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Too much junk flushed down region’s toilets Mike Howell

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The word itself makes me uncomfortable — “unflushables.” Yuck.

Yes, I’m going there, writing about stuff you’re not supposed to flush down the toilet. No, I’m not one of those adults still amused by potty humour. Yes, I could write about something else.

But when I came across a report in the Sept. 14 agenda of Metro Vancouver’s utilities committee (man, what has my life become?), I couldn’t resist quoting and paraphrasing some of what I read.

Before I do that, I will first tell you that Metro Vancouver spent $200,000 on a campaign this year to keep “seven priority items” out of the toilet. They are, in no particular order: wipes, paper towels, dental floss, hair, tampons and applicators, condoms and medications.

“Survey results show that most people are aware of how to correctly dispose of the items addressed in the campaign, but that many still

flush these items at least occasionally for reasons of convenience, hygiene or the perception that small amounts don’t cause clogs,” the report said. “Reports from outreach teams indicate many people understand that wipes should not be flushed, but awareness for hair and dental floss are generally low.”

Described as “an information and behaviour change campaign,” it focused on reaching people in bathrooms and maintaining a light and humorous tone, approaches proven to be effective in the 2016 wipes campaign — that’s wipes as in baby wipes, personal hygiene wipes and cleaning wipes.

Humour is an element of the campaign, but the seriousness of the message couldn’t be more, well, serious: Unflushables, many of which don’t break down, cause clogs, which can be costly to remove and can lead to raw sewage overflows into the environment.

And disposing of medications, particularly prescription drugs, down the toilet is also

Metro Vancouver spent $200,000 this year on a campaign to keep “seven priority items” from being flushed down the region’s toilets. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

not a good thing. A pharmacy will take these off your hands.

Larina Lopez, Metro’s division manager of communications, said costs to maintain and fix the region’s pumping equipment and clogged sewers continue to mount each year.

“We’ve estimated at least $100,000 annually to de-clog regional pump stations, but then hundreds of thousands on top of that to replace damaged equipment as a result of items going down the sewage system that shouldn’t be,”

she said, noting it cost about $950,000 to replace a pipe in Richmond a few years go.

“In that case specifically, it was based on a lot of people putting grease and oils down their drains. So when there’s a combination of people putting grease and oil down their drains, and then putting these other items down their toilet, all of it that gets combined and ends up coagulating together and things get blocked in our sewer system.”

The strangest thing recovered in a pipe?

“Fortunately, I am not one of those people having to deal with that,” she said.

“I mean, if you dream it up, I’m sure they’ve seen it. I don’t want quote anything, but I’ve heard some pretty bad horror stories.”

Take the United Kingdom, for example, where a report in the Guardian newspaper said a lump of congealed fat and household waste — known as a fatberg – was 40 metres long and so heavy that it broke a Chelsea sewer. It cost £400,000 to fix.

The main elements of Metro’s campaign were: • posters in washrooms in community facilities, movie theatres, fitness centres and restaurants and bars.

• digital posters in elevator screens in residential buildings.

• animated videos on medications, hair and wipes.

• toilet paper with “campaign messaging” handed out at community events.

• digital and social media, including YouTube ads, promoted Facebook and Twitter and Google banners, and

social media promotion (via Twitter) by London Drugs.

• a campaign website.

A study showed the campaign generally performed well, with more than 70 per cent of those who saw the campaign materials saying they would be less likely to flush the unflushables highlighted in the campaign.

But, as Lopez pointed out, that means 30 per cent of people continue to flush anything and everything down the toilet, or dump grease and oil into drains. She said Metro will continue its campaign in 2018, with a budget to be set in November.

“We still have some good education to do around this topic,” Lopez said. “Just because you can flush it, doesn’t mean you should.”

As the campaign’s website made clear: “The only things that are OK to flush down the toilet are pee, poo and toilet paper.” Yes, I just wrote the p-words. Can’t recall ever doing that. All, of course, in the name of educating the guilty flushers. @Howellings

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Former VPD media cop now a deputy chief Howard Chow replaces Warren Lemcke, who retires Sept. 30 Mike Howell

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The retirement of Vancouver police deputy chief Warren Lemcke has led to some shuffling of the senior ranks at the department, with former longtime media cop Howard Chow getting the nod to join Police Chief Adam Palmer’s executive circle.

The shuffling also saw inspectors Martin Bruce, who began his policing career in Northern Ireland, and Marcie Flamand, who is Metis and led the department’s diversity and Indigenous relations section, promoted to the rank of superintendent.

Chow, a 28-year veteran, was selected over three other candidates to win the job. He now joins deputy chiefs Steve Rai and Laurence Rankin as Palmer’s top advisors.

Chow will oversee the operations division of the department.

“Every assignment that I’ve had helped prepare me for this job,” Chow, 51, told reporters Monday at the VPD’s Cambie Street precinct. “I like the leadership team that Chief Palmer has assembled and I want to be part of it and bring some more to the table.”

As Palmer pointed out at the news conference, Chow was “the public

face” of the department for four years as a media liaison officer, between 2004 and 2008. He was a constable at the time and then climbed up the ranks, working in recruiting and assigned to the team investigating the Stanley Cup Riot of 2011.

He worked as a dog handler, a sergeant in the traffic section, a motorcycle officer, a public order commander and as an inspector overseeing the policing district which includes the Downtown Eastside and runs east to the Pacific National Exhibition. Most recently, Chow was in charge of personnel services.

Chow was born and raised in Medicine Hat, Alta. and moved to B.C. to obtain a bachelor of arts degree in criminology at Simon Fraser University. He joined the VPD in 1989 and went on to receive six commendations for this work and was honoured with the 125th Confederation of Canada Medal.

Chinese media reporters at the news conference were interested in Chow’s heritage. He speaks Cantonese but pointed out he didn’t speak it a lot outside of the home when growing up in Alberta, where he said there was a small Chinese community.

“The opportunities

Howard Chow, a 28-year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department, is now one of the department’s three deputy chiefs. Police Chief Adam Palmer announced Chow’s appointment Monday.

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weren’t there as much [in Alberta], but I do converse regularly with my parents in Chinese,” he said, noting the diversity of the department, which includes many Chinese-speaking officers. “I’m very proud to be here in this role, and if I can be any kind of a role model, I would like to say that policing is an amazing career.”

Martin Bruce’s policing career began in 1987 in Northern Ireland when he joined Northern Ireland’s

Royal Ulster Constabulary, where he witnessed “the troubles” in a country ripped apart by sectarian violence and terrorism.

He immigrated to Canada in 1993 and joined the VPD in 1995. He chose Vancouver because of a family connection, with his grandmother settling in Vancouver in the 1960s.

His sister and brother-inlaw immigrated to Vancouver in the 1970s, when the violence was at its height in Northern Ireland.

“What we strived for in Northern Ireland was to make inroads in the community and be partners with the community,” said Bruce, who has worked in several departments at the VPD, including the gang crime unit, Missing Women’s Task Force and the organized crime section. “Obviously, the terrorist elements on both sides were trying to create a wedge between the police and the community.”

