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BY MEGAN STEWART Members of Falun Gong held a protest outside city hall Wednesday to show what they say are torture methods used by the Chinese government on Falun Gong adherents.

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Flower blooms equal size of baby’s head

Point Grey chrysanthemum group last of dying breed Sandra Thomas Staff writer

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tanding in the greenhouse behind the MacKenzie Heights home of Elmer and Marie Ogryzlo, the couple points out several small, frail-looking cuttings of what they hope will eventually grow into one of the rarest and most beautiful chrysanthemums available in Canada—the Lava.

The Ogryzlos are part of a declining yet dedicated group of chrysanthemum growers across Greater Vancouver and the Lower Mainland determined to save as many varieties of the magnificent flower as possible. Due to Canadian import regulations, chrysanthemums cannot legally be brought across the border from the U.S. due to a risk of spreading the fungal disease white rust.

So instead, members of the Point Grey Chrysanthemum Association work diligently to save as many varieties of the high-maintenance blooms as possible. And where there was once 25 similar clubs dedicated solely to growing giant, show-quality chrysanthemums across Metro Vancouver, today the Point Grey association is the last one standing in B.C., which makes the Ogryzlos’ dedication even more vital.

“Many of the cultivars we grow are rare due to the fact we can’t buy them any more because of white rust,” Elmer explains.

“Since we can’t import them we have to depend on the stock within the club.”

Subsequently, Ogryzlos and

other members of the club hope their annual plant sale tomorrow, April 16, at VanDusen Botanical garden will help them recruit new members.

How much the growers depend on each other was made clear recently when one of the club’s members died. Prior to his death, the man had been unable to properly care for his chrysanthemums and by the time he chose several club members to take on the responsibility, it was too late, Marie says. “When we arrived and opened his greenhouse door, it was dark,” recalls Marie, who was one of the chosen few tasked with caring for the man’s chrysanthemums. “My plan was to grab one of his Duke of Kents, which are quite rare, but it was too late.”

Marie describes the Duke of Kent as a “real blockbuster,” and her holy grail of chrysanthemums—particularly in pink. A Google search of images for the Duke of Kent makes it easy to understand Marie’s fascination with the flower, which has magnificent cantaloupe-sized blooms in white, pink and yellow.

Elmer says the death of their friend also meant the death of the Duke of Kent, at least locally, and illustrates the need to keep the club going. Many of the Point Grey members are retired or seniors, which also doesn’t bode well for the chrysanthemum in Vancouver, unless younger growers can be enticed to get involved with their preservation.

The club, which formed in 1937, is the oldest in B.C. The chrysan-

Elmer and Marie Ogryzlo in their greenhouse full of chrysanthephoto Dan Toulgoet mums in MacKenzie Heights. themum’s lineage can be traced back thousands of years while its name stems from two Greek words “krus anthemon” (gold flower). The ancient Chinese also memorialized the flower in early writings and pottery, while Japan chose it as the official crest for its emperor (8th century AD) and

eventually instituted a national holiday in its honour.

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arie became fascinated with chrysanthemums 10 years ago while studying the art of Japanese flower arranging called ikebana. She was participating in an exhibition when she struck up a

conversation with an elderly man displaying what she describes as the most amazing blooms. “I asked this nice, older man what his secret was and he said, ‘Well you’ll have to join our club and we’ll teach you,’” recalls Marie, who immediately took the man up on his invitation.

A year after Marie joined the club, Elmer, a retired scientist and professor emeritus in chemistry at the University of B.C., began to take note. Elmer became interested in the science of growing the flowers and soon took on the challenge, using his expertise in photochemistry, the study of the interaction of light with atoms or molecules.

“Not long after Elmer joined the club, he made a presentation to the group about infrared light and I don’t think one member knew what he was talking about,” says Marie, laughing. “Then being a guy, he got really competitive and wanted to see how far he could push [the size of the flowers].”

Elmer explains that because chrysanthemums are photo periodicals, the amount of light needed to grow them is precise. Chrysanthemum growth is triggered by short days and long nights.

“I was intrigued by the why and how,” says Elmer. “I also wanted to know if I could alter that, so I started experimenting.”

Growing chrysanthemums is a laborious year-round hobby, but the couple says the time spent is well worth it when the end results are blooms the size of a baby’s head.

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Expert notes chrysanthemums may grow successfully on balconies Continued from page 4 In fact, Marie says sometimes she has to refrain from cupping her hands around the giant flowers, much as you would do to a child’s cheeks.

“They’re not like growing geraniums,” says Marie. “It’s like each of the flowers has its own personality.”

Beauty aside, it’s the science and precision of growing giant chrysanthemums that intrigues Elmer. To begin, clippings are taken from a mother plant in January, before being dipped in an anti-fungal powder and placed in sterile rooting material. Once roots form, the tiny clippings are moved to a tray of soil and when they’re strong enough to stand on their own are transferred to two-inch pots, which is when the grower begins pinching off the top of the plant, or disbudding, to force its growth.

“When you disbud everything except one or two stems, all of the plant’s energy goes into them,” says Elmer. “Then they grow to between three and four feet tall.”

In April, the tiny plants are transplanted to five-inch pots, which are the cultivars that will be for sale at VanDusen April 16.

At the time of the Courier’s visit, the Ogryzlos’ greenhouse was packed with cultivars at each stage of young growth. Elmer says the best part of purchasing rooted clippings at the sale is that half the work is already done. In May, the chrysanthemums can be transplanted to a garden or into large pots to be placed on a sunny patio or balcony.

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Stan Stanley’s chrysanthemums will eventually bloom in the backyard of his Pitt Meadows home. photo Troy Landreville/Postmedia Inc. santhemum Association, says just because more city dwellers are living in apartments or condos, there’s no reason they can’t grow big, beautiful, show-quality chrysanthemums on patios, back decks or balconies. In fact, Stanley and the Ogryzlos are hopeful a new generation of container gardeners will pick up the torch the club is so valiantly trying to keep alight. They’re also hoping the plant sale will attract new members to the meetings the association holds every second Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Ce-

dar Room at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

“Chrysanthemums can be grown very successfully on balconies and growing them in pots doesn’t slow them down at all, as long as the pot is the right size,” says Stanley.

He notes chrysanthemums love lots of light, but not direct sun. The “70-something” Stanley was first introduced to chrysanthemums while courting the woman who would eventually become his wife in Worcestershire, England, many years ago.

At the time, the young woman took him home to meet her parents where her father was growing huge “chrysanths.”

The giant flowers piqued his interest, but after beginning a lifelong career as a management consultant and strategic planner, a job that took him around the world working for the Canadian International Development Agency and United Nations among others, there wasn’t a lot of time for hobbies. But eventually life slowed down slightly—Stanley still works full time and is “only flying overseas three times this year”—and his interest turned back to the beautiful chrysanthemums his father-inlaw once grew. Searching for like-minded growers to whom he could turn for advice, Stanley joined the Point Grey Association “two growing seasons” ago partly because there was no closer club to choose from.

In that short amount of time, Stanley has become one of the club’s most enthusiastic and active members.

Today, the club has 47 members across the Lower Mainland and Greater Vancouver. Stanley now admits to being “addicted” to his relatively new hobby.

“I am still busy, but when I get home I wander around the garden and find it very relaxing,” says Stanley. “It gives me time to think about things and tending to 150 chrysanthemums is a diversion to any problems I might have.”

The award-winning grower explains chrysanthemums are grown as “earlies” or “lates,” and divided into three classes, Abig, B-medium and C-small.

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Continued from page 5 The 13 chrysanthemum bloom varieties include the incurve, reflex, spoon and quill.

Stanley remembers one day last year when he invited a long-established senior grower to his home to look over his crop of chrysanthemums in hopes of gaining some insight into growing even better championship blooms.

As the senior wandered through the plants, Stanley looked on in horror as the man pulled a pen knife out of his pocket and jabbed the sharp tip through the stem of one of the flowers, just below the bloom. The man explained the stress of the cut would force the flower to naturally fight back and the end result would be an even bigger, more beautiful bloom.

“I was horrified,” says Stanley, who adds he never saw any difference in growth between that bloom and his unscathed flowers.

Stanley says these days too many people are stuck in front of their TV or computer to consider a hobby like chrysanthemum growing, but adds there’s nothing like gardening for sheer enjoyment.

“It’s such a wonderful hobby and you get such a sense of satisfaction watching things grow and knowing that you’re in control,” says Stanley. “It’s really like growing young children.”

Like the Ogryzlos, Stanley is concerned many varieties of the giant

Stan Stanley’s chrysanthemum photos. chrysanthemum will one day be lost to Canadians. “All of the valuable growers are dying,” he says. “We need new members to show an interest in these beautiful flowers.”

The annual plant sale at VanDusen April 16 is from 9 a.m. to noon. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in growing the flower to meet with club members and purchase chrysanthemum cultivars rare to Canada.

While garden shops sell blooming chrysanthemums, the only place in B.C. to purchase rooted cuttings of

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the large “disbuds,” as they’re called, is this plant sale and one held annually in Victoria. The sale is first come, first served, so anyone interested in purchasing the rarest of the bunch is encouraged to arrive early. Because chrysanthemums aren’t currently in bloom, the members bring photographs to show what each plant will look like in full flower. Go to chrysanthemumsvancouver.com for more information. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Former mayor rejoins Falun Gong controversy

Bylaw revision lets Falun Gong protest outside Chinese consulate Megan Stewart

“AFTER FIVE YEARS, YOU KIND OF THINK, ‘OK, POINT MADE.’”

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Denying Falun Gong practitioners a perch on city property where they sustained a permanent protest outside the Chinese consulate for five years was not an attempt to curb their right to freedom of expression and religion, maintains former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan.

Rather, he was addressing complaints coming from neighbouring homeowners when he tried to remove Falun Gong protesters from Granville Street, says Sullivan.

“I’d always told the Falun Gong people we had no trouble with them marching, singing, holding signs, doing all of the things that are allowed in any place like Vancouver,” he told the Courier Wednesday. “That issue was having structures built on public property [and] was a precedent that we had to deal with.”

“After five years, you kind of think, ‘OK, point made.’”

In August 2006, Sullivan, an NPA councillor for 12 years before serving as mayor from 2005 to 2008, successfully sought a court order to remove the controversial spiritual sect from the 3300 block of Granville Street

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where they built a small but permanent hut, meditated and displayed graphic images of alleged torture and murder at the hands of the Chinese government.

