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New gallery in town WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013 Vol. 104 No. 79• Established 1908

MIDWEEK EDITION

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Vol. 104 No. 79• Established 1908

MIDWEEK EDITION

THE VOICE OF VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOODS

NEWS: New park 5/ OPINION: Ghost towns 11

Towernumbers remaininnew Oakridgeplan REVISED PLAN FOR OAKRIDGE DEVELOPMENT READY FOR VIEWING

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Library keen on creative lab VPL ‘INSPIRATION LAB’ WOULD INCLUDE RECORDING STUDIO CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer

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nce a bastion of silence, the Vancouver Public Library wants to build a creative technology lab that includes a recording studio with sound mixing equipment.

Open to library patrons, the Inspiration Lab would include a recording studio, digital devices to preserve and share stories, video editing software and self-publishing tools that include software and hardware to produce print or eBooks.

“What our hope would be down the road is if they come in and record an oral history or create a movie or a new piece of music or something, that we can actually add it to our

collection,” said chief librarian Sandra Singh. “As a community we’re enriched when we learn about each other, we learn about each others’ experiences, we learn how to see the world through each others eyes. It helps build connectivity, trust, empathy and a sense of belonging.”

The library anticipates needing up to $600,000 to create the 3,000-square-foot lab on the third floor of the Central Branch at 350 West Georgia St. The lab is slated to open in late 2014.

To inspire potential donors for the project, the Vancouver Public Library Foundation is hosting what’s to become an annual fundraising event Oct. 4 called Touch. With the event, it wants to transform the atrium of the coliseum-like Central Branch into a portal to the future with interactive installations.

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DEVELOPING STORY

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evised plans for the proposed redevelopment of Oakridge Centre will be on display at open houses Oct. 3 and 5.

The size of the civic centre has been expanded, but the number of towers remains the same with the highest still at 45 storeys.

Henriquez Partners Architects and Stantec applied to amend the site’s zoning on behalf of Oakridge Centre owner Ivanhoe Cambridge and Westbank Development in November 2012. The initial application featured 13 towers ranging from 18 to 45 storeys with 2,800 residential units, as well as

rooftop greenspace, retail space and amenities such as a community centre.

The mall was developed in 1956 and last renovated in the mid 1980s. The 2007 Oakridge Centre policy statement limits towers to 24 storeys.

In June, council endorsed staff recommendations outlined in an interim report on the rezoning application, including tower heights up to 45 storeys, as well as the general level of density proposed. That decision came after council heard reaction from about two-dozen people.

Critics are alarmed about the proposed density and scale being considered, while supporters approve of what they see as a sustainable design for the 28-acre site.

Graeme Silvera, Ivanhoe Cambridge’s vice president of retail development for the western region, told the Courier Tuesday that the revised plan still includes 13 towers, the tallest of which remains at 45 storeys, while the lowest is now 17 storeys. The positions of some of the towers have shifted.

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Revision includes much larger civic centre Continued from page 1 The tower on the northwest corner by 41st was moved into the middle of the site, according to Silvera.

The locations of towers near The Terraces — a 32-unit strata located in the top three floors of the building housing Crate & Barrel and medical offices — were also moved slightly. Residents in The Terraces are troubled by the height and proximity of the towers, and they consider the overall development too dense for the neighbourhood.

Silvera said the 45-storey tower next to the Terraces was moved 12 feet further away and the 42-storey tower pushed seven feet further away.

“That was the maximum tweaking we could do looking at the retail underneath, so we tried to get [the towers] further away. That was the best we could do,” he said.

Silvera maintains one of the biggest changes in the revised plan is to the size of the civic centre, which has increased from 45,000 square feet to 70,000 square feet.

The community centre used to be 23,500 square feet, but it’s

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In the revised plan for the proposed redevelopment of Oakridge Centre, the size of the civic centre has been expanded from 45,000 square feet to 70,000 square feet, but the number of towers remains the same with the highest still at 45 storeys. been enlarged to 36,000 square feet, while the library was 13,000 square feet and is now 25,500 square feet. The childcare area

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of the site, which wasn’t very accessible. Now it’s been moved to the extreme south end of the site adjacent to the pick-up and dropoff area and Safeway.”

The affordable housing component has also increased from about 150 units to 280 units and there are now six access points to the rooftop open space. The rooftop’s usable open space has expanded from roughly seven to nine acres.

Whether any of these changes appease critics remains to be seen.

“There are some critics we’ll never satisfy, but certainly I think these changes will do a lot to show the community that we are listening and that we have made some significant shifts,” Silvera said.

“You’ve got to look at this site in the context of a long-term 2050 development.”

The plan goes before the urban design panel next, possibly in early November.

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Library needs up to $600k to build 3,000-sq.-ft lab

Continued from page 1 Touch’s curator, Malcolm Levy, co-founder and artistic director of the New Forms Festival and curator of CODE Live on the Great Northern Way Campus during the 2010 Winter Olympics, says participants will be welcomed outside the central library by a 15-metre-long mechanical snake called Titanoboa.

Once inside, a cacophony of languages will greet guests as they pass through a sculpture composed of two semi-circular walls of books.

Touch-goers can step into a small dark room and use a Braille iPad that will control light in an interactive installation called Touch of Light. They can slide onto a bicycle seat, don goggles and deliver newspapers in a virtual world with PaperDude VR. They can also check out the Robotic Writer that creates 2D drawings on a topic or theme.

Visitors seeking a personal touch can slip into the authors’ lounge to hang out with illustrators and writers Steve Burgess, Timothy Taylor and Jen Sookfong Lee to help create short stories. The space will be styled after a Gertrude Stein salon in 1920s Paris.

