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North Van marathoner Annette Wotherspoon asks for prayers from Boston

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hirty-nine runners from the North Shore were scheduled to run in the Boston Marathon when two explosions on Monday put a fatal ending to the annual event.

According to reports, three people died and 150 more were injured from two blasts near the finish line this morning. Heightening fears, a fire and possible explosion followed around half an hour later at the JFK Library a few miles away.

In total, 25 runners from North Vancouver and 14 from West Vancouver were among 2,000 Canadians who travelled to Boston.

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston “Thank you all for thinking of Marathon following explosions on Monday (April 15). AP Photo/Charles Krupa me. I got through the finish about half an hour before the explosions,” Having run in the marathon twice in the early 1980s said North Van runner Annette and lived in Boston while at university, the tragedy hit Wotherspoon on Facebook. “My friend Irene just made it home. through. Other friends did not get to finish. “...I can say it ought to be a day of joy for all. My heart “Prayers go out to the families and people who were goes out to Bostonians & visiting runners,” he tweeted. killed and hurt.”

People who enjoy biking, walking and running associate Jason Haight, another North Van runner in Boston, said these activities with freedom, Weston, who is still an avid on Facebook he had just finished the race when the explorunner, told The Outlook on the phone. sions went off.

“Freedom is part of what we do,” he added. “For anyone “I am fine but a horrible situation for Boston, the marato get in the way of that, not only is it shocking and tragthon and all the runners, family, friends and volunteers,” ic for the people who were killed or hurt, but it’s a real he wrote. reminder of how important our freedom is.”

John Weston, MP for West Van-Sunshine Coast- Sea to Sky Country, expressed his concern on Twitter after the for more coverage of the deadly Boston blasts, turn to Page 5 explosions.

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‘It quickly turned from celebration to an incredible tragedy’: North Vancouver marathoner in Boston ish line — and that’s all he knew. “[It] quickly turned from celebration to an incredible tragedy,” Back told The Outlook on Monday.

“It didn’t sink in right away. It was surreal. There were all these people running in, thousands of them still on the course because this was at about the fourand-half-hour mark of the marathon… and the crowds were still cheering, the music was still going, people hadn’t heard the reports — they had no idea what had just taken place a mile and a half down the road, which is just a horrific scene.”

Back’s immediate concern was for the group of other runners from Vancouver that he’d travelled to Boston with.

“I stayed down there because I still had some friends out there who were running; I came down here with a group of about eight. They’re all accounted for now and thankfully they all finished well before this happened.”

Three people were killed and 150 more wounded as a result of two blasts that occurred Monday afternoon near the finish line of the legendary race.

As news of the Boston Marathon bombings spread in the media, Back’s cellphone started ringing nonstop.

“People were, as you could imagine, really concerned.”

Jordan Back recounts the scene from the Boston Marathon after the deadly blasts JUSTIN BEDDALL EDITOR

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ordan Back finished the Boston Marathon in 2 hours 41 minutes.

The 30-year-old North Vancouver runner was already back at his hotel room, located about a mile and half from the finish line, freshly showered and enjoying a celebratory beer when a moment of triumph suddenly turned into an unfolding tragedy.

After witnessing a cavalcade of emergency vehicles speed by his hotel, Back made his way to street level and asked a police officer what was going on. The officer said Jordan Back there had been reports of Facebook photo two explosions at the fin-

Back, a sales rep for CKNW, had met up in Boston with his mom Holly, a former North Vancouver school board trustee.

When reached by The Outlook shortly before 3 p.m. (PST) “I stayed down Monday, Jordan said there because I still the atmosphere was a stark contrast to just had some friends hours before when out there.” thousands of people lined the streets and Jordan Back music filled the air.

“It’s kind of this eerie Boston marathoner silence but you hear these emergency vehicles go by… a police car just went by with its lights on,” he said. “[I’m] really still absorbing it. I don’t think it’s really sunk in. Like I said, to go from feeling this incredible high to what I feel now is quite a contrast and I don’t think it’s fully sunk in.” editor@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/justinbeddall

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The Winnipeg-based Richardson International applied to the federal port authority in October to build 28 new concrete storage silos on its Burrard Inlet site, increasing the terminal’s export capacity from three million tonnes of grain and oilseeds annually to five million tonnes by 2015.

But the application ran into trouble almost immediately as residents demanded compensation for the noise, traffic, pollution and view impacts that the construction and operation of the new eastward wing of 50-metre storage silos would have on their properties.

Richardson repeatedly responded saying it was not obliged to provide any compensation and declined all such requests.

Then in February, City of North Vancouver council made a motion formally opposing the terminal expansion on Port lands, citing what they said was a lack of communication between the Port, the city and its residents.

The government of the Squamish Nation also opposes the expansion on the grounds they did not feel they were adequately consulted throughout the planning process.

In an interview with The Outlook Monday, the Port’s vice-president of corporate social responsibility, Duncan Wilson, urged those against the expansion to look beyond their local concerns to the big-picture economic benefits for the country which he said this and similar Port initiatives would bring.

The Richardson expansion, like the recent Portapproved expansion of coal-export facilities at North Van’s Neptune Bulk Terminals, is one of six construction projects on the North Shore which are part of the federal gov-

ernment’s Asia-Pacific Gateway trade initiative.

