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City will ask developers for modular housing ideas Michael McCarthy Contributing writer

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tanding in front of city hall, Coun. Kerry Jang has a commanding view of a growing city.

It’s a landscape that may soon change if Vision Vancouver’s proposal to build affordable modular housing units to alleviate homelessness gains traction.

“So far, the main opposition about modular housing has been its appearance,” said Jang. “Many people seem to have a negative view of what it might look like— sort of a Tinkertoy appearance, but we think we can find a design that will work.”

Jang’s interest in bringing modular housing to public attention started when he attended a design show hosted by Architects for Humanity in May 2009. Designs at the Living Density Exhibition at the Grace Gallery on Main Street in Vancouver ranged from the practical to the provocative, showing cantilevered housing built high across city streets or housing pods attached to the exterior walls of buildings.

Others illustrated how modular units could be hoisted onto rooftops or even prefabricated buildings floating on water. An example of successful modular development is Container City, devised by the Urban Space Management team in London, England, which includes office space, retail, artist studios and homes.

Prototype modular housing projects, on display in Seattle two years ago, have been sold as affordable photo courtesy Mithun/Juan Hernandez housing stock to the non-profit Bainbridge Island Housing Trust.

Closer to home is Seattle’s Inhabit project by HyBrid Seattle and Mithun. Prototype modular housing units that were on public display two years ago have been sold to the non-profit Bainbridge Island Housing Trust as relocatable/affordable housing.

One of the goals of the competition was to demonstrate that prefabricated and modular housing needn’t look cheap or ugly. (Modular housing projects already exist in Vancouver, though they can’t be considered affordable. MONAD,

a development underway at 3351 West Fourth Ave., features 800to 2,100-square foot condo units starting at $599,000. A crane lifted 12 pieces of the building into place last weekend at the project.)

The endless design possibilities intrigued Jang, Vision’s point person on homelessness in the city, enough to float the idea through city council last year. Interest in the design community was immediate. Ideas have been tossed back and forth for months. In a few weeks time, city staff will an-

nounce an official call for letters of interest from developers.

“One thing we need to explain is that while this modular project is designed to address homelessness, the modular housing units we are calling for won’t be for the homeless,” said Jang.

“It will be ‘workforce’ or entry-level housing for low income people who currently can’t afford to pay market rents. We have already addressed the need for supportive housing for the homeless through shelters and

other initiatives. This is something different.”

The new modular units would move the working poor out of single room occupancy (SRO) hotels, which could then free up the units for the homeless. The new modular units could be for singles, artists, small families or couples, and perhaps some homeless people if any non-profit groups currently working with the homeless in the Downtown Eastside want to participate.

When the concept of modular housing was first floated, the immediate debate centred on quick and easy solutions, such as reusing shipping containers or adapting workcamp bunkhouses, Jang said. Architect Gregory Henriquez, whose firm headed up the Woodward’s redevelopment and is involved in other social housing projects in the city, quickly drew up a plan for 1,000 units to be built on eight sites owned by the city, but proposals that included using shipping containers as housing don’t appeal to Jang.

“We want the units built inexpensively and quickly, but to high standards,” he said. “They have to fit into the neighbourhood in which they are constructed, and they have to feel like a home.

We’ve seen proposals in the past that are just little boxes and they lack dignity. We don’t want warehousing. We need to provide housing people will respect.”

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Mobility, affordability key concerns about temporary housing units

Continued from page 4 The city has a large land bank sitting idle, in the Downtown Eastside, Mount Pleasant and along Kingsway, and private property owners have also approached council, said Jang. The plan is to put temporary modular units on those sites and then move the units elsewhere if the city or developer wants to build on those properties at a later date, if and when land values rise. The city will pay for the cost of consultations and sewer and electrical connections, but if the units are built by the private sector, they’ll have to pay for themselves through rents.

This raises the question whether modular units can be built cheaply enough so that rents are actually affordable to low-income earners. Also, if they are temporary structures, can they actually be moved elsewhere after five or 10 years of use and still retain their value? After all, city hall is asking private developers to take on the risk of building the units, leasing them, and then relocating them some day—and to somehow make a profit along the way. Rents under $1,000 a month will require that single units must cost less than $60,000 to build, including interior and exterior fitting. While there are local builders who might be able to provide wooden boxes for

At his factory in Delta, Rene Abi-Rached hopes to create a new form of modular housing. photo Dan Toulgoet that amount, cheaply built units don’t travel well. “We’ve certainly had a lot of informal interest in the design community already. There are a lot of innovative designs being discussed,” said Jang.

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any designers, architects and builders have already jumped into the fray. Among them is noted civic activist and developer Michael Geller, who has been vocal recently on the topic of new social

housing developments. Geller’s interest in modular housing goes back decades. Standing in front of the Drake Hotel parking lot on Powell Street, which he suggests is an ideal location for a test project, Geller waxes enthusiastically about the potential for modular units.

“I’ve been thinking about this for 30 years,” Geller said, adding that he raised the subject with fellow NPA member and failed mayoral candidate Peter Ladner before

the 2008 election. The NPA’s plan was to construct portable modular housing units on vacant lots across the city. The party talked with Langley-based modular homebuilder Britco about plans and cost estimates. Although he refuses to say that Vision Vancouver stole his ideas, the new modular housing suggestions by Jang sound very much like what Geller has had in mind for years.

“My idea for the portables ac-

tually took shape in 1971, when I was an architecture student at the University of Toronto,” he said.

“My thesis focused on the viability of housing based on school portables common in overcrowded schools across the country at the time. Then I worked as a consultant in Fort McMurray, Alberta, where seasonal workers lived in modular homes and I saw they are quick and simple to build.”

Geller said 450- to 600-square foot wooden modules, built of reused pine beetle wood by local builders such as Britco Structures at their local factory, could be manufactured for about $150,000 and house up to four people. The portable housing units could be placed on any of the undeveloped vacant lots in the Downtown Eastside, or elsewhere in the city, on property that isn’t slated for development for a few years.

“Think of this like community gardens, where developers are getting tax breaks for allowing their property to be used for some useful purpose instead of just sitting there vacant. It’s quite possible to make the units look very attractive by painting murals on the exterior or by landscaping,” he said, showing colourful designs of modular buildings that have already been constructed in other cities.

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Factory uses automation and new materials Continued from page 5 “They can be expanded in any number of ways, vertically or horizontally.

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A tour of the IHI factory illustrates the magnitude inherent in this new technology. The 80,000-square-foot building itself was constructed using IHI’s mechanically interlocking concrete panels. The factory was erected in 2000 in only a few weeks using one crane and five workers. Abi-Rached said the same technology can be applied to single-family homes, townhouses, office towers and especially modular units for the city’s low-income earners.

“Building houses the old fashioned way, out of wood and using manual labour, is very costly and time consuming,” said Abi-Rached, a Fulbright scholar with a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

“If you made a pair of shoes like that, they would take a week to produce and cost $500. The key to building modular housing lies in automation, and in volume, and the use of innovative new materials.”

“Our precisely engineered panels are made of high-strength concrete, insulating rigid foam, sound-proof material, structural wire mesh, electrical wiring and plumbing services all encased in a structural steel frame,” he said during a factory tour. “Engineering tests show

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the panels will surpass all safety standards by up to 500 per cent, whether earthquake, wind, hurricane, fire or blasts. A building like this will far surpass the life of any kind of wood frame construction. We could produce a high quality, 400-square foot modular unit for the city for $60,000.”

The modular panels are manufactured at the IHI factory and then bolted together on the building site and can easily be moved, and retain 100 per cent of their strength when reassembled. Cheap wooden housing like many developers or manufacturers are proposing won’t retain its value if it is moved after a few years, said AbiRached. “What builder wants to take that risk?”

Abi-Rached said his company’s factory in Delta will be the first fully automated housing plant in the country when it opens this year. Production has been held up for several years because of a lawsuit with a major U.S.-based corporation that demanded global distribution rights. Instead of manufacturing thousands of modular units, Abi-Rached says his company has wasted millions in court, forcing him to use manual labour and motivating him to create a movement for legal reform (legal-reform.org) that would allow a small Canadian company like his to achieve equal footing with a global powerhouse. He expects his court case to be “finally resolved” in a few months and IHI will be using laser technology when the factory finally goes into production.

“We could create a new housing industry right here in Vancouver,” he

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said. “We can design and build high tech modular units that the rest of the world can copy. Our company has started a construction project with a local organization that is training their own members in modular installation. We could create lots of new employment right here in Vancouver, too, training low-income people to build homes, whether their own or others. The city should think of that employment possibility when they are discussing this initiative.”

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ack at city hall, Coun. Jang said the outcome of the entire modular project will depend on two key factors—what innovative designs are submitted and what designs the public supports. Without success with both, the process won’t continue.

“After we receive Letters of Interest, city staff will review all the proposals and select a dozen or so for further consultation. We’ll issue a [request for proposals] to those and choose one. For sure the public will be involved during the process. We’ll be seeking feedback and find out what designs the public supports. It could be low rise or highrise, single or multiple units. If we find a design that is popular, we’ll proceed to build one test model. Whether that’s on city land or private land will depend on the individual proposals.”

Whatever happens, said Jang, it won’t be shipping containers stacked on top of each other. “There are so many creative ideas we’ve already seen but it’s the RFP that will show us what is really possible. The key is flexibility, the possibility of adding more units or moving them if necessary. That’s what’s great about modular design.

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Sexual assaults increased from 570 in 2009 to 617 in 2010

Cops target gropers and molesters downtown Mike Howell Staff writer

The Vancouver Police Department continues to work on strategies to reduce the number of sexual assaults in the city, particularly in the downtown business district and Granville Street entertainment zone.

Deputy Chief Doug LePard said the increase in sexual assaults in downtown is largely related to groping and molestation incidents, often involving alcohol, and occurring in the evening when the bars are open.

LePard said police are working with bar and restaurant owners, participating in education campaigns to teach women how to be safe and having officers in the department’s sexual offence squad train patrol members how to target potential suspects.

Sexual assaults across the city increased from 570 in 2009 to 617 in 2010.

LePard and Police Chief Jim Chu noted investigators have made progress in tracking suspects in the crimes, including the arrest of a 25-year-old man alleged to have

“WE’RE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO DRIVE DOWN THAT NUMBER.” VPD Chief Jim Chu

committed three sexual assaults in September and October 2010.

Leroy Edward Laboucan is facing several charges.

“We’re going to do everything we can to drive down that number [of sexual assaults],” Chu said after a Vancouver Police Board meeting Wednesday, where the increase in assaults was discussed by officers and board members.

Police issued an appeal Jan. 13 to the public to help find a “serial sex attacker” believed to be responsible for at least three sexual assaults on women. Police have linked the attacks by DNA evidence. The incidents occurred between July 1, 2009 and June 12, 2010 in the 900 block of Beach Avenue, at Marinaside Crescent and Drake Street and in the 1600 block of West Fourth Avenue.

Despite an increase in sexual assaults, overall crime across the city dropped by 5.8 per cent over last year. photo Rebecca Blissett Sgt. Matt Clarke of the VPD’s sexual offence squad said the suspect preys on women under 30 years old. The victims in the attacks were in the Granville Street entertainment district before the suspect struck.

“All of the women suffered an emotional toll in these attacks and one of the women suffered

scrapes and bruises from being forcibly thrown to the ground,” Clarke said.

On Thursday, police teamed up with the Vancouver School Board to launch a new program for students aimed at raising awareness about “drug facilitated sexual assaults.”

Despite the increase in sexual

assaults, overall crime across the city dropped by 5.8 per cent over last year, according to statistics released Wednesday by the police department.

Homicides decreased from 18 in 2009 to nine in 2010, with Chu attributing the decrease to police efforts to stem gang violence in the city and across the region. Attempted murders, robberies, burglaries, car thefts and arsons all saw drops over last year.

