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BEAT GOES ON: Chief Bill Williams (centre) and the Eagle Song Dancers from Squamish Nation performed last Friday on National Aboriginal Day at Klahowya Village,
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Stanley Park. See story on page 6. To view photo gallery, scan page with your smartphone or tablet using the Layar app.
Cityhallkills‘thinstreet’proposalforMarpole NAOIBH O’CONNOR
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he city has abandoned a proposal to pilot a “thin street” in Marpole in the face of neighbourhood opposition. Residents learned about the prospect of a “thin street” being introduced on a stretch of Ash Street between 59th and 64th about two weeks ago after the city sent a letter to 20 affected homeowners. The Ash Street proposal was included in the recently released draft Marpole Community Plan.
Creating a thin street involves dividing a street in half and creating new building lots on one side and a narrower “thin street” on the other. The building lots could be used for affordable housing or park use, according to the city. The thin streets concept was one of the ideas submitted to the re-THINK HOUSING ideas competition in 2012, which was held as part of the mayor’s task force on affordable housing. Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said in October 2012 that thin streets wouldn’t go in without “community buyin.” Staff was directed, however, to explore
the possibility of thin streets in neighbourhoods whose community plans were being updated, such as Marpole, and to find out if there was interest and acceptance. Community opposition in Marpole was swift — residents organized a meeting last Friday that attracted about 300 people, according to Nizar Assanie, one of the Ash Street residents who received a letter from the city about the thin street proposal. “All the neighbours were taken aback,” he told the Courier Monday afternoon, adding the vast majority of residents he’d
spoken with weren’t even aware the Marpole Community Plan was being updated. Three hundred and twenty four residents signed a petition opposing thin streets in Marpole. Matt Shillito, assistant director of community planning, told the Courier the thin street idea had been raised in general during previous Marpole housing workshops, but a specific location hadn’t been identified until recently. Staff had to complete technical work before determining where it was feasible. See RESIDENTS on page 4
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Residentswantconsultationextended “It’s clear from the reaction that it’s not something that Marpole residents want to see us pursue, so we’re just in the process now of notifying people that we aren’t pursing the idea in the plan,” Shillito said Monday afternoon. Tuesday morning, Assanie said residents were surprised how quickly the city dropped the proposal, but he wonders if the idea will be pitched elsewhere. “Citizens need to pay very close attention to what’s happening in this city so they don’t get surprised by ideas like [this],” he said. Residents remain concerned about the overall draft community plan — 190 signed a letter addressed to Mayor Robertson asking for further consultation due to neighbourhood worries about rezoning and densification. “This plan has been put together with almost no consultation and almost nobody in our neighbourhood is aware of this plan. I request that the city stop any planning on the Marpole Community Plan until the residents of our neighbourhood of approximately 24,000 are given a real opportunity to review and consult on the plan,” the letter states. City staff started working on the plan more than a year ago. It deals with subjects including transportation, land use and development, parks and open space, heritage and culture, sustainability and public amenities and facilities, and will guide change in Marpole over the next 30 years. Consultation has included workshops and open houses. Staff also collected feedback online. “We’ve had an awful lot of different kinds of events. There was widespread aware-
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The city will no longer pursue a “thin street” pilot in Marpole due to neighbourhood opposition from residents, including Nizar Assanie (front). ness of the plan in Marpole,” Shillito said. It’s when you get to the draft plan stage that people perhaps pay more attention than they have up until this point.”
An open house on the draft plan is scheduled for June 26 between 5 and 8:30 p.m. at Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre. Staff will then analyze feedback and hope
to bring the plan to council for consideration in the fall. noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh
Councillor calls for big money out of city politics MIKE HOWELL Staff writer
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city councillor whose party received millions of dollars of campaign contributions since its creation almost 10 years ago wants to get the big money out of civic politics. But to do that, Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer said the provincial government has to allow city council to make its own rules on election campaign finance. “Elections are not as accessible as they need to be for people who want to run and get ideas out,” said Reimer, who is one of 27 elected officials in the city who belong to parties that rely heavily on donations from big business and unions to run election campaigns. Vancouver hasn’t had an independent city councillor since Carole Taylor won a seat in 1986. Since then, city politics in Vancouver has been dominated by wellfunded political parties. Reimer will introduce a motion this week at council to call for the Union of B.C. Mu-
nicipalities (UBCM) to support Vancouver’s request to change election finance rules. The city needs that support to convince the provincialgovernmenttoallowforamendments to the city’s Charter and draft new rules that could include fundraising and spending limits and a ban on corporate and union donations. Vision, the NPA and COPE, which spent more than $5 million combined in the 2011 campaign, are all previously on record supporting a tri-party agreement to call for electoral finance reforms. That agreement will likely mean Reimer’s motion will be unanimously accepted and see it go before the UBCM at its annual meeting in September. “We’re not asking [other municipalities] to make any changes to their election rules, we’re just saying, here in Vancouver, we obviously have a very significant and serious problem that’s not getting better and we need rules to be able to deal with it,” she said. If Vancouver gets support from other municipalities, that would give the provincial government at least one year to mull over
the resolution before the fall 2014 election. Coralee Oakes is the recently appointed provincial minister responsible for implementing electoral reform. Oakes, who is the minister of community, sport and cultural development, was unavailable for comment Monday. But Oakes’ ministry said in a statement the provincial government “is committed to implementing local government election changes in time for the November 2014 local government elections.” The statement didn’t specify what types of changes, although it pointed to recommendations made in the 2010 Local Government Elections Task Force. The recommendations, however, were panned by city council when they were released because none put limits on contributions or a ban union and corporate donations. In the 2011 election, Vision spent $2.2 million, the NPA shelled out $2.5 million and COPE, which ran a coordinated campaign with Vision, spent $360,969, according to documents filed at city hall. The totals don’t include money directed
at individual campaigns or money raised by organizations such as the Vancouver Elementary Teachers’ Association, which spent $100,869 to support COPE and Vision. Historically, the majority of money given to Vision and the NPA has come from big business, including developers who regularly go before city council with development proposals. Although unions are COPE’s biggest contributors, they also contribute big dollars to Vision. Since the 2011 election, all three mainstream parties have held fundraisers to collect more money to fund their 2014 campaigns. Vision is having another one Thursday. Under current rules, the parties don’t have to disclose how much they’ve raised or where the money came from until four months after the next election. Former provincial ministers Bill Bennett and Ida Chong told the Courier in previous interviews the Liberals planned to bring in sweeping reforms for civic elections. But neither did. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013 THE VANCOUVER COURIER
Taking ticket totals to task 12TH & CAMBIE with Mike Howell
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es, this is another entry about cycling. I know, I know — give us some other news, you say. But when I discover Spencer Chandra Herbert, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-West End, decides to take on Police Chief Jim Chu over policing priorities, it’s worth a few sentences, don’t you think? I think so. So here we go… On my desk is a letter from Herbert addressed to Chu. Here’s the first paragraph: “Last year, I wrote to you urging increased enforcement of the law prohibiting cyclists using sidewalks as a way to increase safety for pedestrians in the West End. Vancouver Police Department statistics from 2012 show 12 citations for this offence in District One. Those same stats show 1,452 similar offences in District Two. Can you explain the huge discrepancy?” Wow, that is a huge discrepancy. But when I spoke to the VPD, they couldn’t explain the huge discrepancy. That’s because there isn’t one. My reading of the stats posted on the VPD’s website titled “bike ticketing stats for 2012” show there were 23 tickets issued in District One (the West End) to cyclists for riding on the sidewalk. Another 76 were issued in District Two (the Downtown Eastside) — not 1,452, as Herbert suggested in his letter to the chief. So to understand where that 1,452 number came from, I called Herbert on Friday but he was in an NDP caucus meeting. His assistant told me he’d get a question to him. You should know Herbert contacted me via email earlier in the week about the stories I wrote about tickets issued to cyclists for failing to wear a helmet. He was interested in stats for riding on a
sidewalk. I told Herbert stats related to bike infractions were posted on the VPD’s website and I sent him the link. Monday morning came and still no response from Herbert. So I called up his assistant again, who acknowledged they made a mistake and were correcting the letter. Turns out the 1,452 number came from a set of traffic and street bylaw stats posted on the VPD’s website, which cover all types of infractions, including fighting in public. Herbert and his office corrected the mistake and planned Monday to send another version of the letter to Chu. Here’s the sentence in question, as it now reads: “Vancouver Police Department statistics for bikes on sidewalks from 2012 indicate one third the citations in District One as compared to District Two. Can you explain this discrepancy?” This time, the VPD can offer some explanation. Sgt. Randy Fincham, a VPD media relations officer, said there are more police working in District Two, fewer designated bike paths and public disorder is greater along the Hastings corridor than in the West End. “Sowithmorepolicedownthere,theywillsee more infractions and they will issue more bylaw tickets at the end of the day,” Fincham said. Police also see more tourists in the West End and have talked with them and bike rental companies to ensure customers know the rules of the road. So, he said, it’s up to the officer witnessing someone riding on a sidewalk whether a ticket is warranted or whether educating the cyclist about the rules is a more useful approach. “Not all encounters between a person who is riding a bicycle on a sidewalk or not wearing a helmet or doing another bike-related infraction ends up in a ticket,” he said. “More often than not, it would be a warning and educating them about not riding on a sidewalk.” As for Herbert’s initial misinterpretation of the stats, well we all know what happened May 14 when the NDP got the numbers wrong. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings
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VILLAGE PEOPLE I had an opportunity to visit Klahowya Village in Stanley Park last Friday for National Aboriginal Day celebrations and the season launch of the attraction, which remains open now through Sept. 2. A highlight of the celebration was the singing, drumming and dancing performed by the Eagle Song Dancers, all members of Squamish Nation. I rode the Spirit Catcher Train for the first time and was taken by its environmental message. After disembarking from the train, I overheard a British tourist declare the ride “brilliant.” The word Klahowya means “welcome,” and each summer First Nations people from across B.C. come together to build the village in partnership with the Aboriginal Tourism Association of B.C. to welcome visitors from around the world and share their experiences, traditions and culture. General admission to Klahowya Village is free and includes the Artisan Marketplace, storytelling and weekend performances. The Spirit Catcher miniature train ride is $5 per person, while toddlers under the age of two ride for free. For more information, visit aboriginalbc.com.
