North Shore News August 22 2014

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Stanley’s banner day in North Van Kings netminder Martin Jones brings hockey’s hallowed cup home ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

It’s the greatest sports trophy in the world, and it comes with one of the coolest sports traditions in the world.

It’s the Stanley Cup, and it was here in North Vancouver Wednesday thanks to the annual summer tour that allows each member of the winning team to spend a whole day doing basically whatever they want with Lord

Stanley’s famous silverware.

The bringer of this great gift was Martin Jones, a North Vancouver native who had his name etched into the Cup after serving as the backup goaltender for the Los Angeles Kings as they won their second championship of the past three years this spring.

Jones and the Cup arrived in grand style, riding a Zamboni through an honour guard of young players on his way to the North Shore Winter Club, home of the rink where he honed his game before hitting the big time.

“I remember playing here for four years and those are some amazing memories I have, and so to come back and receive this kind of welcome, it was See Cup page 9

BCMC trail erosion a safety issue, hiker says BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

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A North Vancouver hiker is warning the BCMC trail is in bad and possibly dangerous condition — and no one seems to know who should step up and maintain the trail for hikers’ safety.

Ted Shandro has noticed more wear and tear on the trail since the Grouse Grind was “turned into a staircase” and it’s showing in a few spots along the way.

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few roots, particularly worrying for Shandro is a “car-sized” boulder about one sixth of the way up that sits on eroding soil and wobbles when stepped on.

“My concern is something bad if this breaks loose. I mean, oh my goodness, the other ones will eventually stop or come to a tree but this one is huge,” he said.

As a regular user, Shandro sees evidence that someone comes in to cut up trees that have fallen over the trail but he’s had no luck finding out who is behind it.

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BCMC’s trail maintenance in question From page 1

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Little, Beech add names to ballot

Seymour Tory and Liberal undecided on Kinder Morgan BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnew.scom

The North Shore’s newest federal election riding now has at least two candidates’ names on the 2015 ballot.

District of North Vancouver Coun.

Mike Little will run for the Conservatives and Burnaby-based entrepreneur and university instructor Terry Beech has been named the Liberals’ candidate for Burnaby North-Seymour.

Both federal newcomers won by acclamation after securing endorsements from fellow challengers in the riding in recent weeks.

The riding includes everything east of Lynn Creek up to the Seymour River and all the way to Deep Cove. The southern boundary is Lougheed

highway in Burnaby.

Burnaby Douglas NDP MP Kennedy Stewart has calculated that if the 2011 election were held with the same borders, his two-per cent advantage would have been swallowed up by a seven-per cent boost for the Tories. Though Beech maintains the riding would go Liberal if the party’s national polling numbers today are factored in with the riding’s election returns of 2004 and 2006.

Little said he’s not ready to declare whether he’ll also be seeking his seat on district council again in this November’s municipal election but he will make his decision public before the nomination period closes in October.

Both candidates agreed there’s “no question” that Kinder Morgan’s application to twin the

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As a council member, Little voted in favour of seeking intervenor status for Kinder Morgan’s hearings before the National Energy Board but the motion stopped short of outright opposing the project. Little said his goal is to make sure the

NEB reaches a decision with the best possible information.

Citing many outstanding questions, neither candidate has decided whether they personally support Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion.

For Little, it’s a question of how diluted bitumen will behave if its hits the water.

“Will it sink or will it float? It sounds like a bad David Letterman sketch but we haven’t been able to do an oil-in-water exercise where we can actually see if the product that’s going to be shipped will actually sink or float in Burrard Inlet and what our ability is to clean it up is,” Little said.

Beech said the Conservatives have acted more like cheerleaders than referees when it comes to Alberta oil projects, which has led to a lack of trust about environmental regulation.

Still, Beech said he’s in “listening and learning mode” on the issue.

“I’m not convinced it’s the best solution for Burnaby North-Seymour and certainly, knocking on doors, it’s an issue I hear a lot of,” he said.

The NDP has yet to select a candidate though North Vancouver’s Michael Charrois and Burnaby’s Trevor Ritchie have both declared bids.

BCMC traverses land owned or leased by the District of North Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, Grouse Mountain as well as some private owners.

When Shandro spoke to management at each, all he found was a jurisdictional quagmire.

“I am concerned there is some danger. On a good summer weekend, I’m sure there’s a good 500 or 600 people who go up there,” he said.

The district acknowledges it owns some of the land but says it is up to volunteers to do maintenance.

“While some small areas of the BCMC trail are within the jurisdiction of the District of North Vancouver, the BCMC trail falls largely on Metro Vancouver and Grouse Mountain land,” stated Stephanie Smiley, DNV’s communications coordinator in an email.

