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City spikes beach volleyball plans, museum funding goes down with it

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t was meant to get the ball rolling on a short-term strategy of the North Vancouver waterfront.

But when half of city council spiked plans for an outdoor beach volleyball centre, the other half took their ball and went home — leaving the long-term future of the waterfront site up in the air.

At Monday’s meeting, council seemed poised to finalize its plan to build five beach volleyball courts on Lower Lonsdale’s empty Lot 5 Shipyards site, having approved preliminary studies and directed staff to move on the project as recently as July 23.

The courts were to be temporary, there for at most “a few years” starting this winter while long-term plans for the revitalization of the waterfront were hammered out, according to city engineer Douglas Pope.

But when it came time to foot the $140,000 bill for the courts Monday, the council majority suddenly had cold feet.

“It happens to be the end of October now and the rains are here and the rains are going to be here for five or six months, maybe longer,” said Coun. Rod Clark. “And to be spending $140,000 for temporary-use volleyball is foolhardy.”

Coun. Pam Bookham shared his concerns, adding she doubted the real plan was for the courts to be temporary at all.

“My concern is that once there, it might be difficult to persuade them that we have other uses that would serve more of the community and fit more with what we are trying to do on the waterfront,” Bookham said. “I don’t know whether the feeling on council is that they see this as a permanent use but I think that now would probably be the time to speak up.”

Joining councillors Clark and Bookham in

voting down the volleyball plans 4-3 were councillors Guy Heywood and Don Bell, prompting outcry from pro-beach volleyball councillor, Craig Keating.

“If we’re going to wait around and say we’re not going to have temporary uses on that site and instead we prefer what looks like a frigging dump,” Keating said, “if that’s the vision of some members of council, please get it on the record.”

The defeat prompted Mayor Darrell Mussatto — who along with Keating and Coun. Linda Buchanan supported the beach volleyball initiative — to request that a $50,000 funding appropriation for the North Vancouver Museum and Archives for preliminary work on its long-term plans for the waterfront site, be voted on separately from the other funding allotments in the initial vote. Those included not only the volleyball courts, but also $200,000 to hire a temporary waterfront project engineer and $550,000 for site remediation, both of which were unanimously approved by council.

Isolating the museum funding ensured that it, like the volleyball courts, fell afoul of council favour, with councillors Bookham, Bell and Heywood supporting the museum money, while councillors Buchanan, Clark, Keating and Mayor Mussatto voted against.

But Bob Heywood, chair of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives Commission told The Outlook he’s confident the exploratory funding for a waterfront museum site would be approved once cooler heads on council prevail.

“I think it was a ‘we don’t get our way, then you don’t get yours’ kind of thing and that’s unfortunate but it’s a local politics thing,” Heywood said in a phone interview Tuesday.

“But it will come back again on serious reflection once council is more aware of the benefits that can accrue to the community from a welldone museum on that waterfront.” tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com

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Grain storage expansion plan angers some North Van residents TODD COYNE S TA F F R E P O RT E R

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arlene Goodbrand passes her laptop computer around at the stakeholders meeting.

Seated at the table are engineers and executives with Richardson International and Goodbrand wants them all to take a moment to admire her screensaver photo.

It’s a panoramic view of the Burrard Inlet, taken from inside the three-bedroom East First Street home Goodbrand and her husband bought in July. Their plan has been to rent out the home and, in two and a half years’ time, retire in it.

“I’ve had the picture of our view on my screensaver since we bought and every day I look at it thinking about how wonderful it will be to live there,” Goodbrand says.

The trouble is, if those seated at the table get their way, in less than two and a half years’ time, the Goodbrands’ view will be gone — and possibly too the Goodbrands.

“Our dreams have been crushed,” the East First Street homeowner said.

Richardson, a private Winnipeg-based agribusiness is seeking approval from Port Metro Vancouver to nearly double the size of its Burrard Inlet grain storage facility on the Low Level Road, just a stone’s throw from the Goodbrands’ door.

