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ainwater drips as if from a broken tap off the corner of the First Nation long house roof into a concrete barrel. Droplets barely ripple the surface of six-inch deep water pooled above a bed of rocks, sand and debris. Fidgety Grade 2 and 3 students gather around Brent Mansfield on this cool late-January morning at Grandview/ ¿uuqinak’uuh elementary. Mansfield, the school’s garden project coordinator, hoped for more of a downpour for today’s lesson, but a drizzle will do.

“The water is collecting here,” he points to the nearly full barrel. “Have you guys seen it before when it comes down really fast? When it rains really hard, it’s going to come down really fast… Right now you can’t even feel the rain, but there’s a little bit on the roof and it falls down and it collects right here. If it keeps going, this is going to overflow.”

Mansfield quizzes students on how to store more of the water for future use.

“What if we dug a really big hole and collected it underground?” he suggests.

“When it’s really hot out here we could have a pump or something that would run to the garden. Then we’d be able to water our garden in the summer with the rain.”

The 30-year-old’s talk on rainwater collection is more than an isolated lecture. It’s part of Grandview’s broader focus on water this year, which included giving students water bottles to avoid using plastic. They’re also raising money to build a well in Cambodia in a town principal Gloria Raphael has visited and teachers are trying to incorporate lessons about water into the curriculum.

The East Side school has re-invented itself as an “Earth School,” focusing on four environmental themes that rotate annually: water, forest, earth and sky. The concept

Garden project coordinator Brent Mansfield teaches Grandview/¿uuqinak’uuh elementary students about rainwater collection. photo Dan Toulgoet was officially implemented last September.

Then, in late January, Grandview inked a $100,000 deal for a natural “playscape” on its grounds to complement the revamped education program. The $100,000 grant, funded by ING Direct, will see Ontariobased Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds redesign the school’s landscape. Organizers hope to collect a further $150,000 to pro-

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duce a $250,000 budget for the new outdoor space—another way to connect students to the world around them. But connection isn’t a problem today. Hands-on learning is a hit. As Mansfield speaks, giggling students cup their palms to capture water droplets mid-fall before the liquid slips through their fingers and splashes into the shallow barrel below.

randview elementary is an 85-year-old inner city school on Woodland Drive at Fourth Avenue—two blocks east of the Clark Drive truck route and one block west of Commercial Drive. The school, an unremarkable three-storey building on a sprawling property, serves one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Vancouver. Roughly 60 per cent of the student population is aboriginal.

Despite its ordinary exterior, the building’s front doors open to a welcoming space for 170 kindergarten to Grade 7 students, their families and staff. The entrance foyer’s black leather couch and comfortable chairs, surrounded by colourful aboriginal paintings and student artwork, create a living room-like atmosphere.

Today, Grandview’s youth and family worker and its audiologist are hosting the weekly Friday morning sing-along for students using the piano stationed beside the seating area.

Mansfield says encouraging students and their families to hang out at the school for activities is central to Grandview’s educational philosophy. It’s equally devoted to “experiential learning” and these values are at the heart of its transformation into an Earth School. The new identity actually evolved out of projects launched more than a decade ago when staff hooked up with two University of B.C. masters students studying education and landscape architecture to turn the schoolyard into an outdoor classroom and community gathering space.

That effort produced a small children’s garden, a community garden, the long house and an ethno-botanical garden.

Mansfield, a teacher and longtime garden enthusiast, landed Grandview’s garden project coordinator job in 2008—a position funded by Vancouver Coastal Health for the past eight years.

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Continued from page 4 Since 2008, he’s built on the earlier initiatives by expanding the children’s garden from four to 15 plots, enlarging the community garden from 24 to 36 plots and preparing a pumpkin patch for harvest next fall. Another small plot, to illustrate different varieties of wheat, is in the works.

But it’s two trips Mansfield and a couple teams of Grandview teachers made to Oregon in 2009 and 2010 that solidified plans for its full-scale makeover into an Earth School.

The groups visited Sunnyside Environmental School, a popular kindergarten to Grade 8 magnet school in Portland that operates based on three rotating themes: rivers (biology), forests (botany) and mountains (geology). It also has flower and herb gardens.

The Vancouver teachers adopted the theme idea, tweaked it to suit their students, and presented the rationale behind the Earth School plan to the school district in the spring of 2010—board policy allows schools to theme themselves if the concept meets students’ needs.

“It’s curriculum that’s integrated around the environment,” Mansfield says. “A key part of our school plan is around engagement—how do we really see our kids owning what they’re doing, being excited about it. I believe all of us, but especially kids, need to do that in a way that’s handson—whether that’s through the garden or through cooking, or whether that’s through building something.”

Incorporating the four themes into the curriculum is relatively simple, he says.

“The reality is, almost every concept

This hand-carved chair in McCleary Playground in Toronto, was made by a Bienenstock designer from an elm tree that was felled because it had Dutch elm photo courtesy of Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds disease. you can choose to connect to or integrate around the environment. Water is like that. There are ways teachers are talking about water in relation to health. Every student now has their own water bottle, so we’re talking about the importance of water for our own health and alertness and the amount of dehydration that happens, but we’re also connecting it to the fact we

don’t want plastic water bottles—we want to reduce our waste,” he explains.

Grade 3 students study plants in science class, Mansfield adds, which easily lends itself to lessons about the school garden and rainwater collection. Grandview is looking to partner with its West Side sister school— Queen Elizabeth annex—to work on these projects. Mansfield envisions installing an

underground cistern with a hand pump—an idea he hopes is considered during consultation on the new playground design.

Today’s lecture is about setting the groundwork. “We’re talking about what do we use water for in the garden—when does it rain and when do we need to water and realizing that these are at different times.

So, if we’re trying to reduce our water use, what are some ways we can do that in the garden. Most of them probably realize it, but sometimes it’s just connecting those dots for them.”

Ultimately, Mansfield believes students retain information when it’s matched with hands-on work that can be applied to everyday life and that this approach will also improve students’ overall attitude about school.

“As you experience, you’re able to conceptualize and understand. It also creates pride and ownership in what the school’s doing. Much of it is about relationships.

As much as we’re encouraging our kids to learn in a way that honours the earth and to understand the connections, it’s also about the culture of the school,” he says.

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lmost two years ago, Toronto-based Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds approached the City of Vancouver about creating a natural playspace in the city—ING Direct was offering a $100,000 grant for the project. Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer, a former Green Party school trustee, suggested Grandview elementary as the ideal site due to its Earth School plan, and the need for greenspace in the neighbourhood.

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Continued from page 5 “We were particularly interested in seeing investment go into a neighbourhood that didn’t have a lot of greenspace,” explains former Bienenstock vice president Bruce Sudds, who recently left the company to work for Toronto Waterfront. He describes the Bienenstock’s philosophy as a “100mile diet for playgrounds.”

Native plant species and local materials are incorporated into design schemes, which are intended to encourage collaborative, imaginative and creative play. Designs are always drawn up with community input.

“The starting point for us is let’s reconnect with nature… we source out local flora, we source out local stone, and so on, to use in the space so children have the opportunity to not only [see] soaring trees and flowers and shrubs, but beautiful boulders from the area and have that experience,” Sudds says. “We usually create an undulating topography—it’s more fun for the kids, with pathways running through it.”

Bienenstock likes to reserve 25 per cent of the area for shade to produce a more “bucolic” setting that also provides enough space for running and gross motor play. The company uses different types of ground surfaces and suggests including art walls and musical instruments, such as whale drums or bongos.

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ing gross motor play and they’re leaving out the majority of children,” says Sudds, adding that research shows green public spaces and natural playgrounds are best for child development and for urban communities.

The final design of Grandview’s grounds will depend on community feedback, as well as the final budget, but consultation starts in early March and construction could begin as early as this summer. The work typically takes between three and four weeks.

“When we’re done our work, the project’s not done. It’s now what you do with it,” Sudds says. “It’s about ownership of the space. People have got to want to have it. They’ve got to feel like they were part of creating it and that they can live and be in it in the ways they want to be in it.”

Sudds is convinced a natural playscape is a perfect fit with Grandview’s new identity as an Earth School and its renewed focus on the environment. He cites an anecdote about American designer Rusty Keeler, who used to work for a playground com-

pany. “[Keeler’s] aha moment came when he was asked by someone in the company to design the perfect piece of playground equipment. He sat at his chair and finally kicked back and started laughing. He realized he was drawing a tree.”

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ack in a tiny office at Grandview elementary, Mansfield is undeniably optimistic about the school’s future and how the educational changes will affect student learning. He expects it might also transform other people’s opinion about the East Side school, but that’s only a side benefit.

“At the end of the day, it’s about the students and their families,” he says. “We’ve always been the little school that just kind of plugs away and does great things and hasn’t really worried if anybody knows about it. We’ve just focused on the best for our students, but at the same time we want our students to be proud of how others see us. What we’re doing with the Earth School, as well as this playground, really gives us the opportunity to be seen a little bit differently—to be seen as an innovator, to be seen as a school that really opens up to the community.”

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You would think a former politician would no longer need to be “wishywashy” when it comes to expressing an opinion on a major civic issue such as a casino proposal.

But former Vision Vancouver councillor Jim Green, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2005, is not taking sides in the debate over whether to allow a mega casino adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium. “I’m not a hundred per cent on either side of this thing,” Green told me this week and asked rhetorically whether he had become “wishy-washy” for sitting on the fence.

I contacted Green because he was one of the councillors who voted in January 2004 to allow slot machines at the Edgewater Casino, which became the first casino in the city to get the machines.

Green voted with then-mayor Larry Campbell and current councillors Tim Stevenson, Raymond Louie and David Cadman in favour of the slots. Then-councillors Peter Ladner, Tim Louis, Anne Roberts and Fred Bass voted against.

Former Vision Vancouver councillor Jim Green, seen here at Woodward’s related event, can’t make up his mind on Paragon Gaming’s casino proposal. photo Dan Toulgoet Later that year, a majority of council, including Green, voted to allow slots at Hastings Racecourse.

That left Vancouver with two locations where people could play the so-called one-armed bandits.

Now Paragon Gaming Inc., which bought Edgewater in 2006, wants to build a mega casino adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium. The plan calls for 150 games tables and 1,500 slots, making it the biggest casino

in Western Canada.

So what’s Green think?

Here’s the wishy: “I don’t like gambling, I don’t gamble but I don’t think it’s my right to tell people they can’t.”

And the washy: “But I don’t like some of the results of people getting addicted to gambling.”

However, he said, opponents of slots in the 2003/2004 debate

predicted dire consequences for people and the city, if Edgewater got the slots. That, Green said, hasn’t occurred. “All of the things that the opponents were screaming about—the prostitutes and the muggings and all of that—as far as I know, never appeared. It just didn’t happen.”

Before he voted for slots at Edgewater, Green travelled to Edmonton, Windsor and Quebec to

visit casinos. “I went to visit every casino I could and I didn’t see any negative impacts around the neighbourhoods.”

He said he voted for slots to preserve jobs at the casino, create jobs at the casino for Downtown Eastside residents and bring in more revenues for the city—and all of that happened.

