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Homelessness not the story it used to be

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That story about how Vancouver has the highest number of homeless people in recent history sure didn’t stay in the media consciousness for long.

Probably eclipsed by another real estate story explaining how everyone is doomed except those with a house on the West Side.

Or, maybe it was a story about bike lanes, or marijuana or a crow trying to make off with a knife from a crime scene.

Guilty as charged on a few of those.

The sad fact is this city is full of desperate people but news about homelessness hardly gets any play beyond the day of an announcement or release of a report.

Write down this number: 1,847.

Now imagine that many people knocking on your door, asking if they could sleep on your floor for the night. For music fans out there, think about it this way: That’s almost twice the

capacity of people allowed in the Commodore Ballroom.

Those 1,847 were the number of homeless people that volunteers counted in Vancouver over two days in March. It’s the highest number of homeless people recorded since the city led or participated in counts dating back to 2005.

A total of 539 were recorded as living/surviving/existing on the street, including those in cars and campers. The other 1,258 were residing in a shelter of some sort.

That number, by the way, is an undercount.

That means homeless people who weren’t found or left their sleeping spot before volunteers walked by weren’t recorded. Also, on one night of the count, 315 people were turned away from shelters. It’s unknown whether they were counted later.

Some of you might be thinking that a jump from 1,364 homeless people in 2005 to 1,847 in 2016 kind of makes sense, since the city’s overall population has grown, too.

The City of Vancouver released its annual homeless count data last week. It showed that 1,847 people were either living on the street or in a shelter. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

A valid point.

But how to explain the numbers when considering the provincial government and the city have worked to open 13 new buildings to provide about 1,500 units of housing to get people off the street and out of shelters?

Also, keep in mind that 325

homeless people died in B.C. between 2006 and 2014.

It’s long been said that Vancouver has been a magnet for poor people. Climate refugees is a term I’ve heard. The warm weather, the housing and the services are all here for the country’s most vulnerable.

Of 79 homeless people counted in March who were in Vancouver for less than a month, 13 were from Metro Vancouver, 22 from the rest of B.C., 17 from Alberta, 13 from other provinces and nine from outside of Canada.

No surprise then that Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles are attractive climates to America’s homeless. All of those cities, by the way, are under homelessness states of emergency.

Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang told me last week that senior governments have to do more to address the drivers of homelessness.

So that means more treatment for mental health and addictions, keeping foster kids in care longer, increasing welfare and disability rates, legislating a higher minimum wage and having better transitions in place for prisoners and patients with no fixed address who are released and discharged.

And. Build. More.

Housing.

Sadly, the ask is not news. Neither is Housing Minister Rich Coleman saying the provincial government has done more on this file than any jurisdiction in Canada.

Neither is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promise to put money on the table for affordable housing and develop a national housing strategy. The mayor’s failed promise to end street homelessness by 2015 is also old news.

What will be news is when the homeless population plummets. Right now, that seems unlikely.

And that’s not good news for anyone.

••• Something to watch: Almost all of San Francisco’s media outlets — newspaper, magazine, television and radio — will blitz the city June 29 with coverage on homelessness. The goal is to put such a spotlight on the crisis that someone in government will do something meaningful to address the problem. @Howellings

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The area council asked for suggestions and solutions Monday night. The audience pitched ideas such as a Red Square campaign, similar to the 2012 Montreal student solidarity demonstration that protested tuition fee hikes. One person suggested 200 people occupy Trump Tower and force it to be revamped into low-income housing, topping out at $500 per month.

Others asked for “good practical tools we can use to put up a damn good fight,” while another called for landlords and the city to “own that they’re screwing us over and profiting off of it.”

“Housing is becoming many things; it’s a commodity, it’s a workplace for real estate agents, for us it’s a home,” said one young woman.

As for the former Marine Gardens residents, most have left Vancouver, Skeet said. With a 0.6 per cent vacancy rate city-wide, according to a 2015 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp report, and a growing instability in the city, Skeet thinks, “the city is being hollowed out. In 10 years I think it will become a bit of a ghost town.” @biancachan_

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Many of the 50 people who attended the meeting raised concerns that even if the neighbourhood gains more housing through rezoning, it will lose renters because of high rent costs.

Area council members criticized Rental 100, a city program that gives incentives to developers to build rental housing. The program has been criticized because of the high rents in the buildings.

“We are offended the city thinks that $1,260 per month for a studio is affordable — it’s not affordable when we raise families on $28,000 a year,” said Kathleen Piovesan, an area council member.

Grandview-Woodland is home to several co-ops and social housing programs, said Shawn Preuss, board member of Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society.

She said these programs are desperately needed in a community with mixedincome households.

With a new neighbourhood plan, Preuss suspects co-op buildings will have to be remortgaged and rented at market price, pushing people out.

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When Jillian Skeet started her 10-year fight to keep her townhouse complex standing, she didn’t think it would end with her losing her home and her community.

“Where you guys are now, that’s where I was in 2009 and 2010,” Skeet told the Grandview-Woodland Area Council (GWAC) Monday night during a meeting focused on renters.

Skeet’s townhouse, along with 69 others in the Marine Gardens complex on Southwest Marine Drive, will be demolished this week to make way for a development that includes highrises.

“Vancouver has become a city of instability and anyone who is a renter lives with a growing fear that you don’t know if you have somewhere to live every month,” said Skeet, noting her neighbourhood was one of the first areas to get rezoned and redeveloped in the city’s recent push for densification.

She warned GrandviewWoodland community members they may face rezoning as a result of the city’s new community plan.

The draft plan is set to be released on June 25.

The Grandview-Woodland area runs south of the Burrard Inlet to Broadway and is bounded by Clark Drive and Nanaimo Street.

It includes several busy transit areas with Hastings Street, First Avenue, Commercial and Victoria Drive intersecting it.

It’s a story Vancouverites are all too familiar with: city plans for rezoning and increased development puts pressure on landlords to raise rent prices and leaves renters with hefty rent costs and possible evictions.

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hat would Italian Heritage Month be without an authentic Italian Market? Not much, according to Lorenzo Schober, Communications Director of Vancouver’s Italian Cultural Centre. With Vancouver’s Italian Heritage Month celebrated each June, the Italian Cultural Centre is gearing up for its 2016 series of Il Mercato (the Market).

“Our mandate,” explains Lorenzo, “is to promote Italian cultural values and heritage within the broader Vancouver community. at the Italian Cultural Centre on June 17 from 4pm to 8pm, with others following on July 15 and Aug. 19. “We hold the markets monthly during the summer and then there’s a Christmas-themed Il Mercato on November 25,” says Lorenzo.

Il Mercato doesn’t just spread Italian joy throughout the city, but combines the tastes of Italy with local farm produce, live entertainment, and activities for the kids provided by the Italian Cultural Centre’s language school.