“That’s what the Gateway is about; it’s about the economy and it’s about jobs,” Wilson said.

“We need to look at the bigger picture in terms of the jobs and economic benefit to Canada. The North Shore terminals are estimated to generate about 12,000 direct and indirect jobs in B.C., which is about $600 million in wages annually,” he added.

Richardson president and CEO Curt Vossen said in a press release Monday that construction on the new 80,000-metric-tonne grain and oilseed annex at the Low Level Road terminal will begin immediately. The expansion will bring the company closer to meeting global demands for Canadian grain and oilseeds, which have outstripped the company’s export capacity for years, Vossen said.

“This is a significant investment in our business and the biggest investment in the Port of Vancouver in more than 20 years,” he added. “Through this project, we are creating jobs, supporting Port Metro Vancouver’s vision to grow the port and ultimately helping to increase Canadian trade by remaining competitive and ensuring continued access to global markets for Prairie farmers.”

Apart from increased rail traffic and bigger bulk-carrier vessels visiting the Low Level Road terminal by 2015, the Richardson expansion will also bring new hydro-electric power lines to the terminal, the proposed routing of which is just the most recent in a long string of community complaints about the project.

Last month, residents of the Moodyville neighbourhood adjacent to the terminal were shocked to learn that the Port was planning to run high-voltage power lines through the heart of the historical community. Adding insult to injury, they were told there was nothing they could do to stop it.

That touched off a firestorm of public outrage at a North Van city council meeting and ultimately led to a few councillors condoning acts of civil disobedience to block the installation of any new hydro infrastructure in Moodyville.

That installation has since been put on hold as the Port awaits a city staff report on alternative routing options for the power lines. That report, Wilson said, is expected to be released on Monday, April 22. tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com

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Clearly there is a disconnect and the media may have contributed to this malaise by blowing every little incident out of proportion. As in the story of the boy who cried wolf, many voters simply tune out after a while, yet, sadly, when there is a real issue, such as lack of funding for transit, many eligible voters simply don’t see the connection between their vote and government policy.

Instead, they leave the field to special interest groups — business, unions, lobbyists — to

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The truth is that politicians will only be accountable if we hold them accountable. We have a right to toss any of them out if they don’t do what they promised so voters need to pay attention to what politicians say and they need to find out who they are.

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Only makes sense then that one of the awards is called the Golden Heart Award in honour of individuals who make a difference in our community. This year’s gala honouree is Peter R.B. Armstrong, of Rocky Mountaineer fame, who has literally donated millions of dollars to over 200 different charities throughout the years. The special gala dinner was held at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver which was fitting in more than one way because rumour has it Peter used to work there as a doorman years ago. Some even say that’s where he got the idea to start his first tour company. Congrats to Peter and everyone involved.

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1 Greeting everyone at the door with a handshake and a smile, Golden Heart honouree Peter Armstrong and partner Suvina Lal get set to enjoy the evening’s festivities. 2 She is the “Absolute”queen of the spa scene and looks fabulous as a result. West Vancouver’s Wendy Cocchia, centre, chats with assistant Jennifer Trudel, left, and Tradeworks executive director Maninder Dhaliwal. 3 Former political powerhouse “Amazing Grace” McCarthy, seen here with husband Ray, still looks beautiful at age 85. The lights on the Lions Gate Bridge were her idea and are known as Gracie’s Pearls to this day.

4 A former co-recipient of the Golden Heart award on behalf of GlobalBC TV in 2011, North Van’s Brett Manlove, left, is now co-owner of RTown Vancouver. Seen here with wife Brenda, the couple shares conversation with Variety’s Sandra Lowe and

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owever, a spiffy new e-bike does not a bike-share business make. Similar to North Shore car-share success story Car2go, whose recent move into North Vancouver has proven popular among city and district dwellers, a successful bike-share has to be able to track who is using its product and where.

So Russell enlisted the help of ViaCycle, an American bike-share company whose GPS tracking units and sign-out software are the brains of similar pedal-bike systems in Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Atlanta, where ViaCycle began just over a year ago.

ViaCycle co-founder and chief operating officer, Koiji Intlekofer, is today based out of Seattle and didn’t mind making the trip up to meet with CAFCA staff and The Outlook to demo the company’s product.

“On the ground we have about 100 units in four programs and a lot more coming down the pipe,” Intlekofer said of ViaCycle’s growing presence in the U.S. “This year we hope to double that.”

How the melding of Evolution’s e-bike and ViaCycle’s e-brain works is the unit is mounted onto the bike’s rear rattrap rack and secured to the frame.

The brain’s solar panel charges a battery that provides all the power the unit needs for its GPS locator and wireless sign-out system. A heavy steel bolt secures the bike electronically to any standard rack and locks the wheel when the bike is not in use.

Once a user registers through ViaCycle’s software, they can sign out a bike by sending a text message — no smartphone required — or by the mobile app or website. And with that, voila, the bike is theirs.

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t’s a hundred years since electricity’s arrival on the North Shore revolutionized the way people got around with a streetcar system, but it seems that old electric wheel’s still in spin.

