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Young male fans note technique, work ethic of mixed martial artists

Sports bars benefit from MMA popularity

Concussions, broken limbs and torn ligaments are all par for the course in both sports, but there’s no outcry of protest like there is with MMA. Major injuries are rare in MMA, but the matches look savage because fighters appear to be trying to kill each other, adds Mosiuk.

For the trio, what separates UFC from boxing is the technique, training and fight styles utilized

by MMA fighters to win matches.

Boxing is strictly about defeating your opponent by allowing blows only above the belt. MMA fighters must be capable of grappling, taking down opponents and correctly administering submission holds to win matches, as well as using fists and feet. “You can’t just go in there and be a basher and a fighter—you have to be trained in so many different styles,” says Mosiuk.

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mix of cheers and gasps echoes through the Sin Bin sports bar on West Second Avenue when Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Kendall Grove lands the first blow on his opponent, Mark Munoz, during UFC 112.

In the event broadcast from Abu Dhabi April 10, the two fighters land kicks as they struggle to take each other down into submission holds.

Mixed martial arts, or MMA, and its pro-league UFC, was once considered a bloody, no-rules sport that encouraged savage fighting and added to the desensitization of violence. However, UFC has changed over the last 15 years with new rules, regulations and a professional image. Fans are now recognizing the skill and technique that goes into MMA fights.

New fans are also flocking to the “sport,” with some willing to pay top dollar to see UFC matches live.

The June 12 GM Place UFC 115 fight sold out in a record 30 minutes during a presale.

The long-term future of mixed martial arts events in Vancouver is unclear. City councillors, some of whom may attend the match for work purposes, voted 6-3 in December to a two-year trial allowing events such as the UFC to take place in the city.

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hree university students sit around a table with a pitcher of beer and a plate of nachos, staring intently at one of the six TVs in the bar. They paid a $5 cover

Chris Hall, owner of the Sin Bin bar on West Second, says UFC fights attract more patrons than any other sporting event. photo Dan Toulgoet charge because UFC matches are a pay-per-view event. Two are MMA fans and the third is simply along for the ride. “You can have the best fighter going in and the next thing you know, he catches a one punch and he’s done. You just never know what’s going to happen—that’s why I like it,” Paul Mosiuk says.

His friend, Zack Galay interjects, saying that fighters train hard and that the events bring back images of two Roman gladiators facing off against each other. But despite the image of two fighters pounding each other into the ground, there’s a measure

of class between opponents that wasn’t around in the early days, adds Mosiuk.

A Nanaimo native, Mosiuk used to be involved with MMA, training in the sport as a young teen, lured by the opportunity to learn different martial arts techniques. Now 26, he doesn’t train anymore but still enjoys watching the sport and following the UFC circuit.

Taylor Patterson, the third man at the table, acknowledges the raw image the sport created in its infancy and says he isn’t a hardcore fan. “I’m kind of torn because I think it’s a disgusting blood sport,

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These guys train their hearts out and then the better man wins.”

Hockey and football are examples of sports where there are higher frequencies of career-ending injuries than there are in MMA, argues Mosiuk. He cites the 2004 Steve Moore incident when the NHL player broke three vertebrae after being punched by former Canuck Todd Bertuzzi. The ensuing dogpile likely compounded the injury cutting Moore’s career short.

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ports bars and pubs make a killing on UFC fight nights. The Sin Bin doubles its business compared to when a Canucks away game is on TV. About 60 per cent of the tables are reserved a few days before fight night and the remaining 40 are full by broadcast time, says Sin Bin owner Chris Hall, who anticipates a sold-out pub June 12.

The bar has been showing UFC events since opening last June and business on fight night trumps anything else by far, 27year-old Hall adds. The only thing that comes close are Canucks playoff games. A self-proclaimed fan of the UFC, he decided to show events after opening the bar based on the popularity of fight nights at other sports.

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Sociologist says excitement, drama and adrenaline attract fight fans Continued from page 4 If critics say there’s no MMA fan base in Vancouver, recall how fast GM Place sold out for the June 12 match. Tickets went so fast none were left over for the public sale, which was slated for April 15.

This irks Mason Ostwald, a 23-year-old UFC fan from B.C.’s southern interior, who was hoping to pick up tickets. Vancouver is the closest city to Ostwald’s hometown of Cranbrook to host a UFC event, and he would have made the trip in a heartbeat.

The MMA caught his attention a few years ago when he watched a fight at a friend’s house. The excitement and unpredictability of MMA fights captivated him.

“It’s more unique than boxing or any other kind of fighting sport,” says Ostwald, who works for an electrical company.

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here is no proof to definitively say there is an instinctual attraction to MMA but there are other reasons why the sport has become so popular, says Dr. Bryan Hogeveen, a sociologist with the University of Alberta. He’s researching the socio-cultural values and impacts of Brazilian ju-jitsu, a staple in MMA fighting, and has previously researched social justice and violence in youth.

While researching MMA, he’s learned fans like the excitement, drama and adrenaline of watching fights that are often over very quickly. “I think there’s a certain sense of a connection to violence and I’m

not sure if it’s the fighting part of it or the violence part of it or the drama part of it that we’re so connected to and so intrinsic to our being but there is something there and it’s going to take some research to find out exactly what is there,” Hogeveen says.

Short fights were the intent of the UFC in its infancy in 1993, when organizers actively promoted fights as a no rules, no holds-barred event, but that has changed, Hogeveen says. UFC recognized the raw and violent image it created and began to evolve, bringing in new rules and a new marketing strategy that focused on the fighters and their personalities. This new marketing strategy appeals mainly to the 18- to 45-year-old demographic and attracts male and female fans from all different social classes.

Despite lingering views that paint the UFC of old, Hogeveen says the organization has successfully rebranded its image to attract a wider fan base. UFC champions like Georges St-Pierre, Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell are practically household names. “People get invested in fighters by connecting with them, knowing their stories and background.”

The focus on fighters has helped the UFC somewhat bury its image of the past.

In the early UFC days, fighters came from all different fight backgrounds and styles.

Some fights could see mismatches of a 300-pound bouncer against a 180-pound kickboxer. But MMA athletes are now well

Dr. Bryan Hogeveen, a sociologist with the University of Alberta, says the UFC has been sucsubmitted photo cessful in rebranding itself to attract a wider audience. trained and more professional in their attitude towards the sport, says Hogeveen.

When things get disrespectful, like a recent bout between Anderson Silva and Demian Maia at UFC 112, fighters run the risk of incurring the wrath of UFC president Dana White. Silva quickly landed hits on Maia and got the upper hand early but

in the third round to the end of the fight, he ran down the clock by circling his opponent. Afterwards, White told the media he was “embarrassed” by the performance and speculated that Silva may be demoted to fighting on a preliminary card instead of a main event in the future.

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Trainer says sport requires humility, dedication Continued from page 5 Since White and the UFC set up the matches, fighters are usually aware that any disrespectful behaviour in the ring could give the league bad publicity, which can get them blacklisted by the organization.

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n the beginning, UFC organizers promoted fights that had no rules, yet a few existed, such as no eyegouging or biting and allowing, with reservation, groin hits and head butts.

Changes were on the way after U.S. state governments began to investigate the legitimacy of the sport. In 1997, gloves were mandated and kicking an opponent on the ground, head butting and hair pulling were banned, along with other changes.

The UFC league was bought by White in 2001, backed by corporate investors, who slowly built up an advertising juggernaut that pushed MMA and the UFC into the mainstream by 2005. The UFC gained a wider audience through The Ultimate Fighter, a reality show that debuted in 2005 and pitches two teams of unknown MMA fighters—coached by established UFC fighters—against each other.

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ancouver has an active MMA community with clubs and gyms across the city that attract a wide range of devotees, from hardcore MMA fighters to fitness gurus looking for cardio training.

At Dynamic MMA, a Cambie Street gym, about a dozen teen boys and two girls decked out in gloves and shin guards complete drills on a Sunday afternoon. At the end of the drills, instructor Joel Wasel partners them up to spar with each other. “Anyone not have a mouth guard?” he calls.

“No mouth guard, no sparring.”

MMA has moved into the mainstream, but there are still misconceptions it’s still a blood sport, says Adam Ryan, Wasel’s business partner

“YOU CAN’T REALLY OPEN UP YOUR HEART AND SOUL... IF YOU’RE TRYING TO PROVE SOMETHING ALL THE TIME.” Adam Ryan and MMA coach in the gym. Some fans or observers of UFC events may think fighters brawl in the ring, but fighters recognize it’s a competition where wins are accumulated through skill and technique, Ryan adds.

He recognizes the type of people who sign up just to fight and says they last a few days or a week at most because they are in it for the wrong reasons.

“Tough guys don’t do well. Why? Because you have to lay it on the line to do well in sports. You can’t really open up your heart and soul to your training partner, your coaches and yourself if you’re trying to prove something all the time—if you’re a bully.”

The interest in MMA from the perspective of fighters and fans stems from throwback memories of horsing around with friends and siblings, says Ryan. “ A lot of people when they’re growing up, they wrestle with their friends or family. And what do you do? You get each other in a head lock, you hit each other a little bit, you play around, it just comes naturally out of us.”

There’s nothing new about MMA or the UFC that makes the fighting controversial, but adding measures of safety like padded hands, mouth guards and cups allow fighters to do it safely, Ryan adds. The UFC and MMA gets labeled as a controversial and dangerous sport yet, like the fans at the Sin Bin, Ryan believes auto racing, hockey and football present a greater chance of injury than MMA fights.

Fighters at the UFC level have doc-

tors on hand and amateur matches sanctioned by municipalities across the province usually require medical personnel to avoid lawsuits. “The fans and the image, I think it’s more what they want it to be because they’re putting themselves into it a little bit, like they want it to be crazy,” says Ryan.

Back out on the gym floor, the teenagers finish their session and a group of MMA trainees take to the mats for judo instruction from Doug Rogers, a judo silver medallist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. These aren’t the typical tough guys MMA followers would imagine in a fight. They are a lawyer, an investment banker and an engineer.

Brendan Kornberger had been a UFC fan for a few years before getting involved in the sport after wanting to learn ju-jitsu. He played baseball at the University of B.C. and went into investment banking after graduation. At first, he trained in ju-jitsu, but the desire to compete and learn more martial arts styles took hold. It’s a competition, just like a baseball or basketball game, except two people are stepping into a ring as combatants, Kornberger says.

He has competed in two MMA events, in Nanaimo and Vancouver, winning both and has no plans to quit. “Slowly but surely, were starting to get more people educated on it [MMA] and they either like it or they just keep their mouth shut because they know it’s not as brutal as everyone seems to think it is.”

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t the Sin Bin, one of the bar’s TVs is broadcasting a Vancouver Canucks game. The home team is dominating the Calgary Flames. A few cheers permeate the atmosphere when Daniel Sedin scores a goal, only to be drowned out by a thunderous roar as a UFC fighter lands a punch to his opponent’s head. trevor.crawley@gmail.com

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YWCA’s 2010 Women of Distinction Awards held on Tuesday. Whishaw is principal of David Thompson secondary and a former principal at Sir Charles Tupper. The awards recognize women whose activities and achievements contributed to the health and future of the community.

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Student rally Gauging how troubled students are by the school district’s financial problems is hard.

There are always a handful of politically involved students, but it’s never clear how informed or interested the larger student body is in the school board’s budget even though they’ll be most affected by the cuts. They can’t be blamed—the 55-page revised budget document isn’t exactly a riveting or easy read for teenagers, and board meetings can live up to their name.

But I thought a protest might grab teens’ attention. On Tuesday, Lord Byng Grade 12 student Abdeslam Boubia organized a Youth Rally Against School Budget Cuts at the Vancouver Art Gallery that he hoped would attract at least 600 protesters. It was timed for after school, starting at 4 p.m.

Our photographer dropped by for a shot and I checked out other photos of the event online, which suggest the rally didn’t attract the

A rally protesting school budget cuts and organized by Lord Byng student Abdeslam Boubia didn’t get the numbers hoped for Tuesday at the Vancouver Art Gallery. photo Dan Toulgoet student numbers hoped for by the 18-year-old organizer.

Some trustees attended, including Vision Vancouver’s Patti Bacchus and Mike Lombardi and COPE’s Al Blakey and Jane Bouey, as did longtime parent activists Helesia Luke and Dawn Steele.

I couldn’t reach Boubia to get his take on the protest, but I checked in with Bacchus and Lombardi, who put a mostly positive spin on it.

“I was very impressed with the energy of those who were at the

rally, but would have liked to see more students turn out,” Bacchus said. “I think it’s tough to get high school students interested in coming out to events like this, but those who were there were incredibly articulate and passionate about public education.

It was great and inspiring to hear from the students about how budget cuts affect them. I also think Abdeslam Boubia would make a great education minister one day.”

Lombardi guessed a couple

hundred showed up. “Anybody who organizes a rally wants the biggest draw possible, but I thought it was pretty good crowd keeping in mind it was student-led on a school day at 4 p.m. downtown,” he said. “They seemed to do a good job of it. They were in total control of the whole thing. I thought it was a good event.”

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Graduation season has arrived.

I’m looking for unusual stories about graduates. Contact me if you know of any students with great and unique stories about what they accomplished or overcame through the years or those who have interesting plans when they leave school.

They should be compelling in some way and have never been written about before.

I’m also interested in tracking down a couple of longtime school board staff who are retiring. I’m mainly interested in staff who’ve contributed to the district, but don’t typically get noticed for their work, such as grounds keepers and secretaries, although that doesn’t mean I won’t consider writing about teachers or principals who’ve made a significant mark on the district.

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Unless you are a history nerd or a petrochemical engineer, you’ve probably never heard of the Pennsylvanian Oil Rush.

It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

In the 1860s, a combination of drilling technology improvements and oil discoveries in the northeastern part of the state led to the world’s first oil boom. Drillers, teamsters, tool makers and railway tycoons remade a small section of Pennsylvania. Until the oil ran out, of course. Extraction peaked in the 1890s, and interest shifted to places like Texas and California.

Why oil?

Because it was a lot easier to dig an inert substance out of the ground than it was to send out ships to hunt down and slaughter thousands of whales. Kerosene proved cheaper than whale oil to light homes.

Then it turned out you could use oil for all sorts of other things, like fuelling the new fourstroke engine invented in Germany at around the same time. And for trains, and ships, and, finally, aircraft.

Also, it turned out you could make plastic and fertilizer and all sorts of other stuff out of this gunk that just leaked out of the ground.

And it did leak out of the ground in some places. The Beverly Hillbillies line about “bubblin’ crude” was no exaggeration in the early days of oil exploration. Near the city of Baku, in what is now Azerbaijan, the tarry deposits on the surface were famous. Zoroastrian worshippers used to arrive and pray at the place

matthewclaxton that sometimes spontaneously caught fire; the ascetics were still turning up intermittently as oil derricks went up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Of course, the easy oil was gone pretty quickly. America used to be an oil exporting nation, but those days are long gone; its oil production peaked in 1970.

There is still plenty of oil out there, of course. The big difference between now and the 1860s is that we’ve pretty much used up all the easy-to-get-at stuff, all the bubblin’ crude and gushers are gone.

Which is why we’re eagerly watching as robots try to fix a gigantic oil leak thousands of feet below sea level in the Gulf of Mexico.

When the easy oil was gone, drillers looked further afield, and more extreme environments came to seem like a good bet. Undersea oil.

Oil in dangerously unstable countries, such as Nigeria or Iraq. Oil in the far north. Oil owned by dictators.

Oil thousands of feet under the Gulf of Mexico.

As I wrote this column, BP, the company that brought you a new name for environmental catastrophe, was cautiously optimistic that the leak in its destroyed Gulf pipe had finally been plugged.

While BP insists that all its solutions are incredibly high tech, it’s hard to square that with ideas that are “plug it with mud” or “siphon it off with a big straw.” These are solutions from the mind of a five-year-old. Only the location of the drill makes this a really difficult problem.

Someday in my lifetime, we’ll hit peak oil, the point at which we’re finding less and less oil while using more. We know we’re going to have to wean ourselves off oil. But before the Gulf disaster, we didn’t think much about the hazards of the long, downhill slope after peak oil. If all our oil comes from difficult, inaccessible places, does that increase the likelihood of more disasters like this one? I think it probably does.

BP (and its competitors) would probably argue that they’re very careful, have better technology, etc. But the Gulf disaster speaks for itself. How many more of these can we afford to sustain, just to keep oil reasonably priced for a few more years? mclaxton@langleyadvance.com (Allen Garr returns next week.)

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Some years back, my family had a property up at Whistler mountain. Whenever I visited the cabin, I’d find myself in a slightly deeper state of relaxation than usual—like shifting down to a half-forgotten gear. It wasn’t just because it was a familiar, family getaway. I think my peaceful, easy feeling had something to do with the smell of unfinished pine and cedar. It felt like an inadvertent form of aromatherapy.

There may be something to my intuition on this. Diana BeresfordKroeger has been touring North America, flogging her new book The Global Forest. An expert on chemical signalling systems in trees, the Ontario resident argues that trees aren’t only “smarter” than we give them credit for, they can actually alter our moods and heal us.

In a recent interview on CBC’s The Current, the 63-year-old botanist called attention to the 1,000 species of Hawthorn in Canada, which are now in bloom.

Simply inhaling the Hawthorns’ white flowers activates your salivary glands. You swallow the saliva, and the lactone compounds from the flower “do a bit of cleaning in the heart, opening up the arteries and making it more functional.” The compounds stimulate the left descending coronary artery of the heart, and are used in surgery as a purified, pharmaceutical-grade drug.

Human beings have a longstanding biochemical relationship with trees. Aspirin, which has an enormous range of health uses, was first extracted from the birch tree. Beresford-Kroeger claims that willows are a good cure for loneliness and feeling down. However, the mood-elevating compound in willow is in a volatile acetyl form, and is difficult to capture and extract.

But hang out in a grove of willows and you will find the “slightly acetyl smell in the air will comfort you,” she claims. The chemical emissions of other species of trees, like pines, have a sedating effect on the nervous system.

Coming from a Gaelic background, and trained in medical biochemistry and botany, Beresford-Kroeger has not been surprised by the ongoing scientific validation of ancient remedies.

You name it; indigenous peoples around the world have found it, long before Pfizer and GlaxoSmithCline did their first clinical trials. Anti-inflammatories, tranquilizers, expectorants, cardiotonics, sedatives, astringents, anti-hypertensives, digestants, diuretics, and even anti-cancer remedies—all of them drawn for free, for centuries, from mother nature’s 24-hour drugstore.

For decades, pharmaceutical companies have been very inter-

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geoffolson ested in identifying the medicinal plants of tribal people. The working assumption is that newly discovered flora have surprises in store for us. The trick is finding the scientific gem in the folkloric ore—with the help of locals, who often insist their botanical allies are “sacred.” That also happened to be a subtheme in this year’s biggest box office film Avatar.

In the film, Sigourney Weaver’s scientist character, Grace, argues for saving the habitat of the blueskinned Na’vi. Not for the benefit of the beings themselves, but because there’s something weird going on with the trees, a kind of electrochemical communication between their roots—“like the synapses between neurons,” she tells the smirking CEO in charge of the interstellar land grab.

“There are more connections among the trees than the human brain. Do you get it? It’s a global network.”

“They’re just trees!” the CEO laughs, disdainfully. “What have you people been smoking out there?” (Which is, of course, a reference to another botanical remedy with proven health benefits.) But who needs lush, computer-rendered flora when we have the real thing on the West Coast? One of the great things about Vancouver is its location, tucked into the southwest edge of a temperate rainforest. You probably don’t need me to tell you that if you’re feeling down or stressed, there are worse places to disport your serotoninstrapped self than Stanley Park, Pacific Spirit Park, or better yet, the North Shore mountains.

Spend an hour or three in communion with our first and secondgrowth allies. Breathe deeply the clean, carbon-scrubbed air, as the trees silently perform their billion-year old magic trick, chowing down on sunlight and exhaling oxygen. And if you need anything else to lift your mood, meditate on this: in May, environmentalists and logging companies forged a deal to protect Canada’s boreal forest. In their occasional moments of lucidity, it seems even “civilized” people are capable of seeing the forest for the stumpage fees. www.geoffolson.com

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Broadway Connections’s staffers such as Angela Paiyizi (right) help Betty Ann Spinks and other folks deal with disabilities. file photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “Longtime program for disabled adults dealt death blow,” May 26.

Thank you for your article on the closure of Broadway Connections. My son Edward Clarke has physical and mental disabilities as a result of a traumatic brain injury acquired five years ago.

It has been a long, slow process of recovery for him and he will never have a “normal” life. He presently lives in a home with caregivers, and has graduated from a wheelchair and walker to using a cane.

He is also partially blind. He is a shy, quiet person and doesn’t make friends easily.

Broadway Connections has been an extraordinary experience for him. He has

made some friends there and it is now the highlight of his week. The staff are wonderful people, genuinely caring, accommodating and giving of their time.

I was as devastated as my son when I heard of the impending closure, and wish something could be done so that these people could keep their jobs and continue to open their doors to these people who need some joy and fun in their lives.

Gavin Wilson wants to shuffle them off to some existing programs but I seriously doubt there is anything else out there that could replace Broadway Connections.

Elin Sigmundson, Vancouver

Park board’s First Nations village ‘comical’ We want To the editor: Re: “Central Park,” May 14.

I have a PhD in anthropology with a specialization in northwest coast cultures and languages.

Although I think it is great that Stanley Park may build a Klahowya First Nations summer village, the park board needs to hire a consultant familiar with First Nations cultures in this part of the world.

First, in all my years of study and research, I have never heard of a “healing

stone pathway,” or even of healing stones in Northwest Coast cultures. Sounds more like something from a California New Age group.

Second, there were no teepees to be found anywhere near here. They were mostly used as dwellings east of the Rocky Mountains. West Coast cultures lived in structures built of cedar.

I don’t think they ate rattlesnake in this part of the world, either.

If the park board wants its village to be “authentic,”

it should do the required research.

Not only will people familiar with First Nations cultures (including First Nations people themselves) find this village comical, or maybe even offensive, we will be providing misinformation to visitors from elsewhere.

We should celebrate First Nations cultures by respecting their traditions, not by mixing them all up into one pan-Indian conglomerate.

Anne Marie Goodfellow, Vancouver

Art gallery’s future shrouded in basic questions To the editor: Re: “City holds power on VAG’s future,” May 26.

After reading Allen Garr’s “opinion” piece on the proposed relocation of the Vancouver Art Gallery, I was left wondering where’s the opinion part?

Garr’s failure to opine echoes a story that appeared in the Globe and Mail where mention was made of the mere seven emails the city had received on the question of the gallery’s relocation and that Vancouverites are indifferent to the issue.

As someone who writes on art, and who agrees the current gallery site is problematic, the starting point for any conversation concerning the gallery is not a new site, and what “icon” might be dropped on top

of it, but the insufficiencies of the current site in relation to the gallery’s long-term plans.

And what are those plans? Has anyone asked? Does the VAG want to be a modern and contemporary art gallery that buys onto blockbuster touring shows of Renaissance masters? Does it want to be all those things under one roof?

If that is the only reason to build such a roof, I say no, spread it out. Ask more of our city’s contemporary art gallery, keep the current VAG site for historical wall work and, yes, explore what remains of Robson Square, or an aspect of the Sears Building, for video, film and installation works.

Michael Turner, Vancouver

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Data error costs school district $2.3 million Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer The Vancouver School Board overcharged the provincial government by an estimated $1.4 million this school year, according to an audit of the district’s online program known as the Vancouver Learning Network.

The mistake, attributed to problems with data management, is also projected to cost the district $900,000 in next year’s budget, which calculates to a $2.3 million error over two years. The news worsens the district’s bad financial position—it faces cutting $16.33 million from its 2010/11 budget—subject to a report by a special adviser that was expected to be delivered to the government June 3. Now it must pay back the money the government was overcharged.

Board chair Patti Bacchus called the financial hit staggering. “It sounds like other districts are in a similar boat, so I’m not sure it’s a human error so much as a process error, but we need to make sure that the processes, the checks and balances, are in place because this is going to create a real difficulty for all of us,” she said Tuesday.

Laurie Anderson, associate superintendent of continuing and international education, told trustees about the problem at Monday night’s management coordinating committee meeting.

The VLN is undergoing a “compliance audit,” which district programs are periodically subject to by the provincial government to ensure student numbers submitted by districts match provincial funding.

Anderson updated trustees before the audit’s completion because of its adverse effect on the 2010/11 budget, which must be passed by month’s end.

The $2.3 million projection over two years is the worst-case scenario to ensure the mistake is adequately covered in the budget.

Based out of John Oliver secondary, the Vancouver Learning Network offers virtual schooling. Known as “distributed learning” in education-speak, it evolved

“FRANKLY, THERE WERE SITUATIONS WHERE DATA WAS DUPLICATED IN SOME CASES.” Laurie Anderson

out of text-based correspondence courses, but now primarily involves online learning.

Enrolment has doubled in the past three years with more than 7,000 students taking courses, according to district figures. It’s the largest kindergarten to Grade 12 distributed learning program in the province and possibly Canada, according to Anderson who noted its explosive growth in recent years created difficulties in data management.

Students can register any day of the year and start immediately unlike in standard schools. Data collection is required for each student. When auditors arrived, the district was also switching from its old data management system to a modern one. “Frankly, there were situations where data was duplicated in some cases,” Anderson said.

Data input problems were also found where dates, signatures and documentation were missing. The VSB is overhauling its data management to avoid such problems in the future. Anderson said staff also need more training. The new information system, meanwhile, doesn’t allow duplication.

Anderson expects the anticipated continual growth in VLN in coming years will offset some of the costs from the audit.

Audits of school programs resulting in penalties for school districts is not uncommon. In an audit of the North Vancouver school district’s special education program this year, a review of 454 student files led to a $600,000 penalty due to record keeping errors.

The Saanich school district is being charged a projected $300,000 following an audit of its distributed learning program. noconnor@vancourier.com

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Vision Vancouver park board commissioner Raj Hundal is bringing a motion to the board at its June 7 meeting asking that volunteers from the Fight HST Campaign be allowed to temporarily set up in the lobbies of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community centres.

For those of you living in a vacuum, HST stands for harmonized sales tax, which the provincial government proposes to begin July 1. The tax combines the provincial sales tax of seven per cent and the goods and services tax of ďŹ ve per cent, for a total rate of 12 per cent. That means some goods and services that until now were taxed only by the ďŹ ve or seven per cent, will now include the full 12 per cent rate.

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against the HST is to gather enough signatures on petitions across the province to halt its implementation.

Hundal notes the campaign is a legitimate, democratic initiative ofďŹ cially recognized by Elections B.C. By the way, the June 7 meeting is being held at 7 p.m. at the Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer St., as part of the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to get out and visit neighbourhoods across the city.

Ray rack A solar â&#x20AC;&#x153;bike tree,â&#x20AC;? installed in front of Science World prior to the 2010 Olympic Games, will be ofďŹ cially christened today (June 4) at 5:30 p.m. at a barbecue organized to mark the end of Bike to Work Week, while also celebrating the start of Bike Month and a new event called Velopalooza, modelled after Portlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pedalpalooza.

The installation is part sculpture, part bike rack and part solar powered lamppost. Up to 12 bikes can be parked in the treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roots, while another three can be hung from its trunk.

The concept for the project came from Spring Gillard, whom regular Courier readers might recognize as a longtime food advocate and compost queen. Gillard teamed up with Better Environmentally Sound Transportation and Science World to secure a grant for the project from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural services and pub-

A solar â&#x20AC;&#x153;bike treeâ&#x20AC;? in front of Science World will be officially christened today. photo Dan Toulgoet lic art program. B.C. Hydro Power Smart funded the solar lighting, while the park board provided the land.

Buzz and Woody Pixar Canada, which recently opened an animation studio in Gastown, released a video last week featuring some of the U.S.-based Pixar Animation Studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous movie characters exploring Vancouver.

The three-and-a-half minute video features Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story wandering through the tall trees of Stanley Park, Wall-E, of the self-titled

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expected the studio will employ a staff of about 75 once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fully operational next year.

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Jennifer Halley, owner of the Bean Around the World coffee shop, lobbied for a traffic light at Gore and Union streets in Chinatown. photo Dan Toulgoet

Chaotic Gore/Union corner to get traffic light Megan Stewart Staff Writer An intersection described as frightening, chaotic and a place where cyclists, motorists and pedestrians “take dumb and dangerous risks” will be among dozens across the city to get a traffic light in the next year.

“Every hour there is an, ‘Oh, my God’ moment,” said Jennifer Halley, the owner of the Bean Around the World coffee shop that looks directly onto the intersection of Gore and Union streets in Chinatown.

In March—well before biketo-work week, which ends Friday—Halley pressured the city to install a light at the busy junction.

“It’s chaotic and everyone takes irresponsible risks out of frustration because there is so much traffic and it’s not properly controlled,” she said.

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city engineer responsible for transportation, said the nature of the neighbourhood was taken into consideration along with traffic patterns and volume.

The Adanac bike route runs east-to-west on Union Street and is the primary corridor for cyclists travelling between the East Side and downtown. The route now also connects directly with the separated bike lane on the Dunsmuir Viaduct. Cyclists and motorists on Union Street come to a stop sign at Gore. There is no crosswalk.

Dobrovolny said a single traffic light can cost between $70,000 and $200,000 depending on the style, number of signals and existing infrastructure.

Despite a relatively low number of recorded accidents, Halley cited anecdotal evidence and playfully expressed her anxiety about the location as “the intersection where death meets peril.” Between 2005 and 2009, ICBC recorded 35 accidents at the intersection, with fewer than five involving cyclists.

COPE Coun. Ellen Woodsworth uses the Adanac bike route frequently and said the junction can be “quite frightening,” particularly when vehicles are

making left turns. If more women and seniors are going to feel comfortable on a bike and compelled to cycle in Vancouver, Woodsworth argued, safety is a priority.

“We’re putting a considerable amount of money into cycling infrastructure,” she said.

Tracy Myerson, who runs Jett Grrl Bike Studio half a block from the Gore and Union crossroads, hasn’t experienced the chaos described by Halley and Woodsworth and instead suggested drivers would reduce the risk if they put on the brakes at the stop sign.

She isn’t opposed to a traffic light, but pointed to a recent bylaw in San Francisco that allows cyclists to yield at stop signs if there is no oncoming traffic.

“If money is going to be spent, I don’t know that this is the best place to spend it,” said Myerson, who moved to Vancouver from Toronto seven years ago. “But if that’s not other people’s experience, then I don’t want to discount that either.” mstewart@vancourier.com

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Carrall Street Greenway work to continue through summer

City promises fewer headaches due to paving and road closures Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

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Road work this summer won’t approach the extent of frustration seen in the city last summer in preparation for the Olympics.

“This year’s actually quite tame as far as disruption is concerned,” said Richard Franco, administrator of The Road Ahead for the city. “It’s going to be a very good year for transportation through the city.”

The length of Cambie and other key arterials were paved last summer.

“Last year we paved 120,000 tons of asphalt,” said Murray Wightman, manager of street operations. “We’re down this year to date, and we will be probably in the 85,000 to 90,000 tons this year.”

Work on East Hastings from Cassiar to Boundary should wrap up in August.

Water and paving work on West 41st Avenue between Cambie and Kingsway is underway until October or November and area residents have actually called the city to compliment staff on how smooth the project’s been running, Franco said.