“This is the first cultural market of its kind in Vancouver and it features great organic produce, handmade products from local artisans, fabulous entertainment, and our new pizza oven.”

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“It’s going to be a great party atmosphere” Vancouver Whitecaps football club will have a presence, and of course a kids corner.”

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The city continues to ramp up its legal fight against illegal marijuana dispensaries and plans to seek court injunctions against an additional 38 pot shop operators and their landlords.

A week ago, the city announced it filed the necessary paperwork in B.C. Supreme Court to seek injunctions against 17 pot shop operators who continue to operate in defiance of the city’s new business licence regulations.

“We’re serious,” Andreea Toma, the city’s chief licensing inspector, told the Courier Monday.

But that seriousness will have to be tested in the courts and could take some time before hearing

dates are scheduled. An injunction would give the city a court order to force an operator to shut down a dispensary.

If an operator dismissed the order, the city could then go back to court and seek to have the operator hit with heavy fines or even jailed.

Though the city has been issuing tickets to operators, the court action includes the city going after landlords.

For example, court documents filed by the city against the B.C. Pain Society at 2908 Commercial Dr. include operator Chuck Varabioff, his numbered company (1018580 B.C. Ltd.) and landlords Michael and Tatyana Gertsoyg.

“It’s their responsibility to ensure that who they have in their commercial space is required to have a business licence,” Toma said.

Varabioff said he wasn’t aware his landlords were named in the documents. He called it a “scare tactic” and said the Gertsoygs support him

“a million per cent.” The Courier was unable to contact the Gertsoygs before deadline. Varabioff said they were out of town.

Late last year, the city informed Varabioff and dozens of other dispensary operators to close their doors by April 29.

The deadline came after the society lost a Board of Variance appeal to remain open.

Varabioff has since requested a judicial review of the board’s decision.

Meanwhile, he continues to operate his pot shop and the city issued him nine $250 tickets for operating without a business licence.

“I figured once they filed the injunction, that’s it and then we’d wait for the courts to decide it,” he said. “But, no, they came in every single day last week and they ticketed me.”

Varabioff said he refuses to pay the tickets and will I dispute them in court. It’s o an unfortunate process, he added, that wastes his n time and money and that i t of taxpayers. f h fi l f l o B i p g h B m o i f c v

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Chuck Varabioff of The B.C. Pain Society dispensary on Commercial Drive holds one of the nine $250 tickets the city issued him for operating without a business licence. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“If I pay those tickets, I’m admitting I’m guilty of something,” he said.

“I’m guilty of absolutely nothing and all I want is my day in court, so to speak, and I want a fair Board of Variance hearing. That’s what I’m fighting for.”

If Varabioff ultimately loses his appeals and is forced to shut down, he will likely be operating another pot shop at 2849 East Broadway. The city has issued him a development permit and he is close to getting a business licence.

“People may say, ‘Oh, he’s just being greedy.’

But my main store is my main store that runs all the operations and I need that in place in order to operate anything,” he said.

The city’s move to offer licences to pot shops came after city council voted last June to intro-

duce rules for annual licence fees, criminal record checks and zoning regulations that prohibit a dispensary from operating within 300 metres of schools, community centres, neighbourhood houses and each other.

The city has always maintained the purpose is to regulate the business, not the marijuana. The federal government has promised to introduce legislation next spring that would legalize marijuana but details of how the law would relate to dispensaries is unclear.

“A lot of businesses within the industry are expecting the federal government to change our current bylaws,” Toma said. “I don’t see that happening. I don’t think that’s going to be a reality. I think they’re going to be complementary.”

As of Tuesday, the city issued 313 $250 tickets to pot shops. So far, 47 tickets have been paid. A total of 51 dispensaries, including Varabioff’s, continue to operate in defiance of the city’s new regulations.

An additional 30 shops remain open but are not subject to enforcement because they are working with the city to acquire a business licence.

A total of 34 dispensaries have complied with the city’s new regulations and have either closed or are no longer selling marijuana since the April 29 deadline.

So far, the city has issued one business licence to a dispensary.

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Unique centre welcomes refugees, immigrants $24.5-million Victoria Drive complex offers array of services to newcomers

Mike Howell

beds, two bathrooms and a full kitchen, with views of the North Shore mountains.

The same floor has two interlocking suites capable of housing a family of 16 people. Another suite is set up for people with disabilities, including those who are blind, deaf or mute.

mhowell@vancourier.com

With each footstep, the visitor’s eye is drawn to plaque after plaque set into the concrete entrance way of the Immigrant Services Society of B.C.’s new “Welcome Centre.”

All 18 plaques are written in a different language.

In Spanish: Bienvenidos.

In Swahili: Karibu.

In Somali: Soo Dhowaada.

And so on.

The translation of each is “welcome.”

The idea for what amounts to be both an art piece and a large, strategically placed concrete welcome mat was inspired by a similar installation Chris Friesen saw on a trip to a public plaza in Geneva.

Amid the cobblestones in the old part of that city were various sayings, all lit up for pedestrians to see.

“It was one of those ideas that came to me in the middle of the night,” said Friesen, the society’s director of settlement services, as he stood among the plaques last Thursday and read out some of the various pronunciations of “welcome.” “It will be kind of a quiz for folks to figure out which is which.”

The attraction serves as a teaser to what is behind the doors of the six-storey, $24.5-million centre at Victoria Drive and East 10th Avenue.

The centre received its occupancy permit May 30 — personally given to Friesen from Mayor Gregor Robertson — and opened its doors the next day. Tenants are expected to begin moving in this week.

Inside is Friesen’s dream realized. He proudly states there is no other facility in

Syrian wave subsides

Plaques, written in different languages, are set into the concrete along the entrance to the complex.

PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the world for newcomers — refugees, refugee claimants and immigrants — that offers such variety of services under one roof.

He lists them off: 18 selfcontained apartments (with shared laundry) that can house 130 people, a health clinic, a pre-school, a playground, a drop-in centre for young people, English language programs, mental health counselling, support programs for victims of trauma, services for refugee claimants, government services related to social assistance and a bank.

Refugee claimants

During the Courier’s visit, clients were participating in English language programs (one class was learning the provinces of Canada) and others were meeting with various service workers, including refugee claimant Khawja Farid Sediqi from Afghanistan.

Sediqi, a champion powerlifter, said he crossed the

border last month from the United States into Canada, where he made a refugee claim. A worker from Settlement Orientation Services, or SOS, was assisting him with his claim when he spoke briefly to the Courier about the centre.

“I like it because the organizations are very good and very nice and in the same building,” said Sediqi, who currently resides in a downtown shelter.