Today, just steps from where they plugged in those first trams at the foot of Lonsdale, a new public ride-share partnership between two North Vancouver art institutions hopes to prove bIKE bUZZ - Bikeway founder that such revolutions are cyclical.

Tyler Russell outside CAFCA. Enter Cafe for Contemporary Art owner Tyler Rob Newell photo Russell. You’ve met him in these pages before, but never as the boss of the North Shore Electric Bikeway, a partnership between CAFCA and the Presentation House Gallery to build the country’s first and so far only electric bike-share program.

So fresh is this eco start-up idea, in fact, that when The Outlook caught up with Russell last week, all that the new business had to its decidedly cool name was a licence, a 60-person membership list and zero bikes.

But thanks to an eleventh-hour deal with North Van’s Evolution Bikes to provide a single electric-assist bicycle, that first stumbling block is now safely in the rearview.

The bike itself is an Easy Motion power-assisted pedal cruiser from the Spanishowned BH Bicycle Corporation. It has three speeds of assistance, all controlled from a switch on the left handlebar which lets users set the pace of their ride once they’ve cranked the pedals around and built some momentum.

“Since the hills are so steep here, I bought myself an electric bike and I find it extremely helpful,” says North Vancouver city mayor Darrell Mussatto, lending his full support to the North Shore Bikeway project.

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ecause the ViaCycle system relies on online accounts and a GPS tracking system, it’s fairly inexpensive for small businesses like CAFCA and the Presentation House to operate or to join. Compared to bike-share operations that rely on kiosks and dedicated bike racks, the infrastructure costs of the ViaCycle model are minimal.

That means the North Shore Bikeway requires no dedicated street furniture like kiosks or racks. There aren’t even stations in the traditional sense. Instead, the system relies on what’s called “geo-fencing,” a GPS tool that allows bike-share operators to put a virtual fence around any part of the city they want for a station, and when the GPS locator on the bike enters that fence and is locked, it stays locked and becomes available for the next rider to rent.

What’s novel about geo-fencing is those stations can be as big as a city block or as small as a single bike rack. And, they can be temporary.

“Maybe you want to set one up around the farmer’s market but only once a week,”

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Intlekofer tells The Outlook while standing beside the soon-to-be station outside CAFCA. “You can do that because it literally takes two minutes to set up a station. The operator goes online and says I want this bike rack to be a station and just chooses the perimeter and it’s done; every ViaCycle bike that’s locked up to that location will automatically check itself back in.”

Mayor Mussatto says the use of existing city bike infrastructure for the North Shore Electric Bikeway is “quite innovative” and says that if there exist any bylaws prohibiting such profitable use of city property of which he isn’t aware, he’ll work to overcome them for the benefit of the bike-share program.

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hen the bikeway launches its inaugural demo rides this week, it will consist of only that single e-bike and the two stations at CAFCA and the Presentation House on Chesterfield Avenue. It’s a short route, less than a kilometre, but Russell hopes to bring four more bikes on stream this summer and then let consumer demand take it across the North Shore and, hopefully, across Metro Vancouver.

From now until May 26, wanna-be members or otherwise curious types who bring a bike helmet, some photo identification and a deposit can test drive the country’s first electric bike-share at CAFCA. After that appetite-whetting grace period, bikeway membership will operate on a two-tiered model with pay-as-you-go membership going for $200 per year and all-you-can-ride membership for $500.

For pay-as-you-go riders, the first half-hour on the bike is free, the second half-hour will cost 75 cents and each subsequent half-hour will be $1.50.

But the bikeway isn’t looking only for riders, Russell says.

Because of the low cost of setting up a station — approximately $1,500 to $2,000 depending on the bike and on a number of benefit and advertising packages the bikeway will offer — Russell hopes more local businesses will pile on the bandwagon to host a station, sponsor a bike, or both.

In fact, there’s already been some interest.

Fabio Scaldaferri is the co-founder and CEO of the South Burnaby-based MattressRecycling.ca and he tells The Outlook he plans to get in on the ground floor of the North Shore Ray Dalupang illustration Electric Bikeway’s advertising with the hope that one day he’ll be able to ride the bikeway around his own neighbourhood.

But for now, Russell says the pace of his new venture’s growth will take a cue from the North Shore’s history and, like the old electric streetcar system, grow organically, block by block.

“When they started the B.C. Electric Railway, it went from the waterfront to Third Street; that was all they did at first and then they gradually grew it throughout the community,” Russell says, describing the initial inspiration for the North Shore Electric Bikeway name.

“I wanted this to reference the electrified transportation system that existed on the North Shore many years ago. It’s like everything old is new again.” tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com

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Art exhibit shows extensive training “fantasy” only after she finished.

“The theme of ‘fantasy’ resides throughout most of my interests in novels, media and the internet world as I escape reality and jourlong with 18 other students at ney though a fictional fantasy world,” says Mulgrave School, Debbie Pai has Pai, adding she likes to work on large-scale worked on an art collection that projects because they emphasize her concepts reflects her style, personality and life expebetter. riences.

