Vancouver Courier February 9 2011

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Million-dollar repairs to city hall nearing completion Earthquake upgrade may happen

Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

Scaffolds dominate the exterior of city hall for $3 million upgrade projects.

photo Rebecca Blissett

The scaffolds dominating the exterior of city hall are expected to come down in April as a $3-million rehabilitation project on the decades-old building comes to an end. But more work is being considered to mitigate potential damage to city hall in an earthquake.

Scaffolding started going up in November for the exterior upgrades, said Ken Bayne, the city’s general manager of business planning and services.

“The windows are being replaced with new weather-stripped sash and double glazing. A lot of the windows are beyond salvage. The building is

over 70 years old, so a lot of the windows are simply beyond their life—they’re warped and there’s a little bit of rot that happens in wood windows,” he explained, adding crews are also restoring the building’s masonry finish. “It’s basically a sandstone finish that you see on the surface of city hall. It’s degraded quite badly.”

The building, which opened in 1936 at West 12th Avenue and Cambie, was cleaned before the 2010 Winter Olympics, exposing the extent of the deterioration. Federal infrastructure stimulus funds are covering a third of the $3 million upgrading cost, which enabled the project to go ahead early.

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B.C. Housing acknowledges ‘mistakes’ at Steeves Manor Subsidized housing complex plagued by tenant complaints Sandra Thomas Staff writer

Potential tenants applying to move into Steeves Manor, a subsidized independent living complex located next to Jericho Park, will face increased screening, says the executive regional

director for B.C. Housing.

“We’ve been working jointly with Vancouver Coastal Health and in retrospect we wouldn’t have housed those particular tenants at Steeves,” Dale McMann said about several recent residents to the complex who have been identified by longtime

residents as causing trouble.

In an interview last week between the Courier and several B.C. Housing staff, McMann acknowledged there have been some problems at Steeves and B.C. Housing is committed to fixing them. McMann said besides more vigorous screening for potential tenants,

the property portfolio manager has been replaced by a staff person he calls a “veteran,” full-time tenant support and health workers have been assigned to the building and the full-time building manager has moved into Steeves. He added rumours that the former residential building

manager took an early retirement due to stress are unfounded and the man retired as scheduled.

McMann added B.C. Housing plans to increase social activities at Steeves and improve the bulletin boards so information is more easily accessed.

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BY SANDRA THOMAS Built to help mark Expo ’86, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden celebrates a quarter century as a cultural landmark for Chinatown and Vancouver.

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BY SANDRA THOMAS As Green Party commissioner Stuart Mackinnon mulls over his future, almost everyone else on park board plans to run again.

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City staff considering ‘seismic isolation’ upgrade

Continued from page 1 Interior renovations that started before the Olympics are continuing—floors eight through 11 of the tower remain unoccupied. Upgrading on the seventh, where the sustainability group will reside, is almost finished.

“The building is 75 years old and a lot of the systems, a lot of the piping and the other stuff, is failing,” Bayne said, noting there’s asbestos in the building and the washrooms weren’t up to code and needed work.

The maintenance plan was de-

veloped in the latter part of 2007 and the beginning of 2008, but the interior renovation sparked controversy—space for the city manager and council was renovated and the engineering department, which occupied almost every floor above the third floor, moved into leased space at Cambie and Broadway.

Bayne maintains the work had to be done. “I know there’s been a lot of discussion about it, but I can tell you there’s been nothing controversial about it.

It’s basic building maintenance.

It’s very difficult to maintain an old building when people are in it, especially when you have to do major work like piping and HVAC systems… it was deemed to be the right thing to move people out and systematically do the tower and then reconfigure, which is what we’re doing.”

The planning department will be consolidated from a number of locations and move into floors eight through 11 once the work is completed—likely by the fall.

But work on city hall may not end there. It isn’t built to cur-

rent seismic codes, although it’s structurally sound. While seismic work isn’t part of current projects, it’s being considered for future plans.

Staff is investigating an option called “seismic isolation,” which is cheaper than bracing the building with steel beams.

Bayne said more study is needed to determine if it’s a solution that will work for city hall.

“Basically, you put the building on rubber mats—rubber pads, so when the ground shakes underneath it, it has a shock absorber.

You try to isolate [the building] from the ground in case of a major shock,” Bayne said, pointing out the city’s capital expenditure plan needs to be done by September. “If this project were to make it as a project to be funded in the capital plan, the funding would start to become available in 2012. We’d proceed with the project as quickly as we could, but I can’t say it will be a project that will get funded in the next plan or not.” noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

Housing official refutes allegations of drug dealing Continued from page 1 “The upside of all this is it’s caused us to revisit the situation and look at how we can do a better job when mistakes were made,” McMann said.

The Courier has published a series of stories outlining complaints from present and former Steeves residents about their living conditions when B.C. Housing allowed residents with

drug and alcohol addictions, some with mental illness, to move into the housing complex. The seniors told the Courier they’re afraid for their safety and are reluctant to leave their suites or walk the hallways alone. Steeves Manor was originally a housing complex for seniors and adults with disabilities.

In the interview last week with B.C. Housing staff, the

Courier outlined a number of recent complaints by several seniors. They included an allegation that on Dec. 26, 2010 a mentally ill tenant had a psychotic episode in the middle of the night, threatened suicide and was taken away by ambulance.

In another incident a mentally ill woman trashed her room and screamed for more than a day before police took down her door

and she was taken to hospital, the seniors say. The residents also described a tenant dealing drugs within the complex, the physical assault of a visitor to the building and the regular harassment of a female tenant.

Janet McAllister, regional operations manager, said most of the allegations made by the seniors aren’t true, including accusations

of drug dealing, though she confirmed the assault, the mentally ill woman being transported to hospital and the harassment allegation.

At the same time the Courier was meeting with B.C. Housing, the Residential Tenancy Board agreed the tenant charged in the assault could be evicted.

McAllister also said a report in the Courier of a strong smell of marijuana

smoke in one of the buildings wasn’t true. She acknowledged, however, that one disabled tenant has a medical marijuana licence and is legally allowed to smoke pot in his suite.

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Electioneering

Green Party commissioner Stuart Mackinnon isn’t sure if he’ll run for re-election to the park board in the municipal election this fall.

“I’m not saying I won’t, but I’ve found the last couple of years discouraging,” Mackinnon told me last week.

Mackinnon is unsure whether he was more effective as a resident with a keen interest in parks and recreation or as a commissioner wading through the bureaucracy that comes with the position.

“I need to decide where I can be the most effective,” said Mackinnon, noting his top priority is his job as a special education teacher.

I’d heard a rumour Mackinnon was considering a run for city council, but he denied it.

That was just one pre-election rumour I heard last week. A second was that former park board commissioner Allan DeGenova was going to run for council, but he told me this week he’s decided against it, despite being asked again as recently as Monday morning. Like Mackinnon, DeGenova has decided he can be just as effective, if not more so, behind the scenes. He plans

Park board commissioners (top l-r) Raj Hundal, Constance Barnes, Mayor Gregor Robertson, Ian Robertson, Aaron Jasper, (bottom l-r) Stuart Mackinnon, Sarah Blyth and Loretta Woodcock. photo courtesy Vancouver Park Board to support his daughter, Melissa DeGenova, who will run for park board for the NPA. Melissa DeGenova ran unsuccessfully for the park board in the last civic election.

