Vancouver Courier November 26 2010

41 Band of a different colour Vol. 101 No. 95 • Friday, Nov. 26, 2010

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More than a decade after a deadly chemical spill decimated Musqueam Creek, the last of Vancouver’s salmon-bearing streams sees life return thanks to efforts by Musqueam members and conservationists —story by Megan Stewart

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21 O N T H E C O V E R Restoring Musqueam Creek takes boots on the ground.

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Chemicals responsible for Musqueam Creek spill were never identified

Band member remembers 1997 spill Megan Stewart

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erry Point will never forget the summer Musqueam Creek smelled of soap, as if too much laundry detergent was poured in the sink under a running faucet.

The creek was at a seasonal low after a dry June and July in 1997, and the 21-yearold volunteer with the newly formed Musqueam Watershed Restoration Project was taking a routine walk along the creek when a foamy, milky-looking substance caught his attention.

The shallow stream was frothing, pushing a thin, white lather into roots and branches that dipped into the water. The suds drifted farther downstream toward the mouth of Musqueam Creek where the water becomes increasingly salinated as it nears the Fraser River and the open ocean of the Strait of Georgia.

“It smelled like a laundromat,” said Point. “It was foamy.”

Whatever the froth was, it threatened the lives of hundreds of juvenile coho and chum, some of the only salmon to return naturally and without interruption to Musqueam Creek, the last of Vancouver’s 50 salmon-bearing streams.

Point and four more volunteers from the Musqueam Indian Band and the David Suzuki Foundation—who were already strategizing for the long-term future of the threatened stream—grabbed dip nets, buckets or pails and slipped into boots if they were nearby.

“We used our hands—anything we could,” said Point. They lurched into action, urgently collecting, counting and relocating the tiny fish to nearby Cutthroat Creek, itself a tributary to the poisoned

Signs warn passersby of the Musqueam Watershed Restoration Project’s delicate ecosystem. photo Dan Toulgoet Musqueam Creek that had been diverted from its natural path decades earlier by city engineers. Point said the frantic action was hectic and determined.

“We’re not sure how successful we were.

They were alive when we put them in.”

Point estimates more than 600 juvenile cutthroat trout and juvenile coho were smothered. He said the toxins killed everything in the water for 180 metres downstream, from resilient bloodworms to more sensitive salamanders. The word he chooses is obliterate.

Splashing through the poisoned water made one man so sick his naturopath diagnosed him with chemical poisoning. None of the Musqueam volunteers fell ill.

“We were all in it, but we probably have some kind of tolerance,” speculated Point.

“We grew up playing in that creek, so that’s why we might have a resistance to whatever’s in it.”

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federal fisheries investigation in 2005 sampled 39 different pesticides in the stream but the chemicals in the 1997 spill

and fish kill were never identified. Point concludes the source was any one of hundreds of toxic household products dumped unconsciously and undiluted down the drain and sewer system into Musqueam Creek. He shakes his head and contemplates what he sums up as “some careless act.” He now believes the contamination resulted from repeated and slapdash corner-cutting as homes were built, but can’t place specific blame.

“Who do you point the finger at?”

Musqueam reserve is under federal jurisdiction, but health inspectors with the city of Vancouver, which is responsible for water and sewer line maintenance, traced the source of the pollution to at least six homes.

Instead of using septic tanks, a handful of homes within a housing complex flushed all household refuse down drains and sewer pipes that led directly to the creek.

The houses are on property leased from the Musqueam and located adjacent to the two-kilometre stream, the same waterway that has been a site of Musqueam habitation for thousands of years.

City water inspectors used coloured dyes to locate the source houses sending domestic refuse into the environment and disconnected the sewer and water hook-ups that didn’t meet regulation standards.

“Trying to recover from that takes years and years,” said Point, the chairperson for the Musqueam Ecological Conservation Society, a non-profit that emerged out of the initial watershed revitalization project.

The smell and sights of the soapy creek stick with him and he keeps his eye on the culvert that carried the pollutants. He’s not convinced such devastating contamination won’t happen again.

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Creek maintains prominent place within Musqueam cultural practices Continued from page 4 “I think about it all the time but we’re not sure how to go about it and how much we can aggressively push the city to figure out. You could plug it up and find out pretty quickly.”

But more than a decade later, the recovery and maintenance of Musqueam Creek is underway. Each year more fish are returning and the stream-keepers, as the volunteers are sometimes known, have reason to be optimistic.

In 1997, a meager number of fish managed to spawn: six coho and six chum. The demise of the salmon stock was written in their spent bodies, but then the remarkable happened. On the return cycle four years later, 20 chum and 25 coho returned to Musqueam Creek. “We’ve had no returns under 20 since then,” said Point.

our stream survived. It’s here because it runs through first nation territory, because it runs through Musqueam. For it to survive, we have to take pride in it and take care of it and if that creek had run anywhere else it would probably be covered in cement today.”

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igleaf and sycamore leaves, red alder and burdock branches overhang the banks of Musqueam Creek, a creek less than two kilometers long with headwaters in Pacific Spirit Regional Park. Cedar and hemlock trees shade the steep inclines where licorice and sword ferns, salmonberry and salal pack the space around decaying tree trunks and lichens of the rain forest.

Bitter cherry saplings were reintroduced to the soil earlier this summer in the ongoing revitalization efforts. So too were devil’s club, a thorny plant with broad leaves and bright berries that holds significance for many aboriginal cultural practices in this part of the world.

Chum (above) and coho salmon spawn in Musqueam Creek.

Christina Nahanee was careful with her choices. Charged with rebuilding the floodgate near the mouth of Musqueam Creek and creating fish-friendly habitat in the estuary and along the creek, Nahanee is thinking about the long-term health of the watercourse and its prominence in the lives of the Musqueam.

Garbage—beer cans, cigarette packs, an abandoned mitten, fast food containers— along the banks are evidence the creek is a social place visited by more than just fish.

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Committed clean-up efforts don’t always keep pace with less conscientious users.

As a child, Nahanee listened along with Terry Point and other adolescents to stories about the creek, salmon and fishing from her great-grandfather, Dominic Point.

“A lot of time we spent with him. We would all go meet with him. Now when I look back and I think about the things he told me, the stories register and it all makes sense,” she said. “I didn’t understand why he’d tell me about the creek or even why

usqueam Creek was buried once. In 2004, a decade after Point began his work to revitalize the watershed, a car accident on Southwest Marine Drive near 41st Avenue caused the rupture of a giant pipe. The sudden flash flood, likened to an environmental disaster that might happen only once every 200 years, pushed more gravel and mud than can fit in the back of eight mid-size pick-up trucks into the small creek, burying salmon alive and washing away or suffocating what eggs were already laid. The chlorinated water also killed bacteria and insects and other small life forms integral to the ecosystem.

The destruction came with a blessing in the form of a $219,000 grant from the City of Vancouver to repair the damaged creek.

Nicholas Scapillati, the executive director of the Musqueam Ecological Conservation Society and the David Suzuki Foundation conservationist who initially joined Point to begin revitalization work in the late ’90s, said the flood was catastrophic—with the silver lining of the municipal cash to fix that catastrophe.

This was also the time Nahanee began working in earnest to help restore the last wild salmon fishery in Vancouver.

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Continued from page 5 They dug out pool beds, shovelled gravel and used cranes to position root wads and massive rocks in the creek. They also built sequences of riffles and pools, a naturally occurring hydraulic system that creates deeper pools with much shallower beds of pebbles and gravel, a riffle. The effect is the quintessential burbling brook.

“Salmon pick up echoes of these sounds and come back in,” said Nahanee, 27. “It’s a little bit of a reminder to draw them back to the stream.

They know that this is their place.”

Part of the reparation also meant undoing the work of others, she said.

In earlier attempts guided by the city, municipal workers removed boulders, rotting wood, fallen trees and other debris they considered an obstacle.

“For years there, people believed fish couldn’t get past things like rocks and logs in the creek so they spent a decade pulling those out.” The creek was over-managed in an attempt to keep it functioning, but the efforts worked against the trout and salmon in the stream.

“Little did they realize they were destroying their habitat.”

Nahanee worked alongside Point and Scapillati to return the natural debris that had been culled from the creek or displaced in the flood. “Our philosophy is that the creek will take care of itself,” said Point. “We just need to enhance it a little bit. We really try to stay far away from the overly engineered solutions, what we call bandaid solutions. As our elders have told us, the stream will take care of itself, we need to take care of the people that are around it. If we can stop the degradation, the creek will be fine.”

Nature has conspired in ways Point sees perfectly fitting and right on time. When they intended to build a rock weir that had washed away near Marine Drive following the flood, Point planned to add woody debris,

“LITTLE DID THEY REALIZE THEY WERE DESTROYING THEIR HABITAT.” Christina Nahanee

peat gravel and a few large boulders to speed up the process that would eventually happen naturally.

They didn’t need to. Point chuckles, his round shoulders lifting and his friendly, impish smile slowly spreading in to a grin.

“A huge maple tree fell into the stream and did exactly what needed to be done. Even our enhancement of nature was taken care of by nature.”

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handful of man-made changes have had the greatest impact on the condition of the Musqueam watershed. The 50 other salmon streams in Vancouver may be paved over, diverted or dried up, but Point is pleased to know the Musqueam Creek of today would be recognizable to his ancestors—even if the surrounding area is dramatically different and responsible for changes to the creek’s ecosystem.

Point attributes one of the major transformations to dyking around the Fraser River and the installation and subsequent lengthening of the Iona Island jetty, which carries the filtered refuse from Vancouver’s 600,000 citizens to open water. Point says tidal flow is restricted just enough that the Musqueam Creek estuary has become increasingly waterlogged and marshy.

“It impedes the ocean from coming in like it used to and, essentially, it’s why the marsh is here and why it’s as big as it is now. The estuary is now the largest on Fraser River and it’s still growing.”

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golf course and reserve from seasonal flooding during high tides was replaced this fall. Nahanee oversaw the installation of a new hydraulic floodgate in place of the old one adjacent to the 16th hole of the Musqueam golf course.

In addition to the new gate, the creek and estuary were graded so juvenile coho, chum and cutthroat trout could ease into higher concentrations of salt water during their maturation, an important phase of their development. Perhaps a small detail, not one Nahanee and Point intended to overlook. Because the previous transition forced the fish to reach saltier water before they may have been ready, they believe countless lives were compromised in the journey to the Pacific.

The Musqueam have little influence on the growth of the city and the consequences of their 190-hectare reserve being hemmed in by urban development. But Point says the First Nation will endeavour to control what assets it can, although interference in the form of government regulation and oversight is the norm. Seven hundred band members live on Musqueam Reserve No. 2 near the mouth of the Fraser River along with 600 other nonMusqueam residents.

For Nahanee, she wants to prove to her community that the creek is theirs to manage and sustain. She and her young daughter once lived close enough to the creek they could hear salmon moving upstream in the night.

They’d head out with their flashlights to see the progress. Nahanee hopes to instill a sense of responsibility and accomplishment in the revitalization of Musqueam Creek.

“Showing to our younger youth and other generations that it’s important to us and that we need to take care of it because if we don’t, no one else will,” she says. “If it’s one thing that we do have control of, it’s our stream.” mstewart@vancourier.com

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Just wanted to add my two cents to recent blog posts from scribes Frances Bula, Jeff Lee and Charlie Smith about city hall’s new policy to shut out journalists from talking to staff members.

In my eight glorious years at the Courier, I’ve always been able to reach a staffer to have that person explain complex reports, budgets, get updates on projects, obtain statistics, etc.

I did that under the governments of Sam Sullivan and Larry Campbell and it was never a problem— nor was it to call Sullivan and Campbell at home.

Recently, under Mayor Gregor Robertson’s government—which, by the way, promised to be more transparent—I’m lucky to get a call back from a staffer. All requests are now handled by the city’s punctilious communications department.

It’s ridiculous.

Example: Wanted to speak to a staffer knowledgeable about the rezoning proposal for a mega casino downtown. Just looking for an update, a status report. Made

Journalists who cover city hall are frustrated by a new policy that prevents media from talking directly to staffers about reports they’ve written. photo Dan Toulgoet the request on a Monday morning, received dribs and drabs of info linking to old reports on the Tuesday and never did get a call from a staffer.

Example two: I contacted a staffer on a Friday morning, needed to speak to him for 10 minutes and then write my story. He forwarded me to communications, got into an email exchange with a communi-

cations type and then she had the same staffer call me back… on a Monday.

How is that efficient? Transparent?

I’ve got more examples but I think you get my point. I recently whined about this to Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang, who said he wasn’t aware of the policy. He planned to bring it up with

city manager Penny Ballem.

I fired off an email to the city’s eight-member communications department Tuesday morning to ask someone there to explain the reason for the policy. I received a reply from Mairi Welman, the city’s director of corporate communications, who has been on the job eight weeks.

I posted her entire response on

my blog Tuesday. Here’s an excerpt.

“We do ask staff to direct media requests to communications,” she wrote in an email letter addressed to me, Bula, Lee and Smith. “This is something we consider standard practice for any large organization. The direction that staff have received at city hall is that they are to check in with corporate communications when they receive calls from the media. This allows us to handle calls appropriately so that the media does not receive contradictory information from different staff which unnecessarily creates issues for us all. As standard practice, we ask that calls go through corporate communications first for the sake of efficiency and accuracy.”

I spoke to Welman Wednesday.

In short, she told me the policy remains. I haven’t had a chance to get the mayor’s thoughts on this.

He, after all, is the leader of the party that dumped city manager Judy Rogers to hire Ballem, who calls the shots at city hall.

A cynic might say the city has implemented the policy because it wants to control its message, silence the staffers and purposely delay getting information to journalists working to deadline so they will just simply go away.

Glad I’m not a cynic. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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No news is not necessarily good news. That was true for the NPA’s sparsely attended first round of nominations last weekend.

Not even the usually attentive NPA bloggers gave the event so much as a byte worth of attention. Despair not, I say, even though the NPA has an uphill battle at this point. Just remember the election is Vision’s to lose.

So why get all cranked up a year away from the day of the vote? For NPA president John Moonen media coverage is secondary. He says would-be candidates wanted a jump start on the campaign to assemble volunteers and raise money.

On both those counts they’ll find this is a very different political landscape from what existed as recently as the time when Philip Owen was an NPA mayor just a decade ago. Back then, the NPA had a lock on funds from the business community in general and developers in particular. And their close ties to the provincial and federal Tories and Liberals provided a good source for helping hands at election time.

Meanwhile, the eternal opposition in COPE was left to depend on the trade union movement and the NDP. That all changed with the election of Larry Campbell and more specifically when Campbell and a few of his COPE councillors broke away to form Vision.

The new coalition included both NDP and federal Liberals. It also attracted serious money from developers, who started hedging their bets by giving dough to both Vision and the NPA. The full transfer of power was interrupted when Campbell bailed out and left Vision in the midst

allengarr of an unresolved and noisy dispute with COPE. It cost Vision the next election. The NPA was back.

While Vision cooled its heels in opposition, the NPA imploded as Sam Sullivan and Peter Ladner slugged it out.

Enter Gregor Robertson in a landslide victory for Vision and with him another shift.

Ties to the federal Liberals and the business community were strengthened. Money was no problem. And there was a new piece to the equation: Green capitalism a.k.a. the Hollyhock Mafia. It’s a crowd of Canadians and Americans who frequently find themselves in contemplative retreat at the Hollyhock Education Centre on Cortez Island. They like to use their money to support issues of social justice and environmental causes.

Robertson is their poster boy.

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That said, I would not be too quick to write off the NPA. They may not win but they will most certainly make gains. Robertson is vulnerable and his handlers know it. That’s why they continue to keep their guy in a bubble and away from his critics, sometimes referred to as “NPA hacks.”

Just look at the so-called “telephone town hall” Vision paid for Tuesday night. (See Mike Howell’s story in this issue of the Courier.) But as Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer explained on CBC Radio, while they may open it up to the general public in the future, the only people allowed to participate were Vision members and donors.

Is it any wonder all of those “very good questions” played to Robertson’s strengths.

Add that to Robertson’s slowly deteriorating popularity in the polls, throw in a cup of Hornby Street bike lane and a pinch of ridicule over backyard chicken coops and you have a potential recipe for change.

••• Two years into this administration and unhappy employees continue to bail out of city hall. The most recent evacuee was the much respected Freedom Of Information officer Paul Hancock. The 42-year-old lawyer went on the record for the first time this week when he told me this troubling reason for why he quit: “I was no longer able to fulfill my responsibilities as an FOI manager.”

All part, I suspect, of Vision’s unprecedented gag orders being placed on the public service at city hall. agarr@vancourier.com

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Gordo’s Liberals gutted arts and culture funding Last weekend I sat down with some interesting friends at a dim sum restaurant, and engaged in that old school routine of face-to-face conversation.

The discussion flowed from ancient religion to recent films. The sum certainly wasn’t dim at this table.

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy and art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival,” observed writer C.S. Lewis. My friends’ appreciation of the arts had been fostered, at least in part, from that most unnecessary thing of all: a liberal arts background in their public education. The humanities help create an intelligent public that can interpret, support, and create a wide range of cultural creations. Conversely, a robust arts scene benefits from an audience it can challenge, rather than condescend to. Beyond that, a healthy democracy depends on leveraging hearts and minds through the public sector. The arts, like education, are no frill.

That brings to me to Monty Premier’s Flailing Caucus. The local news has focused on the tax flip-flop, Campbell’s resignation, his refusal to make way for an interim leader, and the story of a spittle-flecked rant at former B.C. cabinet minister Bill Bennett. The premier’s desperate, pre-resignation cabinet shuffle was overlooked in this festival of bipolar politics. So we hardly noticed when the word “arts” disappeared from the changing portfolio titles. Kevin Krueger’s position as arts minister was replaced by Stephanie Cadieux’s Ministry for Community, Sport, and Cultural Development. That about says it all.

In 2008 to 2009, the premier and his inner circle cut the service plan for the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts from $19.5 million to $3.7 million.

An 81 per cent reduction—no other area of government saw such severe cuts. The Liberals couldn’t be bothered to poke under the couch cushions for arts-related chump change, yet they found wads of cash under the floorboards for a half-billion dollar roof upgrade to B.C. Place.

The B.C. Liberal government and the federal Conservatives share the same Lilliputian mindset when it comes to the arts.

Both parties front for an economic philosophy in which the market is the ultimate arbiter of value, without understanding that markets are embedded in cultures, not the other way around. It is the philosophy of the cynic—someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. To cynical

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geoffolson “realists,” if the art scene can’t struggle out of its sick bed it should be discreetly suffocated with a pillow, so it won’t be a further drain on the almighty dollar.

“Canada is one of the lowest funders on a per capita basis in the western world, and B.C. is by far the lowest funder of art and culture per capita in Canada, according to 2007/08 figures,” notes Headlines Theatre artistic director David Diamond in a recent budget presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. The figures range from $268 a year in the Yukon to $42 in Quebec to a miserly $10 in B.C. (But hey, at least we’re number one in child poverty.)

In a recent email, Diamond wrote that “the arts and culture sector in general has A LOT of work to do to get the general public to care. If what was happening here was happening in Quebec there would be public outrage. Why? Because art and culture in Quebec has, for decades, been an intrinsic part of life. This is the cultural sector’s role and we need to understand our responsibilities in the matter.”

The responsibility extends to all voters. Our legislative barbarians weren’t teleported in from Rome, circa 400 AD. We elected them. If we’re stupid enough to believe that we can kick start our cultural industries by replacing one bobble head with another from the same shelf, we get the government we deserve. The question comes down to this: how much do we value the life of the mind, and its importance for a vibrant community?

There are many good reasons other than the HST debacle for consigning the B.C. Liberals to history’s trash heap. Their ignorance of how arts funding supports a knowledge-based economy, and their misallocation of public funds, are just two of them. A legislative housecleaning, from top to bottom, is long overdue. If that can somehow include the unelected bureaucrats in B.C.’s shadow government, the ones that outlast the frequent cabinet shuffles, all the better. www.geoffolson.com

An independent accounting firm is now responsible for recouping the $740 milphoto Dan Toulgoet lion owed to taxpayers for the Olympic Village development.

To the editor: Re: “Real estate guru preaches Olympic Village patience,” Nov. 19.

What started years ago as a very risky venture when the city took a leadership role has gravitated into a full scale disaster with new politicians thinking they are smarter than the goofs who created the mess.

Even with volunteer advice from local realtors and developers, the meddling council and staff made a mockery of Millennium’s cesspool. Anyone on council who suggested civic involvement rather than legal action prior to the Olympics was a major contributor to the present mess.

Rick Angus, Vancouver

Arts may increase East Side school numbers

To the editor: Re: “Endangered spaces,” Nov. 19.

As a former member of Magee secondary’s Queen Alex Club, I have been very fortunate to participate in the club’s activities such as the monthly pen pal journal exchange, Halloween for Hunger, toques and mitts sale, Legs for Literacy and visits to Queen Alex.

The club strives to strengthen the bond between Magee and Queen Alex students. I’m sure that students from both schools would be disappointed if this were to be stopped.

Closure of the school would force many struggling kids to merge into a larger school, making learning even harder for them. Low income families

will also have a harder time sending kids to school located farther away.

However, I am very optimistic about the “artful proposal” for Queen Alex.

Coming from a school known for its reputable music, drama and art courses, I agree with Ms. Fernandez that a fine arts program would increase student enrolment in the district.

Rachelle Ann Tan, Vancouver

••• To the editor: Carleton Elementary leads your Nov. 19 parade of the East Vancouver schools threatened with closure. Just two weeks earlier, city council drastically densified a part of Carleton’s local area, showing no care for the 32 per cent of low-

income families likely to be displaced.

City planners brought forward two last-minute “considerations” that were never presented to the Norquay community. Now four-storey apartments are slated to envelop Norquay Park, and a base height of eight to 10 storeys destined to overshadow a one-mile strip of Kingsway. So-called neighbourhood planning does not look beyond maximizing the next isolated developer profit opportunity.

The proposal to close Carleton makes no sense.

Unless, of course, disincentive to families with children stands high on multiple agendas for Renfrew-Collingwood.

Joseph Jones, Vancouver

Attack on teachers’ union unbalanced, discouraging

To the editor: Re: “Teachers union secrecy can’t conceal sad truth,” Nov. 17.

I’m stating my conflict of interest first: I’m the parent of a teacher in the Vancouver school district.

I know how hard she works—well beyond the hours of a regular school day and on weekends—and how much she cares about the students that she teaches.

How discouraging it must be for her, and others like her, to read in the Courier so many negative articles about the school board, the teachers’ unions and the teachers themselves.

Perhaps I missed Mark Hasiuk’s expose on the wages of teachers in the private

school system, the number of teachers fired in that system in the past year, the budget of a typical private school, their success rate with aboriginal, ESL and learning-disabled students, along with the numbers of such children actually in the private system. If so, I apologize.

From my point of view, it would be good to hear both sides of this debate in one article.

The questions I leave Hasiuk with are: will a private school system provide answers to his questions (or my questions)?

What is he hoping to achieve in the long run?

Karen Zeller, Vancouver

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Thursday December 2, 2010 7:00 pm 2nd Fl Boardroom, Metro Vancouver Head Office, 4330 Kingsway, Burnaby, B.C. Greater Vancouver Regional District Regional Growth Strategy Bylaw No. 1136, 2010 (the Bylaw) proposes a new regional growth strategy which will apply to all lands within the boundaries and jurisdiction of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

Copies of the Bylaw and the supporting documentation may be inspected at the Information Centre, Metro Vancouver Head Office, 4330 Kingsway, Burnaby, B.C., during regular office hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays, and at www.metrovancouver.org.

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City prohibits construction on Sundays, holidays

Construction site noise rankles walking resident Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

A south Vancouver woman wants the city to clamp down on construction workers who flout noise bylaws.

During her morning walk on Remembrance Day, Jean Sorensen spotted an excavator “roaring away” before 10 a.m. on a property where a new home is being built. By the time she returned home, also before 10 a.m. Nov. 11, a masonry crew was setting up to cut concrete blocks on a new house being built next door.

“Why don’t homebuilders or owners know that a Vancouver city noise bylaw exists that specifically addresses both private property and street construction,” she said. “It sets out times and days— not Sundays or holidays— when work can be carried out. Why don’t contractors know or abide by these bylaws?”

Construction is allowed on private property only from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday to Friday and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays, but it’s prohibited Sundays and holidays. (There are separate regulations for construction on city streets, lanes and boulevards.) Remembrance Day is a statutory holiday in B.C. Will Johnston, the city’s director of licences and inspections and chief building officer, said about 18 to 20 complaints related to construction projects are lodged each month. Ten complaints were recorded on Nov. 11 this year—all related to smaller construction projects.

“Last year we had quite a lot of success at working with larger construction companies to bring those numbers down. What we’re seeing this year, in 2010, and this probably reflects more on the economic situation that’s going on, is that there’s more smallertype construction projects moving ahead as opposed to the larger construction projects. Now we’re finding more noise complaints related to smaller projects as opposed to larger ones.

That tells us we need to focus our efforts on those

Construction sites of varying sizes operate around the city. photo Dan Toulgoet smaller projects to make them aware of noise control issues.”

Penalties for bylaw violations range from $250 to $500. Peter Simpson, president and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association, said contractors should follow the rules. He said he empathizes with residents who’ve had to put up with problem contractors, but the association has tried to address concerns through education.

It launched a good neighbours program many years ago that outlines common sense ways contractors can avoid problems or mitigate concerns through efforts such as not playing music too loudly, not blocking access to lanes or driveways with trucks, and advising neighbours when construction projects are about to start and who can be called if complaints arise.

Simpson noted some workers aren’t even aware they’re bothering people,

so neighbours should raise concerns with the contractor or the homeowner rather than let an issue fester.

“If you open up lines of communication it helps, but I can see [Sorensen’s] point. If there’s noise on a day you’re not legally allowed to work, then I agree with the neighbour—it has to be curtailed,” he said.

Sorensen added that while new home construction can generate annoying off-hours noise, roofing done over the summer months was also a problem.

“There are posted times when you can start and stop, even during the midweek, but roofers and [other workers] continue on until there’s no light, so you’re listening to this pounding, pounding, pounding. It doesn’t seem to me the city has made an effort to clarify this to a lot of the smaller contractors—to let them know when they can work and when they cannot.” noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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One of four shelters operating now in Mount Pleasant

Councillor says renewed HEAT shelters a success for clients Sandra Thomas Staff writer

Last year, following the enactment of the provincial Assistance to Shelter Act, many homeless people went underground rather than risk being forced into a shelter, says Vision Vancouver Coun.

Kerry Jang.

The act allows police to use “reasonable force, if necessary,” to remove a homeless person from the street during extreme weather and transport them to a shelter.

“Because so many were going underground, this year police are simply showing them where the shelters are,” said Jang.

“They’re not forcing anyone, but they’re saying, ‘Here’s a blanket,’ and developing relationships.”

Jang was “very happy” when the provincial government announced this week it will provide $1.5 million to again fund four temporary winter shelters. Last year the city partnered with the province to operate Homeless Emergency Action Team (HEAT) shelters in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, the West End and Downtown South. The Downtown South location eventually closed due to complaints from neighbours.

Jang said in response to those concerns the city developed a new response strategy. He said neighbours are invited to drop by the shelters for a tour and meet the residents.

He added, in some cases what began as a concern evolved into a solution.

“In one case a business owner was concerned about some guys hanging around, but they ended up getting along quite well and he eventually hired them to clean up his parking lot,” said Jang.

“There are a lot of stories like that.”

The city will contribute $500,000 towards building maintenance and upkeep for the shelters, which will provide 160 spaces. Jang said in the past two years the number of homeless living on Vancouver streets has been reduced by 47 per cent. An estimated 480 homeless people or more live in the city.

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“BECAUSE SO MANY WERE GOING UNDERGROUND, THIS YEAR POLICE ARE SIMPLY SHOWING THEM WHERE THE SHELTERS ARE.” Coun. Kerry Jang

encing, three of the shelters won’t open until next week. Jang said because the provincial government just announced the funding this week, the city is working to secure operators, who in turn are organizing staff. The locations of three of the shelters had not yet been finalized before the Courier’s press deadline, but because of the snowfall Wednesday night, Jang and the city’s housing advocate Judy Graves worked to get the Mount Pleasant location open at Broadway and Fraser.

“We were out until 9 o’clock last night talking to businesses explaining what we were doing,” said Jang. “Then we went looking for people on the street to let them know it had opened.”

The HEAT shelters, which will remain open until April, work on a reservation system so homeless people can book a space for as little as one day or four months. Jang said success stories have come from the shelters with clients who chose to stick around for longer periods, learned social skills and formed close bonds with fellow shelter-mates.

Because they stayed in one place, health care and social workers had an easier time finding and helping them. Shelter clients also receive basic health care, such as nutritious meals and foot care.

“Then after a month or two they start asking for help, sometimes for their mental illness,” said Jang.

“And because they’re receiving help, they’re able to move into B.C. Housing. The shelters act as a nice bridge.” sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

The recent winter blast has been especially hard on the homeless.

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You could hear him, but you couldn’t see him.

Mayor Gregor Robertson hosted a one-hour “town hall” meeting via telephone Tuesday night that attracted—at one point—12,000 listeners, according to Ian Baillie, executive director of Vision Vancouver, which organized the event.

To put the 12,000 number into perspective, the Pacific Coliseum has a capacity of 16,000 people for a sporting event. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre can accommodate 3,000 and the Orpheum Theatre holds 2,700 people.

