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Arbutus Greenway asphalt paving put on hold City of Vancouver agrees to further consultation about temporary pathway

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The City of Vancouver has agreed to hold off on further paving of Arbutus Greenway to allow time to consult on the best path forward.

Asphalt has already been laid down from 16th to about 32nd and the plan was to lay asphalt along the entire corridor. The asphalt was meant to be temporary while design plans for the greenway are worked out over the next year or two.

But critics, some of whom garden or regularly walk along the corridor, argued the public should have been consulted before paving started. They also questioned whether asphalt is an appropriate choice based on concerns about possible run-off problems, as well as the potential for accidents between pedestrians and cyclists or skateboarders speeding down the corridor. Others felt the asphalt changed the “rural

Mark Battersby (left) and a handful of other protesters, including Diana Davidson (centre) demonstrated against the use of asphalt on Arbutus Greenway last week. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ambience” of the route.

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering, agreed to stop paving at 33rd and put a gravel, all-purpose path

from 33rd to 41st and from 16th to 10th. He also plans to set up a consultative process to discuss overall plans for the interim greenway.

Dobrovolny told the Courier he’s fine stepping back and opening up the subject of the temporary path for discussion. He said the intent of the

asphalt path was to allow more people to use more of the corridor so they can become familiar with the route and are better able to offer feedback during the Arbutus Greenway design process.

Asphalt was selected because it creates a smooth surface, which is good for a variety of users including those with mobility issues, those who use wheelchairs, those who push strollers and those who ride bikes or skateboards.

Dobrovolny had hoped to finish the temporary pathway soon, but he said there’s not a “huge rush” and he’s prepared to delay the project to gather more feedback.

“We’ll do a bit of a pause now, hold some meetings and see what the feedback is,” he said. “Once we heard concerns in these specific areas, we were happy to respond to that.”

Dr. Mark Battersby, one of the critics of the asphalt, posted a video called “The Arbutus Gre-

enway: Paving Paradise” on Aug. 3 to protest the asphalt pathway. It was set to Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.”

Battersby, a retired Capilano university professor, is a member of one of two groups that met with Dobrovolny last week to discuss concerns. He said he feels “great” about Dobrovolny’s decision.

“I’ve been locally active in residents’ associations on and off for many years and I must say this is one of the more satisfying and successful efforts. So I want to commend Jerry for both listening to our arguments and responding in an appropriate way. He treated us very respectfully,” Battersby said. “He was very patient in a tense meeting, then [he] called us late at night — he obviously checked with whomever he has to check with — and made a proposal that we could live with. So I think the city, and he, in particular, deserves commendation for that.”

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Critics cite safety concerns “We want to encourage citizens who are walkers, and who have children and dogs, to make sure they feel free to get involved in this consultation process. We don’t want to just leave it by default to organized groups and then you get a certain kind of bias from that,” he said, adding, “I want to make it clear — I’m not opposed to bikes and that they be properly and appropriately accommodated in the greenway. I just don’t think that should be the only reasonable use.”

Dobrovolny said a public meeting will be scheduled in the coming weeks so people with a variety of viewpoints, whether they be gardeners or people with mobility challenges, can talk about the issues.

“Whenever we have a challenge that has a variety of opinions and a variety of tradeoffs, it’s good to have [everyone] in a room together,” he said.

Kay Teschke, a UBC professor at the school of population and public health who’s done research on cycling, told

the Courier she’d like to see a smooth path the entire route.

She recently walked along the corridor with her sister, a family doctor who often deals with people with mobility issues.

“When we got to those signs at the community gardens saying ‘don’t put the pavement down,’ she said, ‘Don’t people realize that seniors and people who are unsteady need a smooth surface to walk on?’ So many people need smooth surfaces beyond cyclists,” Teschke said.

She plans to take part in the consultation.

“It feels a bit like there are some people who’ve had access to [the corridor] for quite a while and maybe [they’re] a little worried now that it’ll be accessible to more people — I’m not sure. Anyway, I just think this is a huge opportunity and it’s for the whole city. If parts of it are blocked off, then it means it’s kind of for an exclusive group and I would hate to see that happen.” @naoibh

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Battersby said one of the problems with paving the entire route is it biases the upcoming Arbutus Greenway design process because it suggests the route will be paved to be a “bike racetrack.”

He maintains there should be a diverse set of models along the route that give the public various ideas about the different possibilities. “[Dobrovolny] said he thought it was an experiment. But I said you only did one experiment, namely the asphalt, so let’s look at diverse possibilities and let people look at it and think about it when they think about what they want the greenway to look like,” Battersby said.

He added that some critics of the asphalt suspect it was chosen because of a strong influence from the bike lobby, and that many of those who are happy with the result are likely from that group. Battersby hopes a diverse group of people get involved in the upcoming consultation on the temporary pathway.

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Michaelina Teo has grown produce for many years, from mangoes in Brunei to the Swiss chard at her Renfrew home, but last year was the first time she ever won a prize for the sexiest squash.

The prize was awarded

to her by Collingwood Neighbourhood House for its harvest festival. But for the 72-year-old, who likes to be called Mee Mee, the fruits of her labour were always their own reward.

“I’m a very casual gardener,” she said, although she’s known in the neighbourhood for her green thumb.

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Mee Mee waters the goodies in her backyard everyday, always wearing one of her many colourful bucket hats.

Chinese celery and Chinese mustard. Green beans and green onions. Potatoes and tomatoes. Strawberries and Swiss chard (her favourite).

She even has goji berries, which her young grandchildren love to pick with their

little hands.

Mee Mee insists she’s not an expert. She worked as a technical drawer for Brunei Shell, nothing to do with growing things. The mangoes she once grew in Brunei were for fun. When she moved to Vancouver in 1988, she started her garden very casually: throwing seeds randomly into her backyard.

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“If it grew, then it grew,” she said, with a cheerful shrug.

Mee Mee’s not the only one with a casual but hardworking attitude towards urban farming. Walk down an East Vancouver street or alley and you’ll eventually come across yards taken over by impressive amounts of produce. Chayote squash and calabash. Cucumber and kale. Fuzzy gourds and bitter melons.

It’s a mix of eastern and western crops, and you’ll notice that many of the gardeners tending lovingly to their produce everyday are immigrant Asian seniors from a variety of backgrounds. A common East Van scene, one you seldom see on the West Side, with many seniors working hard because...

Well, just because.

“Nothing special?”

Try to praise these seniors for their garden work and they’ll close their eyes, shake their heads and dismiss your compliment with the wag of a hand.

“My garden is very messy!” laughs Mee Mee. “It’s really nothing special,” said Queenie Tien, 66, in Cantonese. Tien lives near Mee Mee, and grows winter melon and zucchini.

She’s from Vietnam, with roots in Guangdong.

“It’s just a good way to save money as I get older,” said Mai Jian in Cantonese.

Mai, 65, originally from Longchuan County in Guangdong, grows Indian lettuce, tung ho and chayotes at the back of his Joyce -Collingwood home.

The humility of these seniors seems mismatched to their abundant harvests. Like Mee Mee, they insist gardening is just a good hobby with good results to share with family and friends.

Jason Lee, who lives off Slocan Street, would agree.

“It’s a great way to burn time now that I’ve retired,” Lee said in Cantonese. He used to work for a furniture company. “Where did I learn how to grow produce?

Right here in my garden!”

His yard is fuzzy gourds, bottle gourds, cucumber, choy sum, eggplant and okra galore.

“Some other Chinese like to go to the casino or dance, like my wife, but that’s not for me.”

A brief history of urban farming

These seniors’ view of

urban farming is not the hip and healthy lifestyle many city dwellers have pursued it for.

Modern urban farming popularized as early as the late-1970s, but the relationship between cities and food production has had an extensive history long before it was deemed cool.

Farming happened in the cities of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Farming happened in the 15thcentury Incan city of Machu Picchu.

And farming in cities happened during the world wars, when the Canadian and U.S. governments urged citizens to grow “victory gardens,” or “war gardens,” to ensure there was enough food on home soil. Vancouver’s Arbutus Victory Gardens is a remnant of that.