“It is heartening to see significant drops in major crimes, in violent crime, in property crime and traffic deaths and injuries,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is chairperson of the police board.

“It’s been real success for several years now, with the VPD making significant improvements, and there’s still work to be done.”

Frauds saw the highest jump in crime over last year, increasing from 2,229 incidents to 2,547, for an increase of 14 per cent. Chu said the increase is due to greater use of debit and credit cards, electronic forms of payment and Internet commerce. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Suzanne Anton raised a good question at council on Tuesday.

The lone NPA councillor was on her feet in the midst of a discussion on four major and interrelated reports on the redevelopment of the north shore of False Creek. They included everything from building a new gambling casino next to B.C. Place Stadium, to plans for two adjacent hotel towers and four condo towers nearby.

Council expressed considerable concern about the negative impact of the new casino. What was more interesting, however, was a detail in the proposal for those condo towers and just what the city of Vancouver would get out of this deal.

Since 1988, the city has had a policy that demands any new neighbourhood residential development include 20 per cent non-market housing.

To comply with that policy, the Vision majority on council made the controversial decision to keep a small portion of the housing at the Olympic Village as non-market in spite of opposition pressure to sell the heavily subsidized project at market rates and build cheaper non-market housing elsewhere.

Because of existing Concord Pacific development on the north shore of False Creek, the city had access to 15 sites for affordable housing. Most have been developed or are in the process of being developed. But six vacant sites still exist and the city holds options to purchase them for below market rates.

Now, with the proposed new development on the north shore of False Creek, comes a remarkable proposal. City staff wants council to reverse that decades-old city policy regarding

allengarr the 20 per cent non-market housing.

Instead, they want the city to accept two pieces of Concord-owned property on Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside.

One at 117 East Hastings is a relative sliver of land. The other at 58 West Hastings is a sizeable lot that Concord attempted to develop as market condos only to be thwarted by threats from social housing activists.

So here is Anton’s question: She wanted to know why staff was recommending council turn its back on the 20 per cent policy and a commitment to mixed neighbourhoods.

Some of the answer is actually in the report.

The federally subsidized housing program and the funding to go along with it, that existed when the 20 per cent policy was adopted, is gone. Nor is there any evidence the province is willing to cough up more money at this point for social housing. The city would

also have to lay out more money to pay for the Concord parcels it holds options on. But the Hastings Street properties will come already paid for and are ready to develop.

City manager Penny Ballem told Anton those two properties represent a “creative option to bring housing on stream a lot faster.”

And that is consistent with what Vision Coun.

Geoff Meggs has been saying.

He sees these Hastings Street properties being used mostly for affordable rental housing; housing priced to accommodate young people with well paying jobs who are unable to find anything in a city where land and housing prices have driven many in this group out to the suburbs or back to live with their parents.

This is the same demographic targeted by the poorly executed STIR housing policy Vision has been pushing with much resistance from folks in the West End. While the goals of creating more affordable housing may be commendable, it will continue to have its critics, even among Vision’s supporters.

The housing activists from Carnegie will insist the properties only be used for supportive housing to reduce street homelessness. Others will wonder why Vision was so determined to include social housing at the Olympic Village but appears to be letting Concord off the hook on the north shore of False Creek.

This matter still has to go to public hearing next month. But you can bet it is a done deal.

And, in the end, whatever affordable housing is created will be in much demand. agarr@vancourier.com

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Homeless shower program meets mindless opposition I’m a big fan of The Onion. Among my favourite items in the satirical online newspaper are the fictional editorials by the newspaper’s publisher emeritus, the 140-yearold T. Herman Zweibel. In 1958, a court-ordered retirement forced Zweibel into the medical wing of his 648-room estate, with only his “puddingheaded nurse-maid and iron lung” to keep him company. Yet the withered plutocrat continues to rage in The Onion against wax-cylinder recordings, suffragettes, and the “overpaid Judas-goats” in his pay.

Has Zweibel started writing for The Province? An unsigned editorial in Monday’s edition, with the heading “‘Compassion can’t be without any limits,” has me wondering. The cranky editorial went after Vancouver park board officials who want to expand a free Vancouver shower program for the homeless.

Park board chairman Aaron Jasper and general manager Malcolm Bromley say the plan to extend showers to the homeless at local community centres is about “compassion.” The paper has a problem with the cost of such a frill. The editorial slammed the “ideologues who currently run Vancouver,” and are playing fast and loose with our tax dollars, “in their seemingly endless quest to comfort the drunks, addicts and mental patients who make up the city’s homeless.”

Of course, comforting the afflicted is way outside Vision’s mandate. That’s what journalism used to be for. Not any more, apparently. Start offering free showers to dirty strangers, and the next thing you know they’ll start grooming themselves and shaving. Some might even take pride in their appearance. There’s no telling where it could end.

The Kitsilano Community Centre already has a free shower program, which is open to homeless people each Saturday, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. According to an August 2009 release from the City of Vancouver, the program isn’t limited to free showers. “It includes hot breakfast, Starbuck’s coffee, clean clothing and friendly conversation in a safe, comfortable environment. Valet parking for shopping carts and dog sitting is provided by volunteers.”

OK, I have to admit that last part raised my eyebrows, too. It seems unthinking to offer caffeinated beverages to people with stressful lifestyles. Joking aside, the labour behind the Kits program isn’t coming entirely out of the public purse. Volunteers from St. Augustine’s Catholic Church and Grace Vancouver Presbyterian Church participate in the weekly drop-in program in partnership with the Kitsilano Community Centre. The KCC staff

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geoffolson work with a rotating group of volunteers from both churches committed to at least one Saturday.

“Kitsilano Community Centre Association provides close to $5,000 for staffing and makes a similar amount available to cover any shortcomings in donations for supplies. Donated food approximately $200 and approximately $100 per week for food, cooking supplies, toiletries and clothing. Corporate donations are provided weekly by Starbucks, Terra Breads Bakery, Stongs, and IGA. Limiting this program to the early hours of Saturday morning seems like a wise move. The program is not without “challenges,” according to the city’s information package. “Neighbours have been very positive about the program. However drug pushing occasionally has come into the area causing concern. Good relationships with Mental Health and Police have helped to correct these issues.”

The tab for extending the shower program to other community centres is estimated at $30,000 (a mere four per cent of the city’s overall cutbacks to park board programs). And at least we know where the money is going, unlike change plunked into a hat or cup.

We live in strange times, when partly subsidized compassion for the homeless is linked in a newspaper editorial with “do-gooder nuttiness.” (What’s the inverse of that? “Do-badder pragmatism?”)

I think back to a scene from the floor of the U.S. Congress during the mid-’90s “Contract With America,” when Republican Representative John Mica held up a sign reading, “Please Don’t Feed the Alligators.” He meant street people. On both sides of the border, fear continues to fuel contempt for the underclass, with many middle-class workers tacitly knowing it’s only a short fall into their ranks.

In any case, I can imagine what the 140-year-old publisher emeritus of The Onion would have to say about extending Vancouver’s free shower program to other community centres: If the homeless have a hankering to get wet, they need only stand in the rain. www.geoffolson.com

According to one reader, the Hornby Street bike lane, which has been dogged by low cyclist numbers, harms the environment. file photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “12th and Cambie,” Jan. 5.

We have all had a chance to look at the Hornby Street bike lane. While users are painfully few right now, let’s hope that changes in the spring.

What will not change is the increased carbon footprint this lane produces. The right turn lineups at Nelson and Georgia

and Pender are regularly 10 cars or more.

This is double to triple the pre-bike lane situation. All that extra idling. All that extra wasted gas. In a word. Ungreen.

It is time for Mayor Gregor Robertson and his green council to go back to the drawing board.

Jenny Wright, Vancouver

Deadly drivers misunderstand road rules

To the editor: Re: “Cross fire,” Jan. 14 Jewam Bassra, who’s mother-in-law was recently hit by a vehicle while she was crossing at an intersection says, “I don’t know how many people know that if a pedestrian is in a crosswalk, you’re supposed to stop.” I would go further.

It seems most Vancouver drivers, cyclists and pedestrians don’t know that a pedestrian has the right of way at all intersections.

Police, in spite of numerous requests to enforce this, seem to have little interest.

VPD spokespeople mouth platitudes after a death or crash, about pedestrians needing to be more careful. Wouldn’t it be more effective to insist that drivers obey the law and yield to pedestrians at intersections?

Painting “zebra” markings at every intersection in the city would go a long way towards improving this situation—and at relatively little cost. It would also help towards reducing the speed of vehicles in the city.

The lack of understanding about the rules of the road, together with the speed and sense of entitlement of vehicle drivers, is a large reason why so many pedestrians are killed on our roads. Let’s implement the simple solutions first.

Mary Sherlock, Vancouver

To the editor: Another year goes by and we are treated with another article on the perils of being a pedestrian in Vancouver.

It seems like we in Vancouver love talking about these issues, it makes us feel like action is being taken when little seems to change from year to year.

The Courier article brings up issues such as lack of proper street designs and a whole lot of pedestrian faults. I can see the day come when we will all be required to wear helmets and reflective vest so drivers can continue on their merry way. The article is appropriately followed by Geoff Olson’s cartoon “Tomb of the Unknown Vancouver Jaywalker.” The comic does a great job illustrating the cavalier and blame-the-victim attitude so many motorists in this city seem to feel is acceptable. To the family of the young boy who was killed walking to Templeton secondary, my family’s heart goes out to you. I hope you know that many in this city are trying to do their best to change the attitude of the bully motorists in Vancouver who can’t see the world beyond the confines of their windshields.

Rob Wynen, Vancouver

••• To the editor: If cyclists rode their bikes like drivers steer their ve-

hicles, there would be many fewer collisions.

The simplest reduction method is for cyclists to not expect to ride unencumbered by traffic signals and other vehicles.

Why do cyclists believe that stop signs are only for cars, that intersection lights are only indicators for them, that walk signals are for pedestrians to stay on the curb, but they may ride without interruption merrily throughout the city?

Cycling is good for the individual, although less a solution for mankind than cycling advocates claim.

But still for the small numbers that practise what they preach, a pleasant diversion for those who choose to pedal.

Let us commute together and get along. Cyclists should not have priority and simply learn to share the roadways, obey the traffic signals, not run red lights when there is a break in the traffic, and not ride on sidewalks to avoid gridlock, even if it increases their overall trip times.

No one believes North Americans and Vancouverites in particular are switching to two-wheelers as the cyclist-operated propaganda mill—including city hall—would have you believe.

Rick Angus, Vancouver

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Eleven months to go before the civic election and Vision Vancouver Coun.

Geoff Meggs isn’t wasting any time preparing to get re-elected.

Meggs has set up an icon on his blog where his fans can click on it and contribute money, via PayPal, to his re-election campaign.

And if those fans want to give him even more cash, they can show up at Boneta restaurant on Cordova Street Jan. 27 where Meggs will launch his campaign.

Tickets are $100.

But hang on a sec, here…

If Meggs is calling this his “re-election campaign,” does that mean he and the other Vision incumbents get a free pass this time around and won’t have to fight for a nomination?

There is no answer to that question—yet.

Ian Baillie, Vision executive director, told me Tuesday that the party’s board of directors won’t likely finalize the rules around nominations until later this month or early February. “The rules for nomination will be very

At least two 911 phones, like those on the Lions Gate Bridge, will photo Rebecca Blissett be installed in the Downtown Eastside. clear,” Baillie said.

So far, there has been no talk—not even any rumours—that someone will contest Mayor Gregor Robertson’s bid to seek re-election as the party’s mayoral candidate. In 2008, Vision Coun. Raymond Louie and former NPA park board commissioner Al De Genova unsuccessfully challenged Robertson to lead Vision.

