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and-a-half," she said. The past 17 months since city t council shifted to virtu t al meetings have seen some people attend the council chamber to speak, but the vast majority t of citizens have spoken to council by telephone. By Mike Howell

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hen Vancouver city t council retu t rns to in-person meetings possibly this fall, citizens attending city t hall will not be required to produce proof of vaccination against COVID-19. The City ty of Vancouver via its communications department confirmed that Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s orders related to the new vaccine passport do not apply to public meetings at city hall. “We will need to review the detailed PHO order when it is available, however we have been advised that the proof of vaccination requirement won’t apply to formal local government business, including byelections, council/board meetings and public hearings for both council/ board members, as well as the public attending these events,” said the city in an email. At this point in time, the email continued, vaccinations are not mandatory for city staff or elected

oﬃcials. But mask wearing for people attending or working at city buildings — whether vaccinated or not — is still in eﬀect, as per Henry’s orders for public indoor settings. A return to in-person meetings at city hall was anticipated this month. But that is on hold at least until October and possibly longer, with the surge in COVID-19 cases and corresponding

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public health orders dictating the city’s next move. Mayor Kennedy Stewart and Coun. Adriane Carr conﬁrmed that meetings scheduled this month will continue online until further notice, meaning citizens can still phone in or send emails related to an agenda item. “It’s disappointing, but totally understandable,” said Carr by

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Trail content manager Joe Wiebe. "Fresh hops, or wet hops, have to be used immediately or they spoil, usually within a day or two." Hops are one of the four main ingredients of most beers; they bring a variety of ﬂavours and are the stars of beers like IPAs and anything described as "hoppy." They're grown on tall vines and the buds they produce in August and September have been used

to flavour and preserve beer for centuries, Wiebe explains. Once the beers are brewed it's pretty stable, he adds, so cans of fresh hop beer are fine weeks after the brew. "Fresh hops, because they're fresh, are still largely water. So you're not getting as big of a dose of bitter," says Main St. Brewing head brewer Azlan Graves. "It's a more subtle flavour, sometimes it can be

herbal depending on the variety, or juicy." Graves was up at Myrtle Meadows hops farm near Pemberton this August to pick up a load of fresh Saaz hops for Main St. Brewing fresh hops beer this year, ‘Before The Fall.' It's a hommelbier; Graves describes it as a saison developed in the southwest part of Belgium where hops are grown. It was released just before the

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Labour Day weekend. "We're using B.C.-grown Saaz — Saaz is a European noble hop variety, so that was part of the reason for choosing the hommelbier style," he explains. "We're using a traditional European hops to do a more European style ale." He made sure to go up early in the

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HOPS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 harvest to get younger hops, noting he prefers the slightly less mature buds for this year's beer. It makes 'Before the Fall' one of the ﬁrst fresh hops beers of the season, as Saaz already has an earlier harvest date (typically Aug. 19 to 25) than other strains. Also from B.C., he notes, is the strain of yeast they used. It's a new one developed at Renaissance Yeast Labs at UBC based on European strains. Hops used to be one of the most common crops in B.C., but production fell oﬀ. "Historically hops used to be a

major crop in B.C. from the 1920s to the 1970s in the Fraser Valley," says Wiebe. "The proﬁt part of it wasn't as good so farmers switched to other things. It was almost totally gone in the 1980s when the craft beer movement started."

there to pick up some of this year's harvest he toured the property a bit with Eelco and his daughter Noor. Other farms, Wiebe notes, have started their own breweries as well, using their own fresh hops for their own fresh hops beers. And breweries will go to great lengths to get their hands on the fresh stuﬀ; one brewery based in Prince Rupert (Wheelhouse Brewing) has a history of stopping in Chilliwack on their way home from the Great Canadian Beer Festival in Victoria.

"Lots of little farms have started in the last 10 years." The ﬁrst fresh hops beer Wiebe knows of, in B.C., was Sartori Harvest, an IPA from Driftwood Brewery in Victoria. It's become famous now, in B.C. beer circles.