That type of division isn’t the case in Vancouver, he said, where “being able to engage with community partners has been the most enjoyable thing for me, and working with other police agencies.” To be policing Vancouver and to be in Canada, “I’m living the Canadian dream, as I told the chief.”

With her promotion, Marcie Flamand becomes the highest-ranking Indigenous officer in the department. It’s a significant appointment in a department that continues to strive to improve its relations with the wider community of Aboriginal peoples in the city.

Flamand is a committee member of the SisterWatch program in the Downtown Eastside, which was created by the department in 2010 after a group of Indigenous women complained about the

continued violence against women in the community.

“I’ve made a lot of really good friendships and built relationships and trust with a lot of Downtown Eastside women’s groups, with the whole goal of working together to prevent violence against women and girls,” she said. “To me, the work is very meaningful, and I take it quite seriously.”

Flamand joined the VPD in 1987 and has worked in patrol and recruiting and was a neighbourhood police officer and member of a specialized surveillance squad known as strike force. She has been a member of the department’s critical incident stress management team since 1999, working with officers involved in serious incidents.

Warren Lemcke will retire at the end of the month. At Monday’s news conference, he spoke briefly about his career, saying it was an honour to serve for more than three decades.

“I’ve had a varied career, lots of exciting things,” he said, describing his time on the job as challenging and rewarding. “There were some frustrations along the way. But if somebody said to me, ‘Would you do it all over again?, I’d do it in a heartbeat.” @howellings

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Reconciliation walk expected to attract thousands

John Kurucz

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Tens of thousands of attendees are expected to convene downtown Sunday, Sept. 24 in what could be the largest reconciliation event in provincial, if not Canadian, history.

The Walk for Reconciliation bookends three of the city’s marquee Canada150+ events, and runs from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.

The walk begins at the corner of Cambie and Georgia streets before participants make their way east across the Georgia Viaduct to Strathcona Park for the first-ever Reconciliation Expo. That event will include musicians, speakers and cultural activities tied to the theme of reconciliation.

Both the walk and the expo are intended to honour the lives taken, the survivors and those impacted by the residential school system.

“This is an issue that’s resonating with individuals — it’s families, people with children,” said Ginger Gosnell-Myers, the city’s manager of aboriginal relations. “We see politicians from all levels of government responding that reconciliation is important, but then we’ve also seen a really quick uptake of citizens saying, ‘Yes, this is important and we’re going to show up in record numbers.’”

A similar event in 2013 called the Truth and Reconciliation Walk attracted roughly 70,000 participants despite the pouring rain that day. Gosnell-Myers, who participated in the 2013 walk, expects a minimum of 30,000 attendees this weekend depending on the weather.

“It was incredible,” she recalled. “It was pouring rain. Attrition is a real thing,

2013’s Truth and Reconciliation Walk attracted roughly 70,000 participants despite the pouring rain that day.

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so for 70,000 to show up, you can imagine how many people didn’t show up because of the weather.”

Sunday’s event represents a partnership between Reconciliation Canada, the federal government and the Vancouver Park Board. The walk itself will be preceded by welcoming speeches, blessings by First Nations elders and a presentation from Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, one of the founders of the Reconciliation Walk movement.

“We’ll have a wide variety, a very diverse group attending the walk,” said Charlene Seward, community engagement manager for Reconciliation Canada. “So there will be survivors and we will have health support workers on site in case anyone is triggered and needs a little bit of extra support. But it will also be an event for children to partake in.”

The featured events in the Reconciliation Expo cover a wide swath: lacrosse lessons, art installations, a commu-

nal weaving project, on-site mural painting and more.

Several road closures will be in effect throughout downtown and along the walking route. Temporary parking restrictions will be in place one hour prior to those road closures. Streets will re-open to vehicular traffic once the walkers have cleared the area and Vancouver Police Department deems it safe to do so.

The routes affected include: 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.: • 100 to 500 West Georgia, from Beatty to Seymour • 700 to 600 Richards, Homer, Hamilton, Cambie and Beatty from Dunsmuir to Robson 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.: • Georgia and Cambie, east over the Georgia Viaduct to Prior/Venables, east to Strathcona Park at Campbell Avenue • Venables Street from Campbell Avenue to Clark Drive. @JohnKurucz

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“I know you understand how important this issue is and the work you did in opposition to raise the issue in the [B.C.] legislature and with your colleagues over the past four years was instrumental in building public understanding of how critical this issue is for Vancouver,” Reimer wrote.

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She didn’t reveal the party’s budget for the campaign. OneCity is also running Carrie Bercic and Eric Jaaf for school board.

“Having great policy that will appeal to Vancouver voters is an advantage that we haven’t seen for a while,” she said in rolling out her party’s housing plan Tuesday. It includes a “luxury property surtax,” fixed rents on city-owned rentals, a speculator’s tax and city-wide inclusionary zoning to create more affordable housing.

Pete Fry, the Green Party’s council candidate, also said his party doesn’t accept donations from developers.

He didn’t reveal the Greens’ budget for a campaign that also includes school board candidates Janet Fraser, Estrellita Gonzalez and Judy Zaichkowsky.

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“Our government is committed to local government finance reform,” she said. “I have asked my staff to prepare options and will be hearing back from them shortly. I have heard and appreciate Vancouver’s particular interest in campaign finance reform and we recognize that reforms around contribution limits and corporate and union donations are important issues both at the provincial and local government levels.”

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Park board’s proposed balloon ban deflated

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A motion that would have banned balloons from the city’s parks, community centres and beaches couldn’t get off the ground Monday night.

“When I started this process… I wanted to initiate a conversation and, boy, did I initiate a conversation,” Green commissioner Stuart Mackinnon said in introducing his motion, adding that since the proposed ban started receiving some media attention last week he had received emails and messages on social media from across the country and around the world.

The motion asked the board to prohibit balloons in parks, community centres and other areas under the board’s jurisdiction.

In presenting his case, Mackinnon said that balloons, made of plastic and latex, are non-renewable and are increasingly found in landfills, on beaches, in waterways, oceans and other natural areas.

He said mylar balloons are particularly dangerous because when the shiny foil fades away, the balloon is translucent. When they end up deflated in the ocean they look a lot like jelly fish, posing a risk to animals such as sea turtles, birds and dolphins, which often mis-

Park board commissioner Stuart Mackinnon floated the idea of banning balloons from city parks, community centres and beaches, but the motion was defeated 5-2 Monday night.

take them as food. Ingested balloons can lead to stomach and intestinal blockages, which can be fatal.

“It’s a long, slow, painful death by starvation,” Mackinnon said.

The motion also cited a study by the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the DuPont Institute that found that balloons cause more childhood deaths than any other toy. Mackinnon also noted that, according to the Canadian Pediatric Society, balloons are the number one non-food cause of choking in children under four.

Mackinnon said he wasn’t looking to make it a punitive ban, and the purpose was to educate the public of the possible negative consequences of using balloons.

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Mackinnon ended the debate with a warning: “We will have to change the way we act, whether it’s now or later,” he said. “The time is coming when our world is becoming filled with toxic things that are killing it.

