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Seymour boy drowns in creek

Six-year-old child dies after being found unresponsive in Taylor Creek BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A six-year-old boy has died after apparently drowning in a fastmoving stream.

North Vancouver RCMP, Fire and Rescue Services and B.C. Ambulance Service

paramedics were all called to the 900-block of Bowron Court in the Seymour area around 1:50 p.m. Thursday for a report of a missing child, possibly needing a water rescue.

First responders and neighbours fanned out around the immediate wooded area of Garibaldi

Park. A few minutes later, a woman walking her dog in Garibaldi Park spotted the boy unresponsive in Taylor Creek, about 400 metres from the house where he was reported missing.

“At that point, RCMP were first on the scene and they got him out and a B.C. Ambulance person was there. He took the child and, along with two of our firefighters, began CPR on the child,” said

Mike Cairns, assistant fire chief with North Vancouver District Fire and Rescue.

Despite being quickly airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital and listed in critical condition by B.C. Ambulance Service, the boy died Thursday afternoon.

Police could not say how long the boy had been in the water.

“Our deepest condolences go out to

the grieving family at this time,” said Supt.

Chris Kennedy, officer in command of North Vancouver RCMP. “This is a most tragic incident that touches all our lives.”

North Vancouver RCMP is continuing their investigation into the death and the victim services unit has been brought in for support to the family. The B.C. Coroners’ Service has been notified and will

ultimately be taking over the investigation.

Due to the week’s heavy rain, the North Shore’s streams are swollen and dangerous, Cairns said.

“It’s like all the creeks in the area. They’ve probably got three, four or five times the water going through,” he said. “This creek is normally a slowmoving stream but today it’s rapid.”

The boy had a younger sister, according to police.

North Van wheelchair athlete flag-bearer at Sochi NIALL SHANNON nshannon@nsnews.com

North Vancouver native Sonja Gaudet has been named the official flagbearer for Team Canada in the Sochi Paralympics.

Gaudet is “the world’s most decorated wheelchair curler” according to her biography on the Canadian Paralympic Committee’s website, taking home gold medals from the 2006 Paralympics in Turin, Italy and the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

The veteran curler is to lead 54 fellow Canadian athletes into the Fisht Olympic Stadium tonight for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Paralympics.

“It carries a lot of See Gaudet page 3

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Gaudet praised as athlete and role model

HSBC drops NV condo’s account

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purpose for me,” said Gaudet in a press release announcing the nomination on Wednesday.

Gaudet expressed on her personal Twitter account how honoured she felt to be chosen and proud to represent Canada. “(The Paralympics) sends a big global message as well about looking past the wheelchair, looking past the visual impairment, looking past the missing limb and really focusing on the person and focusing on what’s there.”

Gaudet may not stay for the entire opening ceremonies, however, due to an early start for the first game on Saturday against Great Britain.

“We do have some strategies,” said Gaudet in a press release. “Our priority is to be ready for Game 1. It’s a big game for us and we’re certainly going to make sure that we are (ready).

(Carrying the flag is) just going to give us a little more purpose and create a really positive atmosphere to compete in.”

Gaudet earned her nickname “The Brain” for her invention of the “balance post,” a lightweight aluminium stick that is attached to her wheelchair and clamps directly to the stone to allow for greater accuracy.

John Sims, the Canadian Paralympic media attaché for wheelchair curling praised Gaudet in her roles as an athlete and as a role model.

“She is a true leader and loved greatly by athletes in all of the paralympic sports as witnessed by the hugs and smiles she got yesterday when we travelled to the athletes village,” said Sims.

The 47-year-old, who now resides in Vernon with her husband and two children, sustained a spinal cord injury in her late 20s after falling off a horse. She was inspired to get into adaptive sports after talking to fellow Paralympian Rick Hansen about his own experiences overcoming injury.

Gaudet serves as an ambassador for the Rick Hansen Foundation as well as the Canadian Paralympic Committee.

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A North Vancouver strata council is joining a growing number of small-business clients across North America that are being dropped by HSBC as the international bank dismisses small-business customers in favour of bigger accounts.

The strata council for the Dogwood, a 27-unit condominium complex at 123 19th St. East, received a letter from HSBC at the end of February, stating that the council had 60 days to find a new bank.

“It’s somewhat galling and seems rather punitive for a bank to basically ‘fire you’ as a client,” said Bill MacMillan, chairman of the Dogwood’s strata council. “(The letter) definitely caused a lot of raised eyebrows at our council meeting — some higher blood pressure,” said MacMillan.

The letter was dated Jan. 27 but was not brought to MacMillan’s attention until close to a month later. This caused confusion over whether the 60-day moratorium has been effect since January or February, leaving the strata scrambling to find a new bank, MacMillan said.

The termination of the Dogwood’s account has been a headache for the strata council, which was required to set up new payment information for its service suppliers such as plumbers, renovators, and the like, said MacMillan.

“We have to resubmit everything. . . . There’s a fair bit of inconvenience and it does rub against the grain when I walk by the local branch and I see the sign on the front that says ‘come talk to our friendly staff.’ . . . They’re basically creating a two-tier system and no one wants to be treated differently, which is See Letter’s page 5

Coroner seeks public’s assistance Unidentified man found dead aboard ferry in late February BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

West Vancouver police and the B.C. Coroner’s Service are reaching out to the public to help identify a man found dead aboard a B.C. Ferry headed for West Vancouver last month.

The man was last seen alive walking around and talking to people in the Departure Bay ferry terminal on Feb. 19.

Police and paramedics attended to the Horseshoe Bay terminal just after 7 a.m. the next morning after someone noticed a man slumped over and unresponsive on the vehicle deck. Police say his

death was not suspicious.

He was carrying no identification.

The coroner describes him as a white male, between 50 and 60 years old. He had light bluegreen eyes and a fair complexion with light brown hair in a buzz-cut style. He stood five-foot10 and weighed 160 pounds. He also might be identifiable by his tattoos: a large wolf bearing its teeth on his right forearm, a tribal arm-band on his right biceps and the Disney character Thumper on his right pelvic area. He was wearing a plaid jacket, jeans and Nike shoes the day he died.

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The letter came with the added inconvenience of arriving at the same time the strata organization was writing and filing depreciation reports and dealing with bylaw revisions, which is a laborious process, said MacMillan. “(HSBC) don’t really care. I believe they are handling bigger accounts and so whatever they are going to take as a hit they’ll make up for with bigger clients.”

The vice-president and head of media relations for HSBC Canada, Sharon Wilks, responded to

comments that the bank is discriminating against smaller clients.

“We have been exiting some relationships,” she said. “Our focus on the customers we continue to serve are businesses that aspire or have most of their business internationally.

“Our financial expertise is with international businesses and that is at the heart of HSBC’s strategy. . . . The domestic market here is well served for domesticonly business by other banks,” said Wilks.

Wilks added that the international bank would continue to offer personal chequing and savings accounts.

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orgive us if we find the Conservatives’ attitude toward marijuana is getting a little hazy.

This week we learned that some in the party say they are ready to discuss issuing fines for simple possession, rather than criminal charges.

But starting April 1, the thousands of sick Canadians who have earned certification from Health Canada to grow their own medicinal pot will become criminals if their plants are not destroyed. Those who didn’t have the wherewithal to grow their own could buy from licensed dispensaries, but those too have been scrapped in favour of a system of delivery by mail from a handful of big companies. Medicinal marijuana users and their advocates have warned this is going to price many sick people out of access to what is

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Despite having a system that worked for thousands of people in need, the Tories saw fit to scrap it because too many people were taking advantage and getting licences for bogus reasons.

Vancouver’s police have signalled they have no intention of shifting resources to enforce the new laws, and rightly so.

Thanks to the Conservative’s toughon-crime legislation, being caught with as few as six pot plants carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of six months. Because the one thing our already overcrowded prisons need, apparently, is more cancer patients.

Thankfully, that mandatory minimum law will likely be struck down by the courts as unconstitutional, as they have for so many others in the last two years.

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Our community’s future matters to all

B.C.’s liquor laws ridiculous

Dear Editor: I’ve lived in the City of North Vancouver all my life.

I bought a home here to raise my family.This is my city.

Over a few short years, North Vancouverites have had Port Metro impose increased coal and potash storage, grain elevator expansion and a massive renovation of the Low Level Road. Provincial funding shortfalls have resulted in school closures, property sales and rezoning.We have suffered with snarled traffic.

We have stood by while city council discussed bicycle tow cables, street cars and even a ferris wheel. Really!

Now, under pressure from GVRD transit to “densify” near bus routes, the city proposes sweeping amendments to the Official

Dear Editor: I find it interesting that on the same page of yesterday’s paper (Feb. 23) you have an article of someone illogically against liquor sales in grocery stores and at the same time, wanting lower sentences for drug offences.

In the case of liquor, there is no logical reason why in a free and democratic society anyone has any business where another buys their liquor. Let the markets decide. Incidentally, many older and wiser cultures cook with wine.To segregate it is ridiculous.

The message you are giving is: “Let’s make it harder for people to buy liquor but let’s feel bad for drug offenders.”

Alex Tan North Vancouver

Community Plan.Third and Ridgeway neighbours have been approached by developers to sell their lots. Plans are afoot to build apartments up to six storeys tall.Treasured neighbourhoods and water views will be destroyed.

All single-family lots in the city will be able to triple their density with both a basement suite and a coach house. Imagine the gridlock from all those extra cars.

Oh, wait — we’re supposed to take the bus. Or bike. Or walk a paved trail. Right!

The city invites us to fill out a “City Shaping” feedback form.You know what’s really scary?You can remain anonymous. Anyone can fill out a form.You don’t even have to live here.

You could be a developer.

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developer. Put your name on the form and you could win an iPod Touch. It’s like a contest, with prizes, except developers are the only ones who stand to win anything at all. As a final insult, the OCP amendments will be decided, without our say-so, prior to this fall’s election.

Neighbours: it’s time to tell city council that we

deserve to set the tone and pace of development in our community — not city staffers, developers, the ports or a transit board.

Visit the city’s website.

Look at the shocking proposed OCP amendments.

Send in a feedback form.

Better yet, go to one of their “feedback sessions” — talk to someone directly. Let

them know that changes to the character and density of our city should be voted on by a well-informed public — it’s called a referendum.

That’s called democracy.

The future of our community matters to us all, because, at the end of the day whose city is it anyway?

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Council’s motion gives power for change Dear Editor: I would like to give you a positive response, and some words of encouragement, on your Feb. 9 article West Vancouver Calls For Gayfriendly Games.

This was a necessary, bold and informative article listing the powerful things that the council members

who passed the motion said.

As well, your article gave the additional power needed for change.

It showed how most people are tolerant about homosexuality and bisexuality. I care about the wellbeing of these people no matter who they are

sexually attracted to. I also think that the secondarycitizen treatment of LGBT people is unfair and the fact that (Russian president) Vladimir Putin gave the bland stereotypical and insensitive statement that these people will be allowed See There’s page 10

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Education soap opera plays on in B.C. The B.C. version of The NeverEnding Story has resumed playing and it’s not clear that it will ever actually stop.

I’m referring, of course, to the pseudo-comic soap opera that stars the B.C. Teachers Federation and the B.C. Liberal government.

