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Navvy Jack’s legacy

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After failing to strike it rich in the gold fields, “Navvy Jack” settled in Ambleside with Chief Kiepilano’s granddaughter and built what is now the Lower Mainland’s oldest continuously occupied house

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mAkING SomE RAckET - Racquetball players gather outside Delbrook Rec Centre. Michaela Garstin photo

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tight-knit racquetball group from North Van is upset plans for the new William Griffin Rec Centre don’t include their courts.

“It was a shocker to hear the news,” said David Aroeste, still in his racquetball gear after a fast-paced match.

“We’re very competitive but we’re friends. There are four generations here, from kids to 76 years old.”

In mid-January the racquetball players received a letter from the North Vancouver Recreation Commission alerting them that their courts wouldn’t be included in the new William Griffin, which is slated to open in fall 2016.

“We needed to prioritize program spaces and after considering the number of people served in all spaces, the racquetball courts were removed from the facility design,” the letter reads.

The group currently plays at Delbrook Rec Centre, which could be on the chopping block depending on the outcome of public consultation in 2015, and contains the only public courts on the North Shore.

“If William Griffin doesn’t get them, then no rec centres will have them here. Only a couple private clubs do, and this costs a lot more,” says Aroeste, who has played racquetball for 24 years since moving to Canada.

Cathy Matheson, manager of administration and marketing for North Van Rec Commission, said the courts aren’t in the plans because of cost and the number of people playing.

“There were decisions that had to be made relative to reducing the cost of the facility and when the commission looked at the kind of demand on space — how many people use which space in the facility — the lowest use space was attributed to racquetball,” she said.

The demand for racquetball will be monitored over the next two years, according to the rec commission’s letter, and courts at Ron Andrews could be reopened.

And, says Matheson, the commission is reevaluating its decision and is looking into the cost of a convertible wall, which could easily transform William Griffin’s squash courts into racquetball courts.

While the commission doesn’t know the cost of the wall yet, Aroeste has done his own homework and has received an estimate for $25,000 from an American company.

“In a $49-million budget, the cost of the wall isn’t very much. It’s a very small per cent,” says Aroeste, a mechanical engineer, as he examines the architectural plans. “The fees the [racquetball players] pay in a year will pay for two walls.

“It’s a no-brainer the way we see it.”

While the group’s sport hasn’t been threatened in a while, this isn’t the first time they have fought to keep it alive.

In 2007, consultants hired by the rec commission recommended eliminating both squash and racquetball.

The group objected to the guidelines and, after collecting nearly 600 signatures opposing the move, racquetball was temporarily allowed to stay.

At the time, there were two courts at Ron Andrews Rec Centre and four at Delbrook. With only the latter remaining, Aroeste is concerned racquetball won’t be available for younger generations in the future.

“It’s such an easy sport to pick up, easier than squash. It takes your mind off everything else going on and it’s a great way to stay in shape,” he says.

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Sports facilities, seniors’ housing floated for Lucas Centre property The North Vancouver School District has hosted some public engagement sessions to generate feedback for its surplus Lucas Centre property MARIA SPITALE-LEISK S tA f f R e p o Rt e R

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MEET ThE NEIghbourS - Hamilton Heights Neighbourhood Association members await news about the fate of the Lucas Centre lands. CW from front: Pamela Pike, president, Monica Fraser, Liz Klose, Ian Smith, Harrison Smith and Dina Robertson.

ith the North Vancouver School District readying to unload its substantially-sized Lucas Centre property — many interest groups are circling.

Seniors’ housing and sports facilities were just some of the ideas floated by the public and stakeholders during open houses held at the Hamilton Avenue and 21st Street site earlier this year.

Lucas Centre has not operated as an enrolling public school since 1982. Since then, various educational and community groups have occupied space in the building on the five-hectare site.

But now, the 60-plus-year-old building requires an expensive retrofit that the school district can’t afford to take on. “… So a repurposing of the building could be quite costly,” said NVSD superintendent John Lewis.

At the same time, the NVSD is making plans to relocate their maintenance department, which has been housed in a makeshift facility on the Lucas Centre property since the 1980s.

A new purpose-built maintenance facility will be designed to last for at least 50 years, and most likely located in an industrial area. The first stage of the approximately $10-million capital project would be a functional assessment, said Lewis.

However, those are preliminary discussions. There are a couple more months of community engagement still ahead, followed by the school board receiving a report and then finally a request for proposal process, before a decision on Lucas Centre’s future is made sometime in 2015.

The Lucas Centre open houses are also an opportunity for the public

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and field facilities. “They are not very good, not up to par — not up to the to express their concerns about redestandards of a community like North velopment of the property.

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Pamela Pike is president of the During NVSC meetings, the Lucas Hamilton Heights Neighbourhood Centre property has been discussed Association, which formed recently so in great detail. “We see that land as they could be invited to attend and a major centralized sports hub,” said weigh in on the discussion during a Beaudin.

Lucas Centre stakeholder session.

That vision includes a competition“Our greatest fear would be highsized track and field, a grass field rise condos, because it [the property] for rugby — and a full-service indoor is 12 acres,” Pike told The Outlook. sport centre that can accommodate “To throw in high-rise development, I basketball, volleyball, badminton — think most of the neighborhood would and many spectators. find that horrific.”

