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Incident prompts call for defibrillator SeaBus terminal cited as ideal spot for life-saving equipment STEFANIA SECCIA sseccia@nsnews.com

When a man collapsed near the SeaBus station in NorthVancouver recently, bystanders scrambled to find a defibrillator while waiting for paramedics to arrive on scene, but in the

end could not track one down.

The incident prompted a renewed call by the Heart and Stroke Foundation to have Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) available in places frequented by large groups of people, including the

SeaBus station.

But according to TransLink spokesperson Jiana Ling, neither the SeaBus nor the terminal where it docks have a defibrillator because staff is not trained to operate one.

While all staff have to complete their level one first aid requirements, “to operate one of those (AEDs), you need to have a higher level of training for first aid,” she said.

Ling said in case of a major medical emergency, staff are told to contact 9-1-1.

“When it really becomes that serious, you would really want someone who’s properly trained to take over and assist with medical conditions to make sure it doesn’t make it worse,” she added. “I think it requires a lot more than bringing in that equipment. It also requires training all the

spots for public access to AEDs. “AEDs are so intuitive, if you can figure out how to press the on button, which is very easy, the machine talks to you and guides you through all the steps you need to do.”

Parker also noted that the Canada Line has AEDs available at most locations.

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staff and making sure that everyone knows how to operate that.”

But the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Shelley Parker says anyone can use an AED because the machine prompts the user on what to do.

In fact, Parker — resuscitation program manager for B.C. andYukon — said transit terminals that large numbers of people are moving through are ideal

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Fire bans in effect as hot weather to continue BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Any ice-cream truck driver or dog left in a vehicle can tell you: the heat is back.

But don’t call it a heat wave like we had in mid-July. It’s more of a “heat event” if you ask the authorities at Environment Canada. “(Temperatures) are definitely running above seasonal — about five degrees above our normal values for this time of year,” said Allan Coldwells, Environment Canada meteorologist. “It could warm up a degree or two more over the next (four) days but we’re probably not going to see recordbreaking temperatures this time around.We don’t have

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North Shore crime rates fall

District of NorthVancouver among safest municipalities JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

If Canada’s crime rate was a stock, investors would be peddling shares for pennies on the dollar.

The declining crime rate was particularly apparent in the District of North Vancouver, which proved to be the safest place on the North Shore and one of the safest municipalities in Canada.

Canada’s violent crime severity index — which measures violent crime by

both volume and brutality — plunged by 10 per cent in 2013 compared to 2012, according to Statistics Canada.

When ranked from worst to best according to the violent crime severity index, the District of North Vancouver finished 252 out of 304 Canadian municipalities.West Vancouver wasn’t far behind, earning a ranking of 215.The City of North Vancouver brought up the rear at 172.

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departments reported approximately 384,000 violent incidents in 2013, down about 32,000 from 2012.

Canada’s overall crime severity index dipped by nine per cent in 2013.The index — which includes all crimes but puts more weight on offences resulting in longer sentences — has tumbled for 10 straight years.

The City of North Vancouver was slightly worse than the national average on the overall crime severity index. Out of 304 Canadian municipalities rated worst to best, the City of North Vancouver finished at 106.

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the District of North Vancouver’s overall crime severity index were each substantially lower than the national average.

The City of North Vancouver scored worse than the national average on the non-violent crime severity index; earning a ranking of 80.

With the exception of a slight rise in nonviolent crime in the City of North Vancouver, the North Shore’s three major municipalities each witnessed a decline in their crime rates compared to 2012.

The trend toward safer cities is partially attributable to fewer incidents of

breaking and entering and robbery, particularly in B.C. But while overall crime rates plunged, police saw more incidents of child pornography and sexual violations against children.

Those offences include luring a child via computer, which shot up by 30 per cent in 2013.

Incidents of extortion, aggravated assault and identity fraud also increased in 2013.

The traditional crime rate — which does not differentiate based on the severity of offences — dipped by eight per cent in 2013, putting Canada’s crime rate at its lowest level since 1969.

Rolling truck causes highway mess BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Highway 1 was shut down for more than an hour Wednesday morning following a dramatic crash on The Cut. A glass delivery truck was pulled off to the side of The Cut near the Lynn Valley exit just before 7 a.m. when the truck began to roll backwards into oncoming traffic, according to Cpl. Robert McDonald, spokesman for the Port Mann Freeway Patrol.

The result was a brief chain reaction series of collisions.

“My understanding is, for some reason, the emergency brake wasn’t put on properly and it rolled back onto a motorcycle and two cars that were behind him,” McDonald said.

After the initial highway pileup, the truck rolled off The Cut and into the bank on the north side.

Though one person was taken to hospital, McDonald said there were no major injures.

McDonald said the driver is now facing two violation tickets.

By the time police and District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services crews had one lane of the highway reopened more than an hour later, traffic gridlock extended past the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing all the way to the Coquitlam Burnaby border.

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It was a long night for 16 North Shore Rescue volunteersWednesday who were out combing the bush looking for two sets of lost and possibly injured hikers.

The team got the first call at 9:30 p.m. after someone reported two men

overdue from a hike to the Widowmaker Arete north of Grouse Mountain.

The two were originally due back Tuesday night.

With no helicopter available, search manager Mike Danks sent two teams in on foot, one from Grouse and one from the Lynn Headwaters trail.

While they were en route, North Vancouver RCMP

requested help with a second pair of hikers around 11 p.m. after a woman twisted her ankle and her partner started making his way south in search of cell coverage.

Luckily, the pair were within five kilometres of the team in Lynn Headwaters when they called. It took until 5 a.m. for the team to help the pair out.

The Grouse team

meanwhile was having no luck in finding any sign of their subjects. Danks arranged for a Talon helicopter to search the area and shuttle exhausted searchers out at first light.

“This was becoming very concerning for us because at that point we thought we had potentially two See Communciation page 5

Eagle Harbour warning posted From page 1 quite the amount of heat coming from the south as we did the last time.”

Along with the hot, dry weather comes a ban on fires in the entire coastal region, just in time for the B.C. Day long weekend.

The ban extends to all open fires in parks, campgrounds and Crown land and carries a $345 fine.

It’s not just campfires that pose a risk though.

Local fire crews have been kept busy putting out small grass fires, according to Mike Cairns, assistant fire chief with District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue.

The locations suggest they were ignited by lit cigarette butts being flicked out car windows, which can net careless smokers a $100 “flick it ticket.”

The rising mercury is also no secret to the pets left in hot vehicles.

The B.C. SPCA has been fielding hundreds of calls this summer, said spokeswoman Lorie Chortyk who encourages people to call the SPCA hotline at 1-855-622-7722 if they see an animal in distress.

But, with only 25 officers to investigate and enforce animal cruelty laws in the entire province, residents should also consider calling their local police if they see a dog suffering in the heat. If the vehicle is parked outside a nearby business, Chortyk recommends asking the manager to encourage customers to return to their vehicle if there’s a pet inside.

Also on the caution front for those seeking to cool off with a swim this weekend: Vancouver Coastal Health has warned swimmers to stay out of the water at Eagle Harbour after a routine test on Wednesday found E.coli bacteria counts at 240 per 100 millilitres of water. The safe limit for human contact is 200.

Coldwells is forecasting a slight drop in the temperatures over the weekend with a possible thunder shower late on Sunday.

Then it’s back to sunny conditions in the mid to high 20s for the first week of August.

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each. On July 25, North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton announced three new AEDs would be installed at the Canlan Ice Sports North Shore arena in a partnership between the federal government and the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The foundation also partners with the province and B.C. Emergency Health Services to implement the B.C. Public Access to Defibrillators Program by making AEDs available and providing support for the devices.

Gord Kirk, interim director of dispatch operations with the B.C. Ambulance Service, said dispatchers will ask bystanders who call 9-11 for an ambulance if a B.C. PAD program AED is available nearby. B.C. Emergency Health Services is working to expand the dispatch registry to include AEDs that are not part of the program.

“Ambulance paramedics respond to 2,400 to 2,800 sudden cardiac arrest calls every year, “ said Kirk in an email to the North Shore News. Heart attacks are

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injured individuals who were unresponsive,” Danks said.

