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Getting schooled on marijuana, one block at a time

Mike Howell

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Thought I’d give you a little more insight into the illegal marijuana dispensary revolution/battle/gong show playing out in this town.

I’ll focus on one block of Commercial Drive, from East 13th to East 14th.

Along that stretch is the B.C. Pain Society (at East 13th and Commercial), the B.C. Compassion Club (southwest corner of East 14th and Commercial) and Stratford Hall private school (southeast corner of East 14th and Commercial).

They are so close to each other that if staff from each place stood out on their sidewalks, they could wave to each other. But this trio of neighbours is not exactly chummy.

They all have their reasons.

I’ll begin with the B.C. Pain Society, which at the time of writing this sentence, had already received two $250 tickets for operating a business without a licence.

As regular readers will know, the city set April 29 as the deadline for all pot shops

that hadn’t met certain zoning requirements or distancing regulations — or weren’t already in the process of seeking a business licence — to close their doors. Last time I checked, 44 tickets (including 21 to three shops) were handed out and 22 dispensaries closed.

The Pain Society, which made headlines for being the first pot shop in Canada to sell marijuana in a vending machine, was supposed to shut down because it fell within 300 metres of a school. Stratford Hall was one of those schools. The dispensary is also within 300 metres of St. Joseph’s School, which is much further south on the other side of Clark Park.

The Pain Society, which opened more than two years ago, argued its case at a Board of Variance hearing and lost. The shop’s owner, Chuck Varabioff, told me he felt the decision was pre-determined and that he wasn’t given enough time to respond to complaints from Stratford Hall.

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Students from Stratford Hall private school cross a section of Commercial Drive, where two illegal marijuana dispensaries operate on the same block. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Stratford Hall showed up and told the board they didn’t want the pot shop in the neighbourhood. After all, they said, the school opened before the Pain Society did.

Which is an interesting point because the Compassion Club was on the block long before Stratford Hall.

Even more interesting is the school didn’t attend the Compassion Club’s Board of Variance hearing. I heard later from a staff member that its position on the Compassion Club was “neutral.”

St. Joseph’s School,

which didn’t show up to either hearing, told me they didn’t have an issue with the Compassion Club staying in its present location. St. Joseph’s said nothing about the Pain Society.

I should point out the Pain Society is a retail operation, whereas the Compassion Club is what its name suggests. It offers health services, including traditional Chinese medicine, craniosacral therapy, counselling, reiki and yoga.

The board heard the club had 3,300 health care appointments last year.

Also, the Compassion Club is the oldest dispensary in Vancouver and has operated with “tacit approval” from the city and the police since the late 1990s, according to founder Hilary Black.

But none of this washes with Varabioff. He makes the point that whether a dispensary is set up as a retail operation or a compassion club, the fact is this: marijuana is being sold on the premises.

“They’re selling the same product,” said Varabioff, noting Stratford Hall students regularly walk by the Compassion Club and its customers on their way to Clark Park. “If [the Compassion Club] were any closer to the school, they would be part of the school.”

Added Varabioff: “I’m more compassionate than anyone. I get cancer patients coming in here and I give them free product. So how much more compassionate do you want than that?”

Further complicating this mess on the block is all the Supreme Court of Canada

decisions that favour the use of weed (and edibles) and the feds’ recent announcement that it will introduce legislation next spring to legalize marijuana.

For now, Varabioff plans to dispute his tickets. You should also know he is one of seven operators in this city who have a development permit to open another shop (at 2849 East Broadway) — this time, so far, with the approval of the city; his next step is applying for a business licence.

The Compassion Club is currently putting more paperwork together to seek a development permit to remain in its current location. If that is granted, then it, too, can apply for a business licence.

The schools, meanwhile, continue to operate and the city continues to hand out tickets. Which brings me to this thought: I wonder what would have happened had the city and cops got together in October 2013 to take action against the pot shops when there were only 29 in this town? @Howellings

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Before rejecting the budget on April 28, the board unanimously passed trustee Fraser’s amendment that the anti-homophobia mentor be reinstated for one year. Lombardi said that amendment is now officially part of the budget and the anti-homophobia mentor position will be retained for the 2016/17 school year.

The proposed budget also included eliminating the teaching positions associated with the optional elementary band and strings program.

Lombardi said the board is conducting a study of the program to see if there’s support for a “user-pay” system to fund it, but that it’s a separate process as it doesn’t have any budget implications.

The board was to be presented with a report on the feasibility of a user-pay band and strings program by associate superintendent Nancy Brennan at the education and student services committee (committee III) meeting on May 11 after the Courier’s print deadline.

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The minister did not return requests for comment before the Courier’s print deadline.

Trustees voted to reject a motion to adopt the proposed budget at Gladstone secondary school April 28.

The vote was split along party lines, with Non-Partisan Association trustees supporting the motion and Vision Vancouver and Green Party trustees voting against it. The motion was defeated 5-4.

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On Monday, district superintendent Scott Robinson and staff began implementing the proposed 2016/17 operating budget, including the $24 million in cuts needed to balance the district’s books.

Unless the board approves another budget before the June 30 deadline, the superintendent has to implement the one rejected by the board.

A new budget is unlikely to materialize unless the district receives additional funding from the province.

Vancouver School Board chair Mike Lombardi said the superintendent had to start the process now in order to ensure the district meets all of its financial obligations and is ready to go for the start of school in September.

“The superintendent has an obligation and the authority in the School Act to do that because it’s his responsibility to make sure we don’t incur any financial liabilities as a result of what the district is doing,” Lombardi said.

“We have to have our schools open with classes organized, teachers assigned [and] timetables completed, and it’s got to all be done by June 30.”

It will take about two months to work through the “considerable transfers and some layoffs” affecting the district’s 6,000-odd employees as it needs to be done in a systematic and fair way that is consistent with current collective agreements, he added.

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Feds launch plan to re-imagine Granville Island in 2040

Mike Howell

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The federal government has launched a planning initiative to have the public, merchants and others weigh in on what they want Granville Island to look like by 2040.

The goal of the exercise is to establish development plans for the soon-to-bevacant Emily Carr University buildings, potential revitalization of the public market and improvements for the arts and culture industry on the island.

The addition of housing is also a possibility.

“It’s a plan to articulate and to look at the future of Granville Island for the next 25 years,” said Dr. Hedy Fry, Liberal MP for VancouverCentre, who made the announcement May 6 on behalf of Jean-Yves Duclos, the federal minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which manages the island.

In her opening remarks from a patio at Bridges Restaurant, Fry described the island under the Granville Bridge as a jewel in Vancouver’s crown, having transformed 40 years ago from a

gritty abandoned industrial area into a vibrant, accessible multi-use public space.

When asked by the Courier why the island needs to transform again, Fry said: “Everything has to change.

I’ve talked many times to the stakeholders who live here, who work here and they have huge dreams for this place.”

Overseeing those dreams will be Dr. Michael Stevenson, president emeritus and vice-chancellor of Simon Fraser University, who will lead the project on behalf of the CMHC. An advisory board and the Granville Island Trust will help guide the process and decisions of the plan, which will also determine the best governance structure for the island.

The move to develop a 2040 plan comes more than a decade after the CMHC began to create a similar plan for the island. But, Stevenson said by telephone, it was never completed.

“Some planning was done between 2005 and 2008, and I think it was the intention originally that a formal plan would be produced and made public by CMHC,” he said. “For reasons that

The federal government launched a plan Friday to hear feedback on what people want Granville Island to look like in 2040.

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are obscure to me, that never came to be.”

Stevenson said he agreed with Fry’s description of the island as a jewel. He said it was a success story in Canadian urban planning and the property is much loved by Vancouverites and tourists.

But, he added, inevitably after 40 years they are “aging issues that need attention.”

“There are a number of infrastructure maintenance issues, there are traffic management issues, there is transit connectivity as a continuing problem and there have been

changes in the 40 years that have meant the competitive landscape for commercial enterprises, especially the food market, has changed markedly,” he said. “But nobody wants to re-invent the wheel or fix something that isn’t broken. That’s for sure.”

He also noted there’s been a migration of arts and cultural activity from the island, including the pending move of Emily Carr University of Art and Design to a new campus on Great Northern Way in 2017.

A key to finalizing the

plan, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, will be to create a vision for land use and arts and culture on the island. A request for proposals to hire consultants was issued May 9.

Asked about whether he believed affordable housing would be a component of the plan, Stevenson pointed out the original reference document to transform the island including some housing.

None was ever built.

“It remains an open question,” he said.

But, he added, given the concerns of many residents about the massive growth of Vancouver in recent years, particularly with highrises downtown, he doubted that type of development would be included in the plan.

“I’m certain, that given the commitment to respect the history and character of the island, that would not be contemplated by anybody seriously looking at the planning of Granville Island,” Stevenson said of highrises.

“On the other hand, there might well be an opportunity for forms of work-study housing that speak to the needs of artists and artisans

working on the island. So, on the small scale, there might be a way of integrating some forms of housing under models yet to be devised.”

Mayor Gregor Robertson, who did not attend the news conference and was unavailable to speak to the Courier, said in a news release that he supported the government’s move to develop a 2040 plan for the island.

In April 2014, Robertson announced that he wanted the city to take control of Granville Island from the federal government. At the time, the government indicated it was to give control of the island to Port Metro Vancouver. That never happened.

Robertson successfully moved a motion at city council to have city staff provide a cost-benefit analysis of what it would cost for the city to buy or lease the property and gain control of the island.

That report has yet to go before city council and it’s unclear whether the city is still interested in the island, since the Trudeau government is now in power and has left management of the island to CMHC. @Howellings

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Mike Howell

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The City of Vancouver will have paid out $1.2 million in severance money to 11 employees by the end of this year, with almost half of it going to former city manager Penny Ballem.

The city paid out $680,296 of the $1.2 million last year, when all 11 employees either resigned, didn’t have their contracts renewed or left for reasons the city would not specifically disclose.

Another $615,671 will be paid out this year to four of the 11 employees, including Ballem who received $222,638 last year and will collect $333,957 this year for a total of $556,595 in severance.

“There are a number of reasons for terminating an employment relationship, which can include: restructuring, fit with team, performance issues etc.,” said Tobin Postma, a city communications manager, in an email to the Courier. “Under the Freedom of Information

and Protection of Privacy Act, we are prohibited from providing further personal information regarding each individual.”

Brenda Prosken, who was the city’s general manager of community services, received $69,800 last year and will get another $168,441 this year for a total of $238,241.

The names of the 11 employees and the total of their severance packages were supplied to the Courier from the city. The city’s statement of financial information for 2015, which went before city council last week, indicated 11 employees were given a severance but no further details were provided in the document.

