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Deadline approaches for marijuana shops to close Mike Howell

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April is always a big month for marijuana enthusiasts.

It’s, of course, the month where pot smokers and “potificators” (my word) assemble by the hundreds on the fourth month of the year on the 20th day to smoke a joint or three.

Yep, it’s almost 4-20, folks.

This year, it will be at Sunset Beach.

You probably heard that park board chairperson Sarah Kirby-Yung wasn’t exactly happy with Mayor Gregor Robertson and city staff for giving organizers the (oh, the puns) green light.

Anyway, that’s old news.

I’m more interested in what’s going to happen on 4-29, as in April 29.

That’s the deadline the city gave to operators of illegal marijuana dispensaries to shut down their pot shops. That deadline

doesn’t include those operators working their way through city channels to get a coveted business licence.

It’s not clear to me — even after speaking to Andreea Toma, the city’s chief licensing inspector — how many shops will be targeted after April 29.

That’s no fault of Toma, or my math skills, it’s just that this dispensary licence thing is complicated.

Here’s why…

So far, the city has granted development permits to a grand total of six shops out of 176 applications. That permit allows an operator to apply for a business licence.

When I checked last week, only two operators had applied, and it could be another month or so before the city grants the first licence.

Another 11 operators have applied for a development permit and the city continues to review the applications. Then there are those 62 operators who were initially rejected

Pot smokers will take over Sunset Beach April 20 for an annual event to protest Canada’s marijuana laws. Nine days later, the city will look to shut down illegal marijuana dispensaries which haven’t applied for a business licence. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

by the city and have taken their case to the Board of Variance; so far eight have

had their appeals rejected.

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whose shops were considered to be too close to each other and are awaiting the city’s decision to see if they will be among the six or seven allowed to proceed to the next step.

Then consider the 38 or 39 that didn’t bother to appeal and continue to operate a pot shop — but may or may not have applied for a different location, which would keep their application active, but the city hasn’t crossreferenced the addresses to see if that’s the case — and you can see why Toma couldn’t even give me a ballpark number on which shops the city plans to shut down.

“It’s difficult to say,” she said.

And by shut down, Toma means enforcement action. And by enforcement action, she means ticketing, prosecution and possibly getting city council to approve injunction applications to go before the B.C. Supreme Court.

None of that will likely happen to Sunny Bhayana

and his partner’s Herb Co. Society on Main Street because they are one of the six dispensaries given a development permit.

When I spoke to Bhayana on Monday, he said staff was getting criminal record checks and he was working with the city on a security plan. He’ll then apply for a business licence.

But he, too, is wondering how the city will deal with all those pot shops that refuse to shut down April 29. That’s a real concern, he said, because a business licence will cost him $30,000 a year.

“I’ve talked to a lot of the main dispensaries… and every single one has said, ‘Nope, we’re not shutting down, we’re fighting this,’” he said.

“Obviously, for us, we want people to close down because that’s how we’re going to generate more business.”

May, it seems, will also be a big month for marijuana enthusiasts. @Howellings

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Vancouver School Board grapples with $27-million budget shortfall Literacy, special needs, fine arts, substance abuse prevention programs hardest hit by proposed cuts James Smith

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The mood was sombre Thursday night as details of the Vancouver School Board’s preliminary 2016/17 budget were shared with stakeholders.

As superintendent of schools Scott Robinson and secretary-treasurer Russell Horswill went down the list of proposed cuts at the meeting of the VSB’s plenary committee, the room was deathly quiet save for the occasional gasp or exasperated chuckle.

The board votes on the budget April 28. It must deliver a balanced budget for next year that addresses a projected funding shortfall of $27.26 million.

The cuts made in the proposed budget would provide the district with $7.51 million in administration, $2.49 million in facilities and

$17.26 million in educational savings.

Specialized positions and programs are among the hardest hit by the proposed cuts, including those focused on literacy, special needs, fine arts, career planning, substance abuse prevention and English language learning.

One proposal that elicited an immediate reaction was allowing non-exempted secondary school classes to exceed the 30-student limit set out in the School Act, a move that is predicted to save the district approximately $3 million.

It’s a proposal that Rory Brown, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association, said can’t help but negatively impact students.

“This is truly the most sad and depressing turn of events to see that the underfunding from the provincial level has gotten us to the point where we now go past that threshold

of 30 students per classroom in secondary schools,” said Brown. “There are a number of brutal cuts to student services through this budget, and I think the one that sticks out for us in the most horrendous way is this.”

“Teachers in Vancouver, and the system in Vancouver, do an incredible job of educating kids. It is a great system, but the reality of it is it’s not the system that it used to be,” he added.

“What needs doing is the province needs to step up and put their money where their mouth is and fund education at least to the level it was funded in 2002.”

In an emailed statement to the Courier, B.C. Education Minister Mike Bernier put the blame squarely on the VSB. He said the board started the school year with more than $24 million in accumulated operating surplus, and that similar

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The minister continued, “In the face of record funding from the province, VSB’s failure to deal with under-capacity schools over the years means taxpayers are paying an extra $37 million a year funding empty seats instead of education.

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Beekeepers offer residents honey of a deal to host hives James Smith

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Very soon, Vancouver will be abuzz with the sweet sound of honey in the making.

As the spring sun warms the air above 10 C, honeybees come out of their hives looking for nectar and pollen to bring back to the colony. It’s a natural process that’s imperative to a healthy environment, but over the last decade the bee population across North America has declined sharply.

Art Barker is a beekeeper with 3B Honeybee, a company trying to bring back the bees by installing hives across Metro Vancouver.

In the five years since it started, 3B has grown from a mere 10 hives to more than 80, and Barker said they hope to top 120 by the end of the season.

Until recently, Barker said, many beekeepers were losing up to 90 per cent of their hives every year.

Although things have improved somewhat, he said he still lost almost one-third of his bees last winter. He explained part of the problem is the ease with which pests and diseases can be transmitted internationally.

“One of the issues with bees is that we’ve made the world so small,” said Barker. “We put bees on planes [and] we ship them all over the world, we put them on trucks and we drive them all over the nation, and so basically in the last 40 years we’ve brought to North Amer-

ica almost every possible pathogen or insect that will affect the honeybees.”

Mark L. Winston, author of the 2015 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction winner Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive and professor and senior fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue, called it a perfect storm of issues for bees, including accidentally imported pests and diseases, the overuse of pesticides and lack of pollen and nectar-producing plants. “[Lack of forage] is a particularly acute problem in agricultural areas where you have vast monocrop acreages… which are virtually a desert for bees because when they’re not in bloom there’s nothing there,” said Winston.

Ironically, he said, cities are proving to be some of the heathiest habitats for bees because of the low pesticide use and incredible diversity of flowers and plant life in gardens and parks and along roads and right-of-ways, and it’s a relationship that is mutually beneficial.

“Many of the natural habitats that we have in the city and that we really enjoy depend on the bees pollinating flowers,” said Winston.

“Without bees, the current up-swelling of urban agriculture wouldn’t exist because the bees are needed to pollinate a lot of the crops people plant in the city.”

Metro Vancouver residents eager to boost the yield of their gardens can

sign up for 3B Honeybee’s “Sponsor a Hive’ program. Starting this month, Barker and his 3B cohorts will begin placing bee boxes in backyards and on rooftops all over the Lower Mainland.

The program costs $350 for the Early Spring Pollination package (early April to end of August) or $240 for the Honey Season package (early June to end of August). With both options, 3B will place one to two hives on a participant’s property, come around every two weeks to check on the bees and at the end of August collect the hives and deliver four jars of the honey they produced.

If residents wish, they can also don the provided protective gear, participate in the bi-weekly hive maintenance and receive what Barker calls “oneon-one beekeeping 101.”

Despite the precautions during his lessons, he stressed prospective hive hosts needn’t worry about getting stung by their new neighbours while soaking up the summer sun.

“Mostly people are concerned because they don’t understand honeybees,” said Barker. “A honeybee is only interested in nectar and pollen. That’s what it consumes, that’s what it looks for. So it’s got no interest in your barbecue.”

Anyone interested in sponsoring a hive should check out bringingbackbees.ca or contact Art Barker at art3bhoneybee@ gmail.com. @jameswesmith

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The VSB votes on the budget April 28. It must deliver a balanced budget for next year that addresses a projected funding shortfall of $27.26 million. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Public can weigh in April 12 Continued from page 5 The VSB also received an [sic] $2 million this year in ‘funding protection’ to help them deal with declining enrollment.”

According to the VSB’s updated restoration budget, which was also released on Thursday, the proposed 2016/17 budget is $82 million below that of 2002/03 when adjusted for inflation, salary increments, collective agreement increases, changes to employee benefits and changes in enrolment.

VSB chairperson Mike Lombardi called the document a sad commentary on the state of provincial leadership on education matters.

He added that the restoration budget is intended to dispel myths that are propagated by some people on social media and within the educational system.

“We keep hearing these lies about highest per pupil

funding ever [and] the best system in the world,” Lombardi said. “Well, we do have a damn good system. We’ve got a world-class system because of the dedication and commitment of teachers and administrators and support staff, not from the crap of per pupil funding by the government.”

“If there was ever a document to propel some advocacy by teachers, by trustees, by parents, this document tells it clearly,” he said. “We basically need more than 600 teachers and $14 million worth of supplies to make up to where we were in 2002.

