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Plan may cost $420 million Mark Hasiuk Staff writer

Like the Canada Line tunnel (inset), the proposed bike “Funnel” will connect southeast False Creek to downtown Vancouver. inset photo Ian Smith/Vancouver Sun main photo Dan Toulgoet

The next phase of bicycle infrastructure in Vancouver may include an underwater tunnel connecting downtown to southeast False Creek.

A 52-page city report, obtained by the Courier through Freedom of Information legislation, details the tunnel plan and other bicycle initiatives proposed

by Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver council majority.

According to the report, the bicycle tunnel—dubbed the “Funnel”—will begin near the south side of the Cambie Street Bridge, run parallel to the Canada Line tunnel under False Creek,

and resurface at Coopers Park, connecting with the seawall bike lane.

Cost estimates range from $340 million to $420 million. The report outlines a funding model combining private donations with provincial and municipal money. Prospective contractors include SNC-Lavalin, the Montreal-based engineering firm responsible for the Canada Line, and DigableProjects, an eco-construction company headquartered in San Francisco.

According to the report, the Funnel (125 metres long, six metres in diameter) will be constructed from recycled materials such as computers and diesel-powered transit buses.

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Green Party candidate notes past work with aboriginals

Continued from page 4 Douglas Roy, the Green Party candidate, marks his first attempt at political office with this campaign.

Most of his career has been in the education field. He’s currently a visiting professor in the international business department at Sun-Yat-Sen University in China. He said he spends an average of four months in China and eight months in Vancouver.

He’s lived in Vancouver South

for about six years, but told the Courier through email he’s running in Vancouver East because he’s often worked in the riding and feels a great connection to the district.

He was a program coordinator for the aboriginal youth worker training program at Vancouver Community College and has worked at the Vancouver Aboriginal Centre.

“When employed by Vancouver Community College and the Van-

couver Aboriginal Centre, I worked with young First Nations students trying to improve conditions for those involved in the sex and drug trades in the Downtown Eastside.

While governments have poured millions into the problems there, the solution has been avoiding them. Maybe it’s the governments that are the problem,” he said in his email, adding, “My wife and family are Chinese, as are about 30

per cent of the riding’s voters, and it doesn’t hurt to understand the people and their concerns.”

When asked why he’s running in a riding that’s been solidly behind Davies for 14 years, he said, “I know Libby Davies seems impossible to beat, as you put it, but that wasn’t a consideration in my decision. Anybody can be beaten.

That’s what elections are all about.

Right now, I’ve got the same num-

ber of votes as her,” he said. Regardless of the outcome, Douglas argues it’s important to spread the “green” message. “I think Vancouver East is particularly fertile ground for those seeds to grow,” he said.

Alex Bishop is expected to be the Liberal candidate, but details of his background were unavailable at the Courier’s deadline. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

Cops arrested Funnel consultant in 2009, found two dead moles

Continued from page 4 At the Funnel’s midway point, a bicycle service centre will include air hoses, a water cooler and first-aid medical supplies.

Additional recommendations aimed at tourism include a “glass-walled interpretive section” where cyclists can observe the underwater ecology of False Creek, and a mural at Coopers Park dedicated to bike history in Vancouver. The report also recommends other bicycling initiatives including a citywide bike

co-op and property tax breaks for “cycle family” households.

Mayor Gregor Robertson refused to comment on this story. Vision Coun.

Geoff Meggs, Robertson’s unofficial cycling czar, also ignored several interview requests but emailed a statement to the Courier.

“From day one, this council and this mayor have made bike infrastructure a key part of our agenda,” wrote Meggs, noting new bike lanes on Hornby, Dunsmuir Street and the Burrard

James “Bud” McElroy Street Bridge. “An underwater bike tunnel should not come as a surprise to anyone.”

James “Bud” McElroy, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, is a consultant with DigableProjects, one of the contractors mentioned in the city report. McElroy visited city hall in October, and alongside deputy city manager Sadhu Johnston, helped city planners draft the tunnel proposal.

Speaking by phone from his home in San Francisco, McElroy said the Funnel plan was modelled after bike tunnels in Venice, Italy and the controversial Tsrif Lirpa connector

in Helsinki, Finland. “The future is underground, below and away from those carbon-spewing Earth-killers we call automobiles,” said McElroy, who once spent six months in an underground bunker as part of a university experiment.

“If you bore a tunnel correctly, with love and foresight, its allure is too great to resist.”

McElroy left Berkeley’s department of architecture in 2008 after university officials discovered several large marijuana plants in

his office. As an animal rights activist, McElroy focuses on burrowing animals such as gerbils and groundhogs. In 2009, he was arrested in Detroit while protesting the federal bailout of America’s big three automakers. Although no formal charges were laid, McElroy donated $2,500 to a Detroit-area animal shelter after police found four star-nosed moles, two dead from suffocation, in McElroy’s possession. mhasiuk@vancourier.com Twitter@: MarkHasiuk

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Ethical dilemma

What does Police Chief Jim Chu do when he has an ethical question or is worried about a potential conflict of interest?

I assume he consults with his deputy chiefs.

But if they can’t answer his question, then who can?

For almost four years, Chu and other members of the Vancouver Police Board could rely on H.A.D. (Bert) Oliver—the former B.C. Supreme Court justice, the province’s former conflict-of-interest commissioner, war veteran and all-around gentleman.

The 89-year-old Oliver died Jan. 14 after a brief illness.

Two weeks ago, the police board appointed former B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kirsti Gill as ethics adviser. Gill, who was a colleague of Oliver’s, retired in mid-2009 after 18 years on the bench.

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Gill said she doesn’t know Chu or any members of the board. So far, nobody has called to consult her. If they do, she will collect $200 an hour. Oliver billed for an average of 35 hours a year.

The police board will not reveal details of Oliver’s work but board reports indicate he provided advice to board members, Chu, a deputy chief and two senior offi-

cers on ethical and potential conflict-of-interest problems.

In other police board news, board member Sheryl Williamson was named March 28 as one of 36 outstanding British Columbians for her community work. Williamson, who is chair of the West End Citizens’ Action Network, was given a B.C. Community Achievement Award. Williamson

also worked with Our House West Coast Society and Friends of St. Paul’s Hospital.

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The Toronto Board of Trade released its annual Scorecard on Prosperity, which measures cities’ economies, “labour attractiveness” and transportation. And, faithful readers, you’re not going to like the results. Vancouver got a D for its economy and a D for its transportation system. But the city got a B for its “labour attractiveness”—which, coincidentally, is a term used by many women in the office to describe NDP leader Jack Layton.

A rim shot, please.

So what do these grades mean?

Difficult to figure out since the report is focused on Toronto and not exactly written in plain English.

I also take it that when the report refers to “Vancouver,” the authors really mean Metro Vancouver.

Anyway, what I gleaned from the 72 pages of intrigue is that Canada needs a federal transit strategy, more venture capital, innovation, high-tech employment and should take a lesson from Paris and its A grade for “labour attractiveness.”

Why? A highly educated population, healthy air quality, high share of non-automobile commuters, low homicide rate and high numbers of people in cultural occupations. And no Theo Fleury. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Women are not homogenous, they are a diverse group. We would never say 20 per cent of men would be able to rep the entire population of men.”

When Jennifer Clarke lost her bid for mayor in 2002, she likened the campaign to pregnancy. “You do know it’s going to come to an end,” she told the Courier at the time.

According to Equal Voice, the United Nations estimates legislative bodies need one third of their elected representatives to be women for women to leverage influence in politics and government. “Young women are often turned off from politics because they’re not reflected in it,” Peckford said. “We need women to be seen as the leaders they often are.”

In Campbell’s case, the former prime minister has spoken at length about the need for women in politics, telling an audience in 2006 that leadership is mistakenly viewed as an exclusively masculine quality. “When women first enter these positions [of leadership], they are faced with a struggle of trying to establish that, in fact, they belong there.” mstewart@vancourier.com Twitter: @MHStewart

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When Jennifer Clarke announced Tuesday she was running for the Conservatives in Vancouver Centre, the former NPA mayoral candidate joined a rare group of politically accomplished and ambitious women in the history of the downtown riding.

She is in the ranks of the country’s only female prime minister, Kim Campbell, along with the woman who unseated her in 1993, Hedy Fry, who has held the riding as a Liberal ever since. The third declared candidate in the riding is Adriane Carr, the founder of the B.C. Green Party.

“It’s quite notable and it’s obviously very promising,” said Nancy Peckford, the executive director of Equal Voice, a national Ottawa-based, nonpartisan organization promoting more women in politics and government.

“When you’re still looking at a

House of Commons at 22 per cent women, basically the people in this riding are sure to elect a woman.

That’s pretty exciting,” said Peckford.

The NDP has yet to nominate a candidate, although Karen Shillington, a former Green candidate on Vancouver Island, is the only declared nominee.

A nomination meeting was scheduled after the Courier’s Thursday morning print deadline.

In most ridings, voters are more likely to be confronted with an allmale slate, said Peckford.

Carr agreed. “It’s fabulous to have strong women running,” she told the Courier. “I relish the opportunity to be debating with other strong women.”

With Elizabeth May angling to gain entry to the all-male national leaders’ debates, Carr said gender equity is another reason the Green Party leader should be allowed to participate.

