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City will consider up to 12 storeys for Kettle site Long-debated Grandview-Woodland plan approved

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“Relieved. Very relieved.

And Grateful.”

That’s how Nancy Keough, executive director of The Kettle Society, felt after council voted in favour of the GrandviewWoodland Community Plan last Thursday.

The final motion, years in the making, features multiple clauses, including one that will allow council to consider up to 12 storeys on the KettleBoffo site at Venables and Commercial Drive.

Staff had recommended scaling back allowable height on the property to nine storeys, in response to some residents’ complaints, but council was persuaded to support proponents arguing that 12 storeys is needed to avoid a financial gap in the project, which is billed as self-financing.

The Kettle Society, which offers housing and services to people with

mental illness, had been unable to secure government funding to realize its goal of expanding its services and building supportive housing units, so it partnered with Boffo Properties.

Their vision is for 200 one- to three-bedroom market housing units, 30 supportive housing units for the Kettle to own and operate, and a larger space for its other services.

A rezoning application has yet to be filed with the city, but Boffo Properties released preliminary renderings in February to give residents a more concrete idea of what was being considered.

Critics, including those from the No Venables Tower coalition, maintain the development will be too high and too dense.

They had hoped council would delay adoption of the community plan.

Keough and Daniel Boffo, principal of Boffo Properties, were in the front row at city council

The preliminary renderings for the Kettle-Boffo project were released earlier this year.

for the vote.

“I was really relieved. It never felt like a sure thing.

There’s so many voices but [council], I think, felt it was the right thing to do and we’re really happy,” Keough told the Courier Thursday afternoon.

“There’s been a lot of consultation and you

really don’t know until the end where things are going to end up. But [Wednesday], at council, there were so many supporters there… from Judy Graves to some of our members. And I really felt then that council would hear that. And it’s great.

They did.”

Keough said supporters and users of The Kettle’s services have asked her every day for years what’s happening with the new building.

“I know people are going to be so grateful and so thrilled that we’re going to be able to have a new centre for them and that we’re going to have some housing units,” she said.

“People have been asking if they can apply for the last while, so it will be great.”

As for critics, Keough said some people are never going to want to see change.

“But I do know that on our other buildings and projects, we’ve had opposition before with people who had a lot of concerns and fears, but once we’ve been opened that’s completely turned around — a 360. And we’ve had people volunteer in our transition house that protested it going in. So I have a lot of faith in folks.”

Boffo said he, too, is

relieved by council’s decision. He said staff worked tirelessly on the community plan for the past five years.

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De Genova, Coun. Ball and Vision showed true leadership today in backing council’s mandates behind the housing and mental health crises that we’re dealing with. I admire the leadership that they showed,” he said.

Boffo anticipates it will take two to four months to complete the rezoning application and file it with the city.

“We want to work very hard towards a rezoning application and work very closely with staff to have that in. We’re going to continue with the process that we’ve done for the past five years and continue to consult closely with both the community and the city,” he said.

“It’s going to be full bore ahead. If you’ve been following council, you’ve heard the need that exists.

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Billions upon billions of microscopic worms are being unleashed upon Vancouver playing surfaces this week in the hopes that they can level the insect playing field.

The Vancouver Park Board announced plans Thursday to begin nematode treatments on 31 playing fields in the city, some of which are damaged to the point of being closed entirely for the season.

The nematodes are being used to combat the widespread appearance of the European chafer beetle, a type of invasive species first seen in New Westminster in 2001.

The city is spending $15,000 on purchasing the insects, though it’s not expected they’ll fix the problem entirely. Two weeks ago, the city banned a type of pesticide meant to kill chafer beetles that was found to be toxic to other insects and wildlife.

“It is important to remember that nematodes are not going to eradicate the problem, they’re going to help us control it,” said Brian Quinn, the Vancouver Park Board’s

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manager of park operations.

“We haven’t even talked about what our expectations are as far as success. We’ll have to evaluate that in the winter or early next spring.”

Adult chafer beetles typically lay their eggs in June, which then hatch in July. The grubs then feed on the roots of grasses and are easy prey for birds, skunks and other predators that further exacerbate the damage done to lawns, medians, boulevards, parks and playing fields.

Now is the time to act, given where those young beetles are at in their life cycles. “Where we’re really going to see the difference is next spring,” Quinn said.

“Hopefully the work we’re doing now gets at the chafer beetle larvae while they’re small eggs.”

Quinn said the chafer beetle only became a serious problem in Vancouver within the last two to three years, largely due to the warm, dry summers and watering re-

strictions that were in effect.

“The Vancouver Park Board made a conscious decision last year to reduce the amount of water we were putting on our playing fields to kind of set an example to others about what Stage 3 watering restrictions mean,” he said. “But now we are seeing in hindsight, it probably wasn’t our best tactic from an asset maintenance perspective.”

