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City hall collects almost $60 million in casino cash Council considers Las Vegas-style plan Mike Howell

Staff writer

The city receives $7.2 million annually from the Edgewater Casino.

file photo Dan Toulgoet

The city has collected almost $60 million in casino profits in 11 years and stands to pull in an additional $17 million a year if city council decides to approve a Las Vegas-style resort casino for the neighbourhood around B.C. Place Stadium.

Since July 1, 1999, the city collected $59.2 million in casino profits. The profits are used annually to offset costs in the city’s operating budget, including departments such as police, fire services and parks.

The Courier requested a breakdown of what exactly the profits were spent on to offset the budget but was told by the city’s communications department it

couldn’t provide the information. “It’s not possible to itemize the amounts since they are put towards general revenues,” said Theresa Beer, a city communications worker, in an email to the Courier.

In addition to the profits, the city receives $200,000 annually from the Edgewater Casino towards a “social responsibility fund,” which is doled out to non-profits for projects aimed at homelessness, crime prevention and economic revitalization.

The city also gets $100,000 a year from Hastings Racecourse for a “legacy fund.”

The money has been used to fund non-profits such as Kiwassa Neighbourhood House for projects including community festivals and gardens.

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Proposed art gallery site reserves space for ‘cultural hub’ City council will discuss relocation to former Greyhound bus depot site Cheryl Rossi Staff writer The Vancouver Art Gallery could be one step closer to an expansion and a relocation near the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, with the city poised to reserve two thirds of the land for two years to finalize a cultural hub.

The matter was to be discussed before city council Jan. 20 but got bumped to a Feb. 1 city services and budgets meeting.

The art gallery submitted a proposal to the city last July to secure the entire property between Cambie, Beatty, Georgia and Dunsmuir.

The gallery wants to more than

double its size, but city staff are recommending two thirds—or twoacres of the former Greyhound bus depot, Olympic Live Site and surface parking lot—be reserved for cultural use with the other third for potential office towers.

Michael Audain, chair of the gallery’s board of trustees’ relocation

committee, says the gallery would adjust its plans accordingly.

Staff recommend commissioning an analysis about the needs of the art gallery for exhibition, programming and storage space, spending up to $200,000 from its Cultural Precinct Reserve Fund of $2.71 million.

The gallery anticipates the city would donate the land for a new art gallery. But the property is encumbered by a $40-million loan used to finance renovations to the Orpheum and the Q.E. Theatre, and the Live Site for the 2010 Winter Games.

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Advocate trumpets new concert hall and public plaza

Continued from page 1 The city wants the gallery’s business case to include a financial strategy that takes into account the city’s expectation to recover its $40 million.

“I don’t think the art gallery will be in a position to pay the city $40 million to buy the land,” said Audain, who believes the gallery will be able to demonstrate a strong business case and broad community support for a new location.

David Pay, a board member of the Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society, told council Jan. 20 that the proposed cultural hub should include a concert hall to support the city’s “robust” classical, contemporary and choral music scenes.

“Having world-class ensembles performing in converted vaudeville houses and multi-purpose theatres is like asking an Olympic hockey team to play in a converted swimming pool,” Pay, the founder of the Music on Main concert series, told council.

The Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society, formerly the Coal Harbour Arts Society, initially proposed a hall that would accommodate dance, theatre and opera.

Once the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra joined the drive for a venue in 2008, the focus shifted to a 1,950-seat concert hall that precludes uses by dance, theatre and opera.

The city wants to see a public plaza front Georgia Street.

Vision Coun. Heather Deal says including a new gallery, concert hall and public plaza would be “challenging,” but staff recommend that the proposed concert hall continue to be considered.

Audain noted that a theatre “of some size” for use by the gallery and the community will be part of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s proposal.

The gallery has been projecting a capital cost of $300 million. The province has contributed $50 million to the project.

The Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Presentation Society has raised $20 million. “We really applaud the report for emphasizing that it’s the city’s role to provide leadership that shows what’s best for the entire community on that site and not just what’s best for a solitary organization or a single art form,” said Pay. crossi@vancourier.com

The Vancouver Art Gallery hopes to relocate to the former Greyhound bus depot and Olympic Live Site near the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. photo Dan Toulgoet

Proposal attaches Edgewater Casino to B.C. Place Stadium

Continued from page 1 Edgewater and Hastings are the only casinos in Vancouver. Both have slot machines and gaming tables.

Under a formula set by the B.C. Lotteries Corporation, the facilities are required to turn over 10 per cent of their profits to the city.

Those profits are predicted to substantially increase if city council approves a proposal for what would be the largest casino in West-

ern Canada to be built next to B.C. Place Stadium.

The proposal is driven by B.C. Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation, which owns the land and would have Las Vegas-based Paragon Gaming Inc. operate the casino. Paragon owns Edgewater.

Under the $450 million proposal, Edgewater would relocate from its location at the Plaza of Nations and be attached to B.C. Place Sta-

dium, which is undergoing renovations to build a retractable roof.

If approved by council, Edgewater’s move would see its 75 games tables double to 150 and its 520 slots triple to 1,500. The casino would be part of a 68,000-square foot complex that includes two hotels, restaurants, a theatre and cabaret.

A staff report that went before city council Jan. 18 said the city receives $7 mil-

lion annually from Edgewater and that could increase to $17 million from the new casino. Also, Edgewater’s $200,000 annual “social responsibility fund” contribution will increase by $100,000, the report said.

Several councillors, including COPE Coun. David Cadman, expressed concerns at the Jan. 18 meeting about a new casino attracting crime and problem gamblers. Cadman pointed to

provincial government statistics that estimate 4.6 per cent of the adult population suffers from problem gambling. Translated to the city, that involves up to 21,000 residents. “Pretty staggering,” he said. “Yet, I don’t think we’ve got any correlation between that and the impacts of suicide, criminal activity, robberies to feed a habit—all those kinds of things.”

Council has referred the

proposal to a public hearing Feb. 17. A study commissioned by the provincial government in 2006 of four Lower Mainland municipalities, including Vancouver, found the demographic profile of casino patrons is largely aboriginal, Chinese, low income and single men.

The study also found that 52 per cent of Edgewater’s patrons live in Vancouver. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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My head is spinning from trying to understand what city council will have to consider at a public hearing next month.

While the big draw at the Feb. 17 hearing will be the proposal to build a Las Vegas-style resort casino and attach it to B.C. Place Stadium, there will also be talk of affordable housing, highrises and a park.

Why? I’ll get to that in a sec.

First, the casino proposal.

B.C. Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation, has proposed to build a huge complex on the southwest side of B.C. Place Stadium that would feature a 1,500slot casino. Two hotels, a theatre, a cabaret and restaurants would be part of the structure.

Las Vegas-based Paragon Gaming Inc., which operates Edgewater Casino at the Plaza of Nations, would relocate to the site, which is currently a construction area used by crews building the retractable roof on B.C. Place.

Council has to decide two

A proposed complex on the southwest side of B.C. Place Stadium would feature a 1,500 slot casino, two hotels, a theatre, a cabaret and several restaurants. artist rendering things—whether the complex is appropriate for the neighbourhood, and whether gaming should be expanded in the city. Edgewater’s move would see its 75 games tables double to 150 and its 520 slots triple to 1,500.

When I spoke Monday to David McLellan, the city’s general manager of community services, he said the city was still attempting to find a location for a public meeting to discuss gambling prior to the hearing.

That meeting, which will focus on gambling in general and not the casino application, could happen Feb. 8 or 9. Comments from the meeting will be put in a staff report and go before council at the Feb. 17 hearing.

OK, now the affordable housing/highrises/park part of all this.

Concord Pacific wants to build two residential towers with two floors of commercial development on its properties immediately west of the proposed casino site. But the

developer doesn’t want the towers to include affordable housing.

In 1988, council adopted a policy requiring that 20 per cent of the housing units in new neighbourhoods be developed for non-market housing. The purpose of the policy was to ensure that low and modest income households, especially families with children, could live in the new neighbourhoods.

Concord has instead offered the city the following: • Two pieces of property—one at

58 West Hastings worth $11.4 million, the other at 117 East Hastings worth $1.7 million—that could be used to build affordable housing.

• Lease to the city two acres of land for a 15-year term to extend Creekside Park—worth $3.8 million—and give an additional $500,000 to build what is considered a “temporary park” on the two acres. The original deal with the city called for a nine-acre park.

• $1.2 million to provide bicycle infrastructure along the Carrall Street Greenway.

• Spend $808,850 to construct a hard surface recreation space under the Cambie Bridge.

The offerings add up to $19.5 million.

So… here we have council having to consider housing policy, rezonings, gaming and agree to a temporary park instead of a larger one promised 20 years ago.

I asked McLellan why all the proposals couldn’t be separated.

“Because they’re all kind of interrelated,” he said. “Between one of the Concord sites and the PavCo site, where the casino is proposed, they’re sharing a road that will be used by both of them. So to make that happen, they really had to cooperate on how that would be resolved.”

More to come on this in my next entry. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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A Dunbar resident says the Vision Vancouver park board commissioners ignored a petition he and other dog owners presented to them last July.

Jon O’Grady said residents from 150 households signed the petition asking that the northwest quadrant of Memorial Park West off Dunbar Street, between West 31st and 33rd avenues, be designated an official off-leash area.

“That part of the park has been used for off-leash dogs since time immemorial,” says O’Grady.

He says the spot is so popular with off-leash dogs and their owners a regular coffee klatch previously took place there every Friday for years. He estimates about 50 owners and their dogs use the area each day.

O’Grady says everything was fine until the fall of 2009 when animal control officers began handing out warnings and tickets.

O’Grady says an animal control officer not only gave him a warning ticket, but also the idea for a petition. The residents formed an ad hoc group that developed the petition and contacted other park users,

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Dunbar resident and dog owner Jon O’Grady wants the northwest quadrant of Memorial Park West designated an official off-leash area. photo Dan Toulgoet such as sports teams and neighbouring households.

They then consulted a local expert on the effects an off-leash area would have on the park’s plant life.

The parties involved agreed a low barrier would be a good idea for the southeast corner of the park. The group then delivered their petition and cover letter to the park board July 16, but after much back and forth, O’Grady says the petition was never officially acknowledged and the proposal for the off-leash area

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Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper told me Monday that just because the planning and environment committee didn’t approve the proposal at this time doesn’t mean it will never happen.

He said one issue is that the area proposed by the group covers about 25 per cent of the park. He added because the proposed area is adjacent to both sports fields and a children’s playground, fences would

The park board recently posted a 45-minute video taken in 1940 on Facebook, which showcases the city’s beaches and parks of the day. I haven’t watched the video in its entirety, but I scrolled through it several times and was surprised to see English Bay and Kitsilano beaches looking almost as crowded 60 years ago as they are in the heat of summer today.

