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Telustowerconstructioncontinuesat49th/Oak TELECOMMUNICATIONS GIANT HALTS INJUNCTION APPLICATION AGAINST PROTESTERS ANDREW FLEMING Staff writer

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onstruction work on a new Telus telecommunications tower behind a mini-mall at the corner of Oak Street and W. 49th Avenue

is moving forward after nearby residents agreed to stop preventing workers from accessing the site.

On Monday, the telecommunications giant filed an injunction application in B.C. Supreme Court to stop people from blocking workers from the site at 6469 Oak

St. but called it off after protesters gave notice they were throwing in the towel.

“It was adjourned after Telus learned from some of the residents that there would be no further illegal blocking of the site,” said Telus spokesperson Liz Sauvé. “We are

proceeding on the assumption that we will be able to complete construction… Telus does not intend to pursue any further legal action as long the residents do not block our access to the site.”

The legal move came after staff were prevented from working at

the site by four protesters Oct. 18, several months after work on the construction on the 15-metre monotower was put on hold for more public consultation after residents collected 800 signatures on a petition objecting to the project.

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VSB schools raise $3.4m in one year BULK OF MONEY CAME FROM GRANTS, PACS, INDIVIDUALS CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer

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VOLLEYBALL ACTION: David Thompson’s Victor Yung, left, and Brandon Lam block Eric Hamber’s

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ancouver schools raised more than $3 million last year with the greatest proportion of that money funding field trips, playgrounds and technology.

The $3.45 million raised is reported in the recently released VSB Fundraising Survey 2012/2013 undertaken by a subcommittee of the Vancouver School Board’s advocacy committee.

“It’s the first time we’ve done it,” said Mike Lombardi, vice chairperson of the Vancouver School Board. “Increasingly, what we’ve been hearing anecdotally the last couple of years is that fundraising is creating extra burdens on the schools… so we thought let’s take a snapshot and see what it looks like on the ground.”

The presentation released by the school board doesn’t specify which schools raised how much. “We made a commitment to schools that we wouldn’t actually print what their schools raised, but it did range from $1,000 to $20,000,” Lombardi said. “The first thing [schools] ask is are we going to see this on the front page of the newspaper?”

Ninety-three of 93 responding schools said they’d undertaken grant applications, which could include gaming and corporate grants, 90 per cent of 84 schools said they’d participated in fundraising initiated by a parent advisory council, and 67 per cent of 62 respondents reported receiving individual and community donations. Accordingly, the bulk of money raised came from grants, PAC fundraising and individual and community donations.

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Parents and the provincial government funded the playground at Tyee elementary near Knight Street 19th Avenue.

Trustee prefers more stable government funding Continued from page 1 The survey report will go to the board’s management and coordinating committee in December. The report’s authors hope the management committee will support reviewing the district’s fundraising policy, which Lombardi says was adopted in 1989.

“And that we redouble our efforts to advocate for more stable, predictable and adequate funding [from the provincial government] so we can start to reduce the need for fundraising,” he said.

Lombardi said money raised by schools was traditionally used to fund field trips and sports, but now fundraising for playgrounds and technology are on the top of the agenda of PAC meetings because of downloading by the provincial government.

“We’re starting to see the impact of $100 million being cut out of the [education] budget over 10 years,” he said, adding “It would take us $47 million today to bring us back to 2002 funding levels.”

The presentation lists the pros and cons of fundraising, including that doing so “benefits the students and brings our parent community and staff together in a very positive way.”

That statement echoes Education Minister Peter Fassbender’s remarks to the Courier last month. He said there would be no new money for playgrounds and that fundraising brings people together. “So when we can build cooperation with PACs and communities and collaboration with other community groups, that’s a positive for everyone.”

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But when you’re fundraising every month of every year for school books, the library books, for the playground, for field trips, it gets to be a bit much.

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Lombardi agrees fundraising can bring a community together.

“But when you’re fundraising every month of every year for school books, the library books, for the playground, for field trips, it gets to be a bit much,” he said. “That’s not bringing the community together, it’s creating tension in the community.”

Seismic safety, money for playgrounds, access to technology and playground safety were reported to be of greatest concern to parents at the citywide parent advisory council meeting last month.

To see a copy of the report, see the online version of this story at vancourier.com. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Continued from page 1 The construction site now has security guards keeping on eye on the location around the clock, and copies of Telus’s injunction application threatening legal consequences for public interference are available on a nearby sheltered notice board.

Sauvé believes many residents changed their minds about the project after attending public consultations over the summer.

“The dialogue that we’ve had with residents has been really great,” she said. “We had material both in English and in Mandarin as well for a few of the residents. They were reading the guidelines from Health Canada and understanding the information they had previously been given, whether it was by other residents or something they found online, was misinformation. There is a lot of misleading information out there if you google cell towers.”

She added that Health Canada’s Safety Code 6 (SC6) limit for the maximum exposure levels to RF is some of the strictest in the developed world, and Telus’s injunction notice included an affidavit statement by Patricia Daly, Vancouver Coastal Health’s chief medical health officer, dismissing potential health risks posed by the tower.

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The completed Telus tower behind the strip mall at West 49th Avenue and Oak Street will also include an electric car charging station. pose an adverse health risk and SC6 provides an appropriate level of protection,” Daly wrote.

Sita Walia, an urban designer involved with the group No Telus Tower, doesn’t think the public consultations changed the minds of many of her neighbours and that protesters are instead giving up out of fear of doing legal battle with a deep-pocketed corporation.

Kevin Hart, whose wife Michelle was the

only protester mentioned by name in the Telus injunction application, declined to comment when contacted by the Courier.

“It’s almost like they’ve left us no choice unfortunately,” said Walia. “I don’t want to say anything that might make Telus do things against us. People have given up.”

Walia said the verdict is still out in other parts of the world regarding acceptable radiation levels and pointed out that the Vancouver School Board instituted stricter

guidelines than Health Canada’s by not allowing towers to be built within 305 metres (1,000 feet) of school property. She admitted that decreased property values are also a major concern for residents.

“The location of towers in the past, they usually try to hide it, whether it is in trees or behind larger building and this is just a one-storey commercial building, so people in the area are worried about their property values going down and their views being blocked as well as health effects.”

