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City and district share a cycling infrastructure vision called the 2012 Bicycle Master Plan

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The city and district of North Vancouver are steadily roll-ing ahead with the imple-

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The North Van-wide cycling infrastructure strategy builds upon the work accomplished to

date and serves as a guiding doc-ument for future cycling improve-ments.

By 2040, both municipalities are aiming to have 15 per cent of all transportation done by bike for travel within eight kilometres.

In the district, transportation engineers look at incorporating cycling infrastructure when-ever road improvement projects pop up. For example, during the recent seismic upgrading of the Mount Seymour Parkway Bridge bike lanes were added in both directions.

And because bicycle infra-structure is relatively expensive, the dis-trict seized an oppor-tunity to cost-share the $2-million seis-mic upgrade project with multiple funding partners including TransLink.

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This customizable app provides a wealth of parks-related information at your fingertips. Whether you’re looking for a park with a concession or one with playground equipment the Parks App has got you covered. Review District parks in an alphabetized list, or view the interactive map with clickable pinpoint location finders. Click on a particular park on the map to review its features including, a brief description of the park, its hours, location, and more!

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Be TravelSmart! TravelSmart North Shore encourages everyone to pledge to get out of the car once a week and to enjoy our community by walking, cycling or taking transit. Practice your Travelsmart ways and integrate walking into your usual routine. Walking is one of the healthiest ways to travel and the North Shore is a walker’s paradise! For more information visit travelsmart.ca/northshore.

On Saturday, October 5th attend the Edgemont Roll and Stroll. This free event is a community celebration of active living. Bring the whole family and enjoy bike and shoe decorating, face painting, a bike safety rodeo, more than 20 interactive exhibits, live presentations and enter for a chance to win prizes. For more details visit rollandstroll.ca.

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Following is a list of Council meetings for this month. This list is subject to change and new agenda items/meetings may be added or revised during the month.

Council Meetings: Monday, October 7, 7:00p.m. Monday, October 21, 7:00p.m.

Upcoming Meetings

Edgemont Village – Upcoming Public Open Houses, November 2 and 5. After successful public ‘Ideas Forums’ in February and ‘Directions Forums’ in June, a draft of the Design Guidelines and Plan for Edgemont Village is being prepared based on community input to date. This third phase of the public process to refresh the local plan for Edgemont Village will present draft design guidelines for the form and character of buildings and public realm improvements in the Village, in addition to policies regarding things like housing and transportation. Open Houses are scheduled for Saturday, November 2 (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.), repeated Tuesday, November 5 (6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.), both at Highlands Church (3255 Edgemont Blvd.). For more information about this community planning initiative, please visit identity.dnv.org.

Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant Public MeetingMetro Vancouver will host a public meeting on Thursday, October 10 (6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Norgate School, 1295 Sowden St) to provide further information about the new Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant, which will be located on West 1st Street, between Pemberton Avenue and Philip Avenue. At this meeting you will learn about, and have the opportunity to provide feedback on: the new facility and the evolution of the plant design; approximate cost and funding options; resource recovery strategies; and community integration strategies. For more information, visit metrovancouver.org/lionsgate.


Federal funding helping to rehabilitate local fish habitats

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The West Vancouver Streamkeepers had the chance to show off their new rearing pond at Memorial Park last week when Gail Shea, minister of fisheries and oceans, stopped by to see the project that

could serve as a model for other B.C. communities. The Centennial Rearing Pond opened in April and is now home to around 200

coho fry and three dozen cut throat trout, as well as aquatic insects that serve as food for the young fish. The pond was paid for in part by funds through the fed-eral government to the Pacific Salmon Foundation.

Small fish travelling through urban areas like West Van can have a diffi-cult time making it to the ocean because of changes to their habitat, said John Barker, president of the West Van Streamkeepers.

“The rearing pond is taking water out of the creek through an intake pipe, flowing it through a tranquil area and then water flows back into the creek.

“The water flows exactly the same in the summer and the winter — there is a constant flow, large woody debris which give the fish protection and they get a fresh source of water year round.”

Accompanied by John Weston, MP for West Van-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, at Centennial Rearing Pond, Minister Shea announced federal funding of $142,000 to rehabilitate two recreational fish habitats in the Squamish area.

The Evans Creek Re-Watering Project, initiated by the Pacific Salmon Foundation, includes construction of a new river intake system that will provide sustained flow to four kilometres of the channel and improve spawning and rearing opportunities in the channel. The Tiampo Coho Restoration Project led by the Squamish River Watershed Society includes the creation of a cool-water refuge pond for summer coho rearing habitat. It will result in improved spawn-ing habitat for coho and other salmon and trout species and, over the long-term, an improved forest canopy adjacent the channel.

Funding was made available through the newly established Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnership Program.

Like Centennial Rearing Pond, these two projects will increase the number of fish in the Straight of Georgia.

The pond creates a side channel for McDonald Creek, the fourth largest watershed in West Vancouver, which starts in Cypress Provincial Park and spills into Burrard Inlet near 19th Street and the Seawall. It is classified as endangered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada because of concrete dams and culverts along its route and other effects of urbanization.

“Coho salmon live three years and the first year they come out of the gravel is spent in fresh water,” said Barker. After time spent in the rearing pond, they will travel out to sea as smolt and come back as adults two years later.


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overall Official Community Plan. Establishing better connections between the district’s core centres is a top priority under the 2012 Bicycle Master Plan.

Antje Wahl, chair of the North Shore committee of HUB: Your Cycling Connection, is encouraged by recent cycling improvements done in North Van — including the bike lanes on Capilano Road and the separated bike path along Lillooet Road.

“But bike-friendly and safe streets form still a very small share of the overall road network in the district,” added Wahl. “It is quite difficult, and often impossible, to get to destinations without having to ride on roads with lots of traffic — not something most people would consider doing.”

Wahl commutes daily by electric bike to UBC, using either the Second Narrows or Lions Gate bridge.

“The unpleasant and sometimes dan-gerous parts of my commute are going up Keith [Road] hill from Brooksbank Avenue and Third Street between Forbes [Avenue] and Second Street,” said Wahl. “Both spots have no bike lanes and no feasible alter-nate routes.”

The HUB North Shore Committee has provided district council with recommen-dations on how to make planned new centres in Lower Lynn, Lynn Valley and Lower Capilano more bike friendly.

As part of the Bicycle Master Plan pro-cess, cyclists were surveyed to help staff from both municipalities determine prior-ity areas. The results showed that cycling infrastructure that provides physical separation from vehicular traffic is the favoured option.

“We have been thinking about whether or not it makes sense to do something like that,” said Ono, referencing the city’s first separated bike lane on Larson Road.

“That piece of Larson, it’s a wide piece of pavement. There is only so many spaces [in the district] to put all these changes in. We are trying to superimpose biking infrastructure overtop of a car-centered community.”

The district is currently working on a design plan to add bike lanes on Welch Street between Garden Avenue and West Vancouver, as a continuation of the West First Street bike route. Another cycling project proposed for 2014 is at Mountain Highway at Arborlynn, where district staff are looking at permitting cycling on the sidewalks.

Ideally, HUB would like North Vancouver to have a bike network for peo-ple of all ages and abilities (AAA), where cyclists are separated from vehicle traffic. It’s an option currently being floated by city staff.

In a report to council two weeks ago, council was advised of the trade-offs involved in implementing AAA bicycle facilities in an urban setting such as the city.

According to the report: “For most of the City’s arterial roads the existing road space is not wide enough to accommodate separated bike lanes, on-street parking, and vehicles travel lanes for both direc-tions.”

Staff have been directed to investigate the cost of creating an AAA bicycle back-bone in the city, along with identify key north/south and east/west corridors.

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Think Canadian Idol or Step Up, but with a bit more bite.

Filmed on the North Shore, Leap 4 Your Life is a mocumentary that follows a group of ambitious teens and their enthusiastic parents as they prepare for the 10th annual Leap 4 Your Life dance competition.