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This year’s Spirit Catcher Train ride at Klahowya Village in Stanley Park has an environmental message.
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At Monday night’s park board meeting, Vision Vancouver commissioner Constance Barnes brought forward a motion asking staff to work with the Ministry of Transportation and the city’s engineering services to find ways to make the Stanley Park Causeway safer for cyclists and pedestrians. Barnes’ brought the motion forward as the result of the tragic death of a 61-yearold North Vancouver woman who died in May. She veered off the sidewalk on the
causeway into the path of a bus after being bumped by a pedestrian. Since then Barnes has been determined to see barriers installed between the pedestrian/bike sidewalks and the busy commuter road through Stanley Park. In Barnes’ motion, she notes the province appears to have neglected the causeway, which falls under the ministry’s care. Barnes wants temporary barriers installed as soon as possible while a permanent solution is being decided. Her motion was passed four
Fraser River historian Terry Slack called last week to say news about the May collapse of the Skagit River Bridge in Washington State, which reopened just days ago, reminded him of a similar accident on the north arm of the Fraser River, June 23, 1966. Slack had just started his shift as a crewman on a river patrol boat that day when he noted how high the river was, making it difficult for even smaller boats to navigate their way under the Fraser Street Bridge, the only link at the time between Richmond and Vancouver. Not long after an empty tug chip barge hit the bridge, knocking out a complete span. Slack says a high-level code emergency call for assistance went out over the emergency channel of the marine radio in their River Harbour Police boat. “As we approached the bridge, which was now just an opening in the river,” Slack wrote in an email, “I could see rafts of debris and an empty chip barge all drifting downstream.” Slack says quick work by nearby tugs and a fishing boat resulted in the rescue of seven people. Six were youths riding bikes over the bridge on their way to pick strawberries in Richmond and had stopped to watch the tug go by. Slack adds eight Vancouver Fire Department divers went into the churning river to search for possible victims in cars and only one empty truck was found. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10
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‘Amazing educator’ to retire TEACHER DEVELOPED PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS WITH BRAIN INJURIES CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer
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ileen Fogarty-Ellis is retiring from the Vancouver School Board after 42 years as a teacher, the last 24 of those spent at Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children. Fogarty-Ellis is a provincial resource teacher in acute rehabilitation at Sunny Hill. She works largely one-on-one with students. She develops new education programs for children and teenagers who’ve suffered brain injuries, and with children who need to get back up to speed with their studies. They might need help after a stroke, or a brain tumour, or hip surgery related to cerebral palsy. Val Bancroft, a student support worker who has toiled alongside Fogarty-Ellis for six years, calls her colleague an “amazing educator.” “She has a high school teaching background but here we work with the kids from five-years-old to 19,” Bancroft said, adding “She’s not only been a teacher to the kids, but she’s been an amazing teacher to me.” Fogarty-Ellis started her career teaching high school theatre and English. When she returned
to work after having three daughters, she was called in to substitute at Sunny Hill, located at Slocan and 20th Avenue. Not long after, the rehabilitation hospital for children called her back, despite her lack of a background in special education. She was a natural fit. Fogarty-Ellis began upgrading and 24 years later, she’s attended conferences about brain injuries in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Melbourne, Australia, where she was a presenter. Fogarty-Ellis works with occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech therapists and most intensely with neuropsychologists to help children with skills such as reading and math. She works with each student who has a brain injury for six weeks to six months and gets their home school ready to receive them. The humanities teacher turned near health worker says curiosity kept her at Sunny Hill for so long. “The learning curve with brain injury, it’s fascinating,” Fogarty-Ellis said. “And I work with fascinating people. I work with really, really smart people. People who I have learned so much from.” Fogarty-Ellis wants to travel and will continue to help her husband with his book business and to volunteer with Sunny Hill’s project setting up a mini Sunny Hill in India. But Jericho Beach resident says it’s time to retire. “As a generation it’s our responsibility to turn over our good jobs to the next generation,” she said. “We have a lot of energy. We’re the boomers, you know, we’re going to live forever, right, and we can work forever, but it’s not fair.” crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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result in a $250 fine. Yet out of the 10.5 million boaters across the country, only 3.5 million hold a licence. Taylor said that there are multiple reasons for such a staggering discrepancy. “They might be occasional boaters or be boating on lakes and waterways that aren’t enforced,” Taylor said. “They might have been boating for decades and are confident, but even for seasoned boaters it’s still a good idea. You might learn something new or notice a bad habit that you’re picked up.” According to Transport Canada, national boating fatalities have drastically fallen since 1991, from 220 annually to just 108 in 2006. However, recreational boating is now the source of 88 per cent of boating deaths, whereas it was the source of only 83 per cent of boating deaths in 1991. Taylor believes that this can be attributed to a lack of education for some pleasure craft operators, as commercial and rescue boat operators are more likely to have received proper training prior to going out on the water, and that a further decline in recreational boating fatalities has taken place since Pleasure Craft Operator Cards became mandatory in 2009. “Boating is a safe activity as long as you know what you’re doing,” Taylor said. Pleasure Craft Operator Cards require an exam that covers navigation, boating laws, marker buoys and other basic subjects. Exams can be taken online at boatsmartexam.com or in person at Canadian Tire, Granville Island Boat Rentals, Vancouver Rowing Centre or Westcan Inflatables. Licences are valid for life. Drew_McLachlan@hotmail.com twitter.com/LachedAndLoaded
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agreed that a 10-year agreement will solve any ongoing issues. The BCTF put out a press release following the morning meeting with Fassbender in which Lambert said: “We don’t need a new bargaining structure since all the relevant parties, including government, are now at the table. What we really need is for government to come to the table with the resources and political will to reach a negotiated agreement, one that will guarantee support for all students when they need it.” Fassbender said that he had asked the three parties to conclude any un-
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substantiated issues so that they can “discuss what a new road map is and what the new relationships will look like” beginning next week. Fassbender said that to him, stability means that “someone in Grade 2 today would have the reassurance that they can graduate without any restraints.” The term carried a darker connotation for Lambert. “I’m afraid the rhetoric around stability is simply a euphemism for removing our rights and silencing teachers,” Lambert said in the press release. “Stability really means locking in deteriorating conditions in classrooms for another decade.” The BCTF noted that according to Statistics Canada, B.C.’s per-student funding is $1,000 below the national average and that B.C. has the lowest teacher to student ratio in the country. Fassbender refused to comment on the current situation with CUPE or the Francophone School Board and stated that he was “not ready to put a deadline on discussions at this point.” Drew_McLachlan@hotmail.com twitter.com/LachedAndLoaded
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he New Democratic Party provincial council met in Vancouver last week to conduct a grim post-mortem, looking for cause of death of their election hopes. There’s been five weeks of media analysis, so they have a lot to wade through. It’s an amusing body of work, since many of the explanations of what happened during the campaign are coming from people who had no idea it was happening at the time. For example, a consensus has emerged that Premier Christy Clark changed the contest with an outstanding performance during the TV debate. But the prevailing view in the few days of coverage after the debate — mine included — was that three of the four leaders did well and there was no clear winner. Giddy B.C. Liberals, from a much-happier perspective, have also been analyzing how they managed to pull off the historic upset. So there’s room for review of how we media pundits blew the call and were as startled as everyone else by the result. It would normally be mortifying to realize that after paying close attention to the political scene for a long time, most of what I thought I knew about the 2013 election was dead wrong. Oddly enough, it’s been an amazing, rejuvenating learning experience to look back and reflect on how off-base I was. Much of the awkwardness is eased by the fact it’s shared so widely. So here are an assortment of lessons learned: • Never trust opinion polls, especially if they confirm your impressions. All the public polls were wrong about nearly everything. I’ve always thought there was a certain amount of black magic and witchcraft involved in their analysis of their data. But I’ve never been able to fully resist letting them influence my views. If you spend your days wondering what people are thinking about politics and someone presents you with a scientific study that says “this is what they think,” it’s hard to avoid buying into the conclusions. Not any more. • Victoria is not B.C. The capital and the Island skew by and large to the NDP. So their thinking tends to dominate the small political world around the legislature. I absorbed some of their certainty that Election 2013 was in the bag, and discounted the fact B.C. is four or five political regions with different things going on in each one. We all share one licence plate, but there’s a world of differences in our outlooks. • Everybody thinking the same thing doesn’t mean everybody is right. Groupthink is a comfortable way to reinforce your assumptions — right up to that point where you find out everybody is wrong. There was room for a contrarian position in the pre-election guessing game, but it went mostly unoccupied. • It turns out jobs and families are important. The B.C. Liberal message got discounted a bit in this corner. It sounded motherhood. There weren’t a lot of sophisticated angles to dwell on. But who needs them? The emphasis on jobs, families and a future for kids was enormously appealing. That’s what people really care about. B.C. Liberals stressed it day in and day out, and people liked what they heard. • Elections are more about the future than the past. The B.C. Liberals had an insipid track record over four years, preoccupied by the harmonized-sales-tax debacle. I thought the mistrust and suspicion over the HST would run right up to May 14. But it seems to have ended on April 1, when the tax was abandoned. People got what they wanted and moved on to other issues. Dix will recount his lessons learned. They’re probably a lot more painful and profound than mine are. But whether they’ll cost him his job is probably still up to him to decide at this point. There is no one in the party who has the high ground from which to say: “I told you so.” (Just So You Know: The above is adapted from a speech (“Learning to Love the Margin of Error”) I was invited to give to the Canadian Club of Victoria this week. They are an engaging group of people who have meeting for more than 100 years.
