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October 8 2014 Vol. 105 No. 81

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Pushy cop awaits fate Incident caught on video

Mike Howell

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City contracts awarded behind closed doors Senior managers bypass council for major deals

Bob Mackin

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After its late-July to mid-September recess, Vancouver city council rubber-stamped six contracts worth almost $30 million in open meetings without mentioning the names of the losing bidders, the dollar values of their bids or how they were ranked.

That has raised questions over the transparency of competition for municipal contracts and left taxpayers in the dark over whether the competition was fair and their tax dollars were spent wisely.

A year after Mayor Gregor Robertson’s 2008 swearing-in, which included a pledge to make city hall more open and accountable, city council agreed to lower

the threshold for competitive bidding from $100,000 to $75,000.

But at the same time, council surrendered authority over decisions on bigger deals to closed-door committees of senior managers.

Until early 2010, city council voted on contracts worth $300,000 and up. Under the new regime, the committees — made up of managers from the department seeking the contract, along with city manager Penny Ballem — decide on contracts up to $2 million. Only those contracts worth more than $2 million need council’s approval.

But when city council is on summer or election recess, the committees do not have to abide by the $2-million cap.

Four contracts announced in September were decided by the committees alone, including a $12.5-million contract to Mainland Sand and Gravel Ltd. for the supply and delivery of mineral aggregates.

Of 2013’s top 10 contracts, Graham In-

frastructure’s winning $5.38 million Burrard Bridge bearings rehabilitation deal was the only one where the staff report contained the full bidders list. In that case, Graham Infrastructure was the lowest bidder.

Jordan Bateman, B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, said “more scrutiny from the elected officials is better than less,” when it comes to entering into contracts.

Also, the tendering process should “be handled in an open and transparent manner.”

“Let taxpayers decide if they’ve gotten good value for money,” Bateman said.

In September, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) ordered the city to disclose the financial terms of the bids that led in 2012 to PayByPhone scoring a $4-million, three-year deal for payment by phone for parking meters.

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The video has been shown over and over on television news channels and on the Internet: A rookie cop shoves a defenseless woman to the sidewalk in the Downtown Eastside.

The cop’s name is Taylor Robinson, a constable with the Vancouver Police Department who graduated from the Justice Institute six months earlier.

The victim’s name is Sandra Davidsen, a woman with cerebral palsy and muscular sclerosis who lived at the Lux social housing building at 65 East Hastings.

More than four years after the incident outside the Lux, Robinson remains on the job and has yet to learn what type of a penalty, if any, he will receive for his actions on the afternoon of June 9, 2010.

But that day is coming. Robinson will learn his fate Oct. 17 when an adjudicator presiding over a public hearing returns to courtroom 109 in the Robson Street courthouse to decide on a penalty.

The adjudicator is Wally Oppal, whose name is well known in the Downtown Eastside after he presided as commissioner over the Missing Women Commission Inquiry. One of his recommendations was that police receive training to recognize the special needs of vulnerable people.

Now retired from the bench, the former judge of the B.C. supreme and appeal courts will consider the range of discipline requested by lawyers who outlined their arguments Monday at a one-day hearing.

The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner wants Robinson, who was present in court dressed in a dark suit, suspended without pay for up to 10 days.

Davidsen’s lawyer, Douglas King, requested 15 days while lawyer David Crossin, acting on behalf of Robinson, argued for a two-day suspension, saying it was a “fit and proper” penalty and in line with what a VPD superintendent concluded in a separate investigation.

The police complaint commissioner’s office announced Oct. 3 that Robinson admitted to the allegations of abuse of authority and neglect of duty under the Police Act related to shoving Davidsen, whom he claimed was going for his gun.

She was shaken but not injured, according to a case summary of the incident.

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Old cop shop a cheaper tech centre

12TH & CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Way back in December 2010 when Ken Bayne was the city’s general manager of business planning and services, I had a chat with him about the Main Street cop shop.

You know the building — the one at 312 Main St. near East Hastings that had served as the Vancouver Police Department’s main precinct since 1954?

Yep, that’s the one.

Anyway, I spoke to Bayne about what the city’s plans were for its old building since the VPD was moving to a newer space near Boundary and East First Avenue.

Here’s what he said: “We assumed, to be quite honest, that when the police department moved out, we’d pull the building down,” he said, estimating the property would be worth $5 million to $7 million.

“But now there is discussion about potential uses. It’s just

a question of whether any of them pan out.” Apparently, one did pan out.

The city announced Oct. 3 that the old cop shop will be transformed into what it’s calling the Technology and Social Innovation Centre.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to regular readers since I reported several years ago about the building potentially becoming a technology hub.

The city says the centre “will support a broad range of entrepreneurs, social innovators and non-profit organizations through incubation and acceleration programming…”

OK, I’ll stop there for a sec.

Incubation and acceleration programming?

Not exactly up on the latest biz speak, so I’ll assume it means an entrepreneur has a wicked business idea and it needs some time to grow before it can walk, and what better place to get that done than at this new centre.

The city says the centre will offer business services, financing and training for a

The City of Vancouver is going ahead with its plans to turn the former headquarters of the Vancouver Police Department on Main street into a business development and technology centre.

PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

variety of sectors including technology start-ups, sustainability and clean-tech, social enterprise and something called “micro-enterprise.”

The centre is being developed in collaboration with the Vancouver Economic Commission and the Vancity Community Foundation, which will lease the second floor of the building and serve as property manager.

Anyway, how much is

this going to cost, right?

According to the city’s communications branch, the city spent $1.1 million in 2012 to put in new pipes, replaced something called a “chiller line,” did work on heat exchange and a cooling tower.

Under something called the “capital maintenance of the property endowment fund 2014 capital operating budget” — whoa,

that’s a title, isn’t it? — $4.6 million was approved for interior improvements and building upgrades.

Vancity will also pay $1.7 million towards the refurbishment.

Those numbers must be new because a previous estimate to renovate the building was $13.8 million, according to documents obtained by the Courier in June 2012 under the Free-

dom of Information and Privacy Act. At the time, the biggest cost was $4 million to meet building code requirements, including seismic work and upgrades to elevators, lighting, sprinklers and fire alarm system.

Another $3.2 million would be required to upgrade electrical and mechanical systems. Other costs related to asbestos removal, tearing out building interiors and washroom upgrades.

So what’s the real cost?

I asked the city’s communications department, and this is what they sent me: “That older figure was based on more extensive work that was planned and since then city staff have reviewed with the tenant on the work that is required to give the building a minimalist feel (sort of what you would expect from a tech/ social innovation hub) and those requirements are reflected in the numbers I provided you.”

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Continued from page 1 City hall claimed in February 2013 that disclosure of bids would harm both it and the bidders.

By July 2013, after OIPC intervention, city hall revealed the names of the four losing bidders.

The city has now disclosed, after the OIPC ruling, that PayByPhone’s average $0.13.8 transaction fee was the lowest bid.

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Victim rejected initial apology attempts Continued from page 1 The video, which was obtained by the Lux’s security cameras and replayed in court Monday, showed Robinson walking threeabreast with two other officers along a busy sidewalk on East Hastings.

As the trio approached Davidsen, who is seen walking with an unsteady gait, she appears to step to one side in an attempt to avoid colliding with Robinson. In doing so, she attempts to walk through a gap between Robinson and a fellow officer.

That’s when Robinson pushed her to the ground and then stood over her. In a statement to police investigators five days after the incident, Robinson said he told Davidsen “don’t touch my gun” followed by “never touch a police officer’s gun.”

Davidsen, who denied going for Robinson’s gun and was not present in court Monday, was left on the sidewalk as the three police officers continued down the street. The video shows a street vendor coming to Davidsen’s aid and a witness approaching Robinson.

Robinson told the witness Davidsen tried to grab his gun.

Robinson wrote two letters of apology to Davidsen, who told her lawyer she didn’t believe them to be genuine because the first one wasn’t signed. She said the letters provided more of a justification for shoving her than an apology.

Crossin said Robinson wanted to initially apologize to Davidsen in a face-to-face meeting but she rejected his offer. He noted the first letter of apology wasn’t signed because the VPD’s internal affairs section sent the letter to Davidsen without first getting Robinson to sign it.

Crossin described Robinson’s decision to shove Davidsen as an innocent but serious mistake. Had Robinson and the two other officers “paused, showed some grace,” helped her up and apologized, there would have been no need for Monday’s hearing, Crossin added.

“He had no real experience with the Downtown Eastside and, as you know, it’s probably the last place a [rookie] constable should

be,” he told Oppal.

