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Are we ready for The Big One?

If it happens soon, WV fire crews could be grounded Manisha Krishnan

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IF a massive earthquake were to hit the North Shore today, several vital public facilities wouldn’t be ready for it.

Recent events in Japan have highlighted the issue of seismic resistance. And while there are preparedness plans and projects on the go on the North Shore, a lot of work remains to be completed.

In West Vancouver, emergency responders could run into major problems if the big one strikes. Neither Fire Hall No. 1 nor the police station is considered post-disaster safe, which means it’s unlikely that they would be able to withstand significant shaking.

“Our problem is that all of our staff and apparatus, our fire trucks are located in the hall and if they were in the hall at that time and the building collapsed, we would have the problem of not being able to respond,” said NEWS photo Paul McGrath Jim Cook, West Vancouver fire WEST Vancouver fire chief Jim Cook is concerned that Fire Hall No. 1, located on 16th Street and Fulton Avenue, does not meet current post-disaster standards and will not be able to withstand a major earthquake. The district has plans to house the fire hall and the outdated chief.

The building, which was police station in one public safety structure next to the municipal hall. constructed in 1967 on 16th Street and Fulton Avenue, was last upgraded more than 10 years ago when steel beams were placed in the flooring.

“It’s at the end of its life cycle and it’s due for replacement,” said Cook. supply sufficient information about the cost of F-35 fighter jets, The police station, located on the 1300-block of Marine Drive, James Weldon and Jane Seyd reforms to the justice system and other matters. also has its fair share of problems. Water damage has led to mould jweldon@nsnews.com “It’s unfortunate, unnecessary and expensive to have an election and caused its roof to cave in last fall. right now,” said West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast Sea-to-Sky Going forward, the district is looking to house both emergency NORTH Shore voters will be going to the polls Conservative MP John Weston, speaking by phone from Ottawa services in a single, post-disaster public safety building under the sometime in May after Canada’s Conservative Friday. “We’re just emerging from a global recession. . . . This was AmblesideNow revitalization plans. That building would be government fell to a vote of no confidence in the wrong time to interrupt that momentum.” constructed next to the municipal hall. But for now, the details and Parliament Friday.

The budget introduced Tuesday would have helped continue potential costs are an unknown, according to Cook.

Just three days after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled this Canada’s economic recovery, he said. The dissolution of Parliament “We’re look for about three to five years before we would be year’s federal budget, MP’s from all three opposition parties voted will get in the way of that. moving into anything,” he said.

Weston’s comments echoed remarks made by Prime Minister The highest priority upgrade in the City of North Vancouver is to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, deeming it Stephen Harper following Friday’s vote. Harper said the opposition for its operations centre, according to Francis Caouette, director of to be in contempt of Parliament.

The move supported a Commons committee report tabled this See Bridges page 5 week that concluded the Tories were in contempt for refusing to See North page 5

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Voices Finding their

Stuttering is a neurological condition, not psychological, and is best treated early

Erin McPhee

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NSPIRED by the Academy Award-winning film The King’s Speech, researchers, speechlanguage pathologists and stutterers alike are endeavouring to get the word out that positive outcomes for stutterers are possible if treatment is sought.

Despite our current culture’s increasing dependence on emailing, texting, Facebook and Twitter to communicate, the importance of being able to clearly and confidently express oneself remains. For the majority, this comes naturally. For those affected by stuttering, fluency is a life-long goal with countless ups and downs, both physically and emotionally.

An estimated one per cent of people around the world stutter — three to four boys for every girl. If addressed early, it’s possible to move forward, stutter-free, though 20-30 per cent of children who start to stutter will develop a chronic form.

According to Luc De Nil, professor and chairman of the University of Toronto’s department of speech-language pathology, two different types of stuttering exist. Acquired stuttering occurs typically in adults after they’ve had some sort of neurological disease or trauma, most often a stroke. The more commonly discussed form is developmental stuttering, which starts in childhood usually between the ages of two and seven. It’s different from the normal disfluencies — breaks in normal speech patterns — that can be found in all children.

“It really is a clinical speech disorder that is characterized by difficulties that the child has to say the words, to actually produce the words,” says De Nil. “It’s not that the child has difficulty thinking of the word or has difficulty coming up with the right word, the child really knows what he or she wants to say but has difficulty getting it out.”

In the past, stuttering was considered to be the result of a psychological problem, associated with shyness or some childhood trauma. But in the last 10-20 years or so, people have come to recognize that there’s a strong neurological component as well, says De Nil. Genetics are at play in stuttering cases, seeing as it runs in families. Brain-imaging technology has shown that people who stutter not only use their brain differently during speech, but there are differences in the anatomy of their brain, differentiating them from those who don’t stutter. This is already observable in young children.

Other research has shown that people who stutter may also have difficulties related to very fine motor movements, like finger manipulation, or those demanding a lot of sequential motor patterns.

“All of these factors put together have really shifted the thinking about stuttering from a psychological causality to more of a neurological causality,” says De Nil. If treatment is started as soon as possible after the onset of the disorder, many children can be helped and can grow up to be fluent speakers. For those who develop chronic stuttering, it can become quite a complex disorde,r ranging from relatively mild stuttering that’s hardly noticeable to severe stuttering. In some cases, adolescents or adults can be prevented from talking due to the severe blocks in their speech.

At times, parents are counselled to “wait it out,” that their child will “outgrow it.” But De Nil advises parents to listen to their

instincts. “If the parents have that feeling that something’s wrong in the speech of their child, go further, go look for a speech-language pathologist who can do a thorough assessment,” he says.

For older children and adults, stuttering can be more difficult to treat. Some who come to treatment have been stuttering for 20-30 years or longer, De Nil says.

“Once you’ve been used to a behaviour for that long and you’ve learned how to cope with it either in maladaptive ways or maybe in good ways, it NEWS photo Mike Wakefield can be very, very difficult to get WENDY Duke (centre), founder of Columbia Speech and Language Services, rid of that behaviour.”

And even though stuttering meets with clients Omar Hash and Judy Briton. isnowregardedasaneurological condition, strong psychological components are also at play.

“Knowing how important speech is in our society and . . . if it’s very difficult for you to engage in any type of verbal communication, of course you’re going to start reacting to it,” says De Nil. “You’re going to become quite nervous sometimes when you’re in speaking situations because you’re afraid that your stuttering will come on again.”

Erin McPhee Children who stutter can undergo teasing and may become shy or withdrawn in some cases. “But it’s the result of stuttering, not emcphee@nsnews.com the reason for stuttering,” says De Nil. THE treatment model for stuttering is a blend of Treatment for younger children focuses on developing speech public and private service delivery, differing from that is conducive for fluency.

“If you’re working with a three- or four-year-old of course, community to community across Canada.

The following are some examples of what’s available to North they don’t have the awareness of their own speech to really be able to work consciously on their speech so you primarily work through Shore residents: the environment in sort of assisting the child in simplifying their language and making it easier,” De Nil says. “Maybe helping them Children Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) offers treatment through its to use somewhat slower speech or simplified speech that makes it easier to produce fluent speech and trying to reinforce it as much community and family health department for preschoolers (birth as possible. In other words: trying to provide the child with time to K). According to Trudi Beutel, a spokeswoman for VCH, they and opportunities to let their speech system mature to a level that offer a free 12-week program at the West Vancouver Community Health Centre (at West Vancouver Community Centre) and the they can handle fluent speech.”

Treatment for adults is aimed at helping them manage, not Community Health Centre (at 132 West Esplanade in North “cure,” their stuttering. There are two approaches used, typically Vancouver). Parents can refer their children, calling their centre of in combination, by clinicians. The first sees clients taught new ways choice and asking for a speech pathologist assessment. The waitlist is of speaking. “The . . . approach is focused on a number of fluency- currently approximately eight months.

Info: www.vch.ca. enhancing skills that stutterers can learn to try to control their fluency,” says De Nil. The second involves a stuttering modification approach, with Students Once children are school age, they’re eligible for speech emphasis placed on dealing with the anxiety around stuttering, and helping the stutterer develop a new perspective — that their pathology programs offered in the public school system, which vary from district to district. stuttering really isn’t that bad.

Both the North and West Vancouver school districts offer “Often what people find is that if they become more relaxed about their stuttering, more open about their stuttering, they will free speech-language pathology services. Communication occurs find that their stuttering becomes easier and therefore their speech between the school districts and VCH, which alerts school districts to children receiving help each school year. Parents can refer a child actually becomes more fluent,” says De Nil. Wendy Duke, a speech-language pathologist and founder of and so can teachers.

In the North Vancouver district, approximately 40 per cent Columbia Speech and Language Services (as well as a clinical

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Bridges good to an 8.0 quake

From page 1

corporate services.

The centre serves as a base for engineering equipment relating to utilities, roads and parks.

“In any kind of natural disaster, whether it is a windstorm or earthquake or flood, obviously we require equipment and operators . . . to be able to get in and clear up whatever the problem is in order to have folks be able to resume their lives,” said Caouette.

The city is in the midst of negotiating a land exchange deal with Darwin Properties Ltd. If successful, the developer will relocate the operations centre from its location in the 700-block of West Second Street to 60 Fell Ave. and build it to post-disaster standards.

In exchange, it will be allowed to redevelop the current site to include multi-family residential buildings.

The North Vancouver RCMP building and the city fire hall are both in good shape, said Caouette.

Thepolicestation,whichwasbuiltaround 15 years ago, is up to a post-disaster standard and has emergency electrical supplies and

heating. It also is the headquarters of the North Shore Emergency Management Office and would likely be the nerve centre for major disaster response organization.

“If there was some kind of major incident, that building could continue to function and people could work in it to deliver the services that are needed,” said Caouette.

The 40-year-old fire hall was retrofitted in 2002 to increase its structural integrity but is not quite up to the post-disaster standard because of its age, he added.

As for schools in North Vancouver, they fall under a number of different categories.

Schools that have the highest risk of failure during a quake are Ridgeway elementary, Carson Graham secondary and Queen Mary elementary. The first two are currently undergoing major renovations to be completed in September 2011 and September 2012, respectively.

Reconstruction plans for Queen Mary are slated to start this summer.

These types of projects include reinforcing columns, beams, floor structures and foundations, said Ian Abercrombie, director of facilities and planning for the North Vancouver school district.

The school district is currently awaiting ministry approval to start capital projects on Argyle, Seymour Heights and Handsworth schools, according to Abercrombie.

“In any one school, even an elementary school, these are multi-million dollar projects,” he said.

In an effort to reduce costs, the school district has chosen to shut down some of its most vulnerable schools and amalgamate others, including Lonsdale, Keith Lynn, Ridgeway Annex and Plymouth.

Lynn Valley, Sutherland, Westview and Highlands schools have all been entirely replaced due to their physical conditions.

Seismic upgrades in the West Vancouver school district reached completion in the last month, with the strengthening of West Vancouver secondary’s gymnasium.

Both the Lions Gate and the Ironworkers Memorial bridges have been retrofitted with seismic upgrades within the past decade and are fit to withstand a magnitude 8 quake centred on the Cascadia fault line west of Vancouver Island, according to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

See also story page 22.

North Van riding could be a close fight

From page 1

parties’ move would hinder the country’s recovery and “disappoint Canadians.”

North Vancouver Liberal candidate Taleeb Noormohamed told the News Friday he saw things differently. Canadians may not be especially keen on an election, he said, but “when you’re in a position where Parliament has found the government in contempt . . . it’s a very, very telling signal.”

The Opposition brought the Tories down because “the government can’t be trusted,” he said.

While West Vancouver has had tight races in the past, analysts have highlighted

North Vancouver this time around as one of the ridings to watch. The riding has flipflopped between parties in recent elections, often by narrow margins. North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton won his seat in October 2008 with approximately 42 per cent of the vote to former Liberal MP Don Bell’s 37 per cent.

Noormohamed expects the campaign to be a tough one, but he said he and other candidates have an agreement: “We’re not going to run campaigns that are personal. . . . It’s going to be about the issues.”

Those issues will include services for seniors, support for small businesses and the environment and other questions

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that concern voters, as opposed to the Conservative agenda of “tax cuts for the largest corporations and paying for prisons,” he said.

One bright spot in the week’s events, according to West Vancouver’s Weston, was the surprise passage of his long-awaited private member’s bill relating to the production of crystal meth. The legislation, which makes it illegal to possess, produce or sell chemicals in the knowledge they will be used to make meth or ecstacy, was passed by Parliament in June, but has been held up in the senate until Thursday. The legislation received royal ascent Friday morning, just hours before the vote of no confidence.

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Get over it

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HE three opposition parties combined to bring down the minority Conservative government Friday and have triggered an election that most Canadians don’t appear to want.

With the possibility of a provincial election if Premier Christy Clark decides to capitalize on new-found Liberal popularity and with municipal elections set for November, there is justification for a lack of polling enthusiasm in British Columbia.

Nevertheless, the deed is done, and it’s up to voters to make the best of it.

Judging by the success of the recent Tory campaign to discredit Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff by a series of attack ads, we can expect more of the same in coming weeks. Heaven help us if the Liberals respond in kind.

Voters on the North Shore are

you said it “The epigram for people who fall for these crimes is: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

Cpl. Peter DeVries offers sound advice after several residents paid hundreds of dollars to buy fake designerleathercoatsinsupermarket parking lots that turned out to be worth next to nothing (from a March 23 news story).

••• “If he had missed that tree, he would have gone down another 200 feet.”

North Shore Search and Rescue spokesman Tim Jones warns that hikers climbing the seasonally closed Grouse Grind trail are putting their lives at risk after his team rescued three people in five days from the trail, including one who fell 10 metres before hitting a tree (from a March 25 news story).

••• “Those buildings that they showed, it was Yaletown; it wasn’t West Van.” Jenny Byatt shares her reaction to a plan to build a residential tower between 10 and 15 storeys tall on the current Safeway site at Marine Drive and 17th Street in West Vancouver. The developer plans a redesign (from a March 20 news story).

well-placed to rise above the noise of shouted slurs and slogans. We have two above-average ridings when it comes to education. We should be able to decide for ourselves what the issues of this election should be.

Are more prisons more important than help for aging seniors? What are the relevant costs and benefits?

How important is it to ratchet up our spending on defence? What is the likely cost of new jet fighters and should the contract have been let through competitive bidding?

Where do the parties stand on oil tankers using B.C. coastal waters?

Will corporate tax cuts help Canada’s deficit over the long term?

It is more important that voters inform themselves on these and other issues than “punish” one party or another.

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WV Safeway plans rankle

Dear Editor: From the report in the March 20 North Shore News, Outcry Forces Change to Tower Plan, IBI-HD architect Jim Hancock does not seem to have fully grasped the mood of the March 10 public meeting at the seniors’ activity centre regarding the Safeway site.

No — the crowd did not want the two tower proposals, Options A and B, but what Mr. Hancock appears to miss is that neither did the people want a big influx of parking with its associated traffic in the Lower Ambleside area, and the horrific construction upheaval this will bring. The streets in Ambleside are already congested and we do not want that to be further exacerbated.

He says it is not about greed. So why is the company still

hoping to come back with the same proposed FAR (floor area ratio) of 2.7? As someone at the meeting pointed out, such a development would be sucking property values into itself at the expense of the property values of adjacent owners in the Ambleside area.

Citizens of West Vancouver do not want this density in Lower Ambleside, but I did get the impression that people would be prepared to accept some increase in FAR if the developer respected and showed sensitivity to the kind of “village” atmosphere we locals wish to retain. We do not want a West Vancouver central business district. We are looking for an Option D, not a gutted Option A and B. Nigel Grant West Vancouver

Bridge toll? Sure – on a new bridge!

Dear Editor: City of Langley Mayor Peter Fassbender says there should be tolls put on the Lion’s Gate Bridge (opened in 1938) and the Iron Worker’s Memorial Second Narrows Crossing (opened in 1960) to create a level playing field with those who will be paying tolls on the brand new Golden Ears Bridge and the soon to be twinned Port Mann Bridge.

First off, the Lion’s Gate Bridge had a toll on it, and the drivers using it paid the tolls until they were lifted with little complaining.