The B.C. Supreme Court supported Sullivan’s claim that the Falun Gong were in violation of a street and traffic bylaw that stated no person can “build, construct, place, maintain [or] occupy” any “structure, object substance or thing” that obstructs the access and use of a sidewalk or street.

But that court decision was lost on appeal last year. The Falun Gong have the right of political and religious expression, ruled a judge in October 2010, giving the city six months to rewrite the contentious traffic and street bylaw.

The deadline to amend and approve new rules is April 19. Councillors first saw the revised bylaw April 5 but in an unusual move, Mayor

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A second version of the bylaw reached councillors Thursday morning. The rewritten bylaw would permit political protest and permanent structures outside all consulates, even if they’re located in a residential neighbourhood.

The bylaw had been criticized

for enabling the city to overstep its bounds and limit free speech. City staff were also criticized for consulting with the Chinese consulate regarding public property. Staff also met with Falun Gong members. The bylaw would have prohibited Falun Gong from putting up any kind of structure in the residential neighbourhood near the Chinese consul-

ate and would have required demonstrators and protest organizers to pay a $1,000 security deposit as well as a non-refundable $200 permit fee.

Those fees were removed and fines introduced.

COPE Coun. David Cadman said he was opposed to the initial court action against the Falun Gong and believes the city will land in court again. “What this one so clearly revealed was that the bylaw was to serve one spot and one spot only, mainly the Chinese consulate,” he said. “I wasn’t prepared to pursue prosecution when Sam Sullivan started it and I’m not prepared to try and pass a bylaw now that seeks to fetter people’s freedom of speech.”

On Wednesday Falun Gong practitioners and their supporters gathered in front of city hall where they displayed graphic images of alleged torture victims and pantomimed violence and the harvesting of organs.

Sue Zhang, who is named in the 2006 court action, decried what she said is an outrageous attempt to stamp out their protest and, in so doing, limit political expression across the city. mstewart@vancourier.com Twitter: @MHStewart

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As I watched the inordinate amount of fumbling over the past two weeks among the Visionistas and their hired help at city hall, I became convinced that what we were witnessing was flat out incompetence.

There were two events in particular: the bylaw to limit public demonstrations and city manager Penny Ballem’s briefings on the Olympic Village.

The bylaw was written by the city’s engineers and vetted by their lawyers. It was a response to a court decision striking down a previous city bylaw used to drive away Falun Gong members and their permanent hut in front of the Chinese consulate on South Granville.

The new bylaw was a unique attempt to marry free speech and user-pay. Put up a card table to leaflet passersby on any matter from breast cancer to homelessness and you would have to lay out a $1,000 security deposit and $200 for a non-refundable permit fee.

The staff had six months to craft this document yet it was introduced at the last minute before last week’s council meeting. The opposition said it was an attempt to avoid public debate. When councillors learned that staff writing the bylaw consulted the Chinese consulate—clearly connoisseurs of free speech—they had to practically be peeled off the ceiling. Why Mayor Gregor Robertson and his staff didn’t see this coming is beyond me.

The second event was the technical briefing on the Olympic Village, which was equally inept and more damaging for Robertson and his city manager. Early last Friday, many media types received an email alert from the city’s head of communica-

allengarr tions that there would be a briefing on the Olympic Village later that morning. What we didn’t know at the time was that the alert didn’t alert opposition councillors, including the COPE councillors and the NPA’s Suzanne Anton. More incompetence.

But that wasn’t the worst of it. That came at the briefing. For two hours, the city manager went through her powerpoint presentation outlining the expected revenues and the assets seized from the developer to cover losses the city might incur and have to “write down.”

From time to time on questioning about the figures being presented, Ballem confessed she was no accountant and that it was complicated. Meanwhile, her chief financial officer Patrice Impey stood nearby cooling her heels while the auditors sat at the back of the room.

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Last weekend the Olympic Village gadfly, developer and former NPA candidate Michael Geller, posted a note on his blog pointing out that the write down did not include, among other costs, the money owing on the land.

That revelation made its way to the front page of The Globe and Mail Tuesday where the total loss was rounded out to $230 million and Ballem and her political masters were accused of being purposefully misleading. Another urgent media briefing was called by Ballem to “set the record straight.”

By all accounts, Ballem was highly agitated. Unused to having her integrity questioned, the normally calm, confident commander was coming unhinged. Her cheeks were flushed, her actions erratic and as one reporter noted “her voice seemed to be shaking with emotions.”

Reports of the numbers, she said, were “damaging” and “unfair.” But regardless of your take on the numbers, and there are a couple of ways to slice this from an accounting point of view, the whole performance from start to finish displayed a level of incompetence that reached new heights for Ballem, Robertson and the Vision administration.

As former mayor Larry Campbell once confided in the middle of a muddle of his own: “If we had any real opposition, we’d be f***ed.” agarr@vancourier.com

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Sordid tale of two cities shows cost of gambling Are Vancouverites about to become Vegans? As in “Las Vegans?” There is no precedent for local gambling on the scale envisioned for Paragon’s proposed mega-casino. To find proper comparisons, Vancouver city council should step back in time and look at cities that have acted as Petri dishes for the gambling bug.

In the ’50s, Las Vegas and Havana were glamorous, high-rolling sister cities, both presided over by New York racketeer Meyer Lansky and his underworld cronies. Even as FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was busy denying the existence of the mob, Bugsy Siegel and a host of mobsters from Chicago, New York and Miami were expanding their interests in the American Southwest. While the U.S. defence department lit off atomic blasts in the Nevada desert like delinquents with fireworks, the goodfellas were living large in a spot once ruled by rattlesnakes and scorpions. The Vegas strip became their neon-lit laboratory for money-laundering and other criminal ventures.

Two American journalists, Sally Denton and Roger Morris, parsed the history of the city in their comprehensive 2000 book Money and Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America. The anecdotes veer from Shakespearean to Scorsesean, with tragedy and farce in equal parts. (In the early days, the deal-makers and knuckle-breakers hung out at the Cal Nevada Lodge, which was carefully constructed across the California-Nevada border. When the police arrived on raids, the tipped-off mobsters had already moved all the furniture over to whichever side of the restaurant gave them temporary immunity.)

Meanwhile in the Caribbean, U.S. corporations controlled half of Cuba’s sugar, and nearly all its oil, mines, minerals, ranches and utilities, “a billion dollar monopoly unique in U.S. foreign investment,” write Denton and Morris.

“It was politics as possession and plunder.”

Havana was referred to as “the offshore Vegas,” with lavish casinos, big floor shows, and the same criminal class as its sister city, note the authors of Money and Power. “The parallels to Las Vegas were everywhere. As more than 300,000 American tourists streamed into Havana in the fifties, casino after casino went up, some built by venerable corporations like Hilton or Pan American, some financed by U.S. banks or from Cuban union pension funds under the auspices of the AFLCIO. All of it came with special dispensations on taxes, duties, and fees from the captive Cuban regime that often matched the American investment…. Regardless of the ostensible corporate

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geoffolson owners, most casinos ran directly or indirectly as franchises of various factions of the Syndicate.”

Mobsters, corporate executives and intelligence agents ended up in a strange alliance of common interests, turbocharged by Cuba’s laissez faire free-for-all. Outside the casinos, prostitution and drug dealing ran rampant. Ironically, the gangsters fed money and arms to Cuban rebels, figuring they’d hedge their bets by backing both horses: rebel leader Fidel Castro and the U.S.-supported dictator Fulgencio Batista. It was a fatal miscalculation. The revolution of 1959 was largely fuelled by an impoverished people’s disgust with the high-rolling lifestyle of foreign interlopers. When Batista fell, there were celebrations in the streets, “with some venting their anger first on two hated, kindred symbols of exploitation— Havana’s parking meters and the casino slot machines. “ Today, Havana and Vegas might as well be on completely different planets, from what I’ve seen up close. One is a Pavlovian playground for middle-class wage earners, a shimmering mirage of magical thinking. The other is a darkened shambles of crumbled buildings and stray dogs, partly the legacy of central planning, but mostly due to a 50-year U.S. trade embargo.

The pro-gambling enthusiasts will tell you this is all ancient history, and they’re not completely wrong. Vegas itself has been free of mob rule for decades, we’re assured. It’s all corporate and clean, with civic leaders keeping the genie safely in the bottle, like scientists corralling fission in flawless nuclear reactors.

No one suggests we are about to have gambling on the scale of Vegas now or Havana. Yet the historical arcs of these cities, so starkly different, suggest that the social fallout of gambling can be all out of proportion with its quiet, bureaucratic approval. The effects of Paragon’s playpen in Vancouver could be massive, in ways we cannot predict. Can we be assured that, if approved, an American corporation’s mega-casino won’t be a Trojan Horse for future gambling expansion in the Lower Mainland? I wouldn’t bet on it. www.geoffolson.com

According to one reader, rumours—propagated by a Courier columnist—of the NPA’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. file photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “Historic NPA on life support,” April 8.

One can only assume that Allen Garr is still “stinging” over the business of being city beekeeper. How else to explain his gratuitous sideswipe at local bloggers and the total misreading of civic politics?

To claim that there is no interest in the NPA is to ignore the fact that there are many voters with serious concerns as to how Vision Vancouver has been ruling this city.

From swearing at citizens, to dismissing condo owners as some lower life form (versus sainted renters) to the waste of taxpayer funds over pet projects like the viaduct study, many of us who voted for Vision Vancouver last time will be looking elsewhere this November.

The NPA has always been an association, rather than an political party with a paid staff. To write them off now is foolhardy.

Rob Hart, Vancouver

Housing proposal criticism ‘inflammatory’

To the editor: Re: “Vancouver housing proposal endangers teenage girls,” April 6.

I found Mark Hasiuk’s column to be rife with uninformed and biased information. The Downtown Eastside is a community, a complicated one with multiple struggles, but a community nonetheless. But he summarized the population of Vancouver neatly into us and them categories. As a local of Vancouver, I would like Hasiuk to know that he does not speak for me when discussing Vancouverites relationship to the Downtown Eastside.

The youth shelters that young women can access have minimal to no harm reduction policies. This means that young women who are active in their addiction will quickly get denied a bed. Where do these young women end up staying? They end up staying with their pimp. By de-

pending on their pimp for housing they are exceedingly more vulnerable.

