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Canyon cliff jumper injures himself DNV firefighters’ complex rope rescue takes two hours Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com

A tourist visiting North Vancouver is lucky he isn’t more seriously injured after a rough landing from an almost 40-metre drop into Lynn Canyon.

District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services sent 12 members out to rescue the wounded cliff jumper Wednesday afternoon after a report of a possible drowning came in from 9-1-1 dispatch.

“Where he jumped from, it was estimated to be at 125 feet (38 metres) into 90Foot Pool,” said district fire chief Mike Cairns. “They’re thrillseekers, jumping from the highest spot, trying to outdo each other. He didn’t land straight into the water.

He clearly injured his back and possibly spine and his legs. . . .

He wasn’t able to help himself, probably because he was winded, so two people had to jump into the water and assist NEWS photo Paul McGrath him to get out of the river.”

Firefighters secured ropes DISTRICT of North Vancouver firefighters extract a young man directly below the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge after he injured to trees at the top of the cliff himself jumping into the canyon at 90-Foot Pool. Scan photo with Layar for video and see nsnews.com for more pictures. and methodically made their way to the injured man, who was part of a group of Irish and Scottish tourists, and packaged him into a basket stretcher. After hauling him back up the canyon’s edge, firefighters handed him over to B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics.

The patient was able to move his toes and extremities when Brent Richter should have a population of about 105,000 residents according firefighters reached him, Cairns said. to census data tracked every 10 years. But North Vancouver and brichter@nsnews.com “Considering what happened, he seemed to be in fairly good West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country together DESPITE having little in common demographically were underrepresented in Parliament by about 70,000 people. condition,” he said.

Cairns said he worries the dangerous activity could become or geographically, residents in the Seymour area and Under the new borders, everyone east of the Seymour River more popular. “We haven’t had one of these for a while, but from North Burnaby will be voting in the same riding on the North Shore, plus residents in a swath of land that curves what I could see, there were other people from that same area so along Lynn Creek south of Highway 1 will join with voters north and represented by the same MP in the next federal of Lougheed Highway between Boundary Road and Burnaby’s it could become more frequent for us,” he said. election.

The whole process took two hours. eastern city limits in a new riding called Burnaby North-Seymour.

Every year, hundreds of people jump from the canyon, which That is the result of a decision by the federal electoral boundaries As part of the same redraw, Powell River has been hived off of is a high-risk but legal activity. In 1993, the District of North commission to merge the two areas while creating a third North West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country and stitched Vancouver began hiring park rangers to patrol the area and warn Shore riding to make sure the population is adequately represented in with Vancouver Island North. in the House of Commons.

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Illegal dumping plagues North Shore

NV vet tired of the trash being left in his parking lot Anne Watson awatson@nsnews.com

THE owner of a veterinary clinic would like North Shore contractors to know he is not in the construction business.

Pawel Cichon, a veterinarian at Lonsdale Veterinary Hospital in North Vancouver, came to work Monday to find old doors, rotten pieces of wood and blinds dumped behind his clinic.

“We do get, occasionally, some mattresses, small pieces of furniture but this was like a full truck of stuff,” said Cichon.

The parking lot, which Cichon said is the main one for his clients, is accessed from an alleyway off of West 20th Street.

“Its kind of a secluded area, that’s what makes potentially this kind of small crime,” he said. “[It’s] an easy target for them to come here and unload this junk. They do it in the middle of the night sometimes.”

Brad McRae, manager of bylaw services for the City of North Vancouver, said that unfortunately there was nothing the city could do in this type of situation.

“We took a look at it with the RCMP and there’s no real identification on the dumping materials,” said McRae. “As we don’t have any information, any details as to who dumped it etcetera, it’s up to the private owner, just like on any residence or business, to remove the material.”

McRae said that illegal dumping does occur in the city, but it has not becomeabigproblemforbylawofficers.

It has, however, become a persistent problem in other municipalities.

Jeff McDonald, spokesman for the District of West Vancouver, said illegal dumping takes place in treed areas, culde-sacs and parks.

“It’s a problem that the district

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PAWEL Cichon, a veterinarian at Lonsdale Veterinary Hospital, found a truckload of construction waste dumped in the practice’s parking lot when he came to work Monday. has to deal with constantly,” said McDonald. He said it’s hard to say whether it is a growing problem or not, but there has been an increase in similar problems.

“What we did see a bit of a spike in is household and residential garbage being placed in parks and also in bus shelter waste receptacles after the implementation of biweekly garbage collections earlier this year,” said McDonald. “We do have a bylaw in place that prohibits illegal dumping

and bylaw officers are prepared to enforce those laws.”

In the District of North Vancouver, illegal dumping has also become an ongoing problem. Jeanine Bratina, spokeswoman for the district, said it mainly takes place in remote or neighbourhood parks and in the parking lots of parks.

“It can be difficult to control as much of the illegal dumping takes place at night,” said Bratina. Items can include anything from construction

materials to old appliances.

“When these types of items are discovered, district crews will clean up and take the materials to the transfer station,” she said.

Bratina said the biggest challenge, however, is the illegal dumping of green waste and grass clippings.

“This material tends to be deposited in neighbourhood parks,” she said, adding that the district does try to educate surrounding neighbours about why the dumping

of yard waste is a problem and provide information on alternatives, such as taking the waste to the transfer station.

For Cichon, who has been on the North Shore for 10 years, the situation is disappointing.

“I would appeal to the general public: Treat everybody with respect, just don’t do this. We try to make it beautiful, nice, peaceful, friendly,” he said. “We enjoy the North Shore, it’s a fantastic place but you know you get those scumbags.”

Commission claims no better choice From page 1

The decision comes as a disappointment to BurnabyDouglas New Democrat MP, Kennedy Stewart, who appealed the commission’s proposal.

Stewart polled residents on both sides of the inlet and found 80 per cent of residents opposed the merger. He also won the support of Parliament’s standing committee on procedure and house affairs, which is made up of seven Conservatives, one Liberal and four New Democrats. The committee included in its report on the proposal that North Vancouver and North Burnaby “share few common services or exchanges,” and “the communities themselves also appear to have little desire, if any, to be tied in one electoral district.”

Stewart said the commission could have considered other options for redrawing the electoral map, but it was simply “bullheaded” and didn’t listen.

Of particular concern for Stewart is the difficulty constituents will have getting to their MP’s office, especially if they are elderly or disabled and relying on transit.

“There’s only enough money for one community office for an MP and that’s either in North Vancouver or North Burnaby,” he said. “What it means is those who rely on transit will have much less access to an MP’s office. . . . Perhaps it would have been good for (the commission members) to take a bus ride from North Vancouver to North Burnaby and see for themselves how easy it is to make that trip.”

There’s also the matter of the people on both sides of the inlet having little in common, with the North Shore’s population being generally more wealthy, conservative and

white, Stewart said.

“They’re very different communities. Look at the housing markets. Look at the levels of education. Look at the ethnic demographics. It’s very, very different,” he said.

According to his own calculations, had the 2009 election been run with the new boundaries, Stewart would have lost his seat to a Conservative challenger by five points, compared to the two-point advantage he won by.

But Stewart’s grievances and those brought up at public hearings on the merger were taken into account when creating Burnaby North-Seymour, the commission argued.

“The commission is not insensible to the dissatisfaction of a number of MPs and constituents with portions of the North Vancouver and Burnaby-Douglas districts being joined in a newly configured district,” the commission stated in its final report.

Access to an MP in a riding cut in half by the Burrard Inlet will still be much easier than it will be for constituents in the North and in the Interior, who sometimes are separated from their MPs by hundreds of kilometres.

“Moreover, there is a measure of common interest between the two components of the reconfigured Burnaby North-Seymour district because they front on Burrard Inlet, a working harbour,” the report states.

“In the end, all we can say concerning this reconfigured electoral district is that the commissioners have spent much time and thought on what to do in this area, having regard to our mandate of doing the best we can province-wide.

We have listened with sympathy and appreciation to the cogently expressed objections to this reconfiguration from several sources, but we are ultimately unable to arrive at any disposition that we consider to be a better one.”

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The new Burnaby North-Seymour federal riding will give the North Shore three federal MPs.

would-be jumpers, which has cut down on the number of injuries and rescue calls, according to Jeanine Bratina, district spokeswoman. In the 12 years leading up to 1993, there were 17 fatal jumps.

However, it is not known if the injured jumper was one of the hundreds of people park rangers encountered in the park on Wednesday.

“Our Park Rangers cover a very large area while on their patrols including the parking areas, concession areas, trails, bridge, water areas, etc.”

Bratina said. “While they do speak to as many people as possible, including people interested in jumping into the water, it would be difficult for them to remember every person that they speak with, although they do try to reach as many people as possible during their patrols.”

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AN 87-year-old woman driver hit a scooter ridden by a 91-year-old man at 21st Street and Bellevue Avenue Wednesday. Police seek witnesses. More photos at nsnews.com.

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Car hits scooter in West Van Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com

A 91-year-old man is in hospital with serious injuries and police are looking for witnesses after a vehicle collided with an electric mobility scooter in West Vancouver Wednesday.

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Exactly what happened isn’t yet clear,

though the driver remained at the scene and is being co-operative, Palmer said.

“What we know was there was a collision between the vehicle at the scooter at the crosswalk and we are asking . . . if there’s anyone who witnessed it and hasn’t yet spoken to officers, give us a call,” Palmer said. “No determination has been made yet in regard to charges.”

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T would seem that the Federal Elections Boundaries Commission had their minds made up from the beginning that lumping a chunk of north Burnaby with Seymour was the best solution to the problem of creating a new riding on the North Shore.

Commissioner Stewart Ladyman told the Huffington Post on Aug. 16 last year that “The North Burnaby-North Vancouver issue has been on the table for a number of commissions, and there is just no way this time around but to cross the river.”

Burnaby-Douglas New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart may not have been completely right when he charged at the time that the commission had no real intention of listening to the public on the issue. Clearly the commission listened; it says with “sympathy and appreciation to the cogently expressed

objections to this reconfiguration from several sources.”