Tensions run high as the studio’s owner, Maureen, puts her eye on the Ultimate Grand Prize and goes to drastic measures to keep her team on top. With a reputation to uphold, the Sashay Senior Dance Company are ready to dominate the competition.

Twenty-three-year-old North Van resident Taylor Hill, the youngest producer from B.C. at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, wrote, produced and starred in the mocumentary.

She plays Molly, a “flaky eccentric” with brac-es, who dances alongside pretty rich girl Hilary (Allie Bertram), “the star of the group” Hilary and Matt (Reece Thompson), the “token guy” on the team.

“I always thought a mocumentary would be fun to do for a dance competition because I’ve been a huge fan of Christopher Guest films, like Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman, and I have a secret obsession with reality TV,” Hill tells The Outlook five days before the movie’s premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

With the help of mom

Barbara, who co-created the movie, her dad (who organized the food) and brothers (both appear in the movie), Hill came up with her “dream project,” found other actors and got award-winning director Gary Hawes on board.

Filming was held at Hill’s house, her former training ground North Shore Dance Academy, Kay Meek Theatre and other spots in North and West Van.

“It’s obvious it’s a mocumentary. It’s like The Office or Modern Family, it’s very funny and the characters are quirky and wacky. It doesn’t take itself as seriously as a documentary would.

“But I hope some people think it’s real because that would be hilarious.”

Raised in Delbrook, Hill began acting and dancing at seven years old and studied at the Lyric School of Acting while at Balmoral junior secondary. She moved to Sentinel secondary where she took the Super Achievers program for dancing and acting and then graduated from SFU with a major in psychology and a minor in fine and performing arts.

Having grown up in the dance world, writing Leap 4 Your Life came naturally to the up-and-coming filmmaker, who wrote the script in just a month.

“We just found out we sold out [for the premiere]. Which was so exciting, that was like 500 seats,” Hill says proudly.

Leap 4 Your Life shows on Sept. 30 at 6:30 p.m. at Rio Theatre and on Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. at The Cinematheque. Tickets are available at VIFF.org.

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Editor,Recently, I helped organize a tour of sev-

eral film studios across the Lower Mainland (North Shore Studios, Sharpe Sound, Bridge Studios and PIXAR Canada) for 16 of my fel-low MLAs. These facilities have played host to some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters, and are vital to the livelihood of more than 25,000 British Columbians.

From location scouts and carpenters, to camera operators and colourists, the industry employs an abundance of people from a vari-ety of backgrounds and disciplines. It even helps spur employment indirectly as well.

When the North Shore’s own Lions Gate Studios is booming with productions, anoth-er local company, Universal Printing and Bindery, is working overtime. That means more ink, more printing and more people working.

The tour gave MLAs an opportunity to learn about the industry from people on the inside, and discover the many benefits it pro-vides to the provincial economy. For example: a large production, like the recently released Man of Steel, can spend in excess of $100 mil-lion in B.C. in wages, goods and services. This can represent upwards of 1,000 jobs and pay-ments to more than 2000 vendors and local companies.

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Through these initiatives, we want to ensure we not only help the film production side remain competitive, but also breathe new life into the post-production and new media sectors.

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North Shorenewcomers A rising number of highly educated immigrants working below their skill level are arriving in North and West Van

Culture shock can happen at the most unex-pected times.

Standing at a corner near Lonsdale Avenue, Mahsa Ramezani and her husband were deciding whether to cross the street.

“Let’s go, the car is waiting for us,” her husband said, glancing at a driver who had politely stopped a few feet away, even though there wasn’t a crosswalk.

“I couldn’t believe he was waiting for us. He was waiting for us to decide whether we wanted to cross the street,” recalls Ramezani with a laugh.

The contrast was so sharp with the “chaotic” bus-tling streets in Ramezani’s home city, Tehran, Iran, that the experience remains etched in her memory. Drivers in Tehran, she says, definitely wouldn’t wait for dawdling pedestrians.

This stereotypical Canadian politeness is one of countless examples that have caught Ramezani off guard during her six months in Canada.

Before joining her husband in North Van, he sent photos of North Shore scenery to encourage her to make the transcontinental move.

“The mountains look similar to my home town,” says Ramezani, speaking of the city where she grew up, Gorgan in northern Iran.

She was a doctor in Iran and is now studying for Canadian medical exams to match her degree, which will take another year.

Before Ramezani left, her mother packed Persian spices in her luggage that she thought wouldn’t be available in the Lower Mainland.

It turns out, however, there is an abundant supply of traditional ingredients within a few blocks of her new home in Upper Lonsdale.

“Here I was, 30,000 kilometres away, and it was like I was in a little Tehran,” says Ramezani.

“I didn’t have a chance to speak English anywhere.”

On her mother’s insistence, Ramezani began taking private English classes when she was a child and she was eager to start conversing with Canadians. But wherever she goes — grocery shopping, the bank, a restaurant — someone is always available to speak in Farsi.

Not needing English in North Van isn’t unexpected since nearly 11,000, or six per cent, of people living on the North Shore speak Farsi.

Making the transition easier, many kinds of tradi-tional food are made within walking distance.

“I didn’t use to like a kind of ice cream [tradition-ally found in Iran], but when I saw it here, it made me happy and now I serve it to all my guests,” says Ramezani.

Even though there are many aspects of North Van that ward off homesickness, she still has to get accus-tomed to a much different way of life and is making a deliberate attempt to make friends with long-term Canadian residents.

“I’d never been to a Chinese market, so I went in one on Lonsdale. Now I’ll go there more.

“And it’s very safe here. I don’t think people from here are aware of how safe it is.”

Chemical engineer to live-in caregiver Like Ramezani and her husband, who is also a

doctor, many new immigrants are highly educated and most come to Canada in skilled worker or business class categories.

From 2006 to 2011, the North Shore saw a 23 per cent jump in immigration compared to the years 2001 to 2005. For the decade from 2001 to 2011, nearly 19,000 immigrants arrived on the North Shore, ac-cording to the North Shore Multicultural Society.

Iranian immigrants account for 22 per cent, making

them the largest newcomer population. Other common countries of origin include China, Hong Kong and Tai-wan (grouped together under Chinese), South Korea and the Philippines.

In total, more than a quarter (27 per cent) of people on the North Shore don’t speak English as their first language.

To help ease the transition, these groups can receive settlement services in their first languages at the North Shore Multicultural Society on East 15th Street near Lonsdale Avenue.

Even though Filipino immigrants are the fourth largest group, they don’t access services as much as other clients because of built-in family and friend support systems and knowledge of English before they arrive, says Kim Shetler, manager of settlement and community connections at the North Shore Multicul-tural Society.

For example, the number of Filipino immigrants nearly double that of Koreans, but Koreans are much more likely to access services.

Connections led Purita Cortez to move to Canada from the Philippines nine years ago to be a live-in caregiver. Trained as a chemical engineer, like many new immigrants she is working below her skill level but opted to come to Canada for her children’s future.

“It’s the easiest way to come to Canada if you don’t have a lot of money,” she says of being hired as a live-in caregiver. “If you apply as a skilled worker, you need a lot of money.”

She talked about her experience at North Van Library’s North Shore Stories, an event last weekend that highlighted nine immigrants’ stories.

While studying to be a live-in caregiver for six months, she also worked as a chemical engineer to support her children.

She applied to an international agency to find a job

as soon as she finished the program. After working in Canada for five years, she was granted permanent

residency and her three children soon followed. They had a tough time getting used to Canada at first, but began to enjoy the North Shore when they made friends and enrolled in school.

“I was lucky I was hired,” Cortez tells the audience.

For hire: Plenty of skilled labourThree per cent of clients at the North Shore Multicultural Society

are live-in caregivers. They can apply for permanent residency after living in Canada for at least two years.

Most immigrants, however, arrive under federal skilled worker or business class.

Sara (Xi) Xu is from China, for example, and was educated as a lawyer in Florida before arriving in North Van six months ago with her husband, a project manager for the oil and gas industry and part of the skilled worker group.

While Xu is certified to practise in Florida and China, she is current-ly studying to take the bar exam to become a lawyer in B.C.