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The Downtown Eastside will be getting at least two 911-only phones installed in the neighbourhood.

As I reported in November, the Vancouver Police Department was working

with Telus to provide access to 911 phones for residents.

The neighbourhood has few payphones and many storeowners over the years asked phone companies to remove them because they were being used by drug dealers.

Police and Telus have agreed that Oppenheimer Park and the 300-block Columbia Street will be the first two spots to receive the 911 phones. Police will monitor the phones’ effect on fighting crime before considering adding more, according to Staff Sgt. Joanne Boyle of the major crimes section.

The 911 phones were the suggestion of a resident who

The Vancouver Police Board has lost its ethics advisor.

H.A.D. (Bert) Oliver died Jan. 14 after a brief illness.

He was 89.

Oliver was the province’s conflict-of-interest commissioner before he agreed to serve as ethics advisor with the board in May 2007. He provided verbal advice and written opinion to board members, Police Chief Jim Chu, at least one deputy chief and two senior officers on ethical and potential conflict-of-interest problems.

In June 2009, the police board extended Oliver’s contract for two more years.

The board has not decided if or when it will hire someone to replace Oliver, who was paid more than $150 an hour for his expertise.

Oliver was a former lawyer, B.C. Supreme Court judge, war veteran and all-around gentleman who drove a vintage Rolls Royce to meetings. A long and detailed account of his life appeared on the Vancouver Sun’s obituary page Wednesday. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter:@Howellings

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Vancouverites who want to see how their city councillors vote on major planning issues can now do so at a glance.

Retired librarian Joseph Jones recently launched a new website called Vancouver Council Votes. So far, he has noted councillors’ votes on 28 planning matters since 2009.

Each of the listed subjects links to council agendas, minutes, and in some cases, reports, the websites of neighbourhood groups and newspaper articles.

“I suspected a pattern, which I have now demonstrated, which is, generally, going and speaking to city council makes no difference,” he said. “It jumps out at you that Vision is voting as a block and probably has already decided before they listened to anyone what they’re going to do.”

A chart shows that only the one NPA and two COPE councillors on the Vision Vancouver-dominated city council have voted against plans for areas including Norquay Village, Dunbar-Southlands and the West End. “Party politics are doing damage to Vancouver,” Jones said.

Jones was never in favour of a ward system that would see residents in different parts of the city choose their area’s representative for council instead of voting for 10 councillors, who belong to municipal parties, but he’s changed his mind.

“A ward system might be the lesser of the evils,” he said.

The chart on Vancouver Council Votes also shows that COPE Coun. David Cadman missed 11 of the 28 decisions made since 2009. When asked about his absences, Cadman expressed surprise and said his nonattendance was likely due to carrying out duties in his role as international president of ICLEI—Local Governments

for Sustainability.

Jones was a vocal opponent to the city’s plans to rezone Norquay Village, an area centred around Kingsway roughly between East 29th and East 41st avenues, Gladstone and Killarney streets. He opposed tall towers overshadowing his neighbourhood and wanted to know that his community, which the city has zoned to be densified, would first get amenities such as schools. He sat on the city’s working group on Norquay Village and felt he and his peers’ input was disregarded.

Jones said studying decisions made about other areas of the city helped him see that Norquay wasn’t a special case. Despite the “disheartening” evidence, Jones had signed up to address council on two matters yesterday, after the Courier’s press deadline.

On his website, Janes summarized speakers’ feedback, written submissions for or against projects, and concerns about issues, if that information was available. He wants the city to do the same and to give equal attention to written submissions.

The city summarizes all forms of public input for public hearings, but not always for matters that don’t go to public hearing. “[Written submissions] should have as much standing as someone who is able to physically be present at council,” Jones said Wednesday. “When I go to council tomorrow I don’t know if I’ll even have an opportunity to speak... It’s a huge commitment, especially for people who are working.”

Another site called CityHallWatch: Citizen Reviews of Major Policies and Rezonings in Vancouver, has sprung up to keep a keen eye on planning decisions.

Jones says Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver, another citizens’ group, is planning to establish its own website. crossi@vancourier.com

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The Vancouver school district is reviewing its summer school program after questions were raised about details including whether the board can or should charge fees for courses not linked to graduation.

The Ministry of Education is cutting $680,000 from Vancouver summer school funding due to a ministry accounting error that resulted in overfunding in 2009, according to information revealed at a recent financial and legal committee meeting. “The [Ministry of Education] apparently overfunded us and we’re expecting less funding for next summer,” board chair Patti Bacchus said, adding there’s no indication at this point that the ministry plans to clawback funding already received.

The news sparked discussion about the program itself. Bacchus, a Vision Vancouver trustee, wants confirmation on whether summer school has any financial impact on the cashstrapped district.

Over the past couple years, the ministry has provided summer school funding through school boards.

In Vancouver, the program costs roughly $4.7 million to run. Students enroll for free.

Districts used to charge for classes taken outside of the school year until the Ministry of Education announced the fees would be eliminated due to a 2006 B.C. Supreme Court decision that fees can’t be charged for any course, including an elective, if that course provides credits leading to graduation.

Enrolment in summer school courses has since skyrocketed, often leading to lineups on the first day of registration.

Summer school numbers jumped to 17,000 in 2008, for instance, compared to an average of 11,500 over the previous five years. “I didn’t feel as a board member that I’m as clear as I need to be about how the summer school programs are affecting our overall operating budget,” Bacchus said.

“The courses are funded [by the province]. In the past I’ve been told they have a positive impact—that we actually come out ahead, but I haven’t seen that spe-

Ken Denike cific report. So, I said while we’re talking about summer school I’d like to know more, particularly with this change [in funding].”

Since the court ruling, Bacchus said there’s been uncertainty and a lack of clarity about the issues. Parents ask her why the district provides “these beading classes and a lot of elementary programs that are really almost recreational” when the board complains about funding. She calls that a fair question as it relates to provincial education funding and budgets.

“The other question that came up [at the meeting] was if these aren’t courses leading to graduation, could we provide them but charge fees that might bring us revenue? So we’ve asked staff to look at those issues and come back and tell us more about it so we can consider our options for next summer,” Bacchus said.

NPA trustee Ken Denike said the provincial government shouldn’t be subsidizing electives that are not tied to graduation. He said many summer school students take courses for reasons other than boosting marks on courses required for graduation. “The issue then is should these be funded by the government—I would suggest not,” he said. “…If somebody wants to do that fine, but they should be paying for it.”

Given the news about the funding miscalculation, Denike said it’s important to make sure the VSB isn’t subsidizing summer school.

Bacchus said it’s too early to speculate on the outcome of the summer school program review. “Once we have a clearer picture of where we are, trustees may consider changes, but it would be premature for me to speculate on what those changes might be.” noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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What is drug-facilitated sexual assault? Vancouver students will learn about the problem and related issues in a new program being incorporated in the district’s Planning 10 course. Vancouver Police Department and school board officials announced the program at a media conference at Sir Charles Tupper secondary Thursday.

It was piloted last spring.

“We’ve already piloted it in five classes at three different high schools. It’s a prevention program. We’ll be focusing on a variety of

topics, including what consent is and what it means to give consent and receive consent, as well as strategies to prevent becoming a victim of drug-facilitated sexual assault,” explained VSB spokesman David Weir. The information will be delivered over three 90minute sessions.

Marking success

Opinion is divided on whether schools should ditch student award ceremonies as well as honour rolls, according to responses I received about a decision by Kent elementary in Agassiz to do just that.

Anne Guthrie Warman, out-going president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association, said so far Vancouver is still conducting award ceremonies for academics, sports and school services. “And they have honour roll recognition

Students may soon lose achievement awards and honour roll recognition. file photo Ian Smith/Vancouver Sun at the end of term. Provided that it is not just based on academics, we support acknowledgement in some form of student achievement. And more importantly we believe that students like it,” she told the Courier.

Vinnie Yuen, a student journalist at the UBC graduate school of journalism, agrees. “Exceptional excellence is no longer rec-

ognized and rewarded if schools stop awards ceremonies,” she tweeted in response to my column.

But reader Roxanne Watson takes the opposite view.

“While I am a bit biased (as a previous principal) I, like [Kent elementary principal] Chris, am just ecstatic that the concept has reached a public forum. It’s been interesting listening to the

many radio interviews and to people’s opinions. I think it’s also interesting that your article is on page 12, and on page 18 of the same issue is an article called, The COACH approach. Three of the subheadings in this [advertorial] article include, Discover your strengths, Find your passion, Become who you were meant to be.

The school goal of Kent elementary is to have each student in our school master basic skills, recognize and develop his/her unique talents and interests and to leave our school as a confident learner. Seems if all schools were striving for this (and were successful) we wouldn’t need to be spending our adulthood with life coaches,” Watson wrote.

Language learning

Registration in the district’s first early Mandarin bilingual program is looking

good, according to Valerie Overgaard, associate superintendent of learning services.

As of a week ago, 33 kindergarten students and 23 Grade 1 students had registered for the program, which is based at John Norquay elementary. The board approved one kindergarten with 22 in the class, one kindergarten/Grade 1 split with 22 in the class, and one Grade 1 with 24 in the class. “We are close to having what would be needed,” Overgaard said.

The program starts in September. Registration opened Dec. 1, 2010 and runs until Jan. 31.

At the end of the registration period, if there are not sufficient spaces for all applicants, a lottery will be held to determine entrance to the program. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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City council greenlights increased street food plan Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

Street food vendors are expected to populate sidewalks every two to three blocks downtown by the summer of 2014, with two vendors anticipated near transit stations and in other commercial districts.

Twenty mobile food vendors are likely to roll out this summer, but private lots likely won’t see street food vendors before 2012.

Mayor Gregor Robertson and council unanimously approved staff’s related recommendations Jan. 20.

Before the city allowed 17 new street food vendors last year, kiosks sold mostly hot dogs and prepackaged foods at approximately 60 locations, most of them downtown.

But last year the city sought applications for vendors to sell a healthier, more diverse selection of foods and held a lottery that attracted 800 applications for 17 new spots.

Roughly 15 additional food locations will be allowed each year for the next four years and staff will screen applicants for readiness, experience, qualifications, nutritional content, menu diversity, the use of local, organic and fair trade foods, business plans and waste management practices.

Readiness doesn’t mean wannabe vendors will have to have already spent thousands on a food cart, trailer or truck, said deputy city manager Sadhu Johnston, but perhaps that they’ve made inquiries with Vancouver Coastal Health, got a schematic for a cart and

devised a menu. “What we learned from the pilot last year is we didn’t have any prescreening and so many of these folks just weren’t ready at all,” he said.

Fourteen of the 17 lottery winners that were meant to start serving food last June were operational this month.

After staff have completed initial screening of vendor applications, a panel that includes chefs, a food critic, member of the public, a nutritionist, sustainability expert and representatives from business improvement associations and the B.C. Food and Restaurant Association, will make the final selections. Public input may be sought online.

Applicants with the highest scores are to get the first choice of spots.

Johnston concedes prescreening means more staff hours will be spent on street food.

The old food vending rules allow permit holders to lease their locations to different operators or leave the sites vacant. Vendors who won the lottery last year and any new vendors will be required to operate the sites themselves. The city aims to phase out subleases.

“The idea with this is to give smaller entrepreneurs the ability to get into the business and so if you win a permit location and then you’re just leasing it to somebody else, it’s not really in the spirit of the program,” Johnston said.

Jennifer Willoughby of Off the Wagon tacos and Jason Apple of Roaming Dragon, both street food vendors that didn’t win permits from the city last year, praised the

city’s changes to the street food program. They plan to apply for spots again.

