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Walton will chair TransLink Mayors’ Council Benjamin Alldritt

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DISTRICT of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton has become the new chairman of TransLink’s Mayors’ Council, ousting Langley Mayor Peter Fassbender by a narrow vote. follow this story at nsnews.com

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Think inside the box TOMO Hursthouse (from left), Emily Borrell, Andreas Zakardas and Laura Breese with the shoeboxes students at Irwin Park elementary have ﬁlled with toiletries, gloves and socks destined for Covenant House and the Salvation Army’s Harbour Light.

West Vancouver Mayor Pam Goldsmith-Jones completed the North Shore sweep Dec. 9, unseating Port Moody’s Joe Trasolini for the vice-chair position. The North Shore mayors locked up leadership of the council at a pivotal time for TransLink. A proposal to pay for new projects — including the long-awaited Evergreen Line — entirely through property taxes faced such opposition among the mayors that Transportation Minister Shirley Bond agreed to give See Walton page 3

WV to look at 1.1% tax increase

Compromise suggested between a zero increase and staff’s 1.5% Tessa Holloway newsroom@nsnews.com

DISTRICT of West Vancouver council will raise tax rates in next year’s budget, but not as much as initially planned in an attempt to reach a compromise after two lively council meetings. The proposal, which would see a 1.1 per cent tax increase in

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the 2011 budget following no tax rate increase last year, is less than the 1.5 per cent increase staff strongly recommended as the least council should choose in order to maintain aging infrastructure and put money into nearly empty reserve funds. A tax increase of 2.3 per cent, which staff said was required to maintain existing service levels, was never seriously entertained. “It’s a gigantic compromise,” said Mayor Pam GoldsmithJones. To reach that, council chose to reduce the amount of money going into reserves while also cutting $800,000 from services that

would affect the tax rate, including landscaping, ﬁre hall upgrades, a ﬁre truck replacement fund and a portable burn unit among other projects. Another $215,000 was cut from projects that won’t affect the tax rate, but instead go to reserves. Monday’s council meeting was the second heated meeting on the 2011 budget. Leading up to the earlier Dec. 6 meeting, an email was circulated claiming West Vancouver would suffer if an “irresponsible” zero per cent tax increase was passed, as had been proposed by the Interested Taxpayers’ Action Committee. The budget process isn’t over, either. Staff will return to council with a more complete budget document on Jan. 10, and See Public page 3

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Motorbike ripping up Northlands Golf course appeals for help in identifying seventh green vandal James Weldon jweldon@nsnews.com

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NORTHLANDS Golf Course is putting out a plea for information after its seventh green was torn up by vandals three times in the space of a month.

requirements to achieve ofﬁcial municipal approval. “I see no reason why we have to debate this thing endlessly,” Smith said. “The panic mode, for some reason, is in full force on this and it doesn’t need to be.” Soprovich called on councillors to reconsider Park Royal’s request for an at-grade intersection, arguing that the initial motion failed to incorporate public concerns like potential trafﬁc issues. “I’m asking for more time for a public meeting where we discuss this,” Soprovich said. “Let’s get all

the proposed tax rate — which would see an average increase of $33 — could still change. Coun. Michael Smith proposed the compromise motion. He said too many important infrastructure projects would be delayed without added funds. He pointed to the roofing repairs on the municipal arena as a project that keeps getting pushed back when taxes aren’t increased. “We’ve postponed it for the last couple years and if we postpone it again we can all pat ourselves on the back and say we maintained a zero per cent tax increase,” said Smith. “But we cannot keep cutting infrastructure (funds).” Smith said he agrees that the municipality needs to put the brakes on spending, but throughalong-termprocess.He compared the recent proposals by speakers to throwing darts at a dartboard. As he laid out his motion, Smith said it might not please everyone, or anyone, but Goldsmith-Jones and Couns. Michael Evison and Trish Panz supported the tax increase (Coun. Shannon Walker was absent). One lone speaker this week, Kristy Farquharson, called on council to support a tax increase. “Your job is to protect my investment, not balance my chequebook,” she told council. “Fund the programs and services that made West Vancouver where I want to live in the first place. Bill Soprovich and Michael Lewis cast dissenting votes. Soprovich signalled he planned to bring forward a motion in January to lower the tax rate again. “Even at zero there’s a tax increase,” said Soprovich, as assessment will increase the property value of homes and, therefore, the amount of money collected. Soprovich argued that council was facing a surplus estimated at $438,000 this year despite last year’s decision to hold the line on the tax rate, and that a similar policy this year wouldn’t impact on the quality of life of residents. Looking directly at Farquharson, who was now seated in the galley, Soprovich said: “I never thought it was a negative to want to save you money.” The majority of speakers who showed up to Monday’s meeting asked for a tax freeze, including Alec Orr-Ewing, who told council they could cut $1 million simply by not filling vacancies left by departing staff. “I work in the forest industry and trust me, every budget can be reduced,” he said.

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Staff at the publicly owned course discovered the damage Nov. 14 when they arrived at the green to ﬁnd deep tire ruts all over the manicured surface. It appears someone had driven on to the fairway on a motorbike and ridden back and forth across the green, spinning out and gouging muddy holes. have your say at nsnews.com

Staff repaired the ruts using turf from the course’s nursery, only to see them reappear three days later. Someone — they assumed it was the same person — had broken in unobserved and done exactly the same thing again. Fortunately, this time, the ground was frozen, meaning the damage was more limited, but it was still substantial. They reported the incidents to the North Vancouver RCMP, but the force was unable to identify any suspects. When the culprit tore up the same green in the same way Dec. 4, the golf course turned to the media for help. “We’re usually prepared for the one-off incidents, but to see it reappearing over and over, and clearly by the same individual with no way to get a hold of him . . . it’s just frustrating,” said Curtis Johnston, Northlands’ marketing co-ordinator. “In terms of physical damage, it ranks among the top.” Because grass grows slowly at this time of year, the green hasn’t had a chance to fully heal between incidents, he said. And the labour hours going into patching it up could be going toward other projects. The seventh green is in a far-removed area of the course, said Johnston. And with trafﬁc down in response to the weather, no one was around to witness any of the incidents. Staff aren’t even sure if they’ve been taking place at night or during the day. Their best guess is dusk, however. Johnston believes the bike rider is coming from the Blueridge neighbourhood, west of Northlands, having followed the tracks as far as Hyannis Drive. He hopes that by going public with his concerns, he might be able to encourage a neighbour or acquaintance of the culprit to come forward with information. “There aren’t too many motorbikes in that area,” he said. “We can kind of narrow the scope somewhat.” Anyone with information is asked to contact the North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311. Callers should cite ﬁle 201030239.

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CURTIS Johnston, Northlands Golf Course assistant manager, watches grounds worker Chris Roberts replace damaged turf on the seventh green.

Walton will be central in TransLink funding issue From page 1

MAYOR Richard Walton now a regional ﬁgure.

them several more months to consider other funding sources. Walton will be the point man in negotiations between the province and the municipalities in the coming weeks. The vote cements Walton’s place as a regional ﬁgure. He is also vice-chairman of the Metro Vancouver board, and made an unsuccessful bid for the chair last year. Historically the Mayors’ Council has had little input into the development of TransLink’s plans, but it does still have the authority to approve or vote them down. Fassbender admitted to reporters that he was disappointed in the result, and acknowledged that some of his mayoral colleagues felt he had been too conciliatory. “I did the best I could to build consensus and co-operation and collaboration,” he said “It’s my style and I make no apologies for it.”

The shakeup of TransLink leadership continued Dec. 9 as its board of directors elected Nancy Olewiler as their new chairwoman, replacing Dale Parker, who announced plans to retire in September. Olewiler, director of Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy, was ﬁrst appointed to the board in 2008. She holds degrees from Columbia University, SFU and UBC as well as having authored a variety of papers on tax policy and environmental economics. “I see TransLink’s role as providing the Mayors’ Council and the province with the best information and advice possible, both in terms of a progressive transportation plan for the region and the best practices regarding our options to fund it,” Olewiler said in a release. “This means understanding the public’s views and expectations through ongoing engagement with them and building on our capacity to be a centre of knowledge and innovation.”

WV conﬁrms Park Royal overpass to go Niamh Scallan

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ONE councillor’s effort to roadblock the demolition of a pedestrian overpass for a new intersection and trafﬁc light at West Vancouver’s Park Royal Shopping Centre was quashed at a recent District of West Vancouver council meeting. Councillors voted 5-2 on Dec. 6 to overrule a motion put forward by Coun. Bill Soprovich to stall Park Royal’s construction plans. The motion, supported by Coun.

Public majority asks for tax freeze

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Michael Lewis, called for further public consultation, examination of trafﬁc impact and council discussion of the proposal for a new street-level crossing. But other councillors opposed the motion and held to their October decision to approve the $2-million, Park Royal-funded proposal. According to the earlier motion passed Oct. 18, the construction plan must conform to district standards and

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District Dialogue

December 17, 2010

It’s licence renewal time!

Happy Holidays! Season’s greetings and best wishes for the New Year, from District Council and staff.

The 2011 Council Meeting schedule is now available online. To view it, visit our website, www.dnv.org, and follow the links. The next Regular Council Meeting is January 10, 2011. The schedule of regular Council meetings, as well as agendas for upcoming meetings and minutes of past meetings, is available online at www.dnv.org. The Council agenda is also available for viewing at all District libraries. All regular Council meetings are open to the public and held in the Council Chamber at District Hall, 355 W. Queens Rd., and start at 7:00p.m.

This is the last issue of District Dialogue for 2010. District Dialogue will resume in January 2011. If you’re interested in finding information on preparing for winter weather visit our snow page at www.dnv.org/snow. Stay on top of District news over the holidays, including our facility hours by visiting our website at www.dnv.org, our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ NVanDistrict, or by following us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ nvandistrict.

The District’s Animal Welfare Shelter would like to remind dog owners that they must have a valid license for each dog in their household (three months or older). Dog licences may be obtained from the District Hall, 355 West Queens Road (open Monday to Friday, 8:00a.m. to 4:30p.m.), or from the District Animal Shelter, 299 Mansfield Place (open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00a.m. to 5;00p.m.). Dog licences must be purchased no later than January 31 of each year, after which dog owners could be subject to a fine for an unlicensed dog. Licences purchased on or before January 31 are eligible for a $10 fee discount. Licence fees vary based upon an altered (spayed/neutered) or non-altered dog. First-time licence applications require veterinary proof of spay/neuter to receive an applicable licence. Renewal notices have recently been mailed out and existing licence holders, with the access code found on their renewal notice, may renew online at www.dnv.org/dog_tag. Please note: District Hall will be closed from noon December 24 to December 28, inclusive. The Customer Service Counter will be open to serve you December 29 – 31 and dog licence renewals will be accepted with payment by cheque. New licences and renewals may also be purchased, with any form of payment, at the District’s Animal Welfare Shelter. Please note the Animal Shelter will be closed December 25 - 28, January 1 and January 3. Regular hours will resume January 4. Current business owners are reminded to renew their business licences for 2011 with the District. Payment for your renewal can be submitted in person at District Hall (355 West Queens Rd.), by mail, or online at www.dnv.org. After payment has been received and processed, business licences will be printed and mailed to you in February. For further information please contact the Building Department at 604-990-2480 or building@dnv.org. Attention new non-resident business owners! Did you know you can now apply for a District Business Licence online without having to come to the District Hall? For more info visit the Forms and Information Online page of our website www.dnv.org/forms.

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ANNE McMullin, NV Chamber of Commerce president, supports the creation of a business improvement area.

Lonsdale close to BIA status Benjamin Alldritt

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LOWER Lonsdale business owners are getting close to the endgame of their year-long project to form a business improvement area in their neighbourhood. Armed with a $5,000 grant from the City of North Vancouver, the all-volunteer Lower Lonsdale Business Association has been engaging its members over the past months about forming a better funded organization with paid staff. Business improvement areas are funded through a charged levied against all the companies in the deﬁned area. The money is used for have your say at nsnews.com

Holiday Hours District Hall will be closed on Friday, December 24 at noon, and on December 27, 28 and January 3. Our Customer Service Centre will be open to serve you December 29, 30 and 31 from 8:00a.m. – 4:30p.m. The Customer Service Counter will be open to provide the following services: respond to general telephone, email and walk-in enquiries; take service requests for handling in the New Year; receive non-cash payments (to be processed on January 4); provide information on District services and programs; and contact key District staff in the event of an emergency. All other departments, including the Engineering, Planning, and Finance service counters will be closed between December 24 (noon) and January 3, inclusive. Outside operations will be closed on December 27, 28 and January 3 with reduced crew levels on December 29, 30 and 31. For garbage and recycling collection dates please consult the collection schedule (available online at www.dnv.org). Operational crews will be on standby over the holidays in case of emergency. For additional information please visit www.dnv.org, email us at inquiries@dnv.org, or call 604-990-2311.

Holiday Hours for other District Facilities: For Recreation Centre holiday hours and public swim, skate and fitness schedules, visit www.northvanrec.com. The North Vancouver District Public Library will be closed December 25 to December 28 (inclusive) and January 1 to January 3 (inclusive). The Library will close at noon on December 24 and at 5:00p.m. on December 31. All other hours are as usual. For more information please visit www.nvdpl.ca. Maplewood Farm will be open daily 10:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. from December 14 to January 4. The Farm will be closed on Christmas Day. The Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre will close for the holidays at 1:00p.m. on Friday December, 24 and will re-open at 10:00a.m. on Tuesday January, 4.

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street beautification, graffiti removal and other projects or studies to improve the business environment. There are 49 BIAs in British Columbia, 21 in the Metro Vancouver area, but the Lower Lonsdale edition would be the first on the North Shore. Organizers say businesses will pay $0.81507 per $1,000 of assessed value, meaning the owner of a $750,000 commercial property would contribute $611.30 annually. The proposed BIA covers the commercial blocks straddling Lonsdale Avenue from the waterfront to Fourth Street, and reaches along First Street to Mahon Avenue in the west, and St. Andrew’s Avenue in the east. The area holds roughly 700 businesses. City councillors universally praised the LLBA volunteers for their work, but Coun. Pam Bookham was disturbed at the way the final decision would be triggered. Instead of seeking majority support, the BIA will be created automatically unless more than half the businesses object. “I’ve never been a fan of negative billing and this look very much like negative billing to me,” she said. “I guarantee we will have some people writing to us after the fact and saying ‘Why am I being charged this? When was this ever discussed?’” City director of corporate services Francis Caouette said in his view the results of the LLBA’s consultation work were conclusive enough that the city didn’t need to duplicate them. Council approved the negative petition process 6-1. “We have been supportive of this,” said Anne McMullin, North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce president, after the meeting. “The chamber believes the Lower Lonsdale area, like many areas around North Van, have real opportunity to grow and bring more people from the North Shore and around Metro Vancouver to do business, to shop, to frequent the restaurants around there, and an opportunity to improve the area.”

