Vancouver Courier February 11 2015 by Vancouver Courier

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February 11 2015 Vol. 106 No. 11

OPINION 10

Geller on affordable housing URBAN SENIOR 8

Memories of war STATE OF THE ARTS 17

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Vancouver won the Games A giant block party, pride and a great transit line our legacy from ﬁve years ago JOCK AND JILL Megan Stewart

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KEYS TO THE FUTURE Pianist Parisa Yee performs composer Cornelius Gurlitt’s “Dancing on the Green” during Saturday’s Strawberry & Tea recital as part of Vanier Park’s fourth annual Winter Wander open house. See story on page 14. PHOTOGRAPH BY REBECCA BLISSETT

Giant screen to add ‘vibrancy’ Media screen proposed for Telus Garden would showcase video art and community programing

Naoibh O’Connor

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Plans for a giant media screen that would be lowered each night at dusk for several hours on the side of the Telus Garden ofﬁce building will be presented at an open house Wednesday. Henriquez Partners Architects has applied on behalf of Westbank Corp. and Telus for an amendment to the city’s sign bylaw to allow for the screen. Measuring 7.5 by 11 metres, if approved it would appear on the west facade of the building at 520 West Georgia St., facing Seymour Street, between the 16th and 18th ﬂoors where the so-called “sky garden” protrudes from the building. The screen would be retractable and drop down in the evening hours from dusk to

11 p.m. daily, according to the proposal, which notes it will use rear projection technology that’s only viewable in low-light conditions and it “will showcase video art and community programming and announcements, with limited brand recognition for businesses at Telus Garden.” The media screen has always been part of the general plans for the Telus Garden development with the understanding that its approval required an amendment to the sign bylaw. “The screen drops from the inside of the glass on the 18th floor,” explained Rhiannon Mabberley, Westbank’s development manager for Telus Garden. A view-line study was completed, according to Mabberley, who said there are no residential towers with a sightline directly into Telus Garden at the 16th floor. The tower directly across is Scotia Tower. “Obviously, it’s also an office building and they have the biggest direct sightline into the tower, if you will, at the 16th level and there’s no residential directly facing that building,” she said. “It’s

meant to be for the beneﬁt of pedestrians to really add some vibrancy to the skyline. If you think of Vancouver on a wet Wednesday night and you’re walking home in the middle of winter, it’s pretty bleak. There’s not a lot of interest. So we created this as a way to add an interesting fabric to the urban realm.” Mabberley said they’ve looked to partner with schools such as the Vancouver Film School and Emily Carr to provide content for the media screen. “We’re really in the very beginning process of partnering with those people to create a program whereby students could create content for the screen,” Mabberley said. “The screen, of course, is not approved by the City of Vancouver today, so don’t have a lot of information to go forward with, but should it be approved, that’s our intent.” While the application proposes the possibility of “limited brand recognition” Mabberley said the screen is not meant to be a billboard or advertising venture, but there can be a cost for creating content. Continued on page 5

In Vancouver’s short modern history, lifelong residents recognize the city’s coming-of-age as a kind of biblical Before and After. We were one thing Before Expo ’86 and we were another After. Three decades later, many agree. On the timeline of our post-colonial city, we can pencil in a thick line for the year of the World’s Fair. The initially small-scale transportation expo cost billions of dollars and was called the “biggest single catalyst for the dramatic change in the city.” The north shore of False Creek became the prototype for our city of glass, design grew sky-high where wood frames couldn’t follow. The SkyTrain delivered the suburbs downtown, and the futuristic geodesic dome turned into the post-cardpretty landmark of our future. More than 22 million people stopped by. The world came to visit and never left, as the joke went by Mike Harcourt, the city’s mayor at the time. Five years this month after Vancouver 2010, can we say the same thing about the Olympic Winter Games? Did a brief, intense ﬁxation with red mittens change us? Here’s what happened in the years since VANOC became a household name.

We came through

Vancouver 2010 was an abject failure before it ever started. International headlines declared it so. We had no snow. The Athletes’ Village was still under construction. And then the high-speed, accidental death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili took our breath away as we paused for a terrible moment of silence. How to go on? In Canada’s respectful way, under the watchful eye and inescapable coercion of the IOC. The mourning shroud lifted as the sun came out and the Robson Square zip line wait times surpassed an hour. The Bay sold out of red mittens. The Times of London described the scene as “joyful.” We were “modern,” “beautiful,” “an amazing party town.” Yahoo.com wrote, “…it’s the people that power the movement. The Canadian people pushed these games back from the brink of disaster and right off into history.” Salon, famously, announced: “These were the best Winter Games ever.” Continued on page 20

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NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball, who is a co-owner of a lighting company, says the city has too many bright lights. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Bright lights, big city and Columbo Councillor worried about city’s bright lights owns lighting company

12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Hey all you people of my generation, remember that great TV series Columbo? That’s right, the one starring Peter Falk as a homicide investigator with the Los Angeles Police Department. I was reminded of the show and the character last week when I got easily bafﬂed by a motion successfully brought before council by NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball on how Vancouver should tone down all those bright lights in the big city. Yep, Columbo meets city hall. Weird connection, right? Let me explain: Way back in my days at journalism school, I had a prof who referred to Columbo when teaching us young students how to ask questions. If you watch the show, he would say, you’ll see a puzzled Columbo (in a trenchcoat, of course) scratching his head and chomping on a stogie while slowly and deftly articulating a line of questioning that eventually helps him solve the case. A clever and deceptive approach. So there I was last week,

scratching my head over Ball’s motion and wanting to go into full Columbo mode. The reason: In the councillor’s statement of disclosure, which each member of council is required to file every January, Ball lists she has one or more shares in Lightscene Ventures Inc. and Eos Lightmedia Corp. In fact, Ball is the co-owner of Eos Lightmedia Corp. So, I ask you my fellow detectives, doesn’t it seem odd that a person who moved a motion to tone down the lighting in the city also happens to have a lighting design company that has done work for Telus World of Science, the Southeast False Creek Energy Centre and B.C. Place Stadium? Apparently, it’s not odd at all, according to Ball, whom I interviewed under the lights of the council chambers’ lobby. And, she added, there is no conflict in her moving such a motion. “There is no way I could benefit in any way from not putting light in the sky,” she answered when I asked if this put her in a conflict. “I’ll benefit like the rest of the world. It’s not about fixtures, or selling fixtures or anything like that, it is about the correct use of light.” I didn’t really understand Ball’s answer. Maybe it was my line of questioning. So I asked her if the companies could be consulted in city staff’s work to develop an outdoor light strategy. After all, Ball’s motion requests staff to consult with a variety of folks, including “lighting designers.”