The silent movie is in colour and highlights model yacht racing on Lost Lagoon, cricket playing at Prospect Point and a group of men enjoying a game of bocce ball at a local park. Other video highlights include the rose garden in Stanley Park and crowds of music lovers covering the lawns surrounding Malkin Bowl while listening to a big band perform. Not so fondly nostalgic, but still part of our history, are images of captive bears, buffalo and elk in the Stanley Park Zoo, which closed in 1997. To see the video, search for “Vancouver Park Board 1940 video” on YouTube or go to the park board’s Facebook site. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Proposed UBC research project duplicates Parkinson’s symptoms in monkeys

Animal testing opponents discard humanity and hope

Save the whales. A venerable slogan from the 1980s, memorialized on T-shirts and bumper stickers, voiced in defense of Melville’s great beast.

The reckless slaughter of 20thcentury whaling relented amid the outrage of right-thinking people worldwide. It was a victory for the planet, a high seas rescue against the ticking clock of extinction.

Save the monkeys. Another catchphrase, lacking the latter’s syllabic grace, yet exhorted with equal fervour by activists opposed to Parkinson’s disease research at the University of British Columbia.

The project, proposed by UBC researchers yet pending approval from a UBC oversight committee, breaks down like this: Through injection, researchers will duplicate Parkinson’s symptoms in at least four rhesus monkeys, a mid-sized breed native to Asia. Eventually the monkeys will be killed. Researchers will analyze the monkey brains and document the findings.

It’s ugly work. Fraught with ethical and operational challenges. But entirely necessary and correct.

Parkinson’s disease is a degen-

erative disorder of the central nervous system caused by brain cell loss. Because the direct cause of cell loss is unknown, most Parkinson’s research focuses on preventing or replacing cell death in certain parts of the brain.

Parkinson’s signature symptoms, famously displayed by sufferers such as Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox, include trembling and rigidity as motor skills deteriorate. In later stages, psychosis is common. Death is often painful, foretold in the mask-like expression of the afflicted. Currently, there’s no cure although treatment and medication provide symptom relief.

When combatting diseases such as Parkinson’s, cancer and HIV/ AIDS, medical researchers utilize tissue culture (the growth of tissues or cells in a laboratory), computer modelling and human volunteers. But animals, particularly primates, provide the best opportunity for breakthrough.

“You can’t study a beating heart in a test tube, and you can’t get your computer to cough,” said Dr. Simon Festing, an animal testing advocate from England, during a

markhasiuk recent online broadcast. “Any ban of the use of animals would be disastrous for biomedical research… and send us back to the dark days when, for example, the last time we gave a medicine to people that wasn’t properly tested on animals was thalidomide.”

Anne Birthistle, spokesperson for Stop UBC Animal Research, a Vancouver-based animal rights group, plans to protest the proposed UBC project at a rally Thursday outside the Vancouver Art Gallery.

According to Birthistle, a cartoonist by trade, the medical establishment is fatally linked to the animal testing industry, with its breeders and restraint device manufacturers. “And the funding

goes to the established animal research, whereas protocol not using animals, that might be more scientifically advanced, find it harder to get funding.”

Birthistle’s group wants to buy the UBC monkeys and ship them to an enclosed sanctuary in Quebec. UBC ignored her offer, and in that sense, I feel her pain.

Despite multiple inquiries, UBC refused to reveal project details or a scheduled start date. This vow of silence raises questions about transparency within the animal testing community. To retain the high moral ground, researchers must share and publish all findings to maximize impact and limit the number of animal subjects worldwide. Animal testing, arguably the animal kingdom’s greatest contribution to mankind, must be conducted with utmost efficiency.

However, no matter how transparent the research, animal testing will always draw fire. Online news stories about the UBC project feature long threads of reader comments overwhelmingly opposed to animal testing for the benefit of human beings.

There’s no greater example of

western failure, no greater testament to our inverted culture, than our waning respect for human life.

According to Ministry of Health records, between April 2009 and March 2010, doctors in B.C. performed 15,110 abortions. An untold number of abortions took place outside the medical services plan.

That news will garner scant outrage in Vancouver, for obvious reasons. Unborn babies—15,110 last fiscal year—are bothersome, a burden felt vicariously by everyone who values free time, disposable income, flat screen TVs and island getaways.

Four monkeys, by comparison, require no effort from the masses. Their emancipation, despite any potential Parkinson’s breakthrough, would provide temporary relief for the self-obsessed soul.

So free the monkeys. Let them loose on the vine. It’s a cheap thrill, wrapped in T-shirt slogans and moral relevancy. And pray for our mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, daughters and sons.

Trembling hands be damned. mhasiuk@vancourier.com Twitter: @MarkHasiuk

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I’m always respectful of handicapped parking spaces, no matter how tempting they are and how quick I think I can be.

I’ve been paying closer attention to these coveted spaces since my partner blew his knee out several months ago and is in possession, temporarily I hope, of one of the blue and white handicapped signs. And once you start paying attention, it’s astounding how often you’ll witness able-bodied drivers disregarding these parking spaces reserved for people with mobility problems.

Last week, I saw a young man driving an oversized SUV pull into a reserved handicapped space in the parking lot of the shopping plaza at the corner of Kind Edward and Oak Street. The man stepped out of his vehicle and walked to the liquor store, before strolling back with his packages and driving away.

With my limited knowledge of handicapped parking violators, I assumed that was about as bad as it gets until I received a call this week from 76-year-old Doraine Bertrand.

The disabled senior was the focus of a Courier story I wrote in 2009, after her friend received a violation ticket for stopping briefly in a bus zone at the corner of Hastings and Kamloops streets to pick Bertrand and her walker up.

At the time, there was no legal area nearby where her friend could pick her up, as Bertrand’s building was surrounded by no-stopping zones. Bertrand’s limited mobility made it physically impossible for her to walk to a place on the street that allows legal stops.

sandrathomas As a result of her friend’s ticket, Bertrand suggested a special pass, similar to the one used by HandyDART, be granted through the city that would allow people with disabilities to be picked up in a bus zone by a private vehicle. Instead, the city designated a reserved handicapped parking zone in front of Bertrand’s building on Kamloops Street, which she assumed was for limited hours or pick up and drop off.

Bertrand happily thought her troubles were over, but now those reserved spaces are regularly taken by vehicles with handicapped placards, parked during the day for up to eight hours at a time. As a result, says the feisty senior, HandyDART has taken to picking her up on Hastings Street again because there’s no room for the vehicle to stop in front of her building. It’s a decision, she says, that almost cost her life.

On Dec. 13, Bertrand was on her scooter

heading to meet the HandyDART vehicle in the middle of Hastings Street when she hit a pothole and flipped. Bertrand was thrown off her scooter and landed on Hastings Street.

The senior has no doubt if the accident had happened an hour earlier, she would have been hit or run over by a vehicle. But luckily at 9:30 a.m., rush hour was mostly over and the cars behind her were able to stop in time.

Bertrand says she’s complained to the city about the abuse of the handicapped space outside her building, but with no response.

Carli Edwards, a parking management engineer with the city, suspects the reserved zone in front of Bertrand’s building is for dedicated handicapped parking, so it’s likely that was the intended use for the space. She said she’d have to research to confirm that. There are 74 locations across the city with street handicapped parking, many with more than one space.

Edwards says the city is more than happy to add pick-up and drop-off zones on appropriate streets where needed. She adds that’s not to say the city doesn’t need to enforce existing regulations. Edwards suggests residents requesting pick-up and drop-off zones, or reporting a violator, call the city’s 311 resource number.

And if that’s the case, Bertrand better make use of her speed dial, because it looks like she’s in the same boat as she was in 2009, prior to the introduction of the handicapped zone in front of her building. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Violent Tunisian revolution highlights Western inaction Until recently, I didn’t know much about Tunisia. I knew it was a country in North Africa, a former part of the Ottoman Empire and the later French colonial empire. I could guess that it was not a happy shiny land of democracy and freedom.

But those are generalities about all of North Africa west of Egypt. Now we’re all quite pleased that (ex) president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been chased out of the country by the Jasmine Revolution.

The revolt has many root causes, from high unemployment to the usual humiliations that people endure under a suffocating dictatorship.

It was sparked by the suicide in December of Mohammed Bouazizi, an unemployed young man who set himself on fire in public. Images of his act of pain and protest spread through the Internet, to satellite news stations that broadcast them right back into Tunisia.

In an already strained environment, protests and riots grew.

The army refused to intervene.

The president fled the country, and the government collapsed.

An interim government was cobbled together, and almost collapsed again in the face of angry protests. (This will happen when you make your new “democratic” government from pieces of the old autocratic one.)

Here’s the thing that’s really interesting about all this.

Before this month, 99 per cent of Canadians knew nothing about Tunisia. Sure, there were some Canadians born there, or whose ancestors came from there, who probably paid a lot of attention to the news from back home. And no doubt there is some tiny little NGO with three employees that has been trying to raise awareness of Ben Ali’s dictatorship.

But really, it’s a tiny dictatorship. It wasn’t the harshest regime in the world (probably North Korea) or the craziest (North Korea again). And it doesn’t have nukes (see above). But now, pundits are falling all over themselves to talk about the significance of the events there.

Does this mean doom for other repressive Arab regimes?

Will Tunisia become a democratic state on its own, without outside invasion/bombing/

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matthewclaxton friendly help from the U.S.?

Or will it be taken over by Islamic fundamentalist radicals and turned into a giant terrorist training camp?

And western governments are lining up to cheer on the plucky protesters. (Except for the French, who were offering to help Ben Ali with his little security problem as recently as a month ago. Jerks.)

Why? Really, why?

No one cared about Tunisia three weeks ago.

I know I couldn’t have found it on an unmarked map. It wasn’t even a trendy oppressed place, like Chiapas or Tibet.

No movie star glamour for its plight.

The question in Tunisia lately has been whether the revolt would have come to fruition without the images of Mohammed Bouazizi burning.

It’s about whether media can cause people to act.

In many ways, it’s the flip side of the question, was the shooting in Tucson sparked by the media?

But the truth about media, even social media, is that for most people, it remains entertainment, style, personal expression.

That is to say, it is utterly meaningless.

Changing your Twitter image to green did not free the Iranian people. No amount of editorializing by the western press will affect the outcome of the Tunisian revolution. Facebook is not going to help send the Dalai Lama back home to Tibet.

