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COLOUR KEYS Artist Travis Nelson puts finishing touches on a grand piano at Kingsway and Broadway Monday. The Pianos on the Street project commissioned Nelson to graffiti the piano, which will be at the site until Aug. 6. The piano is free for use and performances can be filmed and submitted to supportpiano.com to win cash prizes and tickets to the Squamish Valley Music Festival. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Bee calm and grow community Christopher Cheung

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A growing community might bring a little more calm to the Downtown Eastside. Or at least that’s what organizers hope as the Carnegie branch of the Vancouver Public Library launches a new hub to connect Downtown Eastside residents curious about beekeeping and gardening.

“Bees are lovely creatures, the way they vibrate, the way they smell, and how calm and quiet you are required to be around them,” said Sarah Common, the community liaison for Hives for Humanity. “I think we are all looking for that, looking for ways to breathe a little calmer. It’s a chaotic city we live in.” The Downtown Eastside Seed and Bee Library, opening Aug. 6, was created in

partnership with the city and community groups. “It’s a really unique opportunity just to show that the library cares about sustainability and also wants to involve the community and their passions,” said branch head Natalie Porter. The bee library features books on apiculture, or bees, and regular postings will notify happenings in the area’s beekeeping

community. The seed library launching at the same time will make seeds available to visitors and includes seeds for fruits, vegetables and ﬂowers. Through pollination, both collections work hand in hand. Mason bees have found homes at the Hastings Urban Farm, Oppenheimer Park and Pigeon Park, in addition to rooftops and yards in the neighbourhood. Continued on page 7

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News Residents hold party to fight CP’s plan to destroy gardens 12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Those “trespassing” gardeners are at it again. In my last entry, I mentioned how gardeners along the Arbutus Corridor — aka trespassers, as described by Canadian Paciﬁc’s Mike LoVecchio in a July 21 letter — were facing a July 31 deadline to remove their gardens alongside the tracks. Considering the tracks run across the city, that’s hundreds of gardens. So what is a gardener to do? Throw a party, that’s what. The Arbutus Victory Gardens group will hold a “garden party” this Thursday —deadline day — along a section of the corridor that runs through Kerrisdale along East Boulevard, between 49th and 57th avenues. Their purpose? “The purpose is to show what’s being threatened and highlight the value of maintaining the corridor and

showing solidarity among gardeners,” said Cleta Brown, a member of the Arbutus Victory group and Green Party council candidate. Brown inherited her garden 11 years ago when she moved into her Kerrisdale neighbourhood. She said half of the veggie garden (she’s got a couple of apple trees, too) is on city property, the other half on CP land. Neighbours and others in the city have tended to gardens for decades along the corridor, she said. Mayor Gregor Robertson has said the city is interested in paying “fair market value” for the land. That “fair market value,” according to an article Monday in The Vancouver Sun by Daphne Bramham quoting unnamed sources, is $20 million. That happens to be about $80 million short of what CP wants. Again, that comes from unnamed sources. Whatever the price, it will be expensive. Brown hopes the city is able to negotiate a deal that doesn’t require spending millions of taxpayers’

dollars. Instead, she said, the deal could include land swaps or other creative ways of foregoing a big bill. “It’s hard to say deﬁnitively because we’re not at the table negotiating,” said Brown, although she believes CP is blufﬁng about wanting to run trains along the tracks again and wants to develop the land. But that’s not what LoVecchio said in his letter, which was sent as response to NDP Vancouver-Point Grey MLA David Eby. Eby shared the letter with the Courier last week. “CP is not able to develop this land and we have no plans to do so,” LoVecchio wrote. “Our right of way — land owned by CP — is considered a valuable asset for our company and we are obliged to maximize its use on behalf of our shareholders. The best and only way we can do this is by operating trains. We do not require permission from the City of Vancouver to do so.” Added LoVecchio: “Though our July 31 deadline might halt the matura-

Cleta Brown of the Arbutus Victory Gardens group is hosting a garden party July 31 to protest Canadian Pacific's plan to remove gardens from alongside the tracks. Brown is joined by fellow gardeners Ursula Mikulsa and Johnny McNille. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

tion of some gardens, the scheduling is necessary to take advantage of the season; the continuation of our

track maintenance would be hindered in cooler weather and our hope is to have sufﬁcient time to get our

crews into the area while the weather cooperates.” For now, it’s party time. twitter.com/Howellings

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News LaPointe defends NPA’s candidate selection system

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NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe defended last week his party’s decision not to hold a nomination meeting to select its candidates for the civic election in November. LaPointe said the party’s candidates were selected in a way equivalent to an executive recruitment search involving “hundreds of people” who were either approached by the NPA or contacted the party themselves. “Out of that, we’ve selected the best of the best,” he told reporters July 24 as the party announced four more candidates for city council outside the Roundhouse community centre in Yaletown. They are: • Businessman Gregory Baker, the founder of PC Galore computers, owner of a toy store and son of former NPA councillor Jonathan Baker. • Retired City of Vancouver engineer Ken Low, who also ran twice unsuccess-

The NPA rolled out four more of its candidates for council Thursday outside the Roundhouse community centre in Yaletown. They are Gregory Baker, Ken Low, Rob McDowell and Suzanne Scott. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

fully for the federal Liberals in Vancouver-East and Burnaby-Douglas. • Mediator Rob McDowell who works for the Health Professions Review Board. The former diplomat who served in China was NPA Coun. George Afﬂeck’s campaign manager in the 2011 campaign. • Suzanne Scott, former executive coordinator to

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park board commissioner Ian Robertson to form a nine-member council slate, which includes LaPointe. The NPA has historically held nomination meetings to choose its candidates and LaPointe said the party will “look at ways of changing it” in future campaigns. Vision Vancouver held a combination of meetings this year to choose

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its candidates, including a leadership review of its incumbents and a nomination race for park board. The Green Party’s three council candidates were endorsed by its members while COPE will hold its nomination meeting in September, with activist Sid Chow Tan announcing his intention this week to seek a nomination with the party. Asked how the NPA’s council slate reﬂects the multicultural makeup of Vancouver, LaPointe said that will be seen once the NPA rolls out the rest of its candidates for school board and park board. “We have been very seriously committed to ensuring that we reﬂect the community we’re serving, and that will mean people of different backgrounds, different perspectives, different ideologies — we’ll all blend in,” LaPointe said. Despite the steady stream of press conferences to roll out its candidates, the NPA has not announced any detailed platform policies. But LaPointe did criticize Mayor Gregor Robertson

for requesting an independent investigation into the massive SkyTrain shutdown across the region Tuesday. “I heard explanations that were, in my view, not commensurate with the need for an independent investigation,” he said, referring to the shutdown being caused by an error made by an electrician. “I can only guess that there is something else that the Vision Vancouver folks feel is necessary to unfurl but I don’t see it, yet.” LaPointe also weighed in on the controversy surrounding short-lived Vision Vancouver park board candidate Trish Kelly, who was ousted from the party last week after a video surfaced online of her talking about sex and masturbation. “I think it was a mistake to bump her,” he said. “I think in 2014 that we not only have a sense of tolerance and inclusiveness, but this is a city that’s built and founded entirely on a respect for views — and I thought it was harsh.” The election is Nov. 15. twitter.com/Howellings

