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Vancouver city councillors earned six figures in 2016 Mike Howell

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For what seems like an eternity, I’ve been diligent about reporting how much your mayor and city council rake in each year for doing the work they do.

I’ll give you the latest dollar amounts in a few sentences.

First, as you are keenly aware, some councillors work harder than others, but don’t necessarily take home more money.

That excludes councillors such as Vision’s Raymond Louie, who also doubles as vice-chairperson of Metro Vancouver. He earned $35,929 in 2015 for doing that job, according to Metro’s 2015 remuneration report.

That same year, Vision Coun.

Heather Deal collected an extra $24,053 as chairperson of the Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Committee.

What the rest of the Vancouver crew earned as Metro directors in 2015 is only a Google search away. The 2016 version of Metro’s report is expected to be released in May.

Until then, let’s take a look at city council’s 2016 remuneration report, which went before council April 10.

For the first time since I can remember, all councillors except for Vision’s Andrea Reimer ($97,543) pulled in more than $100,000 in a single year.

Not too shabby. Deal topped out at $135,780 (that includes extra pay as deputy mayor), and Louie was runner-up at $119,896 (that includes extra pay as acting mayor). Add those six figures to their Metro income, and that’s some decent do-re-mi.

The other seven councillors — the NPA’s George Affleck, Elizabeth Ball and Melissa De Genova and Vision’s Tim Stevenson, Geoff Meggs, Kerry Jang and the Green Party’s Adriane Carr — all took in $103,000 in 2016.

Mayor Gregor Robertson cashed out at $166,628. His local expenses, travel and conference costs totalled $34,226. Then there’s his socalled “discretionary” budget.

The mayor spent a whopping $783,090 out of his allotted $1 million. So what the heck did he spend all that cash on?

Councillors got a huge pay boost last year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

At deadline, I was still trying to determine that after examining the mayor’s expenses for 2016 on the city website. It’s very tedious work to go through item after item. So I got in touch with a staffer in the mayor’s office, who sent me a better visual of the breakdown of expenses.

That document, or table, says the mayor actually spent $985,273 in 2016.

So which is it, folks — $783,090, or $985,273?

I went with $985,273 and learned the bulk of the spending — $689,118 — went to “political salaries.”

Another $106,314 was spent on “consultant services,”

$77,676 went to “fringe benefit and salary accruals,” $47,517 paid for “discretionary travel and training expenses” and $19,736 for “office supplies and services.”

I put all those categories in quotes because I didn’t get a chance to have someone from city hall give me examples or more detail. Anyway, you get the picture — the mayor spends a big chunk of cash on staff dedicated to the Vision Vancouver agenda.

But enough about the mayor; how is it that all but one city councillor joined the 100K club?

Regular readers will recall a piece I wrote in this space

back in March 2016 when the mayor and his councillors decided to give themselves a raise. As I wrote back then, council approved a pay increase of $8,968 last year to top up their annual salaries to $80,029.

Councillors also decided that another “one-time payment” of $8,968 should cover their past year on the job in 2016. They were also to collect another $3,048 every year to cover extended health benefits they don’t receive. Then there was the additional $6,000 to hire a person or people to help them with their workload.

I’m probably missing a few bucks there.

Anyway, that was last year.

According to the city website, councillors’ salaries this year are $82,029 (plus the $3,048 for extended health). The mayor’s salary is $165,700. He also gets an additional $3,048.

That’s some pretty decent dough for all 11 of your elected officials.

I know some of the usual complainers will say that kind of pay is outrageous.

I say to that: Really?

A city councillor in Winnipeg earns $89,346 per year while an Ottawa councillor collects $93,999. While every city has its problems, I can think of a few in Vancouver — an unprecedented overdose drug crisis and recordsetting homelessness — that no other councillor in the country would want to touch.

That said, after being a dedicated council watcher for what seems like an eternity, I can say that not every politician at city hall always earns their keep, or brings value to an argument.

I’m not going to name names. But let me give you a clue...

Grab a piece of paper, write down each councillor’s name. Next to it, write at least one good idea or policy that he or she has introduced that could have made or made a noticeable difference in this city. Not the party, the person. If you get stumped, then you’ll have your answer or answers to what will become an $82,000-a-year question in next year’s civic election. @Howellings

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Vancouver’s homeless population bigger than ever Mike Howell

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The homeless population in Vancouver has increased by almost 800 people in 12 years and leads the region with 2,138 people either living on the street or in some form of shelter.

In the last year alone, the number of homeless in Vancouver shot up by 291 people to set a new record for homelessness in the city, according to preliminary statistics released Monday, April 10, by organizers of Metro Vancouver’s homeless count conducted over two cold and snowy days in March.

“It’s completely horrifying to see these numbers — and sad and embarrassing,” said NPA Coun. George Affleck of the statistics that also show growing homeless populations in Surrey (602), Langley (206) and New Westminster (133).

Other Metro Vancouver cities also saw increases, particularly in the Tri-Cities where the homeless population grew from 40 people in 2005 to 117 this year. Richmond increased from 35 homeless people in 2005 to 70 this year.

The North Shore was the only municipality whose homeless population held steady over the 12-year period, with 90 people counted in 2005 and 100 in 2017. Burnaby’s homeless population has fluctuated, with a high of 86 in 2008 and is now at 69.

Of the 3,605 homeless people counted in the region this March, 2,573 were living in shelters (1,601 in Vancouver) and 1,032 were either on the street or residing in a vehicle (537 in Vancouver). It’s a 30 per cent increase over statistics collected in Metro’s last count in 2014. (Vancouver conducts its own count in between Metro counts.)

A record-breaking 1,847 homeless people were counted last year in Vancouver. Affleck said the increase of 291 people over last year is a worrying trend and a problem that needs all municipalities and senior levels of government to work together to build homes.

“I sound like a broken record — that this is not something Vancouver can solve on its own,” said Affleck, who has repeatedly criticized Mayor Gregor

The Metro Vancouver homeless count conducted March 7 and 8 revealed 537 people in Vancouver were living on the street and another 1,601 were residing in some form of shelter.

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Robertson for promising to end “street homelessness” by 2015 when he knew the goal was impossible.

Affleck said Vancouver needs to take “a harder line” with other communities to address homelessness. He singled out Burnaby, which does not have any shelters and has demolished older rental buildings.

At a news conference Monday, Port Moody Mayor Mike Clay echoed Affleck’s comments about working together, saying the statistics

clearly show homelessness is no longer concentrated to Vancouver. Clay is chairperson of Metro Vancouver’s housing committee.

“This is hitting everybody in every community,” he said, noting the social and financial costs of homelessness are substantial for municipalities outside Vancouver. “We’re failing to protect our most vulnerable citizens and the problem will not get any better without systemic changes, smarter investment and better cooperation

between all levels of government and stakeholders.”

Clay reiterated much of what he and other mayors, including Robertson, said in February when they launched a campaign to pressure the provincial government to address homelessness.

The mayors released a “position paper” that made 12 recommendations, including building 3,000 units of transitional housing by 2019, increasing the $375 shelter rate for welfare recipients, adding services for Aboriginal peoples, creating a plan to tackle poverty and expanding home care for people with chronic health issues, mental illness and addictions.

Housing Minister Rich Coleman has repeatedly told the Courier the ruling Liberal government has invested more in social and supportive housing than any other jurisdiction in Canada.