About two billion nematodes are applied to the average playing field, which is about 6,000 square metres in size. Quinn said the key to mitigating the problem is by maintaining a healthy lawn: not too much water, but enough so that it’s moist enough for the nematodes to burrow in to the ground.

A news release from the city notes lawns must be kept moist before and after applying the nematodes: watering must be maintained for two to three weeks after application for ideal results.

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A temporary asphalt path is in the process of being put down along Arbutus corridor to encourage more people to use the route in anticipation of this fall’s visioning process for the land.

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City paves way for Arbutus Greenway Naoibh O’Connor

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City crews have already laid asphalt down on a chunk of the Arbutus Greenway — from 16th to about 25th. The next goal is to pave the segment up to 41st over the next few weeks, and ultimately the whole route from False Creek to the Fraser River.

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering, said the temporary path is meant to encourage the public to travel along the route in preparation for the launch of the visioning process this fall, which will examine what the corridor can become.

“The goal is to get people using more of the corridor. We’ve heard from people who’ve lived next to the corridor for decades, but still may have walked only one or two blocks,” Dobrovolny said during a Tuesday press conference when he noted Canadian Pacific contractors finished removing the tracks ahead of schedule and the asphalt is being put down where the rail used to be. “Our goal is to get people walking much more of it. If you’ve walked two blocks, walk two kilometres. If you’ve walked two kilometres, walk eight kilometres. Experience it, see it and use it. And use that experience when you come to our open houses and involve yourself in our consultation process to design what will be a spectacular facility for the City of Vancouver.”

Dobrovolny maintains the more people have experienced the corridor, and its “amazing vistas,” the better equipped they will be to offer input. At this point,

he said the discussion about possibilities is wide open.

“The sky’s the limit,” he said.

But discussions will likely include how to incorporate subjects such as First Nations history, active transportation, art, culture, the bird migratory path and innovative lighting.

Staff are still being hired for the Arbutus Greenway team. When consultation starts in September, it will begin with a “listening and learning” portion, according to Dobrovolny.

When that’s over, staff will create draft proposals that will also be subject to public feedback. Staff will make adjustments based on that input and come back with a recommended option.

The process will take at least a year and possibly up to two years. Dobrovolny said he doesn’t want to put constraints on the schedule.

“Right now we’ve had all kind of ideas — somebody did their thesis at UBC looking at uses for old rail cars, to keep the rail theme along the corridor. As I mentioned, it’s a migratory pathway for birds. There’s all kinds of opportunities… around cultural significance, around public art,” he said. “So at this point, I’m hesitant to say, ‘In this amount of time we’ll have started and be finished.’ We’re going to open the door up and have a good, fulsome dialogue and see where it takes us.”

When asked about some residents’ concerns that increased use of the corridor will disrupt the quiet, Dobrovolny said it’s meant to be an active transportation corridor for uses such as walking, jogging, biking and rollerblading, while offering a chance for people to explore

and experience nature.

Community gardens, which are registered with the city, already exist along the route, but the city anticipates there will be opportunities for more such gardens, as well as opportunities to increase the tree canopy and meet other city goals.

Meanwhile, not everyone is happy about the asphalt path, including some members of Cypress Community Garden, as well as members of an organization called Concerned Residents and Corridor User Group.

They maintain the city didn’t consult corridor users and residents before putting down the asphalt, which they consider “ugly, hot and will cause serious runoff problems.”

They insist the pathway could easily have been tamped down to create a firm surface to allow wheeled vehicles to travel the route, and that crushed gravel, or an alternative that’s water permeable, is far preferable to asphalt.

Safety is also a concern: they worry bikes, skateboarders and rollerbladers travelling down the incline near the Cypress Community Garden — if it’s paved — will create the potential for accidents with seniors, people with strollers, those in wheelchairs or those using walkers.

Adrian Levy, chair of Cypress Community Garden, said members have an appointment to meet with city staff. He’s hopeful they can convince the city to finish the path using a different material.

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News of proposed plaza redevelopment lost among tax announcements

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ast week was a memorable week in Vancouver. Three important things happened.

Two have been highly publicized: the announcement of a 15 per cent tax on residential real estate purchases by foreigners effective Aug. 2 and a provincial legislative change to allow the City of Vancouver to tax vacant properties.

When I subsequently asked why a proposal for such a prominent site was proceeding without any community input, I was told by an official city spokesperson that this was standard procedure for a development permit application in accordance with zoning, and staff would be seeking public feedback through the neighbourhood notification process.

While there is no doubt foreign buyers have been having a significant impact on Vancouver’s real estate market, I have always had mixed feelings about the benefits of imposing special taxes to address the problem. This is because, as Milton Friedman once said, the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Two years ago I wrote about London, England’s experience with restrictions on foreign buyers and potential lessons for Vancouver. While I believe the government was wise to start taxing capital

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gains, we may never know the full impact of these taxes given the normal cyclical nature of real estate markets.