But then industrial agriculture came along, and regional specialization was deemed the most efficient strategy for feeding the masses. Supermarkets were stocked with produce from far-off places, and eating local was considered a novelty.

Of course, for Vancouverites like Mee Mee, eating local just meant grabbing something from the yard.

East and west

Slocan Street’s Lee said he believes that more Vancouverites from Chinese backgrounds like to grow food compared to local westerners.

“Westerners like to grow flowers!” he said. “We don’t like flowers because you can’t eat flowers. There’s no reward. You can only look at them. With produce, you can play in the yard, and you can have something to eat.”

Perhaps this is why there are fewer home produce gardens on the West Side, as more immigrant Chinese chose to settle on the East Side in the mid to late 20th century.

Leonard Lee, who lives on the West Side near Kerrisdale, has also noticed these gardens to be more of an East Side phenomenon.

Almost no one who lives near him grows produce.

A retired dentist, Lee (no relation to the Slocan Lee) has more time to tend to his own urban farm.

It might be why he’s more advanced with his gardening techniques than his East Side counterparts.

He uses sticky tanglefoot to keep moths and larvae off his trees.

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Michaelina “Mee Mee” Teo picks goji berries in her East Vancouver backyard garden.

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He’s made use of grafting so that his apple trees grow four species (Fuji, Cox’s Orange Pippin, red and golden delicious).

He’s even used hunting cameras to see if rats have been visiting his yard.

They had. Unfortunately, he had to kill them. “I wish there was a better way than poison,” said Lee, “but poison is the only thing that works.”

Ingenuity on the East Side looks different. Bamboo, two

by fours, barrels and bins are the tools of the trade.

And even more unusually, Mee Mee uses a huge roll of fluorescent orange fencing she picked up from a construction site across her alley. She cuts sheets of it as a canopy to grow her hanging chayotes.

A meal for Mee Mee

In Brunei, Mee Mee’s late husband used to grow red chili. He’d plant them in their yard neatly in a

row with great care.

As for Mee Mee’s mangoes and papayas? Same as her Vancouver method.

“I just threw the seeds everywhere,” she said. “My husband always scolded me for planting like that and not planting properly. Maybe you would laugh at me.”

Properly or not, her garden is alive and well with the fruit to prove it. Maybe tonight, she’ll be cooking some Swiss chard for supper. @bychrischeung

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Old school butcher hangs up his cleaver after Windsor Meats’ Bernie McDougall reflects on four decades in the business

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December will bring a Christmas that’s been 40plus years in the making for the McDougall family.

That’s because family patriarch and long-time butcher Bernie McDougall has hung up his knives for good, calling it a day on a

career that’s carved across large swaths of Vancouver’s West Side and into Richmond as well.

Saturday, Aug. 6, was McDougall’s last day at the MacKenzie Heights location of Windsor Meats, though the 68-year-old doesn’t have any firm plans for his newfound freedom, save for a few: more time with family,

which includes his wife, four kids and four grandchildren, a chance to watch more English soccer and knock back the odd pint or two.

“That’s the beauty of retiring — I don’t really have a plan at this point,” he told the Courier a day ahead of his retirement.

“When you work in this business, you work every

Saturday. You never really have Christmas or Thanksgiving because you’re always so tired when it comes around.”

Originally from London, England, McDougall began working at a supermarket at the age of 12 and was invested in butchery shortly thereafter. He moved to Van-

couver in 1971 at the age of 23, and the sight of the North Shore mountains, quickly melted away any of the second-guessing associated with a lifechanging, trans-Atlantic trip.

“When we flew in, it was a clear, bright sunny day in January,” he recalled.

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r 40 years of making the cut “You could see snowcapped mountains all around and all this open space. The pilot said, ‘Welcome to Vancouver, the playground of the West.’ I’ve never forgotten that. I fell in love with the place right away and I never got homesick.”

What followed next was a veritable jigsaw puzzle of locations, locations, locations.

McDougall got his start at the Windsor Meats location on Main and King Edward in the early 70s, before slicing his way across the West Side: Broadway and Balaclava, 49th and Maple, 16th and Trafalgar, 49th and West Boulevard. The last stop on the Bernie world tour ended at 33rd and MacKenzie, where he worked for about a year leading up to Saturday.

McDougall’s customers have remained fiercely devout through it all, following him to every location. His legacy is such that he often knows the grandmother, the granddaughter and everyone in the generations in between.

“To jump into his shoes and pick up where he left off, for that customer base it’s like

jumping into bed with another butcher,” said Patrick Callan, head butcher at Windsor Meats. “You need to re-start a relationship.

You’ve got to have a skillset, that’s number one for sure, but most butchers don’t serve customers. They just cut meat and they go home.

Bernie’s not like that and we’re not like that.”

Those are the types of lessons Levi Getz is eager to soak up. At 26, and just six weeks into working at Windsor Meats, McDougall’s savoir faire has left just as big of an impression as his ability to perfectly slice and dice.

“Watching him cut, you see this amazing technique that’s developed over the years, but he clearly also has a great mind — how to deal with customers, but also his coworkers,” Getz said.

“He’s very diplomatic.

You can’t teach that kind of stuff.”

As his conversation with the Courier wound down, it became clear McDougall is a proper English chap who likes what he likes, and doesn’t feel the need to change: he has no favourite meat (he “loves them

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As for sauces or marinades?

Don’t even think about it.

“When people come in to buy a good steak and they ask me for a good barbecue sauce to put

on it, I’ll take the steak back and ask, ‘Why? What are you doing?’” he said.

“But I’ve been very fortunate. You spend a lot of time at work and if you don’t enjoy your work, you’re not a very happy person. This is not the end for me, it’s the beginning.

And I’ve still got all my fingers.” @JohnKurucz

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riends of mine live near Trout Lake Park. They are a professional couple with a two-year-old living on the main floor of a rented bungalow for $2,000 a month. There’s mould in the house. The basement tenant smokes, has four yappy dogs and has apparently made a career out of buying and reselling used household items off of Craigslist. As a result, the backyard is often full of refrigerators, mattresses and other bric-a-brac, which attracts a constant stream of strangers onto the property seeking deals. It’s not perfect situation, but in this city it counts as a win.

Renters are the largest and fastest growing class in Metro Vancouver — one that is paying very close attention to what the government does, or does not do, on the housing file.

With the election inching ever closer, Premier Christy Clark and her ministers would do well to pay attention in return.

After having to move last year when the attic apartment they’d lived in for nearly a decade off Commercial Drive began to fall apart (literally, the dormer kitchen started to detach from the main structure of the house), landing at this house has provided my friends some much-needed space and stability. They have found a nearby daycare for their child, and the female half of the couple recently downshifted to a part-time

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job, which she loves, in order to offset some of the emotional and financial costs of childcare. They continue to put money away in the hopes of one day putting a down payment on a condo, as they are resolved to stay in the city despite the fact their friends and colleagues are fleeing at a rate so high they’ve coined a term for it: Vexit. Staying, of course, is only made possible thanks to a finely balanced family budget with little wiggle room.

Then came the news from their landlord of a 10 per cent increase in their rent — $200 a month. Why? Their fixed-term lease had expired at the end of July, opening a legal loophole increasingly being exploited by landlords who jack the rent by far more than the annual maximum of inflation plus two per cent as stipulated by the Residential Tenancy Act. The landlord’s justification?

He’s selling a house down the block that fetches $2,450 for a similar suite. “Market rate, I guess,” said my friend.

I have other friends, two women who live alone in different units in the same low-rise apartment building near Main Street. One, a self-employed graphic designer lived in a bachelor apartment and needed some extra room for her home office. The other, a single woman in her 30s lived in a onebedroom and needed to cut down on costs in order to save money for law school in the fall. They agreed to switch apartments — in the same building where they’d both lived for years and were in good standing with the building manager and property owner.

The rents on both units went up in the swap since technically they were starting new leases. This, even though the move came at virtually no cost to the management, save for a little paperwork, which could have been covered with a one-time fee. Oh, and did I mention this building has mould too?