Peckford said May’s absence from the national debates is “troubling to us because we need women to be seen in leadership roles” and noted women bring something to politics their male counterparts can’t contribute. “Their life experience as a woman has led to certain insights and experiences that clearly would be translated in how they function as elected representa-

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Man seeks compensation after tripping over curb Mike Howell Staff writer

riod that he couldn’t use his hands to repair parts. The former federal government financial analyst based the figure on what he earned for the previous period in 2008.

“This happened in 2009 and I’ve only received one letter from the city and no action,” he told the Courier.

“It’s sort of like they’ve dismissed me.

I’m not looking to sue but I just feel that what I’m asking for is reasonable, given what happened. If I was Picasso, I could ask for more.”

The Courier contacted the city’s communications department regarding Bethel’s claim.

“As a result of your query, our director of risk management tried to contact Mr. Bethel again by phone [Wednesday] to explicitly outline the steps he and the city need to follow to conclude this matter, however there was no answer,” Mairi Welman, director of corporate communications, wrote in an email to the Courier. “A message has again been left requesting that he get in touch.”

Welman said the city was to send Bethel a letter Wednesday. mhowell@vancourier Twitter: @Howellings

Vern Bethel at the site of his fall near Yukon Street. The offending curb has since been repaired. photo Dan Toulgoet

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The owner of a False Creek automotive business is locked in a battle with the city and wants at least $814 for lost wages and $17.63 to repair his shoe after tripping on a curb on Yukon Street in October 2009.

Vern Bethel of False Creek Automotive said he was walking north in the afternoon of Oct. 26 in the 2100-block Yukon Street when he tripped on a curb that intersects an alley between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

City crews were working on Yukon Street and had ripped up the asphalt in the alley, leaving an exposed curb lip on the concrete sidewalk. Photographs taken by Bethel after the accident show the uneven path.

Bethel, 70, says he fell hard to the ground, injuring his left ankle, right knee and palms of both hands, which he described as looking “like hamburger.” He said the injuries to his hands prevented him from repairing vintage car starters, carburetors and other parts for more than a month.

The work is a small portion of his business, which includes storing vin-

tage vehicles, selling parts and brokering car sales.

Bethel said the accident was witnessed by a female flag operator working with city crews. He provided her name and details of his accident in a letter to the city Dec. 18, 2009.

Bethel received a reply Dec. 24, 2009 in a letter from city claims investigator Doug Kenny, who apologized for the “unfortunate accident.” Kenny said the city was reviewing Bethel’s claim.

“Unfortunately this takes time,” Kenny wrote. “We appreciate that you would like to have this matter resolved as quickly as possible and we will do our best.”

In subsequent phone conversations with the city, Bethel said, the city agreed to cover the $17.63 cost to repair his shoe scuffed in the accident.

But he hasn’t been paid, he said.

He said the city also told him specific details were required to make a claim. So Bethel sent another letter Dec. 18, 2010 to Kenny that outlined his lost wages.

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Imagine Shirley Chan as young girl of 10 in the 1950s joining her parents Walter and Mary Lee in Strathcona as they campaigned against what the city referred to as “urban renewal.”

Bulldozers directed by city bureaucrats systematically levelled Victorian housing while Shirley accompanied her mom who went door to door attempting to organize the neighbours while her dad penned articles for local papers.

Chan had no idea the history she was helping to make, history that would change the face of the city and the face of municipal government.

A decade later, Chan was still at it, now with a university education, but facing a far more formidable foe. By this time, Vancouver was suffering from North America’s love affair with the automobile. Cars were providing the mobility for folks to move to the suburbs creating urban sprawl. And cheaper land prices along with growing populations there were attracting businesses. The economic heart of the city was in trouble. The solution from the bureaucrats at city hall led by the all-powerful senior public servant Gerald Sutton-Brown was to build a freeway; it would funnel consumers and workers into and out of the city. The route selected would take it clear through Chinatown and Chan’s Strathcona neighbourhood.

The city was governed as it had been for the previous three decades by an NPA-dominated council, this one headed by Mayor Tom Campbell and all were malleable in the hands of their bureaucrats fully believing decisions of this sort should be left to the experts: Sutton-

allengarr Brown, his engineers and consultants. There was no need for public consultation.

There was also no regional transportation plan. It was Vancouver on its own. But unlike the “urban renewal” activity, this time there was a significant opposition. Chan and her folks helped organize SPOTA, the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association.

Chinatown merchants were on side.

Out at UBC, geography professor Walter Hardwick and planning professor Setty Pendakur were stirring up an academic storm over the imminent destruction of an historic part of the city this freeway would cause. At city hall, lone lefty councillor Harry Rankin was wailing away at the council set to “destroy Chinatown.”

When Tom Campbell finally allowed public consultation, more than 500 people crowded into two committee rooms at city hall. At council, the debate shifted from which route

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But that didn’t happen before the completion of two new viaducts on Georgia and Dunsmuir intended to move traffic on and off the planned freeway.

By then, the public was clearly disenchanted with the NPA. Hardwick and Pendakur along with other reform-minded folks, including Art Phillips, would get elected to council under the TEAM banner and eventually beat the NPA majority. Sutton-Brown was shown the door and public consultation became a regular feature of city decision making.

Today, Chan is in her early 60s and is within weeks of retiring. For her, those viaducts are unfinished business she has no intention of abandoning. The love affair with asphalt and automobiles has faded. But those remnants of a thwarted freeway plan continue to dump an inordinate amount of traffic into Strathcona, dividing neighbours from each other and surrounding communities.

City staff, with prodding from Chinatown, Strathcona and Coun. Geoff Meggs, is looking at the prospects of tearing down those structures or at the very least rerouting them to reduce the damage they’re causing.

Expect their report this month. And on April 7 the debate will continue when former city planner Larry Beasley, a lead member of the city’s consulting team on the issue, weighs in at an SFU forum. agarr@vancourier.com

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Real-life ‘Harry Tuttles’ prod the system for greater good The owners of 62 condos in the former Olympic Village recently filed a lawsuit, demanding a refund for units they say are poorly built and plagued with problems, including lack of heat and tiny bedrooms. “A video made by the owners shows water leaking from light fixtures, unfinished flooring, low water pressure and poorly designed spaces,” reports contributor Airika Owen in last Friday’s Courier.

It’s just an editorial daydream on my part, but I like to imagine a real-life Harry Tuttle tackling the problematic development in False Creek. Tuttle was the swashbuckling heating engineer in Terry Gilliam’s 1984 black comedy, Brazil. The black-clad character, played by Robert De Niro, goes around covertly fixing heating ducts and plumbing in the dead of night, like a ninja janitor. As a result, Tuttle is a wanted man to Central Services, a mammoth bureaucracy that botches everything it handles, from antiterrorism raids to civic infrastructure maintenance.

In one scene, the film’s antihero Sam Lowry is sleeping with his head in an open fridge in his overheated apartment. He is frightened awake by a shadowy figure with a tool kit. Tuttle introduces himself and opens a panel in the wall, reaching into the wheezing guts of the apartment’s tubes and ducts (the buildings in Brazil are respiring monsters to their inhabitants). Competing his repairs in seconds, he leaps off the apartment balcony and swings like Tarzan into the dark urban canyons, leaving Lowry staring in disbelief.

I’m sure the 62 aggrieved condo owners at the former Olympic Village would have no problem with Tuttle’s brand of break-andenter. (Not that he could do much about the scale of their bedrooms, which they say failed to match the display versions.)

In the film, Tuttle isn’t a worldshaker; he’s more of a trickstertradesman, dealing with the messy workings of the mundane.

I can imagine him rappelling into Vancouver city hall’s hearing on Paragon’s proposed mega casino, with a leather satchel full of charts on the public risks of gambling. Council would probably regard him as just another crazed, costumed East Sider, and security would tell him to sign on to the speaker’s list and politely wait his turn. This is Vancouver, after all.

The character is a minor hero in Gilliam’s bleak fairy tale, but across the world there are reallife Tuttles who’ve accomplished remarkable deeds. They use the tools supplied by the system to bend, poke, and prod the system in more humane directions. For-

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geoffolson mer U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader is a Tuttle. As a lawyer in the ’60s and ’70s, he lobbied for raft of consumer and worker safety regulations in the U.S., including the mandatory addition of seat belts to automobiles—saving millions of lives over the years. Mohammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is another Tuttle. He offers microfinance plans through his Grameen Bank, giving Third World residents a chance to escape poverty through small business startups. As premier of Saskatchewan, the prairie preacher Tommy Douglas introduced the provincial model for universal health care in Canada, making him our national Tuttle.

Tuttles have a modest bag of tricks, but they sometimes accomplish David-versus-Goliath feats. They refuse to go along with the status quo, or resign themselves to fate. With their seemingly unwarranted optimism in positive change, they often succeed by getting others onside.

When Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker—definitely not a Tuttle—first attempted to ram through his draconian bill for the state’s public sector employees, protesters occupied the state house, refusing to leave for days. The governor ordered them removed, and a member of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association arrived with a megaphone. He announced that he and his colleagues were in solidarity with the protesters, and intended to join them overnight. Another nameless Tuttle.

