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f you’ve ever seen or come upon an unsavoury pack of reporters poking their microphones in a politician’s face, you’ve probably wondered: “What the heck is all the fuss about?” Well, if the politician in the scrum is Rob Ford, you probably know what all the fuss is about. Doing the hezza, anybody? But if it’s Mayor Gregor Robertson in the scrum, the topics can be a little less sensational and national-news-leading than the sad saga that continues in Toronto. So to give you a taste of what questions Robertson is asked by media types, I thought I’d let you in on a scrum that occurred after last Thursday’s press conference to announce the re-opening of the York Theatre on Commercial Drive. First things ﬁrst: To get an idea of what it’s like to ask the questions, please stand up, stick out your arm with a small device in your hand and have another person — preferably with fresh breath and a healthy swipe of deodorant — stand uncomfortably close to you and occasionally bump shoulders.

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Media scrums with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson are tame affairs compared to scrums with another mayor in a certain Ontario city. First question: I wanted to ask you about the cost of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Vancouver, including $13,000 in booze and $20,000 in umbrellas. How do you respond to those costs? Robertson: “The FCM conference in Vancouver was a gathering of over 2,000 elected ofﬁcials from communities right across Canada and it actually came in $300,000 under budget for the city.”

Second question: How do you respond to a recent story in the Province about the politicization of city hall? Robertson: “Well, I think it’s a real stretch. I’m very careful in my ofﬁce and working with city staff to not politicize that relationship. Staff are non-partisan and they are scrupulous about that.” Third question: What about the city staffer who wrote in one email referenced in the story that said Surrey is not a real city?

Robertson: “That’s just a dumb comment. People slip up and say things that I think can have unintended consequences and that’s certainly totally uncalled for.” Fourth question: What do you think about having a property tax for off-shore investors, similar to what they have in Hong Kong, to slow down the pace of rising house prices? Robertson: “It’s been challenging to identify exactly how much impact there is. There is certainly impact on the high-end market —the West Side of Vancouver, West Van and Richmond. How that impacts most of the housing in the city and the region is debatable. So we don’t want to take any rash actions that might impact investments in the city.” Fifth question: What’s your response to the Police Complaint Commissioner criticizing the Vancouver Police Board for not implementing a policy to ensure no unfair ticketing practices in the Downtown Eastside? Robertson: “I take the letter from the OPCC seriously. I think the VPD will come back to the board with updated numbers and more data to understand the ticketing issue and next steps that we need to take.” Note: I, obviously, didn’t include everything Robertson said during the scrum, but I think you get the gist. I know, I know, not exactly Rob Fordesque but — as former Canuck Todd Bertuzzi once said — it is what it is. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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City unveils updatedYork Theatre $14.8 MILLION SPENT TO RESTORE THEATRE IN DEAL BROKERED BY THE LATE JIM GREEN MIKE HOWELL Staff writer

t was dilapidated, ﬁlthy with rats and was once slated for redevelopment. Now the 1913-era theatre at 639 Commercial Dr. has had a $14.8 million rebirth and ofﬁcially opened Friday with the production of Jack and the Beanstalk: An East Van Panto. The York Theatre, which operated previously as the Alcazar, the Palace, The Little Theatre and the Raja Cinema, was restored to a mix of modern and classic design that features 365 seats, a balcony, an orchestra pit, new lobby and ticket booth. “It’s so exciting and I’m still kind of all in that pinching myself place,” said Heather Redfern, executive director of The Cultch, which will manage the York. Redfern joined Mayor Gregor Robertson and architect Gregory Henriquez of Henriquez Partners Architects at a press conference Thursday to mark the opening of a theatre whose future seemed doomed back in 2007. That’s when EDG Homes purchased the property for redevelopment. News of the purchase prompted a community group led by arts activist Tom Durrie and others to found Save the York to battle for the building’s survival. In September 2008, the NPA-ruling council approved a 120-day temporary protection order on the building. The order allowed city staff to assess the viability of operating a theatre in the building and determine the cost of restoration. Soon after, Wall Financial Corporation purchased the building and worked out a deal with the City of Vancouver to restore the theatre. Many speakers at the press conference credited the late Jim Green, a former city

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The 1913-era York Theatre on Commercial Drive, which has undergone a $14.8 million renovation opened Friday night with a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk: An East Van Panto. The building was once slated for redevelopment. councillor, for ensuring the deal got done. “Jim was certainly the catalyst to bring partners together and to make sure we all took that next step together, “ Robertson said. “It wouldn’t have been possible if we hadn’t had that coordination and conﬁdence that other partners were going to be there for each other. So Jim really was the glue and visionary for this.” Henriquez recalled a conversation he had with Green about the importance of arts and culture in the city. Green was a supporter of the arts and longtime activist for low-income people before he died in February 2012. “He always explained to me that culture is not for the wealthy — culture is sort of a

fundamental right of all human beings,” Henriquez said. “It is something that we all hold near and dear to our hearts and allows us to distinguish us from other species on this planet.” Redfern recalled the first email exchange between Bruno Wall of Wall Financial and Green suggested the theatre could be restored for $2 million and be completed before the 2010 Winter Olympics. “I believe that after the first walk-through with Gregory Henriquez, we realized it wasn’t going to be $2 million and finished by the Olympics,” she said of the building’s poor condition. The City of Vancouver contributed $13

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million of the $14.8 million cost to restore the theatre. Canadian Heritage provided an additional $1.8 million. When questioned about the city’s cost for the project, Robertson pointed out “tens of millions of dollars” were spent on restoring the Queen Elizabeth and Orpheum theatres, both of which are city assets. The opening of the York Theatre comes as residents have rallied to save the Hollywood Theatre on Broadway from being redeveloped into a gym. Robertson said there is no city money in the capital plan to restore or buy the Hollywood, although the city does have “tools” such as transfer of density and rezoning provisions that could entice the owner, Bonnis Properties, not to redevelop the theatre. “I would hope that seeing the York Theatre revived gives us some more hope for the Hollywood Theatre to continue to survive and be a great community arts and culture asset,” Robertson said. “The owner of that building has to make a decision that beneﬁts the community at some point here if we’re going to save the Hollywood.” Actor Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, hosted the press conference at the York and later performed an impromptu piece on the stage from Henry V. Gaze, originally from England, said he was impressed with the renovated theatre and that it reminded him of the venues of his youth. “When I was a lad, this was the kind of theatre you went to,” he told the Courier. “The colours, the redness, the plushness — in a contemporary sort of way — is very evocative of what theatres used to be.” mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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he only representative of COPE to be elected in the last municipal election has joined Vision Vancouver. Vision officially welcomed Vancouver School Board trustee Allan Wong on Dec. 8. The five-term trustee first elected in 1999 left the COPE executive in October. Wong said he left because the party wasn’t paying enough attention to education. He said he joined Vision because it boasts a strong educational team. With his departure from COPE, six of the nine trustees on the board hail from Vision and three from the NPA. Tim Louis, COPE’s internal chairperson, said COPE puts education and Wong on the agenda of its monthly executive meetings. He says in three years, Wong has only attended once. “I’ve always considered Allan Wong to be a very sincere and fair and genuine individual,” Louis said. “That having been said, his decision to cross the floor would certainly confirm that his values are more closely aligned with Vision Vancouver than they did with COPE.” Louis maintains Vision values its relationships with developers too much and does not demand the city’s fair share of financial contributions from developers to fund childcare facilities, community centres and park space. He said trustees should be advocates for children beyond the school board. Louis believes Wong broke his contract with voters by switching parties mid-term, disappointing voters as former MP David Emerson did when he switched from the

