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Politically correct?

The comptroller general’s scathing report on the Vancouver School Board criticizes trustees for wasting time on advocacy at the expense of financial management. Trustees like board chair Patti Bacchus say both responsibilities carry equal weight.

—story by Naoibh O’Connor

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O N T H E C O V E R Patti Bacchus attends a March rally organized by Vancouver teachers.

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Majority of school board backs chair’s political stand

Bacchus stands firm on advocacy role Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

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n a cool afternoon in early March, school board chair Patti Bacchus stood alongside dozens of teachers and parents in front of Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid’s West Broadway office. Bacchus carried a sign stating “Support Our Schools” at the rally staged by the Vancouver elementary and secondary teachers’ associations.

It was timed to precede the March 2 provincial budget announcement and activists were calling for more education funding from the B.C. Liberals.

It was one of several protests the Vision Vancouver trustee appeared at this year as the board ramped up an advocacy campaign aimed at increasing funding to stave off program cuts and staff layoffs.

Vision Vancouver and COPE trustees have become outspoken critics of the provincial government, complaining about chronic underfunding of the education system and downloading of costs.

Since the board was elected, it’s fired off letters to the Ministry of Education asking for meetings and highlighting the district’s financial concerns, it’s reinstated its advocacy committee and it’s launched a trustee advocacy page on the VSB website.

Whether trustees have managed to take on such activities while living up to their fiduciary duties is in question, according to special adviser Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland, the Comptroller General, whose highly critical—and controversial—report on the board’s financial performance was released by the education minis-

School board chair Patti Bacchus, surrounded by fellow Vision Vancouver and COPE trustees, argues advocacy is photo Dan Toulgoet as important as a trustee’s fiduciary duty in running the business of the district. ter last week.

“The Board of trustees does not take a balanced approach to its accountabilities, focusing on advocacy at the expense of stewardship,” Wenezenki-Yolland wrote. “The majority of the Vancouver School Board trustees see their role relative to the Ministry of Education as one primarily related to advocacy, rather than as ‘co-governors’ of the education system. The effect of this extensive advocacy activity deflects the accountability of the trustees from the overall financial stewardship of the Vancouver School Board.”

Bacchus insists the board’s advocacy work doesn’t detract from financial responsibilities, pointing out it’s always submitted a balanced

budget, and she calls herself “proudly political.”

“This report implies we should be quiet and go in and cut programs.

But really what they describe is the role of a bureaucrat—you’re given a budget, you’re told to go and do the work and keep quiet about it,” she said earlier this week. “I campaigned on a platform of being a tireless advocate standing up for public education... We think that is an important role [but] we do attend to the business of the district.”

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he VSB is composed of four Vision Vancouver trustees—Patti Bacchus, Ken Clement, Sharon Gregson and Mike Lombardi, three COPE trustees—Al Blakey, Jane Bouey and

Allan Wong, and two NPA trustees— Ken Denike and Carol Gibson.

Bacchus, a mother of two schoolaged children and stepmother to an adult daughter, ran for a trustee seat in 2008 after years of involvement in school and district parent advisory councils. She’s unapologetically political and is defiant in the face of such criticism.

Bacchus maintains she spends untold hours each week managing the district’s business for her $26,000 annual pay, and only a portion of that time is devoted to advocacy, some of which is related to promoting the district—an activity the special adviser encourages.

“I don’t think I’ve missed a committee meeting, a board meeting. All

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Bacchus refuses to limit her advocacy work, arguing that would break campaign promises, and she insists the board takes its financial duties seriously. “Why would we have all those budget meetings and listen to people if we didn’t care about our budget responsibilities?” she says.

Bacchus maintains advocacy is key because the district hasn’t faced this level of reductions before. “I’ve talked to staff people who’ve been in the district over 30 years and they’ve said they’ve never seen this kind of cutting—that we’re now cutting things they can’t believe are being cut. We’ve seen it year after year. It’s already been $50 million. It’s at that critical point—we’re now at the point of dismantling the school system, of taking away things that people just assumed would never be taken away.”

Julianne Doctor, chair of the District Parent Advisory Council, agrees advocacy is important. “Trustees were criticized for advocating for education and proper funding of education—that is their responsibility and they would not be fulfilling their role if they were not advocating for proper funding,” she says.

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NPA trustees argue balance non-existent

Continued from page 4 But in her report, Wenezenki-Yolland criticizes the district’s standing committee structure, suggesting it slows down decision-making.

She said trustees follow a consensus approach, which Bacchus denies, that increases the time it takes to make decisions and dilutes accountability. She added the level of consultation undertaken by the board is far more extensive than would be expected.

Between January 2009 through April 2010, staff costs for attending and preparing for board and committee meeting are estimated at between $800,000 and $1 million, with some staff attending as many as 103 meetings, a commitment of up to 206 hours.

Wenezenki-Yolland noted the advocacy committee, a sub-committee of the management and coordinating committee, requires $17,000 in staff time to prepare for and attend committee meetings, but she was unable to estimate the additional staff time spent on advocacy.

“In addition to providing staff support to the advocacy committee, the VSB communications department spends an increasing amount of its time on advocacy work, at the expense of other communications work of the school district,” Wenezenki-Yolland wrote, questioning the appropriateness of using district resources to fund advocacy work. “While elected officials are free to choose to engage in political activity using their own resources or the resources of the political party they represent, the use of organizational resources for

political purposes is generally considered to be inappropriate in public sector organizations regardless of the level of government.”

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he majority of trustees support Bacchus’s position, but not all agree on what their role is or whether they’ve struck the right balance between advocacy and fiscal responsibility. The NPA’s Denike and Gibson maintain their political counterparts have treated advocacy as their primary job.

Denike argues it’s damaged the district and become counterproductive.

“By pushing the advocacy they create a really negative view on what the district looks like and they basically help encourage private schools,” he says, noting trustees’ efforts were in vain since the provincial government refuses to give the VSB more money to offset its projected $17 million budget shortfall for the 2010/11 school year.

“There’s no additional funds and [the board] seems to be working on somebody else’s agenda. It’s pretty clear it’s a combination of the NDP and the BCTF…The report is flawed in a lot of regards but there are some home truths there—one of them is the advocacy and quite frankly if it’s not been successful then the funds put into it are questionable.”

The long-time trustee agrees there’s a place for advocacy, pointing out he was successful in past years lobbying the federal government for funding for settlement workers in schools, and lobbying the provincial government to ensure

NPA trustee Ken Denike says the current board’s adversarial role with Victoria has eroded confidence in public photo Dan Toulgoet education. those funds were filtered to schools, but Denike argues the board under Bacchus has adopted the wrong tactics. He favours a less adversarial approach and one that doesn’t erode confi-

dence in the public education system.

Denike has appeared at some education rallies as an observer. “You should be there to see what’s happening and read the public. I’m not sure you should be there as part of it,” he says.

Gibson says because Vision and COPE trustees landed a majority of seats, they assume they represent the majority of Vancouverites and that the majority “elected them to be partisan special interest trustees who would vigorously advocate for their special interests.”

“Repeatedly the justification for advocacy is ‘I was elected to advocate’ as if that is all there is to being an elected member of a school board. Given the low voter turnout and the proportion of the population who actually voted for school board candidates, there is a significant amount of hubris in the assumption that the majority candidates actually represent the citizens of Vancouver,” she says.

Gibson says she ran for office under the NPA because it doesn’t require candidates to take partisan or special interest positions.

“There is no expectation that I will use public resources or the authority of the board to enact a special interest group agenda. The primary expectation is that I will use my knowledge and experience to serve public education in Vancouver and in B.C. This does not mean advocacy is out of the question. What it does mean is that advocacy must be balanced with governance and stewardship,” she says.

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Continued from page 5 Gibson argues that balance doesn’t exist in Vancouver.

“We have advocacy on steroids,” she says. “Management has borne the weight of responsibility related to governance and stewardship with minimal support and occasional organized resistance from the majority on the board.

“Through explicit decisions, the majority on the board has undermined trust and made it impossible to take actions that would assist the Vancouver Board of Education to reduce the budget shortfall.”

Gibson cites one case in which an external consultant was hired for $2,100 to verify a management report recommending the district continue to use contractors to clean carpets. “This decision to continue to contract out carpet cleaning did not require a consultant report. The data were accurate; the report from management was unassailable. Knowing they faced a multi-million dollar shortfall, the majority of the board wasted $2,100 to have a consultant tell them the report from management was accurate.”

(Bacchus counters that the board wants to improve labour relations to cut down on high grievance and arbitration costs. She says the union was challenging management figures and $2,100 was a small price to pay to deal with the dispute) Gibson also criticizes recent changes to the school closure policy, which lengthens the notification and consultation process and makes it difficult for the board to close under-enrolled schools in a timely manner to address pressing budget shortfalls.

“The minister and the Comptroller General have reason to be concerned that the majority on the board is not governing, and in fact, making decisions and enacting policy barriers solely to bolster their claims that the district is in a financial crisis that requires more fund-

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ing from government,” she says.

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rofessor E. Wayne Ross from UBC’s Faculty of Education, won’t comment on the board’s financial performance, but says trustees are within their rights to advocate for public education. “…What they’re arguing is a justifiable position, particularly in the face of a government that has dealt with public education in much the same way they’ve dealt with other public interests like B.C. Rail and B.C. Ferries, which is to treat, as the first principle, market issues and fiscal issues and, as a secondary issue, think about the common good that is produced by that particular public entity and how government should sustain it,” he says.

Ross cites a proposal being considered by the board to severely hike up rental rates for services such as after-school programs, which would put many out of business and create a childcare crisis for parents. Some trustees have indicated that while they realize the board is subsidizing rates, it serves a greater community good and it doesn’t make sense to make it impossible for after school programs to run.

“I don’t think it’s irresponsible for the school board to make these kinds of principled stands advocating service levels for students,” Ross says. “The issue comes down to do we want a school board that would roll over and make cuts that are

going to be detrimental to the education of children in the district, to the families in the district, via things like potential cuts to after school programs through removing subsidies? Would we want them to do that without putting up a battle? I would say no.”

Paul Shaker, an SFU education professor emeritus and host of a TV program called Your Education Matters, agrees.

“The voters of Vancouver have elected this board. This is democracy. At the next election if the voters believe that these board members are behaving out of line they’ll elect other people, but I think the voters knew what they were getting when they elected the board,” he says. “If not the school trustees, who should advocate for our children? Are we going to leave it to non-profit organizations?...[Trustees] should be the preeminent advocates.”

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n a stuffy classroom at Sir Charles Tupper secondary Wednesday night, it’s clear Bacchus, Blakey, Wong, Bouey and Lombardi have no intention of curbing advocacy efforts. The five trustees were guests at an emergency meeting organized by Vancouver Parents for Public Education to talk about the special adviser’s report. Joining the roomful of parents were teacher union reps, former trustees Eleanor Gregory and Noel Herron, and NDP MLA Shane Simpson.

Bacchus rebutted many of the claims in the report to a friendly audience that expressed fears about the fate of public education—some predicted the demise of elected school boards, others congratulated trustees for their public support of the institution while under attack for their advocacy work.

Bacchus acknowledged the last week was a struggle and the board was hit hard, but she promised to continue fighting for public education.

“The assessment is done at the ballot box. That’s democracy,” she said. noconnor@vancourier.com

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Council voted Tuesday afternoon to allow residents to keep four hens, at least four months old, in their backyards, as long as they adhere to the new bylaw. Before you get too excited, other poultry such roosters, ducks, turkeys and pheasants are banned. The city also plans to build a $20,000 shelter for homeless chickens found wandering the streets.

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Vision Vancouver commissioner Constance Barnes is downsizing from a 3,200-square-foot home to a 600-square-foot suite and that can only mean one thing—a heck of a garage sale.

As much as Barnes is reluctant to let go of decades worth of family possessions, she says the money will help out a good cause.

I know the Breakfast Program at Strathcona Community School is an initiative Barnes has taken an active interest in since becoming a park board commissioner, so it makes sense she’ll donate all proceeds to that cause. The program feeds up to 200 kids a day, but like all other community centres, Strathcona has faced recent budget cuts. Food programs don’t fall under the park board’s mandate, a separation of responsibility Barnes doesn’t necessarily agree with.

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Vision Vancouver commissioner Constance Barnes is downsizing to a small apartment and having a yard sale, the proceeds of which she’ll donate to a breakfast program for kids in Strathcona. photo Dan Toulgoet new digs. Barnes is selling almost everything she owns, including toys, antiques, books, African artifacts and jewelry.

Her sale is part of the 20th annual Hawks Avenue Yard Sale, June 13 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., organized by the Strathcona

Residents Association. The sale takes place on the 600, 700 and 800 blocks of Hawks, but centres mostly on the 700 block and the parks north of Georgia and Union streets. Hundreds of vendors from all over the community participate.

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In Wednesday’s Central Park I announced the first Courier Poultry Poetry Contest, in anticipation of the city giving final approval to allow residents to keep backyard chickens. But my press deadline was earlier in the day than the

The Save the Bloedel Conservatory group wants to remind anyone interested that the park board’s budget committee meets June 15 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the expressions of interest it’s received regarding the future of the iconic dome, which is at risk of being closed due to budget cuts. The Friends of Bloedel submitted its own expression of interest in partnership with the VanDusen Botanical Garden Association, and the proposal is being considered along with submissions from three other private companies.

Following the meeting, the budget committee will make its recommendation to the park board. sthomas@vancourier.com

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WEB POLL NATION Go to www.vancourier.com to vote The argument between the Ministry of Education and the Vancouver School Board should be settled by: a) firing the school board b) increasing funding to the board c) mixed martial arts cage Last week’s poll question: Should Vancouver allow future mixed martial arts events, such as UFC matches?: Yes 34 per cent No 66 per cent

Before I get to the comptroller general’s seriously flawed report on the Vancouver School Board, let’s put this dispute between the B.C. government and Vancouver’s school trustees into a bit of context.

For the past few decades there has been a steady erosion of the autonomy of school boards. In the ’80s, the province removed their power to raise revenues through property tax. Now Victoria gets all the dough and distributes it as they see fit.

The provincial government subsequently took away the board’s authority to collectively bargain with their own teachers; they set up a provincewide model. And then Victoria started dictating class size.

All of these measures gave boards far less control over their bottom lines.

To make matters worse, the province has been down-loading costs to school boards leaving them with few choices except to cut programs and jobs or close schools.

Here is my favourite example: School boards are required to pay for their carbon footprint by buying carbon offsets. Long live Gordo the Green!

To determine the amount of the carbon offset boards have to pay, they are required to use a specific piece of software they have to pay the province for the right to use.

But that’s not the whole story. Until recently, school boards received provincial funds that allowed them to upgrade schools in a way that would shrink their carbon footprint and therefore reduce the cost of carbon offsets. The province cancelled that grant this year, although it’s been restored for next year, up to March.

allengarr So, here is where we are today. School boards that were once a relatively autonomous authority have, over time, been reduced, in Victoria’s own words, to a role of “co-governance.”

Take that to mean school boards are expected to just shut up and follow orders. School board chair Patti Bacchus is not a woman who keeps her mouth shut, hence the invasion of the bean counters.

But here’s one more point before we get to that report. While all these changes have been taking place diminishing the authority of school boards, one thing hasn’t changed. School boards remain elected bodies. They are not appointed.

This is an important distinction. But it’s one that seems to have escaped the minister of education and B.C.’s Comptroller General Cheryl WenezenkiYolland who, along with her troops, landed on the shores of our school board to, um, lend them a

hand with their financial problems.

Even the NPA’s veteran school board trustee Ken Denike willingly observes that sending in a bean counter to do the work was just plain wrong. “She treated us,” he said, “as if we were the board of a Crown corporation.” That is to say a board that was handpicked by government to obediently do a job, not a group of elected officials to advocate on behalf of citizens.

Beyond that, two points may cause you to pause.

Wenezenki-Yolland makes it clear in her report: “Specifically excluded from our scope of work was the structure of provincial funding model for education.” In other words, she would not point fingers at the ministry or minister who sent her on this mission for any of the difficulties now being faced by the VSB. How convenient.

And, finally, the other point, one which gives you a sense of the fundamental flaw in this report.

It’s certainly the point that many commentators, including the minister, seized on as proof the VSB was screwing up.

Wenezenki-Yolland says “the board of trustees does not take a balanced approach to its accountabilities, focusing on advocacy to the expense of stewardship.”

Now I ask you, seriously, how does a bean counter measure that “balanced approach”? Who sets the standard? Does Wenezenki-Yolland even know what she’s talking about?

Besides, did this board not get elected to advocate for their constituents? Is that not the primary duty of every elected official? agarr@vancourier.com

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Sky-high housing prices help realize sci-fi scene It’s been rumoured that Vancouver supplied the inspiration for the rain-swept, futuristic city in the 1982 film Blade Runner. Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick actually spent time living here, after giving a 1972 talk at a Vancouver science fiction convention and checking into a local rehab.

However, the film was based on Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was first published in 1968, well before the author escaped Orange County for Lotusland. Another beautiful urban legend slain by an ugly fact.

Still, it’s interesting to revisit the joint vision of Dick and director Ridley Scott, about a futuristic West Coast city where it’s always raining and whites are the visible minority. Dick lived just long enough to see the set designs and trailer for Blade Runner, and his observations on the film version of his book were recorded in the book What If Our World is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick.

“The city is up in the air. And all the people on the outside, sort of the losers, are walking around on the street level. And all the beautiful people are up forty stories. And when you get up forty stories it’s like getting through Dante’s Divine Comedy, going up through hell to purgatory to heaven. And they are just living great, I mean, they are doing fine up there…. and it becomes very, very glamourous.” The author’s words almost read like advertising copy for a local high-rise condo development, pitching sky-high lifestyles for those who can afford it. A guy who tinkered with simulated worlds, Dick probably would have been intrigued with today’s slick ads for vertical living, which invariably feature attractive young couples having sunlit fun in their swank pods, far above the gritty reality of the street.

Vancouver’s pods are on a sliding scale of size, style and cost, although the concept of affordable housing becomes a bit sci-fi when the minimum income bracket is $60,000 a year for one ballyhooed Vancouver development. I suppose this redefinition of “affordable” for the Millennium Water is part of the “Olympic legacy” our civic leaders and real estate marketers having been crowing about.

Let’s not forget The Games were bookended by two touchstone events: the Olympic Village’s coming out party in midMay as the Millennium Water, and the December 2009 demolition of the Little Mountain housing complex, the oldest public housing development in B.C. The former occupants might as well have been replicants, hunted

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geoffolson down by civic officials rather than Harrison Ford.

Blade Runner’s vision of a high-rise dystopia came out during the first term of U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who along with Margaret Thatcher and Brian Mulroney, launched the Anglo-American campaign against the public sector. If this threesome were the Holy Trinity of the free market, then the Chicago School of Economics was The Church, and Professor Milton Friedman was the High Priest. Wages in real dollars for middle-class workers began their terminal decline during the tenure of Ronnie, Maggie and Mulroo, while the incomes of the top 10 per cent went through the roof. Quaint notions like subsidized housing became increasingly suspect, from the federal to civic level.

By the early ’90s, the crusade for free market monopolies was well underway. At that time, Seattle novelist Jonathan Raban travelled through the U.S., setting down his observations in his 1991 travelogue masterpiece, Hunting Mr. Heartbreak.

In Manhattan, Raban noted how the “Ground People” and the “Air People,” occupy two entirely different cities: “At present the two cities were held together, one on top of the other, by the slender umbilical of the elevator, and by the Air People’s dependence on the traffic that came up it—the Times and Wall Street Journal, beefsteak and zucchini, laundered shirts, maids, flowers, guests, invitations…. Access to the elevator was proof that your life had the buoyancy that was needed to stay afloat in a city where the ground was seen as the realm of failure and menace.”

The divide between the Air People and Ground People is no longer limited to Raban’s realworld New York or Blade Runner’s imaginary San Francisco. The marketing theme of vertical escape, away from the addicts and homeless and up into fortified precincts of privilege and personal debt, has been mainstreamed and globalized. It’s everywhere now, from Beijing to Coquitlam. If it was science fiction, you might even call it Dickish. www.geoffolson.com

Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid (l) ordered the comptroller general to review the photo Dan Toulgoet Vancouver School Board’s budget. A scathing report soon followed.

To the editor: Re: “Class Notes,” June 9.

The comptroller general has no qualifications to write opinions on education and hers is not a neutral office.

The CG’s office is not at arm’s length to government like the Office of the Auditor General. It is part of treasury and finance— the gatekeepers of government money whose job is to be prudent, some say stin-

gy, while other ministries vie for money and advocate for their programs.

In the case of Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, she pulled strings to have the CG come and crap all over public education programs and prove they don’t need money.

A first!

Jessica Van der Veen.

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Elections are often messy but worth the effort

To the editor: Re: “Electoral reform report receives mixed reviews,” June 2.

To the editor: With continually lower voter turn-outs and entrenched politicians seeking longer terms between elections, maybe, just maybe, there is a connection.

The reason invariably given for not voting is a lack of interest, as in my vote won’t change anything. Well, if the politicians get their way the incentive to vote will be even less. Why vote, if policy is established between elections and not by the policy review that an election represents. Surely an election does not prevent in any way,

a politician from making public decisions and defending those same decisions on the hustings. Voters are entitled to base their choice on real problems and solutions debated in public by varying viewpoints expressed by each and every candidate for office. That process was fought for domestically and internationally for decades.

It is called democracy, not expediency. Elections are a messy business, but they are truly an essential, albeit costly, service.

Rick J. Angus, Vancouver

close to the people is by more frequent elections. Until the early 90s we had two-year terms. That system served the city very well.

Meanwhile, politicians break their promises expecting that no one will remember by the next election. They have become lint in the pockets of developers. The promises they keep are to those who feed them. They are capable of amazing courage in enacting unpopular zoning changes that will forever change the city when an election is a long way off. We need a return to two-year terms.

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To the editor: Re: “Players protest instructor firings at UBC tennis centre,” May 5.

The Courier published incorrect information about the certification status of Elena Gishiyants and Tomas Thapper, two tennis coaches fired from the UBC Tennis Centre. To be clear, both coaches are Tennis Canada certified, with well over 30 years of combined national and international teaching experience in addition to numerous championships and accolades as players.

Readers should also understand that Tennis Canada certification requires approximately two weekends to complete.

Focusing upon this certification as the gold standard for a tennis teacher is misguided.

Choosing a coach based upon this, instead of choosing the exemplary coaches who were fired, would be akin to someone sensing a heart attack and refusing help from the car-

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To the editor: Re: “Fired UBC tennis coaches are uncertified, unqualified,” Letters, May 27.

In response to Michelle St. Louis’s inference that members of the group protesting the firing of the tennis coaches at UBC condone the vandalism of the Tennis Centre, I’d like to make it very clear that we do not. We would encourage the person/persons responsible for the vandalism to come forward as their actions have detracted from the issue at hand: mismanagement at the UBC Tennis Centre.

Jacqueline Fefer, Vancouver

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Residents take dead aim at float planes Sandra Thomas

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The Coal Harbour Residents’ Association wants the city to refuse a two-year extension application to allow float planes to operate in front of their homes and Harbour Green Park.

Association director Clark McKeen said the application would be the third extension since the city gave approval to allow West Coast Air and Harbour Air to relocate west from the end of Burrard Street in 2004. Coal Harbour residents protested the move, but the city’s development permit board gave the green light for what was to be a temporary location.

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while the convention centre was being built,” said McKeen. “But because the centre wasn’t completed on time, and because of the Olympics, they got a three-year extension.”

That extension ran out June 1, but West Coast Air and Harbour Air have asked for another extension because work on the promised permanent float plane terminal in front of the convention centre hasn’t started. A 17page report on the application was presented yesterday after the Courier’s deadline to the city’s budgets and services committee from the city’s director of planning Bill Boons.

The report includes a recommendation to support the application and recommends it not “exceed two years from permit issuance or the com-

pletion of the new permanent facility at 1001 Canada Place, whichever is first.”

West Coast Air president Rick Baxter told the Courier he’d be thrilled to be operating from a permanent facility in front of the convention centre, but at this point he doubts that will ever happen.

“We just haven’t been able to come to a business agreement with the developer,” he said.

Baxter added that the land is owned by the B.C. Pavilion Corporation, which leased the land to a consortium called Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre (VHFC). According to Boons’ report, while a development permit was issued Jan. 21, no building permit has been approved and construction has yet to begin.

The report notes VHFC recently asked for amendments

to the approved development permit, citing economic reasons, and a proposal to build the new terminal in phases.

The first phase would be float plane docks, using a portion of the convention centre space on the northwest corner as a terminal. That amendment has been submitted and is under review.

Scott Barker, a project developer with the city’s development services, said the city can’t force VHFC to build a float plane terminal. “It isn’t a requirement,” said Barker.

“The ultimate question the city is dealing with tomorrow [June 10] is whether to approve the land use for the temporary facility.”

The Courier was unable to reach a spokesperson from VHFC before press deadline. sthomas@vancourier.com

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Since Robertson and his Vision council took office in December 2008, the mayor and Coleman worked to open temporary homeless shelters and secure funding for the construction of 14 social housing buildings in the city.

The previous NPA-dominated council led by thenmayor Sam Sullivan identified 12 of those sites. And in doing so, was duly recognized by Coleman for providing the land.

But Robertson is quick to point out the government failed to give construction money to build the sites until he and his council moved into city hall.

“None of the funding was

committed last term so my focus was on eliminating all possible barriers at the city that were slowing the deals down,” he said. “City staff has really responded and ensured that the city side of the deal was done and we’re ready for these projects to start.”

Added Robertson: “The economic circumstances made all of this more challenging for the partners, so building trust and confidence in each other was important and I’m not sure that was there last term to land the funding commitment.”

Former NPA councillor Peter Ladner, who challenged Robertson for the mayor’s seat in the 2008 campaign, was one of the politicians predicting an uneasy relationship for Robertson with the provincial Liberals.

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Robertson has reached the halfway point in his threeyear term. And judging by the positive comments he’s received in recent weeks from Premier Gordon Campbell and Housing Minister Rich Coleman, the relationship appears more sweet than sour.

At a press conference two weeks ago to announce $225 million to build eight social housing buildings in the city, Campbell referred to Robertson as “one of our lead partners as we deal with the challenge of homelessness across the province.”

Coleman, who has complimented the mayor several times at similar announcements for his commitment to ending homelessness, let the crowd know how deep the relationship runs between the two politicians.

“He and I have had many discussions about homelessness, mental health and addictions over the last yearand-a-half as we’ve tried to come up with solutions in this city,” Coleman said.

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Continued from page 12 So what’s he think now?

“Well, I guess he discovered what side his bread is buttered on when it comes to solving the housing crisis,” Ladner said.

Ladner pointed to Robertson’s chief of staff Mike Magee, Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs and city manager Penny Ballem, whom Vision hired during its first week in power, as key people to the mayor’s success.

“I think he’s doing a pretty good job,” he said. “I think he’s done very well in having strong people in behind him and being a very appealing face out front.

I don’t know how much of the work being done is his doing but it probably doesn’t matter.”

Suzanne Anton, the NPA’s lone councillor, agreed with Ladner that the mayor’s relationship with the provincial government appears to be working to the city’s benefit.

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Robertson acknowledged his relationship with Coleman has been tested, particularly over his request to have the provincial government continue funding three shelters until interim housing is built.

The back-and-forth over whether the city would grant the provincial government a demolition permit to begin redevelopment of the Little Mountain public

housing complex was another battle. “It hasn’t been easy at times but we’ve both been committed to the end solution,” Robertson said.

“If there’s some bumps and bruises along the way, then so be it. That’s part of politics.”

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Crohn’s sufferer conquers Mount Everest Mike Howell Staff writer

Rob Hill said he would eventually do it. And he did.

The 39-year-old climber reached the peak of Mount Everest in late May after an attempt in April 2008 was cut short because of his medical condition.

Hill, a former East Side resident who recently moved to Nanaimo, has Crohn’s disease and requires the use of an ostomy.

He told the Courier in 2008 he suffered a Crohn’s flare-up but was determined some day to reach the world’s highest peak.

“The last time, I didn’t make it out of base camp,” said Hill Wednesday from a downtown office where he operates the non-profit Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society. “So when I was able to leave base camp this time, it was a new adventure for me.”

Hill, along with John Furneaux and Darrell Ainscough, took about 12 days to climb from base camp to the summit and return to base camp. It took roughly 15 hours alone on the trio’s final push to the summit. The trio climbed through the night and Hill showed video footage to the Courier of his final ascent. “One step, four to five breaths,” he said as he watched himself in a big orange parka and oxygen mask slowly stepping through the snow. “I was in better shape than last time, but I don’t think anything can prepare you for a lack of oxygen

and not being able to breathe.”