That is shameful.”

Warren Williams, president of CUPE local 15, said he’s disgusted by the “travesty” of the provincial government’s handling of education funding.

“Since [the B.C. Liberals] have been in power, we’ve had deficit budgets every year,” said Williams. “History

has shown that uneducated people, they get taken advantage of. That’s how I view this lack of funding by the provincial government — as just a means to keep people ignorant so they can’t stand up and say ‘Hey, wait a minute, what are you doing?’”

Williams said the only way the situation will improve is if the people of B.C. rally together and decide en masse they need a change in government.

“Myself, as a union leader, I’ve been pounding that drum for a number of years now, and we’re not being heard,” Williams said. “The citizens of British Columbia need to stand up and say enough is enough.”

The public will get the chance to weigh in on the proposed budget on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. at Van Tech.

See a related VSB budget story on page 39. @jameswesmith

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Last weekend marked seventh anniversary of the 53-year-old mother’s homicide in Pacific Spirit Regional Park Mike Howell

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The family of a 53-yearold woman who was murdered seven years ago while jogging on a sunny afternoon in Pacific Spirit Regional Park is offering a $30,000 reward in attempt to catch the killer or killers of Wendy LadnerBeaudry.

Peter Ladner, brother of Ladner-Beaudry, made the announcement last Friday at RCMP headquarters in Vancouver.

The announcement came two days before the seventh anniversary of Ladner-Beaudry’s death on April 3, 2009.

“This money has been put up by the family, not the police,” said Ladner, who was joined by other family members and Staff Sgt. Wayne Clary, team commander of the homicide investigation. “But all tips must go directly to the police. The reward is held in trust and will only

be released when someone has been arrested and charged for this murder, based on information received by the police in the next 12 months.”

Ladner announced the reward after reporters heard from Clary that police have no suspects in the case after investigating more than 300 “persons of interest.” Clary said police have not received any new tips or leads for investigators to follow.

“We still firmly believe that someone out there knows something,” Clary said. “This is a terrible crime and one that must weigh on a person’s mind, whether they know a bit of information or know who may have involvement in the commission of this crime.”

So far, police have treated the murder as a random crime, with Clary clarifying that police won’t know the motivation for the homicide until investigators identify the killer.

“There’s no evidence to support, or to the contrary,” he said. “We’re still kind of in the dark as to who this may be.”

Ladner-Beaudry died while jogging in Pacific Spirit Regional Park, where she would often run 10 kilometres or longer.

She lived nearby in a house at the end of Highbury Street, where she and her husband, Michel, raised daughters Maya and Jenna.

A hiker discovered Ladner-Beaudry’s body in the early afternoon of April 3 on a trail near the intersection of Camosun Street and Southwest Marine Drive. Some two hours later, her husband and one of her daughters rode their bikes to West 41st and Camosun in search of Ladner-Beaudry because she had failed to pick up her daughter at school that day.

“The moment I saw the police tape, I knew Wendy was dead,” Michel told

the Courier a few days after the murder. “I knew it right away. I wasn’t sure whether she had been hit by a car or beaten to death, but I knew right away. I knew it was her.”

Michel Beaudry and his daughters did not attend Friday’s press conference.

But Ladner read a statement from Michel, who also urged the murderer or anyone with knowledge of the crime to contact police.

“For the last seven years, my daughters and I have had to deal with the loss of the most generous and outgoing woman one could ever want to meet,” Beaudry said in his statement.

“My children’s mother, their mentor, my life partner, my best friend — she’s gone forever. And the toll on our lives has been terrible, for Wendy is no longer here to challenge us, to make us laugh, to help us see the world as a positive happy place she always believed it was.”

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Wendy Ladner-Beaudry, 53, died April 3, 2009 while running on a sunny afternoon in Pacific Spirit Regional Park. No one has been arrested.

Michel said the biggest torment for the family is not having any closure after losing Ladner-Beaudry. He said his sleep is tortured and his dreams are full of questions. Every night before he goes to bed, he said, he wonders what his wife’s killer is doing at that moment.

“Who could have done this to my caring, beautiful, intelligent spouse?

Who could have taken her life with such casual disregard? But this issue is bigger than just my family’s pain. The person we’re looking for has killed and they’ll kill again. Unless we work together to bring this brutal murderer to justice, there will be more women’s victim’s names on the front pages of our newspapers.”

Ladner described his sister as a wise mother, a loving wife, a compassionate sister, a loyal friend, a cheerful mentor, a dedicated community member, a healthy living

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She would have turned 60 last Wednesday.

Ladner said the park will not be safe until his sister’s killer is captured.

“People from all over the region who use the park do not feel the same way about it as they once did,” he said. “They too have lost a piece of their lives because of this senseless crime.”

Ladner said the family has made posters advertising the $30,000 reward.

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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Effect of big campaign donors ‘insidious,’ says B.C. politician

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few weeks back I had a casual encounter with Ida Chong. For a time she was the provincial Liberal minister responsible for communities and the person to whom requests went from Vancouver and the Union of B.C. Municipalities went to ban union and corporate donations.

So I had to ask. Why, given that Vancouver city council has been making this request to ban these donations since as far back as 2002 (when municipal campaign funding hit the $1 million mark) and had since been joined by other municipalities in B.C., was nothing done?

So municipalities in general, and Vancouver in particular, are simply collateral damage for policy that creates significant skepticism among citizens who believe that ‘money talks.’

Actually you probably know the answer. But she confirmed it. If the province banned those types of donations municipally, people would demand the same at the provincial level. And that was just not going to happen.

So municipalities in general, and Vancouver in particular, are simply collateral damage for policy that creates significant skepticism among citizens who believe that “money talks.” If you want access to

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politicians just write a big cheque. It is as true for Mayor Gregor Robertson (which I will get to in a moment) as it is for Premier Christy Clark.

Two weeks ago the issue of campaign financing erupted again. This time it started with a Globe and Mail story about a $10,000-a-plate dinner party that gave 10 wealthy folks exclusive access to Premier Clark.

That led to her, once again, taking heat about unlimited donations from corporations and unions. The story spread to Ontario where Premier Kathleen Wynne was tangled up in the same cash-foraccess debate.

At the time of writing this, Wynne had been sufficiently affected by the furor there and had agreed to change the rules. This spring, she will bring in legislation to outlaw corporate and union political donations.

In B.C., nothing so far.

On Monday of this week, Independent MLA for South Delta Vicki Huntington beat the NDP opposition to the punch by introducing a private member’s bill calling for a ban on union and corporate donations and a limit for personal donations. It was, as she told me, not her first kick at the can on this issue. What was new, aside from the news about Christy’s exclusive dinner party, was the $1,500-limit Huntington wants placed on personal donations.

Thursday (April 7) the B. C. legislature is considering Bill 17, the Local Election Campaign Financing (Election Expenses) Amendment Act. It is the result of a committee report a year ago. Yet, in spite of its title, it will do absolutely nothing to limit the amount of money or the source of funds in Vancouver’s election battles.

In fact, it could make matters even worse.

Based on the formula in the bill, parties could spend even more than they already are. And a unanimous recommendation from the bi-partisan legislative committee, to start the spending clock on Jan. 1 of an election year, was tossed out by Christy Clark and replaced with a 28-day period leading up to an election; that means millions can be spent ahead of that.

Huntington, by the way, is most concerned about funds from developers and can still recall development proposals before Delta council during her many years as a councillor there. They may not have been “in the best interest of the community” but because the developer was a major donor to the party there was pressure put on her to approve the project.

Many councillors will tell you they have no idea who donates to their party. Take that with a grain of salt.

There was a typical Vision Vancouver party fundraiser at the Coast Plaza Hotel in the West End in the run-up to the last election. As reported by my colleague Mike Howell, on the main floor were the folks who kicked in $150 to attend.

On the second floor, in a kind of firstclass lounge you might find at an airport, were the big donors both corporate and union (whose names the party refused to reveal) being entertained by the elected officials before they came down to join the masses.

The effect of these big donors is “insidious” says Huntington. “You have to prevent human nature from running the game.” But in a province with arguable the weakest election financing rules in the country it is no wonder that money still talks. @allengarr

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Zeppelin story recalls hazy day in the 1970s Re: “Song remains the same over rumours Led Zeppelin played at Eric Hamber high school,” March 29.

I enjoyed reading this article, as it reminded me of an incident in my own high school days. I attended another high school in Vancouver in the ’70s and can recall one afternoon as an 8th grader: Our English class was studying a play and the teacher wanted us to go down to the school auditorium (which had a stage) and practise it there.

To our surprise, when we got there we saw an unfamiliar group of young adults setting up their musical equipment. No one knew who they were or if they had even asked for permission from the school office, but since they seemed to know what they were doing we left them alone. For the better part of the hour they played songs and entertained us.

They even presented a short film at the end of the hour. We enjoyed their presentation and left to go to our next class. To this day I don’t know who they were, but at least we had an hour off from our usual school work.

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Second Coming question elicits religious double speak Re: “Theology of hope asks us how we should live today, in the moment,” March 30.

It is of course not surprising that when theologians are confronted with rational questions (“Why is there a Second Coming?”) we are treated to the obfuscation of religious double speak. To weasel away from such questions by claiming the Bible is not to be taken literally but is allegorical or metaphorical, Christians are defining their faith out of existence.