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Self-published reading material jams shelves Christopher Cheung

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The shelves are packed with thin volumes, some smaller than your thumb. The Lowercase Reading Room within Main Street’s The Regional Assembly of Text houses a collection of zines and self-published books nearing 2,000. Brandy Fedoruk and Rebecca Ann Dolen are the co-founders and owners of the stationary and gift store which opened in 2005. The nook beneath the property’s stairs was the Assembly’s gallery until a friend of Fedoruk and Dolen made a large donation. “Our good friend from Mayne Island had been collecting books for 20, 30 years and she donated her collection to the reading room,” said Fedoruk. “That’s when we installed

[the room] there and wanted a place for people to appreciate them and be inspired to maybe make their own.” The Reading Room has a summer exhibit called Books on Travel Near and Far. There is a zine called The Stupid Journey on Canadian wastelands, one on B.C.’s ghost towns and another titled From Russia with Love, featuring the names, ages and sketches of women supposedly encountered by the zine’s creator. Fedoruk and Dolen met at Emily Carr University and their love of handmade and self-published books was fostered by a series of bookmaking classes. They continue the do-it-yourself tradition at the Assembly with monthly letter writing evenings and button making. “I think there’s something really special about

things that are handmade and are tactile,” said Fedoruk. “That kind of thing is very nostalgic to people and maybe what they grew up with… People are attracted to the aesthetic of it.” Zines are a small circulation of self-published work usually reproduced by photocopier or painstakingly by hand. They draw their roots from pamphlets used by the marginalized to spread ideas. Whether its origins date before or after the printing press is unknown. Benjamin Franklin and H. P. Lovecraft were known to have used the medium. The Vancouver Public Library was attracted to zines as they allowed for depth and scope from unconventional viewpoints since they are outside mainstream publishing. The ﬁrst zine collection

The Regional Assembly of Text owners Brandy Fedoruk and Rebecca Dolen bring their love of bookmaking and the do-it-yourself tradition to the store. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

was available at the Central Branch in 2009 with a second collection now at Mount Pleasant. “Zines were available a lot longer before libraries,” said Caroline Crowe, a VPL librarian who was part of the committee that started the collection. The library opted to buy zines directly from artists and local stores. “I remember going to artists’ studios and doing

purchases at small, tiny, tiny presses,” said Crowe. Fedoruk and Dolen screen the zines they acquire from artists, fairs, stores and donors just in case, but they believe censorship limits not just content but also a dream. “People having an idea and being able to produce it and publish it themselves allows for a lot more creativity because it’s exactly how they want

it to be,” said Fedoruk. “Through publishers and all those kinds of things, the idea gets farther and farther away.” They hope the room will inspire visitors to create something of their own or to simply share new ideas. “It’s a perfect little space to just spend a couple hours on a rainy day,” said Fedoruk. twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

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Cooking for residents of the Downtown Eastside is a dream come true for Shabnam Yazdani. Yazdani, 28, is part of the ﬁrst group of culinary arts students to take a new seven-month Vancouver Community College course at the newly created Vancouver Incubator Kitchen, a community kitchen on the ground ﬂoor of Save On Meats. The aim of the course is to help aspiring chefs achieve skills to succeed in the food industry, while at the same time helping out the Downtown Eastside community by preparing meals that are distributed to nearby single-room occupancy hotels. When Yazdani moved to the Lower Mainland from her native Iran where she was an engineer, she changed gears and pursued her passion for cooking. “Since the time I was 14, I was always cooking

VCC Chef Phillip Lie and student Shabnam Yazdani prepare a batch of carrot cakes that will be part of 570 free lunches delivered to Downtown Eastside residents. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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she jumped at the chance to enrol. No tuition fee was charged for the ﬁrst run of the course. The program received federal Labour

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members of First Nations, and recent immigrants. The free nature of the course was the icing on the cake, Yazdani said. The challenges for her so far have been learning the new ingredients of Canadian cuisine and the language. Before she started the course, she only knew a few words. “I even didn’t know the name of the equipment, only the pot and the pan,” she said, with a laugh. The support of her classmates and instructor chef Phillip Lie helped make her feel comfortable as she taste-tested the new food and expanded her vocabulary. When the Courier paid the kitchen a visit at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning last week, Yazdani and the other 11 members of her class had been hard at work for two hours preparing 570 lunches to be delivered to community residents. Lie said the advantage of the program is putting students under real world

conditions and expectations. In addition to the meals they make for the community, students also benefit by having line experience in the kitchen of the busy Save On Meats Diner. “This is different from most schools because this is a fast-paced restaurant,” Lie said. In an interesting twist, many of the cooks at Save On are former VCC grads. “The whole thing is not cannibalizing itself, it is feeding itself,” Lie said. He hopes the program will expand so the class can make even more meals for those in need. Yazdani’s ultimate goal is to open her own catering company where she would blend Persian and Canadian cuisine for weddings and other large events. “If I can make it, I will be really happy, but if I can’t then that is fine, I tried. As long as I am cooking, I am fine,” she said. twitter.com/Thuncher

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continued from page 1 The non-proﬁt Hives for Humanity encourages community connections through apiculture along the East Hastings corridor. Working with the library, Common helped set up the launch. “One of our goals was to ﬁnd a space in the Downtown Eastside as a hub for year round housekeeping activity, to check in, have some tea, to share support and opportunities at a set location,” said Common, who has worked in the area since 2006 as a social worker. Porter hopes the project will bring new visitors. “Over in Strathcona I see a lot of people evolving their gardens, which is super close by, and the folks around Chinatown as well who are really active gardeners,” said Porter. “I think it’s a good spectrum of people.” Mark Winston, academic director of SFU’s Centre of Dialogue, will be doing

a reading at the launch. His book, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive, is a reﬂection of three decades of studying bees. He believes hives and gardens are a good match for the community. “As you know, many areas are quite challenged to get good healthy quality and inexpensive food and it’s amazing what gardens in the community can do,” said Winston. “It’s a resource to connect community members to each other and connect members to the natural world. All the problems in the Downtown Eastside can come back to health related issues.” Common believes interacting with nature helps the area’s residents. “I think stability is something that is really rare for folks living in the Downtown Eastside,” said Common. “There’s insufﬁcient housing, people don’t have enough to live on and there’s a lot of trauma behind it all… The way the soil and living

creatures and living plants can connect you back to nature and yourself… providing a space where they can cement, that is really valuable.” Porter has visited the Hastings Urban Garden and is glad it also serves as a refuge. “It looks like it’s just thriving,” she said. “It’s just a nice juxtaposition of the hard concrete and there’s this little oasis outside… Carnegie is a quiet place and the garden can also be that.” Beekeeping’s popularity has increased in the face of declining bee populations, but Common believes Vancouver’s increasing number of hives is also due to the joy and therapy from working with bees. The launch takes place Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. in Carnegie Community Centre’s theatre. A honey sampling will offer a sweet taste of the opportunities available to connect with nature. twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