The goal of the new centre is to open up some of the apartments to claimants such as Sediqi, although government-assisted refugees are expected to be the primary tenants of the 18 units.

Kerstin Walter, SOS director, said having some housing on site will allow claimants to have access to all the services that might otherwise be spread across the city.

Walter gave the example that a client could get help with a welfare application before crossing the hall to open a bank account at

Vancity, which donated $1 million to the centre and has a kiosk in the building. The credit union also placed an automated teller machine outside the centre.

“For the client, it’s great to have a one-stop shop,” she said, noting the advantage of being co-located with a variety of agencies, including the Vancouver Association for the Survivors of Torture.

“Settlement is so linked to mental health. If people don’t have stable housing, which is settlement, they’ll be anxious and it’s going to be hard for them to be calm during their [Immigration and Refugee Board] hearing, if they’re really stressed.

So being together in one space, we can make sure we do the best for our clients.”

The apartments at the centre are all named after an emotion or value such as “perseverance” or “optimism.” “Aspiration” is a four-bedroom suite on the fifth floor outfitted with bunk

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Typically, the occupants will stay in an apartment for two to three weeks before moving to a permanent residence. Occupancy is expected to be steady as more refugees arrive in Vancouver.

The opening of the centre comes after Vancouver welcomed a wave of Syrian refugees during the fall and winter. That wave has subsided with all but three of 350 families having found permanent housing in the region.

About 1,300 Syrians and another 458 governmentassisted refugees from Africa, Iraq and other countries are expected to arrive between September and December.

Some, however, will arrive this week, coming straight from the Vancouver International Airport to the centre.

“Imagine, you’re coming from a tent in the Middle East or Africa to this,” said Friesen, standing inside one of the apartments.

Friesen noted the families won’t be as large as some of those that arrived over the last year. Fewer refugees with special needs will also be destined for Vancouver.

The new centre will replace the society’s original 70-bed “Welcome House” on Drake Street. The society sold the building to Covenant House but worked out a deal to lease the property until next March.

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The other temporary housing locations, including Vancouver’s Sandman, Marriott, Century Plaza and Landis hotels are empty of refugees. The Pendrell apartments will close to refugees later this month.

Funding for the new centre came from the sale of the society’s Drake Street building, along with the society’s cash reserves, contributions from all three levels of government, a $1 million donation from Vancity and private donations.

Lord Byng students also raised $5,000 to pay for furniture at the centre’s youth centre, which is outfitted with a television and foosball table.

Social cohesion

Near the end of the tour, Friesen stopped in one of the apartments to reflect on how he felt after five years of planning and construction of the centre to finally see the doors open.

When he received the occupancy permit from the mayor, he told him he was going home to have a cold beer. The hard work will all be worth it, he said, when families begin arriving this week.

“It really takes the whole issue of social cohesion, immigrant integration — all of this — to a new height,” he said. “To find one centre where people so new to the country don’t have to navigate all over the place and deal with all the complexities that comes with starting out in a new country, is great.” @Howellings

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Central library launches first instrument-lending program Bianca Chan

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Sandra Singh still remembers tapping her fingers on a printed keyboard foldout 38 years ago and hearing nothing but the pitter-patter of her fingertips playing on her dining room table.

“Not being able to actually hear myself play was so dispiriting,” said the city’s chief librarian, who grew up in a lowincome, first-generation immigrant family.

Singh hopes that won’t be the case for future would-be musicians thanks to Vancouver Public Library’s newest program — the Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library, based at the central branch, which launched Tuesday.

“With this program, hopefully every Vancouverite will get to play the instrument they always wanted — and be able to hear it too,” she said.

As the first program of its kind in Vancouver, and just the second in a Canadian public library, the free program will provide library card holders the opportunity to borrow a variety of instruments for up to nine weeks.

Sun Life donated $130,000, as well as 100 instruments, including guitars, banjos, violins and keyboards to jump-

Sandra Singh, the city’s chief librarian, learned to play piano on a paper keyboard foldout as a child. She hopes that won’t be the case for others thanks to the Sun Life Financial Musical Lending Library, which launched at the central branch this week. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

start the program. “Public libraries have always been a platform for encouraging creativity, ideas and talent,” Singh said. “This program was just a natural extension for us.”

In addition to the actual instruments, the central library also offers how-to videos on instrument care, music learning books, sheet music, a classical and jazz music streaming service, an inlibrary CD collection and recording studios.

The Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch is the only other public library in Canada that of-

fers a similar service. Also in partnership with Sun Life Financial, the instrument lending program in Toronto has been wildly successful since its inception April 7. “All instruments were borrowed within the first five days of the launch,” Vindra Ram-

narine, a representative of the Parkdale library, told the Courier. “As soon as an instrument is returned and inspected, it usually gets borrowed again within that day.”

In addition to the instruments given by Sun Life, the VPL launched

an instrument donation drive, on now until July 4. Singh said she hopes it will improve and expand the program to meet the anticipated demand. The central library is the VPL’s largest and busiest branch, receiving more than 6,000 visitors a day, said Marya

Gadison, a representative of the VPL. “With so many people coming in and out, there’s going to be a huge want for these instruments,” Gadison said. “I hope the drive will bring in lots of instruments so we can accommodate that demand.

Besides, they’re probably just collecting dust in people’s attics anyway.”

Singh, who never picked the piano back up after dropping out of her junior high school’s band, has since lived vicariously through her 13-year-old son who was “surely” encouraged to play the piano. However, with the new instrument rental program, Singh hasn’t ruled out getting reacquainted with the blacks and whites just yet.

The public can drop off new or gently used musical instruments at any Vancouver Public Library branch and at two participating Long and McQuade locations in Vancouver and Surrey. Visit www.vpl. ca/instruments for more information. @biancachan_

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, J U N E 9 , 2 0 1 6

Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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Condo King pitches increased transit to help offset density concerns

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rom Bob Rennie’s lips to Premier Christy Clark’s ear. Well, you would think. But you would be wrong.

There was Rennie, B.C’s “Condo King,” Clark’s chief political fundraiser, preaching to the choir at the Urban Development Institute luncheon last Thursday. Here’s the guy who probably more than anyone else has turned on the tap to deliver enormous sums of cash from the real estate industry into provincial Liberal party coffers.

The Liberals will do nothing to affect an economy that will reduce the value of your home — and retirement fund — because they are making a bundle along with many others in this overheated market.

One of his key messages to keep the development industry roaring ahead, and British Columbia’s economy leading the pack in Canada, was simple: public transit.

We need more.

The jobs, the investment, the growth this region has seen — whether you like the changes to your neighbourhood, the soaring cost of real estate being driven up by buckets of foreign capital leading to the end of the dream for single-family houses in Vancouver except for the very wealthy — it will all grind down, if the province doesn’t

get serious about funding public transit.