No layoffs planned in WV

From page 3 After the meeting, he shook his head and said council was dodging its responsibility. “The issue is they can’t make a big decision,” he said. “This issue is staff costs, and it’s not unique to West Vancouver.” When asked about staff pay, director of ﬁnance Nina Leemhuis said there is some leeway there as non-unionized employees have a two per cent pay increase budgeted for 2011, but she said that’s less than most Metro Vancouver municipalities at four per cent. Layoffs are another issue entirely, she said. “We’re not really ready to do that.”

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THE western link between the north and south malls of Park Royal Shopping Centre is slated to be replaced with a trafﬁc-light controlled, at-grade intersection.

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the facts down first before we make these rush judgments that Park Royal wants so they can get on with their economic development and leave West Vancouver in the hinterland as far as traffic is concerned.” A number of West Vancouver residents also opposed the Park Royal proposal, arguing to council that the construction project would further complicate traffic issues on Marine Drive. “I can think of no good reason to proceed right away with Park Royal’s request to replace the westerly overpass over Marine Drive,” Lower Caulfeild resident Leslie Pratt said. “And I can think of many good reasons to stop and give time to residents and council to analyze this proposal more fully before inflicting irreparable aggravation . . . on the citizens of West Van.” But the majority of council voted alongside those West Vancouver residents who strongly supported the destruction of the

overpass for a level intersection. Council’s decision to give Park Royal developers the green light comes as an early birthday present for Park Royal Towers resident Dorothy Pearson, who celebrates her 90th birthday this month and strongly supports the street-level crossing. “Older citizens like to keep our independence and the new plan would be much appreciated by seniors,” Pearson said of the difficulties in accessing the existing pedestrian overpass. “Please let us keep our independence.” In approving Park Royal’s bid, councillors endorsed the district staff report, released in October, that said the proposed signalized intersection would provide a safer, more accessible crossing for pedestrians, better traffic flow in the area and improved access to the malls for emergency vehicles and transit buses.

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NE of these days, Canada’s Senate is going to get itself fired. Its actions this week may have drawn that day a little nearer. On Wednesday, it emerged that the upper house was rejecting the recommendations of an independent audit to tighten its bookkeeping. The accountants concluded that the 105 senators’ office expenses — a quarter of their $81-million budget — were poorly documented, thinly regulated and riddled with errors. The firm recommended that the house accept independent oversight. The senators said “no.” The senate was created as a check on power, a shield for the people of Canada against rash decisions by their government. In reality, it is little more than a handy place for the party

in power to put their cronies and bagmen out to pasture. Its members’ only qualiﬁcation is knowing the right people. And yet, as demonstrated by their recent rejection of a climate bill, these unelected sycophants are prepared to exercise real power — on behalf of their friends. At the core of democracy is the idea that government is accountable. The senate violates this principle, and its reaction this week to the auditor’s recommendations shows it has no interest remedying this. In a sense, the senate’s astonishing refusal of this modicum of oversight may be the most useful action it has taken in decades, in that it pushed this antiquated institution that much closer to a long-overdue termination.

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Dear Editor: Last year, the municipality decided to keep the current tax rate (misleadingly called zero, but it means the tax rate would not be raised for 2010) and the result of the good work by council and staff was an increase in revenue of $1 million and a surplus of $500,000. Some have been frightened by claims that are not applicable. It won’t affect garbage collection — the utility fees are charged separately and increases of ﬁve per cent to 13 per cent (water, sewer, solid waste) have already been approved for 2011. They are usage based whereas the tax rate is applied to property assessments. The present discussion is whether to keep our present tax rate that we’ve had for the past two years or to raise it. Keeping it means no increase so that’s why it’s called “zero,” but the term refers to not raising the rate, not the dollar amount of the budget.

Council passed Coun. Michael Smith’s motion of raising the tax rate 1.1 per cent in spite of Coun. Bill Soprovich’s continued plea for no rise in our tax rate (called zero, also supported by Coun. Michael Lewis; Coun. Shannon Walker was absent). The budget bylaw will come back Jan. 10 and more public input will be possible then. Does anyone think 1.1 per cent of $77 million can’t be found? Salaries went up four per cent in 2010 and will be four per cent for 2011 and comprise more than 80 per cent of the operating budget. That’s unsustainable even if it weren’t unconscionable given the income of many residents has decreased. Contrary to the impression created in the Dec. 10 North Shore News story Residents Speak Out for Tax Hike, the majority of the speakers did not favour a tax hike. And in the past week, all four letters said no to higher taxes, as did nine out of the 10 letters under submissions in public correspondence. Carolanne Reynolds, West Vancouver

Those who want to pay more taxes should Dear Editor: I write in response to the Dec. 10 front page story under the arresting headline WV Residents Speak Out for Tax Hike. That’s right up there with Turkeys Speak Out for Early Thanksgiving. According to your reporter, on Dec. 6 council chambers were crowded and “. . . many were there to say they would like to pay the potential tax increase.” Well, I was there and council chambers were indeed packed. However, I counted only ﬁve people who expressed the desire to pay more property tax. I would say that number more properly

constitutes a few rather than many. I have a suggestion. Perhaps the District of West Vancouver could institute a new property tax collection policy whereby those who wish to pay more could so indicate on their tax notice and simply write a bigger cheque. Then again, I suspect that would not prove to be anywhere near as appealing to the “spend and tax types” as suggesting cheques be drawn on others’ accounts. David O. Marley West Vancouver

Dear Editor: During the fall, I walked past a sign in Caulfeild Park posted by West Vancouver Parks informing the public of a pilot project to use Roundup to kill an invasive species: Japanese knot weed. I emailed my concerns to West Vancouver Parks and Community Services and the mayor. The response was very unsatisfactory. I emailed again, asking them to not proceed with the experiment and that I didn’t feel it was safe. I got no response and they did proceed with the spraying. My concern is that the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) is an known carcinogen linked to cancer. This herbicide and other pesticides wreak havoc on the immune systems of animals. An employee at GardenWorks told me it is illegal to sell it on the North Shore. There is a preschool about 100 metres from the site. I don’t feel this is a viable solution to the invasive species. Unfortunately there are many examples of invasive species gaining ground around the world, but toxic chemicals are not the solution. The reason I was compelled to write you was I recently discovered a turtle about six inches in diameter living in and around my property. I wonder if she would survive if herbicides and pesticides were used? We are fragile and where we live is fragile. I think the actions of West Vancouver Parks and Community Services and the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society are careless. We need to work together to ﬁnd more natural solutions. Renee Rechtschaffner West Vancouver

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Coalition-based parties struggle for cohesion

Both the B.C. Liberals and the New Democratic Party face serious challenges when it comes to holding themselves together in order to have a real shot at either keeping power or gaining it. The two parties are now in the process of changing leaders, a situation that can create both positive and negative scenarios for political parties. It can be a chance for renewal — but also a potential walk down a path of internal destruction. It must be remembered that both parties represent a coalition of interests. The B.C. Liberals inherited the Social Credit party’s “free enterprise” coalition, in which conservatives and liberals put their differences aside to achieve a mutual goal: obtaining, and keeping, political power. The NDP is a looser coalition that combines

View from the Ledge Keith Baldrey

elements of classic trade unionism, social activism and socialism. The party has long been known for inﬁghting (see: Kwan vs. James) yet has been able to maintain its status as the number 2 party in the province, always close to gaining power but rarely achieving that goal. The extraordinary events of the past few weeks (where, in unprecedented fashion, both parties took down their leaders at roughly the same time) suggest the leadership races themselves may have a bigger impact on the parties than during a normal state

of affairs. Let’s examine the B.C. Liberals first. Of the leadership candidates, only one — Kevin Falcon — is strongly identified on the conservative side of the spectrum. The rest are aligned on the liberal side, most notably Christy Clark, who has strong ties to the federal Liberal party. Both Falcon and Clark are considered the frontrunners, yet both have the most potential of being a divisive force. They are both aggressive, brash politicians who can turn people off as easily as they attract them. It’s hard to imagine the party’s right-wing elements working under a Clark leadership with any great enthusiasm. It’s almost equally difficult to imagine the true liberals embracing a Falcon victory. Nevertheless, the free enterprise coalition’s historic ability to rally around a leader who can deliver power cannot be discounted. However, were Falcon or Clark to become the next

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The district should respect the wishes of its constituents though they may not match the desires of some of its employees. If a group of affected neighbours come together with a plan to replace a stand of trees with a smaller statured grove, at no cost to the district, it should be approved. Meanwhile, we can all be good neighbours and keep our own trees pruned for the enjoyment of the community. After one household has trimmed trees I’ve noticed other neighbours following suit. Bruce Waters North Vancouver

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THE two coalition parties that have run this province for more than 50 years are at a political crossroads.

behind the scenes in getting rid of James, has already declared the next leader cannot come from Vancouver Island. Potential candidate John Horgan, who is from the Island, is therefore already facing a tough enemy.) Mike Farnworth is the supposed front-runner (should he run), but he may be the most centrist of any candidate. This raises an interesting scenario: will the left-wing of the party — which drove James from ofﬁce — mount an attack on Farnworth, arguably the most popular NDP politician with the voting public? And that brings us to the key question facing both parties: Will their members put ideological differences aside in order to pick a new leader who has the best chance of winning an election? History shows the centre-

right side of the political spectrum has been able to do that most often. It is the NDP that more often than not puts self-interests ahead of winning elections. I wrote in this space a few weeks back that the time is ripe for some MLAs to become Independents or join together to create a new political party. The challenge for the two established coalitions is to keep that from happening. If the leadership races create a lot of inﬁghting, it may be like a dam breaking, with MLAs suddenly leaving the parties that got them elected. The political events of the past six weeks have been crazy and unprecedented. But these extraordinary times are by no means over just yet. KBaldrey@globaltv.com Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Friday, December 17, 2010 - North Shore News - A9

Rudolph should be jealous Heidi Castle

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THE litmus test for any volunteer job is whether or not the volunteer says yes to it again. Whatever you get out of freely giving your time — a sense of accomplishment, camaraderie or that great feeling of doing good for others — it’s the repeat performance that speaks volumes. After my recent Friday night, ﬁrst ever, volunteer shift with the North Shore area Operation Red Nose, I say, “What a hoot. Sign me up again next year.” From volunteer to user, response to the service is overwhelmingly positive. All night long I heard comments like: “Thank you so much for doing this”; “So glad you guys volunteer”; “What a great service.” During the holiday season, Operation Red Nose offers anyone considering driving a vehicle after drinking alcohol a conﬁdential, safe and reliable alternative to getting home. With the toughest drinking and driving laws in the country, calling Operation Red Nose is a no-brainer. For the user the service is dead easy. Make the call. Hand over your car keys and relax, while a team of sober individuals drives you and your car home.

For the volunteer it’s a good time. “Oh yeah, absolutely I would do it again no problem,” said Julia, 22, North Shore resident and self-described ardent volunteer. “I love the random conversation and meeting new people.” She and I were a couple of newbies in the ICBC claim centre lunch room Friday night, in a room of some 30 or more repeat volunteers. They were there to work in either a threeperson drive team or operate the dispatch centre. We ranged in age from early 20s to late 60s. Some had been ORN North Shore volunteers since Rotary Clubs of the North Shore brought ORN to this community, 10 years ago. The service runs Friday and Saturday evenings 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., through until and including New Year’s Eve with the exception of Christmas Eve

and the evening of Christmas Day which fall on a Friday and Saturday this year. The way the drive home works is a team of three, a driver, navigator and a sweep vehicle driver, go out on call in the sweep car. We collect our ride from restaurants, private homes, pubs or casinos. The driver and navigator drive the ORN patron home in his or her car and then return to the ICBC claim centre in the sweep car for the next call. Friday night, 10 driving teams handled 35 rides, clocked 968 kilometres and raised $950 in donations. Last year, over nine nights, volunteers handled some 6,000 B.C. rides. The thought of staying up until 3 a.m. felt daunting. But, it wasn’t that bad. After volunteer sign-in and orientation at 8:30 p.m., teams went out to restaurants and bars to hand out ORN calling cards. Restaurant and pub staff and patrons welcomed our presence. “We want our customers going home safe, and this offers the best option,” said Jeff McCutcheon, manager Earl’s Restaurant. “We’re feeling the affects of the new tough drinking and driving regulations, and this service works well for everyone.” We walked among tables handing out cards and talking about the ORN service. People

had either heard about it or were really happy to talk to us. “Every card you hand out is a future ride,” said Chris Hancock, material damage regional manager ICBC. Sure enough our ﬁrst ride was our client’s ﬁrst ever ORN call. We picked her up during a promo visit to Pemberton Station Pub. When we arrived she was in the middle of dialling ORN from a card she’d gotten the previous week. We took her home and continued making rounds to Earl’s, Taylor’s Crossing, Boston Pizza and Hurricane Grill before heading back to dispatch at the ICBC claim centre. We had one query about driving a motorcycle home. “We’re open to driving any kind of vehicle, as long as the designated driver has the ability to do it,” said Hancock. “In my three years as a volunteer, I’ve driven everything from a brand new Porsche to a snowplow.” On our bar visits, a most enthusiastic and welcoming group were the 20-somethings, relatively new to legal drinking. “Despite what you hear about youth, youth is pretty good out there,” said Gary, a volunteer in his third year with ORN. “I am so impressed with today’s youth. They have a lot to be proud of.” See Red page 11

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INQUIRING REPORTER THIS week, the Senate ﬁnance committee recommended that we take our humble penny out of circulation. The copper coin costs more to make than it is worth, and considering the Royal Canadian Mint produced 500 million last year, we’re not talking about pocket change here. Other countries have slowly started to ditch their lowest denomination. Should we be next? Are we turning our backs on tradition? Will you miss the penny, should it get taken away? Were we foolish to keep it for so long? Find us on Facebook and tell us what you think. — Caitlin Dowling

Bernard Durkin North Vancouver Yes. It’s useless. It costs more than a cent to make, and copper is valuable today.

Should we abolish the penny?

Adeana Murray North Vancouver I don’t think so, I think you kind of need them!

Garry Hughes Squamish I think it should be abolished, yes.

Alan Cowdery North Vancouver I think it makes economic sense. Shame to see a tradition die, though, but big deal. Lots of countries have dropped their lower denomination already.