It just chose to go ahead and do what it originally planned: lump together two geographically and demographically different areas that have nothing in common at the east end of that bit of the map above Vancouver while cutting a chunk off of the western end and lumping it in with the northern end of Vancouver Island.

This insensitive manipulation of riding boundaries pleases no one — even the Tory-dominated House of Commons committee that considered the proposal recommended against it.

Creating a second North VancouverSeymour riding and adjusted the eastern boundary of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country would result in better representation for the North Shore. Was that not the objective?

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Compass fare choice a PR disaster

Dear Editor: Imposing the dishonoring of bus tickets at the SeaBus and train stations under the Compass scheme is, of course, one of the stupidest plans from a PR standpoint that could be imagined.

But it also smacks of disingenuousness. Every station now already has the technology to read and analyze a bus ticket. It’s behind the slot you put your ticket in to buy an AddFare. All TransLink would have needed to do would be to put that technology in each new machine at a station, and modify it to issue not a replacement ticket as now, but a Compass ticket.

Alternatively, if they don’t want a war — which is where they now seem to be headed — they could

instruct their staff and police (and there’s going to be a long, long period during which someone has to be at each station entrance, every minute of every day the systems are open, to help passengers with the new passes) to accept each unexpired bus ticket and do their magic to make the fare machine spit out a free Compass ticket.

A simplistic form of “magic” would be — if pushing buttons in the right pattern is too difficult — to give them a bag of cash to buy each valid bus ticket holder a free Compass ticket. Even that would be better than any epidemic of passengers vaulting over the gates or trying to smash them open.

There are a lot of questions that haven’t yet been

answered about the new system. For one little example, the Lost Property office at Stadium/Chinatown will now be sealed behind the fare gates. I’m told you can use your pass to get in and then get out again free within 10 minutes. Good luck standing in line while your umbrella is searched for and then getting out again that quickly.

Glad you felt so confident in your focus groups, Mr. Zabel. Now welcome to the real world.

Your employers could still rescue themselves from their horrible mistake. Let’s see if they have the will to respond.

Anthony Buckland North Vancouver

Russia’s anti-gay laws designed to distract

Dear Editor: I write in reference to Trevor Lautens’ Aug. 17 column, We Shout Across Seas of Misunderstanding.

Lautens suggests that the Western world is imposing its culture on Russia. He writes that Westerners should focus on their own social problems of obesity, drugs, and economic problems such as consumer debt and youth unemployment. Perhaps Lautens is not aware that these problems are endemic in Russia.

Lautens’ right-wing, speeding train of Kafkaesque argument is off the track of logic. He compares the less-than-desirable but controllable societal constructs

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of obesity and consumer debt with the uncontrollable biology of homosexuality. I am not aware of any Western consumers being publicly flogged for credit card debt as has been suggested should happen in Siberia to samesex Russians for holding hands. Lautens also references a 1987 version of the Oxford Companion of the Mind to which he attributes a quote of homosexuality being “a perversion in the technical sense” as a modern statement, failing to disclose the quote originates with Alfred Adler who made it in the 1920s, nearly a century past.

The anti-gay laws in Russia have nothing to do with culture, Western or otherwise. These laws were

designed to create a massive campaign of hate against the GLBT community to distract Russian citizens from the real social and economic problems they face. The anti-gay laws in Russia are based on the anti-Jewish laws of Germany in the 1930s.

I support moving the Winter Olympics from Sochi to Vancouver, but not to punish anyone. It is my position that Russia cannot provide the legal and administrative infrastructure to protect the safety of athletes and visitors for simply expressing love which comes naturally in all cultures.

Hazen S. Colbert, North Vancouver

Closed transit system is not so secure Dear Editor: I am really concerned by the upcoming high barricades for SkyTrain that will result in insecurity for users of public transit. With gates locking out the bad guys from SkyTrain, what do you think the bad guys will do? They likely will be accosting good citizens taking transit buses at all times of the day and night. This is definitely a police issue for personal safety of transit users. Every ratchet up of train security puts the bus user at higher risk.

The idea of combining transit passes with protected personal information is also a serious hazard for users. Any possible misuse of personal information puts all users at risk. I am horrified to think the Compass plan could be linked to personal information. It’s a bus pass for goodness sake. More people will leave transit in favour of personal vehicles. Would gas companies See TransLink page 7

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Californian power sale ultimately penalized GOVERNMENTS like to try to bury bad news announcements, and using a Friday in the dog days of summer is usually a good time to try it.

That’s what the B.C. Liberal government did last week, with a bolt-from-theblue announcement that it was ending its decade-long fight with the state of California and electrical utilities there over whether BC Hydro acted legally when it sold power to the state in 2000 and 2001.

It’s been a fascinating story since it first unfolded, and the sudden end to it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. The way it has ended has also cost British Columbia a lot of money.

The out-of-court settlement cost BC Hydro $750 million (about $477 million in unpaid bills and $273 million as an actual payment). Considering the government’s fierce insistence for years that it would never back down because nothing illegal occurred, it’s

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extraordinary it is actually writing a cheque to the Americans (rather than walking away from unpaid debts).

The saga began in the winter of 2000-01, as California experienced an energy crisis brought on by a number of factors: a poorlyconceived de-regulation plan, aging energy generation and distribution facilities used by utility companies in the state, and an explosion in energy demands — it was an unusually cold winter, especially in the

northern part of the state.

Quite simply, California could not generate enough electricity on its own to keep up with demand, and so was forced to look outside the state for help. Rolling electrical blackouts were literally keeping the lights off, as well as the heat, in California homes.

One of the energy companies California officials called was BC Hydro, which sells surplus electricity it generates through its export subsidiary, Powerex.

At the time, I interviewed the energy traders responsible for selling the power to California. They use a complex system that requires them to ensure that BC energy demands are met before they start moving power outside the province.

They also are acutely aware of the price of electricity at any given moment. It is traded on an open, “spot” market and the price can vary at different times of day. In this situation, because California was in such a desperate and precarious

Enron, the notorious phony energy company, used schemes colourfully called Fat Boy, Death Star and Ricochet.

Enron would mislead California’s power grid operators on how much power was needed, in order to increase scarcity and boost prices, and then sell at the artificially high rate. It also created false “congestion” on the grid, and then charged huge prices to relieve the congestion.

Powerex was accused of being part of these schemes, although the company has strongly denied the allegations.

It has argued it was playing by all the rules, and had simply taken advantage of the looseness of those rules.

Energy Minister Bill Bennett has argued that throwing in the towel in this fight fends off what could have been an even more expensive outcome (more than $3 billion) if U.S. courts

situation, the price on that open market had skyrocketed and that meant BC Hydro, through Powerex, made a lot of money selling its power (roughly about $1 billion).

At the time, BC Hydro was viewed as a saviour by California for literally keeping the lights on in the state. In fact, the energy traders I talked to recalled how thankful their counterparts in the state had been over the phone.

However, within months, the Americans’ view had dimmed considerably, as they began to suspect they had been “played” by an energy market that had been manipulated by outside interests, including Powerex.

The company was accused, in a lawsuit, of engaging in a lot of “Enron-like games” that effectively and illegally fixed energy prices through manipulation and deceitfulness.

had ultimately ruled against Powerex.

He may be right, but his predecessors in that portfolio (most recently Rich Coleman) had adamantly maintained there was not a shred of evidence to implicate Powerex in any wrongdoing.

So what’s changed?

No real explanation has been provided, other than the claim that Powerex wants to “move forward and enhance (its) relationship with California” for future energy sales.

But it is a bitter and expensive pill to swallow, particularly since B.C.’s energy helped the state at such a critical time. If California ever goes through another such energy crisis, perhaps Powerex may think twice before picking up the phone when the Americans come calling.

Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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Unlicensed dogs targeted by NV District

Door-to-door campaign will seek voluntary compliance with bylaw Anne Watson awatson@nsnews.com

THE District of North Vancouver is conducting a door-to-door campaign to tally the number of households with dogs and put a leash on unlicensed canines.

According to the district, almost 50 percent of households have dogs but less than half actually license their pets.

“We’ve done it off and on a number of times through the years. We want to get a handle on how many dogs are out there, and that helps us formulate dog in park (policies) and off-leash areas as well, helps us plan,” said Carol Walker, chief bylaw officer with the district.

“But also the purpose of licensing your dog

is to make sure that the shelter is being able to operate. All the fees from dog licences go towards our animal shelter.”

The district has hired a canvasser specifically for the survey, at a cost of approximately $7,000.

Walker said the canvasser started last week, has visited 500 homes already and is not going to homes that currently have dog licences.

“The canvasser will visit all other homes on the street, including those that have not yet renewed their dog licence for 2013,” she said.

“There may also be obvious signs that a dog lives there and we ask that the owners obtain a licence for their pet within a week.”

The district will follow up by checking their records again, re-visiting the home or calling, said Walker. If residents are not home, the canvasser will leave a door hanger with information and follow up until each dog is licensed.

Neighbours have also advised the canvasser where dogs live in the area.

“I think it is very effective. Sometimes people are too busy to do the little things like get your dog licence, so it’s just an easy way,” she said.

“We offer it at the door and it’s a simple little process. If they have the information if their dog has been spayed or neutered that reduces the licence fee as well.”

Under bylaw 5981, if you live in the district and own a dog, you must get it licensed.

Licences can range in price from $36.50 for a dog that is spayed or neutered, to $87 for an aggressive dog.

Owners must renew dog licences every year by the end of January.

“We also have a $10 fee reduction for the licences that are bought in January, and after Feb. 1 they go up by $10,” said Walker. “It really encourages people to get them in early.”

She said the feedback has been good so far and generally there have been no complaints.

“We want people to get their licence and it’s an opportunity to educate them about why that’s important for them,” said Walker. “If the dog ever got lost, a licence is a great way to ensure that your dog gets back home safely to you.”

Last year, the district issued approximately 6,600 dog licences and 6,425 have been issued this year to date.

