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GM Place general manager wants another shot at UFC Fight night crowd relatively well behaved Mike Howell Staff writer

UFC promoters hope to bring ﬁghters such as heavyweight Pat Barry back to Vancouver.

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The promoter of the soldout mixed martial arts event at GM Place Saturday night wants to return for another show, according to the general manager of arena operations for Canucks Sports and Entertainment. Harvey Jones said he is working with the Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship to schedule another night of ﬁghts before city council’s two-year trial of the sport expires at the end of 2011. “We need to sit down with them now and talk about some dates and when they might want to do that,” said Jones, noting he initially had reservations about hosting Saturday’s bouts. But after meeting with UFC organizers and talk-

ing to operations managers of arenas where the popular sport was held, Jones said he felt more conﬁdent about hosting what was dubbed UFC 115. “I was a little skeptical but [the UFC and operations managers] said that generally people are fairly well behaved. They come to watch the event and they don’t cause a lot of trouble. And that was pretty much what we experienced.” Jones said the number of incidents with fans Saturday night was consistent with security staff’s dealings with spectators from recent Nickelback and Tom Petty concerts. Most of the incidents involved people attempting to smuggle booze into GM Place. Many people were smoking in the bathrooms, too, Jones added. See ATHLETIC on page 4

School board, province differ over budget shortfall number Board chair wonders if ‘we’ve been set up’ by province Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

A dispute about the school district’s actual funding shortfall could spark trouble for trustees when they submit a draft balanced budget to the minister of education this week. The school board insists it faces a $17.23 million shortfall for its 2010/11 budget despite a sugges-

tion in the special adviser’s report that its actual shortfall is $11.79 million. Last Friday, Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid issued a ministerial order directive requiring the board to submit a draft budget by June 18, which takes “full consideration” of the adviser’s recommendations. But the difference between the two shortfall ﬁgures puts the board in an untenable position, according

to trustees. If they adopt a budget based on the $17.23 figure—the district’s most recent revised shortfall—the minister could accuse them of not following the directive and potentially fire the board. But if trustees pass a budget based on the adviser’s $11.79 million figure, they put the district in financial peril next year. “There is some question whether we’ve been set up a little bit

with this—we’re damned if we do, we’re damned if we don’t,” board chair Patti Bacchus told the Courier Tuesday morning. “If we go with the conservative number, will the minister come back and say our budget is unnecessarily provocatively cutting things? But if we do it with their numbers, we’re ignoring staff advice and we think we’ll get ourselves into trouble.” Senior VSB ﬁnance staff ex-

plained at a committee meeting Monday night that the main ﬁnancial conﬂict revolves around what’s called the “restricted surplus.” Comptroller general Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland, the special adviser, suggests the board apply its estimated “restricted surplus” for the 2009/2010 school year to help offset the 2010/11 projected budget shortfall. See ADVISER on page 4

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Continued from page 1 But that money—roughly $3.44 million—is earmarked to cover outstanding purchase orders from this year, school supplies ordered for 2010/11 and other projects. “We’re in a catch 22,” NPA trustee Ken Denike concluded. “If we spend the funds the comptroller general says we have, we go broke.” The special adviser also insists the VSB is too conservative in its revenue projections for 2010/11 and adds another $2 million to its ﬁgure, which she says could be used to offset the funding shortfall. VSB staff maintain they have to be conservative or risk being short money mid-year. Vancouver trustees back senior staff’s ﬁgures, which they say are based on generally accepted accounting principles followed by districts around the province.

“WE’RE IN A CATCH-22.” Ken Denike

The board passed a motion at a special board meeting Monday night, held after the committee meeting, to send a letter to the minister indicating it plans to base the budget on the $17.23 million ﬁgure unless she informs them otherwise. Trustees said they don’t expect an answer in time, but they wanted a paper trail to support their position so they can’t be accused after the fact of not following orders. The letter also asks the education minister what she considers “core” services and if she expects the board to shut down any schools by September. noconnor@vancourier.com

VSB chair Patti Bacchus and her fellow school board trustees plan to base their budget on the $17.23 million ﬁgure tabled by district staff. photo Dan Toulgoet

Athletic commission to discuss UFC event attended by mayor Continued from page 1 “I don’t understand these people because they come to the door and we tell them if they have outside alcohol, you can declare it now,” he said. “If we search you and find it, then you’re not coming in. People say ‘No, we don’t have anything.’ And we find it, take their ticket and turn them away.” Doors opened at 3 p.m. and the first of 11 matches

began at 4 p.m. The main bout, which saw Rich “Ace” Franklin knock out Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell in the first round, ended at 9:30 p.m. Franklin broke his arm in the fight, Liddell went to hospital to be treated for facial wounds and fighter Pat Barry broke his hand and cracked his foot in a highly touted bout with Mirko Filipovic. Dr. Jerome Yang, a mem-

ber of the Vancouver Athletic Commission, watched the action from a seat outside the octagon-shaped cage. Yang helped organize a team of five doctors for the fights who had experience working in intensive care and emergency room operations. “I can say confidently that these were some of the best guys that we could have found,” he said, noting the injuries weren’t unusual for

the sport. “They handled things appropriately, they stayed cool.” Yang and the four other members of the athletic commission planned to meet Tuesday, after the Courier’s deadline, to discuss the event. The commission is an advisory body to city council. Yang said the only member of council he saw and spoke to was Mayor Gregor Robertson, who sat next to

UFC president Dana White for some of the bouts. Robertson, who is a supporter of sanctioned mixed martial arts events, was not available for an interview Monday. He told the Courier last week that he wasn’t going to attend the event. No other members of council were believed to be at the ﬁghts. The UFC was allowed to have the event after city council voted 6-3

in December 2009 to a twoyear trial of the sport. Const. Lindsey Houghton, a media liaison ofﬁcer with the Vancouver Police Department, described the evening as a “non-event” for police. “Any time there’s an event on a summer weekend night with good weather, it’s always busy downtown,” Houghton said. “But there was nothing of note.” mhowell@vancourier.com

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where they live or work. “But it’s been on the basis of those issues, not on the basis of personal holdings or political contributions,” Cadman said. The closest the report gets to considering this issue is the emphasis that “public perception matters.” And I quote: “It is not enough for local elections to be fair, honest and open; they must also be seen to be so. Ultimately, achieving that transparency—wheth-

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School board budget crisis highlights political pandering and program glut The chickens come to home roost. You reap what you sow. And so on. During the boom years before the 2008 global financial meltdown, Wall Street gambled with other people’s money, promising security inside a teetering house of cards. New York stockbroker Bernie Madoff assumed exalted status among the greedy guilty, eventually earning a 150year prison sentence for his directorial role in history’s grandest Ponzi scheme. Last December at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina, a fellow inmate savagely beat Madoff who suffered facial injuries, broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Fast forward to June 2010. Confronted by a $17.23 million projected budget deficit at the Vancouver School Board, provincial Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid ordered comptroller general Cheryl WenezenkiYolland to investigate. Two weeks ago, in a scathing report dripping with contempt, Wenezenki-Yolland blasted the VSB—including board chair Patti Bacchus— blaming the deficit crisis on chronic mismanagement and political hackery perpetrated by school board trustees. Despite the partisan tinge of the Wenezenki-Yolland report, it accurately describes VSB culture. However, like the global financial meltdown, the problems in Vancouver public schools began years ago and predate Bacchus’s reign as board chair. For years, school board trustees have pandered to special interest groups, spent like sailors and ballooned the district bureaucracy while ignoring the limits of public education. Activities once bought and paid for exclusively by parents are now subsidized within public school walls. Montessori and Mandarin bilingualism. Specialized arts programs and so-called outdoor schools. Weight training, camping, skiing, ocean kayaking, rock climbing. According to the VSB website, something called the Circle of Care refugee program targets the “settlement needs of young refugee children… and their

markhasiuk primary care givers.” Whatever happened to the three Rs? Over the past decade, the VSB budget, paid for by taxpayers through the provincial Ministry of Education, has increased every year despite a coinciding drop in student enrolment partly attributed to the growing popularity of private schools. Back in 2000, 58,145 students attended Vancouver public schools. The VSB budget was $357.8 million, which translates to $6,155 per student. This past school year, student enrolment bottomed out at 55,116 yet the budget hovered at $443.1 million or $8,040 per student. Simply put, despite dwindling enrolment and increased funding the VSB still wound up $17.23 million in the red. Why? Like the Wenezenki-Yolland report said. Politics and mismanagement. The VSB is a partisan paradise dominated by Vancouver’s three main civic parties: COPE, Vision and the NPA. The parties, which also rule city council and the park board, are bound by ideology and enlist ideologues into their ranks. The current nine-member board, dominated by four Vision trustees and three COPE allies, leans left. It’s NDP orange and union true blue. Big government. Deﬁcit spending. A program for every problem. Bacchus epitomizes the activist trustee. Why? Because before winning election to the board in ’08 she was an activist, lobbying the school board and province on behalf of special needs students. Despite Wenezenki-Yolland’s recent indictment, Bacchus struck a deﬁant pose and announced

last week that she remains “proudly political.” The board’s “it takes a village” attitude also courts squeaky wheels of every stripe. Case in point. In January, a handful of parents successfully lobbied for district-wide Mandarin bilingualism slated to start (at an unknown cost) next September. Last June, the board bowed to pressure from aboriginal leaders, ratifying the Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement thus guaranteeing more aboriginal-only programs despite the myriad of programs exclusively available to aboriginal students. Not to be out done, in 2005 the NPA-dominated board helped create the district’s so-called Diversity Team, an ofﬁce of full-time pencil-pushers hired to indoctrinate teachers with “inclusive” teaching methods. As taxpayers look on. According to many economists, the massive government bailouts in late 2008 and early ’09 guaranteed decades of deﬁcit for western countries as the majority suffer for the misdeeds of a few. But take heart. Last week when Bacchus and her beleaguered school board asked for more money from the province to balance their bloated books, (unlike Harper, Brown, Bush and Obama), MacDiarmid said no. And like an oldschool educator with metre stick in hand, MacDiarmid ordered the VSB to deliver a draft balanced budget by Friday. Perhaps the great budget crisis of 2010 will prompt a new era of responsibility at the Vancouver School Board and a better understanding of public education. In a perfect world, they’d streamline the bureaucracy, close near-empty schools, honour the interests of students above all else and distribute pink slips to teachers according to ability, not seniority. In a perfect world. In reality, and for the time being, they’ll have less time to hatch wild new plans for public schools and fewer reasons to run for re-election. mhasiuk@vancourier.com

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WEB POLL NATION Go to www.vancourier.com to vote The argument between the Ministry of Education and the VSB should be settled by: a) firing the school board b) increasing funding to the board c) mixed martial arts cage match Last week’s poll question: Should Vancouver allow future mixed martial arts events, such as UFC matches? Yes 34 per cent No 66 per cent This is not a scientific poll.