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Vancouver businessmen launch bitcoin investment opportunity

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Two Vancouver-based entrepreneurs have teamed up to make the world’s digital currency a little more accessible.

Launched by Vancouver’s Sean Clark and Marc van der Chijs, co-founders of First Block Capital, the FBC Bitcoin Trust gives Canadians an easy way to invest in bitcoin.

“Our team is excited to bring new opportunities for investors in Canada,” Clark said. “Being a market leader in the cryptocurrency space will only open more doors and create new investment avenues. As demand for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies increases, it’s important for us to help educate the market and provide an accessible avenue for people to invest.”

The open-ended unit trust enables accredited investors to get exposure to the price of bitcoin without having to worry about buying and securing bitcoin, which has been a challenge, Clark said.

The fund was approved last week by the B.C. Securities Commission, making it the first registered investment fund manager in the country solely dedicated to cryptocurrency investments.

“Cryptocurrency investments are a new and novel form of investing in Canada,” said Zach Masum, manager of legal services, capital markets regulation

and leader of the commission’s tech team. “This first registration allows access to bitcoin investments, while providing the BCSC with unique mechanisms to monitor operations in a rapidly developing area.”

The trust is also registered in Ontario.

“Many accredited investors have been watching bitcoin appreciate in value, but until now they haven’t been able to invest in it through a managed fund as they would with a commodity like gold or silver,” van der Chijs said. “FBC Bitcoin Trust removes the complicated barriers to investing in bitcoin, making it more accessible to the mainstream investment community.”

Released in 2009, bitcoin is a digital asset that was designed to work as a currency.

It is purchased, used and stored online. While it can be used at a growing number of businesses in Vancouver and around the world, Clark said that First Block Capital believes that bitcoin will be used as a store of value, like gold, and not as a replacement for other currencies.

One of the big challenges with bitcoin is keeping it safe and secure, Clark said.

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Opioid crisis deserves more attention than pot plans Allen Garr

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Nothing seems to have the cops and local and provincial politicians scrambling more these days than their attempts to get ahead of the federal government’s plans to make marijuana legal by next summer.

But that should hardly be too much of distraction to allow the toker in the Prime Minister’s office, the cute and clever Justin Trudeau, off the hook when it comes to effectively dealing with a more immediately critical drug issue, the opioid crisis.

Yet is seems to have.

So how bad is it? Well, as you may know, the number of overdose deaths seems to be rising unabated. Each year we set new records.

As CBC Radio’s The House reported in a special program on the opioid crisis this past weekend, more Canadians are now being killed because of criminally polluted opioids than all of those who lose their lives in traffic accidents and homicides combined.

Look at the most recent statistics and you will understand how those of us on the coast have a particularly pressing need to demand federal government action.

No province has been more negatively impacted by this plague than British Columbia, no population has been victimized more than those in Vancouver, and, as we have seen most

While marijuana legalization appears to be a priority for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his focus should be squarely on the opioid crisis, says columnist Allen Garr. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

recently, no group within that population, and indeed across the country, has been more overwhelmed by this crisis than Indigenous people. They are dying at 12 times the rate of the rest of the population suffering death by overdose.

And here is a statistic that should cause you to pause.

While among the rest of the population 20 per cent who overdose are women, in the Indigenous community that number jumps to 40 per cent.

Janice Abbott is the executive director of Atira Women’s Resource Society and has been working with Indigenous women in Vancouver for the past

25 years. Her explanation about why First Nations, Metis and Inuit (FMN&I) women in particular are afflicted by drug overdoses is also reflected in a recent

Look at the most recent statistics and you will understand how those of us on the coast have a particularly pressing need to demand federal government action.

report from the British Columbia First Nations Health Authority.

She explained it to me this way: It is all about “transgenerational trauma — that is the trauma associated with colonization, residential schools, stolen children, racism sexism and violence.”

That has affected these women for generations and “can lead to problematic substance use and in this environment, overdoses.”

Her solution — legalize and regulate all drugs — is one that is widely held among physicians and advocates in the field of drug addiction across the country.

But that would require

federal approval, placing it squarely at the feet of Trudeau.

What we have been left with instead is a combination of supervised injection sites and increasing broad distribution of naloxone, a narcotic drug that can — if delivered on time — reverse the effects of an overdose most often caused by opioids tainted with fentanyl or the even more powerful carfentanil.

It is a strategy that does little to alleviate a situation that verges on chaos, stressing out first responders, putting increased pressure on the public purse and doing little to help those who

suffer with drug addiction to normalize their lives.

As Nova Scotia’s chief medical health officer Dr. Robert Strang watches the effects of this crisis spread east across the country he expresses concern about the current options. He is also, by the way, the co-chair of the federal-provincial and territorial special advisory committee on the epidemic of opioid overdoses.

He told CBC naloxone and supervised injection sites are “necessary but they are a Band-aid and until we have found a way to deal with the issues around decriminalization and even legalizing all substances and helping people who are struggling with addiction… we are always going to be on the back foot.” As for the victims of this crisis, who he describes as “often marginalized and impoverished, he says as long as we take “a criminal justice approach to it, we are putting them in a place where their risk of dying is high.”

To this point, while admitting there is a crisis, Trudeau remains adamantly unmoved. He may claim to be committed in particular to improving the lives of our Indigenous population who are disproportionately suffering but he has so far failed. He is, as my Texas relatives would say, all hat and no cattle.

Pot clearly appears to be his drug of choice. @allengarr

What can we do about social isolation?

More information, services and programs are needed to help seniors deal with the issue Mike Klassen

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I don’t know what it feels like to be elderly and socially isolated, but a new report published by the U.S. Senate Aging Committee warns that if we don’t do something about this condition the costs will be potentially enormous.

Canada’s National Seniors Council reached similar conclusions in a 2014 study.

A Globe and Mail report calls social isolation a “public health crisis in waiting.”

So what can be done about the threat posed by social isolation? I think we first have to become more aware of its presence.

Since I ran as a city council candidate back in 2011, I have been acutely aware of the perils of elderly isolation within our city. I recall

knocking on more than a few doors where the resident was alone, usually widowed, and cognitively impaired.

There are studies that indicate that social isolation is driving increasing rates of dementia, which in the end we all pay for through our health care system.

High real estate prices here are also straining relationships between family members and elderly loved ones. Anecdotally, there are countless reports of adult children attempting to get their hands on their parents’ home.

The Vancouver Courier recently reported on the struggles seniors are facing from skyrocketing rents.

While some are speaking out, most quietly struggle on their own, scrimping in order to get by.

Late last month, when Vancouver’s skies were clear

and the days were warm and long, a handful of volunteers in my community helped organize our traditional neighbourhood barbecue.

As I was leaving the event, I saw the face of social isolation yet again.

An elderly lady who lived across the street had helped herself to a hamburger and coleslaw, but sat alone out of view of the neighbours assembled nearby.

I stopped to speak with her, and quickly learned that her husband had passed away. I thought the loss was recent. No, she said. He had been gone for six years.

The irony was not lost on me that even when bringing people together, there are those among us who remain alone.

