Vancouver Courier August 13 2015

12TH & CAMBIE GOT YOUR POT SHOP APPLICATION IN YET? ARBUTUS CORRIDOR IN NEED OF A PLAN VANDUSEN GOES RETRO FOR 40TH BIRTHDAY FACETIME KITSFEST STRETCHES OUT 13 August 2015

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Get your pot shop applications in soon

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Some of you may have read my story last week about the City of Vancouver hosting private sessions for current and potential pot shop operators on how to “successfully” obtain a business licence for the illegal dispensaries.

I know, it seems contradictory doesn’t it — a legal business licence for an illegal activity.

But that’s for the federal government to sort out as city staff embarks on its bold plan to have Vancouver become the first municipality in Canada to regulate the growing number of marijuana dispensaries.

The city estimates there are about 100 pot shops in town.

I attended a portion of the first session July 30 before I was booted out for the question and answer period; the participants didn’t anticipate media would be in the room when they signed up for the session.

People who want to get a business licence for a marijuana dispensary should have their applications into city hall by Aug. 21 or be “subject to enforcement.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Anyway, during my time in the room, I heard what Andreea Toma, the city’s chief licence inspector, told the crowd. I went over my notes and thought I’d share an instructive quote I didn’t have space for in my story last week. (By the way, I never thought I’d be attend-

ing a session at a city hall in which staff was telling people how to successfully get a business licence to sell pot.)

Toma: “It’s important that you come to us by the 21st of August. Anybody that doesn’t come to us by the 21st of August and continues to be operational

will be subject to enforcement and will have to close their doors. Anyone who comes to us after the 21st of August will automatically be put on hold. We will not even consider the application until we’ve dealt with and completed all the applications that have come in

on time. So I can’t emphasize how important that is.”

What enforcement looks like is not totally clear, although city lawyer Iain Dixon told council during the public hearing in June that “we can take enforcement action immediately, but whether we can guarantee that they’ll stop operating immediately, we can’t. It takes time to make someone stop operating.”

Dixon said the most efficient way to shut down a business without a licence is to seek an injunction in court, adding that “if someone doesn’t contest it, it’s very quick. But if they do contest it, it can be quite long.” Fines of $250 to $10,000 a day can also be imposed.

When I hear the word “enforcement,” I think cops.

But as I’ve learned, the city’s new regulations don’t change how the cops do business. They can’t shut down pot shops, board up a building or turn off someone’s electricity. They can get a warrant, execute

it, make arrests and seize evidence. But, as some of the research I did recently on police investigations of pot shops indicated, dispensary operators usually open their doors again soon after a raid.

“It would be up to the city, which can regulate land use and enforce city bylaws, to actually shut the business down,” said Const. Brian Montague, a VPD media liaison officer. “The only way things would change for us [under the new regulations] is if the city asked us for assistance to either keep the peace while they dealt with a business that they were having issues with.”

All very interesting as the federal election campaign gets rolling and the Conservatives, who have been very vocal about their disgust at Vancouver’s move to regulate pot shops, look to get another term in office.

Note: I’m taking some time off and will be back on the beat Aug. 31. We’ll see you then. @Howellings

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Retired City of Vancouver engineer Ian Adam says demolishing the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts will create more traffic congestion for neighbourhoods near the elevated roadways. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Former city engineer questions need to demolish viaducts

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

A retired City of Vancouver senior manager who once headed up the transportation department is questioning the need to demolish the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts.

Ian Adam, who retired in 2008 as the assistant city engineer of streets and structures, said he believes the loss of the viaducts will create more traffic congestion in Chinatown, Gastown and nearby areas.

“Anybody who thinks you can take down two major viaducts like that, which handles 60,000 people a day and a thousand heavy trucks a day — and not have some impact — they’ve got to be dreaming in Technicolor,” said Adam, who once held the position of what is now called director of transportation. “I would say leave them up. They’re a $100-million asset that’s doing a job.”

The Courier reported in July that city staff will recommend to council in September to knock down the elevated roadways, which were built in the 1970s and carry an average of 43,000 vehicles per day; Adam’s 60,000 calculation is based on number of people in vehicles.

Kevin McNaney, one of

the city’s assistant directors of planning, told the Courier in July that a new road network would replace the viaducts and it will show “that it’s actually a better transportation system.”

Adam said he obtained traffic projections from the city that show increased traffic at peak hours along the East Hastings corridor, Chinatown and Cambie Bridge. He said he viewed the same projections at open houses on the viaducts.

The projections, which he shared with the Courier, show the Main Street area at the east end of the viaducts jumping from 970 vehicles during the peak to 2,135.

Increases are also anticipated to jump from 800 to 1,102 along East Hastings, 1,030 to 1,341 on East Cordova, 435 to 545 on East Pender and 2,000 to 2,192 over the Cambie Bridge.

“It’s going to have rushhour conditions for six to eight hours a day,” Adam said. “So it’s not going to be this pleasant drive around False Creek. It’s going to be basically a freeway.”

The city’s plan calls for Georgia Street to be linked with Pacific Boulevard on a sloping grade, which Adam agrees with. But, he said, the plan is simply re-orienting Pacific and not actually building a new street.

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He’s aware of the talk about creating a new connector along Malkin or National to alleviate traffic through Strathcona. But, he said, traffic will still be a problem at the end of the connector.

Adam noted Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia have done innovative design work and landscaping underneath their viaducts, adding parks and walkways.

“The more difficult you make it to get there, the more people will simply choose not to go there,” he said of the effect the loss of the viaducts could have on downtown. “If they’re looking for a restaurant, or they want to find a lawyer or a travel agent or something, they’re not going to go downtown. So what you’re doing is your contributing to suburbanization of the region. If that’s what council wants to do, I guess that’s what they’re going to do.”

A staff report to city council in June 2013, said it would cost up to $55 million to demolish the viaducts. The tab for such a project climbs to more than $130 million when costs are calculated to modify existing streets, parks, utilities, build more parks and conduct soil remediation on what were former industrial lands. @Howellings

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New registration system starts off with a glitch

Megan Stewart

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Thousands of people were prevented from signing up for fall swim lessons Monday morning when an external system failure temporarily downed the Vancouver Park Board registration site.

The problem was not with a new, third-party registration service provided

by Texas-based ActiveNet, but with the credit card processing service. Park board general manager Malcolm Bromley would not name the company.

“This wasn’t a problem with the registration system, it was a problem with payment. Sometimes you go to a restaurant and they say, ‘Sorry Visa is down, cash only.’ It was one of those situations. It was outside of our control, it was outside of ActiveNet’s control,” said Bromley on Monday once the problem was addressed.

“We’re really thrilled with ActiveNet, it’s been a terrific system,” said Bromley. “This unfortunately was just bad timing.

Registration for roughly 10,000 spaces in aquatic programs opened at 9 a.m.

Monday. Minutes later, the first of hundreds of questions and complaints popped up on social media.

Adam James, tweeting as @AdamJamesArch wrote at 9:10 a.m., “Registration works but payment system crashing? ‘Busy encrypting credit card’ message.”

Registration for Vancouver Park Board swim programming was temporarily interrupted Aug. 10 because of an external system failure. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

People with ongoing registration concerns can call the city at 3-1-1. A communications staffer said the park board will follow up.

The city had widely promoted the cloud-based ActiveNet, which replaced the Safari software the city had used since 2003.

Bromley called it “oldschool” and “antiquated,” noting it had to be installed on city hardware instead of accessed more remotely.

“Normally we’d have 10 different registration days for aquatics in the past because the system couldn’t handle it.” he said. “It’s hard to believe it right now because of the payment problems, which caused delay today, but it’s light-years ahead of where Safari was in its ability to process registrations.”

ActiveNet cost $2 million to install, and going forward, the park board will

pay them a percentage of annual revenue. Safari cost $515,000 to install and cost community centres associations $1,500 and the park board $26,000 each year.

