Vancouver Courier February 2 2017

NEWS NPA’S BALL WANTS TO ROLL WITH THE LIBERALS 5 LIVING REVAMPED RAILWAY CLUB ON TRACK FOR SPRING REOPENING 16 SPORTS HOWARD’S END: VETERAN JOURNALIST HITS THE SHOWERS 20 FEATURE CITY LIVING THE CLUCK STOPS HERE 17 THURSDAY

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Open Houses: People, Parks, and Dogs — A strategy for sharing Vancouver’s parks The Vancouver Park Board is working on a new strategy to create safe and engaging parks for people with and without dogs. Residents are invited to attend a series of open houses and small group meetings and have their say on a series of draft recommendations. Join us at one of these events to help shape the People, Parks and Dog Strategy!

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Public Hearing: February 21, 2017 Tuesday, February 21, 2017, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 2106-2138 Main Street To rezone 2106-2138 Main Street from IC-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a stepped six-storey, mixeduse building with 51 market residential units and ground-floor commercial spaces. A height of 22.5 metres (73.75 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.0 are proposed.

2. 4621-4663 Cambie Street and 605 West 31st Avenue To rezone 4621-4663 Cambie Street and 605 West 31st Avenue from RS-1 (One Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of two six-storey residential buildings with 74 dwelling units. A height of 21.1 metres (69 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.36 are proposed.

3. 1150 Comox Street (Gilmour House) To add the existing heritage building (Gilmour House) at 1150 Comox Street to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘A’ evaluation category, and to designate the exterior of the heritage building as protected heritage property.

4.(i) 1380-1382 Hornby Street and (ii) 801 Pacific Street (i) To amend CD-1 (435) (Comprehensive Development) District for 1380 Hornby

Street and to rezone 1382 Hornby Street from DD (Downtown) District to the amended CD-1 (435) in order to permit the development of a 39-storey residential development with a floor space ratio of 16.4 and a height of 114.6 metres (376 feet), and to relocate the heritage building known as the Leslie House within the consolidated site; and (ii) To rezone 801 Pacific Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District in order to permit the development of a seven-story cultural facility with a floor space ratio of 3.51 and a height of 26 metres (85.3 feet).

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

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Affleck supports Kinder Morgan’s pipeline project NPA councillor is only one from his caucus with clear position

Mike Howell

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In my last entry, I let you down.

My apologies.

I never did give you a definitive sense of where your three NPA councillors stand on Kinder Morgan’s plan to build another pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet. Coun. Elizabeth Ball said she would get back to me with an answer when she had one, and Coun. Melissa De Genova answered my question with more questions.

Here’s a taste: “So,” she said, “do I support the project? In some ways, yes. Do I have reservations about other parts of the project? Yes, I certainly do. So I don’t think it’s that easy.”

The missing voice from my last piece was that of Coun. George Affleck, who was unable to return my call for the very reason many others in this city have been

unable to report to work: He had a man cold.

But good news — he’s back on his feet and was on those very feet when I recently stopped him in the lobby outside the council chambers and began my interrogation.

Off the top, he told me the NPA doesn’t have a position on whether it supports Kinder Morgan’s pipeline project.

Not this again, I thought, political merrygo-rounds make me dizzy.

But then he did something that his NPA colleagues have yet to do — he took a firm position on the project, saying his views aligned with that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who told Canadians in November that the pipeline will be good for the economy while the government’s marine protection plan will ensure the environment is protected.

“If I thought this project

NPA Coun. George Affleck said his views on Kinder Morgan’s pipeline project align with those of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who gave the project the green light. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

was unsafe for the B.C. coast, I would reject it,” the prime minister said famously in giving the green light to the $6.8-billion project, which almost triples the number of barrels of oil shipped per day from 300,000 to 890,000.

Trudeau’s Vancouver buddy, Mayor Gregor Robertson, is of course opposed to the project. As are the rest of his Vision

colleagues and Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr.

And you must know by now that Premier Christy Clark gave the project the thumbs-up.

Back to Affleck…

“I’ve said this in the chamber before,” he said of his support for the project. “I’ve actually pointed to the [city’s crest] that says, ‘by sea and land we prosper.’”

Hmmm, I must have missed that.

Me: “So that I’m clear, you support the project?”

Affleck: “I think it’s required. I think that the process we’ve gone through and the stipulations that the province and the federal government have put in for environmental protection…”

He didn’t finish his thought, jumping to another about how the NPA should have a conversation about bitumen. I didn’t quite understand the reason for that conversation since bitumen is what is expected to flow down the pipeline.

So I asked him whether he had a concern about a planned seven-fold increase in tanker traffic in and around Vancouver waters.

Affleck claimed only six tankers went through those waters between January and October 2016 (still checking on that one).

“I understand the fear and I share that, and we

absolutely have to be super cautious with this tanker traffic,” he said.

“We live in Canada.

Perhaps Vancouverites are not supportive of pipelines. But we also have to think of our whole country, and our role and how do we prosper. Resources are our number-one industry in this country.”

He went on to slam Vision Vancouver and accused the mayor and his colleagues of having no understanding of the Port of Vancouver’s importance to the city, and that it was the city’s biggest employer and biggest taxpayer.

“I feel that the mayor has no respect for what it means to Vancouver city, if we’re talking about the waterways in our city.

Pipelines? It’s a tough one.

Apparently, according to polls, Vancouverites don’t like them. But I have to look at the big picture for us and the prosperity.” @Howellings

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Ball throws hat in Liberal ring Mike Howell

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An NPA city councillor and a former advisor to Premier Christy Clark are competing to become the Liberals’ candidate for the riding of VancouverFairview in the May 9 provincial election.

Elizabeth Ball, who is one of three NPA councillors, is taking on Gabe Garfinkel, a communications consultant, in what is expected to be a hotly contested nomination race that will end with a winner chosen Feb. 19.

The winner will then campaign to knock off the NDP’s George Heyman, who has held the seat since he beat Liberal incumbent Margaret MacDiarmid in the 2013 election.

Garfinkel, a third-generation resident of the riding, announced in November he was seeking the nomination.

And with less than three weeks before the nomination meeting, it looked as if he would be acclaimed as the party’s candidate.

