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Mr. Dressup

Dressew owner Roger McKie celebrates the store’s 50 years as a West Hastings institution selling sewing supplies, costumes and everything else worth wearing or tearing —story by Sandra Thomas

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SANDRA THOMAS Traditional Pad Thai and Gai Pad Ma-Maung Hin Ma-Pan are on the menu at Vancouver’s Thai House locations as part of the annual Dine Out for Life March 24.

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ALLEN GARR The impending end to funding for the New Fountain homeless shelter spells political trouble for both the mayor and the new premier.

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News: Tower of power

CHERYL ROSSI Public interest in a proposed 26-storey tower for Broadway and Kingsway forced the city to get a bigger space for a workshop.

News: Street legal

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CHERYL ROSSI A recent report into the sorry state of legal aid in B.C. suggests even the basic legal needs of many residents are going unmet.

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News: Heights of Chinatown:

BY AIRIKA OWEN Proposed new building heights for Chinatown has planners, residents and businesses landing on both sides of the issue.

Travel: Galiano by nature

TOM SANDBORN The new Galiano Restorative Learning Centre gives city kids a chance to directly experience the natural world.

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CANADA’S DOCTORS ARE LISTENING.

O N T H E C O V E R Owner Roger McKie shows off inventory at Dressew.

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Dressew favourite haunt for Halloween shoppers

Owner launched store 50 years ago Sandra Thomas Staff writer

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ed, green, white, black, pink, purple, fuchsia, indigo, brown, orange, yellow, blue, aqua, beige, teal, khaki, lavender, magenta, maroon and salmon pink You’d be hard pressed to name a colour of zipper not available at Dressew, the West Hastings institution that’s been supplying lowpriced sewing and craft supplies, as well as costumes and so much more, since the store opened 50 years ago.

With more than 6,000 zippers of every colour imaginable on display, several downstairs walls at Dressew at 337 West Hastings Street are veritable rainbows. That colour scheme doesn’t stop with zippers. It’s as if a rainbow-hued wand has been waved throughout both floors of the store touching down on racks of buttons, fabric, fringe, appliqué, feather boas, thread, yarn and felt as it passed by.

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itting upstairs in his office, owner Roger McKie speaks fondly of the store he launched 50 years ago at age 19. With youthful enthusiasm, he reminisces about the time 51 years ago working at an uncle’s millinery store in Toronto with a plan to later start university in Vancouver to become a teacher.

McKie had been invited to Toronto for Christmas, and in return for the cost of the airfare, he offered to work at his uncle’s store.

“My uncle asked me if I would be interested in working for a year and then going back [to Vancouver] and opening up a branch of

David McKie helps manage his father’s Dressew outlet on West Hastings. their store, but his partner said no way,” remembers McKie. “But they did agree to loan me the inventory to start my own store. At that time, 90 per cent was millinery because everyone wore a hat in those days.

It just evolved over the years.”

Today, Dressew is surrounded by the New Amsterdam Café and B.C. Marijuana Party office to the east and upscale shops and offices to the west.

McKie’s “office” is a large open space above the main floor of Dressew, which is covered in odds, ends and items of every description, including a large mounted

fish behind his desk, framed antique samplers from the 1800s and several striking bronze sculptures, their classic shapes demoted to expensive coat racks.

A series of framed panoramic photos on a wall behind his desk depict the huge lineup outside the doors of Dressew in the days leading up to Halloween from the years 2007 to 2010. The photos show hundreds of costume hunters lined up along West Hastings Street and around the corner.

When it comes to Halloween and Pride Week, Dressew is as iconic as it gets in Vancouver. In fact,

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McKie keeps a huge selection of costumes, wigs, hats, crinolines, make up, garters, masks, clown shoes, wings and feather boas of every colour year round.

The only other time Dressew has experienced a lineup of such significance was last month when it held one of the few sales in the company’s history, this one celebrating the 50th anniversary with 50 per cent off much of its already low-priced merchandise.

Also upstairs at Dressew is what McKie jokingly refers to as his “Wall of Fame,” which includes photos of himself with

former mayors, including Larry Campbell, and senior government politicians such as former premier of New Brunswick Frank McKenna, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, both sporting cowboy hats. McKie also notes proudly that if a ribbon cutting takes place in Vancouver, Dressew likely supplied the scissors.

McKie’s main source of pride comes from being in business for 50 years on the same 300 block, beginning in 1961 with a 3,000 square-foot building at 320 West Cordova. Ten years later, Dressew expanded to a 12,000-square-foot building at 309 West Pender and in 1981 a move to the West Hastings location saw the company grow to fill 30,000 square feet. Because of McKie’s voracious appetite for purchasing huge deals at discount prices from around the world, the family purchased an 18,000 squarefoot warehouse on East Cordova Street in 2001. McKie took the Courier on a tour of the new warehouse, which is already full floor to ceiling with inventory. McKie offered to drive to the warehouse and pulled up in front of Dressew behind the wheel of a black Rolls Royce. When the reporter inquired if McKie owned a second, possibly more practical vehicle, he laughed and explained his second vehicle is another Rolls Royce.

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t was while chasing down a deal on fabric 25 years ago that McKie met his long-time partner in love Joyce Wilson, who was then working for the competition.

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Continued from page 4 “I was working for Fabricland,” says Wilson, laughing. “And it turned into a bidding war.”

Never one to lose, McKie won not only the bidding war, but also stole away the competition. Wilson has been working by his side ever since.

Son David McKie and his wife Jessica Bowie also work for and help manage Dressew. (McKie also has a daughter who isn’t involved with the family business.)

David says one of the best things about working at the store is the unpredictability. One woman who attended the 50th anniversary sale purchased 2,600 balls of yarn, while a recent purchase included more than 1,000 pounds of beads. One of the disadvantages of working for a family business, however, is never knowing when you’ll get a day off. Dressew is his “second home.”

“We’ve been really busy with the [anniversary] sale so I haven’t had a day off in weeks,” says David. Like his dad, David is addicted to the hunt for the next big deal. Wilson describes father and son as competitive.

“They both live for the deal and they’re always trying to outdo each other,” says Wilson.

As Dressew’s reputation for purchasing large volumes of mer-

Dressew’s 30,000-square-foot West Hastings location is packed with supplies. photo Rebecca Blissett chandise has spread around the world, the family doesn’t have to hunt as hard as it used to for those big deals. “Now stuff finds its way to us,” says David, who admits father and son continue to search for the best buys despite their contacts. “But things

don’t fall far from the apple tree and I’m still right in there if I see a deal.”

The problem with some deals, though, is that the McKies are committed to taking entire inventories.

There’s no picking and choosing when it comes to purchasing the

inventory from a store that’s closing or manufacturer going out of business. That’s how the family recently ended up with more than a million paintbrush sets for children. But the family took the large order in stride and donated thousands of the sets to local schools.

“School boards have had to cut back so much that we see teachers shopping here all the time for their classrooms and they pay out of their own pocket,” says McKie. “So we donated most of the paintbrushes. When it comes to orders you get the good with the bad.”

Customers who lined up around the block for Dressew’s 50th anniversary sale in February also received six sets of paintbrushes each. It was one of those kinds of deals several years ago that out of the blue saw Dressew in possession of thousands of pounds of chocolates. Chocolate lovers flocked to the store as word of the $5 for five pounds of hedgehogs spread across the city. As recently as a month ago, a customer came in looking to see if they were still selling chocolate. And that was a valid question—at Dressew you just never know what you’ll find.

Another purchase in recent years included thousands of pounds of corks. The corks weren’t for wine, but it didn’t take long for word to spread that Dressew was selling large bags for $5 and they soon sold out.

The day the Courier visited, the McKie family had recently purchased merchandise that included made-in-Vancouver ski and hiking pants.

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Burlesque performer sings store’s praises Continued from page 5 The pants still had their original price tags of up to $200 attached, but the going cost at Dressew was $2.99 a pair. Also on display were black tuxedo shirts of all sizes for $6.99. It’s because of the low prices sales are rarely held.

David says one of the joys of working at the store is seeing the end result of projects customers have designed, whether it’s a new outfit, an outrageous costume for the Pride Parade or Burning Man, or arts and crafts projects.

“Our customers are so creative and brilliant, I love it when they bring in their project or a picture to the shop to show us,” he says. “It’s amazing the things they’ll make and it’s very cool to know we were a part of it.”

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regular Dressew customer is local burlesque performer Vava Vunderbust, executive director of the Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society, who asked that her real name not be used because she also has a “day job.”

Vava calls the staff and owners of Dressew “pillars of society,” particularly when that society includes members of the drag, burlesque and theatrical community. “They have fringe, material, hats, wigs, make up and a huge wall of sequence and appliqué,” says Vava. “Everything you need to have for burlesque.”

Vava can spend hours wandering the colourful aisles of Dressew. “It’s a real Mecca of the city,” says Vava. “Unfor-

“THEY HAVE FRINGE, MATERIAL, HATS, WIGS, MAKE UP.” Vava Vunderbust

tunately, they have crazy hours and close at 5:15 [p.m.] and on Sundays.”

That 5:15 p.m. closing time is a subject often discussed on chat websites dedicated to Dressew, which doesn’t have its own website or even public email. In fact, callers to Dressew hear a recorded message detailing the store’s hours, which ends with a reminder that if you call back you’ll receive the same message. McKie values family time so the 5:15 closing lets customers finish up their orders, such as measuring material, allowing everyone to get out the door by 5:30 p.m.

McKie and Wilson also never work on Valentine’s Day. Instead, the couple enjoys time at their Richmond acreage where they’ve created an informal wild rabbit sanctuary. McKie is also a large supporter of Richmond Animal Rescue. Besides helping animals, McKie donates what he can to charity, including supplying safety pins to huge charity races.

He’s also a proud supporter of Yaletown House, a seniors care facility where each summer he donates enough money that staff can begin purchasing a Christmas gift for each

resident.

“That way each resident gets something they want like a pair of slippers or a scarf or a book,” says McKie. “This year I got a thank you card from a resident’s daughter addressed to ‘Roger at Yaletown House.’ One year I received a thank you card from a lady who said my gift was the only one she received that year.”

David says the staff is like family and he’s proud there has been up to three generations of employees from the same family working in the store over the decades.

Longtime employee Ornella Bombino, who’s worked at Dressew for 24 years, agrees working for the McKies is like working with family.

As Bombino speaks about her work, Roger McKie interrupts like a proud father and says, “Did she tell you about her roses?” As it turns out, not only is Bombino a valued employee at Dressew, she’s also a world-class competitive rose grower who has the trophies to prove it.

But after two lengthy visits to Dressew and meeting the cast of characters that make up the staff and customers, you’d expect nothing less.

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After three nights of public hearings, city council is still a long way from deciding whether to approve Paragon Gaming Inc.’s proposal to build a mega casino adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium.