“North Van is a sport-rich comPike, who has lived in the area for munity — we put a lot of athletes in nine years, said she chose Hamilton the Olympics. On the flip side of that Heights because of the flavour and is that we have a plethora of spectacharacter of the neighbourhood. Many tor-unfriendly environments,” said residents have lived in this close-knit Beaudin. “It’s in our best interest to community for over 40 years. build facilities that will put us in a “You will notice that there are no better sport hosting light.” “slow down” signs in our neighbourNorth Vancouver City Mayor hood,” said Pike, of the low-traffic area Darrell Mussatto told The Outlook with only two access points. while it’s too early to speculate on the The HHNA held an open town hall future of the Lucas Centre land, he meeting during which five central con- figures one thing is for certain. cerns arose: Increased traffic, change “I can say you are not going to get in neighbourhood character, increased high-density housing there,” said densification, environmental harm — Mussatto. and loss of public property.

Lewis said the school district has Lucas Centre currently sits on some not had closed-door discussions with of the city’s most coveted flatland, developers for the Lucas Centre which some sports user groups see site, which had an assessed value of as a prime location for badly-needed $52,237,000 in 2012. track and field and athletic facilities.

“I think that if we do receive any Greg Beaudin, chair of the North contact with a developer, they are Vancouver Sport Council, bemoans invited to come attend a public meetthe current state of the few local track ing like anyone else,” said Lewis.

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British comedy duo to host hilarious and interactive tea party in North Van James Brown and Jamesy Evans star in the two-man show 2 for Tea, which runs from March 25-30 at Presentation House Theatre

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ven during their day-to-day lives, professional theatre clowns James Brown and Jamesy Evans are a barrel of laughs.

“We are the creators of who you are speaking to now,” giggles James, after some confusion over what the physical comedy duo’s real names are.

James and Jamesy are decidedly taking the method acting approach, choosing to stay in character for the interview.

Natives of Sussex, England, these two entertainers have TEa TImE - Physical comedy duo Jamesy Evans (left) brought a taste of British farce and James Brown. Jonathan Dy photo across the pond to Canada.

Their touring comedy show 2 from an improvised comedy sketch the duo for Tea has been extremely well received from performed as part the Vancouver clown troupe coast to coast, attracting sold-out audiences Poupon Parade. and accolades in every city.

Both James and Jamesy trained in this And now the North Shore is in for the same comedic art under acclaimed clown trainer treat, as 2 for Tea opens for a one-week run at David MacMurray Smith.

Presentation House Theatre on March 25.

When asked if it’s an innate gift, making For the premise of the show, James and people laugh through physical expression Jamesy have taken an everyday tea ritual and movements, Jamesy says clowning is and swirled in their respective idiosyncrasies a trained art, but the interest originates in for a performance that warms the soul. childhood.

James has some particular habits, including “We are reacquainting ourselves with always putting his shoes in a certain spot, and the freedom that we had as children,” says never eating more than half a bowl of crisps.

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“There is no fall man, no stuWhen thanking Jamesy pid man,” explains James. “At the foundation and James at the end of the interview, James’ of it there is a love that everybody gets.” neurotic side shows once again, as he playTo say 2 for Tea is interactive, it would be fully corrects me. an understatement. The audience takes part “I would say James and Jamesy, it’s always in a tea party beforehand — and then during in that order,” says James. the show some attendees are invited to get up 2 for Tea runs from March 25-30 at on stage in character.

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Speaking from amalgamation experience Former Abbotsford Mayor George Ferguson and one-time City of Toronto bureaucrat James Ridge, who also served as North Van district CAO, experienced the upside, in Abbotsford’s case, and ugly side of amalgamation first hand MARIA SPITALE-LEISK S tA f f R e P o Rt e R

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t made sense for Matsqui and Abbotsford.

But in Toronto’s case, maybe not.

With the two North Vans wading into the amalgamation debate, The Outlook asked a couple of retired public servants, who experienced amalgamation first hand, to offer some insight.

Through the 1980s, Matsqui and adjoining Abbotsford operated as a single socio-economic unit, despite having separate municipal governments. At the time, that area of the Fraser Valley was experiencing a considerable population growth.

The municipalities maintained many joint services including fire protection, sewer and water services and a recreation commission.

However, the arrangement brought about concerns relating to equal representation and funding from both districts.

Matsqui, with a then-population of 70,000, was paying 75 per cent of the costs under a shared services agreement with Abbotsford, which had a population 30,000 and the same level of representation as Matsqui.

In fact, a conflict over the municipalities’ joint services committees was a major impetus for amalgamation discussions, according to an article on the transitional impacts of municipal consolidations, published in 2000 in the Journal of Urban Affairs.

There was even talk of dissolution of the intermunicipal programs if the decision-making process couldn’t be resolved. With this in mind, Matsqui and Abbotsford decided to hire a private consulting firm (Price Waterhouse) to study the effects of amalgamating.

The two municipalities’ annual savings were anticipated to be in excess of $2 million, the consultant’s report showed. So, in 1995, after putting the question to the people through a plebiscite, it was agreed the districts of Matsqui and Abbotsford would join together to form the City of Abbotsford.

“In my opinion, and many people’s opinion, it was the right direction,” says longtime, now retired Abbotsford Mayor George Ferguson.

Each party was able to bring an amenity to the collective table: With Matsqui, it was a brand new city hall; meanwhile, Abbotsford had more reserve money accrued and a municipal-run police force to offer.

A state-of-the-art regional hospital and cancer centre, and an international airport were just two collateral benefits borne out of a unified and more populous Abbotsford.