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y overall mental health got a boost recently while I was on vacation. I moved, which meant that for six days, I had neither cable television nor Internet or email access of any kind. You would think that this situation might lead to some serious withdrawal symptoms, like twitching, night terrors, hallucinations of giant bug-headed babies (or baby-headed bugs), random yelping, and spontaneous limb self-removal. Nope. Moving will keep you busy, of course, and after I’d unpacked a sufficient number of boxes, I would lie down with a book. I finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson, a book which is the exact opposite of the click-click-click short attention span style of modern wired life. Anathem is 900 pages long. Then it has three appendices. It’s a science fiction novel in which characters can debate the Platonic nature of the multiverse for six or seven pages at a stretch. Then there might be a kung fu fight or a volcanic eruption. It’s that kind of a book. I love reading novels, probably the quintessential long-attention-span activity. Before the move, I told a couple of people that I had finished packing my books, which meant I was around 70 or 80 per cent done all of my packing. Friends, especially those who have seen my place, just nodded. More casual acquaintances gave me strange looks. Unfortunately, I feel like the world is conspiring to chip away at my attention span. As I write this, the little email icon on my desktop is bouncing up and down as frantically as a toddler sitting on an anthill. New messages, junkmail, whatever. Nine tenths of it gets tossed straight into the trash. I have RSS readers to check for news, there are Google alerts flying, and I’m always keeping an eye on Twitter and Facebook. Yes, around here, messing around with social media is part of the job description, not something to do when the boss isn’t looking. Also, sometimes people call me for a form of voice communication on something called a “landline telephone.” Essentially, it means I’m seldom doing anything for more than about 10 minutes at a time. Beyond work, I’m perfectly capable of distracting myself with my toys. Ever sat down, clicked on an Internet browser, and realized three hours later that only your mouse-hand has moved? Every stray thought that runs through my head can now be answered. When was cheese invented? Who fought the last judicial duel in England? Has anyone built a house entirely out of Lego? Does Coke ever go bad? How many Top 40 hits did Meat Loaf have? I love having the ability to get at any of this information at any time of the day or night. But while it satisfies my curiosity, it’s doing nothing to get me any exercise or help me do anything productive — at least until I get that slot on Jeopardy! Too much time on the Internet can leave me twitchy, jerky, feeling strange and out of sorts. It’s after too much of this time spent online that I really need to decompress. My six-day Internet-free zone did a really good job of smoothing out the rough, scratchy parts of my brain. Now, I’m plotting ways to help support my reading habit instead of feeding my Internet trivia binging habit. In particular, I’m thinking of getting a nice deck chair for the summer, next to which I can place a tall cold drink, and a taller stack of books. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com
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TICKETING JAYWALKERS NOT ABOUT SAFETY
To the editor: Re: “City installs mid-block crosswalk on East Hastings,” June 21. It’s very frustrating that the VPD continue to mouth the line that the discriminatory and targeted ticketing of poor people in the Downtown Eastside for jaywalking is to “educate the public about the danger of jaywalking.” Can the VPD cite any evidence (from Vancouver or anywhere else) that ticketing for jaywalking decreases incidence of jaywalking or improves safety? If this is a public safety campaign, why are 75 per cent of all tickets being handed out in the Downtown Eastside while other neighbourhoods are ignored? Why was ticketing for jaywalking not among the 20 short, medium and long-term recommendations to improve pedestrian safety in the “We’re All Pedestrians” report, funded by the City of Vancouver and presented by the city at the International Conference on Urban Health in New York in 2010? This ticketing isn’t about public safety — it is about justifying inflated police budgets by criminalizing and over-policing the poorest neighbourhood in our city.
Aiyanas Ormond, VANDU Community Organizer
OLSON PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED
To the editor: Re: “God’s grace not in the details of catastrophe,” June 21. As someone who expresses the opinion that God is irrelevant in this modern post-Christian world, Mr. Olson seems to spend a disproportionate amount of time dwelling on the subject. Like a schoolyard bully, Mr. Olson throws out insult after insult with the apparent purpose of striking a chord with one of his readers. Judging by the lack of negative response to his opinion pieces, however, it would appear that Mr. Olson is preaching to the converted and is in danger of becoming irrelevant and even (gasp) boring.
pears, he says, to be threatening so-called community values shared by many. Garr infers that Westside is American, and that proselytizing is wrong. Westside is, however, a Canadian Mennonite Brethren church. Calling it a sect, too, is incorrect; Westside preaches the gospel. And climate change, animal rights, gay rights, racism and feminism supporters proselytize freely; why shouldn’t Christians be able to do so? Garr contends that “business for evangelicals is booming here.” Perhaps it is. A vibrant Christian presence in downtown Vancouver may help alleviate the homelessness, poverty, loneliness, addiction and lawlessness many people see in our city.
Greg Olson (no relation), Vancouver
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Re: “Church’s beliefs worse than loss of theatre space,” May 31. Columnist Allen Garr expresses concern about the purchase of The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts by Westside Church, not because of the loss of a theatre, but because what he calls a growing evangelical sect ap-
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Re: “Neighbourhood at a glance — Strathcona,” June 21. I found it mildly amusing reading your article on Strathcona and its long and rich history of grinding poverty. I can’t say that I notice too much of that today when looking at the real estate prices for that part of town.
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time to learn to enjoy sport is under blue skies and warm sunshine.” Hood said summer is a time to find out what your child is naturally good at, whether that’s team sports, ball sports or solo activities like biking or running. For more information visit jumpgymnastics.ca The YMCA also offers summer day camps that offer fun physical activities through which campers learn about themselves, increase self-confidence and make new friends and memories in a safe and caring environment. Registration for 2013 summer camps is open at MyYMCA.ca, 604-939-9622 or vanymca.org. Meanwhile, Atlantis Programs and Pedalheads offer swimming and cycling programs that safely promote kids’ health and development. During the last 25 years, the groups have taught more than 140,000 children to ride and swim using specialized teaching methods combined with small classes. Visit alt.atlantisprograms.com. For children with an interest in the environment, FUN Camps offer a hands-on environmental leadership program. The goal is to teach children that caring for the environment and exploring natural areas can be fun and interactive. In Vancouver, camp members meet at the Graduate Student Centre at the University of B.C. Visit funsociety.ca. The Vancouver Aquarium is offering AquaCamps this summer with fun educational experiences for children. The camps are filled with hands-on activities, animal observations and crafts, as well as time to run around outside. Children will learn about local and exotic animals, life cycles, food webs, adaptations, ecosystems and sustainability. Visit vanaqua.org. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10
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Canada Day festivities begin on Granville Island at 8 a.m., but a highlight is the free bikedecorating workshop at 10 a.m. in the park east of False Creek Community Centre. Supplies will be provided and once all of the participants’ bikes, strollers, trikes, wheels and helmets are appropriately bedazzled, they can join the annual parade at 1:30 p.m., which begins at Ocean Concrete. (Children must be accompanied by an adult.) Other activities during the day include a free Canada Day celebration at False Creek Community Centre, the Little Paws Agility Show, a disco party at Railspur Alley and free temporary tattoos and face painting. Watch for roving performers and pick up free flags and pins from Granville Island merchants. The celebrations continues until 11 p.m.
COAL HARBOUR Join the gang at Canada Place July 1 for the biggest birthday celebration outside of Ottawa. The free 13-hour celebration, presented by Coast Capital Savings, begins with the Waterfront Party, which starts at 10 a.m. and continues through the day with 25 music and dance performances, extreme sports displays, a celebration of great Canadian inventions, a citizenship ceremony, the Canadian Armed Forces and the Port Metro Vancouver Zone. A Canada Day parade, which begins at 7 p.m. at the corner of Georgia and Broughton streets, includes more than 60 entries recognizing this country’s diversity and multicultural citizens. Following the parade is the annual fireworks show at 10:30 p.m. Fireworks-lovers have an opportunity to
Granville Island’s Canada Day celebrations include a parade beginning at 1:30 p.m., stilt walkers, face painting, a bike decorating workshop and disco party. For added web content including websites to events, scan page using the Layar app. watch the action from De Dutch’s Burrard Landing location at the Vancouver Convention Centre. De Dutch restaurant is celebrating Canada Day with Front Row at the Fireworks, a fundraising initiative benefiting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s B.C. and Yukon Chapter. The fundraiser includes nine waterfront tables being auctioned off with starting bids of $200 for a table for two or $400 for a table of four. Winning bidders will enjoy the best seats on the water for the Canada Day Burrard Inlet Fireworks show from 9 to 11 p.m., with a $20 food and beverage voucher from De Dutch included in the bid price. Proceeds from the auction will help fund vital research and community health grants to further progress breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care. Bidding closes at 12 p.m. June 28. For more information, visit dedutch.com/bestseats.
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PNE GROUNDS Hastings Race Track is hosting its annual Canada Day party July 1 with first post at 1:50 p.m. Real Housewives of Vancouver alum Mary Zilba and Robin Richmond Reichman will be performing and presenting. The friends will be at the track to witness the debut of Pine Walk, a three-yearold filly from California. The Family Zone will be open from noon to 5 p.m. and several of the city’s popular food trucks will be open for business.
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KENSINGTON The Kensington Community Centre is hosting a Canada Day celebration July 1, from noon to 3 p.m. with live entertainment, music, a bouncy castle, community information tables and kid-friendly activities. Hot dogs and drinks will be available to purchase, but there will also be free cake. The centre is located at 5175 Dumfries St.