“Of course with digital technology and output,” Levy said. “Instead

photo courtesy Ben Unsworth

A fundraiser called Touch is scheduled for Oct. 4 to raise money for an inspiration lab at the Vancouver Pubic LIbrary’s Central Branch. Those who attend Touch can tap into the nostalgia of the golden age of paper routes with the forward-looking virtual reality experience PaperDude VR, an homage to the Paperboy video game from the 1980s. of Picassos it will be Twitter.”

Top bidders in the silent auction will win exclusive consultations with the likes of Amir Nasrabadi, vice president and general manager of Pixar in Vancouver, Francesco Aquilini, co-owner of the

Vancouver Canucks, and real estate marketer Bob Rennie.

The party also includes a DJ set

by Vancouver indie electro-pop act HUMANS and DJ VH1, from New York City, who opened for Lady Gaga for four years. “It’s about

bringing a new generation into the library and showing how the library is adapting to this time in history and not just adapting, but becoming seminal,” said Levy. “People get this magical experience of imagining digital literacy and also get the

feeling of supporting the library, becoming a part of that next generation of library supporters.”

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There was a parking lot, now it’s all covered with plants YOU’VE BEEN WARNED

CENTRAL PARK

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ather than “pave paradise” to put up a parking lot, the park board recently converted a paved parking lot into a new urban oasis.

On Sept. 30, the park board officially opened Creekway Park on Bridgeway Street near New Brighton Park with a ribbon cutting, the installation of bird nesting boxes, speeches and of course, cake.

The ecologically rich park was created to include native plants, bird habitat, pedestrian/bike paths and a daylighted stream.

That reclaimed section of Hastings Creek had been buried for almost 100 years.

Speakers attending the event included Vision Vancouver park board vice-chair Aaron Jasper, Vision Vancouver acting mayor Heather Deal and Rivers Day chair and chair emeritus of BCIT Rivers Institute Mark Angelo. On Monday, students from Sir John Franklin elementary school helped raise the nesting boxes for birds and planted perennials in the 3.2-acre park.

The completion of the $1.2 million Creekway Park is the first physical outcome of the Hastings Park/Pacific National Exhibition

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Creekway Park on Bridgeway Street, which used to be a parking lot, officially opened on Monday. It includes a reclaimed section of Hastings Creek, plants, bird habitat and paths.

Master Plan, adopted by city council in 2010.

NEW PARK DEUX “If you build it they will come,” refers of course to the new Beaucoup Bakery & Café on Fir Street, which is packed every day. So it stands to reason a new park right across from the café on Fir Street at West Sixth Avenue should also draw crowds, According to the latest concept design presented to the park

board, the skateboard ramp is out and garden plots, sun lounger chairs and an orchard are in, which pretty much guarantees Courier staffers will be found there around noon on most sunny days once it’s completed. Once completed, the .13-hectare park will enjoy a green theme with 33 new trees, 12 community garden plots, including an educational area, and multiple landscaped areas with grass, wildflowers and shrub beds.

The Courier was criticized by the Georgia Straight newspaper some years back for running a story about an aggressive raccoon that attacked and injured a Jack Russell terrier in the West End. But don’t say we didn’t warn you. What’s thought to be a family of vicious raccoons is terrorizingnotonlydogsbutalsohumansinanarea close to Stanley Park. The Stanley Park Ecology Society has long recognized a major part of our raccoon woes stem from humans continuing to feed them. The society is so concerned about interaction between humans and the cute but not so cuddly creatures that this past summer it introduced a new program called Raccoon Rangers made up volunteers from Canada and abroad, including Kenya, Switzerland, Taiwan Australia, Italy and Belgium, who combined speak more than 15 different languages. The rangers patrol the park during summer months to answer visitor questions about raccoons and other urban wildlife as a way of limiting human and animal conflicts in the park. According to the society, raccoons are curious and intelligent wild animals, highly adaptable to living in developed areas near humans. They take advantage of any available food, including easy meals handed out by park visitors. Such treats are not a healthy staple of their diet and decrease their fear of humans. That combination increases their chance of being injured or posing a danger to humans — and Jack Russells. sthomas@vancourier.com

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OPEN HOUSES FOR PLAZA

By the end of 2014, construction may be underway to replace the patch of soggy bark mulch of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s north plaza with a permanent public square.

The city is holding two open houses this week and launching an online survey to gather public input for phase one of a $3.2 million redesign of the Plaza between Hornby, Georgia and Howe streets.

The plaza started as an open area for ceremonies in 1911 behind what was then the city’s courthouse. More recently it has been a popular spot for gatherings such as the 2010 Olympic celebrations and has been a favourite destination for demonstrations including the Occupy encampment back in October of 2011.

According to the city’s director of Facilities Planning and Development, architect Danica Djurkovic, the open houses will feature three

early concepts that include water and sculptural elements, a reflective pool and work with lighting. She stressed there is plenty of room for public input to be incorporated.

Waterproofing has long been an issue at the site with water currently leaking into the underground art gallery space below and this will have to be addressed as part of the redesign, she said.

The mulch was put in prior to the Olympics and it has not been possible to put the lawn back.

The city currently leases the north plaza from the province, which must approve any proposed changes. So far there have been two public meetings about the plaza and a survey of 2,000 locals seeking direction for the space.

The first open house took place Tuesday and a second one takes place Oct. 5 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at UBC Robson Square. An online survey is also available at vancouver.city.ca/block51.

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icked a bad week to be away.

It’s always a bad week to be away whenyoucan’tdefendyourselfagainst the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services for suggesting a story I wrote two weeks ago had incorrect figures.

Maybe you read it. It had to do with the fire department spending close to $1 million on what deputy chief Mark Engler described as “gender neutral” washrooms in five firehalls. Engler explained the cost to me in a taped interview.

Engler: “We set a budget of about $150,000 to $200,000.”

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Engler: “For each one.”

Me: “Wow, that must be a pretty nice washroom.”

Engler went on to say the washrooms were expensive because the cost included money paid to a project manager and architect. Some of them required removal of hazardous material, he added.