Though the focus of the hearing was on Robinson, Oppal heard concerns from Davidsen’s lawyer, who works for the Pivot Legal Society, and police complaint commissioner lawyer Mike Tammen about training and policing practices in the Downtown Eastside. Tammen pointed out the video shows how pedestrians make way for the trio of officers walking side by side along the sidewalk.

Davidsen is the only person in the clip who attempts to walk between the officers.

“So your position, at the end of the day, is what the officers are doing is not exactly a good way for officers to foster good relationships with the community?” Oppal asked Tammen, who replied: “Absolutely.”

In delivering a penalty Oct. 17, Oppal is also expected to make recommendations to the VPD or Vancouver Police Board, or both, that relates to policing practices in the Downtown Eastside. Oppal also invited Police Chief Jim Chu to make any comment or recommendations before he delivers his decision.

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Jericho Lands plan gets special treatment DEVELOPING STORY

Naoibh O’Connor

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Now that the federal Jericho Lands have been sold for development, the city’s manager of planning and development expects to report to council in January asking it to direct staff to treat the 52-acre parcel as a special study area or policy statement. Three First Nations — Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh — partnered with Canada Lands, a federal Crown corporation, to acquire three Lower Mainland properties, including the Jericho Lands, as reported in

the Courier last week.

Brian Jackson said city staff will lay out a planning process for moving forward with its study.

“It would be on a cost recovery basis, so the costs associated with that policy statement would be borne by Canada Lands and it would set out a process, likely of a year — if not more, as it did for Pearson-Dogwood [lands],” said Jackson. “At the end of that process we would be making recommendations to council on appropriate heights, densities and uses. That would then form the basis of Canada Lands and their partners to move forward with rezoning as the next stage.”

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The Jericho Lands, formerly owned by the federal government, are located between Discovery and Highbury streets and West Forth and West Eighth avenues. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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The Jericho Lands, formerly owned by the Depart-

ment of National Defence, sit between West Fourth Avenue and Highbury Street to the east and Eighth Avenue to the south. The federal government sold the

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Property Tax Exemptions for 2015 The City of Vancouver hereby gives notice of the intention of City Council to exempt certain eligible not-for-profit properties used for senior citizens housing from taxation for one year (2015 taxation year).

The properties to be considered for exemption in 2015, including an estimate of the amount of City taxes that would be imposed without the exemption for 2015 and the following two years, are shown in the table below.

A bylaw will be brought forward to Council on October 14, 2014 in accordance with Section 396(1)(g) of the Vancouver Charter.

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2 6 6 -7 7 2-2 6 - 0 0 0 0

12,500

12,900

13,300

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765 -266 - 0 6 - 0000

29,700

30,600

31,500

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6 3 1 -2 3 2- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

62,700

64,600

66,500

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-04-0000

27,200

28,000

28,800

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -39 - 0000

7,800

8,000

8,200

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -52- 0000

31,800

32,800

33,800

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -92- 0000

20,600

21,300

21,900

Broadway Pentecostal Benevolent Association of BC

6 5 0 -274 -27- 0 0 0 0

21,200

21,800

22,500

Calling Ministries

7 1 0 - 072- 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

43,800

45,100

46,400

Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver

1 9 2- 5 9 2- 9 2- 0 0 0 0

13,400

13,800

14,200

Christ Church of China

1 9 2-5 9 2- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

10,600

10,900

11,200

Columbus Charities Association

30 6-720 -45 - 0000

18,500

19,100

19,600

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

8 2 8 -2 5 1 - 9 4 - 0 0 0 0

12,800

13,100

13,500

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828 -258 - 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

6,300

6,500

6,700

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 0 5 -1 1 3 - 6 6 - 0 0 0 0

13,500

13,900

14,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

63 8 - 07 7- 07- 0 0 0 0

11,800

12,100

12,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 41 -2 3 4 -2 0 - 0 0 0 0

7,800

8,000

8,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 4 5 -1 9 4 - 47- 0 0 0 0

7,100

7,400

7,600

HFBC Housing Foundation

648-078-05-0000

5,900

6,100

6,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

665 -230 - 68- 0000

5,800

6,000

6,200

HFBC Housing Foundation

670 -230 -83- 0000

4,400

4,600

4,700

HFBC Housing Foundation

670 -230 -89 - 0000

5,900

6,100

6,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 8 3 -230 - 82- 0 0 0 0

5,200

5,300

5,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

72 2-28 3 - 4 8 - 0 0 0 0

25,200

26,000

26,700

King Edward Court Society

7 1 0 - 07 2-9 5 - 0 0 0 0

22,900

23,600

24,300

M Kopernik Nicolaus Copernicus Foundation

8 1 7-3 0 0 -2 2- 0 0 0 0

6,500

6,700

6,900

Mennonite Senior Citizens Society of BC

7 5 5 -2 3 7- 5 1 - 0 0 0 0

32,600

33,600

34,600

New Chelsea Society

270 - 670 -95 - 0000

7,900

8,100

8,400

New Chelsea Society

693-253- 6 4- 0 0 0 0

31,000

32,000

32,900

Odd Fellows Low Rental Housing Society

3 1 8 -7 2 5 - 9 5 - 0 0 0 0

9,800

10,100

10,400

Parish of St. Paul Vancouver

6 0 9 -1 1 7- 4 4 - 0 0 0 0

30,100

31,000

31,900

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver

59 6 -1 9 6 - 49 - 0 0 0 0

9,300

9,600

9,800

Society for Christian Care of the Elderly

6 13 -11 9 -5 4 - 0 0 0 0

68,500

70,600

72,700

Soroptimist Club of Vancouver BC

6 8 3 -1 6 5 -5 4 - 0 0 0 0

9,000

9,200

9,500

South Amherst Housing Society

244-805-96- 0000

4,500

4,700

4,800

The VEL Housing Society

57 7-2 59 - 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

7,700

7,900

8,100

The VEL Housing Society

596-250 - 04- 0000

4,800

5,000

5,100

Ukrainian Senior Citizens Housing Society

30 0 - 810 -95 - 0 0 0 0

9,500

9,800

10,100

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-811-05-0000

8,500

8,800

9,000

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

1 2 5 - 8 3 2- 8 4 - 0 0 0 0

11,200

11,600

11,900

$685,300

$706,300

$726,900

TOTAL

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property for $237 million.

The Department of Defence will remain on site until December 2015.

Property immediately to the west is owned by the provincial government, but it’s unclear what will happen to that 38-acre parcel. Portions are leased for community use until 2020.

Robert Howald, Canada Lands’ executive vice president of real estate, said he hasn’t had any discussions with the province.

“I don’t know what their plans are at all,” he said.

“We were just concentrating with the DND on the federal Jericho piece.”

Jackson said he isn’t sure what the province plans to do either.

“The province, in order to move forward with its land, I believe, would have to go through a similar accommodation process with the First Nations,” he said. “And we have not heard from the province as to whether they’re in discussions with the First Nations or not.”

A call to Liberal MLA Andrew Wilkinson’s office was not returned before the Courier’s print deadline.

Wilkinson is Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services.

Echoing what Howald told the Courier previously, Jackson said the city also has no preconceived notions about what should happen on the former federal Jericho Lands.

“We recognize there has to be a lot of community input into whatever happens there. It’s a very important piece of land. It’s adjacent to the beautiful resources of the park space that we have

to the north and it’s adjacent to single-family residential, but it’s also near Broadway corridor. So we don’t have any preconceived ideas whatsoever,” he said.

The 2010 West Point Grey vision statement included a direction about the Jericho Lands planning process. It pointed to the need for a major study with significant public consultation if the lands were to be developed.

In an email to the Courier, the West Point Grey Residents’ Association noted that in 2011 the federal and provincial government commissioned a major study of future land use and development potential of the Jericho Lands. The association added that very little detailed information has been released.

“What’s clear, however, is that a range of land-use and development options have already been contemplated without any consultation with the local community,” the email states. “Nevertheless, the West Point Grey Residents’ Association appreciates recent assurances from the Canada Lands Company that there are ‘no preconceived plans for these sites’ and that development will ultimately ‘meet the desire and needs of the municipalities and the local communities.’ To ensure that these aims are realized, the community calls on the City of Vancouver to begin implementing the foregoing vision direction. Thus any subsequent planning policy developed by the city would be appropriately informed by and reflective of local vision.”

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A wheelchair-bound man who says he is dying of cancer would rather stay living in a tent in Oppenheimer Park than move into a temporary shelter.

