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Rodgers Creek’s next phase gets green lightREBECCA ALDOUS

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Rodgers Creek development’s first set of multi-family units were given the thumbs up by West Vancouver council Monday

night.The British Pacific Properties Limited proposal

consists of 18 townhouses on a two-acre parcel in HighGrove. The Rodgers Creek Area 1 devel-opment on Hollyburn Mountain received unani-mous approval from council.

The project underwent a lot of scrutiny by the Design Review Committee, said Geri Boyle, the district’s manager of community planning. After the project was resubmitted to the com-mittee with changes that addressed the commit-tee’s concerns regarding the building’s horizontal look, the proposal received general support.

“We think the end product is far better than the one we [initially] saw,” Boyle said, noting the project fits nicely into the site.

British Pacific Properties have taken what they’ve learned from all its developments in West Van to create this proposal, said Geoff Croll, the company’s vice-president of development.

“This is the next stage of implementation for the Rodgers Creek plan,” he said.

The five-storey buildings travel up the side of the steep terrain, so they appear one storey from the top entrance, Croll said. The dwellings are terraced and landscaping will be done with native plants, he added.

The project, called The Terrace, will be built to meet LEED silver environmental standards.

British Pacific Properties will start construc-tion this summer. The three buildings will likely

be built one after another, Croll said. The entire project is estimated to take 18 months to com-plete.

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After seven workshops and input from hundreds of West Vancouver residents, Grosvenor is nailing down some designs for Ambleside’s new gateway.

Over the past couple of months, the international development company has been gathering ideas on what people would like to see built on the 1300-block of Marine Drive. The company owns the majority of private lots on the block and has a memorandum of understanding with the dis-trict to buy the West Vancouver Police Station land once the unit is relo-cated adjacent to city hall.

The co-design forums saw a few recurring themes. The idea of a cov-ered mid-block pedestrian arcade, of a similar size to the West Vancouver Community Centre’s atrium, was popular, Grosvenor’s senior development manager Michael Mortensen told council Monday night. Youth requested a

place they can hang out past eight o’clock.

Residents want to keep 14th Street as the main pedestrian walkway down to Ambleside’s waterfront, said world-renowned architect James Cheng, who has been hired by Grosvenor to help with the project’s design.

On May 24 and 25, Grosvenor is holding workshops at the West Van community cen-tre to get feedback on development concepts.

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After a three-day stop at an al-Qaeda safe house deep in the desert of Afghanistan — a

menacing military-style compound, Rick Bennett recalls — it was time to go.

It was well into the night by that point and travelling at such times went against every principle of reporting in conflict zones. Bennett, a cameraman for ABC and Lynn Valley resident, had spent his fair share of time in war-torn countries. Throughout the fall of the Soviet Union, the first Gulf War and the first battle of Mogadishu, Bennett had lugged his camera through some dangerous areas and knew the playbook well. Rule number one: don’t travel at night.

But there he was, with an inter-preter and his ABC colleague John Miller, climbing into a truck bound for a mountaintop camp where Osama Bin Laden, the then-new face of militant Islam, awaited them. ABC had supposedly been negotiating for two years to get the interview, but little was yet known of the man who would eventually orchestrate the largest attack on American soil a mere three years later.

“I didn’t know at the time what was going to happen,” says Bennett. “But I had a better idea after the interview.”

The ride was, pun intended, a rocky one. The truck had an open cab at the back and the terrain tossed the passengers around like rag dolls. Bennett’s $60,000 camera rode in a separate vehicle. Every now and then, a group of guys would pop up on the side of the road, wielding machine guns and grenades. Each time, they would open the truck’s doors and shove

flashlights in the group’s eyes.Finally, the truck reached a pla-

teau. Bennett could hear sprays of gunfire and he knew they were close. A few more minutes and there it was — a long, skinny build-ing, with 40 or 50 guys waiting out-side. Up to that point, the men who had met Bennett’s team had been well educated, well spoken and hos-pitable. These men, however, were of a different ilk.

“Now these guys are 18 or 19 years old. I just kept saying ‘I’m Canadian,’” says Bennett, half-smiling. “These guys want to shoot you on the spot. They’re just brainwashed kids.”

The group made its way inside and began to set up for the interview. Bennett was told he was not getting his cam-era back and was given only a small cam-era with no top light. There was no audio inputs on the device, just a tiny microphone, and Bennett knew this setup wasn’t going to cut it. But before he could say anything, Bin Laden arrived and “all hell’s breaking loose.”

Weapons were again being fired, and Bin Laden’s crew piled in the room. Bin Laden was wearing a military style jacket and carrying an AK-47. He sat down in front of a map stuck on a wall, and Bennett made a final plea for his camera. Surprisingly, it arrived and Bennett set up. But as the interview was about to start, Bin Laden got up.

There were too many flies and he was uncomfortable. Someone went out to get bug spray, cleared the room of the pesky insects and the interview started again.

The questions had been decided on before the interview, at the request of Bin Laden, and he refus-es to speak English for the dura-tion of the session. Bennett and the interviewer Miller had no idea what Bin Laden was saying. Only the translator understood what was

going on and they hadn’t yet have the chance to talk.

And just like that, Bennett says, the interview was over. He picked up his camera and darted outside to get shots of Bin Laden exiting the building and the wild young men, again, sending machine gun fire into the air.

“It was bloody scary. We finish and everyone’s stressed. They invite us in for

dinner but no one has any appetite,” says Bennett.

“And then they say they want the tape because we had filmed some faces that we shouldn’t have. So, we had to put colour bars over the faces. We get into the vehicles after-wards and our translator is scream-ing at these kids because they’re calling him a traitor. Heading down the mountain we ask our trans-lator what he [Bin Laden] said. And he tells us we won’t believe it. Bin Laden’s proclaimed war on Americans. Death to all Americans.”

Only a few months later, bomb-

ings of U.S. embassy buildings in Kenya and Tanzania killed 200 and al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. On Sept. 11, 2001, the World Trade Centers fell. More than 2,700 died in the attack. Among the dead were New York City police officers, fire-fighters and Port Authority staff, but the majority were civilians. It was a moment people will never forget. Televisions streamed endless footage of smoke billowing out of the tow-ers as speechless onlookers stared at two unforgettable symbols of America crumble from the destruc-tion.

Bennett watched from England. But for a man who spent some time in the company of America’s most wanted man, the scenes weren’t quite so surprising. His first reac-tion, he says, was a simple one: “He’s done it.”

His feelings toward Bin Laden’s oft-discussed, much televised death, however, are not nearly so straight-forward. He says he’s surprised it took the U.S. so long to kill Bin Laden and agrees with President Barack Obama’s decision not to show any photos of Bin Laden’s corpse. But the all-night party in front of the White House, while an expected reaction to the news, may only serve to propel the animos-ity felt by those who just lost their leader.

“I always thought he was alive all those years. He was born in 1957 and I could tell he was healthy, he moved well. He wasn’t living in a cave,” says Bennett, of Bin Laden’s post 9/11 existence.

“And I understand the celebra-tions, but it fans the situation as well. This guy was brutally shot and photos just fuel the resentment and hatred.”

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North Vancouver-bred journal-ist Dorothy Parvaz has been deported to Iran, according to

reports from Al Jazeera.Parvaz, a Handsworth second-

ary school graduate, had been held in Syria since April 29. Parvaz, who works for Al Jazeera, was detained upon her arrival in Damascus. Syrian officials says she was attempting to enter the country on an expired Iranian visa. Parvaz has Canadian, Iranian and American citizenships.

Journalists and politicians across the globe are calling for her release

and numerous “Free Dorothy” cam-paigns have sprung up across the Internet.

Andrew Saxton, MP for North Vancouver, told The Outlook his office continues to work on her release. NDP MP Libby Davies has written an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper about Parvaz, while the University of British Columbia school of journalism has also called for her release.

“I didn’t know she was going. She’s written many stories on countries in conflict, but had I known I would

have been very nervous for sure. We are gravely concerned for her,” her father Fred Parvaz, a physics profes-sor, at Cap U told The Outlook.

“We are relying on the press to continue helping. Journalists all over the world consider her one of their own. The stories they are telling are keeping this alive.”

Updates of Dorothy’s story are posted on Twitter with the hashtag #FreeDororthy. Her parents have set up a Facebook page www.facebook.com/FreeDorothy.

Sean Kolenko

Telling storiesTelling stories

From the wedding of William and

Kate to the Rolling Stones to interviews

with the world’s most wanted

man, Rick Bennett has seen it all, one

shot at a time.