Kristine Theurer is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia who has

studied social isolation for 15 years. In a blog post she writes, “in a healthy community we help our families, our neighbours, and those less fortunate. We build bridges, cities and entire countries together.

“The very fabric of society is dependent on helping one another.”

Theurer posits that in order to overcome the societal ravages of social isolation, we need to invest in new mentorship and peer support programs to give more of us an opportunity to contribute to our communities. She describes how pilot programs have shown success in the care homes where they have been tried.

Both urban and rural communities will continue to struggle as social isolation takes its toll. And, as the National Seniors Council re-

port points out, we lose “unquantifiable wealth” when older adults cannot bring their experience and wisdom to our families, neighbourhoods and communities.

The council suggests a number of measures in response.

First, we must raise public awareness of the social isolation seniors face. Articles like this one can only scratch the surface — so we need more public discussion.

Second, we must promote improved access to information, services and programs for seniors. According to the Pew Research Center, some of the largest growth on social media use is with the seniors population. Up to one-third are now accessing some social media program.

We must build the collective capacity of organi-

zations to address social isolation among seniors through social innovation.

Initiatives such as Kristine Theurer’s, for example.

Finally, says the council, our governments and universities should prioritize more research on the subject.

If there was any city that can reverse the trend and reduce the rates of social isolation, I think it is Vancouver.

We are a city built around access to our outdoors, on our seawalls and our parks. We need to embrace the outdoors for walking clubs and jogging groups that will stimulate social connections and maintain healthy minds and bodies.

We must also plan communities here and across Canada that enable connections. How we can accomplish that, I will discuss in a follow up column. @MikeKlassen

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‘During that lecture,’ he says, ‘I found something that was indeed lifetransforming. Christian Science gave me a new view of God that I’d not had before: a view of God as Love itself, divine Love that loved me fully. I also discovered that this loving God was not the source of my troubles (which were many) but the solution to them. My life

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Stephen and David Hodgson (hat) have been slowly re-roofing the so-called “Hobbit house” on West King Edward. The style of roof is known as a “single cedar thatch” or “steam-bent roof” and is meant to recreate the look of a traditional thatched roof. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

How do you re-roof a Hobbit house? Very slowly Three- to three-and-a-half times the number of shingles required compared typical roof Naoibh O’Connor

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David Hodgson kneels atop a roof while arranging and nailing down cedar shingles. It’s a hot, muggy August morning when a smoky haze still covered Vancouver’s sky. A long day stretches ahead, but Hodgson presses on.

He works with his brother Stephen Hodgson in their company Barrier Cedar Roofing.

Roofing is tough work under ordinary circumstances, but there’s nothing typical about this job.

Hodgson is tackling the roof on the so-called “Hobbit house” at 587 West King Edward Ave. It’s also known as the James Residence since builder Brenton Lea built

it in 1942 for William H. James, a CNR foreman and his family.

Years ago, heritage advocates feared it would be knocked down but it was saved through a larger redevelopment project.

The home’s roof is called a “single cedar thatch” or “steam-bent roof” and is meant to re-create the look of a traditional thatched roof.

But such re-roofing jobs are laborious and expensive. They can take as long as six months to complete and cost a homeowner $150,000 or much more, depending on size.

In this case, leaks were found on the Hobbit house’s roof so it’s being replaced.

Heritage expert Don Luxton, whose firm did

other restoration work on the James Residence, said there are very few houses with this type of roof left in the city.

“You’ve got to be lucky to even find someone who’ll price it. The process is quite fascinating. I mean you get to do one or two of these in a lifetime. So I’m sure [the roofers are] finding it challenging. And fun.”

The ones Luxton has been involved with in the past, which were larger, cost in the range of $200,000 to $250,000 to re-roof.

He says they’re historically important.

“It’s a designated heritage feature. So you have to maintain it and there is no alternative,” he said.

“The Hobbit house is one of three houses built like that, which were built

by Brenton Lea. They are all very significant and people love them. They’re important as historical artifacts and [the roof] is part of their character. So it’s certainly hard to imagine those houses without those very particular roofs.”

This is the fourth such roof that Stephen Hodgson has worked on over his 50year career. He worked on another one in Vancouver in the mid-1970s, one in Chicago in the late ’70s and one in Philadelphia in the early ’80s.

“I don’t know anyone in Canada who’s done four.

There’s a guy in California who has and a guy in Kansas who has,” he said.

“They’re all difficult.

Nothing comes easy or quick on this job.”

That’s because no two rows are alike. After one row is done, lines for the next row must be drawn.

And almost every shingle has to be cut along the butt end to avoid creating leaks.

“You have curved rows.

No row is straight across.

You need the keyways — the side of the shingle — to be parallel with the flow of water. To get the shingle to match the row, you now have to cut the butt,” Hodgson explained.

Between a quarter to a third of the shingles must be boiled for about five minutes to soften them so they can be bent to curve around the curved portions of the roof.

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In the end, the roof can be very thick in spots.

“There will be places it’ll be 10 or 12 [shingles] deep. Because you do build up to create character in it,” Hodgson added.

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Education

The secret ingredient to student success

Tracy Sherlock

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Every year, there’s a lot of handwringing by parents about getting their children into specialty education programs. Enrolment in independent or private schools is growing, as is the demand for programs such as French immersion. Parents want the best for their children, and they think these programs are going to do it.

This year, with struggles to hire enough teachers, the absence of an elected board of trustees and instability among the top management at the Vancouver School Board, parents could be even more concerned. But, overwhelmingly, research shows there is one big thing parents can do to help their children succeed and that is to care about their kids’ education and get involved in their school.

“Specifically, children whose parents are more involved in their education have higher levels of academic performance than children whose parents are involved to a lesser degree,” says a 2010

study of seven-year-olds that cites many other studies with similar findings.

Let’s face it — if you’re willing to sleep out overnight for a space in a special program or spend thousands of dollars on private school, you probably already care a lot about your child’s education. That alone, is step one and probably could go a far distance in explaining higher test scores in choice programs.

Kids whose parents care do better in school.

But those benefits are just as effective in public schools and in regular English programs. It’s the caring and what you do with it that matters more than any special program.

What does caring look like?

Well, first off, it means you make the effort to find out what’s going on in the classroom. It means you go to the meet-the-teacher night, even when your child is in Grade 9 and tells you not to bother.

It also means you know what your child’s homework is and you participate in getting it done, whether that means reading to

Research shows there is one big thing parents can do to help their children succeed and that is to care about their kids’ education and get involved in their school. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

your child in the younger years, quizzing them in the intermediate years or pestering them relentlessly to put down their phones and open their textbooks in the high school years.

Caring about your child’s education means respecting teachers and other staff in the schools. Your child will take

their cues from you as to how to behave towards the people who are educating them.

Kindergarten teacher Wendy deGroot says parental support is very important in kindergarten.

“I am meeting these little ones for the first time and I rely on their parents — their first teachers to know how

best to continue their learning journey in a manner that supports them best,” de Groot said in an email. “A personalized learning program starts with a connection from home. If parents and teachers work together, children benefit.”