“No, not unless they were invited by the city as one of the hundreds of designers in the city who deal in this aspect but — no,” she replied. “There couldn’t possibly be a conflict in suggesting that you shield lights.” Right, I said, but then wouldn’t you need a company/consultant/expert to say how to shield lights? “Actually, there are hundreds of thousands of them all over the world working towards the same thing that I’m talking about. So this is not any one specific company, person or anything. This is a universal need that has been expressed by medical professionals, as well as lighting professionals.” I guess I should have been more specific. All I wanted to know is whether Lightscene Ventures — a company she has “a small share in” — and Eos, which she co-owns, could potentially gain from her motion. I tried one more time. Her answer: “I have no ability to influence or effect anyone who is hired at the city — and no councillor does or should.” She emphasized the purpose of her motion was to develop a strategy to control “harmful” outdoor lighting, which can have detrimental effects on humans, animals and birds. Anyway, that’s all I’ve got. You can read Ball’s lengthy motion on the city’s website by going to the council page. Search for the Feb. 3 council meeting. Columbo re-runs, meanwhile, can be viewed on YouTube. twitter.com/Howellings

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Screen designed to showcase video art

Continued from page 1 “What we’ve allow for tenants in the building only is if you want to create content for the screen, you’d have the opportunity to show your logo in a very controlled way for a small percentage of time,” she said. Some large signs/billboards have been controversial over the years. The Terry Fox Plaza advertising screens

interesting to call it a sign because it’s a big projection screen that was integrated into the building and was reviewed when the rezoning went forward to council. So the intent was always there and the content on it was not going to be for advertising purposes. It’s to display about 90 per cent of cultural [content]…. It isn’t an advertising sign. About 10

“The screen drops from the inside of the glass on the 18th ﬂoor.” –Rhiannon Mabberley sparked complaints from neighbours bothered by the light and visual pollution. And, after years of legal battles, the city forced the owners of the Lee Building at Main and Broadway to remove the large advertising sign atop that building. Jane Pickering, deputy director of planning, said the Lee sign was an illegal sign on top of a building, which isn’t permitted in Vancouver. “That’s what that was about. This is not about that,” she said. “It’s

per cent of it would be for city usage. So, if the City of Vancouver want to put up something that we’re doing with civic events it could utilize the sign.” Pickering said the city is still looking into whether or not there should be opportunities for acknowledgment of sponsors on the screen. The Telus Garden media screen open house runs from 5 to 8 p.m., Feb. 11 at the Westin Grand Hotel in the Allegro boardroom, 433 Robson Street. twitter.com/naoibh

An open house about a proposal for a large media screen, which would operate in the evening hours on the side of the Telus Garden office building, runs from 5 to 8 p.m., Feb. 11. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Yes forces kick off plebiscite campaign Transportation coalition includes 90 different organizations

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Environmentalist David Suzuki joined more than 300 people from unions, business, health and education circles Feb. 5 in packed a downtown university building to kick off a campaign to urge Metro Vancouverites to vote Yes in the spring plebiscite on transit and transportation. Suzuki didn’t speak but watched from the front row of a conference room at Simon Fraser University’s Segal Building on Granville Street as the CEO of his foundation, Peter Robinson, and other staff members spoke in favour of a 0.5 per cent tax hike to help pay for a $7.5-billion plan devised by the region’s mayors to cut congestion. “I can’t remember an instance where such a diverse group from across this region came together for a single issue,” said Robinson, one of four co-chairpersons for the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, which represents more than 90 organizations. The David Suzuki Foundation had the biggest voice at the rally, with two of Robinson’s staff members addressing the crowd in Chinese, Mandarin and Punjabi while the event was emceed by former COPE executive director Alvin Singh, who now works for the foundation. Standing on a stage with supporters holding Yes

Environmentalist David Suzuki joined more than 300 people at a downtown university building Feb. 5 to kick off a coalition’s campaign to support a Yes vote in the spring plebiscite on transit and transportation. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

signs, Robinson said the foundation’s research has shown the transportation sector consistently ranks as one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. “We believe that improving transit and transportation is the most effective response we can make to climate change in this region,” he said, noting one million people are expected to put more pressure on the environment as they move into the region over the next 30 years. “One million more residents, in the absence of an effective transit system, is 600,000 more cars. Clearly, doing nothing

is not an option.” Dr. Victoria Lee, the interim chief medical health officer for Fraser Health, stressed the health benefits of getting people out of their cars and predicted a reduction in injuries and deaths related to traffic accidents, if fewer vehicles were on the road. Lee cited a recent study conducted by local health authorities that showed transit users, cyclists and pedestrians are 36 per cent less likely to be overweight than motorists. “I encourage everyone to vote Yes for health,” said Lee, noting more transit options, including the mayors’ call for more frequent Han-

dyDart service, will beneﬁt people who require access to health services. Bahareh Jokar, vicepresident of external affairs for Alma Mater Society of UBC, spoke to the crowd on behalf of what she said was more than 135,000 post secondary students in the region who use transit. Jokar said a Yes vote in the spring plebiscite is important to shaping the future of the region, where transportation choices would be sustainable and meet the demands of population growth. “With post secondary students, faculty and staff living in every corner of our

region, we all beneﬁt from a robust and accessible transit and transportation network,” she said. In taking questions from reporters about voters’ concerns about TransLink and whether the organization will be trusted to spend the money on the mayors’ plan, Gavin McGarrigle, B.C area director of Unifor, which represents bus drivers, acknowledged the public’s concerns but said the plebiscite is not about how the transit agency is governed; only two mayors sit on the TransLink, which meets privately. “Instead of getting distracted by issues that aren’t even on the ballot, we can join together,” said McGarrigle, adding that the mayors’ plan will be audited annually. Iain Black, CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade, pointed out it was “rare” to have the majority of mayors agree to a plan and have the provincial government agree to legislated safeguards to ensure the money is directed to the plan. Black is a former provincial Liberal cabinet minister and one of the four co-chairpersons of the transit and transportation coalition. Black characterized the No campaign — led by the No TransLink Tax group that calls for the plan to be paid from future growth revenue in municipalities instead of a tax hike — as spreading “speculative cynicism.” The No campaign has called TransLink a wasteful organization and

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GIMME SHELTER Vancouverites try to keep dry outside the Royal Centre on Georgia Street. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER Woman dies after being hit by SUV

Police are investigating a fatal accident Monday night involving a pedestrian at East Sixth Avenue and Keith Drive near the VCC-Clark SkyTrain Station. Shortly after 11 p.m., police found a 51 year-old woman who had been struck by a vehicle. She was taken to hospital and later died from her injuries. The driver of the sport utility vehicle remained at the scene and is cooperating with police. The darkness and wet weather likely contributed to the collision. Police say speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors. Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to call the VPD Collision Investigation Unit at 604-717-3012. This is Vancouver’s third trafﬁc-related fatality in 2015.

