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Former school coach loses battle with police over sex talk Man revealed his sexual thoughts about young girls in interview for job at Vancouver jail

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A former school coach who tried to land jobs at the Vancouver jail and Metro Vancouver’s emergency dispatch centre has lost a battle with police to remove what he says is incorrect information from databases about him concerning sexual fantasies with young girls.

The Vancouver Police Board unanimously dismissed the man’s complaint Feb. 25 after reviewing a police report that outlined “extremely disconcerting” details about the man’s “sexual thoughts, fantasies and arousal experiences” with girls as young as seven years old.

The man, whose name has not been disclosed, revealed the information to a polygraphist during a recorded interview in September 2012 for a job at the Vancouver jail. The Courier has chosen not to publish details of the man’s admissions to police because of their content.

The man claims what he told the polygraphist was all a misunderstanding, accord-

Carolyn Askew (centre) and members of the Vancouver Police Board dismissed a complaint Feb. 25 from a man who wants information he volunteered to police removed from databases. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ing to a written complaint he filed in October 2015 with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner.

“During this question period, I answered a question thinking the definition of ‘sexual arousal’ was the same as ‘physical arousal’ and my answer to this question raised some alarms, which led to the termination of volunteering in two

places, the termination of my employment application and an order that required me to stay off school properties for one year,” he wrote. “I am certain that if I had answered the question with the correct definition in mind that none of this would have occurred. I was also not told that it would also prevent me from gaining any employment in any

area that required security clearance.”

The man has supervised young girls as a school coach and summer camp coordinator. The VPD didn’t disclose the school or camp but said the man is no longer a volunteer and is prohibited from being on school property.

The department’s sex crimes unit interviewed

the man and determined he posed a risk to young children and should not be working with them. Police said he does not have a criminal record and is not the subject of an investigation.

The information the man provided to police is stored in a B.C.-wide police database often referred to as PRIME, or Police Records Information Management Environment.

Police encouraged the man to see a psychologist, which he did. That psychologist concluded in a report that “although he endorses some experiences that, in some instances, may be considered as consistent with sexual deviance, when considered in full context [i.e., the circumstances in which they occurred], there is nothing to indicate concern or risk.”

The VPD said it couldn’t confirm what information the man provided to the psychologist. That led the VPD to have the RCMP’s Behavioural Sciences Group conduct a risk assessment on the man’s statements to

the VPD polygraphist. “[The RCMP’s] final risk assessment report would go a long way to determining what, if anything, should be revised in VPD databases,” the police report said. “Although the VPD is awaiting the final written report, initial concerns have been expressed that appear to support the VPD position that his behaviour is concerning.”

In July 2014, the man was turned down for a job at the Emergency Communications for British Columbia Incorporated dispatch centre. He said it was because he was unable to get enhanced security clearance.

“The most frustrating part of this whole situation is that I have not been able to explain my stance and I have not been given any appeal processes,” the man concluded in his complaint.

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The head of a bike share company that will launch a new system in Vancouver this summer has promised not to “undercut” rental rates of existing bike companies worried about the impact 1,500 rental bikes will have on their businesses.

Josh Squire, founder and CEO of CycleHop Corp.

Canada, made the promise Feb. 24 at a news conference at city hall, where he joined city officials and Charles Gauthier of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association to promote the “smart bike” system.

“We don’t want to compete with the local bike rental shops, and we don’t want to undercut their pricing,” Squire told reporters. “So we’re looking at the average price that’s out there today and we’re going to make sure that we’re competitive with that, and not under that.”

Squire didn’t reveal an hourly price to rent a bike but suggested a monthly membership would cost “roughly” $20 per month.

That membership would allow a customer unlimited 30-minute rides for the month, he said.

Landing on a set hourly rate could prove difficult for CycleHop, considering the rates of rental shops vary widely. For example, a onespeed cruiser bike (with a lock and helmet) rents for $6.67 an hour at Spokes Bicycle Rentals on Georgia Street, near the entrance to Stanley Park. In Yaletown at Reckless Bikes on Davie Street, a hybrid bike (with a lock, helmet and a map) costs $18.50 to rent for an hour-and-a-half.

Both bike stores are concerned about the rental rate for a CycleHop bike and where the 150 stations will be located. Squire said his company plans to consult with residents and businesses before setting up the stations, which will be concentrated

mainly in downtown and extending to an area bounded

by Arbutus Street, 16th Avenue and Main Street.

“Those are two key considerations, obviously — pricing and location,” said Paul Dragan, owner of Reckless Bikes, which has stores in Yaletown, near Granville Island and on Hornby Street.

“I’m not anticipating my business going up because of bike share coming to Vancouver. I’m anticipating a drop in my overall rental.

But I don’t think it’s going to be drastic for me. I don’t know if it’s going to be drastic for the other people.”

Sarah Vetter, marketing and sales manager for Spokes Bicycle Rentals, said the bike share system will obviously affect rental sales.

But by how much will have to be determined after CycleHop sets up its stations, said Vetter, noting the majority of Spokes’ customers are tourists and primarily ride bikes in Stanley Park.

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Preliminary renderings released last week that depict the proposed Kettle Boffo building redevelopment will spur more GrandviewWoodland residents against the project, according to opponents.

Barbara Cameron, one of the organizers behind the neighbourhood’s No Venables Tower coalition, calls the scale “massive” and argues it’s too high and too dense for the site at Venables Street and Commercial Drive.

“I think the actual renderings are going to galvanize the community in opposition to this because it’s finally becoming real what the massiveness of this development will be,” she said. “Drawings that were provided earlier didn’t identify that there would actually be three towers. So we’re not dealing with one, we’re dealing with three towers on a footprint that is really not appropriate for this kind of density.”

Proponents argue that along with market housing, the project will deliver muchneeded supportive housing and a new expanded space for the Kettle Society’s services.

The Kettle Society, which is a non-profit that provides housing and support to people with mental illness, needs to expand the services it offers at its 1725 Venables St. location.

However, the society couldn’t get government funding so it formed the arrangement with Boffo Properties for the redevelopment. Boffo owns buildings on either side of the Kettle, while the city owns the parking lot to the north, which could be amalgamated into the proposed redevelopment.

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ings Feb. 26. The proposal envisions 200, one-to-three bedroom market housing units, as well as 30 supportive housing units for the Kettle to own and operate, and a larger space for its other services.

Daniel Boffo, principal of Boffo Properties, said the Kettle services would be relocated during construction with costs paid by the project.

He described the design as one building “massaged” into multi-levels. At its lowest it’s five storeys, while at its highest it’s 12 storeys. Small scale retail and a public courtyard are included in the plans.

“The goal is to mimic something like Gaolers Mews in Gastown where when you’re at grade you’ve got retail within the courtyard and it’s not just a podium and tower project,” Boffo said. “It feels like a bunch of separate buildings grouped together in varying heights.”

He said the proposed design was informed by four years of public feedback and the height has been dropped from the initially proposed 15 storeys based on input from

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the community and the city.

Many individuals and groups have voiced support for the project, according to Boffo, including housing advocate Judy Graves.

“You’ll never satisfy everybody and I think when you satisfy everybody something gets lost. What we’re hoping to achieve is to build on the common ground that we have. The common thread that I’ve heard is [both sides] believe in strong, inclusive communities,” he said.

It’s unclear what the city will allow on the site.

The Grandview-Woodland community plan hasn’t been adopted yet. The draft plan goes out for public review this spring, although no dates have been set yet. Boffo is waiting to file the application until after council approves the plan.

Neighbourhood reaction has been mixed. The Grandview-Woodland Citizens’ Assembly didn’t reach consensus on what height should be allowed, but 16 members signed a “minority report” backing the project.

When asked what she defines as a tower, Cameron said, “We have a point of view that we need to keep the Commercial Drive area under five storeys. Our slogan has been, ‘Keep the Drive under five’ and so we don’t want to get into this discussion of what a tower is and what a tower isn’t because right now we’re talking at least 12 storeys for this one and that’s certainly a tower.”

The coalition has collected more than 3,560 petition signatures against the development. Cameron acknowledges some residents support the proposal.

“But I think people are biting their tongues and saying, ‘Well, if this is the way the Kettle would get what it wants then we’re OK with it.’

But I don’t think people really want a great amount of density in Grandview-Woodland, at least not density in the way of towers. We’ve always felt, and this has been reflected in a lot of different ways, that people want gentle density.”

Cameron argues towers put upward pressure on land prices and contribute to the loss of affordability.

“It’s not about the Kettle.

It’s never been about the Kettle and I say that 100 times a day. This is about a tower or towers, in this case three towers, and the imposition of such a massive development on the community. We think there are alternatives.”

Boffo, who maintains the project is respectful of the Drive’s character, wants to see the project move forward.

“We’re excited to hear what the city’s going to come out with in April with their plan. After hearing that, then we can decide what the next steps are. But we’ve been talking about this for four years. We need to get an application in ASAP,” he said.