Glen Hansman, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, encourages parents to get involved in schools by volunteering and getting to know the teachers rather than buying math workbooks for their kids. He remembers his own mother volunteering in the library and at special events.

He encourages parents to never let a question or a problem linger — the sooner a parent gets in touch with the teacher, the sooner it can be dealt with. He says dropping in unannounced is not the best way to connect; if a parent doesn’t know the best way to reach a teacher, they should phone the school and ask.

“I can’t underscore enough the importance of all families being involved and being respected and for schools to endeavour to not

assume that all families perceive that they have equitable access or are as confident engaging schools,” Hansman said. “Ultimately, parents and teachers want students to succeed and thrive.”

Lorraine Baldwin, a Langley parent of two children aged 14 and 12, said being involved and getting to know the teachers and the school principal has helped her demonstrate an interest in their education, without being a helicopter parent.

“Education is the number one gift you can get,” Baldwin said. “I would say [being involved] has been beneficial. I think understanding what they’re doing, encouraging discussion around it and helping them spark an interest has helped them be more interested in what they’re learning.”

September is the perfect time of year for a new start — for parents as well as students — it’s never too late to get involved.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

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

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Man in Motion Tour

Photographs capture Rick Hansen during his epic journey across the world 30 years ago SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com

Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion World Tour: 30 years later — A Celebration of Courage, Strength and the Power of Community by Jake MacDonald uses photographs to take readers back to March 21, 1985 when the Paralympic medallist set out from Vancouver with a goal to circumnavigate the world in a wheelchair.

Upon completion of the Man in Motion World Tour, the athlete was greeted with a hero’s welcome in Canada.

Rick Hansen attending Expo ’86.

It took Hansen 26 months to complete his quest, but by the time he was done the athlete had caught the attention of not only his home country, but also the world. Through his Man in Motion World Tour, Hansen broke barriers for people with disabilities and inspired ordinary citizens to realize impossible dreams. Hansen and a small, but determined, crew travelled almost 25,000 miles through 34 countries on four continents before crossing Canada. In the process, they raised $26 million for spinal cord research and for initiatives to

This motor home became a symbol of the Man in Motion World Tour.

improve the quality of life and accessibility for people with disabilities.

Thirty years after the journey ended, Rick Hansen’s Man In Motion World Tour celebrates that groundbreaking accomplishment and, with a foreword from Hansen himself, highlights the legacy of the tour and the amazing progress it spurred even to this day.

Illustrated with 75 exclusive photographs from the Rick Hansen Foundation archives, the book tells a classic tale of courage and adversity, human strength and personal suffering and, above all, the power of community to effect lasting social change.

Today the athlete is chief executive officer of the

Rick Hansen Foundation, an organization committed to creating a world without barriers for people with disabilities.

Jake MacDonald is the author of Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in the Shield Country, as well as five works of fiction. He is also an award-winning journalist

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There is widespread benefit to using natural products in your home and personal care. “By introducing more green products into our daily lifestyles, we can take responsibility for our environment by purchasing products that are safe, create less waste, and reduce energy and water consumption,” says Shaarah, manager of the health and beauty department at Famous Foods.

There are extensive studies about the effects of exposure to harmful chemicals, and with the increased exposure to chemicals and toxins in our daily lives, there is also an increased risk of health concerns. When eco-friendly products are as effective as those containing chemicals,

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Vote in the 2017 by-election Oct 4, 10, and 14

In October 2017, Vancouver voters will elect 1 Councillor and 9 School Trustees to a term of office ending on the first Monday after November 1 following the 2018 general local election.

Who can vote?

Are you registered?

You are eligible to vote if you are:

If you are registered on the most current available Provincial list of voters prepared under the Election Act, then you are automatically on the Vancouver Voters List. If you are not registered, you can do so when you vote.

• 18 years of age or older on the day of registration, or if an election is in progress, an individual who will be 18 years of age or older on general voting day (October 14, 2017) for the by-election; • A Canadian citizen; • A resident of BC for at least 6 months; • A resident of Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before you register to vote (for resident electors) OR you live outside of Vancouver and have owned real property in Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before you register to vote (for non-resident property electors). To register as a NRPE, or for information about the required documents, visit vancouver.ca/by-election; and • Not disqualified by any enactment from voting in an election or are otherwise disqualified by law.

If you own property in Vancouver, but live elsewhere in BC, you may be entitled to vote in the October by-election.

University Endowment Lands voters are eligible to vote for School Trustees only.

Permanent residents who are not yet Canadian citizens are not eligible to vote.

If you are registering to vote, you will be asked to complete and sign a registration form, and show two pieces of identification that establish your residence and identity, at least one with a signature. The following documents are examples of acceptable ID documents: • • • • • • • • • •

BC Driver’s License BC Services Card BC identification card (BCID) BC CareCard Citizenship card Credit card or debit card Canadian passport Property tax notice Social Insurance Number card Utility bill

You can also swear a declaration that counts as one piece of identification.

Not sure?

Visit vancouver.ca/by-election and use the Am I On the Voters List tool.

Non-Resident Property Electors (NRPEs)—voters who have owned property in Vancouver for more than 30 days, but are resident electors in another BC municipality—may also register at the time of voting.

NRPEs must bring proof of ownership and, if applicable, the Consent of Registered Owners for Non-Resident Property Elector Registration form.

If you are eligible to vote and you have not already registered to vote, you can register at any voting location on October 14, 2017, or during advance voting at Vancouver City Hall on October 4 or October 10, 2017. The registration process is the same for advance voting and general voting day.

All locations are listed in this advertisement, and you can find more details at vancouver.ca/by-election.

For more information on advance voting, eligibility and registration, visit vancouver.ca/by-election.

However, University Endowment Land voters can only vote at ONE location on Election Day: University Hill Secondary, 3228 Ross Drive, from 8am-8pm. UEL voters are eligible to vote for School Trustees only.

How can you vote?

Vote by Mail

• Vote in advance (October 4 and 10 at Vancouver City Hall) • Vote on Election Day (October 14) • Vote by mail (If you are prevented from visiting a voting location due to illness, injury or disability or if you plan to be away from the city on October 4, 10, and 14) Voting in Advance There will be 2 advance voting days for the 2017 By-election— October 4 and October 10. All voters can vote any time between 8am-8pm at Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue.

Voting on Election Day

Saturday, October 14 is the official Election Day. On this day, Vancouver voters can vote from 8am-8pm at ANY of the approximately 50 Voting Places that will be open around Vancouver.

If you are an eligible voter in Vancouver, you may vote by mail if you have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects your ability to vote at another voting opportunity, or you expect to be absent from the city on general voting day (October 14) and during all advance voting opportunities (October 4 and 10).

If you meet either of the above criteria, go to vancouver.ca/byelection, phone 3-1-1, or contact the Election Office at 450 West Broadway to register to Vote by Mail. Mail ballot packages will be mailed out starting September 26, and must be returned to the Election Office no later than 8 pm on October 14, 2017, to be counted.