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One veteran watching with interest was Annie “Mary” Hokonson, who sported an army cap and chest full of medals representing her time served in the Second World War during which she served in Canada, Holland and Germany. Hokonson joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in 1942, and while she started her army career as a waitress in the ofﬁcer’s mess in Vancouver Barracks, she ended it serving overseas in Holland and Germany. On the Memory Project’s website, Hokonson writes about boarding a ship in Halifax, which took three weeks to get to England. “We were evidently the ﬁrst troop ship to go through the English Channel and we docked in London, which was being bombed at the time, and I thought to myself after

spending 21 days on that water, I don’t want it to be bombed before I get off this ship,” Hokonson wrote in part. “So it was quite a relief to get on a train and head for Aldershot, where we were stationed until we got our postings to various companies in England, and I was sent to London to 50 Company.” Senior project manager Jill Paterson said the organization seeks to

offer representation from all Canadian tours and conﬂicts to ensure the next generation of young Canadians can continue to learn about this country’s military history. To that end, the Memory Project is actively recruiting Canadian Forces personnel still serving and veterans to join their community of volunteers. Visit thememoryproject.com for more information. twitter.com/sthomas10

More than 30 veterans received certificates of appreciation from the Memory Project Feb. 3 at a special ceremony held at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre on Hastings Street, including Ernest “Peter” Bone, Michael Harvey, Poldi Meindl, George McLean, Shirley Ridalls, Paul Richards, Svend Hansen, Gordon Mumford, Ann Styles, Orme Payne, Dennis Kirkpatrick-Crockett, Jim Harris, Margaret McKay, Jack Purdie, Keith Lang, Helmut Lemke, Boyd Affleck, William Booth, Frank Leighton, Art Lang, Ernie Poignant, Karl Charest, Bill Cameron, George Anderson, Margaret Kury, Noel Butcher, Jean Hubbard, Bonna Young and John Lees.

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Opinion How to make housing Feathers should fly over Jurassic blunder more affordable Matthew Claxton Columnist mclaxton@langleyadvance.com Jurassic World, the latest sequel/reboot/re-imagining of the Jurassic Park series, premieres this June. I may very well be outside the theatre with a protest sign, and it will read “Feathers Not Scales!” Plus as many exclamation points as I can fit on the posterboard. Let’s go back a little bit. To the first Jurassic Park film in 1993, to the 1990 novel by Michael Crichton, and back before that, too. Way back, to Victorian England, and the Great Exhibition of 1851. During this world’s fair-style event, Victorian Londoners got their first view of one of the newest/oldest wonders of the Earth — dinosaurs! A series of life-sized sculptures had been created of iguanodon, megalosaurus and hylaeosaurus. There were also an aquatic ichthyosaurus in a pond, pterodactyls and a giant sloth. All of them were utterly wrong. The dinosaurs, in particular, looked bizarre. The iguanodons were sprawled giant lizards. The predatory megalosaurus was a hump-backed quadruped, a sort of crocodile-hyena hybrid, not the two-legged beast it was in reality. And of course, all the dinosaurs had scales. “Saur” means reptile, right? What we should have realized sooner was that birds are dinosaurs. From the discovery of Archaeopteryx in the early 1860s, some scientists realized it was closely related to dinosaurs, but also clearly an early bird. It took until the 1970s for most scientists to accept this link, during the Dinosaur Renaissance, a huge change in how dinosaurs were seen. Researchers like John Ostrom dug up new fossils and re-imagined existing dinosaurs. No longer were they tail-dragging lunkheads, now they were fast-running, maybe warm-blooded hunters and herbivores. And here’s where we get to Jurassic Park. Real velociraptors were small animals, somewhere around the size of a turkey or a mangy underfed coyote. And they were definitely feathered — we’ve found a lot of their relatives with

Real velociraptors were small animals, somewhere around the size of a turkey or a mangy, underfed coyote.

feathers fossilized in place, and we’ve found tiny knobs on velociraptor arm bones where quills for large feathers were attached. The “raptors” in Jurassic Park were based more on critters like the related, but larger deinonychus. When Crichton first wrote the book, only a few people believed that various raptor-relatives were feathered. By the late 1990s, when the last in the trio of Jurassic Park films hit theatres, it was gaining acceptance. A few years later, it was fully confirmed. Pretty much every paleontologist now agrees on this. Documentaries and illustrations show feathered raptors, even feathered Tyrannosaurus rexes. But the director of Jurassic World doesn’t want to have accurate dinosaurs. Nope, they’re going to be the same scaly lizardish critters from the first movie. Why? Why can’t hundreds of artists and animators come up with a scary feathered dinosaur? Wolves and hyenas and tigers are fuzzy-wuzzy, but perfectly frightening in films. This is extra disappointing because Jurassic Park, book and movie, embraced the Dinosaur Renaissance. They were among the first big pop culture hits to feature fast-moving, warm-blooded animals rather than the tail-draggers of the 1950s and ’60s. Jurassic World will probably be fun. But it could be better. It could go back to the roots of the first movie, and mix the best knowledge of its time with a thrilling adventure story. And frankly, if you can’t make a fun movie with realistic dinosaurs, you don’t deserve to be in the movie-making business. twitter.com/langleyadvance

