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espite hearing from speakers across the spectrum who predicted it wouldn’t solve the twin scourges of poverty and homelessness, Vancouver city council rubber-stamped the 30-year Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan on March 15.

The plan hopes for investment of $220 million from city taxpayers, $300 million through developers and $530 million from other levels of government and nonprofit agencies by 2043.

The targets include not only 4,400 new social housing units and 2,200 upgraded single room occupancy units, but also 8,850 middle-income condominiums and 3,000 market rental units. The area around Oppenheimer Park would have a 60 per cent social housing, 40 per cent market rental split and new units as small as 250 square feet.

The plan’s passage at a rare Saturday afternoon council meeting marked the end of an ambitious six days that included another contentious three-day public hearing: the Oakridge Centre redevelopment.

Critics said the plan would accelerate DTES gentrification and displacement. More than a third of its 18,477

residents are on social assistance and the median income is less than a third of the citywide $47,299.

“Of the 4,400 social housing units the plan is proposing for the next 30 years, which is way too long, only 1,467 would be at welfare rates,” said anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson. “The [2005] housing plan said [DTES] would be a predominantly low income area, and after 30 years of this plan it will be a predominantly middle income area.”

Ann Livingston, who has campaigned for addicts to be treated medically, said the plan “omits issues” and ignores the needs of the estimated 5,000 drug-dependent residents.

Said Livingston: “The [Local Area Plan Process] discusses everything from heights to food to childcare to composting to view corridors to climate change, but the LAPP does not reflect the realities of the [DTES] neighbourhood.”

Strathcona Business Improvement Area executive director Joji Kumagai said the plan lacks resources for economic development, while Andrew Scott of the Vancouver Board of Trade’s community affairs committee called it a good first step, but the approval was “premature.”

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Communitycentreassociationsdisagreeoverprogressofnegotiations SANDRA THOMAS Staff Writer

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he president of the Kerrisdale Community Centre Association says a recent update on negotiations between the park board and 12 other associations over a joint-operating agreement makes it appear those talks have hit a wall.

In an open letter to members of the Kerrisdale association, Robert Lockhart wrote in part: “Over the past several months, there has been little communication from those [12] community centre associations, which have been actively in discussion with the park board.

That is, until now… The talks are stalled!”

Lockhart then referred readers to a March 10 letter from the associations, which explained it’s been a year since the 12 groups started negotiations with the park board. The letter, posted on the Vancouver Community Centre Associations’ website, says to date more than 40 meetings have been held with the park board and senior management, as well as countless more with presidents from other centres participating in the negotiations.

In 2012, the park board presented a controversial new management agreement to the city’s community centre associations, which would centralize core programs and included the introduction of the universal OneCard. The most contentious of the rec-

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Kerrisdale Community Association president Robert Lockhart says talks between the park board and associations over the Joint Operating Agreement appear stalled. ommendations was one 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.

In response to conflicts regarding the interim agreement, Hastings, Riley Park-Hillcrest, Killarney, Kensington, Kerrisdale and Sunset community centre associations dropped out of the negotiations and last August began the first of three legal proceedings against

the park board in B.C. Supreme Court. Two months ago, the B.C. Supreme Court halted the attempted eviction of the self-described “Group of Six” by the park board.

Meanwhile, the 12 community centre associations still in negotiations with the park board have said little until the March update, which reads in part: “We are not in a position to forecast the outcome of this process, but our boards remain committed to achieving an outcome that upholds each community’s

autonomy, authority and control over resources to ensure each unique community needs can continue to be met.”

Lockhart said the open letter is encouraging because it appears the 12 associations “have developed some courage in strongly resisting the park board’s takeover efforts” and are reaching out to the public for support in that battle.

But Kate Perkins, spokesperson for the 12 associations and former park board employee, said the Group of Six read far more into the update than was intended.

“They support their community centres and we still continue to advocate for ours,” said Perkins. “We are working towards a partnership with the park board and that is still our goal.”

Perkins admitted it’s been a long haul and confirmed there have been many meetings, but added everyone involved is still committed to building a joint-operating agreement that all sides will benefit from.

Perkins added the request for help from the public included within the update is standard and has been included in correspondence since the talks started more than a year ago.

Meanwhile, the final action in the legal proceedings between the Group of Six and park board is expected to be heard in B.C. Supreme Court some time this spring or summer. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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Continued from page 1 Scott thought the proposed conversion of East Hastings from Heatley Avenue to Clark Drive to a residential/commercial corridor was “thoughtful.” However, he said the Board of Trade is worried about the number of older, earthquake-vulnerable buildings, the plans to build residences near railyards that handle hazardous goods, and the dwindling supply of industrial lands.

Scott said the plan relies too heavily on towers to achieve density, which, he said, “will quickly impact property assessments resulting in higher property taxes [and] higher taxes will negatively impact the residents of the many not-for-profits and small businesses that employ the residents.”

Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer successfully proposed a package of amendments at the end of the hearing, including support for the concept of an aboriginal health and wellness centre and expansion of the definition of social housing, based on B.C. Housing income limits criteria. NPA Coun. George Affleck called the eleventh hour amendments “frustrating,” but eventually joined fellow NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball in voting for the plan with Mayor Gregor Robertson, Reimer and the other four Vision Vancouver councillors who were present (Kerry Jang and Tim Stevenson were absent).

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Reimer, the plan’s main booster, fought back tears as she told council how she had been accused by developers of being a “hostage” of the low-income community and vice versa.

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The approval of the plan, which includes 11 residential towers, a civic centre with a community centre, library, seniors facility and controversial rooftop park, was decided after a vote of six to three, with only nonVision councillors voting against it.

Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr was the first to oppose the proposal, followed

by NPA councillors George Affleck and Elizabeth Ball.

“It is clear that the people in this area do not want this development. It is too high, it is too dense, it is too tall,” said Carr at the public hearing. “No policy that I’ve read justifies this density.”

She addressed issues surrounding increased ridership on the Canada Line, which already carries 5,500 passengers per hour per direction — 600 less than the train’s maximum capacity.

“It is not good enough to say that the Canada Line and buses are TransLink’s responsibility, schools and hospitals are provincial responsibility and we’ll talk to them,” Carr

said. “We are talking about a development that will bring in 5,000 more people, 5,000 more workers and thousands of visitors. We are talking about a small town.”

Other issues brought up by Carr echoed that of speakers regarding the rooftop park and the need for increased essential public services in the area.

NPA Coun. George Affleck said he voted against the project because it was too different from the 2007 policy statement and he didn’t agree with the rooftop park replacing the 2.83 acres of parkland the residents were promised years ago.

“There was a desire for a more active park,” said Affleck, adding there would be too many limitations to what plants and trees could be planted as the roof would have to be replaced down the road.

Vision Coun. Raymond Louie put forth a set of conditions for staff before his movement to approve the proposal. One condition requires staff to engage with Vancouver Coastal Health,

TransLink and the Vancouver School Board to ensure the plans take into account the anticipated population growth.

Terraces resident Linda Leong expressed disappointment with city council’s decision.

“Hopefully this will alert people in other neighbourhoods of what this council plans to do to the rest of the city,” Leong said.

Marie Calvert, one of the last people to speak in opposition before the decision, said that she voted for Vision Vancouver because she trusted them to make the right decisions.

“What do you want to be remembered for as a party?” Calvert said. “I’ve been listening to residents give hundreds of reasons why you shouldn’t go ahead with this development. We are asking you to listen to us.”