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Continued from page 5 “I don’t think they need to be around the park,” she said of the station locations. “We’re obviously all pro-bike and I think we can work cohesively together. But there has to be some sense of respect for what we’ve been doing all these years and the service we’ve been providing.”

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering services, told reporters that stations will not be set up outside existing bike rental stores.

But he suggested stations could be allowed within a third or half a block of a store.

Though Gauthier spoke in favour of the bike share system at the news conference, he later told the Courier he didn’t agree that stations should be allowed a third or half a block away from a rental shop.

“I think they may have to be further [away from a rental shop], so there has to be some negotiation there,” said Gauthier, noting his endorsement of the bike share system does

not discount concerns of bike rental shops. “Their concerns are legitimate and I would never downplay them, or try to tell them they shouldn’t worry about it.”

Generally, Dobrovolny said, bike share systems are used primarily by locals for quick trips. Dragan said tourists account for about 50 per cent of his rental business, with the other half from locals, although he noted some of the locals end up renting bikes for friends visiting from out of town.

Dragan and others in the bike business had lunch with Squire after the news conference. He came away from that meeting with the understanding CycleHop will use its website to promote the advantages and disadvantages of using the bike share system versus a rental bike store. For example, Dragan said, a family of four with young children could not use CycleHop’s bikes because they are only in adult sizes. Also, they’re not set up to attach to a baby trailer, he added.

“What they say they’re going to do and what they actually do, well reality is reality,” Dragan said. “But I’m cautiously optimistic.

I think long term, in three to five years when everyone has adjusted to the new reality, that it’s going to be a great program.

But I think there’s going to be short-term pain and adjustment for the guys who only rent bikes.”

The city’s deal with CycleHop means it will cost taxpayers $5 million over the five years of the agreement. The city could also lose up to $2 million in parking meter revenues.

But that loss depends on how many meters will be removed to make way for the bike stations.

The bikes are expected to have seven speeds and be equipped with back and front lights. Helmets will come with each bike.

A membership card, or one gained from a kiosk, allows each rider to swipe it on a small pad on the handlebars. A rider will enter a code, which will unlock the bike. @Howellings

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Vancouver-based square dance caller Paul Silveria taught both kids and adults alike how to square dance during a free workshop at ArtStarts Saturday. Silveria regularly calls at dances at the WISE hall, which are well-attended by people of all ages. “It’s probably fairly evenly represented between 30 to 50 and there’s some 20-year-olds in there, and some 60-year-olds, too,” he said.

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Square dance enthusiasts answer the call Portland punk took an allemande left turn after raucous kitchen party

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Way back in 2001, in a kitchen of a punk house in Portland, Ore., Paul Silveria got an eye-popping introduction to old-time music. The Intima had just wrapped its postpunk set when a different sort of noise took over — a frenetic homegrown mesh of fiddle, guitar and banjo that came from next to the stove and fridge. The audience filled what little space was left in the kitchen as Government Issue Orchestra started playing, and the crowd’s stomping and dancing bowed the old floor.

Silveria began attending Government Issue Orchestra shows regularly.

One night, then-member Bill Martin, a square dance caller in addition to being a

well-known bluegrass and folk musician, bemoaned the lack of callers in the growing old-time music scene. His bandmate Michael Ismeria then turned to Silveria and told him he should get involved, and in the summer of 2002, Silveria learned how to be a caller under Martin’s tutelage.

A caller is somebody who prompts dance steps and, unlike the tortuous two weeks of high school gym class where students had to allemande left and swing their reluctant partners to canned music, this brand of square dancing is specifically built around live music.

“I was learning the banjo.

I wasn’t a great player, but something about calling dances appealed to me, and it seemed really like a direct line into what the community was doing,” said Silveria.

“And when you get into what the art of calling is, it’s really about party management. One of Bill’s quotes is, ‘It’s a party first and a dance second,’ and his philosophy really kind of broke away from what was happening in the modern Western club square dances of frilly skirts and fancy shirts.”

Many of Silveria’s gigs weren’t what might be considered traditional — his first was in a Seattle warehouse where dancers crashed into the building pillars and another was for protest-based marching band Infernal Noise Brigade’s CD release party that included a livestock peep show and a barbecue equipped with a pedal-operated gas jet that shot a ball of fire towards the ceiling when pressed.

“There was this music

and punk music, together, and it was surprising, but once you dug into it, it made a lot of sense because it was social music,” said Silveria. “People would be picking up an instrument, learning how to play and people would have a house party and you’d have music happening in every room, a little jam of people learning tunes together.”

Silveria, who moved to Vancouver five years ago after marrying a local, said there are thriving West Coast square dancing scenes that came out of this boom in Seattle, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. In Vancouver, Silveria calls shows and teaches dance steps regularly at the WISE hall (the next is March 11), which have sold out in the past.

But Vancouver is a different animal than Portland.

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“I just happened to be in the community in Portland, I jumped in and did it and did it regularly. And so I’ve had to make a lot of mental adjustments in terms of the way things are done in Vancouver,” said Silveria.

“There’s a sort of highly urban sense of sampling here, I call it ‘I’ve tried this thing once and I’ve done it.’

That’s one aspect and economics is another. Part of the reason Portland fostered arts and music the way it did was because there’s a lot of ample space and it was all really cheap… That means you could try things and fail — or try things and succeed — but you could try things without having the investment of capital beforehand.”

Silveria hosted dances in Portland at venues that either didn’t charge anything,

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“Here, I’m able to put on a professional show and get paid a professional amount of money I wasn’t able to in Portland,” Silveria added.

“It does go both ways.”

In addition to calling dances (even for children at last Saturday’s Learn to Square Dance workshop at ArtStarts), Silveria is also a banjo teacher and performer (under the stage name Professor Banjo).

“When people experience the music, they have a really good time but when they experience the social aspect of music,” Silveria said.

“Whether they go to a dance or they go to a show or they go to a house party where people are all jamming, there’s something kind of revelatory for some people.” @rebeccablissett

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Are Hollywood blockbusters paying enough to city hall?

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Are city taxpayers getting their fair share from the multi-billion-dollar Hollywood entertainment corporations that close public streets, bridges and buildings for their productions?

Vancouver claimed a record 2015 with 353 film, TV and commercial productions over 1,518 film days but reported only $710,000 in revenue for film and street-use permits. The biggest, Deadpool, grossed almost half-a-billion-dollars globally for its first two weekends in theatres, a box office record for an R-rated flick.

When asked, a city hall spokesman said he was unable to provide the dollar figure for how much the city collected from Deadpool’s producers for use of the Georgia Viaduct and other city property.

“We are currently collecting this data, due to a number of re-shoots that occurred, and will be able to report out on it by the end of the month,” said Tobin Postma.

Key scenes shot on the Georgia Viaduct forced extensive early morning to mid-afternoon weekday closures throughout the first half of April 2015. The only payment publicly disclosed so far was a $5,000 donation by 20th Century Fox to Motivate Canada’s Gen 7 Program. Postma described it as “a legacy giveback and strategic tiein” for last year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. Fox began its FIFA rights contract in 2015.

The city’s 2015 master contract with TCF Vancouver Productions Ltd. (a Los Angelesbased subsidiary of 20th Century Fox Film Corp.), released under Freedom of Information, mentioned daily prices to shoot at Vancouver Art Gallery ($3,000), city hall ($1,500) and Mountainview Cemetery ($1,000). Guidelines say major streets shall not be closed during rush hours or other high volume traffic periods and when traffic cannot be effectively diverted onto other streets, traffic shall be stopped only intermittently and for no longer

than three continuous minutes during each 10 minute period.

The City required TCF take $5 million insurance and abide by all applicable civic, provincial and federal laws. It granted the right to use city property and depict and refer to it by fictitious names, but permission is required from the city to use real names.

The Motion Picture Association - Canada said Deadpool, which was headquartered at North Shore Studios in North Vancouver, spent $40 million over 58 days.

Almost half the spending was on payments to cast and crew of the movie, which stars Kitsilano secondary graduate Ryan Reynolds.

Parent 21st Century Fox Inc. reported US$8.37 billion net income on almost US$29 billion revenue last fiscal year and boasted about a record-setting $5.5 billion in global box office receipts for the 2014 calendar year. As CEO, Rupert Murdoch, was paid almost US$28 million for the fiscal year. City hall says Warner Bros. is Vancouver’s biggest TV client with seven productions.

Its parent, Time Warner Inc., reported US$3.8 billion net income on US$28.1 billion revenue for 2015.

Deadpool is one of numerous productions to have benefitted from both the slumping loonie and generous tax credits from the provincial government. But the provincial government, which estimates the industry is worth $2 billion, is taking another look at the program. B.C. film tax credits are expected to hit $493 million this fiscal year, more than the US$330 million of tax credits in the US$17 billion California industry.