The plan would see the couple’s scenic sightlines walled in by 28 new concrete silos, each 50 metres high and together holding 80,000 tonnes of grain and oilseeds shipped in on rail from the Prairies and then out to sea on bulk carriers from the North Van granary dock.

It’s part of Richardson’s West Coast expansion to increase its grain and oilseed storage capacity from three million tonnes annually to five million by 2015.

The company says the move is necessary to stay competitive and to keep up with the growing global demand for Canadian seed and grain products.

“We’ve absolutely maximized the space that we have on our site to build,” said Richardson’s director

HASTA LA VISTA? - Views to the east of the Richardson International grain storage facility will be blocked by more than two dozen 50m concrete silos if a permit is granted next month. Todd Coyne photo of engineering Brian Olson, responding to complaints from Goodbrand and others about the height of the proposed silo wing to the east of the current facility.

The expansion will nearly double the east-west frontage of the storage centre and create what the company estimates at between 40 and 50 permanent jobs. But Goodbrand and her neighbours say they weren’t even aware of the company’s plans until just days before the Oct. 10 stakeholders meeting.

“We would absolutely not have bought this property if we had any indication that we would not have the view,” Goodbrand said.

The homeowner said her tenants will leave if the Richardson expansion is approved and she will have to lower the rent on her house, something she said she and her husband cannot afford.

“And trying to sell the house would mean a substantial financial loss, if we could sell it at all,” Goodbrand said. She wants compensation paid to homeowners if the expansion goes through.

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Richardson spokeswoman Tracey Shelton said the company won’t consider any restitution for the expansion.

“We’re a tenant of the Port of Vancouver and we’re on industrial zoned land. So there’s no requirement to provide compensation and if this project moves forward, we won’t be providing compensation,” Shelton said.

Vancouver-based consultant firm Kirk&Co. has been retained by Richardson to complete an independent report on the company’s engagement with the public, including all input from stakeholder and open house meetings.

That report will be submitted by the middle of next month along with Richardson’s application for a permit from Port Metro Vancouver to expand on the site.

The Port will then have until the end of November to either approve or reject the application. tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com

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Hundreds of litres of toxic oil spilled in West Van waterway A downed BC Hydro utility pole has leaked more than 300 litres of PCB-laden oil into West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park

Oil containment booms and caution tape line a contaminated creek near Ambleside Park Monday. Todd Coyne photo

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undreds of litres of industrial oil containing toxic PCBs spilled into a West Vancouver waterway Sunday, polluting a salmon creek and duck pond, after a BC Hydro utility pole was toppled in the wind.

The environmental crisis began when a large tree fell near the intersection of Keith Road and Taylor Way, taking with it an adjacent utility pole and power lines, and halting all traffic in the area into the evening.

But before hydro crews had restored power at the scene, three large drumshaped transformers mounted on the fallen pole had broken open near a storm drain, leaking 320 litres of transformer oil “which traveled through storm sewers and affected Sway’wey Creek and the duck pond at Ambleside Park” more than a kilometre and a half away, according to the District of West Vancouver’s acting spokesman Jeff McDonald.

“Unfortunately, it appears that the creek and pond are affected by the oil, but so far bird life in the pond is not affected,” McDonald said Monday morning.

On Monday afternoon, private clean-up crews had strung up hundreds of metres of yellow caution tape where the oily water was pooling near Marine Drive and Pound Road and had laid containment booms and absorbent pads across culverts and marshlands in an effort to stem the flow of the pollutant.

Both West Van district and BC Hydro confirmed with The Outlook Monday afternoon that toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were present in the transformer oil and found within the spill.

“We tested the oil content and the report came back this afternoon that there’s low

levels of PCB,” said Donna McGeachie, BC Hydro’s community relations manager for the Lower Mainland.

While neither Hydro nor the district said they believe the spill poses any health risks to area residents, danger to wildlife is more likely as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are toxic to fish, birds and mammals, especially around wetlands, according to Environment Canada.

“We’ve contained it all to where it’s now away from public access,” McGeachie said.

