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Meet the owner of 38 single-family properties in Vancouver Landlord rents 26 of the houses, charges $825 to $3,500 per month Mike Howell

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All this talk about socalled affordable housing had me wondering why landlords in this city charge so much for rent.

So I thought I’d approach one landlord who owns 38 single-family properties in Vancouver.

Yes, I happen to know someone that rich.

Take a guess who it is.

Chip “Lululemon” Wilson?

The Aquilini family?

Courier columnist Allen Garr?

Alright, alright, enough of this nonsense; it’s the City of Vancouver.

So I’ll get right to it.

Of the 38 properties owned by city, 26 are used for rental housing. They rent from $825 to $3,500 per month. I’ll expand on the rents in a few sentences.

I wanted to first tell you about what the city is doing with its 12 other singlefamily properties.

The owner of this house at 3030 Victoria Dr. also owns 37 other single-family properties in Vancouver.

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Five in the Southwest Marine Drive area are vacant and bought to secure land for the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency’s plan to build two six-storey residential buildings on the properties. The project is expected

to create 101 “secure market rental homes, with 52 per cent designed to accommodate families,” according to information I received from the city in an email.

Three properties are in the process of being decon-

structed — the city doesn’t demolish homes anymore but takes them apart piece by piece to recycle what it can — and two are being renovated before being made available for rent.

Another property is vacant

pending a review of “mold issues” and another house is being relocated to an alternate site. The city didn’t provide all the addresses — the affordable housing agency sites can be viewed on the city’s website — but confirmed a house at 3030 Victoria Dr., which generated a lot of recent media coverage after Kerry Gold at the Globe and Mail revealed it was vacant, is among the homes to be rented.

Gold’s piece set off a social media storm because it seemed kind of ironic that Mayor Gregor Robertson was going around telling everybody how the city was in a housing crisis and more had to be done to create supply, yet here was this city-owned house sitting vacant for 18 months.

The house, as I heard from park board general manager Malcolm Bromley, was supposed to be deconstructed to expand John Hendry Park at Trout Lake. Deconstruction, as Bromley told me, takes a

long time and that contributed to the delay.

“I mean the optics of this,” he said, “I’m completely sympathetic. I’m supportive of housing initiatives, and this wasn’t according to our plan, this wasn’t according to our normal timing.”

So there’s some background for you.

Now let’s get to how much the city is charging to rent those 26 homes. As mentioned, I didn’t receive addresses for all houses, although I could do a land title search for City of Vancouver properties and spend a considerable amount of time narrowing down which ones are single-family and whether they are, in fact, the same 38 the city referred to in the email I received.

I’ll get to that on another day when time is on my side.

I can at least tell you that four homes in South Vancouver rent for $1,000 to $3,000 per month.

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Real estate deals ‘strategic’ Seven homes on the East Side go for $825 to $2,500 per month. And the 15 houses in Kitsilano, which I believe include one or two along the waterfront, rent for $1,160 to $3,500 a month. I wasn’t told how many bedrooms were in the houses, the condition of the houses or how big or small they were – all factors in determining the rent.

I had a telephone interview with Bill Aujla, the city’s general manager of real estate and facilities management, to learn why the city purchased the houses. Patrick Murphy, also of the city’s real estate department, was on speakerphone during the conversation.

“First of all, we don’t buy single-family houses, per se,” said Aujla, noting the objective is to buy property for city projects such as road widening, expanding parks and developing housing projects like the one in the works for Southwest Marine Drive.

Some of the purchases go back to the 1960s. Some properties, like those on Southwest Marine Drive, were bought in the last couple of years. Some of the houses

on the properties are rented for several years; others provide temporary housing.

With real estate prices continuing to soar in Vancouver, Aujla acknowledged it’s a “challenging market” to buy properties and the city has to be strategic on how it goes about real estate deals. It also has to be quiet about its plans, noting talking publicly about buying up properties in a certain neighbourhood would only drive up prices.

“We’re in this for the long game,” he said, noting sometimes homeowners approach the city as a potential purchaser. “We’re not looking to compete with speculative buyers. We’re looking to buy in the long term in a very pragmatic, feasible manner.”

A question I had that didn’t get answered before writing this sentence was whether all tenants were paying 30 per cent or less of their income on rent. That 30 per cent figure is the one the mayor and senior city planners have repeatedly said is the target for what a person should pay to rent a place in this town.

“When [the tenants] are

renting at market rents, we’re not asking them for their income,” said Aujla, before Murphy explained multiple tenants could be living in one house, therefore making it more affordable for each tenant than paying the whole shot.

The city advertises its residential rental properties on its website. There are no units available, but you can see what commercial properties are available for rent, including a 334 sq. foot property at 180 Keefer St. for $1,559 per month and a 2,995 sq. foot building at 1004 West Broadway for $14,975 per month.

Final note: Years ago, when I was typing away at the Vancouver Sun, I wrote a front-pager about the RCMP raiding two houses in Richmond that operated as marijuana growing operations. The landlord?

The City of Richmond. The raids came a few months after then-Richmond mayor Greg Halsey-Brandt hosted a forum for landlords and property managers to help them prevent their houses from turning into grow-ops. @Howellings

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The last time a total solar eclipse passed above Candace and Preston Rohrick, the thing they remember the most is being denied the opportunity to watch it.