Me: “So that I’m clear, the $150,000 to $200,000 budget is for five washrooms?”

Engler: “Correct.”

Engler: “Some of them were as low as $150,000.”

Me: “And some were more than $150,000?”

Engler: “The latest ones have been a little bit more. The contracting fees actually went up on the last one, so they were a little higher.”

Some quick math here: Five washrooms multiplied by $150,000 each equals $750,000. And, as Engler noted, some were more expensive than $150,000. So when I wrote that five washrooms cost close to $1 million, I thought that was fair. My story attracted the attention of CTV, which contacted the city’s communications department about the story. But rather than refer the TV reporter to the fire department — as they did with me — they said they’d get back to him with the costs of the washrooms.

CTV was ready to broadcast a story, when late in the day the city sent the news agency an email saying the cost of the washrooms ranged from $56,000 to $94,000. CTV didn’t think it was a story and killed it.

A few days later, the city sent the same email to Courier assistant editor Fiona Hughes, who followed up with the city’s general manager for real estate and facilities management. His name isBillAujla.“Markdidn’tdotheworkandI’mnot sure Mark gave those numbers, which is why it’s a concern,” Aujla told Hughes, when she asked about the disparity in the cost. “Certainly, when I spoke to Mark he acknowledged to me that he wasn’t sure where those figures came from.”

How about straight from Engler’s mouth.

Note: Engler has since referred all calls on the topic to the city’s communications department.

So how much did the washrooms cost? Who knows.

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former politician with vivid experience of what happens when police start investigating politicians recounted his expectations Friday of what could arise from New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix’s complaint.

Former solicitor general Kash Heed said people can expect two things.

First: “Everybody is going to lawyer up.” And second, the conclusion could be a long way in the future, because these political cases move slowly.

Dix stunned the political world Thursday by revealing he complained in August to RCMP about matters related to the B.C. Liberals’ ethnic-outreach scandal and other issues. That came moments after the criminal justice branch announced that a special prosecutor has been working with police since Aug. 29 on the case.

Heed is personally familiar with the experience of having your political affairs subject to an RCMP investigation. A questionable brochure produced by some of his workers in the 2009 campaign eventually prompted a police investigation. He stepped down immediately. A special prosecutor quickly cleared him and he resumed his portfolio. Then the special prosecutor was found to be a B.C. Liberal donor. It threw the findings in doubt, and Heed had to resign again.

A new investigation eventually charged some campaign staff and exonerated Heed, although he was dinged for over-spending. He never made it back into cabinet and resigned at the last election.

One of the offshoots of that case was a tightening of the checking process for lawyers eligible to be special prosecutors. It’s safe to assume David Butcher, QC was triple-checked before he was named special prosecutor in this case.

Heed, a former police chief, said the RCMP handle all Election Act investigations under a protocol established several years ago. He said they will have likely set up a project team and given it a name.

In Dix’s complaint, the link between the planned ethnic-outreach program, in 2011, and alleged Election Act violations is not clear. That act describes many things that are offences, such as vote-buying, intimidation, subversion, and using false or misleading information. There are also lengthy restrictions about campaign financing, spending limits and record-keeping.

There are hints that Dix’s complaint relies partly on evidence compiled by the deputy ministers who investigated the ethnic-outreach issue and partly on new information that emerged after the election.

Heed said the case could be a straightforward Election Act violation or evolve into a breach-of-trust case, which would be a more serious Criminal Code matter. “If the case is contained to Election Act violations, the consequences will be minimal compared to the legal costs that will be incurred. If it crosses that line [between the Election Act and the Criminal Code] it’s different.”

The number of lawyers, the political involvement and the stakes involved will drag the issue out. At a Vancouver news conference on Friday, Dix started turning up the political heat.

The deputies’ release of the background documents in July prompted a new round of attention to the ethnic-outreach scandal. It centred on Liberal officials’ discussion of arranging a job for an unhappy ex-staffer, and their concerns that she not do anything to damage the party.

Dix said that subsequent to that, the NDP “uncovered new information that we believe is serious evidence of wrongdoing.” They reviewed it with lawyers and were advised to send it to the RCMP. Dix said it was “very significant information that the government had previously kept hidden. “I know the Liberal party believes that their 44-40 per cent win in the election ends all questions ... It doesn’t.”

Although the case is loaded to the brim with politics, Dix said his complaint has nothing to do with the election results.

“This is about serious misconduct, in my view, over time, that the Liberal party engaged in.” lleyne@timescolonist.com

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love ghost towns. There’s something amazing about being the only human being walking through a vast and utterly empty, human-constructed realm.

At least half the appeal of the zombie movie comes from the weird emptiness of the world. Whack a few shambling corpses over the head, and you can live anywhere you want! Dibs on the library!

There have always been ghost towns. Every human-inhabited continent is dotted with the remains of towns that were abandoned, after the residents ran out of water or food or were turned into a decorative pile of skulls outside the front gates by a barbarian horde.

The Black Death left many villages empty, as the few survivors just left. The 30 Years War in Europe was so vicious — today we’d see it as ethnic cleansing — that it left vast areas depopulated.

There’s never been a better time than now to be a lover of ghost towns, because they’re making brand new ones.

Traditionally, you get a ghost town like this: people move in, they set up a town, something goes catastrophically wrong (famine, pestilence, economic collapse, nuclear reactor meltdown, underground coal seam fire) and everybody leaves/drops dead.

Now China and a few other countries are just building ghost towns from scratch.

Ordos City is one of the most famous of these ghost cities. The actual ghost town is the new city — the old Ordos was a standard issue boom town. When China’s economy started heading skyward like an Atlas rocket, power plants needed coal. Inner Mongolia had lots of coal. Miners came, and Ordos grew and grew, and then planned for a massive, new town site that would put all its previous expansions to shame. And they overshot.

