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West Van library ahead of the game Preloaded e-books, free music, CDs and DVDs help keep visitors coming back MICHAELA GARSTIN S TA F F R E P O RT E R

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he results are in: The West Vancouver Library has the highest circulation per hour open out of every library in B.C. Its success is due to a combination of lending preloaded e-readers, downloadable music, CDs and other technology-related services and traditional book borrowing, said the library’s chairwoman Marcia Bergen at a council meeting on Sept. 10.

In fact, the library was the first in Canada to offer e-readers when it launched a Kindle lending program two years ago. Now 20 of 42 B.C. libraries have adopted the program.

But that’s not all. Smartphones can now be used to check-out books and other material.

“This seems to be important to the younger generation, only because [they] are not unknown to lose or forget their library cards but are unlikely to forget their smartphones,” Bergen said.

When asked by Coun. Bill Soprovich whether the library has seen a peak in visitors due to the popularity of online access, Bergen noted in-person library visits continue to increase.

In 2011, 905,000 people visited the library, either in person or

online. This is up five per cent over the year before.

In November 2011, 50,000 people walked through the doors, making it the busiest month since January 1997. Around 1,700 people visit the library on a given weekday.

“It’s a sign of the depth of our physical collections. We are very aware that visitors from other library systems within the Lower Mainland find items in our collection that they’re unable to find in their home libraries,” said Bergen.

The library needs to find a balance between offering children online services and making sure they still appreciate reading a physical book, she added.

Seniors continue to play a big part in the library’s business, added Bergen, noting that books, CDs, magazines, puzzles and other items are delivered by truck to seniors who can’t get to the library easily.

The West Van Library has also made an effort to become more environmentally friendly, receiving LEED existing building silver certification. Over the last five years, the library has seen electric consumption drop 34 per cent, gas 42 per cent and water 68 per cent. To top this off, a third less solid waste is picked up every week. mgarstin@northshoreoutlook.com

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he City of North Vancouver is once again asking TransLink to abandon plans to shutter its North Vancouver Transit Centre and instead build a new bus depot on the North Shore.

The unanimously approved motion came Monday as delegates from the Canadian Autoworkers Union and the Amalgamated Transit Union — which operate both buses and SeaBuses — asked council to find a site for a new transit depot and block TransLink from leaving North Vancouver in 2015.

That’s when the regional transit provider plans to move its fleet of 82 buses from the Third Street depot to Burnaby, where they would begin and end their usual North Shore service each day.

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to turn around and drive an empty bus back home — and then repeat the trip at the end of the day — flies in the face of both TransLink’s and the city’s stated commitments to green transportation.

“TransLink seems to be saying, ‘Do as I say but not as I do,’” said Coun. Linda Buchanan. “We’re asking our communities to get out of their cars and spend less time in their cars, and yet we’re asking these drivers to drive across the bridge and back so they can pick up the people in our community who’ve made that choice that we’ve asked them to. It seems a bit ludicrous to me.”

TransLink is expected to come before city council to discuss the possibility or impossibility of establishing another transit centre on the North Shore, be it pairing with West Vancouver’s Blue Bus depot on Lloyd Avenue adjacent to the ICBC centre, or establishing a separate depot somewhere else.

“ICBC is a provincial agency and now I hear that if you don’t pay your TransLink ticket you’re not going to not be able to renew your licence,” said Coun. Craig Keating. “So clearly TransLink and ICBC have something going on the side when they want to. Here’s a great opportunity where they should be working together to try to find a site.”

Coun. Rod Clark said sharing Capilano University’s parking facilities could be another solution as the parking lots are empty at night. Other sites suggested by the mayor and council included some waterfront property near Cargill and a lot behind the Grant Connell Tennis Centre.

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he Cheese Man doesn’t do much marketing.

Other than a clog-wearing, cheese-munching mouse statue out front and small sign above his shop in a nondescript cinderblock building behind Capilano Mall, he relies almost exclusively on word of mouth.

After all, that’s how Doug Martin first discovered the small, aromatic shop with cheeses from around the world 15 years ago. “Same way as everybody else — customers telling customers,� says Martin.