Paragon wants to relocate its gaming licence from Edgewater casino at the Plaza of Nations across the street to the lands west of the stadium.

The proposed casino would feature 150 games tables and 1,500 slot machines, making it the biggest facility of its kind in Western Canada.

The hearings are scheduled to resume April 12, although Mayor Gregor Robertson said Monday that an earlier date could be announced before then.

At last count, more than 200 people signed up to speak. Monday night’s hearing concluded after council heard from the 59th speaker on the list.

Here is what some people are saying: • Jeff Reynolds, a card dealer at Edgewater, said the casino is

Edgewater Casino workers and anti-gambling citizens packed city hall Monday night for a third night of public photo Dan Toulgoet hearings about Paragon Gaming’s proposal to build a mega casino. plugged with gamblers after a Vancouver Canucks game and other sporting events. That’s why the expansion is needed, he added.

“After these events, we have all of our tables open and there are hundreds of people circling just waiting for a seat. They circle for an hour, an hour-and-a-half.

That’s lost opportunity for not only

people to enjoy the entertainment district but also increased revenue which will reflect in the percentages that the city will receive.”

• Kitsilano resident Ann Murnaghan requested council impose a moratorium on gambling expansion until further review of the issue. She joined the Vancouver, Not Vegas! anti-casino coalition after attending a meeting in

Chinatown last month.

“I know that you know you’re elected by the people for the people and I pray that you make a wise decision. Better still, begin again and build an exciting place we will all be proud of and want to be part of. There is time to make that right.”

• Loy Tran, an Edgewater worker, urged council to support Par-

agon’s proposal to relocate. Tran said she can’t imagine life without her job.

“I don’t want you to feel sorry for me because I’m a single mom and battling with cancer. I just want to continue to work and support my six-year-old daughter Samantha.”

• “Homeless Dave” pointed to articles in newspapers and magazines that detail the collapse of the Las Vegas economy where the “newly homeless are living in drainage pipes.” Paragon is based in Las Vegas.

“The mega casino piranhas are looking for chumps and suckers elsewhere.”

• Tek Lee, an assistant poker manager at Edgewater, said he and his wife rely on their incomes from the casino to support their two boys, who are four and six years old.

“It would be a disaster if Edgewater is not granted [the right] to expand and to move to a new location. We have no chance to compete with other casinos such as River Rock [Richmond], Grand Villa [Burnaby] and Boulevard [Coquitlam]. It will also mean that Edgewater will eventually have to close the doors to business, which means my wife and I along with 736 employees will no longer have jobs.” mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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WEB POLL NATION Go to www.vancourier.com to vote Should the provincial government continue to fund city homeless shelters scheduled to close in April?

Last week’s poll question: Would a new mega casino downtown create more problem gambling in Vancouver?

Yes 71 per cent No 29 per cent This is not a scientific poll.

Two days before the regional homeless count began this week and with hundreds of people still living on the streets, the province’s B.C. Housing confirmed it will be cutting funding and shutting down a Vancouver homeless shelter. It’s enough to give you what in Twitter parlance is referred to as a “WTF” moment.

You can bet this will be on the agenda when Mayor Gregor Robertson and new Premier Christy Clark next cross paths. They could both wear this one. I’ll tell you why in just a moment.

The shelter in question is the New Fountain, which was profiled on this page in Wednesday’s Courier. The shelter is considered “low barrier,” which means it allows pets and folks with shopping carts, and handles about 40 clients every night of the year. It has done so since it opened more than two years ago as one of a number of HEAT shelters created by the city and the province as part of a goal to eliminate street homelessness.

The push and pull over this matter that will take place between Vancouver and Victoria has become an annual rite of spring. The province will argue as B.C. Housing did in an email sent to the Portland Hotel Society (PHS), the shelter operators, this week: There was a deal, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed off by the city and the province that said once a new building was built by the province to house homeless folks, funding for the New Fountain would cease. The deadline is April 30, 2011.

Those conditions were also set out in a press release from Victoria a year ago. That was the last time Victoria blinked and agreed to continue fund-

allengarr ing the New Fountain and the other HEAT shelters the city helped create to house the homeless.

Now that those conditions have been met in the form of a new facility called Station Street, which is also run by PHS, it’s bye, bye funding and bye, bye shelter.

When Vision Coun. Kerry Jang, the guy who handles the homeless file, first got the news of the shut down from me this week he said: “That’s not true.” Three weeks ago, he reassured New Fountain staff they had nothing to worry about. And, as we now know, that’s not true.

But here’s something that’s true. The policy pursued by the city and the province, using a combination of shelters and renovated or new facilities to house the homeless in the past two years, has been undeniably successful. The city’s principal housing advocate, Judy Graves, will attest to that.

But the problem has not been solved. As Graves

says: “We still don’t have enough housing or enough shelters.”

Even though some people from the New Fountain have moved into more permanent housing in Station Street, the New Fountain continues to be packed to overflowing, a fact PHS is making known to anyone who’ll listen.

There is the small matter of Robertson’s promise, which was a major campaign pledge, to end street homelessness. It’s a hell of a way to do business, but we have to assume when he signed off on the MOU with Victoria, it was the only way to get the funding. It wouldn’t end there—he expected that he could get Victoria to blink, again.

There is also the suspicion that Victoria has been using new facilities promised to house the homeless for other folks they are emptying out of group homes.

All of that was doubtless the subject of the meeting at city hall this week attended by Jang, the mayor’s chief of staff and the deputy general manager of community services.

Finally there is Clark. We expect she will seek a seat in Vancouver-Point Grey in the next short while. If she blinks and continues funding the New Fountain for another year, she’ll follow an established pattern. If she doesn’t, she’ll have a hand in putting another 40 people on the street in the city she represents while the shelter sits empty.

Clark and Robertson have six weeks to work this out.

So WTF indeed. agarr@vancourier.com

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The corruption of power crosses all political lines A friend with a degree in Mesoamerican studies once told me an interesting theory about the ancient Mayans. Over time, some scholars believe, the priestly ruling class would become so corrupt and exploitative that people would come down from the mountains and kick their feather-plumed butts. The new regime would then begin its own descent into corruption, requiring another wave of butt-kicking a hundred years or so later.

And so on.

There is much academic debate on the reasons for the collapse of the Mayan civilization between the eighth and ninth century AD. Whatever the merits of the “peasant revolt” thesis, the Mayan calendar has gone from an archeological obscurity to a pop culture plaything, owing to the end of the 10,000 year “long count” in 2012.

Some believe this date heralds a global spiritual awakening, or a cascade of “Earth changes,” or even a wakeup call for the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.

In other words, the 2012 mania sounds like the New Age version of Christian fundamentalists’ “Rapture.”

The writer Derrick Jensen once defined hope as “a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency.” The hope for massive social change, in which you play no direct part, invariably comes packaged with the magic beans of disillusion. When the fairy tale invariably goes sideways, you’re stuck with a 20-storey beanstalk of cynicism.

And no cow.

Consider what happened the last time a leader tried to sell an audience on the “Hope and Change” theme. In extending almost all of the Bush administration’s neocon polices, from Guantanamo prison to tax cuts for the rich, Barack Obama is arguably worse than his predecessor. If Dubya was the tactless emcee who brought the curtain down on American exceptionalism, Obama is the polite guy with the flashlight, ushering middle-class patrons down the aisles and out a dark, dangerous back alley. Both were employees of the same theatre chain all along.

Disappointment is inevitable when you buy into the “Great Man” theory of history—the peculiar belief that one outstanding dude will stride into town, like Val Kilmer in a rubberized Batman suit, and save everyone. People in other places of the world are under no such illusions. The Tunisians and Egyptians knew they weren’t ruled by great men, but by western-supported scam artists. In fact, the uprisings in the Mideast weren’t

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geoffolson set off by the actions of rulers, but by citizens completely off the radar. One was an unemployed Tunisian graduate, Mohammed Bouzazi, who lit himself on fire in front of government buildings to protest his continual harassment by police. Videos of subsequent protests in the town went viral on the Internet and Al Jazeera, and agitation began across the Arab world.

It’s hard to imagine protests of this scale happening on this side of the Atlantic. Firstly, we are not governed by brutal thugs in the mold of Ali, Mubarak or Gaddafi.

Secondly, we aren’t spending half our income on food. Thirdly, many of us believe we have the best form of freedom available, rather than the best simulation of democracy that big money can buy.

When Mubarak stepped down, and three million Egyptians cheered euphorically in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, I shared their joy.

It was confirmation that history isn’t always made by the “great men” of the history books, but by anonymous men and women voting with their feet. If western nations continue on their path of social engineering through class war, their leaders’ time will surely come as well. Capitalist, communist, theocratic or secular: the habit of corruption by rulers transcends all historical and political boundaries. As does backlash from the ruled. Every once and a while, you have to rise up and kick the bums out—and once and a while you actually can through nonviolent resistance, as the Egyptians and Tunisians have demonstrated (time will tell how successful the Arab social experiments are).

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress,” wrote the black American social reformer Frederick Douglass.

Perhaps this is what the world is coming to understand in the new millennium: that if political leaders aren’t up for stepping aside after they’ve abused the public trust, then massive civil disobedience will help them out. With a wave of activism sweeping the world, from Tunisia to Wisconsin, people may discover they can without Quetzalcoatl in 2012, or any other mythic figure.

According to one reader, Premier Christy Clark’s decision to send her child to private school makes sense considering the state of public schools. photo Adrian Lam, Times Colonist To the editor: Re: “Rosy ‘Families First’ rhetoric can’t hide whiff of hypocrisy,” March 9.

Fiona Hughes, carried away with her own rhetoric and too many loosely connected ideas, was unable to state concisely and coherently her thoughts on Christy Clark and Families First, private schools, the price of housing, daycare and minimum wages.

Clark has made it quite clear in the past that she has a low regard for teachers. It would have been hypocritical for her to enroll her son in a Vancouver School District school after her many verbal attacks on public school teachers. She fails to recognized that it is not the teachers, alone, but the school system that is the source of her angst.

Clark, as a private citizen or as premier, has the right to educate her child in a school best suited to his learning needs.

Parents are intelligent enough to know when their children are not receiving a sound education.

More money for schools will not change Clark’s opinion, nor is it likely to improve the standards in local schools. Money is not the answer. Higher standards and increased learning are the result of cooperation among schools, students and parents.

Hughes invokes the chant of “more money,” but why give more money to school districts that have records of incompetence, inefficiency and outright waste?

Bekka Hafpap-Mckee, Vancouver

It’s illogical to license dogs but not bicycles We want

To the editor: Re: “Licensed bikes would help police catch cyclists” Letters, March 11.

In response for the recent push to license dogs, I am not opposed to dogs requiring a licence. However, I do question the priority of licensing requirements and the assignment of public resources.