Liberals to the Conservatives in 2006. The former COPE councillor said Wong’s defection and other recent resignations from COPE’s executive are not a blow to the party that last celebrated electoral success in a landslide victory at city council and the park and school boards in 2002. He argued COPE can now present a clear alternative to Vision instead of running with a joint slate as it has in the previous two elections. “I look at excitement at the success of what is no doubt the very best councillor on [city] council right now, the Green Party councillor Adriane Carr. When she ran, her party had nobody on council, the budget was very small, it was a shoestring budget, but she offered and continues to offer a clear alternative to the two developer parties,” he said. “And that’s what COPE is now free to do. We’re no longer ﬁghting an internal battle inside COPE to cling to the mistaken belief that we should continue to be a Vision Vancouver appendage.” Wong says he particularly enjoys working alongside Vision school board representatives Patti Bacchus, Mike Lombardi and Ken Clement. He plans to maintain close contact with COPE members behind the Justice Not Charity Working Group including Jane Bouey, Al Blakey, Ruth Herman and Noel Herron. The group wants to end food insecurity in schools. “I’ve got the best of both worlds,” he said. “If they were to run, Jane Bouey in particular, Al Blakey, if they were to run under whatever other organization they may fall under, I will have full support for them,” Wong added. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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An estimated 300 people attended a vigil at the Vancouver Art Gallery last Friday to mark the passing of Nelson Mandela. ba!” (Mandela’s clan name). Candles were laid down on the stairs in front of the art gallery, and those remaining in the crowd mingled with each other. Sadness gave way to celebration as people

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overcome. It was just this profound sense of sadness and sorrow and loss,” she told me. She said she was glad to be able to come to the vigil and express herself among others also expressing their grief. “That’s the most important thing, an opportunity to acknowledge en masse that this thing has happened and it’s touched us all.” In life Mandela was devoted to bringing people together. His death has done the same. The Robert Lee YMCA at 955 Burrard St. is inviting community members to pay their respects by signing a memorial book in Mandela’s honour during the period leading up to the state funeral. These memorial books from YMCAs across Canada will be presented to the Mandela family. Mandela will be laid to rest at his ancestral village of Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, on Sunday, Dec. 15. Gavin Fisher is a Langara College journalism student interning with the Vancouver Courier. info@gavinﬁsher.ca twitter.com/ﬁsher_gavin

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ext time a cabinet minister confidently outlines the government’s vision of the future, keep B.C.’s electricity policies in mind. Based on developments there in the last six months, those firmly pronounced policies could last only as long as the minister does. Former energy minister Rich Coleman laid down any number of directions on that front during two years on the job, and left the impression they were all official B.C. Liberal doctrine, now and for all time. Then Bill Bennett was sworn into the portfolio last June. He must be getting dizzy from all the abrupt about-faces he has ordered in the last six months. Since being sworn in following the election, he has up-ended a batch of electricity policies. B.C. Liberal power policies are now only faintly recognizable from the versions that Coleman and others used to preach. The government has done a screeching 180-degree turn on several fronts. They’ll say it’s about adapting to changed circumstances. But nothing particularly dramatic has changed in the power situation faced by the government over the last few years. They’ve just put a new person in charge, and he has changed the ministry’s direction on at least a halfdozen major issues. When Bennett was sworn in, it was his second stint in the energy portfolio. He did several months in 2010, but ran afoul of former premier Gordon Campbell, resulting in a spectacular flameout after his firing/resignation. He was rehabilitated after Premier Christy Clark took over and now holds one of the most important jobs in cabinet. Clark seems to give ministers a lot of leeway to follow their own instincts, and Bennett is using every bit of it. His predecessor insisted for two years that smart meters were non-negotiable. Everybody had to have one for the smart grid to work, despite the fact several thousand customers had worked themselves into a state about supposed side-effects. Coleman muttered about government plans to “re-educate” them. After a few weeks on the job, Bennett decided to drop the hard line. He introduced some opt-outs, so the meters are no longer mandatory. People can get their meters read manually, if they want to pay more. Any plans for re-education camps were presumably dropped. Coleman and a long line of energy ministers before him insisted B.C. would go to the mat to recover money owed by California utilities for B.C. power supplied at premium prices during a 2000 crisis. Legal battles over that crisis raged through the U.S. court and tribunal systems for years, and B.C. stuck to its guns, racking up a fortune in legal bills. Two months into the job, after B.C. lost a skirmish in the war, Bennett capitulated. He gave up the fight, and B.C. ate a $750-million loss. But those were just warm-ups for the reversals he pulled two weeks ago, when he laid out electricity prices. For years, governments of all stripes have dinged B.C. Hydro for a few hundred million dollars a year as a required “dividend.” It has been part of the bottom line for years. Under Bennett’s plan, that contribution is going to disappear over time. It will drop sharply in 2020 and disappear in 2021. Governments over the years have also made bypassing the B.C. Utilities Commission standard procedure. But Bennett plans to turn rate-setting back over to the BCUC three years from now. The agency will undergo a core review as well, to “increase the effectiveness and efficiency” of the outfit. You don’t hear energy ministers talk about increasing BCUC effectiveness very often. Previous cabinet ministers spent hours defending Hydro deferral accounts after the auditor general rapped them for shunting costs far into the future. But Bennett wants to start paying those accounts down in 2015. One more will be created to spread costs around, but it will have a defined paydown plan. All this and more is now government policy. It’s going to last 10 years. Or until the next person takes over the post. lleyne@timescolonist.com twitter.com/LeyneLes

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hen my husband and I sold our house on the East Side a few years ago and hoofed it to the North Shore, the hubby wanted to dig up and take a few of the perennial flowers the original owner of the house had planted over the decades since 1947 when the house was built. The flower garden stretched from the street alongside the house to the back garage. The few years we lived on East 39th, we marvelled at all the variety of flowers that bloomed at different times of the year and were grateful the original owner loved flowers and gardening. “I don’t think you should do that,” I told him when he mentioned his plan. “I’m sure all these flowers helped sell the house. The new owners won’t like it if we do that.” He agreed. It turns out the new owners didn’t quite appreciate the flower garden as much as we did. When we drove past our old house a few months after we sold it, we noticed the flowers had all been removed and the long strip of garden replanted with grass. No one would ever describe me as a green thumb, but I enjoy working in the garden and value every plant and flower that was planted before and after we moved into our new house. I especially like our holly trees. Not only are they festive at this time of year, they provide us with much-needed hedge-like privacy from the street. Without them, people could easily peer into the side window of our living room and see what embarrassing show we’re watching on TV or Netflix, or see me wagging my finger at my kids to tidy up for the hundredth time and perhaps witness some other activities I won’t mention here. Unfortunately, the holly is thinning. It’s more thick on top than it is at street level so I’m very protective of it. On Saturday, as Vince Guaraldi’s timeless soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas played in the background and the kids and I were decorating our Douglas Fir Christmas tree, I saw a figure through the window snipping away at our holly tree. I was stunned and stood frozen in place. I didn’t know what to do except call out to my husband upstairs, “Hey, darling, someone just clipped some branches from our holly tree.” (I don’t call my husband “darling” by the way, but always by his first name — and other colourful terms of endearment depending on my mood and the messy state of the house.) Well, I’ve never seen my darling run down the stairs so fast. He whipped open the front door and bolted to the street in his stockinged feet to see who it was. He saw an older woman with clippers and a bag with holly branches sticking out one end walking quickly away. He didn’t recognize her, but he knew a Holly Bandit when he saw one. “She had clippers so she came here specifically to take holly,” he said. “Who does that? Who thinks it’s OK to do that? Some older people really do have a sense of entitlement.” I had to agree with him there actually, recalling instances from my childhood of older people ignoring me in a store line and jumping ahead to fill their order at the bakery or butcher shop. I was always too shy to speak up. (Clearly, I’ve been scarred.) But I digress. I went to a Christmas party later that night in Vancouver and met an old friend I hadn’t seen in ages who asked about our new home. I gushed — not so much about our wee house, which is just fine, but the neighbourhood. I live in one of the best places on earth not only for the abundance of nature but because people say hello when they pass you on the street and neighbours help neighbours and everyone keeps an eye out for the local kids. It’s especially wondrous at Christmastime with many homes and even boats on the water festooned with bright lights and decorations. As I drove home from the party, I thought about our Holly Bandit. If someone nicking holly from our trees is the worst thing to happen in our lives, my family and I can count ourselves among the luckiest people on earth. (There is crime in the area, but it’s rare.) I imagine our holly is now part of a beautiful Christmas wreath or centrepiece. Maybe it’s even being used as a mistletoe substitute. To the Holly Bandit, I say Happy Christmas. You are a reminder of my good fortune in life. fhughes@vancourier.com twitter.com/HughesFiona