Monday’s glitch harkened back to the repeated registration problems associated with signing up for park board classes and lessons. Frustration was high, and parents — even once notified registration would open again at noon — vented concerns they were wasting time and their children would miss out.

The park board issued an apology.

“I want to reassure parents that we’ve gone to great lengths to come up with this new registration system that we love and we have a lot of confidence in and that it wasn’t them,” said Bromley.

“It wasn’t their system and it wasn’t us.” @MHStewart

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Templeton field petition sparks further debate

Sports field shouldn’t go to the dogs says neighbour Elizabeth Lu

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Despite an online petition requesting Templeton secondary field remain open during the summer to accommodate dog owners and their pooches, not everyone in the neighbourhood agrees with the sentiment.

As published in the Courier last month, an online petition led by neighbour Kat Cortes to keep the field open during the off-season has sparked a debate in the community.

One of Cortes’s concerns was the lack of field maintenance last summer, although as some readers pointed out last year’s teachers strike prevented members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which includes groundskeepers, from crossing picket lines and continuing their

work. According to one neighbour, however, dog owners broke into the field anyway, through a barrier that was erected.

“I live in the neighbourhood and every time I walked by that field I saw the fences had been knocked down and that people were out there with their dogs doing whatever they wanted,” said David Smythe. “The fact of the matter is [Kat Cortes] has never, in all these years, had the right to take that park over as a dog park.”

Smythe said other neighbours he’s talked to aren’t pleased the field has become so popular among dog owners either.

“I know of people in the community as well who are soccer players who would love that field for their youth program, but every time they talk about it they say, ‘No it’s

not worth it.’ All the dog people there have just sort of taken over.”

Smythe maintains that he not anti-dog but suggests the field’s actual purpose has been forgotten and that the neighbourhood’s top priority should be for the students and having the field in proper condition for September.

“I think the people that will read this article will say, ‘Why are they closing a dog park?’ when really it’s a sports facility and it’s a classroom, essentially for Templeton high school.”

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From the frying pan into the workplace Cheryl Rossi

crossi@vancourier.com

Kyle Demelo reluctantly posed for a photo at Café 335 when the Courier visited last month. He’s completed his Culinary Skills Training Program through Vancouver Community College and his six-week work experience at the café at 335 West Pender St. He’s a month away from finishing his professional cook level one training at VCC, is planning to pursue his level two and wants his progress to be recognized.

“It was very interesting being able to get myself into college through this program,” said the 27-year-old with a neck tattoo. “I didn’t know I would be able to do that without going back and getting my high school.”

Coast Mental Health, a non-profit that provides housing and support services to people with mental illness, has partnered with VCC to train youth aged 19 to 30 to be entry level cooks.

Demelo copes with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. He was referred to the Culinary Skills

Training Program by a youth and family worker because he’d previously worked in a restaurant and wasn’t doing much with his time.

Once he completes his level two training at VCC, Demelo wants to cook in a work camp to make “a bunch of money.” He’s interested in owning a food cart one day.

“Kyle, he used to have a lot of anger and through the program he’s learned how to just try and control his temper and think before he speaks,” said Café 335 manager LeeAnn Deacon.

“He’s grown quite a bit.”

Clinton Robinson also wasn’t doing much when his case worker at the Grandview Woodland Mental Health Team suggested he apply.

“I didn’t think I could do it,” said the 24-year-old who struggled with anxiety and depression when he started training. “At first, my mind was always racing.”

But he persevered and thrived.

Robinson was initially quiet and shy and struggled to be on time, says

Clinton Robinson (left) looks on as Kyle Demelo makes a breakfast parfait with the guidance of Café 335 manager LeeAnn Deacon. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Jason Payne, the coordinator for the Culinary Skills Training Program, who works alongside the trainees. But Robinson became bold, requesting a full-time job at the café.

“So he had to really prove himself and work hard to get that,” Payne said.

“And now he’s able to tell people what to do,” Deacon added. “He’s come quite far.”

Café 335 runs on the ground floor of Pacific

Coast Apartments, a supportive housing development operated by Coast Mental Health on one of 14 city-owned sites dedicated to social housing.

Darrell Burnham, executive director of Coast Mental Health, said the building included a commercial kitchen and a shell of a space that the city had no interest in running, so the café was developed as a social enterprise and a training ground along

with partner VCC. Youth train at the college for a month and then with a VCC chef instructor at 335 West Pender for four months. They prepare food for the building’s 90 residents.

Trainees transformed the café that serves lunch and breakfast on weekdays into a restaurant with a set-price, three-course meal for Valentine’s Day.

They braised short ribs and rolled homemade gnocchi.

“We did a venison carpaccio so they learned all the different types of cooking techniques that day, and then they also were trained for front of the house, so serving, opening wine,” Deacon said. “It was really cool.”

Seventeen of the 25 youth who started the program graduated, and Payne has helped some of the graduates secure jobs in the industry. Others have continued to work at the café and some, like Demelo, have chosen to further their culinary education.

Café 335 delivers lunch and caters, and Deacon is brainstorming other ways work in the kitchen could simmer past the café’s closing hour of 2 p.m.

The Diamond Foundation and Coast Capital Savings recently provided $50,000 to the program for job training.

Coast Mental Health also operates a landscaping business. @Cheryl_Rossi

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Opinion MICHAEL GELLER COLUMNIST

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Time to agree on a plan for Arbutus Corridor

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ome West Side Vancouver residents were recently shocked to see large red and black CP Rail signs posted around their neighbourhoods announcing the recommencing of railway operations.

They were warned not to stop on the tracks, obey flag persons and call 3-1-1 for information.

The signs were installed by the City of Vancouver at the request of Transport Canada.

Tell the city it’s time to agree on a plan preserving a transit corridor, along with a mix of public amenities and sustainable development.

For those not quite sure why active railway traffic will soon be running along the Arbutus Corridor, allow me to offer some background, and a potential solution to end the longstanding impasse between CP and the city.

The 11-kilometre-long Arbutus Corridor was given to CP Rail in 1886 and the first rail line was built in 1902 to move cargo and passenger trains.

By 1999, train operations were limited to serving the Molson brewery, and the company began plans to redevelop the land into a mix of residential and commercial uses.

To prevent this from happening, in July 2000 the city enacted the Arbutus Corridor Official Development Plan that designated the land for transportation,

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parks and greenways only.

CP subsequently took the city to court arguing the city had effectively taken its property without compensation. However, the city won since it generally has the right to zone land in the public interest.

Five years later, CP initiated a planning exercise that included participation from four neighbourhoods — Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge/Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale and Marpole — through which the rail line runs.

Stanley King, a local planner who has a magical ability to illustrate what people are saying, was brought in, along with an advisory panel that included Nola-Kate Seymoar, president of the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, Mark Holland, a respected sustainability planner, UBC’s Patrick Condon and former NDP premier Mike Harcourt.

I attended some of the deliberations as a past director of the International Centre for Sustainable Cities.

Eventually, a report was prepared that argued against using the lands solely for a greenway with bike paths and walkways because, despite meeting certain sustainability principles, this was not financially sustainable. Moreover, it did not include green buildings and infrastructure, or diverse housing choices, all of which are key tenets of sustainable planning.

The preferred plan envisioned maintaining a continuous transit corridor, with mixed-use development at key nodes, including Kerrisdale Village, where the corridor is flanked by city streets on two sides, and around 33rd and 16th avenues, as well as other major arterials.

In response to those who question whether it is possible to retain a transit corridor through development, you might be interested to know there are two transit corridors reserved through Coal Harbour’s Bayshore development: one above ground and one below ground.

By combining CP’s land with the city’s

land, the planners concluded it was possible to create significant value for CP, which in turn would allow the city to acquire the balance of the corridor for next to nothing.