Across the world, there are anonymous Tuttles of the highest order, such as the dozens of workers who have put their lives on the line working at the crippled nuclear reactors in Fukushima prefecture.

The Republican bill in Wisconsin eventually went through, just as nuclear disaster is still underway in Japan. Having Tuttles around is no guarantee of success. But when things start to get out of hand, watch out. Get a few million protesting Tuttles together in a place like Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and an overbearing, overheating system may collapse into a tangle of deflated ducts. www.geoffolson.com

According to one reader, changes to the 50 Waterfront Station/False Creek South bus route will hurt seniors and the disabled. photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “Bus route change raises concern for seniors and disabled,” April 1.

Last week, 134 members of the community attended a hastily called meeting in False Creek with representatives from TransLink to discuss the upcoming changes to the No. 50 False Creek south bus. These changes are slated to go into effect less than a month from now on April 19.

The No. 50 will no longer turn west onto Broadway, but will become the No. 15 and continue south to the foot of Cambie. This will cut out the section of the route on Broadway between Cambie and Willow.

TransLink’s answer to the cut is to have the public transfer to the No. 17. The No. 17 will resume its old route across Broadway and down Oak. While a simple solution on the face of it, there are serious issues with asking many of the passengers served by the No. 50 to add a transfer to, for example, their trip to the pharmacy. Just picture, if you will, our neighbour

in her wheelchair getting off the bus ramp on the steep slope at Cambie and Eighth, to wait in front of the liquor store on the busy sidewalk at a stop with no shelter, most likely in the rain, to try to get on an overcrowded bus to travel perhaps three more blocks.

This is particularly distressing because it will not be an isolated case. The area of False Creek the bus passes through is home to many, many seniors and to a number of complexes specially designed for people with limited mobility. It’s a rare trip on the No. 50 where I don’t see more than one passenger using a wheelchair, a walker or a cane.

According to TransLink, the route change is a “fait accompli.” It will go ahead on April 19. They say, however, that they have heard, recorded and acknowledged the community’s concerns.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if TransLink could respond to the public’s very real concerns by not pushing through this change.

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To the editor: Re: “Japanese disasters should kill future nuclear options,” March 25.

I was disappointed to see Geoff Olson’s citation of a totally bogus figure for the number of deaths due to Chernobyl in his anti-nuclear panic piece. The particular figure, which he quoted fourth hand (from another journalist’s report of a translation of a collection from various other sources), is a hundred times higher than the World Health Organization estimate. This is so far from anything remotely plausible that one suspects it may even be a misprint. In fact, the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) explicitly denies editorial endorsement of the book in question (which consists of translations from a wide variety of Eastern European sources), saying “The expressed views of the authors, or by advocacy groups or individuals with specific opinions about the Annals Chernobyl volume, are their own.” It may have been legitimate

for NYAS to bring these materials to the attention of the western scientific audience for consideration and assessment, but for Olson to report their most extreme assertions as fact was totally irresponsible.

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••• To the editor: Geoff Olson’s article struck the right note with regard to the recent earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan. When natural disasters strike, human beings can be most vulnerable. If the Lower Mainland or our province is hit by an earthquake with a devastating and humongous magnitude can our buildings and facilities withstand such an earthquake. Also, I think it’s time we should seriously consider all the other alternative methods and options for generating energy and power.

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To the editor: Re: “Trevor Linden’s political ambition relies on undeserved repute,” March 23.

I don’t think Trevor Linden would have been a nightmare candidate for Hedy Fry to face in the federal election. He had 20 years in the NHL, she’s had 20 years as an MP, all

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Chloe Brown has always had an interest in cars, so much so that as a teenager growing up in the Downtown Eastside she helped herself to a few.

But in 2006, Brown got involved in a program, launched at the Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre on East Hastings Street, called NASKARZ (Never Again Steal Cars).

NASKARZ combines youth who are likely headed to jail with teens headed for the honour roll in a program that keeps them busy building and restoring cars.

The program has proved so successful a group of youth recently built a Factory Five Cobra, which is on display at the Vancouver International Auto Show, on now through Sunday at the Vancouver Convention Centre. More than 40 students contributed more than 1,500 hours to complete the 500-horsepower Cobra. The $80,000 Cobra kit was donated to the program by Vancouver Community College, which supplies the auto shop and tools for the program.

NASKARZ became a reality when RayCam community youth worker Alex Vasiljevic teamed up with VPD Sgt. Tim Houchen in 2005 to find a project to combat car theft. Vasiljevic was tired of seeing stolen cars abandoned in the Ray-Cam parking lot by teenaged car thieves.

“In the Downtown Eastside the kids and families get the short end of the stick because all of the focus is on adults who are addicted or have mental health problems,” said Vasiljevic. “There’s also a lot of negative attention on this neighbourhood, but there are also a lot of good stories here.”

Houchen had just completed two years working as a VPD investigator on the Robert Pickton trial and was looking for a community project in the Downtown Eastside that could make a difference to youth there.

“A lot of these kids love cars but they’re excluded from the car culture because of poverty, and for some of them that was why they were stealing them,” said Houchen.

“Some of them have a little edge to them, but once you get to know them you realize it’s a defence mechanism.”

Brown had reservations about the program, particularly because police were involved, but since her two brothers were enrolled she gave it a try. But initially she didn’t plan on liking the police officer Houchen.

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She’s been a maverick gallery owner and a champion of the arts and now Diane Farris wants to garden, travel and maybe teach English abroad to needy kids.

Farris, 68, will close her gallery that launched the careers of local artists on to the international scene. Her lease was up and her health has been poor.

The gallery will close at the end of April. The vibrant, bursting explosions of Dale Chihuly’s hand-blown glass will soon disappear from the corner of West Seventh Avenue near South Granville and be replaced by a medical clinic.

Farris had been a dancer and performer before she started serving on boards for arts organizations in 1963. A friend asked her to sell inexpensive reproductions of paintings of Inuit people by William Kurelek in 1980 and her career as a booster of visual artists was born.

Farris worked on organizing two sculpture projects before opening her first gallery in Gastown in 1984.

She convinced gallery owner Walter Moos in Toronto to send an exhibit her way and Farris’s first two shows—Gershon Iskowitz and Michael Snow—put her business on the map.

Farris was energized by the work of young artists including Vicky Marshall, Angela Grossmann and Attila Richard Lukacs.

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I loved learning.”

She said her gallery was the first in Vancouver to be invited to exhibit at the Cologne Art Fair in Germany in 1987. Then a 44-year-old mother of three, she visited Europe for the first time in 1986 to check out the fair. She returned the next year and sold most of the work shown.

Farris is proud of her ability to spot talent at an early stage, help artists advance and gracefully let go when they sought other representation.

She trusted her instincts, selling corporate gifts to stay afloat as a gallery that exhibited works by emerging artists that fetch lower prices.

Her gallery launched an extensive website in 1996 when less than one per cent of the world’s population used the Internet.

She plans to develop a blog about the arts and to mount pop-up shows.

Farris has sold Lukacs’s work to Elton John, befriended astronaut and photographer Roberta Bondar, worked with a range of social service and arts non-profits and been awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal for advancing budding artists.

She is tying up the loose ends of one chapter of her life and has already written a couple of chapters about her adventures for a book. crossi@vancourier.com Twitter: @Cheryl_Rossi

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When we met for the day’s ride, his sporadic tremors and lack of control over his extremities made even getting his sunglasses on challenging—he unintentionally threw

them across the sidewalk.

This was a brief glimpse into the day-to-day life of my friend James. To see him walking down the street you’d take a second glance, feel sorry for him, and think to yourself, “Gosh, it would suck to have Parkinson’s disease.” To see him cycling, you’d not look twice because he’s just another roadie—a strong one, too.

Almost 40, James has a long and formidable journey ahead, but he doesn’t want your pity.

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On an open stretch of road James wanted to hammer it; I was game. Our average speed was creeping up to 40 kilometers per hour and we were holding steady. My heart was starting to beat faster and my mind was focused on the

push. I forgot that at my halfwheel was a man who has difficulty walking. With his cycling shoes clipped in to his pedals and his hands comfortably resting on the hoods, he was as composed and fluid as the best riders I know. He’ll probably never forget he has Parkinson’s disease, but there’s no disputing he can escape it while riding his bike.

James made me realize that my love of cycling is shallow. There is no end; to pedal my bike is a means to not much more than enjoyment, fitness, and time spent with good people. To James, cycling is all those things and so much more. It’s therapy, relief and a critical part of his treatment. These combine to underwrite a profound re-

spect for the sport. I have a passion for cycling, but what cycling does for me is insignificant compared to what it does for James. We can’t go through life feeling sorry for people who don’t feel sorry for themselves. I don’t get the impression James feels shortchanged with his one shot here on earth; in part that is why he’s an inspiration. He’s

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Anemone sylvestris is another hardy, easy-care anemone from north European woods where it thrives in semi-shade and moist, leafy soil. It puts out white, single flowers that flower over a long period in late spring.

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Anemone pulsatilla (also known as Pulsatilla vulgaris) has showy flowers in brilliant violets, mauves, reds and also white and pale pink. The leaves are finely serrated, the stems and buds sport fine silky hair and silky, silvery seedheads follow the blooms.