“Shelters ain’t the answer,” said Scott Bonnyman outside the B.C. Supreme Court Monday morning during a recess in a court proceeding where the City of Vancouver is seeking an injunction that would allow police and firefighters to remove dozens of people and all temporary structures from the makeshift tent city in the Downtown Eastside that has been in place since July.

“They made it very clear to myself and others who reside in the park that we must go to these shelter ‘beds’ which are just mats on the floor,” he added. “They said to us, quote unquote, ‘That is not our problem. Our problem is to get you in out of the weather. You don’t need to sleep.’”

The city says it has offered 70 spots in homeless shelters, many of them in a newly opened facility in the former Kettle of Fish restaurant at the north end of the Burrard Bridge.

The city also announced in September that it reached a deal to open 157 units of temporary housing in the former Quality Inn at 1135 Howe St. that will open in November, but many at the

encampment have said they prefer the relative security of the tent city. The camp began in protest over the lack of adequate housing in the city for low-income and homeless people.

Ben Parkin, a lawyer for the city, pointed to the removal of the Occupy Vancouver encampment in 2011 and the Woodward’s Building squat in 2002 as legal precedents.

“The facts in this case are indistinguishable from the Occupy Vancouver case and… there is no basis to find exceptional circumstances that would justify the refusal of the injunction,” he told the court.

“The defendants may argue that the importance of their message or the seriousness of their allegations may constitute exceptional circumstances but those arguments do not, in fact, constitute exceptional circumstance as that term is defined.”

The city is seeking the encampment’s removal under a park board bylaw in the Vancouver Charter that prevents people from setting up structures on park land. Insp. Howard Chow of the Vancouver Police Department said in an affidavit that more than $100,000 has been paid out in overtime to officers responding to incidents at the park, which include multiple fights and weapons seizures. Police responded to a total of 364 calls to the park in the three months after the encampment began.

“So far what we’ve heard

from the city is basically there are no circumstances that would be exceptional enough to let people stay until they have a meaningful alternative,” said DJ Larkin of the Pivot Legal Society, who is representing tent city residents in the suit. “The city has presented their evidence and they are entitled to enforce their bylaw that homelessness is not an exceptional circumstance that would justify allowing people to stay there until they have access to shelter and housing.”

Pivot is not seeking a dismissal of the injunction application but rather more time to find housing for all residents, many of whom suffer from mental health and/or addictions problems and are not willing to file the necessary paperwork to begin the process. They are arguing that forcing people out before they have somewhere else to go will cause “irreparable harm” to their clients.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Duncan issued an interim injunction order Sept. 30 demanding campers remove all open flame or flammable heat sources, including a “ceremonial fire,” that was not obeyed.

According to Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services assistant fire chief Joe Foster, the fire has been seen left burning unattended and propane tanks are still found in abundance.

Duncan had not yet reached a verdict at the Courier’s print deadline.

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Former premiers battling Alzheimer’s

What Vancouver can learn from Santiago

Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com

Michael Geller Columnist

Former premiers Bill Bennett and Dave Barrett made so much history, they should have an endless supply of recollections to amuse them in old age.

What a terrible shame that neither of them can remember any of it.

The Bennett family came forward this week to acknowledge that Bill, 82, has been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years and is confined to a Kelowna care home.

His son, Brad Bennett, was prompted to disclose the condition by way of thanking Kelowna philanthropist Charles Fipke for a generous donation toward research into the disease at the University of British Columbia. It was made out of admiration for the former premier.

Brad Bennett said after the event that his father is not doing well.

It’s the same sad story that the Barrett family has been coping with — in similarly quiet fashion — for the past few years.

Barrett has been in care in Victoria for the past two years. They marked his 84th birthday on Thursday.

There’s little sign left of the intellect and spirit that made the two former giants great.

In vastly different ways, they both had that special something that made them stand out from the crowd. Of course, the innate quality of leadership that propelled them to the top fades with age. It’s profoundly saddening, though, to think that even their memories of it are gone now, as well.

After all those years of public service, they should be entitled at least to fond reminiscences of the good times.

There was a particular vibrancy that accompanied each of them into every room they entered. So imagine both of them in the same room — in the legislature — where they duelled regularly for 11 years.

Between 1973 and 1984, they traded speeches, visions, insults — and jobs.

The sparks flew, and their charisma compounded. Some days they brought out the worst in each other. But overall, they made each other better.

Bennett won the overall contest by the numbers, 3-0 on the election scoreboard.

But Barrett held his own on style points, with showmanship, emotion and wit.

From countless exchanges, here’s a

random vignette, from March 15, 1977.

Barrett was fulminating over Bill Vander Zalm, then a human resources minister taking a hard line against fraud.

He closed with an eloquent expression of mock concern for Premier Bennett’s welfare, given Vander Zalm’s obvious ambition to succeed him. Barrett was cheerfully trying to incite unrest in the enemy ranks, while appearing to be the soul of solicitude.

“I don’t wish the present premier any ill will,” he told the house, radiating faux sincerity. “With that kind of member after him he needs the understanding and appreciation of all citizens of this province. … My heart goes out to the premier who’s under that kind of pressure, under that kind of attack. … The premier deserves more sympathy than we’ve been able to muster, considering the atmosphere under which he labours in his job.”

I can picture him oozing solicitude and Bennett trying not to laugh while everyone else succumbs to hilarity.

There’s something arresting about the fact that two adversaries who fought each other for years are afflicted with the same condition.

Their professional differences extended to the personal. Their mutual antipathy was no secret to anyone. Now, the two old lions, who clawed each other for years, are finally brought together. But there’s no comfort in the shared circumstances the ghastly disease has forced on them.

If there were any glimmer of awareness left in either old boy, I bet the sympathy and understanding that Barrett was joking about all those years ago would be utterly sincere, mutual and profound today.

Just So You Know: Fipke, whose discovery of diamonds in the Northwest Territories is the stuff of legend, donated $9 million to UBC’s Alzheimer’s research initiative.

For anyone who wants to mark the pair’s combined contributions and help the thousands of others with the disease, it’s a good example to follow.

You can find out more about UBC’s Alzheimer’s research at ubcneurology. com.

You can also find out more about Alzheimer’s, research and support through the Alzheimer Society of B.C. at alzheimerbc.org. twitter.com/leyneles

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“Where are you from?” the bartender asked me.

“Vancouver,” I replied.

“Did you know it was voted most livable city in the world in 2004?” he asked.

I was impressed he might know this, although wondered if it was true in 2004.

“But we’re no longer number one,” I told him. “I think it’s now Vienna or Zurich. Have you been there?”

“No, but one day I hope to move there,” he told me as he went off to get my pisco sour.

I was in Providencia, one of Santiago Chile’s upscale neighbourhoods. I had been invited there by Ciudad Viva, a local NGO researching what makes certain urban spaces attractive and popular.

In collaboration with the School of Architecture at the Catholic University, they had been studying three well-known retail areas including La Vega, the city’s sprawling wholesale and retail public market.

The study team wanted me, along with a professor of architecture from Barcelona, to provide international perspectives on their initial findings.

I shared with them an idea I first heard from a West Vancouver resident who had been participating in a neighbourhood planning study.

Sometimes a place has to change if it wants to stay the same.

However, planners and designers must be careful not to alter the character and qualities that brought people there in the first place. I thought this might be particularly true for their aging La Vega market.

I shared with the study team the challenges facing the Granville Island public market. For many years it had been a favourite place for Vancouver residents to shop.

However, over the years, the market attracted so many tourists, local residents were increasingly discouraged from shopping there.

The situation was exacerbated by new supermarket designs. When the Granville Island public market first opened, there was no Urban Fare, Nesters or Choices. Today these supermarkets offer many of the qualities and amenities of a public market and are forcing Granville Island’s administration to rebrand its facility to bring back the lo-

cal shoppers who made it so popular in the first place.

While Santiago could learn from Vancouver, we could also learn from Santiago. During my one week stay, I observed a number of ideas that might be transferred to our city.

As many visitors and Chileans now living here well know, Santiago has a lot of taxis, reportedly more than New York City.

But it also has serious traffic congestion problems that it has been trying to address by building new roads and freeways under the city.

It has also been making some effective improvements to its public transit system, especially the buses.

One of the things I noticed is the buses quickly pick up and drop off passengers through front, middle and back doors.

They can do this since at busy bus stops, passengers pay at the platform before getting on the bus, by tapping their electronic transit cards. Other South American cities employ a similar approach. Hopefully Vancouver’s transit system will too, one day.