Eighty dogs have been turned in to the shelter so far this year, as lost or impounded by Animal Welfare Officers, and more than half of those were licensed, said Walker.

Owners for the remaining dogs were required to license their dog before it could be released and paid a higher impound fee, $150 as opposed to the $95 for a licensed dog. The owners may also have been fined.

“We really wish to have voluntary compliance, but may issue a fine for non-compliance,” she said. “An unlicensed ticket, and of course we’re not concentrating on that, but that could be a $100 fine later if people do fail, after our attempts, to get them to license voluntarily.”

Licences can be purchased or renewed at the district hall, Animal Welfare Shelter or online through the district’s website. The canvasser is also supplying a new map of trails and parks, including information on dog etiquette, from the parks department.

“I think our dogs are so lucky here on the North Shore,” said Walker. “They have great families to care for them and if they ever do get lost, we’ve got a shelter that would welcome them and help them to come home.”

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Hikers with no map, no flashlight stranded TWO UBC students ended up on the wrong path in the North Shore backcountry Tuesday after failing to bring a map or account for fading summer light.

The pair spent the afternoon hiking near Quarry Rock in Deep Cove on Aug. 20 when they lost track of the Baden Powell Trail and found themselves in somewhat alien surroundings.

North Shore Rescue typically attempts to pinpoint a stranded hiker’s location with smartphone GPS coordinates. In this case, both hikers favoured older cellphones without GPS. The wayward hikers, both in their late 20s, described seeing a dock and power lines. Their description was enough for NSR, who scrambled a team and ushered the students to Quarry Rock.

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Hikers tend to overlook the importance of flashlights in late summer, according to NSR team leader Tim Jones.

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Friday, August 23, 2013 - North Shore News - A11

Review rescue collaboration practice

Paul Daniell Contributing writer

TIM Jones of North Shore Rescue has been receiving a lot of airtime supporting his proposals for increased funding and other supports.

I applaud the greatly valued contributions of NSR volunteers and agree with some points about challenges facing the SAR volunteer sector, but Jones’ plan and rationale defending it raise serious questions.

His statements about wanting costly helicopters and highly trained helicopter rescue technicians are particularly troubling as he fails continually to acknowledge that other excellent SAR resources already exist in British Columbia and that improved collaboration with them could be beneficial.

Canadian taxpayers already fund a world-award winning, highly trained and well equipped nation-wide Canadian Forces Search and Rescue (CFSAR) organization.

Based nearby in Comox, 442 Squadron has outstanding resources providing the very services that Jones is calling for. Their Buffalo search planes and Cormorant helicopters are admittedly aged, but well maintained, reliable and widely recognized within the SAR sector as highly capable equipment, particularly well suited to the challenging conditions in the mountains of B.C. and northern Canada.

The training program within CFSAR is so extensive that search and rescue technicians

(SAR techs) are considered the most highly trained of all military trades in Canada, excelling even by global standards. The resources, funding and effort that goes into training SAR techs cannot possibly be duplicated in the volunteer sector.

CBC Radio has provided Tim Jones with numerous opportunities to promote his views without presenting any other perspectives, or questioning the role of NSR related to other organizations in the SAR sector.

During the CBC Almanac radio show of Aug. 14, a couple of callers raised points on the need for collaboration, but Jones brushed them off and the host/interviewer did nothing to pursue the matter.

I wrote an email to CBC and was pleased when they began reading it on a follow-up program, then shocked as they censored my text, omitting the part where I stated that better collaboration was needed as well as clarification of facts in the Sebastien Boucher rescue.

The story of the Boucher rescue warrants scrutiny — it should serve as a case

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But, as told to date, it has built sensational momentum fuelled on misinformation, which is not helpful to the SAR sector.

It’s good that NSR ended up getting a sizable donation they can use to replace costly equipment lost at the time of their search for Boucher, and it’s good to see that Boucher’s earlier insensitivity to the people who risked their lives for him unnecessarily, turned around and led to the raising of funds for NSR as well as the work he reportedly plans with Cypress Mountain to discourage others from going out of bounds in future.

However, media coverage based on quotes from Boucher and Jones stating specifically that NSR rescued him are at best inaccurate and misleading, and in reality, simply untrue.

Boucher may not understand the difference, but Tim Jones certainly does.

In fact, the NSR attempt to rescue Boucher failed, and their team never reached him — they got into serious trouble in the treacherous terrain and deteriorating conditions. CFSAR was ultimately engaged, and both Boucher and the NSR team were rescued by SAR techs of 442 Squadron using a Cormorant helicopter from Comox.

CFSAR does not seek media attention and had no appetite for a public debate, but noted Jones’ inaccurate and misleading statements.

Jones reportedly apologized to CFSAR at one point for misrepresenting facts to the

media, but eight months later the media coverage has become very substantial and international, all based on the erroneous notion that NSR did the rescue.

North Shore Rescue’s handling of the Boucher search raised questions that in other industries or sectors would have become the subject of a post-operation review. CFSAR should have been engaged earlier, before the local situation and conditions deteriorated to a point of endangering more lives.

As is not uncommon with situations that require difficult and dangerous rescues, like major transport accidents, human shortcomings in risk management and decision making are often at issue exacerbating other problems. Follow-up review and discussion should have examined the roles played by the SAR organizations involved for opportunities to improve management and collaboration practices in future.

As the spokesperson for NSR, it is understandable that Jones strives to maintain a public profile and image, all of which helps to secure funding, but he should know that sharing credit always pays dividends — while playing loose with facts is never good.

Some credit should indeed go to NSR for the search, but credit for the rescue belongs to our SAR techs and pilots, who are among the very best in the world. With extraordinary training and skills, they take on the most dangerous jobs that no other resources can handle,

given further consideration, there should be a review of collaborative practices within the SAR sector in this province to ensure that proper and effective use is made of available resources, both for the sake of best practices in search and rescue, and for ensuring the best use of public funds.

This should also foster a process to help improve risk management practices and decision making in the SAR volunteer sector, perhaps including educational courses and peer reviews of rescues that encountered problems.

often placing their own lives in peril, “so that others may live” — a key principle of their creed. As a nation, we owe more recognition and respect to the individuals serving in our military and all first responders.

We all have great appreciation for the work of volunteers in the SAR sector, including the work of NSR volunteers who are deservingly viewed as heroes on the North Shore. I have no wish to belittle or undermine NSR in any way, but it was wrong of Jones to build the media myth of the Boucher rescue, and worse to leverage that myth in his latest campaign to secure more public funding, much of which he would apparently squander on unnecessary and wasteful duplication.

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Seymour Golf & Country Club charity invitational

Helen Wait, Louise DeVita, Donnie Kerr, and Dorothy Redlinger

Gail Landsberger and Andrea Spitz More than 130 golfers gathered at the Seymour Golf and Country Club on July 11 for the 20th annual Charity Invitational Golf Tournament Sunflower Swing to raise money for the North Shore Schizophrenia Society’s Family Support Centre. Play began with a shotgun start, and participants moved around the links in decorated golf carts. Lunch was served on the clubhouse deck. The event also included a silent auction.

More than $45,000 was raised for the charity.

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Frances Wright, Joyce Sorensen, Rose Reid and Audrey Mittendorfer

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DEEP Cove is home to some wide variety: there’s freshly made donuts, kayaking, hiking trails and stand-up paddle boarding — which looks like a canoeist got confused and ended up on a surfboard and thought, “Well, I’m here now,” and paddled away.

On top of that unique resume is the end-of-summer celebration bash called Deep Cove Daze, a day crammed to the brim with fine festive food, concocted child capers, wild wonky wares, awesome arranged art, magnificently mixed music and boisterously bottled beer.

While many families can spend the day perusing and enjoying the grounds, there’s plenty of reasons to prepare a picnic basket, lay out a blanket, and watch the stage.

With a musical lineup featuring the Deep Cove Big Band, LOMBOK, Old Man Canyon, JP Maurice, various battle-of-the-band and singing competition winners and finalists, and Dominique Fricot, there’s plenty to be excited for.

Recently Fricot took time out of his schedule to speak with The North Shore News about his music.

Having just released a new video and single called “Our Last Song” on Tuesday, Aug. 13, Fricot is happy with the first days since its release.

“It’s been getting a lot of great responses. It had something like 2,000 views the first day it came out,” Fricot said.

The song itself is about a brutal break-up and the pain that follows, but ends

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with the inspiration to move on.

“So in love, so full of hope, before you stopped laughing at my jokes,” Fricot sings at the beginning of the tune. Even in the video he appears disheveled, wasting away on the couch listening to music for hours on end.

“I can finally say I can make it OK when you’re not here,” he adds later, finally cleaning himself up, bit by bit. And not just his appearance, but his apartment too, escaping his mind to a brighter day, you could say.

While heartbreak and lost love are not new themes to music, it’s Fricot’s genuine voice and lyrics that push his music above the myriad of pop-song clichés.

He was even awarded $10,000 by 102.7 The Peak for his song “Haunted by Love,” crafted when he first went through a painful breakup.

Now, more than a year later, the singer/guitar/keyboard player is taking a more positive direction with his music. While “Haunted by Love” was reflective of his life at the time, his new album, currently unnamed, offers a peek at the sun behind those dark clouds he lived under.

“I think my first record was quite sombre and dark,” he said. “And this one was more about emerging from darkness. A lot more lighter tones will be used I think.”

Performing has changed for Fricot as he grows over the years, but he still feels the same kind of nerves he did when he first went on stage in Grade 6.

“Me and three friends played the talent show, we played a Nirvana song,” Fricot recalls. “I just remember feeling excited. It’s kind of funny, before you go on you have a swell of nerves building up inside you, there’s all this fear, and it all sort of forms into this … it’s a transformation you would never expect to occur.”

Taking that fear and moulding it on stage into a part of his energy is something Fricot has done for the past decade, and it’s paying off.