The Roaming Dragon truck operates on a site won by another lottery winner and the

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Both hope the city will continue to support carts, trucks and trailers.

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The public benefits package from Hastings Entertainment Inc. was approved by city council in 2005.

The daycare, known as Hastings Park Childcare Centre, is being funded and built by Hastings Racecourse and will be owned by the City of Vancouver.

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House will run the centre. It already operates five childcare centres in HastingsSunrise.

The track daycare will include a mix of spaces for infants and toddlers, and children ages three to five years. Before and afterschool care for school-age children is also being considered.

Susan Hall-Ford, childcare programs manager for Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, said first priority for the daycare spaces goes to racetrack employees, while families in the surrounding community are next on the list.

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The daycare will operate from 4:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. seven days a week, but the early morning and weekend hours are only for backstretch racetrack workers, such as horsegroomers and trainers, who work odd hours.

Temporary daycare spaces have been provided to track workers’ children at Kiwassa Neighbourhood House’s Nanaimo and Oxford street location while construction on the new site was underway.

When the new daycare opens in March most of the spots will already be filled.

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centre called Harbourview a few blocks away at Burrardview Park and it’s scheduled for renovation. The 25 children in that program will move to the track daycare during the renovation, which will create seven additional daycare spaces.

“So there are a few spots available for the community but until the Habourview children go back to their daycare there will be a number of spaces that will be taken up for the next year—or for at least nine months,” Hall-Ford said.

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House started an “interested persons” list for the track daycare about a year ago. “We have quite a waitlist right now for the infant/ toddler spaces and some for the three to five [year olds] as well,” she said.

Any families wanting to get on the waitlist for the daycare can contact the neighbourhood house.

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Laugh for the Cure

Laugh for the Cure, a fundraiser in which all proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, is set for 8 p.m., Jan. 29 at the Sin Bin Sports Grill, 295 West Second Ave. Stand-up comedy will feature Byron Bertram and Greg Kettner. There will also be a 50/50 draw. Tickets are $20. Contact Karen at 604-369-8008 or mckaren@telus. net for tickets.

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Can cycling and walking really be the key to bringing our world back from the brink of disaster? Portland-based award-winning bicycle transportation planner Mia Birk says yes. She’ll lead a discussion on the role of active transportation in worldwide climate change, peak oil and energy dependence in a free lecture downtown, Jan. 26. In her new book, Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet, Birk writes about how in less than a generation, a team of visionaries turned Portland into a city in which people can and do choose cycling as a normal, everyday means of transportation. She writes the resulting impacts on emissions, oil use, physical activity, safety and the economy should give us hope that active transportation holds promise for North American cities. Birk is a consultant with 20 years experience in sustainable transportation and an adjunct professor at Portland State University. She was the City of Portland bicycle program manager from 1993 to 1999. The lecture, co-sponsored by Travel Smart, Urban Systems Ltd. and the SFU City Program, happens at the Segal Centre, 515 West Hastings St. To secure a spot at the talk, see sfu.ca/reserve.

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As winter begins losing its grip, the first dwarf irises start pushing through newly thawed ground making little pools of purple, yellow or white among the winter debris.

They’re a pleasure and easy to prepare for in fall.

Bulbs of Iris reticulata hybrids and their relatives are inexpensive and easy to find in garden centres. Because they flower around the same time as snowdrops and winter aconites, it’s best to plant them at the same time in September or early October.

These irises are quick to increase in sunny places with well-drained soil.

They adapt to most conditions, but do better if acidic soil is corrected with a little lime. Fertilizer should be low-nitrogen and given after the flowers die down.

Clay soil gardeners with wet soil may find container culture or raised beds the best choice. Putting sand in the bottom of the planting hole can help, but if the soil is generally wet, you may find you’ve produced a sump that collects surrounding water.

These irises come from hilly areas around the eastern Mediterranean and are happiest in the familiar abuse

ple), “Harmony” (medium blue with yellow details), “Natascha” (bluish-white with orange) and “Joyce” (lavender-blue and purple with orange tongue).

Another small late-winter bloomer is Iris danfordiae. It flowers bright yellow with brown freckles and prefers well-drained soil that’s rich but light. It’s inexpensive and beautifully fragrant, but it’s a frustrating little beauty because after flowering it splits into many tiny bulblets.

Many tulips do the same thing and one solution some gardeners try is planting the original bulb at least eightinches deep. The same answer has been proposed for Iris danfordiae.

It’s hard to imagine these little bulbs can generate enough energy to produce an eight-inch stem.

But it’s definitely worth trying because other bulbs and corms can rise from the depths.

For instance, when I tried to eradicate the plain orange crocosmia from a garden bed I found “dropper” corms at different levels connected by thin roots in a vertical chain. The deepest were at least a foot down in the soil.

If you don’t dig up all those deep, deep corms (and it turned out I didn’t), the crocosmia bed reincarnates in a few years.

Snowdrops also make dropper corms. Droppers can be annoying for gardeners, but for the plant it’s a brilliant tactic that ensures survival if animals eat the uppermost bulb or plant-hunters harvest it.

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If you’re on a really tight budget, you can spend as little as you need to, according to weddingsonabudget.com.

Inside tips include:

Get Your Priorities Straight

One of the very first things you have to decide is where you want to put the most of your money. How much do you want to spend on flowers? How much do you want to spend on a wedding gown? Make a budget.

When Do You Want To Get Married?

What month, what day, and what time of the day can affect the cost of a wedding.

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On a budget this tight you should focus on having your wedding on off months and irregular days. Think December, Friday, and in the morning.

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Skip the dinner and have a party!

Many couples are choosing to elope. One way to celebrate when you return home is to have a cocktail reception at someone’s house. It can be a fun time with less stress and cost.

The Guest List

Obviously, the number of guests you have will affect the cost. It is usually best to keep your guest list small. If you want to feed your guests, then you should go the do-it-yourself route. Pick up appetizers etc. at a place like Costco.

The Wedding Gown

Wedding gowns are costly. An expensive gown will shatter a couple’s budget in this price range. The best way to do this is to buy a dress on sale. This could be a wedding dress, a prom dress or an

evening gown. Another option is to go casual.

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This could be a student or someone who is looking to get started in wedding photography. You only need a few pro quality pictures done. The rest of your pictures can be filled in with random photos taken from your guests.

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From worries of upper arm flab, to the dreaded muffin-top tummy, gals are looking for ways to fit into their dream dress, like a glove.

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Wear colours that reflect the time of year.

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Picks of the week

1. Described as “Toy Story meets Saving Private Ryan,” Jeff Malmberg’s documentary Marwencol follows Mark Hogancamp who, after suffering brain damage from a vicious beating, found therapy in photographing elaborate Second World War scenes with dolls, and gained a following in hip art circles in the process. It screens Jan. 21 to 26. For info and show times, call 604683-FILM (3456) or go to viff.org.

2. The inaugural Vancouver South African Film Festival runs Jan. 22 and 23 at Empire Granville 7 Cinema, showcasing the work of a generation of South African filmmakers, most of whom have come to prominence since the fall of apartheid and dawn of a democratic South Africa in 1994. The festival will screen eight South African documentaries and feature films including Skin, about black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners unaware of their black ancestry. For more info and show times, go to vsaff.org.

3. Portland power pop trio The Thermals rock the Media Club Jan. 22 in support of their latest album Personal Life out on Kill Rock Stars and produced by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla. And if you’re good, they might even play their fist-pumping ode to the Great White North “Canada.” Juvenile Hall opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Scratch and Zulu or online at ticketweb.ca.

4. Fans of “disarming investigations into the taboos and pleasures of watching and making movement in unison,” you’re in luck. Canadian choreographer Ame Henderson brings relay, her capital-letter phobic, cross-disciplinary collaboration between eight dancers and two musicians, to the Cultch Jan. 25 to 29. For tickets and info, call 604-251-1363 or go to thecultch.com.

kudos & kvetches Let them eat Cake

Compact discs—remember those? There was a time when humans used to flock to actual stores and buy cute little silver discs that came in plastic cases. Each disc would usually contain a dozen or so songs that made up what was called an album. And sometimes, if the creators of the music on those CDs were lucky enough, people would buy millions and millions of them, and in turn the creators would buy fancy clothes and big houses and sleep with attractive people and go on to write songs about how life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and how profoundly unhappy they are and then they would hire a symphony to provide moody string arrangements on their next album to emphasize how complex and mature they had become as artists.

We only mention this because of a recent, and telling, news item we read on the AV Club website about the band Cake and how their new album, Showroom of Compassion, recently debuted on the Billboard Charts at No. 1.

Not bad for a band that hasn’t put out a record in seven years, and whose only song we can remember—the rump-shaking, vibra-slap-

filled “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”—is ingrained in our memory because Courier photographer Dan Toulgoet would, without fail, drunkenly request it at Courier Christmas parties, back in the halcyon days when we had such things… but we digress.

As the article astutely points out, while being “No. 1 with a bullet” might be a commendable achievement for the dudes in Cake, it’s yet another reflection of the music industry’s steep decline, since Cake managed top the Billboard charts by selling only 44,000 records. Similarly, Taylor Swift’s ode to celebrity boyfriends who’ve dumped her, Speak Now, topped the charts the previous week selling 52,000 copies.

And while 44,000 records—which, incidentally, is half the population of Nanaimo, and 100 per cent of its population currently wearing salsa-stained jogging pants—is nothing to sniff about, it’s a paltry number compared to just 10 years ago when N’Sync’s No Strings Attached sold approximately two million more albums than Cake’s Showroom of Compassion—and two million is a lot of cake.

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For those of you currently slumped over a plate of nachos or sucking the bone marrow out of your last baby back rib, wondering why you’ve started to pack on the pounds, here’s some good news: the environment might be to blame.

According to the Globe and Mail, quoting Scientific American, biostatisticians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have been studying the weight changes in 20,000 animals, including primates and rodents used for research, domestic cats and dogs and urban feral cats. What they found while tracking the percentage of the animals’ weight gain per decade, as well as their odds of being obese, is that “both showed an upward tendency.” Add to that the fact that the animals had no access to McDonald’s or KFC and Starbuck’s Trenta had yet to be invented, researchers have had no choice but to speculate that toxins in the water supply or increasingly crowded housing conditions, affecting both humans and animals, might be to blame. So keep on gorging yourself, Western Society. It might not be your or your gravy-addicted appetite’s fault.

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Ever since Thomas Haas kissed the Big Apple goodbye to kick-start his eponymous truffle enterprise, Vancouver has been a sweet-lover’s dream—and this first annual choco-thon shines the spotlight on some of our edgier purveyors.

Check the schedule at Cityfood.com to figure out what and where to sample on any given day. We’ll likely head to Schokolade’s for Spicy Ancient Aztec Heart and a sip of Ecuadorian lavender-infused dark chocolate at Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France, before a taste of caramelized coriander seed and dark chocolate at the tucked away café above Main Street hotspot Campagnolo. We also like that partial proceeds from the festival go to help Growing Chefs for Children’s Urban Agriculture.

••• Speaking of festivals, local bartenders were out in force last week to welcome the Tales of the Cocktail crew, which buzzed in from New Orleans to launch what will be Vancouver’s first citywide cocktail festival (March 12-15).

Tales of the Cocktail on Tour is an outreach of the event founded eight years ago by then-New Orleans walking tour guide Ann Tuennerman, whose packed July program brings in over 15,000 serious enthusiasts. “[Vancouver is] a great town, with a phenomenal drinking and dining culture that, like New Orleans, is authentic, and enjoys global influence,” Tuennerman says.

Tuennerman revealed a number of Canadian “apprentices” who’ll work alongside some of the big names coming to town, and also announced the winner of the first Vancouver Cocktail Competition: Brix/George Ultra Lounge’s Jonathan Smolensky, for his “Dalhousie” blend of Chinese Domaine de Canton and eastern European Zwack Unicum with plum-infused Gibson’s 18year-old Canadian whisky, which now becomes the event’s official cocktail.