Hasiuk’s description of the Vivian as a program that “symbolizes unintended exploitation” is inaccurate and obtuse. The Vivian is a well-thought out program whose mandate centres on the safety for the women it houses. It also houses a medication program, a regular clinic and numerous in-house community programs. It is staffed 24 hours a day with trained employees.

The Downtown Eastside is not a wealth of support for young people. It is not a “service hub” for young people. Although I find Hasiuk’s viewpoint to be distasteful and offensive, more importantly, I find it to be wrong and inflammatory.

Rachel Croy, Vancouver

••• To the editor: Mark Hasiuk leaves out

an important aspect to his biased screed about a proposed women’s housing facility in the Downtown Eastside. He can’t seem to find anyone to support his position except the director of REED, which he neglects to mention is really an evangelical group—its website emphasizes that “through a posture of listening we are grounded in and guided by the Spirit of God” in the “radical tradition of Christ,” which does nothing concrete for marginalized Vancouver women except proselytize.

As usual, Hasiuk trashes a widely supported effort by those actually doing something, while proposing nothing to help—except perhaps converting these young women into bornagain Christians.

Can we please end this charade of concern for women?

Jon Scop, Vancouver

Inspired cycling triggers tears and memories

To the editor: Re: “Friend with Parkinson’s cycles hard and with heart,” April 1.

Thanks for the inspiration. I’m drying my eyes from reading the column, as it brought back memories. Twenty years ago this month, I was finishing my treatments for leukemia and didn’t know what the next couple years would bring for me.

How fragile and precious life truly is and how fortunate some of us have been to experience it all. We are blessed in so many ways. Let’s not forget that each and every day!

Boy, 20 years has gone by so quickly. I’ll pass along your inspiration story Byron Volkman, Vancouver

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“I was a child in the ’60s and ’70s, and yes, it was a simpler, dumber time. We rode mastodons then and wore furs. And oh how we marvelled at the invention of fire,” he wrote. “But I was also—and I believe myself extremely lucky— part of the last generation of North American kids allowed to run free. Summer was summer, with school a distant memory. Sometimes I went to camp or went on trips with my family, and as I got older, I took on summer jobs. But much of the time I did very little. It was bliss. When you’re an 11year-old boy, and your time is your own, a summer day of high heat and a cloudless blue sky seems like it can last for decades. For anyone past 30, contrast that childhood and even teenage sense of eternity with your life now, when a decade slips by as if it were a day.”

Thousands of Vancouverites clearly don’t view summer break the same

There were 16,632 registrations for summer school photo Dan Toulgoet in 2010. way judging by the number of summer school registrations in 2010—there were 16,632 registrations for 970 courses offered, with 165 course cancellations for low enrollment.

The statistics were provided in a summer school program report at Wednesday’s education and student services committee meeting. Summer school classes were held at seven elementary schools and seven secondary schools last year. In Grades 1 to 7, 443 Ministry of Educationfunded courses were offered with 80 cancelled due to low enrolment. In Grade 8 and 9, 186 ministry-funded courses were offered with 35 cancellations, and 283 were offered in Grades 10 to 12, with 24 cancellations.

Fifty-eight fee courses were offered, such as computer, sports, Lego Dacta, digital movies and arts courses, but 26—close to half—were cancelled.

The majority of fee-paying course cancellations were for sport courses. The district is considering several ways to strengthen the summer school program,

including bolstering enrolment this year by providing Chinese language information in the summer school calendar. About 70 per cent of summer school students are from homes where Chinese is the first language.

Budget timeline

Public consultation on Vancouver School Board’s 2011/12 preliminary budget proposals, which suggest cuts to deal with an $8.4million shortfall, starts next week on April 19.

If the board ultimately votes in favour of continuing with a shortened school year for another year, the shortfall will be about $1.2 million lower. Stakeholder consultation on the budget is scheduled for April 20, while April 21 is reserved for further public and stakeholder consultation, if needed. Revised budget proposals reflecting the feedback will be unveiled April 27.

Consultation on the revised proposals is slated for May 3. Final deliberations and approval of the 2011/12 budget is May 5. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Proposals to cut $8.4 million to balance the school district’s budget have been greeted with a mixture of relief and frustration.

The budget proposals, drafted by senior management, may be revised based on feedback in coming weeks before the board’s final vote on May 5.

Debbie Pawluk, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association, said senior management made a “real effort” to keep cuts away from the classroom.

“You know $8.4 million is a challenge whether it’s a cut to facilities or resources or transportation or whatever. It’s going to affect the efficacy of the organization. But it’s a bit of a double-edged sword. We took a big hit this year particularly in non-enrolling [teachers] so we were actually very relieved to see that the cuts have been kept as far away from the classroom as possible,” she said.

Gwen Giesbrecht, chair of the District Parent Advisory Council, said even though the proposed cuts have largely been kept away from the classroom, and may not be fully felt initially, they represent the ongoing erosion of public education.

She’s also troubled by the prospect of a $25 user fee being attached to the band and strings program, which operates in 37 schools. More than 3,400 students participate in what is considered an extracurricular program. The fee would generate about $90,000.

Giesbrecht said some courses were once considered part of core instruction, but that’s not the case any longer.

“For instance, instruction in music at the elementary level has in the past been considered part of a balanced educational experience, as was art and library/resource use,” she wrote in an email to the Courier.

“These are areas now with limited availability. If there is to be a trend of fees applied when they are offered, the equity for participation is further compromised.”

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Giesbrecht added that parents often have to fundraise for enrichment activities, which is more difficult in less well-off areas of the city. Her son’s East Side school used to stage an annual musical production, but the teacher who coordinated it is no longer able to do so because of her workload. “Meanwhile, I heard of a West Side elementary, staging their musical production this week. How were the teachers at that school able to find the time to organize? Well, presumably they weren’t, as the parents there contributed $8,000 to hire an outside consultant,” she said.

Policy states students who can’t afford such fees won’t be denied enrolment, but Giesbrecht points out some families will be reluctant to ask for the fee to be waived.

Paul Faoro, president of CUPE 15, said the budget proposals need to be tweaked, arguing the Vancouver School Board can’t absorb any more cuts to frontline services.

The union local represents about 1,200 support staff at the VSB, including clerical, administrative and technical staff, special education assistants and multicultural workers.

Faoro insists provincial education funding must increase and says Premier Christy Clark, who was once the education minister, has “her fingerprints all over this, as the original architect of the current funding formula.”

“It is demoralizing, for staff and for parents, to be in continual chaos due to chronic provincial underfunding. It is a sad statement that so much energy and creativity that should be channelled into improving educational programs and services is sucked into the vortex of managing annual funding crises,” he said. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Wondering how council will vote April 19 on the mega casino proposal?

A lot of people are.

But a visit to council Saturday by Mike Dumler, the membership secretary of COPE, may have left some people concluding how COPE councillors David Cadman and Ellen Woodsworth will vote.

Dumler appeared on the fourth day of five rounds of public hearings to announce that COPE was against Paragon Gaming Inc.’s proposal to build a $500 million casino and hotel complex adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium. He cited studies about problem gambling, how a mega casino was counter to the “green” vision of the city and that Paragon seemed to already being making a profit with the Edgewater Casino at the Plaza of Nations Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs chimed in.

“So COPE does not oppose relocation of the casino?”

Dumler: “No, as long as there’s no expansion.”

Meggs: “I’m a bit intrigued by the process here. Was this a decision of the COPE executive, or did you have a membership meeting or how was it sorted out?”

Dumler: “We didn’t take this to a membership meeting. We believe it’s consistent with our existing policy—our existing policy was

not to oppose the current facility. But there was consultation between the internal chair and the external chair, essentially the table officers of the organization did discuss this.

And I believe it was discussed in an executive meeting. But I don’t think we felt the need to actually pass a motion or something to make this presentation. This is consistent with our values and what we’ve said in the past.”

Meggs: “Fair enough. I’m just curious to know if you feel it’s binding in any way on the COPE elected officials who are here?”

Dumler: “Absolutely not.”

For the record, Cadman voted for slot machines at Edgewater in January 2004. Woodsworth was on council at the time but absent for the vote. Current Vision councillors Raymond Louie and Tim Stevenson also voted for slots at Edgewater in the 2004 decision.

This is what Stevenson told me in November 2010. “We were told that was it—that if we agreed to this, that’s all there would be.

That was the agreement between the city and the government. So the agreement all of us understood, who were on council at the time, was that there would not be an expansion. I feel betrayed.”

That vote also came as the city reduced the number of casinos from five to one (Edgewater). Later in 2004, council approved slots at Hastings Racecourse, making it the second casino in the city. Neither Vision nor the NPA sent a member of their respective executives to speak to council at the hearings, which concluded Sunday after 145 people got a turn at the microphone.

The April 19 meeting begins at 2 p.m. at city hall. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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“St. Matthew Passion” is not performed often in Vancouver because it involves so many voices and musicians, not to mention a stage large enough to hold them all, but VancouverVoices is making it happen.

The large numbers involved is why the concert will be at the Chan Centre. Director Peter Butterfield, who shares his time between Vancouver and Victoria, conducts all three choirs. The two Vancouver choirs are based out of St. Helen’s Church in Point Grey. Performing as part of the youth choir will be young singing sensation Matthew Leighton from St. Helen’s, who was the focus of a Courier story last December.

Matthew, who was 11 years old at the time of that interview, had recently performed solo in Christmas concerts with the Vivaldi Chamber Choir and Vancouver Bach Choir.

The concert takes place at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of B.C., April 21 at 7 p.m. For more information and tickets, go to chancentre.com.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011

Player points to illegal poker games

Professional poker player supports mega casino plan Mike Howell Staff writer

One of Canada’s top poker players estimates up to a dozen high stakes illegal poker games occur in Metro Vancouver each week and they are unsafe and attract “sketchy characters.”

Matt Jarvis, who finished eighth last year in a World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas, made the statement Sunday at a public hearing regarding a mega casino proposal before city council.

“You get some sketchy characters, you get some unsafe areas,” said the 26-yearold Surrey resident, who plays regularly at Edgewater Casino at the Plaza of Nations.

“To me, I feel safe in a casino. When I go in there I know no one can walk in and—I’m going to extremes—pull a gun or come in and put my life at risk.”