“My daughter was going to start school and I felt so much pressure for her. There was no focus on creativity,” says Xu. “I hadn’t been to Canada but I assumed it would have similar characteristics as the U.S.

“There isn’t as much distinction between rich and poor, as long as people are happy.”

Here in B.C., students start school around 9 a.m. and are off by 3 p.m., but Xu says her daughter, who is enrolled in a Grade 3 class at a North Van elementary school, would have been studying much longer hours if she was still living in China.

Working at the North Shore Multicultural Society, Shetler says she’s heard other clients mention the effects of constant academic pressure in the Chinese education system.

“I moved here with no friends, no family — knowing no one pretty much,” she says.

Like most other immigrants, she had to relearn everyday activities, such as how to take a bus, what to recycle and where riding a bike is allowed.

“It’s all different here, even the little things.”

Immigration shift Bozena Felsz arrived in B.C. from Poland in 1982, a time when Euro-

pean immigration made up a larger per cent of newcomers. Her first home was in

Terrace where she took English classes, along with a cup of coffee and cookies, from a woman who taught out of her trailer.

In exchange for garden-ing or painting a fence, she would read Reader’s Digest magazines with Mrs. Greg every weekday at 9 a.m. sharp.

It’s the first stories she read in English, such as when rescuers dropped beans over a small, iso-lated community so they could survive a harsh win-ter, that have stuck in her mind after 30 years.

Felsz and her husband then moved to North Van, where she found another English teacher who routinely made her “Canadian” soup, coleslaw and buns in her apart-ment. It was there that she learned Canadians like to be less formal and “help yourself” was a common phrase.

She has been teaching ESL classes at the North Shore Multicultural Society since 2009 and is a member of Toastmasters, where she prac-tises speaking English in public.

Immigration from Europe peaked prior to the First World War be-tween 1911 and 1912 and during the late 1950s, but newcomers from this region are becoming more rare. Since the 1970s, South Asia and China have been the main source countries to Canada.

Certain policies have been discriminatory against immigrants, such as in 1923 when the government passed the Chinese Immigration Act, which excluded Chinese people from entering Canada between 1923 and 1947. An official apology was announced in 2006.

And, as another example, immigrants from Poland, where Felsz is from, and other “non-preferred” countries such as Hungary and Roma-nia weren’t allowed into Canada during the 1920s unless they worked as farmers or servants.

“Like a newborn baby”Unfamiliar with the territory, Ramezani was uneasy the first time

she rode a bus in North Van.

SIGHTSEEING - Mahsa Ramezani, a doctor who immigrated to North Van six months ago, takes in the North Shore’s landscape at the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Submitted photo

continued, PAGE 27

WELCOME - Kim Shetler (right), manager of settlement and community connections at the North Shore Multicultural Society, and Sara (Xi) Xu, a lawyer who immigrated from China six months ago. Rob Newell photo

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Culture shock can happen at the most unex-pected times.

Standing at a corner near Lonsdale Avenue, Mahsa Ramezani and her husband were deciding whether to cross the street.

“Let’s go, the car is waiting for us,” her husband said, glancing at a driver who had politely stopped a few feet away, even though there wasn’t a crosswalk.

“I couldn’t believe he was waiting for us. He was waiting for us to decide whether we wanted to cross the street,” recalls Ramezani with a laugh.

The contrast was so sharp with the “chaotic” bus-tling streets in Ramezani’s home city, Tehran, Iran, that the experience remains etched in her memory. Drivers in Tehran, she says, definitely wouldn’t wait for dawdling pedestrians.

This stereotypical Canadian politeness is one of countless examples that have caught Ramezani off guard during her six months in Canada.

Before joining her husband in North Van, he sent photos of North Shore scenery to encourage her to make the transcontinental move.

“The mountains look similar to my home town,” says Ramezani, speaking of the city where she grew up, Gorgan in northern Iran.

She was a doctor in Iran and is now studying for Canadian medical exams to match her degree, which will take another year.

Before Ramezani left, her mother packed Persian spices in her luggage that she thought wouldn’t be available in the Lower Mainland.

It turns out, however, there is an abundant supply of traditional ingredients within a few blocks of her new home in Upper Lonsdale.

“Here I was, 30,000 kilometres away, and it was like I was in a little Tehran,” says Ramezani.

“I didn’t have a chance to speak English anywhere.”

On her mother’s insistence, Ramezani began taking private English classes when she was a child and she was eager to start conversing with Canadians. But wherever she goes — grocery shopping, the bank, a restaurant — someone is always available to speak in Farsi.

Not needing English in North Van isn’t unexpected since nearly 11,000, or six per cent, of people living on the North Shore speak Farsi.

Making the transition easier, many kinds of tradi-tional food are made within walking distance.

“I didn’t use to like a kind of ice cream [tradition-ally found in Iran], but when I saw it here, it made me happy and now I serve it to all my guests,” says Ramezani.

Even though there are many aspects of North Van that ward off homesickness, she still has to get accus-tomed to a much different way of life and is making a deliberate attempt to make friends with long-term Canadian residents.

“I’d never been to a Chinese market, so I went in one on Lonsdale. Now I’ll go there more.

“And it’s very safe here. I don’t think people from here are aware of how safe it is.”

Chemical engineer to live-in caregiver Like Ramezani and her husband, who is also a

doctor, many new immigrants are highly educated and most come to Canada in skilled worker or business class categories.

From 2006 to 2011, the North Shore saw a 23 per cent jump in immigration compared to the years 2001 to 2005. For the decade from 2001 to 2011, nearly 19,000 immigrants arrived on the North Shore, ac-cording to the North Shore Multicultural Society.

Iranian immigrants account for 22 per cent, making

them the largest newcomer population. Other common countries of origin include China, Hong Kong and Tai-wan (grouped together under Chinese), South Korea and the Philippines.

In total, more than a quarter (27 per cent) of people on the North Shore don’t speak English as their first language.

To help ease the transition, these groups can receive settlement services in their first languages at the North Shore Multicultural Society on East 15th Street near Lonsdale Avenue.

Even though Filipino immigrants are the fourth largest group, they don’t access services as much as other clients because of built-in family and friend support systems and knowledge of English before they arrive, says Kim Shetler, manager of settlement and community connections at the North Shore Multicul-tural Society.

For example, the number of Filipino immigrants nearly double that of Koreans, but Koreans are much more likely to access services.

Connections led Purita Cortez to move to Canada from the Philippines nine years ago to be a live-in caregiver. Trained as a chemical engineer, like many new immigrants she is working below her skill level but opted to come to Canada for her children’s future.

“It’s the easiest way to come to Canada if you don’t have a lot of money,” she says of being hired as a live-in caregiver. “If you apply as a skilled worker, you need a lot of money.”

She talked about her experience at North Van Library’s North Shore Stories, an event last weekend that highlighted nine immigrants’ stories.

While studying to be a live-in caregiver for six months, she also worked as a chemical engineer to support her children.

She applied to an international agency to find a job

as soon as she finished the program. After working in Canada for five years, she was granted permanent

residency and her three children soon followed. They had a tough time getting used to Canada at first, but began to enjoy the North Shore when they made friends and enrolled in school.

“I was lucky I was hired,” Cortez tells the audience.

For hire: Plenty of skilled labourThree per cent of clients at the North Shore Multicultural Society

are live-in caregivers. They can apply for permanent residency after living in Canada for at least two years.

Most immigrants, however, arrive under federal skilled worker or business class.

Sara (Xi) Xu is from China, for example, and was educated as a lawyer in Florida before arriving in North Van six months ago with her husband, a project manager for the oil and gas industry and part of the skilled worker group.

While Xu is certified to practise in Florida and China, she is current-ly studying to take the bar exam to become a lawyer in B.C.

“My daughter was going to start school and I felt so much pressure for her. There was no focus on creativity,” says Xu. “I hadn’t been to Canada but I assumed it would have similar characteristics as the U.S.

“There isn’t as much distinction between rich and poor, as long as people are happy.”

