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Helesia Luke, Michelle Fortin and Thea Sample head to the U.S. capitol this week to take part in the Women’s March on Washington.

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Readers weigh in on snowpocalypse in Vancouver Some people ‘making a mockery of citizenry’

Mike Howell

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I should write about snow and ice more often.

My last two entries in this space about how Vancouver is or is not dealing with the snowpocalypse and resulting icemare generated a steady stream of emails into my inbox.

The common thread was the city’s response to the mess caused some readers’ blood pressure to rise. Not everybody felt this way, however, including a guy named Matt who wrote: “This city, and a growing number of me-me-mes are making a mockery of citizenry. Does that notion even exist anymore? Where are our citizens?”

Another reader named Betty wrote to comment on my tale about shoveling out a parking hole last month for an elderly neighbour’s family visiting from California.

The hole she shovelled out was in the mid-1970s and

it was for her 1956 Pontiac.

Some guy kept taking her spot. Turns out it was a wellknown environmentalist.

“I immediately put a note on his windshield saying, ‘I plow, I park.’ He’s never liked me since then.”

Then I received a letter from Norm Atchison. He had a lot to say and his words kind of summed up some of the emails, online comments, tweets and phone messages I reviewed.

I thought you should read it in its entirety.

But before I cut-and-paste his letter, you should know I made reference to Grampa Simpson in one of my previous entries. You should also know Norm is not a firefighter but was in the East 15th and Nootka Avenue neighbourhood when a house fire erupted Jan. 5.

There, now read on…

“I guess I am Grampa Simpson. I emailed Mayor and Council and ranted about the lack of service received in my neighbourhood.

The snowfalls and resulting icy streets have upset a lot of Vancouverites, including some who contacted the Courier in recent weeks. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Given that the first snowflakes fell Dec. 2 (and we didn’t see a sand truck until we were locked in this new ice age) my tolerance for news reports of the city needing to be economic after the rest of the city was attended got my blood boiling.

By the way, we still have those first flakes. Where I live, in Renfrew, is a cold north facing slope and we

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didn’t experience the melt that other neighbourhoods have. I am sure all of the north slopes are the same.

I called 311 on Jan. 4 and explained, to a very resigned sounding operator, that when Rupert Street is plugged with commuters stuck on the hill between Grandview and 22nd they bypass to Windermere Street and right by my

house. I have come to accept this and call it the Rupert Bypass.

But under these circumstances fire trucks and ambulances also use Windermere. I suggested some attention would be useful and that Windermere might be considered a secondary route for emergency vehicles.

Finally, on Jan. 5, we saw some sanding done. The sad part of this is, on the afternoon of the same day, there was a house fire at 15th and Nootka, just four blocks away.

I was one of the first on the scene and saw how the fire crews struggled on the steep and icy hillside. There wasn’t any asphalt for the truck to stop on, just icy ruts several inches thick.

Then the fire crews slipped and slid as they deployed the hoses. I witnessed crew members falling on the ice. I thought it ironic that firefighters could be injured and have to be off work, collecting

from Work Safe, while the city saved a few dollars on salt and sand.

Surely street work is required to facilitate emergency services in their efforts. To write off citizen complaints may be humorous to some but every street in Vancouver is an emergency route at some time or other.

Also, the laneway houses that are sprouting up everywhere are increasing the many kilometres of roads that need attention.

The city and province spend untold millions for earthquake preparedness, an event that will occur every 300 to 400 years but are anxious about saving money in winter, an event that happens every year. I hope they will review their winter response plan and support the City Works Yards in their efforts.”

In the meantime, we can all get back to griping about the rain. @Howellings

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Bike share weathers cold John Kurucz

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Recent statistics from the city’s Mobi bike share program suggest Vancouverites need not be fodder for fairweather folly or derision in other parts of Canada.

Despite weeks of sub-zero temperatures, numbers provided to the Courier point to an average of 400 to 500 daily rides between mid-November and the first week of January.

By way of comparison, the bike share service was seeing an average of 850 rides in October.

“Very impressive given the cold weather,” is how those numbers were characterized by Phil Doty, Mobi’s operations manager.

That said, the last few months have presented challenges. The gear-shifting mechanism has frozen on some bikes, which Doty said isn’t out of the ordinary when temperatures hover around the freezing mark.

Mobi crews tried to stay ahead of the weather patterns by shovelling snow and putting salt down around the stations.

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Doty said no issues of widespread damage to bikes, helmets, locks or stations have been reported in

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recent months.

As well, no incidents of injuries or collisions were reported to the Courier.

The user agreement upon signing up for the bike-share service states, “If a bike is damaged during rider’s use of the bike, beyond regular wear and tear, as a result of negligent or intentional conduct on the part of rider, rider shall be charged a fee that is equal to the cost of repairing such damage.”

The use of helmets is mandatory as part of the service.

When launched in August 2016, representatives from the city and Mobi suggested the program would roll out in full — 150 stations and 1,500 bikes — by the end of last summer.

Those timelines are nowhere near being met.

As of Jan. 13, 94 stations were in operation along with 1,000 bikes. No explanation was given for the delay.

“Looking ahead for the

first part of 2017 and into spring, our focus will be to reach 150 stations going live, with the number of bikes increasing to 1,500 by the summer,” Doty said.