It’s really a plant of dry grasslands, which means gardeners in shady, acid clay gardens must make special

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In coastal gardens, there’s more chance of these anemones surviving the winter than there is further inland. That’s

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Portland pleases kids

Mike Howell

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PORTLAND, ORE.—As a kid, a stop in Portland was done for one reason: to shop at G.I. Joe’s Sporting Goods so my brother and I could load up on unique baseball gear.

Rawlings gloves, Louisville Slugger wooden bats, Nike spikes—it was heaven for Little Leaguers and the parents of Little Leaguers, who appreciated the bargain prices.

But that was all we ever saw of Portland. My dad was an I5 guy, never wanting to wander from the Interstate for fear of losing valuable time on the road to Reno or Los Angeles.

As an adult, I’d returned to Portland a few times for conferences but never really saw much of the city; beer joints don’t count. So it was with genuine excitement that my family and I set off down I-5 in March to spend three days in a city popular for its cycling culture, transportation options and variety of food carts.

All that progressive stuff are attractions for travellers, including yours truly, but I was left wondering: How do you get two young girls (seven and nine) excited about a holiday in a city known for its adultoriented hipness?

First, you tell them we’ll be staying in a hotel (The Inn at Northrup Station) with lime green walls. Then you tell

them we’ll be eating grilled cheese sandwiches in a double decker bus (The Grilled Cheese Grill).

The clincher: Portland is so cool it has three sculptures in a park of characters from the Ramona and Beezus novels you’ve been reading.

“Really?”

“Yes, Henry, Ramona and Ribsy the dog all have their own sculpture in Grant Park.”

“Cool.”

Yes, very cool.

But the delivery of cool would mean patience—at the border, in rush hour and during the six-hour-plus journey from Vancouver to Portland.

We broke up the trip with a stay in Seattle, where we used priceline.com to land a $70-anight room at the Westin in downtown.

Summary: Kids swam in the pool, we did the famous underground tour and I endured a 40-floor ride in an elevator with squealing teenagers from a cheer team.

We arrived in Portland in the afternoon, a few hours too early to check in to The Inn. That was fine because the kids were stoked about visiting Powell’s Books.

Powell’s is the legendary independent bookstore that can’t be beat for its selection, its prices, its old bookstore feel and its lack of a Starbucks. They also have nice T-shirts.

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The four of us bought books, new and used. No tax. In fact, you’ve probably heard, Oregon doesn’t have sales tax. So $16.99 for a Georgia Byng hardcover kid’s book is $16.99. Just don’t ask a Portland homeowner what he pays in property taxes.

A 10-minute drive from Powell’s and we rolled into the The Inn, a renovated 1970s era boutique-hotel in Nob Hill on the edge of the Pearl District.

If the Mad Hatter or George Jetson visited Portland, they’d stay at The Inn. In fact, the duo might have had a say in the paint colours (lime green, bright orange) and the zany carpeted hallways; the kids pretended they were Alice falling down the rabbit hole each time they stormed down the hall. The room didn’t disappoint, with two comfortable beds, a kitchenette, a balcony and two televisions. A continental breakfast (cereal, yogurt, juice, fruit) was served in the morning.

The Northrup Station part of the hotel’s name is derived from its location—the Northrup Station stop on the streetcar line, which makes leaving the car in the parking lot that much easier.

The city’s transportation system, which is free in the downtown, is fantastic and gets you where you need to go, including Washington Park; imagine the slope of Queen Elizabeth Park mixed with the forest of Stanley Park.

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The next day we crossed one of the city’s many bridges over the Willamette River to visit the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

The huge building is on the waterfront and has a version of Vancouver’s science world (the kids made Styrofoam peanuts, cooked plastic), a planetarium and Omnimax theatre. Again, very cool.

The biggest hit with the kids was what floated outside the museum in the Willamette River—the USS Blueback submarine, which was active from 1959 to 1990.

Thomas, our engaging host, gave us a tour that included the torpedo room. Apparently, this area was sought after by the crew for sleeping because

of its roominess. The kids also got a turn at the periscope.

Portland has a great selection of restaurants, many of which were located on Northwest 23rd Avenue, a few blocks from our hotel.

Pastini Pastaria on NW 23rd, Old Town Pizza (haunted, apparently) in Old Town and the Grilled Cheese Grill at SE 28th and Ankeny were among our favourites. We also opted to buy dinner one night at Whole Foods and bring it back to our hotel—an option with a kitchenette.

Our last stop on the way out of town was Grant Park, where the kids posed with the characters made famous by author Beverly Cleary, who will receive a letter very shortly from a nine-year-old girl.

We couldn’t fit in a ride on the aerial tram, or a bike ride along the waterfront and we missed the popular farmers’ market by two days.

There will be a next time. mhowell@vancourier.com

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2. With extended stays in NYC and along the highways and byways of North America, the road weary Vancouverites known as The Albertans are back in the land of yoga pants and bike lanes long enough to celebrate the release of their upcoming record New Age. The cool kids with lean bodies and sexy indie-pop stylings take over the Cobalt April 2 with guests Wizzards, The Killing Time Quartet and Bear Mountain. More info at thecobalt.ca.

3. Legendary afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali, Salif Keita performs with his 13-piece band April 2 at the Vogue Theatre. Vancouver marimba band Kutapira opens. Tickets at Highlife and Red Cat Records or online at voguetheatre.com.

4. Local power-popsters and do-gooders China Syndrome unleash the shiny hooks in aid of Canadian Red Cross’s Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief fund. The benefit show takes place April 1 at Lanalou’s (formerly Hoko’s Sushi Karaoke Bar, 362 Powell St.) with guests Payday Millionaire and Dow Jones and the Market Shares. More info at myspace.com/chinasyndrome.

kudos & kvetches Election dissection

Despite the fact most Canadians don’t want a federal election, don’t feel there’s a good reason for having a federal election and don’t vote in federal elections, we’ll say this: at least the campaign is mercifully short. With voting day on May 2, we only have to endure another month watching the federal party leaders preen, prance and grovel like a cross between out-ofwork circus performers and last call at the Roxy where the Drakkar Noir-scented opportunists desperately attempt to hook up with whomever is too drunk or tired to resist their limited charms. It’s embarrassing really.

Over the past week, we’ve attempted to absorb and distill the platforms, messages and over all uselessness of the various federal parties vying for our nethers, and this is what we’ve come up with: • Conservatives. PM Stephen Harper desperately wants a majority government and he wants voters to fear a coalition between the Liberals, NDP and Bloc, even though the Liberals repeatedly say they will not form a coalition and even though the leaders of the NDP and Bloc say they met with Harper in

2004 to discuss the prospect of a coalition to defeat the minority Liberal government at the time. Harper also likes photo ops with clean-cut families to promote proposed tax breaks, which hopefully distract voters from the fact that he scrapped plans for a national daycare program.

• Liberals. Michael Ignatieff wants to give post-secondary students money to help with their tuition. He says it’s a game changer, but his condescending tone of voice carries an air of dickishness that rubs most people the wrong way, kind of like when your dad gave you the keys to the car but in such a passive aggressive way that you’d end up walking to the mall just to avoid the hassle.

• NDP. Jack Layton has been leader of the NDP since 2003 and despite having nearly a decade to shape a platform that clearly explains why he thinks his party is a viable alternative, he first big election announcement is to cap credit card interest rates zzzzzzzzzzz. The only way Layton could have gotten his campaign off to a duller start would be if he had come out and voiced his strong opposition to littering and mean people.

• Green Party. Leader Elizabeth May continues to fight a two-front battle: convincing voters

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the Greens are different than the NDP and that they deserve to be included in televised leaders debates even though they’ve never been elected to parliament. If you were set up on a blind date with them, they’d be described to you as having “a really great personality.”

• Bloc Quebecois. The problem we have with leader Gilles Duceppe is that we like him. In fact, he is by far the most charismatic of the leaders.

He speaks his mind and seems above most of the pathetic pandering that goes on during the election campaign. Sure, we don’t agree with his desire to break up the country, but he’s one of the few leaders who we could see at the Roxy sitting back and letting the last dregs of the night come to him. In a word, smooooooooooooth.

• Natural Law Party. A longtime favourite of K&K, the Natural Law Party and its yogic flyers have lost a considerable amount of their float since its most high profile member, mustachioed magician Doug Henning, sadly vanished from this earth in 2000. But then again, the Natural Law Party is more of a transcendental state of being than a political party, anyway. Which is why we’re voting for them this election… with our mind.

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This is a tale of two pizzas. The Hired Belly recently took it upon himself— fearing a sudden weight loss—to eat back-to-back offerings at two of the town’s newest pie joints.

There may be no more evident sign of change on the Downtown Eastside than newly unveiled Antica Nicli Pizzeria (62 East Cordova St., 604-669-6985). By contrast, The Bibo (1835 West Fourth Ave., 604586-6177) is a welcome reminder of Kits days gone by.

Far from your average mom and pop pizza joint, it’s tough not to be seduced by Antica Nicli’s elegant curves and minimalistic, multihued shades of white—very Euro-chic, with savvy service to match.