Third behind Ballem and Prosken in total dollars collected — once the year ends — will be Gary Wilson, the city’s former corporate security manager, whose severance totals $115,962.

Another employee on the list is Carli Edwards, who was the city’s assistant director of inspection services until she resigned in December

• Murray Steer, manager of equipment services, $51,902.

• Penny Ballem, city manager, $556,595.

• Timothy Sansom, director of financial planning at park board, $30,849.

The city paid out severances to 13 employees in 2014, six in 2013 and 15 in 2012. The payouts are not listed in the city’s statements of financial information for those years.

The statements provide details on the city’s revenues and spending and list the salaries of all city employees, except police officers, who earned more than $75,000 per year.

Prior to her contract not being renewed in September 2015, Ballem was the city’s top earner at $343,767. Her replacement, Sadhu Johnston, earned $285,232 last year and will earn $316,000 this year. Mayor Gregor Robertson earned $160,950 in 2015 and this year’s salary is pegged at $161,308. @Howellings

Former city manager Penny Ballem and former general manager of community services Brenda Prosken received the bulk of the $1.2 million the city paid out in severance packages to employees who left their posts in 2015. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

2014 after she was caught renovating her house without a permit. Edwards collected $65,000 in 2015.

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• Todd Ayotte, actingdirector of civic theatres, $74,553.

• Wendy Stewart, manager of council operations, $84,772.

• Tejinder Sanghera, occupational health and safety

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• Gary Wilson, manager of security services, $115,962.

• Brenda Prosken, general manager of community services, $238,241.

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Public art display will allow lovers to lock it down Skirts of four figures expected to support several thousand locks in ‘Love in the Rain’ installation

Megan Stewart

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Artist Bruce Voyce peers through a stainless steel heart that will form part of his work, Love in the Rain, the designated “love lock” installation chosen by the Vancouver Park Board for Queen Elizabeth Park. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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An umbrella or an embrace, love is shelter.

Especially in the temperate rain forest, love can be two people getting close to stay out of the storm.

The image of an entwined couple, walking side by side under an umbrella in the Vancouver rain was one source of inspiration for Bruce Voyce, the Strathcona artist whose stainless steel sculpture will be the latest installation put in a public park.

Four 12- to 14-foottall statues of entwined figures, each holding an umbrella, will be installed at Queen Elizabeth Park as the designated place for couples to lock up their love. Selected as the park board’s love lock installation after an extensive review that considered 13 locations, Voyce’s Love in the Rain will become a destination for lovers who seek to secure their romantic intentions with a modern symbol of commitment: a padlock that has no key.

“I’m just delighted to make artwork about love,” said Voyce. “The art itself forms a kind of sacred place for love, and being a project completed by people with their love.

A big part of this artwork is getting together and having people express their love — it’s more than just a sculpture. It will be interesting to see it come to life.”

Love lock installations started spontaneously in

various European cities, including Paris, where lovers and spouses shut padlocks on the Pont des Arts and other bridges before tossing the key into the Seine River. Many locks are engraved with marriage dates and names of the besotted.

In response to what some cities, including Vancouver, considered vandalism to public property, municipalities from Moscow to Toronto have introduced public installations — as opposed to infrastructure such as fences — specifically for lovers and their locks.

The park board is spending $50,000 on one for Vancouver.

But unlike a generic circular shape or letters that spell a word like “love,” Voyce said he was determined to create art that drew on the environment and added meaning to this city and its rainforest.

He did this with an umbrella, a metaphor that can be taken further since people also use one when the sun is out.

“Rain or shine, love has its moments of both joy and struggle. Whatever the weather, love will hold you together,” said Voyce. “That is where I was going with the artwork, to create something that gives an intimate space. Queen E Park is a nice, romantic place where people will be seen holding hands and you can hear the birds.”

Love in the Rain will feature four tall, sepa-

rate, three-dimensional figures of embracing couples of indistinct gender, race and culture.

The lower-half garments on the figures will be crafted as open, decorative filigree and made from stainless steel so locks made of various alloy metals will not react, rot or rust.

The skirts of the four figures will support several thousand locks, according to information from the park board.

Keys can be deposited in a box on site with the intent they will be melted down for use in a future sculpture.

“There will be a lot of surface area for people to attach locks to, lots of possibilities,” said Voyce, whose extensive, largescale public installations explore the intersection of humanity, technology and the inevitable return to nature.

Voyce said he is proud to offer couples a new ritual they can add to their shared experience and memory, a public expression of private sentiment that will transform the more it’s used.

“Each person has their own story they will be adding to the artwork,” he said. “Interactive artwork can transform a group of people into people who are communicating and interacting on a different level. It’s just wonderful.”

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School tops Heritage Vancouver’s 2016 endangered sites list Crown Life Plaza, Chinatown earn second and third place positions

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A heritage school is once again in the top spot on Heritage Vancouver’s annual Top 10 endangered sites list. Bayview elementary at 2261 Collingwood St. earned the dubious honour for 2016. It represents conservationists’ ongoing concern about the city’s historic schools. Last year, Point Grey secondary grabbed the top spot.

Bayview was built in 19131914 in the Classical Revival style. It’s on the VSB’s priority list for a seismic upgrade — hence the concern.

Patrick Gunn, who sits on Heritage Vancouver’s board of directors, said schools are a major issue in Vancouver.

“They have been for the past 10 to 12 years since the seismic mitigation process has been going on,” he said.

“They are such a strong community landmark and that’s generally why we’ve put schools at number one because the issue is ongoing and there doesn’t seem to be any resolution in the near future.”

Two of Vancouver’s heritage schools were knocked down this year — J.W. Sexsmith and Sir James Douglas. Gunn said school buildings serve as the centre of communities, so there’s a lot of passion for historic ones. The seismic mitigation process, in which the school board determines whether a school is preserved or replaced, is the crux of the problem, according to Gunn.

“Everyone agrees the schools need to be seismically upgraded. The issue is how that process goes about and the funding that the VSB receives from the provincial government,” he said.

But Gunn maintains highlighting schools on Heritage Vancouver’s watch list has made a difference.

“When we first started,

there was no real focus even on heritage with the VSB and we’ve actually been having quite a few encouraging dialogues with the VSB in the last few years because of this,” he said. “And you can see, even in the last year, there’s now a process of looking at the heritage resources where there hasn’t been in the past. So, it is improving and that’s one of the reasons the Top 10 list is pushed out there — to create this continued awareness. We’re encouraged by what has happened, but we’re still losing schools at a rapid rate and there are still quite a few more on the chopping block.”

A new addition to the endangered sites list is Crown Life Plaza at 1500 West Georgia. Built in 1978, it’s in the number two position.

The tower, pool and waterfall serve as a gateway to the central business district and “are highly visible on the walking route from Stanley Park via the Causeway,” a writeup about the list points out. Peter Cardew was the project architect for the building.

The Vancouver Heritage Commission wants the entire immediate block, including the plaza, added to the Vancouver Heritage register. It’s currently on the city’s informal list of recent landmarks. Gunn said concern about the site was sparked by a development permit. There’s a proposal to develop the east side of Georgia Street, which would require the pool and waterfall to be altered or removed to make way for a tower.

“The issue we have isn’t with the design of the tower, but it’s the infill and how it should be subordinate to the primary tower. [In] the original proposal, the infill tower was becoming primary and taking out one of the main significant components of 1500 West Georgia, which

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is that large pool and plaza area,” Gunn said. “Since then, it’s been amended somewhat, but it’s still going to take out that whole plaza and waterworks area.”

Chinatown, meanwhile, captured third place on the watch list. Preservationists fear for its future with ongoing development.

While new buildings are required to retain a “Chinatown look,” city guidelines don’t address all the characteristics that the community considers

important, according to Heritage Vancouver.

“These characteristics include tangible and intangible aspects of Chinatown’s unique and authentic character, such as community and cultural activities, a diverse housing mix for affordability and an aging population, and experiences of Chinatown’s culture and heritage in urban life,” Heritage Vancouver explains.

Society manager Bill Yuen said lately Chinatown has earned media attention over

such concerns and activists have called for a moratorium on development.

“I think a lot of people are feeling that the character is changing quite a bit with the new residents coming in, the new developments coming in,” he said. “It’s not really tying in with the character in Chinatown. And there’s this feeling that if nothing more is going to be done about the neighbourhood character, there’s going to be a loss of Chinatown — that’s one of the reasons why it’s on the list and why it’s so high up. If you talk to my parents’ generation, they feel like Chinatown is not Chinatown anymore.”

Yuen hopes the city can introduce new tools, outside of zoning, to protect Chinatown’s intangible characteristics. He cites such places as the neighbourhood’s barbecue shops. Yuen said perhaps they could get tax incentives because they represent an intangible value.

“If you look at the planning documents for Chinatown — the Chinatown Neighbourhood Plan, the

Economic Revitalization Plan and also the Downtown Eastside Plan, there are a lot of aspirations for what Chinatown should be.

And I don’t think there’s any confusion by anybody, if they read those documents, what the intent [is about] how Chinatown should be.

There’s a vision there, but there’s a gap between how to get there. Zoning and design guidelines by themselves aren’t going to help the vision materialize. So I think there’s a gap in tools. I think we should move [away from] tying heritage solely to buildings.”

The final seven entries on the watch list are: • Salvation Army Temple (1950), 301 East Hastings St. • St. Stephen’s United Church (1964), 7025 Granville St. • Red Light District of Alexander Street, 500-600 blocks of Alexander St. • Commercial Drive • Townley & Matheson homes • Vancouver College • False Creek South.

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City twiddling its green thumbs when it comes to bee-killing insecticide policy

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ou would think that in our city of Vancouver, a city loudly trumpeted by Mayor Gregor Robertson as the future “greenest city in the world,” they would be doing something about the growing practice of spraying insecticides containing neonicotinoids to preserve private lawns from the impact of chafer beetles.

But you would be wrong.

Neonicotinoids kill a wide variety of insects and have been used to coat seeds planted by farmers… So what is this ‘immediate or potential risk of substantial loss or damage’ that allows this practice? In Vancouver that usually means messing up a lawn.

And you would think that when asked, the city’s corporate communications folks to whom you are directed when inquiring about this poisonous practice would do more than email you a copy of the city’s health bylaw (no 9535) and direct you to the section (210) then shrug. Wrong again.

Except they did say that someone at city hall, couldn’t say who, is looking at the bylaw, but don’t know why or to what end. Now that’s comforting.

(By the way, when CBC addressed

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this issue last week, Vancouver failed to provide anyone to speak to it.)

Section 210 of bylaw 9535 provides a loophole that is big enough to float an oil tanker through; it says all pesticides that may not otherwise be used can be used if there is a pest infestation “which involves an immediate or potential risk of substantial loss or damage.” I’ll get to that “loss or damage” in a moment.