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To the editor: Re: “12th and Cambie: City hopes developers will buy into Rental 100,” Dec. 4. I get very angry, frustrated and depressed when I read the “affordable” rates cited in this article. I see that there is no room for a family of our means in this city. We are ﬁve people (two parents, three school-age children) and our income is close to $50,000. We would love to move out of our basement suite, but feel stuck there, and it is no wonder. If we had to pay the ludicrous rate of $2,743 for a three-bedroom, we wouldn’t be able to eat half the month. Who in heaven’s name comes up with these numbers and then has the nerve to call them affordable? Colleen Klassen, Vancouver •••

To the editor: I was both intrigued and somewhat aghast by the city staff report cited in this story covering potential “affordable” rental housing levels in this city. Whose interpretation of affordable are they using as the basis for this report? Take a moment to consider this: Most financial advisers recommend that the family devote no more than 35 per cent of gross income towards shelter costs (shelter costs include rent, heating and utilities). So, assuming about $200 per month for non-rent expenditures to afford the “affordable” rental prices outlined in the article would require an annual family income of $56,331 for the studio rent at $1,443; $58,868 income to rent the one-bedroom at $1,517; an annual income of $77,520 to rent the two bedroom at $2,061 per monthly: and finally an income of $100, 902 to pay the threebedroom rent at $2,743. One look at the figures quoted in that report as acceptable standards of living made me

wonder whether the population growth of Vancouver area suburbs is fuelled, in no small part, by the inability of families to ﬁnd viable rental units within our city. Bob Quicke, Vancouver

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PARK BOARD STORY NEEDS CORRECTING WRONG GASTOWN To the editor: BOUNDARIES Re: “Is the Vancouver Park Board this year’s Newsmaker of CAN RESULT IN the Year,” Nov. 28. ALIENATION This article requires cor-

rections. For over a year, the Vision-led park board has been committed to working with our partners to renew our 40year-old joint operating agreement in order to better serve the public. The following sections of the story were inaccurate: 1) On Feb. 3, 2013, the park board did not approve a new agreement. We approved a framework for mediated negotiations with our community centre associations. These negotiations continue today with 14 of the 20 associations. The OneCard is a result of the ﬁrst phase of these negotiations. The OneCard provides no-cost universal access to our community centres and expands are low income subsidy for those in need. We are happy to say that to date 82,000 Vancouver residents have embraced the OneCard. 2) In June, the OneCard was announced as an interim agreement and included a timeline to respect the ratiﬁcation process for each association before it was implemented. Unfortunately, Ainsley Kwan, President of the Killarney Community Centre Association, chose not to participate in the negotiations so may have been unaware of these details. It is truly unfortunate that six of the 20 associations have chosen to litigate instead of negotiate. In my opinion, this is a waste of resources better dedicated towards serving the public. We are focused on improving the community centre system and are accomplishing

To the editor: Re: “Vancouver Special: Gastown,” Dec. 6. Because the Downtown Eastside is a neighbourhood that dare not speak its name, it has become popular among new residents to re-name segments of it with flowery terms such as Crosstown and Railtown. The Courier has thrown in its bit by declaring a large swath of it to be Gastown. The Neighbourhood At A Glance segment declares there are no specific boundaries for Gastown and that it goes right up Hastings to Main Street. A simple Google of the name would have told you differently. Insite and The Carnegie Centre are not in Gastown nor is the Smilin’ Buddha skateboard space. In fact, according to the City of Vancouver, through its Local Area Plan, Gastown is defined as a sub-area of the Downtown Eastside, as is Chinatown and Strathcona. The “grittier” elements you claim have been pushed to the Downtown Eastside have lived there all along and in Gastown, and are now struggling to keep from being pushed out altogether. Whenever issues of community identity come under attack like this, it produces alienation and conflict within and promotes stigmatization and hostility from the wider communities throughout the city. Ian MacRae, Vancouver (Editor’s note: The Courier will be highlighting the Downtown Eastside as part of our ongoing Vancouver Special series.)

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Santa Paws is coming to town Dec. 14 and 15 for a dog-friendly, festive fundraiser at the Tisol pet store on Grandview Highway. Love on a Leash dog care services is hosting the canine-friendly event with proceeds dedicated to animal rescue organizations Paws for Hope and Rescue a Boxer to help create brighter futures for abandoned, abused and homeless dogs. Pet photographer Angie Wojciechowska of Off-Leash Photography will take professional portraits of pets with Santa Claus, amid a winter wonderland backdrop, complete with festive holiday décor and a pooch-friendly Santa on a red and gold throne. While holiday baked goods and hot mulled cider will be available for humans, there will also be doggy treats for pooches. Photos with Santa are $20 and there will be special gifts bags for the ﬁrst 50 dogs photographed each day. The event runs from 11

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The Vancouver LEGO Club and Johnathon Vaughn Strebly have teamed up with the Museum of Vancouver to celebrate the “playful legacy” of Vancouver architect, Daniel Evan White. Strebly is head of the Electronic Media Design, Digital Media, and Communication Arts programs at Langara College. The Vancouver Brick Games allows participants to rebuild “canonical architectural masterpieces” or design their own original “hallmarks of modernist fare” out of LEGO, Dec. 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. And if the phrase “canonical architectural masterpieces” isn’t precious enough, check out White’s website where instead of ﬁnding the names of his creations, you’ll ﬁnd symbols, which makes for rather laborious research. For more information visit museumofvancouver.ca. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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There’s still time to participate in the 48-hour Kits House Project For Awesome 2013 community video challenge Connection: What’s it to you? Kits House staff say connection is the building block of community so they’re asking members of the public to share and interact by making a video that demonstrates their experiences and thoughts on how they connect to their neighbourhood. The deadline to submit has been extended to Dec. 16, so get that camera rolling. For more information visit kitshouseprojectforawesome.wordpress.com.

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hen shopping for those in the family who like to face a bit of competition, or perhaps just enjoy recreational activities like skating, skiing or snowshoeing, here are some ideas to help ﬁnd the perfect gift.