Continuing work to beautify the Carrall Street Greenway is expected to wrap up in September.

Arbutus Street between Briar Avenue, just south of King Edward, and West 14th Avenue will get new sidewalks and a smoother surface starting this month, with work continuing for up to three months. Davie Street between Burrard and Howe will get a similar treatment, for a similar period, starting in July. Paving is relatively quick, but the preparation work takes time.

“We’re trying to pockmark the city this year,” Franco said. “Instead of [concen-

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trating] on a lot of major arterials, we’re trying to stagger and separate the work so that way there’s less congestion on the road.”

Franco updates the city’s Road Ahead information on its website two months in advance, so start dates are approximate.

The Road Ahead website includes small projects, including some by B.C. Hydro, and special events that mean road closures, such as the Chinatown Night Market.

More information about the peak of roadwork season, July and August, will be posted next week.

A more interactive Road Ahead map and an RSS feed went live Feb. 1. Those who subscribe to the feed can receive up to the hour information. The Road Ahead map interacts with Google Maps so users can see a description of construction that’s going on around the city.

The city expects work to install new bike lanes on Dunsmuir Street to be complete in two weeks.

See roadahead.ca for more information. crossi@vancourier.com

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Trustee predicts enrolment drop at Dr. A.R. Lord elementary

School closure plan perturbs parents

By Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

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A group of East Side parents wants the school board to reconsider closing one of the buildings on the Dr. A.R. Lord elementary school site.

The board proposes closing a small “outbuilding” on the property at 555 Lillooet St. near the PNE to save $42,820, according to the revised budget, which calls for overall cuts of roughly $16.33 million although it hasn’t been passed yet. The so-called “outbuilding” functions as a small primary school that houses Lord’s kindergarten to Grade 2 students. It’s at one corner of the property, while the larger school building, known as the intermediate school, sits at the opposite corner for Grade 3 to 7 students. Both buildings have the school name above their doors.

A parent stumbled across the closure plan and alerted the school’s parent advisory council. The council had not been notified directly, but has since launched an effort to save the building, which features a gym, kitchen, staff room, learning resource room and six classrooms. Shannon Harrison, PAC spokesperson, said the school and community should have been notified and given time to find another solution. Parents maintain the cost of closing the smaller building and retrofitting the intermediate building to accommodate more students haven’t been considered. They think the district should consider a before-and-after

school program at the site to bolster enrolment and help offset the expense of keeping it open.

Nearby after school programs have waiting lists, Harrison said.

The board must pass its budget by month’s end, which leaves parents, trustees and staff little time to weigh alternatives. COPE trustee Jane Bouey met with parents at the school Wednesday night. She told the Courier that Lord is at 53 per cent of its capacity. Its overall enrolment is 197 students, which is expected to drop to 179 students next year. All the students can fit into one building, she said.

Bouey said she’s sympathetic to parent concerns. She would like to save it from closure, but isn’t sure that’s possible given the district’s financial woes. “It’s hard to justify keeping it open when there are classrooms that are empty and the alternative is making cuts elsewhere in the budget that could mean the difference between support for a special needs student or not,” she said.

Harrison maintains the primary school should be treated like a school, not an out building, and parents deserve time and support to investigate options. “If the building gets shut down, the likelihood that it’s going to be opened again in the next number of years is probably pretty minimal,” she said. “I can’t imagine that they would go to the trouble and cost of shutting it all down and then just reopen it next year.” noconnor@vancourier.com

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Organizer notes fewer than 10 people speak Squamish dialect fluently

First Nations event targets traditional language Megan Stewart Staff writer A language serves as a collective memory, informing a community’s sense of self. But for First Nations people in B.C., that sense of self is in jeopardy as their traditional languages disappear.

A conference this weekend hopes to reverse the trend. Called Save Your Language, the June 5 and 6 event at the W2 media arts centre at 151 West Cordova St. is focused on the “Where Are Your Keys” method, a new learning technique conference organizers believes is fast, effective and advances the learning capacity of individuals. Nearly 50 people have registered for the inaugural conference, which includes workshops, educational games and discussion. All of B.C.’s 32 distinct indigenous languages and 59 dialects are considered severely endangered or nearly extinct, according to research released April 30 by the First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council, a Crown corporation formed in 1990.

Conference organizer Dustin Rivers, a 20-year-old member of the Squamish Nation, says his indigenous language, Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim, faces the same fate. In a release for the conference, he notes fewer than 10 people speak the language fluently and that legal gains, land rights and economic development by the Squamish will

mean little if the language is lost.

Other First Nations members are similarly concerned about the loss of language because they represent the death of a unique culture. Larry Grant is a Musqueam elder who relearned to speak his language in 1998 at 61 years of age. He teaches through a partnership with the UBC First Nation Languages Program. “The importance of language is really about identity, inheritance and history,” Grant said. “It’s completely who we are as a people.”

Geographic names might capture historic events, local resources or the overall qualities of a specific place. Grant noted the shoreline of English Bay is known as “good under the feet” in the language spoken by the Musqueam.

Following state-sanctioned education polices that split up families and punished children for speaking the language of their parents and elders, only five per cent of the province’s First Nations population, or roughly 5,600 people, speak their own language fluently. The majority of speakers are over the age of 65, and according to the First Peoples’ Council, only 36 people under the age of 25 are fluent. “It’s vitally important for First Nations and other nations to learn their language of their mothers and grandmother because it gives them an identity,” Grant said. mstewart@vancourier.com

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In June 1935, roughly 1,000 workers boarded railway boxcars bound for Ottawa

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Despite never reaching their destination in Ottawa, the hundreds of unemployed and malnourished men who crossed the country from Vancouver by train to protest low wages and poor conditions in B.C. labour camps in the 1930s still achieved their goal.

The camps were shut down. The federal government of the day was defeated in the next election, and the Depression-era labourers are credited by modern labour and social activists with turning popular opinion in favour of a Canadian social safety net that valued employment insurance and workers compensation.

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According to the historical society, the men in the camps worked six and a half days a week for 20 cents a day and their food was rationed. They were ineligible to vote in federal elections. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since they were unemployed, they were thought to be not worthy of full citizenship,â&#x20AC;? said Yorke.

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Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mayor called the labour camps a failure.

After the plaque is unveiled, a modern group of activists will ride the rails, in much more comfort, to Ottawa where they will lobby for a national housing strategy. The event is open to the public and is scheduled from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. mstewart@vancourier.com

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The ongoing rain is a good reminder people living on the streets of the Downtown Eastside are in dire need of clean, dry socks.

Wet weather brings wet feet and walking around in soggy socks can lead to what’s become known as “street foot,” a condition as unhealthy as it is painful.

Downtown Eastside-based Gospel Mission collects new or gently used socks to distribute, but the need far exceeds the supply. The mission is also launching a new program dubbed the Vancouver Sock Exchange. The program not only allows people to receive a fresh pair of socks when they drop by the Lord’s Rain shower program, but volunteers will now also collect the ones being worn. If those socks are still wearable they’ll be washed in hot water and bleach and then put back into circulation. New and gently used socks can be dropped off at the Lord’s Rain, 327 Carrall St., Tuesdays and Saturdays between 6:30 and 9 a.m.

Toronto Pride has selected Gay Whistler as its choice for the 2010 Sports Award recipient for Pride House organized for the Olympic Games. Pride House, with locations on Bute Street and in Whistler, was the first Olympic pavilion in Olympic history for gay and lesbian ath-

letes and visitors. While both locations celebrated the Games, the Bute Street pavilion had staff on hand ready to help queer athletes and visitors looking to claim refugee status.

Gay Whistler and Pride House will be honoured at the Pride Toronto Gala Awards and Dinner on June 30.

Book contest Local readers are invited to select the next One Book, One Vancouver winner.

The Vancouver Public Library sponsors the annual competition, described as a book club for the entire city with a goal to encourage a culture of reading and discussion by bringing people together to read

two great books. The three finalist this years include The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, written in 2007 by Sherman Alexie; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1892, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams in 1979. Anyone who casts

their vote between June 3 and 24 is eligible to win a Library Lover’s Prize Pack.

The winning novel will be announced at the Word on the Street Festival, Sept. 26.

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Landfill event The Vancouver Landfill is hosting its annual open house this weekend and promises a “fascinating and fun day for all ages.” The event includes behind-thescenes bus tours, the chance to climb aboard landfill equipment and crafts. Visitors can also watch the bird control hawks and falcons in action and learn more about the green initiatives adopted by the landfill.

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More than a year after the park board passed a unanimous motion asking staff to look at adding a seniors centre to the Killarney Community Centre, the project is no closer to fruition.

Vision Vancouver park board commissioner Raj Hundal said the park board would provide space for a centre if money was committed by the city and senior governments.

“We did everything that we can as a board,” Hundal said. “And that was sending a strong message, which my motion did, that we are in support of a seniors centre in the southeast Vancouver area.”

Lorna Gibbs, chair of the Southeast Vancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society, which has pushed hard to see a seniors centre established, said funding for a seniors centre didn’t make the mayor’s priority list for federal stimulus money.

Vision Coun. Raymond Louie believes the centre was on the mayor’s list but the project wasn’t seen as viable by the federal government.

The mayor’s office did not back to the Courier by press deadline.

Gibbs said a feasibility study requested by the city was completed in December for a minimum 10,000-square-foot space addition to the Killarney Community Centre, estimated to cost $6 million. Gibbs suggests the city, provincial and federal governments contribute $2 million each.

“It’s not a case of lack of support from grassroots. This will be decided by political will,” she said.

Southeast Vancouver is home to an estimated one-third of all the seniors in the city, or more than 26,000 people over age 65. The area has no community centre while Gibbs says eight seniors centres are located west of Cambie Street.

Gibbs says the multicultural services group SUCCESS needs more space to offer English as a second language classes and that seniors cultural groups need a place to meet. She said many seniors, especially those who have downsized to smaller homes, need a place where they can socialize, recreate, get peer support and eat a daily nutritious lunch.

Seniors can go to community centres for specific programs, but there’s no place for them to just “hang out,” Gibbs said.

“If you have somewhere to go hang out for four hours, it’s a great relief,” Gibbs said. “Like Cheers, you want to go where everybody knows your name.”

She argues healthy lunches and social interaction made possible through a seniors centre keep seniors mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally heartier, keeping them out of costly long-term care.

Louie said the city is reviewing its capital projects and estimating costs to determine its ability to support various projects. Kash Heed, the Liberal MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview told the Courier last year that he’d take the lead on the project, including involving the federal government to make the seniors centre happen.

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From the capital of Anchorage on the coast, it’s 418 kilometres to the end of the line at Fairbanks in the north. Since you’ve got 20 hours of sunlight every day to play with, the chances of seeing the mighty mountain are pretty good from the glassed-in dome car. At 5.5 metres tall and 27 metres long, the Explorer’s dome cars are the world’s largest.

Before jumping on board, take a moment to ramble down historic 4th Avenue in Anchorage to the rustic Visitors Center where you can stock up on tourist information. There are endless opportunities to go fishing, view wildlife and plan sightseeing all over Alaska. You can also practice your photo skills by shoot-

viewpoint on the entire train is the outdoor covered viewing platform where everyone rushes when the Big One looms into view.

Heading north out of Anchorage, first you approach the Alaska Range, then through small towns like Wasilla (where Sarah Palin lives) and Talkeetna, a tiny frontier village with all the flavour of Alaska’s past. Many tourists stop for a few days here. The line tapers off to a narrow corridor through dense forest and suddenly you’re over Hurricane Gulch, crossing a 300-metre bridge almost 100 metres above the Chulitna River.

The next stop is Denali National Park headquarters, also well worth a few days of exploration. The train then continues north, through more small Alaskan communities where the terrain flattens and is more sub-arctic. The open spaces allow for better viewing of caribou and other wildlife, and finally you arrive in Fairbanks.

But it’s the southern section of the line between Talkeetna and Denali that allows the best peeks at the Big One. Rising straight up from its surrounding flat plain, McKinley attracts a lot of weather, often heavy winds and clouds, making it a dangerous mountain to climb. From the train, however, ensconced in your plush seat sipping a modest white wine and nibbling on appetizers, all you need is a good pair of binoculars or a zoom lens on your camera to appreciate its spectacular beauty.

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Continued from page 22 It’s guaranteed that clouds will cover much of the mountain on most days, but that makes its glistening white crown all the more amazing when it appears, towering into the sky above the clouds as if transplanted from the Himalayas.

Photography buffs are well advised to plan ahead and not wait for the official announcement. Casually stroll down to the outdoor

observation car and plant yourself against the railing, so you aren’t shooting through the glass windows. So when the conductor informs those passengers dozing in their seats that the Big One has appeared you’ll be in the right position to get the perfect shot without the top of somebody’s head interrupting the fantastic view.

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Creating the ultimate playroom

by Emma Lee, contributing writer

reating a playroom for your children isn’t just a matter of throwing some toys and a sofa in a room. A great playroom that your kids will love and use from 7 to 17 years old, takes careful planning and a number of considerations.

arts and crafts, painting or drawing, board games, reading and/or activities such as dancing to music?” Decide what needs to be stored and what types of boxes, bins or shelving are required.

Parents commonly make three design mistakes when creating a playroom for their kids, according interior designer and program head of BCIT’s Diploma of Technology in Interior Design program, Dixie Hudson. They go cheap, they decorate for a very specific age, and they don’t anticipate future needs.

Create flex space. Plan for open space too. Children of all ages need open space where they can lie down, play games on the floor, or just chill out.

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“Parents will often buy the least expensive pieces for the room, thinking it’s just for the kids,” explains Hudson. “But then the kids end up spending a lot of time in there. The playroom is probably one of the most used rooms, so for storage and for seating, purchase long-term items.”

While your child may be into that Thomas the Tank Engine sofa or Dora the Explorer toy chest now, once those characters fall out of favour as your child grows, you’ll be faced with having to redecorate the room. Instead, Hudson says that for bigger ticket items like storage and seating, you should “stay with more conservative, basic styling so that you are able to change the less expensive items, like cushions or paint on the walls, every two or three years.”

As for storage, think about what you need today, but consider what you’ll need moving forward. “Parents will purchase a small unit for storage for today, but a year later, they need more storage and then purchase a different unit, and so on. Several years later, there are so many units of a different style, look and character that the space is full of visual clutter, even if it’s tidy.”

Here some tips from Hudson on how to plan and decorate a functional and fun playroom.

Determine the function of the room. Yes, it will be playroom, but what types of play? Ask yourself, “Are the kids going to watch TV and play video games in this space? Is the space reserved for “low-tech” play such as

Choose the character or feel you want. The paint colour or materials that you choose will encourage or invite children to play in that room.

Storage, storage, storage. Don’t scrimp on storage or buy poor-quality shelving. The storage will have so much use and needs to really stand the test of time. Secure storage to the wall so that it’s safe for earthquakes and but also for kids to climb. Storage should be easily accessible to kids to put away their own toys. Cupboard doors are always a plus, as they can conceal everything.

Comfortable seating. Invest in good-quality sofas or two lounge chairs where you love to curl up to read the children a book or to watch movies. Make sure it’s comfortable so they are enthused to use it. Built-in seating with storage below is a good, efficient option as well.

Finally, Hudson offers some tips for a room that will truly stand the test of time: • White storage units always help a basement or a darker room appear spacious and bright.

• Floor material such as marmoleum or cork (both ecoconscious choices) are durable for a huge amount of hard use. Or you can purchase inexpensive carpet for areas of the room where you might play games on the floor and lie on cushions on the floor.

• For a gender-neutral look, stripes and bold geometric patterns with both “girl” and “boy” colours are great accents in a room with neutrals.

• Walls can be covered in cork boards or chalkboard paint.

If you’re putting up either, don’t be stingy—try covering an entire wall!

3 Great Playroom Décor Items Beetling 3D Zebra If you’ve got a room that needs a focal point, these 3D wall sculptures are incredible. We love the Beetling 3D Zebra.

It’s made of lightweight material and affixes easily to the wall. Great for boys and girls. Designed and manufactured in the Lower Mainland. Retails for $499 at www.beetling.com.

Owyn Toy Box This toy box is a great piece for a playroom. As an accent to the built-in storage you may have, this gender-neutral design is made for kids 2+ years.

It has two easy lift-off lids, and it’s made of ecofriendly plywood, with non-toxic paints, and low-voc water-based polyurethane. Retails for $525 at www. babybot.com Fatboy Bean Bag Chairs Dixie Hudson loves these chairs. “They are terrific because they envelop little kids and they love sinking into them while teenagers love to slouch in them.

They are very sturdy and easily moved throughout the room.” The Junior (shown here), retails for $198. Find it at www.fatboycanada.com.

Kitsilano Preschool SEPTEMBER 2010 REGISTRATION! Now accepting students from 33 mths - 5 years old. This program follows a play-based approach to education, focusing on emergent curriculum and early literacy, developing social skills in a co-operative child.

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Summer Camps at False Creek Preschool Explorers (3-5 yrs) 9:00am-12:00pm or 12:30-3:30pm $79 p/week (each camp session) Junior Explorers (6-10 yrs) 9:30am-4:30pm, $159 p/week Fun filled excursions, games and sports Waterworld (8-12 yrs) 9:30am-4:30pm, $159 p/week *A water-based daycamp

Youth Explorers (12-15 yrs) 9:30am-4:30pm, $159 p/week Outdoor adventures and leadership

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Kidz beat LET’S GO! Summer Camp Round-up heck out the ads in this section for contact info. on great ideas for your kids this summer. It’s all about learning and having fun! Here are some examples:

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Why not try Summer Day Camp through St. Johns Ambulance? This course is filled with exciting activities and plenty of learning for young people. They will learn first aid requirements, with emphasis on working with others as a team. It’s suitable for youngsters from 9 to 12 years of age or older. Visit the nearest location at 6111 Cambie Street, 2nd Floor, for more information.

StageCraft Theatre School summer camps are a condensed version of the school’s main Musical Theatre Program.

These performance-oriented camps give students of all ages the opportunity to train in Dance, Voice and Drama with specialized, highly-qualified teachers, as well as the chance to be involved in a production from conception to performance. Each class will perform a showcase of work on the last day of camp.

HR MacMillan Space Centre is holding its Galactic Crusader Camp; two sessions to choose from, in July and August. These passports to adventure are for kids going into grades one through three, in which campers embark on a series of challenges involving science experiments, simulations and problem-solving. Grade four to six kids will enjoy Voyage to Mars, including boot camp outer-space style!

Sasamat Outdoor Centre (accredited by the BC Camping Association) has provided quality camping experiences and outdoor education to children and youth for over 35 years. Free play (safe, but unstructured) is the mandate at Sasamat. Once in a healthy outdoor environment, kids can try challenging, new activities and master new skills, without the pressure of passing or failing. Lifelong memories of friendship and bonding with nature are guaranteed!

Join the Pre-Teen Artistic Adventures Program at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House. Kids can contribute to their community through art. This 10-week program for youth ages 9 to 12 will help them learn about different types of art, about using recycled materials to create cool things and how art has a role in creating community and public spaces. Come early for snacks and ‘hang-out’ time; Thursdays at Kits House, Youth Room, 2325 West 7th Ave.

False Creek Community Centre offers Junior and Preschool Day Camp. For Juniors, this recreational day camp offers a week of water fun, outdoor games, day treks to local parks and fun activities centred around the theme of the day. Simply pack your child’s backpack with clothing for the weather, proper clothing for various activities and include a healthy lunch, snacks and water. Find out more at the Centre, entrance to Granville Island.

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Matthew Richardson Fraser Academy

Matthew has been a tireless volunteer both within Fraser Academy and in the larger community. A Scouting Area Youth Commissioner, he organized two area youth forums where young Scout members could voice their opinions and ask questions. At school, Matthew established the position of Group Youth Representative—a contact for youth in various Scout groups. A volunteer for three years at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Matthew did crafts and

activities with children; in 2009 he was hired part-time to help with birthday parties, coordinate volunteers and supervise tour groups.

At Fraser Academy, Matthew has been a key member of the Community Service Club (as well as many other school clubs). He has been a recipient of many awards for his service, most notably the Thomas Peter McNamara Award for Outstanding Citizenship and the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Level Award.

This special feature highlights high school graduates who’ve displayed an outstanding commitment to school and community service. Each year schools are included on a rotating basis.

Sammy Lau Britannia Secondary

Vanessa Lin Killarney Secondary School

Over the course of the last five years, I have immersed myself in many aspects of my school’s extracurricular activities. On top of being Prime Minister of the Killarney Student Government, I have also been a key member of Student Street Squad, Yearbook, Link Crew, and Grad Committee. I have managed to maintain a level of high academic standing, while working two part-time jobs, and giving countless hours of service to the school and community. In recognition of my achievements, I recently received

the prestigious James Edmunds Memorial Scholarship, as well as the Killarney Principal’s Award, Sir John A MacDonald Youth Leadership Award, Silver “K” Award, Killarney Mini School Award, MacCorkindale Elementary PAC Award, Killarney Student Government Leadership Award, and the Killarney Cougar Mart Initiative Scholarship. In the fall, I plan on attending McGill University to study biological and life sciences, in hopes of one day attaining a job as a health care professional.

Michaela Berkow Point Grey Secondary

Mini School graduate Michaela Berkow has been actively involved in volunteer work throughout her high school years. One of her greatest contributions to the community has been her service to the Louis Brier Home and Hospital. For five years, Michaela has been a regular volunteer at this nursing home where tasks have included running weekly movie nights, delivering mail, and escorting residents to various programs. Presently, she spends two hours a week brightening residents’ days with her friendly visits.

A French horn player in Point Grey’s symphonic band, Michaela has also acted as co-chair of Point Grey’s Music Executive for the past two years. This student-led club meets once a week and is responsible for stage set-up, ticket sales, and the general organization of music performances. Michaela’s position as leader is essentially that of a volunteer coordinator, requiring a significant portion of time and dedication, which she has gladly given.

It has always been my goal to be a differencemaker in the community. I served as Editor-inChief of the 2008-2009 Yearbook at Britannia, reducing the Yearbook debt from $10,000 to $2,500, which helped relieve some financial burden on the school. I am a Socials and English tutor at the school’s Homework Club, President of the Graduation Ceremonies Committee, Grade 12 & District Representative on the Student Council and a Global City Issues Club member. One of my

most significant contributions to the community would be serving as Senior Director of Marketing and Special Events of the 2009 Crossroads Conference, devoted to spreading student awareness of local issues, and connecting them with city leaders to make meaningful proposals and solutions. I am headed to the University of Toronto this fall to study International Relations.

I hope to one day work for the foreign service of Canada or the United Nations.

Rowena Cacapit John Oliver Secondary

Rowena Cacapit describes herself in her scholarship application as follows: “In the fall of 2005 I was a fresh young grade 8 who was just entering high school. I had no idea what to expect or exactly what to do. Now at the end of my graduating year I find myself doing everything possible while my time in high school is quickly ticking away. I know that I have developed far beyond what I could ever have hoped for. I used to be extremely shy before my high school experiences helped me build character, find my true personality and make me what I am today; an outgoing, bold leader”.

Rowena has devoted over 1000 hours to leading and choreographing the school Dance Club. She has also spent many hours volunteering with the Youth Corp under the sponsorship of the John Oliver Community School Team and acted in the school’s recent production of A Midsummer

Night’s Dream. She is a Provincial Finalist for the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program Perhaps Rowena’s most impressive accomplishments have been on the wrestling mat. As a recent article on the Vancouver School Board’s website put it, “her voice is barely louder than a mouse and her stature at 44 kilos is not much more either; but her determination and the size of her heart are immeasurable on any scale”.

Defying all odds she became John Oliver’s first Gold Medalists in a quarter decade and the first ever female wrestling champion for the school at the 2010 Canadian Juvenile Wrestling Championship held April 9-11, 2010 at Simon Fraser University.

She is a scholar, dancer, actress, volunteer and now National Juvenile Champion and Provincial AAA Wrestling Champion.

Congratulations!

Best of luck to the class of 2010

Congratulation!s Graduates Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh, Member of Parliament Vancouver South 6408 Fraser St. Vancouver, B.C., V5W 3A4 Tel: 604-775-5323 Fax: 604-775-5420 dosanu1a@parl.gc.ca www.ujjaldosanjh.ca www.twitter.com/ujjaldosanjh

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Bike path along river passes by awe-inspiring castles

Cycling Loire Valley has fairy-tale feel Judi Lees Contributing writer CHINON, France—Pedalling through the Loire Valley, alongside brilliant yellow fields of mustard, down country lanes bordered by blue irises and red poppies, past ripening vineyards and ancient châteaux, I’m prepared to believe I’m in a fairy tale. And in a way, I am: I’m headed to Sleeping

Beauty’s castle.

With three friends, I am taking Detours in France’s self-guided cycling trip, following the signs for “La Loire à velo,” the bike path along the Loire River. On this tour (normally five days and four nights, but it can be customized) accommodation is pre-arranged and luggage looked after—we only need to show up in time for

dinner. We will spend our days strolling the exquisite gardens at Villandry, admiring the Italian Renaissance architecture of the Château Azay le Rideau with its beautiful arches over the Indre River, exploring sleepy valley hamlets and climbing hills to vineyards where we will reward ourselves with glasses of wine. (The Loire is fairly easy cycling, but it does

boast some challenging hills.)

Of all the jaw-dropping moments on the trip the highlight is perhaps the moment when we first catch sight of the Château d’Ussé. This is the castle that the French writer Charles Perrault had in mind when he penned La Belle au bois dormant—better known to us as the tale of Sleeping Beauty.

Perrault wrote the story in 1697, having visited the château.

Originally a fortress, but muchchanged over the centuries, by Perrault’s time it had lost almost all of its defenses and added the lovely formal gardens visitors see today. The château is still lived in, but visitors can tour parts of it, including the secret tunnel that its Continued on next page

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Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 7:30 p.m. at the Killarney Community Centre 6260 Killarney Street.

Anyone holding a current Killarney Community Centre membership card is welcome.

Items to be dealt with are: • Election of directors • Any other business normally conducted at an A.G.M. One of the highlights of a cycling trip through the Loire Valley is the Château d’Ussé, the castle that the French writer Charles Perrault had in mind when he wrote La Belle au bois dormant photo Judi Lees (Sleeping Beauty) in 1697.

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Rabelais’s birthplace has history Continued from page 33 inhabitants could use to escape into the Forêt de Chinon, and what’s now known as Sleeping Beauty’s Tower, which gives panoramic views of the Loire and Indre valleys.

At the end of our day’s 36-kilometre ride (the distances cycled varied from 32 to 50 kilometres a day), we pedalled into Chinon. A pretty city with a medieval fortress, it was here, in 1429, that Joan of Arc persuaded the French dauphin to give her an army with which to fight the English.

You can still see 600-year-old half-timbered houses in rue Haute St-Maurice, where Joan of Arc stayed. Chinon was also the birthplace of the writer François Rabelais (1494-1533), known for his bawdy eatdrink-and-be-merry tales, including Gargantua and Pantagruel.

(If we had come in August we could have

been part of the Marché Rabelais, when events take place throughout Chinon’s old quarter.

There’s a crafts fair, singing and dancing and people dressed in period costume.)

Having worked up a thirst, we stopped first at Couly Dutheil Cellars for a tasting and to purchase a few bottles. Then, bumping on our bikes down the city’s cobbled streets, we came to our accommodation for the night, the Gargantua, built in the 15th century and named after Rabelais’ most famous series of tales. Up the well-worn, circular staircase to our rooms we went, thinking, perhaps a bit hazily, of Rabelais’ philosophy: “Drink well, drink always.”

For more information on Detours in France, visit its website at www.detoursin-france.com.

Judi Lees is a member of the Meridian Writers’ Group.

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If you were part of the crowd at the recent premiere of Bloodied but Unbowed, a documentary about Vancouver’s punk rock scene 30 years ago, you’ll likely be interested in the Or Gallery’s next exhibit. The gallery hosts Hold Still Wild Youth: the Gina Show Archive, John “J.A. Genius” Anderson’s TV art project that aired on Vancouver Cable 10 between 1978 and 1981 in association with an artist-run centre called PUMPS. Performance and media artists also contributed heavily to the show, which was hosted by artist and musician Gina Daniels. The installation brings together video archives, interviews, performance, music and digital art. Included are works by some of Vancouver’s best known visual and musical artists, including Hank Bull, Ken Lum, The Pointed Sticks, Eric Metcalfe, Stan Douglas and others. A short-wave broadcast will occur on site and related video screenings will take place in conjunction with the exhibition, which runs June 5 to July 10.

Details at theginashow.orgallery.org.

B.C. playwright Sally Stubbs’ account of a family’s legacy of beauty and brutality has already earned her the top award at the third annual 2009 Canadian Peace Play Competition, which was started by the University of Calgary’s Consortium of Peace Studies, and now it’s finally getting its world premiere at Granville Island’s Playwright Theatre Centre June 10 to 19. Directed

by Katrina Dunn and starring Dawn Petten, Herr Beckmann’s People is the story of a painter who returns to the German city she ran from decades ago to force her family, including a father who was a high ranking SS officer, to answer tough questions about their past. While her mother plays a private concert, history unravels and she is confronted with a moral dilemma of her own. Tickets at www.ticketstonight. ca or by calling 604-684-2787.

Archival episodes of The Gina Show are part of an Or Gallery exhibit.

Space weapons

Jennifer Lines and John Murphy are but two of the many fine actors performing in Bard on the Beach’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Executive producer Mark Achbar (The Corporation) and filmmaker Denis Delestrac surmise war machines are orbiting Earth with the U.S. determined to dominate the stars and thereby the world. In the documentary Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space, which opens June 4 at the VanCity Theatre, Delestrac wonders if the U.S. Defense Department’s contention that China is preparing for an “electronic Pearl Harbor” is true and should the world capitulate to one super-cop on this issue. What we really want to know is “Are there pigs in space?” You know, Captain Link Hogthrob and Dr. Julius Strangepork.

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With Dean Paul Gibson at the helm, audiences can be sure Bard on the Beach’s season-opening production of Much Ado About Nothing will be a crowd pleaser. Gibson sets the Shakespeare comedy in 1910 Italy and has hired a cast of thesps who know how to ham it up, including John Murphy, Shawn Macdonald, Allan Morgan, Jennifer Lines, Patti Allan and Andrew Wheeler. Much Ado is under the tents at Vanier Park June 10 to Sept. 25. Tickets at 604739-0559 or via www.bardonthebeach.org.

Vancouver-based Cameroon dancer Jacky Essombe wants you to celebrate community at Spirit of the Village, June 5 at the Scottish Cultural Centre. In a traditional village in Africa, a typical evening with the community includes sharing food, telling stories, singing, dancing and playing music together. Participants are both performer and audience, though master drummer Thione Dion, along with his band Yeke Yeke, will act as a “griot.” Visit www.jackyessombe.com or visit one of the Ten Thousand Villages stores in the city for details and tix.

kudos & kvetches Body of knowledge

If there’s one phrase that catches K&K’s attention—besides “free badger” and “Intervention marathon”—it’s the words “maximum results, minimum effort.” So we were stoked when we picked up this week’s edition the West Ender, or WE for all you hip, abbreviated kids, which isn’t typically the emotion we feel when we pick up a copy of “Vancouver’s urban weekly.” But lo and behold, there on its press-photo adorned cover were the magical words we’ve been longing to hear: “Beach body: maximum results, minimum effort.” It was as if the editors had taken a peek at our dream journal, gotten past all references to Gloria Macarenko, and found the passage about wanting to get our formless abs, flabby arms and pasty white thighs into shape for beach season while sticking to our strict frappuccino and bacon diet.