Sauvé said, if anything, property values might even go up thanks to the tower, which will double as an electric car charging station.

“I’m not a real estate agent but I would only assume that having good service in an area would be desirable for potential homebuyers, particularly when you look at the safety ramifications.”

Telus estimates that around 2,300 calls are dropped each week in the area due to degraded coverage and Sauvé said this poses a greater health risk if people are unable to contact emergency services.

“We were in contact with emergency services and recently they’ve come out and said 60 per cent of all phone calls to 911 these days come through from cellphones. People need to be able to call 911 and not be facing having dropped calls.” afleming@vancourier.com twitter.com/flematic

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rovincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall delivered grim news last month about how gambling is ruining peoples’ lives in British Columbia.

Between 2002 and 2007, the number of people in B.C. with the most severe form of problem gambling more than doubled, increasing from about 13,000 people to more than 31,000.

Quite a staggering statistic.

The findings have prompted Vision Coun.

Kerry Jang to draft a motion asking city staff to examine Kendall’s report on “how the city could work with the chief medical health officer of Vancouver Coastal Health [Dr. Patricia Daly] to review the risk-mitigating activities underway in existing gambling facilities in Vancouver.”

This is interesting on many levels.

Let’s first begin with how Vision Vancouverdominated councils allowed slot machines at Edgewater casino and Hastings Racecourse.

Way back in January 2004, city council approved slot machines for Edgewater, making it the first gambling facility in the city to have the machines. Then-Vision mayor Larry Campbell and Vision councillors Jim Green, Raymond Louie, Tim Stevenson and COPE’s David Cadman voted for slots.

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Vision Vancouver voted to allow slot machines in the city. Now Vision Vancouver Coun.

Kerry Jang wants to see what the city can do to help.

The rationale was that other municipalities had casinos with slots, so let’s bring them to Vancouver.

Six months later, in July 2004, Campbell, Louie, Stevenson and Green voted for slots at Hastings Racecourse, which is operated by Great Canadian Casino. The NPA’s Sam Sullivan and Peter Ladner also voted for the slots.

The rationale was that approving slots would ensure the racecourse would remain

in business and its hundreds of employees would keep their jobs.

Jang was not elected until November 2008, long after the votes on slots.

But his Vision party has a history of accepting donations from Edgewater ($2,500 in 2008, $3,080 in 2005) and Great Canadian Casino ($10,500 in 2008, $30,750 in 2005). Financial documents for the 2011 campaign show Great Canadian donated another $2,500 to Vision;

whether casino companies donated more money in fundraisers post-2011 election is not something the party is legally obligated to disclose.

As faithful readers will recall, Vision’s first announcement in the 2011 campaign was that it was taking a hard line on gambling. The announcement wasn’t really news because in April 2011 the ruling Vision party quashed Paragon Gaming’s application to expand its Edgewater Casino to a site adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium.

Had Paragon been given the green light, the new facility would have been the largest casino in Western Canada, with 150 gambling tables and 1,500 slots. Paragon, however, still wants to move to the new site with its complement of tables and slots and needs council’s approval.

I asked Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs during the 2011 campaign how can Vision, on the one hand, take a hard line on gambling and then, in the other hand, accept donations from the very corporations problem gamblers are attracted to?

“Vision’s proposition for a long time has been there should be a rule for all parties not to take money from developers or unions and just make it individuals,” said Meggs, who was elected in 2008. “In the absence of that, we’ve been accepting money from unions and from corporations and we will continue to do so.”

Allowing the slots has also been good for city coffers. Last time I checked, which was in January 2011, the city collected almost $60 million in casino profits in 11 years. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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oxer Lev Jackson knew early last Saturday morning it was going to be a tough day. He discovered on Facebookafirehaddestroyedthebusiness below the Commercial Drive gym he helped build and where he has trained and coached young people for the last six months.

His friend worked at Woodland Smokehouse and Commissary and posted the news that the restaurant had been completely gutted by the 5 a.m., Nov. 2 fire. Soon the news Jackson feared was confirmed. Eastside Boxing Club was closed indefinitelyduetosevere smokeandwaterdamage. The ring, punching bags, gloves and other equipment bought with donations less than a year ago are mostly unusable.

Eastside Boxing Club is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run gym that offers subsidized classes for at-risk youth and free training for women who faced violence and abuse. Jackson said from eight to 25 East Side and Gastown residents were training in the gym per day.

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Lev Jackson, the World Boxing Council Canadian featherweight champion, stands outside the Eastside Boxing Club, which is now closed due to a fire. mentally prepare for, his thoughts were on the youth who have relied on the gym as a safe place to hang out and train after school.

A statement released by Eastside Boxing Club describes the uphill battle the organization faces. “The financial and logistical factors involved in rebuilding what was lost that day are over-

whelming,” said the release.

After he heard the news, Jackson headed down to the gym and salvaged gear for his fight.

He could still smell smoke as he fought and lost against Francis John Codilla for the B.C. title at the Imperial on Main Street that night.

Jackson said he doesn’t ever make excuses for

a loss and gives credit to Codilla for beating him, but admitted he was distracted by thoughts of the fire and for the many people from his club who came out to support him.

“In the dressing room before the fight we weren’t talking game plan for the fight, we were talking game plan for where everything is supposed to go with this now— with the fire.”

Jackson, who helped raise money to open the club, said its walls are papered with photos torn from his old boxing magazines. He said the priority now is making sure the kids can find a new place to train.

Joe Foster of Vancouver Fire Rescue Services said the cause of the fire is still under investigation but appears to have started in an office off the restaurant. He said even if there isn’t structural damage to the building it will likely be some time before the club can reopen at that location.

Club assistant coach Jordan Bowers said the loss of momentum hurts the most. “We haven’t realized our potential,” he said, adding the club and its participants were just reaching their stride competitively. He said they will wait for the damage report and either renovate or find a new venue.

The most important thing is no one was hurt, he said. “Everything else is replaceable. ” A fundraising campaign in support of the club has been started. Email the gym directly for information at info@eastsideboxing.ca. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/thuncher

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Natural gas is still premier’s best friend

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iquefied natural gas is all things to all people, and that includes former B.C. Liberal leader Gordon Wilson.