Richard Rodak North Vancouver I don’t think so. I think it’ll beneﬁt the retailer, but not the individual because it’ll all be rounded out to a higher price.

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Our team ran four rides. Doesn’t sound like much but we drove to and from North Vancouver to West Vancouver a couple of times, out to Lynn Valley’s Legion Hall and back into the City of North Vancouver once, and over to the casino in Burnaby and back to the North Shore for our ﬁnal call. Given the ORN designation clearly visible on the vehicle dashboard, we were waved through a couple of road blocks. “This

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BRIGHT LIGHTS

Arts-U-Nite at Seymour Art Gallery

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Artist Enda Bardell, Al Spence and former board member Linda Spence view the works up for auction.

Author John Schreiner and B.C. Guild of Wine Judges’ Ken Fowler ﬂank gallery co-ordinator Sarah Cavanaugh. The Seymour Art Gallery hosted an art auction and wine tasting event called Arts-U-Nite, Nov. 21. Works by well-known North Shore artists, including Gordon Smith, Ross Munro, Alistair Bell and Enda Bardell, jewelry and pottery by local artisans, a Whistler getaway and goods donated by local businesses were among the auction items up for grabs. Local wine guru John Schreiner, author of Okanagan Wine Tour Guide, was also on hand to make suggestions. Funds raised from the event will support the non-proﬁt, community gallery located in Deep Cove. Info: www.seymourartgallery.com.

Olga Volkoff, president Alan Bell and Dorothy Cross show their support.

Steve Lamare, board member Tammy Chamberlayne and past-president Charles Wilkinson team up for a photo.

Board vice-president and event organizer Anne Love and auctioneer Joanne Waters celebrate a successful evening.

Board member Larry Belsito, wine judge and guild master Sam Hauck, Peter Richards and Abigail Turner attend.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to ARTS & CULTURE

How Do You Know anchored in reality: Page 16 Duffy keeps her distance: Pages 18 photo submitted

The Dandy Warhols’ set artfully arranged: Page 19

CBC Radio personality Grant Lawrence reads from his new book, Adventures in Solitude, at his old stomping grounds, the West Vancouver Memorial Library, on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 2 p.m.

Roger Waters revels in the spectacle of The Wall: Page 20

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Finding the source of Mexican handicrafts: Page 25 Paciﬁc Baroque Orchestra’s winter program features English composers: Page 29 Eric Enno Tamm retraces the footsteps of a Russian spy through Asia in The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: Page 32 More online at www.nsnews.com

■ Adventures in Solitude: A reading, slideshow and short ﬁlm presented by author and CBC Radio personality Grant Lawrence, with a musical performance by wife Jill Barber, Sunday, Dec. 19 at 2 p.m. at the West Vancouver Memorial Library. Free. Info: grantlawrence.ca or www. westvanlibrary.ca.

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GRANT Lawrence is no stranger to love.

The West Vancouver native has long pursued his passion for music, recording and touring with rock band The Smugglers, which got its start at the now defunct Hillside secondary. As well, he’s a well-known music journalist for CBC Radio, hosting a number of programs and a popular weekly podcast. He also recently married his sweetheart, the lovely Jill Barber, a talented singersongwriter, in a rather public manner, seeing him discuss their wedding planning extensively on-air. It’s ﬁtting then that his debut book, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, explores another of Lawrence’s favourite things — time spent at his family’s cabin in the remote area of B.C. “The book is a love story to the West Coast. It’s a tribute to the West Coast and coastal people and a coastal way of life,” he says. “There’s some really dark moments in the book and there’s some really humourous moments in the book; but the main thing, what I try to put across is, it’s really written from a place of love.” While Lawrence now lives in English Bay, his parents Garth and Jean still call West Vancouver home, residing in the same Dundarave house he grew up in. His younger sister Heather, a central character in Adventures in Solitude, has also stayed close to home, living with her own family in Deep Cove. “It was a great place to grow up and we were a small “c” conservative family like

a lot of West Vancouver families,” he says. “Nardwuar the Human Serviette lived a couple blocks away, Douglas Coupland up the hill — so it was a pretty rich artistic environment to grow up in.” Lawrence attended Irwin Park elementary, then Hillside secondary and West Vancouver secondary. He went to Hillside at the same time as Nardwuar, a fellow successful music journalist. Three years his senior, Nardwuar proved to have quite an impact on Lawrence as well as many of their peers. Unlike other local high schools that would feature disco music or DJs for school dances, class president Nardwuar opted to do something more representative of the then 1980s Vancouver music scene. There were a number of bands making waves — 54-40, The Grapes of Wrath, D.O.A., Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians and Skinny Puppy included. “Nardwuar would get all of these bands to actually perform at our high school dances in West Vancouver and it inﬂuenced a generation of students that all became musicians in some way or another,” says Lawrence. “There’s so many people that I know from West Vancouver that went to that high school that play music or are in bands or what have you.” In Lawrence’s case, Nardwuar inspired him to get involved with music as a concert promoter — ﬁrst helping Nardwuar with the many local shows he went on to organize and then on his own —and to form his own band following in the footsteps of Nardwuar’s collective, The Evaporators, which are still together today. “We thought The Evaporators were so cool because there’s all these bands that came and played our dances from downtown but here’s a band right in our high school that’s really neat and played this kind of weird rock and roll music,” says Lawrence. Lawrence and his friends formed The Smugglers in 1988, with him as lead singer, and stayed together until 2005. They toured all over the world and recorded eight albums (some of which were on Nardwuar’s label in the early days). Originally, Lawrence considered writing a book about The Smugglers as he kept See Lawrence page 36

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CALENDAR GALLERIES Artists for Kids Gallery: 810 West 21st St., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., weekends from noon to 4 p.m. Info: 604-903-3798 or www.artists4kidscom. Bellevue Gallery: 2475 Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.5 p.m. and outside gallery hours by appointment. Info: www. bellevuegallery.ca. Chang-Soo Kim’s contemporary work will be on display until Dec. 31. Buckland Southerst Gallery: 2460 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-922-1915. www.bucklandsoutherst.com. Cafe for Contemporary Art: 140 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Info: 778-340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@gmail.com. Family Friends and Funny Faces: An exhibition of works by people under the age of ﬁve, until Jan. 5. There will be a “little” party, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 5-7 p.m. Caroun Art Gallery: 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver. Info: www.caroun.net, 778-372-0765 or artgallery@caroun.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8 p.m. Arts and Crafts Sale: Paintings, calligraphy, photographs and crafts will be for sale until Dec. 31. CityScape Community Art Space: 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-988-6844 or www.nvartscouncil.ca. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Anonymous Art Show: A group exhibition and fundraising event that includes both established and emerging two-dimensional artists, until Dec. 18. Each painting is $100 with 50 per cent going to the artist and the remaining to the North Vancouver Community Arts Council. Art Rental Collection Exhibition will run from Jan. 14 to 29. Meet the artists’ opening reception: Thursday, Jan. 13, 7-9 p.m. District Foyer Gallery: 355 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Info: 604-9886844 or www.nvartscouncil.ca. The North Vancouver Community Arts Council presents textile arts by Olga Uhrin and paintings by Ron den Daas, until Jan. 26. District Library Gallery: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: www.nvartscouncil.ca. The North Vancouver Community Arts Council presents travel photographs by Alan Sirulnikoff until Jan. 12. The Elliott Louis Gallery: 258 East First Ave., Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-736-3282. Ferry Building Gallery: 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Admission to all shows is free. Info: 604-925-7266 or www. ferrybuildinggallery.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mondays. From the Landscape: A mixed media exhibition, Jan. 11-30. Opening reception: Tuesday, Jan. 11, 6-8 p.m. Artists in attendance: Saturday, Jan. 15, 2-3 p.m. Gallery Jones: 1531 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-926-

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CD REVIEW ■ Duffy — Endlessly (Mercury) Rating: 5 (out of 10) Bernard Butler is out, Albert Hammond Sr. is in as producer for Duffy’s sophomore effort. Not necessarily a good thing but an interesting choice. Butler imagined what London was like in the ’60s, Hammond was there. For the most part Duffy distances herself from Dusty Springﬁeld’s iconic sound this time out using a new approach to get what she is looking for. Hammond collaborated with Duffy in writing most of the tracks and enlisted The Roots’ Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson to add some edge. The result is a mishmash of styles looking for anything that will stick — one track “Keeping My Baby” has a production template that incorporates a Kylie vocal, Madonna lyrics and Philly strings for its effect. Bernard Butler is looking more and more like a genius. — John Goodman

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I went to The Dandy Warhols concert at the Commodore with a pre-conceived notion of them as a one-hit wonder band, and assumed they’d either open or close with the instantly recognizable (unless you’re deaf), “Bohemian Like You.”

To my surprise, they didn’t play “Bohemian Like You” first, and they didn’t even play it last. They played it somewhere tasteful, something like fifth to last in NEWS photo Sprout the set, which really threw THE Dandy Warhols’ frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor me for a loop. Their whole made the music the main focus live. set was jam-packed full of gems and showed great range pop and genuine. in style, which proved that if anyone’s calling One of the first songs they played, “We them one hit wonders, they don’t know what they’re talking about. Used To Be Friends” was easily the best The band have been featured in some great choice for an early song. It’s one of their big films (Good Will Hunting, Crazy/Beautiful, hits, but not so big such that it seemed as if Igby Goes Down) and television series (The they just wanted to get it out of the way. Not O.C., Skins, Daria), and starred opposite The to mention Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s vocals Brian Jonestown Massacre in the documentary, sound better live than on record, which the DiG!, and consistently manage to produce music of substance that can be both cinematic See Band’s page 31

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Waters revels in spectacle ■ Roger Waters, Rogers Arena, Dec. 10.

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An experience, however, is how you come to understand Roger Waters’ The Wall, the rock opera that ﬁrst showed its world of evil and beauty over 30 years ago. Anyone familiar with the 1979 Pink Floyd release knows that the concept album is heavily layered with themes of war, politics, mind control and personal isolation. Also, the words interject story lines which at their core parallel Waters’ own struggle in having lost his father during the Second World War. The musical product is profoundly beautiful and the visual spectacle heightened the intensity behind the political message that, unfortunately, remains timeless. Step by step, from the intensity of “In The Flesh” to lullabying

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driven 24 hours straight from North Dakota to meet his 14year-old son, who himself had travelled from northern Alberta to the concert. Together they celebrated a bond with one another, and a bond with The Wall, a record on which the young boy had been raised. I felt bonded to the experience myself, having watched the 1990 VHS of The Wall every Saturday morning with my father for years. And we were only three people out of thousands — all of which united in screaming “Tear Down the Wall!” as gigantic hammers appeared on the the screen, bringing the wall to an eventual and joyous collapse. At the end of the night Waters stood surrounded by his musical company as the arena clapped in appreciation. He smiled, shrugged his shoulders and thanked everyone, proclaiming, “I couldn’t be any happier being anywhere but here tonight.” There are many moments from this experience that I am sure have been lost in translation, because as I said, there’s really no way to describe perfection. You see it, you feel it, and you know that’s exactly what it is. That’s it.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

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What kind of outﬁt should I be wearing this holiday season? Ready for a party in Delbrook

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Dear Delbrook: Cocktail dressing is very popular every year. It is a time for ladies to go into their closets and pull out all their special clothes to put together an outfit that says I feel good about myself and I want to have fun! However, “less is more” does not apply this holiday season. Because most of the fall styling is minimalist yet stylish, cocktail dressing is more on the flamboyant side. Women want to dress up and that is the look for holiday. Fabrics inspire the styling of the outfit. Velvet, lace, leather and metallic are the predominate fabrics to look for. Fabric exudes a sense of luxury. Don’t worry: there are cheaper versions everywhere if you are on a budget. Skirts, vests and blazers can be found in black velvet giving you a formal yet soft look. If you don’t want a velvet holiday suit choose one piece. A dark purple crushed velvet blazer can give your outfit a pop of colour and style, without going over the top. Blouses with lace trim are very popular and versatile this season. The lace should be primarily around the collar, ruffled down the front of the blouse and off the cuffs. Lace and velvet match this holiday season. Think about putting them together. Leather and metallic are edgier fabrics to choose. Although everyone can pull off leather, metallic fabrics are more challenging. Choose your leather pieces, the same way you would choose velvet. If you are going to invest in leather pieces, choose classic styles and colours so that you can wear these pieces for seasons to come. Leather can be professional, trendy, or casual depending on the complementary pieces you choose to incorporate into your outfit. Metallic is definitely trendy this holiday season, and don’t be surprised if you see it everywhere. Gold metallic pieces in a tank top, a blazer, or a skirt are simpler pieces to choose. The key to metallic is chose one piece and that gold is the colour. Wear it with black or white. Your jewelry should match and most importantly, the metallic fabric must be lightweight and flowing. This is not a stiff look. So what should you wear to a company party? Well, that depends on the atmosphere and your personality. If you are looking for a conservative holiday outfit, here is a smart idea I can share with you. Men’s fabrics in a ladies’ silhouette might sound boring at first, but this trend has become popular this fall and has crept into holiday wear. Tweed suiting in a feminine cut, paired with a lace blouse, is dressy and professional-looking. A cocktail dress with a fitted tuxedo jacket or even a black pinstripe blazer is another good option. Party dressing is a time to have some fun with your clothes. Happy holidays! Adieu, Mattie

Shop local: Visit Scoop — a pop-up store in Ambleside that carries fashion, decor and gift items — now through Sunday and enter to win up to $1,400 in goods and services from neighbouring businesses. Drop by Scoop to pick up a list of participating retailers then visit 10 local businesses to enter in a draw for a gift certiﬁcate at each. Gift certiﬁcates range from $25 to $250. Scoop is at 1578 Marine Dr., West Van. Underground parking is available. Scoop hours are Monday to Saturday, 9:306 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The store closes Dec. 22. Info: 604-912-0192 or www. thelatestscoop.ca. Panty giveaway: For every pair of Kaia and Me panties sold, the Vancouver label will donate a pair to a woman in need. The company that produces sleepwear, underwear, shawls and leggings in organic cotton and bamboo recently donated 100 pairs of panties to women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The label is now aiming to deliver 100 pairs to Canadian troops abroad in time for Valentine’s Day. Find Kaia and Me in Vancouver at The Velvet Room, Twigg and Hottie, and Organix and on the North Shore at Above Average Lingerie and Fashions in Lower Lonsdale (plus-sizes only). — Compiled by Layne Christensen Fashion File is a weekly column that runs when space available. If your business or charity is planning an event, send your information as early as possible to lchristensen@nsnews.com.