To illustrate the process of growing up, she Alice in Wonderland and Party Time, two juxtaposes Alice in Wonderland, a white dress statues designed by Pai that are made to be with a big bow in the back, with Party Time, worn, reflect the process of growing up from a sparkly, tight black dress. The garments are child to adult. made of recycled material, including garbage “It’s a time when we want to be both. We’re bags and bubble wrap. stuck in the middle,” she says in the school’s By participating in the IB program, visual gym, the set for the IB Diploma Visual Arts arts teacher Catherine Hallam says her stuexhibition that ran from April 8 to 12.

Often beginning in elementary school, these dents have gained self-awareness, focus and innovation that will follow them no matter 19 students are part of an intensive visual what educational paths they choose. arts program. They’re free to work in many “…While they exhibit as a group, the mediums, including paint, sculpture and phoindividual collections stand as very pertography. sonal marks by very individual artists,” she Unlike others who had a theme in mind before beginning, Pai found her work reflected explains.

Nicholas Durrans, for example, was inspired by different aspects of movement and motion to create a metal wire sculpture of three human forms running to the finish line. Using gold, silver and bronze wire, the figures’ arms and legs depict the competition.

Movement and motion is a very personalized theme, he says, so each person looking at his artwork will have a different reaction.

Even if students don’t pursue art past high school, the skills learned in the visual art program will be useful for many careers, including business, says Hallam.

“Creativity is important for any job.

FANTASy ART - Mulgrave School visual arts It sets you apart,” she notes, admiring student Debbie Pai stands beside projects Alice in Wonderland and Party Time, which reflect the process her students’ artwork hung from the walls of the gym. of growing up. Michaela Garstin photo

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s spring continues to bloom and we bound into sunnier days (or sunnier hours; we are on the West Coast after all), fresh releases from B.C.’s brightest wineries continue making their way into town. A handful of vintage 2012 whites for you this week, a growing season that ended just a few short months ago. The prices listed are winerydirect, expect some mild fluctuation by the time they make it into local wine stores.

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Tinhorn Creek 2012 Gewürztraminer $18.49 | Tinhorn.com

What you want to do after a long day of work is swing by the store and grab a bag or two of Vij’s At Home curries and then zip into a wine store to pick up a bottle of winemaker Sandra Oldfield’s lush-yetperky Gewürztraminer.

The moment you get home, boil up a pot of water for the best boil-in-a-bag dinner around, and ensure that bottle’s nice and cold by plunging it into icy water.

Within no time, you’ll have your feet up and marvel at how those rich and spicy curry flavours are wonderfully enveloped by the wine’s opulence; full of lychee, lemonade and ginger! kurtiskolt.com

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Sandhill 2012 Sauvignon Blanc | $18.99 | SandhillWines.ca

Full disclosure: If I were to list my favourite wine grapes grown in the Okanagan, I seriously doubt Sauvignon Blanc would crack the top ten.

It’s not that I haven’t had a few enjoyable examples of it; just more that I don’t see anything unique or very interesting that our local terroir brings to its table.

This version is indicative of some of the better local ones I’ve had, though; a textbook example of the grape, with grapefruit, lime, a light herbaceous note and some very lofty acidity.

I asked Sandhill winemaker Howard Soon why he bothers with the variety, when there’s so much more Okanagan suitability for Gamay, Riesling, Chardonnay, Syrah and so on.

He replied that it’s simply because the grape’s an ideal match for the fish and seafood from our waters, especially the halibut season we’re in the heart of right now. He’s totally right. Get to it.

Van Westen 2012 Viognier | $24.90 | VanWestenVineyards.com

As a third-generation Naramata farmer, part of winemaker Rob Van Westen’s soul comes from the very land where these Viognier grapes are grown and for many years he’s had an uncanny way of making them sing!

The freshest of orange blossoms, a nuance of vanilla and a lashing of fireweed honey are all woven together intricately across fresh-squeezed Mandarin oranges. Go to your local cheesemonger and feel free to go nuts with pairings for this one.

Fort Berens 2012 Riesling | $17.95 | FortBerens.ca

I had a whirl of this brilliant wine out of Lillooet (yes, Lillooet) the moment my deadline for this column hit, and I’m willing to receive my editor’s wrath in order to sneak it in here!

A tidal wave of peaches with lime leaf and marmalade, this pristine, thirst-quenching Riesling will make you wonder why they’re the only winery in the region.

As always, if you’re having trouble tracking down any wines I write about, just give me a holler via KurtisKolt.com or @KurtisKolt on Twitter!

Rosemary Rocksalt opens on Lonsdale, Fraîche gets new executive chef Here’s some rock-solid advice for first-timers: Try the Rosemary Rocksalt Bagel first.

So far, it’s the most popular flavour with customers and it also happens to be the namesake of mid-Lonsdale’s newest eatery.

Rosemary Rocksalt opened at 1669 Lonsdale earlier this month, bringing Montreal-style bagels and sandwiches to the neighbourhood.

The bagels are baked fresh all day in a 10,000-pound stone-hearth flame oven. And the flavours here have some serious bagel cred. One of the shop’s co-founders, Parise Siegel, is the daughter of Joel Siegel, whose Siegel’s Bagels in Vancouver has been a foodie favourite for more than two decades. Parise spent 18 years in the family biz before launching Rocksalt with partner Ken Sim, the co-founder of Nurse Next Door.

