive Ella. “They like that idea that someone’s just kind of, well, audacious, just rejects the notions of the social restrictions that are out there and does it not in a oh, I’m going to take drugs way, but in a I’m going to do something that makes people think way,” Prendergast said. Prendergast doesn’t want to join the crowd by penning another conservative female character. “Just something as simple as a girl saying I’m actually going to have two boyfriends at once [in Capricious], not a love triangle like where I have one boyfriend and I sort of like another guy, but an actual having two boyfriends, I’ve never seen that in a book before,” Prendergast said.

“I did it because that’s what this character would do, and why not? She’s 16 years old. If you can’t have two boyfriends when you’re 16, then when can you have two boyfriends?” As the VPL’s writer in residence, Prendergast will spend a quarter of her time mentoring emerging writers, appearing at library and community events and conducting workshops. She’ll spend the rest of her time working on her new novel, The Boy Who Fell to Earth, inspired by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadﬁeld. Prendergast’s inaugural public reading as writer in residence is Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Writers who want oneon-one consultation with Prendergast must apply. For more information, see vpl.ca. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Gabrielle Prendergast loves writing for and with youth. She loves writing verse novels, a type of narrative poetry, and hopes to convince others to do the same during her four-month tenure as the Vancouver Public Library’s 10th writer in residence. Prendergast, who takes over the position previously held by novelist Rawi Hage, also hopes to encourage writing workshop participants to incorporate more cultural diversity into their tales. “Most of the kids that I’ve worked with don’t know why their character is white. They might not be white themselves,” she said. “I just want them to know… that it has to do with the books that they have been exposed to… and television and superheroes and movies, that they have this subconscious idea in their head that adventures are for white people.” It can be precarious for white writers to shape characters of other cultural backgrounds, Prendergast concedes. “You have to research. You have to avoid stereotypes… You have to make that make sense, not just on page one of your story, but on every page,” she said. “It’s challenging, but in the end it’s worth it.” Prendergast made it work with the protagonist in her 2012 young adult novel, Wicket Season. Fourteen-year-old Harry is an African-Canadian with Jamaican and Haitian parents. In Capricious, one of Ella’s two boyfriends is Palestinian, and Prendergast’s central character in her forthcoming young adult novel, Frail Days, is Chinese-Canadian. “I look out my window and there’s one of the neighbourhood girls walking

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In his left hand, Daniel Wong tips a white ramekin of crème brûlée; in his right, he wields a blowtorch with a pointed blue ﬂame. He passes the torch across the sugared surface of the dessert, slowly rotating the ceramic bowl. The sugar turns caramel-brown and bubbles, and for a few seconds is ﬂuid enough to dance in time with the ramekin’s spin. The result is a cool crème brûlée with a perfectly even, glassy top. Wong is the chief cook, torch-wielder and proverbial bottle-washer at Crackle Crème, the latest addition to Chinatown’s so-hip-ithurts Union Street. The name on the glass front is a bit ambiguous: is it Crackle Crème or Crack le Crème? Wong goes with the latter but says, “You can pronounce it however you want. Both ways are right.” Open since June, Crackle Crème is an ode to crème brûlée. In inattentive hands, this deceptively simple baked custard can go so wrong: gritty, lumpy or worse, like scrambled eggs (baked in a too-hot oven);

“It’s part of what I loved about painting cars, is you can mix so many different colours.” —Daniel Wong puddly in the middle (not enough time to rest and set); or past brûléed and completely burnt on top (no excuses). Wong makes none of these mistakes. North American flavours like vanilla bean and Earl Grey are rich and sweet without being cloying, while Asian-inspired flavours like durian or pandan-coconut are lighter in texture and less sweet. Smartly, he’s also included higher-proof options. The Bailey’s crème brûlée is divine: perfectly smooth, decadently (but not overly) rich and unabashedly boozy. Crackle Crème is Wong’s first business. He and his family moved to Vancouver from Hong Kong in the early ’90s, and his parents ran a Chinese bakery in East Vancouver for many years. But Wong never liked being in his parents’ bakery,

