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Chinatown project: It ain’t over, till it’s over Beedie Living submits revised proposal for 105 Keefer St. property

Mike Howell

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Because I’m a baseball guy, and it’s summer time, I’ll begin with a quote popularized by the late, great Yogi Berra, who told reporters way back in 1973 to not be so fast in concluding his New York Mets were finished for the season.

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”

Turns out, he was right: The Mets rallied and went on to knock off the Cincinnati Reds to win the National League pennant.

Atta-boy, Yogi!

I could be wrong, and haven’t had time to check the archives, but I don’t believe Yogi ever visited Vancouver’s Chinatown. I could make something up and say he did and taught kids how to hit a curve ball in a vacant lot at Keefer and Columbia streets, but that would be fiction.

Yogi again: “Take it with a grin of salt.”

It was Yogi’s “it ain’t

over” quote that came to mind July 14 when I received a news release from developer Beedie Living regarding its property at 105 Keefer St. As regular readers will recall, that’s the property on which Beedie planned to build a 12-storey condo.

City council voted 8-3 in June to reject the proposal, which called for 106 market apartments, 25 apartments for seniors, a recreational and cultural space and room for business on the ground floor.

There were victory hoots, tears of joy and a big celebration by all who opposed the project. Many in the lobby of the council chambers that day proclaimed victory.

Except…

Beedie’s proposal went before council because the building’s proposed height of 118 feet required that it undergo a rezoning, and subsequent public hearing.

Now Beedie has revised its proposal, keeping the height at 90 feet. That

An artist’s rendering of developer Beedie Living’s original proposal for 105 Keefer St. that was rejected by city council in June. Beedie has since revised its proposal. PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF VANCOUVER

means it’s now in the hands of the city’s four-member development permit board, which is comprised of senior staff. Council does not have a say this time.

I tried to get a look at the

revised proposal, but the developer wasn’t available and the city said to check back next week. Beedie’s release does not say how many apartments are proposed, or whether any will

be “affordable” or subsidized by B.C. Housing.

The developer, however, does say it will provide “important subsidized cultural ground-floor space and increased pedestrianization of the Chinatown Memorial Plaza that can marry the cultural, retail and public realm.”

The design on the exterior of the building will also get a do-over “to ensure that the character of the building is reflective of its context and rich heritage in the area.”

As expected, all those people in celebration mode last month are upset that Beedie hasn’t backed down and worked out a land swap or sale with the city and other governments.

Jannie Leung, a community organizer with the Chinatown Action Group, is among those calling for “100 per cent social housing” and community space on the property.

“Of the hundreds of people who went to city hall [for the

hearings], we made it pretty clear that there’s a housing crisis in the neighbourhood,” said Leung, whose group worked with the Chinatown Concern Group to launch a website July 16 that outlines their vision for Chinatown.

“We don’t need more expensive condos.”

Vision Vancouver Coun.

Kerry Jang, who voted in June against the original proposal, said he understands opponents’ concerns.

But, he pointed out, the property is not for sale.

“You can offer them a trillion dollars and they won’t take it because Beedie is committed to this project,” Jang said.

No date has been set when the development permit board will have a look at the proposal. The process allows input from the public. How this will turn out is tough to predict.

As Yogi once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” @Howellings

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Judy Graves eyes Geoff Meggs’ council seat Naoibh O’Connor

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Judy Graves, a longtime advocate for the homeless, has her sights on the city council seat vacated by Vision Vancouver’s Geoff Meggs.

She cites the housing crisis as the main reason she decided to run for office.

She’s seeking a nomination under the OneCity party, which formed in 2014.

A date for its nomination meeting has yet to be set.

“The big motivation is [that] everywhere I go — it doesn’t matter if it’s the dog park or the grocery store standing in line or waiting to pick up a kid at school — anywhere I’m going, I’m listening to people who are talking about feeling like they’re being forced out of Vancouver after spending their lifetime here or losing their grandchildren who are moving away because their parents can’t afford to live here,” she told the Courier last week.