However, shortly thereafter, the city successfully fought against any development along the corridor after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the previous municipal bylaw that restricted the right-of-way’s use to a greenway and car-free transportation corridor.

Fast forward to summer 2014.

After the city and CP failed to agree on a fair market price for the property, CP threatened to start running trains along the line and insisted that community gardens and other public use cease immediately.

This time the city took the railway to court but lost.

In a subsequent letter to neighbourhood

residents, the president of CP wrote: “For many years now, CP has been involved in conversations to convert the Arbutus Corridor for a number of combined public uses, such as a greenway, public transportation, community gardens and eco density development. Despite our efforts, the company and other parties have been unable to achieve a plan for the disposition of this valuable asset.”

If you would like to speak to those “other parties,” just dial 3-1-1.

Tell the city it’s time to agree on a plan preserving a transit corridor, along with a mix of public amenities and sustainable development. This will make much more sense than watching trains go forward and backward while lawyers argue in court. @michaelgeller Allen Garr is on vacation.

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Mike Howell’s piece in last Thursday’s Courier informing us that Vancouver city hall will be holding special workshops and information sessions to aid new operators of marijuana dispensaries was important and astonishing.

This is what we are doing with our tax dollars and human resources?

And if I want to sell hats or cheese or lawn furniture, can I find the same helpful guide through the city maze of rules and regs?

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Funny, some friends and I were just walking through the city the other day and discussing how dark and drab it has become. The streets in Vancouver are also far too narrow... Oh well, keep pumping in the foreign money, we’ll be happy to ruin our city with it.

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Templeton field for everyone Re: “Neighbour questions use of Templeton field as a dog park,” online, Aug. 5.

I feel it is important to clarify the statements made about this field. It is important and used by many community teams, including soccer players of all ages, Ultimate players, some golfers, families and friends who all use it as well as dog owners. They all share it well and everyone takes care of the field. It should be noted as well that this field is one of the best maintained fields in the city and has been all year. It is watered daily despite Stage 3 water restrictions and continues in its lush fullness.

We on the East Side have few green spaces on which to meet with families, friends and neighbours for recreation.

What makes this field so perfect is that it is fenced on three sides, with Templeton School on the fourth side, as well it is not on a busy, noisy street, rather a quiet residential street. For many sports and

Two wheels, two reactions

The article is really an infomercial. The writer and the professor work together on promoting cycling, it’s what they do.

There’s no objectivity, they have their mission and this article is part of that.

The writer conducts courses titled: “Effectively Marketing Bicycle Culture, Chris Bruntlett, Vancouver Cycle Chic.”

It’s an ad and should be described as such. It’s an op-ed almost certainly provided to the Courier just the same as any corporate piece. No different than if Chevrolet were to commission and provide an article on the pleasures from owning and driving a Corvette.

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Donald Trump highlights America’s decline Geoff Olson Columnist

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According to Suetonius’ Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121 AD), the mad emperor Caligula attempted to install his beloved horse Incitatus in the Roman senate. The stunt was likely intended to humiliate senators, implying their work was so meaningless an animal could do it. In

any case, the assassination of Caligula by members of his own Praetorian Guard preempted the political installation of Incitatus.

A succession of lateRoman sleazebags and crazies emptied the treasury to finance wars in foreign lands and gladiatorial spectacles in the Imperial city. I’m certainly not the first and last commentator to make a connection between Rome’s

decline and America’s twilight, which seems more palpable with the rise of real estate magnate and reality TV fixture Donald Trump as the front-runner in the Republican horse race.

Although Trump will likely return to his goldplated stable before the presidential selection, the fact that he’s now at full gallop is a good measure of the breadand-circuses state of the U.S.

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As of this week, The Donald is reportedly at 24 per cent support in polls, twice that of Florida governor Jeb Bush. Apparently some U.S. voters appreciate Trump’s habit of freely spilling the contents of his mind — however tiny the container and toxic the contents.

In the U.S., television dialogue has been reduced to yelling matches between talking heads. Print media annotates trash-talking exchanges between rappers and other celebrities. In the online world, chat rooms and Twitter feeds are spittled with cheap shots and slurs.

Trump seems like the next logical step in this culture of snark and bark: a celebrity Internet troll who’s taken the digital age dictum to “brand yourself” to its terminal station: the Oval Office. The casino owner’s unapologetic tirades make Jeb Bush seem like a model of serious statesmanship, which conveniently moves the whole Donkey/ Elephant spectrum of debate (“Overton’s Window”) another step to the right.

That said, the guy is no

slave to consistency. He has a few surprisingly progressive if feigned ideas, including universal health care. When questioned at last week’s Republican debate about Hillary Clinton attending his 2005 wedding, he responded that she had to because he gave money to her charitable foundation. Seriously off-script as always, he implied that politicians are bought and sold like soap by moneyed interests, which is obviously true.

Instead of supporting a pre-owned candidate, he’s saying, the public should vote directly for a billionaire — himself. The GOP is now terrified that he will make good on a threat to run as an independent candidate, and split the vote on the right.

Speaking of going solo, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is running as a Democratic rather than independent candidate. After Hillary’s foregone coronation as the Dem’s choice for president, the socialist-minded senior will be reduced to a historical footnote — a Socrates without the hemlock. The Elephant/Donkey

duopoly is all about foreclosing any meaningful changes to a system which is shambling toward collapse.

Regardless of who gets to be hood ornament on the national security/surveillance juggernaut, “they” still win, at least for the short term.

They being the .01 per cent.

“The class stratification of Roman society was extreme. By comparison, Victorian England might seem a laboratory of equality.

Rome’s wealthiest class, the senatorial aristocracy, constituted, by one estimate, two thousandths of one per cent of the population, then came the equestrian class, with perhaps a tenth of a per cent.

Collectively these people owned almost everything,” writes Cullen Murphy in his short but substantial 2007 book Are We Rome: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.

Sounds familiar. Trump, a 21st century Incitatus, doesn’t have to occupy the Oval Office to highlight America’s decline. Another donkey will do just fine.

A longer version of this column appears at vancourier.com.

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Airbnb offers lifeline to beleaguered renters Jessica Barrett Columnist

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I have a friend whom I’ll call Daniel.

Like many millennials, Daniel works in an industry where layoffs, corporate restructuring and contract work is the norm. At 30, he’s got a steady-but-stillnew girlfriend, whom he’s not ready to move in with, and not much in the way of physical assets or savings.

What he does have, however, is the lease on a sweet one-bedroom apartment in a desirable neighbourhood close to the beach. Although at $1,400 a month, it’s tight.

“Everything’s up in the air right now with my job,” he told me recently. “I just want a little bit of flexibility.”

So, what’s an overextended renter to do? Why employ Airbnb, of course.

The much maligned home-share site has fast become a favourite for savvy travellers, but it’s wreaking havoc on cities with tight rental markets — or so we’re told. You’ll recall a study earlier this summer suggested greedy condo owners in this city are likely making a mint off of shortterm rentals through the site, rather than renting to long-term tenants. This, of course, has added fuel to the concern over housing costs and supply, and led city staff to promise they’ll look into options to curb this unruly arm of the sharing economy.

But while strata councils raise safety concerns and

housing advocates claim hardship, there’s another side effect of Airbnb that bears consideration. As much as the site seems to pose a threat to vulnerable renters, it’s also a saving grace for the very population that risks being pushed out.

Renters exist in a precarious world. For us, finding a place we like living in — and can afford — is like winning the lottery, only the prize money can be clawed back at any moment and through no fault of your

back, but I balked at the idea of having strangers in my space. Daniel, however, has no such qualms. When things got shaky on the job front, he turned to Airbnb in a bid to build himself a much-needed financial cushion without having to sacrifice too much in the way of lifestyle.

Inspiration hit during the FIFA Women’s World Cup in June, when there wasn’t a hotel room to be had. A little research revealed that, for the price

The simple fact is living alone in this city is a luxury most cannot afford, even well past the stage of life when roommates are fun.