The program’s catchment area, which includes the downtown peninsula, bounded by Arbutus Street, 16th Avenue, and Main Street, does not appear to be expanding any time soon either.

“At this time, there are no immediate plans to expand beyond the current geographic boundary,” Doty said.

Some milestones have been met, however. In late October, Mobi recorded its 100,000 ride, a metric that took anywhere from two to nine months for cities with similar sized bike share systems.

Meanwhile, a bike share program in Seattle is slated to end in March, just over two years after its inception. Lower than expected ridership and financial pressures are among the contributing factors.

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Vancouverites to participate in Women’s March on Washington Mike Howell

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Three Vancouver women feel so strongly in their opposition to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and his series of offensive comments directed at women that they’re going to Washington, D.C. this week to tell him about it.

Helesia Luke, her 21-year-old daughter Thea Sample, and Michelle Fortin will join thousands of women from the United States and around the world in the Women’s March on Washington set for Jan. 21, the day after Trump is inaugurated as the country’s 45th president.

“What he said about women in 2016 is pretty unbelievable,” said Luke, referring to Trump’s lewd and sexist remarks during and prior to his campaign.

“The other piece that is so shocking is that I don’t think there’s been an election in history where people have known more about the character of the candidate, yet they still elected him.”

Luke, a longtime activist who works as a coordina-

tor for Green Jobs B.C., and her daughter agreed to travel to Washington after Fortin, the executive director of Downtown Eastside non-profit Watari Counselling and Support Services Society, challenged friends to participate in the march.

Luke said she’s not a spontaneous person but bought her plane tickets one week after Trump’s victory in November’s presidential election.

“It was a pretty discouraging outcome to the election and I really wanted to lend support to not just our American friends, but also to specific groups of people who are very fearful at this point — more fearful than myself,” she said referring to non-white American citizens who were maligned by Trump in his campaign.

The idea for the march began with a Facebook page created by U.S. organizers in the hours after Trump beat Democrat leader Hillary Clinton to win the White House.

That idea quickly became a movement and has inspired organizers in other cities, including Vancouver

Helesia Luke, Michelle Fortin and Thea Sample are heading to Washington, D.C. this week to participate in the Women’s March on Washington. Marches are also planned in Vancouver and Seattle. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and Seattle, to host marches. Those marches were organized after the Vancouver trio bought their tickets to Washington but none regrets the decision.

For the record, the three women are Canadians with no direct connections to the United States. So why go? It’s a question Sample has been asked, and her response is women’s rights have no borders and should be supported regardless of where a person lives.

“I want to go to represent Canada and stand

in solidarity with the men and women marching there,” said Sample, who is studying history at Langara College, where she might publish an article on her experiences from the trip.

As a young person, she said, the conversation about Trump and the forces behind his victory has people her age feeling badly for the millions who voted for Clinton, who would have been the first female president in the U.S. “All these horrible hateful things he’s saying are truly

horrible and awful,” Sample said but she acknowledged Canadians should not feel smug about the country’s cohesion, noting problems related to race, sexism and conservative voices espousing similar views to Trump exist in Canada.

For Fortin, who rearranged a planned trip to Florida to march in Washington, the need to be among other like-minded people and show solidarity is central to her belief system. Fortin is a member of the Pride board, has participated in Black Lives Matter vigils, helped organize the vigil in Vancouver to remember the 49 people slain in an Orlando nightclub and has marched to support First Nations.

“I really feel like this is a place and time that I get to put my money where my mouth is and put my feet on the ground, and that for me is inspiring,” Fortin said.

“I think I’m going to get an amazing hit of energy and optimism an opportunity out of this.”

During her interview with the Courier, Fortin purposely avoided using

Trump’s name in conversation, referring to him as the president-elect or by the hashtag she uses on Twitter, #45isnotworthy.

“I won’t say his name ever again,” she said, noting her father and friends know not to mention Trump’s name in her presence. “It’s to kind of take away some of his power because I think that language — words — have a lot of power, and his name has garnered too much attention for me.”

That decision explains why she, Luke and Sample will not attend Trump’s inauguration, even though they’ll be in Washington and understand the event will make for a big piece of U.S. history, regardless of a person’s politics.

Luke: “I think we’ll go do something educational.”

Sample: “When I’m there I might change my mind and be spontaneous to be there to witness history. But at the moment, I just find it so incredibly insulting that he’s going to be inaugurated. I think it would be hard standing there, witnessing it.” @Howellings

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Arbutus Village plans move forward Naoibh O’Connor

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The upcoming redevelopment of Arbutus Village means neighbouring residents will be without a fullscale Safeway for about two years. Sobeys Inc., which owns Safeway, is downsizing the store during construction. The Safeway store closes Jan. 19, although the pharmacy will remain open throughout construction.

The company has signed an agreement with the landlord and will return to the property once renovations are completed. There are no details about the new store’s features at this point, according to Sobeys.

A reader, who contacted the Courier about the downsizing plans, raised concerns about the many people, including seniors and those who don’t drive, who depend on the grocery store. The next closest grocery store is at 16th and Arbutus.

The project by Larco Investments Ltd. has been in the works for years. City council approved zoning to allow for a mixed-use development on the seven-acre

site back in July of 2011.