Coun. Louie could not be reached for comment prior to the Courier’s press deadline. kristenmoran86@hotmail.com twitter.com/EastVanKristen

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Compensation for children of missing women announced CHERYL ROSSI Staff Writer

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hildren of Vancouver’s missing and murdered women can each apply for $50,000 in compensation from the provincial and federal governments and the City of Vancouver.

Representatives of the three levels of government announced a $4.9-million fund March 18.

Ninety-eight children of 67 missing and murdered women identified in the lead-up to Robert “Willie” Pickton’s arrest in 2002 will be eligible.

“We recognize the long and difficult road for the families and remember these women as daughters, as sisters and as mothers,” said Coun. Andrea Reimer, who represented the city on behalf of Mayor Gregor Robertson. “On this day, we stand by other responsible parties to financially acknowledge the loss experienced by the children of the missing women.”

The $50,000 in compensation is meant to assist children of missing and murdered women with their education, housing or fundamentals that could improve their lives.

Attorney General and Justice Minister Suzanne Anton said 12 of 13 families involved in a civil case have agreed to the $50,000 in compensation.

Children of women whose DNA was found on Pickton’s pig farm launched a civil suit that claimed police and the Crown had failed to warn women on the Downtown Eastside that

a serial killer may have been on the loose and raised concerns about the way police eventually told families their cases were linked to Pickton, according to a CBC news report.

Pickton was charged with the murders of 26 women. In December 2007, he was convicted of murdering six and the remaining charges were stayed.

“Given the compelling evidence that I heard concerning the intergenerational impact of these crimes and the need to break the hold of violence on families, I recommend that the provincial government establish a compensation fund for the children of the victims,” commissioner Wally Oppal wrote in his Missing Women Commission of Inquiry report Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, which was released in December 2012.

Anton said the government has been working on a compensation fund since 2012. She said the $50,000 amount was arrived at in relation to the ongoing civil lawsuit and with funding partners.

“It’s a fair amount and it’s the right thing to do but, as I said, we can’t compensate for the loss of a mother,” she said.

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n East Side man who recently appealed to the public for help in launching a bike share program for addicts was overwhelmed by the response.

“It was better than I ever imagined,” Jonathan Orr told the Courier last week. “It was incredible. I received 28 donated bikes and I expected them to be cast-offs with missing parts, but that wasn’t the case.”

Orr was inspired to start the program for addicts living in the Downtown Eastside after using a bike to help with his own recovery three years ago. It was then he took an old Raleigh 10-speed to Our Community Bikes, a repair shop, bicycle-recycling depot and education workspace on Main Street.

“I brought my old bike to them and they showed me how to fix it,” said Orr. “It’s become my silent sponsor. When I’m feeling anxious or jammed-in I ride my bike. It makes me happy and gives me a sense of peace.”

Orr added there’s a lot of science backing the thought that exercise can help in early recovery, which is one of the reasons he’s excited to get the micro-community bike share program off the ground. His belief is so strong he created a group, dubbed Spoke

Jonathan Orr received 28 donated bikes for his bike share program.

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Orr’s plan is to get 15 of the bikes completely road worthy by mid-April and then launch the project with some guided rides once or twice a month in partnership with the PHS Drug Users Resource Centre. Along the way, Orr plans to share his personal experiences in using cycling as part of his recovery. His goal is to eventually offer weekly rides with a focus on encouraging

drug users and the hard-to-house to join in.

“I want to build gradually and include people who don’t naturally have an opportunity to ride,” said Orr. He added many marginalized residents of the Downtown Eastside have had access to a bike in the past, but often used them during activities such as bottle picking or even while committing a crime.

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Orr said the PHS Community Services Society is also supporting his efforts by offering space to store the bikes. Orr added he’ll find a way to continue the program even if PHS is no longer able to assist. As reported in the Courier earlier this month, B.C. Housing has raised concerns about the society’s spending practices and is conducting an audit.

The bike-share program officially kicked off last month with a party at the Interurban Art Gallery at 1 East Hastings St. in the Downtown Eastside, which also coincided with the second anniversary of Spoke Songs. Orr organized the celebration so it would also work as the drop-off location for donated bikes. He said over the course of the evening, members from “all walks off life” dropped by with bikes to donate, including an older woman who admitted she’d never been to the Downtown Eastside prior to that night.

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he first time Kaylee Byers attended a Nerd Nite she was hooked. She likes learning about chemistry, a sexual culture or a bizarre animal while sipping a beer in a laidback setting.

Now Byers and friends have brought the event that’s already been established in 70 cities worldwide to Vancouver, with their second instalment at Café Deux Soleils on Commercial Drive, March 19.

Marine invertebrate taxonomist Sheila Byers will talk about zombie worms that dine on whale bones, actor and voice actor Kirby Morrow will share details of his chosen career and astrophysicist Jaymie Matthews will muse on space, planets and the stars.

Byers hopes others will find her aunt’s passion for worms just as infectious as she has.

“She’s actually who inspired me go to into biology,” said the 28-year-old doctoral student in parasitology. “When I was young I would go over to her house and open these drawers and they’d just be full of vials of dead worms and I was like, ‘What is this?

Who is this person?’ And now 15 years later it’s me.”

Byers co-organizes Vancouver’s Nerd Nite with visual effects data coordinator Brandon Doty and astronomy educator Michael Unger.

A Nerd Nite that Unger attended in Edmonton captured his imagination and he leapt at the chance to co-host a local event.

“The past couple years I had been actively seeking out science lectures, but all seemed to be either at universities, or at unexciting and remote lecture halls,” Unger told the Courier via email. “Having a place to relax and learn something new and fun while drinking a beer is something I know I really wanted, and I knew based on the success of Nerd Nite in other cities Vancouver would want it too.”

Last month’s inaugural Nerd Nite featured standup come-

dian Ian Boothby on “How Comic Books Can Save a Life,” Alex Waterhouse-Hayward on various types of photography and how the scanner has changed his life and University of B.C. scientist Joel Kelly talking about structural colour.

“Two of our speakers brought a lot of props and passed them around,” Byers said.

To ensure passionate experts don’t bore audiences with minutiae, Nerd Nite organizers urge presenters to steer clear of jargon and to tell a story. Organizers preview presentations to ensure they’re palatable for a general audience.

“There is a strong demand now for people to understand the world around them,” Unger added, citing the success of TED talks and Pecha Kucha as proof.

Nerd Nites are more accessible, he says. “It allows people to come and learn, ask questions and interact with other ‘nerds,’” said Unger, who also co-hosts the Biltmore Ping

Pong Club.

Byers had no problem donning the nerd moniker when she participated at a Nerd Nite in Edmonton, speaking about how parasites manipulate their hosts.

“When I was young, being a nerd was bad. It was like ‘nerd!’ ‘four eyes!’ ‘geek!’” said Byers, who volunteers in elementary schools. “It’s really positive now. People are proud to call themselves geeks and I’m even noticing it in kids.”

She added, “There’s not nearly the same stigma on being smart as there used to be.”

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change to the Park Act was introduced last month to provide increased clarity and certainty about certain uses of B.C. parks.

Sounds benign. But the bill has been greeted by confusion and suspicion, as the Opposition started a prolonged interrogation on what the government is really up to when it comes to changing allowed uses in parks.