There in the front of the crowd, nibbling on his chicken and salad, was Clark’s minister responsible for regional transportation, Peter Fassbender. People initially thought, given that he was able, with the help of mediator Vince Ready, to clear up the province’s most recent battle with teachers that he could actually get things going with municipal mayors on regional transit.

So far, all we’ve got is a guy playing silly bugger. He’s been negotiating through the media instead of sitting down with the region’s political leaders, calling them “crazy” and threatening that Ottawa will withdraw its promise of funding from transit if the mayors don’t move.

Rennie suggests the way to meet housing demands is by building in the burbs and putting in transit to serve that development.

But all we seem to be offered is the Massey Bridge, 10 lanes across the south arm of the Fraser at a cost of more than $4 billion and even more traffic congestion.

Even if the mayors buy Rennie’s notion that increased density will be required to meet the needs of a growing population, and a number do, there is still the roadblock created by the province.

Christy’s guy will not agree with the mayors on just how that transit will be funded.

And, most pointedly, Fassbender continues to refuse to return the running of TransLink to the mayors — which would be a deal-breaker for most.

Instead, Fassbender et al insist that TransLink be run by an unelected board of folks handpicked by the province while the mayors take the heat for any tax increase they agree to in order to fund the system.

Then there is this issue.

With increased density, as North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto points out, “the city becomes everyone’s backyard.”

That means the CACs (Community Amenity Contributions) being paid by developers should continue to be used to build amenities including parks, libraries and community centres that will make the various municipalities adding density more livable.

Now Fassbender wants those CACs to be used to fund transit.

One other point Rennie made, which flies in the face of Vancouver’s Greenest City strategy: People have to get over the notion, he says, that they can live near where they work. He thinks Vancouver should simply give up providing enough affordable housing to meet the needs of those who find employment in this city.

And if you thought that somehow limiting foreign investment would help with affordability, you won’t get any support from Rennie. At the most, he would entertain

the idea of a “speculation tax,” which probably wouldn’t do much to slow the flow of that capital. There, he and Christy are actually in sync. The Liberals will do nothing to affect an economy that will reduce the value of your home — and retirement fund — because they are making a bundle along with many others in this overheated market.

Instead and again, for Rennie, public transit is the answer. Make commuting more efficient than what car-plugged highways have to offer by adding buses, and subways in sufficient numbers and condos and townhouses will follow, all the way up the Valley.

Failing that, he predicts the boom in development will fade. So, you think that would catch the attention of the premier.

But so far she has not indicated that she is paying the slightest bit of attention. @allengarr

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Pool’s a priority Re: “Outdoor pools tough to justify in Vancouver,” May 30 It is becoming tougher and tougher to justify not building outdoor pools in Vancouver.

Park board commissioner John Coupar’s motion passed on May 30 to expedite building new outdoor pools. Vancouver is deficient in outdoor pools, and this deficiency is within the elected park board’s mandate to address. The May 30 motion is a big step in the right direction.

The 2011 recommendation by Hugh Condon Marler Architects (HCMA) to only build outdoor pools next to indoor pools or community centres was never adopted into park board policy.

HCMA designed the Hillcrest aquatic facility. In 2012, Hillcrest’s operating costs far exceeded the architects’ projections. Regarding the $400,000 difference between Hillcrest’s revenues and costs, the Hillcrest manager said: “I don’t view it as a shortfall, but I look at it as an investment. That $400,000 is an investment in our community, for getting people to be active and healthy.”

Using Jasper’s logic that public facilities should not be built because they cost too much money to operate, we should immediately close all swimming pools, ice rinks, and virtually every other park facility before Park Board loses any more money!

In 2010, the Mount Pleasant Park Master Plan, including the outdoor pool replacement, became park board policy.

This project can be expedited the moment funds are allocated. Even more new pools are likely to be endorsed through the upcoming Aquatic Strategy.

Jasper pleaded to the elected park board through the Courier, “This board should prioritize money from the next capital plan.

Maybe it doesn’t happen in four years, but maybe it happens in five or six. If they do it smart, they can do it in a way that is fiscally responsible and better serves parts of the city such as South Vancouver and Marpole.”

It’s too bad that Vision did not “do it smart” during their seven years in office.

Margery Duda, Mount Pleasant Pool Committee, Vancouver

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Pool’s too pricey Re: “Park board greenlights outdoor pool plan,” May 31 Three or more pools? Where is the

money to pay for them going to come from, which could be as much as $25 to 30 million?

You would have to kill pretty much any and all major park board projects to pay for these extremely expensive pools. Going by what the park board general manager Malcolm Bromley said they would have to go to Vancouver city council (VCC) and recommend these capital expenditure shifts, but that VCC would have to approve them and could veto them, so why have they not been consulted and brought into the picture?

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Indoor pools that could be used year round would be a better investment in my opinion Christine Jorgensen via Facebook

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Transit tip Re: “A tug of war over transit, tax and turf,” May 31 Transport decisions should be left to our local, voted-in mayors. Not people who haven’t a clue about public transport because they never use it. They get driven around in limos at the public’s expense Vera Cameron via Facebook

Housing outrage Re: “Vancouver’s homeless population highest in recent history,” May 31 Thank you Vision Vancouver for nothing, for absolutely nothing, except destroying a beautiful, formerly functional city: endless empty, vacuous, media-hype promises (and houses) with no action nor minimal, measurable success; gulping down your coffers with greedy developer money; no affordable housing; increased homelessness; pandering to (financial) contributors to close important roads and by-ways and for totally screwing up the downtown streets with endless, endless empty bike lanes. The “greenest city” agenda, another folly - the amount of houses you have permitted to be destroyed, utterly destroying historical neighbourhoods and communities, without provisions for mandatory recycling of waste (is) absolutely disgusting and such a boldface lie. People, please don’t forget: they will attempt to do it again, next time.

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News ON THE RECORD

VSB student trustee reflects on year at school board table James Smith

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Student trustee Timme Zhao has given the city’s student body a voice at the Vancouver School Board for the past year, weighing in on hot-button issues such as the 2016-17 operating budget, which the board rejected April 28, and the proximity of marijuana dispensaries to schools. As the graduating Britannia secondary student prepares to hand the role over to incumbent Isabella Preite from Kitsilano secondary, he reflected on the role of the student trustee, the lessons he’s learned and the need for student input into decisions.

What were your expectations going into the job as student trustee?

I didn’t have any expectations because my predecessor didn’t tell me much about the position. I guess she thought it would be better if I just went into it with a clear mind of what I wanted to accomplish. I didn’t ex-

Student trustee Timme Zhao, pictured with Green Party trustee Janet Fraser (left) and Vision Vancouver trustee Patti Bacchus (right) weighed in on important Vancouver School Board discussions this year, including the budget debate. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

pect much, but what I really wanted to do was fight for what students should have — things like better structures for their buildings — and I really wanted to fight for the LGBTQ situation and get some [gender] neutral washrooms into schools.