I am particularly troubled by the way the Vancouver tax was imposed. I am also intrigued by possible legal challenges on the basis that it violates NAFTA, and Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of, among other things, national origin.

Now as for the tax on vacant homes, this is a politically astute initiative by both the province and the city.

It allows Mayor Gregor Robertson to demonstrate he is trying to address what many see as the social injustice of thousands of vacant homes at a time of a severe shortage of rental housing.

The province can be seen as cooperating with the city to address the housing crisis, even though provincial officials, along with many other government officials and real estate experts, question the probable effectiveness of the tax.

The third important event that happened last week has nothing to do with housing. It has to do with how we plan our downtown.

The story started with a call from CBC’s Early Edition inviting me to comment on a proposal to replace a glass rotunda and plaza with a new commercial development.

I assumed we were talking about the corner of Seymour and Hastings streets where a small, domed public plaza, created in the mid-’80s as part of a rezoning, was being redeveloped with a 20-plus storey office building.

But I was wrong.

The researcher wanted to talk about the plaza and rotunda at Howe and Georgia streets, part of Cadillac Fairview’s Pacific Centre, for which a proposal was going to the city’s Urban Design Panel (UDP) later in the week.

I was embarrassed to tell her I didn’t know anything about this proposal, but suggested she speak to Ray Spaxman, the former director of planning who might know something. As it happened, he didn’t know anything about it either.

I subsequently attended the UDP meeting where I was shocked to see plans and a model for a three-storey retail complex on the plaza. However, I was told the proposal was in accordance with a 2006 rezoning.

When I subsequently asked why a proposal for such a prominent site was proceeding without any community input, I was told by an official city spokesperson that this was standard procedure for a development permit application in accordance with zoning, and staff would be seeking public feedback through the neighbourhood notification process.

Surprised by this response I decided to review the 2006 rezoning decision myself.

While it confirmed council had approved

a deal to allow the plaza to be redeveloped in return for a developer contribution towards the cost of the nearby SkyTrain station, council also decided “in the preparation of a development application, the public should be consulted about proposed land use and design concepts, through workshops and open houses.”

Compared to most world cities, Vancouver has few public open spaces and plazas, and sadly we seem to be losing many of the spaces we do have.

Before we lose another plaza at Howe and Georgia, I urge the mayor, council and the city’s planning department to instigate a proper public consultation process to find a better solution to retain all, or at least a portion of this important downtown open space.

I hope Courier readers will join me in this endeavour.

Allen Garr is on vacation. @michaelgeller

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Burnaby drags feet on low-income housing

Mike Klassen

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Looking east across Boundary Road, it has been something to watch the buck-passing lately from Burnaby city council. When questioned about the city’s rapidly diminishing rental stock by the Globe and Mail, they claim: Developers will not come to Burnaby if we try to negotiate rental units!

The federal and provincial governments have not given us enough support!

We have no controls to prevent demolitions!

These cries strike me as either disingenuous, or lacking empathy for people being displaced by rental building demolitions, or so-called “demovictions.”

The fact is cities can incent non-market housing if they choose.

From the beginning it is Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan who has all along refused to build housing.

He argues vehemently that it is the role of federal and provincial, not municipal governments, to do so.

Until the recent demoviction protests began, you would be hard pressed to find someone who would be prepared to publicly challenge the mayor on this matter.

So, will anything change in the face of the protests?

Corrigan is a self-identified socialist known in the region for his combative politics, if nothing else.

His Burnaby Citizens Association nearly routed the opposition by electing all but one seat on city council and on school board.

The mayor’s wife, Kathy Corrigan, is an NDP MLA who sits promi-

nently on the front bench of the Official Opposition in Victoria.

Ostensibly defenders of social justice, the Corrigans are Burnaby’s power couple.

Though she announced her retirement from politics next year, the mayor has no obvious successor and gives no indications he will hang up the chain of office anytime soon.

I like to think I know Burnaby as well as my hometown of Vancouver. I grew up in Burnaby as a schoolboy with my baby sister and our single mom as we eked by on her nurse’s salary.

I remember what it was like to live there on limited means.

I would later get my first jobs in Burnaby, working at a Sears warehouse as a shipper, then as a labourer for the Burnaby School Board.

I have fond memories of summers paddling in Deer Lake, bus trips to Burnaby Mountain, swims at Central Park pool and eating soft ice cream at the former Giant Burger drive-in on Edmonds Street.

Burnaby has always been a great place to live and work. Maclean’s magazine even ranked it once as Canada’s best-run city.

It’s the home of two of B.C.’s largest post-secondary institutions, Simon Fraser University and BCIT. Burnaby has booming industrial parks and hosts some of the region’s best recreational facilities.

Unlike Vancouver, where basic maintenance of boulevards, public gardens and street litter is a perpetual challenge, Burnaby’s streets and public spaces are kept immaculate.