In early August he was invited to perform at the Squamish Music Festival,

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CALENDAR

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Diamonds at the market

AWARD-WINNING children’s entertainer Charlotte Diamond played at the plaza outside Lonsdale Quay Market on Aug. 18 with her son Matt Diamond. The duo delighted kids and their families as part of SummerFest. They are celebrating more than 25 years of recording and performing family music with a new CD entitled 24 Carrot Diamond: The Best of Charlotte Diamond. Scan photo with Layar to watch a video.

GALLERIES Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: TuesdaySunday, noon to 5 p.m. Info: 778-2339805 or artemisgallery.ca.

The Bakehouse: 2453 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

The Bakehouse in Edgemont Village: 1050 Queens Rd., North Vancouver.

B.C. Mills Museum at Lynn Headwater Park: 4900 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: 604-224-5739.

B.C. Binning Residence: 2968 Mathers Cres., West Vancouver. Info: 604-7332313 or conservancy.bc.ca.

Bellevue Gallery: 2475 Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: TuesdayFriday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and outside gallery hours by appointment. Info: bellevuegallery.ca.

Binkley Sculpture Studios: 535 East First St., North Vancouver. Info: MichaelBinkley.com or 604-984-8574.

Brewster’s Coffee: 2436 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: 604925-9820.

BrushStrokes Gallery: Lonsdale Quay, 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. Hours: Sunday, 11:30 a.m.6 p.m., Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Info: nsartists.ca.

Members of The North Shore Artists’ Guild display a variety of original art including oil paintings, watercolours, acrylics and mixed media on an ongoing basis with new works every month.

Buckland Southerst Gallery: 2460 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604922-1915 or bucklandsoutherst.com.

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CALENDAR From page 14 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Info: 778-340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@gmail.com. myconceptstore: An exhibition with a fully functioning store featuring a variety of products that artist Dirk Fleischmann has produced through over a decade of economic art projects will run until Aug. 27.

Caroun Art Gallery: 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver. Info: caroun.net, 778-3720765 or artgallery@caroun.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.

My Personal Experiences: A photography exhibition by Mina Iran Pour will run until Aug. 29.

Call for Submissions: Caroun Art Gallery is currently accepting works for a group exhibition in October. Deadline: Friday, Aug. 30.

Photography Competition: Professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit works for this annual competition. Deadline for submissions: Sept. 30.

Centennial Theatre: 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: centennialtheatre. com.

CityScape Community Art Space: 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604988-6844 or nvartscouncil.ca. Gallery hours: Monday- Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Talking Heads: An exhibition featuring 14 surface design artists who have created contemporary headdresses will run until Sept.

7. There will be a free family headdress making workshop Saturday, Aug. 24, 2-4 p.m. Supplies will be provided.

Art Rental Show: Buy or rent artwork right off the gallery walls from Sept. 13 to Oct. 5.

The show will feature more than 300 pieces of original artwork ranging from $10 to $40 per month created by over 100 local artists.

Opening reception: Thursday, Sept. 12, 7-9 p.m.

Art Rental Salon: An ongoing art rental programme with a variety of original artwork available ranging from $10 to $40 per month.

Coastal Patterns Gallery: 582 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday,

noon-5 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-7624623, 778-997-9408 or coastalpatternsgallery. com.

Cove Creek Gallery: 4349 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

David Pirrie Studio: 1210 Arborlynn Dr., North Vancouver. Info: davidpirrie.com.

David Neel Gallery: 104 West Esplanade, North Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Info: 604-988-9215 or davidneel.com.

Delany’s Coffee House: 2424 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-921-4466.

Delany’s Coffee House: The Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver.

Exhibit: Framed oil on canvas and paper paintings by the late Waldermar Smolarek will be on display until Sept. 4. Info: smolarekart. com.

District Foyer Gallery: 355 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: MondayFriday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Info: 604-9886844 or nvartscouncil.ca.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of acrylic paintings by Maxine Wolodko and model ships

by Kenneth Mitchell until Sept. 3.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of acrylic paintings by Jeff Wilson and blown glass works

by Miyuki Shinkai Sept. 4-Oct. 29. Opening reception: Thursday, Sept. 5, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

District Library Gallery: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: nvartscouncil.ca.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of semi abstracted landscapes by Tina Townsend until Sept. 17.

Ferry Building Gallery: 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Admission to all shows is free.

Info: 604-925-7290 or ferrybuildinggallery. com. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.5 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Painters’ Landing: Local artists will work, exhibit and sell art outdoors at Ambleside Landing and Millenium Park Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. until Oct. 27.

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FULL confession: I didn’t really know what I was going to see when I signed up for the You’re Next screening. I walked into the theatre and saw a hundred or so people wearing scary tiger masks.

I took my place somewhat nervously beside a couple who were smooching creepily through their masks, and quickly figured out that I was writing up a horror movie, not a Disney flick.

Alas, the creepy scenario I walked into (note to self: must pen screenplay about a movie critic who gets offed by a group of farm-animalloving horror fans) was more entertaining than the bulk of You’re Next, tantalizing though the trailers may be.

A dysfunctional, welloff family finds itself under siege in an isolated country home, in classic horror home-invasion style (think Last House on the Left, Straw Dogs, Evil Dead). Middle-aged parents (Larry Fessenden, Barbara Crampton) have invited their thirty-something kids up for the weekend to celebrate their anniversary. But that Awkward Family Photos-style portrait on the wall suggests that the milestone won’t go smoothly.

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ANIMAL masks play a big part in You’re Next, a humorous horror movie about one dysfunctional family caught in a gory crisis.

Scan photo with Layar to watch a trailer for the film and to get local showtimes. girlfriend Erin (Sharni Vinson), dodging questions about a stalled career.

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smart enough to stay quiet, sulking in the background.

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Zee cracks her gum during grace and puts her feet up on the chair, so she’s clearly bad news; mom is on some kind of medication. If

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Erin turns out to be the best equipped in a crisis,

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No thinking involved in hammy horror movie From page 16 or refusing to utter the inevitably deadly phrase “everything’s going to be OK, I promise.”

The film offers plenty of laughs along with the high body count, and at times it feels like cheating, a slasher pic that is that self-mocking. The Davison dynamics provide comic relief (“would you just die already?” pleads one family member to another), but the film

relies heavily on “boo” moments, the nervous-tick camerawork is unnecessary, and the soundtrack sounds a bit like the “Sounds of Halloween” CD I bought from the dollar store.

The cast is suitably hammy: many are horror veterans. At first glance mom seems entirely too young for elastic waist pants and sensible shoes, but she’s the remarkably well-preserved Barbara Crampton, whom I remember from my high school days watching The Young

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CALENDAR From page 15 with artists Cheryl Painter, Mary Touhey, Joanne Waters and Leslie McGuffin will run until Sept. 8. Meet the artists: Saturday, Aug. 24, 2-3 p.m.

Fire: An exhibition of West Vancouver Fire Museum paintings, artifacts and fire trucks Sept. 10-29. Vintage fire trucks will be on display Sept. 14 and 21, 2-5 p.m.

Opening reception: Tuesday, Sept. 10, 6-8 p.m.

Call for Entry: All past and present North Shore, Sea to Sky Corridor, Bowen Island and Sunshine Coast artists are invited to submit works for an upcoming exhibit. Drop-off

Sunday, Sept. 29, 9-11 a.m. and pick-up 3-4 p.m. at the West Vancouver Community Centre, 2121 Marine Dr. The Gallery at Artisan Square: 587 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island. Info: 604947-2454 or biac.ca. Hours: Friday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m.

Gallery YoYo: 312 East Esplanade, North Vancouver.

Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 1-5:30 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-9832896.

Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art: 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Friday, from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10:30

a.m.-3 p.m. Adult admission by donation/children free.

Info: 604-903-3798.

Tours will be offered on Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m.

Registration required: info@ smithfoundation.ca.

Graffiti Co. Art Studio: 171 East First St., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 1:30-6:30 p.m. or by appointment.

Info: 604-980-1699 or gcartstudio@shaw.ca.

Holy Trinity Elementary School: 128 West 27th St., North Vancouver.

Art in the Atrium: A community exhibit of 27+ local artists will take place

with a reception Sept. 7, 68:30 p.m. and Sept. 8, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Info: 604929-4431.

Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver.

Info: kaymeekcentre.com or 604-981-6335.

Lions Bay Art Gallery: 350 Centre Rd., Lions Bay. Gallery hours: MondaySunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: lionsbayartgallery.com or 604-921-7865.

Featuring established and upcoming artists.

Lynnmour Art Studio and Gallery: 301-1467 Crown St., North Vancouver. Info: nsartists.ca/garyeder or 604929-4001. Gallery hours:

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Mystic Mask Art Studio: 319 West 28th St., North Vancouver.

North Vancouver City Library: 120 West 14th St., North Vancouver. Info: 604998-3455 or nvcl.ca.

North Vancouver Community History Centre: 3203 Institute Rd., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Info: 604-990-3700, ext. 8016 or nvma.ca.

Imagining North Vancouver: Learn about the beginnings of North Vancouver and how it came to be with an exhibit about dreamer Edward Mahon. Runs until Sept. 30.

North Vancouver Museum: 209 West Fourth St., North Vancouver. Open by appointment only. Info: 604-990-3700, ext. 8016.

North Vancouver Experience, an ongoing exhibit defining life in North Vancouver.

Pendulum Gallery: 885 West Georgia St., Vancouver.

Gallery hours: MondayWednesday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m.9 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

40 Years and Beyond: A group exhibition featuring 46 members in celebration of Circle Craft’s 40th anniversary will run until Aug. 24.

Presentation House Gallery: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5

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Collected Shadows and Another Happy Day: Photographs from the Archive of Modern Conflict and found photographs collected

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PresentationHouseSatellite Gallery: 560 Seymour St., Vancouver. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Info: satellitegallery.ca.

Ron Andrews Community Space: 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9878873 or 604-347-8922.

Wabi Sabi and Impressions of Stillness: Eco-art sculptural objects by Heather Fowler and paintings of animals and people in their environment

by Graham Coulthard will be on display until Sept. 8.

Seymour Art Gallery: 4360 GallantAve.,NorthVancouver.

Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Info: 604-924-1378 or seymourartgallery.com.