The article maps out a no-nonsense, no-sweat approach to making your body Kits Beach worthy while refusing to adhere to such annoying strategies as work and effort. Suggestions include wearing specially designed shoes that work your butt muscles

harder than regular shoes, skin-firming body bronzer and zapping your underperforming muscles with European-style electrical currents. Way ahead of you, my friend.

Sadly, the article didn’t cover many of K&K’s favourite methods for achieving maximum results with minimum effort. So as a service to all you lazy, apathetic types, here are some additional suggestions for making a better you without trying.

• Spanx. Body shaping hosiery is not only a great name for a band, but it takes the shame out of spandex and contains your cottage cheese cellulite like a sausage casing.

Anyone suddenly hungry for lunch?

• Moo moos. Mrs. Roper’s favourite article of clothing is the exact opposite of Spanx but with the same deceptive results. Instead of holding things in, oversized moo moo dresses drape your body in floral-printed mystery, much like that pineapple with a moustache tattoo you found on your lower back after blacking out in Cabo last year. Maybe that’s just us.

• Passive aggressiveness. Whenever we hang out with friends who are better looking and more in shape than us, which are just

about all of them, we like to say things like, “My life is too full and enriched to spend so much time on narcissistic pursuits,” or “I could buy a gym membership, but then who would feed and clothe Diego, our Honduran foster child?” That’ll shut up them up.

• Smoking. Sure, it’s not very PC to tout the appetite-suppressing benefits of nicotine, but a fact is a fact. Smokers get laid more than nonsmokers. Or at least, they look like they get laid more than non-smokers, which is just as important to your tar-stained self-esteem.

• Hang out with chubbier people than you.

When Prince Hal was pissing off his father in Shakespeare’s Henry the IV part 1 by hanging out with tavern lowlifes and not acting like a future king, there was a method to his slumming: making his rise to the top seem all the more impressive.

“And like bright metal on a sullen ground,/My reformation, glittering o’er my fault,/Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes/Than that which hath no foil to set it off.” Let chubbier, more out of shape people be your foil. Hint: You can probably find a few useful “friends” lined up at Church’s Chicken. Buy them lunch, take them to the beach, and let the sun shine down on you.

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The move to sustainable seafood continues to gather momentum here and abroad. If you’ve been to Seattle, chances are you’ve seen those crazy fishmongers at Pike Place tossing the fish around. Well, the big news this week (via the Seattle Times) is that the Pike Place Fish Market is about to go entirely sustainable. No more monkfish, Russian king crab or wild steelhead. And no more Styrofoam shipping boxes. The changes are sweeping—and challenging. We’re wondering who will be the first officially declared all-sustainable fishmonger on Granville Island.

On the local scene, the surprise Sustainable Seafood winner at this year’s WHERE Vancouver’s Where to Dine Awards was Grouse Mountain’s Observatory Restaurant, whose entire menu is Ocean Wise—meaning that no seafood leaves chef Dino Gazzola’s kitchen that isn’t a sustainably fished species.

The other mainly sustainable restaurant that’s recently caught our attention is Fishworks on Lower Lonsdale (“LoLo” to the cool set), 91 Lonsdale Ave., 778-340-3449.

Here’s a room that’s virtually under the radar (except in North Van), but we guarantee that it won’t be for long. The high-ceilinged, heritage space is quickly gaining a reputation for its smartly sourced, detail driven and affordable plates. Highlights of our lunch ranged from a superb lobster bisque (matched with Stag’s Hollow’s well-balanced 2008 Viognier Marsanne) to a delicious Queen Charlotte halibut fillet, generously portioned and cooked to moist perfection, served with a daring but sensibly spiced, roasted jalapeno, blackberry and tomato ragout, and served on a mascarpone risotto cake.

Owner-chef Shallaw Kadir obviously has a knack for getting seafood right.

He’s also an adventurous chef who doesn’t mind pushing the envelope.

Add to the fact that this cosy spot is almost entirely Ocean Wise. The well chosen and affordably priced wines and seductive desserts are more reasons to head back soon. Plus, who knew that

C chef Robert Clark has been the driving force locally to challenge his photo Tim Pawsey restaurant peers to become Ocean Wise. halibut and jalapeno could pair so well with Stag’s Hollow’s powerful, smoky and peppery 2008 Syrah?

To sample some of the best Ocean Wise cuisine in the city, treat yourself to the June 11 Night at the Aquarium— widely hailed as one of the year’s best events—where you can party the night away with tastes from 14 Ocean Wise stars, including Tojo, Josh Wolfe (Coast) and C restaurant’s Robert Clark—the man who kickstarted the whole process in 2005. Tickets available from nightattheaquarium.org or by calling 604659-3527.

Clark has been the driving force behind Ocean Wise. He was the first to encourage many of his peers to take up the Ocean Wise challenge, which he sees as being crucial to the survival of most local fisheries. He also works with Bamfield Community Huu ay aht Abalone Project, which is now able to occasionally supply C with that once all-but-extinct species.

For a relatively young program, it’s reassuring to see the success of the Vancouver Aquarium initiative. And

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I know why she did it. After hundreds, nay, thousands of other, earlier productions of Godspell, director Sarah Rodgers must have been searching for a completely new way of framing this 40-year-old musical. Instead of something new, she tried something old—Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. You remember it? The American TV sketch comedy that ran on NBC from 1968-1973. It spawned, amongst others, Tiny Tim who, with his ukulele, forever ruined “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” And it took decades for Goldie Hawn to dump the dumb blonde image that was her Laugh-In trademark.

Chances are pretty good that JohnMichael Tebelak, who wrote Godspell as his master’s thesis in 1970 in Pittsburgh, watched it, too. However, he didn’t think of using Rowan and Martin’s one-liner format for his re-telling of the parables according to the Gospel of St. Matthew.

Instead, Tebelak envisioned Christ’s disciples as flower children romping through a playground. Since then, directors all over the world have had their way with Godspell. Part of the 1973 film version was set in a junk yard; another scene was shot

on the roof of the then newly completed World Trade Center in New York.

The show’s music was written by Tebelak’s fellow students but later, producers hired Stephen Schwartz to write a new score. “By My Side” (written way back when by Vancouver director Jay Hamburger and sung in this production by Kyla Ferrier and Shalyn McFaul) is the only song remaining from the original student production.

Bryan Pollock’s set for this Pacific Theatre Godspell (an archaic spelling of gospel) is a replica of the Laugh-In set: a colourful wall with many windows out of which pop various characters saying funny things. Rowan (Joel Stephanson) and Martin (John Voth) kibbutz around long enough to make you wonder if you’re in the right theatre when John the Baptist (Ron Reed) and Jesus (Tim Bratton) arrive as Laugh-In guests. The TV show’s regulars, including Lily Tomlin (Julia Church), Ruth Buzzi (Ferrier) and Arte Johnson (Benjamin Miller) are swept away by Jesus and his relating of the Biblical parables, some of which still make good sense while others remain enigmatic. The Prodigal Son? What?

But the music is singable and well sung by this youthful cast of 15. Erin Germaine Mahoney really socks it to us with “Turn Back, O Man”—an exhortation to “forswear” our “wicked ways.” Bratton sweetly renders Christ’s desire to “Save

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Successful as Godspell has been—and continues to be—it has its detractors, including a way-over-the-top rant on Google at Godspell: the Ultimate Blasphemy. I’m more inclined to agree with one commentator who wonders at the continuing popularity of what is, in essence, a musical rendering of Christ’s lessons to mankind. Furthermore, I do not understand the practice of double-casting John the Baptist and Judas Iscariot.

While the cast and crew are doubtless having a grand time, I have reservations about this particular production. According to the various gospels, Jesus’ disciples were working men who set aside the tools of their trades to follow him. In Tebelak’s Godspell, they are flower children or hippies but in Rodgers envisioning, Christ’s followers look like groupies disco-dancing their way to Heaven. The opening night audience loved it, but even for an old agnostic like me, I found Rodgers’ treatment trivialized the ancient tale.

That aside, this production under the musical direction of Nelson Boschman left me trying to sing “Day By Day” (sung beautifully by Kaitlin Williams) ever since and wondering, once again, about the humble carpenter who a couple of thousand years ago set Christianity in motion. joled@telus.net

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Painter’s palette blends history, art and architecture

Exhibit casts downtown buildings in new light State of the Arts with Cheryl Rossi Our city of glass isn’t known for its heritage structures, but a new multifaceted exhibit will have you considering downtown buildings in a new light.

Edifice: Exploring Art, Archives and Architecture combines an artist’s view of 10 downtown buildings, digitized historical photos of these structures and the period in which they were built, a walking tour and a talk that will illuminate the past and, perhaps, the future.

No one can remember exactly how the collaboration between the City of Vancouver Archives and local artist Graham Winter came together, says Les Mobbs, city archivist, but when he heard Winter was focusing on historic buildings for his newest large-scale works, Mobbs believed it would be the perfect way to draw eyes to the archives’ newly refurbished gallery.

The city’s archives are tucked down a street between the planetarium, the Vancouver Academy of Music and Bard on the Beach. Ten five-feet tall by two-feet wide oil paintings hang in the gallery down a flight of stairs while archival shots of each building depicted play slowly on a large TV screen.

The pale green roof of the Hotel Vancouver contrasted against a navy blue sky, sunlight, seagulls and shadows playing against the Royal Bank building at Granville and Hastings and the magnificent Marine Building at the north foot of Burrard backed by the mountains and a swathe of fog are some of the more predictable landmarks captured in oil on canvas.

The choice to include others came as a revelation to Winter.

The 53-year-old native of Vancouver spent three years developing his realist

For the exhibit Edifice: Exploring Art, Archives and Architecture, Graham Winter created 10 photo Dan Toulgoet large-scale oil paintings depicting downtown heritage buildings. paintings of historic buildings. He snapped photos for at least a year and a half, shooting iconic structures at certain times of the year and certain times of the day to catch them in a specific light.

He got into a penthouse of a building across the street from the Marine Building in February at daybreak. While he was there, he pointed his lens at every building in sight. When he culled more than 200 photos down to the 10 he would recreate, what he chose and discarded surprised him.

“The Guinness Tower is one of the buildings that made it in,” Graham said. “When I was a little boy, I was out for a drive with my Nana and my great aunt, and my great aunt looked

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at this building, she said, ‘Ugh. That’s nothing but a glorified matchbox.’ So that always stuck in my head, but it’s really beautiful.”

Winter added that the boxy, brown, windowed building on West Hastings at Thurlow reflects the Mad Men era.

He also discovered a newfound appreciation for the Bentall Building on Burrard near Pender. “Being in the penthouse, I’m looking across at it and the light hitting it, and thought this is actually a very elegant building,” Winter said. “I remember when it was a hole in the ground and I was always like, ‘Ugh, that building,’ but it became a thing of beauty.”

Winter and historian Isaac Vanderhorst, Heritage Vancouver board member and ed-

ucation coordinator with the West Vancouver Museum, will lead a walking tour called Downtown Vancouver in a New Light, June 12. Winter will share his experience of looking at downtown Vancouver through the eyes of an artist, and Vanderhorst will talk about the buildings’ architects, owners and little-known incidents that happened within their walls. The tour will venture into two lobbies to view their art.

At a free panel discussion, Iconic Constructions, Iconic Reflections, June 9, architects and architecture experts Michael Geller, James Cheng, Walter Francl and Matthew Soules will discuss the elements that make Winter’s heritage buildings landmarks, and what they say about the ideals and identity of the society that created them. They’ll not only discuss the iconic buildings of the last 20 years, but also speculate on what will end up on Vancouver’s 2050 Heritage Register.

Janet Leduc, executive director of Heritage Vancouver, said the partnership with the archives is a first for the non-profit group and the collaboration with an artist is a perfect fit with the society’s recent initiative, Heritage and the Arts.

“We have a common interest in preserving our heritage buildings or structures,” she said.

Winter is amazed at how all the components of Edifice have come together.

“It’s not just looking at a bunch of paintings,” he said. “It really connects to something real in our lives.”

Winter’s paintings are on display at the archives at 1150 Chestnut St., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, until Aug. 26. Admission is free. The panel discussion also happens at the archives, June 9, 7 p.m. The walking tour is 10 a.m. to noon on June 12. It costs $25, or $20 for Heritage Vancouver members. For more information, see www.heritagevancouver.org. crossi@vancourier.com

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KALMAS, Steve Louis 1925-2010 Steve Kalmas passed away peacefully on May 31, 2010. He will be sadly missed but lovingly remembered by his wife, Betty and his son, Gary. Steve always had an interesting story on the tip of his tongue that he told with great passion and humor. He enjoyed playing and watching sports-soccer (great goal scorer), golf, pool, and loved the Boston Red Sox. Steve was an excellent, natural salesman but always wanted to be his own boss so he purchased a billiard hall and ran it and another with great pride for about 25 years. There will be a celebration of his life on Monday June 7, 11am, at St. David’s Anglican Church @ 2475 Franklin St. in East Vancouver. A reception will follow @ Marine Pub at 5820 Marine Drive, Burnaby (the foot of Gilley)

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VISIT VAN TAN NUDIST CLUB Open House, North Van Sun June 6th & July 11th, 10;00am- 4:00pm Other dates by appointment.

Call 604-980-2400 info@vantan.ca AANR-WC& AANR affiliation RETRO DESIGN & ANTIQUES FAIR 175 tables & booths of fun, fabulous finds for you & your eclectic abode!

SUN JUNE 13 10-3 Croatian Cultural Center 3250 Commercial Dr, 604-980-3159 Adm: $5

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★ CAT FOUND ★ Orange, short haired cat with yellow eyes in the area of 15th & Sasamat in Point Grey. Please call 604-564-3128.

GOLD CHAIN bracelet, engraved Melissa, found in Kerrisdale May 31st. Call to identify 604-683-7275

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Coming Events

ANTIQUE SHOW Sat., June 5th

7:30-9:00 a.m. $10 Early Bird 9am-5pm $1.50 Reg. Admission

SELLARS, HARRY “There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval” Born April 11, 1922 in Sheffield, England; Yorkshire man, youthful, Hedley Verity, WWII, soldier, husband, (Margaret “Peggy”), bricklayer, Clovers, father, sons, (Stuart, Iain), pioneer, Canadian, ERCO, inner strength, quiet noble dignity, dry humor, somber reflection, patience, voracious reader, strong tea, kindness, quick wit, fraternal brother, grandfather, (Mar), caring, Las Vegas, good companion, sensitive, loved family, (Vickie , Jessica), extended family, (Pakulak), best friend, pal, my mother’s life companion (64 years) our Dad, passed away on May 16, 2010 in North Vancouver, Canada, the interval was 88 wonderful years “So, let his name through England ring –A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta’s King, Because his soul was great.”

The Sellars Family would like to thank the women and men of the Lions Gate Hospital’s Neurological, and Acute Neurological wards, its Palliative Care Unit and the staff of Evergreen House for making the last weeks of Harry’s life interval comfortable and dignified. The family will be having a private service. At this time we request that all who knew and enjoyed the man who was Harry Sellars take a small time out of their day to reflect on their own families and cherish and love them dearly.

Coming Events

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Announcements

Worked in Britain?

Need help to claim your pension?

The Canadian Alliance of British Pensioners

invites you to hear the National Chairman Brian Lechem speak on “Where we go from Here” at the Annual Meeting of the BC Branch in the Alma Van Dusen & Peter Kaye Room, Lower level, Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 1:30 p.m.

New members welcome • No registration required A workshop for Members on “How to claim your U.K. Pension” will follow.

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TEAM WOOD DISTRIBUTION

is a wood products division of RICHELIEU HARDWARE, Canada’s leading distributor of specialty hardware.

Team Wood has been a supplier of quality panel and veneer products to the cabinet, mill work and furniture industries since 1972. Our business has been built on strong and lasting relationships with our customers and suppliers alike by our team of talented and motivated people.

We are offering a unique opportunity for the right individual to join our team in an outside sales function working with Richelieu’s 7 industrial sales representatives in the Lower Mainland as our ''Board Products Specialist''.

The successful candidate must have industry experience and the skill sets and discipline to achieve our goals.

Compensation includes base salary, commission, vehicle allowance, a comprehensive group insurance program as well as an employee share purchase plan.

If you are interested in applying please forward your resume in confidence to: phorsley@richelieu.com

LONG HAIR Siamese Cat, Answers to Kashmir, Reward offered, 11yrs, female, needs Medication, lost in Marpole May 16th, please call 604-709-6228

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Director of Housing & Hospice Services St. James - Job Opportunities that reward!

Surrey Vancouver

Are you feeling unmotivated and tired of your repetitive, unchallenging Career? At Cloverdale Paint we offer a fast-paced, team-oriented working environment. Our Vancouver location is looking for full and part-time Customer Service Representatives to join their team. You must be service driven and able to work in a challenging, dynamic work atmosphere.

If you have previous paint sales experience and are looking a change, look no further! If you do not have paint experience, but are looking for an exciting new career, please apply now.

Applicants must be able to lift 70 lbs throughout their shift.

Interested applicants should apply in person at the following location: 1852 W. Broadway, Vancouver or careers@cloverdalepaint.com Thank you to all who apply, only those selected interviews will be contacted.

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Choose to make a difference and join an organization that acknowledges the value and dignity in every individual! With nearly 50 years as a broad-based community social service agency and over 300 dedicated employees, St. James cares for the most vulnerable.

The Role - Why it’s the Right fit for you • Experienced leading & developing a large portfolio of vital health and social services • Experienced leader with the drive to take our services to the highest levels of care and practice • A track record of motivating successful teams and being the driving force in implementing strategic plans • Looking for a leadership role with the potential to make a high impact and organizational change • Comfortable managing multi-million dollar budgets and leading multi-disciplinary groups of staff.

To apply, submit your resume & cover letter by June 13/10 to email: sbishop@sjcss.com, with posting #10-61 in the subject line. For more info call Jonathan Oldman, Executive Director, at 604-606-0307.

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Career Services/ Job Search

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General Employment

Customer sales/service

Summer Work

Immediate openings

Flexible schedules, $16.25 baseappt, conditions apply, no exp necessary will train. call now, (604) 676-0446 or www.summeropenings.ca/mv EXP’D DENTAL TECHNICIAN Full service Dental Lab in Victoria, BC requires an exp dental tech to make splints. Competitive salary & company benefits. Relocation ass’t if applicable. Fax resume in confidence to HR at 1-866-237-9442 Email: cathyb@aurumgroup.com www.aurumgroup.co

North Shore Auto Parts

requires ★ Experienced Counter Person for part-time position Jobber experience an asset.

We offer a competitive salary.

Please email resume to: len@northshoreparts.com

Drivers RESIDENT MANAGER MARPOLE

LONG HAUL CLASS 1 OWNER / OPERATORS for rapidly expanding transportation co. taking on new contracts & need to expand our fleet. Owners with no trailers are welcome as well! Looking for teams & singles. Call 604 598-3498 Fax 604 598-3497 or email

Live-in position for retired or semi-retired couple.

Experience not required.

Training provided.

Should have outgoing personality & good English.

Building is smoke free & pet free.

Fax resume with cover letter to 604-980-3839.

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SUPERVISOR

North Shore Auto Parts requires

★ F/t & P/t Drivers

Applicants must be experienced, self-motivated with good driving record.

Please email resume with a copy of your drivers abstract to Attn Len, email: len@northshoreparts.com

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One permanent F/T Supervisor required at Bashir Auto Detailers, 711 West 14 St. North Vancouver V7M-3E8. Must have experience in anti rust under-coating protection, cut polishing, use of paint, leather & fabric protection detailing and install pin strips and body side mouldings on new and used cars and trucks. Duties: Supervise and scheduling of workers, recommending additional services to clients, receive payments and assist cleaners in performing specialized duties. Must be fluent in English and able to operate cleaning machines. $17.50/hour.

Apply in person btwn 11am - 5pm or by mail/phone, 604-987-2921.

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General Employment

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Hotel Restaurant

PARTS MANAGER REQUIRED for busy Ford dealership.

Previous management/ADP experience required. Exceptional remuneration/commission.

Pension/company benefits. Email resume to: employment@kinglandford.com or Fax (867) 920-9202 Yellowknife

PAUL’S PLACE Restaurant seeking F/T cook. Applicants must have several yrs of exp. & compl. of sec. school. $14.50/hr.

Email resume: dinoarsens@yahoo.ca

Personal Trainer Certification Earn up to $70/hr as a Personal Trainer. Government Financial Aid may be avail. 604-930-8377 See our ad in todays paper under Education.

WANTED: Kids to sell chocolate bars after school & wknds. Earn up to $150/wk. 604-618-7780.

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Student Employment

Trades/Technical

ATTENTION: ALL CARPENTERS AND BRIDGEWORKERS

Some great kids aged 12 to 18 who need a stable, caring home for a few months.

If you’ve been looking for a home-based opportunity to do meaningful, fulfilling work.

Qualified applicants receive training, support and monthly remuneration.

Funding is available for modifications to better equip your home.

A child at risk is waiting for an open door. Make it yours.

Call 604-708-2628 www.plea.ca

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Health Care

LIVE-IN CAREGIVER for senior in South Vancouver, driver’s lic. a must. Call 604-619-5192.

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Home Support

CAREGIVER needed for elderly woman, light housekeeping and meal prep. Email resume to miguelakedawen@hotmail.com CAREGIVER required for disabled person, Kits area, benefits, D/L required. Fax resumes to 604-742-0975 email: damistadsociety@gmail.com LIVE-IN CAREGIVER wanted.

Must be willing to work shifts: days, evenings and nights.

Rotating days off. $8/hr. Must have a valid driver’s license. Call 604-765-7907, ask for Lourdes.

6TH ANNUAL

MEGA JOB FAIR

INTERIOR ROADS LTD. REQUIRES; JOURNEYMAN BRIDGEWORKERS. 100 Mile House and Williams Lake.

Successful Applicants perform Journeyman function in Bridge Maintenance. Class 3 with air mandatory.

Details; www.interiorroads.com Email: joannam@dawcom.com Fax: 250-374-4114.

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Career Services/ Job Search

ACCENTUS MEDICAL Transcription Services

requires Canadian MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS to work from home. Expertise in Operative Reports needed.

Health Benefits now available!

Please apply online www.accentus.ca/ employment.html

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Education

FOODSAFE 1 DAY COURSES – ONLY $66 BEST VALUE GUARANTEED Classes Every Sat, Sun & Mon Taught by Certified Public Health Inspectors ADVANCE Hospitality Education BC’s #1 Foodsafe Choice

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CERTIFIED COURSE Best Price - only $59!

• Surrey (SFU Campus) • New West (Douglas College) • Vancouver (Van. Ed. Centre) Phone: 604-534-5339 www.foodsafenow.com

MARITIME DRILLING SCHOOL

entry-level training for land and offshore oilrigs. Excellent wages, benefits and opportunities to travel the world. June 21st-July 10th & July 19th-Aug 07th.

Contact: 1-866-807-3960 www.mdslimited.ca

Personal Trainer Certification

Earn up to $70/hr as a Personal Trainer.

Government Financial Aid may be available.

604-930-8377 Hilltop Academy

604-272-7213

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Music/Theatre/ Dance

IN HOME OR STUDIO LESSONS Piano, Theory & other instruments.

Allegro Music School 604-327-7765 VOICE AND PIANO ELLA & MICHAEL LEVYKH 604-322-1019

Tutoring Services

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HELPFUL MATH TUTOR Phone: 778-866-8877 Web: http://m101m.org

TUTOR DOCTOR VANCOUVER In-Home Tutoring for All Ages and Subjects. Experienced & Qualified Tutors. 604-351-7761 bfitzgerald@tutordoctor.com www.tutordoctor.com

★COMPUTERS★

COMPUTER LESSONS FOR 50+ $30/hr Spring Special $210 /8hrs.

Call Sol at 604-266-2414 Website: www.easypc.ca

ROOFERS - Single Ply

Marine Roofing seeks Journeypersons.

Min 3 yrs exp $27.50-$32.50/hr Call Daryl, 604-433-1813 dmorrison@marineroofing.com

TRUTH IN ''EMPLOYMENT'' ADVERTISING Canwest Community Publishing makes every effort to ensure you are responding to a reputable and legitimate job opportunity. If you suspect that an ad to which you have responded is misleading, here are some hints to remember.

Legitimate employers do not ask for money as part of the application process; do not send money; do not give any credit card information; or call a 900 number in order to respond to an employment ad.

Job opportunity ads are salary based and do not require an investment.

If you have responded to an ad which you believe to be misleading please call the Better Business Bureau at 604-682-2711, Monday to Friday, 9am - 3pm or email inquiries@bbbvan.org and they will investigate.

FOODSAFE 1 DAY COURSES Guaranteed best value!

Six Metro Vancouver Locations: Vancouver • Burnaby • Surrey • Richmond • Coquitlam • Maple Ridge All our Instructors are also working local Health Inspectors!

Classes held each week & weekend! Course materials available in 6 languages. Same-day Certification. Visit our website at www.foodsafe-courses.com or call 604-272-7213 ADVANCE Hospitality Education – B.C.’s #1 Choice for Foodsafe & WorldHost Training.

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SCHOOL Train on Full-Size Excavators, Dozers, Graders, Loaders. Oil Field Tickets. Provincially Certified Instructors. Government Accredited. Job Placement assistance. www.iheschool.com 1-866-399-3853

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Antiques

• RETRO DESIGN & •

ANTIQUES FAIR

175 tables & booths of fun, fabulous finds for you & your eclectic abode!

Sunday • JUN 13 • 10am-3pm Croatian Cultural Centre

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3250 Commercial Drive, Van. 604-980-3159 • Adm. $5

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Lumber/Building Supplies

#1A STEEL BUILDING SALE! Save up to 60% on your new garage, shop, warehouse or storage building.

6 different colors available! 40 year warranty!

FREE shipping for the first 20 callers! 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

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Wanted to Buy

3015 SYSTEMS INC.

We sell & service all hot & cold pressure washers 604.434.2188 upsi.ca #11 - 5850 Byrne Rd. Burnaby

LIKE NEW!

Childcare Available

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Childcare Wanted

FT L/I caregiver needed for a toddler. East Vancouver area. pls call Nestor @ 604-999-3234.

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AUCTIONS

NEXT AUCTION Saturday, July 10, 9am

Industrial, Construction, Forklifts, Farm & Turf Equip., Crane Trucks, Trailers, Lumber, Boats and etc. Cars & Trucks 9 a.m. Start!!!

Located in Langley Just 30 Minutes from Vancouver

WELCOMING INDUSTRIAL SMALLS.

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★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

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2.56CT SOLITAIRE diamond engag ring.$11,000firm. colorH SI2ph: 604-202-4948

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10 AUSTRALIAN Shepherd Pups, Tails, dew claws & first shots done, Ready June 5th, price reduced. 604-607-7372

BEST Deal Restwell Matt Sets.

Full wrty, Dble $319. Queen $339 King $559. Will deliver. 722-3636 Coffee Table, 45' long, 23.5 'wide, 16' tall, glass, slides & horizontal. $45. Danish style table, 4ft 7 ' long, 30.5' wide, 29' high, 2 x 13inch leaves, tile design in the middle. $195 Mt Pleasant area, Van, 604-875-8055 HIGH END furniture for sale, very good condition, downsizing. call 604- 408-2419

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PIT BULL puppies male & female 8 wks 1st shots, dewormed. View parents. $500. Ph 604-701-1587 SCHNAUZER hypoallergic, 1 male blk, 1 female grey. 1st shot, dewormed 8 wk $650. 604-795-1953 SHARPEI IN Coquitlam is looking for good home, very healthy and great with people. Must go through Sharpei rescue for an application. www.petfinder.com/petdetail/5731357

SHIHTZU PUPS multi colour, 1st shots, adorable to good homes $475. 604-773-2146, 820-0252

HORSE BOARDING available. $600.00 per month. Indoor and outdoor arenas. Large paddocks.

Fort Langley area. Beautiful setting. Call 604-888-2455.

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MINIATURE SCHNAUZER puppies. Little 'teddy bears' full of love & devotion. $650. 604-625-7509

MINPIN PUPS, beautiful, vet chk, 1st shots/tails done, to approved home, $800 604-791-9224 Chwk

Pet Services

LATISHA’S PET CARE

Cat sitting. We love cats. Vanc. only. Michele 778-385-7313

3545 JACK RUSSELL pups, smooth coat, shots & dewormed. family raised, $400 ★ 604-794-3229

Horse Boarding

ALL SMALL breed pups local & non shedding $400+ 604 590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

AUSTRALIAN LABRADOODLE Pups Non-shedding mediums, parents 27lbs, spayed/neutered, 1st shots, reg. w/ ALAA, $2500 1-250-494-3107 Summerland AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS ('Aussies'). 8 months. Full of love & devotion. $650. 604-625-7509

Registered Massage Services

SWISS BODY

MASSAGE & WAXING Men & Women

Massage $29 Head to Toe 3 hrs $109

3482 Main St. Van 604-873-9890 NORAH SPA Opening Massage 4085 Oak St & King Edward 604-677-5121 Try the Best 604-872-1702

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Metaphysical

LOVE! MONEY! LIFE! #1 Psychics!

1-877-478-4410 CreditCards/Deposit $3.19/min 18+ 1-900-783-3800 www.mysticalconnections.ca

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Mind,Body&Soul

RELAXATION Therapeutic Massage Full Body Massage, Facial, Acupuncture (Ins. Covered). 604-568-6123 (190 E 48Ave).

4520 BC REPTILE Club Show & Sale Sat June 12 • 10 am to 5 pm and Sun June 13 • 10 am to 4pm Abbotsford Exhibition Park 32470 Haida Drive, Cadet Building Abbotsford B.C Admission : Adults $4 , Kids $2 , Children under 5 Free ; Family Pass $10.00 (2 adults up to 3 kids) For more info visit us at www.bcreptileclub.com 1-604-392-5715

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Poultry

Cares!

The Vancouver Courier has partnered with the BC SPCA to encourage responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals. Before purchasing a new puppy, ensure the seller has provided excellent care and treatment of the animal and the breeding parents. For a complete guide to finding a reputable breeder and other considerations when acquiring a new pet, visit spca.bc.ca.

COCKER SPANIEL p/b pups with papers vet. shots, ready now, Vanc. $400 neg. 604-708-1752 FILA/MASTIFF GUARD DOGS owners best friend. Intruders worst nightmare. all shots, $2000 each. ready now! 604-817-5957

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Pets - Other

LAYING BROWN HENS. Tame & friendly. Lay well. $7.00 each.

Cloverdale, 604 541-0007

Furniture

BED, ADJUSTABLE single Plasma, w/remote control. near new, $750, 604-731-0115

DOBERMAN PUPS. Female/ Male. Tails/dew claws done. Blk/ tan. $1500-$2000. 604-607-7433

GARAGE SALES

Dogs

PEMBROKE WELSH corgi male, nine months, Reg AKC $2000 778-688-6868

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Dogs

www.canamauctions.com

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BIG BEAUTIFUL Bernese Mountain dog puppies for sale.

Ready to go June 5th. First shots and vet check. 2 males and 2 females left. $1000 each. call 604-897-6495

Cats

6780 Glover Rd., Langley, BC ph: 604-534-0901

Clothing/Fur/ Jewels

BERNESE MOUNTAIN Dog Puppies. Male and Female, vet checked and ready for loving homes. $1,100. 604-637-4439.