Now I should tell those of you who don’t know, just to be transparent, that when I am not writing this column for the Courier, I spend much of my time as a beekeeper.

I should also tell you that among the many things afflicting the lives of honey bees as well as native bees globally is the very same insecticide that is used to kill the larvae of chafer beetles; those grubs have been passing through their larval stage munching on grass roots throughout the Lower Mainland for the past 15 years. (Lawns are actually ripped up by crows and raccoons feeding on these apparently tasty critters.)

Honey bees are affected by taking pollen and nectar from any plants growing on or near treated lawns. (The chemical is watered to soak into the ground. The water is picked up by the roots of any number of flowering plants or weeds and gets into the plants’ nectar or pollen.)

But even if there are no flowers affected, Mark Winston, one of North America’s leading bee scientists, points out the impact on native bees is even more lethal. He calls it a “considerable menace.” Consider that about 70 per cent of native bees, including solitary bees and bumble bees, are exposed because they live in the ground.

To its credit, the Vancouver park board does not use any insecticides on its property. If chafer larvae are present, it uses nematodes, a tiny insect introduced

to the ground which feeds on the chafer beetle larvae.

The trade name for the most common insecticide is Merit. It is produced

by Bayer. Bayer, with very little research according to Winston, claims the product “minimizes risk for use on turf.” But neonicotinoids in Merit disrupt the nerve impulses of the insects ultimately killing them. They have the same effect on bees and other pollinators.

Actually neonicotinoids kill a wide variety of insects and have been used to coat seeds planted by farmers. They are a systemic, which means, once coating the seed they permeate the whole plant as it grows.

So what is this “immediate or potential risk of substantial loss or damage” that allows this practice?

In Vancouver that usually means messing up a lawn.

But among other things, lawns have become more of an environmental hazard than a benefit. What began as an affectation of European aristocrats centuries ago was imported to North America to offer the illusion of a bit of Eden to suburbanites.

According to the latest statistics from south of the border, lawns consume more than 30 per cent of the potable water in that country — more than the amount water required to grow all the wheat and corn in the U.S. Of course there are alternatives to that strip of grass, and at least one environmentally sound solution if you choose to keep mowing. And then there are the bees.

These are all good reasons for “the greenest city” to do more than shrug and allow this menace to continue. @allengarr

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Last week, a group of young people sang songs in Yiddish at Vancouver’s annual commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. For some of the elders in the audience, including the grandparents of some of the singers, these were the lullabies of their childhood, in a language almost unheard in Vancouver or anywhere these days.

Six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust, including most of the world’s Yiddish speakers.

After the war, Judaism and the Yiddish language were repressed in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.

In Israel, where a large proportion of survivors migrated, Yiddish bore the heavy history of the Jewish experience in Europe.

Hebrew, which just half a century earlier had been relegated almost exclusively to religious purposes, was revived into a working language of everyday life in the new Jewish state, a symbol of renewal and determination.

Faith Jones, a local scholar who will deliver a series of lectures on Yiddish culture at the Jewish Community Centre beginning next week, sees the language as suited to a very particular time and place.

“I think what’s interesting about Yiddish culture is it really thrived at times when the Jews were very influenced by the Western world and modernity, but were not actually integrated into the Western world and modernity,” she says. “As long as Jews were separate, there was reason for Jews to have a separate language and separate culture.”

Faith Jones will deliver a series of lectures on Yiddish culture at the Jewish Community Centre beginning next week.

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Yiddish emerged and thrived at a time when Jews in Europe were forcibly segregated into geographic areas, prohibited from many professions and even told what to wear. This segregation meant Jews were mostly speaking to other Jews and so Yiddish developed as an insular language. However, many Jews, particularly men, were multilingual so they could communicate and interact with their Polish or Ukrainian or German neighbours.

For this reason, and the fact that male scholars also knew Hebrew, says Jones, Yiddish was sometimes called a

“woman’s language.”

While there were various factors, including catastrophic history, that dealt Yiddish a blow, Jones says equality and integration are also part of the equation — and that’s a good thing.

“We want to be of this world and that means that we take what goes along with that and that means that our culture changes and meshes with the rest of the world,” she says. “To me, the thing about Yiddish that makes it so interesting is that it can only exist in this moment when Jews are in between being separate and being merged.”

While Yiddish thrived as a spoken language for centuries, I was surprised to learn that Yiddish literature had a very brief heyday.

“The Enlightenment came very late to the Jews,” says Jones. “So the idea of novels and the idea of reading things for pleasure was sort of a later development.” The Jewish Enlightenment took place mostly in the 19th century, and while there was some writing in Yiddish before that, it didn’t constitute much of a literary movement.

The 1850s saw the beginning of a Yiddish literary renaissance, but a century later, the language

was nearly dead.

But it is not entirely dead, Jones hastens to add, and it may have an interesting future.

There are Chasidic groups — Jewish religious communities originating from Eastern Europe but now mostly in Israel and New York — that maintain Yiddish as a lingua franca. These groups have an extraordinarily high birth rate and remain relatively insular, meaning that, like the earlier Yiddish speakers, they talk mostly to one another. There is also, on the other end of the spectrum, a movement of not particularly religious Jews

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Jones thinks that the next generations of Yiddish speaking Chassidic Jews may herald the emergence of a new form of Yiddish, maybe even a new language if it strays far enough from its roots.

“I think whatever happens next, they will probably be developing either some new variety of Yiddish, some kind of mix between English and Yiddish here and between Hebrew and Yiddish in Israel.”

Traditionally, Yiddish was the language of the week, Jones says, while Hebrew was the language of the Sabbath. Even so, she adds, the first record of written Yiddish is a sign inside a German synagogue telling congregants 800 or more years ago that if they wanted to fight they should take it outside.

“There you have it,” she says. “The first known Yiddish text comes from a synagogue, although it’s definitely a secular message.”

Michael Wex, a Canadian academic and author of Born to Kvetch, has argued that Yiddish was a language that had a unique capacity to express the Jewish experience in Europe over the past millennium.

Given that history, despite her devotion to the language and culture, Jones is not heartbroken that it is in decline.

“I’m not one of these people who thinks that the decline of Yiddish is the worst thing that ever happened to the Jews,” she says.

“There are a lot worse things that happen to the Jews.” @Pat604Johnson

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Courier wins gold at B.C. community newspaper awards

Praised for its bold, attention-grabbing photography, easy-to-follow layout, strong editorials and great features, the Vancouver Courier took first place in the Newspaper Excellence category at the B.C. Yukon Community Newspaper Awards this past weekend.

Photographer Dan Toulgoet was also awarded gold in the Colour Feature Photo category. Judges praised his photo of children jumping

over open flames during Persian New Year celebrations for its “great timing, great composition, great light.”

Gold was also on the menu for the team of Manon Paradis, Tara Lalanne, Marina Rockey and Tori Clark, who won for Ad Design, Collaborative.

Not to be outdone, Geoff Olson received second place honours in the Cartoonist category. Columnist Jessica Barrett took third place in the

columnist category. Former editor Barry Link received bronze for Online Innovation for his holiday podcast “A Christmas Story.”

And photographer Rebecca Blissett took home silver in the Portrait/Personality Photo category for her “tender” shot of a tattooed man and his pet bird, which was part of reporter Sandra Thomas’s feature series on residents of the Downtown Eastside and their pets. Last

month, Thomas won bronze at the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for the series. At the national awards, the Courier also earned second place for Best Website and Best Multimedia Feature for Courier editor Michael Kissinger’s story and video “Humour as a weapon against the Holocaust.” Lisa Smedman’s feature on Hungarian refugees “In from the cold,” won gold for Best History Story.

Dan Toulgoet earned gold in the Colour Feature Photo category for this photo of children jumping over open flames during Persian New Year celebrations.

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Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning and heritage amendments for these locations:

1. Sign By-law Amendment – Floating Signs

To amend the Sign By-law to broaden the scope of the by-law and alter the definition of a sign to include signs on water, and regulate floating signs.

2. 101 East 2nd Avenue To rezone 101 East 2nd Avenue from M-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a three-storey retail and office building for Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), including a green roof and three levels of underground parking. A height of 24 metres (79 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.04 are proposed.

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1661 Davie Street To develop this site with a mixeduse building consisting of three levels of commercial use, which include: a grocery store, liquor store, and retail; two residential towers containing a total of 319 dwelling units (market rental) with a common amenity on the third level, all over three levels of common underground parking, accessed off of Davie Street and the lane.

1695-1775 East 18th Avenue To rezone 3365 Commercial Drive and 1695-1775 East 18th Avenue from RS-2 (One-Family Dwelling) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The rezoning proposal is to create two sub-areas with a combined floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.40 FSR. Sub-Area 1 proposes 110 secured market rental units, with a maximum building height of 18.3 metres (60 feet) and an FSR of 2.70. SubArea 2 will contain the heritage house currently located at 3365 Commercial Drive, restored and converted into two units, and a two-unit infill building. The heritage house will be relocated to face East 18th Avenue and be added to the Vancouver Heritage Register. A maximum height of 9.4 metres (30 feet) and an FSR of 0.96 are proposed in Sub-Area 2.

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Celebrity chef and author Victor Bongo knows a thing or two about kids thanks to his role as executive chef for SuperChefs Cookery for Kids, a hands-on program designed for children 8 to 12 years.

The program runs in schools, community centres, resorts, summer camps and at culinary events across North America. SuperChefs has partnered with several

provincial, national and international organizations, including the Surrey School District, University of B.C., International Association for Culinary Professionals and

Westin Hotels and Resorts, where he works with the Kids Eat Well Program, organized to make an impact on kids’ health all over the world.

Bongo has also opened an orphanage in his African homeland.

“I have big passion for kids and working with kids,” says Bongo. “From my kids orphanage I opened in my homeland the Congo to helping kids around the world and my own community here teaching them the one thing I know best — cooking. I took my love of cooking and incorporated it with singing and dancing and made it fun.”

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4 5-oz salmon filets

Season salmon filets with sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper.

8 slices of lemon ¼ cup maple syrup 2 garlic gloves, minced 2 tbsp. fresh chopped dill 2 tbsp. fresh chopped tarragon 4 tbsp. butter 1 shallot chopped 2tbsp. olive oil Sea salt Fresh cracked black pepper Tin foil

In a small bowl, whisk together, maple syrup, minced garlic, chopped herbs, chopped shallots and olive oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste Place salmon filets individually in tin foil.

Spoon the maple syrup mixture over the salmons and layer two lemon slices, and one tbsp. of butter, on each salmon filet.