SUNSET The Sunset Community Centre Association is hosting a Canada Day party July 1, from noon to 4 p.m. The celebration will include carnival games, a barbecue, community displays and inflatables. Don’t forget to bring a non-perishable item for the food bank. Sunset Community Centre is located at 6810 Main St. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10
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nly 12 students studied culinary arts when Margo Murphy started teaching at Templeton secondary in 1989. Now 10 times that number enrol in culinary arts there each year. That’s because Murphy directs her passion into taking the program far beyond prepping food for the cafeteria, says principal Aaron Davis. Murphy gets teenagers working in restaurant kitchens, competing in provincial and national skills competitions and serving gourmet food to homeless people in Oppenheimer Park. “To see students come back and thank her, from 15 years ago, is a pretty special thing,” he said. Davis and former students aren’t alone in their veneration of Murphy. This year the park board recognized her as an important contributor to Vancouver’s food community with its remarkable women poster series. Murphy hangs up her chef’s smock Friday after 24 years teaching culinary arts on Templeton Drive near Nanaimo Street and 40 years as a teacher. A department head for applied skills,
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Margo Murphy’s culinary arts program at Templeton secondary has helped many students land jobs in the restaurant industry. Scan this page with Layar for more info. she’ll miss her colleagues and bonding with students over a hands-on activity. “It’s a very different thing than doing math with them,” she said. Murphy and her colleagues want to start a Templeton chefs alumni. “So that when they’re in different places of the world they can be in touch and say hey, we’re hiring, anybody interested? And they’ll know whether or not the kids have the skills,” she said. An industrial catering program for special needs kids operated when Murphy started at Templeton. She slowly got more students
into more challenging kitchens including at Cactus Club. “I could really see the difference once the students started going out there,” Murphy said. “They were really proud of themselves. There was this professional air about them that hadn’t been there before… The other kids wanted to be the same. Every time we sent people out it raised the bar a little bit higher. And now, this last year, we sent out 60 students.” Murphy said all of her Accelerated Credit Enrolment In Industry Training, or ACE-IT, students who complete work experience and gain credits from Vancouver Commu-
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“Paul’s Club members are physically fit, active and other than their dementia are healthy. They are on average 20 or even 30 years younger than the age group of other Adult Day Programs.”
Levy and her husband were advised that there were no such programs in B.C. due to an absence of available public funding, not an absence of need.
“As our name implies, we are set up as a club, and our participants are members, not clients,” says Levy. “Paul’s Club recognizes and draws on each member’s individuality, their interests, hobbies and life experiences. An essential element of Paul’s Club, that differentiates it from other Adult Day Programs, is that the members help determine what activities they want to pursue.”
“We decided we had to start one,” she says, adding that a grant from VanCity made it feasible.
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“…and always stopping to sit down and have an ice cream before our very social walks are concluded!” Levy advises. “We have even made a foray into gardening.” To find out more about joining Paul’s Club (a non-government-funded club), contact Nita Levy at nita@paulsclub. ca, call 778 558-1894 or visit the site at paulsclub.ca.
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n 2001, one in eight Canadians were 65 years of age or older. By 2026, one in five Canadians will have reached that golden age. Healthy aging is the key to optimizing the years we have without disease or chronic conditions that may keep us from enjoying life to the fullest.
Eating a variety of nutritious foods that are low fat, high fiber and rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, is one good strategy for lowering our risk of disease and disease-related disabilities. Also, it keeps our brains and
bodies in tip-top shape as the years pass by. Remember, healthy aging also requires daily physical activity along with activities that exercise the brain. In general, energy/calorie needs do get lower with aging because we have less muscle, more body fat and many of us tend to be less active. Keep in mind that we still need about the same amount of other important nutrients, including carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals to stay healthy, and don’t forget the fluids. Here’s how mushrooms can be a tasty part of your anti-aging diet strategy:
Adding antioxidants Fresh mushrooms contain significant levels of l-ergothioneine, a naturally occurring antioxidant that may also help protect the body against disease. Ergothioneine is found in both raw and cooked mushrooms.
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Fresh mushrooms contain both soluble and insoluble fibre. Insoluble fibre promotes regularity. Soluble fibre may help regulate blood sugar fluctuations and lower cholesterol levels.
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Fresh mushrooms are perfect for low fat diets as they have high water content, are low in fat and contain some fibre which helps keep you feeling full.
Wild Salmon—Wild Salmon offers a natural source of Vitamin D, which is vital to your immune system’s ability to fight bacteria and other viruses. Try including this fish in your diet at least twice a week—on salads or as an entrée.
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he City of Vancouver is calling for comments on a new design for development signs. Redesigning public signs was one of the recommendations in the Engaged City Task Force report, based on concern that the existing design, particularly with respect to those related to planning and development, were “written in outdated, technical language that makes it difficult for people to understand.” “These signs use small fonts, lack colour, and seem to encourage people to ignore them, rather than to read and be informed by them,” the report stated. The report also recommended earlier public involvement in major rezoning proposals and enhanced notice of planning changes. The city says the new sign design features easier to understand language and details, improved visuals, including a sketch and site map, and information on how residents can give input online or in person. Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer says the old signs faded into the urban background. “You know something’s happening, but then you try and read it and you can’t decipher what it is and you have no idea what it might mean to you and you probably don’t act on it,” she told the Courier. From a councillor’s perspective, Reimer said she often hears people say they had no idea a development was happening in their neighbourhood until being told by a neighbour or reading about it in a newspaper — even if a sign had been up, in some
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The city is seeking feedback on redesigned development signs. cases, for months beforehand. “So, it’s quite critical. [Notification] cards that are mailed matter, the ads matter, but if you’re worried about direct impact in your neighbourhood, chances are you walk by the site and the sign is the best chance we have of getting your attention,” she said. Reimer maintains it’s crucial people find out what’s going on before an application gets to the public hearing stage, so there’s a
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greater chance to modify a proposal. “We don’t have that ability at public hearing — we only have a yes/no possibility,” she said. “It’s certainly not the only change that we’re hoping to make or to effect a better dialogue. The sign [redesign] is a piece, but if it helps more people become aware and the quality of the consultation increases, and the social capacity of neighbourhoods increases so they can participate and dia-
logue, then that’s going to help. The sign on its own is not going to change the world, but it may change someone’s ability to access the process.” Mike Andruff, a Dunbar community activist and member of the new political party TEAM, which aims to run candidates and challenge Vision in the 2014 civic election, argues the sign redesign is a very small item. “If our engagement as a community comes down to revamping the signs, I think this is called obfuscation — we’re looking in one direction where right behind you Rome’s burning,” he said. “Oh they’re going to build what? They’re going to build where — you’re kidding. If they put a really, really nice sign at the corner of Commercial Drive and Broadway talking about the pending decimation of the Commercial Drive area, do you really think it would make a difference? Do you think it would engage the community?” Andruff maintains the old signs aren’t difficult to read. “Tarting them up is like changing the font on the page. Very simply the sign’s message is change is coming. How important is a font change when the message is no different.” Andruff calls the Engaged City Task Force a red herring, in which the governing Vision Vancouver council is attempting to create the appearance of engagement. “If they truly were accepting of civic engagement, they would be changing the direction of development in Vancouver, they would be listening to community centre boards, and they would stop telling us what to do, including when to eat meat,” he said. Residents can submit feedback on the new sign design through the city website at vancouver.ca. noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh
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Potty-mouthed puppets run amok in AVENUE Q. The hit Broadway show featuring failed childhood stardom, excessive drinking, exotic dancing and, most intriguingly, puppet on puppet action is at the Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage until Aug. 3. Not for kids, if you haven’t guessed already. For tickets and more information, go to artsclub.com or call 604-687-1644.
Cloaks of invisibility! Twenty-sided dice! Chainmail vests! Dwarf fighters! Relive the fantasy roleplaying game you enjoyed throughout your teenage years but without the shame, social ineptness and pungent smell of adolescence that prevented you from getting laid. Vancouver improvisers with high agility points team up for the Critical Hit Show’s monthly A LIVE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS COMEDY EXPERIENCE at the Rio Theatre June 26, 8 p.m. More details at riotheatre.ca. THE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL hits its stride this week, as gravelly-voiced R&B singer MACY GRAY teams up with the DAVID MURRAY INFINITY QUARTET, June 27, 8 p.m. at the Vogue Theatre. For tickets and more information, go to coastaljazz.ca.
If the trippy publicity photo didn’t clue you in, THE BESNARD LAKES likes its rock and roll on the psychedelic side of things, with lush orchestration and a dreamy haze coating the proceedings. The Montreal band plays the Biltmore in support of its new album Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO, June 27, with guests July Talk and Grounders. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu Records and ticketweb.ca.
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Makers of thawed, deep-fried dough snacks, suckypatriotictelevisioncommercialsandcoffee to which customers aren’t allowed to add their own sugar or cream, Tim Hortons has launched a new contest, which the carb lovers are pretty stoked about. And we rarely get stoked. According to a hyperbole-filled press release K&K recently received, “For the first time in Tim Hortons history, Canadians have the chance to create what could be the next donut to be added to Tim Hortons iconic menu.” But wait… it gets better. Helping choose the new doughnut flavour out of eight finalists will be none other than former 90210 star, early ’90s sideburn revivalist and Barenaked Ladies video director, Jason Priestly. “It’s no secret I love Tim Hortons, and I can’t wait to help choose the finalists for the firstever Tim Hortons donut as voted for by Canadians themselves,” said Priestley, in a totally human-like quote that in no way was made up. According to the press release, the winner of the contest, “not only wins some (serious) bragging rights, but will also take home $10,000.” Fortunately, K&K has been devising new doughnut flavours for years, usually in a sugar-induced haze followed by regret and self-loathing. In addition to such flavours as Lemon Love Handle and Sugarcoated Shame, we’re going to submit a few entries that pay homage to the celebrity judge himself. For instance, The Dylan, is a nod to 90210 bad boy Dylan McKay played by Luke Perry. Besides a hint of vanilla and Drakkar Noir, The
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Dylan is as sweet and soft as its namesake’s lips and more addictive than his brief dalliance with heroin in season 9. The Plum Pruit, is named after brooding musician character Ray Pruit. And The Red Ziering is essentially a cruller covered in ginger sprinkles in honour of redheaded Ian Ziering who played Steve Sanders, arguably the most lovable 90210 character, except in season 8 when Steve alienates Carly Reynolds, the single mother of one of Erin’s soccer teammates. For shame.