Premier Christy Clark brought the potential benefits of LNG development to the Vancouver Island Economic Summit in Nanaimo last Wednesday.

Last week, the Canada West Foundation recommended downsizing expectations, saying B.C. should prepare for a more modest boom. That advice was dead on arrival, as far as Clark is concerned. She was as wildly enthusiastic as ever at the summit, saying north-coast LNG benefits will extend to Island residents, and the Island could even wind up with an LNG plant of its own.

“I’m going to say many thousands of jobs on Vancouver Island as a result of natural gas if one of those projects go ahead,” she told reporters after her speech. “It will change the face of Vancouver Island forever once those opportunities come here. Think about the impact that forestry has had over the years. This is going to be for Vancouver Island, I think, what forestry was 50 years ago.”

Campbell River and Port Alberni are being checked out as potential sites by Asian investors who are in the early stages, several years behind proponents of Kitimat and Prince Rupert sites.

But Clark stressed the benefits are so mammoth the whole province would gain, no matter where plants are built.

And leading the effort to disperse the benefits as widely as possible will be none other than Wilson, former leader of two parties (Liberal and Progressive Democratic Alliance), former New Democrat cabinet minister and former NDP leadership candidate.

The most relevant recent entry in his colourful political career was his sudden endorsement of Clark during last May’s election campaign.

Was that why he was picked out of nowhere to become the LNG-Buy B.C. advocate?

No, said Clark. It’s because “he is one of the greatest salesmen I have ever met.” She said he understands public policy: “He gets it.”

He’ll be charged with travelling around B.C., talking to communities about the opportunities and urging thousands of companies to register for chances to supply the industry.

The LNG play is dominated by big multinationals who have established business relationships. But Clark said they want to put down roots and make new friends in B.C. Wilson and Clark clashed in the legislature during his time as an NDP cabinet minister. Clark said the relationship wasn’t always sunny, but she has “put politics behind me.”

With all the emphasis on LNG in the future, there wasn’t much Clark could bring to the table in the here and now. She wrangled $15 million for more Malahat highway improvements, but it was a pretty skimpy effort.

At a transportation forum, short-term problems and long-term visions were aired. B.C. Ferries president Mike Corrigan put the best face possible on the ferry system’s financial picture. Smaller components of the enterprise — the vacation-package business, the drop-trailer enterprise and ancillary operations — are making money. And fuel consumption is down a bit. But the big decision on which sailings to curtail in order to cope with the overall financial picture is coming soon from the government. It will be the culmination of the service-reduction process that has been underway for months, aimed at carving several million dollars in costs out of the corporation’s budget.

As a measure of how sensitive ferry decisions are, Corrigan noted the change to one of the smallest routes on the entire coast — converting the Denman Island run to a cable ferry — has faced considerable opposition.

But it will make for considerable savings, so he said the contract is proceeding. It’s only one of eight to 10 new ships that will be needed in the medium term, three of which will be tendered next year.

One of the bigger cost-saving moves under consideration is converting the fleet to natural gas. But Corrigan said the idea of converting current vessels has been put on hold until the technology matures.

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Ponzi schemes bridge the gap to classic cons

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oday, I’m raising a glass to the greatest salesmen of all time — the ones who sold the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and various other landmarks.

A good salesman can sell you something you need or want. A great salesman will sell you something you didn’t know you needed.A con man will sell you something you don’t need, don’t want, and which he doesn’t own.

By the 1930s, the idea of selling the Brooklyn Bridge had become a cliché. But in the late 1800s, it was a very real full-time business for half a dozen confidence tricksters.

A swindler named Reed C. Waddell would prop up a sign reading “Bridge for sale” and would be open for business. He’d take anywhere from $250 to $1,000 — not a bad day’s pay in the 1890s.

The bridge sellers’ targets were new immigrants, those so enraptured by the American dream that they imagined anyone could buy a famous public landmark. By the 1920s, Ellis Island was handing out pamphlets warning that streets, bridges and other public objects were not for sale.

In Europe, the scam was reversed. The Czech con man Harry Jelinek once sold Karlstejn Castle to American industrialists, allegedly while pretending to be a local baron.

Another Czech-born con man was the greatest of them all. Victor Lustig left his home country at a relatively young age, so he had to sell the landmarks of other nations. Fortunately, he was fluent in many languages and he chose to settle down in Paris. In 1925, French newspapers were wondering what was to become of the Eiffel Tower. It was rusting, far older than its intended lifespan.

What would become of the monument?

Lustig capitalized on the rumours by using nothing more than some forged government stationery and a room at a swanky hotel. He called together the six most prominent metal scrap dealers in Paris and swore them to secrecy: the government had decided to tear down the tower, and one of them would get the contract for the metal.

The mark, however, seemed suspicious of all the secrecy, so Lustig one-upped himself. He was simply an underpaid government bureaucrat, he told the unlucky scrap dealer. Perhaps a little extra cash would help the right bidder get the rights to the landmark?

Reassured, the mark gave Lustig both the cash for the tower and a bribe to top it off. Lustig skipped town, but returned later and tried the scam again when the first victim proved too ashamed to go to the police.

He would later get caught in the States and died in Alcatraz on a counterfeiting charge.

One of the reasons I can feel some degree of admiration for these swindlers is that they knew they were crooks. Once they were caught, they seldom attempted to pretend they were anything other than clever and unscrupulous.

You still see this sort of scam every so often these days, but far more often, we see the descendents of the other style of scam artist, Charles Ponzi. Ponzi realized that scamming one gullible mark with a lot of cash could be replaced by scamming lots and lots of poor people out of what little money they had. He invented the industrial-sized scam, and is the direct cause of people like Bernie Madoff and the folks who rope you into buying fraudulent stocks that are “guaranteed” to go up 200 per cent.

Even worse are those one rung up the ladder, who work at the big banks and trading houses. JPMorgan recently agreed to pay $13 billion in exchange for a wide range of financial improprieties — which is a nice way of saying they ripped off an awful lot of people, mostly through mortgagerelated shenanigans.