Maybe Mayor Corrigan

is right to assert that cities should keep out of providing social services and focus on city stuff.

Yet, you can’t look at the rows of gleaming 45-storey towers near Metrotown that are replacing tiny, aging apartment blocks, and not wonder how Burnaby can’t make the math work for some form of subsidized housing.

In a time where municipalities are bargaining air rights, relaxing parking requirements and offering long-term leases of public land to get non-market housing built, Burnaby has stubbornly resisted.

This is despite earning a record $879 million in building permits last year, and banking another $9 million profits from the Grand Villa Casino.

It took an occupation by the aforementioned protesters of one of those soon-to-be-demolished buildings to bring the loss of affordable housing into the limelight.

Though the city has put a toe in the water by issuing requests for proposal for two non-market housing projects this year, it has much more work to do.

Furthermore, the demoviction controversy is spilling beyond Burnaby and into provincial politics. By publicly defending Corrigan, NDP leader John Horgan has greatly weakened his party’s hand on the issue of housing affordability.

Though there are no easy solutions, Burnaby needs to quickly step up its game on housing for its low-income citizens.

Whether that will finally happen on Mayor Corrigan’s watch remains to be seen. @MikeKlassen

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ROLLING ON: Lawn Summer Nights began as a tribute to a friend. Now it provides a way for others to support their friends and loved ones living with cystic fibrosis, a fatal genetic disease affecting children and young adults. Since 2009, more than $1 million has been raised through the summer gathering of pretty young things at lawn bowling clubs across the country. This year three more Canadian cities — Edmonton, Montreal and Stratford — joined the fun. In Vancouver where it began, chair Simon Pinsky, along with founders Duncan Gillespie and brothers Andrew and Graham Dalik, led 44 dressed-up teams with novel names such as Fabowlous, Bowl-di-locks and Local Rollers through the weekly charity bowling tournament.

With 10 cities and more than 2,000 young bowlers rolling in the deep, it is expected fundraising will surpass $500,000 this year.

TACOFINO EXPANDS: Tacofino’s food footprint continues to grow in the city. Cofounders Jason Sussman and Kaeli Robinsong, who started serving up their unique brand of eclectic, California-inspired cuisine in Tofino in 2009, opened the doors on a new counter-service restaurant recently in the heart of Vancouver’s Yaletown district. The newest addition to the ever-growing Tacofino empire, which includes a fleet of food trucks and four brick-and-mortar restaurants in Vancouver and Victoria, features ’80s-inspired, surf-punk decor, a 38-seat dining room and 12-seat patio, full bar and their trademark Tacofino surf-centric spirit and fresh and affordable fare. A legion of ardent followers was on hand for the opening mash up.

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Carla Stef’s Holt Renfrew celebrated Pride with a shopping night to benefit A Loving Spoonful. The luxury retailer donated 10 per cent of storewide sales. Berlin and Fabulous Jem made special appearances.

From left, Duncan Gillespie, Simon Pinsky and Lucas Jenkins fronted Vancity’s eighth running of Lawn Summer Nights. The four-week Thursday-night event drew another 44 teams of young professionals bowling for charity.

Tacofino senior brass Ryan Spong and Gino Di Domenico served up their hallmark California-inspired cuisine to guests in their new Yaletown space designed by Shiloh Sukkau.

James Ong’s Out in Schools program was one of many community initiatives feted at the Telus #ShareLove Pride Party hosted by Joan-E on Telus Garden’s 24th floor rooftop patio.

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1. New Orleans by way of the Bronx singer-songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra, a.k.a. Hurray for the Riff Raff, brings her freewheeling, folky stylings to town in support of her latest album Small Town Heroes. She’ll be at the Imperial Aug. 4.

Tickets at Red Cat Records and livenation.com.

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2. Seville-based Canadian flamenco ensemble Fin de Fiesta Flamenco, featuring dancer and artistic director Lia Grainger, returns to Vancouver with their new production Audacia Aug. 4 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Tickets at eventbrite.ca. Details at thedancecentre.ca.

3. The Cinematheque relights the burning embers of its annual summer Film Noir series Aug. 4 to 22. Filled with double-crossing dames, palookas, hoodlums and plenty of menacing shadows, the smoldering program includes Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner heating things up in 1946’s The Killers, 1947’s Kiss of Death, Where the Side Walk Ends (1950) and The Big Sleep (1946) among others. Details at thecinematheque.ca.

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4. Food trucks… they do a body good. The event formerly known as Food Cart Fest is back and bigger than ever. YVR Food Fest runs Aug. 5 to 7 and includes everything from pop-up restaurants, live music, long table dinners and the flagship event — the Street Food Showdown, featuring two days of food carts and samples from restaurants, wineries and breweries gathered at the Olympic Village.

Tickets and details at yvrfoodfest.com.