More recently fresh hops beers are booming; Wiebe says each year dozens of breweries come out with creations. "We have a fresh hop festival in

One of those new farms is Myrtle Meadows, though it's one of the largest hops farms in the country. It's run by Eelco de Zwaan and his family; when Graves was up

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Victoria, Fresh to Death," he says. "For that event, we've been able to put together 30 fresh hop beers on top, and that wasn't all of them." Graves says there are a few he always looks forward to as well, including Satori Harvest. "Brassneck always does awesome stuﬀ, and, as neighbours, it's awesome to go over and see. I know they were up at Myrtel Meadows getting hops as well, a couple of days after us, so I imagine they have stuﬀ quickly on the way," he says. "Last year Dave over at Russel did a really awesome rice lager with fresh Saaz. I'm always curious to see what he'll be doing." By Brendan Kergin

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Dear Bob, the Editor-in-Chief, Thank you for your recent coverage on the protest outside B.C. hospitals last week. I went from being disheartened, exasperated, exh x austed, to confounded when I learned that the organizer of the protest was a nurse. I was a going to use my nurse’s hat to calmly write to the protesters. I would set as aside my assumptions and judgment that there is a kn k owledge deficit. I would begin with open ended questions: “I would love to better understand your feelings regarding the COVID vaccine”. I would engage in reflective listening: “Sounds like you have some reserv r ations about the efficacy of vaccines.” I would then assess the protesters’ desire and ability t to change. The purp r ose of the conversation is not to forcefu f lly convince protesters to abandon their exi x sting beliefs or to prove my perspectives. The objectives are to present the sensitive matter through the many lenses of a prism rather than merely tw t o sides of a coin. By introducing the idea that things do not necessarily have to be black or white. It is perf r ectly acceptable to have multiple shades of gray. Our world is complex hence there can be more than 2 solutions. Once I have instilled a dose of complexi x ty t to the thorny matter, I would facilitate and encourage the protesters to express their doubts and empower them to be curious to explore some of the other shades of gray. I would then conclude the conversation by showing my faith that the protesters would make the best choice for their bodies and our society t.

I don’t expect the protesters to change their viewpoints overnight. Al A l I want to achieve is to plant a seed for them to stay open minded to various possibilities. I believe there is more common ground than we think. I am willing to bet that we would like to retu t rn to our ‘normal’ lives. I feel competent and conﬁdent to enter a heated conversation with humility t and curiosity t with protesters. But, I must confess that the organizer’s line of reasoning and initiative defeated me. A nurse should understand that the immunocompromised cancer patients cannot aﬀord to get inf n ected and be exposed to a sea of mas askl k ess protesters. A nurse should understand every r second matters for the patients who are having a stroke or heart r attack when the protesters block the ambulances. A nurse should understand the sweats and bru r ised nose from wearing N95 for 12 hours. A nurse should understand that we have our fear and tears yet we retu t rn shift after shift. A nurse should understand how the health care teams have been indefatigably tending to patients and families. Lastly, a nurse should understand that we choose nursing because we care! Kristen Nagle, your impru Kr r dent actions are hurt rting us. Bob, thank you for your coverage. Warmly, Cee

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yle Seller knows games — arcade games, to be exact. He even learned how to ﬁx them at 16. Fast forward several decades, and you'll ﬁnd him at Industry Arcade in New Westminster. Industry is a private arcade shop available for rent for up to two hours. Space can be reserved online for small gatherings. Inside, there are nearly 50 classic and modern arcade games, including 24 pinball machines, bubble hockey, Skee-Ball, and four-player Pac-Man Battle Royale. No need to scrounge up loose change, it's free play for the duration. The story of Industry Arcade began in 2013, when Seller started East Van Amusements. He had been a game designer at EA Sports for 10 years before that. The company provides popup arcade rentals for bars and restaurants, corporate events, and various parties. Then COVID-19 hit.

Once the pandemic began, rentals stopped at East Van Amusements, resulting in a 95 per cent drop in revenue. That gave Seller the idea to bring people to games in his own space. In August 2020, the entrepreneur opened Industry Arcade in New West's Braid Industrial Park. "I really had no intention to do something like this until COVID came and completely turned our business upside down," he explains. Seller says the tactile nature

of arcade games is what makes the experience so unique. "I have a lot of physical games in here. It's hard to replicate at home." Industry is currently open four days a week, but Seller hopes to expand the hours as business slowly bounces back. For now, his pivot is paying oﬀ. "I didn't really think it would get the kind of wow factor it did when I rolled it out. It's been rewarding." By Thor Diakow