Ball’s announcement Monday makes it a race, but the longtime council-

lor has little time to sign up party members.

“I think I’ve got lots of people on my side, and people have been very generous coming forward and offering to help and volunteer,” said Ball, a resident of the riding who was first elected to city council in 2005 and re-elected in 2011 and 2014.

“We’ve got a great team in place and I’m feeling very good about things.”

Her entry into the race raises questions about her allegiance to the NPA, which has gone from a once powerful ruling party at city hall to one that has barely maintained Opposition status. Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver team won power in 2008 and have maintained majorities in races in 2011 and 2014.

Ball defended her decision to seek a provincial seat, saying it was not connected in any way to the NPA’s performance. Her NPA colleagues on the 11-member council are George Affleck and Melissa De Genova.

“I do enjoy being on council but there are those moments in time where you

see something really good happening and you think, ‘Yes, I could add to that,’” she said in praising the Clark government’s record on arts and culture and seniors’ issues. “This is just to build on what I’ve been able to do at council.”

If Ball wins the nomination, and subsequently beats Heyman in the May election, she is allowed to maintain her council seat. If she chooses not to carry on as a councillor, her resignation would trigger a byelection.

Ball’s decision to seek a provincial nomination while serving as a councillor has some precedent, with Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs unsuccessfully seeking the NDP nomination in 2012 in the same Vancouver-Fairview riding. Heyman went on to win the seat in the 2013 election while Meggs remained on council and was re-elected in 2014.

Back in 2005, thenCOPE councillor Tim Stevenson became the NDP candidate in VancouverBurrard but was unable to unseat the Liberals’ Lorne Mayencourt. Stevenson remains on city council.

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Chief housing officer out of a job

Mukhtar Latif has been replaced as chief housing officer and CEO of Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency Mike Howell

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The city’s chief housing officer is out of a job.

City manager Sadhu Johnston announced Tuesday in a statement that Mukhtar Latif, who was also CEO of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, is no longer employed at city hall.

“The City of Vancouver has made a change to how it implements affordable housing in Vancouver to meet its vision for a resilient, diverse and connected city where everyone has a place to call home,” said Johnston, who didn’t explain in his statement whether Latif was fired or resigned.

In his statement, Johnston said the city recently established a “housing leadership table” that Johnston chairs. All major housing initiatives are vetted and prioritized to ensure progress is made throughout the organization, he said.

“As part of that transition, Mukhtar Latif, who

Mukhtar Latif was the city’s chief housing officer and CEO of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

has served as the chief housing officer and CEO of VAHA is no longer with the City of Vancouver, nor CEO of VAHA,” Johnston said. “I would like to thank Mukhtar for his work with the City of Vancouver.”

Latif worked extensively in the United Kingdom before taking a job with the city in October 2013.

Luke Johnson, a senior planner with the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, is now serving as interim CEO of the housing

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Johnston acknowledged Latif’s work in directing housing policy and projects for several years, including developing affordable housing policies and the development of an Aboriginal housing strategy.

Latif could not be reached for comment before the Courier’s print deadline. @Howellings

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Nisga’a celebrates new year Mike Howell

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Many eyes will be on the moon this week. Many Nisga’a eyes.

February marks the beginning of the Nisga’a Nation’s new year. And how the moon is shaped in the sky has historically been an indicator of whether the harvest of oolichan, salmon, berries and other foods will be bountiful for the Nisga’a people this year.

“If the moon is sitting in the sky with its tips pointed up, it’s sitting like the bowl of a spoon, which represents holding all of our harvest and that means a good year,” explained Sheldon Martin, president of the Nisga’a Ts’amiks Vancouver Society.

Though the nation’s homelands are in northwest B.C., the annual event is commemorated in a big and celebratory way in the Lower Mainland, where more than 1,400 Nisga’a call home.

Many of those people and members of other nations are expected to turn out this Friday and Saturday to the Hobiyee festival at the PNE Forum, where

more than 7,000 people attended last year.

This year, eight large First Nations dance groups totaling more than 650 performers will entertain the crowds in what is a free event open to the public.

“It’s an opportunity for us to gather, especially for us in the concrete jungle,” said Martin, who emphasized the importance of Aboriginal peoples reconnecting with culture they may have left behind in moving to the city.

“Once you get 300 drummers drumming, that place is going to start rumbling. When you feel the beat of that drum, you can’t help but begin to move.

For a lot of our people, it’s a very spiritual time.”

Keane Tait will lead one of the local Nisga’a dance groups and be joined on a drum by his uncle, Jerry Adams, executive director of the Circle of Eagles transition house for Aboriginal men.

Adams’ daughters will also dance during the festival.

Tait said the celebration continues to grow and attracts more people every year, Aboriginal and nonAboriginal. Those connections with people help build

and showcase culture, he said, noting there is a push to get more of his dance group members fluent in the Nisga’a language.

“Hobiyee is a celebration of our culture, where we can be ourselves, where we can feel safe and really show the community the strength of our culture and that we can all come together as one to celebrate who we are,” said Tait, who lives in Coquitlam.

Ginger Gosnell-Myers, the city’s manager of Aboriginal relations, will also attend this weekend’s festival. Gosnell Myers, whose heritage is Nisga’a and Kwakwaka’wakw, noted Mayor Gregor Robertson will be at the event for the first time.

She echoed Martin’s comments about the importance of Aboriginal peoples living in the region reconnecting with their culture. The Hobiyee festival, she acknowledged, is not that widely known outside the Aboriginal community, but she would like to change that.

“We do want to see everybody come out to the festival, it’s quite amazing,” Gosnell-Myers said. @Howellings

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Funding to pay for more firefighters and open a new community policing centre in Strathcona are included in a $3.5-million package of initiatives city council has approved to assist in combatting the unprecedented overdose drug crisis in Vancouver.

Council’s approval Jan. 25 came despite pushback from speakers representing low-income people and drug users who argued that a policing centre would not directly have an impact on reducing the number of drug deaths in Vancouver, which reached 215 last year.

“Policing is not the answer and you, frankly, cannot police your way out of this,” said Karen Ward, secretary of the board of directors for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. “An increased policing presence in our community will only drive these most vulnerable people into even more unsafe conditions and cut them off from the services that they need.”