Langley.

Foster homes urgently req’d for rescued, abandoned & neglected dogs. Many breeds 778-688-6340 abetterlifedogrescue.com

Warranty & Delivery Removal Available

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PB GERMAN shepherd pups, black & tan, 6 weeks old, 1st shots, vet✔, $550 604-856-7405

* * BOOK NOW!! * * An overseas live-in Nanny for 2010 placement. 604-682-4688

Fridge 249 • Stove 199 Washer $199 • Dryer $149 $

Dogs

Old Books Wanted also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. (no text books/encyclopedia) I pay cash. 604-737-0530

Appliances

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Charters & Tours

FULLY ESCORTED TOURS Travel with World Travel Specialist Ron Booiman 604-946-4484

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You Want It We’ve Got It

Find Whatever You’re Looking for in the Classifieds.

AMULTI-FAMILY COURTYARD SALE/BBQ Pacific Heights Housing Coop 1035 Pacific Street (behind Heritage houses) Saturday June 5 9:30-1PM Hand made crafts, fun for kids, balloons, face painting household items, clothing for children and much more!

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MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE Sat June 5th, 10:00am - 2:00pm 3637 Cambie St. Westside (on 20th )

Tools, bikes, Shelves, Kids Stuff, Purses, Bags, Books, Coins, & Clothes, etc!! Good Stuff!!

B GARAGE SALE @ UBC! Sat. June 5, 10am - 1pm St. Anselm’s Church, 5210 University Blvd.

Lots of household items from UBC residents. Don’t miss it BURNABY

Rummage & Bake Sale Sat., June 5th, 9am - 2pm All Saints Anglican Church, 7405 Royal Oak Ave., Bby Small appliances, books, clothing and misc. items.

Collectible Fair & Computer Swap Meet

Saturday, June 12 • 11am-4pm

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GIANT STREET SALE

Sat, June 5th 8:30am-2:00pm 1000 blk of East 10th

Lots of quality and household/kid items!!

In case of rain. Sun 9a-2p TSAW MOVING GARAGE SALE Sat June 5th 8 am- Noon 503 Connaught Dr. Rain or Shine!

Gas BBQ, Tv’s. electric fireplace, lawn mower, pressure washer, some furn, and great misc. items!

FAB FAIR

Jewellery & Fashion Accessory Sale

SAT. JUNE 5TH • SUN. JUNE 6TH 11AM-5PM

45 local designers • $2 adm., kids free Heritage Hall 3102 Main St. @ 15th Ave.

Scottish Centre • Adm: $3 8886 Hudson St., S. Vancouver

www.funpromo.ca 604.521.6304

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Super Sale!

Sat. & Sun Jun 5 & 6.. 9 - 3pm 2476 W. 13th Ave. Recumbent bikes, tools, toys, electrontics, car, garden & household items, planes, tables & chairs, weed eaters, books, mirror, carperts +++

TAPESTRY THRIFT SHOP

1369 Kingsway (just west of Knight St) NG • Furniture • Houseware HI • Books • Knick Knacks SOMEFTOR NE! O RY • Jewellery • Accessories VE EAT !

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Proceeds to the Tapestry Foundation in support of residential & elder care at Mount St. Joseph, Holy Family, St. Vincent’s Langara, Brock Farhni, Youville Residence & Marion Hospice.

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

GARAGE SALE

MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

Weekends were made for shopping, so make sure you check our Classifieds for a comprehensive listing of garage sales in your area!

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Spring Garage Sales

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Accounting/ Bookkeeping

Corporate Tax Returns $225 +up $20 and up for personal tax.

Monthly bookkeeping $20 hr +.

Specialize: construction; sm bus. accounting. Trevor 604-788-0396

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Business Opportunity

#1 JANITORIAL FRANCHISE Customers, (Office Cleaning), Training and support. Financing. www.coverall.com 604-434-7744 info@coverallbc.com

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Business Services

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Computer/ Internet

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5505

Legal/Public Notices

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6020

Agents

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6005

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6007

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

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6020

7010

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Real Estate

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Real Estate

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6020-46

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6025

Industrial/ Commercial

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Houses - Sale

SURREY, Central City. Only $725,000! Rare high exposure commercial with high density “Downtown” designation. Floor Area Ratio is 3.5. Approx. 15,790 sq ft. 2 lots 123’ x 128’. Only $13.12 per buildable sq ft. Recent appraisal for $828,000. Call Ben Gauer, Royal LePage Ben Gauer & Associates, 604-644-0273 or 604-581-3838.

6030

N. WEST. All services paid, inclds u/grd electrical, DCC’s, survey & eng’ng report. 33’ x 130’ lot. No GST. $337,000. 604-726-0677. usellahome.com ● ID # 4711

Okanagen/ Interior

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6052

Real Estate Investment

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Apartments & Condos

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6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

1 BR $675 immed, Cambie & SW Marine Dr. hardwood, incl & hw, 1 yr lease. np, ns, 604-988-4692

6508

6508

Apt/Condos

NEW WESTMINSTER 1450 WEST GEORGIA ST. $ 2, & 3 from bedrooms 11,Bdrm 799 $ 2available Bdrmsstarting from from 959 $ 1150 50% OFF 1st month for 2 bdrm suites IncludePENTHOUSE heat, hot water, LUXURY AVAIL.

609-1333 W. Georgia St. 2 br, 2 connected bath, hardwood, stainless, 940sf, lease, np, ns, now, $1900, Eric K. 604-723-7368

D/W, gym & visual intercom.

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Near transit/Skytrain waterfront.

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2 B/R furn or unfurn new bsmt ste in upscale neighborhood base of Seymour mtn, steps to Parkgate Mall, steps to Old Buck trail head hiking/biking,skiing golfcourse and Deep Cove. N/S, in-ste w/d/ dishwasher, util/cable/internet+internet lcl phn # all incl $1550/mo 604-904-9428

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Available June 1st, 250-686-9850

MARPOLE - Jody Lynn Apts. – 1175 W 71st Ave, Clean, quiet, cls to shopping, bus, 1 br/$730 & 2 br/$1070. Heat/hw. incl, No Smoking, np, 1 year lease, Dorset Realty Manuel 604-781-5520

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601 West 57th Ave, Van Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments and Townhouses located in the Oakridge area at West 57th Ave and Cambie St. This landmark property is clean and very well maintained by friendly on-site staff. Quiet and tasteful gardens, swimming pools, hot tub, gym, laundry facilities, parking and 16 shops & services. Near Oakridge Centre, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School, Langara Golf Course and much more.

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Lots & Acreage

1 ACRE gd - Mission All usable building lot, room for shop, pool & lrg home. High end homes built in this prestigious cul de sac subdivision. 10 mins to downtown. Drive by lot #7 - 8732 Jones Terrace, near the Abby on Dewdney Trunk Rd. $330,000.

Call Len 604-763-4118

6040

6505

MILLENNIUM WATER Olympic Village LUXURY APARTMENT HOMES NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENT

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6508

Apt/Condos

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6540

Houses - Rent

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6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR, KERRISDALE spacious, bright basement ste, own w/d, $1000 incl utils, cable & internet. avail now, ns np. 604-263-4234

1 BR on main flr, brand new, 41st & Fraser St, suits reliable person, $725 incls hydro/cbl, June 15th, 778-552-4487 or 778-960-7144

12TH & Quebec Clean, quiet, furn’d Bach ste, priv entry, $725 incls utls. NS/NP. 604-576-1746

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LARGE GROUND-LEVEL 1 BR suite, Rupert & E26th nr bus & skytrain, shared w/d, $900 incl utils, np, ns. 778-997-7748

6615

Wanted To Rent

2 BR Townhouse or house wanted that allows pets. We are very clean, non-smokers and excellent tenants. Please call 778-384-1957.

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Blinds & Draperies

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8058

8040

8075

778-384-2019

8060

Concrete

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8055

Cleaning

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8073

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8080

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8130

Glass Mirrors

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Commercial/Residential

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8087

Excavating

8110

Floor Refinishing

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8090

Fencing/Gates

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8125

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Gemini May 21-June 20: An unexpected meeting, idea, or communication during the first half of this week could raise your hopes sky-high – and signal a new friendship, a light love affair, or a wish coming true! One warning: take care that secrets do not interfere with your reputation, standing or ambitions, especially mid-week. Rest, lie low Tuesday to Thursday noon. Contemplate, plan. Your energy and magnetism soar Thursday eve to Saturday – but avoid unintended sharp words. Now to late July, guard against domestic friction – a wish could come true in real estate. Renovations, construction will succeed.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Be ambitious this week and next. For the last seven months, financial, lifestyle and sexual matters have held you back, perhaps disconcerted, even frightened you. This ends – for the two months ahead you take these matters in hand, control, enliven, push and solve them. Your sexual magnetism soars for seven weeks. A change, an event or new atmosphere enters early week; it “kicks off” a summer of luck in all these areas: sex, intimacy, finances, investments, lifestyle changes, research and your connections to other people’s money. Many developments this week: avoid deception, anger!

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Kitchens/Baths

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Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Your popularity, optimism and happiness continue to brighten, especially Thursday to Saturday! A wish (or many little wishes) can come true over the next two weeks. Entertainment, light romance, flirtations and social invitations pop up here and there. A lucky, unexpected event could occur in your legal, travel, educational, cultural or publishing sphere. This happens almost in the same moment (day, week) as you give up your anger about something in these same areas. For the next two months, more money will flow to you – make sure it doesn’t flow through you. A Gemini is complex!

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Taurus April 20-May 20: A major inspiration or eye-opener might occur the first few days – a secret wish could come true, or a financial step bring you unexpected security! Lie low Sunday/Monday – your energy needs re-charging. Now to late July, you’ll bring a new determination and intensity to romantic, creative and sports zones. The friction that might have marked your domestic sphere since last October now fades. Peace returns! Your energy and charisma rise Tuesday to Thursday – you attract others, and your luck surges. Start things, get things done. Chase money – diplomatically! – Thursday eve to Saturday.

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Cancer June 21-July 22: Lie low, contemplate, conserve energy for the next two weeks. Fulfil obligations, handle governmental and administrative tasks, and complete neglected tasks in any area.

Spend time with yourself, re-connect spiritually, be charitable. Contemplate and plan. Be ambitious early week – an unexpected event or influence could bring sudden good career or business luck for the next three months! Perhaps related, the last seven months of “wild ride” in money now dissolves, leaving you financially steadier. For the next two months, success will depend on your ability to communicate and travel.

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: A long focus on enjoyment, romance, self-indulgence and children’s affairs ends now. The two months ahead turn your attention to work. At the same time (especially if you were born before March 24), luck returns. A legal, far travel, educational, intellectual or cultural influence enters also. You might work hard on a travel, educational, legal (etc.) project, and have some luck in these. Or you might just fly with your luck and travel urge, far away from work! Your life is changing, and it might do so with unexpected or exhilarating suddenness early this week! You’ll be busy!

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June 6 - 12

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Pursue legal, educational, travel, cultural and love objectives this week and next. They enliven and challenge, succeed and frustrate this week. A Gemini (or Virgo) might be involved. Keep an even keel. If your urge to wed and your urge to partner are not represented by the same person, stop. Early week brings an unexpected change, a lucky, unpredictable, fresh exhilaration in love, partnership, contractual and relocation zones, now to early September. This might be “it,” Libra, or it might merely be a precursor of a similar, huge trend in 2011. Prepare for excitement!

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Tackle chores this week and next. You might feel a little frustrated or “neglected by the universe” because opportunities are just not coming your way. This is a good thing, for the opportunities that face you this month and next are traps in disguise. Be patient! Avoid all legal hassles June/July. Exceptions: you might sign legal papers to buy or sell real estate, to protect a child, for a retirement plan, etc. – fine. This whole area (security, kids, real estate, etc.) “wakes up” as new, enlivening, unpredictable, mostly lucky events enter now to September. Midweek’s mellow.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Many secrets will be revealed this week and next (mostly this week) – be a detective. Be silent, watch and listen. Your sexual, intimate urges rise to the surface: lust won’t be a stranger! (But he/she might be.) The anger, impatience and temperamental relations with higherups that have marked your career scene since last October now disappear.A new, unpredictable, friendly, monetarily lucky influence enters your work sphere, now to September. At the same time, a job could end.

You’ll socialize with co-workers, June/July. Work hard Sunday/Monday. Beware deception mid-week.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Love, romance, creative urges, pleasure, beauty, charming kids, speculation, sports fill the two weeks ahead. You could fall in love, especially late this week! But avoid self-deception (and deceiving others) – and realize the one who makes your heart flip and the one you lust after might not be the same person. If so, stop, think before proceeding. The next two months could be very sexual; an affair is possible. Possible, too, that you’ll just talk about it. Secrets are shared – and will “out.” A new, lucky and sociable influence fills June to September. Anger from others ends!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Partnerships, relationships, opportunities, challenges from others, relocation themes, negotiations, contracts, marriage and/or divorce – these concerns fill the two weeks ahead. The road will be uneven – rocky, frustrating, exhilarating, successful, joyful, maddening, etc.

For success, avoid two “traps” 1) deception or being too mistrusting, especially around Tuesday/ Wednesday; 2) anger or sharp words, especially around Thursday/Friday. Everything is possible, even true love! Now to September, romance, creativity “wake up” luckily! All June/July, be diplomatic with temperamental bosses.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Focus on endings and new beginnings, on nurturing, home, kids, real estate, retirement, security, Mother Nature, for two weeks. You might end an association, especially Thursday to Saturday. If you don’t do it in anger, it’s justified. An unpredictable, fresh, lucky, odd influence enters your money and earnings sphere now to early September – this could bring an unexpected and freeing event, or that event might come in 2011, first half. Be flexible, opportunistic. A long period of hard work eases up now. All June/July, relationships will intensify – expect heat, anger and attraction! timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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Landscaping

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Spring Ser vices !

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Lawn & Garden

Got European Chafer?

68 CENTS / SQ. FT.

Hydroseeding is more affordable than turf.

Ask about chafer damaged lawn specials.

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Serving Metro Vancouver since 1983

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8160

Lawn & Garden

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224-3669

AFFORDABLE MOVING

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Call Ed 604-738-6148

FREE ESTIMATES

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LAWN MOWING, spring cleanup, power raking. Reas. rates, will beat any price! Call 604-961-0278 LAWNS CUT, yard and garden clean-up, hedge trim, aerating, power raking, rubbish removal & gutters cleaned. 604-773-0075 T. TRAN-604-723-2468 , pruning, lawn cuts, power raking, aerate, cleanup, re-seed, weeding, new soil top.. Reliable.

PARM LANDSCAPING. Cedar fence installs. Full lawn & gardening services. 604-271-5319

8175

Cabana Masonry Ltd. Top Quality Masonry Work

Fireplaces, Retaining Walls, Driveways, Patios, Staircases, Stone Facings, Bobcat Service, All Types of Masonry Repairs

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CUSTOM BRICK & ROCK WORK

Chimney / Fireplace Repair, Retaining Walls, Restoration Work.

FREE ESTIMATES

604-323-2083

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8180

Northwest Arboriculture Colin Malcolm, Insured

604-618-9741

Tree Topping, Clean-Up, Planting, Trimming, Power Raking, Aeration, etc. • Westside & Eastside

Chau Le Gardening new lawn, maint. & cleanup trimming shrubs topping hedges 604-782-5288

1 to 3 Men

1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 Ton $ From

45 We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance Seniors Discount

604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com

AJK MOVING LTD.

Moving. Storage. Deliveries Local & Long Distance MOVERS.... Residential.

Commercial. Industrial.

Truck for Clean-ups

garage, basement, backyard.

(604) 875-9072 873-5292

B&Y MOVING Experienced Movers ~ 2 Men $50 ~ • Includes all Taxes • Licenced & Insured • Efficient & Reliable

604-708-8850

WESTCAN

MOVING SYSTEMS

Western Canada’s Moving Solution Free Estimates

604-765-0244

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Call 604-782-9511 EAGLE EYE Soar with the best It’s your move 778-883-2538

Masonry

NORTHLAND MASONRY. Rock, slate, brick, granite, pavers.

20 yrs exp on the N. Shore. No job to small.. Will 604-805-1582

Expert Pruning ISA

By Certified Arborist Ornamental & Fruit Trees, Shrubs & Hedges

Moving & Storage

WILDWOOD LANDSCAPING Hedge Trimmimg & Tree Pruning & Hedge Removal Spring Clean Up Chaffer Control & Lawn Restoration. Comm/Strata/Res Aerating & Power Raking.

Free Estimates.

604-893-5745

Cameron 604-739-8241

HYDROSEEDING

8185

POPEYE’S MOVING Scott 604-377-2503

www.popeyesmovingbc.com

8193

Oil Tank Removal

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

• Oil Tank Removal • Work complies with city bylaws BC Mainland • Always fair & reasonable rates • Excellent references

For Free Estimates Call

Off: 604-266-2120 Cell: 604-290-8592

Serving West Side since 1987

STORMWORKS Oil Tank Removal Recommended Insured Reasonable Rates 604-724-3670

Home Services

Painting/ Wallpaper

8195

8195

ALLIED PAINTING • Exterior Specialist • Reliable & Professional • 20 Years Experience • All Work Guaranteed up to 5 Years • Local References • 2 mil. Liability & WCB A+ Rating

Paul 604-721-1558 Proudly Serving Vancouver for 20 Years

PRICELESS PAINTING SERVICES LTD. • Fully Insured • References • Green Products

AVOID HST Call Today!

Painting/ Wallpaper

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QUALITY WORK

pricelesspainting.ca

★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reasonable rates. 604-221-4900

• Quality Work • Many Years of Experience • Premium Materials • Attention to Detail • Reasonable Prices Call Jeff to book an estimate for exterior painting:

604-916-5558

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Reasonable rates • Free Estimate Top Quality! Joe 604-782-1377 WEST-COAT SERVICES Paint, hardwood flr refinishing.

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8205 • Professional Exterior & Interior • Protective Coatings (epoxies-elastomerics) • Water Proofing Sealers • Pressure Wash • Wallpapering

Free Est/Written Guarantee Insured/WCB

778-881-6096

D&M PAINTING

Interior/Exterior Specialist Many Years Experience Fully Insured Top Quality, Quick Work Free Estimate

604-724-3832

Paving/Seal Coating

8220

Plumbing

A BETTER

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★ Good Quality Service ★

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604-685-7112 ext 5101

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Browse our Garage Sale section to find deals near you.

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Marty’s

Painting & Decorating Ltd. NO JOB TOO SMALL Quality work est. 1973

Colour Consulting Included Free Estimate 604-733-2865

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www.mrbuild.com

8220

4

Plumbing

• • • •

Licensed, Insured & Bonded Lic. Plumbers & Gas Fitters Over 20 years Experience Custom Renovations to Small Repairs

604-312-6311

AMF Contracting Ltd. Plumbing, Heating & Gas contractor, 30 years exp, Res/Commercial

604-728-8042

732-8453

❑ Renovations and Repairs ❑ Bathrooms/Kitchens ❑ Roofing/Concrete Work ❑ Painting/PowerSmart Jobs ❑ All Plumbing & Electrical Work ❑ Decks & Stairs • Guaranteed • Insured • References

8225

Power Washing

RED SEAL

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604-783-9240

Drainage & Plumbing Inc.

Tile roof restoration Roof moss removal & repairs Power washing Window cleaning by hand Gutter cleaning & repairs Call for best price in town

Edgemont Building Maintenance • Power Washing

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• Window Cleaning • Gutter Cleaning

Certified Plumber & Gas Fitter * Reno’s & Repairs 24 hrs/day * Furnaces * Boilers * Hot Water Heating * Reasonable Rates * Hot Water Tanks

604-731-2443

604-420-4800 Established 1963

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

YOUR WAY

Plumbing & Renovations Full Kitchen & Bath Reno’s • Plumbing Service - all types • H/W tanks • Plugged drains No job too small!

‘Old Home Specialist’

Steve

✔

604-324-3351

Renovations

from concept to occupancy 10% Off with this Ad! Aman’s Plumbing Service, Lic. Gas Fitter, Reas. Rates. 778-895-2005 ★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com

Winner of Gold & Silver Georgie Awards

– Renovator Member of the Year

Winner of the National SAM Award

– Best Renovated Kitchen in Canada

PLUMBERS

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When your house is great except…

ECLIPSE Plumbing & Drains, All repairs. Unplug drains, H/W Tanks, Renos, 778-233-1776

❏ The kitchen’s too

small

❏ You need another

bedroom

How to write a classified ad that works.

❏ The carport could be

a two-car garage

❏ One bathroom just

isn’t enough anymore

Big Boss Mechanical

PLUMBING & DRAINAGE

Fully Licenced & WCB.

CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING

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ALLEN Asphalt, concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

604-616-7082 AAA PRECISION PAINTING Interior/Exterior Excellent Prices

9129 Shaughnessy St.

778-865-0370

A PROFESSIONAL PAINTER Small jobs OK. Call Serj 604-377-2417

20 Yrs. in Business!

Since 1989

25 Years Experience Call Paul

604-338-2339

Painting the Westside

Renovations & Home Improvement

CARPENTRY Low Prices

I Guarantee Best Painting Prices Call Mike @ 604-321-5035

FREE ESTIMATES

8240

PAUL’S PAINTING & RENOVATIONS

604

EW44

Writing an effective classified ad is easy when you know how. What follows is a step-by-step guide focusing on the time-tested principles of a successful ad.

• Use a keyword. Start your ad with the item for sale, service offered or the job title.

• Be descriptive. Give customers a reason to respond. Advertisers have found that the more information you provide, the better the response.

• Limit abbreviations.

Use only standard abbreviations to avoid confusion and misinterpretations.

• Include price. Always include price of the item for sale.

• How to respond. Always include a phone number (with area code) and/or street and email address.

To place your ad call:

604-630-3300

We Fix The “EXCEPTS…” Since 1978

604-987-5438

www.rjrrenovator.com

www.drytech.ca

BBB • WCB • Fully Insured

R E N O VAT I O N S •• Additions Extentions – Bsmts Additions – Extensions •• Prof.

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Showroom 1230 West 75th Ave

Reno /Construction

• • • • •

H o m e R e n o s & Pa i n t i n g B a s e m e n t S u i te s K i tc h e n / B a t h r o o m D e c k s a n d Fe n c e s Laneway Housing

Tony (604)228-4272 tony@Garage-Suites.com

F R I D AY, J U N E 4 , 2 0 1 0 T H E VAN C O U V E R C O U R I E R

HOME SERVICES 8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

AaronR CONST Repairs & Renos, general contracting.

Insured, WCB, Licensed

604-318-4390 aaronrconstruction.com

CEDARWORKS

SUNDECKS FENCES • STAIRS

30 years exp.

731-7709

TOTAL BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Father & Sons

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

GENERAL CONTRACTOR All construction work all Carpentry work.

Call 604-506-4519 BATH/KITCHEN Renos, decks, fencing, home repairs. Home Improvment Centre. 604-240-9081 PRP RENOVATIONS. Kitchens, baths, tiling, flooring, painting, plumbing, gutters 604-764-0399 QUALITY RENO’S, res. & comm. kitchen, bath & bsmt specialists. refs avail. call Greg 604-889-6055 QUALITY REPAIRS & RENOS Made affordable since 1981.

Int/ext. large or small, BBB Member. Free est. Chris 604-313-4830

QUALITY WORK

35 years exp

Remodelling, Plumbing, Tiling, Fixtures, etc.

Call 778-898-7600 or 604-779-1324

SEMI RETIRED specializing in stairs, decks, fences & small renovations. 604-737-2095

FATHER AND SON CO.

SMALL JOBS WELCOME RENOVATION Crown Mouldings · Drywall · Painting · Flooring, ★ Call 604-771-2201, 771-5197

STEPS, RAILINGS, DECKS

European Master Carpenter. Refs Free est. Frank, 778-230-0018

8250

Roofing

West Side Home Improvements

• Bathrooms • Kitchens • Carpentry work Stairs • Decks Framing to finishing.

Small jobs welcome Rob 778-861- 4224 Thanks

Call 604-327-3086 for a free estimate Quote code 1969 for a 5% discount

www.crownresidentialroofing.com Budget Home Reno’s

778-886-4254

Timwood Homes

Specialized in Reno’s:

■ Framing ■ Sundecks ■ Stairs ■ Rooms ■ Garages ■ Sheds ■ Patios ■ Bsmts ■ Interior/Exterior Painting ■ Tiles ■ Laminate Floors

Call Prem 604 761-1743

MOZAIK MOZAIK HANDYMAN HANDYMAN SERVICES SERVICES LTD.

• Painting • Electrical • Plumbing • Tiling • Carpentry Carpeting

Tel: 739-8786, Cell: 716-8687 ~ FREE ESTIMATES ~

www.drytech.ca

Spring Special

ROOFING

• Leak Repairs & Chimney Repairs • Sloped Roofs: 30-60 Year Shingles • Flat Roofs: Rubber Coatings • Patio Decks & Deck Coatings • Accredited BBB member

SAVE $ 604-228-ROOF(7663)

Showroom 1230 West 75th Ave

MAC ROOFING INC. Residential & Commercial ★ ★ Beat the HST ★ ★

Torch On Specialist Member of Shell Busey’s House Smart Referral Network ★ Govt Certified ★ 20 yrs exp

778-237-ROOF (7663) YOUNG BROTHERS ROOFING

Re-Roofing Specialist!

Shingles, Cedar Shakes, or Torch-on. W.C.B.

10% discount with ad!

Call: 778-896-4858

A1 CONTRACTING. Bsmt, bath, kitchen cabinets, tiling, painting & decks. Dhillon, 604-782-1936

★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★ Tiles, tub, vanity, plumbing, paint framing. From start to finish. Over 20 yrs exp. Peter 604-715-0030

BEARING WALLS removed, floors leveled, cathedral ceilings, garage leveled, door and window openings. 604-787-7484

Everything for the Landscape Pro

A Save on Roofing - specialize in ★refoof ★ repair★ WCB Free est.

10% discount 778-892-1266

604-327-1915 Alin Maintenance Services •Roof •Chimney •Skylight; Repairs •All Leak Problems! 604-319-2229

A DIMITRIOUS STUCCO Repairs. Can match all kinds textures & designs. 604-783-8869

CHOICE ROOFING LTD. Re-Roofing & Repairs.

Quality assured. 604-807-7312

ALL STUCCO, chimney and cement work. Professional, inexpensive reliable and fast 604-715-2071 J. PEARCE STUCCO CONTRACTING. Residential / Commercial. 604-761-6079

LEAK BUSTERS •Re-Roofing •Repair •Maintenance Call Brad • 604-773-0492

8305

Sun Decks

MASTERCRAFT ROOFING Ltd. Right the 1st time! Repairs, reroofing, garage, decks. Hart 322-5517

8255 ★ ★ ★ ★

Rubbish Removal Residential & Commercial We do almost anything Free Estimates 7 days a week ★ No body beats our price. ★ $15.00 off with this ad

Skyline Decking & Renos

604-537-8523

Luke: 604-729-6871

All types of new, reno’s and ext. decks • Quality workmanship • Guaranteed reasonable pricing Call for free estimate

AUTOMOTIVE Domestic

9145

Scrap Car Removal

9160

Sports & Imports

NO WHEELS, NO PROBLEM

1998 OLDS Intrigue GSL, 1 owner, no accid, 3.8 v6 auto, 142 k, loaded $3950 604-943-3098

Removal FREEScrap/Car

2002 VW Passat 1.4 Turbo.

Excellent Condition Low Mileage 128K kms. $8500 604-929-0797

No Wheels No Problem

HOUR 2Service From Call

Tiling

Family Owned & Operated

1999 FORD Taurus SE. Red sedan. Auto, 24 valve DOHC engine. 152,600 kms. Excellent condition. $2,750. 604-984-9066.

(604) 209-2026 #1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200

2003 BWM X5 3.0 V6 AWD, grey / grey leather, loaded, navigation system, heated power/telescopic steering, heated front & rear seats $16,000. 150 K. 604-657-4451

Student Disposal Services & Recycling

Trips to the dumps start at

$49

W i t h 1 7 c u b i c y a rd t r u c ks

John 778-288-8009 Call anytime

A Westside Rubbish Removal 7 days/week, very reas. rates per load. Randy 778-899-1382 A.J.K. MOVING Ltd. Special truck for clean-ups. Any size job Lic#32839 604-875-9072 ALL JUNK - remove for res. & Comm. Free est. 7days/wk. $15off. w/ad. 604-537-8523 CHEAP JUNK Removal Starting at $49.99. Large 20 cubic yard trucks. 778-882-5865

★ASK DISCOUNT RUBBISH★ Best Prices, Yard, House/Const, Demo. 7 days Ray, 604-727-6153 DISPOSAL BINS 10 - 40 yards.

Any size is $199 + dump fees. disposalking.com 604-889-2085 JACK’S RUBBISH Removal Friendly, Fast & Cheap 604-266-4444

AAA RUBBISH REMOVAL Const/ Reno Debris. We Remove Almost Anything! 778-320-2525 RENT A MAN Rubbish Removal Services For all your cleanup needs!! ★Call 604-505-7334★

RUBBISH REMOVAL − GOOD PRICE Hardworking And Reliable Call Leo 604-328-6843 anytime

A-WES SIGNATURE WORK Ceramic, Stone Installation & Design. 604-317-8962 BATHROOM RENOS & Tile Install & supply. Water proofing, heated flrs. Fair Prices. Warranty.

Master Renos Ltd 604 817-1749 ** MANNERIA STONE & TILE Total Bath & kitchen remodelling.

Stone inlays. Stephen 604-888-1285

Sea Island Renovations

All home renovations, tiles, painting, drywall, flooring, etc. All work Gtd. Free Est. Ph: 604-771-9686

8315

Tree Services

Pays $150 minimum 2000 FORD TAURUS SE SILVER ALL OPTIONS LEATHER PREMIUM SOUND EXCELLENT CONDITION $4995 CALL. 604-551-0040 2006 CHRYSLER 300 SRT8, 67k, fully loaded, s/roof, dvd player, $24,280, 604-825-8464

9129

Luxury Cars

1986 ROLLS ROYCE, Sliver Spur, white, 62K, mint condition, $48,000. Call 604-438-4216

Wildwood Tree Services, Exp Hedge Trimming and Removal & Tree Pruning. Free Est. 604-893-5745

8330

Welding

ACCURWELD COMPANY Welding, security bars,doors,gates etc. accurweld.ca 604-728-5289

8335

Window Cleaning

Edgemont Building Maintenance • Power Washing • Window Cleaning • Gutter Cleaning

604-420-4800 Established 1963

for Full-Size Complete Vehicles. Free Removal!

2-Hr. Service in Most Areas

Call 778-316-3217

THE SCRAPPER SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC 2H

9155

Treeworks 15 yrs exp. Tree/ Stump Removal, Prun’in & Trim’in & View Work 291-7778, 787-5915 www.treeworksonline.ca

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Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

1994 GMC Sonoma 1/2 Ton Pickup w/ canopy. 5 standard, $1,100 spent on brakes, Air Caired, $2500 obo 604-987-0926 1989 ROLLS Royce, like new, all original, 30k miles, books. $32,500, Priv.sale 604-271-1969

9130

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

2001 KAWASAKI ZRX1200R. Comes with many extras, Muzzy exhaust, Hindle lift, Joe Rocket saddlebags, tank bag, tail bag, this bike is ready to go. New chain and sprocket last year. Asking $3800.00 obo 604-250-9110

9160

Sports & Imports

Thinking of Renovating?