Meanwhile, Vision Vancouver commissioner Raj Hundal says he’s

committed to the park board and plans to seek re-election partly because he enjoys his duties so much.

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litical plans so meantime am reviewing other possible options.”

Woodcock confirmed one of those options is to run for council.

Vision Vancouver commissioner Sarah Blyth says she loves her work with the park board and has no plans to run for council. She says her interests have always been with parks and recreation and as long as she’s re-elected she said she will continue helping residents with related issues.

Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper has definite plans to run for re-election and says he has no interest in a council seat at this time.

“I’ve never considered running for council,” says Jasper. “I find the park board very rewarding.”

Vision park board vice-chair Constance Barnes also plans to run for re-election to the park board. Barnes says one of her priorities is making childcare a core service within the park board and she doesn’t want to quit until that goal is accomplished, particularly now that she’s receiving support from staff.

A persistent rumour I’ve heard in the past six months is that NPA commissioner Ian Robertson is considering a run for mayor. The last time I checked with Robertson he denied the suggestion, but he was out of town and unavailable for an update before the Courier’s press deadline. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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It’s usually a bad sign when kids hang out at the mall on school days, but that wasn’t the case Jan. 27 when dozens of David Lloyd George elementary and Sir Winston Churchill secondary students gathered at Oakridge Mall during lunch break to promote international anti-bullying day slated for Feb. 23.

They staged a flashmob, sporting pink T-shirts inscribed with the message “Acceptance—just the way you are,” and danced en masse to Bruno Mars’ “Just the way you are.”

The performance, just under four minutes long and released on YouTube over the weekend, was four months in the making, according to Churchill vice principal Leann Buteau. She said organizers

not only wanted to highlight this month’s anti-bullying day, but “use social media for good.”

David Lloyd George principal Mette Hamaguchi dreamed up the idea before teaming up with the high school for the project. Churchill runs a dance program led by dance teacher Edna James whose classes participated. Organizers also hooked up with Jheric Hizon, of A Star Studio, who choreographed the moves.

Teenagers learned the routine and also taught it to the elementary students over several weeks. “It was students teaching students, which was another powerful piece of this,” Buteau said.

Kristina Dela Cruz, 17, kicked off the dance at Oakridge. She unzipped a hoodie to expose her pink T-shirt and launched into the performance, after which other incognito students followed suit to the surprise of unsuspecting passersby.

“I’ve never done anything like this before but it was everything I expected it to be—just kind of really fast and [people] not really

knowing what was going on,” she said Monday.

Dela Cruz, a Grade 12 student, found the antibullying message significant because she has gay family members and was saddened by recent reports of suicides by gay American teens. “[Dancing in the flashmob] was such a good feeling. It was very inspiring and it was very beautiful for me. It put me in tears. I love to dance and watching something I love to do bring everyone together was really beautiful to me,” she said.

By Tuesday morning, the YouTube video had received nearly 20,000 hits.

David Lloyd George vice principal Darren Mitzel, who handled the technical side of the project, said just over 200 students were involved.

“It was better than we expected... I think the message that we sent is most important. It’s about acceptance and also the fact that our two schools got to work together for a creative, positive message,” he said. “[It was] four months of work for four minutes,

but the kids are so excited to see themselves and to have a final product. And again, looking at 21st-century learning—this is right there.”

Mitzel said bullying remains a problem in schools and staff are always looking for ways to prevent it.

“I showed Degrassi Junior High to a group of my kids and the issues were exactly the same 20 years ago when I was going to school. I just think it’s different now—there’s different ways of [bullying], so I think the message continually has to be put out there.”

On Feb. 23, the entire school district will participate in the annual Day of Pink where students and staff don pink clothing.

The event started in 2007 when two Nova Scotia high school students wanted to support a Grade 9 boy who was called homophobic names after he wore a pink shirt to school.

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Sun Yat-Sen garden opened in time for Expo ’86

Chinatown garden celebrates 25 years of growing Sandra Thomas Staff writer

Standing in the newest addition to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Chinatown last week, former premier Mike Harcourt told a small crowd the inspiration for the attraction was the international excitement surrounding Expo ’86.

“The twin city to Vancouver is Suzhou [China], so we thought let’s have a Ming garden,” Harcourt said. “When it was finished, for 15 years it was the only garden like it in the world outside of China.”

The garden opened in time for Expo ’86 and celebrates its 25th anniversary April 24. To commemorate the occasion CBC B.C. is producing a TV documentary film scheduled to air this summer. The film will be directed by Vancouver filmmaker Mina Shum and produced by Laurie Cooper, a local publicist with documentary film experience.

CBC producer Sheila Peacock said the film will include interviews with key players involved in making the garden a reality.

“THE HISTORY OF CHINESE-CANADIAN RELATIONS HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE.” Sheila Peacock

“When Laurie told me, ‘I have this idea about the anniversary,’ it was a no-brainer,” she said.

Peacock has been a huge fan of the garden since her father would take her to visit as a child. “My dad was the best tour guide ever,” said Peacock.

She said besides the landscaping and architecture and the creation of the garden is an important Vancouver story that deserves to be told. “The history of ChineseCanadian relations hasn’t always been something to celebrate,” said Peacock. “But this garden is a fantastic legacy.”

The garden is named after Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, a nationalist leader

The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Chinatown feaphoto Dan Toulgoet tures 100-year-old miniature trees. considered by many to be the “father of modern China.”

According to the garden’s history, while Sun Yat-Sen travelled the world raising money and support for the Chinese nationalist movement he stayed in Vancouver for three extended visits.

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Funding for the garden, built during 1985 and 1986, came from the provincial, Canadian and Chinese governments, as well as Vancouver’s Chinese community.

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the city’s affluent West Siders and businesses. Architects Joe Wai and Donald Vaughan designed the outer park, while architect Wang Zu-Xin conceived the inner garden with help from the Landscape Architecture Company of Suzhou. In total, 53 master craftsmen travelled to Vancouver from China to create the attraction modelled after a scholar’s garden from the Ming Dynasty, which dates back to the 15th century.

The men brought with them 950 crates of materials and constructed the garden using traditional methods, which excluded the use of glue, screws or power tools.

The end result is one of tranquility, symbolism and the perfect balance of yin and yang featuring 100-year-old miniature trees, limestone rocks imported from Suzhou, cherry blossom trees, bamboo, and orange koi swimming in jade green water.

To mark the anniversary, the garden is hosting special events all year. Check out the calendar of events at vancouverchinesegarden.com. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Small acts of kindness buoy bad news

It’s been a tough couple of weeks in the news when you consider the violence in Egypt and the slaughter of 100 sled dogs in Whistler.

North Vancouver resident Danielle Barbu told me last week that after all the bad news in the media recently, she wanted to share an experience that reaffirmed her faith in other people. In this case, Danielle’s other person was a stranger named John.

Danielle, a Richmond school teacher, recently drove to her veterinarian’s Marine Drive office in North Vancouver with her 21-pound cat Stewart after a long day at work. Because her hands were full with Stewart, Danielle uncharacteristically stuck her wallet in her jacket pocket and left her purse at home. During the cat’s appointment, her cellphone rang several times but she didn’t recognize the number and ignored it. About five minutes later there was a knock on the door of the vet’s examination room. When it opened, a man stood there holding out her driver’s licence asking if it belonged to her.