Environment Minister Mary Polak unveiled it in the legislature as a means of increasing certainty and clarity when it comes to allowing recreation, tourism, commercial filming and research activities.

Those include academic and investigative uses. All that clarity will come while ensuring the park is protected.

Zeroing in on the question of whether it makes it easier to build a road, pipeline or mine in a park, the New Democrats decided that it does.

Not directly. And not right away. But if you read it a certain way, while expecting ulterior motives from government, it could set the stage.

NDP critic Spencer Chandra Herbert also knocked the lack of consultation on the changes. He equated Polak’s position to: “We haven’t talked to anybody in B.C., but through my own synapses in my own brain, I’ve decided what’s best for the people.”

It’s the word “research” that has raised some hackles. Chandra Herbert’s stance was that there’s good research, such as understanding how a frog lives or trees grow or how to deal with the pine beetle.

Then there’s bad research, such as drilling for oil, taking ore samples or checking a highway route.

“We need research, absolutely,” Chandra Herbert said. “But under this section, you could potentially open the door for mining, for cutting of trees, for a bunch of things which nobody would ever think they would want in the park.”

Strathcona Park’s history lives on. That stretch of Vancouver Island wilderness was one of the first park designations in B.C. But the designation was amended in the 1960s to allow for a mine, something that’s almost inconceivable today. Unless you’re suspicious about the intentions of a government that is big on resource development. And it seems that more than a few people are.

“That kind of thing has occurred and could occur again, whether it’s with this government or a future government,” Chandra Herbert said.

A number of interest groups and individuals share that view. They’ve been writing letters warning that the amendment (Bill 4) expressly provides for industrial activity in parks and paves the way for removal of the protected status for industrial use.

Polak argued that the changes do nothing of the sort and are based on protecting parks. The research could help in determining routine boundary adjustments. It could also be important in determining the fate of projects that are near parks, but outside the boundaries. And the permitting allowed doesn’t give blanket approval, she said. Any permit granted still requires pages of approvals based on management plans and specific impact studies.

“Let me be clear,” she told the house. “These proposed amendments do not allow, promote or otherwise enable industrial projects in parks and protected areas.”

The government news release describing the bill gives innocuous examples of research, “like vegetation sampling, fish surveys and geotechnical studies, to assist in determining whether future economic development projects may be feasible.”

Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver joined the NDP in arguing the research angle. The bill doesn’t define research, and there are no limits on what kind of research would be allowed. He said the change would override current requirements that park-use permits not be detrimental to park values. “We are opening our parks to special interests whose intentions may not align with the interests of British Columbians.”

Independent MLA Vicki Huntington also came down against the changes. “I do believe language in the act has, perhaps completely unintentionally, inflamed concern throughout the province.”

An Opposition motion to table the bill for six months for consultations failed last week. So the one page of amendments will move to line-by-line debate later this session. Watch for a protracted argument over the meaning and implications of the word “research.” lleyne@timescolonist.com

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hould you vote? Is voting important to a democracy? Should young people, new Canadians, and the elderly be encouraged to

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If you said yes to any of these questions, you disagree with the Conservative government’s new Fair Elections Act. However, you do agree with the head of Elections Canada, a host of scholars and academics who study the democratic process, and Preston Manning, godfather of the new Canadian conservatism.

The Fair Elections Act (roll your eyes while you say it) contains a number of provisions that seem to be directly designed to reduce voter turnout.

First, it bans Elections Canada from promoting the act of voting, or from publishing its own research reports.

This seems like an exceedingly good idea, especially considering that young people have been abandoning the polls in great numbers for the last few decades. And why would you want to reach out to educate those who have just received their citizenship cards? Bah, let them fend for themselves! Educating the electorate is a waste of time!

There is also the elimination of both voter identification cards and of the “vouching” system.

You have probably been receiving voter cards in the mail for years, which help voters identify themselves at the polls, especially voters who don’t have a lot of traditional ID. Who doesn’t have traditional ID? Mostly the poor and the young. But their votes shouldn’t count for as much, because they don’t contribute as much labour value to society, and of course, because they might not vote Conservative.

Conservative MP Brad Butt tried to improve the government’s case for this measure by saying he’d seen people picking voter information cards out of the garbage and using them to vote illegally. He later had to retract this, claiming someone else had just told him about this.

In either case, it’s curious that he didn’t see fit to report the crime to either Elections Canada or the RCMP. Vouching is the system by which I, a voter with proper ID, can vouch for you, my friend Stan, and say, “Yes, this is Stan Smith, I’ve known him for years, he is who he says he is.” And then we sign documents affirming this, and I’m essentially on the hook if Stan turns out to be a vile infiltrator who’s trying to vote twice.

The Tories claimed that vouching has given rise to widespread electoral fraud. However, there is no evidence of fraud.

In fact, the head of Elections Canada, Marc Mayrand, explained this at great length in front of a parliamentary committee recently. The author of the report the government cited to back up its fraud claims popped up to explicitly deny that he’d ever said any such thing.

What else is in the bill? Increased donation limits for individuals, because money has always been good for politics. And the right for sitting MPs to recommend names to Elections Canada of poll supervisors. That would give things that touch of non-partisan legitimacy.

The Tories do not seem to have much to say in support of their legislation, even as they are getting hammered from both right and left over various, or all facets, of the bill.

I briefly thought that I might be interested in hearing the Conservatives defend this bill. Then I changed my mind. I’m not interested in a defence of an indefensible piece of legislative garbage. When Preston Manning tells you it’s a bad idea, Tories, you should listen.

Listen, and scrap the whole bill, then pretend it was all a bad dream. It would have been better had that been the case. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

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BUSY WATERWAY MAKES FOR A TOUGH ROW TO HOE

To the editor: Re: “Rowers watch hopes sink in False Creek,” March 12.

I read your article with interest as our small group participated in the False Creek Regatta this past weekend.

I am the para-rowing coach at the Vancouver Rowing Club.

We are one of the few clubs that are wheelchair-accessible and as such have a great group of para-rowers who come out on a regular basis to train and row.

The issue with the Vancouver Rowing Club is that our course is very narrow and has a lot of traffic on it, which makes rowing challenging but also prevents us from holding a regatta ourselves. So being able to go to events such as False Creek is important to our athletes giving them the opportunity to test their skills against those from other clubs. For the past two years the top overall winner of this regatta has been a pararower from VRC. I wish the City of Vancouver could see what is happening at the VRC and understand that rowing is one of the very best

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Marine traffic on False Creek makes training and competing tougher for members of the Vancouver Rowing Club. activities for persons with disabilities.

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SILENCE IS GOLDEN ON PT. GREY ROAD

To the editor: Re: “Letter: All is silent on the West Side road,” March 12.

Lucky for Daphne Hardwood that she loves walking in traffic.

Instead of walking on Pt. Grey Road she can easily head up to Fourth or Broadway and have all

the noise and exhaust from cars she’s missing.

I have been walking and biking on Pt. Grey Road almost every day or evening since the road closure and I love it! The beautiful ocean/mountain views, little pocket parks and steps down to the beaches feel much more accessible now.

Some friends and I were thinking it would be a great venue for a street festival in the summer.

Valerie Clark, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Sculpture rings Hollow for activist,” March 14. k3nt_: Are you kidding me!? I used to have so much respect for Douglas Coupland. What a sell-out. He’s been bought by Rennie for a fat wad of cash because he is indeed nothing but a “cultural property.”