“There’s some ducks in the area but we’ve been working with the District of West Vancouver, just in case any of the oil got to the duck pond that’s down there, that we’d prohibit any ducks from landing in the area.”

However, dozens of ducks were on the Ambleside duck pond Monday afternoon and dozens more on the shore, seemingly oblivious to the potential danger in the water.

The import, manufacture and sale of PCBs has been illegal in Canada since 1977 and the release of environmental PCBs has been illegal since 1985. However, federal law allows PCB equipment owners, such as electrical power companies, to continue using the equipment until the end of its service life.

The soccer fields at Ambleside Park were closed down for clean-up and remediation work Monday evening and will remain closed until BC Hydro gives the go-ahead to reopen, McDonald said.

The booms and pads will remain on the area waterways for a few days, McGeachie said, until it’s determined the oil has been eliminated. tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/toddcoyne

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A North Shore like you’ve never read before Vancouver writer Zsuzsi Gartner’s newest short-story collection casts a satirical eye more than once on North Shore stereotypes

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fit-looking guy with steely blue eyes, goatee and shortly cropped hair, Jackson Loychuk isn’t somebody you’d want to mess with.

He has a black belt in Hapkido and he’s also studied other martial arts. Plus, he can fight like Jason Bourne.

I knew him in high school. At Carson Graham secondary he was into boxing and wrestling. In his early 20s, searching for something “more practical” he took classes with the Wolfe brothers, Dennis and Bill, both of whom had military backgrounds and were teaching a style of self defence called “defendo” — essentially military martial arts.

In 1999 Loychuk opened up his own gym in North Van, which is now called Mil-Spec Martial Arts and Training.

Since then, he’s trained all sorts of guys using the defendo-style method. From cops and soldiers to doctors, lawyers, contractors — and even journalists.

So, I figured he was just the right guy to give me a crash course on self defence.

I was headed down to a prison in Washington State to write a story about a book club for inmates. Most of them had been convicted of murder.

When I learned that there would be no prison guards in the club meeting room and found out the title of the book to be discussed, Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov, I gulped.

So, I asked Loychuk to give me a private, twohour session before I left.

Turns out Loychuk is a military martial arts buff.

He notes that it was 007 — James Bond — who first brought military-style close-quarter battle techniques to larger audiences. That’s because Ian Flemming, the English author who wrote the Bond books, was a British operative in the Second World War who’d been trained in defendo, he adds.

Defendo was the expanded version of a hand-tohand combat style created by cop William Fairburn for the Shanghai police that fused boxing, fencing, wrestling, jujutsu and some other martial arts. At the time, martial arts-trained thugs were regularly pummelling the local cops, so Fairburn wanted to better equip them for what he called “gutter fighting.”

Then, during the Second World War, the fighting technique was taught to British special forces and spies.

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What did I know about the people in the book I stood stunned — partly relived, I admit — as club? Where would I be sitting? Would the inmates the book club volunteer I’d driven down with disapbe on the opposite side of the table? Were the peared behind a sliding iron door. chairs locked down?

When I got back to Vancouver, I signed up for “You need to take the whole environment into regular classes with Loychuk. consideration,” he said.

I wasn’t planning on a return to Monroe anytime He advised against taking a pen or pencil. soon but I’d enjoyed my session and liked idea of Later, he showed me a cool trick, taking a magalearning some self defence techniques. zine and rolling it up in a I wasn’t alone. The certain way to make it as others in the class, hard as a steel pipe. which included one He advised me to sit woman, were just everyclose to the door during day people — not a bunch of hoody sporting my visit. guys decorated in tatHe talked about postoos looking to become ture. I needed to show the lethal weapons. prisoners they were not in Loychuk says the charge without being conclasses appeal to the frontational. “average guy who’s In case something looking for different happened, I needed to way to work out and know about the “startle learn some practical response.” stuff.”

When attacked, the natPractical stuff that ural reaction is to retreat, could be used just in he explained.