Michael Geller Columnist michaelarthurgeller@gmail.com “Vancouver will always be an expensive place to live. However, with innovative planning and financing ideas, we can create more affordable housing choices throughout the region.” So read the announcement for last week’s talk at Simon Fraser University. Titled “12 Affordable Housing Ideas for Vancouver,” it examined housing designs and financing programs from around the world that should have a place in Metro Vancouver. While I was pleased that more than 230 people showed up, I was disappointed that Green Coun. Adriane Carr was the only Metro Vancouver politician in attendance. To broaden affordable housing choices in the region, we need local politicians to better understand available options and approve zoning changes to make them happen. Hopefully, the numerous municipal planners and others in attendance will pass on to the politicians what they saw and heard, as urged by SFU city program director Gordon Price in his closing remarks. During the question-and-answer period, Coun. Carr asked a number of good questions on how best to fund future growth and gain community support for zoning changes. Before repeating my answers to her questions, here are a few of the 12 ideas I presented. Many of us grew up in three-bedroom houses of less than 1000 square feet However today’s new houses are significantly larger. It is time to reinvent the past and build smaller detached houses on smaller lots. In some cases, it would make sense to subdivide 50-foot-wide lots into two 25foot lots as they are doing in Seattle. Laneway houses and coach houses, as they are sometimes called, provide an attractive new housing choice for many households. However, not everyone wants to be a renter. Under certain circumstances, laneway houses should be available for sale, especially on larger corner lots or single family lots with character houses. All new houses in Vancouver have sideyards on both sides. However, often one or both side-yards are rarely used. To make better use of land, we should modify zoning bylaws to allow houses with just one side-yard. In planning terms, this is

known as zero lot-line housing. Duplexes are attractive forms of housing for many households. They combine two units side-by-side, up and down or front and back. However, purchasers often do not realize they are strata-title developments. For those wanting to avoid this legal arrangement, semi-detached housing, where each house sits on its own lot, would be an attractive option. Many people would consider moving into a townhouse; however, they do not want to live in a condominium and have to deal with a strata council. A fee-simple townhouse, where each unit sits on its own legal lot avoids condominium ownership. While popular around the world, our zoning and subdivision bylaws generally discourage this housing form. For those who cannot afford a townhouse but do not want to live in an apartment, a stacked-townhouse could be the answer. A popular housing form in Toronto, it is in limited supply here. With one townhouse stacked above another, this housing form meets the needs of those not minding stairs and appreciating having their own front door at the street. While we tend to think of ownership and rental as the only two tenure options, there are other choices. Shared-equity ownership is a hybrid model that combines the advantages of both. Life-lease ownership allows someone to purchase a home at a lower price on the understanding that there will not be price appreciation. The Performing Arts Lodge at Bayshore in Coal Harbour is an excellent example of how effectively this can work. To reduce housing costs we need to rethink how we ﬁnance growth. Under the current system, new home buyers are often subsidizing social housing and other amenity costs that should really be shared by more taxpayers over time. Local Improvement Charges or long-term Bond Financing could be more equitable funding approaches. To help neighbourhoods understand and accept new housing forms, it would be helpful to build demonstration projects. Often the only way to appreciate these housing ideas is to see on-theground examples. While Vancouver will never be as affordable as Winnipeg, with government support, these housing ideas could improve affordability for many local residents. twitter.com/michaelgeller

The week in num6ers...

In storeys, the height of a 7.5by-11 metre screen proposed for the side of the new Telus Gardens building.

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The number of organizations that make up the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, which is urging Metro Vancouver residents to vote Yes in the upcoming plebiscite.

The approximate number of people who turned out for a rally at SFU’s downtown campus last week in support of voting Yes in the upcoming plebiscite.

In metres, the length of gardens CP crews have ripped up along the Arbutus Corridor. After winning a court case, CP resumed clearing the land Feb. 10.

The number of separate events and performances announced so far for the Northwest Comedy Fest running Feb. 12 to 21 across the city.

The number of points scored by the Churchill Bulldogs in a win over defending champs Britannia Bruins to win the first senior girls basketball title in the school’s history.

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Inbox LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Province not principal Family Day funds provider

Re: “Vancouver’s top ﬁve Family Day events,” Feb. 4. I would like to make a correction about the report regarding the ﬁnancing of our Family Day event at Trout Lake Community Centre. To clarify, the Grandview Community Centre Association (GCCA) provided the majority of the funding for this event. We do appreciate the approximate eight per cent of the Family Day budget the provincial government put towards the activities in the form of a grant. The dedicated volunteer board members on the GCCA work tirelessly for the Trout Lake community on the Family Day event (as well as many other events throughout the year) by creating a budget, hiring staff, organizing performers and activities as well as volunteering at the event. Also, the Vancouver Park Board staff work in partnership with the association to make these events successful. It is important for our community to know that the fees they pay for programs are re-invested into the community through events such as Family Day. Beth Beeching, Grandview Community Centre Association

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Vancouver Opera House opens doors

Feb. 9, 1891: The city’s very first live entertainment venue made its grand premiere with a performance of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. The ornate, 1,200seat venue at 765 Granville St. was financed by the Canadian Pacific Railway at a cost of $200,000 in exchange for land concessions and soon became the centerpiece of the burgeoning Theatre Row district. The theatre was sold in 1911 to U.S.-based Sullivan and Considine and later was turned into a movie theatre. It was eventually demolished in 1969 to make way for Pacific Centre mall.

Lumber baron gives $8M to UBC

Feb, 10, 1965: Lumber magnate Harvey Reginald “H. R.” MacMillan donates a whopping $8.2 million to the University of British Columbia for postgraduate education. The 79-year-old graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College (then part of the University of Toronto) in 1906 with a degree in biology and received an honorary degree from UBC in 1950. Both the “Modern Tudor” H.R. MacMillan Building, featuring brown bricks with Gothic-like pilasters and ornamentation built two years later, and the H.R. MacMillan Theological Library were named in the late philanthropist’s honour.