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1. Kelly Cannell and her brother Thom Cannell with his children Summer, 9, and Calder, 6, show off their haul from Saturday’s UBC Botanical Garden’s annual plant sale. 2. Friends of the UBC Botanical Garden’s plant sale featured knowledgeable gardeners Katherine Levy (left), Ronda Tuyp and Janet Boeur. See photo gallery at vancourier.com.

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UBC plant sale cultivates loyal following Annual event hosted by Friends of the UBC Botanical Garden

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The list of plants available at the annual UBC sale was endless; the perennials alone took up 12 pages of the inventory list, but it was the collective knowledge of the gardeners that set this plant

sale apart from others.

Saturday’s sale at the UBC Botanical Garden, called “A Growing Affair,” started more than two decades ago as the “Perennial Plant Sale.” It’s hosted by a group of gardening enthusiasts, many of whom are certified master gardeners

called Friends of the UBC Botanical Garden, or FOG as they call one another.

“People want information and they want to learn,” said Ronda Tuyp, a FOG master gardener and sale’s chairperson. “That’s what makes this plant sale different from a lot of them out there because a

lot of us are experts on plants.

We propagate them here, we raise them, we grow them, we label them — everything’s done by the FOGs.” The gardeners have also tracked gardening trends throughout the years, especially in relation to the shift in Vancouver’s housing

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market, added Tuyp who has been involved with the sale since its start.

“We find the focus is much more geared towards smaller gardens as opposed to when we first started out in 1991. Then, there were huge estate gardens where people were looking for very rare and unusual plants,” said Tuyp. “People now are looking for vegetables, fruits that they can grow in their own home and patio containers for plants and smaller gardens. We’ve noticed the trend in the last five years and, so we’re adjusting to that trend.”

Other challenges the UBC Botanical gardeners face include dealing with invasive plant species and pests.

Amongst the tables set up in the garden where experts fielded questions about birds, rare plants and pruning, botanical garden “Hortline” staff along with master gardeners had their own station.

There, staff focused on introducing the public to topics such as fire ant prevention and benefits of micro clover.

On the latter subject, Tuyp said the clover is a good replacement for grasses, especially on local boulevards and medians that have been destroyed by the European chafer beetle.

“You’ll notice all the boulevards are a mess,” said Tuyp. “It’s the chafer larvae under the turf and the crows and raccoons dig down to eat them because they’re luscious, fat, and chewy...

People want to learn more, too, about how to manage gardens. They don’t have gardeners doing it for them, they’re doing it themselves.”

New gardeners are also interested in plants and flowers that help the bee,

bird, and butterfly populations due to all the dire media stories about the species’ plights of late, added Tuyp who added plants in the sale were all suited to Vancouver’s coastal climate.

In addition to having answers to any dirt and plant question (the most popular: shade vs. sun plants), the gardeners also provided the sort of customer service that most retail businesses could learn a thing or two from.

For instance, if you had given up on finding a sweet pea flower, one of the gardeners would have tracked you down 10 minutes after enquiring with said plant in hand. Thirsty? A high school volunteer would pour you a glass of iced lemon water from a jug they carried around the grounds.

It’s a passion for plants and natural landscapes the FOGs share, a tradition that began in 1975 when Dr. Roy L. Taylor, then director of the UBC garden, placed a notice in the school alumni paper, asking for volunteers.

That initial group of seven grew into today’s active membership of 160, several of whom volunteered for the popular annual sale.

Kelly Cannell and her brother Thom make a point of visiting the sale every year because it’s a well-priced experience.

“Look at all that,” Kelly said, pointing to a small forest of trees, shrubs and plants she, Thom and Thom’s kids, Summer and Calder, had hauled from the cashier table to the parking lot. “All that for $70.

It’s less than half price than what we would’ve paid anywhere else. This is the best sale — it’s our favourite.” @rebeccablissett

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May 12 to 18, 2016 1. Ballet BC closes its 30th anniversary season May 12 to 14 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

PROGRAM 3 features the remount of artistic director Emily Molnar’s 16+ a room, the Canadian premiere of Bill by Israeli sensation Sharon Eyal and the remount of I and I am You by Finnish-born choreographer Jorma Elo. Details at balletbc.com.

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2. We haven’t heard from the Pack A.D. for a while, but Vancouver’s stompy, riffy, bluesy, garage rock duo is back for two noisy nights at the Cobalt, May 12 and 13. They also have a new album called Positive Thinking coming out this summer, so expect to hear plenty from it. Tickets, if there are any left, at Red Cat, Neptoon, Highlife Records and ticketweb.ca.

3. The DOXA Documentary Film Festival continues until May 15. We’re particularly stoked about the Vancouver-produced film Wizard Mode about Robert Gagno, a champion pinball player with Autism. It screens May 12 at Vancity Theatre. Details at doxafestival.ca.

4. Ruby Slippers Theatre and Zee Zee Theatre join forces for the premiere of Brad Fraser’s 5@50. Billed as “an ensemble tour-de-force about friendship, addiction and co-dependence,” it runs May 12 to 28 at PAL Studio Theatre.

Tickets at tickets.theatrewire.com.

5. Ederlezi 2016, the seventh annual Balkan-Roma spring festival takes over the Grandview Legion May 13 and 14 for two days of music, dancing and workshops, including Fanfare Zambaleta (San Francisco), M9 Balkan-Turkish Ensemble (Seattle) and Vancouver’s Orkestar Slivovica Brass Band with Serbian trumpet master Demiran Cerimovi, among others. Tickets at Highlife Records, Boemma Deli and caravanbc.com.

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SUPER MOMS: Vancouver-based charity Cause We Care Foundation and its supporters recently came together for a fundraiser at Boulevard Kitchen and Oyster Bar. Founder Andrea Thomas Hill and event chair Vandana VarshneyLecky welcomed guests to the sophomore running of the power lunch in support of single moms and children in need.

Presented by luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co., the afternoon luau raised more than $65,000. The money will go towards funding welcome kits and amenities for the YWCA’s Cause We Care House, a 21-unit subsidized housing facility scheduled to open this fall for women and children who need a safe, affordable place to call home.

BIG COURAGE: The 18th Courage to Come Back Awards was one for the ages. A record crowd of 1,600 guests piled in to the Convention Centre for the province-wide annual campaign that pays tribute to B.C. residents who have demonstrated extraordinary courage in their recovery from illness or adversity.

Business leader and philanthropist Lorne Segal once again chaired the awards dinner, which saluted six individuals. Awards were bestowed in the categories of Addiction (Jemal Damtawe), Medical (Tom Teranishi), Mental Health (Barbara Harris), Physical Rehabilitation (Christy Campbell), Social Adversity (Meredith Graham) and Youth (Coltyn Liu). The recipients’ stories prompted the wellheeled crowd to whip up a whopping $1.44 million for Coast Mental Health.

GIRL POWER: One Girl Can is a Vancouver-based charity that empowers young women in Africa, founded by Lotte Davis, CEO of AG Hair and originally a native of Africa herself. More than 300 dynamic influencers and business leaders attended the firm’s second annual #IWANT2BE fundraiser at the Imperial Lounge. Emceed by Shaw TV’s Fiona Forbes and presented by TD Bank, the event featured a variety of fundraising opportunities to raise cash and make a difference in the lives of young girls.

Almost doubling last year’s initial haul, more than $180,000 was netted from the social mixer earmarked to build residences for students at Ganze Girls Secondary School in Kenya.

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Artist Andy Dixon revealed his latest brightly coloured works at the Winsor Gallery. His exhibition Expensive Things brilliantly reimagines familiar subjects.

Brain injury survivor Coltyn Liu received the Courage to Come Back Youth Award from Scotiabank’s Winnie Leong. The yearly dinner raised $1.44 million for Coast Mental Health.

Cause We Care founder Andrea Hill, director Suzie Wall and Tiffany & Co’s vice president Wendy Eagan fronted the sophomore Cause We Care charity luncheon in support of single moms in need.

John and Lotte Davis staged #IWANT2BE benefit for One Girl Can. More than $180,000 was netted to provide education opportunities for African women.

Courage to Come Back recipient Jemal Damtawe survived the violence of Ethiopia’s civil war and the harsh streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He and his wife Vincia were feted at the awards ceremony.

YWCA’s Jenn Bateman and Kathy Lilyholm and single mom Nicolina Bell were on hand for the Cause We Care power lunch. Event proceeds will go towards providing essentials for tenants of the soon-to-open Cause We Care House.

Artists David Robinson and Darcy Greiner’s new show of porcelain works was on display at the Gallery of B.C. Ceramics. Eversion explores “tensions that exist between what is interior and what is exterior.”

Jens Marquardt, Ada Chan and Siavash Chamanara officially opened Veuve Clicquot’s Granville Street pop-up Roof Garten patio for the summer.

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Ithaka explores PTSD with truth... and cats Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

So believable is Lanie, an ex-marine and Ithaka’s main character, it’s hard to believe Portland playwright Andrea Stolowitz didn’t serve in the armed services in Afghanistan.

This is a result of the taut, crisp writing, thorough research and actor Stefania Indelicato’s fully committed performance. Hands clenching, eyes wild, Indelicato doesn’t simply walk the stage, she shreds it in her work boots. She’s not only emotionally into it but she’s physically perfect: tall, strong, and rangy with dark, curly hair yanked back into a ponytail. Like a festering sliver, Indelicato gets so deep under Lanie’s skin it will be a wonder if she doesn’t suffer post-traumatic stress disorder when the show closes.

We all know about PTSD or we think we do.

And while we might think it’s a relatively new dis-

order, just ask Odysseus whose return to Ithaka was fraught with obstacles.

And if we think we’ve heard it all before, Odysseus (Brent Hirose) sets us straight: we don’t know what war is like unless we were there.

Lanie has returned from combat and “passed” the de-briefing examination.

She’s told she’s good to go. But she’s not, she’s broken. Fights erupt with her husband Bill (Adam Lolacher) who loves her but doesn’t want to hear about “people’s legs being blown off.” She doesn’t want to see friends. Everything is “bulls***.” And, having let her cat Pixie out the door, the cat is lost.

This seems inconsequential until Stolowitz connects it to the very heart of Ithaka: how do you forgive yourself for a decision you made that had a fatal outcome?

As the doctor, trying unsuccessfully to inject Lanie with a calming sedative tells her, everyone has

Stefania Indelicato and Adam Lolacher star in Portland playwright Andrea Stolowitz’s Ithaka.

to find his/her own way to forgiveness.

Appropriate to the disorder order itself, the play goes in and out of reality with nightmares, fantasies and dream sequences.

Evie (Yoshié Bancroft), a fellow marine, materializes

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to give Lanie comfort and advice. Lifting the play out of unrelenting heaviness (although, unbelievably, the opening night audience laughed at much that was not funny), Bancroft doubles as Lanie’s cat Pixie. It’s a stretch that

doesn’t completely work: Pixie, in choosing to run away, embraces the risks of living dangerously, which includes coyotes.

