Vancouver Courier September 19 2019

12TH & CAMBIE CITY WEBSITE OPENS NEW PORTAL 4 OBITUARY FORMER CITY COUNCILLOR B.C. LEE REMEMBERED 5 COMMUNITY SCHOOL UNCORKS 100-YEAR-OLD TIME CAPSULE 18 FEATURE ARTS MYSTERY BEHIND SATAN STATUE REVEALED 12 THURSDAY

September 19 2019 Established 1908 There’s more online at vancourier.com

PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Love letter

The curious tale of how this giant ‘C’ made its way from the old Canada Post building to Christine Hagemoen’s living room.

SEE PAGE 19

Local News, Local Matters

Thinking oƒ SELLING your Vancouver home?

RE/MAX Select Properties

$

1,5 9

$

8,0 0

0

69 9,0 0

0

THINK OF PAUL. OPEN SUN 2-4 P.M. 326 WEBBER AVENUE.

BY APPOINTMENT!

504 5350 BALSAM STREET.

A2

THE VA NCOU VE R COUR IER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO U RI E R. C OM

ADVERTISEMENT

Great Glasses promises great value Founder Bruce Bergez says needlessly overpriced glasses are nothing but a ‘rip off’ “These glasses cost how much?”

If you’ve been shopping for new glasses recently, it’s likely you also suffered from sticker shock.

Especially if you, or your kids, are fashion forward and looking for the trendiest new looks or hottest designer frames.

But all is not lost. Great Glasses founder Bruce Bergez wants you to know it doesn’t have to be this way and that the day of over-priced eyewear has gone the way of the dodo — though can still be found at many optical shops due to a lack of competition.

Bergez explains that while on the surface it appears consumers have endless choices, when it comes to shopping for glasses the truth is hundreds of optical companies are owned by the same massive corporation. He explains that Essilor, a French corporation founded in the 1800s, has spent the past 20 years acquiring almost 250 optical companies.

In 2017, Essilor bought Luxottica for about $24 billion, bringing together the largest manufacturer and retailer in eyewear. Luxottica, which makes frames for Ray Ban, Armani,

Chanel and Prada, is also the largest eyeglass retailer in the business with chains, including Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision and Sunglass Hut.

around $50 billion, sell close to a billion pairs of lenses and frames every year, and have a workforce of more than 140,000 people.”

Bergez says even though the merger received approval by regulators in the U.S. and European Union — and even passed an anti-trust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission — many business experts consider the end result a monopoly.

Bergez says Canada is also affected by this monopoly.

In 2017 journalist Sam Knight wrote about that merger in the Guardian newspaper; “in seven centuries of spectacles, there has never been anything like it. The new entity will be worth

“The eyewear business in Canada is a very manipulative business,” says Bergez. “Due to the lack of competition in selling eyewear, companies have been overpricing glasses for decades. Without access to extraordinary care and fair prices many people will not receive the treatment that they deserve.”

For more information, visit glassesripoff.ca. 

It’s that monopoly and ensuing “rip-off” tactics that inspired Bergez to launch Great Glasses in 1983 with a promise to offer proper value to customers.

“We are here to provide the wonderful people of B.C. with service that will aid vision issues at a price that is honest and fair,” says Bergez. “We provide accurate and precise eye examinations and prescriptions to those who really need it. We will not sit by and let the hardworking people of British Columbia be deceived into paying for products and services at unfair prices.”

BRUCE BERGEZ

Bergez was determined to revolutionize the eyeglass business long before the Essilor/ Luxottica merger and for more than three decades has been doing just that. To that end, Great Glasses offers a three-for-one package so consumers can choose the ideal glasses for home, work and play. So whether you need glasses for driving, work or fashion frames for a night out, you no longer have to settle on just one design. What’s even better?

You have an entire year to settle on your glasses of choice, so no pressure.

greatglasses3for1.com glassesripoff.ca

BUYING GLASSES IS A RIP OFF Now As a consumer, you don’t stand a chance. Don’t be ripped off.

LEARN MORE

you have a choice!

Come to Great Glasses for a fantastic selection of eyewear at reasonable prices.

VANCOUVER

1754 West Broadway 778-379-5747

MAPLE RIDGE

18–20691 Lougheed Hwy 604-457-1184

LANGLEY

CHILLIWACK

C101–20159 88th Ave 1–45695 Hocking Ave 778-298-0341 604-392-2237

GLASSESRIPOFF.CA

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

ATED

100% BC OWNED AND OPER

!

S L A I C E P S Y L WEEK Prices Effective September 19 to

September 25, 2019.

Meat

Produce

Deli

Bakery

Organic Pork Back Ribs

BC Grown Organic Red Bunch Beets from Myers Organic Farm

Tre Stelle or Dofino Cheese Slices Assorted Varieties

Choices’ Own Country French Bread 480g

previously frozen

assorted sizes

BUY 1 GET 1

BUY 1 GET 1

BUY 1 GET 1

FREE

FREE

BUY 1 GET 1

FREE

FREE Wellness

Grocery

Nuts to You Almond Butter

Kicking Horse Whole Bean Organic Fair Trade Coffee

Liberté Greek Yogurt

Assorted Varieties

Smooth or Crunchy

499

1299

Assorted Varieties

735g

Pur Gum

454g

329

9 Pack

80g Pouch

Bulletproof Brain Octane, XCT Oil, Upgraded Whey Protein or Upgraded Collagen, and Coffee

Assorted Varieties

2/600

Assorted Varieties

50g

3/400

45-48g

Bioitalia Organic Strained Tomatoes & Pasta Sauce

Yves Vegetarian Meat Alternatives

Smart Sweets Low Sugar Candy

Select Varieties

2/700 2/798

30% off

Assorted Sizes

Rocky Mountain Frozen Artisan Pizza Select Varieties

405-430g

Sunrise Tofu Assorted Varieties

119 to 229

300-454g

Armstrong Cheese Assorted Varieties

358ml

Assorted Varieties

Gold Seal Pink Salmon Select Varieties

2/700

213g

20% off

assorted sizes

Jason Toothpaste

North Coast Organic Apple Sauce

399 122-170g

Assorted Varieties

399 499

4 Pack

949600g

680g

Kitsilano | Cambie | Kerrisdale | Yaletown Commercial Drive | Burnaby Crest choicesmarkets.com

assorted sizes

Pure Potent WOW: Pure Essential Oils and Bodycare Products

Earth’s Choice Extra Virgin Organic Olive Oil

899

20% off

700ml Strained Tomatoes

Pasta Sauce

999500ml 15991L

20% off

assorted sizes

Assorted Varieties Assorted Varieties

1299

Assorted Varieties

750g

Larabar Energy Bars

119

New Chapter Herbal Supplements

/ChoicesMarkets

@ChoicesMarkets

/Choices_Markets

Jason Mouthwash

649

474-560ml

SEE IN-STORE FOR HUNDREDS OF GREAT DEALS THIS WEEK!

A3

A4

THE VA NCOU VE R COUR IER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO U RI E R. C OM

News 12TH & CAMBIE

You can nerd out on the City of Vancouver’s new online portal

Customized maps, cemetery burial indexes, charts galore — available at the click of a mouse Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

I can’t ever recall being described as a municipal government nerd.

An enthusiast — yes.

But never a nerd.

That description may change after I complete this courageous and daring piece of public service journalism about the world of data sets, maps and charts.

Got a brief tutorial recently from a couple of city hall computer brainiacs on the new “open data portal” on the City of Vancouver’s website.

It’s more exciting and useful than it sounds.

Here’s why…

Say you want to take your bike out for a spin and check out the city’s public art. And say you want to stop along the way at one of the city’s drinking fountains and then, sometime later, are desperate to find a public washroom.

Well, you can build a

map with all of that info on it — the bikeways, the public art, the drinking fountains and the public washrooms. It’s only a few clicks away on the city’s website at Vancouver.ca Let’s give it a try…

Go to the website, type in “open data portal” in the search bar. You’ll come to a page that says “open data.”

Click on that to bring you to the open data page.

See the blue coloured “view the portal” icon?

Click on that and prepare to have your life changed.

So far, I’m a fan of the map builder tool. Click on it and then type your map name as “Vancouver.”

Look to the right of the page to “add a dataset to this map” icon.

For this exercise, I chose bikeways, public art, drinking fountains and public washrooms. After selecting the datasets, they automatically load on to the map of Vancouver. And voila — your own map tailored to

Want to find a public washroom in Stanley Park? Go to vancouver. ca and search “open data portal.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

your bike journey.

I chose to only include the bike routes (in red) and public washrooms (blue icons) in the map I produced to run with this piece. Adding the other datasets made for a busy map, but online it’s very interactive, allowing you to zoom in to neighbourhoods for more detail.

The city says there are more than 160 public datasets to choose from, including the location of electric

vehicle charging stations, off-leash dog parks and homeless shelters.

Other choices include snow removal routes, heritage sites, city-owned properties, business licences, parking tickets, motorcycle parking, libraries, street lighting poles, sewer manholes, wayfinding map stands…the list goes on.

You can also find out who is buried in Mountain View cemetery by clicking on the “Mountain View

cemetery burial index.” It gives the person’s name, age and date they were buried.

With all of this, you can filter the data and select a big or small number of records in your search.

For example, I added the dataset “rental standards — current issues” to a map.

This is helpful if you’re looking to see if a building has any maintenance, health or safety issues.

I was able to see up to 400 records listed by name.

I randomly clicked on Central City Foundation and was brought to a page that showed the property it owns — Abbott Mansions at 404 Abbott St. — and learned it has resolved 14 “issues” and has one outstanding “issue.”

The issues were related to the city’s standards of maintenance bylaw, including violations related to roofing, fire escapes, plumbing, walls and ceilings.

The city’s rental standards database has been available for some time on the website,

but the portal plots properties on a map. You can also choose by neighbourhood and do a lot of other stuff my tech-challenged brain doesn’t fully comprehend.

For people who like charts, there is a chart builder tool available in the portal.

I clicked on the “nonmarket housing” dataset and chose to build a column chart. Pie charts, bar charts and even a “spider web chart” are other options to present the data.

The portal, as you can see, has way more functions than I’ve presented here.

It’s worth checking out.

I mean c’mon, who doesn’t want to look at Goad’s Fire Insurance Map of 1912 for Vancouver?

Go ahead, nerd out.

Or, if you were born in the 1960s and continue to grieve the loss of your Smith Corona typewriter, go back to whatever you were doing before you bothered to read this.

Good luck, either way. @Howellings

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

A5

Obituary

Former Vancouver councillor B.C. Lee dies of cancer

Bar-Chya Lee, who served one term at city hall, was also a stage and film actor Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Many knew him as an NPA city councillor, others knew him as a news commentator on Fairchild radio and television programs.

Later in life, Bar-Chya Lee — known more commonly as B.C. Lee — became a stage and film actor.

His passion and commitment to the performing arts was evident in an email he wrote to the Courier in May 2009. He had just won a part in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song at the Waterfront Theatre.

“I am doing it! I am playing the role of a stubborn father,” he said of his role in the timeless Asian-American musical.

“I am singing, dancing and performing in a musical [at least I tried!!! Director said I am good… well occasionally!!!]. Different stages in my world. Different presentations of my life. Come! Have a good time with us! It’s fun.

It’s beautiful. It’s a good show.”

Lee, who battled cancer for several years, died in hospital Sept. 11, surrounded by family and friends. He was in his early 60s.

His death triggered an outpouring of emotion and gratitude on social media, with his friend and former NPA council colleague Elizabeth Ball describing him on Twitter as a “brilliant, kind and generous man.”

Ball said Lee excelled in business, as a politician and actor.

“He was a wonderful friend, who gave generously of his time to many charities,” she wrote. “We will miss his beautiful singing voice here on Earth!”

Ball spoke more about Lee’s voice by telephone with the Courier.

“He had a lovely tenor voice, and whenever we went anywhere — he would frequently drive me to events — he would sing to me all the way there and all the way home,” she said.

“That’s what I remember more than anything is B.C.’s love of music.”

Bar-Chya Lee, known more commonly as B.C. Lee, died Sept. 11 of cancer. He was in his early 60s. PHOTO RAYMOND SHUM

Another former NPA council colleague, Suzanne Anton, tweeted that Lee was “the most perfect of colleagues, kind, generous, helpful and always looking out for the team.”

Added Anton: “I loved B.C. Lee, and am so shocked and sorry that he has died.”

Anton and Ball served with Lee under the administration of then-NPA mayor Sam Sullivan, who was in

power at city hall from 2005 to 2008. Lee did not seek re-election after his term expired. He was coy about his reasons for not taking another run to keep his job on council.

“If you want something that badly, you don’t really want to talk about it,” he told the Courier in May 2008. “It really has to do with what I want to do with my life.

When the time comes, I will let the whole world know.”

Turned out, it was acting that kept him off the 2008 election ballot, although he was never too far from the party, and was elected president of the NPA in March 2015.

“I don’t look at it as some kind of crown, or whatever,” said Lee, who at the time was vice-president of business development for Fireglo Strategic Marketing and Communications and vice-chairperson of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.

“For me, it’s just something that if I can be of help, then I will do something to help the NPA. That’s all.”

Lee was one of the quietest NPA councillors during his term at city hall, rarely engaging in the to-and-fro his colleagues participated in with opposition councillors.

He was a booster of the city’s then-proposed 311 phone system, the multicultural task force and the need to educate more newcomers about city politics.

“I just feel that a healthy democracy also needs to hear

from more different voices,” he said after his election as NPA president.

During his time at city hall, Lee was council’s only fluent Mandarin speaker. He was born in Macau, raised in Taiwan, studied business at New York University and moved to British Columbia in 1992.

His background served him well as a community liaison officer for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver. He was also involved in organizing the city’s annual Taiwanese Festival.

Interestingly, Lee was one of the few Vancouver councillors in history to agree to a polygraph test. It was conducted in 2009 by Vancouver police investigators in a probe related to the Olympic Village and a leaked financial document.

Lee passed the test.

Lee, who was not married, is survived by his family, who will hold a private ceremony to remember him. A public celebration of life will be announced at a later date.

Stay Connected to What Matters

Quality, Convenience, Comfort

Located in the heart of Vancouver’s flourishing Oakridge neighbourhood, Legacy is only steps away from everything you need and connected to everything that matters to you.

Enjoy luxury, air-conditioned suites with contemporary styling, quality finishes, modern kitchens and top-of-theline safety features. Thoughtful designs for your comfort, convenience and peace of mind.

Contact Kathleen to book your tour today. 604-240-8550 The Leo Wertman Residence

611 West 41st Avenue

604.240.8550

www.legacyseniorliving.com

Follow us on Facebook www.facebook.com/legacyseniorlivingvancouver

A6

THE VA NCOU VE R COUR IER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO U RI E R. C OM

News

VPD uncovers massive bike theft ring About 150 stolen bikes recovered near Oppenheimer Park, now police are trying to find owners

John Kurucz

more than $5,000.

The bikes were recovered from a storage facility in the 800-block of Powell Street and four men were arrested at the scene. They’ve all since been released without charges.

Police are now appealing to anyone who’s had their bike stolen to report it to police through the nonemergency line (604-7173321) or online at vpd.ca.

“We’re asking that anybody who hasn’t reported their bikes stolen to do so, so we can get these bikes back to you,” said VPD media relations officer Sgt.

jkurucz@vancourier.com

The sheer magnitude of theft is on a scale never before seen by a police officer with 20 years’ experience.

About 150 bikes were displayed by Vancouver police Sept. 11, the net result of one bust made near Oppenheimer Park in late August.

Electric bikes, scooters and other bikes were rolled out to reporters, and the losses are in to the six figures. Price points for electric bikes usually start around $2,000, and the Courier saw other high-end bikes worth

Aaron Roed.

Roed said little about the four men arrested. Three of them are Vancouverites, while the other is from Surrey. Who owns the storage facility was not disclosed.

The volume of bikes, along with the coordinated effort to steal and store them, points to the work of an organized bike theft group, though Roed wouldn’t comment on that possibility.

Coun. Pete Fry told the Courier in August he’d heard anecdotal reports of a bike chop shop operating near Oppenheimer Park.

The storage facility in which the bikes were recovered is three blocks from the park.

Roed noted that bike thefts across Vancouver are down compared to this time last year — about 2,000 by the end of August 2018, compared to 1,600 this year.

To that point, Roed stressed the need for verification: bike owners need serial numbers, photos of their bikes and receipts.

Registering bikes with Project 529 is also an invaluable safety net.

The cloud-based system allows cyclists, bike

vancouver.ca

Property Tax Exemptions for 2020 The City of Vancouver hereby gives notice of the intention of City Council to exempt certain eligible not-for-profit properties used for senior citizens housing from taxation for one year (2020 taxation year).

A bylaw will be brought forward to Council on October 1, 2019 in accordance with Sections 396(1)(g) and 396F of the Vancouver Charter.