The overall project will feature 500 residential units, some of which will be affordable housing units managed by the City of Vancouver, office space, a grocery and liquor store and green space.

Phase one involves what’s been dubbed blocks A and B. Block A will include 100 units of rental housing dedicated to the city, 115 market rental units, as well as Safeway and a restaurant.

There will also be 15,200 square feet of office space.

Block B will feature 170 market rental units and retail space covering 34,780 square feet, which will house the Bank of Montreal, a liquor store and Dance Co. Blocks C and D will include 115 residential units.

It’s not yet determined if they will be market rental or condominiums.

Retail space will cover 9,900 square feet, there will be a 15,000-square-foot community centre, as well as a 9,300-square-foot private recreation centre.

As Larco fine-tunes the project, blocks C and D could change slightly, but the number of residential units

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will stay the same.

Art Phillips, Larco’s director of development, told the Courier before Christmas that some changes have already been made to the existing mall to allow the Bank of Montreal to relocate into the existing Safeway space.

“We’ll still have continuing operations of the balance of the mall,” he said. “It’s a matter of the front façade is going to be removed and we’re looking at doing that in the latter part of January.”

Excavation is expected to begin adjacent to Arbutus in March or early April.

The first phase will take about 26 months.

Construction work on blocks C and D, which are on the west half of the site (west of the Yew Street extension) will start after the first phase is completed.

“We can’t start on the west half without relocating Safeway, Bank of Montreal, the liquor store [and] Dance Co into the new facilities,” Phillips explained.

Meantime, the developer will be going back to the community in February with regards to the development permit for block B.

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Chinatown architect Joe Wai remembered Naoibh O’Connor

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Architect and activist Joe Wai died last week at age 76. PHOTO ROB NEWELL

A visionary architect, an activist and a gentleman.

That’s how mourners are remembering Joe Wai, who died last week at age 76.

It was only last No-

vember that Wai earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Architectural Institute of B.C. — one of many accolades throughout his career.

And it was only last week, shortly before he passed away, that he attended an open house for the controversial rezoning proposal for 105 Keefer St. in Chinatown.

Wai’s death surprised many people, including Henry Yu. “He was at an open house for 105 Keefer on Tuesday night. That’s why it’s shocking. People knew that he had health challenges but he was up for going [to the meeting] to speak out and stand up for what he believed. And I was on a conference call with him the day before,” he said.

Yu, a UBC history professor, grew up in Vancouver so he was aware of Wai’s fame as an architect long before he met him 15 years ago — Wai and architect Don Vaughan designed the Chinese Garden in Chinatown. Wai was also behind the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum-Archives in 1998, the Heritage Alley-Han Dynasty Bell in 2001, the Chinatown Plaza Parkade in 2002, the Chinatown Millennium Gate in 2002 and the Chinese Freemasons Building restoration in 2006. In the 1970s, Wai fought the freeway expansion that would have destroyed Strathcona and he’s known for infill houses,dubbed Joe Wai Specials in Strathcona.

When Wai was on UBC’s Board of Governors, he called attention to the fact no one was focusing on Chinese history. Then-UBC president Martha Piper immediately created a position, which Yu now holds in the history department.

Wai’s death prompted Yu to write a heart-felt post about their friendship and Wai’s significant impact on Vancouver.

“I cannot count how many meetings I have had the privilege of being at with him, and I can hear clearly in my mind at this very moment the sound of his voice, persuasively articulating what needed to be done or explaining with clarity the history of

why things had become the way they were,” Yu wrote. “Although his professional life was as an architect, and in particular as a defining presence in heritage architecture, his most profound effect for me and I am sure for many others has been in his longstanding involvement in the civic life of Vancouver.”

Yu described Wai as being outspoken, yet with a low, quiet voice.

“He was not a shouter.

He was incredibly humane. He did not demonize his opponents. It was the gravity and the content of what he said that made him powerful. It wasn’t the volume of his voice,” Yu told the Courier. “That kind of civility and grace and generosity was what made him revered and respected — even by those who disagreed with him.

He was a gentleman in that sense of the word.”

Yu also managed to avoid becoming cynical or frustrated by the slow pace of change, according to Yu. “He’d gone through a lot of victories and defeats over his decades of being involved in political life, so to speak, so he was very humane about not becoming angry, frustrated, not demonizing people and, in some sense, always being gracious and a gentleman…

The phrase I use is he was a bulwark against cynicism.

That’s why you see such an outpouring now.”

Bill Yuen, manager of Heritage Vancouver, didn’t know Wai well but called his death “sad news.”

“In addition to all the buildings he put up, and the [Millennium] gate and the [Dr. Sun Yat Sen] garden, he really embodied the spirit and values of Chinatown — the emphasis on community and helping out the community,” Yuen said. “That’s a really salient value in Chinatown, which he represented.”

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Last Saturday afternoon at Bodega on Main, every chair at the restaurant was occupied, every centimetre of floor space was staked out and every elbow-resting perch at the bar was taken. Staff gingerly negotiated their way through the crowd to make sure everyone had enough to eat and drink.

The loud din of animated conversation rose in waves every time old friends reconnected with each other.

It was exactly the way Paco Rivas, who died Dec. 19, would have wanted it.

“We know he would have loved the party,” said his daughter Natalie Rivas. “All of his people were under one roof. He would have enjoyed it.”