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HOLIDAY Magic nail lacquers in festive hues from Nicole by Opi and Motion White Edition men’s fragrance from Hugo Boss are perfect for holiday giving.

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Can do KASIA Bulva, of Isabelle’s Bridal, displays food the Lower Lonsdale boutique has collected for the Harvest Project. The boutique is paying the tax on bridal gown purchases and giving away veils to any bride-to-be who brings in 10 or more cans of food for the collection. The promotion ends tomorrow. Info: 604-986-5200.

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planning to head south of the border. In addition to better customer service, top enticements for shoppers were giveaways (43 per cent), new products (36 per cent) and the opportunity to participate in a loyalty program (36 per cent). Canadian women were more likely than men to say businesses offering a free gift would inﬂuence them the most (49 per cent vs. 37 per cent).

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HAND-PAINTED ﬁgurines await their buyers in Tonalá, the village near Guadalajara where much of Mexico’s best crafts are made. Twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday, a vast street market ﬁlled with artisans’ work takes over Tonalá.

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GUADALAJARA, Mexico: Around a hundred years ago Guadalajara, due to its rail link to the United States, became Mexico’s commercial centre. The city’s elite built elaborate courtyard mansions in villages on the outskirts where they could retire for some peace and quiet. The city’s famous handicrafts makers, squeezed out by modern factories and new development, also headed for the surrounding countryside, where today they produce the majority of Mexico’s traditional crafts. So when the modern visitor has ﬁnished walking about the spacious plazas of Guadalajara’s historic heart, dominated by the domes and soaring, yellow-tiled spires of its 450-year-old cathedral, it’s time to follow the exodus to the outlying villages to ﬁnd an appealing mix of mansion and market. At Tlaquepaque, only a few kilometres southeast of the city centre and reachable by public bus, vast courtyard palaces have been turned into elegant, upmarket shopping centres with selfconsciously designed items priced to match the ambiance. The town has long been a stop for tours, and many a visitor takes home enough leather goods, furniture, fabrics and art to furnish

a home. Far fewer reach Tonalá, the source of many of these items, just a few kilometres further southeast. There, every Thursday and Sunday, this warren of family-run, small-scale workshops wakes up at around 4 a.m. to start on the construction of a vast street market. Its stalls are erected from rough sheets of plastic, metal frames, straps and cables, each stuffed with the best of Mexico’s crafts. Wherever else you actually buy these products, whether rough and traditional or modernized and trendy, the chances are they originated here. Wholesalers arrive from all over the country to buy in bulk, but individual shoppers are also welcome. Even for those determined to keep their wallets to themselves the market offers hours of gaudy, bustling spectacle, with scarcely a foreign face to be seen — which also helps to keep prices far lower than at tourist markets. From fabrics to furniture, and the inevitable jewellery, embroidery and ceramics, much of the work here carries traditional themes of fruit or images of the sun and moon. Plaster saints sit next to more modern and less Mexican items such as children’s shoes, furniture for dolls’ houses, Tshirts and animal ﬁgures made entirely from castoff pistons, cogs and bits of bicycle chain. By 11 a.m., with mariachi bands starting up on street corners and the temperature rising, See Tonalá page 28

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CALENDAR From page 22 604-925-7295 or www.westvancouvermuseum.ca. Takao Tanabe’s work will be on display until Dec. 23. Admission by donation. West Vancouver Recreation Centre: 2121 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Winsor Gallery: 3025 Granville St., Vancouver. Info: 604-6814870 or www.winsorgallery.com CONCERTS Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Box ofﬁce: 604-990-7810 or www. capilanou.ca/theatre. Cap Folk and Roots Series: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women featuring Cindy Cashdollar, Christy McWilson and Laurie Lewis will perform Sunday, Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $30/$27. Cap Folk and Roots Series: Guitarist Yamandu Costa will perform Sunday, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $38/$35. Centennial Theatre: 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: www.centennialtheatre.com. Box ofﬁce: 604-984-4484. Commodore Ballroom: 868 Granville St., Vancouver. Blues for Christmas: Twelve bands and 75 Vancouver musicians take the stage, Sunday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. The North Shore’s own Joanie Bye and the Homewreckers, the Jason Buie Band, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne and Sam and Luke will perform. Admission: $35 at the door, $25 in advance at www. ticketmaster.ca or 604-280-4444. Guests are requested to bring a non-perishable item for the food bank. Deep Cove Coffee House: St. Clare-in-the-Cove, 1384 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver. Info: lindabates@shaw.ca or 604-9294019. Stars of Deep Cove: An all local program featuring singers, musicians and entertainers of the Cove, Friday, Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $10 which includes coffee or tea and home baked treats. Deep Cove Shaw Theatre: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Info and reservations: 604-929-3200 or www.DeepCoveStage.com. Highlands United Church: 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver. Info: 604-980-6071 or www.highlandsunited.org. Jazz Vespers: Christmas Eve gospel vespers with Dawn Pemberton, Thursday, Dec. 24 at 11 p.m. Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Info and reservations: 604-925-7292 or www.silkpurse.ca. Bringing in the Light: Music therapist Ruta Yawney will perform exotic folk songs with Donna Dutchak, Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15/$12.

Four Scherzos: Pianist Massimo Folliero will perform a program of Chopin, Thursday, Jan. 13 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15. St. Stephen’s Anglican Church: 885 22nd St., West Vancouver. Info: 604-731-5518 or www.pacifictheatre.org. Jazz Vespers: The Euphorics will perform Sunday, Dec. 19 at 4 p.m. West Vancouver United Church: 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver. Winter, Cold Genius: The Pacific Baroque Orchestra will hold a concert featuring the seasons of Vivaldi, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2:30 p.m. Admission: $33/$28/$10. Tickets: 604-215-0406 or www. pacificbaroque.com. THEATRE Anne MacDonald Studio: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Grand Theft Improv: An improv sketch show that uses audiences suggestions to create 90 minutes of stories, scenes, songs and comedic chaos, the last Sunday of every month at 7 p.m. Tickets: $10. Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Box office: 604-990-7810 or www. capilanou.ca/theatre. Deep Cove Shaw Theatre: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Info and tickets: 604-929-3200 or www.deepcovestage.com. Dracula: A pantomime production, Dec. 17, 19, 21-23, 26-30 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 18, 19, 26, 31 and Jan. 1 at 3 p.m. Admission: $15/$10. Cinderella: The Theatricks’ kids will perform this classic, Jan. 1215, Wednesday-Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Info: 604-922-4372. Theatre at Hendry Hall: 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. Reservations: 604-983-2633 or www.northvanplayers.ca. Beauty and the Beast: A pantomime tradition, Dec. 17-19 at 7 p.m., matinees Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m. Tickets: $8/ $4. Proceeds will go to the Harvest Project. CLUBS AND PUBS Beans on Lonsdale: 1804 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-985-2326. Live music every Thursday, 8 p.m. Brewster’s Coffee: 2436 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: 604-925-9820. See more page 28

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NOW based in New York City jazz trumpeter Bria Skonberg returns home to perform a Jazz Vespers concert at West Vancouver’s St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Sunday, Dec. 19 at 4 p.m.

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WEST Vancouver’s Rebecca Talbot is once again part of Carousel Theatre’s production of Seussical the Musical this holiday season. Performances run until Jan. 1 at Granville Island’s Waterfront Theatre. Visit www.carouseltheatre.ca for details.

Bridge Between Pub: 1970 Spicer Rd., North Vancouver. Info: 604-924-1834 or www. bridgebetween.com. The Eagles Club Starlight Room: 170 West Third St., North Vancouver. East Side Marios: Lonsdale Quay, 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. Jack Lonsdale’s Pub: 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9867333. Live music every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. La Zuppa: 1544 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-986-6556. Fiesta Flamenco every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, tapas and wine, 6:30 p.m., music, 8:30 p.m. Legion #118: 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. The LW Club: 1515 Barrow St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-253-7141 or www.

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it’s time to follow the scent of freshly cut limes to a food stall and sit down elbow-to-elbow with local people for a cold drink and tacos. The buildings behind the stalls — part house, part workshop, part warehouse, part shop — are where family businesses produce their individual specialities. In one the air is gelatinous with the smell of varnish being hand-

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Pacific Baroque Orchestra draws inspiration from the seasons ■ Pacific Baroque Orchestra: Winter: Cold Genius - England. Saturday, Dec. 18, 2:30 p.m., at West Vancouver United Church and Sunday, Dec. 19, 8 p.m. at Milton and Fei Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU Woodward’s. For more information visit their website www. pacificbaroque.com.

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MUSIC fans looking for something a little different should head to the West Vancouver United Church tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., where the Pacific Baroque Orchestra will be performing a winter-themed selection of early Western music. The orchestra, the only one of its kind in Canada west of Toronto, is in its 20th anniversary season, and its second year under the leadership of Alexander Weimann. Originally from Germany, Weimann shuttles back and forth from Vancouver to his home in Montreal to lend his support to baroque music in Vancouver. “It’s not so unusual, actually,” he says. “It comes with our profession; the field of early music on this continent and even worldwide, is not so big. So one has to travel a lot.” Weimann doesn’t find the term baroque is particularly useful, and prefers to define the PBO’s mandate in terms of centuries. “It’s the repertoire between 1600 and 1800, which contains what I would say is the summit of orchestra writing in Western music. All of Bach is in there, all of Handel, much of Mozart and early Haydn, and all the Italian and French composers before Bach.” While a more “modern” orchestra like the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra might also cover some of the same material, the PBO is also distinct due to its careful attention to historical detail, both in playing style and the instruments themselves. “The instruments we use are really different from what we call the modern violin,” Weimann says. “I mean it’s not really modern; it evolved into its current shape approximately 200 years ago. But the instruments we use are still a bit different in their construction and setup, but mainly the strings. Whereas modern orchestras play on steel strings, all of the strings for a baroque orchestra are made from gut. And the other big difference is the bows we use. They are much shorter, much lighter, much more talkative, if you will. They make more bow noises, more articulation noises, which would relate to what consonants are in language. And they are faster and react quicker than the grand, large bow used in the modern symphony orchestra.” Because the older type of instruments don’t have modern conveniences like shoulder or chin rests, players’ body positions and approaches to performance are altered from the modern style. “So the sound that a baroque ensemble makes is not quite as loud and piercing as a modern orchestra. However it’s got more harmonics, more overtones,” Weimann says, reaching more visual imagery to describe the distinction. “So it’s shinier and brighter and the texture is much clearer. Less thick-brushed, more contours

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THE Pacific Baroque Orchestra rehearses for their upcoming concerts at West Vancouver United Church and SFU Woodward’s. The ensemble is celebrating its 20th anniversary this season. and details. Less oriented for the big sound and more interested in bringing out the little, fine beautiful details in the music.” For the 2010-2011 program, Weimann has arranged four shows, each drawing its inspiration from the season and focusing on the music of a single nation. On Saturday, the winter show will showcase the work of English composers Henry Purcell and Christopher Simpson. “That’s the core of the program. Then later on, I discovered by chance that Haydn’s famous last oratorio, The Seasons, has been arranged for a four-part string ensemble at Haydn’s time, by one of his students. Haydn even authorized the arrangement. The Seasons have long been a piece I wanted to perform but it’s very large and demanding. So I was very excited to discover this arrangement and I got a copy of the original print from the national library in Vienna. We’ll perform a few movements of the winter section of The Seasons.” Tickets are $33, $28 for seniors and $10 for students. Call 1-800-838-3006, or visit www.pacificbaroque.com. They are also available at the door, West Vancouver United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Ave.

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monumental project. North Shore News: What drew you to the story? Eric Enno Tamm: My father is Estonian which is very closely tied to Finnish language and culture. When he immigrated to Canada in 1948 he actually learned Finnish before English, so I kind of grew up in the Finnish community in Canada. A Finnish friend of mine told me about Mannerheim’s journal. He was a secret agent for the Tsar a hundred years ago. He was like the Abraham Lincoln of Finland. Mannerheim led the Finnish army to separate Finland from Russia 100 years ago and he later became the commander in chief of its military. He was the founding regent of the country and later became its president. He’s the world’s most famous Finn. North Shore News: It’s one thing to admire someone, quite another to retrace their footsteps — how did you make that happen? Eric Enno Tamm: It took me quite awhile to research the more obscure areas particularly Central Asia — Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan — because the security situation in those countries is very difﬁcult. The year before I went to Uzbekistan the government had massacred about 1,000 protesters in the city of Andijan. I had to do a lot of due diligence talking to diplomats and human rights activists and people on the ground to ﬁnd out how safe it was as a western traveller. You know myself being a journalist I had to cloak my journalistic work behind the facade of being a tourist and looking at Silk Road mosques and cultural exhibits and

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BARON Gustaf Mannerheim (right) visited the Kurmanjan Datka (second from left), a stateswoman in Kyrgyzstan, in 1906 shortly before she died. that sort of thing. It took a lot of work over a couple of years to get more familiar with the region and I really wanted to do it on the exact day, the centennial (of the start of his trip). It was on July 6, 2006 that I boarded the midnight train in St. Petersburg and it was literally the exact same train, 100 years to the day, that Mannerheim had set off from St. Petersburg. North Shore News: Did the Tsar’s backing make things easier for Mannerheim than it would have been for the ordinary traveller?