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Arts & Entertainment THEATRE

Brutality reigns in ‘flawed’ Romans in Britain Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

Even Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus doesn’t come close to the body count in The Romans in Britain now running in repertory with Betrayal and the Country Wife on the Jericho Arts Centre stage. Directed by Richard Wolfe for Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC), throats are slit, bodies stabbed, heads bashed in with rocks and men machine-gunned down in the course of a couple of hours. And although there is undoubtedly sodomy going on in Shakespeare’s plays, we don’t see it onstage as we do in The Romans in Britain. (The first production, at London’s National Theatre in 1980, caused a sensation when a prosecution for gross indecency was launched against the director. Even though the suit was unsuccessful, the play was not produced again for years.)

In this ETC production, both the sodomizer, a Roman, and the sodomized,

a young Druid priest, are clothed, but it’s still pretty graphic.

The play opens with all 17 actors parading on stage while a couple of characters define the performing area by streaming sand around the periphery. All but two — Conlag and Daui, criminals on the run — then leave. The first lines are Conlag’s: “Where the f*** are we?”

We are somewhere north of the River Thames and the year is 54 BC. Thirty-thousand Romans, dressed in helmets and metal armour, carrying spears, shields and swords, are on the move; the ragged locals, living hand to mouth, will resist with sticks and stones.

British playwright Howard Brenton presents a bleak and sprawling epic of wave after wave of brutality beginning with the local farmer/tribesmen who, upon discovering Daui and Conlag in their field, kill Daui, drain his blood and pour it on the soil. Wounded, Conlag escapes into the forest.

Ensemble Theatre Company brings Howard Brenton’s controversial and ultra-violent play The Romans in Britain to the Jericho Arts Centre stage.

Much worse is yet to come after the Romans arrive.

Brenton attempts to illustrate the parallels between the brutality of the Roman invasion of England and the ruthlessness of the English in Ire-

land. But what we actually experience is what we all fear: war is brutal, ongoing and inevitable. Everyone is out to kill everyone else in The Romans in Britain.

Ironically, but not surprisingly, there is so much

violence in the play, we are distanced and make no emotional or even political attachment to any of the characters. Perhaps that detachment — equivalent to the detachment soldiers in the field must make in order to preserve their sanity — is Brenton’s point.

Part Two, which takes place in “Modern Times” and in 515 AD, presents a hero of sorts and then goes on to posit a bizarre source of the Arthurian legend: a Celt on the run from the Saxons decides to change his profession from cook to poet. His first poem is about an imaginary king: “His Government was the people of Britain. His peace was as common as rain or sun…

He died by the treachery of his best friend.” It was, the cook-cum-poet, fantasizes, “a golden age, lost and yet to come.”

That king’s name? “Er — any old name. Arthur?

Arthur.” Camelot and all that? A figment of a cook’s imagination.

Performances in this

largely non-professional cast are uniformly good; particularly well cast is Ashley O’Connell in a variety of roles. Rebecca Walters, as a clan chief, brings authority and great dignity to the role.

After a 2006 production in Sheffield, the Guardian critic Michael Billington wrote that the play “is deeply flawed.”

It’s hard to follow. The poetic language gets in the way of clarity. And the unheroic English hero in Part Two is a smart-ass and hard to like even if he is prepared to wear the guilt of decades of English imperialism.

The Romans in Britain is an ode to a glorious England that, according to Brenton, never was and might never be.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca. joled@telus.net The Romans in Britain is at the Jericho Arts Centre, in repertory, until Aug. 20.

Tickets at ensembletheatre company.ca or at the door.

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The reign of the douchey Peregrine Falcon must end so Vancouver can heal Over the last few years, the City of Vancouver has engaged in a flight of whimsy known as the City Bird Contest. Each spring, average citizens could vote on a selection of avian warriors vying for the city’s official bird title, the city could educate the electorate on the various birds that call Vancouver home and media outlets could petulantly point out that the winning bird had received more votes than the mayor

in the last election. It was a win-win situation.

Somewhat.

As K&K has made abundantly clear, past winners of the City Bird Contest have not been to our liking, particularly last year’s winner — the douchey Peregrine Falcon.

To quote ourselves, the Peregrine Falcon is like “the Axe Body Spray of the bird world.”

“It’s like Yaletown with feathers… Imagine a developer who buys every single

heritage building in the city, demolishes them and replaces them with luxury condo towers, except those towers are nests, and the developer has a beak.”

So what about this year’s official bird? Well, here’s the thing. The city didn’t hold its annual springtime contest this year. A colleague contacted the city, and this was their response: “The City Bird contest is being re-evaluated by the Bird Strategy committee

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All of which is fine and dandy, and props for using the word “dovetail” (intentional or not) in the same sentence as the city’s “Bird Strategy committee.”

But let’s not fool ourselves.

Vancouver has been living under the reign of the Peregrine Falcon for a year and a half now. Do you think it’s a coincidence that in that time Vancouver real estate has soared to new heights, the city’s vacancy rate as shrunk to microscop-

ic levels and affordability had become a bad punchline to a grim joke?