The point is we do not require belief in a totally unsubstantiated supernatural force with the reward of heaven and the punishment of hell to behave morally, with tolerance, understanding and love. These qualities come from our evolutionary heritage and are not dependent on a highly improbable “second” or any other kind of “coming,” however it is defined. With so many Christian interpretations of the Bible (over 40,000 denominations) expressing the biases and self-interests of the founding religious groups and divisions, how can they all be the “word of God” anyway?

What are we doing in the 21st century continuing to venerate these so called holy books, which are full of unproven claims, false historical accounts, irrational non-

sense, obscure messages and promises of messianic arrivals? It is beyond belief!

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Ken Lins via Facebook ••• Good article — How is it that the proponents of these projects don’t have to present them to public scrutiny before one party or another promotes them, and why is there not a debate on these things in the legislature? How is it that concerned people have to dig up all the details and put it together? Obviously these projects are self-serving, so the proponents know if they come out into the light of day, they will be rejected.

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Railway Club owner worried similar venues will close A combination of expensive housing prices, stagnant wages affecting young customer base

Mike Howell

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The owner of the iconic Railway Club, which unexpectedly closed its doors last month, is not predicting a rosy future for similar-sized cultural venues as the city continues to grapple with an affordability crunch.

Steve Silman closed the Railway March 29 after he couldn’t find a buyer for the business or keep up with the mounting costs to operate the popular club at Dunsmuir and Seymour, which served as a live music venue that attracted the likes of the Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies and k.d. lang.

“It’s hard to pin down the effect but there will certainly be one, and not in a good way,” he said in an email to the Courier, when asked what the closing of his club does to the cultural fabric of the city. “I think as the cost of doing business and living in Vancouver continues to rise, we will see the trend of more closures and fewer small businesses continue.

I also think we’ll see even more and larger new developments as owners look for a way to cover the cost of

the land [that] buildings in the city are sitting on.”

Silman said he’s read Facebook posts from people saying they can’t afford to regularly visit places such as the Railway because of the costs to live in Vancouver. He said he noticed people were spending less at the Railway than they were five years ago.

Andrey Pavlov, a Simon Fraser University real estate finance professor, was a patron of the Railway and fears the customer base for such venues is dwindling because people in their 20s and 30s are either moving out of Vancouver, or can’t afford to live in the city.

“You almost don’t need research for that,” said the 46-year-old Pavlov, who rents a laneway house in Kitsilano.

“I mean it’s impossible for someone in that age range to start a family in Vancouver.

So they have to move.”

In 2013, Vancouver saw a net loss of 1,571 residents in the 20 to 30 age group, an increase of 770 over the previous year, according to a report released by Vancity credit union in May 2015.

The report also noted that between 2001 and 2014, the cost of housing in Metro

Steve Silman closed the Railway Club March 29 after he couldn’t find a buyer for the business or keep up with the mounting costs to operate the venue. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Vancouver increased by 63 per cent while salaries only rose by 36.2 per cent.

Pavlov said the influx of foreign investors to Vancouver, along with older homeowners who remain in the city, are not likely to be customers of such venues as the Railway.

“They have different interests than a place like

the Railway Club,” he said.

“I’ve been to the Railway Club many times and the audience is pretty young.

It’s exactly the type of people who are being squeezed out of Vancouver. They’re being squeezed by stagnant wages and few employment opportunities, while at the same time, there are rising rents and property values.”

Although known as a popular music venue, the Railway also hosted theatre events, comedy shows and was a meeting spot for business groups and once home to an informal press club for journalists. The Railway originally opened in 1931 as a private club for railway construction workers.

Vision Vancouver Coun.

Heather Deal, who also frequented the Railway, said she was “gutted” by the closing of the club but believes Vancouver still has a vibrant arts and culture scene.

Deal disagrees Vancouver’s smaller cultural venues are heading for a demise, saying she didn’t “want to paint it with that broad brush.” She pointed to the success of the Rickshaw, the Imperial, the Rio Theatre and Fox Cabaret, all popular venues with young people.

“There is a lively, lively place for younger people and for entertainment and for live music and rowdiness and all those things,” she said, noting the city also introduced an initiative that allows all types of venues, including record stores, to host pop-up events. “But, of course, af-

fordability is a challenge for youth, for people just getting out of school — we’re well aware of that.”

Deal said city council continues to search for ways to make the city more affordable, including deals with developers to build rental housing, but needs investment from senior governments and new rules to cool Vancouver’s hot housing market.

“We have used every tool we have and we are continually looking for more,” she said. “We’re getting some signs of hope from the federal government now but the provincial government has simply turned a blind eye to this issue.”

Pavlov, meanwhile, said he’s not sure he will remain in Vancouver.

“I have a pretty good income, so I can afford to stay in the city even at these prices,” he said. “But the problem is, all of our friends are moving out. So I want my kids to play with other kids, right. But they’re moving out because they can’t afford to live here. I don’t know if I want to stay if enough people leave.” @Howellings

Pearson Dogwood development deal set to transform Cambie corridor Frank O’Brien fobrien@biv.com

A double-barrelled, $302-million land deal that triggered in 2015 and fired the last round in March represents the Onni Group’s largest B.C. project and might be a model for a private-public sector development in Vancouver.

It represents a multimilliondollar construction play that will see a string of residential towers erected along Vancouver’s Cambie corridor, more than 400 units of low-cost housing, new medical and recreational facilities and the first SkyTrain station in Vancouver built completely with private money.

“It is a very unique project,” Onni development manager Jamie Vaughan said of the Pearson Dogwood land purchase and development plan.

The deal involves 24.5 acres of prime land and a joint agreement between Onni and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), the original owner, with the close oversight of the City of Vancouver.

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Onni Group’s newest acquisition: Dogwood Lodge and George Pearson Centre. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

two parcels totalling 22.18 acres — 5.81 that run parallel to Cambie Street and 16.37 on the western portion of the site.

These will be developed into residential and retail and include amenities such as a park and an urban farm.

VCH will retain 3.2 acres that will be developed for health-care and community use, including a new residential care home, a community health centre, a new YMCA and a new therapeutic pool.

As well, 114 new subsidized homes for those with disabilities will be dispersed through the site.

Onni paid $85 million to VCH last year and closed on the remainder of the $302 million purchase on March 15.

It appears a win-win for all those involved.

All of the proceeds from the sale will remain with VCH for investment into health care facilities, including the replacement of outdated buildings.

“The redevelopment is a major project not just for Vancouver Coastal Health and the residents of Pearson Dogwood, but for the entire community,” said Mary Ackenhusen, president and CEO of VCH. A 150-bed residential care home will be built to replace the old Dogwood Lodge.

Construction is expected to start mid-2017 on that project. The following year, VCH anticipates construction on a community health centre will begin. VCH and

Onni presented the rezoning application to the city on Christmas Eve, 2015.

“We stuck very close to the 2014 original agreement with the VCH and city,” Vaughan said.

Under the terms laid out in that policy statement, Onni should hold a winning hand. The plan allows Onni, which has its own construction arm, to build 2.3 million square feet of residential and approximately 132,000 square feet of retail in up to 10 towers, some as high as 28 storeys.

In all, Onni can build and sell 1,645 homes. It will also deliver 411 units of affordable rental housing.

All Onni buildings will meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold standards and the city’s substantive sustainability requirements.

Based on current persquare-foot prices for Cambie corridor condominiums provided by Urban Analytics, Onni’s 2.3 million square feet of market residential alone could be worth north of $2 billion.

Onni expects the develop-

ment to begin construction and marketing in 2018.

As part of the agreement, Onni, with developer Concert Real Estate Corp., which now owns an adjacent 20.8-acre site, has agreed to pay for construction of a new Canada Line SkyTrain station, worth an estimated $30 million, on the corner of Cambie Street and West 57th Avenue.

Under its community amenity contributions to the city, Onni will also provide a 2.5-acre city park, a one-acre urban farm and a 69-space child-care centre.

Susan Haid, the city’s assistant director of planning for Vancouver South, said the project could produce homes for approximately 4,500 residents. She said the zoning application is generally consistent with the original policy statement but still requires city scrutiny.

“The application has to go through quite a rigorous process,” Haid said prior to a series of public consultations in February. “There’s a lot of technical review and consultation before we get to a public hearing at council.”

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Fare gate closures logical step in ending culture of freeloading Will closures open the door for respect toward TransLink?

Jessica Barrett

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When I first moved to Vancouver I was equal parts delighted and dismayed at the city’s public transit system.

Coming from car-dependent Edmonton, I was delighted that the express buses and SkyTrain lines could take me almost anywhere I wanted to go. And I was dismayed that I could ride them for free, largely consequence free. “What kind of transit system in any decent-sized city runs on the honour system?” I remember thinking, likely as I gave a cursory glance over my shoulder and proceeded pass the ticket machines unchecked.

It’s worth noting I was only 19 at the time and have since reformed — somewhat. Turns out I am not all that honourable, and neither are many of you. Fare evasion costs the regional transit authority an estimated $18 million a year in lost revenue, more if you count the 70 per cent of fare

evasion fines that go unpaid thanks to a largely toothless penalty system that ties them to driver’s licence renewals (which tends not to be much of a concern if you’re depending on transit to get around).

