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Social circle wins reprieve ULTIMATE FATE OF MOUNT PLEASANT PROJECT UNCERTAIN SANDRA THOMAS Staff writer

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ALL IN THE FAMILY: All-star Killarney secondary forward Tearra McBride (centre) has seen her life turn around since moving to Vancouver from Smithers and dedicating herself to playing basketball. See story on page 27.

he city has decided a popular Mount Pleasant traffic circle-turned meeting place can continue — for now. Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer said Julien Thomas can continue to offer coffee in the middle of the traffic circle as part of his community-building exercise dubbed “Gather Round.” “The challenge is, it’s a pilot project that came through the Neighbourhood Small Grants program through the Vancouver Foundation,” said Reimer. “But nobody thought it through for the next five to 10 years and there’s no policy around it.” As reported in the Courier last week, Thomas was surprised in January when the city contacted him to say he could no longer organize social activities in the traffic

circle on St. George Street along the 10th Avenue bike route. Thomas contacted the Courier because his project had been the focus of a 2013 feature story by entertainment editor Michael Kissinger, which has since been nominated for a provincial journalism award. In 2012, Thomas successfully applied to the Neighbourhood Small Grants Fund and received $800 towards plants, a stonework mosaic, website and coffeemaker to keep visitors and weekend work parties caffeinated. Thomas sat in the circle most Sundays, offering cups of freshly brewed coffee to neighbours and passing cyclists and pedestrians. Ironically, Thomas had been a member of the mayor’s Engaged City Task Force where he worked on artsbased civic engagement.

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Numbers revealed for city council’s pay raise 12TH & CAMBIE with Mike Howell

o Mayor Gregor Robertson and his council are getting a pay raise. I brought you this news back on Jan. 8. But at the time, your civic ofﬁcials didn’t know how much of a bump they would receive. That’s because data relied upon annually by city staff to determine the raise isn’t the same as previous years. I’ll explain in a few sentences or so. For now, you should know mayor and council are getting a 3.24 per cent hike. So that means Robertson will earn $154,346 this year, a decent jump from last year’s salary of $149,503. Councillors’ salaries increase to $67,994 from $65,860. Coincidentally, property taxes also went up again this year. But as Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs has told me previously and the mayor reiterated when I spoke to him last week, pay raises and property tax hikes cannot be connected. That’s because way back in 1995, an independent panel set a formula that said a pay increase for council should reﬂect what the average full-time employee in Vancouver earns. Coun. Raymond Louie told me it was

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Mayor Gregor Robertson makes $20,000 less than his infamous counterpart in Toronto. $65,860 last year, which seems a bit high. Anyway, since the panel’s decision, increases have been automatic in January and adjusted annually to track changes in wages as reported by Statistics Canada. This time around, however, the data was collected under the voluntary National Household Survey, which replaced the mandatory long-form census. Louie’s concern was the survey would not be as accurate as the census or reﬂective of

wage earners. Are you still with me? Here’s an excerpt of a memo from city manager Penny Ballem to city council to further confuse you: “More analysis is required to complete a comprehensive evaluation of the [survey] data. In the interim, the director of ﬁnance, in consultation with the city solicitor, has reviewed a number of options and has concluded the most appropriate index to use for 2014 is to continue using the change

in the average weekly wage for B.C., as has been used in the interim years (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013) between census dates.” Some of you know council also pulls in more cash for their Metro Vancouver duties. I’ve written about this many times, so I won’t go into it again. Plus, I wanted to give you some more news on the earnings of Police Chief Jim Chu and his crew at the Vancouver Police Department. I’ve learned the chief and 41 other ofﬁcers and staff will get raises this year, too. A report that went before the Vancouver Police Board last Thursday said the total cost of the increases will be $174,360. The report didn’t identify who would get what. As I’ve reported previously, Chu earns more than $300,000 a year. It puts him in the same club as Toronto police chief, Bill Blair, who earned $328,557 in 2011, according to the Ontario Ministry of Finance’s public sector salary disclosure statement. And in case you think city council’s pay is too high, their counterparts in Toronto and Calgary make more than $100,000 each per year. For the record, Toronto mayor Rob Ford pulls in about $20,000 more per year than Robertson. Sure, he represents a bigger city. But is there any doubt Ford has not brought his A-game to the job? OK, maybe there is. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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The truth about council and public hearings POPULAR OPPOSITION NOT ALWAYS SUFFICIENT TO KILL AN APPLICATION DEVELOPING STORY with Naoibh O’Connor

ith two public hearings coming up next month about rezoning applications for Oakridge Centre (March 10) and Casa Mia (March 14), it’s a good time for a refresher on city council’s role and limitations at public hearings. Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer told the Courier it’s important for the public to understand that when council sits as council it’s a policy-making body, but in a public hearing it’s not. “We’re sitting as, essentially, a judicial tribunal. We’re making a decision on land use that is based on existing policy. In fact it would likely to be tested poorly in the courts if we tried to make policy as we go in a public hearing,” she said. “The challenge is if you’re a member of the public, you come in and see the same 11 people that you see making policy and you assume we can do everything in a public hearing that we can do in a council meeting, which is not the case.” Reimer explained, for example, that council decided af-

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fordable housing is an important public objective for the city so it could create policy framework such as the Rental 100 program where applicants get different consideration under zoning than a project that’s not coming in under Rental 100 — they may get things like fewer parking requirements or development cost levy waivers. People can appear at council or submit letters or emails about proposed policy, and council can consider public support for the policy when making their decision. “We’re not legally bound one way or the other, but if you’re there representing the public, you’re making policies on their behalf, so whether or not they support those policies is really important,” she said. “At public hearing, the only thing you’re doing is you’re looking at the existing policies and whether or not the application meets the tests set out in those policies.” So if a person appeared at a public hearing about a project coming in under the Rental 100 program and focused their objection on not liking the Rental 100 program, council couldn’t vote no based on that rationale. (If there are contradictions between relevant policies, staff present council with an issues and directions report and council makes a decision on how to move forward. In the case of Oakridge, council voted last year to consider things like higher tower heights than were outlined in the

2007 Oakridge Policy Statement.) So what happens if a person points out 75 per cent of their community is against an application before public hearing? Reimer said it depends what the 75 per cent are against. “If 75 per cent of the community is against the policy that enabled the application, then yeah, we couldn’t use that as a rationale for voting against it,” she said. “If 75 per cent of the community believes the application doesn’t meet the policy, that would certainly compel you to go, gee, I wonder what that is and let’s look and maybe in fact it doesn’t and let’s send it back. It’s not really the opinion or not the opinion. It’s whether or not the opinion relates to a misinterpretation or misapplication of policy.” Once council refers an application to public hearing, councillors are not allowed to speak to the public about it except at the hearing itself. Staff give councillors packages shortly before public hearing, which include correspondence that’s come in. If information comes in during the public hearing, it’s forwarded to all councillors, who if necessary, will take a recess to read it. “So it really is like a court, where this is the evidence and you’re using the evidence, but there is a test, which is: Does this evidence meet this policy?” Reimer said. noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh

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raduation rates for aboriginal students in Vancouver rose last year and the district held a session on aboriginal education Friday to inspire the school community to build on that success. The Ministry of Education reports that 43.3 per cent of aboriginal students achieved a Dogwood diploma in six years last year, up 11.2 per cent from 2011-2012. (The graduation rate for non-aboriginal students last year was 86.7 per cent, up 4.2 per cent from 2011-2012.) More than 150 teachers, administrators and support staff attended the aboriginal education presentation Feb. 21, which coincidentally was scheduled during the Canada-U.S. men’s Olympic hockey game. Visitors to Magee secondary and those watching the webcast heard from Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo of the national Assembly of First Nations, DeDe DeRose, superintendent of aboriginal achievement for the Ministry of Education, and Don Fiddler, the Vancouver School Board’s district principal for aboriginal education. Atleo said everyone should expect aboriginal students to graduate and further their education, with more weight given to indigenous ways of knowing. He said aboriginal teens must be vulnerable and take the risk to succeed. “Grandson, we no longer fight with our fists any longer,” he said his grandmother told him when Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized for the Indian Residential Schools system in 2008. “We fight our fight with education.” DeRose, B.C.’s first superintendent of ab-

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Thomas part of city task force

Continued from page 1 At the time, Thomas recommended an ombudsman position be created to help residents navigate the public space committee. The city’s website says the main goal of the task force is to “increase neighbourhood engagement, and improve upon the many ways the city connects with Vancouver residents.” Thomas said it was just hours after the story appeared online last week that he heard from Reimer who told him he could continue with the project. “Andrea told me that as soon as she saw the story she called the mayor. I’m happy because the decision flies in the face of everything they’re trying to do,” said Thomas. “I’m so glad she shares my point of view.” An email to the Courier from the city’s communications department last week said: “The primary intention of a traffic circle is to direct the flow of traffic and a secondary benefit is that there can be gardens located in the circles. For safety reasons, the city does not support people staying in traffic circles for extended periods of time beyond the time needed to garden.” The email added city staff has suggested other areas, such as an adjacent sidewalk, where people can gather and socialize. The city also offered additional plants to fill in the traffic circle. Reimer said staff was simply following procedure when it notified Thomas to stop activities in the circle. Reimer added, she and the mayor convinced staff to allow Thomas to continue serving coffee until policy around the traffic circle is decided. “There is no policy framework to support it, to say what’s working and what’s not,” said Reimer. “It’s awkward timing because the point of the Engaged City Task Force is to bring people together and support a much greater use of public space.” But Reimer added there have been complaints from some nearby residents and the city’s traffic department is concerned about people jaywalking into the middle of the street on such a popular bike route. “In theory it’s an excellent idea,” said Reimer. “But it’s on an extremely well-used bike path on a slight incline where a serious accident could happen.” sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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Coleman gets a kick out of skeptics

omething all the liquefied-natural-gas skeptics out there should know: Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman gets a big kick out of you. In fact, he’s laughing at you and all your worries and nit-picking and carping. His half-hour speech this week on LNG had the unmistakable tone of someone who is just itching to say years from now: “I told you so.” There’s a long road to travel before B.C. will see if he gets that immense satisfaction. And even though the B.C. Liberals won an election partly on the audacious promises of prosperity flowing from LNG, there’s still skepticism about the concept. Last week’s throne speech was the fifth to mention LNG in some fashion. And there are still no signed deals to start building facilities. The Liberals were fairly clear that the required tax regime that investors have to see before committing was going to be in place by now. Through 2013 they were guardedly optimistic it would be introduced later that year. But they started walking back from that target in November. The budget just released a few pages outlining what it might look like. The law won’t come down until the fall. In 2011, the idea was to have one plant up and running by 2015, and three by 2020. The second target still stands, but the first one looks unlikely at this point. And whether it’s an inferiority complex or just a nervous reaction to competition, every move made in other jurisdictions trying exactly the same thing is noted anxiously in B.C. Which is where Coleman is getting his kicks these days. “I always get a kick out of the fact that some people, when they talk about our budget and our speech, say: ‘Oh, they’ve got a vision, and they’re behind. They’re not going to get there.’ ” His point was that B.C. has an obligation to try, rather than dismiss the chance as unwinnable and not bother. As it stands, he counts a dozen major companies who are “looking” at investing in LNG in B.C. They range from small investments of $1 billion up to as high as $40 billion. “Most jurisdictions would be doing backflips of excitement to see if they can attract one of those. We have 12.” Coleman counts seven of them as major opportunities, in the $30-billion to $40-billion range. He said five of the companies have invested $500 million to $1.5 billion just on preliminary work. That’s taken as another cause for optimism, although some of the companies are covering their bets and doing the same thing elsewhere in the world. Coleman’s version of his talks with senior company officials is a story of executives heaping praise on the Liberal government for the way they run things. He said one unnamed CEO said the firm is in B.C. “because you want to get it done” and because fiscal stability eases worries the government will come back later and raise taxes. But wanting to get it done sounds like an elementary requirement. Everyone in the race to supply Asia with natural gas wants to get it done, or they wouldn’t be in the race. And the tax outline in the budget does exactly what the CEO feared — it hikes the tax rate further down the road. Although that’s at least made clear from the outset. He rejected the idea LNG is behind schedule. “I get a kick out of some of the other folks out there saying: ‘You’re behind schedule.’ No we’re not. We’re actually right on the time frame that I established.” One thing that works in the government’s favour is the scale of the enterprise. The values are so vast that even delivering a fraction of the potential could count as a win. Coleman said: “They say: ‘They can’t all go ahead.’ I say: ‘OK. Let’s have three.’ That’s $100 billion. That’s 100,000 jobs.” It’s that comfort level that’s giving him the kicks, and the amusement. “It’s laughable when people say: ‘I don’t know why you’re pursuing it,’ because I don’t know why you wouldn’t.” lleyne@timescolonist.com

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War doomed the elegant aircraft era

