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NorthVan couple’s disappearance still a mystery two decades on JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

It has now been 20 years since one North Vancouver couple vanished like smoke in a breeze.

Socialites Nick and Lisa Masee were connected to some of Vancouver’s

wealthiest citizens and a few of Howe Street’s disreputable denizens through Nick’s work as a banker and stock promoter.

During his 37 years overseeing investments at the Bank of Montreal, Nick had dealings with scandalprone stock promoter

Harry Moll as well as Fred Hofman, an investment promoter and church treasurer who fled Canada in 1991 after being accused of running a Ponzi scheme that netted him $10 million.

Nick had recently retired after 37 years at the Bank of Montreal and gone to work as a stock promoter and director for Turbodyne Technologies, a company specializing in low-emission

diesel technology.

The company eventually got the attention of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which leveled fines on Turbodyne based on a string of misleading press releases in the late 1990s.

On Aug. 10, 1994 the Masees were scheduled to discuss a California businessman’s proposal to invest $10 million in

Turbodyne over dinner at Trader Vic’s the night before the couple went missing.

Nick called the restaurant that night to say they would be late, but neither the Masees nor the prospective investor ever materialized. However, there is a conflicting report from a waiter who had a vague recollection of spotting the couple that evening.

On Aug. 11, Lisa, a

39-year-old hairdresser, made calls to the couple’s respective workplaces on Nick’s cellphone to say they would be away for a few days.The calls were routed through a repeater on Bowen Island, suggesting she was on or near the North Shore.

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A young black bear was killed after being hit by a car on Tsleil-Waututh Nation lands, Monday.

North Vancouver RCMP were called to the 3000-block of Dollarton Highway just before 2 p.m. after the young female apparently darted out on to the road and collided with a car.

RCMP members called for assistance from conservation officers but the bear had died from its injuries by the time the first car arrived.

The driver’s vehicle sustained some damage,

but not enough to require a tow truck, according to North Vancouver RCMP. “It must have been awful (for the driver). I’m just glad the bear was killed on the road, not injured and pursued in pain off in the fog somewhere,” said Christine Miller, education co-ordinator for the North Shore Black Bear Society.

Miller learned from a park ranger at the scene the bear was a yearling that had been reported to the society several times in recent months. It was also, apparently, malnourished.

“Obviously, it wasn’t doing very well in its search for food,” Miller said.

At the end of July,

Miller received a disturbing report about a bruin from a home on nearby Roche Place.

“It had actually tapped on the window and looked in the window. I was very concerned about that,” Miller said, noting it indicated one of two things: “(Either) the bear is very young and naïve and not having a clue how he should behave in a community or somebody had been feeding him.

Either way was a bad situation for the bear.”

Strangely, the bear’s ear was tagged, indicating it had been relocated once before, but conservation officers haven’t moved

any similar bears from the area in the last year or two, Miller said.

No one from the conservation office was available to say where the tag had come from.

While the society usually cranks out education and signage that warns people to keep their yards free of attractants, Miller noted the garbage cans at nearby Cates Park were overflowing with picnic leftovers, during a recent trip.

Miller said people should consider taking their picnic garbage home with them in an effort to make the parks less appealing to bears.

Avenue home several days later she found the door unlocked, their passports and car left behind, and their elderly cat abandoned.

Thieves tried to break into the house three weeks later.

Discussing North Vancouver’s missing persons files in 2012, RCMP Cpl. Sue Tupper called the Masee disappearance, “the biggest investigation that’s been done.”

But despite the investigation and regular media attention — including a segment on NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries — the case has cooled over the past two decades, leaving police to sift through evidence and a wide range of rumours to find out if the couple absconded with a stash of spending money or if they were victims.

“There were all kinds of rumours,” noted North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong. “What it boils down to is either they both left on their own volition and had funds available to them to allow them to escape with false identities and live a life of Riley; or they met with foul play because of some kind of criminal activity,” De Jong said. “At this point we don’t have a lot of evidence to direct us either way.”

When discussing the case in 2012, North Vancouver RCMP Serious Crimes Unit Cpl. Gord Reid talked about the challenges of following a case with no evidence, crime scene or bodies.

“It wasn’t your typical missing in that, as far as I

could tell, neither of the people seemed to live what we would call high-risk lifestyles or had serious mental health issues or had gone hiking in the North Shore mountains,” Reid said.

There have been several prevalent rumours surrounding the case, including one connecting the couple’s disappearance to a multimillion-dollar Las Vegas gambling debt, but none have borne fruit for investigators.

The couple is safe, according to private detective Ozzie Kaban, who was hired by Nick’s son in 1994. “When people disappear, they either float up or they show up someplace. At this point we have no . . . indication he is fish bait,” he told the North Shore News in 2007.

A few months before the couple disappeared, Nick opened a Cayman Islands bank account and deposited $100,000.The money wasn’t accessed, but opening the account indicates Nick may have been planning to flee, according to Kaban.

There were also reports Nick attended a funeral in early August, telling an acquaintance he was in trouble and needed to get out of Vancouver.

Despite being hired by Nicholas’ son, Kaban said the pair’s relatives were less than fully co-operative with his investigation, raising his suspicions. “(I’m) hoping that one day he’s going to knock on the door and say: ‘Here I am. How do you like my sun tan?’” Kaban said.

Nick Masee would be 75 today. Lisa would be 59.

Man who sent ‘cryptic’ letters pleads guilty JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

A 54-year-old man is in jail after pleading guilty to criminal harassment in North Vancouver Provincial Court Tuesday.

Stephen Christopher Hoy is awaiting sentencing for violating his no-contact order with five females while he was in jail in June.

“No contact directly or indirectly means you can’t send letters or send somebody to contact anybody or whatever the case may be,” said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong.

Hoy is also facing charges of breaching

his recognizance and attempting to pervert, defeat or obstruct justice.

He pled guilty to all charges.

Hoy’s sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 2.

Hoy was found guilty of two counts of criminal harassment in 2007 for sending letters to New Westminster teenagers.

Speaking to The Province newspaper in 2008, New Westminster police Sgt. Ivan Chu described the letters as “cryptic and bizarre.”

Hoy served five months in jail for the offence. He was convicted of breaching the order of his probation in 2008 and again in 2010.

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hen Michael Sona faced a guilty verdict on Thursday in the infamous robocalls trial, the federal Conservatives were quick to deny any involvement, insisting they ran a “clean and ethical” campaign.

Then what defines a “clean” campaign might mean something different to politicians than it does to the rest of us.

Sona was a Tory staffer who was using the party’s closely guarded database of voter identification and he was convicted largely on the testimony of other Conservative campaign workers.

