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Upcoming Events: www.nvchamber.ca JOIN THE NORTH VANCOUVER CHAMBER TODAY Business Excellence Awards Nominees Reception Wed., September 19th 5 - 8pm Network with the 15th Annual Business Excellence Award Nominees. The three finalists in each award category will be announced. Appetizers and a cash bar will be available.
Networking Breakfast - Power Networking Sponsored by NEXT Marketing Agency Inc. Thurs., September 13th 7:15 - 9am Create a Lasting Impression with BRAND CHATTER(TM) and learn to more effectively power network right on the spot! Presented by Sandy Gerber, CEO & Founder of the award winning NEXT Marketing Agency Inc. Business After Five and AGM Sponsored by North Shore Credit Union Wed., October 17th 5:30 - 7:30pm Come mix, mingle and network with North Shore business professionals. A short Annual General Meeting will also be held.
BUSINESS PROFILE:
The Great Canadian Landscaping Company Ltd. Spirit Community Garden @ Park Royal (Phase 1 / 3) The Great Canadian Landscaping Company has formed a new unique partnership between The Edible Garden Project and Park Royal Shopping Centre and in doing so is focusing on setting a stage to educate the community on responsible and sustainability gardening practices for today and in the future. As a lot of people may be aware, Sub(Urban) Gardening this past year or two has been front page news and at the forefront for local and national media, as well as accepted normal practice for many leading developVisit the Spirit Community ers, municipalities and schools throughout Metro Garden @ Park Royal on the Vancouver and North America. upper promenade out front Farmer markets have gone from being perceived of Osaka Supermarket as unlicensed cagey operations, to down beat trendy, overlooking Capilano River successful, highly profitable licensed operations. We feel the movement of families successfully harvesting from their own suburban backyard for themselves and the community is naturally just around the corner and though this partnership we can help get the message out about food security in our community.
Jason Black Vice President - Operations The Great Canadian Landscaping Company Ltd. 111 Bowser Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7P 3H1 t. +1.604.924.5296 f. +1.604.904.0009 w. greatcanadianlandscaping.com
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Jason Black, VP Operations
Jane Thornthwaite MLA North Vancouver - Seymour
Parkgate Community Centre Eric Bennet Lounge
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Thurs., Sept. 20. 10:00am-11:00am Visit my constituency office in Lynn Valley Village:
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ANDREW SAXTON Member of Parliament - North Vancouver
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As your representative in Ottawa, it’s my job to listen to you. Please visit my website and contact me with your concerns. www.andrewsaxton.ca
PROTEST PADDLE - Paddlers from Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and other Coastal First Nations perform a water ceremony in front of Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Marine Terminal. CNW Group/Tsleil-Waututh Nation photo
North Shore nations united in pipeline protest Squamish and TsleilWaututh nations sign declaration to stop Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion TODD COYNE S TA F F R E P O RT E R
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aturday brought strange traffic to Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Marine oil tanker port, as two North Shore First Nations put paddle to water to protest the company’s plans for pipeline expansion. The on-the-water ceremony was the culmination of a canoe journey that saw dozens of paddlers from both the Squamish and TsleilWaututh nations shove off from West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park and traverse the inlet under police and harbour patrol escort to the tanker port at North Burnaby. The boats carried copies of a declaration that would later be signed by chiefs from the two nations, affirming their opposition to both increased industry on Burrard Inlet and to increased tanker traffic on the south coast B.C. waters known collectively as the Salish Sea. “It is a desire of Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh to work cooperatively in a mutually supportive manner to stop Kinder Morgan’s proposal to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline which terminates at the Burrard Inlet and to stop increased oil tanker traffic in the Salish Sea,” the declaration read in part. It’s the second anti-pipeline document signed by the Tsleil-Waututh in as many months, after the nation ratified the Save the Fraser Declaration banning oil sands pipelines from First Nations lands on July 7. Hundreds gathered at North
Vancouver’s Cates Park to welcome the paddlers and witness the signing, including New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart, in whose Burnaby-Douglas riding lies the tanker port and part of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton. “My constituents have told me loud and clear they’re very supportive of this [protest],” Stewart told The Outlook. “Here we have really historic rivals, the Squamish and the Tsleil-Waututh, coming together now against the Kinder Morgan expansion and it’s quite significant.” Stewart has applied for intervenor status at the National Energy Board’s hearings on the doubling of the Trans Mountain pipeline, a status which, if granted, would allow him to present arguments and information to the board and crossexamine fellow participants. In the meantime, Stewart is echoing federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s calls for a reversal of sorts on the pipeline debate. “We support pipelines flowing east across Canada,” Stewart said. “This is because 85 per cent of the oil that’s used in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces is imported. So we’re saying that instead of exporting this oil sands oil to Asia, we should be making it flow east to keep our Canadian refineries alive in central and Atlantic Canada. “West Coast pipelines are highly questionable,” he added. If Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain twinning project is approved, it would increase the flow of oil from 300,000 barrels per day to 750,000 by 2017, and increase the size and number of tankers plying the waters of the Burrard Inlet and coastal B.C. tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/toddcoyne
NUTCRACKER AUDITIONS Royal City Youth Ballet Company Auditions Dancers from age 7 and up, female and male dancers of all levels
Sunday, September 9th, 2012 Junior 12:00pm Intermediate 1:00pm Advanced 2:00pm
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Students chosen as company members will qualify to audition for Nutcracker roles on September 9th. Open Auditions for the Nutcracker Ballet will be held Sunday, September 16th, 2012. Registration 12:30pm. Auditions 1:00pm. All auditions will be held at 511 Columbia Street, New Westminster. For further information, call 604-521-7290