“It [the amalgamation] has worked well,” says Ferguson, who couldn’t think of any downsides.

It’s also worth noting those amalgamation discussions spanned two decades, the public was kept well informed of the process —and approximately 6,000 volunteers were instrumental in uniting the two communities.

As well, there were two civic bodies that, in part, oversaw the process: A committee comprised of Matsqui and Abbotsford council members, and a senior management panel.

Abbotsford-Mission MLA Simon Gibson, an Abbotsford councillor until he won a seat in the last provincial election, was a Matsqui council member at the time of amalgamation.

“I think it’s allowed the overall community to raise its profile significantly,” Gibson told The Outlook.

He explained how Abbotsford, post amalgamation, trimmed the bureaucratic fat.

“Once the new council was sworn in we reviewed all the senior positions, and it was done with great sensitivity,” says Gibson.

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Former Abbotsford Mayor George Ferguson. Submitted photo trict were entertaining the idea of amalgamation or restructuring, Gibson said it can’t hurt.

“I guess my comment is: While I don’t know the culture of the two North Vancouvers, I do think it’s laudable that they are at least investigating it because there may be advantages to the overall community,” said Gibson.

Before James Ridge became District of North Vancouver’s chief administrative officer in 2003, he held management positions — including executive director of information and technology and acting commissioner of planning and development — with a thenrecently reconfigured City of Toronto in the late ‘90s.

Speaking with The Outlook a couple weeks ago, Ridge was cautious not to compare Toronto’s experience with ongoing amalgamation discussions in North Vancouver.

“There are huge differences in what happened in Toronto and what is being compared here,” said Ridge, who now works as a principal of a new international college at UBC. Perhaps the more glaring difference is that Toronto was forced by the provincial government to amalgamate with five other surrounding municipalities.

“That was an extraordinary experience — the biggest amalgamation in Canada, one of the biggest in the world,” said Ridge.

A consultant’s report commissioned by the province had promised massive savings for Metro Toronto resulting from economies of scale and fewer high-level salaries.

But, according to Ridge, the savings never materialized.

“The estimated savings didn’t happen, in large part, because services and collective agreements got ratcheted up to the highest common denominator,” explained Ridge.

He recalled sitting through council meetings in the early days of the new Toronto and watching councillors fight hard for the highest service level of sidewalk snow removal, as an example, for their individual communities.

As well, it took a couple “ugly strikes” by City

of Toronto workers to sort out the collective agreements which, in the end, also got ratcheted up.

Integrating six municipalities’ technology into one system proved to be challenging — and costly, in the hundreds of millions of dollars range.

“I don’t think people fully appreciate the technology that’s involved in municipalities — from traffic lights to sewage systems,” said Ridge.

Amalgamation also took an emotional toll on the former municipalities that were steeped in their own history.

“There were days of debate as to what the new flag would be,” said Ridge.

He offered some other food for thought: Almost half of all private sector mergers fail, with incompatible cultures being the commonly cited cause.

However, the most powerful argument in favour of amalgamation, according to Ridge, is consolidated planning — both land use and transportation.

“I think that’s something that could be looked at as a real potential benefit,” he said.

Ridge, a Blueridge resident, weighed in on the two motions currently before the North Vancouver councils: A restructure study to be overseen and paid for in part by the provincial government — and/or the forming of an amalgamation committee comprised of civic experts in the community.

“Potentially, I think there is a middle ground between the two,” said Ridge. “I do think it needs to be carefully and thoroughly [examined] with the right expertise at the table.”

For now, one thing is certain about the North Vancouver amalgamation debate.

“It’s a question that is never going to go away,” said Ridge. mspitale@northshoreoutlook.com

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As leader and spokesperson for North Shore Rescue, he and his colleagues saved the lives of many people. Over the course of his 26 years as a volunteer, he was search leader to over a thousand missions.

His sudden death on Jan. 19 left the community in shock. In his memory, the Tim Jones Legacy Fund has been established to raise money for the non-profit North Shore Rescue organization. Earlier this month, a celebratory fundraiser was held at Seymour’s Pub in North Vancouver. Invited guests, politicians, friends and family were on hand to socialize, bid on auction items and show their support. Congrats to all involved.

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Navvy Jack’s legacy

BY MICHAELA GARSTIN

After failing to strike it rich in the gold fields, “Navvy Jack” settled in Ambleside with Chief Kiepilano’s granddaughter and built what is now the Lower Mainland’s oldest continuously occupied house OVER A CENTURY - The Navvy Jack House has a 128-year history in Ambleside seen in these photos from (left to right) 1914, 1957, 1988 and presently. (Left to right)West Vancouver Library, West Vancouver Archives, West Vancouver Archives, Rob Newell photos

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ou would never know unless someone told you.

There are no visible plaques or historical markers on this old house.

The outside finish, once pristinely white-washed with elaborate Victorian brackets, shows decades of wear.

But, although it’s difficult to tell, the Navvy Jack House is one of the North Shore’s most significant heritage houses, and has been owned by the District of West Vancouver since 1990.

Located at 1768 Argyle Ave. on the Seawall in Ambleside, it’s the oldest-known continuously occupied house in the Lower Mainland.

Pioneer John Thomas, known locally as “Navvy Jack,” built the house in 1868 after leaving Great Britain.

He originally planned to find fortune in the Cariboo gold fields, but instead ended up operating a ferry on Burrard Inlet and later established a gravel-hauling business on Capilano River.