On the plate, the wow factor kicked in early with a superb combo of prosciutto and arugula salad, bumped up with cambozola, roast pear and whole gig balsamic vinaigrette. Not to take away from Nicli’s perfectly executed funghi with parmigiano, mozzarella and tomato, topped with giant basil leaves, but we’d head back for just the salad alone.

We could wax on about the excellent crust, though not quite as outstanding as hyped, singed to add the right amount of wood smoked authenticity, dense, savoury and not overtly thin. Notch up one more for Gastown’s growing list of go-to spots.

While Antica Nicli was purposebuilt, West Fourth’s The Bibo moved imperceptibly into the space left va-

Antica Nicli Pizzeria serves up a fine funghi with parmigiano, mozzarella, photo Tim Pawsey tomato and basil. cant by short-lived Greek restaurant Piato Estiatorio. Warm and welcoming, with owners who actually take the time to say “hello,” The Bibo is everything that Piato, which fared well in the kitchen, might have been.

Plus when they’re not speaking with their hands, they’re shaping great pizzas.

While Nicli’s style is more dense, Bibo’s crusts are decidedly thinner, and puffier around the edges. Personally, we had no problem consuming either, although Bibo’s prosciutto e funghi was more moist and hotter. At least on this occasion.

Our verdict: Vancouver is blessed to have both, long overdue additions with differing styles that should finally elevate the city’s pizza game considerably.

••• We’ll confess a soft spot for Nichol Vineyard, the Naramata winery founded by former Vancouver Symphony Orchestra members Kathleen and Alex Nichol, who also penned the first definitive history of a still juvenile B.C. wine industry.

The Nichols toiled long and hard to establish their winery, which produced what many felt at the time to be the best red wine to come out of B.C.—Nichol ’94 Syrah, grown on a hotspot high above the bench, defied those who swore B.C. couldn’t make drinkable reds.

When Ross Hackworth bought the winery in 2006, he had already worked with the Nichols to gain both a slice of valuable experience and to absorb their philosophy.

Five years on, Nichol has once again emerged as a contender, crafting terroir driven—and relatively affordable—premium wines that include a killer ’08 Syrah among others.

Given the eventual move to sub-appellations, we like the fact that all Nichol wines now state on their label “100 per cent Naramata Village Grown.” Evidently, it takes a village to raise the bench.

Soft spot or not, our latest tasting reveals the best lineup of wines to date.

No time like the present to mark you calendar for the upcoming Naramata Spring Release tasting April 21, 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Westin Bayshore. This has turned into one of the year’s hottest tastings, as several wineries will be bringing barrels to be sampled.

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Local boutiques put zing into spring wardrobes State of the Arts with Cheryl Rossi

Bright evenings and sunny days in succession suddenly make wearing dark clothes too sombre. The Courier consulted boutique owners in two of the most exciting fashion enclaves in town—Main Street and Gastown—about the new season’s trends to shake off the dark/pasty tedium of winter and feel the first warm blush of spring.

• Jennifer Cummer, coowner of the spacious Lüt Boutique, 4219 Main St. at East 28th Avenue Cummer longs for the fresh injection of colour spring fashions bring after a long, dreary winter.

“This spring is no exception with bold neon, zesty oranges and playful prints,”

Spring fashion highlights include the Flaming Flamingo cotton Vice dress and Nappa Handbags from Lüt Boutique and the A Peace Treaty Gombe scarf and Kokna necklace from LYNNsteven. she said.

Cummer is especially taken with the 1970s-influenced trends seen in denim, prints and accessories (think higher-wasted wide-leg denim, floral prints, bold bangles, oversized sunglasses and floppy hats), and the new focus on longer hemlines.

“The hemline trend is passing over to fall/winter 2011 so definitely a smart investment now,” she said.

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fers local, national and international brands for men and women. The two-yearold shop specializes in apparel that can take you from day to night. Lüt is stocking a full-length black skirt with pockets that can do double duty as a mid-calf maxi dress through the summer and as a full skirt for fall by Eryn Brinie (Korea).

Cummer is also excited to stock the Traffic People brand from the U.K. “Perfect party dresses in

silk, cotton or blends, this brand is always about flirty prints and this season is one of their strongest offerings,” she said. “Our favourite, and boldest, is the Flaming Flamingo cotton Vice dress, ideal for [a] backyard barbecue, casual weddings, you name it.”

Prices at Lüt range from $10 for hair clips and art cards to $350 for outerwear.

There are T-shirts for $40, jeans for $129 and dresses for $150 to $300.

• Nicole Dennis Durnin, owner of LYNNsteven Boutique, 225 Carrall St. in Gastown Like Cummer, Dennis Durnin is keen on the emergence of orange, not to mention the full skirt.

“It brings a sophisticated elegance to your wardrobe and can really be worn at any age,” she said.

She has longer skirts arriving for fall and maxi dresses for spring.

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Visitors to LYNNsteven, named for Dennis Durnin’s mother and brother, can step into the dressing room that’s fashioned from skillfully stacked paperbacks to try on other lines Dennis Durnin says are only carried at LYNNsteven in Vancouver such as Corey Lynn Calter and Mcginn.

Prices at LYNNsteven range from $8 for a Smith’s Rosebud Salve lip balm to $650 for a sleek Mackage coat, with a wide range of pricing for tops, bottoms and dresses in between. crossi@vancourier.com Twitter: @Cheryl_Rossi

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Branch Manager Corix Water Products has an immediate opening for a Branch Manager at our Richmond branch who will be responsible for the delivery of exceptional customer service while maintaining corporate objectives and policies. Mandate is to provide leadership, manage assets, employees and property, grow sales through the use of strong sales techniques and established industry contacts as well as representing Corix within the community. The Branch Manager supports employees in branch operations and administration.

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EXP JANITORS for school cleaning in Vancouver. Email resume to info@futurejanitorial.net FULL TIME Cashier/Gas Attendant req’d. Apply in person withresume at Chevron 41st & Main.

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.

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

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DENTAL ASSISTANTS needed. $ 21.00 /hr, 40hrs/wk, 1 to 2 yrs. exp. Send resume with covering letter to Dr. G. L. Samosa Inc, Unit 306-4603 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC V5H 4M4, fax: (604) 568-6348 or email: michaelcayetano@gmail.com on or before April 11, 2011.

DR. SUSAN LEUNG INC, Family Dentistry located in Vancouver Seeks a Dental Assistant. Completion of a 3 mth to 1 year college program or combination of secondary school and 1 year exp. $21−25/hr, 30−35hrs/wk, Fluency in Korean& Basic English Fax: 604-255-0775 or Email: sunnyviewdental@hotmail.com

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ASSISTANT TEACHER Christian Preschool requires an assistant for a maternity relief position. Starting September 1st. Oak & Cambie area. EEC Certified.

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EDMONTON STEEL fab shop requires STRUCTURAL STEEL FITTERS, up to $32.80; WELDERS, up to $29.70, PRODUCTION MANAGER, QC MANAGER, SAFETY OFFICER. Day/night shifts, overtime available, full benefits, relocation/ accommodation assistance. Fax resume 780-939-2181.

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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.

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Your energy, charisma and clout reach a yearly high. I didn’t add “effectiveness” because we’re in the middle of a Mercury retro period, a bad time to start anything new (lasting to April 23). Even so, your luck is strongly buoyant, and the “payoff” for past efforts or good deeds could arrive now (or anytime to early June). If you’re single, someone is attracted! Your charisma and energy are doubly strong Sunday/ Monday – “lightning strikes!” Realize that you have to co-operate with a powerful, somewhat sluggish, but perhaps elevated individual. Grab the money Tuesday. A lucky week!

Taurus April 20-May 20: Government agencies or “head office” steer your possibilities Sunday/Monday.

Go with the flow. New circumstances, new trends are entering your private world – now to 2019. You might soon be working with or attending a large corporation or institution. Don’t be fazed by this – you have the skills required. If stress builds, learn to relax, play golf, yoga, whatever. Fifteen years of career worry ends; 15 years of “wide friendships” begins. Rest, lie low Sunday/Monday. Something lucky brews beneath the surface or behind the scenes before Thursday. Chase money Thursday onward.

Gemini May 21-June 20: Wishes come true, especially Sunday, especially old wishes. Romance, or a flirty friendship, or happiness of another sort seems imminent – so does fulfilment around a legal, far travel, international or intellectual matter.

But be realistic, cautious also – a “go slow” signal exists. Could mean “watch what you wish for,” or it might hint that wishes are fulfilled, but in a quiet or sober way. Your popularity is rising, friendly romance occurs, new friends come, especially Thursday onward. Optimism soars! (Retreat, rest Monday eve to midweek.) Fifteen years of “true career” begins.

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Cancer June 21-July 22: Be ambitious, this week and the next two. You could grab a promotion, or elevate your worth in the eyes of higher-ups (or cultivate a VIP and gain a prestigious new client, contract or business opening, etc.). This week starts with a jolt (of luck or nerves or ambition) Sunday.

You’ll have to combine or merge competing situations to succeed – probably a need to reconcile home with career, gain your spouse’s or kids’ co-operation, etc.

The potential for success is tremendous, so make every effort! This week begins 15 years of true understanding, spiritual recognition, and, resulting, true love.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: You’ve suffered 15 years of gullibility, deception, disillusionment and suspicion.

(On the positive side, 15 years of spiritual awakening.)