opting instead to become an automotive reﬁnisher — painting cars. At the age of 29, Wong enrolled in the culinary program at Vancouver Community College. Unlike most culinary students, he had no designs on being a chef and to this day prefers dining out to cooking — he simply wanted to acquire some life skills. Out of the program, he knew how much work it was to run a bakery, and knew that working in kitchens would be equally grueling. So he settled on a slightly unusual concept: a tiny shop that would specialize in exceptional crème brûlée. It’s not often that automotive reﬁnishing and crème brûlée share a sentence, but it all makes sense to Wong. Working with cars, he learned to be organized and work clean, and that training is evident

in his small kitchen. And where he used to work with paint and steel, his canvas is now cream and eggs. “I love being creative,” he says. “It’s part of what I loved about painting cars, is you can mix so many different colours. So in a way, doing crème brûlées is kind of like mixing things for me.” Wong sees an eclectic mix of people come into his shop, and he’s beginning to figure out what people like. He sees a lot of reluctant men who “get dragged in by their wives or girlfriends” but the mention of bourbon-hazelnut or Guinnessbacon crème brûlée tends to cheer them up. Women, he observes, are drawn to Earl Grey. And he’s also attracting attention for his vegan crème brûlée, made with soy milk and cashew cream. Beyond crème brûlées, you can get Liege waffles with homemade ice cream, soda floats and espresso drinks. The space is tiny, so seating is limited, but ask nicely and Wong will lend you a picnic blanket so you can decamp to the small park across the street. Crackle Crème is located at 245 Union St. twitter.com/eagranieyuh

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Don’t let the win-loss record fool you. The Canadians may be two games below .500 but a 14-inning 7-6 victory over the Everett Aquasox on Wednesday moved them into a tie for the divisional lead of the Northwest League. The C’s and Aquasox are locked in, each with nine wins and 11 losses. Vancouver hosted Everett again Thursday (after the Courier’s print deadline) and the rivals will play the third of their three-game series on Friday at Nat Bailey Stadium. First pitch is at 1:05 p.m. If you don’t already have a ticket for today’s nooner, good luck scoring one. The home-stand sold out last week. Friday’s mid-day crowd marks the 14th sellout of the 2014 season and the club anticipates tickets for the remaining eight games will also sell out. The three-time Northwest League champions have continued to set attendance records since the 2010 season.

Canadians outfielder Roemon Fields raced home off a double from Tim Locastro in front of a sell-out crowd at Nat Bailey Stadium in an 11-9 win over Eugene on July 17. PHOTO KYLE ROSETTA / VANCOUVER CANADIANS

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Toronto’s single-A afﬁliate wants to bring the Blue Jays to B.C. Place. They’re not the Vancouver Blue Jays, but the country’s only Major League Baseball club sells itself as Canada’s team and the number of fans in this city speaks to the Jays’ popularity. As it did last

year for a Toronto road series, Seattle’s Safeco Field swelled this week with Jays’ fans who crossed the border from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and even as far away as Manitoba. The Canadians president Andy Dunn let slip recently that the Blue Jays are closer than ever to playing in Vancouver. But, as always with the cavernous stadium,

B.C. Place presents a speciﬁc problem for baseball: the enormous video screen hanging at its centre. “Baseball would be perfect if it were not for that one feature,” said C’s general manger J.C. Fraser. “It’s great for soccer, great for football, but not great for baseball.” In 2011 Jays president Paul Beeston said the team

aspired to play exhibition games in Montreal and Vancouver. In March this year half that aspiration was realized when Toronto played two pre-season games against the New York Mets at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, the ﬁrst time the venue had seen professional baseball since the Expos were shipped out a decade earlier.

Now, Fraser said, the club is more motivated than ever to visit Vancouver. “They’re interested, we’re interested. We have to see what’s feasible and do some tests to see what’s possible and what’s not.” By “tests,” Fraser means taking batting practice at B.C. Place. “The only way to do it is to have players in there, hitting balls.”