Around 9 a.m., the team got word the two men had made their way back to Grouse

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anada is safe.

The last time crime rates were this low the Post-It hadn’t been invented and The Beatles were together.

So why are the Conservatives spearheading a multi-billion dollar prison expansion?

The Tories seem determined to convince Canadians they don’t feel safe and facts be damned.

Besides the obligatory opposition from the NDP and Liberals, the idea of prisons solving problems got a scathing review in Texas.

Not too long ago, Texas was locking up more criminals than Canada ever could — approximately five per cent of the adult population — but it was never enough. Eventually, the Lone Star state took money earmarked for even more prisons and invested in mental health and drug treatment. A budget crisis was

averted, the incarceration rate fell and the crime rate plunged.

The union representing Canadian prison guards has also dug in its heels against the expansion.

Prisons have become more crowded and dangerous, for both prisoners and guards, despite a decade of declining crime rates. Part of the reason is that rather than focusing on rehabilitation or prevention, the ruling Conservatives favour longer sentences while chopping pay for working prisoners and reducing access to libraries.

Longer sentences have only ever resulted in higher recidivism rates.

Surely, the way to combat that trend is not to put more poor and poorly educated ex-cons on the street.

Every Canadian should feel safe these days — except maybe the ones in prison.

LNG plan prompts genteel concern So how do you like the idea of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) past Lions Bay, Bowen Island and — take note — not far off Horseshoe Bay and the western flank of West Vancouver?

Clapping hands?

Possibly distracted by distant oil transport disputes, most West Vancouverites seem unaware of a RITOBY (right in their own backyard) plan for the old pulp mill site at Woodfibre — even though Jeremy Shepherd reported in the Feb. 16 News that about 40 double-hulled ships a year would transport the LNG down Howe Sound to the parent company’s facility in China, and tireless West Van Matters editor Carolanne Reynolds flagged the item a couple of weeks ago.

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The small plant is sought by Pacific Oil & Gas subsidiary Woodfibre Natural Gas Ltd., owned

by Indonesian billionaire Sukanto Tanoto. He aims to have it up and running in 2017. A government photo shows Tanoto and a smiley Premier Christy Clark meeting on her Asian tour in May. Somehow, I doubt if the Liberals would have

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A group called the Future of Howe Sound Society, noting that the company could be the first LNG export facility on the west coast, stated: “There are inherent dangers in liquefying and storing some 100,000 tonnes of liquefied gas, let alone the shipping of it down Howe Sound.”

The Council of Canadians says the plant’s capacity would be two million tonnes a year, 290 million cubic feet a day, partly transported by Eagle Mountain-Woodfibre pipeline.

West Van seems to be last stop for the predictable controversy (an even hotter one swirls around a logging permit for Gambier Island, Agent 6J9Sqk reports from

a meeting). About 100 quite unruly protesters gathered outside Squamish chambers a couple of weeks ago.

Prominent opponents of the LNG proposal include a North Vancouverite, Laurie Parkinson, and Eoin (pronounced Owen) Finn, a sometime resident of Bowyer Island. Both attended a meeting with Woodfibre executives at Gleneagles in February, where Byng Giraud, vicepresident of corporate affairs, said assuringly: “The LNG industry is safe.

From 1964 to 2012, there were more than 140,000 LNG carrier sea journeys without one incident of loss of LNG containment.”

Finn, with a PhD in chemistry and a master of business administration degree, and a retired partner of KPMG, one of the world’s biggest audit

and management advisory services, is a self-styled “unlikely LNG opponent.”

He’s written a carefully detailed critique of the proposal. There are huge safety risks in permitting tankers — 80 a year, Finn estimated — to navigate Howe Sound’s narrow channel. He called it “a class-A hazard.”

West Van councillors unanimously voted July 21 to write the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) expressing their “concerns” (that weakest word in contemporary usage), asking for a seat on the current EAO working group, which has ignored Bowen Island too. They also wrote to the federal ministers of transport and the environment.

Politely, no doubt. The toughest talk came from Coun. Bill Soprovich: “We

should pull all stops out to prevent this (LNG plant) being placed at Woodfibre.”

If this were the Downtown Eastside a rent-a-crowd would have been angrily massing in the streets by nightfall, shouting slogans.

Not the West Vancouver way, my dears.

A more genteel protest would have been for “concerned” West Vancouverites to post a comment on the EAO website. Ah, too late. The deadline was last Sunday.

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Don’t believe Clark’s LNG fairy tale Not a week goes by, it seems, that Premier Christy Clark doesn’t talk, yet again, about the vast riches that lay in B.C.’s path if only a liquefied natural gas industry gets off the ground in this province.

It’s a theme that began before the last election, and one that helped carry her to a surprising victory with the voters.

People seem to at least want to believe the fairy tale-like talk about billions of dollars coming our way to help eliminate the provincial debt and even the sales tax. But for all the time the premier spends talking about this subject, more evidence turns up that reminds us all about just what a shaky roll of the dice the whole LNG gambit may prove to be.

Clark is arguing that the glut of natural gas on North American markets has kept the price low, and therefore B.C. must look to other markets to make money. China, Korea and Japan all loom as potential customers of B.C.’s LNG. To be fair, she has a point here. The steady decline in the price of natural gas in North America has meant dwindling revenues to the provincial treasury arising from royalties on gas sales, and this has been going on for several years.

Annual natural gas royalty revenues for the B.C. government peaked in 2005-06 at almost a whopping $2 billion. Back then, the price was a lofty $7.27 per gigajoule, but things have gone downhill ever since, as the shale gas

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The revenues bottomed out at a measly $169 million in 2012-13 and are expected to hit nearly a half-billion dollars or so this year, but the days of royalties generating more than a billion dollars per year appear over.

And even the current estimate for this year’s revenues may be in jeopardy of being too high. Prices are lagging behind predictions of a few months ago, and even a 50 cent change in the price from what was predicted equals about $140 million in lost revenue.

All of this volatility underscores the premier’s argument to find new markets. But while the price for LNG remains high in Asia, who is to say those prices will remain high when and if a B.C.based LNG plant is up and running a few years from now?

China recently signed a mammoth long-range deal with Russia for natural gas, and there are reports the price included in it is much lower than current prices.

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SFU professor and energy expert Mark Jaccard has pointed out that the Asia market can become just as volatile — and cheaper — over time as the North American one.

If the Asian market price for LNG drops significantly, that alone could threaten the economic models of private companies contemplating building those proposed LNG

plants in North West B.C. Another potential problem: several recent media reports have said a major New York hedge fund has bought a $1 billion stake in Apache, one of the companies involved in a proposed LNG project in Kitimat, and is urging the company to get out of the project.

According to Bloomberg and the Wall St. Journal, the hedge fund managers apparently think

the Kitimat project is a drain on Apache’s capital, and any potential payoff is still many years down the road. They want the company to focus solely on U.S. projects.

Then there is the Kitimat air shed problem.

Proposed LNG plants would be clustered in a tight valley with the existing Rio Tinto smelter and perhaps even an oil refinery, which all adds up to a lot of emissions into

the air over a relatively small area.

The government insists the report it recently commissioned to look into the problem concluded up to four LNG plants could operate without damaging the health of residents, if “proper measures” were taken.

But Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver was quick to point out one of those See Aboriginal page 10

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Moodyville issue not about ‘cashing out’ about preserving the equity the homeowners have worked so hard to achieve over decades.

Here’s a few facts the residents of the city may be interested in prior to the upcoming November election: The City of North Vancouver purchased a property at 619 East First St. earlier this year for $1,015,000. This lot is 6000 square feet so that works out to $169 per square foot. It is my understanding the property was purchased in order to

establish a more level access from the East First Street back lane to the street for the Spirit Trail. The average size of lots on the south side of East Third Street is 7500 square feet, so this works out to $1,267,500.

The city has set the bar for the properties in the area by establishing this cost per square foot for land value. Hardly what I would call dollar signs in the eyes of the homeowners and cashing out when the city itself set the precedent.

Coun. Clark put a motion on the table in early

Bring the water bomber into service Dear Editor: Already this season we have over 100 thousand hectares in flames, more than 10 times the 2013 total and the summer is just starting.