3. The Canucks Team Store at the Rogers Arena features high-end swag like ofﬁcial jerseys with player’s names (plenty of Kassians still available!), or you can pick up smaller items like tees and nightshirts, toques, cups and glasses, puzzles, pet paraphernalia and more. Tip: for less expensive goodies, try the tourist shops along Robson Street.

1. Canadian Olympic Team Hockey Bag from Canadian Tire: Perfect for any Team Canada fan, this Canadian Olympic Team hockey bag ($79.99) is spacious and easy to transport; it features a retractable hideaway handle system for easy manoeuvring. Exclusive to Canadian Tire, this product is a favourite of hockey star Meaghan Mikkelson.

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he Courier’s choice for this year’s Newsmaker of the Year can be seen as an extension of our 2012 choice, which was neighbourhood dissent. As Courier reporter Mike Howell detailed a year ago, in 2012 residents from across the city focused their anger toward city hall and developers. Residents packed meetings in Dunbar and dozens of speakers weighed in on a controversial rezoning in Mount Pleasant. But this year, Vancouverites turned their ire to the park board and in unprecedented actions upped the ante by ﬁling lawsuits in B.C. Supreme Court. It’s the reason we’ve chosen the Vancouver Park Board’s contentious year as Newsmaker of the Year for 2013. It began with an epic park board meeting at the West End community centre in February, which fed the growing rancour against the majority Vision Vancouver commissioners. The reason for the meeting was to give park board general manager Malcolm Bromley an opportunity to explain what at the time was still a “proposed” joint operating agreement between the board and the city’s 23 community centre associations. The park board is making changes to the associations’ long-standing joint-operating agreement, including centralizing “core programs.” The most contentious of the recommendations is one under discussion that could see the board pool revenues from room rentals and programs — money traditionally retained by the associations — to be distributed amongst “have-not” centres. But the focus of the meeting was lost when the majority Vision Vancouver commissioners refused to adjourn as it continued into the wee hours, despite repeated requests from members of the public to defer the vote. But after conferring with members of Vision’s caucus, the meeting continued for nine hours, until 3:30 a.m. That’s when the Vision Vancouver commissioners approved the controversial

agreement to repeated cries of “Shame” from the crowd. And that’s when park board staff called in the Vancouver Police Department. In response, Hastings, Riley Park-Hillcrest, Killarney, Kensington, Kerrisdale and Sunset community centre associations began the first of three legal proceedings against the park board in B.C. Supreme Court. The first asked for an injunction against mandatory use of the OneCard, a universal access card introduced by the park board that eliminates the need for individual memberships to the city’s community centres. That injunction was denied by the court, partially because the park board agreed it wouldn’t make the use of the OneCard at those centres mandatory. The park board then gave the six associations their walking papers with a deadline of Dec. 31 to vacate the centres. The second and most important part of the legal action includes a charge the park board breached many conditions of the standing joint-operating agreement, a case that is before the court this week. The third part of the legal assault included a successful request for an injunction to stop the park board from proceeding with a transfer of power from the associations before the legalities of the main case are finalized. As news of these lawsuits disappeared from the front page due to a postponement of proceedings, on Oct. 7 the park board approved a 12-foot wide, paved bike path through Kits Beach and Hadden parks. The announcement took many residents by surprise despite the fact the park board proclaimed its public consultation was extensive. A rally was held and yet another lawsuit was launched in B.C. Supreme Court. In November, the court halted construction of the bike path until yet another hearing can be held to determine its legality. Terri Evans, manager of the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, believes part of the problem could be the way Vision Vancouver handles issues overall. “Within Vision Vancouver itself, it’s not what it does, it’s how it does it,” said Evans. Continued on next page

A year in the news... February: A nine-hour meeting at the West End Community Centre regarding the then-proposed joint-operating agreement (JOA) between the park board and the city’s community centre associations ends at 3:30 a.m., when it’s approved by Vision Vancouver commissioners. June: The board announces the OneCard, a universal access card eliminating the need for individual association memberships. Killarney Community Centre Association president Ainslie Kwan complains the OneCard was announced to the press before officially approved. July: The OneCard is launched. July: The park board fires a negotiator hired to help community centre associations negotiate the proposed agreement. August: Six associations launch their first lawsuit against the park board accusing it of breaching numerous sections of the standing management agreement. The six also request an injunction against the OneCard, which is denied. In response to the lawsuit, the park board announces it will take control of the six community centres and issues eviction notices. October: Vision commissioners approve a 12-foot-wide bike path through Kits and Hadden Beach parks. Residents unhappy with the consultation mount a protest, which is attended by hundreds. The six centres get an injunction against the board to stop the termination of their JOA until their lawsuit is fully heard. November: In response to a case before the Supreme Court of B.C., construction of the bike path is halted until a hearing can be held to determine its legality. Dec. 9: The court case between the six associations and the park board reconvenes.

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City hall annoyed many people again in 2013. So much so that readers who participated in our Reader’s Choice vote selected the loud push back by residents against the city’s community plans as their top newsmaker of the year. With ﬁnal poll results counted Tuesday, 50 per cent of all participants in the poll chose the community plan protests. The result is no surprise as 2013 saw neighbourhoods across Vancouver oppose plans to guide development in their communities. Residents in Grandview-Woodland were stunned to see high rises marked for their neighbourhood, and residents in Marpole were equally shocked when so-called “thin streets” were made part of the proposed plan for their area. They organized quickly, formed alliances across neighbourhood boundaries and successfully forced the city to delay the plans in favour of more consultation. Their rebellion was foreshadowed by the Courier when we chose rising neighbourhood dissent as Newsmaker of the Year for 2012, and their acumen at organization was likely reﬂected in our online poll. The runner up for Readers’ Choice vote was the surprise results of the May provincial election with 24 per cent of poll participant votes. With Liberal Premier Christy Clark stunning the province with her party’s comeback, NDP challenger David Eby dramatically defeating Clark in her own riding and former civic politicians like Sam Sullivan winning a provincial seat, it’s a logical choice, and the reason it ended up among our top stories of 2013. The Vancouver Park Board’s contentious year, the choice of the Vancouver Courier’s editorial team for Newsmaker of the Year, was third with 16 per cent of reader votes. It was followed by the Musqueam’s historic win with six per cent and the city’s drug policy legacy at three per cent. Thanks to everyone who voted and commented. We’ll do it again next year. — Barry Link

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Continued from previous page “It’s the process and that has included some missteps, whether it’s the next bike lane or route of the next bike lane.” Evans, a Vancouver resident, said the OneCard appears to have been an afterthought meant to deflect criticism over the joint-operating agreement debacle. “The OneCard could potentially achieve administrative efficiencies in response to recreational services,” said Evans. “The park board could potentially have some important plans, but in processing them they trip themselves up. The OneCard is a more streamline system and it makes sense to use, but they made it extremely hard to swallow for those associations.” Evans believes the park board is taking flak for decisions made by the Vision Vancouver-dominated city council and points to the marathon meeting in February as an example. “Perhaps it should have been the city that had its feet held to fire that night,” said Evans. In describing what she believes is Vision Vancouver’s overall attitude towards residents, Evans quotes a fellow urban studies colleague, “Pissing off voters one block at a time.” UBC political science professor emeritus Paul Tennant says as far as he’s aware, the number of lawsuits, and the rebellion of community groups against the park board are unprecedented. “There was somewhat similar community unrest in the late ’60s, but the result was political action, not legal.”