I hammered the government in this space a few weeks back for its heavyhanded and inept attempts to arbitrarily strip language from the BCTF collective agreement. It has lost twice in court on that issue but it’s still fighting, likely all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The government needs to quit scheming to outfox the BCTF, and get down to real negotiations that will inevitably involve a significant increase in funding for the K-12 education system to address important issues such as class composition (often involving children designated with special needs).

But just when things were looking up for the BCTF, leave it to the union to again engage in some puzzling behaviour.

After the government made an opening offer in its round of negotiations

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View from the Ledge for a new contract with the BCTF, the union opted to abruptly announce it will hold a strike vote without presenting its own detailed counter-offer.

Now, strike votes are a perfectly legitimate and wellused part of labour relations strategy. But holding one before any actual detailed negotiations occur seems

odd, to say the least.

The BCTF leadership has taken pains to say that even armed with a strong strike vote mandate, the union will not take job action that has any negative impact on the classroom and students.This leaves one to wonder how, then, a strike vote puts any kind of pressure on the government at the negotiating table.

The sudden emphasis on holding a strike vote may be designed to deflect attention from an issue that the BCTF is vulnerable on.

That would be its pitch for a wage increase, which in past contract talks seem to have come from a different planet.

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The government’s chief negotiator, Peter Cameron, says the union has dropped hints in negotiations that an “extreme” wage demand lurks in the future. BCTF president Jim Iker says his team has presented a salary “provision” without any actual numbers contained in it (huh?).

The BCTF says the government’s opening offer of 6.5 per cent over five years is “unreasonable, unfair and provocative” even though other public sector unions seem fine with those kinds of numbers, having settled their own contracts recently.

Given the BCTF’s oft-quoted demand that its members be paid at a level equal to the top paid teachers in other provinces, I’m betting the union’s wage demand will be in the double-digits, and if it is, it will be seen as coming from la-la land.

But wage increases and bizarre strike votes aside, the BCTF does hold the higher ground on the more serious issues of class size and class composition.The courts have ruled repeatedly in its favour, although the courts have also noted these issues are the subject of negotiations with the government.

The B.C. Liberals have presented counterarguments that, even with current class size and composition averages, the graduation

rates for all kinds of categories of students — including aboriginal and special needs — have increased considerably in the last decade.

The government keeps referring to “average” class size and special needs numbers that seem relatively low but they mask the fact that there can be many, many instances where the numbers are well above the average.

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Density a focus for City OCP meetings BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

As the target date for the City of North Vancouver to pass its new official community plan draws nearer, the city is ratcheting up public outreach on a few specific issues.

At a cost of $60,000, council will hold three extra town hall meetings targeting the draft OCP’s slated density increases for Lower Lonsdale, Central Lonsdale and single-family neighbourhoods. Residents in the prescribed areas will receive direct mail invitations to attend the meetings to make sure they understand what’s being proposed and have an opportunity to comment before potential changes are made to the OCP’s final draft.

If passed as-is, the new OCP will allow more highdensity towers in Lower and Central Lonsdale, and the document will specify that single-family homeowners can apply to build both a coach house and secondary suite on their properties.

The motion first

came from Coun. Pam Bookham last week, but it only narrowly passed after a debate about whether adding the extra meetings would produce any more meaningful input on what has already been the widest reaching public process in the city’s history. Dissenters also argued that the OCP spans hundreds of pages and topics — not just the ones Bookham wanted more attention on.

But density being a perpetually contentious issue, Bookham argued it deserved more attention before the city approves the document “Many people are suggesting that what we don’t need are more towers but perhaps what we do need are six-storey buildings that can accommodate a similar amount of density.

Why not find out what people in Lower Lonsdale are thinking about that?” she said.

The city netted one of the widest turnouts it has had for a CityShaping OCP meeting recently when it did a direct mail invitation to residents living below Third

Street in Moodyville where the OCP foresees a change from single-family home to low-rise townhouses.

When it came time to approve the budget and set the dates for the extra townhall meetings, the motion passed 7-0.

“There’s been more (public input) than I’ve seen than on any other issue I’ve seen in my 20-odd years at city, however, I have been persuaded that it’s public input . . . And I think that’s important. And if people want some more time or to hear more information or they want to hear more presentation from staff, I think we need to do that,” said Mayor Darrell Mussatto before voting for Bookham’s motion.

The town hall meetings are scheduled for April 3 for Central Lonsdale, April 15 for Lower Lonsdale and April 22 for the issues of coach houses and secondary suites in single-family homes.

City staff are aiming to hold a public hearing on the final draft of the OCP before council breaks for the month of August.

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INQUIRING REPORTER Roberto Luongo served both as a goaltender and as a topic of conversation almost as violently contested in Vancouver as bike lanes, and after years of heated speculation about his future as a Canuck, he has now made his way to Florida.

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Regional politicians have declared a new $700 million sewage treatment plant for the North Shore the top priority for infrastructure funding in the Lower Mainland — ahead of transportation projects like a new Broadway rapid transit line.

Metro Vancouver’s board of directors confirmed Friday that the Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant is at the front of the line for any funding from senior governments.

City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto, chair of Metro’s utilities committee, said regional politicians will meet with

provincial ministers next week to drum up support for the project.

Politicians also expect to head to Ottawa once their funding application is submitted to the federal government’s $14 billion Building Canada Fund.

Mussatto said Metro Vancouver is hoping to submit an application in the next two months and hear back by the end of the year.

Securing funding for the new treatment plant from senior governments is considered crucial for the project.

Historically, similar large infrastructure projects have relied on Ottawa coming up with about one-third of the costs, while the provincial government has paid another third.

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current environmental regulations.Vancouver’s Iona sewage plant must also be upgraded soon after. So far, the regional government has already spent $16 million on engineering, public consultation and preliminary designs for the new Lions Gate sewage plant, said Mussatto.

Metro politicians approved a preliminary design last fall, which will include a “state of the art” odour containment system and generate electricity from methane gas.

Regional politicians have also ruled out the prospect of a private partner operating the plant or heading up the construction project, following a detailed review.

Because the government already operates five other treatment plants, “We know how they operate,” said Mussatto. “The risk is very low for us.”

When the plant is built, Metro will hold back $50 million of the final payout for two years to ensure it is operating as it should.

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DNV budget ‘cautious but reasonable’ Property taxes likely to jump 2.5 per cent

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District of North Vancouver homeowners may be shelling out an extra $47 this year as property taxes are slated to rise 2.5 per cent.

Council got their first look at the 2014 budget on Monday.

The district faces major capital expenses over the next three years, including

$49 million for the William Griffin Community Centre, $31 million for the Philip Avenue overpass, and $12 million for the Keith Road bridge.

However, in the case of the Philip Avenue overpass, the district has leveraged private, federal and provincial money to limit the municipality’s contribution to $400,000, according to chief administrative officer David Stuart.

Construction, energy and police costs are escalating faster than the rate of inflation, according to the district’s finance

general manager, Nicole Deveaux.

The new police contract accounts for approximately one-fifth of 2014’s tax increase.

The budget continues a trend of fiscal responsibility, according to Coun. Doug MacKayDunn.

“We’re much better than we were some years ago when we were always dipping into the reserve fund and using it inappropriately, so I’m very pleased to see how far we’ve come. And unlike the city, we’re not developing to their extent,” he said.

According to the district’s five-year financial plan, developer contributions are slated to rise from $1,461,000 to $5,765,000 in 2015.

Those numbers are “overly optimistic” according to frequent council-watcher Hazen Colbert.

“The district, in fact the North Shore, is over-built with several years’ supply of new residential units either complete or being built,” he said.

In the event that developer dollars run dry, the district should form a contingency plan to avoid higher tax hikes for

residents, according to Colbert.

Colbert was also concerned about the B.C. municipal employee pension plan. The plan’s unfunded liability could be financially ruinous in the future if not addressed, according to Colbert.

“There is no explicit disclosure of the dollar amount of the liability that is assigned to the district in the financial plan,” he said.

The unfunded liability could be addressed by capping post-retirement inflations adjustments, reducing benefits, or increasing benefit

premiums, according to Stuart.

The budget is “cautious but reasonable,” according to Coun. Roger Bassam.

“We see some communities who do pride themselves on zero per cent tax increases and pull that off for a couple of years and then cave under the pressure . . . and admit that it’s not sustainable,” he said.

The district has cut 20 full-time core staff positions since 2009.

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THIS WEEK: — Robert Altman was just another up-and-coming Hollywood wannabe when he made his second feature That Cold Day in the Park at WestVancouver’s Panorama Film Studios back in 1968.When it was originally released the film was a critical and financial disaster but his next movie, M*A*S*H, turned his career around.Altman then returned to WestVancouver, withWarren Beatty and Julie Christie in 1970, to make the iconicWestern, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, for his newly established production company Lions Gate Films.That Cold Day in the Park, shot with B-movie/American NewWave legend László Kovács (Easy Rider, Hells Angels onWheels, Dennis Hopper’sThe Last Movie, Five Easy Pieces) behind the camera, has since been reassessed as a neglected early work of a master filmmaker and will be screened at Pacific Cinémathèque this weekend in a new 35mm print as part of the UCLA Festival of Preservation.

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Gothic fairytale ■ Catalyst Theatre’s Nevermore:The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, March 11-14 at Kay Meek Centre.

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“When the lights came up at the end of the show, my girlfriend and I were sitting in the fifth row I think, and everybody else left and we were just still sitting in our seats because it had been such an amazing experience to be a part of,” he says.

“She turned and looked at me and said, ‘wow’ and I turned and looked at her and said, ‘I have to work with these people.’”

Beatty was pleased then, when four years later he got an opportunity to work not only with Edmonton, Alta.based Catalyst Theatre, but on the same show, described as “a whimsical and chilling musical fairytale for adults,” centred around the literary great.

“It’s been happily

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Taking in a performance of Nevermore:The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe as part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Gaelan Beatty was so blown away he made a vow to one day be part of a future production with the presenting theatre company.

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fantastic, and a bit of a challenge because I’m the only new person.The other six members of the cast have been with the show for five years, so I had a big job to do in three weeks to try and pick up the entire show. So that was a bit challenging.

I didn’t get nearly as much sleep as I needed during that time period, but it was a really, really fantastic experience,” he says.

Beatty came on board with Nevermore for Catalyst’s current tour.The company just wrapped a run in Edmonton last week and is staging the production in Vernon tonight.

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fiction in a homage to Poe’s life and work.The show incorporates pieces of the writer’s famous works — The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven included.

Beatty takes on a number of roles throughout, his main being Poe’s older brother Henry, “a wannabe adventurer,” he says. “His impact on Edgar’s life was that he was . . . . the weird dichotomy of being a huge optimist but also very melancholic. He would get down when he got down.

He would get very, very sad, but when he wasn’t sad, he thought that he was going to travel the whole world being the greatest adventurer ever, so he represented both hope and despair in Edgar’s life,” says Beatty.

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focus, Nevermore has a strong visual esthetic, seeing cast members dressed in surreal costumes, complete with dramatic makeup and hairstyles. For example, Beatty’s hair is sculpted into a full five-inch fan mohawk at one point.

