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Scuba Claus at the Vancouver Aquarium The Vancouver Aquarium is bringing back its popular underwater Santa this year as part of Luminescence, perhaps the world’s only aquatic-themed holiday light show. From Nov. 22 to Jan. 22, the aquarium will be transformed with displays dedicated to showing how sea creatures create and reflect light. Apart from Scuba Claus (who’s not a sea creature but a diver in full Santa suit), the stars of the show are the aquarium’s resident electric eels. Their charges will be set to activate a stunning overhead display of 100 origami jellyfish — meticulously folded over the course of three months in collaboration with origami artist Joseph Wu. Known as Jelly Swarm, the display pulses with light and colour in time with the eels’ natural electrical charges. You might also encounter sea anemones fluorescing under special blue light. Or you can visit the real jellyfish display downstairs to see moon jellyfish and lion’s mane jellyfish and Pacific sea nettles pulsing rhythmically in spectacularly backlit tanks. To add a bit more holiday feel, the aquarium is also showing The Polar Express in its special 4-D theatre (which projects 3D movies and adds extra sensory effects like wind and scents). The show is included with the price of admission: $21 for adults; $16 for youth 13-18, students and seniors; and $13 for children 4-12. Photo of a bubble-tip anemone by Neil Fisher

Setting the genius bar The musical genius of Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile is quantifiable. No hyperbole here folks, the band leader and mandolin player is actually a genius — and quite musical at that. On Oct. 1 Thile received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant ; the $500,000 prize is awarded annually to 23 individuals, deemed to be geniuses within their respective fields, so that they may freely pursue their creative vision. Thile was one of two musicians to receive it (the other a classical flutist) and the youngest of all recipients at just 31 years old. The freewheeling five-member string band applies their bold, progressive, foot-stoppin’ spin on traditional bluegrass music Nov. 24 at 8pm at the Chan Centre. Tickets from $36 at Chancentre.com. Supplied photo

Dickens’ 23 women Celebrating the bi-centenary of Charles Dickens’s birth, 23 of his most affecting and colourful females characters will be brought to life in Miriam Margolyes’ one-woman show Dickens’ Women. The Olivier Award-nominated production is at The Cultch to Dec. 1 at 8pm (with matinees Nov. 25 and Dec. 1 at 2pm) as part of its world tour. A BAFTA and LA Critics Circle award-winner, Margolyes (Harry Potter, Romeo + Juliet) sets out to discover the man himself, revealing everything from the raucous humour of his characterizations to the darker, more sinister, aspects of his life and work. Tickets 604-251-1363 or Tickets.TheCultch.com. Prudence Upton photo

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ou might not recognize the name Marc Morisset, but guys like Shaun White are household names today because of pioneers like Marc, who was a pro snowboarder from 1992 to 1999. These days, though, the name that Morisset would like you to remember isn’t his own or the Flying Tomato’s, it’s Str/ke Mvmnt, his almost two-year-old athletic apparel company.

What does an ex-pro snowboarder know about developing athletic apparel for the CrossFit contingent? Quite a bit, actually.

In the ’90s snowboarding was in its adolescence, and Morisset and his peers were commissioned by the industry’s biggest brands of the time (names such as Sessions, Sims, Special Blend, in Marc’s case) to test the capabilities of thenfledgling equipment in conditions that looked nothing like the beautifully groomed snowboard parks you see in places like Whistler today. They’d push snowboards, bindings and outerwear to the point of failure, then report back to the company on how to make them better. Now tack on about 15 years spent in the marketing and distribution side of board sports, and the fact Morisset is now a devotee of interval training (as evident in his buff physique).

Finally, consider that he’s not the first in the action sports industry — the category that snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, BMX and such fit into — to make the leap to athletics.

Morisset cites popular Californian brands Vans and DC as examples of his contemporaries who have recently branched out from their original market to tap the larger one. “Athletics is trending everywhere,” Morisset points out.

“We even see it in fashion.”

Fashion, by the way — or at least elegant design — is something else Morisset seems to know a lot about. Google him and you’ll

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stumble across a piece in The New York Times magazine about the architectural masterpiece he built, some seven years ago, in Whistler.

So when he tells me that the look of Str/ke Mvmnt apparel harking back to the best of retro workout gear, I believe he’s probably onto something.

“Throwback athletics had nice aesthetics, but today all the shoes out there look like fishing lures, all flashy,” he says, pulling from a box a relatively non-descript, black shoe, which I notice is the same as the well-worn pair on his own feet. I comment on its incredibly flat sole. “It’s for front foot strike running; no heel. If you’re heels are involved in your running cycle then you’re essentially slowing yourself down—you’re breaking half way through your cycle.

Shoes should allow ankles to do what they’re designed to do, and be as little distraction as possible to natural mechanics,” Morisset explains.

Tom Highmore of CrossFit 604 (one of Vancouver’s newest CrossFit gyms) is an ex-competitive soccer player, weight lifter and personal trainer who’s been practising CrossFit since 2007. He affirms that most shoes don’t have the versatility required to properly handle the CrossFit agenda, which is a mix of weightlifting exercises, as well as running, jumping and gymnastics. (You gotta admit, it’s a tall order.) But Str/ke Mvmnt’s Interval sneaker, says Highmore, “continues to perform no matter how hard I train in it.”

The breaks in the sole of each Str/ke Mvmnt shoe lends to a minimalist mid-foot strike, while the flatness provides stability, and there’s no point on the outsole that will deteriorate or crush when you lift weight. Near the toe of the shoe, Morisset has left extra room for when your foot expands as you push down into it. “Its design has been informed through trial and

At top, Marc Morisset does a cross over to cycling. Above, the interval shoe in blue. At left, Tom Highmore of CrossFit 604, in a tee. At right, the flag tee. Shoes $125; apparel from $39.

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error,” he says — exactly as he did, once upon a time, with snowboard gear.

CrossFit 604’s Highmore, meanwhile, also extols the virtues of Str/ke Mvmnt’s clothing, commending the ability of pieces to make the leap from the gym to the street thanks to “slick design and subtle logos,” as well as the fact it “doesn’t hold bad odours like some other materials I’ve trained in.”

Morisset says he was looking

for clothing that let him push personal physical boundaries, but without gimmicks. “Brands keep wanting to talk this tech story, but someone who’s training knows a dry-fit top doesn’t make you run faster.”

This isn’t to say Str/ke Mvmnt lacks technology or style; those elements are just subtly incorporated. The Interval shoe is unisex, though at this point Str/ ke Mvmnt’s clothing is geared at men. The line includes basics such

the Jian tank, the Classic Crew sweatshirt and a Henley without buttons (“they get in the way when you’re lifting,” says Morisset).

“You won’t be seeing pieces from us that look anything like Lululemon,” Morisset quips. “Our clothes let the body do the talking.”

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Studeo55 owner Nathan Mellalieu, second from left, leads Joey Group’s Kent Strom, Monica Aloysius and Brody Jones in CrossFit. Doug Shanks photo munity and it’s mastered a sense of competition,” Mellalieu says. “So by doing that, people get out of their comfort zone and it becomes very real, raw, which is different from the office. There are moments in CrossFit where the real you comes out.”

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alking into the room where a Joey Group staff meeting is taking place, I see three employees, lined up, side by side, on their toes and elbows, shakily passing a 5lb-pound weight back and forth to each other, sweat dripping on the large green mat.

“One more there,” says a pacing Nathan Mellalieu, personal trainer and owner of Studeo55. “You got to keep going. That’s it.“ This morning, instead of coffee or a meeting in the company boardroom, three of the Joey Group staff are bonding through CrossFit, a popular strength-and-conditioning workout that involves a series of varying, high-intensity exercises such as the weight-passing core exercise I observed this morning.

The military, sports teams and fire departments use CrossFit to get their teams in shape and now, the service industry and other groups are following suit to get their employees in shape —with benefits on more than one level.

“CrossFit is competitive and you have benchmarks with very specific ways to do it‚“ says Joey Group regional manager Kent Strom afterwards, still breathing heavily and wiping sweat from his face. “It translates to the workplace because you can’t cheat yourself in CrossFit or your coworkers. There are no shortcuts.”

“CrossFit has mastered a sense of com-

Lawyer Mark Virgin says CrossFit has helped solve the challenges of improving his law office environment, which is spread over two floors.

“It’s served as a bit of a glue that’s galvanized the team,” says Virgin, a partner at Vancouver law firm Steven Virgin. “It makes people socialize more, they’re forging bonds with each other — it’s definitely improved morale..... There’s a stereotype in that there’s a hierarchy at a law firm, but that doesn’t exist at the gym. When you’re trash-talking your boss, it breaks those barriers.

“Which is of course all in good fun,” he adds with a laugh.

Comparably, Yacoub says that with seven restaurants, it can be a challenge building a team throughout the locations. “It brings the team closer,” he says. “Especially when they come from one restaurant to another, they don’t work beside each other.”

Alberto Mura, general manager of Glowbal’s Trattoria, agrees with his employer.

“It’s a great way to stay connected,” he says. “Sometimes it can be painful and pain brings people together. It’s a way to get to know other managers.”

To Strom, incorporating CrossFit into the workplace is more about promoting a healthier lifestyle, inside and outside of the restaurant. “From a mentor standpoint, it can’t just be all about work,” he says. “It promotes team-building and doing things together but it also promotes a healthier lifestyle. I know that I’m a better manager, better husband, a better father when I have that time where I can get some of this energy out — it refocuses me. I’m going to do it anyways so I might as well do it with my coworkers and allow it to benefit that part of my life.”

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Vancouver Christmas Market: In search of the Christmas pickle at the annual festival of German holiday traditions

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icola Humphrey is on a quest for a Christmas pickle.

“To be honest, I don’t even know if the Christmas pickle exists,” she says of her quest to find everything on her father’s wish list. “My dad is a pretty funny guy, and even though he’s German, this could be something that he came up with and not necessarily a German tradition.”