The properties to be considered for exemption in 2020, including an estimate of the amount of City taxes that would be imposed without the exemption for 2020 and the following two years, are shown in the table below.

ESTIMATED TAXES 2020 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2021 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2022 ($)

NAME

FOLIO

Baptist Foundation of BC

266-772-26-0000

15,400

15,800

16,300

Baptist Foundation of BC

631-232-04-0000

99,600

102,600

105,700

Baptist Foundation of BC

765-266-06-0000

36,400

37,500

38,600

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-04-0000

15,900

16,400

16,900

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-52-0000

36,900

38,000

39,100

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-92-0000

38,500

39,600

40,800

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

605-113-66-0000

19,900

20,400

21,100

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

638-077-07-0000

14,600

15,000

15,500

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

641-234-20-0000

17,000

17,500

18,000

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

645-194-47-0000

14,700

15,200

15,600

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

648-078-05-0000

8,000

8,200

8,400

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

665-230-68-0000

12,500

12,800

13,200

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

670-230-83-0000

8,100

8,400

8,600 14,200

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

670-230-89-0000

13,400

13,800

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

683-230-82-0000

10,800

11,100

11,400

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

722-283-48-0000

44,100

45,400

46,800

Broadway Pentecostal Benevolent Association BC

650-274-27-0000

28,700

29,500

30,400

Calling Ministries

710-072-06-0000

104,300

107,500

110,700

Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver

192-592-92-0000

25,600

26,400

27,200

Christ Church of China

192-592-04-0000

17,000

17,500

18,000

Columbus Charities Association

306-720-45-0000

28,600

29,400

30,300

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-251-94-0000

22,800

23,500

24,200

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-258-06-0000

11,100

11,400

11,800

King Edward Court Society

710-072-95-0000

56,500

58,200

60,000

M Kopernik Nicolaus Copernicus Fdtn

817-300-22-0000

7,100

7,400

7,600

Mennonite Sr Citizens Society of BC

755-237-51-0000

65,100

67,100

69,100

New Chelsea Society

270-670-95-0000

18,700

19,300

19,800

New Chelsea Society

693-253-64-0000

41,300

42,600

43,800 43,100

Parish of St Paul Vancouver

609-117-44-0000

40,700

41,900

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver

596-196-49-0000

12,700

13,100

13,500

Society for Christian Care of Elderly

613-119-54-0000

117,700

121,200

124,800

Soroptomist Club of Vancouver BC

683-165-54-0000

12,600

13,000

13,300

South Amherst Housing Society

244-805-96-0000

8,300

8,600

8,900

THE V E L Housing Society

577-259-06-0000

13,500

13,900

14,300

THE V E L Housing Society

596-250-04-0000

9,500

9,800

10,100

Ukrainian Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-810-95-0000

15,500

16,000

16,500

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

125-832-84-0000

18,400

19,000

19,600

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-811-05-0000

14,300

14,800

15,200

1,095,800

1,128,800

1,162,400

TOTAL

For more information: Property Tax Office 604-871-6349

Broadcast it

shops and organizations to register bikes, either online at project529.com or using the app, including details like the make, model, colour, serial number and photos. If the bike is ever stolen, the victim can use the app to alert the local cycling community and police.

The web-based database is searchable and can be shared among police forces.

Other tips to prevent bike theft include:

Watch online marketplaces, and report or flag suspicious listings. Police do not recommend residents confront bike thieves on their own.

Secure it

Locking tips:

The best way to protect yourself against bike theft is to park your bike in a secure bike parking facility.

Many workplaces have bike rooms or cages, and some TransLink stations provide lockers and parkades. Other good choices include monitored parking facilities and bike racks in a high traffic area.

Record your serial number

It is often on the underside of your pedal (crank) shaft, and keep it in a safe place.

Register it

Use the free 529 Garage registry at project529. com/garage or use the app anywhere in Metro Vancouver. It alerts others that your bike is stolen and helps police recover and return it to you.

Report it

If your bike is stolen, report it to your local police as soon as possible, your best chance for safe return.

Social networks have been proven to increase the chance of recovery — post a photo and details of your bike theft experience on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Look for it

• Use a good lock. Don’t use a cable lock as your primary lock. They can be easily cut. Use a high-quality U or folding lock.

• Size matters. Smaller Ulocks are harder to break.

• Don’t just lock the wheel to the rack. That leaves the rest of the bike vulnerable.

Lock both the wheel and the frame to the bike rack.

• Don’t leave your bike out overnight, or in places where it looks like you’ll be gone for a while. Whenever possible, take your bike inside with you.

• If locking your bike to a pole or parking meter, make sure that it’s firmly screwed in. Try to only use bike racks in busy areas and take any bags or lights with you. Vancouver police recommend avoiding poles and parking meters altogether because bolts can be removed, and the heads of the parking meters come off easily.

• Consider switching out quick release components on seats and wheels for bolts.

— with files from Mike Howell and Jessica Kerr

Vancouver police uncovered a massive bike theft ring near Oppenheimer Park on Sept. 11 PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

News

WEEKLY SPECIALS

Police officer faces driving charge related to bicycle crash

Arrest in West End homicide

A 23-year-old Vancouver man is in police custody in relation to last week’s suspicious death in the West End. The suspect, who police haven’t named, was arrested Sept. 11 in the 1100-block of Pendrell Street.

The arrest happened roughly 24 hours after an altercation inside 1125 Pendrell St. resulted in the death of 29-year-old Kyle Vincent Gabriel. The building houses young adults living with mental illness.

Vancouver police officers were in the area Wednesday night investigating the case and happened upon the suspect, who attempted to flee.

“During the apprehension, he did fight with police officers by taking out a knife and fighting with them,” said VPD media relations officer Sgt. Aaron Roed.

Police used beanbag rounds and a police dog in making the arrest.

Charges of assaulting a police officer and assaulting a police service dog, related to the arrest, have been recommended to Crown counsel.

Police are also investigating the incident as a homicide, the city’s seventh of the year. There were 15 homicides in Vancouver last year, 19 in 2017 and 12 in 2016.

Anyone with information is asked to call 604-7172500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

—John Kurucz

Tony Parsons shares his Hearing Health Story.

My hearing aids from NexGen Hearing helped me stay in the game and hear what I’ve been missing. Call NexGen Hearing and take advantage of their Free Hearing Test!

Ready to go green?

Ask about our RECHARGEABLE solutions.

DOWNTOWN 604.688.5999

KERRISDALE 604.620.7295

W. BROADWAY 604.734.4327

KITSILANO 604.221.4688

404–1200 Burrard Street 1239 West Broadway

2268 West 41st Ave. 301–2083 Alma St.

PRODUCE

Vancouver provincial court.

—Courier staff

GROCERY

The B.C. Prosecution Service announced that a Vancouver police officer has been charged with driving without due care and attention. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

MEATS

Prices valid from Thursday, September 19 to Wednesday, September 25

KILLARNEY LOCATION ONLY (E 49TH AVE)

A Vancouver police officer has been charged with driving without due care and attention in an incident that occurred in September 2018 related to an alleged suspect fleeing a crime scene on a bicycle.

The B.C. Prosecution Service announced Sept.

12 that the charge had been approved against Const.

John Pankratz. A collision between the police vehicle driven by Pankratz and the bicycle resulted in injuries to the suspect, the prosecution service said in a news release.

The incident occurred Sept. 12, 2018.

“As a consequence of the injuries suffered by the pedestrians, the incident was investigated by the Independent Investigations Office,” the prosecution service said.

“Following the investigation, the Chief Civilian Director of the IIO determined that there were reasonable grounds to believe the officer driving the vehicle involved had committed an offence, and submitted a report to the [prosecution service].”

Pankratz has a first appearance scheduled for Oct. 7 at

A7

$

2.68/LB

$

$

Fresh Whole Chicken Wings in Bag

3.98/LB

Sirlo Sirrlooin Tip Roast

Pork Side Rib

2.38/LB

$

1.28/LB

$

Large Navel Orange, Australia

1.28/EA

Iceberg Lettuce Cello, USA

98¢/LB

$

5.98/EA

$

$

Unico Vegetable Oil, 3L

2.48/EA

Liberte Mediterranean Yogurt, 500g

Venice Bakery White and Whole Wheat Bread, 570g

$

1.58/EA

$

$

Pacific Evaporated Milk, 354ml

7.88/EA

Clearwater Artic Surf Clams, 400g

Cottonelle Bath Tissue, 12s

$

1.88/EA

$

Dan D Pak Oats, 1Kg

1.48/EA

Cloverleaf Flaked Light Tuna, 170g

88¢/EA

$

2.98/EA

$

$

Arpo Buckwheat Groats, 900g

1.78/100G

Porchetta Ham

Mini Strudel, 6s

Royal Gala Apple, BC

1.68/EA

5.98/EA

Icefield Canadian Glacial Water, 2L

3.98/PKG

2611 E 49th Ave, Vancouver • 604-438-0869 4801 Victoria Dr, Vancouver • 604-876-2128

OPEN 8:30AM–10:00PM EVERYDAY www.88supermarket.ca

While quantities last. We reserve the right to correct pricing errors.

nexgenhearing.com

WorkSafeBC and other Provincial WCB Networks, VAC, BCEA and NIHB accepted Registered under the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of BC

A8

THE VA NCOU VE R COUR IER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO U RI E R. C OM

News

Granville Bridge options unveiled

Two of eight lanes will be reallocated for pedestrians, cyclists and rollers; estimated costs range from $20 to $55 million Naoibh O’Connor

noconnor@vancourier.com

City of Vancouver staff have unveiled six options for how two of Granville Bridge’s eight motor vehicle lanes can be reallocated for pedestrians, cyclists and “rollers” — those who travel by wheelchair or push strollers.

The options, estimated to cost anywhere from $20 million to $55 million, include two design concepts largely focused on the west side of the bridge, two concentrating mostly on its east side, one involving a raised path along the centre of the bridge, and another that would see both sides widened in a similar fashion.

Staff looked at 20 options before narrowing them down to six. Rejected options included one that proposed building a pathway underneath the bridge. It was dismissed for numerous reasons, including safety

The “raised centre” option for the redesign of the Granville Bridge would be the priciest and city staff estimate it would cost between $45 million and $55 million. PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF VANCOUVER

concerns and the cost, which was estimated at as much as $150 million.

Paul Storer, manager of transportation design,

said among goals for the redesign are to ensure walking, rolling and cycling are accessible and comfortable; to provide direct and conve-

nient connections; to create a “special place” that’s enjoyable; to accommodate motor vehicles, buses and emergency vehicles; and

Macdonald Commercial R.E.S. Ltd

Your Dream Rental Home on the North Shore The Saint George | 154 East 18th Street, North Vancouver Studios | 1 Bedroom | 2 Bedrooms | 3 Bedrooms | Townhouse Unit Available

Brand New Family & Pet-Friendly Rental Units Why live anywhere else? Apply now. stgeorgerentals@macrealty.com

604.714.5740

macdonaldpm.com

to design for the future in mind.

The bridge’s redesign is one of the city’s “big moves” to meet its target of having two thirds of all trips being made by walking, biking or transit by 2030.

Granville Bridge, which was constructed between 1951 and 1954, is a particularly wide bridge that was designed for freeways that were never built. Due to the high speed of traffic, some pedestrians and cyclists are uncomfortable using the crossings at the on and off ramps. Steps at the crossings also make it inaccessible to some, existing sidewalks are narrow and close to traffic, connections at each end are awkward and there’s no space set aside for cyclists.

An initial round of public consultation, which started in April, saw staff collect public feedback about draft goals for the project, how the public use the bridge, and what their aspirations for the redesign were.

“The biggest message we heard was that something needs to be done.

Nobody likes how walking and cycling work across that bridge and that there’s lots of opportunities for improvement,” Storer said.

“So we overwhelmingly heard support for the project as a whole.”

Although Granville Bridge is eight lanes, it only carries slightly more traffic than the Burrard and Cambie bridges, which are four and five lanes.

“The lucky thing about this bridge is it’s eight lanes wide. It has a ton of additional space,” Storer said. “Basically, you could take the traffic that’s there and more or less fit it in two lanes in either direction. So removing two lanes, as long as we deal with the intersections at either end well, should have no impacts to the capacity of the bridge for carrying motor vehicles.”

The six proposed design options include: 1) West Side: wide sidewalk and two-way cycling lane on west side of bridge, with new signals at the Howe and Fir ramp crossings. Estimated cost: $20 to $30 million.

2) West Side +: similar to West Side option, but with additional sidewalk improvements on the east side of the bridge and Hemlock ramp, plus an additional

cycling connection on Fir ramp to 10th Avenue.

Estimated cost: $30 to $40 million.

3) East Side: wide sidewalk and two-way cycling lane on east side of bridge with new signals at the Hemlock and Seymour ramp crossings. Estimated cost: $20 to $30 million.

4) East Side +: similar to East Side option, but with additional improvements on the west side and Fourth Avenue ramp, plus an additional cycling connection on Hemlock ramp to Seventh Avenue. Estimate cost: $25 million to $35 million.

5) Raised Centre: wide sidewalk and two-way cycling lane down centre of bridge with path elevated to about one metre above bridge deck. Estimated cost: $45 to $55 million.

6) Both Sides: slightly widened existing sidewalks and a one-way cycling lane on each side of the bridge, with signalized ramp crossings at Howe, Fir, Hemlock and Seymour.

Estimated cost: $20 to $30 million.

Once an option is selected, the final cost will depend on the outcome of detailed design work.

“There’s $25 million [in the capital plan] already set aside. If council decides to move ahead with a more expensive option, we’d need to look at where we might reallocate that funding from,” Storer said.

Consultation sessions are scheduled in the coming weeks to collect public feedback about the design concepts.

“All of the different options offer different tradeoffs. Some have way more potential for public space and better connections to the rest of the walking and cycling networks, so we want to really understand from people what they’re interested in and what excites them,” Storer said, adding there’s been a lot of interest in the project.

The next stage of the process will see staff reporting back about what it heard during this portion of the consultation and an evaluation of the design options.

That’s expected to happen in late 2019.

Staff’s final recommendation for the design will be presented to council in early 2020.

Construction could start in 2021. @naoibh

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

A9

News

Lululemon stretches upwards with proposed 13-storey building

‘Store Support Centre’ would include central atrium and carved-out areas on its sides Naoibh O’Connor

noconnor@vancourier.com

Lululemon Athletica outlined its proposal to build a new 13-storey head office on Foley Street at Great Northern Way during a Sept. 12 open house.

The new building, a.k.a. its “Store Support Centre,” will replace the company’s existing head office on Cornwall Street in Kitsilano, as well as three of its smaller satellite offices in Vancouver.

The four offices are currently home to about 2,000 staff, but the company expects that number to grow to 4,000 by 2032.

Lululemon’s rezoning text amendment application is asking for additional height and use permissions.

While the city has a policy that limits rezoning applications while the Broadway corridor planning process is underway, last April council granted Lululemon an exemption so it could proceed.

The city’s director of planning recommended the exemption because no additional density is being requested and, as an office building, it advances goals of the recently completed False Creek Flats Area Plan.

If the application is approved following a public hearing, the new 13-storey building will include retail and café/restaurant uses on the ground floor.

Morphosis Architects, led

by Thom Mayne and based in Culver City, Calif., is the design architect for the project. Francl Architecture is the local architect, Clive Wilkinson Architects is the interior architect and PFS Studio is the landscape architect.

The building, which was “sculpted” to respond to site constraints, includes a central atrium and carvedout areas on its sides that feature greenery and create public spaces.

Robin Williams, project director at Morphosis, said while under current zoning they’re allowed to build up to 120 feet, they’ve lost a lot of area on the site because of setbacks and easements.

As a result, they need to go taller to achieve the allowable density on the site.

The application requests an amendment to permit an increase in height from 120 to 215 feet.

“It’s a very deep, compact proportion of a site, so

we really needed to bring natural light into the heart of the building to provide good daylighting to the office floor levels,” he told the Courier Sept. 13. “That means we need to go a little taller in order to create the atrium space in the middle of the building.”

The lower portion of the building facing Great Northern Way is set back to maintain a lower scale along that road, Williams said, while the shaping of the building aims to increase the view to the sky and the North Shore mountains, and create opportunities to integrate the landscape and terraces.

We really want to enhance the neighbourhood Robin Williams, project director with Morphosis Architects

visual comfort inside the building.”

If the planning and approval process goes smoothly, the building could be constructed and occupied by the middle of 2023.

The site, at 1980 Foley St., is between Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Mountain Equipment Co-op, and not too far from the property

at Clark and East Sixth where Nature’s Path plans to build its new 10-storey head office by the East Van cross.

Lululemon’s Foley Street property was assessed at $79.4 million on the 2019 BC Assessment roll.

The previous year, the site was valued at $49.4 million. @naoibh

The new building, a.k.a. its “Store Support Centre,” will replace the company’s existing head office in Kitsilano, and three smaller offices.