Beatty encourages Lower Mainland residents to take in an upcoming performance.

“It is so worth it to see this show,” he says.

“I was so blown away by this show back in 2010 and if anything it’s a much stronger piece now.”

Following Nevermore’s current tour wrap, Beatty will have a two-week break, then will head to Regina, Sask., for a three-week run of Man of La Mancha at the Globe Theatre.

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CALENDAR From page 14 Abstracting Colour Photography: Work by Ian Bateson, Kelly Selden and MikeWakefield will be on display until March 9.

Jurors’ Choice: A mixed media exhibition by a variety of artists will run from March 11 to 30. Opening reception: Tuesday, March 11, 6-8 p.m.

Meet the artists: Saturday, March 15, 2-3 p.m.

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NORTHVANCOUVER COMMUNITY HISTORY CENTRE 3203 Institute Rd., North Vancouver.TuesdaySaturday, noon-5 p.m. 604990-3700 x8016 nvma.ca Leonard Frank — Master Photographer: An exhibit of Frank’s photographs will be on display until March 15.

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It takes a team of professionals to primp, prep and polish the seemingly flawless models who grace the glossy covers of magazines.

Rose-Marie Swift is one of those pros.Wielding a makeup brush like a magic wand she has readied the faces of countless A-list celebrities for the camera.

Originally from North Vancouver, and a graduate of Argyle secondary, Swift now lives in NewYork City where she does makeup for fashion models and movie stars who come through town.

“When they come to NewYork, and let’s say they’re going to be in W Magazine or they’re going to be in Vogue or something, I’ll get asked to do their makeup,” Swift says.

Her impressive list of clients includes Zoe Saldana,Tilda Swinton, Demi Moore, Sophia Coppola, Celine Dion, Paloma Picasso, Gretchen Mol, Isabella Rossellini, Milla Jovovich and Cindy Sherman. Meanwhile, her handiwork has been featured in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, Marie Claire, Glamour, Interview, Elle and others.

These days, Swift’s main clients are fashion models Gisele Bundchen and Miranda Kerr — both of whom have walked the runway for Victoria’s Secret.

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“I’m really known for my glowing, beautiful skin and my light touch,” Swift says, explaining that her ability to match the skin on the face to the skin on the body is appreciated by models who don lingerie.

“If you look at a lot of editorial stuff in magazines you’ll see that the face is completely just one huge sheet of makeup,” she explains. “I have to make sure the skin (on the body) and the skin on the face look exactly the same, but yet you touch up the pimples and the bags and the little doo-dahs here and there.”

Swift began her makeup career in Vancouver, discovering a talent for the craft at an early age.

“I just pretended I was a makeup artist,” she says, admitting she never formally studied esthetics in school. She landed her very first cover shot with Vancouver magazine and, after exhausting the opportunities available on the West Coast, she moved to Toronto, then Europe where she lived and worked in Paris, London and Hamburg.

Decades in the cosmetics industry have taken their toll on Swift, now 59.

Several years ago she started to develop a rash on her hands and was feeling sick constantly. So she sought medical help.

“The lab in Toronto said to me ‘Do you work in the cosmetics industry?’ and I go ‘Yeah, how did you know?’ and they go

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Dan Payne is having trouble getting one child down for a nap and another planted in front of theTV so he can talk: “I’m just on the phone with the nice lady, OK buddy?” he patiently tells his fiveyear-old. It’s quite a switch from the tough, imposing characters the actor frequently plays onscreen, including his latest bad-guy turn in Brent Butt’s No Clue, opening today.

Payne plays Church, a dirty cop turned gun-forhire, in the film written by and starring Brent Butt (Corner Gas), directed by

Carl Bessai, and co-starring Amy Smart and Anchorman’s David Koechner. It’s a classic case of mistaken identity: Butt plays Leo, an ordinary man who sells novelty products but happens to be in a vacationing private detective’s office when a beautiful woman wanders in, needing help. It isn’t long before Leo gets in way over his head.

Vancouver gets to play itself, for a change, in this tale of murder, sex and video game-industry intrigue.

“Brent doesn’t hide that it takes place in Canada,” says Payne. “Comedy is universal and I think he has captured that.”There’s even a line in the film ripped straight from the headlines: “Whoa, whoa, where’s everyone getting guns?This is Canada!”

“I knew Brent was funny, it’s obvious to the entire universe, but when there’s a personal aspect level of intelligence that’s off the charts, good luck catching

your breath.”

On working with director Carl Bessai, Payne says: “His style is very much his own and it’s a great thing for any actor to experience. He’s very good at nurturing what the actor needs and still getting the shot he needs.”

During filming, Payne spent a great deal of time chasing Smart and Butt through the streets of Vancouver, Langley and Squamish for the noir-ish thriller/comedy, and doing many of his own stunts. It was a tight shoot but a nice commute for the actor, who has called NorthVancouver home for the past six years.

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When we focus our combined efforts on areas of improvement, we can create real results and better outcomes for students.

Message from the Superintendent

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students ranked 12th in Mathematics, 6th in Reading and 6th in Science.

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n December of 2013, the 2012 Program for International Assessment (PISA) results were released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. PISA focuses on the competencies of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science. The full report is available at: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/ Approximately 510,000 students from randomly selected schools world-wide took part in PISA 2012. PISA results affirm that British Columbia students are among the world’s top achievers in all three areas of the study. Of the 65 economies represented in PISA 2012, BC

Innumerable methods and strategies to assess student learning and competencies exist in our world today.

What makes PISA compelling is its design: PISA evaluates to what extent students are able to apply their learning to real-life.

PISA also delves into the context of a student’s life including their background, school and learning experiences and the broader system and learning environment around them. It’s from this deeper exploration that several key understandings of student learning are reinforced. The 2012 results illustrate how nurturing top performance in students and the challenges of tackling low performance need not be mutually exclusive. A strong, fair, wellfunctioning system addresses both.

Engaged students make the most of the opportunities available to them. In many cases, it’s not that opportunities aren’t available, but that students haven’t connected with them.

Drive, motivation and confidence are essential if students are to fulfill their potential. Some students exhibit innate strengths in these qualities, others need them encouraged in

all aspects of their lives. Parents and teachers can help motivate and guide in ways that are mutually supportive and create the conditions that promote academic excellence and skill development.

When we focus our combined efforts on areas of improvement, we can create real results and better outcomes for students. In the North Vancouver School District’s Superintendent’s Report on Student Achievement 2013-2014 it’s recorded that six-year completion rates for students with special needs improved from 62% to 72%; eligible Grade 12 graduation rates improved from 95% to 96% for all students; and honours graduates increased from 50 to 57%. The full report is presented at www.sd44. ca > Board of Education > District Achievement Contract > Superintendent’s Report on Student Achievement.

The progress and accomplishments cited in this report highlight many examples of our expanded learning opportunities including new academies and courses to taking learning outside with a refined approach to outdoor learning spaces. As we grow in opportunities so too must we continue our efforts, at home and at school, to strengthen the connections between students and all that we have to offer in “the natural place to learn” Sincerely,

John Lewis

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t’s with pride and pleasure that we present our 2014 Community Report. In addition to sharing progress and highlights of our accomplishments in relation to our 10-year Strategic Plan, the theme of this year’s report is “Shared Values”. As you’ll read in the feature articles, shared values set the tone and guide us in how we relate to one another, how we learn together, and how we can depend on one another as we work to realize our Vision.

In 2011, the Board defined and adopted a set of four shared values: trust, respect, responsibility and collaboration. At the Board level, each trustee brings a unique perspective to the table. When our thoughts and opinions diverge, shared values can help to bring us back to the centre. In contemplating the

Great BC Shakeout event at Ridgeway Elementary, October 2013

challenges of the School District and deliberating over difficult decisions, there are times when we don’t always agree. These are the times when we need to be especially conscious of our values.

This past year, one of the moments when all four shared values came together was at the official opening of Mountainside Secondary School.

The evolution of Mountainside, from a fractured grouping of alternate learning supports to a centralized school offering wrap-around services and best practices in “paving” a variety of pathways to graduation or school completion, is the epitome of all four values at work. The values reflect the learning environment, FRANCI STRATTON the way staff and students are expected to relate to each other, and the partnerships that support students. The collaborative atmosphere that permeates the entire school is not by accident, but by design.

In November, trustees past and present joined over 100 other guests at the school’s official opening, and we saw for ourselves how decisions, dating back several years ago, set the stage for something new and excellent to emerge.

The Great BC Shakeout event on October 17th was another opportunity to collaborate with the community. The media event for the Province was coordinated to take place at Ridgeway Elementary School. A team of individuals representing the School District, the Province, the BC Earthquake Alliance, and the

Insurance Bureau of Canada all worked together to ensure that the “Shakeout” safety exercise at Ridgeway was widely broadcast and highly effective in promoting public awareness of this potentially life-saving drill. It was a pleasure to see how well everyone worked together to help elevate this important message, and we are particularly appreciative of Ridgeway staff and students for facilitating the event at their school.

We are now in the third and final year of the current Board’s term. New trustees will be elected in November to carry on with the work that makes the North Vancouver School District a leader in public education in British Columbia. We are grateful to everyone in the community who supports our school district and wants to see the best for our students.

This is the high point of our common ground and our shared values are part of the continuum.

Sincerely,

Franci Stratton

CHAIR NORTH VANCOUVER BOARD OF EDUCATION

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The truth about trust: it begins from within A

fter ten years of teaching in an alternate learning environment, you learn a few things about trust. For eight years, Caren Hall was a teacher at Keith Lynn Alternate Secondary School before joining the team of three Choices staff at Windsor Secondary in 2012. Offered at Argyle, Carson Graham, Handsworth, Seycove, Sutherland and Windsor Secondary schools, the Choices Program supports students at their home school who are struggling with social/emotional and behavioural issues. For some, the need for additional support is temporary; for others, it takes more than a term or two. It’s in the long haul that Hall has observed several truths about trust that help guide her in working with, and relating to, students with diverse needs.

Mary Sparks and youth engagement worker Rob Carter – don’t placate students with “it’ll get easier”. They know that life after adolescence is not one long, smooth downhill glide. Instead, the team focuses on strengthening “the lagging skills” that are holding students back academically and socially. It takes time and includes consequences. “We don’t do everything for them,” says Hall. “They have to learn to align what they say with what they do. And good or bad, every action has consequences and we don’t shield them from those.”

Lesson number 2: what works to build trust in one student might be different for another.