Transformation and Renewal: An exhibition of three of Luke Parnell’s carving works will run until Sept. 7.

Art Party: A fundraising exhibition of original artwork by more than 50 local artists selling for $100, $200 or $300. Sept. 10-Oct. 5.

Opening reception: Tuesday, Sept. 10, 7 p.m.

Shelton Art /Studios Gallery: 3540 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Studio visits by appointment. Info: 604922-5356 or sheltonart.com.

Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver.

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Fricot set to release next album in spring From page 13 which he says was one of the top five best performances of his life. It’s a far cry from when he first started recording and questioning every little bit of his work to now allowing himself to be open with people about his feelings.

He’s expecting to drop his next single in October with an album to follow by spring, 2014.

“It’s more in sound to be played in a seated venue, or a church or cathedral,” Fricot said. “Like larger reverberant halls.

In terms of it being a dark record, that’s yet to be seen.”

Fricot will be playing the final set at Deep Cove Daze on Sunday, Aug. 25 from 7 to 8 p.m.

Other show information can be found at musart.ca.

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CALENDAR From page 18 Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Info: 604-9257292 or silkpurse.ca.

Beautiful Canada: Husband and wife artists Bob and Masako Araki will exhibit their artistic interpretations of our country, from coast to coast, until Sept. 1.

Leaves and Tides: Ann Willsie’s impressionistic forests and landscapes and Jeff Wilson’s coastal compositions will be on display from Sept. 3 to 22. Opening reception: Tuesday, Sept.

3, 6-8 p.m.

Silent Poetry Art Studio: 1079B Roosevelt Cres., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-312-1184, 604-781-4606 or silentpoetryartstudio.wordpress.com.

Original Art, mentoring and classes with Sharka Leigh and Sandrine Pelissier.

Space Emmarts Studio: 1432 Rupert St., North Vancouver.

Hours: Wednesday and Friday, 2-5 p.m. and by appointment.

Info: 604-770-2545 or originals@emmarts.ca.

Starfire Studio: 6607 Royal Ave., West Vancouver. Info: 604922-5510 or starfireattheferries.com.

Studio Art Gallery at Capilano University: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: 604-986-1911, local 2053.

West Vancouver Memorial Library: 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-925-7400 or westvanlibrary.ca.

West Vancouver Art Instructors Exhibit: A show that demonstrates the wide variety of media, styles and approaches employed by District of West Vancouver art instructors in the creation of their own work will run until Oct. 2.

West Vancouver Municipal Hall: 750 17th St., West Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 p.m. Info: 604-9257290.

Art in the Hall: Mario Traina’s images created using digital infrared techniques will be on display until Sept. 11.

West Vancouver Museum: 680 17th St., West Vancouver.

Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: 604925-7295 or westvancouvermuseum.ca.

West Coast Points East — Ron Thom and the Allied Arts: A multifaceted exhibition of Ron Thom’s architecture will run until Sept. 21.

Yeats Studio & Gallery: 2402 Marine Dr., West Vancouver.

Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Info: 778279-8777.

CONCERTS Café for Contemporary Art: 138-140 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Info: 778-340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@gmail.com.

Capilano Mall: 935 Marine Dr., North Vancouver.

Capilano River Regional Park: Cleveland Dam, Capilano Road, North Vancouver.

Music in the Park: Bring a picnic and enjoy an afternoon of music and art. Musical performances from 2 to 4 p.m. Schedule: Aug. 25, Jillian Christmas; Sept. 2, David Blair,12 p.m.; Rose Ranger, 1 p.m.; Justin O’Donahue Trio, 2 p.m.; Patrick Ernst Trio, 3 p.m.; Blackberry Wood, 4 p.m.; High Society Band, 5 p.m. Info: nvartscouncil.ca or 604-988-6844.

Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-990-7810 or capilanou.

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Monday movies WEST Vancouver Memorial Library has been hosting movie nights on Mondays throughout the month of August. The next showing is Quartet on Aug. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Welsh Hall. Starring Maggie Smith, the film revolves around a new resident who arrives at a home for retired musicians — and rumour has it, she’s a star. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Library. WVML is located at 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Visit westvanlibrary.ca or call 604-925-7407 for more information. ca/nscucentre.

Cates Park: 200-block Dollarton Hwy., North Vancouver.

Cates Park Concert Series: A free summer concert series Saturdays from 4 to 7 p.m. Schedule: Aug. 24, Tessa Mouourakis, Joel Willoughby, Barry Ross, Ben Rogers, Connor Roff, Brett Wilderman, Alea Rae, Steel Audrey, Jeremy Allingham.

Cedar Springs Retirement Residence: 3633 Mount Seymour Parkway, North Vancouver. Info: 604-986-3633 or cedarspringsresidence.ca.

Centennial Theatre: 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

Info: centennialtheatre.com. Box office: 604-984-4484.

Civic Plaza: 14th Street and Lonsdale Avenue.

Artisan Fair: Crafts along with free musical performances from noon to 4 p.m. Schedule: Aug. 24, The Pat Ernst Trio. Info:

nvartscouncil.ca or 604-988-6844.

Deep Cove Coffee House: Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver. Info: lindabates@shaw. ca or 604-929-4019.

Deep Cove Shaw Theatre: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

Intimate Evening: Canadian music legend Roy Forbes will perform a fundraising concert for First Impressions Theatre Sept. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. Admission: $30. Tickets: firstimpressionstheatre.com. Info: 604-929-9456 Edgemont Village: Edgemont Boulevard, North Vancouver.

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CALENDAR From page 20 Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m.

Schedule: Aug. 23, House Party.

Ferry Building Gallery: 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver.

Outdoor Chamber Concert: Percussion professionals Daniel Tones and Ed Reifel will perform alongside participants from the 2013 Contemporary Percussion Intensive Saturday, Aug. 31 at 4 p.m. Free.

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church: 1110 Gladwin Dr., North Vancouver.

Highlands United Church: 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver.

Hillside Baptist Church: 870 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver.

John Braithwaite Community Centre: 145 West First St., North Vancouver.

Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver.

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How Can I Keep From Singing: Cayla Brooke will perform a tribute to the life and music of Eva Cassidy Sept.

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Early Music Vancouver: Tanya Tomkins will perform three Bach suites on the baroque cello Sunday, Sept.

22 at 3 p.m. There will be a pre-concert chat with host Matthew White at 2:15 p.m.

Tickets: $36/$18.

Lonsdale Quay: 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. Info: lonsdalequay.com.

Concert Series Sundays: A free summer concert series Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m.

Schedule: Aug. 25, Mostly Marley and Sept. 1, Studio Cloud 30 Showcase.

Lynn Valley Library: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9840286, ext. 8144 or nvdpl.ca.

Lynn Valley Village: Lynn Valley Road and Mountain Highway, North Vancouver.

Live in Lynn Valley Village: A free weekly summer concert series Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. Schedule: Aug. 23, The Bobcats.

Lynn Valley United Church: 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. Info: lynnvalleychurch.com.

The Media Club: 695 Cambie St., Vancouver.

Album Release: Dubai will perform in celebration of their recently released album titled Fill the Sky Sunday, Sept. 1 at 9 p.m. Doors open at 8 p.m.

Admission: $10.

Mount Seymour United Church: 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver.

Blueridge International Chamber Music Festival: A series of concerts until Aug. 24. Schedule: Aug. 24, 2 p.m., The Archduke and Friends.

Tickets: $20/$10. Reservations: blueridge.chamber@ gmail.com or 604-779-6737.

Park & Tilford Shopping Centre: 333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver.

Saturday Session: The Adam Woodall Band and Rosco will perform Aug. 31 from noon to 3 p.m.

Presentation House Theatre: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Tickets: phtheatre.org or 604990-3474.

Seymour Art Gallery: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9241378 or seymourartgallery. com.

Shipbuilders’ Square: 15 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver.

Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver.

Info and reservations: 604925-7292 or silkpurse.ca.

The Jazz Waves Festival will run through August at 7:30 p.m. with a variety of styles including jazz, blues, boggiewoogie, Latin jazz, free form and more. Schedule: Aug. 24,

Locarno. Tickets: $25/$20.

Songs of the British Isles: Tenor Hewe Gwynne and pianist Nicole Thomas will perform Thursday, Aug. 29 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15/$12.

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NEWS photos Cindy Goodman

TUESDAY mornings throughout the summer Lynn Valley Main Library hosted Stories Alive, featuring picture books, songs, movement and more for children and their families. At left, Lydia McCairns, 5, makes hand gestures to accompany a song, at centre, three-year-old Sahara Derkoch is temporarily distracted by a row of polkadots on her summer dress, and at right, two-year-old Cora McCairns watches with interest as a librarian turns the pages of a picture book.

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THE Canadian government put her father in an internment camp.

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About 70 years later, that father returned to Steveston to see his daughter, Donna Yamamoto, perform in Salmon Row. Staged on the Britannia Shipyards, the production features music and stories chronicling the diverse group of Canadians who sustained themselves at the mouth of the Fraser River.

For Donna Yamamoto, it’s a story that reaches across generations by giving the past a pulse.

“There’s a short little scene where our boat is taken away and I have to talk to the audience right afterwards about the internment, and I just think about what my parents must have gone through and I always get a lump in my throat. It’s a real, honest lump because I think this is not just a play, it’s history,” she says.

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The family’s fortunes have changed considerably since the 1940s.

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“It brought me back to a time. I thought about my family, what it was like to live in Steveston,” she says. “It was great to do a piece that had social significance.”

Part of the play’s resonance rests in its examination of the relationships between Chinese and Japanese Canadians, as well as

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“There was some tension but also there was some collaboration and there was some respect. It’s just not about our story, the Japanese Canadians, it’s about the whole community in Steveston,” Yamamoto says.

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CALENDAR From page 21 Yuri Zaidenberg and pianist Eugene Skovorodnikov will join forces for a concert Thursday, Sept. 19 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15/$12.

Pianist Karen Lee-Morlang will perform Thursday, Sept.

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truly been communicated.