We are evacuating communities and bringing in hundreds of firefighters from other provinces. Why? We have the largest water bomber in the world still in service on Vancouver

Island. The Martin Mars can drop more water on fires in one day than all the other assets combined.

Why is it not in service??

Money? It costs more to bring in 200 firefighters from other provinces than to fire up the Mars.

Washington State is also hugely affected by forest fires and dozens of homes have been destroyed.

We are also evacuating

communities and still the largest water bomber in the world is just sitting idle while houses burn.

As long as parts are available to keep this massive essential plane running we should keep it in service.

People’s houses shouldn’t go up in flames while this plane is parked.

Leo Vanderbyl North Vancouver

Postponing Ferry issue suspect From page 6 opponents of this needless, costly and stupid plan (I know, I should get off the fence) will have cooled off by the time the rescheduled meeting is held. I favour the second explanation.

The downtown press may also have influenced the postponement. The Vancouver Sun fell upon the issue and ran a timely story that perhaps alarmed town hall. It had a gap or two, such as stating that a “coffee bar” was planned,

May to add more OCP consultation, however, at Monday’s council meeting clearly proved he did not take into account the wishes and opinions of the majority of residents.

During the additional OCP consultation, 65 per cent were in favour of a coach house and a basement suite, 80 per cent were in favour of 1.0 density or higher in the east Third Street area and 75 per cent of general feedback form respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the direction of the draft.

Coun. Clark’s consultation cost the taxpayers in the neighbourhood of $60,000.

The majority of his constituents’ voices

Dear Editor: Re: District Mulls Amalgamation, July 23.

The article states that, “More recently, the city scuttled amalgamation talks over concerns the district isn’t paying their share of the North Vancouver policing bill.”

But is it not logical that the problem of the policing bill would be solved by amalgamation whereby the total bill would be paid by one unified North Vancouver? Common sense says that amalgamation would solve many such problems.

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Aboriginal title issue may complicate plans From page 7 recommended measures is to operate the LNG plants with electricity and not natural gas, which is something the premier has ruled out.

Finally, the recent landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision on aboriginal title may throw yet another wrench into plans to lay more pipelines

to carry LNG to those envisioned plants.

Put it all together, and it would appear the premier’s lofty dreams of LNG riches may still be stuck in the proverbial pipe for a while yet.

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Emergency responses should be reserved for emergencies Dear Editor: Re: Firefighters Sound the 9-11 Alarm.

A couple of weeks ago, a man on a scooter stopped to let a fire truck with emergency lights and sirens go by and was hit from behind by a driver of a car who wasn’t expecting the stop.

The man on the scooter was injured and taken to hospital by ambulance. Obviously the fire was not to blame, but this does highlight the whole point of the RAP (Resource Allocation Plan) program that paramedics are committed to upholding.

Emergency vehicles driving with lights and sirens get into accidents and, like the man on the scooter, cause other accidents to happen. And this is exactly why emergency responses should be reserved for emergencies only.

People might be surprised to learn that the overwhelming majority of emergency lights and siren calls that firefighters and ambulances go to are actually discovered to be non emergencies.

Many so minor in fact that often times there is no transport required. This is a good thing, of course, and is a testimony to how careful our ambulance dispatchers

really are.

The article Firefighters Sound 9-1-1 Alarm is misleading.

Implied is the absurd idea that ambulance dispatchers, suspecting a person is having an aneurysm, would send an ambulance routine without lights and sirens. This is completely false and shows a real lack of understanding as to how paramedics are dispatched.

Titles, such as “suspected aneurysm, miscarriage, or fall resulting in hemorrhage,” in dispatcher language, are simply the names of categories that have little or no real connection to the nature of the call. In other words, there is almost nothing we can tell about the patient or what the call is about from the category name attached to the call. And if an ambulance is sent routine to a “suspected aneurysm” the one thing you can be certain of is that it’s not a suspected aneurysm.

The real information comes in follow up as the dispatcher spends time talking with the patient or the person caring for the patient.

The answers that come back to the dispatcher from lengthy questioning give paramedics a sense of what the call is really about.

Jackie Strom’s broken arm had a 20-minute response time and that’s unfortunate. But it leads to some interesting questions.

What is an acceptable response time for a call such as that? Would 15 minutes suffice? How about a half hour? I think you’d have favourable responses to both, and I doubt there would be a lot of consensus. And how long do people with a similar injury typically have to wait in the hall at the hospital before seeing a physician?

The RAP program is here to stay. It’s had input from physicians of all specialties as well as paramedics, and came about as a result of complaints by both paramedics and patients who were displeased with the overresponse problem. If firefighter Brian Leavold would like to make changes then he should make his case to the medical community directly, and stop trying to do an end run by appealing to those who don’t understand the system.

And if the medical community disagrees with you, Brian Leavold, then you have failed to make your case. Try again.

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THIS WEEK: — Harmony Arts Festival — ArtSpeaks: Talks, demonstrations, workshops, hands-on classes and multimedia presentations from Aug. 2 to 9 in the Ferry Building Gallery and art tent. Most classes are free, but register in the gallery office for any classes with a fee.

— Harmony Arts Festival — Sunset Concert Series: Free nightly outdoor performances in John Lawson Park at 7:30 p.m. Schedule: Aug. 1, Andrew Allen; Aug. 2, The Tourist Company; Aug. 3,The Sojouners with the Marcus Mosley Chorale; Aug. 4, Babe Gurr; Aug. 5, The Shirleys; Aug. 6,Tanga; Aug. 7,The Gords; Aug. 8,The Fugitives; Aug. 9, The Matinée; and Aug. 10, Bobby Bruce’s Nearly Neil and The Solitary Band.

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The artificial and natural are purposefully woven together in art installation from a well-known West Vancouver-based architect at the Harmony Arts Festival, starting today.

From Aug. 1 to 10, festival-goers can enjoy the living public art piece created by West Vancouver native and architect Matthew Soules. The contemporary art exhibition is featured at the Park Royal Beachside Patio.

“There’s a few different conceptual strands that come from a little bit different places and then get woven together to formulate an idea of what we’re actually doing on site,” said Soules, from Grenada, Spain, where he was working on an international research project until recently.

Soules was born, raised and educated in West Vancouver. He received his undergraduate degrees in fine arts and history at the University of British Columbia before attaining

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But despite the accolades and experience, this will be the first living art and architectural living exhibit he’s composed in his home of West Vancouver.

“I grew up in West Vancouver. I went to elementary school and high school in West Van and now I’m living in West Van. This is the first time I’ve done a project in West Van, so it was really exciting to me,” he said.

Soules was approached by Darrin Morrison, director and head curator of the West Vancouver Museum, about five months ago to submit a joint proposal through the B.C. Arts Council to do a temporary art and architectural installation at the local festival.

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The house, a national historic site in West Vancouver, was originally designed by the late Canadian artist Bertram Charles Binning, whose life’s work influenced the likes of Arthur Erickson and other famous, world-renowned architects. For the West Coast, it’s considered the first-ever modernist style home.

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Art Walk Through: In conjunction with the Harmony Arts Festival 33 artists’ works will be displayed in 29 businesses from Aug. 1 to 10.

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Prints Show 2014: An exhibition featuring 100 photographs by 100 photographers in a silent auction to raise money for cancer care Thursday,Aug. 7, 5-8 p.m. theprintsshow.com.

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MUSIC

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Band is among the Peak Performance Project top 12 n The Tourist Company, Saturday, Aug. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in John Lawson Park, part of West Vancouver’s Harmony Arts Festival, Aug. 1-10.

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Things couldn’t have gone much better for the members of new band The Tourist Company, launched just over a year ago.

Forming in spring 2013, the band, comprised of North Shore residents Taylor Swindells, Jillian Levey and Brenon Parry, along with Abbotsford’s Josué Quezada, has since released its debut album and an EP, and gone on their first tour. Other accolades include their being voted regional champion for Vancouver in CBC Music’s Searchlight competition, and the most recent feather in their cap, they were named one of 12 bands in this year’s The Peak Performance Project.

“We’re just grateful for the opportunities that have come up. We couldn’t have really anticipated the year going as it has.