“The film industry has never been able to produce a credible report anywhere in North America showing that treasuries get back anywhere near what they put in for tax credits,” said Jordan Bateman, B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation. “Who cares how much money gets pumped into the economy, it’s how much money gets back into the treasury through taxes.

That’s how we know if taxpayers have won or lost on the deal.”

Bateman said there could be a bigger benefit to the economy if the film subsidies were instead tax cuts for the general public or expenditures on healthcare and advanced education. @bobmackin

Vancouver claimed a record 2015 with 353 film, TV and commercial productions, including the recent blockbuster Deadpool, but reported only $710,000 in revenue for film and street-use permits.

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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Bike share programs now part of transportation infrastructure

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ell, it took long enough. But Vancouver is finally joining the rest of the world as a city that offers both residents and visitors a bike-sharing program.

At last count (spring of 2015) there were 850 bike share programs around the globe from New York to Melbourne to Paris and even a few cities in China.

Virtually all of those had been started up in the past decade.

Bike share programs are not simply a tourist attraction; they have become part of the transportation infrastructure.

In many cities a significant portion of the users are heading to or from work. That will likely be the case here too as the culture continues to adapt to a more densely populated city.

There are a couple of reasons we came late to this party, not the least of which is the fact that the first company we tried to do business with went belly up. But what has also undeniably slowed the process is the insistence the supplier of this bike rental system provides helmets, even though those helmets will be free, part of the rental price.

That demand that riders use helmets, by the way, has been universally seen as one that has inhibited users of this system. And it may have that effect here. It is blamed for the low bike usage in Aus-

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tralia and, according to one report, “as a preemptive move to boost usage levels, Tel Aviv and Mexico City repealed their mandatory helmet laws.”

That aside, over the past two decades, Vancouverites have had a kind of lovehate relationship with bikes. It was back in 1996 that the city first decided to shut down one car lane on the Burrard Bridge and open it up for cyclists in what was supposed to be a six-month trial. Traffic jammed. Motorists were loud and livid.

The experiment lasted a week.

A decade later, plans were discussed to do it again. But the centre-left COPE council of the day was defeated by an NPA one that campaigned against the plan.

The tipping point came a few years later with the election of Vision, which actually promised to give it another try and won the approval of a younger, greener more bikefriendly electorate — an electorate that would embrace what became known as the “sharing culture.” (Car-sharing is booming here.)

Council proceeded with a more deliberate and more carefully planned strategy to once again cut out one lane of traffic on the Burrard Bridge. Pedestrians would also lose one sidewalk to cyclists.

And while the media was there on that fateful morning of July 13, 2009, their cameras loaded, tape recorders at the ready and expecting all hell to break loose, there was hardly a whimper from the motoring public.

There was more pushback from business interests when council continued by putting separated bike lanes down Hornby and along Dunsmuir, but that too settled down without much evidence of the economic disaster that was predicted. And no amount of criticism deterred a now firmly-determined coun-

cil from shutting down Point Grey Road to through traffic in favour of cyclists and joggers.

Criticism during the subsequent municipal election coming for the NPA crowd about bike lanes had insufficient traction to cause any serious political damage and the wheels continued to grind on, albeit slowly, to achieve a deal on a bike-share program.

At last month’s announcement of the bike-share program, Charles Gauthier of the Downtown Business Improvement Association, who had been a critic of previous intrusions by cycling infrastructure on the flow of car traffic, actually expressed his support for the program.

Businesses have figured out how to market to cyclists.

News there was to be a major renovation starting up this month on the Burrard Bridge that would reduce motor

traffic by yet another lane to provide more space for cyclists, played well back in the pages of the daily papers.

Editorialists are encouraging motorists to appreciate that this is a win for both cyclists and car drivers because fewer cars will be on the now congested roads.

Money lost because of time wasted in traffic jams — “$40 million a year in wasted fuel and air pollution from almost 800,000 commuter vehicles a day” in Metro alone, according to the Vancouver Sun, will now be reduced.

Bike share programs are not simply a tourist attraction — they have become part of the transportation infrastructure.

In many cities a significant portion of the users are heading to or from work. That will likely be the case here too as the culture continues to adapt to a more densely populated city. twitter@allengarr

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Bike share system falls flat with readers Re: “City of Vancouver announces $5-million bike share system,” Feb. 23.

I doubt a bike share program will make much of a dent in the city’s ongoing battle against car traffic. The cost of owning a bike has never been a factor for anyone I know of in terms of choosing cycling over driving or using transit for commuting. I have had two bicycles stolen since living in Vancouver, but would still choose ownership over renting for the greater flexibility it offers. All I can see happening is leisure pedalers and tourists using bike sharing at the expense of preexisting bike rental shops. It will lose the city money and possibly undermine yet more small local businesses. Simply a bad idea.

Charles Leduc, Vancouver ••• What is the “Vision” this party has anyway? Is their vision to make this the most expensive place in the world, let alone the country? Every year these guys have been in office my taxes have gone up. And it’s only been for bike lanes because they sure haven’t fixed up anything. Now they want to throw away $400,000 a year in parking revenue and spend $5 million on an unproven bike rental system. This idea has gone broke in every other city that tried it, but do they care? NOPE! They’ll just keep raising the taxes and [Robertson] will just blame something else! I’ve made a commitment NOT to pay any property tax until that party is gone or I’m gone, whichever comes first. I can’t believe how uncaring and incompetent that party is. I’m retired and I’m not going to spend my money on a bunch of gurus that have no compassion for anyone.

Paul Doiron, Vancouver ••• Can you actually believe that the Vancouver council feels entitled to give a $5-million contract to a company to compete with our homegrown bike shops who actually pay taxes?

Rick Angus, Vancouver

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Kingsway motel a welcome home for Syrian refugees Re: “How an iconic Kingsway motel became a temporary Syrian community,” Feb. 25.

So glad to know these kids are playing

in the hood I grew up in. Norquay Park & Slocan Park both have great playgrounds.

Pancho Garibaldi via Facebook ••• Let’s hope they find real homes soon!

Rod P Drown via Facebook ••• A very sweet picture Sydney Sharpe via Facebook ••• Wonderful story about Syrian refugees by @Howellings. Who knew 2400 Kingsway was city owned? @BobKronbauer via Twitter ••• When I and my family arrived here in Vancouver in 1957, the 2400 Court was my first home for several months while my parents looked for a house. I made my first Vancouver friends in this area. Now after all these years I live close by once again.

Gavin Walker via Facebook ••• I still remember 67 years ago going down Kingsway in a bus and saying 2-4-00, 2-4-0-0 as the sign flashed.

Teri Johnson via Facebook ••• I was living there for 4 months until a week ago. They are very [nice] people.

Garett Doran Moran via Facebook ••• That’s where I stayed when I first came to Vancouver. The apts had green doors then. I loved the place.

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Condos not for everyone Re: “Lack of options compounds Vancouver’s housing crisis,” Feb. 24.

My idea is that every corner lot in the city, from Point Grey to Champlain Heights be rezoned for townhouses - as many 3 bedrooms as can fit with a decent sized patio and one parking spot (with power to plug in their future car) for each home. The neighbourhoods wouldn’t change that much, they would still be “house-y”, but a large corner lot can put seven families where one lives now. An average corner lot with lot with some good design could house four or five. Condos are great but not for everyone and what seems to be severely lacking are townhouses. Alone it won’t solve Vancouver’s affordability problem but as part of a slate of policies, it could help. And allow more families to live close to where they work.

Mary Clever via Facebook ••• No kidding! Would never get a mortgage in a highrise. Most of the motivation of owning is getting space and some grass.

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Community PACIFIC SPIRIT

Theologian contemplates environment and spirituality Pat Johnson

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The ecological crisis is a spiritual crisis, says a renowned theologian coming to Vancouver this weekend.

Douglas Christie, a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, blames environmental degradation on human habits of consumption and a lack of feeling for other living beings, including other people.

“These can be understood in the deepest sense as reflecting a kind of spiritual alienation,” Christie said in a phone interview before his arrival here. “We are alienated from ourselves. We are alienated from one another.

We are alienated from the world. To make ecological change and transformation have any chance of enduring, it feels important to examine the deeper sources of our alienation. You can use the word spiritual to describe that. You don’t have to, there’s other language you can use, but I think it’s useful.”

Christie’s forte is contemplative ecology, which he describes as having a consciousness of the larger reality ever-present in one’s life and the world around us.

“Contemplative practices show up in almost every major world religion, Christianity included, so there’s also a more specialized meaning that contemplative

Douglas Christie, a theological studies professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, says contemplative practices show up in almost every major world religion. He visits Vancouver Friday.

has,” he says. “It involves certain spiritual disciplines or practices. Sometimes it involves solitude, sometimes it involves silence, stillness, and often these practices are developed in communities, say monastic communities or other intentional communities, so that contemplative practices become a way of shaping a life, a human life, as well as the life of the community.”