ast month I went through a metal detector, took off my shoes, and had everything I was carrying Xrayed. Then I sat in a steel tube for a couple of hours and was flung through the skies, thanks to a controlled explosion of jet fuel. Of note is the fact that I took off and landed on a concrete runway. History might have turned out very different for aviation, if the Second World War hadn’t intervened. The dominant type of passenger airplane in the 1920s and 1930s was the flying boat. Almost all of the early sizeable aircraft for both long-range passengers and mail delivery were built to land on and take off from the water. Why? Economics. The world already had plenty of harbours, but very few runways. A flying boat service could be set up far more cheaply than a land-based aircraft service. Not all the early experiments were successes. The Caproni CA-60 Noviplano was a 1921 attempt to crossbreed a houseboat and a triplane. It featured three sets of triple wings attached to what looked a giant shoebox with windows. It flew — sort of. The pilot survived the wreck, anyway. Other experiments were more successful, and by the late 1920s, there were several airfleets using a wide variety of flying boats. One of the early large passenger flying boats was the Dornier Do.X, which flew in 1926 and even made an around-the-world trip before taking up service with the (pre-Nazi era) Lufthansa. It was massive for its age, with three decks, sleeping quarters, a smoking deck, and a bar. This was the era when the main method of long-distance travel was the steamship, and aircraft — both planes and airships — tried to compete with them on luxury. It didn’t hurt that the tickets were so expensive only the rich could afford long trips, anyway. Other Dorniers and Sikorskys were developed through the late 1920s and early 1930s, and Short Brothers of the United Kingdom also got into the game. The Martin M-130 was built for Pan Am in 1935 and inaugurated the era of the China Clipper, linking San Francisco to Asia. The last truly massive flying boat ever made for commercial use was the Saunders-Roe Princess. It may have been named for a dainty figure out of fairy tales, but in practice, it strongly resembled a blue whale with wings: elegant and graceful, perhaps, but not in the same way as a Disney cartoon heroine. The Princess was built in 1952, and never carried passengers. All three prototypes rusted away in hangars. Why let an efficient mode of air travel pass away? As with many other things, blame the Nazis. Even before the war, there had been land-based aircraft, of course. But the cost of building an airport with paved runways near major cities was tremendous. With the war, every major economic power in the world built numerous airfields. They also ramped up their production of land-based bombers, which were a lot easier to load with equipment and weapons from nice, stable terra firma. After the war, the many wartime cargo planes were available cheap, and the runways were already there. Mail delivery and small-scale passenger service switched rapidly to landbased planes, with flying boats only hanging on in the developing world for a few more years. Eventually, no matter what, flying boats would have lost ground. Too many destinations are inland, and convenience would have won out. But the war warped that history, changed it faster than mere economics would have. Without the war, flying boats might have hung on for another decade or two, or perhaps might still have their elegant niche. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

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Why let an efficient mode of air travel pass away? As with many other things, blame the Nazis.

CITY’S CIRCULAR LOGIC QUESTIONED

To the editor: Re: “Circle is broken as city disengages gathering spot,” Feb. 21. Are we meant to laugh or cry on reading that Julien Thomas is forbidden by the city to organize social activities for the centre of the traffic circle at St. George Street and which ends with the observation that “all of Thomas’ projects are designed to bring community members together while sparking discussion.” The wisdom of city officials is cited: “For safety reasons the city does not support people staying in traffic circles for extended periods beyond the time needed to garden.” I read that as “Garden and get out, Herr Citizen.” On page 3 of the same edition, an article titled “Survey says Vancouver a lonely place to be” states “more than 40 per cent of respondents who reported

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social isolation say they have a weak sense of belonging to a community” and, further, “the most often cited reason for not participating in neighbourhood and community life is a feeling that we have little to offer.” Let’s hope extra copies of the Courier are on hand when city hall reviews the Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force report in March.

His self-importance is quite a story in itself. I really feel sorry for him in that he has to drive another four extra blocks instead of those two blocks he drives to go to his tennis game as this is another reason for bike lanes to encourage better ways of getting around in a congested city. Hop on a bike, Nelson.

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SKALBANIA IN THE WRONG ON ROAD

To the editor: Re: “Lifestyles of the rich and furious,” Feb. 21. I would like to point out to Mr. Skalbania that he did not pay for [Point Grey] Road as it was already in existence before he even moved there. We all pay taxes for all the different services we receive.

Norm and Sue Goguen, Vancouver

To the editor: Re: “We need to talk about TED,” Feb. 13. Geoff Olson’s TED article two weeks ago week — best yet. Been meaning to write and thank you for the insight and huge guffaws our family had with Olson’s humourous, insightful take on this group. This writer is a keeper.

D. Anderson, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Circle is broken as city disengages gathering spot,” Feb. 21. Enraged City @EnragedCityVan: THIS IS INSANE! What a hero. COURIER COLUMN: “Lifestyles of the rich and furious,” Feb. 21. Brent Granby @brentgranby: Ha, good one! Garr nails it. Pamela Mccoll: The changes to Point Grey Road went through a very extensive public consultation process and the neighbors were engaged. Thousands signed the petition supporting the plan and it is now time to get behind the plan and make it work, not throw rocks on the parade. The time for negative comment has come and gone. Mooha: “Consultation”? More like fait accompli Did anybody have a doubt this would occur the day it was “proposed?” I am sure you are tickled pink Pam, too bad for the rest of us. Math problem — if 10,000 cars per day spend an extra 10 minutes on their route versus the few bikes who do travel on non-sunny days, will our air quality improve? But what do you care? The ONLY reason I am happy is that this might be the straw that ticks off enough Vancouverites to turf our illustrious mayor. And for that I thank you. Peter Ladner: Fact check Mooha: the only way 10,000 cars could spend an extra 10 minutes going along 4th instead of Pt. Grey Rd. is if they all stopped for coffee. If they had been obeying the 30km/hr speed limit on Pt. Grey Rd. the time on the 50 km/hr. route along 4th would be about equal. Who exactly is hurt by this move? COURIER STORY: “Bike path opponent cites victory for democracy,” Feb. 19. Kay Teschke: Does it not seem odd that this is called a victory for democracy when the people who opposed this plan were not elected by anyone? COURIER STORY: “Online petition rouses support against Vancouver demolitions,” Feb. 19. Carey Murphy: Dealing with individual “character” homes is problematic. If a home can’t be demolished, it will be worth less to a buyer. What the city will do is use this petition to bolster their heritage density transfer plan. In order to preserve heritage, the city uses the bonus density tool. The city council has approved a change [in Sept 2013] to the density transfer program and the change means that bonus density can “land” citywide. Not just downtown or on a small strip of Broadway. Now it can land citywide. This is a big change. I suspect the “landing” part of this program will be quiet for a couple of years. Right now what it means is that developers are able to buy bonus density from the bank (and thereby reduce the balance and that is the short term goal of city council. Developers buy bonus density instead of funding amenities for the community. Last week, two rezonings near me in the Cambie Corridor were at public hearing and 25 per cent of the amenity funds were used to reduce the density bank balance. Combined that is $1.6M not going into community amenities! Eventually the density that the developers are buying is going to land somewhere and it will be in or adjacent to the single-family neighbourhoods. David Gibson: This discussion is long overdue! Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews

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MALE-DOMINATED GAME OPEN TO WOMEN, THOSE WITH PATIENCE

REBECCA BLISSETT Contributing Writer

ike chess, shogi is mostly a quiet game. Both players study the board on a table in front of them, a hand often on the face in the thick of concentration. And then, very much unlike chess, there’s a startling “clack” noise as wood hits wood when a player drops in a piece with a quick flick of the fingers. Devon Rowcliffe runs the Vancouver Shogi Club, which hosts games one Saturday every month at Moii Café on Cambie Street, both for experienced players and for those who want to learn the basics of Japanese chess. Rowcliffe, who spent many hours as a young boy playing chess with his father, is now familiar enough with the Japanese game to play but admits he’s not an expert by any stretch as he spends much of his spare time promoting the club. “Most of these guys school me,” he said during last Saturday’s open table at Moii where three boards were set-up amid the café’s table decorations of a model sailboat or two. “I balance promoting the club as well as learning myself. When I first learned to play chess, I was not even aware there were chess variants at the time. The fact that you could drop in a piece kinda blew my mind.” Rowcliffe was a teenager when he heard about shogi while watching a television drama called Futarikko about a young girl who became a professional shogi player. The 500-year-old game stuck in his head, especially the part about the drop-in rule where, as with chess, pieces can be captured but, unlike chess, captured pieces can be brought back into play by the opposition. So Rowcliffe decided to do some research. “I learned that Vancouver had a club, but it was dormant. Toronto and Montreal had clubs, but they were also dormant. There was a Canadian Shogi Federation, but that also went dormant,” Rowcliffe said. “One by one all the shogi clubs in Canada went dormant and there was nothing. So I decided I wanted to play and, well, the club was dormant, so I decided that I’ll relaunch it.” The Vancouver Shogi Club came back to life last month, following Rowcliffe’s game plan of hosting two open games a month — one at Moii and the other at Burnaby’s Nikkei

Notice of Consultation for Port Metro Vancouver’s Land Use Plan Update Since early 2012, Port Metro Vancouver has been reviewing our Land Use Plan. We’ve updated the Goals, Objectives and Policy Directions to guide land use. We’ve also been working with you to create revised Land Use Designations that define the types of uses allowed on Port lands in 16 municipalities for the next 15 to 20 years. You are invited to join in the discussion about Port Metro Vancouver’s updated Land Use Plan and provide your feedback. Consultation will be open from February 10 to April 13, 2014. Please visit porttalk.ca/landuseplan to:

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SHOGI SHOWDOWN: Keiko Minato, who was taught shogi by her grandfather and father at a young age,

plays a friendly game against Nanhee Kim during the Vancouver Shogi Club’s drop-in game at the Moii Café on Cambie Street Saturday afternoon. Shogi has some similarities to western chess. Scan this page with the Layar app or visit vancourier.com to see more photos. National Museum and Cultural Centre where a former North American shogi champion started the morning with a lesson (similar to some martial arts experienced professionals also go by ranks of kyu while amateurs go by ranks of dan). The game has a strong history in Vancouver. The club was founded in 1968 by player Makoto Kumano and was the ﬁrst shogi club outside of Japan to be ofﬁcially recognized by the Japan Shogi Association. Interest was lost over the years mostly because the players grew old and nothing

much was done in the way of recruiting, especially as the game was the domain of men. “One of the downsides to the former shogi club was that it was all Japanese males,” said Rowcliffe. “So I thought I’d like to open it to many different backgrounds, different genders…” The international game has also kept up with the times, as evidenced by the fourth annual Women’s Oza Championship in Tokyo later this year. Japan already has seven title tournaments for men. At Saturday’s open game, there were equal numbers of men and women, including Rowcliffe’s wife Nanhee Kim who was mid-match against Tom Furukawa. “I like the challenge, I like playing so I can get a better idea of the game,” said Kim. “It was frustrating at the beginning, I couldn’t understand how the promotion of the pieces worked, or where to drop them. But I needed to ﬁnd a new hobby, and I like to use my brain.” Asked about the fun of the game, both players answered in unison: “The patience.” TheVancouverShogiClubmeetsagainMarch8attheNikkei Centre and March 22 at Moii Café. For more information, visit shogivancouver.wordpress.com/

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Coroners call inquest into fatal police shooting MAN SHOT BY POLICE OUTSIDE A MCDONALD’S IN 2012

MIKE HOWELL Staff Writer

he B.C. Coroners Service has called an inquest into the death of a 52-year-old man who was shot and killed by Vancouver police in 2012 outside a McDonald’s restaurant at Hastings and Cassiar. The inquest, which begins July 7, comes 10 months after the Independent Investigations Office cleared a Vancouver Police Department officer of any wrongdoing in the Oct. 29, 2012 shooting death of Christopher Ray. Barbara McLintock, a spokesperson for the coroners service, said the inquest was called because the mandate of the agency is different than that of the investigations’ office, which can recommend charges to Crown counsel. “We’re a fact-finding agency, not a faultfinding agency,” McLintock told the Courier. Ray was killed after police responded to a report in the 400-block of Skeena Street of a man behaving erratically, including cracking the window in the lobby of a condominium complex and striking vehicles.

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A coroner’s inquest into the death of a man shot by Vancouver police begins July 7. The report from the investigations’ office said an officer shot Ray twice after he advanced on him “in what seemed to be a sprint.” After Ray fell to the ground outside the restaurant, the officer found a Leatherman multitool knife on the ground next to Ray. Several witness accounts revealed the officer repeatedly told Ray to stay back and keep away. One witness told investigators Ray was

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running “with his hand stretched out, like the guy was going to go and try to stab the cop.” One witness, who was interviewed 18 days after the shooting, said she observed the incident from across the street, which occurred about 8:30 p.m. “She appeared to suggest that she did not see a reason for Mr. Ray to have been shot,” wrote Richard Rosenthal, the Chief Civilian Director

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of the investigations’ office. “She also made comments, however, which suggested that she was not certain of her own observations.” The officer had a beanbag shotgun in a police van when he arrived at the scene. But, he explained, the incident escalated too fast for him to grab the shotgun, which police often resort to when dealing with suspects difficult to restrain. “Under the circumstances, the officer was in harm’s way and lawfully used deadly force to defend himself,” Rosenthal wrote. Police administered CPR to Ray at the scene before paramedics transported him to Vancouver General Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 9:14 p.m. He is survived by family and friends, including a daughter, grandson and sister. Coroner Chico Newell will preside over the inquest at the coroners court in Burnaby. Although the jury cannot make any findings of legal responsibility, it can make recommendations aimed at preventing future deaths under similar circumstances. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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he first few flowers that spring up through melting snow can bring us as much pleasure as June with all its roses. The nights may still be icy, but those early flowers tell us gentler weather is almost here. Traditionally snowdrops are the earliest and, like almost all winter flowers, last for many weeks outside. The Giant Snowdrop (Galanthus elwesii) is usually the first to bloom, closely followed by the small Common Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)

with the double snowdrop bringing up the rear. All establish best when transplanted after ﬂowering while still in leaf. When happy in semi-shade with seasonal rain available, single snowdrops expand from seed and from offsets. If you start with snowdrops by buying dry bulbs, planting in very early fall is best. Some gardeners say a few hours soaking triggers faster growth. The Giant Snowdrop can handle a sunny spot better than the others. Once snowdrops go dormant, drought is no problem nor are high summer temperatures. Like some other bulbs, snowdrops produce droppers. These are nature’s survival plan: a deep-down bulb connected to an upper bulb by a tough vertical root. If the upper bulb dies, the lower bulb replaces the plant. Once I came across a dropper string of three Galanthus nivalis bulbs.