At the time, the slots proposal was supported by the B.C. Federation of Labour, the Vancouver and District Labour Council and 88 charities. And it’s the charities that Green worries about, knowing the government cut gaming grants across the province from $156 million in 2008/2009 to $112 million in 2009/2010.

He noted a group of comedians volunteered their time at a fundraiser Monday night at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, which was affected by the cuts. “It’s just not right,” Green said. “It’s a worldknown organization and they’re getting screwed by the government that should be helping them.”

If council approves Paragon’s proposal, Green said the city should work out a deal with the provincial government that ensures a specific amount of the casino profits will go directly to arts’ organizations.

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It seemed odd and I wasn’t the only one to notice it—a gathering of more than 100 people to witness what could be best described as an autopsy conducted while the body was still showing signs of life.

The gathering was made up mostly of urban planners and planning students. The not-quitedead body was the Olympic Village. The inquest by a panel of interested parties was to determine “lessons learned” from this near-death experience.

As the first panelist (Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs) observed, no issue has taken up more council or city staff time than this development. Not homelessness, not affordable housing, not bike lanes, and not—so far anyway—the expansion of gambling and the proposed casino.

When the Olympic Village disaster broke the surface during the 2008 municipal election, it looked like a gift for Vision. It has proven to be anything but.

Before we get to the prognosis, first let me introduce the panel of examiners.

Aside from Meggs, there was Michael Geller, the main guy who built Simon Fraser University’s housing development known as UniverCity. His opposite number, from the University of B.C., was also there. Nancy Knight is an academic at UBC and in charge of the aggressive building plan now going on to create housing out of endowment lands. Finally, there was Doug McArthur, a senior public policy wonk at SFU. To be clear, there was no new information except news earlier in the day from Real Estate Agent Sans Frontier Bob Rennie telling us condos were

allengarr once again selling. Rennie was brought in first by the developers and then more recently by the receivers. He was tasked with trying to breathe a bit of life into the development, which at that the point looked like it was slipping away, referred to increasingly as a ghost town. He was also in the audience—along with city officials including city manager Penny Ballem—and declared in a tone attributed to some kind of medical breakthrough: “I am here to protect the asset.”

Aside from that, what the evening provided was context. And stuff the city could have, should have and would have done if it wasn’t so overtaken by greed and hobbled by hubris and a lack of experience.

The whole process of developing the south shore of False Creek was conceived more than two decades ago in a city document titled Clouds of Change, which explored how to make Vancouver

a greener city. In 1994, it was decided False Creek would become a sustainable development.

Interestingly, when the agreement was signed to tie the development of the south shore of the creek to the Olympics by using it as the Athletes Village, it hardly made it onto the media’s radar. But that was the beginning of the pickle the city would find itself in.

Of course you know much of the rest: Without pointing any fingers, there was the decision to get rid of the affordable housing and much of the social housing, the decision to build at LEED gold and platinum standards, the outrageous amount paid for the land, the developer going over budget as construction costs soared, the real estate bubble bursting, the lack of effective city oversight on the project, the New York hedge fund that bailed on the financing, the extraordinary act of the provincial legislature that allowed the city to become the main lender on the project and, finally, the city forcing the developer into receivership.

If there was a single lesson learned on which the panel agreed, it was this: The model, with politicians making detailed decisions and city staff there to implement them, simply failed. A model along the lines used by SFU and UBC has proven far more effective. Each institution created an armslength body with a board and staff experienced in building, financing and marketing real estate.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

opinion MEDIA IGNORES UFO TESTIMONY

Compelling evidence suggests we are not alone in universe The “Drake Equation.” Although it sounds like a nerd’s way of calculating male ducks, it’s actually a chalkboard procedure for estimating the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.

Astronomer Frank Drake’s 1961 formula contains a lot of guesswork. The first variable is the rate of star formation in the Milky Way. The second variable is the number of stars that have planets. The third is the average number of planets that can potentially support life, and so on.

The final variable is the estimated length of time that an extraterrestrial civilization sends detectable radio signals into space.

Yet it’s even debatable that advanced beings would employ a communication technology familiar to 20th-century humans.

“To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant,” wrote author Terence McKenna in 1983.

Astronomers fiddling with the Drake equation have come up with wildly varying estimates for ET civilizations in our galaxy, from millions to none (Drake himself estimated 100,000). But this month the odds became a bit less rubbery. Working from a miniscule section of the sky, the Kepler Space Observatory has revealed data on 1,235 potential extrasolar planets, with 54 in the life-friendly “Goldilocks Zone” (not too hot, not too cold). There may be up to 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, astronomers say.

In other words, it could be like Star Trek out there.

There have been some other spacey reports lately. Several videos posted in late January to YouTube reveal a brilliant object hovering momentarily above the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, before departing instantly up into the night sky. The varying clips, said to be from video cameras and cellphones, all match up in imagery and timing.

On Internet forums, it’s been like The Jetsons meets the Dead Sea Scrolls, as armchair ufologists dissect the clips with Talmudic overkill. The lack of corroborating testimony from other witnesses is suspicious, however. As the focal point of all three monotheistic religions, this is one of the most heavily visited tourist spots on Earth. If an alien craft showed up in the Holy Land for an interstellar high-five, it should have been seen by dozens, if not hundreds, of gobsmacked witnesses. So was this a hi-tech hoax or an offworld howdy? I’m sure it will be debated for years to come.

I’m more impressed by visual reports of UFOs that predate

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geoffolson the digital age, such as a 1964 incident at Vandenberg Air Force Base. First Lt. Robert Jacobs was in charge of photographing missile launches at the base, and one day the Chief Science Officer at Vandenberg, Maj. Florenz J. Mansmann, called the lieutenant to his office. With strangers in civilian clothes present, Mansmann pulled down a screen and played a high-resolution film of a missile flight from a few days earlier. Miles above Earth, a saucer-shaped object came into view, performed a circular motion around the final stage of an Atlas F missile and shot a beam at it, sending the dummy warhead spiraling out of control. The science officer asked for an explanation, and the lieutenant confessed he didn’t have one (Mansmann has confirmed the story).

Years later, Jacobs shared this anecdote with the Disclosure Project, a decade-long forum for retired U.S. military, government and aviation officials to break their silence on UFO activity, including violation of airspace over nuclear installations. Last September, CNN’s website streamcast a twohour DP press conference from The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The whistleblower event was completely ignored by major print media, with the exception of the Washington Post, which dispatched staff humour columnist John Kelly. Like a cross between Dave Barry and Forrest Gump, the Post columnist editorialized that he liked The National Press Club events because they serve good cookies. (The dismissive article’s title: UFO visits?

Hmmm. Cookies? Yummm.”)

A sniggering U.S. newspaper press has virtually ignored five decades of credible UFO reports from solid witnesses, including astronauts Gordon Cooper and Buzz Aldrin. Yet the press genuflects before the government-funded SETI program (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Since the 1960s, SETI researchers have scanned the skies with radio telescopes, looking for alien talk shows. All they have found is static.

An unsourced quote from Albert Einstein comes to mind: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” www.geoffolson.com

According to one reader, scofflaw dog owners sometimes hurl abuse at citizens who note their intransigence. photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “City ready to get tough on scofflaw dog owners,” Feb. 16.

Thanks for covering this subject. Music to my ears that the city is finally going to take action against irresponsible dog owners.

I have walked for years in Jericho Park (on-leash park) and always see dogs off-

leash, and when I tell their owners (politely) it is an on-leash park I usually get a load of abuse or indifference.

I just don’t know where certain dog owners get their sense of entitlement—that the rules are not for them.

Janet Mackie, Vancouver

Critical Mass bike ‘events’ rude and selfish To the editor: Re: “Letter of the Week,” Feb. 18.

Courier letter writer Silvi Wool is correct. Critical Mass is not “an absolute joke.” It is no laughing matter at all. But it is hardly “an event” as she called it. Under the guise of bike transport promotion, it is designed to inflict maximum disruption and shows no regard for other people’s lives.

The rights and freedoms—in reality, privileges—that we enjoy in this country put the onus squarely on our shoulders as free citizens to act with responsibility, decency and respect towards each other.

I participated once in Critical Mass but the complete disregard that we showed towards vehicle and pedestrian rights was not what I envisioned. Cars were blocked from passing on green lights and pedestrians had to wait to cross streets until we had collectively passed.

I have friends who ride in it because it is “fun.” They are intelligent, responsible, socially conscience people.

But it perplexes me that they don’t weigh the impact of their “fun” on other people. It is easy to get caught up in things when the people negatively affected are faceless and nameless. Perhaps it would be instruc-

tive for Critical Mass riders to have conversations with some of the people whose lives are thrown into chaos because of the rides. Then, with the “do unto others” adage in mind, they might re-examine what she calls their “not so readily apparent motives” for what they are doing.

Russ Husum, Vancouver

••• To the editor: In response to Silvi Wool’s defense of Critical Mass as an “event, just like dance parties, jazz clubs, theaters and Buskers.” I’m afraid not. There are a few fundamental differences. I can plan around any of the aforementioned “events” and choose a route accordingly. Not so with Critical Mass. Most of these true events are held in private venues and/or have permits, as well as clearly planned itineraries. Again not so with Critical Mass.

The fact that you made some new friends, and perhaps did some future good work, is not justification for the inconvenience and rude behaviour imposed on others. It’s still just rude and selfish behaviour cloaked by a dubious connection to a largely unspecified noble aim.

A political activist rallies for a cause. Exactly which cause is served by Critical

Mass? There have never been announced leaders of Critical Mass, as they do not want to deal with two problems. This way nobody can be held accountable for lawbreaking, and no cause is tarnished by association with this group.

I am curious if you would still feel good about this “event” if instead of “meeting new friends” it resulted in you missing a flight.

The least likely way to get my (and other people’s) support is to alienate and infuriate. That is all this “event” seems to accomplish. Except of course expanding your social network.

Alan Moody, Vancouver

••• To the editor: The letter writer who suggested breaking the traffic laws by staging Critical Mass celebrations is a good way to make new friends might try a slightly different approach.

Why not simply hang out in brothels and gambling or drug dens and meet the underworld of our society? I would assume the peddlers of sin are more than happy to make new acquaintances.

As the vintage expression puts it succinctly, “If you run with dogs, don’t be surprised if you catch fleas.”

Rick Angus, Vancouver

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Approximately 300 Vancouver businesses sell products, offer services or store goods that could be used by a terrorist to launch an attack, according to the Vancouver Police Department’s year-end report on its operations for 2010.

Last year, 45 of the businesses signed on with the VPD as part of a program called Operation Securus.

The goal of the program is to train business operators how to detect and report potential terrorist activity, including suspicious transactions.

The report, which accompanies the VPD’s 2011 draft business plan, does not identify the businesses, services or the products in stock. Some terrorist attacks around the globe have been committed by people using store-bought chemicals and military hardware.

The report and plan went before the Vancouver Police Board Feb. 16, without any discussion on the terrorism information from police or board members.

The documents were co-authored by inspectors Rick McKenna and Bob Stewart who noted the program was not adequately staffed because of budget constraints.

“The light-duties member who has been assigned to facilitate this program has been away sick for several months and has not been replaced during this absence,” they wrote. “Subsequently, no new businesses have signed up in 2010.”

As well, the documents say “terrorism awareness training” wasn’t fully delivered in 2010 but is being developed this year by the department’s criminal intelligence section in collaboration with its emergency and operational planning section.