The trio stayed on the summit for 20 minutes on what was a clear morning. Hill described the view as “incredible” and was awestruck by how small the mountains appeared below the peak. The trio’s focus quickly shifted to getting back down the mountain, a journey that has resulted in many injuries and deaths over the years. “I just wanted to be safe again,” Hill said.

At his office, he pulled a certificate and medal out of a shoulder bag, which were given to him by the Nepalese government for achieving such a feat. “It’s pretty cool.”

Reaching Everest capped off an eight-year journey for Hill to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. He reached the peaks of Russia’s Mount Elbrus, Argentina’s Aconcagua, Africa’s Kilimanjaro, Alaska’s Denali, Antarctica’s Vinson Massif and Indonesia’s Carstenz Pyramid. He did it all to increase public knowledge of inflammatory bowel disease.

“It’s amazing how many people are out there dealing with these types of diseases silently. That’s why I’m out there trying to make it mainstream.”

Hill looked exhausted Wednesday and he believes he lost 25 pounds on the Everest climb. He’s been doing a lot of eating and sleeping since he returned last week.

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“I’m considering the [north and south] poles,” he said, grinning. mhowell@vancourier.com

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Following more than two years of pressure from independent liquor retailers, WorkSafe B.C. is on the verge of shortening the hours an employee can work alone at night.

The so-called working alone regulations initially defined “late-night hours” as the time between 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. but an amended definition will shorten the overnight period by one hour to match the laws that require liquor stores to close by 11 p.m. With the regulations coming into alignment, retail business owners say they can staff one person instead of two until the later hour—and in the case of many liquor stores, also the time they close.

Kim Haakstad, executive director of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees, said liquor stores should not be considered late-night or overnight retailers. “We were caught in this by one hour,” she said.

ABLE president Al Arbuthnot wrote to the minister of labour in August 2008 asking the provincial government “to direct WorkSafe B.C. to make this change so that it can be resolved in a timely manner without a lengthy consultation process.”

Despite the ongoing consultation, which was extended 12 months from June 2009 and concluded this week, WorkSafe indicated that the 10 p.m. start time for the late-night hours

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The B.C. Federation of Labour accessed correspondence between WorkSafe and liquor retailers through a Freedom of Information request. “We would question the priorities of the government in giving more weight to what [ABLE is] saying is a problem for their members and what’s a problem for the vulnerable workers who are in these places,” said Bob Ages, a health and safety co-ordinator.

Ages said employees in convenience stores and gas stations will face increased harm because of ABLE’s lobbying. “We support people having decent shifts or even part-time jobs that makes sense,” he said. “They should, in fact, move the hours the other direction and that would create a four- or five-hour part-time shift for someone.”

Vancouver police recorded 25 gas station robberies over two years in 2008 to 2009. In the seven-hour period from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., 12 robberies were recorded in 24 months. Between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m., 10 robberies were recorded.

The working alone regulations were introduced at the same time as Grant’s Law, which requires motorists to pay at the pump before filling their vehicles. The convicted killer of Grant DePatie, a Maple Ridge gas station attendant whose death inspired the late-night workplace safety laws, will be released from federal prison this month. mstewart@vancourier.com

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Workers in hazmat suits needed two months to clear dead pigeons, bird excrement and spent syringes from the back portion of the Wing Sang, but now Chinatown’s oldest building is a lively private exhibition space for Bob Rennie’s contemporary art collection and headquarters for his condo marketing machine.

Rennie, owner of Rennie Marketing Systems, and architect Walter Francl, who refurbished the long-neglected building’s exterior, will be honoured by Heritage Vancouver at a fundraiser June 17 for saving the site that made the non-profit’s list of endangered heritage structures. For the first time, the society has picked 10 success stories from the last 10 years to honour at its annual garden party.

Rennie bought the heritage-designated building, across the street from the Chinese Cultural Centre, from another developer in 2004 and spent $10 million on its renovation, opening his private gallery last October. The Wing Sang had been vacant for decades from the mid 1970s. “We probably should have built a condo on the roof to live

Bob Rennie, owner of Rennie Marketing Systems, built a rooftop garden on the old Wing Sang building. photo Dan Toulgoet in,” Rennie said. “But I was so sensitive to the fact that it not be read as a real estate venture, but that it is read as a cultural adventure.”

Francl says the Wing Sang was taking on water “pretty much everywhere.”

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The two-storey Victorian Italianate brick structure at 51 East Pender St. was constructed in 1889 for Yip Sang, a prominent ChineseCanadian businessman whose Wing Sang Company flourished with imports, exports and sales of opium, legal at the time. In 1901, the building was expanded over four lots and to three

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Yip had four wives and 23 children. It functioned first as an English language school then later as a Chinese language school.

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Remnants of the building’s foundations, made with large boulders, wood and concrete, remain out in the open, like the brick walls that contrast with other clean white modern details. Most of the singlepane glass was retained and the 800 to 1,500-yearold first growth timbre that was salvaged from the condemned back building was used for cabinets, tables and picture frames.

Other success stories to be celebrated at Heritage Vancouver’s annual event include the wooden roller coaster at Playland, Arthur Erickson’s terraced Evergreen Building at 1285 West Pender St. and the Salt Building in the Olympic Village.

NPA city Coun. Suzanne Anton will host the garden party with Mayor Gregor Robertson as a special guest. For more information, see www.heritagevancouver.org. crossi@vancourier.com

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Addicts and mentally ill frighten older tenants Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

The provincial government’s decision to house adults with addiction and mental health problems at a West End B.C. Housing complex that originally housed only seniors and people with disabilities has left its older tenants scared and angry, residents of the complex say.

A notice posted by a staff person from the West End Seniors Network three years ago informed tenants of the two towers that the shift was occurring. The buildings include 475 apartments and 550 residents at Haro and Barclay streets.

Sheila Baxter, a 76-yearold woman who’s lived at Sunset Towers for 17 years, says the changes with the new tenants were immediately obvious.

“Say there’s a guy that is being very abusive and he gets evicted, nobody can stop him coming to visit a friend,” Baxter said. “He can visit anyone he wants in the building even though he’s been evicted [and that’s happened], so people are scared to speak up because they’re scared that person will get them in the elevator.”

Baxter said some of her neighbours have moved to Burnaby, Surrey and White

Sunset Towers residents Sheila Baxter (left) and Valerie James say “crackheads,” urine and feces have marked their building. photo Dan Toulgoet Rock because they were scared.

Duncan Graham, 81, believes the new tenants should be afforded not only a home but also “more social help than they’re getting” to prosper as good neighbours.

Valerie James, a 53-yearold disabled woman who moved into the building two years ago, said she’s mainly seen problems in the last six months.

She and Baxter say problems peaked at Christmas and during the Olympics when “crackheads” started letting their friends into the buildings to use the stair-

wells and laundry rooms as places to sleep, urinate and defecate.

James says B.C. Housing installed four security guards who worked day and night during the Games.

The problems have lessened but are ongoing, with one security guard patrolling the two buildings weekends and on welfare cheque day, when residents say tenants invite into the building their friends connected to the drug trade.

According to B.C. Housing, just over half the residents at Sunset Towers are 65 or older and 26 per cent

are 55 to 64. Sixteen per cent are 45 to 54 and eight per cent are 44 or younger.

Of the 550 tenants, 348 have a disability. The ministry does not have a statistical category for the “hard to house.”

In an email to the Courier, B.C. Housing’s media relations spokesperson said the ministry had increased security at the building for a few weeks to meet “security issues” that it said were resolved.

The ministry noted the government has increased accessibility to the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program, or SAFER, which provides subsidies to seniors aged 60 or older who rent in the private market.

But Baxter, whose rent is fixed at one-third of her monthly income, or $350, says SAFER doesn’t provide secure tenure, particularly if seniors face a large rent increase. She noted landlords can apply to raise rents beyond the allowable 3.2 per cent for 2010 if they can demonstrate the rent they’ve been charging is lower than nearby buildings.

A member of the Seniors Housing Advocacy Group, or SHAG, Baxter says seniors across the province are suffering. crossi@vancourier.com

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City councillors will skip Saturday’s fights at GM Place

Athletic commission eyes upcoming UFC event Mike Howell Staff writer

When 22 mixed martial arts fighters enter the octagon Saturday night at GM Place Jerome Yang will be interested in more than just who wins.

Yang is one of five members of the Vancouver Athletic Commission who’ll be taking notes to determine whether the sold-out Ultimate Fighting Championship event is run properly.

His observations will be key to determining whether such events will continue as part of city council’s decision in December 2009 to allow a two-year trial of the popular form of fighting. “This is a test,” Yang said. “If we can do this properly and we can do this safely and it’s to city council’s approval, then that’s good for the sport.”

Yang is also a general physician and helped organize a team of five B.C. doctors experienced in emergency room and intensive care work to oversee the fights Saturday night.

He’ll be conducting the weigh-ins of the fighters Friday. “Fighter safety is a top priority when it comes to these events,” he said, noting the fighters are among the best-conditioned athletes in the world. “Their training is unbelievable.”

Saturday night’s event, which is operated by the Las Vegas-based UFC, is the biggest professional contest of its kind to be held in Vancouver. The main bout features two of the world’s top mixed martial arts fighters, Chuck Liddell and Rich Franklin.

So far, the UFC is the only professional promoter to take up council on its two-year trial of the sport, which features kicking, punching and wrestling in an octagon-shaped cage.

Tom Hammel, the city’s deputy chief licence inspector, is city hall’s liaison to the Vancouver Athletic Commission, which serves as an advisory body to city council.

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Saturday night’s event June 15 but he will likely update council next week. Hammel said he wasn’t sure in what form council will receive the update.

Despite council’s 6-3 approval for the two-year trial, it doesn’t appear that any members of council will attend the fights.

That includes councillors Geoff Meggs, Kerry Jang, Suzanne Anton and Mayor Gregor Robertson.

They all said this week they haven’t heard of any other members of council going to the event. Councillors Raymond Louie, Andrea Reimer and Ellen Woodsworth voted against the trial, citing concerns over the sport’s promotion of violence.

“If there’s a major incident, we’ll need an immediate report,” said Robertson, who was in Copenhagen during the 6-3 vote but is a supporter of the trial. “But if things go well, there’s no acute urgency to it. Hopefully it all goes smooth like it has everywhere else and it’s not an issue.”

Robertson urged the provincial and federal governments to come up with consistent regulations for the sport rather than have each municipality have to sanction an event.

The Vancouver Police Department is on record supporting the sanctioning of mixed martial arts. An underground bout held on Musqueam land in February 2008 resulted in gunshots being fired after the event and one person was wounded. “We’ve got no indication there’s going to be any issues [on Saturday],” said Const. Lindsey Houghton, a VPD media liaison officer. “But we’ll be there, we know who to look out for.” mhowell@vancourier.com

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Since attending the camp, Amren has re-launched the gaystraight alliance at Lord Byng and become involved with a youth group at Qmunity, a West End centre for sexual minorities.

Naomi’s father Bergen Amren told the Courier he was confident the camp was a good choice for his daughter and wrote a letter of support for organizers to use to help in raising money.

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and I know that last year’s camp experience has made a significant contribution to Naomi’s social and emotional health and we imagine the same holds true for other participants and their families,” Bergen wrote in his letter of support. “For these reasons, we are all looking forward to Naomi’s attendance at Camp OUT! this summer.”

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the public into their yards to enjoy the view and ask questions on a self-directed walking tour. A dozen special gardens and public green spaces open June 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets and a map are available for $10 from Figaro’s Garden Centre at 1896 Victoria Dr. This fundraising tour supports Britannia Neigh-

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Jazz festival

The province’s biggest music festival puts 400 concerts and 1,800 musicians on 40 Vancouver stages across the city. From noon until

the small hours before the sun rises again, more than 500,000 people will hear jazz, blues, funk, Latin, fusion, electronica and more during the TD Canada Trust International Jazz Festival.

A free concert series over nine days at Canada Place will showcase this mélange of local and international flavour. Sponsored by the

Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, the free series runs June 25 to July 4 with no concert on July 1 because of Canada Day festivities.

For more information, visit www.CanadaPlace.ca.

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Canada Day parade

Ours is a multi-ethnic, multicultural society, and Canada Day puts this national identity literally on parade as the second annual Canada Day Parade marches through downtown on the evening of July 1. Irish, Celtic, bhangra and samba dancers, pipe bands, marching bands, stilt walkers and more will take off at 7 p.m. from Georgia and Broughton streets. The more than 50 floats, displays and troupes will finish at Thurlow and Pender streets.

Before the parade takes to the streets, a full day of free family fun at Canada Place takes place, with the daytime festival beginning at 10 a.m. and the event’s exclamation mark at 10:30 p.m. with a fireworks display over Burrard Inlet.

For more information, visit CanadaDay.CanadaPlace.ca

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Film screening

The inaugural Cineworks Social features work by filmmakers stripped of their favourite tools and challenged to shoot a silent film in 24 hours using just 16mm film, a Bolex camera and a light meter. Props, costumes and post-production editing were pushed aside. The novice and experienced filmmakers will see their work for the first time June 24 at the Cineworks Annex at 235 Alexander St. The screening is by donation and open to everyone.

For more information about Cineworks workshops, screenings and exhibitions, visit www.cineworks.ca or call curator Jennifer Cane at 604-685-3841.

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Kevin Mak, partner and designer with Definium Design Group, was incorrectly identified in the June 2 article, “Chinatown touts panda mascots.”

Leadership camp

Friends Uniting for Nature hosts an environmental leadership camp for children and teens aged six to 16 to see how environmental and engineering skills are used today and what knowledge will be useful in the future. The summer camps run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each week from July 5 to Aug. 27 at UBC and feature different environmental-themed activities, crafts and games with the underlying theme of teaching participants how to lower their ecological footprint. Some camps are already full. Friends Uniting for Nature is a non-profit, environmental educational program operating since 2008. For more information or to register, visit www.FunCamps.ca.

Jewelry exhibition

The Vancouver Community College jewelry art and design program presents its annual student exhibition to June 12.

It’s in the main foyer of the downtown campus at 250 West Pender. The event is the culmination of months of work for designers in VCC’s jewelry art and design program.

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Absorbing calcium not as obvious as you’d think

lindawatts In my last column I wrote about the oxalate content of some foods and how these organic acids interfere with our bodies’

ability to absorb calcium. Subsequently, a few Courier readers wrote and asked if there was any way to enhance the absorption of calcium despite the presence of oxalates. Here’s my response to their question.

High levels of oxalates in foods like spinach, rhubarb, chard and beets significantly reduces calcium’s bioavailability, meaning the amount of calcium available to our bodies for absorption. According to the clinical nutrition textbook, Advanced Human Nutrition by Wildman and Medeiros (CRC Press, 2000) even though spinach is an excellent source of calcium, as little as five per cent

of the nutrient is absorbed.

When oxalates bind with calcium their coupling is so magnetic cooking has only a five to 15 per cent impact on splitting up the pair.

Oxalates are just one of several factors that influence our calcium absorption.

Phytates, a component of dietary fibre, is another calciumbinding substance that hinders our bodies’ ability to soak up the nutrient.

Phytates are found in soy beans and soy isolates, grains, seeds, nuts, legumes and unleavened breads such as tortilla, chapati and roti.

However, unlike oxalates, phytates can be altered so they don’t mess with calcium. Steaming or roasting food will lower its phytate content. Soaking, sprouting, or fermenting high-phytate foods has the same effect.

Interestingly, phytates aren’t an issue in leavened breads because yeast fermentation breaks them down. And even though soy beans contain a large amount of phytates, studies have shown that calcium absorption is relatively high from this food.

But oxalates and phytates don’t have to interfere with our ability to meet our daily calcium needs.

The professional organization Dietitians of Canada recommends that men and women between 19 years of age and older should aim for a daily intake of 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium from food and supplements. Those of us who are older than 51 should consume the higher end of that range. An upper limit of 2,500 milligrams of calcium per day is advised. Calcium intakes over this amount may put us at risk for developing kidney stones and decreased iron, zinc and magnesium absorption.

According to Sydney Massey, a registered dietitian with B.C. Continued on page 25

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Varied, balance diet offsets organic acids’ negative force Continued from page 24 Dairy Foundation, oxalates and phytates aren’t a problem if we’re eating a balanced and varied diet.

It’s when we’re relying solely on green leafy vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds that meeting our calcium needs becomes a challenge. This predicament can be resolved by incorporating foods rich in well-absorbed calcium such as milk, yogurt, cheese, calcium-fortified orange juice and fortified soy products.

Be sure to check the label of soy beverages for fortification of at least calcium and vitamin D. Fortifying these products is optional in Canada.

If leafy greens are a significant calcium source for us, we

should mostly depend on bok choy, broccoli, collards, kale and mustard and turnip greens because these vegetables are high in calcium and low in oxalates.

High-oxalate veggies (spinach, rhubarb, chard and beets) are best eaten in moderation along with foods that are good sources of well-absorbed calcium.

And when it comes to phytates, they’re not an issue unless our overall calcium intake is low and whole grain cereals are a major part of our diet— that is, we eat them throughout the day and not just at breakfast.

Linda Watts is a registered dietitian. Send your questions to lwatts@vancourier.com.

Bok choy, broccoli, collards, kale and mustard and turnip greens are high in calcium and low in photo Dan Toulgoet oxalates.

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For women of all ages, finding the perfect hairstyle that suits us is a constant journey.

The straight or long-haired wavy look we sported in our 20’s may feel dated and tired now. The shoulder-length, curly style from the grad photo may have morphed into a present-day ball of frizz.

The way our hair behaved in the past is irrelevant. We need a look that feels great, is easy to maintain and features the colour(s) or highlights that suit our age.

Long, sultry hair in the Penelope Cruz style, or Jessica Simpson’s blonde locks — these may be ideals we aspire to, but if hair is dry, frizzy, over-coloured or full of split ends, no amount of fussing and flattening will really help. Plus, over-processing just makes the hair follicles even more battered and bruised.

With summer and its effects of sun, wind and chlorine doing a dry-out number on our hair, perhaps it’s time to consider a bold move — to a chic, short shape!

Hairstylists say most gals can achieve the look, with the possible exception of those with a square face/strong jawline.

Devon Plamondon, master stylist at Caramel Salon on South Granville, is also chief instructor at Vancouver Hairdressing Academy across the street. He advises that the level and capabilities of the students, who are very much in the early stages of the learning process, vary greatly. This is one reason your appointment will take longer and that it’s priced at a discounted rate.

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Besides Freedom Fries, miming and walking along cobblestone streets in striped shirts with baguettes under their arms, the French are also good for making films. So why not give them their own film festival. To that end, the fourth annual French Film Festival, which showcases the hottest feature films from France from the past year, runs June 11 to Aug. 5 at the Ridge Theatre. Films include Micmacs à tire-larigot, the latest work from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, Delicatessen), Jan Kounen’s heated love affair Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Les Herbes Folles by Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour, My American Uncle) who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and Christian Carion’s L’Affaire Farewell. For tickets and more information, go to www.festivalcinemas.ca.

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Vancouver New Music must be reading our dream journal because this Sunday they’re presenting four free outdoor concerts dedicated to complaining. With music composed by Veda Hille, the Complaints Choir is billed as a “hilarious community project” with participants singing a litany of complaints about rain, taxes, busses, the Olympics, traffic and work.

Personally, it might have been nice if they had consulted us and written a song about how waitresses always ask us if Coke or Pepsi is OK when we make a point of ordering nonspecific “cola” to avoid such questions… anyway. The Complaints Choir gets things off its chest in front of Vancouver New Music (837 Davie St.) at 1 p.m., at the intersection of West Cordova and Seymour at 2 p.m., at Robson and Homer at 3 p.m. and at Robson and Howe at 4 p.m. Don’t bring your car, unless you really want something to complain about.

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There won’t be too much complaining at blogger Neil Pasricha’s appearance at Chapters on Robson this Saturday. After a difficult few years that saw the death of his best friend and a failed marriage, Pasricha decided to document one “awesome thing” each day via his website 1000awesomethings.com. Fast forward a few years, and the Toronto blogger has received nearly 16 million hits to his website, won the 2010 Webby Award (the “Oscars of the Internet”) for best cultural blog for the second year in a row, was named one of PC Magazine’s Top 50 Blogs and has a new book called The Book of Awesome. The love-in takes place June 12, 2 p.m.

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Arizona’s Bob Log III brings his tried and true one-man-band shtick to the Biltmore June 15. Log is known for playing a sweaty, ramshackle amalgam of blues and punk, armed with a slide guitar and foot-controlled drum, while singing like a drunken smash-up derby announcer via a telephone receiver that’s been hot glued into the visor of his motorcycle helmet. Good times. His latest album is called My Sh** Is Perfect.

Tickets at Red Cat and Zulu or online at www.ticketweb.ca.

Local act Parlour Steps play the Media Club with Orchid Highway and Adrienne Pierce June 11. California indie rockers Delta Spirit shine on Venue June 12 with guests Ezra Furman & The Harpoons. Metric rocks out at the Malkin Bowl June 12-13. Soul revivalist Jamie Lidell shakes his moneymaker June 14 at Venue. British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap plays the Commodore June 15, while next door Dweezil Zappa recreates the music of his dad, Frank, at the Vogue Theatre.

kudos & kvetches Marpole muse

If there’s one thing K&K likes it’s extolling the vir tues of Marpole. Not only is it one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods and home to a handful of the Courier’s more streetwise and sophisticated employees, it’s a place we like to go to in our mind when we dream of a better tomorrow, filled with candy cane streetlights, butterscotch sidewalks and cute little rainspouts that drip taffy. Or maybe that’s Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factor y.

The point is, Marpole has been K&K’s muse for several years now. Marpole, Gloria Macarenko and videos of cats playing the piano. So we were par ticularly stoked when we learned that in honour of the 10th annual Marpole Summer fest, the Marpole Business Association is holding a poetr y contest. Grand prize is $300 in gift cer tificates from local stores and a chance to per form your poem in public at the July 10 Summer fest event, which, speaking from personal experience, is one of the best places in the city for a poet to shine his or her dangling par ticiple. Entr y deadline

arts & entertainment

Francey feast, bluesy Log jam

is June 30, and submission forms can be picked up and dropped off at Characters Books & Coffee Bar or the Marpole Branch Librar y. You can also download a contest form at www.marpoleonline.com. Who knew they had Internet out there?

Since K&K doesn’t like to stand in the way of inspiration, we’ve already star ted composing our Marpole-centric poems.

So far we’re on our third volume. Here’s a sampling: “Marpole Heat” Just got a perm at Hair Reflections, Perfect for those summer breezes that await my journey to pick up some crumpets and jam. So sweet, so sticky like a heart that beats…. for Marpole.

“Marpole in My Pocket” Hangin’ out on South Granville waiting for the HandyDart to take us to the casino.

This pocket full of nickels isn’t the only thing jingling. So is my heart… for Marpole.

“A Valediction Forbidding Marpole” Hark, who goes there, through slippery shade of cherry blossom boughs and the come-hither scent of cinnamon buns and exhaust?

“T’is I,” said a voice, as old as ages and loud as dew.

“I’m one of the oldest neighbourhood’s in all Vancouver, but you wouldn’t know it judging by my vitality, vim and affordability.

Explore my long streets.

Feel my warm limbs. Embrace my many whimsical charms that have reinforced these ruddy bones for o’er a century.

For if you do, you will surely enter a world of wonder and conveniently located amenities, not to mention public transit stops, or my name, humble reader, isn’t…

Marpole.”

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Where many sports bars fall short, stylishly designed Red Card, attached to the Moda Hotel at 900 Seymour, photos Dan Toulgoet scores well in the beer, wine, cocktails and food department.

World Cup fever alive and kicking at Red Card The Hired Belly with Tim Pawsey

As the World Cup kicks off today, chances are you’re planning where to catch some of the action. Thanks in no small part to success of the Winter Olympics, Vancouver’s bar culture has exploded. And when you consider that only a short while back the heavy hand of the Liquor Licensing Branch was dictating not only how many TV screens were allowed but how big they could be, well, thankfully we’ve come a long way.

There’s no shortage of TVs (18 and counting, with two more big screens

to come) at the Red Card Sports Bar, the cleverly named, recent addition to the Moda Hotel (900 Seymour St., ph.

604-689-4460).

(For those lacking soccer knowledge, when the ref shows the yellow card it’s a warning. The red card is waved next, or for more serious infractions, and you’re out of the game—if not several—and your team plays short handed.)

This red-brick and wood-trimmed sports-mad emporium offers the perfect brassy contrast to siblings Uva Wine Bar and Cibo (named by En Route magazine as Canada’s best new restaurant in 2009).

Where so many rooms fall short, Red Card scores well in the beer, wine and drinks department—thanks in no small part to the input of Moda sommelier and general manager Se-

bastien Le Goff, before he left town to open Daniel Boulud’s DB Bistro in Singapore.

The draught line up (close to 20 on tap) balances the obvious (Molson Canadian) with smaller, more taste-driven pints such as R&B Raven Cream and internationals like Murphy’s, Pike Place and Caffreys. You can take your pick of serious taps, or wander over to a cocktail list of specially themed World Cup concoctions, including the Forza Italia (Go Italy) made with grappa, Campari and Galliano and shaken with cranberry juice, spiced sugar and orange bitters.

Behind the scenes, the star of Red Card’s kitchen is a specially imported Marana Forni state of the art, part gas/ part wood-fired oven that turns out decent thin crust pizza and calzone.

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Stylish sports bar not afraid to get its footie wet

dining out guide

Continued from page 36 Top tastes from our visit were the West Coast, which sports a tasty combo of smoked salmon with mascarpone cream, lots of capers and fresh arugula, and the Diavola, with Bresaola beef, spicy capicollo, chilies and mozzarella.

We also like the fact that the kitchen, which turns out a wide range of Italian fare, isn’t hidden away but fully visible on a level behind the long bar, overlooking the room—like a boxing ring.

Red Card takes its World Cup obligations seriously. Even though the time difference between Vancouver and South Africa presents some challenges—never mind. On game days, the room will open at 7 a.m. for breakfast and be licensed from 9 a.m., which seems remarkably civilized for Vancouver. On non-game days, regular licensed hours start at 11 a.m.

There’s no shortage of sports bars with attendant TVs in this town, some better than others. But Red Card’s kitchen, smart surroundings and polished service puts it well beyond pub fare.

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• Porcupine Ridge Syrah 2008 Arguably one of the best Syrah deals going. Vibrant red fruit in a mouth watering, juicy but structured palate with easy tannins and black pepper spice through the end. Think grilled anything. Made by Boekenhoutskloof but remember the Porcupine.

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Paul’s Place Omelettery Restaurant

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Country of origin: Brazil What it is: the second best selling pop brand in Brazil after Coke and official sponsor of the Brazilian national football team. It resembles light beer in the glass.

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Country of origin: Colombia What it is: Kola bean flavoured soda that is oddly orange in colour, subtly sweet with a slightly nutty aftertaste.

Verdict: a co-worker described it as “delightful.”

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Despite thin plot, Buddy Holly Story keeps audience reelin’

Oh boy, Buddy rocks the house At the Stanley until July 11 Tickets: 604.687.1644 www.artsclub.com

Reviewed by Jo Ledingham

Apparently you’re over the hill when you start wearing “relaxed” jeans. But you’re seriously close to that same landmark when you know all the words to “Peggy Sue,” Buddy Holly’s smash hit back in the late ’50s: “Peggy Sue/ Peggy Sue/Oh, how my heart yearns for you/ Oh, Peggy/My Pe-heggy Sue-ooh-ooh-ooh.”

Hardly profound, but it earned that tune the #3 spot in Billboard Magazine’s Top 100 in 1957.

Director Bill Millerd also has a smash hit on his hands—especially with the boomers who do everything but get up and start rockin’ and rollin’ in the aisles when Zachary Stevenson (as Buddy) explodes with tunes like “Ready Teddy,” “Oh Boy” and “Johnny B. Goode.” Stevenson, wearing Holly’s trademark big, hornrimmed glasses and a big grin, is sensational.

Note to those with excess weight: you will lose pounds just watching Stevenson’s non-stop, flat-out, seemingly jet-fuelled performance.

The guy, already lean, is going to be a whole lot leaner by the end of the run. And that goes for the whole cast—all 14 of them. They’re having a blast on the Stanley stage and are 100 per cent committed to making sure you have fun, too.

Looking over the hit-after-hit song list, it’s hard to believe that Holly’s phenomenal recording and concert success only spanned about eighteen months before he was killed in a plane crash in 1959 at the age of 23 along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. It was a meteoric rise for 19-year-old Holly seeing Elvis Presley live in Lubbock, Tex., Holly’s home town, to opening for Elvis later that same year.