The city will spend $100,000 to set up a community policing centre in a yet-to-be-determined location in Strathcona. An additional $128,200 will fund the centre’s annual operating costs. Council also agreed to boost funding by $20,000 a year to each of the 10 existing policing centres in Vancouver.

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City council decided Jan. 25 how $3.5 million should be spent in battling the opioid crisis in Vancouver, where 215 people died last year of a drug overdose. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

$3.5-million package is $1.9 million to add an additional three-person medic unit to Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services. Another $1.4 million will be spent on mental health and other supports to aid volunteers and others working on the frontlines of the opioid crisis. More training for city staff on how to administer naloxone, the overdose-reversing drug, is estimated to cost $10,000.

Ward said the $428,200 component dedicated to community policing could be better spent having peers connect with drug users, increase staff and hours at “overdose prevention sites” and set up drug injection rooms in single-room-occupancy hotels, where many people have died of drug overdoses.

“The sirens that we hear and the reports that we constantly get about people dying and overdosing and losing their friends and

losing the people that they depend upon — this has become part of the very air that we’re breathing and it is literally choking us,” said Ward, who was supported in her views by Maria Wallstam of the Carnegie Community Action Project, who argued a policing centre in Strathcona will target drug users. Wallstam said the policing centre is being set up to placate property owners’ fears about a drop in property values because of the presence of drug users.

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Michelle Davey told council that members of the Strathcona community have repeatedly requested a policing centre for their neighbourhood. That request, she said, included the community’s interest in assisting with the opioid crisis and supporting harm reduction measures, including two proposed supervised

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in drug death fight injection sites in the area.

“The citizens have asked for a place to gather, to develop programming and to assist with whatever they could do with respect to this opioid crisis,” Davey said.

“That isn’t a far stretch from what community policing centres do in other communities. Community policing centres are focused on the needs of particular neighbourhoods.”

Both the Strathcona Residents Association and Strathcona Business Improvement Association had representatives speak to council in support of a policing centre.

“While a [policing centre] won’t solve the opioid crisis, we feel it will play an essential role in allowing people to take a more active role to address safety concerns in a way that is tailored to Strathcona,” said Joji Kumagai, executive director of the Strathcona Business Improvement Association.

Davey said the community policing centre will not operate as a police precinct but have one officer assigned to it. That officer will work with an executive director and volunteers who live or work in the community.

“The Vancouver Police Department plays a veryfar-in-the-back-seat-of-thetheatre role in providing a conduit of information, a

place to bounce things off of, but not an enforcement role,” Davey said.

Council’s three NPA councillors — George Affleck, Melissa De Genova and Elizabeth Ball — voted against setting up a community policing centre in Strathcona, arguing that the proponents and detractors of the facility were not properly consulted before the request came before council.

Affleck also argued the fire department should have made its $1.9-million request for a medic team in the budget process, not as an addition to its budget.

The ruling Vision Vancouver and Green Party Coun.

Adriane Carr voted in favour of the $3.5-million package of investments, with Vision Coun. Kerry Jang saying of residents’ concerns about enforcement that the police department’s policies related to addictions, sex trade workers and mental health have fundamentally shifted over the years.

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forecasts to ensure an appropriate response,” claims the memo. Twenty years ago this might have been quite an undertaking. Today, I have three apps alone on my smartphone that give me radar reports in real time, hourly temperature patterns and precipitation forecasts.

Many of us knew in advance that snow was coming when it did, so how come the city did not?

The staff memo goes on at some length on the subject of salt. “At no time did the city run out of sand and salt supply,” they write.

The Coquitlam mayor tweeted a photo of himself guarding his city’s salt pile against Vancouver taking it away. It was a light moment, but there is little doubt Vancouver was scrambling to replace

depleted salt supplies.

We also heard wild stories about people stealing sand from Vancouver beaches, or bags of salt selling for $80 on Craigslist.

Who can forget, however, the rage at fire stations where piles of free salt were dumped and quickly snatched by residents? The memo describes those moments as merely “chaotic behaviour from a small number of residents.”

In other words, “move along, nothing to see here.”

When it came to missed waste and recycling pickups across the city, the memo downplays the impact, claiming “just under two per cent” had no pickup for a month, and up to 12,000 households had one missed pickup.

Though the memo resists pointing a finger of blame at MMBC, the con-

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tracted services company responsible for the lack of recycling pickup during the cold snap, Coun. Andrea Reimer blamed the provincial government through her Twitter account for privatizing collection.

In reality, the city had a choice on whether or not to privatize collection.

The city deserves some credit for communicating weather warnings more often, says the memo.

Puzzlingly, none of Vision’s councillors on Twitter — Deal, Reimer and Louie — saw fit to also communicate information that could have helped the public during the snow crisis. Reimer retweeted the City of Vancouver once in December, but otherwise from their perspective it was as though the snow and ice had no impact on citizens.

The memo, signed by general manager of engineering services Jerry Dobrovolny, lauds staff’s “extraordinary effort” and the fact they followed directives put in place after the 2008 and 2012 snow response failures.

The “improvement” identified apparently from this whole mess — the city bought additional salt spreaders.

If this were a private company, what is the likelihood you could shrug off the disastrous snow response as the city has? Just like with past major snow events, or even the Stanley Cup Riot, no one at city hall is being held accountable, politically or otherwise.

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Kingsgate Mall has been called wonderful, but also weird. Charming, but also creepy. It’s been advertised as “Vancouver’s secret retail jewel,” but also, by one Yelp reviewer, “1990s depression recast as a mall.”

Kingsgate has become a Vancouver landmark over the years. Some bus drivers of the 99 B-Line even like to announce its presence to riders.

Local artists and musicians have used it in their works.

If you’re new to the city, you might wonder why a humble mall — with a BuyLow Foods, a Shoppers Drug Mart, a Payless Shoes, a barber and a florist — attained local stardom.

Perhaps it’s surprises like the Bitcoin machine or the kiosk that sells lobster products. Perhaps it’s the nostalgic retro trappings, like the Noah’s Ark you can ride for a dollar or the hand-painted mural of hill country by the washrooms.

“And I thought West Edmonton Mall was amazing,” wrote one reviewer on Facebook. “This place has defied physics and made time stand still.”