In the past decade, the provincial government funded 13 supportive housing sites in Vancouver that created more than 1,500 units across the city. The government also bought more than 25 singleroom-occupancy hotels in Vancouver, funded temporary

housing sites, shelters and continues to offer rent supplements for low-income people.

“I don’t think you can downplay what has been done — there’s been significant investment that we’re thankful for where it’s working,” said Clay in acknowledging the provincial government’s investments in housing. “The efforts don’t definitely go unnoticed, but there’s just not enough... these [homeless] counts continue to rise.”

A final report on Metro’s 2017 count, which will include detailed analysis of demographics and trends, will be released in the summer.

The initial analysis has shown Aboriginal peoples are once again overrepresented in the number of homeless people living in the region — 448 in Vancouver, 137 in Surrey.

The organizers acknowledged the statistics for the entire count do not represent all people who may be homeless in the region.

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Hundreds of hours of practice, a concerted pre-scout of the international competition and a championship final staged in front of thousands in person, if not millions online.

It’s got all the makings of the Stanley Cup playoffs, but a group of Gladstone secondary students are competing for a championship chalice of a much different sort.

Twenty-two students are bound for Louisville, Ky. next week for the VEX Robotics World Championship, one of the largest global gatherings of tech-savvy students and gearheads alike.

Now in its 10th go round, the annual event attracts teams from all corners of the world: this year’s numbers include 20,000 students, 1,400 teams and 30 countries. The Gladstone crew is sending three teams to the event, while five others from across B.C. are also making the trek.

“This is an arms race within a totally interconnected world,” said Gladstone Robotics teacher Paul Wallace. “The world championships are a huge event for these kids.”

The competition specs differ each year, and a preselected task is chosen for the robots well in advance, allowing contestants to design and refine for months. The 2017 task requires robots to pick up and throw as many objects as far as possible on a playing field that resembles a miniature volleyball court. The tournament’s round robin portion plays out for close to three days before the numbers are pared down to 20 finalists.

Last year’s final attracted around 10,000 spectators.

“It’s really overwhelming, but also very interesting,” said Denise Chan, a Grade 12 student competing in her

Joshua Choi (left) and Abhinav Maganty work on their robot called 2D. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

fourth world championship.

To help with those nerves, students pour in hundreds of hours’ worth of leg work and go through close to 10 iterations of a single bot before it’s go time. The 2017 contest task was announced last fall, and from there, the methodical pre-scout began: combing over YouTube for design tips, exchanging ideas via online forums and liaising with other participants from as far off as China and New Zealand.

The end result is three robots from Gladstone that have made it through roughly a half-dozen pre-qualifying tournaments staged across B.C. over the last six months.

The robots are roughly a foot and a half in height and made of aluminum.

They’re controlled remotely and each robot is assigned a team of six: drivers, coaches and scouts, who have the specific task of checking out the competition.

“The students meticulously keep a file on all the robots and what they’re doing,” Wallace said.

Gladstone has a long history in the bot game that dates back a decade. About 80 students between Grades 9 and 12 are now involved in studying the hallmarks of robotics: engineering, math, physics and programming.

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That level of hindsight and experience is what separates Gladstone from the pack in B.C. Alumni now working in the fields of engineering and programming come back almost weekly to help mentor students. It also trickles down the grades, as seniors team up with the juniors on projects.

Grade 9 student Zoe Tsai is one those juniors, and next week will be her first kick at the robot can, along with her team’s robot called 2S. “Having to sort through all these parts and then figuring out what to do with all this stuff is exciting,” she said.

“The fact that you can make a bot move and give it commands makes it really interesting for people to watch.”

Xing Hao Li is Tsai’s wingman on the 2S front.

The Grade 11 student took part in last year’s worlds and knows the ins and outs of bot building and battling it out in a packed barn. That said, Li takes a measured approach to goal setting or spit-balling specific targets.

“It’s not about how you place,” Li said. “If you aim for a top 10 for example, you’re going to be pretty upset if you don’t get there.

If you go there and try your best and have fun, you can come back and still be happy and proud of yourself.”

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Another Vancouver church hopes to leverage its land value to raise money — in this case for a new school.

Corpus Christi church and Corpus Christi elementary school sit on a large block of land between Nanaimo and Clarendon streets and East 48th and Waverley Avenue.

They are at high risk of damage in the event of an earthquake so Corpus Christi plans to replace the school and build a new parish hall under the new gym, at an estimated cost of $17.3 million, and then seismically upgrade the church and rectory at an estimated cost of $8.5 million.

Corpus Christi has been fundraising for three years and has collected just over $1 million. It also plans to borrow some money, as well as generate additional funds by selling a chunk of its property.

A portion at one end — 17 per cent of the overall site — has been listed for sale by realtor Michelle Yu. Money generated by the land sale will go towards

Killarney’s Corpus Christi church plans to use money from the sale of a portion of its land to rebuild Corpus Christi elementary school. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Several other Vancouver churches in recent years have also leveraged land value to secure their financial futures.

Oakridge United Church, as reported in the Courier in 2016, is redeveloping its site in partnership with a developer. A 58-unit condo complex that’s being planned will include a meeting space for the congregation.

Last October, the city approved a redevelopment plan for the Oakridge Lutheran church, at West 41st and Ash Street, which will see a six-storey mixed-use building with space for a replacement church.

Downtown Coastal Church, meanwhile, inked a deal that saw the 62-storey Shangri-La tower built on the property beside the church.

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neighbourhood and have established a minimum price, according to Yu, but there are many variables, including the fact there’s no comparable piece of property in the area. Marketing is being done locally and overseas.

The property is currently zoned RS-1, which allows for single-family dwellings, although there are higher density uses of land across the street — Clarendon Court, an assisted living complex, and Shannon Oaks, an independent living complex.

The city has several policies that apply to the church site, including the VictoriaFraserview/Killarney (VFK) Community Vision document, which would allow staff to consider rezoning for affordable, social or seniors housing.

The Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy (AHC) could apply to the site and would allow for consideration of groundoriented buildings up to 3.5 storeys, according to the city. But under this policy, a rezoning proposal would have to demonstrate “an enhanced level of affordability.” Options could include

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Park board approves joint deal for community centres Megan Stewart

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The consultations are over, the legal revisions are finished, the thousands of people hours and dozens of meetings are now in the past.

On April 10, the park board approved an operating deal for community centres and now it’s up to 20 centre associations to each sign on. They have until Sept. 30 to ink the contract otherwise the volunteer-led associations risk eviction from the centres they run.

“There has not been consensus reached — nor sought — but I do feel it was a respectful, thoughtful process,” park board general manager Malcolm Bromley told commissioners. Signing the deal would introduce a “mutual release” of outstanding legal claims and disputes, he said.

A majority of elected commissioners campaigned on the promise to rebuild the relationship between the park board and the community centre associations that previously fought a centralization plan to yoke them all to an operating agreement without significant consultation. Since then, many of the resisted changes have been adopted, including an online registration system and the OneCard, which grants full access to 24 centres for all residents.

One year after the current park board committed to listening to the associations’

concerns in an effort to build trust while also balancing public interests and universal access across what it identified as a “network” of centres, commissioners sent a firm message they were ready to act on everything they had heard and finalize the contract, known as the joint operating agreement or JOA. “It is the case that we know what we can move on and what we can’t move on,” said Vision’s Catherine Evans. “I don’t think more time will get us closer to a perfect agreement.”