North Shore journalist being held in Iran

Dorothy Parvaz was on assignment with Al Jazeera.Photo courtesy Seattle PI.

At left, Bennett films a Kurdistan fighter in Iraq, and U.S. marines in Mogadishu, above.

ABC cameraman Rick Bennett stands in front of Air Force One.

Infill housing hits opposition

REBECCA ALDOUSS T A F F R E P O R T E R

Residents need to speak out against a proposed nine-unit development on Esquimalt if

they don’t want to see densification hit their doorsteps, warns a West Vancouver neighbourhood.

The proposed project, slated for three lots in the 20th block of Esquimalt Ave, first crossed council’s table in 2006 as 10 townhouse units. It was rejected as it did not meet Official Community Plan (OCP) site-specific requirements.

A downsized version is back — six duplexes with three carriage houses — but this time around the proponent is gunning for block rezoning.

Under the OCP, block zoning changes can be made if the “development would have minimal impact on established areas in terms of access, traffic, parking and obstruction of views, the site would provide a degree of physical separation (e.g. a road, green belt, alternate use, or change in natural grade from the sur-rounding neighbourhood.)”

If the block rezoning and develop-ment proposal gets the green light, it will set a precedent for the district, says Gordon Ward Hall, president of the Ambleside, Dundarave Ratepayers Association.

“This could happen elsewhere [in West Van],” he said.

He’s not against alternative housing, but said the municipality needs to place it in appropriate areas. This proposal is simply no more than spot rezoning, Ward Hall said.

“I am for alternative housing as long as they don’t destroy single-family neighbour-hoods,” he said.

This block is unique because of its close proximity to the munici-pality’s amenities, said Michael Geller, the project’s proponent. He doubts whether such rezoning would be allowed in other areas in West Vancouver. The same conditions don’t exist elsewhere, Geller said.

“There is no other block in West Vancouver with the same surrounding uses as this block,” he said, adding the rezoning puts a plan in place in which the block can be redone over time.

Geller calls the development “sensi-tive infill.” The duplexes will be approxi-mately 1,430 square feet and 1,650 square feet in size, while the three car-riage houses are approximately 1,150 square feet. The price range will run between $850,000 and $1.2 million. The buildings will maintain a cottage feel, Geller said.

Heather Mersey lives on 20th Street across from the proposed block rezon-ing. She says she doesn’t understand how such as tightly-packed project could be allowed in a historic single-family area. Her house was built in 1928, and as with many of the cottage-style dwellings around her, she has spent

money and time restoring the property. The rezoning would allow all the

remaining 11 houses on the block to add infill housing, Mersey noted. This would add more traffic and park-ing constraints to an area that already

deals with spill out from the West Vancouver Community Centre, seniors activity centre and tennis club, she said.

The development has the backing of the Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society. It’s a senior-friendly project,

said Viv Christison, chair of the society’s housing committee. West Vancouver residents wanting to downsize don’t have a lot of options, she said, adding this project not only provides this, but is within walking distance of the seniors’ and community centres.

The proposed duplexes are designed to look like single-family units. This gen-tle densification is sensitive to the neigh-bourhood, Christison said.

“They’ve designed it in a way that it feels very consistent with the area,” she said.

The district has heard support for this type of housing and set about finding an appropriate area for it, said Stephen Mikicich, the district’s senior commu-nity planner.

If the block receives the OCP amend-ment, property owners within the block will still have to apply for rezoning if they wish to add carriage houses.

A public hearing will be held on the OCP amendment on Monday, May 16, at city hall at 7 p.m.

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At first glance, the nondescript storefront of Ace Grocery blends in perfectly with the others along North Vancouver’s

Pemberton Avenue. But much like a dash of spice in a simmering

pot curry, the shop, dubbed “Little India of the North Shore,” lends its taste to everything sur-rounding it. Without it, the quiet strip of com-mercial businesses and diners just wouldn’t be quite as flavourful.

Of course, it’s not until one walks through the door of Ace Grocery that the shop’s full aroma kicks in. From front to back, the store’s aisles are lined with foods and household items from India, Pakistan, and exotic pockets of Southeast Asia.

There are cans of mango pulp and young coconut meat, “magic masala” potato chips, and aromatic soaps with the fragrances of strawberries and cream, lime, jas-mine, and coconut.

There are ten-pound sacks of basmati rice, boxes of mahogany henna hair dye, and a refrig-erator stocked with ginger paste, paneer cheese and tamarind chutney.

At the back of the shop owner Vikrim Bajaj has assembled a wall of spices, with alphabetical-ly organized bags of bishop’s weed, cardamom, Dhana-Jeera mix and tumeric.

And near the front cash register, next to the stacks of Persian and Hindi DVDs such as Om Shanti Om and Indian Cowboy: A Love Story, are Bajaj’s most popular items: hand-packaged spice mixes with step-by-step instructions for meal preparation.

The mixes, the brainchild of Vikrim and his wife Jasvir, have been driving in business since the couple first started selling them nearly six years ago.

In the early days, the couple mixed the pack-ages individually for customers at the video store using a small coffee grinder in the back room. As the spice mixes grew in popularity, the Bajajs upgraded to an industrial-sized grinder and, eventually, moved the operation to a separate facility in a nearby industrial park.

In 2007 the couple took their products — Ace Curries to Go — to their first trade show. That opened the doors to distribution in grocery store chains across Western Canada, such as IGA, Quality Foods, and select Safeway locations.

Every year since, they have continued to travel and spread the word of their products, sometimes attending up to six farmers’ markets

a week, as well as tradeshows across Western Canada.

To this day, everything is still done in-house, from the grinding and mixing of spices to the labelling of the packages, says Vick one morning, over a cup of coffee at a local diner.

“I was told it’d be cheaper to have the labelling done elsewhere, but we care too much about the product to send it out,” he explains.

But the business has reached the limits of how far it can expand. Although there have

been inquiries from Toronto, Montreal and the Eastern U.S., the Bajajs simply can’t expand further without more capital. So, they turned to the Dragons.

Over Easter weekend, Vick and Jas travelled to Toronto to film an episode for the popular CBC television show “Dragon’s Den.” In the show,

the couple described their business to five multi-millionaires — including Boston Pizza chair-man Jim Treliving and IT mogul Rober Herjavec — with the hope that some of the Dragons will see its potential as an investment.

Contractual obligations do not allow the cou-ple to say whether they were successful in woo-ing the Dragons, or whether their spicy business plan had them breathing smoke, but Vick says the experience is one he learned a lot from.

While other business owners were frantically rehearsing their spiels in the waiting room, Vick and Jas went in with nothing but a few talking points scrawled on a cocktail napkin at the pub the night before.

“The program is more like a conversation or an interaction; it’s not a sales pitch,” says Vick. “Don’t forget, for every comment you make there are five people trying to shoot you down. You just need to know your business inside and out.”

Vick describes the Dragons as being “larger than life” once the cameras are rolling. Inside the “den” they can sometimes come off as very harsh, but “they don’t speak out of harshness, they speak out of knowledge and business expe-rience,” he says, with a smile. “Dragon’s Den is a true venture capitalist show. It’s all about the money. ‘Show me the money!’”

The episode will hit the airwaves this fall.

For more information visit www.acecurries-togo.com. You can also find Vic and Jas at the EPIC sustainable living expo at the Vancouver Convention Centre this weekend (May 13 to 15).

North Shore couple takes their no-fuss curry concoctions on CBC’s ‘Dragon’s Den’ — but will their spicy business plan please the Dragons’ palates, or have them breathing fire?

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Lighting the way towards hope

Luminaries are a glowingly easy way to support Relay for Life

MARTHA PERKINS

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There will be a beautiful orange glow over Mahon Park on June 11 as dusk

turns to darkness and the 2011 Relay for Life draws to a close.

After spending the day walking along the track to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society, hundreds of participants will pause. Quietly, and sometimes with tears in their eyes, they will kneel down and light a candle that sits inside a paper bag. On the bag will be printed the name of someone who has died from or survived cancer.

The glow from these luminaries will light the way as the partici-pants join together for a penulti-mate lap around the track. With each step they will pass by a luminary that serves as a remind-er of why they are there.

This year will be the fourth time that I take part in Relay for Life but the first time since the death of one of my sisters from pancreatic cancer. Mary Perkins, who was only 58, had just cel-ebrated her retirement after more

than 30 years in healthcare. She was dreaming of winters in Mexico and being free of respon-sibility and worrying about oth-ers. But then she got jaundice and tests revealed that she had one of the most fatal forms of cancer. Eight months later, last October 21, she was gone.