This week marks the end of that – though such long trends tend to dissolve slowly, now is the turn-around time. Think, contemplate the broad picture, and you should sense some clues to this change. The next 15 years bring a heightened sense of poetic mystery and nuance, sexual longing, deep spiritual intuition and subtle glamour – a better influence! The next eight years also feature mental awareness, and true love – wedded love. Sunday reveals!

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Sunday’s the centre point of a huge life change. The actual events can have occurred in March, or can happen over the weeks ahead. But they centre on this day, and this week. The events: a financial rearrangement or debt, a sexual lust or liaison, a commitment, a lifestyle change, a health diagnosis or surgery, a piece of detective work or research project. It’s destined to change your life. You’ll have to overcome financial “slowness” or caution. Believe in your luck! Be ambitious late week.

Fifteen years of unhealthy relationships end: 15 years of “true relationship” begins.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Start nothing new before April 23. Look to the past or to ongoing ventures, relationships. Your success is inextricably tied to relationships, and/or to opportunities, relocation, litigation, negotiation, fame or the public. Sunday can bring a jolt in these – e.g., love at first sight – but without the infatuation, gooey-eyed stuff – this is alert, exciting, alive, realistic. Downplay your conservative, reluctant, skeptical or cautious side. (If someone says, “You look sad,” it’s a clue to brighten up!) Love “elevates” late week. Your employment picture changes now to 2025.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Something unexpected happens at work this week, especially Sunday.

Follow safety procedures, don’t work while tired, be patient, careful with electricity, machines and computers, or avoid them if you can. I’ve emphasized the dangers, but there’s also luck here: you might be called into work because someone didn’t show, or you’re the trouble-shooter in an emergency, etc., which can set you up for praise, promotion now or soon. Be good-natured! Fifteen years of love’s obsessive puzzlement ends; 15 years of love’s good sweetness begins. You’ll believe me, come June/July and 2012!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Sunday could provide a love shock. It’s illuminating. But it will only be lucky if you can balance impulse with caution (without letting caution win) and money or earnings considerations (or possessions) with your need to express yourself, to be yourself. (Sartre said we’re the slave of our possessions.) All that said, this is a hugely lucky week (and month, and quarter) for romance, children, creativity, school, travel, beauty, art and speculation! Opportunities arise Thursday/ Friday. Fifteen years of indecision, rootlessness end; 15 years of “deep home” begin.

Apr. 3 - April 9 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Start nothing new before April 23. A jolt might come to your domestic or property arena Sunday. (This day is merely the centre of two months of “jolt.”) Be careful with electricity around the house this day. On another level, events can jump-start you into a whole decade of new (money-earning) property dealings, new landscaping, new security initiatives (e.g., RSPs) – despite the word “new” your success now will come from reprising a past goal, condition or contact. Believe in life, buy a home! Fifteen years of money anxiety end; 15 years of “chatty” friendship begin.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: You might make a lively new friend this week. This person will not become a life-mate (or not a good one) but you can have lots of fun together. (The problem: a sadness or sombre streak in this person is a clue indicating their ability/tendency to restrict you or to connect too easily to your hidden side.) Despite this, real love is likely. Don’t start any new projects, especially in communications, paperwork or travel, before April 23. Your luck will come from past contacts, and it could be very bright luck! Be restful midweek.

Romance, creative surges Thursday onward.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Start nothing new before April 23: deal with past or ongoing projects and relationships. A money, income or possession situation could hold three things (all of some): great luck, career import and “the future” of your earnings (for eight years).This last is highlighted Sunday, when a “jolt” might accompany it. If you can get past a certain skepticism about your own work or your own goals, this jolt could represent a splendid new path in earnings. (This path likely represents working with management or in government, large bureaucracies, charities or institutions.) A lucky week! timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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Money to Loan

NOTICE IS hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate of PATRICK WILLIAM McCANN, Deceased, late of 1105 – 4505 Hazel Street, in the City of Burnaby, in the Province of British Columbia, V5H 4T1, who died on the 11th day of October, 2010, are required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executor, BMO Trust Company at 595 Burrard Street, 9th Floor, P.O. Box 49500, Vancouver, B.C., V7X 1L7 on or before the 30th day of May, 2011, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

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Call: 1-866-871-1040

REAL ESTATE 6007

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

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Fabulous semi-retired lifestyle.

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6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-30

6020

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

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Mortgages

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Beat bank rates for purchases and refinances, immediate debt consolidation, foreclosure relief, and equity loans. Free, fast, friendly, private consultations.

Call 1-888-685-6181 www.mountaincitymortgage.ca

Notice to Creditors and Others

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Re: the Estate of William Gordon Calderwood. Deceased, formerly of #204 - 999 West 57th Ave., Vancouver, BC. Creditors and others having claims against the estate of William Gordon Calderwood who passed away on Feb 12, 2011, are hereby notified under Section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to Karin Hilliard, Executor, at 6810 Thunderbird Court, Delta, BC V4E 2S7 before April 30, 2011, after which date the Executors will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto having regard to the claims which they have notice.

5070

Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Re: The estate of Michael George Mercer, deceased, formerly of 1964 West 15th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Michael George Mercer are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the Executor c/o Adrian & Co., Barristers and Solicitors, attn: Lara Percy, at 5660 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC V6M 3Y3 on or before May 6, 2011, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Re: The estate of John Roger Jones, also known as J.R. Jones and Jay Jones, deceased, formerly of 3372 Church Street, Vancouver, BC, V5R 4W6 Creditors and others having claims against the estate of John Roger Jones, also known as J.R. Jones and Jay Jones are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the Executor c/o Adrian & Co., Barristers and Solicitors, attn: Quentin J. Adrian, at 5660 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC V6M 3Y3 on or before May 6, 2011, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Re: PEGGY BURNETT, otherwise known as PEGGY M. BURNETT, Deceased, formerly of #302 - 2803 West 41st Ave., Vancouver, B.C. Creditors and other having claims against the Deceased, who died on September 20, 2010, at Vancouver, B.C. are required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executor at #2700 - 700 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V7Y 1B8, on or before, May 2, 2011, after which the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims received.

Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, Executor.

Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP, Solicitors.

Money to Loan

Call Kristen today (604) 786-4663

6035

Mobile Homes

Real Estate

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Sell your home, only $99. 604-574-5243 Chilliwack 2.5yr old 2967sf 3 storey 4 br 2.5ba w/suite potnl $417,900 798-2511 id5344 Delta Price Reduced studio condo, 19+ complex, pool, park, $98,500 597-8361 id4714 Sry Sullivan Mews ground lvl 1200sf 2br 2ba tnhse, 55+complex $220K 834-6935 id5136 Sry Bear Creek Park beauty 1440sf rancher, gated 45+ $275,900 306-931-3939 id5234 Sry Priced to Sell!!! Guildford 909sf 2br updated quiet condo $165K 588-5592 id5305 Sry Sullivan Mews upper lvl 1150sf 2br 2ba tnhse, 55+ complex $175K 543-8549 id5346

SRY, #1-7850 King George Blvd.

Great double wide 2 BR + den. 1 pet ok! 55+ year old seniors’ park. $79,500. Lorraine Cauley, Royal Lepage North Star, 604-889-4874

6065

Introducing the

NEW

Buying or Renting, find a great place to call home.

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-34

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

Vancouver East Side

OPEN HOUSE – SUN. 2-4PM

Unit #104 - 2736 Victoria Dr., Vancouver Royal Victoria Gardens

1025sf condo, 2 BR, 2 bath, 1 storey ground level unit, gas fireplace, all appls & window coverings, patio, under ground parking. Pet allowed w/rest.

Includes Management, Caretaker, Gardening, Garbage pickup, gas, hot water, snow removal.

$434,900

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7005

Body Work

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

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7010

Personals

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Escort Services

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GARAGE SALE

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MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

HOME SERVICES 8015

Appliance Repairs

VAN APPLIANCE SERVICES Repair home appl. Low rate guar.

Permit/Lic. Tom 604-323-8063

8020

Blinds & Draperies

BLACKOUT DRAPES. Cut light 100%. Save energy. Dampen sound. Innovative fabric in 42 colors. Free est. 604-506-6230 VENETIAN, VERTICALS, Rollers, Top Quality. Up to 70% off. Cleaning, Repair, Installation.

Free Est. Joseph 778-995-0295

8030

Carpentry

CARPENTER AVAIL for general work, clean & fast service. 40 yrs exp. 604-961-5906 or 732-0533.

8055 DAILY

Cleaning HAPPY

CLEANER

Home & Office ★Janitor Service, Ceiling & wall washing, Floor Waxing, House Cleaning, Restaurant Cleaning, Window Cleaning + more ! Free Est call Tom 604-307-5998 Ins & WCB

EXP CLEANING ladies avail 7 days/wk. Bonded. Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond 604-928-0025

8060

Concrete

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

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp.

For free estimates call Mario

253-0049

A. FOUNDATIONS, Retaining walls, Stairs, Driveways, Sidewalks. Any concrete project. Free ests. Call Basile 604-617-5813 Concrete Specialist. Garages, sidewalks, exposed aggregate & patios. Santino 604.254.5551 L & L CONCRETE. All types: Stamped, Repairs, Pressure Wash, Seal Larry 778-882-0098

8065

Contracting

HOMEOWNERS - Are looking for a builder who can take care of your home projects, honestly & prof. Call Rae 604-323-3922 www.rgfinehomes.com

8073

Drainage

If you own a home, we can help.