Smolensky nudged out finalists Danielle Tatarin (Keefer Bar) and overall shaker about town Jay Jones, who now presides behind the wood at Market by Jean Georges.

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••• As of Monday, Dine Out Vancouver will be in full swing. If you haven’t started to book your tables, better get on it as several prime spots are already starting to report weekend sell-outs.

We’ve spent a fair bit of time perusing menus, checking out wine pairings (beware of some pretty fancy by-the-glass prices) and generally sussing out what we feel are the best deals.

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Spirited First Nations play cause for celebration Agokwe

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Long ago, in the history of the Anishnaabe First Nation, when a boy was born who danced “in the way of a woman,” he was raised as an agokwe (agoo-kway), meaning “wise woman” or “Two-Spirited.”

He was deemed special and was ranked in status along with medicine men. Each of the First Nations had a word for this phenomenon—a boy who had within him both “the spirit of a man and the spirit of a woman—fire and ice.”

Not only did the white man bring smallpox and alcohol to this land, he brought Christianity and homophobia. Now, on reserves like Grassy Narrows north of Kenora, Ont., where Agokwe creator/performer Waawaate Fobister hails from, words like “homo,” “queer” and “faggot” have replaced agokwe. “Dancing in the way of a woman” is an invitation to being bullied and beaten.

Waawaate Fobister’s Agokwe tells the story of a teenage grass dancer who dances “in the way of a woman.”

Fobister has had his share of these, and it has taken tremendous courage to come out—and come forward—with this stunningly beautiful theatre piece.

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in Bad Times Theatre, this short Vancouver run is just the second time Agokwe has been performed in its 75-minute entirety. It’s raw, risqué, funny and sad. In the struggle against homophobia, ev-

ery teenager in town should see this. Make that everyone in town.

Fobister takes on the persona of Nanabush, the Trickster, to tell the story of Jake, the Anishnaabe pow-wow grass dancer, and Mike,

the Ojibway hockey player—two boys on neighbouring reserves who are attracted to each other, first at the Kenora Shoppers Mall and later at the big All Nations hockey tournament in Kenora.

Mike is a star, autographing the “boobs” of adoring girls after the big win; Jake is the tongue-tied boy watching from a distance. Fobister takes on half a dozen roles from Mike’s proud mother Betty, to Jake’s sexy cousin Goose who also has her eye on Mike.

This is a gorgeous production.

Fobister, as Nanabush, first appears in full dance regalia designed by Erika Iserhoff; it is simply one of the most glorious costumes ever to grace the Cultch.

On every count, production values soar.

But it’s the charm, courage, openness and humour of Fobister that make Agokwe such a special experience. The writing is youthful—it’s told from the point of view of a teenaged boy, after all— but the message is ancient, reaching way back in time when being born “two-spirited” was cause for celebration. joled@telus.net

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SONG STREET Berlioz to Bernstein 8pm • Friday, January 28 3pm • Sunday, January 30, 2011 Ryerson United Church

2195 West 45th Avenue at Yew Street, Vancouver

Vancouver Chamber Choir • Pacifica Singers Stephen Smith, piano • John William Trotter, conductor This street leads to music from the stage: opera, operetta and musicals. Opera choruses from Berlioz, Rossini, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, and Verdi, highlights from Stephen Sondheim and selections from Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore and Bernstein’s Candide.

604.280.3311

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theatre

(88 West Pender St., Vancouver)

La Marea consists of nine different 10-minute stories enacted in shop windows, balconies, terraces and on street corners of Gastown.

(12pm - 10pm Fri & Sat; 12pm- 7pm Sun)

Experimental La Marea takes it to the streets

FEBRUARY 4-6, 2011

Vancouver’s LARGEST Chinese New Year Celebration CTV Main Stage Performances AM 1320 Variety Show OMNI Kids Corner Exhibits Galore Hourly Lucky Draw

La Marea (The Tide)

On Water Street between Abbott and Carrall, until Jan. 22, 7-9 p.m.

Tickets: Free Info: bocadellupo.com, pushfestival.ca

Written and directed by Argentinean Mariano Pensotti for boca del lupo and the PuSh Festival, La Marea is a site-specific, perambulatory, nighttime theatre experience in historic Gastown. Nine different, 10-minute stories are continuously enacted in shop windows, balconies, terraces and on street corners. Dialogue is projected on screens set up against building facades or, in the case of one—a motorcycle accident—projected on the cobblestone road.

The stories are all interior dialogues of ex-

istential angst—some told in the first person, others in the third person singular or plural.

They are tales of disappointment, alienation, love won and lost. And, with such serious navel-gazing, they are also often funny.

But the medium is definitely the message here. Even though there are real live actors to look at, our eyes are drawn away from the action to the projected text; we are hungry for the story. And in this age of technology, the screen—however large or small—rules.

La Marea is a grand experiment, but best of all was seeing merchants generously making their establishments available for theatre and being in Gastown in all its architectural splendour under a clear, bright, almost full moon.

—Jo Ledingham

Worship in Vancouver

JANUARY 2011

St. Helen Helen''s Please note temporary locations during renovations until further notice 11:15 am English Service at St. James 9:30 am Cantonese Service at St. James 9:30 am Mandarin Service at Kitsilano Community Centre St. James Community Square - 3214 West 10th Ave. Kitsilano Community Centre - 2690 Larch Street Church office - #407 - 2150 W. Broadway 604.732.1835 I www.lordsgrace.ca I info@lordsgrace.ca

Second Church of Christ, Scientist 1900 West 12th Ave. ~ Tel/Fax 604-733-8040

WE'D LOVE TO WELCOME YOU! 10:30 am Sunday 7:30 pm Wednesday Service & Sunday School Testimonial Meeting CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL RADIO

AM 650 Radio - Sundays at 8:30 AM

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM #103 - 1668 West Broadway • Info 604-733-4310 Mon. - Fri. 10am - 3pm • Sat. 11am - 2pm

Anglican Church

4405 W. 8th Avenue (Corner of Trimble) 604-224-0212

KERRISDALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 2733 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC www.kerrisdalechurch.ca/

Sunday Morning Services

Tel. 604 261-1434 • Email: kpc@telus.net Minister Rev. Steve Filyk

8:00 am Holy Communion 10:00 am Morning Worship & Sunday School & Nursery

Sunday Family Worship: 10:00 am Contemporary Service: 12:30 pm

The Rev. Scott Gould

Vespers 7:00 pm Wednesdays - All Are Welcome! -

To be part of this feature call Kaelan

604-998-1204

Email: kphipps@postmedia.com

“A thinking church with a warm heart!”

Equipped Nursery Church School for ages 2+

FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 2095 W. 43rd Ave., Kerrisdale Sundays 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

Wednesdays 7:30 p.m.

Childcare provided at all services Tel./Fax: 604-261-7515 Public Reading Room – Same Address Open 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tues., Thurs., Sat. Tel: 604-266-2111

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

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entertainment

Stage adaptation features music penned by D.O.A. frontman

Hard Core Logo hits the stage full of punk drunk love State of the Arts

with Cheryl Rossi

The Rickshaw is set to rock for the next two weeks with the theatre production Hard Core Logo: Live.

Based on local writer Michael Turner’s book, which was then turned into a film in 1996 by director Bruce McDonald, Hard Core Logo tells the story of a fictional Vancouver punk band that reunites for one last, dysfunctional tour. McDonald has since filmed a sequel, Hard Core Logo 2, which premiered in December at the Whistler Film Festival.

For the stage adaptation, playwright Michael Scholar, Jr. convinced Joe “Shithead” Keithley of Vancouver punk rock legends D.O.A. to write and arrange new music for the play, which the cast will perform live.

Scholar even sent actor Clinton Carew to bass lessons for two years so he could truly emulate punk rock greats.

But Scholar says it took some persuading to get Keithley on board, partly because Joe Shithead isn’t so different from the name of Hard Core Logo’s fictional frontman Joe Dick; and while D.O.A. is shown playing live in the film’s opening scenes, Keithley felt he was never properly acknowledged

by Turner.

“Joe was a little reticent,” Scholar concedes, but adds Keithley was an inspiration for Turner, a leaping off point.

For the stage version of Hard Core Logo, Scholar wanted Keithley to make the score more Vancouver-specific. Scholar, a student of the local punk scene, had always felt the music in the movie sounded too Toronto punk.

Scholar, who plays Joe Dick in the new

Michael Scholar, Jr., centre, and band kick out the jams in Hard Core Logo: Live, based on Michael Turner’s book and Bruce McDonald’s film. production, had been keen to act in a stage version of Hard Core Logo since he saw McDonald’s film mockumentary in Edmonton, where Scholar was studying theatre at the University of Alberta. It was only after a trip to Bonnie Doon Mall a short time later that he discovered Turner’s book, and filed the idea in the back of his mind for a stage adaptation combining the two works as a future dream project.

Scholar went on to start Edmonton’s November Theatre, which produced The Black Rider, the award-winning gothic musical penned by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs. As the touring production of The Black Rider wound down, Scholar decided it was high time to produce “a cool Canadian show.”

With Hard Core Logo: Live, Scholar said Turner’s key concern was how Scholar would handle the love story between slick

guitarist Billy Talent (whose handle was later adopted by the popular Toronto band of the same name) and volatile frontman Dick.

“Sure enough, it’s in there,” said Scholar.

He believes this tension in the longtime friends’ relationship along with the universal tale of the underdog trying to achieve his dreams is what continues to draw artists and audiences to the story of Hard Core Logo.

“These guys had everything working against them. They were punk rock musicians in Canada and they forged against the elements to try to make a difference and to try to change the world and try to make it without selling out,” Scholar said.

“The relationship between Billy and Joe is something we all relate to,” he added. “We all have these old friends that we stay close to or would like to stay close to and how do you know when to cut that relationship

off, or how do you know when that relationship is done or whether it needs to change or evolve in order to stay healthy.”

The cast of Hard Core Logo: Live evolved over the two years of its development. At the 11th hour, the actor who was slated to play hotshot guitarist Talent “pulled a f---ing Billy Talent,” says Scholar, by abandoning the show for a stint on a big American cruise ship, selling out and almost screwing the production over just like his character would.

Calgary actor, playwright and musician Telly James took up the role of Talent, and Vancouver’s Toby Berner plays drummer Pipefitter.

Rachael Johnston fills a number of character roles, even stepping into the shoes of Nardwuar the Human Serviette, with the real Nardwuar narrating a short video that highlights the history of the local punk scene.

Photographer Bev Davies acted as “punk consultant” to 34-year-old Scholar and contributed archival photos to the show. Some of her works will be exhibited in the lobby of the Rickshaw Theatre.

Keithley will play a half-hour acoustic set following the Jan. 29 performance and long-running Vancouver band Mecca Normal will play Feb. 4.

Five hundred copies of a limited edition seven-inch record have been pressed for sale at the show and likely record stores around town. One side features Hard Core Logo performing “Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?” and the flip side features D.O.A. performing “Blue Tattoo,” which is exclusive to this seven-inch.

“With my wife, we inserted all of the liner notes and bagged them ourselves, it was totally DIY,” Scholar said.

Hard Core Logo: Live runs Jan. 26 to Feb. 6 as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. For more information, see pushfestival.ca. crossi@vancourier.com

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NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

Celebrity Breakfast: featuring Trevor Linden

Don’t miss this year’s Celebrity Breakfast, featuring an interview with Canucks legend, Trevor Linden, by sports commentator Tom Larscheid.

Join Vancouver’s business and community leaders for a morning of networking, inspiration, and fun. Vancouver Convention Centre, Wednesday, February 9, 2011 from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.