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Christmas dinner comes early at Union Gospel Mission REBECCA BLISSETT Contributing writer

f you’d told Dave Boehm a few years ago that he would one day be volunteering as a greeter for the Union Gospel Mission’s 73rd annual Christmas Dinner last Saturday, he would’ve laughed in your face. Boehm was a functioning alcoholic who only drank on weekends through a deal he made with Robbie, his beloved wife of 25 years. But when she died in 1995, Boehm’s problem grew to a 40-pounder-a-day one. “She died of cancer and I started drinking more,” he said. “Then a year later my sister died of cancer and I started drinking more. Then my uncle died of — guess what?! And I started drinking more. “At that point, I hated everybody, hated everything. Got a gun, went down to the Fraser River and took a bottle of rye with me. Pulled the trigger and... nothing. It’d jammed. Well, I thought, I’ll just drink myself to death.” Hegaveithisalluntiltwo-and-a-halfyearsago when the mess of a man walked into the Union Gospel Mission in the Downtown Eastside, looking for a cup of coffee. Somebody mentioned the alcohol and drug recovery program and Boehm asked, jokingly, how many applications there were. A huge stack, he was told. “OK, great! Sign me up! But I’m still going to the liquor store,” he remembers saying. But the Union Gospel Mission people called him

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Volunteer Claudia McFadden loads up her serving tray during the Union Gospel Mission’s 73rd annual Christmas dinner at its Hastings location. To see more photos, scan this page with your smartphone or tablet using the Layar app. on his cheeky bluff and, 45 minutes later, the none-too-pleased Boehm landed himself in the program. “For the ﬁrst month, I tried to escape,” he said. “But I couldn’t even ﬁnd my room, and it was right by the elevator. That’s how screwed up my brain was.” The challenges rolled in like waves. Four months into the six-month program, Boehm suffered a stroke, which put him in a wheel-

chair. Then he found out about the cancer — all ﬁve kinds of it. He was given six months to live, two-and-a-half years ago. “Now, I just want to give back,” he said between smiling and giving the thumbs up to practically everybody in the bustling lobby of the Union Gospel Mission. “I volunteer whenever they want me, wherever they want me. I get to be the greeter, and that means I don’t have to

stand out in the cold, yay!” People from the community lined up in -6 C temperatures for the free Christmas dinner at the Downtown Eastside location of the Union Gospel Mission (meals were also being served at its Women’s and Family Centre on East Cordova as well as its New Westminster location). About three thousand plates of food were served to the hungry during the course of the day, which included 3,500 pounds of turkey, 800 pounds of mashed potatoes and 675 cherry pies. The Christmas dinner once was traditionally served on Christmas Day but, over time, other groups in the neighbourhood started offering dinner. So the Union Gospel Mission decided it would be best to offer a meal on a different day, so people wouldn’t have to pick and choose, said the mission’s Keela Keeping, adding that it also doesn’t spread the 200 volunteers too thin. “It’s a beautiful thing,” Keeping said. “We have a CEO on one side, and somebody who was homeless on the other, working together.” For Boehm, he’s especially appreciative as this will be the ﬁrst Christmas in the last couple of years he won’t spend in the hospital. “I ended up with a new chance.” The United Gospel Mission hosts a second Christmas Dinner, this time partnering up with Glowbal Collection Restaurants Dec. 17, at 3 p.m.

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To help seniors reduce their risk of falling, follow these tips: • Exercise regularly to improve leg strength and balance; always consult with your doctor before starting an exercise regime. • Review all medicines used to identify those that may cause dizziness or drowsiness, alone or in combination. • Have your eyes checked at least once a year; update glasses. • Reduce tripping hazards at home; add grab bars and railings; improve lighting. • Consider installing a medical alarm to ensure you are able to get help as soon as possible. Article courtesy newscanada.com seniors with arthritis, osteoporosis and osteopenia. Time: Mondays – 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Cost: $24 for 6 sessions; $48 for 12 sessions. No drop-ins. Urban Poling Meet Lois Tomlinson at the Centre for an hour of pole walking. HomeCare West provides the walking poles but you must pre-register to make sure you get the poles. After the walk, free refreshments are provided. Time: Thursdays from 9 to 10 a.m.; ongoing. Cost: free. OSC is located at #513, retail level, Oakridge, 650 West 41st Ave.; tel: 604-263-1883; email: manager@ oakridgeseniors.com.

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CHURCH LADIES WITH TYPEWRITERS They’re back, those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank goodness for the church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced at church services: The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. ••• Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands. ••• Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get. ••• A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow. •••

Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones. ••• Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow. ••• The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon. ••• At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be ‘What Is Hell?’ Come early and listen to our choir practice. ••• The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.

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“He is from a future world. Trapped in prehistoric times. Searching for his past.” That’s about all you need to know about YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE. This 1983 sci-fi cringer gets skewered by THE GENTLEMAN HECKLERS, Dec. 11, 9:30 p.m. at the Rio Theatre, featuring local comedians Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha and Shaun Stewart providing live “commentary” to the enjoyably bad onscreen proceedings. More details at riotheatre.ca. Local roots act the SUMNER BROTHERS get into the holiday spirit with their EIGHTH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BASH Dec. 12 at the Biltmore Cabaret. The Moondogggies, the Maldives and the Wild North also share the bill. There’ll even be photos with Santa. Tickets at Red Cat and Zulu Records. For more info, go to biltmorecabaret.com. Pacific Theatre’s annual Christmas anthology show, CHRISTMAS PRESENCE, featuring songs and stories from a rotating cast of local musicians and actors, delivers a heap of holiday cheer Dec. 11 to 21 at Pacific Theatre. For tickets and details, call 604-731-5518 or go to pacifictheatre.org. In case the cowboy hats weren’t a dead giveaway, Portland, Ore.’s CALEB KLAUDER COUNTRY BAND brings some good old fashioned twang (and maybe a Louvin Brothers cover or two) to St. James Hall Dec. 12, 8 p.m. Tickets at Highlife Records, Rufus’ Guitar Shop, online at roguefolk.bc.ca or by calling 604-736-3022.

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Kingsgate Chorus keeps things hip and harmonized STATE OF THE ARTS with Cheryl Rossi

t’s not often you hear a choir sing a Pixies song. But harmonizing on “Where is My Mind” by the alternative rock band that formed in Boston in 1986 is exactly what the Kingsgate Chorus did at Main Street Car Free Day a couple of years ago. The Kingsgate Chorus “caroled” at the launch of a local goods pop-up shop near Main and Broadway last week. The choir doesn’t actually sing any Christmas songs. “We’ve also done weird things,” said choir director Jenny Ritter. “We sang at someone’s wedding. We actually sang that Pixies song at their request. It was a hipster wedding and their request was as soon as they kissed we would break out into that song.” The Kingsgate Chorus and its related rock and roll choir, the Mount Pleasant Regional Institute of Sound, will perform at a Christmas fundraising concert called Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Choir, Dec. 19, with proceeds going to Spartacus Books and Hastings Farm. Highlights will include songs by Bjork, Sufjan Stevens, Feist, Father John Misty and Bon Iver.