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The future of whales at the Vancouver Aquarium remains undecided. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Whale debate continues

Park board meets again Thursday Stanley Tromp

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The future of whales and dolphins at the Vancouver Aquarium is on hold for a bit longer. The Vancouver Park Board, which licenses the aquarium, is considering calls to end the holding of cetaceans in tanks. The aquarium’s policy is not to capture them for captivity but to breed cetaceans already in its care. Rescued animals unﬁt to be released back into the wild are also cared at the aquarium. Originally 133 members of the public signed up to speak, but only about 80 showed up to address the board for three minutes each Monday night. Vision Vancouver board chair Aaron Jasper told the Courier that the board will hold a third meeting this Thursday night at 6 p.m. to discuss all its options before deciding. But there will be no more public speakers. Early on, security closed the doors to block out the sound of protesters outside chanting “There’s no excuse for animal abuse!” The majority of the speakers were aquarium employees and pro-captivity biologists, who argued that cetaceans cannot be effectively studied in the wild, that whale-watching is more harmful than cap-

tivity, that the aquarium’s research is essential to their well-being, and that whales are safer overall in tanks than outside where they could be exposed to oil spills, nets and pollution. Most of these speeches were greeted with applause by aquarium supporters. Anti-captivity speakers complained that proaquarium speakers talked for hours on Saturday whereas they were confined to three minutes. They argued the Monday speakers’ lineup was too heavy with aquarium staff and accused staff of using “emotional blackmail” by repeatedly pleading how direct contact with whales is educational and inspiring for children. Daylon Payne delivered an online petition with 16,500 signatures against keeping the cetaceans in captivity, calling it “a crime against nature,” and citing famed biologist Jacques Cousteau’s comment that studying whales in tanks is like studying humans in solitary confinement. Some urged that a referendum be held in this fall’s civic ballot to decide the question. Both sides argued over the accuracy and relevance of the controversial film Blackfish. One mother said that she cannot afford whale-watching trips, that children in the digital age are becom-

ing too disconnected from nature, and that her child is thrilled by each trip to the aquarium. A biologist from the United Kingdom said he reversed his views on keeping whales in captivity, after working at the aquarium. Vancouver Aquarium CEO John Nightingale said if the park board votes to disallow cetacean captivity, the aquarium will take legal action to recover some of the costs of its recent $50 million expansion, which the board approved in 2006. Board members rankled at that suggestion. Former COPE park board commissioner Loretta Woodcock said there may need to be a change in management of the facility. “It may be time for another entity than the parks board to oversee the aquarium.” She complained that some aquarium staff had campaigned against the Green and COPE parties in a prior civic election. Although its Twitter information campaign is very active, Nightingale denied that the aquarium engages in partisan politics. The two Non-Partisan Association board members were absent, and some Vision commissioners called on the NPA and its mayoral candidate to make their views on the issue clear.

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Opinion It’s unhappy hour when pints are short

I’m all through with (empty) promises

Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com

Michael Geller Columnist michaelarthurgeller@gmail.com

The B.C. government backed up last week and took another run at the concept of happy hour, after the first one turned some people sad. But in all the fiddling with liquor regulations, it seems to be missing a somewhat larger point, which is the short-changing that’s going on when it comes to pouring, at whatever price. Some beer advocates started a campaign last spring to raise a fuss about it, but none of the regulatory agencies in the federal or provincial governments seem too worked up about it. Maybe it’s because they’re preoccupied getting happy hour right. It turned out to be such a complicated proposition that it backfired on them. The regulations that came into effect three weeks ago were adjusted on Friday because the minimum price that was set on pitchers of beer was actually higher than some establishments were already charging. That turned happy hour, in some instances, into a joke with an unhappy punch line. Pitchers of beer (60 ounces) were routinely being offered in the $11 to $14 range during sale promotions. But the minimum price for that pitcher during happy hour, based on 25 cents per ounce, was $15, which negated the whole premise. So on Friday, a new beer and cider minimum was set; 20 cents an ounce on servings over 50 ounces. That will bring the minimum price per pitcher down to $12. It could mean a savings of a few dollars at any establishment that chooses to adopt happy-hour pricing. There’s also a new minimum on hard liquor, but it’s going higher, not lower. The original $2 per ounce is being adjusted to $3, just to balance the price cut for beer. The Justice Ministry, which is responsible for implementing all the liquor policy reforms recommended by Liberal MLA John Yap, issued a statement saying that when happy hour started on July 1, the government said it was “open to revisiting prices if they did not match consumers’ expectations.” Yap acknowledged that’s exactly what happened. “Upon reviewing B.C.’s minimum prices, we realized they weren’t on par with consumers’ expectations and we took action to find a fair compromise.” Subsequent to the creation of happy hour, the Vancouver Sun delved into serv-

ing sizes at a number of Vancouver bars and found the art of the short pour is alive and well. Reporter Larry Pynn went to bars that advertised full pints of beer (20 ounces) on their menus and got shorted a number of times. They were serving as little as 14 ounces. Even one bar that stressed “all pints are 20 ounces” managed to serve only 16 ounces. One bar was called “The Pint,” which would lead the average person to expect that’s what they serve there. Pynn got less than 18 ounces. If the same thing happened at gas stations, there would be hell to pay. But it doesn’t seem uncommon in pubs. Restaurant industry spokesman Ian Tostenson said he doesn’t think it’s widespread, but customers are entitled to ask and know exactly what serving sizes are on offer.