Under Sasha Niechoda’s musical direction, Buddy really rocks the joint. As well as The Crickets (played by Jeff Bryant on lead guitar, Scott Carmichael on drums and Jeremy Holmes on bass) there’s Niechoda on keyboards,

Henry Christian, Neil Nicholson and Tom Colclough (who plays a mean saxophone).

Hype that up with three guys and three gals doing backup vocals and shakin’ their booties (choreographed by Valerie Easton) and what you’ve got is joyful sound at the Stanley.

Ted Roberts’ wide set is flanked by two radio studios, leaving lots of room in the middle for various clubs and concert venues like the Surf Club and Harlem’s Apollo Theatre (where, apparently, the black emcee and audience were shocked to discover that Buddy Holly and The Crickets were white guys— “four honkies from Texas.” In the days when radio reigned, who knew?)

Rebekka Sorensen’s costumes—from Holly’s early cardigan and loafers to a velvet pinstripe suit and the girl trio’s frothy pink strapless gowns—recreate the era perfectly.

Buddy is not the greatest musical ever written. The plot, thin even at the beginning, peters out, and the show ends in what is virtually a concert with song after song. But it’s a fabulous showcase for loads of talent in addition to Stevenson’s lead performance. Denis Simpson is dynamite as the Apollo emcee, and he and Sibel Thrasher do a couple of numbers before Buddy’s act—which, naturally, brings down the Apollo house. Kieran Martin Murphy bops big as the Big Bopper (outrageously dressed in mismatched stripes and leopard-skin print) while sexy Michael Scholar Jr., in satin shirt and cummerbund, tears up the stage with a big, big “La Bamba.” Elena Juatco makes her Arts Club debut as Buddy’s love interest. Seana-Lee Wood is heart-o’-gold Vi, girl Friday and wife of producer Norman Petty (Milo Shandel).

We all know how Buddy’s story ends so there’s no surprise there. What is surprising, though, is on how upbeat a note this musical signs off. It really is a celebration of a life—brief but stellar—and of music that rocked a generation. If for no other reason, see this show for Stevenson’s performance. Like Buddy Holly, he’s a natural.

Rock on, Buddy. Rock on, Zach. joled@telus.net

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Despite all the awkward sex, director says Year of the Carnivore is really about search for love

Carnivorous Sook-Yin Lee sinks her teeth into new film State of the Arts

with Cheryl Rossi She got super drunk at the longdefunct local Savoy nightclub, fell down two flights of stairs, stumbled to the warehouse where the guy she had fallen for lived, professed her love and then puked all over him.

It’s that awkward, circuitous search for first love that inspired Sook-Yin Lee’s first full-length film, Year of the Carnivore, which opens in Vancouver June 18.

Lee’s feature film screenplay and directorial debut tells the story of Sammy Smalls, a girl with a crush on a boy who thinks she’s bad in bed, so she goes out to get more experience.

Smalls is a 21-year-old tomboy who’s head over heels for a scruffy musician, Eugene Zaslavsky. After a disastrous one-night stand that surpasses the boundaries of their friendship, Zaslavsky suggests they should play the field. That catapults Smalls, who’s also a diminutive grocery store detective, on a quest that leads to adventures in her neighbours’ bedroom, a public swimming pool and the woods behind the Big Apple Food Town where she nabs shoplifters that her boss then beats up.

Lee, whose award-winning short films Unlocked, Girl Cleans Sink and Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle have screened internationally, said the search for love and connection is a theme she often

wrestles with so it made sense to focus on that for her first feature.

Also an actor famous for being filmed having an actual orgasm and acrobatic sex in the lead role in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, Lee says some may mistake her for being obsessed with carnal pleasures, but it’s the existential questions about connections and belonging that concern her.

“I’m interested in what gets in the way,” she said.

In other romantic comedies, the character of Zaslavsky, whose rise from street musician to guitarist in a locally popular band opens him up to a sexual buffet, might be dismissed as a selfish heartbreaker, Lee suggests, but in Year of the Carnivore he’s developed a little deeper, exposing the familial dramas, in a modest way, that affect the young man’s attitudes to relationships and sex.

Lee uses her art to dramatize some of the struggles she’s had for years, only on fast-forward.

One scene has Smalls sexing it up with herself in her bedroom in an effort to release her inner femme and explore her own sexuality.

“I just danced with the wall two years ago,” Lee said. “Air, Moon Safari, it was a super sexy album.”

Everyone in the angsty but largely playful romp struggles with shifting identities and thwarted desires to connect with others. The film touches on sexual conflicts between new parents and the struggles of a feisty older woman, Miss Nakamura, who’s become much less physically free with age and whose lover sits in

an urn on her table.

A concept album created by Lee, her writer-musician partner Adam Litovitz and Buck 65 complements the film, taking Year of the Carnivore’s exploration of love and sex to another level.

“There’s an actual song sung from Alan, who’s Miss Nakamura’s ex-lover, trapped inside the urn,” Lee said.

Lee, a Toronto-based musician, actor, filmmaker and media personality who grew up with immigrant parents in Lynn Valley until a family breakdown had her leave home at 15, says she was fortunate to fall in with artists after she struck out on her own because she became intimate with a variety of means of self expression.

Her role fronting the band Bob’s Your Uncle got her noticed by Moses Znaimer who hired her to be a MuchMusic VJ, which led to her job as a radio host with CBC. Although Year of the Carnivore incorporates vibrators, threesomes and hostage-taking, the host of CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera says her employers weren’t concerned about her latest film foray.

“I broke the hymen with Shortbus,” she said.

••• Saint James Music Academy, the kids from Strathcona featured in a Courier cover story earlier this year, holds its yearend recital tonight, June 11. The orchestra, ensemble and choir event happens at St. James’ Anglican Church, 303 East Cordova, at 6:30 p.m. crossi@vancourier.com

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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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LOST KEYS - including Porsche key - around June 4, 2010 in Westside Vancouver. lostkeys241@gmail.com MISSING FOR 1 WEEK, orange male cat last seen wearing metal studded collar. 24TH & Highbury area. 604-338-9455

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VIP SALON & SPA. Experienced hairstylist w/clientele chair rental opportunity. Call 604-218-2139.

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Summer Work

SUPERVISOR

Career Services/ Job Search

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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HOUSEKEEPER reqd 16 hrs/wk for a friendly family of 4. Hours flexible. Drivers lic an asset. Call 604-785-1471. Salary negotiable 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.

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FREE Job Search Support for People with Disabilities and/or Chronic Health Conditions

Applicants must have substantial experience in Road Construction with extensive knowledge in the grading and paving aspects of the business. They also must possess superior leadership skills and demonstrate solid oral and written interpersonal communication skills as well as average computer skills with Microsoft Office software.

The successful candidate will be responsible for scheduling, quality assurance and the administration of the day to day operations. As well, they will be involved in the Company Safety Program and will work cooperatively with our other Superintendents in the Major Contracts and Design Build Projects We offer a complete benefit package with salary commensurate of experience.

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CAREGIVER needed for elderly woman, light housekeeping and meal prep. Email resume to miguelakedawen@hotmail.com

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Hotel Restaurant

KOREAN food cooks, no cert, G-9, 40hr/wk, $18-$20/hr, Korean, no/basic English, 3yr exp, Duties, train 1 PR or 1 Cdn, cook/plan menu, check & order supp Fax 604-872-0799 Han Sem Food, 1647 E. Pender St. Van. 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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Some great kids aged 12 to 18 who need a stable, caring home for a few months.

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

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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.

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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.

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Trades/Technical

ContainerWest has been providing industrial storage, office & custom enclosure units for over 30 years. Our manufacturing plant at our head office in Richmond, BC, is currently hiring for the following positions: ★ 'B' Level Welders ★ Carpenters ★ Fabricators ★ Industrial Painters ★ Electrician Apprentices Shift work. Wages based on experience. Send resumes to jobs@containerwest.com No phone calls, please.

ROOFERS - Single Ply

Marine Roofing seeks fulltime Journeypersons.

Lower mainland BC Jobs Min. 3 yrs. exp. $27.50-$32.50/hr.

Call Daryl, 604-433-1813 dmorrison@marineroofing.com

Ticketed Carpenter Supervisor

Journeyman or woman, full time position, trade certification required.

Fax resume to 604-529-9204

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Upick or Ready Picked

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

LIKE NEW!

Fridge $249 • Stove $199 Washer $199 • Dryer $149 Warranty & Delivery Removal Available

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APPLY TODAY for a brand NEW FULLY LOADED MDG Desktop, Laptop or LCD HDTV delivered to your doorstep & get a FREE 22’’ LCD HDTV! FInance from 49 cents/day, $0 down, 1yr/2yr/3yr terms. Everyone’s Approved thanks to MDG’s In-House Financing 1-800-791-1174.

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

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BEST Deal Restwell Matt Sets.

Full wrty, Dble $319. Queen $339 King $559. Will deliver. 722-3636

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

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We Believe in You. Sprott-Shaw Community College has been training students in BC for over 107 years.

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NEW START DATE SEPT 13th

FREE Biology Upgrading Classes Starting Now

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NEW START DATE JULY 5th

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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.

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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.

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Medical Office Trainees Needed!

Doctors & Hospitals need Medical Administrative & Medical Office Staff! No Experience? Need Training? Local Training & Job Placement is also available.

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

Government Financial Aid may be available.

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MASSAGE & WAXING Men & Women

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

Langley.

Massage $29 Head to Toe 3 hrs $109

PB ENGLISH Springer Spaniel Puppies 6 months old. Very sweet...they have had all of their vaccines and vet checks. Ready for new homes. To 'GOOD' family homes only!!! Plse. call (604) 505-1620 $750.00

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BORDER COLLIE Cross Sheltie pup male. Gorgeous! Ready Now. Blue Merles, $700. Aldergrove.

Call 604-856-3291 BOSTON TERRIER (PB) pupsshots, dewormed, parents to view. 8 wks July 5th. $1500. Call after 5 pm 604-374-0049

PUPPIES FOR SALE, father American Bulldog, mother Whippit/Pit Bull, 7 wks, healthy, no shots $375 obo 778-862-3568

CANE CORSO male pups, Italian Mastiff, 9 wks, tails docked, 1st shots, $1000, 604-351-8741

YORKSHIRE TEACUP males $800-$2000 obo, 1 super sm doll faced, vet checked 604-756-3309

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ADORABLE PUPS, Pugs, Bugs & Westies $850 credit card ok, 604-542-8892 pics & video @ www.puppiesandponies.ca

COCKER SPANIEL p/b pups with papers vet. shots, ready now, Vanc. $400 neg. 604-708-1752

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Dog & Pony Shop Tent Sale Everything On Sale Sunday June 20th: 10am - 4pm 4830 Delta St, Ladner

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Pet Services

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LATISHA’S PET CARE

DOBERMAN PUPS. Female/ Male. Tails/dew claws done. Blk/ tan. $1500-$2000. 604-607-7433 FILA/MASTIFF GUARD DOGS owners best friend. Intruders worst nightmare. all shots, $2000 each. ready now! 604-817-5957

AUSTRALIAN LABRADOODLE Pups Non-shedding mediums, parents 27lbs, spayed/neutered, 1st shots, reg. with ALAA, $2500 1-250-494-3107 Summerland BICHON FRISE, 9/10 wks, 1st shots, vet checked, guar. ready to go. $600. 604-820-0194

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

MINI DACHSHUND. Smooth & wire hair. Health guaranteed.

Ready now! $800. 604-538-5433

PB BLUENOSE Pit Bull pup’s for sale. 4 left - $1000 - $1500. Ph Tim 604-557-8359

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RELAXATION Therapeutic Massage

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

Poultry

Charters & Tours

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.

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

www.TravelWithRon.ca

Business Opportunity

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

PEBBLECREEK FURNITURE franchise opportunity in Coquitlam.

For info call Rhoda at 604-541-8711 pebblecreek@shaw.ca

Shop at home...for your home. www.pebblecreekdesign.com

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

Business Opportunity

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$220,000 US Dollars required for 10 days to Ship Miners Gold to Europe Refiner, to pay for transportation & export taxes.

Exceptional Return, Secure by Gold. Call 604 538-4922

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PSYCHIC

Palm • Tarot Card •Crystal Ball Readings •Helps through all problems of life.

Results while you wait.

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2 FAMILY SALE Sat Jun 12th 7 am - 1pm No Earlies please in back alley @ 7757 Oak St. Furniture, kitchen appliances, household, books, free loveseat & lots more!!!

Saturday, June 12 • 11am-4pm

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IN A CAR Accident?

Getting DIVORCED? INHERITANCE coming?

GET MONEY TODAY!

Up to $10,000 Canada Wide Settlement Lenders 1-866-210-7200

Computer/ Internet

Computer Repair / Toner & Ink Cartridges All Brands. Refurb’s.

Home/Office. Simon 604-999-0815

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

Financial Services

NEED CASH AND OWN A VEHICLE?

You keep your keys and drive away with cash.

Call Got Keys? Got Cash!

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H BIG FAMILY GARAGE SALE Sat & Sun, June 12 & 13th 9:30 am - 3:00 pm, 5468 Inverness Street Dishes, furniture,clothing, electronics, books and more.

Rain or Shine • No Early Birds

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✫Lane Garage Sale✫ 1900 block on the South Lane of W. King Edward Ave.

Sunday, June 13th · 10am- 2pm · E

MULTI-DWELLING YARD SALE

H - WILSON HEIGHTS ★ THRIFT SALE ★ 1634 East 41st Ave

(Apartment block) Sat & Sun, 10am-5 2155 West 5th Ave Furniture, Household goods, Clothing, Jewellry, Music, Shoes & Kids Stuff etc.

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(at Argyle)

Fri, June 11th, 5 to 7 pm Sat, June 12th, 9am - 12

GARAGE SALE

CHURCH YARD SALE 4397 West 12th

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

Revised Address Saturday, June 12 th 10am to 3pm Clothes, Accessories, Shoes, Toys, Kitchen items, Sporting goods, Plants and more.

Rain or Shine!

MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

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

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Body Work

RELAXING MASSAGE very clean/private. 9am-11pm, 7days, D/town & Kits. Anie 604-684-8773

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.

One Person’s Junk is Another Person’s Treasure!

**RELIEVE ROAD RAGE**

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Collectible Fair & Computer Swap Meet

Business Services

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GARAGE SALES

Janitorial Company offering CLEANING CONTRACTS from $500 - $5000 per month income.

We are also looking for INVESTORS in growing cleaning business.

For info: 604-525-2117 Email: daniel@gogreencollege.ca

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SHARPEI IN Coquitlam is looking for good home, very healthy and great with people. Must go through Sharpei rescue for an application.

SCOTTISH DEERHOUND pups.

Rare. Purebred. CKC reg’d. $1500. 1st shots. Microchipped. ironstonedeerhounds\ @gmail.com 604.535.0465

Mind,Body&Soul

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

Cloverdale, 604 541-0007

PB GERMAN shepherd pups, black & tan, 7 weeks old, 1st shots, vet✔, $550 604-856-7405

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Metaphysical

Gadry Consultation

Horses & Tack

Cat sitting. We love cats. Vanc. only. Michele 778-385-7313 ALL SMALL breed pups local & non shedding $400+ 604 590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

Registered Massage Services

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Childcare Available

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

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GENTLEMEN! Attractive discreet, European lady is available for company 604-451-0175 KITTENCLUB.CA 604-299-0872 near 2nd Narrows Bridge ‘All we wear is lingerie’

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REAL ESTATE

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Burnaby

SUN June 13, 2-4, VIEW! Fully reno’d 1 BR condo, granite counters in kitch, 737sf, rentals ok, wlk to L’heed skytrn/schls, $218,900, Mala @ Sutton, 604-710-9030

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Real Estate

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Real Estate

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Apartments & Condos

6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

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

6508

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

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6508

Apt/Condos

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

LUXURY 1 bdrm condo avail now. Atrium At The Pier. Pool & gym incl. f/p, w/d, Stainless steel appl. n/s, $1900m 604-947-9425 miansampath@gmail.com

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

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2 BR nr 70 & Granville, $960 incl ht, h/w & Balc, Laund, Recently Reno’d, Avail Now 604-261-1849

Apt/Condos

Olympic Village

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6508

Apt/Condos

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

GEORGIAN TOWERSST. 1021 HOWAY

NEW WESTMINSTER 1450 WEST GEORGIA ST. 11Bdrm from $799 & 3 bedrooms

2 Bdrmsstarting from $from 959 available $ 1150 50% OFF 1st month for 2 bdrm suites

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609-1333 W. Georgia St. 2 br, 2 connected bath, hardwood, stainless, 940sf, lease, np, ns, now, $1900, Eric K. 604-723-7368 MARPOLE, 70TH & Granville area, 2 Bdr. apt. $995. Adult building. Available immediately.

Call 604-263-9038.

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Condos/ Townhouses

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Houses - Sale

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 suites, easy transit.

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LANGLEY, 8258 211th St. Sat/ Sun, 2 - 4pm. Brand new 7 BR (3,425 sf) house, 3 lvl, 5 baths, granite, h/wd flrs, 2 f/ps, rec rm, dbl garage, incl 2 BR s/c bsmt ste.

On greenbelt. $629,000. Rupe Mann, United Rlty, 778-240-7914

6508

Apt/Condos

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SUN, 2 to 4, 19454 Sutton Ave, Pitt Meadows, 2 yrs old, 3 BR + Den, Over 2400sf, Immaculate Condition. Michael Lepore, Royal LePage Westside 604-295-3974 www.AccoladeRealEstate.ca

Sun Jun 13, 2-4, 24026 Fern Cr Mridge,1 acre on Allouette River, 3BR rancher, 1591sf, garage/ shop 450sf, $648K, Fay Tomlinson, Sutton WC, 778-772-9848

6020-28

Port Coquitlam

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1935 Jacana Ave,

Sunday June 13th, 1-4pm

8 BR & 4 f/baths, incls 4 BR inlaw ste, 2 lvls, CDS. Upr Mstr BR w/win closet, lg ensuite, kitchen w/pantry. Elegant living rm, formal dining, vaulted ceilings, newer paint, lam flrs. Family rm patio drs to back deck. Bright, modern self contained 4 BR in-law ste, 2f/baths, w/priv ent. newly reno’d, w/walkout to fenced backyrd, Mstr BR w/walk-in closet & enste.

Asking: $698,800 Kerry Sandrin, Royal LePage - Coronation West.

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S. Surrey/ White Rock

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6040

Okanagen/ Interior

EXCEPTIONAL LAKEVIEW Lots from $160,000 also: 1 panoramic 3 - acre parcel.

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6052

Real Estate Investment

GRANDVIEW @ Las Vegas on South Blvd brand new concrete bldg, 2 sep 1 br XLrg units, Luxurious, ldry, 2 jacuzzi, a/c, plasma, king bed, slps 8, full equipped kitchen. Timeshare 4 x per yr, you own % of property, Rentals ok Asking $35,000 604-374-4350 * 604-506-7576 ★ 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

Need a New Place?

6508

6540

Apt/Condos

Langara Gardens

Updated Studio & 1 BR Apts.

Rental Incentives Offered.

Rent includes heat and hot water.

N. WEST. All services paid, inclds u/grd electrical, DCC’s, survey & eng’ng report. 33’ x 130’ lot. No GST. $335,000. 604-726-0677. usellahome.com ● ID # 4711

Find one in the Classifieds To advertise call 604-630-3300

BEAUTIFUL APTS. 1 & 2 BR avail. Special rates. Open House FRI & SAT @ 8665 Shaughnessy Call 604-327-9419

BURNABY CENTRE

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

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GINGER Crosstown, Science World! Deluxe 1 BR condo, all appls, strge, bike locker, sec’d prkg, Media/amenties rm & more.

NS/NP. Avail now. 604-861-6303

EAST VNCR. Near 7th & Clark.

VIEW. Upper lrg 2 BR ste, newly reno’d, hardwood floors. Av now.

No pets. $1100. 604-218-7660

Lots & Acreage

OWN your own Custom Blt 6 BR, 5 bath, Coach Home in Summerfield for $1000/mo. Sutton WC. Michelle Perreault 604-728-2817

1323 W. 71st Ave (MARPOLE).

Studio $740. Incl. Hot Water, N/P. 1 Year Lease. Avail July 1. www.apt4rent.ca, 604-727-9022

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Maple Ridge/ Pitt Mead.

6030

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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6522

Furnished Accommodation

5 BR, 3.5 bath, patio, 2 car prkg, jacuzzi, sleeps 7, Kingsway/ Rupert, pet ok, utils, net & cable incld, avail July & Aug. $3500/mo or $1200/wk, 604-569-0598

6540

Houses - Rent

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Call Kristen 604 435-5555 or 786-4663

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Houses - Rent

1069 W. 32nd Ave Shaughnessy, 3 bdrm, 2 main, 1 down, 2 bath, hardwood flrs, prkg, stor, July 1 for 6 mths $2500, 604-729-5298

6565

Office/Retail Rent

Offices: 2nd floor 2000 sq.ft. Main floor $200 per month and up.

Ground floor 4000 sq. ft. 2163 Kingsway 604-454-1617

6580

Rental Services

1BR $950 UP 450sqt 1549 Barclay. 1yr Lease Incl. Hot water & Heat. Pet OK Now 778-288-8925 Keith

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR large lovely bsmt suite grd lvl, Killarney area, prefer female, $800/mth incl utils, 604-464-1046 after 11am, 604-591-8908 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.

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Wanted To Rent

WOMAN, VEGET, meditator, (you don’t have to be) 2 cats, seeks 1 br ste in a house for July 1st. Have ref’s. 778-323-4345

Call 604-630-3300 to place your ad

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HOME SERVICES 8020

Blinds & Draperies

WINDOW BLINDS SALES & SERVICES All Blinds up to 75% Off 1” & 2” Venetians, Verticals & Rollers • Repairs & Cleaning Free Estimates & Installation

Call Joseph @ Metro Decor

778-995-0295

8040

Carpet/Flooring Installation

CURLYS CARPET REPAIR Repair/Re-Stretching

604-282-6630

curlyscarpetrepair.com ALL FLOOR COVERINGS Repair & Replace. Material sales Dwight, 604-732-3057 I’ll show you the inexpensive route www.fccarpets.shawwebspace.ca

8055

Cleaning

8060

8075

Concrete

CONCRETE SPECIALIST Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, remove & replacing

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp.

For free estimates call Mario

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. Driveways, sidewalks, exposed aggregate & patios. Santino 604.254.5551 CONCRETE SPECIALIST, patio sidewalk, driveway, exposed aggregate reas rate 604-764-2726

8073

Drainage

Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Drainage installation & repair. 604-327-3086

★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

DRAIN TILES & WATER LINES Without Digging a Trench 604-739-2000

EXP HOME detail cleaners, move in/move out, homes, offices, Free metal p/u. etc Call 604-327-1219

Mia Casa − Drain Tile/Sewer Line Water Line Repairs / Replacement & Cleaning. Vince 604-941-6060, Al 604-783-3142

I will clean, tidy & organize your garage, clean the windows & paint the floor $25/hr. Min 4 hrs + materials. I am bondable.

Lorne 604-515-7474 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 WWW.GREEN-N-CLEAN. CA Earth-Friendly, Bike-Powered cleaning, visit / call 604-338-4996

8058

Computer Services

$45 / Hour

Computer Home Repair Service ✔ Virus removal • 15 yrs exp ✔ Increase computer speed ✔ Open wknds/eves, 24/7

778-384-2019

8075

Drywall

ALL WORK GUARANTEED

J.A. CONSTRUCTION

Specializing in drywall & textured ceiling repairs, drywall finishing, stucco repairs, painting. Fully insured.

604-916-7729 JEFF

CITY LINK DRYWALL LTD WCB, liability insured. 20 yrs exp.

Call Indy. Free Est. 604-780-5302 ★ COMPLETE DRYWALL ★ By certified tradesman.

Small jobs pref. 604-762-4024 *Drywall * Taping * Texture * Stucco*Painting * Steel stud framing Quality Home 604-725-8925 GOLD STAR DRYWALL Boarding, taping & textures. Also wall and floor tiles. 604-418-8516

8110

Drywall

Floor Refinishing

VICTORIA DRYWALL LTD. 25 yrs exp. Reno’s & New Constr.

Call Bruno ★ 604-313-2763 VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling & textured ceiling repairs. Bonded 604-307-2295 / 778-340-5208

Wayne The Drywaller

Quality Drywall Finishing. Textured Ceilings & Repair. Renov Specialist.

No job too small. 837-1785

8080

Electrical

The current choice serving the Lower Mainland for more than 15 years.

All Kinds of Work and Reasonable Rates.

Contact us today for a free estimate.

Max: 604-341-6059 Licensed & Bonded

8090

Fencing/Gates

THE FENCE GUY

S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING

Factory Direct Cedar Fence Panel for Sale & Installation 8291 No.5 Rd Richmond Call 604-275-3158

ELECTRIC AVE Installations.

Electrian lic# 99207, Res/comm, www.electric-ave.ca 604-215-0562

CEDAR, BAMBOO, chain link, gates, arbour, rubbish removal, landscape, etc. 604-321-2868

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Exp, friendly, reliable. Specializing in replacing old nob & tube wiring. Lic.#50084. 604-725-4535

KB METAL PRODUCTS LTD. FENCE & GATES : CHAIN LINK & ALUMINUM ORNAMENTAL. ✫Free Estimate: 604-619-8434

LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309 Commercial & residential renos & small jobs. 778-322-0934.

West Coast Cedar Installations Custom fencing, decking & more 604-244-8824, Cell: 604-788-6458

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

GARAGE SALE

Excavating

# 1 BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT

one mini, drainage, landscaping, stump / rock / cement / oil tank removal.

Water / sewer line, 24 hours Call 341-4446 or 254-6865

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

Floor Covering

* Level Tile & Flooring * Tile - Hardwood - Carpet - Vinyl

★ Insured ★ B.C.T.Q Tradesmen 1994 Call Dave 604-781-9110

A Lic’d. Electrician #30582. Rewiring & Reno, Appliance/Plumbing. Rotor Rooter & Hydro Pressure Jetting Service, 604-255-9026 - 778-998-9026 Free Estimates / 24 Hr Service

8087

8105

40% OFF ALL OVERSTOCK ITEMS FREE grout on all tile work

604.568.TILE (8453) leveltileandflooring.com

Golden Hardwood & Laminate Prof intall, refinishing, sanding, and repairs. 778-858-7263

8110

Floor Refinishing

604-420-4800

DYNAMIC GUTTERS & Exteriors. Full seamless gutters. Installation repairs & soffits. All jobs guaranteed. Fully insured, bonded, WCB. Will beat any competitors price. 604-439-9417 Professional Powerwash Gutters cleaned & repaired Since 1984, 604-339-0949 Waters Home Maintenance Gutter Cleaning, repairs, windows Free estimate 604-738-6606

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RenoRite 604-781-7695

BATHS * KITCHENS * SUITES & MORE Counter Tops, Custom Cabinets & Refacing • In business 50 years

604-879-9191 Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets #3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby

Refinishing • Installation • New & Old Floors

Free Estimates Ph. 604 293.0057 Cel. 604 657.8931

604-878-5232

ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing.

Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

SINCE 1997

Complete Home Maint./Repairs Certified Trained Pros.

For that small job.

Rates you can afford.

RJR Small Projects Division

INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8120

Glass Mirrors

Commercial/Residential

Refer to the Service Directory for all of your home improvement, decorating and gardening needs.

Handyperson

Save Your Dollars

CELTIC HARDWOOD FLOORS LTD.

Prof. refinish, sanding from $2. installs. Dustless 604-219-6944

Looking to do some

Kitchens/Baths

TRUSTED HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

8150

www.renorite.com

Established 1963

8130

Heating

Lorenzo & Son Plumbing & Heating (604) 312-6311 Local Licensed Plumbers & Gas Fitters

• Sales & Installation of 5’’ Continuous Gutter • Minor Repairs • Cleaning

Dustless sanding and refinishing, custom stains & installations, sales & design. Res/Com. Call for appt 604-722-6350

Lic. 22308

A. LIC. ELECTRICIAN #19807 Semi-retired wants small jobs only.

604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319

8140

Gutters

EDGEMONT GUTTERS

Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: A long (sevenmonth) hot and even “bothered” romantic, creative or pleasure pursuit ended a week ago. Now a much sweeter, affectionate pursuit begins. This is less an expression of your own needs (as the last one was) and more a less selfish, true search for a partner. In business/practical areas, the few weeks ahead help you to negotiate deals, settlements, woo clients. Rest, attend to kids, home, real estate Sunday/Monday. That romantic (creative, et al) thing becomes very obvious Monday to Wednesday!