“What we focus on are healthy connections,” says Hall. “Some students thrive on structure, others need flexibility. Some students can’t be in groups – a traditional classroom setting or team project fills them Finding a solution to a particular challenge with anxiety. But as long not only helps students push through, as students are forming it also gives them a reference point for positive attachments confidence and resiliency. in school, there can be progress. There’s always a way, and there’s always somebody that they can talk to. It might be an Lesson number 1: developing trust can be hard athletics coach who drives them to do their best work. At the early stages in working with a in a sport, a strict teacher, or a more lenient one.” student, Hall makes sure they understand that Building trust with colleagues outside the they are not perceived as broken and in need Choices program is critical to the program’s of being “fixed”. Everyone experiences setbacks success. “Once we understand what a student along the way of life, students in particular. needs, encouraging new approaches to their “We all get discouraged,” says Hall. “We help classroom learning follows.” As the Choices staff students to recognize that difficulties are part of learns what makes a student unique, they can life.” Finding a solution to a particular challenge communicate insight to their colleagues and not only helps students push through, it also address challenges that arise with strategies that gives them a reference point for confidence and are right for the situation. resiliency. Hall and her co-workers counsellor –

Caren Hall

Lesson number 3: students have to trust themselves before they can trust others. The Choices Team works with adolescents who may not have the maturity or experiences to trust themselves. “Even a student with social anxiety can learn to navigate through life with the right skills,” says Hall. “We teach them skills to build their confidence and capacity so they don’t give up on themselves. They need to ‘buy-in’ to themselves first. They all have strengths, but sometimes their behaviour overshadows their abilities.”

Choices staff help to balance out a student’s self-consciousness. “They have to show up,” says Hall. “And they need to be genuine. They can’t pull anything over on us, and they learn that pretty quickly.” Hall says the eyes-wideopen approach communicates caring, and every student needs to know they matter. “Our focus here is on building relationships,” says Hall.

“Teaching students how to communicate and to believe in themselves. There’s always a way,” she says from experience. “And that’s exciting to me.

That’s what keeps me going.”

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The Values We act with integrity. We are open and honest in our communication with one another.

RESPONSIBILITY

We are accountable for our actions. We support positive change, continuous improvement and the pursuit of excellence.

RESPECT

COLLABORATION

We develop relationships and affiliations to achieve shared goals and consider each other in our decisions and actions.

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We honour diversity and recognize the exceptional in everyone.

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In the North Vancouver School District 2011–2021 Strategic Plan (www.sd44. ca > Board of Education > Strategic Plan), six high-level strategic goals address our intentions for growth, innovation and development over the next ten years. With this report, we are pleased to provide highlights of our progress in the third year of implementing the Plan.

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Put a stamp on it and make it your own

BY TATIANA FORTIN

n the law and social studies classes he teaches at Sutherland Secondary, Jeffrey Aw-Yong has adopted an engagement tactic designed to give students a say in their own success. First, he ensures the expectations for learning in the unit are understood. He asks his students to outline for him what they think should be considered in the evaluation. “Then I ask them: ‘If you were to

grade your assignment, how would you grade it?’” It’s not an idle exercise. Aw-Yong follows through by including their input as a guide in his marking.

It’s a tactic with several positive effects. For one, it helps students engage in the outcome from the very beginning. For another, it builds upon their sense of responsibility to the task at hand. Students feel more accountable towards a project where the goals Pride is a significant factor in getting are shared and agreed upon by both work handed in, and handed in on time. themselves and the teacher. Aw-Yong may also ask his students for feedback on the process for an upcoming project, and take some of it into account, engaging them even more in their assignment.

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Kat Thomson, who teaches English at Carson Graham, describes how when the students take away something more from the course than just the content, they are developing the life skill of responsibility. “It’s not just earning an A, or a certain percent,” says Thomson. “It’s really taking away a deeper understanding.

“I try to make my classroom fairly democratic, especially with my senior classes,” says Thomson. “If students have a choice, if they have a say in how they are learning, they become more responsible about it because they feel that they actually have a voice in what they’re producing.”

Corrine Kinnon, a science and mathematics teacher at Windsor Secondary, affirms that giving students a say in what they’re learning can go a long way in terms of developing responsibility. Confidence, she says, is one of the foundations of responsibility. “If students feel confident they’re going to be successful; they take more pride in the work they do.”

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Jeffrey Aw-Yong with students Julia and Nick

“In being proud of their work, in being excited about what they’ve presented, students usually get excited about handing it in,” says Aw-Yong.

“They’re proud of what they’ve created and they want to show it to you. That helps in terms of accountability and responsibility.”

Thomson agrees. “If it’s not interesting to them, they care less,” she says. “If they’re proud of it, it’s more like their own stamp is on it; there’s a real sense of ownership of what they’ve done.”

The three teachers agree that some students have a personal drive that propels their work forward, “others need that extra prompt,” says Aw-Yong. “We work with such a diverse group of kids, some kids are super excited, and some are less enthusiastic. Finding that motivator is the trick; you could call it the Holy Grail of most teachers.”

Aw-Yong believes responsibility is much more than the reflection of a personal work ethic.

The bigger question for his students is social responsibility: “Do you understand that the world out there has problems? Do you feel we all have a responsibility to do something about those problems?

Corrine Kinnon

“I believe we’re teaching life skills as much as we are teaching skills in essay writing,” says Aw-Yong. “Being responsible is a part of being human. When I see responsibility take root in a student, I definitely see progress over the course of the school year.”

GOAL

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! Developed numerous information resources to support best practices and standard procedures including the Handbook for Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting, to provide School District-wide clarity and consistency for assessing, grading and reporting

! Introduced Collaboration Time at all schools to bring staff together for activities and discussions that support and enhance student progress and achievement

Expand the availability of best instructional practices and enriched curriculum

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Encourage the growth of collaborative, adaptive and personalized learning environments

! Achieved candidacy status for Queen Mary Community School from the International Baccalaureate Organization

! Launched new website platform (www.sd44.ca) with expanded tools and resources for electronic collaboration and sharing across the School District

! Secured new partnerships including Volleyball Canada, Deakin University, and the Canadian Federation of University Women to support program diversity and opportunities for students

! Focused teacher training and resources through our Safe and Caring Schools Program to support the Province’s ERASE Bullying initiative and revised school codes of conduct to ensure alignment with ERASE

! Launched the Literacy 44 eBook sampler of comprehensive literacy lesson plans for primary, intermediate and secondary classes

Progress and Accomplishment Highlights

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Mountainside Secondary: what’s on the inside counts

BY CARLY MADELEY

rom the outside, Mountainside Secondary looks much like many other high schools of its era in British Columbia. What’s inside tells another story. Natural light is maximized at Mountainside for its positive effects on the school’s atmosphere and student well-being.

Classrooms in the newly renovated school feature wall-to-wall windows and floor-toceiling windows along the main foyer let in sunlight long into the afternoon. No lockers line the halls. The new “Learning Commons” library/multi-purpose space and open-concept cafeteria are designed to bring people together.

Wrap-around care services including a doctor’s office, a professional counsellor’s office, and rooms for youth workers to meet with students are provided for community service partners in a dedicated new wing that strengthens connections between the school and the community.

are sick or suffering. Staff at Mountainside are trained in recognizing the signs of depression and anxiety and instead of pointing students off-site, are able to guide them to school-based professionals where they can get help without delay.

Church describes Mountainside as a relationship-driven environment that aligns students and staff. It’s a place where students who struggle in a traditional learning environment can thrive. Mountainside employs a unique integrated learning model that allows students to combine their academic and elective courses. At Mountainside, the electives are given greater curricular emphasis and the “academic and elective courses support each other.” This allows students to take more ownership of their education. Through collaboration with teachers and staff, the intent is to empower them to succeed in life, not just in school. Staff strive to remove barriers and “help students create a good footing for success in the future,” says Church.

It takes a team with the potential It takes a team with the potential to to ignite a passion for learning that ignite a passion for learning that can consistently encourage students can consistently encourage students towards lifelong learning. towards lifelong learning.

The renovations reflect a collaborative, community-based system designed to ensure that students who are in need of help are more likely to get it. The focus on health and nutrition teaches youth to take care of their bodies as well as their brains. Jeremy Church, Mountainside’s principal, says that there are times when “academics come second to health” because students cannot learn if they

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Jeremy Church with students in the new cafeteria at Mountainside Secondary

The school’s motto – own your journey – firmly establishes the personal responsibility a student must tap into to succeed. Which is not to say they go it alone. Every student is able to benefit from the unique on-campus support network that is available to them at Mountainside.

According to assistant superintendent Mark Jefferson, Mountainside is considered something of a pioneer for its exemplary project-based, collaborative learning model that other schools can learn from.

“Mountainside’s consolidated, innovative

program puts students on a good footing for success in the future,” says Jefferson.

Collaboration-based learning continues to gain more momentum throughout the School District through positive examples like Mountainside, and because of its potential to reach students in ways that are relevant to their needs and interests. Collaboration demonstrates how to do more than follow direction; it prepares students for the next stage in their life journey and how they relate to others along the way.

Church says he doesn’t want the “alternate” label to define Mountainside, and the staff is actively striving to create a school that students are “proud to put on their transcript.” The courses taught at Mountainside fulfill curricular criteria with collaboration as a key learning tool.

Teachers “work with the students to find the learning” in the subjects they love. In creating Mountainside, the idea was to “change practices to meet students needs” and to put them more in charge of their own education.

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Significant facilities revitalization included:

! Three new academies approved for September 2014: Dance Academy at Windsor Secondary; Basketball Academy at Seycove Secondary; and Elite Hockey Academy at Sutherland Secondary

Nurture an inspiring and healthy work environment ! Official opening of Mountainside Secondary on November 14, 2013 ! Certificate of Recognition received from the 2013 Heritage BC Awards Program for the rebuilt and restored Ridgeway Elementary ! Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Award of Merit in Architecture received for The BlueShore Financial Environmental Learning Centre BY PHOTO

! Return of staff and students to the newly rebuilt Queen Mary Community School (January 6, 2014)

Develop and promote innovative and sustainable programs

! Seven new Board/Authority Authorized courses approved for September 2014: Chamber Choir 10; Chamber Choir 11; Chamber Choir 12; History of Rock and Roll 11; Rock Band 11; Self-Efficacy 10 and Self-Efficacy 12 ! Continued expansion of the work experience and careers programs to include new employers and opportunities for students

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Progress and Accomplishment Highlights

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Going beyond the dictionary definition

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t’s been almost a year since Tracey White received the formal diagnosis of her son Ryan’s autism, but the confirmation didn’t come as a surprise. “I knew. I’d known for a long time,” says White, who had begun looking into autism and Asperger’s syndrome not long after Ryan began showing behavioural and learning difficulties in primary school.

BY LAUREN SYKES

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typical dictionary definition of respect might read as: “a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements”. While it may be a fairly straightforward concept for most adults, for children, the concept of respect is still in the developmental stages when they enter Kindergarten. Every class needs a foundation of respect if the students are to get along and learn together. But how do you teach five-year-olds to comprehend respect at a stage in their development where their lives are still “all about me”?

“Children have different strengths and needs. Diversity in the classroom helps us learn to respect people for who they are.”

Teaching methods vary but most educators would agree that the best way to grow understanding of respect is through conversations and practise. Claire Spofforth, a Kindergarten teacher at Lynnmour Elementary, says that Kindergarteners, “need to feel like they belong, before you can start teaching them about respecting others. They need to think outside of themselves to see the bigger picture.

“Developmentally, young children are learning about their place in a larger group,” says Spofforth. “They can be egocentric in their thinking and need support to see other points of view.” Establishing a sense of belonging in the classroom and making sure the students

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are comfortable working together is important before teaching about respect can be effective.

Leading with empathy comes first. Then come conversations. Spofforth says the all-day Kindergarten model is important because it allows time to practise showing empathy and respect. The 9 – 3 schedule allows more time for “strengthening connections between the kids, and a sense of trust between them” to flourish.