Eric Enno Tamm: Mannerheim travelled on a Finnish passport. He tried to downplay his Russian connection and he pretended to be a Silk Road explorer and not a military man. The one beneﬁt the Tsar gave him was his trip was fully ﬁnanced and Mannerheim also had two Cossacks that were his assistants during the trip. Central Asia was pretty much part of the Russian empire and Mannerheim travelled by train, ferry and Trans-Caspian Railway almost all the way to the Chinese border. It was only another 200 or 300 kilometres to the Chinese border. The Russians

North Shore News: In a sense Mannerheim was the perfect representative of changing times — even a 100 years ago he was very old school. An ancient ﬁgure from another time. Eric Enno Tamm: Absolutely, and it was only about 10 years later that Mannerheim’s world fell apart. He was an aristocrat. He was not loyal to the Russian people, he was loyal to the Tsar, and in 1917 when the Communist revolution threw out the Tsar in Russia that whole world of his just completely dissolved. He was forced to go back to Finland. He was orphaned. As an aristocrat and an Imperial General, by the time of the revolution he was a general, he probably would have been shot. He almost was caught by the Bolsheviks and literally spent the rest of his life ﬁghting communism. North Shore News: Near the start of his journey Mannerheim took a ferry to Baku but that wasn’t See Baku page 34

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available 100 years later. Eric Enno Tamm: That was the most disappointing part for me. It was the one area where I really could not retrace Mannerheim’s route. From Moscow he took a train to Nizhniy Novgorod and then from there he took a ferry all the way down the Volga River — which would have been wonderful — and then from Astrakhan, a big port at the mouth of the Volga, he took a ferry to Baku. The ferries are no longer operating. I could have taken a tour boat to Astrakhan but it was impossible to get from Astrakhan to Baku. Partly because I would have to go through Chechnya and also Dagestan and there was still a lot of insurgency going on in the region and the border between Azerbaijan and Dagestan was closed so it was impossible to go overland as well. So unfortunately I had to ﬂy from Moscow to Baku. North Shore News: A century later the oil economy still dominates Baku’s culture. Some things never change. Eric Enno Tamm: Throughout the trip there were these eerie coincidences. When Mannerheim arrived in Baku 100 years ago the Nobel brothers were the leaders of the industry in Baku and they had just completed the world’s longest oil pipeline from Baku to the Black Sea coast. That way oil tankers could come to the Black Sea and take the oil into western Europe. When I arrived in Baku I was actually there the day that this new oil pipeline from Baku to Turkey had opened and there’s huge celebrations in the town. I believe it was one of the longest pipeline projects in the world at the time when it opened in 2006. The town was again in the midst of an oil boom. 2006 was the summer when oil SUSTAINABLE REGION INITIATIVE ...

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North Shore News: Mannerheim signed on with Paul Pelliot’s group. They hated each other. Mannerheim as a spy needed Pelliot as a cover but why did Pelliot need Mannerheim? Eric Enno Tamm: A couple of reasons — Pelliot also got some Cossack guards so there was a financial benefit for Pelliot from the Tsar. The Russians actually gave him some money as well as access to five Cossack guards I think who were sort of assistants on the trip. So there was a financial benefit for Pelliot. You know the Russians and the French always conspired against the British prior to the First World War. There was always this sort of alliance between the French and the Russians against the English. Pelliot understood the global power dynamic and that France and Russia were allied. There may also have been some pressure from the French government expecting that Pelliot would cooperate with the Russians. And he did. And he was more than willing to provide the Russians with any kind of intelligence that they wanted as well. See Oasis page 35

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Oasis towns have been modernized From page 34 North Shore News: It took Mannerheim four months to get to Khotan and it took you four days. Eric Enno Tamm: The oasis towns are really being modernized. A hundred years ago they were like walled fortresses with courtyard homes mostly constructed out of clay and straw and timbers. Since then what the Chinese have done is plow large boulevards through these oases and built up modern apartment complexes. Every Uyghur town will have a Chinese garrison somewhere close to the heart of the downtown area. The Chinese think they are improving the lives of the Uyghurs but I also can’t help thinking it’s there for security purposes. The tight, labrynth Muslim neighbourhoods are very difﬁcult for local authorities to control. The more you break up these neighbourhoods with large roads the easier it is to control the population. I saw this happening in every Muslim town in Xinjiang that I visited. North Shore News: Is there a visual distinction when you move into China proper? Your photographs of Urumqi look very modern. Eric Enno Tamm: Urumqi would have always been the regional capital and perhaps has always had more Chinese Han in it and it’s obviously a very large city. The Chinese do try to use Turkic architectural ﬂourishes on buildings in Urumqi, like an Ottoman arch here or there but by the time you get to central China all of that is gone. One of the big disappointments about travelling through China is a that lot of the architecture is identical. The new architecture in Kashgar looks exactly like a lot of the architecture in Shanghai or the outskirts of Beijing. In almost all of the large cities I went through in China much of the architectural tradition has been destroyed. In the town of Lanzhou, by way of example, the city itself is two or three thousand years old, Vancouver has more architectural heritage than Lanzhou. A hundred years ago it was still a walled fortress with residential quarters both inside See Chinese page 37

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Lawrence avoided family cabin for years From page 13

extensive tour diaries. “I did think of doing that but they were extremely sordid and they’re very honest and it kind of confirms everyone’s wildest imagination of what rock and roll touring is like,” he says. “I got distracted by Desolation Sound, which has been (home to) our family cabin where we’ve been travelling from West Vancouver, for 30 years.” As a child, Lawrence detested vacations at the rustic cabin, much preferring the city and the pursuit of a rock and roll lifestyle. He hated Desolation Sound so much that as a teenager, he’d often stay in West Vancouver when his family made the trek, entrusted with their home. He came to host many parties, unbeknownst to his poor parents. His cover was blown in July 1991 when they had to call their vacation short. Having taken a day trip to Lund, Garth and Jean picked up a Province newspaper and read about a wild house party broken up by the cops — at their home. The front-page story was also covered in the North Shore News and Lawrence included clippings of both in Adventures in Solitude. “After the band wound down I ended up, reluctantly at first, going back up to the cabin, which I had completely forsaken while being in The Smugglers,” he says. At this point in his life, he was captivated by the area’s natural beauty, a welcome relief from the last 17 years he’d spent in urban areas, performing in darkened, smoke-filled, windowless bars. “When I got up to Desolation Sound it was almost like a cleanse, like a detox, and I really fell in love with the place in a lot of ways for the first time,” he says. Lawrence also fell in love with the area’s residents, different from anyone he’d ever come across, and came to realize all the random music connections; for example, Neil Young’s drummer lived a couple cabins over, one of the doctors at Woodstock was also a resident and another man was from Crawdaddy!, considered the first critical rock and roll music magazine in the United States. Lawrence initially started telling the stories he uncovered on the radio — he hosts a daily program on CBC Radio Three as well as other specials — however, a producer urged him to write them down. “I did and a book eventually emerged,” he says. Adventures in Solitude, its title the name of one of his favourite New Pornographers songs (found on Challengers), was published this fall. “It’s always been my dream to write a book and Harbour

Publishing made that dream come true and I thank them for that,” he says. The book is a personal account of Lawrence’s experiences in Desolation Sound, as a child and an adult, including a discussion of the area’s history and folklore, and interactions with a cast of colourful characters. His proposal to Barber also occurred while at the cabin, documented in romantic detail. Adventures in Solitude has received many positive accolades from reviewers, and has so far reached No. 1 on the B.C. Bestsellers List and No. 2 on the National Nonﬁction Paperback Bestsellers List. It has also received positive feedback from his parents who had to deal with his incessant whining about not wanting to go there when he was a kid. “They’ve come to a few readings and my dad, who’s generally a really stoic guy, was really laughing and having a great time,” he says. The North Shore has shown him a lot of support, including his hockey team, the Vancouver Flying Vees, comprised of a number of his former classmates and other artist and musician-types, based out of Canlan Ice Sports — North Shore. Despite his missing a few recent practices, due to his busy book tour schedule, his teammates have ponied up for some copies. “I’ve been completely overwhelmed by the response to the book especially on the North Shore,” says Lawrence. “Everywhere I go, on the North Shore people have been coming up to me talking about it, whether it’s at the mall, or Edgemont Village or Deep Cove or Dundarave. It’s been a real thrill. It’s been like a homecoming to me. The ultimate homecoming will be at the West Van library on Sunday because that was my library as a kid.” The West Vancouver

Memorial Library holds many fond memories for Lawrence, mainly centred around The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comics he adored as a child and would check out and purchase at book sale events. Tintin is referenced multiple times in Adventures in Solitude. “Here I am coming back to that library with my own book of adventures, so it means a lot to me,” he says. Lawrence’s appearance won’t be a typical reading, instead it will include a slideshow and a short ﬁlm as well as a Desolation Soundinspired performance by Barber, who’s set to release a new album, Mischievous Moon, in March 2011. She’s also just released a book, Baby’s Lullaby, a board book based on her song, “Lay Down,” which was written and recorded for Read To Me!, a Nova Scotian nonproﬁt society that promotes early literacy. Lawrence has a number of book tour events lined up across Canada in the New Year. He plans to pen a second book, the topic yet to be determined. While his Smugglers tour diaries are still an option, it’s possible his love life may take centre stage. He did a column for CBC Radio that ran for a number of months called Wedding Bells: The Planning of a Wedding from a Man’s Perspective. “I did a weekly column about what I went through in planning a marriage and I often do a lot of stuff around my marriage to Jill, so I don’t know, maybe it will be something like that,” he says. He’s also keeping busy with CBC Radio, and has a holiday special set to air on CBC Radio One, Tuesday, Dec. 28, called Home For The Holidays. “It is a request show, a national show that is linking up loved ones from across the country,” he says. Home For The Holidays will feature the requests of

those who can’t get home for Christmas and will also be a podcast. Lawrence is an extremely popular Canadian broadcaster and is often called on to host major events, including the Polaris Music Prize gala. “I try to bring humour to everything I do,” he says. And I try to take a light approach to everything I do. I can be serious as well and I can be, I believe, thoughtful and sensitive to situations. I think that I’m able to reach the right tone in certain situations.” He used to train people, fresh out of journalism school, coming into CBC to work. “What I always said to them is, ‘Be yourself and don’t put on a voice, don’t put on a character. Don’t put on a persona, just be yourself because that is what people get attracted to, is personality,’” he says. He also endeavours to be incredibly honest with audiences, as radio is a very intimate medium, especially when listened to with headphones or in an enclosed space like a car. “Listeners can sniff a phony a million miles away so that’s why I just try to bare all and be very, very open and it’s worked,” he says.

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Chinese destroyed architectural heritage From page 35

North Shore News: Where are the photographs? Eric Enno Tamm: The original negatives and prints are held at the National Board of Antiquities in Helsinki so they’re in the hands of the Finnish archives.

and outside the walls in a very traditional style with big pagoda gates and the bell towers. A hundred years later I wanted to find what was left of the architectural heritage and the only thing I found were two old educational halls that are now located within a compound of one of the main hospitals in Lanzhou. And then up in the mountains — Lanzhou is on the Yellow River — there were some temples and pagodas from 100 years ago. The communists have destroyed almost every old architectural treasure in the city. The more you get into central and coastal China the heavier the destruction. The fact that you can still see parts of the old wall in Kashgar and the old Uyghur neighbourhoods is really quite remarkable. In so much of China they have obliterated the past. North Shore News: What were Mannerheim’s findings used for? He was there as a Russian agent — did they use the material? Eric Enno Tamm: Shortly after Mannerheim got back to Russia attentions turned inward in Europe and his report was largely forgotten. In 1917 the communists took over Russia and his report was locked in the military archives. Mannerheim took a copy of it himself and there were one or two copies floating around but it was largely forgotten. North Shore News: He did publish it himself later. Eric Enno Tamm: There’s two things he published — his actual military intelligence report has never been translated into English — it was done in Russian obviously and on my website I’ve translated a large part of the conclusions into English. The thing that he

North Shore News: You have one on the cover of your book. Eric Enno Tamm: That was taken in the city of Aksu and it’s about 400 kilometres north of Kashgar. It’s a photograph with the local mandarin who ran that city and some other ofﬁcials.

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ERIC Enno Tamm (left) with Kyrgyz guides Askat Esenbaiulu and Jenish Akamatoliev in the Alai Valley Region of southern Kyrgyzstan. did publish was his own personal travel diary and that was published in 1940 in the middle of the Second World War when he was the commander and chief of the Finnish military. Because it was wartime only ﬁve hard copies were printed.

the richest photographic archives of Western China. Unlike a lot of other explorers who were really just focused on cultural issues and antiquities Mannerheim was more interested in contemporary things like roads and buildings and fortiﬁcations. He took photographs of Chinese military exercises and these sort of things. Not only the size of the collection but actually the subject matter was quite different and that’s why Chinese scholars see Mannerheim’s research as being very valuable.

North Shore News: Were there many photographs taken on his trip? Eric Enno Tamm: Mannerheim took about 1,300 and Chinese scholars say it is one of

North Shore News: Mannerheim travelled through Central Asia before the Soviet era and you were there post-Soviet — did their iron hand destroy traditional cultures in a major way? Eric Enno Tamm: There’s been a revival of traditional cultures. I think one of the best examples was when I was in Kyrgyzstan — during the Soviet era most of the markets in Central Asia were highly collectivized. They weren’t freewheeling markets, they were very centrally planned. The markets weren’t very vibrant during the Soviet era (even though traditionally) market culture was central to the Central Asian identity. After the fall of the Soviet Union there was an explosion in the number of markets and the size of the markets so in that way that part of the culture has come back. More traditional cultures are certainly coming back since the collapse of the Soviet Union. I spent a little bit of time in one mountain pasture with some Kyrgyz and it was very traditional — they had no electricity and for dinner we were eating nan bread and fermented mare’s milk that’s called kumis. We slept in yurts. It almost felt like a 100 years ago to be honest with you.

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BAPTIE - Donna 1963 - 2010 Donna passed way peacefully, with her family by her side, December 10, 2010 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Donna was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and moved to Calgary with her family as a small girl. She moved to North Vancouver in 2003 with her husband and two young sons. She worked at Dollarton Curves where she made many caring friends. She loved the outdoors, especially the beach and rainforest. She was an avid hiker and enjoyed the Baden Powell Trail and climbing the Grouse Grind. Donna is survived by her sons Chance and Sterling, husband Scott, mother Aileen Foss, father and stepmother Neil and Shannon Reid, sister Gail Nelson and many nieces, nephews and inlaws whose thoughts are with us at this time. We would like to thank her family doctor Dr. Shaw. With great appreciation we thank Dr. Klimo, Dr. Smiljanic and the wonderful staff at the Lions Gate chemotherapy clinic whose warmth and passion for quality care gave Donna more time with her family and friends. We also thank Dr. Clarke and Inspire Health for their positive, healthy approach to cancer care that gave Donna a lot of hope over the years. A memorial service to celebrate Donna’s life will be held Monday, December 20, 2010 @ 2pm at First Memorial Boal Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver, BC. All friends are welcome to attend. Flowers gratefully declined, friends wishing to do so may make a memorial contribution to the Lions Gate Chemotherapy Clinic or Inspire Health.

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Died peacefully at the age of 91 on December 14th, 2010 at Foyer Maillard, Coquitlam, B.C., having celebrated her 70th anniversary of religious profession. She is survived by her religious family, The Sisters of The Child Jesus, her brother Jim (Mae), sister Lorraine and nephew Teddy. Prayers will be held Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 7:30 pm at St. Edmund’s Church, 545 Mahon Avenue, North Vancouver, where Funeral Mass will be celebrated Friday, December 17th, 2010 at 11:00 am. Interment at Capilano View Cemetery. Condolences can be made on line at www.kearneyfs.com.