Your credit/age/income is not an issue.

Independent lenders since 1969.

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-12

Apt/Condos

6510

Co-ops

Apt/Condos

1 BR +Den 786sf, newly reno’d, hardwood, open kitchen, mtn view. UBC, indoor pool, gym, 2 prkg, ns np, $1850, 604-828-2268 1 BR UBC Hampton Pl. 4th flr, Deluxe, view, wd, ug prkg. carpet, balcony, ns, no pets, 1-888-892-3502 1-604-892-0262 BEAUTIFUL SUITES Marpole area. Bach, 1 & 2 BRs. Newer kitchens & baths. H/W flrs, balcony/patio. $800 & up. Incl heat, h/water, 2 appl. 604-327-9419. or 778-855-8666

WIT’S END HOUSING CO-OP

LANGARA GARDENS 601 West 57th Ave, Van Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments & Townhouses.

Heat, hot water & lrg storage locker included. Many units have spacious patios & balconies with gorgeous views. Tasteful gardens, swimming pools, hot tub, gym, laundry, gated parking, plus shops & services. Near Oakridge Centre, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School & more.

Sorry no pets. www.langaragardens.com Call 604-327-1178 info@langaragardens.com Managed by Dodwell Strata Management Ltd.

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QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs.

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

6540

Houses - Rent

West Van Apt. Rentals

1 BDRM Recently reno’d 800sf, available in quiet waterfront building, exceptional ocean view, No pets, non-smoking.

2180 Argyle Ave. West Vanc. 604-913-1849 for viewing appointment

6508

6508

Need help with your Home Renovation?

LIDIA’S EUROPEAN Cleaning.

Res/Com. Specializing in detail cleaning. Bonded. 604-541-9255

604.581.2161

RENTALS

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

EXP’D. HOUSECLEANER Reason Rates! Reliable! D/Town Westside. Exc Reference!

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Recreation Property

MISSION - LAKE FRONT starting from $78,800. 60 mins from Vancouver. Park Georgia Rlty Lisa Hughes • 604-931-7227

7015

A.S.B.A. ENTERPRISE. Comm/ Res. Free Est. $25/hour includes supplies. Insured. 604-723-0162

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Houses - Sale

6020-01

6008

www.REALCARCASH.com

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6020

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5075

Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of DOLORES LOUISE SCOTT, Deceased, late of 1405 - 2045 Nelson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, who died on the 12th day of December, 2010, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor, BMO Trust Company at 595 Burrard Street, 9th Floor, P.O. Box 49500, Vancouver, B.C., V7X 1L7 on or before the 30th day of May, 2011, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

Call 1-866-690-3328

5060

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

Monthly bookkeeping $20 hr +.

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

Financial Services

5035

1592 S.W. Marine Dr, Vanc.

Now accepting applications for APTS; 2 BR - $916.

By all amens.

Sorry no dogs allowed.

To apply please email: witsendcoop@shawbiz.ca Or mail: Box 409 - 1592 SW Marine Dr, Vancouver V6P 6M1

6522

Furnished Accommodation

HOMAWAY INNS Specializing in furn accom in the Westend Vancouver at reas rates. call 604-684-7811 or visit www.homawayinns.com

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2645 McBain Ave. renod, 4 br, 1.5 bath, 1840sf, hardwood, fp, lease, np, ns, $3400, now, Royal Pacific Prop. Eric 604-723-7368 3 BR, View, 1.5 ba, gas f/p, deck, 5 appl. incl utils, ns np, $2250, 1365 E 36th. 604-321-9578 STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN ● No Qualification - Low Down ● NEW WEST- 1722-6th Av 2 bdrm HOUSE w/1 bdrm suite, very central location, close to skytrain..$1,188/M CHILLIWACK - 9557 Williams, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on 49x171’ lot, excellent investment property in heart of town..... $888/M Call Kristen today (604)786-4663 www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca

6565

Office/Retail Rent

LADNER CORE Comm 400-4000 sqft. Short/long term. lancemcc@eastlink.ca 604-240-9340

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

2 BDRM, brand new bsmt, flex space, gas f/p, inste stor, Fraser/ 41st area, shrd w/d, n/s, $1500inc cbl/net, avail now 604-961-5419 2 BR grnd lvl clean, bright, close to all ammens, ns, np, reno’d suite, nr schools, nr transit, $950 incl now or Apr 1 604-325-1990 2 BR ste, main flr, newer, nice, clean, Kensington Park area, nr transit, share laundry, $980 + util, ns np, May 3rd, 604-327-6603 2BR BSMT AVAIL APRIL 1ST Kingsway/Earles, Large Rms, lots space, $1050 incl utilities, 604-436-3864

NEWLY RENOVATED BACH avail now, Full kitchen, bthrm, suits 1 person, N/s, N/p, Shared laundry, $675 + 20% hydro.

604-317-6465

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8075

Drywall

ALL WORK GUARANTEED

J.A. CONSTRUCTION

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

604-916-7729 JEFF

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

Century Hardwood Floors 604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

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

Call Indy. Free Est. 604-780-5302 COMPLETE DRYWALL Service, steel stud framing, t-bar ceiling, textured. Sunny 778-891-5466 *Drywall * Taping * Texture * Stucco*Painting * Steel stud framing Quality Home 604-725-8925

FIJI ISLANDS

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Call Bruno ★ 604-313-2763

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944 CARPET, VINYL & HARDWOOD Repair & Replace. Material sales Dwight, 778-322-6048 I’ll show you the inexpensive route www.fccarpets.shawwebspace.ca INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8120

Glass Mirrors

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

Wayne The Drywaller

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

No job too small. 837-1785

8080

Electrical

FCE ELECTRIC

Residential & Comm. Wiring Renos & Panel Changes Service Upgrade Laneway House Specialists

604-861-2647 A. LIC. ELECTRICIAN #19807 Semi-retired wants small jobs only.

604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319 A Lic’d. Electrician #30582. Rewiring & Reno, Appliance/Plumbing. Rotor Rooter & Hydro Pressure Jetting Service, 604-255-9026 - 778-998-9026 Free Estimates / 24 Hr Service ELECTRIC AVE Installations.

Electrian lic# 99207, Res/comm, www.electric-ave.ca 604-215-0562 LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309 Commercial & residential renos & small jobs. 778-322-0934.

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

8087

Excavating

# 1 BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT

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

Water / sewer line, 24 hours Call 341-4446 or 254-6865 BACKHOE, drainage, excavation, concrete driveway, sidewalk, pavers, retaining walls, bob cat, landscape trucking 604-833-2103

8090

Fencing/Gates

S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING

Factory Direct Cedar Fence Panel for Sale & Installation 8291 No.5 Rd Richmond Call 604-275-3158 KB METAL PRODUCTS LTD. FENCE & GATES : CHAIN LINK & ALUMINUM ORNAMENTAL. ✫Free Estimate: 604-619-8434

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

CELTIC HARDWOOD FLOORS LTD.

•

Refinishing Installation • New & Old Floors •

8140

Heating

Commercial/Residential 2837 Kingsway, Vancouver

Tel: 604-603-9655

8125

Gutters

@

YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

Vancouver Division Since 1985

NO HST! til Apr. 30

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

WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

604-340-7189

8150

#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby

8155

Landscaping

GREENWAVE LANDSCAPES ★ COMPLETE ★ Garden Maintance & Installation Edible Landscape Solutions greenwavelandscapes.ca

HEDGING GARDENING CLEAN-UPS PRUNING POWER RAKING AERATION

DUNBAR LAWN & GARDENS

WCB • FULLY INSURED

Waters Home Maintenance Gutter Cleaning, repairs, windows Free estimate 604-738-6606

8130

Handyperson

Complete Home Maint./Repairs Certified Trained Pros.

For that small job.

Rates you can afford.

604-266-1681 EST. 41 YEARS

HEDGE SHRUB TREE & STUMP REMOVAL FREE ESTIMATE INSURED

224-3669

Seniors Discount

• Lawn Mowing • Aeration • Spring Cleanups • Hedging Visa / MC / Debit Accepted

604-347-7888 WILDWOOD LANDSCAPING Hedge Trimmimg & Tree Pruning & Hedge Removal Spring Up Chaffer Control & Lawn Restoration. Comm/Strata/Res Aerating & Power Raking.

Free Estimates.

604-893-5745 AVANTI GARDEN SERVICES Spring cleanup, new design, planting, etc. Laura 604-264-0775

BARAKA GARDENING Spring clean-up, lawn prep & pruning. Steve 778-231-4433

GREAT LOOKING Landscapes Full service landscape & garden maint. Call Dave: 604-764-7220 GREENSTAR GARDEN Complete Lawn & garden care.

Free estimates. 604-736-5791 JAPANESE GARDENER Landscape & maintenance, clean-ups, trimming.

Reas, free est, 25 yrs exp 604-986-8126

JUST LAWNCUTS

Part of RJR group

604-202-6118

Since 1989

732-8453

ALL EXT REPAIRS/REPLACE Fencing, stairs, decks, porches, siding. Call 604-325-4674 BEST PRICE! Bath, kitchen, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc.