“My mom allowed us to peak outside the curtains for a second,” Candace says. “It’s not the eclipse that stands out in my mind; it’s being able to peak out for only a second.”

“Me, I felt robbed,” her husband adds. “What I remember the most is the teacher never letting us go outside.”

When the solar eclipse darkens the skies above a huge swath of the United States and Canada on Aug. 21, the Vancouver couple is vowing not to miss the opportunity to experience it in full. As the moon orbits directly in front of the sun, almost completely blocking out its light and turning day into night, they will have front-row seats.

In a perfect world, the Rohricks would travel to Charleston, S.C. to watch the

eclipse. Architecturally it’s one of their favourite cities and it’s right along the 113-kilometre-wide arc of what’s being called the Great American Total Solar Eclipse. However, humidity is “unbearable” at that time of year, and there’s a 60 per cent chance of haze.

Given the vast number of people angling for the best viewing opportunity along the eastern seaboard, they also risked having the eclipse pass while they were stuck in heavy highway traffic.

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However, a lot of other people had the same idea, some of them booking their accommodation years in advance. The Rohricks were quoted Aug. 20 hotel room rates ranging between $2,000 and $5,000.

And while here in Vancouver we’ll be able to see the eclipse in 86 per cent of its totality — the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is hosting a viewing party — the Rohricks don’t want to be robbed of a single percentage point of the experience.

They and their 24-yearold son Nathaniel are loading up their SUV and heading south to Salem, Ore., an hour south of Portland. They’ll sacrifice comfort and sleep in their SUV for the chance to be right in “the bull’s-eye.”

But their mothers needn’t worry. It is true that no one should look directly at an eclipse. The sun’s rays will indeed damage your retinas.

Only those who are directly in the eclipse’s path — and that excludes Vancouver — can look at it with the naked eye, and only for the couple of minutes when the moon totally blocks the sun.

The Rohricks have bought ISO-approved solar eclipse glasses, which, while flimsy, are thousands of times darker than regular sunglasses. Put them on and you’ll see nothing but darkness — except when you look at the sun.

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“It’s more neat than anything else,” Preston says of why they’re so caught up in eclipse fever. “I’ve always felt I missed something.

The last one was in 1979 and, more than that, it was such a coincidence to be on Candace’s birthday.”

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One environmental group is hoping Vancouverites will help track local bees.

Friends of the Earth is looking for volunteers for its second Great Canadian Bee Count and is offering downloadable “census cards” to help identify bees.

“We know from our recent poll that Canadians care deeply about saving the bees but they know very few of them by name,” said Beatrice Olivastri, CEO of Friends of the Earth Canada.

The group surveyed Canadians across the country and found that seven out of 10 were either “concerned” or “very concerned” over the health of bumble bees.

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photos of the bumble bees wherever they are — cottages, national parks or their own garden,” Olivastri said.

“By sending Friends of the Earth their photos and observations, they’ll be helping us learn more about what needs to be done to protect bumble bees.”

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MLA Judy Darcy has a huge task before her. She’s been charged by Premier John Horgan with responding to the opioid crisis gripping our province.

It’s a tall order.

Four people a day died from drug overdoses in British Columbia in May, the most recent statistics show. More than a year after B.C.’s provincial health officer declared a public health emergency, the numbers are still climbing.

In 2016, 935 people in B.C. died from illegal drug overdoses, a government report shows. This year, 488 people died in the first four months, putting the province on track to see nearly 1,500 people die this year.

Those people come from every walk of life and every community. They’re mostly men (82 per cent), mostly middle aged (73 per cent were aged 30 to 59), and mostly people doing drugs alone at home (90 per cent died indoors) statistics from the B.C. government and the Coroner’s Service show.

Fentanyl, an opioid from the same family as morphine and heroin, has been detected in about two-thirds of these deaths.

Darcy, NDP MLA for New Westminster, is tasked with creating a new Mental Health and Addictions ministry to deal with this crisis. Horgan has asked her to develop an immediate response to the crisis, with a focus on mental health.

How will Darcy do it?

She’s not sure yet, but the first step she is taking seems appropriate — she is meeting with people on the ground to seek advice from those who are directly involved.

In an interview in late July, Darcy told me she had visited the Surrey strip — an area where more than 100 people live in a tent city — as well as Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first legal supervised injection site, and Crosstown, the only clinic in North America to offer medicalgrade heroin to addicts.

While visiting the Overdose Prevention Society, she said she saw an overdose.

“I saw them save a life,”

she said. But many other lives have been lost and that is something Darcy wants to change.

Darcy was the national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, after serving six years as secretary business manager for the Hospital Employees Union in B.C. The opioid crisis is not just a Downtown Eastside problem — it affects all walks of life and all communities.

“They could be your nextdoor neighbour. It could be anybody,” Darcy said.

“That’s the thing that keeps hitting me over and over.”

At Crosstown, she met with three men who use the organization’s services.