Pete Fry @PtFry: Once thought of as “green,” now a monument to greed and development, completely hollow. Seems appropriate #vanpoli sculpture.

Erwin Wodarczak @leftcoastracing: Trees, Coupland, condo development, public art, complaining about all of the above — this story is Vancouver in a nutshell!

COURIER STORY: “Province won’t pony up money for DTES plan,” March 12.

Greg in Kits: A “condo-free zone?” Who the hell is going to pay for this? You can’t make this stuff up.

This is Vision Vancouver’s Ninny State, run amok. When is the election, again?

Eugene: I can barely recall a year during which more money hasn’t been shoveled into that neighboourhood and the misery of its residents and those on its border hasn’t increased. It’s time we had an accounting of just how much of the budget of the COV, the province and the feds goes to that neighbourhood annually and assessed what we are getting for the expenditures. What’s not needed is a grand plan to continue the misery, the rampant spending, the open drug market, the crime, the crack pipe vending machines, etc. etc. A generation of “compassion” and the resultant spending has simply generated more human misery, and it seems, an industry dedicated to perpetuating the spending and misery. Enough is enough.

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Matt Kieltyka @MKieltyka: You know @WhitecapsFC Pedro Morales has arrived when @Howellings names a lunch after him: #whatshowellhavingforlunch Cara McKenna @cara102: So after reading news stories on the @VanCourierNews website, I somehow find myself watching videos on what @Howellings is having for lunch.

COURIER STORY: “Casa Mia public hearing delayed,” March 12.

Mimi Shine: I’ve been a long time admirer of Casa Mia and I always thought of it as a heritage home. I too feel that the premises should be used, as they always were, as a single family/extended family home.

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GOLDEN JUBILEE: A group of young skaters show off their skills during

a performance at the Killarney Figure Skating Club’s exhibition Saturday to commemorate the club’s 50th anniversary. Scan this page using the Layar app or visit vancourier.com to see more photos.

Patricia Lorimy coached with the Killarney Figure Skating Club for 30 years. She turns 80 this year and attended the club’s exhibition to commemorate its 50th anniversary this past Saturday.

Kira Wadden, left, and Isabella Metcalfe performed their skate to a One Direction song during the Killarney Figure Skating Club’s 50th anniversary exhibition on Saturday.

he instant that decided Patricia Lorimy’s future happened when she was riding the Renfrew bus home after shopping with her mother at the downtown Woodward’s department store. The bus rumbled by the PNE Forum and the 10-year-old looked out the window to see a cluster of girls, all with figure skates slung around their shoulders like handbags. A week later, Lorimy was one of those girls.

“Once I got on the ice, I never got off,” she said. “My first pair of skates, they were terrible! They cost five dollars, I think my mother had bought them from somebody she had met at the rink. They were high, up to my calves.”

It’s a clear memory, even for one that is now 70 years old. The sights and sounds and smells of the Forum with its one large rink reserved for the Vancouver Canucks who were playing in the Pacific Coast Hockey League at the time, and a smaller, square rink for the figure skaters — Lorimy remembers it all. Including taking to the ice like a bird to flight and staying the full two hours her first time at the rink.

She later went on to join the Vancouver Figure Skating Club and then the Killarney Figure Skating Club and won title after title including the Canadian Junior Pairs in 1952 with skating partner Norman Walker.

When Lorimy had three girls and one boy of her own, she started coaching in 1966 — a year marked in the Killarney Figure Skating Club’s 50th anniversary exhibition program this past Saturday with a skating performance to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.”

Club president Yee Sin Law’s voice filled the arena during the show as he introduced the skaters before their performances, along with historical facts like when John F. Kennedy was killed and when the Internet was invented. Skaters performed to everything ranging from 1950s Elvis all the way up to 2013’s Bruno Mars, during which Erhen Chang attempted a triple axel jump.

Helsa Northof was by the rink bench, armed with a clipboard and herded various

groups of excited skaters who ranged in skill from Canskate to Junior Enrichment with a few Starskaters and competitive level skaters. Northof, one of the club’s volunteers, started as a beginner skater 15 years ago when she was in her 30s and is now working towards senior bronze free skate and gold skills. In other words, working on perfecting double jumps.

“It’s not too bad if you know how to fall.

And if you have a good chiropractor,” Northof said. “It’s a little more frustrating learning as an adult because it takes you longer.

The kids just pick it up so quickly. When I showed up here, I had my Simpson Sears special skates and, well, the club got me cleaned up pretty quick.”

Northof skated casually as a child growing up in Alberta and longed for lessons. “It was an expensive sport and you know, there were four kids and there just wasn’t the money for that. I was sitting there, watching it on TV one day and thought, you know what, I could do this for myself now.”

Starting as an adult meant Northof missed out on having to practise compulsory figures, which are no longer a part of competitive figure skating’s curriculum.

“Doing patch!” groaned Laura Pasut, a former club skater who is now a board member with two figure-skating daughters, Kira and Jenna Wadden. “Patch was doing figure eights for an hour. Showing up at the rink at six in the morning and there was no music, no nothing,” she remembered. “Then the lines would be scrutinized. It was agonizing.”

When Lorimy competed, figure skating was comprised of 60 per cent figures and 40 per cent jumps, spins and footwork. While she acknowledges the sport has changed much since her day, there is one thing that remains the same — the volunteers.

She remembers many people from her 30 years of coaching with the club. John Chilton came to mind, a fellow who spent 35 years in the music room, a tiny box of a space above the rink, playing records for the skaters.

“I can tell you that without the benefit of volunteers,” she said, “there would be no club.” rblissett@telus.net

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Mandatory helmet rules put lid on debate STEPH FLORIAN Contributing writer

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earing a helmet while skiing or snowboarding is now the norm for kids in ski schools.

As we continue the late arrival of our ski season, it’s time to check equipment and endorse safe habits together as a family.

Mountain operations do their part to deliver on-slope maintenance and enforcement of the Alpine Responsibility Code, but it is up to parents to provide the gear and life lessons.

In 2009, the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) introduced the first Canadian recreational skiing and snowboarding helmet standard in an effort to protect the growing number of participants against head injury.

Statistics show that although helmet use does not reduce the total annual snow sport fatalities, it reduces the chance of head injury by 60 per cent.

“The CSA is all about life and we want to facilitate family and individuals safety while they enjoy these sports,” said John Walter, vice president of standards development.

Cypress Mountain requires all on-snow staff and students under the age of 19 to wear a helmet. Helmets are included in student rental packages.

Kelly Kurtz, assistant manager of the Cypress Mountain Snow School, says she’s seen a significant increase in helmet usage.

“My opinion from personal experience is that helmets save lives should you get in an accident,” Kurtz said. “I was wearing a helmet when I crashed. If I had not been, the outcome would have been different. Others are not so lucky.”

Established in 1995 by Burton Snowboards, the Chill Foundation is a non-profit organization that uses snowboarding as a

vehicle to provide life and character development skills to underserved youth.

Stephanie Yeatts, national manager for the Vancouver area, says helmets are essential to safety.

“Our rule is pretty simple, if you don’t wear a helmet — you don’t ride,” Yeatts said.

The other side of the debate argues that wearing a helmet encourages false confidence and thus bigger risks. In B.C., helmets are mandatory in terrain parks and competitions. At Cypress Mountain helmets are highly recommended but not mandatory for students over 19 or for the general public.