It is time for the city to declare the Peregrine Falcon’s days as City Bird over.

And in its place, we would like to humbly suggest appointing the Red Tailed Hawk. If not, then leave the perch of city bird unoccupied and let nature take its course. This kind of winged tyranny must come to an end. That is all. @KudosKvetches

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Living PACIFIC SPIRIT

Sabbath about more than rest Pat Johnson

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There is much in biblical ritual that was relevant to the desert cultures from which it originated. Pork has a tendency to become lethal when left out in the sun, so prohibitions against its consumption was a practical matter. Is it a coincidence that God, according to the Bible, forbids its consumption? It made sense at the time.

Something else that made sense at the time, but which has been abandoned by most Bible-followers is the rule around marking the Sabbath.

Perhaps taking a whole day off every week (and even giving your slaves a day off) seemed excessive in agrarian societies.

Yet a lot of things in the Bible are plain common sense. The source of the Bible may not have foreseen electric refrigeration in every home, which makes pork less scary, but the source certainly understood the human need for rest.

Seven is an important number in the Bible. Not for nothing is it considered lucky. The Old Testament, the Jewish texts, tell farmers to let the fields go fallow every seventh year, a sabbatical, the Sabbath rest. Despite the religiosity of the folks in what became North America’s Dust Bowl in the 1930s, they forgot that the soil needed a rest. (Other factors combined, but overworking the

land was a contributor).

Humans are even more fragile than the land we till, yet the belief that people deserve to experience at least oneseventh of their lives in some form of rejuvenating rest was largely abandoned even before electronic advancements made us accessible 24/7.

I know a lot of people who observe some form of Sabbath rest. Almost all of them are Jewish and their forms of observance range from one liberal rabbi whose rule is simply that he doesn’t do anything that feels like work to some Orthodox Jewish people whose proscriptions — avoiding electricity or automotive power, among many others — seem to me like an awful lot of work.

But some Christians also observe the Sabbath and, as I’m finding out, are defining it for themselves.

For Catherine Kelly, Sabbath-keeping means attending Sunday Mass at her Catholic parish, socializing afterward over coffee, then enjoying a day with her husband and kids, who are four and seven.

They usually pack a picnic.

Weather permitting, they go to the beach or for a hike. If weather is uncooperative, they eat inside. The key for Kelly is not having any obligations.

They may share their lunch with another family, but she hesitates to make any commitments ahead of time.

Kelly is a full-time mom and part-time retreat director

for St. Mark’s Catholic parish, which doubles as a local church and the Catholic chaplaincy for UBC. The Wisconsin native who married a Canadian is a former lawyer who studied at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif.

This month, she is leading a retreat on Sabbath-keeping and everyone is welcome (carey-edu.ca). When she told this to an evangelical pastor, the response was: Is Sabbath keeping a part of your practice? Is that a Catholic thing?

Well, she says, yes and no.

“It’s not really a term that we use,” Kelly says. When she grew up, her family would relax after Mass, enjoy a meal, simply spend time together. She didn’t think of it as “Sabbath-keeping,” though she does now. But, she adds, it doesn’t need to be on Sunday and it doesn’t need to be a whole day.

“You can have Sabbath walks or Sabbath hours throughout the week,” she says. “It’s an invitation to rest in the Lord and rest and reorient yourself.”

Muslims, she notes, pray five times a day, which is a form of breaking away from the daily routine.

I’ve always admired the concept of Sabbath-keeping — I belong to a Facebook group on unplugging, which I check religiously — and, given Kelly’s concept of it, I ask if my daily dog walk could be a Sabbath event.

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“The intention is to focus on God, be absorbing nature,” she says. Observing creation and letting go of worries is the focus. “It’s the sense of what is your purpose and what is your focus during that time.”

Simply put, it’s about healthy boundaries, she says, maintaining a sacred space that also extends to self-care in other ways, including healthy eating, getting enough sleep, exercising and unplugging to create balance in your life.

Between the complete abandonment of Sabbathkeeping and the strict legalism of the most vigilant interpretation, Kelly advocates whatever works for people who recognize the value of escaping the daily routine and finding the sacred in the everyday.

“The invitation is to rest and, for each of us, it may mean different things... For some people, doing yard work may be work, but for other people it’s very therapeutic to be in the garden, to be nurturing their plants and pruning back things and seeing the growth and development. It’s what feels like rest to you.”

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Hastings Little League hosts Canadian championship John Kurucz

was formed in 1953 and only now has its first opportunity to host an event of this magnitude.

That’s where Richard Saunders comes in.

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Loreto Siniscalchi doesn’t need earplugs or fancy headphones to cancel the noise.

Just give him some time with the ball before he hits the mound, and the weight of expectation is likely to melt away.