She says the first two were injured at work — one was a carpenter, the other a logger — and they became addicted, first to their pain medications, then later to street drugs. The third man was a foster child who started doing mild drugs at the age of 12 and turned to harder drugs by 15. Darcy said he got involved with crime to support his habit and was eventually arrested and later was in and out of jail dozens of times. Today, with the help of Crosstown, he has gone back to school to earn his cook’s certification and is now studying to become a hairdresser.

“He is working as a cook and as a peer support worker,” Darcy said. “They saved his life and put him on a path that has given him hope.”

Darcy wants to see more education, early intervention and treatment options. She says treatment on demand is one of her goals, but that it will take a while to get there.

There are some short term fixes that can help — supervised injection sites, fentanyl testing strips, legal morphine for addicts, but the problem won’t go away until the root cause is addressed.

Dr. John Millar, a former B.C. provincial health officer and medical and public health professor emeritus at UBC, said earlier this year that more people are dying from “diseases of despair.”

He said when people are overly stressed about finance or housing or jobs, they tend to use alcohol or opioids to ease the stress and that can be deadly.

Darcy hopes that along with her new ministry’s focus on mental health, the new government’s planned poverty reduction strategy and boost in services for the ministry of children

and families will ease that despair. The ministries of housing, health and education are crucial to stopping the crisis, she said.

“The key is to give people hope, but it’s not just hope, you have to give them a pathway to hope,” Darcy said. “That means services that are available for them where they need

them and when they need them.”

Giving people hope may be a long-term strategy, but it sounds like a wise place to start. Let’s hope it’s backed up with a budget to match.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

She can be reached at tracy. sherlock@gmail.com.

Judy Darcy, the new minister of mental health and addictions, recently toured the Powell Street Getaway with Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA Melanie Mark. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Five guiding principles for the next B.C. Liberal leader

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ith Christy Clark’s departure from public life comes an opportunity for the B.C. Liberal Party to renew itself under new leadership. There is plenty of speculation as to who will run for the job.

More importantly, however, we should ask what the candidates will stand for.

If the 2017 B.C. election taught us anything, it is that our province is not immune to the sea change affecting democracies around the world.

Social media, the disruptive economy, the flow of global capital and an aging society are just some of the major forces that are making election outcomes so unpredictable lately.

We should predict that the next leader will appeal to both the liberal- and conservative-leaning wings of the party.

They will of course uphold the principles of balanced budgets, show their free enterprise bona fides by keeping taxes low on individuals and businesses, and support the resource economy of which Site C dam and the

people and goods over the long term.

Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project have become emblems.

But other themes have emerged, particularly during the spring campaign, that all prospective B.C. Liberal leadership candidates should take to heart.

I’ve grouped them into five categories.

3. Prepare for massive change brought on by technology

1. Close the empathy gap

Last April, I overheard a voter being canvassed at her doorstep. She claimed to be generally satisfied with Clark’s government with one exception — “poverty.” Not enough British Columbians were benefiting from the province’s overall economic success, she said.

Though Clark herself touted B.C.’s Single Parent Employment Initiative on her re-election campaign, the B.C. Liberals struggled under the weight of public opinion that the party did not care for the little guy.

The next leader must therefore be able to close that “empathy gap” with voters who perceive — perhaps unfairly — that B.C. Liberal govern-

The question of who will replace Christy Clark as the leader of the B.C. Liberals is an opportunity for the party to renew itself, says columnist Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ments are uninterested in people’s welfare.

2. Have a plan for our cities

The urbanization of our planet is happening with remarkable speed, yet the growth and influence of our urban centres are rarely acknowledged by provincial governments.

To be fair, some of our mayors have been openly hostile in their dealings with Victoria. But any

future leader of the B.C. Liberal Party will have to look past the parochialism of some municipalities, and put collaboration with local governments as a top priority.

The B.C. Liberals must enable cities to become more enterprising through tax reforms, regional economic planning, or by establishing a non-partisan transportation secretariat to help plan and capitalize new systems to move

Disruptive innovation is rapidly changing how we work, shop, travel, communicate and connect as a society. Some analysts predict that artificial intelligence and robotics could replace up to 50 per cent of all jobs within a decade.

No government likes to consider the likelihood of hyper-unemployment and human jobs displaced by machines, but our leaders should be talking about the economy of five, 10, or 25 years in the future.

While critics decried Clark’s emphasis on LNG as a way to grow the economy, the next leader of the B.C. Liberal Party must be equally single-minded when it comes to embracing disruptive innovation.

4. Govern with less partisanship and more openness

While politicians should always be prepared to defend their principles, being overly partisan has become passé. Partisan-

ship repels good people away from public service, and undermines faith in our democratic institutions. Look to the U.S. to see what politics riven by partisanship has become.

Abiding to principles of openness and transparency is another important quality of leadership. Openness will help, not hinder the party’s agenda by building public trust, and by stamping out corrosive misinformation circulated via social media.

5. Challenge past B.C. Liberal policies

We should assume that any B.C. Liberal policies will be subject to review or outright rejection by the governing B.C. NDP. A new party leader should similarly have no policy sacred cows. They must be prepared to bring about new regulations, taxation regimes and institutions that support British Columbians’ long-term prosperity.

These are my five. Others will have theirs. I look forward to seeing how all the candidates plan to lead the party and the province. @MikeKlassen

It’s time to bring back the photo radar Risk of ICBC insurance hike makes it worth it Bill Good

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A few days ago I found myself thinking something I never thought I’d consider.

