Outlook North Vancouver, October 17, 2013

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Out of Sight ‘Invisible homelessness’ is a growing concern on the North Shore and now includes more families and seniors than ever before » 10

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Norgate sewage plant odour fears ‘flushed’ Odour containment, a front-of-mind concern for Norgate residents, was discussed during a public meeting for a new Lions Gate sewage plant MARIA SPITALE-LEISK S tA f f R e p o Rt e R

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orgate residents have been offered $30 million worth of assurance — in the form of a twostage odour control system — that no stench will escape from a new Lions Gate sewage treatment plant and permeate their community.

But how that odour containment infrastructure will be paid for, along with the rest of the estimated $500to $700-million plant replacement project, remains to be seen.

Metro Vancouver hosted their last major public information meeting — on Thursday evening at Norgate elementary — before staff finalizes the preferred conceptual design for the new sewage plant.

The regional body’s utilities committee chair, North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto, made some opening remarks at the meeting.

“As many of you know the time has come for us to replace our Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant, following more than 50 years of service,” Mussatto told the assembled group comprised mainly of North Shore residents and Metro staff.

“It’s hard to imagine but before that we just dumped it right into the chuck. So it was a remarkable improvement then, and we now have to take another giant leap forward.”

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An artist’s rendering shows a conceptual design for the planned Lions Gate sewage treatment plant at West First Street and Pemberton Avenue.

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located in an industrial zone at West First Street and Pemberton Avenue — two kilometres east of the old one.

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Food and beverage will bring people to the Lonsdale waterfront: Colliers International

The global commercial real estate firm, retained by the City of North Van to conduct a waterfront retail study, says more restaurants are key to the prosperity of the area MARIA SPITALE-LEISK S tA f f R e p o Rt e R

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estaurants — and even more restaurants — are what will bring the people to the Lower Lonsdale waterfront, says a seasoned commercial real estate firm.

Last summer City of North Vancouver council set the wheels in motion to reinvent the waterfront as a destination for North Shore residents and visitors alike. Colliers International, a global commercial real estate firm, was hired to develop a Central Waterfront Retail Strategy — and to market and manage future retail leases on the site.

Using market-supported targets, Colliers looked at potential uses for

the decommissioned Historic Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) Railway station and the Cates Tugs building at the foot of Lonsdale, and Lots 3, 4 and 5 at the adjacent Shipbuilders’ Square.

Among the firm’s findings, which were presented to council on Oct. 7, is “a significant opportunity” for 15,000 to 19,000 square feet of additional food and beverage space in the area.

“Patio space is going to be critical, especially to activate that foot of Lonsdale there. You really can not underestimate the importance of patios,” said David Bell, senior associate, planning and retail consulting, Colliers International.

Colliers is recommending some food and beverage component be incorporated into almost all of the current buildings, including a bistro-style wine bar in the Presentation House Galley — proposed for the Cates Tugs building — and a destination restaurant and casual grab-and-go food counter in the Coppersmith Shop (Lot 3).

At the same time, Bell stressed the strategy is not focused on maximizing building area. continued, PAGE 19

oN ThE WATErfroNT - The City of North Vancouver is looking at leasing the Pipe Shop and Coppersmith Shop (red roofed buildings on the right) in the near term while continuing to finalize waterfront plans for the foot of Lonsdale.

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Sustainable City Dialogues: Climate Change Adaptation 101 Thursday, October 17 from 7pm - 8:30pm, City Hall Council Chamber Join a diverse panel of experts for a discussion about how climate change is affecting our community. Learn what the City is doing to adapt, what's being done across Canada and around the world to respond to climate change and how you can make a difference.

Seating is limited. Pre-registration for this free event is recommended by emailing register@cnv.org. More information at www.cnv.org/Dialogues

Open House: Rezoning Mid-Block Area Lots Tuesday, October 22 from 4:30pm - 7pm North Vancouver City Hall Atrium, 141 West 14th Street The City is considering rezoning the current 'single-family' RS-1 Zoned properties to the 'duplex' RT-1 Zone so that the zoning designation for these properties is aligned with the permitted land use in the City's Official Community Plan. This would enable property owners to potentially redevelop their lots in the future without going through a rezoning process.

The area includes lots fronting the north side of East Keith Road to the south side of East 13th Street between St. Andrew's and Ridgeway. Details at www.cnv.org/MidBlockAreaRezoning

Low Level Road Project Update The Low Level Road Project elevates and realigns the existing Low Level Road to the north, addresses slope stability, improves road safety and supports completion of the North Shore Spirit Trail. Construction is now 25% complete. Stay up to date on construction activities, traffic pattern changes and general project updates at www.porttalk.ca/LowLevelRoad

Table Matters: An Evening of Dialogue and Dinner Thursday, October 24, 5:15pm-9pm Take part in a lively evening of food, music and conversation in celebration of the new North Shore Food Charter. The Charter is the result of feedback gathered from the local community and represents the community’s values and principles about food. Register for this free event at tablematters2013.eventbrite.ca

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West Van singer hits a high note at Canucks game recite both in her sleep, many guest anthem singers have lost the words at sporting events.

Mostly, though, she was focused on making her friends, family and the fans who voted for her proud. manda Wood, a diehard Canucks fan, Wood had earned the opportunity to sing had some pre-game jitters the anthems at the before the Oct. 8 game at Canucks-Devils game by Rogers Arena — but it had nothentering the “Rock the ing to do with how her hometown Rog” singing contest put hockey team would do against on by the Canucks. the visiting New Jersey Devils.