When Natalie and her brother Paul, who own and manage Bodega on Main together, were planning Saturday’s celebration of their father’s life, they knew it had to be just right. “My dad had high standards when he was putting on an event,” Natalie said two days later. “We all worried he’d be watching — did we have enough food, did we have enough wine?”

Bodega on Main pays homage to the spirit and legacy of La Bodega, Vancouver’s pre-eminent Spanish restaurant for six decades. Paco and his business partner José Rivas (same last name but no relation) had taken a chance when they opened La Bodega in 1974, introducing a skeptical, steakeating city to tapas.

Francisco (Paco) Rivas was born in Madrid, Spain on Feb. 19, 1940.

Paco’s father was a cab driver and his mother was a seamstress; one of their four children died of pneumonia because they couldn’t afford medical help. “They had nothing,” Paul said. “There were some very lean times.”

These lean times inculcated Paco’s determination to provide for his children. But first he wanted to see the world.

Paco went to London

where he was first introduced to the hospitality business. He worked at several hotels, including the Savoy, and took his skills with him to Paris and Scandinavia.

In the early 1960s he immigrated to Montreal and got a job at the Beaver Club, “which was a big deal back then,” Natalie says. He landed in Vancouver in 1968 to work at Sea Island, a fine dining restaurant at the airport. It wasn’t long before a friend introduced him to Sharon Paul, an anglophone from Quebec who had studied nursing in Montreal. They married in December 1970 and had two children, Natalie and Paul.

Paco and José Rivas changed the face of Vancouver’s restaurant scene when they opened Chateau Madrid at 1277 Howe St. in 1971.

The restaurant, with its white-linen tabletops, was on the upper floor of what later became La Bodega (which translates as wine cellar). Although Chateau Madrid was a success, in 1974 the partners believed Vancouver diners were ready to discover tapas. “People balked at the idea. They thought it would be an epic fail,” Natalie said.

“Spain is a very social country focused around food and family and good friends. You share around the table. He wanted that kind of atmosphere.”

In 1999, Paco was diagnosed with PSP, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, which falls under the Parkinson’s umbrella.

It affects the neck area, creating difficulties in swallowing and speaking.

Because PSP also affects balance, it’s not surprising that one day Paco fell down the stairs at La Bodega. Paco was lying on the floor with a broken neck when the restaurant’s phone rang.

When he tried to get up to answer it, the paramedics who had arrived to take him to the hospital, struggled to stop him.

“But it might be a reservation,” Paco protested.

According to Paco’s wife Sharon, “When you have a long illness like Paco had,

you can feel abandoned.

But it never felt like that for us. We’ve been very present with our friends.”

Many of those friends were at Bodega on Main on Jan. 14 to share their

stories and love for a man who helped foster Vancouver’s food culture.

Find a longer version of this story, as well as some of the shared memories, at vancourier.com.

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his week’s rains and rising temperatures will likely wash away the last of the snow and ice along with memories of the “crises” that beset us from icy streets and sidewalks to a shortage of winter shelters.

There was one sweet image of people skating for the first time in years on Trout Lake. But the city’s 311 line was flooded with calls of complaints about perilously icy sidewalks.

If the city found itself ill-prepared to deal with the ice and snow, that was doubly the case with the need to provide for those homeless people.

And it is hard to imagine we would forget folks lining up at fire halls to get their free buckets of salt and sand, at times being in such a frenzy police had to be called to restore order. And who was that jerk who turned up in a pickup truck and tried to load garbage bins with salt until he was told to leave?

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And while all of that was going on, community centres were struggling with the need to open their doors as “warming shelters” for the city’s homeless population who would otherwise find themselves on the street in the cold.

If the city found itself ill-prepared to deal with the ice and snow, that was doubly the case with the need to provide for those homeless people.

You could blame the province for not sufficiently meeting the needs of our most vulnerable citizens. But what I find most amazing is this: It took a letter from homeless activists to light a fire under the city to order the opening of community centres to serve those needs.

On Friday, Dec. 16, a letter signed by Pivot Legal Society, Megaphone Magazine and Judy Graves, the city’s former homeless advocate, among others, called on the city to deal with this crisis.

Graves now says the city was asleep at the switch; they didn’t see it coming: “They had to hire a new me.”

The following day at about 2 p.m., city manager Sadhu Johnston called the park board’s general manager, Malcolm Bromley, who was in a furniture store at the time, to order/ask him to open community centres overnight to provide warming shelters.

It turned out, as West End Community Centre Association president Dave Pasin said, a “laudable program that was ill thought out.” Even though homeless people are regular visitors to community centres across the city during regular operating hours, this was different.

Basically, neither the city nor the park board had a plan in place; it was not much different, as Judy Graves

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pointed out, than what would be needed in the event of an earthquake.

Community centre staff, in spite of their best intentions and remarkable efforts, were simply not sufficiently resourced — be it towels for those wanting showers or “rig boxes” for used syringes. Nor were they sufficiently trained to deal with any issues that may erupt because of the heightened stress among some of the homeless people.

More resources were added as time passed. Security guards and park rangers, who knew the folks seeking shelter and regularly dealt with them in the city’s parks, helped a fair bit.