Well, Nicola can rest easy. On Nov. 24, the third annual Vancouver Christmas Market will open from 11am to 9pm everyday until Dec. 24. Amongst the twinkle lights, wooden

tion and hopes that Vancouverites enjoy the Christmas market for what he loves about it — coming together with friends, taking in the atmosphere, enjoying the lights and, of course, a cup of Gluevwein. Arts and crafts vendors from as far away as Germany will present a wide variety of ornaments and gifts — Christmas pickles, included. Food vendors will have stollen, bratwurst, and baked apples with vanilla sauce, to name a few German Christmas favourites.

When he moved to Vancouver, Kleutz couldn’t believe there was no Christmas market. In Germany, every town has one and within big cities, there is often a market in each neighbourhood. “In Germany, you really can’t help but go to a Christmas market — they are everywhere,” he says.

Every night, Kleutz will be at the Market and he’s made it easier for all of us to join him — with the purchase of one ticket, free reentry to the market is granted at anytime throughout the ART THAT WORKS, BY CANADIAN ARTISTS month.

huts, Christmas trees and the carousel, the founder of the market guarantees there will be more than one Christmas pickle to choose from.

“I grew up in Germany and had never heard of this pickle,” Malte Kleutz says. “It wasn’t until I started the market that I had people asking 1me 12-08-29 if they would WE_Sept2012_2.pdf 1:12 be PM available.”

It seems this is a new German tradition found only outside of the homeland. As it goes, when parents decorate the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and pile the gifts beneath, they also hide a tiny glass pickle ornament on the tree.

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Gifts for Her When it comes to coming up with suggestions for ‘Gifts for Her’ this Christmas, we turned to WE Vancouver’s Out After Dark social columnist May Globus to tell us what she’d like to find under the tree.

State of Mind How long have you had your business and why do you love it? I have had the business for 20 years with silent business partner, Sandra Skinner. I love using my knowledge to help people feel good about themselves. It makes my day when a client comes into the store and I can help him find clothes that are contemporary, that suit his body, and his lifestyle. Working with a person over the years, I see the changes that happen, and as people evolve, so too does their style evolve and their needs change. Men come from all over different parts of Canada and the US, and I have had the opportunity to meet and get to know some extraordinary people. When I start my workday, these people are always in my mind, and when I get new stock in sometimes I think, “oh, these boots would be perfect for John, or this tie would be lovely for Mark.

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What makes State of Mind different is that I try to teach men how to choose clothing that works for their body type, their careers, and their personal lives. Clients come to be styled and to buy a wardrobe that expresses who they are and who they want to be. This is why I always recommend making an appointment. State of Mind is more of a boutique in that way – I book clients throughout the day and during the time I have with each client I am focused solely on them.

What has been your inspiration to run such a successful business all these years? My biggest

inspiration is the men I work with. If a man feels self-conscious about his body shape, I can show him how to work with it in his wardrobe, so that he can still feel confident on that important first date or what have you. My clients trust me, and that is a huge inspiration for me - I work hard to make sure they are feeling good about they way they look.

The other inspiration, and maybe my first inspiration, was my experience when I was a young woman working at Boboli on south Granville street. Two women, Catherine Guadagnuolo and Margaret Murphy, owned the store, and I learned a lot from them. I still have such a deep respect for them. When I opened State of Mind with Sandra, I often thought about how Katherine and Margi did things, and I wanted to make sure that we ran things at such a high caliber as well.

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Santa’s little helpers need help too Most people shower their four-legged friends with affection during the holidays, but not all animals will be surrounded by love this Christmas. The Smash Gallery (580 Clark) is putting on a dog-friendly fundraiser for Lower Mainland animal rescue charities VOKRA (Vancouver Orphaned Kitten Rescue Association), SARS (Small Animal Rescue Society), CritterAid and Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary. Guests can enjoy a silent auction of local artist-decorated doggie jackets (12 Midnite, RotNHell, Pilar Alvarez, Megz Majewski, Andrea Tucker), gift baskets, raffles and DJ Spooky. A $15 entry fee gets you a free doggie jacket and beverage. Bring pet food donation. The Dec. 8 event goes from 5 to 11pm.

Black Friday, Saturday and Sunday The popular eight-block shopping district along West 4th Avenue is taking on cross-border shopping with its own Black Friday — the only business street in BC taking part in the annual shopping blitz. Beginning Friday, Nov. 23 and running all weekend long, customers looking to support local retailers, avoid long border lineups and packed shopping malls can revel in local deals and discounts in an effort to divert Black Friday crowds. Many Canadian big box and department stores this side of the border have been competing with the US shopping event over the years, but this year will mark West 4th’s first Black Friday. A recent Bank of Montreal 2012 Holiday Spending Outlook suggests Canadians will spend 15 per cent more this year than they did last year, and West 4th has gained 28 new retailers and restaurants within the last nine months to help keep those dollars in the area.

Boutique clothing stores (Kate French, XO Bella), acclaimed restaurants (Fable, Burgoo) and lifestyle outfits YYoga, O5 Rare Tea Bar, Urban Outfitters, Esscents Aromatherapy, Different Bikes and Vital Wellness are attracting consumers with all needs and demands, making the shopping destination one of the hottest in the Vancouver area and a great place to tackle the Christmas wish list. ShopWest4th.com

• In other Kits news, Paboom Design Store is back on West 4th for the Christmas season. After closing in the Spring and spending the summer relocating and rebranding their Victoria headquarters, Paboom has made the hop back across the water in pop-up form for the next two months. Just two blocks from where they were for more than 12 years, they’re back, providing an edited selection of all their past favourite lines as well as new brands and products. The opening party is Nov. 24 from 7 to 10pm, with the more casual vibe downstairs giving way to an OLIO Arts Cooperative show upstairs, consisting of serigraphs by more than 20 artists. Open now, they’ll be at 2028 W. 4th until Dec. 30.

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Julie Wu and Fredrik Orling of Orling & Wu have set up the first-ever home décor • Last week, Holt Renfrew opened pop-up shop in the second floor skybridge of Holt Renfrew, offering an exclusive its first-ever home décor pop-up shop, showcasing Gastown’s Orling seasonal collection. Supplied photo & Wu. An exclusive seasonal collection of many first-in-Canada and Local Passport and wander the Creekside Community Cenlimited-edition European imports has been curated around tre in the Athlete’s Village (1 Athletes Way), visiting vendors the theme of celebration, entertainment, hostess gifts and and getting it stamped to be entered to win a Portobello gift Holts itself. Featured products, many of which are new to basket. Entry is $2. More info at PortobelloWest.com.

Orling & Wu, include purifying white charcoal in glass bottles by Sort of Coal, hand-crafted coat buttons by Dominique Serrano and holiday decorations by Jan Constantine.

Bone china mugs by Cole, featuring colourful historical • Graduating students from John Casablancas Institute prescharacters, and the brightly patterned ornamental offerings ent a Narnia-themed fundraiser fashion show for Covenant of Italy’s Miho Unexpected bring a punch of personality to House Nov. 22 at 6:30pm at Villa Amato Ballroom (88 E. 1st) the season. Located on Holt Renfrew’s second-floor skyTickets are available at the front desk at JCI (220 Cambie) for bridge (737 Dunsmuir) until Dec. 24. OrlingAndWu.com $25/$30. JCInstitute.com/blog • The inaugural Vancouver Alternative Fashion Week(end) • The Portobello West holiday market, featuring 50 of takes place Nov. 23 to 25 at the Ironworks. Originating in Vancouver’s best fashion designers, jewelers, artists and London and making waves in Toronto as Arts & Fashion craftspeople, will make it easy to fill those stockings. This Week, AFW promotes unrecognized local designers and Saturday and Sunday, from 11am to 5pm, pick up a Shopartists. Tickets start at $20 per evening. VALT.ca

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hristmas in Vancouver isn’t akin to Christmas in the rest of the country; December 25 in the Lower Mainland is, more often than not, a cloudy, drizzly day, more green on the ground than white.

But Yaletown’s Business Improvement Association is intent on bringing out the holiday cheer when, this Friday and Saturday, it hosts CandyTown, the city’s first free outdoor Christmas festival, Nov. 23 and 24.

“Vancouver in winter can be a dark, dismal place,” says Annette O’Shea, executive director of the Yaletown BIA. “So we envisioned a fun, festive reason to come and play outside in the middle of winter, and not let the winter blahs win.”

Mainland Street will be covered with lights and decorations and holiday characters will parade the thoroughfare. It’ll be the perfect place to start on that Christmas shopping too, as local merchants will be open and a specialty market, complete with a maple sugar shack and Cirque du

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Kids will be able to visit Santa and sign up to skate with Trevor Linden on the ice at Bill Curtis Square, while those a little older can keep the cold out by joining in on the CandyTown Cocktail Tour. Information on these and all other events can be found at YaletownInfo.com/events/candytown/.

And in keeping with the spirit of giving, the BIA will be accepting donations to the Food Bank, BC Children’s Hospital, and Starlight Children’s Foundation, while Donnelly Group is organizing a toy drive.

Wendy Derzai, a director with Donnelly and treasurer of the BIA, is eager to show off the neighbourhood in such a festive way. “We’re excited to get people out on the street, into this winter wonderland, to show them what Yaletown has to offer.”

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A childhood crisis of faith Actor Alvin Sanders looks back on the Christmas he developed a new appreciation for his parents

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n Christmas Day, 1959, sevenyear-old Alvin Sanders woke up to a house full of mouthwatering smells and a hope in his heart that Santa Claus had brought him the only item on his wish list that year.

“I wanted a Lionel train set,” the Vancouver actor told the audience at a live TV taping of The Flame: Holiday Season Edition on Nov. 7 at The Cultch, where he was one of a dozen local performers to share Christmas memories.

Sanders grew optimistic when his mother sat him down on the floor in an area that had been cleared of furniture.

His father entered the room carrying a big, yellow box.

“My heart was pounding so hard,” Sanders recalls. “The smile on my face got so wide I thought it was going to rip the top of my head off my neck.”

He opened the lid, and there it was. A

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“It was bent so bad that you couldn’t put the caboose on the track,” Sanders says.

His parents, visibly upset, told him to pack up the train set so they could return it to Santa.

“I was stunned,” Sanders says. “I had never heard of anybody giving anything back to Santa Claus.”