ALL ACCESS Like Jason Priestly’s love of Tim Hortons, it’s no secret we hold strong feelings towards city councillor Andrea Reimer. So we read two Courier stories where she’s quoted in this issue with a sense of excitement and intrigue, followed by a hint of hickory smoked bacon. In one story by Mike Howell, Reimer says: “Elections are not as accessible as they need to be for people who want to run and get ideas out.” We wholeheartedly agree. But then, sadly, we read Reimer’s quote in Naoibh O’Connor’s development column, in which Reimer says: “....but if it helps more people become aware and the quality of the consultation increases, and the social capacity of neighbourhoods increases so they can participate and dialogue, then that’s going to help.” What was that? Maybe we’re cranky simpletons, but if you ask us, the best way to increase “accessibility” and get residents participating in the democratic process is to stop using “dialogue” as a verb. In fact, let’s stop using the word dialogue altogether. Same goes for signage, journaling and scrapbooking. Oh, you didn’t know the city was embarking on a dialogue to make journaling and scrapbooking more accessibile with better signage? You just wait.
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o many of the writers featured in previous Twisted Poets Literary Salons are poised to publish new works that the next edition of the twice-monthly event will highlight five authors, in addition to those who sign up for the open mic, instead of just two. The June 27 event at Cottage Bistro will feature Catherine Owen, the award-winning author of nine collections of poetry, Susan McCaslin, an award-winning author of 10 volumes of poetry, Bernice Lever, also the author of 10 books of poetry, Jude Neale, who will read from her new collection, A Quiet Coming of Light, and Kevin Spenst. “He could read the back of a telephone book and have everyone mesmerized,” Bonnie Nish said of Spenst. Nish moved to Vancouver after living in California for six years, joined the West End Writers group and started open mic Twisted Poets nights at the defunct El Cocal on Commercial Drive with another West End Writers member in 2002. Now a typical Twisted Poets night features one established and one emerging poet with three five-minute open mic spots sandwiching the readings. “A lot of it’s very strong,” Nish said. “It’s quite pleasantly surprising.”
Bonnie Nish (left) has slated five featured authors for the next Twisted Poets Literary Salon, June 27 at Cottage Bistro, including Catherine Owen and Kevin Spenst. When West End Writers took a summer break, Nish, a writer of poetry, prose and book reviews, and poet Sita Carboni started the Kitsilano Writers Group, then the non-profit Pandora’s Collective and the Word Whips Writing Series, which runs at Britannia Library, in White Rock and on the North Shore. The monthly Word Whips workshops are free and open to anyone. They start with a writing prompt, participants write for 10 minutes and then can choose to share what they’ve penned. “It’s just a way to get people thinking and writing and then to connect with community, as well,” said Nish, executive director of Pandora’s Collective. “And then if they want to, they can come to Twisted Poets and read
at the open mic.” For art openings at the Jewish Community Centre, Nish calls upon half a dozen individuals to write to the art. After a live band, readings and a break, she invites audience members to write to the art and then hosts an open mic. The motto of the Pandora’s Collective is “Promoting the arts that inspire the world to take notice of itself.” “We really believe that writing is a very powerful tool that can give people voice, especially people who don’t have a voice,” Nish said. “It can help heal, it can help with literacy, it can help with so many things,” she said. Nishaddsthecollective,whichpresentsTwisted Poets and Word Whips, has taken great pains
to create a safe atmosphere for performers. “Because, especially if you’re getting up to read, you make yourself very vulnerable if you’ve never done it before and you’re a new writer, so feeling like you can get up without ridicule or without judgment and just be there is really important for somebody who’s going to continue.” Nish previously worked supporting school children with disabilities. She has a masters in arts education from Simon Fraser University and is pursuing a doctorate in expressive arts therapy at the European Graduate School. The busy Nish has committed much time to fostering fledgling writers at venues that include inner city schools, a drug and alcohol treatment centre and festivals in Metro Vancouver because she gets so much out of it. “We got into a drug rehab centre once a month to do workshops. And I remember walking down the street at Christmastime and somebody calling my name and I turned around it was a girl who had been in one of our workshops. And she told me, ‘You know, I’ve been straight and writing ever since I took your workshop,’” Nish said. “So what greater gift than that?” Pandora’s Collective organizes a annual Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival. The 10th anniversary edition happens at Trout Lake, for the second summer, Aug. 24. For more information about upcoming workshops and events, see pandorascollective.com. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi For video and web content scan page using the Layar app.
Terminus, Boeing-Boeing, Bard win big at the Jessies the Commodore Ballroom. The Jessies are Vancouver’s version of the Tony Awards and are divided into three categories — Large Theatre, Small Theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences — along with a handful of special prizes. With the demise of the Vancouver Playhouse last year, awards in the first category have essentially become a two-horse race between the Arts Club Theatre Company, who operate year-round in three different buildings, and Bard on the
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dual roles in the racially charged Clybourne Park. The Unplugging, a new work by Yvette Nolan, also won for best original script. Bard on the Beach’s crowd-pleasing production of The Merry Wives of Windsor picked up four Jessies, including best director (Johanna Wright), best costume designer (Drew Facie), best musical director (Benjamin Elliott) and best production. Lighting designer Gerald King also won for his work in MacBeth. Continued next page
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Continued from page 23 Pi Theatre’s production of Irish playwright’s Mark O’Rowe nightmarish Terminus — which Courier theatre reviewer Jo Ledingham described as “thrilling, exhilarating, jolting, bumpy and yet sometimes funny” — picked up the most hardware in the hotly contested small theatre categories. John Emmet Tracy, a Chicago native relatively new to the Vancouver theatre scene, won for best leading actor for his role in a play comprised of interlocked rhyming monologues, and Terminus also ended up winning for best lighting (Alan Brodie) and best overall
production. Leading actresses Pippa Mackie and Leanna Brodie both lost out to Erla Faye Forsyth for her role as Mary in Pacific Theatre’s How to Write a New Book for the Bible. The Virtual Stage’s original show Broken Sex Doll picked up two Jessies (Anton Lipovetsky for best sound design and Drew Facie, again, for best costume design), as did Théâtre la Seizième for their production of Porcépic (France Perras for best supporting actress and Craig Holzschuh for best director). ITSAZOO Productions’ Brett Harris won for best supporting actor with Mojo, Pam Johnson built the win-
ning set for Touchstone Theatre’s Shelter from the Storm, and the Boca Del Lupo team won for significant artistic achievement for Photog, an original piece featuring the work of awardwinning war photographers. Where the Wild Things Are, produced by Presentation House in association with Manitoba Theatre for Young Audiences, swept the Theatre for Young Audiences category with a total of four awards. Visit jessies.ca to see the complete list of award winners. afleming@vancourier.com twitter.com/flematic
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Hundreds of artists, art lovers and curious onlookers investigated the colourful works on display at more than a dozen South Granville art galleries as part of Saturday’s ArtWalk.
South Granville galleries open up for ArtWalk EVENT SHOWS ART CAN BE BOTH ACCESSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE REBECCA BLISSETT Contributing writer
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y 4 p.m. this past Saturday, those working the South Granville ArtWalk were hoarse. Julie Lepper, director of the Ian Tan Gallery, apologized for her lack of a voice but it was a miracle she had anything left at all since she’d greeted a good chunk of the 800 who came through the doors that day, tracked by her mechanical hand-held counter. “On an average Saturday we would normally get 25 people, could be 50,” she said. Enthusiasm overrode exhaustion, though, as Lepper gestured to Erika Toliusis’s vibrantly natural landscape paintings, all done, incredibly, by a palette knife. While the paintings are the current draw for Ian Tan, Lepper points out many of the day’s walkers are surprised to walk further into the gallery to discover art by a range of artists that come with affordable price tags. Accessibility is the key behind Katsumi Kimoto’sKimotoGallery,whichopeneditsdoorsthree weeksearlytopartakeintheArtWalkalongwith 15 other galleries. A good decision, as the room was packed with artists and art appreciators for its summer group show that included Will Rafus’s oil painting of The Only seafood shop on Hastings, White Rock native Reuben Kambeitz’s “Collective” and Kapil Harnal’s oil and charcoal “Nude with Shawl and Flower.” The gallery features affordable works — yes, some in the thousands but also some sizeable work that can be purchased for a few hundred. “I want to offer art in an accessible range,” said Kimoto. “It’s a way for people to support art as well as collect something original.” Around the corner and down the street from the Kimoto is the delight that is Uno Langmann
Ltd. which, amid chandeliers and antique wood pieces, is showing a collection of oils, watercolours and sketches by Charles John Collings. A departure from white walls and open spaces, this gallery —part antique store, part museum — is the kind of place you want to tuck your purse in a little closer for fear of knocking over a vase. Working from an office that reflects the character of the store with its floor to ceiling bookshelves and ornate framed paintings, Jeanette Langmann, Uno’s daughter, says ArtWalk exposes more people to the art world. “Once in a while you get the feeling people are intimidated, and this is a great way to let them know there’s no reason to be intimidated,” she said. “This day is the nicest thing, people coming in here are just so happy. It’s wonderful.” With just an hour before her gallery was to close, the charismatic Elissa Cristall of the Cristall Gallery showed no sign of weariness. She agreed that ArtWalk is a gentle way to not only expose people to art, but to let them know that despite the upper crust sensibilities of Granville’s Gallery Row (at Uno Langmann, for instance, people have to be buzzed in during regular store hours) that the galleries are for everybody. Cristall says she had a conversation with a man who didn’t realize the galleries were open to the public, as well as a woman who flat-out told her she wasn’t overly keen on Amanda Reeves’ colourful abstract paintings. “So I spoke with her, and she had a better understanding. She was traditional.” At the Petley Jones Gallery, Amelia AlcockWhite wrapped up an artist talk about her latest project “Painting for Change.” Her most recent oil painting in the words, of a kelp garden, will be raffled off (tickets are given with every donation made in 20 dollar increments) and funds will be used to support ocean conservation projects at the Vancouver Aquarium. “Art sometimes feels self-indulgent,” said the Vancouver Island-born artist. “I want to feel like I’m doing something larger, doing something that makes a difference.” To see more photos from last Saturday’s ArtWalk, scan page using the Layar app.