The 13-year-old starting pitcher will be leaned on heavily this week, as his Hastings Community Little League club begins its quest for national supremacy at the Little League Canadian Championship at Hastings Community Park.

Siniscalchi knows there will be thousands of eyes on him from coast to coast and he’s cognizant of the light at the end of the tunnel: a berth to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn.

While pitching can be a solitary pursuit, he’s cool as a cucumber.

“I just try and limit the noise in the crowd and just focus on me and the catcher,” he said. “Before the game starts I like to find my preferred spot on the ball and hold on to it until it feels most comfortable.”

Comfort may be in short supply at the tournament.

Games are played daily to determine seeding and playfor-keeps, elimination games follow shortly thereafter.

For a team that was formed just over a month and half ago, the gel needs to set quickly.

“It’s going to be tough because it may come down to just one or two games,” said team manager Vito Bordignon. “You have to keep them loose so that they understand they’re playing

A LASTING LEGACY

Hastings Community Little League hosts the Little League Canadian Championship at Hastings Community Park this week. The team, led by ace pitcher Loreto Siniscalchi (No. 24), hope to win a berth to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

baseball not only because of the love for the game, but you have to have fun doing it. If they play light and loose with aggressiveness, we will be OK.” Kicking off on Thursday, Aug. 4, the tournament features the best 11-, 12- and 13-year-old old players in Canada. Outside of the host club, the other entries include Team B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Can-

ada. The Hastings club’s catchment area stretches from east of Main Street in Vancouver to Sperling Avenue in Burnaby.

As the club’s ace, Siniscalchi boasts a cutter, changeup and remarkably deceptive 75 mile-per-hour fastball.

Not bad for a kid who isn’t even in high school yet.

“If we do well, he’ll have to do well for us,” said Bordignon, who skippered the club to the Little League

World Series in 2009 and 2012. “But it will take every child playing at their best.

At this level, because it’s such a short tournament and happens so fast, if the kids are on and don’t let the atmosphere overcome them, they have a very good chance of celebrating at the end of the tournament.”

That the event is being hosted in East Vancouver is reason enough to celebrate. The association

Saunders has volunteered in local baseball circles for more than 30 years, and the vast majority of that time has been with the Hastings league.

He’s now the tournament chair and was pivotal in securing the tournament, raising the necessary funds and putting together a crew of volunteers to pull the whole thing off.

“It’s a lot more work than we thought it was going to be,” he said. “It’s massive and it is for good reason — the team that wins goes to Williamsport to the World Series. That’s a big deal.”

The Vancouver Park Board thinks Saunders is a pretty big deal, too.

The 67-year-old was feted at a recent board meeting, where commissioners unanimously voted to name of the one of diamonds at Hastings Park after him.

“Being a year and a half into being a public servant, it is humbling to see somebody that has dedicated 30 years consistently,” park board chair Sarah Kirby-Yung said at the July 25 meeting. “I think that’s what is really remarkable about this — this is not a moment in time or a contribution to an initiative, this is a sustained, ongoing commitment to being part of the community and giving back.”

That recent distinction goes alongside Saunders’ Sport BC Community Sport Hero award and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. But you’d never

know it by asking him.

“It’s not the reason that volunteers volunteer for sports organizations — you don’t get in this to get accolades,” Saunders said. “You want to see kids having a good time, that everything is fair and that everyone is enjoying themselves, the volunteers included. But it’s certainly very humbling.”

Saunders’ love for the game took a circuitous route; he excelled at soccer and track and field while in high school and only played baseball for a short time.

It was through his sons’ involvement in baseball that the intricacies of the game grew on him. Now he’s at the odd Mariners game in Seattle and plans to travel to every ballpark in the U.S. when he retires next year.

As for the matter at hand, Saunders says the team needs to focus on what’s between the ears rather than what’s in front of them to have success.

“This is a tough tournament. You play every day for about seven or eight days and if the heat keeps up, it puts a lot of stress on you,” he said. “You just have to go out and play the game the way you know how to play it. That’s why they were selected, because each individual has skills. You can’t get too crazy in the head or those skills won’t work very well. You have to be as calm as possible.”

The 2016 Little League Canadian Championship kicks off today (Thursday, Aug. 4) and runs until Aug. 13.

The Hastings team opens up play today at 6 p.m. against Team Atlantic. Tournament information is available online at 2016llcc.ca.

Vancouver runner sets new course record in gruelling uphill race Kieran Lumb conquered the Red Bull 400 in under four minutes

John Kurucz

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At just 17 years of age, Kieran Lumb can already call himself a king under the mountain.

The Lord Byng grad bested hundreds of other competitors in Whistler at the Canadian stop of the Red Bull 400, a feat of strength billed as the steepest 400-metre race in the world.

Lumb’s time of 3:48 on Sunday set a new course re-

cord at the Whistler Olympic Park, an area that’s more accustomed to ski jumpers hurling down its steep slopes rather than athletes running up a 37 degree incline.