If you prefer, you can arrange to have someone pick up your mail ballot package and return it for you. The person picking up your package will need to bring acceptable ID as listed in the “Are you registered” section of this ad.

Candidate List

This is the official list of candidates, organized by electoral category and in alphabetical order. Elector organization endorsement is shown (in brackets). City of residence is Vancouver unless otherwise shown (in brackets and italic).

Candidates for councillor (1 to be elected)

Candidates for school trustee (9 to be elected)

BREMNER, Hector (NPA)

ALEXANDER, Joy (Vision Vancouver)

FRASER, Janet (Green Party)

PICK, Adi

CARDONA, Diego (Vision Vancouver)

ARNOLD, Christine (New Westminster)

GONZALEZ, Estrellita (Green Party)

PRIETO, Julian (NPA)

DUNSDON, Mary Jean “Watermelon” (Sensible Vancouver)

BALLANTYNE, Fraser (NPA)

HAMILTON, Jamie Lee (IDEA Vancouver)

RICHARDSON, Christopher JK (NPA)

BERCIC, Carrie (OneCity)

JAAF, Erica (OneCity)

WONG, Allan (Vision Vancouver)

FRY, Pete (Green Party)

CLEMENT, Ken (Vision Vancouver)

LAMB, Theodora (Vision Vancouver)

ZAICHKOWSKY, Judy (Green Party)

GRAVES, Judy (OneCity)

DAY, Diana (COPE)

LOMBARDI, Mike (Vision Vancouver)

LEE, Gary

DOMINATO, Lisa (NPA)

MCDOWELL, Robert (NPA)

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fence with a local elementary school garden that had grown into disrepair. The principal asked the three friends if they might be able to help. They would eventually transform the grounds into an edible schoolyard and educational farm facilitating experiential hands-on lessons on farming, food and nutrition.

Today, the educational farms are located in three school districts — Vancouver, Delta and Coquitlam — with more than 5,000 students visiting Fresh Roots fields annually.

The produce grown is sold to school cafeterias, restaurants and local families. In the summer, Fresh Roots employs high school students to garden and sell the food at farmers’ markets. Recently earning charitable status, Fresh Roots hosted its Schoolyard Harvest Fundraising Dinner at David Thompson high school, home to one of the educational gardens, to raise awareness and support for the school market gardens.

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Nardwuar marks 30 years making waves on air

John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Sebastian Bach’s unpredictable temper. Jello Biafra’s weird see-though shower. Bizarre run-ins with world leaders. Art Bergmann’s unmentionables.

Nardwuar the Human Serviette has stories. Thirty years’ worth of them.

To mark his improbably strange, hilarious and at times painfully awkward career, the unconventional media personality will serve up 20 hours of continuous programming on UBC’s CiTR Radio Sept. 21 and 22, followed by an allages gig with his band the Evaporators at the Hall in East Van on Sept. 23.

The Courier attempted to dissect Nardwuar’s nuts and bolts in a 45-minute long interview that simultaneously went everywhere and nowhere. Tens of millions of YouTube hits, a stint on MuchMusic, a 17year friendship with Snoop Dogg and haphazard encounters with Mikhail Gorbachev and former Prime Minister Jean Chretien — these are just some of the highlights of Nardwuar’s 49 years on the planet.

But first, the essentials: • Born John Ruskin, Nardwuar became Nardwuar when his CiTR radio show got off the ground in October 1987.

• Nardwuar was a slang term he and his friends used to refer to “old people.”

• His signature tartan tam was not always his go-to headwear. Instead, he preferred a toque, until Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach stole it mid-interview in a fit of rage in 1994. Bach also smashed a VHS tape of Nardwuar’s containing interviews with former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, George Clinton and Sandra Bernhard.

• His favourite interview subjects have been Iggy Pop on the phone and Chretien in person (more on that later).

• The first song Nardwuar played on air was “Psycho”

by Pacific Northwest garage rockers the Sonics.

On the topic of firsts, Nardwuar’s first interview took place Sept. 26, 1985 with Art Bergmann, who at the time was playing in Vancouver band Poisoned.

The interview was filmed at Hillside secondary school in West Vancouver, where Nardwuar served as student council president. Before the interview took place, Nardwuar saw Bergmann getting changed into his stage duds.

“The first time I did an interview I looked up and I saw Art Bergmann’s c***,” he recalled. “And every interview I’ve done since has been pretty crazy, but it’s hard to top seeing c*** at your very first interview.”

Around that same time, Nardwuar asked the Dead Kennedys to play his senior prom. He got a letter back from the seminal punk band’s management suggesting they couldn’t do the

Gonzo journalist, musician and media personality Nardwuar the Human Serviette will celebrate 30 years on the airways of CiTR Radio with 20 hours of continuous programming Sept. 21 and 22, followed by a performance from his band, the Evaporators, Sept. 23. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

gig on account they were touring Brazil. Fifteen years later, Nardwuar’s band the Evaporators were signed to Alternative Tentacles, the record label owned by former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra.

Biafra has since told Nardwuar the Brazilian tour was a cop-out.

The two now go shopping for records together.

“Jello’s house is amazing, it is filled with records and I used some records as a pillow,” Nardwuar said. “And also, he has a shower in his house [that is] completely see through. So like, you can see the c*** of whoever is taking a shower.”

Stories like that roll off Nardwuar’s tongue like they’re simple, everyday occurrences. There was that

time in 1993 when, at a press conference, he asked Gorbachev which world leader wore the biggest pants.

“He kind of smirked and then the mic was cut off,” Nardwuar said. “Afterwards I was rushed by security but I showed them my pass, that I was legitimately there.

So they let me go. There was no problem.”

In the 1997 Chretien incident, Nardwuar asked the then-prime minister a hypothetical: if Chretien were 40 years younger, would he be in a punk band, writing protest songs to combat the social ills of the day? Nardwuar mentioned that APEC conference demonstrators had been pepper sprayed, a point lost in translation on the former PM. Cue up the now infa-

mous, “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”

“I was like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe he said that,’” Nardwuar recalled. “I thought ‘This is it, I’m going to get taken away.’”

While Chretien and countless others have been game, not everyone is keen on Nardwuar’s shtick: there was the Bach debacle, Beck blacklisted him, Henry Rollins and Nas seemingly hate him and Josh Homme once told him he had the “breath of the ass of an apple.”

“I was like, ‘That is not too good,’ so now I drink water,” he said. “But when I think of the stuff people have said to me, not really too much sinks in.”

Some things have stuck.

Each interview starts with the question “Who

are you?” and ends with Nardwuar offering up “doot doola doot doo,” while the accompanying artist completes the phrase with “doot doo.” The inspiration for this exchange comes from organists at hockey games.

Another constant is Nardwuar’s dogged research and presenting of gifts to interviewees. He maintains that he pays for everything and conducts all the preinterview research himself.

Pharrell Williams told him their 2008 conversation was “one of the most impressive interviews I’ve ever experienced in my life.”

His antics have paid the bills since his on-air days at MuchMusic in the ’90s.

The only “real” jobs he’s had have been leading tours of the CiTR facility and delivering newspapers.