Airbnb offers some semblance of independence. own. Roommate takes off to South America and forgets to let you know? Realize you can no longer live with that live-in partner? Just get notice that you’re out of a job? You’re screwed unless you can come up with some temporary cash to buy you time until you figure out your next move. Why not crash on a friend’s couch for a couple of nights and — for once — reap the benefit of Vancouver’s ridiculously overpriced real estate?

I seriously considered signing up when my own living situation unexpectedly changed a few months

of a new set of sheets and a few hours cleaning, Daniel could charge $300 a night a few nights a month and substantially beef up his income. In the time he’s been selectively renting out his place (he bunks with the girlfriend while guests are in town) he’s managed to save $3,000 and buy himself a little breathing room.

“This is a way for me to kind of build some security into my life,” he says.

Renters who participate in this grey market (most, like Daniel, without informing their landlords) also stand to reap an even more

elusive reward: autonomy.

The simple fact is living alone in this city is a luxury most cannot afford, even well past the stage of life when roommates are fun.

Airbnb offers some semblance of independence.

Pursuit of that goal resulted in another friend, this one I’ll call Charles, leaving the East Vancouver home he’d lived in for five years.

The owner of the house, a woman in her 40s, decided to phase out roommates in hopes of one day filling her single-family home with just that, a family. Preferably hers. She figured Airbnb could help facilitate that by netting comparable income to her long-term tenants but with the added bonus of affording her enough personal space to, you know, work on the family thing.

Charles is adamant he wasn’t Airbnb-victed, per se. He left willingly. (And as a silver lining, he fell in love with a woman he met in his new building.) But both my friends’ stories point to a complicated topography that has grown out of Airbnb, one that’s much more nuanced than studies and stats might show. While some people undoubtedly use the service to hoard, rather than share, scarce accommodation, others — many of them operating in legal grey areas — use it as a lifeline to get by or get ahead. As the city contemplates regulating short-term rentals, it would do well to devise mechanisms that discern the difference. @jm_barrett

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Queenie Hewitt tends to the community garden at Mount Pleasant’s Tenth Avenue Alliance Church. The garden grows food served at public community meals every Monday and Tuesday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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When Queenie Hewitt toils in her local community garden, it is more than just a hobby. It is a manifestation of her Christianity.

Hewitt, and a fastgrowing number of other Christians, are finding connection to God in the soil of the earth.

“For us, it’s about connecting with God the creator,” says Hewitt, whose community garden is tended by members of the Tenth Avenue Alliance Church in Mount Pleasant. “Through gardening, we get a sense of His character and we put our trust in Him,” she says.

“We have that act of faith and see Him provide.”

The food the garden produces helps feed locals at public community meals every Monday and Tuesday.

In addition to her volunteer gardening, Hewitt works part time for A Rocha, a Christian organization dedicated to environmental education and sustainable agriculture.

Markku Kostamo is president of A Rocha, which is headquartered on a magnificent 18-acre heritage farm in south Surrey, called Brooksdale, and which has other centres in Manitoba and Ontario. The organization spread from Portugal 30 years ago (A Rocha simply means “the rock” in Portuguese) to 24 countries and has been in Canada for 15 years. The name comes from the Church of the Rock, where the movement began, but has multiple meanings including the geological and theological.

“As a faith-based Christian organization, the bedrock of our faith is Jesus Christ, the rock,” says Kostamo, a trained ecologist who was working in the forest industry in Tofino when he had an epiphany of sorts.

“I’m not against forestry,” he says, “but we shouldn’t be harvesting these uniquely ecological places that you need helicopters to get to and the trees are 900 years old.”

He had a “conversion moment” and wondered

what would happen if all two billion Christians had a similar one. What would the planet look like, he asks, if all Christians worldwide aligned with the environmental movement because of their faith?

“That’s kind of what has driven us,” he says. A Rocha’s work in B.C. is focused on restoring salmon streams, working with species at risk and doing environmental education with school groups, churches and conservation organizations.

Also central to their work is sustainable agriculture, in which about 400 individuals or groups buy shares in the year’s crops — it’s called “community supported agriculture” — and they share the risks and bounty of farming. If a hailstorm hits, shareholders suffer. Bumper crops are more common, though — many recipients tell Kostamo’s group their vegetable and fruit deliveries are overly generous. Some churches buy shares for food banks.

A nondenominational Christian organization,

A Rocha members view environmental stewardship as core to their religious convictions.

“It’s not an afterthought,” Kostamo says. “We’re all in this. There’s nobody who’s excluded. If we breathe and eat, we are all environmentalists, or at least we should be. We see this theme of creation right through the biblical narratives and we see this as core to our faith. Part of our stewardship and part of our mandate and part of our role as people actually is to steward this planet, to steward this creation. That’s our primary calling.”

Kostamo describes Brooksdale, which is open to the public, as a mashup between a conservation organization, an organic farm and a youth hostel.

In the summer especially, the place is humming with interns and volunteers.

Church groups and schools come for volunteer days.

A small staff keep the farm running year-round and offer programs, including a “spirituality of gardening” seminar Sept. 19.

Matt Humphrey, Brooksdale’s assistant director, is helping organize the seminar. He sees a huge growth in interest among religious people to get back to the land, to get their hands dirty and connect with the natural world. Maybe there is a correlation between the decline in religious observance and the succession of generations that have moved from farm to city in the past century, I suggest and Humphrey agrees.

“We recognize that there is a kind of deep connection with our human life to the life of creation, of the natural world,” Humphrey says.

“Food and gardening are one of the more immediate ways that we connect into that. How is it that putting our hands in the soil and growing things connects us to something deep about what it means to be human and about being part of the created world?”

Humphrey has a pretty sweet deal living a farm life in the Lower Mainland, but he says city folk are also digging their gardens.

“I sense that even in urban settings, there is a desire to get back in touch with that,” he says. “Much of the interest I think in community gardening and rooftop gardening, all of that, is just a desire to be back in touch with that part of ourselves that we’ve become detached from.”

There seems to be a definite shift toward Christian ecology, not only in the burgeoning of groups like A Rocha, but of course in the landmark encyclical on caring for the earth issued

by Pope Francis recently.

(Next week, I’ll introduce you to a group of young activists of all faiths who are throwing themselves into the environmental cause.)

For Kostamo, caring for the environment is a new cause for evangelism.

“We see that as core to our faith,” he says. “And not all Christians do. If all Christians saw the world this way and saw that their faith this way, it’d be a good place. We wouldn’t need to exist.” @Pat604Johnson

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The Danceland Ballroom, formerly known as the Alexander Ballroom, occupied the corner of Hornby and Robson where it hosted dance orchestras and touring acts such as Dell Shannon and the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. PHOTO WALTER E FROST, CVA 447-351. Mildred Henderson, 92, enjoyed many a night at the Danceland Ballroom. Since the downtown venue was demolished in 1965, its floorboards have lined her basement, enjoying another 50 years of dancing. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Danceland Ballroom lives on in Mildred Henderson’s basement Famous floor has seen its share of fancy footwork Aaron Chapman

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When Mildred Henderson thinks back on her youthful days of swing dancing and jitterbugging in Vancouver dance halls, she needn’t do anything more to connect with those memories than go downstairs to her basement and dance a few simple steps on a very special hardwood floor.

Born in Manitoba, but raised in Vancouver since she was five, Henderson recalls the days when she would leave her family’s home downtown on Pendrell Street and join friends hopping Vancouver streetcars to take in a number of local venues in one evening.

“We were crazy for dancing. Wherever we went, dancing had to be there. We loved big band music — Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey,” Henderson says.

Having a ball

In the late 1940s and ’50s, Vancouverites were hardly limited in their

choices for an evening out. Young people in particular flocked to cut a rug at now mostly long forgotten downtown dance halls such as the Embassy Ballroom on Davie Street or the Howden Ballroom on Granville Street.