Graves’ daughter, sonin-law and grandchildren moved out of Vancouver about five years ago because they couldn’t afford to stay even though they’re professionals in their early 40s with good jobs.

“This is just wrong,” she said. “But my story isn’t unique. Almost everyone I know in grandparenting age is telling me the same story.”

Meggs, meanwhile, resigned from council July 4 after accepting the chief-

of-staff position for NDP premier-designate John Horgan. His decision set the stage for a byelection, which will take place Oct. 14.

Graves told the Courier she tried to “settle in” to retirement but “there’s work that needs to be done, so here we are.”

She considered running for Vision Vancouver at one point.

“But certainly not now.

When Vision was first elected, I was so excited about them. They started off with a good bang but they’ve broken my heart,” she said.

“Not only did they not end homelessness or street homelessness, they have, in fact, created a whole other kind of homelessness. That’s the homelessness of working people and professionals who can no longer stay here.”

OneCity formed three years ago to focus on issues ranging from development and transit to social inequality and childcare.

RJ Aquino, a former member of COPE’s executive, who split with that party over concerns about its direction, ran under OneCity in the civic election in 2014, but didn’t win.

Graves said she’s seeking the OneCity nomination because the party has the policies that “fit” for her.

“They’re talking about inclusionary zoning, meaning that at least 20 or 30 per cent of the units in buildings being built by developers would be rented at one

Judy Graves, who’s running for the OneCity nomination, said at one point she considered running for Vision Vancouver but that party broke her heart. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

third of the income of ordinary working people, which would mean a lot of families and singles and, for that matter, seniors could stay in Vancouver,” she said.

“They’re talking about the city doing an overall planning but neighbourhoods developing councils that will advise on the development of that neighbourhood.”

Graves spent years as the City of Vancouver’s homeless advocate until she retired in 2013. She was widely praised for her work, including by Liberal housing minister Rich Coleman who she had criticized in the past.

Graves, who once described herself as an “off-the-end-of-the-scale introvert,” conceded politics is an odd choice for an introvert but explained

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that while she doesn’t like crowds, she loves people.

“So over the course of my life I’ve learned to manage the crowd one person at a time.

And so the whole city is a city full of individuals to me.”

She hopes to do more as a politician than she did working for the city where she said she was one person working within the city structure.

“I’m just the person that’s taking a particular posi-

tion but backed by a huge organization supported by people all across the city.

And I will just be the voice for the people of the city.”

While the OneCity party, which approached Graves to run for office a number of times over the years, doesn’t have the profile of more established parties, Graves said at one point the NPA was a new party and at one point Vision was a new party.

“Every party has to start as a new party. And OneCity has developed remarkably quickly. I expect we’ll be running a number of candidates in 2018,” she said.

During her retirement, Graves, who lives in the West End, spent time with family but she also did work with organizations in the Downtown Eastside.

The homeless will continue to be one of her priorities if she wins the OneCity nomination, and is ultimately elected to council, but she stressed the causes of homelessness are inseparable from the problems facing the rest of the city.

Her other priorities include helping small busi-

ness prosper.

“Every major street I walk down, I’m seeing small business close. It’s for the same reason as people leaving the city. The rents have gotten too expensive, the taxes are so high that between the two, they can’t make a go of it anymore,” she said. “So I want to see business thriving again here.”

Graves said she appreciates the multicultural nature of Vancouver and that immigration has enriched the city “[but] what’s different now is people are actually buying here without actually moving here. And we want to see the people that buy here live here.”

Graves, who was born in Toronto, moved to Vancouver at age two. Her family left for five years on a military posting when she was a child but she’s lived in the city solidly since age 15.

She didn’t want to “advertise” her age but said, “I’m old enough to know what’s going on and young enough to do something about it.”

A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com. @naoibh

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Triplegic man sticks it to Vancouver’s accessibility heroes and zeroes John Kurucz

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Mark Stockbrocks is sticking it to the man.