It’s not completely inaccurate. The neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant is ever changing, with rising rents and longtime businesses closing. A sleek tower, the Independent, is going up across the street. Kingsgate, built in 1974, is living testament of an older Vancouver.

Amid the change, an unofficial Twitter account popped up in 2013 to archive mall happenings and deals. Tongue-incheek, @kingsgatemall tweeted urgent calls to buy velour tracksuits, expiring ground beef and giant $200

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The account was amusing to many — with about 8,000 followers — but the young woman behind it takes gentrification in Mount Pleasant personally. Because while many insist that time stands still at Kingsgate, its days may be numbered if development has its way.

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Michelle Hanley and Asha Wozny were hung over when they decided to get some pho for remedy.

Across the street was Kingsgate Mall.

They wondered if it had a social media presence. After all, it was a local institution.

“It’s amazing that it’s still around,” said Hanley, whose grandmother used to take her there every weekend for groceries. “It’s so bizarre, but it fits the neighbourhood so well.”

So Hanley and Wozny created their own Twitter account for the mall and began tweeting away: “There are no hotdogs today only sadness.”

“COME DOWN TO KINGSGATE MALL AND BUY YOURSELF WHAT YOU REALLY WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS. A VELOUR TRACKSUIT!” “TGIF drown your work week sorrows in some room temperature beers from our government liquor store.”

They racked up fans by the thousands. Canadian pop stars Tegan and Sara even followed the account.

Hanley and Wozny then mocked malls with fewer followers, like Metrotown and Pacific Centre. @pacificcentre has since blocked @kingsgatemall.

The attention reminded Hanley of why people love Kingsgate. “Everything’s a

cheap deal, but also everyone is welcome there,” she said. Young hipsters and seniors alike.

Another neighbourhood spot with a diverse crowd was Reno’s Restaurant, said Hanley. It has since closed. Other mainstays are also bidding Mount Pleasant goodbye. RX Comics, vegetarian eatery Foundation and Hot Art Wet City are also closing — owners have said it’s too expensive to stay.

“I grew up in Mount Pleasant, and now I’m watching everything I’ve ever loved turn into minimalist, cold-press juiceries,” said Hanley half-joking.

But the mall wasn’t always a friendly place to be. While Hanley helped boost the mall’s popularity, another woman worked hard to shine it up.

Mall of the wild

In 1999, Leyda Molnar was asked by the owners of Kingsgate Mall to manage it. She told them no.

“I can’t tell you exactly what I said to them because you’ll print it!” said Molnar.

Kingsgate had a reputation. Loiterers often smoked and drank at entrances.

It even attracted crime: Vancouver Sun and Province stories from the 1980s and 1990s mention some theft and violence.

While Molnar refused to manage the mall, she did help with promotions and security. Then in 2006, when the Beedie Group took over ownership, Molnar decided to give managing a shot.

She brought in choice tenants and tightened security. But Molnar had a vision for something more.

“We’re a community shopping centre,” said Mol-

nar, “so you gotta involve the community.”

Community meant dragon dancers for Chinese New Year, Irish dancers for St. Patrick’s Day, and pumpkin carving at Halloween. It meant seniors days with guests speakers, tea and coffee. It meant partnerships with the local neighbourhood house and Lions Club.

She even brought in unconventional tenants. A congregation whose Kingsway church caught on fire made the mall their home.

An Emily Carr student who made puppets from bicycle parts and even brought in a band. Even an oil painter: 79-year-old Julio Mariano Llanera Jr. “This mall is like my office,” said Llanera.

He does oil paintings, mostly portraits and wildlife. His latest work combines a bit of both: a chef prodding a giant hunk of camel meat, commissioned for a book called How to Cook a Camel.

Even Molnar is occasionally surprised by prospective tenants. Recently, a tailor insisted on setting up shop under the stairs and someone wanted to put in a Bitcoin machine. “I don’t quite understand it,” said Molnar, “but apparently it’s doing quite well.”

A curious mix, but it works, and everyone at the mall speaks highly of Molnar for making it home.

“It’s not Metrotown, but it’s family,” said Nadia Dominguez, 27, who works at her parents’ store, Lely’s Books. At Lely’s, like many other businesses in the mall, it’s all first names.

Uncertain future

The Vancouver School Board owns Kingsgate’s land. One of their schools,

Mount Pleasant, stood where the mall is from 1892 to 1972.

The land is appraised for about $79 million. Beedie pays the board an annual lease of about $750,000.

Since purchasing Kingsgate, Beedie has expressed interest in redeveloping it, an opportunity the city’s Mount Pleasant Community Plan also mentions.

Last summer, B.C. Education Minister Mike Bernier had hoped the school board would sell the mall to help with its budget shortfall. The board refused. However, the entire board was fired last October by the minister and a new trustee was appointed to the

school district.

Once again, Kingsgate’s future is up in the air, though Molnar says it might be a while.

“I’d hate to see it go,” she said, “but I also realize that you’ve got to move on.

Changes are inevitable for this year.”

Meanwhile, Hanley works across the street from Kingsgate at a burrito shop. She visits the mall often, collecting points at Shoppers, looking for dollar store deals and sitting with seniors playing keno.

“It’s going to break my heart if it goes,” she said, “but it’s a beautiful miracle that it’s still standing.” @bychrischeung

There goes the neighbourhood In the mid-1990s, Jenny Carnegie came to Vancouver from small town Saskatchewan to study art at Emily Carr. She worked at Kingsgate Mall’s Work Wear World.

“It was a pretty sleazy mall,” said Carnegie. “The only reason anyone would go there was to go to the liquor store.

“But I liked the mall. I liked that it was quirky. You can go and buy really cheap clothes! My friend was having a birthday party and everyone had to wear sparkly clothes, so I got a pair of $7 shoes from the mall.

“Under the stairs, there used to be a little place that sold Asian pastries. I’d eat there on my break.

“I really enjoyed working there. Everyone I worked with were students as well. We got to know all of the guards. They’d come around to talk to the girls all day and flirt with the girls.”

Carnegie recalled a different Main Street compared to today. She

lived in Mount Pleasant on Carolina and East Seventh.

“It was prostitutes and crack heads,” said Carnegie. “I’d come home after working at Kingsgate Mall and there’d be someone passed out with a needle in their warm in the stairwell.”