Despite the party washing their hands of the staffer who misled voters in the 2011 federal election, the fiasco is part of a larger trend of our elections and politicians getting noticeably dirtier.

Shortly after, when the Tories admitted to hiring a firm to call up random homes in Montreal Liberal MP Irwin

Cotler’s riding to make the totally untrue suggestion the MP was about to resign, the party defended their actions as “freedom of speech” and “only spreading rumours.” Even the Conservative Speaker of the House called the campaign reprehensible.

Attack ads, campaign budgets financed by vested interests and misleading rumour campaigns are all vile, at every level of government, no matter who is perpetrating them. And they’re driving people away from the polls.

In the last federal election, 61.1 per cent of Canadians voted, while 55.9 per cent of British Columbians cast their own ballots.

But legislation allows this dirty pool to continue.The trouble is: the job of cleaning up elections currently falls to the people who have benefited most from the status quo.

Behind council’s sober second thoughts Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was bloodier, but West Van council’s U-turn on its slamming of proposed liquefied natural gas tankers on Howe Sound was quicker.

Councillors at the Aug. 4 meeting volubly backed off their unanimous decision two weeks earlier when they had asked Ottawa to ban Asianbound tankers from waters uncomfortably close to the western shores of West Vancouver.

I pause. Let’s be fair.

This is what politicians should do more often, right? — have sober second thoughts, admitting mistakes first time around.

By this measure, Mayor Michael Smith deserves praise for the frankness that slick politicians avoid when they give a 3,000-

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word, non-answer to an unwanted interview question.

At the second-thoughts council meeting Aug. 4, Smith commendably took full responsibility for the July 21 decision.

“All blame lies at the feet of the chairman of the meeting,” Smith was quoted by News reporter Jeremy Shepherd. “My legendary impatience

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sometimes gets the better of me after over an hour of going around in circles on a debate.You get desperate to call a question, any question.” (If you can recall any time that former mayor Pamela GoldsmithJones publicly admitted to her blunders, jog my memory.)

On that point — what the hell did we agree to?

— Coun. Craig Cameron was equally candid: “I didn’t know what we voted for.” His only vote he’s been embarrassed about in three years on council, he confessed.

Returning now to my usual sunny cynicism: Why council’s hasty retreat?

Wild guess: Largely because John Weston, MP for West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country — the LNG tankers would sail through

the population heart of his riding — wacked council’s motion, the way it was passed, and its timing.

Otherwise he’s OK with it, one might drily say.

Strange. Does Weston carry such clout? Another wild guess:Yes, if he’s the messenger boy for the big guy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and by proxy for an equally agitated Premier Christy Clark. (As indispensable Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer recently noted, Clark vowed in 2011 that the first LNG export venture would be “operational by 2015.”

Not.) If my take is correct, Harper, Clark and the oil and gas industry don’t need the distraction of yet another protest.

The Howe Sound LNG plant, a subsidiary of

Pacific Oil and Gas, owned by a Singapore billionaire, would be small potatoes compared with the proposed Northern Noway Gateway project. But it’s our small potatoes. The issue hits close to home.

So was council’s first decision correct? Or its second? Or will it be its third, next month? Coun.

Michael Lewis expects more information will uphold council’s original decision opposing the project.

Predictably, industry leaders say LNG is safe.

Predictably, opponents, including chemistry doctorate Eoin Finn, cite the worst case: An LNG tank explosion destroyed a square mile of Cleveland and killed 130 in 1944.

Extraction industries are locally popular, generating prosperity and

jobs. Unless something goes hugely wrong. Hello, Mount Polley.

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Now’s a perfect time for BC Libs to get greener The recent disaster of the collapse of the Mount Polley mine tailings pond may force the BC Liberals to finally revisit a key policy decision made early on in its first mandate: the cutting back of environmental protection measures.

Since 2001, critics have denounced the province for turning a blind eye to environmental protection, and have long warned a disaster was just around the corner.

Well, that disaster has now occurred.

As of writing this, it is still not clear why the tailings pond failed and dumped 10 million cubic metres of water and 4.5 million cubic metres of mine slurry into Polley and Quesnel Lakes.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett has denied that a lack of inspections played any role in the pond collapse and has insisted the number of annual mine inspections is pretty well the same as five years ago.

He may well be proven

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right that inspections (or a lack thereof) played no role in the tailings pond collapse, but the Mount Polley disaster has nevertheless refocused attention on the BC Liberals controversial historical record when it comes to protecting the environment.

That controversy pretty much started right after Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals were swept into power in 2001.

It was obvious early on the BC Liberals did not share the same zeal for environmental issues that characterized much of what

the previous government, formed by the NDP, seemed to be all about. The environment ministry lost a quarter of its staff.

Not only did the BC Liberals cut resources for environmental protection, it implemented a fundamental and philosophical shift when it came to this issue.

It essentially moved to a self-regulating and self-enforcement model for natural resource companies.

Penalties were increased for violations of environmental protection rules and regulations, but companies were essentially allowed to police themselves.

Critics predicted this would translate into more incidents that could threaten environmental values.

Indeed, over the years, there have been a number of tailings pond failures and breaches of dams, including the collapse of an earthen dam near Oliver in 2010 that destroyed five homes.

Premier Christy Clark has made it clear her government’s core philosophical value is to “grow the economy,” particularly through the natural resource extraction industry. In particular, it has championed the mining industry and the natural gas sector.

However, as practices such as fracking become more controversial and as various infrastructure around the province

(such as dams, tailings ponds and pipelines, for example) gradually age, her government will undoubtedly feel more pressure to ensure more serious environmental disasters do not occur.

While the BC Liberals rightly feel their surprise re-election in 2013 was strongly tied to its proindustry platform and a much weaker pro-industry platform put forth by the NDP, they may risk losing

support if there are any more major accidents.

As Finance Minister Mike de Jong puts together next year’s budget, he may ponder whether it is politically prudent to revisit the resources he has allocated to two ministries given short shrift in his threeyear fiscal plan.

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FlexFuel vehicles are E85-ready From page 1 popular with the highperformance, souped-up car “tuner” community, including one of the founding partners and North Vancouver resident Amir Nazary.With a higher octane level than gasoline, E85 can give your engine a 20-percent boost in horsepower, said Devin Redlich, coowner. At the same time, the carbon emissions from the tailpipe are about 40 per cent lower.

Nazary and other tuners typically have to drive to a station outside Seattle to fill their jerrycans.

“He didn’t want to do that. He felt this is ridiculous. He felt this is a perfectly viable product to be sold in B.C., especially in Vancouver where there’s a lot of environmental sentiment where people want to reduce their carbon footprint,” Redlich said.