The 37-year-old Kitsilano resident recently launched his one-man advocacy effort known as Access Stickers to assess the level of accessibility at clubs, rinks, restaurants and other buildings across the city.

Stockbrocks’ messaging comes by way of stickers: buildings deemed accessible are given a green sticker with “Access Hero” written on it.

Those on the other side of the fence get a red sticker and are deemed “Access Zero.”

Access Stickers started less than a year ago and was the result of Stockbrocks’ increasing frustration around trying to plan a night out with friends.

“I always call these places ahead of time to see if they’re accessible because I’ve been let down so many times,” he said. “And even if I’m told a place is wheelchair accessible, I’ll show up and it’s not.”

Stockbrocks had a stroke when he was 31 and is

Mark Stockbrocks started Access Stickers to let others with mobility challenges know about potential hazards around town.

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triplegic: both his legs are paralyzed, along with his left arm. Once he visits a place and it gets the requisite sticker treatment, Stockbrocks takes pictures of the building and posts them on his social media channels.

Since September 2016, Stockbrocks has visited hundreds of locales in Vancouver and across North America.

The end goal is to provide info to others with mobility challenges so they know what they might encounter across the city. He also liaises with business owners to tell them what the mobility challenges are at a given site, and tries to link those decisionmakers with others in the accessible building trades.

His direct approach is,

at times, not met with the warmest of receptions.

“Although I border on a somewhat militant, directaction approach, I always have a polite, yet very assertive demeanour,” he said. “I maintain a level of respect while at the same time applying mild pressure for people to do the right thing.”

To get around any nasti-

ness, Stockbrocks emphasizes two things: the social benefit of making buildings more accessible and the potential for a business to make more money.

Stockbrocks said it’s often the latter point that gets the ball rolling.

“Usually it comes down to talking about money and telling a manager that these in-

vestments pay for themselves in no time,” he said. “With more traffic coming through the door, you’re making more money and your investments pay for themselves. That’s what they listen to and I approach this kind of conversation from that angle.”

There’s no specific checklist or manual that Stockbrocks adheres to when making the hero or zero call, though he does look for some necessities: a wheelchair ramp, automatic doors for opening and closing and the way curbs are situated outside of a business. After his initial assessment, Stockbrocks does follow-up work to help business owners on their path to hero status.

“We have a pretty older demographic as a population in general. That shift keeps coming and it’s going to hit us hard when we have lots of people with crutches, canes and wheelchairs,” he said. “I know what I’m doing is the right thing to do and I believe in it.”

Stockbrocks’ efforts can be seen online on Instagram (@ accessstickers) or on Facebook at facebook.com/accessstickers. @JohnKurucz

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Kent Cadogan Loftsgard will have an easier time accessing the beach once the park board installs a beach mat later this summer. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Mat makes beach experience accessible to everyone

Jessica Kerr

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One Vancouver beach will become a lot more accessible later this summer.

Vancouver’s park board is launching a pilot program at English Bay with the installation of a beach mat that will allow people in wheelchairs to more easily access the beach.

Currently, the park board has beach wheelchairs, which have inflatable tires that can roll on sand, available for use. However, people have to call ahead to make arrangements to use one, they have to be pushed, and some wheelchair users are unable to transfer to a different chair,

said Gabrielle Peters, a disability advocate. Additionally, she said, they are only for wheelchair users and are no help to people who use canes or walkers.

Peters said she started asking the park board about the beach mats last summer. The board already has the mat, but had to order the stakes and platforms to make it more stable, said board chair Michael Wiebe.

He said the board hopes the first mat will be installed at English Bay by August.

“We are working as fast as possible,” he said, adding that the board will look at installing additional mats at other beaches in the future.

Peters said improving the accessibility of Vancouver’s

beaches opens up an experience that was previously off limits for those with mobility challenges.