The documents don’t say whether any of the business operators involved in Operation Securus have identified terrorist activity. However, the VPD’s criminal intelligence section shared 45 “files” in 2010 with the B.C. Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.

The report doesn’t indicate the nature of the files or whether any were related to the 2010 Winter Games, although all patrol officers were given “terrorism identification lectures” prior to the start of the Olympics last February.

Information regarding the location of the businesses in the program and the commodity or service they provide, and location of “critical infrastructure” in Vancouver, are entered into a special VPD database.

“This allows analysts to provide investigators with a geospatial analysis of an ongoing investigation or suspicious circumstance,” the report said. “It also provides commanders assigned to the departmental operations centre a heightened ability to assess risk in assigning resources to a critical incident or event.”

Although some of the protests during the 2010 Winter Games resulted in damage to businesses and property, there were no terrorist attacks in the city. The biggest threat reported publicly was when a 48-yearold man used bogus credentials to get within steps of U.S. vice-president Joe Biden, who was seated in a VIP section during the opening ceremony of the Games.

Police transported the man, who wasn’t armed, to a psychiatric facility.

As the Courier revealed in February 2007, the U.S. government has at least 12 agents, including members of Homeland Security, working in Vancouver to help combat cross-border crimes such as drug and gun smuggling, fraud rings, child pornography and terrorism.

An FBI agent told the Courier at the time that the “vast majority” of his work in Vancouver was focused on terrorism but he declined to reveal any cases related to the city. The agents don’t have powers of arrest and are prohibited from carrying guns. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Vancouver-based charity will manage reconstruction project

Benevolent ‘builders’ head to Haiti Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

Builders Without Borders and the Canadian Construction Association have joined forces to help finance and supervise a small reconstruction project at a trade school in Haiti.

The school, called Ecole Lakay, is located in Le Soleil, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Port au Prince. It offers instruction in carpentry, cabinetry and electrical installation, but was damaged in the devastating Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, which killed hundreds of thousands and caused massive destruction.

Builders Without Borders, an 11-year-old nationally registered charity with its headquarters in Vancouver, was approached by the Canadian Construction Association about a year ago to work together to help the poverty-stricken country. “They contacted us and we helped identify a project,” explained Neil Griggs, president of Builders Without Borders.

Griggs has visited Haiti twice for the joint initiative and witnessed the damage first hand. “It was traumatic to look at because most of the buildings had collapsed. The school has over 1,000 students a day in the section that we’re working on and most of the buildings had collapsed. The workshops, fortunately, were only single-storey and suffered less damage but I’ve never seen anything like that so close up before,” he said.

The two organizations hope to raise $500,000 to cover construction costs—close to $300,000 has already been raised. “It isn’t a large amount because it’s a separate facility at the school—it’s not the main buildings and dormitories or other things,” said Griggs.

“This is simply workshops that are rather like a large warehouse, so it’s a simple structure and it didn’t get significantly damaged.

But it needs to be reinforced and they wanted some additional area added to it—another 300 square metres of workshop space.”

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“Our role is to manage the project, manage the process and manage the design in the sense that it will be done by Haitians, but the review will be done by engineers here who are familiar with construction codes, earthquake codes,” he said.

Griggs is working with the Selesian Order in Haiti—a Catholic group that’s involved in charity work focused on children, which runs the school.

Keith Sashaw, president of the Vancouver Regional Construction Association, a CCA chapter, said it’s an ideal project for the construction association. “We think the fit is extraordinary in terms of working on a trades school. It’s one thing to give money to an organization or to a community, but what we’re seeing here is an opportunity to train people to help rebuild their own country. By linking with the trades school, it’s almost like a gift that keeps on giving,” he said, noting the CCA’s Quebec chapter has been particularly involved in the initiative because of the common French language.

He said association members are pleased to work with Builders Without Borders and are satisfied donations are going directly to the project. “It’s not a lot of money but the impact on the community and people involved is huge.” noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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A taiko concert for the Britannia Volunteer Program is being held Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. at Britannia secondary auditorium. Experience an innovative contemporary Japanese taiko drumming performance featuring North America veteran drummers Leslie Komori and Eileen Kage and youth taiko groups Chibi Taiko and Tetsu Taiko. The event is free for Britannia Volunteers. Tickets are $5-$15 available at Britannia at 1661 Napier St. Proceeds benefit the volunteer program at Britannia Community

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Shaky situation

I was relieved to hear COPE park board commissioner Loretta Woodcock was unhurt after the devastating earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand earlier this week.

Woodcock was in Christchurch on vacation with her husband Feb. 22 when the 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit, killing more than 98 people. At least 225 were still missing as of yesterday. The morning of the quake Woodcock managed to post a message on Facebook letting friends know the couple was OK. “Was in Christchurch New Zealand during the earthquake today and managed to drive out of the city driving south to Banks Peninsula today,” she wrote. “Still feeling the aftershocks as I type this…”

I wonder if after Woodcock’s experience in Christchurch she’ll consider tackling the issue of emergency preparedness across the city when she returns home. It will be interesting to hear first hand how our city can expect to deal with a crisis of that significance.

Green days

A new volunteer group is looking for members interested in helping the environment.

The goal of the Lower Mainland Green Team is to make a positive impact on the environment by holding events, such as

ones dedicated to pulling invasive species, planting trees, beach, river and lake cleanups, trail building and restoration projects.

The group will meet at least once a month across the Lower Mainland, but I know locally there are several projects planned for Jericho Park and Pacific Spirit Park.

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Out standing

In Wednesday’s edition of this column I wrote about the park board’s $100,000 Vancouver Sport Hosting Grant dedicated to the Vancouver 2011 North American Outgames.

The Outgames will include 18 sports sanctioned by the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association of North America, based out of Montreal where the first World Outgames was held in 2006.

I didn’t have room in that column to include comments from Vision Vancouver park board vice-chair Constance Barnes who made the announcement last week on behalf of the park board and city.

Barnes, liaison to the city’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Association, told me she was delighted to announce the grant at a fundraising event for Outgames athletes last week.

“The park board is really excited to be working with this fabulous group of people,” says Barnes. “These Games celebrate diversity, accessibility, inclusiveness, respect and fairness.”

Barnes adds she expects the Outgames to leave a lasting legacy in Vancouver. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Only 15 of 252 suites rented to cops, nurses and other essential service workers

Olympic Village marketers ditch ‘essential’ tenants plan Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

Filling the city’s market rental apartments at The Village on False Creek with essential services workers hasn’t worked.

In January, 283 applicants had signed up for a waiting list to get into 126 market rental units given priority by the city to essential workers, including police officers, teachers and nurses, at the former Olympic Village.

But as of this week, only 15 of 252 suites the city owns at the project have been rented to essential workers, and 41 of the suites have been rented overall. “We’re fully engaged in going out to the general public now,” said Thom Armstrong, executive director of the Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia, which through its COHO Property Management spinoff, is recruiting tenants for the suites on behalf of the city.

COHO started hosting weekly open houses for the two rental buildings at the Village Feb. 16 and is printing pamphlets that advertise the suites.

Olympic organizers returned the site, which housed the Athletes Village during the 2010 Winter Olympic

Games, to the city April 7, 2010. City council decided two weeks later, with only two days notice to the public, that it would designate 126 units it owns for below-market housing and 126 as market rentals, for an additional $32.1 million at the massively over-budget development. Priority for the market rentals was to be given to essential workers.

But interest has been slower than expected. The first occupants got their keys the week before Christmas. Armstrong said in the first week of January that he expected most of the units to be rented by the end of March, with the last rented by as late as summer.

Now he hopes half of the 252 units will be filled by the end of March.

Armstrong said some of those who aren’t signing leases want more upscale amenities. The 252 suites don’t include dishwashers and only some larger units include in-suite laundry.

“These are non-market housing units so the idea was that they wouldn’t be finished like upscale condos and that’s showing up in some of the reactions,” he said.

A market one-bedroom rents for $1,601, a two bedroom for $1,902, a three-bedroom for $2,096 and a fourbedroom for $2,368.

Only 10 people attended the Feb. 16 open house and six submitted applications.

“What we’re noticing, and it’s quite dramatic, is the buzz from the relaunch, [marketer Bob] Rennie’s and then the receiver’s [sales] relaunch of the Village has very dramatically increased the number of hits on the websites and the number of emails and phone calls we’re getting,” Armstrong said Feb. 21.

He believes it will be easier to attract essential service workers to replace tenants once the buildings are full. Armstrong expects information sessions about the co-op to begin in the first week of March. He said Feb. 24 COHO has received more than 1,200 emails of interest about co-op housing.

Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs says he doesn’t believe the city’s decision to give priority to essential service workers delayed filling the city’s apartments at the project.

“I’m very proud that we said that we should try to put first responders in city facilities, if possible, without subsidy because it’s good to have them close to the job, if we can do it,” he said. crossi@vancourier.com

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Heritage Vancouver’s relationship with the Vancouver School Board appears to be on the mend, just days after the independent conservation group accused the district of not protecting heritage schools, according to its annual Top 10 Endangered sites list.

Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Kitchener and J.W. Sexsmith elementary schools were ranked the top three most threatened heritage buildings in the city and the organization added that its entire list could have been made up of schools.

But on Tuesday, Heritage Vancouver president Donald Luxton met with VSB staff to discuss his concerns. Luxton called me Wednesday to say he’s encouraged by the discussion.

“They’re interested in being a little more open about what they’re doing and tackling some of the issues were talking about. We had a very frank

discussion with them and I think there was some progress,” Luxton said. “They’re working on a larger plan, which is what we’ve also been looking for and anticipating. There’s nothing to respond to at this point, but they said within several months there should be an overall plan for exactly what they’re hoping to do.

That’s been part of the problem—the uncertainty about their approach and what they’re trying to do and why.

There is actually a lot of work going into it so I would say I came out of the meeting hopeful that we can have some positive discussions.”

Emergency planning

New Zealand’s tragic earthquake this week has the VSB reminding families to prepare for an emergency. The district cited a New Zealand Herald article that pointed out 72 hours after the quake, 40 per cent of Christchurch was without power, 80 per cent of the city was without water supply, boil water advisories were in place, the population was being asked to collect water if it rains and not to flush toilets to avoid contaminating the remaining water supply. Sewage was also becoming a concern.

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The motion was made by COPE trustee Jane Bouey. “Students who don’t feel safe find it difficult to learn, and often drop out. That is exactly why in February 2004 the Vancouver School Board passed groundbreaking policy that all students and employees, whatever their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, have the right to learn and work in an environment free of discrimination and harassment,” she said in a press release. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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While out on a recent cycle, I was thinking about a fresh topic for this column. I began to ponder the countless motorists whose respect for cyclists goes unnoticed.

There are more cars that get along with bikes than there are cars that want to beat up bikes. The column I was preparing to write would have been an ode to the many motorists who play nice with cyclists.

It wasn’t long after that happy series of thoughts that I was the victim of road rage; I suppose it could also be called bike lane rage. This was not just a wag-of-the-finger or a curse out a rolled-down window encounter between a cyclists and an irate motorist.

Not a chance.