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SPORT SHORTS DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL CELEBRATES SILVER JUBILEE For its 25th year, the Vancouver Dragon Boat Festival hosted 5,500 paddlers and a record 212 teams when it took over the waters of False Creek for two days June 22 and 23. On Friday Taoist priests performed the annual eye dotting ceremony as well as more elaborate rituals to mark the milestone year. The qualifying heats dominated the course Saturday. Sunday followed with semi-finals and championship races. The Saggin Dragons of the False Creek Racing Canoe Club won the women’s competitive race in two minutes 26.88 seconds, edging California’s Space Dragons Red by more than two seconds. Far from home, the Space Dragons Red also settled for second in the mixed competitive division. They fell nearly a second behind the Gorging Dragons from Victoria. Vancouver’s Dragon Hearts Thunderbreaker claimed silver in the junior division championship, and the paddlers from Lord Byng, Killarney, David Thompson and Eric Hamber secondary schools trailed the winners from Portland’s Wasabi Kraken by a very narrow 0.3 seconds. — Megan Stewart
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Lanni Marchant (second from left) stumbles out of the gate at the Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon June 23 at UBC. Krista DuChene (far right) won the women’s race 45 seconds ahead of Marchant. At right, second-place finisher Rob Watson (in black) congratulates winner Kip Kangogo at the finish line. Scan this page with Layar app to see more photos.
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enyan-born Lethbridge runner Kip Kangogo won his fourth Scotiabank Vancouver HalfMarathon Sunday, finishing the 21.1-kilometre race in one hour, three minutes and 33 seconds to beat Vancouver’s Rob Watson by 54 seconds. Watson, who turned 30 on race day, previously qualified in the marathon for the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation) world championships and on Sunday announced he would travel to Mos-
cow for the August meet. In the women’s race, Canadian longdistance runners and friendly rivals Krista DuChene, 36, and Lanni Marchant, 29, finished one ahead of the other, crossing the finish line ninth and tenth overall. Neck and neck at the 10km mark, DuChene’s 33-minute split edged Marchant by two seconds before the latter fell of the pace and ultimately finished 45 seconds behind. DuChene, of Brantford Ont., won the women’s race in 1:10:52. Marchant followed at 1:11:37 after she barley got out of the start gate. “I got tripped up at the very start of the race and nearly did a face plant,”
she told the hosts of the Canadian Running Series, which also holds the Spring Run-Off each March in Vancouver and the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October. “I tried to hang on the best I could, but my body and I decided we were at odds with each other.” DuChene and Marchant will meet again in the marathon at the world championships, held this coming August in Moscow. A sell-out crowd of 7,000 raced in the 15th annual Scotiabank Half-Marathon and raised more than $700,000 for 71 different charities. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart
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emember the name Rachel Cliff. Cliff’s name probably doesn’t ring a bell for most people, but come the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Vancouver runner could be one of the Canadian athletes in the 1,500 metres. Betweennowandthen,Cliff,aYork House graduate, will need seasoning and the opportunity to compete against other world-class athletes.
That’s why the Harry Jerome International Track Classic is so important for the development of people like Cliff. “This meet, they do such a good job of getting so many top athletes together,” the 25-year-old said during a recent news conference to promote the 30th annual Jerome meet. “There are always a few meets you identify as being a good opportunity and this is definitely one of them.” This year’s Harry Jerome International Track Classic will be held July 1 at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby. Among the high-profile Canadian Olympic athletes attending will be shot-putter Dylan Armstrong, heptathlete Jessica Zelinka and highjumper Mike Mason. The Jerome meet has been a labour of love for founder and organizer Doug Clement and his wife Diane. What started as an idea to give B.C. athletes a local stage to compete has grown into one of Canada’s top track events. It also helped forge the Na-
tional Track League, five competitions staged across the country with a total of $350,000 in prize money. “It’s a foundational part of athletics in Canada,” said Gordon Orlikow, chairman of the board of directors for Athletics Canada. “Over the years, Harry Jerome has really been the track meet in Canada. It has endured. “The National Track League would not exist without Harry Jerome and without Doug and Diane.” Doug Clement, now a professor emeritus at UBC, represented Canada at the 1952 Summer Olympics. As a coach, he helped organize various track competitions in and around Vancouver dating back to 1963. Over the years the meet has attracted Canadian Olympians like Donovan Bailey, Ben Johnson, Angela Chalmers, Lynn Williams and David Steen. They competed against a who’s who of international stars like Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Carl Lewis, Mary
Decker Slaney and Kip Kimeli. One of the attractions of the meet is it allowed young athletes to step on the track against the sport’s marquee names. “I think we’ve been very successful… in producing [the environment] in which athletes can get their first taste of international competition,” said Clement. “We have been very successful at continuing that.” The advent of the IAAF Diamond League, a series of track and field meets which offer huge cash prizes, has drawn some of the high-profile international athletes away from the Jerome meet. The Jerome still remains important domestically as a developmental meet and training ground for athletes who can’t afford to compete on the Diamond League circuit. Brit Townsend, a two-time Olympian in the 800-metres, competed at the Jerome meet and now coaches at Simon Fraser University. She said the
meet is a valuable stepping stone for Canadian Olympians. “I’ve had athletes for the last 20 years that have run personal bests here, have achieved standards for different meets, have just seen what is possible running against athletes that are better than themselves,” said Townsend. In a city obsessed with its NHL hockey team, the Harry Jerome meet is a refreshing alternative. It’s an event not consumed by its own self-importance. It has adapted with time but never lost its vision. “We’re not the Olympic Games,” said Clement. “We’re not ever going to be the Olympics Games. “We think we are in the right niche. We think we are doing the right thing.” Jim Morris is a veteran reporter who has covered sports for 30 years. Reach him at morrisejim@ gmail.com
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The Courier presentsVancouver’s Elite Graduating Athletes of 2013 t St. George’s, students walk the hallways in the footsteps of the boys who came before them. And many of those boys, now grown men known as Old Boys, are invested in the school and the young men who’ve come after them. Harjun Gill felt the pressure and pride of competing in gyms and on fields named for alumni, donors and headmasters. And he met that pressure. Recognized this spring as a sportsman of the year and selected by his teammates as the Saints’ best rugby player, his name is now on permanent hardware at St. George’s. “He’s the real deal,” said Spence McTavish, the general manager of the rugby program at the University of B.C. Gill, 18, was selected to the provincial rugby team every year since he tried out for the U14 roster. He trained with the junior national team in Grade 10 and the next year he was called upon to captain the team during a European tour in a match against Belgium. A nimble and fast runner who can play almost anywhere in the back row, Gill also represented B.C. for three years with the provincial 7s. At an international tournament in Hong Kong, he was again called upon as a captain. “When you need player influence, he’s one of the guys you go to,” said B.C. 7s head coach and former national team player Shane Thompson. “The guys look up to him. When I can’t get hold of the guys, I go through him. He’s mature beyond his years.” Gill, six-feet tall and 180 pounds, earns the respect of teammates in part because he shows gratitude, said Saints head coach Mike Stiles. “This is what really stands out for me. He is grateful for the opportunities that have been given to him and he has taken full advantage of them.” Gill, who started high school at McRoberts in Richmond and still plays for the Richmond Rugby Football Club, led the Saints to a nearly perfect season. They won the 7s provincial title and their only loss came in the 15s championship final. “We came five points short. It’s pretty tough,” said Gill. “The night we lost, everybody showed up here [at St. George’s] at whatever time it was. We just sat on the field, nobody wanted to leave. You get attached to this place. You feel responsibility to do the field and the school proud. “I feel no regret. We did the best we could for the school and each other and that’s all you can ask for.” The next generation of boys will walk where Gill left his mark. ● — MEGAN STEWART
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BAGGAGE HANDLERS
Swissport International Ltd. requires baggage handlers for our Vancouver International Airport Operations. Applicants must posses a vaild BC Drivers License, Canadian Citizenship or Landed Immigrant Status.
GROUP HEALTH • UNIFORM • PARKING • FLIGHT BENEFITS Swissport is the leading service provider in the global ground and cargo handling business. Swissport is an equal opportunity employer. We thank all applicants, however only those short listed will be contacted.