From the pundits to the politicians to the bloggers, without action, our support for change in Tunisia is so much empty air, flashing pixels forming meaningless constellations that affect nothing. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

For more columnists such as Geoff Olson, Allen Garr, Fiona Hughes, Sandra Thomas and Mark Hasiuk, visit the “Opinion” section at www.vancourier.com.

According to a former city councillor, a Courier columnist espouses prehistoric perspectives on the environment and Beaver Lake in Stanley Park. photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “‘Saving’ Beaver Lake a waste of money,” Jan. 19.

On one of the Courier’s opinion pages last Wednesday, a headline ends with the intriguing words, “dinosaurs still stimulate and distract.” They describe what was unearthed on the previous page.

Specifically, the Hasiukosaurus was crowing in its most stimulating manner: “Dire prophecies are nothing new for environmentalists.” It continued with a distracting chirping, “England’s disgraced eco-think tank at the University of East Anglia...”

This stimulated me to google “East Anglia and climate.” It led immediately to “The Independent Climate Change Emails

Review, July 2010 (of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University) chaired by Sir Muir Russell.”

This review found, “On the specific allegations made against the behavior of the CRU scientists, we find their rigour and honesty as scientists are not in doubt” and “we did not find any evidence of behavior that might undermine the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”

I suppose the Hasiukosaurus wants to crow and chirp as he marches forward in tune with the world’s Sixth Major Extinction (of species). As for me, I will march in the opposite direction.

Frederic Bass, Vancouver

Turnstiles benefit transit systems worldwide We want

To the editor: In opposition to Dale Laird’s letter (“Transit turnstiles not worth the bother,” Jan. 19.) I have one question for him: Have you taken any transit system, either underground (Montreal, New York, London, Paris, Rome) or above ground (the ELs in Chicago)?

From your letter, I take it that the answer is a no.

SkyTrain failed because of TransLink’s lack of foresight and common sense. The honour system only works in a utopian society consisting of people with an ethical collective conscience. This is not the case in the real world. SkyTrain failed to integrate turnstiles in the design of their stations, causing gaps that can only be rectified if the entire station is demolished and rebuilt.

So to conclude, yes, I would partially agree with Dale Laird that the turnstile installation would be expensive, only because it would be an afterthought instead of putting turnstiles in the first place. Otherwise, Dale, in order to save money, TransLink still has to depend on the honour system, and we all know what a joke that is.

Manuella Noriega, Vancouver,

••• To the editor: Dale Laird’s worries about accessibility are unfounded.

Turnstiles are old history.

Gates have replaced them in many of the systems I have used around the world, and gates are what TransLink is planning to install. I used the Paris Metro last month and none of the many tour-

ists I saw had a problems going through gates with their suitcases. All the stations I used also had a special gate for wheelchairs located near a manned booth. Attendants are routinely used in many transit systems to help passengers having trouble using vending machines, understanding the system maps, finding the right track, etc.

J-L Brussac, Coquitlam

••• To the editor: It is time for honest transportation planning in the region as the taxpayer can not afford any more truncated and politically prestigious mini-metro projects that have done little to provide an affordable alternative to the car.

Malcolm Johnston, Vancouver

Ministry’s love for FSA makes strange bedfellows

To the editor: Re: “Class Notes,” Jan. 12.

I have been a teacher and union activist for 30 years and I never thought the day would come that B.C. principals and viceprincipals would hit the nail on the head as they have in opposing the Foundation Skills Assessment promoted by the Ministry of Education. The administrators of this prov-

ince have come to see how the test is really a means for the Fraser Institute to build its own brand at the expense of our schools and students. The ministry and the Fraser Institute have engendered a most historic meeting of the minds between teachers and administrators. I have lived this long.

David Anderson, Vancouver

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Last week, police and school district officials announced a new course about “drug-facilitated sexual assaults” for Grade 10 students, but it’s been in the works for some time.

Jan Sippel, the Vancouver School Board’s abuse prevention manager, said the VPD approached the board about the issue and staff have been working on the three-lesson course since 2009.

It’s been inserted into the Grade 10 Planning class and was piloted at Tupper, John Oliver and Gladstone

secondary schools last spring. “[Grade 10] was the year we chose. We wanted it to have a context in the curriculum,” explained Sippel, noting other Grade 10 level subjects include healthy relationships, effective communication and sexual decision-making. “So this is a good fit with it.”

Young women between 15 and 24 are at greatest risk for drug-facilitated sexual assault, according to police.

“The Vancouver Police Department receives an average of 450 sexual assaults reports annually, but tragically, we know there are many more traumatized victims out there because sexual assault is one of the most under-reported crimes,” Det. Const. Denise Foster of the VPD’s sex crimes unit stated in a press release.

Some students revealed they were not fully aware of the risks

Resurgence of Conventional Fuels?

ollowing and making sense of the ongoing debate about solving the global need for cleaner and more fuel efficient automobiles gets tougher all the time. And it does not help that even the first premises for the problem are more in question than ever before. But, this aside, Cedric Hughes governments are mandating new fuel efficiency standards and fuel prices are back on an upward climb. The industry and consumers cannot avoid the issue even if they wanted to.

Today, conventional fuels —gasoline and diesel— continue to meet most of our transportation fuel requirements. Alternative sources of energy such as electricity, natural gas, propane and renewable fuels fuel less than 2% of passenger vehicles.

Conventional fuels hold their own for many reasons: they store large amounts of energy in a relatively small space; they’re more cost competitive than any of the proposed alternatives; they are cleaner and less polluting than ever before: — no lead, sulphur levels reduced by over 90%, benzene reduced by over 50%; and the environmental impact of refining them has continually been reduced. The production and distribution infrastructure—enormously expensive to replace— has been in place for generations.

So, despite the ‘hype’ at the various recent auto industry shows— Los Angeles and Detroit for example—about the new hybrids and electric vehicles, industry pundits have also noted the “refinement of the conventional internal combustion engine for a world gone green.” Ford, for example, has captured a lot of the attention with four of its new models achieving 17 kilometers per litre fuel efficiency.

Electric cars are discussed as particularly problematic. At issue is the availability and cost of the additional electricity that would

be needed to handle a large auto-recharge load. Wind and solar generation of the additional power is arguably prohibitively costly and only intermittent.

In Canada, because about 75% of our electricity is generated from water and nuclear power and Barrister & Solicitor only 25% from coal and natural gas, electric cars could be considered “greener” than elsewhere. In the US, however, where 75% of the electricity is generated by coal, a large electric car re-charge load would generate more fossil fuel emissions from power plants. However, energy independence for the U.S. may be seen to counterbalance the “coal concerns”, at the moment.

The rapid pace of technological change—as exciting as it can be— contributes to the uncertainty. And just when enthusiasm for renewable or bio-fuels has all but vanished, along comes Joule Unlimited, a ‘highly secretive US biotech company” and its latest patent for a “proprietary organism — a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium” that fed solely on carbon dioxide, sunshine and water —fresh, brackish or salt—will excrete liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline.

Joule says it has produced ethanol at a rate equivalent to 10,000 US gallons an acre a year making its manufacture of liquid fossil fuel 50 times as efficient as conventional bio-fuel production. Joule claims its “solar converter” technology “ends the hazards of oil exploration and oil production…[and]…takes us to the unthinkable: liquid hydrocarbons on demand.”

in their everyday lives—both offline and online,” Sippel said. “So we’re bringing in text messaging.

We’re talking about Facebook and we have an activity where they rotate among different stations and they have different activities to do at each station.”

Ultimately, the object of the course is prevention, she said.

“We’re always hoping that what we’re doing is primarily prevention, reaching kids before anything ever happens and giving them the skills to reduce the risk. We are trying to reduce the risks of victimization. We’re also trying to reduce the risk that a student is going to be a silent bystander to a situation or that a student is going to perpetrate a situation—intentionally or unwittingly—because they didn’t understand the idea of consent.” noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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when the sessions were piloted, Sippel said. “It’s a really important message to get out to our students.

They are going out to parties. They are going out in the community. We know that these kinds of assaults are not confined to bars, they’re not confined to situations in which people are drinking alcohol. Drugs have been put into coffee, pop, soup. That was one of the things students were quite surprised at when we first introduced the program when we did the pilot. They thought if they didn’t drink [alcohol], then they would be safe.”

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Pig farmer was charged with murdering 26 women

Mountie emails skirt blame in Pickton case Mike Howell Staff writer

The RCMP was having “a difficult time” laying the blame solely on one of its officers for not earlier arresting serial killer Robert “Willie” Pickton in a case the Mounties acknowledged should have received more attention.

The statement comes from RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass, who shared his thoughts on the Pickton investigation in an exchange of emails with Vancouver Police Department Deputy Chief Doug LePard in August 2010.

“The current view is that Pickton was a good suspect, among many others and that there were several meetings between our forces where he was not discussed as a key target we all had to get after,” Bass wrote to LePard Aug. 25. “Your in-depth analysis certainly shows that this did not get the attention it should have but we are having a difficult time is [sic] ascribing this to any person involved at the time.”

Copies of several emails between Bass and LePard were posted Jan. 19 on the VPD’s website in response to a Freedom of Information request. LePard is the author of the VPD’s review of the missing women investigation, which was released in August 2010.

LePard thanked Bass in an email for agreeing the case did not get the attention it

Doug LePard should have and added that “all we have been looking for” is acknowledgement that Coquitlam RCMP was in charge of the Pickton investigation prior to 2002.

The disappearance of the missing women began in the mid-1990s and ended when RCMP arrested Pickton in February 2002. Pickton, a pig farmer, was charged with the murders of 26 women.

In December 2007, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for 25 years for the murder of six women who disappeared from the Downtown Eastside between 1997 and 2001.

LePard pointed out in his report that Coquitlam RCMP received information and evidence in 1998 and 1999 that directly linked Pickton to homicides of sex trade workers.

The VPD received the first information about Pickton in July and August 1998. A year later, police received “extraordinary information” from an informant who suggested Downtown Eastside sex trade workers were willingly visiting the Pickton pig farm in Port Coquitlam and

some were being murdered there. The VPD turned over all information about Pickton to the RCMP when it received it because the RCMP had jurisdiction over the investigation of information pertaining to crimes occurring in Port Coquitlam, the report said.

The VPD acknowledged it should have recognized earlier there was a serial killer at work and responded appropriately. But the investigation was “plagued by a failure at the VPD’s management level to recognize what it was faced with,” the report said.

LePard said in an email to Bass that his purpose for writing the report was not to lay blame on one officer for failing to arrest Pickton earlier in the investigation, which eventually became the largest serial murder probe in Canadian history.