But once the Christmas break was over and regular programs resumed for the rest of regular community centre users, there were complaints about people feeling “uncomfortable,” even “fearful,” with homeless people around. A tipping point of sorts was

reached when a child at Creekside Community Centre found a used syringe in the washroom.

That incident led to the three NPA park commissioners demanding an emergency meeting of the board last week.

They were armed with a motion to shut down all the warming centres until staffing levels and skills were improved.

As you may have read in the Courier, the motion failed. The West End centre, which had closed, was re-opened.

Park board chair Michael Wiebe noted most of the response from the public was supportive of keeping the centres open until the weather crisis passed.

So with the rains and warming temperatures that is now the case.

But one would hope the city would take those lessons learned and have a plan in place the next time these crises arise rather than have them overwhelm us all. @allengarr

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everyday physical activity — can trigger a greater pain response. This process has been called “central sensitization.” It involves changes in the structures of the brain related to sensation and emotion and changes in the efferent and afferent pathways up and down the spinal cord.

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THEATRE REVIEW

Soldiering on after wartime

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There’s no good season for war. Broken bodies, broken hearts and broken minds are shipped back to their loved ones in spring, summer, fall and winter. But it’s not only soldiers who leave the battlefield with wounds physical and/or psychological; it’s also medical personnel who have to deal with the hideously wounded that are continuously being airlifted into makeshift field hospitals in places like the Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan.

In Sean Harris Oliver’s The Fighting Season, Karine (Siona Gareau-Brennan), Kristy (Kyle Jespersen) and Terry (Tom Pickett) are three Canadians who have recently been sent home from Kandahar, each experiencing PTSD following a life-threatening event on the base where sand, dust, heat and blood are the elements under which they worked.

But the injured they struggled to save were sometimes Taliban warriors — young, frightened, in pain, bleeding out. Sometimes choices had to be made between the wounded, the rule being that the most likely to survive — regardless of allegiance — is attended to first.

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performances, is Terry, a surgeon who has been sent back to Canada. Of the three characters, Terry is the one who appears least troubled by what he has experienced in the Middle East. Pickett imbues the character with wry humour and a gentle manner. Pickett’s slow drawl and friendly grin provide a cover for Terry’s inner turmoil, but he eventually loses his carefully maintained composure when he uncharacteristically tears strips off a woman he does not know.

Jespersen is f-bombing Kristy whose anger is just barely below the surface; forgetting a name or a word can make him explode.

Jespersen plays the character tightly wound yet desperate to be sent back to Afghanistan because being a medic in a war zone has become how Kristy defines himself.

Who is he otherwise?

As Quebecoise nurse Karine, Gareau-Brennan is almost translucent; you feel you can see her beating heart. Karine copes by talking, talking, talking (sometimes in French) and going

over and over the catastrophic event that plunged all three over the edge.

The Fighting Season is framed as if the characters are undergoing psychological assessment; dialogue is addressed directly to the audience. Each of them presents as “normal” at times, but each is clearly suffering and in need of counselling.

The most interesting aspect of Oliver’s play is the variation in response to the characters’ shared experience: Kristy’s anger, Terry’s avoidance and Karine’s confusion — individual reactions to the same trauma.

At times, I felt these were stories I had heard before, but The Fighting Season, presented

by Bleeding Heart Theatre, is, nevertheless, riveting theatre from a new playwright who’s well worth watching.

For a longer version of this review, go to vancourier.com.

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Start your year off as a part of the engaged city. Learn more and provide input on some of Vancouver’s biggest transportation and city-building projects during our two-week transportation engagement blitz!

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Join us to review the draft plan for the False Creek Flats. The plan seeks to unlock the economic potential of the area by creating a more productive, sustainable and integrated False Creek Flats. The proposed policies were developed based on contributions from community members and keystakeholders during the planning process.

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OPEN HOUSES Saturday, January 28, 2017, 1-5 pm Douglas Park Community Centre, 801 West 22nd Avenue Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 4-8 pm Croatian Cultural Centre, 3250 Commercial Drive Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 4-8 pm Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 154 East 10th Avenue FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/broadway-extension

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“When a man knows he is to be hanged... it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” This is one of the nuggets of wisdom James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson 240 years ago. We’re not for hanging in this country anymore, but the essence of the statement remains true. Knowledge of imminent death has a way of separating the daily nonsense from what really matters.

Even when death is not imminent, according to two Vancouverites with a unique business, mortality can be a motivator for prioritizing life’s demands.

Reena Lazar and Michelle Pante are cofounders of Willow, a service that offers “inspired end-of-life planning and soulful personal development.”

Unlike most funeral directors and other professionals who help people prepare for the end of their lives, Lazar and Pante are not targeting those whose lives are nearing the end. On the contrary, they want people with years ahead of them to think about death as a way to focus more intently on what is important in life.

“The difference is we are actually focusing on the fact that [end of life] planning is a vehicle, a tool, an opportunity for personal growth and transformation,” says Pante. “We’re not actually targeting people who are at the end of their life, we are working with people who are mostly healthy and well and are recognizing that taking stock of your life through end-of-life planning and consciously contemplating your death — your inevitable and unpredictable death, in most situations — that is an opportunity to live a really great life and transform how you are living your life now.”

Among the ways the pair helps people focus is through Heart Wills and Love Letters. Two three-session series begin Jan. 26. In these workshops, participants write Heart Wills, in which they reflect on their feelings about their life and eventual death, how they

would like to be remembered and “wisdom, wishes and message” to be shared after death.