Here in B.C., students start school around 9 a.m. and are off by 3 p.m., but Xu says her daughter, who is enrolled in a Grade 3 class at a North Van elementary school, would have been studying much longer hours if she was still living in China.

Working at the North Shore Multicultural Society, Shetler says she’s heard other clients mention the effects of constant academic pressure in the Chinese education system.

“I moved here with no friends, no family — knowing no one pretty much,” she says.

Like most other immigrants, she had to relearn everyday activities, such as how to take a bus, what to recycle and where riding a bike is allowed.

“It’s all different here, even the little things.”

Immigration shift Bozena Felsz arrived in B.C. from Poland in 1982, a time when Euro-

pean immigration made up a larger per cent of newcomers. Her first home was in

Terrace where she took English classes, along with a cup of coffee and cookies, from a woman who taught out of her trailer.

In exchange for garden-ing or painting a fence, she would read Reader’s Digest magazines with Mrs. Greg every weekday at 9 a.m. sharp.

It’s the first stories she read in English, such as when rescuers dropped beans over a small, iso-lated community so they could survive a harsh win-ter, that have stuck in her mind after 30 years.

Felsz and her husband then moved to North Van, where she found another English teacher who routinely made her “Canadian” soup, coleslaw and buns in her apart-ment. It was there that she learned Canadians like to be less formal and “help yourself” was a common phrase.

She has been teaching ESL classes at the North Shore Multicultural Society since 2009 and is a member of Toastmasters, where she prac-tises speaking English in public.

Immigration from Europe peaked prior to the First World War be-tween 1911 and 1912 and during the late 1950s, but newcomers from this region are becoming more rare. Since the 1970s, South Asia and China have been the main source countries to Canada.

Certain policies have been discriminatory against immigrants, such as in 1923 when the government passed the Chinese Immigration Act, which excluded Chinese people from entering Canada between 1923 and 1947. An official apology was announced in 2006.

And, as another example, immigrants from Poland, where Felsz is from, and other “non-preferred” countries such as Hungary and Roma-nia weren’t allowed into Canada during the 1920s unless they worked as farmers or servants.

“Like a newborn baby”Unfamiliar with the territory, Ramezani was uneasy the first time

she rode a bus in North Van.

SIGHTSEEING - Mahsa Ramezani, a doctor who immigrated to North Van six months ago, takes in the North Shore’s landscape at the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Submitted photo

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WELCOME - Kim Shetler (right), manager of settlement and community connections at the North Shore Multicultural Society, and Sara (Xi) Xu, a lawyer who immigrated from China six months ago. Rob Newell photo

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The Lower Mainland is famous for its outdoor lifestyle and variety of recreational activi-

ties. Most residents think of the North Shore when they want to get outside. Now, Polygon is bringing outdoor living and gorgeous homes together with Canyon Springs, its new collection of apartment resi-dences in North Vancouver.

“There are no other comparable new communities in Lynn Valley,” says sales manager Laura Cavanagh. “It’s been popular with local buyers espe-cially since we are currently offering buyers a special financing package.” Available until Oct. 14 only, Polygon is offering five-year, 2.95 per cent financ-ing as part of their pre-construction sales program.

“This is a great opportunity to secure a home before we close our doors on Oct. 14,” says Cavanagh.

The curb appeal is readily apparent

at Canyon Springs, with its contempo-rary West Coast architecture that fits perfectly with the surrounding natu-ral beauty of the neighbourhood.

The one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment residences are spacious and inviting, ranging from about 630 to 1,100 square feet.

“These are really efficient floor-plans,” Cavanagh says. “There’s no wasted space at all.”

Elegant laminate flooring through-out (with plush carpeting in the bedrooms) sets a modern tone for your new space, complemented by the nine-foot ceilings in the living and dining rooms. Buyers can choose between two colour schemes, Dark and White.

The kitchens are particularly beautiful, with stainless-steel appli-ances and premium rift-cut, flat-panel cabinetry in oak or glossy white. The cabinets are complement-ed by engineered stone countertops, a handset tile backsplash and con-

temporary halogen track and under-cabinet lighting.

The bathrooms are relaxing and luxurious, with imported porcelain tile flooring, flat-panel laminate cabinetry and a modern tub with a ceramic tile tub and shower sur-round. Your morning routine will be easy with the modern vanity mir-ror and lighting. The ensuite also includes engineered stone counter-tops and Grohe polished chrome tub and shower faucets that lend a touch of elegance to the space.

The outdoors is all around you at Canyon Springs, and residents will easily be able to take advantage of this on their large deck or patio. Most ground-level homes will even have a private yard.

Homeowners at Canyon Springs will have access to a fully equipped fitness studio overlooking an outdoor terrace, an on-site resident man-ager, a dog wash station and bike cleaning area and a spacious lounge

with a fireplace. The landmark cor-ner will also showcase a dramatic water feature and cast bronze art piece designed by local artist Marie Khouri.

Venturing off the property, you’ll find shopping, dining and schools all nearby, as well as the North Shore mountains and easy transit or car access to downtown Vancouver and the rest of the Lower Mainland. The close-knit community of Lynn Valley is like very few others in Metro Vancouver, where everyone from shoppers to yogis and freeriders to dog walkers enjoys an ideal balance between wild spaces and urban con-venience.

Homes start at $359,900. For more information on the homes or the spe-cial financing package, visit www.polyhomes.com, call 604-973-0298 or drop by the presentation centre at 2517 Mountain Highway, open daily except Fridays between noon and 6 p.m.

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It’s Cornucopia time again!» TASTING NOTES

Well, it looks like summer’s over and rather than lament its passing, I’m

always keen to plunge into the rainy season head-first, embrac-ing all that comes with it. One of the big kick-offs to this side of the calendar is the Cornucopia Food and Wine Festival in Whistler, and this year it prom-ises to be bigger and better than ever.

That’s not an empty promise, as they’ve expanded the festival this year to encompass two weekends and the stretch in-between for an all-out jamboree of food, wine and cocktail culture running Nov. 7-17. Make your plans now, as it’ll come quicker than you think. You can bet I’ll be bouncing around the village making the most of it, presenting seminars, attending tastings, spreading cheer and nurs-ing hangovers. When you do make it up into the mountains, here are the events you won’t want to miss. All of them take place at the Whistler Conference Centre unless otherwise noted. Head on over to WhistlerCornucopia.com for more info and a boatload of other tast-ings, dinners and events.

BC’s Past, Present & Future |Saturday, November 9 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | $40

This is a pretty rare opportunity, so I’m glad I’ve nabbed myself a seat by being one of the presenters! The other presenter is winemaker David Enns of Narmata’s famed Laughing Stock Vineyards, who

will be bringing a few back vintag-es of some wines (including their legendary “Portfolio” Bordeaux blend), taste folks through the cur-rent releases of them, and then share tank and barrel samples of the yet-to-be-released vintages. A good overview of the evolution and ageability of B.C. wine.

Craft Beer for Wine Lovers | Saturday, November 9 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | $40

This is another one of mine, this time tag-teaming with one of my favourite people ever; leg-endary Vancouver wine educator, writer and competition judge, DJ Kearney. If you’re on your game with wines but are mystified by the brave new world of craft beer, we’ll guide you through the perfect pints to look for, whether you’re into Riesling, Pinots or big, juicy Cabernets. From pilsners to por-ters, we’ll hoist many a glass!

France 101 | Sunday, November 10 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | $29

Michelle and Michaela, com-monly known as the “House Wine Girls,” are first on my list any time I have an obscure French wine query, so they’re definitely your best bet to demystify the classic wines of France. Tour through vari-eties and regions from Bordeaux to Burgundy and learn to decipher those labels, all while swirling and sipping away!

Crush Gala Tasting | Friday & Saturday, November 8 & 9 | 8:30 PM – 11 PM | $89

The flagship grand tasting event of the festival occurs two nights in a row with hundreds of wines from all around the world, cana-pés a-plenty and a blizzard of cheer. Look for the “Top 25” signs around the room, as chief judge DJ Kearney will have recently run the

“Top 25 Wines of Cornucopia” com-petition (with yours truly as one of the judges), highlighting the best drops of the festival.