After finishing school, Carnegie lived in Los Angeles for 10 years — where she met her husband — before returning to Vancouver.

One of the first places she took him to was Kingsgate Mall.

Carnegie wanted to open a studio in her former neighbourhood, but it was too expensive.

Rent was around $2,500 a month. She found a place on West 10th instead for $1,500 a month.

“I thought [Mount Pleasant] would’ve been the perfect neighbourhood,” said Carnegie, “but it turned out it was cheaper to rent in West Point Grey.”

Interview condensed for brevity.

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Foreign Radical depicts a brave new world John Kurucz

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Grim and goofy collide in the stage Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s stage adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying.

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Faulkner adaptation gets grim and physical Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

I don’t remember ever thinking William Faulkner spun good yarns. But that’s what Toronto’s Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s physical theatre adaptation of Faulkner’s novel, As I Lay Dying, is: a good yarn.

Act I is more like the Faulkner I remember: bleak, squalid stories of the Deep South in the 1930s with death, poverty, “retardation” and infidelity all in there. But, adapted from the novel by company founders Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour, Act II takes the Bundren family — father Anse and kids Darl, Dewey Dell, Cash, Jewel and Vardaman — on a wild wagon ride with the coffin of the recently deceased (and rapidly decaying) family matriarch, Addie, in the back. Addie demanded to be buried in Jefferson, Miss., 60 miles away, with the rest of her kin.

In Act I, Addie breathes her last while her favourite son, Cash (Eli Ham), saws the coffin boards outside her window. She tells us — from beyond the grave –— that she had little use for her other children or her husband. Nevertheless, they are all committed to getting her body to Jefferson, come hell or high water.

And that’s what they get.

Storms, floods, washed-out

bridges, drowned mules, heat (with the smell of Addie rotting) and a spectacular barn fire.

Co-artistic directors Smith and Gilmour are Jacques Lecoq-trained performers so, naturally, their adaptation of Faulkner’s novel uses mime and, to a lesser extent, clowning. Minimal props. Bare feet. Some fake noses. But there’s lots of text, too, and it’s delivered with deep southern (sometimes hardto-understand) accents.

Addie (Smith) has such a strong French accent that it’s easy to miss very important plot points.

But what is extraordinary in this Theatre Smith-Gilmour/Arts Club production is the gorgeous physicality of the work.

Benjamin Muir plays both Jewel and Jewel’s spirited, bucking, lunging, whinnying horse. It’s a remarkable performance that leaves no doubt that there’s a horse — and a wild one at that — on stage. Scenes of the family swimming for their lives in a raging river or simply bumping along in the old wagon are amazingly realized.

Gilmour, as the father Anse, is the kind of miserable old cuss you love to hate. He’d rather squander money — and waste precious time — on floozies in the bar than call a doctor

for Cash’s broken leg. And the 10 bucks he spends on women and booze he has taken from daughter Dewey Dell (Nina Gilmour), unmarried, pregnant and hoping to buy something from a drugstore to end the pregnancy.

Darl (Julian De Zotti) is daft; Vardaman (Daniel Roberts), the youngest, thinks — by a convoluted string of extremely illogical thinking — that his mother might be a fish, and he drills holes in her coffin so she can breathe. Not highly skilled with a drill, he manages to drill a couple of holes into her face.

It’s difficult to say what tone the creators of this production hoped to strike.

Are we laughing at or weeping for this family?

Despite the levity of Act II, the future of Faulkner’s fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County folk looks grim: a bastard child on the way, one of the boys jailed, another with a leg that will probably never work again, a goofy child with a tenuous grasp on reality and a “new mom.” Do we care? Not enough.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

They are now as ubiquitous as the social media platforms that serve as their launching pads: polarizing political debates, xenophobia and the ever-looming threat of Big Brother.

Vancouver-based arts company Theatre Conspiracy is combining all of these issues in its latest production, Foreign Radical, which runs Feb. 6 to 11 at Studio 1398 on Granville Island.

An off-the-beaten path story that relies on crowd participation to move its narrative forward, the show includes only two characters, played by Milton Lim and Aryo Khakpour. All 30 members of each audience are active participants and help shape how the story concludes. “We decided to take those concepts from social media and physicalize them within the show. To a degree, that’s the metaphor of social media being physicalized,” says director Tim Carlson.

“Each show is a little bit different because it depends on the social dynamic of each group in each show.”

Both Carlson and Lim kept show details tight to the vest when speaking to the Courier. Their descriptions of the plot suggest Foreign Radical is part 1990 film Total Recall, and part

In Foreign Radical, Milton Lim acts as the production’s game show host, highlighting themes of security, profiling, freedom of expression and privacy in the age of cyber surveillance.

Pink Floyd anthem “Us and Them.”

Lim’s character is like a game show host who highlights themes of security, profiling, freedom of expression and privacy in the age of cyber surveillance. Audience members are moved throughout four quadrants on the stage, with documentary and news reel footage playing throughout.

As this happens, the audience is questioned on their online habits, border security and other info typically sought by intelligence agencies. The answers gleaned during this process help divide and identify audience members. It’s an exercise in profiling that separates those deemed radical, progressive and moderate.

Ultimately, the audience ends up collaborating, com-

Foreign Radical runs Feb. 6 to 11 at Studio 1398.

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peting, investigating, debating and spying on each other.

Next week’s show launch serves as a reprise, as Foreign Radical made its debut two years ago, and received a Jessie award for Critics’ Choice Innovation.

“A lot of people need some space and time to think after a performance. It is a lot to take in because it questions a lot of the foundational practices that we have in our day-to-day lives,” Lim says.

“Most people are provoked and more curious. They want to know more about how these factors affect their lives and what the implications are for the future.”

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A NOTEWORTHY BUZZ: John and Nina Cassils once again fronted their eighth annual Taste the World Gala benefitting Cambodia’s Angkor Children’s Hospital.

After vacationing and falling in love with Myanmar and its people, the couple has rallied others to visit through the years and created Taste the World to support the country’s need for better health care.