Why the big push to catch Spot running in a park while bicyclists travel on city roadways licencefree? Not only do cyclists travel on public roadways,

they have their own multimillion roadways on which to travel. Why are they free of any obligations or licence requirements? This I do not understand.

To even the playing field, perhaps dog-only parks could be built so that licence-free dogs may do what dogs do, and hopefully their owners will pick-up their do-do.

I have also wondered why cyclists do not require liability insurance. What protection is offered when a cyclist is deemed to have

caused an accident involving a pedestrian, car, truck or other cyclist? If bicycles are deemed to be road vehicles, why are they not treated like road vehicles, requiring licensing and bicycle appropriate insurance?

Licensing bicycles, in my view, is a greater priority and better use of our city’s resources than having personnel patrolling the parks and nabbing Spot as he runs along Kits Beach.

Jennifer Fleming, Vancouver

Liberal claims ignore child care realities in B.C.

To the editor: Re: “Liberal government committed to child care,” March 4.

In response to Minister Mary Polak’s glowing description of how wonderful services are for children and families in British Columbia, I can only wonder aloud exactly where it is that she gets her information.

Minister Polak says “families can choose from a range of affordable, safe, quality child care options.” But parents on long waiting lists are desperate to know what quality options they have, and parents struggling to pay $1,000 a month for toddler care would like to know what affordable options they have, and parents with school-age children but no before or after school care spaces

would like to know what their safe options are. Minister Polak also needs to be reminded that as lovely as Strong Start drop-in programs are—they do not help working parents who need child care spaces.

If the provincial government wants to do as Minister Polak says and “work closely with parents and communities,” then we need to remind her that childcare is early learning and that the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of B.C. has a plan on how to move forward from the current crisis because clearly after 10 years in government the B.C. Liberals have only deepened our childcare crisis.

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A former senior city planner urged city council Monday night to reject a Las Vegas company’s proposal to build a mega casino and hotel complex adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium.

Nathan Edelson spoke to council at a public hearing on Paragon Gaming Inc.’s plans to relocate its gambling licence from Edgewater casino at the Plaza of Nations to land west of the stadium.

“The process doesn’t smell right, the stadium roof leaks money and doesn’t look right, and enabling addiction to gambling as public policy doesn’t feel right,” said Edelson, who was a senior planner at the city from 1983 to 2008.

Although he didn’t name names, Edelson also criticized former city staffers and public officials who now work for casino companies and others related to the planning of the casino. “The media has reported that a number of former and current public officials have been working behind the scenes on, and in some cases, directly for the casino and associated facilities,” he told council. “Whatever their past contributions to public service—and for many of these people they’re considerable—I think that many have lost their way.”

The Courier has reported that former deputy city manager Brent McGregor is a consultant for B.C. Pavilion Corporation, which is the provincial Crown corporation and landlord of the stadium and proposed casino site.

T. Richard Turner is the former chairperson of the Insurance Corporation of B.C. and the B.C. Lottery Corporation.

He is a director with Paragon and provides advice to the company.

Edelson said Paragon’s proposed design of the casino and hotel complex is too large and will block rather than enhance important linkages to False Creek—“one of our most important achievements of a generation of planners and others at the city.”

B.C. Place is undergoing a $563 million renovation, $240 million of which is devoted to build a retractable roof. All 36 masts for the roof are in place and rise high above the rim of the stadium. “The stadium roof now litters our skyline,” Edelson said. “Its design is disrespectful of three decades of careful work to protect public views. The stadium and roof cost more than $560 million. That these funds were spent in advance of this public hearing is disrespectful of the city’s rezoning process. More importantly, this is a misallocation of public funds when hundreds of homeless people live in our streets.”

Edelson said he helped negotiate a community benefit agreement with the original owners of Edgewater to ensure inner-city residents would be given a minimum of 10 per cent of new jobs.

Cook Studio, a social enterprise, trained many low-income youth to prepare them for jobs at Edgewater. When Paragon bought Edgewater in 2006, the company cancelled the contract with Cook because the 10 per cent requirement was met, he said. “This contributed to Cook Studios’ bankruptcy and the loss of opportunity for dozens of young people who were taking their first steps out of poverty,” Edelson said.

Peter Ladner was an NPA city councillor when Edelson worked at city hall. Ladner appeared before council on the same night as Edelson. He also urged council to reject Paragon’s proposal. “I’m not here for the NPA and I’m not here for the Vancouver, Not Vegas coalition, I’m not here for an election campaign, I’m not here because I’m antibusiness and I’m not here because I want to shut down any casinos, or because I want to stop anyone from gambling,” he said. “I’m here because I care about my city and because I don’t want it to be irreversibly infused with slot machine culture.”

Ladner voted against slot machines for Edgewater in 2004. Later that year, he voted for slots at Hastings Racecourse, saying he was concerned about job loss for racetrack workers. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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The park board voted Monday night to award its pay parking operations to local company EasyPark for a five-year contract beginning in April.

The park board also plans to install new parking lot pay stations with solar panels, accessibility for wheelchairs and large graphic display screens with automatic backlighting.

And according to Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper, instead of purchasing a ticket and taking it back to their vehicle, drivers will instead enter their licence plate number into the pay station. He said the new system will stop drivers leaving a parking stall from passing their paid ticket stub with time left on it to someone just arriving. Jasper says the estimated loss each year

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The park board agreed Monday night to allow Gerry O’Neil, owner of Stanley Park Horse Drawn Carriage Tours, to move his kiosk from its location on the start of a hill to a flat area adjacent to the visitor’s booth near the entrance to the park. Park board chair Aaron Jasper says O’Neil has been concerned for years because his horses have been forced to start each tour with the physically demanding task of pulling a carriage full of people uphill. The new location will allow the horses to start on a flat stretch of road. In return, O’Neil will pay for a traffic study. The visitor’s booth will be expanded and include more washrooms. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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A 1945 photo depicts Walter Moberly elementary the morning after a devastating fire. The roof is destroyed and the side of the building scorched. It was one of five south Vancouver schools hit by arson that year and it suffered the most damage.

Moberly was rebuilt in 1946 and a new wing added in 1950. A second fire in 1962 led to further extensive repairs and in subsequent years it’s been renovated and seismically upgraded to produce a contemporary façade that contrasts with its 100-year history.

“It’s still got some brick work but it’s more of a cement finish now—more modern looking,” explained principal Patti Plottel.

Named for a civil engineer and surveyor who played a large role in the early exploration and development of B.C., Moberly opened in its current loca-

Walter Moberly tion at 1000 East 59th Ave. in 1911 under principal Elizabeth M. Dickieson—one of 15 principals who’ve held the job and one of only three women.

Moberly celebrates its centennial May 5 and is one of a handful of Vancouver schools marking 100 years in 2011.

But fire isn’t the only setback it suffered—and overcame—through the decades. Students were evacuated from an old part of the school and moved into portables in 1998 after the walls were discovered to be unstable. The problem was

revealed during a renovation project to add more rooms.

The school’s enrolment has eroded over the years— registration fell from more than 1,300 in 1963 to just over 500 this year. New Canadians provide the bulk of the enrolment.

“It’s always been a school that’s been very popular with new immigrants, but prior to the 1990s, it was more of a German population that lived in this part of town and since the 1990s it’s been predominately South Asian kids—96 per cent of kindergartners enter school as ESL students,” Plottel explained. “It’s not an affluent community.

Many of the families in this neighbourhood follow the model of multi-generations of families living in the same house. So it’s grandparents, parents and kids all living in the same house supporting each other. Most of the parents in our community work in the service

industry so often the parents are at work—working either shift work or all day, and the grandparents take care of looking after the children.”

Plottel said staff work hard to help students’ academic achievement.

SmartBoards are in every classroom and the school focuses on early intervention. A StrongStart program is onsite, as well as a preschool.

Moberly holds its centennial celebration for current students and parents from 1 to 3 p.m., May 5, which will feature 10 decade rooms. A celebration for alumni staff and students takes place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. later that evening. Those interested in attending the event can register online or the school will send registration forms by email or by mail. It’s also looking for artifacts to display in the decade rooms. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Neighbourhoodresidentsraisestreetbanners Sandra Thomas Staff writer

The Mountain View Neighbourhood Group is testimony to what a small, dedicated band of volunteers can accomplish through hard work and determination.

The latest accomplishment of the group is a set of replacement street banners on Fraser Street set to fly between East 23rd and East 31st avenues within the week.

Neighbourhood volunteer Mike Klassen said the banners are being expanded one block this year to include the location of the new Outpost Café at 3992 Fraser St. “We’re so blessed to have a place to buy cappuccino, we wanted to welcome them to the neighbourhood,” said Klassen, a political blogger and columnist.

Klassen said he was lucky enough to move to the neighbourhood on the heels of the hard work accomplished by the neighbourhood group. The group formed in 2000 in response to rising crime in their community. The volunteers trained to patrol the neighbourhood at night, issued news releases, held press conferences, organized protest marches and reported crime to 911.

The volunteers also worked to have street banners erected in 2002.

Those banners were replaced in 2007 by new versions painted by local students who were directed to choose images that remind them of their neighbourhood. The neighbourhood group organized mural painting, removed graffiti, organized community street and lane clean up events, created a website at mountain-view.ca and installed customized wooden curbs, grass, flowers and shrubs to help narrow East 28th Avenue to reduce speeding.

Klassen noted it would have taken the volunteer group a long time to raise the $10,000 needed for this third set of banners if it hadn’t been for a generous donation from Ledingham-McAllister, the developer

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of the new Century apartments project on Fraser Street, as well as the support of Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House. Klassen added these new banners are special because they feature transportation scenes taken from the city’s archives, including vintage photos of a bus, streetcar, a commercial truck and bicycle. “Grants are a lot harder to come by these days,” said Klassen. “So when I heard about this development I approached them right away to see if they’d like to get involved.”

Klassen asked the company to help pay for the banners to improve the neighbourhood. He approached Ledingham-McAllister three times before receiving the good news. “I told them, ‘You want the neighbourhood to look nice don’t you?’” said Klassen. “Then I convinced them it was a win-win situation because they’re going into another sales cycle at Century.”

John O’Donnell, senior vice-president with Ledingham-McAllister, said the banners made sense because the construction of the Century and a new rental building, Karma, just blocks away are changing the face of Fraser Street. “The building where our sales office is used to be a doggy daycare and the owner had been considering tearing it down,” said O’Donnell. “But we cleaned it up and put our sales office there and now the look of Fraser Street is changing and the banners fit right in.”

He added Ledingham-McAllister has a long history in the neighbourhood, including city infrastructure work completed in the community 100 years ago. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Treat Yourself. Help the Animals.

After Rex Lee, a seven-year-old Golden Retriever/Labrador cross, arrived at the BC SPCA, x-rays revealed he had a giant bladder stone -- the largest the veterinarian had ever seen! Rex Lee required immediate surgery to remove the bladder stone. Once he recovers, Rex Lee will be able to live his life the way it was meant to be lived, as a happy dog free from suffering! His treatment will cost $1,200.