Secondly, these two rickety, dark and heavily congested bridges long ago lost their ability to conduct traffic coming to and from the ever-growing North Shore. We have been clamouring, no, make that begging, for a third crossing or a twinning of either

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of these bridges for decades. What did we get instead of a third crossing or multi-lane bridge expansion? The passenger-only SeaBus which starts nowhere handy and ends nowhere handy.

I will be the first one in line to pay a toll on any new bridge we get, but until then Mayor Fassbender should keep his mouth shut and his hands out of our pocketbooks. And to those opposed to paying tolls on the Golden Ears or new Port Mann Bridge? Please stop whining; at least you got what you needed. And remember, if one of your bridges goes down or is closed, you have multiple alternatives. In our case, we’d have only one bridge to use. One small, old bridge that we paid for a long, long time ago.

Tom Cattermole North Vancouver

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Dear Editor: On Wednesday, March 17, I lost a valuable watch in West Vancouver. I advertised the loss in your March 20 classifieds. As it turned out, another person advertised in the same edition that he’d found the watch the same day I lost it.

I contacted the gentleman who found the watch and, after I gave him explicit details to identify it, he gave me his information to enable me to retrieve it from the West Vancouver Police Department.

The finder (Mr. I. R.) refused my offer of a reward, so I made a $250 donation to the B.C. Cancer Society in his name. I hope others learn from this Good Samaritan, whose example is one of the things that makes our country a great place to live.

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Sunday, March 27, 2011 - North Shore News - A7

Valuing lifestyles of the rich and heinous

“I’VE had enough fun on this vacation,” my husband Stanley told our teenagers on Tuesday, our final afternoon in dear, sweet, balmy Honolulu.

“So let’s let Mum decide what we’re going to do today.”

The implication there was clear: “fun” was not Mum’s bailiwick. Mum was in charge of the oatmeal porridge quotient of the trip. This was the dreary, good-for-you portion of the holiday that would require everybody to trudge around some culturally significant edifice in the wake of a nerdishly over-enthused docent, then mill about in the gift shop waiting for Mum to buy a lot of stupid postcards.

And so it came to pass — I fulfilled the prophecy by dragging them all to the fusty historic Summer Palace that had once been owned by the island’s Queen Emma Na’ea, the wife of King Kamehameha IV. My 16-yearold son preferred to spend the time grumpily skateboarding around the parking lot in the heat, but no matter. Those of us who did pay $6 apiece to look at somebody else’s uncomfortable old furniture and towering feather-topped stanchions would surely be uplifted and informed by the experience. And isn’t that what a person wants from a Hawaiian holiday?

Personally, I can’t get enough of these glimpses of how the other half once lived.

I figure my family should be

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Kate Zimmerman forced to share my fascination, just as I weakly pretend to appreciate theirs in things like barbecue, Jersey Shore and gel skate wheels.

Over my own lifetime, I’ve clomped through the houses of authors Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, etc.), Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, etc.), poet, philosopher and Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and the “White Witch,” Annie Palmer. In the 19th century, the White Witch owned a Jamaican plantation house called Rose Hall, and she slew a few of her husbands in it for no reason I could figure out. According to the guide who showed me around, old Annie used to sit on her balcony of an evening and, for entertainment, watch her slaves get flogged. She was also a huge fan of crewel embroidery.

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‘Even the King of England used to stutter’ Mom’s comforting words brought to life in movie Erin McPhee

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AS a child, whenever West Vancouver resident Omar Hash got upset or embarrassed about his stuttering, he’d break down and run to his room.

His mother would quickly follow and do her best to comfort him, telling him it would be OK and not to worry, that “even the King of England used to stutter.”

As he grew, his mother continued to offer those words of encouragement whenever she sensed her son was feeling down about his disfluency.

Believing her to have crafted some sort of tale to calm his emotions, Hash, now 39, didn’t give the information much thought until last summer when he was nearing the end of an intensive stuttering treatment clinic at Columbia Speech and Language Services, the first time he’d ever sought help.

Hash was in the kitchen with his mother, discussing his progress and he started to stutter.

His ever-supportive mother piped up as if on cue: “Even the King of England used to stutter.”

“And lo and behold right there and then on TV, I saw something about The King’s Speech movie at the Toronto film festival,” says Hash.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is awesome.’ I really wanted to know the story. I thought she was just making it up.”

The film, which stars Colin Firth, tells the story of King George VI, a shy king with a stutter who finds his voice with the help of an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue, played

by Geoffrey Rush.

The film has received countless positive accolades, including from the current Queen (the daughter of George VI), and from those within the film industry, earning Academy Awards for best picture, best actor (Firth), best director and best original screenplay. Firth also received a Golden Globe Award for his performance.

The King’s Speech has also been well-received by stutterers, speech-language pathologists and researchers, who view it as a positive means of See Movie page 9

photo courtesy Alliance Films

COLIN Firth won an Oscar this year for his portrayal of stuttering King George VI in The King’s Speech.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND PUBLIC MEETING Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 4360, 2004, Amendment Bylaw No. 4676, 2011; Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw No. 4677, 2011; AND Design Development Package Care Office Use. Supportive Housing Use means an apartment use where at least one occupant of each unit is 65 years of age or older, or is a younger person with disabilities, which use: (a) must include a common resident dining room and certain other uses; and (b) may include a dwelling unit for a resident manager, guest suites and a wellness centre. Health Care Office Use means a use of premises by physicians, surgeons, dentists, physio-therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, provincially licensed massage therapists, podiatrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, opticians, optometrists, naturopaths, dental mechanics and other health care practitioners, for X-ray and other diagnostic facilities, medical and dental laboratories, prosthetic and orthopaedic manufacturers and specialized medical clinics, including a blood donor clinic; • adding the new zone CD46 – Comprehensive Development Zone 46 (Northwest corner of Marine Drive and 22nd Street) which would: allow Supportive Housing Use, not-for-profit educational uses and limited commercial uses; provide for a maximum floor area of 117,500 sq. ft. (10,916 sq. m.) for Supportive Housing Use and 8,000 sq. ft. (744 sq. m.) for permitted commercial and educational uses; set out further restrictions on floor area use; and establish requirements for site coverage, yards, building height, number of storeys and offstreet vehicle parking and loading; • rezoning the 52,829.3 sq. ft. (4908 sq. m.) site at the northwest corner (as shown on the map at right) to the new zone CD46 – Comprehensive Development Zone 46; and • rezoning a 23.95 ft. (7.3 m) wide strip of land fronting 22nd Street and south of Tudor Gardens at 843 22nd Street (as shown on the map at right) from RD1 – Duplex Dwelling Zone 1 to RS5 – Single Family Dwelling Zone 5; this strip of land would become part of the reconfigured John Richardson Park, would provide a connection from 22nd Street to the park, and, upon rezoning, would have the same zoning as the balance of John Richardson Park.

Design Development Package: The design development package sets out the details of the proposed building and site development, including the site plan, building design and height, building materials and finishing and landscaping.

If the Official Community Plan amendment bylaw and Zoning amendment bylaw described above are approved, the applicant will be required to construct the development in accordance with a design development package approved by Council. All persons who wish to provide comment on the design development package will be given an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing/Public Meeting.

Subject lands: The proposed zoning changes are shown on the map below:

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Notice is given that a PUBLIC HEARING AND PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the Council Chamber of the Municipal Hall of The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver at 750 - 17th Street, West Vancouver, BC on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 7:00 pm to consider the following: Applicant: Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities Subject Lands: Northwest corner of Marine Drive and 22nd Street as shown on the map at right.

All or part of the following lots: Lot 1 (Explanatory Plan 9507) Block A of Block 5 Plan 4532; Amended Lot D (see 540240L) of Lots 1 to 3 Block A of Block 5 Plan 4532; Lot E of Lots 1 to 3 Block A of Block 5 Plan 4532; Lot 4 of Lot A Block 5 Plan 2019; Lot 19 Block 4 Plan 3522; and portions of the closed lane between Fulton Avenue and Marine Drive; all of East Part of District Lot 554 Purpose: To provide for the redevelopment of the subject lands as rental seniors housing with support services and limited commercial and institutional land uses not directly associated with the seniors housing, and to provide for zoning boundaries which would match those of a reconfigured John Richardson Park. Details are provided below.

Enquiries: Planning Department, Municipal Hall.

Phone: 604-925-7055.

Bylaw 4676, 2011: The proposed Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 4630, 2004, Amendment Bylaw No. 4676, 2011, if adopted, would amend the Official Community Plan by: • revising Policy BF-C8 to remove the property legally described as Lot 1, District Lot 554, Block A, Plan 4532 (2203 Marine Drive) from the existing local commercial designation and development permit area; and • adding a new Policy BF-D5 which provides for an approximately 4900 sq. m. site at the northwest corner of Marine Drive and 22nd Street to be: used as rental seniors housing with services, and limited commercial and institutional land uses not directly associated with the seniors housing; developed to a maximum 117,500 sq. ft. (10,916 sq. m.) of housing and a maximum 8,000 sq. ft. (744 sq. m.) of other permitted land uses; and developed with a maximum building height from Marine Drive of seven storeys, exclusive of roof-top development.

Bylaw 4677, 2011: The proposed Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw No. 4677, 2011, if adopted, would amend the Zoning Bylaw by: • adding two new definitions: Supportive Housing Use and Health

All enquiries regarding the proposed bylaw amendments and design development package may be directed to the West Vancouver Planning Department, Municipal Hall or by calling 604-925-7055.

Copies of the proposed bylaw amendments, design development package and other related documents may be inspected from March 18, 2011 to April 4, 2011 at the Municipal Hall at 750-17th Street, West Vancouver, BC on regular business days (Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays) between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm.

For convenience only, some of the documents may also be available for viewing on the District’s website at westvancouver.ca or at the West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, BC (phone 604-925-7400 for current information on Library hours of operation).

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaw amendments and design development package will be given an opportunity to be heard and to present written submissions at the Public Hearing/Public Meeting. Submissions received for the Public Hearing/Public Meeting will be included in the public information package for Council’s consideration and for the public record.

Submissions received after the close of the Public Hearing will not be considered by Council.

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Sunday, March 27, 2011 - North Shore News - A9

NVSD speech therapist program cut by 15% From page 3

of the children they become involved with as kindergarteners didn’t receive services for their communication difficulties as pre-schoolers.

“Sometimes they were on waiting lists but often, particularly for language and pragmatic issues, they were not seen by a speech-language pathologist as their family did not realize how much their child’s skills differed from the average child of that age,” says Phyllis Ferguson, a North Vancouver school district speech-language pathologist.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield North Vancouver currently has eight speech-language STUTTERING program clients learn how to record pathologists, (equivalent to 6.3 and listen to their speech analytically, so they can positions)whotravelthroughout continue practising effectively on their own. the district. Due to budget cuts, Lions Gate Hospital offers an adult out-patient the program experienced a 15 per cent decrease speech pathology program for people with a from the 2009-2010 school year.

They work as direct therapists with students variety of challenges, including stuttering, says from kindergarten to Grade 7 (approximately 10 VCH’s Trudi Beutel. A fee-for-service program, per cent of the students in an elementary school patients are charged approximately $60 an hour. A at any point in time). Ferguson estimates five to short waitlist exists.

Info: 604-988-3131 (and ask for the speech15 per cent of the students they serve are affected by stuttering. At the secondary school level, the language pathology program office). pathologists work as consultants, connecting students with outside resources to help with their Adults: Private Many private speech-language clinics exist in speech challenges.

The West Vancouver school district’s speech- B.C. One example is Columbia Speech and language pathologists serve students from kindergarten to Grade 12 on a consultative Language Services, founded by West Vancouver basis, says Andrea Wilson, spokeswoman for the resident Wendy Duke.

While fees are charged for service, Columbia district. West Vancouver has four speech-language pathologists working part-time, (equivalent to 2.4 works with clients to ensure access isn’t limited by positions). This year’s service level is consistent finances. For example, participants (19+) in their with the previous school year’s. intensive treatment clinics are eligible for funding In both districts, there’s no wait list for children from the Provincial Health Services Authority who have severe challenges or are deemed high through the Fred Gingell Memorial Stuttering priority — for example, a five-year-old stutterer.

Treatment Support Program, which funds “Particularly with five- and six-year-olds, approximately 12 people a year. they’re a really high priority with us because we’re “We’re fortunate to be the only clinic in the hoping to prevent them from actually developing province that receives that funding, and that’s full-blown stuttering,” says Ferguson, adding based on our outcome data,” says Duke. those with less severe problems, like a lisp, may “I started this program in the early- to midhave to wait. In North Vancouver, the wait list for ’90s because at that time it had been about 15 a speech assessment is relatively short while the years since there had been an intensive stuttering wait list for language assessment is from four to treatment clinic in B.C. There really was a need to 12 months. start one and it’s steadily grown,” she says.

In the West Vancouver school district, there’s Info: columbiaspeech.com. a waitlist for assessment services for children with less urgent needs of about eight months to a year, Other resources but there are currently no students with stuttering The British Columbia Association of People needs.

Who Stutter (BCAPS) is a non-profit society Both districts take a collaborative approach to committed to increasing public awareness of treating students, with parents, private and district stuttering and those who stutter. It also supports speech-language pathologists, teachers and special stutterers and self-help support groups throughout education assistants joining forces. the province.

Their website provides a wealth of information Adults: Public system and resources. Info: www.bcaps.bc.ca.

Movie is increasing awareness

From page 8

getting the public talking about the disorder.

Hash organized a group from Columbia (clients and pathologists), to watch a preview of the movie last fall.

“You know the opening scene. Do you know what he was doing? He was doing exactly what I was doing. He’s nervous, he’s in front of people, he couldn’t say that word that was printed on that piece of paper so he would switch words.

He would repeat a few sentences over and over trying to get to the next sentence. He was doing all sorts of things that I, as a stutterer, saw what was happening,” says Hash.

Luc De Nil, professor and chairman of the University of Toronto’s department of speechlanguage pathology, is pleased with the movie’s realistic portrayal of stuttering treatment, which is in no way a miracle cure. “When you watch

the movie you can see that there are moments and times where King George is more fluent than other times,” he says.

While the psychological aspects of stuttering are well-represented in the film, De Nil cautions viewers that the onscreen story of King George VI played itself out in the 1930s. The belief at that time was that stuttering was a psychological problem. whereas now it’s believed to have a neurological component as well.

That said, The King’s Speech is doing a tremendous job of increasing awareness of the realities of the disorder, says Wendy Duke, founder of Columbia Speech and Language Services.

“Stuttering is something that it’s an equal opportunity disorder in that able-bodied people, people with a disability, smart people, people who struggle academically, it’s really distributed across the population.”

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Stuttering frustration can cause depression From page 3

assistant professor in the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia),

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including stuttering, aphasia, accent reduction, brain injury rehabilitation, autism, speech delay and Parkinson’s. Services are also conducted in a variety of languages, from Cantonese to Punjabi.

Columbia offers a number of stuttering treatment programs, including ongoing group and individual sessions for people of all ages, and a spring break and summer program for children and teens.

For older youth and adults, Columbia offers intensive treatment clinics that take a long-term approach, incorporating follow-up sessions for five years, and offering refresher opportunities.

“In our program and in any successful stuttering treatment program for older kids or adults, it needs to be in a group so that you can transfer and generalize the skills to more than just your speech pathologist,” says Duke, a West Vancouver resident. “It needs to be intensive so that the gains are made quickly and you build on the momentum, and there needs to be a number of years of follow-up built into the program.”

While Columbia clients attain positive results, it takes life-long dedication to maintain fluent speech. “I don’t want it to come across that people take this course and they’re cured, because that’s not the reality for most people,” says Duke.

Maintenance work is required; as well, people are likely to have episodes where they run into disfluency. “So we’re teaching them techniques to not be overwhelmed with that psychologically and emotionally,” says Duke.

For Duke, success is achieved when clients learn techniques to control their speech and continue to practise to keep it under control.

“Success is not perfection, that’s unrealistic for any of us,” she says. “Success is significant improvement with more confidence.”

North Vancouver resident and North Shore Driving School manager Judy Briton attended one of Columbia’s intensive treatment clinics.

Having cerebral palsy as well as a stutter, she faced teasing as a child and was frustrated with her inability to speak fluently to clients.

“I was at the point where I was wanting to quit and hide in my apartment forever and never work again,” says Briton, now 48.

“People don’t realize how much it really affects a person’s life — the anxiety and the depression,” she adds.