First, she had to subWood was about to sing the mit a video of herself Canadian and American national singing both the national anthems prior to puck drop in anthems accapella. Wood, editor@northshoreoutlook.com front of a sell-out crowd of nearly who made her video in 19,000. the parking garage of her Wearing four-inch heels and West Vancouver apartment decked out in a standing in a puddle of melted ice in the blue Canucks T-shirt, says her approach to Zamboni entrance, the West Vancouver singer singing the anthems wasn’t all about showhad a few things on her mind as the arena casing her own vocal talents, but rather leadlights dimmed — namely, not tripping as she ing the crowd to sing along with her. “Join me walked out on the green-blue-and-white roll of carpet and trying not to forget the lyrics to continued, PAGE 16 either national anthem. Although she could

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Lower Lonsdale Business Improvement Area sought If approved, business or property owners would pay a special tax to fund projects for the betterment of the area MARIA SPITALE-LEISK S tA f f R e P o Rt e R

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here are renewed efforts to establish the North Shore’s first Business Improvement Area (BIA) in Lower Lonsdale — where stakeholders collectively fund community enhancement projects by paying a special tax.

During a previous campaign, in 2010, by the Lower Lonsdale Business Association (LLBA), 49 per cent of Lower Lonsdale property owners or tenants opposed the establishment of a BIA. If one-third of businesses vote against the proposal the BIA application process is terminated.

From that experience, the LLBA learned most of the BIA opposition came from light industrial businesses in a concentrated area north of East Esplanade Avenue at St. Georges Avenue.

That area will likely not be included in a geographical boundary for this latest Lower

Lonsdale BIA bid, which started in 2012. The LLBA was given $120,000 in grant money from the City of North Vancouver — in two installments — for administrative support to assist the volunteer-run organization with their campaign.

The timing is right, LLBA executive director Stephanie Clarke told The Outlook.

LLBA board members are currently working with renowned destination marketing expert Roger Brooks who has been tasked by the City of North Vancouver to help reinvent the Lower Menchie’s franchise owner Lonsdale waterfront.

Terry Shein is on board with “A new BIA would the Business Improvement Area have the added benefit proposal for Lower Lonsdale. of [Brooks’] report recMaria Spitale-Leisk photo ommendations for the rebranding of Lower Lonsdale and development strategy for the waterfront area,” said Clarke.

There are approximately 69 BIAs in B.C. — including 22 in Vancouver — each with its

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own distinct branding. These nonprofits are run by an elected mix of business people in the designated area who advocate on behalf of the entire BIA member base for area improvements ranging from beautification projects to bylaw changes.

“Commercial districts without a BIA are like a shopping mall without any management or identity,” said Clarke.

Once the required level of support from local businesses for a BIA is achieved, a city bylaw is created. Annual BIA budgets are funded through a special commercial property tax, which is collected by the city. Clarke said that fee, on average, is comparable to the cost of a small advertisement in a local newspaper.

Menchie’s franchise owner Terry Shein is on board with the BIA proposal. continued, PAGE 24

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Out of sight ‘Invisible homelessness’ is a growing concern on the North Shore and now includes more families and seniors than ever before

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iving out of a truck was far from the life Henry and his wife* predicted.

Just a few months before Henry was diagnosed with cancer they had a “good life” and a warm, comfortable home in North Van. But medication costs quickly topped $800 a month and, unable to work, the couple could no longer afford rent.

Entering Henry’s second batch of chemo, their lives quickly spiraled out of control.

He could no longer work and his wife, Janet, had the fulltime job of providing care.

To make matters worse, the couple says they were refused income assistance because they were both self-employed and couldn’t prove they weren’t working.

The only option: To pack their truck with some clothes and belongings and sleep on the side of the road.

Both seniors, the impact of losing their apartment hit hard and being homeless came at the worst possible time; Henry was diagnosed with stage-four cancer.

The 80 per cent you don’t see “Invisible homelessness,” like the experience of Henry and his wife, is a rising problem on the North Shore.

These people aren’t the ones curled up in sleeping bags outside doorways or in make-shift shelters under bridges. Instead they make up the 80 per cent of homeless people who live out of their cars or RVs, in temporary shelters, church basements or are even perpetually coach-surfing.

This rapid increase of invisible homelessness is widespread even in seemingly affluent communities like North and West Van. Take the trail of RVs on the road along MacKay Creek to the west of Capilano Mall, for example. Illegally parked with their curtains tightly shut, men and women call many of these their full-time homes, a step above being exposed to the elements like those who live at a camp in the greenbelt just feet away.

“We have a picture in our mind of people that are sleeping in a tarp [for example] on the Downtown Eastside, that really visible base. That’s a really important issue and those folks need a hand

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but they are only 20 per cent of the people who are experiencing homelessness,” says Deb Bryant, co-chair of Greater Vancouver’s regional steering committee on homelessness.

The other 80 per cent are the ones we don’t usually see. Like Henry and his wife, they can be mistaken for a well-off couple having a snack in their truck.

In 2011, 122 homeless people were counted on the North Shore by hundreds of volunteers who scoured emergency shelters, safe houses, parks and other locations throughout Metro Vancouver over two days in March.

Of these, around half (67) were in shelters while the others were unsheltered.

On the North Shore, these rates are up 160 per cent from 2002 to 2011.

The situation, however, is likely worse. Outreach workers insist the actual number of homeless people is nearing 300.

But, as David Newberry, community liaison for North Van’s Lookout Shelter says, invisible homelessness is impossible to track.

“A big problem that North Vancouver is facing right now are people who are staying in illegally parked RVs,” Newberry gives as an example, adding that while the convoys are most notably parked in certain areas of North Van, such as along MacKay Road, they are actually in areas throughout the North Shore.

And the problem hits close to home.

“For the most part,” he says, “it’s people from the North Shore who are having trouble keeping up with the cost of living on the North Shore.”