“My first thought was why is this strange man standing there with my licence,” Danielle said laughing.

The man handed Danielle her wallet and told her he’d found it on the sidewalk nearby.

Danielle didn’t have any contact information in the wallet (life lesson alert), but the man discovered a business card that belonged to her hair stylist. He called the salon, and the salon in turn was the number trying to reach

sandrathomas Danielle on her cell. Danielle was touched John had taken the time to not only call her hair stylist, but also canvas the stores and offices near where he found her wallet. He entered each of the stores holding up Danielle’s driver’s licence photo asking if anyone had seen her. He hit the jackpot when he entered the vet’s office and discovered she was still there.

When Danielle later posted her story on Facebook, she received such a huge response from readers touched by this stranger’s kindness, she decided to thank him publicly and share her uplifting experience.

John told Danielle his wife had lost her purse in Whistler several years ago and the person who found it went to great lengths to return it. He had been waiting to pay back that

favour ever since.

This story reminds me of the time about two years ago when Steve, our longtime Vancouver Sun delivery person, found my partner’s wallet in the street. (I have never met Steve, but we swap Christmas cards.)

My partner had been out at a work function the night before and when he got out of the taxi on his return home, he unknowingly dropped his wallet, where it lay all night until Steve came by around 5:30 a.m. to drop off our paper and spotted it. My partner didn’t have anything in his wallet with our home address on it (life lesson number two), so Steve didn’t know exactly where the wallet belonged. Instead, he left a message on the cell number printed on my partner’s business card.

After calling Steve back early that morning, my partner went to meet him at a restaurant where he was enjoying breakfast with other carriers. My partner tried to give him a small reward for the return of his wallet, but Steve refused. He also refused my partner’s offer to buy breakfast for the table. In Steve’s opinion, there was no reward needed for returning the wallet because that’s just what you do.

Unsung heroes like Steve and John reassure us there are kind people in this world. And their great efforts remind us that having proper identification in our wallets would make their work easier. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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One-man play documents death of beloved mother Do you read the obits? Although I’m only in my 40s and hopefully a long way from my last gasp, I regularly read the obituary page in the newspaper.

My parents are getting on and older than most of the strangers I read about whose lives have ended. I think about my mum when I read about the passing of women who are remembered for putting others’ needs ahead of their own. Am I preparing for the inevitable?

Perhaps, though I’m confident my mother has plenty more years left to tell me how badly I need a haircut and to enclose $50 in my birthday card (quite possibly to pay for a haircut).

How people are remembered and how they spent their lives fascinates me. I’m inevitably moved by loving tributes that immortalize the dead, though I wish more people would break free from the formulaic obituary style and speak in their own voice. Obits about women or men who leave behind young children pain me the most.

I often wonder about short obits, such as the one for a longtime family friend, our Auntie Erna, who died last fall in Montreal. The sadness was not so much about her passing—she was 92, nearly bedridden and had dementia—as it was about her life and how the horrors of the Holocaust lingered under the surface. She was a Berliner, whose parents and sister were killed by the Nazis. Never once did I hear her speak a word of German, though toward the end she apparently started talking to my Swiss-German sister-in-law in her mother tongue. There also seemed to be an unspoken rule about not asking certain questions. I wish I had. Her three-line obit, which she wrote and insisted on in her will, depressed me. Too brief for such a long life.

I bring all of this up because of a one-man show at the Chutzpah! Festival, which starts tomorrow at the Jewish Community Centre. It’s titled How to Disappear Completely and is inspired by the few months a young man spent taking care of his dying mother. Tuesdays with Morrie it’s not.

An acclaimed lighting designer for local theatre productions, Erdal is stepping onto the stage in the one-man show, with the voices and images of his mother Mery and others joining him.

In 2000, Erdal found out his normally vibrant mother was dying of lung cancer, the result of a two-pack-a day cigarette habit that started at age 12. She was 57.

Recently graduated from film school, Erdal immediately flew back to Israel to care for his mother for the last nine months of her life.

As depressing is it got, Erdal said,

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fionahughes there was also much laughter shared between him and the woman he admired most in the world. “I could ask her advice on anything— she was very smart about life.”

Together, mother and son bonded over movies, card games and music. The show’s title is a song by Radiohead his mother loved. Their relationship deepened when Erdal started documenting his mother’s final months—he had studied to be a documentary filmmaker. It was during filming, which his mother agreed to, often becoming the director and ordering him to “cut,” that Erdal really learned about his mother’s difficult but fascinating past.

Born in Paraguay, Mery was sent to live with relatives in Buenos Aires at 12 because her father couldn’t feed her. Unlike her cousins, however, she could not got to school but had to work. It was a tough time. At 18, she travelled alone to Israel with only $10 in her pocket. She became a nurse, had two children and returned to university to study literature, obtaining her PhD at 50. “She had many reasons to be angry, but she was not,” Erdal said. “She also had a stoic approach to death, saying, ‘I’ve lived very intensely. Death is inevitable. It’s a tragedy if I bury you, it’s life when you bury me.’”

As much as the show is about his mother, it’s also about Erdal.

“It’s about who I was 10 years ago and who I am now,” he explained. “It took me a long time to recover from my mother’s death. I’m back to myself, but [her absence] is always there.”

Filming his mother’s final months didn’t sit well with Erdal’s sister, who felt it unnecessary to document so much and argued that it was artificial.

“She hated that I filmed her and our mother. But it was my therapy and I wanted to make something positive about something negative. And my mother had a need to document her life. She told us stuff we never knew.”

Although some tears may be shed during the show, Erdal insists it’s not a downer. “It would be a sin to make a depressing show about such a happy woman.”

I look forward to meeting Mery when the show opens Feb.17. fhughes@vancourier.com

According to one reader, the worst thing about hitting a cyclist with your car is the potential damage to your paint job. file photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “Stop signs and red lights only evolved with cars,” Feb. 4, Letters.

I share Courier letter writer Franco Dominelli’s “no feelings of guilt whatsoever” when he cycles full speed through a stop sign at 2 a.m.

As a matter of fact, after I nail him in the intersection because I had the right of way, the only ill feeling I’ll have while he lays in traction is getting the ding fixed on my ride.

Cal Koat, Vancouver

Aboriginal school column steeped in ignorance

To the editor: Re: “Separate mini school won’t solve aboriginal problems,” Feb. 2.

This article was extremely offensive. Mark Hasiuk clearly has little to no knowledge of the history here in Canada or of social structures that govern peoples lives. Perhaps he should brush up on the Indian Act, residential school or Canadian history before making judgments on subjects he clearly knows nothing about.

What qualifies Hasiuk as an expert on First Nation education? Does he have a bachelors of eduction or is he aboriginal? As a white male, does he ever take a step back to see the advantages life offers him because of his privileged position?

He’s probably the type who would deny any such benefits, even though our systems are based on Eurocentric, patriarchal values.

These values have been the

site of aboriginal marginalization since contact, and poor education outcomes are only one product of this.

First Nations, Metis and Inuit people hold a unique place in Canadian society due our original occupation of this land. The government made agreements with indigenous peoples that assured them equal opportunity to all the things that Canada offers its citizens, including education.

If indigenous children are falling behind, is it not the government’s responsibility to see they get an equal opportunity to succeed, even if that education doesn’t look the same as mainstream education?

The government is expected to honour treaties.

Why should indigenous people, whose land you so love, not get what they are entitled to?