The Kingsgate Chorus, and its offshoot the Mount Pleasant Regional Institute of Sound, perform songs by contemporary acts such as the Pixies, Bjork and Bon Iver. Ritter didn’t know what she was going to do with the rest of her life two years ago. The then 30-year-old had been touring with Victoria-based folk-roots band The Gruff for seven years and felt burnt out. Wanting to make music for fun, Ritter invited four friends over to her “crappy” basement suite to teach them vocal harmony. Eight people came the following week. Pretty soon there were 16. The group began rehearsing in a studio space above Our Town Cafe and in January 2011 the Kingsgate Chorus was born. The group proved so popular

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that an offshoot band of singers, the Mount Pleasant Regional Institute of Sound, grew out of the waiting list for the chorus. “I was never able to let anybody in because people weren’t leaving,” Ritter said. “And I just felt that there was this real need for it. People were pretty desperate to be involved.” The two choirs each include more than 30 members. So many people want to join the choirs Ritter has abandoned a waiting list. She suspects wannabe members are searching for a sense of community. “You get the amazing endorphin rush from

singing in a big group of people and learning how to harmonize,” she said. “But you also get a community from it... There’s a couple of long-term relationships that have come out of this choir. Some people have gotten jobs through other people in the choir.” But choir members aren’t the only ones who’ve benefited. “The choirs totally brought me back from not wanting to be a musician,” said Ritter, who’s about to release her second album. Choir members sang on Ritter’s first album released under her name and have recorded with local songstress Sarah MacDougall. The choirs have sung live with Rae Spoon, Wintermitts and Aunts & Uncles. The two groups typically perform at Christmas, in the spring and at community events. Ritter arranges most of the music and accompanies the vocals on acoustic guitar. Her ultimate show would happen, fittingly, at her choir’s namesake. “You always hear rumours that the Kingsgate Mall’s going to get torn down,” she said. “There’s like 10 different songs called ‘Wrecking Ball,’ and I’m going to arrange a medley of them all and we’re going sing it as the mall is coming down. That’s my dream.” Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Choir takes place Dec. 19, 9 p.m. at Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy Ave. Tickets $10 at the door. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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EastVan Panto is full of beans JACK & THE BEANSTALK: AN EAST VAN PANTO

At the York Theatre until Dec. 29 Tickets: 604-251-1363 thecultch.com

ell, the beans have now been spilled: the York Theatre, operated by the Cultch, is open again for business. And this time, it’s monkey business in the form of an East Van pantomime complete with a bone-grinding giant and a naïve little boy who trades the family’s precious cow for a handful of worthless beans. Built in 1913 as the Alcazar, the theatre — after many re-namings and repurposings — was scheduled for demolition in the early 2000s. But as magically as Jack’s beans sprouted and grew, individuals and organizations came forward to save the building. Completely renovated, the York Theatre opened its doors to this Cultch and Theatre Replacement production of the old favourite, Jack and the Beanstalk. But the story has been completely “renovated” by Charles Demers, directed by Amiel Gladstone with music by Veda Hille. It’s full to bursting with local references to Vancouver realtors (who sell shoeboxes for half a million dollars), Aldergrove (that exists only so Langley has a town to make fun of), food allergies, three-ply toilet paper, composting, bike lanes — in short, there are no sacred cows left standing. In her program notes, Heather Redfern, executive director of the Cultch, points out that this inaugural show reﬂects the East Van roots of the Cultch where the Leaky Heaven Circus, created by a group of East Van theatre artists, their kids and dogs, was born. As Ray Nator (the Narrator and CEO of Buy Now, Pay Nator Realty), Raugi Yu kicks the show off and introduces Jack (Maiko Bae Yamamoto), Jack’s mom (Allan Zinyk) and Old Mudder Udder (with Dawn Petten at the front end and Patti Allan bringing up

the, uh, rear). And then, pretty much, all heck breaks loose. Zinyk, as always, is hilarious in a red wig, red dress and high heels and, later, as the Giant, all rigged out as a Vancouver Giants hockey player sans skates. But he really rocks the place with his “East Van Single MamaMa-Mama Blues.” Oh yeah. And lines like, “I haven’t had my hopes dashed since the last election,” drew roars of approval at the opening night gala. In a backwards baseball cap, Yamamoto (whom we discover can sing like an angel) is an enthusiastic little Jack, referred to by his mother as “my compostable little banana peel,” “my ﬂaky little coconut,” “my smelly little durian fruit,” my translucent little lychee” until she runs out of fruits and vegetables. Petten triples as half a cow, an off-key, singing harp and Dr. Stargazer, an Eastern-style guru. With a twitch of her nose or a grimace that passes for a smile, Petten can — and does — induce laughter. Patti Allan doubles as the hind end of a cow and, dressed in a brocade gown appropriate to Bard on the Beach, as lonely and possibly over-sexed Mrs. Giant. You ain’t seen a chicken until you’ve seen Yu in his chicken suit (designed by Redfern). But, really, it’s the startled chicken look on his face that’s the killer. Pam Johnson’s painted set (with scenic illustration by Laura Zerebski) is cartoony, larger than life and brightly coloured; Veda Hille offers a couple of original songs as well as providing keyboard accompaniment to re-worded tunes like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (“Somewhere East of Cambie”), I Want to Take You Higher,” “Those Were the Days” and a dozen more. Petten amazes us with a high speed, “cheesy” interpretation of “I Will Always Love You” (“I Will Always Love Blue”). The kiddies will love the familiar central story while the young at heart will get a kick out of all the puns and clever rhymes (like “babies” and “Libby Davies”).

And, yes, Virginia, you will sing “Silent Night” (new words provided) that ends with, “Give your mother some peace/eat your broccoli and peas.” It’s good fee-ﬁ-fo-fum fun for the whole family. —reviewed by Jo Ledingham For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

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Lights, camera, crime scene... VANCOUVER MOVIE THEATRES HAVE LONG HISTORY OF CRIME ON AND OFF SCREEN BACKSTAGE PAST with Aaron Chapman

hile crime films have been popular on Vancouver theatre screens since films were first shown in the city, it’s occasionally the theatres themselves that became crime scenes. This year’s Vancouver International Film Festival went off without a hitch, but on Aug. 10, 1959, the Vogue Theatre — host of the then-Vancouver Film Festival — was the scene of a robbery that could have been a scene in a heist movie. News of the story broke that day when a building engineer at the Vogue (then almost exclusively a motion picture cinema) arrived in the morning, entered the basement office and found the safe had been blown open by a safecracker. Vancouver police investigated and found that a total of $2,742 (about $15,000 today) had been stolen — the amount being the total box office and theatre concession profits from the weekend’s film festival showings. In a time before credit or debit cards, when people commonly carried hard cash for a night out, the potential box office take at a theatre or cinema after a busy weekend made for the kind of low security target that Vancouver hold-up men and safecrackers found a favourable target. And it wasn’t the only time the Vogue had been struck. In February 1954, safecrackers hit the theatre, leaving the morning staff to open the office to find the safe tipped over and smashed. On that occasion the loss had been just $200 to $300. In another bizarre incident, on Nov. 28 1954, Dunbar Theatre doorman Peter Clark was closing up after the evening screening

In the 1950s, robbers targeted the Vogue and the Dunbar Theatre in brazen crime scenes resembling those from a heist movie.