Emergency treatment of homeless and wild animals costs $1.5 million annually. When donating to the BC SPCA, give a little extra for the Biscuit Fund so that animals like Rex Lee can receive the emergency treatment they need to get a second chance at ďŹ nding a new loving home.

To ďŹ nd out how you can make a difference in the lives of wonderful animals like Rex Lee, please call Donations at 604.681.7271, or visit www.spca.bc.ca/biscuit.

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community briefs World Water Day

In recognition of this year’s World Water Day, four of British Columbia’s most influential women crusaders will talk about water, March 22 at Performance Works on Granville Island from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The lecture is based on a radio podcast series entitled Women and Water, created by Michelle Mungall, MLA for NelsonCreston.

Women and Water—The Live Talk Show features women of diverse backgrounds including CBC Radio 3 host Lana Gay, Western

Canada Wilderness Committee’s policy director Gwen Barlee, Founder of Lovesocial.org Azita Ardakani, and Karen Sander of Vancouver fashion label Obakki’s charity, the Obakki Foundation.

This free public event is a casual and candid setting, where the audience asks questions of the guest speakers and shares their own stories. A live stream of the show will be posted on the Women and Water website for all those unable to attend the event.

For more information, visit womenandwaterforum.com

Tiki Talk

Heritage Vancouver is taking a journey back in time to the Polynesian splendour of the Tiki rooms at the fabulous Waldorf Hotel March 23. An Evening of Tiki is an opportunity to experience the tropical nostalgia of the 1950s and to slip into a Hawaiian shirt, sip on a Mai Tai, and listen to exotic music amid palm trees, bamboo and a twinkling midnight sky. The talk includes a guided tour and a complimentary Mai Tai. Tickets are $25. Email info@heritagevancouver.org for more information.

Alzheimer workshop

The Alzheimer Society of B.C. is presenting a workshop on advocacy April 14 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Oakridge branch of the Vancouver Public Library.

Participants will learn how to be effective advocates for themselves and their family member with dementia. Please call Jan at 604-742-4925 for more details or email jrobson@alzheimerbc.org.

Van Horne centennial

Van Horne elementary is turning 100. Sir William Van Horne

elementary is calling all alumni, former staff, administrators, and parents to an open house, May 26, from 4 to 9 p.m. Register online at vanhorne.vsb.bc.ca or contact Dave Miranda (vanhorne100@ vsb.bc.ca) for more information.

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garden Spring pruning

Cold, wind and long, heavy rains made gardening a tough slog for some of us this spring, but we still have a few more weeks to finish up on the early pruning. Soon, branches

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ing branches. As well, any growth that’s started blocking windows or stretching over access points, such as paths, should be removed.

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stems are more vigorous and, if allowed to remain, will eventually dominate the tree.

Almost all the early flowering shrubs and trees should be pruned right after blooming. Even better, why not prune while they’re blooming and get some flowers for the house. Cornelian Cherry (Cornus mas), for example, usually has multiple stems and often needs some of the congested middle ones pruned out.

Its bright yellow flowers last a long time inside.

Forsythia and Winter Honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) bloom better if one or two old stems are removed each year. Both can spread widely and, as they get older, will also need pruning for shape.

This is the time to cut buddleia back to 30 centimetres from the ground.

Because it flowers on new growth, it will rush to put out fresh stems that produce pyramidial heads of pink, white or purple flowers in August. If it’s not pruned, buddleia will grow so tall it flowers out of sight.

The PeeGee hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata) produces sumptuous blooms if it’s cut down 30 centimetres from the ground in early spring.

The mop-head hydrangea (Hydrangea macropylla) should have its old flowerheads pruned away and the remaining stems cut back to large, sturdy buds.

During March, the shrubby lavatera Barnsley should be pruned to 30 centimetres. This lavatera shouldn’t be cut right down to ground level unless you want to trigger a reversion from white flowers to pink ones. Luckily, some gardeners prefer pink lavatera while others enjoy mixing the two colours.

It’s also time to cut red-twig and yellow-twig dogwoods back to a few inches above ground level.

Lavender can be sheared back now but only into the green wood because the old, brown areas of stem are reluctant to re-shoot.

After severe temperatures this year, hardy fuchsia stems will have died to ground level and most gardeners will need to cut them right down. But gardeners may want to experiment with leaving all the erect stems. But gardeners who need to work around these fuchsias should take care to wear eye protection.

—Anne Marrison amarrison@shaw.ca

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cycling Personal experiences often the best

Lessons learned while cycling

jeffreyhansen-carlson If beer made Bud wiser than surely cycling can make Jeffrey smarter. Here are four profound life lessons I’ve learned while cycling.

• Having earned an MBA, I come prepared with a firm understanding of finance and economics. While riding down a road I’ve never explored, I noticed a hole-inthe-wall restaurant selling five samosas and a can of cola for $1. I scratched my helmet. I thought being an entrepreneur meant attempting to create wealth for yourself, not to give stuff away for so dirt-cheap that you lose all your money.

• Everything to do with numbers is precise. When we see a single digit, a series of numbers, or an equation, there’s no room for interpretation. While cycling a quiet and narrow road in the valley, I noticed a speed limit sign that read 100 km per hour. A joker’s instinct told me some punk teen swapped it in place of the 50-km per hour sign that I’m certain was there before. Do you think cars were going 100 km/h? You’d be surprised. I realized humans take comfort in precision to the extent that, without it, extinction would be imminent.

• Communication via body

language is universal. When you give me a thumbs up, I smile. When you give me the middle finger, I scowl. When you give me a wide-eyed and freaky look while flailing your arms in a bid to fly as you warble out a high pitch noise, I get confused. Motorists have given me thumbs-ups and middle fingers. Only once have I had a wide-eyed, armflailing encounter. It was with a pedestrian who was indifferent to my existence. I learned I’d rather be hated by the odd motorist who is aware of my existence than creeped out by a loony pedestrian who is not aware of anything.

• Life is too short to waste time; tossing the occasional moment to history does nothing for progress. Given our individual priorities we are all free to come up with unique ways to ensure our time is managed and has value.

There’s a particular sketchy area that I cycle through often. During a ride in this area, a man, arguably down on his luck, was sprinting at an astonishing speed while drinking from a bottle concealed in a brown paper bag. As I made my way closer, he unzipped his fly to relieve himself while only slowing to a jog. I was shown firsthand that time becomes exponentially more valuable when the police are closing in.

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“Our bank account is our cows.”

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The wages Soit earns from the hotel does go into a bank account, but that money buys, you guessed it, cows. Despite their brushes with modern life, the Maasai people remain a part of the ecosystem that has barely changed for centuries on the Masai Mara. This 1,510-square kilometre savannah region in Kenya is one of the world’s top safari destinations—a meet-and-greet with Animal Kingdom cast.

Although big-game hunting has been banned in Kenya since 1977, the region is stuffed with dozens of lodges offering safariinspired accommodations with mounted game heads and pictures of Ernest Hemingway, but with every modern convenience added. At the Sarova Mara Game Camp, guests stay in canvas tents that are tricked out with hardwood floors, four-poster beds and indoor plumbing. At night, housekeeping even throws a hot-water bottle under your covers to keep the dark continent’s chill at bay.

During the day, safari companies ferry tourists in open-topped vans along the game reserve roads searching for sightings in the yellow-green, low-slung landscape, pimpled by parasol-shaped acacia trees. On my first drive around the reserve, we find zebras grazing outside the hotel grounds like horses in the pasture, two giraffes rubbing necks in the distance and wildebeests running up a crest in yellow plains.

Sightings of the “Big Five” animals (elephants, rhinos, lions, leopards, African cape buffalo) remain elusive until our next drive, shortly after sunrise. First, we watch a family of elephants munching grass around a solitary acacia tree. Then we see a white rhino hiding in a grove and a more elusive black rhino lingering by the road.

The most amazing moment of the trip—the memory that makes travelling across the world and popping malaria pills like Chiclets worthwhile—is our encounter with a pride of lions, only a few feet from the road, noshing on a Maasai cow.

It plays out less like a nature documentary, and more like a sitcom. The gruff papa lion, a majestic Ralph Kramden, eats first while the long-suffering mama, who prepared the meal by initiating the kill, watches from the sideline. When the lioness tries to take her share, the unappreciative male lion snaps at her.

And, then, growing tired of the gawking tourists and their clicking zoom lenses, he drags the carcass in his mouth into a shrub where his trouble-making, tow-headed cubs scamper about. Later in the afternoon, after running into hyenas and hippo, we return to the scene of the feeding. The groggy papa lion sits by the shrub with a smear of blood on his mouth like lipstick. Inside the shrub, a cub suckles on the teat of its mama lion. Another lioness takes interest in one of the surrounding safari vans circling the van before sitting in its shade.

Of course, the source of our safari highlight happens because the lion makes an unauthorized withdrawal from a Maasai warrior’s bank account. In spite of the ban against killing game and efforts to compensate cattle eaten by lions, the Maasai, who steadfastly hold onto frowned-on cultural practices like female circumcision, are still the lion’s chief threat.

Soit, who owns 20 head of cattle, says he once killed a lion that ate three of his cows. He shows me the sword and spear he used, before taking me along a path where he keeps the forearm bone of a large feline. “The Maasai are very connected with wild animals,” Soit insists as he leads me back to the reception area of the plushy resort. “We are all survivors. The lions are our friends. But when a lion attacks a cow, we have to fight.” metaquiche@hotmail.com

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March 18

Documentary filmmaker Katherine Surridge screens her film Anne today (March 18) at the Baron Gallery, 293 Columbia St. in Gastown at 7 p.m.

Anne examines the life of a woman who lived on the streets of Kitsilano for 10 years.

Special guest, physician and author Gabor Mate will moderate a post-screening discussion between 25 women from different backgrounds, but all with the name Anne. The event is free, but you must pre-register by calling 604-682-1114 or at barongallery.ca.

March 21

If you’re anything like me, your emergency preparedness plan likely doesn’t

include much more than bottled water in the fridge.

But in light of the catastrophic earthquakes that have devastated parts of Haiti, New Zealand and now Japan in the past year, there’s no time like the present to get organized.

That’s where the City of Vancouver’s Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Program comes in by offering free workshops designed to help you get prepared.

One of the lessons offered is how to conduct a home hazard hunt. I hear that hot water tanks not secured to the wall can be one of the most dangerous hazards of all in an earthquake. Another workshop being held next week at Roundhouse Community Centre is dedicated to emergency preparedness for you and your pet.

For a complete list and description of workshops, as well as tips on preparing your home for an emergency, go to vancouver.ca/emerg/nepp.

March 24

If you plan on eating breakfast, lunch or dinner at a restaurant next Thursday, why not go to one that’s participating in the annual Dining Out for Life fundraising event.