There is a history of cancer in my family but that’s not really why on three June nights, in three successive years, I joined members of my old hometown in the Relay for Life. My participa-tion was more a celebration of what people could achieve when they pulled together. From seven at night to seven in the morn-ing, my team took turns walk-ing around a high school track, catching up with the news of friends and neighbours, or some-times just caught up in our own thoughts. When it rained, we walked. When the dew was on the grass, we walked. None of us slept because, as the saying goes, “cancer never sleeps.”

All of us knew virtually every-one whose name was on a lumi-nary, which burned through the night. On one side of the track,

Natasha Thom is one of the volunteers who is helping with the June 11 Relay for Life at Mahon Park. Every time someone buys a $5 luminary in honour of or in memory of someone who has had cancer, she writes that person’s name on a special weather-resistant paper bag, into which a candle will be placed. Those candles will be lit around the track at 9:30 p.m. Rob Newell photo

the luminaries were placed to form the word HOPE. You couldn’t help but be touched by their solemn beauty.

The North Shore is a bigger community but, still, events like Relay for Life can pull us togeth-er. Although it sounds like it’s hard to spend 12 hours walking around a track, you don’t have to walk the entire time. The rule is that at any given time, only one member of your team has to be walking. The rest of you can stay by your camp, read a book, visit

at other camps or take part in the fun activities that have been organized throughout the day. There will be music and belly-dancing, foot massages and food – dozens of activities to keep you motivated.

And you don’t even have to stay up all night. The North Shore event runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

If you don’t have a team, you can always make a donation. What I love about the luminary program is that it costs only $5 to

buy a luminary. It’s an inexpen-sive yet thoughtful way of hon-ouring the courage or memory of a friend or family member. Don’t worry about being there to light the candle; a volunteer or partici-pant can do it for you.

To find out more, or to make a pledge, visit www.relaybc.ca/northshore. Or you can drop by the event on June 11 to pur-chase a luminary. For informa-tion about the Canadian Cancer Society, call 1-888-939-3333 or go online to www.cancer.ca.

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B Tres elegant! West Vancouverites Mark and Cindi George, left, join friends Tanya and Frank Taleghan at the Heart & Stroke reception at Casa Mia. C Heart & Stroke PR gal Shelley Johnson, left, greets guests such as West Vancouver’s famous golden gal and Bon Mot Book Club founder Leah Costello. D Heart & Stroke gala

girls Carey Hoogstins Smith, left, and Donna Molby are now getting the last-minute details put together for the big June 10 “Midnight in an Italian Garden” evening.E This year’s Heart & Stroke gala will also include honourary co-chairs Natallie and Amar Doman, so mark your calendars.F Turning

Point Recovery Society volunteers Marnie Plant and Michael McCoy await the arrival of VIPs and guest speaker Katey Sagal at the Hyatt. G Global TV noon news anchor Randene Neill, left, seen here with Turning Point Recovery Society board member James B. Myers, always does a fabulous job as gala MC at this event. H You might not recognize her without the wild red hair and leopard print hot pants, but actress Katey Sagal, right, seen here with Turning Point Recovery Society’s executive director Brenda Plant, is much much more than her often outrageous on-screen personas. I Among the VIPs at the Turning Point Recovery Society’s Katey Sagal reception is former TV newsman and North Shore resident Stu McNish.

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Gala season is upon us, so pull out those ball gowns and black ties because it’s time to dress to the nines for a number of very worthwhile causes.

First, it was the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Heart of Gold gala VIP pre-reception. Held at the very elegant 20,000+ sq. ft. Casa Mia mansion in Vancouver, North Shore guests were treated to an evening of canapes, cocktails and music – all of which helps lead up to the big “Midnight in an Italian Garden” themed gala night to be held on June 10. Next, it was another invite-only VIP reception at the Hyatt hotel in honour of the Turning Point Recovery Society’s gala fundraiser. This intimate pre-dinner gathering gave VIPs a chance to meet the evening’s guest of honour, actress Katey Sagal. Best known for her portrayal of Peg Bundy on the television sitcom “Married with Children,” she was a complete delight to meet in person as she laughed and chatted with guests about her various acting roles and her own struggle with addiction.



Drizzle splats on Dugal Purdie’s bright orange helmet. At 28 knots per hour (51 kilometres per hour) the rain drops have no chance to

pool. Air charges past Purdie as the Coast Guard Auxiliary zodiac slices through the water off West Vancouver’s shoreline.

Unit 1, which covers English Bay, waters around Bowen Island and the eastern portion of Howe Sound, is on its way to a downed Cessna. The auxil-iary’s latest recruit, Boudewijn Neijens, has mapped out the coordinates of the suspected crash. Beside him under a small canopy, West Van builder Chris Simpkins stands at the helm.

Whenever Unit 1 is called out it’s because of bad news. The volunteers only get tasked if there is a threat to life or possible environmental disas-ter. And with the water temperature less than 10 degrees Celsius, minutes count. Without protective gear, such as the thick survival suites the Unit 1 team are wearing, the survival rate in the water is between 30 minutes to an hour. Top that off with weather conditions, such as relentless waves and strong currents, and one’s chances quickly drop. On average approximately 400 Canadians will die in water-related fatalities per year, according to Canadian Safe Boating Council. All three of the men aboard the zodiac have fished lifeless bodies out of the sea.

“We’ve reached the target,” Neijens yells.

Simpkins throttles back the gas on the twin 200 horsepower outboards. Purdie and Neijens throw a

buoy with a flag on it over the side of the boat. It locates the initial site and allows the crew to follow the flow of currents.

“What kind of search should we do now?” Purdie asks Neijens.

After a few seconds and whispers from Simpkins, Neijens replies.

“A sector search.”

Today is a training exercise. But the scenario is not a stretch. Last year the unit attended a float plane crash by Gibsons. It’s events like that in which training is crucial. The West Van’s Coast Guard Auxiliary’s 26 members practise every week. The unit’s current 16-year-old vessel needs three people to operate it. The boat is manned 24/7, with each member on alert one night per week and one weekend every five weeks.

“If you have three people that have got to be on-call, 26 members are not too many,” says Purdie, the unit’s station leader.

In fact, the unit needs more volunteers. The unit will take ownership of a new boat this year, a boat that's designed for four crew members.

“We’ll need at least another 10 people,” Simpkins

says.

Recruiting volunteers isn’t easy. Members must live within 15 minutes of the unit’s station in Fisherman’s Cove. Training a new member takes up to a year, with courses leading up to the pinnacle in marine education with the Canadian Coast Guard’s specialized Rigid Hull Inflatable Operator Training. The week-long program runs in fall and early spring. Six people are trained at a time on B.C.’s west coast out of Bamfield. The unit also faces the district’s aging demographic. The majority of West Van's population is between the years 45 to 64.

“If you go North Vancouver and there is a bigger ring of potential recruits,” Purdie says.

The Coast Guard Auxiliary has applied for moorage at the district’s Horseshoe Bay Pier, a move Purdie says will broaden the unit’s recruit-ment pool. The location is simply better suited for them, he says. It’s easier and faster for members to get there, with one quick exit off the highway. As well, the majority of dispatches the unit receives are for emergencies in Howe Sound.

The potential move has gained attention. While the district reviews the auxiliary’s request, the municipality has also ended an agreement with the pier’s long-time watchdog Billy Lord. The auxiliary has the support of the Horseshoe Bay Business Association and the Western Residents' Association, but some of the pier’s users fear the loss of a full-time keeper could lead to traffic problems.

Unit members may not be at the pier 24/7, but likely would be on or around the dock for large chunks of time, Purdie says. It’s a great opportunity for the auxiliary and will help them gain exposure,

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The 57 auxiliary units along Pacific coast are responsible for more than 29,500 square kilometres, including some of the most rugged coastline in the world. Because units are only reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses when tasked with search and rescue

m i s s i o n s , O t t a w a receives the equivalent of $30 in service from the units for every dollar spent.

Ultimately the auxiliary save Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars. Yet they need the public’s support to maintain and operate the auxiliary's combined asset value of more than $215 mil-lion.

The West Van unit’s new boat costs $520,000, $400,000 of which was donated by corporations and resi-dents.

“If we didn’t have [the public’s sup-port] we won’t be able to afford to do the training and we wouldn’t be able to afford to get the equipment,” Purdie says. “This would put people’s lives at risk.”