In many people’s minds, the word ‘pint’ over the years has come to mean simply a drink. The issue has never seemed to resonate much with consumers, because it’s so complicated. Some breweries offer their own glasses of differing sizes. There are a range of glass sizes in B.C. — nine, 16 or 20 ounces — and there’s a difference in U.S. and Canadian pints. In many people’s minds, the word “pint” over the years has come to mean simply a drink, rather than the legally required 20 ounces of beer. Also over the years, the industry has simply invented entirely new measures, such as the “sleeve.” The Campaign for Real Ale, which is raising the fuss (Fess Up to Serving Sizes), found a sleeve to be an elastic concept, in the range of 12 to 16 ounces. Also, the industry never managed to convert to the metric system and the government regulations reﬂect that. The government responded only obliquely to the campaign and to the Sun’s ﬁndings and it did so by punting the issue over to the federal government, noting that anyone with concerns about serving sizes can contact Industry Canada. Setting the minimum price per ounce is one thing. Getting the number of ounces you paid for is another. twitter.com/leyneles

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The number of candidates the NPA is running on a full slate for city council.

In millions of dollars, the amount Canadian Pacific is seeking for the purchase of its land on the Arbutus Corridor.

The number of artists hosting an exhibit Aug. 8-10 at the ARC Gallery on dealing with grieving after the death of a loved one.

As I reflect on the events of the past week, I am reminded of the 1968 Dionne Warwick song “Promises, Promises” from the Broadway play of the same name. Three promises were very much in the news. The mayor’s 2008 promise to end homelessness by 2015 prompted an angry response from Oppenheimer Park campers. The mayor’s promise to purchase the Arbutus Corridor for fair market value raised hopes amongst community gardeners. The mayor’s promise to buy Granville Island also resulted in significant media discussion. I would like to respond to each. Upon arriving in Vancouver in 1974, my first assignment for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) was to prepare a building inventory and map of Granville Island. Over the subsequent four decades I watched it flourish as a local amenity and major tourist attraction. UBC Planning Professor Emeritus Michael Seelig pointed out in a recent Vancouver Sun op-ed that for many years Granville Island was very well managed by a local trust empowered to make decisions. As one of the founders of Bridges Restaurant and two-time Granville Island trustee, he argues there is no reason why a similarly empowered trust could not manage the island on behalf of the Vancouver Port Corporation. I completely agree.

Sadly, in an effort to fulﬁll the mayor’s promise, the city is sometimes doing more harm than good. The city should not be contemplating the purchase of Granville Island. We do not have the money to buy and carry out much needed infrastructure improvements. The federal government is not going to sell it, and even if it wanted to, any sale would likely trigger a native land claim. What the city can and should do is offer to participate on a reinvigorated Granville Island Trust and contribute to effective local decision-making Similarly, the city should not be promising to buy the Arbutus Corridor. For one thing, the city’s estimate of fair market value is a

In dollars, the new minimum price for a pitcher of beer after the provincial government adjusted the cost for an ounce to 20 cents.

fraction of what Canadian Pacific believes the fair market value to be. Furthermore, it is not necessary for the city to buy it. I would prefer to see the city and CP collaborate on a long-term plan that ensures the property is retained as an above and below ground transit corridor. I would also like to see parks and trails and yes, community gardens, along with residential and commercial uses, on the understanding that increased land values and development revenues could help fund future transit down the corridor. This brings me to the mayor’s promise to end homelessness. While one civic affairs commentator termed it an “ambitious” promise, I believe it was a naïve and preposterous political promise. I say this not as a failed NPA council candidate but as the former CMHC program manager for social housing once charged with the responsibility of building housing for the homeless in the Downtown Eastside. We will never end homelessness in Vancouver. However, we can reduce it provided we take a systemic approach involving other levels of government and specialized community service agencies. This will require new and renovated buildings, along with shelters, support services and rent supplements. We also need to consider employment and family reunification programs. Sadly, in an effort to fulfil the mayor’s promise, the city is sometimes doing more harm than good. I refer to the development of very expensive provincially funded social housing buildings on city-owned sites. To improve the homeless count, the city is insisting that some of these projects be filled with predominantly homeless and otherwise hard-to-house residents rather than with a broader social mix as originally intended. The results have been very unfortunate. A most notable example is Marguerite Ford House. Named in honour of the much admired former city alderman, this building at 215 West Second Ave. is, in the words of a board member of the project’s sponsor “a horror show.” I am told the situation is so bad the city has so far been unable to organize the customary ribbon-cutting ceremony. The city manager recently stated the city intends to house an additional 385 homeless people in three other about-to-be completed buildings. Please do not do this. In future columns I will have much more to say about how the city can effectively reduce homelessness. Until then, I promise not to make any further promises. twitter.com/michaelgeller

The number of South Vancouver Little League players who won the 2012 provincial title as 9- and 10-year-old minors who were also on the 2014 majors all-star championship team.

In a complete game, the number of strikes South Vancouver's Joseph Sinclair pitched in an 8-0 win to claim the B.C. Championship on July 28.

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Commonwealth Games begin

July 30, 1954: Former Governor-General Lord Alexander opens the Fifth British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Empire Stadium. Twenty-four nations sent a total of 662 athletes for a major international sporting event held more than half a century before the 2010 Olympics. The highlight was a footrace dubbed the "Miracle Mile" between Roger Bannister and John Landy, at the time the only two men in the world to run a mile in under four minutes. Bannister won the race in a time of 3:58.8. A statue located outside the Pacific Coliseum commemorates the head-to-head finish.

Vander Zalm named Socreds leader

July 30, 1986: Surrey MLA Bill Vander Zalm was chosen as the new head of the British Columbia Social Credit Party, replacing a retiring Premier Bill Bennett, after winning on the fourth ballot at a leadership convention in Whistler. Socalled Vandermania soon swept the province, and Vander Zalm led the Socreds to a landslide victory with 47 of 69 seats in the Oct. 22, 1986 general election. His colourful and controversial reign as premier ended in 1991 with his resignation after a report by conflict-of-interest commissioner Ted Hughes found he'd broken the rules by selling his Fantasy Gardens theme park to a Taiwanese billionaire. ADVERTISING