“I said that there was a lack of analysis of the available information pointing to Pickton, and that resulted in a lack of sufficient attention to it,” he wrote. “There is no need to blame any individual for systemic failings.”

In September 2010, the month after the officers exchanged emails, the provincial government ordered the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. No date has been set for the inquiry, which is being overseen by former attorney general Wally Oppal. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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City seeks to quell concern over Kerrisdale development Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

The city hosted a media briefing with one the city’s most prominent developers yesterday to address confusion about a proposed development.

Bruno Wall, president of Wall Financial Corporation, commented on a major redevelopment slated for the corner of West 57th Avenue and Granville Street alongside Brent Toderian, the city’s director of planning.

Wendy Stewart, assistant director of communications for the city, said the out-of-the ordinary briefing was held because council requested more extensive consultation for the project.

“We know that there’s been some misinformation in the community,” she added.

The city has also established an independently moderated forum on the proposed rezoning and redevelopment of Shannon Mews.

Wall Financial Corporation owns the 10-acre property on the west side of Granville and north side of 57th. The leafy green site that’s currently zoned residential includes a

The property at Granville and 57th includes a mansion listed on the Vancouver Heritage Registry. photo Dan Toulgoet mansion and perimeter wall listed on the Vancouver Heritage Registry, an outdoor swimming pool and 162 units of rental housing, most of them in low-rise apartments built by [Arthur] Erickson Massey Architects in the 1970s.

Wall Financial and architects Busby Perkins and Will propose to

demolish the apartment buildings and replace them with a 14-storey tower at the corner of Granville and 57th, a 13-storey tower for the middle of the site and six terraced buildings that range from four to nine storeys. Of the 729 additional units proposed in this scheme, approximately 200 would be market

rental, along with townhouses that could allow area residents living in single-family homes to move and age in their neighbourhood, Wall noted. It’s the developer’s preferred option of five alternatives up for discussion.

Wall has been meeting with area residents since 2009. City-led consultation complete with Mandarin and Cantonese sessions started this month, with 250 people attending the first information meeting.

In those sessions and in the Arbutus Ridge/Kerrisdale/Shaughnessy community vision, residents have expressed a preference for lower buildings.

Toderian said community visions are visions, not rules, and for major projects like this the city weighs other objectives including a desire for strategic densification and green design.

Tenants pay $1,300 to $3,000 for rental units that accept pets.

Wall couldn’t say what the future market rents would be. He said demolition of the old rental housing would happen in phases over 16 months with a net loss of 162 units during that time. Residents are to be provided with relocation

assistance.

Toderian said the city would decide what amenities would be provided to the community. The concept of a new park or green space has some residents worried about increased crime.

“They say if they lose the park maybe some heights would come down, so they see it as a tradeoff,” added architect David Dove.

Among other concerns, the Shannon Mews Neighbours’ Association is worried about increased traffic on 57th, the only proposed exit and entrance to the site.

Toderian expects the rezoning to go before council around July.

Whether the city replicates such press briefings or the online forum remains to be seen.

Wall said he isn’t concerned the development will become an issue in the November municipal election.

The next open house is planned for mid-February. For more information, see talkvancouver.com or the city’s rezoning centre at vancouver.ca.

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Sixty one district schools haven’t been seismically upgraded

Students brace for earthquake drill

Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

Dozens of Vancouver schools still await seismic upgrading as hundreds of students are among those joining in a provincewide earthquake preparedness drill Jan. 26.

The Great British Columbia Shakeout, scheduled at 10 a.m. Jan. 26, promotes the “drop, cover and hold on” safety procedure.

Shakeout started in the United States in 2008 with the Great Southern California Shakeout. This is the first time the drill has been held in this province. It’s designed to educate the public about how to protect themselves during a large earthquake, and how to get prepared.

The event was organized by the B.C. Earthquake Alliance—a coalition of all three levels of government and non-governmental organizations. “This is the first mass earthquake drill that we’ve ever done here in B.C. and it’ll be the largest ever done in Canada,” explained Heather Lyle, co-chair of the organizing committee and director of integrated public safety for the province of B.C. The Shakeout drill marks the anniversary of the last magnitude nine earthquake in British Columbia, in 1700, which also affected Washington, Oregon, and California.

More than 173,000 Metro Vancouverites have registered for Wednesday’s event, including schools, businesses, non-profits and

community groups, the City of Vancouver, as well as families and individuals. More than 400,000 have signed up throughout B.C. If an earthquake hits, Vancouver students will need to be prepared—61 district schools haven’t been seismically upgraded, according to the VSB’s priority list that cites 98 schools based on rankings developed in 2004. Upgrading has been completed on 14 of the 98 schools listed. Three schools have been partially seismically mitigated, and eight are in the planning, development or construction stages. Four projects are on hold, two are undergoing a “material performance study” and six projects are part of the VSB’s 2010/11 capital plan submission to the provincial government.

Not all Vancouver schools are able to take part in Wednesday’s drill because the timing conflicts with provincial exam schedules for some secondary students. Schools already hold their own earthquake drills, but Lyle said it’s important to conduct a provincewide event that targets everyone in B.C. “This is unheard of for us. It’s an opportunity to see how prepared we are,” Lyle said.

The school district, meanwhile, is updating its school seismic upgrading priority list. It’s expected to be unveiled in the spring and help deal with the district’s aging building stock. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: Naoibh

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The seniors community, Tapestry at Wesbrook Village UBC is holding a special Valentines Day contest for couples aged 65+.

Seniors, or others on their behalf like family members, are invited to submit their story* and secrets to a successful relationship.

Entrants will be eligible to win: • Two nights accommodation in a luxury one bedroom suite within Tapestry at Wesbrook Village UBC • Pick-up and drop-off from your home in a chauffeured Lexus • All meals are included; even breakfast in bed if you fancy • An outing to the world-class Museum of Anthropology • A couple’s spa treatment at Elaine’s Spa To enter simply submit your story by email to UBC@DiscoverTapestry.com or by mail to the address below. The winning couple will be announced on Valentines Day Feb14, 2011. *Entries must be at least 100 words. The entry that contains the best secrets to success based on the opinion of our judges will be chosen as the winner.

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community briefs Environmental law talk

West Coast Environmental Law hosts Dialogues for Legal Innovation: Law Reform for Nature, Climate, and Communities at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Feb. 16. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. A diverse panel of guests will explore how B.C.’s laws and policies about land use should evolve in light of climate change. The evening includes short presentations introducing scientific, legal and economic perspectives, and a question and answer period for the audience. Admission is free. Pre-registration is required at wcel.org. For more information, contact Jeanette Ageson 604-601-2511 or email jageson@wcel.org.

Green ideas wanted

The Vancouver Foundation is celebrating young ideas for green neighbourhoods.

The foundation is challenging anyone with a Vancouver connection, aged six to 24, to come up with their best idea—big or small—on how to improve the environment in a Vancouver neighbourhood.

Your project can take place on a Vancouver street or in a local neighbourhood and/or at a school, community centre, neighbourhood house, library or other community facility. An independent panel of youth and environmental experts will pick the top 20 ideas—10 small and 10 big. Winning small ideas will get $1,250 and big ideas will be awarded $12,500 to help make them a reality. Generation Green Awards will be given in three age groups, six to 12, 13 to 17 and 18 to 24. Each team submission must identify one team leader who should submit the application. The foundation is open to all kinds of ideas, including projects that encourage more recycling, urban farming, neighbourhood greening, the promotion

of more green vegetation, reducing garbage/waste and reducing energy use. For more information about the Generation Green Awards, call 604-688-2204 or email awards@vancouverfoundation.ca.

You’ve taken care of your home your whole life. Now let your home take care of you.

Teens and driving

Got a teenager wanting to drive a car? The BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation’s In the Driver’s Seat workshops for parents, grandparents and caregivers of teen drivers are designed to help families understand the risks and manage the process of their teenager’s driving education.

Car crashes are the number one cause of death and serious injury among teenagers in B.C. The good news is research indicates the chance of a young driver being in a car crash can be reduced by up to one-third when parents take an active role in helping their teen learn to drive. Magee secondary school at 6360 Maple St. is hosting a workshop Feb. 2, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. To register, email pac.magee@gmail.com.

Freeze Your Bike Off

Velopalooza presents Freeze Your Bike Off! A fun winter ride, Jan. 29. Join other pleasureseeking cyclists at noon for free coffee and hot chocolate beneath the downtown side of the Burrard Street Bridge by the Vancouver Aquatic Centre parking lot. Wear a costume, and you could win a prize. The ride starts at 1 p.m. and is about 12 kilometres on bike paths and lanes with a very limited amount of on-street riding. It will end at the Brixton Café, 212 East Georgia St., where prizes will be awarded. There is a shorter ride option for kids. Those bringing children should RSVP as kiddies will receive grab bags at the Brixton.

RSVP at info@velopalooza.ca. If you want to sponsor a ride or donate a prize, email info@ velopalooza.ca.

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Redemption is also excluded at all third party operations (post office, drycleaners, gas bar, etc.). Superbucks™ rewards are issued only for individual customer in-store prescription purchases (excludes healthcare and other facilities). 4% Superbucks™ rewards are calculated as 4% of the total value of the prescription, with a minimum value of $1.00 and up to a maximum value of $99.99 per coupon.

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GIVE YOUR KITCHEN A MAKE-UNDER

Think your kitchen needs a makeover? Why not try a make under? “Less is more” is the new mantra for homeowners who want to take control of their home décor – eliminating clutter, streamlining products and taking a simplified, minimalistic approach to their home improvement projects.

“This concept of a ‘make-under’ is growing quickly across the country,” said Rebecca Kolls, consumer strategist of home and garden at Iconoculture, a global consumer research and advisory company. “A make-under can not only make your space more simplified and efficient; but it also can alleviate a lot of the stress that accompanies a typical home improvement project.”

er in one corner… to a mixer, blender and toaster in the next corner… not to mention the bread basket, paper towel holder, phone charger, and more – there are often more gadgets than there is room on our countertops.

To take control of your counters, Kolls recommends seeking out multi-purpose innovations that save time, money and space. A perfect example is the new Kitchen Centre product, which features a streamlined power base that supports and runs multiple kitchen appliances – from a coffee grinder and blender to a power mixer and food processor. Each attachment runs from the same base, which enables you to utilize a number of handy appliances without cluttering your counters.