He said the illegal games are held in “back alley joints” and highrises, the majority of which occur in Vancouver. He wouldn’t say if he participated in the illegal games, and declined to provide more detail on his knowledge of the games when questioned by NPA Coun. Suzanne Anton on his statement.

“As a poker player, I make a lot of educated guesses and I would say that’s my best educated guess,” said Jarvis, who won more than $1 million for his eighth place finish in Las Vegas.

Jarvis spoke in support of Paragon Gaming Inc.’s proposal to build a $500 million casino/hotel complex adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium.

Paragon’s plan calls for 150 games tables and 1,200 to 1,500 slot machines, two hotels and several restaurants. Paragon operates Edgewater, where there are 75 tables and 520 slots, and wants to relocate its gambling licence to the proposed facility.

City council will decide April 19 on the proposal.

Jarvis said providing more tables would substantially decrease the number of illegal poker games. He said the main reason the illegal games occur is because the tables at Edgewater and other casinos are always full on a weekend.

“There’s people on the waiting list that sit there for a couple of hours,” he

“WHEN I GO IN THERE I KNOW NO ONE CAN WALK IN AND— I’M GOING TO EXTREMES— PULL A GUN OR COME IN AND PUT MY LIFE AT RISK.” Matt Jarvis

said. “If there’s a bigger facility and more tables, 100 per cent these other private games would not be able to exist as easily.”

A bigger casino would also make it possible for Vancouver to host an international poker tournament, he said, noting tournaments he’s played in around the world attract 150 to 12,000 players, whose tourism benefits local economies.

The RCMP’s now-defunct Integrated Illegal Gaming Enforcement Team produced a report in January 2009 that examined the extent of illegal gambling in B.C. The report was obtained by the Vancouver Sun through a Freedom of Information Act request. The authors said authorities investigated 138 incidents between 2005 and 2008 related to common gaming houses in the Lower Mainland.

“Common gaming houses can be located anywhere—bars, restaurants, private residences, garages or rented halls,” said the report, adding that 25 cases involving illegal dens were operated by organized crime figures and frequented by gang members.

The provincial government disbanded the RCMP enforcement team one month after it issued its report, which also detailed the extent of money laundering, bookmaking, animal fighting and loansharking.

The Vancouver Police Department is now the primary police authority over investigations involving illegal gambling dens. So far this year, no charges have been laid related to gaming houses or gaming offences, according to Const.

Lindsey Houghton, a VPD media relations officer. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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community briefs Premier Clark announces byelection

Premier Christy Clark announced Wednesday that she will run in a byelection May 11 in Vancouver-Point Grey. Clark was elected Liberal leader in February and it wasn’t clear until today whether she would wait to call a provincial election or run in the riding held by former premier Gordon Campbell. Former finance minister Colin Hansen will chair Clark’s campaign. Clark is a former education minister and deputy premier who ran unsuccessfully against Sam Sullivan in 2005 to become the NPA’s mayoral candidate. She joined CKNW as a radio host before returning to politics after Campbell announced his resignation. Clark’s announcement comes as the provincial NDP is getting set for its leadership convention Sunday. The May 11 byelection occurs nine days after the federal election.

Within half an hour of Clark’s announcement, David Eby announced on Twitter he will run as the NDP candidate in the byelection. Eby, formerly with Pivot Legal Society, will be stepping down from his role as the executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association to take on Clark.

—Mike Howell (with files from Allen Garr)

Tighten up home security

Springtime not only brings out flowers, it also brings out thieves. Warmer weather means residents sometimes leave windows and doors open to let fresh air in and stay cool or while they’re working in their yards, but the Vancouver Police Department urges people to remain vigilant about home security as the weather improves. There were 821 residential break-ins in the city to date this year—the number is up 5.8 per cent. Thirty-one per cent of all residential break-ins show no signs of forced entry, according to the police. “Leaving your windows and doors open can give criminals a window of opportunity to enter your home and steal from you,” says VPD spokesperson Lindsey Houghton. “Thieves will look for any window or door that they might be able to use, even the ones above the ground floor.” He said windows and doors should be secured and locking mechanisms installed. Meanwhile, there have been 462 break and enters to businesses so far this year—down 1.7 per cent from last year. Crime prevention tips for homes and businesses can be found on the police department website.

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The high school basketball season hit a pinnacle in March at the B.C. championships but the city’s best players aren’t finished quite yet. For more exciting high school hoops, the Vancouver junior and senior boys all-star games tip off at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 15 at Tupper secondary school (419 East 24th Ave).

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Age of aquarium

The park board is expected to approve the revised development permit design plans for the expansion of the Vancouver Aquarium at its meeting April 18.

According to a staff report, the redesign was necessary due to a shortage of funds.

When the controversial aquarium expansion was initially approved in 2006, the provincial and federal governments pledged to each pay one-third of the anticipated $80-million project.

Since then, tough financial times forced the province and feds to cut back their contributions, and in response the aquarium scaled back the scope of the work and is instead focusing on areas requiring the most attention.

According to the six-page report, the aquarium wants to reduce the size of the proposed .61-hectare (about 1.5 acres) expansion by 1,161 square metres and increase green space by 1,415 square metres. The design includes enhanced areas, such as the seal and sea lion public viewing pools, and new additions including two new water features and the Arctic Issues Interpretive Centre.

The bistro will also be relocated and its operation transferred from the park board to a private foodservice company operated by the aquarium. As a result, the aquarium will pay the park board a fixed annual fee to offset lost revenues from the loss of a leased food service operation.

To read the complete report, go to vancouver. ca/parks and check out the agenda for the April 18 meeting.

The second of three orchards planned by the park board was planted last week at Ross Park on East 59th Avenue. The project is part of the board’s commitment to “sustainable practices in urban agriculture.” But what the orchard is really going to be is a green space where students from Moberly elementary school can learn and seniors from the nearby Khalsa Diwan Society Sikh Temple can enjoy.

The project also supports the Greenest City Action Team’s recommendation to plant 150,000 trees by 2020.

Ross Park was chosen for the orchard because it offers good sun exposure, air circulation and a nearby water supply. The first orchard was planted in Falaise Park last November and a third is planned for Memorial Park West later this spring.

Program plans

The new Hillcrest Community Centre is nearing completion and parks staff is asking potential members what kind of programs they’d like to see offered. A survey available online (rileypark. ca) and at the Hillcrest and Riley Park community centres, gives participants dozens of programs to choose from, including swimming, music and performing arts.

There have already been two information sessions regarding potential programs.

A third meeting takes place May 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Riley Park, 50 East 30th Ave.

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Just in case you were wondering, the red fire truck normally found in the playground at Ceperley Meadow in Stanley Park, covered in children, is in the shop getting spruced up with a fresh coat of red paint, just in time for spring. The truck should be back in the park some time in May. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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The Victorian-era Menier Chocolate Factory is now home to a restaurant and to one of London’s hottest theatre companies: its productions have transferred to the West End and Broadway in New York, where the photo John Masters Menier has won four Tony Awards.

Chocolate factory serves up stage hits John Masters

Contributing writer LONDON, England—The right ingredients for making great theatre can be found in odd places. Take the Menier Chocolate Factory. Built in 1870 and backing onto an elevated Victorian-era

rail line, it’s in a somewhat down-atheels neighbourhood you’d associate more with the scene of a Sherlock Holmes crime than with a milling crowd of well-dressed play aficionados. But since its reincarnation as a theatre in 2004 the Menier has had 10 of its shows transfer to the West End and three to Broadway.

Its productions have been nominated for 26 Tony Awards, and have won four.

Some of the biggest guns in the theatrical world have come to work at it, including directors Trevor Nunn (Les Misérables) and Hal Prince (The Phantom of the Opera).

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Menier plays often move to West End, Broadway Continued from page 19 When the Menier’s founder and artistic director, David Babani, first saw the five-storey building in 2003, on busy, unlovely Southwark Street, it was a derelict, brown-brick hulk. Now, with its decorative columns and capitals cleaned up, its arched windows washed and its trim painted creamy green, it’s an inviting bon-bon.

Inside, where the chocolate-making apparatus once was, is a tiny theatre, a black box of just 160 to 170 seats, depending on how it’s configured. In it, the Menier produces five shows a year, ranging from something obscure, like A Number, a 2002 Caryl Churchill play for two actors that deals with human cloning, to an original adaptation of The Invisible Man, based on the H.G. Wells book, with a cast of 12.

“We do the work fundamentally to entertain people and to sell tickets,” says Babani. He credits the Menier’s success to “the incredible legions of talented people that come and give a little piece of themselves to this building and our theatre.”

“Alchemy,” he calls it, but he’s the chief alchemist and what makes it unique. He admits, “I’m not aware of any other building in the world that runs the way we do.”

It only took six months from the Menier’s opening for Trevor Nunn to seek him out. Why would such a successful director want to consort with an obscure 160-seat theatre? Because, says Babani, what directors want “is to get their work through to the audience with as little impediment as

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possible. There’s no better place than in a small, intimate studio theatre.”

And it needn’t be just a vanity project, either.

“Trevor Nunn has got very rich off one of the productions he has directed here, A Little Night Music,” says Babani. The Stephen Sondheim musical transferred first to the West End, then to Broadway.

Despite its string of hits, the Menier remains a precarious proposition. Some of the financial worry is removed by the success of its restaurant, where many patrons dine before the show. Babani points out that dinner and a play at the Menier costs about £70 (C$110) a person, versus about £200 (C$315) in the West End. Still, to keep costs down, everyone at the theatre pitches in: Babani has plunged more blocked toilets than he can count, and even Trevor Nunn sweeps the stage.

For more information on the Menier Chocolate Factory, visit its website at menierchocolatefactory. com.

For information on London, go to the Visit London website at visitlondon.com.

John Masters is a member of the Meridian Writers’ Group.

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by Kim Inglis contributing writer Canadians have many different investment vehicles at their disposal, ranging from Retirement Savings Plans (RSPs) to Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs), and the more recent Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs). Used individually the tools in this lineup provide excellent options but, when used in combination, they can do much more.

Parents who are planning for children’s education should take particular note. By developing strategies that link the benefits of RRSPs and TFSAs with RESPs, parents can greatly enhance funding for future education.

Consider a BC investor making $100,000 a year who contributes $14,000 to an RRSP. Assuming the RRSP contribution is fully deductible, the investor would get a tax savings of approximately $5,361.