These men are cannier than Lustig, as they have taken more, have kept most of it, and are unlikely to die in a prison cell. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

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FOSTERING SENSE OF COMMUNITY TAKES A VILLAGE

To the editor: Re: “Foster village for native youth opens,” Nov. 1.

The foster village for native youth is certainly a step in the right direction for foster children many of whom in B.C. are native. Perhaps in time, Canadian children’s villages modeled on the SOS Children’s Villages (and Pestalozzi Villages before that) will be established for all foster children, many of whom are being failed miserably by existing systems where it is not unknown for a child to have from 12 to 18 placements and find themselves eventually uneducated, disturbed, and alone on the streets.

Ideally, in the SOS Villages five to six children of various ages are placed in the family setting of a home in a “village” of homes, each run by an SOS parent. Supervising the village is a director.

The children attend local schools and activities, and this is their home in a village open to visitors.

It is a home to which they can return to visit even in later years. The idea is to prevent the

child from being destroyed by many moves and lack of anything permanent in their lives.

Moreover, siblings can remain together in such a setting.

There are over a thousand such villages in well over a hundred countries now, and for the most part they have been judged to be a successful means of fostering.

Perhaps the Aboriginal Village established here in Vancouver will lead the way to give hope of a permanent home to foster children across Canada, many of whom are falling through the cracks in the existing system.

Jennifer Wade, Vancouver

FINE BIKE PATH VIDEO PRAISED To the editor: Re: “Manager rejects NPA’s meeting request on bike path,” Nov. 1.

I’d like to send kudos to David Fine on his short video, “Kits Bike Path: The Movie” (seen online in this article). It is very well done.

I bet my letter bemoaning the bike path proposal through Kits Beach Park was one in 1,000

letters you’ve received concerning this issue.

If ‘a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a movie is worth 1,000 pictures, especially one as fine as this video. David also does voice over and he has created a little gem, informative and humorous.

Thanks David, you made me laugh.

Frances Dietz, Vancouver

MORE PEDESTRIAN CONCERNS To the editor:

Re: “Senior wants safer East Vancouver intersection,” Oct. 16.

First of all thank you for publishing my letter. However, two very important facts were missing and that is that I was NOT jaywalking and was at a corner attempting to cross.

Also, there is NO crosswalk at Renfrew and Pender Street as I mentioned in my letter.

Without these facts known I am concerned that anyone reading this may misconstrue the story. Yes, pedestrians have the right of way but one must cross in a safe manner. I did this.

Lee Turner, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Supreme Court case a victory, say six community centres,” Oct. 29 Pkyo: What a stretch! The suggestion that the Silly Six community associations can’t manage to sell their memberships because the park board is also selling its all-facilities access card doesn’t hold water. I’m glad B.C.’s Supreme Court struck down the Silly Six in this part of their case. Here’s what I took away from this news article: the Supreme Court sided with the park board and against the Silly Six community centres, but the park board decided to — temporarily — do what the community centres want anyway. That’s a great goodwill gesture by the park board.

What’s not in the news, but I am now wondering about: if the Silly Six are so ridiculous in this one part of their lawsuit, then is the rest any more credible? I’d hate to think the Silly Six leaders are wasting taxpayer money by giving their money to lawyers, instead of keeping it for their community centres. It makes me want to buy a community-association membership in order to vote out those Silly Six leaders and vote in some people who understand cooperation and collaboration.

COURIER OPINION: “Reader Soapbox: Marijuana dispensaries have vital history in Vancouver,” Oct. 29 Ernie Yacub @ernieyacub: I have managed a compassion club for over eight years, and we were busted twice two years ago, so we had to close the dispensary and lounge in the home I rented — I know whereof Kirk speaks — besides, he’s my lawyer and a damn good one at that.

COURIER STORY: “Rocky Mountaineer train creates unforgettable Canadian memories,” Oct. 29 Gregor’s Green Book @GregorsGreenBK: Especially if you were locked out staff.

COURIER STORY: “Digital-citizenship training urged for students,” Oct. 29 Squidhayes @Squidhayes1: A parent with no connection to computer industry or education industry?

The same old tail ‘wagging the dog.’

COURIER STORY: “Templeton students win big at festival,” Nov. 1 ILiveInEastVan @ILiveInEastVan: Great story in @VanCourierNews about Templeton Secondary School students’ big win at Film Festival in NYC! Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews

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hile Vision Vancouver park board chair Sarah Blyth is a big fan of the fictional character Ron Swanson from the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, she says she doesn’t take any of his “Ronisms” to heart in making decisions.

Swanson, played by actor Nick Offerman, is popular for his no-nonsense advice, love of meat and woodworking, fear of government and loathing of Canada. So it’s no surprise that Offerman’s first book is an ode to Swanson. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living was recently released to rave reviews and the reason Offerman was in Vancouver Sunday signing copies of the book at Chapters on Robson Street.

Blyth took that opportunity to surprise Offerman with an official Vancouver Park Board hoodie while her son presented him with a cedar carving from a Downtown Eastside artist.

Blyth says Offerman asked her son what kind of cedar the carving was made from.

“And he knew,” says Blyth of her son.

She also explained to a confused Offerman what an elected park board official does in real life. Offerman must have been impressed because following his lengthy book-signing event, the author donned the park board hoodie and, holding the carving front and centre, had bookstore staff take a picture to forward to Blyth and son.

“When I presented him with the sweatshirt from all of us at the park board, the people in the crowd knew how special that was,” said Blyth. “I also asked him about his thoughts on Canada and he said he actually really likes

Canada. It’s Ron Swanson who doesn’t.”

Blyth wants to convince the producers of Parks and Recreation to shoot an episode in Vancouver, possibly based on a true story.

When I suggested the kerfuffle surrounding the Kitsilano and Hadden Beach parks bike path might make for good TV fodder, Blyth reminded me there are many good stories to choose from.

I’m a big fan of the series so thought I’d make Blyth’s invitation official in this column. To see a YouTube clip of Ron Swanson’s thoughts on Canada and more photos of the book signing, see the online version of this story at vancourier.com.

VETO FINITO And speaking of that bike path, a motion brought forward by NPA commissioners John Coupar and Melissa De Genova Monday night was voted down by the Vision Vancouver majority on the board.