After a report was completed last year outlining the dangers of being a pedestrian in the Downtown Eastside, the city looked for ways to improve safety. Fair enough. The city granted $65,000 for a study on the subject, not to an engineering ﬁrm, as one might suppose, but instead to the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). Last September, the city gave VANDU $30,000 for a pedestrian safety plan, which included a proposal to place crossing guards along Hastings Street to help people cross the street (don’t get me started). In the case of the most recent funds, VANDU hired its own pedestrian safety coordinator Don Buchanan, as well as Lani Russwurm, who lives and works in the Downtown Eastside and has a masters in history from Simon Fraser University, to author the report called “We’re All Pedestrians: Final Report of the Downtown Eastside Pedestrian Safety Project.” The $65,000 solution Buchanan and Russwurm came up with is a proposal to reduce the speed limit on Hastings Street between Abbott and Jackson streets from 50 kilometres per hour to 30. This report was commissioned following the publication last July of the joint SFU and University of B.C. report that found a higher percentage of pedestrians were hurt by vehicles on that stretch of Hastings Street than in any other part of the city. But why there was a need for a second report at a cost of $65,000 is beyond me. I realize that while the ﬁrst report outlines the problems, someone has to come up with solutions. But $65,000?

sandrathomas Buchanan is a former transportation planner with TransLink and studied at UBC, while Russwurm has a vested interest in the Downtown Eastside, so as far as credentials go they’re well qualified. Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang told me Buchanan and Russwurm’s qualifications were the reason the city gave VANDU the money from its Great Beginnings initiative. Jang also explained the second report was needed to focus on the Downtown Eastside because the first report centred on the entire city. I have no isssue with slowing down on any road if it means saving lives, so I support the plan for lower speed limits on Hastings Street, but it seems like another step in enabling the whole Downtown Eastside scene. It’s frustrating knowing that millions of dollars have poured into that neighbourhood over the decades, but nothing seems to change. And now

it appears the attitude has become that since there’s nothing we can do about the rampant drug use, dealing, addiction, forced prostitution and crime, we should spend our money catering to people who take no personal responsibility for their actions. Saving people is noble, but this move looks as if everyone involved has simply thrown up their hands in surrender. Cross the street wherever you like, and let me get that crossing guard for you. And while we’re at it, is there anything else I can get you? Free heroin? A comfortable place to use drugs? I’m oversimplifying the problems of the Downtown Eastside and its addicts and residents living with mental health problems, but it’s time for tough love. Whenever I write a column criticizing anything to do with the Downtown Eastside, my email box ﬁlls immediately with letters from residents thanking me for voicing their opinion. But then the writer always adds “please don’t print my name” because it’s not politically correct to say anything negative about the Downtown Eastside. So after spending $65,0000 for the pedestrian safety report, I’m assuming the speed limit along that stretch of Hastings Street will be reduced and once that happens police will be out ticketing drivers for speeding. But tickets for selling speed will continue to be non-existent. And if the city ever needs to conduct a similar study, they might consider hiring the Courier editorial team. We’ll do it for beer and pizza. sthomas@vancourier.com

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Law and media workshop indicts court system culture Attendance at a law and media workshop organized by the Law Society of B.C. last Wednesday night proved to be an entertaining and eye-opening experience. The five panelists included two media lawyers (David Sutherland and Dan Burnett), two journalists (veteran Global BC TV reporter John Daly and Victoria Times Colonist court reporter Louise Dickson) and the indefatigable Mr. Justice Geoffrey Gaul of the Supreme Court of B.C. Gaul was the unexpected target of frustrated journalists over the issue of publication bans and the judiciary’s lack of leadership in making the court system more accessible—as the provincial government keeps promising—particularly at the court clerk’s level. In the word of one Canadian Press reporter in attendance, it was something of a “pig pile” on Gaul, who weathered the storm gracefully. But even he didn’t respond to the question as to why publication bans exist when it involves the name of a dead teen, a fact I didn’t know. Unless the parents approve it, the name is not allowed to be reported. A frustrated Daly asked: “What difference is it going to make if the name is out there?” I was long overdue for a refresher course on legal issues pertaining to the media, such as publication bans, and hearing about legal hot spots for journalists. Even though reporters believe they’ve done due diligence in researching a story, it’s always unsettling to receive—as I once did—a letter from a lawyer after a story has appeared in the paper. I dropped about five pounds in a week from that experience. A twist to suing a media outlet is a recent case of a doctor suing sources who appeared in a CBC TV report but not suing the CBC, presumably because the Mother Corps has money to mount a strong legal defence whereas the sources don’t. We were all advised to check our home insurance policy. Apparently, “personal injury” coverage also includes defamation suits; “bodily injury” policies do not. Publication bans, including the recent decision by the Supreme Court to uphold a decision to impose a blanket publication ban on bail hearings, are an obvious sore spot for journalists. It was inspiring to hear a Kamloops reporter note that he has successfully argued 10 times out of 12 to get a judge to lift a publication ban on cases he was covering. How did he do it? He researched precedents and brushed up on legal lingo—much to the chagrin of Sutherland, who joked that he was putting him out of business. As much of a sore spot as publication bans are, what was shock-

ﬁonahughes ing to hear were reporters’ frustrations with fees, court clerks and the uneven access to public court records because a court clerk was power tripping, didn’t know their job or followed an institutional attitude to blocking access to what is public information. Say what? Here’s what Times Colonist reporter Dickson recently experienced. At a first-degree murder trial of a young man charged with killing a UVic student and shooting two others, Dickson and two other reporters could not hear what the accused said before the judge imposed his sentence. The young man was in the prisoner’s box but did not have a microphone so, after the sheriffs led the prisoner away, the reporters asked the court clerk to replay the 30-second tape. The clerk refused, even though the Crown counsel said it was OK. “So here you have three reporters covering a jury trial in B.C. Supreme Court and when the man convicted of shooting three people finally stands up and speaks, you don’t know what he said and court staff won’t let you check the quote for accuracy,” Dickson said at the workshop. “This is the disconnect. How does that even make sense?” I suggest reading Dickson and TC colleagues Lindsay Kines and Rob Shaw’s February four-part investigation “Access Denied,” which exposes how the principle of public access to courts can be violated by the courts, their officials and staff. After reading it, write to your MLA to insist the government makes good on its promise to provide proper public access and implement a clear and consistent policy province-wide. The public needs to have confidence in the court system. Secrets don’t serve anyone. Or as Daly said: “We’re in a low-grade democracy... and it’s up to citizens to change that.” There is a small bit of good news. After intense industry lobbying, Attorney General Mike de Jong announced Monday to scrap the online search fees for criminal and traffic court records, effective Aug. 31 that he imposed earlier this year. fhughes@vancourier.com

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A comptroller general’s report blamed Vancouver School Board chair Patti Bacchus and her fellow trustees for the district’s multimillion dollar woes. photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “Politically correct?” June 11. While I read with interest and bemusement the indictment of the Vancouver School Board trustees by the adviser to the Ministry of Education, it seems that their District Management Team (DMT) accomplices’ have emerged relatively unscathed. While the trustees must assume the ultimate responsibility for the VSB’s current economic woes with respect to planning, decision-making and lack of execution, the report seems to overlook the fact that the vast majority of the trustees ﬁnancial decisions were made in accordance with DMT recommendations. Although the following analogy may be somewhat unsavory it is at least instructive: if the trustees are to be accused of driving the stolen car, the DMT bureaucrats occupying the passenger seats were happily along for the joyride. Not just the trustees’s heads need to roll! Hanna Pham, Vancouver

••• To the editor: I am a parent in East Vancouver and have recently found myself advocating for my children’s school. While the VSB is still my immediate battle ground, I am increasingly bafﬂed by our provincial government.

Indeed, almost every school board across the province is having to lay off teachers, slash programming and close schools. Are all the school boards equally incompetent or is there a bigger issue here? Tracy Foster, Vancouver

••• To the editor: What is needed is a comprehensive, independent review of the provincial funding model for education. The report veriﬁed that there is a structural deﬁcit and that the board has, in effect, been subsidizing annual operating expenses—exactly the issues that advocates for public education have been identifying for years. But the report failed to identify a sustainable solution to the chronic under funding. Katherine Taylor, Vancouver

••• To the editor: Naoibh O’Connor has been covering education in Vancouver as long as I can remember and it shows. Unlike the comptroller general’s controversial report on the VSB, O’Connor’s report on the political and advocacy role of trustees was balanced, thorough and well-informed. Dawn Steele, Vancouver

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To the editor: Re: “Porn awards show fuels misogyny, adds to death culture,” June 9. I want to commend Mark Hasiuk on his column and for educating us about the Pink Cross Foundation. I am a Catholic and as such, I am aware of the insidious effects porn has on families and human relationships. This is something the Church has been beating the drum on for decades. That is one of the major aspects Pope John Paul II was talking about with the “culture of death.” This is something that people are simply not aware is an issue and it is going to be very damaging to our society. As a father of three, including two girls, I have to really stand strong and instill in them the right

set of values, self-worth, integrity and self-image in order to equip them with the armour they will need to stand strong. I pray for them, but also for the people they will encounter in their lives, especially future male friends and husbands, that they stay clean and away from porn. Alex Kurnicki, Vancouver

••• To the editor: Last week, EVE, an abolition group whose members are all former sex industry women who challenge the idea of sex as work, were troubled by the Naked Truth Adult Entertainment Award accepted by WISH, a dropin for prostituted women in the Downtown Eastside. It is counterproductive for a government-funded orga-

nization that “believes in the inherent value and dignity of all women and seeks to empower and support women in making free and positive choices” to accept an award from the very industry that fuels men’s dehumanizing act of purchasing sex from women, including WISH’s clients. EVE applauds WISH’s valuable work but if the acceptance of this award is a public statement of WISH’s stance on pornography, EVE urges WISH to reconsider as we believe, and know ﬁrsthand, that the pain of street level prostituted women—as well as women in other areas of the sex industry—is collateral damage of the pornography and sex industry. Trisha Baptie, Vancouver