The recent royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton helped spotlight the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary’s work. The couple picked the volunteer organization as a beneficiary of a special charitable fund set up to celebrate the wedding. The auxiliary received $50,000. Purdie hopes a new home in a more public location will carry that momentum forward.

In the last 12 months, Unit 1 has been called out 38 times. Neijens’ first search and rescue operation was in March of this year. The unit raced to Lions Bay when residents of Sunset Beach reported a man yelling in the water just before midnight. After 30 minutes of searching, Neijens saw the tip of the man’s feet and his nose on the crest of a wave.

The man wasn’t wearing a life jack-et and strong winds swept him away from the shore. The crew hauled him from the water and performed CPR. The man was later pronounced dead.

“You don’t have time to get ner-vous,” Neijens says. “I was just remem-bering the search patterns and how to look for small objects in the water. Only afterward does it hit you.”

Although the number of people fishing in local waters has dropped, there are more people enjoying water-

based activities, such as kayaking, div-ing and kiteboarding, Purdie says.

Spring and fall are the busiest seasons for the auxiliary. That’s when people start to head out, but there are also fewer vessels on the sea to come to one’s rescue, Purdie says as the zodiac bobs on a lonely patch of calm ocean by Bowen Island. The ferry has just passed and a Canadian navy ves-sel is steadily churning up the sound.

Purdie looks at a beam of sunlight that’s piercing through the dark, grey clouds, lighting a patch of water in the Strait of Georgia. There are some difficult moments that come with the position, he says, but also some beau-tiful ones.

The crew heads to Snug Cove to practise docking. As the giant motors spit up a rooster’s tail, Purdie unclips a bright yellow bag of coiled rope from the side of the boat. He throws it into the ocean with a smile.

“Man overboard,” he yells to Simpkins and Neijens. Practice makes perfect.

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(From left) Dugal Purdie throws a marker overboard. Chris Simpkins checks the vessel's lights. Simpkins steers the course at the helm. Dugal holds on tight as the boat races to it's target. Boudewijn Neijens signs in for duty. Rebecca Aldous photos

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A team of 10 nurses and doc-tors from Lions Gate and Vancouver General hospitals

are in Haiti from May 7 to 14 to provide volunteer medical services through New Reality International of Tennessee, in partnership with Medishare in Haiti.

Team leader and LGH registered nurse Christina Mavinic first con-tacted NRI after the Haiti earth-quake in January 2010; she twice travelled to Haiti with the interna-tional aid organization last year.

“We hope to provide emergency

medical services, clinics, teach-ing, maternal health and whatever other kinds of services they need,” Mavinic said, before the team left.

In an email from Haiti, VGH nurse Allison Warren says the job is hectic but she is “loving” working on the general medical/surgery unit in a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti.

“Every night a truck comes to take those interested to the UN where you can buy cheap hot meals and watch American television - which means that we watched the Canucks play last night (May 9)!” says Warren.

Lions Gate Hospital staff are in Haiti to help with ongoing relief efforts after the earthquake. Clockwise from top: Dr. Dave Williscroft, Paul Johnson, Brighid Cassidy, Maria Pericak, Christina Mavinic, Jan Ha and Ashley Kirkwood. Not in photo are team members RN Allison Warren, Dr. Dean Brown and Dr. Stu Horak. Rob Newell photo

‘No growth’ plan stalls businessBusiness coalition slams Metro Vancouver strategy as potential barrier to development

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A coalition of business groups is pressing Metro Vancouver to redraw its regional growth strate-

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The new master plan governing how the region grows, okayed by all cities except Coquitlam, is going to a non-binding dispute resolution process to iron out the impasse with that council.

The B.C. Chamber of Commerce, Business Council of B.C. and Urban Development Institute – calling them-selves the Business Coalition for a Sustainable Region – say the plan con-tains critical flaws and vests too much power with the regional board.

“We look at it as a no growth plan,” said Maureen Enser, executive director of the Urban Development Institute. “It takes things the way they are and freez-es them for the next 30 years.”

It will be too difficult, time-consuming and bureaucratic to amend the plan in the future to meet needs that can’t be anticipated today, the coalition argues.

“We’re adding more layers or gate-keepers,” Enser said.

She said businesses or developers wanting a development passed that might require approval at the Metro board level may have to lobby nearly every council in the region in advance to ensure the project isn’t defeated.

“It’s a great vehicle for anybody who wants to oppose a project,” Enser said.

She denied the coalition is against the plan’s urban containment boundary or its key goal of concentrating growth in urban areas to avoid more sprawl.

But she said the plan lacks flexibility, particularly in terms of where industry

and business can locate.Enser said 70 per cent of land in

the region is already protected from development by the Agricultural Land Reserve and the Green Zone, which becomes conservation and recreation areas under the new strategy.

“We’re dealing with basically 30 per cent of the land that remains, much of which has been already developed,” she said.

“We’ve got a very limited land supply. We’ve got to use it very carefully.”

The coalition has offered few specifics on how they’d change the document but wants its concerns addressed when talks begin between Metro and Coquitlam reps.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan, chair of the regional planning committee, said the business groups had years and mul-tiple rounds of public consultations to table their concerns.

“It’s a bit late to start jumping up and complaining about the plan,” he said.

Corrigan said he doesn’t understand why the business groups wouldn’t wel-come the land-use certainty the growth strategy will deliver – unless they have the “nefarious” aim of swaying a “stupid council” without facing the safeguards of the regional board.

“We’re talking about a bunch of busi-ness people who see an opportunity to make a quick buck by getting a council to turn agricultural land to industrial or industrial land to residential,” he said.

“And that potential loss of opportunity for those windfall profits is making some of them angry.”

The 60-day non-binding pro-cess to resolve Coquitlam’s objections must start by May 16.

Metro politicians had wanted arbitration but were overruled by the provincial government.

Corrigan and others fear the ratifica-tion of the growth plan could drag past the November civic elections, leaving the accord at risk of unravelling after new councils take power.

Coquitlam councillors say the plan is too inconsistent from city to city because multiple exemptions were made to win each council’s approval.

While many amendments have been made to address local objections, the growth strategy requires councils to pass regional context statements that show how they will comply with it.

They can then be held to those bind-ing commitments through a dispute res-olution system.

Metro says that will make the new plan more enforceable than the outdat-ed Livable Region Strategic Plan, which some cities repeatedly defied.

The vast majority of development proposals would still be decided by the local council alone. A project would only go to a vote of the regional board if the proposed land use is contrary to the designations in the regional growth strategy, such as a dense development in rural or agricultural areas outside the urban containment boundary.

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Best thing about badminton? “Playing in the provincials last year.”

What languages do you speak? “English, Mandarin and Cantonese. I was born in Toronto, then moved to Hong Kong with my parents and now I am in my third year. My parents still live in Hong Kong.”

Best thing about Bodwell? “Making friends from other countries. There are 20-something countries at the school. Most of my friends are from China and Mexico. My doubles partner last year in the provincials was Tang Hung from Taiwan. He’s graduated now.”

Favourite athlete? “Lin Dan, the Chinese national badminton player. I’ve never seen him play but I have seen him on-line. He’s very special; a very talented player. He’s ranked #1 or #2 in the world.”

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Taking it to the groundSutherland secondary’s Brodie Dabb is making a name

for himself in the competitive world of Brazilian jiu-jitsu

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Even as a five-year-old, Brodie Dabb had the instincts of a fighter. He recalls the first

time he was hit as being a bit of a shock, but he quickly regrouped. It was, after all, part of the training in taekwondo. The trick, he says, isn’t to dwell on it because if you don’t fight back another hit’s coming along soon after.

At 11, Brodie was turned on to Brazilian jiu-jitsu by his uncle. He quickly fell in love with it. The upright, striking-focused practice of taekwondo was a valuable lesson but Brodie wanted “to take it to the ground.”

“There’s no striking in jiu-jitsu. It utilizes throws and submission holds so your opponent can tap out,” explains Brodie, now 16.

“It’s the human chess game.”In the five years since Brodie, a

Sutherland secondary school stu-dent, donned his first kimono, he’s enjoyed a rather meteoric rise in jiu-jitsu circles. Last month, he trav-eled with his club, North Vancouver Brazilian jiu-jitsu, to Southern California to compete in the Pan American jiu-jitsu championships.

Still a green belt at the time — Brodie hadn’t turned 16 before the tournament and a green belt is the final level one can achieve at such an age — Brodie was given a blue belt so he could compete against

16- and 17-year-olds in the tourney. All three of his opponents tapped out in their respective matches as Brodie marched to a gold-medal victory. The club won a total of four gold and four bronze medals at the event.