“When we were single and young, we went to the White Rose Ballroom [at 1248 West Broadway],” Henderson says. “It wasn’t a fancy place — just a floor and a bandstand, but we really liked to dance there. The boys would stand on one side, and the girls on the other, and they’d come over and ask you to dance. My friends and I were good dancers and popular wherever we went. And we knew the guys who were the good dancers or not — that’s all that mattered to us.”

Another popular downtown destination would be Danceland.

Originally the Alexandra Ballroom, it was located at 804 Hornby St., at the corner of Hornby and Robson. The Alexander — or known simply as “the Alex”

to Vancouverites at the time — had originally opened in 1922 in the second floor of the Clements Building, and later featured local dance orchestras led by bandleaders such as Leo “Suntan” Smuntan, Eric Gee and Trevor Page, who typically played favourite songs of the day such as “String of Pearls,” “Little Brown Jug” or “Jersey Bounce.” And while the band name might not have had a typically stinging handle like rock bands that play clubs today, it was locals Len Chamberlain and His Twinkletoes that pulled wallflowers onto the dance floor in droves, and not just those who lived in the West End, but from all over the city.

“At one point a few places had closed, and it was the only place you could go to. It was open late, and they always had a great band,” Henderson says.

For a time, the offices of CKNW radio moved into the top floor of the building and the home to Jack Cullen’s 100,000 album strong record collection.

The ballroom was eventually

renamed Danceland in 1956.

Henderson herself eventually married, and in 1960 she and her husband bought the Burnaby home she still lives in for $15,000.

As she got older and busier with her family, she had less time for the dance halls, and when she did go out with her husband and her friends, they tended to visit clubs like the Cave and the Commodore.

But Danceland remained a popular spot for a whole new generation of youth as new sounds would be heard out its second-storey windows. Touring musicians such as Del Shannon and early local rock ’n’ roll and R&B groups such as the Electras and Howie Vickers and the Viscounts regularly performed there. On Saturday Sept. 7, 1963, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue played Danceland’s stage.

It’s remembered as one of the last notable shows to ever play the venue.

Salvages of time

In a fate all too common to Vancouver nightclubs over the years,

Danceland closed and was demolished in June 1965. As the club was torn up and the building was being readied for demolition, a foreman named Hugh Glendinning remarked to Vancouver Sun reporter Nadine Asante, who was covering the venue’s closure, “We are getting far more in salvage out of the place than we expected.

We even got a bottle of whiskey, which had fallen down behind the bandstand and was forgotten by some merry-maker.

Old vintage, too!”

But for her part, Mildred Henderson never forgot those nights spent dancing on that floor, and when the opportunity came to have a piece of Danceland itself before the wrecking ball took it all, she couldn’t pass it up.

“My brother-in-law worked near there at a gas station, and he heard it was closing. So he went by and they were pulling up the wooden dance floor in long slats and going to throw it all out. He bought it all off

it. He took some of it for his cabin in Point Roberts and we got the rest of it for $35. We did our whole basement floor with it.”

If the Danceland floor had seen legions of Vancouverites’ dancing feet, for the next 50 years it survived its own happy wear-and-tear from dancing shoes and spilled drinks from more than a few house parties, and eventually, the feet of the Hendersons’ children and grandchildren. Even after enduring a basement flood years ago, the old Danceland floor is still in good condition.

And, at 92, so is Mildred Henderson — though she takes life a little easier and slower than she did when her and her friends tore up the dance floors of her youth.

“I danced on the floor when it was at Danceland, and I’ve danced on it here in my home,” she smiles. @TheAaronChapman ••• Do you have your own story of Danceland? If so, drop a line to aaron@aaronchapman.net.

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If you think wealthy baby boomers are all downsizing and freeing up their cash when their kids are gone, think again. REW.ca examines a new trend.

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price. It’s a shift in the market that wasn’t prevalent a year ago.”

Many wealthy baby boomers are selling their single-detached homes, as they have done in the past – but rather than downsizing and banking their profits, these individuals are investing in large, high-end condos. It’s called rightsizing or upsizing.

EVIDENCE OF A NEW TREND Grosvenor has direct evidence of this at its Ambleside project. Phase one is more than half sold and over 80 per cent of buyers are West Vancouver residents who, up until now, have not had many opportunities to purchase high-end condos locally.

It’s a strategy that Grosvenor is using on all its projects currently in development in Metro Vancouver: Grosvenor Ambleside, Grosvenor Edgemont and a new site at Pacific and Hornby.

Grosvenor takes heed of feedback it receives during the development process and at public meetings. The developer also sits in on focus groups and meets with marketing firms whose job it is to follow trends.

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“Developers are either going towards micro units or larger suites,” says Michael Ward, Grosvenor’s senior vice-president and general manager. “We’re seeing a lot of buyers who are selling their single family homes and purchasing a condo at the same

“The finishes and the view are perhaps better than what was in their house,” says Ward. “They might be getting slightly less in square footage, but it’s a lateral move in terms of price.”

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“Developers have to follow the needs of people and anticipate what they’ll want and what will be in demand,” says Ward.

Jason Turcotte, the vice president of development at Cressey Development Group, notes the obvious areas for these upscale projects are pockets where there is already a lot of wealth, such as West Vancouver, Vancouver’s west side and White Rock.

“These buyers do not want to leave their neighbourhood,” he adds. “They’ve often been there for many years and they’re looking for options to free up their lifestyle. They want a place with low maintenance that they can lock and leave when they go on holiday.”

LOOKING FOR SPACE AND STYLE Cressey is currently selling units at Beverley in White Rock where the average unit size is about 1,500 square feet.

“Beverley has been extremely well received,” says Turcotte, noting that twothirds of the homes sold quickly. “Buyers are looking for large square footage and quality... they are not willing to compromise. Often their new home is a step up from their existing one, which is already quite nice. Outdoor space is also important to this market. Almost all of the Beverley homes have terraces and roof decks or 30-foot-wide balconies.”

DENSITY “NO GUARANTEE OF AFFORDABILITY” Upscale projects like these are adding density to communities, but they certainly are not making their neighbourhoods more affordable.

“There is no guarantee that density makes for affordability,” says Tsur Somerville, director at the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate. “Condos have traditionally appealed to first-time buyers, single people and empty nesters. What’s different now is folks with money who want larger condos. It’s not the old story of empty nesters selling their homes to make money and it will change the type of products developers make.”

“Densification has been a trend for decades,” adds Gordon Price, director of the City Program at SFU. “The bigger change here is the equity some people are able to take out of selling their single family houses. They can afford something more luxurious. Will it continue? I wouldn’t count on it... it will always be a low percentage of the overall population who can afford luxury product... Our strategy is at that end of the spectrum. People will pay a premium for upscale, large units.”

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City hopes test will reveal potential to save money and energy The City of Vancouver, in partnership with Vancity financial, have launched a pilot program to learn what energy and cost savings can be achieved in single-family, duplex and townhomes by using a smart thermostat.

The Smart Thermostat Pilot Program invites single-family homeowners in Vancouver to install a Nest, Honeywell Lyric or Ecobee3 smart thermostat, provide energy data and in exchange receive a $125 rebate for the purchase of their thermostat.

The pilot project will help the city understand what energy and greenhouse gas savings smart thermostats can achieve, what limits peoples’ interest in the technology and what types of homes are best suited to realize the benefits of it. The resulting information will help the city in its ongoing efforts toward becoming the greenest city in the world and increase the energy efficiency of Vancouver’s building stock.

Smart thermostats are an emerging technology that make it easier for homeowners to manage their energy consumption and costs. Recent research studies in the U.S., led by utilities, non-profits and technology manufacturers, found the thermostats may provide significant annual energy savings. For example, the thermostats can learn when you leave the house for work and dial down heating before springing back into action in time to make the house nice and warm (or cool and comfortable, depending on the season) by the time you get home.