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To the editor: Re: “My bike: I will bounce back from a crash,” July 25. Joanne Turner believes her bicycle helmet reduced her injuries in a fall in the Okanagan Granfondo. It is also arguable that her helmet caused a broken collar bone and half a year off from riding. Without a helmet she would not have been in the race and would not have been driving herself in such a high risk fashion, pushing through exhaustion in the last minutes of a 160 km race. Increased helmet-wearing is associated with increased risk-taking. She needn’t worry that others in this high-risk sport should wear a helmet. They already all do. Her comments must be about those who ride their bikes for transportation, but bike races have as much in common with cycling as Indy races have with driving to the supermarket. Many believe that cycling is dangerous when statistically it is on par with walking and driving. This erroneous fear comes in part from helmet promotion and legislation. The real danger to cyclists, pedestrians and other motorists is almost always motorists, and flimsy little bike helmets are no match for a two tonne vehicle travelling at 50 km/h. The Netherlands slashed cycling fatalities by 75 percent without anyone wearing a helmet. Here, helmet legislation has not lead to any measurable reduction in fatalities. At least four of five cyclists killed in the region last year were wearing them. All were hit by a motor vehicle. Helmets are good at reducing superficial head injuries and at making cycling appear risky. The

latter keeps many people from riding, discouraging an excellent form of much needed exercise that would help slash our public health care costs. It also increases the risk for other cyclists since cycling safety increases with numbers. It’s not surprising that the Dutch achieved their enviable safety improvement while increasing cycling by a third. Helmet laws and promotion have hindered cycling growth and increased the risk for those who do cycle. Joanne should also take her own advice if she wants to dish it out. Helmets are designed to break on impact. It is one way they disperse impact energy. It also makes them completely useless after the first impact. But she got back on her bike and finished the race — without a functioning helmet. Talk about a false sense of security — the same one that is responsible for increased risk-taking in the first place. Ron van der Eerden Vancouver,

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To the editor: Re: “‘Fair value’ for Arbutus Corridor at stake,” July 23. Let me get this straight: The City of Vancouver wants to buy the Arbutus Corridor rail line for $20 million (CP wants $100 million) so that a few gardeners can continue squatting on what until now is private land. Why would we want this amount of tax money going to support such an endeavour? These gardeners can use their own backyards or boulevards like everyone else does. Use our tax money wisely — there are far more pressing needs than garden plots. Bruni Goodson, Vancouver

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COURIER SOAPBOX: “Trish Kelly on the high price of public,” July 25. Stephen Rees: It is indeed a great shame that we cannot have an adult conversation in Vancouver in 2014. Fewer people bother to vote at every election, and municipal politics gets a lower turnout than any other level of government. Far too many people dismiss politics as irrelevant. When confronted with choosing a candidate they respond “They are all the same.” Trish Kelly is clearly NOT the same. She would have been a valuable addition to the park board, which has been treated as a farm team for council, and whose members have shown themselves to be immature and unqualified for public office. I hope that Ms Kelly manages to find a way to exert more influence over life in Vancouver. We need more people like her. Julia Leggett: This is so ridiculous. Is the take home message only prudes and virgins can run for office? Sorelle Pipp Lapine: Is there a write-in vote? Occupy Medic: I do not Support the jackboot juice hippie or any Vision candidate. That being said... The asshat over at Van Ramblings who started this whole thing is now claiming that he has been hard done by and hurt by those who have attacked him for posting the video in question. And while the tears of oppressed strait white men flow, I look forward to the larger discussion being had. Thank you Trish for keeping the conversation going. COURIER OPINION: “Please shut up about your home renovations,” July 25. Niko @lavrys: So what was the opinion? This is just a rant.

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CP needs to treat gardeners with respect SOAPBOX

Michelle Boey

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We have had a plot between Pine and Fir Street since the day it became available in 2006. It has been not just a source of food but of inspiration and education for me and my two young children, who were babies at the time we acquired the plot. Through the years, they have learned how wasteland can be transformed into something amazing. They also learned the value of nature and nurturing of plants and ecosystems, among so many other things. One of the most beloved features of our garden are the birch trees. We saved them from demolition as saplings on nearby condo sites and planted them on our plot near the walking path. They have since become a haven for birds and insects and are a source of

Michelle Boey and her son Arien, 9, and daughter Sarah, 7, tend to a community garden on West Sixth Avenue. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

shade and beauty to all who pass by. They are like children to us as we have watched them grow year by year. To think of these trees being destroyed, along with

the rest of our garden and so many others, is heartbreaking and devastating to say the least. We all assumed CP Rail had some sort of conscience and would be

more progressive environmentally as a large corporation. Rather, they have shown no regard for our years of hard work and interest in beautifying their land for the good of all.

Can their approach not be more humane and compassionate? They have plenty of space between the tracks and start of the gardens to do whatever developing they plan to do.

A letter from CP Rail in response to Vancouver-Point Grey NDP MLA David Eby states their reason for demolishing the gardens are to keep their employees safe while working. I guess they didn’t notice while mowing down the blackberry bushes (that many look forward to picking from by late summer) that the gardens are not exactly a dangerous place. Personally, we love the railway tracks that are presently in the area. We even love trains and I am not against CP Rail running them in some capacity. I only question why they are being so harsh in their relations with us. We, as gardeners, feel terrorized by their notices and signs and lack of empathy to work with us to preserve what we have lovingly created. Michelle Boey is an artist and conservationist who says she loves to create beautiful environments while working in harmony with nature. She is mother “to two nature loving, ever-inspiring children, Arien and Sarah.”

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The three-week old painted lady butterflies, bred by Charles Tupper secondary student and Go Spark club member Joshua Yu, were safely kept in envelopes prior to their release during Light and Love Home's open house this past Sunday. People attending the event this past Sunday were invited to donate five dollars to release their own painted lady butterfly with funds going towards building an orphanage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

Butterflies freed for dollars and hope

Fundraiser created by Grade 10 student raises money for DR Congo-based orphanage CITY LIVING Rebecca Blissett

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Every butterfly that fluttered into Sunday afternoon’s blue sky near East Sixth and Main represented five dollars, hope for an orphanage in a far-away land, and the hard work of a 15-year-old butterfly breeder. The painted lady butterflies were carefully kept in triangle-shaped envelopes all afternoon during Light and Love Home’s open house. A circle was drawn near the fold to

indicate where to keep fingers from crushing the delicate insect and, at the announcement, excited children, teenagers and adults crowded together to release more than 300 orange and white butterflies all at once. “Since I was little, I have always been interested in butterflies and I haven’t outgrown them yet,” said Joshua Yu, the Grade 10 Sir Charles Tupper secondary student behind the fundraiser. “I want people to remember that every time you see a butterfly, it’s a symbol of hope and freedom.” Yu is a member of the