Tackle chores Thursday/Friday. Give others the road Saturday: intuition soars.

8125

EW45

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Tel: 604-603-9655

Part of RJR group

604-202-6118 HANDY 'D' Home Services, General maintenance, Carpentry, Decks, Fences, Renovations.

Whatever you need!

Call 604-722-5684 HANDYMAN - framing, decks, tiles, hardwood, roof repair. Total additions & basements. Ken 778-773-6251 or 604-455-0740 HOME REPAIRS - No job too small. Carpentry, painting, fencing, drywall, baseboards, lam flooring, deck repairs, p/washing, gutters.

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June 13 - 19

Cancer June 21-July 22: Stay in rest mode one more week. Contemplate your situation, your future, and make plans. You’ll like Sunday/Monday: your energy rises, and others are nicer than usual. Monday begins a month of good money luck – perhaps a balm to heal last winter/spring’s cuts and bruises.

You could take or start a great income action Monday night (after dark). But the time is telling: much of your success this summer might be tough to grab (wrong hours, hints rather than solidities, etc.) – don’t worry, this is just a precursor of a big success in 2011! Be home, dream, Saturday.

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: A sweet, mellow month for you. It grows even more mellow now. Love could wander in, or you could start having marriage thoughts about someone you’re seeing. (Let’s face it, you’re always “considering” marriage.) This summer is just a taste, for most of you, as your true mate stands hidden. Your social life grows more gentle, gracious; you’ll be popular, especially with “identicals,” rather than those who are different (as last winter/spring).

Be ambitious Sunday/Monday. Best path: socializing, networking. A great friend could appear Monday/ Tuesday, Saturday – maybe a future partner.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Last month you moved from an autumn/winter of deep mysteries (and deep desires) to more open, affectionate dealings with others. Now, those mysteries, deep desires, intimacies and finances of your life arise again, to July 9, but in a sweet, lucky way (especially Monday night). Dig deep, and share, enjoy this time, grow closer to others/another. A legal, intellectual, travel or cultural matter still weighs on you, but you will soon grow more assertive here, demand or initiate action.

This should bring a two-year burden to an end by late July. But start no lawsuits! Work hard all week.

Taurus April 20-May 20: Your domestic scene, into which someone sprinkled pepper since last October, now (to mid-July) seems sprinkled with sugar and sweet words. You could notice this immediately, Sunday to Wednesday. (Though by Wednesday the old domestic or inner doubts might return – don’t worry, these doubts will fade forever, by 2011.) Monday’s a hugely favourable day to communicate, to talk about love (and vacation or travel or relatives visiting). Late night, begin a family, gardening, real estate or similar project. Chase money all week, but pause for a wee bit of pleasure, beauty, Thursday/Friday.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Winter/spring’s scowl yields to smiles and charm, now to mid-July. You feel sweeter –make sure someone knows it. It’s quite possible you’ve unknowingly alienated someone – or outright declared war. Well, you’re a warrior no more.

Sue for peace, while the suing is good. Lie low, rest, look within Sunday/Monday. Bright insights come.

Your energy surges late this night to Wednesday.

Monday night, especially, is great for talk, love, wooing, writing, meeting someone. Chase money Thursday/Friday. It’s not that you’ll see immediate rewards, but your efforts build “future cred.” Friends, Saturday.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Your social side will grow over the next two months. But you’ll become a “social warrior,” either associating with rougher types (or simply with colleagues, co-workers) or being a bit more assertive, demanding – “Let me in that door!” Money luck will somehow be connected to this (security luck too, perhaps). Sunday/Monday are mellow, easy. Be ambitious Monday night to Thursday, especially Monday night, when you can launch or reel in a plum job. All month, mysteries, investigations highlighted – detect, don’t let someone elude you!

Sex, finances important also – go slow here.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Your romantic and social scenes are surging! So is your tendency to become a chatterbox when you see someone you want – talk is how you play the game of love. You could meet someone who would make a viable mate, now to early July, especially early this week. Relations with everyone improve, as a sweet, affectionate note enters. Tackle chores Sunday/Monday – but don’t start new work-like projects Sunday daytime.

Thursday/Friday are sexy, filled with mystery, but throw some irksome situations at you. See the reality these days – don’t invest. Saturday, dreamy love!

Gemini May 21-June 20: Your energy, charisma and effectiveness remain high. Start important projects, get your way, see and be seen – tackle things that formerly intimidated you. For seven months, communications have been hopeful, friendly — and angry, simmering with hostility. Now to mid-July, a turnaround: others speak or write to you graciously and affectionately. You get (got) what you put out.

If you need to “make up,” do it late Monday night.

Money (or friendship) news is good Monday daytime.

Love is magic Saturday. Bravely face a financial, sexual or lifestyle “reality” all week – conquer it.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Male or female, you’ll project your rougher, more determined, assertive side through late July. Your interest in sexual intimacy and financial dealing will rise strongly. At the same time, you’re unusually conservative, careful and even socially hesitant. The combination could be a good one. However, for the four weeks ahead you might lack the graciousness or charm that can lubricate (unfortunate word) sexual or financial situations. (So plan your important meetings for July 10 onward, when all factors work for you. Sunday/Monday are optimistic, friendly! Be ambitious Thursday/Friday.

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: The accent is on relationships in every form – and on horizons, opportunities, relocation. You’re starting to feel more romantic, and a new sweetness enters your mental sphere, where before there was impatience and assertiveness. (One example: you might have been fighting a lawsuit – the mental – but now you settle or make overtures.) Mysteries, sexual urges, finances, inheritance featured Sunday/Monday. Monday also might bring a friendly meeting that could turn to “instant love.” No, don’t be cautious! Wisdom mid-week. Be ambitious Thursday/Friday. Dreamy happiness Saturday.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: The accent lies on home, food, kids, rest – it’s your hibernation period, for one more week. Relationships intensify now through July – you could create a financial partnership, enjoy a spicy, casual, sensual affair (it won’t last long) or make an enemy – or fall madly and angrily in love. Give the last a wide, wide berth. Co-workers become affectionate, work will be pleasant to early July. Romance might enter the workplace Sunday to Wednesday. Seek pleasure, beauty, love Sunday/ Monday. (Sunday daytime isn’t “wise.”) Relationships need patience Thursday/Friday. Secrets Saturday. timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010

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Landscaping

8160

Lawn & Garden

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Spring Ser vices !

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Able Boys Landscaping Ltd. bobcat/lawn/cedar fence/paving stones, trim trees. 604-377-3107 Full Circle Gardening. Gardening, landscape, fruit trees pruning, soil, manure, home clean-ups, power washing, 778-839-3256

8160

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Moving & Storage

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B&Y MOVING

8175

Masonry

Cabana Masonry Ltd.

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

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Top Quality Masonry Work

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Call 604-782-9511 VAN EXPRESS MOVING Smooth & Efficient Movers.

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604-618-9741

iGarden Mowing, Full garden maintenance & landscape services. Power raking, aerating, fertilizing, gutter cleaning. 1st two cuts for the price of 1.

Free Est. 778-991-5296

Home Services

T. TRAN-604-723-2468 , pruning, lawn cuts, power raking, aerate, cleanup, re-seed, weeding, new soil top.. Reliable.

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8193

Oil Tank Removal

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8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

ARBUTUS PAINTING

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RONALDO PAINTING

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QUALITY WORK

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8205

Paving/Seal Coating

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Power Washing

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• • • •

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Renovations & Home Improvement

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Winner of Gold & Silver Georgie Awards

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Renovations

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604 729-3864 778 928-9839

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

604-728-8042

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8220

20 Yrs. in Business!

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TOP PAINTING Res & Comm.

Reasonable rates • Free Estimate Top Quality! Joe 604-782-1377

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FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

Renovations & Home Improvement

Fully Insured 20 years experience Call 604Free Estimates

Interior/Exterior Specialist

604-724-3832

8240

FAIRWAY PAINTING

D&M PAINTING

Oil Tank Removal

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

Painting/ Wallpaper

8195

604

EW46

BBB • WCB • Fully Insured

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

Reno.&Crews – Not Subs Sundecks Deck Coatings •• Kitchen Upgrades Kitchen & Bathroom Renos Deck Coatings •• Sundecks Window &Replacements •• Window ProfessionalReplacements Reno Crews (222-8453) 22-BUILD 604-222-8453

Showroom 1230 West 75th Ave

Since 1978

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Reno /Construction

• • • • •

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AaronR CONST Repairs & Renos, general contracting.

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BDC RENOVATIONS ★ Decks ★ Stairs ★ Basement Suites ★ Kitchens ★ Bathrooms Insured & Wcb Exc Ref’s Est 10 Yrs

778-889-3729

CEDARWORKS

SUNDECKS FENCES • STAIRS

30 years exp.

731-7709

TOTAL BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Father & Sons 35 years exp

Remodelling, Plumbing, Tiling, Fixtures, etc.

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

HOME SERVICES 8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

FATHER AND SON CO.

604-880-9557 Don’t sell your home for less!

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Freshen up with remodelling, updates, flooring painting, decking, fences, kitchens & bathrooms. Work guaranteed.

Qualified trades people.

West Side Home Improvements

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

Small jobs welcome Rob 778-861- 4224 Thanks

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

A1 CONTRACTING. Bsmt, bath, kitchen cabinets, tiling, painting & decks. Dhillon, 604-782-1936 ACE OF TRADES: Complete Renovations Plumbing, Electrical Master Carpenter, Painting Wallpapering Kitchen/Bathroom designer & installer. floors Ceramic Tiles Drywall, 25 yrs. exp. $30/hr Mark Local Cell: 778-889-9918 B YOUNG ELECTRICAL Services & Home Renovations Call Brent 778 848-9481

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

Budget Home Reno’s Bathroom Renovations Tile Installation Laminate Floors Drywall Carpentry $60/hr, licensed

778-886-4254

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Specialized in Reno’s:

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Call Prem 604 761-1743

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Roofing

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❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏

8250

Landscape Concrete Kitchen/ Bath.Frank 604.809.1488 Free Est

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Int/ext. large or small, BBB Member. Free est. Chris 604-313-4830 RAINBOW RENOS, 26 yrs exp.

We do it all - basements, kitchens, baths, additions 778-885-0771 SEMI RETIRED specializing in stairs, decks, fences & small renovations. 604-737-2095 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

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Collectibles & Classics

1972 TR6 restored, new clutch, brakes, top, excellent condition. $18,500. 604-728-8042

9125

Domestic

9130

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

2001 KAWASAKI ZRX 1200R Put the sport back into Sport Touring with this amazing bike.

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 $3000.00 OBO 604-250-9110

9145

Scrap Car Removal

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Re-Roofing Specialist!

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Family Owned & Operated

(604) 209-2026

THE SCRAPPER 2H

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www.driving.ca

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

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HOME SERVICES 8255

Rubbish Removal

Student Disposal Services & Recycling

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

8255

Rubbish Removal

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8255

Rubbish Removal

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

8300

Stucco

ELPIS STUCCO and repairs. 45 years exp.

604-771-0911 J. PEARCE STUCCO CONTRACTING. Residential / Commercial. 604-761-6079 Quality Home Improvement ★ Stucco ★ All Kinds. No Job Too Big or Small.

604-725-8925

8305

Sun Decks

CHEAP JUNK Removal Starting at $49.99. Large 20 cubic yard trucks. 778-882-5865

782-2474

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

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9145

Scrap Car Removal

Reasonable rates - Free Est. Pat 604-224-2112, anytime

9155

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

Sea Island Renovations

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8315

Tree Services

Treeworks 15 yrs exp. Tree/ Stump Removal, Prun’in & Trim’in & View Work 291-7778, 787-5915 www.treeworksonline.ca Wildwood Tree Services, Exp Hedge Trimming and Removal & Tree Pruning. Free Est. 604-893-5745

Window Cleaning

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DISPOSAL BINS 10 - 40 yards.

Any size is $199 + dump fees. disposalking.com 604-889-2085

Free Est’s • Large or Small Jobs

Tiling

Edgemont Building Maintenance • Power Washing

604-537-8523

604-RUBBISH

8309

** MANNERIA STONE & TILE Total Bath & kitchen remodelling.

Stone inlays. Stephen 604-888-1285

8335

604-420-4800

8309

Established 1963

Tiling

AAA RUBBISH REMOVAL Const/ Reno Debris. We Remove Almost Anything! 778-320-2525

9160

Sports & Imports

A-WES SIGNATURE WORK Ceramic, Stone Installation & Design. 604-317-8962

9160

Sports & Imports

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Trailers/Tents/ Campers

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200 2002 LANDROVER Freelander, V6 engine, 5 spd, automatic transmission. $9400. Must sell.

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Pays $150 minimum for Full-Size Complete Vehicles. Free Removal!

2-Hr. Service in Most Areas

9155

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

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Call: 778-896-4858

SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL 2000 FORD TAURUS SE SILVER ALL OPTIONS LEATHER PREMIUM SOUND EXCELLENT CONDITION $4995 CALL. 604-551-0040

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No Wheels No Problem

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Call 778-316-3217

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Roofing

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AUTOMOTIVE 9110

8250

Reroofing & Repair

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LEXUS RX330 2005 Navy Blue.

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9160

Sports & Imports

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On the “low” end, there’s the base Carrera, all-wheel-drive Carrera 4, and the glass-topped Targa 4, available in coupe and cabriolet body styles, and performance-tuned “S” versions. Then there are the top dogs.

The GT3 RS is the model for a trackready sports car, and the slightly-relaxed GT3 brings that performance to the road. Then there’s the GT2 RS, boasting a ridiculous 620-hp and a 0100km/h time of 3.5 seconds.

But none of them can really compare to the 911 Turbo, an iconic car for generations. As the name implies, the most beloved of 911s comes with twin turbochargers bolted to its flatsix engine, leaving it second only to the GT2 RS in terms of raw horsepower. The Turbo is everything you could want in a pure sports car, requiring a firm hand to keep it planted, and rewarding that control with breathtaking performance. The steering wheel feels like a direct extension of your arm, and the brakes let you know exactly how much stopping power is necessary. Unbelievable grip makes the Turbo virtually untouchable on the track, while a controlled and supple suspension enables it to serve as a surprisingly comfortable everyday car.

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The Turbo has an untouchable combination of talent, charisma, and reputation that no other car has ever attained or, more importantly, maintained. Porsche understands that the 911’s intangibles are just as important as its specifications and astonishing performance. That’s what separates it from everything else on the road, whether you’re driving the Turbo or a base Carrera.

Of course, if you’re a true Porsche aficionado you already know all this; and if so, there’s not a lot more that I can tell you. So do yourself a favour and take a trip to Stuttgart, Germany, where you can check out the Porsche Museum at Porsche Headquarters.

Originally built in 1976, the museum reopened in 2009 after a major expansion, and now features 80 vehicles and numerous small exhibits, including famous cars from throughout Porsche’s history. If you can’t afford a Porsche of your own—and most of us can’t—a visit to the Porsche Museum might just be the next best thing. Even better, visit the Porsche factory tour, which provides close-up view of the most fascinating factory in the world.

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It’s not the “whale tale” of the past, but the Turbo’s ever-present spoiler (which automatically extends and retracts depending on speed) is the key styling feature that sets it apart from lower-end 911s, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Still, the car maintains a seemingly calm and relaxed demeanour that separates it from the racetrack-oriented GT3, GT3 RS, and GT2 RS variants.

If elegant interiors are your game, you’re better served by a MercedesBenz. In contrast, the Turbo’s simple and straightforward interior is all business, and that’s just what Porsche owners want.

While design and build quality have improved over the years, the 911 retains the raw, customized feel of a hand-built car.

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With a rear-mounted engine and all-wheel drive, it feels like there’s a jet engine propelling the 911 Turbo.

Even though it’s been water-cooled since the introduction of the last model, it still sounds like the classic air-cooled engines that made the 911 famous.

The six-speed manual gearbox is solid and precise, rewarding purposeful shifts with instant power. However, the latest technology comes in the form of the seven-speed, dualclutch Doppelkupplung transmission, which replaces the outgoing TipTronic automatic that paved the way for paddle shifters.

Handling is about as close to perfect as it gets; steering is neutral and tracks straight, and the feedback from the road is exceptional. You can tell exactly when the rear wheels are about to lose their grip on the road, making it easy to push the car right to the edge.

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Environment—The 911 Turbo’s seats are fantastic; the side bolsters grab you and hold you in place, and a tilt-and-telescope steering column enables anyone to find a good driving position.

You still get the tiny rear seats so it’d be far more useful to convert the rear into dedicated storage space.

Ergonomics are better than the previous car, but the controls are low on the dashboard, hiding at the bottom of the cliff-like centre console. It takes time to figure out where they are by touch, which will leave most drivers looking away from the road, and there are no buttons mounted on the steering wheel other than the optional paddle shifters.

Interior storage includes a decent glovebox, door-mounted storage bins, a bin in the centre console, and a shelf behind the rear seats. The cargo space under the front hood is tall but not very big.

Features—The Turbo starts at $165,300, while the cabriolet version pushes the price to $178,400. Both are available in either the base or S trims.

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With the Doppelkupplung transmission, fuel efficiency is rated at 17.0L/100km in the city and 8.1L/100km on the highway.

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Mayor, housing minister build tight bond Mike Howell Staff writer

When Vision Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson ran for mayor in 2008, his NPA opponents predicted a sour relationship with the provincial government.

After all, they asked, how can the former NDP MLA for Vancouver-Fairview get along with the ruling provincial Liberals?

Robertson has reached the halfway point in his threeyear term. And judging by the positive comments he’s received in recent weeks from Premier Gordon Campbell and Housing Minister Rich Coleman, the relationship appears more sweet than sour.

At a press conference two weeks ago to announce $225 million to build eight social housing buildings in the city, Campbell referred to Robertson as “one of our lead partners as we deal with the challenge of homelessness across the province.”

Coleman, who has complimented the mayor several times at similar announcements for his commitment to ending homelessness, let the crowd know how deep the relationship runs between the two politicians.

“He and I have had many discussions about homelessness, mental health and addictions over the last yearand-a-half as we’ve tried to come up with solutions in this city,” Coleman said.

So what’s the mayor’s secret? Apparently, there isn’t one.

“It’s pretty straightfor-

Housing Minister Rich Coleman (l) and Mayor Gregor Robertson photo Dan Toulgoet have targeted shelters and social housing. ward,” Robertson told the Courier this week. “We just focus on getting things done and avoiding the rhetoric and ensuring the commitments are followed through.”

Since Robertson and his Vision council took office in December 2008, the mayor and Coleman worked to open temporary homeless shelters and secure funding for the construction of 14 social housing buildings in the city.

The previous NPA-dominated council led by thenmayor Sam Sullivan identified 12 of those sites. And in doing so, was duly recognized by Coleman for providing the land.

But Robertson is quick to point out the government failed to give construction money to build the sites until he and his council moved into city hall.

“None of the funding was

committed last term so my focus was on eliminating all possible barriers at the city that were slowing the deals down,” he said. “City staff has really responded and ensured that the city side of the deal was done and we’re ready for these projects to start.”

Added Robertson: “The economic circumstances made all of this more challenging for the partners, so building trust and confidence in each other was important and I’m not sure that was there last term to land the funding commitment.”

Former NPA councillor Peter Ladner, who challenged Robertson for the mayor’s seat in the 2008 campaign, was one of the politicians predicting an uneasy relationship for Robertson with the provincial Liberals.

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Continued from page 12 So what’s he think now?

“Well, I guess he discovered what side his bread is buttered on when it comes to solving the housing crisis,” Ladner said.

Ladner pointed to Robertson’s chief of staff Mike Magee, Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs and city manager Penny Ballem, whom Vision hired during its first week in power, as key people to the mayor’s success.

“I think he’s doing a pretty good job,” he said. “I think he’s done very well in having strong people in behind him and being a very appealing face out front.

I don’t know how much of the work being done is his doing but it probably doesn’t matter.”

Suzanne Anton, the NPA’s lone councillor, agreed with Ladner that the mayor’s relationship with the provincial government appears to be working to the city’s benefit.

But, she said, Coleman is the key in the relationship.

“The housing agenda is bigger than whoever is the

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The first of 14 social housing sites will be completed by 2011 at 1005 Station St. photo Dan Toulgoet mayor and Rich Coleman has been a fantastic housing minister,” she said. “He has really been outstanding.”

Robertson acknowledged his relationship with Coleman has been tested, particularly over his request to have the provincial government continue funding three shelters until interim housing is built.

The back-and-forth over whether the city would grant the provincial government a demolition permit to begin redevelopment of the Little Mountain public

housing complex was another battle. “It hasn’t been easy at times but we’ve both been committed to the end solution,” Robertson said.

“If there’s some bumps and bruises along the way, then so be it. That’s part of politics.”

So what’s he think now of the NPA’s predictions in 2008 that his relationship would falter with the provincial Liberals?

“They’re laughable at this point. The proof is in the pudding.” mhowell@vancourier.com

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A: Instead of attaching a full wood deck, install wooden duck boards over top of the deck surface.

You can make your own or you can purchase them at Sunbury Cedar or Windsor Plywood Stores.

To make your own duck boards, you’ll need 24-inch, 1x2 cedar strips and galvanized 1-1/4” box nails. Make the 24” x 24” squares by nailing the strips to four pieces of 1x2’s running in the opposite direction (those will be the “runners” for the bottom side). Leave a nail thickness between the boards. Set the squares on your deck in opposite directions to give your deck a parquet design. Water will run freely between

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shellbusey the 1 x 2 bottom runners to the drains and away, leaving a dry surface to walk on.

There are a number of recycled plastic grids available on the market today for the same purpose. Check your local building supply store for availability.

Q: Our deck is covered with a 15-year-old vinyl decking membrane and there are areas where the textured finish has worn off and discoloured. What finish can we use to spruce it up that

A: The best thing and really the only thing to apply over top of a vinyl deck surface like yours is a product called Ducan Vinyl Re-Fresh. To begin, wash your deck well a cleaning formula and rinse with clean water. When the deck is dry, apply two coats of Vinyl Re-Fresh.

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The comptroller general’s scathing report on the Vancouver School Board criticizes trustees for wasting time on advocacy at the expense of financial management. Trustees like board chair Patti Bacchus say both responsibilities carry equal weight.

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Bacchus stands firm on advocacy role Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

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n a cool afternoon in early March, school board chair Patti Bacchus stood alongside dozens of teachers and parents in front of Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid’s West Broadway office. Bacchus carried a sign stating “Support Our Schools” at the rally staged by the Vancouver elementary and secondary teachers’ associations.

It was timed to precede the March 2 provincial budget announcement and activists were calling for more education funding from the B.C. Liberals.

It was one of several protests the Vision Vancouver trustee appeared at this year as the board ramped up an advocacy campaign aimed at increasing funding to stave off program cuts and staff layoffs.

Vision Vancouver and COPE trustees have become outspoken critics of the provincial government, complaining about chronic underfunding of the education system and downloading of costs.

Since the board was elected, it’s fired off letters to the Ministry of Education asking for meetings and highlighting the district’s financial concerns, it’s reinstated its advocacy committee and it’s launched a trustee advocacy page on the VSB website.

Whether trustees have managed to take on such activities while living up to their fiduciary duties is in question, according to special adviser Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland, the Comptroller General, whose highly critical—and controversial—report on the board’s financial performance was released by the education minis-

School board chair Patti Bacchus, surrounded by fellow Vision Vancouver and COPE trustees, argues advocacy is photo Dan Toulgoet as important as a trustee’s fiduciary duty in running the business of the district. ter last week.

“The Board of trustees does not take a balanced approach to its accountabilities, focusing on advocacy at the expense of stewardship,” Wenezenki-Yolland wrote. “The majority of the Vancouver School Board trustees see their role relative to the Ministry of Education as one primarily related to advocacy, rather than as ‘co-governors’ of the education system. The effect of this extensive advocacy activity deflects the accountability of the trustees from the overall financial stewardship of the Vancouver School Board.”

Bacchus insists the board’s advocacy work doesn’t detract from financial responsibilities, pointing out it’s always submitted a balanced

budget, and she calls herself “proudly political.”

“This report implies we should be quiet and go in and cut programs.

But really what they describe is the role of a bureaucrat—you’re given a budget, you’re told to go and do the work and keep quiet about it,” she said earlier this week. “I campaigned on a platform of being a tireless advocate standing up for public education... We think that is an important role [but] we do attend to the business of the district.”

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he VSB is composed of four Vision Vancouver trustees—Patti Bacchus, Ken Clement, Sharon Gregson and Mike Lombardi, three COPE trustees—Al Blakey, Jane Bouey and

Allan Wong, and two NPA trustees— Ken Denike and Carol Gibson.

Bacchus, a mother of two schoolaged children and stepmother to an adult daughter, ran for a trustee seat in 2008 after years of involvement in school and district parent advisory councils. She’s unapologetically political and is defiant in the face of such criticism.

Bacchus maintains she spends untold hours each week managing the district’s business for her $26,000 annual pay, and only a portion of that time is devoted to advocacy, some of which is related to promoting the district—an activity the special adviser encourages.

“I don’t think I’ve missed a committee meeting, a board meeting. All

of our finances are well looked after. You’d think from [Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland’s] comments that we weren’t balancing our budget. And our schools are among the top performing in the province; our graduation rates are probably as strong as they’ve ever been. We have great programs going on, we’re innovative, we’re leaders. So tell me where the bad management is and what we’re neglecting?” she says.

Bacchus refuses to limit her advocacy work, arguing that would break campaign promises, and she insists the board takes its financial duties seriously. “Why would we have all those budget meetings and listen to people if we didn’t care about our budget responsibilities?” she says.

Bacchus maintains advocacy is key because the district hasn’t faced this level of reductions before. “I’ve talked to staff people who’ve been in the district over 30 years and they’ve said they’ve never seen this kind of cutting—that we’re now cutting things they can’t believe are being cut. We’ve seen it year after year. It’s already been $50 million. It’s at that critical point—we’re now at the point of dismantling the school system, of taking away things that people just assumed would never be taken away.”

Julianne Doctor, chair of the District Parent Advisory Council, agrees advocacy is important. “Trustees were criticized for advocating for education and proper funding of education—that is their responsibility and they would not be fulfilling their role if they were not advocating for proper funding,” she says.

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Continued from page 4 But in her report, Wenezenki-Yolland criticizes the district’s standing committee structure, suggesting it slows down decision-making.

She said trustees follow a consensus approach, which Bacchus denies, that increases the time it takes to make decisions and dilutes accountability. She added the level of consultation undertaken by the board is far more extensive than would be expected.

Between January 2009 through April 2010, staff costs for attending and preparing for board and committee meeting are estimated at between $800,000 and $1 million, with some staff attending as many as 103 meetings, a commitment of up to 206 hours.

Wenezenki-Yolland noted the advocacy committee, a sub-committee of the management and coordinating committee, requires $17,000 in staff time to prepare for and attend committee meetings, but she was unable to estimate the additional staff time spent on advocacy.

“In addition to providing staff support to the advocacy committee, the VSB communications department spends an increasing amount of its time on advocacy work, at the expense of other communications work of the school district,” Wenezenki-Yolland wrote, questioning the appropriateness of using district resources to fund advocacy work. “While elected officials are free to choose to engage in political activity using their own resources or the resources of the political party they represent, the use of organizational resources for

political purposes is generally considered to be inappropriate in public sector organizations regardless of the level of government.”

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he majority of trustees support Bacchus’s position, but not all agree on what their role is or whether they’ve struck the right balance between advocacy and fiscal responsibility. The NPA’s Denike and Gibson maintain their political counterparts have treated advocacy as their primary job.

Denike argues it’s damaged the district and become counterproductive.

“By pushing the advocacy they create a really negative view on what the district looks like and they basically help encourage private schools,” he says, noting trustees’ efforts were in vain since the provincial government refuses to give the VSB more money to offset its projected $17 million budget shortfall for the 2010/11 school year.

“There’s no additional funds and [the board] seems to be working on somebody else’s agenda. It’s pretty clear it’s a combination of the NDP and the BCTF…The report is flawed in a lot of regards but there are some home truths there—one of them is the advocacy and quite frankly if it’s not been successful then the funds put into it are questionable.”

The long-time trustee agrees there’s a place for advocacy, pointing out he was successful in past years lobbying the federal government for funding for settlement workers in schools, and lobbying the provincial government to ensure

NPA trustee Ken Denike says the current board’s adversarial role with Victoria has eroded confidence in public photo Dan Toulgoet education. those funds were filtered to schools, but Denike argues the board under Bacchus has adopted the wrong tactics. He favours a less adversarial approach and one that doesn’t erode confi-

dence in the public education system.