An Ernst and Young report commissioned by the former Liberal government painted a pretty bleak picture of ICBC. It indicated that if there wasn’t fundamental change

in the insurance company our premiums would need to increase by as much as 30 per cent over the next two or three years.

Why? Too many accidents and too many millions paid out in legal settlements.

So, I thought, bring back photo radar. I never thought I’d say that, but I think it’s time to consider it.

The more I drive the more I see flagrant abuses of speed.

The new minister responsible for ICBC, David Eby, was quick to reject the idea

but I think he needs to give it a second thought.

When the NDP first brought in photo radar it was badly used. It required well-paid and highly trained police officers to operate it.

It was also deployed in “fishing spots” — at the bottom of long hills or in high traffic zones where virtually everyone was driving above the posted speed and wouldn’t know for days they’d been hit with a ticket and may have gotten two or three others by the time the last one arrived in the mail.

Province columnist Mike

Smyth revealed that the red light cameras that are installed in many intersections are only operational six hours a day because when they were first put in place they had film that had to be taken out and processed every day.

When they were replaced with digital cameras the insurance company didn’t choose to use them 24/7 because it didn’t want to anger too many drivers.

Well, in my opinion, what angers drivers is seeing other drivers abuse speed limits and running red lights.

The other thing that

angers drivers is outrageous increases in insurance rates, especially for those with clean driving records and no speeding tickets or tickets for running red lights.

When the NDP government brought in ICBC in the 1970s, it did so because people felt ripped off by private insurance companies.

Looking back at the NDP government of the ’70s, ICBC would seem one of its best achievements.

ICBC has remained as a Crown corporation for more than 40 years because it’s been a good system. Social

Credit toyed with replacing it but didn’t because the public had grown to trust the company. Not everybody loves it, but in 16 years of Liberal rule there was no serious move made to replace it.

Photo radar and more efficient red light cameras would achieve two things: Fewer accidents and increased revenue for a cash starved insurance company.

I don’t think too many people would complain about that. The NDP invented ICBC and now they have a chance to bring it up to date.

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This is absolutely not true. We buy takeout food frequently. We have containers that we take to our favourite restaurants, they fill them up, we wash them afterwards and they are ready for the next time. This is not difficult. Many places do the same — it’s time Vancouver moved with the times.

We also take cloth bags for grocery shopping and have been using the same ones for years. Again, this is not difficult.

Mr. Levy also wrote, “For what reason could [a ban] justify such interference in people’s lives?” The province is burning and we are dealing with the serious effects of climate change. The reason is that we should do everything we can to stop things from getting worse — for the sake of future generations.

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Sai Woo’s neon bird comes back to roost in Chinatown John Kurucz

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Salli Pateman had to navigate an impossible web of stress, asbestos and decay for close to five years before seeing the proverbial light.

As owner of the Sai Woo restaurant on Pender Street, Pateman got her moment in the sun Saturday, July 29, when the Chinatown mainstay installed a re-imagined neon sign that harkens back 60 years.

The eight-foot, yellow, green and red rooster was lit up before a crowd of more than 250 people at the unveiling ceremony, and it’s the first time the cock of the block has been a fixture in Chinatown since 1959.

“When the light went on, it was just so amazing,” Pateman said. “We played the chicken song and everybody did the chicken dance.

It was so fun.”

The fun was almost for naught just hours before the long-anticipated event. As structural engineers initially tried to hang the rooster, the building’s walls weren’t able absorb or disperse the weight.

Cue the scrambling, phone calls and a plea for thicker cables. As that was playing out, Pateman’s invited guests and clientele were contacting her non-stop about the evening’s details, available room and the RSVP list. A razorthin margin of time ended up separating fun from fail.

“The whole time I’m thinking it’s not going to be a very fabulous unveiling party when we don’t have anything to unveil,” Pateman said.

Pateman’s sign saga dates back long before last week.

The building opened in 1925 and has been an eatery in some shape or from since that time. Neon signs were all the

Troy Hibbs and his team at TDH Experiential Fabricators recreated Sai Woo’s neon rooster sign based on a one-second clip from a 1958 Chinatown parade video. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

rage throughout the downtown core up until the 1970s, when they were deemed “light pollution” and removed.

Pateman took over Sai Woo in mid-2013, and spent two years bringing the building up to code: clearing asbestos, renovations out the wazoo and raising the foundation by two inches. Forty industrial garbage bins were filled and hauled out before doors opened in late March 2015.

The rooster sign was absent in physical form and from memory. Early last year Pateman’s friend found a one-second clip from an old parade video from 1958 that showed the Sai Woo at that time, complete with the sign.

A four-month search began that saw Pateman contact well-known Vancouver development and business players — Bob Rennie and Jim Pattison among others — and a cash reward was offered up. No dice. Back to the drawing board.

Enter Troy Hibbs and Surrey-based TDH Experiential Fabricators, which was tasked with re-creating the rooster based on that one-second video still.

“It’s not like we had HD, beautiful quality video,”

Hibbs said. “It’s very grainy and missing a lot of detail, so we really had to study the other signs as well to see what the applications were at the time to make sure we were hitting the mark to recreate it.”