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City more sneaky than sloppy with Yaletown land swap

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Re: “Sloppy city hall led to Yaletown ruling,” Feb. 6. “Sloppy” this was clearly not. In fact, as every new detail has emerged by painstaking FOI request and ultimately through Supreme Court petition, it has been shown to be a story of a supremely calculated effort to defraud the public through the disposal of public land at an unbid, ﬁresale price. The fact that the city (using taxpayer dollars) fought for a year to block disclosure and then to argue on behalf of the developer in court is proof that democracy has died in Vancouver. We all know who runs city hall, and it is not the voters and certainly not even taxpayers. The 99, via Comments section

In Coach Gourley’s corner

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Re: “‘Always putting kids ﬁrst,’” Feb. 4. I cried when I read this. I am Jeff’s life partner and I have watched this man give everything he’s got for no reason other than he feels compelled to give what he, himself received when he played as a kid. What you may not know is that when we ﬁrst moved into this neighbourhood 15 years ago, he began coaching at the local elementary school, Livingstone, when he heard from our daughter (who was a student there) that they were only going to have a boys basketball team although more girls showed up for the tryouts than boys. He walked over there and said, “I’ll coach the girls 6/7 team.” Which he did for two years. Then he moved over to Tupper secondary, where he has coached for 12 years. Jeff built a basketball program at that school. He built a name for that school. He inspired the Tupper Tigers to win the city championships two years running (2011/12 and again in 2014). He has taken them to provincials. At this very moment, as I type, Jeff came in to tell me the Tupper Tigers are number one in the province! This past Monday night, he was hon-

Re: “Top 5 things to do in Vancouver tonight: Feb. 7, 2015,” online only Thank you so much for sharing the double feature event. Most of After Film School was actually shot with a camera that I was only able to afford because of a London Drugs gift card we won for the Vancouver Courier’s Vancouver Minute video contest a year ago! Joel Ashton McCarthy, via Facebook

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Re: “The Tragically Hip play Fully Completely in its entirety,’” online only. I lived in Canada for 10 years and have always appreciated Canadian music but this band has got to be THE worst band to go mainstream. (Well, OK, only in Canada.) The lead singer sounds like he’s gargling, yodeling and trying to sing all at once. Buskey, via Reddit ••• We didn’t buy tickets for this tour because the last couple times we saw them, ol’ Gord was just too wacky and we left a bit disappointed. Jim MacDonald, via Facebook

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oured for what he has done for countless boys and young men through his years of coaching. A small group of parents were inspired to honour him. It was so beautiful. The boys mobbed him with hugs. And, to be perfectly honest, I was stunned to see so few teachers at the event. One. One teacher. Not one person from the athletic dept. No speech from the principal, no thank you card. So I’m writing to say thank you for seeing the invisible guy. What I see is that you see him. The teaching beyond the tech skills, the love and beyond the call of duty that he brings. Thank you for taking the time to speak to his past and present players about what his impact has been on their lives. Anita Roberts, via Comments section

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Strawberry & Tea recital part of Winter Wander at Vanier Park

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1. Vancouver Academy of Music student Princeton Wong performs composer Ferdinando Carulli’s “Waltz” during Saturday’s Strawberry & Tea recital as part of Vanier Park’s fourth annual Winter Wander open house. 2. Adam Junk is a trumpet degree student at VAM who also helps out with special events. 3. Winter Wander participants were invited to watch Vancouver Academy of Music’s opera student rehearse the No. 12 Finale II scene from The Merry Widow. 4. Princeton Wong’s mother was in attendance at the Vancouver Academy of Music’s Mary Olson Hall stage to cheer on the performance. See photo gallery online at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

Matching the parent in the audience in the Vancouver Academy of Music’s Mary Olson Hall with the student musician wasn’t difﬁcult — it was often the person sitting ramrod straight on the very edge of their chair and clapping furiously as soon as the last note of the piece faded. The usual recital staples by composers Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi were played but if you had happened to hear the music before seeing the musician, you might be surprised to see some students so young their feet couldn’t reach the ﬂoor from the piano bench. Saturday’s Strawberry & Tea recital was named for the big bowls of fruit placed next to the big bowls of whipped cream served in the school foyer at the recital’s conclusion. It was part of the fourth annual Winter Wander at Vanier Park where the $5 admission included entry to the Museum of Vancouver, H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver Maritime Museum, City of Vancouver Archives and Bard on the Beach. In addition to VAM’s free open house, its students performed at

most of the nearby venues throughout the day. The building on the edge of Vanier Park’s lawn has been home to the VAM since 1976 and has grown to prestigious proportions that now include a college division along with its preparatory classes for both children and adults under executive director Joseph Elworthy. Those familiar with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will recognize the name. Elworthy, a cellist, was a member prior to his 2011 appointment with VAM. The non-profit school has produced many notables through the years (even Elworthy himself attended as a young child) but Saturday the focus was on the young learners. The audience of mostly family members, filling the front row just a few feet from the low stage, made up for the hall’s empty seats with their delighted excitement. Peter Dryden was one of those in the front row, there for his 14-year-old grandson Brandon Krezeski who was first on the program to perform with a beautiful rendition of “Spanish Romance” on the guitar. Dryden and his wife have attended more recitals than they can count for both Brandon and his nine-yearold sister Mia. “We’ve supported them

at every single one when we’ve had the opportunity,” said the proud grandfather. “By being here, hopefully we encourage them and, no, we never get tired. There are some very talented youngsters here.” The Strawberry & Tea recitals used to be held once or twice every year, now they’re every month, added Brandon’s mom Susan Krezeski. And it was at one of these student shows where Mia decided she wanted to add the cello to her existing repertoire of piano — at the age of four. “Music is a great avenue as later on in life it’s something they can do and enjoy,” said Susan. “They say music is good for the soul.” A few years older than the Krezeski siblings is Adam Junk who decided to pursue a path of music as a VAM trumpet student who’s tackling both his music degree as well as a diploma in composition. In addition, Junk is also the school’s library assistant and helps out with special events, such as the Winter Wander open house. “Last year was my ﬁrst year here and I didn’t even know it was an event,” he said. “Now that I know, I think it’s a wonderful way for people to get around and see some of the culture in Vanier.” twitter.com/rebeccablissett

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Feb. 11 to 13, 2015 1. Funny people saying funny things descend upon Vancouver and the hinterland for the Northwest Comedy Fest, Feb. 12 to 21. In addition to films, tributes, variety shows and debates, standup comics appearing at the festival include Hannibal Buress, John Mulhaney, Brian Posehn, Ali Wong, Craig Ferguson, Todd Glass, Andy Kindler, Moshe Kasher, Doug Benson and the incomparable Maria Bamford, among others. Details at northwestcomedyfest.com. 2. Presented by MovEnt, the popular music and dance series Dances for a Small Stage gets all romantic for Small Stage point 5: Valentine’s edition Feb. 12 to 15 at the Emerald. Pairing dancers with five musicians, the collaborative couples include Delhi 2 Dublin DJ/producer and tabla player Tarun “Tspoon” Nayar with Odissi classical Indian dancer Scheherazaad Cooper, co-curator Tariq Hussain with Ballet BC alumni Chengxin Wei, and singer-songwriter Louise Burns with burlesque performer Burgundy Brixx, among others. Tickets at eventbrite.ca. Details at movent.ca. 3. Mad genius Ariel Pink leaves his band the Haunted Graffiti at home when he brings his freaky pop stylings to the Rickshaw Feb. 11 in support of his mindbending solo album, Pom Pom, which features collaborations with Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce, Azealia Banks and infamous rock impresario Kim Fowley just before he died. Fellow Los Angeles experimental psych-popster Jack Name opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketweb.ca. 4. We won’t lie to you. South African choreographer Vincent Mantsoe looks like an intense guy. And perhaps rightly so. Mantsoe visits the Firehall Arts Centre Feb. 11 to 14, to perform two solos, NTU and Skwatta, “that embody the limitless spirituality and realities of his homeland.” Details at firehallartscentre.ca.