$600 early bird prize! Tickets $125.

Go to: heartandstroke.ca/celebritybreakfast Email us at: corporate@hsf.bc.ca or call: 604-736-4404 ext 225

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WHAT IS THE ELECTRONICS STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (ESABC) PROGRAM? ESABC is a not-for-profit extended producer responsibility program set up by the producers and retailers of electronics in British Columbia to provide a province wide recycling system for unwanted electronics.

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WHAT ARE THE ACCEPTABLE ELECTRONIC ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAM? Effective July 1, 2010, the following items can be recycled free of charge at any Encorp Return-It Electronics™ Collection Site: display devices, desktop computers, portable computers, computer peripherals, computer scanners, printers and fax machines, non-cellular phones and answering machines, vehicle audio and video systems (aftermarket), home audio and video systems, and personal or portable audio and video systems.

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We need your VOICE! Join Our Meeting Wed., Feb. 2, 2011 • 7:00pm at Aberthau

Nomination forms can be picked up from the office at Aberthau, downloaded from our website at www.westpointgrey.org or faxed to you. Nominations must be submitted to the office at Aberthau by 3:00 p.m. on Wed., January 26, 2011. To be eligible to vote at the AGM you must be a member of the WPGCC. You are a member if you have taken a course or have purchased a membership since September 1, 2010. Call 604-257-8140 for more information.

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General Employment

EXCEL BUILDING MAINTENANCE requires mature p/t experienced cleaners for Tinseltown and West End locations. Must be reliable, bondable, have good spoken English and an eye for detail. Good hourly wage and opportunities for advancement.

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NSNS Coin & Stamp Show

Sun • Jan 23 • 10am to 5 pm OAKRIDGE AUDITORIUM 41st & Cambie • Vancouver Coins, Paper, Medals, Stamps, Buy/Sell, Appraisals ★ Free Admission ★

MUSIC THERAPY – UBC HOSPITAL STUDY We are looking for adults with Alzheimer’s Disease to participate in a 3-month study exploring the benefits of music therapy in people with AD. You will receive free music therapy and a $50 gift card for participating.

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

Are you looking for the opportunity to do meaningful, fulfilling work? PLEA Community Services is looking for qualified applicants who can provide care for youth in their home on a full-time basis or on weekends for respite.

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Become a Registered Personal Trainer. Earn up to $70/hr.

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Health Care

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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Home Support

LIVE-IN CAREGIVER Must be willing to work shifts: days, evenings, nights and overtime. Rotating days off. $8.50/hr.

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

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MCLEAN’S hiring F/T Cook. 2 positions avail. $16 hr- Must have sev. yrs of experience and compl. high school. e-res: info@mcleansrestaurant.ca WANTED Full Time, Shift Work Hours, Overtime, Weekend, Day, Evening, Food Counter Attendants for Orange Julius, Mrs. Vanelli’s & Dairy Queen. $10.31, at least 40 hours a week, experience is an asset. Must be willing to work early morning & late evening shifts. E-mail resume: dave.bennett@speedigourmet.ca

FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR Sciue! Italian Bakery Caffe needs permanent full-time Food Service Supervisor at Vancouver downtown location. Salary is $12–$15 per hour, depending on experience. Must have 3+ years relevant experience and/or post-secondary training. Responsible for supervising food counter service staff and operations.

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Full-time Early Childhood Educators & Subs Wind and Tide Child Development Centre - 2700 E Broadway.

Duties include assisting children with daily routines, guiding and caring and curriculum implementation. Salary starts at $15/hr.

Submit resume by email only to: admin@windandtide.com

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GASFITTER / SERVICEMAN Required Immediately . Gasfitter Furnace Serviceman.

Fax resume to 250-787-1320 Call: 250-787-1361. This is a full time position in Fort St. John with excellent future for the right person.

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Don’t be argumentative Monday. Though mid-week tempts you toward research, investments or sexual intimacy, or nudges you to make a commitment to a person or lifestyle, you’d be wise to wait. Your future will develop best if right now you are social, if you play, plan and dream. Rewards come from past efforts, not present ones. Gentle, mellow love and understanding, travel and legal success float in late Thursday night through Saturday.

Taurus April 20-May 20: Legal matters might slow now to June, particularly those involving work, health or machinery. So might far travel, religious projects and higher studies – in these, “revisit old haunts.” For instance, you’ll succeed in school if you resurrect an old project or study subjects you’ve studied before.

Sunday afternoon to Tuesday brings work and health concerns. The weeks ahead reward ambition, so plunge into tasks. Relationships can be irksome midweek. Be diplomatic; don’t push your own agenda.

Secrets, depths, sexual attractions and finances – all luckily – fill Friday/Saturday.

Gemini May 21-June 20: The weeks ahead beneficially emphasize higher learning, legal affairs, far travel, cultural involvements/rituals and gentle love. Sleep in Sunday morning. This eve to Tuesday brings romantic situations, pleasure and beauty, passion and risk. Your creative juices flow. Gambling, however, might hurt your bank account. Reject investments for now. (Until June, new investments are ill advised. Stick with those already in the works.) Work and health issues arrive late Tuesday through Thursday. Good and bad luck are mixed, so just plod ahead. Relationships excite, reward Friday/Saturday!

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Cancer June 21-July 22: Secrets, depths, sexual urges, subconscious nudges, large finances, net worth, other people’s money and resources – these fill the weeks ahead. Research, look beneath surface appearances. Love vows or business agreements are one thing; commitment to share, delivering the funds, is another. Now it’s commitment time. You either get deeper, or break off. Tackle errands Sunday morning.

Home, kids and security, nature and nutrition capture your attention this eve to Tuesday. Romance has a bit of a rough ride mid-week. Still, joy exists! Tackle chores Friday/Saturday – you succeed!

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: The emphasis lies on relationships, relocation, contracts, negotiations, opportunities and opposition. Emotions intensify; there’s little middle ground. Love and hate swirl.

Your romantic sensors are fine-tuned, and luck flows into all communications. In short, you might fall in love now or soon, or heal a valuable, longterm bond. This week isn’t the easiest, or the hardest. Communications, travel succeed Sunday p.m. to Tuesday. Recuperate, rest mid-week. Various frictions arise, perhaps with a partner. Be diplomatic.

Romance, creativity, luck soar Thursday night to Saturday!

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: A time of great change is upon you. It might affect where you live. It’s lucky, and occurs now to early June. During the same period, your romantic, creative and child-oriented projects/links will tread water – that gives you the time and focus to concentrate on this change. It is the first of two steps – the second one occurs November to July 2012. That second one won’t be so much lucky as “telling,” perhaps hectic, certainly filled with determination. Make your move soon.

Invest, commit, seek sexual intimacy, change your lifestyle. Thursday night to Saturday holds clues!

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Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: The month ahead emphasizes romance, creativity and speculative luck. Until June, you stand on the edge of momentous events, prospects and opportunities. You might marry. For the best luck, relocate, negotiate, seek agreements and contracts, interface with the public, grab opportunities, form business partnerships or alliances, or seek marriage. (Some Librans, bound in unhappiness, might divorce now. But this influence might also “cure” your marriage. Can you give it one more try?) Rest Sunday daytime. This eve to Tuesday, your energy and charisma soar. Money caution mid-week.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Your workload will increase now to June. Just plod through if you have no enthusiasm. But realize this work can be the entry hall to one or two major career or business opportunities, to arrive after May, into mid-2012. For the next six years, your money fortunes are on an extended rise!

But it starts with work. Tamp down any domestic friction to late February: be gentle, kind. Pride wrecks love. Lie low, rest early week. Your energy surges back Tuesday night through Thursday. Thursday night to Saturday brings the first hint of your coming money luck. Get frequent rest these weeks.

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Love, romance, creative projects, speculation, sports, risks, selfexpression, dealings with children – these meet great luck and opportunity now to June. The month ahead features talk, travel, curiosity – so get curious!

Travel and casual conversations can – no, will – lead to good things, romance among them! Uphold your reputation early Sunday. This eve to Tuesday brings social delights, flirtations and wish fulfilment! Retreat, rest and contemplate future obstacles mid-week. Your energy and charisma climb Thursday night to Saturday – start projects, ask favours, see and be seen.

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Jan. 23 - Jan. 20 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: The weeks ahead emphasize money, earnings, buying/selling, possessions, sensual attractions and memory.

Accept surface appearances; they will tend to be true, and questioning will “sour the atmosphere.”

Lots of money might come! But be self-disciplined: spending can get out of control. Now to June, you are powerfully favoured to purchase (and sell) real estate, to heal family issues, to find security, and to end limiting situations, projects and conditions. (You might see and chuck these luckily Friday/Saturday.)

February is one of the best months to combine money and property.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Your energy, charisma and effectiveness soar for the next few weeks. Start important projects, ask favours, seek permission, impress bosses, colleagues. Your determination and sex appeal (which are always linked) are unusually high now through February. Sunday morning has a mysterious cast,but this eve toTuesday brings wisdom, gentle love and understanding. Be ambitious midweek, but be diplomatic. You might push just because you have extra energy, but others could feel you’re abrasive. Wishes come true Friday/Saturday – expect social joys, entertainment, flirtation, happiness!

Pisces Feb.19-March 20: Retreat for a while.Gather your energies and your thoughts. Rest, contemplate, let the world go by. Be charitable, spiritual. The few weeks ahead favour dealing with government, taxes, institutions and large corporations. Study a money plan, rework it until it’s perfect. Soon – by March at the latest – money will start flowing your way, perhaps a huge pile of money. Students could win scholarships, consultants might land a big client, etc.

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★ ALERT: WE BUY HOUSES ★ Foreclosure Help! Debt Relief!

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5505

Money to Loan

60

Place Your Ad On-line at https://webads.van.net or call 604-630-3300

6595

Shared Accommodation

6595-15

South Burnaby

BBY, S. Friendly female seeks a roommate to share ½ duplex near Metrotown. Accomodations include furnished room, hydro/ cable/’net. Sh’d laundry. NS/NP. $550/mo. Immed. 604-722-6701

6595-20

Coq./Poco/ Port Moody

ROOMMATE NEEDED to share 1800 sqft Townhouse in Port Moody, w/d, laminate floors, $585 incls utils, cable & internet, parking, indoor pool, nr SFU & Lougheed Mall. Suits professional working person or student. References Required. Avail Now. Call 778-846-5275

6595-75

Vancouver West Side

1 BR lrg bright in 2 br grd lvl ste, full bath, w/d, $465 & shar’d utils.

Priv ent, patio/garden ns. 33rd& Fraser. Feb 1st 604-875-8882

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

2 BR bsmt ste, renovated bright, own wd, new appl, nr bus, shops/ schools, ns np $900 avail now.

PNE area 604-737-0164 2 BR Bsmt Suite, Kilarney area, 51st Ave at Raleigh St. new reno, w/d, $750+utils, 604-264-1683

2 BR upper main flr. 57 & Knight area, large storage & garage, washer only, ns, np, $1100+utils, avail now, 604-763-2672 GARDEN LEVEL 1 bdrm ste in Dunbar, priv entr, gas f/p, suits 1 quiet person, N/S N/P, $1000 incl utils. Feb 1, 604-266-8178 KERRISDALE, MODERN 1 br garden ste, 48th & Yew. all appl, incl w/d, alarm, nr bus, shops, UBC, suit quiet person, N/S N/P, avail Feb 1 $975. 604-250-1522

6605

Townhouses Rent

KERRISDALE, 5773 Yew St. 2 BR, 1.5 bath t/home, carpets, fp, laundry, secure ug prkg, 5 appls, avail now, np, ns, 1 yr lease, $1575, 604-220-5333

apts/condos

office/retail suites & partial houses

warehouses

townhouses

homestay

shared accommodation

To advertise in Rentals call 604-630-3300

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

HOME SERVICES

Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: THE ESTATE OF THELMA HENRIETTA CHRISTINA ATKINSON, DECEASED NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Thelma Henrietta Christina Atkinson, late of 3263 Blenheim Street, Vancouver, who died on June 23, 2010 are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor c/o 700 - 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 5A1, on or before February 19, 2011 after which date the Executor will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which she has notice.