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RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen (front) and Cpl. Dale Carr spoke with reporters Monday at Paciﬁc Spirit Park. photo Dan Toulgoet The RCMP and the homicide team handled the investigation because the body was found in the park, which is the jurisdiction of the RCMP. The VPD described her in the advisory as shy, reserved and said her disappearance was “out of character.” Police also indicated she was distraught. “The ofﬁcial cause of death is still pending toxicology results,” said RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen, who joined Carr at Monday’s press conference. “But there is no indication of trauma on this young woman.” Until police announced Monday that the woman wasn’t murdered, park users feared the woman’s death could have been connected

to the homicide of LadnerBeaudry. “It is hoped that this announcement will reduce the community’s heightened level of fear, which was certainly evident to us and many others,” Thiessen said. Prior to the police’s press conference, Sandra Herd was walking her two 85-pound Bernese mountain dogs in a trail near 33rd Avenue and Camosun. Herd paused when she came across yellow crime scene tape across a trail. The woman’s body discovered Saturday was found nearby off Clinton trail. Herd said she had known Ladner-Beaudry for many years, dating back to when both women took their

children to pre-school. She spoke to Ladner-Beaudry one week before she was murdered near a trail at West 41st and Camosun. “When I heard the news [about the woman’s body], it was pretty awful and you jump to the conclusion that it’s the same person [who killed LadnerBeaudry],” Herd said. A police notice tacked to a bulletin board at the park’s entrance at 33rd Avenue and Camosun cautioned that Ladner-Beaudry’s homicide could have been a random act of violence and the public is warned to continue to take steps to ensure their safety in the park. “I knew Wendy, so it kind of had a direct impact on me before I came back in the woods,” Herd said. “But I made the decision that I’m not going to let this stop me from enjoying the park.” Police released a YouTube video on the anniversary of Ladner-Beaudry’s death to refresh the public’s memory of the homicide. Several tips have poured in, Carr said. “It’s a priority for [the homicide team] to get to the bottom of it,” Carr added. Anyone with information on the homicide, should call 1-877-543-9217. mhowell@vancourier.com

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lose your opportunity to do anything because what they’ll do automatically is appoint a trustee who’ll just basically do what they want. Then you’re really trying to do something from outside and it becomes quite challenging and difﬁcult to get people’s attention when you are no longer in a position of responsibility,” he said. COPE trustee Al Blakey also leans toward submitting a balanced budget, but his stance depends on developments this week, including clariﬁcation of Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid’s ministerial directive order, requiring the board to submit a draft balanced budget by June 18 that “takes full consideration” of recommendations set out in the special adviser’s report. “I’m leaning towards a compliance budget, but I need to have some clarity as to what I’ll be voting for,” Blakey said, while adding most advice he’s heard is to adopt a balanced budget. “I’m not hearing a strong

clamour for a non-compliance budget, recognizing that there are differing views on that.” Vision trustee Sharon Gregson is torn. “My immediate reaction is that I would like to resign and make a big deal about how impossible the circumstances are for anybody who cares about public education to work within this context,” she said. “That’s my gut, instant reaction—thinking with my heart. My head tells me it’s better to have trustees in place who can put up a ﬁght and try to do the right thing rather than having a bureaucrat assigned who doesn’t have a mandate to listen to anybody and to do the worst that the minister dictates.” Board chair Patti Bacchus, a Vision trustee, said she’ll consider public opinion this week and points out the board has never said on the record it refuses to pass a balanced budget, but that to pass it means “horrendous cuts.” noconnor@vancourier.com

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Earlier this month I reported how the VSB overcharged the provincial government by an estimated $1.4 million this school year, which it must pay back. The mistake was caught through a provincial compliance audit of the board’s Vancouver Learning Network—a program largely focused on online learning. The error, blamed on data man-

agement problems, is also expected to cost the district $900,000 in the next budget, for a financial hit of $2.3 million over two years at a time when the VSB faces cutting $17 million in the 2010/11 budget. The audit wasn’t finished when the June 4 story was published so the numbers were preliminary, but they made me wonder how common such mistakes are in B.C. school districts. The goal of audits is to validate district enrolment reporting, according to the ministry, which is the basis for per pupil funding allocated to each district. School districts can appeal findings. Money “recovered” through audits is funnelled back into the

education system, the ministry says. Twenty-four audits take place across the province annually—six in each of four areas: kindergarten to Grade 12 regular enrolment, continuing education enrolment, special education enrolment and distributed learning (online learning) enrolment. The provincial government estimates it will recover $3 million this year (out of $4.55 billion in funding to school boards in the 2009/10 school year), although that’s an early projection that could drop if districts appeal audit results as some are expected to do. The ministry of education tells me compliance audits don’t al-

ways mean districts have to pay back money—sometimes no cash is recovered or more money is given to a district. In recent years, meanwhile, the provincial government has averaged about $1 million in money paid back by school districts.

Budget meeting

Thursday night marks the ﬁnal time the public will have a say on the district’s 2010/11 budget proposals. A consultation meeting is being held at Mount Pleasant elementary school at 7 p.m., June 17. (Delegations had to register to speak no later than two days before the meeting.) As of Monday, 10 speakers

were on the district’s list to talk. It should be a tough meeting for trustees given the board must cut $17 million from its budget, and they’ve heard dozens of individuals and groups lobby to save their programs and teachers at previous meetings. The Minister of Education issued a “ministerial directive order” last week to see a copy of the draft budget, reflecting the recommendations in the special adviser’s report, by June 18. Trustees are expected to vote on the budget June 23. The board must submit a balanced budget or it could be fired—assuming it’s not fired before then. noconnor@vancourier.com

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The Marpole Museum and Historical Society is hosting two live concert events in early summer. Backtrax, a classic rock ‘n roll band, performs at 2 p.m. June 27 and the Westwynd Singers perform Celtic music at 2 p.m. July 4. Both performances are at Colbourne House, located at 8743 Southwest Marine Dr. near 71st Avenue in Marpole. The shows are weather permitting. Admission is a minimum donation of $5 and the beer tent will have refreshments.

Che Guevara chat

Aleida Guevara, the daughter of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, will be in Vancouver June 26 and 27 for the International Che Guevara Conference. Along with speakers from Cuba, Venezuela, the U.S. and Canada, she will address the topic of “Cuba and Revolutionary Internationalism.” The conference is hosted at the Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Ave. and is organized by Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC). For more information, visit www.VanCubaSolidarity.com

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Kids can slide into a story, jump out of a picture, or riggle around an idea at a kids workshop using Maurice Sendak’s book Where the Wild Things Are in new ways through creative movement and storytelling. Aimed at ages ﬁve to 12, the free workshop is scheduled for June 26, 11 a.m. at the ArtStarts gallery at 808 Richards St. For more information, visit www.ArtStarts.com.

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The Hastings Park Conservancy is sponsoring a nature walk at the Sanctuary in Hastings Park on Saturday, June 26 at 9 a.m. The walk begins from the Kiwanis hut at the northeast corner of the sanctuary next to Playland and will last approximately two hours. Binoculars would be an asset as 113 species of birds have been seen in the sanctuary since it was established in 1998. No dogs, please. Free parking on site. The event will go rain or shine. To learn more, visit www.hastingspark.ca.

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Retired landscape architect eyes 107-year-old poplar Megan Stewart Staff writer

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Retired landscape architect Clive Justice, standing in his Marpole garden by his June Wedding rhodo, wants to save an old tree in the West End. photo Dan Toulgoet wood St. could not make this guarantee. “I’m so emotional about it now, I can hardly think straight,” said Justice. The tulip tree, believed to be the oldest deciduous tree in Western Canada with an estimated 100 years or more left in its lifespan, was nearly the impetus for an unprecedented heritage protection arrangement. NPA Coun. Suzanne Anton said council made a mistake that will make it difﬁcult to negotiate the protection of such would-be public assets in the future. She said council misinterpreted the double-barreled proposal it was voting on. “We were dealing with the general, not the speciﬁc,” she said. Although the tulip tree—which Anton said is a beautiful feature that should be preserved and could con-

ceivably outlive any new construction on the properties—was the speciﬁc focus of the debate, the more general policy proposed was to allow the city to negotiate with all future developers across Vancouver. Pressuring the neighbouring property owner, where 40 per cent of the root mass lay, was not viable, she said. The city has negotiated to protect living heritage resources at eight sites in Vancouver, each involving only one property. Justice said the tulip tree cannot be allowed to perish. “The Liriodendron tulipifera is a majestic wonder that contributes to Vancouver being the most beautiful and diverse urban forest in Canada,” he said. mstewart@vancourier.com

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Several neighbourhoods unsuccessfully propose Car-Free Days

Car-free founder slams transit service Cheryl Rossi

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Car-Free Day has spread to North Vancouver but not to other Vancouver neighbourhoods because Coast Mountain Bus Company applied the brakes, says Car-Free Vancouver Day co-founder and key organizer Matt Hern. “This is a ridiculous story, but we’ve had, over the years, numerous other neighbourhoods that are super interested in doing it when we’ve pressed it quite a ways,” the Commercial Drive resident said. “The problem that we run into every year is transit.” Car-Free Day runs Sunday, June 20. In its sixth year, cars will be gone for one day on Commercial Drive, where Vancouver’s CarFree movement began, Main Street, the West End and Kitsilano. North Vancouver will be car-free from Esplanade to Third Street on Lonsdale Avenue. Hern said BIAs and community organizations in Marpole, the Downtown Eastside, Dunbar Street, Kerrisdale and Collingwood have previously proposed Car-Free Days. But Muriel Honey, manager of the city’s ﬁlm and special events ofﬁce, says Coast Mountain—which directed Courier questions to the city—only has enough diesel buses in Vancouver to cover rerouting two major streets at a time. “Coast Mountain’s doing the best with the resources they have and, to their credit, they don’t charge people for the extra cost that it takes to take buses off and put other ones on,” Honey said. She noted holding car-free celebrations on different days would ease the problem, depending on what other events are happening around town, and said the application for a car-free event in the Downtown Eastside was withdrawn. The city cancelled Summer Spaces, a program of consecutive car-free Sundays it

tried out last year, but they are expected to return in 2011. Hern said the city didn’t give businesses enough time to adjust to Sunday street closures to vehicles and didn’t adequately involve grassroots groups in the planning. “It’s kind of a microcosmic explanation of why the city screws up events repeatedly and why the city events are boring,” he said. Car-Free Day starts at noon. Kitsilano will have more than 25 block parties, dances, performers and potlucks. The West End event is “unplugged” as a result of noise complaints about last year’s festivities and will feature a spoken word tent, the Seniors Housing Advocacy Group tent, square dancing lessons, capoeria and a chamber choir. The Main Street celebrations, this year between East 16th and 33rd avenues, follows in the activist footsteps of Commercial Drive’s Car-Free Day’s opposition to the provincial government’s Gateway Project, widening Highway 1 and twinning the Port Mann Bridge. The Vancouver Peoples’ Summit, held to protest the G8 and G20 talks next week in Ontario, will ﬁll Main Street between East 29th and 33rd avenues with music, children’s performance, debate and street theatre. The Terminal City Roller Derby women will keep things rolling while skateboarders grind alongside multimedia performances. On Commercial Drive, street hockey, a drum jam, a healing garden and a dance stage will occupy Venables to East First Avenue. “It’s going to be a good day,” said Hern. “Brazil plays at 11 o’clock that day [in the World Cup] so Brazilians will be out on the street already.” Hern said police estimated 150,000 people visited the four festivals last year. For more information, see www.carfreevancouver.org. crossi@vancourier.com

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Petition targets closed drop-in for disabled Megan Stewart

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Tolerance for Death on the Highway?