Speaking of papers, Nardwuar’s nearly twodecade relationship with Snoop Dogg inevitably comes up. The oddball pairing has made roughly 10 interviews worth of weirdness, with the rapper even inviting Nardwuar to his California abode.

“I’ve tried for 10 years to get to his place — no luck,” Nardwuar said.

The stories are endless and will presumably roll out in full as part of his 20-hour marathon running from 9 p.m. on Sept. 21 until 5 p.m. on Sept. 22. The Sept. 23 gig kicks off at 7 p.m. Tickets are available online, at Neptoon, Red Cat or Zulu Records.

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Miriam Libicki is hoping to use her position as Vancouver Public Library’s new writer in residence to change how people think about graphic novels and comic books.

“I would like to raise awareness about graphic novels and how graphic novels can be any genre, any kind of story can be told in graphic novels and that even if you don’t draw it’s really not scary to learn how to cartoon,” she said. “That you don’t have to conform to a certain style of drawing in order to make a comic that can touch people.”

The Writer in Residence program has been around since 2005. Most recently, the library has decided to start looking for writers in specific genres, said Anne O’Shea, manager of programming and learning at the library, to ensure a wide breadth of types of writing are covered. Last year’s writer in residence was award-winning mystery novelist Sam Wiebe.

“We’re super excited to

Miriam Libicki is Vancouver Public Library’s new writer in residence. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

have a graphic novelist this year,” she said, adding that it’s a form of art and writing that both shows and tells a story.

Libicki was always interested in comic books and art but never saw herself drawing comics.

“I didn’t draw comics until university because I didn’t think I had the discipline to draw the same thing over

and over,” she said. “So I always read comics but I thought I would be a children’s book illustration, or maybe just somebody who does art in their spare time.”

She drew her first comic while taking visual arts at Emily Carr University and used it as a way to capture and share a profound time in her life.

“I had just come back

from a really intense experience. I had just come back from Israel, not only Israel but serving in the army, and I just kind of felt like I didn’t know how to talk about it and I almost felt like the whole experience was receding into a kind of dream.”

Libicki grew up in a Modern Orthodox Jewish home in Columbus, Ohio.

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library’s new writer in residence “My parents, for Modern Orthodox people, were pretty opened minded,” she said. “They encouraged us to read comic books and stuff but they were very Zionist. They really believed in the state of Israel as a homeland and both my older brother and older sister went to yeshiva — religious seminary — in Israel.”

Both finished high school early and completed at least a year of religious education in Israel.

“I was really into the idea of finishing high school early,” Libicki said. “I wasn’t so inclined to the seminary idea.”

So she did some research and found a gap year program for Israelis about to go into the army. The program allowed young people to delay army service for a year by doing community service in poor neighbourhoods in Jerusalem.

She was the first American to enter the program.

“So that was a very intense year because I was the only person who barely spoke Hebrew and they were all Israeli 18-year-olds who were about to join the army but they

kind of saw it as their duty, they wanted to give back in another way and did this year of community service.”

Libicki was inspired and decided to become an Israeli citizen and join the army.

It didn’t exactly go as planned.

During her interview, Libicki said, the draft board seemed confused as to why she was there.

“They were like, ‘If you’re a girl, you don’t need to serve in the army. Why are you here?’”

Eventually she was accepted but sent for a psychological evaluation.

“I ended up with a mental health asterisk on my health profile, which, when I looked it up later, my mental affliction actually, technically was ‘introvert personality disorder.’ As in, I’m shy.”

The diagnosis, however, meant that she wouldn’t be given a skilled position — one that the army would invest money in training her for. Libicki had originally thought she could work in intelligence, or become a medic.

“Instead, even though I had been so gung ho about

joining the army, I ended up as a secretary in an infirmary on a tank-training base in the middle of nowhere.”

She served for a year and nine months before leaving the country and, looking for a whole new experience, settled in Vancouver. A couple years later, in 2005, she was learning Adobe Illustrator at Emily Carr and decided to use the program to turn one of her army journal entries into a comic.

“That comic almost nobody has seen because it was very bad,” Libicki said.

“It’s five pages and it’s quite clumsily done but it got a good response in the class.”

She said her classmates thought it was an interesting, different story and people wanted to see more.

Libicki kept going with it and her first comic, jobnik!, was born.

“The jobnik! series starts off where I am an unskilled secretary in an office that doesn’t need a secretary in the middle of the desert.”

She started going to comic book conventions.

She would go to three or four a year and set deadlines for herself to complete the

next issue in time for the next convention.

She said she’s completed half the jobnik! series, and about a third has been published. That’s been on the back burner since she returned to school to complete her master’s degree.

She will graduate from UBC this fall and has plans to continue jobnik! in the future. She also teaches part time at Emily Carr.

As Vancouver Public Library’s writer in residence, Libicki will spend 40 per cent of her time conducting workshops, mentoring and supporting emerging writers and artists.

Past writers in residence at the VPL include Sam Wiebe (2016), Ashley Little (2015), Gabrielle Prendergast (2014) and Rawi Hage (2013).

Libicki said she hopes to instill in people that it’s important to have a story and see it through.

“Really the best way to learn cartooning is to actually do it.” @JessicaEKerr For more information, visit vpl.ca/events.

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For those recovering from substance abuse, bottoming out and reaching for help are the beginning of the way forward.

The equivalent for many combat veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is acknowledging the worst day of their lives.

For Tim Garthside, that day was Aug. 3, 2006. He was in Kandahar, Afghanistan, serving an eight-month tour with the Canadian military.

Stationed five kilometres from an ambush scenario that would take four Canadian lives and injure 10 others, Garthside was the radio link between those troops and his command post. From there, he could order aerial support, medical evacuation, or other means to assist the soldiers under attack.

Garthside couldn’t order helicopter assistance until enemy fire abated. When he did, a man posted on a nearby rooftop was spotted by the chopper pilots. He appeared to be in possession of a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The aerial support team needed the green light from Garthside to engage.

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The play depicts the veterans’ transition back to domestic life and the unimaginable difficulties that come with it.

“Civilians don’t understand the experience of war and then coming home,” Garthside said. “You come back, and you’ve done all these things that don’t fit at all with anything in your normal breadth of experience.”

Garthside didn’t reach out for help, nor did he acknowledge any personal suffering, for six years after his time overseas. It was then that he entered into the Veterans Transition Program, under the supervision of co-founder and UBC professor emeritus Dr. Marv Westwood.

Through that relationship, Garthside was linked up with George Belliveau, a UBC theatre professor who’s overseen the play since its inception three years ago. It took the prof almost two months’ worth of icebreaking to get buy-in from the vets to tell their stories in a theatre setting.

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Processing is the essential theme in Contact! Unload.

Each vet recounts and attempts to reconcile their wartime experience as Garthside’s character sits on the side of the stage and refuses to do so. The production ends with the Shawnigan Lake resident accepting help.

“The most immediate benefit, especially after the first set of performances, was not having to explain my story to friends and family,” Garthside said. “The performance itself tells my story in a way that I could never re-tell it in just words.