The investor could use that tax refund to further increase the positive impact of the original RRSP contribution by taking the $5,361 and placing it in a TFSA, up to their allowable limits.They would now be able to invest the funds and have their tax deduction grow taxfree.

Money that has been growing tax-free in the TFSA can be contributed to the child’s RESP where it can earn interest tax-free and be eligible for cash donations from the government. Under the Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG) program, the RESP would receive a grant from the federal government of 20%; up to $500 per year for each year the RESP beneficiary is under 18, to a maximum lifetime benefit of $7,200.

Parents should also begin as early as possible to file tax returns for children, even if it’s just a few hundred dollars earned from baby-

sitting or a paper route.There are two benefits.The most immediate is that the child starts accumulating RRSP contribution room, which can be used later in life when they need the tax deduction.

Secondly, when the child reaches 19, because they have filed, they will be eligible to apply for the GST/HST Credit which generates quarterly payments from the government.The credit payments can be added to education savings.

If the child has been fortunate through high school to have sufficient earnings from summer jobs or working in a family business that made contributions to an RRSP logical, it can help them with their educational funding. RRSP contributions can be withdrawn without penalty through the Lifelong Learning Plan should an RESP not provide enough education funding.

In the end, the investor has benefited significantly by adding to their retirement nest egg through their RRSP; receiving a tax refund and having it grow tax-free in their TFSA; and ultimately funding an RESP that generated free money through the federal government’s CESG program.

The child benefited from learning very valuable lessons on investing, saving, and looking for every opportunity to get free money from various sources.

Kim Inglis is an Investment Advisor, CIM with Canaccord Wealth Management, a division of Canaccord Genuity Corp., Member – Canadian Investor Protection Fund. Kim can be reached at www.reynoldsinglis.ca.

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When you travel as frequently as I do, having your toiletries bag in order is a must.

My two-sided case is chock full of everything I need to take me on a weekender, or for two weeks in Europe. You learn from experience what gets used, and what just sits there taking up space.

Take note of things like – should I bring my own conditioner or use the one from the hotel? The answer is – bring it! You can’t trust what kind of goop is in those little complimentary bottles, no matter what-star hotel you’re checked into.

As well as the products for keeping yourself clean and hygienic, there is the makeup case. With all of the cosmetics you’ll need, plus moisturizers, make-up remover, cleanser… it all adds up to a lot of space.

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A TIME TO RENEW For many Canadians, spring is a time when thoughts turn to travel and new adventures.

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A recent Angus Reid survey conducted on behalf of American Express found that 62 per cent of Canadians say that travel was a personal goal in the coming year. Another 32 per cent said learning a new hobby was top of mind.

A growing number of Canadians known as ‘potentialists,’ who place a high priority on new experiences and fulfilling their personal potential, are combining this quest for travel and new skills by taking trips that focus on education in a culture abroad.

“This new class of Canadians sees travel as an opportunity to learn about new cultures and customs but with a focus on the everyday life of a city or country,” said David Barnes, vice president, communications, at American Express.

“Canadians are finding that if they immerse themselves in a culture through art and cooking classes or through volunteering, they return home with a greater sense of renewal than if they only visited all the important landmarks on a typical tourists’ map.”

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You may find that the local style is just the thing to bring out your personal creativity.

• Get out of your comfort zone: Forgo the comfort of your native tongue and commit to speaking in another language when ordering a coffee, asking for directions or for your room at a hotel. By the time your trip is over, you’ll feel like you lived there forever.

• The beach is a playground: In warmer climates, pastimes that take advantage of sun, sea and sand offer a chance to try new sports such as kite boarding, parasailing or sea kayaking. Return home with a tan and a new hobby.

• Night at the museum: Many museums are also a venue for art or educational classes. Forgo battling the tourists for a glimpse at a national treasure and sign up for programs at the museum in the off hours or at a separate learning space. You’ll remember what you learned long after your mental image of a famous painting has faded.

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HOLY WEEK PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 17 10:30am Palm Sunday Communion with Procession 7:00pm The Vibe Healing Service Seeking, Serving and Sharing Christ in Vancouver Since 1899

1440 West 12th Avenue (at Hemlock)

604-731-3221 reception@holytrinityvancouver.org www.holytrinityvancouver.org Rector: Rev. John Oakes

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 7:00pm Holy Week Communion in the Chapel

Celebrating

MAUNDY THURSDAY, APRIL 21 7:00pm Maundy Thursday Holy Communion with Foot Washing GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 22 10:30am Good Friday Service EASTER DAY, APRIL 24 10:00am Contemporary Communion 11:30am Traditional Communion

ST. MARK’S KITSILANO

MARTIN LUTHER EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH

505 East 46th Avenue, Vancouver (one block West of Fraser St) Phone 604-325-0550

WE WELCOME YOU Good Friday, April 22

9:00 am German Service 11:00 am English Service

Please note temporary locations during renovations until further notice 11:15 am English Service at St. James 9:30 am Cantonese Service at St. James 9:30 am Mandarin Service at Kitsilano Community Centre St. James Community Square - 3214 West 10th Ave. Kitsilano Community Centre - 2690 Larch Street Church office - #407 - 2150 W. Broadway 604.732.1835 I www.lordsgrace.ca I info@lordsgrace.ca

Easter Sunday, 10:30 am Combined Service April 24 Regular Sunday Services 9:00 am German 11:00 am English

ANGLICAN CHURCH

1805 Larch Street at West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver 604-736-2838

“Come .... to Life” Palm Sunday April 17 Choral Eucharist at 9:30 am Maundy WEDNESDAY April 20 Evening meal, Eucharist & foot washing at 6:00 pm Thursday, April 21 Community Meal at 11:45 am Contemplative Eucharist at 7:00 pm Vigil of the Passion 8 pm till Friday noon

Good Friday April 22 Liturgy at 10:00 am Easter Vigil April 23 Easter Vigil with Eucharist and Feast at 9:00 pm Easter Day April 24 Resurrection Eucharist at 9:30 am

ST. HELEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 4405 W. 8th Ave. (corner of Trimble & 8th)

604-224-0212 HOLY WEEK & EASTER SERVICES

HOLY WEEK AT DUNBAR HEIGHTS UNITED CHURCH Palm Sunday, April 17th, 10am

Begin Holy Week with a Parade of Palms led by the children, Children’s Choir singing too

Other Holy Week Services Holy Thursday, April 21st

5:30pm, a simple supper; 6:15 quiet worship

Good Friday, April 22nd, 10am a Reflective service

Messiah, April 23rd, 7pm choir, orchestra, soloists admission by donation

Easter Sunday, April 24th, 10am parade to flower the Easter Cross selections from Messiah

All ages, all questioners welcome every Sunday 3525 West 24th Avenue, at Collingwood 604-731-6420 Email: office@dunbarheightsuc.ca Website: www.dunbarheightsuc.ca

Sunday, April 17th, Palm Sunday 8 a.m. BCP Eucharist with Blessing of Palms 10 a.m. Blessing of Palms in Hall, Procession to Church & Eucharist Wednesday, April 20th 7 p.m. Taizé Vespers Thursday, April 21st, Maundy Thursday 6 p.m. Simple Supper in Parish Hall 7 p.m. Washing of feet, Eucharist, & Stripping of the Altar Friday, April 22nd, Good Friday 11 a.m. Stations of the Cross in Church Saturday, April 23rd, Easter Eve (Holy Saturday) 8 p.m. Great Vigil of Easter: New Fire in Garden, Paschal Candle Sunday, April 24th, Easter Day 8 a.m. BCP Eucharist in Chapel 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist Easter Home Communions: If you are unable to attend church & would like to receive communion at home, please call the church office (604-224-0212) to arrange a convenient time for us to come to you.

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St. Philip’s Anglican Church Palm Sunday Service April 17 @ 10:30 am

3737 West 27th Avenue 604-224-3238

www.stphilipsdunbar.com Rector: The Ven. John Stephens Honorary Assistant: The Rev’d Dr. Marilyn Hames

Holy Week and Easter Services

Good Friday Service Please join us April 22nd @ 10 am Easter Sunday Service Celebrating Resurrection!

Communion Service April 24th @ 10:30 am Everyone is Welcome

Sunday, April 17 Palm Sunday April 18 & 19 April 20 Thursday, April 21 Maundy Thursday Friday, April 22 Good Friday

Holy Eucharist at 8:00 am & 10.00 am

Holy Eucharist at 7:30 am Holy Eucharist at 10:00 am Simple Supper - 6:00 pm, Holy Eucharist Stations of the Cross, Family Service at 10:00 am Solemn Liturgy of the Cross at noon Holy Saturday, April 23 The Great Vigil of Easter at 8:30 pm

Sunday, April 24 EASTER DAY

Holy Eucharist at 8:00 am & 10:00 am

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April 21, 6:30pm: Maundy Thursday Service of Shadows April 22, 3pm:

Good Friday Multimedia liturgy based on Bach’s St. Matthews Passion

April 24, 7:30am: Easter Sunday Sunrise Service at Kits Point 9:20am: Intergenerational Service 1708 W 16th Ave www.kitschurch.com

MARPOLE UNITED CHURCH

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EASTER SEASON WORSHIP SERVICES "Shadows to Sunrise"

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APRIL 17 – PALM SUNDAY AT 10:30 A.M. APRIL 24 – EASTER SUNDAY AT 10:30 A.M. A New and Glorious Dawn

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Easter brings us a message of hope in a time of fear and uncertainty.

Come celebrate with us!

EASTER SUNDAY - April 24th 10:00 a.m. Family Worship 12:30 p.m. Contemporary Worship in Church Hall 2:00 p.m. Worship in Taiwanese

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Monday April 18th to Thursday April 21st 7:30 a.m. Breakfast and Devotions Maundy Thursday - April 21st 7:00 p.m. Worship and Communion Good Friday - April 22nd 10:00 a.m. A Dramatic Retelling of the Passion Story

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cycling

Long ride unleashes wave of emotion

When my wife tells me I should have emptied the dishwasher before she got home from work, the emotion I feel is the non-smiling one. When she tells me that my bike and I make a dashing couple, the emotion I feel is the smiling one.

I once categorized my emotions in a very straightforward way: the non-smiling one and the smiling one.

In life, and in sport, I’ve never appreciated the power of emotion until now.