We’re just really thankful to be where we are and excited to see what comes out of all of this too,”

says Swindells, a vocalist, guitarist and trumpet player with the band. The North Vancouver resident is further grateful for the support of his bandmates and from community members, important contributors to their continued success.

While music has always been a part of Swindells’ life, as well as songwriting, it wasn’t until January 2013 when he showed some of his songs to his future bandmates that things began to take off.

Agreeing to help him record some tracks in the studio, they came to see their potential.

“As that process went along we realized, ‘Hey, we should do something with this,’ and we figured we should make a band of it,” says Swindells.

The Tourist Company released its debut album Brother,Wake Up in spring 2013 and followed it up with Space Race, an EP, in May. Space Race was produced by singersongwriter Jordan Klassen, thanks to an introduction by the band’s friend and manager Alex Wyder. “(Klassen has) been really great and really taught us a lot. He’s just a brilliant mind musically and so it’s been good to work with him,” says

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The resulting Space Race has a more full and bigger sound than their debut, which they mainly produced themselves.

The Tourist Company’s live shows are known for being upbeat and energetic.

“I think people go to a live show to enjoy them and to have fun. In our live show, we have a lot of fun creating what we do.

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“We try to incorporate all aspects of that into our set and so it’s not like there’s one thing happening all the time so it’s really dynamic and flowing, and all the spectrums of what music can be,” he says.

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that we do. It’s pretty rare that you have a panel of industry experts looking at what you’re doing and critiquing it,” says Swindells.

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VISUAL ARTS

Nature and landscape mix with architecture APPLY FOR THE PUBLIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE Metro Vancouver is looking for three representatives from North Shore communities to participate on an advisory committee during the design and construction phase of the new Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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One of the conceptual strands for the installation translates “the colours and expanse of the landscape into a geometric mosaic,” according to Soules.

The other idea was to have a pragmatic art piece festival-goers can actually use, he added.

“Given that August, if we’re lucky, in Vancouver is the sunniest and warmest time of year, we thought what if we did something that provided basic shade and sun protection for festival-goers?” he said.

“That’s the second conceptual strand.”

The last piece of the puzzle incorporated in the design is to showcase the

way nature and landscape interact with architecture.

“Me and my collaborators, or my staff, became interested in how we could do something that had a kind of dialogue between artificiality and nature,” Soules said.

“Basically, the proposal is to do a canopy roof sculpture that festivalgoers can relax under, walk under and that the canopy is made up of a series of geometric modules.”

Each of the 260 modules is comprised of growing plant material “that are all impregnated with clover seeds and rye grass,” which were grown in West Vancouver’s municipal nursery.

The modules were assembled more than a month earlier and the seeds were planted shortly after. The structures were all combined a few days before the festival’s Aug. 1 start.

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And for Soules, he said he often meditates on how in subtle ways, architecture plays a role in creating new and different worlds.

“It as a necessity embodies a whole host of social, cultural, political and economic kind of forces and ideas,” he said.

“I’m most fascinated in architecture as a kind of manifestation of social ideas, economic forces.

I think, always in my projects, I try to imagine them in the terms of the … social, economic ideological worlds that they manifest.”

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VISUAL ARTS

Local weaver hones traditional craft

Wearable textiles are artist’s focus n Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth, until Jan. 4, 2015 at the O’Brian Gallery in UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. More info at moa.ubc.ca/ claimingspace ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

Danielle Morsette’s traditional artistic creations are a methodical process that starts with a visual idea in her mind, which she translates to paper, then computer.

“I take it onto an Excel sheet so I can figure out the exact numbers of my patterns so it’s an exact visual aid of what my piece will be like,” says Morsette.

“There’s quite a bit of math involved with pieces because you have to know the number count for individual triangles or any other shape that will do.

And then from there, I’ll pick out my colours and

then start weaving.”

Morsette, 26, is a Coast Salish weaver. Her work is part of the Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth exhibition, taking place at the O’Brian Gallery in UBC’s Museum of Anthropology until Jan. 4, 2015.

The exhibit includes more than 28 artists between the ages of 15 and 25 from Canada, the United States, Norway and New Zealand, and “looks at the diverse ways that these young people are asserting their identity and affirming their relationship to both urban spaces and ancestral territories.”

Claiming Space is broken down into five focus areas: The Indigenous Sprawl, We are Culture, Adapting our Traditions, The Gaze and We are the Keepers.

Morsette has two pieces on display, Reflecting Mountains and Coast Salish Potlatch Dress.

“One is a completely wool skirt and cape and the other one is a cedar bark dress with a wool panel down the front,” she says.

“The cedar bark dress — that’s the first time I’ve ever worked with cedar on such a big project.”

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Along with Morsette’s weaving, the show also features new media, film, fashion, photography, painting, performance, creative writing and traditional art forms.

“Its not every day where there’s an exhibition dedicated to young artists who most likely are not very known to the public or to the art world,” says Morsette. “I was overjoyed completely to be a part of it, still am. It’s a unique exhibition that only comes around every once in a while.”

Morsette, a North Vancouver resident and member of both the Suquamish Tribe from Washington State and Stó: lo Nation from Chilliwack, says the exhibit was important to her because there was very little representation from Coast Salish weavers.

“I believe I might have been the only one,” she says. “It’s like an introduction to the art world. UBC, in a way it’s like the premier museum for First Nations art in B.C. I’m so excited to be a part of that because it’s major.”

Morsette’s main focus right now is creating wearable textiles.

“It’s like traditionalinspired clothing used for ceremonial purposes,” she says. “Eventually I’d kind of like to branch out and do something different.”

Coast Salish weaving is limited to geometric patterns, or anything with a straight edge, says Morsette, and so her next goal is to learn a Northernstyle of weaving from the Haidas and Tlingits called Chilkat, which includes animal designs.

“I’d eventually like to be one of the first to do Salish design that’s not geometric,” she says. “So like the graphic artists who do eagles and thunderbirds and bears, that kind of design is what I’d like to translate onto weaving because that’s something I haven’t seen before.”

Morsette was introduced to weaving by Majorie Lawrence of the Tulalip Tribe in 2003, learning basic headbands and small purses. She has also been a student of her mentor, Virginia Adams from the Suquamish Tribe and Marcie Baker, from the Squamish Nation.

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Her work was featured in the Suquamish Museum in 2012 and at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum in 2013.

She was also a recipient of the YVR Art Foundation Scholarship in 2012, which paved the way to her inclusion in the Claiming Spaces exhibition.

“My cedar dress that I made for that grant was displayed in the airport over at YVR and Pam Brown, the curator (of Claiming Spaces), she had seen that in her travels and she contacted me on Facebook and asked me

to submit my work so that I could be a part of the exhibition,” she says.

Some of the pieces that Morsette weaves can take an extensive amount of time to create, with larger, more major pieces lasting over the course of a year.

“I’ll give myself that much time but it will be as much work as I can put into it,” she says. “But for smaller pieces, like a small shawl, would take me maybe two months.”

Materials used vary depending on the project, but Morsette says she initially used a synthetic wool mix for all of her creations.

“I decide on materials on basically what I can purchase,” she says. “I buy commercial spun

yarn in whatever colours I feel blend together well. I’m a little bit more contemporary with my colour choice.”

Other materials require a little more work. When using cedar bark, it must first be pulled off the tree and then aged for about a year, says Morsette, to let all the sap dry out. The bark is then cut into strips, the width of which depends entirely on the weaver’s preference.

“From there you’d have to peel the layers individually,” she says.

“When it’s wet it’s more malleable to work with and depending on how soft you would like it, you can pound it.”

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Weaving all done by hand From page 20 Morsette says she’s made so many potlatch headbands they probably number in the hundreds.

She’s also made about 40 other commissioned individual pieces for personal regalia, including skirts, tunics, dresses, blankets and shawls.

“I’ve been given free reign in most of my commissions, it’s like they’ll tell me a colour and kind of an idea of what they want, but usually it’s up to me,” she says. “I haven’t really had anyone who told me exactly what they wanted, it’s just something they saw of mine and said ‘I like that, can you do that for me?’