During the 1990s push by the U.S. government for more energy independence, congress offered incentives and mandates for the Big 3 North American automakers to begin selling vehicles that are capable of running on ethanol fuels. Many “FlexFuel” vehicles are being

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gas into a flex fuel vehicle for years and years and years.

They put one tank full of E85 in and they suddenly realize the way their car was meant to perform.”

Others who want to use E85 must reprogram their vehicle’s onboard computer, which runs about $500, Redlich said.To take it a step

farther, the vehicle can be fitted with an aftermarket fuel injector though that’s more for the hardcore enthusiasts, he added.

Expect a tank of E85 to cost about the same as Chevron’s 94-octane gas, Redlich said.

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Redlich acknowledged the drawbacks, but said he’s never seen any evidence that ethanol production has “moved the needle” on global food prices.

And unlike gas, ethanol is renewable, he added. “You can grow millions of acres of corn every year if you want to and that can go on forever,” he said. “There’s only so many dead dinosaurs we can pump out into people’s gas tanks.”

The retro-inspired logo, pumps, colours, and Arcade Station name is meant to endear the new business to West Van residents, who Redlich said can expect full service at self-serve prices.

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Signs stolen from Hollyburn trail Conservancy group baffled by theft BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

West Vancouver conservationists are asking who would want to vandalize (and steal) some interpretative signs placed along a trail on Hollyburn Mountain.

The Old Growth Conservancy Society learned recently that two signs placed along a trail off Cypress Bowl Road had been uprooted.

The trail near the No. 5 parking lot is mainly used by mountain bikers, but

the sad part is the sign was meant to commemorate the spirit of co-operation between the mountain bikers and conservationists, said Alexandra Mancini, society present.

One of the signs told the history of how grassroots environmentalists lobbied to stop the area from becoming a golf course in 1990 and how the stewardship group and mountain bikers worked together to make the trail safe for all users, as well as the trees.

“Who the heck would take these signs and what would they do with them?”

Mancini asked. “We’ve really scratched our heads.”

The two signs together cost more than $5,000, with the cost partly picked

up by the District of West Vancouver. After three hours of rooting around in the underbrush, society members found one of the signs but the other remains missing.

But with no witnesses and no evidence at the scene,West Vancouver police investigators have little to go on. Unless new information comes in, the investigation is closed, said Const. Jeff Palmer,WVPD spokesman.

“Anyone who thinks they may have seen anything, we certainly would have a look but at this point, it would appear there is no available means to identify a suspect,” he said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact West Vancouver police.

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INQUIRING REPORTER Transit police have a safety campaign for bus drivers, there’s a phone app for riders to instantly report incidents, and educational workshops with foreign students to raise awareness of transit safety.

Last year, 134 transit assaults were reported in Metro Vancouver, up from 117 the year prior. Earlier this month, a transit user got house arrest for repeatedly punching a North Van bus driver in the head. TransLink has appealed to Canada’s justice minister to stiffen sentences for people who attack bus drivers. What are your thoughts on public transit safety? Let us know at nsnews.com.

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Alert citizen’s quick action leads to arrest Police nab suspect in theft from auto in Edgemont STEFANIA SECCIA sseccia@nsnews.com

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When one North Vancouver man watched a suspicious character tugging on several car door handles at 3:30 a.m. in his neighbourhood, he did something about it.

In the early morning hours of Friday, Aug. 8, the witness — a member

of the Block Watch program on the 3000block of Brookridge Drive — called police to report that a man was going around and checking door handles of parked cars until finally entering an unlocked vehicle.

The man provided police with valuable information including a depiction of the suspect, according to a North Vancouver RCMP media release. With the help of the Lower Mainland Integrated Police Dog Service, the suspect was located and arrested nearby.

“Our officers were greatly assisted by the

prompt action of a concerned resident,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP, in the release. “Police continue to encourage citizens to report any suspicious activity in their neighbourhood.”

The 42-year-old suspect was known to police and has been charged with theft and breach of a court order. He remained in police custody until his court appearance, according to the release.

Police are taking this opportunity to remind car owners to keep their vehicles locked and remove all valuables from sight.

No downside to gov’t painting itself with greener brush From page 7

such as inspections and enforcement.

And the energy and mines ministry, which conducts those tailings ponds inspections, has its small annual budget of $21 million frozen for

a tiny ($6 million) lift to its current annual budget of $134 million. That doesn’t suggest any major increase for environmental protection measures,

the next two years. Given inflation and other cost pressures, it’s hard to see how that translates into more inspections.

Clark has tried to distance herself from her predecessor, Gordon

Campbell, in a number of areas since taking over from him.

Perhaps she will use the Mount Polley disaster as an opportunity to distance herself from Campbell even further

by implementing a more aggressive approach to environmental protection.

The government will understandably never abandon its support for natural resource industries, including

mining. But there’s not much political downside to painting itself with a greener brush.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. Keith.Baldrey@globalnews

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The fifth annual Squamish Valley Music Festival from Aug. 8 to 10 blew up in size compared to past years. It nearly tripled its grounds — from 30 to 81 acres – and nearly doubled in attendance — from 19,000 in one day last year to 35,000 people who came out on Sunday alone.

“The artists are so impressed, and I think how do you not be in such a beautiful site?” said Laura Ballance, festival spokesperson. “It really shows our province so well.”

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Where does Squamish fit in with this insurgence of festival attendees from across the globe? According to Ballance, a conservative estimate of $20 million is expected to have pumped into the local economy thanks to the three-day festival.

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The three days went off without any major drawbacks, mostly thanks to the 550 security staff members — a mixture of plainclothes and visible officers who worked closely with the RCMP. “The festival has been incredibly problem free,” she said. “We’re really pleased with the response to the event and to the lineup and how everything’s gone. I can’t say enough about it.”

While the festival itself ran smoothly for organizers with only a small fraction of festival goers quietly escorted off the premises by police, the collection of attendees ranged from all ages and backgrounds — from young partiers to families.

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DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. nvartscouncil.ca NorthVancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of paintings of animals and wilderness by Marisa Pahl until Aug. 26.

Evolution of the Emoticon: Maziar Mehrabi combines his appreciation for comic book superheroes and villains with his fascination for emoticons in a graphic art exhibition that runs from Aug. 27 to Oct. 21. Opening reception: Saturday,Aug. 30, 2-4 p.m.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays.604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Hollyburn Ridge — Celebrating Mountain Art and Culture: Mixed media works by artists of the Hollyburn Ridge Association will be on display from Aug. 19 to Sept. 7.

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IAN TAN GALLERY 2202 Granville St., Vancouver. MondaySaturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

Paintings of whimsical nature scapes by North Shore artist Dana Irving will be on display from Sept. 6 to 30.