“It means we can go out there with our friends,” she said. “It means we can participate. It means we have access to that very special part of Vancouver…

“This is a wonderful thing. It’s literally opening up a space that hasn’t been accessible in any shape or form. Being at the beach is so much a part of being in Vancouver.”

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away in 2001. I am almost embarrassed to admit it took me 30 years to take her suggestion to visit New York City.

The excuse I used for finally going was being accepted as a delegate at the Cities for Tomorrow conference hosted by the New York Times publishing group.

It was a day-long series of presentations discussing the political and social challenges and opportunities facing our urban centres.

There was a small Canadian contingent, including myself and a pair of our region’s mayors.

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From the politicians, journalists, authors, philanthropists, social workers and

entrepreneurs presenting at Cities for Tomorrow, the chasm between haves and have-nots — American workers and the elites — was a recurring subject. The ultimate expression of this undoubtedly represented by the election of Donald J. Trump, and the base of voters standing resolutely behind him.

According to University of California law professor and author Joan C. Williams — who spoke at the

conference — this yawning class divide is driving American politics, and creating a widening gulf between the top 20 per cent of American households and those in the middle class.

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political predicament facing the U.S. and finding ways to bridge the gap is something the author believes is critical to our society.

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malodorous fog of hypocrisy hangs about 12th and Cambie engulfing Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver-led council.

Just two weeks ago Robertson stood on the north side of city hall to proclaim that his council was about to contain the multibillion-dollar global short-term rental behemoths Airbnb and Expedia. He also repeated the news that the city was proceeding with its “empty home tax.”

It would mean, he said, more long-term rentals — up to 1,000 units — in the midst of what he frequently has referred to as a housing “crisis.”

But just a few days earlier a story broke in the Globe and Mail. Kerry Gold reported on the city’s purchase of a home at 3030 Victoria Drive once owned by David Norris.

Norris was one of 11 kids who grew up in that home, and he only sold to the city with the assurances from the city’s real estate

The mayor’s office finally woke up to the growing problem. So what does our mayor do, hoping to avoid any further political damage? Well he decides to blame the very community that has been deceived and jerked around in this whole exercise.

service that the home would be rented out to, possibly, refugees.

His sister Catie assumed that, soon enough, a family like her own could enjoy the benefits of being right next to John Hendry Park (commonly referred to as Trout Lake Park), Trout Lake itself and the community centre just a few steps away.

City council approved the purchase during an in-camera meeting. This was the first step in the process of a land assembly to buy all eight properties on the block to extend the park. Ultimately the Norris property was turned over to the park board.

Meanwhile, more than a year has passed.

The house remains empty in the midst of the biggest housing crisis in the city’s history and with Robertson repeatedly pointing fingers at the province and the federal government for their lack of sufficient response.

But it gets worse.

Orange plastic webbed fencing now surrounds trees on the boulevard and in the front and back yard. Vandals have begun to strip bits off the exterior of the house. With the heat turned off, last winter a frozen pipe in the bathroom apparently broke causing more damage.

But then Norris and the rest of the long-term residents on the block learned that the city had every intention of tearing the house down.

This whole thing stinks for a number of reasons.

Someone in the city real estate service — who must now be cowering under their desk — failed to deliver on their commitment to rent out the building.

But further, a few years ago the park board unveiled the “Trout Lake Master Plan.” It made no reference at all to the expansion of the park. The 3000 block of Victoria was intact. The hottest item

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Meanwhile, city manager Sadhu Johnston sent a rocket off to park board manager Malcolm Bromley ordering him to dig his way out of this mess.

Bromley sent out a news release announcing the house would not be torn down. It would — presumably after some considerable repairs — be rented out.

As for the land assembly plan, well, residents are now vowing to leave their property to their children, and they know that, if selling is an option, the city has very deep pockets.

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Then there was this observation delivered in an email last week to one of the block’s residents, Samantha Reynolds, by Vision councillor Andrea Reimer: Reimer said, “For what it is worth the park board policy of expanding large parks is inconsistent with the metrics established by the city in the Greenest city” plan.