It’s full of local listings that can save you money

604-630-3300

2006 HONDA Civic DX Coupe $13,500. Auto, PWR Locks & Windows, heated mirrors, digital dash, 4 new tires, new brakes, Honda Serviced. NO Accidents.

100k. Great on gas, many extras.

Coq. Call ★ 604-868-3128

NEED CHEAP AUTOBODY ? www.cheapautobody.ca 604-341-7738

9173

Vans

1993 NISSAN QUEST Mini-Van, all service records, well maint’d, 7pass, $1200 obo 604-984-2671

2005 DODGE Grande Caravan, blue, auto, dvd, lcd, 52K, winter tires, $12,200, 778-837-5967

9522

Motorhomes/RVs

1999 CORSAIR 30ft, 5th wheel large slideout, sleeps 5-6, new condition. $24,900 604-465-9512

9540

Trailers/Tents/ Campers

1990 MERCEDES 560 SEL AirCared, fully loaded, leather, heated seats, pw, pl, alarm, pwr sunroof, pwr seats, CD, new tires & brakes, 228,000 km, runs well. $3000 obo.

604.845.5010 1996 TOYOTA Corolla DX, 5 spd, 1.8 L eng, 4 dr, air, no accidents, family owned 249 K, outstanding cond $3600. 778-238-2137

ALL CLEAR WINDOW & gutter cleaners. No streaks, no drips, right down to the corners. Quality work guaranteed. 604-519-0678

Be sure to check the classifieds A North West Roofing Specialist in Re-Roofing & Repair, Free Est 10% disc, BBB, WCB, Liability Insured. Jag 778-892-1530

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Its 2.0-litre “clean diesel” engine has a combined (city/highway) average fuel economy rating of 5.8 litre/100 km.

That’s especially significant for buyers in some provinces (such as buyers in B.C.) because there are rebates available. In B.C., the A3 TDI qualifies for an instant $1,500 point-of-sale rebate from its Provincial Sales Tax (PST). This B.C. tax incentive for high-efficiency vehicles, however, will disappear at the end of June when the PST is scheduled to be replaced by the HST. TDI is a new addition to the A3 line for the 2010 model year and it comes in both base and Premium trim levels. A compact yet premium five-door hatchback, the A3 possesses excellent driving dynamics and is also available with a 2.0-litre direct-injection gasoline engine with a Quattro (all-wheeldrive) drivetrain option. A 3.2-litre V6 model has been discontinued.

A six-speed manual transmission is available with the gasoline engine, but the optional six-speed automatic gearbox (S-Tronic) is the only transmission offered with the diesel engine. In addition, the TDI only comes as a front-drive model—there’s no Quattro version.

Even a base A3 ($33,300) comes with 17-inch alloy wheels, dual-

The A3 TDI’s design is an attractive mix of functionality and clean finely crafted styling lines that exude understated elegance. zone automatic climate control, fog lamps, cruise control, heated mirrors, keyless entry, heated washer nozzles, variable intermittent wipers, heated leather seats, 60/40 split-folding rear seat and a CD/MP3 stereo with auxiliary input. The similarly equipped base TDI is $35,300.

A move up to Premium (TDI— $38,000) adds rain- and speedsensitive wipers, auto-dimming exterior and interior mirrors, Bluetooth connectivity, a panoramic sunroof, a power driver’s seat, a multi-function four-spoke leather-wrapped wheel, and interior lighting package.

Our test A3 TDI had Premium trim level with a new S Line Sport Package ($2,900). This package adds 18-inch wheels and performance tires, sport seats, a steering wheel with a dual paddle shift feature, a rear roof spoiler, door sill inlays and S style bumpers front and rear.

It also came with a new optional metallic paint colour offering called Sphere blue ($650),

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The Looks—The fifth-door of its fastback design adds utility and convenience and makes the most of its compact dimensions. It’s an attractive mix of functionality and clean finely crafted styling lines that exude understated elegance.

A wide-mouth chrome-trimmed grille gives the A3 that unmistakably Audi look from a front view.

The string of LED daytime running lights inside the headlamp clusters, which are arced in what appears to be a resolute frown, also add to its Audi-distinctiveness.

The Inside—Audi’s ability to create an upscale interior ambience is the envy of the rest of the auto industry. A combination of intelligent design, functionality and comfort is accentuated by a high level of craftsmanship. The clever way the hand brake lever is incorporated into console design is just one example.

The driving position has a terrific range of seat and steering-

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The back seats are more supportive than you generally find, although here again, taller passengers may find a headroom issue due to the sunroof and the slope on the roof. The rear seatbacks flip down easily and are split 60/40, but they do not extend a perfectly flat cargo floor.

Safety—Rated a “Top Safety Pick” by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, based on its crash test results, the A3 provides a comprehensive network of safety features designed to protect occupants. Electronic Stability Control is standard and rear seat side airbags are an option.

The Drive—The TDI engine is livelier than its horsepower number (140) and acceleration time

(about nine seconds to 100 km/ hour) indicate. It’s quick off the mark from a standing start, and when you adapt to the engine’s slower power build up and maximum rev range (4,500 rpm), faster cornering and passing of other vehicles can be done with ease.

Of course, with 236 lb-ft of torque at your disposal, the TDI’s smooth and easy power is most evident when a steep grade presents itself. The pulling power of this small diesel engine is phenomenal and if you live in a hilly or mountainous area it would sure make driving a lot more pleasant.

The TDI’s rated highway fuel economy is an amazing 4.6 litres/100 km. That equates to better than 60 miles/Imperial gallon, if you prefer old English measurements. It’s also better fuel economy than a Toyota Yaris or even the current Smart Car. And with a full 55-litre fuel tank the A3 TDI could, in theory anyway, travel over one thousand (highway) kilometres between fill-ups.

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District may slash more than $16 million from budget

Data error costs school district $2.3 million Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer The Vancouver School Board overcharged the provincial government by an estimated $1.4 million this school year, according to an audit of the district’s online program known as the Vancouver Learning Network.

The mistake, attributed to problems with data management, is also projected to cost the district $900,000 in next year’s budget, which calculates to a $2.3 million error over two years. The news worsens the district’s bad financial position—it faces cutting $16.33 million from its 2010/11 budget—subject to a report by a special adviser that was expected to be delivered to the government June 3. Now it must pay back the money the government was overcharged.

Board chair Patti Bacchus called the financial hit staggering. “It sounds like other districts are in a similar boat, so I’m not sure it’s a human error so much as a process error, but we need to make sure that the processes, the checks and balances, are in place because this is going to create a real difficulty for all of us,” she said Tuesday.

Laurie Anderson, associate superintendent of continuing and international education, told trustees about the problem at Monday night’s management coordinating committee meeting.

The VLN is undergoing a “compliance audit,” which district programs are periodically subject to by the provincial government to ensure student numbers submitted by districts match provincial funding.

Anderson updated trustees before the audit’s completion because of its adverse effect on the 2010/11 budget, which must be passed by month’s end.

The $2.3 million projection over two years is the worst-case scenario to ensure the mistake is adequately covered in the budget.

Based out of John Oliver secondary, the Vancouver Learning Network offers virtual schooling. Known as “distributed learning” in education-speak, it evolved

“FRANKLY, THERE WERE SITUATIONS WHERE DATA WAS DUPLICATED IN SOME CASES.” Laurie Anderson

out of text-based correspondence courses, but now primarily involves online learning.

Enrolment has doubled in the past three years with more than 7,000 students taking courses, according to district figures. It’s the largest kindergarten to Grade 12 distributed learning program in the province and possibly Canada, according to Anderson who noted its explosive growth in recent years created difficulties in data management.

Students can register any day of the year and start immediately unlike in standard schools. Data collection is required for each student. When auditors arrived, the district was also switching from its old data management system to a modern one. “Frankly, there were situations where data was duplicated in some cases,” Anderson said.

Data input problems were also found where dates, signatures and documentation were missing. The VSB is overhauling its data management to avoid such problems in the future. Anderson said staff also need more training. The new information system, meanwhile, doesn’t allow duplication.

Anderson expects the anticipated continual growth in VLN in coming years will offset some of the costs from the audit.

Audits of school programs resulting in penalties for school districts is not uncommon. In an audit of the North Vancouver school district’s special education program this year, a review of 454 student files led to a $600,000 penalty due to record keeping errors.

The Saanich school district is being charged a projected $300,000 following an audit of its distributed learning program. noconnor@vancourier.com

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Continued from page 33 inhabitants could use to escape into the Forêt de Chinon, and what’s now known as Sleeping Beauty’s Tower, which gives panoramic views of the Loire and Indre valleys.

At the end of our day’s 36-kilometre ride (the distances cycled varied from 32 to 50 kilometres a day), we pedalled into Chinon. A pretty city with a medieval fortress, it was here, in 1429, that Joan of Arc persuaded the French dauphin to give her an army with which to fight the English.

You can still see 600-year-old half-timbered houses in rue Haute St-Maurice, where Joan of Arc stayed. Chinon was also the birthplace of the writer François Rabelais (1494-1533), known for his bawdy eatdrink-and-be-merry tales, including Gargantua and Pantagruel.

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been part of the Marché Rabelais, when events take place throughout Chinon’s old quarter.

There’s a crafts fair, singing and dancing and people dressed in period costume.)

Having worked up a thirst, we stopped first at Couly Dutheil Cellars for a tasting and to purchase a few bottles. Then, bumping on our bikes down the city’s cobbled streets, we came to our accommodation for the night, the Gargantua, built in the 15th century and named after Rabelais’ most famous series of tales. Up the well-worn, circular staircase to our rooms we went, thinking, perhaps a bit hazily, of Rabelais’ philosophy: “Drink well, drink always.”

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Women in Philanthropy committee member Saeedah Salem sized up John Casablanca models Justin Breault (left) and Jason Nesseth at the United Way bash.

Models Bobbi Bysouth (left) and Ellyse Anderson got “Carrie away” donning shoe headpieces at the Women in Philanthropy SATC party.

Fred United Way VP Pommashea Noel-Bentley offered up a pair of Manolo Blahniks at her Sex and the City-inspired Women in Philanthropy fundraiser at Holts.

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Carrie away: In anticipation of the Sex and the City sequel, the United Way’s Women in Philanthropy presented the biggest SATC party in town fronted by chair Catherine Van Alstine. A $125 ticket got fashionistas an all access pass to a sensational night of make-up, Big New York predicaments, cosmos, canapés and a runway romp Carrie would be proud of. The fash bash saw revelers deposit nearly $25,000 to the Success by 6 program for kindergarten kids.

Flower power: Celebrating the power of women like Emily Carr and the Sisters of Saint Ann, Corinne Coell chaired and Vicki Gabereau hosted the inaugural Wild Lilies Gala, a benefit dinner in Victoria in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. In appreciation of the care her late sister Elizabeth received while battling breast cancer, Carr gave a painting of lilies to the Sisters of Saint Ann. The original painting was unveiled at the dinner and a reproduction was auctioned for $9,000.

Glamping: As part of Alumni Weekend, UBC celebrated four decades of Pride—from Pride UBC to the Positive Space Campaign to its newest initiative CampOUT!, a summer camp for Queer youth aged 14-19 and their allies (www.campout.ubc.ca).

Hear Fred Monday morning on CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition AM690 and 88.1FM; Email Fred at yvrflee@ hotmail.com; Follow Fred on Twitter: @FredAboutTown.

After an eight-year hiatus, Michael “Mump” Kennard (left) and John “Smoot” Turner returned to the Cultch stage with their dark comedy Cracked.

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CEO Linda Morris and Victoria Police Chief Jamie Graham helped raise funds for breast cancer research.

Founder Darcy James flanked by comics Chris Molineux and Victoria Clements yukked it up at the Comedy Courage gala in support of mental health.

Campers Taylor Basso and Naomi Amren spoke in support of UBC’s CampOUT, a summer camp for LGBTQ youth and their allies.

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Young male fans note technique, work ethic of mixed martial artists

Sports bars benefit from MMA popularity

Concussions, broken limbs and torn ligaments are all par for the course in both sports, but there’s no outcry of protest like there is with MMA. Major injuries are rare in MMA, but the matches look savage because fighters appear to be trying to kill each other, adds Mosiuk.

For the trio, what separates UFC from boxing is the technique, training and fight styles utilized

by MMA fighters to win matches.

Boxing is strictly about defeating your opponent by allowing blows only above the belt. MMA fighters must be capable of grappling, taking down opponents and correctly administering submission holds to win matches, as well as using fists and feet. “You can’t just go in there and be a basher and a fighter—you have to be trained in so many different styles,” says Mosiuk.

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mix of cheers and gasps echoes through the Sin Bin sports bar on West Second Avenue when Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Kendall Grove lands the first blow on his opponent, Mark Munoz, during UFC 112.

In the event broadcast from Abu Dhabi April 10, the two fighters land kicks as they struggle to take each other down into submission holds.

Mixed martial arts, or MMA, and its pro-league UFC, was once considered a bloody, no-rules sport that encouraged savage fighting and added to the desensitization of violence. However, UFC has changed over the last 15 years with new rules, regulations and a professional image. Fans are now recognizing the skill and technique that goes into MMA fights.

New fans are also flocking to the “sport,” with some willing to pay top dollar to see UFC matches live.

The June 12 GM Place UFC 115 fight sold out in a record 30 minutes during a presale.

The long-term future of mixed martial arts events in Vancouver is unclear. City councillors, some of whom may attend the match for work purposes, voted 6-3 in December to a two-year trial allowing events such as the UFC to take place in the city.

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hree university students sit around a table with a pitcher of beer and a plate of nachos, staring intently at one of the six TVs in the bar. They paid a $5 cover

Chris Hall, owner of the Sin Bin bar on West Second, says UFC fights attract more patrons than any other sporting event. photo Dan Toulgoet charge because UFC matches are a pay-per-view event. Two are MMA fans and the third is simply along for the ride. “You can have the best fighter going in and the next thing you know, he catches a one punch and he’s done. You just never know what’s going to happen—that’s why I like it,” Paul Mosiuk says.

His friend, Zack Galay interjects, saying that fighters train hard and that the events bring back images of two Roman gladiators facing off against each other. But despite the image of two fighters pounding each other into the ground, there’s a measure

of class between opponents that wasn’t around in the early days, adds Mosiuk.

A Nanaimo native, Mosiuk used to be involved with MMA, training in the sport as a young teen, lured by the opportunity to learn different martial arts techniques. Now 26, he doesn’t train anymore but still enjoys watching the sport and following the UFC circuit.

Taylor Patterson, the third man at the table, acknowledges the raw image the sport created in its infancy and says he isn’t a hardcore fan. “I’m kind of torn because I think it’s a disgusting blood sport,

but at the same time it’s the last bastion of true sport because there’s no hockey sticks, no soccer ball or nets, it’s just mano a mano.

These guys train their hearts out and then the better man wins.”

Hockey and football are examples of sports where there are higher frequencies of career-ending injuries than there are in MMA, argues Mosiuk. He cites the 2004 Steve Moore incident when the NHL player broke three vertebrae after being punched by former Canuck Todd Bertuzzi. The ensuing dogpile likely compounded the injury cutting Moore’s career short.

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ports bars and pubs make a killing on UFC fight nights. The Sin Bin doubles its business compared to when a Canucks away game is on TV. About 60 per cent of the tables are reserved a few days before fight night and the remaining 40 are full by broadcast time, says Sin Bin owner Chris Hall, who anticipates a sold-out pub June 12.

The bar has been showing UFC events since opening last June and business on fight night trumps anything else by far, 27year-old Hall adds. The only thing that comes close are Canucks playoff games. A self-proclaimed fan of the UFC, he decided to show events after opening the bar based on the popularity of fight nights at other sports.

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Sociologist says excitement, drama and adrenaline attract fight fans Continued from page 4 If critics say there’s no MMA fan base in Vancouver, recall how fast GM Place sold out for the June 12 match. Tickets went so fast none were left over for the public sale, which was slated for April 15.

This irks Mason Ostwald, a 23-year-old UFC fan from B.C.’s southern interior, who was hoping to pick up tickets. Vancouver is the closest city to Ostwald’s hometown of Cranbrook to host a UFC event, and he would have made the trip in a heartbeat.

The MMA caught his attention a few years ago when he watched a fight at a friend’s house. The excitement and unpredictability of MMA fights captivated him.

“It’s more unique than boxing or any other kind of fighting sport,” says Ostwald, who works for an electrical company.

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here is no proof to definitively say there is an instinctual attraction to MMA but there are other reasons why the sport has become so popular, says Dr. Bryan Hogeveen, a sociologist with the University of Alberta. He’s researching the socio-cultural values and impacts of Brazilian ju-jitsu, a staple in MMA fighting, and has previously researched social justice and violence in youth.

While researching MMA, he’s learned fans like the excitement, drama and adrenaline of watching fights that are often over very quickly. “I think there’s a certain sense of a connection to violence and I’m

not sure if it’s the fighting part of it or the violence part of it or the drama part of it that we’re so connected to and so intrinsic to our being but there is something there and it’s going to take some research to find out exactly what is there,” Hogeveen says.

Short fights were the intent of the UFC in its infancy in 1993, when organizers actively promoted fights as a no rules, no holds-barred event, but that has changed, Hogeveen says. UFC recognized the raw and violent image it created and began to evolve, bringing in new rules and a new marketing strategy that focused on the fighters and their personalities. This new marketing strategy appeals mainly to the 18- to 45-year-old demographic and attracts male and female fans from all different social classes.

Despite lingering views that paint the UFC of old, Hogeveen says the organization has successfully rebranded its image to attract a wider fan base. UFC champions like Georges St-Pierre, Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell are practically household names. “People get invested in fighters by connecting with them, knowing their stories and background.”

The focus on fighters has helped the UFC somewhat bury its image of the past.

In the early UFC days, fighters came from all different fight backgrounds and styles.

Some fights could see mismatches of a 300-pound bouncer against a 180-pound kickboxer. But MMA athletes are now well

Dr. Bryan Hogeveen, a sociologist with the University of Alberta, says the UFC has been sucsubmitted photo cessful in rebranding itself to attract a wider audience. trained and more professional in their attitude towards the sport, says Hogeveen.

When things get disrespectful, like a recent bout between Anderson Silva and Demian Maia at UFC 112, fighters run the risk of incurring the wrath of UFC president Dana White. Silva quickly landed hits on Maia and got the upper hand early but

in the third round to the end of the fight, he ran down the clock by circling his opponent. Afterwards, White told the media he was “embarrassed” by the performance and speculated that Silva may be demoted to fighting on a preliminary card instead of a main event in the future.

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Trainer says sport requires humility, dedication Continued from page 5 Since White and the UFC set up the matches, fighters are usually aware that any disrespectful behaviour in the ring could give the league bad publicity, which can get them blacklisted by the organization.

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n the beginning, UFC organizers promoted fights that had no rules, yet a few existed, such as no eyegouging or biting and allowing, with reservation, groin hits and head butts.

Changes were on the way after U.S. state governments began to investigate the legitimacy of the sport. In 1997, gloves were mandated and kicking an opponent on the ground, head butting and hair pulling were banned, along with other changes.

The UFC league was bought by White in 2001, backed by corporate investors, who slowly built up an advertising juggernaut that pushed MMA and the UFC into the mainstream by 2005. The UFC gained a wider audience through The Ultimate Fighter, a reality show that debuted in 2005 and pitches two teams of unknown MMA fighters—coached by established UFC fighters—against each other.

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ancouver has an active MMA community with clubs and gyms across the city that attract a wide range of devotees, from hardcore MMA fighters to fitness gurus looking for cardio training.

At Dynamic MMA, a Cambie Street gym, about a dozen teen boys and two girls decked out in gloves and shin guards complete drills on a Sunday afternoon. At the end of the drills, instructor Joel Wasel partners them up to spar with each other. “Anyone not have a mouth guard?” he calls.

“No mouth guard, no sparring.”

MMA has moved into the mainstream, but there are still misconceptions it’s still a blood sport, says Adam Ryan, Wasel’s business partner

“YOU CAN’T REALLY OPEN UP YOUR HEART AND SOUL... IF YOU’RE TRYING TO PROVE SOMETHING ALL THE TIME.” Adam Ryan and MMA coach in the gym. Some fans or observers of UFC events may think fighters brawl in the ring, but fighters recognize it’s a competition where wins are accumulated through skill and technique, Ryan adds.

He recognizes the type of people who sign up just to fight and says they last a few days or a week at most because they are in it for the wrong reasons.

“Tough guys don’t do well. Why? Because you have to lay it on the line to do well in sports. You can’t really open up your heart and soul to your training partner, your coaches and yourself if you’re trying to prove something all the time—if you’re a bully.”

The interest in MMA from the perspective of fighters and fans stems from throwback memories of horsing around with friends and siblings, says Ryan. “ A lot of people when they’re growing up, they wrestle with their friends or family. And what do you do? You get each other in a head lock, you hit each other a little bit, you play around, it just comes naturally out of us.”

There’s nothing new about MMA or the UFC that makes the fighting controversial, but adding measures of safety like padded hands, mouth guards and cups allow fighters to do it safely, Ryan adds. The UFC and MMA gets labeled as a controversial and dangerous sport yet, like the fans at the Sin Bin, Ryan believes auto racing, hockey and football present a greater chance of injury than MMA fights.

Fighters at the UFC level have doc-

tors on hand and amateur matches sanctioned by municipalities across the province usually require medical personnel to avoid lawsuits. “The fans and the image, I think it’s more what they want it to be because they’re putting themselves into it a little bit, like they want it to be crazy,” says Ryan.

Back out on the gym floor, the teenagers finish their session and a group of MMA trainees take to the mats for judo instruction from Doug Rogers, a judo silver medallist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. These aren’t the typical tough guys MMA followers would imagine in a fight. They are a lawyer, an investment banker and an engineer.

Brendan Kornberger had been a UFC fan for a few years before getting involved in the sport after wanting to learn ju-jitsu. He played baseball at the University of B.C. and went into investment banking after graduation. At first, he trained in ju-jitsu, but the desire to compete and learn more martial arts styles took hold. It’s a competition, just like a baseball or basketball game, except two people are stepping into a ring as combatants, Kornberger says.

He has competed in two MMA events, in Nanaimo and Vancouver, winning both and has no plans to quit. “Slowly but surely, were starting to get more people educated on it [MMA] and they either like it or they just keep their mouth shut because they know it’s not as brutal as everyone seems to think it is.”

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t the Sin Bin, one of the bar’s TVs is broadcasting a Vancouver Canucks game. The home team is dominating the Calgary Flames. A few cheers permeate the atmosphere when Daniel Sedin scores a goal, only to be drowned out by a thunderous roar as a UFC fighter lands a punch to his opponent’s head. trevor.crawley@gmail.com

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Student rally Gauging how troubled students are by the school district’s financial problems is hard.

There are always a handful of politically involved students, but it’s never clear how informed or interested the larger student body is in the school board’s budget even though they’ll be most affected by the cuts. They can’t be blamed—the 55-page revised budget document isn’t exactly a riveting or easy read for teenagers, and board meetings can live up to their name.

But I thought a protest might grab teens’ attention. On Tuesday, Lord Byng Grade 12 student Abdeslam Boubia organized a Youth Rally Against School Budget Cuts at the Vancouver Art Gallery that he hoped would attract at least 600 protesters. It was timed for after school, starting at 4 p.m.

Our photographer dropped by for a shot and I checked out other photos of the event online, which suggest the rally didn’t attract the

A rally protesting school budget cuts and organized by Lord Byng student Abdeslam Boubia didn’t get the numbers hoped for Tuesday at the Vancouver Art Gallery. photo Dan Toulgoet student numbers hoped for by the 18-year-old organizer.

Some trustees attended, including Vision Vancouver’s Patti Bacchus and Mike Lombardi and COPE’s Al Blakey and Jane Bouey, as did longtime parent activists Helesia Luke and Dawn Steele.

I couldn’t reach Boubia to get his take on the protest, but I checked in with Bacchus and Lombardi, who put a mostly positive spin on it.

“I was very impressed with the energy of those who were at the

rally, but would have liked to see more students turn out,” Bacchus said. “I think it’s tough to get high school students interested in coming out to events like this, but those who were there were incredibly articulate and passionate about public education.

It was great and inspiring to hear from the students about how budget cuts affect them. I also think Abdeslam Boubia would make a great education minister one day.”

Lombardi guessed a couple

hundred showed up. “Anybody who organizes a rally wants the biggest draw possible, but I thought it was pretty good crowd keeping in mind it was student-led on a school day at 4 p.m. downtown,” he said. “They seemed to do a good job of it. They were in total control of the whole thing. I thought it was a good event.”

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Graduation season has arrived.

I’m looking for unusual stories about graduates. Contact me if you know of any students with great and unique stories about what they accomplished or overcame through the years or those who have interesting plans when they leave school.

They should be compelling in some way and have never been written about before.

I’m also interested in tracking down a couple of longtime school board staff who are retiring. I’m mainly interested in staff who’ve contributed to the district, but don’t typically get noticed for their work, such as grounds keepers and secretaries, although that doesn’t mean I won’t consider writing about teachers or principals who’ve made a significant mark on the district.

I won’t be able to write about everyone, but I’d like to feature a few students and staff in these pages in the coming weeks. noconnor@vancourier.com

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Unless you are a history nerd or a petrochemical engineer, you’ve probably never heard of the Pennsylvanian Oil Rush.

It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

In the 1860s, a combination of drilling technology improvements and oil discoveries in the northeastern part of the state led to the world’s first oil boom. Drillers, teamsters, tool makers and railway tycoons remade a small section of Pennsylvania. Until the oil ran out, of course. Extraction peaked in the 1890s, and interest shifted to places like Texas and California.

Why oil?

Because it was a lot easier to dig an inert substance out of the ground than it was to send out ships to hunt down and slaughter thousands of whales. Kerosene proved cheaper than whale oil to light homes.

Then it turned out you could use oil for all sorts of other things, like fuelling the new fourstroke engine invented in Germany at around the same time. And for trains, and ships, and, finally, aircraft.

Also, it turned out you could make plastic and fertilizer and all sorts of other stuff out of this gunk that just leaked out of the ground.

And it did leak out of the ground in some places. The Beverly Hillbillies line about “bubblin’ crude” was no exaggeration in the early days of oil exploration. Near the city of Baku, in what is now Azerbaijan, the tarry deposits on the surface were famous. Zoroastrian worshippers used to arrive and pray at the place

matthewclaxton that sometimes spontaneously caught fire; the ascetics were still turning up intermittently as oil derricks went up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Of course, the easy oil was gone pretty quickly. America used to be an oil exporting nation, but those days are long gone; its oil production peaked in 1970.

There is still plenty of oil out there, of course. The big difference between now and the 1860s is that we’ve pretty much used up all the easy-to-get-at stuff, all the bubblin’ crude and gushers are gone.

Which is why we’re eagerly watching as robots try to fix a gigantic oil leak thousands of feet below sea level in the Gulf of Mexico.

When the easy oil was gone, drillers looked further afield, and more extreme environments came to seem like a good bet. Undersea oil.

Oil in dangerously unstable countries, such as Nigeria or Iraq. Oil in the far north. Oil owned by dictators.

Oil thousands of feet under the Gulf of Mexico.

As I wrote this column, BP, the company that brought you a new name for environmental catastrophe, was cautiously optimistic that the leak in its destroyed Gulf pipe had finally been plugged.

While BP insists that all its solutions are incredibly high tech, it’s hard to square that with ideas that are “plug it with mud” or “siphon it off with a big straw.” These are solutions from the mind of a five-year-old. Only the location of the drill makes this a really difficult problem.

Someday in my lifetime, we’ll hit peak oil, the point at which we’re finding less and less oil while using more. We know we’re going to have to wean ourselves off oil. But before the Gulf disaster, we didn’t think much about the hazards of the long, downhill slope after peak oil. If all our oil comes from difficult, inaccessible places, does that increase the likelihood of more disasters like this one? I think it probably does.

BP (and its competitors) would probably argue that they’re very careful, have better technology, etc. But the Gulf disaster speaks for itself. How many more of these can we afford to sustain, just to keep oil reasonably priced for a few more years? mclaxton@langleyadvance.com (Allen Garr returns next week.)

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Trees benefit human health, heart, mood

Some years back, my family had a property up at Whistler mountain. Whenever I visited the cabin, I’d find myself in a slightly deeper state of relaxation than usual—like shifting down to a half-forgotten gear. It wasn’t just because it was a familiar, family getaway. I think my peaceful, easy feeling had something to do with the smell of unfinished pine and cedar. It felt like an inadvertent form of aromatherapy.

There may be something to my intuition on this. Diana BeresfordKroeger has been touring North America, flogging her new book The Global Forest. An expert on chemical signalling systems in trees, the Ontario resident argues that trees aren’t only “smarter” than we give them credit for, they can actually alter our moods and heal us.

In a recent interview on CBC’s The Current, the 63-year-old botanist called attention to the 1,000 species of Hawthorn in Canada, which are now in bloom.

Simply inhaling the Hawthorns’ white flowers activates your salivary glands. You swallow the saliva, and the lactone compounds from the flower “do a bit of cleaning in the heart, opening up the arteries and making it more functional.” The compounds stimulate the left descending coronary artery of the heart, and are used in surgery as a purified, pharmaceutical-grade drug.

Human beings have a longstanding biochemical relationship with trees. Aspirin, which has an enormous range of health uses, was first extracted from the birch tree. Beresford-Kroeger claims that willows are a good cure for loneliness and feeling down. However, the mood-elevating compound in willow is in a volatile acetyl form, and is difficult to capture and extract.

But hang out in a grove of willows and you will find the “slightly acetyl smell in the air will comfort you,” she claims. The chemical emissions of other species of trees, like pines, have a sedating effect on the nervous system.

Coming from a Gaelic background, and trained in medical biochemistry and botany, Beresford-Kroeger has not been surprised by the ongoing scientific validation of ancient remedies.

You name it; indigenous peoples around the world have found it, long before Pfizer and GlaxoSmithCline did their first clinical trials. Anti-inflammatories, tranquilizers, expectorants, cardiotonics, sedatives, astringents, anti-hypertensives, digestants, diuretics, and even anti-cancer remedies—all of them drawn for free, for centuries, from mother nature’s 24-hour drugstore.

For decades, pharmaceutical companies have been very inter-

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geoffolson ested in identifying the medicinal plants of tribal people. The working assumption is that newly discovered flora have surprises in store for us. The trick is finding the scientific gem in the folkloric ore—with the help of locals, who often insist their botanical allies are “sacred.” That also happened to be a subtheme in this year’s biggest box office film Avatar.

In the film, Sigourney Weaver’s scientist character, Grace, argues for saving the habitat of the blueskinned Na’vi. Not for the benefit of the beings themselves, but because there’s something weird going on with the trees, a kind of electrochemical communication between their roots—“like the synapses between neurons,” she tells the smirking CEO in charge of the interstellar land grab.

“There are more connections among the trees than the human brain. Do you get it? It’s a global network.”

“They’re just trees!” the CEO laughs, disdainfully. “What have you people been smoking out there?” (Which is, of course, a reference to another botanical remedy with proven health benefits.) But who needs lush, computer-rendered flora when we have the real thing on the West Coast? One of the great things about Vancouver is its location, tucked into the southwest edge of a temperate rainforest. You probably don’t need me to tell you that if you’re feeling down or stressed, there are worse places to disport your serotoninstrapped self than Stanley Park, Pacific Spirit Park, or better yet, the North Shore mountains.