LYNNMOUR ART STUDIO AND GALLERY 301-1467 Crown St., North Vancouver. Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment. 604-9294001 nsartists.ca/garyeder Contemporary and Abstract Paintings by Gordon Oliver, Robert Botlak and GaryW. Eder.

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SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Main + Hastings: Panoramic photographs of Vancouver by Ross den Otter will be on display until Sept.

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WestVancouver District Art Instructors Exhibition: Works using a variety of media, styles and approaches by teachers will be on display from Aug. 28 to Oct. 20.

WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St.,West Vancouver.TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca The And of the Land: Perspectives on landscape by artists from British Columbia will run until Aug. 30.

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The novel came out in 1993 and actor Jeff Bridges started mulling over a film adaptation only two years after that, meaning that it has been germinating for the past 18 years or so. Just as well, Lowry noted at this week’s New York premiere: now Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges are old enough to play key parts. That’ll boost sales from older viewers who didn’t have to read the book as part of their middle-school curriculum.

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With all the knowledge transferred from The Giver, Jonas begins to question his surroundings: “If you can’t feel, what’s the point?” He starts asking questions of Mother (Katie Holmes) and Father (Alexander Skarsgard, especially good). He stops taking his meds. He starts to wonder what’s really over the edge in Elsewhere, where the old folks go to die, nudge nudge.

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This is where the film loses its way. Scenes of Jonas fleeing are farfetched; the resolution is rushed and unsatisfactory, especially if you’re a fan of the novel. This is where the 96-minute running time could’ve been stretched with a few more scenes to wrap things up. That, and the fact that an extra scene or two might have cut down on the increasingly intrusive voiceover narration.

Thematically, The Giver is right on track. The story starts with typical teen angst — worries about an uncertain future, career nerves — and then segues into larger themes of free will, euthanasia, sexual repression, and how much we need to sacrifice for the greater good. “When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong every single time,” says The Elder (Streep, convincing in her few scenes).You can’t read today’s headlines of war and strife without at least contemplating Lowry’s point of view, doubtless one of the reasons The Giver has been one of the most frequently banned books since its publication.

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TRAVEL

Sun Peaks keeps going year-round

Resort turns into mountain bike mecca in the summer

supports young athletes in memory of local boarder Bryn Taylor. For dinner, drop by Powder Hounds Restaurant in Fireside Lodge and try the schnitzel, a house favourite. If you’re lucky, you’ll spot Canada’s Female Athlete of the 20th Century Nancy Greene along with her husband and Sun Peaks Mayor Al Raine.

Together, they’re Powder Hounds regulars. After dinner, stroll over to Nancy Greene’s Cahilty Lodge to take in this champion alpine skier’s impressive collection of trophies and medals on display in the lobby.

LAYNE CHRISTENSEN lchristensen@nsnews.com

Sun Peaks may have hosted the Canadian Downhill Mountain Bike Championships just last month, but you don’t have to ride like a champion to enjoy its world-class trails.

Like other alpine resorts across our province, Sun Peaks has turned its ski slopes into a summer mountain bike mecca with a vast network of trails for all ages and abilities to explore.

Here’s what you need to know to get the most out of a summer visit to this resort town in British Columbia’s Thompson-Okanagan region: Ride Sun Peaks bike park boast 610 metres (2,000 feet) of vertical lift-accessed terrain, with 38 trails from easy greens to spine-jarring black diamonds. New to riding or just want to sharpen your skills? Get a guide for the day. Elevation Bike Ski & Board, located

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session with a local coach.

Kids’ camps run Sundays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.The bike park closes Sept. 1.

Explore Downhill thrills not your thing? Take the Sunburst chairlift to access new alpine cross-country trails including a scenic pedal through wildflowers to Tod Lake via Altitude and a descent to McGillivray Lake via Big Rock Ride (adult, $23; senior & youth, $19; child, $16). Elevation has hard tails and dualsuspension bikes in its crosscountry fleet and, new this

summer, electric motors for an added uphill boost.

Play Not keen on cycling?

Play a round of golf on B.C.’s highest 18-hole course (ask about “kids golf free” specials), take a trail ride on horseback ($45 for 30 minutes) or explore the alpine meadows by foot.

Sun Peaks boasts one of the most spectacular displays of alpine wildflowers in Canada, easily accessible via the Sunburst chairlift.

Pick up a ready-to-go lunch from Café Soleil ($28, adult; $23 under 12, includes lift

ticket) and venture out on a day hike to Tod Lake to view the vibrant blooms of Indian paint brush, tiger lilies, fireweed and lupines.

Eat Start your day with a smoothie or wrap from Vertical Café in the Coast Sundance Lodge at the base of the Sundance Chairlift.

For a midday break, refuel at Mountain High Pizza on the village stroll. Order The Bryndian (pepperoni, bacon, garlic, olives, mushrooms and mozza) and the pizzeria will make a donation to the Bluebird Day Fund, which

Route 66 a voyage of discovery ■ Travel Route 66 by Jim Hinckley, Voyageur Press, 240 pages, $23.99.

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It has been a long time since it’s been used as the cross-country route it was built for but Route 66 is still a destination highway.

From the starting point in Chicago all

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Route 66 was replaced by the interstate highway system as an east-west connector but what has occurred is a resurgence of interest in what are now secondary routes and fascinating side trips.

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Stay Located in the heart of the village, the Sun Peaks Grand offers a mix of old-world charm and modern luxury. A Delta resort property until it came under local management in May, Sun Peaks’ signature hotel impresses with a lobby reminiscent of a European hunting lodge, mountainview pool, three outdoor hot tubs, spacious guest rooms with mountain or village views and complementary bike valet. sunpeaksgrand.com Getting there Sun Peaks Resort is the closest resort in the Interior of British Columbia from the Lower Mainland. It’s about a four-hour drive from the North Shore and located 45 minutes northeast of Kamloops.

Take the Trans Canada eastbound to Hope, then Highway 5 North, exiting at Tod Mountain Road

by Heffley Creek, B.C. For more info, including vacation packages and deals, visit sunpeaksresort.com.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

Make summer last longer Dear Mattie: How do I hold on to summer?

Savouring Summer in Ambleside

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Dear Ambleside: Summer trends have a lot of flair this year. Flair adds to an outfit by having a sense of styling. Flair is not necessarily trendy — it can be a personal touch from another season.

Summer is a great time to mix and match different pieces.

Let’s start with white. White is synonymous with summer.

Everything comes in white, so this will be an easy place to start. If you like a bold look, then all your pieces can be white, or you can break it up with patterns and other summer colours.