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Warning: do not attempt to produce One Man, Two Guvnors unless you have someone as prodigiously talented as Andrew McNee in the role of the titular One Man. You need someone who can do a double take, a triple take, multiple somersaults, survive many kicks to the crotch, blows to the solar plexus and pratfalls aplenty. And that’s not all. In the role of Francis, McNee has to eat his face off, vomit, fart and, on opening night, be able to pick up the pace after someone in the audience offered him a halfeaten sandwich. McNee lost it to the absolute delight of everyone: one of those glorious moments when the fourth wall really, really comes down. So, you get it. This is farce, a contemporary British dishing up by Richard Bean of Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 Italian farce A Servant of Two Masters. Bean sets it in Brighton, 1963. But One Man, Two Guvnors is a strange hybrid of commedia dell’arte and music hall entertainment (with an onstage four-piece band playing music composed by Grant Olding under the musical direction of Anton Lipovetsky). Each member of the band (Lipovetsky,

An energetic Andrew McNee steals and saves the show in the Arts Club’s One Man, Two Guvnors at the Stanley.

Scott Perrie, Spencer Schoening and Matthew J. Baker) also plays multiple roles in the play. And, in a turnabout, most of the actors take a solo turn on an instrument — including a xylophone-like instrument and a contraption of bicycle horns. Andrew Cownden blows a mean harmonica — although it’s so good, it could be faked (but isn’t). In short, One Man, Two Guvnors is a show that will delight many and frustrate others to distraction. Mark me down as frustrated. Under David Mackay’s direction, it’s really hard to get into in the ﬁrst place. Who are these people and where are they? If it’s a living room, it’s weird: two sofas, a ﬁreplace, over which hangs a huge portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.

The British accents make it difficult to understand what’s going on and, like Goldoni’s original, the plot is crazy: Rachel (Celine Stubel) is dressed as a guy in order to find out who murdered her twin brother Rosco. Rosco was engaged to marry Pauline so when Rachel, pretending to be Rosco’s identical twin brother, turns up, Pauline finds herself engaged to be married to Rachel/Rosco’s twin brother. Or something like that. Much is made of just what, exactly, is an identical twin — a concept about which everyone, with the exception of Rachel — seems to be foggy. Allan (Ryan Beil), a would-be actor, and Pauline are in love but being kept apart by Pauline’s father (Gerry Mackay). Good grief, do we

really need this? If the plot is stupid — and it is — what’s to keep you from leaving at intermission? McNee, totally off his leash, will — in spite of all the food he has to eat in the very drawn out hotel dining room scene — lose weight with all his fantastically energetic shenanigans. Beil is always worth watching and here he’s an anguished, woe-is-me sort of character who, with a deadpan delivery, delivers some of the play’s funniest lines. The women’s roles, with the exception of Rachel/Rosco’s twin, aren’t really big but are excellently played by Lauren Bowler (as dumb blonde Pauline) and Cailin Stadnyk (as well-endowed, sexy Dolly). Stubel, as Rachel, is terrific in a kind of cock-of-the-walk sort of way, but the role is nuts. The surprise of the evening is Cownden who is absolutely terrific as Alfie, a white, wispy-haired old timer, who takes a lot of punishment including a cricket bat to the head. But altogether, One Man, Two Guvnors is a dog’s breakfast that nevertheless got a standing “O” on opening night. With the loonie seemingly in free fall, audiences must be hungry for something to laugh at. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca One Man, Two Guvnors is at the Stanley until Feb. 22. For tickets, call 604-687-1644 or go to artsclub.com.

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Arts&Entertainment Glory punched up with retro-inspired violence Shay Kuebler’s Radical System Art explores violence and voyeurism through dance at Chutzpah! festival STATE OF THE ARTS Cheryl Rossi

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One dancer grabbed another by the throat at a rehearsal Thursday afternoon. Dark, foreboding music morphed into movie soundtracks of sword ﬁghts and gushing blood, only to be punctuated by the somewhat comical sound of expiring in a 1980s videogame. Award-winning choreographer and dancer Shay Kuebler explores violence, voyeurism and death in his new work, Glory, with his new six-person ensemble, Radical System Art. The world premiere of Glory will animate the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre as part of the Chutzpah! Jewish Performing Arts Festival that runs Feb. 19 to March 15. Kuebler started performing with a theatre company

in Edmonton at age 5. Soon after, he started training in martial arts, a stepping stone to his training in dance. “Action movies were at their pinnacle and violence was becoming a little more mainstream in cinema and I realized just how much violent material was around me,” Kuebler said of his youth in the late ’80s and early ’90s. “I was going to adult action ﬁlms and watching guys explode and get shot and all this stuff, and I realized how much I was nurtured to accept violence. “All of this inspired me to make a show about the fact that we glorify experience and, in particular, we glorify violence and death, beautify death, we place it in a really shaped, nice accepting tone,” he said. Kuebler’s exploration of violence is inﬂuenced by the time when movies featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal, in addition to Rocky

Martial arts, videogames and action movies from the 1980s and ’90s inspired dancer/choreographer Shay Kuebler’s latest work, Glory. It runs Feb. 19 to March 15 as part of Chutzpah!