Denike has appeared at some education rallies as an observer. “You should be there to see what’s happening and read the public. I’m not sure you should be there as part of it,” he says.

Gibson says because Vision and COPE trustees landed a majority of seats, they assume they represent the majority of Vancouverites and that the majority “elected them to be partisan special interest trustees who would vigorously advocate for their special interests.”

“Repeatedly the justification for advocacy is ‘I was elected to advocate’ as if that is all there is to being an elected member of a school board. Given the low voter turnout and the proportion of the population who actually voted for school board candidates, there is a significant amount of hubris in the assumption that the majority candidates actually represent the citizens of Vancouver,” she says.

Gibson says she ran for office under the NPA because it doesn’t require candidates to take partisan or special interest positions.

“There is no expectation that I will use public resources or the authority of the board to enact a special interest group agenda. The primary expectation is that I will use my knowledge and experience to serve public education in Vancouver and in B.C. This does not mean advocacy is out of the question. What it does mean is that advocacy must be balanced with governance and stewardship,” she says.

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Profs note board is democratic Continued from page 5 Gibson argues that balance doesn’t exist in Vancouver.

“We have advocacy on steroids,” she says. “Management has borne the weight of responsibility related to governance and stewardship with minimal support and occasional organized resistance from the majority on the board.

“Through explicit decisions, the majority on the board has undermined trust and made it impossible to take actions that would assist the Vancouver Board of Education to reduce the budget shortfall.”

Gibson cites one case in which an external consultant was hired for $2,100 to verify a management report recommending the district continue to use contractors to clean carpets. “This decision to continue to contract out carpet cleaning did not require a consultant report. The data were accurate; the report from management was unassailable. Knowing they faced a multi-million dollar shortfall, the majority of the board wasted $2,100 to have a consultant tell them the report from management was accurate.”

(Bacchus counters that the board wants to improve labour relations to cut down on high grievance and arbitration costs. She says the union was challenging management figures and $2,100 was a small price to pay to deal with the dispute) Gibson also criticizes recent changes to the school closure policy, which lengthens the notification and consultation process and makes it difficult for the board to close under-enrolled schools in a timely manner to address pressing budget shortfalls.

“The minister and the Comptroller General have reason to be concerned that the majority on the board is not governing, and in fact, making decisions and enacting policy barriers solely to bolster their claims that the district is in a financial crisis that requires more fund-

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rofessor E. Wayne Ross from UBC’s Faculty of Education, won’t comment on the board’s financial performance, but says trustees are within their rights to advocate for public education. “…What they’re arguing is a justifiable position, particularly in the face of a government that has dealt with public education in much the same way they’ve dealt with other public interests like B.C. Rail and B.C. Ferries, which is to treat, as the first principle, market issues and fiscal issues and, as a secondary issue, think about the common good that is produced by that particular public entity and how government should sustain it,” he says.

Ross cites a proposal being considered by the board to severely hike up rental rates for services such as after-school programs, which would put many out of business and create a childcare crisis for parents. Some trustees have indicated that while they realize the board is subsidizing rates, it serves a greater community good and it doesn’t make sense to make it impossible for after school programs to run.

“I don’t think it’s irresponsible for the school board to make these kinds of principled stands advocating service levels for students,” Ross says. “The issue comes down to do we want a school board that would roll over and make cuts that are

going to be detrimental to the education of children in the district, to the families in the district, via things like potential cuts to after school programs through removing subsidies? Would we want them to do that without putting up a battle? I would say no.”

Paul Shaker, an SFU education professor emeritus and host of a TV program called Your Education Matters, agrees.

“The voters of Vancouver have elected this board. This is democracy. At the next election if the voters believe that these board members are behaving out of line they’ll elect other people, but I think the voters knew what they were getting when they elected the board,” he says. “If not the school trustees, who should advocate for our children? Are we going to leave it to non-profit organizations?...[Trustees] should be the preeminent advocates.”

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n a stuffy classroom at Sir Charles Tupper secondary Wednesday night, it’s clear Bacchus, Blakey, Wong, Bouey and Lombardi have no intention of curbing advocacy efforts. The five trustees were guests at an emergency meeting organized by Vancouver Parents for Public Education to talk about the special adviser’s report. Joining the roomful of parents were teacher union reps, former trustees Eleanor Gregory and Noel Herron, and NDP MLA Shane Simpson.

Bacchus rebutted many of the claims in the report to a friendly audience that expressed fears about the fate of public education—some predicted the demise of elected school boards, others congratulated trustees for their public support of the institution while under attack for their advocacy work.

Bacchus acknowledged the last week was a struggle and the board was hit hard, but she promised to continue fighting for public education.

“The assessment is done at the ballot box. That’s democracy,” she said. noconnor@vancourier.com

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Council voted Tuesday afternoon to allow residents to keep four hens, at least four months old, in their backyards, as long as they adhere to the new bylaw. Before you get too excited, other poultry such roosters, ducks, turkeys and pheasants are banned. The city also plans to build a $20,000 shelter for homeless chickens found wandering the streets.

The winner of the poetry contest will be awarded a copy of Raising Chickens for Dummies, for the best poultry rhymes. I’ll announce the winner June 25.

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Vision Vancouver commissioner Constance Barnes is downsizing from a 3,200-square-foot home to a 600-square-foot suite and that can only mean one thing—a heck of a garage sale.

As much as Barnes is reluctant to let go of decades worth of family possessions, she says the money will help out a good cause.

I know the Breakfast Program at Strathcona Community School is an initiative Barnes has taken an active interest in since becoming a park board commissioner, so it makes sense she’ll donate all proceeds to that cause. The program feeds up to 200 kids a day, but like all other community centres, Strathcona has faced recent budget cuts. Food programs don’t fall under the park board’s mandate, a separation of responsibility Barnes doesn’t necessarily agree with.

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Vision Vancouver commissioner Constance Barnes is downsizing to a small apartment and having a yard sale, the proceeds of which she’ll donate to a breakfast program for kids in Strathcona. photo Dan Toulgoet new digs. Barnes is selling almost everything she owns, including toys, antiques, books, African artifacts and jewelry.

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The Save the Bloedel Conservatory group wants to remind anyone interested that the park board’s budget committee meets June 15 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the expressions of interest it’s received regarding the future of the iconic dome, which is at risk of being closed due to budget cuts. The Friends of Bloedel submitted its own expression of interest in partnership with the VanDusen Botanical Garden Association, and the proposal is being considered along with submissions from three other private companies.

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Before I get to the comptroller general’s seriously flawed report on the Vancouver School Board, let’s put this dispute between the B.C. government and Vancouver’s school trustees into a bit of context.

For the past few decades there has been a steady erosion of the autonomy of school boards. In the ’80s, the province removed their power to raise revenues through property tax. Now Victoria gets all the dough and distributes it as they see fit.

The provincial government subsequently took away the board’s authority to collectively bargain with their own teachers; they set up a provincewide model. And then Victoria started dictating class size.

All of these measures gave boards far less control over their bottom lines.

To make matters worse, the province has been down-loading costs to school boards leaving them with few choices except to cut programs and jobs or close schools.

Here is my favourite example: School boards are required to pay for their carbon footprint by buying carbon offsets. Long live Gordo the Green!

To determine the amount of the carbon offset boards have to pay, they are required to use a specific piece of software they have to pay the province for the right to use.

But that’s not the whole story. Until recently, school boards received provincial funds that allowed them to upgrade schools in a way that would shrink their carbon footprint and therefore reduce the cost of carbon offsets. The province cancelled that grant this year, although it’s been restored for next year, up to March.

allengarr So, here is where we are today. School boards that were once a relatively autonomous authority have, over time, been reduced, in Victoria’s own words, to a role of “co-governance.”

Take that to mean school boards are expected to just shut up and follow orders. School board chair Patti Bacchus is not a woman who keeps her mouth shut, hence the invasion of the bean counters.

But here’s one more point before we get to that report. While all these changes have been taking place diminishing the authority of school boards, one thing hasn’t changed. School boards remain elected bodies. They are not appointed.

This is an important distinction. But it’s one that seems to have escaped the minister of education and B.C.’s Comptroller General Cheryl WenezenkiYolland who, along with her troops, landed on the shores of our school board to, um, lend them a

hand with their financial problems.

Even the NPA’s veteran school board trustee Ken Denike willingly observes that sending in a bean counter to do the work was just plain wrong. “She treated us,” he said, “as if we were the board of a Crown corporation.” That is to say a board that was handpicked by government to obediently do a job, not a group of elected officials to advocate on behalf of citizens.

Beyond that, two points may cause you to pause.

Wenezenki-Yolland makes it clear in her report: “Specifically excluded from our scope of work was the structure of provincial funding model for education.” In other words, she would not point fingers at the ministry or minister who sent her on this mission for any of the difficulties now being faced by the VSB. How convenient.

And, finally, the other point, one which gives you a sense of the fundamental flaw in this report.

It’s certainly the point that many commentators, including the minister, seized on as proof the VSB was screwing up.

Wenezenki-Yolland says “the board of trustees does not take a balanced approach to its accountabilities, focusing on advocacy to the expense of stewardship.”

Now I ask you, seriously, how does a bean counter measure that “balanced approach”? Who sets the standard? Does Wenezenki-Yolland even know what she’s talking about?

Besides, did this board not get elected to advocate for their constituents? Is that not the primary duty of every elected official? agarr@vancourier.com

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Sky-high housing prices help realize sci-fi scene It’s been rumoured that Vancouver supplied the inspiration for the rain-swept, futuristic city in the 1982 film Blade Runner. Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick actually spent time living here, after giving a 1972 talk at a Vancouver science fiction convention and checking into a local rehab.

However, the film was based on Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was first published in 1968, well before the author escaped Orange County for Lotusland. Another beautiful urban legend slain by an ugly fact.

Still, it’s interesting to revisit the joint vision of Dick and director Ridley Scott, about a futuristic West Coast city where it’s always raining and whites are the visible minority. Dick lived just long enough to see the set designs and trailer for Blade Runner, and his observations on the film version of his book were recorded in the book What If Our World is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick.

“The city is up in the air. And all the people on the outside, sort of the losers, are walking around on the street level. And all the beautiful people are up forty stories. And when you get up forty stories it’s like getting through Dante’s Divine Comedy, going up through hell to purgatory to heaven. And they are just living great, I mean, they are doing fine up there…. and it becomes very, very glamourous.” The author’s words almost read like advertising copy for a local high-rise condo development, pitching sky-high lifestyles for those who can afford it. A guy who tinkered with simulated worlds, Dick probably would have been intrigued with today’s slick ads for vertical living, which invariably feature attractive young couples having sunlit fun in their swank pods, far above the gritty reality of the street.

Vancouver’s pods are on a sliding scale of size, style and cost, although the concept of affordable housing becomes a bit sci-fi when the minimum income bracket is $60,000 a year for one ballyhooed Vancouver development. I suppose this redefinition of “affordable” for the Millennium Water is part of the “Olympic legacy” our civic leaders and real estate marketers having been crowing about.

Let’s not forget The Games were bookended by two touchstone events: the Olympic Village’s coming out party in midMay as the Millennium Water, and the December 2009 demolition of the Little Mountain housing complex, the oldest public housing development in B.C. The former occupants might as well have been replicants, hunted

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geoffolson down by civic officials rather than Harrison Ford.

Blade Runner’s vision of a high-rise dystopia came out during the first term of U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who along with Margaret Thatcher and Brian Mulroney, launched the Anglo-American campaign against the public sector. If this threesome were the Holy Trinity of the free market, then the Chicago School of Economics was The Church, and Professor Milton Friedman was the High Priest. Wages in real dollars for middle-class workers began their terminal decline during the tenure of Ronnie, Maggie and Mulroo, while the incomes of the top 10 per cent went through the roof. Quaint notions like subsidized housing became increasingly suspect, from the federal to civic level.

By the early ’90s, the crusade for free market monopolies was well underway. At that time, Seattle novelist Jonathan Raban travelled through the U.S., setting down his observations in his 1991 travelogue masterpiece, Hunting Mr. Heartbreak.

In Manhattan, Raban noted how the “Ground People” and the “Air People,” occupy two entirely different cities: “At present the two cities were held together, one on top of the other, by the slender umbilical of the elevator, and by the Air People’s dependence on the traffic that came up it—the Times and Wall Street Journal, beefsteak and zucchini, laundered shirts, maids, flowers, guests, invitations…. Access to the elevator was proof that your life had the buoyancy that was needed to stay afloat in a city where the ground was seen as the realm of failure and menace.”

The divide between the Air People and Ground People is no longer limited to Raban’s realworld New York or Blade Runner’s imaginary San Francisco. The marketing theme of vertical escape, away from the addicts and homeless and up into fortified precincts of privilege and personal debt, has been mainstreamed and globalized. It’s everywhere now, from Beijing to Coquitlam. If it was science fiction, you might even call it Dickish. www.geoffolson.com

Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid (l) ordered the comptroller general to review the photo Dan Toulgoet Vancouver School Board’s budget. A scathing report soon followed.

To the editor: Re: “Class Notes,” June 9.

The comptroller general has no qualifications to write opinions on education and hers is not a neutral office.

The CG’s office is not at arm’s length to government like the Office of the Auditor General. It is part of treasury and finance— the gatekeepers of government money whose job is to be prudent, some say stin-

gy, while other ministries vie for money and advocate for their programs.

In the case of Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, she pulled strings to have the CG come and crap all over public education programs and prove they don’t need money.

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Jessica Van der Veen.

Victoria, B.C.

Elections are often messy but worth the effort

To the editor: Re: “Electoral reform report receives mixed reviews,” June 2.

To the editor: With continually lower voter turn-outs and entrenched politicians seeking longer terms between elections, maybe, just maybe, there is a connection.

The reason invariably given for not voting is a lack of interest, as in my vote won’t change anything. Well, if the politicians get their way the incentive to vote will be even less. Why vote, if policy is established between elections and not by the policy review that an election represents. Surely an election does not prevent in any way,

a politician from making public decisions and defending those same decisions on the hustings. Voters are entitled to base their choice on real problems and solutions debated in public by varying viewpoints expressed by each and every candidate for office. That process was fought for domestically and internationally for decades.

It is called democracy, not expediency. Elections are a messy business, but they are truly an essential, albeit costly, service.

Rick J. Angus, Vancouver

close to the people is by more frequent elections. Until the early 90s we had two-year terms. That system served the city very well.

Meanwhile, politicians break their promises expecting that no one will remember by the next election. They have become lint in the pockets of developers. The promises they keep are to those who feed them. They are capable of amazing courage in enacting unpopular zoning changes that will forever change the city when an election is a long way off. We need a return to two-year terms.

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‘Exemplary’ tennis coaches certified, experienced

To the editor: Re: “Players protest instructor firings at UBC tennis centre,” May 5.

The Courier published incorrect information about the certification status of Elena Gishiyants and Tomas Thapper, two tennis coaches fired from the UBC Tennis Centre. To be clear, both coaches are Tennis Canada certified, with well over 30 years of combined national and international teaching experience in addition to numerous championships and accolades as players.

Readers should also understand that Tennis Canada certification requires approximately two weekends to complete.

Focusing upon this certification as the gold standard for a tennis teacher is misguided.

Choosing a coach based upon this, instead of choosing the exemplary coaches who were fired, would be akin to someone sensing a heart attack and refusing help from the car-

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To the editor: Re: “Fired UBC tennis coaches are uncertified, unqualified,” Letters, May 27.

In response to Michelle St. Louis’s inference that members of the group protesting the firing of the tennis coaches at UBC condone the vandalism of the Tennis Centre, I’d like to make it very clear that we do not. We would encourage the person/persons responsible for the vandalism to come forward as their actions have detracted from the issue at hand: mismanagement at the UBC Tennis Centre.

Jacqueline Fefer, Vancouver

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Former mayoral rival notes Robertson’s team of managers

Mayor, housing minister build tight working relationship Mike Howell Staff writer

When Vision Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson ran for mayor in 2008, his NPA opponents predicted a sour relationship with the provincial government.

After all, they asked, how can the former NDP MLA for Vancouver-Fairview get along with the ruling provincial Liberals?

Robertson has reached the halfway point in his three-year term. And judging by the positive comments he’s received in recent weeks from Premier Gordon Campbell and Housing Minister Rich Coleman, the relationship appears more sweet than sour.

At a press conference two weeks ago to announce $225 million to build eight social housing buildings in the city, Campbell referred to Robertson as “one of our lead partners as we deal with the challenge of homelessness across the province.”

Coleman, who has complimented the mayor several times at similar announcements for his commitment to ending homelessness, let the crowd know how deep the relationship runs between the two politicians. “He and I have had many discussions about homelessness, mental health and addictions over the last year-and-a-half as we’ve tried to come up with solutions in this city,” Coleman said.

I GUESS HE DISCOVERED WHAT SIDE HIS BREAD IS BUTTERED ON.” Peter Ladner

So what’s the mayor’s secret?

Apparently, there isn’t one.

“It’s pretty straightforward,” Robertson told the Courier this week. “We just focus on getting things done and avoiding the rhetoric and ensuring the commitments are followed through.”

Since Robertson and his Vision council took office in December 2008, the mayor and Coleman worked to open temporary homeless shelters and secure funding for the construction of 14 social housing buildings in the city.

The previous NPA-dominated council led by then-mayor Sam Sullivan identified 12 of those sites. And in doing so, was duly recognized by Coleman for providing the land.

But Robertson is quick to point out the government failed to give construction money to build the sites until he and his council moved into city hall.

“None of the funding was committed last term so my focus was on eliminating all possible barriers at the city that were slowing

Housing Minister Rich Coleman (left) and Mayor Gregor Robertson have targeted shelters and social housing. photo Dan Toulgoet the deals down,” he said. “City staff has really responded and ensured that the city side of the deal was done and we’re ready for these projects to start.”

Added Robertson: “The economic circumstances made all of this more challenging for the partners, so building trust and confidence in each other was important and I’m not sure that was there last term to land the funding commitment.”

Former NPA councillor Peter Ladner, who challenged Robertson for the mayor’s seat in the 2008 campaign, was one of the politicians predicting an uneasy relationship for Robertson with

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So what’s he think now?

“Well, I guess he discovered what side his bread is buttered on when it comes to solving the housing crisis,” Ladner said.

Ladner pointed to Robertson’s chief of staff Mike Magee, Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs and city manager Penny Ballem, whom Vision hired during its first week in power, as key people to the mayor’s success.

“I think he’s doing a pretty good job,” he said. “I think he’s done very well in having strong people in behind him and being a very appealing face out front.

I don’t know how much of the

work being done is his doing but it probably doesn’t matter.”

Suzanne Anton, the NPA’s lone councillor, agreed with Ladner that the mayor’s relationship with the provincial government appears to be working to the city’s benefit. But, she said, Coleman is the key in the relationship. “The housing agenda is bigger than whoever is the mayor and Rich Coleman has been a fantastic housing minister,” she said. “He has really been outstanding.”

Robertson acknowledged his relationship with Coleman has been tested, particularly over his request to have the provincial government continue funding three shelters until interim housing is built.

The back-and-forth over whether the city would grant the provincial government a demolition permit to begin redevelopment of the Little Mountain public housing complex was another battle.

“It hasn’t been easy at times but we’ve both been committed to the end solution,” Robertson said. “If there’s some bumps and bruises along the way, then so be it. That’s part of politics.”

So what’s he think now of the NPA’s predictions in 2008 that his relationship would falter with the provincial Liberals?

“They’re laughable at this point.

The proof is in the pudding.” mhowell@vancourier.com

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Two-storey Wing Sang building constructed in 1889

Heritage Vancouver honours ‘condo king’ Cheryl Rossi Staff writer Workers in hazmat suits needed two months to clear dead pigeons, bird excrement and spent syringes from the back portion of the Wing Sang, but now Chinatown’s oldest building is a lively private exhibition space for Bob Rennie’s contemporary art collection and headquarters for his condo marketing machine.

Rennie, owner of Rennie Marketing Systems, and architect Walter Francl, who refurbished the long-neglected building’s exterior, will be honoured

by Heritage Vancouver at a fundraiser June 17 for saving the site that made the non-profit’s list of endangered heritage structures.

For the first time, the society has picked 10 success stories from the last 10 years to honour at its annual garden party.

Rennie bought the heritage-designated building, across the street from the Chinese Cultural Centre, from another developer in 2004 and spent $10 million on its renovation, opening his private gallery last October. The Wing Sang had been vacant since the mid 1970s.

“We probably should have built a condo on the roof to live in,” Rennie said.

“But I was so sensitive to the fact that it not be read as a real estate venture, but that it is read as a cultural adventure.”

Francl says the Wing Sang was letting in water “pretty much everywhere.”

“WE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BUILT A CONDO ON THE ROOF TO LIVE IN.” Bob Rennie

“It was an interesting little trip back in time,” he said.

The two-storey Victorian Italianate brick structure at 51 East Pender St. was constructed in 1889 for Yip Sang, a prominent Chinese-Canadian businessman whose Wing Sang Company flourished with imports, exports and sales of opium, legal at the time. In 1901, the building was expanded

over four lots and to three storeys, almost completely enveloping the older structure.

In 1910, another six-storey brick building was constructed behind it across the alley behind Pender Street for Yip’s family.

A key heritage feature is the third floor schoolroom for Yip’s children that remains virtually unchanged since it was built in 1901.

Yip had four wives and

23 children. It functioned as an English language school then later as a Chinese language school.

An elevated passageway connected the front and back buildings in the past with Market Alley running beneath it.

This once thriving retail space where Chinese who faced curfews could venture at night, is clearly delineated. On the second floor, a three-foot deep concrete wall supports the old brick facade while three floors were ripped out to create an expansive gallery space.

Remnants of the building’s foundations, made with large boulders, wood and concrete, remain out in the open, like the brick walls that contrast with other clean white

modern details. Much of the single-pane glass was retained and the 800 to 1,500-year-old first growth timber that was salvaged from the condemned back building was used for cabinets, tables and picture frames.

Other success stories to be celebrated at Heritage Vancouver’s annual event include the wooden roller coaster at Playland, Arthur Erickson’s terraced Evergreen Building at 1285 West Pender St. and the Salt Building in the Olympic Village.

NPA city Coun. Suzanne Anton will host the garden party with Mayor Gregor Robertson as a special guest. For more information, see www.heritagevancouver.org. crossi@vancourier.com

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Queer youth summer camp offers spiritual, educational leadership Sandra Thomas Staff writer

Lord Byng secondary student Naomi Amren says taking part in a pilot summer camp last year for “queer, transgendered, questioning and allied youth” changed her life.

“I realized, oh my God, there are other people like me out there,” said 16-year-old Amren.

“It inspired me to get involved with the larger community.”

CampOUT!, organized by the University of B.C.’s Access and Diversity office, will run Aug. 5 to 8 with a goal to foster practi-

cal social, spiritual, educational, health and leadership skills for youth aged 14 to 21. It’s based on a similar camp launched by the University of Alberta in 2004.

Since attending the camp, Amren has re-launched the gaystraight alliance at Lord Byng and become involved with a youth group at Qmunity, a West End centre for sexual minorities.

Naomi’s father Bergen Amren told the Courier he was confident the camp was a good choice for his daughter and wrote a letter of support for organizers to use to help in raising money.

“She really enjoyed it,” he said.

He said his daughter had a hard time finding other “sexual minority youth” at her high school, but the camp last summer provided that opportunity and made her feel secure in her identity.

“I sense that for her, the camp was like coming home,” said Bergen.

He said Naomi was particularly interested in the camp’s sex education, which included information not available in the high school curriculum. He added the information she received alongside the other youth increased her understanding of the queer community. “[Naomi’s mom Robyn Levy]

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Indeed, a single month can barely contain ‘Bike Month’. Take this past May for example. In early May, Vancouver city council approved $1.25-million for drafting a new 10-Year Cycling Program Master Plan, developing a comprehensive cycling monitoring program, adding on-street bicycle parking, and improving existing bikeways to address safety concerns. It also approved $25-million for an additional 55 kilometers of bike routes over the next two years.

These additions will give Vancouver a 415-kilometer bike-route network that would “definitely get more people on bikes,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson.

Mayor Robertson also pointed out that while currently, only 3.7 per cent of trips in Vancouver are made by bike on average, “most data shows that cities don’t go much beyond five percent until they create separated bike lanes. That’s about the percentage of people that will take their chances in traffic.”

Critics call these decisions unaffordable social engineering that won’t work.

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White said the programs for the camp were developed by the Youth Advisory Committee, a group of UBC faculty, staff and community members with expertise in the problems facing queer, transgendered, questioning and allied youth. She noted the access and diversity staff has been raising money so campers pay $25 to attend.

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and I know that last year’s camp experience has made a significant contribution to Naomi’s social and emotional health and we imagine the same holds true for other participants and their families,” Bergen wrote in his letter of support. “For these reasons, we are all looking forward to Naomi’s attendance at Camp OUT! this summer.”

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City councillors will skip Saturday’s fights at GM Place

Athletic commission eyes upcoming UFC event Mike Howell

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When 22 mixed martial arts fighters enter the octagon Saturday night at GM Place Jerome Yang will be interested in more than just who wins.

Yang is one of five members of the Vancouver Athletic Commission who’ll be taking notes to determine whether the sold-out Ultimate Fighting Championship event is run properly.

His observations will be key to determining whether such events will continue as part of city council’s decision in December 2009 to allow a two-year trial of the popular form of fighting. “This is a test,” Yang said. “If we can do this properly and we can do this safely and it’s to

city council’s approval, then that’s good for the sport.”

Yang is also a general physician and helped organize a team of five B.C. doctors experienced in emergency room and intensive care work to oversee the fights Saturday night.

He’ll be conducting the weigh-ins of the fighters Friday. “Fighter safety is a top priority when it comes to these events,” he said, noting the fighters are among the best-conditioned athletes in the world. “Their training is unbelievable.”

Saturday night’s event, which is operated by the Las Vegas-based UFC, is the biggest professional contest of its kind to be held in Vancouver. The main bout features two of the world’s top mixed martial arts fight-

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ers, Chuck Liddell and Rich Franklin.

So far, the UFC is the only professional promoter to take up council on its twoyear trial of the sport, which features kicking, punching and wrestling in an octagonshaped cage.

Tom Hammel, the city’s deputy chief licence inspector, is city hall’s liaison to the Vancouver Athletic Com-

mission, which serves as an advisory body to city council.

Hammel said the commission will review Saturday night’s event June 15 but he will likely update council next week. Hammel said he wasn’t sure in what form council will receive the update.

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They all said this week they haven’t heard of any other members of council going to the event. Councillors Raymond Louie, Andrea Reimer and Ellen Woodsworth voted against the trial, citing concerns over the sport’s promotion of violence.

“If there’s a major incident, we’ll need an immediate report,” said Robertson, who was in Copenhagen during the 6-3 vote but is a supporter of the trial. “But if things go well, there’s no acute urgency to it. Hopefully it all goes smooth like it has everywhere else and

it’s not an issue.”

Robertson urged the provincial and federal governments to come up with consistent regulations for the sport rather than have each municipality have to sanction an event.

The Vancouver Police Department is on record supporting the sanctioning of mixed martial arts. An underground bout held on Musqueam land in February 2008 resulted in gunshots being fired after the event and one person was wounded.

“We’ve got no indication there’s going to be any issues [on Saturday],” said Const. Lindsey Houghton, a VPD media liaison officer.

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Approximately half the residents at Sunset Towers are 65 or older

Addicts and mentally ill frighten older tenants Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

The provincial government’s decision to house adults with addiction and mental health problems at a West End B.C. Housing complex that originally housed only seniors and people with disabilities has left its older tenants scared and angry, residents of the complex say.

A notice posted by a staff person from the West End Seniors Network three years ago informed tenants of the two towers that the shift was occurring. The buildings include 475 apartments and 550 residents at Haro and Barclay streets.

Sheila Baxter, a 76-year-old woman who’s lived at Sunset Towers for 17 years, says the changes with the new tenants were immediately obvious.

“Say there’s a guy that is being very abusive and he gets evicted, nobody can stop him coming to visit a friend,” Baxter said. “He can visit anyone he wants in the building even though he’s been evicted [and that’s happened], so people are scared to speak up because they’re scared that person will get them in the elevator.”

Baxter said some of her neighbours have moved to Burnaby, Surrey and White Rock because they were

“PEOPLE ARE SCARED TO SPEAK UP.” Sheila Baxter

scared.

Duncan Graham, 81, believes the new tenants should be afforded not only a home but also “more social help than they’re getting” to prosper as good neighbours.

Valerie James, a 53-year-old disabled woman who moved into the building two years ago, said she’s mainly seen problems in the last six months.