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ering. The bulbs are tiny and have inconspicuous leaves. Then there’s the Januaryflowering hardy Cyclamen coum. Flowers are delicately pink or white and when it’s happy it colonizes lawns. The low-growing, patterned leaves emerge in early fall and remain until May when it goes dormant. Drought and heavy lawnmowers don’t bother it, but good drainage is important which may be why it’s very happy under cedars. Usually Iris reticulata puts up flowers by mid-February. It’s a very dwarf iris which likes the brighter light at the edge of borders. Some are very fragrant such as the purple-maroon coloured George. Most flowers are purple or bluish, but Cantab is pale blue and Katherine

Hodgson has bluish white petals with speckles and fine lines of a deeper blue. Another dwarf, early-flowerer is the bright yellow Iris danfordiae. It’s popular in some quarters for its brightness, early bloom and strong fragrance. Unfortunately the bulbs split up after flowering just as some tulips do. With tulips, deep planting does help perennialize some and so does keeping them absolutely dry in summer. It might be interesting to dig up Iris danfordiae bulbs shortly after flowering, store them dry inside and replant in fall. ••• Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them to her via amarrison@shaw.ca and let her know what city or town you are writing from.

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The Vancouver Public Library is offering a free Computer Basics course for seniors Saturday, March 8, from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. Seniors will learn to use the mouse and computer keyboard — and get an overview of basic computer functions. This is a 90-minute hands-on course. The session takes place in the Computer Training Room, level seven, at the Central Library, 350 West Georgia St. For more information or to register call: 604331-3603.

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CHAMPLAIN HEIGHTS The Southeast Vancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society offers a free movie screening the first Wednesday of each month and on March 5 presents, Still Mine, the story of an elderly couple who fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.

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The Vancouver Public Library is holding a free Computer Basics course for seniors March 8. A tea and talk takes place at 12:45 p.m. with show time at 1:15 p.m. and for the first 30 seniors to register a pre-movie lunch is available for a suggested $3 donation. Movies are shown in the upstairs lounge of the Champlain Heights Community Centre, 3350 Maquinna Dr. Call 604-718-6575 to reserve your seat. (If registration is full, ask to be put on the waiting list in case someone cancels. As well, if you can’t make it, please

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Wine will be consumed and funds will be raised for Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland at the seventh annual Grape Juice wine auction, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. March 6, at Lamborghini Vancouver, 1720 West Second Ave. Guests can bid on wines from around the world while enjoying samples from Marquis Wine Cellars, Fresh Tap, Roaring Twenties Wine Co., Nichol Vineyard, Poderi dal Nespoli, and Ricossa, Wines of Piedmont. Founding Sponsors McNeill Nakamoto Recruitment Group and MAC Marketing Solutions launched the annual event to raise much-needed funds to support Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland’s mentoring programs for local at-risk girls. Their goal this year is to raise $100,000, which will allow Big Sisters to match 50 girls on their waitlist with a supportive mentor. For tickets and information visit grapejuicevancouver.com. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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he executive director of Citizens for Accessible Neighbourhoods is concerned a proposed change to a bus route in Champlain Heights will mean seniors and persons with disabilities will struggle to get around. “I live in Champlain and this change will affect me personally,” said Heather McCain. “I use a walker and wheelchair, but this change would force me to use the wheelchair all the time because the stop is 600 metres further away. It’s also harder to get a wheelchair on a bus.” The No. 49 runs between Metrotown Mall and UBC along East 49th Avenue, but turns off and travels along East 54th Avenue between Tyne and Kerr streets. That takes riders along East 54th Avenue past Champlain Square mall on Kerr Street, home to a medical and dental centre, grocery and liquor stores, library, bank, lab and pharmacy. The route also goes past Champlain Heights Community Centre. McCain said she was so concerned about the proposed change she contacted TransLink, which agreed to host an open house in the common room of her

housing co-op. McCain said TransLink previously held a larger open house at Metrotown, but many Champlain residents were unable to travel that far, so she offered to organize one in the community. McCain, who sometimes acts as a consultant for TransLink on accessibility, placed posters at bus stops affected by the change. McCain initially thought the 60-seat room in her complex would be large enough for the open house, but that wasn’t the case. “Only 17 people confirmed,” said McCain. “But then between 150 and 200 showed up. A lot of people waited in line outside all the way out to the road.” Champlain Heights senior Wendy Emslander regularly uses the No. 49. She says after she gets off the bus on East 54th Avenue she still faces a 10-minute walk to her home. “If I have to walk from 49th, it’s going to be a lot further,” said the 76year-old. “I’m still pretty able, but there are seniors’ homes all along 54th and there are some who aren’t so able that use walkers and canes. I’m concerned about those seniors getting to their medical and dental appointments. They’re all reliant on that bus.” Emslander said No. 49 riders will have an option to get off on East 49th Av-

enue and then transfer to the No. 26, which will continue past Champlain Square and the community centre. But that will mean seniors must depart the No. 49, wait for the 26 and then transfer, all for a matter of 600 metres and two stops, which to some seniors might as well be miles. “That distance can be overwhelming,” said Emslander. “Especially if they’re carrying heavy bags.” Earlier this month TransLink asked riders of the 49, 116, 404, 606/608, C15 or C96 to fill out an online questionnaire regarding their use of these routes prior to making changes. Jeff Busby, senior manager of infrastructure planning for TransLink, said the changes have not yet been approved. He added the proposed changes are about making each route more efficient and improving travel time. “And if they are approved they won’t be implemented any sooner than fall,” said Busby. “Right now we’ve just completed the consultation phase and that report is expected to be completed by April.” Busby said an automatic counter was used to determine that only five per cent of riders on the No. 49 use that stretch along East

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Will is the legal document that distributes your estate upon your death. It is estimated that over 50% of adults do not have a Will. The main reasons seem to be procrastination and lack of knowledge of what happens if you die without a Will. We tend to forget that we can be at the wrong place at the wrong time or have a health event that results in lacking time to prepare a Will or capacity to make a Will. You only need to watch or read the news from time to time to fully appreciate the randomness of our passing. So, regardless of your age and circumstances the experts agree that everyone should have a Will.

If you do not have a Will provincial legislation determines who inherits your estate – this may be different from your wishes. If you have minor children your spouse may not inherit your entire estate. Provincial legislation may require that your estate be shared with your children and your spouse would need to deal with the Ofﬁce of the Public Guardian and Trustee. Lots of nice people work at the ofﬁce of the Public Guardian and Trustee but do you really want to put your spouse in this position. Without a Will, if spouses, married or common law, pass away without children the

spouses’ families would likely be entitled to share equally in the estate – again not necessarily what a couple would want. You lose the ability to give to family that may have a greater need or with whom you have a closer relationship or to make bequests to charities.

If there are minor children and no spouse then the children receive their inheritance at 19 years of age which could mean lots of new friends and habits that may put a child’s life on a very selfdestructive path. And without a Will you increase the cost of probating your estate. Probate is a process whereby legal authority is granted enabling the distribution of an estate. When a person dies without a Will they are said to have died “intestate”. Where someone has died intestate, prior to an application for probate, a court application will be necessary. The court appoints a member of the family or a friend as an “Administrator”. The Administrator performs the same role as an Executor appointed pursuant to a Will. Normally the family would hire a lawyer to handle the legal side of applying for the appointment of an Administrator resulting in increased costs, delays in the time required to probate an estate and potential additional stress on the surviving loved ones. Stress on surviving loved ones is something that is often not considered when people neglect getting their Will. Most of the baby boomer and older generation have lost loved ones or close friends. There is signiﬁcant stress dealing with the loss and the grieving is made that much more challenging by the extra work, costs and time involved in processing an estate where there is no Will. So the best advice from all the experts: if you don’t have a Will get one done and if you have a Will that was done more than 10 years ago it’s time to take a look and see if you need to make any changes. Your family will thank you!