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The North Shore Twins came about as close as you can to winning a championship without actually scoring the coveted gold medals. The Twins fought their way to the ﬁnal of the B.C. Premier Baseball League championship tournament Aug. 4 in Whalley where they

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fell in extra innings to the No. 1-ranked Langley Blaze. The Twins took a 1-0 lead in the ultra-tight contest when Geoff Ehresman knocked Anthony Cusati in with a sacrifice fly in the top of the fourth. They held the lead until the bottom of the sixth when Langley scored a pair to take a 2-1 advantage into the final inning. Down to their final out in the top of the seventh, the Twins rallied with Surya Viswanathan starting things off with a single and then scoring on the very next pitch when Taylor Wright ripped a

clutch double. The Twins then seemed destined for the win after scoring in the top of the ninth. Ehresman doubled, stole third and then scored on an error to give the North Shore a 3-2 lead. It didn’t stand, however, as Langley loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth and then won it on a two-run double from Dakota Currey. The Twins ended up with silver to top off an excellent season that saw them ﬁnish with a 32-12 regular season record. On the mound, ace Brad

Smith struck out 30 in 18.2 playoff innings while posting a 1.50 EAR. Smith, a Point Grey graduate who will play for the UBC Thunderbirds next year, tweeted after the loss: “Best guys I have ever met. Best teammates to ever play with. I’ll miss you all. Couldn’t have asked for a better year with [the North Shore Twins].” Viswanathan also tweeted following the game: “Tears was all I had left after yesterday. We showed what it means to be [the North Shore Twins ... we went out as lions.”

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circle Buntzen Lake or climb Diez Vistas suspension bridge and hike the east side of the Buntzen Lake Trail. Five-kilometres long, this side also has steeper sections that rise in and out of the rainforest. Bring plenty of water. After the trail joins a gravel road for the last kilometer, return to your car by turning left at the “Floating Bridge” crossing the narrower south end of the lake. For well-prepared and fit hikers looking for more of a workout and even more spectacular views, the Diez Vistas Trail (it translates to “ten views” in Spanish) is a popular choice. But be prepared for a climb over 500 metres elevation gain and bring extra water. You might want to re-name this hike the “Diez Heart Attacks” trail by the time you’re done — but it will be worth it. The trailhead is at the southwest corner of the parking lot. Follow the flat trail south, turn right to cross the Floating Bridge, then stay straight as the first section rises imme-

diately through secondgrowth forest. Large cedar stumps and remnants of an 100-year old “skid road” characterize the logging history of the area. After a clearing under power lines, the real effort begins. The rocky, rooty trail moves northwest around and over a ridge to the west-facing side of the mountain, then begins a series of switchbacks that will test your fitness (I suggested calling this section the “Diez Switchbacks”). After the first series of switchbacks you emerge — likely sweating — at a small rocky outcrop looking southwest to Belcarra Park. Many first-timers assume this must be Vista No. 1, but alas, it is not. It’s a great place for a water break, but more climbing and switchbacks are ahead before you finally reach the official first Vista. And what a vista! On a clear day, the deep blue waters of Indian Arm shimmer like a jewel and Deep Cove is framed

perfectly to the west. Behind it you can see downtown Vancouver and even glimpse Vancouver Island. Mount Seymour’s first peak and ski resort buildings are also easy to pick out. If Vista No. 1 is enough — and for many people it is — return downhill through the switchbacks or via a side trail loop that leads to an east-facing lookout over Buntzen Lake. Or you can continue north along the plateau trail to the rest of the Diez Vistas. Keep in mind, however, time and inevitable tree growth has obscured many of the vistas. Close to half are now blocked by trees, but the ones that still offer views are worth the time and trouble. The trail eventually drops down to intersect with the steep, downhill Lakeview Trail and the Old Buntzen Lake Trail, for your return trip. Mike Hanafin is an avid backcountry hiker who can see the forest and the trees. twitter.com/MikeHanafin

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thinking this scrappy little hatchback was blue-blood royalty. The SE model designation means this particular ﬂavour of Fiesta comes with 15” steel wheels and hubcaps, and its diminutive shape is pure economy car. However, it’s a handsome little car, with clean lines and a wellformed silhouette. The grille, the hood, the headlights and the taillights are all updated for the 2014 model year for all Fiestas. Overall, it’s an improvement.

The Fiesta is reasonably snug on the inside too. However, you’d not call it an econobox. The plastics are moulded in a pleasing pattern, and the fabric covering the seats looks like it should be durable. Space in the back is tight, as you’d expect for a subcompact, but the Fiesta is larger than others in its class, and a workable four-seater (add in a ﬁfth passenger and you might as well all sign up to enter clown college). The trunk is a useful 422L, and you can of course fold all the seats down to carry larger items. Up front, the Fiesta has a fairly basic control layout, with buttons and digital readouts that would put you in mind of an early 2000s ﬂip-phone. It’s not the most stylish execution in the world, and compared to the colour-screens available

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today’sdrive as an option on highertrim Fiestas, it’s fairly basic in operation. The single central joystick just feels a bit ﬂimsy, and the screen readout is of a size that you should really only navigate when pulled over. However, the audio works ﬁne once you’ve got it all set up, and there are plenty of power outlets and storage cubbies. As an optional extra, this Fiesta also had heated seats and automatic climate control.