And now neighbours all around the park have created an informal organization to push back against the expansion plans.

The mayor’s office finally woke up to the growing problem. So what does our mayor do, hoping to avoid any further political damage? Well he decides to blame the very community that has been deceived and jerked around in this whole exercise.

In a media scrum on Monday he said the reticence to sell “is too bad for the

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councils have chosen to keep their developer friends/donors happy rather than use their existing powers to prevent skyrocketing housing prices. Over the past many decades, they could have forced developers to contribute a portion of the excessive profits from radical city-wide rezoning and development to create affordable housing. This could still easily be done but (with one exception) the current council it too cozy with developers to do so and upzoning of neighbourhoods continues to push the price of housing ever higher.

Council has had ample opportunities to create affordable housing, but massive rezoning schemes like the Cambie Corridor have mostly produced expensive condos and townhouses for sale to well-to-do buyers. What’s needed is a council free from dependence on developer donations for election expenses so that it that will act in the interests of its citizens.

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There are several points in this article that need to be balanced with the facts.

Residents should be aware that residential or RS zones are no longer “single family” because secondary suites and laneway houses, both protected through bylaws for rental only, are allowed. Thus the RS zones already provide a considerable portion of the city’s rental stock. This rental stock provides the lowest-cost rental housing in the city in the form of secondary suites.

They also provide rental for small families in laneway homes. Developers in the city are pushing hard to have RS zones upzoned for multiplexes for sale because they would stand to make enormous profits. However, if they are successful, there will be a drastic decline in rental accommodation, especially at the more affordable end.

So the statement that zoning is used to help keep “undesirables” out of family neighbourhoods” is clearly inflammatory and untrue. The large number of secondary suites in RS neighbourhoods provide the lowest cost rental accommodation in the city. They allow students and lower-income households to live in neighbourhoods they would not be able to afford if these neighbourhoods are upzoned. The RS zoning, with its emphasis on rental of secondary suites and laneway homes, has encouraged a healthy social mix that contributes toward making them the livable communities they are today.

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Charges laid in last week’s West End double homicide Jessica Kerr

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Police searched the area around a West End apartment building Monday, July 10 after two people were found murdered in an apartment at 1835 Morton Ave. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Police have charged a man in last week’s double homicide in Vancouver’s West End. Leonard Landrick, 73, was arrested Monday night and has been charged with two counts of second degree murder in the deaths of 57-year-old Sandra McInnes and 51-year-old Neil Croker.

McInnes and Croker were found dead at around 5 p.m.

July 9 in an apartment at 1835 Morton Ave. All three were residents of the building.

Police did not release any other information about the crime, the relationship between the accused and the victims, or how they died.

“That will all form part of the investigation and will be presented in court,” said Sgt. Jason Robillard.

In his obituary, family said Croker was “known for his caring and compassionate nature.” In online condolences he is remembered as “one of the sweetest, funny, kind souls we have ever known” and “such a kind and considerate person.”

Landrick made his first court appearance Tuesday.

The matter was adjourned to Aug. 1.

Police described the

killing as a targeted, isolated event.

On July 10, the day after McInnes and Croker were found, officers searched bushes around the neighbouring Sylvia Hotel and appeared to have removed a blue shirt from one of the bushes.

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The second and third are annual inflationary adjustment reports on CAC Targets and Density Bonus Contributions. CAC Targets are contributions provided by property developers when Council grants development rights through rezoning.

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DAVIDICUS WONG, M.D. davidicuswong.wordpress.com In the HBO TV series, Westworld, androids are programmed to play characters in a theme park set in the Wild West.

Imagine a Disneyland not suitable for children. The robots believe their world is real and that they themselves are human and have free will. Meanwhile, they are used and abused by visitors to the park and their programmers.

Complications arise when one of the androids begins to question her reality and learns to hack into her own programming.

Have you ever questioned your “reality” and how you see your world? Have you reflected on some of your most deeply held beliefs, thought about where they

came from and recognized that some may no longer work for you?