ust before Memorial Day, in a nod to the traditional start of summer road trip season, the New York Times Room for Debate blog invited eleven road safety experts to answer whether the United States should be working harder to reduce fatalities from crashes—the number while trending Cedric Hughes downward “still hovers around 37,000 fatalities a year”—and to identify the one thing that could achieve this. The first question, clearly rhetorical, begs analysis of the thornier issue noted by almost all of the bloggers of our seeming “societal willingness” to tolerate such numbers. As one blogger put it: were such numbers “the result of “disease, contagion or environmental disaster people would be marching in the streets and raising money door to door.” Another highlights the scale of the problem by comparing the fatalities for each month to the “same number of people who were killed on 9/11.” Recognizing that we distinguish road fatalities from other causes of death and react differently to them is at the heart of the notion of there being a ‘tolerance’. The bloggers offer a number of explanations: Above all, we accept these tragedies as “the cost we pay for the mobility we enjoy.” We seem psychologically able to tolerate a certain number of deaths—the cost—and collectively will drive recklessly until the number exceeds the limit of our tolerance—the cost becomes too high. But we also don’t see the ‘big picture’. Crashes “happen in small numbers, are geographically dispersed and aren’t considered headline-grabbing news.” Taken one by one, crash fatalities and injuries are comparatively small, discrete tragedies that are “all too easy to ignore.” Fundamentally, argues one, our tolerance stems from having “built our communities for cars, not people.” Starting in the 1930’s, “America

changed the DNA of its cities in a manner that led to auto-centric streets and places” that ultimately led to accessibility “almost exclusively by car.” Plus we see ourselves as being in control of our individual “crash” destiny. Studies show that drivers know about unsafe Barrister & Solicitor driving behaviours but nevertheless choose to engage in them and also find it easy to blame “the drunk or careless driver saying it can’t happen to me.” Our tolerance stems from courtesy and deference to competing interests: of the telecommunications industry, of the automakers, and even of the distillers and food service interests.” We tolerate lack of driving skillfulness “in service to the most American notion of universal mobility” and while generally favouring health and safety, “dislike [any] restrictions on personal freedom or comfort.” Some link tolerance to character shortcomings: We lack the stomach for the fight to make the changes that would really work. We lack vision: “many of us haven’t realized that we can do far better.” And our tolerance is a manifestation of our collective unwillingness to take responsibility for our own actions and to make safety “Priority No. 1.” To read the eleven answers in their entirety, google ‘New York Times Room for Debate’ and search ‘Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?’

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The 19 mentally and physically disabled adults who sought comfort and community at the free Broadway Connections drop-in centre one night a week decry the cancellation of their program and are ﬁghting back. They’ve collected a petition of nearly 550 names, including signatures from anonymous health professionals, arguing for the strengths of the 25-year-old program. The participants, their families and supporters will also protest Thursday at 3:30 p.m. outside the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority at 601 West Broadway. “It takes the message to them that we are not giving up,” said Lynn McFadden, who lives with chronic pain and limited mobility following a car accident nearly 30 years ago. “This is very important to us and I don’t see how they’re going to replace what we’ve got.” The health authority is cancelling the program in October and will direct participants and other clients to public and private leisure programs. Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokeswoman for the health authority, said less than one third of the program’s annual operating budget of $97,000 will employ a full-time recreational therapist who will develop speciﬁc individualized plans based on activities the adults enjoy and are able to do. But program participants insist Broadway Connections is vital to their lives.

Five years ago this week, Elin Sigmundson watched a helicopter carry her unconscious and shattered son from the Sunshine Coast to a hospital in Vancouver. At 37 years old, Edward Clarke was the victim of a late-night assault that left him severely brain damaged. “He was not expected to live in the beginning,” Sigmundson told the Courier last week. His vision and mobility impaired, an already private man became more reclusive following the unprovoked attack. Once introduced to Broadway Connections, where Clarke received subsidized meals, counselling, social interaction and low-impact physical activity, her son’s life improved, Sigmundson said. “It was the light of his week.” D’Angelo said the decision to cancel the program was not done lightly but participants like Clarke, who already practices adaptive tai chi, will have the choice to try new activities, from sailing and yoga to volunteering with the SPCA. She said no money would be directed to charitable or community organizations outside the public system. In May Health Minister Kevin Falcon said Broadway Connections was a valuable socialization and rehabilitation program but did not qualify as health care. Dwayne Geddes, executive director of the charitable Disability Foundation, disagreed. “My experience tells me that people who are more active, even active in a small way, are healthier,” he said. “I think socialization and activity together just redoubles the health beneﬁts.” mstewart@vancourier.com

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High school tolerates intolerance davidicuswong

Recently, 80 of my classmates from Burnaby North came together for a reunion at Anducci’s. Though 80 per cent of the class couldn’t make it, I was impressed by those who did. They filled the restaurant, spilling on to the patio—old classmates reconnecting in an emotional evening. Those who weren’t there didn’t come for a variety of reasons. Some didn’t know about it; some had moved away and couldn’t be tracked down. Some of my friends felt that they had grown up so much from high school that they had no interest in going back. Some felt that they already kept in touch with everyone with whom they wanted. Some may have had memories they just didn’t want to revisit. Some may have been embarrassed that they no longer looked like their teenaged selves, though none of us did. Those who did come to the reunion had their own reasons. There are always some old friends with whom you just lose touch. There is the morbid curiosity of how the popular kids aged. There is that nasty, schadenfreude hope that your former arch enemies, the mean girls and the bullies met up with karma. In terms of the decades that have passed since graduation, the short span of five years we went to high school doesn’t seem that significant. Yet it was during a critical time in our lives. As adolescents, our brains, bodies and emotions were changing, growing and breaking out. Though we may not have been fighting with one another, we wrestled with our own emotions, our self-esteem and our sense of self-worth. During high school, many of us had our first loves and met our best friends. We had many situational friends, classmates and teammates

we once hung out with but from whom we would eventually drift away. We learned to deal with nice and not so nice people, bullies and prejudice. Whether we were visible minorities or not, we were all either victims or perpetrators of prejudice; we judged and treated one another according to superﬁcial appearances—how we looked and how we dressed. High school somehow tolerated intolerance and mean-spirited behaviour more than most preschools, elementary schools, colleges and workplaces do. However, as my adult patients relate to me, bullies continue their bad behaviour in the adult world in many companies and businesses.

WE MIGHT RECOGNIZE HOW MUCH WE CHANGE, BUT WE OFTEN ASSUME THAT OTHERS DON’T. SO OUR MEMORIES AND FEELINGS ABOUT OLD CLASSMATES CAN BE AS BLACK AND WHITE AS THEIR OLD HIGH SCHOOL PHOTOS. We create psychological constructs or simpliﬁcations of reality to make sense of our world. We often do this with the most changeable of entities, other human beings. We might recognize how much we change, but we often assume that others don’t. So our memories and feelings about old classmates can be as black and white as their old high school photos. We remember them as we thought they were. Everyone took a double take of Cal who no longer had his trademark frizzy anglo Afro. This was ironic because he had spent most of his adult life with short hair. As with our families of origin—maybe more so—we can hold rigid caricatures of high school characters, and though they may seem larger-than-life characters

in our minds, in reality they are complex individuals with qualities more grey and coloured than black and white. Well... maybe one guy was larger than life in high school, but in retrospect, he had a bipolar mood disorder. Our memories for those years are also focused and

incomplete. In our minds, we can make minor events bigger than life. Talking to old classmates we discover that we each remember events a little differently. We remember selectively, sometimes incorrectly. Others remembered things that may not have seemed that

important to us. A reunion can allow us to correct the blindspots in our memories of those impressionable, formative years of our lives and our narrowed characterizations of our classmates, and as you’ll see in my next column, while sharing our lives as

adults, we can transform the way we see one another —and ourselves. Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician. His health column appears regularly in this paper and his Internet radio show can be heard on positiveworldradionetwork. weearth.com.

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Steam iron can help raise furniture depressions in carpets Shell Busey

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What many of us may not know is that there is an equally vast selection of complementary medical treatments available for animals, such as some of the more familiar alternatives we humans use. These include chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, accupressure, and naturopathy as well as some of the lesser-know modalities like hydro therapy, homeopathy, Reiki, Ayurveda, network spinal analysis, etc. This is the ‘Natural’ system that focuses on treating the root cause(s) of disease in order to re-establish health (check out www.TheNaturalGuide.com). The heart of The Petnership Project centres on Holistic aspects of animal wellness, because so much of the research shows that the holistic approach for animals is just as effeftive as it is for us humans. At The Petnership Project, two key issues covered are nutrition and vaccination, as well as some timely info on rescue organizations. Go to www.petnerships.com for more of the scoop, and see you at the show! Article supplied by: Sandi Hildebrand and Esther Sarlo.

The Inside Scoop—Some Current Pet Statistics Humans have ancient relations with their animal companions. Burial evidence of cats as pets dates back over 8,000 years and for dogs about half that long. Experts say that these early pets provided their masters with both companionship and survival skills such as warmth, predator protection, and hunting assistance. Current pet industry experts are quoting an array of astonishing statistics. In Canada, the latest survey done by Ipsos Reid estimates that there are over 7.9 million cats and 5.9 million dogs in Canada. Karen McCullough, director of marketing for Petland Canada, says that “people are looking for more for their pets these days… from better products including treats, grooming and supplies, brand-name toys, and accessories,” all the way to holistic health care alternatives.

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Your family's pets: Are they protected? Owning a pet can be one of the greatest joys in the world. All they want is your love and attention, they are always happy to see you when you come home, and they are an important part of your family. While you know that owning a cat or dog can be a great joy, one thing that is often overlooked is the ongoing expense associated with caring for a pet. From buying food, to pet-proofing the house, to paying for veterinary bills, pets can be costly. Huge advances have been made in veterinary medicine in the last few decades. We are now able to care for our pets better than ever before. Our pets are living longer, healthier lives, and they are providing us with even more years of friendship and companionship. However, the more your veterinarian can do for your pet, the more it can cost. Fortunately, BCAA Pet Health Insurance helps you cover veterinary fees for unexpected accidents and illness and provides peace of mind to pet parents like you each day. You don’t have to worry about whether or not you will be able to provide your pet with the medical attention he or she requires. With one in three pets requiring medical attention every year and the cost of veterinary care rising, pet health insurance just makes sense. Protecting your pet with pet health insurance, as early as possible, is in your best interest. As with people, pets develop health problems as they age. It is important to enroll your pet right away, as BCAA is unable to cover medical costs relating to pre-existing conditions. Make sure to start your pet's coverage today before any unforeseen health problems develop.