While the penny has finally dropped for the B.C. Liberals that housing will be the defining issue of next year’s provincial election,

they still seem woefully unprepared to deal with the situation in an informed and timely manner. With the focus squarely on the soaring price of owning real estate, the rental market continues to descend into chaos without anyone in the government seemingly aware. Landlords are exploiting weak legislation to raise rents just because they can, meanwhile the “market” in a city with a 0.4 per cent vacancy rate commands prices that are unsustainable for average people.

Rather than introduce more half-baked legislation based on incomplete data — such as the legally and morally problematic tax on foreign owners — might I suggest that the B.C. government turn its attention to the rental market while it waits for the results of a study it commissioned to find out what has actually caused the price of housing to soar. There are some quick and easy wins it could undertake right now, such as: • Closing the loophole on fixed-term leases.

• Reforming the Residential Tenancy Act to tie rents to units or buildings, rather than tenure of occupancy.

• Introducing rent stabilization measures that limit how much landlords can increase rents between tenants, particularly in older buildings. (Owners of newer buildings could also opt into rent stabilization programs in exchange for tax breaks or other incentives, as is the case in New York City.)

• Boost funding for the Residential Tenancy Branch and the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre so renters have greater access to dispute resolution procedures and advice and education on their rights.

Renters are the largest and fastest growing class in Metro Vancouver — one that is paying very close attention to what the government does, or does not do, on the housing file. With the election inching ever closer, Premier Christy Clark and her ministers would do well to pay attention in return. @jm_barrett

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Re: “The more I learn about humans, the more I like trees,” July 27.

Congratulations to your writer’s paean to Garry oaks, which grace our landscape and shelter many species, both seen and unseen, but hard at work calming us, especially via a regular supply of oxygen.

Remember your basic science and photosynthesis — CO2 in, C stored as wood and 2 atoms of Oxygen released to fuel us.

Such a deal; a true “2 fer.”

Long may Garrys (and other trees and woody shrubs) stand and deliver.

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city has used asphalt as a temporary fix on the sidewalks of 3400 and 3500 block Commercial Street for at least the past 30 to 40 years.

But the true irony of this asphalt pavement on the Arbutus Corridor is that it takes an engineer, in the absence of a director of planning, to overengineer a pathway, a simple grading of the surface of the road bed would be adequate. The result of this over engineered pathway is that it reflects the city’s bias to a parochial bike freeway.

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Paving shows city’s bias Re: “City paves way for Arbutus Greenway,” Aug. 5.

The CPR was given this land and other lands to entice the railway to put its terminal at Coal Harbour. In railway speak the Arbutus Corridor is known as the Marpole Spur, while the Marpole Line is the track from New Westminster to Marpole. The Marpole Spur went from downtown Vancouver to Steveston and carried cargo and passengers daily to the fish canneries in Richmond, hence the passenger trains were nicknamed the Sockeye Express.

During the 1960s the city was buying up land around this right of way in order to build a freeway to Richmond, however the protest over the Chinatown freeway ended the freeway discussion in Vancouver but the city still owns these properties.

Regionally this right of way is a key link with the Marpole Line and the Richmond right of way which the City of Richmond still owns.

It was Harry Rankin who proposed that the City of Vancouver rezone Arbutus Corridor lands for parks and transportation and it was the City of Vancouver who fought the CPR all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to do so. Since then, the city has not rezoned any other railway right of ways in Vancouver. The claims that the upcoming planning process is “wide open” and “the sky’s the limit” rings hollow when it should be Metro Vancouver’s regional transportation group planning a regional transportation project.

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Networked digital files can be ferreted out and disappeared en masse at the press of a key. One more reason to hang on to lots of hard-copy books, insists the excuse-hungry mind of the bibliomaniac.

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Eighty boxes of books.

That’s what I carted from one residence to another in a recent move. This was after culling hundreds of books: selling some at second-hand bookstores and abandoning others, like orphans, at nearby recreation centres.

In this and past moves I’ve tried to whittle down my collection beforehand, yet it still keeps expanding, like some Japanese sci-fi monster that balloons under an onslaught of ammo. Perhaps it would be a good idea for me to read the books I already own before buying more… or at least use my library card more often, as an antidote to hoarding.

“Why don’t you get a Kindle?” people invariably ask me. The device can hold up to 3,500 books, I’ve learned. So I could easily fit a book collection of my size onto one Kindle, and free myself of digital age deadweight — but at what cost to reacquire the books in electronic versions?

Here’s the thing. Some long-out-of-print titles are still unavailable in digital format. They may never see the light of “paperwhite.” Among them are the kinds of books I’m fond of: the obscure, the strange, the subversive.

I’m also not entirely confident that the infinitely copyable nature of digital media is a total safeguard against either Big Brother or Big Bother.

For example, controversy erupted in 2009 when Amazon customers discovered that a particular title

had disappeared right off their Kindles. The title, ironically enough, was George Orwell’s 1984. Jeff Bezos’s behemoth deleted the book without warning when the publisher backtracked on offering an electronic edition.

This anecdote stands as a singular data point, highlighting the “Cloud” hanging over digital media. Print-bound books can be burned or pulped, but it takes effort to locate every last copy of a given title. In contrast, networked digital files can be ferreted out and disappeared en masse at the press of a key.

Just one more reason to hang on to lots of hardcopy books, insists the excuse-hungry mind of the bibliomaniac.

Then there’s the ephemeral nature of binary information. Formats change, and electromagnetically stored data can be corrupted in a matter of years. Ask anyone who’s ever kept and lost valuable files on floppy discs.

One more thing about the Cloud. Like anyone else, the Internet and mobility has seriously cut into my book reading. I’ve trained my brain to expect a tiny dose of dopamine every time my cellphone beeps or the email icon lights up on my tablet.

And God (or Google) only knows how much Buzzfeed-style listicles have crippled my attention span.

An old-timey print volume will never tempt me with clickbait items like “You’ll Never Believe What these ’80s TV Hotties Look Like Now.” That’s what makes a thick volume seem intimidating:

its demands on your attention. I’m old enough to remember when getting or giving a book as a gift — particularly in hardcover — was a big deal. Now it’s more like a dare. “When do you expect me to read this? For Cripes sake, couldn’t you have got me something I have time to spend with, like a scarf?”

I already have enough on my shelves to keep me occupied. For example, I have read only seven books cover to cover in the past year (thanks, Internet). I have read perhaps a dozen more partway through. Let’s say that’s 13 books in total. At this rate, I’ll complete the several hundred unread books in my collection within 30 or 40 years. And that’s without acquiring more. The numbers are not good for a guy my age.

At least there’s precedent for this. The French author Anatole France once wrote of his response to a guest who asked if he had read every book in his collection: “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sèvres china every day?” (I’ll bet that joke killed in 19th century ceramic circles.)

I came across Anatole’s quip in an online PDF of philosopher Walter Benjamin’s ’30s-era essay, “Unpacking My Library.” So I regard the Internet not so much in competition with the books on my shelves as complimentary: it caulks in the gaps of my knowledge base with an inexhaustible Pollyfilla of PDFs, podcasts, blogs and listicles.

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Wine tasting and electric bike a perfect combination for a relaxing day A few years ago I went on a mountain bike expedition and at the time fancied myself a pretty decent rider.

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So there we were, six of us on a cool June morning ready to spend a leisurely day discovering some of the region’s wineries. Except this time instead of using my own power to pedal from winery to winery, I’m on a Pedego E-bike. And, thankfully, everything in Richard Cooper’s, owner of Heatstroke Cycle, easygoing demeanour — stubble, shorts, shades and bright orange runners — somehow reassured me.

At first glance, the Pedego looked like any traditional bicycle. In fact, I had to ask Cooper where the electric motor was — it’s attached to the back frame. Don’t get me wrong though, there is some exercise involved. The bike isn’t like a motorcycle, it doesn’t move on its own, so you still have to pedal to get it going. The controls are attached to the handle bars so when you’re feeling the strain, you just click on the power to get some extra gusto for climbing hills.

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frankly it was just too much fun letting the bike take over the hard work. One of the biggest benefits of cycling is watching the Okanagan’s majestic beauty unfold beyond a set of handlebars.

Framed by lush vineyards, desert mountains and the blue waters of Osoyoos Lake, we headed out for few hours to enjoy panoramic views and fabulous Okanagan wines as we passed vineyards, farms and the gorgeous countryside.