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GODBER- LALA EMPEY March 11 1931- Dec 9, 2010 Lala passed away peacefully at her Lynn Valley home early in the morning on December 9th, 2010. Lala was diagnosed with lung cancer late this summer, and the cancer metastized quickly. Lala did not want to inform many of her friends about her illness, and for most, it wasn’t until she spent a few days in North Shore Hospice that most of her friends found out about her illness. Lala is predeceased by her Husband Cedric 'Cid', and survived by her Sister Anetta, Rick and Sue (Cid’s son & Daughter-in-law) and Son Chris. Lala worked as a Registered Nurse in the original Lions Gate Hospital, then to the new LGH, and retired her career in Evergreen 2 North. Lala enjoyed being able to help others in need. As the cancer metastized quickly, Lala was admitted in the new North Shore Hospice for a few days until her son was able to make arrangements for palliative/ hospice at her home. As most of her nursing friends commented' Lala was able to participate in almost every aspect of LGH, from the old hospital to the new Hospice'. Lala’s friends were her family, a group of retired Nurses looking after each other was very important to her. The bond between these women is something I will never forget. Services will be held on Friday, December 17th, 2010 at 2pm (1400) at First Memorial, North Vancouver. In lieu of flowers, donations to the new North Shore Hospice would be greatly appreciated. I would like to thank the staff at NSH, you are truly beautiful people. HARRIS - Alice Carolyn Nov. 10, 1913 - Dec. 8, 2010 Predeceased by her husband in 2005, Carolyn passed away peacefully on Dec. 8, 2010 at age 97. Born & raised in Calgary, Carolyn moved to Vancouver in 1936 & was married to Ron Harris for 65 years. They raised a family in West Vancouver. In 1968, home became Bellevue, WA for 13 yrs. before returning to West Van after retirement. Dedicated to family, Carolyn will be fondly remembered by son Richard Harris (Lorayne) and daughter Barbara Brealey. Grandchildren Tyler Harris (Kelly), Julie Cameron (Brent), Chad Brealey (Gillian), & Patrick Brealey are grateful for Grandma’s long life. A new chapter evolves with great grandsons Parker & Thomas Harris, Harris & William Cameron, and Weston Brealey. Carolyn leaves many nieces & nephews. Sincere thanks to caring staff at Hollyburn House & Inglewood Care Center. Memorial Service at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church, Burrard & Nelson, Vancouver on Dec. 23 at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, donations to Lions Gate Hospital Foundation would be appreciated. Mom, Dad is waiting to hold your hand again.

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BORDER - Riana (Nee Reesberg) July 6, 1961 – December 10, 2010. Beloved wife of Richard, mother of Morgan and Jamie, daughter of Nelie passed away after a long illness on Friday 10 December 2010. The funeral will be held at St Christopher’s Anglican Church, 1068 Inglewood Avenue, West Vancouver at 1pm on Tuesday 21, December 2010. Condolences may be offered at www.HollyburnFunerals.com In lieu of flowers donations to the new North Shore Hospice would be gratefully received. Please visit www.lghfoundation.co./tribute/ tribute-webpage.aspx?tid=48 for Riana’s tribute page to donate. Riana will be sorely missed.

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EMPLOYMENT DESKTOP PUBLISHER Hatﬁeld Consultants is seeking a Desktop Publisher to work out of our North Vancouver of f ice. Hatf ield is a well established (1974) and growing environmental consulting company. Responsibilities include providing desktop publishing and wordprocessing of large complex reports. More information about the position details and how to apply are available at www.hatﬁeldgroup.com (No phone calls please)

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SALES CONSULTANT Capilano Audi requires a motivated, positive and enthusiastic professional to join our topperforming sales team at our new North Vancouver location. Candidate must possess an outstanding attitude along with excellent communication skills. Prior sales experience an asset but not required. Fluency in second language preferred. A current BC Motor Vehicle Sales Person License, a valid BC Drivers License and a clean driver’s abstract are all required. Weprovideanextremelycompetitiveremuneration with six-ﬁgure income earning potential to top-performers and an opportunity for career growth within a highly established brand.

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Accounting

FT BOOKKEEPER for property management co. Job includes: A/P, monthly/ annual statements, bank recs, invoicing. Send resume & CV to Jolene@PAMC.ca. Or fax 604-980-0768. Incl. Wage expectations.

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DRIVERS WANTED: Terrific career opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects using non-destructive testing. No Exp. Needed!! Plus Extensive paid travel, meal allowance, 4 weeks vacation and benefits pkg. Skills NeededAbility to travel 3 months at a time Valid AZ, DZ class 3 or 1 High School Diploma or GED Apply online at www.sperryrail.com under careers, Click here to apply, key word Driver.

Navco Construction Corp.

EXP’D ROOFERS Applicants must have 2+ years sloped roofing experience, must be dependable & have own transport. Approx. hourly wage of $25. Knowledge of Spanish an asset. Mail resume to: Unit 414-2368 Marpole Ave. Port Coquitlam, V3C 0B4

F/T CASHIER KISA ENTERPRISES LTD. (Chevron) Now hiring full time cashier, $10.50/hr, must have 1-2 year experience and current Fire Training and Lottery Certification, must be available grave yard shift, weekends and holidays. Resume to email: ss1515@chevronretail.ca or fax: 604-987-9946

LOT PERSON

Auto dealer has openings for full and part time lot attendants. Must be energetic and enjoy working in a team environment. Requires a valid B.C. drivers license and must be proficient driving manual transmission. Full medical and dental plan plus benefits. Submit resume with references. Contact: Service Manager, Pacific Honda, 816 Automall Drive, North Vancouver Fax: 604-982-3085

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LIVING WELL HOME CARE SERVICES

is currently looking for qualified, caring, & reliable

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS for Live In - especially weekends & Hourly - including overnight

Positions in North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Vancouver, Bowen Island, & Squamish. Please visit the Employment page of our website: www.livingwellhomecare.ca for more info. To apply, send resume (indicate if you are interested in a Live In and/or Hourly position) & availability (days & hours) by email: employment@ livingwellhomecare.ca or fax: 604-904-3758 Quote job # LWPM

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Home Support

Caregiver needed w/own home to take in young lady N. Van who needs some care, 604-985-4704

Hotel Restaurant

Under New Management 1034 Marine Drive in North Van hiring for all full time and part time positions. Manager, Supervisor, Openers and Night Closers. Great Benefits available for full time employees. Must be able to start immediately. Email resume attachment to subway_careers@shaw.ca or drop off resume in person to: 1034 Marine Dr. North Van.

NIGHT SHIFT BAKER

Weekends, permanent fulltime. Must have at least 2 years of work experience as a baker, be fluent in English also be a team player with a passion for the baking industry. 40 hours per week, $14 per hour. Artisan Bake Shoppe Ltd. 127 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, V7M 2E7 Phone: 604-990-3530 Fax: 604-990-3563

PROFESSIONAL CHEF

Needed for North Vancouver restaurant. Salary $46K per/yr. 40 hrs/wk. 3 weeks holiday/yr. Duties; create new menu ideas, prepare and cook food and supervise other kitchen staff. Fax: 604-990-8006

Office Personnel

NORTH VAN P/T position available for office assistant.Must be detail oriented & proficient @ excell and word. Applications accepted to Dec 31st. Please fax to 604-980-8197

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PRECISE CONCRETE hiring F/T Cement Finisher. Must have comp. high school and min. 3 yrs exp. $26/hr . Email resume: mark-pretty@hotmail.com

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LIKE NEW!

Adjustable Sealy Queen Bed with frame Frame rests on 4 wheels with breaks and comes with a head board mount. The head and foot part can be adjusted separately from each other and each part has a massage feature, easily controlled via included remote control. The bed comes with Primu dreamer memory foam mattress in a Tempurpedic breathable/waterproof mattress cover. The bed has never been in contact with smoke, pets and has no damage (spillage, burns etc.). Similar models sell for $5000, paid $3800 6 months ago. Willing to part for $2900obo. Call 778-384-1210

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Art & Collectibles

DOULTON Darby & Joan $300/pr. Pearly Girl & Boy HN2035 $250/pr, Belleek pig $50, 604-922-7623

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Audio/Video/ Computers

TOSHIBA DLP 44' tv, new bulb, Panasonic home theatre 1000 watt, $500 obo 604-922-0882

For Sale Miscellaneous

4 BRIDGESTONE Blizzak snow tires 205/60R16, 50% tread on steel rims, fits Honda Accord $350. 604-987-6466 HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best Price, Best Quality. All Shapes & Colors Available. Call 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.ca

ORIGINAL AUSTRIAN dress with blouse, apron, size 20, $150; down comforter exc long $120; exc cond. 604-982-1584 SINGLE BED, boxspring &, frame $200, foosball table $60, playpen $40, basketball hoop $50, car bikerack $100. 604-987-0520

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TUTOR DOCTOR NORTH SHORE Tutoring for All Ages and Subjects. Experienced & Qualified Tutors. 778.340.3100 ajonescox@tutordoctor.com www.tutordoctor.com

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Garage Sale North Vancouver

97B- TRUCKLOAD of NEW Snowboards, Skis, boots(ski&snowboard) outerwear 1453 Lonsdale Sat & Sun 9-5

Musical Instruments

WANT TO buy: 4/4 Cello w/ or w/o case & bow. In Playing condition; appearence of least importance. call 604-818-5191

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Recycler

Wanted to Buy

COINS WANTED. Paying cash for your silver coins: Pre 1966 silver dollars, 1/2 dollars, quarters & dimes. We will pay $6 for one dollar face value, eg. 4 quarters = $6 to you. Also buying gold coins. We will come to you. Bruce, call today 604-220-7229

#1 in Sales • 27 yrs in business Full & half cords 7days/week

604-805-6694

A CLEAN DRY SPLIT Maple, birch, alder. Guar lowest prices. David 604-926-0014 24H TOP KNOT FIREWOOD est 1981 Dry Alder, Birch & Maple. Pick up or delivered. Rod 604-985-7193

Cats

RAGDOLLS & Exotic X Kittens 604 590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION ! 604-724-7652

FIREARMS

All types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork and transportation. Licensed North Shore dealer. 604-960-0045

PIT BULL Pups. Blue Nose, Razors Edge/Gotti Lines. $800 1000. Call/text (1)-604-819-6006 BERNESE MOUNTAIN Dog Pups, vet ✔. Ready for Xmas! $950. Chwk. 1-604-794-3561

CHIHUAHUA X YORKIE PUPPIES. Small size. Vaccinated. $575. 604-588-5195

Foster homes urgently req’d for rescued, abandoned & neglected dogs. Many breeds. www. abetterlifedogrescue.com

JACK RUSSELL pups smooth m/f, dewormed, 1 shots, tails docked, view parents, $450. 604-701-1587

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Send in your pet photos to the NORTH SHORE NEWS and we’ll post them to our website, nsnews.com. Include your photo and name plus your pet’s name, age, breed and any other details you’d like featured. Send your email to photo@nsnews.com or submit it via our website.

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AMERICAN COCKER spaniels cuddly, child friendly, 1st shots vet checked,$700 cash 604-823-4393 BOXERS, CKC reg. show champion lines, 3 flashy brindle males, 1 reverse, chipped, wormed & shots, ready now, 604-987-0020

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PUGS PUREBRED, no papers, 2 blk, 2 fawn, 2 fem, 2 male $850. ready Dec 29. 604-796-2227

The North Shore News has partnered with the BC SPCA to encourage responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals. Before purchasing a new puppy, ensure the seller has provided excellent care and treatment of the animal and the breeding parents. For a complete guide to ﬁnding a reputable breeder and other considerations when acquiring a new pet, visit spca.bc.ca.

POMERANIAN TEACUP babies + Mom. 1st shoot, wormed, dew claws. $750 +. 604-581-2544

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Fairs/Bazaars

X-MAS LIGHT INSTALLATION Friendly, prompt, let us light up your home!... 778-233-0559

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CHRISTMAS CRAFT SALE! Sun 11am - 4:30pm, 860 3rd St. West Vanc. (East of Taylor Way)

Holiday Helper

Highland United Church - Edgemont Village Another Gala Gourmet

Community Christmas Day Dinner at 1:00 pm

Call 604-980-6071 to secure your spot! Cost by donation.

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Fairs/Bazaars

Limited tables are available please call 604-985-5280 or email sgeorges@telus.net

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Holiday Helper

Stocking Stuffer Idea! REUSABLE SANDWICH / SNACK BAGS www.moojoes.com

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SKI IN out luxury Silver Star chalet, slps 10, hot tub, special $299/day, silverstar-ski-chalets.com or joannehlheath@yahoo.ca

630.3300

1044 St. George’s Ave North Van Dec. 18th 10 am - 5pm

BOOKS & Gifts; up to 80% off! Limited time only at Capilano Mall, Near Marine Dr. entrance.

Metaphysical

LOVE! MONEY! LIFE! #1 Psychics! 1-877-478-4410 CreditCards/Deposit $3.19/min 18+ 1-900-783-3800 www.mysticalconnections.ca

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★ TEACUP YORKIES PUPS ★ 1 male, 1 fem, 12 wks full tails on purpose. Smart & Adorable Ready to go!! 604 988 9601 www. northshoreyorkies.com

PIT BULL puppies male & female 1st shots, dewormed $350. View parents. Phone 604-701-1587

Cares! ALL SMALL breed pups local & non shedding $350+. 604-590-3727 www.puppiesfishcritters.com

SCHNOODLE PUPPIES ready for Christmas. $750-$850. There are 4 females avail. Call 604-850-2897 or KJKrs@shaw.ca. See Kijij ad 4 pix.

4060 KING CHARLES/COCKER X POODLE, Vaccinated, Dewormed, 604-812-8414

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Dogs

ROTTWEILER PUPPIES, CKC Reg. Malti V-1 rated, top blood lines, Health Cert. 604-535-9994

21’’ HITACHI TV, great picture. 3x5ft arborite kitchen table + 4 naugahyde chairs, very good cond. Hardwood frame for futon, no cushions. You pick-up 604-980-8433

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Career Services/ Job Search

Locations in Alberta & BC. Hands on real world training. Full sized equipment. Job placement assistance. Funding Available. 1-866-399-3853 www.iheschool.com

NIKKEN MAGNETIC Mattress, helps you sleep. Qu sz. Mattress only like new $250. 778-227-0741

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MINK COAT, Beautiful dark brown ranch mink, floor length, w/zip off to full length, size 10-12, like new, $6500. 604-926-4162

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HIGH END new, modern leather sofa, loveseat & chair Value $3500 sell $999. 604-418-6308

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Licensed Group Daycare 20 years experience 12 mos - 5 yrs. ★604-929-5799★

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Fridge Stove Washer Dryer Stacker Coin W/D set

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1270 PANAGO, Seymour, N.Van is looking for a Store SupervisorNight Shift, to supervise staff, order supplies, ensure food service & quality control, record keeping, preparing reports & knowledge of culinary genres. Start @ $13.50/hr. Temp & F/T position. Email resume to: rustyseymournv@yahoo.com

Home Support

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Holiday Helper

IF YOU NEED HELP with food prep & cleanup during the Holidays Pls CALL 604-925-3719

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Financial Services

Cut Your Debt by up to 70% DEBT Forgiveness Program Avoid Bankruptcy, Stops Creditor Calls. Much lower Payments at 0% Interest. We work for You, not Your Creditors.