I cycle over 400 kilometres a week, and this number will grow steadily as summer draws near. I set out on a brisk 100 km ride at least once each week (usually Sunday if anyone would like to join me). I have become so comfortable on a 100-km ride that I had to up the ante. The ante became breaking the 200-km mark in one solid effort.

A 200-km ride represents cycling non-stop for just over seven hours. Doing anything that requires concentration and physical effort for that long is a game-changer, assuming you are successful.

Alongside two very solid riders, I set out on a 207-km

jeffreyhansen-carlson ride. It took approximately 45,000 revolutions of each of our legs, 8,000 calories, and a wild emotional roller coaster but we accomplished what we set out to achieve.

Of course I’ve never cycled such a distance, but more importantly I’ve never experienced the emotion that makes lofty endurance goals achievable. With a 207-km ride under my belt—and a couple more scheduled in the months to come—I’ve set my sights on even bigger numbers. Not because I enjoy having a sore butt, but because the emotion I experienced during this particular ride gave me a euphoric sense of belief in myself and, in a profound way, this single bike ride changed my life.

It frustrates me that humans chronically underestimate

what they’re capable of. The vast majority of us make excuse after excuse, accomplish nothing grand, and shrug off people who shed boundaries and push themselves to the extreme. It’s fair to wonder why people test the boundaries of endurance, but it isn’t fair to assume they are somehow better than you.

During this particular bike ride, I found a spot in my mind that I didn’t know existed. It was comfortable. It was raw.

It was intense. It was there to ensure that my objective and body did not disconnect. This spot in my mind unleashed a wave of emotion that’s addictive and now, all of the sudden, 200 km is not enough.

Endurance is not about power and speed or raw physical effort. It’s about the strength of our minds and our ability to find that nook of emotion that takes control and gets it done. With a baseline of fitness, you can push yourself to the extreme and stumble upon a sense of purpose you were not in search of. If we can’t figure out the meaning of life the least we should do is give it purpose.

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1. Icelandic singer, multi-instrumentalist and mystical Nordic ice-nymph Olof Arnalds beguiles the doe-eyed masses at the Waldorf Cabaret April 15, 9 p.m. Tickets available at Red Cat, Scratch, Zulu and Highlife records or online at ticketweb.ca.

2. What’s so funny ’bout fear, war and misunderstanding? British satirist Chris Morris takes on terrorism in his bleak and humourous debut film Four Lions about the misadventures of four Islamic terrorists in the north of England. The jihad on hilarity ensues April 15 to 20 at Vancity Theatre. For info and show times, call 604-683-FILM (3456) or go to viff.org.

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3. Dalannah Gail Bowen and The Sojourners perform songs made famous by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson April 15, 8 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Wesley Church (1022 Nelson St.) Proceeds from the concert to go to the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts and the Downtown Eastside Arts Trust Fund of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.

For tickets, call 604-689-0926 or go to firehallartscentre.com.

4. Bang a gong, get it on at the 25th annual International Gamelan Festival April 15 to 17 at SFU Woodward’s. The three-day event features Balinese music, theatre and dance courtesy of three Indonesian gamelan ensembles, Indonesian food and shadow-puppet workshops. Woo hoo!

Tickets at Banyen Books, Highlife Records or online at caravanbc.com.

kudos & kvetches Canucks playoff haiku part II: the reckoning K&K continues its annual tribute to spring and the Canucks playoff run with its series of Basho-inspired haiku.

Tender is the groin That stretches ’cross the goal crease A branch heavy with plums

Fed up: the chronic master debators edition

Man oh man, is this federal election heating up or what. We almost didn’t completely sleep through the entire televised leadership debates this week. And although it’s difficult to sufficiently sum up K&K’s response to the four hours of fun that the leaders of the federal parties kindly served up, beyond “sigh” and “zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,” we’re going to try.

• Conservative leader Stephen Harper. If there were a prize for being gentle and steely at the same time, our constantly picked-upon PM would win in a landslide. Same with our emotionally distant father, actually, especially when he would listen to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours every day for a year after he separated from our mom… but

we digress. Harpie’s only goal during the English debate was to hold on for dear life, not blow a gasket as everyone ganged up on him and plead with the television audience to give him a majority government, please… pretty please.

• Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. Give it to Iggy for effort—the dude had a game plan and he stuck to it. Unfortunately, constantly feigning indignation over the course of two hours and repeating the same sound bites without actually focusing on your own party’s platform can get a little tiring. Maybe he just needs a hug.

• NDP leader Jack Layton. We’ll say this about Layton, he sure looks cute and peppy when he tries to pretend his party has a chance of forming the government. Although his inner weasel did come out at one point, and we’re not talking about his moustache—oh snap—when Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe tried to get Layton to publicly state his support for Bill 101, Quebec’s language law. Talk about squirmy.

• Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe. Sadly, Duceppe was once again our favourite. He’s kind of like a drunk uncle who half the time nobody understands but every now and then

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lands a zinger that comes from out of nowhere.

We imagine him at a Christmas dinner regaling the family with tales of visiting a Costa Rican brothel in the 1960s. Maybe that’s just us.

• Green leader Elizabeth May. If you haven’t heard, or had the privilege of being on the email list of our constantly incensed aunt who lives on Saltspring Island and apparently has a lot of time on her hands, May wasn’t invited.

But she did provide a running commentary in a live online chat with CBC News during the debate. As enjoyable as enduring online comments from a resentful politician sounds, we decided to sit that one out.

• French leadership debate. Yet again we’re kicking ourselves for paying closer attention to Monsieur Gravelle’s brown pants and shirt— which he wore for 28 days in a row!—than to his lessons in our Grade 12 French class. All we can say is everyone’s French speaking skills at the debate sounded extremely competent, especially Gilles Duceppe for some reason.

Although we’re pretty sure at one point Stephen Harper was quoting the lyrics to Mitsou’s “Bye Bye Mon Cowboy.” Just saying.

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1928 law forbids transport of alcohol from one province to another

TDM to ‘illegally’ smuggle wine across the line The Hired Belly with Tim Pawsey

When Terry David Mulligan said he’d take one for the team he wasn’t kidding.

The broadcaster turned wine aficionado (and one-time Mountie) says he’ll go to jail if that’s what it takes to help change the 1928 Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act, which makes it illegal for anyone to cross a provincial border with any kind of alcohol.

Mulligan made the promise at Breaking Down Barriers, a forum key wine industry players from across the country held at the recent Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival.

Many folks aren’t aware it’s illegal to mail that bottle of your favourite Okanagan Meritage to Aunt Mary in Moncton or move house across the country with your wine cellar tucked into the U-Haul.

However, the outdated law has more serious implications for Canadian wineries. Tinhorn Creek winemaker Sandra Oldfield calls the law “archaic” and says it’s “unconstitutional” that scores of Alberta members of the Oliver winery’s popular preferred customer Crush Club have to physically visit the winery in order to pick up their purchases.

It’s also nothing short of embarrassing for B.C.’s blossoming wine tourism when visitors from outside the province find out that the winery isn’t allowed to ship wine home to them. Although, some wineries will ship “under the radar,” but technically risk their license. The problem runs right across the country.

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More sinister, some B.C. wineries that offer out-of-province shipment online say they’ve been told by other provincial liquor authorities they should change their websites. The implied threat is that if they’d don’t comply, the liquor authority will stop carrying their wines. The other irony is that while you can legally bring liquor into Canada, technically you can’t continue with it

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Interestingly, several of the wines poured at the lunch, which followed the forum, were from out of province—and nobody was talking too much about how they got there. The lineup included Nova Scotia’s award-winning Lacadie Vineyards Prestige Brut. It’s made by former Hawthorne Mountain winemaker Bruce Ewert—but you can’t buy it here.

Despite that, we’ve managed to taste it—illicitly, of course—a few times.

The good news? Thanks to this forum, which included some of the best legal minds in the country), there now seems to be momentum to get things changed.

As a starting point, if you happen to be chatting to any aspiring political candidates (or better still, reigning ministers of the crown) during this election campaign, why not ask them when was the last time they smuggled wine and what they’re going to do about their “criminal” behaviour.

“I have no idea what viral is but that’s happening across the country,” says Mulligan, who is gearing up for his interprovincial “smuggling” run, which he says should happen around May 4. Not surprisingly, interest within the wine biz is high. “There’s even some talk of a convoy,” Mulligan says.

Plenty more on this to come. For more info, check freemygrapes.ca or keep an eye on Mulligan’s website: tastingroomradio.com.

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Playwright explores broken hearts and bureaucratic bungles

Lipman dazzles in Another Home Invasion At the Arts Club Revue Stage until April 23 Tickets: 604-687-1644 artsclub.com

Actor Nicola Lipman has played a lot of crotchety but lovable old ladies. She was a scratchy old Irish woman in The Cripple of Inishmaan and a nervous old spinster in Black Comedy. I can really see her in Morris Panych’s Vigil although I’m not sure she has played that sly old gal. But Lipman would be perfect in that, too.

Why does she get these old lady roles? Because she’s a terrific actress who can do absolutely anything. And you’ll know just how good she is if you catch a glimpse of her after a performance of Another Home Invasion. She’s unrecognizable out of the curly grey wig, the baggy blue pants, print blouse and pink cardigan because she’s actually a five foot two firecracker of a woman with fuchsia-pink streaks in her hair, skinny pants and lipstick-red patent leather shoes. Lipman is nowhere near the age when we groan when we get out of bed and I’ll bet she doesn’t grunt when she gets out of a chair.

But somehow she channels the body language as well as the mindset of a golden ager who’s finding life isn’t as golden as she deserves.

Another Home Invasion is the latest play by Joan McLeod to premiere in Toronto at Tarragon Theatre before moving

Nicola Lipman stars in Another Home Invasion. to Vancouver. McLeod was raised in North Vancouver, the setting for this play, but after years of living and writing in Toronto has settled in Victoria.

Another Home Invasion is yet another in a long list of awardwinning plays. McLeod’s writing—always thoughtful—has matured superbly.

At the heart of Another Home Invasion is Jean, an 80-something, whose heart is breaking—although she remains cantankerous and chipper. Alec (whom we never see), her husband for more than 50 years and the father of her three flownthe-coop, adult children, has been moved out of the family home into a care facility.