I’m not defending my transgressions. I believe in public transit and I believe users should pay for it. But I also know human nature is inherently opportunistic and drawn towards the path of least resistance. For the vast majority of my time in Vancouver, I’ve paid my way onto TransLink’s buses, boats and trains, with all manner of passes, tickets and pocket change. But I’m also among a sizeable contingent of transit users that developed a habit of skipping out on the fare whenever we found ourselves in a hurry, out of change, or just feeling lazy when the B-Line happened to pull up. It was just so easy, as if TransLink was asking for it.

This is precisely the kind of behaviour that, ideally, will be curtailed with the full implementation of the

With the closing of the fare gates at SkyTrain, Canada Line and SeaBus stations, columnist Jessica Barrett says TransLink has finally taken the logical step toward ending the culture of freeloading it unwittingly fostered for years. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Compass Card system.

With this week’s closing of the fare gates at SkyTrain, Canada Line and SeaBus stations, TransLink has finally taken the logical step toward ending the culture of freeloading it unwittingly fostered for all these years.

But this is only the begin-

ning of the work it has to do to foster a culture of respect toward the organization.

It’s been nearly a year since Metro Vancouver residents handed TransLink a smarting rebuke by overwhelmingly voting down the transit plebiscite that would have brought a 0.05 per

cent sales tax into to region to pay for $7.5 billion in transit improvements. The no side, you may recall, coasted to a victory by leveraging the public perception of TransLink as a blundering, bloated and inept entity — precisely the kind that would leave fee payments for a cash-strapped piece of critical public infrastructure up to individual good will.

Since then, some things have changed, but more things have not. A new cityfriendly federal government has promised $340 million for transit projects in the Lower Mainland and upped their contribution to 50 from 30 per cent for future projects. But cities in the region are still scrambling to come up with their portion of the price tag for badly needed transit improvements, and public confidence in the transit authority has scarcely budged.

TransLink has done little to mend its tattered reputation or fight a perception of inflated executive pay and lacklustre service.

The fact that the Compass

Card system is years behind schedule and comes with technical glitches that still allow for fare evasion on the B-Line (or the “free bus” as one friend calls it) does not bode well for any future funding sources that require public support. Nor does the fact that in the process of implementing the new system TransLink was forced to downgrade fares on all bus routes to a single rate, or that despite years of planning, fare gates weren’t designed to accommodate paralyzed transit riders unable to tap in or out.

As it is, the final rollout of the Compass Card system is more a limp past the finish line than cause for celebration. It is undoubtedly an improvement over the old honour system. But while TransLink may finally be able to force an end to the flippant free-for-all culture among many riders with the activation of its fare gates, whether it will ever command respect from the public remains to be seen. @jm_barrett

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‘Extreme makeover’ erodes city’s allure geoffolson.com

I first came to Vancouver in the spring of 1970, on a short trip with my family.

As a kid, the region seemed magical to me compared to flat, cold, Southern Ontario.

Mountains! Beaches!

Huge, all-season Christmas trees! A public aquarium with performing whales!

The entire family moved to B.C. permanently in 1973. I recall ambling through Jericho Park when Vancouver hosted Habitat 1 in 1976 — a conference championing the progressive notion that government had a responsibility to ensure its citizens proper shelter.

“The Vancouver Declaration” from Habitat 1 stated that “unacceptable human settlements circumstances are likely to be aggravated by inequitable economic growth and uncontrolled urbanization, unless positive and concrete

action is taken at national and international levels.”

A decade later the city hosted Expo 86, a world exposition on transportation and communication presided over by a used car salesman and a robot named Ernie.

By then I was old enough to recognize the transportation theme was a thin conceit to advertise Vancouver to the international investment community.

In 1988, the province sold the Expo lands to Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing for the fire sale price of $145 million. Soon developers were erecting cheap, Santa Fe-style architecture on the city’s West Side, laying the ground work for the infamous leaky condo crisis another decade down the road.

In 1989, long before the arrival of wealthy Chinese investors, I noticed the proliferation of Jaguars, Mercedes and other highend cars in the city streets.

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The deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, with only fragmented support services to help them, had begun in earnest. Ironically, Vancouver’s status as an international hotspot was coupled with its distinction of having the poorest postal code in Canada: a sacrifice zone occupied by disturbed people self-medicating in the streets.

The effects of the Thatcher-ReaganMulroney group grope were being felt across the Anglo-American world; globalization was ascendent and aloof Vancouver took on a mercenary edge as it adopted the free market mantra.

With B.C.’s resourcebased economy on the slide, the stage was being set for increased commodification of shelter.

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Philip Weaver, manager of pastoral care at Providence Health Care, who also oversees pastoral care at St. Paul’s Hospital, says a “spiritual care practitioner” can encourage patients to articulate their deepest feelings using language that is natural and not wrapped up in religious jargon. Weaver becomes national president of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care next week. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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‘Spiritual care practitioners’ encourage patients to articulate deepest feelings Chaplains’ group to hold conference in Vancouver

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The 150 or so professionals descending on Vancouver next week for a national conference prefer to call themselves “spiritual care practitioners,” but most people are probably more familiar with the term “chaplain.”

When Marc Doucet, now finishing his term as president of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care, was starting in the field 27 years ago, he was called a chaplain.

“But I didn’t see my sole or primary purpose as limited to religious care,” he said. “It was always about the total person.”

If a person with a religious faith wants someone to pray with, Doucet will do so, to the extent that his knowledge allows. As someone who was first ordained as a Roman Catholic priest and later as a United Church minister, he cuts a wide swath across Christian tradition. But if an

individual seeks a religious connection that Doucet can’t fulfill, there are always partners in the community he can call to step in. However, he says only about 10 per cent of his work is what he calls “religious,” while 90 per cent is “spiritual.”

What’s the difference?

“Religion is the adherence to, and practice of, certain tenets and beliefs of a particular religious faith denomination,” he explains.

“Spirituality, I’d say, is broader than that. People might express their spirituality through a religious practice, but that is not the only way that one can express one’s spirituality.”

Their work overlaps that of social workers, psychologists and nurses, he says, but differs in one key respect. At root, it comes down to transcendence.

When someone is dying, or adapting to a major life change such as incapacity or chronic illness, they may face a personal crisis.

A spiritual care practitioner will help them work

through their feelings, emotions and fears, a process that may or may not involve discussions about God, mortality or afterlife.

“It’s about making meaning and purpose out of their life,” Doucet says. “How do I understand myself in my world, connect to that bigger picture outside of my own world?”

Doucet, who is the manager and clinical educator of the department of spiritual care at the University Health Network in Metro Toronto, says spiritual care is crucial for overall health.

“It’s an integral part of the wholeness of a person,” he says. “It is part of the circle of care that we need to be providing people. It’s about physical, mental, psychological, spiritual health, and if any of those are not well... It affects the recovery of the other parts.”

While Doucet’s work is in health care, members of the association also work in corrections facilities, hospices and long-term care facilities, and some are associated with

religious denominations or work in private practice.

Replacing Doucet as national president next week is Vancouverite Philip Weaver, manager of pastoral care at Providence Health Care, who also oversees pastoral care at St. Paul’s Hospital.

He says a spiritual care practitioner can encourage patients to articulate their deepest feelings using language that is natural and not wrapped up in religious jargon.

“It’s about finding what gives them joy, peace, hope — we’re not using those terms explicitly, but we might be when we’re talking with the rest of the medical team,” he says.

“This person really finds a great deal of comfort when they’re talking about their grandkids. So when the person is feeling anxious in the middle of the night, then the nurses there at the bedside can say ‘tell me about your grandkids.’ It kind of gives them some ways to offer support. It’s really about us learning to

speak about spirituality in everyday language, not a specialized vocabulary.”

Taking the helm of the national association next week, Weaver foresees threats and challenges ahead.

“Funding in health care is always a threat,” he says. “There is always the question of how do we justify our existence in the system. What’s the bang for the buck?”

In an area — health care — where science, empirical evidence and numbers rule, the impact of spiritual care on patients is less quantifiable, though research is mounting to show that people who meet with spiritual care practitioners are better prepared to have conversations with the medical team around the course of treatment and end-of-life decision-making, Weaver says.

“We’re really good with stories,” he says of his profession, “but not so good with numbers. Numbers are much easier and faster ways to make decisions than to

have to listen to stories.”

Nevertheless, if stories must be told to convince funders and decision-makers, so be it. This expertise, in fact, forms the theme of next week’s conference, Identity Narratives: Rediscovering our Professional Identity Through Story.

Sessions will include discussions about how dogs can reduce stress among university students at exam time, delivering culturally and spiritually sensitive care to Indigenous people, refugees and immigrants, spiritual distress in veterans, and “Weaving a Bag, Weaving a Story,” in which two First Nations facilitators will lead participants in traditional Coast Salish weaving. A “gentle meditative frame of mind” emerges, while “good feelings, energy and prayers are woven into the piece,” the program promises.

Some components of the conference (spiritualcare. ca) are open to the public for a fee. @Pat604Johnson

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Continued from page 15 As urban policy expert Elizabeth Murphy reminded me recently, the Sino-Cascadia pathway across the Pacific was wellprepared by local policy decisions.

It started with the City of Vancouver’s drive “to rezone massive amounts of the city, removing checks and balances like Third Party Appeals to the Board of Variance, changing from the Liveable Region Strategic Plan to the Regional Growth Strategy, unhinging transit from transportation to the delivery system of development, dismantling of heritage programs while encouraging the destruction of the older more affordable housing

stock,” Murphy writes.