Spend an hour or three in communion with our first and secondgrowth allies. Breathe deeply the clean, carbon-scrubbed air, as the trees silently perform their billion-year old magic trick, chowing down on sunlight and exhaling oxygen. And if you need anything else to lift your mood, meditate on this: in May, environmentalists and logging companies forged a deal to protect Canada’s boreal forest. In their occasional moments of lucidity, it seems even “civilized” people are capable of seeing the forest for the stumpage fees. www.geoffolson.com

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Broadway Connections’s staffers such as Angela Paiyizi (right) help Betty Ann Spinks and other folks deal with disabilities. file photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “Longtime program for disabled adults dealt death blow,” May 26.

Thank you for your article on the closure of Broadway Connections. My son Edward Clarke has physical and mental disabilities as a result of a traumatic brain injury acquired five years ago.

It has been a long, slow process of recovery for him and he will never have a “normal” life. He presently lives in a home with caregivers, and has graduated from a wheelchair and walker to using a cane.

He is also partially blind. He is a shy, quiet person and doesn’t make friends easily.

Broadway Connections has been an extraordinary experience for him. He has

made some friends there and it is now the highlight of his week. The staff are wonderful people, genuinely caring, accommodating and giving of their time.

I was as devastated as my son when I heard of the impending closure, and wish something could be done so that these people could keep their jobs and continue to open their doors to these people who need some joy and fun in their lives.

Gavin Wilson wants to shuffle them off to some existing programs but I seriously doubt there is anything else out there that could replace Broadway Connections.

Elin Sigmundson, Vancouver

Park board’s First Nations village ‘comical’ We want To the editor: Re: “Central Park,” May 14.

I have a PhD in anthropology with a specialization in northwest coast cultures and languages.

Although I think it is great that Stanley Park may build a Klahowya First Nations summer village, the park board needs to hire a consultant familiar with First Nations cultures in this part of the world.

First, in all my years of study and research, I have never heard of a “healing

stone pathway,” or even of healing stones in Northwest Coast cultures. Sounds more like something from a California New Age group.

Second, there were no teepees to be found anywhere near here. They were mostly used as dwellings east of the Rocky Mountains. West Coast cultures lived in structures built of cedar.

I don’t think they ate rattlesnake in this part of the world, either.

If the park board wants its village to be “authentic,”

it should do the required research.

Not only will people familiar with First Nations cultures (including First Nations people themselves) find this village comical, or maybe even offensive, we will be providing misinformation to visitors from elsewhere.

We should celebrate First Nations cultures by respecting their traditions, not by mixing them all up into one pan-Indian conglomerate.

Anne Marie Goodfellow, Vancouver

Art gallery’s future shrouded in basic questions To the editor: Re: “City holds power on VAG’s future,” May 26.

After reading Allen Garr’s “opinion” piece on the proposed relocation of the Vancouver Art Gallery, I was left wondering where’s the opinion part?

Garr’s failure to opine echoes a story that appeared in the Globe and Mail where mention was made of the mere seven emails the city had received on the question of the gallery’s relocation and that Vancouverites are indifferent to the issue.

As someone who writes on art, and who agrees the current gallery site is problematic, the starting point for any conversation concerning the gallery is not a new site, and what “icon” might be dropped on top

of it, but the insufficiencies of the current site in relation to the gallery’s long-term plans.

And what are those plans? Has anyone asked? Does the VAG want to be a modern and contemporary art gallery that buys onto blockbuster touring shows of Renaissance masters? Does it want to be all those things under one roof?

If that is the only reason to build such a roof, I say no, spread it out. Ask more of our city’s contemporary art gallery, keep the current VAG site for historical wall work and, yes, explore what remains of Robson Square, or an aspect of the Sears Building, for video, film and installation works.

Michael Turner, Vancouver

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ong weekends often prompt the police, through the media, to remind everyone about basic road safety. This spring the focus is on redlight running. RCMP Supt. Norm Gaumont is reported as saying, “I’ve told our people there will be no warnings, but tickets only. …The Cedric Hughes RCMP and Vancouver Police Department and all police forces in BC will be targeting infractions at intersections vigorously in the next couple of months, starting right now.”

This reminder includes the penalty for running a light—$167—and, lest the listener/reader be tempted to ignore it as somehow inapplicable, a recitation of the should-be-shocking-but-aren’treally statistics in BC: a daily average of 250 crashes at or near intersections comprising 50% of all crashes; of the 35 fatalities on Vancouver streets in the last two years, 70% occurring at or near intersections.

To try to highlight the extent of the problem, Nicolas Jimenez, ICBC’s Road Safety Director gives the example: “In the last five years, more people have been involved in an intersection crash than every man, woman and child living in the city of Vancouver.”

Within this broad category, a further bit of statistical digging finds some new and perhaps not surprising (changing demographics?) trends.

The latest Quick Look at Intersection Crashes in Canada from Transport Canada’s Road Safety and Motor Vehicle Regulation Directorate states that fewer children under 16 are being killed or seriously injured in intersection crashes and that intersection-related fatalities among drivers aged 16 to 19 have decreased by almost 20% between the latest comparison periods 1996-2001 and 2002-2004.

The Quick Look indicates that of all intersection fatalities, “40% involve a driver failing to yield the right of way or disobeying a traffic sign or signal. [Failing-to-yield-the-right-of-

way crashes generally involve turning vehicles; crashes resulting from disobeying a traffic sign or signal usually involve running stop signs or signal lights.] The report goes on to say that “older drivers (aged 65 years or older) are much more likely to commit an infracBarrister & Solicitor tion leading up to an intersection crash than most other drivers.” It also notes that “more middle-aged motorcyclists are being killed or seriously hurt in intersection crashes” and that “more pedestrians, especially seniors, are being killed in intersection crashes.

According to the eminent traffic safety expert, Leonard Evans, the statistics “consistently show that young male drivers have the highest fatality and crash rates, and pose the greatest threats to other road users.” If the above-mentioned Quick Look statistics are indicative of a new trend, —not surprising given that more seniors are driving and driving later in life than ever before— the solutions for making intersections safer for seniors will likely come through design and training innovations that should also benefit all users. Quick Look suggests (we paraphrase) the following: • Design intersections with senior drivers and pedestrians in mind.

• Install longer pedestrian walk signals.

• Reduce visual clutter at intersections. Eliminate unnecessary signage • Simplify intersection layouts.

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The Vancouver School Board overcharged the provincial government by an estimated $1.4 million this school year, according to an audit of the district’s online program known as the Vancouver Learning Network.

The mistake, attributed to problems with data management, is also projected to cost the district $900,000 in next year’s budget, which calculates to a $2.3 million error over two years. The news worsens the district’s bad financial position—it faces cutting $16.33 million from its 2010/11 budget—subject to a report by a special adviser that was expected to be delivered to the government June 3. Now it must pay back the money the government was overcharged.

Board chair Patti Bacchus called the financial hit staggering. “It sounds like other districts are in a similar boat, so I’m not sure it’s a human error so much as a process error, but we need to make sure that the processes, the checks and balances, are in place because this is going to create a real difficulty for all of us,” she said Tuesday.

Laurie Anderson, associate superintendent of continuing and international education, told trustees about the problem at Monday night’s management coordinating committee meeting.

The VLN is undergoing a “compliance audit,” which district programs are periodically subject to by the provincial government to ensure student numbers submitted by districts match provincial funding.

Anderson updated trustees before the audit’s completion because of its adverse effect on the 2010/11 budget, which must be passed by month’s end. The $2.3 million projection over two years is the worstcase scenario to ensure the mistake is adequately covered in the budget.

Based out of John Oliver secondary, the Vancouver Learning Network offers virtual schooling. Known as “distributed learning” in education-speak, it evolved out of textbased correspondence courses, but now primarily involves online learning.

Enrolment has doubled in the past three years with more than 7,000 students taking courses, according to district figures.

It’s the largest kindergarten to Grade 12 distributed learning program in the province and possibly Canada, according to Anderson who noted its explosive growth in recent years created difficulties in data management.

Students can register any day of the year and start immediately unlike in standard schools. Data collection is required for each student. When auditors arrived, the district was also switching from its old data management system to a modern one. “Frankly, there were situations where data was duplicated in some cases,” Anderson said.

Data input problems were also found where dates, signatures and documentation were missing. The VSB is overhauling its data management to avoid such problems in the future. Anderson said staff also need more training. The new information system, meanwhile, doesn’t allow duplication. noconnor@vancourier.com

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This year, more than 15,600 volunteers took part in cleanups all over the city, filling thousands of garbage bags with litter and debris during the month of May. Thanks again to all the volunteers and program supporters. Your teamwork and dedication goes a long way towards making a clean sweep of litter in Vancouver.

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School closure plan perturbs parents

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A group of East Side parents wants the school board to reconsider closing one of the buildings on the Dr. A.R. Lord elementary school site.

The board proposes closing a small “outbuilding” on the property at 555 Lillooet St. near the PNE to save $42,820, according to the revised budget, which calls for overall cuts of roughly $16.33 million although it hasn’t been passed yet. The so-called “outbuilding” functions as a small primary school that houses Lord’s kindergarten to Grade 2 students. It’s at one corner of the property, while the larger school building, known as the intermediate school, sits at the opposite corner for Grade 3 to 7 students. Both buildings have the school name above their doors.

A parent stumbled across the closure plan and alerted the school’s parent advisory council. The council had not been notified directly, but has since launched an effort to save the building, which features a gym, kitchen, staff room, learning resource room and six classrooms. Shannon Harrison, PAC spokesperson, said the school and community should have been notified and given time to find another solution. Parents maintain the cost of closing the smaller building and retrofitting the intermediate building to accommodate more students haven’t been considered. They think the district should consider a before-and-after

school program at the site to bolster enrolment and help offset the expense of keeping it open.

Nearby after school programs have waiting lists, Harrison said.

The board must pass its budget by month’s end, which leaves parents, trustees and staff little time to weigh alternatives. COPE trustee Jane Bouey met with parents at the school Wednesday night. She told the Courier that Lord is at 53 per cent of its capacity. Its overall enrolment is 197 students, which is expected to drop to 179 students next year. All the students can fit into one building, she said.

Bouey said she’s sympathetic to parent concerns. She would like to save it from closure, but isn’t sure that’s possible given the district’s financial woes. “It’s hard to justify keeping it open when there are classrooms that are empty and the alternative is making cuts elsewhere in the budget that could mean the difference between support for a special needs student or not,” she said.

Harrison maintains the primary school should be treated like a school, not an out building, and parents deserve time and support to investigate options. “If the building gets shut down, the likelihood that it’s going to be opened again in the next number of years is probably pretty minimal,” she said. “I can’t imagine that they would go to the trouble and cost of shutting it all down and then just reopen it next year.” noconnor@vancourier.com

Blast from the past for the BC Lions as den moves back to Empire Field Construction is almost complete on the temporary stadium at Empire Field that the BC Lions will call home for the 2010-11 season.

The home opener in the Lions’ temporary den will be on June 21 against Edmonton. For some fans, it will be a brand new experience. For others, it will provide a taste of the past.

“We have a tremendous opportunity in 2010 to provide our fans with a season to remember as we return to the birthplace of Lions football for the first time in 27 years,” said George Chayka, the Lions’ vice-president of business.

The BC Lions are heading back to their old turf this season, when they return to Empire Field. photo courtesy BC Lions

Empire Field, along with driving directions and parking information.

Completely enclosed on all four sides with an approximate seating capacity of 27,500, the new Lions’ den at Empire Field will be a cosy fit for fans. Individual seats totaling 20,100 will run along the side lines and another 7,400 bench-style seats will occupy the end zones. Sideline seats between the goal lines will be covered and a limited number of private boxes will also be constructed along with media facilities, concessions, stadium level lighting, scoreboards, a video board and washrooms.

Quick Facts:

The one-year move to Empire Field became necessary following the announcement late last year that construction on a new retractable roof for BC Place would not be completed until July 2011. The BC Lions will host the 99th Grey Cup at BC Place in November 2011.

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Seating capacity: 27,500 seats sideline seats will be covered

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Number of private boxes: 12

TransLink has boosted service linking to Empire Field quite significantly since the Lions last played there.

Service on Hastings Street and links from the North Shore and from the Millennium SkyTrain Line will give fans great connections to the games, and TransLink will offer “special events” boosts in service for game days. Check out www.bclions.com/page/parkingand-transportation for ready-made transit options to

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news Intersection of ‘death’ An intersection described as frightening, chaotic and a place where cyclists, motorists and pedestrians “take dumb and dangerous risks” will be among dozens across the city to get a traffic light in the next year.

“Every hour there is an, ‘Oh, my God’ moment,” said Jennifer Halley, the owner of the Bean Around the World coffee shop that looks directly onto the intersection of Gore and Union streets in Chinatown.

In March—well before biketo-work week, which ends Friday—Halley pressured the city to install a light at the busy junction.

“It’s chaotic and everyone takes irresponsible risks out of frustration because there is so much traffic and it’s not properly controlled,” she said.

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city engineer responsible for transportation, said the nature of the neighbourhood was taken into consideration along with traffic

Jennifer Halley patterns and volume.

The Adanac bike route runs east-to-west on Union Street and is the primary

corridor for cyclists travelling between the East Side and downtown. The route now also connects directly with the separated bike lane on the Dunsmuir Viaduct. Cyclists and motorists on Union Street come to a stop sign at Gore. There is no crosswalk.

Dobrovolny said a single traffic light can cost between $70,000 and $200,000 depending on the style, number of signals and existing infrastructure.

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number of recorded accidents, Halley cited anecdotal evidence and playfully expressed her anxiety about the location as “the intersection where death meets peril.” Between 2005 and 2009, ICBC recorded 35 accidents at the intersection, with fewer than five involving cyclists.

COPE Coun. Ellen Woodsworth uses the Adanac bike route frequently and said the junction can be “quite frightening,” particularly when vehicles are making left turns. If more women and seniors are going to feel comfortable on a bike and compelled to cycle in Vancouver, Woodsworth argued, safety is a priority.

“We’re putting a considerable amount of money into cycling infrastructure,” she said.

Tracy Myerson, who runs Jett Grrl Bike Studio half a block from the Gore and Union crossroads, hasn’t experienced the chaos described by Halley and Woodsworth and instead suggested drivers would reduce the risk if they put on the brakes at the stop sign.

She isn’t opposed to a traffic light, but pointed to a recent bylaw in San Francisco that allows cyclists to yield at stop signs if there is no oncoming traffic.

“If money is going to be spent, I don’t know that this is the best place to spend it,” said Myerson, who moved to Vancouver from Toronto seven years ago. “But if that’s not other people’s experience, then I don’t want to discount that either.”

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Organizer notes fewer than 10 people speak Squamish dialect fluently

First Nations event targets traditional language Megan Stewart Staff writer

A language serves as a collective memory, informing a community’s sense of self. But for First Nations people in B.C., that sense of self is in jeopardy as their traditional languages disappear.

A conference this weekend hopes to reverse the trend. Called Save Your Language, the June 5 and 6 event at the W2 media arts centre at 151 West Cordova St. is focused on the “Where Are Your Keys” method, a new learning technique conference organizers believes is fast, effective and advances the learning capacity of individuals. Nearly 50 people have registered for the inaugural conference, which includes workshops, educational games and discussion. All of B.C.’s 32 distinct indigenous languages and 59 dialects are considered severely endangered or nearly extinct, according to research released April 30 by the First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council, a Crown corporation formed in 1990.

Conference organizer Dustin Rivers, a 20-year-old member of the Squamish Nation, says his indigenous language, Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim, faces the same fate. In a release for the conference, he notes fewer than 10 people speak the language fluently and that legal gains, land rights and economic development by the Squamish will

mean little if the language is lost.

Other First Nations members are similarly concerned about the loss of language because they represent the death of a unique culture. Larry Grant is a Musqueam elder who relearned to speak his language in 1998 at 61 years of age. He teaches through a partnership with the UBC First Nation Languages Program. “The importance of language is really about identity, inheritance and history,” Grant said. “It’s completely who we are as a people.”

Geographic names might capture historic events, local resources or the overall qualities of a specific place. Grant noted the shoreline of English Bay is known as “good under the feet” in the language spoken by the Musqueam.

Following state-sanctioned education polices that split up families and punished children for speaking the language of their parents and elders, only five per cent of the province’s First Nations population, or roughly 5,600 people, speak their own language fluently. The majority of speakers are over the age of 65, and according to the First Peoples’ Council, only 36 people under the age of 25 are fluent. “It’s vitally important for First Nations and other nations to learn their language of their mothers and grandmother because it gives them an identity,” Grant said. mstewart@vancourier.com

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community briefs Socks donations The ongoing rain is a good reminder people living on the streets of the Downtown Eastside are in dire need of clean, dry socks.

Wet weather brings wet feet and walking around in soggy socks can lead to what’s become known as “street foot,” a condition as unhealthy as it is painful.

Downtown Eastside-based Gospel Mission collects new or gently used socks to distribute, but the need far exceeds the supply. The mission is also launching a new program dubbed the Vancouver Sock Exchange.

The program not only allows people to receive a fresh pair of socks when they drop by the Lord’s

Rain shower program, but volunteers will now also collect the ones being worn.

If those socks are still wearable they’ll be washed in hot water and bleach and then put back into circulation. New and gently used socks can be dropped off at the Lord’s Rain, 327 Carrall St., Tuesdays and Saturdays between 6:30 and 9 a.m.

Landfill event The Vancouver Landfill is hosting its annual open house this weekend and promises a “fascinating and fun day for all ages.” The event includes behind-thescenes bus tours, the chance to climb aboard landfill equipment and crafts. Visitors can also watch the bird control hawks and falcons

in action and learn more about the green initiatives adopted by the landfill.

The open house takes place June 5 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 5400 72nd St. in Delta.

Park gifts The park board has a number of commemorative gifts available for residents and

visitors to purchase, including park benches, picnic tables, drinking fountains and bike racks. The prices vary but range from $3,000 for the installation of a bike rack dedicated to a loved one, including maintenance of the site for 10 years, to $20,000 for the refurbishment and 10-year maintenance of a water fountain.

The dedication plaques allow for three lines of text and 50 characters per line. There are many park benches along the seawall in need of replacement and promotional plaques have been placed on available sites from the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, along English Bay and around Stanley Park. For more information go to vancouver.ca/parks.

Pride award

Toronto Pride has selected Gay Whistler as its choice for the 2010 Sports Award recipient for Pride House organized for the Olympic Games. Pride House, with locations on Bute Street and in Whistler, was the first Olympic pavilion in Olympic history for gay and lesbian athletes and visitors. While both locations celebrated the Games, the Bute Street pavilion had staff on hand ready to help queer athletes and visitors looking to claim refugee status.

Gay Whistler and Pride House will be honoured at the Pride Toronto Gala Awards and Dinner on June 30.

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Local readers are invited to select the next One Book, One Vancouver winner.

The Vancouver Public Library sponsors the annual competition, described as a book club for the entire city with a goal to encourage a culture of reading and discussion by bringing people together to read two great books. The three finalist this years include The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, written in 2007 by Sherman Alexie; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1892, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams in 1979. Anyone who casts their vote between June 3 and 24 is eligible to win a Library Lover’s Prize Pack.

The winning novel will be announced at the Word on the Street Festival, Sept. 26.

For more information go to vpl.ca/obov.

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Creating the ultimate playroom

by Emma Lee, contributing writer

reating a playroom for your children isn’t just a matter of throwing some toys and a sofa in a room. A great playroom that your kids will love and use from 7 to 17 years old, takes careful planning and a number of considerations.

arts and crafts, painting or drawing, board games, reading and/or activities such as dancing to music?” Decide what needs to be stored and what types of boxes, bins or shelving are required.

Parents commonly make three design mistakes when creating a playroom for their kids, according interior designer and program head of BCIT’s Diploma of Technology in Interior Design program, Dixie Hudson. They go cheap, they decorate for a very specific age, and they don’t anticipate future needs.

Create flex space. Plan for open space too. Children of all ages need open space where they can lie down, play games on the floor, or just chill out.

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“Parents will often buy the least expensive pieces for the room, thinking it’s just for the kids,” explains Hudson. “But then the kids end up spending a lot of time in there. The playroom is probably one of the most used rooms, so for storage and for seating, purchase long-term items.”

While your child may be into that Thomas the Tank Engine sofa or Dora the Explorer toy chest now, once those characters fall out of favour as your child grows, you’ll be faced with having to redecorate the room. Instead, Hudson says that for bigger ticket items like storage and seating, you should “stay with more conservative, basic styling so that you are able to change the less expensive items, like cushions or paint on the walls, every two or three years.”

As for storage, think about what you need today, but consider what you’ll need moving forward. “Parents will purchase a small unit for storage for today, but a year later, they need more storage and then purchase a different unit, and so on. Several years later, there are so many units of a different style, look and character that the space is full of visual clutter, even if it’s tidy.”

Here some tips from Hudson on how to plan and decorate a functional and fun playroom.

Determine the function of the room. Yes, it will be playroom, but what types of play? Ask yourself, “Are the kids going to watch TV and play video games in this space? Is the space reserved for “low-tech” play such as

Choose the character or feel you want. The paint colour or materials that you choose will encourage or invite children to play in that room.

Storage, storage, storage. Don’t scrimp on storage or buy poor-quality shelving. The storage will have so much use and needs to really stand the test of time. Secure storage to the wall so that it’s safe for earthquakes and but also for kids to climb. Storage should be easily accessible to kids to put away their own toys. Cupboard doors are always a plus, as they can conceal everything.

Comfortable seating. Invest in good-quality sofas or two lounge chairs where you love to curl up to read the children a book or to watch movies. Make sure it’s comfortable so they are enthused to use it. Built-in seating with storage below is a good, efficient option as well.

Finally, Hudson offers some tips for a room that will truly stand the test of time: • White storage units always help a basement or a darker room appear spacious and bright.

• Floor material such as marmoleum or cork (both ecoconscious choices) are durable for a huge amount of hard use. Or you can purchase inexpensive carpet for areas of the room where you might play games on the floor and lie on cushions on the floor.

• For a gender-neutral look, stripes and bold geometric patterns with both “girl” and “boy” colours are great accents in a room with neutrals.

• Walls can be covered in cork boards or chalkboard paint.

If you’re putting up either, don’t be stingy—try covering an entire wall!

3 Great Playroom Décor Items Beetling 3D Zebra If you’ve got a room that needs a focal point, these 3D wall sculptures are incredible. We love the Beetling 3D Zebra.

It’s made of lightweight material and affixes easily to the wall. Great for boys and girls. Designed and manufactured in the Lower Mainland. Retails for $499 at www.beetling.com.

Owyn Toy Box This toy box is a great piece for a playroom. As an accent to the built-in storage you may have, this gender-neutral design is made for kids 2+ years.

It has two easy lift-off lids, and it’s made of ecofriendly plywood, with non-toxic paints, and low-voc water-based polyurethane. Retails for $525 at www. babybot.com Fatboy Bean Bag Chairs Dixie Hudson loves these chairs. “They are terrific because they envelop little kids and they love sinking into them while teenagers love to slouch in them.

They are very sturdy and easily moved throughout the room.” The Junior (shown here), retails for $198. Find it at www.fatboycanada.com.

Kitsilano Preschool SEPTEMBER 2010 REGISTRATION! Now accepting students from 33 mths - 5 years old. This program follows a play-based approach to education, focusing on emergent curriculum and early literacy, developing social skills in a co-operative child.

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Summer Camps at False Creek Preschool Explorers (3-5 yrs) 9:00am-12:00pm or 12:30-3:30pm $79 p/week (each camp session) Junior Explorers (6-10 yrs) 9:30am-4:30pm, $159 p/week Fun filled excursions, games and sports Waterworld (8-12 yrs) 9:30am-4:30pm, $159 p/week *A water-based daycamp

Youth Explorers (12-15 yrs) 9:30am-4:30pm, $159 p/week Outdoor adventures and leadership

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Kidz beat LET’S GO! Summer Camp Round-up heck out the ads in this section for contact info. on great ideas for your kids this summer. It’s all about learning and having fun! Here are some examples:

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Why not try Summer Day Camp through St. Johns Ambulance? This course is filled with exciting activities and plenty of learning for young people. They will learn first aid requirements, with emphasis on working with others as a team. It’s suitable for youngsters from 9 to 12 years of age or older. Visit the nearest location at 6111 Cambie Street, 2nd Floor, for more information.

StageCraft Theatre School summer camps are a condensed version of the school’s main Musical Theatre Program.

These performance-oriented camps give students of all ages the opportunity to train in Dance, Voice and Drama with specialized, highly-qualified teachers, as well as the chance to be involved in a production from conception to performance. Each class will perform a showcase of work on the last day of camp.

HR MacMillan Space Centre is holding its Galactic Crusader Camp; two sessions to choose from, in July and August. These passports to adventure are for kids going into grades one through three, in which campers embark on a series of challenges involving science experiments, simulations and problem-solving. Grade four to six kids will enjoy Voyage to Mars, including boot camp outer-space style!

Sasamat Outdoor Centre (accredited by the BC Camping Association) has provided quality camping experiences and outdoor education to children and youth for over 35 years. Free play (safe, but unstructured) is the mandate at Sasamat. Once in a healthy outdoor environment, kids can try challenging, new activities and master new skills, without the pressure of passing or failing. Lifelong memories of friendship and bonding with nature are guaranteed!

Join the Pre-Teen Artistic Adventures Program at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House. Kids can contribute to their community through art. This 10-week program for youth ages 9 to 12 will help them learn about different types of art, about using recycled materials to create cool things and how art has a role in creating community and public spaces. Come early for snacks and ‘hang-out’ time; Thursdays at Kits House, Youth Room, 2325 West 7th Ave.

False Creek Community Centre offers Junior and Preschool Day Camp. For Juniors, this recreational day camp offers a week of water fun, outdoor games, day treks to local parks and fun activities centred around the theme of the day. Simply pack your child’s backpack with clothing for the weather, proper clothing for various activities and include a healthy lunch, snacks and water. Find out more at the Centre, entrance to Granville Island.

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Seniors JUNE 2010 SPECIAL ADVERTISING FEATURE

It’s Spring and time for a fresh new outlook!

This is your time, folks. And June 6 through 12 promises to offer many fun and interesting opportunities for seniors in and around the city of Vancouver.

Visit your local community centre, seniors centre or retirement residence for the latest on celebratory activities. The principal kick-off is at the Roundhouse in Yaletown, easily accessible by Skytrain and Canada Line. Enjoy your time, seniors!

Opening For Seniors Week 2010 Date: June 7; Time: 2:00 pm-3:15 pm; Cost: Free Venue: The Roundhouse - 181 Roundhouse Mews (Corner of Davie & Pacific); Phone: 604-713-1800 Event Organization: The Roundhouse; Email: roundhousecc@vancouver.ca; Website: roundhouse.ca This is the Opening for the “2010 Seniors Week” where the focus is on the Elders in our community and in Canada. They will be sharing amazing and inspirational stories about Olympic and Paralympic Athletes. View the Seniors Week art exhibition, which

includes photographs by active seniors and “Healthy Aging through the Arts”.

Refreshments will be served and everyone is welcome.

Seniors Week Tea and Dance Date: June 11; Time: 1:00 pm-4:00 pm; Cost: $8 Venue: The Roundhouse - 181 Roundhouse Mews (Corner of Davie & Pacific); Phone: 604-713-1800 Event Organization: Vancouver Park Board and Community Association; Email: roundhousecc@vancouver.ca; Website: roundhouse.ca Join other enthusiastic seniors at the eighth annual event to celebrate Seniors Week 2010, at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

This is a city-wide Vancouver Park Board and Community Association sponsored event that will feature the swinging sounds of live music, light refreshments and treats, prizes, fun, friendship and lots of dancing. Purchase your ticket at the Roundhouse or your local community centre. Space is limited so register early. Tickets sales will close Tuesday, June 8.

IT’S FOR THE BIRDS Check out these Seniors Week activities to tweet about:

is 37th at Oak St.; Info line: 604-8789274.

Bird Walk at Van Dusen

Urban Nature Walk to Hastings Sanctuary

Saturday, June 5; at 10 a.m.

Meet at the Garden entrance. Join Jeremy Gordon from Nature Vancouver for a beginner’s birding exploration in the Garden, rain or shine. Limited to the first 20 people. Free for members or with Garden admission. Location

Wednesday, June 9; 10-11:30 a.m.

Go on a ‘Bird Spotting Adventure’ on the lookout for more than 100 species of birds. Meet at Hastings Community Centre, lobby area - 3096 East Hastings St.

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If you haven’t seen Amica at Rideau Manor lately, there is no better time than now! Through the winter we have been making some wonderful changes to our suites, salon and lounges and they are almost complete. We invite you to come out to one of our events or arrange for a tour and lunch compliments of our Executive Chef. Then consider a Spring move to Amica at Rideau Manor, where the friendship is warm and the services are simply superb. It’s an all inclusive retirement lifestyle that will have you feeling as independent and worry-free as ever.

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Make it Seniors Week Every Week

Lead an active lifestyle Stay active or improve your health with the Vancouver Park Board. Purchase a Flexipass and get unlimited admission to our fitness centres, pools (including aquafit and Range of Motion classes) and rinks. Drop-in and 10 visit passes also available at discounted rates for seniors. Alternatively, take advantage of seniors’ rates at our pitch & putt and championship golf courses.

Be young at heart, literally Sign-up for Happy Hearts, a heart health program, at Kensington Community Centre. Or take advantage of the outdoor senior’s wellness circuit at Tisdall Park. Call your local community centre for information about other health and wellness programs.

Because you deserve it!

Join us for Seniors Week festivities! From performances and art exhibitions to historical walks and our annual tea dance (tickets $8 each), take part in the special activities offered at Vancouver Park Board locations. Information available online at vanrec.ca; click on “Seniors” located in the left column.

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VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION MEALS ON WHEELS CELEBRATES 40, TIMES FOUR

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Moorcroft Pottery 40 YEARS VOLUNTEERS DOUG SHAW, SHIRLEY VAN DER HOOP AND CHRIS CRONER WITH VOLUNTEER MANAGER, JILL HOWEY AT THE VOLUNTEER & STAFF APPRECIATION TEA. MISSING FROM PHOTO: JEANNE LEWIS. INFO. SUBMITTED BY TERRENE CONWAY.

The Health and Home Care Society of BC (HHCSBC) is happily celebrating four very special volunteers who have served with its Meals on Wheels program for 40 years.

Chris Croner, Shirley Van der Hoop, Jeanne Lewis and Doug Shaw were recognized for their dedicated service to the Meals on Wheels pro-

gram, alongside 53 other volunteers and 18 members of the staff at HHCSBC’s annual Volunteer and Staff Recognition Tea, held on May 12 at the Family Respite Centre.

Of the 18 staff honoured for their long term service, nine were appreciated for ten years of devoted service, including Shirley Park, HHCSBC’s Chinese Meals on Wheels

service coordinator.

Chair of HHCSBC’s Board of Directors, Tom Chambers, human resources consultant Janice Dungate, and volunteer manager Jill Howey were on hand to conduct the pinning story in recognition of these longterm service volunteers and staff.

HHCSBC is infinitely appreciative of all of their

incredible staff and volunteers, who are committed to ensuring that programs continue to thrive.