Martin bought the cheese shop five years ago when owner Benny Nordhoj, a native of Denmark, retired after 25 years behind the counter.

THE BIG CHEESE - Doug Martin, owner of Nordhoj did even less marketing, with just an the Cheese Man. Justin Beddall photo obscure sign reading B & N Sales above the door, but customers still lined up for his reasonably “[It has] nice flavour,� she says, as Martin opens priced cheese. another cooler to grab the mild and creamy cheese.

Martin has since changed the sign to read “And is this the one with the herbs?� she asks, Cheese Sales and renamed the shop the “Cheese pointing to another.

Man� — which is how he and other customers had “It’s a cream cheese,� he says. affectionately referred the store’s owner for years.

Martin then recommends something her husAnd while Martin has done a lot of things — band might like, Pont L’Eveque, a French cheese.

Olympic swimmer (Montreal, 1976), troubleshooter So, why does she choose to come to a business at IBM, executive coach, head of a not-for-profit park for her cheese? and VP of a software company — he never imag“First of all, it’s a better price and he’s got more ined he’d be a purveyor of fine cheese. variety,� she says. “I wanted a business that I could have fun with,� “Oh, [and it’s] lots of fun,� she adds. he says.

While some come in for large quantities to stock “And that’s turned out to be the case. I enjoy their cheese drawers, others just order a few slivers. every day I come in here. My customers are fun.

All are welcome, but if you’re looking for “grab and It’s a fun place to come and shop.� go� you may be disappointed.

Some days, like Saturdays, there’s a lineup snakThe amiable Cheese Man likes interacting with ing out of his shop. But it usually doesn’t take long his customers. That may include helping to come to get your order and it’s a good chance for cheese lovers to swap recipes and the provenances of their up with a selection of cheeses for a dinner party platter or even pairings with wines. favourite varieties.

Quizzed on a chardonnay pairing, he makes this “[They] learn as much from [the people who shop here] as from me,� he says. “[It’s] really a neat recommendation: “Goat gouda, nice triple-cream Brie. I’d also have a community inside the shop.� nice blue that would go well with chardonnay.�

Martin’s usually got between 75 to 100 different While his go-to cheese is always five-year-old cheeses in his display cases. Some are Canadian cheddar (his great-grandfather got him hooked), but the majority are imports: Switzerland, Martin is also fond of a cheese from Quebec called Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Britain, New Bleu BĂŠnĂŠdictin that’s produced by monks. He Zealand, Norway, Italy, to name a few. calls it a “Goldilocksâ€? — “a blue that’s not too He also carries seasonal selections, like raclette, sharp and not too creamy. Just right.â€? a cheese produced in Switzerland and France, “It can be used in a salad, served on its own or that’s traditionally heated with a special table-top even melted on a tenderloin.â€? machine (which you can borrow from the shop Along with an apprenticeship with Nordhoj, for free with the purchase of cheese), then scraped Martin has also had the onto potatoes and served with enviable task of upping his different accompaniments like cheese IQ with tasting trips to gherkins, pickled onions, vegetaEurope. bles and smoked meats.

So far, he’s visited It’s a European tradition Switzerland, Germany and Martin had never heard of before WWW.NORTHSHOREOUTLOOK.COM Denmark. France, Italy and purchasing the shop.

Holland are next. “I’ve seen a whole new world In Switzerland, he went on a nine-day cheese of what you can do with cheese,� he says. adventure, visiting cheese-makers in different To share all the tasty recipes and unique uses for regions, even venturing into the cave with one cheese his customers have given him, Martin proartisan who slid rounds off racks and began doing duces a monthly e-newsletter on all things cheese. core tasting samples of different-aged cheeses.

On his website, cheeseman.ca, there are more “There’s always something to learn, new recipes,� recipes, like, for instance, BBQed grilled cheese he says of his new vocation. sandwiches and Roquefort steak sauce.