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of the just released film The Caine Mutiny, starring Humphrey Bogart, when Clark saw a figure slide through the front door and into the manager’s office. Clark followed and the man turned and pulled a gun on him. It was then he noticed the man was wearing a pair of joke shop eyeglasses. Clark moved in to grapple with the gunman, and in a frantic struggle Clark knocked the gun out of the man’s hand. As soon as the robber lost his weapon, he fled out the front door and down Dunbar Street. It is not known if a suspect was ever arrested in the incident. However, there are few crimes that actually took place inside a Vancouver theatre that rival the shooting at the Golden Princess Theatre on East Broadway in 1987. On a Friday night double feature, the action on screen was shattered by the sound of a real gunshot when William Yeung, a

Vancouverites are more likely to see are the theft of the theatres themselves. With the Pantages Theatre being demolished in 2011, the Red Robinson Theatre’s name being removed and rebranded “The Joint,” the wrecking ball that took down the Ridge Theatre this year, or the uncertain future of the Hollywood Theatre in Kitsilano, it’s perhaps eager property developers and a public going less and less to the single screen cinemas that make for the usual suspects in the challenges that these historic buildings face. And what of the $2,742 stolen from the Vogue in 1959? The Vancouver Sun announced the day after the robbery the arrest of a 24-year-old man had been made. That man today would be 78 years old. I wonder if he still goes to the movies? twitter.com/TheAaronChapman

16-year-old member of the Viet Ching street gang eager to prove his loyalty, walked down the theatre aisle to the seat of 14-yearold rival gang member Tony Hong and shot him in the head at point blank range. Hong lost an eye in the attack, and Yeung was convicted in an adult court and given an eight-year sentence. The Golden Princess Theatre is The Rio Theatre today. During the well-publicized battle last year by Rio General Manager Corinne Lea to obtain a liquor license for the theatre, one disapproving neighbour of the theatre raised the spectre of the 25year-old shooting as the kind of incident the community would surely see again if a liquor license was granted. She needn’t have worried — so far the only shots have been the ones from behind the bar. Today the kinds of theatre robberies that

Water-loving Olympic ‘moose-cot’ lacks style KUDOS& KVETCHES

ig news on the Olympic mascot front. The Canadian Olympic team has ﬁnally announced who/ what will be replacing Quatchi, Miga, Mukmuk et al as its ofﬁcial mascot for the upcoming Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Eschewing fur, earmuffs, snowboards, quasi-mystical First Nations powers and the female gender this time around, “Komak” is a young male moose born in Ontario’s Al-

gonquin Park. According to his bio, “because [Komak] is a moose, he is a strong swimmer and in particular excels at open water swimming.” Which totally makes sense because there are no swimming events in the Winter Olympics. And what is a Komak anyway? According to a quick Google search, which Olympic officials either failed to do or decided to ignore, Komak is a DC Comics character, recruitment specialist for the oil and gas industry, a Portland-based non-profit providing financial assistance to individuals with cancer, a grunt in World of Warcraft “found patrolling the Valley of Strength in Orgrimmar,” a Sweden-based Kurdish rights organization and, finally, Persian for “help.”

Komak looks like he’s been yanked from a Canadian elementary school health and fitness program circa 1979. In addition to Komak’s dubious predilection for water sports and a multiple-meaning name, his appearance leaves something to be desired. Whereas Canada’s 2010 mascots had a stylish Japanese doll vibe to them, Komak

looks like he’s been yanked from a Canadian elementary school health and ﬁtness program circa 1979. However, he does possess at least one modern accoutrement — a Twitter account. Sadly, as of Monday, @Komak had a paltry 1,835 followers. Not only that, but he doesn’t seem to have a Tumblr, Flickr, Foursquare or Adult Friend Finder account. And why isn’t he in Second Life? All of which makes us wonder, would this have been the case if the Olympics for once in their narrow-minded heads had gone with one of K&K’s many mascot suggestions such as Barrance the Belligerent Badger, Narwhal Ned or Connie the Newly Divorced Highly-Paid Executive Cougar? Doubtful. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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Ugoalah announces arrival with all-star nod MEGAN STEWART Staff writer

espite losing to Burnaby South 77-75 in the final of the Telus Basketball Classic, three Churchill Bulldogs were named to the tournament all-star team: brothers Mindy and Gary Minhas and senior team newcomer Izaiah Ugoalah. The brothers are in grades 12 and 11, respectively, and Ugoalah, only 15, became the first Grade 10 student in the 14-year history of the elite invitational to earn the accolade. “He was a factor in every game, he showed tremendous promise and Churchill wouldn’t have been in that game without his contribution as well as that of the two Minhas brothers,” said tournament founder and director Howard Kelsey. “Even through they were really sad that they lost, [Churchill] can find those two points. That’s what I told them after the game: those two points are there, you can find those two. Down the stretch as the lead changed hands numerous times, the Bulldogs went cold, particularly Mindy who, despite his 16 points, continuously hit iron in the final quarter. The game-winning shot was in his capable hands but the three-pointer came up short as the buzzer sounded. “That was one heck of a game,” said Kelsey. “That was as nice of a walk-off game as we could have possibly scripted. They don’t get much better than that.”

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Izaiah Ugoalah cuts to the hoop Dec. 7 at War Memorial Gym in the Telus Classic final. He became the only Grade 10 student named an all-star in the elite tournament. In the final Saturday night at UBC’s War Memorial Gym — in the final year of the Telus Classic — Ugoalah shot over 90 per cent in the first half, wracking up 16 points of his total 22 to lead both teams. His two missed shots of the half were from the threepoint line where he went two for four. With Churchill trailing by more than 10, he started to change the pace by splitting

the larger, older defenders crowding the key with a classic two-footed jump stop before slicing past them to the hoop. He quickly scored two more lay-ins on nothing more than his smooth speed and what he calls his “slasher” style. “Slasher means I’ll go to the hoop quite a bit,” he said Monday before a Bulldogs practice.

Ugoalah moves up to the senior team along with three other Grade 10 students who show the strong development program at Churchill. Simon Dykstra is the junior team coach and Rick Lopez is in charge of the seniors. Ugoalah’s work ethic is an important factor in his success so far and bodes very well for his future, said Lopez. “The kid works so hard on his game and is so passionate about basketball,” said the coach. “One of his biggest strengths is that he is so good at so many different things and that’s what makes him hard to defend against. He can shoot the outside shot, he has great ball-handling skills, and his quick ﬁrst step makes him very hard to stop when he attacks the rim.” Ugoalah’s father excelled in the high jump for UBC and his uncle on his mother’s side, Nick Ugoalah, is a ﬁve-time national champion wrestler who won gold for Canada at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Essential to Churchill’s success, Ugoalah has excellent chemistry with Gary and Mindy, the elder who is committed to the UBC Thunderbirds. “Mindy has been a great mentor to him,” said Lopez. Similarly to Ugoalah, Mindy played for the senior Bulldogs when he was in Grade 10. “He tells me don’t be scared and just always work hard and never take a day off,” said Ugoalah. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

Snubbed basketballer’s family ponders lawsuit MEGAN STEWART Staff writer

he family of Vancouver basketball player Drew Urquhart will take legal action against his new Seattle high school unless they are given an opportunity to counter the “misinformation” used to deny his athletic eligibility, their lawyer said Tuesday. Seattle lawyer David Smith was retained by the Urquhart family to represent their interests at Eastside Catholic, a private school in suburban Seattle where Drew is living with a member of the school’s board of trustees. He attends classes and basketball practices but cannot compete with the school team, the Crusaders, in the varsity metro league. “They have refused my repeated request to allow us to represent the actual facts before someone who hasn’t already made up their mind,” Smith

told the Courier in a phone interview. “Unless the school is going to agree to do the minimum requirement of due process, which means giving the kid a hearing to counter the allegations that are being made and let some neutral decision-maker decide, we have no choice but to ﬁle a lawsuit.” Smith said the school’s administration does not recognize Drew as a foreign exchange student. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association prohibits transfers between state schools and from other U.S. states but these rules should not apply to the Canadian athlete, the lawyer said. Furthermore, Smith said Eastside Catholic has not yet submitted a WIAA form that would, importantly, establish Drew’s athletic eligibility as a foreign exchange student. “The school has refused to submit the form that would get Drew started,” said Smith.