IV, were all the rage, but Kuebler’s exploration of voyeurism is also shaped by newer videogames and social media. “To me, voyeurism is this idea of getting as close to the experience as possible without the repercussions of that experience,” he said. “It’s crazy to me to think about the games that

I played when I was a kid, Ninja Turtles and stuff like this. If you killed the bad dude, he flashed and he then he disappeared. Now kids are holding rifles and shooting guys.” Kuebler isn’t one to shy away from bleak, but relatable, themes. Shay Kuebler and Radical System Art’s first produc-

tion was KAROSHI, named for the Japanese word for death from overwork. “I really like visceral quality to performance,” Kuebler said. “I always want to talk about something that can relate to almost everybody in some way, they can translate.” Kuebler, who cofounded Vancouver’s acclaimed dance troupe the 605 Collective, executes his own sound design. His mashups for Glory include clanging electronic music, battle scenes and snippets from videogames. Performances will feature interactive elements with lighting and microphones and live and pre-recorded video. He and the other dancers played toddler tag, their arms held away from their bodies, ﬁngers spread, Thursday. They drew on martial arts, hip-hop and contemporary dance to mix seemingly suspended and bouncy movements with dynamic spins and turns.

“I want to bring in people that don’t normally see dance shows and theatre shows,” Kuebler said. “If I can bring them in on the surface, the challenge is then to take them on a ride they don’t expect and to go around corners they don’t expect, to open up the underbelly of some things.” Glory runs Feb. 21 to 23. ••• Israel’s internationally lauded dance company Maria Kong marks the group’s ﬁrst North American performance with BACKSTAGE. This 360-degree immersive theatrical dance show features a live rock band, video art and technology at the Red Room Ultra Bar. Companies returning to Chutzpah! include Idan Sharabi and Dancers from Israel/Holland, and BODYTRAFFIC from Los Angeles. For more information about all of the events included in Chutzpah!, go to chutzpahfestival.com. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Bulldogs taste victory

National champion gymnast Aaron Mah will take on an honorary role at the B.C. Winter Games this week in Prince George. At the Opening Ceremony on Feb. 13, he will be the official lantern carrier along with flag bearer and Saanichton hockey player Micah Hart. Mah is joined by 25 Vancouver athletes and roughly 225 more from B.C. at the first Canada Winter Games held in this province. The competition runs until March 1.

Churchill wins ﬁrst senior girls city basketball title CHURCHILL BULLDOGS 81 BRITANNIA BRUINS 53 Megan Stewart

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The Churchill Bulldogs took a big bite out of the three-time defending city champion Britannia Bruins Friday night and came away with the ﬁrst senior girls basketball title in school history. Churchill extended a one-point ﬁrst-quarter lead into a 13-point spread at halftime Friday night at Britannia secondary. The Bulldogs outscored the Bruins by 11 points in the third quarter and held the hosts to only eight points in the fourth to run away with an 81-53 victory. “This was — I told them at the beginning — the biggest game they’ve played in,” said Bulldogs coach Jennifer Eng. “They embraced the moment, everyone on our team stepped up.” Despite outscoring the Bruins every quarter, the growing gap didn’t comfort the Bulldogs, said Eng. They’ve lost games they’d comfortably led. “We play very poorly when we’re ahead. We don’t have the experience to know what to do, when to push the ball and when to slow it down. We’re great when we

have to come back,” said the Churchill coach and alumna who has led the Bulldogs with Sabrina Chan since they both graduated in 2005. Five-foot-five guard Eloise Faehndrich, who’s often charged with defending an opponent’s post player, said the Bulldogs can get too complacent when they’re ahead. They don’t flinch when an opponent goes on a scoring run as long as they still hold a lead. But when they’re trailing, “We really up the ante,” she said. Against Britannia in the city championship, they tried a different approach to protect their growing advantage. “At halftime I remember the coaches telling us, ‘You do play better when you’re losing. I hate to tell you.’” According to Faehndrich, her teammate Katrina Kwong suggested, “Why don’t we just make the score the opposite for us and say we’re losing.” “It was in the back of our minds,” continued Faehndrich. “We were not going to let this go and fall into our bad habit of letting things slip when it really matters.” Playing in its fourth city final since 2012, Britannia was on the hunt for a fourth consecutive title. Undefeated in seven regular season games, the Bruins

had beaten Churchill twice this year, once in a league meeting and again in a tournament. Both games were close, marking Churchill’s improvement since last season when they were walloped 67-38 by Britannia. Churchill counts one Grade 12 student who missed much of the season because of an injury. The roster is otherwise made up of four Grade 10 and six Grade 11 players, none taller than ﬁve-foot-10. In the championship, Tova Rae led with 20 points, ﬁve steals and seven rebounds. Faehndrich had 16 points and seven steals. Alexa Leynes added 15 points and six steals. Grade 10 point guard Kwong, who had 13 points, runs the Bulldogs offence and plays for Team B.C. along with Leynes. Because of injuries, Britannia was short several key players, including star Julian Duong. “Winning really means a lot seeing our team is really young. It’s really just not underestimating any team we would come up against,” said Faehndrich. “We’re a very consistently fast team. Lots of the players on our team can run with the ball and move it up the court quickly. Lots of our points are scored on transition. Our coaches do a

lot to prepare us.” Churchill coaches Eng and Chan reviews tape with the team and scouts opposition to set up the Bulldogs for success. “What really helped as well is that we have a deep bench, players who can step up. We’re not dependent on one player on our team and that makes us so tough to play because we have several payers that need to be guarded,” said Eng, who is also an assistant coach with the Langara Falcons women’s program, where her dad Greg runs the program. The senior boys from Churchill made history of their own last season when they won the B.C. AAAA senior boys championship. The girls are forging ahead, too, said Faehndrich. “What’s really encouraging is that we get to use this year as warm up even though we already did have a really encouraging result. Next year we’re going to be able to build even more on what we have together as a team.” The Bulldogs enter the AAA Lower Mainland zone tournament as the No. 1 seed out of Vancouver. They must reach the top three to advance to provincials. The Bruins advance to the AA zone tournament, also as the No. 1 Vancouver team. twitter.com/MHStewart

Vancouver Giant Zane Jones (No. 10)

Tyler Benson scored the winning goal with less than five minutes left in the third period as the Vancouver Giants won a back-and-forth affair 5-4 over the visiting Seattle Thunderbirds on Monday afternoon at Pacific Coliseum. The G-Men also got goals from Jackson Houck, Jakob Stukel, Jesse Roach and Zane Jones as more than 6,000 fans packed the place on Family Day. The Giants have lost 11 games and won six since returning from the winter break. The slump has dropped Vancouver to 22-29 and second last in the Western Conference with 47 points. They trail the conference leading Kelowna Rockets (42-8-3) by 41 points. The Giants are back in action at the Pacific Coliseum today when they host the defending Memorial Cup Champion Edmonton Oil Kings at 7 p.m.