I enjoyed Santiago’s busy Metro subway system. It is surprisingly clean and many of the stations are very beautiful. I sometimes got off at stops just to see the creative station designs and artwork. I never do this in Vancouver.

I was also delighted by the city’s wide sidewalks. I was told in some instances roads had been narrowed to make the sidewalks wider and in turn accommodate outdoor restaurant seating and licensed and “informal” street vendors.

Throughout Santiago there is an abundance of public art. Fascinating pieces of sculpture can be seen along streets and in parks. There are also murals everywhere.

While some are little more than elaborate graffiti, others are quite extraordinary and form part of a business and restaurant design.

While Santiago is struggling to accommodate an increasing number of cyclists, many of whom ride on the sidewalks, I often saw large secure bike storage facilities near Metro stations and shopping areas.

More taxis, better bus loading, wider sidewalks, more public art and secure bike storage: these are just a few of the things, along with pisco sours, that Vancouver should emulate from this fascinating South American city. twitter.com/michaelgeller

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In hundreds of thousands of dollars, the approximate amount of overtime pay charged by police due to the Oppenheimer Park encampment.

The number of years ago since the cult favourite David Lynch TV show Twin Peaks went off the air. Nine new episodes are planned for 2016.

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Oct. 9, 1970: The Vancouver Canucks play their first NHL game, a 3-1 loss to the L.A. Kings at the newly built Pacific Coliseum. The game included an opening ceremony attended by Premier W. A. C. Bennett, Chief Dan George, Mayor Tom Campbell (who was booed by fans) and former Vancouver Millionaires player Cyclone Taylor (who received a standing ovation). Defenseman Barry Wilkins scored the home team’s first goal at 2:14 of the third period, the first of only five he scored all season. Following his death from cancer in 2011 at the age of 64, the Canucks hung his jersey in a display case at Rogers Arena along with those of former players Rick Rypien and Pavol Demitra, both of whom died the same year.

Provincial courthouse opens downtown

Oct. 9, 1911: A new provincial courthouse designed by architect Francis Rattenbury, who had previously designed the provincial legislature and the Empress Hotel in Victoria, opens its doors for the first time. The neo-classical building, located between Georgia, Robson, Hornby and Howe, cost more than $1 million. It functioned as a courthouse until the late 1970s, when another famous B.C. architect, Arthur Erickson, converted it into the home of the Vancouver Art Gallery. It was declared a National Historic Site in 1980.

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To the editor: Re: “Social housing project generates 729 police calls in first 16 months,” Sept. 24.

VPD Chief Jim Chu, in this article, reinforces the belief prominently held by many, including many Vision councillors that the hard to house “should not be just dumped in the Downtown Eastside.”

In this case, it appears as though in pursuit of a grand social experiment these residents have now been, in fact, dumped into an area they have no social engagement with, no community support to fall back on and all in a virtual dead zone where their only neighbours are warehouses, small businesses and strata owners that despise and fear them.

How can we expect people who are barely coping with desperate frailties to cope in this kind of environment? Those who are so eager to see the Downtown Eastside flushed clear of these kinds of projects might ask themselves how many police calls would have come through had this same facility been built within that neighbourhood.

Sites there that offer housing to people with special needs never rack up trouble calls in volumes like this because the residents are supported daily by street contact, peer connectivity as well as professional therapeutic inter-

vention where needed.

A great disservice has been done to these people by setting them up for failure in this pathetic sterile environment in the middle of nowhere.

It will be most interesting to compare the wellbeing of these tenants to those who will soon be moving into the new Princess Street premises next year where residents will be housed within an existing neighbourhood that is accustomed to behavioural shortcomings that many will have and will offer a better measure of support than is now instead only misery for just about everyone in and around the Marguerite Ford Apartments.

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Catt is against more dogs To the editor:

Re: “Dogs seek safe landing in Vancouver,” Oct. 1.

When I read the above article by Sandra Thomas, I looked at the calendar as I thought it must be April 1. If people have all this extra time and money available, why not do something really rewarding, like help (adopt) a homeless person or a senior who requires assistance?

This would appear to be of a greater need in Vancouver than bringing in foreign dogs to run off-leash and crap in our parks.

Harold Catt, Vancouver

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COURIER STORY: “Vision Vancouver says NPA spewing hot air,” Oct. 3.

Jack: “‘He’s again ducking the major issues that are facing us,’ Louie said.” No, [LaPointe]’s not ducking the major issues facing us, he’s addressing the issues that fall within the mandate of a city mayor. Why on earth should he be spending time on provincial and federal issues? We already have governments in place to address those issues. Perhaps if Vision Vancouver spent more time addressing what municipal governments are supposed to address, and less time pontificating on issues that are beyond its mandate, they wouldn’t be scrambling in a vain attempt to hold onto power after November.

Janice: What a bizarre assertion for the NPA to make. Whoever briefed LaPointe clearly didn’t even bother to do a simple Google search. His operation is real amateur hour.

Mike: If anyone knows anything about hot air, it is (lack of) Vision, who has been spewing it so much it’s a danger to global warming.

COURIER STORY: “UBC students show support for Hong Kong,” Oct. 1.

Jordan Wong: Having lived/worked in Hong Kong for a number of years, I found it to be an extremely safe city, few government rules, incredibly low tax rate and a relaxed place to live and carry out your business. Its medical system is free for all residents and incredibly efficient (compared to B.C.), the transportation system is second to none and, as long as you work hard ,the sky’s the limit for your personal rewards. The kids who are complaining of oppression have taken it all for granted. They haven’t stepped foot outside of Hong Kong to see what real oppression is all about.

Matt Lo: The fight for democracy for Hong Kong has a just cause and is well deserved.

Hong Kong people are finally standing up for what they want and what they deserve.

They are doing it in a civilized and peaceful manner, without savageness or violence. If you have truly lived in Hong Kong and understood how Hong Kong people feel, then perhaps you can also sympathize and respect their bold intentions of fighting for the freedom and prosperity of their city.

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3. Many of the buildings participating in the event, such as the False Creek Energy Centre, had a line-up of people waiting to get in. 4. The Vancouver Animal Control Shelter says it has a 97 per cent success rate when it comes to reuniting stray pets with their owners. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

Doors opened to city’s hidden places Archives, city hall, VPD tactical training centre among the popular spots

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Judging by the popularity of Doors Open Vancouver this past Saturday, Vancouverites are a curious bunch.

Doors Open is the literal name of the day-long city tour where 20 different civic buildings invited everybody into buildings for free tours to learn about services ranging from fire and rescue training to call centres.

Some, such as the National Works Yard, are typically closed to the public so the tours satisfied the curiosity of the 10-year-old boy in everybody while others, such as the unsecretive-in-comparison Vancouver Central Library held hourly architectural tours.

Vancouver City Hall was top of the list for many as more than one thousand peo-

ple walked through the doors to check out where civic government makes its decisions while there was always a line-up around the False Creek Energy Centre to glimpse the maze of pipes that captures heat from waste water and sewage to supply environmentally friendly heat and hot water to nearby Olympic Village. The centre’s staff counted on the interest as outdoor signs indicated wait times and, while the line moved quickly, it wasn’t quickly enough for those who had to endure a man’s whistling of “La Cucaracha” the whole line-up long.

While Doors Open is a Vancouver first, it runs in other Canadian and American cities. The local version was initiated by the City of Vancouver’s Engaged City Task Force — the same group that started the mobile Pop-Up City Hall program that brought city hall to different communities.

“It was just a fabulous turnout,” said deputy city manager Sadhu Johnston of

the event. “Many people use these services and don’t know what happens behind the scenes. Going behind the scenes gets people excited.”

So excited that the tours for the three buildings that required advance sign-up — The Salt Building, Carnegie Community Centre, and the Vancouver Police Department Tactical Training Centre — sold out days before.

Vancouver Archives also was a popular stop as visitors were encouraged to poke through 80-year-old journals of Vancouver residents as well as take a few historical photographs home. Two of the buildings on the tour house animals. The VPD Mounted Unit opened its stables in Stanley Park while the Vancouver Animal Control Shelter fielded questions about whether or not the dog kennel floors are heated (they are), if they house cats (they don’t but take almost everything else such as a pot-bellied

pig that was found roaming the streets of North Vancouver two weeks ago), and how many strays are reunited with owners (the shelter has a 97 per cent return-to-owner rate for licensed pets). They’re the same people who also give out licences and investigate reports of dog bites which is the main difference between them and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

(Animal control is said to protect people from animals while the SPCA’s mandate is said to be the other way around.)