White streamlines an outfit, even if it is casual. White leaves a smart impression, as long as it is clean. Classic white looks include a T-shirt, shorts, a lightweight long-sleeved shirt, sneakers, sunglasses and a hat.

A white T-shirt looks great with denim or cargo shorts and sneakers. A patterned top dresses up white shorts with metallic sandals. A white longsleeved shirt acts like an outer layer for a summer dress on a cool evening. Add the white sunglasses and hat to any outfit and you have a summer look.

Knit tops with a strappy underlayer are trendy this summer. The look is that of a lightweight coverup, mostly in neutrals and black and white.

The knit is large and airy, like a crochet. The shape is slouchy.

This look works best as the weather starts to cool in the evenings. It also looks great over a summer dress, enhancing the layered look.

Themes that stand out this summer are flowers, butterflies and ruffles that look like petals.

You can find these themes in the patterns on tops, bottoms

and dresses.You can also find them in their actual shapes as origami on a purse, trim on a head band, or embellishment on jewelry. The most popular flower this season is the understated daisy. From what I have seen this season, the daisy has been working hard and looking great.

A trendy summer piece should be unique to the season.

Sunglasses and hair styles are a perfect example of looking like you live by the beach, but aren’t there right now. Most women have many sunglasses to match their different moods and styles.

Big and bold colours are very popular, especially patterns like flowers, stripes and colour blocking. Graphite split-colour frames with coloured lenses make a modern statement.

To finish off your look, try something different with your hair such as a slicked-back ponytail, a large braid to the side, or even small French braids around your face that look like a hairband. Putting your hair up is a great way to add summer to your hairstyle.

The overall trend this season falls into a confident lifestyle vibe. Free and easy is the rhythm for casual trends.

Sophisticated and smart rules the office and evening looks.

My favourite vibe this summer is the music festival look — a modern hippy. These looks are not challenging; they are as easy as a big, floppy summer hat, white trousers, or a striped beach-sized tote. Each item can be the starting point of your outfit or they can be worn together to create the ultimate fashion statement.

SAMPLE SALE Christine Lingerie, run by West Vancouver designer Christine Morton, is holding a sample sale Aug. 15 and 16 at 821 Powell St. in Vancouver. One-of-a-kind samples and inventory from last year will all be on sale. christinelingerie.com FIRST IN B.C. Free People is opening its first boutique in the province at Park Royal later this month.

A grand opening event will take place Aug. 29 from 6-8 p.m.The first 50 guests will receive reusable canvas totes filled with mini succulents and goods from Free People and Tarte Cosmetics.

Light refreshments will be served and there will be a photobooth for guests. freepeople.com LIONS GATE QUILTERS GUILD meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, 2641 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. New members welcome. 604-926-7098 or lionsgatequiltersguild.com NORTH SHORE NEEDLE ARTS GUILD meets the second Thursday of the month and offers instruction in embroidery and beading at St. Martin’s Anglican Church hall in North Vancouver. 604-9224032.

THRIFTY CHIC The Thrift Shop at Mount Seymour United Church (1200 Parkgate Ave.) is open Thursdays, 11 a.m.8 p.m. Half price sale on selected goods every week. mtseymourunited.com

Adieu, Mattie Mattie is a freelance writer and fashion expert. Reach her on her Facebook page or follow her on Pinterest at Mattie a la Mode.

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For schoolkids, a backpack is more than just a practical bag to lug around books and lunches, it’s also an accessory worn daily that lets them stand out from the crowd and express their individual style.

While few kids are prepared to think about back-toschool necessities in mid-August, those who are in the market for a new carryall may find their match among the recently-released fall 2014 backpack collection at MEC (with a location at 212 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver).

The packs boast the functionality and ergonomics the outdoor apparel retailer is known for — something parents will appreciate — and come in a range of colours and styles, which picky kids will like.

For primary students, the MEC Kinder Book Bag ($32, pictured above right in pink punch/beet red) comes in a selection of bright hues, features a reflective strip for visibility, and has multiple pouches so youngsters can at least attempt to keep their snacks, school supplies and mittens organized.

Pre-teens seeking a more subdued look might prefer one of MEC’s classic designs in a neutral shade, such as the Darwin Daypack ($59, pictured at right in dolphin grey), which has a handy laptop sleeve for tech-savvy youth.

— Christine Lyon

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MUSIC

Five Star Motel rooted in friendship Local band proud of their longevity and accessibility

■ Five Star Motel performing at Shipbuilders’ Square Friday, Aug. 22 at 5 p.m.

ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

Ryan Matches would say that the key to his band, Five Star Motel’s longevity is their friendship.

“It’s a friends-first scenario,” says Matches.

The band, performing at North Shore Green Markets, Shipbuilders’ Square, Aug. 22 at 5 p.m., was formed by childhood friends, Matches, Mike Norris and Ian Powell, and later joined by Paul Reichelt and Craig Wilson.

Matches, Norris and Powell grew up together in Deep Cove, playing soccer, attending the same elementary school and eventually graduating high school together in 1984.

Matches says he met Reichelt in 1996 at a mutual friend’s house party.

“I noticed him sitting in the corner playing his guitar and he played a few of his originals,” says Matches. “When I heard them I thought ‘Oh there’s something magical here, these are really good originals, really catchy and melodic.’ So I basically asked him if he wanted to join my little sort of gathering of high school friends in one of my buddy’s basements and he obliged and he came down.”

From then on it remained a little four-piece, says Matches, as they got together every week and worked on original music.

The band even recorded the songs “Point of View” and “Chasing the Sun,” that Matches heard Reichelt play at the party.

“Paul has turned into a fabulous friend outside of music as well,” says Matches.

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Truck disbanded, Matches says, and Motel thought that if they added a fifth member, it would increase their dynamic.

The band’s name, says Matches, was “blatantly ripped off” from Andy Stochansky, a singersongwriter from Ontario.

“I wish it was a more glamorous story,” he laughs.

“One of his albums he called Five Star Motel and we just thought that was kind of fitting to the content of the songs that we had written.”

With multiple songs under their belts, the band has come up with their own unique writing process.

“Paul typically brings in a nugget whether it’s a lyric, a passage of words, several lines of lyrics or a guitar riff,” says Matches. “Usually it starts off with something that turns into the chorus of the song and then we kind of write it outwards from the

centre and add verses, add bridges, add beginnings and ends and that sort of thing.”

Every song is very much written by committee, he says.

“We all have sort of musical points of view and we all throw our input into it and we won’t keep a song if one of us doesn’t like it,” says Matches. “We all have to really get excited about the song in order for it to last.”

Their music has evolved over the years as the band has become better players, says Matches, and learned to listen to each other.