Before writing another article, Hasiuk should make

sure his naivety can’t be mistaken for racism.

Fiona LaPorte, Vancouver

••• To the editor: I fully agree with Mark Hasiuk’s analysis. Here in South Australia, my late wife Maria and I worked for many years in indigenous student support programs at universities. The state government was persuaded in 1985 to set up a separate aboriginal school, Kaurna Plains, on the rationale that it would lift aboriginal kids’ performance and help them complete their schooling successfully. To date, although about 30 per cent of all indigenous kids eventually go to university, as far as I can tell not a single kid has gone straight from that school to university. I hope that this “way-back” idea of separate schools in Vancouver is given the short shrift that it deserves.

Joe Lane, Adelaide, Australia

School board right to turf journalist from forum

To the editor: Re: “Class Notes,” Jan. 28.

On whether the Vancouver School Board should have denied your reporter access to a student forum, let me state first that I think Naoibh O’Connor is one of the city’s finest reporters. As an “education activist,” I’ve always found her education coverage fair, insightful and relevant. As a former journalist I also generally favour transparent debate. But I’ve sat through enough meetings to agree that a media presence can stifle debate and/or encourage posturing, neither of which is helpful for those seeking frank advice on sensitive issues.

And as a parent, had my child been a student speaking at that forum, I would have strongly supported the board’s decision to exclude reporters, even one as responsible as Naoibh. Especially since the board also held public meetings offering ample opportunity for those wanting a wider audience for their views.

A compromise solution in the future might be for the board to provide a “what we heard” report at the next public meeting that summarizes key messages without putting anyone on the spot.

Dawn Steele, Vancouver

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Arts advocate lauds temporary licence trend that could dampen ‘no fun city’ reputation

City hall may relax occupancy rates and alcohol restrictions Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

The city is poised to make its arts and culture scene more vibrant, says Irwin Oostindie, who’s managed arts spaces in the Downtown Eastside for 20 years.

“We’ll see the net out-

comes of that in 10 years from now, or five years from now. These are all tools to break that no fun city [reputation],” said Oostindie, who’s the executive director of W2: Community Media Arts and board member for The Pacific Association of Art-

ist Run Centres.

Council directed staff Feb. 3 to continue its work to relax rules about occupancy rates and the serving of alcohol, and to make it easier for arts groups to get temporary licences to hold events in an array of spaces without having to make

costly building upgrades.

City bylaws have required that organizations wanting to serve alcohol to more than 60 guests had to double their exit capacity—widen doors or add another exit—or reduce the number of permitted guests by half. Building

VANCOUVER YOGA STUDIO STRETCHES THEIR LIGHTING DOLLARS FURTHER. Turning an old parking garage into a health and fitness retreat takes vision and a lot of renovation. Doing it in an environmentally conscious and economical way adds to the challenge.

That was the situation YYoga encountered as it created a new facility in downtown Vancouver. “There was a small existing studio,” says Matt Fraser, YYoga’s COO. “We took over the entire floor of 11,000 square feet and in the process upgraded the entire building.”

“There were old fluorescents and incandescents everywhere,” says Fraser. “We replaced them with LEDs.” Now, the energy bills are projected to run about $1,500 less each year. YYoga’s lighting project qualified for a $2,400 incentive from BC Hydro—a rebate that Fraser says made a big difference in bringing the project to life.

“EXPO 86 WAS A SORT OF PUBERTY.” and fire bylaws are to be altered this spring.

In B.C., where funding for arts groups is unstable, the city needs to allow organizations to make a little money from liquor sales, Oostindie said.

Representatives of multiple city departments have worked with arts and cultural groups to eliminate red tape and regulations.

The city hired a concierge last year to guide those approaching the city for special event and liquor licences through the various departments. The concierge’s aim, said Vision Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal, is to streamline the system and make the concierge position obsolete.

Council passed last week an interim program for organizations running afoul of current bylaws. The city enforces bylaws based on complaints, and those in violation face enforcement and potential closure.

A complaint came in about the kitchen at the Western Front, a 38-yearold artist-run organization on East Eighth Avenue near Main Street. Instead of proceeding directly to enforcement, the city is working with the Western Front to resolve the problems.

City staff are also working with volunteer-run Little Mountain Gallery at East 26th Avenue and Main Street, which isn’t licensed for assemblies.

“If we can bring some of these places that are not currently compliant into

Heather Deal compliance by both of us compromising—they do some work, we do some relaxing—then they’re legal and a complaint can’t shut them down,” Deal said.

Oostindie emphasizes the importance of supporting new, innovative arts groups.

“By having a continuity between the emerging spaces and the institutions, you get a vibrant tapestry of cultural life in Vancouver,” he said. “What we want to see is what happened with Western Front 35 years ago, what happened with the different artist-run centres that are now household names in Vancouver.”

The city allocates liquor licences under the province’s liquor policy branch.

Deal notes there’s little flexibility around liquor laws at the provincial level and the city intends to encourage the provincial government to relax its regulations. She wants to see customers of beer gardens at events, including Pride and the Folk Music Festival, permitted to carry a beer down the street or to a stage.

“It’s a matter of coming of age,” she said. “Expo 86 was a sort of puberty and now we’re moving out of our parents’ basements.” crossi@vancourier.com

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Province stalls on civic spending limits Mike Howell

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Government Elections Task Force asking for limits on contributions and a ban on union, corporate and foreign donations.

In June 2010, the task force recommended spending limits for a candidate. But the task force did not recommend limits on the amount of money a person, corporation or union could donate to a candidate.

“We’ll follow the rules that are in place,” Baillie said. “Of course, we were big advocates of change in this regard but it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.

And barring any change at the provincial level, the only ones that we can follow are the ones in front of us.”

John Moonen, acting president of the NPA, said he too believes the government will be hard pressed to pass legislation at a time of such turmoil at the provincial government level. The NPA also made a submission to the task force asking for spending limits. “It’s a concern,” Moonen said.

“As the person responsible for raising the money, it would be a lot better if we could have some limits. And we supported those limits in our submission to the provincial government.”

The task force’s report didn’t outline specific spending limits but provided a possible formula where candidates could spend one dollar for every resident. That would mean a candidate in Vancouver could spend $628,621 whereas a candidate in Zeballos on Vancouver Island would max out at $161. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Wednesday February 16, 2011 3:30pm-7:00pm Kitchener Elementary, 4055 Blenheim Street School Library - main school building Staff from VSB, City of Vancouver, and the project architects will be in attendance to provide information and receive input on the proposal for the replacement school.

Below is a brief description of the proposal: • a two-storey replacement school with a building height of 13.69m.; • relocation and renovation of the 1914 wood-frame building; • demolition of the brick building following construction of the replacement school.

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The provincial government cannot guarantee that reforms to civic election rules such as spending limits for candidates will be in place by the time voters go to the polls in November.

That means this year’s civic campaign in Vancouver will likely again have no limits on the amount of money a candidate can collect and spend. The 2008 city election campaign saw the city’s three mainstream parties—Vision, COPE and the NPA—spend about $5 million.

“Intensive work continues toward that goal,” said a statement emailed Wednesday to the Courier from the ministry of community, sport and cultural development. “However, we are aware the timeline could be tight for the legislation needed for implementation by November’s elections.”

Ensuring that all involved in local elections are fully informed about the timing and nature of changes as soon as feasible is a priority for the province, the statement added.