Call Mic, 604-725-3127

Expert Pruning ISA

By Certified Arborist Ornamental & Fruit Trees, Shrubs & Hedges Northwest Arboriculture

EXP’D HANDYMAN offering high quality affordable services. Drain cleaning, plumbing, tiling, drywall, painting etc. Call: 604-839-5353

ADVANCE MOVING LTD MOVING & DELIVERY EXPERTS!!

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

garage, basement, backyard.

(604) 875-9072 873-5292

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

LAWNS CUT Mowing, trimming & small pruning jobs. Call Andrew 604-708-1152 Ny Ton Gardening yard & lawn maint. trimming, shrubs, hedging, power raking etc. 604-782-5288 ★ SD ENTERPRISES ★ Gardening, power raking, lawncare, pruning, cedar fencing. Free est. Call Terry at 604-726-1931 WILDHORSEGARDENS.CA ✫Eco Garden Care✫ Free Consultation & Estimates.

Call Today! 604-328-4498

Masonry

CUSTOM BRICK & ROCK WORK

Chimney / Fireplace Repair, Retaining Walls, Restoration Work.

FREE ESTIMATES

604-323-2083

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

ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing.

Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

HOME IMPROVEMENT: Res repairs, restorations, decks, fences. Walter 778-837-2518

604-723-2468; T. TRAN, New lawns, grass cuts, p/raking, aerating, hedging, pruning. Reliable

MARKETPLACE

604-630-3300

604-730-1566

www.carefulpainting.ca derek@carefulpainting.ca

BARWICK PAINTING Professional Painters with Guaranteed Results – in partnership with –

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

8193

Oil Tank Removal

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

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

For Free Estimates Call

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

8195

Serving West Side since 1987

Painting/ Wallpaper

PRICELESS VANCOUVER LTD. • Fully Insured • References • Green Products

• Sunrooms • Aluminum patio/deck covers • Aluminum railings • Glass railings • Aluminum fencing • Auto gates Free Estimates 604-521-2688

www.PatioCoverVancouver.com

Central Decking Co.

• 24 hr. service for water damage • Build & Rebuild – waterproof decks • Specialize in seamless polyurethane membrane deck coatings • Sundecks – Balconies – Patios

604-618-0631

centraldecking@gmail.com www.centraldecking.ca

604-263-2530

CONFIDENT PAINTING LTD.

Int. & Ext. Specialist, 20 yrs exp. * Reas. Rates, High Quality * Fast, clean, with ref’s Licensed, Insured & WCB

Jean-Guy Bottin

Quality Work You Can Trust!

Interior & Exterior ★ EXCELLENT PRICES ★ Free Est./Written Guarantee

Insured/WCB

778-997-9582

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

Paving/Seal Coating

8205

METRO BLACKTOP CO. LTD Custom work for Driveways & new lane Aprons. Repairs/resurfacing. Call Gino 604-657-9936

8220

Plumbing

A Better

PLUMBING DRAIN CLEANING HEATING

Installations & Repairs Big or Small, 7 Days/Week

Plugged Drains, Main Sewer Lines Water Service, Drain Tiles, Fixtures Faucets, Hot Water Tanks, Furnaces Video Inspection, Guaranteed Work

Interior/Exterior Specialist

Licensed, Insured, Bonded &WCB

731-8875

Many Years Experience Fully Insured Top Quality, Quick Work Free Estimate

604-724-3832

• • • •

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

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www.celtichardwoodfloors.ca

For Free Estimate Please Call:

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

Vancouver’s West Side Painting Company

CANSTAR PAINTING

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

Call 604-782-9511

Patios/Decks/ Railings

8200

604-708-8850

LAWN MAINTENANCE 20 yrs exp. power rake, aerating. Free est. Reliable Reas. 604-649-9965

Painting/ Wallpaper

8195

PASSION FOR PAINTING Int & Ext, power wash. Free Est. WCB. David 604-942-0115

Cell 604.626.1975

Booked by April 2nd 604-377-2503 www.popeyesmovingbc.com

604-618-9741

Royal Garden Lawn cut, edging, power raking, pruning, tree/hedge trimming WCB Ins. 604-754-8407

Painting/ Wallpaper

AJK MOVING LTD.

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

Commercial. Industrial.

Truck for Clean-ups

kawagarden@shaw.ca Res/comm. Organic lawn care & quality compost. 604-831-0140

Colin Malcolm, Insured

DUSTTIN’S HANDYMAN Service All jobs Large and Small.

Competitive Rates 604-873-5990

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8175 RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

604-537-4140

Cameron 604-739-8241

YARD CLEAN-UP, lawns cut, hedges pruned, trees trimmed, power raking, aerating, rubbish removal, gutters. 604-773-0075

RJR Small Projects Division

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

Ph. 604 293.0057 Cel. 604 657.8931

FREE ESTIMATES

EXP. RELIABLE gardener spring clean up, new turf, lawn, pruning, planting, aerating, 604-783-2627

604-420-4800

Professional Powerwash Gutters cleaned & repaired Since 1984, 604-339-0949

Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

TREES • HEDGES • SHRUBS Pruning.Shaping.Removal. Fruit Topiary. Wolfgang 604-738-4016

Free Estimates

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Manufacturers introduce several gas-sippers including Ford Focus, Fiat

Auto show reflects economy: subdued but optimistic davidchao The launch of the 2011 Vancouver International Auto Show—at the Vancouver Convention Centre —was reflective of the current Canadian economy: subdued but cautiously optimistic. The show runs through to Sunday, April 3, and as with past events, expect the weekend to be packed with car enthusiasts of all ages.

The manufacturers have reasons to be buoyant, thanks to healthy gains in sales fuelled by new and significantly refreshed models. On one hand, the theme of some models was focused on horsepower and performance—to feed the adrenaline seekers.

However, with the cost of gas

lingering over $1.30 per litre, it was also timely for some manufacturers to introduce several gas-sipping models to satisfy environmentally-conscious buyers in B.C. The contrast could not be more clearly illustrated by Toyota, with one of only 10 LFA Supercars for the Canadian market proudly on display, and at the same time introducing the up-sized version of the iconic Prius called the Prius V (for versatility). The V offers as much as 50 per cent more interior cargo space, improved handling and safety features, and backed by the same industry benchmark fuel efficiency as the original.

Here are my personal highlights from some of the participating manufacturers: General Motors—Much has already been written and talked about the all-electric Chevrolet Volt with a range of about 500 kms and expected to be available in Canada this summer. GM also introduced three other new Chevrolet models to watch out for in the near future, such as the Orlando, a small SUV, the Sonic, a

Chrysler’s cute Fiat grabbed a lot of attention. compact car, and the Camaro Convertible. The Buick Verano sedan is expected to shake up gains in market share in the ultra-competitive compact luxury segment.

Ford Motor—Following up on the highly successful Ford Fusion, the attention turned to the all-new Ford Focus, with its distinctive trapezoidal front grille and overall sporty compact design catching one’s eye. It relies on the same platform as the Ford Focus Electric, which can be expected to clock a top speed of

Introducing

136 km/h. Ford plans to roll out several more all-electric vehicles by 2013.

Chrysler—Chrysler has been busy introducing several refreshed and significantly improved models of late including the beautiful 300, Charger, Jeep Grand Cherokee and so on, but the one that grabbed most of the attention was also the smallest: the Fiat 500. It’s cute and stylish at the same time and comes well equipped with many standard features not usually found in such sub-compact cars. With

its sophisticated 1.4L engine, you can expect the little Fiat to be miserly with fuel.

Toyota—Easily one of the stars of the show is the Lexus LFA Supercar, of which there are only 500 available worldwide and 10 here in Canada.

Toyota also delivered in the hybrid side as expected, which includes the Lexus CT200h and the Prius V, which boasts far more useable interior space compared to the original Prius.

Nissan—The most notable announcement in the Nissan line of cars was the pricing for the Nissan Leaf (starting from $38,395). Although the price is considered high, it comes with an impressive array of standard features. The Nissan Leaf is the first mass produced all-electric vehicle that is currently available for purchase.

Honda—Making most of the news in the Honda camp is the imminent replacement of the highly successful Honda Civic model line. Providing an insight into the more aggressive and sporty design direction was the Civic Si Concept

Coupe on display.

Hyundai—Aside from interest generated from the all-new Hyundai Elantra, Hyundai also introduced the Veloster hatchback coupe, with its eyecatching design meant to attract the younger crowd.

VW—In its desire to establish a stronger foot-hold in the Canadian market, Volkswagen showcased the all-new Jetta, which has gained a cleaner, more sophisticated look and an attractive price to boot. The Jetta is offered in five trim levels, including the diesel engine TDI as well as the sporty GLI, which comes with a 2 liter gas engine.

BMW—Making news at the BMW booth was the 1 Series M Coupe, packing a powerful sport-tuned 3 liter engine into a compact package. Also unveiled was the iconic and beautifully contoured BMW 650i with 3D Heads-up-display. Making just as much of the headlines was the Mini Cooper Countryman, a fourdoor stretched or up-sized version of the classic. david.chao@leansensei.com

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