The shelter also works with small animal rescue groups, some of which were on hand for Saturday’s tour. Brayden Bull showed off his rescued snake Calista while girlfriend Sam Grewal was in the process of adopting another.

“These are super friendly snakes,” he said. “They just want to get into your hair and nestle and make themselves comfortable.”

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Where do we put our dog poop?

Disposal of cat and dog waste left unsolved by city policies SOAPBOX Eileen Mosca

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Recently I attended a public event where Vancouver Park Board staff were distributing plastic containers of dog poop bags emblazoned with the City of Vancouver logo. My dog and I happily accepted this gift, as did many others. This strategic generosity was obviously intended to encourage dog walkers to clean up after their pets, but it seemed to me to be just another example of the city’s mixed messages to pet owners.

On the city website and in brochures distributed to residents explaining the regulations for disposal of garbage and recycling, the message is clear: “No animal waste” is allowed in garbage or green bins. So… where exactly does city hall

think the thousands of pet owners in Vancouver are disposing of their cat litter and dog poop?

This is Vancouver’s dirty little secret: the vast majority of residents who own cats and dogs, most of whom likely consider themselves law-abiding citizens, are violating city regulations every time they clean up after their pets and throw the waste into garbage bins. The fact that the city publishes a prohibition on disposal of animal waste in garbage or green bins does not actually mean that no cat litter or dog poop is disposed of this way in Vancouver. It is either delusional thinking or civic hypocrisy to imagine that making a rule guarantees compliance.

The directive to bring bags of dog turds into our homes, flush them down the toilet and put the soiled plastic bags into the trash is neither accept-

able nor feasible for most pet owners. When I had two cats I did try “flushable” cat litter. The result, involving the services of a plumber, convinced me to return to the time honoured garbage can solution.

Surely if Vancouver’s stated goal is to be the Greenest City in the world by 2020 we can’t keep ignoring the brown stuff. When expanded recycling options were introduced last May, I eagerly scanned the long list of additional items that could be disposed of curbside in Vancouver. I hoped the city would offer a solution to pet owners who wanted to deal responsibly with animal waste disposal. Disappointingly, no reference was made to this black hole in our waste management system.

There are several private companies offering pet waste disposal

in Vancouver. For a fee, these firms provide lined buckets where dog waste and non-clay based cat litter can be deposited and collected on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Pet waste from all over the Vancouver region is then transported to the Iona Wastewater Treatment plant in Richmond where it is treated and discarded according to regional regulations.

If private companies can dispose of pet waste using this public infrastructure, surely the city could do it on a larger scale.

When the decision was made that all food waste would go into green bins, Vancouver thoughtfully provided every household with a bright green compost bucket for food scraps. One justification for this expense was that it was not only a better environmental solution, the diversion of organic waste from the landfill

was economically beneficial as well.

In the case of animal waste, providing receptacles with liners that would be kept outside with garbage and green bins (as the commercial companies do) would be the greenest solution. These pet waste receptacles should also be available in all city parks.

Not only would dog poop and kitty litter be diverted from the landfill, thereby reducing costs, proper disposal will also benefit the environment and enhance public health.

But Vancouver can’t solve the problem of animal waste disposal until our civic leaders acknowledge that it exists. Simply assuming that Vancouverites are not disposing

of dog poop or cat litter in their garbage bins because regulations forbid it is willful blindness. The city should either implement a reasonable pet waste disposal system or change the rules and let pet owners lawfully place bags of dog poop and kitty litter in their garbage bins (which, we all know, they are now doing anyway).

Ignoring a problem doesn’t make it disappear.

If we truly want to be the greenest city, let’s come up with an innovative made-in-Vancouver solution to animal waste disposal that other cities will envy and emulate.

Eileen Mosca is a Grandview-Woodland artist and community activist. twitter.com/eileenmosca

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1. 826 East Georgia Street (Thomas and Jessie Crawford House) To add the existing building to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category and designate it as a protected heritage property. The application proposes a variance to the Zoning And Development By-Law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE417865, to permit additional floor area.

2. 737 Prior Street (James McDonald House) To add the existing building to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, designate it as a protected heritage property, and approve a Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) for the site. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE417628, to permit the construction of a new infill building.

3. 3345 Collingwood Street (Evans Residence)

To add the existing building to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, designate it as a protected heritage property, and approve a Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) for the site. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law and to the Subdivision By-law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE417609, to permit the creation of two new parcels for the site, one of which is to contain the relocated heritage building that is to be converted into three strata dwelling units, and one of which is to contain a new one-family dwelling with secondary suite.

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Raquel, Coquitlam A: Grapevines should be pruned when they’re dormant and you can see what you’re doing.

The simplest and most effective way of pruning grapes is to cut almost all the growth on your grapevine so that you end up with one main trunk plus four branches on each.

Each of your four branches should be a thick as a ballpoint pen and should be cut back to about 12 buds each.

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Be prepared for a grapevine that looks like you tried to murder it. Also masses of green waste/ compost.

When you prune in the next fall or winter, the four stubs will have grown to a size suitable to become your four branches. Cut these back to 12 buds and also leave four stubs (cut to about two buds each) close to the four branches.

Q: I have struggled for years with a veggie garden. Just when I think I have the soil nice and light and workable, we get a hot summer like this year, then it rains and the dirt turns to concrete.

The dirt is what they call number two grey ash about one foot deep then it goes to sandy clay.

I do have leaves and

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Would help if I put it all in the garden and tilled it in?

Richard, Alberta A: There is no better way. Putting those leaves and clippings on the garden and tilling them in is the best way possible.

Those grass clippings and leaves will have broken down into rich, black compost. More than anything else, compost holds moisture in soil and forms a nutritious easy-to-work garden.

I suggest you begin by taking one foot depth of this material and till that in. That way it won’t be such a huge job and the compost will get mixed in better. The following year do another foot and the year after that the last foot.

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Three things you shouldn’t upgrade Televisions, iPads and fridges are good enough PRACTICAL GEEK Barry Link

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Fall is a tempting time for technology enthusiasts and normal people alike. With the holiday shopping period approaching, a lot of new devices and products will be thrown at us and we’ll be tempted to upgrade our devices.

Resist. Flee temptation.

Here’s what not to upgrade.

Your television

If you bought a television in the past five years, it should be good to go for another five years. Not much of substance has changed for the TV since flat screens became the norm. It’s a big flat screen that shows moving pictures.

What to ignore: Any branding involving the buzz words “smart,” 3D or 4K. “Smart” means it can connect to the Internet and has apps for things like YouTube and Netflix. You may or may not want that. 3D is boring. 4K means more detailed screens. It also means more expensive and an ongoing paucity of content for those more detailed screens.

Here’s a secret: Transformers: Age of Extinction is still extremely dumb regardless of the screen you see it on.

What to consider: Invest in a good soundbar. Decent sound is the single biggest upgrade you can make to your viewing experience.

This older generation iPad used by a certain newspaper editor will work for years to come. So why upgrade? PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Your iPad

Apple is coming out with new models this month and, yes, they will be very nice.

But if you bought an iPad in the past few years, you won’t need a new one. In terms of function, the iPad is much the same beast as it was since it first debuted. It’s become more powerful, thinner and with a better screen, but for most normal people, these upgrades are incremental and the essentials remain the same. You hold it in your hand, you touch the screen, you read or watch that screen.

What to ignore: Any marketing involving the buzz words revolutionary, amazing, astounding, thinner, lighter, more powerful

or Retina. Any commercials involving artists, kids, families, musicians and people firing off model rockets.

What to consider: Pay attention if the new iPad has something truly astounding, like making you coffee in the morning or rubbing your sore feet when you come home from work.

Nothing less will do.

Exception: a rumoured larger sized iPad of 12 inches would be interesting for productivity jockeys, especially combined with an iPad version for Office. It’s a whole new device category.

Your fridge

Just like the iPad, the basics of the fridge remain.

It’s a cold place to store

food. That’s why you should be wary of combining your fridge (or your oven, toaster, coffee maker, lawn mower, or sprinkler system) with something called the Internet of Things. Essentially it’s the latest attempt by geeks to hook up your fridge (or your oven, toaster, coffee maker, lawn mower, or sprinkler system) to the Internet because … well, because.

To be fair, some interesting strides have been taken with household thermostats and lighting. Devices like the Nest thermostat, sold

by Google, is said to reduce heating costs by allowing you to automate settings for heat for particular times of day. You can even change the settings on your thermostat away from home by using your smartphone because… well, because.