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Streamline the Sink

An area of the kitchen that can quickly become cluttered – and in desperate need of a ‘make-under’ – is the countertop. From the coffee pot and bean grind-

While you may start with a simple sink and faucet… by the time you add a side spray, soap dispenser, hand sanitizer, lotion, water filter, dish soap,

Celebrate Valentine’s

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The Courier’s love theme covers people, places and things to bring romance to the heart of the city. From cupcakes to Cupid’s bow; to places to get romantic, and beautiful flowers, jewels and treats, just for her. We’ll show the love to our readers in this special section.

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sponge… you can see this area can quickly become strewn with a wide variety of items.

To streamline the sink, Kolls again recommends simplifying this spot with as many multi-functional products and appliances as possible. One such example is a single-handle, pull-down kitchen faucet – like the new Arbor faucet from Moen (pictured, inset). This efficient and stylish faucet offers a single-hole mount (and includes a cover-plate for sinks with up to four holes), for a clean, refined look without the clutter of additional handles.

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“Sure, that waffle maker or juicer looks like a lot of fun… but will it really be used – or will it simply become a dust collector on your counter?” adds Kolls.

“Be wary of impulse buys and really think about how you will ideally use your space before making a purchase.

In the long run, you’ll be glad you took

the time to think through your decisions and will ultimately enjoy your space even more.”

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The application of tiles in the kitchen and bathroom can add colour, style and interest to back-splashes, counters, floors and more.

Water repellent and easy to clean, tiles of all shapes and sizes dress up your home, and when well-laid out, create a vision akin to artwork.

Since 1964, Star Tile on East Hastings (www.startile. ca) has offered up a broad selection of ceramic tile, marble, porcelain, granite, slate, mosaic, travertine and glass tiles. They also provide service and support to help get the job done right. You’ll

find a complete line of adhesives, grouts, sealers, tile edging materials and accessories. And of course, there are always bargains to be had in the “clearance bin.”

Over on the West Side in Point Grey, Bullnose Tile & Stone (www.Bullnosetile. com) features ceramic, stone and glass, all with endless possibilities. The team works directly with the manufacturers and the tiles are made to Bullnose specifications. A lot of the glaze colours are developed by Bullnose specifically for western Canada and all of the glazed ceramic tiles are manufactured in North America.

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SULTRY BEAUTY: THE ORCHID

Plant lovers really love their orchids. It’s a passion that has “stemmed” from centuries back.

With an astounding number of varieties, orchids are known for their delicate beauty and exotic character.

Evolving through an intricate and interesting history, the meanings of orchids include love, beauty, luxury and strength.

An estimated 25,000 different types exist naturally, with more being discovered each year, so orchids are one of the largest flowering plant families. Although they are commonly thought of as tropical, exotic flowers, orchids grow naturally in almost all climates.

Despite their versatility, there is something distinctly exotic about orchids. They are intricately beautiful to the everyday flower lover and are considered to be some of the world’s most evolved flowers to flower specialists.

Of the many orchid varieties, the Phalaenopsis (or Moth), Cymbidium and Dendrobium orchids are the most popular types, and the Vanilla Orchid (and its vanilla bean) is the most highly produced variety.

Orchid Society Show & Sale

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pm) and Sunday, Feb. 13 (10 am to 3 pm) at VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak St. Admission is $7.

For more information, map and discount coupon, visit www.vancouverorchidsociety.ca.

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JANUARY 2011 SPECIAL ADVERTISING FEATURE

ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE

compiled by Helen Peterson

Vancouver’s private (also known as ‘independent’) schools offer students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 a wealth of opportunity and academic achievement that is proven year after year, by the accomplishments of students both at school and in society.

For an education and social experience like no other, check out these private schools in the city, and see what each has to offer to your child.

Crofton House School is beginning an exciting new chapter in its 113-year history. After months of construction, the new Early Childhood Education Centre

will be complete in February, ready to welcome junior and senior kindergarten girls in the fall of 2011.

The essence of the Early Childhood Education Program is play. By connecting play and creativity with foundational skills in literacy and numeracy, children experience the joy of learning.

Four and five year old girls will learn to plan creatively, problem-solve and they will develop important social and life skills.

This new addition to the campus will allow girls to begin the Crofton House School experience earlier, creating a foundation for learning and growth while teaching self confidence and resiliency, allowing each girl to reach their unique potential.

St. George’s School is a world-class boys’ university preparatory school offering a day program to boys in Grade One to 12 and a boarding program to students in Grades Eight to 12. With a total enrolment of 1,158, of which 119 are boarding students from over 18 countries worldwide, St. George’s has achieved national and international prominence in many academic, artistic, and athletic competitions.

St. George’s exceeds provincial graduation requirements and offers its students a broad range of curricular offerings, many at an advanced level, as well as numerous co-curricular options like fine and performing arts. Students also have access to more than 20 clubs and a diverse program that includes a spe-

cialized full-year Outward Bound-style program for students in Grade 10.

At Pattison High School (PHS), students are exposed to a plethora of experiences that assist greatly in developing a comprehensive education. Students from around the world gather at PHS to pursue their dreams and aspirations while enriching their lives in the cultural mosaic reflective of our society.

Students immerse themselves in their studies that include opportunities that occur outside the classroom. Student activity days, field trips and field studies add to the rich education environment. Social interactions and group leadership activities enrich the students’ life experiences. Thus, a PHS

An IB World School

Are you looking for a world class education to engage your child?

Stratford Hall is authorized to teach International Baccalaureate Primary Years (grades K-5), Middle Years (grades 6-10) and Diploma Programmes (grades 11 & 12)

Making a Difference St. John’s School

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private schools student becomes a more global citizen ready to contribute to the world.

Stratford Hall stands out as East Van-

couver’s independent, co-educational, non-denominational, K-12, International Baccalaureate (IB) school. Its exclusive commitment to the IB for students in kindergarten to grade 12 supports a school culture focused on internationalmindedness, balance and preparation for a complex world.

The location and real connection to Vancouver set it apart. Situated on Commercial Drive, Stratford Hall is only minutes away from many Vancouver amenities. This central location and direct connection with the neighbourhood make it an urban school. The Kfive building, which opened next to the existing six to 12 building in 2009, was purpose built for inquiry based learning and collaboration.

St. John’s School is an independent,

non-denominational, IB World School for boys and girls Grades Kindergarten to 12. St. John’s is a vibrant community that embraces families and provides individual attention for students. With only 400 students and small class sizes, every student is known.

Head of School, Stephen Hutchison, explains, “When children come into the school, they have that sense of belonging. This is a place where they are val-

ued, a place where they are known and a place where they are safe.”

Students participate in a breadth of athletic, artistic and academic cocurricular activities and competitive programmes. A Grade Seven student describes his experience: “I’m mostly in sports clubs like, basketball, track and field, soccer and running club. I like these clubs and teams because they cultivate friendship and teamwork.”

St. Francis of Assisi School is centrally located minutes from downtown Vancouver, resting in the family-oriented community of Grandview Woodlands. Experienced and caring educators including Physical Education and Fine Arts specialists have contributed to its award-winning Academic and Physical Education programs. Its mission: Saint Francis of Assisi School, as a faith community, is committed to excellence in Catholicity and in all areas that promote the development of the whole child to his or her full potential. We strive to develop Christian leaders, responsible citizens, and lifelong learners.

At St. Francis of Assisi School, children of all faith backgrounds are welcomed. Plus, the competitive fee structure will ensure that your child can benefit from small class sizes with enviable teacher-to-student ratios.

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Chinese New Year Year of the Rabbit Chinese New Year Parade

The Chinese New Year Parade, Vancouver Chinatown’s signature event, will return on Feb. 6th. With lion dances, cultural dance troupes, marching bands and more, this parade is a cultural extravaganza not to be missed. Come see the sights, sounds and festivities of Chinese New Year to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit!

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The Chinese New Year Parade celebrates the new year of the Chinese lunar calendar and is a fun-filled event for everyone to enjoy. The parade features the largest assembly of traditional lion dance teams in Canada with dozens of colourful and energetic lions from the various local fraternal and martial arts organizations.

Other highlights include multicultural dance troupes representing the diverse segments of our Canadian cultural heritage, the Vancouver Police Department Motorcycle Drill Team, marching bands and various community groups. The parade is expected to have some 60 non-commercial entries, bringing over 3,000 participants from various community and cultural groups. The parade will start at 12:00 noon sharp on Sunday, February 6th, 2011, and will take two hours to complete.

2011 Year of the Rabbit Vancouver Chinatown Festival

Looking for more after the parade?

Come join in at this cultural fair to see more Chinese New Year performances.

To be held at the Chinese Cultural Centre Courtyard (50 East Pender Street) between 2 and 4 pm, this celebrative event will feature multicultural performances, special lion dance grand finale and martial arts demonstration.

Chinese New Year Banquet

The annual Chinese New Year Banquet will once again be held at the Floata Seafood Restaurant, featuring lion dances, greetings by the fortune God and a variety show with singing, cultural dances and more. Reception starts at 6 pm in Chinese. The restaurant is located at #400, 180 Keefer Street.

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C Restaurant’s Lee Humphries and Rob Clark lent their culinary talents to the Blue Mountain Winery B.C. Hospitality Foundation fete at the Four Seasons.

Blue Mountain winemaker Matt Mavety uncorked a dozen of the Okanagan vineyard’s finest, benefitting Alan Sacks’ B.C. Hospitality Foundation.

Fred Chinese culinary master chef Tony Wu showed off his noodle making skills at the HSBC Chinese Restaurant Awards held at the River Rock.

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Robert Kerr and Mayor Gregor Robertson launched the city’s 125th anniversary celebrations at the Five Sixty soiree.

Blue blood: Ian Mavety’s family-owned Okanagan winery Blue Mountain Vineyards and Cellars hosted the city’s first big tipple fest of the year. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its first vintage, the boutique winery uncorked 12 of its finest varietals paired with delectable delights from a dozen of the city’s finest restaurants at the Four Seasons. Proceeds supported the charitable efforts of the B.C. Hospitality Foundation.

125 candles: Mayor Gregor Robertson kicked off Vancouver’s 125th birthday celebrations at the opening of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Robertson joined politicos and arts leaders at the Five Sixty soiree.

Former Cultural Olympiad frontman Robert Kerr will oversee the events, which will include a large-scale birthday celebration, a three-day summer celebration in Stanley Park, exhibitions, festivals and other artistic projects programmed throughout the year.

Joining the Circa: Australia-based acro-ballet company Circa defies definition. Performing highly connected acrobatic and tumbling sequences and fast-paced moments of great intricacy where precision and timing is everything, the seven member troupe left opening night guests at the Freddy Wood gobsmacked.

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 Playhouse International Wine Festival’s Harry Hertzsheg flanked by festival hypesters Shannon Heth and Kate MacDougall.