She and Baxter say problems peaked at Christmas and during the Olympics when “crackheads” started letting their friends into the buildings to use the stairwells and laundry rooms as places to sleep, urinate and defecate.

James says B.C. Housing installed four security guards who worked day and night during the Games. The problems have lessened but are ongoing, with one security guard patrolling the two buildings weekends and on welfare cheque day, when residents say tenants invite into the building their friends connected to the drug trade.

According to B.C. Housing, just over half the residents at Sunset Towers are

65 or older and 26 per cent are 55 to 64. Sixteen per cent are 45 to 54 and eight per cent are 44 or younger. Of the 550 tenants, 348 have a disability.

The ministry does not have a statistical category for the “hard to house.”

In an email to the Courier, B.C. Housing’s media relations spokesperson said the ministry had increased security at the building for a few weeks to meet “security issues” that it said were resolved.

The ministry noted the government has increased accessibility to the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program, or SAFER, which provides subsidies to seniors aged 60 or older who rent in the private market.

But Baxter, whose rent is fixed at one-third of her monthly income, or $350, says SAFER doesn’t provide secure tenure, particularly if seniors face a large rent increase. She noted landlords can apply to raise rents beyond the allowable 3.2 per cent for 2010 if they can demonstrate the rent they’ve been charging is lower than nearby buildings.

A member of the Seniors Housing Advocacy Group, or SHAG, Baxter says seniors across the province are suffering. crossi@vancourier.com

Sunset Towers residents Sheila Baxter (left) and Valerie James say drug users, urine and feces have photo Dan Toulgoet marked their building.

BC Lions give back to the community A

Lions Pride is a new program designed for youth in grades 8 to 12 and combines school visits by BC Lions players with the creation of a flag football program. Photo courtesy BC Lions

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s the BC Lions get set to tackle another season at this year’s training camp in Kamloops, many players have wrapped up another round of community and school appearances.

These off-season endeavours are a big part of the Lions’ community relations program, and players and staff log hundreds of hours each year speaking to students, making special appearances and spreading positive messages to young people.

Lions centre and Lower Mainland native Dean Valli says participating in these programs can be as fulfilling as putting points on the board at a game.

“I’ve been involved with several of the club’s community programs for a few years now and it’s a great feeling to know you’re setting a positive example for kids while having fun at the same time!”

Some of the Lions programs include: Lions in the House The Lions in the House program is designed specifically for students in grades 8 to 12 and emphasizes the importance of positive life skills development for students and their schools.

This year, Lions defensive assistant Barron Miles and centre Angus Reid traveled to secondary schools and engaged students in an interactive assembly with physical activity and motivational speeches on fitness and nutrition, bullying, continuing education, and maintaining a positive attitude. In all, Lions visited 30 schools across the Lower Mainland, speaking to more than 3,000 students as part of the program.

Lions Pride This new addition to the BC Lions school program was launched this year.

In partnership with the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, the BC Lions are inspiring youth to be active, make positive choices and excel. Lions Pride is designed for youth in grades 8 to 12 and combines school visits with the creation of a flag football program.

BC Lions Terasen Gas Energy Champions This program is designed specifically for children in

kindergarten through Grade 7, emphasizing the importance of environmental responsibility and being an “Energy Champion.”

In 2010, the BC Lions Terasen Gas Energy Champions program has visited 75 elementary schools throughout the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Interior and northern B.C. Read, Write & Roar The 2010 season marks the ninth year of this BC Lions’ literacy program in partnership with Literacy BC, the Vancouver Public Library, the Vancouver School Board and participating elementary schools.

The program reached 15 school districts and more than 25,000 elementary school students, stressing the importance of literacy through a fun and captivating journal.

Courage for Kids In 2009, the BC Lions continued their partnership with United Way of the Lower Mainland in support of this program.

More than 6,000 children were given the opportunity to attend a BC Lions home game during the season thanks to the generosity of Courage For Kids sponsors and the United Way of the Lower Mainland.

Every Yard Counts In 2010, the BC Lions will continue to partner with BC Children’s Hospital for the Every Yard Counts program. This initiative provides an opportunity for children to attend a BC Lions home game, allowing them to get away from their treatment schedules and the everyday battles they fight.

While the children get an opportunity to experience the excitement and emotion of a CFL game, they also have a chance to meet some of the BC Lions players. The interactions have far-reaching effects by creating feelings of hope and happiness, making it an enjoyable and rewarding program for everyone involved.

For more information on any of these BC Lions programs, please contact the Lions’ director of community relations, Jamie Taras, at jtaras@bclions.com.

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The Coal Harbour Residents’ Association wants the city to refuse a two-year extension application to allow float planes to operate in front of their homes and Harbour Green Park.

Association director Clark McKeen said the application would be the third extension since the city gave approval to allow West Coast Air and Harbour Air to relocate west from the end of Burrard Street in 2004. Coal Harbour residents protested the move, but the city’s development permit board gave the green light for what was to be a temporary location.

“The residents were promised it would be for a maximum of three years only while the convention centre was being built,” said McKeen. “But because the centre wasn’t completed on time, and because of the Olympics, they got a threeyear extension.”

That extension ran out June 1, but West Coast Air and Harbour Air have asked for another extension because work on the promised permanent float plane terminal in front of the convention centre hasn’t started.

A 17-page report on the application was presented yesterday after the Courier’s deadline to the city’s budgets and services committee from the city’s director of planning Bill Boons. The report includes a recommendation to support the application and recommends it not “exceed two years from permit issuance or the completion of the new permanent facility at 1001 Canada Place, whichever is first.”

West Coast Air president Rick Baxter told the Courier he’d be thrilled to be operating from a permanent facility in front of the convention centre, but at this point he doubts that will ever happen.

“We just haven’t been able to come to

“WE JUST HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO COME TO A BUSINESS AGREEMENT WITH THE DEVELOPER.” Rick Baxter

a business agreement with the developer,” he said.

Baxter said the land is owned by the B.C. Pavilion Corporation, which leased the land to a consortium called Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre (VHFC). According to Boons’ report, while a development permit was issued Jan. 21, no building permit has been approved and construction has yet to begin.

The report notes VHFC recently asked for amendments to the approved development permit, citing economic reasons, and a proposal to build the new terminal in phases.

The first phase would be float plane docks, using a portion of the convention centre space on the northwest corner as a terminal. That amendment has been submitted and is under review.

Scott Barker, a project developer with the city’s development services, said the city can’t force VHFC to build a float plane terminal.

“It isn’t a requirement,” said Barker.

“The ultimate question the city is dealing with tomorrow [June 10] is whether to approve the land use for the temporary facility.”

Baxter added it will be a whole other discussion should VHFC decide in the future to never build a permanent float plane facility.

The Courier was unable to reach a spokesperson from VHFC before press deadline. sthomas@vancourier.com

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Hill, along with John Furneaux and Darrell Ainscough, took about 12 days to climb from base camp to the summit and return to base camp.

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Rob Hill said he would eventually do it. And he did.

The 39-year-old climber reached the peak of Mount Everest in late May after an attempt in April 2008 was cut short because of his medical condition.

Hill, a former East Side resident who recently moved to Nanaimo, has Crohn’s disease and requires the use of an ostomy. He told the Courier in 2008 he suffered a Crohn’s flare-up but was determined some day to reach the world’s highest peak.

footage to the Courier of his final ascent. “One step, four to five breaths,” he said as he watched himself in a big orange parka and oxygen mask slowly stepping through the snow. “I was in better shape than last time, but I don’t think anything can prepare you for a lack of oxygen and not being able to breathe.”

The trio stayed on the summit for 20 minutes on what was a clear morning. Hill described the view as “incredible” and was awestruck by how small the mountains appeared below the peak.

The trio’s focus quickly shifted to getting back down the moun-

tain, a journey that has resulted in many injuries and deaths over the years. “I just wanted to be safe again,” Hill said.

At his office, he pulled a certificate and medal out of a shoulder bag, which were given to him by the Nepalese government for achieving such a feat.

“It’s pretty cool.”

Reaching Everest capped off an eight-year journey for Hill to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. He reached the peaks of Russia’s Mount Elbrus, Argentina’s Aconcagua, Africa’s Kilimanjaro, Alaska’s Denali, Antarctica’s Vinson Massif and

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Kevin Mak, partner and designer with Definium Design Group, was incorrectly identified in the June 2 article, “Chinatown touts panda mascots.”

Leadership camp

Friends Uniting for Nature hosts an environmental leadership camp for children and teens aged six to 16 to see how environmental and engineering skills are used today and what knowledge will be useful in the future. The summer camps run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each week from July 5 to Aug. 27 at UBC and feature different environmental-themed activities, crafts and games with the underlying theme of teaching participants how to lower their ecological footprint. Some camps are already full. Friends Uniting for Nature is a non-profit, environmental educational program operating since 2008. For more information or to register, visit www.FunCamps.ca.

Jewelry exhibition

The Vancouver Community College jewelry art and design program presents its annual student exhibition to June 12.

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news Liquor store hours

Following more than two years of pressure from independent liquor retailers, WorkSafe B.C. is on the verge of shortening the hours an employee can work alone at night.

The so-called working alone regulations initially defined “late-night hours” as the time between 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. but an amended definition will shorten the overnight period by one hour to match the laws that require liquor stores to close by 11 p.m. With the regulations coming into

alignment, retail business owners say they can staff one person instead of two until the later hour—and in the case of many liquor stores, also the time they close.

Kim Haakstad, executive director of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees, said liquor stores should not be considered late-night or overnight retailers. “We were caught in this by one hour,” she said.

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cial government “to direct WorkSafe B.C. to make this change so that it can be resolved in a timely manner without a lengthy consultation process.”

Despite the ongoing consultation, which was extended 12 months from June 2009 and concluded this week, WorkSafe indicated that the 10 p.m.

start time for the latenight hours would not be enforced.

The B.C. Federation of Labour accessed correspondence between WorkSafe and liquor retailers through a Freedom of Information request.

“We would question the priorities of the government in giving more weight to what [ABLE is] saying is a problem for their members and what’s a problem for the vulnerable workers who are in these places,” said Bob Ages, a health and safety co-ordinator.

Ages said employees in convenience stores and gas stations will face increased harm because of ABLE’s lobbying.

“We support people having decent shifts or even part-time jobs that makes sense,” he said.

“They should, in fact, move the hours the other direction and that would create a four- or five-hour part-time shift for someone.”

Vancouver police recorded 25 gas station robberies over two years in 2008 to 2009. In the seven-hour period from 11

p.m. to 6 a.m., 12 robberies were recorded in 24 months. Between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m., 10 robberies were recorded.

The working alone regulations were introduced at the same time as Grant’s Law, which requires motorists to pay at the pump before filling their vehicles. The convicted killer of Grant DePatie, a Maple Ridge gas station attendant whose death inspired the late-night workplace safety laws, will be released from federal prison this month. mstewart@vancourier.

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clothing and craft supply swap where the creative, the curious and the crafty recycle used clothing and other fabric. Clean, gently used clothes and accessories are accepted, including shoes, gloves, belts, jewelry, bags and anything else you can wrap around a limb, and craft supplies like fabric, trim, buttons, yarn and more. Multiple DIY stations provide advice and inspiration. Blim will have screen-printing and Plush On Main will have sewing machines and equipment.

Swap-O-Rama-Rama gets hectic June 26 from 11 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut St. Admission is $6 at the door or $5 in advance. Visit GotCraft.com/swap.

Kite festival

Go fly a kite, with the 35th annual Pacific Rim Kite Festival. Make a kite in a workshop, have your face painted and check out the displays and demonstrations on the south shore of False Creek. The B.C. Kiteflyers Association hosts the two-day event at Vanier Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 12 and 13.

Hospital walk

Every year hundreds of walkers raise money for B.C. Children’s Hospital and 72,000 patients by tying up their laces and walking in the Walk for Miracles.

Sponsored by Walmart, the seventh annual walk is held consecutively in 12 cities across the country and seeks to raise $2.6 million.

In Vancouver, participants can walk 1 km or 5 km in Stanley Park on June 13.

The walk begins at 10 a.m. at Second Beach. For more information, visit WalmartWalkForMiracles.ca.

Marpole Backtrax

The Marpole Museum and Historical Society is hosting two concert events in early summer. Backtrax, a classic rock ‘n roll band, performs June 27 at 2 p.m. while the Westwynd Singers show off their Celtic charm and soaring vocals July 4 at 2 p.m.

Both performances are at Colbourne House, located at 8743 S.W. Marine Drive near 71st Avenue in Marpole. The shows are weather permitting. Admission is a minimum donation of $5 and the beer tent will have refreshments.

Got an event?

Got a community event that’s happening within the City of Vancouver? Send it to events@vancourier.com.

Events will be included on a space-permitting basis.

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community briefs Courier clarification

The May 28 story “City extends Granville busking hours” may have given the impression that TransLink suggested discussions with the Society of Composer, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada over busking at transit stations could result in huge fees for individual performers. In fact, says TransLink’s Drew Snider, the discussions with SOCAN refer to licences issued for each station. “Based on what SOCAN is charging in Toronto, the figure of $1,000 per station is not out of line,” he told the Courier, “but that’s for each station being used for busking and with as many buskers as we want. Individual licence fees would include a share of that SOCAN fee.”

the public into their yards to enjoy the view and ask questions on a self-directed walking tour. A dozen special gardens and public green spaces open June 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets and a map are available for $10 from Figaro’s Garden Centre at 1896 Victoria Dr. This fundraising tour supports Britannia Neigh-

bours, a community development group with an environmental focus. Contact BritanniaNeighbours.org for more information.

Jazz festival

The province’s biggest music festival puts 400 concerts and 1,800 musicians on 40 Vancouver stages across the city. From noon until

the small hours before the sun rises again, more than 500,000 people will hear jazz, blues, funk, Latin, fusion, electronica and more during the TD Canada Trust International Jazz Festival.

A free concert series over nine days at Canada Place will showcase this mélange of local and international flavour. Sponsored by the

Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, the free series runs June 25 to July 4 with no concert on July 1 because of Canada Day festivities.

For more information, visit www.CanadaPlace.ca.

Got an event?

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City of Vancouver you’d like to share with our readers?

Send it to events@vancourier.com. Events will be included on a space-permitting basis. School and charitable entertainment events are also welcome, but all other entertainment listings (film, theatre, dance, music, etc.) should be sent to mkissinger@vancourier.com.

Canada Day parade

Ours is a multi-ethnic, multicultural society, and Canada Day puts this national identity literally on parade as the second annual Canada Day Parade marches through downtown on the evening of July 1. Irish, Celtic, bhangra and samba dancers, pipe bands, marching bands, stilt walkers and more will take off at 7 p.m. from Georgia and Broughton streets. The more than 50 floats, displays and troupes will finish at Thurlow and Pender streets.

Before the parade takes to the streets, a full day of free family fun at Canada Place takes place, with the daytime festival beginning at 10 a.m. and the event’s exclamation mark at 10:30 p.m. with a fireworks display over Burrard Inlet.

For more information, visit CanadaDay.CanadaPlace.ca

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Film screening

The inaugural Cineworks Social features work by filmmakers stripped of their favourite tools and challenged to shoot a silent film in 24 hours using just 16mm film, a Bolex camera and a light meter. Props, costumes and post-production editing were pushed aside. The novice and experienced filmmakers will see their work for the first time June 24 at the Cineworks Annex at 235 Alexander St. The screening is by donation and open to everyone.

For more information about Cineworks workshops, screenings and exhibitions, visit www.cineworks.ca or call curator Jennifer Cane at 604-685-3841.

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For women of all ages, finding the perfect hairstyle that suits us is a constant journey.

The straight or long-haired wavy look we sported in our 20’s may feel dated and tired now. The shoulder-length, curly style from the grad photo may have morphed into a present-day ball of frizz.

short, sassy do’s draw major attention to their eyes and cheekbones.

You’ll have to do your make-up a bit differently (dramatic eyes absolutely dance with a short hairstyle.) And you’ll have to learn a few tips on styling, like wisping the ends with a curling iron or sporting a gem-crusted hairpin to hold back a bang.

Discuss it with your hairdresser and find out — could short and sassy be on your style agenda this summer? Check out these pics for ideas.

The way our hair behaved in the past is irrelevant. We need a look that feels great, is easy to maintain and features the colour(s) or highlights that suit our age.

Long, sultry hair in the Penelope Cruz style, or Jessica Simpson’s blonde locks — these may be ideals we aspire to, but if hair is dry, frizzy, over-coloured or full of split ends, no amount of fussing and flattening will really help. Plus, over-processing just makes the hair follicles even more battered and bruised.

With summer and its effects of sun, wind and chlorine doing a dry-out number on our hair, perhaps it’s time to consider a bold move — to a chic, short shape! Hairstylists say most gals can achieve the look, with the possible exception of those with a square face/strong jawline.

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Canucks legend Trevor Linden’s signed jersey fetched $1,600 at the Pamela Martin-emceed Women’s Media Golf Classic and gala dinner.

(r-l) Artist Gabryel Harrison’s braille text painting fetched $14,000 at Alison Lawton’s Unite with Art fundraiser held at Maynards Fine Art & Antiques.

Fred Jacqui Cohen welcomed Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger to her Face the World Foundation fete that raised a record-breaking $1.5 million for local charities.

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Architect James Cheng (left) helped unlock the secrets of new home buying in Intracorp developer Don Forsgren’s new book Show and Tell.

About Face: Jacqui Cohen welcomed 220 guests including Elvis Costello, Diana Krall and Nickleback’s Chad Kroeger to her 20th Face the World Foundation fete. Attendees shelled out $1,500-a-ticket for the sit down dinner and auction at Cohen’s beautiful Point Grey waterfront home. Vicki Gabereau emceed, pianist Michael Kaeshammer performed and Umberto Menghi fed the well-heeled group that coughed up a whopping $1.5 million and change for local charities.

United for kids: At the third annual Unite with Art gala organized by Julie Lee and held at Maynards, Alison Lawton chaired and donated $100,000 as 90-plus works of art, fashion and design were auctioned off to benefit UNICEF Canada’s Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign.

Gabryel Harrison’s braille piece fetched the night’s top bid of $14,000 contributing to the record $460,000 raised.

Fore kids: Over 200 women hit the links at Vancouver’s Musqueam Golf and Learning Academy for the 23rd edition of the Women’s Media Golf Classic and dinner at Beyond Restaurant hosted by event founder Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia. A signed jersey donated by Canucks legend Trevor Linden garnered $1,600. The hoi poloi generated $85,000 for The Pacific Autism Family Centre and Mediated Learning Academy Therapy School.

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.

Cultch executive director Heather Redfern (left) and Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society CEO Cheryl Prepchuk schmoozed at the YWCA awards.

(l-r) Producers Damian Kindler, Amanda Tapping and Martin Wood of the TV series Sanctuary led all LEO Award nods with 17.

Singer Sarah McLachlan, flanked by artists Brent Comber and Athena Bax, attended Unite with Art UNICEF benefit for children living with HIV/AIDS.

Organizer Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia (left) feted CBC’s Ann Luu at her golf gala, which netted $85,000 for special kids and autism therapy.

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Besides Freedom Fries, miming and walking along cobblestone streets in striped shirts with baguettes under their arms, the French are also good for making films. So why not give them their own film festival. To that end, the fourth annual French Film Festival, which showcases the hottest feature films from France from the past year, runs June 11 to Aug. 5 at the Ridge Theatre. Films include Micmacs à tire-larigot, the latest work from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, Delicatessen), Jan Kounen’s heated love affair Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Les Herbes Folles by Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour, My American Uncle) who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and Christian Carion’s L’Affaire Farewell. For tickets and more information, go to www.festivalcinemas.ca.

Show: Girlfriends & Boyfriends CD release party with Sex with Strangers, Muscles and Girls in Love June 12 at the Media Club Poster artist: Rob Edmonds

Vancouver New Music must be reading our dream journal because this Sunday they’re presenting four free outdoor concerts dedicated to complaining. With music composed by Veda Hille, the Complaints Choir is billed as a “hilarious community project” with participants singing a litany of complaints about rain, taxes, busses, the Olympics, traffic and work.

Personally, it might have been nice if they had consulted us and written a song about how waitresses always ask us if Coke or Pepsi is OK when we make a point of ordering nonspecific “cola” to avoid such questions… anyway. The Complaints Choir gets things off its chest in front of Vancouver New Music (837 Davie St.) at 1 p.m., at the intersection of West Cordova and Seymour at 2 p.m., at Robson and Homer at 3 p.m. and at Robson and Howe at 4 p.m. Don’t bring your car, unless you really want something to complain about.

Totally awesome

There won’t be too much complaining at blogger Neil Pasricha’s appearance at Chapters on Robson this Saturday. After a difficult few years that saw the death of his best friend and a failed marriage, Pasricha decided to document one “awesome thing” each day via his website 1000awesomethings.com. Fast forward a few years, and the Toronto blogger has received nearly 16 million hits to his website, won the 2010 Webby Award (the “Oscars of the Internet”) for best cultural blog for the second year in a row, was named one of PC Magazine’s Top 50 Blogs and has a new book called The Book of Awesome. The love-in takes place June 12, 2 p.m.

Bob Log III brings his sweaty, foot-stomping, one-man-band shtick to the Biltmore June 15.

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Arizona’s Bob Log III brings his tried and true one-man-band shtick to the Biltmore June 15. Log is known for playing a sweaty, ramshackle amalgam of blues and punk, armed with a slide guitar and foot-controlled drum, while singing like a drunken smash-up derby announcer via a telephone receiver that’s been hot glued into the visor of his motorcycle helmet. Good times. His latest album is called My Sh** Is Perfect.

Tickets at Red Cat and Zulu or online at www.ticketweb.ca.

Local act Parlour Steps play the Media Club with Orchid Highway and Adrienne Pierce June 11. California indie rockers Delta Spirit shine on Venue June 12 with guests Ezra Furman & The Harpoons. Metric rocks out at the Malkin Bowl June 12-13. Soul revivalist Jamie Lidell shakes his moneymaker June 14 at Venue. British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap plays the Commodore June 15, while next door Dweezil Zappa recreates the music of his dad, Frank, at the Vogue Theatre.

kudos & kvetches Marpole muse

If there’s one thing K&K likes it’s extolling the vir tues of Marpole. Not only is it one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods and home to a handful of the Courier’s more streetwise and sophisticated employees, it’s a place we like to go to in our mind when we dream of a better tomorrow, filled with candy cane streetlights, butterscotch sidewalks and cute little rainspouts that drip taffy. Or maybe that’s Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factor y.

The point is, Marpole has been K&K’s muse for several years now. Marpole, Gloria Macarenko and videos of cats playing the piano. So we were par ticularly stoked when we learned that in honour of the 10th annual Marpole Summer fest, the Marpole Business Association is holding a poetr y contest. Grand prize is $300 in gift cer tificates from local stores and a chance to per form your poem in public at the July 10 Summer fest event, which, speaking from personal experience, is one of the best places in the city for a poet to shine his or her dangling par ticiple. Entr y deadline

arts & entertainment

Francey feast, bluesy Log jam

is June 30, and submission forms can be picked up and dropped off at Characters Books & Coffee Bar or the Marpole Branch Librar y. You can also download a contest form at www.marpoleonline.com. Who knew they had Internet out there?

Since K&K doesn’t like to stand in the way of inspiration, we’ve already star ted composing our Marpole-centric poems.

So far we’re on our third volume. Here’s a sampling: “Marpole Heat” Just got a perm at Hair Reflections, Perfect for those summer breezes that await my journey to pick up some crumpets and jam. So sweet, so sticky like a heart that beats…. for Marpole.

“Marpole in My Pocket” Hangin’ out on South Granville waiting for the HandyDart to take us to the casino.

This pocket full of nickels isn’t the only thing jingling. So is my heart… for Marpole.

“A Valediction Forbidding Marpole” Hark, who goes there, through slippery shade of cherry blossom boughs and the come-hither scent of cinnamon buns and exhaust?

“T’is I,” said a voice, as old as ages and loud as dew.

“I’m one of the oldest neighbourhood’s in all Vancouver, but you wouldn’t know it judging by my vitality, vim and affordability.

Explore my long streets.

Feel my warm limbs. Embrace my many whimsical charms that have reinforced these ruddy bones for o’er a century.

For if you do, you will surely enter a world of wonder and conveniently located amenities, not to mention public transit stops, or my name, humble reader, isn’t…

Marpole.”

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Where many sports bars fall short, stylishly designed Red Card, attached to the Moda Hotel at 900 Seymour, photos Dan Toulgoet scores well in the beer, wine, cocktails and food department.

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As the World Cup kicks off today, chances are you’re planning where to catch some of the action. Thanks in no small part to success of the Winter Olympics, Vancouver’s bar culture has exploded. And when you consider that only a short while back the heavy hand of the Liquor Licensing Branch was dictating not only how many TV screens were allowed but how big they could be, well, thankfully we’ve come a long way.

There’s no shortage of TVs (18 and counting, with two more big screens

to come) at the Red Card Sports Bar, the cleverly named, recent addition to the Moda Hotel (900 Seymour St., ph.

604-689-4460).

(For those lacking soccer knowledge, when the ref shows the yellow card it’s a warning. The red card is waved next, or for more serious infractions, and you’re out of the game—if not several—and your team plays short handed.)

This red-brick and wood-trimmed sports-mad emporium offers the perfect brassy contrast to siblings Uva Wine Bar and Cibo (named by En Route magazine as Canada’s best new restaurant in 2009).

Where so many rooms fall short, Red Card scores well in the beer, wine and drinks department—thanks in no small part to the input of Moda sommelier and general manager Se-

bastien Le Goff, before he left town to open Daniel Boulud’s DB Bistro in Singapore.

The draught line up (close to 20 on tap) balances the obvious (Molson Canadian) with smaller, more taste-driven pints such as R&B Raven Cream and internationals like Murphy’s, Pike Place and Caffreys. You can take your pick of serious taps, or wander over to a cocktail list of specially themed World Cup concoctions, including the Forza Italia (Go Italy) made with grappa, Campari and Galliano and shaken with cranberry juice, spiced sugar and orange bitters.

Behind the scenes, the star of Red Card’s kitchen is a specially imported Marana Forni state of the art, part gas/ part wood-fired oven that turns out decent thin crust pizza and calzone.

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Continued from page 28 Top tastes from our visit were the West Coast, which sports a tasty combo of smoked salmon with mascarpone cream, lots of capers and fresh arugula, and the Diavola, with Bresaola beef, spicy capicollo, chilies and mozzarella.

We also like the fact that the kitchen, which turns out a wide range of Italian fare, isn’t hidden away but fully visible on a level behind the long bar, overlooking the room—like a boxing ring.

Red Card takes its World Cup obligations seriously. Even though the time difference between Vancouver and South Africa presents some challenges—never mind. On game days, the room will open at 7 a.m. for breakfast and be licensed from 9 a.m., which seems remarkably civilized for Vancouver. On non-game days, regular licensed hours start at 11 a.m.

There’s no shortage of sports bars with attendant TVs in this town, some better than others. But Red Card’s kitchen, smart surroundings and polished service puts it well beyond pub fare.

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Country of origin: Nicaragua What it is: an unnervingly bright red-coloured soft drink that tastes like cream soda with a dash of cough syrup.

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Oh boy, Buddy rocks the house Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story At the Stanley until July 11 Tickets: 604.687.1644 www.artsclub.com

Reviewed by Jo Ledingham

Apparently you’re over the hill when you start wearing “relaxed” jeans. But you’re seriously close to that same landmark when you know all the words to “Peggy Sue,” Buddy Holly’s smash hit back in the late ’50s: “Peggy Sue/Peggy Sue/Oh, how my heart yearns for you/ Oh, Peggy/My Pe-heggy Sue-ooh-oohooh.” Hardly profound, but it earned that tune the #3 spot in Billboard Magazine’s Top 100 in 1957.

Director Bill Millerd also has a smash hit on his hands—especially with the boomers who do everything but get up and start rockin’ and rollin’ in the aisles when Zachary Stevenson (as Buddy) explodes with tunes like “Ready Teddy,” “Oh Boy” and “Johnny B. Goode.” Stevenson, wearing Holly’s trademark big, horn-rimmed glasses and a big grin, is sensational. Note to those with excess weight: you will lose pounds just watching Stevenson’s nonstop, flat-out, seemingly jet-fuelled performance. The guy, already lean, is going to be a whole lot leaner by the end of the run. And that goes for the whole cast—all 14 of them. They’re having a blast on the Stanley stage and are 100 per cent committed to making sure you have fun, too.

Looking over the hit-after-hit song list, it’s hard to believe that Holly’s phenomenal recording and concert success only spanned about eighteen months before he was killed in a plane crash in 1959 at the age of 23 along with Ritchie

Zachary Stevenson turns in an explosive performance as Buddy Holly.