Similarly, Evie and Lanie chose the marines and must accept the risks. It’s a stretch but it allows for some cat jokes that dog lovers will love. While appreciating the enlivening effect of all the cat material, Ithaka could have done with less of it.

A brief stand-up comedy act that, we assume, Lanie imagines also lifts the play.

A serious line that stands out from the comedy routine, “You are what you think about death,” is worth pondering.

Completing the cast and providing what, hopefully, will bring peace to Lanie, is Desiree Zurowski as Evie’s mother EM. Many theatre companies could take a hint from set designer Rafaella Rabinovich. Staged alley-style with seats on both long sides of the performance area, there is one major set piece: a set

of tracks — like a four-meter railway — on which rests a wheeled, wooden platform. Performers move this platform back and forth and it becomes a car, a hospital bed, a roller coaster or whatever is required. Simple, spare, wonderfully effective.

Stolowitz interviewed many ex-marines and their families while researching Ithaka and it paid off.

Directed by Jessica Anne Nelson (artistic director of Excavation Theatre) and co-produced by dream of passion productions, Ithaka has the ring of truth. That core question is still rattling around in my head: how do you reconcile a decision you made that had a fatal outcome? Most of us pray we’re never put in that position.

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The fire rushes through California’s forest, leaping up redwoods and growing with every gust of wind.

One of Marin County’s firefighters will battle the blaze, saving lives and homes. When she’s done, she’ll go back to her cell.

The firefighter/convict is one of the subjects of Brett Story’s disturbing documentary The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, which screens May 14 at Vancity Theatre, as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival.

The film never shows us the firefighter’s face, nor does it take us inside a prison. The movie is less about the physical structure of a prison and more about a system whose tentacles stretch across the country like an H.P. Lovecraft monster.

Rather than a traditional jailhouse movie about guilt redeemed or innocence recognized, Story focuses her documentary on the people outside the walls, and on the prison-industrial complex.

When U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was readying to leave the White House in 1961, he punctuated his parting speech with a dire warning.

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every state house, every office of the federal government,” he said. “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”

He was talking about the military-industrial complex, but this movie shows he could have just as easily been discussing the country’s multi-billion dollar prison system.

Story introduces us to one St. Louis ex-con whose crime was improperly securing the lid of a garbage can.

Unwilling to pay the steep fine, she goes to prison.

“These municipalities are funding their garbage collectors through over-fining poor black residents,” Story says.

Approximately a quarter of the world’s prisoners, 2.2 million criminals, are doing time in U.S. jails and prisons.

The incarcerated population has grown 4.5 times since 1980, primarily due to drug arrests, according to an article from U.S. News and World Report.

Prisons are also expanding in Canada, with plans for nearly 500 new bunks for offenders in minimum-security prisons around B.C. “I was really interested in how prisons themselves are farther away and harder to access than ever before,” she says. “They’re actually expanding and yet we don’t see them and therefore don’t think about them.”

Utilizing wide shots

of bleak landscapes and intimate portraits of her subjects, Story takes the viewer from eastern Kentucky to Detroit to Ferguson, Missouri to the chess tables of Washington Square Park in Manhattan.

In Kentucky, a long-time resident walks across a valley that was a mountaintop until a coal-mining company levelled it and stripped the ground. Unburdened of mining jobs, the community’s biggest employer becomes its prison.

“It’s recession proof,” a Kentucky man explains to Story. “You close a factory and you ship the jobs overseas. You can’t do that with a federal prison.”

President Barack Obama made headlines last year when he tweeted: “We could eliminate tuition at every public college and university in America with the $80 billion we spend each year on incarcerations.”

The president’s notion of squandered talent comes to life when we meet Nahshon Thomas as he appraises his chess opponent over the turret of a castle.

He strategizes but never seems to strain as he passes his days winning $5 chess games in Washington Square Park. As an audience, we wonder if his intellect couldn’t be put to some other use.

“It’s really an invitation for people who think that their

lives don’t have anything to do with the criminal justice system,” Story explains.

“Those of us who think we’re outside of it somehow, that it has nothing to do with our lives, to actually feel implicated.”

Sometimes we’re implicated directly, like when we hear messages left for prisoners in Attica, and other times we’re left to make our own connections, such as when Story guides us through a mortgage loan company spearheading an urban revitalization project in Detroit.

Bruce Schwartz acts as a spokesman for Quicken Loans, showing us how safe downtown has become while discussing the spiraling rent.

While he speaks, Story cuts to a shot of a few black people in the distance, suggesting they’ve been excluded from the revitalization.

“You really feel that when you’re downtown that downtown Detroit is a much whiter space than it ever has been before,” Story says.

Story has tackled other social justice issues including housing and poverty, but somehow, “they lead back to the issue of incarceration in one way or another,” she says.

DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs until May 15.

For complete schedule, go to doxafestival.ca.

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YVR CONNECTS

2015 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT HIGHLIGHTS

A MESSAGE FROM MARY JORDAN CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VANCOUVER AIRPORT AUTHORITY On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to thank you for supporting YVR in 2015.

WE STRIVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU, OUR CUSTOMERS, NEIGHBOURS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS.

We welcome your comments and questions. Please email us at:

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To view the complete Sustainability Report and learn about how we report on our four pillars— Economic, Environment, Social and Governance—please visit WWW.YVR.CA Join us at Vancouver Airport Authority’s Annual Public Meeting to find out more about 2015 and our future plans. May 12 at YVR. Registration begins at 3:00pm. The meeting begins at 3:30pm. Details available at yvr.ca

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As a not-for-profit organization, YVR is committed to our community. In 2015, we channelled this commitment through our three-year Strategic Plan, focusing our actions on competitive and sustainable objectives with a goal of reaching 25 million passengers by 2020.

We aligned our operations under a renewed environmental plan, which sets ambitious emissions targets for 2020. To ensure we grow sustainably, we sought input from the community for YVR’s new 20-year Master Plan at our summer festivals and speaking engagements. We also continued to give back, contributing over $900,000 to support community initiatives such as Quest Food Exchange, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Hub Cycling, Canucks Autism Network and many more.

At our core is an engaged and driven team, dedicated to safety, health and security.

This team worked hard to deliver a remarkable airport experience—and it didn’t go unnoticed. We once again made the BC’s Top Employers list in recognition of our great workplace. And for the first time, Vancouver Airport Authority received the Best Health & Safety Culture award and the Gold award in the Transportation category of Canada’s Safest Employers.

Vantage Airport Group, our subsidiary, has grown into a very successful company.

We determined that it was time to sell our 50 per cent stake, in order for Vantage to continue to grow and for YVR to focus on our ambitious Strategic Plan. The sale closed in late 2015 and will allow Vantage to acquire the funding it needs to pursue future largescale airport projects. YVR will continue to work with Vantage through a strategic partnership agreement that includes sharing of our employees’ expertise, knowledge and leading-edge approach to innovation.

Thank you for contributing to our discussions, for choosing our airport and for being a part of YVR’s vision. We strive to be a world-class connecting hub, one that links passengers and products from around the world to British Columbia. We could not do this without the support of our partners, communities and employees, all of whom provide the foundation for our ongoing success.

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We are committed to creating an airport that British Columbia can be proud of: a premier global gateway, local economic generator and community contributor.

BEST AIRPORT IN NORTH AMERICA FOR A HISTORIC 7 YEARS IN A ROW CUSTOMER SATISFACTION RATING three years in a row

MISSION Connecting British Columbia Proudly to the World

VISION

VALUES

A world-class, sustainable gateway between Asia and the Americas

MILLION PASSENGERS IN 2015

271,000+ TONNES OF CARGO

A 5.7% INCREASE OVER 2014

WASTE DIVERSION RATE IN 2015

OUR ENVIRONMENT YVR strives to be a leader in environmental management, which we demonstrate through a range of initiatives. These include improving airport infrastructure to reduce emissions, upgrading light fixtures and buildings to reduce energy use, monitoring water quality to protect ecosystems, recycling materials to reduce waste and much more.

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OUR PEOPLE

YVR welcomed a record 20.3 million passengers in 2015, thanks to strong Transborder, Asia-Pacific and European growth. We continued key projects to support this record growth, expanding our presence in Asia, opening the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Vancouver Airport and opening the A-B Connector, part of our expansion of the Domestic Terminal.

Connecting people and businesses to more than 118 non-stop destinations.

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The safety and security of YVR’s passengers, employees and communities is the Airport Authority’s primary responsibility.

Canada’s Best Health & Safety Culture Award and the Gold Award in the Transportation category

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Community IN FOCUS

Class of ’46 celebrates 70 years of Kits high memories Michael Kissinger

mkissinger@vancourier.com

According to her Kitsilano high school yearbook, Ruth Enns (née Allison) is a tall, well-dressed brunette, known for her comical character. She lists “fussers” as her pet peeve and, as I learned firsthand, is not exactly a fan of community newspaper editors reluctant to give her a definitive answer whether they can attend and write about her class reunion.

After several increasingly blunt emails and phone messages launched in my direction, Enns decided to bring out the big guns for her persuasive argument: the promise of live music, a flagrant use of punctuation marks and a fondness for the caps lock on her computer’s keyboard.

“WE ARE EVEN HAVING BAG PIPES!!!!!!!!!!!” she wrote me. “THIS is NO MICKEY MOUSE OPERATION.” If you haven’t guessed, Enns is what you would call a “firecracker” — energetic, tenacious, unrelenting and charmingly quirky.

It also explains why Kitsilano’s Class of 1946 has whooped it up every year for the past 20 and last week marked its 70-year “grand finale” with a modest luncheon at the Marine Drive Golf Club. Twentythree Kitsilano graduates and guests walked, shuffled and rolled into a small banquet room at the posh private members’ club last Thursday, and Enns greeted them all with a hug, kiss, smile or quip. “Oh he’s a miserable old bugger,” Enns said of a classmate who wasn’t happy with the seating arrangements.

While Enns never stopped

VOICES OF THE STREET

Ted Glenn and Ruth Enns, with her kazoo, lead the Class of 1946 in a rendition of “Hail Kitsilano.” After that, former Kits high classmates locked arms to sing “Auld Lang Syne” and released balloons in honour of those who had died that year.

See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

moving, her sharp dressed right-hand man on the organizing committee, Bob Kerr, maintained a more casual pace collecting the $25 admission fee from classmates.

“Ruth runs the show,” said Kerr. “Without her, we probably wouldn’t have this reunion.”

Kerr’s favourite memories of high school have nothing to do with education.

When pressed for specifics, he mentions a classmate’s covert attempts at making bathtub gin and how he and his group of friends inexplicably decided to all wear pyjama tops to school one day, which resulted in a trip to the principal’s office.