There are a few people living in Ordos, but they amount to one or two families living in apartment blocks built for hundreds.

China also has one of the contenders for the world’s largest mall (sorry West Edmonton), the New South China Mall. South China is where a lot of the factories that supply the west were built, and the mall is built just east of Guangzhou, one of the country’s largest cities. Yet from its opening in 2005, the mall had a 99 per cent vacancy rate for several years. The owner claims things have picked up recently, but there are reports that unfinished sections of the mall are now in danger of collapsing.

Canada is no stranger to this kind of building boom madness and resourcegrabbing overshoot.

One of the most famous examples in recent years is Kitsault, a scenic little town of about 2,400 people that existed for exactly three years and then was closed up.

A company town, it was built for molybdenum miners and opened in 1980, on the extreme north coast of B.C. The mine owners didn’t want their workers to get dissatisfied and quit so they included a mall, a community centre, a library and a small hospital. Then the price of molybdenum crashed in 1982, and six months later everyone was gone.

Kitsault has popped up in the news because the entire town was kept intact and maintained over the years, and it has come up for sale a few times.

If Canada had a population of more than a billion, Kitsault and towns like it might have been built on the scale of Ordos City rather than as a little village.

China, and maybe Kitsault, should consider new industries for their empty towns. Tourists would probably pay good money to come and to take part in Mad Max or zombie apocalypse tourism. Get a few locals dressed as bikers or the walking dead and you’ve got a brand new industry. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

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One of the most famous examples in recent years is Kitsault, a scenic little town of about 2,400 people that existed for exactly three years.

MARPOLE NOT AGAINST DENSIFICATION

To the editor: Re: “Vancouverites protest community plans,” Sept. 25.

There appears to be an incorrect assumption by some regarding the protest against the community plans last Tuesday evening. Members of the Marpole Residents Coalition have NEVER said they are against densification. On the contrary, we support the densification along the main corridors, Granville, Oak and Cambie Street. It only makes sense!

What we strongly opposed is densification within those corridors — the rezoning of many single-family homes to townhouses, duplexes and six- and 12-storey apartment buildings. Many fear that such a plan would lead to an increase in taxes. Also, if a property is rezoned the selling price may actually be lower than expected due to a surplus of rezoned property.

In addition, such a plan would lead to more traffic due to the overcrowding of the Canada Line. We are told that more trains can be purchased and run closer together and that a third car could be added to each train which of course would mean the costly lengthening of each station platform.

Where is the money for that going to come from by an already cash strapped transit system with other priorities?

Certainly not from the city!

The other main contention is the lack of consultation. Both the initial plan and the Jackson Report revisions were thrust upon us with no warning or opportunity to give our input. That

is a very undemocratic way to run a city. We have the strong support of Coun. Adriane Carr on this issue.

As taxpayers and homeowners this is OUR community and we do not want it destroyed by a City Council that is only answerable to the developers!

Bob Loveless, Vancouver

PLAN PROCEDURE FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED To the editor: During council’s discussion about revisions to the Draft Marpole Community Plan on September 29, Coun. Kerry Jang repeated his oft-heard opinion that “a lot of misinformation is out there.”

Coun. Heather Deal voiced similar concerns and Mayor Gregor Robertson complained of people “misleading residents with false information.”

Whether the community-distributed material is accurate or not, the question raised by council’s remarks is: Why were a few unpaid amateurs volunteering their spare time more successful at communicating with Marpole residents than the numerous well-paid full-time professionals employed by City Hall?

It is because the current strategy of abruptly revealing massive rezoning near the end of the process horrifies those affected.

The community plan procedure is fundamentally flawed.

To be successful, a community plan requires substantive consultation with the residents from the beginning of its development.

Brendan Hallinan, Vancouver

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SIX STOREY BUILDING IS WRONG FOR STONG’S

To the editor: Re: “Stong’s market faces uncertain future,” Aug. 30.

The Dunbar community has supported the proposed redevelopment of the Stong’s Market site and adjacent properties at four stories in community consultation meetings.

Stong’s grocery has an agreement with the developer, Harwood, that if the redevelopment is six storeys, Stong’s will receive a below market rent. For this reason, Stong’s is advocating a six-storey redevelopment.

However, it is common in retail development to offer an anchor tenant, such as a grocery store, a below market base rate and a percentage rent. This recognizes the grocery store will attract customers for the other retail.

For many years Stong’s has been a supporter of the Dunbar community. For this reason, residents of Dunbar have returned the support to the grocery store.

It may be that the interests of the community and Stong’s have now diverged and community members should consider taking their grocery shopping elsewhere. Shoppers carries many food basics at prices that are often below Stong’s. IGA is just down on 41st and is a fullservice grocery store.

Don’t let Stong’s’ self-interest cause short term decision making that is not in the best interest or reflective of the wishes of the Dunbar community. Let the grocery store, the developer and the City of Vancouver know you do not support a six-story redevelopment.

Denise Taylor Ellis, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Culture of fear and blame replaces citizen engagement,” Sept. 27 Jonathan Baker @jonbenbak: :One of Garr’s best columns.

Anne McMullin @AnneMcMullin: Insightful column.

COURIER STORY: “Musqueam student keeps eye on the prize — a Dogwood diploma,” Sept. 27 Ginger RM Louis: Awesome!! So proud of you for speaking up, it take a lot of courage, Congratulations Graduate of 2013!!! You are a great role model for the younger generation.

KUDOS & KVETCHES: “Table of Contents under pressure,” Sept. 27 Carey Murphy: I’ve placed two Couriers (the way it was and the way it is now) on the sofa next to me.

I’m reaching out and taking the lower right corners between my fingers, first the old and then the new. I turned over the front pages, revealing page 3. I miss the table of contents. Gives the paper a more professional look, like it has a purpose to deliver information. Sorry.