While the number of homeless people has remained steady in Metro Vancouver, the problem has shifted from visible to invisible. There was a 52 per cent decrease in people living on the streets from 2008 and 2011, but at the same time the number of people living in their cars, coach-surfing or at other temporary shelters increased 74 per cent.

“They live month-to-month in unstable and even unsafe housing, and always with the fear of ending up on the streets,” says Bryant.

Oct. 13 to 19 marks the eighth annual Homelessness Action Week across the Lower Mainland, which this year is focusing on invisible homelessness. On the North Shore, the week began with Homeless Connect Day, which linked people in need with local services. More events are planned, including a free meal for moms in need and their kids on Oct. 17.

(For a full list visit northshorehomelessness.org.)

Priorities conflict

After four months of struggling to get by, a North Van RCMP officer came across Henry and his wife living in their truck and sought help.

“We had a good life. We were living well,” says Henry, his hair gone from chemotherapy, in a video produced by United Way Lower Mainland.

“Cancer hit it, and everything went out the window [within] three months… We lost almost everything.”

The couple now has a temporary home in North Van through Hollyburn Family Services Society until Henry’s surgeries are finished and his health improves.

Cases of invisible homelessness like this are increasing on the North Shore, with seniors, youth and aboriginal people over-represented in general. “…Homelessness continues to increase as more people each year slip into poverty and the evidence is kind of grim,” Don Peters, with the North Shore Homelessness Task Force, told City of North Vancouver council earlier this month.

Lineups for food at the Salvation Army and the Harvest Project are getting longer, Peters warned.

“Shelters are full and it’s not winter yet,” he added, evidently concerned.

Finding money for programs and low-cost housing is a main problem.

With many projects pulling for funding, the government needs to separate “conveniences” from “actual problems,” Coun. Craig Keating said at the meeting.

“The province is considering $140 million for a flyover to connect Keith Road to Mount Seymour Parkway,” he gives as an example. “I cannot think of a more useless enterprise in my life. And that is an inconvenience, for God’s sake.

“In fact, $140 million on the North Shore in terms of housing would go a hell of a lot farther to deal with [something] that is actually a problem.”

It’s the federal and provincial governments — not local municipalities — that should be taking a more active roll in providing low-barrier housing, said Mayor Darrell Mussatto, “For me, if it were a choice between recreation for our residents and housing for our residents, I know which one I would choose,” he added, referring to funding new rec centres and opting for housing.

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The number of North Shore residents living on the brink of homelessness is increasing, and includes more families than before and around 3,000 seniors.

“You’re low-income and something can happen such as your pet is ill, you have to take new medications that aren’t covered… We have seniors that have money stolen from their account,” says Leya Eguchi, coordinator for North Shore-based Hollyburn Family Services.

“On the North Shore, we’re seeing a lot of people in their first-time housing crisis, where they’ve just got evicted and don’t know what to do.”

This speaks exactly to Henry and his wife after their comfortable life was swept away when cancer hit.

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The Great Pumpkin Patch Party this Saturday (oct. 19), the Edible Garden project is hosting a harvest season celebration at Loutet farm. this family-friendly event features a pumpkin patch where kids can select their own pumpkins (from $3-$10), farm tours, kids’ entertainment (Gogo Bonkers at 11 a.m.), backyard chickens, pumpkin carving demos — and more. fresh produce will also be on sale from 10 a.m .to noon.

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North Van painter brushed off at Grand Canyon The U.S. government shutdown stopped tourists from visiting hundreds of national attractions MICHAELA GARSTIN S tA f f R E p o Rt E R

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t was the worst time for Lorn Curry to visit the Grand Canyon.

On a trip to snap photos of the parched Southwest desert, the North Van artist was stopped in his tracks when the U.S. government went into partial shutdown after Congress failed to pass a new budget.

All 401 national parks and attractions closed on Oct. 1, the very day Curry landed in Arizona.

Barricades were quickly put up across entrances to the Grand Canyon and park rangers were brought in after frustrated tourists tried to push them out of the way.

“You have to be right at the rim to see the canyon.

There was absolutely no way to see it,” says Curry back home at Studio F on Pemberton Avenue, a handful of Southwestern landscapes hanging behind him on the wall.

Since 2006 he has tried to escape rainy Vancouver each year for a dose of inspiration. His paintings are based on the thousands of photos he takes annually, often just before sunrise as the light creates deep shadows in the canyons and mesas of red sandstone.

This fall, however, he returned with not nearly enough material.

“I even heard from a park ranger that they turned a group away from Japan,” he says, grimacing at the unfortunate event.

To his dismay the three national monuments and three additional national parks he planned on visiting were shut down as well. After taking a hike at a state park in Phoenix, he booked his flight home.

Despite the continuation of the government shutdown still looming, the Grand Canyon, along with Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, has since reopened after state governors reached deals with the federal government, including paying the National Park Service $651,000 to resume operation of the canyon for seven days.

But this temporary relief was too late for Curry.

PIcTuRe PeRfecT - Lorn Curry, North Van-based artist, on a 2008 visit to Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Submitted photo “Next year will be a challenge. My reference library is dry now,” he says, adding he may be able to fly down in the spring.

One of Curry’s paintings in particular relied on the trip. Having trouble finding the perfect balance of colour, he almost had to “haul it to the dumpster” but luckily managed to snap a photo of the sun setting in a similar terrain. He used the image to successfully complete the painting and it now hangs proudly on his wall.

Originally from Acadia, N. B., it was a trip to the Corner States — Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona – that finally cemented Curry’s connection to the land.

This is why he has no plans to let the experience dampen his love of the American Southwest.

“I’ve never said, and will probably never say, it’s too hot.”