They have three plans to choose from, ranging from economical accident only coverage to comprehensive accident and illness coverage. Each plan offers annual renewable limits to protect your pet for the long term — pick the one that suits you and your pet the best. • The Compact Plan: The Compact Plan offers 100 per cent veterinary fee coverage up to $2,000 per accident with affordable deductibles and low monthly premiums. • The Intermediate Plan: Get even greater coverage through the Intermediate Plan. Through this plan you can cover your pet for $2,500 per year for medical treatments resulting from accident and illness. With the Intermediate Plan, you can rest assured that you'll be able to care for your pet when the time comes. • The Luxury Plan: Get complete coverage with the Luxury Plan. With the "Cadillac" of pet insurance plans, you can cover your pet for $4,500 per year for medical treatments resulting from accident and illness. With the Luxury Plan, you can be confident that you'll be able to care for your pet no matter what happens.

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There are always deeper bits of root that won’t come up. That’s normal. The divisions for replanting should be cleaned up of any old brown bits left over from previous harvestings. It would be best to renovate the bed by digging in composted manure before replanting. A yearly topdressing of more composted manure will keep up the nutrition level. This can be done either in spring when harvesting is over or in fall

or winter when rhubarb has gone dormant for the year.

Q: We did a yard reno last fall and dug up many tulips, which I planted in pots. They bloomed this spring and have now died back in the pots. I plan to put them back in the ground. Can I leave them in pots until the fall and then plant them? Or should I dig them up and keep them in my garage until fall? Bev Pearson, Coquitlam

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A: Storing your tulips in pots is fine but they must be in a very dry place. Oldtime gardeners routinely dug up tulips after flowering, stored them in a sheltered spot until the leaves finished dying down then stored them under cover. They replanted them in fall and, I suspect, did most of the fertilizing then. But I think you should dig your tulips out of the pots when the leaves have died down, take a good look at them before returning them to storage in the pots. Any diseased or rotted bulbs should be discarded. Also, many tulips—especially the large-flowered exotic ones—split up into little bulblets after flowering. Some tulips will have a small main bulb surrounded by tiny mini bulbs while others will have nothing but tiny bulbs. These bulblets could develop into big, flowering tulip bulbs, but only if you grow them in perfect conditions for

a few years. This is difﬁcult to do because our climate is too wet for most tulips. Tulips come from Turkish hillsides where the average rainfall is similar to the Okanagan. Winters are very cold and summers hot and dry. Conditions in a plant’s native land are always a good indication how a plant should be treated.

Q: We planted fennel and cilantro earlier this spring and they are now growing out of control. We can’t make enough recipes or give enough away at the rate they are growing. Is it safe to cut them down to a smaller size or should we wait it out? Leila Waslen

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YOUR EYESIGHT: TAKE CARE

by Jeremy Shepherd, contributing writer

At least one Vancouver optometrist is concerned the provincial government’s lack of vision could result in a real lack of vision for many people who are no longer required to see an optometrist. Regulations came into effect on May 1, 2010 that allowed for eye exams to be done with automated equipment that essentially removed the human element from the examination, according to the BC. Association of Optometrists. The B.C.A.O. has expressed concern new regulations allowing people to order glasses and contact lenses online, and without a sight test, could result in serious health problems. Dr. Mini Randhawa, who’s been working as an optometrist for four years, said the move could have disastrous results for many people. “You could be going blind from glaucoma right now and you would have no symptoms,” she said.

Randhawa said increased fluid pressure in the eye can do considerable damage, and the condition is even more dangerous because the pressure is not perceptible. She said an optometrist can diagnose a potential problem in a five minute eye exam. “We are able to treat [glaucoma] very effectively if we catch it in time,” she said. Randhawa said without a brief, comprehensive eye exam done at least once every two years, patients are at great risk. “We’ve diagnosed tumours.” She said you only have to spend a few minutes with someone who has lost their sight due to glaucoma or diabetes to see how completely altered their life is. The new regulations also allow sellers of glasses and con-

tact lenses to deal with customers without contacting the optometrist to see if the prescription is correct. Randhawa expressed concern that the new regulations could also result in eye damage as the result of improper use of contact lenses. “People who wear contact lenses often forget that it’s a medical device,” she said. Randhawa said that approximately 40 per cent of contact lens wearers have suffered from some type of complication. It’s critical for contact lens wearers to see an optometrist to make sure the fit is right and no damage is being done to the eye, according to Randhawa. Dr. Randhawa, who practices on 49th Avenue and Elliott Street, realized she’s wanted to treat patients and make connections with them in an oldfashioned community eye centre since she was in the fourth grade! Visit this website for further information: www. eyedentityeyewear.ca.

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With the support of Essilor Canada, the B.C. Association of Optometrists (BCAO) has created the a-b-See campaign to help identify these children early and raise awareness among parents, teachers and children themselves. Why? Because good vision and eye health are critical to a child’s development. More than 80 per cent of a child’s learning is based on vision.The a-b-See campaign is geared towards kindergarten and preschool-age children. Identifying eye health issues at this age is critical, as they can begin to affect children’s academic and social development. The campaign includes information for parents, resources for teachers and fun, interactive games for kids.

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PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS A MAN’S CONCERN

Father’s Day is upon us, and the focus is on the men. And this is a good time for the men to focus on themselves, in a meaningful way. The Canadian Cancer Society (www.cancer.ca) outlines some of the stats. It’s not all bad news, but as is the case with most health issues, proactive health (not delaying visiting the doctor, knowing your family history, watchful eye on your physical symptoms) goes a long way to helping to have a positive outcome, and a long, vibrant life. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian men (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). In 2010: • An estimated 24,600 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and 4,300 will die of it. • On average, 470 Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer every week. • On average, 80 Canadian men will die of prostate cancer every week. One in seven men will develop prostate cancer during his lifetime (the risk is highest after age 60), and one in 27 will die of it. There has been an overall upward trend in the incidence rate of prostate cancer since 1980, which is likely due to increased early detection or possible changes in risk factors. The cause of prostate cancer is not known but research suggests genetics, high-fat diet and lack of exercise may play a role. (The growth of cancer cells is stimulated by male hormones.) Note: PSA tests in B.C. are not covered by the Medical Services Plan (MSP). Prostate cancer is a “silent disease,” and the best chance for a cure is through early detection before the onset of symptoms. The

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Vikings, Scots, English all used their swords to slaughter islanders

Peaceful Irish island has bloody past Mitchell Smyth Contributing writer

RATHLIN ISLAND, Northern Ireland— “Tranquil. So peaceful,” said the Englishman as we sipped pints in McCuaig’s Bar. He had just returned from a walking tour of Northern Ireland’s only inhabited offshore island. Tranquil indeed! How could he have guessed, as he wandered the unpaved lanes on this speck of land in the Sea of Moyle, between Ireland and Scotland, that this place was steeped in blood, the blood of islanders put to the sword by the Vikings, by the English, by the Scots? But that’s all in the past. Today’s “invaders” come for the peacefulness—and to see the birds. The rock stacks and coves on the western tip of the island are home to thousands and thousands of guillemots, razorbills, shearwaters, fulmars, kittiwakes and puffins, and even the odd golden eagle. There’s also excellent diving. Through the centuries, dozens of ships have foundered in these waters and these are an irresistible lure for the scuba crowd. For a long time Rathlin was undiscovered, since there was only a poor service, by fishing boat, from Ballycastle on the mainland. But now there’s a modern ferry and the tourists are finding the island. Mind you, it’s still no Cancun. It gets a few hundred visitors every

The harbour on Rathlin Island, off the northeast coast of Ireland. The once-isolated island offers peacefulness and birdwatching, and is at last being discovered photo Mitchell Smyth by visitors. summer and, so far, that’s the way Rathlin wants it. It has a couple of guest houses and McCuaig’s pub, and some of the farmers’ wives take in bed-and-breakfast visitors. There’s also a hostel, restored with help from Virgin Airlines boss Richard Branson

in gratitude to the two island men, Tommy Cecil and Neil McFaul, who saved him from death when his balloon ditched in the sea at the end of his transatlantic ﬂight in 1987. Rathlin, shaped like an L, with “arms” six kilometres and four kilometres long, is

about 1.5 kilometres across. It’s roughly 10 kilometres from the Irish mainland and twice that distance from Scotland’s Mull of Kintyre, but the Scots used to claim it. In the 16th century it was inhabited by the Scots clan MacDonnell (or McDonald), to the chagrin of their ancestral foes, the Campbells. Walking east from the harbour you can pause on a rise in the road and see where the Campbells gave vent to that chagrin. The little valley below is called Lag an Vista Voir, which means “the hollow of the great defeat,” and the hill in the background is Croc na Screidlin, “the hill of screaming.” Here, in 1642, the Campbells slew most of the male islanders while the women and children watched before they, too, were killed. Monks set up a refuge on Rathlin in the Dark Ages, but the Vikings put an end to that, amid much bloodshed. Much later, the English sea dog Sir Francis Drake presided over a massacre of MacDonnells. So don’t mention Drake with any degree of admiration here. Centuries earlier, Robert the Bruce of Scotland hid out here before returning to Scotland to lead his army to Scottish independence in 1314. A ruin called Bruce’s Castle is, legend has it, where he stayed. For more information on Rathlin Island, visit the Moyle District Council website at www. moyle-council.org/tourism/attractions. Mitchell Smyth is a member of the Meridian Writers’ Group.

Grassroots football programs let fans of all ages link up with the Lions With the 2010 football season now underway, BC Lions fans will soon be heading to Empire Field for the season home opener versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday, July 10. But Lions’ action isn’t limited to the ﬁeld. The team’s grassroots football programs are focused on linking the team with people throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley, allowing the Lions and fans of all ages to share their love of football. “I have been involved with our grassroots football programs for many seasons now,” says Lions slotback and fan favourite Geroy Simon. “Having an opportunity to share our love of the game with our fans throughout B.C. is a great way to give back to our community and gives us a chance to get to know our fans too!” PUNT, PASS & KICK Punt, Pass & Kick is a program designed to provide an opportunity for minor football players to test their skills in punting, passing and kicking while reinforcing their love of football. In 2009, the BC Lions, Tim Hortons, and BC Community Football hosted competitions in 15 districts in the Lower Mainland where players at the Flag (ages 6-7), Atom (ages 8-9), Peewee (ages 10-11) and Junior Bantam (12-13) levels had the opportunity to show off their skills and compete for an individual title. The 2010 Punt, Pass & Kick program will kick off in June, with the ﬁnals slated for the fall. For more information about the Punt, Pass & Kick program, please contact the BC Lions Football Club at 604.930.5466. PLAY WITH THE PROS Play with the Pros matches BC Lions players with boys and girls, providing them with an opportunity to participate in a noncontact skills clinic hosted by their favourite BC Lions players. The participants are divided into groups and rotate through various skill stations every 10-15 minutes. One player, one alumnus and one volunteer coach (local high school or community) are assigned per station, teaching skills such as

passing, receiving, pass routes and proper running techniques. The program will continue with similar visits in 2010 with the ﬁrst 2010 Play with the Pros clinic taking place on June 27 at the club’s Surrey practice facility. For more information about the Lions’ Play with the Pros program, please contact the club at 604.930.5466. TIMBITS FOOTBALL CAMP The Timbits Football Camp is a free clinic for boys and girls between 6 and 12 years old. The program offers these children the chance to learn the basic skills of football and to play with their BC Lions heroes. Last year, more than 400 boys and girls took part in the camp. The 2010 Timbits Football Camp will take place on Aug. 29. For more information about the Lions’ Timbits Football Camp, please contact the club at 604.930.5466.