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Costumes are all free. The swap starts at 9 a.m. and the movie Hotel Transylvania starts at 10 a.m. Arrive early to swap and make a Halloween craft with Craft Caravan.

No costume to swap, no problem. The kids can still join the fun. Doors open at 9 a.m. and the cost is $5 for three-years old and up with proceeds to benefit Basics for Babies.

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JERICHO There are a limited number of seats available to Vancouverites interested in watching the upcoming Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Regimental Sergeant Major’s Appointment Parade, 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2 at Jericho Garrison, 4050 West Fourth Ave. A reception will follow the parade, which is just one of the events taking place during Army Reserve Recognition Week on now through Oct. 5.

The parade marks the change of the Regimental Sergeant Major’s Appointment of Chief Warrant Officer C.P. Gormely to Chief Warrant Officer J. O’Connor. Guests are asked to be seated in the drill hall by 8:45 p.m. Respond with an RSVP to William.Annand@forces.gc.ca.

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Collectors, treasure hunters bound by books REBECCA BLISSETT Contributing writer

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hrown on top of Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia journal was a copy of The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Piano Song Book, neither of which book collector Gordon Kibble was particularly interested in.

Instead, Kibble, who was third in line to get in to the 2013 Vancouver Book Fair this past weekend at the UBC Robson Square, dashed for the Ainsworth Books stall and within five minutes bought a decades-old The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland, which included stories about “other great naval disasters.”

Kibble pointed to other books propped up on the table-top shelving. Military books, books about British Columbia history, railway books and, “Now here’s a rare one,” he said, opening a book about World War I, all written in German. “I don’t read German but you can tell by some of the words used — torpedieren — that it’s all about battles of the naval fleet.

You do not walk into your local book store where something like this calls out, ‘Here I AM!’”

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Rodney Silbernagel and wife Lillis drove up from Seattle to attend the 2013 Vancouver Book Fair. Rodney was on the hunt for old science fiction novels while Lillis collects children’s books.

To see a photo gallery of the event, go to vancourier.com or scan this page with your smartphone or tablet using the Layar app.

And that’s why the Vancouver Book Fair drew a steady crowd all day long; people bound by the love of the magic of an old book.

Twenty-four dealers brought their antiquarian, collectable and rare books, and the classroom-sized space was filled with well-traveled words. (Don Stewart of the venerable MacLeod’s Books said he has sometimes seen the same

book come back to him two or three times during his 41 years of business. “It’s like seeing an old friend,” he said.)

The printed word is becoming a rarity, particularly in cities where living space is at a premium.

Books, much like compact discs for music, are packed off to the thrift shop, leaving behind a digital file of convenience, an invisible pres-

ence until a button is turned on.

Pam Cohen and Gary Abbott, first and second in Saturday morning’s book fair line-up respectfully, are both avid collectors. Cohen collects children’s books, focused on the illustrations. “I’m a book lover,” she said. “Still like the feel of a real book, the actual physical page.

Also, you can’t see an illustration as well on the computer screen as you do on the printed page.”

Abbott, who has anywhere between 1,800 to 2,000 books in his collection, is here for the first editions because later versions often change with omissions, he said.

“My reason to collect is to go back to the original source, the original documentation. It’s like telling a story... by the time it gets to the fifth person, the story has changed.”

Cohen interrupts good naturedly, “Got any stone tablets?”

The Vancouver Book Fair represents a good chunk of the used sellers in town, including a couple suburban dealers as well as two from Winnipeg and a lone seller from Toronto. The fair was started, resurrected rather, by Richard Hopkins of Hourglass Books three years ago after dying in the 1980s when cross-border legislation

made it near-impossible for American dealers to participate (part of the law was that they had to leave the cash equivalent to their collections with customs — a formidable request considering some books are worth thousands of dollars).

“It’s a fascinating trade,” said Hopkins. “The most important thing is bringing a sense of community. There’s a lot of guys who have been in the business for a long time and, as one dealer said, this gives them a chance to hang out with the other old farts.”

Proof of the community building: Hopkins was the only seller with his books in cardboard boxes as he gave his shelving to another dealer for the weekend.

Three hours after Saturday’s fair started, Kibble reached his self-imposed maximum purchase allowance of one full backpack.

But room wasn’t the only thing stopping him from a find — a several volume collection of books by Captain George Vancouver had a $70,000 price tag.

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ack before yoga was “hot” and mainstream in Vancouver, Kareen Zebroff taught meditation and the downward dog.

Any Canadian who owned a TV in the 1970s likely remembers Zebroff’s half- hour yoga program. In addition to hosting her TV show Yoga & Nutrition for 16 years, Zebroff wrote nine books on the same theme of exercise and eating well. She also acted in such locally shot shows as The Beachcombers, Danger Bay and MacGyver.

In honour of the United Nations’ International Day of Older Persons, Oct. 1, the Courier caught up with the Vancouver icon, now in her 70s.

Born in 1941, Zebroff said she used to tell everyone her exact age, but doesn’t anymore. “[People] see what they associate with that number and I am not the norm,” she said by phone after just finishing her morning walk with Peter, her husband of 52 years.

The German-born daughter of a doctor, Zebroff keeps busy these days with her studies in German new medicine and proudly boasts that unlike many of her peers, she doesn’t take any medications. She still practises yoga and loves doing circuits at the gym in addition to her daily 6 a.m. walks.

Zebroff said she loves being older. “Now I am wise-smart.

Common sense-smart based on experience and being able to have calmed down about things,” she said. Recalling a recent series of challenges her family has faced, including the flooding of her apartment and her husband totaling their car, she said people in their youth are misguided in what they expect from life.

“It is wonderful to realize you are not here to be happy … you are here to learn, baby. You are in school, it behooves you to learn the lessons.”