As usual, a raucous crowd filled the Four Seasons ballroom for the fundraiser and wine and cheese grazer held in partnership with the Import Vitners and Spirits Association. Event emcees Sophie Lui and Brad Jefferson saw first-hand the need to support the humanitarian effort. Their travel stories to Southeast Asia along with others buoyed a well-heeled and generous crowd, who emptied their designer purses and wallets of $180,000 and change.

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annual Grape Debate, a marquee event of Dine Out Vancouver. Sponsored by Odlum Brown, the tipple fest once again attracted an esteemed panel of B.C. winemakers, sommeliers and industry pros debating the merits of traditional and modern vessels in the fermentation and ageing process.

Although stainless steel and oak barrels have been the tried-and-true go-to containers, the emergence of concrete and clay vessels has raised industry eyebrows. Moderated by Director of Wine DJ Kearney, debaters Darryl Brooker, Christine Coletta, Sid Cross, Tony Holler, Jay Martiniuk, David Scholefield, Sandra Oldfield and Howard Soon hashed it out in front of a capacity crowd, before attendees casted their votes.

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East Side businesses feeling the pinch Rising rents, taxes, cash-strapped homeowners blamed for recent spate of closures

Jane Mundy

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On the heels of Vancouver’s real estate boom, East Vancouver’s retail rents have skyrocketed.

Consequently many small businesses, particularly on Commercial Drive and Main Street, are being pushed out of the city.

Bernie Moschenross opened Wonderbucks 18 years ago, and the “high-end dollar store” soon became a Commercial Drive institution.

But increased rent and property tax forced him to close shop at the end of January.

“I read an article in the New York Times saying the Drive is one of the last streets in North America that bred a different way of thinking.

And for young people it was like Soho in the 1970s,” said Moschenross. “We wanted to be there. Only time will tell if the Drive’s vibe will disappear.”

Over the past year, several independent East Side businesses have either relocated or closed shop for good, due

to substantial rent increases and taxes. Rising property values spell higher property taxes, which the lease holder — not the property owner — must pay.

Over on Main Street, Glencora Maughan, coowner of Twigg & Hottie, said the boutique closed in December after 13 years, mainly because both homeowners and renters in the neighbourhood no longer have disposable incomes.

As land prices increased, sales decreased.

“Our products are designed and made in Canada so we provided local artisans with a substantial cheque each month that they no longer have,” said Maughan, adding their store space remains vacant.

Also feeling the pinch was Sellution Quality Consignment, which sold Vancouverites vintage furnishings on Main Street for two decades, but moved to Kingsway last summer after their rent tripled. The building also remains vacant. With small, independent businesses

After 18 years in business, Wonderbucks owner Bernie Moschenross closed his Commercial Drive store at the end of January. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

closing, there’s a fear only big box stores and franchises will be able to afford to operate in Vancouver.

Last month, the owners of Main Street’s long-serving vegetarian restaurant The Foundation announced it would be closing at the end of February.

“It’s terrible that Foundation restaurant and Wonderbucks are leaving because of rent hikes,” said Maughan. “Young people

take out credit lines to make lease-hold improvements and at the end of the day the landlord wants more money.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I want to stay in the community. Maybe there will be more pop-up shops.”

Fortunately, not all landlords are on the same page.

Some businesses, including Sacha Thompson’s The Flowerbox on Commercial Drive, may be OK for a while, provided the landlord doesn’t

plan to develop anytime soon — and so long as people have enough cash for flowers after paying the rent or mortgage.

“After 13 years on a side street off Commercial, my landlord tried to charge more than the going rate on the Drive,” said Thompson.

“Luckily, I now have an excellent landlord with a store twice as big, the same rent and walk-by traffic second only to Robson Street.”

Most tenants have triple net leases, meaning they pay property taxes on the entire property. Besides the storefront, Wonderbucks also has a warehouse and a parking lot, so property taxes became “outrageous.”

And with rent increased to $27,000 per month, Moschenross believes Wonderbucks was sellable at one time, but no longer.

Now that the GrandviewWoodland plan is approved, Moschenross believes his property has been rezoned and the landlord will demolish the building. Developers can build a storefront with three floors above for residential use

— in some areas on the Drive they can build up to six floors.

But Kent Munro, assistant director of planning with the City of Vancouver, says the plan won’t make any changes to the Drive.

“We didn’t want to destabilize businesses or encourage redevelopment at a pace different from the past 30 years,” Munro said. “And since the plan was accepted last summer, there are few development applications.”

There’s no getting around pressures on all types of land uses and affordability of rents for commercial use. One realtor told Moschenross that small business in East Vancouver “is done.”

On the other hand, Thompson said that her landlord looks at the big picture. “He looks at the community. He looks at long-term success.”

One solution is for shoppers to support East Side retailers.

But with rising rents and taxes, whether Vancouverites can afford to continue do that is uncertain.

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Living Craft beer-focused Railway to reopen in spring

Michael Kissinger

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Downtown’s beloved Railway Club will reopen with a new name and a new lease on life that points to the future while honouring its past, say the new owners of the iconic upstairs venue.

Contrary to initial reports, live music and entertainment will still be on tap when the Railway Stage & Beer Café reopens this spring, but so will a “progressive craft beer program.”

The renovated space will serve 32 craft beers with a rotating tap program and focus on attracting customers throughout the day rather than relying on nightclub business to pay the bills.

“It is a strange and awkward second-level space with nooks and crannies, a small city patio and a back room bar. That’s what we love about it and why we spent so much time there,” Jeff Donnelly told the Courier. “It’s calling to be brought back to life. We’ve hired a young design firm that puts the history of the space first.”

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and became an iconic music venue in the 1980s and ’90s hosting the likes of Radiohead, k.d. lang, Los Lobos, and the Tragically Hip. But over the years, the cozy hotspot had lost considerable steam, its identity and much of its loyal clientele.

Earlier this year, Donnelly and his business partner, Chad Cole, took over the lease of the 84-year-old club, which had been closed since March.

Donnelly and crew will also be calling on local musician and “impresario” Thomas Anselmi to “develop the programming vision for The Railway Stage, including curatorial direction, décor, stage

design, lighting, and to keep the all-important feel which makes the room special.”