Football 101 participants from last season, along with Lions GM and head coach Wally Buono and director of community relations Jamie Taras, pose for a pre-game photo at BC Place. Photo credit: BC Lions Football Club

FOOTBALL 101 Football 101 is a course designed exclusively for women who want to learn more about the CFL game. For just $50 (plus tax), participants receive a BC Lions T-shirt, a Football 101 manual and a game ticket to a BC Lions home game, which includes viewing the pre-game warm-up and a “chalk talk” with former BC Lions great Jamie Taras. In 2009, the BC Lions welcomed close to 150 women of all ages during two sessions of Football 101. In 2010, the BC Lions will once again host two sessions of this popular “just-for ladies” event – on Wednesday, Aug. 4 and Wednesday, Oct. 13. To register, please contact the club at 604.930.5466.

FOOTBALL 202 Football 202 is an on-ﬁeld, interactive course just for women. It gives them an opportunity to run through drills and exercises similar to the ones BC Lions players engage in throughout the season. In 2009, more than 60 women hit the ﬁeld as part of the program. Football 202 gives women the opportunity to learn the basics of passing, receiving, kicking, and much more from their very own BC Lions. In 2010, Football 202 will take place on Sunday, Aug. 22. To register, contact the club at 604.930.5466.

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Half the Sky founder Jenny Bowen (left) and director Carol Kemble raised money for China’s orphaned children at the Terminal City Club.

Producer and wine festival co-founder Chad Oakes (left) feted actor Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek, Dinner with Schmucks) in Osoyoos.

Fred Actor Jason Priestley and his wife Naomi Lowde welcomed oenophiles to Osoyoos for the star-studded tipple fest.

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Peter Catarino (left) of Delta Whistler Suites and Tantalus Lodge’s Mike Kohari helped raise funds for Chelsey Walker’s Whistler Adaptive Sports.

Destination Osoyoos: Hollywood stars of Canadian heritage gathered for the second Osoyoos Celebrity Wine Festival. Beverly Hills 90210’s Jason Priestley, Star Trek’s Bruce Greenwood, former Barenaked Lady Steven Page, and Medium’s David Cubitt headlined the four-day Okanagan tipple fest. More than 2,000 grape enthusiasts attended the six sell-out events benefitting the Desert Society, Desert Sun Resource Centre, and Osoyoos Museum Society. Founders Chad Oakes, Glenn Fawcett and Priestley looked to raise $100,000. Whistler wingding: Delta Whistler Village Suites and Tantalus Lodge employees held their second annual Raise the Roof benefit at Buffalo Bills in Whistler Village. Mayor Ken Melamed joined more than 125 ski bunnies at the community hootenanny benefitting Whistler Adaptive Sports and Habitat for Humanity. More than $12,500 was raised at the Friday night dance party and auction. Bowled over: It was another sellout at A Loving Spoonful’s Project Empty Bowl gala, sponsored by Coast Capital Savings and held at the new Coast Coal Harbour Hotel. Wendy Hardy chaired and Deb Hope emceed the food fete and auction. Proceeds went to ALS’s Family Pantry Program, which provides meals to men, women and children fighting HIV/AIDS. Hear Fred Monday morning on CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition AM690 and 88.1FM; Email Fred at yvrflee@ hotmail.com; Follow Fred on Twitter: @FredAboutTown.

Vancouver-based actor Eric McCormack of Will and Grace fame is among six other inductees to Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Young and Wyse winemaker Stephen Wyse and Osoyoos Celebrity Wine Festival co-founder Glenn Fawcett welcomed wine lovers to the grape fete.

Vicki Gabereau hosted and CBC funny man Rick Mercer headlined the West Vancouver beneﬁt for performing arts programs at the Kay Meek Centre.

Wendy Hardy (left) chaired the Project Empty Bowl gala beneﬁting executive director Lisa Martella’s A Loving Spoonful.

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Femmes mystique

Now in its 21st year, the Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver’s annual Festival d’été francophone takes over West Seventh Avenue between Fir and Granville for a week of francophone music June 17 to 24. This year’s focus is on women, or “femmes,” if we remember correctly from Monsieur Gravalle’s Grade 11 French class. Performers include Coeur de Pirate, Lynda Lemay, Daniel Roa and Valley of Wolves, among others. For more info and a complete list of performances and show times, go to www.lecentreculturel.com.

Kurosawa-a-thon

Although name-dropping Godard at parties might win you the approval of certain chin-strokers and beret wearers, the name you should be floating around for instant cred is Akira Kurosawa, considered one of the most important and influential filmmakers of Japan if not the entire world. To commemorate the centennial of the birth of Kurosawa (1910-1998), Pacific Cinémathèque

Mississippi Live is at the WISE Hall June 17.

presents a comprehensive retrospective of all 30 ﬁlms by the master June 17 to Aug. 10—from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo, and everything in between, including classics Rashomon and Seven Samurai. For info and show times, call 604-688-FILM or go to www.cinematheque.bc.ca.

Triple threat

Turning Point Ensemble’s upcoming performance June 17 at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU Woodward’s is described as “a unique combination of music, dance, theatre and technology all coming together.” Imprint sees the 17-member group taking on three different roles—as a concert ensemble, as a principal player in a theatrical work with guest solo soprano Phoebe MacRae and as “an innovative component in a sitespeciﬁc dance/music/technology piece.” We could go on, but we’d only further confuse ourselves. For tickets, go to www.sfuwoodwards. ca or call 604-873-3311. More info at www.turningpointensemble.ca.

All the mod cons

If the words Chelseas, Lambrettas and Ace Tunes mean anything to you, then you’re probably already putting on a tight-fitting Ben Sherman shirt and making plans to head down to the newly revamped Cobalt (911 Main St.) for a dancefilled evening of mod classics June 17, from Northern Soul to British invasion with a bit of Brit pop sprinkled in. When does it start? You’ll have to ask someone with a magical crystal scooter to find out.

kudos & kvetches Use Your Illusion

This week sees the release of Sarah McLachlan’s long-waited album Laws of Illusion. The local singer-songwriter and Lilith Fair founder hasn’t released a proper record since Afterglow seven years ago, notwithstanding an Afterglow live album, a re-release of a previous live album (Mirrorball: The Complete Concert), a greatest hits album (Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan), a Christmas album (Wintersong), a live Christmas album (Wintersong comes Alive!), a remixed live Christmas album with guest beatboxers (Wintersong, Yo, Can You Feel It?) and an acoustic live remixed Christmas album with interactive lute adjustment capabilities (Wintersong 2.0: Seriously, I Haven’t Written a New Song in Years). Now McLachlan is back in the saddle and, guess what, Laws of Illusion is “her most personal and autobiographical album” to date. At least that’s what we’ve read this week in countless stories detailing the difficult breakup of McLachlan’s marriage, the joys of new love, finding strength in being a single mother and the difficulty of publicly discussing the breakup of your marriage, the joys of new love and finding strength as a single mother after writing an entire album

Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee gets its geek on June 17.

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Songs of the south

Jonesing for a crowd-pleasing Tony Award-winning musical comedy, you say? You’re in luck. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee sings, dances, speaks and spells its way onto the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Granville Island Stage June 17 to July 31, pitting quirky pubescent overachievers (read: nerds) against one another in the spelling challenge of a lifetime. Hit songs include “My Friend, the Dictionary,” “Woe Is Me,” and “I Speak Six Languages.” For tickets and info, call 604-687-1644 or go to artsclub.com.

Having grown up in the deep south, reportedly across the street from a cotton gin, Connely Farr a.k.a. Mississippi Live comes by his rootsy, acoustic, world-weary ways honestly. Now based in Vancouver, Mississippi Live and his band Dirty Dirty celebrate the release of their self-titled CD June 17 at the WISE Hall, with David Newberry, who’s also celebrating the release of a new CD, We Learn the Things We Need to Learn, and openers Rodney Decroo & His Convictions.

about it that will likely get re-released as a live album, a deluxe edition and a boxed remix album with complimentary wind chimes. But there are other revelations about McLachlan’s personal life K&K discovered after an emotionally draining day of drinking baby tears-infused chamomile tea and listening for 10 straight hours to McLachlan’s pleasantly soothing, deeply personal new album. For instance, on the hidden track “I Roll My Eyes Precociously and Look Upwards When Singing and Playing the Piano,” McLachlan admits to running an underground cockﬁghting ring from the basement of her West Vancouver home and using the proceeds to fund a support group for single mothers on Hornby Island. On “String of Doubt,” another hidden track, she boldly questions the “yarn bombing” movement and wonders if knitting circles are just a waste of time since most people don’t really want to get a hand-knit toque for Christmas. And on “The Price of Guilt,” McLachlan delivers a series of scathing vignettes where she details shopping at Winners at Park Royal Mall and fesses up to replacing the price tag on a pair of discounted yoga pants with one of even lesser value, and then using those

illegal savings to fund a support group for single mothers on Hornby Island, which she then admits is really a Sarah McLachlan fan club and knitting circle, which she secretly hates. Needless to say, it’s a complex album with surprises and hard truths at every turn. We can’t wait for the remix version to come out.

Obsession compulsion

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In perhaps one of the greatest research experiments ever conducted in the history of science, biologists in the Guatemalan jungle have discovered that the complex scent of Calvin Klein Obsession For Men cologne attracts jaguars. The research was ﬁrst conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society at New York’s Bronx Zoo as a means of luring cheetahs and the like in front of camera traps. After several years of testing with different fragrances, Obsession For Men came out on top, attracting big cats longer than other scents. Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps came second. We’re tempted to mention the disappointing performance of K&K’s pubescent introduction to cologne, Drakkar Noir, or make an obvious joke about cougars, but, frankly, we’re above that sort of thing.