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The following Saturday, while Sanders and his mother were at the local department store, he noticed a shopping cart full of discarded open boxes.

What really caught his eye was the big, yellow box on top. Out of his mother’s eyeshot, Sanders peeked inside and saw a familiar-looking train set with a misshapen caboose.

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“Sitting beside my mother on the bus on the way home I did a lot of heavy thinking,” Sanders says.

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egular readers will remember that I previewed the Gold Medal Plates (GMP) in these pages a little over a month ago. I mention it again because it was Vancouver’s turn to host the regional cooking competition on Thursday night, our city being the last stop of the GMP’s coast-to-coast journey. And boy, is my belly still full.

The GMP had already pitted dozens of chefs against one another in St. John’s, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary. As you might recall, the winning toques from each city will meet in Kelowna this February for three days of fierce competition known as the Canadian Culinary Championships (CCC).

The Vancouver chefs vying for gold, silver, and bronze medals this year were Angus An of Kitsilano’s Maenam, David Gunawan of West Hastings’ Wildebeest, Taryn Wa of celebrated caterers Savoury Chef, host chef Joe Campo of the Westin Bayshore, Quang Dang of South Granville’s legendary West, and Lee Humphries of iconic “C” on the False Creek seawall. The out-of-town competitors were Mark Filatow of Kelowna’s Waterfront Wine Bar, Darin Paterson of cult-followed Bogner’s in Penticton, Jeff Van Geest of Oliver’s cliffhanging Miradoro, and Nicholas Nutting of the stunning Pointe restaurant at Tofino’s Wickaninnish Inn. Needless to say, it was an awesome, hardto-judge spread of talent. National culinary advisor James Chatto is the head of a judging order that includes local food titans John Bishop, Lesley Stowe, Barbara-Jo McIntosh, and last year’s gold medal winner, chef Rob Feenie. Wine maestro Sid Cross and I are the Senior Judges (we also represent BC on the national panel that adjudicates the CCC).

Our group was sequestered at a ropedoff, well-lit table set away from a madding crowd of several hundred enthusiastic

foodies gathered at the Westin Bayshore hotel. During the course of the night, dishes were delivered to us every 15 minutes by a chain of runners led by the presenting chef, who explained his/her dish as we looked at it, smelled it, prodded it, and set upon it critically. We judged on presentation, taste, texture, “wow” factor, originality, and wine pairing, and we are never especially generous.

I won’t relate every dish that was plated, so here are some highlights from my own tasting notes that go to show the slivers of difference between victory and defeat. To wit, Joe Campo’s albacore tuna and wine pairing was overwhelmed by a thin slice of pineapple that was still “a centimetre too thick”; Nicholas Nutting’s potato crusted oyster was “double seasoned”, meaning the natural saltiness of the oyster was amplified unnecessarily by redundant seasoning of the potato; the Pinot Noir paired with Darin Paterson’s otherwise excellent lamb neck ravioli was “too weak”; and so on. And those were the kind notes.

I only had two “WTF?” dishes. Sometimes there are more. The first was for David Gunawan’s prosciutto-thin slice of haycured elk striploin stuck fast to the rim of a small bowl of weak juniper tea. None of the judges knew what to make of it, let alone how to eat it, and the Syrah it was paired with overwhelmed “like a brick dropped hard upon a bonbon”. The second was Lee Humphries’ inexplicable addition of green chickpeas to his otherwise flawless pork dish with Northern Divine caviar and a shot of hot apricot consomme. If he had left those out, he would have been jockeying for a podium finish.

Angus An’s outstanding bronze medalwinning dish saw a micro filet of sous vide Spring salmon squatting in a hot/sour tamarind and coconut broth. It could have snuck into the silver slot (or even vied for gold) if it weren’t for the weakness of its wine pairing. Try as it might, the 2011 Cedar Creek Riesling wasn’t up to a job that may have been “better suited to a more luscious Viog-

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The top three finalists in the BC edition of Gold Medal Plates are Quang Dang of West, silver, Mark Filatow of Waterfront Restaurant & Wine Bar in Kelowna, gold, and Angus An of Maenam, bronze.

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Chef Mark Filatow wowed the judges with a dish of Bar ‘M’ Ranch lamb (a charcoal-grilled loin with Moroccan braised belly, ‘neck’ Merguez and potato doughnut), which was paired with Orofino 2010 ‘Scout Vineyard’ Syrah, Similkameen Valley.

nier”. Out of a possible 100 points, An took a commendable 85.3.

The silver medal went to Quang Dang, who went sumptuously autumnal by seamlessly linking Yarrow Meadows duck (a squat cylinder of confit leg meat), chestnuts and apricot preserves to Foxtrot Vineyards’ earthy and excellent (if very hard to find) 2009 Pinot Noir. It was a “sublimely structured” dish, with no ingredient out of tune.

He scored a well-deserved 85.4.

The winner of the gold medal was a shock to many, if only because he wasn’t a Vancouverite. Mark Filatow of Kelowna presented us with lamb in three tasty guises: delicately Moroccan-spiced belly (revelatory), Merguez sausage (wine-braised shoulder and neck), and simple, un-sauced loin, all in a line split by a potato “doughnut” and an heirloom carrot. The wine pairing — the 2010 Syrah from the Similkameen Valley’s

Orofino — was bang on target, no small wonder when you remember that Filatow is also a trained sommelier. His winning score was 87.2.

With his ticket to the Canadian Culinary Championships in Kelowna this February thus punched, Filatow now has to contend with being the hometown favourite, “the local boy done good”. The competition he will face will be fierce (as it is every year), but the pressure will be unrelenting. Any of the other BC chefs — had they won — would have been guaranteed an easier time of it.

To find out which Canadian chefs he will be facing and how you can get tickets to the Championships’ three cooking competitions (wine pairing, black box, gala), head over to GoldMedalPlates.com. I hope to see as many WE Vancouver readers in attendance as there were last year, which is to say plenty.

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In France, a chef’s reputation can be made (or lost) with his or her interpretation of cassoulet — not that some chefs think you can tamper with the classic dish of white beans and smoked meats.

This weekend only, you can tastetest Oyama Sausage’s version. A $14.99 “form” feeds two and you can also add duck confit, Toulouse sausage and Parisienne a l’ail. They suggest pairing it with a Beaujoulais Nouveau from their Granville Island neighbour, Liberty Wines.

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Movember munchies Cadeaux Bakery (172 Powell) is getting in the Movember spirit. They’ve come up with these spiced cookies, complete with chocoolate moustache icing, in support of the annual campaign to raise awareness about and funds to fight men’s cancers. Not only does part of the $2.25 sale of each cookie go to prostate cancer prevention, but they’re also sponsoring their barista, Blair Hustins, who’s growing “a fantastic mo.” Cookie models are, from left, Carrie Kwok, Blair, Sevannah Rodgers and Julianne Hansen. CadeauxBakery.com. Eleanor Chow Waterfall photo

International gastronomes visit A group of students from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Torino, Italy (pictured below), are currently touring several local food centres in Metro Vancouver, Victoria and the Cowichan Valley during a two-week visit to Canada.

The university, founded in 2004 by international non-profit Slow Food in cooperation with the Italian regions of Piedmont and EmiliaRomagna, focuses on international research and education for those working on renewing farming methods, protecting biodiversity, and building an organic relationship between gastronomy and agricultural science.

Hosted by Slow Food Vancouver (SlowFoodVancouver.com), the delegates will learn about Vancouver food culture and methods of sustainability as they visit Fresh Choice Kitchens, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Society, UBC Farm, Woodland Smokehouse and Commissary, Britannia Community Centre (with Home on the Range Farms and Guerrilla Cheese), Edible Vancouver at Latin Organics Café, Daily Catch, Espana, Granville Island Market, Le Marché St. George, Winter Farmers Market, food carts, Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks, Chambar, Young Agrarians Society, Harvest, SOLEfood Farm and Verticorps. They will also help out on the Sharing Farm and volunteer during a meal at Gilmore Park United Church. With all they’ll see, we might be asking them for advice on where to eat! For more information, visit UNISG.it/en/

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Think of this as a pub crawl for people in the market for a new home. On Nov. 29, Briefed magazine is joining forces with Jordan and Justin Macnab, two local realtors, for a tour of for-sale apartments in Vancouver. The evening will begin and end at a local pub and in between, the 30 participants will be shuttled in luxury vehicles to five apartments, where the present owners will be greeting guests with food and drinks (and a list of reasons why the participants should buy their place.) For details go to CribCrawl.ca or TheMacNabs.com

Tango’s 10th On Nov. 24, Tango’s Gourmet Meats will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary on Denman Street by offering special deals and nibbles of its favorite products.

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New on Denman Chengdu Szechuan Bistro is a modern twist of classic Chinese cuisine — and adds a little heat to these early winter days. Its tasty Szechuan-inspired dishes fuse the past and present together at 792 Denman.

Durland’s back Mark Durland thought he was out of the restaurant business when he sold the last of his five Kitsilano restaurants in 2010. But when the new owner of the Flying Tiger realized that he wanted a change, he returned the restaurant to Durland. On Nov. 21 he’s opening Left Coast Bar and Bistro 2958 W 4th near Bayswater. Chef

Tour de France Jean-Edouard de Marenches, who traces his family ties to Burgundy to 1452, will be leading a wine “Tour de France” at Bowen Island’s Gallery at Artisan Square on Nov. 24. A special event for the Bowen Island Arts Council, tickets are $65 and can be purchased at BIAC.ca.

Shaun Snellng, who’s worked at Lift, Opus, Bin 942, Cru. and Fraiche, joined in to offer casual comfort food including duck poutine, Moroccan chickpea fritters, chicken wings, duck confit crepes and grilled Kalbi shortribs. There will be DJs on Saturday nights and open mike nights on Sundays starting in early December, Call 604-737-7529 for reservations.

Food for all Although demands on the Greater Vancouver Food Bank have grown by almost seven per cent, there’s also been a 10 per cent decrease in food donations over the past two years. Loblaw (Real Canadian Superstores, No Frills and Extra Foods) is trying to help fill the gap.