But usually I tend not to recreate something,

so most of my work you can tell it’s by me but it’s not an exact duplication.

I prefer to keep them unique.”

All of Morsette’s pieces are done completely by hand.

“The most challenging part is probably keeping the tension equal and the design,” she says. “The tension is everything because you want it to be even.”

Morsette’s creations have garnered even further attention, including a private gallery on Vancouver Island that has shown interest in her cedar bark dress, though she’s not sure she will sell it because “it’s a unique piece.”

“One of my first works, the one that’s all wool,

that was exhibited in the Suquamish Museum and from there it went to UBC. That’s my personal regalia so I won’t be selling that,” she says. “But we’ll see once the exhibit’s over, if it wants to travel again then it will.”

The MOA exhibit title, Claiming Space, rings a personal note with Morsette.

“I moved here in 2010 from Washington State and so for me to be able to focus on my weaving completely as a stay-athome mom/artist, in an essence I feel like I’ve kind of claimed space by creating these pieces,” says Morsette. “More people have become aware of who I am as an artist, as a weaver in Vancouver and in Washington State.”

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

Gift Box highlights local talent BillyWould jewelry made from reclaimed hardwood ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

FASHION FILE Our weekly roundup of fashion and beauty events and activities. page 27

North Vancouver jeweller Adea Chung has a talent for taking reclaimed wood and broken skateboards to create something intricate and beautiful.

“My dad was an amazing wood carver, so I just kind of grew up with that around and did it just for friends and kind of as something fun to do on the side,” says Chung, creator of Billy Would Designs. “Then it just evolved but it definitely wasn’t something that I had set out to do at the beginning.”

Chung is one of 10 local artists featured in The Gift Box at CityScape Community Arts Space in North Vancouver. The artists are all locally based members of the North Vancouver Arts Council and their work ranges from paintings and greeting cards to jewelry and candleholders.

Veronica StocktonKushner, office administrator for the North Vancouver Community Arts Council, says submissions are taken a couple of times a year by local artists of various mediums.

“They submit their work, we jury it and then we choose which ones are going to go in,” says Stockton-Kushner. “We highlight them in The Gift Box for a few months, I think it’s about a three or

four month contract that they have.”

All of the artwork is available for purchase by the public and StocktonKushner says the artists receive a commission for the pieces they sell.

“It’s been pretty successful,” she says.

“We have sales for the products every time we do a rotation.”

For Chung, who only heard about The Gift Box this year, the experience has been good.

“I’m excited to do more stuff with them for sure,” she says.

Chung discovered The Gift Box after attending the annual North Shore Art Crawl with her brother back in April and quickly became ensconced in the local arts community.

“I had no idea there was this many artists in North Van,” she remembers saying. “It was really exciting and then I got introduced to somebody through the council and then it kind of evolved and then they were like ‘Oh, you should do The Gift Box.’” Chung has a studio in North Vancouver and her work is featured in stores and galleries across the country. She creates everything from necklaces, bracelets and earrings, to cufflinks, tie clips, belt buckles and even bottle openers.

“It’s all recycled and reclaimed hardwood, See Skaters page 26

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so I get a lot of off-cuts from old furniture or just basically anything that is just too nice and precious to throw out but usually too small to be used for anything else,” she says.

“But for jewelry it’s perfect because you don’t need much.”

The brighter coloured pieces, or anything that looks like plywood, Chung explains, are made from broken skateboard decks that are either from local shops, such as The Boardroom, or brought to Chung by skateboarders themselves.

Chung says she’s thrilled to be able to make jewelry.

“I love that other people are so supportive and they’ve been really encouraging,” she says.

“It doesn’t seem like something that there is a lot of competition with.

There’s so many amazing jewelers and stuff but wood seems to be one of those things that isn’t, I don’t know, it’s not really the first thing you think of when you think of jewelry, so it seems to be something a little different.” ● ● ●

In addition to showcasing her designs in The Gift Box, Chung will also be selling her jewelry on both weekends of the Harmony Arts Festival’s Art Market, which takes place Aug. 1-4 and Aug. 8-10 on Argyle Avenue, between 14th and 17th streets in West Vancouver.

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BOUTIQUE ON THE MOVE After 10 years in the Village at Park Royal, Kiss and Makeup beauty and fashion boutique has closed its doors and is relocating to 1760 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, as of Friday, Aug. 1. Fans of the shop will find many of the same brands, plus a few new ones. Stay in the loop at kissandmakeup.ca

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Summer is not over yet so come in early for best selection.

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The multi-year campaign will run in 2014 between June and October.The Homewaters website will profile eight provincial freshwater organizations, including B.C.’s Fraser Riverkeeper, and encourage the public to take action. mec.ca/homewaters ANNIVERSARY The Village at Park Royal is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this summer with a variety of public events culminating in a free concert for the community with musical artists Dear Rouge on Sept. 6.The anniversary celebration will be highlighted throughout the summer

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Celebrate BC

OH, THE CRITTERS YOU’LL SEE

Summer is here, and for those planning to head out into local wooded areas, there are plenty of creatures to observe.

Take a look around, and don’t forget to look up and look down, for the North Shore has chocolate, vanilla, banana and pickle flavoured slugs.

Tricia Edgar, education programmer at the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre, reports this information with a laugh. She is referring to the different colours of banana slugs commonly found in local forests. Continuing the food theme found in the name, the local gastropod mollusk is sometimes jokingly referred to as having different flavours based on their range of colours, which includes brown, white, yellow and green. (Of course, slugs should not be eaten.)

Banana slugs come in different colours, but can be distinguished from black slugs, another common North Shore resident, in two ways: black slugs have small ridges along their backs and a fairly obvious frill along the bottom of their

bodies like a little orangecoloured skirt.

encounter a garter snake, others tend to stay clear of our area.

“All of them are also recyclers.

They eat dead vegetation, as well as exciting things like dog poo and bear poo,” explains Edgar.

“There are not a lot of reptiles around here. Reptiles like hot, dry places and we’re not very hot and dry,” says Edgar.

Slugs can get up to 30 centimetres long, but usually they’re about the size of your palm.

Slugs tend to hang out in logs or underneath something when it’s hot and dry.They bury themselves so they stay moist. But don’t worry if you don’t find a slug when you’re walking in the North Shore woods this summer because there are plenty of other creatures to discover.

“People don’t often realize that there are a lot of bugs in creaks,” says Edgar. “If you’re down at a creek and there’s lots of wildlife in the creek then it means that the water is relatively clean, especially if you find things like mayflies and caddis flies.”

However, if you come across a creek that doesn’t have much diversity and seems to have lots of worms and snails, the creek water may not be as clean because worms and snails can live almost anywhere.

“Caddis flies are really cool,” she notes.They make a little A pair of young flickers pop out from their tree home outside Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

The North Shore is home to a variety of animals, including birds, insects, mammals, and amphibians. Some are easier to spot than others. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD house out of whatever is in their environment, such as small rocks or sticks, and then they walk around like a hermit crab with a house on their back. When they’re ready, they go into their little house and go through metamorphosis like a caterpillar would do, explains Edgar.

“They’re pretty cool because they look like little sticks that are crawling along the bottom of the creek.”

So if you spot a little pile of rocks moving around at a creek, chances are you’re watching a caddis fly.

The big animal relationships seen in local forests are mirrored in the small relationships too, says Edgar.

Both big and small animals have predators and prey.

Spiders and centipedes, for example, are predators and they eat tiny bugs.There are also omnivores and vegetarians among the small animal groups in the woods.

“The bug ecology is kind of similar in that way to the big animal ecology,” says Edgar.

Other bugs to look for in the trails are millipedes and wood bugs (or potato bugs). All of these animals are well adapted to the temperate rain forests of the North Shore.

“Often when we think of what we’re going to see in the forest we think of bears and birds, but most of the life on earth is actually invertebrates, so animals without backbones,” says Edgar. “Most of life is quite different from us.The bulk of living animals are more similar to wood bugs and beetles and worms than they are to us.”

The least invasive way to look for these smaller animals is to look on shrubs or gently turn over or wiggle logs and rocks.

“But remember to put it back when you’re done,” says Edgar.