The park board held the line that it was consulting the associations, not negotiating with them. Evans spoke to this and described an “awkward fit” that can create “some frictions” between the public board and private organizations that run public assets.

“We are a difficult partner for you. We are a publicly elected body and […] there will be things regarding accountability and transparency that we have to have,” she said.

Commissioners Erin Shum, an independent, and Michael Wiebe, the Green Party chairman of the board, supported one more round of “legal-to-legal” meetings for park board staff and centre associations to hammer out the finest points of the contract, but the request for additional time was not supported by the board.

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“It’s up to commissioners to step up and decide how we want to deal with them,” said Sarah Kirby-Yung, who used metaphors of marriage and sport to illustrate the need for both compromise but also completion.

This most recent consultation towards the new JOA kicked off with a “new way

forward” that the NPA’s Kirby-Yung, then the board’s chairwoman, put into motion 12 months ago. This week, she proposed the final amendments to the JOA, which were adopted by the board before the document was approved.

The general manager will now present the deal to the associations.

“This shows goodwill and

best efforts to key outstanding business and policy issues — I want to stress that these are not legal issues — that have been raised,” said Kirby-Yung. “It provides flexibility, discretion and choice over how [an association] manages its own centre.

This is the spirit of this motion.”

The JOA will last 10 years with an option to renew for

five more.

With the exception of Shum, the remaining six commissioners supported the contract.

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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Growing old is risky business in B.C.

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he news broke in the Globe late last month. Seniors living in 21 units in the Vancouver residential care home Terraces at 7th got eviction notices. The notices came while we were still digesting the second scathing annual report from B.C.’s seniors advocate on the deteriorating state of seniors care homes in the province.

The notices came while we were still digesting the second scathing annual report from B.C.’s seniors advocate on the deteriorating state of seniors care homes in the province.

From 2015 to 2016, “average and median wait times for residential care grew longer in three of five regional health authorities. The proportion of residents admitted to residential care within 30 days decreased by 11 per cent from the previous year. The number of residential care beds has increased 3.5 per cent since 2012, while seniors aged 85 and older have increased 21 per cent over the same time period.” And that is even before the mass of the baby boomers are in need of that type of support.

All of this popped up while the province’s political parties were setting up for next month’s provincial election.

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the 16-year record of the Liberals in power in B.C. And arguably, as a result of Liberal legislative and funding decisions during that time, the situation for seniors has only gotten worse.

The tenants being pushed out at Terraces on 7th were having their rent subsidized by the B.C. government’s Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH). The eviction notices were completely legal under the terms of agreement between the owners, Retirement Concepts and VCH. Retirement Concepts, owned by the Jamal family, is the biggest family retirement home business in the province. They have or had more than 20 facilities. Postmedia reported that last year they were awarded $86 million in provincial health ministry contracts. And, by the way, the family, through its various companies and personally, has donated $70,000 to Christy Clark and her party.

The owners said the evictions were for “business reasons.” They wanted to replace those who they were giving the hook with seniors who could pay the full freight on their own.

What with the proximity of a provincial election and the recent sale of most of the Jamal family’s diverse holdings — $1 billion — to a multi-billion dollar Chinese insurance company, and with media and opposition politicians zeroing in on this callous activity, Retirement Concepts backed off.

But looking back at the past 16 years of Liberal rule, three things should come as no surprise: The relative decline in the number of publicly owned care homes, the rise of for-profit private-sector homes and the decline in the quality of care with a stunning 82 per cent of homes failing to meet “provincial standards.”

For starters, the province simply stopped providing capital to health authorities to build public care homes. The seniors ad-

vocate’s report notes that since 2012, while the number of subsidized assisted-living units hasn’t changed, privately owned units have increased by 29 per cent.

How did that happen? Well, in 2002, the same day Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell brought in legislation to tear up the teachers’ contract, he introduced legislation ironically titled the Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act. It would gut the contracts of folks working in care homes. More than 9,000 workers — almost all women, and many of them immigrants, were laid off. It was the biggest layoff in the province’s history. (It took five years until the Supreme Court of Canada decided to restore some of those rights and order an $85-million settlement). Bill 94, introduced in 2003, eliminated succession rights. It al-

lowed care home owners to “contract flip.”

They could make a deal with a subcontractor to provide services and, at the end of that contract, switch subcontractors and not take on the burden of any wage or benefit increases won by workers employed by the first subcontractor.

Contractors cut costs and quality declined.

Now, as the election writ is dropped, in typical cynical Christy style, she threw $500 million at the problem to bring up the standards in seniors care homes. The money is welcomed by all concerned. Better late than never. It will be doled out over four years, a full election cycle. But whether it will be enough is debatable. And growing old in this province is still going to be, for many of us, a risky business. @allengarr

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Requiem for a heritage house Re: “Obituary: 4255 West 12th Ave.,” April 7, online.

I used to live at 3817 West 11th, back in the ’70s, when my neighbours were a golf club steward, a teacher, a barrister and a BC Hydro clerk — it was a happy, healthy mix of people that Vancouver will not see again, other than in a homeless shelter.

The destruction of these homes, and indeed the neighbourhoods, is a tragedy that caring governments could have prevented.

Keep up the good work. It is something local papers do best, and I am proud to have started on such a paper way back in Scotland and to end my career the same way.

David Wishart, Belgium ••• Enough is enough. The city tried to offer incentives to maintain and restore the house to the off-shore owners who declined, wanting something new and modern. Well too bad, they should have bought a new house not a beautiful intact character house. There are plenty for sale replacing those character houses already demolished. The city needs to be firm.

They should just say no and not permit the demolition of this or other such houses.

They have the power and it is time they stopped being so cowardly and stood up to developers and others who do not understand the value both intrinsic and monetary of heritage and character. It is time for a temporary moratorium on demolitions until this is sorted out. Particularly galling is this house is being demolished by people who do not even live here and experience the loss this brings to our community.

Time to take a stance, mayor and council, and planners at the City of Vancouver.

Penny Noble, Vancouver

Praise for runner profile Re: “Vancouver grandmother on risks and metaphysics before Marathon Des Sables,” April 6.

I read the story about Pushpa Chandra and would like to offer a few comments.

This lady is incredible and it only goes to show that age is just a number. I am 70 and still going strong. Having been a runner for 30 years and participated in just about every running event in Vancouver, including my last one being in San Francisco, I can relate easily to what Pushpa is saying. I too was written up in the Courier in 2013 (“The bionic woman will race again even if she cannot run”).

Pushpa echoes my own beliefs about running — like finding your own zen enlight-

enment and chanting mantras. I especially relate to finding a meditative state as an effortless surrender. Like water flowing from a tap she recounts as nothing more is needed than one step at a time. You are flowing spontaneously and running effortlessly. I felt like I could run forever with such calmness and serenity. I admire this lady and wish her only positive thoughts in her decision to compete in the toughest race on Earth. I no longer run after having two knee replacements, but that does not stop me either from pole walking the events I used to run. Best wishes to this amazing lady. She is a true example to all of what one can accomplish when determination, fortitude and tenacity are involved.

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Maybe Vancouver needs a new “Positivity Office” that includes plastering public buildings with inspirational sayings.