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Seniors activities continue Senior ntinue despite Marpole Place shutdown STANLEY TROMP Contributing writer

ast December, Marpole Place shut down for repairs after burst pipes caused a major flood and its old firehall home is being entirely gutted. Yet despite the four to six month closure, staff are finding ways to keep serving seniors. Some of the services have moved for now to St. Augustine’s church at 8680 Hudson St. at 71st Avenue. Here the staff have a small office where they resumed some of the seniors programs on Jan 27. “The church has been wonderfully accommodating,” said Marpole Place executive director Cindy McMillan. “We are spreading the word of the new location through flyers in the community, and more seniors are now coming in.” Thursday night dinners for all are held at the church from 6-8 p.m. ($6 per person) and the $3 Friday Breakfast Club is at 9-10:30 a.m. Bread Pick-Up, courtesy of Cobbs Bread on Fourth Avenue, is on Mondays at noon (which

is a separate event from St. Augustine’s food bank on Thursday mornings). There is a Computer Drop-in each Wednesday at 1-3 p.m. As well, staff hope to start these in Mandarin and Cantonese soon, and offer help with cell phones and tablets. The UBC Law Clinic will be on Feb. 27 from 7-9 p.m. (free, but one must book an appointment by calling 604822-5791), and a tax clinic is planned for late March. The Forever Learning and Connected for 55+ program has ﬁve features: Stretch + Strength on Fridays at 11 a.m. to noon, Knitting and Craft Club on Mondays 1-3 p.m., Ping Pong on Wednesdays and Fridays 1-4 p.m. (except March 5), Bridge and Board Games on Tuesdays and Fridays 1-4 p.m., and Internet Cafe on Fridays 10 to noon. Staff are planning a seniors’ visit to the Vancouver Planetarium in March, and are looking for yet another location to host more activities. For more information, call St. Augustine’s ofﬁce at 604-266-5301. Send email to marpoleplace@shawca or go to facebook.com/MarpolePlace.

Surveying seniors’ fears TOM CARNEY Contributing writer

y view of surveys is that they are often more entertaining than informative. There are some exceptions. When people are asked what scares them the most, a fear of public speaking tops the list. Coming in a distant second is the fear of death. That means, to borrow a line from comedian Jerry Seinfeld, that at a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than standing beside it giving the eulogy. What keeps seniors in Vancouver awake at night? In 2011, 1,200 local seniors aged 55 and up what worries them

the most. By far the biggest fear of those surveyed was losing their independence. Illness or incapacitation, declining health, falling and losing one’s driver’s licence, in that order, rounded out the top ﬁve worries of those surveyed. At the bottom of the list was growing old alone, transportation, not being busy enough and death. When the results werereleased,manyexpressed surprise that death ranked at the bottom of the worry index across all age groups. What we are afraid of changes over the years. Those aged 55 to 74 were most worried about moving into more suitable housing, ﬁnancial concerns, transportation and having someone to look after them in their later years.

Seniors aged 75 and over were most concerned about falling, losing their driver’s licence and having difficulty getting around. Now, I’m not sharing these results with you to make you more anxious. My hope is that this information will spur you to take some action. If you have a fear of falling, for example, then make some modifications in your home or your routine to reduce the risk. If you’re worried about your ability to drive. enroll in a driving refresher course or enroll in a defensive driver’s course. If you’re afraid that your finances are not adequate to fund your retirement then consider seeking advice from a trusted professional.

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Billed as the ﬁrst major exhibition in Canada to explore our relationship with nature through the lens of historical ecology, REWILDING VANCOUVER employs taxidermy specimens, 3D models, soundscapes, videos and “photo interventions” to challenge our perception of what is natural to Vancouver. THE MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER exhibition comes courtesy of MOV curator Viviane Gosselin, designer Kevin McAllister and guest curator J.B. MacKinnon, who is the coauthor of 100-Mile Diet and author of the recently released The Once and Future World, which served as inspiration for the exhibition. It runs Feb. 27 to Sept. 1. Details at museumofvancouver.ca.

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Led by vocalist and sharp dressed man Ravid Kahalani, YEMEN BLUES mixes Yemeni and West African influences with “contemporary grooves,” which have been known to set dance floors on fire. Feel the heat Feb. 27 and 28 when YEMEN BLUES plays Venue as part of the CHUTZPAH! FESTIVAL celebrating Jewish arts and culture. For tickets and info, go to chutzpahfestival.com.

Shakespearean drag king LISA WOLPE participates in an Actors Studio style interview where she’ll talk about her life in the theatre, the hows and whys of playing cross-gender, and what it’s like to play Hamlet, Iago, Leontes, Richard III, Jacquis and Shylock, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. at the ANZA Club. As an added bonus, guest Morgan Brayton will perform an excerpt from her upcoming new sketch comedy show, Flibbertigibbet!, while The Legion of Flying Monkeys will provide live music. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com. More info at classicchic.ca.

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he main character in Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg’s latest dance-theatre piece, Porno Death Cult, is more like her than anyone she’s played before. “Maureen is a woman in her late 30s, early 40s looking for faith, looking for the answer, the way to be,” Friedenberg said. Forty-one-year-old Friedenberg is confident Maureen occupies a similar space to others her age. “You’ve walked around the corner in life and now you can kind of see the end coming and so these things start to come up a lot more,” Friedenberg said. “Maureen is trying to find salvation… She’s tried the Buddhism and the yoga and the revival and she just can’t feel the spirit.” Other searchers can see Maureen’s struggles in the world premiere of Porno Death Cult at the Firehall Arts Centre, March 5 to 8. In addition to Maureen, Friedenberg, who’s known for her physical, character-driven performances, embodies a Southern Baptist-style preacher and a “ridiculous” Vancouver-style yoga guru in the solo show. “Which really speaks to how does religion manifest right now in Vancouver,” she said. “What’s the church people go to?” Friedenberg’s yearning to explore faith and faithlessness grew from walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route through Southern France and Spain alongside her husband and Porno Death Cult’s composer, Marc Stewart, in 2010. Walking six to eight hours a day for 34 days was much more demanding than Friedenberg expected. The experience gave her new respect for the human spirit and fired up her curiosity about faith. “I was raised in an atheist-