Performance:

Lopping off a cylinder and bolting on a turbo gives the EcoBoostequipped Fiesta a relatively peppy 123hp and a solid 148lb/ft of torque. Considering all this power is coming from just 1.0L of displacement – the smallest engine Ford makes – that’s actually quite impressive. Moreover, it’s nearly a third more torque than the standard 1.6L engine and most of that’s available at very low rpm. Getting off the very light clutch, the Fiesta’s little three-pot engine grumbles at ﬁrst, and then immediately surges into boost with a strong pull. It’s only offered with a 5-speed manual transmission, one with gear-spacing set up for maximizing highway fuel economy rather than the slick-shifting close ratio box you get in its sportier cousin, the ST. Still, it’s quite good fun to keep the turbo-three on the boil, and the low-end response makes the Fiesta easily capable of keeping up with trafﬁc, handling onramps, and dispatching hills with ease. All Fiestas are pretty good to drive, and despite not having a sport-tuned suspension or lightweight alloy wheels, the EcoBoost version is actually quite good fun. Down here at the entry level end of the market, most of the vehicles have a certain charm in the challenge it usually is to drive them hard enough to stay out of everyone’s way, but the Fiesta actually feels substantial. Around town, it’s a nimble little thing, and the three-cylinder’s fat torque band means you’ll be dispatching stop and go with ease. It’s comfortable and quiet, but rev up that little engine and there’s a surprising growl. On the highway, the Fiesta’s small car roots start showing – it’s per-

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fectly acceptable in terms of wind-noise and ride quality, but that lightweight feel does impart a slight nervousness to the handling as speeds rise if there’s much in the way of crosswinds. However, as a long-distance commuter, the extra low-end spool of the turbo means you need not downshift for hills, as lower-torque four-cylinders might demand.

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Being set up as a fuelmiser, the Fiesta is only accidentally a hoot to drive; while there are a few options available, it’s mostly targeted at a market segment that’s watching their bottom line, so there’s not much in the way of luxuries. The $500 comfort package gives heated seats up front and automatic climate control, and along with a full power group for the windows and door locks, means that all the essentials are covered. The audio system has USB connectivity and Bluetooth streaming audio as standard, and the headlights are automatic. So, everything you need, and then there’s that fuel economy. Even with mixedmileage downgraded to 5.5L/100kms, with Ford’s new ﬁgures, it represents nearly a litre per 100kms improvement over the 1.6L engine that’s standard. Better gas economy and more available torque? Sounds like a win-win. However, assuming you put 20,000kms a year on your car, that’s only a savings of $300 a year at our current $1.50/L pricing versus shelling out $1,295 for the optional EcoBoost, but environmentally friendly. And the more you drive, the more you save. However, the manual-only option might limit this car to the highway warrior, rather than the urban commuter who wants an automatic to deal with trafﬁc.

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Simply Natural Organic Salad Dressing

Clif Crunch Granola Bars

Island Farms Ice Cream

Choices’ Own Salads Penta Bean or South West Black Bean Pasta

Muffins

mini or regular assorted varieties,

banana or wholesome honey carrot

1.29/100g

package of 4

2.49-3.99

5.99

package of 4

Almond Treats

Happy Days Goat Milk Feta Cheese

Organic Multigrain Bread

assorted varieties, assorted sizes

1.79/100g

4.49

1.49- 3.99

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530g

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Cambie

Kerrisdale

Yaletown

Gluten Free Bakery

South Surrey

Burnaby Crest

Kelowna

Floral Shop

2627 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver

3493 Cambie St. Vancouver

1888 W. 57th Ave. Vancouver

1202 Richards St. Vancouver

2595 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver

3248 King George Blvd. South Surrey

8683 10th Ave. Burnaby

1937 Harvey Ave. Kelowna

2615 W. 16th Vancouver

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