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You’ll be loaded down with work in the weeks ahead, Aries. But your main focus will be on relationships, new horizons, fresh contacts, opportunities, relocation, dealings with the public, and negotiations, agreements, perhaps, in rare cases, litigation. If you’re married but have been flirting with separation, it could come in the month ahead. If it doesn’t, the likelihood of splitting apart diminishes considerably.

Your energy soars now through the weeks ahead — and your personal luck, buoyancy, cheerfulness remain high. What’s been a very good year, Libra, is about to become a lucky money year — but not yet. The month ahead is one of the best times in many years to start a significant new project. However, avoid trying to start a new life-bond before Oct. 10, as a domestic problem will likely interfere.

The weeks ahead emphasize work, machinery/ tools, repairs, service personnel, dependents, and daily health. In other words: drudgery. But a strong romantic, creative and adventurous streak winds through these days, until Oct. 22.

This is a precursor of late year and 2018, when relationships will soar into good fortune. Sunday brings face-to-face meetings, for good or ill. But it won’t be much of either.

Retreat now to late Oct. Rest, think, examine your past and present, and plan future actions. Deal with civil servants, institutions, head office, neglected chores, charities and spiritualists, psychics, astrologers, advisors and agents. You are about to start one of the luckiest two-year periods of your life, so use the weeks ahead to rest deeply and to recognize future options, so you’ll be more able and ready to act when the good luck arrives.

The weeks ahead bring sweet romance, creative and gambling urges, beauty and pleasure. Kids start to solve their own problems. Despite the adventures and beauties awaiting you, home affairs continue (to Oct. 22) to grab your attention. A wish about your living conditions might come true. Romance is not guaranteed to succeed. If you want to win someone’s heart for the next 17 days (to Oct. 10) focus on cheerfulness, marriage, travel, honesty.

Wishes can come true over the next few weeks, Sage. For over two years, you have matured, handled major (money, mostly) problems, and maintained a sober, unoptimistic mood. It’s been a grind. But in the weeks ahead, your optimism will return, your popularity will rise, social delights will come, invitations proliferate, and a future with love and freedom seem possible once again.

The weeks ahead emphasize home, kids, security, Mother Nature, garden, nutrition, stomach and soul. Remember how rotund Buddha’s stomach was? It won’t be a restful time, though. Trips, calls, paperwork and errands will keep you running to and fro, until late October. Sunday’s poetically beautiful, romantic and creative — but it’s all a dud for action, so enjoy rather than start anything.

The weeks ahead will test and reward you in areas of career, prestige relations, dealings with authorities, and worldly standing. The intellectual, travel-prone, legal or cultural involvements of the past month won’t disappear, though — they will wind in and out of your days until Oct. 22.

Continue to avoid lawsuits, especially with family members. Sunday’s happy, social, and buoys your optimism about the future.

The month ahead brings a flurry of errands, calls, trips, paperwork, and casual contacts. You’ll be restless — but it’s better to be curious. Your travels might bring you to a neighbourhood/ town in which you’ll later find a splendid home/realty deal. Despite all the “flurious” action, money events will continue to rush through your life, up to Oct. 22. Money news should be good, gratifying now to Oct. 14 – but even so, to the 22nd, be careful not to overspend or over-commit.

Your interests of the past few weeks (mysteries, investigations, financial actions, medical urgencies, sexual temptations/intimacies, etc.) now fade slightly, but don’t disappear, not before Oct. 22. The weeks ahead generally emphasize legal, intellectual, love, travel, international, cultural and religious themes. In some cases, the past and present will combine — for instance, a financial commitment you made then could be legally formalized now.

The accent shifts to money, earnings, buying and selling, possessions, rote learning and sensual attractions. Many personal decisions remain to be made — about you, your life, who you are/will be. You’re more interested in boudoir intimacy than in “open relations” until Oct. 22 — if giving someone a toss, be honest. Don’t lead someone on just to satisfy urges. Sunday’s active, involves you with errands, calls, trips. But start nothing important, as results are lacking.

Relationships of every sort influenced the last four weeks, Pisces. The weeks ahead feature investments, debt reduction, other peoples’ money, sexual lures, medical exigencies, investigation and lifestyle choices. The past and present will combine somewhat, as, for example, an “open” relationship your formed in September could become sexually intimate; or an opportunity you spied, maybe responded to, could now require funding.

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Sept. 24: Rafael Palmeiro (53). Sept. 25: Mark Hamill (66). Sept. 26: Serena Williams (36).

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Cummins, the diesel specialist, already knows all about torque. In the pickup truck world, having a Cummins under your hood is something to brag about. Now they’re launching a cleaner type of heavyduty twist.

Ahead of Tesla’s expected launch of a semitrailer electric prototype, Cummins is showing off their Aeos truck, a class seven hauler built for urban use. With a base 140-kilowatt-hour battery pack, it has 160 kilometres of range, with the option of added battery packs and/or a range extender.

Even the basic range is enough to make the Aeos useful, especially at duties like moving shipping containers around. The problem is that it’s likely to be quite expensive, and will require worker training to make sure it’s plugged in as need be.

Electric heavy carriers make a great deal of sense for localized urban transport, and even Canada Post runs an electric parcel truck locally. Diesel for distance, electric for dealing with denser areas.

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Volvo led the charge (pardon the pun) to range-wide electrification of their fleet, but that wasn’t really a surprise. The Scandinavians already have embraced electric vehicles in droves, so having every new Volvo be at least a hybrid just makes sense.

More shocking (look, that one was an accident) is Aston Martin’s recent announcement that they, too, will be going for an all-hybrid lineup, along with increasing EV production. Aston is known best for luxurious and powerful grand tourers rather than eco-friendly choices, so what gives?

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electric vehicle or hybrid isn’t cheap, but it comes with some advantages.

Just look at Porsche’s Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid: a long and silly name, yes, but it’s warp-drive fast. Adding the low end power of an electric motor to the long legs and higher r.p.m. song of an Aston V-12 will just make a grand tourer that much more grand.

And, because any discussion involving Aston Martin must also briefly touch on 007, just think of how useful a silent running mode would be for sneaking up on agents of Spectre, or discreetly leaving a forbidden assignation.

Porsche mulls joining F1

With the end of its run in endurance racing, Porsche is walking away from the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its head held high. The team returned, learned fast, and added a few more trophies to its well-stocked cabinet.

Now what?

First, Porsche is turning its eyes on Formula E. The series isn’t quite there in terms of audience excitement, but the ability to run street courses without pollution (noise or otherwise) is pretty amazing.

Imagine if we could get Formula E running on the old Vancouver Molson Indy course.

Next, and perhaps more exciting if you’re a Porsche fan first, is the idea that Porsche might return to F1 as an engine supplier.

With considerable expertise in running turbocharged powerplants over decades of racing, a Porschederived twin-turbo V-6 would make perfect sense in an F1 car.

Really, I’d like to see both ideas implemented.

F1 is still looking for its next big technological breakthrough, and enhanced electrification could be the way forward. Well, that and somebody other than Mercedes winning all the time. A cross-town, all-Stuttgart rivalry?

Works for me.

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