Vancouver Is Awesome #119 - July 14, 2022 by Vancouver Is Awesome

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t looks like someone let students design one of the most unique features of the new Lord Nelson Elementary School, and that's because they did. Sort of. While professionals did all the math and engineering, students were the ones behind the concept for slides popping out the side of the building's second floor. Principal Ankie Carswell says students were consulted when the new school was being designed. "Some of the ideas were really creative and wishful, like a swimming pool, but they acted on the one idea of the slides," she tells Vancouver Is Awesome. As far as she knows it's the first school in B.C. to have such a feature. "When I was first telling colleagues they were incredulous that I had such an awesome playground feature," Carswell says. In fact, she's unaware of any schools with anything like Lord Nelson's slides, and the architects were considering submitting the school for design awards, based in part on the feature. While the new building has been around for a couple of years, the two slides only opened up this spring as supply chain issues meant they were missing a few parts to make them fully safe. The bright orange part (that kids actually slide down) has been in place since the fall (when a few teachers may have taken a trip down under the observation of the

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crew building them), but students had to hold back. "We did a 'slides open day' right after spring break," Carswell explains. "I hosted an assembly for the students because we opened a bunch of things at the same time." That included a new playground area, a soccer ﬁeld and other amenities, but the highlight for the kids was the slides. "We had to have a rotation system so everyone had access to the slides," Carswell says. "We keep them open for a bit after school." There are a few rules for those heading

down, like no eating or backpacks, so kids looking to make a quick escape at the bell have to ﬁnd a friend or llama to take their bag down the stairs. But for recess or lunch, it's a popular way to get to the playground. Unfortunately, for those looking to try them out, the slides aren't always open, though when Carswell is around she has unlocked them for a bit. Recently she showed up when they were locked up and overheard a child in the playground lamenting the closure of the slides. "I said I'd open them up and there were cheers from around the playground." By Brendan Kergin

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feel like a lawyer. Okay. Now that our watches are all synchedup on what the Pitch Clock is, let’s talk about what it means. And when I say “let’s talk about it” I mean: “Let’s listen to me talk about it.” When I ﬁrst learned about the Pitch Clock, I hated it. Baseball is supposed to be timeless. Its biggest moments are case studies in mounting tension and anxiety through anticipation. And I didn’t want any stupid clock coming in and rushing those moments along. But now that I’ve been able to experience a little over half of a season watching baseball games that use the clock. I gotta say: I like it. The natural rhythm of the game remains the same, but everyone is a bit more on their toes. It harkens back to the type of baseball (that I’ve only heard about because I am very young and very relevant) that was played in the 70’s or 80’s, when pitches would come every 10-15 seconds.

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Vancouverite takes jaw-dropping photo of northern lights

Vancouver man is sharing a breathtaking perspective of the aurora borealis he snapped on a ﬂight headed back to the city. Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Communications Manager Victor Young was travelling to Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on a Lynx Air ﬂight that left Toronto's Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ) on Sunday, July 3. Around 1 a.m. on Monday, Young spotted "what looked like a silvery cloud to the north" while he was looking out the window," he tells Vancouver Is Awesome. And while he'd never seen the northern lights before, he "knew that they don’t look green to the naked eye" and used his phone to bring

out its trademark green hues. "The long exposure on my phone was key to getting a good picture and I have a camera reel full of failed attempts before I got it just right," he tells Vancouver Is Awesome. The Vancouverite said he observed the dancing lights at "varying degrees, for well over an hour," adding that it was "a surreal experience" trying to contain his excitement seeing them for the ﬁrst time while surrounded by a couple of hundred people "who had no idea what was just outside the window. At the risk of waxing poetic, it felt providential to see one of the most iconic natural wonders Canada has to oﬀer on Canada Day long weekend!" By Elana Shepert

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hile there's growing support for Metro Vancouver amalgamating there are some demographics that aren't as excited. In a poll Vancouver is Awesome ran last week, readers voted two-to-one against the idea of amalgamating with the surrounding municipalities. This runs counter to a recent poll by Research Co. done with likely voters in the upcoming municipal election. V.I.A. polled 683 readers and asked the question: Would you support the amalgamation of Metro Vancouver? Of the 683 votes, we can determine that 384 are from within the community. The full results are as follows: Yes, all of Metro Vancouver should be one 32.55 % local, 32.80 % total No, each municipality should stay independent 67.45 % local, 67.20 % total Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.75%, 19 times out of 20. Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and ﬁlter out non-local and duplicate votes. By Brendan Kergin

PITCH CLOCK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 As well, it doesn’t hurt that game times, on average, are down across minor league baseball when using the Pitch Clock. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I know that I could watch baseball all day/every day…but the casual fan? Not so much. I love bringing friends who aren’t baseball fans to The Nat. But their biggest concern is always: “How long is this thing gonna last?” And finally, to my untrained, unskilled and anecdotal eye: more stuff is happening! I feel like more balls are being put in play than I am used to seeing. Maybe there’s data to support this, but I’m just going with what I see and feel, cause I’m old school like that. More balls in play means more stuff to watch. Not just more hits, but more spectacular dives and catches, throws and tags, running and sliding. I feel like the pitch clock may bring back a brand of baseball that better shows off the beauty, athleticism and choreography that turns people into fans. So what do you think? Wanna roast me on my love of the pitch clock? Come see me at the Nat, I’ll be behind home plate counting down…to fun! By Ryan Beil