I tried the Montreal Smoked Meat on a Rosemary Rocksalt bagel ($9) and I haven’t had a smoked meat sandwich as delicious and juicy as that since I lived in Montreal.

Along with offering up some amazing bagels, the new Lonsdale shop is also already proving that it’s also a good community citizen.

All proceeds from the shop’s grand opening were donated to the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation.

For more go to rosemaryrocksalt.com —Justin Beddall

Fraîche look in the kitchen

There will be a new cook in the kitchen at Fraîche Restaurant starting April 24. That’s when executive chef Carol Chow (right) joins the awardwinning West Vancouver restaurant.

Most recently, Chow cooked in London and Shanghai as both a private chef and consulting chef. Before that, she worked as an executive chef at Gusto di Quattro, Teahouse in Stanley Park, Hart House and the old Beachside Café.

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West Van summer camp showcases relationship with Japan Students will learn about Japanese culture and basic language skills during this enrichment program MICHAELA GARSTIN S tA f f R E p o Rt E R

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new summer camp in West Vancouver focusing on Japanese language and culture draws on a long legacy of cultural sharing.

The West Van school district’s 20-year relationship with Japan has seen teachers and students from both countries travel internationally to exchange knowledge.

This is the first time, however, that students in Grades 5 to 10 will learn about Japanese culture and basic language skills during the summer.

“There are little intricacies that are part of the culture,” said Jordan Al-Assadi, a teacher at Sentinel secondary who taught in Japan for a year. “For example, Japanese people don’t shake hands as much. Instead they bow.”

Ms. Haruko Morimoto, a teacher from Tokyo, will show the students how to make origami, simple Japanese dishes and how to play traditional games. They will also have exposure to the Japanese language, learning basic grammar and greetings.

“They’ll be learning what makes Japanese people Japanese,” said Al-Assadi, adding the students come away from the camp knowing more about both traditional and pop Japanese culture.

To learn more about West Van’s education relationship with Japan, Supt. Chris Kennedy visited Mejiro Kenishin high school in Tokyo.

The school sends a large group of students to West Van each year to study English and lean more about Canadian culture. In return, teachers and students in West Van travel to Japan to study.

“Right now we have over 500 students annually in international education, but partnership with Japan was the first [relationship],” said Kennedy.

The program, he added, now focuses on cultural sharing in addition to international education.

While the students will learn basic language skills, reading and writing are too complex to tackle during the summer camp.

But Japanese grammar is relatively easy, he added, so many students pick it up fast.

Having other languages besides English is very useful in the future, said Al-Assadi, who also speaks French, Arabic and a bit of Japanese he picked up while teaching in Tokyo. Back in West Van, students can continue learning Japanese in high school.

“It will open their eyes to a different world,” he said. “Often living in West Van or North Van, we can think everything is done our way.

But there is a lot more out there to learn.”

Japanese Culture & Creativity is part of West Van’s summer enrichment programs. It runs July 22 to 26 and July 29 to Aug. 2. Visit sd45.bc.ca for more information. mgarstin@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/MichaelaGarstin

NEw do - Julie Dunsterville, North Van’s Kin’s Green Fighter, deserves a bit of TLC for keeping on track in the 13-week health challenge. Watch for her sporting the new hairstyle, exercising at a North Vancouver rec centre or out walking her dog.

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Diagnosed with colon cancer in 2009, Julie Dunsterville is on a mission to exercise and eat nutritious food every day.

She was only 39 years old when cancer struck, but is now healthy and ready to start the next phase of her life with Kin’s 13-week challenge.

After speaking to a woman with breast and bone cancer, Dunsterville realized her story can help others.

“She said how inspired she felt after hearing my journey and I felt very touched,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “That is what this challenge is about — making brief but impactful connections.”

Go to northshoreoutlook.com and click on “Contests” in the upper right corner to follow Dunsterville and the other 12 Green Fighters from throughout B.C. Visit kinsfarmmarket.com for more information about the challenge.

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EARTH DAY EVENT Saturday, April 20 from 10am - 2pm at Heywood Park (Marine Drive & Mackay) Join the City of North Vancouver, Evergreen and other community groups for an Earth Day celebration. Help remove invasive plants and plant local species in the park. Tools and light refreshments provided. Great prizes to win and fun for the whole family! Details at www.cnv.org/EarthDay.

NATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY WEEK EVENT Monday, May 6 from 11:30am - 1:30pm at Shipbuilders' Square National Health and Safety Week promotes the importance of preventing injury and illness in the workplace and at home. This event kicks off with a dramatic sequence of marine rescues and demos. More than 20 exhibits will offer information, personal bio-metric testing, giveaways and draws. Keynote speaker Walter Gretzky along with Paralympian Josh Dueck will speak and meet with the public. Lunch generously provided by White Spot’s Food Truck. Details at www.cnv.org.

CITYSHAPING EVENT: COMMUNITY DIRECTIONS Thursday, May 2 from 1pm - 9pm Presentation times: 4pm and 7pm North Vancouver City Hall Atrium (Please note change in date.)