“We were thrilled with the numbers,” Baillie said. “We thought it would be good, I didn’t think it would be that good. With the 12,000 number, it just means that at some point, people were connected to the call. The number goes up and down because not everybody stayed on for the whole hour.”

On average, Baillie said, the event attracted 2,500 people at any one time, who were contacted by Vision through phone technology operated by Strategic Communications, whose offices are on West Seventh Avenue.

Robertson took calls from Vision Vancouver’s office, which is in the same building as Strategic Communications, which helped run and fund the mayor’s 2008 election campaign.

Mayor Gregor Robertson Baillie acknowledged the majority of listeners were members and donors of Vision or had contact with the party at some point since the elections in 2005 and 2008.

“They weren’t all necessarily Vision members,” he said. “But obviously we’re a political party and our business is connecting with people.”

The party once boasted it had 17,000 members, making it the biggest civic party in Canada.

Robertson took questions from 15 callers across the city. Topics included the financial mess around the Olympic Village (no, property taxes won’t increase because of it, says the mayor), proposed towers in the West End (still on hold), the status of the proposed Vancouver Art Gallery move (a report before council possibly next month) and homelessness (appreciates the provincial funding announced Tuesday to open more shelters).

None of the questioners were critical of Robertson or Vision Vancouver, which is the ruling party at city hall.

Listeners were told by host Marcella Munro of Vision to press “9” on their phone to ask a question.

Five hundred listeners wanted to ask questions, said Baillie, adding the set-up was similar to a radio call-in program where questioners were asked off air the topic of their question. Baillie said the goal was to hear a variety of questions.

The party conducted three polls during the event, including one where a majority of respondents (59 per cent) want the mayor’s transportation focus to be on expanding bus service over running a SkyTrain line out to Arbutus and the University of B.C. “That is interesting and it kind of cuts against what a lot of the transportation policy folks have been saying that the next crucial link is to get SkyTrain to Arbutus,” the mayor said.

Another poll found that a majority of respondents (35 per cent) chose affordable housing as their most important issue. Homelessness placed second, with transportation, taxes and crime rounding out the preferences.

The final poll of the night found that more than 75 per cent of callers wanted more information about Vision Vancouver, which plans to hold another telephone “town hall” before the November 2011 election. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Violent incidents befall community centres Sandra Thomas

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The park board isn’t saying whether security measures at community centres will be reviewed following two serious incidents involving police in one week.

The Courier spoke with both Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper and communications manager Joyce Courtney, but neither could comment.

Jasper told the Courier that because the most recent incident also involved the city, the park board was reluctant to comment alone.

The park board was unable to comment before the Courier’s press deadline, but will be included in a followup story.

The most serious incident began at 6 p.m. Tuesday, when the Vancouver Police Department responded to the Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre at 920 East Hastings St. after a man took a threeyear-old boy hostage. According to witnesses, a man had screamed and waved a knife in the community centre prior to grabbing the boy and barricading himself and the three-year-old in a downstairs washroom.

Police arrested 24-yearold Kyle Hepworth Jackson of no fixed address.

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Lindsey Houghton, the centre was locked down while police attempted to negotiate with the man. The Emergency Response Team also brought in their robot to help in communicating more safely with the man.

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Police detained a sex offender at the Mount Pleasant Community Centre at 1 Kingsway. photo Dan Toulgoet VPD discovered the man’s identity and found a family member willing to attend the scene and try to talk him, unsuccessfully, into giving himself up. Houghton said the man’s mental health began to deteriorate and at one point he cut the boy’s cheek, leaving a deep, five-inch long gash.

It was then police decided the boy had to be immediately removed and ERT officers conducted a dramatic rescue, which ended the eight-hour standoff. The boy received surgery for his cut Wednesday and was released to the care of his parents.

As of the Courier’s press deadline, Jackson had been charged with taking a hostage, aggravated assault, unlawful confinement, assault with a weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon.

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The Saturday before the hostage incident, on Nov. 20 an off-duty police officer happened to be at the Mount Pleasant Community Centre, at 1 Kingsway, when he spotted a man he recognized as a sex offender with a lengthy record watching a group of toddlers. The off-duty officer detained the man when he attempted to leave and was able to wave down a passing VPD vehicle.

A Vancouver resident, 55-year-old Donald William Snow was arrested and charged with one count of breach of probation. Snow, who has a lengthy record of sex crimes, some against children, was in violation of his probation by being within 100 metres of a community centre. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Regular Courier readers will recognize Paul Talbot as the city’s self-proclaimed anticlutter king who was determined to singlehandedly help Vancouverites tidy up their lives, both figuratively and emotionally.

I bumped into Paul one day this past summer on Davie Street and when I asked, “how are you?” he admitted his cancer had returned and he was at that moment heading to the hospital for a check-up. I made a mental note at the time to keep in touch, but regretfully didn’t follow through. Paul passed away Nov. 10 as the result of that cancer.

In the past decade, Paul’s efforts to organize anyone who would listen were the focus of several Courier stories, which always included insight into his great sense of humour. After working with Courier reporter Cheryl Rossi on a cover story, during which he helped in her attempts to de-clutter her less-than-tidy desk, he’d occasionally drop by our office unannounced to check out her progress. Those surprise visits brought great amusement to the rest of the editorial staff.

For years, Paul also volunteered his time with GLBT associations, including Friends for Life.

It’s typical of Paul that he requested no flowers following his death. I can hear him now. “Too much waste and mess,” he’d say in his still-strong British accent.

There will be no memorial service, also at Paul’s request. Instead he requested donations be made to the B.C. Cancer Agency.

Paul is survived by four sisters and two brothers.

A giving life

Another passing of note to me and many Courier readers is that of former B.C. Lieutenant Governor David Lam, who died early Nov. 21 from prostate cancer at age 87.

I never had the pleasure of meeting Lam, but I’ve certainly written his name dozens of times in the past 10 years while covering park board issues and events.

The Hong King-born philanthropist’s list of contributions to the city and province is long. Locally his name graces David Lam Park in False Creek, SFU’s David Lam Centre for International Communication, the Dragon Boat race’s David Lam Award for team spirit and UBC’s David Lam Management Research Centre. Lam also leaves behind such legacies as the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and the Dr. David Lam Cherry Tree Grove in VanDusen Botanical Garden.

Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper released a statement on Lam’s death this week calling him a “tireless supporter and great friend of parks and recreation.”

“Dr. Lam’s passion for parks was also evident through his generous support for the restoration of Stanley Park in 2007. His most recent contribution was this past summer when a celebration was held to honour his gift of the addition of 100 Akebono cherry trees planted in David Lam Park. On behalf of my fellow commissioners and the park board management and staff, I offer our sincerest condolences to his family.”

A celebration of Lam’s life is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday Nov. 27, at the Richmond Funeral Home, 8420 Cambie Rd., with a private cremation to be held at a later date. Lam’s family asks that donations be made in his memory to the B.C. Cancer Foundation, Living Word Chinese Baptist Church or Far East Broadcasting Canada. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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A section of the Stanley Park Seawall—between Ferguson Point and Prospect Point— will be closed for up to three weeks for slope stabilization and maintenance work.

The section will be closed weekdays beginning this week, but will open weekends.

Annual inspections are done by geotechnical engineers who are recommending that this work be done for safety reasons.

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Fair Trade Vancouver’s Holiday Vendor Showcase and 2010 Wrap Party happens Dec. 4 on Granville Island. Potential gifts range from handmade ornaments, clothing, jewelry and sports balls to organic chocolate, shade-grown coffee and artisanal teas.

The Wrap Party includes awards, a silent auction, special presentation and entertainment. Event proceeds will support Fair Trade Vancouver’s efforts to increase awareness, availability and sales of Fair Trade products in Metro Vancouver and to alleviate poverty in developing countries.

The event is sponsored by TransFair Canada. The showcase runs 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and admission is free. The Wrap Party runs from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are a suggested $10 to $25 donation. For more information, see fairtradevancouver.ca.

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The Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area is erecting a huge Christmas tree to be a welcoming beacon to the community throughout the holidays. It will feature decorations created by three local elementary schools, Mount Pleasant elementary, Florence Nightingale elementary and Si-

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Donations for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank will be accepted. The ceremony is from 5:30 to 6:30, Dec. 3 at Kingsway and Broadway on the southwest corner.

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Join Lubavitch B.C. and members of the Jewish community to celebrate the Festival of Chanukah with the lighting of the tallest menorah in Canada—the Silber Family Agam Menorah at 7:45 p.m., Dec. 4. The event is at the Vancouver Art Gallery at the corner Georgia and Howe streets.

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Killarney secondary school’s Class of 1961 holds its reunion next July. Former students can contact the organizing committee at killarneyclassof 61@gmail.com.

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Dollars and sense

Money troubles mean the VSB is under increasing scrutiny about how it spends its dwindling dollars. A couple readers contacted me complaining the district is installing expensive shutters on several schools—Cook elementary among them—as five others are being considered for closure to save a projected $1.4 million.

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shutters are, in fact, being installed at 10 schools across Vancouver for an average of $35,000 per school.

The district says the $350,000 expenditure is to upgrade security at schools that have been frequent targets for arson, vandalism and break-ins.

The cost is being covered through the annual facilities grant, not the district’s operating budget.

The VSB argues the shutters will improve security as well as reduce long-term operating costs because the closed shutters reduce overnight heat loss to the buildings.

The shutters were ordered in September. The district said they could have prevented damage to

four schools on Halloween night, when vandals deliberately shot marine or parachute flares through windows, had they been delivered and installed in time.

The VSB spends about $400,000 annually to deal with vandalism costs—a number that’s been steady for the last few years. Last year, vandalism costs hit $417,000. About 60 per cent of the figure is typically associated with broken windows.

Some school districts board up windows during summer months to cope with the ongoing problem, but others argue boarding up school windows creates an abandoned appearance that invites other damage such as graffiti.

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ing, meanwhile, worry the district will consider more schools for closure in coming years. Contact me if you think the district needs to rethink spending priorities or if you’re wondering why certain financial decisions are being made.

Playing fair

News the VSB is removing two dozen playgrounds by June 2012 for safety reasons, as reported in the Nov. 24 Courier, prompted a reader to suggest a single fundraising campaign.

Individual parent groups have to pay for the equipment, which can cost anywhere from $50,000 to upwards of $100,000.

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one another for donations to buy replacement playgrounds since so many are being removed at the same time.

“There needs to be some unified funding drive to raise money for all the schools facing playground replacement,” wrote Ruth Mandt. “Whether there is a central fund set up by the VSB that everyone can contribute to or whether parents start one on their own, there needs to be some concerted, orga-

nized effort. It is not acceptable to not have playgrounds. Playgrounds give kids a chance to unwind, burn off energy, exercise, etc. They should not be optional.”

She said she donates to her children’s schools and receives tax receipts.

“If the province won’t make education the number one funding priority, then schools, parents, businesses, community leaders, etc. must make more of an effort to raise funds through private means. It is unacceptable that schools are facing the shortfalls they are, but instead of doing nothing, all concerned parties should be doing more,” Mandt added. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Science World pines for outdoor science park Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

Plans for a $5 million outdoor science park in front of Science World go before the city’s development permit board and advisory panel Nov. 29.

The science park proposal is phase two of a $35 million renovation project that kicked off this summer.

Bryan Tisdall, president and CEO of Science World at Telus World of Science, said outdoor science parks are growing in popularity since being introduced in places such as Israel, the United States and India. New science parks have opened outside the New York Hall of Science in Queens outside Manhattan and a smaller one outside the Ontario Science Centre.

“The distinguishing characteristic of our park is it’s going to be based on the science of sustainability and bring it to a level that’s understandable to folks that visit us and bike and walk around the seawall,” Tisdall said. “It’ll make sense of sustainability in your life and mine around six topics—housing, water, food, energy, transportation and waste.”

Talk about the project started in 2002, and Science World has been working on detailed plans with city officials over the past year. Exhibits, which will be tied closely to school curricula, will also be “hands-on, interactive, participatory pieces” that are “colourful and whimsical.”

“They will address levels of engagement as well call it,” Tisdall said. “If you just want to come and have a good time and do something physical with an exhibit to pique your interest you can, but if want to delve deeper, if you want more information and to get into a greater level of understanding, there will be that opportunity.”

Science World has an advantage over many other outdoor science parks because of Vancouver’s milder climate, Tisdall added.

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cover 35,000 square feet, extending out of the centre’s front door, much of which is paved, hard surface. Tisdall expects it design plans will improve traffic flow between cyclists and pedestrians.

The outdoor park will be much like other galleries inside Science World that require admission, but surrounded by a transparent wall that allows passersby on the outside to see the paid exhibits inside. The wall will have free interactive features for those on the outside.

The timeline for the project depends on the length of approval and weather. Science World held public open houses in the fall.

Tisdall said the science park will add “animation” to that area of the city. “There may be some sluggish development at the moment, but inevitably with the Concord lands filling up on the north side of the creek and Olympic Village hopefully filling up the south side, there’s going to be a lot more activity, a lot more pedestrian traffic, and a lot more focus on life around there and hopefully we’ll be a part of that.”

He said provincial funding covers $10.5 million of the $35 million renovation costs, while $10.5 million came from federal government economic stimulus funds.

The remaining $14 million is being fundraised. “We are within about $3.4 million of our total target,” Tisdall said.

Science World was built in 1986 for Expo ’86 and expanded two years later before science and technology education the building’s primary focus in 1989. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Mission-focused church celebrates 125 years Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

It’s older than the city and the biggest inner city mission in the country. And it’s always adapted to the times.

First United Church at the corner of East Hastings and Gore is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a book about its history, Hope Lives Here.

The book, released by Harbour Publishing, highlights the mission’s service for more than a century to the unemployed, immigrant, disabled, mentally ill, addicted and homeless.

Bob Burrows, the senior reverend at the church for six years in the 1960s and ’70s who wrote the book, poured through 22 boxes of historical documents, including meeting minutes that date back to 1888, to research the book.

He found the early period fascinating.

“The fact that the church, that would seat nearly 400 people in a community that only had 800 people, wasn’t big enough on Sunday so they had to build a bigger church,” he said.

Pioneers of the Village of Granville in 1885 yearned for a place of sanctuary, order and dignity in the booming but lawless town. First United was born, first as a Presbyterian church, which remained Presbyterian until 1925.

As part of First United’s food program in the early 1930s, volunteers gave potaphoto courtesy Vancouver Public Library, special collections, VPL12748 toes to those in need.

Business leaders formed its first congregation, but by the late 1880s they were moving to the city’s suburbs. Immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe filled area homes and the church’s emphasis shifted to social service.

In the 1920s, its minister established Camp Fircom on Gambir Island. The church started a thrift store and held its own radio licence to broadcast its Sunday service.

The local congregation couldn’t fund these

activities so the church’s national mission provided the majority of the money.

At the start of the Depression, governments didn’t provide citizens relief. First United Church fed 1,252 people a hot meal in the middle of one day in 1930.

The church has started or helped establish healthcare in the Downtown Eastside, English as a second language training, summer programs for kids, an “outreach school” for troubled youth, programs for

people with disabilities, social housing and the Vancouver Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre. It housed the dropin for female sex workers run by WISH and provides homeless people a secure place to store their possessions.

During Burrows’s time at First United, the Dugout Drop-In Centre in Gastown was started. Soup lines were started, and in the mid to late 1980s the first people were allowed to sleep in the church.

First United has morphed from a church filled with pews to a church filled with safe beds. Two hundred and fifty people sleep in the church every night, another 100 during the day. First United hopes a redevelopment plan will see the construction of up to 90 social housing units on the site. The Sunday service ended in 2007 and now Wednesday morning and night “celebrations” for 130 people run with a meal and a message.

Burrows said the church has swiftly adapted to changing times because of the financial support it receives from the national mission, First United’s willingness to co-operate with other churches and agencies and because residents of Metro Vancouver donate clothing, food and money.

“The current changes are only a continuation of the many other major changes of focus and emphasis of the mission of this church through 125 years,” he said. crossi@vancourier.com

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A Kitsilano pub’s application to have its hours extended from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. seven days a week has neighbours concerned about noise.

The Cove Neighbourhood Pub, formerly Jeremiah’s, has applied to the provincial Liquor Control and Licensing Branch for the extensions. The pub, at West Fourth Avenue and Alma Street, operates from 11 a.m. to midnight on weeknights and until 1 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

“This is a neighbourhood pub and I want it to stay a neighbourhood pub. I don’t want it to become a destination pub where people who are finished drinking downtown or wherever are going to come here into the neighbourhood,” said Ellen Hutchings who lives a block west of The Cove. “There are lot of concerns, noise, parking and we have issues with people using the bushes as a bathroom now in this building.”

Hutchings emailed Liquor Control earlier this month when she spotted the sign informing neighbours of the pub’s application. The sign was posted on the second storey and was difficult to spot. It has since been moved.

Hutchings doesn’t have any complaints about how The Cove runs now.

But Francesca Dappen, who until recently was the only resident across the street from the pub, said noise has been a problem for years. She rents an apartment above a storefront and says she’s lost three roommates in five years because of the noise.

Dappen said she used to complain to the pub and the police to no avail.

She noted The Cove has just completed renovations and appears to be drawing drinkers in their 20s.

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“THIS IS A NEIGHBOURHOOD PUB AND I WANT IT TO STAY A NEIGHBOURHOOD PUB.” Ellen Hutchings

and yelling. The weekend before a group of them got out and it took them an hour between either 12 and 1, or 1 and 2. One guy ended up going and knocking over all the newspaper stands into the street before finally clamouring into a cab,” Dappen said.

She rejects the notion that Vancouver has a no-fun city image to shake.

“I was a young person in Vancouver and I always had lots of fun. You don’t have to get drunk. You don’t have to get out at three o’clock in the morning and scream and yell and honk your horns and disturb everybody else’s sleep,” she said.

Barry Mittlestead, owner of the pub for 21 years, says he doesn’t plan to run The Cove from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. He wants to open earlier during special sports events, stay open later for celebrations like New Year’s Eve and perhaps stay open until as late as 2 a.m. on Saturdays.

“I can’t imagine staying open until 3,” he said.

Mittlestead said he’s received few noise complaints in 20 years.

He says the pub continues to attract the crowd it always has and says he’s not marketing The Cove to younger drinkers.

The Liquor Control and Licensing Branch isn’t aware of any pubs in the immediate area open until 3 a.m.

The Cove has been instructed to restart its public notices, which includes the sign and two consecutive newspaper ads, so the Dec. 3 deadline will be extended. The public has 30 days to provide comment. crossi@vancourier.com

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Pro-slots councillor denounces big casino plan Mike Howell Staff writer

A city councillor who previously voted to allow slot machines at the city’s two casinos is now concerned gambling will expand further if a proposed mega casino planned for downtown goes ahead.

Vision Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson said he never believed his votes more than five years ago to approve slots at Hastings Racecourse and Edgewater Casino would open the door to more casinos in the city.

“We were told that was it—that if we agreed to this, that’s all there would be,” Stevenson told the Courier. “That was the agreement between the city and the government. So the agreement all of us understood, who were on council at the time, was that there would not be an expansion. I feel betrayed.”

At the time, he said, he was concerned about employees losing their jobs at Hastings Racecourse and keeping gambling profits in Vancouver instead of neighbouring municipalities with casinos.

The city also saw the number of casinos reduced in the city when the council of the day approved the

slots, he said, noting casinos closed in Chinatown, south Vancouver and on Broadway.

In March, Premier Gordon Campbell announced a new 68,000-squarefoot entertainment complex attached to B.C. Place that will include two hotels, a casino with up to 150 games tables and 1,500 slot machines, restaurants, a theatre and cabaret.

“Why should government be promoting that?” said Stevenson, noting private companies—not the government—promoted slots at Hastings and Edgewater.

The proposal, however, first has to be approved by city council, which will decide whether the property is an appropriate use for such a complex and whether gambling should expand in the city.

Before the end of the year, council is expected to refer the proposal to a public hearing in 2011. If it is approved, it would be the biggest casino in B.C. “I don’t really believe that the public is aware of what’s about to transpire—that this is just a massive, massive expansion,” said Stevenson, who is concerned about the complex being attached to B.C. Place, which is popular with young people who attend sporting events and concerts.

“Now you’re going to be having a huge casino as part of that, which obviously will be very attractive to a lot of young people. It’s like a whole new generation that’s going to be addicted to this thing.”

Edgewater is across the street from B.C. Place at the Plaza of Nations. Under the agreement with the province, Edgewater would relocate to the new complex where it would more than double the size of its 65 games tables and 493 slots.

Las Vegas-based Paragon Gaming Inc. owns Edgewater. Hastings Racecourse, which is operated by Great Canadian Casino, has 600 slots. Though Stevenson’s comments indicate he would vote against the proposal, and he is worried about attracting crime and creating gambling addicts, the three-term councillor said he will wait until the public hearings are completed before making a decision.

He is also calling on the provincial government to hold separate public hearings. So far, the government hasn’t responded. “They want it to go through as easily as quickly as possible,” he said of the provincial government. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Chief’s comments come on heels of dramatic hostage situation

Top cop wants more mental health services Mike Howell Staff writer

Police Chief Jim Chu renewed his call Thursday for more mental health services to be made available in the city as police continue to respond to incidents involving mentally ill people.

Chu made the comment Thursday at a breakfast meeting hosted by the Downtown Vancouver Association at Simon Fraser University’s campus at the Woodward’s complex in the Downtown Eastside.

“We are the social service agency, we are the mental health service agency of last resort,” he said in response to a question from a member of the audience.

“We can’t shut our door at 5 p.m. and say we’re closed for business. But also, we’re the wrong tool in the toolbox to deal with the mentally ill.”

Chu made his comments two days after a 24-year-old man armed with a knife held a three-year-old boy hostage at the Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre. After several hours of

VPD Chief Jim Chu negotiations, police stormed in the bathroom and rescued the boy, who allegedly received a large cut on his cheek from the man, who is of no fixed address and known to police.

Chu told the crowd Thursday the suspect “did show signs of a mental disorder.” At one point, up to 50 police officers were involved in the investigation.

He said a mental health expert was also brought in to help with the investigation, which involved a VPD negotiator and family member of the suspect. Two years ago, police issued a report called Lost in Transition that showed how a lack of mental health services in the city was “downloading”

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“That has been a step in the right direction,” he said, noting the Lower Mainland could use at least three more such facilities. “There’s a cohort of people that can’t get into the Burnaby centre.

And the reason they can’t get in is they’re deemed too addicted [to drugs] or too mentally ill for them to go into a facility like that because they would be so disruptive. So where are those people right now? They’re in the Downtown Eastside and we come into contact with them on many, many occasions.”

Over the years, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and other advocacy organizations have criticized the VPD for its use of force in dealing with mentally ill people. “I don’t like the fact

that my officers are put in positions where they have to use force against someone that does not understand why they’re doing certain things,” Chu told the Courier after the breakfast meeting. “But unfortunately we have to intervene to protect that person or innocent people that might be bystanders.”

The VPD report on mental health calls recommended the provincial government open an urgent care centre for mentally ill people. The government has not provided the funding.

Judy Graves, the city’s liaison to the homeless, attended Chu’s speech Thursday and agreed an urgent care centre is needed, especially in the Downtown Eastside. “Right now, there’s a lot of talk but as always with a lot of talk, it has a chance of leading somewhere,” said Graves, who was given an award by the Downtown Vancouver Association for her work with the homeless. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter:@Howellings

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Canadian Cancer Society campaign targets testicular, prostate cancer

Two B.C. Lions tackle cancer below the belt Megan Stewart Staff writer

The Canadian Cancer Society is leveraging the jock talk of the locker room—and two professional jocks—to lighten the mood and lessen the stigma of men’s cancers that hit below the waist.

B.C. Lions all-time leading receiver Geroy Simons and Jason Arakgi, a premiere special teams coverage man, are using their bravado and credibility as CFL stars to reach men about a topic many prefer to avoid.

“With guys, they have a hard time going to the doctor and checking,” said Arakgi. “Maybe it’s the examination that scares guys off

or maybe it’s just the body parts involved but the thing is, [cancer] happens regardless.”

The two football players spend their careers focusing on the ball and are now prompting men to consider their own, more private equipment by working to destigmatize words like colorectal, prostate and testicular and speaking in a language men can relate to. “Sports is a great way to get that message to a lot of guys. Players are someone guys respect and it shows it’s not something that is unique to each guy himself but is something every guy needs to worry about,” said Arakgi.

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in people over 50 but can appear earlier.

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If the equipment doesn’t feel right, it needs to be checked out by a doctor.

Although testicular cancer affects young adults and grown men, 96 per cent of cases are treated successfully. At 43, Vancouverite Doug Watts was diagnosed later than most but his younger brother had the same cancer in his early 20s.

The architect and engineer had a pain in his groin that wouldn’t abate. “I went to my doctor and had surgery that afternoon,” said Watts, now 53 and healthy.

His testicle was removed but he kept his life. mstewart@vancourier.com

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Country music keeps cycling session rolling

I spin on my trainer in a dank corner of my garage. Often, at the same time, my wife reads her books in our bedroom on the third floor of our home.

She can hear my music, and she hates it. For what it’s worth, I’d never read her books.

If my wife were to select the tunes on my playlist, I would find nothing but indie love songs that inspire me to do no more than barf.

Good music and sweat complement all good workouts so I need to hold my ground.

When I am spinning—panting, sweating and letting out the occasional scream of intensity—I rely on country music to keep me inspired and give purpose to my effort.

I suppose there are other musical genre choices that would offer a more powerful beat, one that you could argue is better suited to long stretches of physical activity but somehow the slow melody, twang, and fiddle do the trick for me.

“Rodeo,” a Garth Brooks classic tells the tale of a cowboy who would give up anything—including his girl—to make his name in the damned ol’ rodeo. Unfortunately for the wannabe cowboy, he can ride a bull no better than the average guy and finds no fame outside of the rodeo circuit’s barfly groupies.

I take comfort in the honesty of this song because I’m that cowboy, the only difference is

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by Alan Jackson, contrasts our complicated lives with the simple things we often take for granted—like a bologna sandwich on white bread.

The mechanical concept and function of a bike has not changed much since its invention. Regardless of how expensive it is, a bike remains a relatively simple gadget. This song reminds me that the value of my bike is much more than the sum of its parts.

Of course, music selection is only worth talking about on rainy days; I’d take the natural outdoor noises of my favorite cycling route over even the most twangy of country songs.

The mooing cows, chirping birdies and buzz of my tires on the pavement provide the melody for big fresh air breaths to sing their oxygen-processing song of power and speed.

Even in the best of moods, with the most inspiring of playlists, I can last not much longer than one hour on my trainer before boredom takes over.

Outside, with no music, hours in the saddle can go by before I figure it is time to do something else.

If I had to write a country song to add to my spinning playlist, it would tell the tale of a wannabe champion cyclist husband whose wife went to the library to read her books. jeffreyhansencarlson@gmail.com

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Coffee grounds too acidic for house plants, but good for compost Anne Marrison

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Q: People often tell me coffee grounds are good for houseplants. Are they?”

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A: Coffee grounds are a good source of nitrogen. In standard fertilizer numbers coffee grounds are 2–0.3– 0.2 (nitrogen, phosphorous, potash respectively). Nitrogen assists growth, phosphorous encourages fruit and flowers and potash promotes plant health.

But coffee grounds are also very acidic and they’re best mixed into compost rather than being used alone.

As a very rough rule of thumb, houseplants that are happy in peat-type potting mix could probably handle some coffee grounds. But start with a very light application and watch your plants carefully.

If any start to look sickly, add a little lime into the soil and stop using coffee grounds.

This will raise the pH level slightly. If they still have problems, repot in fresh soil.

If you have an outside garden, you might be interested to know some people use coffee grounds as a slug-repelling mulch.

denly it has more soil available. When plants are busy producing new stems and leaves, they often give up on flowers and fruit. Too much high-nitrogen fertilizer can produce the same effect.

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Road Regrets

By Don English

Olive Breslin lounged poolside on day four of her Hollywood occupation. Small birds flew fast and low overhead and badly startled her interview subject, Colin Hype of Focus Puller.

He was the most boring bass player she’d ever met. Olive was sure his fixed gaze and stiff posture were supposed to give the impression he was paying close attention to her questions; it looked more like a seizure. Finally he spoke.

“Um, I’m having trouble putting together answers for you that are any good. I’m on a cleanse.”

“The kind of cleanse that lets you drink beer?” she asked.

“Not a food cleanse, I’m trying to go for a whole month without resorting to using Simpsons quotes to describe things, or really quoting the Simpsons at all, and it’s really… hard. Let’s talk later. I’m going to have a nap.” He got up from his deck chair and managed not to fall into the pool on his way into the house.

Olive switched off her digital recorder and watched him go. She consulted her notes to keep from forgetting him entirely.

Stocky body, head of hair like a fallow field. Tattoo on his left forearm–tells me it’s the logo of a ’40s superhero, forgotten, purchased and resurrected by Archie Comics in the mid-’80s, then forgotten again. PAINFUL SILENCE. His pupils are like saucers behind amber shades.

She flipped her notebook shut, fished the biggest ice cube out of her empty glass and pressed it against the bridge of her nose.

Cool water, subtly scented with iced tea, ran down her face and trickled into the neck of her shirt. Her last few weeks had consisted of jumping time zones in rapid succession from job to job. She’d gone from Reykjavik, where she’d hidden under a table, furiously taking notes at a violent operatic metal show, to New York to convince a guitarist whose album she’d eviscerated that she could still do an objective interview, to Dublin to metaphorically sit at the feet of a sainted rock star.