“Blame foreign investment all we want, but our governments invited them, accommodated them and sold us out to an invasion of international wealth we can never compete with,” she adds.

Asian investors with yuan to burn — ill-gained or otherwise — are acting as rational economic players by responding to a red carpet rolled out by a succession of blinkered civic, provincial and federal officials. The blame lies squarely on this side of the Pacific. (See Kerry Gold’s excellent article in The Walrus for an overview of Vancouver’s surreal estate story.)

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seen residential property prices go asymptotic, with perfectly liveable homes reduced to landfill for the sake of ticky-tacky mansions. It’s like butterflies pupating into caterpillars in the city’s gutted neighbourhoods.

Also over the last six years, St. Paul’s hospital has recorded close to a 90 per cent increase in mental health emergency visits. “At least 46 homeless people died in British Columbia in 2014 — a 70 per cent increase from the year before,” according to report released by the street newspaper Megaphone.

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“lifestyle alternative” of living in vans, rather than rent or own property. When I was young, we called that “homeless.”

Ah, Vancouver. You were always an austere beauty, with the looks of a Hollywood starlet, the warmth of a customs agent, and the depth of a gnat. Only know do I realize, four decades after arriving here, that I once loved you. And with lingering feelings of connection, I despair your extreme makeover is far from complete.

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Dancers compete during Saturday night’s Cirque Du Savoy as part of Lindy Bout X at Performance Works. Lindy Bout is the only lindy hop championship in Western Canada, and joining locals were dancers from Alberta, Eastern Canada, the United States and France. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS BY REBECCA BLISSETT

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Lindy hop competition attracts a swinging crowd Mishmash of tap, jazz, breakaway and Charleston originated in 1920s Harlem Rebecca Blissett

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While it takes discipline to stick with something for years, it’s passion that maintains excitement.

Eileen Jones is a longtime dancer, but her foremost role this past weekend was helping organize Lindy Bout X. Jones’s exhausting four-day schedule included unofficial brunches for lindy hoppers, panels about lindy hop, “Gentle Yoga for Lindy Bouters,” classes for lindy hop and, naturally, the competition — the Lindy Bout.

A team of keen volunteers turned Performance Works into a dance hall for the evening’s Cirque du Savoy, a name that tips its hat to Harlem’s famous ballroom when swing was king. The venue had already been decorated for the daytime events, but Saturday night is historically a special night

for dances. So, streamers, new cardboard signs and a different colour scheme were added to the clothcovered tables with balloons fancying up the room so it looked like the Hill Valley high school dance in Back to the Future.

As the crew dashed about, Jones — fondly called a “bossy” by this crowd — took a breather from the clipboard upstairs in the packed dressing room to describe what was about to take place on the floor as soon as doors opened at 8:30 p.m.

“Your heart is going to burst,” she said enthusiastically. “Yeah, it’s going to be really, really good. It’s so exciting. The energy at this event, the energy in this room — it’s palpable.

There’s so much heart.”

Since lindy hop is improvisational by nature, Jones and others consider it to be a street dance. It was born

in African American communities living in Harlem during the 1920s and ’30s and it grew alongside and within the jazz scene. It maintained its popularity during the swing era of the late 1930s and into the ’40s with its mishmash of different dances, including tap, jazz, breakaway and the Charleston.

Even its name is a mishmash of different stories. Some say lindy hop was named after Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Others say the lindy hop existed in New York a decade before, albeit under a different name.

For Jones, lindy hop was the perfect fit during a time she was trying to figure out a way to fit dance into her university life 15 years ago. She tried jazz, ballet, contemporary and musical theatre while growing up, but it was lindy hop that

took top billing. She joined the SFU Swing Club, and it just so happened one of her residence housemates was president of the club. This meant the perk of dances happened right in her living room. “I was so spoiled,” she said. “My formative months as a swing dancer were spent dancing every day with the better dancers in Vancouver.”

She caught the last gasp of the swing revival in Vancouver in the early 2000s, attending the second-to-last swing dance hosted by Blue Lizard Productions at the Grandview Legion. Local lindy hoppers were a small but dedicated group in the following years, travelling to dance competitions around the country and the U.S. Fellow bossy Stephanie McKernan Taylor started Vancouver’s Lindy Bout 10 years ago after the Pacific Northwest Lindy Hop Championship died out in

Seattle, according to Jones.

“Lindy Bout gets bigger and bigger every year. I feel like maybe three years ago we really turned a corner,” she said. “Lindy Bout is a beast. It’s a beast with a life of its own.”

The dance floor was full of swiveling bodies within five minutes of the doors opening. The hairstyles alone, which included Chelsea cuts, an Afro, victory rolls, pony tails and closely cropped, were enough to delightfully indicate Lindy Bout was open to all kinds.

Dancers warmed up to DJ Larry Low spinning the likes of Glenn Miller and Lionel Hampton before the house band, Josh Roberts and his Orchestra, kicked in and played for the casual and competitive dances, which included featherweight (medium tempo music) and haymaker Jack & Jill finals (beginner competition), knockdown Jack

& Jill (advanced dancers) and barnburner Jack & Jill (skilled) finals.

“Bringing together jazz music and jazz dancers, it allows both art forms to be practised in their complete capacity. They’re supposed to be together,” said Jones. “We have this whole community of musicians in Vancouver who love playing for dancers, know how to play for dancers, are used to playing for dancers. There are even young musicians who cut their chops playing for dancers — they don’t know what the world would be like not to have dancers dancing to their music.”

She added, “The whole event is having that balance between the structured, formal competition and having the heart and joyous experience at the same time.”

Results from Lindy Bout X can be found at lindybout.com.

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Metro Vancouver home sales hit record high in March Seller’s market continues as the number of sales topped 5,000 units in the month

Emma Crawford Hampel ecrawford@biv.com

A month after the number of homes sold in Metro Vancouver reached the highest level ever recorded in the month of February, sales reached a new record for March, with 5,173 units changing hands.

This is a 27.4 per cent increase compared with the 4,060 sales in March 2015, and it is 24 per cent higher than the 4,172 homes sold in February. The benchmark sales price reached $815,000, which represents a year-over-year increase of 23.2 per cent.

“Today’s demand is

broad-based,” said REBGV president Dan Morrison.

“Home buyers are active in neighbourhoods across our region.

“Strong job and economic growth in our province, positive net migration and low interest rates are helping to drive this activity.”

The benchmark price for

detached properties jumped 27.4 per cent over the past year to $1,342,500. In total, 2,135 units of this type sold in the month, which is an increase of 24.8 per cent year-over-year.

The benchmark price for apartments grew 18.8 per cent in the 12 months to March, to $462,800. A

total of 2,252 homes of this type changed hands in the month — up 38.4 per cent.

For attached properties, the benchmark price grew 20.1 per cent to $589,100.

The number of units sold increased 8.9 per cent to 786.

REBGV data includes sales in Vancouver, North

Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Richmond, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, South Delta, Whistler, Squamish and the Sunshine Coast.

It does not include Surrey or Langley. @EmmaHampelBIV

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For more than four years, we’ve worked together with our neighbours and local communities to hear what they have to say about our proposed pipeline expansion.

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SkyTrain passengers accustomed to breezing through open fare gates at SkyTrain stations had to start changing their routines this week.

TransLink began closing all remaining open fare gates Monday morning at

stations along the Expo Line, Millennium Line and Canada Line, as well as the SeaBus terminals.

The transit agency said commuters should expect all gates to be closed by Friday, April 8.

Instead, riders will have to tap pre-loaded Compass cards or Compass tickets to move beyond the gates

when entering or exiting fare-paid zones on the SkyTrain and SeaBus. TransLink came under fire last month after some customers with disabilities raised concerns about difficulties they would face when tapping in and out of closed fare gates.

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Gates would remain open at stations if attendants were not available.

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April 7 to 13, 2016 1. Daughter of Ravi Shankar, sitarist Anoushka Shankar carries on the family tradition, returning to the UBC’s Chan Centre for Performing Arts, April 8, in support of her ninth studio album, Land of Gold, dedicated to the plight of refugees around the world. For tickets, call 604-822-2697 or go to chancentre.com.

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3. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet presents the Vancouver premiere of Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation, which pays tribute to the experiences of residential school survivors and their families, April 7 to 9 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. For tickets, call 1-855-985-ARTS (2787) or go to ticketmaster.ca. Details at rwb.org.

4. The Cinematheque screens a new digital restoration of Luchino Visconti’s 1960 film Rocco and His Brothers April 8 to 10.

The sweeping family drama was a central achievement of postwar Italian cinema and a major influence on Italian-American directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola. Details and show times at thecinematheque.ca.

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BIG EXPOSURE: Now in its third year, the Capture Photography Festival shines a spotlight on photography and lens-based art.

More than 100 exhibitions and events are dedicated to thought-provoking and challenging photography. An art installation by celebrated photographer Stephen Waddell on the Dal Grauer Substation on Burrard Street is among the many public works adorning the city. The festival launched the month-long luau of shows, artist talks and workshops at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Steered by founder and executive director Kim Spencer Nairn, the opening celebrations also saw the handing out of the inaugural Phil Lind Emerging Artist Award, established to support emerging artists working with photography, film and video. Besting seven other finalists, SFU’s Vilhelm Sundin’s video installations won top honours and a $5,000 prize towards an upcoming exhibition at the future Polygon Gallery.