“My father and that generation, they don’t talk much about the internment. Part of it is because they use a term called ‘shikata ga nai.’ It’s a Japanese term meaning it can’t be helped, you just move forward. And so they just moved forward.”

Her father, now 86, was put in Lemon Creek in the Slocan Valley.

“My father, I think, is very proud to see a show that talks about his history,” Yamamoto says.

However, her father’s experience was vastly different from the experience of Yamamoto’s grandmother.

“For his age, it was a bit of an adventure,” she explains.

“For my grandmother it must’ve been horrible, leaving everything and coming back to nothing.”

Yamamoto’s character is loosely based on Asayo Murakami, a Japanese picture bride who broke her marriage contract and supported herself by working in a cannery.

The character also evoked memories of Yamamoto’s relatives.

“There’s so many of my aunties and my mom and my grandmother that are in this one character because they had to be strong.”

Penned by Nicola Harwood, Salmon Row has been condensed into its current 90-minute form.

“When you see it, it’s just snippets of a really rich, longer story,” Yamamoto says. “Nicola Harwood did a fantastic job of just getting to the heart of things.”

Salmon Row’s three stories were ultimately melded into a single play.

Having biked across wide swaths of the Kootenays, Yamamoto found it hard to find signs of the time when citizenship papers were rendered worthless for thousands of Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia.

“That history and the story are going to be lost unless we tell it to the next generation,” Yamamoto says. “Some of my aunties and uncles mentioned last time: ‘This is the way it was.’ I could see it in their eyes.”

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The Balconies having a ball on the road

Toronto band shows off their new sound on tour Nicholas M. Pescod Contributing Writer

EARLIER this month The Balconies performed their first headlining show in Vancouver at Venue.

Jacquie Neville, along with her brother and bassist Steve Neville, guitarist Liam Jaeger and drummer Theo Mckibbon make up the Toronto power pop punk band.

They’ve previously shared the stage with the Cold War Kids, Mother Mother, Tokyo Police Club, Puddle of Mudd and the Sam Roberts Band. Their previous performance in Vancouver saw them up open twice for Big Sugar at the Commodore Ballroom.

“We had a really great time it exposed us to a lot of great people,” Neville says.

The Balconies originally started out as a three-piece but late last year they decided to bring in a new drummer and have Jaeger join Neville on guitar.

“It felt like the right time to make a change,” Jaeger explains. “It’s always fun to bring in some new elements to keep it fresh.

I think that between the three of us, we had always been kind of purists of the three-piece rock band. After a while you feel like you could be doing more.”

As the band progressed The Balconies started noticing that their sound was getting a little heavier and they felt that they didn’t have that extra kick anymore.

“We were pushing our live show a lot harder and our sound was getting fuller. It

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THE Balconies have a fresh new sound as a four-piece (with the addition of drummer Theo Mckibbon). They are currently working on a new album, set for release in early 2014. was really natural to evolve into a four-piece,” Jaeger says.

Although Jaeger had five years of guitar under his belt he originally got behind the drums leaving Neville on guitar.

“It was just kind of a way for me to try and

excel on guitar. It forced me to practise really hard and improve as much as I could,” she says.

Initially, Jaeger was worried that adding a second guitar player would take the focus away from their lead singer.

“We tried it out and then we realized that Jacquie has got so much of that star quality that people are going to be drawn to her whether I’m there or not,” Jaeger says.

The Balconies could not be more thrilled to have new drummer Mckibbon join the band.

“He’s a really experienced musician and we love him,” Neville says. “I feel that he adds an exciting new dynamic to the band because he’s a true rock ’n’ roll drummer. He plays with so much passion and heart and that’s what we’ve been looking for all along.

“It creates more of a balance from an audience perspective. I am really excited about the new dynamic. It’s a change but this is exactly the kind of evolution that I foresaw,” she adds.

The Balconies are currently working on a new record which they plan to release sometime in early 2014.

“The album is definitely a lot heavier. I would say it falls in the category of alternative rock. It’s the evolution that I’m very excited to take,” Jacquie says. “There are still the typical Balconies hooks that we like to feature but it has more of a rock ’n’ roll dirty vibe.”

In years past, The Balconies have written songs together. However, for their upcoming album, which has not been named yet, they spent time in songwriting sessions.

“That was the first time we ever really worked in a songwriting boot camp kind of thing,” Jaeger says. “We’ve always just tinkered away at songs. In the past, we’d always record them the way we’d play them live. We’d been touring so much that we never really had taken the time to write and rework ideas.”

The upcoming full-length album was produced by Arnold Lanni, who has previously

See The Balconies page 34

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Designer gift co-op debuts in LoLo Christine Lyon clyon@nsnews.com

WHEN people used to ask Janelle Bakker if she planned to open a bricks-and-mortar location of her online baby products store, her answer was always a resounding “No way.”

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Having her own boutique was a nice thought, sure, but the expense and time commitment that comes with starting a retail establishment was too great for the North Vancouver mother of two young boys.

Thanks to a co-operative business model, though, Bakker has been able to get her Yaya Baby gear onto local shelves. She recently partnered with West Vancouver mom Jean Stenhouse, who runs LittleMoSo children’s clothing, and in early August the pair opened In Good Company at 67 Lonsdale Ave. Bakker and Stenhouse lease the space and rent out sections to other local entrepreneurs who deal in fashion, giftware, kids’ stuff and more.

“We’re not big businesses, so having a retail store like this, we’re in the most amazing location, I mean, it never would have been a reality for each of us just on our own,” Bakker says.

Each vendor is expected to work eight hours per week at the shop. Whoever is tending the cash desk uses a handy iPad application that tracks customer purchases and vendors are paid out twice a month for their sales.

The co-operative model was inspired by Giving Gifts & Company on Main Street in Vancouver, where both Bakker and Stenhouse rent space to showcase their goods.

“We thought, ‘This is awesome,’” Bakker says.

“There’s nothing like this on the North Shore.”

So, they gathered a group of predominantly North Shorebased artisans and entrepreneurs See Co-operative page 30

Janelle Bakker has co-founded the co-operative gift shop In Good Company. She wears a dress and bag from vendor Love Me 2 Times.

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to set up a similar co-op shop closer to home.

“This way our time commitment is smaller, our financial investment is smaller. Most of us are just small businesses starting out. A lot of the vendors make their own products,” says Bakker.

“When we all work together it ends up that we all can do better and we can do more.”

In Good Company currently has 13 participating vendors: ■ Janelle Bakker’s Yaya Baby company sells essentials for babies and moms, focusing on items parents will really use.

■LittleMoSoowneranddesignerJeanStenhouse creates children’s clothing and accessories out of bamboo and organic cotton.

■ North Vancouver designer Amelia Shaughnessy works with recycled leather to create one-of-akind purses and accessories under her Love Me 2 Times label.

■ Alyson Neufeld, owner of DesignerCookies, makes handcrafted sugar cookies from her studio in Port Coquitlam.

■ PiKaSSO KiDS is an e-studio that creates art

prints from children’s drawings.

■ Doris Jetz is the creative brainchild behind Hop Frog Pond eco-friendly gift wrap, Miss Cellany hair accessories and Ink & Dolly graphic art and typographical prints.

■ LomoLicious clothing company offers versatile garments made from locally sourced fabrics.

■ Kim Things sells makeup bags, shopping totes, aprons and accessories made from customdesigned fabrics.

■ Jenny Chavarri, owner and designer at Boské Kids, creates clothing for babies and children made from natural fibres from Peru.

■ Anahita Shahrvini sells GoGo Bags, a line of cotton reusables manufactured in North Vancouver.

■ Hairstylist Jabeen Pardhan of Hair By Jabeen will offer children’s haircuts in store several times per month.

■ Green with Envy designs bouquets, vase arrangements, houseplants and planters, succulents and terrariums or air plants in fun containers.

■ Giveable Greetings offers unique greeting cards, gift tags and other paper-based goods.

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Special sale: Mark your calendars for a special sale with Vancouver brands Adhesif Clothing and Bronsino Designs on Saturday, Aug. 31.

Enjoy live music, refreshments, wine by donation, discounts on current season stock from both designers, and the chance to win a prize. The party is from noon to 8 p.m. and is located at Adhesif Clothing Store at 2202 Main St. in Vancouver.

Space is limited. RSVP to info@adhesifclothing.com.

Thrifty chic: The Thrift Shop at Mount Seymour United Church (1200 Parkgate Ave., just off Mount Seymour Parkway) is open every Thursday 2-8 p.m. and has new fall stock. Bring friends and family for back-to-school items and more.

North Shore Needle Arts Guild meets the second Thursday of the month and offers instruction in

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Making connections MASSAGE therapist and designer Margot Leviton displays her Crystal Connections jewelry at RBC in Lynn Valley. The bank offers its small business clients a Saturday showcase. Leviton will sell her healing crystal jewelry at Deep Cove Daze this Sunday and at the Fall Into Craft show in Cloverdale Sept 14-15. embroidery and beading at St. Martin’s Anglican Church hall in North Vancouver. Info:

604-922-4032.

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CALENDAR From page 24 North Vancouver. Info and tickets: 604-9886844 or nvartscouncil.ca/events/trolleydances.

Trolley Dances: A trolley ride that will transport guests to four secret outdoor locations where dancers will perform cultural dances chosen relative to the location Sunday, Sept. 29 from noon to 5 p.m. Tickets: $20/$15 or $60 for a family of four.

Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: kaymeekcentre.com or 604-981-6335.

Presentation House Theatre: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: phtheatre.org or 604-990-3474.

CLUBS AND PUBS Beans on Lonsdale: 1804 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-985-2326. Live music every Thursday, 8 p.m.

Brewster’s Coffee: 2436 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-925-9820.

Casa Nova Café: 116 East 14th St., North Vancouver. Reservations and info: 604-9832223 or info@casanovacafe.ca.

Dundarave Fish Market: 2423 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: dundaravefishmarket. com or 604-922-1155.

Electric Owl: 928 Main St., Vancouver. Info: 604-558-0928.