When she’d been offered the opportunity to install herself in a house for one week with a band working on a new album she’d thought of Dylan and The Band recording in Woodstock, an image that she’d never stopped romanticizing. She’d agreed to move in before it fully registered that she’d be living with a band she didn’t like, or how tired she was.

“I don’t know why you’re wasting your time with that idiot when you could be talking to me.” Martin Nail stood above her on the balcony overlooking the pool. He was the lead guitar player and had perfected the art of standing aloof in a room tuning and retuning his guitar while the other band members argued. He made eye contact with Olive as often as she would let him; he was dying for her to sit down with him in a mood-lit room and ask what kind of guitar strings he used and who his influences were. She was enjoying frustrating him with her lack of attention. Olive never asked questions about gear or influences if she could help it; preferring to figure it out for herself. Ten minutes watching a band play a show, she hated the word “gig,” and she could break down each musician’s lineage like a palm reader.

“You lost the coin toss, I started with the rhythm section first today.” She called up

to him.

“You want a sandwich? Come upstairs and I’ll make you a sandwich.” He walked back into the house before she could answer.

“I’ll be up in a minute.” She shouted, not sure he could still hear her.

The house was one huge arch; a white airplane hangar jammed precariously into the California hillside. Its previous owner had been Daniel Voy, star of a cheap ’70s sci-fi TV show Olive had never heard of. His neck had been broken by a falling polystyrene boulder in a stunt gone wrong. A few times a year, vacationing nerds paid solemn tribute to their fallen hero by gathering at the end of the driveway and having their pictures taken.

After Voy’s death, the house became a rental property that never stayed occupied for more than six months at a time. Half-finished amateur home improvement projects marred the interior like bad plastic surgery scars and the only redecoration it had ever received were the items previous tenants left behind.

When Olive first saw the house she had wanted to work it into her story somehow, use it as a symbol of the death of major league glamour in the music industry; but after spending a few days in the house she realized the label had just chosen to put the band in a cheap place they could destroy

without anyone caring. They were dumping all kinds of money into the record and making all the band’s hedonistic dreams come true. It was disturbing to think a band this awful was worth that much to them.

Olive stretched in the punishing sunshine.

The pool had an especially aggressive glare today. A metal serving tray floating on the surface reflected the light into her eyes, but its assault was halted as a vinyl copy of Super Hits of the ’70s floated into its path and bumped it aside. Dozens of buoyant household items floated on the surface. A television, a large orange couch with matching easy chair, a metal standing lamp and a full bag of golf clubs were spread across the bottom of the pool.

Somehow all the sunken items had landed right side up, and the deep end resembled a tasteless mermaid’s studio apartment.

She shook her head at it and walked into the basement of the house. Focus Puller were coasting into their third week of extended recording sessions; trying desperately to create the weird sophomore album that would be too deep for their old fans to buy, something that would gain them some respect, but it wasn’t in them. The label had hired a talented producer named Paul Stratus to coax the band’s music out of the middle of the road but from what Olive had heard they’d only managed to swerve from

the middle to an inside lane.

The band’s presence had done the house no favours. The mangy basement carpet bore the scars of several small fires, hastily put out with whatever liquids were readily at hand. The room smelled like an abattoir that also sold bark mulch and fertilizer. Cables criss-crossed the floor, a complex root system linked a mixing board to the four rooms where each member of the band recorded.

Bexley, the band’s drummer, was asleep on the couch. His slack mouth had released a torrent of saliva onto the cushion leaving a stain approximately the same shape as Australia. In a corner of the room the producer was screaming at the band’s lead singer about his lyrics.

“You want to use the cut-up technique? That’s fine; just make sure the stuff you’re cutting up was any bloody good to begin with.”

Chad, the singer, ran his hands nervously through an expensive haircut; his narrow chest rose and fell rapidly. He appeared to be on the verge of either punching Stratus in the mouth, or retreating to sullenly try and turn the experience into passive-aggressive lyrics. Olive thought this argument would, at best, help spawn a mediocre single. Stratus was tall and muscular. His head was shaved and judging from the way the track lighting reflected off it, waxed. He was loud, experienced, aggressive, and British;

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An engineer sat at the mixing board reading a Clive Cussler novel; he looked at Olive and winked as she walked past to the staircase.

She got to the top of the stairs and took in the void that was the living room. Its contents hadn’t looked better here than they did at the bottom of the pool.

Yesterday’s recording had ended prematurely. In the late afternoon, Stratus and the engineer had stepped outside for air and didn’t come back. The band soldiered on without them for another hour, and then called it a night and invited 10 of their friends over to the house.

Most sat in the living room drinking and listening to music, some lingered in the kitchen. After about an hour, in a lull between songs, someone had finally noticed Olive sitting on her own watching everyone and asked who she was. Martin introduced her and explained her job while Olive tried to look friendly and prayed that no one would ask her what she thought of Focus Puller and their music. Thankfully most of them just chose to tease the band about their rock star status, others offered up embarrassing stories, a young man in a cardigan pretended not to have heard of Olive or the magazine she was writing for.

Chad was sitting near the stereo with his book of scribbled lyrics.

No one had noticed him in awhile.

“Bexley, say something really deep. No, wait, do something rebellious.” He shouted.

Bexley shrugged, walked over to a bookshelf, and threw a paperback on the floor. People booed, an empty beer can flew past his head and a half full one followed close behind it.

Bexley shrugged again, yanked the television off its stand, walked onto the balcony and threw it over into the pool. Everyone howled at the booming splash; they grabbed anything they could get their hands on and moved in a rowdy queue in and out of the house.

Olive watched as area rugs were rolled up and catapulted; combat boots, denim jackets and courier bags left unattended fell from the sky like a thrift store hurricane.

The cupboards in the kitchen were emptied of pots and pans and packaged food and all but the booze was removed from the fridge and chucked.

Finally, Martin had walked through the crowd with one of his guitars. All movement ceased.

Thin smoke trailed in his wake as lighter fluid flames danced across the guitar’s pick-ups. It shone bright like an emergency flare as it fell end over end through the air and speared the water, neck first, between a velvet painting of Elvis and a plastic potted plant.

Cigarettes that hadn’t been dumped were lit as they surveyed the wreckage. Someone turned on the patio lights and they saw it all, things they didn’t even remember throwing; items spinning in lazy circles as the motion of the water subsided. One person pointed out the shattered remains of an end table that hadn’t made it into the water; someone lamented the loss of a half full bottle of vodka, another complemented Martin on the sacrifice of his guitar. Someone expressed regret at the sacrifice of frozen pizza. They thought the beef jerky would sink.

Eventually someone turned the music back on and most people went back inside where they crouched on the deep pile green carpet like squatters. A small, blonde girl looked at Olive and smiled. “This is going in the article right?”

Olive assured her that it would.

Now, she stood at the border of the living room and the kitchen and watched Martin making sandwiches.

“I didn’t think this place had any food left in it.”

“We went out for more food last night after everyone left. I picked up some bread and tuna and paper plates.”

“Be back in a minute, ” Olive said.

In the bathroom she looked at the toilet and sighed. Taking a pocket knife from her jeans she split the plastic wrap that had been stretched over the toilet bowl before seating herself. If asked,

she’d laugh it off as a good attempt. Every man in the house had realized that she wasn’t going to sleep with any of them and this had her just skirting the edge of den mother status. If she crossed over, the pranks would get worse and she’d never get a decent quote out of any of them.

The bathroom was spacious and still surprisingly clean; Olive missed her own bathroom. She nodded off briefly, awoke with a start and was relieved to find she’d only been out for a minute. She reminded herself again that she was a professional, flushed, washed and exited.

Martin was seated at the kitchen table waiting for her. He attempted a piercing gaze from under heavily pierced brows. “I ate half your sandwich,” he said.

“That’s okay.” She fished her recorder and cigarettes out of her

bag. Olive was sitting next to an overflowing ashtray and in view of three more. She’d seen the butts floating at the bottom of cereal bowls on the counter behind her, heard them rattle at the bottom of empty beer cans throughout the house “Is it okay if I smoke?” Olive asked. Martin nodded; she’d hoped he would laugh.

“You okay?” he asked.

“I’m just a little tired.“ All the windows in the house were open. She could smell the trees and the chemicals in the pool. Somewhere, far away, was home where it was probably raining.

“So what do you think of the music so far?” Martin asked.

“Why don’t we come back to that one.” Olive said. “I’ve been meaning to ask you, what kind of guitar strings do you use?”

Don English was born in North Vancouver. Despite a childhood surrounded by trees, mountains and water he does not hike, ski, snowboard, cycle, jog or camp.

He’s been working in the legal community for the last 10 years and is told this is a good thing. He lives in East Vancouver with a Superwoman and most of his free time is either spent being a bad influence on his friends and family or finishing his first novel. “Road Regrets” is his first published work.

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Yesterday we received this piece of scintillating, potentially innuendo-rich news from a PR company that thought it was important for us to know the following: “Sources revealed today that piano legend, Billy Joel, is currently recovering from a double hip-replacement surgery that he underwent last week in New York. Dr. Calin S. Moucha, the Associate Chief of Joint Replacement at the Department of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is available for commentary and an interview to discuss the Mr. Joels [sic] treatment and recovery. The Joint Replacement Center in The Peter and Leni May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is a leading center for joint replacement in the country.”

Don’t get us wrong. We are huge fans of “the Mr. Joel.” We even liked his hips before he wore them out… doing God knows what (chicka-chickawa-waaa). That was the sound of a sexy guitar played through a wah-wah pedal, by the way. But why on earth is a PR company issuing a grammarchallenged press release about the very private issue of the piano man’s hips and offering to put

the media, including a community newspaper in Vancouver, in touch with a doctor who—it isn’t made clear—may or may not have taken part in the double hip replacement surgery in question.

The rest of the press release goes on to tout the good doctor’s credentials and wax poetic about the Mount Sinai Department of Orthopaedics, which, we assume, is the real reason for the bewildering literature that landed in our inbox.

As for Billy Joel’s new hips, we’re trying to find a fitting song that sums up our feelings. “Just the Way You Are”? Too late. “We Didn’t Start the Fire”? Doubtful. “I’m in a New York State of Mind About These New Hips I Received in a Complex Procedure That I’m Sure Dr. Calin S. Moucha Associate Chief of Joint Replacement at the Department of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine would be more than happy to comment on”? That’s more like it.

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from pristine and innocent like a newborn foal to soiled and trampled like our experience of puberty, it’s the way local media finds it necessary to report incessantly on the snow, like they’re describing something that everyone isn’t experiencing for themselves.

Does anyone in Vancouver need to be told it’s snowing? Not unless you’re former Canuck Garth Butcher and for the past year have been living in a windowless pillow fort in your parents’ rec room. Do we need to be told drivers are finding it difficult to start and stop their poorly equipped cars in the snow? Not unless you happen to be a driver who’s learning this from his iPhone as he’s driving. Do we need to see footage of cars sliding and spinning their wheels in the snow, salt trucks spreading their seed, or lineups of customers at Canadian Tire buying every last shovel and snow tire? Maybe if you’re the proud mother of the Canadian Tire manager who was interviewed.

Yet that’s what we’re enduring for the first half of every news cast on TV or radio, until of course it rains, the seasons change and we go through our annual summer dry spell and the boner-inducing fires that come with it. How ’bout them Canucks?

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In an increasingly mass-produced world, you won’t meet someone who outright rejects anything homogenous more than James Coleridge.

Coleridge is the owner-purveyorproducer and inspiration behind Bella Gelateria (1001 West Cordova St., ph.

604-569-1010), which is fast becoming something of a shrine for serious gelato lovers since opening five months ago.

We recently tasted a range of his gelato and were blown away by the purity of flavours and complexity of textures—not to mention Coleridge’s limitless creativity.

Flavours we tried included an intense espresso that tasted like real espresso and an even more intriguing, distinctly peaty, Ileach Cask-strength Scotch and chocolate gelato that had us running to find out more—and not just because it was Scotch.

Coleridge insists his is a classic gelateria in every sense of the word, tucked into the Burrard and Cordova corner of the Fairmont Pacific Rim. Walk in and you’ll be struck by the spotless simplicity of the space, with its cream-coloured walls and blackand-white historical photographs—re-

produced from celebrated Master Ice Cream Maker Donata Panciera’s book, Il Mio Gelato.

The big difference here, however, is the industrial looking stainless steel showcase—the business end of the gelateria—that doesn’t sport the usual array of gelato on display we’ve come to associate with other Vancouver gelato shops.

Coleridge, who years ago gained fame for his award-winning Fieldstone Bakery, describes himself as a messenger for an old world process fast losing ground to new, more industrialized methods.

After ending his baking career, he went looking for another area where he could re-apply his passion for food and flavour, which is formidable.

After extensive academic studies in Italy at the Italian Culinary Institute, and later at Bologna’s Gelato University, culminating with mentorships with Italian luminaries in the fields of sorbet, gelato and chocolate, Coleridge decided to bring “old world” style gelato to Vancouver—along with the best technology available.

He uses a vertical batch freezer, which accounts for the creamier, more dense mouthfeel and texture, in part because it injects less air than typical commercial machines.

For storage, he turned to Pozzetti, considered a state-of-the-art counter system, where small batches of different flavours (Coleridge makes only

what he estimates he needs for the day) are stored in covered containers.

“Gelato on display,” says Coleridge, “is literally struggling for survival, as it deteriorates with oxygen and has to be stabilized with triglycerides and other agents. We’re far more interested in what it tastes like than what it looks like.”

Initially, he was concerned Vancouver customers might need to “eat with their eyes.” But response to his oldstyle gelato has been overwhelming.

The key is purity of ingredients, which Coleridge is fanatical about.

He uses only Avalon organic milk, and works with several other local artisan producers, such as Granville Island Sake maker Masa Shiroke, who supplies him with sake used in the creamy Kasu gelato. And Coleridge makes another firm fave to which we can attest: XoXolat chili-chocolate bacon “breakfast” gelato.

Despite the cold weather, he says there’s no time like the fall for exploring rich warmer, seasonal ingredients, such as chestnut, cinnamon and ginger, black walnuts, roasted almonds, and marzipan—found here in varying forms.

All this and he runs a serious espresso bar and makes a sub-zerobeating hot chocolate, too.

In fact, Bella Gelateria is winning praise from all kinds of places, including Italy.

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100 Days keeps it trashy and temporary Michael Kissinger Staff writer

If there’s one thing to be learned from the movie Grease and the song “Summer Nights,” its musical ode to havin’ a blast and romantic brevity, it’s that relationships with built-in expiry dates have a certain charm.

Take the Opus Hotel’s recent foray into seasonal flings. For eight years, the upscale Yaletown flophouse maintained a cozy if unsurprising marriage with its Elixir Bistro, catering to well-heeled business types but not necessarily the skinny-jean-wearing party crowd lurking in the alleyways outside. So when Elixir closed shop in August, with plans for a shiny new “restaurant concept” slated for early 2011, it left a brief window for the room to get its ya yas out and enjoy some self-indulgent fun.

Inspired by “pop-up restaurants” in London and New York, the result is 100 Days (322 Davie St.), a temporary eatery, boozery and chillout space that promises to pack its bags and hit the road when it fulfills its moniker’s duration.

Resembling Olivia Newton John’s sexy transformation at the end of Grease from poodleskirt-wearing girl-next-door to spandex-wearing seductress, 100 Days is unapologetically trashy with exposed piping, blackboard menu, fold-up plastic chairs that appear to be stolen from a nearby AA meeting and walls adorned with a constantly changing landscape of neon and Dayglo graffiti courtesy of designer Robert Bailey and graffiti artist Vince Dumoulin.

At the same time, 100 Days adheres to the mantra of equally trashy filmmaker John Wa-

Opus Hotel’s pop up restaurant is carefully casual. ters that “in order to acquire bad taste one must first have very good taste.” On a recent visit where a guest and I were treated to a generous sampling of the kitchen’s kitschy cuisine, which included lobster and crab mac ‘n’ cheese, duck confit pot pie, popcorn shrimp in a carefully sourced old-school popcorn box and fantastic beet salad with buffalo ricotta cheese and beet top and hazelnut pesto, it’s clear that a lot of care goes into appearing casual.

Speaking of casual, general manager Peter Girges hints the busy restaurant, like many torrid affairs, will linger a little longer than its originally promised 100 days, perhaps even stick around for 160 or 170 days, he estimates.

“It’s fold-up chairs and graffiti on the walls, and we’re the hottest place in town,” he says.

“So we must be doing something right.” And with that, he was gone. Not even sticking around to ask for our phone number. mkissinger@vancourier.com

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Shepard play explores gritty landscape of dysfunctional families, dirty secrets A Lie of the Mind

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A Lie of the Mind is disturbingly, provocatively, classic Sam Shepard: lower/middle class America, dysfunctional families, sibling rivalry and dirty secrets that sprawl across the American West. Jake (Josh Drebit) even wraps himself in the Stars and Stripes when he heads out to find Beth (Lara Gilchrist)), the wife he thinks he has finally beaten to death. Beth’s brother Mike (Daryl King) uses/abuses that same flag by leashing Jake with it and making him crawl on all fours, piggy-style. And finally, Old Glory is ceremoniously folded by Beth’s father (Patrick Keating) with the help of her mother (Kathleen Duborg) in a way that implies they believe all’s well with America.

This is familiar Shepard landscape delivered with withering dark humour that leaves you shak-

ing your head. It’s an actor’s playground where each character is so meticulously crafted with psychological quirks—or downright psychoses—that once the actor has grasped the character, he or she can just let it rip. And rip they do.

If you’ve ever wondered just how much love can hurt, A Lie of the Mind is here to tell you. Jake is so certain Beth is getting it on with another man, that he tries to beat the truth out of her. Fortunately, we don’t see the beating but meet Jake confessing later to his brother Frankie (Ryan Beil) that he has killed her. Beth has actually survived but is brain damaged and is being looked after by her family.

Unaware, Jake collapses, goes into a deep depression and is cared for by his mother (Barbara Pollard) and sister Sally (Rebecca Auerbach).

But these are not families where healing can happen. Jake’s mother has an incestuous passion for her son. Pollard (famous for her role in various Mom’s The Word shows) is outrageous in this role: abrasive, mouthy and in complete denial about her character’s little boy. Auerbach simmers with rage over Jake’s can-do-no-wrong rela-

(L-R) Ryan Beil, Lara Gilchrist, Patrick Keating and Kathleen Duborg star in Main Street Theatre Equity Co-op’s production of A Lie of the Mind. tionship with their mother.

Beth’s family is equally screwy: her mother has been so beaten down by Beth’s father, she’s almost not there. Duborg, her haired yanked back in bobby pins, looks vacant, broken and asks, when things get out of hand, “Don’t scream in the house. It’s very old.”

Keating, as the father, scores a career best. Small and sitting in an upholstered chair, he nevertheless

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is the man of the house, browbeating his wife and son. He is so demanding, all you can do is groan with laughter. King begins as Beth’s protective brother Mike but ends up being downright scary.

Gilchrist and Drebit are the lovers that show us how destructive love can be. It’s Othello meets the Hatfields and the McCoys in a package that smacks of Deliverance. Gilchrist amazes us with

the fractured language that is all Beth’s brain injury allows. But the damage is deeper, more profound than speech, and Gilchrist takes us there, too. Ironically, denied conversational skill, Beth sees some things more clearly.

She’s like a child—but sexually charged. Bad combination.

Beil is the character that seems most normal, but his character gets dragged into the mess and Beil, with his usual, low key performance, provides some very funny moments.

Drebit does a lot of heavy lifting in the role of Jake. He succeeds in getting us to loathe the violence in Jake, but he also manages to earn—to some small degree—our sympathy for a man so needy and so in love that he cries, “I love you more than life.” He’s a boy in a man’s body.

Under Stephen Malloy’s fine direction for Main Street Theatre Equity Co-op, Shepard does what he always does: distances us from his characters until we end up seeing, in small bits and pieces, ourselves in all of them—a neat, Sam Shepard trick. joled@telus.net

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Rainbow Concert Band celebrates 20 years of blowing people’s minds State of the Arts with Cheryl Rossi

Previous concerts include Guys and Guys, Dolls and Dolls and Swingin’ in the Rain, not to mention the opportunity for audience members to perform disco karaoke to live music. Now Vancouver’s Rainbow Concert Band is mounting its 20th anniversary performance and reunion Nov. 28 at the WISE Hall.

Paul Krampitz attended one of the band’s first rehearsals in 1990. He’d seen a couple of gay and lesbian American bands play during the Gay Games III in Vancouver and signed up the second he heard a similar band was starting here.

“The ad said no auditions, all levels of players, all you need to be part of this is the joy of music,” he said. (Members also need to read music.)

Krampitz hadn’t touched his euphonium (a small tuba-like instrument) in years so he picked up a cheap valve trombone, unsure if he’d stick with the band.

Twenty years later, he’s one of the old guard who’s revelled in the diverse, musical social club.

“It was like high school without all the angst,” Krampitz said. “And it was fun to be playing again.”

Krampitz, 49, came out in the 1980s but had spent little time around lesbian women.

“This was really the first group that had gay men and women in it,” he said. “The sports teams and all that are pretty much segregated. There’s the women’s baseball and men’s bowling. It seemed like there were lots of lines drawn and then suddenly here was a very inclusive [band].”

Krampitz also appreciates that the band has always included straight men and women.

The Rainbow Concert Band performs at the WISE Hall Nov. 28.

“I found that sort of a brave thing,” he said.

“Most of us feel like we’re out, and yet at work we might not really be really, really out, so it’s sort of interesting to see the other side of that where straight people are in the band. In the concert it’s not noted, oh and by the way we have our straight guests here with us. They’re all tarred with the same brush.”

Krampitz believes Safe Sex: The Concert was the band’s first show, held at The Cultch in 1991. It was also a Double Bill show, with drag queen Bill Monroe performing alongside Bill Richardson, who emceed part of the event and read stories he’d written.

Monroe, who’s famous for impersonating Queen Elizabeth II, will perform a halfhour set at the 20th anniversary.

Joanne Maryt, trumpeter and conductor, joined the concert band a year after it started when she was in her early 30s. She’d done the bar scene in her 20s and, like Krampitz,

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wasn’t sporty, and so she was glad to find a social, musical outlet.

But things were different back then.

“Not everybody was out,” she said. “That was one of the things when we started doing the Pride Parade and media and pictures and filming and I remember somebody said if you don’t want to be seen, cover your face, dress up or whatever, or we can understand if you don’t want to be in the Parade.”

But over the years, the band has attracted musicians from all walks of life. One teenaged girl from North Vancouver was shuttled to and from rehearsals by her mother.

And the band’s oldest member, Cornelius Popescu, a Romanian immigrant in his 80s, has long been the band’s oldest member.

Maryt said Popescu’s friend heard the band rehearsing at the since closed St. John’s United Church on Comox Street at Broughton, popped his head in, said he had a friend with poor

English who liked to make music and could he swing by. Maryt said Popescu, who’s straight, never hesitated to join the diverse group. He acts as the band’s senior percussionist and handles the musical arrangements.

But the last couple of years have been gloomier for the Rainbow Concert Band.

Losing the rehearsal space at St. John’s, where the Rain City Gay Men’s Chorus and a Vancouver Women’s Chorus also practised, was a blow. Switching rehearsal locations and nights has reduced their numbers from 35 at one time, to 15 steady members now. The non-profit society also lost gambling money from the province that helped the group mount its fall and spring shows.

The Rainbow Concert Band is one of many groups that would like to see a permanent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community centre built. It’s also seeking an artistic director.

Maryt believes Vancouver’s Rainbow Concert Band is Canada’s first and only LGBT concert band in Canada. The only other Canadian group she knows of that belongs to the Lesbian and Gay Bands of America is The Church Street Pipe Band from Toronto.

The Rainbow Concert Band performs at half a dozen events each year, including the annual Dyke March, Pride Parade and AIDS fundraisers, and it’s previously performed alongside The Band of the 15th Field Regiment, “blowing their American cohort’s minds.”

Band members will animate their wind and brass instruments to perform medleys of Canadian folk songs and bossanova tunes alongside Christmas standards at the 20th anniversary. Maryt said their rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” might turn out to be a sing-along.

Tickets are $10 at the door of the WISE Hall, 1882 Adanac St., or at Little Sisters, 1238 Davie St. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, see rainbowband.ca. crossi@vancourier.com

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1 DAY COURSES – ONLY $62 BEST VALUE GUARANTEED Classes Every Sat, Sun & Monday Taught by Certified Public Health Inspectors ADVANCE Hospitality Education BC’s #1 Foodsafe Choice

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

Allegro Music School 604-327-7765

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PIANO LESSONS- ALL LEVELS Bernard Duerksen, M.Mus. 30 yrs exp. West side. 604-605-0962.

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Our motto — Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet — emphasizes our vision reaches beyond food retailing. Our deepest purpose as an organization is helping support the health, well-being, and healing of people, customers, team members, and the planet.

Tutoring Services

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We recruit the best people we can to become part of our team. We empower them to make their own decisions, creating a respectful workplace where people are treated fairly and are highly motivated to succeed.

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★COMPUTERS★

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

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Psychiatric Nurse in 23 months There is an urgent need for more Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPN); with the workforce aging – the average age of a Registered Psychiatric Nurse in BC is 47 years – the number of retirees from the profession is exceeding the number of graduates. Entry-level earnings start at $29/hour.

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FEATURED EMPLOYMENT YWCA Employment Resource Centre

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FREE job search and training assistance for men and women

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EMPLOYMENT 1205

Accounting

F/T Full Cycle Accountant/Bookkeeper required for North Shore home builder. QuickBooks & construction industry experience desirable. Job will also include general office duties. Email resume to: vancustomhb@gmail.com

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Career Services/ Job Search

CAREER CONFUSION? FIND YOUR PASSION

Join our award-winning CAREER PLANNING PROGRAM Free to the Unemployed

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General Employment

EXP PET GROOMER To join worlds # 1 mobile grooming franchise, service oriented and strong work ethic, exclusive employment opportunity. Call Michelle 778-828-2935 www.aussiepetmobile.ca FROG HOLLOW Neighbourhood House Seeks a dedicated ECE who is familiar with the Reggio Emilia approach to assist in our Preschool Program.

Please send resumes to Nicoletta Santoianni nicoletta@froghollow.bc.ca

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General Employment

GROCERY CLERK needed. $9.25/hr-$12.38/hr, 40hrs/wk, related job experience an asset, Send resume by mail to CLM Management Ltd. 5191 Joyce Street, Vancouver, B.C., V5R 4G8, email: babylin@telus.net or fax resume. 604-436-3758.

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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Health Care

LIVE IN caregiver needed to care for 6 yr old child. Email Reply clagrie@yahoo.com

Office Personnel

OFFICE ASSISTANT

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

LABORATORY ASSISTANT

Acme Analytical Laboratories (Vancouver), a premier BC mining laboratory, is looking to fill various Laboratory Assistant positions in Vancouver. Must be able to handle up to 40 lbs as some heavy manual labor may be required. Experience in a lab environment an asset but training will be provided.

Starting wage of approximately $12 (combination of base hourly rate and daily production bonus).

Detailed descriptions of the various positions are available on Acme’s website:

www.acmelab.com

Interested parties should submit resume and cover letter by email as instructed on the website.

Appliances

LIKE NEW! Fridge Stove Washer Dryer Stacker Coin W/D set

200 100 $ 150 $ 100 $ 300 $ 750

MIELE STEAM OVEN as new, ht17.75 x wd23.38 inches. Health eating. $2000. 604-261-1817

Burial Plots

FOREST LAWN Memorial Park Burnaby, single plot, asking $9,800 obo. Call 604-987-2948

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For Sale Miscellaneous

$$ Great Deals !! $$ Act Fast! Won’t Last!

Look stunning in real designer clothing such as Ed Hardy & Christian Audigier’s t-shirts, hoodies & jeans. Barely worn & in like new condition. Downsizing wardrobe. Serious buyers only, for more info pls contact: 604-880-0288

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P/t, f/t, administration support required by physical activity and sport education consultants located in Richmond.

• Strong Interpersonal Skills • Highly Organized, Process Oriented • Excellent written and spoken English • Data Entry • Shipping, Receiving, Inventory • Ability to Multi task • Quick worker, attention to detail • Strong Computer Skills • Good phone manner, and customer service driven.

Please email cover letter with salary expectations and resume to: psap@jwsporta.ca Closing date December 17

TOP KNOT FIREWOOD est 1981 Dry Alder, Birch & Maple. Pick up or delivered. Rod 604-985-7193

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Furniture

Childcare Available

GARAGE SALES

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Alder • Birch • Maple Dry, Clean Hardwoods

#1 in Sales • 27 yrs in business Full & half cords 7days/week

604-805-6694

COMPLETE BATHROOM Sets $298. Include:main, side cabinets,mirror,faucet,popup,wall drain,light Many different styles available. 604-313-0670 SOFA, LOVESEAT, leather sell $1850 cost $6,500, marble coffee tble $800. electric heater $39. new white china set, night lamp, picture frame, lrg mirror, 604-329-0008

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Sports Equipment

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Birds

FOUND COCKATIEL 40th & Victoria 604-565-0103

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Cats

HEATED HOODED cat bed, and adjustable black soft sided carrying case. 604-824-8487

FOUR BIKE bike rack with 2 inch car hitch insert.604 731-0606 LADIES FULL-SIZE golf bag and pull cart. 604 731-0606 NORTHERN LIGHTS single weight stack weight machine; includes protective floor mat.

(Purchaser to dismantle and move.) $400.00604 731-0606

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Wanted to Buy

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

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Dogs

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

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Childcare Wanted

F/T FILIPINO live-in nanny for 2 children. First Aid & tutoring req’d.