CBC producer Pamela Post met Zebroff outside an organic grocery in 2008. “Before Kareen was a yoga TV star she was a teacher. And to this day, she loves to share her wisdom and experiences with people… I like to say she is lit from within,” said Post via email.

Zebroff and her teachings have not always been so popular with everyone. In the early 1970s she and a few other yoga teachers had to appear at city hall to answer to a minister’s charge they were teaching witchcraft with their yoga classes. The instructors had to explain to the mayor that yoga wasn’t in fact a cult or religion.

Jutta Wiedermann, 83, was one of the other yoga instructors who faced city hall with Zebroff. “Now, when you look at how popular yoga is and when it has been seen how valuable yoga is it is difficult to understand, but you know anything that is not known is frightening to many people,” she said.

Wiedermann and Zebroff bonded through their shared experience defending yoga and have been close friends for 40 years. “I love her,” Wiedermann said, noting she speaks daily to Zebroff and often turns to her for advice.

Zebroff is finishing work on her tenth book. “A fun advice book on how to survive 50 years of marriage and other se-

crets,” she said.

Zebroff hints at some of the secrets to her long and selfdescribed happy marriage that she will share in the book.

“Yoga and sex and politeness. Respect, being able to say sorry and kissing meaningfully when he leaves and rushing to the door to say hello at the end of the day.”

Zebroff’s website is kareenzebroff.com thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/thuncher

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Other retailers that sell transit passes will still be able to sell preloaded cards, but will not be able to reload them for customers. Only the vending machines at transit stations or London Drugs will be able to reload cards, which can also be reloaded online or by phone.

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Selected works from Calgary photographer PAMELA KLAFFKE’s kind of creepy, kind of retro BESTIA PARVULUS (ANIMAL CHILD) photo series of children wearing masks will be exhibited at Foot of Main Gallery (119 Main St.) Oct. 3 to 31, as part of the CAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL. Opening reception is Oct. 3, 7 to 9 p.m. More info at footofmain. com and capturephotofest.com.

Twenty Something Theatre presents SPEECH & DEBATE at Granville Island’s Studio 1398, Oct. 2 to 12. Pulitzer Prize nominee Stephen Karam’s tale of teenage misfits brought together by a smalltown sex scandal also includes songs, dance routines and dramatic interpretations of history… naturally. The New York Times calls it “hilarious…. and immensely entertaining.”

Tickets at brownpapertickets.com. More details at twentysomethingtheatre.blogspot.com.

Up-in-the-air Theatre’s INSIDE THE SEED is billed as a modern day re-imagining of Oedipus Rex set in a giant bio-genetics corporation that aspires to grow the perfect seed and, in doing so, feed the world and end starvation. Not sure where the sleeping with your mother and killing your father part comes in. Anyway, it runs Oct. 2 to 12 at the Cultch. For tickets and info, go to thecultch.com or call 604-251-1363.

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) tackles LANCE ARMSTRONG’s spectacular and fascinating fall from grace in THE ARMSTRONG LIE. It screens Oct. 3, 6:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Playhouse as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. For more information, go to viff.org.

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ut down your rum and cokes and wave your iPhones in the air like you just don’t care. After years of intense chubby dude on chubby dude action, Apple has finally unseated Coca-Cola as the world’s number one brand. In fact, Coke isn’t even number two, according to a study of the top 100 brands conducted by Interbrand Corp.

While Apple Inc.’s brand value buffered, requested you to upgrade, made you regret the upgrade instantly because it rendered half your programs useless, then jumped 28 per cent to $98.3 billion, Google Inc. captured second place at $93.3 billion. Sad little Coca-Cola Co. slipped from the top spot after 13 years to third place with a paltry $79.2 billion.

Founded in 1976, and incorporated in 1977, Apple Computer, Inc. has grown from spunky little upstart to world-dominating behemoth. But back when we were growing up, Apple was just a faint blip on our radar, appreciated only by the nerdiest of nerds in our school’s AV Club. In fact, if you were to ask us back then what companies would grow up to become the world’s top brands in 2013, we’d have said the following:

• Pelican Cove. Bootlegger’s flagship brand not only evoked a sense of tropical adventure and untapped denim treasure, they made one hell of pair of khaki cargo pants during the 1980s. All those pockets and canvas straps — we felt like we could conquer ancient civilizations in a pair of Pelican Coves.

Now they’ve gone the way of Sergio Valente jeans and parachute pants, and if they’re lucky maybe show up on an episode of Girls.

• Super Socco. If a brand’s value was measured in refreshment alone, the citrusflavoured sports beverage and juice box pioneer known as Super Socco would be number one in a heartbeat. Alas, endorsements

by Vancouver Whitecap Carl Valentine and a heavy presence at soccer camps in the early to mid-’80s does not a successful global brand make.

• Drakkar Noir. Sure, Guy Laroche’s ultra cool men’s fragrance can’t play mp3s, take photos of its duck-faced users, give directions to the nearest H&M or let you text images of your nether regions to friends and prospective blackmailers, but with notes of bergamot, rosemary, lavender, cardamom, geranium, vetiver, cedar, fir balsam and “loin of John Stamos,” at least you smell like a hero. Which is something that can’t be said for lame old iPhones. That is until they develop an iSmell app, which will probably be happening pretty soon. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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hades of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? American playwright Jon Robin Baitz takes a couple, Polly and Lyman Wyeth, throws in their coming-homefor-Christmas kids, Tripp and his sister Brooke, and, for good measure, adds Polly’s recovering-alcoholic sister Silda to this toxic cocktail. And then Baitz just lets ’er rip. If you don’t like family dramas/comedies with a lot of caustic but funny backbiting and put-downs, this one’s not for you. In spite of the number of times the characters say they love each other, they sure are brutal.

But if you’ve ever wondered how parents cope with an adult child that’s been involved in a crime in which an innocent dies, then Other Desert Cities is an interesting and entertaining exploration of unconditional love and the dark places it can take you.