A Concert Series that brings together Steve Dawson’s Black Hen House Band with special guest artists each month. Tickets: capilanou. ca/nscucentre or at the door.

Jack Lonsdale’s Pub: 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-986-7333.

Live music every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m.

Larson Station Restaurant: Glenegales Clubhouse, 6190 Marine Dr., West Vancouver.

Info: 778-279-8874.

Summer Music Series: Maria Ho, accompanied

by Dave Sikula, guitar and Dave Guiney, bass will perform songs from her newly released singles and recent album Friday, Aug. 23, 7-9 p.m.

La Zuppa: 1544 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-986-6556.

Legion #118: 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-985-1115 or info@ legion118.com.

Narrows Pub: 1979 Spicer Rd., North Vancouver.

Mist Ultra Bar: 105-100 Park Royal, West

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All that jazz SHOPPERS enjoyed a musical treat when Jerry Boey (left) and his jazz quartet, including guitarist Andy Stack, laid down a cover in the Village at Park Royal as part of the Celebrate Summer festivities.

Vancouver. Info: 604-926-2326.

DJs spin classic dance music from the 80s, 90s and today.

Queens Cross Pub: 2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: queenscross.com.

Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every

Sunday, 7:30-11:30 p.m.

The Raven Pub: 1052 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver. Info: theravenpub.com.

Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Thursday, 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Red Lion Bar & Grill: 2427 Marine Drive,

West Vancouver. Info: 604-926-8838.

Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty will perform every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m.

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CALENDAR From page 31 Rusty Gull: 175 East First St., North Vancouver.

Live music every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly Marley performs every Sunday, 7 p.m.

Sailor Hagar’s Brew Pub: 235 West First St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9843087. Live music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

The Village Taphouse: Park Royal Village, West Vancouver.

Info: 604-922-8882.

Waves Coffee House: 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver.

The Celtic Medley Song and String Player’s Showcase comes to Waves Saturday, Sept. 14, 7: 30-9:30 p.m.

Free. Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604-985-5646.

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ARTIST Alfonso Tejada demonstrates watercolour painting, or pintura rapidas, in the art tent during the Harmony Arts Festival in West Vancouver. Tejada is an architect and plein air artist and instructor. He teaches plein air painting workshops for West Vancouver Cultural Services and throughout the Vancouver area.

OTHER EVENTS Café for Contemporary Art: 138-140EastEsplanade,North Vancouver. Hours: MondayFriday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.7 p.m. Info: 778-340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@ gmail.com.

Open Mic: Actors, musicians, poets and spoken word artists are invited to take the microphone every second and last Friday of the month from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

New Works: Readings of new work by local playwrites every third Thursday, 7-9:30 p.m.

Capilano Library: 3045 Highland Blvd., North

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The Burrard and Cornwall intersection at the south end of the Burrard Bridge will be under construction beginning August 26.

This project will improve traffic safety and accessibility around the Burrard Bridge.

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The replacement of expansion joints on the Burrard Bridge will also be coordinated with this work.

During construction, motorists can expect traffic changes, lane restrictions and delays and are encouraged to use the Granville Street Bridge.

The intersection will remain open and be accessible to motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, and there will be full access to businesses along Cornwall Avenue and Vanier Park.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Phone: 3-1-1 Outside of Vancouver: 604-873-7000 Visit: vancouver.ca/roadwork

TTY: 7-1-1

Vancouver. Info: 604-9874471 or nvdpl.ca.

Capilano University Bosa Centre for Film and Animation: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver.

Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Tickets: 604990-7810 or capilanou.ca/ nscucentre.

Centennial Theatre: 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: centennialtheatre.com or 604984-4484.

Ferry Building Gallery: 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Info: 604-9257290 or ferrybuildinggallery. com.

Indigo Bookstore: 1025 Marine Dr., North Vancouver.

Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Info and tickets: kaymeekcentre.com or 604981-6335.

Lynn Valley Library: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9840286, ext. 8144 or nvdpl.ca.

North Vancouver City Library: 120 West 14th St., North Vancouver. Info: 604998-3450 or nvcl.ca.

Movie Night in the Plaza: Bring a blanket or chair Friday, Aug. 30 at 8:45 p.m. for a free screening of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs at North Vancouver Civic Plaza.

Suitable for the whole family.

Hot popcorn and cold drinks will be available for purchase.

Parkgate Library: 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver.

Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway Baker will share show biz, film and concert music stories past and present Tuesday, Sept. 3, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Registration required: 604-929-3727.

Park & Tilford Cineplex Odeon Theatre: 200-333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver.

Presentation House Theatre: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Tickets: phtheatre.org or 604990-3474.

Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Info: 604-9257292 or silkpurse.ca.

Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway Baker will share show biz, film and concert music stories past and present the third Wednesday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Admission by donation.

North Shore Cric Crac Storytelling Evenings presented by the Vancouver Society of Storytelling take place the first Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Admission: $7/$5.

West Vancouver Memorial Library: 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604925-7407 or westvanlibrary. ca.

Monday Movie Nights: The library will screen movies on Mondays at 6:30 p.m.

Schedule: Aug. 26, Quartet.

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The Balconies touring Europe in September

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worked with Finger Eleven, Our Lady Peace, and Simple Plan.

In order to raise money to produce the record they turned to Pledge Music, a service similar to Kickstarter. Depending on the amount of money a fan decides to pledge they can receive all kinds of unique and interesting gifts.

“It’s not just a donation thing, your fans are going to be getting something out of it,” Neville explains. “In our case anyone who pledges, will get a digital download or a CD or a vinyl depending on how much they pledge.”

Artists that have previously used Pledge Music include B.B King, The Spoons, Hawthorne Heights, Bleeker Ridge, Ben Caplan, Brittney Bouchard, Family Force Five and The Lumineers.

“You can also pledge really awesome exclusives like having a bowling party with the band, or another pledge that we did was I buy groceries and come to your house and cook for you and three friends,” Neville says. “It’s a really awesome way to engage your fans and let them be a part of the making of your record.

It gives us an opportunity to connect with our fans and that is what we are all about. We really want to have a cool relationship with them. I am so happy we have such supportive fans.”

The Balconies have spent the majority of 2013 on the road. Earlier this year they played at MIDEM in Cannes, France as well as South By Southwest, North By Northeast and Canadian Music Week.

Neville says that audiences overseas interact differently at live music events compared to North American crowds.

“They’re so passionate. I just find in Canada

everyone is engaged on the inside almost. They are very attentive but it is almost like they’re dancing in their head. They’re really trying to analyze what you’re doing a little more whereas I find in European cities, especially in like France or Italy where it’s a romantic language, they’re so passionate and it’s just in their culture to just be very passionate people,” she says. They want to dance, they want to sing, and they want to move with you. It is very unusual and unique energy that you feel when you are over there. But we love the Canadian crowds because it’s familiar and it’s our home.

“I do notice that in Europe they like to dance a little more so we can throw in more of our disco upbeat songs a little more. I find in Canada they’re more into the heavier pop rock that seems to be really popular right now.”

In September, the band will be making their third trip to Europe this year. They will

be performing at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany, along with fellow Canadian band Monster Truck.

When they have free time on the road The Balconies enjoy going bowling. The Neville’s grandmother was a championship bowler in the 1970’s.

“We love bowling. Pretty much every city we’ve toured we’ve found a way to go bowling somewhere. I think the last cross-Canada tour we went on we went bowling at least six times,” Jacquie says. “There is something about bowling. It is like this weird time capsule because everything feels like it is still stuck in the ’70s or ’80s. Seeing the super retro bowling shoes and bowling balls. There is something really special about it.”

For more information on The Balconies visit thebalconies.ca or follow them on Twitter: @TheBalconies.

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AUSTRIAN Jagerhof Restaurant

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Best Little Schnitzel House in Town

71 Lonsdale Ave, N. Van. 604-980-4316

BISTRO Cindy’s Café

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Local favourite Cindy’s Café is now open for diner every Friday and Saturday night.Come for the good food,stay for the friendly atmosphere and enjoy our free BYOWine policy.

Corkage is for strangers! Cindy’s is for neighbours.Visit www.cindyscafe.ca for details and reserve with Patrick at 604-925-2880.

1850 Marine Dr., W. Van. 604-925-2880

Larson Station West Coast Bistro & Banquets $$$ For 2 or 200! Enjoy sweeping views through the 6th fairway,to the ocean at Gleneagles Clubhouse.Larson Station West Coast Bistro,a fabulous little restaurant and banquet facility, tucked away on the Gleneagles Golf Course.LIVE MUSIC Fridays & Saturdays BRUNCH on weekends.

Family friendly & casual,with flavours of the West Coast.

6190 Marine Drive, West Vancouver 778-279-8874

Truffle House & Café

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The Truffle House & Café is truly a warm place to eat European cuisine with friendly service and reasonable price. Philippe & Fabienne Chaber have created a cozy and comfortable atmosphere and offer a delicious combination of French, Italian and West Coast specialties that your taste buds will love.Already well known for their brunch & lunch, the Truffle House is pleased to offer you DINNER! Join us Friday & Saturday evenings from 5-10 pm for delicious seasonal menus.

2452 Marine Drive, W. Van. 604-922-4222 www.trufflehousecafe.com

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The Salmon House

The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar

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Excellent seafood and British dishes on the Waterfront. Friday and Saturday, Prime Rib Dinner. Sunday, Turkey Dinner.Weekends and Holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny.

Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. 604-987-3322

CHINESE Neighbourhood Noodles House

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North Shore’s best variety & quality Chinese food.Serving Lunch & Dinner 7 days a week.Eat in,10% off takeout.

Free delivery min.$20.00 order within 3 kms.

1352 Lonsdale Ave., N. Van. 604-988-9885

Chef Hung Taiwanese Noodle

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Critically acclaimed worldwide for its delectable beef noodle, Chef Hung has won numerous Championships in Taiwan and now crowned the Best Noodle House in Vancouver! Come see what all the excitement is about.