But contemplative practice doesn’t have to be complicated.

“It has a simple meaning,” he says. “Paying attention, being aware and living out of that awareness, especially in relation to the natural world.”

Confronting climate change and other potential ecological catastrophes requires all sorts of responses, he says, but contemplative practices can be an important part.

“I think we need a fullblown social, political shift — and an economic shift, for that matter — that will help us reorient the way we live so we’re not doing so much harm to the planet,” Christie says. “I also feel it’s important, even as we’re trying to identify those shifts, that we pay attention to the deeper sources of our own unease, our own inattention to the world. So contemplative thought and practice is meant to be a

help in that larger process.”

Christie’s recent book is The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. The title reflects the words of Evagrius of Pontus, a fourth-century monk, who wrote, “If anyone should wish to see the condition of the mind, let him deprive himself of all mental representations, and then he will see the mind similar to sapphire or to the colour of Heaven.”

“Some people say that [Evagrius’] spiritual thought comes very close to Buddhism in some ways,” Christie says. “He advocated individualist prayer, for example, an approach to prayer that pushes beyond

all images, all language, that pushes into something dark, that requires us to kind of stand in the unknown and the unknowable. He uses the expression that when the mind is transformed through spiritual practice, it comes to shine like sapphire.”

Christie clarifies that the ancient use of the term that we translate as “mind” goes beyond the contemporary meaning of our rational mind and means instead the deepest centre of our souls.

“We have this capacity to become luminous beings, open to the whole reality where everything is kin to us,” he says. “I just love that image, the blue sapphire of the mind, so that’s the image that I chose to ground the book.”

That will be the theme of a public talk Friday night.

An all-day retreat Saturday at the Canadian Memorial Church and Centre for Peace (canadianmemorial. org) will address the topic “The Need for Roots: Cultivating a Sense of Place.”

The sense of place, which is relevant in ecology, is also significant, he says, in the struggle for 21st-century people to find a spiritual place. There are plenty of people who subscribe to a theology that is “spiritual but not religious,” which can make it difficult to situate oneself in a community of like-minded people.

“I’m very sympathetic to the kind of hunger that

gets expressed in all kinds of new and interesting ways, not necessarily connected to religious traditions,” he says. “But I’m also aware – and you see this often and I feel myself sometimes — it’s hard to find a community sometimes if everything is moving in front of you, everything’s up for grabs, if everybody’s spiritual path is kind of self-invented. People do, I think, find that seeking and finding community can be challenging in that kind of climate.”

His own approach does not follow a straight line. It is rooted in Christian tradition, but is influenced by others as well.

“I made a great effort to open up the canvas as widely as I could and to listen to voices from far beyond the Christian tradition, who are, I believe, offering us a similar kind of contemplative orientation to the natural world,” Christie says. “The book is actually set up as a kind of sustained conversation or dialogue among and between Christian contemplatives and poets, writers, artists, natural historians, ecologists, philosophers who are not at all identifying themselves as Christians but who are trying to see the world deeply and carefully.

I’m creating what I hope is a contemplative space that is infused with Christian thought and imagination but not limited to it.” @Pat604Johnson

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Opinion

‘Spark’ needed again for Vancouver development discussions

Kettle Boffo project met with suspicion even before design was presented

Mike Klassen Columnist

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Last week, new renderings of a proposed high-rise development located along Commercial Drive were released. Critical comments began to appear on news websites featuring the images almost on queue.

It is too tall! It does not conform to our community!

We are losing heritage! Developer greed is driving this!

Private money should not support social housing! Land prices will rise higher!

Less frequent, but just as predictable, are the critics of the critics.

You are all NIMBYs! You do not understand how developments work here! You are against the poor!

Proponents of the Kettle/ Boffo planned development at the intersection of Commercial Drive and Venables are probably not enjoying being in the middle of the latest Vancouver mud toss over density.

A “No Tower” campaign erupted last year in the surrounding neighbourhood, complete with lawn signs and an online campaign.

“Do you want to hand the future of our community over to developers?” asks the author of the anti-Kettle development website.

Naturally, “developers” are not happy being the perennial bogeyman for Vancouver activists. But they have themselves partly to blame for the toxic state of community relations in our city.

On the face of it, the Kettle Boffo development would seem to have the hallmarks of a hous-

New renderings of the proposed Kettle Boffo development on Commercial Drive caused a stir last week among its critics.

ing project that could be viewed as an improvement to its surroundings.

At 12 storeys, the building is slightly shorter than the neighbouring Adanac Towers, and it has a shape and setbacks to make the mass of the structure less imposing at the street level.

The new development will allow the Kettle Society — a non-profit that has filled an important community need for mental health services for almost four decades — to expand and renew its services.

Social housing is incredibly important to our city’s residential mix, and a true expression of Canadians’ compassion.

But like with so many large developments before it, the Kettle Boffo project was met with suspicion and derision even before a design was presented to the public.

Some speculated the building would be much taller than 12 storeys.

So-called “fishing expeditions” where proponents push for higher density are a common tactic that inevi-

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tably produces a backlash.

When the final design is presented — most often with reduced height — it is meant to signal that the developer has listened to criticism.

The developments usually then go ahead after creating a wake of bitterness in surrounding communities.

In Vancouver, it has been the way to do business for years, and it has left citizens, elected officials, city staff and developers all frustrated.

NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball captured the feeling perfectly in a recent newspaper interview.

“From almost all the people I talk to, Vancouver seems to be a city under immense stress,” said Ball. She and her fellow councillors often have their backs to the wall in council chambers as development opponents line up to register their opposition.

Even the staunchest development critics will admit Vancouver must continue to grow. Our real estate prices are a direct result of high demand and low supply.

So how can we build more housing minus the confrontation?

In the past, Vancouver has shown that it can be done.

King Edward Village, located at the intersection of Kingsway and Knight Street, is a rare example of when a community embraced density in return for much-needed amenities such as a grocery store and public library.

In that example, a group of community volunteers met regularly with city staff to explore how to make King Edward Village a “win” for the surrounding neighbourhood.

Success came when the developer and the community found common ground.

Under the leadership of then co-directors of planning Larry Beasley and Ann McAfee, community groups were consulted on development proposals.

It is the group setting that provides the creative “spark,” which helps overcome planning hurdles and gives the city and development proponents much-needed social capital to continue.

Imagine a scenario where instead of dragging yourself to another development open house — or shaking your fist at city council — you look forward to shaping your community’s future.

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A binner for more than six years, Carol Strickland says her biggest haul was $280 during the 2010 Olympics, but on average she makes about $45 a trip. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Binners say scavenging is tough but rewarding Injuries, dirt and the occasional treasure part of the binner lifestyle

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There’s a sticky smell of old pop near the recycling depot on Industrial Avenue.

Towers of crushed cans wait at the loading bay.

Gulls circle above.

A metallic rattling announces Carol Strickland.

She walked the five minutes here from Main Street with a shopping cart. It’s filled with cans. Two rubber tubs balance on top, holding wine bottles. Around the cart hang eight garbage bags with more cans inside, along with a large Adidas duffel bag.

“It’s better than sitting on your butt panhandling,” said Strickland.

For 52-year-old Strickland, bottles and cans are a way to make some money in addition to welfare. She’s been at it for more than six years. Her biggest haul was $280 during the 2010 Olympics, but on average, she makes about $45 a trip.

There are many scavengers in Vancouver like Strickland who scour streets for recyclables. They number in the hundreds, though no one knows exactly how many. A Vancouver Sun reporter gave them the name “binners” in the ’90s. Most are no- or low-income individuals often struggling with health issues or unsatisfactory housing.

Binning’s not an easy job.

There are physical inju-

ries from labouring on the streets and infections from dealing with waste.

For Jeff, his mantra is, “You can’t win if you don’t play.” He’s 45, on welfare, and came to Vancouver from Ontario in 2014. Jeff wears a plastic boot on his right leg for an injury, but goes binning on his bike anyway. On good days, he has a cart in tow for extra storage.

“You gotta enjoy doing it,” said Jeff. “It’s a laboursome thing, time consuming, you get dirty, you get yelled at. Sometimes the police pull you over and give you a hard time, figure you’re up to something else. It’s not the ideal job, but it keeps the city clean, and it’s a little bit of pocket money.”

Binners often have a negative stigma because of a lifestyle dealing with garbage and their socioeconomic status. Jeff has seen binners who are less responsible, making messes in residential alleys or stealing objects nearby.

Scavenging is a ticketable offence in some B.C. cities, like Richmond.

But Jeff respects others’ property. Strangers have shown him kindness on his trips. Some hand him recyclables upon spotting him and have even given him cash.

On the job hazards

Binning has not gone unnoticed in the city. A few

projects have popped up in response to Vancouver’s interesting relationship with those who mass recycle.