This signature community event and Open House will bring together the various land use and policy considerations that may be included in an updated Official Community Plan. Input received to date has contributed to the development of a series of land use scenarios which will be presented for further input and discussion along with other policy elements.

This event is structured as a combination of formal presentations and opportunities for informal discussion, including drop-ins.

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RSVP to CityShaping@cnv.org or 604-990-4240. More information at www.cnv.org/CityShaping.

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» EARTH DAY

North Van man celebrates 7 years of solar energy independence

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ou can’t miss Doug Horn’s house, especially when the sun is out.

Nestled in a North Vancouver neighbourhood where sunny days are few and far between, when the beams do make it through, Horn’s rooftop lights up and goes to work.

For seven years the East 11th Street homeowner has more than met his household hydro needs with the power-producing technology of rooftop solar panels which crank out more than a kilowatt of electrical current when the sun is shining.

In fact, Horn hasn’t seen a hydro bill in years. Instead, he gets rebates on the energy that his battery-free, grid-tied system generates. On average, his panels account for 110 per cent of his electricity needs and the extra 10 per cent is sold right back to the power corp.

A self-professed “numbers guy” and “energy geek,” Horn cautions, however, that getting into the private solar energy game to turn a profit is a fool’s errand.

“When I started looking into it, I saw that these things are very expensive and are never going to pay for themselves,” Horn tells The Outlook inside his power-producing North Van home.

In fact, at about $14,000 for the panels, Horn estimates it would take a century of power savings to see a return on his investment.

“One of my deciding factors was whether or not BC Hydro was going to credit me anything for the power I produced,” he says. “Not that it really made a difference, but it was kind of like the tipping [point].”

So when the hydro corp went live with its net-metering program in March 2004 and allowed private power producers to sell into the grid, Horn went all in.

A couple phone calls to BC Hydro and a full system certification later and Horn was, as the cliché goes, making hay while the sun shines. That’s to say that today when the sun shines on his home, Horn’s grid-tied system turns back the clock on his hydro meter as the excess energy from his home is fed into the neighbourhood. When the sun goes down, Horn’s meter spins the same costly way as yours and mine since his home requires a power inflow.

“I was the first person in the province who was generating more electricity than I used,” Horn says, proudly.

In fact, Horn’s early adoption of the program may have caught the accounts department at the power authority off guard as he says he didn’t see a regular bill or even a costcredit statement from Hydro for two years.

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“I think it just wasn’t something they had to deal with before,” he muses.

And while rooftop solar panels may seem like a smart or sexy solution to some, Horn stresses that the heart of his cost-savings system isn’t on his roof, it’s in his kitchen and his basement.

Replacing old power-sucking appliances like refrigerators, furnaces and dishwashers with newer energy-efficient models is the main savings-driver in Horn’s energy arsenal, and the move more than paid for itself in time.

“Just by doing that, I got my usage down from 15 kilowatt-hours to three kilowatt hours per day,” he says. And with a one-kilowatt system in an area that averages, by his estimate, about 3.7 hours of sunshine per day, upgrading his appliances single-handedly took his hydro bill out of the red and into the black.

“If you just go and put solar panels on your roof without going energy efficient, it’s like putting a Band-Aid on a giant leak,” he says.

“But people do it because it’s easy and you don’t have to change your habits. But I’m really about helping people understand where their energy goes and what makes sense for them.” tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/toddcoyne

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Proposal would bring car racing back to Campbell Valley While some parkgoers may be unhappy, many car racing enthusiasts are hoping Langley Speedway will reopen JEFF NAGEL BlaCk PrEss

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Metro Vancouver’s environment and parks committee voted to refer the controversial proposal to staff to report back on feasibility and what process might be used if Metro’s board decides to advance it to public consultation.

The idea is expected to face heavy opposition from horse riders who frequent the park, as well as other users and residential neighbours.

Four Metro directors voted against the motion, citing concerns racing wouldn’t be compatible with quiet nature strolls and equestrian riding.

Surrey Coun. Barbara Steele said noise from the track would be a big issue, adding she’s also concerned the Langley Speedway Historical Society hasn’t adequately discussed its proposal with neighbours or other park users.

But the majority agreed Metro should not dismiss out of hand the idea of resurrecting the speedway, which has been closed since 1984.

“In this economy, we have to look at what the people want to do,” said Abbotsford Mayor Bruce Banman, adding track proponents have taken a respectful approach and not tried to “stack the deck” with support.

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She said most trails in Campbell Valley go nowhere near the racetrack area, which occupies less than two per cent of the park’s 1,322 acres.

Speedway society president Murray Jones said he’s pleased Metro will at least consider the idea.

He said the the racing surface is still usable and a demonstration race could be held there almost immediately, using basic fencing and portable concessions, while more work would be needed to set up proper grandstands.

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Fat cat inspires weight-loss challenge Nemo came to the West Vancouver SPCA dangerously overweight MICHAELA GARSTIN S tA f f R E p o Rt E R

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hefty cat at the West Vancouver SPCA is too fat for his own good.

Nemo, a friendly six-year-old feline, needs to quickly drop half his body weight.