In an interview last week, school president Sister Mary Tracy said she decided Drew was ineligible to play for the Crusaders in the springtime. She also said his transfer raised suspicionsthattheathlete’sprimaryreason for changing schools twice in as many years was to play basketball. However, the Urquhart family was never informed he was ineligible until after the school semester had started this August. The news came as a stunning and unwelcome surprise for the family. Smith said no Washington school has failed to tell a student-athlete he was ineligible to play for a team with which he was already training and had travelled with to tournaments. “It’s never happened before that anybody has ever heard of,” he said. In an interview last week, Drew said he expected to be one of the starting ﬁve for the Crusaders. “The problem we have is if that’s [the school’s] decision, you’d think

they’d inform the student and his parents,” said Smith. Reached Tuesday morning by the Courier, Tracy refused to answer questions. “I’m sorry, I’ve got to go,” she said and hung up. Drew played one season with St. George’s in his Grade 11 year after the family moved from Kelowna. They still live in Vancouver and Drew’s younger brothers attend Point Grey secondary. Rob Urquhart said his son transferred to Eastside Catholic from St. George’s for academic reasons and to ease his transition to the U.S. educational and athletic systems. Drew has committed to the Division 1 NCAA University of Vermont. “A few of the [Canadian] players who are already in the NCAA right now, we had spoken to a couple of them and they said that ﬁrst year transition was so very hard that they’d almost given up,” said Urquhart, who is a special education teacher in a

Richmond public school. “We were hoping that Drew would be able to go in and get used to the system, then he’d be ready to go.” Intheend,hisfatheracknowledged Drew may not ever play basketball for Eastside Catholic. He said his son will not likely transfer to another school. “We sent him down for education purposes,” said Urquhart. “At this point in his graduation year, he’s made friends there and we’ll just have to go forward an carry on.” Urquhart said training with the Crusaders as they play exhibition games and build chemistry before the season causes his son emotional suffering. “He’s still allowed to practise with the team. He’s having a hard time doing that just because the kids are getting excited for the season so he kind of gets a little bit sad every time they get excited that get might not be able to do it.” mstewart@vancourier.com

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Artful dodgers turn playground game into serious sport JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing writer

ichelle Sz wants to intimidate you. “I have this really terrifying attitude,” said the dodgeball player who had dressed as a zebra to warm up before a playoff game Saturday. “People say I have a really scary game face.” Sz, 27, says she has been trapped by dodgeball. She’s addicted to the sport and describes herself as a ﬁerce competitor but said the main purpose of the Vancouver Dodgeball League is for friends to gather and have a blast working up a sweat by pelting each other with soft projectiles. Her team, the Discovery Channel, came wearing animal onesies: her brother Ronald was a kangaroo. There was a tiger, an owl, a red panda and a raccoon–dog. The league’s 16th season came to an end Dec. 7 and 8 at Vancouver Technical secondary for two intense afternoons of playoff dodgeball. Adults of all shapes, sizes and abilities, mostly between the ages of 19 and 35 packed the East Side gym for a double-elimination tournament in front of a boisterous crowd of mostly

fellow players. “We are going to have fun, that is the spirit of the entire thing,” said Ronald Sz, 19, before stripping off his kangaroo onesie and joining his teammates on the court as Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” thumped loudly. The Discovery Channel didn’t win the championship but they won the award for best team uniform. At the end of the regular season, Discovery Channel was tied for 9th out of the 16 teams in the top tier, which meets Monday nights. Their first opponent, The Lantern Corps, was the second seed. Discovery Channel lost 1-3 in the best of five series against the Lantern Corps and then went on to lose 2-3 in a nail-biting match against the MazDebators that saw the Discovery Channel win the first game and then lose the second, win the third and then ultimately fall behind. The second loss ended their post-season. Michelle Sz said her team, which played together for the first time this season, was at a disadvantage from the start facing two teams with players who had been together for a few years. “We were close, just maybe the team was a little tense,” she said.

Though frustrated by the loss, she said she had a great time. “Playing with so many people… it is just so much fun. You get to really to know people in the community,” she said. With over 1,500 VDL players and teams playing over four nights each week, clearly the Sz siblings aren’t the only fans of the sport. Playoff referee, Truong Cao, 31, was instrumental in setting up the league eight years ago when 12 players came together for drop-in games. The David Thompson secondary alumnus said the league has grown beyond what he and the four other founders ever imagined. He said plans for the future are even grander. “We have pretty lofty goals of taking it, I want to say to a global scale, but that sounds like reaching beyond what we can do. We want to at least take it beyond Vancouver.” They intend to expand the league to Richmond and Burnaby, throughout the province and across Canada, he said. The 17th Vancouver Dodgeball League season gets underway in January. For information on the VDL and tournament results, visit vdldodgeball.ca. Thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/Thuncher

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Michelle Sz eyes an incoming ball during the Vancouver Dodgeball League championships at Van Tech secondary Dec. 7. To see a photo gallery, go to vancourier.com/sports.

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n the world of competitive swimming, being fast doesn’t just happen. Becoming the best in the pool is a process. For the last 15 years, the national swim centre located at the University of British Columbia has produced an impressive list of athletes who have won Olympic and world championship medals. Olympic bronze medallist Brent Hayden trained at the centre. So did Olympians Annamay Pierse, a former world record holder in the breaststroke, and Martha McCabe, a world champion bronze medallist. These successes are badges of honour for the program and UBC at a time when the university re-evaluates its varsity athletic program, which currently includes 29 sports. In some cases, the badge is literal: A two-storey billboard of Pierse, who retired last year, hangs on the War Memorial Gym with the UBC slogan “a place of mind.” Tom Johnson, technical director for the swim program at UBC, believes the national centre ﬁlls an even greater role than creating Olympians. Many members of the UBC Thunderbird swim team have gone on to train with the national program and that makes UBC an attractive option for Canadians considering attending a U.S. college to further their swimming career. “We can offer as much if not more than what can be offered in the U.S.,” said Johnson, who has coached at nine Summer Games and was Canada’s head coach at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “We have a continuity of care. We have a pro-

gram that will look after those kids 11 months of the year and keep moving them toward the international scene as a priority. In the United States, their priority is [to] score points at the NCAA or conference championship. In reality the whole thing is geared for what they can get out of them in March. Our whole program is more about getting them into the international arena […] and developing them in that arena.” The centre, which was first established in 1998, employs 12 people and costs about $750,000 a year to operate. In addition to two coaches, there is support staff for nutrition, sport physiology and physiotherapy. Currently the centre trains 12 swimmers. Steve Price, head swim coach of the Thunderbirds, said the cost of the swim team has been underwritten by the Pacific Dolphin Swim Association, now known as the UBC Dolphins. He is confidenttheswimprogramhasafutureatUBC. “The truth is the current model we have with swimming, [which] includes club, varsity and high performance streams, is the new model that has been described by the ‘think tank’ group that set the groundwork for this sport review,” Price said in an email. “In fact, other sports in Canada have ‘copied’ the model set up here at UBC.” As with the UBC varsity review, nothing can be taken for granted. “There is always a chance things can change,” said Johnson. “I think our performances and our track record over the past 15 years are such we have consistently delivered not only high-performance athletes but also coaches and support people to the national program.”

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