It was then that he acquired 32 hectares of land along West Vancouver’s waterfront and, the following year, built the Navvy Jack House after marrying Rowia, the granddaughter of Chief Kiepilano.

In a black-and-white photo from the turn of the century (top left image), women wearing broad hats and cotton, floor-length dresses gather in front of the house to prepare for West Vancouver’s first church wedding.

Elizabeth Lawson, the daughter of the “Father of West Vancouver” John Lawson, is getting married on Dec. 31, 1914.

John Lawson bought the house, then standing proud with dark trim and turned-columns, at an auction after Navvy Jack fell on hard times in the early 1890s. Down on his luck, the house’s original owner returned to the gold fields and died shortly after.

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Today the historical significance of the Navvy Jack House can be easy to miss.

Stucco replaces much of the wood trim, aluminum windows are installed and a glass-walled balcony is added to the steep roof line.

While many heritage homes on the North Shore are celebrated for their historical significance, proudly displaying plaques near the front steps, the Navvy Jack House’s significance is clearly understated.

The District of West Vancouver, which owns the house and is responsible for all upkeep, has put aside money in this year’s budget to replace the moss-covered roof.

But it isn’t clear how much the district has spent on maintaining the house since it was acquired in 1990.

When asked by The Outlook, the district said it owns several houses on Argyle Avenue and doesn’t keep separate records of expenses for repairs and maintenance.

The district further explained: Much of the work is done by municipal staff but time isn’t recorded for each project separately and, when an outside service is called in, the payment is recorded against general facility repair.

But still, a bit worse for the wear, the Navvy Jack House has thankfully managed to remain standing for nearly 130 years through extensive redevelopment of the waterfront.

With priceless oceanfront views, the house has been in the caring hands of Lloyd Williams, who has lived there for 46 years, including after the district bought the property in 1990.

Williams, who is in his 90s and has a lifetime-tenancy agreement with the district, would like to see the house kept standing after he no longer lives there.

“When we bought the house, my wife saw an old clipping of it and wanted to retain as much as possible,” Williams told The Outlook over the phone.

“Now that she has passed away, I’ve been thinking more about what should be done with the house.”

With some additions and upgrades, such as electrical and plumbing, the inside is in great shape and still has its historical charm, says Williams, whose parents used to take him for picnics on the property when he was young.

Concerned about the rapid changes happening in Ambleside, he wrote a letter to council last year asking them to think carefully about their next steps.

“The house has a lot of character, is recognized by the District for its heritage value and I would hope it would be retained in some way, other than an eatery of some kind.”

One option is transforming the Navvy Jack House into a nature centre, which would include the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society and other stewardship groups.

A report on this possibility will likely go before council this year and Mayor Michael Smith has already shown his support, emphasizing the new use would help

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“What could possibly be more exciting on the waterfront than a nature centre?” he asked council after reading Williams’ letter and hearing a presentation from the West Van Streamkeepers.

“The public spent a lot of money buying that land and what’s [on the Ambleside waterfront] now is far from ideal in my mind. We have some good art facilities, we have some Victory gardens and some crab grass patches, and that’s basically it.”

Rowia, granddaughter of Chief Kiepilano.

Navvy Jack Thomas, a heavy-built man with dark curly hair and a moustache, settled in Ambleside after he finished operating an unscheduled ferry service on Burrard Inlet for workers of Pioneer Sawmill in Lower Lonsdale’s Moodyville neighbourhood. During the early 1860s, the bustling mill sent lumber to Australia, the earliest export of lumber from Burrard Inlet to a foreign port.

But Navvy Jack’s ferry service was short lived.

In 1867, Capt. VanBramer arrived with his small steamer, Sea Foam, to begin a scheduled service.

Always resourceful, Navvy Jack began hauling clean river-washed gravel from the mouth of Capilano River to towns developing around the inlet.

He soon settled down with his wife Rowia and had their first child, Christine Thelka Thomas. She passed away in 1960 at the home of Chief Dan George at the age of 84. Although the record isn’t clear, the couple is thought to have three daughters and two sons.

When Navvy Jack died suddenly while on an ill-fated gold discovery mission in Barkerville, his family moved onto the Squamish Nation Reserve with their relatives and the house was sold at auction.

It’s this First Nation’s history that Carolanne Reynolds, chair of Heritage West Vancouver, would like to keep alive.

“This history should be incorporated some way, it’s a very important part of the house and should be honoured,” she tells The Outlook, adding she is “overjoyed to see that the interior can be easily restored to its original type.”

In total, Navvy Jack and his wife have 10 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren — and counting.

Ensuring the iconic house survives the next century will be the work of the District of West Vancouver and heritage groups on the North Shore.

Peter Miller, president of the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society, said while there is a financial cost to maintain heritage homes, it’s vital to preserve them to protect our connection with the past.

“When we find an old photograph, map or painting… we can sometimes recognize the building in it because it is still there today. But as soon as you destroy that building you remove the connection to the past and it makes the photograph, painting or map meaningless,” he explains.

“All the memories that go with it are taken away.”

This is why the weathered Navvy Jack House, even with significant maintenance and repairs in order, is hailed as one of the Lower Mainland’s most remarkable heritage houses.

- With historical information from the West Vancouver Historical Society and West Vancouver Archives.

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Instead of turning left to head west, they are forced to drive right and turn into the mall’s parking lot before making their way back onto Marine Drive.

“I’d say it’s a major nuisance,” says Victoria Mendes, whose son plays soccer.