Customers are invited to drop off food donations at the store from Nov. 23 to Dec. 13 and, if customers buy the specially designed $5 Blue Menu macaroni and cheese pack, Loblaw will make a $1 cash donation. Donations made within Metro Vancouver will stay in Metro Vancouver.

Cooking at Quince Is there a special someone on your Christmas list who wants to learn how to be a better chef? Or, if you’re that special someone and want to drop gentle hints about the perfect Christmas present, go to Quince.ca and look at the new list of studio classes for 2013. It starts with Hawaiian cocktails and

Waikiki pupas on Jan. 22, continues with the nine-day basics (“intensive techniques for the serious amateur”) and goes on to such things as Indian bar snacks, soul food and culinary seduction (for Valentine’s day.)

Every drop counts When Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté flew into space, what amazed him was the huge expanse of water covering the earth. Yet how, with all that water, is it that some people cannot easily access safe drinking water? He’s joining forces with Seaspan to try to raise $1 million at La Soireé One Drop at Amaluna’s Big Top at Concord Pacific Place on Nov. 23. But the night of magic doesn’t come cheap — tickets are $1,000 each. Funds raised will enable One Drop to finance a range of projects improving access to water and promoting responsible water management in developing countries.

Expats gobble up their turkeys Over the last 10 years, local butcher Zul Suleman, owner of Market Meats on West 4th, has seen a steep jump in the number of American expats who are ordering their turkeys for American Thanksgiving. He expects to easily sell 300 birds. The love for a turkey dinner seems to cross all boundaries.

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Sake gets (even more) local CityCellar

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I don’t know much about Sake. I’ve sat through seminars, I’ve read up on it and, of course, I’ve had my fair share of the stuff at more than a few Izakayas around town. The trouble is, I don’t have it often enough or keep my studies going continually enough to retain specifics that I can conjure up at will. The good thing about living in Vancouver though, is that when I’m looking to brush up on my Sake skills, I can always just pop down to Granville Island and visit Masa Shiroki, our very own “Artisan Sake Maker.”

Sake has complexities that go way beyond it being simply “rice wine” – we are indeed talking the classic Japanese beverage made by the fermentation of sugars from the starch in rice. It’s an intricate process the rice goes through, involving polishing, resting, soaking, steaming, fermenting, extracting and more.

Much better than me trying to lay it out for you, do yourself a favour and visit Masa or his cheery staff down at Granville Island.

Since 2007 he’s been toiling away making small, handcrafted batches of his own Sake in various classic styles, from his Osake Junmai Nama (light, crisp and fish-friendly with melon and lychee notes, $15.90/375ml) to the Osake Junmai Nama Genshu (complex, tropical fruit, perfect with bold cheeses, $21.90/375ml) and his Osake Junmai Nama Nigori (unfiltered with stonefruit and lime, $28.90/750ml). You can saddle up to his tasting bar to give any of these a whirl. He also shakes things up a bit, such as making a ‘traditional method’ (Champagne-

esque) Sake and even non-alcoholic treats such as his Cherry or Apple Kasu Drink, made from the Kasu (spent rice mash) with natural fruit juice. In fact, that spent rice mash has so many uses that he’s collaborated with many local culinary talents who employ the ingredient with their own traditional techniques.

My favourite has the good folks at Granville Island’s Oyama Sausage Company (OyamaSausage.ca) curing their Coppa ham with the mash, resulting in delicious charcuterie straddling the line between sweet and savoury. It’s not just the mash Masa Shiroki that works well around town.

Kurtis Kolt photo Steve Da Cruz of The Parker on Union (TheParkerVancouver.com) has been employing the Apple Kasu Drink into his cocktail program and is looking to use more of Masa’s fare for a unique New Year’s Eve event, to be announced any day now.

Alongside his Sake production, Masa has also been importing higher-end Sake from Japan, but it’s an ambitious pet-project of his that has me most excited. Fans of the built-in-BC 100-mile diet will be delighted to hear that he’s merely months away from producing his first 100 per cent BC Sake. Yup, after much trial and error, he’s successfully farmed his own rice in Abbotsford fields to be used in Sake batches coming out early in the New Year. When you drop by his Granville Island shop (at 1339 Railspur Alley, by the way), check out the demonstration rice he even has growing around his tiny patio! Who knew?

We’re so privileged to have Masa doing what he does in Vancouver; it’s so unique for a major North American city. Do make a point of dropping by to see what he’s up to.

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warm cup of tea is one of life’s great soothing pleasures — especially on a cold winter night,” explains Jay Jones, lead bartender at the Shangri-La Hotel. “Even more comforting is to add a little spirit warmth to the mix. Bombay Sapphire gin’s botanical personality is an ideal companion to Earl Grey tea’s familiar floral and earthy satisfaction. A little fresh lemon juice brightens, while a touch of sugar helps it all go down smoothly.”

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LUCY VAN PELT Named for the tough but feminine Peanuts character 45 ml Bombay Sapphire Gin 60 ml strong, hot Earl Grey tea 15 ml sugar syrup 10 ml fresh lemon juice Combine gin with sugar syrup and lemon juice in a warmed tea cup.

Top with hot Earl Grey tea at time of service.

Zest and garnish with lemon peel.

Sugar syrup is made by combining granulated white sugar and boiling water in equal volumes — allow to cool before use.

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1 recipe for pate brisée (see below), chilled for at least 2 hours 3 lbs Gala apples (7-8) ½ cup granulated sugar + 1 Tbsp for garnish ¼ cup brown sugar, packed 2 Tbsp all-purpose flower 1 cup sharp extra-old Cheddar cheese, grated Have ready a 9-inch pie plate. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

On a clean lightly floured work surface use a rolling pin to roll out two-thirds of the dough into a 13-inch round, about 1/8-inch thick. Place the dough into the 9-inch pie plate and trim the edges. Roll out the remaining dough into an 11-inch round, about 1/8 inch thick, and place on the baking sheet.

Cover the 2 pastry rounds with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. While the pastry is chilling, make the filling.

Preheat the oven to 425°F. Peel and core apples, then slice them into thin wedges about ¼ inch thick. In a medium bowl, toss apples with sugars and flour.

Once the pastry has chilled, arrange apples in the pie plate, heaping the fruit higher in the middle to create a nice dome shape. Lightly brush the edges of the pie shell with water. Plate the 11-inch round of pastry over the fruit and using a sharp knife, trim off any excess dough (discard it, or roll out this leftover dough, cut it into shapes, sprinkle with sugar and bake until golden). Press the 2 layers of pastry together and, using a fork or your fingers, crimp the edges to seal the filling. Lightly brush the top of the pie with water and sprinkle with the 1 Tbsp of sugar. Cut decorative vents in the top crust to allow steam to escape. Place the pie on the lined baking sheet to catch any drips, then bake for 20 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 375°F and bake for another 50-60 minutes, or until filling is bubbling and crust is a deep golden brown. Allow the pie to cool to room temperature.

Just before serving, preheat the oven to 300°F. Cut pie into individual servings and place on ovenproof plates. Sprinkle each serving with 2 Tbsp of cheese and heat in oven until pie is slightly warm and cheese has melted.

Pate Brisée (Pie Pastry Dough) Makes 1 double or 2 single crust 9- or 10-inch pies 2½ cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp of granulated sugar

1 cup unsalted butter, chilled, in 1-inch cubes ¼ to ½ cup ice water In the bowl of a food processor, combine flour, salt and sugar. Pulse briefly to mix dry ingredients.

Add butter, and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal, 8-10 seconds.

With the machine running, slowly add ¼ cup of ice water in a steady stream. Pulse until dough holds together without being wet and sticky (about 30 seconds). To test, stop the motor and squeeze a small amount of dough together between your fingers. If it is crumbly, add 1 Tbsp ice water and pulse in and test again. If necessary, keep adding water 1 Tbsp at a time, until the dough just holds together when pressed between your fingers.

Lightly dust a clean work surface with flour. Cut two 15-inch lengths of plastic wrap.

Turn dough onto the work surface and gather it together with your hands. Divide in 2 equal balls.

Flatten into discs and wrap each one well in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before rolling, or freeze one or both plastic-wrapped discs for up to 1 month. (Place the plastic-wrapped dough into a resealable plastic bag before putting it in the freezer.)

To roll the pastry, remove it from the refrigerator ½ hour before use. Lightly flour a work space.

Unwrap the dough and place it on the work surface. Using a rolling pin and working from the centre to the edges, roll the pastry 3 or 4 times in one direction, lift gently with your hands and rotate a quarter turn. Repeat, dusting with additional flour as necessary, until you have an even 1/8-inch-thick disc. Roll it loosely onto the rolling pin, drape it over the pie plate, pressing it firmly onto the bottom and sides. Using kitchen scissors or a sharp knife, trim overhanging dough, leaving ½ inch around all edges.

For a single crust pie, fold the ½ inch edge of dough under itself to make a thicker edge. Using a fork or your fingers, crimp or flute the edge. Prick the dough all over with a fork.

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Christmas recipe

A grandmother’s Icelandic Christmas cake Jenn Chic

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hree steps up, I squeaked and wiggled around on the vinyl-covered seat of the tall kitchen chair in the warmth of my grandmother’s kitchen. As the late November snow fell, Oluf Corrigal was assembling the layers of cookie-like cake with a stewed jam of prunes, cloves and cinnamon to make venitarta (also known as vinatarta), a traditional Icelandic cake served at Christmas. I loved this holiday treat and looked forward to it almost as much as Santa’s arrival.

My grandmother had been hard at it for three days. There was sticky prune filling on the oven door, the cupboards, the floor. I was welcome to watch but was firmly told to stay out of the way.

I marvelled at how she moved among the mess, expertly pulling another set of layers from the oven on upside down round cake pans and set to cool, while another set went in.

The result was the perfect balance of buttery and crisp cake with a deeply aromatic filling. Almost as important as the flavour were the layers — no less than six, each of exacting and consistent width shows expertise and understanding. In the eyes of many in the neighbourhood, and our small Manitoba town, my grandmother was an expert.

Once the kitchen was clean to a sparkle, and all cakes carefully wrapped with wax paper, then foil, everyone in the family would receive their own venitarta.