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Elke Porter via Facebook ••• Can someone tell me how the City officials think we/they will live through an earthquake or other disaster when they can’t even arrange snow plows for a week of snow? Seriously, our two weeks of winter are all anyone needs to witness to see how much the City is prepared for anything. It was all over the news for three days that the storm was coming. The morning it snows, the plows are not even manned. Shameful.

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I am the first to admit it. I become very irrational when it comes to paid parking.

I will drive around a block multiple times in the hope of finding a free parking spot before paying.

If I must park at a meter, I seek out one with a flashing green light, meaning there’s still some time left.

Knowing this, you might appreciate why I became perturbed at 6:05 p.m. on March 30 when I discovered a City of Vancouver parking meter on West Fourth Avenue that didn’t know the time.

Why is it important that a parking meter knows the time? Because an increasing number of meters around Vancouver now charge different rates for different times of day or week.

This meter charged $3 per hour before 6 p.m. and $2 per hour after 6.

Before I left my car for a dinner engagement, I decided to listen to the 6 p.m. CBC news. After a few minutes, I paid to park.

Normally, I use the Payby-Phone app. However, since I had many coins in my pocket I inserted $2, only to discover this got me 40 minutes, not 60 minutes as advertised. I was upset.

I was about to add another $2 but decided instead to photograph the parking meter error and tweet it out with the caption “this meter does not know how to tell the time.”

I told my dinner guest about my frustration with a parking meter, adding that if I got a ticket I would contest it. I got a ticket.

This prompted a Facebook post later that evening describing the incident and seeking advice on whether to contest the ticket. Most of my Facebook friends urged me to fight it.

CL wrote: “Yes — contest it. I’ve seen (parking attendants) standing next to meters waiting for them to hit ‘0’ as the car owner is walking back towards the car...and they then race to give a ticket just as the owner arrives. They are ruthless.

This is no longer the nice, kind city that it used to be.”

CR wrote: “How about broken meters? When one swallowed my tooney and gave me nothing in return, I called and was told “that’s why you should use your phone app”! Hmm. Double paid. Not good.”

DC had extensive, thoughtful comments, including: “Parking law is, in my experience, profoundly perverse… the offence is not failing to pay, it’s being parked while the meter is expired. Thus, if the meter is broken or functioning improperly, you are still guilty if it shows expired while you’re parked there.”

OJ wrote: “If you can, take one for the team! It’s a pain... but these and other meter problems never get solved because we don’t have the time!”

A former city finance of-

ficial suggested the following: “Just phone 311 and tell them you want to talk to parking enforcement about the ticket.

I bet they forgive it.”

I took his advice and spoke to a considerate individual who took down all the details and promised to have someone check the meter and get back to me in writing. She subsequently phoned with bad news. I had to pay.

The meter was deemed in working order. When I asked to see a copy of the report to determine whether they had checked the clock, I was told I’d have to file a Freedom of Information request.

Like most Vancouver residents, I do not want to take even more time to contest this ticket. Furthermore, if you read the fine print on the back of the ticket, if the dispute is unsuccessful, instead of a $42 fine you must pay the non-discounted penalty plus a $25 fee. That’s $95.

As this experience demonstrates, parking meters are not infallible. As more parking meter rates are based on time of day and week, I hope the city ensures that other parkers are treated more equitably.

In the meantime, if you encounter a meter that can’t tell the time or is jammed, just phone 311. I will, too.

Have you had an experience with a Vancouver parking meter that should be told? If so, write to me and I’ll share the best in a future column. @michaelgeller

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Opinion

Fight cancer? This is why I surrendered to it New blog by the Courier’s editor-in-chief explores her approach to dealing with a cancer diagnosis

Martha Perkins

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This week marks the start of Martha Perkins’ new blog, A Year of Surrender, which can be found at vancourier.com.

On a beautiful September morning, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As my husband and I stood outside the radiologist’s clinic absorbing the news, we had to make a quick decision: should we cancel the weekend trip we were about to take with friends? Our ferry was due to leave in an hour and we would have to let them know right away.

My husband said, “We can spend the weekend at home worrying about what the future holds. Or we can spend it enjoying ourselves in the Gulf Islands. No matter which option we choose, Monday — and all the realities that come with it — will arrive at the same time. I say we do what we’d normally do.”

The radiologist who broke the news had advised much the same thing. My life, he said, was about to be con-

sumed by an entire eco-system called the B.C. Cancer Agency. Starting the next week, a universe of healthcare professionals would get into gear to make me better.

Until then, I should try to put the cancer out of my mind and enjoy the promise of a beautiful weekend.

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We vowed we wouldn’t let cancer define us. We’d simply continue with our life, incorporating each stage into our daily routine.

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me the financial freedom to be off work for a year.)

I’m now cancer-free with one of the best long-term prognoses possible.

My cancer wasn’t a

secret, but we didn’t make it public. At the time, we weren’t prepared to absorb everyone’s reactions or a lot of well-meaning advice. We also didn’t want the respon-

sibility of having to keep everyone up to date about how I was doing. Silence can be so easily misinterpreted and if we didn’t send updates, we didn’t want people to think it was because I was too exhausted from throwing up during chemo when, in fact, thanks to good drugs I didn’t throw up once.

Having cancer is not a walk in the park. You often feel pretty crappy. My mother, her parents and one of my sisters died of cancer so I also know how devastating it can be. However, for me, it was manageable, and that’s the story I want to share.

I feel deep gratitude for the incredible resources we have in British Columbia and now want to join efforts to raise awareness about what is being done to help people with cancer. I am outing myself as part of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Daffodil Month because I need to pay it forward.

I’m calling my new blog “A Year of Surrender” because that’s what I did. I surrendered to the cancer

diagnosis. I gave up thinking I could control everything; instead, I gave myself up to the healthcare system. I stopped defining myself by my job; my new job was to put my energy into getting better.

It’s not that I simply let cancer happen to me. The words “fight cancer” simply didn’t resonate with either my husband or me. You fight when you’re angry or scared, two emotions we weren’t feeling. Nor did we want such an emotionally intense response. Having cancer is intense enough.

Our word was more like “determined.” Every step of the way we said we’d deal with what happened when it happened and not expend much energy worrying about it beforehand. A weekend in the Gulf Islands was the perfect opportunity to start putting our theory into practice.

Martha Perkins is the editor-in-chief of the Vancouver Courier and former editor of the Bowen Island Undercurrent and Westender. You can reach her at mperkins@ vancourier.com.

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Presbyterian Church and 5th U-Campus Baptist Church Easter Sunday April morning services: UCBC Mandarin service @ 9:15am EasterWPG Sunday April 16th morning services: Presbyterian Church Easter Communion with Rev.Service Joyce Davis @ 11a.m.

UCBC Mandarin @ 9:15am Blessings to you all at Easter time!!

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News

Neighbours mourn loss of West Side heritage house Martha Perkins

mperkins@vancourier.com

West 12th Avenue, 4255 — in its 104th year. The neighbourhood of West Point Grey is deeply saddened to announce the imminent passing of this charming Craftsman-style house. Built in 1914, it has provided shelter, comfort and loving memories for many generations of homeowners and tenants. Also mourning its loss will be anyone who has walked, biked or driven by its welcoming presence. Expected to be torn down later this month, 4255 West 12th will leave behind a sense of what Vancouver was like before all the condo towers. A wake was held in its honour on April 9. In lieu of flowers — although they were welcome as a symbol of remembrance — everyone was asked to bring ideas of how to prevent this from happening again.