Qualified applicants will be asked to submit their utility data from the past year and during the pilot, which runs until December 2016. Participants will also be asked to complete several online surveys. Interested homeowners can apply to participate until Sept. 30. For more information or to apply for the program, visit vancouver.ca/smart-thermostats.

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AUGUST 16 VanDusen Botanical Garden celebrates its 40th anniversary, with the retro all-day admission price of $2 per person.

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AUGUST 24 The Vancouver Writers Festival and Minotaur Books presents Globe and Mail and New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny,

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DUMPLING-DO: Seventeen chefs tried their hand at reimagining the delicious dumpling at the third annual Golden Dumpling Cook Off and Derby in support of the Chinese Elders Community Kitchen.

Fronted by founders Tannis Ling of Bao Bei and Ken Tsui, the event featured culinary talents from the Acorn, Anna Lena, Au Comptoir, Bestie, Chicha, Cibo, Cinara, Fable, Harvest, Gyoza Bar, La Mezcaleria, Pidgin, Sai Woo, Tableau, Wildebeest and The Union, who prepared their iteration of the wrapped-filled morsel to win the heart of judges and fans. Six hundred foodies gathered for the cook-off and all-you-caneat dumpling derby, staged at the Food Cart Festival fairgrounds. La Mezcaleria’s Mexican inspired-dumpling by Armando Brown won the coveted Golden Dumpling trophy, while Lyna Eng and John Jugovic were declared the day’s biggest female and male eaters, consuming 24 and 47 dumplings respectively.

SOAP DISH: The Young and the Restless’s Kate Linder hosted her 17th annual high tea in Vancouver benefitting the Canadian Cancer Society. The actress, who plays Esther Valentine on North America’s top-rated daytime drama, along with castmates and soap studs Sean Carrigan (Ben Rayburn), Scott Elrod (Joe Clark), Justin Hartley (Adam Newman), Christian Le Blanc (Michael Baldwin) and ingénue Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea Lawson) were met by adoring fans who packed the Four Seasons Hotel ballroom for the meet-and-greet and autograph session.

It was the third stop of Liner’s yearly pilgrimage north of the border. The afternoon affair concluded with the soap star handing over another $30,000 instalment to the $90,000 she has committed in her bid to fund research for breast and ovarian cancer — a storyline that sadly gets played out by some 30,000 women annually in Canada.

MEET THE INFLUENCERS: Jessica Thomas Cook, Hilary Chan Kent and Alex Brown recently launched Canada’s first agency dedicated to managing digital influencers, those trendsetters who influence our purchasing through beautiful pictures and breathtaking videos displayed on social media channels such as Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest and blogs. More often companies are willing to pay top dollar to have online celebs with huge followings market their goods and services. The three principals, alongside the Food Gays Adrian Harris and Jeremy Inglett, one of nine talents they currently represent, recently made the launch of Australia’s Mallee Rock Wines atop PALS Vancouver’s Coal Harbour rooftop deck. The gaggle of influential millennials toasted and posted the release of the winery’s 2013 Shiraz Cabernet 2013 and 2014 Pinot Grigio.

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Scott Elrod and Melissa Claire Egan from North America’s top-rated daytime drama made the trip to Vanhattan for Kate Linder’s 17th annual Afternoon Tea, held at the Four Season’s Hotel.

Architect, urban planner and Vancouver Courier columnist Michael Geller and his wife Sally will be feted by the international educational organization ORT Sept. 1 at the Richmond Country Club.

Geller will be recognized for his lifetime of work.

From left Alex Brown, Hilary Chan Kent and Jessica Thomas Cook’s agency W/M recruits develops and manages the roster of growing talent and digital influencers who help market goods and services online.

Tannis Ling and Ken Tsui’s Golden Dumpling Cook Off and Derby generated $30,000 for the Chinese Elders Community Kitchen in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, allowing low-income seniors to maintain their cultural diet and connect with one another in a safe environment.

Local artist David Wilson will be heading east to Pouch Cove, N.L. to exhibit his newest works of East Coast urban landscapes at the James Baird Gallery.

Young and the Restless mainstays Kate Linder and Christian LeBlanc met with fans and signed autographs while raising funds for Sheila Dong’s Canadian Cancer Society. The second of three instalments of $30,000 was committed to fund research for breast and ovarian cancer.

Cody Jensen and John Jugovic were this year’s top male eaters. Jensen was runner-up eating 41 dumplings, while Jugovic consumed 47 dumplings in two minutes to take this year’s all-youcan-eat derby title.

Looking to build new audiences, Gateway Theatre executive director Camilla Tibbs and artistic director Jovanni Sy will present four works in Cantonese with Chinese and English surtitles this September at part of their sophomore Pacific Festival.

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Aug. 13 to 19, 2015 1. Vancouver Folk Music Festival presents the return of Rising Appalachia. A highlight of this year’s festival, North Carolina sisters Leah and Chloe Smith bring their genre-bending mix of gospel, folk, soul, jazz and hip hop to the Fox Cabaret, Aug. 14, 8 p.m. Tickets at ticketzone.com.

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2. Erica Tremblay’s documentary In the Turn follows Crystal, a 10-year-old girl from Timmons, Ont., who is transgender. When her school won’t allow her to play team sports, she finds acceptance on a queer roller derby team. The moving film screens Aug. 15 at SFU Woodward’s as part of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, which runs Aug. 13 to 23. For details and a full schedule of films, go to queerfilmfestival.ca.

3. Elisha May Rembold and Larissa Loyva are the soaring harmonies and singer-songwriters behind Fake Tears.

The ethereal, electronic duo celebrates the release of their Mint Records debut, Nightshifting, produced by label-mate Jay Arner, Aug. 15, 8 p.m. at the Lido. Ace Martens opens.

4. Young performers aged 15 to 25 share their fears and reflect upon memories or incidents from their past that haunt them today in Haunted House. Adding to the vibe, Miscellaneous Productions’ sitespecific play takes place in an Edwardian Mansion (1447 Barclay St.), Aug. 15-16, 22-23. Tickets at hauntedhouse.brownpapertickets.com, Highlife, Little Sisters and Zulu Records. Tickets are limited to 30 per night. Details at miscellaneousproductions.ca.

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If you’re looking for a little magic in your life, you should check out The Faerie Play, presented by Mortal Coil Performance, written

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by Peter Hall. Produced by the same team that created Salmon Row, a huge hit in Steveston back in 2011 and again in 2013, The Faerie Play walks you through the Sharing Farm, a three-acre working farm situated within Richmond’s 63-acre Terra Nova Rural Park. While the play is full of magic, the Sharing Farm itself is amazing and well worth a visit. Now a non-profit society, the Sharing Farm Society began in 2001 with volunteers picking surplus fruit from Richmond gardens and delivering it to the Richmond Food Bank.

The project has grown like zucchinis planted in compost and since its inception has distributed more than 230,000 pounds of fruit and vegetables to the food bank.

Kale the size of small trees and the colour of eggplant stand in proud rows alongside bright green chard and cabbages almost as big as smartcars. The place — and the concept — are magical.

The Faerie Play, a sitespecific theatrical experience, is designed to delight families with children from about the age of two to eight. That being said, at the opening performance I caught many a smile on the face of longtime Richmond councillor Harold Steeves as puppets, designed by Frank Rader, Iona Paul, Joseph Paul and Amanda Kenoras popped up and did their bit.

It’s not all puppets, however. There are real live little girls and one little boy (dressed up by costum-

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ers Barbara Clayden and Stephanie Kong, as Tomato, Basil, Sweet Pea, Dandelion, Squash and Sage) who are all, so the story goes, the students of the outrageously theatrical Miss Potts (Sharon Bayly) at the “Young Persons Dramatic Society of Richmond.” When mischievous Dandelion (adorable Mackenzie Paul) goes missing, Miss Potts is frantic and rallies everyone — audience included — to go looking for her. Through a rhododendron “forest” we go, through the vegetable patch, past the bee hives (alternate route available for those afraid of or allergic to bees) and into a fantastic sunflower maze.