And even though Martin’s now the ‘big cheese’ Many of his customers, like Anne Bigler, a native at the shop, there’s not nearly the kind of pressure of France who now lives in North Van, have been he’s faced in other lines of work. making the special trip here for years. “It’s a lifestyle choice,� he says, noting he has “What are we thinking today?� he asks when “little to no stress and gets one good belly laugh or she walks in. more a day.� He also lives five minutes from work “[I’ll] start with creamy blue cheese Cambozola and is able to commute by scooter in the summer. and a piece of the French one,� she says, pointing And in this job, it’s not so bad bringing your down at a wedge of Port Salut. work home with you. “Do you have any Brie?� she asks.

On this Friday night, he’s planning to enjoy a “Creamy, runny?� Martins asks, plucking a bottle of wine and some cheese before dinner. cheese from that case. “That one will run all over the place.� —Local Eats is a semi-regular column that “What else do I want,� she asks aloud as she surprofiles North Shore restaurants and foodies. veys the cheese counter. “Do you have any German Butter?�

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or more than 30 years, the Coho Society of the North Shore has been celebrating the return of coho salmon to local rivers and streams. This annual September event is marked by a community wide celebration at Ambleside Park that includes the Coho Walk/Run and the very popular salmon barbecue, which brings out dozens of community leaders who volunteer their time to cook up a storm. Display booths, live music, entertainment and more are all part of the day which goes to promote the preservation of the salmonoid species while raising awareness about the importance of protecting the delicate water habitats across the North Shore. Big thanks to Dee Gandhi for his photo help.

B Mieka Halliday Gunn, left, Ian Gunn and Graeme Halliday Gunn get the award for most festive outfits as they show their colourful spirit. C With their salmon flippers crossed in preparation, West Vancouver fire chief Jim Cook and West Vancouver Chamber executive director Leagh Gabriel get ready to feed the crowd. D Performing live for the festival, members of The Wilds strike all the right chords. From left: Brain Newcombe (bass), Kevin Wright (vocals, drums), Holly Arntzen (vocals, dulcimer ) and David Sinclair (guitar). E Sunshine smiles from Sara Mckibben, left, and Karen Hamfeldt brighten an already perfect afternoon.

F Family fun is also the name of the game today as Michael Ouochi entertains little Cayla Cham with an impressive display of balloon animals and art. G Keeping things cooking over at the salmon grill are West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce president Gabrielle Loren, left, and Jane Kellette.

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The new corner store To stay afloat, North Shore corner store owners are changing the way they do business. And that's good news for the neighbourhood

BY MICHAELA GARSTIN

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e all grew up with a neighbourhood corner store. It was a place to spend our allowance on penny candy, chocolate bars and pop. Or, if they ran out of a household essential, our parents would quickly stop by.

Often, the same family ran the store for decades, living right upstairs or in a nearby house. The decor hadn’t changed in years, but that didn’t matter because new goodies were always in stock.

In many North Shore neighbourhoods, however, a different kind of corner store is popping up. Attempting to boost business, new owners are changing traditional convenience stores into cafés and delis, while keeping the most popular go-to items on the shelves “You have to offer including, of course, candy. something very Their corner stores, unique...” they say, couldn’t survive without offering Pooran Aga coffee, baked goods Cypress Market owner and sandwiches, which can account for up to 80 per cent of business.

It’s a situation Pooran Aga has faced first hand. While working at Cypress Park Market in West Vancouver, she figured the owners could attract more customers if they ventured

beyond a typical general store. So, after buying the business from them four years ago, she built an addition out the back to house a deli and coffee shop.

“We have people who come here all the way from Coquitlam just for our chili. You have to offer something very unique so people will come in,” Aga says after a regular customer stops to ask if she made his favourite salad that morning.

Cypress Park Market & Cafe, which is located along the 4300-block of Marine Drive near Caulfeild, seems like an ordinary corner store at the front, lined with grocery shelves and candy jars. But a full-service coffee shop sits at the back, along with tables and chairs inside and on the large deck.