1560 Marine Dr., W. Van. 778-279-8822 UBC Wesbrook Village: 102 - 3313 Shrum Lane, Vancouver 604-228-8765 Aberdeen Centre: 2800 - 4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond • 604-295-9357 www.chefhungnoodle.com

FINE DINING The Observatory

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An epicurean experience 3700’ above the twinkling lights of Vancouver.

Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. 604-998-4403

BIG SCREEN SPORTS $$$$

Serving spectacular views and fine, indigenous west coast cuisine for over 30 years. Lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. Live entertainment in Coho Lounge on weekend evenings.

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FRENCH Chez Michel

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Classic French cuisine served in an elegant and graceful setting.

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Superior service with a waterfront view helps complete your lunch or dinner experience.

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The Lobby Bar: We now have Live music every Friday night from 8-11pm!

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Model S too strong for crash testing machine NEWS photo Kevin Hill

THE BMW X3 offers the smooth ride and all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a luxury car while still maintaining just enough off-road grit. It is available at Park Shore BMW in the Northshore Auto Mall.

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refined and sophisticated.

Enter the 2013 BMW X3: a compact luxury crossover that is positioned midway between the smaller X1 and the larger X5. BMW has been a strong player in this segment for quite a while, even going as far as re-naming its SUVs to SAVs, which stand for Sports Activity Vehicles. The entire range now includes everything from the small but high performing X1 to the top-range X6, with the X4 arriving in the near future.

The X3 offers an attractive package, with a pleasing blend of premium feel, performance and just the

Tesla Model S breaks safety records, machines Call me crotchety, but the all-electric Tesla Model S is starting to get a bit annoying in how good it is. The latest record smashed? It’s just been rated the safest car the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ever tested.

Because there’s no gasoline powerplant, Tesla’s designers had a considerable amount of space to work with for crumple zones and didn’t have to worry about how to prevent occupants from getting a lapful of hot engine. Additionally, the floor-mounted battery pack gives the car a ridiculously low centre of gravity, making it as unlikely to roll over as a dog with outriggers.

Technically speaking, a five star rating is as high as NHTSA approval gets, but the Model S — the Hermione Granger of the automotive

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Scan this page with the Layar app to see a personalized video of the construction of a BMW X3 as well as a crash test of the Tesla Model S.

BMW’S X3 proves that the German manufacturer continues to set the bar for appealing and performance oriented sports utility vehicles with the right touch of luxury.

Since its production debut in 2004, the X3 has gradually evolved into an impressive package that, while slightly pricey, delivers consistently on its promise to bring a true urban off-roader experience.

By now, just about everyone knows that the term SUV no longer refers to an actual off-roader type of a vehicle, but instead

Behind The Wheel David Chao

points to a new generation of cross-overs that are partly utility oriented but mostly comfort or luxury focused.

These urban off-roaders or crossovers are really SUVs built on a car platform

with just enough off-road capability to satisfy the average urban adventurer.

Thanks to the evolution of this segment, the days of the SUV dinosaurs are but a passing memory — which means that these days good fuel economy, great handling and good looks in a more modestly sized package are the standard people look for. Big and bulky is not just passé, it’s prehistoric — today, compact luxury is de rigueur.

The high-end SUV culture has also evolved — especially in the upper luxury segment — where consumers are eager to drive sports utility vehicles that are both ready for anything and highly

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world — actually managed an unofficial 5.4 stars. No car or truck has ever scored as highly.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, while trying to test the car’s crush resistance, the roof of the Model S was so strong that it actually broke the machine. Bloody overachievers.

Nissan Titan gets turbo-diesel power Nissan’s Titan full-sized pickup truck has a great name, sturdy looking styling, and the worst fuel economy of any vehicle outside of a Saturn V moon rocket. It’s tough, but hoo-boy is it thirsty.

Now sit down and listen to this: the Titan’s about to get a heart transplant of, well, Titanic scale. Coming soon, you’ll be able to get the Japanese pickup with a five-litre V-8 turbodiesel engine made by Cummins.

This colossal lump will have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 300 horsepower and 500 foot-pounds of torque, and is burly enough to have the Toyota Tundra trembling in its designer work boots. Yes, you can get big diesel in other trucks, but you have to go up the range into Super Duty rigs — with its new engine, the Titan will likely be the most powerful regular full-size pickup on the market.

Frankly, that’s good news for Nissan fans as the Titan has had few updates in its decade-long lifespan, and looked like it might wither on the vine. With former Dodge Ram CEO Fred Diaz now in charge, seems like Nissan is getting serious about its truck division again.

Karmann Ghia celebrates its 60th anniversary Once upon a time, walking into a Volkswagen dealership meant that you were going to be driving out in a Beetle. That’s all VW sold.

Six decades ago, Wilhelm Karmann contracted a Turinbased design company to make something a little less Beetle-y.

Not that there was anything wrong with the People’s Car, but it was a little bit too bulbous for some tastes. What was needed, Karmann decided, was a “Beetle in a sports coat.”

The first prototype was revealed in 1953 and everyone was delighted, possibly because it didn’t have leather elbow patches. Still, Karmann had to get the approval of VW’s head to actually build the thing, and it didn’t start selling to the public until 1955.

A little less than half a million Type 14s (as the humourless VW coded the Ghia) were sold, all of them under-pinned by prosaic air-cooled Beetle running gear. The factory where they once were made now produces the Boxster and Cayman, which, if you squint, still have a tiny bit of that Italian-German heritage.

Dick Van Dyke escapes burning Jaguar It was nearly a sooty end for everybody’s favourite chimney sweep as Dick Van Dyke’s new Jaguar XJ sedan recently caught fire on an L.A. highway and burned to a cinder faster than you can say chim-chim cheree.

The 87-year-old actor was pulled from his burning vehicle — possibly by cartoon penguins, but this is unconfirmed — and was completely unhurt. He was soon on Twitter (really?), reporting, “Used Jag for sale REAL CHEAP,” which is both funny and slightly entrepreneurial.

Spontaneous combustion is hardly the sort of thing any car company wants tarnishing their name, so this isn’t good news for Jaguar. Happily though, Van Dyke remains hale and hearty: perhaps good luck really does rub off when he shakes hands with you.

Toyota to shrink Scion Toyota’s youth brand, Scion, is perhaps most famous currently for the FR-S, a lightweight 2+2 coupe that’s all the rage. They also build some other cars too, but I’d have to go look up what they are and I can’t be bothered.

The public can’t be bothered buying them either — Scion’s sporty coupes sell well (the front-driver tC is decent for the money), but their humble econoboxes don’t. “If I want an inexpensive Toyota,” people seem to ask themselves, “Why wouldn’t I simply buy a Toyota?” And then they do.

Toyota seems to have finally cottoned on to this tendency, and is reducing the number of Scion dealerships in the U.S. by a third. Whether or not this marks a move to actually wind down the brand remains to be seen, but Toyota also showed off a convertible FR-S and a small, Juke-like crossover at the same time, so may simply decide to cut out the non-funky Scions.

Personally, losing Scion wouldn’t cause me any distress.

They should call the tC the Celica, which it is, dub the FR-S the GT-86, just as it is in overseas markets, and use both to inject some much-needed pizzazz into the Toyota lineup.

Jim Pattison Hyundai Northshore 855 Automall Dr. North Vancouver, 604-985-0055

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Small wonder KAZ Shibata revs up his 1957 BMW Isetta at a recent German Car Show held at Waterfront Park. Shibata bought the car four years ago and totally refurbished the engine to get it up to speed. The Isetta drew a lot of attention at the show because of its small size and unique details. It’s a three-wheeler and it has no doors, the entire frame lifting open on a front hinge to allow driver and passenger to climb into the bench seat.

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There is nothing radical about the design but the overall feel is clean and subtle, with enough luxury touches to make the vehicle look BMW-ish from all angles.

Interior design The interior is pleasing to the eye and maintains BMW’s penchant for solid and mature design. The material quality was befitting a luxury compact SUV and felt comfortable and familiar in a good way. Most controls and visual displays were pleasing to the eye and easy enough to understand — even the often-criticized iDrive control system seemed to be up to the task after a few tries.

Seats were comfortable and there is a plenty of space front and back. I took the X3 on a fishing trip and the trunk had ample space for various fishing gear and the X3’s power tailgate, which comes standard, is a welcome feature.

Performance The 28i’s four-cylinder turbocharged engine provides plenty of power, even when going uphill or passing other cars. AWD comes standard on the X3 as does the eightspeed automatic transmission.

This translates into plenty of performance in both summer and winter weather. The only downside is that the 2.0-litre turbo is a bit noisy at idle, to the point where some passengers thought that the engine was a diesel.

The X3 steering feel and handling, while somewhat light, was easy and responsive to changing conditions.

Because of the electric steering design (versus the hydraulic design types found on the current X1 and X5/X6s), there isn’t as much road feel coming through the steering wheel to the driver’s hands but most North American drivers would not mind the lighter feel.

Suspension on the 2013 X3 is extremely comfortable without being downright soft — and BMW has managed to successfully move away from its more deliberately designed rigid suspension set-ups of past models. In fact, over highway roads, the X3 felt as smooth as a high-end luxury sedan costing twice it price.

Features The X3 comes with six

air bags as standard, traction control and anti-lock brakes.

Lane Departure and collision warning systems are available as options.

The starting price for the BMW X3 is $42,600.

Some of the many standard equipment items include: four-wheel ABS, electronic brake

force distribution, sideimpact protection door reinforcements, hill descent control, Bluetooth wireless with USB integration, heated front seats, dynamic cruise control, alarm system and automatic air conditioning.

Fuel economy numbers are 9.7 litres/100 kilometres city, 7.0 l/100 km highway,

and 8.5 l/100 km combined.

The new X3 28i is an outstanding mid-sized luxury See BMW page 46 THE X3 can be had with a turbo-charged four cylinder engine that is a bit noisy but provides plenty of power.

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The Xdrive35i is quite pricey.

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Mercedes GLK The Mercedes GLK will bring you similar caché as a German-engineered automobile, and is priced lower than the BMW X3.

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