Since becoming a client at Columbia in 2005, her ability to speak fluently has dramatically increased and she encourages others to likewise seek treatment.

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Sunday, March 27, 2011 - North Shore News - A11

Thieves target appliances Gang sets sights on vacant new homes across Lower Mainland

James Weldon

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WEST Vancouver police are issuing a warning to home sellers after a rash of break-ins in which all the major appliances have been ripped out of vacant houses.

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Between January 2010 and March 2011, four homes for sale in West Vancouver and 10 in North Vancouver have been targeted by thieves who forced their way in and hauled out everything from microwaves and fridges to washers and dryers.

The perpetrators apparently loaded the brand-new machines into a cube van or other large vehicle and took them away for resale. More than 100 similar incidents have been reported across the Low Mainland since the beginning of last year, according to police.

Not only have the thefts cost the owners — or at least their insurance companies — in terms of the replacement of lost items, but the victims have also had to pay for the damage caused in the process, said Jag Johal, a spokesman for the WVPD. “They don’t take time or have any regard for how (the appliances) are fixed to the wall,” he said. “(In some cases) they’re connected to water lines.”

This is not the first time police have seen this type of activity, said Johal. Some years ago, a crew of thieves was targeting vacant homes in West Vancouver and other municipalities in a similar way, but when those individuals were caught, the breakins stopped, he said. The thefts only just started up again last year.

It’s not clear whether the current wave is the work of a single group, however.

“That’s the suspicion, but we have to confirm that with all the evidence,” said Johal. “It’s hard to say at this point.”

Investigators are also unsure how the thieves are choosing their targets, although it’s possible they are going to open houses to case them, looking at the types of appliances available and establishing whether or not the house has an active alarm, he said.

“They do their homework,” said Johal. “They know what they’re getting.”

So far, no one has seen the thieves at work, so investigators have no suspect or vehicle description to circulate.

While police wait for a break in the case, the owners of vacant homes should take steps to protect themselves, said Johal. Homeowners should install alarms and ensure real estate agents activate them every time they leave the premises; meet neighbours and ask them to alert them to suspicious activity; ensure exterior lighting is on at night; collect newspapers and mail from outside the house; have someone check the property regularly; and if the home has cameras, activate them.

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BRIGHT LIGHTS

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29th annual Seycove Auction, Dinner and Dance

Wendy Shoemaker, Doug Smith, Andrea Conn, Ashley McCallum and Anne Wakelin team up for a photo.

Karen Lamare and Erica Hughs enjoy the festivities.

Megan and Neil Lloyd show off their costumes.

The Seycove family of schools presented the 29th annual Seycove Auction, Dinner and Dance March 5 at Parkgate Community Centre. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme was Super Heroes and Villains, seeing those in attendance dress accordingly. Funds raised support the four schools in the area â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Seycove secondary and Cove Cliff, Dorothy Lynas and Sherwood Park elementaries.

Brad and Kim Aelicks arrive in Dog the Bounty Hunter garb.

Deanna Barlow and Michelle Lewon show their support.

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Sunday, March 27, 2011 - North Shore News - A13

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ANDREW Morgan (right) gathers with a group of participants in 9in9 starting April 1 at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

BRITISH ARMY MEMBER SHOWS SUPPORT FOR INJURED PEERS BY RUNNING NINE MARATHONS IN NINE DAYS

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AN Argyle secondary grad currently stationed in Afghanistan has committed to running nine marathons in nine days in support of wounded peers.

Andrew Morgan, a 25-year-old North Vancouver native serving as a Lance Corporal for the British Army, plans to run the marathons with a group of other sol-

diers at Camp Bastion in Southern Afghanistan.

The event, 9in9, was organized in honour of Morgan’s friend Josh Boggi, a United Kingdom resident who was injured while working on a high-risk search team earlier this year. “(He) stepped on an improvised explosive device on New Year’s Day,” Morgan told the North Shore News in an email. “He lost both his legs and an arm.”

Boggi was part of 9 Parachute Engineer Squadron, hence the runners’ interest in the number nine. A show of support for Boggi’s recovery, the nine-day marathon

event also seeks to raise money for other British soldiers injured while on duty. All funds raised will go to Help for Heroes, a U.K.-based charity helping members of the British Armed Forces who’ve been wounded in current conflicts. “Josh was a good friend to most of the guys doing the run, but it’s not just for him, it’s for all the other soldiers that have been injured while serving,” says Morgan. “He just made it feel closer to home. Luckily this is the only person that I’ve known well that has been See Fundraiser page 16

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That means individuals can take to state parks or even their own neighborhoods to try snowshoeing. Also, while some sports may induce a little anxiety the first time around, the simplicity of snowshoeing can make the sport immediately enjoyable. All one really needs to know is how to walk and how to properly align their feet into the shoes.

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The group of runners, most of whom are engineers, hope to finish their operations by the end of the month and run the marathons April 1-9, around Camp Bastion either early evening or early morning.

“It’s starting to get too hot during the day so we have to do it when it’s a bit cooler,” says Morgan.

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Notice of Public Information Meeting Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities received First Reading on March 7th for its application to develop a seniors residence on the former Wetmore Motors site.

The Public Hearing has been scheduled for April 4th.

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and one guest suite. The building’s Marine Drive frontage will include 5,000 square feet of retail space and a 3,000-square-foot adult educational facility.

Meeting space will also be available for community use. Residents in the building will be offered meals, housekeeping, activities and other services suited to seniors. These services will be provided in amenity spaces including a dining room, a variety of lounges and assembly spaces. The proposed building is a curved seven storey structure with the top two floors stepped back. The proposal includes 40 public underground parking stalls in addition to the 65 parking stalls

required for the seniors building component. The residence will be built to the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standard.

If you wish further information or clarification regarding this proposal please contact: Julie Marzolf at (604) 742-3211 or at jmarzolf@marzolf.ca District of West Vancouver Planning Department, Geri Boyle, Manager of Community Planning at (604) 925-7055, gboyle@ westvancouver.ca Additional plans, technical reports and background information can be viewed at: http://www. seniorsonmarine.ca

GOOD HEALTH Sunday, March 27, 2011 - North Shore News - A17

Sat NamYoga releases your spiritual power

Yoga has become an increasingly popular discipline for those looking to both maximize their fitness, wellness and wholeness.

North Vancouver’s Sat Nam Yoga, at #203- 106 West 1st Street, is gaining a growing following among those looking to move beyond the physical and maximize their spiritual potential.

Robert Blair is an Ashtanga Yoga teacher at Sat Nam and student of the Kundalini path. The words Sat Nam translate as‘the truth is who I am’.

“Yoga magnifies our capacity to enjoy and accept life as it comes,” says Robert.“Sat Nam Yoga Centre has been helping people do just that by leading Yoga practices in lower Lonsdale daily since 2006. We unite the Yoga worlds by offering a‘full spectrum’of contemporary Yoga disciplines, regular events, workshops, specialty classes and healing therapies. We are established as North Vancouver’s hub for Kundalini Yoga.”

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“We cue you to open, strengthen and heal your body, heart and mind. Sat Nam‘keeps it small’ our numbers are comfortable for each class; people appreciate that. This place is for every body.”

For those looking to truly go beyond and reach within, Sat Nam offers a range of additional programs.

“Sat Nam enables a shift into the true magic of the human experience,” says Robert.“To make sure that this happens we offer regular‘fundamentals’programs in meditation, Kundalini, postural core awareness and developing your intuition. Each full moon we lead 31 minute chanted meditation and every Wednesday we lead early morning Kundalini sadhana; when Yoga and

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In Mexico last year they found Luna, “a Mexican rescue dog,” says Sharon. “No, no,” David clarifies, “Luna is a rescue dog from Mexico.” Luna is part of the family, her care shared between the two, with Sharon taking on training and David in charge of walks.

After David was diagnosed, the couple educated themselves about resources and community programs, linking up with

the Alzheimer Society of B.C. and the North Shore Family Caregiver Support Program where they learned about North Shore Memories and More. The program, designed for caregivers and care receivers, or care partners to participate in together, aligns with the active and involved life David and Sharon have created for themselves. Information, resources and referrals are provided throughout the program but memory is not the main focus.

Every aspect of the program is designed to stimulate and encourage participation. A sense of humour, for example, is not lost along with memory, though it may change.

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“This is a happy story for us,” says Sharon. “Memories and More brought laughter and lightness to our lives. It brought us new friends and new experiences to share with them. Our hope is that by sharing our story, it will spark an interest in others to try this.”

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Many of us have a few things — flashlight, candles, a couple of bottles of water — stashed where they are easy to grab, but few people are prepared to go several days without communication services, electricity or running water.

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Paulette Mossop, education coordinator for the North Shore Emergency Management Office, said the office has been fielding plenty of calls in the past two weeks from concerned residents wondering about the likelihood of a disaster here and how to prepare for it.

Her first suggestion is for residents to visit the website of the North Shore Emergency Management Office, www.nsemo.org. There they will find an abundance of information on how to prepare for an emergency, what to do when disaster strikes, on emergency preparation courses offered by the office and even what the likelihood of certain types of disasters is for our community.

“We’ve had a lot of calls from residents who are concerned about the possibility of a tsunami,” said Mossop. “We actually have a very low risk here.”

A tsunami report titled “Tsunami Hazard to North and West Vancouver, B.C.” was prepared by Dr. John Clague and Dr. John Orwin of Simon Fraser’s Centre for Natural Hazard Research in December 2005. As well as the barrier that Vancouver Island provides, we don’t have the same kind of topography as the low-lying areas of Japan that were hardest hit by the tsunami. The report itself, as well as a summary of it, are available for reading on the website.

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What do you need? Check out the clippable list of basics below, but ultimately, it will depend on your family. “The bottom line is that people have to be prepared to take care of themselves for a week.

That’s everyone’s personal responsibility,” said Mossop. “We have to allow the first responders to do what they need to do: clear roads and look for survivors.”

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costs associated with that accident – this is akin to having a car accident without any insurance. There will always be an underground or ‘gypsy’ market and it is up to the government and the construction associations to ensure the public are aware of the multitude of dangers of dealing in this economy.”

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2011 Gardening Trends AILSA FRANCIS CHECKS OUT THE LATEST IN GARDENING DELIGHTS, FROM BLACK PETUNIAS TO URBAN FARMING.

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Black petunias, early blooming day lilies and a march of shrubs sporting new colours and more compact dimensions are all coming to the marketplace. Some will prove themselves over time and others will fall by the wayside, but whatever their ultimate benefit, yearly introductions are here to stay.

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Taking the challenge When it comes to saving the planet, every step counts.

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“You think, my goodness, turning off one light bulb is just a small little thing and the problems we’re facing are much, much bigger than that, but I think they make a little bit of difference,” said Nancy Forde, following the family’s one-month challenge. “If everyone were to do that, it could make quite a large difference.”

This year, Nancy and Cameron Forde, both Simon Fraser University science professors, and their two children were selected to represent Greater Vancouver in a Canada-wide energy-saving challenge. In its second year, the Great Green Challenge — sponsored by Whirlpool Canada — provided three families from across the country with all-new energy saving appliances and followed each family’s quest to reduce their energy consumption by ten per cent during the month of February.

“We thought it would be really interesting to challenge ourselves,” said Nancy. After adding another storey to their Emerald Drive bungalow and the birth of their son last year, the family was looking for ways to run their larger home in a more sustainable way.

“We weren’t sure if we would be able to reduce at all because the footprint of our house was twice the size,” she said.

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When the challenge began Feb. 1, the Fordes started making small changes to their daily routines. They replaced their light bulbs with fluorescent lights, they cut back on laundry and especially the dryer, and they lowered the temperature of their new heated floors that were installed during renovations last year.

Discovering easy ways to cut back on unnecessary waste, the family is motivated to continue reducing their footprint. “We didn’t set out to do things that we weren’t going to be able to stick with. We wanted to make changes that we will be able to continue,” she said.

The average Metro Vancouver resident produces 156 garbage “We didn’t set out bags worth of trash to do things that we each year, more than “That was pretty exciting to weren’t going to be able half of which ends us,” Nancy said. “We were to stick with. We wanted up in the landfill. able to reduce . . . in spite to make changes that As part of its Zero of a much larger house.” we will be able to Waste Challenge, continue.”

Metro Vancouver aims But for Nancy, the challenge to divert 70 per cent of provided not just money-saving the region’s landfill-bound tricks but also an “environmental garbage by 2015. awareness” that the family hopes to continue. Aside from reducing electricity But for Nancy, the Great Green Challenge use, the Fordes started taking public transit has demonstrated the power that each more often and packing reusable plates individual person can make when a when they went on day trips. conscious effort is made to reduce waste and cut back on energy use.

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House styles 101 As the old adages go, “a man’s home is his castle” and “there’s no place like home.”

What type of house a person chooses to call home can say a lot about his or her personality and priorities.

There are many different types of housing styles, each with unique features, benefits and detriments. When shopping for a new home or thinking about updating a current place, it can be wise to keep housing style in mind before signing on any dotted lines or making any renovations.

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Colonial homes were developed during the colonial period of the United States and remain one of the most popular housing styles to date. Colonials generally have a distinct square or rectangular shape and are often large and stately. Main rooms are on the first floor of the house, while bedrooms are on the second level. A centre-hall colonial can have a staircase or hallway splitting the home into two distinct sides.

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Split-level

A split-level home is a multi-leveled dwelling with a small staircase that leads up from the main level and another that leads down from the main level. A side split may be visible when looking at the front of the home, where a back split may only show when looking at the side elevation of the home. A bi-level home only has two levels.

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Craftsman

Craftsman homes came out of the Arts and Crafts movement that spurred architectural styles as well as furniture design. Craftsman homes are built from stone or stucco and are meant to blend in with the surrounding landscape. Oftentimes one storey, the Craftsman may have one dormer over the roof and feature thick pillars on a front porchway.

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A contemporary or “modern” house has little ornamentation and may be asymmetrical in design. It uses glass extensively and other modern building materials. Contemporary homes are often designated by sleek, unadorned lines.

Cape Cod

Cape Cod homes were built from the 1930s through CONTEMPOR ARY the 1950s. The style originated in colonial New England, but then spread to other areas of the country. The homes are usually compact and feature a centre hall layout with rooms branching on either side of the hallway. Capes may be one- or two-storey dwellings with small rooms and dormers that protrude out of a sharply pitched roof.

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THE quality of food has never been more important than it is today, as Sven Freybe, CEO and president of Freybe Gourmet Foods, knows all too well.

Freybe took over the deli meat producing company from his father, Henning, in 2009 and represents the sixth generation of his family to run it. Founded in Germany in 1844, Freybe Gourmet Foods prepares more than 160 varieties of sausage, ham and other meat products and has won numerous awards for its delicacies.

“A lot of what sets it apart is really the care to the ingredients,” says Freybe, who grew up in West Vancouver.

“The processes with which we make it are really true to what an artisan approach still is in Europe, but it’s definitely a handmade product.”

According to Freybe, spices and special wood chips are imported from Germany to smoke the meats.

“There have definitely been changes made to recipes according to trends and so forth but they’re very true to the original selection and the original taste profile.”

Biggest sellers include an air-dried, cured salami and traditional European wieners.

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THIS week, Spain is in the spotlight centre stage, as the wine world descends en masse for the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival.

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Spain’s truly unique region is Galicia, in the northwest.

Here, in Rias Baixas, Albariño is king. It can be wonderfully aromatic, usually with firm acidity and sometimes with a touch of mineral, which makes it the perfect match for the wealth of seafood Galicia has to offer.

Best way to check them out, glass in hand, is at the festival’s International Tastings, which in addition to featuring leading sherry producers also offers The Caseta, where you can check out a wide variety of sherrystyle wines with some classic tastes, such as Iberico ham and tapas.

Perhaps that’s the most important message to take away: Spanish wines are really all about food. While France and Italy may get all the glory, region for region, the Spanish

are just as passionate about their cuisine.

One more often overlooked fact: Spain’s strict production laws require wines to be aged significantly before release: Three years for Reserva, five years for Gran Reserva —meaning, again, more value for the consumer.

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WHEN you’ve got it all, it can be easy to take things for granted.

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As a tourism destination, British Columbia is world class, boasting natural beauty, urban offerings and a host of cultural experiences. On a B.C. vacation, you can get away from it — or find it — all.