Natural

Your Original al

Organic

B.C. Grown

Whole Chicken Legs

3

Organic

Boneless & Skinless Chicken Breasts

Organic Assorted Squash

$ 99

/lb 8.80 kg

1

Food Store

$ 99

$

/lb 4.39 kg

9

07

/lb 19.99 kg

We carry a Huge Selection of Organic Products!

“We’re really using these carved moves to create public spaces along Great Northern Way and Foley Street for the main entrance of the building, which is off Foley Street,” he added.

Williams said the carved areas also help to “soften the shaping and the massing.”

Retail and café space on the ground level, meanwhile, is intended to help create a “lively and vibrant public realm” along Great Northern Way. The existing CD-1 bylaw doesn’t permit commercial uses on the site. “[Lululemon doesn’t] want this building to be a nine-to-five area. We really want to create this active street front outside of the typical office hours. We really want to enhance the neighbourhood,” Williams said.

The distinct exterior facade is the result of a “brise soleil” shading system.

“We have very stringent energy targets on this project — Vancouver has some of the most stringent energy codes in the world — so we need to shade the façade to reduce the solar gain and energy consumption of the building,” Williams explained. “We’re using this three-dimensional brisesoleil system to control the solar gain and manage the energy consumption of the building and also control

CANADIAN GRASS FED

Top Sirloin Steaks or Roasts

5

$ 99 /lb 13.21 kg

NON-MEDICATED

Bone-In Pork Butt Roasts

3

$ 49 /lb 7.69 kg

PRODUCT OF CALIFORNIA

Organic Valencia Oranges

5

GRASS FED

GRASS FED

Boneless Ribeye Roasts

9

GRASS FED

Striploin Steaks

6

Lean Ground Beef

4

$ 07

$ 99

$ 98

NON-MEDICATED

B.C. GROWN

B.C. GROWN

/lb 19.99 kg

Boneless Pork Leg Roasts

3

$ 99 /lb 8.80 kg

2

2

$ 29

$ 99

/lb 5.05 kg

FROM THE DELI

Organic Gala Apples

/lb 10.98 kg

Organic Roma Tomatoes

Organic Field Tomatoes

B.C. GROWN

5

/lb 15.41 kg

/lb 5.05 kg

HORNBY ORGANIC

Lyoner Sausage

Gluten Free Energy Bars

1

Assorted

2

$ 99

$ 69

$ 29

$ 99

PRAIRIE NATURALS

LIBERTE

TERRA DELYSSA

AMY'S

4lb bag

Supplements & Superfood Powders

25

% OFF!

3lb bag

Greek Yogourt Assorted Multipacks

2

$ 99

4x100grams

100 gr

Frozen Burritos Assorted

Cold Pressed Organic Olive Oil

$

10

80 grams plus gst

99 $299-$349 750ml *Extra virgin

156-170 grams

1595 Kingsway • 604-872-3019 • www.famousfoods.ca OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

8 am-9 pm

Sale Dates:

Thursday, September 19th - Wednesday, September 25th * While quantities last. Pricing guaranteed during sale dates only.

A10

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

Opinion

Vancouver schools are growing environmentally minded students Tracy Sherlock

Tracy.sherlock@gmail.com

If it’s up to the kids, the Earth is in good hands.

Leadership students at Windermere secondary, in East Vancouver, are impressive in their sustainability efforts, which this year include a massive courtyard garden, an onsite orchard and a parade to celebrate sustainability on Earth Day. At Lord Roberts elementary, in the West End, every student in the school from kindergarten to Grade 5 spends time in “edible education,” a class taught

by Brent Mansfield in the school’s vegetable garden, planting, tending and harvesting food that’s fed to 150 students for lunch.

Vancouver students will also be joining global climate leader Greta Thunberg’s school strike for the climate with an event organized by Sustainableteens and Climate Strike Canada on Sept. 27 at city hall.

While us adults are struggling to even reduce our greenhouse gas emissions the slightest bit — the provincial government reported recently

that in 2017 emissions actually went up from 2016 — the kids have got it figured out.

Robin Neill, who says she is six-and-three-quarters years old, likes to eat the peas in the garden. The Grade 2 student asked for a chance to pick a carrot to eat, after exploring the tomatoes, which were ripening to a deep red.

She and her classmates are learning about how delicious a tomato ripened in Vancouver in September can be, compared to one shipped here from a foreign land.

The garden gives the students a chance to see where their food comes from, and better yet, they’re usually willing to try vegetables they’ve grown themselves, Mansfield said.

“Food is the most tangible connection we have to the earth,” Mansfield said.

“Food helps us understand who we are and where we come from.”

Not only are they learning to care about the planet, but there are a lot of “secret” lessons that can also be slipped in, like multiplying fractions when doubling a recipe, or doing division when figuring out how many rows of seeds

At Lord Roberts elementary, students like Robin Neill spend time in “edible education,” a class taught in the school’s vegetable garden, planting, tending and harvesting food. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

can fit in a raised bed. Reading and social studies are natural matches with gardening and cooking, too.

“Kids are doing every subject with me and they don’t realize what they’re doing,” Mansfield said.

It’s the same for the big kids, over at Windermere secondary, where leadership students and the gardening club grow food on the school grounds, which are home to a fruit tree orchard, with apple, plum, pear and cherry trees, and a vegetable

NOTICE OF HOMALCO FIRST NATION LAND CODE COMMUNITY RATIFICATION VOTE

Notice is hereby given that the Homalco First Nation has called a Vote in accordance with the Homalco Community Ratification Process on the matter of determining if Registered Voters approve the Homalco Land Code and Individual Agreement.

The following question will be asked of the Registered Voters of Homalco First Nation by Ballot: “Do you approve the Homalco Land Code dated for reference July 31, 2019 and the Individual Agreement with Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada?”

garden, with beds bursting with kale, carrots, tomatoes and green onions.

Last year, leadership students hosted a community meal, made mostly with produce from the garden and fruit from the orchard, for about 60 guests.

“We also have a wildflower garden, which is all native plants for local pollinators,” said Grade 11 student Hannah Wicki.

Leadership students at Windermere also plan an annual Earth Day parade

and celebration, beginning in Grade 8, when they build the floats for the parade, which culminates at Grandview Park with speakers, booths and food trucks.

The planning progresses over the years — by Grade 10 and 11, they’re taking care of everything from fundraising to getting permits to organizing the police escorts.

“I think the parade is a good way of involving the community and letting them know that all of our actions impact the Earth,” said Grade 11 student Lili Ouellet.

In Grade 8, the students built an Orca float for the parade from recycled theatre curtains and chicken wire that was reused. In Grade 9, they designed a Jenga-like game to illustrate how species are dependent on each other for survival.

Many families come to the parade with their children.

“Without realizing it, they are learning about the environment and getting involved,” said Grade 11 student Ava Moyes.

Vancouver school board chairwoman Janet Fraser says she wants to make sure the

world her own three children inherit is the best it can be.

“Living in the city, a lot of students are not connected to where their food comes from.

We go to a super market and buy our food,” Fraser said.

“There’s no magical factory where food comes from.

Everything comes from the resources of the earth.”

The VSB has an environmental sustainability plan, with a vision of making it the “greenest, most sustainable school district in North America.”

Fraser, who was elected under the Green Party banner, hopes to give students the opportunity to learn to love the Earth, as well as to learn how to take action.

“A lot of sustainability actions around facilities and recycling and conservation, that’s great, but the bigger part of it is you have to get into people’s hearts.”

Food is central to human hearts and minds, as well as our very survival. Vancouver’s students are making a strong connection between the planet, their education and their lunches. In the long run, it’s certain to make a difference.

PRESENTED BY NEWS 1130 AND THE VANCOUVER SUN

An Inspiring Gala Event • October 9 7 -10 pm • Vancouver Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre

Featuring visual and performance Don’t miss art by survivors of stroke your chance to

TICKETS $40 • artafterstrokegala.eventbrite.ca

For more info: 604.688.3603 or office@strokerecoverybc.ca

win 2 WestJet tickets anywhere they fly!

Born in 1979? Recieve two tickets for the price of one - email us!

ELECTRONIC POLLS OPEN 9:00 AM on September 13, 2019 ELECTRONIC POLLS CLOSE 8:00 PM on October 19, 2019 REGULAR POLLS OPEN 9:00 AM on October 18 & 19, 2019 REGULAR POLLS CLOSE 8:00 PM on October 18 & 19, 2019

RATIFICATION VOTE LOCATION AND TIMES LOCATION

Homalco First Nation Cultural Centre-1218 Bute Crescent, Campbell River, B.C. 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Copies of the Background Documents, the Ratification Documents and Ratification Process may be obtained from Ella Paul at the Homalco First Nation Administration Office, 1218 Bute Crescent, Campbell River, B.C.

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that all Members of the Homalco First Nation, 18 years of age and older as of the date of the last official Voting Day of the 19th day of October, 2019 are eligible to vote.

Please Note: Any Registered Voter may vote in person, by Mail-in Ballot, or electronically. If an Eligible Voter has not received a mail in ballot package by October 1, 2019 please contact Fred Schiffner, Ratification Officer so that the necessary package can be provided to you..

Dated at Delta, Province of British Columbia this September 12, 2019

Ratification Officer: Fred Schiffner For more information please contact Fred Schiffner, Ratification Officer Office Phone: 1-604-943-0522 Fax: 1-604-943-0527 Cellular 1-604-786-2512 Toll Free: 1-800-813-2173 5245 Augusta Place, Delta, B.C., V4M 4E1

Over 185 Tables of Bargains on Deluxe 20th Century Junque! Vintage jewelry, boho chic accessories, memorabilia, retro decor, kitsch, antique collectibles, pop culture classics and much more...

Plus drop-in appraisals all day!

Sunday Only • 10am-3pm

SEPTEMBER 22

Croatian Cultural Centre 3250 Commercial Drive at 16th Vancouver, BC • Free Parking Email: fschiffner90@gmail.com

Admission $5 at Door • Kids Under 13 Free Food Services • Wheelchair Accessible • ATM Info 604.980.3159 • www.21cpromotions.com

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

Laughoutloud!

Inbox letters@vancourier.com ONLINE COMMENTS

Pets and rentals

“Council to decide fate of divisive Grandview-Woodland rental building proposal,” Sept. 9.

Vancouver Courier and other media outlets, please stop giving GWAC this platform. They represent a very small group within this community. The overwhelming majority support this and other rental projects. GWAC opposes everything while the rest of us who are busy living our lives and making ends meet don’t have the time to stand up and ensure our voices are heard. The result is that wealthy landowners dictate the future of our community. This community’s vibrant quality is due to the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.

Tara Sundberg via comments section

Re: “Meet the latest victims of Vancouver’s rental crisis: kittens,” Sept. 8.

I have a dog and a cat (small dog) and we were denied application (after already being accepted) because you were allowed to have a cat or two dogs but not a dog and a cat. These types of rules are ridiculous.

It should be the same for every rental unit.

You can cap the amount of animals but that should be it.

Mandy E. Rositano via Facebook ••• I think ultimately you should have say on who lives in your rental. Particularly if you share the house. If I have allergies to cats, should I have to rent to a person with cats?

Personally, I have two kittens, but I totally think the owner should be free to make that choice.

Jocelan Thiessen via Facebook

GWAC is out of whack

Michael Kissinger

604.738.1411

mbhatti@vancourier.com

mkissinger@vancourier.com

604.630.3300

PUBLISHER

CITY EDITOR

Laughwithconfidence whenyourdentures arecomfortableand perfectlyfitted!

KerrisdaleDentureClinic Complete Dentures | Partial Dentures | Relines | Repairs | Cleaning & Polishing

Giao Le, Denturist 201 - 2152 W 41st Avenue,Vancouver

604.263.7478 • kerrisdaledentureclinic.com

Come in for a Complimentary Consultation

ADVERTISING

Michelle Bhatti

CLASSIFIED

great care. great community.

DELIVERY

604.398.2901 The Vancouver Courier is a division of LMP Publication Limited Partnership.

EDITORIAL NEWSROOM

604.738.1411

Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No. 40025215. All material in the Vancouver Courier is copyrighted and cannot be reproduced without permission of the publisher. This newspaper reserves the right to reject any advertising which it considers to contain false or misleading information or involves unfair or unethical practices. The advertiser agrees the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out of error in any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement. We collect, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Statement which is available at vancourier.com.

FLYER SALES

604.738.1411

Excellence in home care 604.737.4900

The Vancouver Courier is a member of the National Newsmedia Council, which is an independent organization established to deal with acceptable journalistic practices and ethical behaviour. If you have concerns about editorial content, please contact editor@vancourier.com by email or phone 604-738-1411.

www.gvcss.bc.ca

If you are not satisfied with the response and wish to file a formal complaint, visit the web site at mediacouncil.ca or call toll-free 1-844-877-1163 for additional information.

THIS IS SENIOR LIVING O N T H E N O RT H S H O R E

When you’re ready, let us get to know you. Together we can create a personalized senior living experience to support your unique needs, even as those needs change.

P R I VAT E T O U R S AVA I L A B L E

A M I C A .C A

AMICA EDGEMONT VILLAGE

A11

604 -305 -3211

A MICA LIONS GATE

A M IC A W E S T VA NC OU V ER

A12

THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VANCOURIER.COM

Feature

This statue (at left) was erected near Clark Drive and Great Northern Way on Sept. 9, 2014. Its short-lived existence garnered international media attention. The red devil, at right, took three months to create in the kitchen of “Obsidian,” who told the Courier he’s in his mid-30s, lives in Vancouver and works in the hospitality industry. PHOTOS SUBMITTED

Artist behind mysterious Satan statue breaks silence

Penis Satan’s elusive creator claims it was a protest piece against politics and religion John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Five years ago last week, “Obsidian” stepped out of a vehicle near the East Van cross and into the annals of Vancouver lore.

Under the cover of darkness and as the midnight hour waned, he and three friends needed to act quickly: fasten a wooden platform, screw the supports down and apply some glue.

They needed to make sure Satan was secure.

Enter the mystery and majesty behind “Penis Satan,” a bright red satanic statue placed one block north of Clark Drive and Great Northern Way, near the city’s iconic East Van Cross.

Commuters woke up to the otherworldly one on Sept. 9, 2014, and what they saw was a hybrid of Anton LaVey and Ron Jeremy: a red, fibreglass statue of Satan, standing seven-feet-tall, brandishing the devil’s horns salute and sporting a hard-to-ignore erection.

City staff removed the statue within two days, but speculation continued as the story made international headlines.

Who built the statue?

Why? And what happened to it?

That level of recognition is partly why “Obsidian” wouldn’t allow the Courier to use his real name in print.

In his first conversation with a reporter since those days of hellfire and brimstone, Obsidian recalls the

intense scrutiny as rather off-putting.

“It blew up so fast, the next day it kind of shook me,” he said. “I went to work the next day and my buddy starts sending me all these messages and it freaked me out. I came home and I was too afraid to leave my bedroom.”

At the time, Hot Art Wet City arts collective founder Chris Bentzen wanted to house the sculpture so it could be included in the group’s annual nude art show “Boobies & Wieners.”

Alas, Bentzen couldn’t find the rightful owner and the city wouldn’t relinquish the statue. So he settled for the next best thing and organized a life-drawing session complete with a costumed Penis Satan model.

“It’s the same kind of idea as the sculpture at Dude Chilling Park — somebody has randomly put something up and people embraced it,” Bentzen said. “Cities should do more of that. Vancouver definitely doesn’t do enough of that.”

Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) spokesperson Hanah Van Borek was contacted for this story, but knew little about Penis Satan’s whereabouts or the artist.

When asked if the gallery would have housed the statue, she said a marriage between Penis Satan and the VAG wouldn’t have worked.

“I sincerely doubt we would ever have this on view,” she told the Courier in an email.

Darryl Greer is a longtime contributor to the Courier’s sister paper Business in Vancouver and took up the Penis Satan cause in the week it made headlines.

He started an online petition to have the city adopt the art piece, and his efforts garnered more than 2,600 signatures. Greer was interviewed by regional, national and international media outlets and became Penis Satan’s de facto spokesperson in the absence of an owner.

“It started out as a joke among Facebook friends commenting on it and I said, ‘Someone should start a petition,’” Greer recalled.

“It took 10 minutes to write the thing and it took on a life of its own. Within that week, it ballooned and went international.”

After city crews removed the statue, the city planned to hold on to it until its rightful owner turned up, but that didn’t happen.

Into the garbage Penis Satan went.

Eric Fredericksen is Vancouver’s head of public art.

He wasn’t a city employee in 2014, but was asked how he’d respond to a similar quandary today — guerilla art that’s placed on city property that garners significant public interest by an artist who won’t claim ownership.

“If something appeared and it was clear that it had value and it had interest, I’d probably look to get it as legitimate as possible to protect it against all the confusion that erupts when you don’t know who owns

something or why it’s in a certain place,” Fredericksen said.