Go Spark club for teens that is run by Light and Love Home, a nonproﬁt that works with the Church of God to operate community and charity organizations in developing countries. Club members are encouraged to help others and focus on doing good deeds in their community which, inevitably, led Yu to his idea of his butterﬂy fundraiser. Light and Love Home bought six hectares of land near Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this past January to build an orphanage that will also include a school, community centre

and a farm. Since he can’t go to DR Congo himself due to school, Yu said he felt he could raise money for the cause by doing what he knows best — breeding butterflies. He even sells butterflies for release (think weddings) as well as larvae kits as part of his own Metamorphic Farms, which runs out of his backyard. “My dad is scared of them, but he has finally been able to hold one and my mom, she just adores them,” said Yu who also owns a pair of chameleons, five geckos (with two on the way), swordtail fish and one

goldfish. While he said he is happy to help raise money for the orphanage, he is also keen to help the local butterfly population which has declined due to local issues such as herbicide and pesticide use and the increasing lack of nectar flowers. Global problems include severe weather and, especially for the monarch butterfly, the painted lady’s bigger cousin, continued logging in Mexican forests that is reducing habitat. (Monarchs from Western Canada mostly migrate to California while those from eastern North Amer-

ica migrate to Mexico.) Violin Chan, Light and Love Home’s vice-president of outreach programs, said she is thrilled young people are taking an interest in both their local and global communities. “This is the reason Joshua came to me with his idea,” she said while looking at a drawing of the planned orphanage on the wall of the Light and Love’s home base. “He started a fundraising project with goldﬁsh a while ago, now it’s butterﬂies. Can you predict what he’s going to do in the future? You never know!” twitter.com/rebeccablissett

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Vancouver police are warning seniors to be leery of strangers who ask to borrow cash.

Vancouver seniors and their caregivers should be leery of overly friendly strangers, according to city police. Investigators with the Vancouver Police Department property crime unit are on the lookout for a con man who targets elderly men and women and persuades

them to hand over cash. “Sometimes it is just walking up to someone sitting on a park bench and striking up a conversation to randomly knocking on doors, whether it is an apartment building or a home on the street,” said Const. Brian Montague. Montague said the con artist may pretend he is an old acquaintance or relative

of the senior. “Over a protracted or long period of time they will keep the relationship going, a friendly relationship, and then start asking for money,” he said. The person may even borrow a small sum of money, say $10 and pay it back, thereby building trust, but the next time he will ask for a much larger amount. Montague said the perpetrator likely doesn’t look or speak like the stereotypical criminal. “They are clean looking and this is their job so they are very well spoken,” Montague added. Montague said he couldn’t release a detailed description of the person or persons involved because

personal information,” said Ramzan, who currently works at a seniors’ residential centre on Vancouver’s West Side. Ramzan said in her experience seniors in their 80s and 90s come from a generation that is less suspicious than younger generations. “[They] are more trustful and more honest,” said Ramzan, who adds she has seen strangers come to the care home where she works and try to befriend residents, before being discovered by staff. “It is really sad. How can people do that?” Montague said in general seniors are one of the least likely groups in Vancouver to be victims of violent crime, but when it comes to frauds and purse snatch-

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July 30 to 31, 2014 1. Jane Fonda’s voluminous hairdo from the 1968 sci-fi cult classic Barbarella was truly one of the wonders of the mid-20th century. It floated gloriously in zero gravity, got tossed lustily during a variety of erotic encounters and even managed to inspire the name for a popular Vancouver hair salon, which will be celebrating its 15th anniversary with a party at the Fox Theatre, which might possibly have even screened the risque film back in its days as an adult cinema. A 15-model cast will strut their stuff down Memory Lane, a time-traveling fashion show with musical accompaniment by Star City for the Barbarella b-day bash. The party starts at 9 p.m. July 31 at 2321 Main St. Email info@foxcabaret.com for more. 2. Royal City Band guitarist and novelist Josh Ritter hits the Commodore in support of his latest solo album The Beast in Its Tracks, with guests Lake Street Dive. The show starts at 8 p.m. July 31 at 868 Granville St. Tickets are $32 from Ticketmaster.ca. 3. The name Soulfly may not sound particularly metal, but metal is exactly how former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera’s new band sounds. He and his elaborately bearded new cohorts bring the noise at Venue with guests Lody Kong. Tickets are $22 and available at Scrape, Zulu, Red Cat and venuelive.ca. Doors open 9 p.m. July 31 at 881 Granville St. 4. Who is Svend Robinson? How did he earn the name “White Swan” and just what the heck has Canada’s first openly gay MP been doing since the infamous stolen ring incident and/or his failed political comeback taking on Hedy Fry for the Vancouver Centre riding? Find out the answers to these and all your other Svend-related questions as author Graeme Truelove discusses his new biography Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics in the Alma Dusen room at the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library. 7 p.m. July 31 at 350 W. Georgia St.

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SFU professor emeritus Malcolm Page, referring to another critic’s review of Equivocation, said it all: “A smart play for smart people.” It’s a workout for the brain alright: a play within a play that takes plenty of historical licence. Shakespeare (here called Shagspeare) is the protagonist and recognizing the frequent references that occur throughout (like the three witches in Macbeth, for example) deﬁnitely heighten the enjoyment of Bill Cain’s 2009 play. A sarcastic quip, for example, while Shagspeare struggles to pen a new play comes from his daughter Judith: “Try twins. That usually works.” Cain both celebrates and pokes fun at Shakespeare. In the play, Shagspeare accepts from James I a commission to write a play about the infamous Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, the king and king’s family. The story outline comes from the pen of James I himself and it’s a biased, self-interested account of the unfolding of events. Shagspeare is caught on the

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horns of a dilemma: to write a play that is untrue or write a true account and, literally, lose his head. Playwright Cain suggests this is the basic problem writers face all the time: to hold a faithful mirror up to humankind and risk rejection or pander to the audience and give them what they want. There are enough threads in Equivocation to make a new tent for Bard on the Beach, now in its 25th year. But the setup is intriguing. It’s dramatic, clever and surprisingly funny at times. All but Shagspeare (Bob Frazer) and Judith (Rachel Cairns) are double cast, and the play’s action moves fluidly between the rehearsal hall of actor Richard Burbage (Gerry Mackay), the Tower where Father Henry Garnet (also Mackay) is being held and the court of King James (Anton Lipovetsky). It’s hard to resist trying to find parallels in the double casting. Lipovetsky is a “shit-covered” Poor Tom during a rehearsal of King Lear; he’s also Thomas Wintour, one of the conspirators against the king; and he’s Sharpe, an actor in Burbage’s company; and, finally, a very fey James I who feigns flakiness but in reality, is a nasty piece of work. These are all great roles for Lipovetsky who is so fresh

and sprightly that he keeps aloft what otherwise might sink under its own weight. Frazer, who has played so many Shakespeare roles, ﬁnally gets to play the playwright himself. Cain posits a meeting between Shagspeare and Wintour, imprisoned and tortured as one of the co-conspirators. One of the best scenes in Equivocation comes in Act I when Shagspeare cradles the broken body of Wintour. Frazer and Lipovetsky make this moment almost unbearably tender. Despite all the tangents Cain takes off on — principally Shagspeare’s lingering grief for his son Hamnet who died at the age of 11 — Act 2 is more compelling than Act 1. Mackay has great dignity as Father Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest who wrote A Treatise on Equivocation that so interested (within the context of Cain’s play) Shagspeare. Without equivocating, Equivocation is not for everyone. Wordy and complicated, it’s buoyed up by very ﬁne performances and the capable direction of Michael Shamata. It’s theatre for those with a lot of theatre under their belt. Equivocation runs until Sept. 17 at Bard on the Beach. For tickets, call 604739-0559 or go to bardonthebeach.org.