Anselmi has a proven track record of invigorating historic venues, including the Waldorf Hotel and former porn theatre-turned-night club the Fox Cabaret. And his music cred goes further back as the former frontman of Copyright and Slow, which infamously ended its career at Expo 86 while performing at the fair’s Festival of Independent Recording Artists. Anselmi reportedly mooned the audience after organizers cut the show short and a mini-riot ensued.

Donnelly said having Anselmi on board is a good fit for the club’s new vision.

“Andi Akhavan, our head of programming and talent, has worked with Thomas in the past at Arrival Agency. Not only was he a cultural fit but he had a lot of passion for this particular project since we first started talking with him. He chose to work with us as much as we chose to work with him.”

While details of the club’s live entertainment offerings are still being worked out, Dino Archie’s popular comedy night and Joe Rotundo’s “Saturday Sessions” will return. No word yet on the crowd-favourite Hardrock Miners’ singalong.

As for the club’s train set, which hung from the ceiling and wound its way around the venue, delighting many a drunken onlooker, there had been rumours online that the trains had been sold and the set permanently derailed. Not so, according to Donnelly.

“The trains have not been sold, the track hasn’t worked for some years and, unfortunately, a lot of the cars were stolen over the years.

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The Year of the Rooster, according to Chinese astrology, is marked by certain character traits — being active, amusing and popular.

Those three things summed up Neezar Joseph’s job description for LunarFest held at Queen Elizabeth Plaza this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

“I haven’t been a rooster before,” Joseph said while he stepped into the fuzzy yellow bird costume backstage prior to Saturday’s roaming performances.

“I’ve been a duck and some other birds, a heron and there was a Canada goose in there… But I love the rooster. As a performer and character, the rooster is boisterous and loud. A loud and proud character.”

Joseph is involved in the circus arts with his company NZR Productions. Crowds don’t scare him, he said, nor do little kids who sometimes dart under his stilts.

His 20 years of professional experience include musical theatre where he recently toured the country with scifi musical sex comedy Broken Sex Doll (Joseph wore towering stilts, much higher than the jumping stilts he used during LunarFest, for his role as the King).

His penchant for performance began as vocalist for various bands during the 1990s, including Bloody Worm and Duke of Medulla. During that time, he expanded his frontman duties to include fire-breathing.

From there, the path to the circus arts was cleared.

“I was really into Queen,

KISS and all those theatrical rock and roll bands. I was in a band, so that’s how this all started. This is a dream come true,” Joseph said as he flapped the wings on his costume as if to accentuate his point, while laughing. “As I say while wearing a rooster costume.”

Along with Joseph’s roaming rooster, LunarFest also featured crafts for kids, carnival games, puppet performances, fortune telling, pottery workshops and, because eating is one of the four key elements of Chinese New Year, a menu that included pork siu mai, shrimp dumplings, pork buns and gyoza.

LunarFest’s range was representative of the different cultures that celebrate the Lunar New Year, said Eddy Kuo, one of the celebration’s project managers.

“It’s not just the Chinese who celebrate it, it’s also the Korean community, Vietnamese, Thai... We want to bring attention to the fact that this is a very important celebration for

many Asian cultures,” said Kuo. “Our big hope with LunarFest is that, through engagement, we can bring communities together.”

LunarFest is hosted by the Asian-Canadian Special Events Association.

The group started in 2009 to participate in the Vancouver Winter Olympics Legacy events and the first LunarFest in 2010 was held on Granville Street, marked with a LED-lit Lantern Forest.

This year, LunarFest also has an art exhibition titled “Art of the Rooster” at Oakridge Centre until Feb. 5, which features works of emerging artists from Taiwan. One of the featured artworks is an upside-down traditional Taiwanese home from the 1970s called “New Year ‘Dao.’” Lunar New Year festivities traditionally start the day before the New Year (this year, Lunar New Year was Jan. 28) and continue until Lantern Festival on Feb. 11. @rebeccablissett

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WEEKLY FORECAST: FEBRUARY 4 - 11, 2017 OK, so everything is turning up roses. Well bully for you, Aries. Hey you deserve it. I know how hard you push to achieve things in your life. Did I mention of ALL the signs in the zodiac, bar none, you will (apologies for the Victorian phrase) rise above the station to which you were born into. If born in poverty, you achieve middle class, if born to a middle class status, welcome to the upper class, and if born upper class, nere I say, you enter the elite class.

Libra your luck remains into 2017, but you know it’s more than just sweet luck which you possess. I am constantly refreshed,invigorated by your astute, focused manner. Your way of letting the “ugly” parts of human nature roll off your back. You’re intense yet calm approach to life’s pitfalls and heights with fairness and consideration. (Con“SIDER”ation derives from the Latin word”sider” star.)

Taurus, you have your work cut out for you until March 3, 2017. Your ruler, Venus sits in your solar house of self undoing (how appropriate is the Tarot Card VIII of Swords as a depiction of the mental trauma one can inflict on oneself when anxiety, low self esteem are permitted to run wild).

And in the true sense of self awareness you must guard against thinking in this vein. Avoid negative self talk at all costs.

The rising up, the recovering, the dusting off , the standing back up… This is what is crucial, most important and necessary. The releasing, the letting go, this is what is profoundly soul provoking, cooking, evolving. When someone thieves from you, sure cut off their right arm if you want to get biblical… I prefer this solution: Discover the source, the culprit of the theft. Try and recoup if possible. Then let it all go…

Monday/Sunday, you are cooking on all burners. Looks like the finances of a partner, marital or business are in full throttle transition, change, radical change as in boom or bust? Mercury, your ruler in this house, is doing a farewell lambada with Pluto, giving you an extraordinary power, a neutron powered control, an abiding passionate desire to rule the World’s finances. Keep it going Gem. You just might end up doing it.

Your ruler, Jupiter, continues his 12 month transit ending, October 2017, through your solar house of friends, social groups, associates from your profession. But more importantly, Sagittarius, your hopes, dreams and wishes for the future. During the upcoming days, the moon traverses your solar horoscope of intimate/close partnerships, both marital/ business, BFF’s, as well, open enemies, contracts, large important business deals.

Sunday/Monday sees change, movement, flux, ebb and flow like a rip tide in the ocean, swirling about your horoscopic sector of chronic health matters, secret enemies, self-undoing and large animals: Horses, elephants, tigers, bears, oh my! Hope I haven’t startled any of you soft centered folks. (Did you get the crab reference, Cancer?) You will experience in the next two days or so a lot of activity connected to prisons, hospitals. Large institutions, nursing homes for example.