What the statement didn’t indicate is how leadership races for the provincial Liberals and NDP and talk of an HST referendum in June will further delay any legislation getting passed in the B.C. Legislature. Liberal hopeful Christy Clark has also mused about calling a snap provincial election in May. For Vision Vancouver and the NPA, the provincial government’s inability to guarantee that civic reforms will be in place by November has the parties assuming it will again be an expensive campaign season.

“I think it’s off the radar screen,” said Ian Baillie, Vision’s executive director.

“Basically the whole provincial scene is in turmoil. There’s no leadership of any major party, so I think getting these other things done seems to be very unlikely.”

In March 2010, the ruling Vision council sent a list of recommendations to the Local

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It includes displays of exotic and rare orchids, plant sales by local and international vendors, educational opportunities, how-to demonstrations and expert advice.

It’s at VanDusen Botanical Gardens, 5251 Oak St. On Saturday, the show runs 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $7. For more information, map or discount coupons, visit vancouverorchidsociety.ca.

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Epistemology talk

The 56th Langara College Community Lecture Series presents the Alister Browne talk “What if Someone Asked You What You Know?” What if someone asked you if you could prove that you are in a room at the Vancouver Public Library, or that the sun will rise tomorrow?

Could you do it? If not, can you know these things?

The branch of philosophy known as epistemology (the study of knowledge and justified belief) deals with such questions, and this talk will introduce you to that branch. The talk is Feb. 23 at noon at the Central Library, 350 W. Georgia St. in the Alma VanDusen and Peter Kaye Room. Admission is free. Seating is limited. Visit vpl.ca for more information.

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New drinking and driving laws help launch boozy bar shuttle Cheryl Rossi Staff writer

A Vancouver restaurant and bar has responded to the province’s new drinking and driving laws and decreased alcohol sales by putting a free shuttle on the road.

Biercraft Tap and Tapas on Commercial Drive started its Bier Craft shuttle in late November. “We decided let’s launch the shuttle so that we

can get people home safely and that they don’t have to be nervous about having a second drink,” said Dean Mallel, president of the company that owns the Biercraft and Incendio restaurants. Biercraft’s van offers door-to-door service from 5 p.m. until closing.

It operates within a 30-block radius, to keep waits less than 30 minutes. Customers at Biercraft on The Drive are served a ride request slip.

“I waited, personally, 45 minutes for one of those driving services to come pick me and my car up one night,” said Phillip Osztian, general manager of the establishment formerly known as Stella’s.

He says customers have waited longer for a cab. Biercraft on The Drive suffered a sharper decline in sales than the Biercraft Bistro on Cambie Street, says Osztian. The

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more courtesy shuttles hit the road. “It’s inevitable,” he said. “I don’t think that people are going to have a choice but it’s a very tough decision because it’s very expensive.”

Mallel said the concerns of the industry, which has suffered from the global recession and the HST, haven’t been addressed.

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Neither Mallel nor Osztian would say how much alcohol sales suffered after the new laws were enacted. Osztian says the van transports an average of five to 10 people home on weeknights, more than 10 on weekends.

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Vanhattan’s first lady of glam, Symone heated things up at the popular party-filled Gay Ski Week at Whistler Resort.

Keynote speakers UBC PhD student Ren Thomas and landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander spoke at SCARP’s 60th anniversary gala.

Fred All dolled up for the 19th running of WinterPRIDE was CEO Dean Nelson a.k.a. Princess La Nina Snow of Whistler.

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Love all around: By the buckets, love was all around at the Symphony Lovers’ Ball, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s signature soiree. Chair Liz Gordon welcomed 400 lovebirds to the 21st running of the Mogul India-themed gala and dinner. Guests shelling out as much as $20,000 a table were treated to a royal repast courtesy of executive chef Robert LeCrom and the sounds of the Grammy and Juno Award-winning orchestra. Under the leadership of Maestro Bramwell Tovey, the 73-member ensemble performed in the historic Pacific Ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.

SCARPIES unite: Sharing their history and building for the future, graduates of UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, a.k.a. SCARPIES, gathered at the Four Season’s Hotel for their 60th anniversary gala. Members of the planning community, faculty and grads gathered to celebrate their own. Proceeds from the silent auction went to support a student scholarship named after the school’s founder Peter Oberlander.

Mountain high: Thousands got pretty in pink and hit the slopes for WinterPRIDE 2011. Whistler Resort hosted an avalanche of activities to mark the 19th anniversary of one of the largest and best gay ski weeks in the world. Fronted by WinterPRIDE CEO Dean Nelson, a full slate of snow events were on tap for partygoers over the course of the week-long fete.

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Alumnus Mark Holland and department head Penny Gurstein welcomed SCARPIES to UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning’s 60th anniversary.

VSO CEO and president Jeff Alexander, Maestro Bramwell Tovey and chair Art Willms welcomed galagoers to the 21st Symphony Lovers’ Ball.

Joining the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for the India-inspired Lovers’ Ball were Stefan Cihelka on the tabla and Mohammed Assani playing the sitar.

Margot Kidder, Telus VP Jill Schnarr, B.C. Women’s Hospital president Dr. Jan Christilaw and CTV’s Tamara Taggart (not shown) fronted the Illuminations benefit.

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1. It’s all gone Andrew Tong at the Elliott Louis Gallery (258 East First Ave.), which hosts the local painter’s new exhibition Modern Times until Feb. 26 with an artist’s reception Feb. 10, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. More info at elliottlouis.com.

2. Get your Tony Hawk and Lance Mountain fix as Powell & Peralta presents two classic skateboarding vids from the 1980s: The Bones Brigade Video Show and The Search for Animal Chin, in which members of the Bones Brigade seek enlightenment from an old Chinese man, sweet skate spots and attempt to act. Look for Vancouver skateboarder Kevin Harris in the “rad party scene.” It all goes down at the Rio Theatre Feb. 10, 6 p.m. More info at the riotheatre.ca.

3. Montreal electro-funk duo Chromeo brings its bootyshaking beats to the Commodore in support of its latest album Business Casual Feb. 10 and 11. MNDR and The Suzan open. Word has it Thursday’s show is sold out, with tickets still available at Zulu, Red Cat and all Ticketmaster locations for Friday’s concert.

4. Sacramento, California’s Cake are back with another batch of witty, half-spoken, vibra-slap-happy tunes in the form of a CD called Showroom of Compassion. And wouldn’t you know it, they’re playing for dedicated and patient fans Feb. 10 at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts. For tickets, go to ticketmaster.ca.

kudos & kvetches Winged headline migration

It’s been a long time coming, but there has finally been a “Falcon sharpens his talons” headline sighting.

Ever since the man with beguiling spiky hair and stylish eyewear announced his bid to become the next leader of the B.C. Liberal party and, thus, premier of the province, the crafty headline watchers at K&K have been rubbing their over-lotioned hands together in eager anticipation. Aside from politics, cheesy ads of Kevin Falcon reading to children and empty promises to extend late-night transit service, when he could have done when he was transportation minister, the dude has the coolest sounding name of all Liberal leadership contenders. Not only is Falcon more agile than Eagle, meaner than Swan, swifter than Badger and deadlier than Chubby-Marmot, Falcon provides editors with a plethora of metaphoric headline possibilities: “Falcon takes flight,” “Falcon eats crow,” “Soaring Falcon caught dining on dead mouse that oddly resembles Mike de Jong in darkened corner of the legislature.”