“Everything is homemade — the lasagna, quinoa salad with lemon and jalapeno, sausage rolls, paninis,” says Aga, as she holds out a piping-hot pan of lasagna she

COFFEE & SUNSHINE - Tracey Cochrane, owner of The Corner Store, stands on the deck she quickly added after buying the shop.

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cooked that morning in the store’s small kitchen.

Offering just muffins and scones won’t cut it these days, she adds, since customers are often looking for a nutritious breakfast or lunch to go with their coffee.

Like other corner store owners have realized, Aga says her business couldn’t survive without the loyal neighbourhood residents who stop in for a bite to eat at the deli.

“You need to reinvent yourself” Back in the first half of the 20th century, North Shore residents walked to their neighbourhood general store

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a couple times a week to buy all their vegetables, canned food and household supplies. Some corner stores even had a butcher shop and post office in the back.

This was before the lure of one-stop shopping at big box stores. At first, general stores were open later and on Sundays, but the big chains quickly caught on and extended their hours, some staying open 24-7.

Now, with many people coupon-cutting and buying

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food in bulk, corner stores are no longer needed in the live within blocks of the store,” says Fay, as she picks up a way they once were. bear paw casting that’s popular with tourists.

In fact, many on the North Shore have boarded up “General stores used to be the hub of information, and their windows to make room for other businesses, they still are. It’s a place for people to meet and discuss unable to compete with the big chains. what’s going on in their lives and the community.”

But corner stores are still a vital part of any commuThe new trick to staying in business, say the store ownnity, their owners tell The Outlook, offering residents a ers, is to be willing to change with the demands of the place to shop, socialize and grab a quick bite to eat. community.

Connie Fay, owner of The End of the Line in Lynn Valley, says most corner stores need to change in order “Many artists live Wine with your butter to survive. chicken?

Located at the very top of Lynn Valley Road, her within blocks of the The Grouse Grinder, store offers everything from paintings by local artists store.” the Pemby Pleaser and to organic jam and honey to daily soup-and-sandwich the Sowden Swinger deals. are popular breakfasts Connie Fay “If you want to stay within your community, you need at The Corner Store in End of the Line owner to reinvent yourself,” she says, standing beside a display Pemberton Heights. Each of locally made soap and candles. comes with two poached Like Cypress Park Market in West Van, The End of eggs on an English mufthe Line has a unique location secluded from any other fin with ham and creamy house Hollandaise sauce. While businesses. The café serves tourists who hike up the this is definitely not your average corner store fare, it suits nearby trails, as well as neighbourhood residents, some the atmosphere of the bistro-inspired shop. of whom pop by daily for coffee and a Trail Puck, a When Tracey Cochrane bought The Corner Store in healthy cookie made specifically for hikers.

2006, she quickly painted the outside, planted a garden, The small store, newly painted brick red and draped put in windows and a deck and ripped out the low-hangin hanging baskets, ing ceiling, revealhas been at the same ing beautiful hardPIONEER DAYS Trollies used to pull location for 104 years. wood. up to The End of the Line before heading From 1910 to 1947 Echoing the back to Lonsdale.

The small building in the trollies pulled up to the photo was the original general store. owners of other store before returning The End of the Line collection stores, she added to the ferries at the foot a coffee shop and of Lonsdale, dubbing took away the the corner “the end of groceries that tend the line.” to sit on the shelf When Fay bought too long, replacing the store six years ago, them with boushe knew the business tique items, fresh had to change but she coffee beans and also wanted to keep the small gifts. old-fashioned charm by stocking cooking essentials, retro toys and jars continued, PAGE of penny candies.

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Voters, politicians say no thanks to new North Shore ridings B.C. commission considers the ideal riding population of 104,000. Currently, West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country has 133,910 constituents, North Vancouver has 127,330 and Burnaby-Douglas has 123,275.

At one point during the hearing, the opponents appeared to have won a change of heart in at least one commissioner.