She made it all look so easy. Little did she, or I, know this experience would inspire me to pursue a career in pastry and a deep love of feeding people.

OLUF CORRIGAL’S VENITARTA DOUGH Combine: • 1 1/2 cups white sugar

• 3 tsp baking powder • 4 cups flour Cut in: • 1 cup butter Add: • 3 eggs • 1/2 cup milk • 1 tsp vanilla • 1 tsp almond extract Chill overnight.

SOAK OVERNIGHT: 3 cups prunes FILLING Next day: Bring prunes to a boil and then simmer until soft.

Take out stones, if any, and put through grinder, leaving water in pot. Return prunes to pot with original water.

In honour of her Icelandic grandmother, Jenn Chic lovingly carries on a family tradition by making this layered cake with prune filling.

“I looked forward to this holiday treat almost as much as Santa’s arrival.”

ADD • 3/4 cup sugar • 1/4 tsp salt Boil until thickened (about 1 1/2 hours) Add 1/2 tsp cloves, just before finished Roll dough to 1/8” thickness on back of a round cake pan. Bake at 350ºF, 10-12 minutes. When all the dough has been baked into rounds, layer dough and spread prunes in between, ending with dough.

Top with icing.

My grandma’s recipes were never very detailed. If you have any questions, e-mail me at jennchic@ gmail.com and I’ll forward them to my Auntie Leanne, who picked up the Icelandic family tradition and has become a bit of an expert herself.

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Notice to members The Nominations and Election Committee is seeking to fill three director positions in 2013, each for a three-year term.

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adicchio is a bright purple ball of crunch, bitterness and colour.

From the chicory family, radicchio is revered in Italy as a welcome addition to salads, pasta, risotto and pizza.

Its season runs from May to November and complements and balances late autumn flavours well. The nutty and slightly bitter flavour of radicchio is perfect pairing with sweet butternut squash in this hearty and warming wintertime soup.

ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP With seared radicchio and pumpkin seed oil (Adapted from Vegetable Soups From Deborah Madison’s Kitchen by Deborah Madison)

2 ½ to 3 pounds butternut squash 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for squash 2 onions, finely chopped 10 sage leaves, chopped or ½ teaspoon dried 3 thyme sprigs, leaves stripped and chopped, or ¼ teaspoon dried

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¼ cup chopped parsley 2 garlic cloves finely chopped Sea salt, freshly ground pepper 2 quarts vegetable stock or water 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 head radicchio, cut into wedges 1 or 2 inches wide at the centre 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar pumpkin seed oil or extra virgin olive oil, a few drops per bowl thin shavings of Parmigiano-Reggiano Preheat the oven to 425ºF. Halve the squash and brush

the surfaces with oil. Place cut side down on a baking sheet and bake until tender when pressed with a finger, about 30 minutes. Scoop out the seeds and compost. Scoop out the flesh, making sure to include any caramelized bits. Deglaze the pan with 1 cup water and reserve.

Heat the oil in a soup pot.

Add the onions, sage, thyme, and parsley and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the onions have begun to brown around the edges, about 15 minutes. Add the cooked squash, garlic, 1 ½ teaspoons salt, stock and deglazing water.

Bring to a boil, then lower

the heat and simmer, partially covered, for 25 minutes. If the soup becomes too thick, add more water to thin it out.

Taste for salt. Puree the soup to desired texture — silky smooth or a bit more textured.

To finish, heat a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat and add a tablespoon of oil.

When hot, add the radicchio, pressing the wedges into the pan. Season them with salt and pepper and brush with the remaining oil. When the leaves have browned, after 4 to 5 minutes, turn the radicchio over and brown the second side. Remove from the heat and sprinkle with the vinegar.

Chop the leaves into bite-sized pieces.

To serve, ladle the hot soup into soup plates, add the radicchio, and drizzle a few drops of pumpkin seed oil — or fine olive oil — into each bowl. Shave a little parmesan into each bowl, add cracked pepper, and serve.

Jenn Chic is a writer, photographer, baker, cook and the market manager for the Kitsilano and Kerrisdale Farmers Markets.

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Julie MacInnes, centre, says her Amaluna character, Prospera, “is a good friend to me.

I have some of her in me and I’d like to borrow from her.”

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The stuff from which women are made

By Martha Perkins

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ne has to be as careful describing Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna as you would trying to describe what being a woman is like. Every image, every adjective, can be fraught with misinterpretation. For every truth there is a stereotype. For every stereotype there is a truth.

Let’s say, for instance, you called a woman strong and powerful. Would that mean she’s also aggressive? Would she be incapable of being feminine? Could her strength be matched with grace or would grace be perceived as a weakness, especially if she was also ruler of the land?

If, as another example, this woman was a mother, would you naturally think her nurturing and gentle? Could you feel, in her sadness as she thrusts her teenaged daughter into the realm of adulthood, a tinge of her excitement of being freed from the responsibilities of child-rearing? The chance

to regain the life she put on hold when she became a mother?

Thoughts like these are cascading about in Julie MacInnes’s mind as she tries to describe her lead role as Prospera in Amaluna, which opens Nov. 23 at Concord Pacific Place.

It doesn’t help that all around her is chaos as the striped tents go up to create a magical space where, just days earlier, there was only a barren parking lot. It’s a kaleidescope of activities as colourful and transfixing as some of the show’s gorgeous peacockinspired costumes. Fellow performers are walking past, or being interviewed, or practising their routines. Workers are making sure everything is where it should be, with nothing left to chance. (When MacInnes is hoisted 60 feet in the air to play her cello, there can be no “whoopsie” moments.)

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Her spunky daughter, Miranda, is 15 and Prospera knows it’s time for the rite of passage into womanhood. In what’s been described as The Tempest meets Wonder Woman, Prospera uses her cello bow as a magic wand to conjure up a storm — a storm that brings male energy and influence to her femaledominated island.

“Prospera is a good friend to me,” says MacInnes, once again switching from her role as performer to her feelings as woman and trying to find the place in which they co-exist. “I have some of her in me and I’d like to borrow from her. She knows quite a lot but she knows when to sit back and when to be a bit wicked. I like that she’s lived a lot and learned from her mistakes.

“She’s fun. She’s not a person you have to like but you do have to trust her.”

It’s not only the chaos around her that MacInnes finds distracting during the telephone interview, just a day after a break back home

in Australia following the Toronto run. The production, with its focus on womanhood — and a cast that’s 70 per cent female — has been a time to reflect on what it’s like to be Julie MacInnes. So when she says, “as the show goes on, it will be interesting for the women [performers] to think about what we want to show about ourselves,” it’s almost as if she’s saying, “as life goes on, it will be interesting for me to know how much I want to reveal about myself.”

In Amaluna, Prospera is front and centre, the crowd’s eyes upon her in almost every scene. “I’m exposed to the audience as a musician and performer,” she says. “I like to feel the audience.... Everything is very visible. It’s visceral and very gutsy.”

Now that sounds a lot like life itself.

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Home is where the H’art is H’arts for the Homeless auction helps people get their lives back on track

By Gen Handley

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hen you ask LisaMarie how the Lookout Emergency Aid Society has helped her, her voice starts to gets a bit shaky and a shimmer of grateful tears starts to appear.

“Lookout basically saved my life,” she says, nodding her head.

“Basically, they saved my life.”

In the fall of 2010, Lisa-Marie (whose last name is withheld) was close to death, hospitalized for kidney failure after many years of prescription painkiller use.

“I was broken-hearted, working three jobs, and I was taking all these pills and I wasn’t eating,” she says from our booth at Starbucks.

After leaving the hospital, she returned to a world without a job, without an apartment, but with the same addiction problems and an abusive ex-husband. Her parents took her in, but only under the condition that she stayed clean. When she relapsed, she was asked to leave. She moved in with a friend in Whitehorse who also kicked her out because of the her drug use. She returned to Van-

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Local artists are donating work that will be auctioned at the Lookout Society’s Nov. 23 fundraiser at Coast Coal Harbour Hotel. couver where, aside from her son, there wasn’t much waiting for her.

“I had nothing to come back to — I had no friends, I had no family, I had no job, I had no apartment.

All I had was a storage locker.”

On her first — and only — night living on the Vancouver streets, she was lured into a back alley where she was brutally beaten and

robbed. Not wanting to face the streets again, Lisa-Marie moved into her storage locker where she stayed for two nights. It was after those two nights she approached Lookout Society shelter in North Vancouver for help.

“They took me in,” she says, her hands wrapped around a warm cup of coffee. “Nobody in the

whole world cared about me and finally there was somebody who actually wanted to help me.”

Since 1971, the Lookout Society has empowered homeless people to help themselves by providing secure housing, connecting them to other needed services and supporting them as they deal with any issues they might have. The society has 22 locations around the Lower Mainland. To help fund these important — but costly — services, the society will be holding its annual H’Arts for the Homeless fundraiser on Nov. 23.

“The money raised at the gala, makes a big difference,” says Karen O’Shannacery, executive director of the Lookout Society. “It’s huge.”

H’Arts has raised more than $100,000. It hopes to beat last year’s $46,000, which bought furniture for a new 129-unit housing project.

More than 9,600 people currently rely on Lookout services.

“It’s all about the people who fall in between the cracks and can’t be housed elsewhere,” O’Shannacery says. “We’ve learned extremely early that it isn’t good enough to just put a person in a bed overnight. What we really need to do is provide them with support, we need to link them to the services and resources that they need.”

Not only did the Lookout Society give Lisa-Marie a safe bed, but they helped put her life back on track — helping her apply for employment insurance, providing

counselling services for addiction and abuse; and simply being there for her when nobody else was.

While obviously damaged by her past, Lisa-Marie is also cautiously optimistic about her future. As she tells her story, there is almost an air of disbelief in her voice as she explains how she’s sitting in front of me this afternoon.

“Lookout staff are the only people who get me, who completely understand me because some of them have been there themselves and they deal with it every day. They’re the people I trust, they’re like my family. They really care. The staff work so hard to make the smallest difference in anybody’s life.”