For information on the Meals on Wheels volunteer program, call 604733-9177, ext. 107. To order meal service, phone 604-732-7638 (or 604292-7200 for Cantonese service.) You may also visit the website at www. carebc.ca.

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Canadians have been collecting Moorcroft for over 100 years. Famous collectors include Elton John, The Queen, Rod Stewart and many others.

This competition is being held to celebrate the fact that the Moorcroft Chairman Hugh Edwards is visiting Canada to meet collectors at a number of special free events.

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Matthew Richardson Fraser Academy

This special feature highlights high school graduates who’ve displayed an outstanding commitment to school and community service. Each year schools are included on a rotating basis.

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Matthew has been a tireless volunteer both within Fraser Academy and in the larger community. A Scouting Area Youth Commissioner, he organized two area youth forums where young Scout members could voice their opinions and ask questions. At school, Matthew established the position of Group Youth Representative—a contact for youth in various Scout groups. A volunteer for three years at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Matthew did crafts and

activities with children; in 2009 he was hired part-time to help with birthday parties, coordinate volunteers and supervise tour groups.

At Fraser Academy, Matthew has been a key member of the Community Service Club (as well as many other school clubs). He has been a recipient of many awards for his service, most notably the Thomas Peter McNamara Award for Outstanding Citizenship and the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Level Award.

Britannia Secondary

It has always been my goal to be a differencemaker in the community. I served as Editor-inChief of the 2008-2009 Yearbook at Britannia, reducing the Yearbook debt from $10,000 to $2,500, which helped relieve some financial burden on the school. I am a Socials and English tutor at the school’s Homework Club, President of the Graduation Ceremonies Committee, Grade 12 & District Representative on the Student Council and a Global City Issues Club member. One of my

most significant contributions to the community would be serving as Senior Director of Marketing and Special Events of the 2009 Crossroads Conference, devoted to spreading student awareness of local issues, and connecting them with city leaders to make meaningful proposals and solutions. I am headed to the University of Toronto this fall to study International Relations.

I hope to one day work for the foreign service of Canada or the United Nations.

Rowena Cacapit John Oliver Secondary

Rowena Cacapit describes herself in her scholarship application as follows: “In the fall of 2005 I was a fresh young grade 8 who was just entering high school. I had no idea what to expect or exactly what to do. Now at the end of my graduating year I find myself doing everything possible while my time in high school is quickly ticking away. I know that I have developed far beyond what I could ever have hoped for. I used to be extremely shy before my high school experiences helped me build character, find my true personality and make me what I am today; an outgoing, bold leader”.

Rowena has devoted over 1000 hours to leading and choreographing the school Dance Club. She has also spent many hours volunteering with the Youth Corp under the sponsorship of the John Oliver Community School Team and acted in the school’s recent production of A Midsummer

Vanessa Lin Killarney Secondary School

Over the course of the last five years, I have immersed myself in many aspects of my school’s extracurricular activities. On top of being Prime Minister of the Killarney Student Government, I have also been a key member of Student Street Squad, Yearbook, Link Crew, and Grad Committee. I have managed to maintain a level of high academic standing, while working two part-time jobs, and giving countless hours of service to the school and community. In recognition of my achievements, I recently received

the prestigious James Edmunds Memorial Scholarship, as well as the Killarney Principal’s Award, Sir John A MacDonald Youth Leadership Award, Silver “K” Award, Killarney Mini School Award, MacCorkindale Elementary PAC Award, Killarney Student Government Leadership Award, and the Killarney Cougar Mart Initiative Scholarship. In the fall, I plan on attending McGill University to study biological and life sciences, in hopes of one day attaining a job as a health care professional.

Night’s Dream. She is a Provincial Finalist for the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program Perhaps Rowena’s most impressive accomplishments have been on the wrestling mat. As a recent article on the Vancouver School Board’s website put it, “her voice is barely louder than a mouse and her stature at 44 kilos is not much more either; but her determination and the size of her heart are immeasurable on any scale”.

Defying all odds she became John Oliver’s first Gold Medalists in a quarter decade and the first ever female wrestling champion for the school at the 2010 Canadian Juvenile Wrestling Championship held April 9-11, 2010 at Simon Fraser University.

She is a scholar, dancer, actress, volunteer and now National Juvenile Champion and Provincial AAA Wrestling Champion.

Congratulations!

Michaela Berkow Point Grey Secondary

Mini School graduate Michaela Berkow has been actively involved in volunteer work throughout her high school years. One of her greatest contributions to the community has been her service to the Louis Brier Home and Hospital. For five years, Michaela has been a regular volunteer at this nursing home where tasks have included running weekly movie nights, delivering mail, and escorting residents to various programs. Presently, she spends two hours a week brightening residents’ days with her friendly visits.

A French horn player in Point Grey’s symphonic band, Michaela has also acted as co-chair of Point Grey’s Music Executive for the past two years. This student-led club meets once a week and is responsible for stage set-up, ticket sales, and the general organization of music performances. Michaela’s position as leader is essentially that of a volunteer coordinator, requiring a significant portion of time and dedication, which she has gladly given.

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If you were part of the crowd at the recent premiere of Bloodied but Unbowed, a documentary about Vancouver’s punk rock scene 30 years ago, you’ll likely be interested in the Or Gallery’s next exhibit. The gallery hosts Hold Still Wild Youth: the Gina Show Archive, John “J.A. Genius” Anderson’s TV art project that aired on Vancouver Cable 10 between 1978 and 1981 in association with an artist-run centre called PUMPS. Performance and media artists also contributed heavily to the show, which was hosted by artist and musician Gina Daniels. The installation brings together video archives, interviews, performance, music and digital art. Included are works by some of Vancouver’s best known visual and musical artists, including Hank Bull, Ken Lum, The Pointed Sticks, Eric Metcalfe, Stan Douglas and others. A short-wave broadcast will occur on site and related video screenings will take place in conjunction with the exhibition, which runs June 5 to July 10.

Details at theginashow.orgallery.org.

B.C. playwright Sally Stubbs’ account of a family’s legacy of beauty and brutality has already earned her the top award at the third annual 2009 Canadian Peace Play Competition, which was started by the University of Calgary’s Consortium of Peace Studies, and now it’s finally getting its world premiere at Granville Island’s Playwright Theatre Centre June 10 to 19. Directed

by Katrina Dunn and starring Dawn Petten, Herr Beckmann’s People is the story of a painter who returns to the German city she ran from decades ago to force her family, including a father who was a high ranking SS officer, to answer tough questions about their past. While her mother plays a private concert, history unravels and she is confronted with a moral dilemma of her own. Tickets at www.ticketstonight. ca or by calling 604-684-2787.

Archival episodes of The Gina Show are part of an Or Gallery exhibit.

Space weapons

Jennifer Lines and John Murphy are but two of the many fine actors performing in Bard on the Beach’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Executive producer Mark Achbar (The Corporation) and filmmaker Denis Delestrac surmise war machines are orbiting Earth with the U.S. determined to dominate the stars and thereby the world. In the documentary Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space, which opens June 4 at the VanCity Theatre, Delestrac wonders if the U.S. Defense Department’s contention that China is preparing for an “electronic Pearl Harbor” is true and should the world capitulate to one super-cop on this issue. What we really want to know is “Are there pigs in space?” You know, Captain Link Hogthrob and Dr. Julius Strangepork.

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With Dean Paul Gibson at the helm, audiences can be sure Bard on the Beach’s season-opening production of Much Ado About Nothing will be a crowd pleaser. Gibson sets the Shakespeare comedy in 1910 Italy and has hired a cast of thesps who know how to ham it up, including John Murphy, Shawn Macdonald, Allan Morgan, Jennifer Lines, Patti Allan and Andrew Wheeler. Much Ado is under the tents at Vanier Park June 10 to Sept. 25. Tickets at 604739-0559 or via www.bardonthebeach.org.

Vancouver-based Cameroon dancer Jacky Essombe wants you to celebrate community at Spirit of the Village, June 5 at the Scottish Cultural Centre. In a traditional village in Africa, a typical evening with the community includes sharing food, telling stories, singing, dancing and playing music together. Participants are both performer and audience, though master drummer Thione Dion, along with his band Yeke Yeke, will act as a “griot.” Visit www.jackyessombe.com or visit one of the Ten Thousand Villages stores in the city for details and tix.

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If there’s one phrase that catches K&K’s attention—besides “free badger” and “Intervention marathon”—it’s the words “maximum results, minimum effort.” So we were stoked when we picked up this week’s edition the West Ender, or WE for all you hip, abbreviated kids, which isn’t typically the emotion we feel when we pick up a copy of “Vancouver’s urban weekly.” But lo and behold, there on its press-photo adorned cover were the magical words we’ve been longing to hear: “Beach body: maximum results, minimum effort.” It was as if the editors had taken a peek at our dream journal, gotten past all references to Gloria Macarenko, and found the passage about wanting to get our formless abs, flabby arms and pasty white thighs into shape for beach season while sticking to our strict frappuccino and bacon diet.

The article maps out a no-nonsense, no-sweat approach to making your body Kits Beach worthy while refusing to adhere to such annoying strategies as work and effort. Suggestions include wearing specially designed shoes that work your butt muscles

harder than regular shoes, skin-firming body bronzer and zapping your underperforming muscles with European-style electrical currents. Way ahead of you, my friend.

Sadly, the article didn’t cover many of K&K’s favourite methods for achieving maximum results with minimum effort. So as a service to all you lazy, apathetic types, here are some additional suggestions for making a better you without trying.

• Spanx. Body shaping hosiery is not only a great name for a band, but it takes the shame out of spandex and contains your cottage cheese cellulite like a sausage casing.

Anyone suddenly hungry for lunch?

• Moo moos. Mrs. Roper’s favourite article of clothing is the exact opposite of Spanx but with the same deceptive results. Instead of holding things in, oversized moo moo dresses drape your body in floral-printed mystery, much like that pineapple with a moustache tattoo you found on your lower back after blacking out in Cabo last year. Maybe that’s just us.

• Passive aggressiveness. Whenever we hang out with friends who are better looking and more in shape than us, which are just

about all of them, we like to say things like, “My life is too full and enriched to spend so much time on narcissistic pursuits,” or “I could buy a gym membership, but then who would feed and clothe Diego, our Honduran foster child?” That’ll shut up them up.

• Smoking. Sure, it’s not very PC to tout the appetite-suppressing benefits of nicotine, but a fact is a fact. Smokers get laid more than nonsmokers. Or at least, they look like they get laid more than non-smokers, which is just as important to your tar-stained self-esteem.

• Hang out with chubbier people than you.

When Prince Hal was pissing off his father in Shakespeare’s Henry the IV part 1 by hanging out with tavern lowlifes and not acting like a future king, there was a method to his slumming: making his rise to the top seem all the more impressive.

“And like bright metal on a sullen ground,/My reformation, glittering o’er my fault,/Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes/Than that which hath no foil to set it off.” Let chubbier, more out of shape people be your foil. Hint: You can probably find a few useful “friends” lined up at Church’s Chicken. Buy them lunch, take them to the beach, and let the sun shine down on you.

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Add to the fact that this cosy spot is almost entirely Ocean Wise. The well chosen and affordably priced wines and seductive desserts are more reasons to head back soon. Plus, who knew that

C chef Robert Clark has been the driving force locally to challenge his photo Tim Pawsey restaurant peers to become Ocean Wise. halibut and jalapeno could pair so well with Stagâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hollowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful, smoky and peppery 2008 Syrah?

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I know why she did it. After hundreds, nay, thousands of other, earlier productions of Godspell, director Sarah Rodgers must have been searching for a completely new way of framing this 40-year-old musical. Instead of something new, she tried something old—Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. You remember it? The American TV sketch comedy that ran on NBC from 1968-1973. It spawned, amongst others, Tiny Tim who, with his ukulele, forever ruined “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” And it took decades for Goldie Hawn to dump the dumb blonde image that was her Laugh-In trademark.

Chances are pretty good that JohnMichael Tebelak, who wrote Godspell as his master’s thesis in 1970 in Pittsburgh, watched it, too. However, he didn’t think of using Rowan and Martin’s one-liner format for his re-telling of the parables according to the Gospel of St. Matthew.

Instead, Tebelak envisioned Christ’s disciples as flower children romping through a playground. Since then, directors all over the world have had their way with Godspell. Part of the 1973 film version was set in a junk yard; another scene was shot

on the roof of the then newly completed World Trade Center in New York.

The show’s music was written by Tebelak’s fellow students but later, producers hired Stephen Schwartz to write a new score. “By My Side” (written way back when by Vancouver director Jay Hamburger and sung in this production by Kyla Ferrier and Shalyn McFaul) is the only song remaining from the original student production.

Bryan Pollock’s set for this Pacific Theatre Godspell (an archaic spelling of gospel) is a replica of the Laugh-In set: a colourful wall with many windows out of which pop various characters saying funny things. Rowan (Joel Stephanson) and Martin (John Voth) kibbutz around long enough to make you wonder if you’re in the right theatre when John the Baptist (Ron Reed) and Jesus (Tim Bratton) arrive as Laugh-In guests. The TV show’s regulars, including Lily Tomlin (Julia Church), Ruth Buzzi (Ferrier) and Arte Johnson (Benjamin Miller) are swept away by Jesus and his relating of the Biblical parables, some of which still make good sense while others remain enigmatic. The Prodigal Son? What?

But the music is singable and well sung by this youthful cast of 15. Erin Germaine Mahoney really socks it to us with “Turn Back, O Man”—an exhortation to “forswear” our “wicked ways.” Bratton sweetly renders Christ’s desire to “Save

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the People,” and the ensemble numbers are big and happy. Katherine Gauthier sparkles throughout as ditzy Hawn.

Successful as Godspell has been—and continues to be—it has its detractors, including a way-over-the-top rant on Google at Godspell: the Ultimate Blasphemy. I’m more inclined to agree with one commentator who wonders at the continuing popularity of what is, in essence, a musical rendering of Christ’s lessons to mankind. Furthermore, I do not understand the practice of double-casting John the Baptist and Judas Iscariot.

While the cast and crew are doubtless having a grand time, I have reservations about this particular production. According to the various gospels, Jesus’ disciples were working men who set aside the tools of their trades to follow him. In Tebelak’s Godspell, they are flower children or hippies but in Rodgers envisioning, Christ’s followers look like groupies disco-dancing their way to Heaven. The opening night audience loved it, but even for an old agnostic like me, I found Rodgers’ treatment trivialized the ancient tale.

That aside, this production under the musical direction of Nelson Boschman left me trying to sing “Day By Day” (sung beautifully by Kaitlin Williams) ever since and wondering, once again, about the humble carpenter who a couple of thousand years ago set Christianity in motion. joled@telus.net

ossobuco, borscht, polenta, perogies, gnocchi, goulash, cabbage rolls, short ribs, Paprikash. Classic creations, warm atmosphere, great fresh food & good hosts.

Open lunch & dinner. www.transylvaniaflavour.com 2120 West Broadway (corner Arbutus) 604.730.0880 $$$

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Ricky’s All Day Grill

Everyone feels welcome at Ricky’s. Our menu is large, comfortable and tasty. With over 100 items, Ricky’s has something for every taste. From signature breakfasts to big-elicious burgers to steak and ribs, we’ve got it covered.

111 Dunsmuir Street (at Beatty) 604.602.9233 $$ Waterfront Centre – 200 Burrard Street 604.669.2781 $$

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Lounge Nirvana Restaurant

Nirvana Restaurant offers the best in Northern Indian Cuisine. For sixteen years, our dedicated Hyderabadi chef has been creating authentic and unsurpassed Mughai cuisine from the heart of Northern India. Choose from sizzling tandooris, creamy hormas, festive biryanis, enchanting thalis, lamb, chicken, seafood, vegetarian and vegan options.

Dine in, Takeout and Delivery www.nirvanarestaurant.ca 2313 Main Street 604.872.8779 $$

New Chef, New Menu. Quality food at great prices. Amazing Brunch for $7.95 Fri–Sun. UFC Fights Shown. Book your party for our private room. www.snslounge.ca 1144 Homer Street (Yaletown) 604.609.0901 $–$$$

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Italian CALLI Mexican Restaurant La Notte Ristorante Italiano

Casual fine Italian dining, serving the westside for over 20 years. Well known for its Pasta selections and veal specialties. www.lanotte.ca Open Nightly from 5pm 3307 Dunbar Street 604.222.4033 $$$

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New India Buffet & Restaurant

New India Buffet and Restaurant is the largest buffet in town featuring an outstanding menu with an original taste of India. The varied menu is inspired by different cuisines’ specialties and offers choices for everyone. The restaurant offers a spectacular ambience making it great for business meetings, quiet conversation or a party for a special occasion.

805 West Broadway 604.874.5800 $$

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Radha Yoga & Eatery

Innovative & organic vegan cuisine in a beautiful setting. Featuring a seasonally changing menu, dinner is served Wed-Sat, 6-10pm. Large party bookings available. www.radhavancouver.org 728 Main Street 604.605.0011 $$–$$$

Award-Winning Authentic Mexican Cuisine served in an ambiance that would make you swear you were there! Salsa dancing with instructor & live DJ on Friday and Saturday eves. VIP room, group rates and menus. Reserve today! www.thevallartagrill.com 102 Water St. (Gastown) 604.696.9580 Accept: Visa, M/C, Amex, Interac and cash $– $$$

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Painter’s palette blends history, art and architecture

Exhibit casts downtown buildings in new light State of the Arts with Cheryl Rossi Our city of glass isn’t known for its heritage structures, but a new multifaceted exhibit will have you considering downtown buildings in a new light.

Edifice: Exploring Art, Archives and Architecture combines an artist’s view of 10 downtown buildings, digitized historical photos of these structures and the period in which they were built, a walking tour and a talk that will illuminate the past and, perhaps, the future.

No one can remember exactly how the collaboration between the City of Vancouver Archives and local artist Graham Winter came together, says Les Mobbs, city archivist, but when he heard Winter was focusing on historic buildings for his newest large-scale works, Mobbs believed it would be the perfect way to draw eyes to the archives’ newly refurbished gallery.

The city’s archives are tucked down a street between the planetarium, the Vancouver Academy of Music and Bard on the Beach. Ten five-feet tall by two-feet wide oil paintings hang in the gallery down a flight of stairs while archival shots of each building depicted play slowly on a large TV screen.

The pale green roof of the Hotel Vancouver contrasted against a navy blue sky, sunlight, seagulls and shadows playing against the Royal Bank building at Granville and Hastings and the magnificent Marine Building at the north foot of Burrard backed by the mountains and a swathe of fog are some of the more predictable landmarks captured in oil on canvas.

The choice to include others came as a revelation to Winter.

The 53-year-old native of Vancouver spent three years developing his realist

For the exhibit Edifice: Exploring Art, Archives and Architecture, Graham Winter created 10 photo Dan Toulgoet large-scale oil paintings depicting downtown heritage buildings. paintings of historic buildings. He snapped photos for at least a year and a half, shooting iconic structures at certain times of the year and certain times of the day to catch them in a specific light.

He got into a penthouse of a building across the street from the Marine Building in February at daybreak. While he was there, he pointed his lens at every building in sight. When he culled more than 200 photos down to the 10 he would recreate, what he chose and discarded surprised him.

“The Guinness Tower is one of the buildings that made it in,” Graham said. “When I was a little boy, I was out for a drive with my Nana and my great aunt, and my great aunt looked

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at this building, she said, ‘Ugh. That’s nothing but a glorified matchbox.’ So that always stuck in my head, but it’s really beautiful.”

Winter added that the boxy, brown, windowed building on West Hastings at Thurlow reflects the Mad Men era.

He also discovered a newfound appreciation for the Bentall Building on Burrard near Pender. “Being in the penthouse, I’m looking across at it and the light hitting it, and thought this is actually a very elegant building,” Winter said. “I remember when it was a hole in the ground and I was always like, ‘Ugh, that building,’ but it became a thing of beauty.”

Winter and historian Isaac Vanderhorst, Heritage Vancouver board member and ed-

ucation coordinator with the West Vancouver Museum, will lead a walking tour called Downtown Vancouver in a New Light, June 12. Winter will share his experience of looking at downtown Vancouver through the eyes of an artist, and Vanderhorst will talk about the buildings’ architects, owners and little-known incidents that happened within their walls. The tour will venture into two lobbies to view their art.

At a free panel discussion, Iconic Constructions, Iconic Reflections, June 9, architects and architecture experts Michael Geller, James Cheng, Walter Francl and Matthew Soules will discuss the elements that make Winter’s heritage buildings landmarks, and what they say about the ideals and identity of the society that created them. They’ll not only discuss the iconic buildings of the last 20 years, but also speculate on what will end up on Vancouver’s 2050 Heritage Register.

Janet Leduc, executive director of Heritage Vancouver, said the partnership with the archives is a first for the non-profit group and the collaboration with an artist is a perfect fit with the society’s recent initiative, Heritage and the Arts.

“We have a common interest in preserving our heritage buildings or structures,” she said.

Winter is amazed at how all the components of Edifice have come together.

“It’s not just looking at a bunch of paintings,” he said. “It really connects to something real in our lives.”

Winter’s paintings are on display at the archives at 1150 Chestnut St., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, until Aug. 26. Admission is free. The panel discussion also happens at the archives, June 9, 7 p.m. The walking tour is 10 a.m. to noon on June 12. It costs $25, or $20 for Heritage Vancouver members. For more information, see www.heritagevancouver.org. crossi@vancourier.com

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KALMAS, Steve Louis 1925-2010 Steve Kalmas passed away peacefully on May 31, 2010. He will be sadly missed but lovingly remembered by his wife, Betty and his son, Gary. Steve always had an interesting story on the tip of his tongue that he told with great passion and humor. He enjoyed playing and watching sports-soccer (great goal scorer), golf, pool, and loved the Boston Red Sox. Steve was an excellent, natural salesman but always wanted to be his own boss so he purchased a billiard hall and ran it and another with great pride for about 25 years. There will be a celebration of his life on Monday June 7, 11am, at St. David’s Anglican Church @ 2475 Franklin St. in East Vancouver. A reception will follow @ Marine Pub at 5820 Marine Drive, Burnaby (the foot of Gilley)

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SELLARS, HARRY “There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval” Born April 11, 1922 in Sheffield, England; Yorkshire man, youthful, Hedley Verity, WWII, soldier, husband, (Margaret “Peggy”), bricklayer, Clovers, father, sons, (Stuart, Iain), pioneer, Canadian, ERCO, inner strength, quiet noble dignity, dry humor, somber reflection, patience, voracious reader, strong tea, kindness, quick wit, fraternal brother, grandfather, (Mar), caring, Las Vegas, good companion, sensitive, loved family, (Vickie , Jessica), extended family, (Pakulak), best friend, pal, my mother’s life companion (64 years) our Dad, passed away on May 16, 2010 in North Vancouver, Canada, the interval was 88 wonderful years “So, let his name through England ring –A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta’s King, Because his soul was great.”

The Sellars Family would like to thank the women and men of the Lions Gate Hospital’s Neurological, and Acute Neurological wards, its Palliative Care Unit and the staff of Evergreen House for making the last weeks of Harry’s life interval comfortable and dignified. The family will be having a private service. At this time we request that all who knew and enjoyed the man who was Harry Sellars take a small time out of their day to reflect on their own families and cherish and love them dearly.

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Team Wood has been a supplier of quality panel and veneer products to the cabinet, mill work and furniture industries since 1972. Our business has been built on strong and lasting relationships with our customers and suppliers alike by our team of talented and motivated people.

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Are you feeling unmotivated and tired of your repetitive, unchallenging Career? At Cloverdale Paint we offer a fast-paced, team-oriented working environment. Our Vancouver location is looking for full and part-time Customer Service Representatives to join their team. You must be service driven and able to work in a challenging, dynamic work atmosphere.

If you have previous paint sales experience and are looking a change, look no further! If you do not have paint experience, but are looking for an exciting new career, please apply now.

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Choose to make a difference and join an organization that acknowledges the value and dignity in every individual! With nearly 50 years as a broad-based community social service agency and over 300 dedicated employees, St. James cares for the most vulnerable.

The Role - Why it’s the Right fit for you • Experienced leading & developing a large portfolio of vital health and social services • Experienced leader with the drive to take our services to the highest levels of care and practice • A track record of motivating successful teams and being the driving force in implementing strategic plans • Looking for a leadership role with the potential to make a high impact and organizational change • Comfortable managing multi-million dollar budgets and leading multi-disciplinary groups of staff.

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LONG HAUL CLASS 1 OWNER / OPERATORS for rapidly expanding transportation co. taking on new contracts & need to expand our fleet. Owners with no trailers are welcome as well! Looking for teams & singles. Call 604 598-3498 Fax 604 598-3497 or email

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One permanent F/T Supervisor required at Bashir Auto Detailers, 711 West 14 St. North Vancouver V7M-3E8. Must have experience in anti rust under-coating protection, cut polishing, use of paint, leather & fabric protection detailing and install pin strips and body side mouldings on new and used cars and trucks. Duties: Supervise and scheduling of workers, recommending additional services to clients, receive payments and assist cleaners in performing specialized duties. Must be fluent in English and able to operate cleaning machines. $17.50/hour.

Apply in person btwn 11am - 5pm or by mail/phone, 604-987-2921.

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PARTS MANAGER REQUIRED for busy Ford dealership.

Previous management/ADP experience required. Exceptional remuneration/commission.

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PAUL’S PLACE Restaurant seeking F/T cook. Applicants must have several yrs of exp. & compl. of sec. school. $14.50/hr.

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Personal Trainer Certification Earn up to $70/hr as a Personal Trainer. Government Financial Aid may be avail. 604-930-8377 See our ad in todays paper under Education.

WANTED: Kids to sell chocolate bars after school & wknds. Earn up to $150/wk. 604-618-7780.

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CAREGIVER needed for elderly woman, light housekeeping and meal prep. Email resume to miguelakedawen@hotmail.com CAREGIVER required for disabled person, Kits area, benefits, D/L required. Fax resumes to 604-742-0975 email: damistadsociety@gmail.com LIVE-IN CAREGIVER wanted.

Must be willing to work shifts: days, evenings and nights.

Rotating days off. $8/hr. Must have a valid driver’s license. Call 604-765-7907, ask for Lourdes.

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Successful Applicants perform Journeyman function in Bridge Maintenance. Class 3 with air mandatory.

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Antiques

• RETRO DESIGN & •

ANTIQUES FAIR

175 tables & booths of fun, fabulous finds for you & your eclectic abode!

Sunday • JUN 13 • 10am-3pm Croatian Cultural Centre

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3250 Commercial Drive, Van. 604-980-3159 • Adm. $5

2010

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Lumber/Building Supplies

#1A STEEL BUILDING SALE! Save up to 60% on your new garage, shop, warehouse or storage building.

6 different colors available! 40 year warranty!

FREE shipping for the first 20 callers! 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

2135

Wanted to Buy

3015 SYSTEMS INC.

We sell & service all hot & cold pressure washers 604.434.2188 upsi.ca #11 - 5850 Byrne Rd. Burnaby

LIKE NEW!

Childcare Available

3020

Childcare Wanted

FT L/I caregiver needed for a toddler. East Vancouver area. pls call Nestor @ 604-999-3234.

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604-306-5134

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Auctions CAN-AM

AUCTIONS

NEXT AUCTION Saturday, July 10, 9am

Industrial, Construction, Forklifts, Farm & Turf Equip., Crane Trucks, Trailers, Lumber, Boats and etc. Cars & Trucks 9 a.m. Start!!!

Located in Langley Just 30 Minutes from Vancouver

WELCOMING INDUSTRIAL SMALLS.

3507

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

3508

2.56CT SOLITAIRE diamond engag ring.$11,000firm. colorH SI2ph: 604-202-4948

2075

10 AUSTRALIAN Shepherd Pups, Tails, dew claws & first shots done, Ready June 5th, price reduced. 604-607-7372

BEST Deal Restwell Matt Sets.

Full wrty, Dble $319. Queen $339 King $559. Will deliver. 722-3636 Coffee Table, 45' long, 23.5 'wide, 16' tall, glass, slides & horizontal. $45. Danish style table, 4ft 7 ' long, 30.5' wide, 29' high, 2 x 13inch leaves, tile design in the middle. $195 Mt Pleasant area, Van, 604-875-8055 HIGH END furniture for sale, very good condition, downsizing. call 604- 408-2419

classified.van.net

PIT BULL puppies male & female 8 wks 1st shots, dewormed. View parents. $500. Ph 604-701-1587 SCHNAUZER hypoallergic, 1 male blk, 1 female grey. 1st shot, dewormed 8 wk $650. 604-795-1953 SHARPEI IN Coquitlam is looking for good home, very healthy and great with people. Must go through Sharpei rescue for an application. www.petfinder.com/petdetail/5731357

SHIHTZU PUPS multi colour, 1st shots, adorable to good homes $475. 604-773-2146, 820-0252

HORSE BOARDING available. $600.00 per month. Indoor and outdoor arenas. Large paddocks.

Fort Langley area. Beautiful setting. Call 604-888-2455.

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MINIATURE SCHNAUZER puppies. Little 'teddy bears' full of love & devotion. $650. 604-625-7509

MINPIN PUPS, beautiful, vet chk, 1st shots/tails done, to approved home, $800 604-791-9224 Chwk

Pet Services

LATISHA’S PET CARE

Cat sitting. We love cats. Vanc. only. Michele 778-385-7313

3545 JACK RUSSELL pups, smooth coat, shots & dewormed. family raised, $400 ★ 604-794-3229

Horse Boarding

ALL SMALL breed pups local & non shedding $400+ 604 590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

AUSTRALIAN LABRADOODLE Pups Non-shedding mediums, parents 27lbs, spayed/neutered, 1st shots, reg. w/ ALAA, $2500 1-250-494-3107 Summerland AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS ('Aussies'). 8 months. Full of love & devotion. $650. 604-625-7509

Registered Massage Services

SWISS BODY

MASSAGE & WAXING Men & Women

Massage $29 Head to Toe 3 hrs $109

3482 Main St. Van 604-873-9890 NORAH SPA Opening Massage 4085 Oak St & King Edward 604-677-5121 Try the Best 604-872-1702

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Metaphysical

LOVE! MONEY! LIFE! #1 Psychics!

1-877-478-4410 CreditCards/Deposit $3.19/min 18+ 1-900-783-3800 www.mysticalconnections.ca

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Mind,Body&Soul

RELAXATION Therapeutic Massage Full Body Massage, Facial, Acupuncture (Ins. Covered). 604-568-6123 (190 E 48Ave).

4520 BC REPTILE Club Show & Sale Sat June 12 • 10 am to 5 pm and Sun June 13 • 10 am to 4pm Abbotsford Exhibition Park 32470 Haida Drive, Cadet Building Abbotsford B.C Admission : Adults $4 , Kids $2 , Children under 5 Free ; Family Pass $10.00 (2 adults up to 3 kids) For more info visit us at www.bcreptileclub.com 1-604-392-5715

3550

Poultry

Cares!

The Vancouver Courier has partnered with the BC SPCA to encourage responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals. Before purchasing a new puppy, ensure the seller has provided excellent care and treatment of the animal and the breeding parents. For a complete guide to finding a reputable breeder and other considerations when acquiring a new pet, visit spca.bc.ca.