Please Call: 604-708-1019

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6 BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE LAB PUPS pure bred, english style, CKC reg’d, $750. Ready for their new homes. Call Glenn 604-230-5136

BLACK LAB puppies 1 shots, dewormed, PB non reg, $300.

604-819-1729 or 604-794-3438

GIANT INDOOR SALE George Pearson Centre 719 West 59th.

Sat Nov 27th & Sun Nov. 28th 9:30-4:00 Household, books, etc.

For handicapped residents Canteen/Social Centre

Richmond WHOLESALERS WAREHOUSE Moving & Clearance Sale Open to public Mon to Sat 11am - 5 pm 2300 Simpson Rd. Richmond, 604-270-1050 $1items, gift items, electronics, food items & MUCH MORE !!

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 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.

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Dogs

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Auctions

NEXT AUCTION: Dec. 11, 9am CAN-AM AUCTIONS

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OPEN EVERYDAY 10am - 5pm incl. SUNDAY

Industrial, Construction, Forklifts, Farm & Turf Equip., Fleet Trucks & Trailers, Lumber, Boats . . . see web for more!

Cars & Trucks, 9am Start!!!

Hotel Restaurant

TOKOYO JOHN Enterprises ltd in Van is hiring F/T Jap Cook & F/T Sushi Cook; 3+ yrs exp with knowledge in each position.

Salary $18.75/hour. Main duty: prepare/cook Jap. food, sushi/ sashimi & ensure quality of food.

Contact seokris@hotmail.com

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Home Support

F/T LIVE-IN Caregiver required for Maple Ridge couple. Resume, references & criminal record check needed. 604-341-5552, email: coniagas@shaw.ca

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MEN’S CLOTHING FOR SALE

ACCENTUS MEDICAL Transcription Services requires Canadian MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS to work from home. Expertise in Operative Reports and Oncology needed. Health Benefits now available! Please apply online www.accentus.ca/ employment.html

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F R I D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 6 , 2 0 1 0 T H E VAN C O U V E R C O U R I E R

ADORABLE POMERANIAN puppies, very sweet, 1st shots, 2 left $450.. 604-636-4238

Located in Langley just minutes from Vancouver WE WELCOME INDUSTRIAL SMALLS.

6780 Glover Rd., Langley, BC • Phone: 604-534-0901 www.canamauctions.com

WEDNESDAY – DEC. 1ST @ 3 PM ANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES & JEWELLERY AUCTION

ALL SMALL breed pups local & non shedding $350+.

604-590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

JENNY - Lab Ret/Kelpie X/Large/ Young/Female. Sweet energetic girl needs a break. Easy in the home. Loves hiking/swimming/ toys/hugs. playful growl & boisterous with other dogs. Wary of strangers/new situations & will alert bark. Blooms with consistent handlers. A more rural, quiet home may be best. Visit the dogs at Vancouver Animal Shelter 1280 Raymur Ave 604-871-6885.

AUSTRALIAN BLUE HEELER pups. 1st shots, vet ✔, ready to go. View parents. 604-572-7249 LAB PUPS CKC Reg’d Yellows & Blacks Good Temp. Shots & Tattooed. $750. 604-377-0820

Viewing Times: TUES - 9:00 AM ‘TIL 7:00 PM & WED - 9:00 AM ‘TIL AUCTION TIME BERNESE MOUNTAIN Dog Pups, vet ✔ 1st shots, dewormed. $950. Chwk. 1-604-794-3561

LAB PUPS, yellow, m/f, shots, dewormed, $450. family raised Call 604-701-1587

BICHON FRIESE PUPS, 2 males p/bred unreg. 9 wks, 1st shots, homebreed $500 604-376-8327 BOXERS, CKC reg. show champion lines, 9 flashy brindle males, 2 reverse, chip, wormed & shots, ready Nov 12. 604-987-0020

LAB/RETR. PUPS:FIRST shots/ dewormed. 3 black males left.

7wks on Nov.29. 604-856-8636 RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK pups, 1 shots, dewormed, 2 no ridges $1000. Ph 604-845-4113

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careers

trades/technical farm workers

DINNER SETS, ROYAL DOULTON, DRESDEN & MEISSEN FIGURINES, ORIENTAL PORCELAIN, CHINA, CRYSTAL & BRASSWARE, PERSIAN CARPETS, STERLING SILVER FLATWARE, OIL PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS, CANADIAN ART & LTD. EDITION PRINTS PLUS GOLD & STERLING SILVER JEWELLERY & MORE

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ROTTWEILER PUPPIES, CKC Reg. Malti V-1 rated, top blood lines, Health Cert. 604-535-9994 FEMALE MALTIPOO. 2 Yrs old.

Sweet tempered. Fully trained. All shots. $600. Call 604-514-3598

Foster homes urgently req’d for rescued, abandoned & neglected dogs. Many breeds. www. abetterlifedogrescue.com

SIBERIAN HUSKY Timberwolf pups, $1,100. 250-295-6280 normanstd@yahoo.com

LAB/BORDER COLLIE female puppy for sale. 9 weeks old. 1st shots and worming. $480.

Call 604-603-8609

SMALL FLUFFY PODDLE X, Male & Female. Ready to Go. $500/each. Bby 604-521-2797

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2010

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Pets - Other

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Catering/ Bartending

Just Right Catering For all your entertaining needs private & corporate since 1983.

Tel : 604 (688) 4482

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Fairs/Bazaars

St. Helen’s Anglican Church Annual Holly Bazaar Sat, Nov 27th • 11am – 3pm Light Lunch • Free Admission 4405 W 8th Avenue @Trimble West Point Grey

BAZAAR & UKRAINIAN FOOD FAIR Silent Auction,Raffles • Christmas Crafts Ukrainian Buffet at 5pm and 7pm SATURDAY, NOV 27TH from 11AM – 8PM

St.Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Centre 3150 Ash St. at 16th Ave. Vancouver Free Admission and Parking.

Info: Parish 604-879-5830

17th Annual

Women’s Winter Faire Saturday & Sunday 11am - 6pm

November 27 & 28 December 18 & 19 Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St.

A $3 - $5 door donation supports Theatre Terrific and Pride Education Network Participating vendors at:

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Fairs/Bazaars

Sat. Dec. 4th.

10am - 4pm

Kensington Community Centre 5175 Dumfries St. Vancouver (Near 33rd & Knight St) 604-718-6201 Door Prizes & Food!

Free Admission and Free Parking!

Collingwood Neighbourhood House

Craft Fair

Sat. Dec 4th • 11am - 5pm free admission featuring arts & crafts by local artisans 5288 Joyce Street, Vancouver

(2 blks south of Joyce Skytrain station)

NEED CASH AND OWN A VEHICLE?

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http://www.gotkeysgotcash.com BUILDING LOT, New West. 33’ x 130’. $75,000 in services paid! No HST! 4,240 total sq. feet. Priced to sell! $318,888. 604-726-0677

REWARD FOR LOST PAPILLION last seen Gov rd Nth Bby Nov 11 778-882-7439

Okanagen/ Interior

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OKANAGAN VIEW ACREAGE 10 acre view property, eastern hillside, upper Carmi Road (lot 4 Deerfield) Penticton, BC.. on school bus route, 6 km Paved Road to Penticton Regional Hospital. Power to Property Line.

1000 +/- Foot Frontage on Paved Road. City View and Okanagan Lake. View North to Peachland.

Own your own piece of the beautiful Okanagan Valley for $375,000. Contact owners donaclair@shaw.ca

Squamish/ Whistler

WHISTLER. $195,000. 1 BR condo. Reno’d. Walk to Creekside ski lifts. 1-604-907-1330 or email for pics: brianvs@telus.net

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Fairs/Bazaars

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Acupuncture

A NON Surgical beauty treatment avail. Acupuncture for facial rejuvenation or lift. Dr. Wendy, 20 yrs exp. with cosmetics. #150 - 5780 Cambie St. 604-600-5658

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Registered Massage Services

Try the Best 604-872-1702

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Accounting/ Bookkeeping

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

Monthly bookkeeping $20 hr +.

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

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Financial Services

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SWEDISH BODY MASSAGE & WAXING

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Brazilian Waxing from $35

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Fairs/Bazaars

Oakridge United Church

Mark your calendar!

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Over 140 Vendors

Snack Bar • Child-Minding • Entertainment • Prizes

DUNBAR COMMUNITY CENTRE 4747 Dunbar St. (at West 31st)

604-222-6060

St. Philip’s Church Christmas Fayre Saturday, Nov. 27 • 12:00-3:00pm Silent Auction, Handcrafted Gifts, Home Baking, Attic Treasures, Christmas Gifts, Books, Tea Room. Fun for the whole family!

Christmas Bazaar

St. Thomas Anglican Church 2444 East 41st Avenue, Vancouver

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Saturday, December 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Unique Christmas crafts and gifts, homebaking, candy, preserves, attic treasures and more.

Fairs/Bazaars

St. Helen’s Anglican Church 4405 W. 8th Ave. @ Trimble

Sat/Sun, Nov. 27/28 Sat/Sun, Dec. 4/5 Rocky Mountaineer Station 1755 Cottrell Street $2 Admission Children 12 & under FREE Free Parking

www.portobellowest.com

3737 West 27th Ave. • 604-224-3238

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Sat., Nov. 27, 2010 11:00am - 2:00pm

Admission: $3 Under 12 Free

Deck The Hall Craft Fair Sat. Dec 4 • Sun. Dec 5 11:00am - 5:00pm 45 Outstanding Craft Vendors Heritage Hall

3102 Main St. at 15th Ave. $2 Admission, Kids free!

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Holly & TBeedady Bazaarr Bazaar

Sat., Nov. 27 • 10am - 5pm

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305 West 41st Avenue

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604-630-3300

DESIGNER

SATURDAY, NOV. 27 9AM - 2PM

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

Real Car Cash Loans

FURNITURE SALE

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MARKET SQUARE

Business Opps/ Franchises

Use your vehicle as collateral Borrow up to $10,000!

Christmas Calendar

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Financial Services

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Metaphysical

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Baking & Preserves, Crafts & Cards, Attic Treasures, Jewellery, Books, Tea Room, Raffle, Auction

Free Admission

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR, LUNCH, TEA & BAKE SALE Saturday, Nov. 27 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Oakridge Lutheran Church 585 West 41st Ave. Supported by Faith Life Insurance

Steveston Christmas Craft Fair

Browse through 150 tables of unique handmade gifts

Saturday, Nov. 27th 10am - 4pm

Admission: cash or food donation

Steveston Community Centre 4111 Moncton St., Richmond Info: 604-718-8080

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Fairs/Bazaars

St Mark’s Christmas Bazaar Enjoy German books, food, baking, Advent Reefs & Christmas decorations.

Sat. Nov 27th, 10am 2pm....1593 East 18th Ave. Between Knight & Commercial. www.stmarkschurch.ca

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Holiday Helper

BOOK YOUR SANTA PHOTO SESSION NOW! Santa is visiting Intuition Photography on Granville Island Nov 27 & 28 - Dec 4 & 5.

Avoid the mall line-ups!

Call Janine at 604-563-5084 or visit our website: www.intuitionphoto.com

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Re: The estate of Ernest John Burchell also known as Ernest J. Burchell, Ernest Burchell and E.J. Burchell, deceased, formerly of 5181 Wales Street, Vancouver BC V5T 3M5 Creditors and others having claims against the Estate are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the VANCOUVER CITY SAVINGS CREDIT UNION, Attention: Hamlata Dayal at 183 Terminal Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5R8 on or before December 22, 2010, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, Executor, Peterson Stark Scott, Solicitors NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: THE ESTATE OF MARIA ROCIO EUGENIA MORALES, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS ROCIO MORALES AND MARIA ROCIO MORALES, DECEASED NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Maria Rocio Eugenia Morales, late of Vancouver, who died on December 22, 2009 are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator c/o 700 - 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 5A1, on or before January 1, 2011 after which date the Administrator will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which he has notice.

David Barrera Administrator By: Richards Buell Sutton LLP Attention: Angela M. Spanjers NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Notice if hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the following estate: GORDON DOUGLAS CAIRNS, formerly of 470 West 22nd Avenue Vancouver BC V5Y 2G5, Deceased, who died on April 13th, 2010, and to anyone knowing the whereabouts of Patrick Gordon Cairns also known as Patrick Gordon Brown, and Stephen Michael Cairns also known as Stephen Michael Brown, are hereby required to send full particulars thereof to the undersigned Executors, c/o Kenneth B. Krag, 228 - 8055 Anderson Road, Richmond, B. C. V6Y 1S2, on or before the 31st day of March, 2011, after which date the Executor will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims that have been received. Richard James Beardsley and Carol Ayako Beardsley, Executors.

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Carpentry

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Cleaning

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RENTALS 6508

Apt/Condos

North Van Apt. Rentals

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6508

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Drywall

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Apt/Condos

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6515

Duplexes - Rent

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Furnished Accommodation

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Intellectual pursuits have top priority. That includes cultural, far travel, educational, publishing, advertising, religious, philosophical and legal affairs. These might run into a couple of unexpected glitches or shocks early and deep into this week, so time your actions for Dec. 4 onward.

Government agencies, or your own “background” might be involved. Dive into chores Sunday/Monday, so you’ll have more time when opportunities and exciting emotional prospects appear (Tuesday/Wednesday).

Depths, mysteries, sex, other people’s money Friday/ Saturday: you might hit a mother lode!

Taurus April 20-May 20: Life’s mysteries, research, depth psychology, subconscious desires, lust, finances tied to other people (e.g., stocks, marriage finances, inheritances) rise in importance. These might be imperilled this week, especially if you began a related venture in November. You might need to take quick “crisis action” Thursday/Friday. Or, you could be free of any problems – if so, wait until Saturday onward to plunge into these areas, and/or to make a commitment, change your lifestyle, or invest. Work succeeds midweek. Friendships, loves (and everything listed above) are lucky Friday p.m.!

Gemini May 21-June 20: Excitement! You could take major steps in a romance or more mature relationship now, or you might face and seize a huge opportunity such as relocation, a public appearance, a business negotiation/contract. But be aware: you might succeed, and the payment is stress. Or it all might blow up (Sunday-Tuesday a.m. or Thursday/Saturday) especially if this situation began in November. But if it blows up: so what? It clears away six years of tension, liberates you – laugh at life! Midweek’s romantic.

Saturday begins, small but growing, the workable opportunities, attractions. Optimism arrives!

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6540

Houses - Rent

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8060

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Cancer June 21-July 22: Emotionally, a rest period Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: The main emphasis lies is over. Now you begin two months of intensified, on communications, paperwork, errands, travel, active, communicating, sweet (and sometimes angry, siblings and casual friends. These areas face one or or more likely, competitive) attraction. But don’t lose two challenges this week, especially Sunday/Monday sight of your main necessity for the next three weeks: (philosophical or legal differences?) and Thursday/ work and health. These two – and your dependents, Friday (romantic, creative conflicts?). In everything and machinery – face one or two crises or dilemmas (communication, travel, etc.) your intention is all tied this week (Sunday-Tuesday and Thursday/Friday). Be up with a partnership urge – but it is this urge that very careful with electricity, computers, driving, tools, is really causing unexpected events or disagreements. especially late week. A project might demand precise, Somehow, it (the urge to join or merge) is fighting tense attention to complete: give this, and succeed. the work you need to get done. By Friday p.m., the conflict’s over, and money luck flows!

Romance whispers Thursday/Friday!

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: What seemed so romantically Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Unexpected events could alluring in November might meet unexpected events throw a monkey wrench into your money projects, or sexual reactions. Or, speculation and investment particularly any projects you began in November, quality conflict; or creative urges, projects might especially Sunday/Monday and Thursday/Friday. Do NOT trip over the realities that research discovers. purchase machinery or high tech items before Friday Whatever went so brilliantly in November meets the noon. The problem comes from your desire, hidden or unexpected by Thursday. Leo, whatever happens: 1) not, to seek pleasure, romance, adventure or to take be ethical, honest; 2) be alert, realistic. These should a gamble. You might face a choice: chase romance, or show you the right way. Money needs care Sunday/ guard your money, gamble or keep your bank account, Monday. Communications, travel, life’s easy Tuesday/ etc. Despite events, you’ll be optimistic, happy Sunday/ Wednesday. Home, safety, take no chances Thursday! Monday! Rest, contemplate mid-week. Your energy, charisma soar Thursday/Friday – this eve’s lucky!

Friday heals. Saturday, love, success begin.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: I warned you some weeks Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Watch your temper ago that domestic, property, security and family – you’re riding a wave of energy, charisma, hope, projects (especially those initiated in November) might loving emotions and creative, gambling pizzazz – but hit a shock or snag by this week. It could be a crisis, this could make you impatient, too, especially with or simply a snag that needs ironing out. Be patient, parents/kids, domestic situations, real estate, security diplomatic. Sunday/Monday your energy is high, but provisions. These have caused you stress and tension everyone seems independent, ready for an argument. for seven years, and you’re at the fed-up stage! So Thursday/Friday communications, errands flow swiftly, there might be one last explosion, especially Sunday/ but an unexpected event could capsize the apple cart. Monday or Thursday/Friday. Listen: be safe, but don’t Drive carefully Friday dawn, avoid unsafe tools, avoid repress your temper. Have a tantrum, then look for Ads continued computers. Friday p.m., love/friendship luck! After a common ground. You’ll find it Friday eve, successfully hectic week, relax at home Saturday. on next start pageto implement it Saturday onward.

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Electrical

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Excavating

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Suites/Partial Houses

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Nov. 28 - Dec. 4 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Messages, information (or distribution realities) might interfere with a plan that involved government, an institution, or a “retreat.”

Protect yourself from gossip.Take care in writing,speech, driving and with electrical tools. The most “accident prone days are Sunday, Monday and Friday (morning).

This is a time of rest, solitude, peace and contemplation – seek an environment that promotes these. That said, your social popularity begins to revive, and you grow more talkative, more interested in wisdom and learning.

Complete obligations. Happiness, optimism visit Friday!

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: A conflict between your hopes and your “available cash” might reach a climax this week, especially Sunday/Monday and Thursday/ Friday. Well, reality is reality, you gotta work with what you have. Once you accept this, you can start achieving, and your hopes will rise. In general, your popularity is rising, light romance visits, and your money picture does keep getting better! Bosses, VIPs and parents favour you again, into January – take advantage (especially Friday!). Tackle government-related chores now, as a slow-down will commence here soon. Love, Tuesday/ Wednesday, Saturday!

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Relationships need patience, gentleness early week. A temperamental boss, parent or VIP could act now, especially Sunday to Tuesday (argument) and Thursday/Friday (sudden action). Be alert, good-natured, diplomatic – deflect attacks. (A VIP’s motive? Perhaps a suspicion that you are money-hungry. Deeper, it’s a power struggle.)

Wisdom, gentle love, and a travel, legal or educational project return, lasting to early January. These are lucky Friday p.m. Friends begin to appear. Still, your main December goal is career, ambition. Secrets, revelations, “major money” Tuesday/Wednesday. timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2010

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Gutters

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Hyundai makes no compromises with Tucson davidchao All new last year, the Hyundai Tucson is a fresh evidence of how far the Hyundai Motor Company has come in a relatively short time period. No longer a lower-priced second choice or a used car alternative, Tucson is another example of a Hyundai that also competes head-to-head in the performance, quality and design arenas.

There are no compromises here, the technology is first rate and its design, handling and ride reflect its European connection. Tucson was conceived and engineered at Hyundai’s new design centre in Frankfurt and has evolved into a slick and very modern cross-utility vehicle.

Tucson is a nice size, economical and a versatile multi-task vehicle that can handle the daily urban grind, big boxes from IKEA or weekend escapes with the family.

Stylish yet practical, it has space for four, maybe five, occupants and plenty of cargo room.

Lighter (28 kg) than its predecessor, Tucson’s clean and efficient 2.4 litre (176 hp) cylinder engine and new six-speed automatic transmission delivers excellent fuel economy. The front-drive version uses just 6.3 litres/100 km on the highway and if fitted with all-wheel-drive it consumes an extra 0.8 L/100 km.

Even a base GL edition comes with air conditioning, a Bluetooth hands-free phone connection and power windows, locks and mirrors. The side mirrors are also heated and it has keyless entry plus a security system. Au-

Tucson is a nice size, economical and a versatile multi-task vehicle that can handle the daily urban grind, big boxes from IKEA or weekend escapes with the family. dio input jacks are provided, the steering wheel has audio controls and four-wheel disc brakes are standard.

The GLS ($26,799) trim additions include 17-inch alloy wheels, fog lights and a tilt and telescopic steering wheel. Moving up to the Limited ($32,449) trim adds leather seating, dualzone air conditioning, 18-inch alloy wheels, a panoramic sunroof, all-wheel-drive and more.

Our test Tucson was a topline Limited with Navigation ($34,449). In addition to the 6.5inch touch screen navigation system it also includes and upgraded audio system and a rear-view

camera system.

For the 2011 model year, Hyundai offers a new lower-priced base L trim version of Tucson with a 2.0-litre engine and a 5-speed manual transmission ($20,999), or optional 6-speed automatic. It eliminates the 2010 GL 2.4 litre engine with a 6-speed manual. Other than that the lineup and pricing is essentially unchanged.

Design—Tucson is a complex styling exercise with lots of interesting body lines and creases, yet it all pulls together very nicely.

Short body overhangs, pushedout wheels and a high belt line give it a well planted on the road

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A roof line that swoops down at the rear adds to its sporty appearance and the spoiler above the rear window is standard on all versions. While Tucson is longer and wider than rivals such as the Honda CR-V, Ford Escape and Subaru Forester, it tends to look even bigger than it is, in reality.

Interior—Nothing too fancy or cluttered, the dash is simple yet has everything you need with easy to understand and use controls—I like it! The instrument panel is a two-pod design with centrally positioned engine temperature, fuel gauge and trip info electronic readouts.

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The cabin is roomy and suited to taller drivers with a high seating position that looks down at instrument panel. Despite the panoramic sunroof and its slopped to the back roofline, the rear passengers, surprisingly, are also provided with good head and leg room.

The panoramic sunroof comes with the Limited package and has an attractive full glass roof appearance on the outside. From the inside, only the front part opens and the rear section is fixed (but has a sliding shade).

On the downside, you lose roof rails and any notion of attaching a roof rack.

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Safety—Electronic stability control is standard on all trim levels of the Tucson and so are active front seat head restraints.

The (front and rear) side curtain air bags have the added occupant protection of vehicle roll-over activation.

Performance—From the elevated driving position, outward vision was generally good and the big side mirrors were great.

The slopped rear window seems smaller through the rear-view mirror so the back-up camera, which came in my test Tucson, was definitely an asset.

The camera’s screen also comes with direction guide lines that project the path on which the vehicle is heading, based on the current steering angle, which is another plus. Unfortunately it’s only available on the top-line version of Tucson.

Tucson is not going to break any land speed acceleration records, but it’s certainly competitive in its class. Its engine is smooth and quiet in normal driving but it lets you know that it’s

Stylish yet practical, the Tuscon has space for four, maybe five, occupants and plenty of cargo room. working hard, if you floor the gas pedal. On the plus side, it’s an ultra-clean running engine that plays a major role in making the Tucson qualify as a Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle.

The new six-speed automatic transmission is excellent and it

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The Score—Great to look at, great on gas and good to the environment, the new Hyundai Tucson brings value package that can’t be ignored to the compact cross-utility segment.

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You could hear him, but you couldn’t see him.

Mayor Gregor Robertson hosted a one-hour “town hall” meeting via telephone Tuesday night that attracted—at one point—12,000 listeners, according to Ian Baillie, executive director of Vision Vancouver, which organized the event.

To put the 12,000 number into perspective, the Pacific Coliseum has a capacity of 16,000 people for a sporting event. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre can accommodate 3,000 and the Orpheum Theatre holds 2,700 people.

“We were thrilled with the numbers,” Baillie said. “We thought it would be good, I didn’t think it would be that good. With the 12,000 number, it just means that at some point, people were connected to the call. The number goes up and down because not everybody stayed on for the whole hour.”

On average, Baillie said, the event attracted 2,500 people at any one time, who were contacted by Vision through phone technology operated by Strategic Communications, whose offices are on West Seventh Avenue.

Robertson took calls from Vision Vancouver’s office, which is in the same building as Strategic Communications, which helped run and fund the mayor’s 2008 election campaign.

Mayor Gregor Robertson Baillie acknowledged the majority of listeners were members and donors of Vision or had contact with the party at some point since the elections in 2005 and 2008.

“They weren’t all necessarily Vision members,” he said. “But obviously we’re a political party and our business is connecting with people.”

The party once boasted it had 17,000 members, making it the biggest civic party in Canada.

Robertson took questions from 15 callers across the city. Topics included the financial mess around the Olympic Village (no, property taxes won’t increase because of it, says the mayor), proposed towers in the West End (still on hold), the status of the proposed Vancouver Art Gallery move (a report before council possibly next month) and homelessness (appreciates the provincial funding announced Tuesday to open more shelters).

None of the questioners were critical of Robertson or Vision Vancouver, which is the ruling party at city hall.

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Five hundred listeners wanted to ask questions, said Baillie, adding the set-up was similar to a radio call-in program where questioners were asked off air the topic of their question. Baillie said the goal was to hear a variety of questions.

The party conducted three polls during the event, including one where a majority of respondents (59 per cent) want the mayor’s transportation focus to be on expanding bus service over running a SkyTrain line out to Arbutus and the University of B.C. “That is interesting and it kind of cuts against what a lot of the transportation policy folks have been saying that the next crucial link is to get SkyTrain to Arbutus,” the mayor said.

Another poll found that a majority of respondents (35 per cent) chose affordable housing as their most important issue. Homelessness placed second, with transportation, taxes and crime rounding out the preferences.

The final poll of the night found that more than 75 per cent of callers wanted more information about Vision Vancouver, which plans to hold another telephone “town hall” before the November 2011 election. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Christmas tree light up

The Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area is erecting a huge Christmas tree to be a welcoming beacon to the community throughout the holidays. It will feature decorations created by three local elementary schools, Mount Pleasant elementary, Florence Nightingale elementary and Si-

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Donations for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank will be accepted. The ceremony is from 5:30 to 6:30, Dec. 3 at Kingsway and Broadway on the southwest corner.

Festival of Chanukah

Join Lubavitch B.C. and members of the Jewish community to celebrate the Festival of Chanukah with the lighting of the tallest menorah in Canada—the Silber Family Agam Menorah at 7:45 p.m., Dec. 4. The event is at the Vancouver Art Gallery at the corner Georgia and Howe streets.

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Band member remembers 1997 spill Megan Stewart

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erry Point will never forget the summer Musqueam Creek smelled of soap, as if too much laundry detergent was poured in the sink under a running faucet.

The creek was at a seasonal low after a dry June and July in 1997, and the 21-yearold volunteer with the newly formed Musqueam Watershed Restoration Project was taking a routine walk along the creek when a foamy, milky-looking substance caught his attention.

The shallow stream was frothing, pushing a thin, white lather into roots and branches that dipped into the water. The suds drifted farther downstream toward the mouth of Musqueam Creek where the water becomes increasingly salinated as it nears the Fraser River and the open ocean of the Strait of Georgia.

“It smelled like a laundromat,” said Point. “It was foamy.”

Whatever the froth was, it threatened the lives of hundreds of juvenile coho and chum, some of the only salmon to return naturally and without interruption to Musqueam Creek, the last of Vancouver’s 50 salmon-bearing streams.

Point and four more volunteers from the Musqueam Indian Band and the David Suzuki Foundation—who were already strategizing for the long-term future of the threatened stream—grabbed dip nets, buckets or pails and slipped into boots if they were nearby.

“We used our hands—anything we could,” said Point. They lurched into action, urgently collecting, counting and relocating the tiny fish to nearby Cutthroat Creek, itself a tributary to the poisoned

Signs warn passersby of the Musqueam Watershed Restoration Project’s delicate ecosystem. photo Dan Toulgoet Musqueam Creek that had been diverted from its natural path decades earlier by city engineers. Point said the frantic action was hectic and determined.

“We’re not sure how successful we were.

They were alive when we put them in.”

Point estimates more than 600 juvenile cutthroat trout and juvenile coho were smothered. He said the toxins killed everything in the water for 180 metres downstream, from resilient bloodworms to more sensitive salamanders. The word he chooses is obliterate.

Splashing through the poisoned water made one man so sick his naturopath diagnosed him with chemical poisoning. None of the Musqueam volunteers fell ill.

“We were all in it, but we probably have some kind of tolerance,” speculated Point.

“We grew up playing in that creek, so that’s why we might have a resistance to whatever’s in it.”

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federal fisheries investigation in 2005 sampled 39 different pesticides in the stream but the chemicals in the 1997 spill

and fish kill were never identified. Point concludes the source was any one of hundreds of toxic household products dumped unconsciously and undiluted down the drain and sewer system into Musqueam Creek. He shakes his head and contemplates what he sums up as “some careless act.” He now believes the contamination resulted from repeated and slapdash corner-cutting as homes were built, but can’t place specific blame.

“Who do you point the finger at?”

Musqueam reserve is under federal jurisdiction, but health inspectors with the city of Vancouver, which is responsible for water and sewer line maintenance, traced the source of the pollution to at least six homes.

Instead of using septic tanks, a handful of homes within a housing complex flushed all household refuse down drains and sewer pipes that led directly to the creek.

The houses are on property leased from the Musqueam and located adjacent to the two-kilometre stream, the same waterway that has been a site of Musqueam habitation for thousands of years.