What to ignore: Everything in this area. I’d love to come home and have the lights magically come on and the heating automatically adjusted to just the right temperature.

But products in this category remain expensive and devices from different companies won’t work together.

Security and privacy concerns are paramount. The Nest is made by Google, the company that wants to know everything about you.

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Isabella Brown is still in the swing of things, playing golf at least twice a week at one of the city’s public courses, including Fraserview. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Tee time is the right time for 90-year-old golfer Two games a week part of nonagenarian’s health regime

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Isabella Brown has accomplished many things in her lifetime but the 90-yearold says she still has one goal alluding her.

“I’m still trying to shoot 90,” Brown told the Courier Tuesday morning. “On Saturday I golfed with my son, grandson and great-grandson and tried to shoot 90, but I made 91. But it was nice having four generations together to play. We’re trying to do that every year.”

Brown was in her 40s when she learned how to golf from her husband, Len, who

passed away 10 years ago.

“Sometimes they needed a fourth when someone would cancel so my husband would bring me along,” said Brown, laughing at the memory. “I love golf. It’s my therapy and I love getting outside.”

Brown, who was born in Ladysmith on Vancouver Island and grew up in Cumberland, credits her small town upbringing for sparking and maintaining her interest in sports and keeping active.

In addition to basketball, as a youth Brown took dance classes of every description, a skill she

introduced to the many physical education students she taught over 37 years in Vancouver and Burnaby.

“I love to dance and to move,” said Brown. “I’ve golfed all around the world — England, Ireland, New Zealand — but I find as I get older travelling is not so easy anymore, though I did go to the Maritimes two years ago on a golf tour.”

Brown believes staying active and eating well are just some of reasons she’s still so healthy. She also drinks a “jigger” of noni juice each morning, a product thought by some to have health benefits, and

completes a morning routine of stretching exercises to stay limber. But, Brown believes, it’s finding happiness and joy in everyday experiences that truly keeps her going.

“And it feels good to bring joy to other people,” said Brown. “I opened the door and introduced myself to our paperboy the other day at 5:30 in the morning and now everyday my paper ends up near the door. Or if I see a woman working a check-out who looks like she’s having a bad day, I’ll say something like, ‘What a lovely ring.’ And she might answer, ‘It was my moth-

er’s.’ It’s the little things you do that make people smile and that brings you joy too.”

Then there’s golf.

Brown tees off twice a week at Fraserview Golf Course in Southeast Vancouver, rain or shine. And if for some reason her golf game is cancelled, the nonagenarian hits the driving range. With two hole-inones under Brown’s belt, it would be easy to assume she plays a pretty mean game. But Brown plays down her talents and suggests those landmark hits were just flukes.

“I was playing a par-

three hole at Ledgeview in Mission and I hit a hole-inone and someone said to me, ‘You just won a trip to Hong Kong,’” said Brown.

“So my husband and I went to China. The other time was at Fraserview and I got my name on a trophy.”

Prior to her 10:30 a.m. tee time at Fraserview Tuesday morning, Brown told the Courier she hoped this day’s game would go well.

“I’m bringing along a girl I used to teach at Killarney and my best friend Rose. I always golf well when Rose is around,” said Brown.

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The Southeast Vancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Centre Society, which promotes arts and culture for seniors by hosting monthly socials, workshops and special events, presents Movie Mondays.

As part of the event, the society offers an inexpensive brunch ($3 donation) and good company starting with a meet and greet from 11 to 11:30 a.m., followed by a movie at 12:20 p.m. (sharp). Another option is to pass on brunch and show up for a coffee at noon before the film.

The society believes loneliness is an unnecessary hurt, so it encourages everyone to pass on information about Movie Mondays to their elderly family members, neighbours and friends. The movie schedule includes Ben Affleck’s Argo Nov. 3, and Chariots of Fire Dec. 1. These movie afternoons are presented in partnership with the Collingwood Policing Centre.

All movies are held in the upstairs lounge of the Champlain Heights Community Centre, 3350 Maquinna Dr. Brunch is limited to the first 30 seniors to register by calling 604-718-6575.

Downtown

A diverse group of Vancouver artists has combined their talents to shed light on the positive impact creativity and movement have on mental wellbeing when living with the trauma of sexual violence, bullying and stress.

Painters, musicians, fashion designers and, of course, dancers, have joined forces for the second annual Stand Up and Dance event Oct. 8 at the Vancouver Fan Club.

Carol Todd, whose daughter Amanda took her life two years ago as a result of relentless on and off-line bullying, will be in attendance to promote the Light Up the World Purple for Mental Health Campaign.

In addition, author, speaker and film maker Gabriella van Rij will share insights from her new book I Can Find My Might and documentary trailer for the soon-to-be released Our Silence is Complicity.

Event host Karen Kobel, a dance instructor and choreographer, organized Stand Up and Dance II to raise awareness of the empowering effects of creativity and to raise funds for her second trip to Kenya where she shares this philosophy with women living with HIV, many of whom contracted the virus through

rape. Kobel has also partnered with the Tembo Trading Education Project to improve the quality of education for more than 800 primary school students in the poorest areas of Kenya.

Stand Up and Dance II takes place Wednesday (tonight) at 1050 Granville St. Doors open at 7 p.m. and a fashion show and dance performance starts at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door or online at kahlena.com/ stand-up-and-dance. For more information visit the Stand Up and Dance Facebook page.

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The health carnival is a project of the Positive Women’s Network, a partnership of women living with and affected by HIV, in partnership with Options for Sexual Health

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This nine-week trial market runs Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., now through Nov. 30 on the grounds of the Pacific National Exhibition. The market will feature many of VFM’s summer vendors with a broad selection of winter produce, including fish, meat, dairy and artisan-prepared food, as well as hot food trucks for shoppers to enjoy.

The flagship Winter Market at Nat Bailey Stadium will continue to run Saturdays beginning Nov. 1 through April 25, 2015.

The addition of the Hastings Park Winter Market means shoppers can shop for fresh, local ingredients all weekend.

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Our drive from Vancouver to Osoyoos through the Fraser Canyon, on the last Friday morning of September, was spectacular. A light rain followed us for much of our five-hour journey along Highway 3, but as we hit the fruit stands and vineyards of the Similkameen Valley and Keremeos the sun came out.

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The vineyards of the Oliver/ Osoyoos region are as famous for their scenery as their award-winning wines. Surrounded by mountain ranges, rivers and lakes on all sides, a visit to an Osoyoos winery is as much about the ambiance as it is the wine tastings, which take place seven days a week. Seriously, you can taste wine in Osoyoos at almost any time, which explains all of the festivals organized to celebrate the grape.

Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre

The Nk’Mip [In-ka-meep] Cultural Centre, the Okanagan’s newest family tourism destination, is a state-of-theart interpretive attraction — and one place visitors can safely come face to face with a Western Rattlesnake. The centre was built on a 50-acre parcel of land surrounded by desert, which even at the end of September resembled a movie set complete with sage and antelope brush.

Visitors can hear the legends of Sen’klip (Coyote) in two multi-sensory theaters and sign up for hiking/rappelling or fishing excursions.

Spectacular metal sculptures

by Virgil “Smoker” Marchand are scattered across the centre’s landscape, including the one that greets visitors upon their arrival.

Accommodation

If it’s inexpensive winter accommodation snowbirds are looking for, they’ll find it in Osoyoos. The weekend of our visit, the Osoyoos Times had almost two-dozen ads offering

everything from a waterfront one bedroom and den for $850 a month to a three bedroom, three bathroom lakeview townhome for $1,300, utilities included. The majority of local hotels and motels also deeply discount their rates during the off season.

Watermark Beach Resort

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salad, wild Pacific sockeye salmon and house made charcuterie. The salad was so good, it transformed my quinoa-loathing partner into a believer.

Sports

Considering the weather forecast for Osoyoos for the second week of October called for temperatures of 22 and 23 °C, it should come as no surprise golf is sometimes offered year- round. But even if golf’s not your thing, there are many other ways to keep active while visiting Osoyoos in the winter, including hiking, cycling, fitness centres, indoor pools and drop-in pickle ball at the Sonora Community Centre.

Elvis Fine Jewellery

Who knew? When jeweller Elvis Furmanek opened his Osoyoos shop years ago, he had no idea it would eventually become a shrine to the King of Rock and Roll. So while you can still purchase

a watch battery, you might also want to pick up an Elvis plate, poster, record, doll, you name it.