The Kind Word Chart in Spofforth’s classroom helps to “celebrate when respect has been shown and focus on the positive.” The chart began when Spofforth observed a student at play who made a kind comment to another student.

“I thought that deserved to be noticed. I put it on the chart and now we add more words as they happen – and the list just grows.

to others. “If you have respect for yourself, you automatically have it for others, for the world, for life in general, but you have to have it for yourself first,” says Santarossa. She is careful to note the difference between egocentric respect and a spirit of respect for the wider world. The ego side of it has “respect for toys, celebrities, friends… it’s all about me, me, me. What needs practise in young children is respect for elders, instincts, feelings, the environment, life’s many intangibles… That’s the spirit side.

“Children have different strengths and needs,” says Spofforth. “Diversity in the classroom helps us learn to respect people for who they are.”

“When we feel worthy, we are selfcompassionate; we honour our feelings,” says Santarossa. “Once we feel comfortable with that, we’re then able to extend this spirit of generosity towards others and the world in a more consistent and positive way.” She cautions it’s not a straight route up to the tip of enlightenment, however. A student’s understanding of respect is influenced by their varying moods, perspectives, and life situations.

At Cleveland Elementary, teacher-librarian Sandra Santarossa says that to foster respect, it’s up to the teacher to establish a good connection with each and every student and support them in their efforts to be respectful

“As respect grows, we begin to understand that we can learn from others, and others can learn from us, no matter how old we are,” says Santarossa. “We influence each other. We all gain by living in a respectful environment.”

GOAL

Provide leadership in environmental education and sustainability practices ! Policy 806: Outdoor Learning Spaces adopted by the Board of Education in May 2013 to support learning activities beyond the conventional classroom ! Continued energy conservation efforts towards reducing electrical energy use in the NVSD by 13% by 2015 BY PHOTO

! Introduced “Cheakamus Centre” offering expanded programming, events and conference services at our 420-acre ecological property near Squamish

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Collaborating with care: when trust, responsibility and respect all work together

! Learning in Nature working group created to review the School District’s vision and direction in pursuing excellence in environmental education

By Grade 2, Ryan was struggling with everything from self-regulation to coping with what, for him, was the overwhelming stimuli of a traditional classroom setting. Then there were the challenges of completing work and containing his energy. As a parent, White’s sense of responsibility to advocate for her son led her to seek out professional guidance to ensure Ryan could realize his potential. “He’s bright,” says his mother, “and I knew he deserved a place at school, but it was getting harder and harder to find where he belonged.”

A breakthrough early in Ryan’s Grade 3 year has offered a new, collaborative approach to supporting Ryan that involved School District professionals working closely with school-based staff.

“Everything the team promised, they delivered upon,” says White. “Together we consulted new resources and tried new strategies. It was hard work, but gradually we began to hear more about Ryan’s successes than his challenges.”

Tracey doesn’t doubt there will be more challenges ahead, but the past few years have proven to her the importance of patient and respectful perseverance and gratitude for when things go well. “Trust is two-way. I respect the professionals who can help Ryan, but my perspective as a parent has value as well. I may not have a PhD, but I know my son.”

GOAL

Strengthen and expand reciprocal community relations ! Supported career connections for students through special events including the “Parents as Career Coaches”, “Take Our Kids to Work Day” and “Ticket to Your Future” information nights for parents and students ! Initiated a new phase of the “Land, Learning and Livability” public engagement process to focus on the future of the Cloverley school and Lucas Centre sites ! Renewed community partnerships with Vancouver Coastal Health, the Ministry of Children and Family Development, and Parkgate, Capilano and North Shore Neighborhood House Youth Services to create wraparound services for students at Mountainside Secondary, including donor support through the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation to furnish clinic rooms

Progress and Accomplishment Highlights

Snapshot

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2013/2014 North Vancouver School District Snapshot ! 15,762 students enrolled in Kindergarten to Grade 12 ! 8,927 Elementary and 6,600 Secondary students

732 non-teaching staff, 170 casual staff, 90 administrative staff and 34 management staff

! $4.5 million capital budget for new construction, renovation and improvements

! A comprehensive K–12 education program consisting of over 200 provincial and locally developed educational programs and services in the Humanities, Mathematics/Sciences, Physical Education, Fine Arts and Applied Skills

! 2,318 employees (full-time and part-time) – 1,090 teachers, 202 TToCs,

! Early French Immersion and Late French Immersion enrolling 2,492 students

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! $140 million operating budget for 2013/14

! Dance, Digital Media, Hockey Skills, Soccer, Volleyball and Artists for Kids Studio Art Academy and VCC Culinary Arts Level 1 for secondary students ! Locally developed programs and resources, including Band and Strings, Our Turn to Talk, Reading 44, Firm Foundations, Writing 44, Math 44, and the ELF (Early Learning Foundations) affiliation with pre-school and childcare providers ! Over 1,300 students enrolled in 2013 Summer School for comprehensive elementary and secondary remediation and review, full credit senior secondary school and English Language Learning (ELL) courses

Building community all year long

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n August, before the doors are thrown open to the excitement of a new school year, Principal Arlene Martin and staff at Brooksbank Elementary are already on site and preparing for September.

Working alongside them is a small group of students. Some are new to the school, some are nervous about the beginning of a new grade, but together staff and students take the first steps of the year towards leadership and community building.

! A variety of support services and programs for students with special learning needs ! An International Education Program, attracting over 500 learners from around the world PHOTO BY JENNA BURGESS

! The Artists for Kids Trust housing a collection of contemporary Canadian art and providing award-winning fine arts enrichment programming and scholarships ! 25 elementary schools ! 7 secondary schools (including one alternate Secondary school) ! Experiential environmental education at the North Vancouver Outdoor School at the Cheakamus Centre, located near Squamish, BC ! The North Vancouver Distributed Learning School, working in partnership with our mainstream high schools, to provide 35 academic and elective courses for both youth and adults requiring credits in Grades 10, 11 and 12 ! 7 StrongStart BC Centres with over 780 registered early learners

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very year, the North Vancouver School District facilitates work experience opportunities for over 650 secondary students interested in exploring a wide range of career pathways. Business, fitness, tourism, trades, health and science are just a few of the areas where work experiences are created. Employers on the North Shore are essential partners in offering these opportunities and we greatly

appreciate their support of our students.

A new, student-produced video is now available on our website that shares the perspectives of students, parents, employers and school counsellors on this valuable program.

As the largest employer on the North Shore, the School District also provides direct work experience opportunities for students. For

the third year in a row, the annual NVSD Community Report has provided a work experience opportunity for several Grade 12 students interested in pursuing careers in journalism, photography or communications.

As always, we extend our thanks to the work experience facilitators, teachers and district administrator Marcia Garries, for their support and assistance in helping to create this year’s editorial team.

This welcoming spirit continues throughout the school year. Parents and students alike are greeted at the front door each morning by the principal and staff. Several times throughout the year students of different ages and grades are brought together to create, design and learn as a group. Younger students work alongside older students and come to know different teachers and make new friends. The underlying message is clear and is reflected in a short but powerful set of goals for parents and teachers alike. “Our school plan is built on belonging and engagement,” says Martin.

Leadership qualities are encouraged in students, who often lead the school in finding ways to serve others. In feeling secure that they will be supported by fellow students and school staff, new ideas take hold and flourish. Sometimes the most powerful instances of student leadership happen in the quiet moments where an older student volunteers to help a younger student to feel welcomed, safe, and appreciated.

By the time the school’s Family Appreciation Ice Cream Social takes place in May, there is an emerging notion that through helping others, school is fun, empowering, and a place that students can call their own.

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MUSIC

Lomax Project explores vast legacy Jayme Stone band put their own spin on traditional sources ■ Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, multiple performances at CelticFest Vancouver, March 8-16. Visit celticfestvancouver.com for schedule and tickets.

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Hoedowns, moonshine, toothless grins and The Beverly Hillbillies theme song.

It’s what comes to mind for many when they think of the banjo. But Jayme Stone never made those associations. When he first picked up the five-stringed, round-bodied instrument at the age of 16, he immediately recognized its range and versatility. That’s one of the reasons he was so drawn to it.

“It can be both a melodic and rhythmic, an accompanying and a lead instrument. It has a

mercurial quality, it can weave in and out of the music and play a lot of different roles,” says the twotime Juno Award winner. “I really like the quirky physics of the banjo,” he adds, “the highest and lowest strings are next to each other and it’s tuned to an open tuning.”

The banjo resurfaces time and again in popular music, Stone says, from ragtime to early jazz, and from oldtime bluegrass to modern compositions, like those by renowned American banjo player Béla Fleck — one of Stone’s early musical heroes.

“Those trails had already been blazed. It was already perfectly clear to me that you could play any kind of music on the banjo. And so I didn’t start with any hillbilly stigma, I never had it pigeon-holed,” he says. “I could just take up the banjo as a musical instrument that had a unique See Group page 35

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women IN business

CELEBRATING NORTH SHORE

Inspiring Change The North Shore is the greatest place in the world to live. One of the most important things that gives us our continuing high quality of life is the degree which residents of all ages and genders work together and contribute to our community.

In the last four decades, women have made great strides in taking advantage of increasing opportunities to lead in business and politics at the national, provincial and community level.

Canada has had a female prime minister, British Columbia has its second female premier and each North Shore Municipality has been served by female mayors.

In businesses small and large, women are leading the way- innovating, championing and mentoring others.

This past August, Kathleen Taylor was announced as the new head of the board for the Royal Bank of Canada, this country’s largest chartered bank. It is the first time a woman has held such a high position among Canada’s biggest financial institutions.

Women are making great inroads, holding high positions including: CEO and president of GE Canada, president of Mastercard Canada, executive vicepresident Enbridge (western access), senior VP at Suncor Energy, and many more.

In British Columbia, a who’s who of women in hospitality, finance, space technology, investments, insurance and more have blazed a trail for the next generation.

Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia, president of the Century Plaza Hotel and the

Utopia Spa chain is also a governor of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Launi Skinner, Chief Executive Officer of First West Credit Union, has overseen the distribution of over $300,000 to charities throughout BC. Dr. Aimee Chan, President and CEO of Norsat, leads one of BC’s largest telecommunications companies.

In the traditionally male domain of investment and stock brokerage, Deborah Hewson is President and CEO of Odlum Brown, one of BC’s most respected investment houses and Geri Prior is Chief Financial Officer of one of Canada’s largest insurance companies- ICBC. Closer to home, women play vital roles in all aspects of operations here at the North Shore News. From Editor Layne Christensen and Director of Sales and Marketing Vicki Magnison to Distribution Manager Michelle Starr and Director of Classifieds Trixi Agrios, they work hard to make sure the people of North and West Vancouver continue to receive the best community newspaper in the country.

Working in sales, reporting, photography, design and administration, the women of the North Shore News are a reflection of the community they serve.

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8 is “Inspiring Change.”

In North and West Vancouver, women have taken their rightful place as leaders in business and the community. The North Shore has changed in the last four decades, and for the better.

Acupuncture and TCM can serve as viable health solutions The first thing you notice when meeting Jing Luo is her beautiful smile.