••• Every day, Clare Cullen bikes past 4255 West 12th Ave. on her way to and from her job at UBC. She loves the way the house evokes a feeling of Vancouver’s heritage, sandwiched between two houses built within years of one another.

In the summer of 2015, the 3,600 sq. ft. character house was bought for $3.3 million. It was rented out for a year before the owner announced he was tearing it down to build a bigger, more modern house.

“It was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back,” Cullen says of how its proposed demolition became a rallying cry.

A community meeting was held and about 180 people showed up, she says.

“They wanted to share their concern and their sadness.”

Motivated, Cullen and some friends went to city hall last December and asked for a temporary protection order. Vancouver city council agreed. The neighbourhood was once again hopeful, especially since the city was actively working on policies to entice owners to voluntarily preserve character homes.

However, the temporary protection order was just that — temporary. It was a reprieve, not a pardon.

The four-month order came to an end April 12.

Although the city tried to

convince the owner, who lives in mainland China, to renovate the existing home, the new owner wouldn’t change his mind.

“Let’s gather to remember the many people who have lived and loved in this house, those who built, renovated and stewarded this house for generations, as well as the old-growth wood and quality building materials that will find themselves in the landfill,” the Eventbrite invitation to last Sunday’s wake said. “In gathering to mourn the passing of this beautiful home, we can hold those in power accountable for the lack of action on meaningful protection of heritage and character homes in Vancouver.”

Karen and Jerry Vagelotos were newly married when they bought the house in 1976. Both landscape architects at the time, they loved not only the house but its large lot. They took on the house and garden as a project. When each of their four children was born, they came home to 4255 West 12th.

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The family sold the house in 1995 and followed their passion for skiing to Whistler. They drove down on Sunday to join friends, many of whom still live in the neighbourhood.

Cullen’s goal for the wake

was to put a human face on what’s happening to Vancouver’s character homes. “If this one can’t be protected, what’s the hope for others?…It’s just sad all round.”

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Help us update the Gender Equality Strategy How important is gender equality to you?

What priority actions should we take in our updated Gender Equality Strategy?

We’re looking at issues faced by women and girls, including people who identify as female, and how equality applies to a broad range of groups and is defined in various ways. Drop by our forum to discuss issues and share your ideas: Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 4-8 pm Creekside Community Centre, 1 Athlete’s Way Cantonese and Mandarin facilitation, childminding and healthy snacks will be available at the event.

You can also take the online survey to offer your input and help shape the strategy.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO TAKE THE SURVEY: vancouver.ca/your-government/womens-advisory-committee

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If your property is not a principal residence, eligible for an exemption, or rented out for at least six months* in 2017, it will be subject to the Empty Homes Tax.

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it was a home and community,” says Karen, noting her son’s best man was a friend he met in the neighbourhood daycare. “The community was just awesome and I don’t think you find that as easily these days.”

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OUT FROM

Nijinski’s shadow MARTHA PERKINS mperkins@vancourier.com

The Chosen Maiden gives Bronia Nijinska the spotlight she deserves However, as a novelist who specializes in fictionalized accounts of real people, Stachniak didn’t want to be bound by annotations and footnotes.

Buried in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. are “boxes and boxes” of what remains of Bronia Nijinska’s life: diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings and copious notes for her memoirs.

“To me a biography is more like writing an essay or dissertation with all the duties it entails,” says the author of The Chosen Maiden, a historically truthful account of the first half of Nijinska’s life, created entirely in Stachniak’s imagination. “I’m true to facts, but I’m going for emotional truth.”

But those memoirs are a lot like Nijinska’s own life — totally eclipsed by everyone’s fascination with the brightly shining star that was her brother, Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Bronia Nijinska as the Humming Bird Princess in The Sleeping Princess, 1921.

PHOTO: FLORENCE VANDAMM/ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COLLECTION

Probably best remembered for being asked by Serge Diaghilev to choreograph Les Biches, a ballet set to music

by Francis Poulenc, Nijinska died in California in 1972, largely unknown outside the dance world.

Eva Stachniak immersed herself in Nijinska’s “treasures” to discover everything she could about this exceptionally talented dancer and ground-breaking choreographer.

Stachniak will delve further into those truths when she reads from her new novel in Vancouver April 18.

She’s also giving readings in Victoria, April 19, and Seattle, April 24.

“At first I marvelled at all the material,” she says from her home in Toronto. “As a guide, [the research] was perfect, but I didn’t want to steal her voice, I wanted to recreate the essence of her voice.”

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The title comes from Le Sacre du Printemps, a ballet Nijinsky created for his younger sister. “The Chosen Maiden, my brother once told me, is a warrior, not a dying swan. She dances to make life possible again,” Stachniak writes in the firstperson novel.

It was Catherine the Great who steered Stachniak towards Nijinska. After writing The Winter Palace, which was a Globe and Mail book of the year, and Empress of the Night about Russia’s influential leader, Stachniak was looking for ideas for her next project. “I didn’t

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want to stay in Catherine’s Russia, but I thought it would be interesting to look at the end of Imperial Russia. The descendents of Catherine the Great were a sorry bunch of people who hadn’t learned much from being privileged so there was nothing in their lives for me as a writer.

But the Russian Ballet was always a special child of the Imperial court. Students were thought to be wards of the czar.”

Much had been written about Nijinsky, but his sister “was such a good fit for me. She’s a woman and extremely talented, but how do you stand your ground when you’re born the younger sister of genius?

I wanted people to know she existed and did marvellous things.”

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Stachniak was born in Poland and the Nijinskys spoke Polish at home.

When Stachniak started reading Nijinska’s notes in Polish, the tenor of Nijinska’s writing gave Stachniak even more insight into the dancer’s personality. “Bronia was a beautiful writer,” she says.

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Not knowing much about the dance world, Stachniak “pestered and shadowed” contemporary dancers so she could better understand what drives them to seek such a physically demanding quest.

So why isn’t Bronia Nijinska better known?

Born into a family of dancers that included her older brother Vaslav Nijinski, Bronia Nijinska remains largely unknown outside the dance world. This photo is of her in Prince Igor.

“What a choreographer you would have been, Bronia, if only you had been a man,” Diaghilev once told her. Ballerinas might be revered onstage for their personification of femininity, but their

FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COLLECTION

strengths went unnoticed or valued. As Nijinsky once told his younger sister, “I am the chosen one.” There wasn’t room for two.

Nijinska had a chance to step out of the shadows of great men when she moved to the United States in 1939 (where the novel ends), but she wasn’t good at promoting herself.

Besides, George Balanchine was breathing all of that oxygen. “There was no place for another great Russian choreographer,” Stachniak says.

Reviews of The Chosen Maiden have been positive and Stachniak is pleased readers will get to know

Bronislava Nijinska as the incredibly strong and talented woman revealed in all those archived boxes.

“I want to create a very rich, sensual world and invite readers to live there with me and these people. When you immerge you can form your own opinion.”