“I guess the songs have become a little more structured, a little more melodic,” he says. “A lot of our music is harmonydriven, melody-driven, catchy choruses, sort of toe tapping-sing along, it’s very accessible music.”

The band has also discovered that their music is accessible across generations.

At a recent concert at Shipbuilders’ Square in North Vancouver, one of the audience members, a woman Matches would describe as in her 70s or 80s,

was “grinning ear to ear the whole time.”

“She actually made a point of coming up and shaking our hands and saying ‘Oh my goodness you guys, that was the best music I’ve heard in a long time,’” he says.

Matches says its nice to know their music is accessible from children dancing in front of the stage at last year’s Shipbuilders’ Square event, to their most recent, newly-acquired fan.

“Its kind of interesting how its evolved and that people of all walks of life seem to gravitate to it, they really enjoy it,” he says.

The band describes their music as “trailer park rock,” or even southern rock, that often references bluecollar living.Their musical inspirations are the bands they grew up with, what Matches calls “an interesting little dichotomy.”

“Paul, the lead singerguitar player, is more of a Stevie Ray Vaughan, southern rock kind of an influenced guy,” says Matches. “And the rest of us are sort of children of the

’80s and we grew up with U2 and REM and Echo and the Bunnymen and these sort of obscure new wave type bands that have their own evolution.”

It’s an amalgamation of everyone’s influences, he says, that gives Motel their sound.

Motel’s members each hold a day job; Matches as a surveyor, Norris as a wood worker, Powell as a schoolteacher, Reichelt as a house painter and Wilson as an electrician.

“Its sort of like the Sesame Street song ‘These are the People inYour Neighbourhood,’ because we’re all sort of blue collar tradesmen,” says Matches.

“We all have these very blue collar jobs but we’ve all made time in our schedules to get together to rehearse at least once a week.”

The band typically rehearses on Tuesdays at NAL Sound in North Vancouver.

“Sometimes if the spot doesn’t have an opening we’ll go to Craig’s house and have an impromptu practice and work on our harmonies

and our vocals and that sort of thing,” says Matches. “It’s all rooted in friendship, we always have a really good time when we get together and I think that’s why we’ve managed to last this long.”

The band has been rehearsing at NAL since 1996, says Matches, and has seen hundreds of bands come and go.

“I think we’re probably the mainstay, which for bands is interesting, its kind of like dog years and human years, its just bands don’t usually seem to have a long life span unless of course they’re the Rolling Stones or those types of exceptions,” he says. “But as far as local bands, you don’t see many names out there that were around when we started jamming at the studio, so we’re kind of proud of our longevity.”

The band has had numerous highlights in their already lengthy career, including in 2005 when they played the Roxy.

“They had booked us for a country showcase on the Sunday afternoon,” says Matches. “I think unbeknownst to them it was the Grey Cup weekend in Vancouver.”

Motel was just about to start their set as the final whistle blew and Granville Street was “flooded with drunken football revelers,” says Matches.

“We played a set in front of a jam-packed Roxy, which, if anyone knows live music in Vancouver, the Roxy is one of the best stages and best sound systems to play,” he says. “We just felt really fortunate that we were able to do that, first of all, but also really, really well received. People were high five-ing us after and saying ‘encore, encore.’”

It was a bit shocking, says Matches.

“It was also very life affirming for us that if we keep our nose to the grindstone we can produce some pretty good music and people would actually warm up to us.”

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MUSIC

Squamish featured diverse line-up From page 13

Tragically Hip, Matthew Good and Queens of the Stone Age, among other well-known bands with huge followings.

If I had to sum up this year’s musical lineup in one word, it would be diverse.The only thing the three headlining acts — Bruno Mars, Arcade Fire and Eminem — have in common is they’ve all won Grammy awards.

And all three thoroughly rocked the stage and their crowds of tens of thousands.

Bruno Mars was the first headliner up on the main Tantalus stage Friday night, and was a huge draw for the crowd as thousands of people pushed through to the front underneath two long lines of floating, lit balloons reaching up to the sky, periodically moved around by a man named Moonshine.

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album, Reflektor, but continued to step back in time using their best hits — in my humble opinion – from Funeral, The Suburbs and even Neon Bible.

The first handful of songs were supercharged and high energy before switching gears after “Month of May,” and Arcade Fire wisely followed it up with slower tracks — but all had fans singing along.This is one of those rare bands that sound better live than digitally mastered.

The next big headliner on the stage who drew the largest crowd on the last day was “Bad Guy” Eminem.

Despite the rough and tumble attitude one would expect from the crowd, the excitement to see an artist who hasn’t performed in B.C. for more than 10 years

kept things focused and charged on the main stage — leaving the crowd in high spirits.

When the back of the giant stage released the black curtain that was up for the whole festival, it revealed a large tape deck boom box projected to the back, which would also be lit up with different backgrounds — from a gothic cathedral to a courthouse with a Roman-architecture façade.

Marshall Mathers played a wide array of his greatest hits, and engaged the crowd during them — although addressing them as Vancouver.Tokyo Police Club made the same mistake, but who could blame them?

I have to say the most impressive moment of all three headliners was when

Eminem actually rapped his high-velocity track, “Rap God.”The other highlight from his set was when half of his hip-hop duo, “Bad Meets Evil,” Royce da 5’9” took the stage to perform alongside Eminem.

But all the acts hit the right notes, from up-andcomers like the local band The Oceanographers, to the longtime fan favourite Arctic Monkeys – another key performance — to, my personal favourite,The Roots. Not enough can be said about The Roots, other than they absolutely took down the Stawamus stage with their crushing performance.

Squamish fest organizers were aiming to attract attendees from as many genres as they could — and they succeeded.

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Blueridge chamber music series celebrates democratic art form ■ The Blueridge International Chamber Music Festival, remaining concerts on Aug. 15 (Ciel,Air etVents) at 7 p.m., Aug. 20 (A Fine Romance) at 7 p.m. and Aug. 23 (FiveYears in the Zoo) at 2 p.m., all at Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver.

Tickets: $20/$10.Visit www.blueridgechamber. org for the complete program.

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What started out as an excuse for a few friends to play classical music together has grown into an established festival that draws a roster of accomplished musicians to NorthVancouver every summer.

This month, Mount Seymour United Church is again playing host to the Blueridge International Chamber Music Festival, which is celebrating its fifth birthday.

“It started out as a very personal project and it’s kind of taken on a life of its own,” says artistic director Dorothea Hayley, who lends her soprano voice to the concert series.

“The whole point of chamber music is really that people get together and enjoy playing it,” she explains. “It’s more a recent idea that you think about the pleasure of the audience.”