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Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: ESTATE OF Jean Brown (J. Brown), late of Apt. 103 - 1612 St. Georges Ave. North Vancouver, British Columbia V7L 3J7. NOTICE is given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate are required to send them to the Executor, Andrew J. Hunt, 104 - 1144 St. Geroges Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7L 3H8, on or before January 8th, 2011, after which date the Estate assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have been received. EXECUTOR: Andrew Jeffrey Hunt NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Re: THE ESTATE OF AUDREY HELEN STEGEN, Deceased, also known as Audrey H. Stegen and Audrey Stegen, formerly of #104-130 West 22nd Street, North Vancouver, British Columbia. NOTICE is given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate are required to send them to the Executor, Shabbir Nanji, at 2604 Lauralynn Drive, North Vancouver, BC V7J 2Y5, on or before January 15, 2011, after which date the Estate assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have been received. EXECUTOR: SHABBIR NANJI

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North Van Apt. Rentals

1 BR $1095. avail now, 2 BR $1595 avail Dec 1; all ocean view, renovated, dw, ns, cat ok, lower Lonsdale, 604-988-1939 1 BR $1150 heat included, W.4th & Lonsdale, 735 sq.ft, balcony, pets allowed, storage, parking spot, avail. Jan 1, 604-764-0515

1 BR, close to all amens, large apt., Jan 1, suits 1 quiet adult, n/s, $740 incls heat & h/w. no pets, North Van. 604-294-4502 1 BR +den, large, Cap. & Marine Dr. concrete bldg, balc. pool, gym ug prkg, immed, $1095 incl utils ns, np, 604-980-5348..686-4870

1 BR, Esplanade West, luxury, city view, a/c, 7 appl, incl insuite w/d, stainless, gas stove, f/p, gated prkg & storage, n/s, n/p, refs. $1395. 604-980-4296 1 BR, large. 16 & St. Georges, near hospital, incld heat & hw, no pets, ns $840. now 778-889-4719 1 BR, large $870, Gated prkg, quiet, drapes, heat incl. no pets. 1 yr lease, walk to seabus 170 W 4th. 604-987-0558 1 Br, Large, city/ocean view, $865, avail immed or Jan. 1. heat incl. quiet. drapes. gated or free prkg, no pets, 1 yr lease. 310 East 2nd, 604-904-0956

Body Work

EXOTIC Beauty Shontel avail for relaxation sessions on N. Shore. Early appt’s ok.... 604-980-9938

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Personals

ATTRACTIVE mature European lady on North Shore for delightful bodysage. ANITA, 604-808-5589 LUXURY RELAXATION SPA 778-340-2778 1053 Marine Dr, North Van

Meridien SPA LTD.

1 BR, ‘‘The Piermont’’ 108 E14th St, $995, ns np, 3rd flr north facing, carpet. Liz 604-809-6355 121 WEST 20th. Newly reno 2 BR, 3rd flr. hardwood, heat & hw incl’d, 1 yr lease np, $1400, avail now, 604-681-2521

2 BDRM Upper Lonsdale. Incl. Heat, h/w. N/S. N/P. 1yr lease. $1150/mth. Avail Dec 15. (604) 980-3889 2 BR, 13 & Lonsdale, hardwood, ns, no pets $1050 incl heat, avail Jan. 1, 604-984-9367 2 BR, 2 bath bright, Touchstone Bldg, 3rd flr, view, wd, prkg, gym, n/s, n/p, $1795/mo +utils, 604-985-5778 or 604-831-5778 2 BR, 2 bath @ The Pier pool & fitness, view,nr seabus ns, np, $2,000 Feb. 1st. 778-386-5209 2 BR avail $1225 central Lonsdale, suit quiet person(s), np, ns, 604-320-9238 2 BR bright, hi-spd/cable, hardwood, ns, np, nr seabus, quiet bldg. $1600, 604-708-8998 X308

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Escort Services

BEAUTIFUL LADIES available for massage/escort. Classy & discreet. VIP COMPANIONS 778-960-4774 GENTLEMEN! Attractive discreet European lady is available for company. 604 451-0175

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West Van Apt. Rentals

2 BR, new reno & carpets, $1250 np, ns, avail now, 225 East 12th 604-786-3405 3 BR, 120 West 19 now. approx 1200sf, hardwood, heat/hw incl, 1 yr lease, np $1800. 604-681-2521 Beautiful Large Suites 1 BR $925, Jan 1. 2 BR $1320, now or Jan 1. $300 Move-in Allowance 2 BR only. Heat, h/w, prkg. Lease 604-986-3866

Beautiful Views

1 bdrm- $1,025-$1250 Spacious, pool, storage, heat & hw, dw, quiet,

Prestigious building next to seawall. Completely renovated, granite c/tops, new appls, d/w, new kitchen & bath rm cabinets, indoor pool. Stunning ocean, city & mnt view. Steps to community ctr, shops, transit & restaurants. Sorry, no pets. 1 yr lse.

Call 604-922-8815 to view.

604-985-2926

Luxury Over The Seawall! 3 BR Jan. 1, pool rec. rm, pet ok 2190 Bellevue Av. 604-926-6287

BLUERIDGE APTS

WESTWIND APTS, 2025 Bellevue, 1 Br, ocean view, cat OK, senior discount. 604-913-0734

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2 & 3 BR Jan. 1, new reno’s, new cabinets, laminate & tiles, newer appls, prkg, storage, incl heat & hw, playground (Mt Seymour Prkwy). 604-924-3628 www.blueridgeapartments.com

Chesterfield/W15, 1br, fp, incld heat hw, cable, 1 yr lease, no pets, $850up, 604-987-9899 DELBROOK GARDENS 2 BR $1540 Wdays 604-990-2971 Weekends 604-985-2876 Delbrook Gardens 777 W. Queens Rd -1 BR $1250. Wkdays 562-7097/Wkends 985-2876 1 BR, lrg, bright, blcny h/wd, west exp 15th & Lonsdale, $915 incl heat

2 BR bright spacious, top flr, central Lonsdale, quiet well kept bldg. ns, np, avail Jan 1. $1192incl heat/hw, 604-904-7545 2 BR, Central Lonsdale, 1st flr, North facing, hw flrs, heat & h/water incl, no pets, $1100, Dodwell Strata Management. 604-838-5020 or 604-699-5264 2 BR, Central Lonsdale, 1st flr, south facing, hw flrs, heat & h/water incl, no pets, $1200, Dodwell Strata Management. 604-838-5020 or 604-699-5264 2 BR, large apt character bldg hardwood, heat, hot water, cat ok! $1110, Jan. 15, 604-983-0423 2 Br large, immed or Jan. 1, south view. $1025, new carpets gated prkg. quiet, drapes no pets, heat incl. nr seabus, 1 yr lease, 163 W 5th. 604-980-7501

EVERGREEN - 161 East 17th St. A 1 br spacious, clean well maint, n/p, n/s. Jan. 1st 604-990-8907

GREAT LOCATION! 145 West Keith Road.

Bach $885, 1 BR $1115, 2 BR $1400 Avail Now. Ocean view. indoor pool. Concrete bldg. Ht & H/W incls.

Call 604-986-3356

LE CHATEAU, 1110 E 27th, Lynn Valley 1, 2 & 3 Br large starting @ $980. np, ns, 604-980-9219 MOUNTAIN VILLAGE APTS. 2 BR, Jan. 1. 604-988-3828 www.mountainvillage.ca MOUNTAIN VILLAGE APTS. 4 BR 2 bath Dec 15. Move in Allowance. 604-988-3828 www.mountainvillage.ca PARKRIDGE TERRACE 110 E. Keith Rd. Great location, park like setting, sauna, indoor pool. 1 BR. $1075 2 Br. $1450 up views, storage. NO PETS. 604-988-7379 www.glassmanpm.com TUCKTON PLACE 1520 Chesterfield Rd. NV 2 bdrm $1350 No pets. Call 604-

990-2971 or Wkends 778-340-7406

VICTORIA PARK PLACE 615 St. Georges Ave @ E 6th St. A studio, 1 & 2 BR , bright, clean quiet bldg, np, ns 604-980-9057

1775 Bellevue Avenue HOLLYBURN PLAZA 2 BR - Avail Jan 1 Starting at $1820. Fully Reno’d, granite countertops, Breathtaking Mnt & ocean view, new appls, d/w, new kitchen & bath rm cabinets, 2 balc, 1.5 baths, HW floors, Walk to shops & restaurants. Steps to Seawall, transit & beaches. Sorry, no pets. 1 yr lse. Call 604-922-4724 to view.

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-28

Richmond

RICHMOND - $435,000, High ceiling, hardwood floor, fireplace, fenced yard & patio, SS appl. Free recorded msg 1-800-591-1037 ID# 7100 Mac Realty RICHMOND - $488,000, South view, Best layout, balcony, hardwood floor, S/S appls, 2 pkg. Free recorded msg 1-800-591-1037 ID# 7102 Mac Realty Introducing the

604-630-3300

AMBLESIDE TOWER Studio & 1 BR avail. Excellent views, rents incl. heat & h/w. Tennis courts, indoor pool, saunas, exercise & games rooms on premises. Walk to beach & shops. 1552 Esquimalt 604-922-8443

BAYVIEW APTS

1550 Duchess Ave, W. Van. Studio & 1 Br Move-in Bonus, Fitness rm, out door pool, nr shops, transit & Seawall, 1 yr lease, N/pets. Heat, hw incl’d. Member of Crime Free Multi-Housing Program. 604-922-4322

Park Royal Towers Completely Renovated

1 & 2 Bdrm Suites 1BR (700-770 sq.ft.) 2 BR (1070 sq. ft.)

Spectacular Views, Walk to Shops & Transit Hardwood Floors Pool Rent includes all utilities.

604-922-3246 935 Marine Drive

REAL ESTATE 6008

NEW

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Apartments & Condos

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

The Pink Palace on the Seawall 2 & 3 br, 2 bath spacious Indoor/outdoor pools. Fitness centre & billiard room, small pets allowed, no smoking 2222 Bellevue Ave. To view: 604-926-0627 WHITEHALL APT’S 1640 Esquimalt Ave 1 br newly reno’d $1070 M-Fri 990-2971Wknds 604-926-9997 www.BaysideTowers.com 2Br $1695 ocean view 1Br $1195 np 604-999-2000..2085 Bellevue

concrete, by shops, Cat Ok

North Vancouver

6505

WATERFRONT LUXURY 195 21st Street BELLEVUE TOWER 1 BR & 2 BR Avail Jan 1

h/wtr ns np Jan 1 604-323-4467

2 BDRM, $1150, 1 BDRM, $825, h/wood, Cent. Lons. nice quiet bldg, n/p, NOW, 604-988-3227

7005

6505

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6020

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

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6515

Duplexes - Rent

1 BR bsmt, Feb 1, 300 blk E 4, front & rear entry, ns, np, $700 incls utils. N Van 604-261-8983 2 BR upper, city view, Lower Lonsdale, fp, covered prkg, share wd, $1450 incls hydro & heat, no dogs, Dec 15 or Jan 1, 604-764-2612, 604-649-3123 3 BR Lower Lonsdale, close to Seabus, View, all appls gas f/p, $1700, avail now. 778-896-4266

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6522

Furnished Accommodation

6540

Houses - Rent

1 BR EXEC. full equip’d garden level, patio upper Lonsdale, bright $1200incls. ns, np, 604-988-8437

2 BR up, 2 br down, 2 bath, w/d, garage, nr hospital/shops. $1950. Avail now, 604-987-4996

1 BR suite Grand Blvd bright, like new, wd, ns, np, ref. priv entry, Immed $1100. 778-322-1688

BRITISH PROP. 4 br 3 bath house, hardwood, fp & more, seasonal lawn maintenance, ns, now, $3200, 604-715-2536

1 OF a kind home panoramic views, Deep Cove, 2 br, 2 ba, w/d, spa & stream on prpty, pets ok, $4,500. Jan 8/11 778-317-6993 1BR GORGEOUS suite, Sep entry, f/p, Ambleside, 6appl, suits 1, long term, ns/np, $1200 avail Jan 1. www.sweetgardensuite. blogspot.com\ 604-922-1545

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6540

Houses - Rent

1490 Mathers Av view 5br, 2 bath new laminate flr., 3000sf, huge living rm, lease ns np $2800, now, Eric 604-723-7368 RP Prop Mngt

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RENTALS 6540

Houses - Rent

3 BR character, N. Van, 3 ba, 2 kitchens, 2 f/p, updated $2500. 604-925-8824 Vistarealty.net 4 BR+, 3 bath, W. Van. Upper Dundarave, city & ocean views, 3,300sf, wood fp, hardwood & tiles, garden, single garage + additional prkg, Nr. schools, storage. $3,750+utils. Min 1 yr lease, avail Jan. 1, small pet ok, ref. 604-922-6103 or 604-788-6944

6540

Houses - Rent

4 BR 2.5 bath 2400 sf character Estate, Altamont 3/4 acre, pool, creek, nr West Bay Elem., $3500. Avail now. Liz 604-809-6355

6540

Houses - Rent

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4 BR 4 Bath new reno detach triplex 2400sf $2400 avail imm 654 W Keith 778-986-8283 PANORAMA VILLAGE 3 Br likenew, awesome view, $3800,

6540

LUXURY 6 BR, 6 ba, West Van, dbl garage, media room $5500. 604-925-8824 Vistarealty.net CAULFEILD 4 BR, 2 ba Rancher, hardwood, f/p, w/d, pet ok $2300. 604-925-8824 Vistarealty.net

6570

Out Of Town

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR bsmt ste, Grand Blvd, bright, own w/d, $850 incl utils & cable, pet neg, Dec 15, 778-998-9291