Do adults value students’ input?

They’re trying to get more student involvement in the discussion and the student trustee does help a lot because it [bridges] from

the student level all the way up to the trustee level and the people that make the decisions. Adults are valuing students’ [opinions] more.

However, whenever staff and teachers and the trustees talk about “we’re doing this for the students,” I always speak up. Students are so different, they range so much, and sometimes adults don’t really realize that, you know?

What is the student take on the VSB budget and education funding?

As a student that knows what’s happening at the board, I understand why they’re cutting so much.

But honestly, I can’t say that that’s the student perspective because I’m very involved at the trustee level.

If you’re a regular student it would be very difficult to understand why they’d cut $24 million. I think that this [budget] proposal’s completely unreasonable.

It’s systemic. How did we get to this $24 million [shortfall]? It’s not like we

started from zero and the next year we were at 24. It’s been an ongoing thing since 2002. Even in previous years when [trustees would] say this is cut and this is cut, there [would be] a little bit of outrage from the public, the trustees [wouldn’t] do much and life goes on. This year it’s different because the trustees realized that we’re hitting our limits [and] we can’t cut anymore.

It’s taken 14 years to finally decide to vote against [proposed cuts]. There’s not much I can do at this point really [other than] just trust the trustees to do what they think is right.

What have you learned from your time as a student trustee?

First off, I can say with confidence that politics isn’t what I want to go in to. I love representing students but I couldn’t possibly imagine being one of the trustees and dealing with that on a daily basis. It’s a different responsibility on a different level. I can say that [one] skill I gained was

definitely listening to people and being open-minded.

It’s kind of reinforced that it’s not about me, it’s about the student that’s being affected, the student that has the complaint. I’ve learned to listen and to really formulate an idea.

What is it about politics that makes you not want to go in to it?

Sometimes I feel like [trustees] don’t always vote for what they think is right, but [instead] what they think that their [party] has to vote for. I feel it infringes on one’s own personal beliefs and I don’t think that’s something that I want to do.

Also, a lot of people depend on you as a politician, and sometimes you have to decide to vote against what the public thinks is right, and that’s something that I don’t think I would be able to do.

I just don’t think I would be able to take the backlash.

This interview was edited and condensed. See vancourier.com for the full version of the interview. @jameswesmith

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1. 1872 Parker Street (Brookhouse Residence) To rezone 1872 Parker Street from RT-5 (Residential Two-Family) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the expansion and conversion of the existing heritage building on the site into a six-unit multiple dwelling, and to allow the addition of a four-unit infill building at the lane. As part of the rezoning, the historic Brookhouse Residence would be restored and designated as protected heritage property.

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To rezone 2308 East 34th Avenue from RM-7 (Residential Multi-Family) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to enable restoration of the existing heritage building on the site containing a retail store at grade and one dwelling unit above, and to permit the addition of three townhouse units, for a total of four dwelling units. As part of the rezoning, the historic, two-storey, brick B&K Grocery building would be restored and designated as protected heritage property. A floor space ratio of 1.35 is proposed.

3. 1037 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 1037 West King Edward Avenue from FSD (First Shaughnessy) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a four storey residential building, containing a total of 36 secured rental dwelling units. A height of 12.2 metres (40 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.48 are proposed.

1695-1775 East 18th Avenue (See A on map) The Public Hearing on May 24, 2016 for this application was voided. A new Public Hearing has been scheduled for June 23, 2016.

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. 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. Sub-Area 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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

4. East Fraser Lands (EFL) Amendments To amend the East Fraser Lands (EFL) Official Development Plan (ODP) By-law and associated CD-1 Bylaws to update the definition of Affordable Housing, provide more flexibility in locating a childcare facility, add full-service Gas Station use in Area 3, and make minor miscellaneous amendments to the EFL ODP CD-1 Bylaws.

Knight Street and Marine Drive Safety Improvements

The City will be improving the interchange at Knight Street and Southeast Marine Drive to increase safety for all users at this very busy intersection and off-ramp. This location is currently the highest collision intersection in Vancouver. In addition to helping to improve safety, plans include providing new access for vehicles accessing Knight Street from Southeast Marine Drive and improving local walking and cycling conditions.

Drop in to an open house to see design proposals for the intersection and provide your feedback. We want to hear from you!

Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 4 – 8 pm Fraserview Branch – Vancouver Public Library 1950 Argyle Drive City staff will be available to discuss the project, answer questions and gather input.

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Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on June 10, until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing.

You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website.

Visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting June 10 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting).

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For Mary Peachin, “it’s just another day in the Haida Gwaii.” Peachin, whose life reads as a best-selling novel in itself, recently wrote a guidebook about sport fishing in B.C. “First of all, I love fishing in British Columbia.

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June 9 to 15, 2016 1. Kicking off summer in style, the annual Bard on the Beach Shakespeare festival takes over Vanier Park until Sept. 24 with performances of Romeo and Juliet, the American Civil Warimagined Othello, Pericles and The Merry Wives of Windsor, set in 1968 Windsor, Ontario… eh.

Details at bardonthebeach.org.

2. The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Picasso: The Artist and His Muses June 11 to Oct. 2. The exhibit examines the influence of six women in the life and work of famed artist Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. Surprisingly, Beyonce was not one of them. More info at vanartgallery.bc.ca.

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3. Drawing from such wide-ranging influences as Cab Calloway and Daft Punk, French sevenpiece electronic/jazz fusion group Caravan Palace cast their stylish charms on the Vogue Theatre, June 12. Details at voguetheatre.com.

4. San Francisco’s agile, genre-jumping outfit Sonny and the Sunsets perform at the Biltmore in support of their latest album Moods Baby Moods, June 15 with guest the Prettys and Sarah Bethe Nelson. The evening is part of the Biltmore’s monthly Far Out psych and garage rock night. Details at biltmorecabaret.com.

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Self-absorption rules the day in How To Survive An Apocalypse

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Do people really talk like these characters? Not in my circle of witty, articulate friends. But Jen (Claire Hesselgrave) talks like she’s scripted by someone very smart, funny, hip, and totally up-to-date on pop culture. That someone is playwright Jordan Hall, whose play, Kayak, won the 2010 Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Competition.

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“The apocalypse will not be gluten free” and, regarding her friend Abby (Lindsey Angell), Jen says, “She’s the kind of train wreck guys throw themselves under.”

Lines like these just keep coming at you. The play is the culmination of Touchstone Theatre’s fifth Flying Start cycle, a program designed to get scripts by emerging professional playwrights off the page and onto the stage. How To Survive is a collaborative effort between Touchstone, Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC) and the Firehall Arts Centre.