CLosE quArtErs ComBAt - Jackson Loychuk case you find yourself Instead he showed me (left) and instructor Jason Kennett demonstrate handin the wrong place at how to put my guard to-hand combat techniques. Rob Newell photo the wrong time and up — using a technique there’s no other altercalled the “icebreaker” native. to mitigate any damage “Who doesn’t want to look out for their family or caused by a flurry of blows — and move forward to themselves?” he asks. clinch an attacker.

Truth is, says Loychuk, the more time spent He discussed levels of force and demonstrated training, the less likely you are to find yourself in a moves aimed at the eyes and throat. bad spot.

“Stuff that incapacitates really quickly.”

After some training, his students carry themHe then demonstrated a choke hold on me. After selves differently, he says. They don’t look like a I tapped out, he showed me how to escape that target or victim. same move.

And they’re not likely to get themselves into Finally, he showed me how to choke a would-be trouble because they are able to decode their enviassailant. ronment.

Before I left, he went over a colour-coded threat As well has higher fitness — and it’s a much difawareness spectrum. ferent level of fitness than you’d get just working If you keep yourself in a highly elevated state for out on a treadmill, believe me — he says his stua prolonged period — your adrenaline pumping — dents walk out the gym’s doors with “a lot of selfyou will quickly burn out, so you must be able to confidence because you have practical skill that ramp up and down. will work when it needs to.”

The spectrum runs like this: white (meditative), Plus, as he says, who wouldn’t want to learn to yellow (aware, still no danger), orange (perceived threat, ready for action), red (action) — that’s when fight like Jason Bourne?

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uel Ross Stanton, the former East End Hells Angel gunned down outside his Vancouver home two years ago, was a famously evasive surveillance target.

Even when traveling just a few blocks, the biker always took a circuitous route, often doubling back or steering down cul-de-sacs to make sure he wasn’t being tailed, police say.

Gord Reid discovered this the hard way when, after some shifty maneuvering, Stanton drove past his unmarked police car and gave him the finger.

That was a few years back and it was one of the rare times Reid, an RCMP corporal who’s had stints with IHIT and Surrey plainclothes units, has ever had his cover blown during surveillance.

Today’s target isn’t nearly as street-smart, but any surveillance operation requires careful planning.

It’s 5:59 a.m. and under a dawn sky, Reid, an amiable cop who used to be a high school teacher, is sitting in the front seat of a ghost car in a Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood. He has a Kevlar vest underneath his shirt, a 9-mm Smith & Wesson on his hip and he’s sipping a juice box.

“Today is very simple because we are not trying to stay with a sophisticated target for a week or something. [We’re just trying to] learn about his lifestyle for a future investigation.”

Specifically, they want to confirm where he works.

There are some basic rules for surveillance, like wearing dull-coloured clothes, Reid explains.

“You don’t want to get noticed.”

For more complex tails, officers will pack a “boot bag” that includes changes of clothing and accessories like hats. “Just so if someone sees you from a block away they don’t think it’s the same person.”

In his backpack Reid’s got binoculars, a map, notebook and range of force options — including pepper spray and a baton. He’s also

carrying a ‘target sheet’ folder that includes a mugshot of today’s subject, picture of his girlfriend, information about what he drives, photos of his tattoos and list of associates.

Before leaving the RCMP detachment, five members of the serious crime unit met briefly to discuss the tactical details about the intelgathering mission.

A few blocks away from Reid’s parked car, another team — called “the eyes” — is camped outside the subject’s residence.

6:32: “No change at the residence,” says an officer over the radio.

Moments later, a male dressed in black believed to be the target is spotted hopping into a cab. The team wasn’t expecting this.

He’s now used different modes of transportation during each of the three surveillance operations.

“Taxi headed north.”

“Copy, if it’s a yellow one, it just turned west,” says Reid.

“We’ll hold the eye just in case.”

Reid pursues the cab, accelerating to keep up. “I’ve got one for cover,” he says, meaning there’s one vehicle between his car and the target’s.

The guy in the back of the cab has no clue he’s being tailed.

When the cab eventually pulls into the target’s workplace, Reid hangs back.