Jean and Alec fell through the cracks: for 27 months they were on “the list” at “Kiwanis”—a seniors’ facility where they could have lived together, even had a little kitchen of their own. But Alec, who suf-

fers from dementia and isn’t mobile after a fall during a home invasion, needs more services than those offered at Kiwanis. So that hoped-for home is out of reach and he’s at “Briarwood,” two buses away from Jean. She packs a snack and makes the trip every day to see him.

McLeod’s inspiration for the play was last year’s story about the elderly B.C. couple who were put in two different care facilities and who died within weeks of each other, never having had the chance to say goodbye. The system failed them and with an increasingly aging population, the problem can only get worse. Perhaps Premier Christy Clark’s repeated emphasis on “family” will extend to seniors, letting them live out their lives together.

In spite of the title, this is not a crime show—although what Jean and Alec suffer through bureaucratic bungling is a crime. McLeod, who has won all the major Canadian awards including the Governor General’s Award for Amigos’ Blue Guitar, focuses on Jean, not the “fella” who breaks in and not the invasion itself but the fallout. Under director Richard Rose, Lipman takes it from there and, given that Jean is such a wry and feisty character, she spins McLeod’s story into pure gold.

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Wordsmiths and Led Zeppelin cover band join forces for Vancouver International Poetry Festival

Spoken word artists get the Led out at Mashed Poetics event

Michael Kissinger Staff writer

It’s been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time since the seemingly disparate worlds of poetry and sex, drugs and rock and roll have shared a stage. But that will change when nine poets from Vancouver and across Canada get the Led out April 19 at Café Deux Soleils for an event called Mashed Poetics. Each poet will recite a new work inspired by one track from the classic 1970s virginity-losing album Led Zeppelin IV, which will also be performed in order, in its entirety, by Zeppelin cover band Four Sticks.

Now in its seventh edition, the poetic and musical crossbreeding concerts have already taken on Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Moving Pictures

by Rush, the White Stripes’ Elephant, Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Are You Experienced? and Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction. Although the evening of Rush tuneage brought out an unusually stoked and eclectic crowd, organizer Randy Jacobs says it was the muse of Axl Rose and co. that really got the ball rolling and heads banging.

Oooh yeah, oooh yeah... Brendan McLeod will perform a poem inspired by Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” April 19 at Café Deux Soleils. photo Jason Lang “With Guns N’ Roses, there was a bit of a surge of popularity of people coming to the show and really getting into it,” Jacobs says.

“So it’s got a good vibe and it feels like a concert but it’s also this wild poetry night too. It’s a good mix.”

For each mash-up gig, Jacobs and the band drink beer and argue over what album to cover. Jacobs then

selects a wide range of poets and spoken word artists and randomly assigns them their song. The poets then perform their piece before or after the live version is cranked out.

Previous Mashed Poetics have been held at the Cottage Bistro on Main Street, but this time it’s at Café Deux Soleils as part of the Vancouver International Poetry Festival,

which runs April 18 to 23.

“I try to pick people, some who are fans of the music, some who aren’t, because it doesn’t necessarily have to be about how great [the music] is,” Jacobs says. “The songs are all just prompts… It doesn’t have to be about the song or the band.

Whatever it conjures up in your mind, that’s what you go with.”

One performer who’s been letting his mind travel to far off, shaggyhaired places is Brendan McLeod.

The local novelist, musician and Canadian SLAM poetry champion has been tasked with creating a work inspired by the hip-hugging barnburner “Rock and Roll.”

“I was psyched to get that one because I’ve researched it and found that they based the song around the drumming and I’ve always liked the drumming in Led Zeppelin the most, so that’s a good entry point for me,” McLeod says.

Besides, he’s just glad he didn’t get stuck with the high school dance closer “Stairway to Heaven.”

“That was my first question when I was asked if I wanted to do the Led Zeppelin thing. I said sure but don’t give me ‘Stairway to Heaven.’”

That seemingly unenviable job

falls on writer Dennis E. Bolen, who Jacobs figures is up for the challenge. “But I haven’t heard from him since I told him,” Jacobs says.

“So maybe he’s just in shock.”

Other performers include Prufrock Shadowrunner who’ll be taking on “Black Dog,” Hyf Gypsy Sun (“The Battle of Evermore”), RC Weslowski (“Misty Mountain Hop”), Eytan Crouton (“Four Sticks”), Matthew Christopher Davidson (“Going to California”) and Andre Prefontaine (“When the Levee Breaks”).

Considering the source material, one has to wonder how much Zeppelin-esque backstage debauchery will take place at the show, even for a bunch of mild-mannered poets.

“There isn’t even a backstage,” McLeod laments. “The backstage is the bathroom. And they’re really small. So pragmatically, it’s probably not going to happen.”

Jacobs, however, is a little more optimistic.

“If they had a backstage I would say probably. Perhaps there’ll be debauchery at the WISE Hall pub afterwards.”

For more info, go to vancouverpoetryfestival.com. mkissinger@vancourier.com

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RE: ESTATE OF HEATHER LOUISE GRAY late of 1109C Lamey’s Mill Road, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3P5 (the 'Estate') NOTICE is given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate are required to send them to the administratrix, Jennifer Mauri Gray, at P.O. Box 11130, #3000 -1055 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3R3, on or before May 20, 2011, after which date the Estate assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have been received.

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Romance lures but disappoints Monday/Tuesday.

Tackle chores midweek. Relationships excite Friday, but present dilemmas Saturday.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Before April 23, stick with ongoing projects, people, or re-start ventures, relationships from the past. You’ll feel sluggish Monday/Tuesday – rest, realize a recent travel, legal, love or cultural “push” is subsiding briefly.

New trends in these areas arise late April to early June, and will be as lucky as those of the last three months. Wednesday begins a month of ambition, status-seeking, and relations with VIPs, authorities, bosses and parents. All’s smooth here, but do work hard, as your worth, talents, will be “examined.”

Romance, creative urges soar midweek! To work, Friday.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Start nothing new before April 23. Sunday/Monday might deal a minor blow to your sexual, financial or “new lifestyle” projects.

If you’ve already accomplished much in one of these areas the last several months, early week merely brings doubts. But if you’ve spent past weeks building up to a magnificent act, and haven’t performed that act (sexual, financial or lifestyle) yet, this week could disappoint. Whatever happens, you still have seven weeks of huge luck in these arenas.

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The month ahead accents earnings, spending.

Taurus April 20-May 20: Start nothing new before April 23. Recent weariness and solitude are due to lift partially from Wednesday through late May, as your energy and charisma rise. Then by June a whole year of luck and expansion will begin! Meantime, proceed carefully Sunday (work, health) and Monday (relationships) – you might suffer a loss of enthusiasm about something essential, or meet a legal roadblock.

Wait until Tuesday, when new ideas and renewed affection make dealings, love and work, brighter and better. Lucky intimate and financial opportunities exist Wednesday/Thursday. Sweet wisdom late week.

Gemini May 21-June 20: Start nothing new before April 23.An exhilarating month of smiles, hopes, social openings, flirtations and entertainment meets an obstacle Sunday/Monday – another’s reluctance to involve deeply with you is a reflection of your own hidden reluctance. Romance in 2011 and 12 demands deep commitment and sacrifice, or forget it. Wednesday/Thursday you have a (big!) chance to commit, sign, relocate, marry.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Avoid new starts before April 23. Significant events might have occurred with an “ex” during the last few weeks, yet if this person pursues you now (early week) you might softly reject him/her, mostly due to doubts about your passion, or about the long-range security of the relationship.

(This can happen in business, also, e.g., in contract negotiations.) Don’t despair – solutions occur Tuesday to Thursday. Luck still swells relationships, relocation and agreements to June. Wednesday begins a month of significant sexual and financial choices, lifestyle changes. Home, late week.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: A long, wearying month of work and health concerns ends now, but “significant work” lasts until early June. Don’t weep – this period offers substantial monetary compensation.

If you’re handling two people’s jobs, ask for at least one and a half people’s pay – but do it Wednesday/ Thursday, or before the work ends (early June). Work, health, machinery run into a barrier Sunday/Monday.

Your energy is high Monday, so try to leap over this hindrance. If you can’t, make an adjustment Tuesday (might involve sweet-talking a sweet person) and go on. Start no new projects before April 23.

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Romance, a creative project or dealings with children hit a snag early week. Look at your long-term future – this will tell you how you should react. That hindrance might be a hidden blessing. You still have seven weeks of splendid luck in romance, speculation, games/ sports, kids, creativity, pleasure, beauty – and a major prize might await, especially if you’re seeking love! (Remember, pursue noting, no one new before April 23.) Sunday’s optimistic, joyous. Your energy fades Monday/Tuesday, but returns, with clout, charisma and luck, Wednesday/Thursday. Work looms – soon.

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Apr. 17 - April 23 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: You might have sewn up a great security, real estate or business territory deal (or severance package) during the last few months, Cap. If not, you have seven weeks still to accomplish this. Don’t ignore it – it will be one of the significant turning points of your life. Plan, delegate rather than “slave.” Your efforts might hit a temporary snag Sunday/Monday; the core of this obstacle is your own desire to gain status. The true gains now will be made at the opposite extreme: be humble, forget fighting to be top of the heap. Start nothing new before April 23. Soon, romance!

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: An active, talkative, friendly, travel-filled period partly ends Wednesday (though it lingers luckily in many ways to early June). A legal, educational, cultural, travel or other obligation or restriction arises Sunday/Monday.

There’s a message here: the long is stronger than the short. The month ahead features land, security, home, territory, family, gardening, soul and nutrition. In June, a year of huge luck in these zones begins, so use late April and May to investigate, plan, to get ready. But don’t jump (e.g., buy a home) before June 4! Joy and friends come, midweek!

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: A lucky financial month is about to end, although your money luck will continue to a large degree until early June. The weeks just past emphasized money connected to work and industry; the seven weeks ahead emphasize money connected to career, ambition and prestige. This “switch” is partly signaled by an obstacle or sobering event Sunday/Monday, in which your future, or your social connections, prove stronger than your pure monetary desires. (Going forward, it’s not what you did, but who you will know.) Your career is beautifully favored Wednesday/Thursday – charge ahead! timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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Renovations, Home Wiring, Panel/ Service Upgrades, Small Jobs Too! Special April Rate $45 Call Larry, 604-726-6051.

LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309 Commercial & residential renos & small jobs. 778-322-0934.