“A good per cent of people who use the field are from West Van and they need to turn left, not toward Park Royal.”

The exit in question, which was reconfigured when Park Royal was renovated half a year ago, is the only way to get out of the area.

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They have 415 supporters and expect the number to steadily increase.

Jeff McDonald, spokesman for the district, said the planning department is looking into the problem.

“Technically, yes, it could be changed but what we need to do is examine the different options and present a report to council,” he said.

McDonald said there are several alternative options for traffic flow, such as adding traffic lights to the intersection, but changes would cost money and time is needed to figure out the best route.

Parents behind the petition say several hundred cars leave the fields during the sports season. In addition, Ambleside Youth Centre and the West Van SPCA are also in the area.

Marine Drive and Taylor Way is one of the busiest intersections on the North Shore and, say the parents, additional cars turning around at Park Royal are compounding the traffic problem.

“It’s a constant source of irritation,” says Nicole Brown, whose children play both field hockey and soccer.

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ver the last week I’ve had the opportunity to try a slew of wines I’d never had before, both at work and at play, that now sit close to my heart.

The handful I’m sharing this week are all from the Old World, and lean ever-so-slightly towards the spendy side, at least for everyday wines. I’ll vouch for the fact, however, that these aren’t exactly everyday wines. While they’ll be enjoyable whenever you decide to crack ’em, they each have their own unique qualities and character that give that extra special “something” you won’t find elsewhere on store shelves.

Saumur les Pouches 2012 Chenin Blanc | Loire Valley, France | $20-25 | Private Wine Stores The first sip of this ultra-dry Chenin Blanc is akin to the first bite of the freshest Anjou Pear you can imagine with the slightest kiss of honey on the finish.

The mix of Kimmeridgian soils, chock-full of fossilized marine life, and a good dose of gravel make each sip bright and ultracrisp. Oysters anyone?

Jadot Couvent des Jacobins 2011 Chardonnay | Burgundy, France | $27.99 | BC Liquor Stores While I’ve enjoyed previous vintages of Jadot’s hallmark Chardonnay composed of grapes grown in the Côte d’Or and Mâconnais, I’m really digging this 2011 highwire act that extends a slightly-tense balance of oak, fresh citrus fruit and lively acidity. As it opens up and a straight-from-the-fridge chill dissipates, stone-fruit like peaches and nectarines confidently step forward.

Jean Francois Bourdy 2008 Chardonnay | Cotes du Jura, France | $35-40 | Private Wine Stores I had this by the glass at Mount Pleasant’s Burdock & Co ($14), and it’s certainly not your grandmother’s Chardonnay.

This one’s very dry and akin to

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We have a lot of wines to play around with this week, so let’s get right to it!

If you’re not quite feeling my recommendation of oysters with the Saumur les Pouches 2012 Chenin Blanc, there are plenty of other routes you can take and they needn’t be fancy, either! I’m still thinking fish or seafood, but you’ll want to keep flavours clean and bright. Take the Clover Leaf Dill & Lemon Flaked Light Tuna, make some tuna melts and enjoy how the wine refreshes the palate with each sip.

You know what? I’m going to keep thing ultracasual here. Sometimes we slave over four-course gourmet dinners, and other times we call it in with something ridiculously easy and quick. There’s nothing stopping you from opening a bottle of Jadot Couvent des Jacobins 2011 Chardonnay while quickly throwing together some Annie’s Macaroni & Cheese or Shells & White Cheddar and then marveling at how well the pairing actually works. The pastas are organic and made from all-natural ingredients, so the only guilt you may feel is over how easy it all came together.

Let’s go to the opposite side of the pasta spectrum with Jean Francois Bourdy’s 2008 Chardonnay. The wine has some extreme intensity, so you’ll want to have a worthy adversary with your meal. After choosing your favourite type of pasta shape, put together a little truffle butter sauce with Sulpizio Tartufi Summer Black Truffle Paste and buckle your seat belt for some big, bold deliciousness.

The Frontaura 2005 Crianza’s oak and strawberry fruitiness brings a hint of sweetness to the table, so you can feel free to contrast that with something that has a little heat. A little Freybe Wine Chorizo on a warmed, crusty roll, perhaps with a little chimichurri should hit the spot.

Finally, Fina Vini 2012 Nero D’Avola calls for pizza loaded with all of your favourite toppings. You should answer that call!

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taking a mortar and pestle to a mix of limestone, walnuts, green grapes and lemon peel.

Biodynamic, fermented with its own yeasts and no winemaker trickery involved. Some call it natural wine, I call it delicious.

Frontaura 2005 Crianza | Toro, Spain | $35-40 | Private Wine Stores Oh, what a difference a little oak and age can make. After 13 months in a mix of French and American oak, the crew from Frontaura lie down this Tempranillo for a couple years so all of its strawberry-patch and fruity-tobacco goodness is swaddled in both spice and a rich, velvety texture. A ribbon of vanilla slips through the finish remarkably well.

Fina Vini 2012 Nero D’Avola | Sicily, Italy | $25-ish | Private Wine Stores The indigenous-to-Sicily Nero D’Avola grape is always a favourite; this version offering textbook black olive and savoury herbs, showered with purple fruit and lightly cradled by soft oak. Sicilian-style pizza with tomato, onions, strong cheeses and herbs would go down a treat.

I’ve spotted most of these wines at both Kitsilano Wine Cellar and Dundarave Wine Cellar recently, but if you’re having any issues tracking them down, hit me up via KurtisKolt. com or Tweet me @KurtisKolt.