COCKER SPANIEL p/b pups with papers vet. shots, ready now, Vanc. $400 neg. 604-708-1752 FILA/MASTIFF GUARD DOGS owners best friend. Intruders worst nightmare. all shots, $2000 each. ready now! 604-817-5957

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Pets - Other

LAYING BROWN HENS. Tame & friendly. Lay well. $7.00 each.

Cloverdale, 604 541-0007

Furniture

BED, ADJUSTABLE single Plasma, w/remote control. near new, $750, 604-731-0115

DOBERMAN PUPS. Female/ Male. Tails/dew claws done. Blk/ tan. $1500-$2000. 604-607-7433

GARAGE SALES

Dogs

PEMBROKE WELSH corgi male, nine months, Reg AKC $2000 778-688-6868

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Dogs

www.canamauctions.com

2040

BIG BEAUTIFUL Bernese Mountain dog puppies for sale.

Ready to go June 5th. First shots and vet check. 2 males and 2 females left. $1000 each. call 604-897-6495

Cats

6780 Glover Rd., Langley, BC ph: 604-534-0901

Clothing/Fur/ Jewels

BERNESE MOUNTAIN Dog Puppies. Male and Female, vet checked and ready for loving homes. $1,100. 604-637-4439.

Langley.

Foster homes urgently req’d for rescued, abandoned & neglected dogs. Many breeds 778-688-6340 abetterlifedogrescue.com

Warranty & Delivery Removal Available

3508

PB GERMAN shepherd pups, black & tan, 6 weeks old, 1st shots, vet✔, $550 604-856-7405

* * BOOK NOW!! * * An overseas live-in Nanny for 2010 placement. 604-682-4688

Fridge 249 • Stove 199 Washer $199 • Dryer $149 $

Dogs

Old Books Wanted also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. (no text books/encyclopedia) I pay cash. 604-737-0530

Appliances

UNDER PRESSURE

3508

To advertise call

604-630-3300

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Charters & Tours

FULLY ESCORTED TOURS Travel with World Travel Specialist Ron Booiman 604-946-4484

www.TravelWithRon.ca

You Want It We’ve Got It

Find Whatever You’re Looking for in the Classifieds.

AMULTI-FAMILY COURTYARD SALE/BBQ Pacific Heights Housing Coop 1035 Pacific Street (behind Heritage houses) Saturday June 5 9:30-1PM Hand made crafts, fun for kids, balloons, face painting household items, clothing for children and much more!

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MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE Sat June 5th, 10:00am - 2:00pm 3637 Cambie St. Westside (on 20th )

Tools, bikes, Shelves, Kids Stuff, Purses, Bags, Books, Coins, & Clothes, etc!! Good Stuff!!

B GARAGE SALE @ UBC! Sat. June 5, 10am - 1pm St. Anselm’s Church, 5210 University Blvd.

Lots of household items from UBC residents. Don’t miss it BURNABY

Rummage & Bake Sale Sat., June 5th, 9am - 2pm All Saints Anglican Church, 7405 Royal Oak Ave., Bby Small appliances, books, clothing and misc. items.

Collectible Fair & Computer Swap Meet

Saturday, June 12 • 11am-4pm

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GIANT STREET SALE

Sat, June 5th 8:30am-2:00pm 1000 blk of East 10th

Lots of quality and household/kid items!!

In case of rain. Sun 9a-2p TSAW MOVING GARAGE SALE Sat June 5th 8 am- Noon 503 Connaught Dr. Rain or Shine!

Gas BBQ, Tv’s. electric fireplace, lawn mower, pressure washer, some furn, and great misc. items!

FAB FAIR

Jewellery & Fashion Accessory Sale

SAT. JUNE 5TH • SUN. JUNE 6TH 11AM-5PM

45 local designers • $2 adm., kids free Heritage Hall 3102 Main St. @ 15th Ave.

Scottish Centre • Adm: $3 8886 Hudson St., S. Vancouver

www.funpromo.ca 604.521.6304

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Super Sale!

Sat. & Sun Jun 5 & 6.. 9 - 3pm 2476 W. 13th Ave. Recumbent bikes, tools, toys, electrontics, car, garden & household items, planes, tables & chairs, weed eaters, books, mirror, carperts +++

TAPESTRY THRIFT SHOP

1369 Kingsway (just west of Knight St) NG • Furniture • Houseware HI • Books • Knick Knacks SOMEFTOR NE! O RY • Jewellery • Accessories VE EAT !

E • Clothing for Women, Men GR ICES PR and Children OPEN TUES.-SAT. 10am-5pm SUNDAY 10am to 4pm

Check Out Our Website: http://classified.van.net

Proceeds to the Tapestry Foundation in support of residential & elder care at Mount St. Joseph, Holy Family, St. Vincent’s Langara, Brock Farhni, Youville Residence & Marion Hospice.

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

GARAGE SALE

MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

Weekends were made for shopping, so make sure you check our Classifieds for a comprehensive listing of garage sales in your area!

Follow the garage sale trail in

The Vancouver Courier Classifieds Call 604-630-3300 to book your ad

Spring Garage Sales

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010

5005

Accounting/ Bookkeeping

Corporate Tax Returns $225 +up $20 and up for personal tax.

Monthly bookkeeping $20 hr +.

Specialize: construction; sm bus. accounting. Trevor 604-788-0396

5015

Business Opportunity

#1 JANITORIAL FRANCHISE Customers, (Office Cleaning), Training and support. Financing. www.coverall.com 604-434-7744 info@coverallbc.com

5017

Business Services

CRIMINAL RECORD? Canadian pardon seals record.

American waiver allows legal entry.

Why risk employment, business, travel, licensing, deportation?

All CANADIAN / AMERICAN Work & Travel Visa’s.

604-282-6668 or 1-800-347-2540

IN A CAR Accident?

Getting DIVORCED? INHERITANCE coming?

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Up to $10,000 Canada Wide Settlement Lenders 1-866-210-7200

5020

Computer/ Internet

Computer Repair / Toner & Ink Cartridges All Brands. Refurb’s.

Home/Office. Simon 604-999-0815

5505

Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORMA ELEANOR MIKLENIC late of Vancouver, British Columbia.

All persons having claims against the above estate are required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executor at 18th Floor, 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5A1 on or before the 26th day of June, 2010 after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have then been received.

Clark Gallon, Executor BY: Messrs. Lindsay Kenney LLP, Solicitors

7005

Body Work

RELAXING MASSAGE very clean/private. 9am-11pm, 7days, D/town & Kits. Anie 604-684-8773

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REAL ESTATE RENTALS 6002

6020

Agents

NEED A MORTGAGE 1st and 2nd Mortgages, Self Employed, Refinancing, Forclosures, Low Rates.

604-629-8628 www.MazumaCapital.ca

Real Estate Services

6005

Equity in Real Estate = $$$$$$$ No Credit, No Job, NO Problem!

1-866-531-5050 Member BBB MortgageDirectCanada.com Trouble Selling? I can help!

Lease to qualified tenants. Prof.

Service. Reas. Rates. TRG Rlty www.victoriafarrell.ca 604-724-0245

6007

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS for Sale in Western Canada. Tourist Complex on 25 acres with room for future development. Gross sales over 6mm. Great oppportunity. 306-631-8386

6020

7010

GENTLEMEN! Attractive discreet, European lady is available for company 604-451-0175

6020-01

Real Estate

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$99 can sell your home 574-5243 Abbotsford beautifully updated end unit 1250sf 3br 2ba thse $239,900 504-1551 id5107 Abbotsford paradise, 3235sf 4br 3ba home, gated community $479K 825-2963 id5134 Aldergrove spotless 1800sf 4br 2ba w/suite 8260sf lot nr school $429K 329-7886 id5127 Delta Open House Sun 2-4, #111, 11816-88Ave, Kennedy Hts updated 920sf 2br condo laundry pool $172,900 306-0406 id5121 Langley Price Reduced 1280sf 3br 2ba rancher, 7200sf lot, $479,900 514-0608 id5129 Langley immaculate 1770sf 3br 2ba rancher 7016sf lot culdesac $600K 532-8434 id5141 Maple Ridge drastically reduced 4.9ac serviced vu acreage $465Kobo 722-3996 id4694 Maple Ridge immaculate 1200sf 4br log home .37ac lot $549,800 778-240-1196 id5118 Mission, Lake Front Deeded Lot with 38’ Park Model Home $159,900 289-1100 id5140 New West Investor Alert! 555sf 1br condo nr Royal Cent Mall $164,900 525-8577id5081 Port Moody Price Reduced nr new top floor 710sf 1br condo $334,900 313-1480 id5083 Surrey Newton completely reno’d 1100sf 2 br townhouse $169,900 562-2977 id4773 Sry Fleetwood huge 1801sf 5br 3.5ba rancher, 7184sf lot $438K 778-240-1196 id5117 Sry View Lot nr Khalsa School, Skytrain, 2235sf 4/5br, suite, $459K 951-9104 id5119 Sry Fleetwood Open House Sat 2-4, #8, 8383-159st immaculate 1573sf 3br 2.5ba tnhse, sxs garage $385K 512-3629 id5144

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6020-01

Real Estate

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www.bcforeclosures.com 4 BR home from $15,000 down $1,600/mo. 604-538-8888, Alain @ Sutton WC Realty W. Rock

S. Surrey/ White Rock

6020-46

OWN your own Custom Blt 6 BR, 5 bath, Coach Home in Summerfield for $1000/mo. Sutton WC. Michelle Perreault 604-728-2817

6025

Industrial/ Commercial

Houses - Sale

www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca

Personals

Houses - Sale

SURREY, Central City. Only $725,000! Rare high exposure commercial with high density “Downtown” designation. Floor Area Ratio is 3.5. Approx. 15,790 sq ft. 2 lots 123’ x 128’. Only $13.12 per buildable sq ft. Recent appraisal for $828,000. Call Ben Gauer, Royal LePage Ben Gauer & Associates, 604-644-0273 or 604-581-3838.

6030

N. WEST. All services paid, inclds u/grd electrical, DCC’s, survey & eng’ng report. 33’ x 130’ lot. No GST. $337,000. 604-726-0677. usellahome.com ● ID # 4711

Okanagen/ Interior

EXCEPTIONAL LAKEVIEW Lots from $160,000 also: 1 panoramic 3 - acre parcel.

Owner Financing, 250-307-2558 www.orlandoprojects.com

6052

Real Estate Investment

NANAIMO, 7YR old home w/2 sep suites. 5 bdrm, 5 min to dwntwn, 2x6 const, 9appl, lots of prkg, priced to sell $349,000. Call 250-716-2171 or 250-741-1950 ★ RENT TO OWN! ★ If you have a small down payment, I have a nice home for you! Less then perfect credit OK. Call Pat 778-783-0872

To advertise call

604-630-3300

Real Estate Services

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Apartments & Condos

MARPOLE, 70TH & Granville area, 2 Bdr. apt. $995. Adult building. Available immediately.

Call 604-263-9038.

6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

1 BR $675 immed, Cambie & SW Marine Dr. hardwood, incl & hw, 1 yr lease. np, ns, 604-988-4692

6508

6508

Apt/Condos

NEW WESTMINSTER 1450 WEST GEORGIA ST. $ 2, & 3 from bedrooms 11,Bdrm 799 $ 2available Bdrmsstarting from from 959 $ 1150 50% OFF 1st month for 2 bdrm suites IncludePENTHOUSE heat, hot water, LUXURY AVAIL.

609-1333 W. Georgia St. 2 br, 2 connected bath, hardwood, stainless, 940sf, lease, np, ns, now, $1900, Eric K. 604-723-7368

D/W, gym & visual intercom.

Minutes to Stanley Park, U/Gminutes parkingto&seawall storageand avail.

Near transit/Skytrain waterfront.

Gym, laundry on & shopping. every floor, dishwasher in all

2 B/R furn or unfurn new bsmt ste in upscale neighborhood base of Seymour mtn, steps to Parkgate Mall, steps to Old Buck trail head hiking/biking,skiing golfcourse and Deep Cove. N/S, in-ste w/d/ dishwasher, util/cable/internet+internet lcl phn # all incl $1550/mo 604-904-9428

604-669-4185 RENTALS 778-783-0258 www.caprent.com

LARGE 1BR+DEN 'Coronado' 1st + Lonsdale, great view, patio, bbq ok, in-suite laundry, d/w, gym, NS, secure u/g pkg, storage locker, 1 year lease, $1500/mo.

Available June 1st, 250-686-9850

MARPOLE - Jody Lynn Apts. – 1175 W 71st Ave, Clean, quiet, cls to shopping, bus, 1 br/$730 & 2 br/$1070. Heat/hw. incl, No Smoking, np, 1 year lease, Dorset Realty Manuel 604-781-5520

Carleton Kung, BBA Marketing & Finance,

Greater Vancouver Specialist, Multiple Realty Ltd.

604-726-2906 or carletonkung@netscape.net “Results based on Service, Integrity & Knowledge”

Apt/Condos

1 BR deluxe condo. UBC Hampton Pl. 4th flr, view, wd, ug prkg. carpet, balc. ns, np, $1500, 1-888-892-3502 1-604-892-0262

GEORGIAN TOWERSST. 1021 HOWAY

suites, easy transit.

Call for details.

BACH & 1 BR, Newly Reno’d, cls to shop & transit, secured, incls heat, h/w, prkg, Start @ $675.

604-325-1385 www.remirealty.ca BBY, 4575 Grange, 1 or 2 BR Apt, nice & spac, hardwood flrs, parking, across fr Metrotown, N/s, N/p. Call Ariana 604-616-2824 BEAUTIFUL APTS. 1 & 2 BR avail. Special rates. Open House FRI & SAT @ 8665 Shaughnessy Call 604-327-9419

Olympic Village

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday • June 6th • 1 to 4 pm 75 West 1st Ave, Vancouver

GINGER Crosstown, Deluxe!

718 Main St. 1 BR condo, all appls, storage, bike locker, sec’d prkg, Media/amenties rm & more.

NS/NP. Avail now. 604-861-6303

MILLENNIUM WATER…. A COMPLETE WATERFRONT COMMUNITY FEATURING LONDON DRUGS, URBAN FARE, RESTAURANTS, EASY ACCESS TO TRANSIT AND LUXURY WATERFRONT LIVING.

Langara Gardens

601 West 57th Ave, Van Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments and Townhouses located in the Oakridge area at West 57th Ave and Cambie St. This landmark property is clean and very well maintained by friendly on-site staff. Quiet and tasteful gardens, swimming pools, hot tub, gym, laundry facilities, parking and 16 shops & services. Near Oakridge Centre, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School, Langara Golf Course and much more.

For more information: 604-327-1178 info-vnc@langaragardens.com www.langaragardens.com

Lots & Acreage

1 ACRE gd - Mission All usable building lot, room for shop, pool & lrg home. High end homes built in this prestigious cul de sac subdivision. 10 mins to downtown. Drive by lot #7 - 8732 Jones Terrace, near the Abby on Dewdney Trunk Rd. $330,000.

Call Len 604-763-4118

6040

6505

MILLENNIUM WATER Olympic Village LUXURY APARTMENT HOMES NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENT

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Studio, 1 & 2 Bdrm Suites stylishly designed designed with with radiant heat, heat, Club Club Millennium Millennium 7 appliances ,, radiant amenities ready amenities.

ReadyJune June1.15th.

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OAK & 72Ave, 1 br $685, 2 br $870 & furnished $970, h/w flr, incl heat/hotwater, near transit, no pets, N/S, lease, 778-688-3721

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6508

Apt/Condos

VAN EAST 1 BR starting at $795/mo. Contact Quay Pacific Property Managment Ltd 604-521-0876 ext 29

YALETOWN BENTLEY Bldg.

2 BR, spac, bright, gas stove, ss appls, walk-in closet/shoe organ, 2 sec u/g park’g, + more features!

Near skytrain & all amens. Avail June 1. $2395/mo. 604-312-4003

6540

Houses - Rent

STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN No Qualification - Low Down CHILLIWACK – 9557 Williams St, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on 49x171’ lot, excellent investment property in heart of town, close to shops & schools................ $888/M VANCOUVER – 558 Taylor St, 1 bdrm + den, 2 level TOWNHOME, nr GM Place, w/d, 1 Prkg $1488/M

PITT MEADOWS -11860 Springdale Dr. 4 Bdrm, 2½ baths, inside freshly painted family HOUSE, 5 appl, huge family room, gas f/p, fenced yard, garage, close to WC Express, Schools & shops................$1988/M Call Kristen 604 435-5555 or 786-4663

www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR, KERRISDALE spacious, bright basement ste, own w/d, $1000 incl utils, cable & internet. avail now, ns np. 604-263-4234

1 BR on main flr, brand new, 41st & Fraser St, suits reliable person, $725 incls hydro/cbl, June 15th, 778-552-4487 or 778-960-7144

12TH & Quebec Clean, quiet, furn’d Bach ste, priv entry, $725 incls utls. NS/NP. 604-576-1746

JUNE 15 or July 1, Showing Sat & Sun aft. Bright studio, Dunbar, near bus/stores, incls w/d & utils, suits 1 quiet non smoker, $675, 604-261-1942 leave message.

LARGE GROUND-LEVEL 1 BR suite, Rupert & E26th nr bus & skytrain, shared w/d, $900 incl utils, np, ns. 778-997-7748

6615

Wanted To Rent

2 BR Townhouse or house wanted that allows pets. We are very clean, non-smokers and excellent tenants. Please call 778-384-1957.

A FAMILY WANTS TO RENT A HOUSE IN WEST VANCOUVER. Please Call 604-922-3852

RETIRED COUPLE in 50’s to SUBLET middle 2 weeks in July dates negotiable. 1 BR apt/ste, Kits, Dunbar, Downtown, Yaletown. Will consider offers.

Must be clean & uncluttered.

Call 520-529-4504 or Email: brenda_joyce@prodigy.net

apts/condos

office/retail suites & partial houses

warehouses

townhouses

homestay

shared accommodation

To advertise in Rentals call 604-630-3300

Columbus Millennium Tower is a seniors’ residence at 1175 Broughton Street in the West End of Vancouver, offering fine amenities and social activities.

Independent living suites with kitchenettes are available from $885.

Great meals are prepared on site and are available at a very reasonable cost.

604-916-1343

F R I D AY, J U N E 4 , 2 0 1 0 T H E VAN C O U V E R C O U R I E R

HOME SERVICES 8020

Blinds & Draperies

WINDOW BLINDS SALES & SERVICES All Blinds up to 75% Off Best Deal on 2” Fauxwood • Repairs & Cleaning Free Estimates & Installation

Call Joseph @ Metro Decor

8058

8040

8075

778-384-2019

8060

Concrete

604-282-6630

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp.

For free estimates call Mario

ALL FLOOR COVERINGS Repair & Replace. Material sales Dwight, 604-732-3057 I’ll show you the inexpensive route www.fccarpets.shawwebspace.ca

★★★★★★

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Prof. refinish, sanding from $2. installs. Dustless 604-219-6944

8055

Cleaning

2 FILIPINO exp’d. cleaning ladies, houses, apts, offices, $18/hr 604-537-8375 / 294-9223 95% ECO friendly products, reliable & reasonable, exc ref’s.

604-324-2939, 778-869-0284

★Butterfly Cleaning★ ‘‘Moving out, Home & Office’’ Bonded, Prof & Affordable. 604-781-4374

EXP CLEANING ladies avail 7 days/wk. Bonded. Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond 604-928-0025

EXP HOME detail cleaners, move in/move out, homes, offices, Free metal p/u. etc Call 604-327-1219

LIDIA’S EUROPEAN Cleaning.

Res/Com. Specializing in detail cleaning. Bonded. 604-541-9255

QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs.

Res/com. Move in/out. Carpets + pressure wash’g. 778-895-3522

Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, remove & replacing

253-0049

A. FOUNDATIONS, Retaining walls, Stairs, Driveways, Sidewalks. Any concrete project. We also do all types of block, & stone work. Free ests. Basile 604-617-5813 Tom 604-690-3316 ALL KINDS of Concrete Work, Tile & Brick. Free Estimate.

604-767-5915 Call Rocky CONCRETE SPECIALIST, patio sidewalk, driveway, exposed aggregate reas rate 604-764-2726

8073

Specializing in drywall & textured ceiling repairs, drywall finishing, stucco repairs, painting. Fully insured.

CITY LINK DRYWALL LTD WCB, liability insured. 20 yrs exp.

Call Indy. Free Est. 604-780-5302

CONCRETE SPECIALIST

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Gemini May 21-June 20: An unexpected meeting, idea, or communication during the first half of this week could raise your hopes sky-high – and signal a new friendship, a light love affair, or a wish coming true! One warning: take care that secrets do not interfere with your reputation, standing or ambitions, especially mid-week. Rest, lie low Tuesday to Thursday noon. Contemplate, plan. Your energy and magnetism soar Thursday eve to Saturday – but avoid unintended sharp words. Now to late July, guard against domestic friction – a wish could come true in real estate. Renovations, construction will succeed.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Be ambitious this week and next. For the last seven months, financial, lifestyle and sexual matters have held you back, perhaps disconcerted, even frightened you. This ends – for the two months ahead you take these matters in hand, control, enliven, push and solve them. Your sexual magnetism soars for seven weeks. A change, an event or new atmosphere enters early week; it “kicks off” a summer of luck in all these areas: sex, intimacy, finances, investments, lifestyle changes, research and your connections to other people’s money. Many developments this week: avoid deception, anger!

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Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Your popularity, optimism and happiness continue to brighten, especially Thursday to Saturday! A wish (or many little wishes) can come true over the next two weeks. Entertainment, light romance, flirtations and social invitations pop up here and there. A lucky, unexpected event could occur in your legal, travel, educational, cultural or publishing sphere. This happens almost in the same moment (day, week) as you give up your anger about something in these same areas. For the next two months, more money will flow to you – make sure it doesn’t flow through you. A Gemini is complex!

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Taurus April 20-May 20: A major inspiration or eye-opener might occur the first few days – a secret wish could come true, or a financial step bring you unexpected security! Lie low Sunday/Monday – your energy needs re-charging. Now to late July, you’ll bring a new determination and intensity to romantic, creative and sports zones. The friction that might have marked your domestic sphere since last October now fades. Peace returns! Your energy and charisma rise Tuesday to Thursday – you attract others, and your luck surges. Start things, get things done. Chase money – diplomatically! – Thursday eve to Saturday.

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Cancer June 21-July 22: Lie low, contemplate, conserve energy for the next two weeks. Fulfil obligations, handle governmental and administrative tasks, and complete neglected tasks in any area.

Spend time with yourself, re-connect spiritually, be charitable. Contemplate and plan. Be ambitious early week – an unexpected event or influence could bring sudden good career or business luck for the next three months! Perhaps related, the last seven months of “wild ride” in money now dissolves, leaving you financially steadier. For the next two months, success will depend on your ability to communicate and travel.

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: A long focus on enjoyment, romance, self-indulgence and children’s affairs ends now. The two months ahead turn your attention to work. At the same time (especially if you were born before March 24), luck returns. A legal, far travel, educational, intellectual or cultural influence enters also. You might work hard on a travel, educational, legal (etc.) project, and have some luck in these. Or you might just fly with your luck and travel urge, far away from work! Your life is changing, and it might do so with unexpected or exhilarating suddenness early this week! You’ll be busy!

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Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Pursue legal, educational, travel, cultural and love objectives this week and next. They enliven and challenge, succeed and frustrate this week. A Gemini (or Virgo) might be involved. Keep an even keel. If your urge to wed and your urge to partner are not represented by the same person, stop. Early week brings an unexpected change, a lucky, unpredictable, fresh exhilaration in love, partnership, contractual and relocation zones, now to early September. This might be “it,” Libra, or it might merely be a precursor of a similar, huge trend in 2011. Prepare for excitement!

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Tackle chores this week and next. You might feel a little frustrated or “neglected by the universe” because opportunities are just not coming your way. This is a good thing, for the opportunities that face you this month and next are traps in disguise. Be patient! Avoid all legal hassles June/July. Exceptions: you might sign legal papers to buy or sell real estate, to protect a child, for a retirement plan, etc. – fine. This whole area (security, kids, real estate, etc.) “wakes up” as new, enlivening, unpredictable, mostly lucky events enter now to September. Midweek’s mellow.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Many secrets will be revealed this week and next (mostly this week) – be a detective. Be silent, watch and listen. Your sexual, intimate urges rise to the surface: lust won’t be a stranger! (But he/she might be.) The anger, impatience and temperamental relations with higherups that have marked your career scene since last October now disappear.A new, unpredictable, friendly, monetarily lucky influence enters your work sphere, now to September. At the same time, a job could end.

You’ll socialize with co-workers, June/July. Work hard Sunday/Monday. Beware deception mid-week.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Love, romance, creative urges, pleasure, beauty, charming kids, speculation, sports fill the two weeks ahead. You could fall in love, especially late this week! But avoid self-deception (and deceiving others) – and realize the one who makes your heart flip and the one you lust after might not be the same person. If so, stop, think before proceeding. The next two months could be very sexual; an affair is possible. Possible, too, that you’ll just talk about it. Secrets are shared – and will “out.” A new, lucky and sociable influence fills June to September. Anger from others ends!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Partnerships, relationships, opportunities, challenges from others, relocation themes, negotiations, contracts, marriage and/or divorce – these concerns fill the two weeks ahead. The road will be uneven – rocky, frustrating, exhilarating, successful, joyful, maddening, etc.

For success, avoid two “traps” 1) deception or being too mistrusting, especially around Tuesday/ Wednesday; 2) anger or sharp words, especially around Thursday/Friday. Everything is possible, even true love! Now to September, romance, creativity “wake up” luckily! All June/July, be diplomatic with temperamental bosses.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Focus on endings and new beginnings, on nurturing, home, kids, real estate, retirement, security, Mother Nature, for two weeks. You might end an association, especially Thursday to Saturday. If you don’t do it in anger, it’s justified. An unpredictable, fresh, lucky, odd influence enters your money and earnings sphere now to early September – this could bring an unexpected and freeing event, or that event might come in 2011, first half. Be flexible, opportunistic. A long period of hard work eases up now. All June/July, relationships will intensify – expect heat, anger and attraction! timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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Painting/ Wallpaper

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ALLIED PAINTING • Exterior Specialist • Reliable & Professional • 20 Years Experience • All Work Guaranteed up to 5 Years • Local References • 2 mil. Liability & WCB A+ Rating

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Audi A3 TDI a green performance machine davidchao

With the prestigious Green Car of the Year Award securely tucked under its seatbelt, the 2010 Audi A3 TDI proves that a performanceminded luxury car can also be an eco-friendly car—and that’s not a “mutually exclusive concept.”

Its 2.0-litre “clean diesel” engine has a combined (city/highway) average fuel economy rating of 5.8 litre/100 km.

That’s especially significant for buyers in some provinces (such as buyers in B.C.) because there are rebates available. In B.C., the A3 TDI qualifies for an instant $1,500 point-of-sale rebate from its Provincial Sales Tax (PST). This B.C. tax incentive for high-efficiency vehicles, however, will disappear at the end of June when the PST is scheduled to be replaced by the HST. TDI is a new addition to the A3 line for the 2010 model year and it comes in both base and Premium trim levels. A compact yet premium five-door hatchback, the A3 possesses excellent driving dynamics and is also available with a 2.0-litre direct-injection gasoline engine with a Quattro (all-wheeldrive) drivetrain option. A 3.2-litre V6 model has been discontinued.

A six-speed manual transmission is available with the gasoline engine, but the optional six-speed automatic gearbox (S-Tronic) is the only transmission offered with the diesel engine. In addition, the TDI only comes as a front-drive model—there’s no Quattro version.

Even a base A3 ($33,300) comes with 17-inch alloy wheels, dual-

The A3 TDI’s design is an attractive mix of functionality and clean finely crafted styling lines that exude understated elegance. zone automatic climate control, fog lamps, cruise control, heated mirrors, keyless entry, heated washer nozzles, variable intermittent wipers, heated leather seats, 60/40 split-folding rear seat and a CD/MP3 stereo with auxiliary input. The similarly equipped base TDI is $35,300.

A move up to Premium (TDI— $38,000) adds rain- and speedsensitive wipers, auto-dimming exterior and interior mirrors, Bluetooth connectivity, a panoramic sunroof, a power driver’s seat, a multi-function four-spoke leather-wrapped wheel, and interior lighting package.

Our test A3 TDI had Premium trim level with a new S Line Sport Package ($2,900). This package adds 18-inch wheels and performance tires, sport seats, a steering wheel with a dual paddle shift feature, a rear roof spoiler, door sill inlays and S style bumpers front and rear.

It also came with a new optional metallic paint colour offering called Sphere blue ($650),

rear side airbags ($500), Bi-xenon headlights ($900) and a Bose audio package ($1,700). Its full price came to $43,500.

The Looks—The fifth-door of its fastback design adds utility and convenience and makes the most of its compact dimensions. It’s an attractive mix of functionality and clean finely crafted styling lines that exude understated elegance.

A wide-mouth chrome-trimmed grille gives the A3 that unmistakably Audi look from a front view.

The string of LED daytime running lights inside the headlamp clusters, which are arced in what appears to be a resolute frown, also add to its Audi-distinctiveness.

The Inside—Audi’s ability to create an upscale interior ambience is the envy of the rest of the auto industry. A combination of intelligent design, functionality and comfort is accentuated by a high level of craftsmanship. The clever way the hand brake lever is incorporated into console design is just one example.

The driving position has a terrific range of seat and steering-

wheel adjustments. Even very tall drivers should find leg room more than adequate, but the panoramic sunroof (standard on the Premium edition) reduces headroom space. An adjustable power lumbar on the driver’s seat that also allowed vertical placement was a particularly nice comfort feature.

The back seats are more supportive than you generally find, although here again, taller passengers may find a headroom issue due to the sunroof and the slope on the roof. The rear seatbacks flip down easily and are split 60/40, but they do not extend a perfectly flat cargo floor.

Safety—Rated a “Top Safety Pick” by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, based on its crash test results, the A3 provides a comprehensive network of safety features designed to protect occupants. Electronic Stability Control is standard and rear seat side airbags are an option.

The Drive—The TDI engine is livelier than its horsepower number (140) and acceleration time

(about nine seconds to 100 km/ hour) indicate. It’s quick off the mark from a standing start, and when you adapt to the engine’s slower power build up and maximum rev range (4,500 rpm), faster cornering and passing of other vehicles can be done with ease.

Of course, with 236 lb-ft of torque at your disposal, the TDI’s smooth and easy power is most evident when a steep grade presents itself. The pulling power of this small diesel engine is phenomenal and if you live in a hilly or mountainous area it would sure make driving a lot more pleasant.

The TDI’s rated highway fuel economy is an amazing 4.6 litres/100 km. That equates to better than 60 miles/Imperial gallon, if you prefer old English measurements. It’s also better fuel economy than a Toyota Yaris or even the current Smart Car. And with a full 55-litre fuel tank the A3 TDI could, in theory anyway, travel over one thousand (highway) kilometres between fill-ups.

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The Audi A3’s driving position has a terrific range of seat and steering-wheel adjustments. Even very tall drivers should find leg room more than adequate.

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Continued from page 46 The A3’s suspension provides a very nice blend of sporty handling and refined ride quality. It has that well-planted secure feel on the road that’s typical of good European sport sedans. The steering tracks well and provides a precise and nicely weighted steering wheel feel.

The Score—The Audi A3 TDI is a quality luxury car in a smaller package that’s fun to drive and it offers outstanding fuel efficiency.

The Specs—2010 Audi A3 TDI

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