Valens and the Big Bopper. It was a meteoric rise for 19-year-old Holly seeing Elvis Presley live in Lubbock, Tex., Holly’s home town, to opening for Elvis later that same year.

Under Sasha Niechoda’s musical direction, Buddy really rocks the joint.

As well as The Crickets (played by Jeff Bryant on lead guitar, Scott Carmichael on drums and Jeremy Holmes on bass) there’s Niechoda on keyboards, Henry Christian, Neil Nicholson and Tom Colclough (who plays a mean saxophone).

Hype that up with three guys and three gals doing backup vocals and shakin’ their booties (choreographed by Valerie Easton) and what you’ve got is joyful sound at the Stanley.

Ted Roberts’ wide set is flanked by two radio studios, leaving lots of room

in the middle for various clubs and concert venues like the Surf Club and Harlem’s Apollo Theatre (where, apparently, the black emcee and audience were shocked to discover that Buddy Holly and The Crickets were white guys— “four honkies from Texas.” In the days when radio reigned, who knew?)

Rebekka Sorensen’s costumes— from Holly’s early cardigan and loafers to a velvet pinstripe suit and the girl trio’s frothy pink strapless gowns—recreate the era perfectly.

Buddy is not the greatest musical ever written. The plot, thin even at the beginning, peters out, and the show ends in what is virtually a concert with song after song. But it’s a fabulous showcase for loads of talent in addition to Stevenson’s lead performance. Denis Simpson is dynamite as the Apollo emcee, and he and Sibel Thrasher do a couple of numbers before Buddy’s act—which, naturally, brings down the Apollo house. Kieran Martin Murphy bops big as the Big Bopper (outrageously dressed in mismatched stripes and leopard-skin print) while sexy Michael Scholar Jr., in satin shirt and cummerbund, tears up the stage with a big, big “La Bamba.” Elena Juatco makes her Arts Club debut as Buddy’s love interest. Seana-Lee Wood is heart-o’-gold Vi, girl Friday and wife of producer Norman Petty (Milo Shandel).

We all know how Buddy’s story ends so there’s no surprise there.

What is surprising, though, is on how upbeat a note this musical signs off. It really is a celebration of a life—brief but stellar—and of music that rocked a generation. If for no other reason, see this show for Stevenson’s performance. Like Buddy Holly, he’s a natural. Rock on, Buddy. Rock on, Zach. joled@telus.net

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Carnivorous Sook-Yin Lee sinks her teeth into new film State of the Arts

with Cheryl Rossi She got super drunk at the longdefunct local Savoy nightclub, fell down two flights of stairs, stumbled to the warehouse where the guy she had fallen for lived, professed her love and then puked all over him.

It’s that awkward, circuitous search for first love that inspired Sook-Yin Lee’s first full-length film, Year of the Carnivore, which opens in Vancouver June 18.

Lee’s feature film screenplay and directorial debut tells the story of Sammy Smalls, a girl with a crush on a boy who thinks she’s bad in bed, so she goes out to get more experience.

Smalls is a 21-year-old tomboy who’s head over heels for a scruffy musician, Eugene Zaslavsky. After a disastrous one-night stand that surpasses the boundaries of their friendship, Zaslavsky suggests they should play the field. That catapults Smalls, who’s also a diminutive grocery store detective, on a quest that leads to adventures in her neighbours’ bedroom, a public swimming pool and the woods behind the Big Apple Food Town where she nabs shoplifters that her boss then beats up.

Lee, whose award-winning short films Unlocked, Girl Cleans Sink and Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle have screened internationally, said the search for love and connection is a theme she often

wrestles with so it made sense to focus on that for her first feature.

Also an actor famous for being filmed having an actual orgasm and acrobatic sex in the lead role in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, Lee says some may mistake her for being obsessed with carnal pleasures, but it’s the existential questions about connections and belonging that concern her.

“I’m interested in what gets in the way,” she said.

In other romantic comedies, the character of Zaslavsky, whose rise from street musician to guitarist in a locally popular band opens him up to a sexual buffet, might be dismissed as a selfish heartbreaker, Lee suggests, but in Year of the Carnivore he’s developed a little deeper, exposing the familial dramas, in a modest way, that affect the young man’s attitudes to relationships and sex.

Lee uses her art to dramatize some of the struggles she’s had for years, only on fast-forward.

One scene has Smalls sexing it up with herself in her bedroom in an effort to release her inner femme and explore her own sexuality.

“I just danced with the wall two years ago,” Lee said. “Air, Moon Safari, it was a super sexy album.”

Everyone in the angsty but largely playful romp struggles with shifting identities and thwarted desires to connect with others. The film touches on sexual conflicts between new parents and the struggles of a feisty older woman, Miss Nakamura, who’s become much less physically free with age and whose lover sits in

an urn on her table.

A concept album created by Lee, her writer-musician partner Adam Litovitz and Buck 65 complements the film, taking Year of the Carnivore’s exploration of love and sex to another level.

“There’s an actual song sung from Alan, who’s Miss Nakamura’s ex-lover, trapped inside the urn,” Lee said.

Lee, a Toronto-based musician, actor, filmmaker and media personality who grew up with immigrant parents in Lynn Valley until a family breakdown had her leave home at 15, says she was fortunate to fall in with artists after she struck out on her own because she became intimate with a variety of means of self expression.

Her role fronting the band Bob’s Your Uncle got her noticed by Moses Znaimer who hired her to be a MuchMusic VJ, which led to her job as a radio host with CBC. Although Year of the Carnivore incorporates vibrators, threesomes and hostage-taking, the host of CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera says her employers weren’t concerned about her latest film foray.

“I broke the hymen with Shortbus,” she said.

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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.

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.

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Trades/Technical

ContainerWest has been providing industrial storage, office & custom enclosure units for over 30 years. Our manufacturing plant at our head office in Richmond, BC, is currently hiring for the following positions: ★ 'B' Level Welders ★ Carpenters ★ Fabricators ★ Industrial Painters ★ Electrician Apprentices Shift work. Wages based on experience. Send resumes to jobs@containerwest.com No phone calls, please.

ROOFERS - Single Ply

Marine Roofing seeks fulltime Journeypersons.

Lower mainland BC Jobs Min. 3 yrs. exp. $27.50-$32.50/hr.

Call Daryl, 604-433-1813 dmorrison@marineroofing.com

Ticketed Carpenter Supervisor

Journeyman or woman, full time position, trade certification required.

Fax resume to 604-529-9204

Job Listings, From A-Z From advertising executive or banker to x-ray technician or zookeeper, you'll find it in the Employment Section.

To advertise in Employment call 604-630-3300

2010

2055 Food Products Strawberries Appliances

Birak Farms, Richmond 4200 No. 6 Road

604-339-9335

Upick or Ready Picked

UNDER PRESSURE SYSTEMS INC.

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

LIKE NEW!

Fridge $249 • Stove $199 Washer $199 • Dryer $149 Warranty & Delivery Removal Available

For Sale Miscellaneous

APPLY TODAY for a brand NEW FULLY LOADED MDG Desktop, Laptop or LCD HDTV delivered to your doorstep & get a FREE 22’’ LCD HDTV! FInance from 49 cents/day, $0 down, 1yr/2yr/3yr terms. Everyone’s Approved thanks to MDG’s In-House Financing 1-800-791-1174.

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Furniture

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

604-306-5134

2020

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BEST Deal Restwell Matt Sets.

Full wrty, Dble $319. Queen $339 King $559. Will deliver. 722-3636

Auctions CAN-AM

AUCTIONS

NEXT AUCTION Tuesday, July 20, 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.

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

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 DOWNSIZING, BEAUTIFUL furn exc cond, dbl bed w/linens, flatscreen tv,antique tbl & chair, vanity tbl, Luggage + more. Or $1,100 takes all 604-255-5574 HIGH END furniture for sale, very good condition, downsizing. call 604- 408-2419

www.canamauctions.com

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Clothing/Fur/ Jewels

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

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Wanted to Buy

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

employment@bablacktop.com Serving the BC Lower Mainland, the Fraser Valley and the Sunshine Coast.

To advertise in Employment call 604-630-3300

EDUCATION

We Believe in You. Sprott-Shaw Community College has been training students in BC for over 107 years.

We want you to be a success story too!

NEW START DATE SEPT 13th

FREE Biology Upgrading Classes Starting Now

Practical Nursing:

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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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604-272-7213

*Some conditions may apply.

Day & Evening Classes Available

• Approved by the College of Licensed Practical Nurses • Largest Practical Nursing Trainer in Canada

Monthly Intakes. No waiting lists. Financial options.

Job Placement Assistance

NEW START DATE JULY 5th

Resident Care Attendant: Career Opportunities: Care Aide, Home

Support, Long Term Care Aide *Funding may be available.

h “Train Wit ST E G R BC’s LA iner!”

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Call our East Vancouver Campus

604-251-4473 or visit us online @ www.sprottshaw.com

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Education

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.

Personal Trainer Certification 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

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

Medical Office Trainees Needed!

Doctors & Hospitals need Medical Administrative & Medical Office Staff! No Experience? Need Training? Local Training & Job Placement is also available.

1-888-748-4126

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

Government Financial Aid may be available.

604-930-8377 Hilltop Academy

604.351.7761

bfitzgerald@tutordoctor.com www.tutordoctor.com ONE-ON-ONE, IN-HOME TUTORING

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Music/Theatre/ Dance

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

Allegro Music School 604-327-7765 www.AllegroMusicSchool.com

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Tutoring Services

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

★COMPUTERS★

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

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

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We have jobs in every Lower Mainland community.

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3508 3015

DAY OR night, experienced middle aged lady to babysit in your home. Call 604-255-5574

Cats

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

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Dogs

MASSAGE & WAXING Men & Women

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

Langley.

Massage $29 Head to Toe 3 hrs $109

PB ENGLISH Springer Spaniel Puppies 6 months old. Very sweet...they have had all of their vaccines and vet checks. Ready for new homes. To 'GOOD' family homes only!!! Plse. call (604) 505-1620 $750.00

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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BORDER COLLIE Cross Sheltie pup male. Gorgeous! Ready Now. Blue Merles, $700. Aldergrove.

Call 604-856-3291 BOSTON TERRIER (PB) pupsshots, dewormed, parents to view. 8 wks July 5th. $1500. Call after 5 pm 604-374-0049

PUPPIES FOR SALE, father American Bulldog, mother Whippit/Pit Bull, 7 wks, healthy, no shots $375 obo 778-862-3568

CANE CORSO male pups, Italian Mastiff, 9 wks, tails docked, 1st shots, $1000, 604-351-8741

YORKSHIRE TEACUP males $800-$2000 obo, 1 super sm doll faced, vet checked 604-756-3309

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Dogs

ADORABLE PUPS, Pugs, Bugs & Westies $850 credit card ok, 604-542-8892 pics & video @ www.puppiesandponies.ca

COCKER SPANIEL p/b pups with papers vet. shots, ready now, Vanc. $400 neg. 604-708-1752

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Family issues, Happy Marriage, Reuniting loved ones, Immigration and Court matters, Business Success, stop stress, hopeless cases, Depression.

Quick Results. Natural gift!

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

Dog & Pony Shop Tent Sale Everything On Sale Sunday June 20th: 10am - 4pm 4830 Delta St, Ladner

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Pet Services

4062

LATISHA’S PET CARE

DOBERMAN PUPS. Female/ Male. Tails/dew claws done. Blk/ tan. $1500-$2000. 604-607-7433 FILA/MASTIFF GUARD DOGS owners best friend. Intruders worst nightmare. all shots, $2000 each. ready now! 604-817-5957

AUSTRALIAN LABRADOODLE Pups Non-shedding mediums, parents 27lbs, spayed/neutered, 1st shots, reg. with ALAA, $2500 1-250-494-3107 Summerland BICHON FRISE, 9/10 wks, 1st shots, vet checked, guar. ready to go. $600. 604-820-0194

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

MINI DACHSHUND. Smooth & wire hair. Health guaranteed.

Ready now! $800. 604-538-5433

PB BLUENOSE Pit Bull pup’s for sale. 4 left - $1000 - $1500. Ph Tim 604-557-8359

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RELAXATION Therapeutic Massage

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

Poultry

Charters & Tours

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.

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

www.TravelWithRon.ca

Business Opportunity

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

PEBBLECREEK FURNITURE franchise opportunity in Coquitlam.

For info call Rhoda at 604-541-8711 pebblecreek@shaw.ca

Shop at home...for your home. www.pebblecreekdesign.com

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

Business Opportunity

5015

$220,000 US Dollars required for 10 days to Ship Miners Gold to Europe Refiner, to pay for transportation & export taxes.

Exceptional Return, Secure by Gold. Call 604 538-4922

Mind, Body & Soul

PSYCHIC

Palm • Tarot Card •Crystal Ball Readings •Helps through all problems of life.

Results while you wait.

604.564.0696 778.552.3282

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2 FAMILY SALE Sat Jun 12th 7 am - 1pm No Earlies please in back alley @ 7757 Oak St. Furniture, kitchen appliances, household, books, free loveseat & lots more!!!

Saturday, June 12 • 11am-4pm

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IN A CAR Accident?

Getting DIVORCED? INHERITANCE coming?

GET MONEY TODAY!

Up to $10,000 Canada Wide Settlement Lenders 1-866-210-7200

Computer/ Internet

Computer Repair / Toner & Ink Cartridges All Brands. Refurb’s.

Home/Office. Simon 604-999-0815

5035

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

inancial Services

NEED CASH AND OWN A VEHICLE?

You keep your keys and drive away with cash.

Call Got Keys? Got Cash!

(604) 760-9629

To advertise call

604-630-3300

www.funpromo.ca 604.521.6304

H BIG FAMILY GARAGE SALE Sat & Sun, June 12 & 13th 9:30 am - 3:00 pm, 5468 Inverness Street Dishes, furniture,clothing, electronics, books and more.

Rain or Shine • No Early Birds

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✫Lane Garage Sale✫ 1900 block on the South Lane of W. King Edward Ave.

Sunday, June 13th · 10am- 2pm · E

MULTI-DWELLING YARD SALE

H - WILSON HEIGHTS ★ THRIFT SALE ★ 1634 East 41st Ave

(Apartment block) Sat & Sun, 10am-5 2155 West 5th Ave Furniture, Household goods, Clothing, Jewellry, Music, Shoes & Kids Stuff etc.

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(at Argyle)

Fri, June 11th, 5 to 7 pm Sat, June 12th, 9am - 12

GARAGE SALE

CHURCH YARD SALE 4397 West 12th

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

Revised Address Saturday, June 12 th 10am to 3pm Clothes, Accessories, Shoes, Toys, Kitchen items, Sporting goods, Plants and more.

Rain or Shine!

MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

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

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Body Work

RELAXING MASSAGE very clean/private. 9am-11pm, 7days, D/town & Kits. Anie 604-684-8773

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.

One Person’s Junk is Another Person’s Treasure!

**RELIEVE ROAD RAGE**

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G-

Collectible Fair & Computer Swap Meet

Business Services

http://www.gotkeysgotcash.com

5005

GARAGE SALES

Janitorial Company offering CLEANING CONTRACTS from $500 - $5000 per month income.

We are also looking for INVESTORS in growing cleaning business.

For info: 604-525-2117 Email: daniel@gogreencollege.ca

5020 4520

SHARPEI IN Coquitlam is looking for good home, very healthy and great with people. Must go through Sharpei rescue for an application.

SCOTTISH DEERHOUND pups.

Rare. Purebred. CKC reg’d. $1500. 1st shots. Microchipped. ironstonedeerhounds\ @gmail.com 604.535.0465

Mind,Body&Soul

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

Cloverdale, 604 541-0007

PB GERMAN shepherd pups, black & tan, 7 weeks old, 1st shots, vet✔, $550 604-856-7405

www.petfinder.com/petdetail/5731357

Metaphysical

Gadry Consultation

Horses & Tack

Cat sitting. We love cats. Vanc. only. Michele 778-385-7313 ALL SMALL breed pups local & non shedding $400+ 604 590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

Registered Massage Services

SWISS BODY

Childcare Available

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

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Dogs

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Lighten Your Load and Advertise in Marketplace.

604-739-3998

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Personals

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Call Today to Place Your Ad

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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 11, 2010

REAL ESTATE

LEGALS 5505

6002

Legal/Public Notices

6020

Agents

NEED A MORTGAGE 1st and 2nd Mortgages, Self Employed, Refinancing, Forclosures, Low Rates.

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6020-01

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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 Aldergrove spotless 1800sf 4br 2ba w/suite 8260sf lot nr school $429K 329-7886 id5127 Coquitlam 10,000sf lot w/1000sf 3br 2ba home, outbuilding $440K 778-859-0717 id4272 Delta 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 $539,900 778-240-1196 id5118 Mission, Lake Front Deeded Lot with 38’ Park Model Home $159,900 289-1100 id5140 New West Investor Alert! 638sf 1br condo nr Royal Cent Mall $164,900 525-8577 id5142 Richmond Open House Sun 2-4 #326, 7295 Moffatt, Completely reno’d 674sf 1br condo, pool, $224,900 345-3915 id5148 Surrey Newton completely reno’d 1100sf 2 br townhouse $169,900 562-2977 id4773 Sry Fleetwood huge 1801sf 5br 3.5ba rancher, 7184sf lot $429,900 778-240-1196 id5117 Sry Fleetwood immaculate 1573sf 3br 2.5ba tnhse, sxs garage $385K 512-3629 id5144

Burnaby

SUN June 13, 2-4, VIEW! Fully reno’d 1 BR condo, granite counters in kitch, 737sf, rentals ok, wlk to L’heed skytrn/schls, $218,900, Mala @ Sutton, 604-710-9030

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Houses - Sale

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Real Estate

6020

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

Real Estate

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RENTALS 6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

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

6508

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

27 Years of Award-Winning Sales Experience C Peter A L 604-290-1002 L Amex Broadway West Realty

6508

Apt/Condos

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

LUXURY 1 bdrm condo avail now. Atrium At The Pier. Pool & gym incl. f/p, w/d, Stainless steel appl. n/s, $1900m 604-947-9425 miansampath@gmail.com

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

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2 BR nr 70 & Granville, $960 incl ht, h/w & Balc, Laund, Recently Reno’d, Avail Now 604-261-1849

Apt/Condos

Olympic Village

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday • June 13th • 1 to 4 pm 75 West 1st Ave, Vancouver MILLENNIUM WATER…. A COMPLETE WATERFRONT COMMUNITY FEATURING LONDON DRUGS, URBAN FARE, RESTAURANTS, EASY ACCESS TO TRANSIT AND LUXURY WATERFRONT LIVING.

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Apt/Condos

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

GEORGIAN TOWERSST. 1021 HOWAY

NEW WESTMINSTER 1450 WEST GEORGIA ST. 11Bdrm from $799 & 3 bedrooms

2 Bdrmsstarting from $from 959 available $ 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 MARPOLE, 70TH & Granville area, 2 Bdr. apt. $995. Adult building. Available immediately.

Call 604-263-9038.

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Houses - Sale

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● DIFFICULTY SELLING? ●

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-04

Houses - Sale

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 suites, easy transit.

Call for details.

604-669-4185 RENTALS 778-783-0258 www.caprent.com

LANGLEY, 8258 211th St. Sat/ Sun, 2 - 4pm. Brand new 7 BR (3,425 sf) house, 3 lvl, 5 baths, granite, h/wd flrs, 2 f/ps, rec rm, dbl garage, incl 2 BR s/c bsmt ste.

On greenbelt. $629,000. Rupe Mann, United Rlty, 778-240-7914

6508

Apt/Condos

Don’t Miss THIS!

$

SUN, 2 to 4, 19454 Sutton Ave, Pitt Meadows, 2 yrs old, 3 BR + Den, Over 2400sf, Immaculate Condition. Michael Lepore, Royal LePage Westside 604-295-3974 www.AccoladeRealEstate.ca

Sun Jun 13, 2-4, 24026 Fern Cr Mridge,1 acre on Allouette River, 3BR rancher, 1591sf, garage/ shop 450sf, $648K, Fay Tomlinson, Sutton WC, 778-772-9848

6020-28

Port Coquitlam

PORT COQUITLAM

1935 Jacana Ave,

Sunday June 13th, 1-4pm

8 BR & 4 f/baths, incls 4 BR inlaw ste, 2 lvls, CDS. Upr Mstr BR w/win closet, lg ensuite, kitchen w/pantry. Elegant living rm, formal dining, vaulted ceilings, newer paint, lam flrs. Family rm patio drs to back deck. Bright, modern self contained 4 BR in-law ste, 2f/baths, w/priv ent. newly reno’d, w/walkout to fenced backyrd, Mstr BR w/walk-in closet & enste.

Asking: $698,800 Kerry Sandrin, Royal LePage - Coronation West.

Cell: 604-763-4638 http://www.sandrin.com

6020-46

S. Surrey/ White Rock

Find your perfect home at

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CALL (604) 438-4544 leasing@burnabycentre.com

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Place Your Ad On-line at https://webads.van.net or call 604-630-3300

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Okanagen/ Interior

EXCEPTIONAL LAKEVIEW Lots from $160,000 also: 1 panoramic 3 - acre parcel.

Owner Financing, 250-307-2558 www.orlandoprojects.com

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Real Estate Investment

GRANDVIEW @ Las Vegas on South Blvd brand new concrete bldg, 2 sep 1 br XLrg units, Luxurious, ldry, 2 jacuzzi, a/c, plasma, king bed, slps 8, full equipped kitchen. Timeshare 4 x per yr, you own % of property, Rentals ok Asking $35,000 604-374-4350 * 604-506-7576 ★ 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

Need a New Place?

6508

6540

Apt/Condos

Langara Gardens

Updated Studio & 1 BR Apts.

Rental Incentives Offered.

Rent includes heat and hot water.

N. WEST. All services paid, inclds u/grd electrical, DCC’s, survey & eng’ng report. 33’ x 130’ lot. No GST. $335,000. 604-726-0677. usellahome.com ● ID # 4711

Find one in the Classifieds To advertise call 604-630-3300

BEAUTIFUL APTS. 1 & 2 BR avail. Special rates. Open House FRI & SAT @ 8665 Shaughnessy Call 604-327-9419

BURNABY CENTRE

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

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NS/NP. Avail now. 604-861-6303

EAST VNCR. Near 7th & Clark.

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No pets. $1100. 604-218-7660

Lots & Acreage

OWN your own Custom Blt 6 BR, 5 bath, Coach Home in Summerfield for $1000/mo. Sutton WC. Michelle Perreault 604-728-2817

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Do You Need to Rent Your Property?

4 Lines 3 Times

Maple Ridge/ Pitt Mead.

6030

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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6522

Furnished Accommodation

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6540

Houses - Rent

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www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca

Houses - Rent

1069 W. 32nd Ave Shaughnessy, 3 bdrm, 2 main, 1 down, 2 bath, hardwood flrs, prkg, stor, July 1 for 6 mths $2500, 604-729-5298

6565

Office/Retail Rent

Offices: 2nd floor 2000 sq.ft. Main floor $200 per month and up.

Ground floor 4000 sq. ft. 2163 Kingsway 604-454-1617

6580

Rental Services

1BR $950 UP 450sqt 1549 Barclay. 1yr Lease Incl. Hot water & Heat. Pet OK Now 778-288-8925 Keith

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR large lovely bsmt suite grd lvl, Killarney area, prefer female, $800/mth incl utils, 604-464-1046 after 11am, 604-591-8908 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.

6615

Wanted To Rent

WOMAN, VEGET, meditator, (you don’t have to be) 2 cats, seeks 1 br ste in a house for July 1st. Have ref’s. 778-323-4345

Call 604-630-3300 to place your ad

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HOME SERVICES 8020

Blinds & Draperies

WINDOW BLINDS SALES & SERVICES All Blinds up to 75% Off 1” & 2” Venetians, Verticals & Rollers • Repairs & Cleaning Free Estimates & Installation

Call Joseph @ Metro Decor

778-995-0295

8040

Carpet/Flooring Installation

CURLYS CARPET REPAIR Repair/Re-Stretching

604-282-6630

curlyscarpetrepair.com ALL FLOOR COVERINGS Repair & Replace. Material sales Dwight, 604-732-3057 I’ll show you the inexpensive route www.fccarpets.shawwebspace.ca

8055

Cleaning

8060

8075

Concrete

CONCRETE SPECIALIST Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, remove & replacing

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp.

For free estimates call Mario

253-0049

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604-767-5915 Call Rocky Concrete Specialist. Driveways, sidewalks, exposed aggregate & patios. Santino 604.254.5551 CONCRETE SPECIALIST, patio sidewalk, driveway, exposed aggregate reas rate 604-764-2726

8073

Drainage

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DRAIN TILES & WATER LINES Without Digging a Trench 604-739-2000

EXP HOME detail cleaners, move in/move out, homes, offices, Free metal p/u. etc Call 604-327-1219

Mia Casa − Drain Tile/Sewer Line Water Line Repairs / Replacement & Cleaning. Vince 604-941-6060, Al 604-783-3142

I will clean, tidy & organize your garage, clean the windows & paint the floor $25/hr. Min 4 hrs + materials. I am bondable.

Lorne 604-515-7474 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 WWW.GREEN-N-CLEAN. CA Earth-Friendly, Bike-Powered cleaning, visit / call 604-338-4996

8058

Computer Services

$45 / Hour

Computer Home Repair Service ✔ Virus removal • 15 yrs exp ✔ Increase computer speed ✔ Open wknds/eves, 24/7

778-384-2019

8075

Drywall

ALL WORK GUARANTEED

J.A. CONSTRUCTION

Specializing in drywall & textured ceiling repairs, drywall finishing, stucco repairs, painting. Fully insured.

604-916-7729 JEFF

CITY LINK DRYWALL LTD WCB, liability insured. 20 yrs exp.

Call Indy. Free Est. 604-780-5302 ★ COMPLETE DRYWALL ★ By certified tradesman.

Small jobs pref. 604-762-4024 *Drywall * Taping * Texture * Stucco*Painting * Steel stud framing Quality Home 604-725-8925 GOLD STAR DRYWALL Boarding, taping & textures. Also wall and floor tiles. 604-418-8516

8110

Drywall

Floor Refinishing

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Call Bruno ★ 604-313-2763 VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling & textured ceiling repairs. Bonded 604-307-2295 / 778-340-5208

Wayne The Drywaller

Quality Drywall Finishing. Textured Ceilings & Repair. Renov Specialist.

No job too small. 837-1785

8080

Electrical

The current choice serving the Lower Mainland for more than 15 years.

All Kinds of Work and Reasonable Rates.

Contact us today for a free estimate.

Max: 604-341-6059 Licensed & Bonded

8090

Fencing/Gates

THE FENCE GUY

S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING

Factory Direct Cedar Fence Panel for Sale & Installation 8291 No.5 Rd Richmond Call 604-275-3158

ELECTRIC AVE Installations.

Electrian lic# 99207, Res/comm, www.electric-ave.ca 604-215-0562

CEDAR, BAMBOO, chain link, gates, arbour, rubbish removal, landscape, etc. 604-321-2868

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Exp, friendly, reliable. Specializing in replacing old nob & tube wiring. Lic.#50084. 604-725-4535

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LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309 Commercial & residential renos & small jobs. 778-322-0934.

West Coast Cedar Installations Custom fencing, decking & more 604-244-8824, Cell: 604-788-6458

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

GARAGE SALE

Excavating

# 1 BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT

one mini, drainage, landscaping, stump / rock / cement / oil tank removal.

Water / sewer line, 24 hours Call 341-4446 or 254-6865

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

Floor Covering

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★ Insured ★ B.C.T.Q Tradesmen 1994 Call Dave 604-781-9110

A Lic’d. Electrician #30582. Rewiring & Reno, Appliance/Plumbing. Rotor Rooter & Hydro Pressure Jetting Service, 604-255-9026 - 778-998-9026 Free Estimates / 24 Hr Service

8087

8105

40% OFF ALL OVERSTOCK ITEMS FREE grout on all tile work

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Golden Hardwood & Laminate Prof intall, refinishing, sanding, and repairs. 778-858-7263

8110

Floor Refinishing

604-420-4800

DYNAMIC GUTTERS & Exteriors. Full seamless gutters. Installation repairs & soffits. All jobs guaranteed. Fully insured, bonded, WCB. Will beat any competitors price. 604-439-9417 Professional Powerwash Gutters cleaned & repaired Since 1984, 604-339-0949 Waters Home Maintenance Gutter Cleaning, repairs, windows Free estimate 604-738-6606

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Free Estimates Ph. 604 293.0057 Cel. 604 657.8931

604-878-5232

ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing.