Directed by Touchstone’s artistic director Katrina Dunn, it’s a fast-paced two hours with some very rapid scene changes as David

How To Survive An Apocalypse runs until June 11

Roberts’ set — with its lovely backdrop of painted trees — is transformed from inside the trendy apartment of Jen and Tim (Sebastien Archibald) to a campground and back again.

With all those snappy one-liners, audiences will laugh, but if the world that Jen and Tim have inherited is soulless, so is this play until very near the end when the real plight of Jen and Tim — the breakdown of their relationship — is apparent. The world is not going to end but “their world” might be collapsing. Do we care? Not enough. Selfabsorption is not endearing and all four characters suffer from it.

At 27, Jen is the editor/ publisher of a magazine with falling readership and declining revenue. The

chairman of the board has brought in Bruce (Zahf Paroo), a high-powered, entrepreneurial consultant to “re-brand” the magazine in an effort to save it. Jen and Bruce lock horns until they lock lips. That’s not a spoiler alert; it’s so obvious.

Jen is married to sixmonth unemployed Tim, a game designer who eventually gets carried away designing a video game in which he and Jen face floods, earthquakes and nuclear disasters. Meanwhile, Jen has turned into a “prepper,” someone convinced the apocalypse is nigh and buying bottled water because, as Tim tells an astonished Jen, “water will not come out of the taps” when the world ends.

Abby, Jen’s friend, dumped by her husband for

a younger woman, drinks too much and is the train wreck under which Bruce throws himself. For most of the play Abby is drunk, ditzy and horny and Angell is wonderfully goofy in the role. Costumer Christopher David Gauthier puts Abby in lovely, filmy, shawly things and ambitious, mouthy Jen in tight, bum-fitting pants.

So who do we like in How To Survive An Apocalypse?

No one in particular. There’s very little chemistry between Hesselgrave and Paroo.

We do feel sorry for Archibald’s hapless, hopeless Tim, but Tim’s five-year marriage to Jen is founded on her always looking after him.

Ultimately, we feel sorry for all the real millennials who believe, as did Jen, if they get an education and work hard, the world is theirs for the taking.

The best they can hope for, however, is that Mommy and Daddy bought a house in Vancouver back in the ’60s or ’70s and that they inherit that windfall before they, too, need hip and knee surgery.

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Not that it ever went away, but brunch is back with a vengeance.

A recent foray into Yaletown found me looking at the business end of a serious Caesar at Wild Tale Coastal Grill. They don’t mess around here, where the house Caesar comes garnished with lemon, cucumber and a morsel of candied salmon.

Wild Tale is run by the same folks who own the successful Flying Pig restos.

An element of that flair shows up in a couple of brunch dishes, which mirror the restaurant’s mainly seafood focus, which also happens to be heavily Ocean Wise — another good thing.

Faves at our table ranged from the generously portioned crab cakes Benny (a pair of ‘em) and smoked salmon Benedict, to chicken and waffles and avocado toast on excellent multigrain. The crab cakes are seriously crabby and, overall, the plates are well

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Some kid shrieked, “The ponies are here!” and that little voice seemed to ricochet through the noise of the DJ and past the yelps coming from the dunk tank where a soaking boy was being subjected to the precision throws of his baseball team into the ears of every child attending Saturday’s Celebrating Mount Pleasant festival.

A tiny pony named Pumpkin appeared from the horse trailer with a slightly larger pony named Truck, mother of Tonka who was busy with children at a birthday party in Coquitlam, and were led across the gravel sports field at Mount Pleasant elementary school to start work.

A lineup had already formed at the side of the field; all followed the same script when it was their turn — rider’s hands clutched the horn of the saddle, one parent’s arm around the rider to serve as a seat-belt while the other lived the moment through pixels on their phone camera as the entourage lapped the field.

Danielle Burgess, 22, is both pony ride supervisor and driver of the enormous pick-up truck and threehorse trailer for Laughing Stock Ranch. Similar to a midway carnie, she makes sure the ride is smooth and people aren’t hurt.

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1. The dunk tank — a staple of any carnival worth its salt — provided hours of fun during Saturday’s Celebrating Mount Pleasant festival. 2. Pony rides were also popular at the event, which helped raise money for Mount Pleasant school’s new playground. This year’s festival theme was a thank you to the community.

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“The ponies, they love it. They just walk, right?” she said as a toddler, right after being plopped into the saddle, contorted its face into the comically gruesome mix of delight and horror.

“And the kids love them because they’re their size.

Most kids in the city, if they go to take riding lessons, it’s on big horses so this gives them a different comfort zone. They’re small, they can move them around.

They’re like a big dog!”

The ponies, with their glitter-filled manes, are a regular feature of the festival, which had everything one would expect a carnival to be on the grounds of an

elementary school. Games were scattered about the grassy field that also included the ubiquitous bouncy castle. There was also baked goods and plants for sale, a barbecue where many a dad was to be found, magic by the blue suit wearing Alex Seaman and, inside the gymnasium, tortoises, tarantulas and snakes brought in by The Reptile Guy. The ponies, which have to be booked half-a-year in advance due to demand, are proof alone the festival’s organizers Loree Campbell and Carie Helm had it together — a feat for the first-time organizers who took over the reins from last year’s group

whose kids are now in their final year at Mount Pleasant.

“Ours are both in kindergarten — they’re going to burn us out in the first year,” joked Campbell. The parental tour of volunteer duty is a sign of modern times, she added, and the reason for the festival’s existence, as it was part of a years-long fundraising drive to raise $180,000 for a new school playground and outdoor seating installed last year. The Vancouver School Board deemed the previous playground unsafe and tore it down; the only remnant of its existence is through Google Maps, where it even looks sad

and old through the fuzzy satellite image. The cashstrapped board taketh, but won’t replace, which is why parents become fundraising experts and deft project managers by the time their children reach Grade 7.

The school may have built its expansive playground, but the Parent Advisory Committee’s fundraising efforts continue for items such as school field trips and outdoor sports equipment, said Campbell.

“Our theme this year is a celebration of community and so we wanted to give back to the community,” she said. “We wanted to make it as low-cost as possible, to try

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Muffaletta is both a round Sicilian sesame bread and a sandwich that originated from Italian immigrants in New Orleans,

Louisiana. This recipe is neither of those things, but we’ve drawn inspiration from this savoury masterpiece to transform it into a pizza. Still with us?

We’ve subbed out a few of the traditional ingredients in lieu of more pizza-

friendly toppings, but the end result is undeniably delicious. The briny, salty muffaletta sauce goes so well on pizza (and just about anything for that matter), we’d forgive you if you wanted to put it on everything.