A record 238 restaurants between Whistler and White Rock are taking part in the one-day event that sees 25 per cent of your food bill dedicated to the non-profit groups Friends For Life, which offers holistic complementary and integrated therapies to people living with HIV/AIDS, and A Loving Spoonful, which provides free, nutritious meals to men, women and children living with the disease.

And it’s so easy to help. You need to eat, and when you consider an $80 restaurant bill will provide meals for six people through Friends For Life, why not make it count. And for every glass of Stella Artois beer or bottle of Sumac Ridge Estate Winery purchased next Thursday, $1 will be donated to Dining Out for Life.

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A Loving Spoonful and Friends For Life also need volunteers for the March 24 event.

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The thrift shop at the Sunnyhill Health Centre for Children is in need. Not only does the store need volunteers and donations, it also suffers from a lack of awareness and in turn a lack of shoppers. The store can’t accept donations of furniture, but clothing, books and housewares are greatly appreciated. Proceeds from the thrift shop go directly to the health centre.

The thrift store, located on the grounds of Sunnyhill at 2644 Slocan St. is open Wednesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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3. The Vancouver Art Gallery hosts FUSE: Dark City March 18, 8 p.m to 1 a.m. The evening of music, dance and art investigates the darker side of our city with performances from local dance troupes The 605 Collective and The Response, aboriginal hip hop collective Beat Nation, doomsday prophets and live musical excerpts from the stage play Hardcore Logo Live. Admission: $19.50 for adults and free for Gallery Members. More info at vanartgallery.bc.ca.

2. Described by one reviewer as “an unforgettable socialsatire, a devious little test of endurance for brave movielovers and the best argument against home-schooling since The Jonas Brothers,” Dogtooth nabbed a Best Foreign Film nomination at this year’s Oscars. The critically acclaimed Greek film screens at Vancity Theatre March 18 to 24. For show times, call 604-683-FILM (3456) or go to viff.org.

4. Channel your inner eight-year-old girl as Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse corrals nearly 100 international performers, including 55 horses, riders, aerialists, acrobats, dancers, musicians and a vocalist under one roof March 22 to April 10. It all takes place under the white big top at Olympic Village. For tickets, go to cavalia.net or call 1-866-999-8111.

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Immediately after taking office and dragging a hobbled Colin Hansen out behind the barn to put him out of his misery, Premier Christy Clark announced that her government will raise the minimum wage.

The current level has been a deplorable $8 an hour since the Liberals took office a decade ago while also introducing the rather douchey $6 training wage. Come May 1, the training wage will be eliminated and the minimum wage will creep to a somewhat less deplorable but still chintzy $8.75 an hour. In November, it’ll go up again to $9.50 and again in May of 2012 to $10.25, which, as you know, buys a lot of rugby pants. Employees who serve liquor, however, will see their wage plateau at $9 come May 2012 because they apparently live large from crazy tips, and besides, screw them. Some servers even get to wear gun holsters equipped with shot glasses and bottles of Fireball, which should be payment enough.

Not surprisingly, there are those in the business community who argue that earning an increased minimum wage while still living below the poverty line is bad for the economy.

“Imposing these massive wage increases and eliminating the training wage comes at a time when restaurant sales are declining and food costs are climbing,” said the slightly sinister sounding Mark von Schellwitz of the Canadian Restaurant Foodservices Association. “It’s going to hurt the very people it’s intended to help.” Yeah, don’t you poor people get it? Raking in a whopping $8.75 an hour is just going to hurt you. Why do you want to be hurt so badly?

To her credit, the new premier acknowledged that an increase in the minimum wage was long overdue, though she didn’t go so far as to call it shameful that her government hadn’t raised the minimum wage in 10 years and that B.C. couldn’t get any lower since it already has the lowest minimum wage in the country. Besides, it’s all part of Clark’s “families first” agenda.

“Many people from lower income families in this province are finding it harder than ever to keep up,” Clark said Wednesday, adding, “This is going to help them to succeed and it will help them to create stronger, more stable families.” She then put her arm around a life-sized cutout of her son and yelled, “Families… f-a-m-i-l-i-e-s… Families!”

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Readers of K&K know that the film Red Dawn was a seminal moment during our teenage years—and we had lots of seminal moments during our teenage years—badda-boom… but seriously, folks.

So we were excited to learn MGM was re-stoking the anti-Communist fires with a remake. Instead of coldhearted Soviets, a group of American teens battle invading forces from China. The thing is, when China is one of the more lucrative markets for U.S. entertainment companies, you might not want to piss them off.

Thus, according to the L.A. Times, the film’s producers are reshooting scenes and digitally altering flags to turn Red Dawn’s bad guys into North Koreans. Other options included making the villains from Iran, Libya or Nanaimo. However, according to our sources, Libyans and Iranians don’t pose enough of a threat, and the film would have gone over budget if they had to outfit a Nanaimo army with the requisite jogging pants, Kirkland stonewash jeans and white velcro runners.

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In a city not known for restaurant longevity (witness the recent demise of DB Bistro and Corner Suite Bistro de Luxe), some joints will celebrate even one year in business at the drop of the hat. However, the Diva bash, which benefitted Big Brothers, was unique in that every single executive chef but one who’s ever worked at the hotel made it back, some from across the country, to prepare a course.

Chefs Michael Noble, Scott Baechler, Chris Mills, Ray Henry, Dino Renearts, Andrew Springett, current exec. Quang Dang, plus an absent Thomas Haas, add up to an impressive bunch in their own right.

More than that, though, they’ve all contributed to the remarkable ascent of B.C.’s regional cuisine. Over those 15 years, they’ve become mentors to a new generation of chefs—a role that isn’t possible without the unwavering commitment of a restaurant like Diva or of its ownership.

Bite for bite and sip for sip, with service supervised by former manager and current Pastis owner John Blakeley, this was one of the most extraordinary salutes to B.C. cuisine we’ve experienced, with a lineup of stellar B.C. wines to go along.

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‘A’ Train derailed by directionless script Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train

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Despite the fact that Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train is mostly talk, I have no idea which way playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’s moral compass points. He tackles huge issues—personal responsibility, loss of faith, forgiveness, redemption—but to quote Philadelphia reviewer David Anthony Fox, “While [the play] appears to strive for a grand vision, it’s never entirely clear what it is.”

Characters change sides on ethical questions so completely and without clear motivation it makes your head spin. AfricanAmerican convict Lucius Jenkins (Carl Kennedy) believes Jesus has forgiven his sins, and he spouts religion with evangelical fervour to fellow inmate and lapsed Catholic Angel Cruz (Robert Olguin) during their one hour exercise breaks together at New York’s Rikers Island prison. Lucius is a charismatic

character, rapping and talking jive about God while doing crunches and pushups. But he’s a serial killer who once murdered an eightyear-old boy, stuffing the boy’s genitals in his mouth. His motivation? Who knows.

Angel admits to shooting—“in the ass”— Reverend Kim, a cult leader who has swept away Angel’s boyhood friend Joey with his religious hocus-pocus. Not seriously wounded, Reverend Kim nevertheless dies because of some bungled surgery so Angel now faces a charge of second-degree murder. Angel has forgotten how to pray, but by the end of the play, he has remembered and blubbers on, begging God’s forgiveness for, among other things, stealing some schoolboy’s Spiderman jacket when they were kids. What?

One good guard, D’Amico (Evan Frayne), treats Lucius with respect but is supplying him with cocaine. (So is Lucius high on God or just plain high?) One bad guard, Valdez (Andrew McNee), is the kind of stereotypical nasty prison guard we see nightly on TV. But by the end, Valdez has little to say and seems to have lost his edge.

And then there’s Angel’s defence attorney Mary Jane Hanrahan (Kerri Norris)

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Kerri Norris and Robert Olguin appear in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train. who, at first, is all ethics but whose idealism hits the skids. She suggests her ego got in the way of an honest defence.

On opening night and the next night, when I was there, Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train received an almost unanimous standing ovation. I don’t get it.

What I did get, however, is the outstanding quality of the performances. Guirgis has a razor-sharp ear for dialogue that rivals David Mamet, and these actors embrace their roles with conviction that comes close to, but (mostly) avoids, parody. Olguin does Puerto Rican better than a Puerto Rican and he finds

the lost boy in Angel who, as the lawyer says, did what all the jurors would have wanted to do under the same circumstances.

Kennedy delivers a po’ boy black dude with virtuosity. But when Lucius eventually—and completely—loses faith, is he going through withdrawal or is he finally taking responsibility for his crimes? I don’t know, but Kennedy’s is an exhilarating performance.

In a business suit, Norris makes a no-nonsense lawyer, and, one could argue, her character is the most villainous. She believes Angel deserves mercy and she has the skill to argue the case successfully. But she takes a huge unethical risk and loses. Strangely, it doesn’t seem to bother Hanrahan that much.

Guirgis loves to shock audiences, but it takes more than a plethora of variations on the f-word to shock most of us. More problematic is the play’s ambiguous moral position.

Angela Konrad directs this inaugural production of Glass City Theatre on Itai Erdal’s stark white set; it’s a powerful presentation of a frustrating script. Tell me why I should agree with the New York Times’ critic who claims, “Guirgis is the greatest living playwright under 40.” joled@telus.net

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With Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as screenwriters, the answer is a foregone conclusion. The pair, whose fish-out-of-water antics have entertained us in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, co-wrote Paul, a smutty science fiction love letter directed by Superbad’s Greg Mottola.

Frost and Pegg star as Graeme and Clive, two blokes from England who have always dreamed of coming to America and touring the southwestern UFO hot spots. After meeting their idol at Comic-Con (a deadpan Jeffrey Tambor), they rent a battered Winnebago and head out on a multi-state geek trek.

At first, their only close encounter is with a pair of rednecks in cammo, who mistake their British politeness for gayness. Graeme and Clive flee, but soon run into a real-life alien fugitive named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen). The U.S. government has kept him prisoner since the 1940s, and Paul is keen to get back before they splice his brain in the name of science.

After assuring them that he has no plans for an anal probing (“Why does everyone ask me that?” he wonders), Paul hitches a ride with the friends, planning on reconnoitering with the mothership in Wyoming. Paul certainly looks the part, with his oversized head and eyes and mossy pallor, but this wise-cracking alien wears shorts and likes his weed.

Director Mottola brings some of his Superbad ‘tude with him, giving Ro-

Simon Pegg, Kristen Wiig, Nick Frost and the voice of Seth Rogen star in the sci-fi road comedy Paul. gen free rein to find his inner X-rated E.T. Paul’s slacker sensibility is a nice foil for the uptight Brits, whose collective sexual experience seems limited to a girl in a Wookie suit at their last comic convention.

Somewhere along the line the trio decide they must kidnap Ruth (Kristen Wiig), a fundamentalist Christian with one good eye who promptly claims that Paul is an agent of Satan.