“Brodie might have been our first student. I think we had three guys that first class. He was bite-size, I mean tiny, but he showed skill right away and took to it like a fish to water,” says Jeff Meszaros, one of Brodie’s two coaches at the club.

“When we came back we let him keep the blue belt.”

As a fallback plan, Brodie says he’s considering a career as a per-sonal trainer or a physiotherapist, but, for now, he’s got his sights set on a professional fighting career. Continuing to climb the ranks of the jiu-jitsu world would be nice, says Brodie, but so would stepping inside the octagon of mixed martial arts.

The popular, sometimes violent, sport has captured the imagina-tion of fight fans worldwide and the ire of skeptics, but for Brodie it’s another arena to test his competi-tive spirit.

“My mom doesn’t like the MMA desire. My dad understand it, but isn’t crazy about it either,” says Brodie, frankly.

“But I love the competition, always have. It’s not like those team games where you have to rely on others. It’s all you.”

North Vancouver’s Brodie Dabb shows his jiu-jistu teacher a thing or two at a recent practise at their North Van-based club. Dabb won a gold medal last month at the Pan American jiu-jitsu championships in Southern California. The club won a total of four golds at the tourney.Sean Kolenko photo

North Van icon Jerome hits the big screen

Mighty Jerome, the National Film Board documentary about legendary North Shore

athlete Harry Jerome, will soon be showing at a Vancouver cinema.

The theatrical release of the movie, which premiered at the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival, is May 20 at Fifth Avenue Cinemas.

The film traces the rise, fall and redemption of Jerome, track and field star and one of Canada’s greatest ath-letes. Jerome’s life and career were rid-dled with triumph and tribulation, but

he ultimately proved himself a cham-pion both on and off the track.

Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonish-ing archival footage are used to tell the exultant story of what Jerome’s coach, the legendary Bill Bowerman, called “the greatest comeback in track and field history.”

Many people close to Jerome were interviewed for the film, including coach John Minichiello, fellow North Van athlete Paul Winn, Olympians Bruce Kidd and Dr. Doug Clement,

friends (and reporter) Brian Pound, Violet and Konrad Tittler, Judy Strongman (who was driving the car when Harry suffered the aneurysm that claimed his life at 42), journalist Allan Fotheringham, Harry’s mom, ex-wife and daughter and The Outlook’s own Len Corben.

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The Dukes of WindsorWith British royalty and its

House of Windsor getting so much attention these days, it’s

appropriate our local Dukes of Windsor are celebrating in a big way as well with the 50-year anniversary of the Seymour-area school taking place this weekend.

The four-day festival will include sev-eral events such as its open house, alum-ni sports matches, a wine-and-cheese reunion, and a gala dinner. Event details can be found at www.windsorsecondary.ca. Facebook users can go to “Windsor Secondary Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence” for up-to-date information.

Though its teams were first known as Saxons when the school propped its doors open in September 1961, the nickname was changed to the more flamboyant Dukes by 1966.

Its teams were actually supposed to be called the Dukes of Windsor, long before the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim tried that twist of words. However, while the NHL team’s name lasted from 1993-2006 before changing to the Anaheim Ducks, the Dukes of Windsor contortion never caught on and they’ve always been the Windsor Dukes.

However, what did catch on was the school’s steely-eyed, swashbuckling and sword-carrying figure in green and gold, arguably the best school mascot here-abouts.

Arguably also, Windsor grads number among them some of the North Shore’s best athletes of the last half century.

So let’s take a look at 36 Dukes in a dozen varied sports who have shone brightly on the sports stage beyond their Windsor years (Grad year in brackets).

BASEBALLPaul Langley (1988) - He played for

Canada in the world junior champion-ships in Australia in 1988 and with the National Baseball Institute for three sea-sons as a C-3B-1B.

Brent Crowther (1990) - He pitched three seasons in the Colorado Rockies’ farm system plus for Canada interna-tionally and has been owner of The Dugout training facility in Surrey and a coach with B.C. camps and select teams.

BASKETBALLDavid Lodgins (1984) - He played

four years at the University of Wyoming, twice making it to the NCAA tourna-ment.

Tiffany Chester (1990) - She played five years at UBC, four as a starter, including 1994 when the Thunderbirds were Canada West champions.

Susie Jarosch (1990) - She played at Washington State as a Pac-10 Conference all-academic in 1993, ’94 and ’95, then pro in Denmark and Portugal and is now CEO of High Five Agency representing pro women basket-ball players.

Todd Langley (1990) - In 1995, he captained UVic’s Canada West cham-pions, was a league all-star, UVic’s top scholar-athlete and one of eight national academic all-Canadians across all sports.

Megan Magee (1990) - She played three years at the University of Arizona and was a Pac-10 all-academic in 1992 before an injury erased her final season.

Jamie Oei (1994) - Captain of Langara’s B.C. and Canadian college champions in 1997 and ’98 and coach at Douglas College which won in 2008, he spent two years coaching pro teams in Sweden and is now coaching at UBC and with 3D Basketball.

J.R. Payne (1995) - A West Coast Conference first all-star at St. Mary’s

College in California, she was assis-tant coach at Gonzaga, Boise State and Santa Clara and is now head coach at Southern Utah where she’s turned the women’s program around in her second season with only its second winning record in 10 years.

CURLINGTodd Gray and Mike Slattery (1981) -

After skipping Windsor to the 1981 B.C. title, Todd and Mike, his third, took the North Shore Winter Club junior men’s rink to first place in B.C. and second in Canada in 1982.

GOLFBlair and Brian Christie (1976) - After

the twins spearheaded the Dukes’ 1976 B.C. team championship, Brian claimed second at the B.C. Amateur champion-ship in 1982.

FIGURE SKATINGThe McKilligans: John (1966), Betty

(1967), Patrick (1970) - John and Betty were Canadian senior pairs champs in 1967 and ’68 and placed 18th and 13th in the 1967 and ’68 worlds and 17th in the 1968 Olympics while Patrick was the 1968 Canadian junior winner.

FOOTBALLGeorge Rick Anderson (1966) - After

his SFU career, he played linebacker in the CFL with B.C. (1971-73) and Toronto (1974-77).

Pieter Vanden Bos (1979) - An All-Canadian with UBC’s 1982 Vanier Cup champions, he played seven years in the CFL on the offensive line with Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and B.C., including the 1988 Grey Cup game with the Lions.

Tom Schimmer (1983) - After a col-lege career at Boise State, he played in the CFL as a punter with Ottawa.

Mike Vilimek (1997) - Picked sec-ond overall in the CFL draft after being named SFU’s 2001 athlete of the year, he played three seasons with Ottawa and three with Montreal as a fullback, reaching the Grey Cup in 2005 and ’06.

Dean Valli (2001) - A Canada West all-star at SFU in 2005, he was chosen sixth overall in the CFL draft by the B.C. Lions and is entering his sixth sea-son as an offensive guard and centre.

Spencer Watt (2006) - Another SFU grad, he had a breakout performance at wide receiver with Toronto, scoring two TDs in the final 2010 regular-season game during his rookie CFL season.

HOCKEYDoug Buhr (1967) - He played at

UBC and then in the American, Western and Central pro leagues plus six games on left wing with Kansas City in 1974-75 during the team’s brief time in the NHL.

George Lyle (1971) - After winning the 1975 NCAA title with Michigan Tech, he was WHA rookie-of-the-year as a left winger with Hartford and also played in the NHL four years with Detroit and Hartford after they joined the NHL.

MOUNTAIN BIKINGDoug Lafavor (1976), Ashley Walker

(1977), Chaz Romalis (1979) - When mountain biking was in its infancy, they opened Cove Bikes in 1981 and their resulting legendary status as builders of the sport has put them in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame located in Colorado.

SKI JUMPINGRick Gulyas (1971) - He competed in

the 1972 Sapporo Olympics, finishing 48th out of 62 in the normal hill event.

Tom Thompson (1977) - A member of the national ski jumping team, he later tested the Calgary jumping facilities prior to the 1988 Olympics.

SOCCERShelley Howieson (1974) - She played

every sport imaginable during her high school years but made a career of coaching soccer at SFU (25 years and counting) where her women’s team has two NAIA titles, two seconds and quali-fies for playoffs almost every year.

Gregor Young (1984) - An All-Canadian five years as UBC won three Canadian championships, he played pro with Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver 86ers in the Canadian Soccer League and is now technical director for Kerrisdale and Point Grey soccer clubs.