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hose who live on the North Shore have witnessed an explosion in craft brewing locally in slightly more than a year.

From a single brewery (Red Truck Brewing, established 2005), we now have five, in order of opening in 2013: Bridge Brewing, Deep Cove Brewers and Distillers, Green Leaf Brewing, and in 2014, Black Kettle Brewing. Unfortunately we will be losing Red Truck soon as it has outgrown its North Van location and will be moving to the Brewery Creek area of Vancouver.

What we have is the making of the Great North Shore Beer Trek: nine kilometres, 17 minutes end-to-end (not counting time to quaff the wonderful beers at each location). A trip to be made by bus or with a designated driver for sure. Check the brewery websites for times but one of the best is Friday afternoon when Bridge Brewing taps their weekly special cask at 1 p.m. and Deep Cove hosts a food truck (tomorrow it’s Blue Smoke BBQ). Here are the brewery coordinates: n Black Kettle Brewing, 106-720 Copping St. n Green Leaf Brewing, Lonsdale Quay n Deep Cove Brewers & Distillers, 1702270 Dollarton Hwy n Bridge Brewing, 115-2433 Dollarton Hwy

Beer of the Month - Russell Brewing Nectar of the Gods

Although spring is the time for lighter beers, the Nectar of the Gods wheat wine from Russell Brewing is so exceptional it warrants mention.

And if you can avoid temptation and lay a couple of bottles down until next winter, your patience will be rewarded in spades. This high-alcohol wheat ale has been matured in Tennessee Whiskey barrels for over four months and that adds complex vanilla, caramel, and oak flavours to the underlying pear and banana notes. A magnificent beer that balances the palate of flavours beautifully.

Cloudburst White IPA, Redux

When I tasted last month’s Beer of the Month, Howe Sound Brewing’s Cloudburst Lemongrass White IPA, it was from the bottle and I thought Mark Galvani’s recommendation was a worthy choice, if not particularly exceptional. Just after my column went to print, I had the opportunity to try the beer fresh at the Howe Sound brewpub and was absolutely astounded at the difference. The complexity and subtlety of the aroma was amazing.

Worth the trip to Squamish just for this one beer. Not sure how they’re going to get that fresh aromatic flavour into bottles for the BC Beer Awards but if they solve that problem, they’ll be getting a medal this year for sure.

This highlights an important difference between beer styles — some age well (such as this month’s recommended brew) and some have a shelf life measured in weeks (such as Cloudburst).

-George Pajari is a BJCP certified beer judge and elected member (ret’d) of the Institute of Brewing, London, UK. Reach him at zythesis@gmail.com and follow him at @zythesis

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nSR searches for missing dog in north Van orth Shore Rescue has joined the effort to find N Louie, a dog whose owners have been desperately searching for him since March 13.

Louie, who is around 70 pounds, has a blond coat and looks like a large lab, bolted from his owners at Princess Park in Lynn Valley.

After determining he may be in a specific area of Grouse Mountain, North Shore Rescue scoured the area but couldn’t find him.

The latest possible sighting was back at Princess Park on Sunday, when two people walking through the area said they saw a dog matching Louie’s description.

“Apparently, Lou dog had come out of hiding for a second but decided it was just too scary so he disappeared back into the woods,” says his owner Scott Robarts, adding Louie is extremely shy.

If you see Louie, do not approach or call his name because it will frighten him. Instead, call or text Robarts at 778-848-6100.

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or North Shore builder Shakespeare Homes, winning a Georgie Award is one more feather in their cap.

“We were up against some great competition,” says Mark Cooper, president of Shakespeare Homes.

“This win is really a tribute to our talented staff and trades.”

Cooper and his team earned the Georgie Award for Best Renovation over $800,000 for their Mountain Highway project in North Vancouver.

The original home was built in the early 1960s, and came with a set of challenges. Among them were

the strict rules that governed the location and height of the house, as well as regulations around the stream-side location. The original house had a broken foundation and was beginning to slide down to the creek, and the owners were looking for a change. One of the homeowners had grown up in a heritage house and wanted to include some of those details in his new home. However, new zoning rules would have required the home to be built right against the road due to setbacks from the stream and boundaries of the property. Shakespeare Homes went to the city of North Vancouver and continued, NEXT PAGE

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“Stone is the biggest trend right now,” says Aaron Woods, marketing manager for FLOFORM Countertops. “We’re seeing a lot of granite and quartz lately.”

Woods attributes this to the style and hardness of the product, which can take more wear and tear than other materials.

Natural products are also popular due to the ability to be completely different from one piece of stone to the next.

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Classic colours such as greys, whites and taupes are still popular, Thale says, with more of an emphasis on the white and grey side.

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tertops in general. This gives the homeowner the clean look they’re looking for.”

He also notes the increase in waterfall-style countertops, which pour over the edge of a section of cabinets or kitchen island and reach to the floor.

“Contemporary style is getting stronger and stronger,” says Peter Raimondi, branch manager for White-Wood Distribution Vancouver. “People are looking for clean lines and no clutter of any kind.”

As in most home items, trends in countertop design come and go.

Thale notes that a past popular style was speckled granite, but he rarely sees homeowners choosing that anymore.

“People tend to stick with classic colours in their countertops,” Woods says. “The bright and bold tends to be in the paint, which is an easier application and less expensive.”

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“The kitchen is the centrepiece of the home,” says Raimondi. “You want something that’s easy to maintain and is functional.”