Curry’s paintings can be seen at Scotia Creek Gallery in Whistler from Nov. 4 to Dec. 13 or at Studio F, 161 Pemberton Ave.

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These wines all have a good dose of age on them, allowing the opportunity for tannins to integrate and layers of flavour to develop. As an added bonus, this week’s column acts as a reminder of the phenomenal value the country constantly provides.

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Anciano 2002 Tempranillo Gran Reserva ‘Aged 10 Years | Valdepeñas, Spain | $15.99 | BC Liquor Stores Speaking of value, the previous wine’s big brother has even more age on it, and those lovely secondary flavours from its maturation really start to show through. Fruity tobacco, beef jerky, blueberries and cloves swirl together while a wisp of smoke lightly permeates the whole thing. With that amount of age and complexity, $15.99 is a pretty killer deal, but for the month of December it’ll be going down to $13.99. Merry Christmas, indeed.

Anciano 2005 Tempranillo Gran Reserva ‘Aged 7 Years’ | Valdepeñas, Spain | $12.99 | BC Liquor Stores Spanish gran reservas top everything out with a minimum five years of age under their belts, including at least 18 months of that in oak and then three years in the bottle. I was really impressed with how clean and focused this guy was, figuring that’s some considerable time spent to have evolved in bottle. Black licorice, spearmint and currants jump right out of the glass, giving way to stewed cherries, blackberries and a wallop of pepper. The price is ridiculously low, but between Oct. 27 and Nov. 24 things will get outright absurd when they knock an extra buck off at BC Liquor Stores.

Faustino V 2006 Rioja Reserva | Rioja, Spain | $25.95 | BC Liquor Stores If you like your Spanish reds to be a little dusty, leathery and heavy on the funk, then this one’s for you. Further along the maturing rules, any reserva out of Spain has to have been aged a minimum of three years with at least one of ‘em in oak. Dried berry fruit, herbs and potpourri on the nose lead to fruit leather, pastrami, dates and a little sip of cola on the finish.

Hacienda López de Haro 2008 Crianza | Rioja, Spain | $20-ish | Private Wine Stores Not only does the fact this wine is from Rioja give us a pretty good odds that it contains a good dose of Tempranillo, but seeing that it’s a crianza assures us it was aged at least two years with a minimum six months aging in oak before it left the winery.

While this has obviously even had a couple more years to develop since then, the dark and brambly purple fruit is pretty lush and juicy, a little vanilla bean offers depth and clean acidity keeps it fresh.

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Three short-listed design options, each with an overarching objective, were presented to the public earlier this year. The preferred northshoreoutlook.com design focuses on establishing community partnerships for the facility.

Meanwhile, the other options looked at a more advanced tertiary treatment that would October 18 is exceed new federal standards around ocean pollution, and generating energy from waste, respectively.

Metro is, however, integrating a heat recovery system into the new wastewater treatment facility that could be tapped by North Van district’s future energy system and the existing Lonsdale Energy Corporation.

An artist’s rendering depicts an elongated facility with solids handling contained at the west end of the plant and administrative offices and a multi-purpose space for educational groups on the other side.

The plans call for a public plaza with a reclaimed water feature, a rooftop viewing area that looks out to the waterfront and a green space buffer between the sidewalk along West First Street and the facility.

The 80 or so people who attended Join us in celebrating our care aides and Thursday’s public information session were community health workers and recognizing the asked, by way of an electronic audience important work they do. response system, if the overall design represented community values. The instant results posted on a large screen at the front of the room revealed 65 per cent of participants In your community in the survey agreed that it does.

A second question was also asked: Does the preferred design address potential community impacts?

Fifty-four per cent of respondents agreed that it does.

Edgemont Village resident Corrie Kost told The Outlook he wasn’t given enough information to answer the questions.

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“This is much closer. Are you going to be using the same technology on this site,” the man asked Metro staff.

He was told the new wastewater treatment plant would be designed to survive a large earthquake and therefore likely require a significantly strong foundation.

As part of Metro’s community engagement process for the Lions Gate wastewater plant project, a public advisory committee was formed.

“Our role is to discover and elicit from the community what the values, community concerns and community aspirations for this project are,” Mayor Mussatto said Christine Banham, chair of the project’s public advisory committee.

The 15 or so committee members represent Norgate residents, other North Shore communities and broader interests including environmental issues.

Metro struck another subcommittee this month to look at procurement options for the new plant. Currently, they are investigating two key federal funding programs: the Building Canada Plan and the P3 Canada Fund (public-private partnership).

Announced by Ottawa last year, there is no application process available yet for the Building Canada Plan, which contains $10 billion for infrastructure improvements of “national, regional and local significance.”

Mussatto was frank about the imminent financial impact for North Shore taxpayers.

“It’s safe to say that you will see an increase in your sewage utility, and to what degree we still don’t have enough information,” he told the meeting.

“It’s safe to say that if we don’t get any funding it would be a very significant increase — so much so that I believe the Metro Vancouver board would not be proceeding with the project if there was no cost-sharing formula with the provincial government.”

Afterwards, Mussatto told The Outlook, without financial support from the other governments, North Shore taxpayers’ sewage rates could soar as high as four times what they are paying now.

Under 2013 utility rates, sewage fees for a detached home are $247.50 in the city and $521 in the district.

Mussatto wants Metro to move away from the current funding model for wastewater capital projects, where the benefitting area pays 30 per cent of the cost and the other municipalities chip in the rest.

The preferred design concept for the new Lions Gate wastewater plant will go before the Metro Vancouver board for a decision on Nov. 15.

A current timeline calls for a six-year design and construction phase starting next year, making the plant operational by 2020. mspitale@northshoreoutlook.com

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The top 20 contestants were selected by a panel of judges and then Canucks fans helped whittle the number down to 10 by voting on Facebook.