Nourish – Yoga | Everyday: November 7 – 17 | 8 AM to 9 AM | Fairmont Chateau Whistler | $15

Yup, there’s yoga on offer every morning at the Fairmont. Tackle that hangover, recharge and refresh so you can do it all over again each day.

See you on the mountain!

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Catch legendary Vancouver wine educator, writer and competition judge DJ Kearney at this year’s Cornucopia Festival in Whistler.Submitted photo

Annual wine and food fest in Whistler serves up something for everyone Explore Edgemont Village by foot, bike or

anything that rolls — except vehicles — on Saturday (Oct. 5) during a celebration of active modes of transportation.

Aiming to bring awareness about traffic congestion, especially near school zones, the Edgemont Village Roll & Stroll Festival is the first event of its kind in B.C.

“We wanted to do some work in the [District of North Vancouver] because this is an area where the car is king,” said event co-organizer Jeneen Sutherland. “We are really hoping that the event will plant seeds to get people out of their cars and foster more walking and bik-ing to school, and more sustainable and active transportation in general.”

The free event, supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon, kicks off at 10 a.m. at Cleveland elementary school, where people of all ages are invited to participate in face painting and a bike safety rodeo.

The day also provides an opportunity for the community to share their active trans-portation ideas on storyboards.

Sutherland said the District of North Vancouver recently improved traffic woes around Cleveland elementary by adding bikes signs, speed limit signs and speed bumps.

In keeping with the theme of active trans-portation, participants will set off from Cleveland school on a 1.5-kilometre stroll to Edgemont Village. They will be greeted by a car-free pedestrian zone with exhibits, enter-tainment and prize giveaways on the street in front of the library.

“We ask that, if possible, participants arrive ‘on their own steam’ without cars,” said Sutherland.

The Edgemont Village Roll & Stroll Festival runs on Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

You can register online at rollandstroll.ca or contact [email protected] for more information.

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B.C. First Nations carve new path with independent health authority» NEWS

On Oct. 1, the First Nations Health Authority, headquartered in West Van, officially assumed responsibility for the delivery and funding of aboriginal health care programs in B.C.

MARIA SPITALE-LEISKS t A F F R e p o R t e R

On Tuesday (Oct. 1) the federal government officially handed over control of First Nations health programs in B.C. to the independent

First Nations Health Authority.Almost two years ago, on Oct. 13, 2011, represen-

tatives from the federal and provincial governments and B.C. First Nations gathered at the Capilano Longhouse on the Squamish First Nation reserve for the signing of the unprecedented B.C. Tripartite Agreement on First Nations Health Governance.

A one-time funding of $17 million was given to sup-port the implementation and transition costs for the establishment of the FNHA. Going forward, Ottawa will allocate $380 million a year (over 10 years) for a total of $4.7 billion, while the province will contribute $83.5 million.

The FNHA, whose headquarters are in an office building at Park Royal South, will now assume control of financing and delivering programs historically han-dled by Health Canada’s First Nations Inuit Health Branch.

“This has been a long time coming,” FNHA chief executive officer Joe Gallagher told The Outlook on Monday. “This transfer of the services represents a significant milestone along this journey.”

Starting this week, 150 Health Canada employ-ees will amalgamate with 100 staff members already working out of the FNHA’s Park Royal office.

Gallagher said the terms of employment for those Health Canada workers will not change under the new model.

“As part of this, we have obligations to honour the collective agreements they have in place through the federal unions,” explained Gallagher.

There will, however, be new training around health and wellness philosophies as they relate to First Nations health. According to Gallagher, there’s now an opportunity for the FNHA to custom-tailor health care programs.

“That notion that a lot of things that happen to peo-ple are preventable. To shift the acute care to a pre-ventive model,” said Gallagher.

Status B.C. First Nations have a diabetes rate 40 per cent higher than the general population. As the FNHA moves forward and tailors their health pro-grams to the meet the needs of First Nations, several

key areas will be addressed: increased physical activ-ity, stress management, reducing tobacco use, proper body weight and better nutrition.

“We, as First Nations people, have a vested interest in taking care of our health and living well longer,” said Gallagher.

Now that the FNHA is at the same table as the B.C. Ministry of Health, both parties will work together to coordinate and integrate their respective health pro-grams and services.

“There is a lot of do, a lot of unmet needs that need to be addressed,” said Gallagher. “For a lot of [First Nations] people that don’t have family physicians, the emergency room becomes primary care.”

Oral hygiene is another area of concern. For aborigi-nals in B.C., dental coverage falls under a non-insured health benefit program.

Gallagher said there have been some inconsistencies on how dental fees are collected, with some dentists requiring advancement payment. This has discouraged some First Nations people from visiting the dentist.

The FNHA hopes to address these concerns by hav-ing conversations with the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C.

In terms of accountability, the FNHA will undergo annual audits conducted by an independent auditor. Those financial statements will be submitted to the federal government, along with the FNHA’s annual reports, said Gallagher.

For the approximately 150,000 B.C. aboriginals — including 2,500 residents living on the Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh reserves — whose health care now comes under the responsibility of the FNHA — the transition is expected to be seamless, says Gallagher.

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First Nations Health Authority chief executive officer Joe Gallagher said the Oct. 1 transfer of aboriginal health services has ‘been a long time coming.’ Submitted photo


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Friday Night Live starts weekend out rightThere aren’t many North Shore residents who can get up from their dinner table on a Friday night, decide against another night in front of the TV, and, just 10 minutes later, be enjoying an evening of live music and comedy.

But that’s the happy reality in Lynn Valley, where Friday Night Live (FNL) has entered its third season. Some things haven’t changed – with a $10 ($25/family) ticket price and no downtown parking costs, you still can’t beat the evening for value.

The performers, too, continue to be stellar. The cast of seasoned improv actors and musicians is headed by Alan Marriott, who launched his theatre sports career in Vancouver in 1980 before spending the next two decades training, performing and teaching in London, England.

Now he orchestrates a roster of fellow improvisers whose antics form the backbone of FNL. Joining them every week is a guest artist; the audience can expect anyone from a magician to emerging or well-known actors or musicians.

What is new this year is that more businesses are stepping up to lend a hand. Originally the brainchild of Lynn Valley United Church (LVUC), the event has turned into a partnership between various organizations who want to support close-to-home, quality entertainment.

Title sponsors this season include RBC, Grossman & Stanley, and LVUC, with support offered by others as well (including Waves, which donates complimentary coffee). The artists, too, pitch in by performing for an honorarium. Now all that’s needed is consistent audience support to keep it all coming together.

“People often assume that if it’s held in a church, it’ll be preachy or hokey,” says Shauna Grinke, a church member who used her business skills to create a marketing approach for the freshly updated FNL.

Just one visit, however, is enough to change their minds. Between the professional quality theatre sports and guests such as talented Vancouver musical performer Jeff Hyslop, word is getting out that FNL is a treat not to be missed. In 2013, it was voted one of the North Shore’s “Best-Kept Secrets” in an Outlook newspaper reader poll.

Church administrator Kelly Jenner calls it “doing church in a radically different way.” It’s about building relationships within the neighbourhood, and creating a venue where people can gather to be inspired by uplifting entertainment. Given the large audience at last week’s season opener, it seems the idea is definitely catching on.

The show starts at 7:30 p.m. at 3201 Mountain Hwy. For information about upcoming guests, visit www.fnlnorthvan.com.

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Budding star West Van’s Morgan Rielly prepares for this NHL debut with the Toronto Maple Leafs

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He didn’t grow up a diehard Maple Leafs fan, but this year Andy Rielly’s got Toronto’s early-season schedule memorized.

The Leafs opened on the road in Montreal on Tuesday, play another road game in Philly on Wednesday and then start the season at home with a Hockey Night in Canada tilt against provincial rival Ottawa on Saturday night.

And in any one of those games, Andy’s son Morgan may suit up for his first-ever regular season NHL game.

On Monday when the Maple Leafs submitted their final 23-man roster to start the NHL season Morgan Rielly’s name was on the list.