Last August, on the 16th to be specific, Lisa-Marie graduated from the nursing unit clerk program at the Canadian Health Care Academy. Coincidentally, August 16 was also the one-year anniversary of staying off of the painkillers that damaged her life for so long.

Tonight, Lisa-Marie and her son, who is now nine, are having dinner together and seeing a movie.

She’s clearly excited.

“This is big. I’ve spent so much time re-building my relationship with him. This is him here,” she says, her blue eyes lighting up as she looks at his team soccer photo.

“Isn’t he great?”

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t’s what it sounds like: CBC’s The Big Decision – an aptly named spinoff of the hugely popular Dragon’s Den – follows now-famous financiers Jim Treliving and Arlene Dickinson as they learn all about certain financially troubled businesses and decide whether or not to invest.

And, now in its second season, the show is making its first visit to Vancouver. The next episode, set to air on November 27 at 9pm., features Lady Dragon and marketing and communications guru Dickinson taking a good hard look at Save On Meats, as the Gastown icon looks for help with renovations and growing debt.

For those unfamiliar with Save On Meats, the butcher shop-cum-diner is an institution in this city. Since its reopening in June of last year (the original operated from 1957 until 2009), Save On Meats has made it its mission to become more than just a place to grab some deli meats or a burger and a shake; it strives day in and day out to build the community of which it’s a part. As well as offering hearty and affordable fare to all who stroll through the door, through its meal program it provides daily meals for nearly 450+ people who are otherwise going without, and employs men and women from the Downtown Eastside who few other opportunities for meaningful work.

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that it’s a tough go. “What we do is front-line and exceptionally difficult,” he explains. But he isn’t the type to waver, and, more than anything, he desperately hopes to see this business continue its social commitment. And that is where Dickinson and The Big Decision come in.

She and the show’s crew spent five days on location at Save On Meats, Dickinson all the while picking apart Brand’s baby, learning its secrets, and generally sizing it up to assess if an investment on her part would be worthwhile. And while a cash infusion would be very welcome, Brand says that simply having access to Dickinson’s marketing knowledge was invaluable. As the owner and CEO of Venture Communications, Dickinson is one of Canada’s most influential and powerful business leaders. And as far as Save On goes, according to Brand, “Arlene had some exceptional insights.”

Investment or no, Brand definitely intends to put some of those insights into practice, and implement some changes to the business.

On the topic of whether or not Dickinson did indeed make the decision to invest, this being reality TV, the cat’s staying in the bag. But Brand concedes that it was an emotional moment, that the crew was even holding its breath with him right up until the last minute. “There were tears; I can’t say if they were good or bad, but I can say they came from a 350-plus-pound cameraman.”

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Whistler Film Festival: ‘It would be silly not to come’

By Curtis Woloschuk

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espite running for just five days, the Whistler Film Festival isn’t short on highprofile events. Whether it’s hosting the high stakes ($15-million in film financing) China Canada Gateway for Film Script Competition or having Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe plant himself in a chair for a public conversation, the festival has a knack for grabbing headlines.

As Whistler’s new director of programming, Paul Gratton bears the responsibility of ensuring that the festival’s films can back up the buzz generated by such events. And while this may be Gratton’s first year programming a festival, he sees it as a natural extension of his years in television overseeing channels such as Bravo and Space.

“I’ve spent my career trying to share the movies that I get enthusiastic about,” says the self-avowed film buff. “Whether it’s booking television or theatres or festivals, the venues are different but the skill set and desire to match appreciative audiences with movies you’ve discovered is kind of a constant.”

After some badgering, Gratton shares a few selections that he takes personal pride in programming, including Vancouver products Hit ‘n Strum and Bird Co. Media. However, he also acknowledges that he’s very willing to cater to the atmosphere that the festival has spent the preceding 11 years cultivating.

“The vibe here is very young and kind of a party-going crowd by film festival standards,” he suggests. “I very consciously tried to program some music-themed stuff and some late-night horror stuff that I thought would have appeal to young people, as opposed to the traditional auteurs

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The new director of programming, Paul Gratton (here with executive director Shauna Hardy Mishaw) has picked films that will appeal to Whistler’s party-loving crowd but also film auteurs. festival crowd. Having said that, I still think there are some extraordinary titles that would fall into that traditional auteurs’ festival mode.”

While admitting that he’s experimenting a little in his first year, Gratton maintains a clear vision of where he sees the Whistler Film Festival headed.

“One of the reasons I agreed to program this film festival is because I think it’s a rising star amongst the literally hundreds of festivals that are in existence in Canada,” he explains.

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Already boasting Variety — the film industry bible — as a sponsor and offering the second largest cash prize available to Canadian filmmakers, the festival seems well positioned to take the next step.

And to Gratton’s way of thinking, not even its relative isolation should prove an impediment.

“If you look at some of the great world festivals like Sundance and Cannes, they’re in kind of remote resort areas. And yet, they’ve taken off despite all geographic odds. I feel the same way about Whistler. It’s a two-hour drive from Vancouver. So, the entire BC industry can and should come up here.”

After pausing, he emphatically repeats, “It’s a two-hour drive... It would be silly not to come up.”

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(Canada/India, Director Jason Bourque) Having taken dead aim at the US military’s use of soldiers-for-hire with the documentary Shadow Company, Bourque now delves into another dubious enterprise: two entrepreneurs’ scheme to use birds as airborne advertising. Reportedly, Bourque has a media stunt of his own planned for the world premiere of this exposé. Screens Dec. 1.

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(Japan, Director Goro Miyazaki) A stirring coming-of-age romance set in the lead-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the latest animated gem from Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) screens just in time to whet appetites for the comprehensive Ghibli retrospective running at both The Cinematheque and Vancity Theatre in December. Screens Dec. 2.

IT’S A DISASTER

(USA, Director Todd Berger) When four couples find themselves trapped indoors due to a dirty bomb explosion, they discover that the apocalypse raging outside might pale in comparison to their interpersonal problems. Much buzzed about after its festival screenings in Los Angeles and Austin, Berger’s doomsday satire seems best experienced in a packed house.

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(USA, Director Liz Garbus) Garbus’ documentary provides new fuel for the collective torch we still carry for Ms. Monroe 50 years after her death. Home movies and archival footage play while a constellation of contemporary starlets give voice to the icon’s journals and letters, thus lending new insight into her inner world.

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Directed by Ang Lee Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan

Few film directors could come even remotely close to capturing the essence of Canadian Yann Martel’s acclaimed 2001 novel, but Ang Lee relishes the challenge in his big screen version of Life of Pi. The veteran was seemingly unfazed by the old adage that warns films should avoid kids, animals and water.

To call the project ambitious is an understatement — Lee utilizes the best in 3D, sets most of the movie in a lifeboat and features a gripping ‘performance’ from a tiger that combines state of the art CGI with footage of four real animals.

Aside from the striking visuals and emotional impact of the story, it’s incredible just how little the director left out from the

source material and how well an otherwise impossible adaptation works as a film.

The main plot follows the harrowing ordeal of Pi Patel (played by four actors of varying ages) as he drifts on a stranded lifeboat, following a disastrous ship sinking, in the open ocean for more than 200 days with a fearsome tiger for a companion. The themes, which permeate to the surface of the story, examine issues of spirituality and escapism. The film dazzles and pops with a visual exuberance rarely seen in Thor Diakow theatres today but also blends its technical feats with a riveting human experience; the end result is a deftly crafted piece of movie magic that mixes both dreams and reality.

Life of Pi is a rare and glorious cinematic gem; a meticulouslycrafted, gorgeously-rendered experience that demands multiple viewings.

Guardians more sugar rush than satisfying story RISE OF THE GUARDIANS

Voiced by Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law Directed by Peter Ramsey Reportedly, Rise of the Guardians began as a bedtime story that writer William Joyce impulsively spun for his daughter after she asked, “Does Santa Claus know the Easter Bunny?” And while the storybook Joyce subsequently penned has now evolved into a 3D animated feature with A-list vocal talent, it nevertheless feels like someone’s making it up as it goes along. For all of its high-concept ideas, Peter Ramsey’s film barely manages to scrape by in terms of basic storytelling.

Basically The Avengers for the 10-years-and-under set, Guardians charts the initiation of impetuous Jack Frost (Chris Pine) into a secret order of heroes that includes a seemingly straightout-of-Siberian-prison version of Santa (Alec Baldwin); the gruff Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman); the flighty, winged Tooth Fairy

(Isla Fisher); and the impish, silent Sandman (maybe someone didn’t show up for work). Their adversary? None other than Pitch (Jude Law), the Boogie Man who’s intent on destroying children’s belief in these hallowed figures and slowly turning their dreams into nightmares.

While there’s legitimate wonder to be derived from our lingering looks at the intricately devised “sets” for Santa’s workshop and the fairies’ realm, the majority of the film unfolds as a series of frantically staged action sequences. The lack of visual coherence is echoed in a script that piles on plot developments without fashioning them into an involving narrative. Meanwhile, the film’s central theme is reiterated constantly to assure us that there is a message amidst all the noise.

The cinematic equivalent of a Hallowe’en sugar rush, Guardians starts out exhilarating but ends up running on empty.

— Curtis Woloschuk

Russell finds humour in chaos SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence Directed by David O. Russell Given that David O. Russell began his career directing neuroses-fuelled farces, he surprised many by taking on The Fighter in 2010. However, it soon became apparent that the ostensible “sports movie” — an underdog pugilist struggles with his overbearing mother and junkie brother — fit well into Russell’s oeuvre, in which characters are constantly wrestling with normalcy. Silver Linings Playbook now sees the writer-director exploring his fascinations through the trappings of a romantic comedy.

At the centre of this comic maelstrom is Pat (Bradley Cooper), a bipolar Philadelphia native who’s been discharged from a psychiatric facility and remanded into the custody of his doting mother (Jacki Weaver) and OCD father (an in-form Robert De Niro). Fixated on reconciling with his ex-wife, he finds his loved ones instead steering him towards Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a widow who’s endured a meltdown of her own.

While there’s a certain dubiousness to turning mental illness into fodder for comedy, it’s important to remember that Russell has successfully mined humour from far darker territory (incest, for instance, in Spanking the Monkey).