A nine-person public art committee appointed by council oversees civic art donations. Slightly more than $1.2 million is budgeted for newly commissioned public art between 2019 and 2022.

The city had previously spent $62,000 on the Main Street poodle sculpture and $65,000 on an art installation near the Cambie Street Bridge that asks passersby, “Should I be worried?”

Not just for laughs

Which brings the story to present day, Penis Satan’s five-year anniversary.

The Courier spent two weeks trying to find the artist, who somehow managed to keep his identity almost entirely separate from the dark lord for half a decade.

“I’ve just told people to keep quiet,” Obsidian said.

“Some people know. People who I don’t know are like, ‘I know what you did.’ I just smile and say thanks.”

A source within the Vancouver arts community provided the Courier with Obsidian’s contact information. Obsidian then provided photos of Penis Satan being installed to verify his identity and the story began to fall into place from there.

Obsidian lives in Vancouver and works in the hospitality sector. He’s in his mid-30s, and while he has no formal arts training, he’s a longtime dabbler in the creative sector.

Penis Satan was not the name Obsidian envisioned.

Instead, he fancies “East Van Satan.”

“Everyone thought I was a Satanist,” he said. “That’s not it at all. Not all things are so black and white.”

He spent three months building the statue, which was a mannequin with some additional parts from a hardware store.

The plaza where Penis Satan was erected was once home to a statue of Christopher Columbus but remains largely vacant to this day.

Obsidian cased the plaza beforehand, measuring the platform and getting the specs right before the big night.

“I go by that location all time and I thought, ‘Man, this thing is just sitting empty and it seemed so weird and desolate,” Obsidian said. “I had to do something. One day, it popped in my mind and I was like, ‘Ah, that’s it.’

Obsidian enlisted the help of a few friends and waited for darkness to descend once it was go time. He sets the scene on Sept. 9, 2014 like this: “We put it up around midnight. I had a friend who drove us there,” he recalled. “It took about 10 minutes, maybe a little bit longer. We almost dropped it as we were setting it up.

The pedestal was much higher than we remembered.”

When Obsidian talks about his intention for the piece, it becomes clear this wasn’t solely a ham-fisted, half-baked exercise to get

laughs alone.

Obsidian has an aversion to religion and politics. Despite the devil’s horns salute, Obsidian dislikes heavy metal. Instead, that two-finger gesture is meant to highlight his disdain for sex crimes committed by religious figureheads.

As for the phallus factor?

“That’s what’s waiting for all the corrupt politicians,” he responded.

More Satan statues across Vancouver followed after Penis Satan’s demise, and Obsidian was responsible for all of them.

He erected a white female Satan statue in mid-August 2015 atop the Gene Café at Kingsway and Main Street. That Satan was pregnant, though it wasn’t clear if that was a result of consummating a relationship with Obsidian’s previous work. Pregnant Satan remains in storage underneath the Gene Café to this day.

Shortly after that, another Satanic figure, this one with an even more exaggerated penis, appeared on the roof of the Red Gate Arts Society’s former studio on Hastings Street. Obsidian placed it there to protest the society’s eviction by Chip Wilson’s Low Tide property holdings firm.

It was removed almost immediately.

It’s been four years since Vancouver’s last dance with the devil. Will Obsidian be heard from again?

“My plans aren’t certain,” he responded. @JohnKurucz

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

A13

SPONSORED

‘Remarkable’ Bordeaux Will Have Wine Aficionados Lining Up for BC Liquor Stores Release Every September, for more than 30 years, wine lovers and collectors have lined up overnight at BC Liquor Stores in the hope of securing some premium bottles of that rock star of wines — Bordeaux.

This year — Saturday, September 28th — will likely be no exception, and may attract even more enthusiasts for the release of the 2016 Bordeaux.

Many wine experts deem the 2016 vintage particularly remarkable due to a uniquely, long growing season.

“The result is wines with concentration and power … but with the incredible depth of flavour that comes with slow-ripening. The [2016] wines have a level of finesse and drinkability that we don’t usually see in a powerful year,” says Barbara Philip, Master of Wine and Category Manager for BC Liquor Stores.

Philip can attest to the spectacular attributes of the 2016 vintage, because, not only has she tasted a vast array of Bordeaux offerings, she’s the person who buys the European wine for BC Liquor Stores.

Bordeaux is typically purchased en primeur or buying on futures.

Barb carefully selects the wines for our annual Bordeaux release.

Because Bordeaux is so highly allocated and such a famous wine, Philip says, retailers and importers, have to decide on and purchase all the wines — mostly reds but a few whites — about two years before they’re ready and two and a half years before actually taking possession of it.

“It is not a finished wine yet. These are samples that come from the barrel and they still have at least 12 months of aging to do. They are not wines that are pleasant to drink at that time. So, you look for indicators,” she explains.

When the wine finally does arrive, it’s released all at once.

“Nothing else really works like that,” Philip adds.

As with every Bordeaux vintage, there are the ever-present stand out wines that collectors covet and that will cellar well for many years.

The Trotanoy ($425), Lafite Rothshild ($1,500) and Pétrus ($3,500) will be among the first to sell out, Philip predicts.

Exciting though for this year is that the quality of the 2016 vintage is evident across a range of price points. There are less expensive wines that allow more consumers to experience the region and the vintage.

Philip cites the Chateau Saint-Bernard (Bordeaux AOC) at $25, noting that its approachable style offers a real sense of Bordeaux.

“It tastes like Bordeaux. It tastes like the vintage — so delicious,” she says.

A slight step up in price is the Chateau Lanessan, which at $40, is still an affordable expression of Bordeaux quality.

As 2016 was a spectacular vintage, there are about 12,000 cases of Bordeaux landing in BC Liquor Stores in mid-September, 2,000 of which will be at the 39th & Cambie location.

A week before the release, the Cambie flagship store hosts an exclusive tasting event that gives wine aficionados a preview of the vintage. This ticketed event sells out quickly this year sold out within minutes of the tickets being released.

The 2016 yield, however, based on sheer volume of product range, offers unprecedented access to the Bordeaux vintage.

“A vintage like ’16 makes Bordeaux very inclusive,” Philip says. “It can satisfy the collectors or [who] are paying someone to wait in line to buy Pétrus for them.” And there will be a selection for people to pick up a handful of wines for under $100.

Participating locations: Dunbar 3453 Dunbar St. Vancouver

Alberni & Bute 768 Bute St. Vancouver

39th & Cambie 5555 Cambie St. Vancouver

8th & Cambie 2395 Cambie St. Vancouver

UBC Westbrook Village 101-3313 Shrum Lane Vancouver

Kerrisdale 2058 West 41st Ave. Vancouver

To get more information on products, inventory and the 32 participating stores, go to: http://www.bcliquorstores.com/promotion/bordeaux-2016

Barbara Philip

DECANTER

WINE ADVOCATE

100

98

POINTS

POINTS

* While supplies last. Inventory by store will vary. Prices are subject to change without notice. In the event of a change, the product description and display price in the liquor store will prevail. Prices do not include taxes.

A14

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

Open Houses: East Fraser Lands (River District)

OPEN HOUSES: RENTAL INCENTIVE PROGRAM REVIEW AND PROPOSED POLICY AND ZONING CHANGES The City is seeking input on proposed changes to existing rental incentive programs, including Rental 100 (the Secured Market Rental Housing Policy) and the Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy. Also being explored are zoning changes that would better encourage new secured purpose-built market rental apartment buildings in some C-2 (commercial mixed-use) zoned areas, amendments to the Development Cost Levy By-laws, opportunities to extend the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program and opportunities to pilot a reinvestment program for aging purposebuilt rental buildings.

The proposed changes are being considered as part of a review of the City’s market rental incentive programs to assess their effectiveness in creating new rental housing supply and explore potential updates and improvements to help meet the needs of

current and future renters in Vancouver.

Please join us at one of our upcoming open houses to learn more about the results of the review and provide your input. Your feedback will be reported to Council and will help inform future policy.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 4 – 7 pm Kitsilano Neighbourhood House 2305 West 7th Avenue Thursday, September 26, 2019, 4 – 7 pm Polish Community Centre 4015 Fraser Street You can also share your input by completing our online survey by September 30.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY: vancouver.ca/rentalhousing housingpolicy@vancouver.ca

It has been over a decade since the East Fraser Lands (EFL) Official Development Plan (ODP) was approved in 2006. A 10-year review of the EFL ODP began in June 2017 and in July 2018 Council approved interim measures to create a waterfront site for a standalone community centre and additional density for social housing.

Join us at an open house to learn more about how planning has progressed over the past year. We will have updated information on new public amenities and updates on amenity delivery, modifications to the central waterfront, and the preferred concept for the eastern neighbourhood.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 5:30 – 8:30 pm Saturday, September 28, 2019, 11 am – 3 pm River District Neighbourhood Centre 8683 Kerr Street Drop by to have your say and speak with City staff and the project team.

Following these open houses, staff will draft amendments to the East Fraser Lands Official Development Plan and other by-laws to establish a framework for land use, sustainability, transportation, density and building heights, and public benefit delivery. These amendments will be presented to Council for consideration later this year.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/east-fraser-lands

Public Hearing: October 1, 2019 Tuesday, October 1, 2019, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Cambie Corridor Townhouse Rezonings (Items a to d) To rezone the following sites from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A or RM 8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District (as indicated) to permit townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. If rezoning is approved, a subsequent development permit process would be undertaken individually for each site and entail review of a proposed form of development. a. 46-96 West King Edward Avenue (RS-1 to RM-8AN) b. 435-475 West 28th Avenue (RS-1 to RM-8A) c. 7239-7255 Oak Street (RS-1 to RM-8AN) d. 168 West 44th Avenue (RS-1 to RM-8A) 2. CD-1 Text Amendment: 1630 West 15th Avenue To amend CD-1 (284) (Comprehensive Development)

District to permit an increase in the permitted floor space ratio (FSR) for permanent above ground structures from 0.29 to 0.35 and the maximum building height from 12.4 metres (41 feet) to 14.7 metres (48 feet). The proposed changes to the by-law would allow for the construction of fitness and activity spaces on level three.

3. CD-1 Rezoning: 3279-3297 Vanness Avenue To rezone 3279-3297 Vanness Avenue from CD-1 (225) (Comprehensive Development) District to a new CD-1 District to permit the development of a sixstorey residential building with 102 social housing units. A height of 22.7 metres (74.6 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.49 are proposed.

4. CD-1 Rezoning: 3429-3469 Fraser Street To rezone 3429-3469 Fraser Street from C-2 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey, mixeduse building with 104 secured market rental units and commercial uses at grade. A height of 21.8 metres (71.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.43 are proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on September 20 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604 829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting September 20 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to

Visit: vancouver.ca Phone: 3-1-1 TTY: 7-1-1

a b d

c

Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting).

For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

A15

News

City workers accrued more than $15 million in overtime last year Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

The total overtime accrued by all City of Vancouver employees in 2018 was more than $15 million, according to documents obtained by the Courier under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. That was one of the findings of a Glacier Media project that requested information from 24 municipalities in B.C. on five topics, which included marijuana, the mayor’s calendar, the city manager’s travel expenses, overtime and a record of other requests made under the FOI Act. In Vancouver, the city’s freedom of information office acknowledged each of the Courier’s requests for information on the same day they were emailed, which was July 15.

The quickest response came the day after the requests were made, with the office noting Mayor Kennedy Stewart proactively discloses his calendar on the City of Vancouver’s website.

(Typically, it’s posted the month after Stewart has completed his meetings.

This is done for security reasons).

The request for city manager Sadhu Johnston’s travel expenses for all of 2018 returned a reply July 22 that said Johnston “did not travel on city business during time period specified.” The city’s Statement of Financial Information for 2018 shows Johnston earned $350,003 that year and spent $824.

The total overtime accrued by all City of Vancouver employees last year — $15,228,907.86 — represents both paid and banked time. It does not include employees of the Vancouver Police Department. That would require a

City of Vancouver employees accrued more than $15 million in overtime in 2018. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

separate request.

Barbara J. Van Fraassen, the city’s director of access to information and privacy, said in a July 26 response to the Courier that her office was unable to proceed with the request for correspondence between the city and the provincial government concerning the legalization of cannabis.

The federal Cannabis Act came into effect Oct. 17, 2018 in Canada, which put in a place a new, strict framework for controlling the sale, possession, production and distribution of marijuana. Prior to legalization, the City of Vancouver had embarked on a business licensing scheme for illegal marijuana dispensaries.

Van Fraassen wanted the Courier to specify the type of correspondence within the City of Vancouver regarding legalization of cannabis, saying it would “assist our office with contacting specific departments.” The Courier chose to abandon the request based on the fact other municipalities chosen in Glacier’s project had responded to the initial request.

The request for a record of freedom of information

requests to the city from Jan. 1, 2019 to July 15, 2019, including the wording and processing time to complete the request, returned a lengthy explanation July 19 from Van Fraassen on why the city couldn’t produce all the information.

She pointed out, however, that all FOI requests “that can be made public” are published monthly on the city’s website — that’s after a 30-day lag time between the time of disclosure to the applicant and making the package available to the public.

“Regarding your request for ‘processing time’ to complete an FOI request, the FOI office confirms the City of Vancouver has met all [100 per cent] statutory timelines as required under FIPPA from Jan. 1, 2019 to July 15, 2019,” Van Fraassen said.

“However, because the city’s FOI office does not have a case management system [to date] to provide accurate and/or itemized metrics for individual FOI request ‘processing times,’ we are unable to produce the requested information specified as ‘processing time’ using our normal computer

hardware and software and technical expertise. We do calculate and publish our ‘average’ processing time for all requests each year in our annual report.”

Added Van Fraassen: “Additionally, there are different processing circumstances that impact processing time and we note that even when we acquire a case management system and are better able to generate individual processing metrics, processing times must be referenced to the specifics of each individual request.”

Van Fraassen’s email goes on to explain when time extensions for requests may or must be taken if factors such as clarification of a request, compilation of a broad record search, application of a fee or required notification of a third party are relevant.

Notifying other public bodies other than the city would also be a factor in a time extension. She provided the example of a request that includes records involving Metro Vancouver or TransLink. Those agencies must also be notified and consulted about the information.

“In general, we allow an extra 20 business days to complete most other public body consultations, but a public body can ask for additional review time if they are being asked to review a large number of records,” said Van Fraassen, but noted requests that contain personal, third party or “city confidential information” are not made publicly available.

As for the total number of open and in process FOI requests, Fraassen said they fluctuate daily, “as does resource availability and this can also impact processing times.”

FOI releases on the city’s website can be found atvancouver.ca. @Howellings

YOU CAN HELP RAINWATER GO WITH THE FLOW Adopting a catch basin is an easy, fun way to get involved and give back to your community.

Simply choose a catch basin near your home, office or walking route, then check in on it before or after a heavy rainfall to ensure it’s free from leaves or debris. Anyone can be a neighbourhood hero!

Visit a live map of available catch basins at adoptacatchbasin.ca. Get inspired by the creative names that other volunteers have given their own adoptees! Catch basins with a heart next to them are in extra need of a little love.

Adopt today! adoptacatchbasin.ca

Visit: vancouver.ca Phone: 3-1-1 TTY: 7-1-1

FOLLOW

us

TWEET. REPLY. SHARE.

VISIT US IN-STORE OR AT TRAILAPPLIANCES.COM FOR MORE GREAT DEALS!

GREAT SALE PRICING AND EXCLUSIVE IN-STORE OFFERS! VANCOUVER SHOWROOM | 2876 RUPERT STREET | Tel: 604-434-8711

@VanCourierNews

A16

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

“Crater Kings” painting by Karen Laurence-Rowe

presented by

ART | MUSIC | NATURE Main Event | Sept 27-29 | VanDusen Botanical Garden | Vancouver, BC Sept 14-15 | Maplewood Flats | North Vancouver, BC

www.ArtistsForConservation.org/Festival Hosted by:

Major Sponsors & Community Supporters:

All rights reserved. c 2019 Artists for Conservation International Foundation.

Major Media & Promotional Sponsors:

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

A17

2019 PROGRAM & SCHEDULE

The 9th annual Artists for Conservation Festival returns to Vancouver this fall, at VanDusen Botanical Garden. The festival kicks-off on September 26 with a “Meet-the-Artists” Opening Reception, followed by three days of celebrating nature with art and music. The festival features the world’s top conservation-themed art exhibit, live music, family garden activities, arts & crafts, live art demonstrations, wildlife encounters, films, presentations and more.