We had a feeling it was only a matter of time before someone took it upon themselves and embraced Falcon’s talons the way they were meant to be embraced.

We have to wonder, though, what took so long. The same goes for NDP leadership hopeful Adrian Dix. We’ve been calling for some Falcon on Dix headline action for over a month now, and so far no one has unzipped the Dix metaphors and massaged them to their full potential. It doesn’t take much.

It is time for newspapers around the city and the entire province, for that matter, to spread their Falcon headline wings and erect their best Dix puns before it’s too late and we only have one, or heaven forbid, none of these guys to bash around in print.

Gone to pot

According to an article in the National Post, a judge has ruled that a Toronto church’s belief that smoking pot brings its members closer to God does not protect them from criminal charges. Originally, two far-out minister dudes from the groovy sounding Church of

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But, as usual, the Man was having none of it.

Truth be told, the get-high-on-life members of K&K aren’t opposed to the decriminalization of marijuana. But for those of us with staunch atheist and agnostic streaks, the notion of getting closer to God by puffing on a chonger is troublesome.

In our limited experience with the inhaling of illegal substances, we’ve come to the conclusion that, if anything, smoking pot merely brings one closer to unhealthy dietary decisions made late night at 7-Eleven, a tolerance for jam-filled reggae music and a deeper understanding of the 1984 movie starring hunky Christopher Lambert Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, which we only realized had been dubbed into French after watching it for 45 minutes because the dialogue during that entire time had been shrieking and grunting monkeys and gorillas. Anyone else feeling hungry right now?

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Falsettos director hits high notes He acts, he sings, he directs, he composes, he choreographs and he teaches.

But until now, Peter Jorgensen has never answered the Courier’s 10 Questions.

Currently directing the musical Falsettos, which runs Feb. 12 to 20 at Norman Rothstein Theatre as part of Chutzpah!, Jorgensen checked off one more box on his bucket list to discuss the secret to singing in a high voice, what stresses him out and the last time he was drunk.

1. In as brief and sexy a way possible, could you explain the premise of Falsettos?

Marvin with his lover, his ex-wife, his therapist and two lesbians from next door grasp at love and try to define their family while planning their son’s Bar Mitzvah.

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Does directing a musical that has won two Tony Awards put added pressure on you not to screw it up?

I’m a firm believer that content dictates form. So if the material is strong, it can sometimes direct itself. I don’t really think about the awards it’s received though.

3. When are you most happy?

Playing with my son. He’s expanded me in every way imaginable. And enjoying a peaceful moment with my wife. Life in the biz can easily become chaotic—it’s a scramble to make ends meet. I am most happy when chaos falls away... but I always look forward to returning to it again.

4. When are you most stressed?

When I’m running late! I’m sure my blood pressure goes through the roof. I hate being late for anything.

5. In what aspect of your life do you exhibit the most chutzpah?

As a producer with Patrick Street Productions. Looking back on the three shows we’ve produced and the scale at

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Multitasker Peter Jorgensen directs the Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos, which runs Feb. 12 to 20 as part of Chutzpah! photo Rebecca Blissett which we produced them I sometimes shake my head and wonder what we were thinking. But it has also been some of the most satisfying work of my career.

6. As someone who is a voice instructor,

what is the biggest obstacle for people to overcome in using their voice effectively?

I LOVE teaching voice. I do it whenever I can. People develop all sorts of bad ideas of what singing is. Most of the time singing lessons involve stripping away those bad habits that usually result in unnecessary tension. Singing is a natural extension of speech... of course, people sometimes have tension in their speaking voices too... well, just come for a lesson.

7. What’s the secret to singing falsetto?

I once told a guy who couldn’t sing in falsetto to sing like a girl. That did it.

I’ve also told people it feels like blowing air over a bottle to make a sound... except the bottle is in your throat. It’s about finding the language that makes sense for each student. Everyone connects differently with their voice. My

job is to articulate it in a way that makes sense to each student.

8. What do you do to relax?

I enjoy driving—it gives me a chance to listen to cast recordings. I enjoy reading but I’m usually reading material that is research for a show.

It’s a blessing and a curse that my work is my play and vice versa.

9. When’s the last time you got drunk?

I’m pretty lame on that count. Last time I remember being seriously drunk would be during theatre school in New York. First semester. I was working in the tech department as well as taking classes.

Put in a 50-hour workweek on top of 35 hours of classes. We cut loose when the week was done. Now I love a cold beer during the hockey game, and a good glass of wine, but I don’t like being drunk.

10. Who plays you in the movie of your life?

John Cusack (if he can sing).

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Call me unimaginative, but I have never wondered if Peter Pan wanted to have sex with Wendy.

Or make a baby with Wendy. But first-time playwright Niall McNeil evidently has, and over three years, working with writer/performer Marcus Youssef, he has written a play that explores the dark underbelly of J.M. Barrie’s beloved Peter Pan. (And here I thought the dark side was Mr. and Mrs. Darling leaving the kids home alone.)

This completely free-associative work came out of three years of videotaped conversations between Youssef (co-writer of the off-beat political satires Ali and Ali I and II, and others) and McNeil, a 28year-old Leaky Heaven Circus and Caravan Theatre veteran, who was born with Down syndrome.

I am blown away by the play-making process and the commitment of everyone involved in this project.

Youssef’s bio reads, in part, “Writing Peter Panties with the singularly talented and generous Niall McNeil has been one of his most satisfying creative experiences.” Heather Redfern, executive director of the Cultch was close to tears as the curtain fell.

The cast, designers (including Nita Bowerman, Stephan Bircher, Joe Hawk and David Mesiha) and crew threw themselves with passion and generosity into the work. Well-wishers who have followed McNeill’s performances in Leaky Heaven Circus shows over the years turned out in numbers for opening night. Some were ecstatic, others left scratching their heads.

I was not overwhelmed by the outcome of this project, but I urge you to read Colin Thomas’s review in The Georgia Straight because he probably still hasn’t come down to earth, comparing the experience to riding a runaway toboggan to an unknown destination. I like to know where I’m going—a personal limitation, I admit—and I’m distinctly uncomfortable with chaos. Peter Panties is definitely chaos country.

Imaginative it is. The story is all there—sort of. Peter Pan (Jamie Long) doesn’t want to grow up: “I

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Peter then (and I’m not sure of the details) wants Wendy dead and so the mermaid kills her and suddenly we’re in a CSI episode with gowned forensic scientists working over the shrouded corpse of Wendy.

Macbeth makes an appearance and Banquo’s ghost (McNeill himself) turns up. And amazingly,

they sort of make sense within the context of McNeill’s freewheeling thought process.

Veda Hille, working with The Bank Dogs, a quartet of East Side Grade 10 musicians, sets McNeill’s lyrics to her distinctive composing style, and they really rock. In a recent CBC interview, Hille commented that McNeill has a natural feel for writing lyrics.

And they are colourful with liberal sprinklings of the “f” word.

Co-directed by Leaky Heaven Circus’s Steven Hill and Lois Anderson, the cast reads like a who’s who of the Vancouver theatre community: Peter Anderson, Sasa Brown, Lesley Ewen, James Long, Tanya Podlozniuk, Adrienne Wong, Allan Zinyk and young performers Ruby Izzat, Elena Anderson-Kirby and Oscar Youssef.