Muffaletta-Style Pizza Ingredients • 1 cup warm water • 1 teaspoon instant yeast • 1 teaspoon sugar • 2 cups all-purpose flour • 1 teaspoon salt • ⅓ cup Sicilian green olives, diced • ⅓ cup roasted red peppers, diced • ¼ cup pickled banana peppers, diced (plus more for topping) • 1 teaspoon capers • ½ shallot, finely diced • ½ teaspoon red wine vinegar • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil • salt and pepper, to taste • ¼ cup sliced ham or mortadella • ¼ cup sliced hot calabrese salami • ¼ cup sliced capicola • 1 tablespoon black olives, sliced • ⅓ cup fior di latte Continued on next page

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Living Muffaletta-Style Pizza continued from page 22 Once dough has proofed, remove it from the bowl and cut it into two. With your hands, gently shape the dough to the size of your desired pan (we like to use an eight-inch round pizza pan). Spoon some muffaletta sauce on to the dough and spread it around evenly. Top with ham, salami, capicola, black olives and banana peppers.

Bake pizza in oven for 8-10 minutes, just until the crust starts to become golden brown. Carefully remove from oven, and place torn pieces of fior di latte on top. Return to oven, and set to broil (500-F), just until the cheese melts. Serve and enjoy.

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Preheat your oven to 500-F. Meanwhile, prepare the muffaletta sauce. In a mediumsized bowl, combine olives, roasted red peppers, banana peppers, capers, shallot and red wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. Combine well, then season with salt and pepper as needed. Set aside.

To make the pizza dough In a small bowl, combine warm water with instant yeast and leave to bloom for a couple of minutes. Add the yeast to the mixing bowl, along with flour, sugar and salt. Using the dough hook, combine ingredients until a nice dough has formed, about 10 minutes. Grease a bowl with a couple drops of oil, then place the dough

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“The Saturday night dance that was my turn to shine.”

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o back a decade to sometime in the fall and you’ll spot Kieran Lumb racing around Trout Lake or Vanier Park with thousands of other elementary school kids. For years, these seasonal meets were just about the only running the future UBC Thunderbird cross-country and track athlete ever did.

At Lord Byng secondary, Lumb kept running. In Grade 11, he won the city championship by a slim 47 seconds on a 7.6-kilometre course by shaving three minutes off his time from the previous season. In Grade 12, he defended his

city title and added a B.C. championship to his list of accomplishments.

Despite this success, running wasn’t his main athletic pursuit. Lumb did cover great distances on woodsy trails, but most of those tracks were snowy.

“I skied since I was two,” he said. “Not long after I started to walk, my parents had me on skis [which] they duct-taped to snow boots.”

Racing for the North Shore’s Hollyburn CrossCountry Ski Club, he won a silver medal in the 15 kilometre classic at the national junior championships in March. He trained frequently with

his dad, a national junior team member, and later developed an immense love for outdoor sports like climbing, hiking and sailing through the outdoor education program, Trek.

Running followed.

He now logs at least 30 kilometres each week in Pacific Spirit Park and, with friends, he overnights on long backcountry hikes and sets up a basecamp to reach more trails. “From Garibaldi Lake last summer, we did long runs and hikes for three days,” he said. “That probably is my all-time favourite part of running. On that more rugged trail stuff, it lets you see more things in a

day. We could run in one day what it might take to hike in three days.”

The coaches at UBC are thrilled to have him.

“We really think Kieran is a diamond in the rough,” said Thunderbirds head coach Laurier Primeau. “He’s going to be one of our top crosscountry athletes.”

Lumb isn’t part of a formal track club, so his coaches will avoid over-use injuries as they increase his mileage mindfully. “He hasn’t spent years training to the degree most track athletes have. Having said that, his aerobic engine is huge,” said Primeau.

He will be groomed to

run middle-distance track events like the 800 and 1500 metre races and perhaps go even longer since the future engineering student has an impressive ability to marshal his focus and discipline, said T-Bird assistant coach Chris Johnson.

“He’s quite rare,” said the coach, noting Lumb’s fast leg speed despite the biomechanical differences between skiing and running.

In the 800m, Lumb finished ninth in B.C. at the provincial high school track meet last weekend in Nanaimo.

Now the work begins, said Johnson. “He will run more than he has ever run before.”

— Megan Stewart

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Sunday’s easy, nothing special, good for routine chores. This eve (5:30 pm PDT) to Wed. dawn brings relationships. Good communications Sunday eve, a slow but stable Monday, and a disruptive or adventurous Tues. until almost suppertime. Tues. night, all’s well that ends well – and it could end in love. Remember, June’s main accent lies on communications and short trips. If you’re single, travel and talk heighten relationship prospects.

A broadminded mood continues, as does a mellow outlook. This is an easy, smooth week, Libra. It favours legal, travel, international, cultural, intellectual and scholastic concerns – and love. However, one subtle but important influence will prevent success, even promote failure in errands, addresses, figures, applications, travel, your domestic situation, and in dealings with co-workers or employees.

Continue to chase money, buy/sell, seek clients, ask for a pay raise, etc. This week is easy and smooth, but it has a couple of minor bumps, and one very significant, almost undetectable influence lasting all week. This one hints that deep deception (or self-illusion) might underlie sexual and financial urges, investments, friendship hopes, social invitations and future plans.

The main accent lies on secrets, hidden information, research, detective work, medical diagnoses, heightened intuition and subconscious promptings. Your sexual and financial urges intensify, and can yield significant rewards. But in all this, there is a subtle distinction, and getting on the wrong side of it can lead you into confusion and loss.

Your cred, your style, your presence and energy remain at an annual high, Gemini. You could fall in love during this easy, smooth week. But sexual intimacy, and/or mating/marrying will tend to be undermined by 1) your wonder, suspicion, worry; or 2) by an authority figure, whether outside you (e.g., a parent, boss or judge) or inside you (your anticipation that this romance could hurt your public or worldly standing).

What might be confusing or misleading to others is old hat to you – so no warning is needed for this week (which generally is easy, smooth). However, because the main accent is on relationships, you can find that your spouse, business partner or prospective mate (or good friend) is worried about his/her worldly standing and career as you are about your home and family. If the two can combine somehow, then the partnership thrives.

This is another mostly easy, smooth week, Cancer – which helps you do what’s best: rest, contemplate, follow spiritual and charitable urges, and stay out of the limelight. Usually this would also be a good time to examine your entire situation and make plans – however, a wonky influence, lasting all week and climaxing Fri./Sat., will bring potential pitfalls, deceptions, and misty thinking – not a good atmosphere in which to form plans.