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learned that they could re-build the home right where it stood.

“The Georgie committee appreciated that we were working with many restrictions,” says Cooper. “It takes more than pretty pictures to win a Georgie.”

Inspired by the actual 1880s architecture of the original neighbourhood, Shakespeare Homes added a third storey to the house, and incorporated handcut granite stonework, double-exposure cedar shingles and exposed rafters and soffits, among other heritage details.

“We were also working with an eye to building green,” Cooper says. Among the environmental initiatives in the new home is a natural storm water treatment system that collects runoff, filters it and releases it back into the creek.

Shakespeare Homes also built a detached garage with its own heritagestyle architecture. It looks like a carriage house, with its own heat, power and bathroom, and features a vaulted cathedral-framed ceiling.

“This home is a real testament to the high quality that Shakespeare Homes provides,” says Cooper.

Shakespeare Homes was also a finalist in the Best Residential Renovation $300,000 to $499,999 category for a project in Deep Cove.

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o the four young North Shore ladies competing in the inaugural women’s world curling championships back in 1979, the challenges they faced were strange indeed, despite their experience and status as two-time Canadian champions. lencorben@yahoo.ca It was exactly 35 year ago – March 17-23, 1979 – that skip Lindsay (Davie) Sparkes, third Dawn Knowles (later Harris), second Robin (Knowles) Wilson and lead Lorraine (Springer) Bowles (now Ambrosio) took their considerable talents to the first Royal Bank of Scotland world championships in Perth, Scotland.

Perth’s claim to fame is as the setting for The Fair Maid of Perth, an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott (author of Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and numerous other books) which was inspired by a rather unusual Battle of the North Inch in 1396. As you can guess, it’s a story of one pretty nice young girl and a very odd battle.

But this story is the Battle of the Granite Rocks, and the hard week it turned out to be. And there wasn’t just one maiden; there were 44 pretty athletic women from 11 countries, all aggressively battling each other by throwing rocks.

The Canadian foursome – Lindsay, a Delbrook grad, sisters Robin and Dawn who had gone to Handsworth and Lorraine who went to Windsor – met and joined forces at the North Shore Winter Club.

While all were in their 20s, they qualified for four consecutive provincial championships, winning the B.C. and Canadian titles in 1976 and again in 1979.

The first challenge in Perth was one they expected. “I remember having a very heavy maple leaf on our backs,” recalls Lindsay over the phone from Courtenay where she is retired after a teaching career at Sherwood Park, Upper Lynn, Ross Road and Carisbrooke. “It was great to go there and represent Canada and we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to do well for our country.”

But there were unexpected challenges.

“We’d never curled internationally so a lot of things were very foreign to us,” offers Lindsay. “The ice was a big hockey rink with sheets, so there were no dividers and the hacks were wooden blocks with nails in it that you had to sort of stick into the ice. Robin and I were lefthanded and everybody else was right-handed so we were constantly moving the hack back and forth.

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“The rocks had no markings so Robin put little stickers on the handle so we knew which pair we were throwing because part of playing your best is to know what your rocks are going to do.”

Robin, who still lives in North Van and remains very much involved in the curling scene doing media relations for the Canadian championships each year and the worlds when held in Canada as they are this week in New Brunswick, adds, “We were one of the first teams to do this [mark the rocks]. It was unheard of internationally. Now everybody does it. So I was doing the matching and a very famous Scottish gentleman named Chuck Hay, who was all-powerful with the World Curling Federation, came over and told me it was illegal.”

That was just the beginning.

“Because the venue was an arena,” Lindsay explains, “there were people standing at ice level around the boards commenting on your game.”

Robin remembers, “These men were within two feet of you, chatting with you, talking the whole time, saying things like ‘Why are you doing that?’ It was quite an experience.”

Lindsay continues, “I remember one time the host club’s mixed league hadn’t finished their game so there was no practice ice for the women who were competing in the world championship. The Canadian championships had been going on for years and years and we sort of had a picture of what a championship would look like and this was just very different from what we were used to in Canada.

“The ice conditions were very different. I never did get a real handle on how to play the ice because everything you learned in Canada didn’t apply because the conditions were so different. We were all just baffled. So it was a real struggle mentally and emotionally. It was just hard, very hard. Every time we went out on the ice it was a struggle. We were like fish out of water.

“But it was a great experience. We weren’t mature enough, I guess, to handle all the distractions. So we ended up coming third.”

There were cultural differences too. After one game, the Canadians were invited out for a drink by their opponents but politely declined as they had another game that afternoon. Later they heard they’d been rude to decline.

“It was,” Lindsay notes, “such a totally different world. I’ll tell you what was really interesting, shocking actually. In the locker room before the first game, the teams all sat there and conversed with each other in all different languages. We sat there with minimal French and I remember feeling very small. We could only speak one language. All these other women, it seemed, could speak a number of languages. We were quite in awe of that. It was a real cultural shock.”

And there were humourous moments. “When I was trying to make conversation with the French skip,” Lindsay says, laughing at the memory, “I think I told her I loved her. I knew by the look on her face. I thought, ‘Oh, that didn’t come out right.’ She stayed clear of me for the rest of the draw.

“We were the only team using corn brooms. Robin and Lorraine were wonderful sweepers.

A piece of straw came out of one of their brooms. The Scottish skip went down the ice, picked it up and didn’t put it in the garbage but ceremoniously presented it to me. Later, I thought I should have said, ‘Oh, thank you’ and shoved it back in the broom.”