Sunday/Monday, it would appear your home, family, ancestors, interests in secured assets, including real estate. And as well, end of life issues demand your attention. Your exalted ruler, Mars in Aries, in the above described area of your solar chart, reads like the bio of a tycoon on the verge of great renown. In the upcoming 30 days, your home is control central vis a vis the litany of planets(read: activity galore) occupying your homebase.

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Leo, as discussed last week, this is not your month.

Nor is it wise to stick your pussycat nose into places someone may smack it, Ouch! But you do have a habit, if not centre stage, the focus of attention on somebody else,you will attempt to have everyone pivot back to you. Now don’t get me wrong, this is part of your character we love, you are a true showman/woman/ze . And many of us, including myself love our Leo siblings with a ferocious loyalty.

Aquarius, how is birthday month treating you so far?

I hope it’s filled with the ones you love. Not things we are told we need. It has been a weird couple of years. I mean normally Aquarians have a coterie of people they share their eccentric point of view with, or establish a pocket protector club, or have a patent pending on their new eyeglass cleaning unit. Point being, they normally have friends. But with Saturn in Sagittarius, this whole area of life has been scorched.

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Oh Virgo, what do say to you? How can I take away the burden you have carried low these last months?

Your feelings of exhaustion, mental, physical and too spiritual, the result of watching/experiencing first hand as the South Node in Pisces has sucked the oxygen out of you most intimate, deepest relationships. Here is the GOOD NEWS come May 8, 2017, it leaves this section of your solar chart and this will not recur for another 18.6 years. Yeah!

Sunday/ Monday over the next few days opportunities arise allowing time for work on your home.

Utilise this time while the moon is gaining her strength As she graciously moves toward the full moon phase on Friday. Real estate issues, matters connected to the paternal side of your family, end of life subjects are rife with the warp and woof of the moon transiting this area of your chart.

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BEEDIE ENGAGED. KING OF THE COURT King George Dragons starting guard Yoel Teclehaimanot scored more than 50 points twice so far this season, netting 51 and 53 during tournaments. King George shields itself with a tough mentality instilled by head coach Darko Kulic, who teaches his charges to start each game with a fresh 0-0. So far, so good, as the Dragons have a 23-1 record as of Jan. 31. The 2016 AA/ AAA city championship MVP, Teclehaimanot, and the Dragons begin a defence of their school’s first ever city title when the tournament starts Feb. 3. From Feb. 7 through the championship match Feb. 10, the games are held at Windermere secondary.

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Veteran sportswriter Howard Tsumura surprised his vast and loyal readership Jan. 27 when he announced he was ending his tenure at the Province as the newspaper’s high school and university sports reporter.

“To all my loyal readers, Jan. 31 marks my final day at the Province,” he wrote on Twitter. “It’s an end to

33 years in print. But I have new home! So stay tuned!”

Tsumura, widely known on sidelines and press boxes throughout the province as Howie, got his start with the community press in the Lower Mainland and can still recall the final score and prominent story lines of the first senior boys B.C. basketball championship he covered. That was when AA was the top of the two tiers that have since expanded

to four. Never much of an athlete himself, Tsumura always adored the drama, pomp and talent on display in high school sport. He dedicated his life’s work to building a platform for young stars.

Last week, in one of his final stories for the newspaper chain, Tsumura wrote about Deb Huband, the head coach of the women’s basketball team at UBC, and fittingly, he wrote about

excellence and longevity.

On Jan. 27, Huband had this to say about the reporter: “He’s a one-of-akind, unique individual who single-handedly through his own passion has promoted and supported amateur sport, high school sport, men’s and women’s university sport with exceptional commitment, dedication, and has raised the profile for hundreds of young athletes in the province.”

It’s all true.

A prolific producer of fantastic leads and stories with incredible warmth for the young men and women who often play for little fanfare in a media landscape saturated with hockey coverage, Tsumura wrote thousands of stories on break-out stars and phenomenal performances, humanitarian jocks with big visions, promising prospects who died too soon, and the coaches who

drove them all, plus all the results of all the games they played. He covered the NBA beat when the Vancouver Grizzlies played in town and expanded his print repertoire to include podcasting. Plus, his basketball rankings were simply unmissable. He did play-by-play, too, often writing game reports after having called all four quarters.

He promised he won’t be gone for long — “So stay tuned!”

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PER MONTH FOR 10 MONTHS

*

• Unlimited Canada/U.S. talk • Unlimited global text

$0 ZTE on MyTab

freedommobile.ca Learn more at freedommobile.ca. The Smartphone 45 LTE plan is available for a limited time and is subject to change or cancellation without notice. *6GB of data includes 3GB of bonus data per month. Bonus 3GB will only be applied to the plan until January 31, 2018. The $100 service credit offer and $99 MyTab Bonus offer on the ZTE Grand X 4 are available until February 6, 2017 and are subject to change or cancellation without notice. To be eligible for the $100 service credit, you must activate a new Pay Before or Pay After line on an “Eligible Plan” (Smartphone 45 LTE, Everywhere 45, or Everywhere 55 plan). A $10 monthly credit will be applied to your account for up to 10 months to a maximum of $100.

The credits will start to be applied to your account as a top-up before tax on your 2nd top-up date (for Pay Before customers) or as a bill adjustment before tax on your 2nd bill (for Pay After customers). To be eligible for the $99 MyTab Bonus offer, you must activate a new service or upgrade your phone to a ZTE Grand X 4 on MyTab and sign up on an Eligible Plan. MyTab terms and conditions apply. In addition, a downgrade fee of up to $99 will be charged if you switch to any plan other than an Eligible Plan within 24 months of activation or upgrade. The amount of the downgrade fee will be prorated based on the number of months left in the 24 month term. These offers may not be combined with any other in-market offer, with some exceptions. Additional terms and conditions apply. ZTE and ZTE Grand X 4 are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZTE Corporation. Screen image simulated. The Freedom Mobile name and logos and other words, titles, phrases, marks, logos, icons, graphics are trademarks of, or are used under license by, Freedom Mobile Inc.