“Leave for Kokko there,” he says, referring his partner, Cpl. Mike Kokkoris, who’s positioned with a clear view of the employee parking lot.

“Kokko, he’s dressed all in black with a baseball cap,” advises Const. Tyler Wickware, who is part of the “eyes” team.

Kokkoris: “I’ve got the cab here, he’s just in back of me. The male is out and yes target one confirmed, baseball hat, sunglasses and he’s going into [the main entrance].”

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“I’m just going to get the cab number in case we want to follow-up with how he paid or what number he used to call,” Kokkoris replies.

“Copy that.”

“That was it, we gained a little piece of intel,” says Reid as he steers out of the parking lot. **** he North Vancouver RCMP’s serious crime unit is made up of seven officers and handles mostly violent crimes: home invasions, kidnappings, serious assaults, robberies — cases that require more in-depth investigation.

They usually pull four-day, 10-hour shifts.

That said, if a big call comes in, so do they.

“What I like about it is it’s always varied,” Reid says.

In the past few weeks, for instance, the team has investigated found human remains, a pair of arsons and a home invasion.

“It’s fun for me trying to solve a mystery,” says Reid, who used to teach English and history. “To figure out what happened and put it together. It’s really interesting.”

Reid also gets tremendous satisfaction knowing the team is taking bad guys off the street.

Following today’s early morning surveillance, the officers meet at a coffee shop on East 8th to discuss the rest of the day.

The unit, which spends hours together each shift, is tight knit. “[Sometimes you’re seeing] coworkers more than family and loved ones at home,” says Const. Jaime Myles, who recalls a 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. shift sitting outside a suspect’s home to make sure he didn’t leave.

“Sitting watching him sleep in a dark house you learn a lot about the person next to [you],” he says.

Conversation at the coffee shop quickly turns to the pending verdict in a highprofile case that’s expected this afternoon.

Myles and Reid have both invested plenty of hours in the case.

Reid believes investigators have delivered a solid case to Crown, but that doesn’t necessarily guarantee a guilty verdict.

Court is the ultimate litmus test for evidence-gathering during an investigation.

“Always something thrown out,” laments one officer.

To make sure that doesn’t happen, the officers must stay up on current case law and charter rights issues. Fortunately, they’ve got help.

Kokkoris, brings up a website on his iPhone. It’s a site maintained by a senior Crown counsel that discusses legal topics for Canadian police.

Here, officers can bone up on subjects like searching cellphones incidental to arrest.

“Case law is always changing,” the officers explain.

“That’s the ultimate sense of satisfaction — knowing what you did is right,” adds Kokkoris about getting a guilty verdict.

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**** CU shares a floor with three other plainclothes RCMP units: sex crime, economic/arson and property.

The teams often work cases together.

Today, as SCU officers exit the elevator at the top floor of the detachment at around 8 a.m., they’re passed by the property crime unit, led by Const. Paul Bentham.

Bentham’s crew is waiting for a warrant that will allow them to execute a search at the apartment of a B&E suspect who left behind a fingerprint and shoe print at a recent burglary job. They want his sneakers so the ident team can try and make a match.

Reid, meanwhile, sits down in his office, a room decorated with wanted posters, composite sketches and maps, to finish reviewing an ITO — information to obtain — to gather evidence for a property crime

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“The level of documentation we have to do on a file is massive,” explains Wickware, a young-looking SCU member decked out in a blue-check shirt, black baseball cap and jeans.

But it’s just as important as surveillance work or interrogating suspects — especially when it comes time for a case to go to trial.

As Reid finishes up the ITO, his partner Kokkoris is working with the department’s media relations officer to finalize a press release about a grocery store bandit who has struck four times in the past three months. The officers are particularly troubled by the fact that the suspect uses a handgun during his robberies. At his desk, Reid pulls up surveillance video from one of the heists and points out how nonchalantly the man wields a handgun.

Shortly after the news release is distributed, Wickware checks his iPhone to see if it’s getting any media play. They hope some news coverage will generate some new leads.

A little later, something comes across the robbery bulletin that has the team quickly gathering around a computer. “[He’s] still in town,” one says.