The festival was cofounded by Hayley, who grew up in the Blueridge neighbourhood, and Colombian pianist Alejandro Ochoa.This year’s lineup of local and international artists include Hayley and Ochoa, along with Ariel Barnes (cello), Jennie Press (violin), Paolo Bortolussi (flute), MarcusTakizawa (viola), Jeremy Chaulk (piano), Martin Karlicek (piano), Krista Martynes (clarinet), Mark Beaty (double bass) andTimothyVan Cleave (percussion).

As in previous years, the organizers aim to offer audiences a range of classical music.

“We have always tried to have a mixture between the great staples of the chamber music repertoire that people love to hear over and over

again, as well as pieces that people might not know, or might not have heard, but that we feel really strongly deserve to also be in the cannon.”

A couple of those great staples will be performed at the festival finale on Aug. 23 (which will also serve as a fifth birthday celebration — complete with cake).

The musicians will play Schubert’s Trout Quintet, “which is a piece that everybody knows” and SaintSaens’ Carnival of the Animals “which will be performed with some humorous poetry in between the movements and also there will be a visual component, so that’s a great concert for kids to go to,” Hayley says. “That would be a great first classical concert for anyone.”

She is also eager to introduce concert-goers to some more obscure works, two of which will be presented at the Aug. 20 show.

“We have an amazing piece by Martinu for violin and viola that I had never heard before this year — it’s called Three Madrigals,” she says. Another lesser-known gem set for the same evening is Shostakovich’s Seven

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— Artistic director Dorothea Hayley Romances for a soprano and piano trio “which is a rare combination, but really beautiful and moving.”

Coinciding with the concert series is the festival’s two-week intensive workshop for musicians aged eight to 18, which runs Aug. 11 to 22, during which time students tackle solo and chamber music under professional instruction.

“For kids, often musicmaking can be a little bit of a lonely process, especially for pianists — you spend a lot of time practising,” Hayley says. “We wanted to have an opportunity for kids from quite a young age to get to know what we think is the real joy of music, which is being able to communicate musically with your peers.”

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than one person leading the small group, everyone works together, whether they are long-time collaborators or practical strangers.

“Somehow, over the course of a few rehearsals — usually very few rehearsals — you sort of throw ideas around musically and come up with something that is unique to the group.”

That intimacy and spirit of spontaneity come across to the audience, Hayley says, creating an atmosphere well suited to the quiet, treeshrouded venue of Mount Seymour United Church.

“It’s a very relaxed setting, people don’t need to dress up.We have a relaxed pre-concert talk before each concert,” she says. “It’s just a really pleasant summer experience.”

Help send the Little Mountain Challenger baseball team to the World Series in Williamsport!

This special team of Little League baseball players and their volunteer buddies have been invited to play in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on Aug.23.

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CALENDAR From page 20 about his recently updated edition of Off the Beaten Path which features 39 routes through the North Shore’s wildernessWednesday,Aug. 20, 7-8:30 p.m. Registration required.

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Schedule:Aug. 22, 8:24, Frozen. Popcorn and beverages will be available for purchase.

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phtheatre.org Oil Sands Karaoke: A documentary about life in an oil patch from the perspective of singers in a karaoke competition by local filmmaker Charles Wilkinson Friday,Aug. 15 at 8 p.m.Admission by cash donation to support Dogwood Initiatives’s Let BCVote campaign for a referendum on oil tankers and pipelines.

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SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway Baker will share show biz, film and concert music stories past and present the thirdWednesday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Admission by donation.

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

Band planning to work on new tunes

From page 27

The band also played their CD release party at the Avalon Pub in North Vancouver in 1999, as well as the Avalon’s final night of business years later before it was torn down.They performed at a corporate event in the Richmond Olympic Oval before the Olympics.

“I don’t think it was even open to the public at that point,” says Matches. “I think we might have been one of the first bands to ever play in that building as people were skating around us, it was pretty interesting.”

Matches says they have played in “all the other seedy bars around town,” including the Piccadilly Pub, Marine Club and Media Club, to name a few, that have their own little highlights.

After honouring their next few commitments, the band plans to work on some original songs and try their hand at writing as a fivesome, says Matches, as they haven’t had a chance since Wilson joined.

“Everyone has something swirling around in their head at any given moment,” he says. “We basically sit in the room and

play parts for each other… its basically like Tetris, you just sort of put the building blocks in place or the line of lyrics in place and see what it turns into.”

Over the years the band has tried to incorporate a keyboard or Hammondstyle organ type of sound into their music.

“We’ve bought and sold a whole bunch of keyboards over the years, “ says Matches. “I play keyboard a little bit and so does Mike, but when it comes to playing sort of a church organ sound, it’s a very distinct technique and it’s a bit difficult.”

Recently though, Reichelt received a special pedal for his guitar, says Matches.

“It’s a keyboard pedal, it’s basically an effect that he can plug his guitar in and then play chords on his guitar and it sounds like a church organ,” he says. “We’re not sure where it’s going to lead us to.

Now that we have Craig as another guitar player, Paul can sort of relax with his guitar parts and noodle around a bit and see if he can fuse a bit of this sort of church keyboard sound. So we’re excited about that.”

Matches says there

have definitely been peaks and valleys, good times and bad, but the band is a support net for each other, “it’s a real brotherhood.”

“We sort of do it as much for ourselves as for everybody else too, so its great therapy just to put the guitar on at least once a week and get together in the same room and have a few beers with your friends,” he says. “And the byproduct is decent music and a couple laughs and there’s nothing better than that.”

Five Star Motel’s songs are free for download at fivestarmotel.ca.

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I remember slamming my hand in the sliding door — yeowch! — but more than that, I remember how thrilling it was to be sleeping high up in a pop-up tent, watching for shooting stars with my brother. Lest this nostalgic reminiscence starts getting too treacly and risks turning into an episode of TheWonderYears, let it be known that even as a kid I knew it was pretty slow.

There were parts of the Duffy Lake Road where the entire family was silently willing the thing up the steep parts.

However, it had just enough gumption to get where you were going, and once you were there, it was a home away from home. It wasn’t quite big enough to provide a luxury camping experience, but for families who liked to play outside anyway, the Westfalia was simply perfect.

The roots of this sort of car are more than a half-century old, starting in the 1950s in

Germany, when a oneoff camperized box was built for a British officer stationed in post-war partitioned Germany. The Brits ran the VW factory for a while, eventually turning control back to the local council, and in the meantime, thousands of boxy little VW vans were produced to ferry people and their things around the rebuilding country.

Situated in RhedaWiedenbruck, in the Westphalia area of Germany, the Westfalia factory has produced all sorts of camperized vehicles over the years.