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5 things you (probably) didn't know about Vancouver's

1. Vancouver is in eastern B.C. This may sound completely

wrong, but take a look at a map of B.C. and ﬁnd the most extreme points. Because of B.C.'s odd shape, these are actually very far apart. In the southeast you have a tiny corner of Akamina-Kishinena Provincial Park jutting east to 114.05424 West. In the northwest, if you go all the way past Skagway to Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park you'll be at 139.05702 West. Vancouver is at 123.2123 West, and that's picking from the western side of the city. Some quick math will

show Vancouver is closer to the eastern point than the western point. And if our math isn't good enough, there's a cairn at the geographic middle of B.C., near a place called Weneez just outside of Vanderhoof. Draw a line directly south from there and you hit Nanaimo, not Vancouver.

2. Population-wise, Vancouver is in northern Canada Before posting an angry comment, please take a moment for context. No, from a straight-

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veryone knows a few basic things about Vancouver's geography and geology. Like how it lies on the west coast of Canada, is a port city with access to the Paciﬁc Ocean, and how its location means it's the warmest big city in Canada. However, there are a few secrets to Vancouver's location that are probably a bit unexpected.

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up, global perspective, Vancouver is not in northern Canada. But, if you're using Canada's population to determine a mid-point of the nation, Vancouver is well north of that line. While it's a warmer part of the country, and tucked nice and close to the 49th parallel, Vancouver is actually north of a lot of other Canadian cities. Toronto is of course a notable one, with the millions of people that live there, but so is Ottawa, Montreal and even St. John's. In fact, the Maritimes are all south of the 49th (that's right, the maritime and prairie provinces don't share a latitude). Other cities south of the 49th include Sudbury, Ontario (often referred to as the largest city in Northern Ontario), Quebec City and B.C.'s own Victoria (along with a lot of people on the southern Island). The ﬂip side of that is how sparse northern Canada is compared to the rest of the country. While going quite a ways north, only about 118,000 people live in the territories; that's smaller than greater Nanaimo.

3. Vancouver Island and Vancouver get closer and further from each other Let's preface this by noting that plate tectonics is not a simple branch of science. Everyone knows what earthquakes are, but there's another, similar thing tectonic plates do called 'episodic tremor and slip events' (ETS events). Most of the time Vancouver and Vancouver Island are moving closer to each other,

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geography and geology For those wondering what volcanic rock looks like, there's a house on Cambie that was designed around a volcanic outcrop that sits there to this day.

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5. The highest point in Vancouver is the top of Queen Elizabeth Park

though only by tiny amounts measured in millimeters. But then there are these ETS events, which are more like a series of slips instead of a jolting moment. In this area they happen every 14 of 15 months, and over a few weeks the island backs away from the mainland, before once again getting closer.

4. Vancouver's volcanic Little Mountain This one is simple; Vancouver's Little Mountain has a volcanic history. Don't worry, it's not a volcano (and never was),

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but it is made of lava and/or magma. Western B.C. had a lot of volcanic activity back in the day, and as part of that, around 31 to 34 million years ago, the hill formed. What exactly happened is unclear, but in general it was created by magma ﬂowing up through the layers of the Earth. From there it's unclear if it stayed underground as magma, and then the rest of the land was eroded away, or if it broke the surface to become a lava ﬂow. In either case, what's there now used to be liquid rock just over 30 million years ago.

It may not come as a big surprise that the highest point of Vancouver is on top of Little Mountain, especially with Queen Elizabeth Park boasting some of the best sightlines in the city. What's more surprising is second place. A city topographical map shows that an area of Boundary Road near Burnaby's Central Park is the secondhighest spot in the city. When driving past the Korean War Memorial in the park, you're also more than 120 metres above sea level. Third place is a section of Price Street between Boundary Road and Joyce Street.

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Festival of all things meat and cheese returns this fall And so we "meat" again: the Vancouver Cheese and Meat Festival will return for 2022 with an event they hope will be un-brie-lievable for charcuterie fans this fall. Taking place Saturday, Nov. 5 in North Vancouver at the historic Pipe Shop, the popular fest that celebrates all things meaty and cheesy will feature an array of artisan vendors and CONTINUES ON PAGE 13

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their wares for ticket-holders to enjoy. While a participating list of cheese and meat vendors - as well as folks who make all the goodies to go on or with your charcuterie board, like honey, chocolate and alcohol - has not been conﬁrmed for 2022, past participants include well-known businesses. Last year the fest welcomed Two Rivers Meats, Bon Macaron, Arc Imports, Habibi's, Eve's Crackers, Sheringham Distillery, and Truﬄe Pig Chocolate, to name a few. "Our goal is to introduce guests to new products and exciting pairings that excite their taste buds. The key is that guests can journey to the Festival as a one-stop shop to taste various products produced locally," said founder David Bain in 2021.

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Here's how the festival works, according to organizers: With your Tasting Tickets, VIP Ticket, or Super Pass, you will get entry into the beautiful venue. Upon entry, you will be handed a charcuterie board to take home and a wine glass. From there you can walk around the venue sampling from our amazing artisan food and beverage vendors. No extra fees! Each vendor is there to guide you through their creations while suggesting pairing ideas with vendors around them. Passes start at $95.75 and are available to purchase online for each of the three tasting sessions starting July 14. By Lindsay William-Ross

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