A feast for the senses, VP Margaret Willis and Brazilian dancers welcomed revelers to HSBC’s Festival Brazil at the Shangri-la Hotel.

Executive director Norman Armour feted Max Wyman and other arts leaders at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival opening gala.

Tarren Wolfe and Myles Omand unveiled their growop, the Urban Cultivator, at C Restaurant, which grows fresh herbs year round.

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1. Fans of modern dance and Legions, you’re in luck.

Dances for a Small Stage presents the 23rd installment of its cutting edge cabaret-themed dance series, where local and international artists perform on the signature 10-by-13-foot stage. Produced as part of the PuSh festival, it all goes down Jan. 26 to 28, 8 p.m. at the Legion on Commercial Drive. More info at movent.ca.

2. Langara College’s Studio 58 takes on Shakespeare’s masterpiece of mistaken identity and

heaving bosoms, The Comedy of Errors, Jan. 27 to Feb. 20. Studio 58 grad Scott Bellis directs. For tickets, go to ticketstonight.ca or all 604-684-2787. More info at studio58.ca.

3. Described by one music critic as “stoner jokesters nurtured by a liberal arts bubble,” Brooklyn hip hop group Das Racist brings its absurdist, pop culture laced party to Fortune Sound Club Jan. 27. For more info, go to fortunesoundclub.blogspot.com.

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It’s no secret K&K has long been fans of former solicitor-general Kash Heed, from his days at the Vancouver Police Department to his current beleaguered state as a caged political animal trying to avoid being euthanized. Maybe it’s his thick, movie hunk of yesteryear hair or the versatility of his headline-friendly name, which has provided us endless opportunities to use “The Heed is on,” “Feel the Heed,” “In the Heed of the night” and “Kashing in.”

Now Heed is in the news again, facing allegations that the MLA for VancouverFraserview violated the Election Act by signing off on misleading reports regarding his election finances. But what really caught our attention was the recent news that a Blackberry seized from former campaign worker Barinder Sall apparently contained some compromising instant messages and emails allegedly from Heed, including one from 2008 in which he described himself—quite justifiably if you ask us—as a “stallion” ready to replace old political horse Wally Oppal and gallop his way into the electoral winner’s circle.

“Think of things this way: You are a trainer that has a few horses in your stable... Wally is getting on and needs to be put out to pasture soon,” Heed allegedly wrote. “You have a stallion that has been in training for some time and you and everyone else know he’s a winner, but can’t wait on the sidelines forever.”

We like this alleged email for a number of reasons. First, Heed doesn’t resort to any of those annoying text message abbreviations like BTW (by the way), HTH (hope that helps) or SOTS (stallion on the sidelines). We also appreciate a man, or stallion in this case, who refers to himself in the third person. It shows perspective. Most importantly, however, is that the alleged message shows that Heed is not only a stallion, but a poet, able to extend a metaphor. Our only question is if Oppal is the lame horse that needs to be put out to pasture and Heed is the stallion waiting on the sidelines, what kind of saddle does he wear?

Something tells us Heed is a wild stallion who can’t be broken, and if you were to ride him, it would have to be bareback. We don’t even know what that means. Giddy up?

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Besides helping readers discover that the Goddess is alive and magic is afoot, the members of K&K also like to use this space to complain about sub par customer service. This week’s tale of consumer woe comes from a recent lunch at a restaurant called Brown Rice Sushi. We went there because we enjoy brown rice—it’s healthier and it gives us a feeling of macrobiotic superiority.

So naturally we were jazzed about going to a restaurant that apparently digs brown rice so much they put it in their name. The thing is, if you order a bento box at Brown Rice Sushi, and you want brown rice, it’ll cost you. A dollar extra for brown rice sushi, and a dollar extra for brown rice that comes with the teriyaki dish. Which makes us wonder, why would you call yourself Brown Rice Sushi if ordering sushi or anything else with brown rice is not standard.

Oh yeah, and we think we forgot our umbrella there, but whoever answered the phone when we called a few days later found it too difficult to check and see if a spare umbrella had turned up.

Perhaps White Rice Sushi and the Place Where Umbrellas Go to Die wouldn’t fit on their sign.

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While the lumpen masses continue to flock to cinematic stinkers such as Little Fockers and Yogi Bear, a dedicated and growing group of filmgoers have been descending upon the Waldorf Hotel every Sunday afternoon for its weekly Day for Night film series.

In addition to sipping Mai-Tais in a 1950s tiki bar, audiences get to sample an eclectic batch of celluloid delights from Hollywood classics, documentaries and NFB shorts to rarely seen art films, archival footage and broadcast ephemera with a distinct Vancouver slant. Overseeing it all is the Waldorf’s “resident cineaste” Anu Sahota, who spent some quality time on the 10 Questions casting couch to discuss O.J. Simpson’s film oeuvre, the quiet dignity of Elliot Gould fans and the joys of drinking while watching a movie.

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In French, the term [cineaste] is more often used in reference to someone who is both a film lover and a filmmaker. I am not a filmmaker, however I do prefer the term cineaste since it suggests, to me anyway, a more robust view of cinema culture. Cinema as engaged with real life as opposed to cultivating an encyclopedic knowledge of film trivia for its own sake. I admit to being willfully ignorant of a great deal of film history; I’ve given up on comprehensiveness.

2. How do you select the movies?

Nothing first run. Programming is sourced from battered NFB docs on VHS, DVDS, borrowed from and not returned to my husband, Beta tape from the CBC archives vault, television programs I recorded off-air from CHEK-TV in 1993, et cetera. No explicit criteria, however I intend to focus on Vancouver’s cultural history and am mindful of bringing different communities together. The screenings take place 3 p.m. each Sunday in the Waldorf Hotel’s downstairs cabaret.

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Courier photographer Dan Toulgoet’s favourite film, Naked Gun?

I’m adverse to playing any film featuring O.J. Simpson however I am considering showing The Towering Inferno so this rule may not hold for long.

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Anu Sahota prepares for the weekly Day for Night film series, Sunday afternoons in the Waldorf Hotel’s downstairs cabaret. photo Rebecca Blissett

you can drink at Day for Night. How does booze enhance the movie watching experience?

watched parts of Crispin Glover’s What Is It? from the projection booth there. Mr. Glover gave me some programming ideas, which I aim to put into action over the coming months.

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. What films can people expect to see at the Waldorf in upcoming weeks?

If you have to ask then you’ve never snuck booze into a movie theatre. That’s not tea in my Vicki Gabereau Show mug.

What drink do you recommend when watching a movie?

Something that can be enjoyed over the course of two hours in civilized company. In other words, not shots.

6. Why did you pick the rarely seen

1978 Canadian psychological thriller The Silent Partner, starring Elliott Gould, to kick off the first Day for Night?

Exactly because it is rarely seen. I asked filmmaker and SFU professor Colin Browne to introduce it and speak about the legacy of the film’s director, Daryl Duke. Mr. Duke was a Vancouverborn producer and director and was an important advocate of arts and culture in our region. I felt he ought to be acknowledged at the inaugural screening.

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Were there many die-hard Elliott Gould fans in the audience?

If there were any die-hard Gouldians in attendance, they were hard to spot.

Surely their displays of fandom would be as cool and restrained as their hero.

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What was the last movie you saw in a theatre?

I’ve been volunteering at the Pacific Cinematheque for over 10 years so I see films often. Most recently I

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Looking ahead, writer Michael Christie will be presenting classic skateboard films, animator Marv Newland will introduce advertisements he made in Vancouver in the late 1970s and archivist Colin Preston will present documentaries about West End hippies from the CBC. Oh, and all 15 hours of Rainer Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz. I also intend to pay tribute to the late Pearl Williams who is responsible for Vancouver even having a film culture. Pearl pioneered the Vancouver Film Society and brought international cinema to this city. She was involved with the original Vancouver Film Festival and the establishment of the local office of the NFB and the Pacific Cinematheque. I like to think of Day for Night as being in the tradition of her 1950s basement film screenings.

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What films can you assure Courier readers will never be screened at the Waldorf?

I can’t be sure of my tastes well enough to say any single film will not be screened. That said, Naked Gun. For more information, go to waldorfhotel.com.

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Backed by a loud art rock band called Natural Born Chillers, Radoslaw Rychcik and Stefan Zeromski deliver screaming Polish rants in the riveting In the Solitude of Cotton Fields.

Polish performance pushes boundaries Floating

At the Arts Club Revue Stage until Feb. 5 Tickets: 604.687.1644 artsclub.com Reviewed by Jo Ledingham

Leaving home can be tough, but no one I know has turned that life passage into such a cockamamie flight of fancy as writer/performer Hugh Hughes (the alter-ego of Shon Dale-Jones, founder of a theatre company called Hoipolloi). It’s safe, I think, to say Hughes is Welsh and that at 18 he left the village of Llangefni on the Island of Anglesey.

Floating is a love poem to Anglesey, which, we’re told, floated way on April 1, 1982 after an earthquake and from there sailed the seas, with the aid of sails sewn by 68 seamstresses, all the way to Iceland before returning to its former position off the northwest coast of Wales. No one, except the residents of Anglesey, noticed this momentous event because Margaret Thatcher was busy invading the Falkland Islands at the time.

In a BBC interview, Dale-Jones said, “Like anyone from a small place going out into the big world, Hughes’ slightly naïve,” and Floating is, at least superficially, naïve. The events of 1982 are described by the character Hugh Hughes and performer Sioned Rowlands in a lecture-based presentation with an overhead projector, flip chart, slides, flashcards, smoke machine— all deliberately creaky and low tech.

What’s the appeal? The personal charm of Dale-Jones (which, for me, didn’t quite make it to the end of 90 minutes) and Rowlands, its studied simplicity and some pithy implications regarding the intersection of reality, fantasy and memory.

A quote, from Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, about lies told often enough becoming truths, appears as a surtitle over Floating. Hugh Hughes—the writer, the performer and Dale-Jones’ alter ego— claims he left home, but Floating proves him a liar. His heart is still there.

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No more performances The PuSh Festival is all about pushing boundaries, and In The Solitude of Cotton Fields—a Polish adaptation of French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes’ play— grabbed my boundaries, shredded them, ripped them up and threw them away.

Two guys in suits—Radoslaw Rychcik and Stefan Zeromski—backed by the ear-shatteringly loud art-rock band Natural Born Chillers delivered an all-out rant that, at times, became a bone-chilling, seemingly endless scream into the microphone.