The motion included several arguments about why the process leading up to the approval of the $2.2 million, 12-foot wide path was flawed. The NPA commissioners questioned the public consultation regarding the project as have hundreds of other residents and park users.

Vision Vancouver commissioner Constance Barnes says the motion was rejected because the majority of its demands, such as consulting with more groups and creating an advisory committee, have already been done.

“We thought it was redundant,” says Barnes. “They also wanted the committee to have veto power over decisions made by staff and the board and that’s not how things are done.”

Barnes adds the park board is anxious to work with the committee and come up with a solution that will appease most users. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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Shelley Zavitz is part of a group that wants to launch a community-based talk radio station in Vancouver called Roundhouse Radio. It’s one of 13 competing applications for a CRTC licence in Metro Vancouver.

Roundhouse Radio aims to keep it local if it gets on air Staff writer

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media group has applied to the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a new community-based radio station with a focus on Vancouver.

Shelley Zavitz, speaking on behalf of Roundhouse Radio and the Kelowna-based numbered company 13.0971197 B.C. Ltd. which is backing the proposal, said if approved the format of the FM station would be 80 per cent talk and 20 per cent music.

“Because the frequency would be low power means it would be very local,” said Zavitz. “We want to focus on the people who live, work and play in Vancouver.”

Topics for the talk-radio format would include food, music, culture, news, weather, sports, the promotion of local events, public affairs, documentaries, radio plays and dramas. She said that means everything from poetry slams, storytelling, the promotion of community cleanups and festivals, fitness events and opportunities for inner city kids.

Zavitz said the station will cover local politics and with an election just a year away, there should be plenty of fodder for discussion.

“But we’ll always make sure to offer a balance of opinions,” said Zavitz.

“And as for the music, it will be at least 50 per cent Canadian with a focus on local musicians and emerging artists. Because we’re going to be offering a storytelling format, we’ll keep that theme with the music as well.”

In March, the CRTC issued a call for applications for broadcasting licences for radio stations to serve Metro Vancouver. In

response to that call, the CRTC received a number of applications for new services, as well as several for technical changes involving transmitter additions to the Metro Vancouver radio market.

In total, there are 13 competing applications for the Metro Vancouver licence. Besides Roundhouse Radio, the majority are based out of Surrey, such as Surdel Broadcasting INC., which promises a fusion music format targeting the English-speaking South Asian community; Mosaic Media Inc., which would offer an adult hits format; and South Asian Directory Ltd., which proposes a “third-language news/talk-spokenword format targeting predominantly third and fourth generations of Canadian-South Asians aged 18 to 30 years old.”

In Vancouver, Roundhouse is up against Idea Broadcasting Corp., which is proposing ethnic programming targeting 18 cultural groups; Sher-E-Punjab Radio Broadcasting Inc., promising an ethnic commercial AM station; and 2308739 Ontario Inc., which wants to launch an English-language commercial AM radio station. The Courier requested an interview with Idea Broadcasting Corp., but no one was available to speak before press deadline.

Zavitz noted a 2012 Vancouver Foundation study that found the city’s residents struggle the most with isolation and loneliness.

“That launched a huge debate among us,” said Zavitz. “It wasn’t all of Canada, but this city, and that’s how the format was born.”

To check out all of the applications visit crtc.gc.ca and search for Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2013-568. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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GoodBookDrivecollectsforkidsliteracy B.C. Children’s hospitals that provides care for women and children with HIV/AIDS, has invited Frontier College’s trained staff and volunteers to work onsite with their predominantly low-literacy patients.

A Good Book Drive has teamed up with a group of independent retailers, which will each house a donation box where participants can drop off their favourite kids’ book. There, donors will be able to personalize their book, sharing their own story of why it’s special. By permanently placing those stories within the cover of the books, children will read the personal narratives and learn about the impact of that book on someone else’s life.

A Good Book Drive runs until Nov. 30. For more information and a list of drop off locations visit agoodbookdrive.com.

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CITYWIDE Do you have a favourite book from your childhood? Or does one of your children have a favourite?

Now’s the time to share that love of reading with children and youth who might not normally be exposed to a large selection of books.

To ensure kids have access to new books and to bring stories to a new generation of readers, Cory Ashworth, morning host at The Peak 102.7, and Lizzy Karp, co-founder of Rain City Chronicles, launched A Good Book Drive in 2012 with a goal to choose a new recipient each year.

Running now through the month of November, A Good Book Drive asks participants to purchase a new copy of their favourite kids’ book and deliver it to one of many depots set up across the city to be donated to this year’s recipient, Frontier College Waiting Room Literacy Pilot Program. The program aims to improve the reading and

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writing skills of mothers and children before and after their medical appointments at Vancouver’s Oak Tree Clinic. The clinic, a specialized unit within B.C. Women’s and

The Circle Craft Christmas Market opens this Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Vancouver Convention Centre West, 1055 Canada Place Way. The Circle Craft sale, which typically launches the Christmas craft market season in the city, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

More than 300 artists and artisans, including wood-turners, glassblowers, sculptors and potters, clothing and jewellery designers, toy-makers and more will be selling

their wares all weekend up to and including Nov. 11. Market goers can enjoy a variety of food and confections, live entertainment and a fashion show. For a complete list of vendors, hours and schedule visit circlecraft.net/Christmas-Market.

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The Dogwood Rescue Society and Aquapaws Water Wellness isn’t just hosting a garage sale, it’s holding a “MEGA GARAGE & SAMPLE SALE,” so you know it has to be good.

Leashed dogs are invited to attend the event where Aquapaws Canine hydrotherapy will host demonstrations throughout the day, and nail clipping by The Nail Ninja will take place by donation.

Both a holistic veterinarian and a behaviour specialist will be on hand to answer canine health questions. Pet photographer Tanya King will attend to take winter-themed photos. Free samples of health products for pets will be available and there’s even a chance to check out handcrafted, beaded jewelry. Proceeds go to the Dogwood Rescue Society, which helps find homes for homeless, unwanted and abused dogs. The event runs Saturday, Nov. 9 from noon to 4 p.m. at Aquapaws, 888 Clark Dr. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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he next few weeks are a good opportunity to settle the garden down for winter because all too soon, long days of rain and the busyness of Christmas will be descending on us.