The city has created transparent public containers for passersby to toss bottles and cans, saving binners the chore and danger of sifting through garbage.

An initiative by the Binners’ Project — a group founded in 2014 as a united voice for binners — also has sanitation in mind, encouraging homeowners to set aside bags of recyclables on hooks the organization provides. A study the Binners’ Project conducted reveals 72 per cent of Vancouver binners have had an infection from their work.

“We put ourselves in harm’s way,” said another binner named Justin.

“People think we’re getting it for free, we’re just getting it out of garbage. Well, our time is worth money, just like everyone else.”

Justin’s 32 and on disability assistance for multiple sclerosis. He came to Vancouver from London, Ont. to start anew. He stopped dealing drugs but still battles addiction.

Scavenging, however, brings him joy.

“This is one job that when I leave and have to go back to school, I’ll probably cry,” he said. “There’s a treasure out there for me to find so I have to go out

there and get it.”

Justin lives in transitional housing on East Hastings, but like many scavengers in the Downtown Eastside, he has a regular route that takes him elsewhere in the city before returning to the neighbourhood.

Binning economics

Aside from community and services, there are two main institutions for binners in the Downtown Eastside: the United We Can recycling depot, which takes 50,000 containers a day, and the street market where many sell goods they find in trash and alleys.

Both streams of income are important to Justin. “If bottling is like my weekly pay cheque, then merching is my savings account,” he said.

Having recyclables and goods is his secret to a profitable route, and a strategy to combat the ups and downs of scavenging when bad weather hits.

“Summertime, that’s when we go hard. You’re gathering up for the long, hard winter. I’ve got a whole apartment full of stuff.

Umbrellas I can sell for $5 a piece if I’m broke. I’ve got 15 scarves. You gather these things up for the winter so you don’t suffer as much. It’s like chipmunks.”

But Justin won’t say where his route is. “I’ll give you my route as soon as you

give me your pin number and bank card,” he said.

“That’s the same thing.”

Unspoken rules

There’s an unspoken rule of territoriality for routes.

Sometimes other scavengers will respect his space. And then there are times when his life’s threatened.

Once, Justin came across a large donation bin and saw a man help a skinny woman slide through the gap to get to the clothes inside. The startled man said he’d kill Justin if he ever saw him around the bin again.

But skid row writers help Justin see the streets in a romantic light. His favourite book is George Orwell’s memoir of his

time as a tramp, Down and Out in Paris and London.

Sometimes the Downtown Eastside is “the good, the bad and the ugly,” but he feels part of a long history of people surviving on society’s margins.

Justin knows it’s not forever. He’s committed to getting sober, to go to school, to have kids. But for now, he’s a scavenger in a neighbourhood that takes care of him.

“I’ve got a family here,” said Justin. “I absolutely love this neighbourhood.

People understand me, people don’t judge me.

You have to put a little bit of elbow grease to see the shine, but below the rough surface is a gem.” @bychrischeung

Binner’s Glossary Binner Vancouver colloquialism for individuals who make a living from collecting recyclables independently.

Known as “scavengers” in other cities. Some longtime binners have friendly agreements with businesses or residences who set aside recyclables.

Empties Another word for recyclables.

Middleman Individual who purchases the hauls of binners for a

fixed price when depots are closed. Many middlemen use vehicles. They have a bad reputation for exploiting those desperate for cash at night.

Trapline Established route used by a binner. Some binners are territorial and protective of a good trapline.

Seniority Veteran binners often pass down access to a lucrative dumpster or relationship (with a business or residence) when they retire.

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3. Travel back to the 17th and 18th centuries as Early Music Vancouver presents Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s House of Dreams, March 4 at the Vancouver Playhouse. Works

by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Marais are played against a backdrop of colourful paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto and Watteau, creating a multimedia concert described as “a documentary film come to life.” Tickets at tickets.ubc.ca.

4. Puccini’s beloved opera Madame Butterfly takes flight March 5 to 13 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The sumptuous Vancouver Opera production marks the return of soprano Mihoko Kinoshita and the VO debut of soprano Jee Hye Han. Tickets and details at vancouveropera.ca.

5. J. B. Priestley’s Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon: a Scandalous Affair kicks off Western Gold Theatre’s 2016 season at PAL Studio Theatre March 4 to 6. Anna Hagan directs the British comedy featuring Tanya Dixon-Warren, Tom McBeath, Emmelia Gordon, Keith Martin Gordey, Bronwen Smith, William B Davis, Stephen Aberle and Brett Harris. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com.

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MUCH SPIRIT: This year’s Lower Mainland United Way campaign raised more than $25 million. The final tally was announced at the 15th Scotiabank United Way Community Spirit Awards, staged at the Hotel Vancouver. Campaign chair Kathryn Young and co-chair Mauro Manzi fronted the gala that recognized top donors, volunteers and organizations for their extraordinary service and commitment to building stronger communities. Among the winners: Pacific Blue Cross, TD Bank and BCIT. Gwenne Farrell, president of MoveUP, received the President’s Award of Distinction for her involvement with the United Way for the past 10 years. Monies raised this year will be put to work in the community to help 340,000 children, families and seniors.

JUST FOR LAUGHS: Yours truly, along with Howard Blank, hosted Vancouver TheatreSports League’s 11th Grapes of Laugh at the Improv Centre. The company’s signature soiree generated a record $26,000 for the 36-year-old arts organization.

One of the world’s oldest improv companies, VTSL has seen the likes of improv superstars Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles get their start on the Vancouver stage. Boasting six International Improv Comedy Awards, VTSL entertains more than 60,000 people per year. Proceeds from the night of hilarity and fundraising will support the firm’s community outreach and youth programs, bringing laughter to some 35,000 children annually.

LIGHTING IT UP: Four of Vancouver’s iconic landmarks lent some blue magic to help create arthritis awareness and honour those living with arthritis.

B.C. Place, Science World and Canada Place were all lit up in blue just in time for the Arthritis Society’s 10th annual gala-do, sponsored by the Courier. The Olympic Cauldron at the Vancouver Convention Centre was also a blaze in blue to help draw attention to the cause.

The cocktail party at the Stanley Park Pavilion led by executive director Lisa Westermark aimed to generate $50,000 towards research, advocacy, education and a future without arthritis.

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Vancouver TheatreSports League’s artistic director Denise Jones and comedic improviser Dan Dumsha welcomed guests to the company’s Grapes of Laugh benefit, a laugh-filled, winefuelled affair for the 36-year-old arts organization.

Marika Morissette and Marita Luk’s BCIT firm was presented with the United Way Engagement Award for its workplace campaign that successfully engaged its employees at all levels of the organization.

CEO Michael McKnight, campaign chair Kathryn Young and co-chair Mauro Manzi announced this year’s United Way campaign totalled $25.1 million to help 340,000 children, families and seniors across Metro Vancouver.

Accompanied by her husband Bob Repchuk, breast cancer survivor Lenora Gates chaired the $330,000 Wild Lilies Gala, held at the Fairmont Waterfront.

Vancouver TheatreSports League chair Roland Monteiro and ensemble member Rae Lynn Carson raised a glass to the record haul. Proceeds from the night of laughs will support VTSL’s community outreach and youth programs.

City TV’s Dawn Chubai, left, hosted the Arthritis Society’s 10th annual gala. Joining her were arthritis sufferers Tequila Mockingbird (Jason Bosher) and Kadi Nicholson. Arthritis consists of more than 100 different conditions affecting some 650,000 British Columbians.

Lisa Dalton and Susan Chow chaired Crofton House School’s 2016 gala, which capped off the private girls school’s successful $24-million World of Opportunity Campaign and near completion of its Campus Master Plan.

Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman headlined Crofton House School’s major fundraiser at the Hotel Vancouver. A capacity crowd of parents and alumni gathered for the posh affair in support of learning excellence.

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This past week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was spotted, spied on, stalked and Instagrammed up the wazoo while hitting the slopes of Whistler with his equally attractive family.

And while it’s easy to fall prey to thinking “he’s just like us” of our snowboarding, pot-friendly, devastatingly handsome national leader — don’t be fooled.

He’s not like us. He is a golden god. However, if Trudeau does want to come off as a man of the people, may we suggest he partake in the following down-to-earth activities: • Purchasing organic bulk chocolate almonds at Whole Foods but writing down the code for regular chocolate almonds, thus saving 40 cents every 100 grams. While it may be dishonest, it shows craftiness and thrift, plus screw Whole Foods.

• Frequently wishing aloud for the death of Carl on Walking Dead. Sure he’s a teenager who (spoiler alert) had to kill his mom before she turned into a zombie, and he has been shot a number of times.

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• Standing in a grocery store line and silently judging the unhealthy purchases of the person in front of you.

• Wrestling with the crisis of conscience that occurs when you hear a really catchy song only to realize it’s Maroon 5.