“Speaking for myself, when I entered upon this process some months ago, I was perhaps more impressed — if I can use that terminology — with the requirement to be rather close to the median number,” said the Hon. John E. Hall, the only TODD COYNE commissioner to speak to attendees at Monday’s S TA F F R E P O RT E R meeting. “But as the months have gone by I ew voters and even fewer politicians are think I have shifted my thinking a little bit more supporting a plan to redraw the North in favour of historic and community interests; Shore’s federal electoral map, saythe commonality of interests.” ing the proposed plan just doesn’t make While a Burnaby North-Seymour sense. riding isn’t without precedent — Dozens of angry residents from the riding existed briefly in the Deep Cove to the Sunshine Coast and late 1960s and early ‘70s and was all places between came to a Monday almost resurrected in 2002 in the night hearing of the Federal Electoral face of overwhelming opposition — Boundaries Commission for B.C., today, residents on both sides of the complaining that plans to redraw the Burrard Inlet say Burnaby and North region’s vote map ignore natural comVancouver share little if anything munity ties and boundaries. more than proximity to the bridge at Coun. Bassam The three-member commission is the Second Narrows. charged with delivering six new federal Today, opposition to the plan ridings to B.C. before the next election, includes North Van district mayor bringing the province’s MP count up Richard Walton, councillor Roger from 36 to 42 to reflect our population Bassam, North Van city councillor growth in Ottawa.

Don Bell and Burnaby-Douglas New That’s undoubtedly a good thing for Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart. fans of democracy in B.C. But all but “The people I have spoken with reportedly one who spoke at the hearare concerned that there is no ing objected to how the proposed new natural connection between North ridings have been drawn.

Burnaby and the Seymour area, and As they stand now, the commisthat they would rather have one MP Coun. Bell sion’s plans are to take Powell River resident in North Van serving the and Texada Island out of the sprawlentire region, even if it meant a larger ing West Vancouver-Sunshine Coastnumber of constituents,” Walton told Sea to Sky Country riding and tack them onto The Outlook in an email Tuesday. “I tend to Vancouver Island North, while splitting the agree with that position… sometimes geography North Vancouver riding in two and marrying its should trump proportionate representation when eastern half with North Burnaby. Called Burnaby there are natural boundaries.”

North-Seymour, the new riding would comMP Stewart this week went a step further and prise all of the District of North Vancouver east surveyed every North Vancouver household that of Lynn Creek and all of Burnaby north of the would be included in the new riding. Of the Lougheed Highway.

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“It’s a great way for artists to test out the market by creating something they wouldn’t normally How to participate: do,” says Dunlop, adding that people who want a - Only unframed, 8”x 8” x 1 ½” back-stapled canvas specific artist will need to do their best at guessing or wood-cradle panel are accepted. Blank canvases which painting is theirs. can be purchased from the arts council ($5 for mem“It’s a great way to discover someone new. We bers or $7 for non-members). have people that come here every year to cover a -Two-dimensional paintings only. Relief and threewall in their house out of the eight-by-eight candimensional work is not accepted. vases.”

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“About 165 supported the redistricting proposal, 609 were against it and 233 were undecided,” Stewart told the commissioners Monday. “When you take out the undecided responses, you have about 79 per cent of the North Vancouver residents against this proposal with about 21 per cent supporting.”

The new riding would also cut off the Squamish Nation’s Seymour Creek reserve in the east from its Capilano and Mission reserves to the west, weakening the nation’s representation over both ridings.

Coun. Bell has served in almost every elected office in North Vancouver, from school board chair to North Van district mayor to Liberal MP from 2004 to 2008. In 2002, he appeared before the same commission looking to establish a Burnaby North-Seymour riding and then, as now, he opposed the idea.

“I think that there’s more motivation to do it this time,” Bell told The Outlook in a phone interview Monday. “And I think the Seymour area will suffer when it’s linked with North Burnaby because there isn’t a geographic similarity there, nor is there a sense of community demographically.”

Coun. Bassam agreed, saying the two communities often differ on issues like the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby, which “one community might be looking at as jobs and economics, whereas the other might be looking at its environmental impacts.”

Or, as Burnaby resident and transit driver Albert Melenius told the commission Monday: “They have different industries and different incomes, different social mixes and even different weather.”