Manufacturers recommend helmet replacement every three to five years. Matt Hallat, a Canadian Para Alpine Ski Team (CPAST) athlete who competed in Sochi and spent his early training days racing on Cypress Mountain says he’s always worn a helmet. “I feel funny without a helmet. My dad never let me not wear one. It was the ski rule.”

Aside from decreasing the chance of head injury on impact, a helmet provides a warm, cushioned barrier from the winter elements.

Accidents and collisions on the slopes increase if you are fatigued, so it is important to listen to your body and rest as needed.

There are no guarantees in life but the trend is education versus legislation with hopes that eventually all Canadians will use a helmet.

Parents must provide proper protection and set family rules that will eventually be as automatic as using a seat belt. Helmets are cool. Everyone in your family should be wearing one.

••• Stephanie Florian is always chasing her next adventure and plays with her family in the mountains and on the sea. Get in touch at playoutdoorsvancouver.ca and twitter.com/ PlayoutdoorsVan.

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Marnie Wilson thinks it’s great B.C. PharmaCare now covers insulin pumps for youth up to age 25 who have type 1 diabetes.

Her 14-year-old daughter Jessica has been researching insulin pumps, but the Wilsons weren’t sure they could afford to buy one just yet.

Until last month, B.C. PharmaCare covered insulin pumps for youth with type 1 diabetes up to and including age 18.

“This announcement extends that coverage to include those who are transitioning to early adulthood, and may not have access to third party insurance coverage, or who cannot afford to buy an insulin pump,” states a press release from the Ministry of Health.

“Once they hit adulthood they were basically on their own,”Wilson said. “So that was good news to know that that will be extended for a number of years for her and for others.”

The provincial government states the average cost of an insulin pump is about $6,500. It announced Feb. 27 that PharmaCare will cover the cost of a pump up to $6,600.

“I wish I was a youth up to 25,” said 47-year-old Susan Kidd, who started using insulin pumps 15 years ago and is on her third one.

Her parents helped her pay the $5,000 for her first pump because she lacked medical coverage. Kidd believes her last pump cost $7,500 and her extended medical covered 80 per cent.

Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which the pancreas does not produce insulin, a hormone that helps your body control the level of glucose or sugar in your blood. People with type 1 diabetes must inject

insulin with a pen, syringe or pump.

They must pay attention to their activity levels and adjust what they eat or how much insulin they inject to keep their blood glucose levels stable. Low blood sugar levels can lead to unconsciousness and high blood sugar levels can lead to complications that include heart disease, kidney failure and nerve damage.

Pager-sized insulin pumps are attached to their owner’s abdomen.

They replicate the action of the pancreas by delivering small amounts of insulin throughout the day. After eating, a wearer pushes a button to administer a bit more insulin.

“I’m pretty active so with the pump, if I decide I’m going to go for a workout now or a longer walk, I can reduce the amount of insulin that I’m getting for that time period and then I don’t have to end up eating a whole bunch more or having a low blood sugar later on,” Kidd said.

She says her blood glucose levels have been “much more consistent” since she traded multiple daily injections for the pump.

B.C. PharmaCare began covering insulin pumps for youth age 18 and younger in 2008.

Joan King, an advocacy manager for the Canadian Diabetes Association in Alberta, said her province only started covering insulin pumps last year, but it covers them for people of any age.

“To me, it makes absolutely no sense to have individual provincial healthcare plans covering different things,” Kidd said. “That’s my pet peeve.”

She said that in at least one Scandinavian country, people with type 1 diabetes proceed straight to a pump that’s paid for by the government; there’s no talk of injections.

“The recognition is that these technologies save lives, save complications, save ultimately huge amounts of money from keeping people out of hospitals,” Kidd said.

“The dollars are pretty staggering when you look at an amputation, you look at kidney failure, dialysis.

But you also have taken somebody out of a taxpayer scenario so you’re losing on both sides.”

Sporty Jessica says she’d favour a waterproof pump.

Her mother hopes the need for such considerations will soon evaporate.

“I just hope that they find a cure before she’s 25 so that it’s not an issue by then,” Wilson said.

Requirements:

King says the following are required for youth who wish to have their insulin pump covered by B.C. PharmaCare: • A diabetes specialist must recommend the pump; this can’t be done by a GP. • The recipient of the pump must have a form of diabetes that requires multiple daily doses of insulin.

• Recipients must be checking their blood glucose levels at least four times a day and recording the results.

• Recipients must have completed a diabetes education program.

• A potential recipient might have to show difficulty managing their diabetes with multiple daily injections.

“Not everybody with type 1 is going to choose an insulin pump or is going to qualify for one,” King said.

“Some people manage just fine with multiple daily injections and don’t want to change, or it’s not recommended that they change. Why fix something that’s not broken.”

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My earliest memories as a toddler and preschooler were of my family’s home on West 20th in Vancouver. We lived there before moving to Burnaby. Across the street was expansive Douglas Park with its towering trees, playing fields, playground... and my nursery school.

My first traumatic memory was of falling headfirst from the monkey bars and losing my two front teeth. In those days, monkey bars were stainless steel towers built over cement foundations. I waited years to grow up and grow new front teeth.

Not knowing my painful past association with Douglas Park, the community centre has asked me back to speak at theirYoung at Heart program’sWellness Show on Saturday, April 5. I’ll present “AchievingYour Positive Potential in Life: Finding Meaning and Fulfillment in Every stage ofYour Life.”

Now at the midpoint of life, I note our mixed messages about growth and aging and the changing connotations of “growing older.” Growing older is a good thing if you’re a child — getting taller and stronger, learning more and maturing.

Growing older is not quite as desirable to most past 40.They associate it with a loss of youth, vigour, opportunity and growth.

Every week, an older patient will tell me, “Don’t ever grow old.” I used to think this “advice” was an unintentioned curse. Isn’t it better than the alternative?

At the time, I thought the only alternative was to die young.

But I know that they were referring to the conditions we associate with advancing years: the chronic pain of osteoarthritis, the progression of multiple chronic conditions such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and the decline in cardiac and kidney function.

Seniors are the frequent flyers in the healthcare system because of their increasing needs and for many, much of their days revolve around the scheduling of tests and appointments and the taking of multiple medications.

With the passage of time, we witness the loss of old friends and loved ones, and reminisce about the days of youth and promise.

Yet growing older is not a downhill decline. Many of my patients age well and are ever happy with each passing year.They recognize the realities of their physical health, appreciate growth in their relationships, and remain engaged and empowered in every aspect of their daily lives.

They see through some of the Myths of Aging.

• Myth #1: You are your age.

This is only a partial truth.Your chronological age is based on the date of your birth. Different organs age at different rates depending on use, abuse and genetics. I have to remind some patients that although their knees may be worn down, their other joints are working like new. It’s also nice to point out to many that their kidneys and livers are functioning as if they were 20 years younger.

The cells of your body are constantly

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• Myth #2: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

Although dementia is more likely as we age, it is not inevitable for most of us.

There tends to be a decline in short-term memory with age (The last things learned are the easiest to forget).

Although we may have a gradual decline in the number of neurons in the brain in adulthood, it is the connections between neurons that influence cognitive function.

In the process of neuroplasticity, with new experiences and new learning, each of us is capable of developing increasingly complex connections between neurons.

At any age, you could learn a new language, dance or musical instrument.

• Myth #3: Becoming physically weak and inactive is inevitable.