Thanks to countless best-in-the-world rankings and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the international community is well aware of what the province has to offer.

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PETS

Teaching self-control

MY dogs are entering their pre-senior years, so thoughts of destructive behaviour are the furthest thing from my mind when they’re alone at home.

through a phase of canine destruction. This phase is generally relegated to the adolescent puppy stage, between four to nine months of age, but not always.

Dogs become destructive for a few reasons. The first So you can imagine my is boredom. When young surprise when I came through dogs are left at home for the front door the other day long periods of time and to see a mild reorganization allowed full run of the home, Canine Connection destruction can be the end of my home.

The bathroom garbage result. It may start out with Joan Klucha was strewn through the a dog playfully pawing at the hallway, candles that usually fringes of a carpet, but as it rest on windowsills were on becomes more stimulated in the ground and my beloved Zumi greeted its state of boredom, that playful pawing turns me with a happy smile and wagging tail, and into a full on tug-of-war with Persia! (The presented me a reusable shopping bag. carpet, that is) What happened? I have no idea. It could I have always recommended that dog have been a squirrel eating at the bird feeder owners keep their dogs segregated or that sits just outside the back windows. It somehow confined to smaller areas within could have been a persistent person knocking the home when they are out, especially when on the door while I was out. It could have they are young, until they have proven that been anything. I am grateful that this is a they are able to maintain self control within rare incident and my dogs were not hurt by that small area. These segregated areas can be whatever caused them to turn cuckoo for a few made by placing a baby gate at the doorway moments. of a laundry room or kitchen or by purchasing It’s true, part of canine ownership involves an exercise pen, which is a portable fence-like letting go of some your personal stuff in See Use page 41 the name of your dog’s training, as they go

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A Magical Afternoon: Argyle student Brianna Carlson along with magical professionals will perform magic feats and make balloon creations while you eat lunch Sunday, March 27, 11:30 a.m-3 p.m. at East Side Mario’s Restaurant in the Lonsdale Quay, 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. There will also be a silent auction. Proceeds from the event will go to the Lions Gate Hospital. Reservations: 604-983-0123.

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PETS

Use a confined space to discourage destructive acts From page 39

containment system. Within that confined area, the dog is supplied with a few toys — not a whole whack of toys, but a few favourites.

The goal is not necessarily to keep your dog entertained within that space, but rather to use the confined space as a tool of teaching self-control.

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drywall. Remember: a tired dog is a good dog.

Another reason dogs may be destructive is out of what is called separation anxiety.

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put itself into neutral and be passive and calm. Who does not want that from their dog when they are left at home?

The other reason dogs become destructive is lack of exercise. Dogs who are not exercised daily develop cabin fever! As humans, we have all experienced cabin fever at some point, be it after a prolonged illness or snow days or week long visits from in-laws. All we want to do is get out, move, stretch, but away from the

destroying areas of exit, such as window and door frames, as the dog tries to get out!

Hiring an experienced trainer to show you how to

provide proper leadership, exercise and mental stimulation for your dog will help them through this phase of their development.

Starting April 1, 2011, Metro Vancouver's North Shore Transfer Station is open until 7 p.m. on weekdays.

To help alleviate the peak-time line-ups at the 30 Riverside Drive waste drop-off and transfer facility, and to better serve the residents of the North Shore, we have convenient new operating hours for spring, summer and into the fall.

From April 1 until October 31, 2011, the North Shore Transfer Station (including the green waste drop-off site) will be open: Weekdays: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Weekends: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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You can access the transfer station via Amherst Avenue and Spicer Road.

For details on the North Shore Transfer Station call 604-929-5471, or to learn about solid waste management and other public disposal facilities visit our website at www.metrovancouver.org.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

PARALYMPIAN LAUREN WOOLSTENCROFT

Skier looks back on golden year Vancouver 2010 got message out, says NV athlete

Manisha Krishnan mkrishnan@nsnews.com

IT’S been a year since the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games but Lauren Woolstencroft is still on top of the world. The country, at least.

Follow updates for North Shore sports 24/7 on Twitter @ NSNewsSports.

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Woolstencroft, who won five gold medals in alpine skiing events at last year’s games, has continued to receive glowing recognition over the past year. She was named to the Globe and Mail’s Sports Power 50 List and was designated as one of the most influential women of 2010 by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity.

She was also deemed B.C.’s best for Sport BC’s Best of B.C. Award, something that’s means a lot because it was voted on by the public.

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AT the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, Lauren Woolstencroft won golds in Giant Slalom, Slalom, Super-G, Downhill Skiing and Super Combine.

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From page 42 “Those are always really fun. It really goes to show how many people are really into Paralympic sport and it really piqued their interest that they’re getting out and actually voting for me versus names like Maëlle Ricker and Ashleigh McIvor,” says Woolstencroft.

Since the Games, Woolstencroft has retired from competition and is working full time as an engineer at BC Hydro, a decision she’s happy with. But it’s hard to believe a full year has gone by, she says.

“It’s been busy. . . It’s been fun to sort of go around and meet lots of different people and (there have been) lots of different requests to see the medals and hear about the experience, so I’ve had the opportunity to share that a little bit.”

Vancouver’s Paralympic Games had its fair share of media coverage — something that Woolstencroft hadn’t seen as much of at the two previous Games she attended.

“We’ve been kind of lucky to get some newspaper articles, but rarely kind of front page news or anything. There’s been some TV coverage in the past but usually taped delay, like a couple weeks later kind of thing,” she explains.

In contrast, last year’s events made front-page news and some live TV coverage.

Woolstencroft was widely recognized for her golds in Giant Slalom, Slalom, SuperG, Downhill Skiing and Super Combine, which set a record for most golds won by a Canadian at a Paralympic Games.

“It definitely got the message out there and it’s been amazing just to see in the year how many people remember my name and know about the Paralympics and remember the experience, so it definitely had a far reach,” she says.

Her hometown crowd has been very supportive, she adds.

“It’s been great. The people from North Van are proud of people who live in North Van, for sure, so that’s been kind of cool just to see that kind of outreach and how people really get connected within the community.”

Lately, Woolstencroft says she’s been enjoying time for herself and taking a break from the hectic travelling that comes with competitive sports. She even occasionally gets a chance to ski.

“Although it’s probably the least I’ve skied in a really long time,” she says. “It’s been a nice change.”

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CULBERT - Shirley Mae Jan. 12, 1922 – Jan. 26, 2011 Shirley passed away peacefully in her 89th year at Lion’s Gate Hospital in N. Vancouver with family by her side. She was Born in Telkwa, B.C. to parents Joe and Sarah Bourgon, predeceased by her husband Maurice, sister Tona, brother Arthur and brother in law Jack.

She is survived by her sons Bill and Barry, granddaughter’s Cindy and Ledis, grandchildren Shirley Marie, Joe, Cody and Alfredo, sister Janet, brother in law Gordon and nieces Joann, Patricia, Jane, Katy and Tona.

She will be greatly missed by all her family and friends. She will be fondly remembered for her love of gardening, canning fruits, playing bingo with friends, fishing and sun tanning with her sons and family in Cayman. Shirley loved life and travelled many continents. Raised on the family farm on the banks of the Bulkley River near Smithers, she moved to Vancouver in her early years, became a hairdresser and owned her own salon, later marrying and raising her sons in Alberta but finally returning to her loved homeland of B.C where she lived out the last half of her life. She was an inspiration to all and loved by everyone who knew her. Sincere appreciation is extended to the staff of the Lion’s Gate Hospital, Hospice and especially Dr. Hejdankova for the wonderful care they provided.

SOANES - Arthur William July 30, 1920 - March 21, 2011 North Vancouver, B.C. Art passed away peacefully on March 21, 2011 at the age of 90 years at Lions Gate Hospital Palliative Care (7 West). He was pre-deceased by his parents Eva and Arthur, brother Reg (Frieda), sister Dorothy, and wife Phyllis Dorothy (Scouler) {Jan. 1, 2002} whom he was married to for 54 years. Art is survived by his three sons and their wives, Gavin and Wendy, Howard and Shelley, and Scott; and his six grandchildren, Marla (Dwayne), Evan (Megan), Ryan (Esther), Russell (Dana), Jordan (Milene), Courtenay (Dustin); and his two greatgrandchildren, Jake and Logan (Jordan and Milene’s kids). Art was born in Nottingham, England and used to play as a child in Sherwood Forest. He emigrated with his parents and siblings and lived in Regina for many years before coming to North Vancouver. Art was a Canadian War Veteran and served in World War 2. Art worked as a Mechanic at Hammond’s Garage under the Burrard Street Bridge, as a Sawyer on Annacis Island, as a Maintenance Man at Pacific Press (Sun and Province), and as a Yard Man at Irly Bird Lumber in North Vancouver. Art was a very talented Woodworker, which he did as a hobby. His children and grandchildren continue to marvel at his wooden boats, tables, Parson’s benches, and Adirondack chairs. Art loved the Ocean and spent many hours on his boats. He was a founding member of the Seymour Power Squadron and a member of the old Vancouver Cruising Club. Art spent many hours in his garden and up until recently produced many fruits, vegetables, and flowers. In his latter years he was an avid badminton player and was involved with a seniors group out at Parkgate Centre. Art stayed in the family home on East Keith Road in North Vancouver from 1956 until March 7, 2011 when he entered L.G.H. for a mild heart attack. Art’s family would like to thank Dr. Markle, Dr. Hariton, Dr. Lakha, and the staff at L.G.H. - Palliative Care (7 West) for their compassionate and professional care. His end of life was calm, peaceful, and pain free which was just the way he wanted. This was a great comfort to his family. At Art’s request, there will be no Service.

ELLERBY - Evelyn Marie (Nee Doerr) Sept 25 1928 - Mar 17 2011 Born in Chesley, Ontario.

Predeceased by parents Philip and Edna, brother Ken, husband Douglas (2009). Survived by her children Judith, Susan (Gary) Timothy, Kathryn, granddaughter Candice, siblings, Carman (Shirley), Paul and Mary, many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Mom enjoyed working in her gardens, taking trips to Vancouver Island and day trips to Lynden, Wash. We would have loved more time with you, Mom. So it’s with the heaviest of hearts we say goodbye to our Mom and best friend. Thanks for always being there, Mom. We will always have your memory close.

At Evelyn’s request there will be no service. Please consider a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation BC, Yukon in Evelyn’s memory.

HADDAWAY (Harness) - Jean It is with great sadness that I announce the peaceful passing of My mother Jean Haddaway formally of Victoria, BC at the age of 83, Jean passed away in North Vancouver in the company of her family, Jean was known to many as the Blossom shop lady from Edgemont Village, she and her husband ran the business together for more than 30 years, Peter passed away in 2008. Left to cherish her memory is her daughter Allison; Kelvin & Grandson Thomas, as well as many cherished family and friends. The Service will be held on April 11th, 2011 at Boal Chapel and Memorial Gardens 1505 Lillooet Road North Vancouver at 10am. All family and friends are welcome to attend.

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Sadly missed by sons Paul, David & Lyndon & families. A memorial service will be held April 1st 2011 at NLUC 3380 Lonsdale Ave North Vancouver at 1pm.

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Survived by wife Jessie, daughter Sandra Trotter (Colin) son Brian ( Wilma)grandsons Wyatt, Tanner, Cale, Alex, niece Diane and her family and many cousins.

Predeceased by parents John and Mary, brother Peter and sisters Ann and Alice. Stan moved to North Vancouver at an early age from the family farm in Saskatchewan where he met and married Jessie and together they built their home. He worked for over 40 years at Burrard Dry Dock. Stan enjoyed his garden, fishing, camping and exploring BC. He was proud of his grandsons and attended all their sports. Stan would do anything for his neighbours ,was well loved in the community and will be missed by all who knew him. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday April 2, 2011, 2-4pm at the Holiday Inn & Suites, 700 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver.

STADDON - William Robert (Bob) Sept. 22, 1932 - March 12, 2011 Bob was an avid sports fan who was employed by the West Van Parks (Ambleside) for over 30 years. He is survived by his wife Reona, sons Bill and Bob, daughters Bonnie (Gino), Barb (Russ), grandchildren Cole, Billie, Russell and Ty, sister Georgina and many nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by parents Bill and Artell, sisters Eunice and Maxine, nephew Myles. Bob was much loved and will be sadly missed.

No service by request.

MURRAY - Ralph Edmund August 29, 1939 - March 22, 2011 After a brief battle with esophageal cancer, Ralph has reached the 19th hole. Youngest son of Dr. S. Stewart & Doris Murray (deceased); he leaves his love of 48 years, Carole (nee Crosson) to mourn his passing.

He was a remarkable, loving father to Glenn (Sarah) & Leigh (Alan Tynan) and a proud grandad to Landon, Kirstin, Savannah, Amy & Conner. Ralph also leaves behind a large extended family to whom being a brother, uncle and great uncle was such a source of satisfaction.

Born and raised in West Point Grey, graduating from UBC in 1966, he found his calling as a teacher. He spent 33 wonderful and challenging years at Lord Nelson Elementary (Vancouver) before selling the family home in Lynn Valley to retire to Halfmoon Bay on the Sunshine Coast in 2002. Ralph was a proud 28 year member of Canadian Power & Sail Squadron as well as United States Power Squadron. He enjoyed summers cruising the waters of the Pacific Northwest aboard “Murrmaid” and golfing at Sechelt Golf & Country Club. A special thank you to Dr. Lakha and the wonderful nurses at Lions Gate Hospital Palliative Care and the North Shore Hospice – you made a tough time better.

A Celebration of Life will be held at St. Andrews United Church, 1044 St. Georges Ave, North Vancouver on Sunday, April 3rd at 1pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the CPS Foundation c/o 26 Golden Gate Crt. Scarborough ON M1P 3A5, The Lions Gate Hospice Society or a charity of your own choice.

TESTA, ANTONIO (TONY) Dec. 24, 1938 - March 22, 2011 After a courageous battle with cancer and dementia, a dear husband, father, nonno, brother and uncle passed away peacefully with family at his side on March 22, 2011 at the age of 72 years. He is predeceased by his father Vincenzo and mother Serafina and two sisters Mariantonia and Lucia. He will be sadly missed by his loving wife Lucia; sons Enzo (Catherine) and Giovanni (Ann); grandchildren Marina and Matteo; sisters (living in Italy) Michelina and Filomena, as well as brother-inlaws, sisterinlaws, many nieces, nephews and friends in Canada and Italy.

Special thank-you to the caring Doctors and Nurses at Lions Gate Hospital, Pallative Care Unit, North Vancouver. Evening Prayers will be held Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 7pm and Funeral Mass will be held Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 11am. Both services will be held at St. Edmund’s Parish, 545 Mahon Avenue, North Vancouver. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the BC Cancer Foundation would be appreciated.

FOSTER - Sheila Neil April 17, 1936 - March 17, 2011 It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our Mom, Sheila. Predeceased by her husband Tom, she leaves behind son Steve (Annette), the loves of her life her grandchildren Keanna and Alisha, her daughter Ruth (Mike). Also missing Sheila is our extensive extended family who were instrumental in helping Mom live out her days in her own home. Born in Glasgow, she called North Vancouver home since 1967. Her association with the North Shore Medical Office Assistants and in later years the Lynn Valley Seniors Association kept her busy and happy. A memorial service will be held on Thursday March 31 at 2pm at the First Memorial Boal Chapel 1505 Lillooet Rd North Vancouver.

Donation if desired may be made to the LVSA or a charity of your choice.

PATTERSON – E. L. (Bud) July 19, 1921 – March 18, 2011 Eric Leslie (BUD) Patterson passed away peacefully on March 18, 2011. Although saddened by our loss we rejoice knowing that he has now been reunited with his beloved wife, Florence, his parents Mary & Harold and his other family members and friends who greeted him at heaven’s doors. Dad had a passion for life - his family and friends meant everything to him. He was loving, kind and always giving. He had a great 90 years of keeping busy and enjoying life. Loving memories will be held by his children Lynn and Cal (Anne, Jesyka) He will be missed dearly by his brother Allan (Lorraine).