That smile, together with her air of quiet confidence cannot help but give Luo’s patients trust in her skills as an acupuncturist and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

After earning her M.D. (China) in 1988, Luo practised in her native China for 11 years and then came to Canada in 1999. In all, Luo has over 25 years experience in diagnosing and treating patients using herTCM skills.

Acupuncture can successfully treat many conditions and the list is long.They range from arthritis to auto accidents and sports injuries; from anxiety, depression and stress to high blood pressure and from digestive and gall-bladder problems to menstrual and menopause symptoms.

“Acupuncture is an amazing skill; in everyday practice I help my clients release their suffering,” says Luo.

In 2011, she joined the practice of Feng Li, (R.TCM.P) at the Natural Healing and The clinic provides great pricing on Acupuncture Centre. Located on the Western-style natural nutrition products North side of the Park andTilford and vitamins, as well as on traditional Shopping Centre in NorthVancouver, Chinese remedies. the clinic and natural remedies facility is the second of Li’s two locations in the Of note are the herbal medicines they Lower Mainland, the other carry that are effective one being in White Rock, in the treatment of Hot “I love what I B.C. which she opened in Flashes, Mood Swings, 1995. do,” said Luo. “I Insomnia, Bloating and Weight Gain.

The theory behindTCM am very glad that has been known for what I do can help Many of the conditions thousands of years and and treatments are people get back ancient records suggest covered by MSP and that acupuncture itself their health and live for clients who have was being used to relieve happy lives.”

Extended Health suffering 5,000 years ago.

Coverage the Centre Explained in its simplest accepts ICBC,WCB, DVA and RCMP terms, acupuncture is based on the health plans. well-founded theory that a healthy human body – both physical and mental Last but not least, there are the sleep – should function in balance. disorders, chronic fatigue and other That balance, known in Chinese as Chi ailments that are caused and made or Qi, is the life-energy that is carried worse by our frantic modern-day throughout the body along 12 pathways lifestyles – including the Centre’s all known as meridians. important smoking cessation and weight loss protocols.“I love what I do,” said Unfortunately, we all are prone to Luo.“I am very glad that what I do can upsetting that balance and that’s where helps people get back their health and the skills of Feng Li and Jing Luo can live happy lives.” help.“Acupuncture is an amazing skill; in everyday practice I help my clients release their suffering,” says Luo.

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“People will often come in complaining of headache or stomach problems,” Luo said gently,“but when we look all over, we find their Chi is out of balance somewhere else.We fix that, the headache will go away.And then, we try to help them change their lifestyle so it doesn’t come back.”

JING LOU BC Registered Acupuncturist MD (China)

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Dr. Sharnell Muir helps those with snoring problems With her new practice at Canopy Integrated Health in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver Dr. Sharnell Muir can help you or a family member with a snoring problem.

in the field of Dental Sleep Medicine.”

Until I began seeing patients here on the North Shore there was no dedicated Dental Sleep Medicine provider here.”

Deep persistent snoring not only disrupts the sleep of others, it can also be part of a more serious “Your family problem- Obstructive Sleep deserves a good Apnea. CPAP machines, can night’s sleep be an effective treatment for and there are sleep apnea but many people non-surgical find the ventilator, mask options available” and hoses inconvenient or intolerable.

“When I was doing a lot of braces in my practice, I would ask the moms if the child snored....the mom would chuckle ‘they sure do, but not nearly as bad as their dad. Can you do anything about that? I began helping patients who had sleep apnea and snoring problems from that point on to the point where I accepted the position as Director of Dental Sleep Medicine for Pacific Sleep Care on Vancouver Island in 2012 and began practicing exclusively

As part of her lengthy study, Dr. Muir has discovered medically approved treatments that can be as effective as CPAP systems, but are less invasive. Oral appliances, by effecting snoring and sleep apnea, can lead to a positive improvement in medical conditions. Many patients can begin losing weight and with medical supervision reduce reliance on medication and gain control of their high blood pressure.”

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Because our personal appearance plays a significant role in how we feel about ourselves, family physician Dr. Shehla Ebrahim helps her clients reveal their inner beauty for all to see.

Practising at two locations – Afterglow Medical Aesthetics in North Vancouver and Ambleside Dermedics Health Centre in West Vancouver – Dr. Ebrahim uses a wide variety of modalities to treat people for an impressive range of conditions.

DR. SHEHLA EBRAHIM MD, CCFP, DPD.

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DANCE

Goh Ballet shares stage at festival

Company collaborates with Chinese dance group

■ Vancouver International Dance Festival, various venues, March 7-29. For more information and complete schedule visit vidf.ca.

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The idea of bringing together a ballet company and an international dance company was something Chan Hon Goh, director of the Goh Ballet, wanted to see happen for Vancouver.

“I feel that we should have the impact and also the experience of hosting dance groups from all over the world,” says Goh. Goh Ballet will be performing a collaborative production with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company of China at the Vancouver International Dance Festival on March 7 and 8.

The production consists of three performances. Voice After, choreographed by Liu Qi and performed by Guangdong, was inspired by the poetry of Bei Dao depicting ocean waves, seagulls and an underlying storm surge. Goh Ballet will perform the second piece in the program, Walpurgisnacht Ballet.

“We’re really thrilled to put on stage a work by George Balanchine, not many companies actually have his repertoire,” says Goh. Goh says they acquired Walpurgisnacht, which consists of 23 dancers, for the company’s 35th anniversary last June.

Mustard Seed, also choreographed by Qi, is the final piece in the program and combines dancers from both companies.

“It will involve 10 dancers from Goh Ballet and 12 dancers from the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, they’re working together with the choreographer,” says Goh, adding that the dancers

only met last week.

Goh, a West Vancouver resident, was inspired to collaborate with Guangdong on a trip to China three years ago, when she took in one of their performances.

“I spoke with their artistic director Willy (Tsao) and he had expressed a keen interest to collaborate with Goh Ballet and showcase his company here in Vancouver,” she says. “We discovered that Vancouver and Guangzhou are sister cities so it made the possibility even more significant.”

Goh says they originally thought of featuring Guangdong on a Goh Ballet program.

“But I thought given the wonderful connection and wanting to reach out to even a broader, more diversified audience, I approached the Vancouver International Dance Festival,” says Goh, of the festival’s founders Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget. “I said ‘What do you think about this idea?’ and right away they embraced it and they have been supportive of it.”

Bringing together both companies proved to be an interesting feat, helped along by the use of technology.

“A year from the concept of this collaboration, I then met the choreographer and heard about some of her ideas,” says Goh. “Then when I came back I was able to provide for her some of our dancers through video, so that she would get to know our dancers because we all knew the creative process would be very quick.”

Goh says Qi then rapidly put together the choreography.

“The actual physical part of the creation didn’t happen until around the 10th of February,” she says.

“The choreographer came . . . . and started to give her stylistic combinations and vocabulary to our dancers.”

Goh adds that the Guangdong dancers arrived on Feb. 22, when “the solidifying and putting together of the piece started.”

“This is a really exciting venture for everyone

involved, particularly the artists,” says Goh. “They come from culturally different backgrounds but also stylistically very different backgrounds so it’s very interesting to see how differently and how wonderfully they’re discovering the movements off of one another. The creative process is really great.”

Goh says that besides the dancers’ backgrounds, there is not really an east versus west aspect within the choreography.

“I’m not sure we can actually say that it is a difference of east and west, versus just a difference of style and choreographic voices because of the influences that this choreographer has been exposed to and her own imagination,” she says.

“She brings to the work a very new and different way of moving the body, of partnering skills. So she’s been adding a different way for the dancers to interact with each other and I guess we can’t separate that between the east and west.”

Goh says what does comes into play is each dancer’s cultural background.

“I think when it comes to the difference of east and west it’s probably more felt within the relationship that the dancers are building,” says Goh. “I think there’s always such a strong connector and a strong common language but maybe in how steps are approached, maybe in the number of repetitions, that’s a difference between how that company works and how we work here.”

Goh knows the intricacies of dancing well.

She joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1988 and became principal dancer in 1994. She danced her last performance with the National Ballet 15 years later and became director of Goh Ballet Academy and Youth Company in 2010.

“My previous experiences have really taught me how to look for collaborative opportunities, for how to build a dancer in his or her development to become an artist,” says Goh. “What does a young See Goh page 36

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CALENDAR From page 15 ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

North Shore Folk and Blues Club: Acoustic musical entertainment the third Sunday of each month, 7-10 p.m. Fraser Union will perform songs of B.C. and elsewhere on March 16.Admission: $10 at the door.

604-986-3078 CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE

2055 PurcellWay, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Cap Classics — Duo Romantico: Works from Spain and Latin America will be performed by Heather Beaty on the flute and Stanton C. Jack on the guitar Friday, March 7, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free.

Cap Global Roots: Guitarist and vocalist Marcio Faraco will perform traditional music of Brazil Saturday, March 8 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $32/$29.

Cap Classics — Student Showcase: Top prize

winners of the Music Diploma Performance Scholarship Competitions will be featured Friday, March 14, 11:45 a.m.1 p.m. Free.

Cap Jazz: Vocalist Kathy Kosins will perform with “A” Band and NiteCap Friday March 14 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $30/$27.

GLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH 1110 Gladwin Dr., North Vancouver.

The North Shore Registered Music Teachers will present the 43rd annual music festival concerts

March 12-14 at 7 p.m. $10/$5.

Info: 604-987-1067 or 604929-1592.

LYNNVALLEY UNITED CHURCH 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. 604-987-2114 lynnvalleychurch.com Friday Night Live: A weekly series with improv actors AddLibretto playing hosts to musical guests Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Schedule: March 7, magician Shawn Farquhar and March 14, Silk Road.

Admission by suggested See more page 35

Payne’s written new comedy pilot From page 20

Payne was born in Victoria but was a “borderline nomad” growing up.With the advantage of his height — he’s 6-4” — he emerged as a star volleyball player and was recruited to play professionally in Holland.

The language barrier was tough (a Dutch girlfriend to act as translator helped!) but Payne loved the game and the experience. After

that he joined his brother in Australia, where the two made their own short films and talked of starting their own production house.

Instead Payne headed for London, doing theatre and the audition circuit.

After moving back to Canada Payne found himself with roles on Stargate, Supernatural, Divine:The Series,Tower Prep and in films such as Watchmen (he played Dollar Bill), Cabin in theWoods, and a lead role in

the drama Mulligans, from which he says he still gets “very gratifying feedback” from fans on his Twitter and Facebook sites.

But writing is his other passion. Payne has written a “by me, for me” comedybased pilot about a brokedown hockey player that he calls “Californication in a toque.”While it’s fun to play bad guys, the actor finds himself constantly drawn back to comedy.

Payne is nursing a

smashed thumb from stunt work on last week’s job and is shooting a lead in a movie of the week this week. “I’m extremely grateful to be busy,” says the actor, who appreciates being able to kick back with the family and be a stay-at-home dad in his downtime. “I am just a huge supporter of living your life the best way you know how, and trusting your heart . . . . because if you ride the roller coaster of the external you’re bound to be disappointed.”

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Long before the shows like The X-Factor or The Voice became vehicles for musical success stories local talent contests were the start of many careers.