“We were very hopeful that things would go the way they did,” Andy said on Tuesday.

But Andy and his wife Shirley both understand “it’s just a step along the way” for their son, who was the fifth overall pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.

Morgan is only 19 and Toronto has several veteran blueliners on the team, so the question becomes: What’s the best environment for him to develop? The NHL, where he may see less ice time or back in junior hock-ey, where he’ll get monster minutes?

Because he’s still eligible to play junior, Morgan can play up to nine games with the Leafs and still be returned to his WHL team without affecting the first year of his entry level pro contract.

For now, Andy’s just hoping to get a chance to see his son’s first NHL game. That’s why he’s got a “go bag” — some travel stuff — stashed in his vehicle right now that will allow him to go directly to the airport and hop a flight if he gets the word his son is in the lineup.

Even if he or his wife can’t make it to their son’s first game, there will be lots of support inside Toronto’s Air Canada Centre for Morgan, who has a large family contingent living in southern Ontario.

Since news broke that Morgan had made the team on Monday, Andy’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing. “[The family living in Ontario] are so excit-ed to have somebody they know play for the Leafs,” he says.

Amazingly, Morgan may not be the only 19-year-old rookie defenceman from West Vancouver making his NHL debut this week.

Longtime family friend and minor hockey teammate Griffin Reinhart, who was selected fourth overall in the 2012 by the New York Islanders, also made his club’s 23-man roster on Monday and may play his first game soon too. Both players played minor hockey together at Hollyburn and also attended the Sentinel hockey academy. Diane Nelson, district principal for West Vancouver School District’s sports academies, isn’t sur-prised by the success of either player.

“Morgan has been the ultimate role model for our young athletes, con-sistently displaying an outstanding work ethic and a quiet determination to stay focused on his goals. As a young hockey player, it was evident Morgan was highly skilled, but what really stood out was his tremendous understanding of the game,” she wrote in an email. “We are all extremely proud of him...and who knows, some of us might even become Leaf fans!

As for Reinhart, she added: “It is without a doubt that we knew early on that Griffin was destined toward an extraordinary path in hockey dis-playing such outstanding hockey skills. We are all tremendously proud and excited to watch Griffin’s ongoing success as he moves to the level of the NHL.”

-Justin Beddall

MY BOY’S GOING TO PLAY IN THE BIG LEAGUES - Morgan Rielly was the fifth overall pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Photo courtesy of the Toronto Maple Leafs

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New Metro sewage plant pegged at $560mLions Gate to get secondary treatment to meet federal pollution standard

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Metro Vancouver’s planned new Lions Gate sewage treatment plant won’t include many bells

and whistles like a once-mooted wed-ding chapel.

And the plant replacement project will stop at secondary treatment – not the more advanced tertiary treatment demanded by environmental groups – in the name of saving money.

“There’s no water slides, no wedding chapels,” Metro utilities committee chair Darrell Mussatto said, but added there may be a very large farmable green roof and some public art.

He said the design, picked from three short-listed options, is “basically final-ized” –subject to further public input in the weeks ahead.

And all of the region is expected to share to some degree in the $560-mil-lion estimated cost, which is up from an initial $400 million but not as costly as planners had feared.

It’s the first of two big sewage plants Metro must upgrade from primary treatment – basic screening and skim-ming – to reduce ocean pollution and meet new federal standards.

The Metro board must still decide how the costs will be apportioned, but staff are proposing that some of it be spread onto taxpayers outside the North Shore and City of Vancouver ben-efitting area, where sewage fees would otherwise soar by hundreds of dollars.

Mussatto said the proposed design ensures the odour from the new plant

will be “totally contained” to protect neighbours in North Vancouver District’s Norgate area.

Georgia Strait Alliance executive director Christianne Wilhelmson, who sits on an advisory committee on behalf of environmental groups, is still pushing for a design that allows future upgrades to more advanced treatment methods and recovery of resources.

“Technology is changing,” she said. “What’s most important to us is eliminating emerging endocrine-disrupting chemi-cals as well as a broad range of pharmaceuticals.”

Wilhelmson said secondary treatment recovers at best half of those chemicals, which can change the hormonal devel-opment of fish and add to the contamination of marine mammals such as orcas.

“When we’re eating those fish it can have human impacts as well.”

But Mussatto said high-end tertiary treatment that would discharge very safe effluent to Burrard Inlet could have driven the Lions Gate price tag over $1 billion.

“It’s too cost-prohibitive at this point to do that,” he said.

Even at the lower cost using second-ary treatment – which Ottawa now requires – Metro is still counting on large senior government grants.

“If we don’t get the federal and pro-

vincial cost-sharing we will not be able to build this.”

Metro also expects to pay $1 billion to upgrade its Iona wastewater treatment plant, which discharges to the ocean between Richmond and Vancouver.

The new Lions Gate plant will be in an industrial zone two kilometres east of the old one.

It will use the same outfall pipe and Metro will transfer the land used by the existing treatment plant to the Squamish Nation in 2021.

Mussatto said Metro is negotiating with the Squamish Nation for a right-

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North Shore Credit Union rebrandsThe credit union that planted its roots on the North Shore almost 70 years ago will now be known as BlueShore Financial

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MARIA SPITALE-LEISKS t A f f R e p o R t e R

North Shore Credit Union may have outgrown its name, but it won’t forget its roots.

The financial institution first opened its doors in 1941 at Third Street and Lonsdale Avenue — a stone’s throw away from the bustling shipyards, whose workers served as the credit union’s first clients.

In more recent years, North Shore Credit Union, recognizing that its cli-ent base has become more diverse, has evolved with the community. Wealth management services were brought on board to help navigate clients through major financial decisions such as new home purchases and retirement plan-ning.

The name change to BlueShore Financial was an integral part of the rebranding process. In using the “North Shore” namesake the credit union found it created confusion for clients outside of the community.

BlueShore Financial has locations stretching from Whistler to West Broadway in Vancouver. In fact, 70 per cent of BlueShore’s business comes from outside the North Shore.

“We have been on a decade-long plan to build our brand,” said BlueShore Financial chief execu-tive officer Chris Catliff. “Our name

[change] has been the final bow on the present. It just made sense to tweak our name to match our actual mar-ket.”

The BlueShore brand still embod-ies the North Shore lifestyle and the mountains and ocean that surround it. Meanwhile, the company’s new tagline — “Be richly valued” — was designed to inspire both the employees and cli-ents of BlueShore Financial.

And many BlueShore branches have been transformed into “financial spas” featuring art glass walls, teller pods and a concierge offering hot towels and cappuccinos.

“If you think about the typical bank with columns and tellers that are blocked off, it shows the bank is imposing and how safe it is,” said Catliff of BlueShore creating a com-fortable setting for clients to discuss their financial affairs.

While the company grows as a regional player on the financial scene, BlueShore is also expanding its North Vancouver operations. Ten months from now the credit union’s new head-quarters will open at the corner of 13th Street and Lonsdale Avenue.

“We have been slowly moving up Lonsdale for the last 72 years,” said Catliff.

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‘Straight-Ahead Fred’…and the North Shore’s assault on the world speed skiing record

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You have likely never heard of the sport of speed skiing.

Yet for half a dozen years spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s, the North Shore boasted four of the top-eight ranked speed skiers in the entire world. Their names were Mark Rowan, Bob Miller, Terry Watts and Kent Wills. Those aren’t household names even here in North and West Vancouver, but they should be.

You see, the so-called Crazy Canucks of downhill skiing (Dave Irwin, Dave Murray, Steve Podborski, Jim Hunter and Ken Read) – folks you surely have heard of – had nothing on our Fearsome Foursome speed skiers who made the North Shore their home, plus others named Phil Graves, Leif Nelson and Tom Prochazka who followed shortly afterwards.

In the words of Mark Rowan, “The North Shore was the unsung centre of world speed skiing power.” Except that we just didn’t know about the sport or about the skier they called “Straight-Ahead Fred.”

But Rowan, who skied for Grouse Mountain and wrestled and played football at Handsworth before graduating early from Carson Graham in 1975 at the end of the first semester (so he could ski the rest of the win-ter) knows what he’s talking about.