The desert city is Palm Springs, the year is 2004 and the setting is the Wyeths’ super-upscale home: handsome furniture, well-stocked bar, artificial gold Christmas tree sparkling upstage. Designed by Amir Ofek and lit by Adrian Muir, the Wyeth living room is bright and light and screams affluence.

Polly and Silda, quick, clever and in their 50s, were Hollywood screenwriters. Lyman was a Gary Cooper-style actor before becoming an ambassador. Tripp is the producer of a reality courtroom TV drama; Brooke has just finished writing her second novel which, it turns out, is actually a memoir that focuses on the suicide of her older brother Henry — a subject forbidden in the family.

Directed by Rachel Ditor, these characters are all articulate, clever and very good at wicked repartee. Indeed they hardly speak a line that’s not smart and barbed. The emotional pain in this family is almost kept under wraps by these snappy, sarcastic one-liners including colourful, politically incorrect put downs (mostly from the mouth of Polly).

Gabrielle Rose (as Polly) is particularly acidic but her character’s constant drinking and non-stop vitriol hints at some deeply hidden pain. Rose sweeps the stage in a bright turquoise caftan like an Evil Queen of the North.

Allan Gray’s Lyman is a more conciliatory character until he cracks and joins the attack on Brooke, whose soon-tobe-published book will blow this well-respected but dysfunctional family apart. Benjamin Elliott’s Tripp is preppy and a bit of a goofball but Tripp is ultimately protective of

his sister Brooke (Anna Galvin) who’s an open wound of a character: nervous, pill-taking, badly strung-out. Gwyneth Walsh is Silda who, initially, seems to be the sane, decent one despite her battle with the bottle.

There is a huge secret at the heart of Other Desert Cities — so-titled because of a highway sign approaching Palm Springs.

But before the reveal — there’s more than one reveal, actually — there’s Reaganesque politics and the backlash within the family. Poor little rich Republican kids whose parents put them through expensive schools and who are happy to continue to support them well into their adulthood. It’s hard to like any of these people even while we feel sympathy for them.

Until the final reveal. And then things change.

However, there is an alternate way of looking at the play’s conclusion. In response to critic Ben Brantley’s New York Times review (November 3, 2011) one reader commented that he thought playwright Baitz has taken us in: “I suspect the real brilliance of Baitz’ play is that so many people would prefer to believe a sappy fiction than to consider the possibility that the Wyeths are indeed as devious as their daughter once believed.” I won’t say more but considering Polly was a successful screenwriter and Lyman a hambone famous for his death scenes, Other Desert Cities might actually be going to a completely different, much darker place.

—reviewed by Jo Ledingham For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca

Allan Gray and Gabrielle Rose star in the Arts Club production Other Desert Cities.

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hen Haida artist John Bennett moved from Haida Gwaii to Montreal he didn’t want to leave imagery of is cultural heritage behind. Subsequently some of his lithographs at the new Fazakas Gallery combine visions of the city and his culture.

“Montreal Ovoids” features a washed-out, pastel-hued cityscape layered with Haida ovoid eye forms.

“So here’s a kind of voyeuristic view of apartment buildings in the city... It reminds me of this idea of autonomy in the city and the lack, really, thereof because there are all these eyes upon you,” said LaTiesha Fazakas, owner and director of the gallery at 145 West Sixth Ave. The print is part of an exhibit called Story, the launch show of the Fazakas Gallery, which showcases contemporary Northwest Coast native art alongside contemporary art.

“Sharing your story, people can relate to it on a human level… Your cultural background isn’t as significant. It’s part of it but the story and the human connection happens across cultures,” Fazakas said.

Mexican artist Carlos Colin’s photography is part of Fazakas Gallery’s Story exhibit.

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After her studies in western art history, work at the Douglas Reynolds Gallery on South Granville, which focuses solely on Northwest West native art, for 12 years, and curating and consulting for others, Fazakas wanted to create a gallery that expanded boundaries.

Northwest Coast native art has often been isolated from the contemporary art world and relegated to tourist shops and anthropology museums, but Fazakas notes, “there’s been a long history of contact between two worlds.”

She wanted collectors to see how complimentary diverse works of art could be.

She’d seen collectors of contemporary art appear intimidated when they entered a gal-

lery filled solely with Northwest Coast native art. “They were quite hesitant and they asked questions but they still, I could see that it was difficult for them to imagine adding a piece to their collection,” Fazakas said.

She met Mexican artist Carlos Colin when he was searching for internationally recognized Kwakwaka’wakw carver Beau Dick from Alert Bay. Colin, who just completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of B.C., wanted to connect with aboriginal artists during his time in Vancouver.

Fazakas asked to see Colin’s work and was struck at how similar his vibrant photo of a Guatemalan scarf wrapped around someone’s head,

exposing one eye, was to Dick’s Towkwit head, a sculpture of a head wrapped in cloth and rubbed in red ochre, with just an eye showing.

Colin’s work is concerned with the importance to people in Latin America of maintaining and preserving their culture and the impact colonialism has had on them moving forward, while Beau’s sculpture is of a warrior woman who can’t be killed. “You can just see the eye because she’s regenerating, she’s coming back to life,” Fazakas said.

Dick’s sculptures aren’t included in Story but his fierce carved and painted masks are.

When she’s not curating, Fazakas is producing a documentary about Dick’s life and she matches individuals and corporations with artists on unique commissions. Prices of works in Story range from $250 to $6,500.

Before opening night, Haida artist Corey Bulpitt topped a length of telephone pole he’d salvaged with an eagle he’d carved and trucked it around East Vancouver, filming it and talking to people and some of them added buttons and stickers to the pole. So opening night, Fazakas got blank buttons and felt pens so guests could add their own messages.

