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MIDWEEK EDITION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
Vol. 104 No. 49 • Established 1908
NEWS: Harold’s last hurrah SPORTS: Our Prospects 31
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Ex-NPAers starttheir ownparty ‘TEAM’ TO RUN CANDIDATES IN 2014 CIVIC ELECTION MIKE HOWELL Staff writer
T photo Dan Toulgoet
TOUCH WOOD: That’s exactly what VanDusen Botanical Garden wants visitors to do at the Touch Wood Sculpture exhibit
that celebrates the “culture of wood.” It begins June 20 and runs through Sept. 20. See story on page 12. Pictured here is Nine Sentinels by Brent Comber. Scan this page with the Layar app for more exhibit information.
New streetlights too bright,saysWest Ender ANDREW FLEMING Staff writer
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ome West End residents don’t think it was a bright idea to install high-intensity streetlights along Comox Street. Tara Hansen lives near the intersection of Bute and Comox and says the new LED streetlights,
which were installed in early May as part of the first section of the $5.4-million Comox-Helmcken greenway project, are keeping her and her neighbours up at night. “People in my building are really pissed off because it is right on the corner and they’ve added lights as well as have them be excessively bright,” Hansen told the Courier. See LED on page 4
he political landscape leading up the 2014 civic election is shifting as a new party that includes community activists, former politicians and a retired judge is gearing up to take a run at city hall. The Electors’ Action Movement of the Lower Mainland Association, or TEAM, says it has almost 100 members and plans to run a mayoral candidate in the 2014 race as it battles the ruling Vision Vancouver, the NPA and COPE. “We’ve been forming since last November and meeting every couple of weeks,” said Bill McCreery, an organizer who ran unsuccessfully for a council seat with the NPA in the 2011 election. The party’s membership includes former NPA councillor Jonathan Baker, retired University of B.C. political science professor Paul Tennant and Ian Pitfield, a recently retired B.C. Supreme Court judge whose 2011 decision allowed the Insite supervised injection site to remain open indefinitely. Other members include Doreen Braverman, founder of the Flag Shop, Dunbar community activist Mike Andruff, film producer and one-time NPA candidate Colleen Hardwick and Dave Pasin, also a former NPA candidate. The TEAM name may be familiar to some, as it was the name the late mayor Art Phillips adopted in the 1970s to form an alternative to the NPA and COPE. See NEW on page 4
Weekend Carnival!
Trimble Park, 8th + Discovery
Pancake Breakfast!
Park, P a
val! June 21, 2 2, 23 r ade, C arni
8 am - Saturday, June 22 Safeway at 4500 W. 10th Ave
Parade!
10 am - Saturday, June 22