Wood was one of the finalists who then had one more challenge: perform the songs in a live audition at Rogers Arena in front of current Canucks anthem singer Mark Donnelly, Beat 94.5 FM’s Chris Palliser and a member of the Canucks organization.

The judges picked Wood.

“The other contestants were really good it was a real honour to win because they were truly talented,” she says.

But now it was her turn to perform. As she walked onto the ice on that Tuesday night she says things went into slow-mo and the noise from the crowd suddenly seemed to be tuned out. All she could hear as she prepared to sing was Roberto Luongo’s skate blades as he shuffled in his crease.

Then with her long blond hair flowing over her “Canuck blue” dress from West Van’s Blush Bridal, Wood flawlessly belted out each anthem to the rafters in the biggest moment so far in her singing career.

She’d rocked the Rog, and the fans roared with approval.

“Just like an athlete you want to feel like you left it all on the ice,” she says.

And she did.

Even Luongo seemed impressed.

“He did this big nod and smile,” she says.

“This has surpassed anything I could have ever imaged,” says Wood of the anthemsinging experience.

Nothing has been confirmed yet, but judging from the crowd response last Tuesday, expect to see Wood in Canuck colours again soon.

In the meantime, Wood, who has been singing professionally since 2006, is preparing for the release of a new album entitled My Love. She describes her style as a female version of Michael Bublé, combining jazz with adult contemporary and original songs.

For more about Wood’s new album and upcoming shows, go to amandawood.com

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I was honoured to be part of the judging. A fascinating, educational, enjoyable, and, yes, challenging opportunity. I think I can do without another pumpkin ale. One is HAPPy HOPTObER TO yOU - Hoyne Brewing’s Wolf Vine delightful. Two is great. But after having to pick the best Wet Hopped Ale is only available for a limited time. three from eight samples, it becomes more of a challenge where we’ll all learn who won. than a pleasure. Not to mention 60 more beers to judge before the end of the day.

Beer of the Month - Hoyne Brewing Wolf All of the judging was blind and glasses were marked with random sample numVine Wet Hopped Pale Ale bers. First, teams of three and four judges The single ingredient that contributes the whittled down hundreds of submissions to most to the flavour and aroma of pale ales first, second, and third in each of 17 differis humulus lupus, the wolf vine (aka hops). ent style categories. Then the “Best of Show” This is a very special time in the brewing panel (nine of the more experienced judges) calendar, Hoptober, when hops are harvesttook the top pick from each of the 17 catego- ed. To take maximum advantage of hops’ ries and narrowed those down to No. 1, 2, delicate floral notes, some brave brewers go and 3 overall. out into the field and collect ripe hops then By the way, each of the 17 style winners, rush them back to the brewery to make indeed, the three finalists in each category, what are called wet-hopped ales. are all awesome beers. Unlike amateur These are produced in extremely limited brewing competitions, in a situation like quantities, sell out in a matter of hours, and this all of the beers are of excellent quality have an optimal shelf life measured in days. and narrowing 17 down to three is not only Hoyne Brewing is one of several brewera cruel and unfair exercise, it is a bit of a ies producing this wonderful nectar, hoppy coin flip and somewhat subjective (unlike with a complexity and richness of aroma the best-of-category judging which is a that only comes from fresh beer freshly wetmuch more structured and objective sensory hopped. evaluation). After all, how can one compare Hoyne’s version is beautifully balanced, a smoked porter to a blond American ale? restrained yet assertive in its floral and If the blond is a more perfect example of citrus hop notes, balanced with sufficient that style one has to give that credit even if maltiness to make for a delightful session few at the table might order it as their prebeer. ferred beer.

Driftwood Brewing’s wet-hopped Sartori All of the judges are happy with the final India Pale Ale, on the other hand, is a hopthree but I’m sure if any of the final six or head’s delight of nose-hair-curling brewing seven had been chosen first, no one would exuberance. have been upset. Or to put it another way, we are blessed to have a vibrant, excel-George Pajari is a BJCP certified beer lent, and courageously experimental craft judge and elected member (ret’d) of the beer industry in B.C. and the winners to be Institute of Brewing, London, UK. Reach announced will prove that in spades. him at zythesis@gmail.com and follow him Hope to see you at the awards ceremony at @zythesis.

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“This is not just about shops, it’s not just about commercial services, it’s not even just about restaurants — it’s about what we can do with buildings and spots to support what an active waterfront really should be,” said Bell.

That vision includes the integration of arts, culture and recreation to attract people to the area at all hours of the day and throughout the year.

The North Vancouver Museum and Archives has been given conditional approval by the city for use of the Pipe Shop (Lot 4) for a $10-million museum, in a deal that hinges on the proponents raising half the money themselves and providing a solid fundraising feasibility study by next April.

Colliers was asked to find other uses for that space, in case the museum project folds.

A fitness facility, day spa or yoga studio were among the suggestions for the Pipe Shop.

Lot 5 is perhaps the most contentious piece of the Lonsdale waterfront puzzle. The undeveloped parcel of land has the potential for approximately 63,000 square feet of mixed-use commercial space.

Rumours of Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier expansion plans prompted a handful of Lower Lonsdale residents to express their concern at the Oct. 7 council meeting.

“The shipyard development — including Lot 5 — must have amenities enjoyed by all North Shore residents on a consistent year-round basis,” said Esplanade Avenue resident Garry Johnston. “An expanded hotel or educational facility does not fall into that category.”

Bell prefaced his presentation by saying the ideas being brought forward for Lot 5, including the “very real

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possibility of a hotel expansion” are not set in stone but rather building blocks for consideration.