Our first destination of the day was Hester Creek Winery where we cruised past a patchwork of endless vineyards, orchards and gnarly trees to park our bikes. Here, like at the other wineries we visited that day — Cassini Cellars and Rustico Farm & Cellars — we tasted, we spat and we swirled wine after wine.

Our day also included lunch at Road 13 Vineyards before finishing off at Church & State Wines.

...the allure of the Okanagan was just too strong.

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who is passionate about local cuisine and wine and he wants to share that love with everyone. Between toasting his perfectly executed dishes with some wonderful local wines, I again drank in the vista of rolling hills dotted with rows of vineyards.

Another must-see is Covert Farms Family Estate.

With a lush foreground of mountains and myriad of organic ground crops, we all hopped aboard a vintage 1952 red Mercury truck to pick our own organically grown strawberries that later became part of our salad.

As we returned from our tour of the farm, we were handed a glass of Covert Farms Family Estate organic wine (I went for the Amicitia 2011) and enjoyed platters of charcuteries.

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Imagine savouring fruits and vegetables harvested just hours before while enjoying views of fields spreading towards the horizon. Authentic farm-totable living has taken root in the Okanagan Valley.

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TIP: Watermark has introduced an outdoor gentle flow yoga class.

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WHAT TO DO There’s nothing like a concert under the stars at Mission Hill Family Estate.

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Vi Smyth has some really great advice for anyone planning to travel or move from their hometown.

“Learn how to play an instrument and you can go anywhere in the world and join a group, whether it’s a little village or a big city,” says Smyth, who celebrated her 101st birthday in July. “Violas are always in short supply, so if you can play a viola, they’ll welcome you with open arms.”

Dressed in a lovely violet-coloured sweater, complete with matching nail polish, Smyth was surrounded by her friends from the Busy Bee Knitting Club, which meets at the Kerrisdale Seniors Centre, based out of the Kerrisdale Community Centre. To celebrate Smyth’s birthday, the women gathered for coffee, tea and a birthday cake.

Smyth was about 70 years old when she walked by the Kerrisdale Community Centre one day and saw a notice about the opening of a new seniors’ centre, which included a call out for volunteers. Smyth signed up and has been a constant part of the seniors centre in varying roles ever since, including publisher of the Monarch Newsletter and coordinator of the kiosk where knitted and donated items are sold to raise funds for various projects. Smyth says the friendships she’s enjoyed since joining the centre have helped keep her active.

“It makes my week,” says Smyth of her regular visits to the centre. “Sometimes we knit and other times we have coffee and cake.”

Smyth notes those friendships became even more important after the death of her husband three years ago.

“We were married for 72 years and were always together except for three weeks in the hospital,” says Smyth.

Smyth adds when she first saw John at a dance in England during the Second World War, it was love at first sight.

“I was standing on the balcony with my friend and I looked down to the end of a long hall and saw him standing there,” says Smyth. “I said to my friend, ‘That’s the guy for me,’ and I went and stood in front of him until he asked me to dance.”

Smyth initially thought she’d never see John again, but fate intervened and she bumped into him at another dance.

This time John asked her to dance right away and a year later the couple was married.

Today, Smyth lives in False Creek with one of the couple’s two daughters, but still makes the trip to Kerrisdale at least once a week. One of her other hobbies is walking the seawall and chatting with the new friends she’s made in the neighbourhood. As for her age, Smyth says it’s just a number.

“Sometimes when I’m walking I wonder why everyone is trying to help me,” says Smyth. “I sure don’t feel 101.”

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GARDEN PARTY: Maestros of fun, the Social Concierge’s Jordan Kallman and Tyson Villeneuve partnered with Ballet BC to present their newest social venture Babylon, a magical night of botanical beauty and choreographic dance in support of the province’s venerable contemporary dance company. The Queen Elizabeth Plaza was transformed into a fully immersive midsummer night’s party amidst fantastical reimagined gardens of Babylon. Creations by some of the leading florists in Vancouver served as stunning backdrops for twilight performances orchestrated by Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar. Between dances, guests kibitzed with artists and dancers, while enjoying the earthly delights, including a special installation by internationally renowned master florist Hitomi Gilliam.

DINNER FOR 300: North Shore’s Dinner on the Pier was conceived as a way to connect people and businesses and their love for community. The brainchild of the Juicery Co’s Alex Troll, Adriana KocSpadaro and Justin Duggan, the event drew 150 to last year’s inaugural staging. The sophomore edition saw numbers double for the long table alfresco dinner on the Burrard Dry Dock Pier. The evening began with a cocktail hour in the Pipe Shop, where attendees sampled bespoke cocktails.

They would eventually step outside into the glorious sunshine for a delicious family-style dinner, created by Pinnacle Hotel executive chef Joel Green. A party with a purpose, the community gathering aimed to raise $10,000 for Growing Chefs, a non-profit that engages children in learning where their food comes from.

Ballet BC executive director Branislav Henselmann and artistic director Emily Molnar, recently appointed to the Order of Canada, hosted Babylon, the company “friendraiser” at the QE Theatre.

Aurillia Consulting’s Alana Dickson and Julie Melanson hosted Best of the West, a flagship event of West Vancouver’s Harmony Festival.

Staged on Ambleside pier, the event celebrated the best of B.C. VQA wine and food.

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1. Summertime-indie-rock-road-warriors Adrian Teacher and the Subs play a homecoming show in support of their uniformly excellent album Terminal City, Aug. 12 at Red Gate Arts Society. Judging by the bill, it’s going to be a doozy, as the lineup also includes Mint Records’ Jay Arner and Supermoon, Nick Ferrio, Construction Destruction and the always lovely and talented Julie Doiron of Eric’s Trip fame. Tickets $10 at the door.

2. “Homosensual” Bryan Safi and “feminasty” Erin Gibson bring their irreverent Throwing Shade podcast and web series to the Rickshaw Theatre for a live taping. It all goes down Aug. 12, 8 p.m. Tickets at Red Cat Records and ticketfly.com.

3. The Vancouver Queer Film Festival kicks off Aug. 11 with 11 days of cinematic delights, including 25 directors in attendance, 30 performance artists, free workshops, talk back sessions and more than 68 films, including Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan’s documentary Strike a Pose, which tells the story and struggles of Madonna’s dancers on her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour and subsequent 1991 film Truth or Dare. Details at queerfilmfestival.ca.

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Absolutely beastly was the traffic jam last Thursday evening: gridlock on First Avenue, Hastings Street and all the side streets as frustrated drivers tried to get to the Second Narrows Bridge or, in our case, to Theatre Under the Stars where five tickets awaited us for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

A trip that usually takes an hour, took more than two.

We arrived four minutes late but the curtain was held because of the traffic and it didn’t rain as predicted — beautiful!

Brian Ball’s set is straight out of a fairytale picture book: cottages, a grim castle, scary woods, a sumptuous dining hall and a ballroom all a-twinkle with a big chandelier. Lighting designer Gerald King outdoes himself with fireworks exploding out of huge, painted champagne bottles and, later, with fireworks and strobes and things that go bang in the night.

La Belle et la Bête was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740; 16 years later it was abridged and much shortened

by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. It is this later version that has made its way into popular culture, notably Walt Disney’s 1991 animated film entitled Beauty and the Beast, adapted for stage in 1993. Another Theatre Under the Stars — in Houston, Texas — first produced it; now it is here, in Malkin Bowl, telling a legend that scholars say is 4,000 years old.

Of course, it’s a romantic story: Belle’s father falls on hard times and is captured by

Peter Monaghan and Jaime Piercy star in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Theatre Under the Stars.

the Beast, a prince who has had a spell put on him due to an act of unkindness. Belle insists on the Beast swapping her for her father and so she is taken prisoner in the Beast’s castle. Slowly the Beast is tamed but Belle’s self-absorbed would-be wooer Gaston decides to kill the Beast.

The Beast is wounded, Belle declares her love for him, he revives and is transformed into the handsome prince he used to be. And they all live happily ever after.