DAY 1 GRAND OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, September 26 VanDusen Botanical Garden 7:00pm- 10:00pm Meet-the-Artists Opening TICKETS REQUIRED

DAY 2 PUBLIC OPENING DAY Friday, September 27 VanDusen Botanical Garden 10:00am - 5:00pm Gallery open for public viewing 10:00am - 4:00pm Films open for public viewing 11:00am - 4:00pm Live Birds of Prey 11:00am - 5:00pm First Nations Carving Demo

“Autumn Splendor - Fraser Bay”

by Margarethe Vanderpas

“Tofino Beach Bums”

by Dorset Norwich-Young

11:00am - 5:00pm Live Music

10:00am - 11:00am Welcome Ceremony

12:00pm - 4:00pm Artist Demonstrations

12:00pm - 4:00pm Artist Demonstrations

11:00am - 4:00pm Face Painting & Crafts

1:00pm - 4:00pm Live Birds of Prey

DAY 3

11:00am - 5:00pm Live Music

6:30pm - 8:30pm Hosted Film & Owl Prowl TICKETS REQUIRED

FAMILY WELCOME DAY Saturday, September 28 VanDusen Botanical Garden 10:00am - 5:00pm Gallery Open

12:00pm - 4:00pm Film Screenings

“Monarchs of the Rockies”

by Rob Dreyer

“Mid Day Sun”

by Michael Dumas

DAY 4 Sunday, September 29 VanDusen Botanical Garden

12:00pm - 4:00pm Artist Demonstrations

10:00am - 5:00pm Gallery Open

1:00pm - 4:00pm Live Birds of Prey

11:00am - 4:00pm Face Painting & Crafts

5:00pm Festival Closed

11:00am - 4:00pm Live Music “Great Blue Heron: The Risk Taker“

by Mark Hobson

“Water Is Life”by Edward Spera

12:00pm - 4:00pm Film Screenings

A18

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

Community

This Vancouver school just dug up a 100-year-old time capsule

Shaughnessy — formerly Prince of Wales — elementary celebrates 100th birthday this Saturday Michael Kissinger

mkissinger@vancourier.com

On Saturday, Sept. 21, Shaughnessy elementary celebrates its centennial with a day of festivities and reflection befitting an institution with a tumultuous century in its rear view mirror. Of course, much has changed at the West Side school, which was originally named Prince of Wales elementary and high school until 1960 when a separate Prince of Wales high school opened.

But one thing has remained — the school’s foundation stone, which was laid by His Royal Highness, Edward, Prince of Wales, Sept. 22, 1919, during a visit to Canada. Yes, that Edward — the one who briefly became King of England before abdicating his throne to marry American divorcee Mrs. Wallis Simpson in 1937.

A time capsule containing newspapers, coins and mementoes from Edward’s visit was placed inside the foundation stone and all but forgotten until recently.

Shaughnessy elementary principal Janet Souther holds the emptied 100-year-old time capsule in front of where it was extracted. Contents of the capsule include coins, newspapers and mementoes from Prince Edward’s visit in 1919. See related video at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Parent volunteers doing research for the school’s upcoming centennial discovered an old newspaper article on microfilm about the foundation stone ceremony and time capsule.

“And that’s where the

adventure began,” said Shaughnessy elementary principal Janet Souther, who had to figure out how to excavate the time capsule without damaging the foundation stone.

After much consulta-

Planning some projects for your pad?

Get a $300 bonus

Complete two or more energy-efficiency upgrades through the Home Renovation Rebate Program and CleanBC Home Efficiency Rebates and you’ll get our $300 two-upgrade bonus.* That’s like three rebates for two upgrades!

Learn more about all our bonus-eligible upgrades at fortisbc.com/bonus. *Conditions apply. Not all upgrades are eligible for the $300 two-upgrade bonus. Full program terms and conditions are available at fortisbc.com/homerebates. This program may be changed or cancelled at any time.

tion with tradespeople, they decided to access the capsule via a stairwell and behind several layers of cement and drywall from systemic upgrades. After drilling and removing a portion of the wall, they extracted the greenish glass bottle, which was still intact and sealed with wax.

An archivist from the city opened the capsule, carefully unpacking its contents, which will be on display in the school library at the Sept.

21 centennial celebrations.

“This kind of experience makes history real for our students,” Souther said. “It brings to life the kinds of things that they are learning and it makes them recognize that as they move forward […] maybe we’ll put in another time capsule and that they will be part of history as well.”

For more information on Shaughnessy elementary school’s centennial, go to shy100.ca.

H.R.H. Prince of Wales addressing a crowd at Shaughnessy School in 1919. PHOTO CVA 99-833

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

A19

Community

Here’s what happened to a giant ‘C’ from the Canada Post building Naoibh O’Connor

noconnor@vancourier.com

The “C” leaning against the wall in Christine Hagemoen’s small apartment is large — unexpectedly so, she says.

It is 1.14 metres high by 0.8 metres wide (or for all you Imperialists, 45 by 33 inches).

Despite its size, she couldn’t pass on the chance to buy it when the opportunity arose.

Hagemoen collects the letter “C” based on her first name, having been inspired by the apartment in the Mary Tyler Moore Show where a reasonably sized “M” is famously affixed to the wall.

Hagemoen is also a local history lover. A thirdgeneration Vancouverite, she works in the culture and heritage sector, writes a history-themed blog called Vanalogue, and occasionally pens online history pieces for Scout magazine.

It was her combined interest in Cs and local history that was piqued when she spotted an Instagram post by The Found and the Freed almost two years ago, in October of 2017.

The Victoria Drive vintage store posted a photo of a lowercase “a” it was selling with a unique provenance.

“Just got this giant letter ‘A’ today – it’s from the old Canada Post building and is surprising light to hang — more letters available (spelling Canada Post),” the notice stated.

Christine Hagemoen is a proud owner of a giant capital letter C, which used to be on the exterior of the former Canada Post office in downtown Vancouver. LEFT PHOTO DAN TOULGOET RIGHT PHOTO ROB KRUYT

Letters forming the words “Canada Post” and “Postes Canada” used to be attached to the exterior of the former Canada Post building at 349 West Georgia St., but Canada Post took them down a few years ago when the building was decommissioned and its operations moved to Richmond.

QuadReal Property Group is redeveloping it into an office and retail building rechristened “The Post.”

Intrigued by owning a piece of city history associated with the former Canada Post building, whose midcentury modern style she appreciates, Hagemoen asked if the vintage store had a “c.” It did.

Not a lowercase one like she assumed — a large capital C — but she liked the look of it, and the idea of

having another letter C appealed to her, so she bought it for about $175.

“I liked [the history] aspect of it, too,” she said. “I thought it’d be nice to have a piece of it and if I didn’t take it someone else would.”

Although it takes up a fair bit of space, it’s hollow and therefore light and quite delicate. While Hagemoen doesn’t have paperwork verifying it’s from the old Canada Post building, she said paint drops on the top of the C match the colour of the building.

The letters, however, weren’t part of the original Canada Post office, which was built in the 1950s, according to heritage expert Don Luxton, who noted the original sign was only in English.

Hagemoen did a bit more digging and discovered the

Fall is a great time to plant Plant fall colour and spring bulbs

Pansies 6 pack

3 per pack $ 49

Rose Bushes

BUY ONE GET ONE

50% OFF

Bobbex Repellant 950 ml RTU

$

1999

per each

letters probably date back to the 1970s. The Government of Canada, under Pierre Trudeau, passed the Bilingual Act in 1969, which meant all government buildings had to have signs in both French and English, she told the Courier in an email. While old photos from the 1950s and 1960s show signs reading “Post Office,” she found a 1981 City of Vancouver Archives photo with the newer letters that match the one she owns.

But, for Hagemoen, it’s not the age of her letter C but its connection, for however long, to the former Canada Post building that matters.

She’s not the only Vancouverite who saw the letters’ value — Luxton noted someone from his office bought the “e” from the vintage store.

Meanwhile, some heritage elements from the former

Canada Post building have been preserved and will be incorporated into the redevelopment, which is expected to be finished in a phased completion between the fall of 2022 and the fall of 2023.

Rebecca Catley, vice president of corporate communications for QuadReal Property Group, told the Courier the two 5.8-metre cast-aluminum Arms of Canada by Pearson Iron Works will remain in their current location on the Georgia side of the building.

The 4.9-metre-tall basrelief of the Postman that dates from 1956, which was on the Homer side of the building, will be reinstalled once construction is completed, but it will be placed in a more prominent position on the Hamilton side, facing Queen Elizabeth Plaza.

A large interior painted mural by Orville Fisher depicting early methods of transportation, and the original mosaic tile mural of a woman and child by Paul Huba, will be reinstalled once the building is completed as well.

Catley said QuadReal also has the mailboxes from the interior of the building, which will be installed in common areas (the atrium) where the public will be able to see them.

Catley added that many smaller items will be incorporated into the building.

Elements of note that will either be left in place or reinstalled include: • the dedication inscription was removed for safekeeping and will be re-installed the original concrete canopies along Homer and Hamilton Streets will be preserved • where possible, the original blue and red terra cotta tiles will be maintained or restored • the polished red granite is being removed from the exterior of the building and undamaged sections will be reinstalled on the exterior or repurposed inside the building • the original welded steel-frame structure, which was the largest in the world at the time of construction, will be maintained.

Hagemoen, for her part, is just pleased to have the C. “It’s big, but it’s mine,” she said.

800•667•9552 Kamloops: 250•374•0831

THE WORLD AWAITS! Palm Springs Winter Escape (EB) Small Group Tours! Tour 25!

Costa Rica 5 Seats left!

Super Natural New Zealand 2 Seats left!

Turkey & Greece Filling Fast!

Majestic Japan 1 Seat left!

Ireland 1 Seat left!

Sable Island & Atlantic Canada Cruise Early Booking Discounts! Cruises!

Mexican Riviera Cruise on HAL Caribbean Cruise on NCL Panama Canal Cruise on HAL Pacific Northwest Cruise on HAL San Diego to Vancouver Cruise on HAL Baltic Cruise on HAL BC Reg. #178

Feb 3

10 days

Jan Mar Mar Mar Jun Jun

17 15 29 30 3 13

15 days 21 days 20 days 15 days 16 days 14 days

$7240 $13,655 $8505 $11,840 $6830 from $9415

Jan Jan Feb Apr Apr Jul

8 13 2 10 20 11

12 days 15 days 22 days 7 days 13 days 17 days

from from from from from from

www.wellsgraytours.com

$3625

$4335 $4725 $8110 $1950 $3805 $9635

The Wells Gray Tours Advantage

2560 West Broadway, Vancouver 604-733-1534 HuntersGardenCentre.com

* Early Booking Discounts (EB) * Single Fares Available * Knowledgeable Tour Directors * Affordable Home Pick Up Service Available * Experience Rewards Program * Escorted Group Tours * Tour 25 – Limit is 25 travellers

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 9am–5:30pm Holidays 9am–5pm Photo: Santorini Greece

A20

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

News Tuesday, September 24th • 6:30-8:00pm At our Kitsilano location 2627 W. 16th Ave, VCR. Heal your Gut & reduce Inflammation Recipe Demonstrations With Liesel St. Arnaud, Nutritionist at Narrative Health

Liesel specializes in teaching clients living with chronic conditions, how to maximize their health through nutrition, lifestyle and mindset.

Free Event. Register online @ www.choicesmarkets.com/events. /Choices_Markets

Vancouver police buy drones, hope to deploy this year Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

The Vancouver Police Department has purchased three drones worth more than $100,000 that it wants to deploy in a number of scenarios including searching for missing persons, mapping crime scenes and responding to disasters.

The use of cameracarrying drones, which cost $112,226, has to first be approved by the Vancouver Police Board, which will review a policy Sept. 19 that provides guidelines for deployment of the remotely controlled flying machines.

If approved, the VPD wants to get the drones in the air before the end of the year. Their deployment will depend on how quickly officers can get trained and obtain Transport Canada certification.

“The system will greatly enhance our ability to keep the city safe,” said Supt.

Steve Eely of the VPD’s operations section in a news release issued Tuesday.

“We are committed to full transparency with our policy for the use of the equipment and want Vancouver residents to fully understand when and how the equipment will be used.”

The department also pur-

chased three smaller drones for a total cost of $2,000 that it plans to strictly use for training purposes, according to a VPD report that accompanies its policy proposal.

The VPD news release says the drones will not be used for surveillance, although the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner raised concerns about that statement in a letter issued in June.

The June 10 letter was in response to a 13-page “privacy impact statement” the VPD sent the commissioner’s office regarding the use of drones.

Julie Downs, a policy analyst with the commissioner’s office, suggested personal information unrelated to the intended purpose of a drone being deployed may inadvertently be captured.

But, she said, her understanding is the VPD’s proposed policy does not allow for random surveillance, “except in exigent circumstances where there is an imminent risk to life or safety and with permission from the duty officer or designate.”

Downs pointed out in her letter that public bodies are required to take all reasonable measures to protect personal information under their control.

“In this case,” she said,

NEED A LOAN? WE CAN HELP Volunteers Needed!

JFS is looking for volunteers to help seniors through the Better at Home program We need help with: • Driving seniors to and from their homes to health appointments, places of worship, and other important tasks • Visiting seniors who live in isolation and/or calling them over the phone to chat

Select Vancouver officers from the collision investigation unit, emergency response teams, public order unit, public affairs unit and patrol and civilian staff will receive training on how to use a drone.

The department expects to use drones at such events as the Celebration of Light summer fireworks event, where police already deploy cameras. Police have also previously set up cameras in neighbourhoods as crime prevention tools, as they did in December 2016 in the 6400-block Sophia Street.

In its research of drones, the VPD learned that 17 of 31 Canadian police agencies polled have drone programs, including the Abbotsford Police Department, the Saanich Police Department and the Toronto Police Service.

“For a variety of reasons, [drones] are becoming commonplace within Canadian society and Canadian policing,” said the report, noting Const. Marc Sharpe of the Ontario Provincial Police was the first officer to legally use a drone in the line of duty in 2007. “Advancements in technology coupled with a decrease in cost and clarification of regulatory oversight have made owning and flying a [drone] easier than ever.”

A TIME WITHOUT PRECEDENT

AUTO LOANS PERSONAL LOANS BUSINESS LOANS DEBT CONSOLIDATION

NO HASSLES WE GOT YOU COVERED LOW RATES GET THE MONEY YOU NEED FAST

$5000 AND UP

Interested? Contact Linnea at (604) 637.3310 or lstrom@jfsvancouver.ca.

People marching for freedom, people calling for justice, the Voice of the People demanding equality — this is a time without precedent!

Out of our current chaos and turmoil, aided and inspired by the Masters of Wisdom and Maitreya, the World Teacher, a golden civilization is being created by humanity. Come hear why the future is bright and full of hope.

Vancouver Main Public Library

More details at jfsvancouver.ca/better-at-home Better at Home is funded by the Government of BC and managed by the United Way.

“the amount of sensitivity of personal information VPD collects will be relatively high, therefore the level of security must also be high.”

The VPD’s impact assessment said all collected data will be encrypted on the devices and access will be limited to officers who have “a need-to-know the information and who have the appropriate security screening level.”

Downs said the impact assessment indicates the VPD will destroy collected data that has “no evidentiary value” after 30 days, but will retain data deemed to have “an evidentiary value” for at least one year.

The VPD report that goes before the police board Sept. 19 said the department also consulted the B.C. Civil Liberties Association in developing its drone policy – and that “where possible, the [association’s] recommendations have been incorporated in the development of [the drone] policy.”

The program’s 2019 budget, which includes purchase of six drones, training, Transport Canada certification and fleet insurance, totals $141,000. The report said $100,000 of that cost is covered by a grant from the Vancouver Police Foundation.

APPLY NOW 1-855-269-6610

FIRST PACIFIC LENDING SOLUTIONS | 1-855-269-6610 | FIRSTPACIFICSOLUTIONS.COM

350 West Georgia (Alma VanDusen Room)

Admission free / all welcome — 7pm

Thursday, September 26

1.888.278.8272

share-international.ca

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

Celebrate World Maritime Day at the Port of Vancouver Saturday, September 28, 2019 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Canada Place, Vancouver nces Kids’ performa

Family-friendly activities

Great music

Performance Schedule 10:00 a.m. ................................................................................................................ Traditional Welcome 10:15 a.m. ...............................................................................................................................Bobs & Lolo 11:15 a.m. ................................................................................................................................. Will’s Jams 12:15 p.m. ..................................................................................................... Langley Ukulele Ensemble 1:15 p.m. ................................................................................................................... Coastal Wolf Pack 2:15 p.m. ............................................................................................................................... SEABILLYS 3:15 p.m. ...............................................................................................................Sarah Wheeler Band 4:15 p.m. ................................................................................................................ The Burying Ground 5:15 p.m. ..........................................................................................................................The Paperboys Visit the Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre for great speakers throughout the day.

Enter on-site for a chance to WIN a 7-day cruise for two to your choice of Alaska, Canada & New England, Caribbean or Mexico from Holland America Line!