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ormer professional skateboarder Colin McKay has come a long way from skating the streets of Vancouver, but his hometown is still close to his heart, and he paid homage to his Vancouver roots with his latest skateboard design. When McKay was growing up in Vancouver, skateboarding wasn’t the only thing he did on the streets. Like most kids in Canada, he played a lot of street hockey and would pretend to be his favourite player. “I like me some Tiger Williams,” said McKay. “We used to ride around on our sticks after scoring a goal in street hockey and pretend to be Tiger Williams.” Williams famously rode his stick down the ice after scoring a goal in his return to Toronto after being traded by the Maple Leafs. With his exuberance, not to mention his penchant for both dropping the gloves and scoring goals, he quickly became a beloved ﬁgure with the Canucks. For McKay and his friends, Williams endeared himself in another way. “When I was growing up in Vancouver, we skated a spot called the New Spot, which is kind of the go-between down between Hastings and the street below it, right before the Paciﬁc Centre where you walked down all the stairs to the food fair down there,” said McKay. “Tiger Williams used to walk through there occasionally and we all knew him and recognized him and we'd say, 'What's up' and he would show us love and that was cool for us as kids.” “It was The Canuck,” emphasized McKay, “and he didn’t just walk by, he showed us love, recognized

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that we were out there doing something and not just hanging out.” For McKay, it really wasn’t just hanging out — he turned skateboarding into a career, transitioning from street skating to vert competitions around the world. One of the original members of the Plan B skateboarding team in the 90’s, McKay relaunched Plan B in 2005 with fellow skateboarder Danny Way. Over the years with Plan B, McKay produced several different signature skateboard designs, but slowed down after retiring. Wanting to produce another board, McKay turned to one of his all-time favourite designs: the much-maligned “Flying-V” Canucks jerseys of the late-70’s and early-80’s. It’s actually the third Canucks-themed skateboard he’s done. According to McKay, he first had a board with the flying-skate-inspired logo in the middle of the board, then did a take on the blue and maroon orca. This time around, he wanted to go a little more old-school. “I've had the Canucks graphics before but I always looked at that jersey and the colourways of it and I like very bold and clean-looking

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graphics,” said McKay. “I thought if we just almost oversimpliﬁed it and just did the black, orange, yellow, that it would get the message across that I was trying to convey — which was Vancouver, pride in the city, pride in the people — without having to get too complicated with it.” The design is instantly recognizable even without some of the added details, like “stitching” where each colour meets. But McKay wanted to take it a step further. “With new techniques that they're using for skateboards these days, they can do this thing where they raise the ink so it has a texture,” said McKay. “So with the stitching around the colour and then the rest of the board, it actually feels like a jersey when you run your hand over it.” While the ﬂying-V jersey is frequently ranked among the worst jerseys in professional sports history, McKay doesn’t care. “It’s exactly the jersey that’s on the board that’s my favourite,” said McKay when asked to name his favourite Canucks jersey of all time. “The funkiness of

it is the beauty of it. That dated, throwback sort of vibe. I think I like it more these days than I probably did when I was a little kid. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but I appreciate it more.” “It really is an odd colourway,” he added with a laugh. “If you were designing it from scratch, it really is an odd, awkward colourway, but if you’re from Vancouver, you know why it’s special.” Now living in California, McKay has a tougher time following the Canucks as closely as he once did — “They don’t play the Canucks on TV down here!” — but he makes sure to go to a game every time he gets back up to Vancouver. The Canucks are clearly still close to his heart, as is the local skate scene. “When we were kids growing up, the skate scene up there hadn't really been developed. The scene was California,” said McKay. “We just tried to emulate what guys were doing in California but now Vancouver has one of the best skate scenes in the world and some of the best skateboarders currently in the world are from Vancouver.” By Daniel Wagner - Pass it to Bulis

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ith an estimated 1 million cigarette butts tossed on the streets and public spaces of Vancouver each day, the city is looking at new ways of encouraging smokers to properly dispose of their burnt garbage. So they're trying a vote. The idea started in Europe and it's fairly simple. Use a butt ballot box to engage with smokers. "It's part of our overall strategy to help reduce litter," says the city's manager of solid waste programs Jonathan McDermott.