Have you ever struggled with habits of behaviour, such as overeating, smoking, making the same mistakes or repeating old arguments? We all have, and we know how difficult it can be to break out of old habits and stick to a better, healthier and happier routine.

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You are human, a biologic organism that has forgotten that its brain and nervous system are the products of millions of years of evolution.

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The emotions that we share with all other humans (and countless other animals) have served important functions and helped our species to survive. Our emotions can shape and limit our thoughts and trigger instinctive behaviour. Our brains have evolved to learn and reinforce repeated patterns of thought and behaviour.

Donald Olding Hebb, a Canadian psychologist was a pioneer of neuropsychology. He studied how neurons (the primary cells of our brains and the rest of the nervous system) contributed to psychological processes, including learning. Dr. Hebb coined the expression, “Neurons that fire together wire together.”

What he was describing was neuroplasticity, the

Neurons have specialized projections called axons and dendrites. Dendrites import information into the body of the neuron and axons export that information away to other neurons across synapses the junctions where information passes from one neuron to another. When you learn new things, your neurons develop more axons and synapses, increasing their connection to networks of other neurons.

The more you practise a new thought or action the more a particular network of

neurons is strengthened, their connections reinforced. That is why what you frequently dwell upon becomes your inclination. How often do you find yourself thinking the same thoughts?

Early assumptions when reinforced over time become core beliefs about who you are, how the world works and how you relate to others. Repeated behaviours become habits. Over time, they seem to be hardwired.

This is why you can find your way home each day without a GPS, why you don’t have to relearn riding a bike or relearn how to read every time you pick up a book. It’s an amazingly efficient system.

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As an independent, locally run grocery store, the Famous Foods Meat Department offers quality Canadian meat and poultry with grass fed, organic, and non-medicated options. “Summer barbecues with family and friends are a great way to catch up with each other, enjoy the outdoors, and eat delicious healthy food,” says Gil, head butcher.

When determining the type of meat, first consider how lean the meat will be.

Marbling refers to the streaks of clear or white fat deposits in a cut, especially visible on red meat. The finer the grain, the leaner the meat; the more connective tissue, the more robust a meat’s flavour

will be. Flavourful and tender cuts of beef are prime rib, ribeye, strip loin, and T-bone steaks. For the tenderest meat, you will find fresh, hormone-free Angus beef weekly at Famous Foods.

Lean meat, such as grass fed, is often more tender when grilled. Being so easy to overcook, it’s best to grill grass-fed meat over low heat with an alternative oil, such as coconut or avocado oil.

When grilling lean meat, aim for medium or medium-rare.

Even the most experienced grill masters know the ultimate barbecue hack: your local grocer. The butcher will know each meats flavour components and grilling style. Make a locally-run grocer like Famous Foods your go-to meat provider for the best advice.

Visit the Famous Foods website at www.famousfoods.ca or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/FamousFoodsVancouver.

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Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week upholds authentic Indigenous traditions while raising Indigenous artistry, materials and legacy with power, visibility and beauty.

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and Wine on 2 aBeer Rollercoaster Complete with beer, wine, food, midway games and, of course, exhilarating rides, Playland’s grounds will be fully licensed on Friday nights, so guests can enjoy their favourite beverage throughout the park. 19+ only.

Every Friday in July Playland-PNE (2901 East Hastings St.) pne.ca/playland-nights/

A Charitable 3 Lemonade Stand Pop-Up Shop Herschel Supply has opened a pop-up shop and lemonade stand in the picturesque waterfront

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Over $75,000 was raised for charity through donations and the generous support of our partners. This could not have been accomplished without the support from the following: community of Deep Cove.

All profits from lemonade sales will be donated to ArtStarts In Schools to expand the role of arts in education for youth.