WISHES COME TRUE: The third annual Night of Wonders gala to benefit the B.C. and Yukon chapter of the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada lived up to its name.

Chaired by Jessica Hollander and presented by Pacific Blue Cross, the party saw nearly 200 of Vancouver’s most glamorous and generous business luminaries convene at Mike Wood’s Autoform showroom for the evening of wish making. The audience was brought to its feet when Wish Child Ida Yang performed “Nataliana” on the harp she received as her wish.

They were on their feet again after hearing from wish mom Natasha Prokosh, who shared her family’s personal story. The touching moments buoyed gala-goers to give to the tune of $242,000. Proceeds from the magical night will support the foundation’s ongoing efforts of granting wishes for Canadian children aged three to 17 who are facing a life threatening illness.

CLASS ACT: The Vancouver East Cultural Centre, a.k.a. the Cultch, hosted its flagship fundraiser, this time embracing Argentina as its theme country for the seventh instalment of its charity dinner. CBC’s Margaret Gallagher and yours truly hosted the passionate affair, led by senior brass Heather Redfern, Cindy Reid and a committee of 12. The memorable night featured a champagne reception, live and silent auction items and a three-course dinner on the company’s historic theatre stage. Between courses, performances by tango dancers and opera singers kept things hot. The hottest act however came when arts patrons, encouraged by auctioneer David C Jones, emptied their wallets of a reported $50,000 for the organization. Proceeds will support the company’s ongoing programming, as well Cultch Connect, an initiative that provides free tickets to those who may not otherwise have the opportunity to experience the performing arts.

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At the opening of the Capture Photography Festival, Phil Lind of Rogers Communications presented Vilhem Sundin with the inaugural Emerging Artist Award. The SFU student’s video installations won top honours and a $5,000 prize.

Concert Properties’ Kate Sunderland Ratzlaff and Dr. Peter Foundation’s Jennifer Davies were among the style savvy who sat down for dinner at the French fashion house, in support of the Dr. Peter Centre.

Wish kid Ida Yang performed at Jessica Hollander’s Night of Wonders Gala. The magical evening generated a record setting $242,000 for the B.C. and Yukon chapter of the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada.

Cultch staffers Melissa Oei, Cindy Reid and Mika Laulainen were all smiles after a reported $50,000 was generated at the arts organization’s marquee fundraiser.

A 10-year exploration of SCREAM, photographer Wendy D finally lets it all out sharing her hundreds of scream photos at Mainspace Gallery April 8 to 14, as part of the Capture Photography Festival.

Autoform’s Mike Wood escorted his girlfriend Rachel Lloyd to the Children’s Wish Foundation benefit after emptying his East Side showroom of 50 luxury cars to accommodate the Night of Wonders Gala.

Vancouver Opera mezzo-soprano Francesca Corrado performed excerpts from the company’s upcoming production of Evita at the Cultch Gala.

Communications consultant Susan Bruckner and public relations executive Joy Jennisen hosted an exclusive Louis Vuitton dinner at the flagship store in support of the Dr. Peter Centre.

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Good People has bite to go with comedic chops Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

Like the nature versus nurture debate, we often ask whether our lives are determined by choices we do (or do not) make, or are some people just born lucky?

In David LindsayAbaire’s play Good People, Margie (hard “g”) is in a bad way; she’s a single mom with a “retarded” adult daughter, and she has recently been fired from the Dollar Store for repeatedly being late for work. Margie’s no slacker, but daughter Joyce requires babysitting, and Dottie, the landlady and cheap babysitter, is unreliable.

Former neighbourhood kid Mikey, on the other hand, has escaped their shared tough, workingclass background in South Boston (“Southey”), to become a doctor with a

fancy home and a beautiful, young “black” wife and daughter. He has become, in Margie’s words, “lace-curtain” — that is, socially pretentious.

Did Mike simply make good choices while Margie made poor choices?

Or did Mike get lucky?

If this doesn’t sound like the stuff of comedy, prepare to laugh. This skilled cast, directed

by Rachel Ditor for the Arts Club, finds all the biting humour in Good People without burying the serious issues of the play under easy laughter. It is, after all, about what constitutes “good people.” Which of the play’s characters escapes a disadvantaged past by making “good” (as in “self-serving, clever”) choices as opposed to those who make “good” (as in “charitable, compassionate”) choices?

Lauchlin Johnston’s set

takes us from an alleyway outside the Dollar Store, Margie’s kitchen, a bingo parlour and a classy doctor’s office to a handsome, expensive living room. The set pieces slide quickly and noiselessly; the action of the play is scarcely interrupted At the heart of Good People is Margie, and director Ditor could have found no one better than Colleen Wheeler for the role. She’s physically perfect: tall, rangy, an I-can-take-care-of-myself sort of gal. But behind Wheeler’s strong physical presence is a softness that all the tough talking can’t conceal. The result is perfectly timed comedy. A little pause, a little hesitation, and Wheeler drops a verbal bombshell that has audiences saying, aloud, “Whoa!”

Good People has a lot of these moments.

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Update: Led Zeppelin at Eric Hamber mystery solved Final word on whether band played secret high school show in 1970 Aaron Chapman

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Readers reacted by the arena full to my last Backstage Past piece, “Dazed and confused,” in the March 31 edition of the Courier, which dealt with the oft-told story that Led Zeppelin had once played Eric Hamber secondary school in March 1970, based on a photo in the school’s yearbook that year.

As some of you might have seen, my friend Squire Barnes from Global BC TV also did a segment on the story. In the weeks prior to the Courier piece coming out, I had told Squire about the bizarre tale and he became just as fascinated with the myth as I had, suggesting we have our individual pieces published and aired in conjunction with one another. In turn, it appears from comments (some even irate) that a few wondered if this was all part of an elaborate joint effort between the Courier and Global to pull an early April Fools’ joke.

Last week’s Courier story by Aaron Chapman on the oft-told rumour that Led Zeppelin had once rehearsed in Eric Hamber secondary’s auditorium in 1970 garnered much attention and a few definitive answers.

The day the Courier piece came out, Barnes interviewed former student Edward Lerner, now a doctor based in Tsawwassen, who said he took the photo at Led Zeppelin’s Pacific Coliseum concert in 1970.

Any inkling there was more to the myth was further quashed a day later, when upon hearing about the story, Barb Jones, a student and activities editor for the Eric Hamber yearbook committee in 1970, came

forward and admitted the yearbook photo of Zeppelin supposedly performing at the high school was indeed a joke.

“I loved your article.

The research you did was extensive,” Jones wrote in

her email. “I had absolutely no idea that we had started a rumour and that it had persisted.”

Jones fondly recalls putting together the annual that year, literally using cut and paste techniques far before computer desktop publishing was ever a thing, noting the Zeppelin item in the yearbook was always meant to be playful, with a satirical youthful bent typical of the period.

However, there remained a group of hardcore Zep-believers who were young students in 1970 who continued to insist they saw a band — some band — playing on the Eric Hamber auditorium stage that year. Their eyewitness reports (along with other factors mentioned in the original article) originally gave credence to the idea that Zeppelin had played at the high school. A couple of readers finally came forward to seemingly clear up that final piece of the puzzle.

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by Terry Jacks in 1971.

One reader commented that he recalled the show going 10 minutes overtime, with Spring squeezing in their last song, their single “As Feelings Go,” at the end of their set, leaving teachers to complain students were drifting back late to their classes after the concert.

So it’s perhaps a little sad to finally burst the Zeppelin dirigible, and solve the Eric Hamber mystery. But maybe if you do remember Eric Hamber in 1970, you weren’t there, man…

Now there’s just that other old rumour going back decades about Point Grey secondary being initially built as a women’s prison…. @TheAaronChapman

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Wheeler tough but soft

Continued from page 23 On stage with Wheeler are Patti Allan and Jenn Griffin as Dottie and Jeanne, Margie’s bingoplaying friends. Allan, outrageously rigged out by costume designer Carmen Alatorre in a screwylooking hat, cheap jewelry and too much lipstick, is sour-puss perfect. And you have to love Griffin’s salt-of-the-earth Jeanne who supports Margie through thick and thin and shows what “good people” Jeanne really is.

Sereana Malani makes her Arts Club debut as Mike’s wife Kate, defi-

nitely classier, better educated than the Southey women. Malani does what she can with a rather leftfield scene in which she accuses Margie of being a bad mother.

As Mike (or Mikey as Dottie, Jeanne and Margie remember him), Scott Bellis is excellent as the conflicted, back-pedalling character who simply exudes uncertainty, passive-aggressiveness and unpleasant wimpiness.

Ben Elliott brings an endearing boy-nextdoor goofiness and lanky physicality to Stevie who, at the top of the play has

the nasty task of firing his friend Margie. In a surprising twist, Stevie shows all of us what “good people” are really made of.

My old mom (as she caught my teenaged self primping in front of the mirror) used to cluck, “Handsome is as handsome does.” Good People suggests, “Good is as good does.”

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Mindfulness of death is a Buddhist practice that informs more meaningful living.

If anything can happen anytime and if your next breath was your last breath, you would pay attention to the quality of each remaining moment of your life — every sensation, thought, word and action.

If this was your last week or today was your last day, what would you do differently?