More damaging still, Bassam said, is the further voter disenfranchisement the new arrangement could bring to those roughly 30,000 North Van residents who would join the predominantly Burnabycentric riding.

“What should be more concerning for us is the sentiment that people think at the end of the day it

doesn’t really matter because the politicians aren’t accountable to the local people anyways because they all follow the party line,” Bassam told The Outlook in a phone interview Monday. “So it really becomes a matter of are you going to get someone who’s philosophically aligned with you as a result of this or not?”

That may sound abstract, but if the last federal election were run again with the Burnaby NorthSeymour riding in play, in all likelihood Kennedy Stewart would not be MP. “I don’t think it’s politically motivated but it does have political realities,” is how Coun. Bell put it.

In the 2011 election, Stewart beat his Conservative rival for the Burnaby-Douglas seat with 21,000 votes to his opponent’s 20,000. In fact, the past four Burnaby-Douglas elections have gone NDP with a margin of just 1,000 votes.

Recall the 2011 election in North Van, however, when Conservative MP Andrew Saxton beat the Liberal candidate 29,000 ballots to 18,000, with the New Democrat candidate scoring under 10,000.

With even some of those North Van Conservative and Liberal ballots in play in Burnaby, the election outcome could be much different.

“It’s a big swing,” Stewart told The Outlook. “If they replay the last election, instead of winning by two per cent, I would have lost by seven. That’s a big swing.”

In an e-mail to The Outlook Tuesday, MP Saxton said his preference “would be to continue serving the people of North Vancouver with the current boundaries, however, given the population growth on the North Shore in recent years and the need for new seats in British Columbia, I recognize the status quo is not an option.”

The B.C. federal electoral boundaries commission’s next public hearing concerning the possible Burnaby North-Seymour riding is in Burnaby on Oct. 18, the last date of hearings for all affected communities. The commission will then discuss its findings before making their final recommendations to the House of Commons.

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Ever since then, she has and siblings will also get a The show takes place Sept. fallen in love with telling chilkick out of it.

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She has since toured to New Zealand and Peru and has had her choreographed work presented locally at the Talking Stick Festival and the Vancouver International Dance Festival. “Aboriginal dance is a way to connect with our culture, land and traditions,� she says. “There isn’t a separation of singing, dance and rhythm like there is in other forms of dance — it’s together and you need to know it all.�

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“Most times performance art is in buildings so people have to pay, making it exclusive,” says Linda Feil, executive director of the North Vancouver Community Arts Council.

Although people have to pay to get on the trollies, she says, the dances are all done outside so anyone who stumbles across a performance can pop in for free.

“This non-traditional way of performing interjects into their day something they will never foresee happening.”

And this sense of surprise is what drew Feil to Trolley Dances in the first place.

She was immediately interested in the movement when she heard about it at a conference in San Diego. For 14 years, a dance company there has taken riders to different locations throughout the city, surprising them with different forms of contemporary performance.

Trolley Dances on the North Shore, however, will be a bit different. Because the historical red buses, which are being provided by the Vancouver Trolley Company, aren’t on tracks like in San Diego, the performances can take place anywhere.

Instead of taking place inside buildings, every show will be at outdoor spots that specifically relate to the dance groups.

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A group of moms took a petition for the foodprimary licence door-to-door in Pemberton Heights and within a week had 600 signatures, she says. If she gets the go-ahead, a glass of wine could be served with her expanded menu, which might include burgers, mac and cheese and butter chicken.

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Karen Klassen of Women Embracing Brilliance is our October Guest Speaker and November we are holding our ‘Showcase & Shopping’ tradeshow with special guest Michelle Dodds of the North Shore Women’s Centre who is our SWAN charity. All table proceeds will go to them. December will be very exciting featuring a panel of 4 SWAN entrepreneurs sharing their business journeys – the successes and the challenges!

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1992 Class A 34ft WINNEBAGO ELANTE motorhome, 454 Chev motor, only 42,000miles. Low profile, awning, generator, air compressor backup camera, 2 TV’s & many other extras. This is a top of the line motorhome in top shape. Asking $21,000. Call 604-536-2899.

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