Through Love Letters, participants write messages to loved ones, to be read after the writer’s passing, perhaps offering forgiveness or sharing thoughts about who and what matter most.

“We’re trying to evoke a sense of urgency that encourages people to get into action and recognize that this is your one precious life. What do you want to be? Who do you want to be?” says Pante, who is in the final stages of her apprenticeship as a funeral director.

Testimonials from past participants underscore Lazar and Pante’s descriptions.

“The amazing thing about the Love Letters + Heart Will circle is that it caused me to think more about how I want to live my life now, and what I want to leave people with, and then be intentional about it. I’m still here.

And if I want to change something, now would be the time,” says a 48-yearold city planner.

Like Death Cafes, about which I wrote last year, the people who are attracted to programs like Willow’s are disproportionately female and, on average, edging toward or past midlife. Predictably, they have other things in common.

“Most of them have been quite deeply touched in the last couple of years by a death,” says Pante. “A friend, a sister, a parent, a partner. As we get older, that is more and more common for us. I want to get grief out of our collective closet because I believe that grief is a path to healing.

Our passion is supporting people to have peace within themselves, between themselves, among themselves and to have peace on the planet. It sounds very grand and maybe naïve, but too bad because that’s what it is.

That’s really what we are aiming for.”

They chose their business name because, they have written, “Willows are flexible, resilient, vigorous, regenerative, adaptive, useful, and beautiful.” The trees have healing properties — the bark is the source of natural remedies and the active ingredient in Aspirin.

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“The classic graceful weeping willow is, in many cultures, a symbol of sorrow, mourning and even immortality.

Willows evoke protection, movement and surrender.”

“We are at this intersection of end-of-life planning and personal development,” Lazar explains. “We are saying, let’s overlap the activity of personal development and the activity of endof-life planning.”

“If I die next week,” says Pante, “My husband knows I have a Heart Will. I have a list of people I want to receive it. I’d like them to use their judgment to read from it at my end-of-life ritual.”

The document answers questions, she says, like: What do I want to be known for? What do I stand for? What’s important to me?

“It’s allowed me to incorporate that into my

life now and to recognize that’s what I want, so that changes how I carry on my day-to-day activities today,” says Pante.

It can be an emotional experience participating in the workshops, they admit. But it is also an intimate setting where humour has a place.

“There definitely are tears — and there is laughter,” says Lazar.

“We laugh as hard as we cry, I’d say.” @Pat604Johnson

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It was 15 years ago when Tourism Vancouver came up with an idea it hoped would get locals eating out at what is notoriously considered the slowest time of the year for restaurants — January and February.

It’s not only the time of year when it rains incessantly in Vancouver, but also when credit card shock from the holidays begins to set in and thoughts gradually turn to tax time. And considering many begin giving up on their New Year’s diet resolutions mid-January, the idea of creating a festival offering discount prices at some of this city’s best restaurants was a no-brainer.

So the Dine Out Vancouver Festival was born.

The premise is a simple one — restaurants across the city create unique, set-priced menus at discounted prices, which gives hungry diners an opportunity to check out new or popular hot spots.

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and $40 and most include an appetizer, entree and dessert (alcohol, taxes and gratuities are not included). The festival also allows restaurants to keep staff employed during these slow months.

Tip: Don’t forget to do your research. This year, 284 restaurants are offering Peruvian, German, Brazilian, Italian, Greek, Ethiopian, Chinese, Japanese and East Indian menus — just to name a few.

New and buzz-worthy eateries taking part this year include Mission Kits, Ritual, House Special and Cacao. Several iconic Vancouver restaurants are also taking part for the first time, including Bishop’s and Vij’s at the new Cambie location.

Another highlight of the festival is the Chef Soup Experiment, Jan. 20, when some of the city’s top chefs each bring one ingredient to add to a stock, which will become a communal soup sold to the public by the bowl for the suggested donation of $5.

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The weeks ahead bring social joys, popularity, optimism and buoyant luck. You’ll be happy!

Legal, international, educational, travel, cultural and philosophical matters flow Sunday (deceptive, indecisive) Monday (success) and Tuesday (disagreement: drive carefully). Love’s possible, just not that probable. Be ambitious Tuesday afternoon through Thursday – show your stuff, make proposals and impress higher ups.

The general accent for weeks ahead lies on romance, creativity, speculation, teaching kids, beauty and “immediate” pleasure. These reach a peak this Friday/Saturday, which days offer a chance to start a new project in these areas.

In addition, Friday night begins five weeks of intense and significant relationships, until early March. If you’re single, you are almost certain to meet a life-mate prospect during this interval.

Be ambitious during the weeks ahead, Taurus.

Higher ups will observe your progress, might even put a test or two in your path. Don’t worry, if you apply yourself you will pass these tests with flying colours. The main thing is not to be drawn off course by social pleasures.

Keep your nose to the grindstone. Much work has been and will be laid upon your shoulders until October.

The weeks ahead feature rest, home and family, food and shelter, nature, renovations, repairs and landscaping – back to the basics of life. Friday/ Saturday are steeped in these themes, and will offer you a chance to begin a very fortunate project in these areas. All January and the first two days of February tempt you to plunge into an attractive romance or a speculative gamble (creativity is a gamble also) – beware, potholes and pitfalls exist here.