After round-robin play, our North Shore team had a respectable 7-3 won-loss record – part of a rare five-way tie for second behind Sweden’s 8-2 – and were given a bye to the semi-finals which the Swiss won 7-3 before going on to destroy Sweden 13-5 in the final.

“It was quite an experience,” says Robin, “but what I fondly remember most is that I was five months pregnant [with first child Chelsea] and having to adjust to looking quite pregnant.

Because we always dressed – as the girls still do today – in similar outfits, they all went shopping with me and bought maternity clothes. So we were all in these tenty outfits [see photo above]. That to me was the most wonderful gesture as a team.”

The 1979 worlds were their last hurrah together. Lindsay went on to play with Linda Moore, claiming the 1985 world and 1988 Olympic (demonstration) championships, and then serve as Canada’s long-time team leader (coach) at the worlds. Dawn, Canada’s first team leader in 1982, became a teacher and principal in Burnaby. She died at 53 in 2006. Robin was instrumental in securing Scott Paper’s long-time sponsorship of the Canadians in 1982, an event she’s worked with ever since. Lorraine moved to Trail and now lives in Anchorage.

Lindsay and Robin are both in the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as builders and in 2006 the foursome was inducted as a team.

“Those days were great days,” Robin says contemplatively, “They were wonderful days. We were so young…”

This is episode 499 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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An auto show for the entire province members employ, directly and It’s that time of year again when indirectly, more than 34,000 high car shoppers can check out the paying, full-time people in the hottest trends, latest innovations more than 50 communities they and some old classics at the 94th serve. annual Vancouver International The show may be at the coast Auto Show. and therefore a little too long This year’s show, which runs a drive for many readers but I from March 25 to 30 at the would encourage you to cast Vancouver Convention Centre your eye over show media West, promises to be a great coverage and use that material family-friendly event with some for information and ideas. Then exciting new features, following In British go to visit some of our members’ a record-breaking year for auto Columbia alone, new dealerships where they operate sales in Canada in 2013. an ‘auto show’ for 52 weeks a The show is owned and opercar dealers account year! ated by the New Car Dealers for more than $10 For those of you who can attend Association of BC, serving as billion annually in be sure to participate in the a new model showcase for the economic activity.”

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Ford has been on a roll here in Canada, finishing out 2013 as the top-selling brand for the fourth consecutive year.

There are some very big products coming from Ford over the coming year that will make a big impact on its sales and image, and you will get a peek at some of them at the Vancouver International Auto Show.

The first is the biggest introduction of any automaker this year, the all-new 2015 Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck. The F-150 isn’t just the best-selling truck in Canada for almost 50 years; it is the overall sales champ, selling more than any other nameplate. Period.

Ford isn’t merely introducing an updated model. No, they went to town, developing a entirely new manufacturing process that will revolutionize the full-size truck space.

The body of the next F-150 is built of an aluminum alloy material that Ford claims is 318kg lighter but stronger than the outgoing model.

In addition, the frame is made of thinner, lighter and stronger high-tensile steel that combined with the body, produces the weight savings. This is an industry first, and a revolutionary approach to building trucks. In addition to a lighter body, the engineers have developed two new engines to compliment the existing 3.5L EcoBoost turbocharged V6 model and 5.0L normally aspirated V8 engine.

The first is a new 3.5L V6 engine, replacing the outgoing 3.7L model base engine.

With a lighter truck, a smaller engine can do the work. A smaller 2.7L turbocharged EcoBoost V6 is also going to be introduced with an auto start-stop function that switches off the engine when the truck is sitting still.

Official fuel economy ratings have not been released but Ford executives tell me they hope to have best in class gasoline fuel economy.

Other enhancements to the F-150 include a new stepladder that integrates into the tailgate. Ford was the first to have this feature but it has been improved for 2015. The rear tailgate also has a softopen feature that prevents the tailgate from slamming down, plus a light switch near the back of the truck to illuminate the bed with new LED lights.

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The 2015 Mustang is now going to be sold around the world and developed as part of the “One Ford” approach to making cars they can share in every market. This means the Mustang will be sold, for the first time, with right hand drive for countries like the UK, Australia and Japan.

The stance of the new Mustang is lower, wider and more muscular, with the wheels pushed out to provide better stability. The fastback has a steeper rake and a bigger trapezoidal grille has enhanced the shark nose design. Initially the

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For years, the criticism has been the lack of independent rear suspension in the Mustang but this is no longer the case. A fully independent rear suspension will help get all the power down to the ground from all three engines plus provide improved handling. Ford is hoping with this new platform and available engines, this new model will provide as many thrills as any German sports model and for less money. Pricing has not been finalized but expect it to be in line with existing 2014 Mustang pricing.

Ford is doing well here in Canada and with all-new products it will have a good chance of staying number one. zack.spencer@drivewaybc.

Notice of Upcoming Closure Highway 1 Ironworkers Memorial Bridge The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure would like to notify the public of the planned full closure of Highway 1 at the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge on: Wednesday, April 2, from 1:00 a.m. until 5:00 a.m.

Both the overhead signs spanning the width of the bridge will be removed during this closure, and traffic will be directed to use Lions Gate Bridge.

The eastside bridge sidewalk remains closed until August 2014. Once the eastside sidewalk is completed and reopened, the westside sidewalk will close until March 2015.

This work is part of the safety fence installation and sidewalk widening construction for the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge project.

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