This is your last week of work, Cap. June 20 brings fresh horizons and new opportunities. But all this week, climaxing Fri./Sat., your obligations and/or unfinished work might seem huge – or you might think your duties are over, when they aren’t. The government is deceptive, and messages in general need an interpreter. That said, this week is quite easy. Sunday’s mellow, thoughtful, but contains little result. Be ambitious this night to Wed. dawn.

Wishes can come true, Leo, particularly during a smooth, easy week like this one. You’re light-hearted, popular; you flirt and laugh; entertainment and friendly feelings buoy you.

However, the entire week needs caution in two slightly different areas: deep, heavy romance (infatuation) sex, and large finances. Don’t spy: you’ll get caught, or misinterpret what you see/hear.

One last week of romance, creative selfexpression, and pleasure – if you’re still looking, Aquarius, better get busy! This week is smooth, and you’re in the winner’s chariot. However, a subtle warning exists throughout the week, culminating Fri./Sat. This influence creates a confusing, negative connection between money and possessions on one hand, and your hopes/ plans, or social desires on the other.

An easy, smooth week, Virgo, freeing you to take giant steps in your career or other practical ambitious areas. However, a subtle, hard-to-putyour-finger-on influence drifts through the whole week, culminating Fri./Sat. This influence advises you not to pursue (and certainly not to make any commitments in) business partnerships, contracts/ negotiations, romance, marriage, relocation, public appearances, teaching/raising children, creative or speculative projects, and real estate.

This is your last week of being “close to home,” Pisces. Next week, you’ll burst into a powerful romantic phase – and if you’re single, that phase can also spell marriage, prosperous, cheerful marriage. If you’re married, the next 3 months bring great business, relocation, fame or “partner” openings. This makes your last week of relative rest and recuperation important, for the more you rest now, the more energy you’ll have to pursue love and business.

June 9: Michael J. Fox (55). June 10: Prince Philip (95). June 11: Hugh Laurie (57).

June 12: Jim Nabors (86). June 13: Ally Sheedy (54). June 14: Steffi Graf (47).

June 15: Helen Hunt (53).

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Pacific Integration Multimedia Inc. is looking for an Electronics Engineering Technologist Greater Vancouver, BC. Perm., F/T. Wage $ 28/h Skills requirements: Exp. min. 2 years, with good English; Knowledge of Crestron control system is an asset. Education requirement: Post-secondary degree in electronics engineering or equivalent.

Main duties: Interpret schematic line drawings; Design, develop and test electronic equipment and audiovisual systems; Perform highly specialized field installation and operation of electronic equipment and networked hardware; Calibrate electronic equipment and instruments using touch panel programming; Load firmware updates and troubleshoot field installed systems; Perform inspection and testing using IP addressed Interfaces. Diagnose and locate circuit, component, and equipment faults. Commission final installed orders and maintenance reports.

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Rookie Alexander Rossi wins Indy 500

If you followed the race over the weekend, you already know the results of the Indy 500. To those not used to the strategies of pit stops and plotting fuel-economy, the result must have seemed utterly surprising: in a come-frombehind victory, rookie racer Alexander Rossi squeaked out a win against some of the world’s best Indy car drivers. He ran his car completely out of gas in the process, coasting across the line without power.

Coasting home in an empty car to avoid a fill up? Typical millennial, am I right?

Anyway, Rossi’s surprising win galvanized the press, but the day wasn’t all soaked in glory. James Hinchcliffe ran a tightly contested battle for the podium, leading the race for more than two dozen laps, but running low on fuel and tire grip caused him to slip to a seventhplace finish. Such is the luck and heartbreak of endurance racing.

Still, with the 100th running of the race now over, and nerves still jangling from the ups and downs, perhaps next year will be even better.

RCMP cameras catch texting drivers

The police have long used spotter scopes to watch for bad driving behaviour, but now they’ve got a new tool in the battle against texting drivers.

Their latest device, distributed to several locations throughout the Lower Mainland, is a sort of long-range camera, such as a wildlife photographer might use. The idea is to capture drivers on film, such that any protests fall flat against the evidence.

Be warned, this new device doesn’t work to catch you texting while you’re on the move, but when you’re stopped at a stop sign or red light. This is the most tempting time for many drivers to quickly sneak a look at a text, or scan for an email, particularly during the worst of rush hour, when traffic isn’t moving anyway.

So leave the phone alone if you’re in the driver’s seat, even when it seems safe-ish to take a peek at why your phone

buzzed. The easiest thing to do is just throw it in your glovebox so you aren’t tempted.

Tokyo police get 370Z patrol cars

Nissan and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department have had a long relationship, stretching all the way back to when the former supplied the latter with Z432 patrol cars — a Datsun 240Z with the straight-six out of a GT-R. Think your souped up Sunny can outrun the Japanese cops? Guess again, 1970s miscreant.

Traffic in Tokyo is mostly very well-behaved, but for those speed merchants who might be tempted to sneak out for a couple of 1990s-style highway runs, the cops have a trio of 370Z police cars, fitted out in that iconic black-and-white Japanese cop-car livery and V-shaped light bar.

It’s likely that the Zs will be used more for promotional activities, rather than actual pursuits. Like most police forces, the Tokyo police know that speeders can’t outrun a radio signal, nor a helicopter if it comes to that. Still as a link to the past, there’s something neat about a Z all dressed up in its police uniform.

Apple considering making EV chargers

According to Reuters, mega-corporation Apple is looking at working together with several companies that make chargers for electrical vehicles. The speculation is that the tech giant is looking for a way to charge their own autonomous car, which may or may not exist. It’s all very secretive.

However, what a horrible vision of the future.

Picture this: you’re being piloted through downtown traffic when suddenly your car makes the bing-bong noise that it’s about to run out of batteries.

“What the heck?” you say, “I was just on 45 per cent five minutes ago.”

Still, not to worry, you’ll just direct the car into the local Apple fuelling station, right? A guy with giant holes in his ears wearing a polo neck that says “Genius” shakes his head sadly.

“Sorry, dude,” he says, “That’s an iCar4S you’ve got. We just upgraded all our connectors to iCar5.

You’ll need to update your

to answer for. It spawned a whole new generation of car enthusiasts and a multi-million dollar franchise, but it also glamorized street racing and bad dialogue. I know the former is far worse, but man, some of that dialogue. ...

To celebrate 15 years of “Danger To Manifold,” the film will be briefly re-released in theatres on June 22. Check your local listings, and take your primered Civic with a bodykit and stock steel wheels on down.

software and buy a new connector.” $150 later, you’ve got a new plug, but the software update has deleted all your music and replaced it with a new album released

by U2, who are all now just heads floating in jars.

What a kick in the dongle.

The Fast and the Furious turns 15

Simultaneously the worst car movie ever, yet also super-quotable and lots of good fun, The Fast and the Furious has a lot

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