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Heartbreaking. Harrowing. But eventually there’s a little light at the end of a very dark, very frightening tunnel.

This is the much-awaited Betroffenheit, a collaboration between choreographer Crystal Pite (Kidd Pivot) and writer/performer Jonathon Young (Electric Company Theatre), presented by DanceHouse. It opened to rave reviews in July 2015 in Toronto and was immediately sold out in Vancouver last September, fully five months before the show came west. So well respected are Pite and Young that this, their first collaboration, created a palpable excitement in both the dance and theatre communities.

Rarely does a show meet such expectations. Betroffenheit exceeds them all.

The word “betroffenheit” defies an exact translation from German but describes the state of shock, approaching paralysis, that a disaster can cause in our lives. Bewildered, confused, we can go neither forward nor back. Language fails.

“Time heals all wounds” is exposed for what it is: a comfortable lie.

Young and award-winning director Kim Collier experienced such a tragedy seven years ago when their only child, 14-year-old Azra, and her two cousins died in a fire. One of the many

Betroffenheit, the long-awaited collaboration between choreographer Crystal Pite (Kidd Pivot) and writer/performer Jonathon Young (Electric Company Theatre), is harrowing, heartbreaking and utterly astounding.

strengths of this work is that it is not specific to Young. In Betroffenheit we understand that something indescribably bad has happened to this particular protagonist but disaster can strike any of us.

How he transcends grief is the substance of Betroffenheit.

Act 1 is dazzling and kaleidoscopic. Grotesque creatures — dancers Bryan Arias, David Raymond, Cindy Salgado, Jermaine Spivey and Tiffany Tregarthen — invade his mind, drawing him back again and again into dark places. The dancing is gangly, awkward, athletic and precise — especially

Tregarthen who appears as a bug-like creature, tip-toeing unbidden into Young’s consciousness. But the dancing is also darkly playful at times, vaudevillian with tap dancers in bowler hats, or salsa-spicy with pink feather boas.

Text is incorporated into the dance with Young’s recorded voice emanating from him, or from the phone on the wall, the lights, the walls, other dancers. Lines are repeated and it is through these fragments and the dance that we understand his fractured state of mind. He inhabits a shabby room, has brief periods of lucidity, but eventually

even the room is swept away and he goes into free fall.

Betroffenheit is a Kafkaesque image of the hell our minds can take us to. Add substance abuse to that state and it becomes insane. At one point, one of the dancers becomes Young’s dress-alike double. “I’m happier now that I’m two,” Young says with some relief. Schizophrenia is one way to go.

The staging, with set design by Jay Gower Taylor and lighting by Tom Visser, is a spectacular mix of shadow and almost surgical light.

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Act 1 has more text than Act 2, more variety and Nancy Bryant’s costumes — from Tregarthen’s eerie “creature” costume to the glitz and glitter of the cabaret

number — make it visually exhilarating. Act 2 is more dance, less text and the dancers are casually dressed in sweats and T-shirts. Also, Young — the charismatic magnetic north of this production — is absent during periods of Act 2.

But the second act comes with a huge payoff in the form of a danced ode to joy; there are no better words to

describe it. Jermaine Spivey’s exhilarating, joy-filled leaps tell us Young, looking for an epiphany, finds it. Transforming tragedy into art does not completely banish Young’s demons, but, if only for a brief while, it can bring joy where there was only grief.

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The “Francesinha” is to Porto what poutine is to Quebec.

The first thing you need to know is the Francesinha is not a “Portuguese” sandwich — it is Portuense, meaning, it belongs to Porto. Nowhere else do they get it just right, much like Quebec and poutine.

Or so I was told. (More on that later.) No other region appreciates the complexity and beauty in blending its indulgent, but otherwise simple, ingredients.

On a recent seven-week trip to Portugal, I began a quest to find the perfect Francesinha. My belt still mourns this choice, due to the extra hole since punched into it. Sorry, belt.

What, then, is a Francesinha? Imagine a sandwich

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Vancouverite Steffani Cameron’s hunt for the perfect Francesinha sandwich in Porto, Portugal led her slightly off track to Colheita 71 in Colates, outside Lisbon. PHOTO STEFFANI CAMERON

layered with a filet of steak, some ham and spicy linguiça sausage covered with a generous helping of cheese, baked until melty and puddling around the bottom.

Then, because that’s not enough, smothered in a spicy beer-tomato sauce.

The sauce is not just tomatoes, beer and, say, Tabasco. It’s food of love.

Cooked right, it’s a medley of extensive seasoning and spice blended with a deft hand and simmered many hours over a low fire. It should be milled to a puree and thick enough to lightly coat a spoon. The sauce is considered so essential to a Francesinha, you should exit any restaurant that provides no surplus. Anyone attempting this cardiac onslaught correctly will accompany it with said surplus either in a gravy boat or, if truly traditional, in a covered tureen with a ladle.

To properly eat a Francesinha, one adds hot sauce in increments throughout devouring. Cold sauce is an offense against “the Little Frenchie.”

In Porto, every second restaurant serves a Francesinha. Locals all list different preferred haunts — some hole-in-the-walls, some of legendary acclaim. Ask your cab driver, your concierge and research it. You’ll see.

Culinary “legends” are a curse because seldom do they measure up. New folks come along and the legends get by on legacies alone.

Case in point is Bufete Fase, the joint they’ll mention in every “Ten Best Sandwiches in the World” story.

Literally all Bufete Fase makes is the Francesinha.

They fry stale bread with the toppings and sauce, then bake it till the cheese melts. They demolish vats of sauce. Vats! I felt it overrated. I was crestfallen. The meat tough, the bread hard to cut and sauce lacked the depth of flavour I knew existed elsewhere.

Most others don’t even rate a mention. Wrong cheese and it’s a plastic-like farce. Wrong sauce just leaves one sad. Bad meat, well, that’s self-explanatory.

Bread, that’s the component people differ on the most. Some want a harder, drier bread so it competes in that bowl of sauce. Others want a softer bread so it mushes down.

I found the perfect bread was a strong dough, soft and lovely, but didn’t yield completely to the sauce. This I found in Yuko, a place locals generally don’t mention, but will be impressed you discovered. A $15 cab ride from downtown gets you there. Only open six hours nightly, its black-tie waiters and warm, ambient setting with quiet background music produces a classy air, miles above the standard Francesinha joint, but at €9.50, it’s well-priced. (I saw one for €20, or $30CAD, elsewhere.) Yuko also serves the greatest sangria you’ll ever drink, piled high with fresh fruit in zippy wine.

Their rich, perfectly spiced sauce comes in large tureens. The sandwich requires 30 minutes because it’s made to order and slow-baked in the oven.

The meats are tender and it’s topped with a perfect sunny-side up egg, if you fork out the extra buck for

one. (And you should.)

As lovely as Yuko’s experience was, I broke Portuense hearts when I confessed the best Francesinha I’ve had is from a hole-in-thewall dive bar I found up a rickety, narrow staircase in a town with a population of 7,500, about an hour west of Lisbon. Colares’ Colheita 71 (“Vintage ’71”) is where you’ll find Lia Carmo, a squat, friendly woman.

Her sidewalk chalkboard proclaims they offer “Francesinha moda Porto” — Porto style. She ain’t kidding. Born and raised in Porto, she defected south, opening her understated, unlikely eatery in a hard-tofind spot. Hers is a family recipe for the sauce. She tells me it sweats and simmers a minimum of eight hours over a low fire, with a secret blend of seasonings.

She feels her sandwich is a point of pride, an ode to a classic in a region where no one else cares to get it right.

I had my first Francesinha there, knowing I was breaking the rules by having one outside of Porto, but instead of disappointing me, it instead set me up for disappointment, for nowhere in Porto could they match her efforts. Not until I found Yuko’s, in my last days after nearly two months in Portugal.

Still, when I call to mind the mighty Francesinha, the sandwich I’ll unlikely experience anywhere else in the world, the scapegoat behind the 10 pounds I gained in Portugal, it’ll be one from an empty dive bar in a small town on a quiet weekday night. Ah, memories.

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Tucked away in the heart of Champlain Heights is a unique and innovative restaurant, the Lupii Café.

Owner Lisa Papania is an SFU professor in the Beedie School of Business who opened the café last summer to apply her and her students’ research in waste and sustainability. She chose the name Lupii from the concept of a “closed loop,” in which things get recycled and reused.

“I have been working with students in my own research projects over the last 10 years to find out how much waste there is, why there is so much waste and what happens to it,” Papania said. “My students have always been focused on finding solutions to waste. I wanted to be able to tell my students that it is possible to be able to prevent waste, to be socially responsible and engaged, but I wasn’t able to give many local examples.”

Papania, along with her husband and several other employees, including one co-op student, manage the operations of the café, which is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week. The café’s zero waste policy means that the food is vegetarian, consisting mostly of wraps,

soups and salads, and 90 per cent of the restaurant’s green waste is either recycled or composted.