I was pedaling up a hill in a bike lane. A vehicle coming from behind swerved to brush me with its passenger side mirror. The mirror grazed my jacket and I nearly fell over.

The vehicle then abruptly turned right into a drive way, cutting me off and forcing me to slam on my brakes to avoid crashing into it broadside.

jeffreyhansen-carlson As the vehicle drove down the driveway and I continued up the hill, I raised my right arm (with no middle finger extended) to communicate to the driver how absurd their behaviour was. It didn’t take long for the vehicle to turn around, accelerate back out to the street, catch up to me, pull right into the bike lane in front of me and come to a screeching stop.

The passenger got out. He was a stereotypical tough guy.

His choice vocabulary and body language made it very clear he wanted to fight. His closing words were, “If I ever see you riding your bike in my neighborhood again I am going to kill you.”

Not long ago, I was hit by a vehicle. I was unable to get its license plate number before it sped off. I vowed to myself then that should I ever be in a situation while cycling that the license plate number of a vehicle would come in handy I’d memorize it and rehearse it the whole way home. When the road rage incident drew to a close that’s exactly what I did.

One glimpse of the vehicle’s license plate number and it was etched in my mind.

I phoned the police when I got home. I was pleasantly surprised at how serious they took my complaint. An officer was on my doorstep before I had a chance to get out of my cycling attire. The officer asked what I’d like to do. I wanted the police to simply talk to the individuals involved and request that, in the future, they have more respect for cyclists.

Even though this road rage incident ruined my day, there are plenty of motorists I’m proud to share the road with.

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Cloudy water episodes of this type usually do not last very long and the clarity of the water should return to normal within a short period of typical household water use.

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March plantings can include beans, peas

Plant now for summer, fall harvests

March is the month when food gardening goes into high gear. Outside, seed of hardy vegetables such as peas and broad beans can be planted while inside we can start seed of tender food crops that need shelter until frost season is over.

Coastal gardeners sometimes plant broad beans in the fall, but this can be a gamble unless you have well-drained soil and a south exposure. In other locations, drenching rains rot seed, sunshine is lacking and mice and voles make a meal out of the seed.

When the weather is reasonable, early March planting makes it possible to harvest some broad beans before the black bean aphids arrive in June.

Pinching out the tops is a double-edged solution—it saves the plants but puts an end to their growth, which would have resulted in more beans.

Peas are also best planted in March because they germinate best in cool conditions. Lots of creatures love eating peas, especially rodents and birds. Planting thickly helps combat pea-eaters. Another useful ploy is to moisten the row and pop a plank on top of the sown seed. Be sure to check daily and remove the plank as soon as you see sprouts.

Garlic is best planted in the fall, but you will get a

annemarrison crop if you plant in early March, although the garlic heads will be smaller than usual.

Hardy greens that can be sown outside in March include corn salad, oriental greens and arugula. All can be sown as succession crops until late summer, although they tend to bolt when dry, hot days arrive.

Arugula can be sown as a succession crop right up until October, though fall sowings are safer in a container where they can be moved into shelter if a cold snap strikes.

Though kale is usually thought of as a winter crop, it’s a year-round favourite with people who like smoothies. Kale is rich in calcium and vitamins A, B and C and in smoothies and teams well with bananas. Some varieties, such as Redbor, are ornamental enough for a spot in the flower garden.

Parsnips can be planted

at the very end of March. It helps to sow twice as much seed as you think you’ll need because parsnip germination usually runs at about 60 per cent. It’s best to buy fresh parsnip seed every year because it loses viability fast.

Broccoli, lettuce and cabbage can be planted inside now then transplanted outside when frost danger subsides. Covering early broccoli with agricultural fleece is a great caterpillar protection. Broccoli for the fall harvest, which is started inside in summer and planted out in early August often escapes caterpillar infestations.

Through March, leeks can still be started inside.

So should celery because it’s a very slow grower. Peppers should also be sown inside in March for transplanting when the weather is thoroughly warm. Jalapeno and cayenne peppers are an easy and productive crop in a sunny, rich spot.

Tomatoes and squash can be planted at the end of March so that transplants will be ready for the garden in mid-May. With both, there’s always the risk that plants will be ready to go outside before the weather is benign enough to receive them.

Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions.

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Vancouver Coastal Health

Board of Directors Meeting in Vancouver When: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 8:30 am – 10:30 am Question & Answer Session starts at 11 am Where: Ballroom, The Holiday Inn, 700 Old Lillooet Road, North Vancouver

The Open Meeting includes a regular meeting of the VCH Board and an interactive Question and Answer session. The Question and Answer session, scheduled to start at 11 am, will provide an opportunity for the public to ask questions.

Webcast For those unable to attend in person, VCH is also making the meeting available live via the internet. Questions will be received during the broadcast or can be sent in advance. Visit www.vch.ca for details and the agenda.

This is a valuable opportunity to connect directly with the VCH Board and Executive. Everyone is welcome to participate.

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They moored outside the Malpas Tunnel and hiked up to the Oppidum of Ensérune, where the photo was taken. The site was occupied from 800 BC through to the beginning of the Christian era. The view in the distance is of the dried Montady Lake with its star-shaped drainage channels. The couple stopped here for geocaching.

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Symphonic sound is music to our ears… and it will continue to enrich the lives of musicians, composers, and audience members for years, with the help of some very generous “friends.”

Arts groups in Vancouver can’t continue to strive, and thrive, without the ongoing support of lovers and aficionados of orchestral offerings. Take note, sheet music doesn’t come cheap! So, let’s toot the horn of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (www.vancouversymphony.ca), and let the music play, for generations to come.

Why leave a legacy?

Leaving a legacy ensures your generosity lives on beyond your lifetime. In doing so, you allow future generations of British Columbians to experience the thrill of live orchestral music as you have done. Planned gifts help shape the Vancouver Symphony’s future, ensuring the growth of its foundation.

Income received helps make the VSO’s concert seasons possible. It allows 40,000 children to experience symphonic music annually and ensures that future generations will be able to delight in the music so obviously dear to their hearts.

Should I tell the Symphony of my intentions?

Each year the Vancouver Symphony receives bequest gifts from friends who did not tell the VSO they were remembering the Symphony in their estate plans. And you can be assured that the VSO’s staff would have been overjoyed to be able to thank them during their lifetime.

Benefactors would probably also have appreciated knowing more about how their gift helps build the Symphony’s artistic strengths, expands its community and education programs and is able to share great musical experiences with audiences here and abroad.

Membership in the Legacy Society is an important way to ensure the future of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra through a legacy gift, while receiving attractive tax and estate benefits that enhance your financial well being.

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2. Not to be confused with the Fallcalypse or Summergeddon, which we’ve just made up, Granville Island’s Winterruption Festival features a cavalcade of sights and sounds Feb. 25 to 27. Performers include groove-laden Current Swell and Hayley Sales, sophisticated popsters the Zolas, Hot Jazz with Flaming Instruments, theatre, art and, sigh, fire dancers. More info at granvilleisland.com/winterruption.

3. Giving new meaning to the term arts and science, the Vancouver Cantata Singers perform at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, 818 West 10th Ave., for an innovative concert titled Cathedrals of Science. It all goes down Feb. 26, 8 p.m. For tickets, call 604-730-8856 or go to vancouvercantatasingers.com.

4. Described by the New York Times as “the Bob Dylan of Iran,” Mohsen Namjoo is probably easier to understand than the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman these days. Hear for yourself when the vocalist, composer and setar (Persian Lute) player performs at UBC’s Chan Centre Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca or by calling 1-855-985-2787. For more info, go to caravanbc.com.

kudos & kvetches Message in a Hummer

It’s not every day that K&K reads a story about a “crime fighting Hummer” without infecting our computer with a nasty virus and coating our body in a thin layer of shame. But a recent story in the Vancouver Sun allowed us to do just that.

According to the article, a Hummer seized from a Victoria drug ring has become the latest tool in the anti-gang campaign of the Abbotsford Police Department, which repainted the vehicle with a series of “strong messages” about the perils of gang life. Warnings include “Gang life is a dead end,” “Plan your future, not your funeral,” “This vehicle was seized from a drug trafficker” and, we’re guessing, the lyrics to Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.”

Solicitor-General Rich Coleman is particularly stoked about the Hummer… let us rephrase that. At a news conference Wednesday, where he drove up in the rebranded Hummer, Coleman said the vehicle will show gangsters that police are coming for them and their toys. “Can you imagine the guy that is sitting in the Escalade at the traffic light who happens to be a drug dealer and looks over and sees this Hummer?” Coleman

said. Actually, yes, we can imagine it. And every time, the gangster looks over at the Hummer emblazoned with corny messages and laughs his butt off before peeling away and leaving the Hummer and its poor fuel economy in the dust.

On the bright side, we can’t wait for Abbotsford to roll out its next anti-gang campaign involving Rich “Big Dawg” Coleman standing on the corner while wearing gold-chains, a velour tracksuit and an Ed Hardy T-shirt that reads “These clothes used to belong to one of the Bacon brothers, but now he’s sizzling in jail… oh snap.”

Swiss miss

Over the course of our chubby lives, one of K&K’s biggest regrets, and there have been many, is we’ve never eaten at Swiss Chalet. How could this be, we’ve asked ourselves. We’re a cultured and experienced bunch. We’ve eaten at Mr. Mike’s. We’ve dined at the feet of Fogg N’ Suds.

We’ve read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.

But for reasons we’re still trying to figure out, the savoury, tender flesh of Swiss Chalet is as foreign to us as our father’s respect… we’ve been working through some heavy stuff lately.

But then we received an encouraging email.

Starting Monday, a television channel on Rogers digital cable will broadcast nothing but a rotisserie chicken rotating on a spit. Representatives for Swiss Chalet wouldn’t say how much they paid for the 24-hour roast chicken porn channel, which will air for at least three months, but similar to K&K favourite Burning Yule Log and The Arm programming at Christmas time, audiences will likely consist of shut-ins, irony fans and stoners.

But, as with most rotisserie chickens rotating on a spit, there is a dark side—besides our bodies’ increased resilience to antibiotics. The Swiss Chalet rotisserie chicken channel is only available in Ontario. Sigh. So close, so close.

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Quick reminder: K&K is still accepting entries for our Let’s Slag a Vancouver Celebrity band name contest. Just like it sounds, submit your best madeup band names that creatively slag a Vancouver public figure. For example: Gregor Robertson’s Saddle Sore Ointment or Rick Cluff’s Meaty Baritone. Boo-ya! Send your entries to k&k@ vancourier.com. Winners announced March 9.

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Walk into Commune Café (1002 Seymour St. at Nelson, 604-681-2151) and you can’t help but be struck by its clean lines, sparse décor and austere personality. But it doesn’t take long to pick up on the buzz at the “quick food” eatery, one of a growing number putting their energies more into what’s actually on the plate—and how it gets there—as opposed to the usual trappings of decor and service.

Commune Café is bold beyond its striking grey and white decor, augmented with flashes of red at every turn— right down to the smart, crimson chairs.

This popular, all-day, cafeteria-styled haunt is winning converts by the week for a number of reasons from its quick, creative and healthily conceived cuisine and free Wi-Fi to the smart selection of locally made ciders and other sips. Good B.C. wineries are at the fore and—take note wine gougers—fairly priced. You can get a serious glass of Tantalus Riesling for $9 or Herder Meritage for $8. We also like the focus on well made beer such as Central City’s Red Racer IPA. In fact, even the soft drinks are all Canadian.