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Dr. Ira Byock, a palliative care physician, wrote in his book, The Four Things That Matter Most, that there are four things that we need to say to our loved ones before we part: “Please forgive me,” “I forgive you,” “Thank you” and “I love you.”

We are all human and imperfect. We hurt the people we love, and they hurt us. We take one another for granted. We don’t always speak or act in loving ways.

If we knew our time together was limited, we might be kinder, more patient and loving. The truth is our lives are indeed limited, and few of us know how much time we have left. In fact, the only ones who know this have been diagnosed with a terminal condition.

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I was fortunate that my profession had taught me how precious life was and that I was able to give back to my mom the love that she gave me. Yet I have often thought of how her kind and generous presence would have enriched my life and those of my children if she was still here.

When grieving, I recalled every word from those who offered comfort. One patient said that to die suddenly is a good way to go.

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It takes a team to attend not only to the physical aspects of care, but just as importantly the psychological and spiritual. Patients and their families and friends are supported by a team that includes nurses, doctors and volunteers.

Though we cannot predict how our lives will unfold, we can live with the end in mind. We can invest in our most important relationships with the gift of each day and each moment together. We can stop wasting our time, doing things that don’t matter, holding grudges or putting ourselves before others. In the end, what can we hold on to?

We can say what needs to be said. We can use each moment more mindfully.

We can express all the love we have in our hearts because it’s only worth something when we give it away.

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East Side Flea — not to be confused with the Vancouver Flea Market — began popping up in different neighbourhoods, starting at the WISE Hall near Commercial Drive, three years ago. The selfdescribed “modern day flea market” has been held at the Biltmore Cabaret, UBC campus, Main Street Car Free days and other events.

East Side Flea regularly attracts anywhere from 600 to 1,200 visitors, and Whitford is confident their new home will draw a wide demographic.

“We always wanted a permanent space and this building is central and large enough with tons of character,” says Whitford. “In addition to being the new home to East Side Flea, we plan on making this building an arts and culture hub hosting regular markets, artisan studios, community workshops and demos, food trucks, block parties and more.”

Although East Side Flea has more than 1,000 creative types on its roster, Whitford says they are always looking for vendors, with a focus on DIY collectibles and gift items.

The market will keep its focus on collectibles and vintage clothing, but you’ll also find more hand-crafted items, some of which will be created by “alternative artisans” on the premises: 18 artist studios are located on the top floor of the building, while the main floor, mezzanine and warehouse will be reserved for vendors whose wares will include everything from vinyl records and plants to locally-made body products and foraged items such as wild teas.

And if you work up an appetite from shopping, food trucks — including Tacofino — will be just outside.

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Leigh Burrows at Remixd Vintage and a veteran vendor with the market believes the new space will become an alternative shopping hub for Vancouverites.

“I think having a permanent location will bring a broader range of customers than we saw at the WISE Hall,” says Burrows. “I am so grateful to East Side Flea because it transformed my hobby into a living.”

The grand opening takes place April 16 and 17. After that, the market will open one weekend per

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You remain in a quiet, restful, contemplative state for nine more days. Chase money, buy/sell, cultivate clients, angle toward a pay raise Sun./ Mon. Don’t fight the trend Sunday: shrug off problems and obstacles Sunday (sleep will gain more for you than action) – but do chase results Monday morning (to noon, PDT). Errands, short tips, communications, casual contacts, details, paperwork fill Tues./Wed.

One last week of work and drudgery, Scorpio. Continue to plod along. Protect your health; eat and dress sensibly. This week is virtually problem-free (except for blockages and minor irritations Sunday and Wednesday). You can accomplish more than usual, and could end the week with the praise or admiration of higher-ups. Sunday/Monday bring secrets, financial manoeuvres, sexual yearnings, medical diagnoses, research and detective work, and lifestyle changes.

You remain in a friendly, popular, happy state.

Wishes can come true, optimism, abounds, entertainment awaits, and exciting flirtations occur. Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness rise strongly Sun./Mon. You’ll be the center of attention. Start significant projects or ventures. BUT – if you want them to succeed, start them between 2 a.m. and noon PDT, Monday.

The accent remains on romance, good luck, speculation, creativity, charming kids, beauty and pleasure. (Steep yourself in the pleasure of the moment; this is not a time to think of the future.)

You might start thinking of a past romance soon (next week to late May) – it’s possible this person will return, or you’ll make an approach. Also, same period, you might grow indecisive (if you’re single) about a present love affair.

The accent remains on ambition, career pressures, prestige relations and your worldly status. Now there is no need to hold back or grapple with obstacles – the last of these appeared last week. But spend your time quietly Sun./Mon. – rest, avoid competitive situations, and protect your health. Plan future actions Monday, not Sunday.

The emphasis remains on home, family, property, security, garden, Mother Nature, and retirement. Don’t beat yourself up if you haven’t accomplished a lot in the past few weeks – this is a natural hibernation and rejuvenation time.

It’s also a good time to prune relationships and projects: jettison the stale and withered, invest your faith and action in the new and healthy.

our mellow, wise, loving and understanding mood continues, Leo. This is an excellent week to move legal, far travel, media/publishing, educational and love matters forward – you’ve already met (and hopefully overcome) the essential problems the last three weeks.

Now you’re free to charge ahead. Sunday/Monday spell “happiness” – your optimism and popularity rise, entertainment combines with a celebratory mood, and, perhaps, a bit of flirting, even a new, friendly romance.

A flurry of errands, casual contacts, trips, calls, mail programs, telephony, and just “daily business” prevails for another nine days (to April 18). Get as much accomplished as you can during this productive, rewarding week.

Many of the casual contacts you make now can turn into happy friends, even draw you into a social circle that will buoy you for a long time.

You might also, if single, start a friendly love

The depths of life continue to swirl around you – though the swirling has slowed, and the major obstacles have passed, making this week an open door to plunge profitably into these depths. Depths = secrets and mysteries, heightened intuition, research, medical diagnoses, sexual yearnings, hunger for power, financial commitments and lifestyle changes – actions and consequences, good consequences. Sunday and Wed. call for caution, discretion, and are generally failure-prone.

The accent remains on making money, buying/selling, protecting possessions, rote learning, and sensual attractions – for nine more days. Your money planet is slowly travelling through your career sector, so the two will co-operate nicely – e.g., it’s easier to make money through “higher levels” than from “doing chores.” This is also a good time to climb ambition’s ladder.

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NFL snaps to attention over UBC Scouts attend pro-day for T-Birds linebacker and kicker

Megan Stewart

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Watching a Thunderbirds linebacker run around cones has rarely drawn so much interest. Nor have so many volunteered to place the laces away from a kicker’s foot.

But when football scouts with the NFL and CFL travelled to Thunderbird Stadium March 30 to assess Terrell Davis and Quinn van Gylswyk, two positional specialists staring down a future in professional sport, dozens came out to watch, to help, to report, or just to admire.

“There is nothing bigger than the NFL. To have them here is a big deal,” said strength and conditioning coach Joe McCullum.

“These other kids all jumped at the chance to just longsnap for our punter. This is a great opportunity — I bet you a million kids in Canada would give anything to be them in this moment.”

The Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders sent scouts to see the two players, while retired slotback and three-time Grey Cup winner Geroy Simon was on hand for the B.C. Lions and the Toronto Argonauts sent their Canadian scouting coordinator, Vince Magri.

Davis, in his third year with Canadian Interuniversity Sport after transferring to UBC from Arizona State in 2014, ran drills that tested his acceleration and agility in addition to his raw speed. He covered the 40yard dash in 4.7 seconds, repeating his performance at the CFL combine held in Toronto March 11 to 13.

Ranked 40th for Canadian linebackers eligible for the CFL draft, the polite and friendly Davis said he wanted to clock a faster time.

“I was hoping to improve

UBC Thunderbirds linebacker Terrell Davis runs a 40-yard sprint for NFL and CFL scouts, including the B.C. Lions’ Geroy Simon, at Thunderbird Stadium March 30. Kicker Quinn van Gylswyk was the second player assessed during the T-Birds pro-day. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

on that but it’s OK being consistent,” said the six-foot, 222-pound former high school player of the year.

“I’m hoping to get a bit better but I’ll take the 4.7.”

From the CFL combine, he improved his vertical jump and also increased his bench press from 13 to 18 reps at 225 pounds.

“It’s definitely great having a couple NFL teams out here watching us, but it’s not too nerve-wracking because we’re at home and it’s a nice day to come run around for some guys.

It’s not too bad — it’s just football guys hanging out, taking notes.”

Player pro-days and combines test performance

under pressure. Meeting, and surpassing, expectations is one more ability that scouts assess.

In the case of van Gylswyk, the six-foot-three kicker who, like Davis, grew up on Vancouver Island, had the longest punting average in the CIS but showed he is more than an impressive stat when he reacted to a snap that was fired high and to his right.

In front of the scouts, van Gylswyk put his athleticism front and centre by snatching the misfired ball and releasing a soaring punt into the end zone more than 60 yards downfield.

On other attempts, he swore loudly when kicks

wobbled or didn’t hang as long as he’d like. He made field goals from 50 yards, but came just short from 55, at the centreline of Thunderbird Stadium. During the 2015 season, van Gylswyk led all CIS punters with a 43.6-yard average with a season best of 75 yards, the second-longest in the CIS after a Laval punter hit a 79-yard bomb.