City water inspectors used coloured dyes to locate the source houses sending domestic refuse into the environment and disconnected the sewer and water hook-ups that didn’t meet regulation standards.

“Trying to recover from that takes years and years,” said Point, the chairperson for the Musqueam Ecological Conservation Society, a non-profit that emerged out of the initial watershed revitalization project.

The smell and sights of the soapy creek stick with him and he keeps his eye on the culvert that carried the pollutants. He’s not convinced such devastating contamination won’t happen again.

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Continued from page 4 “I think about it all the time but we’re not sure how to go about it and how much we can aggressively push the city to figure out. You could plug it up and find out pretty quickly.”

But more than a decade later, the recovery and maintenance of Musqueam Creek is underway. Each year more fish are returning and the stream-keepers, as the volunteers are sometimes known, have reason to be optimistic.

In 1997, a meager number of fish managed to spawn: six coho and six chum. The demise of the salmon stock was written in their spent bodies, but then the remarkable happened. On the return cycle four years later, 20 chum and 25 coho returned to Musqueam Creek. “We’ve had no returns under 20 since then,” said Point.

our stream survived. It’s here because it runs through first nation territory, because it runs through Musqueam. For it to survive, we have to take pride in it and take care of it and if that creek had run anywhere else it would probably be covered in cement today.”

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igleaf and sycamore leaves, red alder and burdock branches overhang the banks of Musqueam Creek, a creek less than two kilometers long with headwaters in Pacific Spirit Regional Park. Cedar and hemlock trees shade the steep inclines where licorice and sword ferns, salmonberry and salal pack the space around decaying tree trunks and lichens of the rain forest.

Bitter cherry saplings were reintroduced to the soil earlier this summer in the ongoing revitalization efforts. So too were devil’s club, a thorny plant with broad leaves and bright berries that holds significance for many aboriginal cultural practices in this part of the world.

Chum (above) and coho salmon spawn in Musqueam Creek.

Christina Nahanee was careful with her choices. Charged with rebuilding the floodgate near the mouth of Musqueam Creek and creating fish-friendly habitat in the estuary and along the creek, Nahanee is thinking about the long-term health of the watercourse and its prominence in the lives of the Musqueam.

Garbage—beer cans, cigarette packs, an abandoned mitten, fast food containers— along the banks are evidence the creek is a social place visited by more than just fish.

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Committed clean-up efforts don’t always keep pace with less conscientious users.

As a child, Nahanee listened along with Terry Point and other adolescents to stories about the creek, salmon and fishing from her great-grandfather, Dominic Point.

“A lot of time we spent with him. We would all go meet with him. Now when I look back and I think about the things he told me, the stories register and it all makes sense,” she said. “I didn’t understand why he’d tell me about the creek or even why

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usqueam Creek was buried once. In 2004, a decade after Point began his work to revitalize the watershed, a car accident on Southwest Marine Drive near 41st Avenue caused the rupture of a giant pipe. The sudden flash flood, likened to an environmental disaster that might happen only once every 200 years, pushed more gravel and mud than can fit in the back of eight mid-size pick-up trucks into the small creek, burying salmon alive and washing away or suffocating what eggs were already laid. The chlorinated water also killed bacteria and insects and other small life forms integral to the ecosystem.

The destruction came with a blessing in the form of a $219,000 grant from the City of Vancouver to repair the damaged creek.

Nicholas Scapillati, the executive director of the Musqueam Ecological Conservation Society and the David Suzuki Foundation conservationist who initially joined Point to begin revitalization work in the late ’90s, said the flood was catastrophic—with the silver lining of the municipal cash to fix that catastrophe.

This was also the time Nahanee began working in earnest to help restore the last wild salmon fishery in Vancouver.

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Continued from page 5 They dug out pool beds, shovelled gravel and used cranes to position root wads and massive rocks in the creek. They also built sequences of riffles and pools, a naturally occurring hydraulic system that creates deeper pools with much shallower beds of pebbles and gravel, a riffle. The effect is the quintessential burbling brook.

“Salmon pick up echoes of these sounds and come back in,” said Nahanee, 27. “It’s a little bit of a reminder to draw them back to the stream.

They know that this is their place.”

Part of the reparation also meant undoing the work of others, she said.

In earlier attempts guided by the city, municipal workers removed boulders, rotting wood, fallen trees and other debris they considered an obstacle.

“For years there, people believed fish couldn’t get past things like rocks and logs in the creek so they spent a decade pulling those out.” The creek was over-managed in an attempt to keep it functioning, but the efforts worked against the trout and salmon in the stream.

“Little did they realize they were destroying their habitat.”

Nahanee worked alongside Point and Scapillati to return the natural debris that had been culled from the creek or displaced in the flood. “Our philosophy is that the creek will take care of itself,” said Point. “We just need to enhance it a little bit. We really try to stay far away from the overly engineered solutions, what we call bandaid solutions. As our elders have told us, the stream will take care of itself, we need to take care of the people that are around it. If we can stop the degradation, the creek will be fine.”

Nature has conspired in ways Point sees perfectly fitting and right on time. When they intended to build a rock weir that had washed away near Marine Drive following the flood, Point planned to add woody debris,

“LITTLE DID THEY REALIZE THEY WERE DESTROYING THEIR HABITAT.” Christina Nahanee

peat gravel and a few large boulders to speed up the process that would eventually happen naturally.

They didn’t need to. Point chuckles, his round shoulders lifting and his friendly, impish smile slowly spreading in to a grin.

“A huge maple tree fell into the stream and did exactly what needed to be done. Even our enhancement of nature was taken care of by nature.”

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handful of man-made changes have had the greatest impact on the condition of the Musqueam watershed. The 50 other salmon streams in Vancouver may be paved over, diverted or dried up, but Point is pleased to know the Musqueam Creek of today would be recognizable to his ancestors—even if the surrounding area is dramatically different and responsible for changes to the creek’s ecosystem.

Point attributes one of the major transformations to dyking around the Fraser River and the installation and subsequent lengthening of the Iona Island jetty, which carries the filtered refuse from Vancouver’s 600,000 citizens to open water. Point says tidal flow is restricted just enough that the Musqueam Creek estuary has become increasingly waterlogged and marshy.

“It impedes the ocean from coming in like it used to and, essentially, it’s why the marsh is here and why it’s as big as it is now. The estuary is now the largest on Fraser River and it’s still growing.”

The floodgate that protected the

golf course and reserve from seasonal flooding during high tides was replaced this fall. Nahanee oversaw the installation of a new hydraulic floodgate in place of the old one adjacent to the 16th hole of the Musqueam golf course.

In addition to the new gate, the creek and estuary were graded so juvenile coho, chum and cutthroat trout could ease into higher concentrations of salt water during their maturation, an important phase of their development. Perhaps a small detail, not one Nahanee and Point intended to overlook. Because the previous transition forced the fish to reach saltier water before they may have been ready, they believe countless lives were compromised in the journey to the Pacific.

The Musqueam have little influence on the growth of the city and the consequences of their 190-hectare reserve being hemmed in by urban development. But Point says the First Nation will endeavour to control what assets it can, although interference in the form of government regulation and oversight is the norm. Seven hundred band members live on Musqueam Reserve No. 2 near the mouth of the Fraser River along with 600 other nonMusqueam residents.

For Nahanee, she wants to prove to her community that the creek is theirs to manage and sustain. She and her young daughter once lived close enough to the creek they could hear salmon moving upstream in the night.

They’d head out with their flashlights to see the progress. Nahanee hopes to instill a sense of responsibility and accomplishment in the revitalization of Musqueam Creek.

“Showing to our younger youth and other generations that it’s important to us and that we need to take care of it because if we don’t, no one else will,” she says. “If it’s one thing that we do have control of, it’s our stream.” mstewart@vancourier.com

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Just wanted to add my two cents to recent blog posts from scribes Frances Bula, Jeff Lee and Charlie Smith about city hall’s new policy to shut out journalists from talking to staff members.

In my eight glorious years at the Courier, I’ve always been able to reach a staffer to have that person explain complex reports, budgets, get updates on projects, obtain statistics, etc.

I did that under the governments of Sam Sullivan and Larry Campbell and it was never a problem— nor was it to call Sullivan and Campbell at home.

Recently, under Mayor Gregor Robertson’s government—which, by the way, promised to be more transparent—I’m lucky to get a call back from a staffer. All requests are now handled by the city’s punctilious communications department.

It’s ridiculous.

Example: Wanted to speak to a staffer knowledgeable about the rezoning proposal for a mega casino downtown. Just looking for an update, a status report. Made

Journalists who cover city hall are frustrated by a new policy that prevents media from talking directly to staffers about reports they’ve written. photo Dan Toulgoet the request on a Monday morning, received dribs and drabs of info linking to old reports on the Tuesday and never did get a call from a staffer.

Example two: I contacted a staffer on a Friday morning, needed to speak to him for 10 minutes and then write my story. He forwarded me to communications, got into an email exchange with a communi-

cations type and then she had the same staffer call me back… on a Monday.

How is that efficient? Transparent?

I’ve got more examples but I think you get my point. I recently whined about this to Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang, who said he wasn’t aware of the policy. He planned to bring it up with

city manager Penny Ballem.

I fired off an email to the city’s eight-member communications department Tuesday morning to ask someone there to explain the reason for the policy. I received a reply from Mairi Welman, the city’s director of corporate communications, who has been on the job eight weeks.

I posted her entire response on

my blog Tuesday. Here’s an excerpt.

“We do ask staff to direct media requests to communications,” she wrote in an email letter addressed to me, Bula, Lee and Smith. “This is something we consider standard practice for any large organization. The direction that staff have received at city hall is that they are to check in with corporate communications when they receive calls from the media. This allows us to handle calls appropriately so that the media does not receive contradictory information from different staff which unnecessarily creates issues for us all. As standard practice, we ask that calls go through corporate communications first for the sake of efficiency and accuracy.”

I spoke to Welman Wednesday.

In short, she told me the policy remains. I haven’t had a chance to get the mayor’s thoughts on this.

He, after all, is the leader of the party that dumped city manager Judy Rogers to hire Ballem, who calls the shots at city hall.

A cynic might say the city has implemented the policy because it wants to control its message, silence the staffers and purposely delay getting information to journalists working to deadline so they will just simply go away.

Glad I’m not a cynic. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Olympics School closures The bicycle Tower developments The Wu beating Last week’s poll question: Are school closures a solution to the Vancouver School Board’s financial constraints?

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No news is not necessarily good news. That was true for the NPA’s sparsely attended first round of nominations last weekend.

Not even the usually attentive NPA bloggers gave the event so much as a byte worth of attention. Despair not, I say, even though the NPA has an uphill battle at this point. Just remember the election is Vision’s to lose.

So why get all cranked up a year away from the day of the vote? For NPA president John Moonen media coverage is secondary. He says would-be candidates wanted a jump start on the campaign to assemble volunteers and raise money.

On both those counts they’ll find this is a very different political landscape from what existed as recently as the time when Philip Owen was an NPA mayor just a decade ago. Back then, the NPA had a lock on funds from the business community in general and developers in particular. And their close ties to the provincial and federal Tories and Liberals provided a good source for helping hands at election time.

Meanwhile, the eternal opposition in COPE was left to depend on the trade union movement and the NDP. That all changed with the election of Larry Campbell and more specifically when Campbell and a few of his COPE councillors broke away to form Vision.

The new coalition included both NDP and federal Liberals. It also attracted serious money from developers, who started hedging their bets by giving dough to both Vision and the NPA. The full transfer of power was interrupted when Campbell bailed out and left Vision in the midst

allengarr of an unresolved and noisy dispute with COPE. It cost Vision the next election. The NPA was back.

While Vision cooled its heels in opposition, the NPA imploded as Sam Sullivan and Peter Ladner slugged it out.

Enter Gregor Robertson in a landslide victory for Vision and with him another shift.

Ties to the federal Liberals and the business community were strengthened. Money was no problem. And there was a new piece to the equation: Green capitalism a.k.a. the Hollyhock Mafia. It’s a crowd of Canadians and Americans who frequently find themselves in contemplative retreat at the Hollyhock Education Centre on Cortez Island. They like to use their money to support issues of social justice and environmental causes.

Robertson is their poster boy.

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That said, I would not be too quick to write off the NPA. They may not win but they will most certainly make gains. Robertson is vulnerable and his handlers know it. That’s why they continue to keep their guy in a bubble and away from his critics, sometimes referred to as “NPA hacks.”

Just look at the so-called “telephone town hall” Vision paid for Tuesday night. (See Mike Howell’s story in this issue of the Courier.) But as Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer explained on CBC Radio, while they may open it up to the general public in the future, the only people allowed to participate were Vision members and donors.

Is it any wonder all of those “very good questions” played to Robertson’s strengths.

Add that to Robertson’s slowly deteriorating popularity in the polls, throw in a cup of Hornby Street bike lane and a pinch of ridicule over backyard chicken coops and you have a potential recipe for change.

••• Two years into this administration and unhappy employees continue to bail out of city hall. The most recent evacuee was the much respected Freedom Of Information officer Paul Hancock. The 42-year-old lawyer went on the record for the first time this week when he told me this troubling reason for why he quit: “I was no longer able to fulfill my responsibilities as an FOI manager.”

All part, I suspect, of Vision’s unprecedented gag orders being placed on the public service at city hall. agarr@vancourier.com

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Gordo’s Liberals gutted arts and culture funding Last weekend I sat down with some interesting friends at a dim sum restaurant, and engaged in that old school routine of face-to-face conversation.

The discussion flowed from ancient religion to recent films. The sum certainly wasn’t dim at this table.

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy and art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival,” observed writer C.S. Lewis. My friends’ appreciation of the arts had been fostered, at least in part, from that most unnecessary thing of all: a liberal arts background in their public education. The humanities help create an intelligent public that can interpret, support, and create a wide range of cultural creations. Conversely, a robust arts scene benefits from an audience it can challenge, rather than condescend to. Beyond that, a healthy democracy depends on leveraging hearts and minds through the public sector. The arts, like education, are no frill.

That brings to me to Monty Premier’s Flailing Caucus. The local news has focused on the tax flip-flop, Campbell’s resignation, his refusal to make way for an interim leader, and the story of a spittle-flecked rant at former B.C. cabinet minister Bill Bennett. The premier’s desperate, pre-resignation cabinet shuffle was overlooked in this festival of bipolar politics. So we hardly noticed when the word “arts” disappeared from the changing portfolio titles. Kevin Krueger’s position as arts minister was replaced by Stephanie Cadieux’s Ministry for Community, Sport, and Cultural Development. That about says it all.

In 2008 to 2009, the premier and his inner circle cut the service plan for the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts from $19.5 million to $3.7 million.

An 81 per cent reduction—no other area of government saw such severe cuts. The Liberals couldn’t be bothered to poke under the couch cushions for arts-related chump change, yet they found wads of cash under the floorboards for a half-billion dollar roof upgrade to B.C. Place.

The B.C. Liberal government and the federal Conservatives share the same Lilliputian mindset when it comes to the arts.

Both parties front for an economic philosophy in which the market is the ultimate arbiter of value, without understanding that markets are embedded in cultures, not the other way around. It is the philosophy of the cynic—someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. To cynical

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geoffolson “realists,” if the art scene can’t struggle out of its sick bed it should be discreetly suffocated with a pillow, so it won’t be a further drain on the almighty dollar.

“Canada is one of the lowest funders on a per capita basis in the western world, and B.C. is by far the lowest funder of art and culture per capita in Canada, according to 2007/08 figures,” notes Headlines Theatre artistic director David Diamond in a recent budget presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. The figures range from $268 a year in the Yukon to $42 in Quebec to a miserly $10 in B.C. (But hey, at least we’re number one in child poverty.)

In a recent email, Diamond wrote that “the arts and culture sector in general has A LOT of work to do to get the general public to care. If what was happening here was happening in Quebec there would be public outrage. Why? Because art and culture in Quebec has, for decades, been an intrinsic part of life. This is the cultural sector’s role and we need to understand our responsibilities in the matter.”

The responsibility extends to all voters. Our legislative barbarians weren’t teleported in from Rome, circa 400 AD. We elected them. If we’re stupid enough to believe that we can kick start our cultural industries by replacing one bobble head with another from the same shelf, we get the government we deserve. The question comes down to this: how much do we value the life of the mind, and its importance for a vibrant community?

There are many good reasons other than the HST debacle for consigning the B.C. Liberals to history’s trash heap. Their ignorance of how arts funding supports a knowledge-based economy, and their misallocation of public funds, are just two of them. A legislative housecleaning, from top to bottom, is long overdue. If that can somehow include the unelected bureaucrats in B.C.’s shadow government, the ones that outlast the frequent cabinet shuffles, all the better. www.geoffolson.com

An independent accounting firm is now responsible for recouping the $740 milphoto Dan Toulgoet lion owed to taxpayers for the Olympic Village development.

To the editor: Re: “Real estate guru preaches Olympic Village patience,” Nov. 19.

What started years ago as a very risky venture when the city took a leadership role has gravitated into a full scale disaster with new politicians thinking they are smarter than the goofs who created the mess.

Even with volunteer advice from local realtors and developers, the meddling council and staff made a mockery of Millennium’s cesspool. Anyone on council who suggested civic involvement rather than legal action prior to the Olympics was a major contributor to the present mess.

Rick Angus, Vancouver

Arts may increase East Side school numbers

To the editor: Re: “Endangered spaces,” Nov. 19.

As a former member of Magee secondary’s Queen Alex Club, I have been very fortunate to participate in the club’s activities such as the monthly pen pal journal exchange, Halloween for Hunger, toques and mitts sale, Legs for Literacy and visits to Queen Alex.

The club strives to strengthen the bond between Magee and Queen Alex students. I’m sure that students from both schools would be disappointed if this were to be stopped.

Closure of the school would force many struggling kids to merge into a larger school, making learning even harder for them. Low income families

will also have a harder time sending kids to school located farther away.

However, I am very optimistic about the “artful proposal” for Queen Alex.

Coming from a school known for its reputable music, drama and art courses, I agree with Ms. Fernandez that a fine arts program would increase student enrolment in the district.

Rachelle Ann Tan, Vancouver

••• To the editor: Carleton Elementary leads your Nov. 19 parade of the East Vancouver schools threatened with closure. Just two weeks earlier, city council drastically densified a part of Carleton’s local area, showing no care for the 32 per cent of low-

income families likely to be displaced.

City planners brought forward two last-minute “considerations” that were never presented to the Norquay community. Now four-storey apartments are slated to envelop Norquay Park, and a base height of eight to 10 storeys destined to overshadow a one-mile strip of Kingsway. So-called neighbourhood planning does not look beyond maximizing the next isolated developer profit opportunity.

The proposal to close Carleton makes no sense.

Unless, of course, disincentive to families with children stands high on multiple agendas for Renfrew-Collingwood.

Joseph Jones, Vancouver

Attack on teachers’ union unbalanced, discouraging

To the editor: Re: “Teachers union secrecy can’t conceal sad truth,” Nov. 17.

I’m stating my conflict of interest first: I’m the parent of a teacher in the Vancouver school district.

I know how hard she works—well beyond the hours of a regular school day and on weekends—and how much she cares about the students that she teaches.

How discouraging it must be for her, and others like her, to read in the Courier so many negative articles about the school board, the teachers’ unions and the teachers themselves.

Perhaps I missed Mark Hasiuk’s expose on the wages of teachers in the private

school system, the number of teachers fired in that system in the past year, the budget of a typical private school, their success rate with aboriginal, ESL and learning-disabled students, along with the numbers of such children actually in the private system. If so, I apologize.

From my point of view, it would be good to hear both sides of this debate in one article.

The questions I leave Hasiuk with are: will a private school system provide answers to his questions (or my questions)?

What is he hoping to achieve in the long run?

Karen Zeller, Vancouver

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In 1872, English law prescribed imprisonment as punishment for being drunk while driving a vehicle powered by a steam engine. According to Leonard Evans, the Cedric Hughes internationally renowned traffic safety expert, “the role of alcohol in traffic safety has produced more activity, literature, passion, and controversy than any other safety topic.”

Perhaps nowhere on earth, recently, has such ‘activity, passion, and controversy’ been more closely interwoven and dramatically highlighted than here in British Columbia as the result of a crash on May 17, 2008 on a rural road on a sunny day in the late afternoon. Four-year-old Alexa Middelaer was feeding horses with her aunt at the side of the road when a speeding vehicle operated by a then 56-year-old driver ‘plowed into them.’

The child died in hospital, her aunt sustained serious injuries, and her grandparents waiting in their car parked on the road’s shoulder were also injured.

After an extensive police investigation involving an intricate undercover operation aimed at extracting a confession about the amount of alcohol she had consumed prior to the crash, and a highly publicized trial, the driver was convicted in July 2010 of impaired driving and dangerous driving, and sentenced on November 12th to two-anda-half years imprisonment. The Middelaers have become highly respected and persuasive advocates for change: tougher rules to get drunk drivers out of their cars and off the road, more law enforcement, and stiffer penalties.

The publicity took relatively quick effect. On September 20, 2010, new immediate roadside prohibition rules turned British Columbia into the toughest anti-drinking and driving jurisdiction in North America. While blowing over .05

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Six weeks into the new regime and it appeared to be working. The media reported energized enforcement, the papers filled with debate and discussion, and British Columbians drank less alcohol in pubs and restaurants. Indeed, by early October the BC Restaurant and Food Association was already reporting business losses of anywhere from 10 to 40 percent.

Then, on the day that sentencing hearing began for the driver in the Middlaer case, the new Solicitor General, Rich Coleman announced he was considering changes to the new rules to help mitigate some of their “unintended consequences” especially on BC’s bars and restaurants. One government official reportedly said, “… People don’t understand they can go in and have a couple of glasses of wine with dinner and still leave and be okay.”

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A south Vancouver woman wants the city to clamp down on construction workers who flout noise bylaws.

During her morning walk on Remembrance Day, Jean Sorensen spotted an excavator “roaring away” before 10 a.m. on a property where a new home is being built. By the time she returned home, also before 10 a.m. Nov. 11, a masonry crew was setting up to cut concrete blocks on a new house being built next door.

“Why don’t homebuilders or owners know that a Vancouver city noise bylaw exists that specifically addresses both private property and street construction,” she said. “It sets out times and days— not Sundays or holidays— when work can be carried out. Why don’t contractors know or abide by these bylaws?”

Construction is allowed on private property only from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday to Friday and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays, but it’s prohibited Sundays and holidays. (There are separate regulations for construction on city streets, lanes and boulevards.) Remembrance Day is a statutory holiday in B.C. Will Johnston, the city’s director of licences and inspections and chief building officer, said about 18 to 20 complaints related to construction projects are lodged each month. Ten complaints were recorded on Nov. 11 this year—all related to smaller construction projects.

“Last year we had quite a lot of success at working with larger construction companies to bring those numbers down. What we’re seeing this year, in 2010, and this probably reflects more on the economic situation that’s going on, is that there’s more smallertype construction projects moving ahead as opposed to the larger construction projects. Now we’re finding more noise complaints related to smaller projects as opposed to larger ones.

That tells us we need to focus our efforts on those

Construction sites of varying sizes operate around the city. photo Dan Toulgoet smaller projects to make them aware of noise control issues.”

Penalties for bylaw violations range from $250 to $500. Peter Simpson, president and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association, said contractors should follow the rules. He said he empathizes with residents who’ve had to put up with problem contractors, but the association has tried to address concerns through education.

It launched a good neighbours program many years ago that outlines common sense ways contractors can avoid problems or mitigate concerns through efforts such as not playing music too loudly, not blocking access to lanes or driveways with trucks, and advising neighbours when construction projects are about to start and who can be called if complaints arise.

Simpson noted some workers aren’t even aware they’re bothering people,

so neighbours should raise concerns with the contractor or the homeowner rather than let an issue fester.

“If you open up lines of communication it helps, but I can see [Sorensen’s] point. If there’s noise on a day you’re not legally allowed to work, then I agree with the neighbour—it has to be curtailed,” he said.

Sorensen added that while new home construction can generate annoying off-hours noise, roofing done over the summer months was also a problem.

“There are posted times when you can start and stop, even during the midweek, but roofers and [other workers] continue on until there’s no light, so you’re listening to this pounding, pounding, pounding. It doesn’t seem to me the city has made an effort to clarify this to a lot of the smaller contractors—to let them know when they can work and when they cannot.” noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Councillor says renewed HEAT shelters a success for clients Sandra Thomas Staff writer

Last year, following the enactment of the provincial Assistance to Shelter Act, many homeless people went underground rather than risk being forced into a shelter, says Vision Vancouver Coun.

Kerry Jang.

The act allows police to use “reasonable force, if necessary,” to remove a homeless person from the street during extreme weather and transport them to a shelter.

“Because so many were going underground, this year police are simply showing them where the shelters are,” said Jang.

“They’re not forcing anyone, but they’re saying, ‘Here’s a blanket,’ and developing relationships.”

Jang was “very happy” when the provincial government announced this week it will provide $1.5 million to again fund four temporary winter shelters. Last year the city partnered with the province to operate Homeless Emergency Action Team (HEAT) shelters in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, the West End and Downtown South. The Downtown South location eventually closed due to complaints from neighbours.

Jang said in response to those concerns the city developed a new response strategy. He said neighbours are invited to drop by the shelters for a tour and meet the residents.

He added, in some cases what began as a concern evolved into a solution.

“In one case a business owner was concerned about some guys hanging around, but they ended up getting along quite well and he eventually hired them to clean up his parking lot,” said Jang.

“There are a lot of stories like that.”

The city will contribute $500,000 towards building maintenance and upkeep for the shelters, which will provide 160 spaces. Jang said in the past two years the number of homeless living on Vancouver streets has been reduced by 47 per cent. An estimated 480 homeless people or more live in the city.

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“BECAUSE SO MANY WERE GOING UNDERGROUND, THIS YEAR POLICE ARE SIMPLY SHOWING THEM WHERE THE SHELTERS ARE.” Coun. Kerry Jang

encing, three of the shelters won’t open until next week. Jang said because the provincial government just announced the funding this week, the city is working to secure operators, who in turn are organizing staff. The locations of three of the shelters had not yet been finalized before the Courier’s press deadline, but because of the snowfall Wednesday night, Jang and the city’s housing advocate Judy Graves worked to get the Mount Pleasant location open at Broadway and Fraser.

“We were out until 9 o’clock last night talking to businesses explaining what we were doing,” said Jang. “Then we went looking for people on the street to let them know it had opened.”

The HEAT shelters, which will remain open until April, work on a reservation system so homeless people can book a space for as little as one day or four months. Jang said success stories have come from the shelters with clients who chose to stick around for longer periods, learned social skills and formed close bonds with fellow shelter-mates.

Because they stayed in one place, health care and social workers had an easier time finding and helping them. Shelter clients also receive basic health care, such as nutritious meals and foot care.

“Then after a month or two they start asking for help, sometimes for their mental illness,” said Jang.

“And because they’re receiving help, they’re able to move into B.C. Housing. The shelters act as a nice bridge.” sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

The recent winter blast has been especially hard on the homeless.

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You could hear him, but you couldn’t see him.

Mayor Gregor Robertson hosted a one-hour “town hall” meeting via telephone Tuesday night that attracted—at one point—12,000 listeners, according to Ian Baillie, executive director of Vision Vancouver, which organized the event.

To put the 12,000 number into perspective, the Pacific Coliseum has a capacity of 16,000 people for a sporting event. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre can accommodate 3,000 and the Orpheum Theatre holds 2,700 people.

“We were thrilled with the numbers,” Baillie said. “We thought it would be good, I didn’t think it would be that good. With the 12,000 number, it just means that at some point, people were connected to the call. The number goes up and down because not everybody stayed on for the whole hour.”

On average, Baillie said, the event attracted 2,500 people at any one time, who were contacted by Vision through phone technology operated by Strategic Communications, whose offices are on West Seventh Avenue.

Robertson took calls from Vision Vancouver’s office, which is in the same building as Strategic Communications, which helped run and fund the mayor’s 2008 election campaign.

Mayor Gregor Robertson Baillie acknowledged the majority of listeners were members and donors of Vision or had contact with the party at some point since the elections in 2005 and 2008.

“They weren’t all necessarily Vision members,” he said. “But obviously we’re a political party and our business is connecting with people.”

The party once boasted it had 17,000 members, making it the biggest civic party in Canada.

Robertson took questions from 15 callers across the city. Topics included the financial mess around the Olympic Village (no, property taxes won’t increase because of it, says the mayor), proposed towers in the West End (still on hold), the status of the proposed Vancouver Art Gallery move (a report before council possibly next month) and homelessness (appreciates the provincial funding announced Tuesday to open more shelters).

None of the questioners were critical of Robertson or Vision Vancouver, which is the ruling party at city hall.

Listeners were told by host Marcella Munro of Vision to press “9” on their phone to ask a question.

Five hundred listeners wanted to ask questions, said Baillie, adding the set-up was similar to a radio call-in program where questioners were asked off air the topic of their question. Baillie said the goal was to hear a variety of questions.

The party conducted three polls during the event, including one where a majority of respondents (59 per cent) want the mayor’s transportation focus to be on expanding bus service over running a SkyTrain line out to Arbutus and the University of B.C. “That is interesting and it kind of cuts against what a lot of the transportation policy folks have been saying that the next crucial link is to get SkyTrain to Arbutus,” the mayor said.

Another poll found that a majority of respondents (35 per cent) chose affordable housing as their most important issue. Homelessness placed second, with transportation, taxes and crime rounding out the preferences.