His love, guidance & support will be treasured by his grandson’s Ryon (Rob) & Connor. His ‘fatherly’ ways will be remembered by his nephews and nieces and all our friends who called him ‘Dad’. Having served proudly in the Navy (WWII) Bud lived his last 2 years at Col. Belcher Vet’s Residence – Strathcona who the family would like to thank for all their wonderful care – Dad was very happy living there. He lived his life well…he loved and laughed always! A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, April 16, 2011 from 11:00 to 2:00 p.m. at The Royal Canadian Legion # 264 – 1910 Kensington Road N.W. Calgary, AB. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Calgary Health Trust, Vets’ Angels Program c/o Ewan Cameron, #145, 251 Midpark Blvd. S.E. Calgary, Alberta T2X 1S3 403-257-0875 vetangel@telus.net or If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to The Alzheimer Society of Calgary, Suite 201, 222 – 58th Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB T2H 2S3, Telephone: (403) 290-0110, www.alzheimercalgary.com. You may forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com.

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PAYNE - Margaret Ethelyne 1915 - 2011 To know Margaret was to love her. Surrounded by family and dear friends, our beloved Margaret passed away peacefully on March 22, 2011 at Fischer Place, 100 Mile House. She was born September 10, 1915 in Edmonton, Alberta. Margaret is survived by her daughter Ruth, granddaughters Chloe and Julie, sister Beryl, nieces Carol, Carolyn, and Katie, and nephews Bob and Dennis. Margaret is predeceased by her devoted husband Harry, her mother Ethel Watt, and her father Alex Alexander. A generous, loving and artistic woman, Margaret will be greatly missed. Margaret’s determination and immense love of life led her to live each day to its fullest. She will be fondly remembered for her fabulous cooking, her love of gardening, her devotion to her church, and her sweet hugs and kisses. In addition to her many enjoyable years as a Manager with the original Murchie’s Tea and Coffee Company, Margaret used her incredible work ethic to improve the lives of others. She devoted her time, wages, and energy to charity and community. Margaret was a committed supporter of her missionary friends throughout Africa and Asia, where she sent love parcels of essentials on a monthly basis for 30 years.

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Her eldest son David had predeceased her. Joanne was for many years a well respected special needs teacher with the West Vancouver School Board.

She was a prolific reader and a connoisseur of good films and theatre, and she pursued a plethora of academic interests.

She travelled extensively during her life, and spent time in Africa, Europe, the U.S. and Asia. India was one of her favourite destinations. The family wish to thank sincerely those who cared for Joanne while she was with us and during her final days. At Joanne’s request, there will be no funeral. Donations in Joanne’s name to the North Shore Hospice would be appreciated in lieu of flowers. A gathering to honour Joanne’s life will be held on 2 April 2011. For details on venue and times, please send an email to: joannecondolence@gmail.com

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by Michelle at 'Deborah’s Place' in Edgemont Village!

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Ambleside Community Orchestra Generations Concert: Classical Orchestral music Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 pm St. Andrews United Church 1044 St. Georges Avenue, North Vancouver Admission by donation ($10-$15) Information 604 922 1035

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Lost & Found

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General Employment

Found~ in the Classifieds!

BOOKKEEPER Full-time Bookkeeper required for Property Management firm. Duties include Accounts Receivable and Payable, Financial Statement Preparation and payroll.

Intermediate level Excel required. Excellent working environment and full training on Accounting software provided.

Please email resume to mgale@stratawest.com EXPERIENCED BOOKKEEPER Req for growing North Van Bookkeeping Firm; F/T; familiar w/ MS Office, Simply & Quickbooks; MUST be able to work with minimal supervision; compensation commensurate w/ exp; email resume & salary expectation to: anne_advantage@shawbiz.ca.

No phone calls please. We will only contact short listed candidates.

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Beauticians/ Barbers

CHAIRS & room for rent in high end salon in Lower Lonsdale.

Parking avail. Call 604-551-3038 STYLIST WITH clientel to lease chair in Ambleside area, West Van. 604-908-5942

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LABORATORY ASSISTANT

Acme Analytical Laboratories (Vancouver), a premier BC mining laboratory, is looking to fill various Laboratory Assistant positions in Vancouver. Must be able to handle up to 40 lbs as some heavy manual labor may be required. Experience in a lab environment an asset but training will be provided.

Starting wage of approximately $12 (combination of base hourly rate and daily production bonus).

Detailed descriptions of the various positions are available on Acme’s website:

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Interested parties should submit resume and cover letter by email as instructed on the website.

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Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General

NO COST TO PARTICIPANTS

Police Board Appointment

Funded through the Canada – B.C. Labour Market Development Agreement.

The Solicitor General is seeking part-time volunteers to serve on the West Vancouver Vancouver Police Police Board.

Board.

Call 604-984-7630 www.ywcajobseeker.org

As you must: As aa police police board board member, member, you must: ●● reside reside in in the the Municipality Municipality of of West West Vancouver Vancouver undergo undergo aa criminal criminal record record check check and and personal personal suitability suitability panel panel interview interview ●● be be prepared up to 25 hours to fulfill fulfill board board duties. duties. The The term term for for this this prepared to to commit commit up to 25 hours aa month month to appointment maximum of appointment is is one one year year and and may may be be renewed renewed up up to to aa maximum of six six years. years. This This is is an Order in Council appointment. an Order in Council appointment.

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SUNRISE OF LYNN VALLEY

Recognized as a North Shore best business and employer, providing seniors with care and service excellence, Sunrise of Lynn Valley is seeking to augment its award-winning team with mature, experienced employees on a casual, on-call or part-time basis in the following category, commencing with mandatory paid orientation and training on April 11 to April 15 inclusive; with the possibility of future full-time employment.

Wellness Nurse (LPN) Please send your resume to our Business Office Coordinator or complete an application at: 980 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver, V7J 3V7 Phone: 604-904-1226 Take Your Pick from the

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CHIROPRACTOR’S ASSISTANT

People loving, detail oriented, self directed, multi-tasker required for busy growing practice.

Details at: PowerOnChiro.com/staff

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Hotel Restaurant

TROLLS RESTAURANT Horseshoe Bay

REAL ESTATE ADMINISTRATOR Full-time position as a Real Estate Office Administrator - North Vancouver. Previous administrative experience in real estate.

Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills. Familiarity with Adobe Suite. Send your resume to mgrcrest@telus.net

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Competitve wages, f/t & p/t positions. Experience an asset but willing to train.

Please apply in person at: 6408 Bay Street, Horseshoe Bay, West Van or call 604-921-7755 or kim@trollsrestaurant.com

Trades/Technical

ALTRACON

is hiring Carpenters $22.50 per hr, 40 hrs per week. Miminum 4 yrs experience + completed Secondary School.

Email resume to: bahman1097@gmail.com

Office Personnel

OFFICE RECEPTIONIST & SCHEDULER North Shore window covering retailer is seeking an office Receptionist & Scheduler with confident phone skills. You are fluent in English, computer savvy, outgoing, detail oriented and highly organized.

Pay is $15 per hour (+ Bonus + Benefits).

Email resume to northshoreaa@yahoo.ca

Teachers/ Instructors

PART-TIME TUTOR for 5-year old. Seeking a qualified teacher who is willing/able to teach our 5 year old (preschool) child in our home. Must have English as a first language. Only qualified candidates certified to teach or with a college degree in early childhood education or elementary education, will be considered. Must be enthusiastic, self starter who is able to develop exciting and fun, yet challenging schooling plans. Salary/Wage: Negotiable based on experience and qualifications. Must have own vehicle. Gas allowance provided.

Monday-Friday, 1-2 hours each day. Criminal background will be required. Only qualified applicants who apply with a cover letter, resume, references and a copy of their ECE certificate or equivalent will be considered.

Please reply ASAP to: westvanteacher@gmail.com

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CARPENTER SUPERVISOR Supervise & train carpenters, apprentices & laborers. Establish schedules & productivity. Resolve problems. Ensure safety standards are met. Prepare schedules/ reports. Requisition materials.

Wage: $28/hr, 40 hrs/wk, permenant. Greater Vancouver Area.

Fax: 1.866.900.2083 Woodworks Custom Developments NORTH SHORE Electrical Contractor looking for Apprentice to start immediately. Please email to: adposition@shaw.ca

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A and develops develops the the A police police board board establishes establishes goals goals as as well well as as priorities/objectives priorities/objectives and police budget for its department.

The board is also responsible for service and police budget for its department. The board is also responsible for service and policy its police department. The The board board hires hires the the Police Police Chief policy complaints complaints related related to to its police department.

Chief and conducts performance reviews of the Chief. and conducts performance reviews of the Chief.

We We are are seeking seeking two two individuals: individuals: one one with with aa legal legal background background in in labour labour and and employment employment or or administrative administrative law; law; the the other other should should have have experience experience in in business, business, financial management, administration, public affairs or community development. financial management, administration, public affairs or community development.

Both individuals should be strategic thinkers with a strong sense of community who Both individuals should be strategic thinkers with a strong sense of community who have served on a governance board. have served on a governance board.

For further information, please visit www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/police_services For further information, please visit www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/police_services or phone 250.356.6676. Please submit your expression of interest by or phone 250.356.6676. Please submit your expression of interest by 4:30 pm, April 15, 2011, to: Assistant Deputy Minister, Policing and 4:30 pm, April 15, 2011, to: Assistant Deputy Minister, Policing and Security Programs Branch, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Security Programs Branch, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, PO Box 9285 Stn Prov Gov’t, Victoria, BC V8W 9J7. Fax: 250.356.7747; PO Box 9285 Stn Prov Gov’t, Victoria, BC V8W 9J7. Fax: 250.356.7747; email: SGPoliceBoard@gov.bc.ca email: SGPoliceBoard@gov.bc.ca

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Helping people with physical, mental &/or emotional barriers find employment for over 15 years.

Telephone: (604) 990-0800 #303 Capilano Mall, 935 Marine Drive North Vancouver TTY: (604) 990-0877 • FAX: (604) 990-0888 Funded by the Provincial Government

Serving the Lower Mainland

AUDI BRAND SPECIALIST Capilano Audi requires a motivated, positive and enthusiastic professional to join our top-performing sales team at our new North Vancouver location. We are in particular seeking an Audi Brand Specialist to help address the needs of our ever-growing clientele.

Therefore, previous sales experience and fluency in Mandarin are strong assets. Also required: • A valid BC Drivers License • A clean driver’s abstract We provide an extremely competitive remuneration with six-figure income earning potential to top-performers and an opportunity for career growth within a highly established brand.

Please email your resume to: susan@capvwaudi.com No phone calls please

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Career Services/ Job Search

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ILAC APPLIANCE & VACUUMS

1825 Lonsdale Ave

604-987-7330

APT. & FULL SIZE

PINE ARMOIRE $500. 3 removable shelves, 2 pull out drawers, 6 ft x 4 ft x 2 ft. 778-866-8731 SOFA BED, double. Recently recovered. Great condition. Call 604-987-8114. Leave clear message and number. Delivery not included.

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Office Equipment and Furniture

DESK / WORK STATION 71in x 77in, $175. Reception area prints, chairs, etc. 778-835-4344

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Recycler

2 SIMMONS hide-a-beds, 1 queen, 1 double, clean. You pickup 604-980-0088 FREE FIREWOOD IN ROUNDS FOR PICKUP CALL 604-987-5557

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Daycare Centres

Wanted to Buy

COLLECTOR PURCHASING Pre 1950 toys, postcards, antiques collectible smalls, military items, sterling anything of interest, Ron. 604-313-5479 Old Books Wanted also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. (no text books/encyclopedia) I pay cash. 604-737-0530

You Want It We’ve Got It

Find Whatever You’re Looking for in the Classifieds.

Fridge, Stove, Washer, Dryer, Stacker

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CATS. Fixed - male and female rescued cats. Free to good, n/s indoor homes only. 604-513-9310

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Pet Services

AQUARIUM SERVICES Custom Aquariums & Maintenance. Residential & Com. 604-999-9949 aquaticescapes.ca

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

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Accounting/ Bookkeeping TAX RETURN FROM $35

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Dogs

Corporate & Personal Tax

H&R TAX & ACCOUNTING SERVICES BEAGLE PUPS, family raised.

Vet checked, shots incl. Ready March 30. $650.00 604-944-7799

110-445 Mountain Hwy, N. Van Email: info@hrtax.ca

604-980-9668

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BLUE NOSE Pit Bulls. 9½ weeks.

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M/F. $700/each. 778-877-5210 SHELTIE PUPS, Reg’d, shots, tatoo, dewormed, m/f, sable, fam raised. $700. 604-526-9943

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Business Opps/ Franchises

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GARAGE SALE

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604.306.5134 WASHER & dryer, Frigidaire Gallery stacking, extra large, heavy duty, $300 both, 604-985-4421

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Audio/Video/ Computers

EXC COND!!!! must see! acer computer with 3 yr warranty. 10 mnths old. call for details. 500 obo 604-983-2844

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For Sale Miscellaneous

HOSPITAL BED, electric, with mattress, brand new, $1400 obo.

Wheelchair, Quickie 2, collapsible, brand new, paid $4000 sell $2000 Call 604-987-5493 MONFROTTO TRIPAD $100.

Sears ellipitical trainer $300, hidea-bed $350, 64in mirror $100, 4 pce patio set $100 604-904-1397 WE’RE DOWNSIZING, Solid Cherrywood Desk & Credenza like new - Offers. 604-984-6509.

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Metaphysical

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I’ve heard there’s going to be a video Q. screening and panel discussion on dementia.

Can you tell me more about this?

On Saturday, April 2nd (10am to 12pm) at the Kay A. Meek Centre, the North Shore Caregiver Support Program will present a video screening of “I’m Still

Here”, an inspirational video that weaves several real-life stories to present a moving and ultimately hopeful look at dementia through the eyes of friends, family, caregivers and persons in various stages of the disease. This video diminishes fears and stigma about dementia. A “Q and A” session with health care providers and family follows.

Special guest, Lynn Jackson, who has dementia and was involved in writing “I’m Still Here” will be there. No registration required. For more information contact Helen Wait, 604-982-3313 or helen.wait@nscr.bc.ca.

Seniors’ One-Stop Information Line 604-983-3303 or 604-925-7474 North Shore Community Resources

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2 BR, Ambleside $1700 South facing, 890Sqf, Renovated, No pet/Smoking, Now 778-558-7977

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North Van Apt. Rentals

North Van Apt. Rentals

MOVE-IN BONUS

INTERNATIONAL PLAZA 1989 Marine Drive NORTH VANCOUVER

Bach, 1 Bdrms & 2 Bdrms, 2 Baths Starting from $859

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Pool, Jacuzzi, sauna & tennis courts on site.

Security & video monitoring.

On major bus route.

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144 W. 14th St MARLBOROUGH TOWER

Spacious Studios from $1050 & 1 BR from $1300 w/ balconies & spectacular views, well maintained, clean, quiet concrete highrise. Fabulous Central Lonsdale location, next to library, transit, shops & cls to schools. Sorry, no pets. Heat & hot water incls.

Call 604-983-6920 to view.

1520 CHESTERFIELD Rd. 1 br $935 No pets. 604- 990-2971 or Wkends 778-340-7406

1 BR. 2 BR. 1 or 2 bath, fp, avail now. 1 yr lease, 125 W 19th, no pets, coin wd, 778-554-0537 1 BR 21/Lonsdale, bright reno incl heat hw hardwood, ns, np, quiet adult bldg. $900. 604-904-9507 1 BR, bsmt, Edgemont, suits 1 quiet, n/s, n/p, $750 incl heat/ light, laundry, 604-986-6235 1 BR fully renod, upper Lonsdale, view, large, incl heat hw & cable, ns, np, avail now, 604-987-8807 1 BR. large, $870. mountain view, now or Apr. 1.

Gated prkg, quiet, drapes, heat incl. no pets, 1 yr lease, 321 East 2nd. 604-987-5802 1 Br. large, now or Apr 1st. $845 1 Br. large, new carpet, brick patio, $865 heat incl. quiet. drapes. gated or free prkg, no pets, 1 yr lease. 310 East 2nd, 604-904-0956

195 21st Street BELLEVUE TOWER 1 Bedroom $1425 Avail Apr 1 Prestigious bldg next to seawall.

Beautifully renovated, granite c/tops, h/w flrs, new appls, d/w new kitchen & bath rm cabinets, indoor pool. Facing NW w/ ocean views. Steps to community ctr, shops, transit & restaurants.