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Multilayered play difﬁcult to understand on many levels

Thematic threads tied up in Nazis Herr Beckmann’s People

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Vancouver Park Board Public Open House Mount Pleasant Park In 2009, a concept design for Mount Pleasant Park was approved by the Vancouver Park Board, with the understanding that there would be consultation with the community on the program elements and the design features. We would like to meet with neighbours and other interested members of the public to hear how you would like to see the park improved. Please join us at an open house to share your ideas. Monday, June 21, 2010 5pm – 8 pm Simon Fraser School Gymnasium 100 W 15th Ave For further information, contact: Alan Duncan, Project Manager Phone: 604-257-8515 E-mail: alan.duncan@vancouver.ca vancouverparks.ca

Reviewed by Jo Ledingham

It’s almost impossible to understand how good German burghers stood by and watched—or got caught up in— Hitler’s so-called “purging” of Germany during the Second World War. Inspired by a trip there some years ago when she met a kind, decent couple in their 60s, playwright Sally Stubbs tackles the issue in Herr Beckmann’s People. And she goes one step further as she explores the effect the war years had on Germany’s children. Instead of playing cops and robbers, some of these kids played SS ofﬁcers and spies with devastating consequences. Max Beckmann, a celebrated German Expressionist painter, abandoned his homeland once Hitler and his henchmen deemed him decadent and depraved. For his self-imposed exile, Beckmann is heroic in the eyes of Stubbs’ character Anna Epp (Dawn Petten), a young painter. No longer able to live with her father’s—and, by extension—her mother’s role in the war, Anna emigrates to Canada at the age of 18. Only upon the death of her brother Klaus (Bill Marchant) does she return to Germany where, eventually, she confronts Clara, her mother, a celebrated concert pianist (Christine Willes). Unable to sustain relationships—and functioning as a dominatrix in at least one of these brief affairs—Anna probes at a family secret Clara does not want to talk about. Stubbs gives Petten a great line: “You can take the girl out of the Fatherland but can you take the father out of the girl?” Playwright Stubbs and Katrina Dunn (directing for Flying Start—a Playwrights Theatre Centre/Touchstone Theatre partnership) dump us unceremoniously right into the play. Christopher David Gauthier’s single set—an expressionistic but cartoonlike setting with ladders, a bicycle wheel, an easel and lots of sheet music stuck to the walls—gives little to guide us in this opening scene. Marchant, as wheelchair-seated Klaus,

Dawn Petten and Anthony F. Ingram appear in Sally Stubbs’ Herr Beckmann’s People at PTC Studio until June 19. speaks in heavily German-accented English; Petten, as Anna, does not. It takes a while to discover they are brother and sister. Flashbacks take us back to their childhood games—Nazi interrogations and spying on “suspicious” neighbours, including their kindly old piano teacher. We make choices, Stubbs suggests, in our lives. Some are good, others are not. We cannot know where these choices will lead us, but they are often made innocently. How well does she make the case for Rainer (Anthony F. Ingram) and Clara? Passionately but not completely convincingly. The harm done by Russians to Rainer as a boy and his subsequent rescue by Germans do not justify his later actions as a Nazi. Gratitude only goes so far. Part of the problem in this play may be in the characterization of Rainer as a happy goof. While Stubbs clearly wants him to be a warm and loving human being, director Dunn has Ingram hopping about like a monkey. However, Willes is wonderful as Clara, exuding warmth and passion as her character defends herself against

Anna’s ferocious accusations. Marchant is a credible Klaus although it took a minute to realize he would be heavily accented when speaking English to Anna (who refuses to speak German) and unaccented when he is supposed to be speaking German. Donna Carroll White, as Anna’s grandmother (“a tank in a frock” was how the grandchildren described her), completes the cast. White gets one of the rare laughs in the play when, as the grandmother, she is asked how she is. She replies, dryly, “I’m 93.” An additional problem with this play is the need to suspend disbelief and believe that Willes is actually playing Chopin’s glorious music and Petten is actually painting. Very tough. Herr Beckmann’s People, making its world premiere at PTC, is not entirely successful in threading its many themes together, but it does attempt to understand the choices some otherwise decent Germans made—choices made, as we all make them, without a crystal ball. joled@telus.net

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Vancouver’s newest celebration of cinema includes a two-minute animation about battling album covers, music videos and a short film about a young Mexican labourer’s struggles in Los Angeles. It’s the Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival, which happens at Vancity Theatre, June 26. “It’s more than just bindis and saris and Bollywood, although that is a lovely part of it,” said Agam Darshi, actor, filmmaker and co-founder of VISAFF. “A South Asian director can easily direct a film about Mexican kids in L.A. It doesn’t necessarily have to be thematically South Asian.” In fact, it’s the short film Darshi wrote, acted in and produced, Bollywood Beckons, that lights up the screen with brilliant saris, bindis and dance routines. Darshi’s first trip to India a few years back inspired her to develop a South Asian celebration of film in Vancouver that would break down stereotypes and appeal to a mainstream audience. “There are so many different aspects of what it is to be South Asian and what it is to be Indian and so I think I was just really fascinated by that,” Darshi said. “It was just more the inspiration of being in such an amazing country and also feeling so completely Canadian while I was there. That was really what the grab was.” Darshi, who stars in TV’s Sanctuary and Dan for Mayor and appeared alongside Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester in the made-for-TV-movie Haunting on Sorority Hill, is excited about the panel discus-

sion on the changing face of media. The discussion includes Laara Sadiq, a local award-winning actor of film and stage, Vic Sarin, who directed the feature films Partition and A Shine of Rainbows, which co-stars Aidan Quinn, and former MuchMusic VJ Monika Deol. “She was kind of the pioneer of being South Asian on TV,” Darshi said. “She was doing something at a time where nobody thought it would be possible for a South Asian to be on TV—she was so hip and cool.” The first of three screenings includes Deejay Ra, or Raoul Jeneja, from Toronto presenting music videos by local acts En Karma, Dal Hothi and Delhi 2 Dublin, a short comedy, a short documentary about the South Asian community and gang violence in Metro Vancouver, Darshi’s Bollywood Beckons and the Battle of the Album Covers. The second screening includes Eclipse: An Indian Odyssey, a visually based film about Mumbai, DeSiCiTi, a television comedy about the dating, career and cross-cultural exploits of four South Asian women in New York City and Kavi, a 2010 Oscarnominated short film about a boy who wants to play cricket and go to school but instead has to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. The feature film for the final screening has yet to be announced. The event ends with a closing gala at The Corner on Davie and Granville. Darshi and actor, writer and festival cofounder Patricia Isaac hope the festival will attract a broad audience. “Things are changing within the film industry and on TV, but it needs to change a little bit more,” Darshi said. “And the way to do that is by incorporating and involving mainstream audiences.” For more information, see visaff.com. crossi@vancourier.com

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LAB SILVER / Charcoal PUPS, PB RARE! vet chd, social, quiet temp. $950. 778-549-8621

COCKER SPANIEL p/b pups with papers vet. shots, ready now, Vanc. $400 neg. 604-708-1752

3508

GARAGE SALES

Dogs

CANE CORSO male pups, Italian Mastiff, 9 wks, tails docked, 1st shots, $1000, 604-351-8741

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3508

FILA/MASTIFF GUARD DOGS owners best friend. Intruders worst nightmare. all shots, $2000 each. ready now! 604-817-5957 PB GERMAN shepherd pups, black & tan, 7 weeks old, 1st shots, vet✔, $550 604-856-7405

SCOTTISH DEERHOUND pups. Rare. Purebred. CKC reg’d. $1500. 1st shots. Microchipped. ironstonedeerhounds\ @gmail.com 604.535.0465 SHARPEI IN Coquitlam is looking for good home, very healthy and great with people. Must go through Sharpei rescue for an application. www.petfinder.com/petdetail/5731357

YORKSHIRE TEACUP males $800-$2000 obo, 1 super sm doll faced, vet checked 604-756-3309

3520 GOLDEN DOODLE female pups - ready to go. Email pics available. 1-250-674-0091

Horses & Tack

Dog & Pony Shop Tent Sale Everything On Sale Sunday June 20th: 10am - 4pm 4830 Delta St, Ladner

EW39

WATERFRONT COTTAGE sleeps 5. Safe, sandy beach, Roberts Creek. July 3rd- Jul 17th avail $650/wk. 1-604-886-2127

4600

Vacation Spots

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5017

Business Services

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5020

Computer/ Internet

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5060

Legal Services

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Sat June 19th 9am-11:30am

5035

Financial Services

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7005

Body Work

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7010

Personals

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Financial Services

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HOME SERVICES 8040

Carpet/Flooring Installation

CURLYS CARPET REPAIR Repair/Re-Stretching www.curlyscarpetrepair.com 604-282-6630

8055

Cleaning

CLEANING SERVICE. Reas rates, specializing in homes. Guar work. Refs avail. 604-715-4706 EXP HOME detail cleaners, move in/move out, homes, offices, Free metal p/u. etc Call 604-327-1219 I will clean, tidy & organize your garage, clean the windows & paint the floor $25/hr. Min 4 hrs + materials. I am bondable. Lorne 604-515-7474 LIDIA’S EUROPEAN Cleaning. Res/Com. Specializing in detail cleaning. Bonded. 604-541-9255 QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs. Res/com. Move in/out. Carpets + pressure wash’g. 778-895-3522

Computer Services

8058

$45 / Hour

Computer Home Repair Service ✔ Virus removal • 15 yrs exp ✔ Increase computer speed ✔ Open wknds/eves, 24/7

778-384-2019

8060

Concrete

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

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp. For free estimates call Mario

253-0049

A. FOUNDATIONS, Retaining walls, Stairs, Driveways, Sidewalks. Any concrete project. We also do all types of block, & stone work. Free ests. Basile 604-617-5813 Tom 604-690-3316 ALL KINDS of Concrete Work, Tile & Brick. Free Estimate. 604-767-5915 Call Rocky CONCRETE Removal / Replace Small jobs welcome ● Fence repair. Free est. Mario 254-0148 Concrete Specialist. Driveways, sidewalks, exposed aggregate & patios. Santino 604.254.5551 CONCRETE SPECIALIST, patio sidewalk, driveway, exposed aggregate reas rate 604-764-2726

8065

Contracting

8073

Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Drainage installation & repair. 604-327-3086

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NEED A MORTGAGE 1st and 2nd Mortgages, Self Employed, Refinancing, Forclosures, Low Rates. 604-629-8628 www.MazumaCapital.ca

Real Estate Services

6005

Trouble Selling? I can help! Rental Management Services. Reasonable Rates. TRG Realty www.victoriafarrell.ca 604-724-0245

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-04

Burnaby

VIEW! Fully reno’d 1 BR condo, granite counters, 737sf, wlk to L’heed, schls, $218,900, rental ok, Mala @ Sutton, 604-710-9030

6020

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

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Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

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6020-18

Maple Ridge/ Pitt Mead.