We recently checked out Commune’s busy brunch and were rewarded with perfectly soft poached eggs over a tasty jumble of chorizo, with peas, spinach, tomatoes and patatas bravas.

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Commune Café is winning converts by the week for its sleek design and photo Tim Pawsey sustainable approach to food. compostable take-out containers.

And the attention to detail shows. Local shrimp, tuna, wild salmon and sablefish rule the seafood options, which include an excellent wild smoked salmon sandwich with all the trimmings ($7). A robust, roast pumpkin soup is the perfect winter warmer, while more substantial plates range from Berkshire pork belly with braised red cabbage and apple sauce ($13) to hearty braised beef with red wine jus and creamed mashed potatoes ($15).

A prime lure, the central communal table is in constant play, while those seeking a more separate setting can opt for the comfortable window booths.

Regional, sustainable, local—more than buzzwords, they’ve ignited a culinary revolution and become a mantra by which to live for several restaurateurs, and more than a few poseurs as almost everyone these days likes to lay claim to the philosophy. However, those who really want to walk the walk, sign up with Green Table. It’s a Vancouver-based organization that works with restaurants

to ensure every step, from ingredients to dishwashing and take-out, is executed in the most sustainable manner possible.

Even the decor comes under scrutiny. Witness Commune Café’s smart, natural cork, domed lampshades that cast a warm glow over evening tables.

Who else is among the city’s greenest restaurants? It might just surprise you. O’Doul’s rethought its supply systems from top to bottom so much so that in 2009 it won both WHERE Magazine’s Green Table Award and WHERE’s Ocean Wise Sustainable Seafood Award. And Cactus Club employs a top down “Green First” philosophy in all of its outlets.

Commune’s philosophy of offering soundly sourced, healthy ingredients at fair prices was once seen as the wave of the future, but for many these days, it’s the only way to eat. Commune Café may be smartly trimmed in proletariat red, but underneath it’s decidedly hipster green. info@hiredbelly.com

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Mery Erdal is in no imminent danger of disappearing completely. It’s true, she died 10 years ago, but her son Itai Erdal, known as one of the best lighting designers in the country, has immortalized her in this solo show, a mixed media theatre piece that’s so personal, it feels like open heart surgery.

We learn as much about Itai Erdal as we do about his mother in How to Disappear Completely. How he went to film school in Vancouver after emigrating from Jerusalem but ended up designing lights for theatre and dance companies.

How he’s travelled a lot, has a lot of entertaining stories to tell and is known by his friends as a “good storyteller.” He’s 37, single, wants marriage and children.

But his career went on hold when, in September 2000, his mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

Erdal flew back to Jerusalem to be with her and, aspiring documentary filmmaker that he was at the time, to record the process on film.

In the first large video image we see of Mery—and we’ve been eager to see her—she’s wearing a bathing suit and sunglasses, and she’s sitting in a lounge chair on a beach. She has a full head of hair. A literature professor, she’s articulate and more than a bit scratchy, balking at the seriousness of Itai’s questions. She suggests that perhaps his sister Ayana, a poet, should do the interviewing. He persists, and when Mery claims that love and death are the two things we all think about, Itai asks, “What about money?”

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“Money is just a means to get love or postpone death,” she replies. Her response tells us this is going to be an interesting journey.

How to Disappear Completely is the culmination of hours of video footage, hundreds of photos, dramaturgy by Anita Rochon and direction by James Long.

Erdal moves into the performance area in mismatched socks, holding a small portable lighting device in his hands.

It’s natural that, as a lighting designer, he uses lighting as a way of describing his relationship to various people and experiences. He would, for example, illuminate his sister in Surprise Pink to soften her edges. He explains what the “shin-buster” can do, what side lighting or top lighting is good for. But his favourite is the Parcan, which, as it fades, its colour grows warmer and warmer.

Now there’s a metaphor to hold on to.

As a performer, Erdal appears completely at ease and totally engaging on stage. He pads around, adjusting and

moving lights, letting us know there are 79 lighting cues and we are, at that point, at number 22, opening and closing curtains behind which are the video clips (with projection design by Jamie Nesbitt). The performance is so candid, so straightforward, that to call it a performance seems silly. It’s Itai Erdal being Itai Erdal.

After the 70-minute show, I asked him, “How do you live through, night after night, the death of your mother?”

“It’s a celebration of her life,” he replied with a big smile.

Produced by Chop Theatre (with development partner Rumble Productions) for the Chutzpah! Festival, this is intimate theatre that’s astonishingly brave and completely entertaining. Mery was right: love and death are the things we all think about. How To Disappear Completely inspires us to live like a Parcan, shining brightly then glowing warmly as we fade to black. joled@telus.net

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Dylan Baldi is the nerdy, nasally 19-year-old powerpop savant behind Cleveland, Ohio’s Cloud Nothings, and his scrappy new album is a jittery blast of hooks and teen angst that’s hard to resist. Sounding like he’s washed down a steady diet of Hüsker Dü, The Replacements and Superchunk with a gallon of Jolt cola, the 11 songs on Cloud Nothings’ self-titled sophomore album pogo along a frantic clip. But hyperactivity isn’t the same as being a spazz, and Cloud Nothings’ tightly wound tunes—at times recalling the snottybut-sweet lo-fi goodness of Jay Reatard and Wavves— are as precise as they are catchy. The only problem, and it’s a good one to have, is that Baldi’s rapid-fire power-pop assault leaves hardly any time to catch your breath before it’s all over and you’re reaching for the repeat button.

—Michael Kissinger

Similar to 2000’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, P.J. Harvey’s latest finds the singer-songwriter enamored, even consumed, by place. But instead of the hot streets and sexy bustle of New York City, Harvey has refocused her sharp gaze towards her home England.

Which might explain why Let England Shake lacks much of the warmth and sensuality that’s marked previous albums. Singing about doomed soldiers, historic battles, war and death also tends to do that. Overall it’s a spooky, weird and thoroughly enchanting album, which at one point has Harvey mimicking what sounds like Middle Eastern vocal exercises while another track has her singing “England you leave a taste, a bitter one.” Sounds like someone could use a vacation.

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Led by charismatic frontman Murray Lightburn, Montreal’s The Dears have a habit of releasing sprawling Britpop influenced albums that favour dramatics over concise melodies, followed by concise Brit-pop influenced albums that favour immediacy over grandiosity.

Degeneration Street, the band’s fifth record, finds The Dears, for the most part, back in sweeping epic territory. That’s not to say there aren’t plenty of heartpumping moments such as the Cure-like “5 Chords” or rocking moments such as the dark Radiohead riffing of “Blood,” the Pulp-y swagger of “Thrones” or the Motown shuffle “Yesteryear.”

But there are also a handful of tunes, steeped in a thick ’70s rock groove, that tend to chew the scenery. And while the scenery can be enjoyable, sometimes you just want to get to where you’re going.

The Dears play Venue March 5.

—MK

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Utopia Festival encourages women to plug into digital culture State of the Arts with Cheryl Rossi

When Irwin Oostindie, the executive director of W2 Community Media Arts, attended parties and producers’ workshops W2 had been hosting, he noticed something. The events predominantly featured and attracted men.

So Oostindie set out to change this pervasive phenomenon by help creating the Utopia Festival, Vancouver’s inaugural celebration of women and digital culture, with workshops, dance parties and performances taking place March 5 at W2 Storyeum.

Sex-sure electronic music performance artist Peaches, throat singer Tanya Tagaq and more than 30 other international, national and local women artists will rock a pre-party to the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. The Utopia Festival welcomes women aged 15 and older to daytime workshops and seminars led by festival headliners, and men and women to a lunchtime mobile dance party and evening readings, spoken word, nighttime DJ and audiovisual performances.

Social inclusion is a mandate of W2 so it only makes sense to Oostindie to foster

women’s forays into all levels of the music business.

“If women are not having the opportunity to have their cultural lives reflected in the culture that they’re consuming, then that’s a very fundamental problem,” Oostindie said, pointing to the importance of creating amateur and professional support networks, including women-owned record labels, touring companies, booking agencies and venues.

Maren Hancock (a.k.a. DJ Betti Forde), DJ Niña Mendoza and DJ and producer Andrea Graham (a.k.a. The Librarian) are co-curating the festival.

Hancock, who started DJing in Vancouver in 1999, faced incredulous questions each night she “manned” the decks back then, including punters wondering where the real DJ was.

But the aging club kid and academic who moved to Toronto in 2009 said she saw more women DJs hit our local scene starting in 2006. She hopes the workshops at the Utopia Festival will help get more women into producing, not just spinning music, something she hasn’t started yet.

“I’m producing a PhD right now,” she said. “I study women and electronic music and I’m studying the ‘herstory’ of DJing in Canada. There’s a really famous book called Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, but it basically says women didn’t DJ in the past, which is not true.”

DJ Betti Forde performs at the Utopia Festival March 5 at W2 Storyeum.

Hancock is excited that Tara Rodgers, author of the Pink Noises book and website, which feature interviews with women in electronic music, will open the conference via Skype.

Peaches will provide a keynote address along with a question and answer session during the evening showcase, which includes performances by Tagaq and writers such as Hiromi Goto.

Then Peaches, Tagaq, Isis Salam, Forde and others will inspire women who will follow in their tracks until 4 a.m.

Oostindie said W2 dubbed the festival Utopia for a reason. “So much of the development of technology is guided by military and patriarchal systems that surround us, that there’s a serious dystopia that we’re walking into.” Creating a world where women produce, use and design technology would improve the infrastructure of our lives, which technology is increasingly playing a role in, he said.

Next year’s festival will focus on other forms of digital technology, although Hancock is happy this year’s spotlight is on women creating visuals and sound.

“Music makes the world go round. Music conveys so many messages to the world,” she said. “And music is also very empowering and it’s also very sexual. And so to be a producer or a DJ controlling that is women having power. And the world doesn’t want that because then we won’t be able to do 80 per cent of the world’s labour but only own nine per cent of the world’s wealth and be f---ing trafficked and abused and f---ed over every f---ing place in the whole world.”

Utopia Festival is providing mentored training on building a festival to interns. For more information about the festival and interning, see utopiafestival.eventbrite.com. crossi@vancourier.com

Presents:

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Koemer Recital Hall, 1270 Chestnut Street Tickets $40 through www.vtix.com or call 778-279-4214 More info at: www.vwms.ca

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PARTAIK Frank Joseph,

Born April 25, 1927. Passed away peacefully on February 18, 2011 at 83 years old.

Survived by Partner Odette Coulombe of 26 years and Wife Lillian Irene 30 years. Children Dan, Robert (predeceased), Lorelee, Ron & Chris, 8 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Service at Guardian Angle Parish, 1161 Broughton St. Van B.C., March 2 at 2 p.m. In Lieu of flowers donationS to Red Cross in Franks name. Your jokes and humor will be greatly missed.

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Singles Clubs

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Wonder: The Foundation of Critical Thinking SUNDAYS: March 20th, March 27th, April 3rd and April 10th 1:30-3:30 PM

The Knox community is honoured to welcome as quest speaker and workshop leader, Sandy Gillis, the author of Thinking Woman and co-author of Introducing Critical Thinking.