Our bodies were meant to move... at every age. With disuse and inactivity, we lose strength, flexibility and balance.

Daily physical activity, including walking is a mainstay of continued fitness.

Studies have demonstrated that seniors can increase both strength and muscle mass with safe resistance exercises such as supervised seniors weight-training programs.

• Myth #4: Old people repeat the same old stories.

If you are lucky enough to have older relatives, you will remember hearing the same stories multiple times. We are creatures of habit and our brains like to be efficient in following the same neural pathways ad infinitum.

But new research in neuroplasticity shows that the human brain can change itself. We can create new connections between neurons, and this translates into new more positive habits and new ways of seeing others, our world and our selves.

If you’re a child, never stop growing up. If you’re an adult, never grow old.

Instead, grow stronger, grow wiser, grow new interests and points of view, and grow in your relationships. Remain an active participant in the story of your life.

The Tapestry Foundation for Health Care is a non-profit organization that raises funds for Providence Health Care facilities, including St. Paul’s, Mt. St. Joseph, Holy Family and St. Michael’s Hospitals. Tapestry whose vision is to enhance the living and aging experience for patients and seniors is hosting a public forum, Dialogue on Aging.

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UBC THEATRE takes on UBU ROI, Alfred Jarry’s avant garde foray into the nature of greed and power. Not only did the scandalous, surreal and darkly comic play spark a 15-minute riot when it premiered in Paris in 1896, it provided Cleveland’s fantastic experimental rock band PERE UBU its name. UBC MFA Directing student and Monster Theatre artistic director Ryan Gladstone directs 16 members of UBC’s BFA Acting ensemble in more than 40 parts. UBU ROI runs March 20 to April 5 at Frederic Wood Theatre. Details at theatre.ubc.ca.

We’re a little late to the party on this one, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention Vancouverbased artist MYFANWY MACLEOD’s new exhibit at the VANCOUVER ART GALLERY. OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN focuses on new works produced specifically for this exhibition, “in which the sexually charged music of Led Zeppelin and the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien are key references.” You had us at sexually charged. It runs until June 8. Details at vanartgallery.bc.ca.

Billed as seven “very personal, very true stories,” HORSESHOES & HAND GRENADES THEATRE’s THIS STAYS IN THE ROOM explores such weighty topics as physical and sexual abuse, betrayal, homophobia and addiction. “The actors tell their own stories, each other’s and those of other members of the creative team.” It runs March 19 to 20 at Gallery Gachet. Tickets at eventbrite.ca. Details at horseshoesandhandgrenades.ca.

Fringe Festival favourite CHASE PADGETT blows into town for NASHVILLE HURRICANE, the story of a guitar prodigy and his rise to fame as told by his alcoholic mother, his sleazy manager and his blues music mentor. Expect plenty of acrobatic fretwork during the play’s run March 19 to 23 at Performance Works on Granville Island. Tickets and info at vancouverfringe.com.

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I’ve no idea why someone thought the Courier would be interested in doing a story on a multinational corporation introducing a new line of salads but I’m guessing they saw the most recent installment of our hardhitting investigative documentary video series “What’s Howell Having for Lunch?” (available on our website) and hoped Wendy’s new Asian Cashew or BBQ Ranch chicken salads might make an appearance.

Since Courier civic affairs reporter Mike Howell is far too principled to even consider bartering his journalistic integrity to shill for a fast food company, and also because he is away this week, I figured I’d give them a shot instead after the salads in question were sent to the office.

I confess I don’t really eat much fast food anymore. Partly it’s because most of it is the equivalent of injecting MSG-laden lard directly into your arteries. There’s also the whole destroying the rainforests thing and it’s always a bit depressing being waited on by disillusioned new immigrants and/or bored teenagers.

According to a recent survey, 75 per cent

of women and 66 per cent of men say they’re trying to eat healthier at restaurants than they used to, and Wendy’s is one of many chains now offering healthier fare on their menus in response.

The Asian Cashew was quite tasty, featuring roasted edamame, sliced red peppers and cucumbers with a light vinaigrette made with a chili garlic sauce.

A full-sized one is just 370 calories too, considerably less than the BBQ Ranch salad which includes rashers of bacon and came in 590 calories and 31 grams of fat.

Sadly, our fast food rations didn’t come with the third and final salad debuting this week dubbed the Taco Supreme.

“Where’s the beef,” you ask? (Or you might ask if you’re old enough to remember their big ad campaign from the ’80s.) Well, it’s right there in this “salad” — which along with 760 calories worth of chili and cheese features 39 grams of fat (18 of them the unpopular saturated variety) and 1,870 milligrams of delicious sodium.

To put numbers in perspective, doctors say people should try to limit their total daily fat intake to 65 grams and sodium to 1,500 milligrams.

But they’re still a lot healthier than most of the things on the menu. If Wendy’s late founder Dave Thomas had eaten fewer burgers and more salads back in the day, maybe he never would’ve needed quadruple-bypass surgery like so many of his regular customers. afleming@vancourier.com twitter.com/flematic

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his is a glorious production of a very strange musical. It’s certainly not Rodgers and Hammerstein; it’s not even Stephen Sondheim whose Sweeney Todd is comically dark.

Floyd Collins is just dark. It has a few light moments — like Homer (Michael Torontow) and Floyd (Daren Herbert), as boys, having fun at the ol’ swimmin’ hole — but there’s not much joy in watching a character trapped by his foot a hundred feet underground in a cave where — spoiler alert — he dies.

But, directed by Peter Jorgensen for Patrick Street Productions and Talk Is Free Theatre, this show is beautifully designed, superbly performed, masterfully directed and extremely polished.

With music (and lyrics) by Adam Guettel, who also wrote The Light in the Piazza, the music (described in Wikipedia as “bluegrass, Americana, and more complex musical forms that have their antecedents in the likes of Bartok, Janacek and Stravinsky”) is difficult but Jorgensen’s cast of 13 delivers the almost 20 songs with assurance and precision. There re-

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Daren Hebert plays the title role in the polished but difficult musical Floyd Collins. ally is not a weak or uncertain voice in the whole show.

Daren Herbert, as Floyd, puts us all at ease right off the top with “The Call” followed by “Time to Go.” Handsome and charismatic,

Herbert has a powerful, confident voice that sets the standard immediately. It’s a bit strange to open with two back-to-back solos by the main character; it makes for a rather delayed entry into the dynamics of the story but a lot of exposition gets taken care of in short order.

The place: Barren County, Kentucky. The time: Jan. 31 to Feb. 17, 1925.

The area is poor in fertile farmland but rich in caves and potential for tourists’ dollars. As early as 1812, competition was stiff; on the way to world-famous Mammoth Cave were found Colossal Cave, Long Cave, Great Onyx Cave, Crystal Cave and many more. Good money could be made in ticket sales, refreshments and souvenirs — all the trappings of county fairs.

Young Floyd Collins has been spelunking since he was a boy and now, finally, as a young man, he has happened upon a monster cave that will lift his whole family out of their hardscrabble lives.

After Floyd is trapped, what ensues is a circus of newspaper reporters, filmmakers, men with big ideas and hawkers of goods to the thousands of tourists who flood in on bicycles, horseback, on foot and in cars.

Amir Ofek’s effective set is a series of planked platforms set at odd angles much like tectonic plates, in the middle of which is the entrance to the cave. For much of Floyd Collins, we see Herbert on his back

under the edge of one of the “plates.” Jeff Harrison’s lighting sets the above ground/ below ground environment.