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DENTAL-DO: For the 17th consecutive year, Dr. Anthony Li chaired the Chinese Canadian Dental Society of B.C.’s signature soiree. More than 350 guests convened at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the yearly dental-do organized

by Li, CCDSBC society president Dr. Jason Choi and a group of do-gooders in the dental profession with a strong desire to give back to their community. This year’s 29th staging of the fundraising dinner and auction was a “Tropical Paradise” themed affair, bringing the Polynesian Islands to Vanhattan. Attendees enjoyed a taste of Polynesia from the multi-course dinner curated by executive chef Jeff Szombaty to the Polynesia Show presented by Paul Latta

and his talented dancers. And when it came time to give, hands were held high and the generosity flowed. A far cry from the meetings in our basements and instant noodle dinners that Li recalls, this year’s fundraising festivities topped $100,000 to support Villa Cathay’s rejuvenation project and establishment of a dental operatory at the Chinatown seniors care home, one of the oldest in the city, provided

by UBC’s Geriatric Dentistry Program. Over the years, the group has contributed funds towards bursaries and endowments, a mobile community dental clinic and oral cancer prevention programs.

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Dr. Jason Choi, Chinese Canadian Dental Society of B.C. president, invited Villa Cathay executive director Szuchi Lee to speak about the fundraising efforts to rejuvenate the senior care facility on Union Street in Chinatown.

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Dan Mangan wants to help fellow musicians get intimate John Kurucz

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Dan Mangan is embarking on an audacious project to bridge Canada’s urban/ rural divide.

The two-time Juno winner isn’t doing it with a guitar, nor a mic. Instead, the Vancouverite is standing to the side of the stage to help fledgling artists who are in the same spot he was a decade ago.

Alongside friend and business partner Laura Simpson, Mangan launched Side Door Access in June with the intention of getting upcoming artists — musicians, comics, lecturers, directors and more — in front of crowds that actually want to see them perform in a more intimate setting.

“One of my biggest motivators is that if you play to 20 people in a club that holds 200, you can leave that town feeling like you’ve made no footprint,” Mangan told the Courier. “But if you can play to 20 people in a living room, and then hang out and have a couple drinks, sell a bunch of CDs and perhaps stay with the host, the poten-

tial for a great human and unique experience is heightened big time.”

The marrying of the two worlds happens digitally before it happens organically.

Both venue hosts and artists log on to Sidedooraccess.com and register who they are and what their role in the service is — artist or host. An app will be launched in the future that connects would-be attendees as well.

Details around location, venue size, city and compensation are exchanged between the various factions, and then it’s party time.

Part of Mangan’s motivation was the lack of party being brought to all corners of the country. Places such as Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are typically sweet spots for touring acts, but locales such as Brandon, Man., Lethbridge, Alta. and smaller towns in B.C. can experience a serious deficit in live entertainment.

That hunch was borne out in a sprawling Facebook missive Mangan posted in April. He asked the online community what their primary barriers were to experiencing a resonant, live

Alongside business partner Laura Simpson, Vancouver musician Dan Mangan launched Side Door Access to link artists with smaller, more intimate venues. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

event. Having young kids, ridiculous ticket prices, shows stretching past the midnight hour and even having to stand behind a tall person were some of the responses.

There was also a distinct lack of options in smaller markets. By tweeking the traditional, big-market-only model, driving 12 hours from Vancouver to Calgary could instead become

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several, shorter drives with daily gigs along the traditional touring route.

“We live in a country with great distances between population densities, so the economics of it become feasible,” Mangan said.

“There are little gems all over the place. Many bands or artists would go to places like Kamloops, Creston or Red Deer or even smaller

communities than that if they could count on having a great experience.”

Compensation is determined through the host and artist. The service model will soon become such that ticket buyers can see how the agreement breaks down, and what the take-home pay is for the hired entertainment. And while the focus is currently

centred on traditional single-family home settings, that’s open to change to warehouses, art spaces, cafés or anywhere that can house a performance ranging from 30 to 150.