Raking leaves is the most usual yard work at this time. They can always be left in place as a mulch around shrubs but it’s better for the grass to get leaves off the lawn.

People with a vegetable garden can use any unused space to pile leaves within a circle of wire netting. Most deciduous leaves rot easily into leaf mould — though broadleaf maple and oak leaves are slow. Wire netting can be quickly flattened when it’s not in use and stored hanging on a shed wall.

Winter containers are one of the fun things to add to a front entrance, patio or deck. One of the flowering choices that bloom for ages in white or various pinks are the winter heathers (Erica carnea).

These can easily be transplanted into the garden in spring. So can the foliage groundcovers such as the brilliantly-leaved heucheras, the variegated periwinkles and the small-leaved silver lamiums.

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MINUS WORLD IMPROV is billed as an interactive comedy experience inspired by both classic video games and more recent smash hits such as Grand Theft Auto V, combining some of Vancouver’s hottest comedians, live big screen gaming tournaments and the audience-interactive story of Gamer X. Press start Nov. 6, 7 p.m. More info at facebook.com/TheFictionals and riotheatre.ca.

Showcasing multiculturalism, diversity and Jewish heritage through film, the VANCOUVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL celebrates its 25th year Nov. 7 to the 14 at Fifth Avenue Cinema.

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The play, which opened in London’s West End in 1989, is still being performed at the Fortune Theatre and is the second longest-running non-musical play in the history of the West End after The Mousetrap. Based on a 1983 book by Susan Hill, The Woman in Black was adapted for stage by Stephen Mallatratt in 1987.

While it’s an entertainingly spooky tale of never-ending revenge, it’s the framing of the play that makes it more than just another creepy story of isolated, cobwebby mansions, restless ghosts, shadowy graveyards and dead children.

Old, gaunt Mr. Kipps has hired The Actor (Chris Cochrane) to help him with his weighty manuscript — a memoir of sorts — that he hopes to read to his family and friends. Weightier than the script, however, is his grief and his need to tell his story: “I can carry the burden no longer,” he cries. But Kipps is no “act-or” as he repeatedly admits and so The Actor decides to turn what would be a five-hour reading into a play where sounds effects and lighting will allow for cutting long descriptive passages. The Actor will play Kipps and Kipps will play everyone else.

This clever framing allows for a lot of initial humour as Kipps underacts then overacts recklessly, his voice booming out and his hands gesticulating wildly. Morgan hams this up shamelessly and it’s very funny. Eventually Kipps really gets the hang of it and the story unfolds but not without — now and again — reminders of just how far Kipps has come on his thespian journey.

Or not; his turn as a little housemaid, feather duster in hand, is inadvertent farce.

We delight in Kipps’ childlike discovery of the magic of theatre — how the mere sound of ponies clipping along, for example, puts

While the Courier prides itself as a serious newspaper with its ear to the ground and finger on the pulse of every bike path squabble, community centre imbroglio, off-leash dog brouhaha and heated resident-on-developer donnybrook, we often succumb to temptation and relinquish our tight grip on common sense to our most primal, basest urges. Namely gossiping about Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s recent admission that he has indeed taken a dance with the glass princess and smoked crack.

Sir Sweats-a-lot finally came clean Tuesday saying that, yes, he has probably smoked crack in the past year, when he was in one of his drunken

Chris Cochrane plays The Actor in The Woman in Black. us there in the cart on the way across the tidal causeway through the swirling mist and fog to Eel Marsh House. He is transported, as are we, through theatre.

Cochrane is beamingly avuncular as The Actor.

Full of jolly good humour, Cochrane’s Actor is naïve, unwilling to believe in the existence of pure evil, steadfast in his belief that no harm will befall him. Until it does. Cochrane is the steadying fulcrum around which the haunted Kipps turns.

Here in the tiny, rundown space that is Little Mountain Gallery is a worse-for-wear, red velvet curtainframingatinyprosceniumstage.Twoactors, one standing lamp with a bare bulb, a few boxes, two trunks. A scrim. Add talent. Dedication to the craft. An audience with the willingness to suspend disbelief. That’s all it takes.

Kevin Bennett, directing for Yogurt Theatre, is creating a reputation for doing a lot with little. Consider his direction of King Lear for Honest Fishmongers Equity Co-op at Havana Theatre or Macbeth for Limbo Circus Theatre at Little Mountain Studio. There’s a lot to be said for intimate spaces, and Bennett really knows how to work them.

There’s a nice little twist at the end but if you think about it — and are inclined to believe in ghosts — there’s an additional, not-so-verynice twist at curtain. If you think you saw a woman in black, a woman suffering from some terrible wasting disease, behind the scrim, keep a sharp eye out for your children born or yet-tobe-born. What happens at Little Mountain Gallery may not stay at Little Mountain Gallery.

—reviewed by Jo Ledingham For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca. stupors, prompting thousands of Twitter users to take to the Internet and tweet out the quickest, most clever responses they could, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the death of Lou Reed last week and the announcement that the Jonas Brothers broke up, to which K&K awesomely responded: “Say it ain’t so, Jonas #nailedit.”

Back to Ford. In wake of the Internet firestorm surrounding the Toronto mayor, we were tempted to list all the unfortunate things we’ve done while in a drunken stupor — and there are many, usually involving some form of theft, a house party at a stranger’s house, a reggae band and months of regret — but hundreds of people have already beaten us to the punch. Instead, we’re going to sit back, take it all in and reflect.

Mostly on the fact that Rob Ford is only 44 years old, not much older than us, but looks like a terribly unhealthy 55 year old with a heart attack or some sort of major organ shutdown in his near future. #Depressing. #JonasBros4ever. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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heRomeoInitiativeis the kind of play that could really mess with your mind.

Inspired by true stories from Germany during the Cold War, it explores the manufacturing of emotion and what love is.

Trina Davies’ award-winning play kicks off Touchstone Theatre’s 2013-14 season with a preview Nov. 14.

The Romeo Initiative starts out as a romantic comedy and then morphs into a seductive spy thriller that examines the barriers erected by lovers and external circumstances.