The story is, well, soppy, but you’d have to have a heart of stone not to feel sympathy when Peter Monaghan, the Beast/prince, pours his heart out in “If I Can’t Love Her.” Monaghan has a magnificent voice that blends beautifully with soprano Jaime Piercy’s Belle.

Dane Szohner’s Gaston is appropriately posturing and thick-as-a-brick while Gaston’s sidekick Lefou (Nicholas Bradbury) takes acrobatic pratfall after pratfall.

Absolutely outstanding is Victor Hunter as Lumière, the maître d’ that is gradu-

ally being transformed into a candelabra. Hunter shimmies and wriggles like one of those plastic blow-up creatures that invite you into used car lots.

He lays on the French accent as thick as paté on a baguette.

Lumière hangs out with steady-as-she-goes Cogsworth (Steven Greenfield), Babette (Lauren Gula), Mrs. Potts (Sheryl Anne Wheaton), Chip (Bodhi Cutler) and Madame de la Grande Bouche (Caroline Buckingham).

Under the direction of Shel Piercy, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is the complete TUTS package: hot chocolate or coffee, popcorn, the stars overhead, the stars onstage and a really great show. Super family entertainment.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

Note: A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is at Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) until Aug. 27. Tickets at tuts.ca.

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It’s a curious thing. But the notion of fresh seafood as a Vancouver dining staple has never been as robust a proposition as it should be.

However, there are signs indicating that it’s changing.

For instance, Vancouver has its champions of seafood, from former C chef Robert Clark, who now runs the immensely popular Fish Counter, to “Unsung Heroes” promoter Frank Pabst at Blue Water Café, and recent Four Seasons executive chef Ned Bell, who now cooks for Vancouver Aquarium and beyond in the name of all things Ocean Wise.

Interestingly though, the latest purveyor of true “marine cuisine” originates from well outside Vancouver, via Vancouver Island and by extension Washington State.

Recently landed, with a direct line from lease to kitchen, Fanny Bay Oyster Bar & Shellfish Market (762 Cambie St., 778-379-9510) can lay claim to its “tide to table” mantra.

The already hopping, part diner, part fishmonger, down the street from B.C Place, sports a cozy, compact 50-seat dining room and sit-up oyster bar, as well as a bountifully provisioned retail outlet. Here you can avail yourself of pre-shucked oysters, as well as other shellfish, lobster, crab and more, including Hardy Buoys salmon candy, and salmon “paté.” I’m familiar with them all, as I’m a regular patron of the Fanny Bay Seafood shop, located at B.C. Ferries’

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Prices are moderate with weekend brunch highlighted by a smoky Hangtown Fry and a trio of Benny’s (crab, salmon or classic). The wine list, dutifully international, with plenty by the glass, offers B.C., French and other seafood-friendly drops. My hunch is the list will evolve, maybe with a sharper pencil in parts. Smart classic cocktails and a handful of good taps, including Big River Brewing’s Fanny Bay Oyster stout complete the picture.

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Just east of Victoria Drive, Hastings is a whizz of cars, heavy trucks and exhaust fumes. But that’s all forgotten the second I step into Basho Café.

Yes, it serves coffee and food, but it feels like more than a café. It feels like home — if only home involved teeny mochi cakes, handmade cloth pennants dangling from the ceiling and fresh flowers at every table.

“Basho means place.

My mom had a vision of this café being a place where people can meet friends, come in a read a book,” says Mitsumi Kawai. “Different places mean different things for people. My parents liked the idea of people determining what kind of place Basho would be.”

Mitsumi’s parents, Hiroshi and Miju Kawai, are longtime restaurant veterans. After leaving their last restaurant, they took a few years off to travel, and in their semiretirement dreamed up a coffee shop: Basho.

Hiroshi handles the savoury side of things with three main offerings: tuna tataki, teri pulled pork and a vegetable bowl, served on either rice or salad. For another $3, you get soup, vegetables and three miniature desserts. He only makes 20 of each per day, and they almost always sell out.

Miju and daughter Moeno make the Japanese-style sweets, which incorporate traditional ingredients like matcha, miso and sesame.

“It’s a fun twist to match matcha with other flavours,” says Moeno.

“Me and my mom love baking so much and try to make the baking more Japanese.” Think: matcha white chocolate brownies, black sesame and miso cookies and, for the ultimate pick-me-up, an espresso-green tea cookie.

And there is mochi in several flavours. The matcha mocha looks like a two-bite-brownie in St. Patrick’s Day garb, but the first bite offers the sticky, chewy texture characteristic of desserts

made from glutinous rice flour.

“Our sweets are sweet, but we do keep the sugar down for a lot of it,” says Moeno. “And everything is a little smaller.”

Most of Basho’s desserts are one- or two-bite affairs, which is a bonus for people with commitment issues.

It’s not just the food that’s homemade — much of the interior was built

by Hiroshi, including the cabinet that houses the miniature sweets.

“My dad’s really handy.

He did all the work inside,” says Mitsumi. “The interior is my mom’s vision. My parents have been in the restaurant industry a long time, and this is a café where they’re able to be more playful.”

The esthetic is playful and crafty — DIY with polish, if you like. Miju made some of the café’s pottery, as well as the fabric coasters that come with hot drinks, knitted and crocheted tea cozies that hug each teapot and the large quilt that hangs in the back of the café.

Being a family-run business has its perks. When Moeno took a year’s hiatus, her sister Mitsumi stepped in to help.

It seems restaurants are in the family’s blood: Mitsumi runs Bowen Island’s Shika Provisions and Tofino’s Kuma. Moeno is now back — as is the café’s record player, with selections chosen by Muji and Moeno.

“For the year I was away they didn’t use the record player,” says Moeno. “It’s an assortment — classic rock, Beatles, Wings, Earth Wind and Fire.”

At the moment, Basho is open only on weekdays.

That may be inconvenient for 9-to-5-ers, but the café is as busy as ever.

Miju greets everyone with a smile and seems especially delighted to see babies. If Basho means place, Basho Café is a happy place.

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In the past two years, Benisz, who is type AB negative, considered the rarest blood type, has donated blood more than 13 times and continues to do so every 56 days.

Cherise Louie, territory manager at Canadian Blood Services in Vancouver, said the need for blood donation is urgent and it is important for Canadians to step up and easily make an impact on another person’s life.

“There are people who depend on weekly blood transfusions,” said Louie, adding that every week there is a need for 17,000 units of blood across Canada.

“All donors are encouraged to donate, in particular donors with type O blood. Type O negative blood type is in particular demand by hospitals because it is the only type compatible with all other blood types. It’s also used in the most critical situations, like trauma victims and patients with compromised immune systems,” Louie said, adding that only four per cent of Canadians donate blood, which is not enough.

Benisz agrees. “You don’t need a policeman or a firefighter to save lives. You can save lives even if you donate blood,” Benisz said.

Benisz’s blood donation bash will be followed by cake cutting and there will be emergency vehicles available for children to explore and learn more about blood donations.

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When Leslie Benisz turns 46 next week, he only wants one thing for his birthday: blood donations.

The painter, volunteer and writer is inviting the public to give blood Aug. 16 (two days after Benisz’s birthday) at the Canadian Blood Services Society Oak Street Clinic from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Benisz realized the importance of blood donations two years back, when someone he knew almost lost his life but survived because there was enough blood available at the blood bank.

Benisz says he has always felt the need to volunteer and contribute to society in different ways. Benisz volunteers as a dishwasher at Carnegie Community Centre, at events for the B.C. Lions and as an autistic spokesperson for the Els For Autism charity golf tournament.

In addition to volunteering, he donates his paintings and likes to write opinion pieces for newspapers. He donates his paintings to Vancouver Ventures for Diversity Society and the Valerie, Ruth and Pamela Dudoward Foundation.

But donating blood was something new and the act of helping others adds value to his life, he says.

“Everyone has the ability and talent to contribute to society in a positive way,” he said.

To donate blood, call 133 or go to blood.ca to make a booking.

Leslie Benisz is throwing himself a birthday party Aug. 16 at the Canadian Blood Services Society Oak Street Clinic and wants guests to donate.

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This Monday is one of the most important days in the Catholic calendar, yet its basis is not found anywhere in the Bible and most non-Catholics probably have little or no understanding of the significance.