Sorry, No Pets.

Call 604-922-8815 to view.

2 BDRM, $1225 Central Lons, granite, , h/w flrs, balc, f/p, n/p, 160 E 20th. NOW, 604-988-3227 2 BR, 149 W. 20 St., $1050, new paint & carpet, prkg, close to Lonsdale, ns, np 604-328-4104 2 BR 2 bath, exquisite new reno upper Lonsdale, hardwood, ns, np, Apr. 1, $1320, 604-469-1148

1 BR lrg, MOVE IN ALLOWANCE, Apr 1, quiet/clean blding. Rent Starts/$975. Incls Ht/ Hw. N/P, N/S, 1 yr lse, Cable/Park extra. Call 604-985-4272 100 E. ESPLANADE 1 bdrm air con, 9 ft ceiling, 7 appl, $1400; Anson Rlty 604-783-7623

121 W 20th 1BR, main flr. hardwood, heat & hw incl’d, 1 yr lease np, $1000, now, 604-681-2521

2 BR, approx 1100sf, Nr Cap Univ reno, incld heat & hw, 1 prkg, ns, np, now, $1350, 604-921-4384 2 BR bright, hardwood, ns, np, near seabus, quiet bldg. $1300, 604-618-8338

2 bd 2 bth Concrete Bldg 995 Roche Point Towers 10th floor golf view 1146’ Walk to amenities, bus rte!

Cling to the Cove, enjoy gym hot tub storage & pkg $1795 Diana Royal LePage NS 604-657-4508

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North Van Apt. Rentals

2 BR, Central Lonsdale, Newly renovated, new appl, 2nd floor corner suite, h/w floors, heat & hotwater incl. no pets, $1500.

Dodwell Strata Management.

604-838-5020 or 604-699-5264

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North Van Apt. Rentals

BRIARS 126 E 12 St. 1 BR for April 1st.

Heat & hw incl. Prkg avail, np, ns.

604-983-2086

2 BR, Lonsdale & 19th, clean quiet small bldg, renovated suite, no pets, $1300 incl parking, TV cable, heat & hot water, now, 604-904-4420

CENTRAL LONSDALE, large updated 1 BR, cat ok $975, 604-925-8824 Vistarealty.net

2BR, Manager Special, $1045, Central Lons, patio, carpet, n/p, 160 E 20th. NOW, 604-988-3227

GREAT LOCATION! 145 West Keith Road.

326 WEST 1st St. 1 bdrm $865 & up. Nr seabus, secure prkg, no pets. Avail immed. 604-983-6916

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

Call 604-986-3356 412 - 560 Raven Woods Dr. 2 br, 1 bath, 761sf, balc. new carpets, 1yr lease, np, ns, now, $1450 Eric Royal Pacific Prop. 604-723-7368 Beautiful Large Suites 2 BR from $1340, Mar 15 or later.

Heat, h/w, prkg. Lease $300 move in allowance for 2 BR suite. 604-986-3866

A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN..

in Lynn Valley, heat & hot water incl’d, ug prkg, some apts. are reno’d, near bus, shops & parks.

1 & 2 brs, quiet area, 1 cat ok, No dogs, No smoking 604-980-9219 ★ A QUIET BUILDING★ 1Br. top 3rd flr. south view $960; 1 Br 1st flr, not ground. south direction. $925. Apr 1.

Carpets, drapes, heat, hw.

Gated prkg avail. ★ No dogs ★1 cat ok ★ Pet Policy ★604-986-7745★

Beautiful Views

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

concrete, by shops, Cat Ok

North Vancouver

604-985-2926

1 BRS $925 - $985 incl heat/hw& cable, 250 E 2nd. ns, np. now 1 yr lease large balc. 778-886-3250

Apartments & Condos

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West Van Apt. Rentals

GARDEN BACH. furnished $790 bright clean private, kitchenette, suit 1 ns, np, need car, Hwy 1 & Cypress, Immed. 604-922-3004

THE IONA 1370 Clyde Ave Available Now 1 BR Starting at $1275, Nr Ambleside beach, restaurants, shops, amenities and transit, ocean & mnt view. Bright & Spac. Newly Reno’d, h/w flrs, granite countertops and new cabinets. quiet bldg, laundry facility, prkg avail. Incls heat & hot water. Sorry No Pets. Call 604-922-4724 to View

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Apartments & Condos

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West Van Apt. Rentals

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

IMMAC. 1BR, concrete bldg, steps to Marine Dr shopping. New lights, paint, glorious oak hardwd flrs, BRIGHT. Ht, hot wtr, window coverings incl, N/p N/s, 1 yr lease, $995. Maryanne 604-926-0594 Luxury Over The Seawall!

Bach, 1 BR pool rec. rm, pet ok 2190 Bellevue Av 604-926-6287

LYNN VALLEY, 2 BR, top flr, d/w, cat ok, avail now $1275, 604-925-8824 Vistarealty.net

LYNN VALLEY, 3 BR top flr, hardwood, cat ok, $1400, May 1 604-925-8824 Vistarealty.net MOUNTAIN VILLAGE APTS. 3 BR, Apr 1, 604-988-3828 www.mountainvillage.ca MOUNTAIN VILLAGE APTS. 2 BR, Apr 1, 604-988-3828 www.mountainvillage.ca PARKRIDGE TERRACE 110 E. Keith Rd. Great location, park like setting, sauna, indoor pool. ★ Bach $925. ★ 1 Br $1095 ★ 1 Br+den $1125. ★2 Br $1395 up views storage NO PETS. 604-988-7379 www.glassmanpm.com

2 bd 2 bth & Super Views!

2 bd is a ’lofted area’ good size could be office/den too!

Updated, feels like a house!

2 decks pool , gym, sauna hot tub, tennis courts $2295 www.manderrealestate.com Royal LePage 604-926-6011

PACIFICANA 1480 Esquimalt Ave. 1 bachelor, 1 bdrm, ocean views, dw, n/p, n/s now or Apr 1st.

By appt. 604-921-7800

AMBLESIDE TOWER Studio. 1 BR & 2 BR’s avail.

Move in Bonus. 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

Dundarave, Uninterrupted View! 2 large decks over sleepy lane! Hi Ceiling, Hwd, All Updated 3 bd, den recroom / media? Perfect fornanny/ caregiver/ extended family!

Elevator &garage, now! $5495 www.manderrealestate.com Royal LePage NS 604-657-4508

Duplexes - Rent

Co-ops

NORTH BURNABY:

Pine Ridge Housing Co-op has opened its wait list for 2 BR & 3 BR Townhouses, $913 & $1072 with a $2,800 and $3,300 share purchase.

Located in quiet forest setting on Burnaby Mnt. Close to SFU, schools, transit & shopping. Enjoy the feel of country living within minutes of the city. Sorry, no subsidies available. Community involvement expected.

Download our appl form @ www.pineridgeco-op.bc.ca or send SASE to: #89, 8763 Ash Grove Cres., Burnaby, BC, V5A 4B8 Attn: Membership Ctee.

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Furnished Accommodation

★★★★★★★★★★

2 BR, Westlynn furn tv, kit & i/net. cbl, np$1350incl util 604-987-2691

A SHORT STAY Renos, family, execs, 1, 2 br p/house 604-987-2691

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Avail Apr 1st Furnished Studio Lower Lonsdale, ns, np, $1200 grandmanor.net 604-988-6082 DUNDARAVE AREA 2 br home, 2 ensuites, ocean view, close to Seawall, shops. $2500. Avail May 1 - Oct 1. 604-319-6105 HOMAWAY INNS Specializing in furn accom at reas rates. call 604-723-7820 or visit www.homawayinns.com QUALITY SHORT TERM 1 - 2 BR mtn/city view suites www.lionsgatesuites.com

Completely Renovated

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

2 BR (1070 sq. ft.)

WOODCROFT: 1, 2 BR 1 year lease. ns, np. Utils. incld.

COLLIERS - 604-926-2012

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

WOODCROFT 1 BR new carpet, paint. incl all utils, prkg, security, gym + pool $895 604-813-7312

935 Marine Drive

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

Cancer June 21-July 22: Start nothing new before April 23, Cancer. A past career, business or prestige situation, role or relationship (with parent, boss, VIP or authority) might return – and is probably – almost certainly – lucky. A “reluctant situation” or an obstacle to this area of endeavour, will climax early week. The benefit is that after the climax (which might be very subtle) you should be more free to operate ambitiously. (You might be freed from a mortgage, territorial restriction, or domestic holdback.) Mysteries and intimate desires “surface” early week. Wisdom, gentle love Wednesday-Friday.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: A former (or ongoing) legal, international, travel, cultural, love, intellectual or publishing matter might heat up in a lucky way. (Yes, an old flame might appear.) An obstacle to these might be very strong Monday, but weaken after this.

A new project in any area (especially these areas) will tend to fail, if begun before April 23. Even in ongoing things, delays, misunderstandings, indecisions and mistakes can occur, so proceed thoughtfully, alertly.

Tackle chores Sunday. Exciting meetings MondayWednesday. Intimacy, secrecy, desire, research pull you Wednesday to Friday.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: An old flame might return now or soon – and change your life. This could kick off an eight-year affair – or a lifetime love. Or not. The weeks ahead could merely brighten and deepen your love for one you’re with, and/or bring exhilarating joy around kids, or a great creative urge or speculative splurge. Barriers to all these peak Monday (mostly, this barrier has been your own caution, your monetary fears/plans) then slowly dissolve over the next two years. Despite everything herein, do not wed, relocate nor sign contracts now to August 2012. Until April 23, start nothing new.

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Park Royal Towers

THE OXFORD - 165 East 6th St. Studio, Heat & h/w incl. Gated prkg. Sorry no pets. n/s.

604-987-5844

Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Wow, suddenly everything’s going your way! BUT a few glitches: 1) delays occur now (technically Wednesday) to April 23; 2) higher-ups are judgemental, and have the power to alter your deepest circumstances; 3) one of these higher-ups, or someone on your level but slow, careful, conservative, opposes you (but subtly, pretends to retreat). Best course: 1) stick to the past for success; 2) be good; and 3) seek common ground with that “opposer,” rather than fight. All this aside, your energy and charisma are high and handsome, luck touches you, and friends gather, especially Monday-Wednesday!

Taurus April 20-May 20: Don’t look for co-operation Sunday/Monday or Saturday; act alone, especially in areas of communication, law, ethics, culture and travel. All week, lie low, recharge your emotional and physical batteries. Though it might not show in a big way, Monday brings the climax of a long work or health trend. From here on, you’ll be more free to pursue your favoured direction in these. Wednesday through April 22 brings back past involvements with spiritual, charity, government, corporate or institutional situations: clear up neglected work. Start nothing new. Happiness, late week!

Gemini May 21-June 20: Wishes come true over the weeks ahead – old, former wishes, or their fulfillment has something to do with the past. A former friend or old flame might return. Don’t start new projects, ventures or relationships now through April 22. Reprise the past. You might be forced, nudged or tempted to review or recount the past – for whatever reason, this can benefit you, but might also bring a competition or adversary. A stalemate in love/ friendship areas climaxes (though quietly) Monday.

Monday to Wednesday brings intellectual pursuits, love. Be ambitious Wednesday. “Mixed” joy Saturday.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Start nothing new before April 23. A former partner or spouse might return, play a key role – one that bodes luck or opportunity for you. Do NOT start a new project, situation or relationship, but do reprise the past or work with the ongoing. Your luck is high in partnership, relationship, relocation, litigation, negotiation, public dealings, fame, and co-operation – IF these relate to the past or are not brand new. Don’t drag your feet any longer: Monday is decision time, and your best decision is to drop the opposition. Romance early week. Tackle chores Wednesday-Friday.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Work, work, work – and tasks are growing weekly. The good news: 1) this expansion of chores ends in early June, and 2) it is likely to bring a very satisfying uptick in earnings – try to make it permanent. Be alert and careful, as mistakes, delays, supply disruptions, missed meetings and indecision haunt the weeks ahead, to April 23. Until then, DO NOT start any new projects, nor let anyone assign you to a new task.

And absolutely do not buy any machine, computer, appliance, etc. Oddly enough, work delays (due to administrative caution) now end. Romance or beauty, Wednesday on!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: The month ahead is one of the most important – and luckiest – in a decade, maybe many decades. You might experience a big, obvious event, or a less marked but significant “turn” that heads you in a new, exciting direction, in creative, speculative, risk-taking, romantic, pleasure or beauty zones. Two secondary elements play an important role: 1) communications or travel, and 2) your personality. Relationships will be sober, or deal with a realistic environment. Through March 28, obstacles exist; be patient, then leap! Avoid brand new projects/people: reprise the past.

Weekends were made for shopping, so make sure you check our Classifieds for a comprehensive listing of garage sales in your area!

Call 604-630-3300 to book your ad

Spring Garage Sales Mar. 27 - April 2 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: A security-versusambition dilemma peaks (though subtly and without fanfare) Monday, then slowly dissolves. Here’s my timing advice: now through early June, increase your security. (As mightily as you can: buy a home, warehouse, expand sales territory, have a child – pretty good work for 2 months! – invest in retirement, etc.)

Then, June 4 onward to October 2012, turn 180 degrees and concentrate on ambition, career, the outside world. In chasing security for the next 27 days, focus on situations, projects and opportunities from the past. Start nothing new. Fortune awaits!

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Follow your curiosity this week and the next few – what you find can make a dream come true.Don’t peer into the future (unavailable at the moment) or even the present (too confusing) but into the past. There the gems, ideas, revelations exist. Short trips, errands, mail, casual friends, siblings, media, paperwork and communications are accented – and will contain some delays, mistakes and secondguessing to April 23. Until then, don’t start anything new, especially in these areas. E.g., a mail campaign begun now would be an expensive failure. You shine Monday to Wednesday!

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Chase money – but chase it from the past, or continue with ongoing money projects. DON’T begin new earnings, spending projects. (Lemons abound, and you would head right for one.) If you follow this simple advice, your reward could be large, even immense. One more hint: even if it’s from the past, don’t rent, lease or buy real estate (okay, rent if you’re homeless, of course) and go slow with anything domestic: kitchen utensils, etc. Do NOT begin renovation projects. All this applies before April 23, but to some degree right to August 30, 2012. You rule, midweek to Friday! timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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Houses - Rent

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Houses - Rent

3/4 BR exec view home, 2.5bath, 3 f/p, 2 kitchen, Cypress W.Van immed $4000. 604-518-3081 EXEC 3BDRM @ Furry Creek quiet resort-like living http://tinyurl.com/furry29 ph. 778-896-2934 Betwixt & Between? Why not? Furry Creek ’Escape City (20 mins) Rural Life, golf, recreation bonus, 3 bd den, ss appls. Huge Views, Dble Garage, price wow $2995/ Whitchurch 2 kitchens 2 levels. Updated, gas stove, hwd ss appls, in law accommodation/ 4 car pkg, workshop/garage lane $3495/ Beauty in Bayridge 4 bd 3 bth two level. Never before rented Home Pride evident! Updated ss appls some hwd Everything Top Notch In cul de sac $3995/ Cypress Estate Rocks!

Views! Rockridge & Private Schools! 4 bd 4 bth Contemporary Classic, hwd open plan hwd river rock fp Huge entry, skylights! $4495/ Dundarave/Ambleside Country Look, Executive Appeal! Do Not Drive By this Updated View Home as it is a must see! 3 bd 2 bth & 2 bd 3rd bath down View $5495/ Unbeatable West Coast Sunsets! Stunning ss marble flooring, hwd, new carpet, studio, plus4 bd with loft, 4 bth Tram ride to waterfront!

Contemporary $5995/ Street of Dreams Huge View Hollyburn Country Club Close by and private/public schools!

5 bd den hwd ss appls ball court, pool, two huge family rooms, 2 laundrys, Dble Garage $6195/ Skyscraper Views, Whitby Estate. Concrete, tile, wide plank hwd, gym, wine room, 5 bd 6 bth, den, media.