Rowan held the world record for speed ski-ing in 1978 – albeit unofficially and for just a few short minutes before his time was uncer-emoniously usurped in a subsequent run the same day by the giant of the sport, Steve McKinney, who became the first to go faster than 200 kilometres per hour which was speed skiing’s equivalent to breaking track and field’s four-minute mile. Rowan’s time was 198.700 km/h. McKinney’s was 200.222. Their clockings were achieved on Oct. 4, 1978 – exactly 35 years ago tomorrow – in Portillo, Chile.

Bob Miller, a 1971 Delbrook grad, Grouse Mountain skier and member of the notewor-thy Miller wrestling family who now lives in Miami, was fourth at 197.477 km/h.

Kent Wills, a mid-1970s Hillside grad who raced for Whistler where he now resides, was seventh in 190.074. In 1985 he won speed ski-ing’s World Cup title.

Terry Watts, originally from Vernon who skied for Red Mountain in Rossland, had placed second and achieved the identical

time as Miller in an earlier speed skiing race that year in Cervinia, Italy. In 1996, he was found murdered in Vancouver over the B.C. Day long weekend.

But we’re getting way ahead of ourselves. What exactly is speed skiing? Who was “Straight-Ahead Fred”? And how did these local lads

get involved in this niche sport? Simply stated, speed skiing is a dramatic

gravity-induced free fall – under control and in as straight a line as possible – down an icy slope. The beginning of the run, on a decline of some 50 degrees, sends the skier off. The speed is clocked during the middle portion of the run which concludes with a run-out area much like a truck runaway lane you see on a highway.

“Speed skiing,” quips Rowan, who became known as ‘Straight-Ahead Fred,’ “is kind of like standing on a rock in the middle of Hell’s Gate and trying to hold your position. That’s what it feels like. The force of the wind, that’s the big difference [between downhill and speed skiing].”

Rowan explains how it all began for him and his buddies.

“The story,” he recalls, “started in 1964. Dick Dorworth, an American ski racer, set the world speed record in 1963 [at 171.428 km/h]. My parents bought me the Guinness Book

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CooL CAT IN ChILE - Mark Rowan traversed the Portillo speed skiing course in Chile in 1978 in 198.700 km/h, momentarily eclipsing Steve McKinney’s world speed skiing record of 198.020 established the previous year.Mark Rowan collection

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of World Records for Christmas 1964 and I said, ‘I’m going to be the world speed skiing cham-pion.’ Of course everyone laughed.

“Then in 1975 I won a scholarship to go to a ski camp in Bariloche, Argentina . The coach of the downhill program was Dick Dorworth. I asked him if he thought I could be a speed skier and he said, ‘The only guy I know that’s faster in a straight line than you is Steve McKinney.’ I said, ‘He’s the world champion’ and he said, ‘Yeah, you should do it.’ But I was only 18 years old at the time so I said I’ll go race downhill for a few more years.

“In early 1978, when I told Bob, Terry and Kent that I was going to Cervinia [for a world speed skiing race in July], they said, ‘Let’s all go.’ Bob got over on his own. Terry and I flew to London on a cheap fare. Kent probably went first class because his father was the senior pilot of Air Canada at the time. We took the ferry from Dover to Calais and a train to Italy. We all met in Cervinia. We didn’t have anything lined up, no skis, no helmets, no suits, nothing. But we were there more than a month before the competition driving around, going to ski fac-tories, trying to hustle equipment. We got noth-ing.

“A couple of weeks before training started, there was a sporting goods guy named Renzo Rica. He sent this woman named Mami Chiavassa to our hotel room. She said, ‘Mr. Rica would like you gentlemen to come to lunch tomorrow.’ So we went to the fanciest restau-rant in Cervinia for an amazing spread and he signed us all up. He got us helmets, poles, suits, everything but skis. And he said, ‘Don’t worry, you guys will get skis.’ Within a couple of days of the start of training, Atomic sponsored us [for skis]. We had been skiing with the Americans and I guess they were talking about us. I don’t know what they were saying, but it was enough to get us sponsored. So we had looked for sponsors, but ultimately the sponsors came to us.”

Watts finished sec-ond in the event, Miller placed sixth, Rowan seventh and Wills 12th. After Italy, they went on to Portillo and, as already noted, did astonishingly well there too.

Rowan, who now lives in West Van and is a partner with the law firm of Affleck Hira Burgoyne in downtown Vancouver, retired from the sport in 1980. Miller, Watts and Wills carried on for a few more years, each of them breaking the 200 km/h barrier at least once.

So what about the nickname “Straight-Ahead Fred”?

“My name is actu-ally Frederick Mark Rowan,” he explains. “I was named after my grandfather. I was Mark until I was in Grade 8, but in my French class in Grade 8 at Handsworth there were five Marks and my best friend, Rick Spittle, said, ‘Well his name is really Fred.’ So that stuck. Most people who met me between 1969 and 1986 still call me Fred.”

So he eventually became “Straight-Ahead

Fred,” a very cool nickname for one hot speed skier.

This is episode 488 from Len Corben’s trea-sure chest of stories – the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history.


Fast Friends - California’s Steve McKinney (left) and Mark Rowan of North Vancouver display their awards after finishing first and second in the world speed skiing championships in Portillo, Chile, on Oct. 4, 1978, exactly 35 years ago. Mark Rowan collection



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West Van Supt. Chris Kennedy says letter grades aren’t the best way to assess elementary students

MICHAELA GARSTINS t A f f R E p o R t E R

Kids today lug home nearly the same kind of report card their parents did 30 or 40 years ago.

Nothing much has changed. “Three times a year, a brown enve-

lope goes home with brief comments on a student’s success in prescribed areas; for older students, a series of numbers and letters quantify the most recent term,” writes West Vancouver Supt. Chris Kennedy in his blog post “The Year of the Report Card?”

Parents read and re-read each com-ment for insight and meaning, he says, while possibly comparing the letters and numbers to their neighbours’ kids as well.

But times are changing. Maple Ridge no longer requires ele-

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No more As, Bs, Cs, or Ds for these kids.

The new “student-inclusive confer-encing model” will see teachers meet with students and parents to discuss progress and places an emphasis on student self-assessment.

“For many parents, all they see three

times a year is a sheet of paper and they have to try to decode exactly what the teacher meant by each of the com-ments,” Kennedy tells The Outlook.

“There are a lot people wondering if there is a better way to give more meaningful, ongoing feedback.

Letter grades, which start in Grade 4 in B.C., are a hot topic.

While there may be no way around the ranking system for senior high school students due to college and university entrance requirements, there is discussion around the province on whether letter grades are appropriate for elementary students.

“I wonder about letter grades at ele-mentary school,” says Kennedy. “I don’t know if we need to be ranking and sorting kids in Grade 4.

“If we’re moving to more personal-ized learning, we should have more personalized assessment too.”

Ongoing feedback, parent-teacher conferences and student self-assess-ment are alternatives for young stu-dents so emphasis isn’t placed on just a few letters, he adds. “I think if you tell a young child they are a ‘C’, then they will live up to your expectations and they’ll stay a ‘C’.”

While the Ministry of Education sets rules for grading that school districts must follow, Kennedy says the ministry is open to looking at different models, such as the one Maple Ridge is trying out.

In the next few months, North Vancouver is reviewing Policy 203, a guideline on how students are assessed

and how parents are informed on their progress.

“We continuously review [our guide-lines], but we end up sticking with the Ministry of Education guidelines for reporting because it’s a complex issue,” says assistant Supt. Mark Jefferson. “There are some neat initiatives… but at the end of the day, your audience has to be receptive to the type of deliv-ery of report cards.

“There are some decisions being made and working groups in Victoria and the Metro area and we’re awaiting what their draft versions are.”

While North Van school district isn’t currently looking at clearing the slate of letter grades, a review of Policy 203 could see changes to the way students are assessed.

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“Just because we wouldn’t have let-ter grades doesn’t mean we would have lower standards. We have high expectations and high standards,” says Kennedy.