“In fact, I’d like to say right now that it’s extremely important that a significant portion of Lot 5 be retained for open space …,” said Bell. “We’ve even suggested a grass amphitheater because those types of uses allow for public gathering.”

A large public plaza, envisioned for Lot 5 by tourism industry guru Roger Brooks, is the linchpin of the waterfront project. The president of Destination Development International (DDI), a Seattle-based branding, marketing and consultancy firm, has also been retained by the city to help redesign the area.

The Lonsdale waterfront site does have a lot of challenges from a retail standpoint, Bell told council — limited on-site parking, which could be potentially mitigated by some underground parking on a developed Lot 5, and limited sight visibility for public transit users.

Following the presentation by Colliers, council had a chance to weigh in on their findings. Coun. Rod Clark said he was assured by city staff that Pinnacle has not made a formal application for an additional “75 to 100 rooms.”

“So, I guess my suggestion is, if indeed there are hotel rooms being requested, that better get in the loop — and damn fast — because as far as I am concerned we are coming down to the short strokes about decisions,” said Clark.

Coun. Pam Bookham asked whether or not existing Lower Lonsdale parking stock has been factored into the strategy. Bell said pay parking at Lonsdale Quay and street parking in the area was considered, but it won’t be enough to support future development.

Mike Eskesen, 31, grew up in North Van and today lives in Lower Lonsdale. He groaned when The Outlook informed him the city is being advised to put more restaurants on the waterfront.

“There are already so many restaurants down here,” said Eskesen. It’s not the trendy, happening place — it’s the place to clear your mind.”

He bemoans the defunct national maritime museum plan. “Yeah, I would definitely be in support of something like that. Tourists don’t have to come to the North Shore to go a restaurant, they should come here to investigate the history of the shipyards,” said Eskesen.

Thursday,October October17, 17,2013 2013 19 19 Thursday, Coun. Craig Keating suggested council move forward with the expectation that Presentation House Gallery and the North Vancouver Museum and Archives will make a permanent home on the waterfront. He supports staff’s recommendation to move the strategy to a broader vision process, saying he’s heard from the public over the years: ‘Why the heck aren’t you getting the job done on the waterfront?’

“It is an amazing successful waterfront,” said Keating.

“I don’t know too many other abandoned industrial lots that have so much nighttime activity around them.

Having said that, I think we can probably improve on blue fencing.”

On the issue of hotel expansion, Keating said it’s an integral part of the retail strategy’s objective of creating a people-orientated waterfront.

“I think if the argument is that all the evidence points in the direction that more hotel rooms will add to that vibrancy of the place — then that should be the thing that helps us make our decision around that.”

Mayor Darrell Mussatto spoke to the financial significance for a redesigned waterfront, saying the plan has to work well for all the businesses in Lower Lonsdale.

“Because when they do well, the city will do well,” said Mussatto.

Council voted unanimously — Coun. Don Bell was absent from the meeting — to use the retail strategy as a guide during the next stage of planning — the Central Waterfront Visioning process.

As well, $400,000 will be appropriated from the Lower Lonsdale Amenity Reserve Fund to cover leasing costs for the Coppersmith and Pipe shops, which the city hopes to rent out in the near term.

Aydan Drumm, 24, recently moved to North Van from Ontario after finishing her university degree. When The Outlook caught up with her, she was waiting for the lunch rush to die down. Later this afternoon she will apply for a restaurant job in Lower Lonsdale — encouraged by the news of potential new restaurants inhabiting the area. Drumm, who studied sustainable tourism management, said the waterfront should include green spaces “to showcase the environmental beauty of the area.”

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Hal Straight, who penned his three-dotter “Sport Rays” column in The Vancouver Sun in the 1930s and 1940s, became publisher of the North Shore Citizen when I was writing the rather grandly named “Corben’s Corner” column for the paper way back in the 1960s. Straight would encourage me to include as many names in my stories as possible. People, he’d emphasize, would read the paper if they saw names of those they knew. The more names, the more likely the reader knew or, at least, had heard of some of them.

Today, the only true “three-dotter” sports column around here is written by Greg Douglas. His “Dr. Sport” tidbits in The Sun have been going strong for 16 years and is still a must-read.

So as a tip of the hat to Straight and Douglas, here’s my version of a three-dotter…

HERE AND THERE: When author Craig H. Bowlsby, who has self-published two well-researched hockey history books – The Knights of Winter: The history of British Columbia hockey from 1895 to 1911 and Empire of Ice: The Rise and Fall of the PCHA (1911-1926) – spoke at last month’s meeting of the West Vancouver Historical Society, he had a surprise for those present. He brought along the MVP trophy (see photo) awarded to Vancouver Millionaires’ Fred “Cyclone” Taylor by the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1917 and now in the possession of the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum… Immersed as Bowlsby is in hockey history, you’d think his middle initial must stand for Hockey, but actually it’s Howard. He was named for his grandfather, J. Howard Fletcher, who was West Van’s reeve (i.e. mayor) in the early 1950s and owned the now-long-gone Hollyburn Theatre at 1752 Marine Drive…

A TRoPhY foR A mILLIoNAIRE Hockey historian and author Craig Bowlsby displays the trophy awarded to eventual hockey hall-of-famer Cyclone Taylor of the Vancouver Millionaires as the MVP of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1917.

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sd44.ca... There are so many great Bourdon stories, but maybe he’ll get to tell the one about his adventure purchasing 47 basketballs on the spur of the moment late one night at $1 a pop, a story his neighbour and famed storyteller Mike McCardell once even told over the airwaves….