At first Ruth tries to pray him away, but after Paul illuminates the mysteries of the universe to her, she decides that if there’s no hell she might as well live it up: so starts a steady stream of ill-phrased expletives and a lusty grab for Graeme’s crotch.

In hot pursuit are taciturn agent Zoil (Jason Bateman) and two bumbling newbie agents (SNL alum Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio) desperate to up their clearance level. Oh, and Ruth’s bible-totin’ papa is on their tail, too.

It’s a road trip, it’s a chase movie,

it’s a coming-of-age bro-mance.

There are the requisite jokes about the U.K.-U.S. divide, as an American cop wonders how British bobbies get to shoot at anyone when they aren’t allowed to carry guns. But most of the humour consists of in-jokes corralled from other alien films: the Star Wars music playing in the country bar, the memorable five Close Encounters tones at the fireworks mart. We’ve got quotes from Alien (not to mention Sigourney Weaver), tributes aplenty to Steven Spielberg and all sorts of science fiction references for the keen.

The film is crafted with a sci-fi aficionado’s attention to detail, while acknowledging the ridiculousness of the genre. There is a surprising tender heart inside Paul (that tempers Ruth’s potty-mouth somewhat) that shows what might have happened to E.T. had he stayed here on earth and been given access to cannabis and cable TV. jcrawfordfilm@gmail.com

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Prophetic novel especially relevant today, says theatre company’s artistic director

‘Techno geek’ brings Orwell’s 1984 to the stage State of the Arts

with Cheryl Rossi

Andy Thompson is a purist when it comes to George Orwell’s work.

But he’s long been an adventurist when it comes to presenting stories in tech-savvy ways.

That’s why Thompson’s adaptation of Orwell’s prophetic novel 1984 will be a massive multimedia production that incorporates video projections for shadings and texture and live and prerecorded video on 13 high-definition flat screens.

The TV screens will animate the surveillance tools of the government in Orwell’s dystopian world in the stage production of 1984, which runs March 24 to April 3 at the Cultch.

“This particular story requires that the telescreen be a real and palpable and frightening character in the story,” said Thompson, the artistic and managing director of The Virtual Stage theatre company. “I was not only excited about the idea of doing this novel on stage, but also the idea of bringing this character to life.”

Thompson performed in the Electric Company Theatre’s first show a few years after he graduated from Langara college’s Studio 58 in 1993.

He was impressed and envious that his peers had managed to spark their own company and considered what his own niche could be. “[I] realized that I’m a bit of a techno geek,” Thompson said. “I, at one point, was going to be an engineer and I’m really interested in left brain and right brain activity and realized that I could be quite interested in emerging technologies and how we could use those in theatre.”

He pitched ideas for cinematic shows to local theatre companies with little success.

“A lot of the responses I got were people who basically scoffed,” Thompson said.

So in 2000 he started The Virtual Stage, which focuses on incorporating technologies including computer animation, cinematic projection and digital sound to tell stories, with its first mainstage show in 2001.

No Exit, a multiple award-winning co-production of The Virtual Stage and Electric Company Theatre that premiered in 2008, features hidden cameras that turn the stage into

Andy Thompson brings his tech-savvy skills to the multimediaenhanced stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. a cinema with three slightly offstage performances and live film feeds.

Thompson will tour with No Exit, which is an adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre’s classic existential play, to San Francisco before the run of 1984 ends.

Theatre purists no longer scoff at combining elements of film with theatre, he says. “You’re not seeing the debate anymore.”

Thompson is interested in work-

ing with holographic image (virtual 3D images made with multiple projectors) and fog screens (screens of water vapour that can be walked through) in the future.

The Virtual Stage and Langara College’s Studio 58 are co-producing 1984. Thompson says it’s a production of “superlatives.” It’s The Virtual Stage’s biggest production, which features the largest set the show’s technical director has ever built and

one of the hugest sets The Cultch has ever seen. Ron Jenkins, the renowned and multi-award winning director of The Black Rider and Bash’d leads a cast of 27 with Alex Ferguson (The Cat Who Ate Her Husband) and Andrew Wheeler (Studies in Motion).

Thompson believes the 63-yearold novel about a state where Big Brother is watching resonates only too well today. He points to the proliferation of surveillance cameras and the numbing power of the media.

“We’ve got a media culture right now that’s so flashy and well produced and slick in its design that people are more focused on what’s going on with Justin Bieber’s hair than looking towards solutions to some of our problems in our own democracy,” Thompson said.

While his adaptation of 1984 aims to be innovative and slick, Thompson says he stuck as close to the source material as he could when he tailored the story for the stage.

“It’s an Orwell show,” Thompson said, “Like what would Orwell want here?”

For more information, see thecultch.com. crossi@vancourier.com Twitter: @Cheryl_Rossi

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Cancer June 21-July 22: Your clout, reputation are high among the powers that be. Step forward now through the weeks ahead, exhibit your skills, show your record, seek bigger responsibilities. Your career sector is under splendid, expansive rays of luck! However, several cautions: 1) you might meet opposition (or pursue the least lucky position under a misguided notion of responsibility) before March 29; 2) your best action will be taken after March 28; and 3) the best project, boss, etc., will probably be linked to the past – something brand new might have a built-in “go in circles” direction-finder.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: The weeks ahead are very significant in intellect, education, media, publishing, far travel, international dealings, law, cultural rituals, religion, life philosophy, fame and especially, love. Your creative talents find a wide audience.

The most valuable gift: understanding. A few cautions: 1) headwinds, probably involving health or employment factors, assail you in these areas until March 28; 2) Mercury goes retro soon, so it isn’t the best time to start new projects. Your luck will be better with ongoing or old, revived projects, loves, situations. Romance Wednesday-Friday!

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Great, significant change arrives in the weeks ahead. It might be huge, obvious; or it might merely be a shift in direction that steers your next eight years (and beyond, because nothing returns). Finances, intimacy, health, and, less directly, employment/work can be deeply affected. Generally, this is a very lucky time. However, a couple of cautions: You’ll make much better headway after March 28; to this date, obstacles appear in money and love. To succeed, stick with an ongoing or return to a past sexual, domestic/property, financial or employment situation. Be optimistic!

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Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Your energy, charisma and effectiveness soar now through the weeks ahead! Your luck hits a 13 year peak. It’s a splendid time to begin major projects, one of the best times in your life. But some advice: 1) projects that aren’t meant to work will “fail” (or give signals of demise – some subtle) by March 28; 2) it’s better to start after March 28; 3) for success, this project should be connected to a past person, project or situation; and 4) it’s best (for easy progress) to steer clear of ambition, career and investment. Chase far travel, gentle love and intellectual things.

Taurus April 20-May 20: Retreat, rest, find sweet solitude for the few weeks ahead. Your energy is low, but your spiritual,planning and administrative abilities are strong. Deal with institutions, civil servants, government – they could have a “treasure” for you.

Contemplate and plan. Be charitable. Tackle chores Sunday. Relationships flow smoothly Monday noon to Thursday, but you might meet a bit of deception midday Wednesday. A good investment opportunity can arise Thursday morning – seek it! Finish chores this week, as slowdowns and indecision start soon.

Saturday’s mellow, but not profitable.

Gemini May 21-June 20: A major wish might come true over the weeks ahead. It will probably be a wish about a relationship, romance, marriage (or divorce), about litigation, negotiation, friendship/ popularity – but it won’t be limited to these. It will very likely involve an ongoing or past situation, person or project. Now is the time to reprise the past, in a big way! Romantic or creative urges sweeten Sunday and early Monday. But settle down to chores Monday afternoon to Wednesday noon – all goes smoothly enough. Big opportunities face you Wednesday eve, Thursday. Be alert! Don’t trust “independence.”

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Important, life-directionchanging opportunities face you over the next four weeks, mainly in love, partnership, relocation, negotiation, agreements, litigation, dealings with the public, marriage and divorce. You can see events as opportunities or as challenges, even as threats of defeat. But even the worst case will be a “win” in that it grants you freedom. To succeed, see another’s point of view, fulfil another’s desire(s). Conciliate, encourage, merge, find common ground – easier after March 28. Stick to ongoing/past people/projects – brand new ones have an Achilles heel.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Great luck comes to your employment sphere over the weeks ahead.

Your hours or tasks are almost certain to increase, and your income with it. This might be short-term (e.g. overtime hours) or more permanent (e.g. a pay raise). Aim, if you can, for the permanent. But whatever occurs, it will cause a change in direction that lasts for eight years. Apply this luck (via your efforts) to a situation, job, project that is ongoing, or returns from the past. Initiating a brand-new project might lead to eight years of “on/off” work disruptions. Money luck Thursday. By mid-year, new luck!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: The month ahead is one of the most important – and luckiest – in a decade, maybe many decades. You might experience a big, obvious event, or a less marked but significant “turn” that heads you in a new, exciting direction, in creative, speculative, risk-taking, romantic, pleasure or beauty zones. Two secondary elements play an important role: 1) communications or travel, and 2) your personality. Relationships will be sober, or deal with a realistic environment. Through March 28, obstacles exist; be patient, then leap! Avoid brand new projects/people: reprise the past.

Mar. 20 - Mar. 26 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: The weeks ahead feature much luck on domestic, property, therapy, healing, nature, gardening, agriculture, security, retirement,child-oriented,foundational and nurturing fronts. This is a great time to buy a house, have a child, or expand business territory (“foundational”).

What you pursue should be something ongoing or from the past (e.g., a house you wanted to buy before but couldn’t). “Dilemma” choices face you through March 28, so proceeding after this is easier. What you do now will affect your income and spending for the next eight years. Think “cornerstone.”

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: The weeks ahead can bring much indecision. You might see people around you making big moves, having luck pour onto them, and you can think: what about me? Don’t worry, your big luck runs from this June to June 2012 – whereas everybody “lucking out” now will get little June onward. Meanwhile, your communications, mail, friends, siblings, travel, paperwork and curiosity will expand in interesting ways. Problems and obstacles arise through March 28, so go slow in the areas listed. Stick to former or ongoing projects and people: the brand new will bring future delays.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: The weeks ahead feature earnings, spending, possessions, sensuality and rote learning – in powerfully lucky ways. Your career and earnings can climb a ladder to new heights. For career, read “status” – for example, “marrying up” is a status move. (Great career hints Thursday morning.) Expect obstacles through March 28 – be patient, then leap! Since your relationships are headed for a period of delay and “circling,” you’ll fare best if you stick to ongoing or (probably luckier) past contacts and projects than if you try to launch new boats into new waters. Read Scorpio message. timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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8080

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

ELECTRIC AVE Installations.