Weighing in at unhealthy 20 pounds, he was abandoned at the shelter last month. The “Finding Nemo’s Waistline” social media campaign launched soon after in an effort to highlight the risks of pet obesity while tracking Nemo’s weight loss.

“He was in a carrier too small for him to stand up or turn around in,” says Dragana Hajdukovic, manager for the West Van shelter. “Nemo was stone cold to the touch and covered in his own urine.”

After being cleaned up and treated for a broken tooth and fleas, the chunky cat was ready to start shedding the pounds.

He has already lost a few on his new diet regimen and by playing with shelter staff and volunteers.

Nemo is up for adoption but only to someone who is committed to helping him reach a healthy weight. SPCA staff hope he will live longer now that his chances of having diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and chronic pain are decreasing.

To take part in the weight-loss pledge, Hajdukovic recommends: -Always following the feeding instructions on the cat food label -Providing opportunities to exercise with toys and climbing posts -Not buying unhealthy treats. Instead use some of the regular-portioned kibble as “treats” throughout the day Although obesity is often caused by owners overfeeding their pets, she adds, it’s best to check with a vet first to make sure the weight problem isn’t caused by another issue.

To follow Nemo’s journey and pledge to keep your pet healthy, search West Vancouver SPCA on Facebook.

WEIGHT WATcHER - SPCA manager Dragana Hajdukovic weighs Nemo at the West Vancouver branch. Rob Newell photo

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» ARTS

pick up a map More than 250 artists are on the third annual North Shore MICHAELA GARSTIN S tA f f R E p o Rt E R

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aps for the third annual North Shore Art Crawl are now available for pickup.

In total, around 250 artists are part of the tour, which extends across the North Shore from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove on April 20 and 21. Many of these artists share a studio, creating 64 unique stops on the route.

A good way to start the crawl, recommends artist and coordinator Norman Vipond, is to begin in your neighbourhood or choose an artist of particular interest.

Visiting every studio can be done buSy weekeNd - North Shore Art Crawl over the weekend, Vipond adds, but coordinators Sandrine Pelissier and Norm Vipond most people prefer a somewhat slower pace. prepare for the third annual tour on April 20 and 21 Michaela Garstin photo “We have a very broad range of artists this year,” says coordinator Sandrine Pelissier, an artist at 195 Visit nsartcrawl.ca for a list of locations, Studios in North Vancouver. Pottery, jewelry, including Delany’s Coffee Houses on the ceramics, woodwork and even “wearable art” North Shore are all on this list.

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Dix boarded his campaign bus Clark began with the dramatic Tuesday for a series of stops claim that the May 14 vote is in Vancouver and Burnaby. “a choice that will do nothing Cummins and B.C. Green Party less than define our province for leader Jane Sterk are also 013 travanother generation,” and quickly 013 eling the province as2they pre2 went on the attack against NDP pare for a leaders’ radio debate leader Adrian Dix. on April 26 and a TV debate “I can’t remember a campaign April 29. where the choices are as stark as Dix was forced on the defensive after the this one, where we have a chance to grow gov- B.C. Liberals publicized offensive comments ernment, grow taxes, kill the opportunity for made by the NDP’s Kelowna-Mission candiliquefied natural gas exports, or we have the date on a local internet site four years ago. chance to shrink government, grow the econ13Dix issued a brief statement Tuesday 2013 omy, lower taxes and pay off the debt for our 20announcing Dayleen van Ryswyk has kids,” Clark told reporters gathered outside resigned and the party will nominate a new Government House in Victoria. candidate. Van Ryswyk’s remarks about The NDP has supported LNG exports, but aboriginal and French-Canadian people were wants to extend B.C.’s carbon tax to natural “unacceptable,” Dix said. gas drilling emissions that would add up to Check northshoreoutlook.com for regular $100 million more a year. Clark has suggested B.C. election coverage.

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The NSWC first opened its doors in 1958, The Humphry family may have been the first competing for members with the Capilano to move to the North Shore to take advantage of Winter Club which had opened earlier with the the skating opportunities at the NSWC but they first artificial ice on the North Shore and had certainly weren’t the only ones. The McKilligans admirably hosted – with a great deal of muchdidn’t just move to North Van, they moved deserved fanfare – the highly successful 1960 into a house right across Canadian figure skating chamRd the street from the NSWC. pionships. n so Lar John and Betty captured The NSWC had only curlmedals at the Canadians in ing ice then but, in order to try 16th St W senior pairs, a third in 1966 to skate circles around their and firsts in 1968 and ’69, Capilano competition, they Mar the latter after switching to needed to feature a strong figine Dr Hollyburn to accommodate ure skating program. coaching. Patrick copped So the club came up with bronze and gold in novice sinAustrian Edy Rada, their first lencorben@yahoo.ca 3rd St W gles and gold in junior singles head figure Keith Rd W CITYskating OF coach in for the NSWC from 1966-68.