The memory seems as a quaint as the nametags scattered across the reunion’s welcome table: Edith, Trudy, Gilbert, Vivien, Reta, Bernice.

Of course, life for these

former classmates wasn’t all quaint or without strife.

Kitsilano’s Class of 1946 grew up during the Depression, lived through the Second World War and saw classmates of Japanese descent sent to internment camps, never to be heard from again. But when asked about their time in high school, everyone I talked to only recalled fond memories: the music of Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Sinatra, sock hops, paper drives, saddle shoes, bobby sox, Peter’s Ice Cream shop, lasting friendships and an abundance of jobs and affordable houses after graduation.

“It was such a wonderful time,” said Pat Edwards, a retired school teacher, like Enns, now living on the Sunshine Coast.

When a microphone was passed around the room for grads to chime in with their

favourite memories, Vivien Sanford (née Parfitt) said, “All the boys,” followed by a chorus of giggles.

She then paused and got choked up. “So many memories,” she said quietly.

With the average age of graduates between 87 and 88, Kits’ Class of 1946 has, not surprisingly, steadily dwindled. Seventy years ago, they numbered 174 strong, but now only 48 remain, according to Enns who lives in Kitsilano after stints in Armstrong and elsewhere in the Lower Mainland. At the beginning of the luncheon, Kerr asked for a moment of silence in honour of the classmates who had died since the last reunion, including Helen Boyce (née Santos) who called herself the world’s oldest cheerleader and would gleefully lead a cheer at every reunion.

Enns then read a poem

she had written for the event about her old high school, which began with the lines, “They ripped out her guts with those massive machines/but they could not tear out her heart/still sweetly, painfully throbbing/ with teenage memories.”

A few minutes later, Enns pulled out her kazoo and everyone rallied around to belt out their beloved school song, “Hail Kitsilano.”

The song still gets performed at school functions and was written in 1936

by Sanford’s father, Ivor Parfitt, who was the high school’s music teacher.

“How do you think all of us kids got A’s,” she said.

On the subject of teachers, in a “fun vote” held at the reunion, the Class of ’46 awarded P.E. teacher Miss Gladys Munton (all the female teachers were named Miss) as their favourite edu-

cator, narrowly beating out math teacher Don McKenzie. After the vote, Kerr confided he had voted for Miss Sellon — the French teacher. Say no more.

At the end of the luncheon, former classmates, reacquainted pals and lifelong friends joined arms in a circle to sing “Auld Lang Syne,” with Bob Gibb on pipes, before releasing helium-filled balloons in the school’s blue and gold colours in memory of those who died that year.

As an emotionally stunted 44-year-old man, I have to admit that bagpipes and “Auld Lang Syne” are the closest things to Kryptonite for me. I’m just glad they didn’t sing “Danny Boy” for an encore, or I’d have been a snotty mess.

“It’s a close group and seeing everyone for these luncheons keeps us close,” Kerr told me. “It’s a very happy time and it’s a sad time. It’s great to see everyone, but for some it’s the last time we’ll ever see each other again.”

I talk to Enns the next day on the phone to get some background information, but before I can say much she tells me, “I’ve got to say, that photo of you in the Courier doesn’t flatter you at all. I was expecting a much older man.”

Duly noted.

Enns says they still might hold a small reunion or coffee date next year for Kitsilano’s close-knit Class of 1946, but they wanted to go out with a bang while they still had some spring in their step. If they do hold a 71st reunion, there will be fewer in attendance. But I have no doubt Enns will be among them.

I also expect at least half a dozen emails and phone messages letting me know. @MidlifeMan1

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EDUCATION EVENT: VANCOUVER You may have arthritis, but it doesn't have YOU! While arthritis can make daily activities challenging and painful, this interactive workshop will provide information about the many tools, gadgets and techniques to help make daily tasks easier. Join us for information and tips to help you take control of your arthritis.

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• ¼ cup smooth peanut butter • 1 cup unsalted peanuts, toasted and crushed • Fresh Thai basil and cilantro to garnish (optional) Method: Lay peanuts out on a baking sheet and toast them until they’re fragrant and golden brown — about five minutes.

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Kevin Chong

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One of Lisbon’s famous 80-year-old streetcars coasted to a stop ahead of us as we ascended the hill toward São Jorge (St. George) Castle. Along the narrow sidewalk, with my nine-month-old daughter in a carrier, I hugged the wall and let the German and Spanish tourists toe its lip.

We got in line for the streetcar, but commuters were already crowded like sticks in a matchbook. Our family was left to hoof it toward the picture-perfect ramparts in the distance.

Tuk-tuks, sherpa-ing up tired tourists, zipped past us.

When Crusaders took the Moorish Castle in the 12th century, every step toward that fortress came with the extra burden of armour and weaponry. I had only a 17-pound-infant on my chest and yet I was ready to swear off any god for a rest. My wife’s pace had slowed and my 12-year-old stepson’s hunger-induced grumpiness was peaking. I pushed up the hill without complaint. This was my idea, after all. Not the castle, with its Lego-perfect ramparts, but a European visit with an infant — for the challenge? On most weeks, it’s hard enough to leave the house without forgetting an essential piece of baby gear or mom and dad squabbling. Why add jet lag and a language barrier?

We reached the castle grounds and ascended uneven steps up its granite walls near sunset. The view of the Portuguese capital — overlooking the tiled roofs of its medieval neighbourhoods, its cobblestone pedestrian streets and patio restaurants, with the Tagus River at the

Lisbon was settled by Phoenicians and Romans, though much of the original city was destroyed by an earthquake in 1755.

PHOTO KEVIN CHONG

horizon — answered my questions. When we fed my stepson, he felt better, too.

A city famed for its nightclubs and alleyway tavernas ringing with lovelorn Fado melodies, Lisbon also proved a pleasant sight to wake up to. From our rooms in the Acores Hotel, our mornings were marked with a galão (espresso in foamy milk) and pastry and visits to museums such as the Calouste Gulbenkian, a mid-20th century oil baron’s art collection that spans from Egyptian antiquities to Claude Monet. In the afternoons, we shopped in stylish Principe Real, where we found Embaixada, a stylish suite of shops highlighting Portuguese designers in what was originally a 19th-century mansion.

When it came to meals, priority was given to the nearest eatery during those moments when meltdowns approached. Over salted cod at restaurants, waiters cooed

at our tired baby, who never slept better than in Portugal.

(My theory — the wine her mother drank at dinner.)

As always there were snags on our trip. Taking the wrong entrance to the Moorish Castle in Sintra, a hilltop getaway town for Lisbon’s aristocracy, meant a gruelling hour-long hike.

This left us tired for the rest of the day in Sintra, which culminated at the Quinta da Regaleira. The highlight of our visit to the multiturreted palace, which once belonged to an eccentric millionaire, was the system of tunnels he had built in the surrounding park.

My stepson loved the tunnels, which we entered by descending several stories into a well and exited from a pondside cave. And yet when I asked him about his favourite memory from that day, he mentioned our accidental hike. I didn’t recall him being a happy hiker, but he wasn’t having

a case of selective memory.

He was digesting new experiences, making sense of a situation that had stretched him. He was, in short, travelling.

And this was why I had wanted to visit Portugal.

Since the baby had been born, the days had become matchy-matchy, a blur of laundry days and wet wipes.

I wanted that sense of time widening to accommodate new sensations.

We regained our purchase on time in Lisbon, where each day began sketched lightly and was progressively shaded in on whim. Our wandering led us to Oceanarium, Lisbon’s aquarium, which we almost skipped because it was, well, another aquarium. The centrepiece of this family attraction, which was built for Expo 98, is a 5,000-cubic-metre tank that holds manta ray and zebra sharks.

A wraparound pathway leads visitors from the top of the tank all the way down.

It’s here we sat the baby on the ground to watch the bubble-eyed bottom feeders through the window. Because we’d wanted to please the baby, we had stumbled onto an unexpected delight for ourselves.

My daughter, of course, will hold no memory of our trip. She would have been happier with a cardboard box than a trip to Europe.

But I hope she might internalize the agonies of air travel and routines of a day spent sightseeing for our next trip. By the time she’s old enough to remember her first travel experience, she will bring expectations without knowing why she has them.

Kevin Chong was a guest of Portugal Tourism and Visit Lisboa.

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For more than 20 years, the Dragon Zone Paddling Club “squatted” on the southeast shore of False Creek. The club’s general manager gave a little laugh about this fact and acknowledged how grateful she was for the allowance and access to land that is now closer to becoming the clubhouse they covet.

“The community has been very nice to us to allow us so much leeway,” said Ann Phelps last week after the new paddling centre was officially opened April 30.

“We are happy that facility is open and we’re not such a blight on the seawall.”

The club advocated for a designated boat house and docks for the better part of two decades and came close to realizing that ambition roughly a decade ago before the 2010 Olympic Games upstaged plans to build an extensive paddling centre at the future Creekside Community Centre. Phelps, a kayaker who has been involved with the club for 26

years, including 18 as GM, said the interruption came as a surprise.

“We were unhappy it was stopped [at that time],” she said. “They decided that it would be better as a general community centre with some limited boating access. We renewed our activities so we could still get some docks.”

The docks were permitted, but the club expanded as it needed, said Phelps, letting out another little laugh. “I have to admit we grew without anybody noticing. We had a pretty good run.”

The expanded paddling centre opened with six accessible docks and six small storage units, an improvement, but a size that nonetheless limits the club’s ability to expand, said Phelps.

“It’s built to house what we have now,” she said.

The docks accommodate their 800-pound dragon boats but they lack permanent winter storage and a club house for social, administrative and community space.

The expanded paddling centre on False Creek includes six small storage buildings for non-motorized boats and paddling equipment, six floating docks and two ramps to improve accessibility.

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The next planning stage is for that boat house, but Phelps said the park board has halted plans. Nonetheless, the Dragon Zone Paddling Club will build on several decades of advocacy and draw up its own designs, including a space for rowers, who were “cut out of the equation” in the latest changes.

“We hope [the next phase] will allow us to have significant growth as far as more equipment, more programing and a place for

the paddlers and rowers to call home,” said Phelps. “We thought we would be planning it with the park board, but they have put that strategy on hold. So, we are going to move ahead and plan it on our own, then we will be going after funding.”

The park board approved the latest improvements in May 2014, pointing to the discrepancy between the large number of committed, competitive paddlers and their lacklustre dock and storage fa-

cilities. Initial estimates placed the cost at approximately $3 million, and the total bill was $3.2 million. Funding came from Community Amenity Contributions, an account bankrolled by developers in exchange for the city granting development rights and rezoning. Long-term supporters of the Dragon Boat Festival, Concord Pacific, also made a $1-million contribution to the paddling centre.