Electrian lic# 99207, Res/comm, www.electric-ave.ca 604-215-0562 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Exp, friendly, reliable. Specializing in replacing old nob & tube wiring. Lic.#50084. 604-725-4535

Electrician Lic#95323, Bonded, Affordable Com/Res. No Job too small. 25 yrs exp. 604 727-2306 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 CEDAR WORKS ❏ 778-882-0676 Fencing, decks, sheds 3 year warranty. Free Estimates DECKS & FENCES, gates, front steps etc. John 778-998-5591 tarasoffconstruction.com KB METAL PRODUCTS LTD. FENCE & GATES : CHAIN LINK & ALUMINUM ORNAMENTAL. ✫Free Estimate: 604-619-8434

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

AFFORDABLE

CARPET/VINYL INSTALLER Repairs & restretches.

17 yrs exp.

Call for free estimates DAVID

604-505-4735

CELTIC HARDWOOD FLOORS LTD.

•

Refinishing • Installation • New & Old Floors Ph. 604 293.0057 Cel. 604 657.8931

www.celtichardwoodfloors.ca ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing.

Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

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

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944 INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8120

Glass Mirrors

Commercial/Residential

Store Fronts • Windows & Doors Broken Glass • Foggy Glass Patio Doors • Mirrors • Etc. 2837 Kingsway, Vancouver

Tel: 604-603-9655

8125

Gutters

@

YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

Vancouver Division Since 1985

NO HST! til Mar. 31

• 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 EDGEMONT GUTTERS

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

604-420-4800 Established 1963

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

RJR Small Projects Division Part of RJR group

604-202-6118

Since 1989

RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

732-8453

BATHRM RENO’S & full home renovations. Small or large jobs. www.reno247.ca 778-881-4357 BEST PRICE! Bath, kitchen, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc.

Call Mic, 604-725-3127 BOGI House Maintenance Fencing, painting , flooring, plumbing.

All repairs & renos. 778-865-0846 EXP’D HANDYMAN offering high quality affordable services. Drain cleaning, plumbing, tiling, drywall, painting etc. Call: 604-839-5353 HOME IMPROVEMENT: Res repairs, restorations, decks, fences. Walter 778-837-2518

8140

Heating

Lawn & Garden

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

8150

Kitchens/Baths

Plywood Kitchen Cabinets & Refacing, Counter Tops • In business 50 years 604-879-9191

Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets

#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby

8155

Landscaping

GREENWAVE LANDSCAPES

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

★ COMPLETE ★ Garden Maintance & Installation Edible Landscape Solutions

EXP. GARDENER. Spring clean ups, weeding, pruning, planting, new soil. Ron 604-202-2176

604-317-3037

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

greenwavelandscapes.ca

Gardening Services 21 yrs exp.

Tree topping, West & Eastside & Rmd. Michael 604-240-2881

Greenworx Redevelopment Inc. Hardscaping & Landscaping.

Hedges, Pavers, Ponds & Walls, Returfing, Demos, Drainage, Jackhammering. 604 782-4322

GREAT LOOKING Landscapes Full service landscape & garden maint. Call Dave: 604-764-7220

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

GREENSTAR GARDEN Complete Lawn & garden care.

Free estimates. 604-736-5791

8160

Lawn & Garden

HEDGING GARDENING CLEAN-UPS PRUNING POWER RAKING AERATION

DUNBAR LAWN & GARDENS

JAPANESE GARDENER Landscape & maintenance, clean-ups, trimming.

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

LADYBUG GARDENING

224-3669 Expert Pruning ISA

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

604-618-9741

GW Lawn Care • Power raking • fertilizer • hedge trimming • pressure washing • aeration • chafer grub treatment ~ free estimates ~

604-961-6565

LAWN MAINTENANCE 20 yrs exp. power rake, aerating. Free est. Reliable Reas. 604-649-9965 Ny Ton Gardening yard & lawn maint. trimming, shrubs, hedging, power raking etc. 604-782-5288

SPRING PROMO: $65.. Lawn aeration or power rake. Book now & we will fertilize your lawn free. www.luluislandlandscaping maintenance.ca or 778-223-6687

8175

Masonry

CUSTOM BRICK & ROCK WORK

Chimney / Fireplace Repair, Retaining Walls, Restoration Work.

FREE ESTIMATES

604-323-2083

8185

Moving & Storage

ASH RELOCATION SERVICES Quality Trucks Í &Top Í Moving Equipment 2 Very Experienced Movers $77.00/hr + hst

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

FREE ESTIMATES Seniors Discount

604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com

AJK MOVING LTD.

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

Commercial. Industrial.

Truck for Clean-ups garage, basement, backyard.

(604) 875-9072 873-5292

B&Y MOVING

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

ARBUTUS PAINTING

VANCOUVER LTD. • Fully Insured • References • Green Products

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arbutuspainting.com

BARWICK PAINTING

604-708-8850

604-263-2530

BEST RATE MOVING

CANSTAR PAINTING

Starting $30/ hour Licensed & Insured

Quality Work You Can Trust!

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

Experienced Movers with Affordable Rates!

• Local & Long Distance • Avail. 24/7 incl. holidays • Seniors Discount • Delivery to/from YVR Airport

604-787-8061

EZ GO MOVERS 604-580-2171

Insured/WCB

778-997-9582

D&M PAINTING

Interior/Exterior Specialist Many Years Experience Fully Insured Top Quality, Quick Work Free Estimate

604-724-3832

MOVERS.CA 604.682.2232 Booked by April 2nd 604-566-5541 www.firstcallmoving.com

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

Call 604-782-9511

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

Serving West Side since 1987

MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured.

PainterOne Painting Interior/Exterior, Good Prices 604 812 8900

Decks/Patios/ Railings

8200

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

www.PatioCoverVancouver.com

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

Paving/Seal Coating

8205

ALLEN Asphalt, concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187 METRO BLACKTOP CO. LTD Custom work for Driveways & new lane Aprons. Repairs/resurfacing. Call Gino 604-657-9936

8220

Plumbing PLUMBING DRAIN CLEANING HEATING

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

Licensed, Insured, Bonded &WCB

Int/Ext. Com/Resid.

Many Years Experience Top Quality Drywall Free Estimates

731-8875

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

FAIRWAY PAINTING

Fully Insured 20 years experience Call 604Free Estimates

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR SPECIALS

7291234

3 ROOMS FOR $299

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

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

• • • •

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

604-312-6311

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

604-731-2443

Marty’s

Painting & Decorating Ltd. NO JOB TOO SMALL Quality work est. 1973

Colour Consulting Included Free Estimate 604-733-2865

778.322.2462

ROLL PAINT

ADVANCE MOVING LTD

Int/Ext, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Low rates.

Book Spring Specials Call Dave 604-587-5844 Cell 778-834-8855 free est.

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

MASTER BRUSHES PAINTING Spring Special 25% off. Int 20 yrs, Ext 15 yrs guaranteed. Top quality job. 604-377-5423, 507-4911

Installations & Repairs Big or Small, 7 Days/Week

(Recommended for offices + 2 bedrooms & up)

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

Barwick Painting Prof. painters, exp. painters, in partnership with Benjamin Moore. 604-263-2530

A Better

DJ PAINTING

20% OFF All Moving

AAA Professional int/ext painter & wall paperer. Guar work. Free est. John 604-318-2059 (Kits)

– in partnership with –

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

Painting/ Wallpaper

8195

Professional Painters with Guaranteed Results

3 Very Experienced Movers $97.00/hr + hst

Minimum Travel Fare Fully Insured • Free Estimates Tree Topping, Clean-Up, Planting, Trimming, Power Raking, Aeration, etc. • Westside & Eastside

Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

www.ezgomovers.com

604-266-1681

FREE ESTIMATE INSURED

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We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac

LAWN & GARDEN SERVICE Spring clean-up, lawn prep & pruning. Steve 778-231-4433

★ SD ENTERPRISES ★ Gardening, power raking, lawncare, pruning, cedar fencing. Free est. Call Terry at 604-726-1931

HEDGE SHRUB TREE & STUMP REMOVAL

1 to 3 Men

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

Quick & Reliable Movers from$48 per hour

Rakes & Ladders.. Lawns, trees, gardens, shrubs. Certified, Ins. & WCB, 604-737-0170

EST. 41 YEARS

Moving & Storage

EXPERT SERVICE For everything growing on your property. 778 881 9549

Free Estimates

WCB • FULLY INSURED

8185

AFFORDABLE MOVING

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

KITSILANO HANDYMAN and Contracting. Carpentry, painting, home repairs. Call 604-760-4408 THE HANDYMAN CAN Renos, Roofing, Repairs.

Prompt friendly service.

Free Est. Sr.Disc. 604-340-4633

8160

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PLUMBERS

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

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

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RENOVATIONS

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FRANCHISE TERRITORIES ALSO AVAILABLE

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

604-222-8453

AaronR CONST

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

Repairs & Renos, general contracting.

Insured, WCB, Licensed

604-318-4390

Since 1989

aaronrconstruction.com

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604-732-8453

C DAVIS CONTRACTING

All Renovations and Restoration Work 22 years in business

Hannah - 5 ⁄ yrs. old Jaxon Hannah 11 Jaxon - 3 ⁄ yrs. old14 Years Old Years Old 3

1

4

4

❑ Warranty ❑ References ❑ Fully Insured

Renovations & Repairs

Renovations

from concept to occupancy

PTV Home Renovations

Tile 20% off

• Bath • Kitchen • Decks • Paving • Retaining Walls • Drainage

Winner of Gold & Silver Georgie Awards

– Renovator Member of the Year

Winner of the National SAM Award

– Best Renovated Kitchen in Canada

778-235-1772 Est 1995

ALMA

Building & Renovation Ltd.

For all your Construction & Renovations

(604) 228-4272

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HOME SERVICES To advertise call

604-630-3300

Renovations & Home Improvement

20 Years Exp. Sundecks, Additions, Finish Carpentry, Laminate Flrs, Kitchen/Bath Etc. Satisfaction Gtd. Licensed & Ins. Local Co. Call Chris (778) 549-6186

CEDARWORKS

SUNDECKS FENCES • STAIRS

30 years exp.

731-7709

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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

small ❏ You need another bedroom ❏ The carport could be a two-car garage ❏ One bathroom just isn’t enough anymore

We Fix The “EXCEPTS…” Since 1978

604-987-5438

Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring ''Satisfaction Guaranteed''

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9125

Domestic

1994 CHEVROLET Impala sports sedan 166,000 kms, RWD, black, 4 dr, 5.7L, auto, 1 owner, serviced at dealer, all records, all original. $19,000. 604-988-4416

1998 DODGE Neon, $2950, 110 k,AC, PS, PB, auto trans.Remote Start, Good Tires. 604-802-2344

9145

Scrap Car Removal

9145

Scrap Car Removal

604.662.8150

THE SCRAPPER CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

2007 TOYOTA Camry, auto, 6 cyl, exc cond, like new, 24,000 kms, $18,500. 604-464-4172

2H

9150

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Services & Repairs

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

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9160

Sports & Imports

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9173

Vans

NISSAN QUEST XE 1993, good running, new parts, air care. Price $1100. Call 778 773-0474

9515

Boats

WANTED. Aluminum Boat, 10, 12 or 14ft, with or without motor or trailer. 604-319-5720

Find your car at 2006 BMW 325i sports pkg, auto, blk, loaded, 90 k, immac, dealer serviced $17,950 604-220-6796

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

Affordable, Experienced! Bath, Kitchen, Flooring, Finishing, etc. www.toplinereno.ca 604-230-6278

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Bath *Kitchen* Suites & More

MOZAIK MOZAIK HANDYMAN HANDYMAN SERVICES SERVICES LTD.