In a small Vancouver nightclub in 1993 an unknown singer caught the attention of the contest organizer, Beverly Delich.

Unfortunately for Michael Bublé although he was the judges’ favourite that night at the Big Bamboo Club he was only 18 and shouldn’t even have been allowed in the nightclub and was disqualified.

It was some time before their paths crossed again but in 1995 Delich was organizing the PNE talent show and remembered the

impressive young singer and contacted Bublé to encourage him to enter.

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CALENDAR From page 34 donation of $10.

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Seycove Music Recital Series — Leaping into Spring: Classical chamber music Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m. Complimentary wine and cheese to follow.Tickets: $20/$5. seycovemusic.ca PRESENTATION HOUSETHEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.Tickets: 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Music for Life: A fundraiser with music by Rueben Curr and the Heavy Hitters with special guests Bill Coon, Heather Pawsey and Karin Plato Saturday, March 8 at 7 p.m.Tickets: $20. Funds raised will support prostate cancer research.

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Meek andYuan: Pianists Scott Meek and ClareYuan will perform a program featuring four hands on one piano Thursday, March 13 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $15/$12.

Pianist Irina Konovalov will performThursday, March 20 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $15/$12.

Theatre

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-9456 firstimpressionstheatre.com Private Eyes: A comedy of suspicionWednesdays to Saturdays until March 15 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $18/$16.

HIGHLANDS UNITED CHURCH 3255 Edgemont Blvd., NorthVancouver. 604-9806071 x23 highlandsunited.org Jesus Christ Superstar: A musical loosely based on the Gospel’s account of the last week of Jesus’s life until March 9 at 8 p.m.Admission: $22.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335

camber and a unique history that I could draw from or leave and forge my own path, so I’ve tried to do both of those things.”

Stone lives in Boulder, Colo, though he is originally fromToronto and finished high school inVancouver (where he happened to discover the banjo).To date, he has released four albums, most recently 2013’s The Other Side of the Air. Stone will return to his old stomping grounds for the 10th anniversary edition of CelticFestVancouver, March 8-16, where he will present Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, a celebration of the work of famed folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax.The Lomax Project is a collaborative effort featuring roots musicians EliWest (voice, guitar, bouzouki), Moira Smiley (voice, accordion), Brittany Haas (fiddle, voice) and Joe Phillips (bass), who have been working together to revive, recycle and re-imagine some of the traditional folk music Lomax recorded over the course of 60 years.The repertoire includes sea shanties from the Bahamas, African American a cappella from

NORTH SHORE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE 225 East Second St., North Vancouver.

Fame: NSNHTheatre and Drama students will perform a collection of short plays, monologues, sketch comedy, film and songs Friday, March 14 at 6:30 p.m.Admission by donation.

Dance

LONSDALE QUAY 123 Carrie Cates Court, NorthVancouver. lonsdalequay.com St. Patrick’s Day:The Eire Born Irish Dance Society will perform traditional Irish dance Sunday, March 16 at 1 p.m. and the North Shore Junior Celtic Ensemble will perform See more page 37

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Stone says he has long been interested in using field recordings in his own compositions. In 2007, for example, he traveled to Mali to explore the banjo’s African roots and created an album, Africa to Appalachia, based onWest African melodies.

He first discovered Lomax around the same time he started playing the banjo.

“I’ve been aware of Lomax’s work and it slowly dawned on me how many things that I actually play and love were first recorded by him, even if they’ve been done by other people,” he says.

So, he gathered a group of musicians together to put their own spin on Lomax’s vast collection of recordings.

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Group celebrates the work of famed folklorist Lomax

From page 29

March 25 – 30

“It allowed us to hone in on some specifics, and at the same time it’s such an enormous collection and there’s so much that it’s just a kind of endless wellspring of things,” he says. “I feel like I’ve sort of fallen down the rabbit hole and I’m still reeling and reveling in how much incredible music he captured — I mean, he collected songs for 60 years.”

Because of the tremendous amount of material to draw on, and because Stone works with a different constellation of people on every tour, he says his performances at CelticFestVancouver will be slightly different than anything he’s done before.

“It’s a way to keep things fresh and to get to work with many of my favourite musicians,” he says. “We don’t do the same songs each time.

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CALENDAR SECRET’S OUT

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3 Days to Kill (14A) — Fri, Mon-Thur 9:45; Sat-Sun 3:50, 9:45 p.m.

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The Monuments Men (PG) — Fri, Mon-Thur 6:45, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:55, 6:45.

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) — Sat 1:55, 4:20; Sun 1, 4:20 p.m.

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Goh planning teaching tour

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dancer need, what artistic input would one need in order to grow to the next stage of maturity and be able to be a better dancer.”

Goh says she had a wonderful time rising through the National Ballet and leading it for several years.

“I have first-hand knowledge as well as experience to know how you shape a path for dancers and how you try to find individual success for different dancers,” says Goh. After the dance festival is finished, the Goh Ballet will be heading into rehearsals for their next production at the Vancouver Playhouse in June.

“Its called Aurora’s Awakening and it’s an adaptation of Sleeping Beauty and its original choreography done by

our own faculty members on the entire academy,” says Goh. “So you will have young ones from as young as seven years old right up to our graduating students.”

Goh herself plans to travel across the country to eight major cities, imparting her experience on young dancers.

“I will be conducting, for the first time ever, a national master class tour,” says Goh. “It’s going to speak and cater to dancers between the ages of 12 to 18 and they must have had an amount of training before. I want to have a chance to get to know them but also provide access so that they can train with me and hopefully give them some insight as to what it takes to become a professional dancer.”

The Goh Ballet also collaborates with other professional dance

companies on a regular basis. Goh says members of another company are invited to dance with them every year for their annual performance of The Nutcracker.

“Every year I bring in artists from other companies to guest appear with us,” says Goh. “We’ve had NewYork City Ballet, the Royal Danish, National Ballet of Canada, American Ballet Theatre, a lot of the major companies come and guest appear with us.”

But Goh would like to see another large-scale collaboration in the future.

“I’m certainly hoping for more opportunities like the one that we’re doing here with Guangdong where it’s that creative process, and sharing the stage potentially in a full length work,” she says. “I just hope that we will be able to introduce to audiences the importance of collaborations like this.”

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9 at 2 p.m.Admission: $10.

traditional Irish folk music at 2:15 p.m.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7270 ferrybuildinggallery.com Art History Evening: A celebration of International Women’s Day with a presentation from art historian Efrat El-Hanany on 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m.Admission: $15.

Other events

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 PurcellWay, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ From the Front to theWest Coast:The Recollections of the FinnishWarVeterans in Vancouver: This FinnishCanadian documentary film will be screened Sunday, March

LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300West Georgia St., Vancouver.

One Billion Rising: A fundraising evening of song, dance and art in conjunction with InternationalWomen’s Day Saturday, March 8 at 7 p.m. Funds raised will help support the North Shore Women’s Centre.Admission: $10.Tickets: kahlena.com/ international-womens-day.

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Book Launch: Ralph Drew will introduce his new book Forest & Fjord; the History of BelcarraThursday, March 13 at 10 a.m. Info: 604-929-5744

or deepcoveheritage.com.

WESTVANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Artists Confidential: Join Kay Meek’s managing and artistic director Claude Giroux for an intimate talk with Jonathan Christensen, artistic director of CatalystTheatre — presenters of Nevermore Tuesday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m.

— compiled by Debbie Caldwell. Email information for your North Shore event to listings@nsnews.com.

Delich guided career From page 34 be focused on helping Bublé achieve his dream of stardom. The many small steps that led to him getting the attention of David Foster and Paul Anka, who in 2002 began producing Bublé’s CD, are chronicled in an open and accessible account that offers a fascinating look at what it took to bring Buble’s talent to the world.

Delich acknowledges the bumps in the journey but her loyalty to Buble

is never in doubt. From the beginning she knew there would come a day when she had done all she could and it would be up to others in the business to take over guiding Bublé’s career but there was a lot of pain that went with that transition.

As a look inside the music industry Delich provides an interesting account of Buble’s rise but it is her openness and personal reflections that make it such an enjoyable story.

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Jagerhof Restaurant

$ $ $ The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar Best Little Schnitzel House in Town 71 Lonsdale Ave, N. Van. 604-980-4316

BISTRO Hugos,Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas $$

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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.

CHINESE

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 fl avours of the West Coast.

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

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The Salmon House

This winter,why not chase the cold away by cozying up in the warmth of Hugos? 2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. 604-987-3322 Bring your family and friends for lunch or dinner and choose from our menu of global favourites.From Neopolitan style pizza to Swiss fondue or crackling Neighbourhood chicken thighs with tamarind sauce Noodles House $ to authentic Tom Kha Gai...there is North Shore’s best variety & quality something for everyone.

Chinese food.Serving Lunch & Dinner 5775 Marine Drive, West Vancouver 7 days a week.Eat in,10% off takeout.

604-281-2111 Free delivery min.$20.00 order within hugos@eagleharbour.ca, 3 kms.

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Critically acclaimed worldwide for its delectable beef noodle, Chef Hung has won numerous Championships in Taiwan and now crowned the Kypriaki Taverna $$ Best Noodle House in Vancouver!

For the BEST quality and the BEST Come see what all the excitement prices, come visit or call for delivery is about. today. Open everyday @ Noon for lunch.Voted one of the top 1560 Marine Dr., W. Van. 778-279-8822 5 Greek restaurants in the Lower 6190 Marine Drive, West Vancouver Mainland.With our outstanding UBC Wesbrook Village: 778-279-8874 food, reasonable prices, friendly 102 - 3313 Shrum Lane, Vancouver Truffle House & Café $$ 604-228-8765 service and candle-lit charm you will The Truffle House & Café is truly a see why so many people call it their warm place to eat European cuisine Aberdeen Centre: favourite restaurant. Call for delivery/ with friendly service and reasonable 2800 - 4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond take out tonight or come in for a price. Philippe & Fabienne Chaber 604-295-9357 relaxing Mediterranean experience. have created a cozy and www.chefhungnoodle.com

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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 Observatory An epicurean experience 3700’ the Truffle House is pleased to offer you DINNER! Join us Friday & above the twinkling lights of Saturday evenings from 5-10 pm for Vancouver. delicious seasonal menus.

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

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Handi Cuisine of India

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Reader’s Choice 2006 Winner offering Authentic Indian Cuisine.

Open for lunch and dinner,7 days a week.Weekend buffet,ocean view, free delivery.

Palki Best Indian Cuisine $ $

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Classic French cuisine served in an elegant and graceful setting.

For over 34 years, Chez Michel has treated guests to only the best.

Traditional seafood and meat entrees, dressed in rich, tempting sauces, are specially featured alongside a superb selection of wines and a decadent dessert list.

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

$ $ 1373 Marine Dr. (2nd flr) W. Van.

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Where one spicy sauce does not fit all.Readers’Choice award winning restaurant for 5 years! Open for Lunch & Dinner.Lunch Buffet $10.95.

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PUB

The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub

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VOTED BEST PUB by you - The Bear is your friendly, comfortable local that has free parking plus a taxi stand.