Barbara Clayden’s costumes are the beige and brown, cotton and wool farm clothes of the period. Floyd’s sister Nellie (Krystin Pellerin) is set apart by her pale blue, dropwaist frock and while it’s initially curious to see her so differently dressed from the rest of the farm folk, it becomes apparent — eventually — why Clayden chose to make her stand out.

As she did in Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza, Katey Wright delivers one of the show’s most touching, most musically accessible moments (“Heart an’ Hand”) as her character, Miss Jane, sits consoling Floyd’s father (Kevin McNulty). One light, bright scene — and welcomed for its levity — is a trio of reporters singing their copy: “deeply religious, comma” or “losing hope, period” in “Is That Remarkable?”

This is an ambitious mounting of a difficult musical that will not be to everyone’s liking. The subject feels more suitable to film. Opera buffs might love it. Having experienced one disastrous spelunking adventure myself, I couldn’t help but think, why don’t they stop singing, get down there and get the guy out? It’s just so dark and cold down there.

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

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“German words are so impactful in modern stories… especially fairy tales and children’s lit and there’re a lot of concepts we take for granted, like schadenfreude, being joyful about someone’s misfortunes,” she said.

Now the producer of the Rain City Chronicles series has joined forces with edible pop-up producer Ken Tsui and German sausage purveyors in Chinatown, Bestie, for a storytelling and supper event called Das Lexikon at the Vancouver Alpen Club, March 22.

“I’m really interested in historic and under-used spaces in the city. I’ve always been obsessed with the Alpen Club,” Karp said. “It feels

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Rain City Chronicles’ Lizzy Karp (l) joins forces with edible pop-up producer Ken Tsui and Chinatown’s German sausage purveyors Bestie for Das Lexicon, March 22 at the Alpen Club. like a time capsule. There are lots of collections of German books and photos and other antiques throughout the space and you don’t feel like you’re in Vancouver at all.”

Karp unearthed intriguing German words to inspire “meaty” tales from a roster of nine storytellers.

“Like katzenjammer, which is a really bad hangover or a general state of depression and it is actually translated into a cat’s wail,” she said. “[And] kummerspeck, which translates directly to guilt bacon or the guilt that you feel after stress eating.”

The immersive experience builds upon Rain City’s previous two Tales from Public

School events — one at Strathcona elementary, the other at Templeton secondary in November — that included meals and quizzes in their cafeterias.

Bestie’s chef Colin Johnson will serve meat and veggie bratwurst and Black Forest cupcakes, and the Alpen Club will sling German beer while new connections are made.

“Rain City Chronicles, we’re all about diving into and exposing different communities in the city,” Karp said.

Web entrepreneur Boris Mann will share his experiences of growing up as the son of German immigrants in Vancouver, writer and storyteller Wong Wing-Sui will share a fight story, actor-

turned-storyteller Melanie Ray will talk about a haunted house she once lived in the Fairview neighbourhood, and writer Jenn Farrell will take the meaning of torshlusspanik, or the fear of growing older, to a dark place.

Other storytellers include comedian Paul Bae, writer Ryan Knighton and musician Colin Cowan. Stories will be served with a side of German drinking songs played by a Bavarian-style “oompah band” and a selection of Krautrock.

Das Lexikon starts at 6:30 p.m. at 4875 Victoria Dr. For more information, see raincitychronicles.com. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Sir Winston Churchill finishes top dog BULLDOGS FEND OFF CRUSADERS FOR TEAM’S FIRST PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing writer

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hey did it. The Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs are provincial champions for the first time in the school’s history, beating Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders 67 to 64 Saturday night at the Langley Events Centre.

Churchill is the first team in B.C. to win the title in the newly created Quad-A tier.

The Bulldogs, who entered the tournament as the No. 5 seed after a shocking loss to Vancouver College at the Lower Mainlands, knocked out defending champs, the Walnut Grove Gators (75-70) in the second game of the four-game tourney.

Friday night Churchill beat No. 1 ranked Tamanawis Wildcats, of Surrey, in a tense match that ended 68 to 66.

Saturday night it was pouring rain outside, but the thunder was inside the 5,000plus-seat arena bowl.

Though the game wasn’t sold out, the noise level was off the charts as the 3,500plus raucous friends, family and fans of both teams, decked out in their school’s colours, banged pots and pans, pounded buckets and blew horns in support of their teams.

Lelio Pierre, who sported white “Cs” for Churchill on both cheeks, was one of the many students who came out to support his team.

“It is a great moment in high school,” he said.

The Bulldogs opened the game with a two-pointer from 6’2” Grade 11 guard Gary Minhas.

Crusaders forward 6’6” Jonathan Kongbo answered immediately with a two-pointer of his own, serving the Bulldogs notice he was going to be a force to be reckoned with.

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The Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs celebrate winning the championship at the B.C. Boys Quad-A Provincial Basketball Championship at the Langley Events Centre March 15.

It was 19 to 17 for Churchill after the first quarter.

The story of the first half though was Churchill’s Grade 10s.

Bulldog phenom senior 6’5” Mindy Minhas got into foul trouble and was warming the bench during the second quarter when the younger players got their chance.

Five-foot-nine guard Lambert Pajayon, 6’4” forward Karn Virk , 6’4” guard Izaiah Ugoalah and 6’3” forward Harry Liu racked up 48 minutes total in the first half of the game.

“All year they have been a big part of our team,” said Churchill head coach Rick Lopez.

“I knew they would all get into the game but wasn’t sure how much they would play.

It would depend on how they handled the situation and pressure and how they were doing,” Lopez added.

The Grade 10 boys rose to the occasion. Virk added nine points to the Churchill tally.

It was a great moment for Virk’s family in the stands.

“I was amazingly proud,” said Virk’s father, Daljit, with tears in his eyes.

It was 34 to 31 at the half.

The second half became the (Mindy) Minhas and Kongbo show as both teams tried

to stop each other’s top scoring seniors.

Minhas, who plans to play for UBC next year, earned the most valuable player award sinking 23 of his 30 points in the second half.

Minhas was helped out by younger brother, Gary, who chalked up nine points.

Kongbo, who is slated to play football with the Wyoming University Cowboys next year, dunked 20 points.

The final score would have been a lot higher in the Bulldogs’ favour if it weren’t for the Crusaders’ great defense under the net and if Churchill had played their usual bucket-friendly game — it was a night of missed Bulldogs free-throws (11 out of 31).

With Churchill up 66 to 61 and just over 30 seconds left in the game, Crusaders’ Grade 12 guard 6’2” Brandon Pereira got a three-pointer to make it 66 to 64, but it was too late.

With the crowd on its feet in a full frenzy, Mindy Minhas’ free throw sealed the team’s fate with the final point of the game.

It was a disappointing finish for Holy Cross.

“At the end of the day we didn’t make the plays down the stretch that we needed to make,” said Crusaders head coach Matthew LeChasseur.

Holy Cross is an AA school, but punches above its weight class to compete at the QuadA level, so LeChasseur said he was proud how close his team came to a provincial title.

For the Bulldogs, and the legions of fans who raced onto the court to celebrate, the win was all that mattered.

Circled by teammates and holding the massive wood and gold MVP statue, Mindy Minhas shook his head in amazement at his team’s accomplishment.