• Painting • Electrical • Plumbing • Tiling • Carpentry Carpeting

Roof Leaking?

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

Concrete forming & framing specialist. Patrick 604-218-3064

8300

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

J. PEARCE STUCCO CONTRACTING. Residential / Commercial. 604-761-6079

ADVANTAGE BUILDING MAINTENANCE

Quality Home Improvement ★ Stucco ★ All Kinds. No Job Too Big or Small.

604-725-8925

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8250

604-802-1918

McNabb Roofing • TAR & GRAVEL •TORCH-ON MEMBRANE •FIBREGLASS / ASPHALT SHINGLES, RESIDENTIAL, and COMMERCIAL 35 years experience

NEW CANADIAN ROOFING LTD. Over 15 yrs experience All types of Roofing Reasonable Rates WCB Insured

604-716-8528

Roofing

POINT GREY ROOFING Established 1946

FREE ESTIMATES

604-379-2641

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

SPRING SPECIALS WCB – Fully Insured

604-340-7189

drytech.ca ROOFING

❑ Sloped: Lifetime Shingles ❑ Flat: Instacoat Rubber ❑ Sundecks: Lifetime Coatings ❑ Repairs: Leaks & Chimneys

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8255

Rubbish Removal

604-RUBBISH 782-2474

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604-721-5029

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Trips start at

$49

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

#1 Roofing Company in BC

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All types of Roofing Over 35 Years in Business Call now for Free Estimates

604-588-0833

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8309

Tiling

8315

Tree Services

Cell: 604-839-7881

Tel: 739-8786, Cell: 716-8687 ~ FREE ESTIMATES ~

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NO HST! til Mar. 31

604-764-0399

RUBBISH REMOVAL

Roofing

Roof, Chimney & Skylight Repairs WCB Licensed

@

Kitchens, baths, tiling, flooring, painting, plumbing, gutters ★ Small jobs welcome ★ Insured, WCB

8250

★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★ Tiles, tub, vanity, plumbing, paint framing. From start to finish. Over 20 yrs exp. Peter 604-715-0030

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SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

RESIDENTIAL DIVISION LTD.

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All Types of Roofing, Re-Roofing & Repairs Additions. Kitchens Bathrooms. Landscape Const.

Design & Build Renovations

8255

JACK’S RUBBISH Removal Friendly, Fast & Cheap 604-266-4444

We do all the fussy little jobs no one else wants to do.

Complete home repairs.

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9160

Roofing

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Eddy’s Tree and Hedging Pruning, tall hedge and schrub trimming, 778-838-4488 MAGNOLIA TREE Service & Landscape, fence install, yard reno’s, excavating, irrigation 604-214-0661 Wildwood Tree Services, Exp Hedge Trimming and Removal & Tree Pruning. Free Est. 604-893-5745

8335

Window Cleaning

Edgemont Building Maintenance • Power Washing • Window Cleaning • Gutter Cleaning

604-420-4800 Established 1963

WHITE ROSE Window Cleaning.

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New 200 and redesigned 300 less expensive than predecessors

Chrysler back better than ever davidchao

The Chrysler 300 Touring, starting at $33K, comes with $3,600 worth of extra equipment while the Chrysler 200 Convertible, with an entry price of $30k, offers comfortable seating for four. away and consumers who enjoy an open-air driving experience should also add the Chrysler 200 Convertible to their shopping list.

Redesigned, re-engineered, repackaged and re-named, it has a lower entry price of just $29,995 and comes with $1,600 worth of extra equipment.

The Chrysler 200 Convertible offers comfortable seating for four and is available with the choice of two automatic-latching power tops.

Buyers can choose to go with either a soft-top or an optional body-colour steel retractable hard-top. Both can open or close with the press of a button on the key fob.

The hard-top offers the security and sound proofing benefits

of a coupe, yet also offers the open-air freedom of a convertible. The soft-top is less expensive, lighter and compact, so it robs less of the trunk space. It’s a tough call and would depend on the owners intended use.

The 200 has a re-tuned suspension and a new optional engine.

The base engine is a 2.4-litre four cylinder and there’s a new optional 3.6-litre Pentastar V6, which is quickly establishing itself as the go-to Chrysler engine.

You’ll also find the new 3.6-litre Pentastar under the hood of the Chrysler 300, but it’s configured differently to fit-in with a reardrive powertrain.

Continued next page

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Chrysler is back on the front line of new car sales and showing real vigour and some subdued venom for those who had prematurely planned a funeral party. Primarily by offering unbeatable prices, the automaker was third highest overall in vehicle sales numbers in Canada last year, and it climbed up to number two in Canadian vehicle production.

This year, Chrysler can boast that it offers buyers the youngest showroom in Canada, with a current lineup of 16 new or redesigned products for the 2011 model year. Two new additions, and the focus of this review, are the Chrysler 200, which replaces Sebring, and a redesigned Chrysler 300.

The sting for its competitors is that not only has Chrysler upped the quality and performance of its products, it has also lowered product prices across the board. On these two new vehicle offerings a buyer can save up to $11,500, when compared to a 2010 equivalent trim.

The Chrysler 200 is a midsized car with a base price of $19,995, which makes it price competitive with even many smaller compact cars.

A price tag of $32,995 (including $3,600 worth of extra equipment) on the full-sized 2011 Chrysler 300 Touring allows it to compete with many mid-sized cars, and it now offers comparable fuel economy.

Spring weather is not too far

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Automaker improves quality while offering lower prices

Continued from previous page The optional engine is an updated version of the legendary (5.7-litre V8) Hemi with fuel-saving MDS technology.

The styling of the new 300 is a softer more contemporary rendition of the “gangster” look of its predecessor. It still has the big wheels and high beltline, but

there’s 15 per cent more glass, the windshield is raked a little more, the body lines are more rounded and it comes with LED daytime running lights and taillights.

Inside, the 300 comes with heated seats front and back and a heated steering wheel. A big 21cm MMI screen is standard and

you can get in-dash navigation on it for just $450—competitors take note and please do likewise.

Changes to the design also add 10 cm of extra leg room for rear passengers in the new 300.

There’s also an impressive array of optional high-tech safety systems available, including Forward Collision Warning, Adap-

tive Cruise Control, Blind-Spot Monitoring, Rear Cross Path Detection, Front and Rear Park Sensors and Adaptive Headlamps.

The top-line 300C comes with an all-wheel-drive system and a dramatically lower price. It’s also more fuel-efficient thanks to a new automatic two-wheel economy mode, the new engines

and its ride height is now 2.5cm lower.

Chrysler not only improved almost everything on its 200 and 300 models for the 2011 model year, it managed to lower prices too, which adds up to fantastic value.

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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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THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011

s ’ k r a P e Choices in th

100% B C Owned and Operated

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Saturday, naby March 19, 11 -3:00pm our Choices Store at 6855 Station Hill Drive, Bur will be ce s. lebrating th reshment eir 9th Anniversary. Com rbecue and ref a b a r Saturday, o f s u n i e o j a n d Ma mples.

Salt Spring Organic Fair Trade Coffee

rch 19, 11-4 and free sa :00pm is Nutrition Day. Stop by any Choices location for healthy eating information

Meat Department

Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Beverages

assorted varieties

2/6.00

400g • product of B.C.

So Delicious Fresh Coconut Milk

assorted varieties

9.99

2/6.00

Maple Hill Free Range Large Eggs

1.99

Olympic Organic Yogurt

Grimm’s Hams

250g

Black Forest, Old Fashioned or Honey

1.29/100g

assorted varieties

2/7.00

Earth’s Choice Tortilla Chips

reg 2.49

assorted varieties

650g • product of B.C

made with organic corn

Dietitian s’ Top Cho ice

20% off

Uniquely designed to support cleansing and elimination while enhancing all aspects of metabolism.

29.99

.89

739ml • product of USA

2/5.00

600g

100% beeswax tea lights with an approximate 4 hour burn time.

2/7.00

assorted varieties

Omega-3 fatty acids in a delicious lemon flavour, making it suitable for children, adults and seniors.

assorted varieties 454g

Rice Bakery

3/3.33

355ml • product of B.C.

7.99

+ dep. + eco fee

200ml

213-227g • product of USA

assorted varieties

St. Patrick’s Day Pistachio Cheesecake with Almond Crust

17.99

3/7.98

Simple Sodas

each

Ascenta NutraSea Fish Oil

Amy’s Kitchen Frozen Pot Pies

200-210g • product of Canada

Organic Spelt Bread

1 kit

Pheylonian 100% Beeswax Tea Lights

assorted varieties

Old Dutch Potato Chips

Sourdough Multiseed Bread

regular retail price

Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox Kit

Simply Natural Organic Pasta Sauces

600g • product of Canada

From Our Bakery

4.99

prepacked or bins

reg 4.29

7.99

225-300g • product of USA

2.99

Brookside Chocolate Covered Fruit and Nuts

assorted varieties

2/7.00

each

Bulk Department

2.99/100g

Armstrong Cheese

assorted varieties

2.98

Dubliner Irish Cheddar Cheese

454g • product of B.C.

1 lb pkg

Large Size “Gold” Pineapple

A Taste of Ireland.

from 2/5.00

Stahlbush Island Farms Frozen Fruit

4.98

From the Deli

Ryvita Crispbread assorted varieties

1 dozen • product of B.C.

Certified Organic

5.99lb/ 13.21kg

1.89L • product of USA

3.99

Spring Mix from Earthbound Farm

Diamond Willow Certified Organic Outside Round Roasts

assorted varieties

500ml • product of Quebec

.98lb/ 2.16kg

6.99lb/ 15.41kg

1.89 L • product of USA

Uncle Luke’s Organic Maple Syrup

B.C. Grown, Certified Organic

Boneless Turkey Breast Roasts

assorted varieties

9.99

Braeburn Apples from Organics Plus

Lundberg Organic Basmati, Jasmine, Sushi or Brown Rice

3.99

907g • product of USA

Purex Premium Bathroom Tissue assorted varieties

5.99

12 -24 roll

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Cambie

Kerrisdale

2627 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver 604.736.0009

3493 Cambie St. Vancouver 604.875.0099

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

Yaletown

Prices Effective March 17 to March 23, 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.