Furthermore, he possesses a tremendous affection for his damaged characters that’s rivalled only by the delight he takes in setting them at one another’s throats.

Given the chaos that reigns throughout Playbook, it’s perhaps only fitting that it should culminate with something as preposterous as a ballroom dancing competition. Commendably, Russell instills Pat and Tiffany’s tripping of the light (less than) fantastic with all the same drama as The Fighter’s climactic bout.

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By Rob Brezsny • Week of November 22 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Don’t think about making art, just get it done,” said Andy Warhol. “Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” I encourage you to adopt that mini-manifesto for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Aries. If you’re not an artist, simply substitute the appropriate phrase for “making art.”

It could be “creating interesting relationships,” “exploring exotic lands,” “changing corrupt political institutions,” “fixing environmental problems,” or even “making money.” The main point is: Focus on doing what drives your quest for meaning, and forget about what people think of it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A Jungian writer whose name I have unfortunately misplaced made the following observations: “In a man’s psyche, the unconscious is experienced as chaotic, filled with violent and irrational processes of generation and destruction.

But to a woman’s psyche the unconscious is a fascinating matrix of sacred images and rituals which in their wildly contradictory meanings express the secret unity of all life.” After analyzing the astrological omens, I suspect that you Taurus men now have an unprecedented opportunity to experience your unconscious as women do. As for you Taurus women: You have the chance to get a vivid,

visceral understanding of how true this description of the female unconscious is.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let’s talk about the Decision. I’m referring to the Choice you have been dancing around and fretting about and analyzing to death. By my estimate, there are at least 15 different solutions you could pursue. But just seven of those solutions would meet the requirements of being intelligent, responsible, and fun. Of those seven, only four would be intelligent, responsible, fun, and enduring. Of those four, only two would be intelligent, responsible, fun, enduring, and the best for all concerned. I suggest you opt for one of those two.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m not necessarily asserting that you need to edit yourself, Cancerian. Only you can decide that. But I will state unequivocally that if there is in fact any editing needed, now would be a good time to do it. You will have extra insight about what aspects of your life might benefit from being condensed, corrected, and fine-tuned. It’s also true that the rectifications you do in the coming weeks will be relatively smooth and painless. So look into the possibilities, please. Should you calm your blame reflex?

Downsize a huffy attitude? Shed some emotional baggage?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How many times have you been in love, Leo? Just once or twice? Or have you dived into the depths of amorous togetherness again and again over the years? Whatever the case may be, I bet you have strong ideas about the nature of passionate romance and profound intimacy. That’s natural and normal. But I’m

going to ask you to temporarily forget everything you think you know about all that stuff. I invite you to become innocent again, cleansed of all your mature, jaded, hopeful, and resentful thoughts about the game of love. In my astrological opinion, there’s no better way for you to prepare for what will come next.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A medical research journal reported on a British woman who accidentally swallowed a felt-tip pen. It lay there in her stomach for 25 years. When surgeons finally removed it, they were surprised to find it still worked. I am not suggesting that anything remotely as exotic or bizarre will be happening to you, Virgo. I do suspect, though, that you will soon have an experience with certain metaphorical resemblances to that event. For example, you may retrieve and find use for an element of your past that has been gone or missing for a long time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Sapiosexual” is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence. Urbandictionary.com gives an example of how it might be used: “I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want a sapiosexual.” In the coming weeks, Libra, I suspect you will be closer to fitting this definition than you’ve ever been before. The yearning that’s rising up in you is filled with the need to be stimulated by brilliance, to be influenced by wisdom, to be catalyzed by curiosity.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2007 the band White Stripes did a tour of Canada. One of their final gigs was outdoors in St. John’s, Newfoundland. They came on stage, played one note — a C-sharp —and declared the performance over. It was the briefest rock show in history. Judging from the current astrological omens, Scorpio, I’m thinking it would be a good time for you to do some almost equally pithy things. You have the potential to be extremely concise and intense and focused in all you do. I urge you to fulfill that potential. Pack every speech, gesture, and action with a concentrated wealth of meaning.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix is finally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, you’ve managed to purge all the bugs from your cellular tracking pulse, and your high-resolution flux capacitor is retooled and as sexy as a digitally-remastered simulation of your first kiss.

You’re almost ready for take-off, Sagittarius! The most important task left to do is to realign your future shock absorbers. No more than a week from now, I expect you to be flying high and looking very, very good.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The plot twists will be intriguing. The actors may be unpredictable, even erratic. Blossoming and decay will be happening simultaneously, and the line between wisdom and craziness could get blurry. There’s not nearly enough room in this little horoscope to describe the epic sweep of the forces working behind the scenes. Are you willing to confront uncanny truths that other people might regard as too unruly? Are you brave enough to penetrate to the depths that others are too timid to look at, let alone deal with? I hope you are, Capricorn, because that will give you the power to ultimately emerge from the drama with your integrity shining and your intelligence boosted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Psychologists have done studies that suggest we subconsciously adopt the qualities of fictional characters we read about or see in movies. That’s not a problem if those characters are smart, ethical, highly motivated people whose ideals are similar to ours. But if the heroes of the stories we absorb are jerks who treat others badly and make messes wherever they go, our imitative urges may lead us astray. Right now is a crucial time for you to be extra careful about the role models you allow to seep into your imagination. You’re especially susceptible to taking on their attributes. I say, be proactive: Expose yourself intensely to only the very best fictional characters who embody the heights you aspire to reach.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.” So said the ancient Greek philosopher Seneca, and now I’m passing it on to you. It’s an excellent time for you to think about the issue. Ask yourself: Have you been cooperating with fate so that it has maximum power to shepherd you? Have you been working closely with fate, giving it good reasons to consistently provide you with useful hints and timely nudges? Or have you been avoiding fate, even resisting it out of laziness or ignorance, compelling it to yank you along? Spend the next few weeks making sure your relationship with fate is strong and righteous.

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(Photo by Donna Graffi) 2 The skies above St. Paul’s Hospital lit up with fireworks Nov. 15 after the Lights of Hope were turned on. 3 FMA’s Andy Chu browsed the Ralph Lauren goods at Guy’s Night Out at The Bay on November 8. 4 Avison Young’s Stephanie Loucas checked out the menswear — and special guests Ryan Kesler and Trevor Linden of the Vancouver Canucks — at Guy’s Night Out. 5 Qamelia Imports assistant Tanya Hofmann, The Bay’s fragrance specialist Victor Peralta, and Seeve Sandberg, Qamelia Imports principal, attended the Dansk Smykkekunst Jewellery sale at Cactus Club atrium South Granville on Nov 14. 6 Home stager Ina Brooks and realtor Sherree Mitchell at the 19th Annual Art for Life Fine Art Auction and Gala at CBC Studio 40, Nov 17. 7 Cactus Club’s Rob Feenie, who recently published his fourth cooking book, was cooking it up at the Robson Chapters/Indigo preview with Patrica Kells of Random House and Mary-Lynn Hanson, Indigo’s Western Canada marketing manager. 8 Stylist Crystal Carson, It’s To Die For’s Erin Ireland and Style Nine To Five’s Christie Lohr (left to right) looked oh-so-pretty at The Man Repeller event at Secret Location on Nov. 13.

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DRIVERS/COURIER/ TRUCKING Owner Operators $2500 SIGNING BONUS

Van Kam’s group of companies req. Owner Ops. to be based out of our Surrey Terminal for runs throughout BC & Alberta.

Applicants must have winter and mountain driving experience / training.

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Call Bev at 604-968-5488 or send a detailed resume and current driver’s abstract, and details of your truck to: careers@vankam.com Fax: 604-587-9889 Van Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.

Thank you for your interest however only those of interest to us will be contacted.

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Email: lisa@blackpress.ca Required for an Alberta Trucking Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a minimum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be willing to relocate to Edson, Alberta. Scheduled Days Off. Call Lloyd 780-723-5051 SABAI THAI SPA, W. Van requires 1 Asst. Spa Manager Bachelor Degree or Exp. $2200/mo Email: sabaispavan@gmail.com

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F/T INTERMEDIATE / SENIOR ESTIMATOR Req. for Imperial Paving, a highly respected Lower Mainland Road Building Contractor. Must have a min. 5 years exp. in the road building/civil contracting industry, possess highly developed estimating and organizational skills, and be a strong team player that is self motivated.

P.Eng. or E.I.T. designation would be an asset.

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ACCESSORIES INSTALLER/ JOURNEYMAN TECHNICIANS. Hanna Chrysler Ltd. (Hanna, Alberta) needs a few more good people.

Busy, modern shop.

Competitive wages, benefits. Great community. Inquire or send resume.

Fax 403-854-2845; Email Chrysler@telusplanet.net

Skilled in the Trade of Partsman.

B.C. Driver’s license required PREFERRED ATTRIBUTES: • Electronic Parts Catalogue experience • P.C. skills ex. Word, Excel • Good interpersonal skills • ADP system experience • GM experience

Salary + Bonus $28,800-$40,000 + Please reply by e-mail to: Parts Department Manager Murray GM Abbotsford Darryl Muir: dmuir@ murraygmabbotsford.com

Multi-Media Journalist The Abbotsford News, a bi-weekly publication serving more than 45,000 homes, has an opening for a fulltime, multi-media journalist.

Candidates will have outstanding and diverse writing abilities, including a flair for narrative. Advanced photography and video skills will be key attributes, along with a strong grasp of social media best practices (Twitter, Facebook, etc.), a passion for online journalism, and an understanding of how to tailor content accordingly.

The successful applicant for this entry-level position will be a key contributor to the print product, while bringing creativity and innovation to our web-based branding.

You should have a diploma/degree in journalism, and/ or related experience. Knowledge of basic Photoshop, iMovie and InDesign is a must.

You’re a critical thinker, with keen attention to detail, and the ability to work well under deadline pressures.

The Abbotsford News is part of Black Press, Canada’s largest private, independent newspaper company, with more than 150 community, daily and urban newspapers in B.C., Alberta, Washington State, Ohio and Hawaii.