You will love this month ahead, Gemini, for it contains many of your favourite things: travel, intellectual discussions, media, ideas, culture and love. (These are doubly emphasized Friday/Saturday, when a lucky new project or relationship could begin in these areas.)

However, speaking of love, strictly avoid starting any new affectionate relationship Sunday through Friday morning.

The weeks ahead bring a flurry of errands, communications, short trips and paperwork. These should flow pretty well. Do not let your home and family demands hold you back: strike a note for freedom, especially Sunday to midday Tuesday.

You’re might make a new friend Monday, but watch your temper Tuesday morning (PST). Chase money, buy/sell, and indulge in some sensual sex if you want, Tuesday eve through Thursday

The weeks ahead feature hidden valuables, mysteries and investigations, health concerns, sexual yearnings, financial actions, commitments and their consequences. These themes intensify Fri./Sat., when a new project or relationship could begin. (However, BEFORE 10 a.m. Friday, be cautious in all things legal, international, broadcast-oriented, advertising and intellectual — and DO NOT start a new love affair.)

They weeks ahead feature money, earnings, buying and selling, possessions, good memory and rote learning; and a sexy fuzzy sensual attraction (the kind who might bore you later). These themes will come to a head Friday/Saturday, at which time you might be able to start a successful new venture in these zones. From Sunday to noon Friday do not start a love affair. Lie low, rest, contemplate and plan Sunday to mid-afternoon Tuesday.

The four weeks ahead emphasize relationships, relocation, negotiations, contracts and agreements, litigation, dealings with the public, fresh horizons and new opportunities. These are intently and luckily emphasized Friday/ Saturday, when a new project might begin in these areas. DON’T start a new relationship this week before 10 a.m. (PST) Friday — it would have sexual problems.

This is your power time, Aquarius. Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness it at a yearly high now through late February. Get out, make contacts, impress people and start significant projects. That energy and charisma will reach an annual high this Friday/Saturday; anything you start Saturday should have a lucky future. All January, continue to avoid the temptation to simply earn money and to keep your blinkers on: the world is bigger than this!

The weeks ahead are filled with work, Virgo. Watch your health: eat and dress sensibly. This will be a good time to buy machinery, but after Friday.

Friday/Saturday intensify the work theme, and bless your efforts with luck — a new employment or other practical project could start during these two days. DO NOT start a love affair before Saturday — it would die of coldness on one person’s part. Focus on home, real estate, security, basics of life, nature and nutrition Sunday to mid-afternoon Tuesday.

Plump your pillows, Pisces: you face four weeks of rest, sweet solitude, contemplation of your life and pleasing plans for the future. These weeks will also be advantageous for interfacing with governments, institutions, head office, charities and spiritual organizations. (Spiritual, not “just religious.”) These themes reach a climax of sorts – and a superb opportunity to begin projects in these zones Friday/Saturday.

(Saturday will be better.)

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Sports & Recreation BASKETBALL

Dragons look for redemption, Ghosts prep for big stage Vancouver basketball hits mid-season stride with two undefeated teams left at AA/AAA Megan Stewart

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The King George Dragons start every game with a blank record: no wins, no losses. This is what the defending city champions tell themselves though they are sitting pretty at 17-1 and a top-10 ranking in B.C.’s AA division.

The mindset keeps them fresh and motivated, detached from past results, said head coach Darko Kulic.

“Except for right now, I’ve never said our record aloud,” said Kulic, not wanting to draw too much attention to the success after last year’s abrupt ending to an equally promising season.

After winning the AA/ AAA city title — their first in school history — the Dragons were knocked out of the fiercely contested Lower Mainland regional tournament, losing their chance to play at the B.C. championship.

“Nobody wanted it to end. It ended anyway,” he said. “We’re focusing on the day-to-day, not too far ahead. Possession by possession, game by game.

There is a lot of competition this year.”

The Dragons are hot off a 52-50 semi-final win over St. Michael’s on Jan. 13 in the Victoria City Police tournament. The team scored fewer points than Yoel Teclehaimanot scored in an earlier win. The Grade 12 forward with three tournament MVP nods so far this season put up 51 points in a single game.

“He can throw a switch,” said Kulic. “The amazing thing is, he’s not a player a lot of people have heard of.”

King George is on a crash course to meet the only other undefeated team playing in the city’s AA/ AAA public school league, the Lord Byng Grey Ghosts. They play Feb. 1 in the final regular season game before the city cham-

pionship begins Feb. 3.

The Ghosts are 15-5 with an unblemished league record and close losses to Abbotsford’s Rick Hansen Hurricanes, the Kitsilano Blue Demons and Steveston-London Sharks. Lord Byng started the season with a no. 1 B.C. ranking in AAA but dropped last week to no. 5.

Head coach Kevin Sandher said competing in the Tsumura Invitational and the match against neighbourhood rival Kitsilano were season highlights.

“It was a rivalry game [against Kits] and the Byng gym was packed with students and alumni dating as far back to 1987,” he said. “It was a great atmosphere and it showed how far our program has come. We lost a tight one that night and I hate losing more than anyone, but the experience that my guys got playing in front of a packed crowd will be one they will remember forever.”