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Garage, Avail 4 yrs! $9995/ www.manderrealestate.com Royal LePage Northshore Diana 604-7657-4508

DEEP COVE waterfront cottage 2 br f/p, new hardwood, lrg sundeck garage, ns $2375 604-929-5191 STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN ● No Qualification - Low Down ● NEW WEST- 1722-6th Av 2 bdrm

HOUSE w/1 bdrm suite, very central location, close to skytrain..$1,188/M CHILLIWACK - 9557 Williams, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on 49x171’ lot, excellent investment property in heart of town..... $888/M Call Kristen today (604)786-4663

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WESTHILL LUXURIOUS Executive 4 BR 5 bath, pool $5995 604-925-8824 Vistarealty.net

GARAGE SALE

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MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

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Office/Retail Rent

6602

1 BDRM bsmt suite, large, np, ns, $885+utils, Nr. bus, L Valley & Lonsdale, Apr 1, 604-807-5531 2 BDRM large Bsmt Suite on quiet Lower Lonsdale North Van St. $1100. Available Immediately.

Call 604-983-8518 for viewing.

2 BDRM, Lynn Valley, $900 incls utils, n/s, n/p, own entry, reno’d. avail now. 604-984-9912

Shared Accommodation

6595-45

2 BR bsmt ste, spacious bright, Delbrook, nr bus, schools/rec ctr np ns $1450 incl 778-388-8045

North Vancouver

1 BR in 2 br apt, Lower Lonsdale, furn, suits student/working prof. $525 incl utils. 778-891-9906

2 BR bsmt suite, Grand Blvd area, hardwood, patio, 5 appls, ns, Apr 1st. $1290 incl utils 604-985-9571

1 BR IN spacious home for n/s female. Furn or unfurn, internet, w/d, $495 incl. 604-980-2106

2 BR, fully reno’d, spacious garden suite, wd, dw, laminate flrs, large back yard, , Brtish Prop. ns, np, $1600+utils, incl net & cable, immed, 604-723-8050

MID LONS. furn br’s, priv. home, for male, wd, cable, utils incl. $500/mo, ns, np 604-980-8012

2 BR garden level, Lynn Valley, 1200sf, wd, gas fp, $1200 + % utils, ns, np, now, 604-987-5697

SHARE 3BR house, near bus stop, Univ. of Capilano & mall, avail now $450, 604-929-9667

6600

Storage

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

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Domestic

1994 CHEVROLET Impala sports sedan 166,000 kms, RWD, black, 4 dr, 5.7L, auto, 1 owner, serviced at dealer, all records, all original. $19,000. 604-988-4416

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Scrap Car Removal

3 BR, 2.5 baths, Westview, fp, 5 appls, rec. facilities, prkg, np, ns, Apr 1. $1850. 604-921-4384 3 Br. large $1720.

Parklike Setting, Outdoor Pool, playground, private yard, 1300sf, drapes, heat & prkg incld. dw, 1.5 baths, 1 yr lease. no pets, #1228 Emery Pl. Lynn Valley 604-987- 4922

Female Gardener to trade prof gardening services for 1br ste.

Quiet, NS, 1 cat. 604-215-0232 www.aliveandwellorganic.ca

6620

Soft Place to Fall? 1 bd 1 bth SW bright exposure to garden Full bath with tub, own w/d Like New small kitchen $795 All In! Diana 604-6757-4508 Royal LePage Northshore

Sports & Imports

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RV’s/Trailers

2005 Toyota 4 Runner Sport Edition, V8, AWD, side steps, auto, alloys, moon roof, 97k, immaculate. $23,850 2003 BMW X5 3.0 AWD, Only 70k, just serviced, new Michelin tires, exceptional condition. $19,850 2004 Mercedes Benz E320 Luxury Sedan, Local, one owner, full Mercedes service history, brilliant silver/black, extra clean. $18,850 2002 Toyota 4 Runner SR5, 4x4, 123k, auto, a/c, pwr windows, local, alloys, hard to find. $13,850 Only 57,000kms 2004 Mercedes Benz C240 Classic, Auto, alloys, a/c, local, one owner, excellent value. $14,850 Only 40,000kms 2004 Jeep Liberty Ltd, 6 cyl, auto, alloys, moon roof, “trail rated,” hard to find in this condition. $13,850 Only 81,000kms 1998 BMW Z3 Convertible, 6 cyl, 5 spd, alloys, very well serviced, a must see. $12,850

2008 27FT Salem fully equipped, selling due to health, $17,500.

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sthis 3 BR t/house in quiet complex, 1.5 baths, fenced patio, pool, playground, near bus & shops, $1650+utils, Dollarton & Seymour. immed. 604-929-6024

2 BR Unit, Deep Cove, own wd, water view, refs, avail Apr 1, ns, np, $1500incl utils, 778-323-8778 GREAT SUITE! 5 min. fr Grouse Mountain. Large 2 bdr. 2 bath.

Own washer & dryer. Exclusive use of back yard. Don’t miss this opportunity! 604-839-5169

Refer to the Home Services section for all your home improvement, decorating, and design needs.

3 BR, 2.5 bath, double garage, gas fp, near Lions Gate Hosp, np, ns, Apr 1. $1925, 604-987-9667

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2 BR & 3 BR’s MOVE IN ALLOWANCE (1/2 mnth move in, 1/2 mnth renewal). 5 appls, 1.5 bath, variable lse term, NP/ NS, Rent start/$1435. To view call 604-986-0511

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Call or visit us online today to discover the latest listings in your favorite neighbourhoods!

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Townhouses Rent

2 BR, ground floor. reno’d, view Grand Blvd area. 5 appls, ns, np, $1450+utils, now, 604-715-2084

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1 BDRM bsmt suite, DEEP COVE, avail immed. $750, suit quiet ns, np, 604-929-6041.

104 - 814 W 15th Mini Mall Upscale Look & Location! Fell and Marine, One block north!

Laminate Floors, Immediate Short/long term lse $2295 1445 Main Street Main & Mt 3000’ showroom 12 parking fenced, drive through, to 2 4 way lights! Huge Exposure Hi traffic count does count !!! $15.00’ base plus $8.00’ nnn Diana @ Royal LePage NS 604-657-4508

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Suites/Partial Houses

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$19,000 SOLD $20,000 SOLD $21,000

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© 2011 Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. *0.9% financing only available through Mercedes-Benz Financial Services on approved credit for a limited time. Only available on a 24 and 36 month finance term and only applicable to MY 2007-2009 models (less than 140,000 km). Finance example based on a 2007 model: $20,000 at 0.9% per annum equals $563.30 per month for 36 months. Cost of borrowing is $279 for a total of $20,279. Down payment may be required. First, second and third month payment are waived for finance programs only on 2007-2009 B, C, E, ML. The payment waivers are capped up to a total of $500/month including tax. License, insurance, taxes and PPSA are extra. Additional provincial-specific fees, taxes and charges may be extra. Dealer may lease or finance for less. Offer may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers. See your authorized Mercedes-Benz dealer for details or call the Mercedes-Benz Customer Relations Centre at 1-800-387-0100. Offers end March 31, 2011.

A50 – North Shore News – Sunday, March 27, 2011

HOME SERVICES 8030

Carpentry

8075

Drywall

A QUICK CONSTRUCTION Carpentry, Siding, Deck, Paint, all repair North Shore 604-418-6020

FRIENDLY, Professional, Crown mouldings, baseboard, casings rough framing. 778-233-0559

8055

Cleaning

With everything life throws at you, who has time to clean?

Call Merry Maids.

It’s one less thing to worry about.

604-980-6100 www.merrymaids.ca

DUST-FREE REFINISHING M & L Floors. BBB member. www.mlfloors.ca 778-988-4231 A PLUS TAPING & DRYWALL High quality, reasonable rates.

Free estimates. 604-715-0400 ACE DRYWALL. Avail immed.

Board, tape, spraytex, repairs. 16 yr exp. No job too small. Mike 604-808-2432, 604-985-4321 AFFORDABLE, Reliable, Quality Guaranteed. Boarding, Taping, Spraytex.

Dave 604-984-7476 ★ COMPLETE DRYWALL ★ By certified tradesman.

Small jobs pref. 604-762-4024 VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling & textured ceiling repairs. Bonded 604-307-2295 / 778-340-5208

Tres-Greentech — Cleaning —

8080

604-648-9002 Ext.101

Small Jobs to rewires, lighting control, new houses, repairs. Insured & bonded.

Knob & tube replacement specialist. Lic. #23726.

Call Chris, 604-788-3864

★ Move-in – Move-out ★ Residential/Commercial Cleaning ★ Post Construction Clean-ups ★ References & Insured

$18/HR. Quality House cleaning.

604-983-3477 www.qualityhc.com DEPENDABLE, METICULOUS, cleaning 2 spots open for NEW CLIENTS Home/Office, reasonable rates, Inquire 604.984.9829 GEMINI CLEANING for 1 time & regular cleaning service. Insured.

Free est. Refs. 604-988-4634 QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs.

Res/com. Move in/out. Carpets + pressure wash’g. 778-895-3522

Electrical

A LICENSED electrician #19807 semi-retired, small jobs only.

604-689-1747 pgr 604-686-2319

Concrete

CONCRETE by Floors • Patios Garage Pads Stairs • Driveways Sidewalks Exposed Aggregate Specialists Serving the North Shore for 50 years Free Estimates Aldo 604-834-8643 Todd 778-867-7349 Off. 604-291-6167 ANY CEMENT Repairs rock walls patios, sidewalks, drainage. 30 + yrs exp. Exc Ref’s 604-354-9178

CONCRETE FORMING & framing, concrete work & retaining walls. Small/big job 604-360-2082 ECO-MIX CONCRETE Ltd. specialize in delivering any amount.

604.961.6184 or ecomix@telus EXP’D CEMENT Finisher. I can form, place & finish any concrete job. Peter 604-988-8856 anytime

8073

Drainage

GREAT RATES, fast service.

Rouz Electric #89724 Free est.

Satisfaction guar. 604-765-3329

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087

Excavating

# 1 BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT

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

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

TEEPEE CONSTRUCTION Ultra Mini Excavator Can access areas as narrow as 2’ 3’’ Concrete breaking, underpinning, trenching, stump removal, rock placement, landscaping 604-802-1156 604.649.1213 CEL 604.984.2313 Res/comm, Excavating, Bobcat, Trucking, Water Lines, Sewer Lines, Drainage, Landscaping.

Hrly/Contract. Free Estimates.

8090

Fencing/Gates

Affordable Fencing & Decking Quality workmanship for 25 yrs. on the N. Shore, 604-929-6669

8125

Gutters

Professional quality workmanship Fences, decks, arbors, stairs... www.friendlycarpenter.com

NORTH SHORE FENCES Quality work by professionals Repairs and construction Call 604-230-3559

SERVICE MAGIC Affordable. Serving North Shore since 1978. Mike 604-783-9558

Fireplaces

PRO GAS - North Shore Gas fireplaces. Repair & safety inspection. 604-925-1341 www.progas.ca

8130

Handyperson

8160

Lawn & Garden

SUNRISE PAINTING Drywall repair, textured ceiling & mouldings. Cell 604-657-6465

8135

Free Estimates

ABSOLUTE PROFICIENCY DD Haul & Delivery. Loads from $30 each. David 604-512-7471

8140

Heating

PRO GAS - North Shore Furnaces, boilers, gas fitting.

Service & installation.

604-925-1341 www.progas.ca

8150

Kitchens/Baths

Installed • Cleaned • Repaired

604-876-4604 NORTH SHORE GUTTERS

Graig 604-986-3463

DESIGN INSTALL MAINTAIN Book Your 2011 Lawn & Garden Maintenance Program Now!

greatcanadianlawns.com 604.924.LAWN (5296)

SPRING

★ Sales & installation of 5’’ continuous gutter ★ Minor repairs ★ Cleaning

604-988-5294

8130

Handyperson

Alltrades.net Construction ❍ Renos, Carpentry ❍ Lifetime PolyDecks ❍ Since 1992

DESIGN INSTALL MAINTAIN Book Your 2011 Landscape Renovation Project Now!

greatcanadianlandscaping.com 604.924.5296

Mark 604.603.7133 Floors, Mouldings, Stairs, Renovations, Tiles, Drywall, Fences, Decks, Railings & Concrete Forms ★ Small jobs ok ★ Excellent references avail chulavistalandscaping.ca Francisco 604-710-9837

Complete Home Maint./Repairs Certified Trained Pros.

For that small job.

Rates you can afford.

RJR Small Projects Division

“The Grass is Greener”

• New Lawn Installs • Replace Old Lawn • Lawn Drainage • Landscaping • Paving ~ Any size job ~

Nick 929-7732

www.EnglishLawns.com

ABLE BODIED for gardening & household needs - 604-649-5536 or email gawoco@uniserve.com ABLE RENOVATIONS All home repairs & renos, large & small, North Shore only 604 319-2677 AGRIOS HOME IMPROVEMENT Renovations, carpentry, painting & home repairs. Ikea kitchen installs. Michael 604.619.1126

ALL HOME REPAIRS semiretired master carpenter. Kitchen, stairs, sundecks, etc. All work guar. Karl 604-985-5144 AVAIL FOR SMALL JOBS. Tiles-Painting-Renos. Only North Shore area. Doug 604-351-1313 AVL CONSTRUCTION - Renos, wiring, painting, tiling. North Shore 10 yrs. Cell 604-562-2415 HANDYMAN - framing, decks, tiles, hardwood, drywall. Total additions & basements. Ken 778-773-6251 or 604-455-0740 PRECISION TOOLS, Handyman Service. Fix those nagging problems. Call Mike - 604-925-6381

Aerating Power Raking Fertilizing Lawn Mowing General Clean-ups

2011 Special incl aeration, moss control & fertilizer - all for $95 All Area Gardening 604-926-1526 /604-726-9153

778-340-LAWN

BEN’S Garden & Landscape Services. For your Res/comm Landscaping, garden maint. fencing needs. Pls call 778-688-7876 or 604-584-7876. Free estimates Cert. horticulturists 604-518-5661 Scott H. Design & Maintenance KatsuraLandscaping.ca ENGLISH LANDSCAPER gardener, 30 yrs exp, complete garden maint. Les 604-209-8853

• Design & Consultation • Lawns & Hedges • Water Features • Patios & Pathways • Retaining Walls • Irrigation & Lighting www.katsuraLandscaping.ca

604-518-5661

Greenworx Redevelopment Inc. Hardscaping & Landscaping.

Hedges, Pavers, Ponds & Walls, Returfing, Demos, Drainage, Jackhammering. 604 782-4322

Lee Gardener: Lawn maint. Free est. Spring clean-up, power raking, trim, Hedges 604-720-6578 NORTH VAN LANDSCAPING Aerating, power raking, fertilizing, lawn mowing, garden cleanups.

778-340-LAWN Paul Sato Gardening, Lawn Cut, Power Rake, Aerating, Fertilzer, Hedge Trim, Pruning, Weeding, Yard Cleanup. 604-298-5597

8160

Lawn & Garden

Residential and Commercial • Landscape Maintenance • Power Raking • Aeration • Lawn Repairs • Gardening

Free Est. 604-779-6978

email:

alljobs@telus.net

8185

Moving & Storage

ASH RELOCATION SERVICES Quality Trucks Í &Top Í Moving Equipment 2 Very Experienced Movers $77.00/hr + hst 3 Very Experienced Movers $97.00/hr + hst (Recommended for offices + 2 bedrooms & up)

778.322.2462

Minimum Travel Fare Fully Insured • Free Estimates

AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men

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

45

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

FREE ESTIMATES Seniors Discount

604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com

MONTY J’S MOVING

Ask about our Spring Specials! www.MontyJsMoving.com

Call 604-710-5253

MOVERS.CA

northvanlandscaping.com

GREAT LOOKING Landscapes Full service landscape & garden maint. Call Dave: 604-764-7220

A. ALL AREA

GREEN PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Hedge trimming, tree pruning, yard maintenance, removal, Mike 983-3586

604.980.MOVE (6683)

2011 Special

J & R Lawncare Cut & trim $25 & up• hedges • power washing • trash removal. John 778 988 5296

1 OR 2 Men with big or small truck affordable moving, rubbish removal, Pls. Call 604-925-3186

Gardening Service

$95 for Aeration, Moss Control & Fertilizer We also Prune, Top and do General Garden Clean-up

604.926.1526 604.726.9153

A.A. BEST PRO

JAPANESE GARDENER Landscape & maintenance, clean-ups, trimming.