Stachniak will read from The Chosen Maiden at the Book Warehouse, 4118 Main St., April 18 at 7 p.m., Bolen Books, 1644 Hillside in Victoria with Roberta Rich, April 19 at 7 p.m., and Third Place Books, 5041 Wilson Ave. S., in Seattle, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. For details, visit evastachniak.com.

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That’s how it is at Westerleigh PARC: it’s easy to keep up old interests, with new friends. And with PARC Retirement Living’s focus on maintaining a healthy body and mind through our Independent Living+ program, it’s easy to see how life’s just better here.

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EVENTS SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com

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APRIL 18 Max Wyman Award for Cultural Commentary All are invited for a free evening of words, dance and music to celebrate the achievements of Max Wyman, one of Canada’s foremost critics and cultural commentators, and the launch of an inaugural award named in his honour.

Created by community leader and philanthropist Dr. Yosef Wosk, the Max Wyman Award for Cultural Commentary is a new biennial prize celebrating critical writing and commentary on the visual, performing and literary arts. Wyman will also be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the event.

Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, is the master of ceremonies for the evening. The guest speakers and performers include publisher Scott McIntyre, multidisciplinary artist Hank Bull, writer and editor Charles

Campbell, artistic and executive director of PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Norman Armour, actor Nicola Cavendish, pianist Linda Lee Thomas and dancers Noam Gagnon and Wen Wei Wang. The event takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 18 at Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton St. at Dunsmuir. Attendees must register by calling 604681-3535 or email info@ allianceforarts.com.

MAY 4 Hearing Health Fair The B.C. non-profit organization, the Western Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, is hosting its Hearing Health Fair at the Holiday Inn on West Broadway May 4.

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According to Grace Shyng, head of audiology at the institute, approximately half of seniors experience some degree of hearing loss. She notes with our aging population, more and more Canadians will experience hearing loss in the coming years, so we need to understand and appreciate the importance of hearing and hearing loss and its impact on one’s self, their families, work and social lives. The event is in conjunction with National Speech and Hearing month (May). For more information on the Hearing Health Fair and the Western Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, please visit widhh.com or call 604-736-7391.

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The deadline extension to June 1 is due, in part, to an increase in expressions of interest following the expansion of the competition beyond B.C. to Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Yukon.

Emerging senior English and French writers of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, as well as First Nations writers, are asked to log on to the website at thecedrics.ca/submissions to review complete

competition guidelines, with a view to submitting their manuscripts no later than midnight June 1, 2017.

The Cedric Literary Awards is a juried writing competition that encourages and celebrates the creative talents of writers age 50 and older, who have a lifetime of experience to share. More than 300 emerging writers have entered work in the writing competition since 2015. A prize of $3,000 goes to the winner in each of the four categories.

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SHOP SCOTCH: Sixty handsome men in their sartorial best gathered at Harry Rosen after hours for a tasting event of fine scotch hosted by Macallan, one of the most famous and honoured single malt scotch brands in the world. A play on the decades-old tradition of shop-and-scotch that retail owner Harry Rosen once employed to entice men into his retail outlet, this time around there was no need as scotch enthusiasts eagerly ponied up to the pop-up whisky bar in anticipation of the portfolio tasting. Led by brand ambassador Dan Volway and celebrated barkeep David Wolowidnyk, attendees got a taste of Macallan’s award-winning range of whiskies (from Gold, Amber, Sienna, Rare Cask and their newest, the 12-year-old Double Cask) as they pondered their next purchases of designer suits and accessories.

Ancora’s Ricardo Valverde was one of eight featured chefs who headlined the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival’s food and wine grazer staged at the Stanley Park Pavilion.

Yayoi Hirano, Yoshimi Sunazaki and Yoshiho Hara greeted spring and Sakura Night gala-goers in their traditional dress.

Cherry Blossom Festival creator Linda Poole and landscape architect Peter Kreuk headed the Sakura Night benefit to support the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom festival, now in its 11th year.

Brand ambassador Dan Volway and celebrated barkeep David Wolowidnyk fronted the Macallan single malt pop-up lounge and portfolio scotch tasting at Harry Rosen.

AN EXPLOSION OF PINK: There’s no prettier sign that spring is here than the blossoming of the 40,000-plus cherry blossom trees decorating our city. Last year, the trees were three weeks early. This year they were three weeks late for the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom festival, which celebrates the urban beauty. Festival founder Linda Poole kicked off the month-long celebrations of walking tours, musical performances and art exhibitions with the festival’s flagship Sakura Night Gala. Attracting hundreds to the Stanley Park Pavilion for the pink blossominspired food and wine grazer, the event featured eight local chefs and raised funds for the festival. Among this year’s culinary talents participating were Zen’s Nobu Ochi, Hapa Izakaya’s Takayuki Sato and Ancora’s Ricardo Valverde. James Coleridge’s Bella Gelateria served up a sweet ending. The Cherry Blossom Festival takes place at various venues across town until April 23.

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Living TRAVEL

Repurposed spaces bring new life to Portland heritage High schools, auto body shops, department stores get new lease on life thanks to creative redevelopment Michael Kissinger

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Apart from fever dreams of growing up in Nanaimo, never would I have imagined victoriously walking down a high school hallway with an unconcealed beer cradled in my hand like a golden chalice — let alone purchasing said beer in a bar located in the bowels of the school before heading to the auditorium to watch a band perform.

But that is exactly what I did on a recent pilgrimage to Portland, Ore. Maybe it’s a lack of red tape and bureaucracy, less stringent liquor laws or more creatively-minded developers, but there are things you can do in Portland that you can’t do in Vancouver.

You can sip coffee in an old auto body shop, sleep in what was once a department store and, yes, drink and rock out in a former high school.

That’s not to say Portland is blemish free when it comes to preserving its heritage. Last year, the City of Roses saw 376 residential homes demolished. But that’s still a far cry from the nearly 1,000 buildings that came tumbling down in Vancouver. And unlike Vancouver, Portland boasts a bounty of repurposed spaces that have avoided the wrecking ball through adaptation and ingenuity.

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Situated in the alwayssurprising, mixed-industrial Central Eastside neighbourhood, Coava Coffee Brew Bar, like dozens of local caffeine dealers, roasts its

Left: Coava Coffee took over a former auto body shop in Central Eastside Portland. PHOTO JAMES FRANCIS, TRAVELPORTLAND.COM Right: Occupying a former 1880s horse and carriage garage, Pine Street Market now operates as a gourmet food court in downtown Portland. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO MICHAEL KISSINGER

own single-origin beans and serves a mean pour-over.

But it also occupies a former auto body shop that sat vacant for years before the coffee geeks inherited the earth. The 10,000-squarefoot space is shared with Bamboo Revolution, which showcases the collective’s stylish bamboo designs, from furniture to luggage, while the airy room retains much of the former shop’s industrial feel with salvaged machinery and repurposed work tables.

For a higher calling, head over to Taborspace, located in the chapel commons of the century-old Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church. Or catch a ride to Tōv, an Egyptian coffee house that operates inside a colourful, double-decker bus parked in the Southeast Hawthorne neighbourhood.

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side outposts of the famed Japanese ramen chain. And you can order and drink a delicious beer with your meal. Sweet relief.

Across the river, Olympia Provisions doles out charcuterie goodness and other West Coast-inspired delights from its corner ground floor space in the Olympic Mills Commerce Center. Erected in the 1920s, the former Olympic Cereal Mill occupies an entire city block and once boasted an eight-storey grain elevator. In 2007, it was transformed into the “dynamic hive of creative offices” and ground floor retail spaces.