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R A I L so it was that figure skating first brought 3rd And St W 1967 and ’69 and firsts in1968 and 1970-73. She was Canada’s only medal winner in any sport, fame to the NSWC. Skating families signed a silver, in the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics up and soon the club’s name was on the list of where she was the Canadian flag bearer in the medal winners at Canadian championships. opening ceremonies. She was also second in the Jay Humphry was the first. Living in 1972 worlds and was crowned with gold at the Vancouver when he began skating at 10, he 1973 world championships. remembers going to the NSWC for lessons Linda Brauckmann, who learned to skate in about age 12. That would make it 1960. Shortly Vancouver, began her coaching career in the afterwards, the family picked up and moved to Eastern U.S., but came back to take a position 1210 East 14th St., just a jump sequence and a at the NSWC in 1962 and was still coaching flying camel spin down Mountain Highway to despite health issues almost until she died in the NSWC. January Humphry became the first NSWC Canadian Lonsdale 2010. Linda and her most accomQuay protégé, Karen Magnussen, are both plished champion when he captured the 1963 junior now in the BC Sports and Skate Canada halls men’s title at 14. He was third at the senior of fame. level in 1964, ’65 and ’66, second in ’67 and the Canadian medallists from the NSWC in the champion in 1968 and ’69. He was enticed to 1970s were Marian Murray, Glen Moore, Carol move to train at the Toronto Cricket, Skating Kreuzinger, Orin Cox, Kevin Cottam, Barb and Curling Club for nine months a year when Terpenning, Patricia Woods, Gigi Boyd, he was 15 but he continued to call the NSWC his home and represented it in competition continued, PAGE 21 until the Ontario club insisted he put its name Ham

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Magnussen, after returning from Boston where she taught skating, joined Brauckmann as a coach and was at the NSWC from 1987 to 2011.

In the 1980s Canadian medallists included Tracy Wilson, Neil Giroday, Rosemarie Sakic, Michelle Resch, Tammy and Dion Beleznay, Colin Epp, Michelle McDonald, Lynda and John Ivanich, Linda Florkevich, Shannon Allison, Tanya Bingert, Norm Proft, Neil Paterson, Jason Mongrain, Jennifer White, Bob and Katherine Kates, Jodi Barnes and Rob Williams.

Dominating would be a word to describe the impact NSWC skaters had on Canadian figure skating. Of all the medallists, going back to the 1960s, close to half of them took home a medal more than once.

By the 1990s the torch had been passed to Michael Steinbach, Lisa Daly, Tammy Wagner and Keyla Ohs. Not all these noteworthy NSWC skaters were coached by the irrepressible Brauckmann of course. There were other coaches too. But Ohs was one of hers. Keyla was not only first in the Canadian junior singles in 1993 and second in seniors in 1998, but she actually beat out the McKilligans’ record for moving to North Van closest to the NSWC. She and her mom moved into the apartment block immediately next door to the club.

Canadian medal winners in the 2000s featured the likes of Eriq Lyons, Kathryn Kang and Rika Inoda. North Van’s Firus brothers, Liam and Shane, got their start at the NSWC. Liam was Canadian junior singles champion in 2010 and fourth in senior in 2013.

North Van-born Kevin Reynolds (second in Canadian seniors in 2012 and 2013 and fifth in the worlds last month) wanted to be a hockey player and Magnussen helped him with his skating for that and with figure skating at about the time he was making a decision on which to pursue.

Canadian 2013 medallists (Jeremy Ten, Eric Liu, Adonis Wong, Kelsey Wong, Belvina Mao) and other national entrants are listed as representing the NSWC but they train with the Burnaby-based BC Centre of Excellence which is not a member of Skate Canada. For competition, skaters must be affiliated with a Skate Canada-member club so BCCOE coach Joanne McLeod chose the NSWC at a cost of something less than $100 per skater. Whether even that will happen in the future is questionable.

Last week NSWC General Manager David Long said that he wouldn’t say that figure skating has been dropped totally and is excited about the recent addition of Victor Kraatz (2003 world ice dance champion) to the club’s coaching staff.

In an engaging chat on the weekend, Kraatz expressed his enjoyment with the group and private lessons he’s been doing at the NSWC although they are all geared to improvement in skating for hockey players. He is not doing any figure skating.

The club’s lengthy strategic plan released in February 2012, following research and suggestions by the McMahon Group, a St. Louis-based private club consulting firm, barely mentions figure skating.

Last fall, figure skating pictures were removed from display at the club, including the impressive one of Karen Magnussen – painted in 1973 by noted North Van artist Robert Banks – which hung prominently on the wall of the upper stairway landing for years.

For now, the figure skating era at the NSWC is apparently over.

This is episode 478 from Len Corben’s treasure chest of stories – the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history.

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CALLING ALL KIDS AGED 12 & UNDER!

Your Mom could be on our front page!

Draw a picture of your mom and upload it to our contest website.

We will ask our readers to vote for their favourite. Based on the top number of votes, we will choose two winners – one from North Vancouver and one from West Vancouver.

To upload your entry visit www.northshoreoutlook.com/contest.

The winning entries will be featured on the front page of our May 9th editions – just in time for Mother’s Day! Entry deadline: Noon on Friday, April 19

Voting starts April 20th !

If you prefer, you can mail, drop off, or email your entries to: Mom’s Day Contest, c/o Outlook, #104-980 West 1st Street, North Van. V7P 3N4 email: contests@northshoreoutlook.com

Send in your drawings now and be sure to include your name, age, contact phone number & whether you live in North or West Vancouver!

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