"It's one of the tools we're testing out to see if it reduces cigarette butt litter." So far there's just one butt ballot pilot, at Bute and Davie where a pop-up plaza has been set up. The device itself is also simple. It's essentially a metal box with two transparent panes. Smokers can vote with their butts for one of two answers; right now it's whether or not cigarette butts are litter, and while the obvious answer is winning, it is oddly not a complete victory, with a few naysayers butting in to go with 'No.' McDermott says that's actually not an uncommon

perception among smokers, which is why millions of the little plastic ﬁlters end up on the ground each year. However, each butt can take 25 years to decompose, and they can carry toxins into the water system, especially when they wash down storm drains. But in either case, the goal of the ballot box is working so long as it collects lots of votes. "It's trying to encourage more use of a cigarette butt receptacle," McDermott says. Future questions might be more fun and engaging, he notes. In Europe a popular vote was Christian Ronaldo

vs. Lionel Messi. While cigarette butts are small, McDermott notes that they're the most common type of litter on the streets, hence the search for better ways to collect them and get them into the trash system. The city isn't on its own in this case, they're working with the West End BIA to monitor the voting, which started in July. McDermott says the city wanted to get their feet wet with this one before developing the program further. "We're really just going to play it by ear, if we feel it's going well we'll look to expand," he says.

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While the litter aspect of the ballot box is the main thrust of the program, McDermott notes there's also a QR code on the box which takes people to a site for those

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Mt Pleasant man fills apartment with incredible antiques relics of the past began when he was just a child."In grade three, I was going through old houses for demolition, stripping doorknobs and light ﬁxtures out of them, and it just went on and on and on," he reminisces. Over 40 years of collecting and he's still going strong,

McNutt has turned his apartment into a veritable museum of accumulated items. All the modern ﬁxtures inside his home have been replaced with antique ones that still function. There's a central vacuum system from 1914, a juicer from 1917, and a working

wall telephone dating back to 1905. Most of his timeless treasures range in origin from the 1880s to 1920s. In addition to adorning his abode with artifacts, he's also added some pieces to Mount Pleasant's Wenonah building, where he resides.

After restoring lighting ﬁxtures by trade from 1984 to 2017, McNutt now acts as the building's manager. The self-described hoarder says collectors are a unique group of people. "Only collectors know that feeling, the rest of you will just say 'weirdo.'"He's

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ITALIAN HAT MAKER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 every year, covering a wide variety of women's and men's styles. Many of their hats have been featured in movies and TV shows like The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; The Man in the High Castle; The Good Doctor; The Philosophy of Phil; and Bad Times at the El Royale, among others. Recently, they collaborated with costume designer Barbara Gregusova to make a headpiece for the actress portraying Meghan Markle in the movie Escaping the Palace. Bertacchi immigrated to Canada with a work visa and a hope to expand his family business but faced troubles securing credit for his privately held corporation. He believes Canadian immigration laws are complex, and often, people with "skills and will to grow the economy" may end up having to go back home. "If you want to immigrate, either you invest money in a certain way, or you don't fit the criteria." As a company established abroad, Cappelleria Bertacchi did not have credit history in Canada, therefore banks were not willing to provide them loans. The interest rates that private financing firms offered to them were as high as 40 per cent. "Banks were not even willing to have a conversation with us. They said we are too risky for them as our shareholders do not reside in Canada. They didn't want to look at our sales, cash flow and spreadsheets," recalled Bertacchi during an interview at his shop in Gastown. "In the end, I was able to stay in Canada because my girlfriend sponsored me, not because Canada did something to make it happen. We would have been closed. In 2018, I was almost forced to leave." Establishing a business is not easy, especially for immigrant

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entrepreneurs hoping to expand their operations in Canada. Often their loan applications are rejected as banks categorize them as "too risky." Bertacchi also shared his experience running a business during the pandemic. He claimed the provincial government did not do enough to help immigrant entrepreneurs: "During the pandemic, I have to thank the federal government as they put a blind eye and said, 'okay, we are going to help everyone.' But the B.C. government didn't help us at all." Bertacchi further attested he couldn't claim any of the business-related pandemic beneﬁts the B.C. government announced because the shareholders of his business are not here: "We employ Canadians, and I was willing to provide any document to guarantee that I will spend every penny in Canada, and nothing will go to shareholders. However, nothing was enough." Even though there are struggles, he is hopeful that tourists will be back in Vancouver. Bertacchi continues to help young designers, especially from the BIPOC community, by offering internships and other opportunities. Cappelleria Bertacchi currently has two locations in Italy (Siena and Lucca) in addition to the one in Vancouver. The family business is already designing its Summer 2022 collection. By Tanmay Ahluwalia

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