As Hibbs’ team worked at building the sign, Pateman worked on building capital.

A Kickstarter campaign was launched and had a onemonth window to raise the required $18,000. With seven days to go, the campaign was still $5,000 short; on deadline day, Pateman was $522 short.

Modernized Tailors owner Steven Wong stepped up with just hours to go before the campaign ended. He hand-delivered the necessary cash as a tribute to his late father, Bill, who died a week before his donation. Wong’s dad frequently dined at Sai Woo in its previous iteration.

“I almost tear up just thinking about it,” Pateman said. “Hopefully this sign is a sign of other people bringing us back to that neon glam era and hopefully more people will start using signage again down here. It is such a great way of honouring the neighbourhood and going back to the very beginning of Chinatown.”

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Dry grass a fire concern

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West Side resident concerned Pacific Spirit Park is at risk of fire A West Side resident is concerned cut grass left to dry in the sun along the road and near the entrance to Pacific Spirit Park could act as kindling for nearby downed logs and brush in case of a wild fire.

“If you look at the picnic area there are cigarette butts

all over the ground,” said Terry Slack. “With the fire risk so high I expected them to put up signs saying ‘no smoking,’ but instead they put up a little sign telling people where they can smoke.”

government raised the fire risk on Friday, Aug. 4, to “extreme.” Slack says a sign recently erected at the entrance to the park due to ongoing hot weather and high fire risk was a surprise.

With multiple wildfires burning across the province, the provincial

Slack said it’s obvious people are ignoring the smoking ban in the park because there are cigarette butts scattered across the grounds of the picnic area.

He’d like to see more signs and increased enforcement from Metro Vancouver, which governs the park.

Smokers are still dropping cigarette butts onto the ground, despite an extreme fire warning announced by the provincial government.

Tom McComb, supervisor of operations for Metro Vancouver, said because the fire hazard jumped

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to “extreme” on Friday, Metro Vancouver staff members were posting signs around the perimeter of the park at the trail heads and kiosks that same day that read, “Fire Danger. No smoking. No fires. Stay on Trails.” McComb noted smoking is never permitted at any time in city parks.

“The park is not closed, but we have between 70 and

80 signs to go up to remind people not to smoke,” said McComb. “We’ve also increased our patrols.”

Another precaution Metro Vancouver has put into place is a two-hour fire watch. That means that after any work is done in a park using equipment, staff will check back on the area two hours later to ensure nothing has started to burn.

As for Slack’s concern about dried grass, McComb is sympathetic.

“Grass can be a concern because of the size of the park, but we have limited staff,” said McComb.

He added the message he really wants to get out to the public is that smoking and campfires are absolutely prohibited in parks at this time.

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Gere moved to Vancouver from Sudbury, Ontario nine years ago. She was visiting her daughter and made a spur-of-the-moment decision to move. Gere had lived in the West End for a year in her mid-20s and remembered it as a fun, vibrant neighbourhood.

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Gere has always been a renter. Before she left Sudbury, she was renting a large one-bedroom apartment with a balcony and a view — it was less than $600 a month at the time. When she first arrived in the West End, she settled into a one-bedroom apartment. She was there for about five years but, as the rent continued to climb, she started looking for a smaller, more affordable place.

For the last few years, Gere has been living small. Really small. In an effort to save money on rent, she moved into a bachelor suite in an older three-storey building.

She estimates it’s about 300-square feet. She had to get rid of most of her furniture, keeping just a few antiques, a chair, a small dining room table and chairs, and a twin bed.

She doesn’t have room for a couch. The ground floor unit faces the neighbouring building and gets little sunlight.

It currently costs nearly $900 a month.

“That’s a lot when you’re on a fixed income,” she says.

Gere said it was pretty good for the first couple of years, but the rent at this place is also on the rise. Last year the increase was only $5.

However, this year the landlord raised the rent by $35.

It was reduced to a $25 increase after the property manager negotiated with the building owner on her behalf.

“I’ll just have to bite the bullet and see what happens with the rent.”

She’s had to get creative with her finances to make it work.

“I do everything I can for free,” she says, adding that Barclay Manor, run by the West End Seniors Network has many activities that are free, or very low cost.

“You really have to pick and choose what you do.”

She also keeps busy by volunteering with the network. She’s taken some courses, done senior peer support and currently teaches an acting class at Barclay Manor.

“You really have to pick and choose what you do.”

She recently put her name on the waiting list at Haro Park Centre, a facility in the West End that offers independent and assisted living, as well as residential care for seniors. But until she gets a room there, she’ll have to stay put.

Gere is not alone.

West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert says he sees seniors struggling with rent on a daily basis.

“I’d say my office probably gets inquiries probably every day.”

While the area doesn’t have a particularly high population of seniors — seniors make up about 13 per cent of residents — 81 per cent of housing in the area is rental.

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“We’ve seen quite a few people have to leave the neighbourhood because they can’t find an affordable place,” he said, adding that he knows of many seniors who have started working again to help supplement pension payments.

It’s a cause the long-time politician is particularly passionate about.