His longest field goal was 47 yards and he scored 89 points for the T-Birds, the thirdmost in the league.

The Argos’ Magri said consistency is an essential trait to demonstrate.

“If you can’t handle this, then you might have trouble in front of 80,000 people,” he told reporters. “We

probably track about 150 to 200 players every year, and in reality 63 get drafted,” said Magri.

Roughly 18 NFL scouts descended on Winnipeg earlier in the month to check out Bisons’ defensive lineman David Onyemata, a 23-year-old who’d never played football before joining the university team but could now be the first Manitoban drafted by an NFL team. Manitoba’s coach told the press the scouts were thoroughly impressed, saying Onyemata’s “numbers throughout the day have been crazy.”

Playing for the Thunderbirds, Davis and van Gylswyk contributed to UBC’s

first Vanier Cup since 1997, a tremendous success under first-year coach Blake Nill that rewarded the private donors backing the program but also cemented the school as a magnet for recruits and scouts. That 1997 team also included one of the last T-Birds to draw NFL attention, linesman Bob Beveridge who attended a New England Patriots training camp before joining the CFL. He has two Grey Cups to his name and returned to UBC the offensive line coach.

Vancouver College graduate Christian Covington didn’t just make his mark for NFL scouts as a player for Rice University, he was selected in the sixth round of the 2015 NFL draft and had eight tackles and two sacks last season as a defensive tackle for the Houston Texans.

As Davis prepared to run the line with scouts standing at 10- and 20-yard intervals to measure is splits, there was one particularly keen spectator watching from a distance — his younger brother, Marcus.

“It’s pretty cool to experience all this and see this other side of football and what the next step is,” said the secondyear tail back with 106 rushing yards last season.

Drawing scouts to Thunderbird Stadium has opened his sense of possibility. “It means with the NFL teams, if you’re good enough, they will find you and that is why they’re out here looking at our two top recruits for this year.”

The elder Davis added, “In the years to come, I think we’ll see a lot of NFL teams take interest in kids in the CIS.” The NFL Draft is April 28 to 30. The CFL Draft is May 10.

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The year the East Vancouver Optimists Club changed its name back to Trout Lake Little League.

Jersey of the Week The Vancouver Optimist Club formed in 1953 and is known today as Trout Lake Little League. Sixty years ago, the East Van Optimists wore this sunny, yellow jersey and last weekend on April 2, players from that era threw commemorative pitches at the start of the organization’s one-of-akind wooden bat tournament.

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1. Radi Detchev, right, balances on a difficult challenge through the semifinals. Mastering this obstacle led to his ultimate victory in the Tactix Attack obstacle course race, hosted by VanCity OCR April 3. 2. Women’s champ Heather Baroody scales the 12-foot warped wall on her way to the win. PHOTOS ROB KRUYT

I realized one of my greatest fears last Sunday when I threw myself into a daunting physical challenge, only to fail and need rescuing like a kitten up a tree.

Tactix Attack was the name of the inaugural event in the new obstacle course racing series put on by VanCity OCR, itself the creation of multiple Spartan Race winner and physical trainer Allison Tai along with her husband John Tai, also a mad genius for grip-destroying, gravityflaunting tests. Set at Tactix gym April 3, the race was capped at 100 people and featured heats followed by quarterand semi-finals before a championship round for both men and women.

If you’ve seen ABC’s American Ninja Warrior, you know what the Tais

are shooting for. This isn’t a marathon mud run, but a set of obstacles laid over a sprint distance, inspired by children’s playgrounds, dream sequences evading mutant crocodiles, gymnastic and parkour minefields, indoor climbing walls and sheer madness.

Matt Petranic had the fastest time in the heats with a three minute, eight second performance. Despite more difficult challenges, he bettered that time by two seconds to advance out of the semifinals, but in the championship he faltered on a balancing obstacle and was penalized with 20 burpees. He was still paying that fine as Radi Detchev flew through the rope climb, 12-foot warped wall and feet-free ladder for the victory. Detchev won in 3:17, nearly a minute ahead of Petranic’s final time of 4:11.

On the women’s side, Heather Baroody crushed all comers by winning the heats in 4:18 and two qualifying rounds to reach the final with times that kept her competitive with the fastest men. She won by laying down a 5:41 performance, nearly 90 seconds faster than silver-medallist Nicola Sharp, on a final round that demanded the most upper-body and grip strength.

In my case, I was relieved — and none too sorry — I didn’t advance out of the heats. I could not have raced a second time. In fact, I couldn’t do most of the challenges a first time. I probably could have lopped a minute off my 9:08 result if I hadn’t stranded myself atop the warped wall.

I reached the top, 12 feet above the ground, and there I hung. I became more exhausted until I could only hang

on. Not falling was now succeeding.

I waited. I waited for help to come. It arrived in the form of John Tai, the mastermind of my demise. My muscles were depleted (shooting hoops at Mount Pleasant Park does not prepare you for this) and he had to do the work to haul me up and over.

If there’s a crowd that had my back, it was this one. When I was finally lifted over, everyone watching cheered. Earlier, on the rope climb, competitor Amy Jamieson was there pushing me on and giving helpful instructions. I couldn’t follow them, but I knew I was encouraged to do nothing more than try.

Try, try I did. Failing is just what happens before you try again next time.

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bailed out by the provincial government.

Eliminating the athletic coordinator, a role represented by CUPE, will save the district nearly $77,000 a year in annual salary and benefits.

“It is such a low-budget item that has so much impact,” said Mike Allina, the president of the Vancouver Secondary School Athletic Association. “It’s beyond me because, really and truly, is it just for show?

Is it something they want to

when the VSB faced a $26.6 million deficit, a massive amount that was still less than the shortfall of $27.3 million anticipated for the upcoming school year.

The projected budget for the 2016/17 school year is $477 million, with 93 per cent coming from provincial grants.

The position was not cut two years ago. Before adopting the budget and cutbacks to numerous programs, the board was

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In an attempt to balance a multimillion-dollar deficit, the Vancouver School Board may eliminate the administrative role responsible for managing district-wide sport leagues and tournaments for 20,000 students at nearly 130 public elementary and secondary schools.

The athletic co-ordinator is on the chopping block for the second time since 2014,

show the public how they are underfunding schools?

Because it shouldn’t be used as a pawn.”

Allina said the job entails coordinating dozens of student-athletes from Grades 6 through 12 during three sports seasons that include 32 city championships as well as an elementary cross-country meet that can count more than 3,000 students from kindergarten to Grade 7.

Teachers can’t speak at the budget hearings next week,

but Allina prepared talking points for supporters such as community coaches, parents and players. In 2014 when the position was first threatened, advocates formed Friends of Athletics to voice concerns over cutbacks to sports.

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German choir rehearsal at 12:45 pm

Tuesday, April 19

Church council at 2:30 pm

Sunday, April 24

Combined service at 10:30 with Holy Communion

Wed., April 27

German Choir rehearsal at 12:45 pm

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Every Thursday at 1:00 pm we have Friendship Circle-Carpet Bowling.

Every Wednesday at 12:45 pm we have German Choir practice.

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Ernest, or Ernie to his family and friends, attended David Livingstone Elementary and later King Edward High School, both in Vancouver, before beginning a 37 year career at BC Tel in 1956. He was a patient and accomplished artist and woodworker whose works filled his home. He was an avid reader of everything from history and the classics to spy novels and comics, and was an artful and attentive if occasionally frustrated gardener. Ernie loved to work with his hands and could fix and do almost anything, do them well, at all times placing the needs of others before his own.

Ernie was predeceased by his brothers Peter (Dora), Silvestro (June), Lloyd (Patricia), Paul, and his sister Severina (Myron).

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52. Gulf in the Aegean Sea 54. Actress Lathan 56. Class 59. Copyread 60. Blocks 61. Whale ship captain 63. Make angry 64. They product honey 65. One seeded fruit 66. Helios 67. Soviet Socialist Republic 68. Accepted practice

14. Protestant 17. Not straightened 20. Outdoor retailer 21. Brazilian lagoon lkw vxdcrbbnef eq yzq{rgrfa 25. Male parent 26. Brews liw uzsens |bprb 29. Gives 30. Hindu calendar month 32. Breaks up 34. Take in solid food 35. Abba __, Israeli politician 37. A breed of goat 40. It’s above us

42. British Air Aces 43. Challenges 47. He’s a bounty hunter 49. Exploiters 50. Plays music 52. Cavalry sword 53. Drenches 55. Will not (obsolete) 56. Signals 57. Carla from “Cheers” 58. Other side of yin 60. Ed Murrow’s home 62. Satirist Samantha 65. Gold

ACROSS 1. Oliver __, author 6. Neuromuscular disorder (abbr.)

9. Ed Sheeran song 13. Flows in Greek Gods’ veins 14. Mounted soldier 15. Theron movie “__ Flux” 16. Greek portico 17. Buffaloes 18. Ribosomal ribonucleic acid 19. Types of bonds 21. Bura-__, language 22. Discharges 23. Principal ethnic group of China

DOWN 1. Female sibling 2. Behaves 3. Cream puff 4. Knighted computer scientist Tony 5. Citizen (senior) 6. Blackthorns 7. One-time Yankee sensation Kevin 8. Autonomic nervous system 9. Spider 10. Flavoring 11. Colonized by Ancient Greeks 12. “Thundercats” character

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