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The art of the $55-million real estate deal

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North Shore brothers team up to close the largest residential property deal in Canadian history

JUSTIN BEDDALLE d I T o r

A Saudi prince? Hollywood royalty? A South American industrialist? Or how about a famous footballer?

North Van realtor Sasan Fazli remains tight-lipped — he’s not at liberty to disclose the identity of the buyer who just purchased four adjacent condos at the Fairmont Pacific Rim in Coal Harbour for a combined total of $55 million.

“No, I really [can’t say] — it’s so confiden-tial. There’s tons of rumours out there... I just can’t confirm anything right now about my buyers,” says Fazli, who is with REMAX Crest Reality.

But he can tell you the deal is the largest residential property transaction in Canadian history.

“Combined, the $55 million was the big-gest residential sale — condo or home — in Canadian history,” he says.

The real estate mega-deal began when the mystery buyers purchased the two-storey penthouse in the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel’s private residences for $25 million, which is the largest-ever MLS condo sale in Canada.

“When I first walked in there my jaw dropped. It’s ultra, ultra, luxury,” Fazli says about the penthouse. “The view is amazing but when you walk in the living area — the ceiling and the windows… it’s unbelievable.”

But there were more ‘sold’ signs to follow. The buyers then purchased the three sub-penthouses in the luxury hotel. Combined, on floors 46 through 48, they now own more than 15,600 square feet of indoor space with a total of 38 rooms and another 3,500 square feet of balcony living.

Of course with multiple agents involved, Canada’s largest real estate deal was prob-ably also one of Canada’s most complicated.

“[It was] very stressful. We’re dealing with four different listing agents, and four differ-ent sellers, and each deal had their ups and downs. It was difficult but at the end of the day we got the job done,” Fazli said in an interview. “The most important thing for me was to close the deal for my clients.”

And while Fazli closed the deal, his brother Cameron was integral in the making of the record-breaking real estate transaction.

Cameron, a luxury property manger, was introduced to the buyer three years ago through one of his clients.

“Cameron played a huge role in this and to be honest if it wasn’t for him I don’t think we would have the connection,” Sasan says.

And while he declined to say what the com-mission on a deal of this magnitude would be, he did say he would be splitting it with his brother. To celebrate, a family holiday is in the works.

“We always put our parents and family first and foremost ahead of anything else,” says Sasan.

The brothers’ grandfather and parents immigrated to Canada from Tehran 32 years ago. Both parents worked two jobs as the boys grew up. From a young age both Sasan and Cameron worked together at their father’s gas station.

“Ever since a young age my father’s always worked, so he figured it would probably be best for us to start working at an early age.”

The North Shore-raised brothers continue to work well together as a team, only now in luxury real estate.

So are their unnamed clients finished their Vancouver real-estate shopping spree?

“I’m not going to say yes or no because I don’t know what they are going to do,” says Sasan. “Obviously they came here for a few days and they made a purchase like this. So I’m going to say anything is possible at this point but there haven’t been any other offers made on other properties.”

But Sasan does see Vancouver luxury prop-erties becoming more coveted by the interna-tional jet set.

“Luxury properties here are becoming more [sought after] by the ultra rich and we are seeing a lot more investors coming in from other parts of the world as opposed to just Asia. There’s a lot coming from South America, and there’s a lot coming from the Middle East. Obviously this is our main client but we have other clients who have shown a lot of interest in Vancouver real estate.”

Sasan figures compared to global real estate Vancouver remains a relative bargain.

“I mean you put this penthouse in London you’re looking at $150 million dollars. You put this penthouse in Singapore you’re looking at close to $80-$100 million dollars so people who buy properties like this, this is not their only property — they own all over the world. So when they come here… to them it’s almost like a deal.”

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ThE REAL DEAL - The two-storey penthouse at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel’s private residences sold for $25 million in June. Submitted photo

PRoPERTy BRoThERS - Realtor Sasan Fazli (at right)

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“I stood at the front. I stared at the bus driver and he stared back at me. I didn’t know how to get off,” she looks back at the experience with laugh.

In Iran, she says, buses aren’t as popular because taxis are cheap.

These seemingly little changes add up and take a while to get used to.

“I knew everything [back in Iran] about pol-itics, literature. Now here I’m like a newborn baby.”

Although people living on the North Shore have been “very nice” to her, she still feels like she doesn’t belong.

“It’s natural for people to see [immigrants] in a different way… It’s unfair but it’s reality.

“They could be thinking, ‘why does she get that job?’”

Once she finds permanent work and a close group of colleagues, Ramezani predicts she may start feeling more at home.

To help ease the transition, the North Shore Multicultural Society’s Welcoming Action Committee is hosting four community dia-logue sessions that help both long-term resi-dents and newcomers develop welcoming and inclusive communities.

“When immigrants feel welcomed and included in the community, not only do they thrive as individuals, but their families thrive

too,” says Elizabeth Jones, executive director at the society. “It’s a win-win situation that we can’t afford to ignore.”

Speaking at the North Van Library’s story-telling event, Felsz briefly mentions her expe-rience trying to fit in.

“Canadians are very polite but too private,” she says as the audience nods and laughs in agreement.

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JOB CHANGE - Purita Cortez, a live-in caregiver from the Philippines, speaks at North Van Library’s North Shore Stories, an event this weekend that highlighted nine immigrants’ stories. Michaela Garstin photo


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A colourful homage to multiculturalism was unveiled this week on the side of the North Shore Lookout Shelter on

West Second Street.The 100-foot-wide “Word to Your

Motherland” mural is a collaboration between four internationally-acclaimed street art-ists — two from California and two from Vancouver — as well as homeless shelter resi-dents and local youth.

All last week, the artists climbed scaffolding set up in front of the wall and painted themes of diversity that reflected the culture of their individual motherlands.

Local high school students and Lookout Shelter residents were also encouraged to artistically express their own life experiences within the mural.

“The people that live here are the ones that are going to be driving past it every day, so we wanted them to really tell us what they want-ed to see,” Nisha Sembi, a California-based visual artist, told The Outlook amidst a down-pour at the mural site last Saturday.

Transforming the once-unsightly wall into a work of art was the brainchild of Kate Declerck, executive director of Creativa International, a Vancouver-based, not-for-prof-it arts organization. She applied for a City of North Vancouver arts grant, which funded the project, and connected the four lead artists with each other.

Including Sembi, the California contingent included artist Miguel “Bounce” Perez and filmmaker Mandeep Sethi. Meanwhile, the Vancouver contributors on the project were Haida carver and street artist Corey Bulpitt and fellow street artist Take5.

“This type of project encourages people who are in their early stages of developing aerosol graffiti techniques to seek a higher aesthetic to paint, instead of writing on the dumpster or whatever,” said Take5.

Standing back, after the paint has dried, what’s revealed is a mixture of traditional indigenous art with contemporary mediums.

“Graffiti has only been in development for the past 30 or 40 years, whereas the Haidi art

that you are seeing may have been in develop-ment for thousands of years. The East Indian art maybe even longer than that. So there is a plethora of palettes,” said Take5.

For Sethi, working with the North Shore Lookout Shelter residents and staff has been an eye-opening experience.

“I think that the work they do is a large step in the direction of eradicating homeless-ness,” said Sethi. “They are definitely a lead-ing example of what you can do as a homeless shelter to give back to the community without any negativity.”

Sethi was inspired by one shelter resident who spent most of the week painting along-side the artists.

“She is always talking to us about the inter-views that she is going to, or the business plans that she is working on, or that ideas that she has while contributing to the mural,” said Sethi.

Lookout manager Linda Fox said shelter staff had long hoped to have a mural painted on the outside wall, which was often adorned with graffiti. The resulting artwork now serves as a beacon of hope for the North Shore’s homeless.

“That’s what this wall says — peace in the midst of a concrete shelter,” said Fox.

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COLLABORATIVE ART - California street artist Nisha Sembi puts the final touches on the “Word to Your Motherland” mural at the North Shore Lookout Shelter last week. City of North Van photo

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