Sophie Spilborghs (1990) - A two-time Canada West all-star and a 1993 Canadian all-star for UBC, she played five years for the Vancouver Whitecaps and its predecessors, the Angels and Breakers.

Justin Thompson (1999) - Captain at Fairfield (Connecticut) University, he was a defender for clubs in England plus Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps when they were in the USL.

SWIMMINGRob Baylis (1980) - He swam

for Arizona State, won silver with Canada’s freestyle relay at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 1979 Pan-American Games and was on the 1980 Olympic team that eventu-ally boycotted the Moscow Games.

TRACK AND FIELDScarlet Vanden Bos (1978)- She won

the B.C. high school high jump in 1976 and ’77 and placed second, third and first at the Canadian championships from 1979-81.

Lindsay McLaren (1991) - Winner of the 1991 B.C. high school 3000m, she ran on SFU’s 4x800m and distance medley relay teams that won gold at the NAIA indoor meet in 1992 and ’93.

There are others we could name but with just these you can see the impact the Dukes of Windsor have had on sporting life well beyond the North Shore.

This is episode 420 from Len Corben’s treasure chest of stories - the great events and the quirky - that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history.

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Soprano Heather Pawsey is taking new Canadian classical music to new depths.

On Sunday, May 15 at 3 p.m., the Capilano University professor and seven of her students will be performing at the Britannia Mine Museum.

“The acoustics are like a cathedral,” says Pawsey in a video about a previous concert (http://www.miningindustrytv.com/videos/view/2765.) “It’s a tall, soaring grand space with a brilliant echo that carries and reverberates so that sound is amplified and magnified such as you’d get in a really good concert hall or cathe-dral.”

The 90-minute concert is called Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. This unique approach to music is being produced as part of the Canadian Music Centre’s “New Music in New Places” series, an initiative designed to take Canadian classical music out of concert halls and in to unusual venues where people might not normally expect to attend a concert, or even to hear live, classical, contemporary, Canadian music per-formed.

Admission is free; however, due to space restrictions, seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. To book a space, please call the reservations line at 1-800-896-4044 ext. 244 or email [email protected].

Music in the mine Capilano University prof extracts the sounds of classical music in Canada

These musicians are taking their music - and their piano - underground on May 15: Kathryn Cernauskas, flute; Heather Pawsey, soprano; AK Coope, clarinet; and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano. Tim Pawsey photo

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GREG HOEKSTRAS T A F F R E P O R T E R

North Vancouver-born songwriter Ben Sigston has been named a top-

20 finalist in The Shore 104.3 FM’s Song Search 2011.

Sigston made the announce-ment to his fans via Twitter and on his official website Monday night, saying he was very excit-ed that his track “More than I Ever Did Know” had been chosen.

In an email to The Outlook, Sigston called the contest “an amazing opportunity to have your music reviewed by some of the top names in the music business,” and said the station has a history of being “really supportive of up and coming musicians.”

Being among the top 20

means Sigston has a shot at the top prize, which includes stu-dio time, radio airplay, and the chance to open for renowned musician Jim Cuddy (of Blue Rodeo fame) at an intimate show in Whistler.

Last summer, Sigston also made a name for himself as a top-20 finalist in the 100.5 FM’s Peak Performance Project.

Also in the running are fel-low North Van musicians Ivory Sky — an indie folk trio who submitted the song “Crazy Queen” from their recent debut album.

For more info, including samples of the two nominated tracks, visit www.bensigston.com and www.ivorysky.ca.

Sigston will also open for Bonnie Dune at Commodore Ballroom this Saturday, May 14.

North Shore musicians making wavesBen Sigston, Ivory Sky compete in radio station’s search for the perfect summer song

Ben Sigston’s “More Than You Ever Did Know” is a top-20 finalist in a radio contest. Greg Hoekstra photo

On May 14, some of the area’s best artists

will gather at Lynn Valley’s Library Square

for the North Shore Festial of The Arts. The afternoon will

be filled with music, dance and spoken

word, as well as drawing and painting

demonstrations, readings by award-

winning authors and poets, and exhibits by

local artists. This free community

event is organized by the North Shore Celtic Ensemble, in collaboration with

The Lynn Valley Literary Society. The

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that motivates young people to

stay involved in their community through music, dance, visual

art and literature.The schedule kicks off

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mance art to Centennial Theatre this weekend. On Sunday, May 15, David Aiken, a.k.a the

Checkerboard Guy, will take the stage to per-form a selection of his signature stunts, including “the six-foot unicycle of death” the “tightrope of death” and “the flaming leap of death.”

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His “one-man entertainment extravaganza” has been a hit internationally, and now it’s your chance to see him perform it live, on home turf.

During a tour stopover in Lisbon, Portugal, (where he missed a connecting flight back home) Aiken told The Outlook that he’ll also be experi-menting with new elements this weekend, includ-ing video content and a ukelele.

“I am promising a show full of laughs suitable for the whole family,” he said.

On Saturday (May 14), Aiken will be giv-ing free juggling lessons as part of the Lonsdale Spring Celebration outside Centennial Theatre. The festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with the juggling workshop scheduled for 12:30 p.m.

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Comedic daredevil on home turfThe Checkerboard Guy promises to wow his hometown fans at Centennial Theatre this weekend

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Don’t forget to give organizers a way to get in contact with you, because the first 50 entries will receive free tickets to Sunday’s show and an offi-cial CBG baseball cap.

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North Van’s David Aiken, better known as “The Checkerboard Guy,” will give juggling lessons this Saturday and perform on Sunday.Greg Hoekstra photo


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Alexander McCarterSeveral years ago, Alexander suffered a

personal injury that affected many aspects of his life. Yet he used his circumstances as a positive opportunity to inspire others through community service. Alexander serves as part

of the West Vancouver United Church’s “Oppenheimer Project” - helping those

in need on the Downtown Eastside -, and recently volunteered as a youth leader on

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Kevin HumphriesKevin was approached by the West

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announcement against youth violence. Kevin took on this challenge and spent countless hours coordinating the production of the

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Erin Clippingdale-DixonErin has been an energetic and hard

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Andrew MartinLast December, Andrew went to rural Kenya

on a ‘Me to We’ school building project. Once home, Andrew co-founded the

school’s Salabwek Club to raise funds to send

‘‘impoverished children to the school.

Samantha CresseySince July of last year, Samantha has

dedicated 446 volunteer service hours. Within her school, Sam is part of the student

executive. In the broader community, she volunteers at a downtown soup kitchen,

serving food to the homeless. Internationally, Sam participated in a 3 week ‘Free the

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Julia TikhonovaJulia created the BeReal Walk event - which took place at the Ambleside Youth Centre

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awareness and funds to address eating disorders, a potentially life threatening illness which affects many North Shore families. All proceeds are going to support the Lions Gate

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Alexandra Roberts-MendelAlexandra has completed 239 volunteer hours. Leading her peers and working

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for Juvenile Diabetes, Doctors Without Borders, and Save the Dolphins. Alexandra

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Vancouver Memorial Library.

Cheng-Ju (David) Chuang and Cindy You Na Choi

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Brenda BakerSince last September, Brenda has completed over 166 volunteer service hours. She has been a committed member of Habitat for Humanity, spending multiple weekends building a habitat home for a family in

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helps to run the Junior Science Club.

Brook MaileyBrook has contributed 150 hours of volunteer

work to the community. During this past summer, Brooke spent a month in India

working with youth to build a school in the remote community of Ladakh. Locally, he has supported a Habitat for Humanity project in

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Ameeqa Ali and Armaan AliFor two years straight, Armaan and his sister Ameeqa have organized an outstanding all school book drive to support education and

reading for the Canuck Family Education Centre located in East Vancouver. They

have collected and delivered close to 10,000 books.

Jake LarsonSince 2008, Jake has been a key leader of

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The outstanding youth team service award recipients will be featured in

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As parents snapped photos like paparazzi, whispered words were heard through the crowd.

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Monday night marked the 10th anniversary of West Vancouver’s annual Youth Appreciation Awards.

The District of West Vancouver received more than 160 individual nomi-nations in 54 proposals, representing 6,055 youth between the ages of 10 to 19. Recipients had done everything from building schools overseas, to anti-racism initiatives and collecting books for the Canuck Family Education Centre.

West Vancouver’s young people are active and engaged, Mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones said, adding the next generation is helping to lead charge to create the sustainable world they want. They are inspiring examples of what it means to practise personal civic responsibility and commitment, she said.