Two things: for most of this show, spoken in Polish with English surtitles, I was absolutely riveted. I might have been holding my breath. The play is a brilliant commentary on dependency—dealer/addict, gay lovers and all manner of illicit couplings in the night when “men and beasts join in a barbaric relationship.” Two men locked in a mortal embrace, each needing the other with naked urgency. “I notice your desire,” said the snaky one, called The Dealer, to the needy one, called The Client. “All you have to do is ask.” Wild, uninhibited dancing, smoke, strobe lights, percussive music hammering the walls, the ceiling, the floors. Wow. The other thing: In The Solitude of Cotton Fields could not possibly have been written in this country. We are young and still hopeful while parts of Europe are old and embattled, set upon by problems cultural and economic. It’s one of the great strengths and pleasures of the PuSh Festival that executive director Norman Armour brings work like this to Vancouver where our boundaries—in terms of both content and performance style—can be expanded.

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Chemistry and crudeness carry Portman and Kutcher comedy

Friends with benefits flick can’t avoid romantic pitfalls No Strings Attached

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If you have issues with the sexual praxis and moral ambiguity of today’s single adults, you might want to nap through 2011.

Boy Toys casually hooking up with girls who fly their slut flag proudly is a recurring theme in romantic comedies this year. In fact, No Strings Attached starring Serious Actress Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, the manboy who brought you Punk’d, sounds nearly identical to the plot of Friends With Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake and Portman’s Black Swan co-star Mila Kunis.

In both films, filmmakers pose the titillating question: is the sexbuddy relationship viable?

But as countless scripts have told us, sex changes everything.

Just think way back to Billy Crystal’s horrified morning-after mug in When Harry Met Sally. Or more recently to the guy angst in (500) Days of Summer. Adam (Kutcher) and Emma (Portman) cross the line in their 15-year acquaintance after Adam’s celebrity dad (a suitably smarmy Kevin Kline) sleeps with Adam’s ex. Distraught Adam retaliates by dialing every girl he knows until someone agrees to sleep with him. Emma doesn’t, but then she does.

Adam’s like an Amazonian puppy in heat, and kind of hard to throw out of your bed. But Emma, super-brainy MIT grad

Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher embark on a “friends with benefits” relationship in the surprisingly funny No Strings Attached. that she is, has no time for hearts and flowers. She pulls 80-hour work weeks at the hospital and warns the affable Adam that she is emotionally stunted: “You’re wonderful— if you’re lucky you’ll never see me again.”

Adam is likewise paying his dues at a Glee-esque teen TV show, but intrigued by the woman who hates

cuddling and refuses to stay for breakfast the next morning, who likens her fear of commitment to an “emotional peanut allergy.”

The two agree to a purely physical relationship, until the day when—horrors!—one of them might develop feelings for the other. There is much high-fiving among Adam’s friends (the very

funny Jake Johnson and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) who think he’s hit the jackpot. Emma’s friends (Mindy Kaling and Greenberg’s Greta Gerwig) know her too well to interfere.

Then Adam makes a crucial mistake: he makes Emma a menstrual mixed-tape. The cycles of Emma’s roommates, even

the gay guy’s, are all in synch, and in one of the film’s funniest scenes, Adam bribes his way into the PMS-charged apartment with a box of cupcakes, offering up a mix that includes “Red Red Wine,” the classic “I’ve Got The World On A String” and Leona Lewis’s “Keep Bleeding.” Uh oh: sounds a lot like love.

Fans of Kutcher will delight in the fact that we get to see more—much more—of Ashton than we’re used to. But despite all the mattressthumping going on, No Strings Attached is relatively tame for an R-rated flick. The rating is for the script’s occasional foray into raunchy territory, lines that sound extra funny coming from Portman.

Director Ivan Reitman, working on a script by Elizabeth Meriweather, offers up nothing new.

But there are a hundred zingers to distract from the predictable plot. Adam and Emma’s requisite Greek chorus of friends aren’t just window dressing—they actually have some funny things to say.

And the banter between Emma and Adam is genuinely silly.

Kutcher, still cashing in on his boyish good looks, is his usual charming, goofy self, but it’s Portman’s talent that elevates the film above standard romantic comedy fare. (She’s also a great drunk: who knew?) Their tract from friendship to love is a believable, often touching one, minus the too-cute detours these films often take. The actor chemistry can’t fail to charm, and the fun is infectious, even when orchestral swells threaten to drown out the romance. jcrawfordfilm@gmail.com

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Playing for Prince of Wales, Stephanie Chambers made a stellar appearance at the Telus Vancouver Girls Basketball Challenge last week.

The five-foot-three Grade 12 guard was a tournament all-star and multiple bursary winner. But the one-time York Tiger watched as her former team triumphed for the fourth consecutive year, outscoring their opponents 216 to 105 to win the tournament.

In the elite invitational tournament, the top four private and public Vancouver high schools are invited to play based on the previous season’s city league results. At the dance in 2011 were Britannia, Kitsilano, Point Grey and Prince of Wales, York House, Crofton House, St. Patrick’s and Notre Dame.

The Tigers have claimed each championship in all four years of the tournament’s history since 2008.

Here’s how they got to the final this year. The Tigers handed a lop-sided defeat to Prince of Wales, turning to their bench for a 75-20 win. Natalie Wallace for York and Chambers, with 11 of her team’s 20 points, were named game MVPs. York squared off against Point Grey and in a 69-43 win, York’s Alisha Roberts led her team on a 20-7 tear through the second quarter and finished with 19 points and a nod as game MVP. Kenzie Macdonald netted a team-high 11 points and an MVP honour. In the final, York faced Britannia.

The Bruins reached the championship round by going through Crofton and perennial rival Kitsilano. The speed and relentless attack of the Bruins was too much for Crofton House and the game ended 88-49. Fernandez and Crofton’s Jasmine Chan were named game MVPs. Against Kits, the Bruins consistently built on their lead and won 9051. Karen Li for Britannia and Toni Li for Kits were players of the game. For the championship, the tenacious Bruins lost to the Tigers 72-42. Laura Baker for York and Jilliane Vina for the Bruins were named players of the game. Kits finished third, Crofton fourth, Point Grey fifth, St. Pat’s sixth, Prince of Wales seventh and Notre Dame eighth.

—Megan Stewart

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Masters Synchronized Swimming club president Meghan Henrickson (second from front) and her teammates photo Dan Toulgoet practise at Britannia pool.

Finding freedom in synchro

Megan Stewart Staff writer

If more women knew the sense of weightlessness and grace that comes with doing the splits upside down while underwater, Karen Brown believes they’d rush to the nearest synchronized swim club to slip into the pool.

The 51-year-old Vancouverite speaks from experience. She joined Vancouver Masters Synchronized Swimming two years ago as a complete novice and now marvels at her body’s movement, flexibility and strength in the water.

“It feels like freedom,” she said, noting her stamina has increased as her overall fitness gradually improved. As a former ballroom dancer, a flare for performance and exhibition comes easily to Brown who said her curvaceous shape is suddenly and wondrously buoyant when she’s off her feet. “I can do things in the water that I would probably hurt myself doing on land.”

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“I have no idea what these names sound like to the non-initiated,” said Meghan Henrickson, the club president and a former competitive synchro swimmer with the Aquasonics who competed on a national stage.

This weekend sets off the beginning of the competitive season and the Vancouver club will host the Lower Mainland regional meet. In previous years, soloists, a trio, a duet and the development team have taken gold when they advanced to the provincial championship. Club swimmers competed at the U.S. nationals last year in L.A., where synchronized swimming first appeared as an Olympic sport in 1984.

Masters programs begin in Canada at age 19 and internationally at age 20 or older. The Vancouver club counts one woman a few years shy of 70, and Henrickson, 30, has been mesmerized by women in the 80-and-older category, gravity-bound by walkers and canes who ditch their equipment to glide through a water ballet.

“We all hope we can do that when we’re older,” she said.

Bronwyn Mears, a respected provincial-level coach, counts out an eightbeat rhythm from the pool deck. For competition, the goggles come off and the eyes opened wide, some lids coloured and lashes lined with dark makeup. Judges consider facial expressions, which are carefully choreographed to compliment the tone, lyrics and emo-

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Teams and duets move through the water in formation, in time and in sync.

But, says Henrickson, “We can’t just muscle our way through it. We have to look like we’re enjoying ourselves.”

Competitors are judged on technical aspects, including difficulty, execution and synchronization. Creativity matters, too, and judges scrutinize artistry, presentation, choreography and musical interpretation.

For “Nasty Boys,” the team worked on what Henrickson called “our grrr face.”

“If you have a really dramatic piece of music, you might choose an appropriate expression. The judges like that because it’s harder to do. They appreciate those special touches.”

Synchro, once called rhythmic swimming, is physically demanding pageantry that most participants will tell you is loved for being especially social.

For Lucia Hoess, synchro swimming was a life-long passion she finally took up in the mid-’90s when in her 50s.

Now 67, she is rehearsing a solo routine. At practice earlier this month, she wears gold hoops, lipstick and flawless mascara as she runs through figures like a double ballet-leg to a Hawaiian tune.

She credits synchro with toning her muscles and straightening her posture.

“It’s like swimming, doing gymnastics and smiling the whole time. Because you want to be pretty and it’s not like it’s not athletic.”

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I have more details about the reasons why the John Oliver Jokers senior team withdrew from the Telus Vancouver Girls Basketball Challenge.

The team’s head coach Pat Lee emphasized in an email that his decision to pull his team from the elite invitational tournament was not based on the transfer of one student (nor her personal circumstances, which he believes should remain private).

Rather, he described a lack of communication and transparency between himself and fellow board members of the Vancouver Girls Basketball Association who coach and work at a competing school. “…the transfer was already in process and initiated without even the professional courtesy of informing us,” he wrote last week after the Courier’s print deadline.

Lee said he withdrew the Jokers from last weekend’s tournament in October. “My issue was with the conduct of adults and professionals whose lack of communication has led to a very negative perception that has clouded what is a very positive event.

“When a student decides to move for whatever reason, there is nothing that really can be done to prevent or dissuade that, but sitting together and working on the same board where members pledge support for each other’s programs and to enhance girls basketball in general and then have those same members go through the process of a transfer with a student

enrolled at your school without being transparent about it seemed simply wrong.”

All agreed the player in question made an impact on the court.

As the principal at John Oliver surmised, Lee indeed seemed “slighted.” Lee withdrew and he made his disappointment known.

The student transferred from John Oliver to York House, which has an admissions policy to keep all pending transfers confidential. If the coaches knew about the incoming student, they may not have been in a position to say so.

Lee pointed to a second reason to withdraw from the Challenge: his team didn’t finish in the top four last season, a requirement for entry. The Jokers were invited instead of fourthplace Prince of Wales, who then took the place of John Oliver when the Jokers withdrew.