Last year’s winner, Brandon Crichton, finished third in a time of 4:04, while second-place finisher Shaun Stephens-Whale made his ascent in 3:54.

“I had no idea what to expect,” Lumb said in a news release. “It’s such a unique race that it’s really hard to prepare or train for.

I hoped to use my background of cross country skiing and trail running to my advantage and overcome Brandon’s record.”

Meanwhile, fellow Vancouver resident and long-course triathlete Rachel McBride captured first place in the women’s bracket with a time of 4:56. Chantelle Groenwoud clocked in at 5:03 to finish second, while third-place finisher and 2015 champ Zoe Dawson ended with a time of 5:07.

“My races are normally hours long instead of five minute,” McBride said.

“This is a much different animal and we’re definitely not racing up grades like this.”

More than 600 competitors took part in Sunday’s race, with designated brackets for solo men and women full-distance, co-ed relay (4x100 metre) and a dedicated race for emergency services personnel. @JohnKurucz

Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb set a new course record at the Red Bull 400 race on July 31.

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Your future looks bright, Libra. That sense of optimistic anticipation you feel will be born out in a month or two, when a year of high personal luck begins – one of your luckiest years since 2004/05. Now is the time to look ahead, plan ahead and gather allies (the more groups/clubs you join now, the luckier you’ll be for a few years to come). Your popularity remains high this week and next. But the present week is not the easiest.

The emphasis remains on home, family, security, retirement, garden, Mom Nature, nutrition – and rest. This is your natural month of hibernation, so take as many naps as you want. Hug the kids. This week and next are the best time of 2016 to “prune your garden” – let stale or unproductive projects and relationships go; begin or nurture new, and/or healthy links. Tackle chores and protect your daily health Sunday/Monday.

The focus remains on your career, prestige relations, authorities, worldly standing/ reputation, and your ambitions this week and next, Scorpio. Two “side trends” exist, also: 1) your social scene sweetens with affection and opportunity to late August, which can help you schmooze and put in a good word for yourself; 2) your income expands rapidly until late September.

This week and next continue the accent on short trips, siblings and casual friends, errands, messaging, writing, media, paperwork and details. During the present week, what you want in work and assets might come true; what you want in love will not (or, if you dive in, you’ll later wish you hadn’t). Although you’ll experience pleasure and spy beauty Sun./Mon., romantic approaches won’t go far.

Bosses like you, all August. Your romantic and creative courage soars all August and September. (But DO NOT start an affair or fall for a new person this week – heart-empty results.)

You’re primed for big things this week and next – far travel, higher learning, social/cultural rituals, philosophical prominence, etc. It will happen in a mild, good-natured way. You’re optimistic, flirtatious, popular and social Sun./Mon.

The focus remains on money, earnings, expenses, possessions, memory and casual or friendly sex.

(Regarding the last, DON’T fall into a brand new love/new affair this week – eventual heartbreak almost certain.) Sunday/Monday are domestic, focusing on home, children, garden, security, retirement plans, etc. However, hindrances and unexpected reactions counsel stepping carefully.

Two weeks remain of a period of mysteries and secrets (including valuable “secret” information, such as financial investors might possess). You feel more sexual, and more serious, and more financially ambitious, than usual. However, this week, DON’T fall in love or start an affair with someone new. It will fail – the later it does so, the worse. You’re favoured in legal, international and intellectual zones all August.

Your energy and charisma, clout and effectiveness remain high – a yearly high. Your money luck’s good through August, and your romantic, creative courage and determination sit at a two-year high, now to late September. You’re primed to go, Leo! (Now to late September you will tend to win lawsuits, to be drawn toward international affairs/travel, toward higher education, philosophy, formal love (e.g., weddings) media, cultural venues and statistics.

Two more weeks of relationships, Aquarius. Be cooperative, diplomatic. You’ll gain more (or become more enmeshed in the mire) from jumping on another’s bandwagon than trying to drive your own.

Your hopes about your future are growing more sober, realistic. Although August is usually a month for you to meet exciting new people, even to find a mate, the present week warns you not to start a new affair, nor even approach a new person.

Remain restful, Virgo, for two more weeks. Try to clean up all the neglected chores that have accumulated over the years/months. This will free you for action from late August to late September, perhaps the luckiest time of this year for you. (A time when you might buy a property – but more of this later.) Use the week ahead to examine all factors, then create a plan of action…let it come naturally, think about it, jot any ideas down, then go away and ponder again, etc.

Chores keep coming this week and next, Pisces. Might as well heave a big sigh and plunge in. (Late August and early September will present you with the secondbiggest “chance” in the last 12 months, to join another, marry, relocate, become a media hit, attract the public, etc. – clearing away all chores now will leave you free to act on opportunities in a few weeks.) Eat and dress sensibly. Sunday/Monday are deep, mysterious, lure you toward a sexy (and somewhat dangerously thrilling) situation or toward making an investment.

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