SUN, 2 to 4, 19454 Sutton Ave, Pitt Meadows, 2 yrs old, 3 BR + Den, Over 2400sf, Immaculate Condition. Michael Lepore, Royal LePage Westside 604-295-3974 www.AccoladeRealEstate.ca

Sun Jun 13, 2-4, 24026 Fern Cr Mridge,1 acre on Allouette River, 3BR rancher, 1591sf, garage/ shop 450sf, $648K, Fay Tomlinson, Sutton WC, 778-772-9848

6020-30

Port Moody

#1 A-CERTIFIED Lic. Electrician. New or old wiring. Reasonable rates. Lic #11967. 604-879-9394

8075

● DIFFICULTY SELLING? ●

33 FLAVELLE Dr. 3 BR, 3 lvls, 2.5 baths, 2 f/ps. 3,360 sf home in CDS, on greenbelt. 7,260 sf lot. $917,000. By appt, 604-767-6742

Max: 604-341-6059 Licensed & Bonded

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

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6020

Houses - Sale

6020-34

Vancouver East Side

SAT, Jun 19, 2-4, Cntrl Loc 5 BR w/morgt helper, recent reno’s, f/yrd, wlk to skytn/schls, $649K, Mala @ Sutton, 604-710-9030

6030

Lots & Acreage

1 ACRE gd - Mission All usable building lot, room for shop, pool & lrg home. High end homes built in this prestigious cul de sac subdivision. 10 mins to downtown. Drive by lot #7 - 8732 Jones Terrace, near the Abby on Dewdney Trunk Rd. $330,000. Call Len 604-763-4118

N. WEST. All services paid, inclds u/grd electrical, DCC’s, survey & eng’ng report. 33’ x 130’ lot. No GST. $335,000. 604-726-0677. usellahome.com ● ID # 4711

6052

Real Estate Investment

★ RENT TO OWN! ★ If you have a small down payment, I have a nice home for you! Less then perfect credit OK. Call Pat 778-783-0872

6065

8105

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

A Lic’d. Electrician #30582. Rewiring & Reno, Appliance/Plumbing. Rotor Rooter & Hydro Pressure Jetting Service, 604-255-9026 - 778-998-9026 Free Estimates / 24 Hr Service ELECTRIC AVE Installations. Electrian lic# 99207, Res/comm, www.electric-ave.ca 604-215-0562 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Exp, friendly, reliable. Specializing in replacing old nob & tube wiring. Lic.#50084. 604-725-4535

8090

Fencing/Gates

S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING

Factory Direct Cedar Fence Panel for Sale & Installation 8291 No.5 Rd Richmond Call 604-275-3158 THE FENCE GUY Insured B.C.T.Q Tradesmen 1994 Call Dave 604-781-9110

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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

Apartments & Condos

Recreation Property

SUNSHINE VALLEY DEVELOPMENTS Camping Cabins starting @ $199,000 to lock up. 604-599-3861, 778-888-4574

Warehouse

FOR SALE Warehouse/Office on Vantage Way, Tilbury, Grade lvl access. 2150 sq/ft 2 washrooms, High Traffic Area, Visual Exposure, Avail. Aug 1. 604-940-9900

ALL FLOOR COVERINGS Repair & Replace. Material sales Dwight, 604-732-3057 I’ll show you the inexpensive route www.fccarpets.shawwebspace.ca

8110

Floor Refinishing

ALL NEW FLOORS. Hardwood, Laminate. Professional Installation and Refinishing.. 604-715-8455 ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing. Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

6508

Apt/Condos

CELTIC HARDWOOD FLOORS Installations & refinishing. Quality work. Reas rates. 604-293-0057

8120

Glass Mirrors

ANGEL GLASS, Comm/Residential, store fronts, windows & doors, custom shower & tub enclosures, patio doors, mirrors etc. 2837 Kingsway, Vancouver. 604-603-9655

One call does it all...

6508

Apt/Condos

Metrotown Area - Bby

6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

LUXURY 1 bdrm condo avail now. Atrium At The Pier. Pool & gym incl. f/p, w/d, Stainless steel appl. n/s, $1900m 604-947-9425 miansampath@gmail.com

6508

Apt/Condos

1 BR $675 immed, Cambie & SW Marine Dr. hardwood, incl & hw, 1 yr lease. np, ns, 604-988-4692 1 BR deluxe condo. UBC Hampton Pl. 4th flr, view, wd, ug prkg. carpet, balc. ns, np, $1500, 1-888-892-3502 1-604-892-0262

Don’t Miss THIS! 1323 W. 71st Ave (MARPOLE). Studio $740. Incl. Hot Water, N/P. 1 Year Lease. Avail July 1. www.apt4rent.ca, 604-727-9022 2 BR Condo $1595. 5 appl, f/p, n/p, n/s. 16th & Cambie Avail now. Viewing/info: 604-738-4100

BACH & 1 BR, Newly Reno’d, cls to shop & transit, secured, incls heat, h/w, prkg, Start @ $675. 604-325-1385 www.remirealty.ca BBY, 4575 Grange, 1 or 2 BR Apt, nice & spac, hardwood flrs, parking, across fr Metrotown, N/s, N/p. Call Ariana 604-616-2824 BEAUTIFUL APTS. 1 & 2 BR avail. Special rates. Open House FRI & SAT @ 8665 Shaughnessy Call 604-327-9419 EAST VNCR. Near 7th & Clark. VIEW. Upper lrg 2 BR ste, newly reno’d, hardwood floors. Av now. No pets. $1100. 604-218-7660

GINGER Crosstown, Science World! Deluxe 1 BR condo, all appls, strge, bike locker, sec’d prkg, Media/amenties rm & more. NS/NP. Avail now. 604-861-6303 MARPOLE - Jody Lynn Apts. – 1175 W 71st Ave, Clean, quiet, cls to shopping, bus, 1 br/$730 & 2 br/$1070. Heat/hw. incl, No Smoking, np, 1 year lease, Dorset Realty Manuel 604-781-5520

Updated Studio & 1 BR Apts. Rental Incentives Offered. Rent includes heat and hot water.

CALL (604) 438-4544 leasing@burnabycentre.com

6540

Houses - Rent

1069 W. 32nd Ave Shaughnessy, 3 bdrm, 2 main, 1 down, 2 bath, hardwood flrs, prkg, stor, July 1 for 6 mths $2500, 604-729-5298

1770 E 60 Ave. 2 br, 1 bath, 1400sf, huge deck, yard, quiet, 1 year lease, np, ns, $1400, July 1, Eric 604-723-7368 (Prop Mngt) STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN No Qualification - Low Down CHILLIWACK – 9557 Williams St, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on 49x171’ lot, excellent investment property in heart of town, close to shops & schools................ PITT MEADOWS -11860 Springdale Dr. 4 Bdrm, 2½ baths, inside freshly painted family HOUSE, 5 appl, huge family room, gas f/p, fenced yard, garage, close to WC Express, Schools & shops................$1988/M

ALLIANCE GUTTER cleaning, windows by hand/power washing 15 yrs exp. Steven 604-723-2526 DYNAMIC GUTTERS & Exteriors. Full seamless gutters. Installation repairs & soffits. All jobs guaranteed. Fully insured, bonded, WCB. Will beat any competitors price. 604-439-9417 Edgemont Gutters. Sales & Install 5’’ continuous gutter, minor repairs, cleaning. 604-420-4800

8130

Handyperson

AaronR CONST Repairs & Renos, small repairs welcome. Insured, WCB, Licensed. 604-318-4390 aaronrconstruction.com

HANDY 'D' Home Services

•General maintenance •Carpentry •Decks •Fences •Renovations

Whatever you need! Call 604-722-5684

HOME REPAIRS - No job too small. Carpentry, painting, fencing, drywall, baseboards, lam flooring, deck repairs, p/washing, gutters. Brian, 604-266-2547 / 785-4184

6565

Office/Retail Rent

Offices: 2nd floor 2000 sq.ft. Main floor $200 per month and up. Ground floor 4000 sq. ft. 2163 Kingsway 604-454-1617

6580

Rental Services

1BR $950 UP 450sqt 1549 Barclay. 1yr Lease Incl. Hot water & Heat. Pet OK Now 778-288-8925 Keith

6590

Rooms

3 BR bsmt ste $1,000 also 1br $400 near #19 & #25 & #22 bus. incl hydro/gas. Nice yrd, nr park, np. Immed 604-874-1560

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR large lovely bsmt suite grd lvl, Killarney area, prefer female, $800/mth incl utils, 604-464-1046 after 11am, 604-591-8908 $850 RENOVATED 1 bdrm bsmt suite, util inc. Exc. location. N/S, N/P Avail immed! 604-833-0888 PT GREY, nr UBC, 4427 W 15th, July 15, spac main flr 1010sf, 2 br, lrg l/r, kitchen w/ Mtn view, $2500 incl utils, bfr 8pm 604-224-3836

Call Kristen 604 435-5555 or 786-4663

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Gutters

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Prof. refinish, sanding from $2. installs. Dustless 604-219-6944

BURNABY CENTRE VANCOUVER MARPOLE, 70th & Granville, Spacious 2 BR apt. $995. Available Immediately. Adult building. Call 604-263-9038

8125

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

604-630-3300

RENTALS 6505

Floor Covering

INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices. Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

Surrey

Quik Sale! Cash Bonus! 7BR, 3lvls, 3yrs old, 1 + 1 BR ste, $1200/mo rev, in new sub div, $567K, Mala @ Sutton 710-9030

6020-38

8087

Lic. 22308

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The current choice serving the Lower Mainland for more than 15 years. All Kinds of Work and Reasonable Rates.

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

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6020

Electrical

REAL ESTATE Agents

8080

DRAIN TILES & WATER LINES Without Digging a Trench 604-739-2000

VICTORIA DRYWALL LTD. 25 yrs exp. Reno’s & New Constr. Call Bruno ★ 604-313-2763

Need a Gardener?

6002

Drainage

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

6615

Wanted To Rent

WOMAN, VEGET. meditator, (you don’t have to be) 2 cats, seeks 1 br suite in a house for July 1st. Have ref’s. 778-323-4345

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HOME SERVICES 8140

Heating

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

8150

Kitchens/Baths

Counter Tops, Custom Cabinets & Refacing • In business 50 years

604-879-9191 Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets

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8160

Lawn & Garden

8185

Moving & Storage

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8175

Experienced Movers ~ 2 Men $50 ~

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604-708-8850

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ABBA MOVERS bsmt clean 1-4 ton Lic, ins’d from $35/hr, 2 men $45 day honest 26 yrs est 506-7576. AMIGO'S MOVING. Delivery. Storage. No Job too Small or Big. Clean up, Garage, Basement. Call 604-782-9511

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8193

Oil Tank Removal

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Oil Tank Removal Recommended Insured Reasonable Rates 604-724-3670

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PLUMBERS

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8225

Power Washing

ALLIANCE POWER WASHING, power washing professionals, premier window cleaning avail. residential, 4-8 stories, strata and apartments, concrete buildings and stucco. windowmansteve@hotmail.com

604-723-2526

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8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

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TOP PAINTING Res & Comm. Reasonable rates • Free Estimate Top Quality! Joe 604-782-1377 WEST-COAT SERVICES Paint, hardwood flr refinishing. WCB ins. Domenic 604-376-4232

8205

Paving/Seal Coating

ALLEN Asphalt, concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

8220

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