Grouse, meanwhile, issued a statement with a similar sentiment.

“The BCMC trail is not the property of Grouse Mountain. Therefore, we do not have any jurisdiction over any maintenance and upgrades the trail may require,” stated Jacqueline Blackwell, the resort’s manager of public relations in an email.

Metro has no part in the trail’s creation or upkeep, according to a director.

“Metro Vancouver has never done, to my knowledge, any maintenance on the trail,” said Bob Cavill, director of watersheds. “We’re not certain how that trail originated and, if there is maintenance going on right now, who’s doing it.”

Metro could be supportive of any group that wants to voluntarily take care of BCMC but that group should know they’ll also be responsible for the extra foot traffic and the substantial risk and liability that comes with it, Cavill said.

“It’s not just one rock, I’m sure. Grouse Mountain is a steep mountain and there’s risk from rotten tree branches falling and risks of rocks, risks of slippery earth and soil, ice in the springtime… There’s a whole whack of risks that go with backcountry climbing,” he said.

The B.C. Mountaineering Club, for whom the trial is named, could not reached for comment.

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Cruiser smashed in chase Second stolen pickup crashes into officers in parkway pursuit

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Instead, it collided with the police vehicle’s front end.

The driver, a 43-year-old Coquitlam man, bailed out and, after a short foot chase and tackle, is now in police custody.

The suspect in the first vehicle used the distraction to escape and head south back toward Burnaby and is still at large, De Jong said.

As another stretch of warm weather approaches,West Vancouver residents will finally be able to cool off in the water after several popular beaches were declared safe for swimming on Thursday.

Vancouver Coast Health lifted a warning advising beach goers to stay out of the water after test results showed E. coli bacteria

levels at Ambleside, Dundarave and Sandy Cove beaches are back within acceptable levels.

Municipal crews were out Thursday taking down signs at those three beaches that had warned swimmers of potential health risks.

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Police later learned the second truck was also reported stolen, though they are not releasing where it was stolen from or when.

Investigators are now working to determine whether the two suspects were working in tandem.

“We have driver No. 2 in custody. He’s not saying a lot. He’s under court order for different offences. He’s being charged with other

offences.We’re trying to get down to what are two stolen pickup trucks doing at the same intersection in North Vancouver?” De Jong said.

The crash resulted in traffic tie-ups while officers remained on the scene to investigate.

Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a 2006 grey Chevrolet Silverado with B.C. plates: HL-1140.

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The fiasco played out around 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday when police received a dispatch reporting a pickup truck being stolen from a Deep Cove construction site.

An officer on patrol spotted the vehicle on Mount Seymour Parkway and attempted to pull it over on the Fern Street overpass.

Taking the officer by surprise, a second pickup truck behind the cruiser veered

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The opening of West Vancouver’s beaches comes just in time for the weekend, when temperatures in the Lower Mainland are expected to shoot up again under sunny skies.

Uncharacteristically high E. coli levels in July and August have resulted in beach closures in areas of West Vancouver not normally affected by the

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“When you spend time on the beaches it’s pretty natural to want to spend time in the water,” he said.

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he Transportation Safety Board’s final report into the oil train derailment that killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic last summer confirmed that the tragedy wasn’t simply a case of bad luck but also a terrible result of a hands-off approach to rail safety by the government.

The damning report and recommendations released this week highlighted the dangers and all-too-real consequences of the fox-guarding-thehen-house approach to deregulation favoured by the Tories.

Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt preferred to blame the company directly involved in the disaster and deflect any official responsibility. But the report made it clear that the accident also owed much to a lax safety culture that was reinforced by lack of proper oversight by government authorities.

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In particular,Transport Canada failed to ensure that repeated safety violations and concerns identified by inspectors were actually addressed. It also failed to ensure theoretical safety practices were actually in place on the ground.

To be sure, since the disaster last summer there have been improvements, including Ottawa’s decision to phase out the DOT-111 tanker cars prone to rupturing in crashes. But many other issues remain outstanding. And given the meteoric rise in the amount of oil being shipped by rail car the potential for danger will only grow unless recommendations are heeded.

Rail companies cannot be left to regulate themselves.That is the responsibility of government, whose job it is to look out for public safety.To do less is to turn our backs on future LacMégantics still waiting to happen.

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Argyle rebuild not tied to land sales System overwhelmed

Dear Editor: Suggesting that funding for the North Vancouver school district’s critical Argyle secondary seismic/rebuild project is contingent on the NVSD selling off school properties is tantamount to suggesting the provincial government is using blackmail to tie the hands of locally elected school boards to get what it wants.