“They are pushing us,” Goldsmith-Jones said.The awards coincide with Youth Week in May. The inaugural Youth

Week started in B.C. in 1995, when a group of Lower Mainland youth workers, including West Vancouver residents, decided to take time to cel-ebrate the contributions of youth in communities.

Young inspiration West Vancouver’s youth awarded for their contributions to our community

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He became famous for his depic-tions of inventions such as the self-operating napkin.

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vidual’s head, performs the task of wip-ing one’s mouth with a napkin but it involves a skyrocket, parrot, lighter and a sickle. In 1931, the cartoonist/inventor’s name, Rube Goldberg, was placed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary to describe accomplishing something simple through complex means.

Today, Thursday, May 12, students from the West Vancouver School District are going to showcase their gadgets and gizmos in the district’s second annual sci-ence fair. Its theme — Rube Goldberg.

“It is mayhem, but it is fun,” said Deborah Podurgiel, one of the fair’s co-ordinators.

Students from kindergar-ten to Grade 12 will each be

given three-metre-by-three-metre space to set up their machines in the atrium of the West Vancouver Community Centre. There are 25 projects in total, developed by indi-viduals and groups.

“I think the parents got more of a kick out of this than the kids,” Podurgiel joked.

In partnership with Science World, West Vancouver pupils have attended workshops on the structures. The projects help teach youth the principles of physics, Podurgiel said. Although the action is sim-ple, such as planting a seed, the dynamics of getting there are complicated, she said.

Students will start setting up the projects at 11 a.m. The science fair will be open to the public from 1 to 4 p.m., with presenta-tions starting at 1 p.m. The contraptions will be rated by five judges, all of whom are members of the school district.

“They are all going to be fantastic,” Podurgiel said.

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604-984-SALE (7253)Prudential Sussex Realty2996 Lonsdale AvenueNorth Vancouverwww.grantandjasmine.com

3232 Princess Avenue, North Vancouver $1,299,900

Princess Park BeautyThe home you have been waiting for has now come to market! A timeless, quality family home with recent contemporary upgrades (kitchen, baths, ooring, molding, lighting) and the coveted “4 bedroom up” oor plan rests on a sumptuous 9,300 square foot, East facing lot near lovely Princess Park. Enjoy well manicured, mature gardens, complete with pond, banana trees and over 400 square feet of decks for entertaining! This home offers 3500 square feet of well planned living space on three levels, with elegant living/dining

room, stunning kitchen with creamy cabinetry, quality s/s appliances, granite counters, family room and 2 piece bath on the main, plus 4 generous bedrooms and 2 full baths up. Lower level features walk out basement with rec room (and pool table), living room, ensuite bedroom, and loads of storage. Double garage, BRAND NEW ROOF, Carisbrooke catchment, and steps to Princess Park. Everything on your WISH LIST! Floor plan & virtual tour at www.grantandjasmine.com

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The ultimate in luxury. This gorgeous Pent-house is being offered for the fi rst time on the market. The private elevator will lead you into the foyer and into the lap of 3300+ square feet of luxury. You wont believe your eyes as you gaze upon the best view in West Vancouver from every room. Step onto a 1500 square foot veranda to breath in the fresh mountain air. It almost goes without saying that only the best quality fi nishes and fi ttings are featured in this home as ev-ery upgrade imaginable was ordered.

Beautifully remodelled from bottom to top that beats a new house in one of the most demanding area, in Del-brook, almost 3000 sqft of high quality which fi ts 2 families, 2 brand new open kitchens with S/S appliances, new dark H/W fl oors for the entire house ,new windows with high-end coverings ,new plumbing & wiring, new roof and hot water heating system. Sitting on a newly Land Escaped lot, fi nally enjoy an out-door swimming pool on newly fenced and private backyard.

Enjoy unobstructed view of ocean, island, and mountain from this spe-cious two bedroom and Family room in Stonecliff next to Cypress Provincial Park, high end fi nishing, hardwood fl ooring, granite counters, S/S high end appliances, over sized washer and drying, designer window covering, A/C system. Club house with two guest suites, fi tness center, spa, fi reside lounge with full kitchen and conference room. Comes with two secured parking stall.

480 Evergreen Pl., N.V. $1,348,000

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101-2255 Twin Creek Pl, W.V. $1,399,000102-2255 Twin Creek Pl, W.V. $1,599,000301-2255 Twin Creek Pl, W.V. $3,359,000

2567 Lawson Ave, W.V. $1,585,000

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Restaurant For Sale in busy and upcoming Main St Area in Vancouver. 100+ Seats, Fully licensed and full kitchen are some features. Add fi ve decades of operation, low rent and stable and loyal clientele and you have a great turnkey business opportunity.

Nora Valdez604-351-0625

ALL THIS FOR $269,900Main Street, Vancouver

Two houses in one. The ground fl oor is a legal secondary suite. House has a total of 5 bedrooms, 4bathrooms, 2 kitchen, a store room and a full-sized double garage. Features a newly added sun room of 277s.f., central A/C, a tankless hot water heater, and an electrical upgrade of 200 AMP along with a covered walkway and a new driveway. Located at the end of a C-D-S and is walking distance to/from Park Royal & nearby elementary school. House is well-kept and at a move-in condition.

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$1,280,000441 Newlands Place, Cedardale,

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Situated on a ten acre site within a thousand acre park, this suite off ers panoramic views from Stanley park to Vancouver Island. Remodelled to the highest standardsthis 1547 sq. ft. 2 bdrm and den apartment is a gem. Custom fi nishes include, walnet cabinets, limestone counters and surround sound audio/video. A truly amazing residence, in a building with only 3 suites per fl oor, and private double garage. More pictures at www.imandzuk.com/3315cypress502.asp. Call Irene Mandzuk to view this Exclusive Listing.

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5646 Westport Road, West Vancouver Offered at $1,588,000

A complete transformation has occurred in this stunning four bedroom home which enjoys absolute privacy! The attention to detail is evident throughout including the new custom designed gourmet kitchen and the exquisite bathrooms embracing fine grade Italian ceramic tile and the highest end fixtures and finishings. Soaring vaulted ceilings will greet you in the spacious open plan living/dining area while the numerous skylights welcome in natural lighting giving a bright inviting atmosphere. As you venture outdoors you will find two beautiful new decks for your entertaining pleasure and a fabulous outdoor pool amongst the lush gardens! Please note that there is no sign on this property.

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Renovated family home is in the very desirable PEMBERTON HEIGHTS area located on a quiet beautiful corner lot. It has 3 bed-rooms up and 1 bedroom down in an “in-law” suite, the gour-met kitchen is great with granite counters and all top of the line stainless steel appliances includ-ing a “steam oven”. Hardwood fl oors have been refi nished, new roof and windows. Conveniently located close to Capilano El-ementary School.

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large dining room & large balcony. 4 bedrooms & loft with

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Just move right in and enjoy an incredibly well built family home at the end of a cul-de-sac with city views backing onto greenbelt and offering great privacy. Upstairs are 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, master with 5 piece ensuite, walk-in closet and nice view. Main has formal living and dining area, large kitchen with adjoining family room leading out to a sundeck overlooking the backyard and forest beyond. Downstairs is storage. A self contained 1 bedroom suite with potential to add approx. 875 sq ft more. This beautiful home features granite counter tops, top of the line appliances, new hardwood and tile fl ooring, 3 gas fi replaces, double garage, and professionally landscaped lot with fenced backyard and hot tub. Very nice residence!

Family friendly “Parkside Townhome” with plenty of room for that growing family. Excellent location close to schools, shopping and transportation. This 3 bedroom 3 bathroom has it all. Sunny SW patio off family room, second deck off living room and a private rooftop sundeck. Built-in vacuum, 2 fi replaces, full ensuite off master, walk-in closet, island kitchen with eating area, tons of storage and an attached double garage. Pets O.K., rental restriction but 2 available. New carpet & paint, tile and counters.

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Lions Bay’s ecclectic beachside neighbourhood. This home exudes the special charms of a westcoast retreat;expansive decks, custom wood windows and detailing,3 bdrms,3 full baths, great room with stone replace, seperate Coach house for guests or private of ce, an irreplacable package. Easy to show!

Situated on a spectacular, private 1/2 acre forested setting in Lions Bay, this unique Westcoast designed architectural home features an open oor plan&multiple levels with outstanding SW ocean views & amazing natural light. The home features an open kitchen, vaulted ceilings, open staircases & walkways, expansive windows, skylights, & decks.