Eschewing the all-toocommon food court offerings of grease and sadness, the relatively new Pine Street Market is on the ground floor of the 1880s Baggage and Carriage Building. The downtown space was originally used as a livery and horse-drawn carriage garage before morphing into a storage facility, then an Old Spaghetti Factory, before shaking its booty in a string of failed nightclubs. These days, and a $5-million reno later, Pine Street Market is a buzzing food hall of gourmet vendors and communal seating, featuring everything from killer bibimbap courtesy of Kim Jong Smokehouse to gourmet hotdogs from OP Wurst, Salt & Straw ice cream and Marukin Ramen, one of the first state-

serving as administrative offices before sitting vacant for years. Although the brick building was used periodically for arts festivals, it reopened in earnest in early 2015, with classrooms converted into office space for a number of creative agencies, the corporate offices for grocery chain New Seasons Market occupying the top two floors and the auditorium revamped into a softseater music venue called Revolution Hall.

To appease the hungry and thirsty masses, Marthas operates a full-service bar and eatery connected to Revolution Hall. Plus one of the bartenders apologized for his country’s president and bought me a free drink when he learned I was Canadian.

So I am forever charmed.

Further afield, near the Alberta arts district, the Kennedy School is a circa 1915 elementary school operated by McMenamins, with classrooms converted into 57 guest rooms, a gymnasium that screens nightly movies, a restaurant, a soaking pool, several bars and a brewery set in the former girls’ lavatory, which might be the most quintessentially Portland sentence I’ve ever typed.

Note: the writer was a guest of Travel Portland. For more info, go to travelportland.com.

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In addition to the scholastic-minded Kennedy School, repurposed spaces enthusiasts can bunk down at the Hotel Monaco (formerly a Lipman’s department store), the Nines (formerly a Meier & Frank department store), or 1960s motor lodge-turnedboutique party palace, the Jupiter Hotel.

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Built in 1924, Southeast Portland’s Washington High School eventually closed its doors in 1981, photo by David Cooper

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The popular three-day festival started in 1978 with 10,000 dancing in the rain at Stanley Park and now hosts an audience of nearly 40,000 at Jericho Beach Park. For the birthday milestone, organizers will open the gates a day early for a free evening concert on Thursday, July 13.

The regular weekend festival will continue as a ticketed event July 14 through 16.

The park board approved the use of the park as well as an expanded liquor licence.

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will be announced in the last week of April. The free concert is also an opportunity for the non-initiated to experience a taste of the festival, said the festival’s artistic managing director, Linda Tanaka.

The lineup is not yet confirmed for the free night, but Tanaka said music has been selected. “They will be performing songs by iconic Canadian singer-songwriters,” she said.

“Some people have never ventured over to Jericho Beach Park and seen the beautiful site we are on,” added Tanaka. “It’s an introduction to people who have never been.”

The Can-Con canon by artists like Joni Mitchell, Hank Snow, Buffy SainteMarie, Leonard Cohen and others is a nod to another milestone coming up this

year, the signing of Confederation in 1867. Heritage Canada gave the Vancouver Folk Fest an additional $50,000 to mark the 150th anniversary, which will help them host the public for free.

The festival’s marketing manager Gwen Kallio wasn’t at the inaugural folk fest but did make it out in 1980. It was the “most mind-blowing event,” she said.

“All these artist who were such savvy, intelligent, interesting and talented people who I had never been exposed to before,” she said, remembering performances that first time by blues guitarist Roy Book Binder and folk singer Jim Post.”

“I’d never seen anything like that before and many people hadn’t,” said Kallio, noting the Children’s International Festival started the

same year and together they made 1978 something of a reckoning for Vancouver.

“It’s been quite a run.

They have come of age, these festivals,” she said, noting multi-generational families now gather on picnic blankets to take in the music together.

In her experience, the folk festival globalized music in the city. “What it did for me and so many people, it has created a sense of the world.

It’s not just that the festival brings in music, it brings in world music, it brings in the voices of people from all of these different cultures, politics and countries and it’s really about an expose and discovery for people in Vancouver about the world and there are not that many cities that have really had this opportunity. It’s quite a legacy,” she said.

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Here’s a fun fact: for the relatively low investment of $50, you can cleanse yourself of all the bad mojo in your life through a 20-minute ritual known as “hit the small person.”

That’s just one of the many off-the-beaten-path nuggets found in How To Hong Kong: An Illustrated Travel Journal, which was recently published by a pair of Vancouverites who know the island inside and out.

Because of that intimate knowledge, the husband-andwife team of Nicholas Tay and Lena Sin present a decidedly different portrait of Sin’s birthplace — no to skyscrapers and smog, yes to esoteric rituals and egg waffles.

“I’ve seen a lot of books about Hong Kong and they’re usually guidebooks or magazine pieces that portray it in a very similar way — that it’s a massive, crowded metropolis,” Sin said. “It’s a little impersonal. My experience there is that it’s a lot more intimate, layered and subtle.”

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Hong Kong-born Lena Sin and her husband created How To Hong Kong: An Illustrated Travel Journal. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

travel-meets-sketchbook, How to Hong Kong was six years in the making and based around annual trips the couple makes to the former British colony.

Back alleys, restaurants, temples and the characters who inhabit those haunts are the centrepiece of the book. It was in one of those settings that Sin encountered an elderly women named Ms. Lum who she’d pass by countless times in previous visits. Conversa-

tion was struck around the ritual Lum was performing, referred to as “da siu yun,” which translates to “hit the small person.”

The process that unfolded involved burning incense and paper tigers, chanting, raw chicken, rice throwing and eventually the beating of a paper person with an old shoe.

“It’s a little bit like Chinese voodoo,” Sin said. “If you have someone you don’t like in your

life and you want to make them disappear, she’s the person you go to.”

Around 10 interviews were conducted for the book: silversmiths, restaurateurs, ex pats, food vendors and Uncle Liu, whose legendary egg waffles elicit hour-plus lineups. The rest of the book is made up of Sin’s recollections growing up in Hong Kong, photos and intricate watercolour paintings.

Despite her background in writing — Sin spent 10 years working at the Province newspaper — she was reticent to enter the world of books. As someone who covered crime and hard news, Sin was used to a regimented writing style, which didn’t lend itself to creativity. Known as the “creative one” of the couple, it was Tay who pressed for their first foray into publishing.

“I realized it would be a great escape for me because daily news writing can be a grind,” she said. “The book for me is really about joy and discovery. It was a really light place to be and it seemed to be a great place to go when I wasn’t working.” @JohnKurucz

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Investing for Income Workshop WEEKLY FORECAST: APRIL 16 - 22, 2017 Remember, Aries, start nothing new before May 3. Your energy and charisma remain high, but mid-week softly shifts you from “personal presence” to “where’s the money?” In your case, where’s MORE money, as many of you have been enjoying a nice inflow in March/April.

Wednesday starts to bring in a different kind of money (slower yet more full — for a month) while the recent strong flow ends this Friday. (From Friday onward you’ll be much more active, restless and talkative, into June.)