Jewish household so it’s all news to me in a way,” she said. “I was just really interested in the journeys people go on and the journey I went on… I came back wanting to ask everybody — and we’re told you don’t talk about religion.” But inquire she did and Friedenberg says the beautiful, funny and horrible stories she heard fed her latest creation. With so many Vancouverites treating yoga, cross training and juice cleanses as their pseudo salvation, Friedenberg decided to poke at yoga in her show, too. “I wonder how many people are actually [using yoga as a path to self-acceptance],” the longtime yoga instructor said. “Because you see people, they’re running to yoga, they’re panicked, they’ve got their outﬁt on. I’ve taught for years, you see women checking their makeup before they go into yoga class, covertly texting during class and you wonder. You wonder, are you guys really doing this?” The title of Friedenberg’s newest darkly comic production wasn’t inspired by limber bodies twisting in ﬁgure-skimming clothes but by the images of Jesus she observed in cathedrals along the Camino. “I found that the big statues of Jesus got better and better looking,” she said, acknowledging that this sounds sacrilegious. “It’s like, that one’s pretty hot, getting a little more muscular and he’s wearing hardly anything, right. And I’m looking around and it’s mostly women in these cathedrals and churches and also it got bloodier and bloodier. “I was like, whoa, this is a bit of a porno death cult,” Friedenberg continued. “I wanted to work with it and work against the title.” Friedenberg is keen to work with the other artists, including director Marcus Youssef of Neworld Theatre, who have brought her meditation on faith to life. She says Stewart’s music steps in almost as another character and lighting designer James Proudfoot has recreated the streams of light that illuminate churches. Visual artist Mickey Meads has created a life-sized altar-like sculpture for Frienberg’s set, which is a departure for the performer and creator of the

award-winning and touring productions bANGER: The Power Hour and Nick and Juanita: Livin’ in my Dreams, who typically animates a bare stage. And Meads and costume designer Alice Mansell have fashioned a mixed-media installation that transforms the Firehall’s lobby into a temple, echoes Friedenberg’s characters and leads visitors into the show.

When audience members leave, Friedenberg expects them carry a sense of appreciation for what others cope with, their searches and loneliness. “And an appreciation for the faith and the faithlessness and that that’s part of everybody’s experience,” she added For details, see ﬁrehallartscentre.ca. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Daisy’s pleasant drive lacks drama DRIVING MISS DAISY

At the Arts Club Granville Island Stage until March 15 Tickets: 604-687-1644, artsclub.com s it my imagination or has Nicola Lipman been portraying quirky little old ladies since the beginning of time? It’s not a complaint — she’s wonderful at it: shufﬂing walk, shrunken posture, quavering voice. No one delivers such perfectly timed, snarky lines like Lipman. When Blackbird Theatre needed an old crone for their production of Hecuba, when Dean Paul Gibson needed a furtive, frightened spinster for Black Comedy, when Robert Rose went looking for a cantankerous 80-something for Another Home Invasion or David Mackay needed a cranky old housemaid in Boeing-Boeing, they all turned to Lipman and she frequently stole the show with a caustic line here and a dismissive sniff there. So it comes as a shock when Lipman takes her bows: she’s a small, sparky thing with a great big grin on her. Hardly a little old lady with battery acid in her veins. She just pops like a sprinter out of the wings when Driving Miss Daisy reaches the end of the road. Written by Alfred Uhry, the play premiered off-Broadway in 1987 with Dana Ivey as Miss Daisy and Morgan Freeman

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as Hoke Coleburn. The following year it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was adapted by Uhry in 1989 for film, starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. At the beginning of the play, Mrs. Daisy Werthan (Miss Daisy), a white, well-off, 72-year-old Jewish widow in Atlanta, Ga. has just wrecked her three-week-old Packard, taking out the tool shed and the garage at the same time. Her son, Boolie (Brian Linds), tells her she can’t drive anymore, that he’s going to buy her a new car and hire a chauffeur and that’s that. Miss Daisy’s having none of it; she doesn’t want a stranger in her house and she’ll darn well walk or take the bus to the Piggly Wiggly. She has been, as she says, “brought up to do for myself.” Undeterred,BooliehiresHokeColeburn (John Campbell), an African-American who had been driving a local judge around until he died. Miss Daisy is outraged and, at first, is downright rude to Hoke. The writing is on this particular wall from the start. It’s only a matter of time before Miss Daisy swallows her pride and comes to depend on Hoke completely. This is a modest production with Ted Roberts’ simple one-set design: the suggestion of Daisy’s well-appointed living room stage right and Boolie’s office stage left. The driving scenes are accomplished with the arrangement of

several wooden chairs with Hoke in the front “seat” and Miss Daisy in “the back” — from which place she admonishes him for driving the speed limit when everyone knows you save gas when you drive below it. And don’t park in the sun, Hoke, it “ruins the upholstery.” With precedents set by Tandy and Freeman, it’s tempting to follow their example. It’s a tough call. In attempting to catch the ﬂavour of Atlanta in the 1940s, Hoke is kind of a stereotype now: kindly, soulful, respectful, tolerate and wise. We’ve seen this character before. Campbell’s velvety drawl is often hard to understand; it may be authentic to the time and the character, but that doesn’t make it easy for us. Under the direction of Mario Crudo, this production is a simple, charming piece; the moments are small, the plot uncomplicated. We watch Miss Daisy age from 72 to 97 over the course of a couple of hours. Lipman and Campbell both do that seamlessly. With the exception of Lipman’s performance, however, it’s a bit like driving across the prairies. Where’s the conﬂict, where’s the drama? Driving Miss Daisy is heartwarming, and old age and the consequent dependency is the trip we are all on, but as theatre, it all seems a bit smaller than life. —reviewed by Jo Ledingham For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

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he avid dairy fans at K&K like to keep their buttery ﬁngers on the pulse of all milk, cheese and yogurt related news. So it was with great interest that we learned this week that the Milk Processor Education Program, a dairy industry marketing arm funded by American milk processors, a.k.a. “Big Udder” (you’re welcome), is shelving its iconic “Got Milk?” slogan and ad campaign. According to Business Week, after 20 years of attempting to reverse the decline in milk consumption, the dairy industry felt it needed a makeover. It’s opted for the more urban sounding “Milk Life” to kick off its new campaign promoting the beverage as a nutritious source of energy and protein rather than a hilarious source of white moustaches. If you ask us, “Milk Life” sounds pretty ridiculous, which is odd coming from the normally hip, fashion-forward trendsetters in the dairy industry. Obviously something milky has clouded their normally sound judgment. That said, if they ever want to change their mind, we’ve provided a few new milk slogans of our own: • Udderly delicious • Nature’s breast milk • Fresh from an immobilized cow’s teat • Lactose intolerance is for pussies • Ride the white dragon • Dairy to be different • Milkbook • You know what else drinks milk? Baby wolves. Sure, it’s wolf milk, but whatever. • Cower of Power • The Milky Way • Got bloat? • Milk… Giving people vomit breath since the dawn of time.