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Colony Networks (Van) seeks Comp. Networking Tech. Compl. of college/related field req’d. Prev. exp. an asset but not mandatory. CAD $45,240/yr, 30hrs/week. E-res: colony-job7@mythribehr.com NOW HIRING! EARN EXTRA CASH - Men & Women In Demand for Simple Work. P/T-F/ T. Can Be Done From Home. Acceptance Guaranteed - No Experience Required, All Welcome! www.BCJobLinks.com
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COUPLE TO MANAGE all season wilderness resort and Front Desk/Server with strong sales and management skills. Fax 250-968-4445 or email resort@terracana.com. SZECHUAN CHONGQING Seafood Restaurant, #205 – 1668 West Broadway, Van, BC, V6J 1X6 requires 2 Positions: ■ Restaurant Manager to plan and control restaurant operations, help in hiring and training staff, schedule work, negotiate and plan banquets/parties, control inventory and monitor revenues. Must be able to effectively handle customers and ensure compliance with health and safety requirements. Applicants should have three years experience in food service and effective supervisory experience. Salary: $15.85/hr. ■ Kitchen Helpers to wash & chop vegetables, do prep work & wash dishes. Previous Chinese kitchen experience helpful but not necessary. Must be able to work shifts and weekends. Salary $10.50/hour. Please apply by mail to above address or fax resume to: 604- 734-8018
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Van. Umbrella seeks Office Adm. Must have- min. 2 yrs exp & Compl. Sec. School. $20hr/35 hr wk. E-res: victor@vancouverumbrella.com
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ALGONQUIN FAMILY 5 person dome tent, used once, exc cond $60 obo. 604-228-9857
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Lumber/Building Supplies
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Pet Services
Cats
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Acupuncture
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: The Estate of Dorothy Muriel Burgess, also known as Dorothy Murial Burgess, Dorothy M. Burgess and Dorothy Burgess, deceased, formerly of Crofton Manor, 2803 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6N 4B4 Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Dorothy Muriel Burgess, also known as Dorothy Murial Burgess, Dorothy M. Burgess and Dorothy Burgess, deceased, are hereby notified under Section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the undersigned Executor, c/o Cohen Buchan Edwards LLP, Lawyers & Notaries, Suite 208 - 4940 No. 3 Road, Richmond, BC, V6X 3A5, on or before July 26, 2013, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice. DATED at Richmond, BC, this 24th day of June, 2013. JEAN H. OLAND COHEN BUCHAN EDWARDS LLP, Solicitors for ROYAL TRUST CORPORATION OF CANADA, Executor NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public lien sale of the described personal property will be held at 11:00am on July 19th, 2013. All sales are cash only. The property is stored at Storage-Mart Self Storage, 1311 E. Kent Ave. N., Vancouver, BC The items found in the unit(s) are described as follows: #4206 Tracie Ann Kingsley: ladder & empty boxes; #3113 Jalil Mohammed: brief cases, instruments, lamps, tool box, accordian, dollies, table saw and boxes; #1005 Elevate Restoration Ltd: wood ladder, hoses, shelving units, tubberware bins, painter clothes & jerry can.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE ESTATE OF TOMMASO PAULETIG ALSO KNOWN AS THOMAS PAULETIG DECEASED, LATE, OF VANCOUVER WHO DIED MARCH 16, 2013 TAKE NOTICE that all persons having claims upon the estate of the above named must file with the undersigned Executrix by the 15th day of July 2013 a full statement of their claims and securities held by them. OLGA PAULETIG EXECUTRIX 3361 Queens Avenue VANCOUVER, B.C. V5R 4T9
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS
RE: ESTATE OF KATHLEEN ELLEN WADDINGTON, also known as KATHLEEN E. WADDINGTON, AND KATHLEEN WADDINGTON late of 203 – 8655 Selkirk Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6P 4J2 (the “Estate”) NOTICE is given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate are required to send them to the executor, Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, at P.O. Box 11130, #3000 - 1055 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3R3, on or before August 9, 2013, after which date the Estate assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have been received. EXECUTOR: Royal Trust Corporation of Canada SOLICITOR: Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP
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Kane v Kane: Notice of Civil Claim Notification
An Action has been started in the Supreme Court of British Columbia; Crystal Kane, an infant by her litigation guardian, Candice Marko, and the said Candice Marko VS. Veronica Kane (Vancouver Registry No. M-123294). The claim is against the Defendant Veronica Kane for damages for injuries sustained by the Claimant Crystal Kane in a motor vehicle accident which occurred on or about the 21st day of February, 1997. It is asserted that the accident and injuries sustained by the Claimant Crystal Kane were caused by the negligence of the Defendant Veronica Kane. A full copy of the Notice of Civil Claim can be obtained at the Vancouver Registry of the Supreme Court at 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver BC. On application by the Plaintiff on May 21, 2013 the Court Orders: 1. The Plaintiff shall be at liberty to serve the Defendant, Veronica Kane, by an alternative method; namely, substituted service, by publishing the Notice of Civil Claim, together with the terms of this order, in the Vancouver Courier newspaper for eight (8) weeks (two 28-day notice peariods) and that such service is deemed to be good service upon the Defendant; and 2. The time within which the Defendant may enter a Response to Civil Claim is 28 days following the expiry of the two 28-day notice periods, the two 28 day notice periods to commence running from the date of the first publication of the notice. The Defendant begun notification onWednesday June 12th,2013,giving the Defendant, VERONICA KANE until Wednesday, September 4th to enter a Response to Civil Claim.
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HOME SERVICES Carpentry
MR. BUILD - Renos and Repairs. Est 1989. 9129 Shaughnessy St. Please call 604-732-8453
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Cleaning
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8060
Concrete
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Demolition
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Drainage
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Electrical
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Lic. 22308
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Excavating
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Handyperson
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Excavating - Drain Tile Demolitions. Fully insured • WCB 604-716-8528
8090
Fencing/Gates
West Coast Cedar Installations New, repaired or rebuilt ★ Fences & Decks ★ 604-435-5755 or 604-788-6458
8105
Flooring/ Refinishing
AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men
Since 1989
RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.
732-8453
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Artistry of Hardwood Floors
THE HANDYMAN CAN Professional Home Services Big or small - we do them all Free Est. Sr.Disc. 604-340-4633
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INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices. Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508
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8120
Glass Mirrors
ANGEL GLASS, Comm/Res, windows & doors, store fronts,patio doors, mirrors etc. 2837 Kingsway, Van 604-603-9655
8125
Gutters
AT YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES. Installs, cleaning, repairs. WCB Insured 604-340-7189 DIRTY WINDOWS? DIRTY GUTTERS? Black Bear Window Cleaning does windows, gutters & siding. Insured & Guaranteed. Commercial & Residential. Call: 778 892-2327
Gutter & window cleaning, power washing. Prompt, professional. 30 yrs exp. Simon 604-230-0627
★RITE-WAY★ GUTTERS 15% OFF - 604-722-1105
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Handyperson
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8135
Hauling
604-RUBBISH - ’’ We do all the loading & cleanup and we remove almost anything'' 604-782-2474
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Landscaping
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B&Y MOVING Experienced Movers ~ 2 Men $55 ~
Over 10 yrs. Exp. • Licenced & Insured • Professional Piano Movers
604-708-8850
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Renovations & Home Improvement
HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTRE Construction Services We specialize in Home Renovations, Kitchens, Baths, Decks, Fencing, etc.
778-865-0370
hansv@shaw.ca
• Painting • All wood, stucco & drywall repairs
Patios/Decks/ Railings
8200
604.240.9081
FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS
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HEDGES, SHRUBS, TREE REMOVAL
INSURED, FREE EST.
224-3669 Lawn & Garden
Services
SAME DAY SERVICE
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TCP MOVING 1 to 3 men from $40 Licensed & Insured, local & storage. Ca & US long distance 604-505-1386 * 604-505-9166
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Oil Tank Removal
FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.
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604-261-9697 Free est
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604-618-2949
ALLEN ASPHALT concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187
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Plumbing
• Oil Tank Removal • Work complies with city bylaws • Always fair & BC Mainland reasonable rates • Excellent references
Off: 604-266-2120 Cell: 604-290-8592 Serving West Side since 1987
Painting/ Wallpaper
YOUR WAY
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‘Old Home Specialist’
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604-830-8555
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A-1
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604-723-8434
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Actual Plumbing & Heating, Boilers, Furnaces, Tankless, Hotwater tanks, 24/7, Seniors Disc. Lic. BBB, 604-874-4808 Hot Water Tank Special Electric 50 gal $550. Gas 40 gal $650. Insured WCB 604-839-3537
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Prompt Professional Service 30 years experience
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Renovations & Home Improvement
WE CAN FIX IT •Interior / Exterior •New Construction/ Renovations/ Additions Drywall • Plumbing Electrical • Foundations/ Framing • Flooring • Lic. & Insured • Free Estimates Call 604-220-7422
604-946-4333
AT YOUR HOME ROOFING SERVICES. New roofs & repairs. WCB Insured 604-340-7189
Vcr West & East D/Town
AMBLESIDE ROOFING
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Since 1989
RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.