The new waterfront centres are six small storage

buildings for non-motorized boats, while and paddling equipment, six floating docks and two ramps improve accessibility for boats to enter and exit the water. In 2013, roughly 4,400 people, including school groups, participated in the society’s programs.

The club’s membership is roughly 2,300 paddlers.

Inspired by the Chinese origins of dragon boating, the architect used floating lanterns as inspiration for the new docks and storage areas. Semi-translucent panels on square buildings create the effect, especially visible at night, of course.

False Creek is popular with all kinds of non-motorized boat uses, including kayakers, out-rigger paddlers, canoers, rowers and standup paddlers, if surfboards are included in the tally. Dragon boating was put before an international crowd in Vancouver during Expo 86.

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The general accent remains on large finances, sexual yearning, research and investigation, secrets, underground forces, fate and “depths.” Start nothing new, relationships nor projects, before May 22.

Instead, continue with ongoing projects or reprise past/old ones. One thing will go well, even if “new” – research and investigation. Lie low, rest, contemplate and finish any government-related or administrative duties Sunday to mid-morn Monday (PDT).

Your energy and charisma remain high, Taurus.

But remember, use that energy in the service of ongoing projects/relationships, or those returning from the past. Don’t launch new ventures before May 22. Romance waves its magic wand (and Nature sprinkles a heavier, poetic beauty over the world) Sunday to mid-morn Mon. (PDT).

Sunday’s better, unless you live in Asia — see “Start Nothing” above.

Remember, no new ventures, relationships nor big purchases before May 22, Scorpio. (Actually, if you want to sidestep some defeating aspects, wait until May 26 onward to launch new projects and loves – and investments.) The general accent lies on relationships, public or “aboveboard” dealings, litigation, negotiation, contracts and agreements, partnerships, opportunities, conditions at a distance (relocation) and similar matters.

This is your last week of weariness, solitude, and unexpected delays. Don’t start any major ventures, purchases or relationships before May 22. Do reprise old projects, or continue carefully with ongoing ones. Sunday through mid-morning Monday is for domestic concerns, family, home, shelter, security, nutrition — all the basics. Unless you’re up at 3 a.m. (PDT) Sunday, this is a successful interval, filled with both accomplishment and affection.

Your work place continues to be pleasant and affectionate, even if snafus and setbacks occur. This is your last week of work and health concerns, and also your last week of indecision, delays and false starts. So delay new starts in projects, purchases and relationships until May 22 onward (May 26 if you want to also avoid a bad practical/financial outlook). For now, uphold ongoing ventures, and/or reprise the past.

This is your last week of revelry, celebration, and social whirling, so dive in and have fun while you can. Remember, don’t start any major project nor relationship before May 22 — spend your time with ongoing projects, or those that have returned from the past. (That includes old flames — and old social/club involvements.) Get a week’s worth of errands done Sunday (and some routine ones Monday morning.)

Remember, Cap, start no new ventures nor relationships before May 22. Stick with ongoing projects, or reprise the past. The general accent remains on creativity (careful, confusion reigns) romance, beauty, pleasure, risk-taking, and charming kids. An old flame, if he/she hasn’t shown yet, might this week. (BTW, if you’re unattached, and have a choice between an old flame and a present one, the former is more wedding-oriented.)

One last week of hard work, Leo, then (Friday) you’ll enter a month of cheer, optimism and popularity. Remember, start nothing new before May 22. Until then, protect ongoing projects from delays and mistakes, and/or reprise ventures from the past. Ditto for relationships. You’ll impress the boss or another VIP during this easy, fortunate week. (And soon, their requests and direction will emerge from the mist of cluelessness.)

The main accent continues to lie on your home, family, roots, security, nutrition, stomach and soul.

There have been some twists and turns in this sector over the last few weeks, indecisions and false starts, unexpected little glitches. But an air of affection and hope has buoyed you, too. Continue to avoid new starts before May 22 (May 26, if you really want to succeed, or if large money is involved). Handle neglected chores around the home.

This is your last week of delays and snafus — still, don’t start anything before May 22. Spend your time protecting ongoing ventures and/or reprising past ones. If you’re single and an old flame appears, welcome him/her – especially Sunday, when your magnetism and energy soar. (This day is great – after 4 a.m. PDT – for leading, seeing and being seen, persuading someone to accept you or be on your side, and to impress significant persons.

The accent remains on errands, short trips, curiosity, media/news, visits, communications and paperwork – busy stuff, but not important stuff.

Don’t start anything new, especially in these busy zones, before May 22. (E.g., a new email campaign would yield almost nothing.) For real success, wait until May 26 onward to begin projects or relationships. Double-check figures and addresses.

Prepare a list – actually, keep a running list – long before you go out to fulfill it.

May 12: Ving Rhames (57). May 13: Stephen Colbert (52). May 14: Cate Blanchett (47).

May 15: Trini Lopez (79). May 16: Janet Jackson (50). May 17: Josh Homme (43).

May 18: Tina Fey (46).

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Sports & Recreation CANADIANS BASEBALL

C’s to air on Shaw

Six games coming to TV this summer Megan Stewart

mstewart@vancourier.com

The summer television schedule just got a little busier. The Vancouver Canadians inked a broadcast deal with Shaw Television, and baseball fans can catch C’s games through the upcoming single-A season.

The station will air six home games, all of them on Saturday nights starting at 7 p.m.

Aside from a single game that was broadcast last year as a trial event from Nat Bailey Stadium, C’s games haven’t aired on TV since 1999 when the Vancouver club was the AAA affiliate of the Oakland A’s, said Canadians communications manager Rob Fai. “It’s something we’re really proud of. It’s been 17 years since we’ve done this,” said Fai. The minor league Blue Jays affiliate purchased the air time from Shaw and will sell in-game “inventory” — which means businesses can pay to attach their name to the first pitch or the third inning or the chicken dance during the seventh inning stretch, for example. (My choice is already made, not that I’m in a position to act on it.)

The club does not influence the commercials that air during breaks in the game. The evening broadcast are sponsored by A&W, the restaurant chain whose chairman is C’s coowner Jeff Mooney.

Last season, Shaw broadcast a meeting between the C’s and the visiting Eugene Emeralds on July 18 with Chicago Cubs first-round draft pick Ian Happ at centre field.

The five cameras used during that game will be

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The number of high school sprinters who joined the top 10 fastest athletes in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m (since records started in 2008) at a public school meet May 3 and 4.

C’s president Andy Dunn.

augmented to six, with the additional angle coming from behind home plate. Sideline reporter Vanessa Ybarra will work through the broadcast along with Fai calling the play-by-play and retired Major League infielder and current UBC T-Birds head coach Chris Pritchett adding colour.

The games will air regionally with the potential to reach a provincial audience in the future.

As Canada’s only minor league baseball team, the club’s president hinted at an ambition for further broadcast expansion.

“As an organization, we are excited to have the opportunity to expand our reach even further with this new agreement,” said Andy Dunn in a press release. “We are committed to making the Canadians a national brand.”

Besides the six that will air on Shaw, all other games will be broadcast on TSN 1040.

C’s broadcast schedule on Shaw June 25 vs. Hillsboro July 2 vs. Spokane July 9 vs. Tri-City July 23 vs. Eugene July 30 vs. Tri-City August 20 vs. Boise

Jesse Makaj was the top B.C. goalie picked in the WHL bantam draft May 5. He went to the Kootenay Ice 22nd overall, the first pick in the second round.

HOCKEY: WHL BANTAM DRAFT

Makaj picked by Kootenay Ice Goaltender played with Vancouver Minor before bantam season with North Shore Winterhawks Megan Stewart

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Jesse Makaj was only nine days old when his parents introduced him to hockey, a swaddled newborn in the stands to see one of his three brothers on the ice.

His first memories at the rink are seeing his oldest brother Josiah play for a B.C. championship with Vancouver Minor — and win.

“That was really an inspiration for me,” said Makaj, who was selected 22nd overall by the Kootenay Ice in the WHL Bantam Draft in Calgary May 5.

Years later, Josiah

strapped his oversized goalie pads onto his kid brother and taught Makaj all his moves. “Whatever he would say to me, I would do it,” he said.

Makaj, a 15-year-old who played with Vancouver Minor until he relocated from East Van to play with the North Vancouver Winter Club this past season, was the top B.C. goaltender selected in the 2016 draft, the first pick of the second round. (The Portland Winterhawks were forced to forfeit their ninth-overall pick.)

The head scout for the Kootenay club, Garnet Kazuik, said six-foot-two

Makaj offers the Ice the double serving of size and speed.

“He’s a big goalie and he improved as the year went on,” he said over the phone from Calgary, noting how Makaj impressed at the B.C. Cup in Salmon Arm last month. “He is highly athletic, stopped lots of pucks and that is what attracted us to him.”

The Ice do not have a 2000-born goaltender, which opens up more possibilities for Makaj, who will be eligible to play a limited number of games in the WHL next year as a 2001-born player. A pitcher and shortstop with

: On the official status of spinning wheels…

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The number of seconds — 12.56, in fact — Magee track talent Julie Kawai Herdman ran the junior girls 100m race, setting a new record for the age group at the Point Grey track May 3.

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The points scored by unranked senior boys Kitsilano Blue Demons in a one-point upset over provincial top-10 Lord Byng Grey Ghosts May 3. The AAA Lower Mainland rugby zone tournament continues May 12 to 19.

“This UCI designation is a reflection of the race’s importance to bike racing in Canada.”

— John Tolkamp, president of Cycling Canada Cyclisme, the country’s national governing body for the sport, on the fact the Gastown Grand Prix was granted status by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a sanctioned race.

the North Shore Twins, Makaj will hang up his baseball glove to focus exclusively on hockey.

The family received numerous calls from other teams, said Makaj’s father Steve, and they anticipated he might be called up sooner. Two Alberta goalies went in the first round, one 10th overall to Prince George, and Vancouver picked up another 20th overall. Left winger Peyton Krebs was the No. 1 draft pick, and a potential teammate for Makaj with the Kootenay Ice. He is invited to training camp in the fall. @MHStewart

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The Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix is the only criterium road race in Canada to earn UCI status, according to an announcement May 10.

This year’s cobblestone crit is July 13, part of B.C. Super Week July 8 to 17.

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Sports & Recreation ASKED AND ANSWERED: Sweden’s rookie of the year in 1994, Mats Lindgren represented his country at the 1998 Nagano Games and in 2002, added 14 points for the Canucks. The forward is coaching the latest West Coast Express, an AAA junior girls hockey team that won silver at the Canada West Cup in Kelowna May 6 to 8. The elite players were recruited from around B.C. and will travel to Ontario later this month for the Top Tier Toronto Girls tournament.