Find out more at portvancouver.com/worldmaritimeday Presented by

Community Partners

Media Partners

A21

A22

THE VAN CO U VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO U RI E R. C OM

Community

UBC Faculty of Dentistry UBC Dentistry is screening patients 12 years of age and older who require

VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN

East Van dad easily confused by public school system

Braces

(Full orthodontic treatment cost: $4,200) For information, visit www.dentistry.ubc.ca/gradortho Graduate Orthodontics Program

Ringing in the new school year, one head-scratching mystery at a time

To arrange a screening appointment: Call between 8:30 am – 4 pm (Monday to Friday)

604-827-4991

Grant Lawrence

or email gradorthoclinic@dentistry.ubc.ca

grantlawrence12@gmail.com

THE UNIVERSITY OR BRITISH COLUMBIA

*./0*/-&( .-/'(2" +"

#AidsWalkYVR #VancouverAIDSWALK

SIGN UP TODAY AT VANCOUVERAIDSWALK.CA +-/'$#) )/"/' +"

.2,)!0'1 *./0*/-

$/2( *./0*/-*

1&(!, *./0*/-*

*!2%&- *./0*/-

By the time you read this, you should be well ensconced into the real New Year that is September. It’s the month when we get our asses off the beach and get back to work, lean into new projects, wear pants and, if you have young kids like me, scramble madly to get them back into school and into their various activities.

I find it incredible that it was easier to score tickets to the Who in the 1980s than it is to score swimming lessons for my kids in 2019. I won’t get fooled again: next year I’m camping out in front of Templeton Pool.

As summer winds down, anticipation for your kid’s new grade revs up like a Blue Bird bus. Every adult we met for weeks leaned down and asked my sixyear-old son the same wellintentioned question: “So, are you ready for grade one or what, mister?”

My son would smile meekly and nod his head, no doubt thinking to himself, “Geez, this Grade 1 thing must be a big deal.”

When the first day of school finally arrived, my wife practically wept with relief after surviving our first two-month East Van summer with our kindergarten graduate and his three-yearold sister. My wife practically wept all over again when she found out the first day of school was one-hour long.

An hour-long school day after two months off? It’s like

Columnist Grant Lawrence got a lesson in how the elementary school system works when his son began Grade 1 this September. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

those pig races at the PNE: 30-minutes of hype followed by a 10-second race.

The other query everyone asked my son was: “So who is your teacher going to be, huh?”

For time immemorial, when you finished kindergarten in June, you already knew who your Grade 1 teacher was going to be. In my case, it was mean old Mrs. Campbell. She wore her hair like Princess Leia and ruled the classroom like Darth Vader.

Like the Sith Lord, Mrs. Campbell’s fierce reputation preceded her. If you dared to step out of line, she wouldn’t hesitate to smack you hard across the hand with the metal edge of her

Brand New Rental Homes for Independent Adults 55+ Now Accepting Applications | Move In This Fall

Studios: $1038 • Accessible 1 b/r (for adults 50+): $1308 • 1 b/r for Couples: $1508

Fair Haven Homes Vivian Apartments

ed

nt

% 50 er v O

Re

Open House (at our McKay Apartments) 4341 Rumble Street, Burnaby New Hours: Monday - Thursday: 11am - 4pm Friday, Saturday: closed Sunday: noon - 4pm

6465 Vivian St (at 49th), Vancouver

Contact: 236-818-6113 fairhaven.apartments@fsresidential.com

More information at www.fairhavenapartments.ca

ruler, which she did to me several times during the course of a rocky Grade 1.

The upside was that Mrs. Campbell taught me how to read.

Nobody seems to remember when the system changed, but my son had no clue who his Grade 1 teacher was going to be.

For the entire first week of school, the frustratingly elusive answer was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. It’s a strange purgatory, like having to wait until the final night of the regular NHL season to find out the playoff pairings.

I asked some teacher friends about the wait. One told me that it was all about assessment. They needed to do headcounts and carefully balance the split classes.

Makes sense, but couldn’t they do that, you know, the week before the kids actually show up? No, another teacher friend told me, that’s the whole point: they need to see which kids actually do show up.

I couldn’t help but imagine what the teachers could be doing in there that entire first week.

Were the students in the gym playing unsupervised dodge ball en masse while the teachers gathered in a “war room” of sorts, each teacher picking kids like you would in a hockey pool, with the kindergarten teacher providing the scouting tips?

My son’s teacher weighed in on this.

“While I wish I could tell you that classroom placement is as fun and exciting as a hockey pool, I simply can’t,” he told me. “It is actually a great deal of work.

The process begins in the spring, and continues right up until students meet their new teachers. We spend the first few days of the school year with our previous year students to go over the code of conduct and rules of the school to set the right tone with student expectations in all communal areas. When it comes to emotional needs of our students, seeing familiar faces the first week helps reduce any stress the student may be feeling. We look at many factors such as individual learning strengths and needs, relationships and friendships with both peers and staff, and requests of parents. This process is a very long one, as you could imagine. At our school, the goal is to have the best learning environment for every child that promotes diversity, inclusion and educational excellence.”

Hard to argue with that.

Finally, on the Friday afternoon of that first week of grade one, my son burst out of the school doors at 3 p.m., shouting out the name of his Grade 1 teacher. He couldn’t have been happier.

Happy New Year. @grantlawrence

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

A23

A24

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

Arts & Entertainment

Follow the lederhosen: Oktoberfest events to check out this fall Lindsay William-Ross

lindsay@vancouverisawesome.com

Prost! It’s the time of year to raise a beer (or a few more) to the German tradition of Oktoberfest.

Grab your lederhosen and gear up for that sweet polka beat, and get ready to fill your belly with the best of Bavaria, from brews to schnitzel.

Here are some Oktoberfest events happening in and around Metro Vancouver this fall.

Wünderbar ‘Oktobeerfest’ Pop-Up at Bells and Whistles

When the clock strikes midnight in Munich on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m.

Bells and Whistles will don the lederhosen and kick off 17 days of Bavarian-inspired celebrations by hosting its second annual Wünderbar “Oktobeerfest” PopUp until Sunday, Oct. 6.

During the event, a number of Oktoberfest-themed favourites will return to the menu, and German brews will be at the bar.

and access to a designated area that provides a delicious German buffet and a server who takes care of your drinks all night long (drinks not included in the prices).

When: Oct. 4 to 5, 11 to 12 and 18 to 19. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Vancouver Alpen Club, 4875 Victoria Dr., Vancouver Cost: $35/80.

When: Sept. 21 to Oct. 6 Where: Bells and Whistles, 3296 Fraser St.

P49 Oktoberfest

Grab your lederhosen, and flex those pint-hoisting muscles. Pretzels, traditional German snacks, $6 beers and a live polka band await at Parallel 49’s Oktoberfest.

Heads up, this isn’t taking place in their Street Kitchen tasting room/restaurant.

When: Sat. Sept. 21, 2 to 10 p.m.

Where: P49 Warehouse off of Semlin Street (behind the brewery).

Oktoberfest Biermaster’s Dinner

Kick off Oktoberfest with a five-course beer pairing dinner featuring Craft’s favourite German craft beers from Erdinger & Stiegl. Your ticket includes a welcome beer and amuse bouche, plus a sit-down meal with beer pairings.

When: Sept. 24, 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: CRAFT Beer Market Vancouver, 85 West First Ave.

Bavarians at the gate: You don’t have to travel to Munich to enjoy Oktoberfest events. Photo ISTOCK

Cost: $60.

Oktoberfest at the Races

Celebrate the famed festival in style at the iconic Hastings Racecourse with traditional fare, exciting horse races, live music and of course, plenty of beer.

19+ only.

When: Sept. 28, 1 to 6 p.m.

Where: Hastings Racecourse, 188 North Renfrew St., Vancouver Cost: $30.

Oktoberfest at Vancouver Alpen Club

This is “das original” Vancouver Oktoberfest that you can’t leave off the list. Held at the historic Alpen Club, they’ve got three October weekends of beer, food, music and fun.

Dress up, dance and raise a few glasses in the German tradition. Regular tickets $35 (plus taxes) include admission to the Oktoberfest, while VIP tickets $80 (plus taxes) include admission

Craft’s Brühaüs

Brühaüs is a two-day festival celebrating all things Oktoberfest, featuring German-inspired eats, big beers, music, attire, sights and sounds.

They’re calling this an “Oktoberfest-inspired” event, and there’s no admission fee, but you will need to pre-register online.

Seating will be first-come, first-served, and based on availability.

When: Oct. 5, 6 p.m. to late and Oct. 6, 2 p.m. to late.

Where: CRAFT Beer Market Vancouver, 85 West First Ave.

NEXT HOME GAME

STUDENT RUSH NIGHT MONTRE AL ALO UE T TES VS BC LION S

S AT U R D AY SEPTEMBER 28 7: 0 0 PM BC PL ACE K IDS TICKE T S

$

10

G E N E R AL AD M I S SI O N

$

25

TICKE T S AT BCLION S.COM

Cost: Free, but pre-registration required.

Harvestland and Harvest Haus

The PNE grounds will be transformed into a land of all things Oktoberfest this fall at Harvestland, Canada’s largest harvest festival.

This expansive multi-day Oktoberfest event invites fair-goers to slip into their finest dirndls and lederhosen to celebrate community, nature, agriculture, exploration and imagination.

When: Harvestland at the PNE (all ages) Oct. 10 to 20, Harvest Haus (19+) Oct. 10 to 12, 18 and 19 Where: Pacific National Exhibition, 2901 East Hastings St., Vancouver Cost: Harvestland Tickets: General (13 to 64 yrs): $14.99; Child (4 to 12 yrs): $9.99; Senior (65+): $9.99; Family Pass (2 Adult & 3 Child): $44.99. Harvest Haus Tickets: Evening Seatings: $29.99 GA, $49.99 VIP; Matinees: $24.99 GA, $39.99 VIP.

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

A25

Super Valu BONELESS BLADE STEAK OR ROAST

$

SEAQUEST WHITE SHRIMP RAW 16-20 PER LB FROZEN 300G

CLUB PACK

4

49

$

lb

$9.90/kg

GENERAL MILLS CEREAL

BROCCOLI

2

PRODUCT OF CANADA

1

1

$ 99

$ 49

99

GREEN OR RED LEAF LETTUCE PRODUCT OF WESTERN CANADA

1

GREEN OR RED SEEDLESS GRAPES PRODUCT OF USA

SELECTED VARIETIES 300-460G

$

$ 29 ea

6

99

ea

$4.39/kg

KETTLE BRAND POTATO CHIPS

FAIRLIFE ULTRA FILTERED MILK

SELECTED VARIETIES 220G

SKIM, 2%, OR 3.5% 1.5L

$

4

49

PRICES IN EFFECT SEPT. 20TH - SEPT. 26TH, 2019

2/

$

Super Valu

1645 East First Avenue at Commercial • Il Mercato Mall • 604-254-1214 • SUPERVALUONCOMMERCIAL.COM OPEN 24 HRS, 365 DAYS A YEAR • FREE 45 MINUTE PARKING 580854_supervalu_VCN_D_UD12_V1

L O C A L LY

O W N E D

10.33 x 14

A N D

lb

26th Jan 2019

O P E R A T E D

5

A26

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

News THE SHOWBIZ

Vancouver’s ‘Damn Good Editors’ want more American work

Campaign launched to highlight skills of local TV and film industry Sabrina Furminger

sabrina@yvrscreenscene.com

Vancouver’s film and television editors know they’re damn good, and they want American producers to know it, too.

On Sept. 25, IATSE 891 — the union representing many film workers, including professional screen editors — will launch Damn Good Editors, a campaign and website dedicated to showcasing the reels and work histories of its editors in order to connect them with the myriad of American productions that shoot in Vancouver.

Damn Good Editors has been in the making for three years, but the need for the campaign has existed for much longer, says Lisa Robison. Robison has eight Leo Awards, several Daytime Emmy nominations and more than two decades of editing experience to her name. She’s edited locally shot American productions,

and she’s watched even more shoot in Vancouver and then send their footage to be edited in Los Angeles.

“A lot of the times, the producers want to edit in Los Angeles, but we have some really great editors in Vancouver that are on par with editors in Los Angeles,” says Robison, whose recent credits include multiple episodes of Loudermilk, You Me Her, and Unspeakable, the award-winning CBC miniseries about Canada’s tainted blood scandal.

Of the more than 30 film and television productions currently shooting in Vancouver, only five employ local editors, according to Robison — and it’s to the detriment of the productions that shoot here and the local editors who aren’t getting the chance to work on these shows. “We have a talent pool that really wants to work hard for directors that have a lot more experience on these wonderful shows

Lisa Robison has edited locally shot American productions, and she’s watched even more shoot in Vancouver, and then send their footage to be edited in Los Angeles. PHOTO SUPPLIED

that come to town, but because they want to edit in L.A., they can’t, and it’s unfortunate,” she says.

Robison didn’t set out to be an editor. She spent eight years in the camera department (“When I was a camera op, I thought, ‘Editors are inside all day, we’re out in the rain, they have no idea, they have easy hours, what stress do they have?”’) before severe asthma attacks sent her looking for new opportunities in other parts

SUBSCRIBE TO A WONDERFUL SEASON WITH NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, KARI TURUNEN BEGINNINGS

THE SOURCE

FOCUS ON CLASSICS

A WILDERNESS OF SEA

7:30PM FRIDAY, SEP 27, 2019 Pacific Spirit United Church* 7:30PM FRIDAY, OCT 18, 2019 Pacific Spirit United Church* with the Focus Choir Baroque violins and continuo

STRANGE BEASTS

7:30PM FRIDAY, NOV 15, 2019 Koerner Recital Hall, VAM

CHRISTMAS ORATORIO

7:30PM FRIDAY, DEC 6, 2019 Orpheum Theatre with Owen McCausland Pacific Baroque Orchestra

A ROSE IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER

7:30PM FRIDAY, DEC 20, 2019 Pacific Spirit United Church*

BYRDS AND BEES

7:30PM FRIDAY, JAN 24, 2020 Pacific Spirit United Church* with Jon Washburn, conductor

7:30PM SATURDAY, FEB 15, 2020 Koerner Recital Hall, VAM 7:30PM FRIDAY, MAR 13, 2020 Pacific Spirit United Church* with the Elmer Iseler Singers

of the film pipeline. She soon found her calling in an editing suite.

Robison describes editing as the last line of storytelling. “Our job is to put the best of the best together.”

And she honed her skills and her storytelling voice on shows such as Highlander: The Raven, Cold Squad and The L Word.

“I really grew as an editor when I was editing The L Word,” says Robison. “We had so many great directors,

and our executive producer gave us free rein to be creative in certain areas of the show and to cut with your gut and go with your instinct, and if you have a director that’s willing to work with you collaboratively like that, then you grow as a person. We have awesome talent here and we have talent that would only get better if they had the opportunity to work.”

Robison is one 25 experienced editors whose work is showcased as part of the Damn Good Editors campaign. The campaign website will feature demo reels, work biographies, and lay out the tax incentives — 28 per cent on eligible labour expenses — for American productions that opt to hire local.

Producers “need to believe that the talent is here,” and they often don’t, says Robison. “I think they think, ‘Oh, they’re Canadian editors, they just don’t know.’ But what we cut in Vancouver

is mostly American TV, so we know the style they want, and because of Skype and Quicktime, it’s a whole lot easier than back in the day when you had to send edits

by FedEx. I think we deserve a challenge and a chance to prove ourselves. The sad thing is, we’re not even being given the opportunity.”

IATSE 891’s Damn Good Editors campaign comes a few weeks after the launch of the Directors Guild of Canada-British Columbia’s Just Watch Us campaign, which similarly seeks to highlight the expertise of Vancouver-based directors.

The unions developed their efforts separately and didn’t coordinate their campaigns, says Crystal Braunwarth, an assistant business representative with IATSE 891.

Braunwarth called the close launch of the two campaigns a “happy accident.”

The Damn Good Editors site launches Sept. 25. Learn more at iatse.com.

6

in support of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation A night of inspiring food, wine, and a lively auction in support of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation.

Performance Works 1218 Cartwright Street Granville Island

ST. JOHN PASSION

7:30PM FRIDAY, APR 10, 2020 Orpheum Theatre with Zach Finkelstein Pacific Baroque Orchestra

THIS DELICATE UNIVERSE

7:30PM FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2020 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts with the Vancouver Youth Choir

Subscribe today to our new concert season. Design your own series or sign up for all 10 wonderful concerts. Call

us for a season brochure at 604.738.6822 or visit us online.

VIP Reception

General Admission

5:30pm

6:30pm

Enjoy complimentary bubbly and priority access to the chef stations

$225 per person | $1,750 for 10

$300 per person | $2,700 for 10

drpeter.org/passions

Presenting Sponsor

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

* Formerly known as Ryerson United Church

vancouverchamberchoir.com

Prosecco Sponsor

Event Partners

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

A27

A28

THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VANCOURIER.COM

Arts & Entertainment

Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson brings Buddy Cole to town

Thompson dishes on profanity, sexuality and longevity John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.