“I like art to be fun, and I think that most people do,” Fazakas said. “It brings it to that next level and more layers and more enjoyment when you can have an interaction with it, rather than being stuffy.” crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Italian-American chef, Emmy Award winning television host, author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich will present and launch her new book “Lidia’s Common Sense Italian Cooking”. Presented in partnership with “Books To Cooks” this event features a panel discussion on Italian cuisine lead by local restaurateur Umberto Menghi, a Vancouver Opera performance and Italian Wine tasting.

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SPORT SHORTS WEEK TWO: AAA AND AA VARSITY FOOTBALL Notre Dame 0 – 54 Mt. Douglas The two-time defending AAA B.C. champion Rams from Mt. Douglas secondary charged through the Notre Dame Jugglers Sept. 27 in Victoria, leaving little wonder why they hold the No. 1 AAA ranking in the province.

The Jugglers head coach Richard Scott said the loss will help steady Notre Dame (0-2, 1-1) in their remaining regular season games.

Vancouver College 13 – 6 West Vancouver After losing to Handsworth by a single point last week, the Vancouver College Fighting Irish (2-0, 1-1) answered with a road win over West Vancouver Sept. 28. VC quarterback Giordy Belfiore connected with Ovie Odjegba on an 18-yard pass to open scoring and West Van only managed to score in the final minute.

Hamber 0 – 26 Timberline For the second time in as many weeks, the Eric Hamber Griffins (0-3, 0-1) met the Timberline Wolves. The Griffins traveled to Campbell River for the Sept. 28 game, but the results weren’t much different than their first meeting in Vancouver.

PARITY BEFORE PLAYOFFS The senior boys city champion senior from Kitsilano have built on their roster this season by adding recruits from the junior city championship team, but no result is guaranteed.

“The league is very balanced this year and the parity is excellent,” said Kitsilano head coach Randy Coutts.

“The team that gets the best over the next four weeks will have the best opportunity to do well and go deep into the playoffs.”

Kitsilano (1-1-1) sits in third place behind Winston Churchill (2-0-1) in second and first-place Eric Hamber (3-0). Lord Byng (0-1-1), the team that challenged Kitsilano in the city final and again in the zone playoffs, has yet to win a game.

Against Magee Sept. 26, Kitsilano netted two goals from Luke Patterson and James Soulsbury in a 2-1 win over the Lions. The players moving up form the junior Demons include George Karvelis, Seb Correa, Noah Tischausser, Devon Mitchell, Taj Sunga, Liam McClean, Nick Finch, Scott Kerr and Bastian Destailleur.

The public school senior boys city playoffs being Oct. 15. The championship game kicks off 3:30 p.m. Oct. 22.

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Kitsilano defeated Magee 2-1 Sept. 26 at Memorial South Park.

Carolyn Lundie instructs children aged two to five at Yoga Buttons Studio.

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n a recent Tuesday evening, my son was a lion and I was a laughing hyena. Together we took a family class at Yoga Buttons, the city’s newest yoga studio and one of the few that caters to children and teens.

As a group, we worked to come up with a symbolic pose for the animal we each chose. There were horses, hippos, dragons and cobras. It was great to see the excitement build as sounds and facial expressions were added to the standard physical representation of each pose.

Yoga Buttons Studio, which is located in Kitsilano, is a place where kids and their families can breathe and play together in a colourful, safe space, said founder Carolyn Lundie. A single mom, Lundie returned to Vancouver after a solo, soul-searching trip to Goa, India and six months later opened Yoga Buttons, which celebrated its first anniversary in September.

The studio’s name has a personal connection to Lundie’s family, she said. “My dad called me buttonni, which in Italian means ‘my little button.’”

The main difference between kids and adult yoga is play, said Cari-Lee Stevens of CLS Fitness. “Kids’ yoga can be very playful and fun. It gives

them a sense of power with what their bodies can do,” she said. “If you start them young enough on the principles and philosophies of yoga, it’s a great foundation for daily life.”

Stevens brings yoga into the classroom at elementary and secondary schools like L’Ecole Bilingue, York House and Winston Churchill. As long as the yoga instructor is qualified, Stevens said even headstand poses are low risk because children’s bodies are much more limber and naturally flexibility than older youth or adults.

Children need a variety of different physical activities, said ‘NSTEP founder Deb Hymers. Those include flexibility, strength, endurance and most importantly, she said, “unstructured play.”

‘NSTEP is a non-profit organization that brings nutritional and physical activity programming to B.C. and Alberta schools to prevent obesity. Yoga can be part of a balanced lifestyle, but children should pursue multiple and diverse activities.

“While yoga is beneficial, […] children should be having a variety of activities so they have the healthy habit of being active for life,” said Hymers.

For Lundie, stress and the go-go-go pace of city life became boldly apparent while working as an elementary school teacher. Parents make time for yoga practice in their own hectic schedules, so why aren’t we guiding

our kids to do the same? Better yet, she asked, why aren’t we doing it together?

When my son Cash and I participated in Lundie’s Family Buttons class, our favourite moments were working on our breathing by passing a ball and placing little buttons on our forehead over our “third eye” to stay focused.

Before the relaxation exercise Savasanah, Lundie sprinkled each participant young and old with sparkles and lavender mist, reminding each of us to honour our child within and to sparkle every day.

“Kids love visuals,” she said. “The message is that we are not expecting kids to be adults.”

My son was resistant when I asked him to join me for this yoga play date, but after class I asked him what he liked best. He said he liked the “calm,” the “stretch,” and “us being happy together.”

Visit yogabuttons.com for a schedule. Sunday Family Buttons classes are by donation with proceeds given to a children’s charity of choice. For a great one-stop shop for sourcing family yoga classes at community centres, visit butterflyyoga.ca.

Stephanie Florian is always chasing her next adventure and plays with her family in the mountains and on the sea.

Get in touch at playoutdoorsvancouver. ca and twitter.com/@PlayOutdoorsVan.

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