The sunflowers, grown specifically for this production vary from pale yellow and tawny orange, multi-flowered stalks to platter-sized giants with nine-foot stems like tree trunks.

It all wraps up in tiny magic circle with a puppet snail (handled and voiced by Sean Sonier), whose name is Time, explaining that the play is running out of it.

To keep the grownups

entertained, there are asides to give us a giggle, like frenzied drama teacher Mrs. Potts declaring, “This is the last time I do children’s theatre,” when one of her pupils goes missing and gets turned into a faerie.

Just being in the Sharing Farm is wonderful: fruit trees espaliered against rustic fences, stacks of prickly straw bales, compost heaps the size of buses and good karma everywhere. If you’re an urban dweller and you want your kids or grandkids to know where food comes from, this is the place. Farmers’ markets are grand, but this is where it all begins.

Maximum audience is 70; if it rains more than just a sprinkle, everything moves into a great big red barn. Parking is free and only a few hundred metres down the road in a gravel lot. The farm is easy to find and if you arrive early, half a block west is an entrance to the West Dyke Trail that has a magic all its own.

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Your romantic courage surges. You could attract your “ideal” now, or even conquer him/her. (Actually, attracting is better than conquering.) You might be launched on a romance that is going to stay vibrant until October, at which point you’ll have to decide: do I commit, or flee? For the next 13 months, your work will expand. It might be the kind of work you’ll like, with travel or learning or intellectual discussions being included. (Or cultural involvements.)

This is your last week of revels, popularity, friendly romance for awhile. Party time is over – well, almost.

The month and year ahead will shunt you into a quieter, healing, contemplative, spiritual place. But now to late September, early October, a haunting echo of good times will continue. Love will remain, and, if you’re single, someone will “emerge” from the groups you have frequented, who wants to mate, and, at least until October, looks like a good mate.

This is your last week of being “confined,” Taurus.

Soon, you’ll, spread your wings – and your heart – for 13 months! Real estate, domestic, security and similar zones will continue to attract and benefit you until October (but if you’re making any sort of commitment here, wait until after August 21). Family members remain affectionate. The weeks ahead will be a very good time to “nest” with a lover or new mate.

This is your last week of major pressure, Scorpio, in career, prestige and reputation areas. But in smaller ways, themes of ambition and reward continue for another 5 weeks or so. These five weeks will be a bit tricky: you could be offered, or in some way perceive, a “golden road” to an ambitious reward.

This road could have two elements, or you could see two ways to travel it – there could even be two different roads, and two different “prizes.”

This is your last week of being busy, busy with paperwork, errands, trips, calls, details and everything else that’s keeping your mind hopping. Though this area favours you, and will until early October, you’ll soon get a rest. Next week onward – right into September next year (16) – favours your home, family, real estate, healing, nutrition, sleep, security and retirement interests. (In fact your luck in many of these areas, especially real estate, climbs to a 13-year high.)

Your mild, mellow, understanding mood continues – for one more week. In truth, two lesser threads of these will waft through your life until late September/ early April. If these bring a long trip, school or mental expansion, good. If they bring a legal matter or a “new” romance, not so good. A month – and year – of ambition, career/business, of parenting, of status and prestige concerns – and of great good luck in these – starts in earnest next week.

This is your last week of a “prime focus” on money matters, Cancer. Still, your money luck will be quite prominent for some time, and will have two features: until early October, a nice, buoyant luck will please you and steer you toward spending on luxury items, on home, and for love’s sake. Until late September, though, another money influence will tempt you to overspend, will bring unexpected expenses, and will in some cases make you the target of bad people who want to rob you.

A month (and year) of mystery, infidelity, sexual urges, financial manoeuvres, research and detective work, perhaps of medical diagnoses, lifestyle choices and commitments, ends this week – well, almost. A trailing end of these lasts for about another 6 weeks, bringing attractions (sexual and financial) and some seemingly critical or lifechanging choices. But realize the energy of these is diminished, and if you ignore them, they’ll dissolve.

Your magnetism and charisma, energy and clout remain high for one more week, then “life” veers off into more mundane matters such as money, earning, spending. Actually, your sexual magnetism remains high, even increases, now to late September. This same influence will nudge you to be even more assertive and determined than usual – and therein lies danger. You could be so stubborn you end up with a difficult lawsuit, or so assertive you break legal or karmic laws.

This is your last week of crucial relationships, Aquarius…although the sweet lingering vines of love put forth flowers right into late September/ early October. By next week, a month – and year – of large luck in sexual, financial, secret, investigative, lifestyle, medical and commitment zones begins. In many cases, what occurred over the last year will veer into “deeper waters” in the 13 months ahead, in lucky ways.

This is your last week of being under a cloud of weariness, low energy, low luck, low magnetism, etc.

Even now, better things are brewing, but soon, next week, life will improve. You’ve just entered a year of great good luck, but it’s a slow transition. Until early October, monetary success still seems to elude you; debts are bigger than income. During almost the same period, to late September, investments and large finances, sexual yearnings and research also seem to yield more problems than rewards.

A year of hard work, drudgery and health concerns ends this week, but lingering duties will call you until late September, early October. (There might be two different “chores” – choose the one connected to beauty, gentleness, affection, even a bit of laziness – reject the one that entails hard work, but promises strong money rewards.) Despite these lingering tasks, you have already started veering into a year of exciting opportunities, new horizons, lucky career openings, and new, better status and relocation themes.

Aug. 13: Danny Bonaduce(56). Aug. 14: Halle Berry (49). Aug. 15: Jennifer Lawrence (25).

Aug. 16: Madonna (57). Aug. 17: Robert De Niro (72). Aug. 18 Andy Samberg (37).

Aug. 19: Bill Clinton (69).

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Ocean splash at Kits Seventh annual KitsFest brings pool sport to the ocean

Megan Stewart

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Nets unlike any others dropped into the water off the sandy shore of Kitsilano Beach last weekend.

In a Vancouver first, athletes walked past the outdoor Kits pool and stepped into the ocean, swam roughly 25 metres to a three-metre depth and challenged each other in a water polo tournament.

In a game typically played in a swimming pool free of currents and tidal ebbs, referee Roger Williams stayed dry on the prow of a boat as teams competed in the latest addition to KitsFest, a summer sports and lifestyle

festival now in its seventh year.

Robert Barton, a former swimming and water polo head coach at Simon Fraser University, helped organize the two-day competition.

The seven-a-side sport looks like little more than a lot splashing as a ball is batted around, but these strong swimmers are also kicking, grappling and sculling hard for position to elevate above the surface and fire a shot on net. Natural elements like wind, ocean spray and tides — and the potential to see seals play near Kitsilano Point — introduced an added challenge for competitors more accustomed to chlorine than kelp.

The event drew players from the West Coast Master Water Polo, a competitive adult club with former varsity and national players. Formed in 2010, the club typically plays in pools, including the West End aquatic centre, but also hosts open-water competitions at Ruby Lake on the Sunshine Coast.

The tournament partnered with the ever-expanding KitsFest, a lifestyle carnival with a setting second-to-none that was conceived by Olympian Howard Kelsey. Basketball, beach volleyball and tennis are the focus of the festival, but the three-day event has grown to include yoga, spinning and Zumba.