If you’re hoping to catch a glimpse of a reptile, don’t hold your breath. While you might

But take a walk in the woods and you may just catch a glimpse of an amphibian. Our North Shore forests also house Pacific tree frogs (also known as chorus frogs), red-legged frogs, and western red-backed salamanders.Take a look around Rice Lake and you might even see a newt.

Unfortunately, frogs and salamanders are not easy to spot. You might have more luck with squirrels and chipmunks. Chipmunks tend to be found higher up the hill, but two kinds of squirrels romp about closer to civilization. One is the Eastern grey squirrel. It is not originally from B.C. and it is more of an urban squirrel, says Edgar.The Douglas squirrel, which is native to this area, is a little smaller than the grey squirrel and has a reddish colour on its belly. It eats the seeds of Douglas fir cones.

If you’re not a fan of rodents, then look up into the trees.The North Shore is now playing host to many migratory birds that started arriving weeks ago.They are settling in for the summer or are just passing through.

Not long ago, Edgar says the ecology centre had some special visitors when some baby Pileated woodpeckers poked their heads out of a

nearby tree. She describes these birds as the ones with the “red hairdo.”The woodpeckers’ mom had made a hole in a dead tree and then built a nest in the hole.

Some other birds to be on the lookout for are warblers and two kinds of hummingbirds: Rufus and Anna’s.The Anna’s hummingbird is resident here and can be seen hanging out around feeders even in the winter.The Rufus hummingbird migrates up to the North Shore in the summer and pollinates salmonberries.

But Edgar’s favourite bird is the Swainson’s Thrush, which she says is “sort of like a robin and it’s very boring looking but it has a really beautiful song.”

The song spirals upward, and “if you’re in the forest it’s a good one to listen for,” she adds.

The North Shore is also home to plenty of butterflies, moths, bees, and mosquitoes, and “there are lots of animals that you can’t see,” says Edgar.

There are a lot of animals in soil that many people don’t realize are there because they are hard to see, she explains.

“We’re always seeing at a certain level, but the world would look very different if you were living in the soil and you were wood-bug size.

You would see a lot of other animals that we don’t realize exist.”

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Celebrate BC B.C. BLUEBERRY SEASON Blueberries will be harvested until late September, and are widely available at stores, fruit stands and farmers markets. In addition, the British Columbia Blueberry Council has a list of blueberry farms with gate sales and “u-pick” options on its website (bcblueberry.com).

The following are a few of blueberry recipes from the council.

Mound the mixture into the cones.

QUICK BLUEBERRY SORBET

Dot the tops with the remaining blueberries; serve immediately.

INGREDIENTS

500 grams frozen blueberries 250 ml water 350 grams sugar

BLUEBERRY BUBBLE CONES

1 tbsp lemon juice DIRECTIONS

In a medium saucepan, bring sugar and water to a boil and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.

INGREDIENTS

Blend blueberries, half of syrup mixture and lemon juice in a blender until smooth.

1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries, divided

Taste and add more syrup if the mix is not sweet enough.

DIRECTIONS

3/4 cup prepared tapioca or rice pudding

6 ice cream cones

Pour blueberry mixture into a container or moulds, and freeze until firm (around two-three hours).

BLUEBERRY LEMON SHOOTERS INGREDIENTS

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Repeat. Top with a swirl of whipped cream. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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FILM

Guardians of the Galaxy is great fun n Guardians of the Galaxy. Directed by James Gunn. Starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper.

Rating: 8 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Conributing writer

Before seeing Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s latest big-screen comic book adaptation, I must admit I had reached my superhero saturation point.

Too many iterations of similar stories, interconnecting from film to film like a virus, had left me super confused.

When I heard that this particular ensemble includes a talking tree and a trigger-happy raccoon, only my 15-year-old fanboy kept me from bolting for the exit. It’s with a large helping of crow, therefore, that I announce that Guardians is the most fun I’ve had at the movies in a while.

We first meet Peter Quill back on Earth in

1988, when he only has a moment to mourn his dying mom before being sucked up by a UFO. Fast-forward 26 years later, where Peter (now played

by Chris Pratt) is making a living by scavenging deserted planets and ravishing as many female life forms as possible. He’s desperate to make it on his own — he even pushes his own brand name, StarLord — but most of the profits have to be funneled back to the band of men who captured him all those years ago.

On one scavenging hunt, Peter picks up an orb that is of particular interest to Thanos (you know him if you saw the mini movie that played after the last superhero film’s interminable credits), to Thanos’ adopted daughter Gamora (Zoe Saldana, blue in Avatar, green here) and to the peaceful people of Xandar, governed by Glenn Close.

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FILM Showtimes LANDMARK CINEMAS 6 ESPLANADE 200 West Esplanade, North Vancouver 604-983-2762 Maleficent (PG) — FriThur 4 p.m.

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Step Up: All in 3D — Thur 7, 9:35 p.m.

The Hundred-Foot Journey (G) — Thur 7, 9:40 p.m.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D — Thur 7:10, 9:45 p.m.

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Andre Rieu: Live 10th Anniversary 2014 Maastricht Concert — Sat 12:30; Wed 6:45 p.m.

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The Cinematheque’s annual film noir summer season runs Aug. 1-28 and features a dozen movie titles from the early 1940s to the late ’50s.

On Sunday, Aug. 3 audiences can take in a long-weekend noir triple bill of The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce.

Friendship theme runs through film From page 33 talking raccoon named Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and a hulking tree named Groot (Vin Diesel) also try to pilfer the orb. It lands all of them in prison where they meet Drax (Dave Bautista), who has his own reasons for joining the gang. “I’m surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy,” notes Gamora.

Don’t let the furry little raccoon fool you: he’s got a potty mouth. And Groot, with his three-word vocabulary, might be the most sage of them all (not to mention this year’s most coveted Halloween costume). Appearances by John C. Reilly and Benicio del Toro further enliven a script that has a decidedly

buttoned-down, Indiana Jones vibe. (Indeed, Pratt’s relaxed delivery invites Harrison Ford comparisons.) This film has a power of friendship theme that other ensemble films lack.

Despite the enhanced comedy factor, Guardians has the stuff of all good sci-fi and superhero stories: sibling rivalry (“out of all my siblings, I hate you least,” Nebula says to Gamora), paternity questions, memorable worlds (Knowhere is particularly impressive) and loyalties tested. Oh, and a little bit of flirting between heroes doesn’t hurt, as when Gamora fends off Peter’s “pelvic sorcery.” Guardians of the Galaxy is great fun.

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From page 23 at realestatenorthshore.com/ movie-night-2014 JOHN LAWSON PARK Foot of 16th Street, West Vancouver.

Harmony Arts Festival

— Cinema in the Park: An outdoor movie experience at 9 p.m. Schedule: Aug. 1, Gravity; Aug. 2, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Aug. 3 Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Aug. 9, Becoming Redwood; and Aug. 10, Despicable Me. Info: harmonyarts.ca.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Oil Sands Karaoke: A screening by local filmmaker CharlesWilkinson Friday Aug. 15 at 8 p.m. Admission

AUSTRIAN

Jagerhof Restaurant

71 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604-980-4316 Old World Charm - Featuring Alpine Cuisine from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and South Tirol/Northern Italy with an extensive import beer selection.

$$

$$

www.eagleharbour.ca 5775 Marine Drive, W. Van | 604-281-2111 Daily lunch specials & patio. Local live music two evenings a week.

Deep dish & thin crust pizzas, fresh original salads, burgers, smoked ribs & chicken, South East Asian specialties & sweet fondues & crepes.

Larson Station West Coast Bistro & Banquets $$$

6190 Marine Drive, W. Van. | 778-279-8874 For 2 or 200! Enjoy sweeping views through the 6th fairway, to the ocean at Gleneagles Clubhouse. LIVE MUSIC Fridays & Saturdays BRUNCH on weekends. Family friendly & casual, with flavours of the West Coast.

The Portly Chef

The Observatory $$$$ www.grousemountain.com Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. | 604-998-4403 A thrilling and epicurean experience 3700’ on Grouse Mountain above the twinkling lights of Vancouver.