Peter Panties, its development and production, would make a compelling documentary and/or a fascinating Canadian Theatre Review article; someone is bound to follow up on that.

Me? I’ll try to get into the chaos groove. Maybe buy a toboggan.

See where it takes me. joled@telus.net

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Concussion update

Two-time national novice champion Mitchell Gordon demonstrated his jumps, spins and Salchows at the Robson Square photos Dan Toulgoet ice rink last week in preparation for the upcoming Canada Winter Games in Halifax.

Dunbar teen sharpens his blades for Halifax Megan Stewart

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Two-time national novice champion and Dunbar teenager Mitchell Gordon knows he must land a triple Lutz in competition next week at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax.

He’ll glide through an easier Salchow if the Lutz eludes him, but just attempting the more technically challenging and mentally taxing jump impresses judges and intimidates competitors.

“On the score sheet, the Lutz is scored as more. [Skaters] see it as more so they get an image that it’s more difficult,” he said.

“For me the Salchow is still easier but it’s worth it to attempt the Lutz because it got me more points, even falling and just because I went for it.”

At the Canadian figure skating championships in Victoria in January, Gordon, 14, twice went for the triple Lutz, a spinning jump done backwards from the skate’s outside edge.

In the short program—to music from the 1975 Mahogany soundtrack—Gordon fell. He tried the Lutz again in the free skate, falling a second time.

“I rushed it a little bit,” said the Grade 9 Kitsilano secondary student Monday. “I got too anxious to land it.”

He regularly lands the triple Lutz at practise. The directors with Skate Canada assess young athletes and determine if they’re ready to advance to the junior level. Skaters must complete multiple triples in competition, which Gordon does.

“He’s a talented young skater and he has potential,” said Mike Slipchuk, director of high performance with Skate Canada. “He is developing and moving in the right direction and is putting in high levels of technical difficulty that will only keep him moving forward. He’s moving himself into the junior ranks and will be competitive right away.”

After his short program in Victoria, Gordon was in fourth place behind two Quebec skaters and another from Ontario. He earned high marks for performance, even though he says this is one aspect of his skating that needs the most work.

For his second performance in the free skate, Gordon was praised by a writer for Golden Skate, an international online magazine dedicated to covering the sport, who described his skate as “wonderfully presented.”

Gordon stepped out of one of the double Axels but the opening combination, “a triple toe loop-double toe loop was flawless and his spins were also quite good although he

still has some room to maximize his levels and earn more points.”

With a total score of 120.24, Gordon came from behind and finished in top place, winning his second consecutive national novice title.

Days later, Patrick Chan won the senior men’s championship after he landed two quadruple loops during a historic performance that left spectators speechless.

After the Canada Winter Games, Gordon is aiming for the international Junior Grand Prix. Beyond that, the Olympics.

He trains 20 hours a week. Between six on-ice practices, Gordon’s dryland training includes ballet classes and other conditioning to build muscle, flexibility and endurance.

He started skating when he was four, tagging along with his sixyear-old sister to a CanSkate learnto-skate program. He briefly played hockey but preferred figure skating.

“I liked spinning. Sometimes, depending on the spin, if your arms are out, it will make your hands hurt because the blood rushes out because you’re spinning so fast,” he said. “It feels like you’re running in the wind.”

Running, then taking flight. mstewart@vancourier.com Twitter: @MHStewart

Last week I wrote about the Vancouver Minor Hockey Association and a Midget A1 forward who had a concussion after he was hit from behind in October.

I called Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association executive director Carol McGregor to find out if the player was suspended.

The woman who answered the phone would not identify herself although it was not McGregor.

She said, “To protect the privacy of the player involved, we do not release that information.”

I didn’t want to know the offending player’s name. It’s irrelevant.

But was he suspended?

“I’d like to know,” said Tom Fenton, who took his 16-year-old son to the hospital after he was plowed into the boards and became increasingly symptomatic of brain trauma.

The PCAHA won’t say. I was told: “Something horrific has happened.”

No kidding. “[The penalized player] is a minor player and we protect the privacy of players.”

The player’s privacy was never at stake. There is no compelling reason to withhold the duration of a suspension following a very public, much witnessed and already reported hit from behind. Just who is being protected?

According to the PCAHA and Hockey B.C. rule books, checking from behind carries an automatic game misconduct.

Bonnie Cameron with Hockey B.C. said penalties can escalate and do so on a case-by-case basis. “You can get suspended for a hit from behind if you hurt someone… in which case it could be six games or 21 days or more.”

Tom Fenton’s son was hurt, he was concussed and missed nearly three months because of a back injury. Does the suspension (if there was one) fit the hit?

Who knows.

PCAHA president David Buck said, “These are hockey matters and they’re dealt with within the hockey groups not through outside reporters or outside business interests.”

No external checks that allow the public to gage if a penalized player is appropriately sanctioned.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Notice is hereby given that Creditors and others, having claims against the Estate of GOLDIE MIEDZYGORSKI, Deceased, formerly of Vancouver, B.C., who died on September 5, 2010 in Vancouver, BC, are hereby required to send the particulars thereof to the undersigned Executor c/o Kornfeld & Company, Barristers & Solicitors, 640-943 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E1 on or before March 31, 2011, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

SIDNEY MIEZYGORSKI AND SALLY COLEMAN, Executors

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Notice is Hereby Given that Creditors and others, having claims against the estate of Charlene Diane Mason, formerly of 2596 Pandora Street, Vancouver, BC, V5K 1V8, Deceased, who died on November 13, 2010, are hereby required to send particulars thereof to the undersigned Executor, c/o Scott Mason, 2596 Pandora Street, Vancouver, BC, V5K 1V8, on or before March 7, 2011, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only for claims that have been received.

Scott Mason, Executor.

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6605

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8055

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8073

Drainage

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8075

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8080

Electrical

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8125

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8140

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8150

Kitchens/Baths

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

Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets

#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby

8155

Landscaping

FULL SERVICE Landscaping www.sterlinglandscaping.ca Free estimates! 604-985-2545

8160

Lawn & Garden

Winter Services Same Day Service, Fully Insured

SNOW REMOVAL

• Yard Clean-Ups • Pruning • Gutters • Landscaping

• Xmas Lights • Hedges • Rubbish Removal • Odd Jobs

WINTER SPECIALS

WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

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HOME SERVICES Find the professionals you need to create the perfect renovation.

to advertise call

604-630-3300

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604-737-0170

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HOME SERVICES 8160

Lawn & Garden

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

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

* MUSHROOM MANURE *

TREE SPECIALIST - 25 yrs exp.

Oriental landscaper, remove trees, pruning, etc. 604-328-9487

8175

Masonry

D&M PAINTING

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

604-724-3832

PRIMO PAINTING

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

drytech.ca RENOVATIONS 22-BUILD (222-8453)

Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

8185

Moving & Storage

Interior & Exterior Interior Special Free Est. - 15 Years Exp. Insured /WCB

AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men

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

45 We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

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20 yrs exp. Larry 604-961-4391

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ADVANCE MOVING LTD MOVING & DELIVERY EXPERTS!!

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AJK MOVING LTD.

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

Commercial. Industrial.

Truck for Clean-ups garage, basement, backyard.