8255
Rubbish Removal
732-8453
ALLQUEST PAINTING Quality Work You Can Trust! 778 997-9582 GET OUT YOUR LIST! We do all the fussy little jobs no one else wants to do. Workmanship & Satisfaction Guaranteed. Vancouver D/town & West & East side. Est 1983. Ralph 682-8256
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Moon Construction Building Services Additons, Renovations, New Construction, Specializing in Concrete Forming, Framing & Siding. 604-218-3064
EASTSIDE RUBBISH Removal. Best Rate, 12 Years Straight! Friendly & Cheap. 604-266-4444
★PAUL’S PAINTING★ Painting, Reno’s, Handyman Call 778-865-0370
JACK’S RUBBISH Removal. Household Junk Specialist! Fast, Friendly & Cheap. 604-266-4444
RUBBISH REMOVAL Reasonable rates - Free Est. Pat 604-224-2112, anytime
www.RenoRite.com Bath, Kitchens, Suites & More Save Your Dollars! 604-451-0225 BATHROOM• KITCHEN • BASEMENT Structural ★ Water Ingress Kelly Construction 604-738-7280
RNC RENOVATIONS Ins, WCB, Member of BBB, 778-227-7316 www.rncrenovations.com ROMAN’S PAINTING Interior/Exterior 604-339-4541 www.romanpaint.com
8250
Roofing
STUDENT WORKS Disposal & Recycling. Trips start at $49. John 778-288-8009 www.studentworksdisposal.com WESTSIDE RUBBISH Removal. Household Junk Specialist! Friendly & Cheap. 604-266-4444
8309
Tiling
STONE & tile setting, embellished tile decorating. Call Steve 604-888-1285
8315
Tree Services
Wildwood Tree Services, Exp Hedge Trimming and Removal & Tree Pruning. Free Est. 604-893-5745
ROOFING 604-722-1105 GUARANTEED IN WRITING
RE-ROOFING & ROOF REPAIRS
8240
Liability Insurance, WCB, BBB, Free Estimates
GET OUT YOUR LIST! We do all the fussy little jobs no one else wants to do. Complete home repairs. Workmanship and your Satisfaction Guaranteed. Est 1983. Ralph 682-8256
Power Washing
POWER WASHING GUTTER & WINDOW CLEANING
Bros. Roofing Ltd. Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.
All types - Reroofs & Repairs Insured/WCB 778-288-8357
Renovations • Repairs
10% Off with this Ad! For all your plumbing, heating & reno needs. Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005
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10% DISCOUNT. MG Roofing & Siding. WCB. Re-Roofing, New Roof, Gutters. 604-812-9721
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High United Construction New build, complete renos, drywall, tile, stucco, patio cover. Big/ small. Randy 604-250-1385
For Free Estimates Call
8195
310-JIMS (5467)
Driveway, Walkway & Parking Lot Garage Apron / Speed Bump / Pot Hole / Patch Commercial & Residential www.jaconbrospaving.com
Concrete Tiles • Cedar Shakes Asphalt Shingles • Skylights 20 yrs exp. • Insured • Free Est.
A EASTWEST Roofing & Siding Reroofing, Gutter, BBB Member, 10% disc, Seniors Disc, 604-783-6437
Paving/Seal Coating
8205
Roofing
Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring ''Satisfaction Guaranteed''
• Sunrooms • Aluminum patio/deck covers • Aluminum railings • Glass railings • Aluminum fencing • Auto gates Free Estimates 604-782-9108
8250
STORMRIDER ROOF REPAIRS
PAUL’S PAINTING
Experienced Movers with Affordable Rates! Starting $40/ hour FLAT RATE also available Licensed & Insured • Seniors Discount
8240
ROMAN’S PAINTING
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8195
ASPHALT PAVING
DUNBAR LAWN and GardenHedging, Gardening, cleanups, pruning. WCB. Est 41 yrs 604-266-1681
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EXP PROF movers fully equip, piano specialist. Evening moves available. George 778-875-8202
WILDWOOD LANDSCAPING Hedge Trimmimg & Tree Pruning & Hedge Removal Spring Clean Up Lawn Restoration. Planter Box, Garden Installation. Comm/Strata/Res Free Estimates. 604-893-5745
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013 THE VANCOUVER COURIER
RENTALS 6505
Apartments & Condos
ROCHE POINT Tower, nice clean, view ,1 bdrm+den, 2 bath, patio, ugrnd prk, 5 app, 1000sf, close to shop/bus/library $1180/mnth 604-460-1125 Ann
6508
Apt/Condos
1 BR’s - Kerrisdale, great location! Close to shops, transit & schools. $1010-$1165 Available Now. 604-677-3205 www.lougheedproperties.com
AMBER LODGE
Oak & West 14th Studios (Avail. July 1) 1 BR’s (Avail Now & July 1) Well maintained building close to all amenities and VGH. Some pets ok. 604-731-2714
6508
Apt/Condos
7th & Clark, East Van. Lrg 2 BR, hardwood, reno’d. VIEW. Av July 1. $1100 + utls. 604-218-7660
6510
Co-ops
OPEN HOUSE Killarney Gardens Housing Co-op Saturday July 6th 2-4pm @ 2998 E 54th Ave., Vanc. Unit tours. 604-436-9554 www.kghousingcoop.ca
6535
6540
Real Estate Services
2BDRM/1BTH CENTRAL Lons. Coachhouse w/d, f/s, dw, on de -mand hw,fp,strge,pkg.Aug1 N/P 2495+Ref sec dep.604.349.2083
2BDRM/2BTH 1328 Camridge Place West Van Kitchen, patio $2800/mth. No pets/non-smoke. Utilities included. 604-446-8466.
604-723-7368 (Royal Pacific Realty)
Rates are going Up! Call Now. 2.60% 5 year Variable 2.79% 5 year Fixed Self Employed, Credit Damage OK, Commercial & Residential Martinique Walker, AMP Verico Assent Mortgage Corp Call: 604-984-9159
6008
Condos/ Townhouses
6008-02
SMALL PEACEFUL farm set up for horses right beside South Langley riding trail. Bright & comfortable older 2 bd home, f/p, barn, riding rings, pastures. $849,900. Call 604-323-4788 See Propertyguys.com ID: 76788
6020
Chilliwack
Abbotsford
TOP FLR 762sf 1br condo, in-ste laundry, 45+ building Mt. Baker view $85,000. 778-822-7387 see uSELLaHOME.com id5553
6008-18
New Westminster
TOP FLOOR quiet side of bldg 650sf 1br+den condo nr Hosp, & Sky train $244K 778-241-4101 see uSELLaHOME.com id5580
6008-28
6020-34
Surrey
FLEETWOOD RENO’D 2140sf 4br 3ba, large 7100sf lot, bsmt suite $529,000. 604-727-9240 see uSELLaHOME.com id5617
GUILDFORD 1900SF 3br 2ba w/basement suite on huge 8640 sf lot, $489,000 604-613-1553 see uSELLaHOME.com id5608 STEVESTON VERY large 1284 sf 2br 2ba top fl condo amazing mtn views, $455K 604-275-7986 see uSELLaHOME.com id5376
6008-42
S. Surrey/ White Rock
PARTIAL OCEAN view, 920sf 2br+den 2ba quiet condo, kids, pets ok. $309,000 778-294-2275 see uSELLaHOME.com id5575
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LIVING ROOM Lots & Acreage
LANGLEY BUILD your dream home, secluded 5 ac view ppty, well inst $630,000 604-825-3966 see uSELLaHOME.com id4513
6052
6065 LANGLEY NR town fully reno’d 2474sf home on 5ac ppty, bsmt suite $1,150,000 604-825-3966 see uSELLaHOME.com id5582
Collectibles & Classics
Real Estate Investment
LANGLEY RENOD sxs duplex +1/2ac lot, rental income $2,300 /month $489,900 604-807-6565 see uSELLaHOME.com id3186
Recreation Property
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1988 FLEETWOOD Brougham d’Elegance Rare, orig owner car! 83km! Perfect cond Collector Car Status 25-yrs! $10,950. D# 10578 Auto Depot NVan 604-727-3111
9125
Domestic
2005 PONTIAC WAVE LT, 104,000 kms, black, a/c, fully loaded, auto, newer brakes, timing belt and tires, sunroof, runs great. $3900 Firm. 778-846-5275
Okanagan/ Interior GALIANO EXECUTIVE Home & Cabin on priv beach, completely furn’d, many extras, ready to move in. Reduced to $849,000! Global Force Rlty. 604-802-8711 www.yourlinktorealestate.ca
10 ACRES OF OKANAGAN VIEW PROPERTY FOR SALE Located 6 km from Penticton Hospital on the eastern hillsides above the city. Numerous building sites with view to the north up Okanagan Lake. One of the few remaining 10 acre country residential parcels that has not been developed. On paved road with power to the lot line. For sale by owner at only $289,000. Contact donaclair11@gmail.com or 250-493-5737
MERRITT HERITAGE style 3070 sf 4br 5ba on 9.9ac lot detached shop, view $895K 250-378-8857 see uSELLaHOME.com id5592
Out Of Town Property
HATZIC LAKE 1 hr drive from Vanc, 2 vacant lots 1 is lakefront $65K is for both 604-240-5400 see uSELLaHOME.com id5588
2006 CHEV Cobalt LT, White, 69k, alloys, power group $6,495. Downtown.nissan.ca 604-257-8900
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1997 LANDROVER Defender(s) 90, 5 spd diesel, mint, 160,000km, from desert $23,900 1-780-945-7945 604-926-7087 lancebright@hotmail.com
9160
Sports & Imports
1989 19’ Bayliner Capri Blue, 2.3 litre IO Fresh water cooled, new windshield/canvas/swim grid, trailer. $6,975. 604-837-7564
9522
RV’s/Trailers
2006 MINI Cooper, Grey, 58k, loaded, $16,988. Downtown.nissan.ca 604-257-8900 OVER 11 CARS UNDER $5000. Auto Depot 604-727-3111
1979 FORD M/H, 23 ft, cozy, bunk beds, fully equipped, low k, hi way usage, $4,950. 778-737-3890
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Boats
2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited Affordable Luxury 35,600 kms. 2.4L GDI DOHC. $19,999. Email: sjscot@shaw.ca (604) 794-3428.
9145 HATZIC LAKE Swans Point, 1 hr from Vanc incl lot & 5th wheel ski, fish, $134,500. 604-209-8650 see uSELLaHOME.com id5491
2006 DODGE Caravan Cargo, 70k, shelves, ladder rack, $9,900 Downtown.nissan.ca 604-257-8900
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9145
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6602
1 BR rear bsmt ste, priv entry, patio, Langara area, nr amen., no w/d, np ns, suits 1 person, lease, $660. July 1. 604-322-0639
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