Full take-out menu. Daily drink and food specials.We are 100% smoke & UFC free. Reserve your Xmas party today [max. 45ppl] limited space.

1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van www.blackbearpub.com 604.990.8880

The Rusty Gull

$$

A Lower Lonsdale legend for 23 years. Home to the best in live music Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun nights. Great food selection that surpasses the norm.

The best weekend breakfasts ‘til 2pm. Great selection of import draft.

All Canucks PPV games on the big screens.

175 East 1st St., N. Van. 604-988-5585 Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub

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Offers an excellent menu, the best craft brewed ales & lagers in Vancouver, live music, satellite sports, pool table, dart boards & heated patio with a spectacular city view.

86 Semisch Ave., N. Van. 604-984-3087

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Pier 7 restaurant + bar $$$

Damn good pub! We try to take everything that’s good about a pub, and leave out what’s not, then add lots more good… Start with a comfortable room around a giant fireplace, add 20 ice cold brews on tap, really damn good food, some awesome events, and pretty much the most personable group of folks you’ll ever meet… and welcome to the Village Tap House! Come in for dinner, to catch the game on our dozens of high-def flat screens, or check the events page to see what’s happening this week.

Enjoy dining on the waterfront with our inspired west coast boat-to-table choices that feature seasonal offerings.Our bar features an extensive wine and cocktail list and 5T.V.s so you’ll never miss a game.We are located in Lower Lonsdale at the Pier,on the water.

No other restaurant in North Vancouver gets you this close to the water.We are open for Lunch & Dinner.

Pier 7: Brunch is now served until 2:30.on weekends and statutory holidays

1C - 900 Main Street, Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver 604-922-8882 info@villagetaphouse.com

25 Wallace Mews North Vancouver,BC 604-929-7437 www.pierseven.ca

The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel

SEAFOOD

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Montgomery’s Fish & Chips $

Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood and the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Open 7-days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night lounge.We are located on the corner of Lonsdale & Esplanade.

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

International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market 604-929-8416

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C-Lovers Fish & Chips

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Marine Dr. @ Pemberton, N. Van. 604-980-9993 & OUR NEW LOCATION: 6640 Royal Ave., Horseshoe Bay, W. Van. 604-913-0994 The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

The MarinaSide Grill

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West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner.

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Enjoy your Waterfront dining experience with our extensive menu.

From eggs benny to juicy burgers during our popular brunches to our famous prime rib, hot scallop salad, clam chowder, king crab, steaks, seafood style cordon bleu. Rooms available for private parties and free parking. Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner seven days a week.View full menu www.marinasidegrill.com.

1653 Columbia St, N. Van. (2 blks South of Main & Mtn Hwy under the bridge) 604-988-0038 www.marinagrill.com

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In a way, they sort of have, with a new half-hybrid sportscar that promises to resurrect one of the most beloved performance badges of the 1990s.

The problem is, as shiny and fast as the upcoming sportscar might be, it’s just not important. Mid-engined supercars are neat, and I

certainly look forward to not actually being allowed to drive the thing (and possibly being told to stop licking its paintwork), but they’re not the kinds of cars Acura actually sells in any number.

This seven-seat machine is.Totally new for 2014, the Acura MDX is a vehicle that will more directly affect everyone’s lives, not least those of the folks working in the Acura dealership.

It’s the backbone of the company, the real flagship of the brand. It’s the heavy lifter that carries that Acura banner into the battle for

sales — where excellence really counts.

Design As far as that whole “totally new” thing goes, you might not really have noticed the changes. Let’s walk through them together.

Up front, the MDX retains the beaky prow of a robotic snapping turtle, but now it’s a robot with eyes formed of LEDs. They’re not just the yearround Christmas lights that Audi first popularized either, these clustered “Jewel Eyes” actually work slightly

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better than regular xenon headlights, and run cooler than the more conventional projector headlamps.

They also give the MDX something of an insectoid look, but it’s the sole rough edge on a smoothed-over shape that does everything it can to be inoffensive.

Bulging fender flares, plasticized wheel-arches, and big chrome wheels?You won’t find those here.

Instead, you get a very conventional, very conservative, handsome

With time and fatherhood, I have become as meek and mild as a kitten behind the wheel.

Cut me off? No problem, must be in a hurry, go right ahead.

Loitering in the fast lane at 10 klicks under the speed limit? Oh dear, must be a new driver or something. I’ll give them plenty of room.

Chattering away on a cellphone while wandering in and out of the lane?

Hmm. Blood pressure’s rising a bit. Serenity now.

Serenity now. Ah, that’s better.

However, if somebody tries to pass me on the Capilano on-ramp, I should be entirely within my legal rights to chase them down, pull them from their car and beat them to death with a golf umbrella. Not just that: any policeman happening along should be required by law to assist. Don’t just stand there, officer. Taser ’em in the nostril

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but anonymous shape.To my mind, it’s a bit like that line of business attire from Arc’teryx –— sensible, capable and no shouting please.

Environment As the MDX rides on an entirely new platform, you won’t be surprised to hear that things have been shuffled around inside a bit. Noticeably, width is down, giving a little less elbow room for side-by-side seating.

The old car ran on the old Odyssey chassis, and was a bit more capacious.

However, rear seat room is up, particularly in the third row. It’s also easier for small fries to clamber back there with a new button-operated folding system, and they have a bit more space to fill with Lego and Skylanders and what-have-you.

Acura includes a pair of entertainment systems for your unruly rear-seat passengers, with a single DVD player available as part of the Technology package, and an extra-wide screen on the Elite car.This last can also run in splitscreen mode, meaning no squabbling over what to watch.

Up front, driver and passenger get really comfortable seats, with lots of power adjustability and a little bit more lateral support than in the main Japanese rivals.

Where once the MDX relied on a graphing calculator’s worth of buttons, it’s now controlled by a large touchscreen. It’s easy to use, but you wonder if they shouldn’t maybe have kept the heated seats and so forth as regular buttons.

Performance Just like any newly released model, the MDX has even more power than before: formerly propelled by a lusty 3.7-litre V-6 with 300 horsepower, the new truck now gets 290 h.p. from a 3.5-litre powerplant.Wait, I

must have read that wrong.

Nope.This year’s MDX gets less power overall.

The rationale for the mild reduction in go is simple: less filling, still drives great.

Acura has shaved the weight off with the new chassis, and can therefore get away with fewer horses under the hood without hurting performance.

The drive is very good.While the six-speed automatic isn’t as slick as the octo-boxes in some of the Germanic competition, it does feel durable and reliable, and is plenty smooth.The V-6 is frankly excellent, with plenty of power and smoothness.

Passing and acceleration are not a problem at all, and you’d never notice that a few horses have been put out to pasture.

Handling has also been positively affected by the reduction in mass, although the power steering has a little too much lightness to be really sporting. Not that anything in this segment is supposed to handle like a roller-coaster, but there’s a very slight amount of play in the steering — one small way the old model was superior.

The actual grip levels are great, with most of the credit going to Acura’s comedynamed Super Handling AllWheel-Drive.This provides not just good handling, but Super Handling. Says so right in the owner’s manual.

Despite being quite large, though nimbler than the old vehicle, the MDX’s trick torque-vectoring rear axle can shunt power to an outside wheel, helping rotate it through a corner.

You’ll hardly be burning up the backroads on the school run, but the system is very good in the wet, and should help bring a little extra driver confidence behind the wheel if the weather turns snowy.

features together in easy to understand groupings.The MDX comes in four flavours spanning from just under $50K to $65K, and they all make sense.

Just the basic luxuries (and you even get a heated steering wheel as standard)?

That’s simply the MDX. Need navigation to get where you’re going? That’s the MDX Navi.

The top level Elite trim is incredibly well-equipped, with everything from the

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Confusion exists related to on-ramp etiquette

From page 42

or something.

In the several years since I’ve moved to this neighbourhood, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Capilano on-ramp produces some of the worst driving behaviour on the planet. I use this little snippet of road several times a week, but perhaps you don’t, so let me describe it to you.

Essentially a horseshoeshaped loop of pavement designed by someone who was a pinball wizard in a former life, the westbound on-ramp takes traffic off Capilano road, zips them around and flings them directly onto the TransCanada Highway with no merging lane whatsoever.

Not only that, but the tail end of the on-ramp can’t be seen from the midpoint. A driver can’t spend too long looking up the hill searching for a gap in highway traffic without running the risk of rearending somebody stopped at the end of the on-ramp.

To deal with this, I usually slow down with 50 or so feet to spare when I can see the end of the ramp, leaving myself enough room to get up to highway speed while making sure I’m not going to get a 15-ton Peterbilt enema. Once the way is clear, off I go, slotting into traffic safely.

It’s right at this point that some blithering eejit thinks they know better and tries to go around, whereupon they end up stopped at the bottom of the on-ramp with nowhere to go, and no space to get up to speed. And then, you know, golf umbrella blood spurt artery murder court-case.

The basic issue seems to be a problem with understanding how onramps and off-ramps are supposed to be used. Let me illustrate a few ways that I’ve seen people doing it wrong.

An on-ramp is meant to get traffic quickly up to highway speed so that it can merge safely — most

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Friday, March 7, 2014 - North Shore News - A47

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Safe driving requires attention, forethought and planning From page 45

to remember to exit the freeway. By this I mean, you don’t change out of the fast lane at the last possible moment, crossing three lanes as if you were trying to escape from an angry Liam Neeson.

These days, they have signs and everything to tell you when it’s time to move over and prepare to hit the off-ramp. They’re green.

Can’t miss ’em.

But not so fast, I said “prepare to hit the offramp,” and that needs a little clarification as well.

The off-ramp is where traffic slows down to street speeds. The offramp. Not 400 feet from the off-ramp, backing up highway traffic for miles.

I’m talking to you, silver Honda Civic.

If you’re already on the highway, there appear to be two schools of thought for drivers. The first is to pretend that merging traffic doesn’t exist, and the second is to notice that it exists and to do everything you can to prevent it from getting in front of you. I would suggest an alternative.

While the left lane is the passing lane, not the slowpoke lane, if you know a tricky on-ramp is coming up, move over to the left.

It’s not just about being courteous to your fellow driver, it’s driving defensively. Who hasn’t heard the ambulance sirens go near the

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bchonda.com †The CR-V, Civic and Fit are the #1 selling retail compact SUV, compact car, and subcompact car respectively in BC based on Polk 2013 Dec YTD report. Ω Limited time lease offer based on a new 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. ¥1.99% lease APR for 60 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $133.83 based on applying $1,000 lease dollars. Downpayment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $17,397.90. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometer. #Limited time lease offer based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX. *1.99% lease APR for 60 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $84.63 based on applying $600 lease dollars. Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $11,001.90.Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometer. £Limited time lease offer based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX.€1.99% lease APR for 60 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $74.56 based on applying $500 consumer incentive dollars and $1,100 lease dollars. Downpayment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $9,692.80. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometer.**MSRP is $17,185 / $27,685 / $16,130 including freight and PDI of $1,495 / $1,695 / $1,495 based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES / 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX. PPSA, license, insurance, taxes, and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/#/* Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent's fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery. #/*/Ω/€/¥/£/** Offers valid from March 1st through 31st, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www. bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.

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