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SINCE 1997

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8120

Glass Mirrors

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Refer to the Service Directory for all of your home improvement, decorating and gardening needs.

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Looking to do some

Kitchens/Baths

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8150

www.renorite.com

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8130

Heating

Lorenzo & Son Plumbing & Heating (604) 312-6311 Local Licensed Plumbers & Gas Fitters

• Sales & Installation of 5’’ Continuous Gutter • Minor Repairs • Cleaning

Dustless sanding and refinishing, custom stains & installations, sales & design. Res/Com. Call for appt 604-722-6350

Lic. 22308

A. LIC. ELECTRICIAN #19807 Semi-retired wants small jobs only.

604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319

8140

Gutters

EDGEMONT GUTTERS

Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: A long (sevenmonth) hot and even “bothered” romantic, creative or pleasure pursuit ended a week ago. Now a much sweeter, affectionate pursuit begins. This is less an expression of your own needs (as the last one was) and more a less selfish, true search for a partner. In business/practical areas, the few weeks ahead help you to negotiate deals, settlements, woo clients. Rest, attend to kids, home, real estate Sunday/Monday. That romantic (creative, et al) thing becomes very obvious Monday to Wednesday!

Tackle chores Thursday/Friday. Give others the road Saturday: intuition soars.

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June 13 - 19

Cancer June 21-July 22: Stay in rest mode one more week. Contemplate your situation, your future, and make plans. You’ll like Sunday/Monday: your energy rises, and others are nicer than usual. Monday begins a month of good money luck – perhaps a balm to heal last winter/spring’s cuts and bruises.

You could take or start a great income action Monday night (after dark). But the time is telling: much of your success this summer might be tough to grab (wrong hours, hints rather than solidities, etc.) – don’t worry, this is just a precursor of a big success in 2011! Be home, dream, Saturday.

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: A sweet, mellow month for you. It grows even more mellow now. Love could wander in, or you could start having marriage thoughts about someone you’re seeing. (Let’s face it, you’re always “considering” marriage.) This summer is just a taste, for most of you, as your true mate stands hidden. Your social life grows more gentle, gracious; you’ll be popular, especially with “identicals,” rather than those who are different (as last winter/spring).

Be ambitious Sunday/Monday. Best path: socializing, networking. A great friend could appear Monday/ Tuesday, Saturday – maybe a future partner.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Last month you moved from an autumn/winter of deep mysteries (and deep desires) to more open, affectionate dealings with others. Now, those mysteries, deep desires, intimacies and finances of your life arise again, to July 9, but in a sweet, lucky way (especially Monday night). Dig deep, and share, enjoy this time, grow closer to others/another. A legal, intellectual, travel or cultural matter still weighs on you, but you will soon grow more assertive here, demand or initiate action.

This should bring a two-year burden to an end by late July. But start no lawsuits! Work hard all week.

Taurus April 20-May 20: Your domestic scene, into which someone sprinkled pepper since last October, now (to mid-July) seems sprinkled with sugar and sweet words. You could notice this immediately, Sunday to Wednesday. (Though by Wednesday the old domestic or inner doubts might return – don’t worry, these doubts will fade forever, by 2011.) Monday’s a hugely favourable day to communicate, to talk about love (and vacation or travel or relatives visiting). Late night, begin a family, gardening, real estate or similar project. Chase money all week, but pause for a wee bit of pleasure, beauty, Thursday/Friday.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Winter/spring’s scowl yields to smiles and charm, now to mid-July. You feel sweeter –make sure someone knows it. It’s quite possible you’ve unknowingly alienated someone – or outright declared war. Well, you’re a warrior no more.

Sue for peace, while the suing is good. Lie low, rest, look within Sunday/Monday. Bright insights come.

Your energy surges late this night to Wednesday.

Monday night, especially, is great for talk, love, wooing, writing, meeting someone. Chase money Thursday/Friday. It’s not that you’ll see immediate rewards, but your efforts build “future cred.” Friends, Saturday.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Your social side will grow over the next two months. But you’ll become a “social warrior,” either associating with rougher types (or simply with colleagues, co-workers) or being a bit more assertive, demanding – “Let me in that door!” Money luck will somehow be connected to this (security luck too, perhaps). Sunday/Monday are mellow, easy. Be ambitious Monday night to Thursday, especially Monday night, when you can launch or reel in a plum job. All month, mysteries, investigations highlighted – detect, don’t let someone elude you!

Sex, finances important also – go slow here.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Your romantic and social scenes are surging! So is your tendency to become a chatterbox when you see someone you want – talk is how you play the game of love. You could meet someone who would make a viable mate, now to early July, especially early this week. Relations with everyone improve, as a sweet, affectionate note enters. Tackle chores Sunday/Monday – but don’t start new work-like projects Sunday daytime.

Thursday/Friday are sexy, filled with mystery, but throw some irksome situations at you. See the reality these days – don’t invest. Saturday, dreamy love!

Gemini May 21-June 20: Your energy, charisma and effectiveness remain high. Start important projects, get your way, see and be seen – tackle things that formerly intimidated you. For seven months, communications have been hopeful, friendly — and angry, simmering with hostility. Now to mid-July, a turnaround: others speak or write to you graciously and affectionately. You get (got) what you put out.

If you need to “make up,” do it late Monday night.

Money (or friendship) news is good Monday daytime.

Love is magic Saturday. Bravely face a financial, sexual or lifestyle “reality” all week – conquer it.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Male or female, you’ll project your rougher, more determined, assertive side through late July. Your interest in sexual intimacy and financial dealing will rise strongly. At the same time, you’re unusually conservative, careful and even socially hesitant. The combination could be a good one. However, for the four weeks ahead you might lack the graciousness or charm that can lubricate (unfortunate word) sexual or financial situations. (So plan your important meetings for July 10 onward, when all factors work for you. Sunday/Monday are optimistic, friendly! Be ambitious Thursday/Friday.

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: The accent is on relationships in every form – and on horizons, opportunities, relocation. You’re starting to feel more romantic, and a new sweetness enters your mental sphere, where before there was impatience and assertiveness. (One example: you might have been fighting a lawsuit – the mental – but now you settle or make overtures.) Mysteries, sexual urges, finances, inheritance featured Sunday/Monday. Monday also might bring a friendly meeting that could turn to “instant love.” No, don’t be cautious! Wisdom mid-week. Be ambitious Thursday/Friday. Dreamy happiness Saturday.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: The accent lies on home, food, kids, rest – it’s your hibernation period, for one more week. Relationships intensify now through July – you could create a financial partnership, enjoy a spicy, casual, sensual affair (it won’t last long) or make an enemy – or fall madly and angrily in love. Give the last a wide, wide berth. Co-workers become affectionate, work will be pleasant to early July. Romance might enter the workplace Sunday to Wednesday. Seek pleasure, beauty, love Sunday/ Monday. (Sunday daytime isn’t “wise.”) Relationships need patience Thursday/Friday. Secrets Saturday. timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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HOME SERVICES 8155

Landscaping

8160

Lawn & Garden

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8185

Moving & Storage

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

B&Y MOVING

8175

Masonry

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garage, basement, backyard.

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

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Top Quality Masonry Work

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MOVING SYSTEMS

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Northwest Arboriculture Colin Malcolm, Insured

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iGarden Mowing, Full garden maintenance & landscape services. Power raking, aerating, fertilizing, gutter cleaning. 1st two cuts for the price of 1.

Free Est. 778-991-5296

Home Services

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

8180

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8193

Oil Tank Removal

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8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

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Paving/Seal Coating

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9522 2008 HONDA Civic, Auto, 4 dr, silver, grey int, all power, a/c, 26K kms, $13,000. 604 518-3166

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T HE VA N C O U V E R C O U R I E R F R I D AY, JUNE 1 1 , 2 0 1 0

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Luxury vehicle a thrill to drive but has poor fuel efficiency

Iconic 911 Turbo Porsche remains a classic davidchao Introduced in 2005, the sixth generation of Porsche’s legendary 911 has received nothing but praise—and the new, seventh-generation car is even better. The 2010 911 design takes things up a notch from a car that was already impressive, offering cuttingedge technology, exceptional styling and the lively, energetic feeling that 911 owners love so much.

On the “low” end, there’s the base Carrera, all-wheel-drive Carrera 4, and the glass-topped Targa 4, available in coupe and cabriolet body styles, and performance-tuned “S” versions. Then there are the top dogs.

The GT3 RS is the model for a trackready sports car, and the slightly-relaxed GT3 brings that performance to the road. Then there’s the GT2 RS, boasting a ridiculous 620-hp and a 0100km/h time of 3.5 seconds.

But none of them can really compare to the 911 Turbo, an iconic car for generations. As the name implies, the most beloved of 911s comes with twin turbochargers bolted to its flatsix engine, leaving it second only to the GT2 RS in terms of raw horsepower. The Turbo is everything you could want in a pure sports car, requiring a firm hand to keep it planted, and rewarding that control with breathtaking performance. The steering wheel feels like a direct extension of your arm, and the brakes let you know exactly how much stopping power is necessary. Unbelievable grip makes the Turbo virtually untouchable on the track, while a controlled and supple suspension enables it to serve as a surprisingly comfortable everyday car.

There are lots of exotic supercars in the world, and for each one you can say that there’s no other like it. But

in this case, that’s just not enough.

The Turbo has an untouchable combination of talent, charisma, and reputation that no other car has ever attained or, more importantly, maintained. Porsche understands that the 911’s intangibles are just as important as its specifications and astonishing performance. That’s what separates it from everything else on the road, whether you’re driving the Turbo or a base Carrera.

Of course, if you’re a true Porsche aficionado you already know all this; and if so, there’s not a lot more that I can tell you. So do yourself a favour and take a trip to Stuttgart, Germany, where you can check out the Porsche Museum at Porsche Headquarters.

Originally built in 1976, the museum reopened in 2009 after a major expansion, and now features 80 vehicles and numerous small exhibits, including famous cars from throughout Porsche’s history. If you can’t afford a Porsche of your own—and most of us can’t—a visit to the Porsche Museum might just be the next best thing. Even better, visit the Porsche factory tour, which provides close-up view of the most fascinating factory in the world.

Design—The 911 has never undergone a complete restyling—the

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unmistakable design has simply evolved, such that you can still see the resemblance between the newest and oldest 911s. Meanwhile, the Ferraris, Corvettes, and Mustangs of the world have undergone major redesigns over their lifespans.

It’s not the “whale tale” of the past, but the Turbo’s ever-present spoiler (which automatically extends and retracts depending on speed) is the key styling feature that sets it apart from lower-end 911s, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Still, the car maintains a seemingly calm and relaxed demeanour that separates it from the racetrack-oriented GT3, GT3 RS, and GT2 RS variants.

If elegant interiors are your game, you’re better served by a MercedesBenz. In contrast, the Turbo’s simple and straightforward interior is all business, and that’s just what Porsche owners want.

While design and build quality have improved over the years, the 911 retains the raw, customized feel of a hand-built car.

Performance—Combined with twin turbochargers and matching intercoolers, the new 3.8L flat-six engine generates a phenomenal 500-hp and 480 lb-ft of torque and propels the 911 Turbo from 0-100km/h in 3.7

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seconds. If that’s not enough, the Turbo S’s massaged powerplant improves those numbers to 530-hp and 516 lb-ft of torque.

With a rear-mounted engine and all-wheel drive, it feels like there’s a jet engine propelling the 911 Turbo.

Even though it’s been water-cooled since the introduction of the last model, it still sounds like the classic air-cooled engines that made the 911 famous.

The six-speed manual gearbox is solid and precise, rewarding purposeful shifts with instant power. However, the latest technology comes in the form of the seven-speed, dualclutch Doppelkupplung transmission, which replaces the outgoing TipTronic automatic that paved the way for paddle shifters.

Handling is about as close to perfect as it gets; steering is neutral and tracks straight, and the feedback from the road is exceptional. You can tell exactly when the rear wheels are about to lose their grip on the road, making it easy to push the car right to the edge.

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placement. As a result, the Turbo is as comfortable to drive around town as it is satisfying to throw around the track.

Environment—The 911 Turbo’s seats are fantastic; the side bolsters grab you and hold you in place, and a tilt-and-telescope steering column enables anyone to find a good driving position.

You still get the tiny rear seats so it’d be far more useful to convert the rear into dedicated storage space.

Ergonomics are better than the previous car, but the controls are low on the dashboard, hiding at the bottom of the cliff-like centre console. It takes time to figure out where they are by touch, which will leave most drivers looking away from the road, and there are no buttons mounted on the steering wheel other than the optional paddle shifters.

Interior storage includes a decent glovebox, door-mounted storage bins, a bin in the centre console, and a shelf behind the rear seats. The cargo space under the front hood is tall but not very big.

Features—The Turbo starts at $165,300, while the cabriolet version pushes the price to $178,400. Both are available in either the base or S trims.

Standard equipment includes ABS, all-wheel drive, traction control, stability control, Active Suspension Management, Xenon headlamps, cruise control, power windows, automatic air conditioning, BOSE sound system with CD/DVD-Audio/MP3 playback, and front airbags.

Available options include notable items such as Porsche Torque Vectoring, Sport Chrono Package Turbo, sport shifter, ceramic composite brakes, swivelling headlamps, heated and ventilated seats, and Bluetooth.

With the Doppelkupplung transmission, fuel efficiency is rated at 17.0L/100km in the city and 8.1L/100km on the highway.

Thumbs up: Just about everything.

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Attention Hyundai Owners

BRAND NEW FACILITY, SAME GREAT SERVICE.

NOW OPEN Vancouver’s Newest and Only Hyundai Dealership

GRAND OPENING SERVICE SPECIALS

Mazda’s Only Vancouver Dealer of Distinction Store

29.95

$

2010 MAZDA 3

179

$

*Per mth

0

$

for 48 mths

Security deposit

0 60 %

Purchase

5.15% lease rate. $3,900 down payment. financing† Freight & PDE included: $1,395. Taxes extra for

mths

*Per mth

0

$

for 48 mths

Security deposit

0

%

Purchase financing† for

Please present this coupon.

Cannot be combined with other offers.

60

mths

Offers expire Aug 31/10

Service Direct Booking Hotline: 604-292-8190 or Book Online at: www.DestinationHyundai.com

5 min East of Metrotown

604 .433.7779

OFF

OVER $100

5.15% lease rate. $3,750 down payment.

Freight & PDE included: $1,395. Taxes extra

5775 KINGSWAY & IMPERIAL, BURNABY 2009

25 ANY SERVICE FREE SERVICE SHUTTLE WITHIN VANCOUVER

2009 2010

www.metrotownmazda.com

(604) 292•8188

D 9493

No hidden fees.

Just sign and go!

0

0

%

Down Payment*

for 72 months*

WARRANTY

INCLUDES

%

Purchase Financing

445 Kingsway near 12th Ave in Vancouver

D#31042

189

$ Lease from

Lease from

$

199.95

$

2010 MAZDA 3 SPORT

Starting From

299.95

$

✔ Air Conditioning ✔ Keyless Entry and ✔ Power Package with all 2010s shown

All Suzuki vehicles come with a 5-year, 100,000 kilometre powertrain limited warranty and 3-year unlimited kilometre roadside assistance.

NO SURPRISES! COME IN FOR A TEST DRIVE TODAY! Grand Vitara is priced to be competitive, it’s comfortable, and “it The offers a high level of standard equipment and safety features.”

you’re looking for a real bang for your buck, the SX4 “fitsIf the bill.”

- Globe and Mail

- Jill McIntosh, canadiandriver.com

AVAILABLE

STANDARD

SX4 Hatchback JLX shown

119

$

*

bi-weekly payment + tax

JUST SIGN AND GO!

Most fuel efficient Compact SUV in Canada^

2010 SX4 Hatchback

Grand Vitara JX shown

JUNE SALES EVENT ON NOW!

AM/FM/CD/MP3/WMA player • Auxiliary input jack ABS with Electronic Brake Distribution • 6 Airbags 2.0L DOHC engine with variable valve timing

187

$

*

bi-weekly payment + tax

JUST SIGN AND GO!

2010 Grand Vitara JX 4WD

4 Mode 4WD • AM/FM/CD/MP3/WMA player (6 speakers) Auxiliary input jack • ABS with Electronic Brake Distribution 6 Airbags • Keyless Entry and Start System 2.4L DOHC engine with variable valve timing

06115270

Monday-Thurs 9:00am to 8:00pm. Fri and Sat 9:00am to 6:00pm. Sunday 12:00pm to 5:00pm.

604-273-0331 www.richmondsuzuki.com for details Hurr y Down to3771 No. 3 Road OPPOSITE YAOHAN CENTRE www.richmondsuzuki.com

CONSUMERS SHOULD READ THE FOLLOWING: All Inclusive Pricing means there are no surprises; our Purchase Financing offers include Delivery & Destination, $100 A/C Excise Tax, $72 PPSA, $399 Dealer Administration Fee, Customer Cash Incentive and Dealer Participation. Your only additional costs are the applicable taxes, license, registration and insurance. Vehicles may not be exactly as shown. Limited time offers are subject to change without notice. MSRP of a new 2010 SX4 Sedan with manual transmission (S3LB1J0), 2010 SX4 Hatchback with manual transmission (model H3NB1H0) and 2010 Grand Vitara JX with automatic transmission (model L2NB5T0) is $19,661/$19,661/$30,161 (includes $1,395/$1,395/$1,595 destination and delivery, $100 AC tax, $72 PPSA and $399 Dealer Administration Fee). MSRP of models shown 2010 SX4 Sedan Sport with manual transmission (Model S3LB1K0), 2010 SX4 Hatchback JLX with CVT transmission (Model H3NB720) and 2010 Grand Vitara JX with automatic transmission (Model L2NB5T0) is $21,661/$26,661/$30,161 (includes $1,395/$1,395/$1,595 destination and delivery, $100 AC tax, $72 PPSA and $399 Dealer Administration Fee). *Limited time fi nance offers available to qualifi ed retail customers on approved credit. Special bi-weekly purchase fi nance offer is available for a 72/72/72 month term or for a total of 156/156/156 bi-weekly payments. The bi-weekly payment at 0%/0%/0% purchase fi nancing APR is $109/$119/$187 with $0/$0/$0 down payment. Cost of borrowing is $0/$0/$0 for a total obligation of $17,004/$18,564/$29,172 (includes $1,395/$1,395/$1,595 destination and delivery, $100 AC tax, $72 PPSA and $399 Dealer Administration Fee). Customer Cash Incentive of $2,500/$1,000/$1,000 included when purchase fi nancing a 2010 SX4 Sedan with manual transmission (Model S3LB1J0), 2010 SX4 HB with manual transmission (Model H3NB1H0) and 2010 Grand Vitara JX with automatic transmission (Model L2NB5T0). Dealer Participation Required. Information shown is based on the latest information available at time of print. See participating dealers for conditions and details.

Dealer may sell for less. Offers end July 9, 2010.^ AWD available as an option on the SX4 Hatchback. Based on Fuel Consumption Guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. Fuel economy estimates are determined by using Transport Canada approved testing methods.

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T HE VA N C O U V E R C O U R I E R F R I D AY, JUNE 1 1 , 2 0 1 0

ER UCK !

V O TR LE 0 LAB 0 2 AI AV

The Lowest Price in Auto Service!

UP TO

up to 5L Castrol 6T 10W30

3300

UP TO

MSRP...............$25,115 Save..................$9,617 GM Loyalty..........$1,500

13,998

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MSRP..............$33,295 Save.................$9,807 GM Loyalty........$1,500

DUECK CASH PRICE

21,988

$ #10CK2531

New 2010 Silverado 4x4 EXT CAB

New 2010 GMC Sierra 1500

Timing Belt Parts & Labour ................from $199 Muffler Special ..............................from $58.95 Front or Rear Brakes Parts & Labour from $68.95 Clutch Special Parts & Labour ............from $350 Complete Service Special ..................from $95

4.8L V8, Automatic, Keyless remote, deep tint glass, trailer pkg, locking diff, Cruise control.

REGULAR CAB, 4.3L Vortec V6, auto, 4-wheel ABS brakes, A/C, 17" steel wheels, AM/FM stereo, OnStar, Stabilitrak.

MSRP.............$39,120 Save................$9,622 GM Loyalty........$1,500

MSRP................$27,710 Save...................$9,212 GM Loyalty...........$1,500

DUECK CASH PRICE

16,998

$ #10SI683

New 2010 GMC Sierra 1500 EXT 4.3L Vortec V6, auto, 4 wheel ABS brakes, A/C, 17" Steel wheels, AM/FM stereo, OnStar, Stabilitrak

MSRP..............$30,935 Save.................$9,437 GM Loyalty.........$1,500

Oil, lube, filter, radiator flush, tire rotation, tune up, top up all fluids, safety check

#10CK4736

DUECK CASH PRICE

27,998

$ #10S13418

New 2010 Avalanche LS 4WD

320HP, 5.3L V8 eng., 6-spd auto transmission, OnStarTM Theft Deterrent w/Immobilizer, Assist Steps, Solar RayTM Tint Windows and more

MSRP............$46,930 Save.............$12,441 GM Loyalty......$1,500

DUECK CASH PRICE

19,998

$

ON US!!!

4.8L Vortec V8, auto, 4 wheel ABS brakes, A/C, 17" driver info centre, steel wheels, AM/ FM stereo, OnStar, Stabilitrak.

DUECK CASH PRICE

$

Replace spark plugs, set timing, adjust idle speed

1500

New 2010 GMC Sierra Crew Cab

Great little work Truck

• Tune Up ....4 cyl. $48.95 | 6 cyl. $58.95 | 8 cyl. $68.95

$

IN ACCESSORIES

New 2010 Chevy Colorado

Engine flush, top up all fluids, tire rotation, safety check. Oil, lube, filter.

DUECK CASH PRICE

34,989

$ #10S13418

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We also service

• tires • battery • starter • alternator • c.v. joint • front end • replace transmission • engine work • fuel system • shocks & struts

Executive demo, loaded with features, power windows, locks, A/C

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IN ADDITIONAL CASH INCENTIVES Cash for Clunkers

• Special Service ......................................$29.95

Repair Centre

YOUR YOUR NEXT NEXT TRUCK TRUCK

UNTIL YOU’VE SEEN US!

$19.95 • Oil, Lube, Filter........................................$24.95

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MSRP SAVE GM Loyalty Eco Rebate

$30,360 $4,782 $1,500 $1,500

21,988

$

Fully loaded, rear entertainment. #10IM2022 DUECK CASH PRICE

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MSRP SAVE GM Loyalty

2009 CHEVY SILVERADO LT C/CAB 4x4

2009 TAHOE

$35,330 $5,586 $1,500

28,244

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MSRP SAVE GM Loyalty

$73,260 $22,272 $1,500

47,488

$

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MSRP SAVE GM Loyalty

$48,295 $16,797 $1,500

29,998

$

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D#10674

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400 SE MARINE DR VANCOUVER

D#8430

SHOP 24/7 AT dueckgm.com

604-324-7222

Prices net of all rebates, incentives and GM Loyalty to reg. owners of GM vehicles for last 6 mos. Price does not include reg. fee of $549. Taxes due upon signing. Gas ratings are estimated Highway. *Offer applies to current owners/lessees of any GM vehicle; vehicle must have been registered and insured in customerís name for previous consecutive 6 months and in running condition **Offer applies to new or demonstrator 2010 MY Silverado/Sierra Light Duty Extended and Crew Cab C/K Models (excludes hybrids)

Starting price for A4 is $45595 plus taxes and fees. 2.9% finance interest rate up to 60 months. Total amount of borrowing $52312.93, payment $937 with no money down. Cost of borrowing $3,946.60. Starting price for A6 is $67795 plus taxes and fees. 1.9% finance interest rate up to 60 months. Total amount of borrowing $79242.85, payment $1385.48 with no money down. Cost of borrowing $3885.95.

Experience the OpenRoad DifferenceTM Why just buy an Audi, when you can own an OpenRoad Audi?

2010 Audi A6

2010 Audi A4 2.0T

Quattro Premium

includes Freight & PDI

starting at $45,595* includes Freight & PDI

*plus levies and applicable taxes.

*plus levies and applicable taxes.

starting at $67,795*

1.9

Special Edition with Navigation

finance interest rate % up to 60 months 2375 Boundary Road (south of Lougheed Hwy, between Vancouver and Burnaby) Tel: 604-293-AUDI (2834) Dealer 30579 www.openroadaudi.com www.openroadautogroup.com

2.9

finance interest rate % up to 60 months

*includes Freight and PDI plus taxes and fees

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D#31042

TM The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trade marks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. *2010 FIFA World CupTM South Africa Ofbcial Partner copyright © 2010 Hyundai Motor Company. All rights reserved. Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on new 2010 Accent 3 Dr 5-speed/Elantra L 5-speed/Elantra Touring L 5-speed with an annual bnance rate of 2.9%/2.9%/2.9% and 0%/0%/0%. Monthly payments are $151/$178/$235 for 84/84/72 months and $192/$225/$259 for 60/60/60 months. No down payment is required. Cost of borrowing $1,190/$1,458/$1,426 and $0/$0/$0. Dealer participation of $500 for 2010 Accent L 3Dr/$500 for 2010 Elantra L is included. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,495/$1,495/$1,495. Registration, insurance, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2010 Accent L 3Dr 5-speed for $11,494 at 0% per annum equals $191.57 per month for 60 months for a total obligation of $11,494. Cash price is $11,494 Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,495, fees, levies, charges and all applicable taxes (excluding PST and GST). Registration, insurance and license fees are excluded. Cost of borrowing is $0. Offers available for a limited time and subject to change or cancelletion without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. Purchase a new 2010 Accent 1.6L 5-speed manual before July 1st, 2010 and you will be eligible for the PST Tax reduction for fuel-efbcient vehicles of $1000. See your dealer for eligible vehicles and full details of the Graduate Rebate Program. Hyundai s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

445 Kingsway near 12th Ave in Vancouver

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T HE VA N C O U V E R C O U R I E R F R I D AY, JUNE 1 1 , 2 0 1 0

ONE TIME ONLY!

HARVEY’S FURNITURE & APPLIANCES NO PST ON: all

products

PARKING LOT

All items clearly tagged

June 10th • 11th • 12th • 13th

at once

SALE!!

SAVE 50%

TO SELL OUT

up to

REGARDLESS OF COST OR LOSS, EVERYTHING IS REDUCED.

PACKAGE SPECIALS ON:

• FLOOR MODELS • DINING ROOMS • BEDROOMS • RECLINERS • SOFA BEDS • MATTRESSES • LAMPS & ACCESSORIES • COFFEE & END TABLES • DISCONTINUED + ONE OF A KIND

DOOR CRASHER SPECIALS until 11am

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY UNTIL NOON

$1419after rebate Viking 30” Gas Range ..................... $3626after rebate Bosch 24”Washer/Dryer ............ $1499after rebate GE Stainless Dishwasher ......................................... $249 Frigidaire Front Load Washer/Dryer..... $836after rebate Storage Cubes ................................................................. $99 3 pc Coffee Table Sets ............................................. $229 ALL Lamps Buy One Get One FREE APPLIANCES FURNITURE APPLIANCES

Bosch Ascenta Dishwasher ............ $509after rebate

Fabric Recliners....................................................$299 Leather Recliners.................................................$399 Queen Mattress Sets ............. $399............ $499 Tight Top

Pillow Top

NO TAX ON ALL REGULAR PRICED ITEMS!!!

Sofas starting at..................................................$599 Love Seats starting at .....................................$299

Frigidaire 3pc Stainless Kitchen Fridge/Stove/Dish

Miele 30”White Warming Drawer...........$499 Frigidaire 18 Cube Fridges.........................$488

Frigidaire 30” Easy-Clean White Range ............................... $399 Frigidaire 30” Self-Clean Stainless Steel Ranges........... $599

Samsung 30” Smooth Top Range .............$719 GE Top Load Washer/Dryer ........................$696

Stackable

............................................................ after rebate

............................................................ after rebate

Wolf 30” Dual Fuel Range ................... $5999

Four Only

Gas or Electric

Samsung 24”Washer/Dryer Pairs ........................................... $888

Frigidaire 30” Easy Clean Range............................................. $374 Küppersbusch Dishwasher ...................................reg $1999 $1499

IT’S NOT GOING TO BE A “LONG, DRAWN-OUT AFFAIR!” WITH PRICES SO LOW, THIS INVENTORY IS CERTAIN TO SELL OUT FAST – SO HURRY! 2751 Kingsway @ Earles, Vancouver 604-434-3151 HOURS: Thurs – Fri 9-8pm Sat 9-5:30 Sun 11-5 www.harveystores.ca