“They have a plate on that?” asks another.

It’s a bulletin from Richmond RCMP about a suspect who the SCU unit believes is connected to a home invasion in North Vancouver.

“You are the primary,” one officer says to Kokkoris, who is quickly on the phone with Richmond investigators. ***** onst. Jaime Myles says he likes working for SCU because it offers the “type of work [where] you get to see an entire file through, right to the court process,” unlike, say, general duty where officers may attend a call, write a report and never see the file again.

Today is a good example.

In the early afternoon, the officers arrive at the provincial courthouse in North Vancouver to hear the verdict in a case they’ve worked.

They file into Court Room 2 and take seats in the back row.

“That’s the victim right there,” whispers Reid, pointing to a man sitting a few rows up.

“That’s [one of] the accused,” he says pointing across the aisle.

The case, which took place several years ago, relies mainly on circumstantial evidence.

Reid looks down and fidgets with his hands as the judge reads his findings.

He stares at one of the accused as the verdict is read.

Only one of the two charged is found guilty.

Outside the courtroom, Reid seems dejected.

“Very disappointing,” he says. “I hoped for two convictions.”

Back at the station, SCU members are greeted by an officer from another plainclothes unit who asks about the verdict.

“A lot of good work on that file,” he says in a consoling tone.

Reid plans to get a copy of the judge’s reasons for judgement.

He’s interested in a piece of case law used to reach the verdict for future investigations. *Some details have been changed in order to protect an ongoing SCU investigation

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endy Noel was once embarrassed of her mother. She wasn’t a typical 1950s mom — the house was messy, she went to school, she sat on community boards, she was divorced.

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Growing up, Noel always felt her family was difTelling women their mothers lived exciting lives, ferent. whether they knew it or not, was empowering, says the “Not a lot of women did it before her, so it was very play’s producer Marilyn Norry. challenging,” she says referring to the struggles her “Just hearing the birthplaces and birth dates told mother has with not fitting into the mould of an ideal me I’d hit gold: Punjabi, India: 1910; Macedonia: 1915; ‘50s housewife.

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“She was ahead of her time, at least on our street The 41 stories submitted from workshops in North and in her family.”

Van encouraged Norry to publish a book to go along Her parents’ divorce, for instance, sent shockwaves with the play. through the community, she says, because it was far “[The stories] are told without embellishment, there less common back then. are no holds barred: Adoption, abortions, addiction, Doris later became a social worker and director of an abuse, arranged marriages — and those are just the organization in Burnaby.

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“She struggled because she thought her voice wasn’t Noel grew up having a more challenging relationship valued; she wanted to have a say in the way things with her mother than her brother and sister did, but were,” says Noel, a councillor and actress, who will be later realized it was because she was the most like her. preforming her mother’s story for the play.

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Although everyone has unique experiences with their Instead, she’s proud of her unconventional accomplishmother, she says there is always a common element. ments and thinks she’s “actually quite cool.”

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“We want the absolute best. We have a philosophy of no compromise,” Frank Gigliotti, California Cult Classics’ owner and winemaker, tells The Outlook on a tour last week.

He passes by dozens of oak barrels in a large room at the back of the building that produce 24 cases each. At around $10,000 a barrel, or $35 a MICHAELA GARSTIN bottle, wine of this quality is a steal if you can S tA f f R E p o Rt E R afford to buy a half or whole barrel, like most club n exclusive award-winning winery is well members do. lencorben@yahoo.ca hidden among warehouses and autobody “Our wines compete with the best in the world,” twitter.com/nsoutlook shops in North Vancouver. says Gigliotti. “Against bottles priced anywhere There’s no sign on the nondescript, one-storey instantreplay from $150 to $400 or $500.” building and the blinds are drawn tightlyLENshut.

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That confirms for me that Hyundai is well past the days when it sold vehicles on price alone.

That’s not to say that price is not a factor in the phenomenal sales success the South Korean automaker has enjoyed, but it is only part of the story.