The final poll of the night found that more than 75 per cent of callers wanted more information about Vision Vancouver, which plans to hold another telephone “town hall” before the November 2011 election. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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community briefs A section of the Stanley Park Seawall—between Ferguson Point and Prospect Point— will be closed for up to three weeks for slope stabilization and maintenance work.

The section will be closed weekdays beginning this week, but will open weekends.

Annual inspections are done by geotechnical engineers who are recommending that this work be done for safety reasons.

Fair Trade

Fair Trade Vancouver’s Holiday Vendor Showcase and 2010 Wrap Party happens Dec. 4 on Granville Island. Potential gifts range from handmade ornaments, clothing, jewelry and sports balls to organic chocolate, shade-grown coffee and artisanal teas.

The Wrap Party includes awards, a silent auction, special presentation and entertainment. Event proceeds will support Fair Trade Vancouver’s efforts to increase awareness, availability and sales of Fair Trade products in Metro Vancouver and to alleviate poverty in developing countries.

The event is sponsored by TransFair Canada. The showcase runs 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and admission is free. The Wrap Party runs from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are a suggested $10 to $25 donation. For more information, see fairtradevancouver.ca.

Christmas tree light up

The Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area is erecting a huge Christmas tree to be a welcoming beacon to the community throughout the holidays. It will feature decorations created by three local elementary schools, Mount Pleasant elementary, Florence Nightingale elementary and Si-

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Donations for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank will be accepted. The ceremony is from 5:30 to 6:30, Dec. 3 at Kingsway and Broadway on the southwest corner.

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Canadian Cancer Society campaign targets testicular, prostate cancer

Two B.C. Lions tackle cancer below the belt Megan Stewart

Staff writer

The Canadian Cancer Society is leveraging the jock talk of the locker room—and two professional jocks—to lighten the mood and lessen the stigma of men’s cancers that hit below the waist.

B.C. Lions all-time leading receiver Geroy Simons and Jason Arakgi, a premiere special teams coverage man, are using their bravado and credibility as CFL stars to reach men about a topic many prefer to avoid.

“With guys, they have a hard time going to the doctor and checking,” said Arakgi. “Maybe it’s the examination that scares guys off

or maybe it’s just the body parts involved but the thing is, [cancer] happens regardless.”

The two football players spend their careers focusing on the ball and are now prompting men to consider their own, more private equipment by working to destigmatize words like colorectal, prostate and testicular and speaking in a language men can relate to. “Sports is a great way to get that message to a lot of guys. Players are someone guys respect and it shows it’s not something that is unique to each guy himself but is something every guy needs to worry about,” said Arakgi.

Jason Arakgi and Geroy Simons want men to get in touch with their private parts for the good of their health. photo submitted Of the three cancers that hit men specifically, prostate cancer is the most common but testicular cancer is

the most prevalent among boys and men between the ages of 15 and 29. Colorectal cancer is more frequent

in people over 50 but can appear earlier.

A game plan can help, says the cancer society.

The strategic choices every coach and player makes before kick-off and adjusts with each snap are also a line of attack each man can adopt for his personal health.

In cancer prevention, the first step is to know your own body and the body’s sensitive bits below the waist. To use another sport metaphor, says the society, the best offence is a good defence. The warning signs of testicular cancer include changes to a testicle’s shape, such as a lump or discolouration, or pain, swelling or a

feeling of heaviness. Family history is also relevant.

If the equipment doesn’t feel right, it needs to be checked out by a doctor.

Although testicular cancer affects young adults and grown men, 96 per cent of cases are treated successfully. At 43, Vancouverite Doug Watts was diagnosed later than most but his younger brother had the same cancer in his early 20s.

The architect and engineer had a pain in his groin that wouldn’t abate. “I went to my doctor and had surgery that afternoon,” said Watts, now 53 and healthy.

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A city councillor who previously voted to allow slot machines at the city’s two casinos is now concerned gambling will expand further if a proposed mega casino planned for downtown goes ahead.

Vision Vancouver Coun.

Tim Stevenson said he never believed his votes more than five years ago

to approve slots at Hastings Racecourse and Edgewater Casino would open the door to more casinos in the city.

“We were told that was it—that if we agreed to this, that’s all there would be,” Stevenson told the Courier. “That was the agreement between the city and the government.

So the agreement all of us

understood, who were on council at the time, was that there would not be an expansion. I feel betrayed.”

At the time, he said, he was concerned about employees losing their jobs at Hastings Racecourse and keeping gambling profits in Vancouver instead of neighbouring municipalities with casinos.

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The city also saw the number of casinos reduced in the city when the council of the day approved the slots, he said, noting casinos closed in Chinatown, south Vancouver and on Broadway.

In March, Premier Gordon Campbell announced a new 68,000-square-foot entertainment complex attached to B.C. Place that

will include two hotels, a casino with up to 150 games tables and 1,500 slot machines, restaurants, a theatre and cabaret.

“Why should government be promoting that?” said Stevenson, noting private companies—not the government—promoted slots at Hastings and Edgewater.

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first has to be approved by city council, which will decide whether the property is an appropriate use for such a complex and whether gambling should expand in the city.

Before the end of the year, council is expected to refer the proposal to a public hearing in 2011. If it is approved, it would be the biggest casino in B.C. “I don’t really believe that the public is aware of what’s about to transpire—that this is just a massive, massive expansion,” said Stevenson, who is concerned about the complex being attached to B.C. Place, which is popular with young people who attend sporting events and concerts. “Now you’re going to be having a huge casino as part of that, which obviously will be very attractive to a lot of young people. It’s like a whole new generation that’s going to be addicted to this thing.”

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Edgewater is across the street from B.C. Place at the Plaza of Nations. Under the agreement with the province, Edgewater would relocate to the new complex where it would more than double the size of its 65 games tables and 493 slots.

Las Vegas-based Paragon Gaming Inc. owns Edgewater. Hastings Racecourse, which is operated

by Great Canadian Casino, has 600 slots.

Though Stevenson’s comments indicate he would vote against the proposal, and he is worried about attracting crime and creating gambling addicts, the three-term councillor said he will wait until the public hearings are completed before making a decision.

He is also calling on the provincial government to hold separate public hearings. So far, the government hasn’t responded.

“They want it to go through as easily as quickly as possible,” he said of the provincial government.

— Mike Howell mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Vancouver Fire and Rescue is warning of an alarmingly high number of avoidable kitchen fires in 2010 and urges all residents to cook with caution. Crews have responded to 120 kitchen fires at a cost of nearly $2 million because pots were either abandoned on the stove or people were cooking with excessive grease or oil, according to the city. Fire and Rescue offers these cautionary steps.

Stay in the kitchen when frying, grilling or broiling food and keep a lid handy to smother a fire. Turn off the stove whenever you leave the kitchen. Check stovetop food consistently and leave fabric items such as oven mitts or dish towels away from a hot element. Keep the oven hood clean of grease. Be extra cautious if cooking when tired or intoxicated.

If a fire does start while you’re cooking, Fire and Rescue urges you to leave the kitchen, close the door and dial 911 from outside the house. Use an extinguisher if you are able and remember to never put water on an oil fire since the flames will not be doused and the flaming grease could splash beyond the pan. For an oven fire, shut off the heat and keep the door closed.

participated in the event last year, donating more than 26,000 toys and more than $25,000 for the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau. Free parking will be provided in the underground parking of Canada Place and the Café

Pacifica will provide a fresh, hot breakfast in exchange for an unwrapped toy or cash donation. Cash donations are also accepted at lmcb.ca. For more information or reservations, see panpacific.com or phone 604-662-8111.

Gardening for votes An initiative to create 30 new micro-gardens in Strathcona is one step closer to reality now that the Strathcona Business Improvement Association has secured a place as a semi-finalist in the Aviva Commu-

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The project involves creating almost 30 tiny gardens on

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Dollars and sense

Money troubles mean the VSB is under increasing scrutiny about how it spends its dwindling dollars. A couple readers contacted me complaining the district is installing expensive shutters on several schools—Cook elementary among them—as five others are being considered for closure to save a projected $1.4 million.

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shutters are, in fact, being installed at 10 schools across Vancouver for an average of $35,000 per school.

The district says the $350,000 expenditure is to upgrade security at schools that have been frequent targets for arson, vandalism and break-ins.

The cost is being covered through the annual facilities grant, not the district’s operating budget.

The VSB argues the shutters will improve security as well as reduce long-term operating costs because the closed shutters reduce overnight heat loss to the buildings.

The shutters were ordered in September. The district said they could have prevented damage to

four schools on Halloween night, when vandals deliberately shot marine or parachute flares through windows, had they been delivered and installed in time.

The VSB spends about $400,000 annually to deal with vandalism costs—a number that’s been steady for the last few years. Last year, vandalism costs hit $417,000. About 60 per cent of the figure is typically associated with broken windows.

Some school districts board up windows during summer months to cope with the ongoing problem, but others argue boarding up school windows creates an abandoned appearance that invites other damage such as graffiti.

Critics of VSB spend-

ing, meanwhile, worry the district will consider more schools for closure in coming years. Contact me if you think the district needs to rethink spending priorities or if you’re wondering why certain financial decisions are being made.

Playing fair

News the VSB is removing two dozen playgrounds by June 2012 for safety reasons, as reported in the Nov. 24 Courier, prompted a reader to suggest a single fundraising campaign.

Individual parent groups have to pay for the equipment, which can cost anywhere from $50,000 to upwards of $100,000.

Some Vancouver parent groups feel they’re being forced to compete with

“THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME UNIFIED FUNDING DRIVE TO RAISE MONEY.” Ruth Mandt

one another for donations to buy replacement playgrounds since so many are being removed at the same time.

“There needs to be some unified funding drive to raise money for all the schools facing playground replacement,” wrote Ruth Mandt. “Whether there is a central fund set up by the VSB that everyone can contribute to or whether parents start one on their own, there needs to be some concerted, orga-

nized effort. It is not acceptable to not have playgrounds. Playgrounds give kids a chance to unwind, burn off energy, exercise, etc. They should not be optional.”

She said she donates to her children’s schools and receives tax receipts.

“If the province won’t make education the number one funding priority, then schools, parents, businesses, community leaders, etc. must make more of an effort to raise funds through private means. It is unacceptable that schools are facing the shortfalls they are, but instead of doing nothing, all concerned parties should be doing more,” Mandt added. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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In the 1920s, its minister established Camp Fircom on Gambir Island. The church started a thrift store and held its own radio licence to broadcast its Sunday service. The local congregation couldn’t fund these activities so the church’s national mission provided the majority of the money.

At the start of the Depression, governments didn’t provide citizens relief. First United Church fed 1,252 people a hot meal in the middle of one day in 1930.

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First United Church at the corner of East Hastings and Gore is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a book about its history, Hope Lives Here.

The book, released by Harbour Publishing, highlights the mission’s service for more than a century to the unemployed, immigrant, disabled, mentally ill, addicted and homeless.

Bob Burrows, the senior reverend at the church for eight years in the 1960s and ’70s who wrote the book, poured through 22 boxes of historical documents, including meeting minutes that date back to 1888, to research the book.

He found the early period fascinating.

“The fact that the church, that would seat nearly 400 people in a community that only had 800 people, wasn’t big enough on Sunday so they had to build a bigger church,” he said.

Pioneers of the Village of Granville in 1885 yearned for a place of sanctuary, order and dignity in the booming but lawless town. First United was born, first as a Presbyterian church, which remained Presbyterian until 1925.

Business leaders formed its first congregation, but by the late 1880s they were moving to the city’s suburbs. Immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe filled area homes and the church’s

for kids, an “outreach school” for troubled youth, programs for people with disabilities, social housing and the Vancouver Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre. It housed the drop-in for female sex workers run by WISH and provides homeless people a secure place to store their possessions.

During Burrows’s time at First United, the Dugout Drop-In Centre in Gastown was started.

Soup lines were started, and in the mid to late 1980s the first people were allowed to sleep in the church.

First United has morphed from a church filled with pews to a church filled with safe beds. Two hundred and fifty people sleep in the church every night, another 100 during the day. First United hopes a redevelopment plan will see the construction of up to 90 social housing units on the site. The Sunday service ended in 2007 and now Wednesday night “celebrations” for 130 people run with a meal and a message.

Burrows said the church has swiftly adapted to changing times because of the financial support it receives from the national mission, First United’s willingness to co-operate with other churches and agencies and because residents of Metro Vancouver donate clothing, food and money.

“The current changes are only a continuation of the many other major changes of focus and emphasis of the mission of this church through 125 years,” he said. crossi@vancourier.com

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Road Regrets

By Don English

Olive Breslin lounged poolside on day four of her Hollywood occupation. Small birds flew fast and low overhead and badly startled her interview subject, Colin Hype of Focus Puller.

He was the most boring bass player she’d ever met. Olive was sure his fixed gaze and stiff posture were supposed to give the impression he was paying close attention to her questions; it looked more like a seizure. Finally he spoke.

“Um, I’m having trouble putting together answers for you that are any good. I’m on a cleanse.”

“The kind of cleanse that lets you drink beer?” she asked.

“Not a food cleanse, I’m trying to go for a whole month without resorting to using Simpsons quotes to describe things, or really quoting the Simpsons at all, and it’s really… hard. Let’s talk later. I’m going to have a nap.” He got up from his deck chair and managed not to fall into the pool on his way into the house.

Olive switched off her digital recorder and watched him go. She consulted her notes to keep from forgetting him entirely.

Stocky body, head of hair like a fallow field. Tattoo on his left forearm–tells me it’s the logo of a ’40s superhero, forgotten, purchased and resurrected by Archie Comics in the mid-’80s, then forgotten again. PAINFUL SILENCE. His pupils are like saucers behind amber shades.

She flipped her notebook shut, fished the biggest ice cube out of her empty glass and pressed it against the bridge of her nose.

Cool water, subtly scented with iced tea, ran down her face and trickled into the neck of her shirt. Her last few weeks had consisted of jumping time zones in rapid succession from job to job. She’d gone from Reykjavik, where she’d hidden under a table, furiously taking notes at a violent operatic metal show, to New York to convince a guitarist whose album she’d eviscerated that she could still do an objective interview, to Dublin to metaphorically sit at the feet of a sainted rock star.

When she’d been offered the opportunity to install herself in a house for one week with a band working on a new album she’d thought of Dylan and The Band recording in Woodstock, an image that she’d never stopped romanticizing. She’d agreed to move in before it fully registered that she’d be living with a band she didn’t like, or how tired she was.

“I don’t know why you’re wasting your time with that idiot when you could be talking to me.” Martin Nail stood above her on the balcony overlooking the pool. He was the lead guitar player and had perfected the art of standing aloof in a room tuning and retuning his guitar while the other band members argued. He made eye contact with Olive as often as she would let him; he was dying for her to sit down with him in a mood-lit room and ask what kind of guitar strings he used and who his influences were. She was enjoying frustrating him with her lack of attention. Olive never asked questions about gear or influences if she could help it; preferring to figure it out for herself. Ten minutes watching a band play a show, she hated the word “gig,” and she could break down each musician’s lineage like a palm reader.

“You lost the coin toss, I started with the rhythm section first today.” She called up

to him.

“You want a sandwich? Come upstairs and I’ll make you a sandwich.” He walked back into the house before she could answer.

“I’ll be up in a minute.” She shouted, not sure he could still hear her.

The house was one huge arch; a white airplane hangar jammed precariously into the California hillside. Its previous owner had been Daniel Voy, star of a cheap ’70s sci-fi TV show Olive had never heard of. His neck had been broken by a falling polystyrene boulder in a stunt gone wrong. A few times a year, vacationing nerds paid solemn tribute to their fallen hero by gathering at the end of the driveway and having their pictures taken.

After Voy’s death, the house became a rental property that never stayed occupied for more than six months at a time. Half-finished amateur home improvement projects marred the interior like bad plastic surgery scars and the only redecoration it had ever received were the items previous tenants left behind.

When Olive first saw the house she had wanted to work it into her story somehow, use it as a symbol of the death of major league glamour in the music industry; but after spending a few days in the house she realized the label had just chosen to put the band in a cheap place they could destroy

without anyone caring. They were dumping all kinds of money into the record and making all the band’s hedonistic dreams come true. It was disturbing to think a band this awful was worth that much to them.

Olive stretched in the punishing sunshine.

The pool had an especially aggressive glare today. A metal serving tray floating on the surface reflected the light into her eyes, but its assault was halted as a vinyl copy of Super Hits of the ’70s floated into its path and bumped it aside. Dozens of buoyant household items floated on the surface. A television, a large orange couch with matching easy chair, a metal standing lamp and a full bag of golf clubs were spread across the bottom of the pool.

Somehow all the sunken items had landed right side up, and the deep end resembled a tasteless mermaid’s studio apartment.

She shook her head at it and walked into the basement of the house. Focus Puller were coasting into their third week of extended recording sessions; trying desperately to create the weird sophomore album that would be too deep for their old fans to buy, something that would gain them some respect, but it wasn’t in them. The label had hired a talented producer named Paul Stratus to coax the band’s music out of the middle of the road but from what Olive had heard they’d only managed to swerve from

the middle to an inside lane.

The band’s presence had done the house no favours. The mangy basement carpet bore the scars of several small fires, hastily put out with whatever liquids were readily at hand. The room smelled like an abattoir that also sold bark mulch and fertilizer. Cables criss-crossed the floor, a complex root system linked a mixing board to the four rooms where each member of the band recorded.

Bexley, the band’s drummer, was asleep on the couch. His slack mouth had released a torrent of saliva onto the cushion leaving a stain approximately the same shape as Australia. In a corner of the room the producer was screaming at the band’s lead singer about his lyrics.

“You want to use the cut-up technique? That’s fine; just make sure the stuff you’re cutting up was any bloody good to begin with.”

Chad, the singer, ran his hands nervously through an expensive haircut; his narrow chest rose and fell rapidly. He appeared to be on the verge of either punching Stratus in the mouth, or retreating to sullenly try and turn the experience into passive-aggressive lyrics. Olive thought this argument would, at best, help spawn a mediocre single. Stratus was tall and muscular. His head was shaved and judging from the way the track lighting reflected off it, waxed. He was loud, experienced, aggressive, and British;

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An engineer sat at the mixing board reading a Clive Cussler novel; he looked at Olive and winked as she walked past to the staircase.

She got to the top of the stairs and took in the void that was the living room. Its contents hadn’t looked better here than they did at the bottom of the pool.

Yesterday’s recording had ended prematurely. In the late afternoon, Stratus and the engineer had stepped outside for air and didn’t come back. The band soldiered on without them for another hour, and then called it a night and invited 10 of their friends over to the house.

Most sat in the living room drinking and listening to music, some lingered in the kitchen. After about an hour, in a lull between songs, someone had finally noticed Olive sitting on her own watching everyone and asked who she was. Martin introduced her and explained her job while Olive tried to look friendly and prayed that no one would ask her what she thought of Focus Puller and their music. Thankfully most of them just chose to tease the band about their rock star status, others offered up embarrassing stories, a young man in a cardigan pretended not to have heard of Olive or the magazine she was writing for.

Chad was sitting near the stereo with his book of scribbled lyrics.

No one had noticed him in awhile.

“Bexley, say something really deep. No, wait, do something rebellious.” He shouted.

Bexley shrugged, walked over to a bookshelf, and threw a paperback on the floor. People booed, an empty beer can flew past his head and a half full one followed close behind it.

Bexley shrugged again, yanked the television off its stand, walked onto the balcony and threw it over into the pool. Everyone howled at the booming splash; they grabbed anything they could get their hands on and moved in a rowdy queue in and out of the house.

Olive watched as area rugs were rolled up and catapulted; combat boots, denim jackets and courier bags left unattended fell from the sky like a thrift store hurricane.

The cupboards in the kitchen were emptied of pots and pans and packaged food and all but the booze was removed from the fridge and chucked.

Finally, Martin had walked through the crowd with one of his guitars. All movement ceased.

Thin smoke trailed in his wake as lighter fluid flames danced across the guitar’s pick-ups. It shone bright like an emergency flare as it fell end over end through the air and speared the water, neck first, between a velvet painting of Elvis and a plastic potted plant.

Cigarettes that hadn’t been dumped were lit as they surveyed the wreckage. Someone turned on the patio lights and they saw it all, things they didn’t even remember throwing; items spinning in lazy circles as the motion of the water subsided. One person pointed out the shattered remains of an end table that hadn’t made it into the water; someone lamented the loss of a half full bottle of vodka, another complemented Martin on the sacrifice of his guitar. Someone expressed regret at the sacrifice of frozen pizza. They thought the beef jerky would sink.

Eventually someone turned the music back on and most people went back inside where they crouched on the deep pile green carpet like squatters. A small, blonde girl looked at Olive and smiled. “This is going in the article right?”

Olive assured her that it would.

Now, she stood at the border of the living room and the kitchen and watched Martin making sandwiches.

“I didn’t think this place had any food left in it.”

“We went out for more food last night after everyone left. I picked up some bread and tuna and paper plates.”

“Be back in a minute, ” Olive said.

In the bathroom she looked at the toilet and sighed. Taking a pocket knife from her jeans she split the plastic wrap that had been stretched over the toilet bowl before seating herself. If asked,

she’d laugh it off as a good attempt. Every man in the house had realized that she wasn’t going to sleep with any of them and this had her just skirting the edge of den mother status. If she crossed over, the pranks would get worse and she’d never get a decent quote out of any of them.

The bathroom was spacious and still surprisingly clean; Olive missed her own bathroom. She nodded off briefly, awoke with a start and was relieved to find she’d only been out for a minute. She reminded herself again that she was a professional, flushed, washed and exited.

Martin was seated at the kitchen table waiting for her. He attempted a piercing gaze from under heavily pierced brows. “I ate half your sandwich,” he said.

“That’s okay.” She fished her recorder and cigarettes out of her

bag. Olive was sitting next to an overflowing ashtray and in view of three more. She’d seen the butts floating at the bottom of cereal bowls on the counter behind her, heard them rattle at the bottom of empty beer cans throughout the house “Is it okay if I smoke?” Olive asked. Martin nodded; she’d hoped he would laugh.

“You okay?” he asked.

“I’m just a little tired.“ All the windows in the house were open. She could smell the trees and the chemicals in the pool. Somewhere, far away, was home where it was probably raining.

“So what do you think of the music so far?” Martin asked.

“Why don’t we come back to that one.” Olive said. “I’ve been meaning to ask you, what kind of guitar strings do you use?”

Don English was born in North Vancouver. Despite a childhood surrounded by trees, mountains and water he does not hike, ski, snowboard, cycle, jog or camp.

He’s been working in the legal community for the last 10 years and is told this is a good thing. He lives in East Vancouver with a Superwoman and most of his free time is either spent being a bad influence on his friends and family or finishing his first novel. “Road Regrets” is his first published work.

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Sonya and Charlotte Wall’s newly established Fund for the Arts helped bring the 605 Collective’s dance pieces Hero & Heroine & Audible to the Cultch stage.

Fred Darcy Greiner’s smart molds and smart objects (available at Walrus) earned the Emily Carr student a ceramics exhibition at the Circle Craft Xmas Market.

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Actor Bruce Greenwood and singer Jane Mortifee were among 30 artists who took to the Stanley Theatre stage for the 25th Starry Night concert.

Mountain high: Drawing some of the region’s finest chefs, foodies and oenophiles, Whistler once again hosted Cornucopia, the ultimate food and wine extravaganza. A highlight on the Sea-to-Sky social calendar, Cornucopia attracted thousands who ascended Mount Olympics for the four-day, 50-event festival of wine seminars, winemaker dinners, tastings and sizzling after-parties. Executive chef James Walt and sommelier Samantha Rahn hosted Araxi’s Big Guns Winemakers Dinner.

Golden moment: A partner to Variety: the Children’s Charity for the past 44 years, producing the Show of Hearts Telethon and raising a reported $160 million during that time, Global B.C. received The Golden Heart Community Achievement Award, with vice president Brett Manlove accepting the trophy at the black-tie celebration at the Hotel Vancouver.

Philanthropy celebrated: 500 guests gathered at the Vancouver Convention Centre for the 13th National Philanthropy Day Luncheon, presented by Scotiabank and sponsored by the Vancouver Courier. Organized by the Vancouver Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Giving Hearts Awards were presented to Dr. Irving K Barber (Outstanding Philanthropist), Barbara Stewart (Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser), Zameer Devraj (Outstanding Youth Philanthropist) and Century Lands Group and Scotiabank (Outstanding Corporations).

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.

Drag sensation Carlotta Gurl headlined Pivot Legal Society CEO Peter Wrinch’s legal luau Passion for Justice at District 319.

Global B.C.’s Brett Manlove picked up the Golden Heart Community Achievement Award from Variety executive director Barbara Hislop.

Lorne Segal, president of Kingswood Properties, and Premier Gordon Campbell were among the notables at Variety: the Children’s Charity wingding.

Event chair Denise Meade and Scotiabank’s David Poole (right) feted award recipient Dr. Irving K. Barber at the National Philanthropy Day luncheon.

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3 4 1. Artsy East Siders open up their studios, lofts, living rooms and intricately decorated rabbit hutches for the 14th annual East Side Culture Crawl, where savvy shoppers can peruse and purchase artwork by Roselina Hung, household décor, fashions, trinkets and a whole lot more Nov. 26 to 28. For more info, go to eastsideculturecrawl.com.

3. Pacific Cinémathèque keeps local cinephiles in the know with its 13th annual European Union Film Festival Nov. 26 to Dec. 9. Highlights include German romantic comedy Run if You Can, the Austrian-German crime film The Robber and Estonian-Finnish Cold War doc Disco and the Atomic War. More info at eufilmfestival.com.

2. The Dark Room Gallery (652 Kingsway at 12th) hosts Rock n’ Shots, an exhibit of sweaty, fist-pumping pics from local concert photographers Bev Davies, Tamara Lee, Adam PW Smith, Sprout, Femke Van Delft and sometime Courier fill-in Rebecca “the Truth” Blissett. Actually, we just made up that nickname. It all goes down Nov. 27, 7 to 11 p.m.

4. Make sure you don’t have to take a drug test the morning after East Van rock outfit Black Mountain brings its sludgy riffs and back-to-the-land beardage to the Commodore Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. The contact high from the crowd alone will keep you in the magic kingdom for days.

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kudos & kvetches A brief word about Billy Joel’s hips

Yesterday we received this piece of scintillating, potentially innuendo-rich news from a PR company that thought it was important for us to know the following: “Sources revealed today that piano legend, Billy Joel, is currently recovering from a double hip-replacement surgery that he underwent last week in New York. Dr. Calin S. Moucha, the Associate Chief of Joint Replacement at the Department of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is available for commentary and an interview to discuss the Mr. Joels [sic] treatment and recovery. The Joint Replacement Center in The Peter and Leni May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is a leading center for joint replacement in the country.”

Don’t get us wrong. We are huge fans of “the Mr. Joel.” We even liked his hips before he wore them out… doing God knows what (chicka-chickawa-waaa). That was the sound of a sexy guitar played through a wah-wah pedal, by the way. But why on earth is a PR company issuing a grammarchallenged press release about the very private issue of the piano man’s hips and offering to put

the media, including a community newspaper in Vancouver, in touch with a doctor who—it isn’t made clear—may or may not have taken part in the double hip replacement surgery in question.

The rest of the press release goes on to tout the good doctor’s credentials and wax poetic about the Mount Sinai Department of Orthopaedics, which, we assume, is the real reason for the bewildering literature that landed in our inbox.

As for Billy Joel’s new hips, we’re trying to find a fitting song that sums up our feelings. “Just the Way You Are”? Too late. “We Didn’t Start the Fire”? Doubtful. “I’m in a New York State of Mind About These New Hips I Received in a Complex Procedure That I’m Sure Dr. Calin S. Moucha Associate Chief of Joint Replacement at the Department of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine would be more than happy to comment on”? That’s more like it.

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from pristine and innocent like a newborn foal to soiled and trampled like our experience of puberty, it’s the way local media finds it necessary to report incessantly on the snow, like they’re describing something that everyone isn’t experiencing for themselves.

Does anyone in Vancouver need to be told it’s snowing? Not unless you’re former Canuck Garth Butcher and for the past year have been living in a windowless pillow fort in your parents’ rec room. Do we need to be told drivers are finding it difficult to start and stop their poorly equipped cars in the snow? Not unless you happen to be a driver who’s learning this from his iPhone as he’s driving. Do we need to see footage of cars sliding and spinning their wheels in the snow, salt trucks spreading their seed, or lineups of customers at Canadian Tire buying every last shovel and snow tire? Maybe if you’re the proud mother of the Canadian Tire manager who was interviewed.

Yet that’s what we’re enduring for the first half of every news cast on TV or radio, until of course it rains, the seasons change and we go through our annual summer dry spell and the boner-inducing fires that come with it. How ’bout them Canucks?

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We recently tasted a range of his gelato and were blown away by the purity of flavours and complexity of textures—not to mention Coleridge’s limitless creativity.

Flavours we tried included an intense espresso that tasted like real espresso and an even more intriguing, distinctly peaty, Ileach Cask-strength Scotch and chocolate gelato that had us running to find out more—and not just because it was Scotch.

Coleridge insists his is a classic gelateria in every sense of the word, tucked into the Burrard and Cordova corner of the Fairmont Pacific Rim. Walk in and you’ll be struck by the spotless simplicity of the space, with its cream-coloured walls and blackand-white historical photographs—re-

produced from celebrated Master Ice Cream Maker Donata Panciera’s book, Il Mio Gelato.

The big difference here, however, is the industrial looking stainless steel showcase—the business end of the gelateria—that doesn’t sport the usual array of gelato on display we’ve come to associate with other Vancouver gelato shops.