Lord Byng big man Declan Herbertson (no. 14) goes up against Windermere Warrior Jezrael Balonggay (no. 20) in a 94-61 Grey Ghosts win at home on Jan. 16. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Langara Challenge turns 10 The 10th annual Langara Challenge begins Jan. 19 as the Vancouver Girls Basketball Association invites the city’s top public and private girls basketball teams to compete in senior and junior tournaments.

The showcase arrives as teams find their rhythm and previews play-off match-ups to come.

The Langara Falcons count three players who previously played in the tournament, as well as assistant coaches Steph Scott and Jen Ju. The Falcons’ head coach, Winston Brown, once coached the York House Tigers and the Lord Byng Ghosts, both who’ll appear in the tournament.

The first round begins today (Jan. 19) with the semi-finals playing out Jan. 20. The junior girls final is set for 4:30 p.m.

The senior girls final is 7 p.m. Jan. 21. All games are at Langara College.

UBC GAMEPLAN Workshop: January 31 To provide high quality recreation and sport experiences for students, faculty, staff and residents, UBC is developing a long-range recreation and athletics facilities strategy.

Following public consultation last fall, UBC is seeking further input from the campus community on a shortlist of options for Thunderbird Stadium and War Memorial Gym.

This workshop will share how options have evolved since October and will include facilitated small group discussions to hear what the campus community thinks the opportunities and challenges are for each of the remaining options.

Join Us at the Workshop WHEN? Tuesday, January 31, 3 – 7pm · Please note this is a drop-in event

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A workshop tailored to neighbourhood residents is taking place on January 21 from 1pm – 4pm at the Wesbrook Community Centre, 3335 Webber Lane.

Online comments can be submitted from January 21 – February 5 at planning.ubc.ca/ubcgameplan

Questions? Please contact Gabrielle Armstrong, Senior Manager, Public Engagement, at gabrielle.armstrong@ubc.ca or 604-822-9984.

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Automotive BRAKING NEWS

Does the future belong to minivans? you already get in most minivans) let the seats slide around to configure in multiple different ways.

As the Portal is intended to have autonomous capacity at some point, the spacious and reconfigurable interior just makes sense. And it asks an important question.

Many current manufacturers show us the autonomous future as being a stylish sedan or crossover that’s capable of taking over driving when we’re tired. The rest of the time, the car is a luxury item that looks gorgeous in your driveway.

Fiat-Chrysler’s new concept is called the Portal, and it’s pitched heavily at the millennial market. Looking a bit like a smaller version of the Pacifica minivan, it’s got four sliding doors, a futuristic looking interior, and a roof made from carbonfibre beams. It’s also fully electric, as you’d expect.

It all looks plenty fancy, but it’s not the gadgets that impress, it’s the Portal’s flexible interior.

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until January 31, 2017. See toyota.ca for complete details. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on www.getyourtoyota.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. * Toyota Safety Sense™ (TSS) - Drivers should always be responsible for their own safe driving. Please always pay attention to your surroundings and drive safely. Depending on the conditions of roads, vehicles, weather, etc., the TSS systems may not work as intended. Please see toyota.ca, your local Toyota Dealer or Owner’s Manual for details. 1.

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2. Finance offer: 0% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval. 3. Lease example: 2017 RAV4 LE FWD Automatic ZFREVT-B with a vehicle price of $29,330 includes $1,885 freight/PDI and fees leased at 2.49% over 60 months with $1,550 down payment (after application of the $1,000 customer incentive), equals 260 weekly payments of $65 with a total lease obligation of $18,414 (after application of the $1,000 customer incentive). Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. 4. $1,000 customer incentives available on 2017 RAV4 models and can be combined with advertised lease rate. $1,000 incentive for cash customers is available on select 2017 RAV4 models and cannot be combined with advertised lease offer. 5. Lease example: 2017 Tundra 4x4 Double Cab SR 4.6L Automatic UM5F1T-A MSRP is $40,390 and includes $1,885 freight/PDI and fees leased at 2.49% / 60 months with $0 down payment, equals 260 weekly payments of $107 with a total lease obligation of $27,738. Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. Based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $0.15. 6. Up to $2,000 incentive for cash customers is available on select 2017 Tundra models. 7. Customer incentives on 2017 RAV4 models are valid until January 31, 2017. Incentives for cash customers on 2017 RAV4 and Tundra models are valid until January 31, 2017 and may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be able to take advantage of cash incentive offers by January 31, 2017. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash incentive offers. 8. Weekly lease offers available through Toyota Financial Services (TFS) on approved credit to qualified retail lease customers of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. Down payment and first weekly payment due at lease inception and next weekly payment due approximately 7 days later and weekly thereafter throughout the term. 9. ®Aeroplan miles: Earn 5000 Aeroplan miles. Miles offer valid on vehicles purchased/leased, registered and delivered between January 1 and January 31, 2017. Customers must be an Aeroplan Member prior to the completion of the transaction. Offer subject to change without notice. Some conditions apply. See Toyota.ca/aeroplan or your Dealer for details. ®Aeroplan and the Aeroplan logo are registered trademarks of Aimia Canada Inc. Visit your Toyota Dealer or www.getyourtoyota.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less. Each specific model may not be available at each dealer at all times; factory order or dealer trade may be necessary.

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