For Davies, it all started with a documentary she and her father caught on TV. They watched a woman from former West Germany being interviewed about having been duped into love and sharing secrets from her work by an East German Stasi agent.

“She was crying, she was screaming about wanting to know why this had happened to her,” Davies said.

Davies said her father called the woman delusional for wasting her emotional energy on an artificial situation. “I took exception to that because it seemed to me anyone who had been in a relationship that didn’t work out and where there may have been some deception, will revision that relationship and say: What

The Romeo Initiative runs Nov. 14 to 25 at the Cultch. was going on? What didn’t I see? What are the different sides of the story?” Davies said. “That’s a natural human response to that situation.”

Davies began researching the “Romeo” program undertaken by the East German secret police during the Cold War. She learned agents would watch women, often government secretaries, sometimes for two years to figure out her version of the perfect man.

“For instance, if the person had daddy issues, they’d get someone who resembled their father and send them,” Davies said.

In Bonn, the capital of West Germany, women dramatically outnumbered German men, so they typically were thrilled to be pursued by seemingly suitable men. The man of her dreams would suddenly appear, sweep her offer her feet, supposedly commit to her and slowly, over time, start asking to see documents from her work.

Davies discovered the same tacticsdidn’tworkaswellwhen the genders were reversed.

Men seduced by female agents were less willing to share infor-

mation or be blackmailed.

After the Berlin Wall crumbled and government documents exposed, women wooed by Romeos were tried for espionage and often handed suspended sentences. The Romeos didn’t have to appear before the courts. They had amnesty because they had been working for the state.

No one knows how many women were deceived by Stasi agents during the Cold War but about 40 women were prosecuted for espionage in West Germany as a result of their romantic relationships with undercover officers.

This information wasn’t easy for Davies to unearth.

Little has been written about this spying strategy outside of Germany, she said. The BBC aired a piece on the practice in the mid 2000s and Davies was able to contact a journalist in Germany who had sat through the espionage cases and answered her questions directly.

A friend of Davies who lived in Germany also summed up related books for her.

When her historical research was floundering, Davies explored the biochem-

istry of love and how pickup artists manipulate.

“How complicit are people to what happens to them, how much is manipulation and how much is grounded in something else,” she said.

Davies wouldn’t say much about what happens between Markus Richter (played by Daniel Arnold) and Karin Maynard (Lindsey Angell) to avoid exposing the twists and turns in the play that’s directed by Touchstone’s artistic director, Katrina Dunn.

Davies developed The Romeo Initiative through the Vada Playwrights Retreat in Italy and the Banff Centre for the Arts. The play won the National 2008 Enbridge Award for Established Artist and was first performed as part of the National PlayRites Festival of New Plays at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary in 2011.

Despite delving into deception,anxietyandparanoiainrelationships, Davie doesn’t think her investigations have seriously messed with her mind.

“I don’t know if it made me more suspicious; I suspect I was suspicious before,” she said. “I’m now in a situation where I have a lovely partner and I have absolutely no suspicions of deception. I’m curious to see what he’s going to think of the play, though, because while he knows about it he hasn’t seen it performed yet, so it’s going to be interesting on opening night.”

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Net gain: At left, Hamber’s Lea Separovic (No. 2) and Jenny Lu (No. 7) jump to block Point Grey’s Saya Engleson. At right, Griffin Jennie Demenuk (No. 9) rises to spike the ball past Hounds Ali L’Heureux (No. 6) and Eve Westcott (No. 11) in the senior girls city final Nov. 1 at Prince of Wales.

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or the fifth consecutive year, the Point Grey Greyhounds reached the senior girls volleyball city championship. For the third year since 2009, they didn’t settle for second-best.

The Hounds, led by provincial team players five-foot-11 Taeya Page and six-foot-one Carolin Hicks, dropped the first set of their entire league season, but bounced back to defeat the Eric Hamber Griffins 3-1 on Nov. 1 at Prince of Wales secondary.

An excitable and focused Hamber side came out stronger than Point Grey expected, said Point Grey’s coach Zack Mason.

“The team — including myself — was somewhat surprised at Hamber’s level of play,” he wrote in an email to the Courier.

“We came up against them in the first game of our regular season and dispatched them

very comfortably, so kudos to them and their coach for coming such a long way and improving so much. That was the only set we have lost all season so we were thrown off a little.”

The Griffins’ loss to Point Grey Sept. 26 marked only the second time they’d been in the same room this season.

“We are very proud to say that the game played on Friday against Point Grey was much different,” said Hamber’s coach Alisha Compton. “The girls earned second place and qualified for Lower Mainlands by building off each other’s strengths and pushing each other to get better. It’s rare to find a group of high school girls that support each other the way these girls do.”

The Hounds, ranked No. 7 among B.C. AAA teams, dropped back in the first set recovered to tie at 24 points apiece. (The first team to reach 25 points wins, but must have two points more than their opponent.)

With a 28-27 lead, Hamber’s Pascale Highan-Leisen fired a hard serve to the back of the court for an ace and the set point.

Highan-Leisen, a Grade 11 power hitter, lifted the Griffins to a 3-2 comeback win over Killarney in the semi-final.

Compton also praised the Griffins’ captain Lea Separovic, “who was able to get around Point Grey’s attentive defense and score under pressure” and setter Brittany Chung, “who remained consistent and adapted to the needs of her team throughout the tournament.”

Point Grey regrouped after dropping behind.

“The team was able to calm down, get more comfortable and get into the groove, which lead to more consistent play for the rest of the match,” said Mason. “I was really glad to see Point Grey shrug off that first set and turn things around, which is a testament to the level of experience several of

these players have.”

The Hounds’ attack was short Taeya Page, a five-foot-11 hitter, because of an injury.

“Outside hitters Carolin Hicks and Saya Engleson were instrumental in keeping offensive pressure on Hamber’s defense and were responsible for the majority of our kills,” said the coach. “Middle blockers Natalie McCann and Ali L’Heureux performed well defensively and also contributed offensively from the middle when needed.”

This is the third title in five years for Point Grey. They won the city championship in 2009 when they beat Gladstone. The next year they relinquished the title to Gladstone but won again in 2011 over Kitsilano and, in 2012, they lost a close, thrilling match to David Thompson.