And if “that guy” were to show up, keg of beer in hand and with nothing but bad intentions in mind, Mangan said an internal rating system for all parties involved — artists, hosts and attendees — will quickly weed out the bad apples.

The service is, as Mangan describes it, “very beta” at this point. More than 100 hosts have signed up, alongside dozens of acts and it’s intended to be a Canadian only phenomenon to start off. From there, he’d like to see artists be able to tour around the world using Side Door Access.

“Success, to me, would be in a couple of years, seeing an artist who had started on Side Door and built themselves an audience and then got noticed on a higher level and was then able to go and play concert halls,” he said.

“That would be a huge win.”

Details at sidedooraccess.com. @JohnKurucz

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The Lifetime Volunteer of the Year award recognizes seniors who make a difference in our community, and who use their time to help others, whether that’s teaching a class, working a till at a thrift store, cooking, knitting and so much more.

The Lifetime Volunteer of the Year will receive a multi-day tour vacation, valued at more than $5,000, courtesy of Ageless Adventures, and Stong’s grocery gift certificates.

Entries accepted until August 25, 2017.

To enter and nominate a volunteer, call us at 604-630-3517 or email sthomas@vancourier.com.

Nomination forms can be found at vancourier.com.

LAUGHING MATTER Bejing-based artist Yue Minjun visited his A-maze-ing Laughter public art display for the first time last week, as part of the Vancouver Biennale-organized Day of Laughter July 13. Minjun made the 14 smiling bronze men in his image. “I didn’t really expect it would be so popular,” he told the Courier through an interpreter. “I’m really happy it had this sort of outcome.”

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The news will only really be surprising to anyone who hasn’t been following Volvo’s ambitious strides with regards to their current lineup. At the top of the range, the T8 version of the XC90 crossover already has plug-in hybrid technology, and positions the tech as a benefit over the standard model.

Volvo turfed its straightsix turbos and naturallyaspirated V-8s for a compact twin-charged four-cylinder, and has experimented with making even triple-turbocharged fours, the better to extract power from small displacement.

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Further, the demand for electric cars isn’t so much set by the manufacturer or regulator, but by the customer. It’s all well and good to be hoping to sell one million EVs by 2025 – as is Volvo’s stated goal – but there are already plenty of electric options right now, and they’re all relatively slow sellers.

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As we’re all constantly being told, the future is both electric and autonomous. Robot cars will be far safer than human drivers, and prone to making fewer mistakes (always assuming we can get them to work properly).

Volvo’s autonomous program suffered an unexpected setback in Australia recently, when its large animal detection equipment became confused by hopping kangaroos. The system was built around dealing with elk, deer, and moose, and does a good job of recognizing and avoiding them.

Kangaroos, on the other hand, like to jump. In the system’s brain, that makes them suddenly appear farther away, then close, then farther away again. It causes a glitch that’s been hard to program out.

On one hand, not being prepared for Australia isn’t such a big deal.

Australian wildlife is weird: I mean, what kind of country has a deer that looks like a tyrannosaurus rex with pockets?

On the other hand, it’s more proof that the world is a complicated places with ever worsening roads and unpredictable wildlife.

Sure, eventually the computing power will be there to deal with every possibility, but how long will it take, and will everybody trust it?

Porsche shows off ultimate 911

Like Volvo, Porsche is also readying for an electric future, with plans to have half its fleet equipped with some sort of electrification by 2023. The Mission E, an answer to the Tesla Model S, is expected to launch by 2019.

While we wait for that, Porsche’s GT subsection is busy cranking out machines that stretch the limits of technology in a different way. The new, 690 horsepower 911 GT3RS is the most powerful road-going 911 variant ever, a twinturbocharged monster capable of hitting a top speed of 340 kilometres per hour.

Fitted with functional aerodynamics and even a water-spray system for its intercoolers, the GT3RS should be a track weapon.

It is, however, horrendously expensive, with a price tag north of a quarter-million dollars. Ouch.

Better to wait for whatever the GT versions of the Cayman and Boxster are going to look like.

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