Food

Until my first stay in Osoyoos last month, the only knowledge I had of the food scene of this Okanagan town was the drool-inspiring photos I’d seen posted by friends and bloggers I follow on social media. Now that I’ve had the opportunity to visit, my impression is that with all of that wine and bounty of locally-grown ingredients for inspiration, chefs are knocking it out of the ballpark with creative dishes designed specifically to pair with Osoyoos grapes.

Chef Chris Van Hooydonk’s Backyard Farm

During a tour of this storybook farm prior to dinner, Van Hooydonk pointed out the trees supplying the plums and peaches that would make up part of our meal. Unlike

the small, well-groomed trees found at the commercial farms of the region, these heritage species show their age with beautifully gnarled trunks and branches. From logs set against the farm’s kitchen, mushrooms sprouted, which again would be served during what’s called the Chef’s Table.

What Van Hooydonk doesn’t grow, he purchases from local farmers and producers who share his passion for food.

On this night a group of travel writers and I were treated to a salad of organic heirloom tomatoes, organic corn veloute, oven roasted wild boar loin and Earl Grey cheesecake. Enhancing each course was a wine pairing from Moon Curser Vineyards, an award-winning Osoyoos winery that garners its name from the days of the 1860s gold rushes, when miners would attempt to smuggle gold into the U.S. and the full moon would make it that much more difficult. twitter.com/sthomas10

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1 Oct. 8-10, 2014 1. Expect costume changes, songs about bubble baths, a whiff of homoeroticism and plenty of discomfort when dynamic duo Canned Hamm perform a rare hometown show Oct. 9 at the Fox Cabaret. They’ll be joined by a pop-up installment of the live variety show Paul Anthony’s Talent Time. Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat, Scrape and northerntickets.com.

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2. Former frontman of San Francisco pop outfit Girls, Christopher Owens drops by the Biltmore Oct. 8 to play tunes from his new album of countrytinged ballads, A New Testament.

Fellow Californians the Tyde open. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca.

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3. After disbanding five years ago, critically acclaimed Toronto-by-way-ofGuelph indie rockers Constantines are back for a long-awaited victory lap. The band’s reunion tour, which stops at the Commodore Ballroom Oct. 8, coincides with the deluxe 11th anniversary reissue of Shine A Light, which was named one of the top 200 records of the 2000s by the tastemakers at Pitchfork and has been out of print since 2007. Locals Ladyhawk open. Tickets at Red Cat and all Ticketmaster outlets.

4. Writer-director David Robert Mitchell turns the teen horror genre on its ear with It Follows about a malevolent spirit that victims can only escape by passing it on sexually to the next victim. Sounds hot. A hit at Cannes, the film infects the Rio Theatre Oct. 9, 4:30 p.m. in the final days of the Vancouver International Film Festival.

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Arts&Entertainment KUDOS & KVETCHES Under cover, part 3

The third installment of K&K’s mock album cover series featuring municipal politicians leading up to the Nov. 15 election is an homage to Blue Note’s iconic jazz albums of the 1950s and 1960s, Eric Dolphy’s Out to Lunch, in particular.

This time out, our inspiration is NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe, who grew up poor, in case you didn’t know already.

Twin geeks

This week the Internet’s nerdometer nearly busted when it was confirmed that David Lynch’s cult series Twin Peaks will be returning to television for nine episodes in 2016, thus fulfilling Laura Palmer’s prophecy in the show’s final episode, which aired in 1991: “I will see you again in 25 years.”

While Lynch and series co-creator Mark Frost have remained mum on which characters will return or the direction the show will take, one thing is certain, fans will be falling over themselves trying to prove their Twin Peaks devotion and

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knowledge to anyone who will listen or tolerate their Facebook feed. But if you really want to stand out from slobbering hordes, declaring that the series jumped the shark after Laura Palmer’s murder was solved just won’t cut it. Here are a few gems to drop so you can increase your Twin Peaks clout.

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Sunburst noodle also rises EXOTIC JUNK FOOD REVIEW Michael Kissinger

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49 cents per pack at No Frills Country of origin: Unknown What is it: When I was growing up, my mother led me to believe that eating uncooked noodles would give me worms. But these tiny snack packs appear to be just that — crunchy, dry, uncooked noodles — with the added bonus of palm oil, MSG, sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate and delicious malic acid. Oh yeah, and it “may contain fish, crustaceans, milk, peanuts, sesame and mustard.”

In what kind of crazy factory and country did these bad boys originate? Unfortunately an extensive Internet search led nowhere.

Equally unhelpful was the snack food’s Burnaby-based distributor, Toyo, who

Sunburst Noodle Snack comes in BBQ and the questionably branded “Oriental” flavour. PHOTO MICHAEL KISSINGER

didn’t return my email, although its website says it trademarked Sunburst way back in 1974. “This was our

first trademark and over 30 years later [40 years, actually], it is still recognized by consumers as a symbol of

value and quality,” boldly reads the website. “Sunburst products are geared towards Canadian tastes.

They are produced under our exacting standards and offer the best value, without sacrificing quality, for the Canadian market.”

That said, Sunburst bears an uncanny resemblance to the far more popular Monster Noodle Snack from Malaysianbased company Mamee.

However, the imprecision of Sunburst’s ingredients, which are “geared towards Canadian tastes,” also extends to the snack’s branding. While BBQ flavour is a no-brainer, what exactly constitutes “oriental flavour” is a bit of a mystery.

Maybe it’s shorthand for “may contain soy sauce, among other things.”

Verdict: If eating the stale, salty crumbs from the bottom of a chow mein noodle package is your bag, then enjoy. But I’m going to continue to adhere to my mother’s warnings about uncooked noodles and worms. twitter.com/MidlifeMan1

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Osimous goes to Town with Wilder classic THEATRE REVIEW Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

As a young man back in the 1930s, American playwright Thornton Wilder was dissatisfied with the theatre: “I felt that something had gone wrong... I began to feel that the theatre was not only inadequate, it was evasive.”

His artistic reaction to this dissatisfaction was Our Town, premiering in 1938 in Princeton, N.J. — it went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Some of these same concerns are also apparent in the mission statement of Vancouver’s Osimous Theatre — “To change the way people see theatre” — under the artistic direction of actor/director Bob Frazer.

“No curtain, no scenery” were Wilder’s stage directions for Our Town.

When, for example, Mrs. Webb (Dawn Petten) sets the table, we don’t need to see plates. And when the

newspaper boy throws the paper, there doesn’t have to be a paper. What Wilder suggested were a couple of tables, two ladders and a handful of chairs; Osimous has followed his directive with very few additions.

As with the critically acclaimed Hedda Gabler, presented last year by Osimous Theatre in the West End’s Roedde House, Frazer seats the audience right inside the action on a collection of old sofas, upholstered chairs and a couple of rows of stacking chairs. And so we not only witness the lives of the some of the men, women and children of Grover’s Corners, N.H. in 1901, 1904 and 1913, we feel we live there, too.

In Our Town, Wilder celebrates ordinary people leading ordinary lives: Dr. Gibbs (Craig Erickson), his wife Julia (Quelemia Stacey Sparrow) and their son George (Chris Cope); newspaper editor Mr. Webb (John Shaw), his wife Myrtle (Dawn Petten) and their daughter Emily (Lauren Jackson). Frazer plays the

Osimous Theatre’s “homespun” take on Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is in keeping with the playwright’s inclusionary approach to theatre.

Stage Manager, stepping in and out of the fourth wall.

There are no big moments in Our Town, no revelations, no twists and turns, no real conflicts (and definitely no sex or violence), and so

we rely completely on the performers to make these characters come alive and interesting in spite of the smallness of their lives. And they do: Erickson’s hardworking family doctor hides

his feelings behind a gruff façade; Sparrow shows the longing Mrs. Gibbs has to visit Paris; Petten lets us see what heartbreak Mrs. Webb suffers when Emily marries and leaves home. Small moments in small lives are made engaging through skillful, committed performance.

Six actors including John Shaw and pianist/violinist Varya Rubin play multiples roles as well as producing sound effects for water being pumped, the clip-clopping of the milkman’s horse Bessie, the lonely sound of a faraway train, for example.

Act 3 is mostly Emily’s, and Jackson’s performance is outstanding. Barefoot and open-hearted, Jackson passionately argues Wilder’s point: life is wasted on the living. I’ve never completely been comfortable with Our Town’s conclusion; Emily seems unaccountably eager to return to the land of the dead after a brief return to Grover’s Corners; she has, after all, had a full, rich life.