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Catherine Owen coated her body with her lover’s ashes to feel close to him on her birthday, three months after he died suddenly at age 29 from a heart attack. Her best friend, photographer Karen Moe, shot Owen caked in ashes, shot her again when she slipped into her deceased spouse Chris Matzigkeit’s clothes and on Valentine’s Day, when Owen donned the spiked choker Matzigkeit had made for her to wear when they performed in their heavy metal band, Inhuman. The series of photos, called Skins (of grief) form part of an event Owen has organized called Visualelegies: Art, Act, Artifact — Four women artists speak to grief at the ARC Gallery, Aug. 8 to 10. “I want to convey the sense that there are many

ways to commemorate your loved ones,” said Owen, a writer who has published 10 collections of poetry. “Our society is very awkward or resistant to acknowledging grieving and the need for rituals and ceremonies… We’re generally told in our society you can have a little grieving period and then you have to move on and people don’t really want to hear about it, you know? You should medicate or get counselling or otherwise detach from it.” Photography, paintings, video and installations by artists who are coping with early deaths of close family and friends will be exhibited at Visualelegies, which will also include live music, a writing workshop, readings and a roundtable discussion. Like Owen, artist Jennifer Safronick was told to be strong, take pills or seek counselling following the death of her twin brother from cancer in 2011.

Catherine Owen smeared her dead lover's ashes on her body as a sacramental act. PHOTO KAREN MOE

Safronick created seven sequencing video vignettes called Big Game to signify her passion for safeguarding natural spaces, ecology and to mark the death of her brother. The vegetarian artist ﬁlmed the ritualistic act of burying the moose, deer, trout and salmon her brother hunted and caught. “I quickly realized how this would become a ‘big game’ for me to play within

my own psyche,” she says in her artist statement. “I experienced symptoms of isolation; I became a subject of disapproval. I discovered there are minimal resources to cope if one does not follow a sanctioned orthodox religion. Naturally, I turned to the land, as it is all I know.” Some couldn’t understand why Owen would want to rub her spouse’s ashes on her skin, but she

says his death became so bureaucratic she needed a way to reconnect with the man she’d spent more than eight intense years with. “Most of us won’t even have seen a corpse by the time we’re 60, never mind knowing what to do with it. Until our parents die off, and even then we don’t get to see it,” she said. “There’s not always an open casket. We don’t wash our dead. We don’t anoint them. We don’t clothe them. We don’t have a wake. We don’t have them in our home… I wanted to absorb him in a sense and I wanted to show that I wasn’t afraid.” Friday night’s events include live music, the gallery opening and Owen reading from her latest publication, Designated Mourner, between 7 p.m. and 12 a.m. Saturday afternoon activities include a grief writing workshop from 1 to 2 p.m. Owen will performing a reading Saturday evening. A session about grief for

children where kids can speak, sing or make art based on what they feel is planned for noon on Sunday “You can be seen and heard,” Owen said. “That’s important.” Owen hopes both men and women will participate in the weekend events but she says 98 per cent of those who attended her writing workshops during her latest book tour were women. “I’m sure if a man cried as much as I cried after I lost my partner he would be looked down upon more than I was,” she said. “I feel sorry for that situation because that’s one of the outfalls of patriarchy is it suppresses men in that way.” Visualelegies opens at 7 p.m. at 1701 Powell Street. For more information or to register for the writing workshop, email blackcrow.2@hotmail.com or phone 604-787-1806. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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1. Daniel Suarez was blocked at the plate by White Rock catcher Noah Bryerton in the third inning. 2. Starter Joseph Sinclair went the distance and shutout White Rock in the 2014 B.C. Championship. 3. The South Vancouver all-stars celebrated after the game. They leave Wednesday for the Little League Canadian Championship in Quebec. PHOTOS CHUNG CHOW

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All-stars win B.C. Championship for ﬁrst time since team’s start in 1956 LITTLE LEAGUE SOUTH VANCOUVER WHITE ROCK

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Walnut Grove – For the first time in club history, South Vancouver will compete for a national title at the Little League Canadian Championship. The allstars played a determined, well-rounded provincial final and slowly whittled away the defending B.C. champs from White Rock at George Zarrelli Diamond in Walnut Grove where North Langley Little League hosted the final July 28. Starter Joseph Sinclair shut out White Rock over six innings and came away with the 8-0 win. “This was definitely the biggest game I’ve ever pitched,” he said. “I felt a little nervous before the game but once I got that fist strike in, I felt fine.” Sinclair’s first three pitches were strikes and he sent the first three batters packing. In the seven innings he pitched leading up to the tournament final, Sinclair allowed only three hits and two runs. After the final, his ERA dropped to

MARCH CHASES NO-HITTER IN SEMI-FINAL WIN Emma March took a no-hitter into the fifth and final inning of the B.C. Championship semi-final to lead South Vancouver to a 12-0 win over Victoria's Beacon Hill at George Zarrelli Diamond on July 27. The 12-year-old pitcher took her count up to 64, struck out seven batters and allowed no runs on only one hit. March was in the rotation and knew she was slated to pitch the must-win game. She steeled her nerves by placing confidence in her team. "I knew my defence was there for me -- Madjik, Joe, Josh, everybody -- so I felt calm and relaxed," said March, one of only two girls at the seven-team all-star

0.54 and his total strike outs climbed to 27. “The cutter on the inside corner, that was working for me the entire day,” he said Monday evening as his teammates doused manager Brian Perry with water from bottles and a cooler. South Vancouver cracked the scoreless stalemate in the bottom of the third inning by patiently building a lead one run and a time. Daniel Suarez loaded the

tournament. March, whose twin brother catches for South Van, kept Beacon Hill off balance with an arsenal of off-speed pitches. "I have a slider and a curve, so I used those pitches today. I do throw a knuckleball but this is one of those games where they can hit slow pitches so I thought I'd work my slider and curve and fastball," she said. "People started talking about [the no hitter] in the dugout and I was like, Shhh -- Don't jinx it." Beacon Hill got their only hit in the fifth inning when a blooper dropped just out of reach of the infield and Joe Sinclair's extended glove. South Vancouver built a

bases on a bunt, and Josh Matsui hit a fast grounder past the shortstop to bring Sinclair home and take a 1-0 lead with no outs. Madjik Mackenzie, batting .609 with three home runs, stepped to the plate and hit a double to deep centre ﬁeld that scored Nico Cole. Suarez slid home but couldn’t beat an excellent relay throw from the outﬁeld. Mackenzie had bid his time at the plate, taking the