“I feel like a champ,” he said. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/thuncher

Fighting Irish eyes no longer smiling DISAPPOINTING END TO VANCOUVER COLLEGE’S PROMISING SEASON RON HOLE Contributing writer

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he Vancouver College Fighting Irish came into the 2013-14 QuadA provincial championship a lion, but left a lamb with a 82 to 91 loss in their final game to the Fraser Valley’s Walnut Grove Gators.

The Irish started the 2013-14 season slow, but by late January were playing great ball

when they reached the finals of their own Emerald Tournament. The team had rounded into form to become a contender as the Irish rolled off six straight wins to end the season.

On the strength of these wins, the last of which won College the Lower Mainland Quad-A title, the Irish earned the No. 3 seed in the annual provincial tournament.

Things crashed back to earth for the Irish on Thursday evening however as they lost their quarter-final game against fellow independent Surrey’s Holy Cross. A second loss on Friday meant all that was left Saturday was bragging rights — the Lower Mainland against the Fraser Valley.

One of the highlights of Vancouver College’s season was the emergence of Elijah Campbell-Axson as a legitimate star in boy’s basketball. He was able to put up big points

on every team they played, and Saturday against Walnut Grove was no exception.

Vancouver College used nice ball movement to create lanes that Campbell-Axson would knife through for opportunities to score or to get to the line. And when he chose to shoot off a screen, Campbell-Axson was deadly accurate going four for nine on the night from the field and four for eight from beyond the arc. He would finish with 24 points and would later be named to the tournament’s second all-star team.

As a team though, the Irish defense playing against the high-flying Gators and their scoring ace Jadon Cohee were not able to get the stops they needed. Walnut Grove shot 51 per cent for the night and by halftime had built a 43 to 31 lead.

Coach Lloyd Scrubb’s halftime adjust-

ments paid off at the net as Vancouver College had a big third quarter putting up 27 points and closed the lead to two before a pair of Cohee threes ended the frame 64 to 58 Gators.

While Vancouver College was having a tough time with their defense, the offense remained in sync as they tied the score with 7:58 remaining behind a pair of Jordon Lum-Tong threes. Lum-Tong would foul out shortly after however and with that, the Irish luck dried up as the Gators built a fivepoint lead. Vancouver College would foul late to stop the clock but the Gators would hit their free throws, hang on for the win and earn bragging rights for the last time in the 2014 season.

For more results, go to langleyeventscentre.com/4ABoysBBall.

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Tigers claw their way to fifth in the province TEAM FINDS CONSOLATION IN FINAL GAME RON HOLE Contributing writer

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he Sir Charles Tupper Tigers wrapped up the 2013-14 Boys AAA basketball season Saturday morning at the Langley Events Centre. Tupper’s season ended with a fifth place showing after a 54-41 win over North Vancouver’s Sutherland Sabres at the 2014 BC High School Boys 3A Basketball Championships.

The Tigers, after winning the Lower Mainland zone, came into the provincial tournament as B.C.’s No. 2 seeded team.

On Thursday night, however, a heartbreaking loss on a buzzer-beater to Courtenay’s Mark Isfeld secondary, relegated the Tigers to the consolation side of the draw.

The Tigers did bounce back Friday night with a win over Vernon.

The consolation side of the draw is always a tough road to travel, but as usual the Tigers were upbeat and excited with what would be the last game of the year for some, and of their high school careers for others.

When asked after the game to sum up the Tigers’ season, coach Jeff Gourley focused

on the positives.

“I’m very happy,” he said. “We have never won a Lower Mainland Championship before — the fifth place finish is the highest finish ever at the provincials for the team.”

As much as it would be nice to credit the defenses in this early Saturday morning game, both teams’ offenses were slow out the gate, shooting bricks or missing layups.

The first quarter would end a pedestrian 12 -9 in favour of Sutherland.

A gentlemen’s agreement between Tupper’s coach Gourley and Sutherland’s coach Brad Thornhill led to full-scale substitutions in the second quarter, and by the time the half ended every eligible player had hit the floor.

The benches continued to press at the offensive end throughout the second quarter.

Neither team hit 30 per cent in the half but Tupper, on a few hustle plays, were able to score seven second chance points and led after the first half 22-19.

It seemed the Tigers received a wake-up call from Gourley at the half as they came out on fire in the third. With the starters back in for both teams, the Tigers led by DJ Sugue, surpassed its entire first half score, putting up 25 points. Sugue was named player of the game on the back of his 17 points.

Scoring again slowed in the fourth quarter as the coaches used substitutions to honour their seniors and starters.

For more scores, go to langleyeventscentre.com/3ABoysBBall.

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Sir Charles Tupper Tigers guard Ron Ronquillo drives the lane against Sutherland’s Braeden Toikka (l) and Ben Gatto (r) in the Tigers 54-41 win over the Sabres at the boys AAA Provincial championship held at the Langley Events Centre March 15.

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Falcons win national title POINT GUARD BRODY GREIG NAMED TOURNAMENT MVP BEN LYPKA Contributing writer

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Brody Greig (in white) led the Falcons with 24 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds.

he Langara Falcons lost just one game in the 2013-14 basketball season and it happened to be at Quest University’s gym, known as the Kermode Kave.

And while the Kave might have felt like a sour place for Langara when they lost in Squamish in November, it might be the sweetest court for them now after they won the CCAA National Championship in Squamish on Saturday (March 15).

The Falcons trailed by six to the Red Deer College Kings

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after three quarters of the gold medal game on Saturday but stormed back in the final quarter to win 88-86.

The final minute saw Kings guard Lloyd Strickland hit four three point shots to narrow the gap but tournament MVP Brody Greig of the Falcons calmly made all his free throws to help secure the win.

Falcons coach Paul Eberhardt said he used his team’s loss in the CCAA semi-finals last year to help wake Langara up heading into the fourth.

“I reminded them of last year and how we felt when we lost,” he said. “I told them there was 10 minutes to go and they had better come off that floor pretty much ready to die — and they did. They responded big time and put together an amazing fourth quarter led by Brody.”

The Falcons came out of the gates hot but started missing shots and turning the ball over in the second and third quarters, which gave the Kings a lead.

“In the second quarter we started turning the ball over a lot which is very uncharacteristic of us,” Eberhardt said.

“And in the third we couldn’t get anything going offensively and our shots weren’t hitting. We switched up our defense in the fourth and went to a 1-3-1 defense that we haven’t used much but it worked well for us and turned the tempo of the game around.”

Greig led the Falcons with 24 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds and said the team knew what it had to do in the fourth.

“We realized that it was just 10 minutes and we knew we had to put it together,” he said. “Coach switched up our defense and that seemed to work and we knew we had a good chance to win if we kept the game close.”

Eberhardt and Greig both agreed the 80-77 loss to Quest on Nov. 9 was a good step for the championship team.

“We were riding a high from the year before,” Greig said.

“Maybe some guys thought we could just play like we did last year but that was great for our team and we realized we had to work harder after that loss.”

“I think you can always learn more from your losses than wins,” Eberhardt said. “We came up here a little overconfident and got taught a lesson. It helped us to understand that it doesn’t matter who you play – you have to play hard.

That loss was an important building block for us.”

The Kings were awarded the silver medal at the event, with the Sheridan Bruins winning the bronze. The host Quest Kermodes placed fifth after losing 96-76 to the Vanier Cheetahs on Saturday morning. blypka@squamishchief.com

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