Christine Dryvynsyde Executor By: Richards Buell Sutton LLP Attention: Angela M. Spanjers

7005

Body Work

ABSOLUTELY the ultimate full body massage. Female avail 8am - late. in/out. 604-771-4210

RELAXING SWEET FULL BODY MASSAGE 604-321-8296

**RELIEVE ROAD RAGE**

604-739-3998

7010

Personals

GENTLEMEN! Attractive discreet, European lady is available for company 604-451-0175

HOME SERVICES 8015

Appliance Repairs

VAN APPLIANCE SERVICES Repair home appl. Low rate guar.

Permit/Lic. Tom 604-323-8063

8020

Blinds & Draperies

BLACKOUT DRAPES. Cut light 100%. Save energy. Dampen sound. Innovative fabric in 42 colors. Free est. 604-506-6230

8055

Cleaning

A.S.B.A. ENTERPRISE. Comm/ Res. Free Est. $20/hour includes supplies. Insured. 604-723-0162 Butterfly Cleaning ™ Home, Moving out, Carpet cleaning. Ask for Erika 604-781-4374 EXP CLEANING ladies avail 7 days/wk. Bonded. Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond 604-928-0025 EXP’D. HOUSECLEANER Reason Rates! Reliable! D/Town Westside. Exc Reference!

604-771-2978 H.C. Office / House Cleaning Quality & Experience. Bonded & Insured. 604-725-0856 HOUSE CLEANER available $22/hr. Pet friendly flex hours. Pls call Anne 604-734-2448 IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR Experienced, Meticulous, Reliable Cleaning, res/com. 604-537-8796 QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs.

Res/com. Move in/out. Carpets + pressure wash’g. 778-895-3522

8058

Computer Services

COMPUTER SOLUTIONS 604-721-8434.. 15 yrs experience Cert. Prof. aplusconnectivity.ca

8060

Concrete

Coastal Concrete

PLACING & Finishing • Forming • Site Prep • Old Concrete Removal • Excavation & Reinforcing • Re-Re Specialists 30 Years Exp. • Free Estimates

8075

Drywall

ALL WORK GUARANTEED

J.A. CONSTRUCTION

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

604-916-7729 JEFF

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

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

Small jobs pref. 604-762-4024

Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, remove & replacing

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp.

For free estimates call Mario

253-0049

A. FOUNDATIONS, Retaining walls, Stairs, Driveways, Sidewalks. Any concrete project. Free ests. Call Basile 604-617-5813

8105

THE ART OF HARDWOOD FLOORS Installations Refinishing & Repairs Dust Free.

Affordable Rates!

Free Estimates.

Call: 604-240-3344

Hardwood Floor Refinishing

Electrical

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

All Kinds of Work and Reasonable Rates.

Contact us today for a free estimate.

Max: 604-341-6059 Licensed & Bonded

Lic. 22308

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

604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319 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 ABACUS ELECTRIC.ca Lic Elect Contr 97222. 40 years exp. 1 stop!

Reas. rates! BBB. 778-988-9493.

ALL KINDS of tiling, marble and granite. Kitchen/bath renovations.

Call 604-440-9098, 778-882-1235 ALLNEWFLOORS.COM Hardwood, Laminate. Professional Install/Refinish.. 604-715-8455 ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing.

Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

PROF. FLOOR Installation - Laminate, hardwood. 10 yrs exp. Low prices. Free est. 604-715-4312

8120

Glass Mirrors

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

604-202-6118

RENOS • REPAIRS

BEST PRICE! Bath, kitchen, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc.

Call Mic, 604-725-3127

8140

Heating

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

8150

Kitchens/Baths

Commercial/Residential

Store Fronts • Windows & Doors Broken Glass • Foggy Glass Patio Doors • Mirrors • Etc.

Tel: 604-603-9655

8125

Gutters

@

Counter Tops, Custom Cabinets & Refacing

Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets

#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby

8155

Landscaping

GREENWAVE LANDSCAPES ★ COMPLETE ★

YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

Garden Maintance & Installation Edible Landscape Solutions

WINTER SPECIALS

greenwavelandscapes.ca

Vancouver Division Since 1985 • Gutter Installation Cleaning & Repairs • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention 25 year Warranteed Leaf & Needle Guard

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

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

DYNAMIC GUTTERS & Exteriors. Full seamless gutters.

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

Masonry

MASONRY and REPAIRS •Stone Walls •Bricks •Chimneys •Slate Patio/Sidewalk •Fireplaces & more. George • 604-365-7672

604-317-3037

TREE SPECIALIST 25 yrs exp.

Oriental Landscaper

Tree Removal & Pruning Hedge Trimming Landscaping and Garden Maintenance Fully Est. Fullyinsured. insured. Free Free Est.

Tim:604-328-9487 778-829-7155 Tim:

FULL SERVICE Landscaping www.sterlinglandscaping.ca Free estimates! 604-985-2545

8160

8180

Home Services

BE COOL! COLD FEET? Talk to Someone You Trust.

CENTRAL AIR INSTALLED FURNACES CONDITIONING Sears also installs ROOFING, WINDOWS, WINDOW COVERINGS & CARPETING

604-685-7112 ext 5101

24 HOURS 1-800-4-MY-HOME • (1-800-469-4663)

8185

Moving & Storage

Lawn & Garden

HEDGE SHRUB TREE & STUMP REMOVAL FREE ESTIMATE INSURED

8193

Oil Tank Removal

8195

• 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

CONFIDENT PAINTING LTD.

Int. & Ext. Specialist 20 yrs exp. *Reas. rates high quality* Fast, clean and letter of recommendation from customer Licensed, Insured & WCB

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T&H PAINTING Int/Ext res/comm painting, power wash, gutters, Free Est., Guar. 778-316-7709

8200

SKYLINE DECKING All Types, Guaranteed Workmanship, Reasonable Pricing Call Luke: 604-729-6871

West Coast Cedar Installations New or repaired outdoor cedar specialists since 1991 604-270-2358 or 604-788-6458

8220

Principal Jean-Guy Bottin Cell 604. 626.1975

Complete Plumbing & Drain Cleaning Services 24/7 Days A Week R Seniors Discounts EA TY All Work Guaranteed 8 YRRAN A W Also Furnaces, Gas Very Reasonable Rates

45

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

www.affordablemoversbc.com

ADVANCE MOVING LTD MOVING & DELIVERY EXPERTS!!

Licensed, Bonded & Insured Single item to full house move We Guarantee the Cost of Every Moves Flat Rates always available A+ (604) 861-8885 BBB www.advancemovingltd.com Rating

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

EZ GO MOVERS Quick & Reliable Movers from$48 per hour

604-580-2171 www.ezgomovers.com

Plumbing

ATLAS The Reliable Plumber

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

604-537-4140

Decks/Patios/ Railings

A PAINT PRO EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

1 to 3 Men

FREE ESTIMATES

Painting/ Wallpaper

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

AFFORDABLE MOVING

Seniors Discount

• In business 50 years 604-879-9191

CALL NOW for 25% OFF

Find an electrician under Home Services

604-878-5232

HANDYMAN - framing, decks, tiles, hardwood, drywall. Total additions & basements. Ken 778-773-6251 or 604-455-0740

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

8175

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

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

604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

Electrician Lic#95323, Bonded, Affordable Com/Res. No Job too small. 25 yrs exp. 604 727-2306

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

Save the HST! Call for details.

Century Hardwood Floors

2837 Kingsway, Vancouver

#1167 LIC Bonded. BBB, lrg & sm jobs, expert trouble shooter, WCB, low rates, 24/7. 617-1774.

Handyperson

TRUSTED HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8080

8130

Flooring/ Refinishing

VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling & textured ceiling repairs. Bonded 604-307-2295 / 778-340-5208

Drainage

DRAINAGE, SEWER & WATER Underground Video Inspection Call Tobias 604 782-4322

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

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

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944

L & L CONCRETE. All types: Stamped, Repairs, Pressure Wash, Seal Larry 778-882-0098

Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Roofing installations & repairs. 604-327-3086

# 1 BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT

PATCHING, TEXTURE / smooth ceilings, plaster walls. Small jobs.

25 years exp. Call 604-671-9901

CONCRETE & MASONRY Stairs, foundation, sidewalks & driveway + blocks, bricks & stonework. Tom 604-690-3316

8073

Excavating

*Drywall * Taping * Texture * Stucco*Painting * Steel stud framing Quality Home 604-725-8925

Rick: 604-202-5184

CONCRETE SPECIALIST

8087

731-8875

604

5505

EW35

DUSKO PAINTING Int/Ext. Com/Resid.

Many Years Experience Top Quality Repair Drywall Free Estimates

604-258-7300 cell: 604-417-5917

3 ROOMS FOR $299

For walls only includes 2 coats of top of the line Cloverdale Paint. No payment until job done. Over 20 years exp.

10% discount for apts. or condos. For free est. contact Larry 604-961-4391 L. Roberts Painting

TOP PAINTING Winter Special: 20% Discount

Residential • Commercial Free Estimates • Top Quality

JOE 604-782-1377

MOVING?

• • • •

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

604-312-6311

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

604-731-2443 YOUR WAY

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‘Old Home Specialist’

Steve ✔

Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020

604-324-3351

10% Off with this Ad! For all your plumbing, heating & reno needs.

Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005

20% OFF All Moving

Services until Feb 28th 604-377-2503 www.popeyesmovingbc.com

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ABBA MOVERS bsmt clean 1-4 ton Lic, ins’d from $35/hr, 2 men $45 day honest 26 yrs est 506-7576.

BS & SONS gas heating & plumbing. Certified. Renos, h/w tanks, boilers, drains. 24 hrs. 671-6815

AMIGO'S MOVING. Delivery. Storage. No Job too Small or Big. Clean up, Garage, Basement.

Call 604-782-9511

PLUMBERS

Water Lines (without digging) Sewer Lines (without digging) Install. Drain tiles. 604-739-2000

224-3669

TWO BROTHERS MOVING Local & Long Distance 604-720-0931 • bc.moving@gmail.com •

WILDWOOD LANDSCAPING Tree & Hedge Pruning. Hedge removal. 604-893-5745

TwoGuysWithATruck.ca Moving, Storage, Free EST 604-628-7136. Visa, OK

Call 604-630-3300 to place your ad

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

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HOME SERVICES 8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

Since 1989

9129 Shaughnessy St.

.com

732-8453

All Renovations and Restoration Work 20 years in business

Hannah - 5 ⁄Hannah yrs. old Jaxon 11½ 14 Jaxon - 3 ⁄ yrs. old Years Old! Years Old! 3

1

4

4

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

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(604) 228-4272

Georgie Award for Best Renovation & Design Complete Renovations / Additions Kitchens / Bathrooms

604-728-3009

www.jkbconstruction.com

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Repairs & Renos, general contracting.

Insured, WCB, Licensed

604-318-4390 aaronrconstruction.com

30 years exp.

731-7709

Auto Miscellaneous

9125

9125

Domestic

2002 OLDS Alero V6 146kms sedan, Auto, White grey int, exc cond, s/r, p/l, p/w, ABS, fold down back seats. $4,500 604-329-7946

1998 EAGLE TALON ESI, 170k, 2.0 L, excellent condition, 5 spd, no accidents, silver exterior, grey interior. $3500. 604-763-3223

9129

Luxury Cars

9135

Parts & Accessories

4 AUDI RIMS. Spec size is 235/45R17. Will fit 225/45R17 or 255/45R17. FIT FOLLOWING VEHICLES: All A3, A5, A6, A8 or TT models. All S4 models to 2008. S6 models 2007-2009. S8 models 2007-2009. A4 - ONLY 2WD. 4 Alloy Rims & 20 Stainless Lug Nuts = $2867 retail.