August 15 is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.

While I got a superb theological description of the meaning of the Assumption from a local scholar, the simplest formulation comes from a Catholic friend years ago: “We assume she was assumed.”

The idea is that Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived a life so special that she could not simply die like the rest of us.

In Catholic teaching, Mary was “assumed,” body and soul, into heaven when her life on earth concluded.

Dr. Peter Meehan, principal of Saint Mark’s College at UBC, explains that, like some other aspects of Catholic theology, this idea springs not from the Bible, but from traditions begun in the first and second century after the life of Jesus.

“It’s a theological understanding that blends with Christian tradition, which comes to Christians from the early fathers of the church,” says Meehan.

Among the founders of Christianity, he explains, there were the Apostles, the 12 men who knew and travelled with Jesus, among these the writers of the Gospels.

Then there were what we might call the next generation, the Apostolic Fathers, who did not live in the time of Jesus but who may have known, or who were at least

Dr. Peter Meehan says many teachings of the church come from tradition rather than the Bible. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

influenced by, the Apostles.

It was in the time of these theologians that the idea of the Assumption originated.

It is all based on the idea that Mary lived a special life from beginning to end. The Immaculate Conception — which I mistakenly understood to refer to the virgin birth of Jesus — actually refers to Mary’s origin.

“She was conceived without sin,” Meehan says.

“The Greek theological term is Theotokos, the God-bearer… She then lived out this very special existence as the mother of God and at the end of her normal earthly existence, she was then assumed, body and soul, into heaven.”

Not only does the Assumption narrative correct the misunderstanding around Immaculate Conception, it also clarifies confusion around the concept of papal infallibility.

“What people don’t usually understand about it is it’s a very rarely used aspect of papal discretion,” Meehan says. “Every time the Pope says something, it is not necessarily infallible. In fact, it’s been used extremely rarely and the last time

a Pope spoke infallibly was when this particular dogma of Mary’s Assumption was declared to be definitive, and that was in 1950.”

When Pope Pius XII infallibly declared the Assumption official Catholic dogma, it codified what Catholics had believed for close to 2,000 years.

Most people know that Mary is extremely central to Catholic theology. Among Protestants, while she is obviously considered very special because she is understood to be the mother of God, she is not at the heart of most Protestant religious expression.

“A lot of that has to do with the Reformation,” Meehan says, referring to the period when Christianity divided, with Protestants splitting from the Roman church. “There were a lot of divisions along different lines of Christian thinking at the time of the Reformation that were critical of Catholic practices and Catholic theology.

Certain denominations began to see Catholic worship as too focused on venerating saints or relics and things that were highly divisive at the time of the Reformation. I think the

cult of Mary, for many Protestants, got caught up in that.

It’s not that they didn’t have respect for Mary, but that her role was not seen as being anything nearly as important as the role that Jesus played while he was on Earth and then after he was resurrected from the dead. So Mary then takes on this secondary role.”

Many Protestants, Meehan adds, even believe that Mary went on to have a fairly normal married life with Joseph and more children after Jesus.

(Imagine trying to live up to the expectations set by that older sibling.) The Protestant approach emphasizes Mary’s humanity while the Catholics focus on her role as Godbearer. “Catholics believe that Mary continued to be a perpetual virgin,” he says.

Considering that the Assumption is not written in the scriptures, Meehan says, it is notable that there is no dispute over it among Catholic theologians.

“You oftentimes will get, in the world of theology, different opinions on things,” he says. “But when the church can get behind something and make a definitive papal infallible statement, that means it is something that is a rock-solid understanding.

Really, what that does is emphasize the very special, very unique role that Mary plays.”

It still seems surprising to me that such a central part of Catholic teaching does not come from the Bible. Meehan reminds me that it is not unique to the fate of Mary.

“A lot of the teachings of the church come to us by way of tradition,” he says. “It’s not in the Bible that Christmas happened on December 25.

These are things that are just developed over time.”

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This is your last week of pure or intense romance, so dive in before it dissipates. Ditto creative, speculative, beauty-pleasure-oriented and teaching/raising kids projects. That said, the aspects are not the greatest for love, except Tues./Wed., and Sat. p.m., so save your good clothes for these intervals. The Tues./Wed. segment brings friends, popularity, optimism, joy – and flirtation. You might have to make a choice between friendly, light romance and deeper waters.

One last week of being a party animal, Libra. If you’re not into parties, you’ll still feel the great uplift of popularity, social delights, flirtations, optimism and luck. (This comes at the end of a quiet, non-popular year. In September, you’ll start a new year of great personal expansion and luck.) You’ll certainly be busy, now through late September, and could meet a potential life mate in a casual, friendly way.

The focus remains on your domestic situation, family, parent/kid relations, security, real estate, retirement prospects, gardening, nutrition and soul. (By next week, you’ll begin a new, expansive, perhaps romantic trend, so get your rest now).

Sunday/Monday are mellow, compassionate, wise; you can succeed at far travel, international affairs/ contacts, media/publishing, religion/philosophy, etc. Profound ideas and insights come.

Your career, worldly standing and neighbourhood reputation, your interactions with parents, bosses, VIPs and authorities, are still in focus – though this is the last week of these for a while. Do all you can to raise your position, impress bosses – but I would be leery of starting a new project now, as things (the large flow of forces and circumstances) are ending rather than beginning.

Errands, light chores, details, paperwork, conversations, short trips, casual friends and media fill this week. You handle these things easily, almost enjoy them. Be curious, read, ask questions – facts uncovered now can aid you later. You’re swimming in deep waters Sun./ Mon., and luckily so – you can advance in finances, investments, debt, sexual intimacy, revelation of the occult.

The focus remains on intellectual, philosophical, religious and similar pursuits. Cultural participation and learning, far travel, legal affairs and media involvements fill the week ahead. If you’re planning any of these, hurry to act – best before Thurs. Chase money Sunday/Monday – cultivate clients, angle for a pay raise, sell unwanted items, etc. Luck is with you, except Monday afternoon/supper, when romance won’t work, and stress could lead to a temper tantrum.

Continue to chase money, Cancer – give it one last big push this week, before the trend ends.

Seek partnerships or opportunities Sun./Mon. Seek funding, or invest, Tues./Wed. Your work scene intensifies now to late September, so keep up your health, too – good habits necessary.

Friends, communications and travel remain fine, mildly lucky and affectionate all August.

You’ll remain in the depths one more week, Cap. “Depths” can be a good place – this is where your intuition surges and you can make excellent investment, lifestyle, health and relationship decisions/ commitments. (Make these before Thurs. for best results.) (However, avoid tempting or dangerous depths now to late September, e.g., pushing physical limits, engaging in an extra-marital affair, swimming beyond your boundaries, attending biker clubs, etc.)

Your energy, charisma, magnetism, effectiveness, timing and clout remain super-high, Leo. Tackle chores Sun./Mon. – you’ll dispatch them with aplomb, but be cautious Mon. afternoon/eve, in driving, legal matters and relationships. Continue to start new projects, seek significant contacts and revel in love/romance/selfexpression Sunday through Wed. After this, starting something new will be like lighting a fire in a straw boat on a lake – eventually, it must extinguish.

One more week of honest, open relationships, Aquarius. (After this week, you enter a month of the deeper, hidden side of relationships, where the money and the intimacy – and the revelations – exist.) If single, you could meet a life mate. (More on this is a sec.) Lie low, rest and contemplate Sun./ Mon. These days flow smoothly, except for Monday afternoon/supper (PDT) which might bring some tension, even a driving accident or losing argument.

This is your last week of seclusion and weariness, Virgo. Soon, your energy will soar, and you’ll start a new (money-lucky) personal year. (Your personal year always starts on your birthday). But for now, continue to rest, meditate or contemplate, plan, and catch up with neglected duties. Romantic notions and creative urges seduce you into a kind of “beauty-pleasure” trance, a poetic trance, Sun./ Mon. You could sip at the delicious fountain of love’s fantasy Sun. morning.

One last week of chores and minor nagging health concerns. (Next week brings freshness, relationships and new horizons.) You have entered a zone in which bosses, parents and authorities can be temperamental, dictatorial, until September’s end. (On the plus side, they might pay you more while gnashing their teeth!)