Five years ago, Chandra Herbert helped start the Vancouver Rent Bank after coming across a senior who ended up living in her van because she got sick and couldn’t work anymore — subsequently she couldn’t afford her rent.

“That has managed to help hundreds of people so far,” he said.

The rent bank isn’t just for seniors; it’s available through the Network of Inner City Community Services Society to low income families and individuals who are at risk of eviction or having essential utilities cut off, due to a temporary shortage of funds.

Seniors struggling to afford rent can also apply for subsidies through B.C. Housing. The agency’s Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) program provides monthly payments to eligible residents.

However, it doesn’t cover everyone. In order to qualify, a resident must be 60 or older and have lived in B.C. for a full 12 months prior to applying, be renting in the private market and paying more than 30 per cent of their pre-tax monthly income in rent.

The funding is available to couples and people sharing a unit, as well as singles. It is not available to residents receiving income assistance or disability payments.

More than 21,000 households across the province currently receive the grant, which must be re-applied for on an annual

basis. In Vancouver, as of March 31, there were 3,190 seniors receiving funds through the SAFER program.

less money for other things — cable, food and other expenses often fall by the wayside in an effort to pay for housing.

The payments are determined on a sliding scale based on income and rent and are only available to seniors spending more than 30 per cent of their income on rent.

“What complicates a lot of things as well is they become isolated,” he said, adding that some end up

“SAFER grants are the best route to take,” said Karsten Kaemling, assistant manager of support and information services at the West End Seniors Network.

He added it’s the first thing staff at the network suggests when a senior comes in with concerns about paying rent.

While the WESN doesn’t have any concrete statistics on the number of seniors who come in with concerns, Kaemling said the group often sees an influx of housingrelated inquiries when development signs go up around the neighbourhood as smaller buildings are purchased and demolished to make way for larger developments.

“Seniors are being displaced,” Kaemling said, adding that this is when many run into trouble.

Many senior renters have been in the same building for decades, and when they are forced to find new accommodations, rental rates are much higher than what they’ve been previously paying. Annual rent increases can also start to put a squeeze on seniors’ limited incomes.

“What’s happening is there’s always been a big population of people who rent,” Kaemling said.

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The news underscored the importance of its annual fireworks fundraiser staged at Scotiabank Tower.

President Michael Hoche and executive director Kim Stacey welcomed supporters to the viewing party held at the Scotiabank corporate offices on the 34th floor. With a $5,000 gift from its party host, the night of pyrotechnics and philanthropy looked to net the non-profit more than $20,000 to go towards its portable subsidy program.

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McLaren Housing Society president Michael Hoche and executive director Kim Stacey hosted the fireworks party in support of affordable housing options for some 300 clients. The loss of B.C. Gaming funding made this year’s fundraiser critically important to make up a portion of the shortfall.

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Darren Kopetsky, regional director, client relations and risk management at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, and Siobhan Gallagher, supportive housing coordinator at McLaren Housing Society, watched Team UK’s pyrotechnic prowess from the 34th floor of Scotia Tower.

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What we learned about the new hosts of The National from their choice of casual wear This week we received a press release announcing the new hosts of CBC’s The National — Adrienne Arsenault, Rosemary Barton, Andrew Chang and Ian Hanomansing.

The best part of the press release was a photo of the hosts dressed in what we can only assume are their casual Friday getups.

For us, seeing a news broadcaster in casual wear is like witnessing an orca in the wild. It’s rare, majestic and weirdly off-putting.

So what to make of The National’s new hosts in their natural habitats?

By far, Andrew Chang looks the most awkward.

Perhaps it’s his choice of light blue on light blue or the glimpse of a white T-shirt peaking from underneath his weekend-dad-goes-tobrunch sweater, but we bet ordering a honey lager would be considered stepping out of his comfort zone.

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and bronze blouse. Overall, we dig it, though her expression makes us think she’s disappointed in us.

We’re still not sure what’s going on with Adrienne Arsenault’s top. Is it a blouse? A backwards KWay? Pajama bottoms worn as a shirt? Whatever it is, it looks comfortable. And god knows, after years of reporting in war zones and conducting small talk on air with Peter Mansbridge, she deserves a little comfort.

Finally, Ian Hanomansing. What can we say that hasn’t been said already?

There’s a reason why his nickname is “handsome man thing.” And this windswept, linen-on-denim

combo only continues to light the fire in our collective loins. The dude looks like he just finished writing a slim volume of poetry.

He looks like he practises tantric sex… and not in a creepy, Sting-like way. He looks like he knows his way around a pottery wheel. He looks like he owns a tasteful collection of massage oils.

He looks like the kind of guy a divorced mother dreams of meeting while taking a solo holiday in Tuscany to “find herself.”

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From Led Zeppelin to Lady Gaga, Bob Gruen’s snapped their photo Iconic rock ’n’ roll photographer touches down in Vancouver for first-ever West Coast exhibit John Kurucz

ists and then the biggest artists of all time. You have photographed almost exclusively the latter. What’s the “it factor” that all those artists have?

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Simply put, if you’ve paid any attention to rock ’n’ roll over the last 40 years, you’ve seen Bob Gruen’s work.