Mint condition $795 OBO 604-220-2269

9140

Rentals & Leases

AVAIL for monthly rent, 2009 NISSAN Versa, 4 door h/b, auto, in exc cond. $600. 778-558-2464

9145 1999 FORD Taurus SE Station Wagon, red, 75000 km, V6, 3.0L, auto, 4dr, p/w, p/l, p/b, A/C, VG cond., $3500 obo, 604-926-6654

Scrap Car Removal

Tel: 739-8786, Cell: 716-8687

Student Works

• 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

Visit our website @ www.surreyscrap.com Free tow, no wheels, no papers no problem! Hassle free friendly service. 2 hr service in most areas.

JKB CONSTRUCTION LTD. COMPLETE RENOVATIONS

RAINBOW RENOS, 26 yrs exp.

We do it all - basements, kitchens, baths, additions 778-885-0771

All types of Roofing Over 35 Years in Business Call now & we pay ½ the HST

9145

Scrap Car Removal

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200

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Call ★ 604-720-0067

THE SCRAPPER SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES E

9150

Services & Repairs WH

604-327-3213

1598 Southeast Marine Dr, Van, BC

9155

2 Drive.

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Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

1994 CHEV 3/4Ton with dump box, auto, exc working cond.

320K, $6200, 604-270-3933

9160

Sports & Imports

2005 LEXUS ES330, 4 dr Sedan, grey, auto, fully loaded, 6cyl. 44K, $22,500 obo, 604-616-3296 NEED CHEAP AUTOBODY ? www.cheapautobody.ca 604-341-7738

9522

RV’s/Trailers

WANT to trade 1988 Chevy Elite

23’ motor home for smaller motorhome. 604-946-0864 Lve mess

604-588-0833

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– Renovator Member of the Year

Winner of the National SAM Award

– Best Renovated Kitchen in Canada

ROOFING/ RE-ROOFING Leak Repairs & Chimney Repairs

SAVE $ 604-228-ROOF (7663) Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

McNabb Roofing

When your house is great except… ❏ The kitchen’s too

small

❏ You need another

General Repairs, Brakes, Muffler, Tune Ups. All makes all models.

1 Click.

John 778-288-8009 10% OFF with this ad

A.J.K. MOVING Ltd. Special truck for clean-ups. Any size job Lic#32839 604-875-9072 Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020 FREE METAL RECYCLING. All other junk removal, charges apply. Call Jack, 604-266-4444

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

• TAR & GRAVEL •TORCH-ON MEMBRANE •FIBREGLASS / ASPHALT SHINGLES, RESIDENTIAL, and COMMERCIAL 35 years experience ★NO HST★

8250

Roofing

@

YOUR HOME ROOFING SERVICES Vancouver Division Since 1985

WINTER SPECIALS • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Duroid, Cedar, Torch-on • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs

CALL NOW for 25% OFF WCB – Fully Insured

604-340-7189

POINT GREY ROOFING LTD. Established 1946

8300

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

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

604-725-8925

8309

Tiling

Cell: 604-839-7881

Roof Leaking?

Best Price!

30 years experience

K. PASIFIC RES Call Now

778-846-0196 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)

www.rjrrenovator.com SKYLINE DECKING Renovations, Roofing, New Construction WCB/Insured/Licensed Guaranteed workmanship, reasonable pricing Call for FREE Estimate Luke: 604-729-6871

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SALES@ PATTARGROUP.COM

Renovations

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604-630-3300

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Roofing

#1 Roofing Company in BC

To advertise call

604 628 9044

Two Easy Steps to Finding a Pre-Owned Vehicle

8250

$49

B i n s f ro m 7 - 2 0 y a rd s a v a i l .

RUBBISH REMOVAL

2H

Cash for junk cars! $100 to $1000 Ask about our $500 Credit!

Trips start at

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Tried & True Since 1902

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604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC

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22-BUILD (222-8453) Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

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Good or Bad Credit?

Call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599 www.autocreditfast.ca DLN 30309

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BATH * KITCHEN * SUITES

RENOVATIONS

9105

778-893-0540

Rubbish Removal Disposal & Recycling

Free est.

WWW.RENORITE.COM

Trade Your Kitchen

8255

Roofing

COMPLETE RENOVATION & CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

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604-434-0070 / 781-7695

drytech.ca

8250

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

CEDARWORKS

SUNDECKS FENCES • STAIRS

Renovations & Home Improvement

UNLIMITED RENOVATIONS

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AaronR CONST

8240

Advantage Building Maintenance: •Roof •Chimney •Skylight Repairs •FREE Estimate 604-802-1918 CHOICE Roofing 604-807-7312 Specializing in New, Re-roofing & Repairs. Quality assured.

GL Roofing cedar shake, asphalt shingle, flat roofs BBB WCB clean gutters $80. 24/7 604-240-5362

JJ ROOFING, Repair specialist, Reroof, New Roof. Seniors disc.

WCB, fully ins. 604-726-6345 MASTERCRAFT ROOFING Ltd. Right the 1st time! Repairs, reroofing, garage, decks. Hart 322-5517

8255

Rubbish Removal

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Swedish beauty plays it safe

Our original reason for driving the Volvo S60 was simply to check out a unique new feature it possesses, which is entered for an Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) technology award.

Once ensconced in its classy interior and surrounded by elaborate safety systems, we were smitten by the guile, grace and appeal of this Swedish beauty. Volvo temporarily discontinued the S60 for 2010 model year, but it’s back as a 2011 model with a completely new design. It’s a wonderful car on a number of levels, and the high-tech solutions that help the driver avoid accidents are outstanding.

An option with the new Volvo S60 is “pedestrian detection with full auto brake,” which is a radar and camera-based system to detect people in front of the car. more compact V configuration engine. Under the hood of the S60 sedan is a new 3.0-litre turbocharged in-line six that’s mated to a six-speed automatic transmission, and it comes with all-wheel drive.

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The dash centre stack is the typical thin wall Volvo design with storage space behind it, and the most elegant of its ilk that I’ve seen. In back, the trunk is a spacious, offers 340 L (12 cu-ft) of storage and has enclosed hinges. There’s also a pass-through for long items the rear seatbacks are a split/ fold-down 60/40 type.

Safety—In addition to the pedestrian detection system, the S60 offers other advanced safety features. Here are three: • Lane Departure Warning alerts the driver if the vehicle is drifting into another lane. An alert sounds when its camera can see that the car is about to cross a lane divider, without an active turn signal. It’s a system you wish the guy with a cellphone in his ear had.

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The new one is “pedestrian detection with full auto brake” and it comes in a $4,500 optional Driver Support Package.

Actually, it’s a more advanced form of an existing Volvo active safety system called City Safety, which automatically stops a Volvo if another vehicle gets in its way. It’s a radar and camera-based system that can detect pedestrians in front of the car. In a nutshell, it gives a warning signal if someone walks into its detection field and automatically activates the car’s full braking power if the driver fails to respond in time.

Apparently, half of all pedestrian accidents occur at speeds below 25 km/h. The feature can avoid a collision with a pedestrian at speeds up to 35 km/h, even if the driver is distracted and doesn’t react in time. At higher speeds, the focus is on warning and reducing the car’s speed as much as possible prior to the impact.

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Appearance of jogger kicks pedestrian warning system into gear

Continued from previous page • Blind Spot Information System warns when another vehicle is approaching from behind in an adjacent traffic lane, orange lights in the rear-view mirrors give a warning. It’s like an extra pair of eyes if you want to make a lane change and at night in poor driving conditions it’s terrific.

• Collision Warning keeps track

of how close you’re getting to a car in front and projects a warning via a head-up display on the windshield in front of the driver.

If nothing else it can be a constant visual reminder that you’re too close to the car ahead and if you get too close it automatically applies the brakes.

Performance—We went for a little cruise around the local mall

and SkyTrain station. We drove normally and it was almost completely uneventful other than some minor warning light episodes—people walking in front while stopped (in drive).

Just when our complete failure as a pedestrian predator looked certain, and not feeling too bad about it, it happened. While making a right turn at a light and do-

ing the swivel head (eyes in two places at once) the warning system went bananas.

A jogger had appeared out of nowhere on the edge of the curb.

Even though my foot was on the brake before the auto braking activated, we’re still impressed.

Even with its battery of safety systems, the S60 is probably the sportiest Volvo sedan we’ve driven. The ride is

a little firmer than usual, but the payoff is in its excellent handling characteristics. Overall it’s a nicely balanced car with a first-class engine.

The Score—The new styling is very attractive, a great interior, superb power and cutting edge safety technologies put the new Volvo S60 in a class of its own.

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5.99

540g

7.98 Quick or Slow Organic Oats prepacked or bins

20% off

Amy’s Kitchen Organic Soups select varieties

Giovanni Shampoo or Conditioner Rich in ripe harvested certified organic botanicals, this line provides a solution for the needs of every hair type.

Protects, aids in protein digestion, stimulates the immune system, and completely replenishes your gastrointestinal system.

Enteric-coated for maximum effectiveness.

assorted varieties

Amazing Grass certified organic green superfood is a perfect blend of alkalizing greens, antioxidant rich whole food fruits and vegetables.

170g • product of USA

27.99

4/5.96

241g

VIP Liquid Dish Soap assorted varieties

Kind Fruit and Nut Energy Bars

Dr. Oetker’s Casa di Mama Frozen Pizzas

assorted varieties

assorted varieties 40g • product of USA

60 caps

Amazing Grass Green Superfood

500ml • product of Canada

from 3/4.98

250ml

New Roots Acidophilus Ultra

23.99

regular, light or fat free

2/4.00

regular retail price

7.99 each

reg 6.49

Dairyland Sour Cream

10 lb bag

Bulk Department

Annie’s Classic Pasta Side Dishes

500ml • product of B.C.

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Certified Organic, California Grown

398ml • product of USA

2/7.00

Pkg of 3

Navel Oranges from Johansen Ranch

from 3/6.99

mild, medium or hot

550g

package of 6

5.49/100g

454g • product of B.C.

From Our Bakery

2.98

Le Chevre Noir Goat Cheddar Cheese

Made from organic corn.

product of Canada

Certified Organic, Imported

250g

Specialty Roasted Chickens

20 tea bags

1 dry pint

Romaine Hearts

From the Deli

select varieties

5.99

2.98

14.99lb/ 33.05kg

2 L • product of B.C.

4 L • product of Canada

2.99

Chilean Grown

Diamond Willow Organic New York Strip Loin Steak

340g • product of B.C.

Danone Activia Drinkable Yogurt & Danone Activia Yogurt Multipacks

Fresh Blueberries

2/9.98

2/3.98

740ml • product of B.C. 395-410g • product of Germany

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Cambie

Kerrisdale

2627 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver 604.736.0009

3493 Cambie St. Vancouver 604.875.0099

1888 W. 57th Ave. 1202 Richards St. Vancouver Vancouver 604.263.4600 604.633.2392

Yaletown

Prices Effective January 20 to January 26, 2011.

Choices in the Park

Rice Bakery South Surrey

2595 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver 6855 Station Hill Dr. 604.736.0301 Burnaby 604.522.6441

3248 King George Blvd.

South Surrey 604.541.3902

Choices at the Crest 8683 10th Ave. Burnaby 604.522.0936

Kelowna 1937 Harvey Ave. Kelowna

250.862.4864 Note Area Code

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