West Van’s Joanne Stygall Lotz is back in the work force full time as acting executive director of ProMOTION Plus which promotes girls and women in sport in B.C. Previously she was the athletics coordinator for the Vancouver School Board and the communications manager at Sport BC before marrying and raising a family… ProMOTION Plus will be honouring North Van’s Jo Mathieson for her long involvement with softball as a player, coach and builder as part of the organization’s In Her Footsteps Award night Oct. 22,

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5:30-8:30, at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club. West Van’s Dominique Falls, a leader in women’s soccer, will also be formally presented with the Bobbie Steen Legacy Foundation Award. Event MC is CBC TV sportscaster Karin Larsen. Tickets are $30 and as of press deadline are still available at info@ promotionplus.org...

POOP SCOOP: When West Van’s Clyde McRae walked clear across Canada in just 96 days in 1973, an astounding Guinness world record pace that ended at Ambleside Beach amid much fanfare, he faced all sorts of problems (big blisters, attacking dogs, the unbearable smell of dead frogs, pelting rain and millions of mosquitoes and biting blackflies to name a few). Now, 40 years later, the marker erected at the west end of the beach to commemorate his remarkable achievement, is facing problems of its own including crumbling rocks at its base which need to be addressed.

The seagulls love the perch on top, however, and guard it as their territory, judging by the missiles that were sprayed inches from my head as I attempted to take the photo you see here…

The hype over last month’s 90th anniversary of the North Van Lawn Bowling Club overshadowed the outstanding performance of the club’s husband and wife team of Malcolm and Marie Taylor who were in Calgary at the time of the celebrations winning the Canadian mixed championship. They beat Saskatchewan legends Keith and Jean Roney 17-11 in the final after having lost to them 27-9 in roundrobin play earlier…

THE NINTH INNING: When Ryan Dempster (who learned the nuances of

pitching from manager Dave Empey when the two of them were with the North Shore Twins in the mid-1990s) pitched a scoreless ninth inning in the Boston Red Sox’ opening game of the American League Division Series win over Tampa Bay on Oct. 4, it brought to mind Ralph “Joe” Dawson, the first player with a big North Shore connection to play in a major league postseason game 76 years, minus two days, earlier. Dawson moved here from Washington State as a nine year old in 1906 when his father William Dawson was supervising the clearing of the land for the Grand Boulevard. As a teenager, Ralph played in the North Shore senior baseball league in 1914 and ’15 and turned pro in 1917 with Bob Brown’s Vancouver Beavers of the Northwestern League. He went on to pitch four years in the majors including a similar scoreless ninth inning for Pittsburgh Pirates in the second game of the 1927 World Series on Oct. 6 against the New York Yankees’ Murderers’ Row… Joe’s older brother, Rex Dawson, who helped with the Grand Boulevard clearing, also pitched in the majors in one game for Washington Senators, the eighth inning of an 11-3 win against Boston Red Sox on Oct. 3, 1913, exactly 100 years and one day prior to Dempster’s 2013 playoff relief appearance…

EXTRA INNINGS: Hey, speaking of the Grand Boulevard, just when did venerable Boulevard Park become Ray Perreault Park? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld would say. Turns out it was renamed late last year and there’s a sign up to prove it…

The POOP On CLYDe - The seagulls love the Ambleside Beach marker commemorating Clyde McRae’s incredible walk across Canada in a Guinness world record 96 days.

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VICTORIA – The B.C. environment ministry has released its promised study of the current state of crude oil spill response capability, tracking the growing tonnage of petroleum shipping along the West Coast and estimating response time and effectiveness if oil was to spill at sea.

Oil recovery in computer simulated oil spills could be as high as 25 per cent after five days, or as low as four per cent for Alaska crude, with another quarter evaporating.

The study was commissioned to back up Premier Christy Clark’s conditions for B.C.’s approval of expanded heavy oil shipments, either from twinning the TransMountain pipeline from northern Alberta to Burnaby, or the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway project across northern B.C. to a new tanker port at Kitimat.

Environment Minister Mary Polak said the study shows the need to increase response capability before the B.C. government would consider increased oil shipments.

“While we respect federal jurisdiction over marine spills, we must ensure B.C.’s interests are being met, and that means adding more resources to protect our coast,” Polak said.

The three-volume report also details the huge and growing traffic that exists now.

Shipping data show a 17 per cent increase in marine traffic volume from 2011 to 2012. An estimated 110 million cubic metres of petroleum products per year are

Map shows area of computer models simulating crude oil spills that could result from existing tanker traffic.

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shipped, about a third of which is crude-like bunker oil carried as fuel on ships of all kinds. The biggest tanker cargo is 38 million cubic metres of mostly Alaska crude a year.

The study includes recovery estimates for seven oil spill scenarios, six of which assumed a spill of Alaska North Slope crude that has been shipped by tankers down the B.C. coast to U.S. refineries since the 1970s.

Two scenarios involve an Alaska crude spill in Dixon Entrance, with four per cent recovery in summer and three per cent in winter.

One scenario examines a summer-time spill of diluted bitumen in the Juan de Fuca Strait, with response from Canadian and U.S.

ships and oil recovery equipment. It estimated 31 per cent oil recovery after five days, in summer conditions with daylight-only operations.

Diluted bitumen tanker shipments from Kinder Morgan Canada’s Burnaby terminal hit a high of 69 in 2010. The expansion would mean 300 tankers a year in and out of Vancouver harbour.

The federal government has launched its own research project to model the drift and behaviour of a bitumen spill in the ocean around Kitimat, and funded marine weather forecasting to facilitate shipping. twitter.com/nsoutlook

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pponents of wireless smart meters are vowing to continue their fight against BC Hydro after the B.C. Utilities Commission granted interim approval of extra fees that will be charged to holdouts.

Regulators have set out a three-month process to consider the grounds for the fees, which the province has mandated by cabinet order to recoup millions of dollars in extra costs to accommodate customers who opt not to have a wireless meter.