“Having a vegetarian menu made sure that it went to pigs, chicken and goats,” she said. “We take our edible food waste down to Urban Digs, a farm in Burnaby. We go down at least once a week. The other stuff that is green waste, coffee grounds, tea bags are compostable but not edible.

We have a relationship with Recycling Alternative, a Vancouver recycling company for local businesses, which has a transparent process as they allow us to look at the composting process in their Delta centre.”

Unlike other restaurants, almost every item, from the utensils to the interior has been upcycled. She notes that the take-out containers are mason jars and the napkins are made from reusable upcycled cloth napkins.

She also points out that the tops of the wooden coffee tables at the front are from an old gymnasium floor on Commercial Drive and the casing on the water heater is from a 100-year-old mansion on the West Side that was demolished.

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It’s been long thought that when it comes to painting smaller spaces, you should use pale colours to make a room seem larger. But is that true? Find out from an expert.

Contrary to popular belief, dark hues are a great way to add a sense of elegance, drama and depth to a small space. The opposite thought is a common misconception of small-space design, along with the idea that less furniture makes an apartment feel larger. Instead, before you begin a painting project, it’s important to consider your overall floor plan, says Erika Woelfel, vice president of color marketing for Behr Process Corporation, which supplies architectural paint and exterior wood care products to doit-yourself markets in the U.S. and Canada.

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To create a sense of cohesion between different coloured rooms, choose complementary paint shades and add accessories that pick up on key hues in the other space. These accessories can either be the same hue as prominent colours in the other room or a consistent accent colour throughout your space. For example, you could pick a beige rug for your living room to match the beige paint in the hallway, or use bold red as a decorative accent in each space.

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Continue to keep a low profile, rest, contemplate and plan. The twelve weeks ahead (to May 27) will steer you toward bigger ideas, a “world view,” and can bring love, weddings, other social rituals, higher education, media involvement and possible legal situations. Strictly avoid lawsuits, if you can.

(If one arises, try to settle it before the lawyers sharpen their claws.) A smitten Sagittarian might chase you; so might a playful Gemini.

Sunday’s romantic, Monday morning too. A few seductive glances couldn’t hurt. But the monthly accent on work and daily health, on dependents and service people, on repairs, tools and machinery, continues. Eat and dress sensibly.

Monday noon (PST) to Wed. noon “doubles down” on this zone, and both tempts you to dive in – to start a new project – and offers you a lucky opportunity.

Wish fulfillment is still a top possibility, Taurus. The accent lies on fun, flirtations, entertainment, light romance, optimism and popularity – all week, but especially Monday noon to 11:40 am (PST) Wed. A Virgo, or a talkative person (Pisces? Gemini?) might help your dreams come true. However, Taurus, now to mid-May 2017, DO NOT depend on wishful thinking.

Creating, taking a chance, combining speculation with action, will bring success; wishing, only disappointment.

Tend to your home Sunday (and Mon. morning).

Hug the kids, adjust their educational future. Get some sweet rest. The general accent this week and next lies on deep romance, creative and speculative ventures, charming kids, self-expression, and pleasure. These are highlighted Mon. noon to Wed. noon. Take care, in a “daily” way, Monday noon (argument, dangerous tools) and Tues. until 2 p.m.

(PST) (monetary and sexual obstacles).

Be ambitious but not too ambitious, Gemini. This is the time of year when you naturally shine, especially to bosses, parents, VIPs and authorities. But until mid-May 2017, your career also contains traps, dead-ends and temptations that lead to disappointment – and these are highlighted this March and March 2017. So be good at work, keep your head down and do your job, maintain the status quo – DO NOT change careers, jobs or employers (and don’t push the boss, either) before May 2017.

Sunday and Monday forenoons bring errands, casual friends, messages, short trips, general busyness. All’s well – in fact this is a lovely week with hardly a cloud. The general accent lies on home, humility, real estate, security, nutrition and “Mother Earth,” especially this Monday noon to Wed. noon. Be cautious here: until May 2017, you’ll regret it if you dive too deeply into these domestic, realty, etc. areas.

The two weeks ahead promote wisdom, intellectual pursuits, law, far travel, cultural involvements, and love.

These will probably climax, and/or present you with an opportunity to start a whole new project in these areas Monday noon to Wed. noon. But step carefully, and be self-aware. This whole zone (legalities, weddings, far travel, etc.) holds pitfalls, delays and dead-ends until May 2017. These traps almost always are “stage two” (or three or four) of a temptation.

Chase money or go shopping during this mildly productive Sunday, Cap. (Same Monday morning, but results are mostly nil.) Monday noon (PST) to Wed. noon brings the core issue of this month: errands, details, paperwork, reports, communications and short/local trips. Do what you must here, without plunging fully in. (This advice lasts until May 2017.)

You might be tempted to start a relevant project: a mail-out, new phone system, buying a car, etc.

March is for sexual yearning, power urges, large finances (mortgage, investments, etc.) research, detective work, medical diagnoses, lifestyle changes, commitment and consequence. These will powerfully attract you now, and for many March months to come. However, this March and next (2017) hold temptations and pitfalls in this zone, and the pitfall will be the larger the stronger is the temptation.

Do what you must in these areas (especially this Monday noon to Wed. noon [PST] when this zone is highlighted).

Your charisma shines and your energy’s high Sunday and Monday morning. Use Sunday (not Monday) to start significant ventures, to make contacts and impress people. (Your major luck until September lies in the zones of investment, entrepreneurship, sexual prowess, and similar things. So making contacts when it’s lucky – as Sunday – is a smart, perhaps essential prelude to acting in concert with others – which investments, sex, et al usually entail – no pun intended.)

Tackle chores Sunday to Monday noon – all’s well, you’ll accomplish much (Sunday). For the 12 weeks ahead, Virgo, try to lighten up at home: you might be argumentative, domineering, or accident-prone.

(Be careful with knives and hot surfaces, and rash-inducing chemicals, soaps.) This period might also nudge you to buy a home (or buy/sell real estate in general) – a very lucky theme for you until September. However, reject impulse: proceed with care and forethought.

Your energy, charisma and clout remain high, Pisces – in fact they reach a yearly peak Monday to Wednesday. All week and next, start important projects, but keep this in mind: the most significant, rewarding and bountiful project you can possibly commence is to form relations with others, to join others’ bandwagons, to relocate, to deal with the public, to negotiate and form agreements, to, in general, chase opportunities. The worst thing you can do is to act independently, to refuse advice, etc.

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Banner year for Lord Byng Junior girls coach Tessa Valg credited with reviving school program

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LORD BYNG SECONDARY — The last time the Grey Ghosts won a senior girls city championship, PCs were years from mass-production and still decades away from the hands of Vancouver teenagers.

On Monday afternoon at one of the city’s oldest high schools, 45 girls texted and took pictures on almost as many cellphones as they commemorated a historic first and prepared to hang three new banners for three city champion basketball teams: the bantam, juvenile and junior girls.

“In two years we have six city championships between us, which is pretty cool,” said a forward with the junior squad, Emma Mackay.

The bright blue pennants were raised to the rafters this week alongside a large and aging grey banner celebrating the last time the senior team won the city title. That was 1988.

“The gym is busier than it has been in years,” said P.E. teacher Scott Redden.

“My goal before I leave here — every grey [banner] will be gone.”

The girls basketball program is doing its part. At Lord Byng, the senior girls have played in the secondtier, non-competitive city league since Tier II was introduced in the 2007-08 season. That will change — if not next season, the one after that.

“They still are Tier II, they won’t be anymore,” said Redden. “As these girls go up and if the coaching stays the same, the level of basketball here will be always at a Tier I level. We have a competitive team at every level, which is awesome.

Lord Byng Grey Ghosts bantam, juvenile and junior girls basketball players show off their city championship banners after all three teams went undefeated in the city’s public school league. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

That is what you want.”

Imagining their potential, he said, “These girls if they stay together, they will be a scary bunch in a couple years.”

With coach and former Canada West All-Star basketball player Tessa Valg, the current Grade 10 cohort has won the city title each year since Grade 8. Valg’s daughter Skyler plays on the provincial team and her son plays up on Byng’s senior boys team.

The bantam girls drawn from the youngest grade were 8-0 through the Vancouver public school season and won the city title 47-18 over Point Grey. At the next level, the juvenile girls were 4-0 and defeated Churchill at Templeton secondary for the city banner. The

junior girls, which include one player in Grade 9, also went undefeated, leading the league with seven wins.

They took the city championship at home over the Churchill Bulldogs.

“Our coach has really started a bit of a legacy because she started getting younger girls into basketball and she’s been doing it for the whole three grades,” said Mackay.

On Wednesday, the Grey Ghosts started their run at the junior provincial championships. They are ranked ninth and will likely finish at or around No. 9.