The Salmon House $$$$ www.salmonhouse.com 2229 Folkestone Way, W. Van. | 604-926-3212 Serving spectacular views and fine, indigenous west coast cuisine for over 30 years. Lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. Live entertainment in Coho Lounge on weekend evenings.

FRENCH

Chez Michel

Pasparos Greek

$$

2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-987-3322 Excellent seafood & British dishes on the waterfront. Dinner specials: Friday & Saturday- Prime Rib. Sunday - Turkey. Weekends & holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny. Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

$$$

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www.neighbourhoodnoodlehouse.com 1352 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604-988-9885 We offer the best variety and quality Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese cuisine with no MSG or additives at a very affordable price.

Family owned and operated for over 18 years. Conveniently located in central Lonsdale. $$ www.chefhungnoodle.com 1560 Marine Dive., W. Van. | 778-279-8822 Critically acclaimed worldwide for its delectable beef noodle, Chef Hung has won numerous Championships in Taiwan and now crowned the Best Noodle House in Vancouver! Come see what all the excitement is about.

The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub

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Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub

$$

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Village Tap House $$ www.villagetaphouse.com 900 Main Street, Village at Park Royal, W. Van. | 604-922-8882 Start with a comfortable room, a giant fireplace, add 20 ice cold brews on tap, really damn good food, some awesome events, & the most personable group of folks you’ll ever meet…welcome to the Tap House!

SEAFOOD

C-Lovers Fish & Chips

www.c-lovers.com Marine Drive @ Pemberton, N. Van. | 604-980-9993 6640 Royal Ave., Horseshoe Bay, W. Van. | 604-913-0994 The best fish & chips on the North Shore!

$$

Montgomery’s Fish & Chips

$

International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-929-8416 The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

THAI

Thai PudPong Restaurant $$ www.thaipudpong.com 1474 Marine Drive, W. Van. | 604-921-1069 West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner.

$$$

The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel $$$ www.pinnaclepierhotel.com 138 Victory Ship Way, N. Van. | 604-973-8000 Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood & the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Breakfast, lunch, dinner & late night lounge, 7 days/week.

Live music Fridays 8-11pm.

WATERFRONT DINING

PUB

www.sailorhagarspub.com 86 Semisch Avenue, N. Van. | 604-984-3087 Spectacular view of Vancouver harbour & city, enjoy great food in a Brew Pub atmosphere. 18 beers on tap including our own 6 craftbrews. Live music, satellite sports, pool table, darts & heated patio.

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Pier 7 restaurant + bar

$$

www.blackbearpub.com 1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van | 604.990.8880 VOTED BEST PUB - The Bear is your warm, friendly, comfortable, local gathering place. Daily drink & food specials. Full menu avail for takeout. Trivia Monday nights. 100% smoke & UFC free. Free parking /taxi stand. Facebook & Twitter.

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www.pierseven.ca 25 Wallace Mews, N. Van. | 604-929-7437 Enjoy dining literally ON the waterfront with our inspired West Coast boat-to-table choices & extensive wine list. We’ve got 5 TV’s so you’ll never miss a game. Brunch until 2:30 weekends & holidays.

INDIAN

Handi Cuisine of India

1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Monday Night Movies: The Lunchbox will be screened on Monday, Aug. 11 (English/Hindi with subtitles), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will play on Aug.

WEST COAST

www.handi-restaurant.com 1579 Bellevue Avenue, W. Van. | 604-925-5262 Reader’s Choice 2006 Winner offering Authentic Indian Cuisine.

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

CHINESE

Chef Hung Taiwanese Noodle

GREEK www.pasparos.com 132 West 3rd Street, N. Van. | 604-980-0331 Try our best selling roast lamb and lamb chop dishes. Enjoy a warm & cozy ambiance with consistent good service. We continue to honour the high reputation of Greek hospitality year after year.

BRITISH

Neighbourhood Noodle House

$$$

www.chezmichelvancouver.com 1373 Marine Drive (2nd flr), W. Van. | 604-926-4913 For over 34 years, Chez Michel has delighted guests with his Classic French cuisine. Seafood & meat entrees, a superb selection of wines & a decadent dessert list. Superior service with a waterfront view completes an exemplary lunch or dinner experience.

$$$

www.theportlychef.com 1211 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604.971.4377 One of North Vancouver’s newest bistros offering local and seasonal ingredients. Check out our musttry signature dish ‘The Drunken Sable’. Our staff welcome you to find out what the buzz is about!

Trip Advisor recommended. Air Conditioned.

The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar

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The MarinaSide Grill

www.marinasidegrill.com 1653 Columbia Street, N. Van. (Under 2nd Narrows Bridge) | 604-988-0038 Waterfront dining over looking Lynnwood Marina under Ironworkers Memorial Bridge.

Open every day at 8 am. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Brunch weekends and holidays serving eggs benny to juicy burgers, hot scallop salad, clam chowder. Happy Hour everyday from 3 - 5 pm.

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Therefore, the V-6 engine, transmission, brakes, steering and suspension are the same and can be trusted as reliable and dependable.

However, the Venza is more than just an amalgamation of the two models.

The Venza offers the comfort you expect from a premium sedan and combines it with the higher seating position and outward visibility associated with an SUV. It also provides a wider, more

Like any child of the 1980s, I grew up reading the stories of Tintin, thrilling to the exploits of the boy detective, laughing at the antics of Captain Haddock and Snowy, and being slightly bemused that one time he blew up a rhinoceros with dynamite.

Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, breathed life into every line of his characters, but he also took a particular care in the accuracy of his backgrounds. The Karaboudjan, that ship crewed by villainous, drug-smuggling scum, was sketched from life. Aircraft were faithfully copied line-for-line, and cities and architecture too. And when it came to automobiles, well. . . .

In The Calculus Affair, perhaps the best of the stories, the baddies drive a

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2014 ToyotaVenza

A Toyota with a twist

The Toyota Venza is somewhat unique in Toyota’s line-up, which mostly consists of highquality models with generic characteristics.

The Venza boasts expressive styling, an engaging driving experience, driver-friendly technology and impressive versatility that gives it a bit more charisma.

The Venza is larger than the RAV4, yet smaller than the seven-passenger Highlander.This makes the Venza a great choice for someone looking for the versatility of a small SUV,

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Behind the Wheel but doesn’t want the bulk or brutish look of some SUVs. While the Venza’s carlike chassis does limit its off-road ability and towing

capacity, its reliable choice of engines, comfortable seating for five and impressive standard features make it a strong competitor in the crossover SUV segment.

The Venza experienced some notable changes for the 2013 model year, so Toyota didn’t make huge alterations for 2014. XLE and Limited models receive standard power-folding mirrors and the Limited also adds front and rear parking sensors.

Design The Venza shares the

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TODAY’S DRIVE

Venza exclusive to North American market From page 41

athletic stance and available all-wheel drive.

The Venza is also a product exclusive to North America. Despite the fact that it shares its platform with other Toyota vehicles, the U.S.-based design team made sure it is visually different than the Camry and its larger sibling, the Highlander.

While it sits taller than a Camry, step-in height remains low, so getting in and out is still easy for height-challenged people and the elderly. Also, since it has a lower centre of gravity, the Venza is naturally safer and sportier than traditional SUVs. Seven standard airbags add to the peace-ofmind.

Even though the Venza was given a makeover last year, the visual differences were limited to the grille, mirrors, and lights.The standard 19-inch wheels (20-inch wheels are available) give it a muscular appearance.

Performance There are two engine

options to choose from for the Venza, as in the past.

The base model Venza comes with a 2.7-litre four-cylinder which returns a combined city/highway fuel economy rating of 8.6 litres/100 kilometres.

However, the Venza is not a light vehicle and with only 182 horsepower available, merging onto a highway is not the easiest.

The 268 h.p., 3.5-litre V-6 is much more up to the task.This engine still achieves a combined fuel economy rating of 9.6 l/100 km.This should be the engine of choice for those who plan to do a lot of highway driving.

Regardless of which powerplant you choose, it will be mated to a sixspeed automatic ECT transmission with sequential shift mode. Also, both can be equipped with AWD drivetrain for increased traction all year.