Emma March pitches and plays first base for the South Vancouver all-stars. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

6-0 lead (including a two RBI double off March's bat). Madjik Mackenzie ended the game in the bottom of the fifth with a

advice of his father, who is one of the team coaches, to pass on the fastball but hit an outside pitch down the line to left ﬁeld. “I was kind of nervous,” said Mackenzie, “but my dad came to calm me down. He told me [the pitcher] is most likely going to throw a curve. It was outside and low.” Matsui stole home on a wild pitch to give South Van a 3-0 lead and his team-

two-run, walk-off homer that pushed the score into mercy territory and ended the game before the sixth inning.

mates a lot of confidence. White Rock brought in a new pitcher in the fifth inning, putting Holden Chuminsky in for Lukas Frers who’d reached the 85-pitch limit and had loaded the bases. South Van scored five more runs. Mackenzie started with a two-RBI double and Evan March followed with another 2-RBI dinger, this one off the outfield fence, to take a 7-0 lead.

Nico Cole gave Vancouver its eighth run when he stole home on yet another wild pitch. With just three outs between South Vancouver and their first B.C. Championship in club history, officials called for a weather delay so the White Rock batters would not be blinded by the setting sun. “A good team like White Rock can always come back, you never know,” said manager Perry. “I’ve seen games where eight-run leads have disappeared, so until we got the last out in the last inning, I was never happy, I guess.” Half an hour later, the game picked up and Vancouver put it back down, this time for good. For the last out, catcher Evan March pounced on a grounder and put it in the glove of his sister at first base. “Once we got that last out, it was a great feeling, especially after all these years,” said Perry. The South Vancouver all-stars leave Wednesday morning for Valleyfield, Que. for the 2014 Canadian Championship. The winner represents the country at the 75th Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. Aug. 14 to 25. twitter.com/MHStewart

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Late July, in the middle of the Major League Soccer season, was not when Jay DeMerit planned to hang up his boots. But as it is with many professional athletes, injuries have a way of bringing careers to a premature end. On July 24, the Whitecaps Captain brought his 10-year-long professional soccer career to an end with an open, revealing letter to fans followed by a press conference at the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. “This isn’t a careerender, it’s a life-starter. I truly believe that,” DeMerit said. “When it makes sense and when it’s right, it’s not sad or something I’m going to regret — it’s something I’m very proud of. It’s something that I thank every day I was able to do. I thank my coaches, my teammates, and the fans. I’m looking forward to the future.” The 2014 season was widely expected to be the 34-year-old’s last one in professional soccer since the central defender recovered from an Achilles’ tendon rupture in 2013. However, in the Whitecaps’ ﬁnal match before the World Cup break on July

Jay DeMerit, 34, retired from professional soccer on July 24. The defender and captain was the Whitecaps' first Major League Soccer signing in 2010. PHOTO BOB FRID/VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC

7, DeMerit tore another tendon in his ankle. “A week ago, I went into training as normal and was on the ﬁeld with our club physio,” DeMerit said last Thursday. “I’m watching these younger guys play, and it just dawned on me that I think these [playing] days might be over. I looked down at my ankle with only

one real tendon in there and I think to myself that I don’t have it in me anymore to get back.” DeMerit’s retirement ends a remarkable journey to the world of professional soccer for the American. Inspiring, if not improbable, his story was chronicled in a 2011 documentary called Rise & Shine: The Jay De-

Merit Story. After a four-year college career at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the native of Green Bay, Wis., travelled to Europe with a backpack, his soccer boots and $1,200 cash. His journey took him to the United Kingdom where he toiled in the lowest levels of the game before getting

his break in a pre-season friendly 10 years ago this month. Playing as a trialist for a semi-professional team, DeMerit impressed his opponents in English League Championship side Watford FC, who were then coached by current England assistant manager and former Whitecaps midﬁelder Ray Lewington.

It led to a six-year career with Watford that included two English domestic cup semi-ﬁnal appearances and promotion to the English Premier League. It also led DeMerit to wearing the Stars and Stripes for the U.S. at the 2010 World Cup, where he played in every minute of his country’s memorable campaign in South Africa. He was the Whitecaps ﬁrst MLS signing on November 18, 2010. DeMerit embraced being the face of the franchise through its early years in the league, despite making just 71 appearances in three and a half seasons for the ’Caps. “Jay gets that in North America, we’re selling the sport,” said Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi. “His willingness to participate in virtually any request we put in front of him has helped to strengthen our brand in the marketplace. He actually has been involved in over 120 appearances since the time he has been here.” A resident of Gastown and married to Canadian Olympic gold medalist freestyle skier Ashleigh McIvor, DeMerit will continue to serve as a Whitecaps ambassador. Simon Fudge has covered the beautiful game in Canada and the United Kingdom for print, web and radio. A gift of family inheritance, he supports Bristol City FC.

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89 $

99 $

Pink Salmon

Lapin Cherries

Organic

99 /lb $6.59/kg

Grass Fed

Lean Ground Beef

Sirloin Ground Beef

Rib Eye Steaks

/lb $15.41/kg

/lb $10.98/kg

/lb $11.99/kg

From The Deli

Certified Organic

B.C. Grown

European Ham

B.C. Grown Apricots

B.C. Grown Long English Cucumbers

Cherries

Green

$907 $699 $499 $544 $1043 /lb $19.99/kg

$149 /100g

B.C. Grown

Concerto Tomatoes

$248 /340g Clamshell

/lb $22.98/kg

Weather Permitting

Zucchini

$799 $279

48 2

¢ 78

Coconut Water

Organic Virgin Coconut Oil

Santa Cruz Spritzers

/2lb clamshell

S&D

All Natural

¢ 99

500ml +dep +eco fee

each

Anaar

Fruit Juice

Black Cherry & Black Currant

/lb $5.47/kg

Alpha

/lb $1.72/kg

Organic

99 $ 49 99 $ $ 2 13 21 349

Premium

946ml + dep/eco fee

DME

475ml

Assorted - while supplies last

4 x 311ml +dep +eco fee

475ml

Non-Organic

Ginger Slices

Dehydrated Uncrystallized

$499 455g

Raw, Vegan & Organic

Beond Snack Bars Assorted

$179

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