She will present a series of four Workshops with discussions exploring, through faith, the human quest for understanding, influenced by the writings of the Canadian philosopher Bernard Lonergan.

These FREE Workshops are Open to Everyone Knox United Church Fellowship Centre 5600 Balaclava Street (at 41st) Vancouver, BC 604-261-3747 For more info email: psalm119@telus.net

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General Employment

LABORATORY ASSISTANT

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

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

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

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

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General Employment

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

Government Financial Aid may be available. Hilltop 604-930-8377 See our ad in todays paper under Education.

PART-TIME PIER/AIRPORT CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENTS Needed from April 25-Sept 30, 2011. Must be available to work Friday’s and weekends. Computer proficiency and previous Customer Service experience is an asset. Email resume to hr.yvr@tmsgateway.com. Local interviews will be held March 4&5.

FISH PROCESSING LABOURERS

Sung Fish Co. Ltd. at 1795 Pandora St, Vancouver. F/T job. Clean & cut fish, unpack & pack fish on ice. Training incl’d. $10-$15/hr. 2 wks pd vacation.

Fax resume: 604-255-4781 Email: sung@sungfish.com

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Music/Theatre/ Dance

Cheryl Carruthers Piano Studio Lessons, all levels. 21 yrs exp.

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General Employment

FROZEN INVENTORY Control Person req’d for Fish plant. Some exp. necessary. Apply in person at: Van Sea’s, 3777 Keith Street, Burnaby. 604-437-4070

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.

Training, support and remuneration are provided. Funding is available for modifications to better equip your home. A child at risk is waiting for an open door. Make it yours.

Call 604-708-2628 www.plea.ca

VANCOUVER’S LARGEST Lawn and Property Maintenance Company pays $120-$360 DAILY for outdoor Spring/Summer work.

Hiring honest, competitive, and energetic individuals to fill our various 2011 positions.

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Home Support

F/T live-in experienced Caregiver/ Childcare $8.50/hr 40 hrs per/wk Caregiver training certificate req.

Jessie or Cathy, 604-877-0738.

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Hotel Restaurant

Sapporo Ramen Shogun Jap. Rest. in Downtown is hiring a F/T Cook-Jap position. 3-5 yrs Jap. cooking exp. with knowledge of food req. Salary $17.50/hr (40 hrs/week). Resume - fax 604-988-9257 / shogunramen@hotmail.com

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Office Personnel

Funded in whole or part through the CanadaBritish Columbia Labour Market Development Agreement

Receptionist F/T

CUSTOMER SERVICE REP

Apex Aluminum extrusions is looking for a customer service rep who will be responsible for responding to customer inquires, taking and processing orders and ensuring that any problems customers are experiencing are resolved. Qualifications, minimum one year experience in metals industry. Experience using MS Office and specialized software. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to calculate figures and amounts. Ability to solve practical problems in situations where only limited standardization exists.

To apply, please email or fax your resume and a cover letter outlining why you believe you are a good Customer Service Representative.

By email: bill@apexextrusions.ca • By Fax: 604-882-3517 Attention Bill • Do not phone about this position.

❍ TUNNELING SUPERINTENDENT ❍ Responsible for ground support, deep shaft heavy lifts and concreting of steel pipe in deep shafts. $2200+ weekly and company benefits, depending on experience.

Initial North Vancouver project placement Temporary assignment, with possibility of permanent placement.

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F/T Receptionist position available with professional engineering company in Burnaby. Successful candidates will have a strong command of English, excellent grammar and proofreading skills and a strong attention to detail.We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is also a team player with the ability to meet deadlines. We offer a positive environment and competitive pay.

To apply and for more information visit:

www.jrsengineering.com We appreciate your interest, however, only those considered for interviews will be contacted.

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Student Employment

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

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Trades/Technical

LOGGING COMPANY looking for Owner Operator Logging Truck Contractors.

Short log for Mackenzie area.

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3 KITCHEN displays for sale.

Styles: Country, White Traditional, & Modern Fir/Stainless Steel.

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UBC RESEARCH

Vision Laboratory at Children’s Hospital needs volunteers (4-12yrs) with good vision and hearing for a study on visual perception. Study involves computer games. Honorarium paid.

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Foster homes urgently req’d for rescued, abandoned & neglected dogs. Many breeds. www. abetterlifedogrescue.com PUREBRED LAB puppies Born Dec 25, 2010, 1st shots, dewormed, vet checked. black golden & blond. $550-$650. phone 604-308-4401 or 604-850-9690

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

EDUCATION

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Sprott-Shaw Community College has been training students in BC for over 107 years. We want you to be a success story too!

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Pet Services

HOMEWORKERS NEEDED!!!

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GARAGE SALES

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Also stationary bike, garden tools, golf clubs, china, and more home treasures.

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INDOOR FLEA MARKET AT KILLARNEY COMMUNITY CENTRE Saturday, Feb 26 10am to 3pm This 'Community Garage Sale' is held in our gymnasium with over 65 vendors with a variety of goods. For more info, please visit our website at www.killarneycentre.ca or call (604) 718-8201.

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NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Henry Tyszkow otherwise known as Henry Tyskow and Andre Tyszkow, Deceased, who died on March 17, 2010, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned c/o #205 - 2922 Glen Drive, Coquitlam, British Columbia, V3B 2P5, before March 24, 2011, after which date the Executrix will distribute the said Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which she has notice.

NANCY LOUISE SAMOHEL, Executrix of the Estate of Henry Tyszkow otherwise known as Henry Tyskow and Andre Tyszkow, Deceased NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: ESTATE OF IVA MARIA BRICEL late of St. Vincent’s Hospital Langara, 255 West 62nd Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5X 4V4 (the 'Estate') NOTICE is given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate are required to send them to the Executrix, Sandra Bricel Miller, at P.O. Box 11130, #3000 - 1055 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3R3, on or before March 25, 2011, after which date the Estate assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have been received.

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

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Be ambitious Sunday/ Monday – but don’t seek co-operation before Sunday eve. Happiness, friends, flirtations and entertainment, hopes and wishes (especially about money and partnership) fill Tuesday/Wednesday – or they would, if you weren’t so tired. But the glimmers of all these are true, and they’ll grow as March progresses. Soon, very soon, an “explosion” of gratifying and intriguing events will occur in this area of friends and hopes.

Retreat, rest, contemplate, plan and interact with government, institutions and “head office” – all is smooth, successful. A new plan emerges.

Taurus April 20-May 20: These weeks hold happiness – especially this Thursday to Saturday. A dream comes true, friends gather ‘round, optimism fills you, and the horizon lifts to exciting new prospects! (Don’t expect huge popularity before June: the friends you gather will tend to be old faithful ones, especially males.) Wisdom, gentle love, legal affairs, far travel, intellectual and cultural involvements draw you Sunday (caution) and Monday (sweet luck). Get ambitious Tuesday/Wednesday: these days offer a good, productive start to a weeks-long phase that can promote you, or bring praise from higher-ups.

Gemini May 21-June 20: Be ambitious these weeks, especially Thursday-Saturday. Higher-ups are impatient, critical – yet they might make a wish come true! Until June, you’re blessed with general good fortune, especially with friends, light romance, and in progressing toward a bright future. This is the time to wish and hope, Gemini! (A wish now gets answered in 16-28 months.) Mysteries, finances, sexual longings arise unluckily Sunday, luckily Monday. Intellectual, legal and travel affairs, gentle love, understanding and cultural involvements flow nicely Tuesday/Wednesday – they’ll be lucky all March.

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Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: The emphasis lies on Cancer June 21-July 22: March – and especially work, health, machinery, “necessity,” and the wellThursday to Saturday this week – emphasizes gentle being of your dependents, all March, but especially love and understanding, legal affairs, far travel, this Thursday to Saturday, when a new project or intellectual,cultural and educational matters.Because duty might begin. A “help-mate” relationship might this is a time of love (and legalities) relationships also start – if you want to settle for this rather than loom significantly Sunday (unsuccessful, say no) and wait for or risk chasing a more romantic, passionate Monday (successful, say yes). Life’s depths, finances, link, OK; just be aware – and honest. Focus on mutually owned resources, intimacy, research, home, security Sunday/Monday. Romance, pleasure, dreams, sexual urges – any or all glide in midweek speculation and a wee winning streak Tuesday/ through March. All’s smooth here, minor progress is Wednesday! easy. You might start a new travel, legal, publishing, or educational project Thursday onward.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Romance, joy, pleasure, charming children, creative surges and risk-taking Leo July 23-Aug. 22: The accent lies, all March, urges, sports and games – these fill the weeks on mysteries, research, detective work, dreams, ahead, especially this Thursday to Saturday, hidden meanings, and the “unseen” connections when a new love (with a co-worker?) creative between people, intimacy, sexual urges, on finances, work or school program could begin. Do errands, investments, settlements, funding, lifestyle changes, communicate, handle paperwork and busy little health factors and diagnosis. A lot to think about, but tasks Sunday (careful, proceed slowly) and Monday let your thinking be intuitive, let your subconscious (all’s well). Retreat from the bustling crowd Tuesday/ take over, especially Thursday to Saturday, when Wednesday – you need a bit of down-home time, these deep things are highlighted. A legal, educational nature, gardening, etc. – this area will be filled with or travel matter might take an unexpected turn. sweetness for a few weeks. A love relationship will Tackle chores Sunday/Monday. Agreements favoured “get domestic” or end.

Tuesday/Wednesday – affectionate meetings loom!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Your home, children, Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: The weeks ahead property, security and business foundations are feature exciting meetings, relationships, relocation emphasized over the three weeks ahead, especially possibilities, agreements and arguments, challenges this Thursday to Saturday, when a semi-important and opportunities – this Thursday to Saturday project could begin in these areas. (Semi-important highlights these, and might trigger a new bond or because it might have an effect on future love/ open a new door. (Yes, step through!) Romance, romance, or aid your “creative space” or – at the beauty, pleasure and exciting risk call Sunday (poor very least, it will soak up the energy that’s making results) and Monday (good results). Take a chance, you a bit temperamental on the home front.) approach someone who attracts you. Tackle chores However, do NOT buy (or move into) a new home and health concerns Tuesday/Wednesday – good now through April 1. (Long-term friction – and luck and grace affect this area now to late March. You obstacles to love – would result.) Money caution might be inexplicably excited by someone Thursday Ads continued Sunday – spend Monday.

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Feb. 27 - Mar. 5 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: The weeks ahead are not supremely important, so you can hang up the stress hat for awhile. Keep busy, do errands, paperwork, communicate, but just glide. Sunday presents you with the same combination of career obstacles and determination that will be around for almost two more years. Monday offers ambitious success. Money’s featured Tuesday/Wednesday – your luck rises in this area until late March. You can splurge on a luxury or two. Begin communicating about or (lightly) researching property now – you might act soon (late April best for the new, earlier for the old.)

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Chase money, buy/sell, seek new lucrative clients, deal with possessions for the few weeks ahead, especially this Thursday to Saturday, when a new project might begin in these areas. Memory, rote learning and sensual attractions are also favoured. Retreat, rest, contemplate what is permitted and what is not, Sunday/Monday. Applies to the law, ethics, etc. Your energy, charm and effectiveness bounce back late Monday night through Wednesday – start significant projects, seek favours, show yourself off. A subtle grace and attractiveness enters you now to late March. Others will notice!