Community sports pages are most often filled with promotional and encouraging coverage—as they should be. But athletics, competition and sport are not one-dimensional or exclusively positive. I know other board members were not pleased with the coverage. One worried the withdrawal would compromise corporate sponsorship and another questioned whether it was newsworthy.

Yes, it is, and I stand by the coverage. It’s far from trivial that one school would pull out of an invitational tournament that organizers bill as the best tournament of the senior girls high school season in Vancouver. Justified or not, that a coach would take his team out of play, in part, because of frustration at the administration level between programs certainly deserves scrutiny.

Lee said his team has moved on. And they’re not the only ones: “I have made my thoughts on the miscommunication aspect clear to those involved and we have moved forward.” mstewart@vancourier.com

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6040

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RENTALS 6505

Apartments & Condos

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6505-11

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6508

Apt/Condos

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6508

Apt/Condos

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6515

Duplexes - Rent

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6522

Furnished Accommodation

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6540

Houses - Rent

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5050

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Carpentry

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8055

Cleaning

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8060

Concrete

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7010

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6595-20

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8073

Drainage

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8087

Excavating

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8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

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Townhouses Rent

8120

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

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8130

Handyperson

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6605

J.A. CONSTRUCTION

Installations Refinishing & Repairs

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6602

Drywall

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8075

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Gutters

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8140

Heating

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8150

Kitchens/Baths

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8155

Landscaping

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8160

Lawn & Garden

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Masonry

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

8250

8300

Roofing

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8185

Moving & Storage

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8240

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

Commercial. Industrial.

Truck for Clean-ups

garage, basement, backyard.

(604) 875-9072 873-5292

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

604-580-2171 www.ezgomovers.com

2 PAINTERS available. Honest, Reliable & Prof. 778-877-7045 www.pastandpresent.webs.com 3 ROOMS FOR $299. walls, w/2 coats of top Cloverdale Paint.

20 yrs exp. Larry 604-961-4391 Andrew’s Painting & Wallpaper 25yrs exp. WCB/Ins. Refs Free est off seas. rates 604-785-5651

CONFIDENT PAINTING LTD Int/Ext Specialist 20 yr exp. Reas rates, quality. Licensed, Ins, WCB Jean-Guy 604-626-1975 MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured.

8205

Paving/Seal Coating

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

8220

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

20% OFF All Moving

Services until Feb 28th 604-377-2503 www.popeyesmovingbc.com AMIGO'S MOVING. Delivery. Storage. No Job too Small or Big. Clean up, Garage, Basement.

Call 604-782-9511 TwoGuysWithATruck.ca Moving, Storage, Free EST 604-628-7136. Visa, OK

8193

Oil Tank Removal

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

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

For Free Estimates Call

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

Serving West Side since 1987

STORMWORKS

● Oil Tank Removal ● Recommended ● Insured ● Reasonable Rates

604-724-3670

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring NORM, 604-466-9733 Cell: 604-841-1855

Additions. Kitchens Bathrooms. Landscape Const.

Design & Build Renovations 604.662.8150

www.jasonsmithbuild.com

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

604-728-3009

Additions, renos & new const.

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

ALMA Building & Renovation New construction, expansion & reno., 604-228-4272

• • • •

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

604-312-6311

YOUR WAY

Plumbing & Renovations Full Kitchen & Bath Reno’s • Plumbing Service - all types • H/W tanks • Plugged drains No job too small!

‘Old Home Specialist’

Steve ✔

604-324-3351

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

Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005 ★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com

★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★ Tiles, tub, vanity, plumbing, paint framing. From start to finish. Over 20 yrs exp. Peter 604-715-0030 BEARING WALLS removed, floors leveled, cathedral ceilings, garage leveled, door and window openings. 604-787-7484

PLUMBERS

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

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

604-588-0833

SALES@ PATTARGROUP.COM

WWW.PATTARGROUP.COM

Advantage Building Maintenance: •Roof •Chimney •Skylight Repairs •FREE Estimate 604-802-1918

ROOF LEAKS!

Waters Home Maintenance 604-738-6606

8255

604-537-8523

Mozaik Handyman Services Ltd Reno painting, electrical, plumb tiling, 604-739-8786..716-8687

A.J.K. MOVING Ltd. Special truck for clean-ups. Any size job Lic#32839 604-875-9072

@

Vancouver Division Since 1985

WINTER SPECIALS

Clean Sweep?

CALL NOW for 25% OFF

McNabb Roofing

WCB – Fully Insured

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

Cell: 604-839-7881

to advertise call

604-630-3300

Call 604-274-0285 604-630-3300

AUTOMOTIVE 9105

Auto Miscellaneous

$0 DOWN & we make your 1st payment at auto credit fast. Need a vehicle? Good or Bad credit call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599. www.autocreditfast.ca DLN 30309

9125

Domestic

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

9135

Parts & Accessories

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

Mint condition $795 OBO 604-220-2269

9140

Rentals & Leases

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

9145

1998 FORD Taurus SE 300 k, new tires, rotors, tie rods, fully serviced, $1500 604-940-8564

Scrap Car Removal

9145

Scrap Car Removal

THE SCRAPPER SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC 2H

9150

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Services & Repairs

WH MARINE & AUTO REPAIRS General Repairs, Brakes, Muffler, tune ups. All makes all models.

604-327-3213

9160

Sports & Imports

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

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

604 628 9044

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

9129

Luxury Cars

2002 MERCEDES CL55 AMG black, 99,000 k, 20' rims + stock wheels, $32,000 604-351-0297

9522

RV’s/Trailers

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

WANT to trade 1988 Chevy Elite

*FREE SCRAP CAR PICK UP* Pay $ for some complete cars. No wheels no problem. 209-2026

Accelerate your car buying

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

JACK−X ★ FREE Scrap Car Removal Top $$ for scrap cars. ★ Flat Rate Towing Service avail.

Call ★ 604-720-0067

FREE METAL RECYCLING. All other junk removal, charges apply. Call Jack, 604-266-4444

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

Be sure to check the classifieds

Find the professionals you need to create the perfect renovation.

GarageWindows Cleaned Inside & Outside Fill Your WalletGutters Cleared & Cleaned MAKEFREE IT AESTIMATES SUCCESS!

Treeworks 15 yrs exp. Tree/ Stump Removal, Prun’in & Trim’in & View Work 291-7778, 787-5915 www.treeworksonline.ca

1995 ROLLS Royce, SP3, top model, as new, royal blue, 65K, local, $35,900, 604-271-1969 Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020

HOME SERVICES

White Rose Window GARAGE SALE EmptyCleaning your

Tree Services

Yes, we Remove & Recycle Anything

KITCHEN & BATHS Home renovations, 30+ years experience. Call 604-731-7709

Roofing

604-274-0285

TILE-RIFIC TILING & PAINTING Slate, Glass, Ceramic Specialist.

Quality Work. 604-831-4013

ALL JUNK? Residential & Commercial Free Estimates Large or small jobs Nobody beats our prices $ 15 OFF with this ad

Window Cleaning

Windows Cleaned Inside & Outside Gutters Cleared & Cleaned FREE ESTIMATES

ETNA CERAMIC Tile & Remodelling. Kitchen & Bath Specialists.

30 years exp, Call 778-829-3368.

8315

Tree Services

White Rose Window Cleaning

A to Z CERAMIC TILES Installation, Repairs, Fair Prices Free Est. 444-4715 cel 805-4319

Rubbish Removal

604-728-3009 jkbconstruction.com

8250

8335

Tiling

CHOICE Roofing 604-807-7312 Specializing in New, Re-roofing & Repairs. Quality assured.

JKB CONSTRUCTION LTD. COMPLETE RENOVATIONS

604-340-7189

604-630-3300

www.pointgreyroofing.com

8309

BATH/KITCHEN Renos, decks, fencing, home repairs. Home Improvment Centre. 604-240-9081

Thinking of Renovating?

It’s full of local listings that can save you money

604-379-2641

D & M RENOVATIONS, Flooring, tiling, finishing. Fully Insured. Top quality, quick work 604-724-3832

YOUR HOME ROOFING SERVICES Water Lines (without digging) Sewer Lines (without digging) Install. Drain tiles. 604-739-2000

★ NO HST ★

''Satisfaction Guaranteed''

www.jkbconstruction.com

Plumbing

Roofing

POINT GREY ROOFING LTD.

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

FREE ESTIMATES

604-537-4140

8250

STUCCO ● STUCCO Seamless, matching any texture comm/res. Call 604-730-8277

8315

Wildwood Tree Services, Exp Hedge Trimming and Removal & Tree Pruning. Free Est. 604-893-5745

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Sell it in the Classifieds!

604

630.3300

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Your Original

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Non-Medicate

B.C. Braeburn

Chicken Drumsticks

1

Family Pack

Certified Organic

d e t a c i d e M Non

Chicken Thighs

Apples $ 39 $

1

$ 99 /lb. $4.39kg.

Food Store

2

/lb. $3.06kg.

d

26 /lb. $4.99kg.

We carry a Huge Selection of Organic Products Family Pack Canadian Triple A Beef

Strip Loin Steaks

4

Canadian Triple A Beef

Top Sirloin Steaks

2

$ 53 $ 99 /lb. $9.98kg.

From the Deli

Certified Organic • California

Red or Green

Roast Beef

1

/lb. $6.59kg.

$ 29 100gr.

Leaf Lettuce

Zucchini

68

¢

/lb. $1.50kg.

Pork Picnics

1

$ 17

/lb. $2.59kg.

Certified Organic • California

Navel Oranges

Frozen

Smoked Salmon

6

Fresh

Sole, Cod & Snapper Fillets

7

$ 99 $ 25 170g. pkg

Nectarines Product of Chile

2

/lb. $15.99kg.

Imported

Asparagus

2

$ 68 $ 98 $ 48 $ 68

1

each

Simply Natural Organic

Imported

Whole

Pasta Sauce Assorted

2

3

4lb bag

Barbara’s

Fig Bars Assorted

3

$ 99 $ 69 739ml.

340g pkg.

/lb. $5.47kg.

Exotic Glo

100% Pure Juice Blend

1

$ 99

+ Dep.& Eco fee 1L

Non-Organic

Barley

Natural & Pearl

4

/lb. $5.91kg.

Annies Homegrown

Pasta excluding

Organic & Rice

1

$ 69 170g pkg.

Non-Organic

Kidney Beans

7

$ 89 $ 99 BULK FOOD &

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8 am-9 pm

Sale Dates: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 – Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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2.5Kg.