Coleridge, who years ago gained fame for his award-winning Fieldstone Bakery, describes himself as a messenger for an old world process fast losing ground to new, more industrialized methods.

After ending his baking career, he went looking for another area where he could re-apply his passion for food and flavour, which is formidable.

After extensive academic studies in Italy at the Italian Culinary Institute, and later at Bologna’s Gelato University, culminating with mentorships with Italian luminaries in the fields of sorbet, gelato and chocolate, Coleridge decided to bring “old world” style gelato to Vancouver—along with the best technology available.

He uses a vertical batch freezer, which accounts for the creamier, more dense mouthfeel and texture, in part because it injects less air than typical commercial machines.

For storage, he turned to Pozzetti, considered a state-of-the-art counter system, where small batches of different flavours (Coleridge makes only

what he estimates he needs for the day) are stored in covered containers.

“Gelato on display,” says Coleridge, “is literally struggling for survival, as it deteriorates with oxygen and has to be stabilized with triglycerides and other agents. We’re far more interested in what it tastes like than what it looks like.”

Initially, he was concerned Vancouver customers might need to “eat with their eyes.” But response to his oldstyle gelato has been overwhelming.

The key is purity of ingredients, which Coleridge is fanatical about.

He uses only Avalon organic milk, and works with several other local artisan producers, such as Granville Island Sake maker Masa Shiroke, who supplies him with sake used in the creamy Kasu gelato. And Coleridge makes another firm fave to which we can attest: XoXolat chili-chocolate bacon “breakfast” gelato.

Despite the cold weather, he says there’s no time like the fall for exploring rich warmer, seasonal ingredients, such as chestnut, cinnamon and ginger, black walnuts, roasted almonds, and marzipan—found here in varying forms.

All this and he runs a serious espresso bar and makes a sub-zerobeating hot chocolate, too.

In fact, Bella Gelateria is winning praise from all kinds of places, including Italy.

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100 Days keeps it trashy and temporary Michael Kissinger

Staff writer

If there’s one thing to be learned from the movie Grease and the song “Summer Nights,” its musical ode to havin’ a blast and romantic brevity, it’s that relationships with built-in expiry dates have a certain charm.

Take the Opus Hotel’s recent foray into seasonal flings. For eight years, the upscale Yaletown flophouse maintained a cozy if unsurprising marriage with its Elixir Bistro, catering to well-heeled business types but not necessarily the skinny-jean-wearing party crowd lurking in the alleyways outside. So when Elixir closed shop in August, with plans for a shiny new “restaurant concept” slated for early 2011, it left a brief window for the room to get its ya yas out and enjoy some self-indulgent fun.

Inspired by “pop-up restaurants” in London and New York, the result is 100 Days (322 Davie St.), a temporary eatery, boozery and chillout space that promises to pack its bags and hit the road when it fulfills its moniker’s duration.

Resembling Olivia Newton John’s sexy transformation at the end of Grease from poodleskirt-wearing girl-next-door to spandex-wearing seductress, 100 Days is unapologetically trashy with exposed piping, blackboard menu, fold-up plastic chairs that appear to be stolen from a nearby AA meeting and walls adorned with a constantly changing landscape of neon and Dayglo graffiti courtesy of designer Robert Bailey and graffiti artist Vince Dumoulin.

At the same time, 100 Days adheres to the mantra of equally trashy filmmaker John Wa-

Opus Hotel’s pop up restaurant is carefully casual. ters that “in order to acquire bad taste one must first have very good taste.” On a recent visit where a guest and I were treated to a generous sampling of the kitchen’s kitschy cuisine, which included lobster and crab mac ‘n’ cheese, duck confit pot pie, popcorn shrimp in a carefully sourced old-school popcorn box and fantastic beet salad with buffalo ricotta cheese and beet top and hazelnut pesto, it’s clear that a lot of care goes into appearing casual.

Speaking of casual, general manager Peter Girges hints the busy restaurant, like many torrid affairs, will linger a little longer than its originally promised 100 days, perhaps even stick around for 160 or 170 days, he estimates.

“It’s fold-up chairs and graffiti on the walls, and we’re the hottest place in town,” he says.

“So we must be doing something right.” And with that, he was gone. Not even sticking around to ask for our phone number. mkissinger@vancourier.com

Thank you to all of our sponsors, guests, donors and volunteers for joining us at Vancouver’s 13th Annual

National Philanthropy Day Luncheon Presented by

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Vancouver Chamber Choir with guests Pacifica Singers, Martha Guth, soprano, and the Vancouver Chamber Orchestra present the world premiere of Stephen Chatman’s Magnificat, an earlier rendition of the Magnificat by Vivaldi, a new orchestral version of Jon Washburn’s A Silver Christmas, and a rousing carol sing with former singers of the last 40 years. Meet composer Stephen Chatman at a pre-concert talk at 7pm.

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Congratulations to the 4th Annual Vancouver AFP Giving Hearts Awardees!

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Rainbow Concert Band celebrates 20 years of blowing people’s minds State of the Arts with Cheryl Rossi

Previous concerts include Guys and Guys, Dolls and Dolls and Swingin’ in the Rain, not to mention the opportunity for audience members to perform disco karaoke to live music. Now Vancouver’s Rainbow Concert Band is mounting its 20th anniversary performance and reunion Nov. 28 at the WISE Hall.

Paul Krampitz attended one of the band’s first rehearsals in 1990. He’d seen a couple of gay and lesbian American bands play during the Gay Games III in Vancouver and signed up the second he heard a similar band was starting here.

“The ad said no auditions, all levels of players, all you need to be part of this is the joy of music,” he said. (Members also need to read music.)

Krampitz hadn’t touched his euphonium (a small tuba-like instrument) in years so he picked up a cheap valve trombone, unsure if he’d stick with the band.

Twenty years later, he’s one of the old guard who’s revelled in the diverse, musical social club.

“It was like high school without all the angst,” Krampitz said. “And it was fun to be playing again.”

Krampitz, 49, came out in the 1980s but had spent little time around lesbian women.

“This was really the first group that had gay men and women in it,” he said. “The sports teams and all that are pretty much segregated. There’s the women’s baseball and men’s bowling. It seemed like there were lots of lines drawn and then suddenly here was a very inclusive [band].”

Krampitz also appreciates that the band has always included straight men and women.

The Rainbow Concert Band performs at the WISE Hall Nov. 28.

“I found that sort of a brave thing,” he said.

“Most of us feel like we’re out, and yet at work we might not really be really, really out, so it’s sort of interesting to see the other side of that where straight people are in the band. In the concert it’s not noted, oh and by the way we have our straight guests here with us. They’re all tarred with the same brush.”

Krampitz believes Safe Sex: The Concert was the band’s first show, held at The Cultch in 1991. It was also a Double Bill show, with drag queen Bill Monroe performing alongside Bill Richardson, who emceed part of the event and read stories he’d written.

Monroe, who’s famous for impersonating Queen Elizabeth II, will perform a halfhour set at the 20th anniversary.

Joanne Maryt, trumpeter and conductor, joined the concert band a year after it started when she was in her early 30s. She’d done the bar scene in her 20s and, like Krampitz,

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wasn’t sporty, and so she was glad to find a social, musical outlet.

But things were different back then.

“Not everybody was out,” she said. “That was one of the things when we started doing the Pride Parade and media and pictures and filming and I remember somebody said if you don’t want to be seen, cover your face, dress up or whatever, or we can understand if you don’t want to be in the Parade.”

But over the years, the band has attracted musicians from all walks of life. One teenaged girl from North Vancouver was shuttled to and from rehearsals by her mother.

And the band’s oldest member, Cornelius Popescu, a Romanian immigrant in his 80s, has long been the band’s oldest member.

Maryt said Popescu’s friend heard the band rehearsing at the since closed St. John’s United Church on Comox Street at Broughton, popped his head in, said he had a friend with poor

English who liked to make music and could he swing by. Maryt said Popescu, who’s straight, never hesitated to join the diverse group. He acts as the band’s senior percussionist and handles the musical arrangements.

But the last couple of years have been gloomier for the Rainbow Concert Band.

Losing the rehearsal space at St. John’s, where the Rain City Gay Men’s Chorus and a Vancouver Women’s Chorus also practised, was a blow. Switching rehearsal locations and nights has reduced their numbers from 35 at one time, to 15 steady members now. The non-profit society also lost gambling money from the province that helped the group mount its fall and spring shows.

The Rainbow Concert Band is one of many groups that would like to see a permanent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community centre built. It’s also seeking an artistic director.

Maryt believes Vancouver’s Rainbow Concert Band is Canada’s first and only LGBT concert band in Canada. The only other Canadian group she knows of that belongs to the Lesbian and Gay Bands of America is The Church Street Pipe Band from Toronto.

The Rainbow Concert Band performs at half a dozen events each year, including the annual Dyke March, Pride Parade and AIDS fundraisers, and it’s previously performed alongside The Band of the 15th Field Regiment, “blowing their American cohort’s minds.”

Band members will animate their wind and brass instruments to perform medleys of Canadian folk songs and bossanova tunes alongside Christmas standards at the 20th anniversary. Maryt said their rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” might turn out to be a sing-along.

Tickets are $10 at the door of the WISE Hall, 1882 Adanac St., or at Little Sisters, 1238 Davie St. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, see rainbowband.ca. crossi@vancourier.com

For youth living on the streets, there is no home for the

holidays...

Vancouver’s problem with homelessness is at an all time high, with many of those with no home of their own being under the age of 24.

At the Courier, we decided to provide an opportunity to our readers to give a little cheer and kindness to the youth on our streets this holiday season.

Here’s how you can help: When out shopping for those stocking stuffers this holiday season, see what’s on special and grab an extra something on top of your usual purchase. Please note that we ask all items we collecting to be NEW (please, no used goods at this time)!

Suggested gifts include:

Socks, underwear, mittens, gloves, scarfs, toques, boots, jackets, blankets or sleeping bags, toothpaste, toothbrushes, dental floss, deodorant, soap etc... Transit tickets, grocery vouchers or restaurant/fast-food/coffee shop gift certificates Directions to Youth Services centre, operated by Family Services of Greater Vancouver is our partner in this endeavour, and will distribute the goods to youth who are homeless or living in atrisk situations. Anything you can give will help make the holidays a little easier for the youth on our streets.

Thank you for your support!

Happy Holidays!

Simply drop your items off in the big box situated in the Courier lobby at 1574 West 6th Ave., near Fir St. by Friday, December 17th.

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Alder • Birch • Maple Dry, Clean Hardwoods

#1 in Sales • 27 yrs in business Full & half cords 7days/week

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COMPLETE BATHROOM Sets $298. Include:main, side cabinets,mirror,faucet,popup,wall drain,light Many different styles available. 604-313-0670 SOFA, LOVESEAT, leather sell $1850 cost $6,500, marble coffee tble $800. electric heater $39. new white china set, night lamp, picture frame, lrg mirror, 604-329-0008

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Sports Equipment

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Birds

FOUND COCKATIEL 40th & Victoria 604-565-0103

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Cats

HEATED HOODED cat bed, and adjustable black soft sided carrying case. 604-824-8487

FOUR BIKE bike rack with 2 inch car hitch insert.604 731-0606 LADIES FULL-SIZE golf bag and pull cart. 604 731-0606 NORTHERN LIGHTS single weight stack weight machine; includes protective floor mat.

(Purchaser to dismantle and move.) $400.00604 731-0606

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Wanted to Buy

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

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Dogs

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

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Childcare Wanted

F/T FILIPINO live-in nanny for 2 children. First Aid & tutoring req’d.

Please Call: 604-708-1019

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6 BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE LAB PUPS pure bred, english style, CKC reg’d, $750. Ready for their new homes. Call Glenn 604-230-5136

BLACK LAB puppies 1 shots, dewormed, PB non reg, $300.

604-819-1729 or 604-794-3438

GIANT INDOOR SALE George Pearson Centre 719 West 59th.

Sat Nov 27th & Sun Nov. 28th 9:30-4:00 Household, books, etc.

For handicapped residents Canteen/Social Centre

Richmond WHOLESALERS WAREHOUSE Moving & Clearance Sale Open to public Mon to Sat 11am - 5 pm 2300 Simpson Rd. Richmond, 604-270-1050 $1items, gift items, electronics, food items & MUCH MORE !!

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 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.

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Dogs

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Auctions

NEXT AUCTION: Dec. 11, 9am CAN-AM AUCTIONS

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Industrial, Construction, Forklifts, Farm & Turf Equip., Fleet Trucks & Trailers, Lumber, Boats . . . see web for more!

Cars & Trucks, 9am Start!!!

Hotel Restaurant

TOKOYO JOHN Enterprises ltd in Van is hiring F/T Jap Cook & F/T Sushi Cook; 3+ yrs exp with knowledge in each position.

Salary $18.75/hour. Main duty: prepare/cook Jap. food, sushi/ sashimi & ensure quality of food.

Contact seokris@hotmail.com

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Home Support

F/T LIVE-IN Caregiver required for Maple Ridge couple. Resume, references & criminal record check needed. 604-341-5552, email: coniagas@shaw.ca

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MEN’S CLOTHING FOR SALE

ACCENTUS MEDICAL Transcription Services requires Canadian MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS to work from home. Expertise in Operative Reports and Oncology needed. Health Benefits now available! Please apply online www.accentus.ca/ employment.html

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F R I D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 6 , 2 0 1 0 T H E VAN C O U V E R C O U R I E R

ADORABLE POMERANIAN puppies, very sweet, 1st shots, 2 left $450.. 604-636-4238

Located in Langley just minutes from Vancouver WE WELCOME INDUSTRIAL SMALLS.

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WEDNESDAY – DEC. 1ST @ 3 PM ANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES & JEWELLERY AUCTION

ALL SMALL breed pups local & non shedding $350+.

604-590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

JENNY - Lab Ret/Kelpie X/Large/ Young/Female. Sweet energetic girl needs a break. Easy in the home. Loves hiking/swimming/ toys/hugs. playful growl & boisterous with other dogs. Wary of strangers/new situations & will alert bark. Blooms with consistent handlers. A more rural, quiet home may be best. Visit the dogs at Vancouver Animal Shelter 1280 Raymur Ave 604-871-6885.

AUSTRALIAN BLUE HEELER pups. 1st shots, vet ✔, ready to go. View parents. 604-572-7249 LAB PUPS CKC Reg’d Yellows & Blacks Good Temp. Shots & Tattooed. $750. 604-377-0820

Viewing Times: TUES - 9:00 AM ‘TIL 7:00 PM & WED - 9:00 AM ‘TIL AUCTION TIME BERNESE MOUNTAIN Dog Pups, vet ✔ 1st shots, dewormed. $950. Chwk. 1-604-794-3561

LAB PUPS, yellow, m/f, shots, dewormed, $450. family raised Call 604-701-1587

BICHON FRIESE PUPS, 2 males p/bred unreg. 9 wks, 1st shots, homebreed $500 604-376-8327 BOXERS, CKC reg. show champion lines, 9 flashy brindle males, 2 reverse, chip, wormed & shots, ready Nov 12. 604-987-0020

LAB/RETR. PUPS:FIRST shots/ dewormed. 3 black males left.

7wks on Nov.29. 604-856-8636 RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK pups, 1 shots, dewormed, 2 no ridges $1000. Ph 604-845-4113

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general

accounting

careers

trades/technical farm workers

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Sweet tempered. Fully trained. All shots. $600. Call 604-514-3598

Foster homes urgently req’d for rescued, abandoned & neglected dogs. Many breeds. www. abetterlifedogrescue.com

SIBERIAN HUSKY Timberwolf pups, $1,100. 250-295-6280 normanstd@yahoo.com

LAB/BORDER COLLIE female puppy for sale. 9 weeks old. 1st shots and worming. $480.

Call 604-603-8609

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Dogs

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Pets - Other

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Catering/ Bartending

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Fairs/Bazaars

St. Helen’s Anglican Church Annual Holly Bazaar Sat, Nov 27th • 11am – 3pm Light Lunch • Free Admission 4405 W 8th Avenue @Trimble West Point Grey

BAZAAR & UKRAINIAN FOOD FAIR Silent Auction,Raffles • Christmas Crafts Ukrainian Buffet at 5pm and 7pm SATURDAY, NOV 27TH from 11AM – 8PM

St.Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Centre 3150 Ash St. at 16th Ave. Vancouver Free Admission and Parking.

Info: Parish 604-879-5830

17th Annual

Women’s Winter Faire Saturday & Sunday 11am - 6pm

November 27 & 28 December 18 & 19 Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St.

A $3 - $5 door donation supports Theatre Terrific and Pride Education Network Participating vendors at:

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Fairs/Bazaars

Sat. Dec. 4th.

10am - 4pm

Kensington Community Centre 5175 Dumfries St. Vancouver (Near 33rd & Knight St) 604-718-6201 Door Prizes & Food!

Free Admission and Free Parking!

Collingwood Neighbourhood House

Craft Fair

Sat. Dec 4th • 11am - 5pm free admission featuring arts & crafts by local artisans 5288 Joyce Street, Vancouver

(2 blks south of Joyce Skytrain station)

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http://www.gotkeysgotcash.com BUILDING LOT, New West. 33’ x 130’. $75,000 in services paid! No HST! 4,240 total sq. feet. Priced to sell! $318,888. 604-726-0677

REWARD FOR LOST PAPILLION last seen Gov rd Nth Bby Nov 11 778-882-7439

Okanagen/ Interior

6040

OKANAGAN VIEW ACREAGE 10 acre view property, eastern hillside, upper Carmi Road (lot 4 Deerfield) Penticton, BC.. on school bus route, 6 km Paved Road to Penticton Regional Hospital. Power to Property Line.

1000 +/- Foot Frontage on Paved Road. City View and Okanagan Lake. View North to Peachland.

Own your own piece of the beautiful Okanagan Valley for $375,000. Contact owners donaclair@shaw.ca

Squamish/ Whistler

WHISTLER. $195,000. 1 BR condo. Reno’d. Walk to Creekside ski lifts. 1-604-907-1330 or email for pics: brianvs@telus.net

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Fairs/Bazaars

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Acupuncture

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Registered Massage Services

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Accounting/ Bookkeeping

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

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Fairs/Bazaars

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604-222-6060

St. Philip’s Church Christmas Fayre Saturday, Nov. 27 • 12:00-3:00pm Silent Auction, Handcrafted Gifts, Home Baking, Attic Treasures, Christmas Gifts, Books, Tea Room. Fun for the whole family!

Christmas Bazaar

St. Thomas Anglican Church 2444 East 41st Avenue, Vancouver

4th

Saturday, December 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Unique Christmas crafts and gifts, homebaking, candy, preserves, attic treasures and more.

Fairs/Bazaars

St. Helen’s Anglican Church 4405 W. 8th Ave. @ Trimble

Sat/Sun, Nov. 27/28 Sat/Sun, Dec. 4/5 Rocky Mountaineer Station 1755 Cottrell Street $2 Admission Children 12 & under FREE Free Parking

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Sat., Nov. 27, 2010 11:00am - 2:00pm

Admission: $3 Under 12 Free

Deck The Hall Craft Fair Sat. Dec 4 • Sun. Dec 5 11:00am - 5:00pm 45 Outstanding Craft Vendors Heritage Hall

3102 Main St. at 15th Ave. $2 Admission, Kids free!

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Sat., Nov. 27 • 10am - 5pm

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FURNITURE SALE

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Business Opps/ Franchises

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Financial Services

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Baking & Preserves, Crafts & Cards, Attic Treasures, Jewellery, Books, Tea Room, Raffle, Auction

Free Admission

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR, LUNCH, TEA & BAKE SALE Saturday, Nov. 27 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Oakridge Lutheran Church 585 West 41st Ave. Supported by Faith Life Insurance

Steveston Christmas Craft Fair

Browse through 150 tables of unique handmade gifts

Saturday, Nov. 27th 10am - 4pm

Admission: cash or food donation

Steveston Community Centre 4111 Moncton St., Richmond Info: 604-718-8080

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Fairs/Bazaars

St Mark’s Christmas Bazaar Enjoy German books, food, baking, Advent Reefs & Christmas decorations.

Sat. Nov 27th, 10am 2pm....1593 East 18th Ave. Between Knight & Commercial. www.stmarkschurch.ca

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Holiday Helper

BOOK YOUR SANTA PHOTO SESSION NOW! Santa is visiting Intuition Photography on Granville Island Nov 27 & 28 - Dec 4 & 5.

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F R I D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 6 , 2 0 1 0 T H E VAN C O U V E R C O U R I E R

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Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Re: The estate of Ernest John Burchell also known as Ernest J. Burchell, Ernest Burchell and E.J. Burchell, deceased, formerly of 5181 Wales Street, Vancouver BC V5T 3M5 Creditors and others having claims against the Estate are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the VANCOUVER CITY SAVINGS CREDIT UNION, Attention: Hamlata Dayal at 183 Terminal Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5R8 on or before December 22, 2010, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, Executor, Peterson Stark Scott, Solicitors NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: THE ESTATE OF MARIA ROCIO EUGENIA MORALES, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS ROCIO MORALES AND MARIA ROCIO MORALES, DECEASED NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Maria Rocio Eugenia Morales, late of Vancouver, who died on December 22, 2009 are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator c/o 700 - 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 5A1, on or before January 1, 2011 after which date the Administrator will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which he has notice.

David Barrera Administrator By: Richards Buell Sutton LLP Attention: Angela M. Spanjers NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Notice if hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the following estate: GORDON DOUGLAS CAIRNS, formerly of 470 West 22nd Avenue Vancouver BC V5Y 2G5, Deceased, who died on April 13th, 2010, and to anyone knowing the whereabouts of Patrick Gordon Cairns also known as Patrick Gordon Brown, and Stephen Michael Cairns also known as Stephen Michael Brown, are hereby required to send full particulars thereof to the undersigned Executors, c/o Kenneth B. Krag, 228 - 8055 Anderson Road, Richmond, B. C. V6Y 1S2, on or before the 31st day of March, 2011, after which date the Executor will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims that have been received. Richard James Beardsley and Carol Ayako Beardsley, Executors.

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HOME SERVICES

7005

Body Work

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Personals

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Carpentry

FINISHING CARPENTRY quality work. Mouldings, doors, flooring, tiles, railings. Reliable, 25yrs exp.

WCB. Randy: 604-839-0256

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Cleaning

Butterfly Cleaning Inc. ‘‘Moving out, Home & Office’’ Bonded, Prof & Affordable. 604-781-4374

EXP CLEANING ladies avail 7 days/wk. Bonded. Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond 604-928-0025

Concrete Specialist. Driveways, sidewalks, exposed aggregate & patios. Santino 604.254.5551

EXP’D. HOUSECLEANER Reasonable Rates! Reliable!

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L & L CONCRETE. All types: Stamped, Repairs, Pressure Wash, Seal Larry 778-882-0098

EXPERIENCED HOUSECLEANER with over 15 years work experience.

Basic Residential Cleaning Only.

3 hrs minimum. Eva 604-451-3322

RENTALS 6508

Apt/Condos

North Van Apt. Rentals

1BR APT, 900Sq Ft in Heritage Home. Modern Kit and Bath,open living space, separate bedroom w/ walk-in closet. Parking, shared laundry, garden area, near transport and shopping, Avail Dec 1, $1050.00 pets considered 604-561-6731

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Apt/Condos

1 BR, Kerrisdale, newly reno’d, 750sf, 5 appls incld wd, large patio, ug prkg, heat incld, ns, avail Dec 1, $1200, 604-732-3989 BEAUTIFUL APTS. 1 & 2 BR avail. Rates from $800. Call 604-327-9419.

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DRAIN TILES, sewer lines, water lines & sumps. Mini excavation 604-230-1472 or 604-327-0885 Mia Casa − Drain Tile/Sewer Line Water Line Repairs / Replacement & Cleaning. Vince 604-941-6060, Al 604-783-3142

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Apt/Condos

1602-3438 Vanness St. 1 Br, balc. 580sf, mtn & city view, Joyce Stn. lease, np, ns, $1200, Dec 1, Eric 604-723-7368 Prop Mngt 2 BR, 2 Baths, nr Granville Mrkt area, new, huge private deck w/downtown view, top line appls, np, ns, refs. $2195,604-328-0606

LANGARA GARDENS 601 West 57th Ave, Van

Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments and Townhouses in the Oakridge area at West 57th Ave and Cambie St. Included are heat & hot water, plus a spacious storage locker. Many suites have big patios and balconies with gorgeous views. Quiet and tasteful gardens, swimming pools, hot tub, gym, laundry facilities, gated parking and 16 shops & services. Near Oakridge Centre, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School, Langara Golf Course and much more. Sorry no pets.

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2 BR + den, updated, mtn & water view ‘see the ships go by’, enclosed balcony, end unit, deck, ns np $1550 Immed 604-980-5689

MOVE-IN BONUS

GEORGIAN TOWERS

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Drywall

Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Roofing installations & repairs. 604-327-3086

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DRAINAGE, SEWER & WATER ASPHALT & CONCRETE REM. Call Tobias 604 782-4322

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

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8080

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Apt/Condos

204- 5725 Agronomy Rd. UBC 2 br corner, 2 bath, 900sf, granite, balc. lease, ns, np, $2300, now, Eric 604-723-7368 Prop Mngt

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Duplexes - Rent

3 BR, $2700.00 pl utls, Kits, avail Dec 1, hdwd flrs, riverboatgetaway@msn.com

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Furnished Accommodation

1 BR furnished, 989 Nelson St @ Burrard St, 15th flr, avail now $1550 + utils, np ns Call Mike 604-649-3028

1450 WEST GEORGIA ST.

1 & 2 bedrooms

starting from $1230 Heart of Downtown, easy transit access. Large gym, laundry on every floor, dishwashers in all suites, in/outdoor parking.

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Intellectual pursuits have top priority. That includes cultural, far travel, educational, publishing, advertising, religious, philosophical and legal affairs. These might run into a couple of unexpected glitches or shocks early and deep into this week, so time your actions for Dec. 4 onward.

Government agencies, or your own “background” might be involved. Dive into chores Sunday/Monday, so you’ll have more time when opportunities and exciting emotional prospects appear (Tuesday/Wednesday).

Depths, mysteries, sex, other people’s money Friday/ Saturday: you might hit a mother lode!

Taurus April 20-May 20: Life’s mysteries, research, depth psychology, subconscious desires, lust, finances tied to other people (e.g., stocks, marriage finances, inheritances) rise in importance. These might be imperilled this week, especially if you began a related venture in November. You might need to take quick “crisis action” Thursday/Friday. Or, you could be free of any problems – if so, wait until Saturday onward to plunge into these areas, and/or to make a commitment, change your lifestyle, or invest. Work succeeds midweek. Friendships, loves (and everything listed above) are lucky Friday p.m.!

Gemini May 21-June 20: Excitement! You could take major steps in a romance or more mature relationship now, or you might face and seize a huge opportunity such as relocation, a public appearance, a business negotiation/contract. But be aware: you might succeed, and the payment is stress. Or it all might blow up (Sunday-Tuesday a.m. or Thursday/Saturday) especially if this situation began in November. But if it blows up: so what? It clears away six years of tension, liberates you – laugh at life! Midweek’s romantic.

Saturday begins, small but growing, the workable opportunities, attractions. Optimism arrives!

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

604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319 ABACUS ELECTRIC.ca Lic Elect Contr 97222. 40 yrs exp. 1 stop!

Reas. rates! BBB. 778-988-9493.

6540

Houses - Rent

2 BDRM Apt, Nr Metrotown, school, h/wd flrs, heat/H/wtr incl .

Call for more info. 778-881-4221.

VIEW OF cruise ships,$4000/mo, 2bdrm,2bath,sub-penthouse1702 feet fully furnished, marble floor, air-con,large kitchen,Call 604-676-0855 available now.

6505-11

LMD Ltd. 604-540-6567

ASPHALT & CONCRETE REMOVAL /JACK HAMMERING Call Tobias 604 782-4322

http://classified.van.net

1 BR $1200 heat included , W 4th & Lonsdale, 735 sq.ft, balcony, pets allowed, storage, parking spot, avail. Jan 1, 604-764-0515

• Removal & Replace • Free Disposal • Free Estimates • Quality Guaranteed • Fully Insured • Commercial / Residential

CLEANING SERVICE. Reas rates, specializing in homes. Guar work. Refs avail. 604-715-4706

QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs.

Res/com. Move in/out. Carpets + pressure wash’g. 778-895-3522

Apartments & Condos

CONCRETE & ASPHALT

CLEANER, WITH exp. avail to clean homes & small offices. Refs upon request 604-451-0249

Call Today

6505

Concrete

A. FOUNDATIONS, Retaining walls, Stairs, Driveways, Sidewalks. Any concrete project. We also do block, & stone work. Free ests. Call Basile 604-690-3316

H.C. Office / House Cleaning Quality & Experience. Bonded & Insured. 604-725-0856

604-630-3300

8060

2 BR, corner ste, city view, W.Georgia @ Bute, Coal Harbour new reno, built-in sound syst., w/d $1750 avail now 604-603-4111

Call 604-630-3300 to place your ad

185 W 45 Ave. Oakridge. 5Br 4.5 bath, yard maintained by owner, 3000sf, lease, ns, np, now $3200.

Eric 604-723-7368 Prop Mngt

Don’t Miss THIS! 7 BR 6 bath, immed, can be rented 2 br bsmt or 5 br up. Nr Granville & 41s , 4 fp, all appls.