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: You’re the star of the show this month – especially Thursday to Saturday, when your energy, charisma, effectiveness, leadership qualities and decisiveness make you a winner! Don’t waste this time – use it to start important projects, to impress important people, and to tackle problems you’ve found daunting in the past. Your will power is at a two-year height, especially about money-making and possessions. Your sex appeal soars also, all month!

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Mazda5 jumps to the future with 2012 edition davidchao

The Mazda5 looks and acts like a small minivan, but is actually classified as a compact car/wagon that’s based on the Mazda3 platform. transmission is optional ($1,200).

The 2012 Mazda5 is offered in two trim levels, GS and GT. The base retail price is $21,795 and for that you get a well equipped van with climate control air conditioning, power windows, locks and mirrors and a tilt and telescopic steering wheel with audio controls.

There’s an optional Convenience Package that includes Bluetooth hands-free connectivity, cruise control, trip computer, leather wrapped steering wheel and antitheft alarm system for $845. The top-line Mazda5 GT adds 17-inch alloy wheels, a body package with

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A Luxury Package upgrade for the GT includes power moonroof, leather seats and a fold-out second-row table for another $1,790.

Mazda5 is a smart and affordable transportation idea with appeal beyond young family minivan buyers, as it’s also popular with mature buyers.

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While its basic shape and dimensions are unchanged, the new styling theme was inspired by its nagare design culture, which means “flow” in Japanese. It’s most evident along the side panels, where swirling body creases have a sculpted-by-the-wind appearance that adds to an overall sense of motion.

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The styling changes apparently do improve the overall aerodynamic efficiency (drag coefficient of 0.30) of Mazda5, which also translates into less drag and optimal lift characteristics at highway speeds.

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Mazda has had the smaller six-seat passenger van market to itself in recent years, which is a little surprising as they are very popular in Europe. Any direct competition, remember the Nissan Access, has disappeared as cross-utility vehicles in various forms have been the centre of attention for its auto maker rivals.

That said, while it looks and acts like a small minivan, Mazda5 is actually classified as a compact car/wagon, and it’s based on the Mazda3 platform. This also means that it conforms to the higher regulatory safety requirements of a car—it’s a subtle yet important difference.

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Interior—Inside it remains as spacious as before and comes with three rows of flexible seating for six. The seating is tiered (theatre style) to give all occupants better forward vision. The third row is designed as an occasional use seating position that flows flat when not in use.

The seats configured for two, three, four, five or six passengers, or up to 857-litres of cargo space.

A low-profile fuel tank and a compact multi-link rear suspension allow good legroom for those sitting in the second and third rows.

Safety—In addition to a standard electronic stability control system the Mazda5 comes with dual front and side airbags for first row passengers and side air curtains that protect occupants in all three rows of seats. The 2012 Mazda5 also comes with Brake Override a system that prioritizes the brake application over the gas pedal. If both pedals are accidentally pressed at the same time, the brakes will stop the vehicle.

Performance—You really have to drive the Mazda5 to get a full appreciation of the finer points of this great little vehicle. It certainly provides a more entertaining and enjoyable driving experience when compared to a conventional

than the previous 2.3-litre engine.

The low- to mid-range torque provided is excellent and it peeks at 163 ft-lb. and 4,000 rpm. It gives the new Mazda5 a linear, competent feel on acceleration and a more relaxed driving experience.

My test Mazda5 came with the five-speed electronically controlled automatic, which also provides manual shift control. This transmission features Mazda’s Active lb. adaptive Shift protocol first used on the RX-8 sports car.

Part-throttle downshifts can be made with a quick nudge of the gas pedal and when the car is braked aggressively the transmission also downshifts to also provide engine braking and a quicker exit from a bend.

While the new Mazda5 uses the same suspension system as the previous generation with minor teaks, the spring rates have been increased to improve straight-line stability at highway speeds. Despite its long wheelbase, Mazda5 also has an impressively tight turn circle of just 11.2 metres.

The score—The 2012 Mazda5 is a great little passenger van that’s fun to drive and a best kept (vehicle) secret whose time may have arrived, and is waiting to be re-discovered.

With files from Bob McHugh. david.chao@leansensei.com

Inside, the Mazda5 remains as spacious as before and comes with three rows of flexible seating for six.

Driver sight lines are generally very good with special thanks to a large back window and big side mirrors, although a backup camera would still be helpful. The front seats are bucket style with manual adjustments and excellent side

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: *2011 Corolla Sedan CE BU42EP(A) MSRP is $17,965 and includes $1515 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. Lease example:4.9% Lease APR for 60 months. Monthly payment is $199 with $1,958 down payment. Total lease obligation is $17,965. Lease 60 mos based on 120,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. Lease offer - Down payment, first monthly payment and security deposit plus applicable taxes are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required, on approval of credit. † Cash Back Offer (Up to $1500 on Corolla) valid on retail delivery of select new unregistered Toyota vehicles, when purchased from a Toyota BC dealership. Non-stackable cash back offers may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services sub-vented lease or finance rates. Vehicle must be purchased, registered and delivered by February 28, 2011. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. ††Cash back offer (2011 Corolla CE $500) valid on retail delivery of select new unregistered Toyota vehicles, when purchased, leased or financed from a Toyota BC dealership. Vehicle must be leased, registered and delivered by February 28, 2011. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra for all offers. Offers valid until February 28, 2011. Pricing does not include HST. Lease offer - Down payment, first monthly payment and security deposit plus applicable taxes are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required, on approval of credit. Visit your Toyota BC Dealer or www.toyotabc.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained in this advertisement (or on toyotabc.ca) and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted.

CUSTOMIZE CUSTO OMIZE YOUR TRUCK WITH

8000 +$ 1000 $

MANUFACTURER REBATE ON SELECTED MODELS

Recycle your 2003 or older vehicle * & get $ towards a new Ford.. up to

2,300

BURNABY PRE-OWNED

FINANCE THROUGH FORD CREDIT & SAVE UP TO AN ADDITIONAL

NOW $6,995

7 FORD FOCUS SEDAN

PFO4672

56,888 KMS,ECONOMICAL 5 SPEED

$7,995

06 FORD FUSION SE

PFO4506

52,413 KMS, 2.3 LTR, AUTO, 16 " WHEELS

$8,995

08 FORD FUSION SE

66 FORD MUSTANG COUPE

$15,995

65 FORD MUSTANG COUPE

$16,995

1FN7039A

‡

312 PER MO/ 48 MONTHS OR

2 ,00 000 00 0 DOWN OR TRADE 2,000

267 PER MO/ 48 MONTHS

07 FORD F150 SUPERCAB 4X4, XTR

54,549 KMS, 4.6 V8

‡

08 FORD F150 SUPERCAB 4X4

$19,995

04 FORD F250 SUPERCAB 4X4

$20,980

10 FORD RANGER SUPERCAB 4X4

$20,999

10 FORD ESCAPE XLT 4X4

$23,995

08 FORD F150 SUPERCAB 4X4

$23,995

PFO7047

33,535 KMS

25,026 KMS, SPORT TRIM, 4.0 LTR , AUTO

MF17416A

66 FORD MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE

139,256 MILES, RED, AUTO

†

08 FORD F150 CREW CAB FOOSE

$28,995

10 FORD SPORT TRAC 4X4

$28,995

10 FORD FLEX LIMITED

$35,995

08 FORD F250 SUPERCAB 4X4

$36,995

10 LINCOLN MKX

$39,995

11,869 KMS, POWER ROOF, ALL WHEEL DRIVE

4,891 KMS, POWER STROKE DIESEL, XLT TRIM

PF14695

07 FORD F150 LARIAT SUPERCAB

$24,995

10 FORD FUSION SEL AWD

$25,980

MSRP

10 FORD FUSION SPORT AWD

$25,995

S AL ALE PRICE PRIC CE SALE

59,065 KMS, LEATHER, PANORAMIC ROOF

08 FORD EDGE LTD AWD

$28,980

10 FORD ESCAPE LTD 4WD V6

$28,995

10 FORD ESCAPE LTD AWD

$29,998

10 FORD FLEX LTD AWD

$30,995

10 FORD EXPLORER SPORT TRAC XLT 4WD

$30,995

10 FORD FLEX LTD AWD

$34,980

10 FORD EXPLORER LTD AWD

$37,980

10 LINCOLN MKX LTD AWD

$39,980

60,114 60 KMS, NAV, DVD, LEATHER, MOONROOF

11,689 KMS, POWER ROOF, HTD SEATS, SYNC,

$

PF14695

BTA6705

21,449

PFO0817

BFN4803

9,868 KMS, 3.5L V6 POWER, LEATHER, ALLOYS, SYNC PFN9956

14 9 80 14,980

18,455 KMS, POWER ROOF, SYNC, 17"CHROME

YOU SAVE

6 469 6,469

$

PFO4581

BES6266

14,648 KMS, HTD SEATS, MOONROOF, 17" CHROME BES6238 21,910 KMS, PANORAMIC ROOF, SYNC, LEATHER

16,820 KMS, POWER MOONROOF, V8

1RA0236

BFL2206

7,218 KMS, PANORAMIC ROOF, LEATHER

BFL6094

BEX1594

BFL2212

27,471 KMS, 20" ALLOYS, DVD, POWER ROOF, 7-PASS BEX1575

PF21037

4.0L V6 ENGINE • 4 WHEEL ABS • ALL -TERRAIN TIRES • FOG LAMPS • ALLOY WHEELS • INTERMITTENT WIPERS • 5 YEAR WARRANTY • DUAL AIRBAGS • CD STEREO W/ MP 3 INPUT • TRAILER WIRING • GAUGE PACKAGE • 7200LB GVWR

Burnaby

877-850-9071 Dealer #8575

MON - THUR 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM | FRI - SAT 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM SUN 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

www.coastalfordbby.com

$20,995

BES6238

$22,995

$

5750 Lougheed Hwy. at Holdom. Dealer #8573 TOLL FREE:

09 FORD E250 CARGO

40,7 40,716 KMS, 5.4L TRITON V8 POWER

PFO9079

BLI2145

$19,998

08 FORD TAURUS X LTD AWD

VEHICLE MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN.