But I appreciate that we are often too busy to look at the stars, hear the wind in the

trees or smell lilacs on a rainy day. Wilder suggests we should stop “spending and wasting time.” Life is precious. No argument there.

Nevertheless, I loved this production; it’s so “homespun” you can imagine apple pie cooling on the windowsills; the smell of manure left by Bessie, the milkman’s horse; the sound of laundry flapping in the wind. From the moment you enter this church hall-cum-theatre and mill about with the rest of the audience and the actors before the show and again during the two intermissions, it’s inclusive, familiar and as comfortable as an old sofa. While our own town often feels soulless, Our Town feels like a warm and welcoming community.

That’s what Osimous is all about; we are, after all, in this together.

Our Town runs until Oct. 18 at First Christian Reformed Church (2670 Victoria Dr.).

For tickets, call 1-800-8383006 or go to osimous.com.

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Notre Dame (1-1, 1-2) won its first game of the season in a high-scoring dogfight against the Belmont Bulldogs. Tied at 21 apiece at the half, the Jugglers pulled out a 49-35 win on the road at Victoria’s Goudy Turf on Oct. 3.

Vancouver College (1-1, 0-3) dropped a third straight game against a team at the top of the Western Conference standings, this time to a new rival. The Fighting Irish lost 37-22 to undefeated South Delta at O’Hagan Field on Oct. 4. The Sun Devils moved up to AA from AAA this season and have established themselves as a B.C. championship contender.

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Chalk up a clutch win for the Hamber Griffins (0-1, 1-0) against a team that had their number all last year.

The Griffins shut out Timberline 26-0 in Campbell River on Oct. 4.

With the win — its first over the Wolves — Hamber finds itself in new territory near the top of the standings, tied with Earl Marriott with two points.

3 1. Tyler Leonard chases down a loose ball at Cloverdale Athletic Park on Sept. 6. 2. David Malamura sidesteps defenders and keeps his balance in an early season game in the Vancouver Metro Soccer League. PHOTOS GORD GOBLE 3. Croatia Soccer Club won the 1985 Canadian club championship. This week, they return to nationals for the first time in 30 seasons.

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ANIMAL RITES Since being introduced at Langara College last season, the Falcons’ falcon was nameless. Now, following a student vote, the mascot has a name. Meet Flash.

The name beat out “Flex” and “Fletcher.” We liked carnivorous flying raptor, but it wasn’t on the list. The Falcons women’s soccer team sits third in the PacWest with five wins, three draws and three losses. They host Vancouver Island University at 1 p.m.

Oct. 11. The men sit fifth out of six teams with a 3-2-6 record.

They welcome the league-leading VIU Mariners at 3 p.m. Oct. 11.

It has been nearly three decades since Croatia SC has anticipated as big a Thanksgiving weekend as this one coming up.

The East Vancouver men’s soccer club plays its first game today in Vaughan, Ont. to represent British Columbia at the Canadian Soccer Association’s National Club Championships. Last spring, Croatia SC earned their berth in this year’s Challenge Trophy tournament by upsetting defending champions Surrey United Firefighters 1-0 in the B.C. Provincial Cup final at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex.

Unlike most of their provincial counterparts from across Canada, Croatia SC has had to wait nearly five months to compete for a national title since they qualified. For head coach Tony Francisco and his side, the time has been filed with preparation on the soccer pitch and off of it with plenty of fundraising.

“We got a few different players, but the chemistry is still the same as last year,” said Francisco. “We trained for about a month and a half to two months before the season started, with a few exhibition games.”

Part of Croatia SC’s preparation was embarking on their 2014-15 Premier Division campaign in the Vancouver Metro Soccer League last month. Despite a win, a draw, and two

defeats to start the new season, Francisco does not think his team’s early league results will affect their performances at nationals.

“As a team, we’re still trying to get blended in with each other and get a good feeling,” he said. “A lot of the guys that are going to the nationals have not played in the league, so it will be a little bit of a different team from the guys that have played this season, but I think we’re OK. We’re confident.”

As they prepare to take on the country’s best men’s amateur soccer teams, the select edition of Croatia SC represents a club that has been part of the city’s soccer scene for more than half a century.

Founded in 1961 by community organizer Djuro Djurkovic, Croatia SC claimed its first Provincial Cup title in 1970.

Yet, for those closest to the club, the dynasty years of the mid-1980s are what live long in the memory. In 1985 and 1986, Croatia SC went on an unbeaten run of 54 consecutive wins. It was in 1985 when the club followed its second Provincial Cup title with its first and only Canadian championship crown when the side defeated Montreal Elio Blues 3-0 in the Challenge Trophy final in Edmonton, Alta.

The 1985 triumph was a special moment for Rudi Gasparac, who was in his first season with the club as an 18-year-old midfielder.

“I remember really lousy weather in Edmonton and a very partisan crowd in the semifinals when we played Edmonton Ital-Canadians,” Gasparac said.

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1 1. DeMar DeRozan burns through the Kings defence to drive the lane. PHOTO ROB NEWELL 2. NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas runs a clinic at Notre Dame secondary on Sept. 4. The clinic for 76 boys and girls focused on developing basketball fundamentals. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT 3. Zachary Lee, a Vancouver College student, brings water to DeMar DeRozan on the Toronto Raptors bench. He also rebound balls during the Raptors warmup. PHOTO ROB NEWELL

For three days last week, the NBA blitzed Vancouver.

Legendary (and still polarizing) point guard Isiah Thomas led a clinic at Notre Dame secondary, NBA Canada poured $65,000 to improve an aging gym at Strathcona community centre, and then the Toronto Raptors played the Sacramento Kings in an exhibition game at Rogers Arena.

The halftime entertainment was a scrimmage between two Strathcona basketball teams. The players were six to eight years old. Of course, the crowd was into it.

The hard-core fans — knowledgeable about the sport and frantic to see it live at home — brought

the house down as if the preseason NBA game was a post-season clincher. The sell-out crowd of 18,630 came early and stayed late to appreciate the hardwood before it was lifted off the ice and used again by the Canucks.

The teal shock of vintage Grizzlies jerseys stood out in a sea of red (and some purple) as Vancouver seemed to embrace the Raptors’ message: we can all cheer for a Toronto team. The Blue Jays had already made it so.

The Raptors pulled off a 99-94 win after letting the lead slip away briefly in the fourth quarter.

Toronto guard DeMar DeRozan led all players with 21 points.

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Continued from page 27 “They had a bunch of semi-pro guys that played there and they were the favourites coming into it all.”

To qualify for the championship final, Croatia SC was leading 1-0 when he was issued a red card in the 58th minute, leaving his side with 10 men. The Edmonton hosts scored to draw even before Croatia scored the go-ahead goal. But what no one forgets is the first goal of the game.

“Our goalkeeper Brian Kennedy punched the ball out at the top of our 18-yard box, and on the hard ground, the wind took it down the field, where their keeper came out of his goal,” said Gasparac. “The ball went over his head and in for the winning goal. It was a very tense game — at times controversial — but that game stands out, even after 29 years.”

An Edmonton Journal sportswriter called it “the flukiest of goals” in a story headlined “Ital bounced by bizarre goal.”

Croatia SC’s 2014 quest to win a second Challenge Trophy title begins with two matches versus Atlantic Canada opposition. Drawn in Group B, they start their tournament versus New Brunswick’s Fredericton Picaroons on Oct. 5 before taking on Nova Scotia champions Dartmouth United Golden Goal on

Oct. 7. Depending on their group results, Croatia SC will play three more games at nationals over the weekend and potentially on Thanksgiving Monday.

The Canadian club championship will not only bring challenging opposition, but also a test of endurance for Francisco’s squad. “Tournaments are always tough when you’re playing five games in six days. It’s necessary to have a big squad,” he said.

“We’ve got 18 guys going and I would like to try and rotate them as much as I can to keep them fresh, but obviously, it all depends on how the games go. If they’re tough, I may have to stick with the starting lineup.”

Former Canadian U-19 and Vancouver Whitecaps FC striker Johnny Sulentic will captain Croatia SC at nationals. Fully aware of the success of the 1985 squad, the 34-year-old is determined to add a new chapter to the club’s rich history.

“We want to bring that legacy back and have our own legacy of 2014 and let people 30 years from now talk about the 2014 team,” said Sulentic.

— with reporting from Megan Stewart.

Simon Fudge has covered the beautiful game in Canada and the United Kingdom for print, web and radio. He supports Bristol City FC. Reach him at bristol_city@hotmail..

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