This week, you tend to cooperate with these higher-ups, so use this time to meld your work efforts and your money/income efforts.

August 11: Viola Davis (51). August 12: George Hamilton (77).

August 13: Fidel Castro (90). August 14: Halle Barry (50). August 15: Rose Marie (93).

August 16: Madonna (58). August 17: Robert De Niro (73).

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Publicist focuses attention on plight of Syrian refugees Q&A with Rory Richards

Turkey, Richards is trying to raise money to not only help fund the birthday party, but also the unending list of items needed for the children, including food, medicine and the cost to keep them in school. Richards recently took time out of her busy schedule, which included surviving an attempted overthrow of the ruling government of Turkey, to answer some questions for the Courier. For more information about donating to the birthday party and Richards’ efforts in Turkey, visit gofundme. com/refugeegarden.

Sandra Thomas

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There was a time not so long ago when Rory Richards could be regularly photographed dancing tango in Buenos Aires, taking a selfie while organizing a fabulous event or gathering frequent flyer miles as she traversed the country working as a public relations specialist and business owner.

But these days, instead of featuring smart cocktail dresses and perfectly coiffed hair, Richards’ photos and selfies are more likely to include a young Syrian child, or 10, taken, sans makeup, in the tiny backyard of a rundown house in a Turkish ghetto located on the wrong side of the tracks in Istanbul.

It all began when Richards decided to volunteer last year to help Syrian refugees attempt the dangerous journey across the water to Lesvos, Greece, to seek asylum from their war-torn country. And just where her journey will end, not even Richards knows. What she does know is she promised a group of street kids living in Istanbul that they would have their first ever birthday party this summer and come hell or high water, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. It’s also one of the reasons Richards chose to remain in Turkey despite the great risk involved. That birthday party will take place in Istanbul Aug. 28.

Another birthday party has been planned for Vancouver for the same time, with plans to live stream it.

Because of the difficulty and cost of shipping items to

How did you end up in Turkey?

I had volunteered in Lesvos, Greece, in the winter of 2015. I set up a night camp on the beaches bringing in boats of refugees. The experiences I had, and the things I saw affected me deeply. It was hard to come back to Vancouver after that and settle into my routine. I knew I had to go back and continue to help.

I was about to return when the EU deal took place. The boats stopped from Turkey and so I logically thought that there would then be a bottleneck of refugees trapped there and I went to see what was happening on the Turkish side. What I found here were refugees too vulnerable to make the crossing, including many war widows with young children. There are 800,000 refugees in Istanbul alone.

Over half are children. Less than 20 per cent are in school. I decided to stay and roll up my sleeves and do what I could to help. Focusing mainly on getting children off the street and into

the street or in the factories so they can go to school. It was the only way. We also help their moms with clothing and medical expenses.

As anyone who has kids will know, they are not cheap.

Their moms really appreciate what we are doing for their kids. As the saying goes, it takes a village. And we are their village.

How expensive is food and how many mouths are you feeding in a typical day?

Vancouver publicist Rory Richards is in Turkey where she has been helping Syrian refugees and plans to throw a birthday party for the children she has taken under her wing.

school. That’s where I met the 11 kids I’ve taken in.

There was a recent attempt to overthrow the government in Turkey. How did you survive that?

I was blindsided by it like everyone else. It was a challenge not knowing the Turkish language. Facebook was shut down and reliable news sources were scarce. All we could hear was the sounds of gun and tank fire and low flying fighter jets that sounded like they were coming right at you. The plan was to lay low and stay inside for as long as we could. Thankfully the house was stocked with food and supplies. And thankfully it ended quickly.

How did you meet these kids?

I was working with a refugee school in a ghetto in Istanbul. One day my translator/partner and I saw a little boy, about five-years old, being beaten up by a Turkish woman outside a grocery store. He had been panhan-

dling. We intervened and I bought him some groceries to bring home to his mom who was a recently arrived Syrian widow. The next day we saw the boy again playing in the street, this time he was with a larger group of kids.

We stopped to talk to them.

The kids ranged in age from four to 12, and none of them had ever been to school.

Most of them were orphans.

I paid their tuitions with donations from friends and enrolled them in school.

I wanted to keep tabs on them to make sure they were going to school. The kids started dropping by the house I’m staying in every day after school to do their homework. Then they started coming in the mornings too, and then on weekends.

And now they come to the house as soon as they open their eyes every morning.

They are like family.

And how many children do you have in your home in a typical day?

We have a minimum of seven or eight and max of 11.

Where are these children from?

They are all war refugees from Syria.

Can you give us the first names of these kids and their ages?

We have 11 in total, including two sets of twins. Little Ragda — four, Zucco — five, Hamood — six, “Itchy and Scratchy” — six, Fatima and Samira — six, Amin — nine, Big Ragda — 10 Hamid — 10, Mahmood — 12.

You’ve managed to help get these kids into school and I understand you had to pay a few parents to allow that to happen. Is that still the case?

Yes, a few were working in factories or selling tissues to help their moms with rent. It is not a good situation in Turkey and every member of the family has to work to survive, even if they are kids. Unfortunately this is not uncommon and is one of the reasons there are so few kids enrolled in school. We pay their moms what they were earning on

Turkey is not a cheap country. I had not been here in many years and was shocked to see that food costs are not that much lower than in Canada. We feed three meals a day to an average of nine kids and two adults. It costs a small fortune. There is no way I could do it without donations from friends and other people that care. I would last a week financing it alone. It has been a huge drain for me personally, but sometimes you are just called to a cause, and I guess this is mine. So I am doing my little part in making sure these kids are loved and supported and valued and not just another forgotten street kid.

And now you’ve become an unofficial kitten rescue. Any new additions?

It started with one — now we have four. The newest arrival to show up on our doorstep was Vlad. @sthomas10 The Vancouver birthday party takes place Aug. 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 2245 West Broadway.

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Indigenous basketball tourney attracts international crowd Teams from Zambia, Zimbabwe, China, South Sudan, New Zealand and across North America competing at SFU

John Kurucz

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Murders, premature deaths, life-altering injuries, losing friends en masse — Gene Wolff has fit a lifetime of pain into three-and-a-half decades.

But each time the world chipped away at him, the 35-year-old Vancouver resident turned to hardwood, blacktop and leather to see him through.

A former standout in the collegiate circuit both in the U.S. and Canada, Wolff is now at the helm of Team Vancouver’s entry at this week’s inaugural Haico World Indigenous International Basketball Challenge.

The tournament features teams from Zambia, Zimbabwe, China, South Sudan, New Zealand and aboriginal clubs from across North America. Hosted at Simon Fraser University from Aug. 10 to 13, the first-of-its-kind gathering is a celebration of indigenous cultures from across the globe.

More importantly, it’s a celebration of how sport can bring a person, or an entire nation, back from the brink.

“Dealing with death has been a battle throughout my whole life — it seems to be a constant factor in everything I’ve dealt with,” said Wolff, whose mom died when he

was 17. “Going through what I went through, it seemed like nothing would ever go my way with regards to family, friends and some of my closest friends dying.

You get depressed and things go dark. Basketball seemed to be the only place I could go to.”

Wolff was on his way to making a major name for himself in basketball circles by the age of 17, though a serious knee injury required complete reconstructive surgery and months on the shelf.

Shortly after the rehab process was complete, his mother died. Over the years, he estimates he’s lost 15 friends: some were murdered, others succumbed to substance abuse. He, too, battled his demons.

“Because I was winning all the time, I was celebrating,” he said. “I wasn’t a massive alcoholic but I was a weekend warrior. It was tough, man.

Now I’m an amazing father.

I don’t do drugs or alcohol.

Basketball saved my life.”

The parallels between Wolff’s journey mirrors those who are travelling thousands of kilometres to participate in this week’s tournament: genocide in South Sudan, political unrest in other parts of the African continent and widening class disparities in China.