PFO1630

13,595 KMS,V6, 4.0 LTR, POWER ROOF

08 FORD ESCAPE XLT AWD

PFO8343

$22,980

2011 FORD RANGER SUPERCAB SPORT

PFO3452

53,067 KMS, LEATHER PACKAGE

$19,995

PFC5033

29,545 KMS, MOONROOF,20" ALLOYS, LEATHER

1MU1973A

$28,990

09 FORD ESCAPE XLT 4WD

BFC5076

07 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4WD

1.6 LTR • 6 SPEED AUTOMATIC • BLIND SPOT POWER MIRRORS • SYNC WITH 6 SPEAKERS • 2 WOOFERS AND 2 TWEETERS • CRUISE/SPEED CONTROL • 15" DROP ALUMINUM WHEELS • FRONT LED MARKERS • FRONT • KNEE,SIDE AND AIR BAG CURTAINS • TIRE PRESSURE •WARNING SYSTEM • TILT WHEEL WITH TELESCOPING STEERING WHEEL

$25,995

09 FORD F150 SUPERCREW 4X4

42,803 KMS, 5.4 LTR V8,

$17,995

07 FORD F150 XLT SUPER CREW 4WD $21,995

PFO8453

36,963 KMS, 5.4 LTR V8

10 FFORD FOCUS 4DR SES

40,3 KMS, 6.5" BOX, POWER PACKAGE 40,385

1FI1175

BES7119

31,582 KMS, POWER ROOF, LEATHER

$16,995

16,642 MI, POWER PKG, BULK HEAD, RUNNING BOARDS PFO1809 16,6

MF21072A

85,009 KMS, 5.4 LTR, XLT TRIM GROUP

10 FORD FOCUS 4DR SES

18,057 KMS, KMS AUTO, PONY PKG, POWER GROUP, ALLOYS 1MU3667A

47,8 47,854 KMS, V6 POWER, HTD SEATS, MOONROOF

222 PER MO/ 48 MONTHS

$19,995

PF18174

NOW $16,995

48,192 48,1 KMS, WELL EQUIPPED

4,00 000 00 0 DOWN DOWN OR TRADE TRADE 4,000

$

08 FORD MUSTANG COUPE

15,0 15,063 KMS, LEATHER, MOONROOF AND SYNC

‡

OR

$

VANCOUVER VANC COUVER P PRE-OWNED

10,246 KMS, LEATHER, MOONROOF, AUTO

1MU1973B

159,267 MILES, A CODE 289 V8, AUTO

19,892 KMS, ALL WHEEL DRIVE

$

$

10 FORD RANGER SUPERCAB 8,698 KMS, AIR AUTO

0 DOWN

1RA7127A

PFO7326

78,566 KMS, ONE OWNER

$

$13,980 $14,995

07 FORD ESCAPE XLT

2011 FORD FIESTA SE HATCHBACK SPORT†

$

69,538 MILES, 2 BRL, 289 V8, POWER STEERING

1,000 ON SELECTED VEHICLES

PFO0108

56,448 KMS, 2.3 LTR, 5 SPEED, POWER GROUP

$

WORTH OF NO EXTRA CHARGE FORD CUSTOM ACCESSORIES

WITH THE PURCHASE OR LEASE OF MOST NEW 2011 FORD TRUCKS

23,510 KMS, PANORAMIC ROOF, 20" ALLOYS, HTD SEATS BLI2151

Vancouver

530 Evans Ave. (off Terminal) Dealer #8575 TOLL FREE:

877-653-5020

MON - THUR 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM | FRI - SAT 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

SUN 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

www.coastalfordvcr.com

WISE BUYERS READ THE LEGAL COPY: *Cash purchase or lease a new 2011 FORD FIESTA SE HATCHBACK SPORT for $19,980. ‡$7,789 Option to Purchase 80,000 Kms Lease. *Cash purchase or lease a new 2011 FORD RANGER SUPERCAB SPORT a MSRP of $21,449 sale price $14,980 Offer ends February 28th 2011. Offers include freight and Air Tax but exclude license, fuel fill charge, insurance, PDI, PPSA, administration fees, any environmental charges or fees, and all applicable taxes. The new vehicle must be delivered or factory ordered from your participating Ford Dealer during the Program Period. This offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. This offer is only valid at participating Canadian dealers. Only Ford lets you recycle your 2003 or older vehicle and get $ 2,300 towards a new Ford. This offer is in addition to incentives currently offered when combined with the $300 available from the Retire Your Ride program, funded by the Government of Canada on qualifying vehicles of model year 1995 or older. Visit ford.ca for details. This offer may be cancelled at any time without notice. See your Ford Dealer for complete details or call the Ford Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-565-3673. Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. – P.O. Box 2000, Oakville, Ontario L6J 5E4 Ad #56_11-02-25.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

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ONLY KIA South Vancouver offers:

1 YEAR FREE VEHICLE ADJUSTMENTS | LIFETIME FREE OIL & FILTER CHANGES | LIFETIME FREE CAR WASHES

NEW YEAR'S

THE

0

4

HURRY IN!

OFFER ENDS FEBRUARY 28

%

START THE YEAR

FINANCING FOR UP TO

84

MOS.**

ON SELECT MODELS

$$$

WITH SAVINGS!

ALL VEHICLES INCLUDE:

PAY

MP3/USB INPUT BLUETOOTH CONNECTIVITY°

UNTIL SPRING!

^

^ 2011 INTERNATIONAL TRUCK OF THE YEAR<

^

DOOR SEDAN

Rio EX shown

Forte Sedan SX shown

201 1

201 1

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KIA RIO WAS

$

13,695

NOW GET UP TO

3,700

$

IN CASH SAVINGS

CASH PURCHASE PRICE FROM

9,995

$

‡

HWY: 5.8L/100KM (49 MPG) CITY: 7.1L/100KM (40 MPG)

The All NEW

Soul 4u shown

WAS

$

15,995

NOW GET UP TO

KIA SOUL

0

%

FINANCING APR

FOR UP TO

IN CASH SAVINGS

201 1

KIA SPORTAGE NOW GET UP TO

60

1,250

$

2,000

$

MONTHS*

IN CASH SAVINGS

PLUS

CASH PURCHASE PRICE FROM

14,745

$

201 1

Sportage EX Luxury shown

‡

HWY: 5.7L/100KM (50 MPG) CITY: 8.1L/100KM (35 MPG)

NOW GET UP TO

500

$

IN LOAN SAVINGS !

HWY: 6.3L/100KM (45 MPG) CITY: 7.7L/100KM (37 MPG)

HWY: 6.9L/100KM (41 MPG) CITY: 10.0L/100KM (28 MPG)

VANCOUVER’S ONLY KIA DEALERSHIP

KIA SOUTH VANCOUVER KIAVANCOUVER.COM

604-326-6868

396 S.W. MARINE DRIVE, VANCOUVER

• 10 minutes from Delta • 15 minutes from Surrey • 5 minutes from Richmond • 5 minutes from Burnaby • minutes from Downtown

**0% purchase financing available on select 2011 Kia models for up to 84 months on approved credit (OAC). 0% purchase financing available on all 2011 Kia Rio and Rio5 models for up to 84 months on approved credit (OAC). !“No Payments Until Spring 2011” (60-day payment deferral) applies to purchase financing offers on all new 2011 Kia models on approved credit (OAC). No interest will accrue during the first 30 days of the financing contract. After 30 days interest starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay principal and interest monthly over the term of the contract. ‡Cash purchase price for 2011 Rio (RO542B)/2011 Forte Sedan (FO540B) is $9,995/$14,745 and includes a cash credit of $3,700/$1,250 based on the MSRP of $13,695/$15,995. !Cash savings vary by model and trim. *0% purchase financing available on 2011 Soul for up to 60 months on approved credit (OAC). !Loan credit for Soul (SO550B) is $500 and is available on purchase financing only on approved credit (OAC). Cash credit for 2011 Sportage (SP75BB) is up to $2,000. Cash credits vary by model & trim. All offers exclude licensing, registration, insurance, delivery and destination, PPSA, other taxes, and dealer administration fees. Other dealer charges may be required at the time of purchase. Other lease and financing options also available. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Prices subject to change without notice. Certain restrictions may apply. Vehicle images shown may include optional accessories and upgrades. "Highway/city fuel consumption for 2011 Sportage (SP55AB) is 6.9L (41 MPG)/10.0L (28 MPG); 2011 Rio (RO542B) is 5.8L (49 MPG)/7.1L (40 MPG); 2011 Soul (SO550B) is 6.3L (45 MPG)/7.7L (37 MPG); 2011 Forte Sedan (FO540B) is 5.7L (50 MPG)/8.1L (35 MPG). The actual fuel consumption of these vehicles may vary. These estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods. Refer to the Government of Canada publication EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. ^2011 Kia Sportage/2010 Kia Soul/2011 Kia Forte awarded the Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The award is applicable to all 2011 Sportage models manufactured after March 2010. Visit www.iihs.org for full details. <2011 Kia Sportage named 2011 International Truck of the Year by Road & Travel. Visit www.roadandtravel.com for full details. °The Bluetooth® word mark and logo are registered trademarks and are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. Some vehicles advertised may include optional accessories or after-sale equipment and may not be exactly as shown. Some conditions apply to the $500 Grad Rebate Program and $750 Kia Mobility Program. See dealer for details. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of print. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886.

Offers end February 28, 2011. KIA is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.

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Mighty Leaf Artisan Teas

assorted varieties

Meat Department

Green & & Black’s Chocolate Bars assorted varieties

3/22.98

3/7.98

5.99

Danone Activia Yogurt

725ml

Broccoli

assorted varieties

3/9.99

3/29.97

Certified Organic, California Grown

Choices’ Own Gourmet Chicken Sausages

650g • product of Canada

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

no msg or gluten

454g • product of Canada

assorted varieties

.98lb/ 2.16kg

assorted varieties

select varieties

Nature’s Path Organic Puff Cereals

Certified Organic, California Grown

Gourmet Chef Fresh Soups

100g

15 count • product of USA

Kicking Horse Organic Fair Trade Coffee

Red Cara Cara Navel Oranges from Tule Classic

Kettle Foods Potato Chips assorted varieties

3/4.98

6.99lb/15.41kg

3/6.99

170g • product of Canada

Strawberries

From the Deli

220g • product of USA

Certified Organic, California Grown

3.98

Choices’ Own Organic Turkey Roasts Silver Hills Mack’s Flax Bread

regular, smoked or basil and tarragon

3/8.97

615g • product of Canada

reg 4.49

Organic or Conventional • prepacked or bins

3/3.99

Bocconcini Cheese

48g • product of USA

2.49/100g

assorted varieties

3/8.97

reg 3.29

3/9.99

Rice Bakery

28.99

3/7.98

1 kit

155-258g • product of USA

Pamela’s Gluten-Free Cookies

Natural Factors Hi Potency B Complex Bonus Bottle

Life Choices Perogies

3/6.99

Essential for helping the body to deal with stress and to maintain healthy skin, hair, eyes, and muscle tone in the gastrointestinal tract.

assorted varieties

150-170g • product of USA

3/9.99

18.99

454g

Milton’s Crackers assorted varieties

Brown Rice Bread

4.99

An excellent way to kick-start your healthy eating plan and lose unwanted pounds before the summer months!

assorted varieties

113-142g • product of USA

assorted varieties

10.99

Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox Kit

Annie Chun’s Soup Bowls

Wholesome Country Sourdough Bread

8" Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

regular retail price

assorted varieties

From Our Bakery 575g

20% off

Sahale Gourmet Nut Blends

500g • product of Canada

2.99

Whole Raw Almonds

assorted varieties

Liberté Méditerranée Yogurt

Bulk Department

3.79/100g

Luna Bars

454g

3/9.99

454g

226-283g

Earth’s Choice Organic Canned Tomatoes

3/4.47

398ml • product of USA

210caps

Seventh Generation Dish Liquids assorted varieties

3/8.97

739ml

choicesmarkets.com Kitsilano

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 February 24 to March 2, 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

We reserve the right to limit quantities. Not all items may be available at all locations. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.