Reas, free est, 25 yrs exp 604-986-8126

15% OFF All Moving

KAWA GARDEN SERVICES Res/comm. Organic lawn care & quality compost. 604-831-0140 LIONS GATE Landscaping Ltd. Spring clean-up, all your gardening needs. 604-788-9687

GARDEN SERVICES LTD. Lawn Maintenance, General Clean-Up, Power Raking, Moss Control, Aerating.

Trim, Top, Prune.

All types of lawn & garden applications.

Free Est.

Call Sukh:

604-202-6118 inate, tiles, drywall, paint. 761-7745

604-984-4433 Contact Cari

— Binder —

Part of RJR group

A-1 JOB by Arms and Minds Renos Carpentry cabinet, drs, lam-

is here!

Fully insured WCB covered Res/Comm Service

established 1963

Garden Services

• Pruning, weeding etc.

• Design & advice • Organic gardening • Professional & experienced • Reasonable rates

ADVANTAGE LANDSCAPING Lawn, garden install+maint. moss control, power rake, aerate, remove rubbish John 604-988-9636

#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby

Landscaping

SERAFINA

3 YARDS or less, dump service for soils, mulches, etc. $40 + materials Free ests 604-996-7527

Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets

8155

Lawn & Garden

LAWNCUTS

Hauling

CHEAP LOADS Fast Reliable Service 604-922-5101

8160

Performance Garden Service

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

FRIENDLY FENCE 778-386-3201.

8100 DRAIN TILES & WATER LINES Without Digging a Trench 604-985-4000

Donald Graham Antiques

Gutters, Windows, Pressure Washing, small repairs, etc.

Free Est. Chris 604-377 -6104

LONSDALE ELECTRIC lic#1756 Panel changes & renos 604-988-7232, 604-842-0687

8060

EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY Antique restoration Custom reproductions.

604-984-8313

ALL YOUR electrical & reno needs. Lic’d electrician #37940.

Bonded & insured 604-842-5276

EXP’D CLEANER uses non-toxic products. References available.

Call Yolanda, 778-228-8228

Onsite Computer Repair FREE ESTIMATES Visa & M/card Call Chris 604-998-2273

Furniture Repairs/ Refinishing

ADANAC GUTTERS- Installation of continuous gutters, cleaning & repairs. Call ....604-676-1085

LICENSED ELECTRICIAN (#15232) Reas. rates. Small jobs ok 604-985-6654, 604-377-2200

8058

8115

A & P ELECTRIC Lic. Electrical Contractor, EC Lic. 103364. Alex 604-600-4441

TOP NOTCH HOUSECLEANING Since 1972. Our customers & staff stay with us for years. For a free, inhome consultation call 604-329-5562

Computer Services

Flooring/ Refinishing

CARPET, VINYL & HARDWOOD Repair & Replace. Material sales Dwight, 778-322-6048 I’ll show you the inexpensive route www.fccarpets.shawwebspace.ca

CARPENTRY, ADDITIONS, decks, 32 yrs exp, licensed.

Call Ken, Cell: 604-928-3270 DECKS BY DALE Specializing in cedar decks, new, repair & reno.

30 yrs exp. WCB 604-984-6997

8105

604-726-9152 604-984-1988

SEYMOUR LAWN MAINTENANCE • Gardening • Spring Clean-Up • Hedge Trimming • Lawn Installation • Weeding • & More!

SPRING PACKAGE $

10999*

Aeration, Lime, Fertilizer, Moss Control

Lawn Cutting $2200* (*based on 2000 sq.ft. + gst)

Junk Removal

604-990-1252

www.seymourlawnmaint.ca

SEASONAL LAWN MAINTENANCE From

$20

Call Gabor

604-716-1662

Booked by April 2nd 604-377-2503 www.popeyesmovingbc.com TwoGuysWithATruck.ca Moving, Storage, Free EST 604-628-7136. Visa, OK

8193

Oil Tank Removal

ALL-PRO

OIL TANK REMOVAL

M. GILL Gardening - Lawn care.

Com & Residential, Power raking, Fertilize, Weed Hedge Trims, Prune. Free Est. 778-898-4922

PRUNING & YARD CLEAN-UP, maintenance, power washing, & hedges. Russel, 604-761-0830

8175

Oil Tank Detection Oil Tank Removal Soil Remediation FREE ESTIMATES BEST PRICE GUARANTEED

778-223-8265

Masonry

CUSTOM STONEWORK & LANDSCAPES For over 50 years!

604-834-8643 604-291-6167 Landrock.aldo@gmail.com

MASTER STONEMASON, Local, Experienced, fireplaces, facing, walls, stairs. Ivan 604-649-2271

Clean Sweep?

NORTHLAND MASONRY. Rock, slate, brick, granite, pavers.

20 yrs exp on the N. Shore. No job to small.. Will 604-805-1582 T-A STONEWALL. Rockwalls, paving stones, Allan block walls, etc. 987-8155 / 250-4117

8180

Home Services

SEASONAL EXTERIOR HOME MAINTENANCE

Inspection, cleaning & repair: - Roofs, gutters, windows, decks, patios, and more 6 0 4 2 9 4 6 7 0 0 www.pomeroyconstruction.com

Sell it in the Classifieds!

604

630.3300

HOME SERVICES 8220

Sunday, March 27, 2011 – North Shore News – A51

Call ThE Experts C0NTRACTING

Plumbing

ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE

"Ambience to Live"

With Silverfern, You’re in Good Hands

Project Management, Custom Homes, Renovations, Restoration, Rain Screen, Building Permits, Residential, Commercial

Tel: 778-340-1590

8195

8220

Plumbing

A Classical Painting

Strong Work Ethics, 30 yrs exp.

Complete prep. & repairs ON TIME COMPLETIONS References. Fully Equipped, Liability & WCB -

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

Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005

Thomas 1.604.989.5222 rainforestpro.com

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

JB’s PAINTING • 99/room – Int/Exterior

COMPLETE PLUMBING, heating and gas services, new & old, hot water tanks, lic’d, ins. Quick response; friendly. 604-720-8805

$

•Professional, Reliable • Licensed & Insured • North Shore co. est. 2001

604-773-4549 MIKE’S PAINTING • Prof & Reliable • 30 Yrs. Exp. W.C.B.

DELBROOK

PLUMBING & DRAINAGE

778-833-4771

HOT WATER TANKS & PLUMBING Max 604-506-6544

RICKY DEWAN PAINTING

LARTER PLUMBING Heating & Gas. $70 hourly. Richard Larter 604-984-7814

Interior - Exterior - Strata • Pressure Washing • Small Repairs

604-299-5831 – Cell 604-833-7529 SUNRISE PAINTING & DECORATING

PLUMBING BY BILL Installation, repairs Honest & reliable 604-980-0993

since 1975

SPRING SPECIAL

Cell 604-657-6465 or 604-987-6560 A CLEAN PAINT JOB. Quality 1 room from $127. Int-ext, WCB 22 yrs exp. Cell: 604-727-2700 A LADY PAINTER, professional & color consult, 20 yrs on North Shore. exc refs. 604-961-3451 AFFORDABLE QUALITY PAINTING. Tidy, honest. 19 yrs North Shore. John 604-980-5454 Excellent Pro Painting Service 20 yrs exp, refs, warranty. Reas, res/comm Richard 604-618-0205 Interior painting, wallpaper Quality service, with a smile!

Call Arlene...604-910-3270 MASTER BRUSHES PAINTING Spring Special 25% off. Int 20 yrs, Ext 15 yrs guaranteed. Top quality job. 604-377-5423, 507-4911 QUICK RESPONSE Painting & Pressure Washing. 25 yrs exp.

604-551-4267 or 604-987-8159

8200

Decks/Patios/ Railings

Fancy Decks made with quality material. See our work at www.metrods.com call Paul 604-787-7484

8220

Plumbing

North Shore Based Professional, Quality, Precision

Licenced & Insured

8225

Power Washing A GUARANTEED LOWEST PRICE

• Gutter cleaning/repairs • Window cleaning • Power washing • WCB insured • Free estimates

Tel: 604.278.3838 Fax: 604.278.3086 Email: ernie@ultimatefloorings.com

#145 - 4631 Shell Road Richmond, B.C. V6X 3M4

HARDWOOD • LAMINATE • VINYL • CARPET • CORK

■ .

604 980.8384

MOULD

- Home Inspection - Repair Estimates - Full-scale Remediation 6 0 4 2 9 4 6 7 0 0 www.pomeroyconstruction.com

Renovations

Winner of Gold & Silver Georgie Awards

– Renovator Member of the Year

Winner of the National SAM Award

– Best Renovated Kitchen in Canada

❏ The carport could be

NORTH SHORE HOME SERVICES LTD

•Power Washing • Window Cleaning • Gutter Cleaning

604-988-5294

Serving the North Shore since 1963

604-773-4549 Spring Cleanups - Driveways, walkways, etc. Get rid of that moss & mess around your home or work.

Need a Plumber?

FORTIF CONSTRUCTION INC Custom Renovations North Shore Company BBB, Reno Mark.ca.

GVHBA.org Stefan@604-202-1264 free estimates www.fortif.ca

a two-car garage ❏ One bathroom just isn’t enough anymore

We Fix The “EXCEPTS…”

604-720-1564

30 yrs exp. matco@telus.net

www.bomex.net

Complete Bathroom Reno’s Suites, Kitchens,Tiling, Skylights, Windows, Doors, 604 521-1567 COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL Restoration & Professional Painting

604-780-3974 (24hs) NORTH SHORE WINDOWS LTD Windows, doors & finishing carpentry. 604-839-0636 Pryce Contracting Ltd. (North Shore Based) Complete home makeover, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, suites, decks/patios, doors, windows & trim. Peter 604-988-7526 TEEPEE CONSTRUCTION. Forming, framing & underpinning.

35 yrs exp. 604-604-802-1156

Roofing

SPRING SPECIAL

SAVE THE HST

Have Your Roof Done between Now & Mar. 31 A+

Call AFFORDABLE QUALITY ROOFING LTD. 604-984-9004

Roof Leaking?

LEAK REPAIRS

ADVANTAGE BUILDING MAINTENANCE

604-802-1918

vancouverroofingrepair.com

All Season Roofing

RENOVATIONS

BATHROOMS KITCHENS

INTERIOR FINISHING

www.onsiterenovations.com Call Mike Getzlaf 604 986 4358

WWW.RENORITE.COM

Save Your Dollars!

✓ RenoRite C. 604-720-9112

WESTCOAST ROOFING SYSTEMS

Roof, Chimney & Skylight Repairs WCB Licensed

www.rjrrenovator.com

LICENSED & INSURED BUILDER

BAMFORD CONSTRUCTION Ltd. Quality Renos & Repairs.

604-986-2871 www.bamford.ca

WWW.PATTARGROUP.COM All Renovations & Additions, Ins. Quality Work

604-987-7325

8255

Rubbish Removal

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

J. PEARCE STUCCO CONTRACTING. Residential / Commercial. 604-761-6079 Quality Home Improvement ★ Stucco ★ All Kinds. No Job Too Big or Small.

604-725-8925

8309

Tiling

RENEW KITCHEN & Baths. Tile, slate, marble, granite, pools. 15 yr exp. Free ests 604-773-2264

ABSOLUTE PROFICIENCY DD HAUL & DELIVERY meeting all your needs, ‘quality workmanship delivered with pride’.

Loads from $30 each Please call David

8310

604-512-7471

604-RUBBISH 782-2474

* We Remove & Recycle Anything*

Free Est’s • Large or Small Jobs

10% OFF WITH THIS AD www.604rubbish.com

Top Soil

Dalton Trucking Ltd. Top soil, Garden soil, Aggregates, Deliveries Trucking Dumpsites. Bins Services etc.

604-986-6944

8315

Tree Services

$ BEST RATES $

Dangerous tree removal, pruning, topping, hedge trimming & stump grinding.

Fully insured & WCB

DALTON TRUCKING LTD.

Jerry 604-618-8585 Andrew 604-618-8585

BINS & DISPOSAL

A-1 TRI CRAFT TREE SERVICES (EST. 1986)

Dirt Fill, Concrete, Asphalt Brush, Demo, Const. Waste

SINGLE AXLE DELIVERIES Top Soil, Sand, Gravel, Dumpsites and more.

604-986-6944

★ ★ ★ ★

HAMZA DEMOLITION LTD • Hand demolition • Concrete & soil removal • Drywall removal • Stucco & plywood removal • Disposal bin delivery • Paving stone installation

TREEWORKS

15 Years Experience Tree & Stump Removal Prunning & Trimming View Work

www.treeworksonline.ca Call 604 291-7778 or 604 787-5915

604-721-5029

#1 TRAILER TRASH BOYS

★AAA★ TREE SERVICE. Tree & stump removal, pruning/trimming.

Ins & cert. arborist 604-987-8500

We haul everything, no load too big or small, we do it all. Free est. 604-317-2500/ 929-7195

NORTH SHORE TREE & Hedge Certified arborist. Fully Insured Call Daryl 604-988-4479

ACKER’S Rubbish Removal pick-up & deliveries. Quick. 7 day Fast / reliable. Spencer 924-1511

PACIFIC WEST TREE SERVICE Complete tree care. Certified arborist, fully Insured 604-341-0651

BELL MINI BINS 604-922-5101 Small or large household jobs & Mini bin service. 7 days a week Fast ★ inexpensive ★ reliable.

★ASK DISCOUNT RUBBISH★ Best Prices, Yard, House/Const, Demo. 7 days 604-727-6153

ROBIN’S 604-986-4091 Expert Tree Care - Cert.

Arborist. 25 yrs exp. Fully Ins.

8335

DISPOSAL BINS: Starting at $99 + dump fees. Call 604-306-8599 www.disposalking.com ROD’S RUBBISH REMOVAL Prompt, reliable, reasonable. 7 days/week. Rod 604-985-7193

Window Cleaning

NORTH SHORE HOME SERVICES LTD

•Window Cleaning • Power Washing • Gutter Cleaning

604-988-5294

Serving the North Shore since 1963

Re-Roofing & Repairs Specialists 20 year Labour Warranty available

604-591-3500 NEW CANADIAN ROOFING LTD. Over 15 yrs experience All types of Roofing Reasonable Rates WCB Insured

604-716-8528

Bath *Kitchen* Suites & More

A Eastwest Roofing & Siding Re-roofing, Gutter, Free Est, BBB Member, 10% disc, Seniors Disc, 604-812-9721, 604-783-6437

ABBA RENOVATION carpentry, plumbing, wiring, painting, tiling. Work guar, Refs. (604)986-4026/805-8463

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

604-781-7695

8300

Roofing

CURTIS JOHN ROOFING (since 1978) Roof tune-up from $149.

24 hr repair. 604-985-1913

SALES@ PATTARGROUP.COM

MATCO DESIGN

8250

ALLAN CONSTRUCTION Reno’s, kitchens, baths, electric #36953 tiling, carpentry 987-8453

604-588-0833

604-987-5438

Additions, Renovations, New Construction

Renovations & Home Improvement

All types of Roofing Over 35 Years in Business Call now for Free Estimates

Since 1978

HITECH ALUMINUM RAILING & FENCING

8240

#1 Roofing Company in BC

bedroom

604-983-3210

Find one in the Home Services section

604-816-6192 cyhomeservices.com

small

Aluminum Modular Railing Perfect for Sundecks & Stairs Do it yourself or we can install 5 Colors and 4 Designs

Providing Excellent Service on the North Shore for the Past 12 Years

Int./Ext. Renovations Home Repair & Maintenance

When your house is great except…

• Gutters Cleaned • Power Washing Roof Restoration • Small Roof Repairs • Skylights Window Cleaning • Awnings Awnings Cleaned Cleaned Free Estimates Quality Service Quality&Service

Doug Robinson 604-985-4604

MANUFACTURER REBATES ON NOW!

8250

from concept to occupancy

❏ You need another

20 15 yrs of Service on the North Shore!

Award-Winning Renovations ■ Rendering to Reality ■ ccirenos.com

WAT E R I N G R E S S /

CLEARVIEW MAINTENANCE SERVICE

WALTER’S PLUMBING & HEATING

#1 BARGAIN rate on plumbing & drainage. No job too small.Ken 604-987-2890 cell 604-328-7439

We Care

604-984-4147

Call Us For All Your Plumbing Needs At: 604-240-1942

604.985.0567

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