Waterfront at Brunswick, Lions Bay’s ecclectic beach community. A terri c weekender now, this spot would be perfect for a future custom build. The current home is meticulous and mechanically updated. The oceanfront privacy will surprise you! The main house offers open plan, 3 bedrms, and amazing views.

20 Brunswick Beach, Lions Bay$2,150,000

225 Mountain Drive, Lions Bay$1,150,000

41 Brunswick Beach Rd, Lions Bay$1,779,000

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GREAT FAMILY HOME YALETOWN IN CHARMING HORSHOE BAY....

Unique,1 bdrm condo at ‘Galleries on the Bay’.3 years young, quality nishes, Granite, silstone,s/s, cherry cabinets, porcelain oors,soaker tub, huge window areas. Pets and rentals ok.

Warm , inviting 5, bedroom family home on a large 1/2 acre property with oceanviews. Vaulted ceilings,custom windows, hardwood oors, new cedar decks, great yardspace. Easy driveway with tons of parking including double garage.Bonus in-law accomodation too! Located on the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in beautiful Lions Bay...10 mins on the scenic Sea to Sky from West Vancouver. See you at the open house.

1 bedroom top oor suite. Vaulted ceilings, gas replace, custom paint, new carpets. Just move in and enjoy!

Amazing views from this custom 4 bdrm 4 bath Kelvin Grove home. custom kitchen, granite and stainless, hardwood oors, Huge decks for entertaining. Gorgeous master with custom shower, large walk in closet and view deck. Rare lawn and gardens. All with an easy entrance double garage. A must see!

260 Kelvin Grove Way, Lions Bay $1,489,000

Panoramic oceanviews from this beautifully updated 4bed, 3 bath home. hardwood oors, new custom kitchen, spa like ensuite. Bonus mtge helper. V833662

Charming westcoast home with dramatic oceanviews and peaceful forrest setting. 16900 sq ft lot provides incredible privacy! 1666 sq ft, 2 beds(possible 4) 2.5 baths, large decks....walk to the beach, 1/2 hr. to downtown...work in the city, live the dream.

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565 Upper Bayview, Lions Bay $998,000

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two full baths and 2 decks. Cozy gas replace in living

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terri c lower Lonsdale location. This 2 bedroom, 2 full

bathroom, 1214 sq.ft. condo is a gem. It boasts oor to

ceiling windows to take in the stunning views, gleaming

wood oors, large entry hall with French Doors to the

of ce. A large private den, open oor plan for the

living room and dining room with marble replace,

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02. Lions Bay

★ 1,150,000 225 Mountain Drive .......................... Sun.2-4

03. Whytecliff / Horseshoe Bay

★ 432,000 103-6388 Bay Street ............................ Sat12-2

06. Eagle Harbour

★ 1,588,000 5646 Westport Road ......................... Sun.2-4★ 949,000 5497 Greenleaf .................................... Sat&Sun2-4

23. Westhill

★ 1,398,000 2554 Westhill Close .......................... Sat&Sun2-4

29. Cedardale

★ 1,280,000 441 Newlands Place ......................... Sun.2-4

31. Capilano

★ IVY 1265 Marine Drive GRAND OPENING ..... Sat.12-5

38. Pemberton / Pemberton Heights

★ 945,000 2318 Philip Ave ..................................... Sun.2-4

41. Upper Lonsdale

★ 1,298,000 4265 St. Pauls Ave ............................ Sat&Sun2-4

43. Lower Lonsdale

★ 648,750 111-216 East 6th Street ....................... Sat&Sun2-4

47. Princess Park

★ 1,299,900 3232 Princess Ave ............................ Sat&Sun2-4

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This Unique 4 bedroom Lewis post and beam family home with full headroom basement shows with pride of ownership. It is a well maintained home that offers large sunny decks, newly paved level driveway, a large and very bright kitchen with skylights, cozy gas replace in the living room, newly painted exterior, and even a hot tub. This gem is in a great location, close to Eagle Harbour School, beaches, tennis, and the community center. Open Sat/Sun 2pm to 4pm., or call for your private showing today.

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On the calendarEVERY SUNDAYAmbleside farm-

ers’ market: From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the parking lot behind police station at 13th and Bellevue. Enjoy a host of traditional organic produce, cof-fee, silk, pies and more. Market fund-raiser book sale and book exchange. Games table, kids craft and play tent. Country rock tunes by Billy Burns. For more info call 604-628-8226 or visit www.artisanmarkets.ca.

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parking garage and St. David’s United Church from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the half hour.

• West Van Firefighters’ Car Wash: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the parking lot at 13th Street and Bellevue Ave., behind the West Vancouver Police Station and across from Ambleside Beach. Raises money for department’s chari-table society.

• Fashion for a Cause: Support local student design-

ers and help send an Indian child to school. Guest speaker is Suzi Livingstone of the Dalit Freedom Network. North Shore Alliance Church, 201 East 23rd Street. 7 to 8 p.m. $5 at the door.

• Karaoke Night: Legion 118, 123 West 15th St., 8 p.m. to mid-night. Come and have fun while having your skills broadcast live on YouTube (unless you are shy!). 604-985-1115 or email [email protected]

MAY 15• Sunday Jam

Sesson: Legion 118, North Vancouver. 4 to 7 p.m. Everyone wel-come – you don’t have to be a Legion member to participate.

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Training: Good for the Body and the Brain: Public lec-ture by Dr. Theresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD. PT, Dept. of Physical Therapy, UBC. 2 p.m., West Vancouver Memorial Library, sponsored by North

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• Metaphysical Objectivism: Martin Hunt moderates SFU Philosophers’ Cafe, La Zuppa Restaurant, 1544 Lonsdale Ave, 7 p.m. $5. “Realism is the thesis that the objects, properties and relations the world contains exist indepen-dently of our thoughts about them or our perceptions of them.” 778-782-5215 or, phi-losopherscafe.net.

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TO MAY 15Happiness Reigns: Paintings

by Gordon Davis “I paint for lei-sure and enjoyment. I use lots of colour — no clouds or dull greys and my theme is always happi-ness and joy. Silk Purse Gallery.

TO MAY 18• District Foyer Gallery: Carl

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TO MAY 21• A Classical Spirit: Artist

Sylvia Tait at the West Vancouver Museum. 604-925-7295, Tues. to Sat. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Stones in his Pockets: Deep Cove Shaw Theatre pres-ents play about a small-town in Ireland overrun by a Hollywood movie production. Wednesday to Saturday 8 p.m. Order tix online at www.firstimpressionstheatre.com. or at 604-929-9459.

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Theatre: Puppet magic for young and old with an all new show “The Adventures of Cheetwook Black Bear.” Interactive puppet show helps audiences learn about the natural diet, habitat and char-acteristics of black bears. Silk Purse. 10:30 a.m. Reservations required. 604-925-7292. Tix $5/8

• Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra: Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver will fill with the music of Mozart, Holst and others legends. One of

the musicians is Grade 7 Noelle Kelbert. She has been playing the piano since she was four, the harp since she was five, and the violin since she was 6. She will be playing Bach’s violin concerto in A minor. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are by donation.

May 14 and 15Capilano Mall celebrates

Art Month: Live performances throughout the weekend, as well as children’s art workshops.

May 16One Night for One Day: A

celebration of young talent. Top violinists, award-winning poets, innovative dance companies, theatre sports, jazz and folk col-laborations, the internationally recognized North Shore Celtic Ensemble. All proceeds for imag-ine1day, a Vancouver-based NFP

organization working in rural Ethiopia. 7:30 p.m. Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre. Tickets $22.

May 17-29 Swans and Other People:

Jacquie Manning multi-media explorations of unusual encoun-ters with animals while trekking through Europe. A departure from her abstract works. Silk Purse Gallery. Opening reception Tuesday May 17, 6-8 p.m .

May 18 to July 3George Taylor and Iza

Radinsky: District Foyer Gallery, North Vancouver District Hall, 355 West Queens Road. George Taylor creates humorous garden sculptures using wood and recy-cled materials. Iza Radinsky’s art is a call for peace and serenity, for the appreciation of the beauty

of architecture that blends with power of nature in surrounding landscapes. Weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Opening reception: May 19, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

May 19Architecture of Sound: Join

pianist Jan Rooks for a selec-tion of masterpieces from Bach and Shostakovich’s preludes and fugues. Silk Purse. 10:30 a.m. Tix $12/$15.

May 22• Sima Bina and the Lian

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