604-765-8561or 264-0299 ★RENT TO OWN! ★ If you have a small down payment, I have a nice home for you! Less then perfect credit OK. Call Kim 604-628-6598 STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN ● No Qualification - Low Down ● COQUITLAM - 218 Allard St. 2 bdrm HANDY MAN SPECIAL!!!

HOUSE, bsmt/2 sheds..$1,388/M NEW WEST- 1722-6th Av 2 bdrm HOUSE w/1 suite 2 f/p,Long term finance, new roof, RT-1..$1,988/M SURREY- 6297 134 St. Solid 4 bdrm HOUSE w/3 bdrm suite on 1/4 acre lot with views... $1,688/M

SOUTH SURREY- 15532 Madrona Dr 3 bdrm, HOUSE, quiet st, huge yard, dbl gar, 2 y.o. roof....$1,388/M CHILLIWACK - 9557 Williams, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on 49x171’ lot, excellent investment property in heart of town..... $888/M Call (604)812-3718 or (604)786-4663

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Cancer June 21-July 22: Emotionally, a rest period Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: The main emphasis lies is over. Now you begin two months of intensified, on communications, paperwork, errands, travel, active, communicating, sweet (and sometimes angry, siblings and casual friends. These areas face one or or more likely, competitive) attraction. But don’t lose two challenges this week, especially Sunday/Monday sight of your main necessity for the next three weeks: (philosophical or legal differences?) and Thursday/ work and health. These two – and your dependents, Friday (romantic, creative conflicts?). In everything and machinery – face one or two crises or dilemmas (communication, travel, etc.) your intention is all tied this week (Sunday-Tuesday and Thursday/Friday). Be up with a partnership urge – but it is this urge that very careful with electricity, computers, driving, tools, is really causing unexpected events or disagreements. especially late week. A project might demand precise, Somehow, it (the urge to join or merge) is fighting tense attention to complete: give this, and succeed. the work you need to get done. By Friday p.m., the conflict’s over, and money luck flows!

Romance whispers Thursday/Friday!

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: What seemed so romantically Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Unexpected events could alluring in November might meet unexpected events throw a monkey wrench into your money projects, or sexual reactions. Or, speculation and investment particularly any projects you began in November, quality conflict; or creative urges, projects might especially Sunday/Monday and Thursday/Friday. Do NOT trip over the realities that research discovers. purchase machinery or high tech items before Friday Whatever went so brilliantly in November meets the noon. The problem comes from your desire, hidden or unexpected by Thursday. Leo, whatever happens: 1) not, to seek pleasure, romance, adventure or to take be ethical, honest; 2) be alert, realistic. These should a gamble. You might face a choice: chase romance, or show you the right way. Money needs care Sunday/ guard your money, gamble or keep your bank account, Monday. Communications, travel, life’s easy Tuesday/ etc. Despite events, you’ll be optimistic, happy Sunday/ Wednesday. Home, safety, take no chances Thursday! Monday! Rest, contemplate mid-week. Your energy, charisma soar Thursday/Friday – this eve’s lucky!

Friday heals. Saturday, love, success begin.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: I warned you some weeks Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Watch your temper ago that domestic, property, security and family – you’re riding a wave of energy, charisma, hope, projects (especially those initiated in November) might loving emotions and creative, gambling pizzazz – but hit a shock or snag by this week. It could be a crisis, this could make you impatient, too, especially with or simply a snag that needs ironing out. Be patient, parents/kids, domestic situations, real estate, security diplomatic. Sunday/Monday your energy is high, but provisions. These have caused you stress and tension everyone seems independent, ready for an argument. for seven years, and you’re at the fed-up stage! So Thursday/Friday communications, errands flow swiftly, there might be one last explosion, especially Sunday/ but an unexpected event could capsize the apple cart. Monday or Thursday/Friday. Listen: be safe, but don’t Drive carefully Friday dawn, avoid unsafe tools, avoid repress your temper. Have a tantrum, then look for Ads continued computers. Friday p.m., love/friendship luck! After a common ground. You’ll find it Friday eve, successfully hectic week, relax at home Saturday. on next start pageto implement it Saturday onward.

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Electrical

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 ELECTRIC AVE Installations.

Electrian lic# 99207, Res/comm, www.electric-ave.ca 604-215-0562 QUALIFIED RESIDENTIAL & Commercial Electrical Contractor.

Cert. 92294.. Nick 778-237-2132 YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087

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 MINI-EXCAVATOR: Lot grading and levelling, concrete removal and demolition. 604-306-8599

Ads continued on next page

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BDRM ground level suite in new home, 1 person only, private entry, np/ns $675. Avail. now. Call after 4:30 pm 604-255-6669 1 BR spacious E. King Edward, nr schools, bus, & amens, lg b/yd incl hydro $750, 604-327-0671 2 BR Basement suite, new, ns, np, $1100 avail imm. Main & 64th604-374-3738 3 BR, 2 Ba, top flr, exc cond never rented. s/room, Renfrew & 1st $1750+util Dec. 604-603-5082 3 BR 2 bath bsmt suite, 1 yr old house, Kitsilano, d/w, insuite w/d, 5 appls, refs, ns np, $1895 604-218-8208, 604-909-0668 TOP FLOOR, 1 bdrm apt in Character House in Kits. Pets are welcome. Heat & h/w incl. Avail.

Dec 1st. $800 Call 604-734-4786

VAN 30TH/MAIN, 3 BR gr lev ste, sep W/D, f/bath, prkg. NS/NP. Avail Dec 15. $1300 incls utls.

604-879-1454 or 778-389-9925

Find your perfect home at

househunting.ca

Nov. 28 - Dec. 4 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Messages, information (or distribution realities) might interfere with a plan that involved government, an institution, or a “retreat.”

Protect yourself from gossip.Take care in writing,speech, driving and with electrical tools. The most “accident prone days are Sunday, Monday and Friday (morning).

This is a time of rest, solitude, peace and contemplation – seek an environment that promotes these. That said, your social popularity begins to revive, and you grow more talkative, more interested in wisdom and learning.

Complete obligations. Happiness, optimism visit Friday!

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: A conflict between your hopes and your “available cash” might reach a climax this week, especially Sunday/Monday and Thursday/ Friday. Well, reality is reality, you gotta work with what you have. Once you accept this, you can start achieving, and your hopes will rise. In general, your popularity is rising, light romance visits, and your money picture does keep getting better! Bosses, VIPs and parents favour you again, into January – take advantage (especially Friday!). Tackle government-related chores now, as a slow-down will commence here soon. Love, Tuesday/ Wednesday, Saturday!

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Relationships need patience, gentleness early week. A temperamental boss, parent or VIP could act now, especially Sunday to Tuesday (argument) and Thursday/Friday (sudden action). Be alert, good-natured, diplomatic – deflect attacks. (A VIP’s motive? Perhaps a suspicion that you are money-hungry. Deeper, it’s a power struggle.)

Wisdom, gentle love, and a travel, legal or educational project return, lasting to early January. These are lucky Friday p.m. Friends begin to appear. Still, your main December goal is career, ambition. Secrets, revelations, “major money” Tuesday/Wednesday. timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2010

HOME SERVICES Excavating

cont. from prev. page

8087

8125

Gutters

8155

WWW.CATSFORHIRE.COM

All Phases of Residential Site Work

Estimates are Fast & Free 40 Years Servicing the Industry

Call Ron 604.377.1345

8090

Fencing/Gates

S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING

Factory Direct Cedar Fence Panel for Sale & Installation 8291 No.5 Rd Richmond Call 604-275-3158 West Coast Cedar Installations Fencing & Decking EST 1991

604-270-2358, Cell: 604-788-6458

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

Century Hardwood Floors 604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

HENRY’S

HARDWOOD FLOOR SERVICES

Full Seamless Gutter Installation/Repairs Soffits All jobs Guaranteed.

Fully insured/WCB covered Will beat any competitors price

604-439-9417 DYNAMIC GUTTERS & Exteriors. Full seamless gutters.

Installation repairs & soffits. All jobs guaranteed. Fully insured, bonded, WCB. Will beat any competitors price. 604-439-9417

Waters Home Maintenance Gutter Cleaning, repairs, windows Free estimate 604-738-6606

8130

Handyperson

TRUSTED HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944

604-878-5232 SINCE 1997

Complete Home Maint./Repairs Certified Trained Pros.

For that small job.

Rates you can afford.

RJR Small Projects Division Part of RJR group

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

8120

Glass Mirrors

604-202-6118 BEST PRICE! Bath, kitchen, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc.

Call Mic, 604-725-3127 CARPENTRY, PAINTING, plumbing, flooring. Reasonable rates. Call Doug 604-276-8552

Commercial/Residential

Store Fronts • Windows & Doors Broken Glass • Foggy Glass Patio Doors • Mirrors • Etc. 2837 Kingsway, Vancouver

Tel: 604-603-9655

8125

Gutters

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YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

DAHIPP CONTRACTING Handyman Services Baths, Kitchens, etc 604.817.0718

8140

Heating

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

8150

Kitchens/Baths

Vancouver Division Since 1985

CALL NOW for 20% OFF WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

604-340-7189 EDGEMONT GUTTERS

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

604-420-4800 Established 1963

Lawn & Garden

HEDGING GARDENING CLEAN-UPS SNOW REMOVAL

DUNBAR LAWN & GARDENS Free Estimates

604-266-1681

WCB • FULLY INSURED

HEDGE SHRUB TREE & STUMP REMOVAL FREE ESTIMATE INSURED

Expert Pruning ISA

By Certified Arborist Ornamental & Fruit Trees, Shrubs & Hedges Northwest Arboriculture Colin Malcolm, Insured

604-618-9741

★ SD ENTERPRISES ★

Winter Clean-up:

• Cedar Fencing • Yard Clean-up • Pruning • Gardening • Landscaping • 20% seniors discount • Free estimates!

Call Terry, 604-726-1931 WILDWOOD LANDSCAPING Hedge Trimmimg & Tree Pruning & Hedge Removal Fall Clean Up Chaffer Control & Lawn Restoration. Comm/Strata/Res Aerating & Power Raking.

Free Estimates.

604-893-5745 EXP. GARDENER. Fall clean ups, leaf removal, weeding, pruning, new soil Ron 604-202-2176 GB GARDENING - lawn cut, trim, prune, clean up, power wash, free est. 778-988-5544 604-322-9412

• Refinish old bathtubs • 4 hour dry time From $325 standard size 5 year warranty – BBB rated A

604.597.1171 mrtubman.ca Counter Tops, Custom Cabinets & Refacing NO HST til end of Dec • In business 50 years

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

Moving & Storage

AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men

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

45

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

FREE ESTIMATES Seniors Discount

604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com

B&Y MOVING

AAA ADVANCE MOVING Experts in all kinds of Moving, Storage & Packing. Different from the Rest. 604-861-8885 ABBA MOVERS bsmt clean 1-4 ton Lic, ins’d from $35/hr, 2 men $45 day honest 26 yrs est 506-7576.

AMIGO'S MOVING. Delivery. Storage. No Job too Small or Big. Clean up, Garage, Basement.

Call 604-782-9511

MASONRY REPAIRS •Stone Walls •Bricks •Chimneys & more. George • 604-365-7672

8185

Moving & Storage

AJK MOVING LTD.

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

Commercial. Industrial.

Truck for Clean-ups garage, basement, backyard.

(604) 875-9072 873-5292

604-338-2339 FREE ESTIMATES

BESTWAY PAINTING & DECORATING

John 778-881-6737

D&M PAINTING

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

604-724-3832

Since 1989

9129 Shaughnessy St.

20 years in business

Hannah - 5 ⁄Hannah yrs. old Jaxon 11½ Almost Jaxon - 3 ⁄ yrs. old 14 Years Old! Years Old! 3

1

8200

Home Services

BE COOL! COLD FEET? Talk to Someone You Trust.

CENTRAL AIR INSTALLED FURNACES CONDITIONING Sears also installs ROOFING, WINDOWS, WINDOW COVERINGS & CARPETING

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

Colour Consulting Included Free Estimate 604-733-2865

PRIMO PAINTING Interior & Exterior

Christmas Special

15% OFF

Free Est. - 15 Years Exp. Insured /WCB

604-723-8434

❑ Warranty ❑ References ❑ Fully Insured

Decks/Patios/ Railings

Fencing & Decking EST 1991

604-270-2358, Cell: 604-788-6458

8205

Paving/Seal Coating

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

8225

Power Washing

POWER WASH, Gutters, Fall clean up, junk removal, Free Est. Great rates! call 778-320-3441

Plugged Drains, Main Sewer Lines Water Service, Video Pipe Inspection Drain Tiles, Fixtures, Faucets Licensed, Insured & Bonded Hot Water Tanks, Seniors Discounts Call Today

731-8875 BBM

PLUMBING, HEATING & DRAINAGE

Renovations Big or Small.

Water Lines without Digging Broken Water Mains & Sewer Mains. Hot Water Tanks, Plugged Drains, Toilets, Tubs, Leaky Faucets & Broken Pipes, Irrigation Sprinkler Systems.

24 / 7 Emergency Service Fully Licenced & WCB.

604-729-3864

ACCURATE PAINTING - Int & ext. Competitive prices. 15+ yrs exp. Henry cell 604-754-9661

Renovations

from concept to occupancy

Winner of Gold & Silver Georgie Awards

– Renovator Member of the Year

Winner of the National SAM Award

– Best Renovated Kitchen in Canada

Plumbing

ATLAS

Marty’s

8180

4

Plumbing & Rooter

604-377-2503

TWO BROTHERS MOVING Local & Long Distance 604-720-0931 • bc.moving@gmail.com •

4

West Coast Cedar Installations

FLYING SCOTSMAN www.popeyesmovingbc.com

.com

732-8453

All Renovations and Restoration Work

8220

MOVING Formerly known as Popeyes Moving

When your house is great except… ❏ The kitchen’s too

small

❏ You need another

bedroom

❏ The carport could be

a two-car garage

❏ One bathroom just

isn’t enough anymore

We Fix The “EXCEPTS…” Since 1978

604-987-5438

www.rjrrenovator.com

Andrew’s Painting & Wallpaper 25yrs exp. WCB/Ins. Refs Free est off seas. rates 604-785-5651 MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured.

PASSION FOR PAINTING Int & Ext, power wash. Free Est. WCB. David 604-942-0115

• • • •

Tiling $800

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

604-312-6311

778-319-2120

604-685-7112 ext 5101

24 HOURS 1-800-4-MY-HOME • (1-800-469-4663)

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

Masonry

Call Today!

604-708-8850

$30 P/HR. Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. ★ Available 24 hours. Abe at: 604-999-6020

Renovations & Home Improvement

VANCOUVER LTD. • Fully Insured • References • Green Products

Interior / Exterior • Small / Big Jobs Comm./Res. • Fully Insured AURA Stone Countertops Crown molding installation. Faux finish, staining & custom painting. $150 Off (certain restrictions apply)

• Includes all Taxes • Licenced & Insured • Professional Piano Movers

8240

ARBUTUS PAINTING

arbutuspainting.com

T. TRAN -604-723-2468, Tree Pruning, hedging, weeding, leaf cleanup, gutters, etc. Reliable.

8175

Painting/ Wallpaper

8195

Experienced Movers ~ 2 Men $50 ~

8193

YARD CLEAN-UP, lawns cut & lawn aeration, hedge trim, rubbish removal, gutters. 604-773-0075

Bathtub Reglazing

8185

Ny Ton Gardening Tree cutting & topping, yard cleanup, trimming, hedging, 604-782-5288

TREES • HEDGES • SHRUBS Pruning.Shaping.Removal. Fruit Topiary. Wolfgang 604-738-4016

FALL SPECIALS • Gutter Installation Cleaning & Repairs • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention 25 year Warranteed Leaf & Needle Guard

8160

224-3669

604-771-8885

ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing.

Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

Pressuring Washing, Tree Prunning, Shrub & Hedge Trimming, Leaf Cleanup, Top Soil Delivery, Rubbish Removal, 604-690-4772

Professional Powerwash Gutters cleaned & repaired Since 1984, 604-339-0949 PRP GUTTER CLEANING & GUTTER REPAIRS. Free estimates 604-764-0399

Landscaping

HEDGE REMOVAL, stump grinding, excavator, concrete removal, etc Steve 604-724-3670

JIM’S HOME SERVICES: Gutter Cleaning & repairs, power washing, roofing, home waterproofing, etc. Please call 604-831-0303

Sanding & Refinishing Installation Quality Workmanship Free Estimates Fully Licensed & Insured

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

Kitchens/Baths

KITCHEN & BATHS, renos, tiles, plumbing, painting. Insured, refs, Quality work Adam 604-512-6010

Excavating

EXCAVATOR • BACKHOE DUMP TRUCK

8150

Oil Tank Removal

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

For Free Estimates Call

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

Serving West Side since 1987

STORMWORKS

● Oil Tank Removal ● Recommended ● Insured ● Reasonable Rates

604-724-3670

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

AAA Professional int/ext painter & wall paperer. Guar work. Free est. John 604-318-2059 (Kits)

T&H PAINTING Int/Ext res/comm painting, power wash, gutters, Free Est., Guar. 778-316-7709 THOMAS MASTER MATCH PAINTING. Int & Ext. Good Prices, 18 yrs exp. 604-724-8648 URBAN PAINTING ...High quality, material discounts, warranty. & great refs. 604-836-9675

8200

Decks/Patios/ Railings

Central Decking Co.

• 24 hr. service for water damage • Built-rebuild decks, deck repair • Specialize in seamless polyurethane membrane deck coatings • Sundecks – Balconies – Patios • Waterproofing

604-618-0631

centraldecking@gmail.com

Dream Decks

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

604-731-2443

10% Off with this Ad! Aman’s Plumbing Service, Lic. Gas Fitter, Reas. Rates. 778-895-2005 ★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com BS & SONS gas heating & plumbing. Certified. Renos, h/w tanks, boilers, drains. 24 hrs. 671-6815

CERT PLUMBER- Lic/Ins Exp- Reno’s - Repairs - Hot water Tanks. Shaun 604.727.9326

Trex Pro Platinum certified installer

For All Your Decking Needs Vinyl, Wood, Composite Decks

Repairs & Renos, general contracting.

Insured, WCB, Licensed

604-318-4390 aaronrconstruction.com

CEDARWORKS

SUNDECKS FENCES • STAIRS

30 years exp.

731-7709

drytech.ca RENOVATIONS

PLUMBERS

604.924.3746

www.dreamdecks.ca

Water Lines (without digging) Sewer Lines (without digging) Install. Drain tiles. 604-739-2000

DECKS & FENCES, gates, front steps etc. John 778-998-5591 tarasoffconstruction.com

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

marc@dreamdecks.ca

AaronR CONST

22-BUILD (222-8453) Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

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

HOME SERVICES 8250

Roofing

RESIDENTIAL DIVISION LTD.

Tried & True Since 1902

• BBB • RCABC • GAF/ELK Master Elite Contractor • Residential Roofing • Liability Coverage and WCB • Designated Project Managers • Homes & Strata • Third Party Inspection Installations & Repairs Call 604-327-3086 for a free estimate •• 24 Hr Emergency Service Quote code 2010 for a 5% discount www.crownresidentialroofing.com

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring ''Satisfaction Guaranteed''

NORM, 604-466-9733 Cell: 604-841-1855

LUCKY METAL WORKS Fence & Gates Stainless Steel Door Window & Door Replacement Patio Covers & Sunrooms Andy: 604-719-8689 #158-11782 River Rd., RMD

PRP RENOVATIONS Kitchens, baths, tiling, flooring, painting, plumbing, gutters ★ Small jobs welcome ★ Insured, WCB

604-764-0399

PTV HOME SPACE RENOVATIONS BOOKING Bath & Kitchen

For:Christmas PRIME TIME VENTURES SpecialINC. Rep: LBampton 15% OFF All Tiling Supplies Ad#: 1282008 (selected wholesaler —cash sales) 778-235-1772 Est 1995

MOZAIK MOZAIK HANDYMAN HANDYMAN SERVICES SERVICES LTD.

• Painting • Electrical • Plumbing • Tiling • Carpentry Carpeting

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

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

F R I D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 6 , 2 0 1 0 T H E VAN C O U V E R C O U R I E R

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BEARING WALLS removed, floors leveled, cathedral ceilings, garage leveled, door and window openings. 604-787-7484 ★CHRISTMAS UPDATE★ Carpentry/Electrical/Plumbing/ Painting. Reasonable rates. Excellent references. 604-271-8549 D & M RENOVATIONS, Flooring, tiling, finishing. Fully Insured. Top quality, quick work 604-724-3832

8250

Roofing

@

YOUR HOME ROOFING SERVICES Vancouver Division Since 1985

FALL SPECIALS • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Duroid, Cedar, Torch-on • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs

CALL NOW for 20% OFF WCB – Fully Insured

604-340-7189

Auto Miscellaneous

$0 DOWN & WE MAKE YOUR 1st PAYMENT AT AUTO CREDIT FAST Need a vehicle?

Good or Bad Credit?

Call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599 www.autocreditfast.ca DLN 30309

9125

Renos • Decks • Repairs

COAST TO COAST ROOFING 15 Years Experience RE-ROOF & REPAIR SPECIALIST ~ No Job Too Small ~

Gary, 604-897-3614

10% off ALIN Maintenance •Roof •Chimney •Skylight Repairs •All Leak Problems! 604-319-2229

9145

Scrap Car Removal

SAVE $ 604-228-ROOF (7663)

Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

McNabb Roofing • TAR & GRAVEL •TORCH-ON MEMBRANE •FIBREGLASS / ASPHALT SHINGLES, GUTTER & DOWNPIPE CLEANING 35 years experience

Cell: 604-839-7881 MACROOFING.CA

Residential & Commercial Tar & Gravel to Torch On Conversion Shell Busey’s Referral Network ★ Govt Certified ★ 20 yrs exp Visa & MasterCard

778-237-ROOF (7663)

NO WHEELS, NO PROBLEM

FREE

Scrap/Car Removal No Wheels No Problem

2000 BUELL LIGHTNING 1200 by Harley Davidson

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

1995 TOYOTA tercel 2 dr 4 spd manual, 252,000 k, $1,400 obo 604-833-4999

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All new last year, the Hyundai Tucson is a fresh evidence of how far the Hyundai Motor Company has come in a relatively short time period. No longer a lower-priced second choice or a used car alternative, Tucson is another example of a Hyundai that also competes head-to-head in the performance, quality and design arenas.

There are no compromises here, the technology is first rate and its design, handling and ride reflect its European connection. Tucson was conceived and engineered at Hyundai’s new design centre in Frankfurt and has evolved into a slick and very modern cross-utility vehicle.

Tucson is a nice size, economical and a versatile multi-task vehicle that can handle the daily urban grind, big boxes from IKEA or weekend escapes with the family.

Stylish yet practical, it has space for four, maybe five, occupants and plenty of cargo room.

Lighter (28 kg) than its predecessor, Tucson’s clean and efficient 2.4 litre (176 hp) cylinder engine and new six-speed automatic transmission delivers excellent fuel economy. The front-drive version uses just 6.3 litres/100 km on the highway and if fitted with all-wheel-drive it consumes an extra 0.8 L/100 km.

Even a base GL edition comes with air conditioning, a Bluetooth hands-free phone connection and power windows, locks and mirrors. The side mirrors are also heated and it has keyless entry plus a security system. Au-

Tucson is a nice size, economical and a versatile multi-task vehicle that can handle the daily urban grind, big boxes from IKEA or weekend escapes with the family. dio input jacks are provided, the steering wheel has audio controls and four-wheel disc brakes are standard.

The GLS ($26,799) trim additions include 17-inch alloy wheels, fog lights and a tilt and telescopic steering wheel. Moving up to the Limited ($32,449) trim adds leather seating, dualzone air conditioning, 18-inch alloy wheels, a panoramic sunroof, all-wheel-drive and more.

Our test Tucson was a topline Limited with Navigation ($34,449). In addition to the 6.5inch touch screen navigation system it also includes and upgraded audio system and a rear-view

camera system.

For the 2011 model year, Hyundai offers a new lower-priced base L trim version of Tucson with a 2.0-litre engine and a 5-speed manual transmission ($20,999), or optional 6-speed automatic. It eliminates the 2010 GL 2.4 litre engine with a 6-speed manual. Other than that the lineup and pricing is essentially unchanged.

Design—Tucson is a complex styling exercise with lots of interesting body lines and creases, yet it all pulls together very nicely.

Short body overhangs, pushedout wheels and a high belt line give it a well planted on the road

and secure appearance.

A roof line that swoops down at the rear adds to its sporty appearance and the spoiler above the rear window is standard on all versions. While Tucson is longer and wider than rivals such as the Honda CR-V, Ford Escape and Subaru Forester, it tends to look even bigger than it is, in reality.

Interior—Nothing too fancy or cluttered, the dash is simple yet has everything you need with easy to understand and use controls—I like it! The instrument panel is a two-pod design with centrally positioned engine temperature, fuel gauge and trip info electronic readouts.

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The cabin is roomy and suited to taller drivers with a high seating position that looks down at instrument panel. Despite the panoramic sunroof and its slopped to the back roofline, the rear passengers, surprisingly, are also provided with good head and leg room.

The panoramic sunroof comes with the Limited package and has an attractive full glass roof appearance on the outside. From the inside, only the front part opens and the rear section is fixed (but has a sliding shade).

On the downside, you lose roof rails and any notion of attaching a roof rack.

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Safety—Electronic stability control is standard on all trim levels of the Tucson and so are active front seat head restraints.

The (front and rear) side curtain air bags have the added occupant protection of vehicle roll-over activation.

Performance—From the elevated driving position, outward vision was generally good and the big side mirrors were great.

The slopped rear window seems smaller through the rear-view mirror so the back-up camera, which came in my test Tucson, was definitely an asset.

The camera’s screen also comes with direction guide lines that project the path on which the vehicle is heading, based on the current steering angle, which is another plus. Unfortunately it’s only available on the top-line version of Tucson.

Tucson is not going to break any land speed acceleration records, but it’s certainly competitive in its class. Its engine is smooth and quiet in normal driving but it lets you know that it’s

Stylish yet practical, the Tuscon has space for four, maybe five, occupants and plenty of cargo room. gives Tucson a positive advantage over other vehicles in its class. It offers manual shifting capability and in auto mode the shifts are smooth and precise.

Best of all, at highway speeds its extra overdrive gears keep engine speeds low and provide better

working hard, if you floor the gas pedal. On the plus side, it’s an ultra-clean running engine that plays a major role in making the Tucson qualify as a Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle.

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The Score—Great to look at, great on gas and good to the environment, the new Hyundai Tucson brings value package that can’t be ignored to the compact cross-utility segment.

The Specs - 2011 Hyundai Tucson Trim levels: L, GL, GLS & Limited Sticker Price: $20,999 to $34,449 Power: 2.4 litre, 4 cylinder, 176 horsepower Transmission: 6-speed manual and automatic Fuel consumption (auto): 9.0/6.3 L/100 km (city/highway) Fuel consumption (auto/awd): 9.8/7.1 L/100 km (city/highway) Basic Warranty: 5 years / 100,000 km Powertrain Warranty: 5 years / 100,000 km Rust Warranty: 5 years /unlimited km The Competition Ford Escape: $24,499 - $34,549 Jeep Patriot: $17,795 - $25,995 Mazda Tribute: $23,450-$34,995 Nissan Rouge: $23,198-$33,098 Toyota RAV4: $24,345- $34,390 With files from Bob McHugh. david.chao@leansensei.com

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TM The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. "Prices for models shown: 2011 Accent 3 Dr GL Sport is $17,844, 2010 Elantra Limited is $22,944. Delivery and Destination charges of $1,495/$1,495 are included. 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. ◊Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on new 2011 Sonata models with an annual finance rate of 0.9% for 60 months. †Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on new 2011 Accent L 3 Dr 5-speed/2010 Elantra L 5-speed with an annual finance rate of 0%/0% for 84/84 months. Monthly payments are $161/$173. No down payment is required. Dealer participation of $500 for 2010 Elantra L 5-speed is included. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,495/$1,495. Registration, insurance, PPSA, 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 Elantra L 5-speed for $14,494 at 0% per annum equals $172.55 per month for 84 months for a total obligation of $14,494. Cash price is $14,494. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,495. Registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Ω∏ $4,000 savings on the cash purchase of the 2010 Santa Fe GL 2.4L 6-speed manual model is composed of $1,000 price adjustment (available on purchase or lease) and $3,000 cash purchase price adjustment (for cash purchases only). Price adjustments are calculated against the lease/finance starting price. Cash purchase price for model shown: 2010 Santa Fe Limited is $35,559. Delivery and Destination charge of $1,760 is included. Registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Certain conditions apply. ‡Purchase or lease any 2011 Accent and receive a price adjustment of $1,600. ◊†"Ω∏‡ Offers available for a limited time and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details.

Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. !Fuel consumption for 2011 Accent 3Dr (HWY 5.7L/100KM; City 7.2L/100KM)/2010 Elantra L 5-speed (HWY 5.6L/100KM; City 7.8L/100KM) are based on EnerGuide fuel consumption ratings. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. ^Fuel economy comparison based on combined fuel consumption rating for the 2011 Sonata GL 6-speed manual (7.35/100km) and 2011 Energuide combined fuel consumption ratings for the full size vehicle class. Fuel consumption for the Sonata GL 6-speed manual (HWY 5.7L/100KM; City 8.7L/100KM) based on 2011 Energuide rating. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. %Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). The 5-star rating applies to all the trim levels of the 2011 Sonata produced after July 2, 2010. ∞Based on the September 2010 AIAMC report. ∆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.

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