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp.

For free estimates call Mario

PUPIN ELECTRIC. Comm/Res. Bonded. Reas Rates. (#102091).

Professional Work. 604-719-8603

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8090

Drywall

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2007 JAYCO Travel Trailer, 25 ft, like new, sleeps 6, walk around queen bed, slide, a/c, BBQ, spare + lots of extras. $18,900. George 604-576-7476 eves. Private sale

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

Water / sewer line, 24 hours Call 341-4446 or 254-6865

8125

Gutters

Professional Powerwash Gutters cleaned & repaired Since 1984, 604-339-0949 Waters Home Maintenance Gutter Cleaning, repairs, windows Free estimate 604-738-6606

8130

Handyperson

8160

Lawn & Garden

HEDGE SHRUB TREE & STUMP REMOVAL FREE ESTIMATE INSURED

224-3669

Fencing/Gates

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8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

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Since 1989

Century Hardwood Floors

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8120

Glass Mirrors

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8140

Heating

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

8155

Landscaping

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Gutters

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Moving & Storage

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Masonry

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8185

Moving & Storage

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45

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8193

Oil Tank Removal

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

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For Free Estimates Call

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8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

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PAINTING

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8160

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Lawn & Garden

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8200

Patios/Decks/ Railings

PLUMBERS

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

8225

Power Washing

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8205

Paving/Seal Coating

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8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

Units start at $40/mo.

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8250

Roofing

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8250

Roofing

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8300

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

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

8309

Tiling

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8255

Rubbish Removal

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8315

Tree Services

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8335

Window Cleaning

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That being said, perception is only worth so much—a far more-important consideration is the Tiguan’s excellent performance. Whereas other SUVs drive like family sedans and minivans, the Tiguan is closer to the Golf hatchback on which it’s based: nimble, quick, and—most of all—fun to drive. That, more than anything else, is what makes this SUV feel true to its compact dimensions.

The Tiguan offers the unique character of a Volkswagen, connecting to the

road and feeling very much like an extension of the driver’s will. It’s comfortable and intuitive from the moment you get behind the wheel, offering a relaxed and natural on-road experience that makes it very rewarding to drive.

There’s a word for this, of course: “fahrvergnügen.”

Translating roughly as “driving enjoyment,” it’s a term that VW hasn’t used in advertising for years, but its spirit is thankfully alive and well in the automaker’s engineering efforts.

Put all of this together and you have a fun, highly manoeuvrable compact SUV that would be very appealing to a wide range of people—if not for the lacklustre styling.

Alas, the Tiguan is about as boring as a vehicle gets, look-

ing like a cross between the Golf hatchback and Touareg SUV, and proving less interesting to look at than both.

There’s nothing particularly wrong with its design, but considering how great the driving experience is, the styling is a bit of a let-down (even after a mid-cycle refresh).

If you’re after the best possible handling in a compact SUV, don’t let the Tiguan’s one weakness hold you back. If you want the best of both worlds then you might want to wait for the eventual redesign, and hope that it still feels like a compact SUV. Design—While there’s nothing particularly wrong with the Tiguan’s plain exterior, there’s just nothing to get emotional about.

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While the RAV4 and CR-V really set the bar for compact SUVs in the late 90s, the current models are hard to see as “compact”.

They’ve grown with each generation, to the point where the current RAV4 is a half-metre longer than the original version and offers optional third-row seating.

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Handling is responsive and there’s lots of feedback from the slightly heavy steering, enabling drivers to intuitively sense and react to road conditions. Ride quality is also quite good, with the stiff-yet-subtle comfort of a German car.

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Environment—Although the Tiguan doesn’t seem as big inside as competing vehicles, it doesn’t feel at all cramped. VW did a good job optimizing the available space to maximize interior room.

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2011 KIA FORTE SEDAN

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VANCOUVER’S ONLY KIA DEALERSHIP

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604-326-6868

396 S.W. MARINE DRIVE, VANCOUVER

• 10 minutes from Delta • 15 minutes from Surrey • 5 minutes from Richmond • 5 minutes from Burnaby • minutes from Downtown

**0% purchase financing available on select 2011 Kia models for up to 84 months on approved credit (OAC). 0% purchase financing available on all 2011 Kia Rio and Rio5 models for up to 84 months on approved credit (OAC). #“No Payments Until Spring 2011” (60-day payment deferral) applies to purchase financing offers on all new 2011 Kia models on approved credit (OAC). No interest will accrue during the first 30 days of the financing contract. After 30 days interest starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay principal and interest monthly over the term of the contract. ‡Cash purchase price for 2011 Rio (RO542B)/2011 Forte Sedan (FO540B) is $9,995/$14,745 and includes a cash credit of $3,700/$1,250 based on the MSRP of $13,695/$15,995. !Cash savings vary by model and trim. *0% purchase financing available on 2011 Soul for up to 60 months on approved credit (OAC). !Loan credit for Soul (SO550B) is $500 and is available on purchase financing only on approved credit (OAC). Cash credit for 2011 Sportage (SP75BB) is up to $2,000. Cash credits vary by model & trim. All offers exclude licensing, registration, insurance, delivery and destination, PPSA, other taxes, and dealer administration fees. Other dealer charges may be required at the time of purchase. Other lease and financing options also available. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Prices subject to change without notice. Certain restrictions may apply. Vehicle images shown may include optional accessories and upgrades. !Highway/city fuel consumption for 2011 Sportage (SP55AB) is 6.9L (41 MPG)/10.0L (28 MPG); 2011 Rio (RO542B) is 5.8L (49 MPG)/7.1L (40 MPG); 2011 Soul (SO550B) is 6.3L (45 MPG)/7.7L (37 MPG); 2011 Forte Sedan (FO540B) is 5.7L (50 MPG)/8.1L (35 MPG). The actual fuel consumption of these vehicles may vary. These estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods. Refer to the Government of Canada publication EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. ^2011 Kia Sportage/2010 Kia Soul/2011 Kia Forte awarded the Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The award is applicable to all 2011 Sportage models manufactured after March 2010. Visit www.iihs.org for full details. <2011 Kia Sportage named 2011 International Truck of the Year by Road & Travel. Visit www.roadandtravel.com for full details. °The Bluetooth® word mark and logo are registered trademarks and are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. Some vehicles advertised may include optional accessories or after-sale equipment and may not be exactly as shown. Some conditions apply to the $500 Grad Rebate Program and $750 Kia Mobility Program. See dealer for details. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of print. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886.

Offers end February 28, 2011. KIA is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.

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100% B C Owned and Operated

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Nature’s Path Organic Eco Pac Cereals assorted varieties

from 5.49

assorted varieties

3/7.98

650-907g • product of Canada

Liberté Organic Kéfir

assorted varieties

Nuts To You Organic Almond Butter

2/4.00 120.5g

8.99

Terra Breads Pecan Fruit Crisps

5.49

Mountain Pride Ice Cream assorted varieties

170g • reg 6.49

2/6.00

600g • product of Canada

9.99

4.49

Pearl’s Frozen Perogies

Elevate Me Energy Bars

159.99 Nāka Vital Greens

24.99 Jason Toothpastes

2/6.00

122-170g • product of USA

3.99

EchoClean 2X High Efficiency Liquid Laundry Detergent two varieties

assorted varieties

3/4.98

regular or light

500ml

Great-tasting, all-natural organic oral care.

Eden Organic Canned Beans

Liberté Cream Cheese

each

Detoxify, fight stress and fatigue, aid digestion, energize with Vital Greens in a convenient liquid format.

600g • product of B.C.

66g • product of B.C.

2/7.00

The Santevia Water System revolutionizes tap water, creating pure, fresh tasting water that is healthier for you and more cost effective than bottled water.

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

1.99

regular retail price

Santevia Enhanced Water System

454g

380g

package of 3

20% off

2/5.00

85g • product of USA

French Baguette Bread

Rice Bran Muffins

prepacked or bins

assorted varieties

2/4.00

From Our Bakery

Rice Bakery

Organic Flax Seeds - Golden or Brown

Artesian Acres Organic Kamut Pasta

assorted varieties

454g • product of Canada

1.1lb Pkg

Bulk Department

reg 3.99

1.89 L • product of B.C.

Endangered Species Chocolate Bars

550g

3.98

3.49

select varieties

3.49

Roma Tomatoes On the Vine Certified Organic, Mexico Grown

Ariah’s Burritos

from 4.99

Cornmeal Raisin Bread

.98lb/2.16kg

From the Deli

500g • product of Canada

1.99

Certified Organic, Mexico Grown

3.99lb/ 8.80kg

Blue Diamond Nut-Thins

454ml • product of Canada

Kicking Horse Organic Fair Trade Coffee

Green Zucchini

J.D. Farms Grade A Turkeys

Dietitia n Top Ch s’ oice

Silver Hills Steady Eddie Bread

.98lb/ 2.16kg

3.49lb/ 7.69kg

product of Canada

2.99

B.C. Grown, Certified Organic

Whole Specialty Frying Chickens

650g

plain, strawberry or raspberry

Jonagold Apples from Organics Plus

Meat Department

Island Farms Vanilla Plus Yogurt

9.99

2.95L • product of B.C.

398ml • product of USA

250g • product of Canada

Earth Day Saturday, April 23, 12:00-4:00pm at all Choices Locations.

Looking for products that are made by companies with earth-friendly practices? In recognition of Earth Day, Choices Markets will be showcasing samples of environmentally safe household items and delicious local and/or organic foods. We will also be hosting donation barbecues and donating the net proceeds to five organizations that are all lending a hand to help the planet.

choicesmarkets.com Kitsilano

Cambie

2627 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver 604.736.0009

3493 Cambie St. 1888 W. 57th Ave. Vancouver Vancouver 604.875.0099 604.263.4600

Kerrisdale

Yaletown 1202 Richards St. Vancouver 604.633.2392

Prices Effective April 14 to April 20, 2011.

Choices in the Park

Rice Bakery South Surrey

2595 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver 6855 Station Hill Dr. 604.736.0301 Burnaby 604.522.6441

3248 King George Blvd.

South Surrey 604.541.3902

Choices at the Crest 8683 10th Ave. Burnaby 604.522.0936

Kelowna 1937 Harvey Ave. Kelowna

250.862.4864 Note Area Code

We reserve the right to limit quantities. Not all items may be available at all locations. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.