Growing Kane...

You are a jerk right now — Coach’s Corner and Canadian loudmouth Don Cherry reprimanded Winnipeg Jets forward (and Vancouverite) Evander Kane on Feb. 7. The 23-year-old skater wore a tracksuit that didn’t fall in line with the team’s dress code.

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Landers commits to Guelph FOOTBALL

Megan Stewart

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The tradition of bright lights and a full crowd on Friday night are two reasons outgoing Notre Dame quarterback Theodore Landers committed to the University of Guelph Gryphons. Last Wednesday, Landers made it official. “I really like the coaches and the atmosphere,” he said of the town near Lake Ontario with a university program dating to 1950. “It’s a football town. You want to be somewhere where football is so big and people want to watch the games. “I like a place that has tradition. Where the family is used to going to the game, where it matters to people because it’s been going on for so long. I want to add to the tradition.” The Gryphons have finished second in Ontario University Athletics for two consecutive years, and 2015 will be the fifth and final season for (the incomparably

Notre Dame quarterback Theodore Landers (No. 11) escapes a would-be sack in a 36-7 Notre Dame loss to the Mount Douglas Rams at Burnaby Lake Park on Sept. 19. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

named) starting quarterback Jazz Lindsey. The Gryphons’ pending change in personnel opens a door that Landers is driven to enter. “I’ll be a rookie next year. Once [Lindsey] leaves, I’ll be battling for that starting position. Knowing in my second year, I could possibly be starting — that helped me make my decision,” said Landers. In addition to throwing

442 yards for four touchdowns for the Jugglers in 2014, Landers also ran for 390 yards (an average 9.5 yards per carry) and four touchdowns. Landers plays basketball and runs track for Notre Dame. His versatility makes him a greater threat on the football ﬁeld. “With my speed, I feel I can manoeuvre in the pocket, break into a run and

that helps me. Mentally, it gives me more conﬁdence,” he said. He credits his dad for helping hone his drive. “He’s always been in my corner, living football, watching football together. I have that initial desire to play and then to make him proud by playing is really dear to me.” Landers started playing club football in Coquitlam when he was eight. Since his family moved three years ago, he commutes to Notre Dame from Maple Ridge and for two years has travelled to the U.S. for summer training camps led by former NFLers at a sports academy founded by former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo. “It’s helped me the most with my success,” said Landers. “I think it separated me from some of the quarterbacks here.” When a new season starts with the Gryphons, Landers will see how he distinguishes himself at the next level. twitter.com/MHStewart

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Volunteers the true hosts of the Games Continued from page 1 Sochi 2014 sure couldn’t live up to that, not even as Vladimir Putin chased all the clouds away.

False Creek has more glass to call home

All in, it cost $1.1 billion and possibly more. The construction of the Athletes’ Village on Southwest False Creek was granted to a development company that almost sunk the whole project into the Salish Sea. The city bailed it out. A marketing guru bailed the city out. Still, almost no one moved into the ghost town. Now the neighbourhood is a tony seawall destination with thousands of condo units ﬁlling the blocks north of West Second Avenue. Branded the Village on False Creek, the one thing this the area code needs is a more honest name. NoMa is taken, so don’t even try.

The statue of Harry Jerome in Stanley Park was appropriately outfitted for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Regional travel is safer and faster

P: Paul Morrison

The Canada Line scuttled a handful of small businesses on Cambie Street but made the airport much more affordable to access and the downtown more approachable for international travellers. The improved Sea to Sky Highway reduced the number of deaths on a once dangerous mountain thoroughfare and opened Squamish in a similar way the SkyTrain opened the suburbs 24 years earlier.

Patriotism isn’t a dirty word

Maybe it was Crosby’s Golden Goal or Canada’s ﬁrst gold medal on home

soil despite two previous Olympic Games, one summer and one winter. Maybe it was Jennifer Heil and Alexandre Bilodeau, the two freestyle skiers who made us all marvel as Canadians yearned for that golden first. Heil was brilliant but in the end, it was Bilodeau who proved to be a huge-hearted citizen and brother worthy of his place in national sport history. Or maybe it was that plastic beer pitcher now on display at the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame because Jon Montgomery surprised the ranks to win gold in skeleton and then guzzled mouthfuls of celebratory brew as he drank with and walked among the crowds in Whistler Village. Or maybe it’s the fact the sun shined for two weeks in February. What snow? We don’t need no freakin’ snow. The invitations were sent and thousands came knocking at our door. The block party was in full swing. Across the country, according to estimates, 80 per cent of Canadians watched the men’s hockey final on the last day of the Olympics. Statistically speaking, if you can name five friends, four of them could tell you where they were when Sidney Crosby called out, “Iggy” and slipped the puck past the U.S. goalie. For two weeks, Canadian flags waved like it was July 1 at Parliament Hill. The national anthem spontaneously broke out at Robson and Granville, and the closed-off downtown streets hosted 150,000 nightly. Canada topped the medal tables with 14 gold. It felt

good to say we’d won.

Volunteering is cool

You can still spot the striking but unnaturally blue and decidedly uncool (sorry, it’s true) jackets worn by 2010 Olympic volunteers. Hopefully you weren’t one of those short-sighted albeit mortgage-helping residents who absconded in fear of a few visitors. Because, instead of watching from the Interior or Hawaii, you could have been at the centre of it all as a true host. Volunteers like Rowan Bartlett took time off work to commute two hours and stand in the snow for eight more. When she spread her arms wide to mark a pathway, she was rewarded with hugs. On the days she’d miss her bus back down the hill from Whistler, Bartlett would be grateful. Her day wouldn’t drag on. Instead, she could soak in more of the atmosphere. She was one of those doubters who almost left town. “If I had been in the city of Vancouver and had voted [in the referendum], I actually would have voted no because I thought it was an awful lot of money,” said the Burnaby resident. “When I was walking around Vancouver in my [Olympic] jacket, people said thank you to me. At first, it was like — are they talking to me? They were thanking me for being a volunteer. It goes to show people do appreciate volunteers.” The civic boosterism isn’t as bright as those “blueberry” jackets five years ago, but the warmth they brought can still be felt five years later. twitter.com/MHStewart

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