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RANK AND FILE Vancouver might be a beautiful city that attracts its share of Hollywood film productions and boasts some of the most expensive real estate in the world, but we are also a terribly insecure city, constantly in need of positive reinforcement and unable to stop comparing ourselves to others. How else to explain yet another story trotted out in the local media last week about Vancouver’s supposed international ranking. According to the latest and surely not last survey tabulating the quality of living in cities around world, Vancouver nabbed the top spot for North American cities while placing fifth globally, behind top-ranked Vienna, Zurich, Auckland and Munich. Such information might be mildly interesting if it weren’t so frequent. Every few months, another think tank compiles a list of the most livable, affordable, expensive or friendly cities, and Vancouver’s place somewhere on that spectrum becomes a story in our local newspapers and news broadcasts and has about as much significance as the latest research results on the health impacts of popcorn. Do we really care that Vancouver is more livable than Montreal but less livable than Vienna? And what does that even mean exactly? And if Auckland is so more livable than Vancouver, why aren’t we moving en masse to New Zealand? Because it just doesn’t matter. Whether some research company decides Vancouver is the fifth most livable city in the world or the 15th, the only thing it proves is that editors will print anything about how Vancouver stacks up because readers will read anything about how Vancouver stacks up. The mere mention of Vancouver in a news story about other cities triggers a Pavlovian response that makes Vancouverites drool, and the combination of insecurity and shallowness can be breathtaking. But at least Vancouver’s good at it. Top three, probably. Maybe even number one.

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t’s been a season of wins on the mat so far for John Oliver secondary’s wrestling team — and the winning may not be over. Ten boys and three girls from the J.O. team are on their way to the 2014 B.C. Secondary School Wrestling Championships, which begins Feb. 27 in Prince George. On Feb. 14, the J.O. Jokers won the 2014 Vancouver/North shore Zone Wrestling Championships (zone 5) in the aggregate boys and girls combined to qualify for the provincials. It was the first zone win in Chris Fuoco’s 10 years as head coach and, as far as he knows, the first for the school in almost 40 years. It was also the first year all the athletes from J.O. participating in the event won an individual match. “This year we brought approximately the same number as normal but our excellence came through,” Fuoco told the Courier in an email.

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John Oliver secondary is sending 14 students to the provincial wrestling championships in Prince George beginning Feb. 27 . The zone victory adds to J.O.’s Vancouver Championship win, second place ﬁnish at the Campbell River Invite and third place at the Miri Piri Wrestling Championship in Abbotsford. “All the kids are ﬁring on all cylinders,” Fuoco said. It was the tenacity of the wrestlers who weren’t necessarily having their best day on the mat that helped the team come out on top. At the zone championships, Grade 11

wrestler Tanveer Gill stuck around to battle through a match for ﬁfth place, not a good result for him, instead of leaving for his parttime job. That ﬁfth-place win provided just the points the Jokers needed, Fuoco said. Terry Ly, who weighs 32 kilograms with his clothes on, competes in the 38kg weight class and was getting hammered in the matches but didn’t give up. Ly, a Grade 9 student, had a single win the

whole tournament but without that win the team would not have come out on top. “It was spectacular,” Fuoco said. Fuoco expects all of his wrestlers will earn points for the team at provincials and a few to earn medals. One such medal contender is Grade 11 student Ekran Shahnawaz, who competes at 54kg and earned silver and bronze at zones. Five-foot-nine Shahnawaz knows what will get him through. His father grew up in a poor village in Bangladesh when the country and Pakistan were at war. His father had to hide from soldiers and struggle to ﬁnd food. He did what he could to survive and ultimately came to Canada to build a life, Shahnawaz said. “That gives me my motivation to not give up and to try my best,” he said. Another provincial medal contender is Grade 11 student Molly Fu, who competes in the girl’s 47-kg weight class. “She’s the hardest working kid that I’ve seen,” said Fuoco. Five-foot-tall Fu, who earned silver at zones, said heading into provincials she needs to remember that opponents are not friends. “You want to be mentally ready to win,” she said. “I am not going to give up anything.” To view an online livestream of the provincial matches, go to bcwrestling.com. thuncher@shaw.ca

Shaving the ice a supercool gig to kids JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing Writer

hen the puck drops at the Vancouver Canucks versus the St. Louis Blues game tonight, most eyes will be on the action between players. For some of the youngest in the audience, however, the real action starts when the Zamboni circles the rink between periods. Wade McLennan, 44, building operator at Rogers Arena, describes himself as a rock star to the ﬁve-year-olds and younger set because he drives the arena’s ice resurfacer. Zamboni is actually a brand name and the ice cleaners at Rogers are Olympias. But even McLennan slips when speaking about his machine. “They just see the guy on the Zamboni and they wave at you from the stands,” he said. “Kids will be looking through the barricades as I drop the snow — it is pretty funny.” Ice resurfacers work by shaving off the top layer of ice with a large hydraulically lowered blade — the blades are changed on the two Olympias every two or three games. A giant horizontal auger, or drill bit, collects the shaved “snow” which is stored in the front

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Wade McLennan is one of ﬁve full-time building operators at Rogers Arena. of the machine until the bucket is full. Hot water is sprayed from the Olympia onto the ice where it ﬁlls in any cracks and bonds to the other layer of ice to form a smooth surface. On Canucks game days the arena’s two Olympias total seven or eight cycles around the ice, including pregame practices. To make the ice as hard and fast as possible for a game, it is cooled to an internal temperature of about -8 Celsius and shaved to approximately 20mm thick. The thicker the ice, the slower it is to skate on.

Hockey ice needs to be cold and thin. Tessa Dec, 8, has watched Canuck games since she moved to Vancouver from Germany four years ago. She told the Courier driving the “ice machine” would be a really cool job. “Because then you get to ride on the big truck and you can see the ice nice and shiny,” she said. McLennan is one of ﬁve full-time building operators who run the arena — everything from preparing for a rock concert to making sure the lights and heating are operating

to plunging a toilet while the Canucks are playing. But it is his on-ice duties that garner him the most attention, even from the children of Canucks players. “Where [players] park, they walk by it so they all have stuck their kids up on it,” he said. Some of the Canucks’ offspring are more interested in watching McLennan than their famous fathers, he said. None of the players has ever ridden the Olympia. Unauthorized drivers are not allowed. Though it doesn’t have a speedometer, McLennan guesses the Olympia travels about 10 to 15 kilometres an hour. But he’s never pushed it ﬂat out. Preparing the ice for NHL level play is serious business. Referees grade the ice several times a game, but McLennan said he is more concerned with what the players think. “If Henrik and Daniel are happy with the ice then I am pretty well happy with it too,” he said. The best time of his career so far was during his rookie year when he got to resurface the ice during game seven of the Stanley Cup. “It’s a fun place to work,” he said. Interview requests sent to Canuck players and coach John Tortorella were declined. thuncher@shaw.ca

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Members of the tight-knit Killarney Cougars are still in good spirits despite not making the provincial championships. While her parents provided a loving home, growing up she never felt part of the school community, she said. At 13 she was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. “I didn’t have many friends,” said McBride, adding she faced racism as the rare African-American in the community. She tried to ﬁnd comfort on the basketball team but didn’t feel accepted there either. By 2012, at 16, McBride felt her life wasn’t going in a positive direction and she wanted a change. “I wasn’t going to school… I wasn’t playing sports. So I woke up one day and was like, I need to do this. I want to play basket-

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