All Venza models come with electric power steering which is surprisingly responsive and provides a reasonable amount of feedback. It can feel a bit heavy at slower speeds,

however.The large wheels look nice and add to the overall styling but are a bit harsh over rough pavement and allow some noise to enter the cabin.

Environment The cabin inside the Venza feels large, airy and spacious in all directions.

Head, leg and hip room numbers are all near the top of the segment.To make the cabin feel even more airy, an optional panoramic moonroof allows all occupants to enjoy the sky.

From the eight-way adjustable driver seat, the instrument panel features a high-visibility Optitron display.Toyota also allows Venza owners to adjust the size of the font of the information centre to increase legibility.

Since the Venza has no third row of seating, it is able to offer 70.1 cubic feet of cargo space when the seats are folded down.To increase its utility, the Venza has standard 60/40 split folding second-row seats with a remote release in the cargo area.This means you don’t have to leave the rear

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Standard on the Venza is a Display Audio system using a 6.1-inch touchscreen that is capable of connecting to external devices through an auxiliary audio jack, a USB port or via Bluetooth.Voicerecognition is also standard and several upgrade

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Friday, August 1, 2014 - North Shore News - A43

TODAY’S DRIVE

Car carried freedom fighters and cartoon villains From page 41

glowering, low, suspiciouslooking machine, all-black with twin chevrons in its grille. It looks like it’s up to no good right from the get-go, and soon it’s running poor old Tintin’s taxicab right into the drink.

For the western reader, the car was interesting simply for its brooding look. For the French youth reading these stories, it would have been far more recognizable: a Citroën Traction Avant, the preferred machine of the Gestapo, and the Free French Army.

The French car enthusiast community on the North Shore is quite robust, with the major show of the year tied to the Italian car show down at Waterfront Park. If you’ve not heard about it before, sorry, you’ll have to wait until next year as this year’s show already came and went.

As such, it’s hardly a surprise to find that there’s a fairly special example tucked away in a local garage: a 1939 Traction Avant belonging to Chris Adshead.

The car is mostly original, with just 80,000 kilometres on the clock, and spent the war years lurking under hay bales on a farm just south of Paris. As the Nazi blitzkrieg swept across France, confiscating every form of wheeled transport they could, this car somehow escaped. It was used after the war by an American entrepreneur who travelled around the continent looking for collectible cars,

and later made its way first to Washington state, and then up here.

This year, the Traction Avant turns 80, and despite being a car few have seen outside the pages of Tintin, it’s quite an important machine. It was the first mass-produced, unibody, front-wheel-drive car ever; while it might look low and swoopy, it’s actually quite like your average Toyota Corolla in layout.

The brainchild of AndréGustave Citroën, it would nevertheless bankrupt the man who once saw his name spelled out in lights on the Eiffel tower itself.

Citroën, while trained as an engineer, was more a master of distributed intelligence and marketing than an automaking genius.

If his contemporary, Ferdinand Porsche, had an almost savant-like ability to focus on a set task to the exclusion of all else, Citroën was a gambler, a promoter, and somebody who wasn’t all that interested in cars at first. As an example, the double chevrons that have become a symbol synonymous with his name are taken from a set of gears he discovered in use on a farm, licensed, and then mass-produced.

These gears, which operated more smoothly than the traditional model, were Citroën’s first success, something he owed to a mania with mass production. He was obsessed with it, and had as his hero the great industrialist Henry Ford — this despite Ford’s early

anti-Semitic tendencies and Citroën’s Jewish heritage. His first car, the 10 horsepower Type-A, went on sale in the middle of 1919, and a decade or so of strong sales followed.

However, the Traction Avant that succeeded it would be a leap forward in a time when many manufacturers, including Ford, spurned innovation.

Citroën’s thought was fairly pragmatic: to design a car that would be so advanced, it wouldn’t have to be updated for years.

It was one of the first cars to be sculpted in clay (by Italian Flamino Bertoni), and was at least a foot lower than contemporary cars thanks to the unibody rather than body-on-frame construction. Stepping into Adshead’s 1939 example, there’s a tremendous amount of room, and the driver and passenger sit at the same level as a modern car.

The engineers on the project were André Lefèbvre and Maurice Santurat, and while an automatic transmission was attempted, it broke so they simply came up with a three-speed manual instead.The shifter is mounted vertically on the dash, and each gear has a little gate so the lever doesn’t simply fall out from the upper first and third gears.

Elegant.

It took just 18 months for the Traction Avant to go from concept to reality, but the tremendous outlay in funds overstretched the company and eventually bankrupted Andre Citroën.

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There were other, darker clouds on the horizon too.

The Traction Avant enjoyed critical success, but also some early notoriety too.

Le Gang des Traction Avants were a band of murderous bank-robbers with names like Pierre “Le Fou” Loutrel, who favoured the Citroën for its handling characteristics.The thieves would steal one to use as a getaway car, and then elude the gendarmes by hurtling down the tight French streets at top speed.

Then, of course, the Luftwaffe arrived overhead with occupation soon afterwards.The all-black Traction Avant became the signature car of the Gestapo, with civilians restricted from purchasing fuel.The cars

would arrive in the night suddenly, spiriting away those thought to be aiding the resistance, never to be seen again. It was a car to be feared.

But then, as the fortunes of war started swinging back the other way, the Traction Avant would find itself the chariot of freedom, its sides daubed with the “FFI” signifying the Free French Army. It became a hero of the resistance, and was soon assisting in punting the Wehrmacht back out of France.

After the war,Traction Avants were built in various trims and body styles — including the Familiale, which could seat at least nine — right through until 1957. Nearly 800,000 cars were built in total, in factories in Paris, Denmark, Belgium, and the U.K. Having served both sides in a time of turmoil,

the car became a symbol of something quintessentially French, wrested back from the occupiers, and was a star on TV and the silver screen.

Traction Avants frequently accompanied the Tour de France, and twice World Accordion ChampionYves Horner travelled on the roof of a Traction Avant, trailing the cyclists and playing her accordion all through the countryside.That might just be the single most French thing that’s ever happened.

Eighty years on, the Traction Avant is perhaps a little overshadowed by the jaunty 2CV, but the former’s impact on the motoring world echoes through the ages (like, for instance, an accordion). Pioneer, gangster, collaborator, freedom fighter — joyeux anniversaire,Traction Avant — vive la difference! mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

Competitors offer more off-road opportunities From page 42

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with turn signals, power rear hatch, and automatic headlights.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include leather seats, heated front seats, backup camera, navigation, push-button start, and automatic high beams.

Fuel efficiency numbers (litres/100 kilometres) for FWD four-cylinder models are 10.0 city, 6.9 highway for 8.6 combined and AWD models return 10.2 city, 7.1 highway and 8.8 combined.

Six-cylinder models in FWD trim are rated at 11.1 city, 7.7 highway and 9.6 combined and AWD models see 11.4 city, 7.9 highway for 9.8 combined.

Thumbs up Making AWD available across the Venza range is a much appreciated gesture from Toyota.The one-touch fold-flat seats certainly make the Venza very user-friendly.

The car provides good balance of performance and comfort.

Thumbs down While the base engine is reasonably economical, it still leaves plenty to desire.

It is somewhat unique in its approach but is it unique enough?

The bottom line The 2014 Toyota Venza is a roomy, versatile crossover that offers premium styling and car-like driving dynamics that are hard to beat.

Competitors Subaru Outback Like the Venza, the Subaru Outback offers the driving attributes and fuel efficiency of a wagon and the spacious interior and versatility of a midsize SUV. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Subaru unless it also came with the sure footedness associated with the brand’s Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive.

The Subaru Outback ranges in price from $28,495 to $39,995.

Ford Edge The Ford Edge provides all the amenities of a highend vehicle in a practical package. It is also available with a highly efficient turbocharged EcoBoost four-cylinder engine. The

Edge has a superb design and great packaging.

The Edge has a starting price of $28,749.

Jeep Cherokee If you need more off-road capability, look no further than the Jeep Cherokee. The Cherokee is an adequate daily driver but its off-road prowess really makes it stand out.

The unique design gives it a very personable feel.

Starting at $23,695, the Cherokee is also one of the more affordable in this class. editor@automotivepress.com

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