Now owned by MercedesBenz, they do conversions on Ford and Fiat vans as well.

The Westfalia company started out as a coachbuilder making, well, coaches. They built heavy wagons in the nineteenth century, transiting to custom work later on.

When the VW Type-2 (better known as the Microbus) came along, it was a perfect match.

These first Westfalias were very popular with both German families and foreign servicemen, and many were subsequently imported to North America. With an established supply of used versions on hand, they soon became a fixture of the laid-back hippie movement and surfing culture, and were a staple of the music festival.

In 1979, along came the Vanagon, a less cheerful shape but one that would become its own icon. While the early VW Microbus has become less of a nomad as it ages, due to rising prices and the age of the fleet, the

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Macan claims to be first sports car SUV From page 38 sleekness and SUV toughness.

They also made sure that the Macan carried over familiar design elements from its other products, such as the sloping roofline of the 911.

The tail of the Macan is especially interesting; the tail lamps have a threedimensional character and the whole rear end is very

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Performance To effectively make the claim of being the first “sports car” in the SUV segment, the Macan needs to offer proper sporting potential. Both available engines certainly provide that character, and its suspension screams out “drive me” loud and clear.

The Macan S comes equipped with a 3.0-litre twin turbo V-6 delivering 340 horsepower. This enables it to accelerate to 100 kilometres per hour in just 5.4 seconds, or 5.2 seconds with the optional Sport Chrono package.

The Macan Turbo is the most powerful compact SUV on the market. It is also the first Porsche vehicle to use a 3.6-litre twin turbo V-6. This produces 400 h.p. and rockets to 100 km/h in just 4.8 seconds, or 4.6 seconds in Sport Chrono trim.

The standard sevenspeed PDK transmission is excellent.Whether it’s in auto mode, or you’re changing gears using the steering wheel mounted paddles, shifts are quick and smooth.

It probably goes without saying, but the Porsche Macan is not the best compact SUV in terms of off-road capabilities. To be fair, it is more than capable for most buyers who may buy this vehicle.

Regardless of the road conditions, the steering is sharp, precise, and it has just the right amount of road feel — something

other automakers have not been able to replicate when the foundation utilizes electric-powered steering.

This means the Macan is genuinely fun to drive and toss around. In fact, the Macan delivers a surprising level of performance well beyond what I’ve experienced with, say, the Audi SQ5 or BMW X3 (we will see how it fares against the X4).

The Macan is terrific on the highway as well with a smooth, highly refined ride that masks its true potential. It is definitely designed to be driven on long journeys along the autobahns — I should know since I was driving the Macan in Germany during my evaluation periods.

The Macan is easily manoeuvrable around the city, thanks to its tight turning radius allowing you to traverse around busy traffic and small parking spaces.

The optional air suspension system allows the Macan to be comfortable and adaptable at the same time. In Comfort mode, the Macan handles bumps nicely, but at the push of a button, the suspension stiffens and it becomes sporty again. This also gives you the ability to raise and lower the ride height.

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Rear-seat headroom a tad tight for taller passengers From page 42 and even though modern Porsches use a bewildering number of buttons on the console, everything is within easy reach while driving.

And while the Macan feels like a sports car on the move, you get many useful features not found in a typical sports car — for example, a usable rear seat.

Unlike some other compact SUVs, the Macan’s rear wheel arches are not too

intrusive, allowing for easy entry and exit.

Once inside, rear passengers have plenty of legroom, and headroom is adequate. However, models with the panoramic sunroof will have a little less rear headroom, making it tight for people taller than six feet.

Even though it shares a platform with the Audi Q5, its sloping roof means the Macan has slightly less total rear cargo space. But the rear seats are split 40/20/40

and lay flat when folded to help with larger items.

Features The Macan S has a starting price of $54,300 and the Turbo starts at $82,200. These are actually

very competitive prices for this segment.

Standard equipment includes two-zone climate control, heated front seats, heated steering wheel, heated exterior mirrors, an auto start stop system with

coasting functions, power tailgate, Bluetooth, and HomeLink.

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Macan races to the front of SUV pack

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Thumbs up The Macan offers usable versatility while providing best-in-class driving character.

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visual appeal and off-road capability, check out the Evoque. What it lacks in terms of performance it makes up with trendy design and fashionable features.

The Evoque is available in standard five-door trim, starting at $47,695, and a coupe version starting at $53,295.

BMW X3 No SUV can match the Macan’s sporting credentials, but the X3 is the best of the rest. Like all BMWs, the X3’s interior is classy and well made.

The BMW X3 has a starting price of $42,800.

The soon-to-arrive X4 is a closer rival to the Macan editor@automotivepress.com

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Competitors Audi Q5 As mentioned, the Q5 is the Macan’s more economical twin. While it offers similar utility, it simply can’t match the Macan in performance.

The SQ5, however, offers superb overall performance, though not quite at the Macan level.

Pricing for the Q5 starts at $40,900, with the SQ5, the closest rival to the Macan, starting at $57,000.

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Vanagon-based Westfalias are incredibly long-legged, and can be seen roaming along the Trans-Canada, or anywhere from Alaska to the Baja.

Like the air-cooled Porsche, the Westfalia exists in a land where depreciation and cost seem to have no basis in reality.

These are quarter-centuryold VWs, most with less than a hundred horsepower out back, but they fetch astronomical prices. If you want to buy a fully restored one from some place like GoWesty, you’ll be paying up to $90,000!

The thing is, that’s not entirely crazy. If spending tens of thousands of dollars on a track toy that’ll see use no more than two weekends a month isn’t nutty, then buying a rolling house that you can park pretty much anywhere makes sense too. Most of the converted vans pack more power with either VW or Subaru engine swaps, and the all-wheeldrive Syncro variant can be turned into a genuine off-road beast.

Plus there’s just something so appealing about the restless spirit

of a Westfalia, that sense that you could hit the side-roads and just drive until dark, going wherever the road takes you. If the automobile represents freedom, then this must be the ultimate distillation of that spirit: the ability to take your bed and kitchen with you.

The characters you find along the way all seem to be part of one big happy family, always stopping to chat or help a stranded Westy out. There’s a network of specialist shops right across the Pacific Northwest, and you’d hardly ever find yourself stranded, assuming you do enough preventative maintenance.

In a vehicle that’s a mobile camping site, it’s not the destination, but the journey. Sure, they’re slow, but when you’re already where you want to be, what’s the rush?

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and automotive enthusiast. If you have a suggestion for a column, or would be interested in having your car club featured, please contact him at mcaleeronwheels@gmail. com. Follow Brendan on Twitter: @brendan_mcaleer.

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