1 BR, clean as new, $975 incl. utils, share wd. Lower Lonsdale. Ns, np, avail Jan 1. 604-984-2354 1 BR ground suite, Pemberton Heights, ac, cable, own entry & wd, suit 1 or 2, avail, ns, np $750+1/2 utils. 604-315-6662 1BR $1100 incl utls, Grand Blvd, garden level, n/s, no pets, gas f/p, new carpet, 604-836-3069

AUTOMOTIVE

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Central Auto

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6595

Shared Accommodation

2 BR bsmt, new, nr Cap Univ, on bus route, N/S, no pets, insuite wd, $1300+ %utils, 604-817-3098

North Vancouver

2 BR, ground floor ocean view in Grand Boulevard area. 5 appls, ns, np, $1500+utils 604-715-2084

6595-45

1 FURN’D Bedroom across from hospital. n/s, n/p. Female only. $350/mo. Jan 1. 604-984-6584 DINNER prep & clean up for Int students, exchange for furn’d room in beautiful heritage home. 604-987-6566 jk6578@msn.com LUXURY WATERFRONT, home to share priv beach, lrg BR,15min dtwn $995. Now 778-338-4800 ROOM IN 4plex. All inclusive. North Shore. Suites Fem Student. Imm. $460/mo 604-889-3597

6600

2 BR bsmt, bright, wd, dw, ns, Ambleside, Park Royal, Bus, Cat OK, $1295incl utils 778-848-2747

Storage

AVAIL NOW! Lower Lonsdale storage space, 600sf, electricity $450, 604-983-9493

2 BR Upper Lonsdale, garden lvl, w/d, n/s, n/p, avail now. $1100 + 1/2 utils, good refs 604-985-5539 2 to choose from: 2 br. garden level, immed, upper Lonsdale, carport $1150+40%utils 2 br. central Lonsdale, dw, garage, $1625 incl heat/light immed. both ns, np, wd, fp, 604-925-1036 3 BR Bsmt, central Lonsdale, nr shops/school, np, now, $1500 incl cable, net & utils. 604-780-8501 3 BR, Deep Cove 2 bath, 2,000 sf, 2 lvl, big yrd, Jan. 1st, ns, pet neg. $2150/$1950. 604-809-5701 3 BR, main flr. 1500sf, upper Lonsdale, sat tv, some furn. $1800+60%util, avail Jan 1, ns np 604-984-8145 or 778-229-1817

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

EXEC 4 br + fam room + den main. 537 Tempe Cres. 6 appl, 2.5 baths, 2 f/p, large south deck, garage, storage. $2750. Jan 15. C21 Prudential. 604-232-3039

6605

Townhouses Rent

6615

SEEKING BACHOR or 1 Br suite affordable for single, for Jan 1. Full-time employed, responsible, friendly. Willing to share accom with the right person. I Have my own furniture & dishes, etc. 604-818-5191 eve/ wkends 604-998-1208 Mon-Fri, 9-5.

3 Br. large $1750, new kitchen & appls. Townhouse. Parklike Setting, Outdoor Pool, playground, priv. yard, 1314sf, drapes, heat & prkg incld. dw, 1.5 baths, 1 yr lease. no pets, 1228 Emery Pl. near Lynn Valley Mall. 604-987- 4922

Don’t Miss THIS! 3 BR t/house in quiet complex, 1.5 baths, fenced patio, pool, playground, near bus & shops, $1620 + utils, Dollarton & Seymour. Feb 1, 604-929-6024 4 BR 5 appls. $1950. 3 BR fp, 4 appls, $1825. both reno’d, 1.5 baths, storage, patio, ns, np, avail now. Rufus Dr, 604-980-6250 ELEGANTLY FURN. 2 br, 2 bath, 1800sf, duplex 2 levels, garden, $2500/mo, Brit. Prop. Avail Feb. Mar & April ns, np, 604-926-7044

MOVE IN ALLOWANCE 1915 Cedar Village Cres, 2 BR & 3 BR, 5 appls, 1.5 bath, 1 year lease, NP/NS. Rent starts at $1435. For viewing call 604-986-0511

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AUTOMOTIVE

9125

Domestic

9125

Domestic

1998 EAGLE TALON ESI, 170k, 2.0 L, excellent condition, 5 spd, no accidents, silver exterior, grey interior. $3900. 604-763-3223 • 6-year / 120,000km transferable Powertrain warranty coverage, with options to upgrade to comprehensive extended warranty.

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1996 CHRYSLER Sebring con vert., leather, good top, American mags $5500. 604-202-3415

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9145

Scrap Car Removal

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9160

Sports & Imports

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Friday, December 17, 2010 – North Shore News – A43

HOME SERVICES 8030

Carpentry

CARPENTRY, ADDITIONS, decks, 32 yrs exp, licensed. Call Ken, Cell: 604-928-3270 FRIENDLY, Professional, Crown mouldings, baseboard, casings rough framing. 778-233-0559

8035

Carpet Cleaning

ROYAL STEAM CLEANING Carpet, Upholstery, Auto (Int), walls & windows 604-765-8054

8055

Cleaning

$18/HR. Quality House cleaning. 604-983-3477 www.qualityhc.com ✫✫A CLEAN SWEEP ✫ Reliable Housecleaning service. Low rates 778 836-9970 ✫✫ 604 987-9970

8058

Computer Services

COMPUTER REPAIR

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• Virus Removal • Onsite Service

Laptop and Desktop Repair Specialist

Call Chris • 604.998.2273 www.technologyadventures.com

8060

Concrete

N.C.B. CONCRETE LTD. Specializing in residential concrete. Repair, removal and new installation. Patio specialists. 604-988-9523, 604-988-9495

8073

8080

Electrical

DNE ELECTRIC All Electrical Needs Lic #89267, Panel Upgrading. Reasonable & Free Estimate. 604-999-2332 LONSDALE ELECTRIC lic#1756 Panel changes & renos 604-988-7232, 604-842-0687

8100

Fireplaces

GAS FIREPLACE tune-ups & service. RM Construction Ltd. 604-988-1011

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

THE ART OF HARDWOOD FLOORS Installations Refinishing & Repairs Dust Free. Affordable Rates! Free Estimates.

Call: 604-240-3344

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

Century Hardwood Floors

604-376-7224 - 604-551-8237 www.centuryhardwood.com INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices. Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8125

Gutters

Drainage

LONSDALE DRAINAGE & SEWER

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604-973-0290 Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Roofing installations & repairs. 604-327-3086

Installed • Cleaned • Repaired

604-876-4604

North Shore Gutters. Sales & Install 5’’ continuous gutter, minor repairs, cleaning. 604-988-5294

8130

Handyperson

TRUSTED HOME IMPROVEMENTS

DRAIN TILES & WATER LINES Without Digging a Trench 604-985-4000 DRAINAGE, SEWER & WATER Underground Video Inspection Call Tobias 604 782-4322 POINT GREY DRAINAGE Call 604-379-2641

8075

Drywall

ACE DRYWALL. Avail immed. Board, tape, spraytex, repairs. 16 yr exp. No job too small. Mike 604-808-2432, 604-985-4321

604-878-5232 SINCE 1997

Complete Home Maint./Repairs Certiﬁed Trained Pros. For that small job. Rates you can afford. RJR Small Projects Division

8080

Electrical

#1167 LIC Bonded. BBB, lrg & sm jobs, expert trouble shooter, WCB, low rates, 24/7. 617-1774. #381293 LIC’D Bonded Electrician. Service, reno. Low prices Jeff 604-839-2825, 604-929-1094 A LICENSED electrician #19807 semi-retired, small jobs only. 604-689-1747 pgr 604-686-2319 ALL YOUR electrical & reno needs. Lic’d electrician #37940. Bonded & insured 604-842-5276

GARDEN SERVICES LTD.

Trim, Top, Prune. All types of lawn & garden applications. General Clean-Up. Call Sukh: Free Est.

ALL HOME REPAIRS semiretired master carpenter. Kitchen, stairs, sundecks, etc. All work guar. Karl 604-985-5144 HANDY PERSON avail for snow removal & all your house projects. Call Ibrahim 604-619-6968 ★HUSBAND FOR HIRE★ Painting, Drywall, Laminate floors Fences, etc. Glenn 604-328-1059

8150

Kitchens/Baths

INTERIOR RENOVATIONS Specializing in: ✫Bathrooms ✫Kitchens ✫ ✫ Basements ✫ plus Framing, Drywall, Painting, Tiling, Mouldings North Shore Resident North Shore References Tim Gleason 604-926-5440

Painting/ Wallpaper

Lawn Treatment • Maint. • Power Raking Pruning • Trimming • General Clean-Up Topping Trees • Free Estimates

Interior painting, wallpaper Quality service, with a smile! Call Arlene...604-910-3270

604-926-1526 604-726-9153

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

A. A. Allwest Garden Service Lawn maint, general cleanup, power raking, moss control, etc. CALL SUKH free est. 604-726-9213 or 604-984-1988

NORTH SHORE PAINTING Int/Ext. Com/Res 604-338-1321 www.northshorepainting.org

Ny Ton Gardening Tree cutting & topping, yard cleanup, trimming, hedging, 604-782-5288 STEMS & SEEDS, Fall Cleanups leaf blowing, hedge trimming, snow clearing, 604-925-0464

8180

Home Services

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CENTRAL AIR INSTALLED CONDITIONING FURNACES Sears also installs ROOFING, WINDOWS, WINDOW COVERINGS & CARPETING

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8193

Oil Tank Removal

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604-724-3670

AMBLESIDE CONSULTING Liisa Wilkinson, P.Eng. Tank assessments, soil remediation. Free est. 604-813-2488 STORMWORKS CONTRACTING; Oil Tank Removal. Certified, Insured, Recommended. Reasonable Rates. 604-724-3670

Renovations & Home Improvement

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Plumbing

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PLUMBERS

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8250

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8309

Tiling

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Excellent X5 gets better A “mid-cycle refresh” can mean a lot of things in the auto industry.

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Behind The Wheel David Chao

consumption will be similar or worse. While cars have gotten larger and heavier due to both safety requirements and customer desires for more space and features, they’ve also become vastly more powerful. Some of that power is necessary to compensate for added bulk, but much

of it has certainly been unnecessary. Whether or not it can be justified, all of that additional power has negated the technological gains we’ve made in recent years. But no longer. The automotive world is poised for a huge step forward in engine technology that will generate industrywide improvements in fuel consumption and emissions. Cutting-edge V-6 engines are producing as much and more power than last year’s V-8’s while dramatically improving fuel efficiency. Turbocharged inline-fours are finding their way from hot hatchbacks into economical compact sedans. With more hybrids and diesels, advanced transmissions, and greater adoption of all-wheel drive, 2011 is shaping up to be the

Year of the Drivetrain. For its part, the popular X5 gains new V-6 and V-8 gasoline engines to go along with its excellent 3.0-litre diesel V-6, as well an impressive eight-speed automatic transmission. Throw in BMW’s extensive list of driver aids and you get a vehicle that’s easily one of the best in its class, putting its power to intelligent use. It may be four years into its current generation, but the 2011 X5 might as well be a whole new vehicle. And yes, it’s still a heck of a lot of fun to drive. Design While the drivetrain upgrades are the major news, the 2011 X5 has gone under the knife for minor surgery,

See Base page 45

BMW’s M division soups-up the 1 Series

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: BMW unveils 1 Series M Coupe The nomenclature for the latest hot Bimmer isn’t that easy to follow. Factory souped-up versions of the 3-Series, 5-Series and 6-Series are called the M3, M5 and M6 respectively, so why not an M1? Well, there’s already been an M1, and it’s the granddaddy of the whole BMW M-division: a Lamborghini-BMW collaboration that remains eminently collectible. But just because BMW’s diminutive 1-Series gets robbed of a properly epic name doesn’t mean that it doesn’t bring epic performance to the table. Just in time for Christmas, the wraps are off, and it’s the M3 and the M5 that need to hang their heads in shame. Taking the already delightfully nimble 1-Series chassis, M-division’s extrastrength engineers have widened the track by a few inches, tweaked the aeroSee Maybach page 47

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of your low-fat cake and eat it too. A turbo-CRZ is still just a rumour, but there’s also a parallel story going on about Formula One’s return to 1.6 turbocharged engines, and high-performance racing development inevitably has real-world street applications. Honda fans, stay tuned. Intern at Bugatti, drive Veyrons It’s tough to be an intern. No money, no respect, and Lord help you if you get within reaching distance of Bill Clinton. However, there is one internship that just might be worth it. Interning at Bugatti of North America might involve the usual filing and typing, but it also means co-ordinating and delivering their press fleet and test-driving demos. And the Veyrons aren’t coming and going on flatbed trucks: you get to drive them yourself. Essentially, it’s a job driving Bugatti Veyrons all over the continental United States. Best internship ever? Sure, at least until Hugh Hefner hires you to keep an eye on the pH levels in the grotto. VW Golf R headed to North America Golf is a silly game, and I’ve a growing suspicion that it’s just a private joke being perpetuated on us by the Scots, kind of like kilts. Ever seen anybody in Scotland wearing a kilt or throwing telephone poles around? Thought not. However, there’s another meaning for the word Golf: it’s derived from the German for Gulf Stream, and for a time Volkswagen was naming their cars after various winds. This latest variation of their popular compact hatchback might have well been called the Hurricane. It’s the Golf R, and while some bits might be familiar to fans of the pocket-rocket GTi, this Euro-spec model is something else entirely. For one thing, the lovely 2.0-litre turbo is now bumped to a more ferocious 266 h.p. For another thing, it’s got all-wheel-drive. Along with more power and the ability to put all of it down, the Golf R gets a full suspension upgrade, sport-tuned traction control, bigger brakes, and the usual aerodynamic enhancements and interior trim upgrades. Due in showrooms as a 2012 model, I think we can all say, das ist sehr gut! Glaring error of the week Last week’s column on gifts for gearheads indicated that racing simulator Gran Turismo Five was available across “all major consoles,” by which I meant, “all major consoles except for ones that aren’t the Playstation PS3.” Reader Shane Cullihall was quick to point out that you’d have about as much luck getting GT5 for the Xbox360 or Wii as you would ordering a Whopper at A&W, and forecast a scene of confused and disorientated grandparents milling about at the local electronics boutique, searching for a game that doesn’t exist. I’ve never been one to claim perfection, and as a reward for his diligence, I am happy to announce that Mr. Cullihall will be receiving not only a copy of Gran Turismo Five, but his very own Playstation PS3, a LogiTech Force-Feedback steering wheel, and a 57-inch flatscreen TV to watch all the action on. Ha! Not really. Watch this space for all the week’s best and worst of automotive news, or submit your own auto oddities to brakingnews@gmail.com.

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