It’s a fitting title should a career-spanning film be made about Scott Thompson.

The laughs he got from telling gay jokes 30 years ago largely came from a place of hate. Gay jokes today make him homophobic.

This, coming from one of Canada’s most high-profile, longstanding gay comedians. The same guy who is one fifth of the Kids in the Hall and had a song called “I’m Gay” in the troupe’s 1996 film Brain Candy.

He’s the same guy who starred in a skit called “Running Fa**ot” and the same guy who delivers scathing social commentary while in character as Buddy Cole.

“Before, the audiences thought [Cole] was homophobic and they were glad about it,” Thompson tells the Courier on the phone from his home in Los Angeles. “Now it’s homophobic and they’re angry.

But they’re still all getting it wrong. And honestly, I don’t care if people don’t get it.”

Thompson brings arguably his most famous caricature to Vancouver Sept.

19 to 21 for Après le Déluge: The Buddy Cole Monologues.

His 70-minute sets include 11 monologues chronicling Cole’s musings on the

Scott Thompson’s Après le Déluge: The Buddy Cole Monologues lands at the Cultch Theatre Sept. 19 to 21. PHOTO MINDY TUCKER

world from the period spanning 1995 until now.

The show’s literal translation from French is “after the flood.” Its symbolic translation means far more to Thompson, who is not entirely Cole and vice versa.

“The world changes around Buddy, but he remains unmoveable,” Thompson said. “The theme is that the world is a river and Buddy Cole is a rock in the river and the river has to go around him — because he’s perfect and he’s perfectly placed. And if he causes rapids, so be it.”

Cole is based on a former lover of Thompson’s in the mid-1980s. He was spectacularly effeminate and, in Thompson’s words, had the gayest voice this side of Lib-

erace. It was a revelation for the young comic, who was still reconciling being gay in the midst of the AIDS crisis and having aspirations for Hollywood.

“I found his femininity almost powerful and weaponized in a way,” Thompson said. “He fascinated me and then he died very quickly. He was one of the first to go. Everyone was dying like flies.”

It’s at this point in Thompson’s life that the shell begins to harden.

He’s surrounded by death and constantly discriminated against. To this day, Thompson maintains his career would have been more lucrative if he wasn’t gay. He makes a point of mentoring the current crop of gay male comics.

“I think now if I was a young man coming out, you couldn’t stop me,” Thompson said. “But I wouldn’t be the same person. I wouldn’t be as driven. I came out in the middle of the worst time in history for gay men.

I came out in the middle of a war. I’m scarred, I’m wounded. I was so angry for so long. I don’t think I would be that today.”

Thompson seems more at peace with those days and, by his own admission, has mellowed considerably.

If the audience gets it, great.

If not? He doesn’t care.

To wit, the “Running Fa**ot” bit. The Kids in the Hall performed that sketch in May 2015 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and were summarily booed.

So they did it again. At least three or four other times over the course of the evening. The only bit that got more derision was a jab at the Canucks for not playing hockey at the time — they had lost to Calgary in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Thompson says there is no line that can’t be crossed in comedy. He had a Buddy Cole show loosely based around terrorism that included Cole having a relationship with Osama Bin Laden. The show was slated to debut at a club in New York City the week after the 9/11 terror attacks.

It didn’t go well.

As such, Cole went off into the ether for a few years.

He re-emerges in a time when Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Chappelle have limited patience on placing limits on comedic expression.

Thompson’s “old man yells at cloud” moment goes something like this: “So many young people are so thin-skinned now, that when they see a person doing a character like this they’re immediately furious because they just assume it’s a straight guy making fun of homosexuals,” Thompson said.

“They’re very conditioned to be on the alert for any kind of attack. Quite often it’s young people who are upset with Buddy Cole because they don’t really understand who he is or who I am.”

Who Thompson is now is markedly different than the dude he was in the 1980s when Cole was incubating.

The lived experience 30 years later works in Thompson’s favour.

“I think you have to be wittier now, because just the way he moved, talked and dressed got laughs because I think people felt superior to him — over the years it’s changed,” Thompson said. “People don’t look down a character like Buddy Cole reflectively like they did back then.”

The conversation turns to the fate of the Kids in the Hall — they’re not done and something is in the works. Being in the troupe is like being in the mafia, according to Thompson.

“You’re in or you leave in a casket.”

Which begs the questions: How is it that the Kids aren’t in a casket, at least professionally?

“The Kids in the Hall, we were special. We are special.

It’s a very un-Canadian thing to say but sometimes things are special,” Thompson said. “We were just very lucky. We were five guys who I think would have had wonderful careers on our own, but the five of us together, something magical happened.”

Thompson performs at the Cultch Theatre Sept. 19 to 21.

Tickets range in price between $26 and $46. Info is online at tinyurl.com/buddycole.

Vancouver International Improv Festival is open to suggestions

And four other things that make Vancouver awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

lindsay@vancouverisawesome.com

Vancouver Improv Fest

Ready to laugh your face off? The 21st Vancouver International Improv Festival takes place over five days and features captivating performers from around the world. The annual festival offers 40 unique performances, including the Nasty Women of Comedy, inspiring public workshops and an opening night gala to celebrate Vancouver’s booming improv scene that “aims to celebrate spontaneity and collaboration through the art form of improvisation.”

Sept. 24 to 29 The Cultch vancouverimprovfest.com

Barbarian’s Feast

Ready to meet the meat sweats? The Cascade Room’s annual Barbarian’s Feast is an all-out pig out of medieval proportions. Seating is first-come, first-served.

There’s a welcome cocktail, guided whiskey tasting and of course, a roasted pig and other beasts. Save room for sides and dessert.

Sept. 22, 5 to 8 p.m.

The Cascade Room, 2616 Main St. eventbrite.ca

Friends of the VPL: Fall Used Book Sale

It’s the perfect time of year to curl up with a good book. When your e-reader won’t cut it and you want the real deal, you can score some great deals at the Friends of the VPL’s Fall Used Book Sale. Prices start at 50 cents for paperbacks

and $2 for hardcovers. Nonfiction prices start at 50 cents. What’s more, everything remaining will be half price on Saturday. Sweet!

Sept. 19 to 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

VPL Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St. friendsofthevpl.ca

Storm Brewing’s 25th Anniversary Party

Celebrate the milestone anniversary of Vancouver’s groundbreaking and irreverent Storm Brewing at their big bash. This is a cash only, first-come first-served event, 19-plus only with two pieces of ID. $10 admission (includes one beer ticket).

Sept. 22, 3 to 5 p.m.

15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2025 West 11th Ave. facebook.com

World Clean-Up Day: Kitsilano Beach Clean-Up

On Sept. 21, in honour of World Cleanup Day, Surfrider Foundation Vancouver, the David Suzuki Foundation and Greenpeace Canada are partnering to clean up and sort the waste collected on Kits Beach, and they need your help. Sign up to volunteer to collect things like cigarette butts, bottle caps and food wrappers and more left on the beach.

RVSP via Eventbrite to participate.

Sept. 21, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Kitsilano Beach, Cornwall Street between Vine and Yew eventbrite.ca

—with files from Elana Shepert More events at vancouverisawesome.com.

The Nasty Women of Comedy perform at the 21st annual Vancouver International Improv Festival.

VANCOURIER.COM

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 THE VA NCOUVER COURIER

Pass It to Bulis

A29

The hockey blog that knows who needs the puck

Key to Brock Boeser bridge deal lies in big third year

Boeser’s agent guaranteed raise for next contract

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

Stick-taps & Glove-drops

For most of the summer, the Canucks and Brock Boeser weren’t even close to a new contract. Even one week ago, there was a question of whether a deal would get done, as talks between Canucks general manager Jim Benning and Boeser’s agent, Ben Hankinson, had reached a stalemate.

“After I talked to [Benning] on Monday night, we didn’t talk for another week almost,” said Hankinson on an appearance on TSN 1040. “I wouldn’t have done this deal a week ago, and neither would he.”

Fortunately for Canucks fans, the two sides hammered out a deal just before the start of the pre-season. Boeser resigned on a three-year contract with an average annual value of $5.875 million per year, a bridge contract that will see Boeser remain a restricted free agent when it expires.

It’s a contract that seems to be right at market value for the sniper. Contract projections from hockey analytics site Evolving Hockey, which use past contracts around the NHL to predict future deals, predicted a $5.78-million cap hit if Boeser signed a three-year deal.

That raises the question: Why did this deal take so long to get signed? And why were the two sides so far apart? At one point, Hankinson described their talks as “heated” and said they were “swearing at each other.” Perhaps that isn’t surprising given the importance of this contract, but it still seems odd that the two sides couldn’t get closer over the summer.

Contract negotiations have a lot of moving parts beyond the obvious — money and term — but those are the starting points. According to Hankinson, both Boeser and the Canucks wanted a long-term deal at the start of negotiations.

“There’s no question Brock, originally, we were talking longterm and I think the Canucks wanted to sign him long term too,” he said. “But our expectations weren’t the same on a long-term deal.”

That indicates there was a clear disconnect on the other half of the obvious: money. If the two sides couldn’t get close on the money side of things, there was no point in even trying to sort out the other details. Eventually, talks had to

• A tap of the stick to Jake Virtanen, who responded to questions about his conditioning at the start of training camp with a two-goal effort in the first game of the pre-season. Playing with a chip on his shoulder seems to work for Virtanen.

• Elias Pettersson gets a stick-tap for one of the best lines of training camp. Regarding Boeser’s contract negotiations, he said, “He’ll sort it out, otherwise I’ll drive to Minnesota to pick him up myself.

Brock Boeser re-signed on a three-year contract with an average annual value of $5.875 million per year, a bridge contract that will see Boeser remain a restricted free agent when it expires.

PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

switch from a long-term deal to a shortterm deal, particularly after the Canucks were active in acquiring other players via trades and free agency, Roberto Luongo retired, hitting the Canucks with a caprecapture penalty, and the salary cap didn’t go up as high as expected for the coming season. Perhaps it was less that the Canucks weren’t willing to meet the demands on a long-term contract, but that doing so would have required making too many other moves to clear the cap space.

“Jim and I kinda focused in on three years, the last few weeks or a month. We were still pretty far apart,” said Hankinson. “We both were hitting our heads against each other, saying this is a fair deal, we think we’re being fair, and we never got there.”

So, how did the two sides finally come together? One of the keys is in the structure of the deal, one of those moving parts beyond the obvious. While the average annual value, and cap hit, of Boeser’s deal is $5.875 million, that’s not what he’s getting paid each year.

Boeser’s base salary for the 2019-20 season is $700,000, but he also gets a $3.3 million signing bonus, so he won’t

Correction Notice In the circular beginning Friday, September 20, 2019, we incorrectly listed the sale price of Select Baking & Decorating Supplies as Buy One, Get One 50% Off. The correct sale price is Buy Two, Get One Free.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

be hard-up for cash. In the second season, his base salary goes up to $3.125 million, with a signing bonus of $3 million. It’s that final season that’s interesting: no signing bonus, but a base salary of $7.5 million.

That’s important, because the base salary of the final year of a contract directly affects the qualifying offer that a team has to give an RFA. If the Canucks don’t re-sign Boeser before his contract expires, they’ll have to sign him to a qualifying offer worth $7.5 million.

That means Boeser didn’t just sign a solid three-year contract, but ensured a hefty raise at the end of that contract, even if he doesn’t perform up to expectations. Of course, Boeser has the drive and talent to exceed expectations and eventually cash in on a long-term deal, possibly worth more than $7.5 million per year, but the structure of his three-year contract provides a nice bit of security, just in case.

Big Numbers • 1.39 Over the last three seasons, Brock Boeser has averaged 1.39 goals per hour, which is 17th among NHL forwards in that time.

• 9.71 One key to bumping Boeser up the ranks in goal-scoring will be getting more shots. Boeser has averaged 9.71 shots per hour over the last three seasons, 38th among NHL forwards.

With his elite shot, getting the puck on his stick for more shots should be a priority.

For daily Canucks news and views, go to Pass It to Bulis at vancourier.com.

CONTACT US AT:

www.bettermeals.com 604.299.1877

BETTER MEALS home delivered meals since 1993

A30

THE VANCOUVER COURIER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

VANCOURIER.COM

Your Community

MARKETPLACE Book your ad ONLINE:

vancourier.adperfect.com

Or call to place your ad at

604-630-3300

Visit the online MARKETPLACE:

classifieds.vancourier.com REMEMBRANCES

COMMUNITY

OBITUARIES

COMING EVENTS

GUN SHOW CROWE, John William April 17, 1929 - August 4, 2019 Born in Tonbridge, Kent, England, John passed away peacefully in Ladner early last month after a courageous battle with bone cancer. I have special memories of my darling husband who emigrated to Vancouver in 1957. What a special man he was, gentle, kind and true loving friend to many, especially children; he was a great support to refugees from all corners of the world, known as “Uncle John Santa Claus”.

He was happily married to Gwendolen for 65 years, and they travelled together to many parts of the globe by sea and air. He was very talented at woodwork (built a log cabin at Chilliwack Lake), journeyman sheet metal worker, Local 280. He served in the R.A.F., before coming to Canada and was a longtime member of both St. James United Church, Vancouver, and later Ladner United.

John was a youth counsellor, singer, actor, chef, artist, musician, boxer, nature lover; a co-founder of United Players Theatre Company, and Metro Theatre, he will be deeply missed by close friends and also family in England.

Celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, September 21st at 1:00pm at Ladner United Church 4960 48 Ave, Delta, BC. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to his favourite charity; Operation Eyesight Universal, 200 - 4 Parkdale Crescent NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 9Z9. Special thanks for John’s care to; Dr. Jason Kason, Dr. Kenneth Poon, Dr. Richard James, Dr. Maziar Badii, Richmond Hospital Cancer Clinic staff, Delta Hospital and Irene Thomas Hospice.

Place ads online @

@

classifieds.vancourier.com COMMUNITY LOST

LOST Ladies Black GEOX Jacket Size S Seven pockets, snaps with a two−way zipper, and a hidden hood. Lost approximately one week ago, possibly in Kitsalano.

604−340−3422

Evergreen Hall 9291 Corbould St Sun, September 22nd 8:30am - 1pm Admission $5 HACS Members free

We support Canadian Cancer “Kids Camp” & CKNW Kid’s Fund Next Show Oct 20, 2019

website: www.hacsbc.ca

Join us to get the answers at our free public lecture series in Vancouver in September.

Simply complete the registration form on any page of sleepexpo.org.

Sleep Expo 2019 will provide patients unmatched opportunities to learn and experience scientific ideas and new research in sleep medicine with the aim of advancing sleep health worldwide.

Sleep Expo 2019’s program will be led by world− renowned, established sleep medicine professionals, open to the public and free to attend. www.sleepexpo.org

LEGAL

LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES Southeast Vancouver Senior’s Arts and Cultural Centre Society, notice of General Meeting, Friday, October 4, 2019 at noon in second floor meeting room at Champlain Heights Community Centre, 3350 Maquinna Drive, Vancouver.

Refreshments served.

GARAGE SALES

175 tables of Bargains on Deluxe 20th Century Junque!

Sunday • SEPT 22 • 10am - 3pm Croatian Cultural Centre 3250 Commercial Drive, Van. Info: 604 980-3159 • Adm: $5.00

Saturday 10-3 5788 Vine Street, buzz Smith on theboard, bottom left corner. Furniture, household, china, kitchen, miscellaneous.

MARKETPLACE

FOR SALE - MISC STEEL BUILDING CLEARANCE...”SUMMER OVERSTOCK SALE BLAZING HOT DEALS!” 20X21 $5,828. 25X25 $6,380. 28X29 $7,732.

32X33 $9,994. 35X33 $12,120. One End Wall Included. Pioneer Steel 1-855-212-7036 www.pioneersteel.ca

WANTED Old Books Wanted. also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. no text books or encyclopedias. I pay cash.

604-737-0530

EMPLOYMENT

WITNESS NEEDED MVA Saturday, September 7, 2019, at 8:30 PM Abbott and W. Hastings.

Burgundy sedan hit a cyclist.

778−512−9944

COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKER

SPROTTSHAW.COM

REAL ESTATE

HOUSES FOR SALE

TRADES HELP

We have an opportunity for you to join our Team.

Located in Tilbury Industrial Park, we required a

FULLY QUALIFIED • CNC MACHINIST. F/T • Day • Afternoon and • Weekend shifts available.

Very competitive wages and benefits.

Email/Contact: wayne@deltadynamics.com Learn more about us • www.deltadynamics.com

Fabulous Dunbar Styled Home & Cottage on the Sunshine Coast $1,590,000 tudorhomegibsons.com John McKenzie *Prec Royal LePage Sussex 604.740.1304 johnmckenzie99@gmail.com

EDUCATION

LOOKING FOR A NEW CAREER IN EDUCATION?

Do you enjoy supporting children and youth with special needs? Are you compassionate?