Point Grey and Hamber both advance to the Lower Mainland zone tournament. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

Trojans unhorse Griffins in city championship MEGAN STEWART Staff writer

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he city’s new senior boys volleyball champions didn’t need a stealth horse to sneak their way in. Everyone saw the David Thompson Trojans coming.

They were undefeated through the regular season and didn’t drop a single set on

their way to No. 1 in the East Division. Their streak held firm through the city championships as they won every match on their way to the final.

DT met the two-time city champions from Eric Hamber in the title game Nov. 1 at Magee secondary and the Trojans powered their way through the Griffins, winning 3-0 without dropping a set.

“They all came out excited,” said the Tro-

jans 19-year-old coach and DT alum Coleman Chan of his players. “I told them, you guys have to expect to lose but must strive to win. If you expect to win, you’ll never be down for any point you get. You’ll be happy for every point you get.”

The Trojans won 25-13, 25-19 and 25-19.

The Griffins led the third set by five points but the Trojans tied the set at 18 points apiece.

“The Griffins are a great team. We didn’t expect to come here and win three to zero, we just came here expecting a fight. We fought hard and we won,” said Chan.

The final two points were secured by rightside hitter Kalvin Liang and power hitter Kevin Chau, both in Grade 12. In the third set alone, Chau had an ace and three kills, including the game-winning point.

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Striving: At left, Eric Hamber middle hitter J. Lee-Ash smashes the ball past David Thompson’s Brandon Lam (No. 10) and Kalvin Liang (No. 7). At right, the Trojans celebrate winning the senior boys city championship Nov. 1 at Magee secondary.

DavidThompson defeats defending champs

Continued from page 22 “I was feeling the pressure from the crowd, our coaches, the bench and of course all the players on the court,” said Chau, who nailed his final crosscourt shot to chants of MVP. “We just wanted to win. Nothing else mattered. I can’t feel any better.”

The bleachers at Magee were packed with supporters for both schools and Chau said the players felt their energy.

“I think everyone played even better with the crowd. We wouldn’t have won without the crowd and their cheering,” he said.

He said he elevated his game for the occasion, and his coach agreed.

“Kevin played his usual great game [and] had amazing serves, best serves I’ve ever seen him serve to date,” said Chan. “It was a great day to start striving.”

Until the final, the Griffins and Trojans hadn’t

competed with one another. Eric Hamber head coach Darren Chan said the Trojans were the team to beat all season.

“DT is a very strong team. They play well, especially the Grade 12s. They have dominated their grade level since Grade 8. We tried to focus on our game.”

TheGriffins’17playersaredrawnevenlyfrom grades 10, 11 and 12. The coach said the future is bright for a young team that reached the final

this year and still has more playoff games to go.

“We’re still building that mental toughness that we work hard to play for in a game like this,” he said. “It was a learning experience for them.”

Thompson and Hamber both advance to the AAA Lower Mainland tournament.

Van Tech defeated Gladstone 3-2 for third place and Magee shutout John Oliver for fifth. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

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Irish hoist 10th straight Archbishops’ Trophy MEGAN STEWART Staff writer

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n the 57th year of the Archbishops’ Trophy, the Vancouver College Fighting Irish won 34-7 and took a fourgame series lead over the Notre Dame Jugglers to reach an all-time record of 30-26-1.

“The series has gone in streaks as the Irish won the first nine and have won the last 10, but in between, Notre Dame dominated,” said Bruce Jagger, who helps manage the Irish and works in alumni relations. “I think it speaks well of the rivalry that after 57 years, only four wins separate the two schools.”

Notre Dame had a series lead through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. The teams were evenly matched in the ’90s and the Fighting Irish recently evened the series at 26 wins apiece in 2009, culminating a six-game winning streak. They also won the last four meetings.

The two Catholic brotherhoods tied in 1977 when they clashed at Empire Field and managed only eight points apiece. It wasn’t the lowest-scoring game on record. That benchmark was set in 1978 when

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Head to head: At left, Juggler Anthony Toscano (No. 81) and Irishman Clyde Caisip (No. 27) come head to head over the Archbishops’ Trophy Nov. 1 at O’Hagan Field. At right, Brodie Colvin (No. 84) makes the catch and is pushed put of bounds by Notre Dame’s Anthony Toscano (No. 81).

Vancouver College won 3-0.

The first trophy was awarded to the Irish in 1957 when they beat the Jugglers 38-19 and Notre Dame’s Mike Dagenais was named the MVP. For the next four decades, there wasn’t another MVP. Instead, the honours were shared between the best back

and the best lineman, awarded the Father Joseph McInerney Trophy and the Father Peter McGuire Memorial Trophy, respectively.

Thefamilynamesofpastcelebrated players include Sanvido, Konar and Jagger, names that resonate with generationsofVancouverCollegealumni.

From Notre Dame, George Oswald, a respected coach and football community builder, was honoured in 1964 when the Jugglers lost by one point at Capilano Stadium, and two different Passaglias were recognized, including Lui in 1970 and ’71 when Vancouver College was shut out 48-0 and 30-0.

The first-round of the AAA varsity post-season begins next week for both Vancouver College and Notre Dame.

The Fighting Irish host Mt. Boucherie at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 9. The Jugglers travel to Abbotsford to play the M.J. Mouat Hawks at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 8. mstewart@vancourier.com

Griffins dispatch Bulldogs in shootout — again

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he Eric Hamber Griffins know how to pull off a heart-stopping, winner-take-all victory. In a shootout, no less.

In the senior girls field hockey city championship Oct. 31 at Hamber secondary, the Griffins were tied 1-1 with the Churchill Bulldogs, the same team they beat a week earlier in an elimination game to reach provincials. Because of the earlier win, Hamber advances to the B.C. championship while Churchill’s postseason ended.

In the city final on Halloween, which was played after the zone tournament was decided, the Griffins and Bulldogs were again at a stalemate.

Bulldog Thora Rae found the net before Griffin Olivia Cabral scored to tie the game. The teams remained locked through 90 minutes and then through overtime.

In the sudden-death shootout, Kaitlin Fleming scored for Churchill.

But the Griffins scored on two attempts. Jade Chow-Graham and Cabral each came through with a goal for Hamber.

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