Fostering a kinship

Team Vancouver members, from left, Corry Breland, Mike Bissonnette, Rich Wolff, Bobby Williams, Derrek Mooney, Gene Wolff and Al Nadrazsky, are competing in this week’s inaugural Haico World Indigenous Basketball Challenge at Simon Fraser University. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

through sport and bonding over shared hardships will be front and centre at the event, according to tournament coorganizer David Wahl, who spoke to the Courier from his home in the small Haida Gwaii town of Tlell.

Wahl is coach of the Skidegate Saints, one the teams participating in the tournament that’s made up entirely of players belonging to the Haida First Nation.

“I know there’ll be a real sense of sharing, getting to know one another and camaraderie,” he said. “I

think the informal events away from the basketball court will likely end up being the most meaningful part of the tournament.”

As part of the Aug. 10 opening ceremonies, a welcoming prayer was to be recited by a Haida chief.

The closing ceremonies, on the other hand, will feature performances by Haida members, a presentation led by the South Sudanese contingent honouring all 65 indigenous tribes native to that country and a rendition of the haka — a traditional

Maori war cry or dance — led by Team Maori.

“When would you ever have the Haida Nation, the Maori and south Sudanese doing a cultural performance together?” Wahl said. “And that’s not even including the other nations that will be sharing their experiences with us.”

Wahl’s team has helped organize the long-running All-Native Basketball Tournament hosted in Prince Rupert each year. In 2015, the Saints travelled to New Zealand to play Maori clubs,

and the expectation was that the New Zealanders would come to Haida Gwaii this year to complete the homeand-home set. But while down south, the Maoris spoke to their experiences playing other indigenous teams from Tonga and Australia and the idea was hatched: rather than simply having a Haida-versus-Maori tournament, invitations were sent across the planet.

More than 100 teams expressed interest, though the final numbers were pared to 16 teams who’ll play four games each before entering the qualifying and knock-out stages.

But for all the feel-good brotherhood that’s anticipated, sport remains sport, and competitive juices are sure to simmer.

“This is a great opportunity to network and be able to set up communications and relationships with people so we can travel the world,” Wolff said. “But I’ve been playing with professional athletes my whole life and competing at a super high level, so it ain’t no thing. I want to win this bloody thing. I don’t like losing. I’m a winner. I love winning. If I lose I lose, but the goal is to win.”

For more information on the tournament, go to facebook.com/ IndigenousBasketball2016. @JohnKurucz

Hastings moves to 5-0 at Little League Canadian Championships John Kurucz

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Loreto Siniscalchi is having his way with virtually every statistical category at the Little League Canadian Championship.

After five days of play, the 13-year-old Hastings Little League ace leads the national tournament in both homeruns (four) and RBIs (13). He’s also tied for the tourney lead in

earned runs (none) and sits third in strikeouts with 13.

Meanwhile, his Hastings teammate Nicola Barba is tearing up the pitching stats: as of Tuesday, he led the way in 15 strikeouts and maintained a zero-earnedrun average alongside five other pitchers.

“The team has been very consistent — they’ve been hitting the ball, pitching well and playing good defence,” team manager Vito Bor-

dignon told the Courier Tuesday. “We’re getting key hits and strong pitching and those are the keys to success for our team, so right now we’re following the script.”

Both players padded those totals Monday as the club dominated the Team Prairies entry from Moose Jaw to the tune of 10-0. Barba went to the yard twice Monday, while Siniscalchi also knocked one out. Starting pitcher

Stefano Dal Sasso struck out five in three innings and Sean Coventry also notched a pair of hits.

Hastings sat atop the leaderboard Tuesday morning as the lone undefeated team at 5-0. A Team Quebec loss Tuesday (in a game played after the Courier’s press deadline) would guarantee the Vancouver side a first-place finish and berth in one of two playoff games Friday.

“We’re going to be facing more do-or-die situations in the next few days, so hopefully the kids can handle the pressure,” Bordignon said.

On Sunday, Hastings dumped the Alberta entry from Southwest Little League by a score of 12-1.

Siniscalchi copped four RBIs in the win, including a three-run shot in the fourth inning, and capped the night off by fanning the final Alberta hitter in the contest.

Coventry was credited with the win on the mound, while Barba struck out six over the course of two-and-twothirds innings.

Hastings played Team Quebec Wednesday after the Courier’s print deadline. The top four teams face off in a playoff round Friday, while the tourney final is slated for Saturday at noon. @JohnKurucz

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Brainchild of Fifth Gear presenter terrifies The world’s fastest road-legal EV is a horrible little British car from the 1970s

You might know the name Enfield better as Royal Enfield, a British manufacturer of rifles and, later, motorcycles. However, for a brief period during the 1970s, an offshoot also made electric vehicles.

They were homely little things, with plastic bodies and feeble eight horsepower powertrains. One just ran the quarter mile in 9.86 seconds, about as fast as a million-dollar Porsche 918 Spyder.

Obviously heavily modified, the wee orange oddball is the brainchild of Jonny Smith, a British motor journalist best-known as a former presenter on Fifth Gear. He calls his beastly little electric machine The Flux Capacitor, and with its dragstrip feat it’s officially just earned the title of the world’s fastest road-legal EV. Everything about this car is crazy. It has a runty 1.7-metre wheelbase, a pair of twin nine-inch DC motors coupled directly to the wheels, and a set of military-spec batteries of the same kind used in the Super Cobra attack helicopter. Horsepower is somewhere around 800 h.p., and torque about

1,000 foot-pounds. It weighs 850 kilograms, less than a first generation Miata.

Even more terrifying, Smith feels like there’s maybe a little bit more speed to be found by tweaking the gear ratio and getting the motors to spin a little faster at the top end. Talk about your Brexit stage left.

Pokemon Go player drives into police car

If you haven’t heard of the latest mobile gaming craze Pokemon Go, you must have been living under a rock. In a cave. In a remote forest. In North Korea.

If you thought people were distracted by smartphones before, then the latest fad-and/or-plague takes things to an entirely new level. People have been walking into poles, bumping into each other, and wandering out into traffic. It’s ridiculous.

However, nothing’s quite as ridiculous as using a smartphone while driving, and trying to catch imaginary monsters while you’re supposed to be driving is pure, undiluted dumb.

Happily, for one Maryland driver, justice was near at hand. So near, in fact, that they drove into it.

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the distance, and proceeded to drive directly into the back of the cruiser. Oops.

The unnamed driver, apparently unharmed by the low-speed collision, got out of the car, phone in hand, and apologized for being distracted.

Baltimore police subsequently issued a warning to both drivers and pedestrians to pay more attention to their surroundings.

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Your humble author doesn’t know much about how Pokemon works, save that you’re supposed to catch these things and collect them, and that as they grow they undergo evolution. Funny, that, as news stories like this probably have Charles Darwin hitting about 7,500 rpm in his grave.

Meet Graham, the human evolved to withstand car crashes

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what if human beings adapted as quickly as cars did? With thousands of people killed every year on our roads, would we perhaps change thanks to the pressures of unnatural selection?

Australia’s Transport Accident Commission seems to think so.

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WESTMINSTER TOYOTA NEW WESTMINSTER 210 - 12th Street (604) 520-3333 8531

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, AU G U ST 1 1 , 2 0 1 6

Chilliwack Super Sweet Corn 6 for $2 Prices effective: August 10th to 14th, 2016 *While Quantities Last

Okanagan Yellow Peaches

Okanagan Sunrise Apples

$0.79/lb

$0.89/lb British Columbia Anise

British Columbia Summer Squash

$0.99/lb

$1.99 ea

Denman Street Davie Street

1057 Denman St. Vancouver, BC 604.681.5221 Visit our website for store hours

1160 Davie St #150 Vancouver, BC 604.687.8081 Visit our website for store hours

Champlain Square West 10th

Unit # 7-7060 Kerr St Vancouver, BC 604.451.1329 Visit our website for store hours

4516 West 10th Ave. Vancouver, BC 604.221.1330 Visit our website for store hours

Oakridge

650 W 41st Ave #160 Vancouver, BC 604.264.6800 Visit our website for store hours

City Square

555 W 12th Ave #19 Vancouver, BC 604.873.6491 Visit our website for store hours

Kerrisdale

2215 West 41st Ave. Vancouver, BC 604.266.9321 Visit our website for store hours