The utilities commission can’t scrap the fees, but it could decide they’re too high and order Hydro to lower them and refund the difference.

Sharon Noble of the Coalition to Stop Smart Meters said opponents have registered for intervenor status and will urge the commission to delay implementation of the fees while a class action lawsuit against Hydro is before the courts.

“They want to get the fees in place so people feel the pinch as soon as possible and stop resisting,” Noble said, calling it a strategy to break the planned legal challenge.

She said it’s “unconscionable” for the fees to go ahead before opponents get their day in court.

“This is just one more way of intimidating people,” Noble said. “I’m getting 300 emails a day from people who are furious and can’t afford this.”

About 60,000 households that have refused wireless smart meters have been notified of the pending fees.

They’ll pay $35 a month extra starting Dec. 1 if they opt to keep their mechanical meter or if they fail to make a choice, as it’s the default option.

They can instead switch to a smart meter with the radio transmitter disabled for a $100 setup fee

plus $20 a month for manual readings, starting in April.

The only way to avoid paying more is to agree to take a smart meter.

Holdouts who keep their old meter or go transmitter off but who later move to a new home that already has a wireless smart meter will be able to get its transmitter turned off for a further $155 one-time fee.

Also approved is a “failed installation” fee effective Oct. 25 that charges customers $65 each time technicians are turned away or obstructed from accessing a household’s meter.

That’s based on a cost of $55 for the technician’s visit and $10 for answering an estimated five-minute call to Hydro’s call centre.

Hydro’s application for the monthly fees spells out a range of associated costs, including staff, vehicles and equipment for manual meter readings, changes to smart grid software and hardware, and the cost of extra checks with specialized meters to detect power theft in areas with analog meters.

Opponents say the proposed fees are exorbitant and out of line with opt-out options offered by other North American power utilities that have moved to smart meters. twitter.com/nsoutlook

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Fourteen per cent said they oppose the province’s plan to build a new $3-billion bridge with as many as 10 lanes, while a large portion – 40 per cent – said they either had no position or needed more information before taking one.

The survey of 600 B.C. residents was conducted by NRG Research Group and Peak Communicators.

Support levels fell to 28 per cent among respondents living elsewhere in B.C.

“Support for the Massey Tunnel replacement is highest among those most likely to use the route,” said NRG research manager Lesley Duncan.

The poll also asked what the province’s top priority should be in deciding infrastructure upgrades.

Thirty one per cent said the top priority should be reducing traffic congestion, while 23 per cent each said protecting the environment and another 23 per cent listed integrating with public transit.

Older respondents over 35 were more likely to choose congestion relief over protecting the environment.

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“It has such great potential for a not just great, but over the top retail mix,” explained Shein. “And I really like the Lower Lonsdale feel — the community looked like they were mobile on their feet. And there’s great density here.”

Shein is inspired by the work being accomplished by other BIAs and says Lower Lonsdale can stand to benefit from such an organization.

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Marijuana petitioners off target at 30-day mark Sensible BC predicts slow sign-up start will accelerate If it was sent to another referendum it could be non-binding – the HST referenBlack PrEss dum after a successful Fight HST petition ot reformers fell short of their signwas binding only because Premier Gordon up target for the first third of their Campbell declared it so. campaign to force a provincial referFight HST also had many more sigendum on marijuana enforcement. natures at their 30-day mark – more Sensible BC spokesman Dana than 300,000 – and eventually got Larsen said the campaign had 705,000.

65,000 signatures as of Oct. 9 “They got a lot more than they – 15,000 less than their aim of actually needed,” Larsen said.

80,000 by the 30-day mark of “They could have done it with less.” the 90-day petition drive.

Larsen said canvassers have “We’re a little bit behind the already got nearly enough signatarget we set,” Larsen said, tures in Vancouver districts like the adding getting canvassers offiWest End and along False Creek. cially registered has proven Most Interior and Northern dismore onerous than expected. tricts are also doing well, with Dana Larsen But he remains confident the about a third of the signatures campaign can succeed in getgathered, and campaigns are ting the signatures of 10 per running ahead of schedule in Nelson, cent of eligible voters in every B.C. disKelowna and Kamloops. trict.

Suburban ridings in Metro Vancouver, That would take 300,000 signatures including Surrey and Coquitlam, have in total, but Larsen said the aim is for proven more challenging.

450,000 or 15 per cent in each riding to “Surrey is a bit of an issue. It’s a lot of provide a buffer against signatures that districts in one city and a lot of people are declared invalid. that we need.”

The campaign aims to pass legislation Canvassers from Vancouver will be sent that would bar police from spending any to those areas as Vancouver ridings wrap time or resources enforcing the federal up, Larsen said. law against possessing small amounts of So far, Sensible BC has 3,000 canvassmarijuana. ers registered, up from 1,600 when they Its goal is to use that as a starting point launched. to work towards broader legalization.

Larsen expects the canvasser count will Defeat in any single district means the grow to 4,000 by the early December deadpetition campaign fails. line, but that would be well short of Fight And even if it succeeds, a referendum HST’s 6,500 canvassers. is not automatic – the Legislature could Petition locations are on the Sensible introduce the proposed Sensible Policing BC website at sensiblebc.ca.

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2013 CHEVY $27,925 -$4,000 SILVERADO 2500

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2013 CHEVY EQUINOX

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YOU SAVE $11,805 MSRP LOYALTY $21,395 TRUCK - $1,000

MSRP $53,030 Power windows, power locks, tilt, cruise, Bluetooth, AM/ FM/CD/MP3, remote keyless, OnStar & much more.

YOU SAVE - $9,444 MSRP LOYALTY$28,585 TRUCK - $1,000

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-$8,545

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-$4,587

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