He’s been photographing musicians professionally since the early 1970s and his resume includes the A-list of A-listers from multiple generations: Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, Prince, the Sex Pistols, Debbie Harry, Kiss, Lady Gaga and Green Day, among others. Gruen was also John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s personal photographer for a period during the 1970s and his work has been the subject of documentaries and roughly 10 books.

Gruen will be in town Aug. 10 for his first Canadian West Coast photo exhibit, Rockers, which runs until Aug. 25 at the Pendulum Gallery at 885 West Georgia St. The Courier caught up with Gruen, 71, by phone in Jersey City, NJ. Of all the things you could photograph, why did you decide on musicians?

There were a myriad of options and I did all of them. When you’re a young freelance photographer you can’t say no to any job.

I was taking pictures for fashion magazines, I took pictures of plastic boxes for product placement, I took

There’s a natural charisma in all of them. That’s what makes a good act, an act that makes a connection and communicates with the audience. Some of acts come out and they’re a little stiff, they just play their album and you go home saying to yourself, ‘I could have heard that in my living room.’ Other acts, a band like Green Day, hits the stage running. I think that a band that makes people laugh, listen and learn is a band that people come back to see over and over again.

Tell me about your first meeting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Bob Gruen’s iconic photos of musicians, including Led Zeppelin, are showcased in Pendulum Gallery’s exhibit, Rockers, which runs until Aug. 25. Gruen will be at the gallery for a reception Aug. 10.

pictures for a secretarial school when I was younger.

You took only one course on photography. What was the biggest takeaway?

What I learned there is the difference between being an amateur and taking the pictures you like, and being a professional and taking the pictures that other people wanted. That’s a professional — where you do what the client wants, when they want it.

Presumably you take hundreds of photos in a shoot. How do

you select the keepers?

Editing is absolutely key.

I look for the picture that captures the passion and the feeling so that you have a feeling of that moment. A lot of people say that when they look at my pictures, they feel like they’re there.

That’s the feeling I like them to have. I like to capture more than just the facts. I like to capture the feelings. For me, rock ’n’ roll is a feeling of freedom.

Rock ’n’ roll is about the freedom to express yourself very loudly. So I try to edit to look for that moment.

At what point in your career did you have a sense of “making it.”

I was at a concert at Madison Square Garden in the mid ’70s. Right in front of me there was some guy trying to get in on the guest list, saying his name was Bob Gruen. I was stunned that someone would use my name thinking I was that well known. I remember saying, “Hey kid, you’re not Bob Gruen, I am.” And then he ran up the block and got the hell out of there.

There are big artists, bigger art-

I remember walking down the hall towards their hotel room. I was shaking.

This was more than I could ever imagine. But I realized as I was walking through the hall that I wouldn’t be able to go into their room and take pictures if I’m shaking like this. It was only going to work if I went in relaxed, do what I do and hope that they like my pictures. I took a deep breath and told myself to just be myself. In later years after we became friends, Yoko mentioned how impressive that was because most people would walk in very nervous and

that made them nervous. I walked in calm, they stayed calm and that way I got good pictures of them.

How has social media and specifically cell phone cameras affected what you do?

Everybody is in the front row with their cell phone.

Before the first song is over, the news is already around the world. I can’t compete with that and I don’t try. I can’t do what I used to do.

The world has changed. But fortunately people feel like my pictures inspire them.

What advice do you have for the current generation of aspiring photographers?

People tell me they want to live the life I’ve lived. I tell them, “Well, that’s already been lived.” You can’t be like anybody else because everybody else is already taken. I tell people to, first of all, take a lot of pictures.

And then editing is key, because if you edit and only pick out a couple good ones, then you’re only showing the good ones. It’s one of my pet peeves when I see someone put up 200 pictures. That’s a little overkill. Put up two pictures and show people what happened. People don’t have a lot of time to look through everything and they won’t see the good ones if you put up 200.

This interview has been edited and condensed. @JohnKurucz

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While last year’s inaugural event was for the boys only, this year’s rendition includes an eight-team women’s bracket with teams from across North America and Australia.

Two teams from Vancouver will be represented: Team Vancouver — All My Relations — and Vancouver Strathcona. While there’s

an air of familiarity amongst B.C. teams, there’s no such thing as a pre-scout when your opponent lives on the other side of the planet.

“We have no idea what to expect from the Australian teams,” said All My Relations team captain Ashlee Raphael. “We’re going in expecting everyone will be really good. We’ve going to have to play really hard against every team.”

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“There are new faces, but we’ve known ahead of time that some of the regulars won’t be there,” Raphael said. “We’re building chemistry as we go and everyone seems to work well together.”

Outside of the x’s and o’s on the floor and the spirit of competition, a multi-day, multi-disciplinary exchange of cultures will play out: dances, welcoming ceremonies and a good old-fashioned meeting of the minds.

Last year’s event kicked off with a welcoming prayer recited by a Haida chief.

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Outside of that cultural immersion, Raphael is most keen to see how her team stacks against international competition.

“We’re competitors and we normally place in the top two of every tournament that we play in locally,” she said. “We’re going to go out there and try to do that on the world’s stage and see how we match up.” @JohnKurucz Admission to the tourney is $5 per day, while kids under 12 get in free. A full tournament schedule is online at indigenousbasketball.ca.