Are you a life-long learner? Are you a team player? Are you passionate about inclusive learning communities?

Richmond Continuing Education will be offering a part-time program for REAP (Richmond Education Assistant Program) from February 2020 to February 2021.You will learn how to work with Kindergarten to Grade 12 students with physical, behavioral, sensory and learning needs in schools.

For more information visit, www.RichmondCE.ca. or phone 604.668.6123.

RANCH FOR SALE $2,700,000 CAD. 1262 Acres - bordered by three rivers and by government land. Wonderful seclusion 30 minutes from McBride, British Columbia.

Wild game abounds.

Stunning mountain views.

Excellent access, electricity, cell phone. 3 homes. Large fields, good barns. Owners retired. Ph: 1-250-569-7747 dukepeterson@telus.net.

REAL ESTATE WANTED WANTED: Fixer-Upper houses and properties incl. condos/ townhouses in any condition (private investor) Please call Ali @ 604-833-2103

RENTALS

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT BBY, near Metrotown; 1 BR, $1350, u/g prk, storage, hot water, lam floors. Near amens.

Oct 1 & now. Cat OK. Text: 604.818.1129

MUSCI / THEATRE / DANCE

Maureen Clare EXPERIENCED PIANO TEACHER N

Accepting students now.

SUITES FOR RENT

Adults, children & children with special needs.

Dunbar area. References available.

2 rooms in the house, own bathroom, $400 per mth.

Only for woman 50 -65 yrs old. The owner lives downstairs. Only needs help in emergencies. Call Lucia - 604-874-8415

Maureen Clare 604-228-8388

INFORMATION WANTED

AUCTIONS

Please recycle this newspaper.

West 24th Kits. Heritage 2 BD furnished, $2,800 incl. off street pkg. Cable, light, heat.

604.739.0844.

BUSINESS SERVICES

ANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES & JEWELLERY AUCTION PLUS CONTENTS OF ASIAN STORE STAMPS, COINS, VINTAGE & ANTIQUE FURNITURE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH @ 11:00 AM

Viewing Times: Tues. Sept. 24th: 9:00 am ’Til 7:00 pm & Wed. Sept. 25th: 9:00 am ’Til 10:30 am

LOVE’S AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS LTD. 2720 #5 Road, Richmond, B.C. 604-244-9350

For More Details:

Email: classifieds@van.net

MOVING SALE:

Patient Sleep Expo Why can’t I sleep? Do women need more sleep than men? Do I have sleep apnea? How can I sleep better?

Phone Hours: Mon to Fri 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Office Hours: 9 am to 5 pm

www.lovesauctions.com

HEALTH & BEAUTY GET UP TO $50,000 from the Government of Canada.

Do you or someone you know Have any of these Conditions? ADHD, Anxiety, Arthritis, Asthma, Cancer, COPD, Depression, Diabetes, Difficulty Walking, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowels, Overweight, Trouble Dressing...and Hundreds more. ALL ages & Medical Conditions Qualify. Have a child under 18 instantly receive more money. CALL BRITISH COLUMBIA BENEFITS 1-(800)-211-3550 OR Send a Text Message with Your Name and Mailing Address to (604) 739-5600 For Your FREE benefits package.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

ATTENTION

INVENTORS! Ideas wanted!

Call Davison today!

1.800.218.2909 or visit us at inventing.davison.com/BC Free inventor’s guide!

classifieds.vancourier.com • classifieds.vancourier.com

PERSONALS

HIP/KNEE REPLACEMENT? Other medical conditions causing TROUBLE WALKING or DRESSING? The Disability Tax Credit allows for $2,000 yearly tax credit and $20,000 lump sum refund. Expert Help 1-844-453-5372.

GENTLEMEN! Attractive, discreet European lady offers companionship. 604-451-0175

**SWEDISH MASSAGE** 604-739-3998 Broadway & Oak St.

MORTGAGES Call for All Your Mortgage Needs.

New Purchase, Refinance & Special Programmes for Self Employed.(some conditions apply,OAC).

Shashi Chander Mortgage Specialist 778-987-6152 or email shashi.chander@verico.ca Verico Paragon Mortgage Inc.

.. - .

Create your own ads at classifieds.comoxvalleyecho.com classifieds.delta-optimist.com classifieds.vancourier.com

C re a t

imple

VANCOURIER.COM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

A31

HOME SERVICES LAWN & GARDEN

CONCRETE

FLOORING

CONCRETE SPECIALIST Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, Remove & Replacing Reasonable Rates.

35 yrs experience For free est.

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Repairs & Staining InstalIation Free Estimates Century Hardwood Floors 604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

Call Mario 604-253-0049 604-764-2726

DRAINAGE

Drainage & Excavation SERVICES • We make Basements Dry • 604-341-4446 DRAIN Tiles, Sewer, Water,

Video Inspection, Jack Hammering, Hand Excavating, Concrete Cutting, Rootering, WET BSMT MADE DRY

604.782.4322

ELECTRICAL All Electrical, Low Cost.

Licensed. Res/Com. Small job expert. Renos, Panel changes.

(604)374-0062 Simply Electric

30 Years Experience

Lawn & Garden Maintenance, Tree Topping, Power Raking, Aeration, New Top Soil, New Seed, Trimming, Planting & Clean Up. Power Washing, Gutters, Roof Cleaning, Side Walk, Driveway, House Windows, Patio, Sundeck.

From $20 New Fencing, Renew Painting, & Driveway Repair.

Ken’s Power Washing Plus FALL SPECIALS Pressure washing Gutter & window cleaning ! Work Safe, Free est. ! !

Call Ken 604-716-7468

OIL TANK REMOVAL

..

Clearwest services Professional Window Cleaning Gutter Cleaning and Repair Roof Cleaning and Powerwashing

Free Est. Call 604.710.3581

HANDYPERSON

604-240-2881

Lawn & Garden Care

• Power Rake, Plant, Prune • Tree Topping, Trimming •Power Wash •CLEAN-UP • FENCING & PAVERS & MORE! • Senior Disc.

All Work Guar. Free Est. John 604-616-2934

YOUR ELECTRICIAN Lic#89402. Insured. Guar’d.

Fast same day service.

We love BIG & small jobs!

604-568-1899 goldenleafelectrical.com A LIC’D. Electrician #30582 Rewiring & reno, appliance/ plumbing, rotor rooter 778998-9026, 604-255-9026

#1 A-CERTIFIED Licensed

Electrician, Res/Comm New or old wiring. Reasonable rates.

Lic #22774 604-879-9394

EXCAVATING

#1 Backhoes & Excavators Trenchless Waterlines Bobcats & Dump Truck & All Material Deliveries Drainage; Video Inspection, Landscaping, Stump/Rock/Cement/Oil Tank & Demos, Paving, Pool/Dirt Removal, Paver Stones, Jackhammer, Water/Sewer, Line/Sumps, Slinger Avail, Concrete Cutting, Hand Excavating.

Basements Made Dry Claudio’s Backhoe Service

AAA All types repairs, renos, kitchens, baths, tiling, painting, plumbing, electrical and more.

David 604-862-7537

HANDYMAN • RENOVATIONS •Kitchen •Bath • Plumbing •Countertop •Floors •Paint & more. Call MIC for quote:

604-725-3127

25+ yrs exp. WCB. Insured

REPAIRS ~ TO ~

EVERYTHING - ALL TRADES FRIENDLY SERVICE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OVER 34 YEARS IN VANCOUVER

GREG

604-644-4554

.

604-341-4446

Excavation, Concrete, Drainage & Retaining Walls Sidewalk, Brick Pavers, Disposal, Trenching, Driveways, Blacktop, Landscape and Sod

HOME REPAIRS RENOVATIONS INSTALLATIONS

Donny 604-600-6049

Ny Ton Gardening

Yard Clean-up, Trimming Shrubs, Hedge & Pruning.

• LAWN MOWING.

604-782-5288

MASONRY

WESTMOR PLUMBING

Ltd Residential & Commercial Professional Service 7 DAYS/WK

*&&) .+#!-..!-/-+ ,($$) .+#!-"+!'%"-

604-551-8531 Honest Service Lic - Ins - Bonded

RENOS & HOME IMPROVEMENT

PAINTING/ WALLPAPER

MASONRY AND REPAIRS •Stone Walls •Bricks •Chimneys & Fireplaces •Pavers •Asphalt •& More •ALL CONCRETE WORK •20+ years experience.

George • 778-998-3689

MOVING

Interior / Exterior Specialist Many Years Experience Fully Insured Top Quality, Quick Work Free estimate

Specializing in Bathrooms, Ensuites and much more Work within your budget

778-387-3626

ARMONIA PAINTING Master in Quality & Service Insured WCB, Free Est. 604-247-8888

hummingbirdrenovations.com

FRASERVIEW ROOFING & RENO

PAINTING/ WALLPAPER

Book Now! 15 yrs Exp. Renovation Specialist roofing, decks, kitchens, bathrooms. BBB & Insured

PAINTSPECIAL.COM

3 rooms for $330, 2 coats any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed.

Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services.

604-878-5232

www.HandymanConnection.com

604-821-8088

604-878-5232

BOWEN ALUMINUM

patiocoversunroomvancouver.com

www.HandymanConnection.com

Backhoe/Bobcat/Dumptruck Services

Call 604.833.2103 Today!

FENCING West Coast Cedar Installations New, Repaired, Rebuilt since 1991. Fences & Decks.

604-788-6458 cedarinstall@hotmail.com

FLOORING INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar.604-518-7508

Since 1989

www.mrbuild.com

84957 > 84;2687 -1%- 7+=!'+/"33& 7@.# :=/.

LANDSCAPING SHAW LANDSCAPING LTD

Complete Landscaping • Lawn Cutting • Gardening • Prune/Trim • Full Maint.

778-688-1012

Call Jag at:

.

778-892-1530

Call: Junkyard Angel at 778-859-2100 or visit: www.junkyardangel.ca

SUMMER SPECIALS Residential / Commercial • Respectful • Responsible • Reliable • Affordable Rates All Rubbish & Junk Removal & Recycling needs.

Johnson • 778-999-2803 reddyrubbishremoval.com

Roy • 604-839-7881

RUBBISH REMOVAL

Reasonable rates Free estimates.

Pat 604-224-2112 anytime

AUTOMOTIVE

Bros. Roofing Ltd. Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

Liability Insurance, WCB, BBB, Free Estimates

604-946-4333 BC ROOFING LTD Roofing −Re−Roofing BCROOFER.CA Mike: 604−240−1850

MCR Mastercraft Roofing Right the 1st time! Repairs, reroofing, garage, decks.

Hart 604-322-5517

To advertise call

604-630-3300

TRUCKS & VANS 1995 Ford, 4x4 Longbox,

strong motor, new parts. $550.

Canopy Box, $400, excellent condition. • 604-839-7881

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

THE SCRAPPER SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC 2H

E

classifieds. vancourier.com

Find the professionals you need to create the perfect renovation.

604-626-6891

ReliableMoving.ca

BC AWNING & RAILING

EAST WEST MOVERS 24/7. Reasonable. Reliable.

James • 604-786-7977

A-1 Contracting & Roofing New & Re-Roofing • All Types All Maintenance & Repairs GUTTER CLEANING Gutter Guard Installations -never clean gutters again!

WCB. 25% Discount.

• Emergency Repairs •

Have too much stuff or need soil delivery?

HOME SERVICES

Professional Moving Service Home/Office/Piano Moves Delivery & Junk Removal.

$?)(0<%(*),<

All Your Rubbish Needs Reasonable Rates 778-991-JUNK(5865)

40+ yrs exp • Free Est’s

QUAYSIDE PAINTING Painting. Power Washing.

Sand Blasting.

A+ rating for over 20 years.

WCB insured with 5 million liability.

Committed to providing you with a superior paint job that you can be proud to show off.

Contact Rick: 604−727−0043

Free Estimate

249 for a week + dump fees

$

D & M Renovations.

Flooring, tiling, finishing.

Fully Insured. Top quality, quick work, 604-724-3832

ALL Roofing & Repairs.

Insured • WCB

7291234

.

• FULL SERVICE JUNK REMOVAL & Clean-Up at Affordable Rates • Pianos & Hot Tubs No Problem • Booked Appointments • Same-Day Service • Residential & Commercial 20 YARD BIN RENTALS

604.220.JUNK (5865)

MCNABB ROOFING

Done Quick. Licensed.

Done Right. Bonded.

Guaranteed. Insured.

Patio Covers, Sunrooms, Vinyl, Railings

BRADS JUNK REMOVAL.com

BBB & Insured

CARPENTRY • ELECTRICAL • PLUMBING PAINTING • FLOORING • TO-DO LIST

PATIOS

RUBBISH REMOVAL

~No Job too Small~ Gary, 604-897-3614

Call 604-

Karlo K. Contracting Ltd Residential & Commercial All Reno’s • 30+ years.

Custom & New Work.

Sundecks, Stairs + More.

Karlo • 778-885-5733

GL Roofing & Repairs. New Roof, Clean Gutters $80. info@ glroofing.ca • 604-240-5362

Book Now! 15 yrs Exp. Re-roof & Repair Specialist

HOME REPAIRS RENOVATIONS INSTALLATIONS

FAIRWAY PAINTING Fully Insured

Canam Roofing 778-881-1417 Res. Roofing, New, Re-roofing & Repairs. Peace of mind warranty. www.canamroofing.ca

INT & EXT • 778-836-0436

FRASERVIEW ROOFING Ltd.

~No Job too Small~ Gary, 604-897-3614

778-895-3503

Rubbish Removal $30/hr per Person.24/7 • 604-999-6020

ALL RENOVATIONS Kitchen & Bathrooms Tile & Flooring, Drywall, Paint.

Fence & Decks & MORE!

HUMMINGBIRD RENOVATIONS

.

ABE MOVING & Delivery &

778-892-1530

www.constructbc.com

ROOFING

D&M PAINTING

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR SPECIALS 10% OFF

604-732-8453

mrbuild@mrbuild.com

ALL RENOVATIONS: •Kitchen •Baths •Additions •Patio •Stairs •Deck •Fences •Painting •Drywall & MORE

Call: 778.522.0007

'!, ',%% (+*$"&*%+ )&##

 WINDOWS  DECKS  FENCES  ROOFING  GUTTERS

Need anything done or repaired?

Licensed plumber, fire sprinklers, gas-fitter.

Camera drain cleaning inspection & Back flow testing.

: '0, %#). &6+<3#, : $<9. 8<+;,067 1052 805- !-,#17 : *,1#-7 4#09 " &% $#!'(#'" 96#7<)#!,6 9#567 : (/86,,6)5 964696)867

20 yrs. exp. • Free Est.

CARPENTRY • ELECTRICAL • PLUMBING PAINTING • FLOORING • TO-DO LIST

Done Quick. Licensed.

Done Right. Bonded.

Guaranteed. Insured.

,%.'& '"()+#')$(* %)!-

604-724-3832

Summer Special & Clean-up Chafer Beetle Repair Lawn Installs & Repair Artificial Grass Installation LAWN CUTS • Tree Prune & Hedge Trim • Power Wash & Gutters • Concrete & Stucco Repairs • Driveways •Paths •Patios’ • DECKS & FENCING • Exterior Painting + MORE

 RENOS  REPAIRS  PAINTING  TILING  DOORS

604-437-7272

&"+'/.0 %"*( &/#" */.$" ,-!)

bf#37309 Commercial &

778-322-0934

• Hot Water Tanks • Plumbing • Heating • Furnaces • Boilers • Drainage • Res. & Comm.

• 24/7 Service

Michael: 604.446.4293

LIC. ELECTRICIAN residential reno’s & small jobs.

www.mrbuild.com

Free Estimates • All Work Guaranteed • Fully Insured Lic’d WCB

23 years Experience.

Fully Ins’d. Lic’d & WCB • SUMMER Clean-up • Lawn Maintenance • New Sod & Seeding • Tree Topping & Trimming • Power Wash • Gutters • Patio’s • Decks • Fences • Concrete • Retaining Walls • Driveways & Sidewalks • STUCCO & Repair & Much MORE All work guaranteed Free Estimates

ROOFING

Since 1989

VANCOUVER GARDEN SERVICE

GUTTERS Gutter Cleaning, Power washing, Window Cleaning, Roof Cleaning Call Simon for prompt & professional service 30 yrs exp. 604-230-0627

RENOS & HOME IMPROVEMENT

PLUMBING

•Aluminum/Glass Patio Cover •Sunrooms & Windows •Aluminum Railings Vinyl Deck Free Est • 604-521-2688 PatioCoverVancouver.com

Place ads online @

@

classifieds.vancourier.com

To advertise call 604-630-3300

A32

THE VAN COU VER CO URIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

VAN CO UR I E R. CO M

Discover all that retirement living can offer during our

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1 - 4 PM

We live our best lives hand in hand.

Let us lend you ours.

CHARTWELL.COM • 1-844-727-8679

Let’s Live, Together.