Valg, who played for the University of Victoria and at UBC, said she started three years ago by coaching the 12- and 13-year-old players the very basics: fundamen-

tals like footwork and that all-too-famous ready stance.

Each season brings more skills and advanced knowledge, she said, but the majority of city teams lag behind basketball hotspots like the Fraser Valley and its numerous well-developed club and school programs anchored by stable leadership.

Praised as a passionate and intense coach, Valg is credited with bringing new life to the girls basketball program at Byng. “Tessa is the mother of the program,” said Redden. “You can quote me on that.”

She has keys to the gymnasium, as does UBC women’s volleyball coach Doug Reimer, who coaches the Lord Byng junior squad that includes his daughter.

Together they are drawing

coaching talent from the community and developing sports programs that attract athletes to the prominent arts school.

At the senior boys level, school athletic director Kevin Sandher led the Grey Ghosts to third place finishes at the AA/AAA city and AAA Lower Mainland tournaments. They compete next week at the B.C. Championships in Langley.

Modelling after proven success, Valg points to Vancouver secondary schools such as Britannia and Churchill, which not only have a fantastic competitive rivalry, but over generations have also invested in girls basketball and can count on committed coaches year after year.

“Brit has been doing it for years,” she said. “They

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The overall finish for Annika Richardson in the fivekilometre cross-country free event at the Lillehammer Youth Olympic Games. She finished ninth in the semi-final qualification race Feb. 13 and was 11th at the halfway mark of the Feb. 18 gold-medal event.

The number of international competitors vying for cross-country gold against Richardson. The Hollyburn Cross Country Ski Club member finished in 14 minutes, 9.08 seconds, 1:11 minutes behind the winner from Russia.

0

The number of games remaining for Vancouver Giants captain Tyler Benson.

The WHL hockey club announced the skater “has been shut down for the remainder of the 2015/15 season” because of a nagging lower-body injury.

“It’s very disappointing for all of us that Tyler has had to miss so much time this year.”

—Giants owner Ron Toigo said in a statement Feb. 26, adding, “We need to do what’s best for his long term health and we know that he’s going to be an important player for our team going forward as well as a great addition to an NHL organization.”

have a great, lasting system worked out and they have outstanding success.”

She is taking notes from those examples and reaches out to the elementary schools that feed into Lord Byng to invite interested players to attend training sessions. She’s already building for a future that may not include her.

“I’m really hoping that within the school system, someone takes it on and we can leave them with a template because otherwise it could just fade away,” she said. “I’m hoping it doesn’t become transient.”

She also aspires to see the entire city league raise its game.

“We just have to keep working on it,” said the pharmacist, who played on the Vikes with Prince of Wales P.E. teacher Lori Clarke and returned to her varsity sport because of her children.

“I hadn’t done anything with basketball for some 20 years since finishing university. Each year I learn something new. When I started, I had no idea what the landscape looked like, but now I’m able to help the person looking after the Grade 8s and now the Grade 9s. That is what comes with experience. You can imagine the folks who have been running their programs for 10, 15 years and that’s what it takes if you look at any of the successful programs and it’s coming from within.”

As for the junior girls in her charge, Byng might be putting up more banners once they reach the senior level.

“They keep exceeding my expectations,” said Valg.

“They put in so much work.

We will see what happens in the next two years.”

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The number of games Benson played for the Giants this season. The 17-year-old, once projected as a first-round NHL draft pick had nine goals and 19 assists after he had preseason surgery unrelated to hockey. Injuries continued to affect his season.

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Sports & Recreation SLACKLINING

This high-wire slacker is not about stunts Q&A with boundary-pushing, gravity-defying Spencer Seabrooke

Megan Stewart

that so I pushed myself.

It really comes easy once you’re up and going.

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Even when he was hanging from one hand, 230 metres above the ground in a narrow gully of the Squamish Chief, Spencer Seabrooke was in control. The move was deliberate, calculated.

Instead of a near-fall to his certain death, the co-founder of Slacklife BC executed a controlled catch like you’d see between a pair of trapeze artists or a goalie closing his glove on the puck.

Last summer, Seabrooke smashed the international record for a solo-free highline crossing. He walked 64 metres across dynamic, slightly bouncing, nylon webbing — without a net or a tether — a quarter kilometre off the ground.

Generally known as slacklining and seen in parks the world over (except Portland, Ore. — check out the sidebar), the sport of balance and focus becomes highlining as the elevation between anchor points climbs further off the ground. The equipment is typically repurposed from mountain climbing, which similarly challenges and rewards adventurers who seek the outdoors.

You almost fell. How did you hang on to the line when your feet went out from under you?

Spencer Seabrooke traverses a cliff-side gully near Squamish. He’s not using a tether or a net. PHOTO LEVI ALLEN

Seabrooke and his mesmerizing recordbreaking walk is the focus of Untethered, a 30-minute documentary by Levi Allen with additional video from Zach Moxley. Shot primarily using drones, the film premiered Feb. 15 at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.

You can see it for free online at slacklifebc.com, the online community created

by Seabrooke and Brent Plumley.

I interviewed Seabrooke last month, talking on speakerphone from his truck.

Do you embrace the term daredevil?

No. I think that what I am doing is very controlled, it’s something I train for. I think I’m closer

to an athlete, doing what I’m doing. When people call me a daredevil, I say a daredevil is someone who is driving a motorcycle over 15 busses, hoping it all goes well. It really looks crazy, but it is not. I am in so much control when highlining. It’s like driving down the highway without a seatbelt, but there is no one else on the road and it’s paved. It’s not a stunt.

What about slacker? What do you think of that term?

I like it. I refer to myself as a slacker. People can take it how it is, but once you get into highlining and doing these things, we are the complete opposite of slackers. But that’s what’s funny. It is very ironic.

I couldn’t take my eyes off your walk during Untethered. The images are beautiful and it’s also tense. What was your mindset 10 feet past the start and then 10 feet away from the finish?

I really felt like once I stood up and started walking, it really didn’t make much difference. I was just in the zone and super focused. There was nothing getting me out of that zone. It didn’t feel that much different when I caught the line in the very beginning, I just wasn’t feeling it. That was my body fighting my mind, [asking] what the hell are you doing? It was just about taking control of that and I was ready to do what I did and I knew

Slacklining allowed in Vancouver... for now

The official line from the Vancouver Park Board is this: slacklining is generally restricted and is not condoned in city parks, but there is no outright ban — yet.

That could change, however. According to information from a park board spokeswoman, park rangers are

pursuing a bylaw which could further restrict slacklining.

According to a park board spokeswoman, known slacking groups are currently permitted to operate “if and only if they have gone out of their way to ensure no damage to trees […] and the line must be clear to see and the slackliners cannot invite

the public to use the line and cannot leave it unattended.”

Two rules affect slacklining in Vancouver. One protects the damage or destruction of park property, such as trees. A second prevents danger or hazard from operating in parks.

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I didn’t’ fall. We call it a catch. It’s not like I’m falling. It’s not like I’m falling and I managed to catch myself and save my life. I decided I’m going to catch. I split my legs and grabbed [the line] with my hands.

That was on purpose. I’m impressed. You basically sat down on the line?

It’s more or less sitting down.

You say you won’t let fear hold you back in life, but you must have been fearful in that moment.

Absolutely, yes. Fear is what keeps us alive. Fear is what made me catch the line and fear is very good but it’s being able to control that fear and I have that ability. The second you’re not afraid, that is when you’re going to die.

Bad things can happen if you’re not totally aware or if you get too confident.

How many times did you do the crossing before taking off the tether?

benches, fences or fountains.

In Vancouver, slackliners set up logs at the dog beach on Kitsilano Point and also run a line at Falaise Park near Rupert and Grandview Highway.

Spencer Seabrooke advocates using tree protectors, which he says prevents stress and wear on the bark.

I’d done it about 50 times over a year.

Did you make a solo attempt before the successful one featured in the film?

I did, at least I went up with the intention to. I typically don’t just go from wearing a harness to not wearing one. I will tie a rope around my ankle — I don’t want to fall on it, but if I do, it will catch me. It trains you to catch the line.

I work my way into it. I was not ready when I really thought that I was. It just wasn’t the time, I wasn’t feeling it, so I did not go for it and I’m very, very happy now because I have the record and I’m alive.

At the start of your traverse, we can hear you making these loud, guttural screams. What’s happening?

It’s like climbers pushing through a hard move.

You let out a growl, you’re pushing yourself and getting a little more power. For me, I was very tense and you’re fighting with yourself to keep taking steps, and I got to the point where I just felt tense. Every time I take a step I feel like I’m releasing something.

This interview is condensed for print publication.

“It’s reasonable for us to work together and be allowed to do it with some rules set in place, then if someone if is not doing it right, which is a problem, it can be dealt with right away,” he said. “It would be very effective to set up some basics rules. That way people can enjoy it forever.”

— Megan Stewart

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