Styling has made the Elantra, and others in the Hyundai model lineup, vehicles that people want to buy, not just have to buy because they are inexpensive.

Hyundai now has three variants of the Elantra on the market with the introduction of the five-door GT hatchback this year as a 2013 model along with the Elantra Coupe and Sedan. This has made the Elantra nameplate one of the top selling models in Canada with record sales of 5,054 units in August alone.

The fourth-generation Elantra sedan has a great track record already and has won numerous accolades, including the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada Car of the Year and North American Car of the Year for 2012, so the addition of the GT and Coupe only add to the already impressive sales numbers of the model.

The Elantra GT replaces the Elantra Touring in the model lineup and adds a great deal more flair to the five-door variant. The Touring was more of a wagon, while the GT is a sleek-looking five-door hatchback.

Using the “Fluidic Sculpture” styling that Hyundai has adopted as a brand, the GT has a European heritage that is based on the i30 model sold overseas. It has a slightly shorter wheelbase than the sedan, but the corporate styling is evident with the large hexagonal grille and the dual character lines that flow upward from the front fenders.

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of the GT is the number of convenient stowage and stornamic profile with a coefficient of drag of 0.30, bettering age features. or on par with all but the Mazda3 Sport in the segment.

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Hyundai with the Driver Selectable On the road, the GT feels like much more of a driver’s Steering Mode that provides three steercar than the sedan, largely because of the European tuning modes: Comfort, Normal and Sport, accessed by a ing, which gravitates to the sportier side of the equation. button on the steering wheel.

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Now he’s “Mr. May,” a new handle that comes courtesy of his inclusion in the 2013 Hall of Flame firefighter calendar.

Turn to the month of May, and there’s Maillie, shirt off, muscles flexed.

When the calendar came out last month, the Handsworth secondary grad was immediately the target of good-natured ribbing from his fellow firefighters, with his calendar picture quickly pinned to a cork board outside the crew’s barracks. “[They] had lot of fun with it,” he says, grinning. “But it’s all in good fun.”

Truth is, all the firefighters know that it’s for a good cause. The annual calendar has raised hundreds of thousands for charity through the years and this year’s goal is to add another $100,000 through sales of the $15 calendars.

After being selected for the calendar, Maillie, 36, admits he was a little nervous when he arrived at a Vancouver fire station for the photo shoot, where he was met by a photographer, pair of assistants and members of the calendar committee.

“I don’t like having my picture taken at the best of times,” he says.

To prepare for the shoot, Maillie says he didn’t do any special fat-burning workouts other than easing off the pints.

And while Maillie’s not the only shirtless firefighter in the calendar, he’s probably the most heavily inked.

Both of his arms are decorated in tattoos — something he covered up when he had his job interview with the fire chief 12 years ago. He’s added lots of artwork since

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There’s also an homage to his Scottish roots on the “warrior” arm, with a large Gaelic warrior and Celtic cross.

As he notes, being a firefighter calendar guy isn’t just about taking off your shirt and having your picture snapped.

All the firefighters who appear in the pages of the calendar must also commit to four to five events each month for the year.

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INDUSTRIAL bakery on Annacis Island(Delta) requires a fulltime(permanent) Shipper/Receiver. This is a graveyard position. 5pm - 5 am Must be available weekends. This job involves freezer work. email resume to: bakeryhiring@hotmail.ca

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ERNIE O’S RESTAURANT and Pub Edson, Alberta requires line cooks. $13 - $16 per hour.

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PORTWAYS STORES LTD dba Poppadoms, #118 – 948 McCurdy Road, Kelowna, BC, V1X 8B5 is expanding and requires 3 FT qualified East Indian Chefs. Specialty in South Indian is desirable.

Salary of $17 per hour for 40-hour week. 4% vacation pay. Medical and room offered as an incentive. Candidates must have at least 2 years current restaurant experience.Trade diploma and reading/writing in English is required. Knowledge of food allergies is desirable. Working knowledge of Indian spices is essential. Only qualified candidates will be contacted. Please email resumes to: jobs@poppadoms.ca

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AUCTIONS

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