Picked in the first round of the 1993 NHL entry draft, Lindgren played for the Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders before he was traded to Vancouver. Held back by injuries through his professional career, the forward scored 54 goals and added 74 assists in the NHL before retiring at the age of 30.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Spending time

with my family.

What is your greatest fear?

Illness to people around me.

Which talent would you most like to have? To be a

great singer.

VA N C O U V E R H A L F - M A R A T H O N & 5k

Mats Lindgren

What do you consider your greatest achievement? In

sports, my greatest achievement would be making it to the top, and personally it would be my children.

What is your most marked calmness. ic? My calmne ess. characteristic?

better player you will be.

What skill do you find hardest? Puck handling.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

A hockey player.

What do you most value in your friends?? Honesty.

What is your our greatest regret? I wish

I would have listened more to my body during my active hock-ey career.

What characracteristic is needed eeded to be an effective ective coach? To be a

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Sports & Recreation

UBC recruits Lepine as sports director Laval Rouge et Or traded for T-Birds Blue and Gold

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The new senior athletics director at UBC envisions a richer, fuller experience for varsity athletes and fans by marketing marquee sports teams to leverage corporate sponsorship and grow Thunderbird coffers.

The university announced Gilles Lepine as the incoming athletic director at the Point Grey campus May 6. For the previous 12 years, he held a similar position at Laval University in Quebec City where the Rouge et Or won numerous national titles in addition to seven Varsity Cup football championships in 11 years.

Lepine, who taught a sports marketing course at the university, said “market-driven sports” such as men’s basketball and football can be harnessed to benefit other teams and student-athletes.

“No one program is more important than another, but we have to take care of our marketdriven sports,” Lepine told reporters last week.

“We can bring a lot of energy in media attention, sponsors and fans. I can use football as the main engine of a train to explore other possibilities.”

UBC vice-president Louise Cowin called Lepine a good fit for UBC’s “powerhouse” status.

“The experience, passion, skill and energy Gilles brings to UBC’s Athletics Department is second to none,” she said.

A former Laval volleyball player and coach, Lepine said he intends to

tap business and industry to bolster university sport.

“If we want to grow as a varsity program, the university cannot do that by itself,” he said. “In Vancouver, the potential is incredible what we can do with business people. If we convince [the community] that we are always on the same pattern, meaning we are selling something great, people will be so proud of what we have.”

Deep pockets were quickly turned into dividends when it comes to the Thunderbirds’ football program.

Under the guidance of first-year UBC football coach Blake Nill, UBC capped a thrilling Cinderella season with a Vanier Cup — which they won at Laval. The coach was enticed away from the University of Calgary with the financial support of the 13th Man Foundation, a group of backers and alumni who are funding improvements to the team’s facilities on campus.

In a telephone conference call with francophone press, Lepine said his decision came with some heartache but the 61-year-old husband and father was ready for a new “adventure” to take him across the country.

“Leaving is huge. I am not walking away from Quebec,” he said. “I am going to live a new experience. The Rouge et Or will always be a part of me,” he is quoted as saying in the Journal de Quebec.

UBC whittled down its search from 18 candidates

T-Bird Coaching Changes The UBC T-Birds enter the summer with two coaching vacancies, one in women’s soccer and another in men’s volleyball.

• Leaving the women’s soccer program on a high note, Marisa Kovacs coached just one season at UBC but won a national women’s soccer championship last November, the 100th title in UBC history. She won’t have the chance to defend that win since resigning to move to

the East Coast where her husband, James Colzie, was named the head football coach at Saint Mary’s after a year as UBC’s defensive coordinator.

• After 12 years at the helm of the men’s volleyball program, Richard Schick was let go in March with an overall 174-142 record.

Applicants are being interviewed for the soccer position now. Applications are open for the volleyball coaching job.

to five to two before he was hired, added Lepine.

“They are not numerous, those francophones in important roles and other universities [in Canada].

The reputation of the Rouge et Or goes beyond our regional and provincial borders,” he said in French.

Lepine’s tenure begins July 11.

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GARAGE SALES

EMPLOYMENT

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East Van

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

Moving Sale

Beverage company in Vancouver requires a FULL TIME JUNIOR ACCOUNTANT Suitable candidates will meet the following requirements: * Diploma/Degree in Accounting * Bookkeeping experience will be an asset * Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Outlook * Be detail oriented, able to multi-task and meet deadlines * Have an entrepreneurial mindset with strong analytical skills * Be self motivated and a team player * Have excellent communication and organizational skills Please submit resumes to: kedamji7@gmail.com Only those who are selected for an interview will be contacted

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VALLEY TRAFFIC SYSTEMS Apply in person 9770-199A St, Langley Fax or Email resume: 604-513-3661 darlene@valleytraffic.ca

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Camy Travel Inc. is looking for a marketing Manager.

Your main duties are as following: Make a study of market conditions and trends to determine tourist demand, potential sales volumes and to assist with formulating and implementing sales policies.

• Develop and implement marketing strategies • Executive the marketing activities.

• Resolve customer complaints

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Successful applicant must be fluent in English. Having experience in travel industry with excellent computer and communication skills is required. Working knowledge of Amadeus is also required. Knowledge of Asian culture and travel industry, especially the Chinese market will be an asset. A university degree or college diploma in Tourism or Hospitality or other related field is required. Salary for the position is $18-$25 per hour. Hours of work are 40 hours per week.

This is a full time permanent position.

Location: 1265-4540 No.3 RD RICHMOND,BC,V6X4E4 Please send resume to: camytravel@hotmail.com Closing date: May30, 2016

17th Century, glass and wood inlay display cabinet $19,500.00 obo.

MEDICAL/DENTAL HELP

604-267-1170

P/T EXPERIENCED MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT

Required for Specialist office in North Vancouver Individual needs to be reliable, organized, efficient and able to multi task. Must be dedicated to excellent patient interaction.

Must have experience with electronic medical records.

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FULL TIME TRAVEL AGENCY MANAGER

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FURNITURE GENTLY USED sofa, bed suite, secretary, d/table & 4 chairs, china cabinet, singer s/machine, vacuum etc call: 604-739-4268 evenings.

FOR SALE - MISC OFFICE/CLERICAL Handy Appliances Ltd located at (business and work location) Unit 100-1398 East 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC requires permanent, F/T qualified Personal Secretary to report to General Manager.

Duties include: determine and establish office procedures, maintain manual and computerized filing /database systems, compile data and other information, answer telephone and electronic enquiries, relay messages, schedule and confirm meetings.

Secondary School and min 1 year of experience. Salary $ 22/hr. email resume to: info@handyappliances.ca

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WANTED Old Books Wanted also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. no text books or encyclopedias. I pay cash.

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Treats and Treasures Lawn Sale at Marpole Museum, 8743 S.W. Marine Drive, Van Saturday, June 18th 10am to 3pm.

Limited tables $25.00 ea 604-261-0131 Dunbar

MULTI UNIT GARAGE SALE Sun May 15th 8:30 - noon 3611 West 16th in the back.

REG’D BELGIAN Malinois puppies, 9 wks, from top European working bloodlines. To good home with exp. a must.

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REAL ESTATE

HOUSES FOR SALE HUGE CORNER lot in Sunshine Hills. 4 br. 2 bath. Lots of potential. Recent reno, oak hardwood flrs, 1.3m 4 br, ocean view house Vancouver island, $449 778-237-7925

* WE BUY HOMES *

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PROPERTY FOR SALE GALIANO BEACH FRONT PROPERTY! 1950sf, 3 BR, 2 bath. + Unique Rental Cabin on ppty for BB, guests etc. $667,000. Private sale.

Call Jenna • 778-246-4430 Maple Ridge Urban Reserve.

5 acre, rent $3200. $1.775M 5 acre raw land, $915K. 10 acre, 2 houses, $3.3M. 2.2 acre, Silver Valley, $900K. 7.2 acre, land only, $1.5M. Galiano Isl Beach ppty, $659K. 604-761-6935, 778-246-4430

LOTS & ACREAGES FOR SALE 9 BUILDING LOTS available in Maple Ridge!

Future sub-division 2.2 acres medium size lots.

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME NOW. Call Byron • 604-761-6935 SINGLE FAMILY and duplex lots available in Vancouver.

Starting $1.3 million and up.

604-836-6098

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RENTALS

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT GARDEN VILLA

1010 6th Ave. New West.

Suites Available. Beautiful atrium with fountain. By shops, college & transit.

Pets negotiable. Ref req.

CALL 604 715-7764 BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

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HOUSES FOR SALE

#101 - 621 W. 57th Ave, Van Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments & Townhouses.

Heat, hot water & lrg storage locker included. Many units have in-suite laundry and lrg patios/balconies with gorgeous views. Tasteful gardens, swim pools, hot tub, gym, laundry, gated parking, plus shops & services. Near Oakridge Ctrl, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School & more.

Sorry no pets. www.langaragardens.com

10 ACRES Maple Ridge!

Future development.

2 houses & $5k rent income.

Helicopter Pad. $3.3M Call Byron • 604-761-6935

info@langaragardens.com Managed by Peterson Residential Property Management Inc.

**SWEDISH MASSAGE** 604-739-3998 Broadway at Oak

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HOME SERVICES

RENTALS

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT SKYLINE TOWERS 102-120 Agnes St, New West

DRAINAGE

GUTTERS

DRAINAGE Services & more Claudio’s Backhoe Services Dry Basements+ 604-341-4446

GUTTER CLEANING ROOF CLEANING WINDOW CLEANING POWER WASHING

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Hi-Rise Apartment with River View & Indoor Pool.

1 BR & 2 BR Available.

Rent includes heat & hot water. Remodeled Building and Common area. Gated underground parking available.

References required.

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LIC. ELECTRICIAN bf#37309 Commercial &

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call. Lic#89402.

Fast same day service.

Insured. Guar’d. We love small jobs. 604-568-1899

VACATION RENTALS

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604-341-4446

FLOORING

Call 604-630-3300 to place your ad.

SPRING SPECIALS Gutter & window cleaning ! Power washing ! WCB, Insured, Free est.

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Call Ken 604-716-7468

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates Century Hardwood Floors 604-376-7224

WILDWOOD LANDSCAPING

•Hedge Trim •Tree Prune •Hedge Removal •Spring Clean Up •Lawn Restoration.

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$30/hr, thorough cleaning Vancouver. 604-222-1585

CONCRETE CONCRETE SPECIALIST Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, Remove & Replacing Reasonable Rates.

35 yrs experience For free est.

Call Mario 604-253-0049

A 1 Retaining Walls, Stairs, Driveway, Patio, Sidewalk. Any concrete work. Free Est. Since 1977. Basile 604-617-5813.

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