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1. Crash Landing, wearing blue swim caps, leaps to the offensive against the Electric Eels in what was believed to be the first open-water water polo tournament in Vancouver. 2. Crash Landing player Pavel Baranov (No. 11) shouts, “It’s cold!” as he walks towards the ocean for a water polo game against the Electric Eels during KitsFest on Aug. 8. 3. Jocely McQuade (No. 9) scores for the Electric Eels. 4. Roger Williams officiates an open-water game of water polo from the bow of the boat roughly 25 metres off shore from Kitsilano Beach. PHOTOS CHUNG CHOW

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The number of Canadians pitchers promoted out of Vancouver in the past two weeks following blockbuster trades by the parent club in Toronto. The organizational changes left gaps to fill in the C’s starting rotation and mean a more difficult route to the post-season.

In millions, the number of television viewers — the largest audience this season — who tuned in across the country Sunday to watch the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Yankees 2-0 and sweep the New York baseball team for the first time since 2003.

The CFL-leading number of yards covered so far this season by B.C. Lions running back Andrew Harris. In a 26-23 win over Edmonton at B.C. Place Aug. 6, Harris added 118 rushing yards plus 57 in the air including a 31-yard touchdown for 175 of the club’s 323 total offensive yards.

“ I wore Wranglers and cowboy boots and a cowboy hat everywhere.”

— Para-swimmer Jonathan Dieleman, who grew up on a farm in Quick, B.C. and now lives in Vancouver, calls himself the “prototypical cowboy.” Competing on the amateur rodeo circuit, he rode bulls and bareback horses until five years ago when he broke his back in a dirt biking accident. The 30-year-old competes this week at the Toronto Para Pan Am Games.

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The letter Vancouver Giants forward Tyler Benson will wear on his jersey as alternate captain with the U18 national men’s hockey team as it plays for the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup in the Czech Republic this month. Drafted first-overall in 2013, Benson had 45 points in 62 games last season in Vancouver.

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Vancouver ultimate Frisbee clubs Furious George and Team Fisher Price (TFP) compete this week at the Canadian Ultimate Championships in Winnipeg.

The two have represented Canada in their respective divisions at past world championships, and that honour is on the line again this year, as it is only once every four years.

Worlds are set for 2016 in London. They were last held in Japan in 2012.

Canada won gold in the mixed (co-ed players) and

open master’s division.

They nabbed silver in the women’s masters and bronze in the open and women’s divisions.

In the open division at the Canadian national tournament, Furious George is joined by rival Blackfish.

TFP is the only mixed B.C. team, and there are three B.C. women’s teams: Traffic, Zephyr and Surge.

More than 2,000 adult and junior athletes will compete in Winnipeg at Maple Grove Park until Aug. 16.

Skate for art’s sake

The Downtown Eastside Skateboard Society hosts a multi-media all-ages art

experience (I say experience because it has a little of everything for the senses) at SBC (109 East Hastings) from 3 p.m. to 12 a.m. Aug. 15.

Called the Gurl 23 vs.

Boy vs. PD Art Show, there will be new work by local artists and a DJ workshop with Su Comandante from 3 to 7 p.m. The music turns up at 8 p.m. for a licensed, 19-plus show by Dada Plan with Chicken Militia and the Rodfather.

Admission is by donation and all donations benefit the skate society.

Have questions? Call the skate shop at 778-846-6775. @MHStewart

Ding-a-Ling of the Week: Mr. Posture

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I was cycling west on 10th Avenue along the off-Broadway bike route when I was passed — no big deal except it happened so close to an intersection — by a surprisingly speedy upright rider.

He wore a reflective orange safety vest, helmet and ramrod posture. His calves were chunky and just a little shiny.

Ten metres from the

four-way stop at Ash Street, I braked. There was one car in front of us with its left turn signal flashing, and people in cars and bikes lined up from the other three directions.

But who cares about them? Ding-a-ling zipped to the left of the left-turning car, cutting it off as the driver advanced in turn, and then continued as straight ahead

through the intersection as he was straight-backed.

Disregard for right-ofway while making himself vulnerable… no wonder Mr. Posture wears so much safety gear.

Know a ding-a-ling?

Witness one or confess to being one yourself? Reach the Courier sports editor at mstewart@vancourier.com.

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LTZ models receive LED daytime running lights and chrome-outlined exhaust pipes to give it a contemporary visual statement.

While the Impala is a popular, mainstream car, it treats its many buyers to a near-luxurious interior. Materials are upscale and the overall design is attractive and classy.

The Impala is available in five trim levels, plus a bi-fuel model running compressed natural gas (CNG) will be available later this year. Since the CNG fuel system is factory direct, it will be covered under GM’s new vehicle warranty.

The mild hybrid offered last year is no longer available.

Performance

Most Impala’s will come with either of the two standard engines. The base

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The front seats are comfortable and attractive.

Upper trim levels receive leather seating surfaces and further soft-touch trim pieces.

Highlighting the interior is the optional 8-inch touchscreen command system. Chevrolet’s MyLink infotainment system paired with the backup camera and navigation makes the whole system practical – although the touch panel isn’t as smooth to use as you would like.

The dash boasts some surprises; the screen slides up to reveal a hidden storage area featuring USB ports to connect your phone or other media devices. For added security, you can set a 4-digit code to lock it like a safe and block access to

any private info entered into the MyLink system, like your address book.

Adding to the Impala’s connectivity is GM’s new OnStar with 4G LTE and standard built-in Wi-Fi hotspot. The hotspot is on whenever the vehicle is on and a three-month/three-gigabyte data trial comes with every new car purchase.

That enhanced connectivity will be welcomed by the Impala’s passengers, and thanks to its massive back seat, it can comfortably accommodate three adults. Legroom is astounding and headroom is plentiful.

Transporting a lot of people means it needs to be able to carry all of their belongings as well. Fortunately, the Impala’s 18.8 cubic feet of cargo space is more than up to the task.

It should be noted that the CNG tank in the bi-fuel model cuts into that space some.

Features

Prices for the Chevrolet Impala start at $30,545 and ranges up to $41,745. Fleet customers interested in the CNG Impala will need to contact GM directly.

Standard equipment includes keyless entry, heated exterior mirrors, 4.2-inch colour display screen, Bluetooth handsfree phone connectivity and 10 airbags.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include a passive entry system with keyless push-button start, dual-zone climate control, heated front seats and a power sunroof.

Fuel efficiency numbers (L/100km) for the ECOTEC 4-cylinder are 10.6 city, 7.5 highway and 9.2 combined. The V6 returns 12.5 city, 8.2 highway for 10.6 combined. Numbers for the bi-fuel Impala have not been released.

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The Chevrolet Impala boasts classy looks and modern features. The bifuel model offers cleaner emissions and the flexibility of using two fuels.

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The Impala is still too conservative to attract Japanese or Europeanoriented buyers. The design is “smart” looking but not in the same league as some imports.

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If you want a big, comfortable five-passenger sedan that offers style and technology, the Impala offers a lot of value.

The dash boasts some surprises; the screen slides up to reveal a hidden storage area featuring USB ports to connect your phone or other media devices.

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The V6 in the Impala can also boast having the highest horsepower output from a naturally-aspirated engine in this segment. While the average customer will not be concerned with that claim, what that means is that you can fill the Impala to its full capacity, and you won’t be left waiting when you step on the gas.

Both engines are mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission. Power is routed to the front wheels in all models. It’s too bad that there isn’t an AWD option.

The new CNG powered Impala uses a modified version of the V6. A second fuel tank is added to the trunk and provides about 240 kilometres of range on cleanburning natural gas, before automatically switching back to gasoline. While running on CNG, power is rated at 232 hp, and the Impala has 258 hp on regular gasoline.

Regardless of the engine, the Impala offers a quiet and comfortable ride. The new suspension setup creates a highly refined highway-driving experience.

The Impala displays surprising agility, especially equipped with the optional 20-inch tires. It provides a decent road feel to the driver, although the steering feedback is a little numb.

The Impala also offers a good stability control system and antilock brakes.

It is available with a number of advanced safety features including Forward Collision Alert, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Lane Departure Warning, and Side Blind Spot Alert.

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