Those interested should submit a resume, writing and photography samples, and a cover letter to: Andrew Holota, Editor The Abbotsford News 34375 Gladys Avenue, Abbotsford, B.C. V2S2H5 e-mail: aholota@blackpress.ca Deadline for applications: November 30, 2012

CLARK FREIGHTWAYS We are a growing, progressive and well respected carrier specializing in the transportation of perishable and dry freight, since 1957. Currently looking for a Full-time Certified Commercial Transport Mechanic. Must be physically fit and fluent in English. Ownership of basic tools required. We offer an attractive compensation package which includes a competitive wage commensurate with experience and group health benefits. Please forward your resume and cover letter to hrfrt@telus.net or fax to 604-472-2136.

EXPERIENCED PARTS PERSON for a progressive auto/industrial supplier. Hired applicant will receive top wages, full benefits and RRSP bonuses plus moving allowances. Our 26,000ft2 store is located 2.5 hours N.E. of Edmonton, Alberta. See our community at LacLaBicheRegion.com. Send resume to: Sapphire Auto, Box 306, Lac La Biche, AB, T0A 2C0. Email: hr@sapphireinc.net.

FLAGSTAFF COUNTY, Sedgewick, Alberta requires a full-time Licensed or 2nd to 4th year Apprentice, Heavy Duty Mechanic. Fax or email resume by 12 p.m., December 10, 2012. Attention: Kevin Kinzer @ Fax 780-384-3635; Email kkinzer@flagstaff.ab.ca.

ATTN: COMPUTER WORK. Work from anywhere 24/7. Up to $1,500 Part Time to $7, 500/mo Full Time.

Training provided.

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Opportunity for an outstanding

AUTO SERVICE JOURNEYMAN Technician required immediately at EJ Klassen GM in Port Hardy, Vancouver Island. Above average wages and benefits. Fax resume 250-949-7440 email: ejkgm@telus.net.

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TRADES, TECHNICAL

GM PARTSMAN

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Please call Annemarie 1.800.661.6335 email: fish@blackpress.ca

KURT LeRoy Trucking Ltd., of Campbell River is expriencing a 50% growth of new capital expansion over the next year with a new division on the mainland. We need a Highly Motivated exprienced CGA to complete monthly cost accounting for each divsion.Payroll of 38-45 employee’s.Subcontractors will vary. Excellent salary and benefits.Please,e-mail resume’s with driver’s abstract to rleroy@telus.net or fax to 250-287-9914.

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INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SCHOOL. NO Simulators. In-the-seat training.

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PROFESSIONALS/ MANAGEMENT

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

Please send resume & Ref’s: imperial@imperialpaving.com or Fax: 604-432-9854

KIA Vancouver Duties include maintenance of all office correspondence, supervise receptionist/office clerks & maintain our website.

Requirements: • Must be fluent in Korean • A bachelor’s degree • 2-3 years relevant exp.

• Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator Wage: $3500/month (full/perm)

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Salary & Benefits Commensurate With Skills & Experience.

Bilingual Administrative Officer

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We thank everyone who is interested in this position, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Guided online learning, instructor-led, in a highly supported environment

Psychiatric Nursing (online): Learn at home through guided online learning combined with local clinical placements and some local classroom delivery. This 23 month program is accredited by the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC (CRPNBC). Entry-level earnings start at $30.79/hour to $40.42/hour.

Special Education Assistant (online): Learn at home through guided online learning combined with some local classroom delivery and two 3-week practicums. You can become a Special Education Assistant in just 9 months! Average starting wage in school districts is $24/hr. You will receive training and certification from the Provincial Outreach Program for Autism and Related Disorders (POPARD).

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C & C Electrical Mechanical

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HARDWOOD FLOOR REFINISHING

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PLUMBING

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353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

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GL ROOFING. Cedar shakes, Asphalt Shingles, Flat roofs, WCB Clean Gutters. $80. 604-240-5362

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ALWAYS GUTTER Cleaning Service, Repairs, 20 yrs exp. Rain or shine.7dys/wk.Simon 604-230-0627

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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Complete Dry-wall & Renovation services. Textured ceiling specialist.

Phone Steve (604)613-4861

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Email: hoot&owl@telus.net

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MOVING & STORAGE

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YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call Lic #89402 Same day guarn’td We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSES! Older House • Damaged House Moving • Estate Sale • Just Want Out • Behind on Payments Quick Cash! • Flexible Terms!

CALL US FIRST! 604-657-9422

RENTALS 706

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750

SUITES, LOWER

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Lg patio. $1000/m. 604-603-7180

TRANSPORTATION

TREE SERVICES

Gary 604-339-5430 320

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JUNK REMOVAL

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Tree removal done RIGHT! • Tree & Stump Removal • Certified Arborists • 20 yrs exp. • 60’ Bucket Truck • Crown Reduction • Spiral Pruning • Land Clearing • Selective Logging ~ Fully Insured • Best Rates ~

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ABBA MOVERS & DEL Res/comm 1-4 ton truck, 1 man $35/hr, 2 men from $45. Honest, bsmt clean up.

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certification, adoption property rental opportunities. For peace of mind & a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

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(604)961-7505, 278-0375

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WEED FREE Mushroom Manure 13 yards - $180 or Well Rotted 10 yds - $200. 604-856-8877

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BRITTANY SPANIEL spayed F, 4 years old, A.K.C. reg. orange/white, great family dog, needs lots of exercise, Call (604)820-0551 after 4pm CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866 CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes! All cats are Spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed. Visit us at fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977 European German Shepherd pups, 9 weeks, nice, classic colors. Lrg dogs CKC + all shots $1000/ea & up. 1 M & 2 F. 604-538-4883 FEMALE Chihauhau puppies, 10 weeks old, ready to go to a good family home. Parents from Mexico.

Healthy, sweet, 1 chocolate, 1 vanilla. Shots done. 778-938-5687 or miss_skip_cita@hotmail.com LAB PUPS yellow / black, m/f, CKC reg. papers, all shots, dew claws removed,tatooed $400 (604)820-7714

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SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

TOP CA$H PAID TODAY For SCRAP VEHICLES!

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS 2 hr. Service www.a1casper.com (604)209-2026

Re: The estate of JOHN MATTHEW PETRUCCI, also known as JOHN MATTHEWS PETRUCCI, JOHN M. PETRUCCI, and JOHN PETRUCCI, deceased, formerly of #202-2121 West 6th Avenue, in the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia V6K 1V5.

MOTORCYCLES

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MISC. FOR SALE

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RECREATIONAL/SALE

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REAL ESTATE

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Creditors and others having claims against the estate of JOHN MATTHEW PETRUCCI, also known as JOHN MATTHEWS PETRUCCI, JOHN M. PETRUCCI, and JOHN PETRUCCI are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the executrix, LONI MARIE LIVINGSTONE c/o Wilson Rasmussen LLP, at #300-15127 100th Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, on or before December 28,2012, after which date the executrix will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the executrix then has notice.

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WEEKLY SPECIALS 100% BC Owned and Operated Prices Effective November 22 to November 28, 2012.

We reserve the right to limit quantities. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.

Grocery Department

Meat Department

Mighty Leaf Tea

WOW!

PRICING reg 11.99

Kettle Brand Potato Chips assorted varieties

assorted varieties

15 bags • product of USA

product of USA

2/12.00

2.29

Nature's Path Organic Eco Pak Cereal

from 5.99

Mount Royal Hand Made Bagels assorted varieties

BBQ Salmon Tips or Strips

14.99lb/ 33.05kg

2.79

100g product of E.U.

Popcorn Indiana Kettlecorn, Popcorn or Chips

2/7.00

assorted varieties

1.00 off

retail price

4.49

4.99

Danone Oikos Greek Yogurt assorted varieties

1.89L +deposit +eco fee product of Canada

from 2/7.00

4x100 - 500g • product of Canada

each

reg 6.49

Bakery Department

Organic Light Sour Rye Bread

Seventh Generation Bathroom Tissue or Paper Towels

assorted varieties

3/6.99

from 2/4.00

155-170g • product of USA

4 or 1 pack • product of USA

Wolfgang Puck Organic Soup assorted varieties

assorted varieties

2/4.00

4/5.00

Zevia All-Natural Sodas

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

113-142g • product of USA

Oatmeal Blueberry or Oat Carrot Walnut Muffins

6/3.96

regular retail price package of 3 or 6’s

40-45g • product of USA

Sahale Gourmet Nut Blends

2/6.00

560g

1.00 off

Kind Fruit & Nut Bars

398ml • product of USA

3.79

Amy’s Kitchen Frozen Burritos

assorted varieties

WOW!

regular

Dofino or Tre Stelle Cheese Slices

120g • product of USA

Earth’s Choice Organic Apple Juice

2/4.00

PRICING

product of USA

Large Size Hawaiian Pineapples

.50 off regular retail price

2/4.00

4.49

California Grown

WOW!

PRICING

2.98

each product of USA

Half

assorted varieties

200g product of Canada

Organic Large Size Pomegranates

Whole

Blue Diamond Nut Thins

assorted varieties

product of USA

Roasted Specialty Chickens

154-297g • product of USA

L’Ancetre Organic Cheese

1.58lb/ 3.48kg

Deli Department

2/6.00

package of 6 product of Canada

California Grown

2.99lb/ 6.59kg

assorted varieties

650g - 1kg • product of Canada

Organic Broccoli

value pack, previously frozen

220g

Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Bars

assorted varieties

Produce Department

Organic Chicken Wings

Rice Bakery

Bulk Department

Organic Emmer Pasta Pearl bags or bins

20% off regular retail price

Health Care Department Purica Recovery

53.99

Regular Strength 360 vcaps

59.99

Extra Strength 360 vcaps

Hyland’s Cold ‘n Cough 4 Kids

8.49

118ml

Our 100% natural formula offers safe and effective relief of common cold symptoms, including sneezing, sore throat, and congestion.

Jason Liquid Hand Soaps

Coconut Drops

5.99

package of 8

355ml • +deposit +eco fee

6.29

473ml

Foamy and luxurious, these liquid soaps feature rich plant botanicals and extracts to soothe and gently cleanse skin, leaving hands soft and moisturized.

product of USA

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