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Art, activism and ecology intertwine at Vine Arts Festival 10-day festival runs Aug. 9 to 19 at parks and beaches across Vancouver John Kurucz

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Beginning this week, a tree trunk equipped with headphones will project the sound of live insects while a dancer and musician gallivant about Trout Lake Park.

In what can only be qualified as a truly made-in-Vancouver event, the Vine Arts Festival returns for its third go-round Aug. 9 to 19 at parks across the city, including Trout Lake, Norquay, Maclean and Kits. Ecology and conservation are the festival’s foremost themes, and the 60-plus entertainers on the docket reflect those talking points: urban farmers, woodcarvers, beekeepers, herbalists, musicians, designers and more. What ties them all together is their use of natural surroundings to complement their

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Hence, the name Vine Arts Festival.

“It’s based around the idea that vines grow everywhere quite quickly and in weird places,” said festival founder and artistic director Heather Lamoureux. “You never know how they got there or where they’re going, so it follows this idea that we can bring together an accessible gathering across a number of disciplines.”

Lamoureux’s notion of oneness is best exemplified by the use of “earthstages.” The idea is to use the least nonnaturally occurring infrastructure: no wooden stages for musicians and no prefabricated surfaces for dancers or other performers.

Each day of the festival will feature a handful of performances, though Aug. 19 serves as the grand finale.

About 30 performances will be spread across Trout Lake Park, including art installations — yes, a tree with headphones transmitting the sound of live bees — dancers, musicians and

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theatre acts performing on four earthstages.

It’s on that day that Lamoureux will be collaborating alongside Nanaimo-based Indigenous artists Valeen Jones to unveil the Resilient Roots Project. Through spoken word, storytelling and other forms of activism, the project seeks to tell both historic and contemporary stories minus any themes of colonialism. Outside of Resilient Roots, the entire festival will include Indigenous themes to commemorate Canada 150+.

“It’s a melting pot of two communities — the communities who perform in theatres, and then the communities who perform at rallies and spoken world poetry and things like that,” Lamoureux said. “They’re both awesome, so it becomes a case of trying to mix these worlds.” @JohnKurucz

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T H U R SDAY, AU G U ST 1 0 , 2 0 1 7 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

BANANA GROVE Market & Deli

ONCE A !

YEAR DEALS

Anniversary Sale!

OR ITALIAN

Plum Tomatoes

1

$ 00

Assorted Pasta Product of Italy

85

¢

28oz

each

each

500g

Pecorino Romano Cheese

Product of Italy No Grating

2

$ 59 ea

Passata

EXTRA VIRGIN

Product of Italy

1

$ 00

each

700ml

A. Genco Espresso Coffee

1

$ 99

250ml

each

Assorted Beans

60¢

each

Fresh U.S. Grown Bananas

65

¢

/lb. /lb

Fresh B.C. Grown Mushrooms

1

$ 89 /lb.

6

Olive Oil

1899

$ 99 $ 1L

3L

Mediterranean

each

1kg

A. Genco Italian Rice

2 PRODUCE

14oz

$ 99

1

1kg

49

/lb

Fresh U.S. Grown Fuji Apples

99

/100g

Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese

Fresh B.C. Grown Head Lettuce 2 for $

2

$ 59

Fine or Course

85

Grana Padano Cheese

Product of Italy No Grating

Sea Salt

¢

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2

$ 99 /100g

Chicken Drumsticks

Can Gr AA or Higher Beef

T-Bone Steaks

799

$

/lb. • $17.61/kg

新鮮加拿大AA級!牛肉 Can Gr. “AA” or Higher Beef

3

99

/lb. • $8.80 /kg

$

249

/lb. • $5.49 /kg

新鮮無骨豬肩梅頭"燒肉

239

$

Prices valid

Aug. 12th and 13th, 2017 or while quantities last.

$

CRYOVACED

/lb. • $4.39/kg

CRYOVACED

Boneless

179

$

GREAT FOR SAUSAGE

/lb. • $3.95/kg

新鮮豬柳梅 (2 條裝)

Pork Tenderloin

$

CRYOVACED

/lb. • $5.27/kg

Stella

319

2 PER PACK

/lb. • $7.03/kg

Asiago Cheese

$

189

/100g

Manchego Cheese

269

$

/100g

Maple Lodge Farms

Old Fashioned Ham

89¢

/100g

Casa Italia

139

109

$

/100g

Casa Italia

Genoa Salami

$

Cooked Chicken Breast

Whole Leg Domestic Prosciutto /100g

$

1390

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DELI

Product of Italy

*We reserve the right to limit quantities.

WHOLE

Pork Shoulder Picnic

/100g

1

Boneless

Pork Lion

Pork Belly

$ 89

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新鮮無骨全條豬$肉

新鮮無骨豬肩肉 (全只)

Product of Italy

$ 39

/lb. • $3.06 /kg

BONELESS

Pork Capocollo Butt

Passata

139

$

新鮮無骨無皮五花#肉

WHOLE

2

In Bag

Baron of Beef Outside Round Roast

$

While Quantities Last

FRESH

Boneless

Provolone Piccante

新鮮雞!仔 (袋裝)

FAMILY PACK

Product of Italy No Grating

/lb.

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