(604) 875-9072 873-5292 Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020

CONFIDENT PAINTING LTD Int/Ext Specialist 20 yr exp. Reas rates, quality. Licensed, Ins, WCB Jean-Guy 604-626-1975 DAVID HALL & Daughter Painting and Wallpaper.

Please Call 604-266-5744 MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured. ★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reasonable rates. 604-221-4900

8205

Paving/Seal Coating

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

8220

Plumbing

20% OFF All Moving

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Call 604-782-9511

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604-312-6311

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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

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604-724-3670

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

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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

www.crownresidentialroofing.com

8250

Roofing

Vancouver Division Since 1985

Reasonable rates - Free Est. Pat 604-224-2112, anytime

ROOFING SERVICES

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GET OUT YOUR LIST! We do all the fussy little jobs no one else wants to do. Complete home repairs. Workmanship and your Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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ROOF LEAKS!

Waters Home Maintenance 604-738-6606

8255

PLUMBERS

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REPAIRS & RENOVATIONS Electrical, plumbing, carpentry, all work to code. 27 yrs on West Side Call Greg 604-644-4554 www.dpdconstruction.com Renos, repairs, character home specialty. Dean @ 604-908-4813

604-274-0285

Tiling

A to Z CERAMIC TILES Installation, Repairs, Fair Prices Free Est. 444-4715 cel 805-4319 ETNA CERAMIC Tile & Remodelling. Kitchen & Bath Specialists.

30 years exp., Call 778-829-3368.

8315

Tree Services

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

Find an electrician under Home Services

9125

9130

Domestic

1998 DODGE Neon $2950, very clean, 1 owner, 110,000 kms, AC, PS, PB, good tires, new trans.

604-802-2344

TWO WHEELIN’ EXCITEMENT! Motorcycle Mechanic Program.

GPRC Fairview Campus, Alberta.

Hands-on training for street, offroad, dual sport bikes. Write 1st year apprenticeship exam.

1-888-999-7882; www.gprc.ab.ca/fairview

9145

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

9129

Luxury Cars

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

Scrap Car Removal

9130

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

POWERBOATS IN SUMMER, Snowmobiles in Winter, ATV’s in between! GPRC Fairview Campus, Alberta. Learn to repair small engines, recreational vehicles. First step to Apprenticeship. On-campus residences. 1-888-999-7882; www.gprc.ab.ca/fairview THE ONE - THE ONLY - The only one in Canada! Only authorized Harley Davidson Technician Program at GPRC Fairview Campus, Alberta. September 2011 intake. On-campus residences. 1-888-999-7882; www.gprc.ab.ca/fairview

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

2005 DODGE Ram 1500 4x4

Quad cab 4.7L V8 92 km new tire dealer serv $14000 604-812-1870

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

2001 JAGUAR S-Type 3.0, Auto, V6, Black on white, Perfect cond, $6,000. Tel: 778-322-3598

9155

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9150

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1983 MERCEDES 500SEL, 5L ohc, int as new, reliable, records/ serviced $1500 604-943-2626 2004 VOLVO XC70 2.5T AWD 100k kms, Exc cond. Dealer serviced. Alloys, Climate Control, Heated Memory Seats, Power s/r etc 604 506 2723.

9522

RV’s/Trailers

2004 WILDWOOD 22 ft trailer, exc cond, queen bed, fridge, tub & shower, oven, furnace. Sway bars. $9500. 604-321-3772

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Services & Repairs

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

604-327-3213

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Windows Cleaned Inside & Outside Gutters Cleared & Cleaned FREE ESTIMATES

ALL JUNK?

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

★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com

White Rose Window Cleaning

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

8309

Window Cleaning

Rubbish Removal

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

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8335

AUTOMOTIVE

ROOFING/ RE-ROOFING Leak Repairs & Chimney Repairs

Additions, renos & new const.

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

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

RUBBISH REMOVAL

#1 Roofing Company in BC

WWW.PATTARGROUP.COM

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

Rubbish Removal

KITSILANO JUNK REMOVAL Big or Small! Free Estimate!

Call David.... 778-896-9007

Additions. Kitchens Bathrooms. Landscape Const.

Design & Build Renovations 604.662.8150

8255

@ YOUR HOME

604-588-0833

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

Tried & True Since 1902

• BBB • RCABC • GAF/ELK Master Elite Contractor • Residential Roofing • Liability Coverage and WCB • Designated Project Managers • Homes & Strata • Third Party Inspection Installations & Repairs Call 604-327-3086 for a free estimate •• 24 Hr Emergency Service Quote code 2010 for a 5% discount

604-340-7189

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FREE ESTIMATES

RESIDENTIAL DIVISION LTD.

WCB – Fully Insured

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

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

604-725-8925

WINTER SPECIALS

604-723-8434

2 PAINTERS available. Honest, Reliable & Prof. 778-877-7045 www.pastandpresent.webs.com

8300

Roofing

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

15% OFF

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

8250

38/HR! Clogged drains, drips, garbs, sinks, reno’s, toilets, installs, Lic/Ins. 778-888-9184

PLUMBER DRAINMAN Water mains (no digging method) Sewer lines (no digging method) Draintiles 604-715-4903

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

P/U or delivery. Covered storage.

(604) 644-1878

Plumbing

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

604-347-7888

GREENSTAR GARDEN Self employed gardener. Over 20 years exp. 604-736-5791

8220

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Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020 A.J.K. MOVING Ltd. Special truck for clean-ups. Any size job Lic#32839 604-875-9072 DISPOSAL BINS: Starting at $99 + dump fees. Call 604-306-8599 www.disposalking.com JACK’S RUBBISH Removal Friendly, Fast & Cheap 604-266-4444

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Certified Organic

Non-Medicate

California

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Chicken B r east Bonele

Navel Oranges ¢ $ 25 99

Whole Chickens

$

Food Store

2

99

/lb. $6.59kg.

ss & Skinless

7

/lb. $2.18kg.

/lb. $15.98kg.

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

Canadian Beef Triple A

Boneless Blade Steaks

Sirloin Tip Roast

Family Pack Canadian Beef Lean

Pork Tenderloin

Stewing Beef

3

New Zealand

$ 99 $ 99 $ 69 $ 49 $

2

From the Deli Freybe

Pepper Salami

1

2

/lb. $6.59kg.

$ 99

Certified Organic

California Lettuce Red & Green Leaf & Romaine

100g.

1

98

¢

/lb. $2.16kg.

Cereals

1

99

12

/lb. $3.70kg.

Plum-M-Good Non-Organic

Almond Breeze Product of USA

Rice Cakes

1

Assorted

99 $ 99 case of 12 946ml

185g.

Certified Organic

Oats

2

Whole & Steel Cut

24

/lb. $26.99kg.

Texas Sweet

Red Grapefruits

$ 68 3 for

/lb. $6.59kg.

19

$ 99 $ 650-907g.

Green Grapes

Blue Diamond

Nature’s Path

6

2

/lb. $7.69kg.

Chilean Seedless

Red Bell Peppers

each

Eco Pacs • Excluding Muesli

/lb. $5.93kg.

Certified Organic Mexican

$ 49 $

Imported Large

Green Bell Peppers

2

/lb. $6.59kg.

Rack of Lamb

99

¢

Lundberg

Rice Chips

1

Assorted

$ 99 170g.

Non-Organic Raw Hulled

Sunflower Seeds

$ 99 $ 99 BULK FOOD &

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