An old flame or ex-spouse might appear this week — don’t bite. You would forever regret it. (If he/she shows next week, no problem. Now if you phoned him/her this week and said, “Don’t show until next week,” that’s a problem.) On the plus side, work and health delays end now. On the waiting side, almost everything else continues to work through delays, second thoughts, and mistakes until May 3. Start nothing before then (even in work and health).

Remember, Taurus, don’t start anything new before May 3. Until then, protect ongoing ventures from delays and misunderstandings, or reprise “nuggets” from your past – e.g., former opportunities that you could not grasp, which now return, especially in management, government, or institutional zones. You might also be approached by the government in the next two weeks – if so, it probably involves something you neglected to do. (If so, dive in and do it.)

Remember, Scorpio, avoid all new romantic urges/prospects this week. Don’t start any new projects nor relationships before May 3, and buy only routine items. Instead, protect ongoing projects from delays and mistakes, or reprise past opportunities. Your works scene need special care, as this is where the stakes are most likely. A former job role might return. Relationships remain intense until Friday.

Remember, Gemini don’t start any new ventures nor relationships before May 3. Until then, reprise old or former opportunities, and/or protect ongoing projects from delays, supply shortages, scheduling mishaps and indecision. Work to finish a government related task early week; and raise your eyes to greet friends from the past late week.

Friday begins six weeks in which your determination and sexual magnetism will intensify.

Remember, Sage, don’t start any new projects or relationships before May 3. Instead, reprise past opportunities or protect ongoing situations from delays, misunderstandings, missed appointments, etc. Your work continues to be hard and heavy, but that will end Friday. This day starts six weeks of intense attraction and powerful relationships. (I should say “powder keg,” as this influence also promotes fights, disagreements and “love-hate” feelings.)

Your ideas, your understanding of ethics, intellectual pursuits, far travel, cultural involvements and media — these have been confused, or uncertain for six weeks, but that ends now. Unfortunately, the “daily activity” planet (Mercury) has “gone retro,” so you still should not launch any new ventures, relationships nor significant purchases before May 3. Meantime, reprise opportunities from the past (in friendships the week’s first half; in career Thursday onward).

Remember, Cap, start nothing before May 3. Instead, reprise past projects or relationships, and/or protect ongoing situations from delays and mistakes (especially in romantic, creative and domestic arenas). On Wednesday, you shift from domestic concerns overall to a month of romance, beauty, pleasure, creativity and “winning risks.” (But DO NOT dally with someone met this week — or the last two — eventual heartbreak would occur.)

Remember, Leo, start no new projects, relationships, nor make important purchases, before May 3. Until then, protect ongoing ventures from delays, missed appointments, supply shortages, etc. (especially in your career zone until Thursday, and in your intellectual/travel/ love zone Thursday onward). Good former friends could reappear soon. Sunday morning’s romantic, beautiful or very pleasurable. But work seems to almost create itself Sunday afternoon (4 p.m.) through Tuesday.

That friction in the home, which you have felt since March, dissolves Friday — the same day starts six weeks of intense romantic feelings and discussions.

(If you are married, these six weeks bring adventure, sports and fun with the kids.) Your money picture continues to look good this week and next. You might actually be in the process of ending it with an old flame. Whatever happens, do not fall in love — nor respond to any new attraction — this week.

Start nothing new before May 3 — includes relationships and projects. Avoid important purchases, unless you almost bought an item in the past (more than a month past) and it becomes available again. Do reprise old opportunities — in travel, communications, intellectual/learning areas before Thursday; in finances, medicine and research Thursday onward. Love, though, is verboten all week, unless you like pain.

Remember, Pisces, don’t start any new projects or relationships before May 3. Also, avoid important purchases, same period. Instead, protect ongoing ventures from delays, mistakes and misunderstandings, reprise opportunities from the past.

Your own indecision has abated somewhat; now you only feel indecisive about others and how to respond to them. Wednesday begins a month of easy errands and communications.

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Missing Bullitt Mustang found in Mexico Brendan McAleer

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Bullitt Mustang found in scrapyard

Of all the movie cars out there, Steve McQueen’s dark-green Mustang has to be one of the best. Featured in the 1968 detective flick Bullitt, the Mustang is the hero of one of the best chases in film history, hammering through San Francisco in hot pursuit of the bad guys in their Dodge Charger.

But for a long time, the original Bullitt Mustang has been missing. That all changed the day the phone rang at Marti Auto Works near Phoenix, Ariz. The voice on the other end of the line asked for some information on a car he had in his scrap yard. When he heard the serial number, Frank Marti froze.

Marti knew the number by heart from people calling in trying to build clones faithful to the original Bullitt build sheet. In this case, the caller claimed to own the car. And, when questioned, he had no idea that it was the original movie car.

Marti flew down to Mexicali in Mexico, where Ralph Garcia Jr. has a couple of shops specializing in customizing American muscle cars.

He also has a sideline in turning Mustangs into “Eleanor,” the hero car from the movie Gone In 60 Seconds.

Two Mustangs were used in the filming of Bullitt, and this one was the car used in the jumps. Deemed too badly damaged to repair after filming, it nonetheless made its way down to Mexico, where it once again found life on the street.

Decades later, it’s a wreck – but Garcia and his business partner Hugo Sanchez will be bringing the car back to life. What’s more, they’ll be getting a little help all the way from North Vancouver, in the person of Glen Kalmack, who owns a stunningly faithful ‘68 Bullitt tribute Mustang.

Police foil plot to steal Enzo Ferrari’s body

His is perhaps the most famous name in the automotive world. And, if you’re a bunch of Italian ne’er-dowells, you might think that fame is a good way to make a killing. Well, not an actual killing – he’s dead already.

Anyway, as part of a crackdown on drugs and arms trafficking, Italian police uncovered a bizarre plot by an unnamed gang.

Enzo Ferrari is buried in

an above-ground tomb in his beloved Modena, and the criminal bodysnatchers had planned to break in, steal his body, and hold it for ransom.

Well, that’s certainly a different take on the Italian job. But as it happens, the heist was interrupted before it even happened, leaving Enzo to sleep peacefully, dreaming of V12s and racing victory.

Porsche profits an average of $17,000 per car

Porsche is justifiably proud of their success. As a premium brand with a wide range of vehicles, they’re making a killing in profits.

Bloomberg reports that the company moved 238,000 vehicles last year, for a total profit of US$4.1 billion.

On the German side of the company, much back-slapping and beaming doubtless ensued, followed by many press releases about how profitable the company is. Being profitable is good and admirable, especially in Germany, and German Porsche fans were doubtless even more eager to shell out for expensive options.

But pity the poor Porsche PR department on this side of the pond, trying to explain that North Americans aren’t going to be super excited about being told that the cars they’re buying have huge markups. “Ix-nay on the ofit-pray,” muttered between clenched teeth, that sort of thing.

However, just before Porsche gets too big for its lederhosen about making lots of money, let’s just point out one inconvenient little fact. Their new stuff still can’t match the increase in values posted up by the aircooled classics many enthusiasts wish they still built.

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What does this all mean?

As usual, maybe we should all take a little break from technology once in a while.

What’s more, getting lost can be fun too. Switch off your navigation once in a while, and give your brain a bit of a stretch.

showed that those using navigation had minimal activity in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, while those who were trying to find their own way had brains sparking with activity.

Basically, those following the navigation instructions might as well have been watching a sitcom. As a result, they weren’t paying as much attention as those

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