The truth is the Ministry of Education has simply asked the North Vancouver Board of Education for a plan for the repayment of the $9-$15 million upgrade costs of moving from a seismic project to a full rebuild of Argyle. Which the board has done.

Nowhere in that plan are there deadlines for the sale of school properties

or specific sale amounts required. The school district only had to show that it had a plan and the ability to repay the extra full rebuild costs.

Our school district, with what can only be described as a triple-A credit rating, has earned the right to secure adequate (and already promised) funding for our aging public education school infrastructure and our record has shown that we will continue to honour our limited debt exposure if, and when, needed.

By focusing solely on the timing of land sales it is assumed that there is only one way to fund school replacement projects which is to sell school property for market housing. Have we lost our collective ability

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to find the money for these important projects other than simply disposing of valuable community assets?

With a growing population and a change in demographics, our community needs continue to grow, yet determining these needs has proven difficult within the silos in which local leaders are elected.

These public lands are being sold based solely on the school district’s conclusion that the lands and facilities are deemed surplus for the public education sector alone. It is my view that a multisectoral inventory of community needs must be undertaken before we sell public lands that we will never be able to afford to buy back. In

fact, when the Board of Education, and other locally elected officials met earlier this year with the Minister of Education Peter Fassbender, the most pertinent question he asked the board was, “what are your community needs?”

Good question, yet decisions to sell school lands are being made without this critical information.

The Ministry of Education is quite explicit and sets out by ministerial order specific requirements boards must meet. It states that the board must conduct broad consultation with local government, community organizations and the general public regarding alternative

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by pace of construction

Dear Editor: After reading the letters published about construction woes on the North Shore I felt compelled to add my own.

I too live on a street under constant construction. The truck traffic can be relentless and the garbage, noise and traffic congestion is exhausting.

Every day on the North Shore storm drains are polluted, neighbouring properties are put at risk for flooding and/or loss of landscaping.

Parking, traffic and noise bylaws are not followed and there are not enough personnel to enforce them. At times

this puts people at risk, both those who work on and those who live around these construction sites.

New construction is a sign of the times and should be considered a normal part of our evergrowing neighbourhoods, but it should be a safe and considerate process.

The system is overwhelmed with far more construction than the building codes, bylaw and environmental officers can manage.

What are the Districts of North and West Vancouver and the City of North Vancouver doing to alleviate these issues?

Sandra Duyvewaardt North Vancouver

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Time goes on, and still no tax break for PNE One of B.C.’s grandest and most historic traditions is up and running again, but it’s not entirely clear how long it can keep going.

I’m talking about the Pacific National Exhibition, a 17-day whirlwind of entertainment that combines midway rides, livestock exhibitions, concerts, exhibits of all shapes and sizes and way too much food.

But as time goes on, the annual fair faces mounting pressures.

It is essentially a throwback to earlier times, when it was the only big event in town. It began as an agriculture fair, located on the distant outskirts of the young town of Vancouver (its east side location was fairly remote when it began in 1910).

Over the years, it evolved into a major entertainment destination and a significant cultural event that celebrated the idea of British Columbia itself. For years, school children in the Lower Mainland got a major

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prize with their final school report card of the year: a free ticket to the PNE (this year, kids under 13 get in free).

And so, for decades, the PNE was a big deal.

Visiting the fair was a tradition for thousands of families, who would arrive early in the day and leave late at night, exhausted from seeing and trying everything, from riding the midway to watching the Demolition Derby, the Festival of Forestry, livestock shows and, of course, eating in the Food Building.

The famous Challenger

Map of B.C. was located there for years, as was the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. This is where the Boat Show, Auto Show and Home Show got their starts.

The entertainment was legendary, and huge stars appeared: Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and, of course, The Beatles.

But, over the years, the PNE found itself looking a bit aged, a corny piece of the past that seemed overtaken by newer, faster and more varied forms of entertainment. It had become a period piece and its nostalgic charm wasn’t enough to make it the dominant event of the year anymore.

Still, the fair has survived, and this year hundreds of thousands of people will walk through its gates, a testament to its endurance and the widespread public support for it.

However, recent years have seen the emergence of all kinds of neighbouring

community-based festivals and celebrations, and they pose direct competition to the PNE. While there’s nothing wrong with community festivals, the fact that a number of them are seeded with municipal funding sets them apart from the PNE, which does not receive a subsidy from B.C. taxpayers.

And this raises the legitimate question of whether the PNE should qualify for a financial subsidy from the City of Vancouver (which is the owner of the PNE) or the

B.C. government, if that’s what it takes to ensure that it survives down the road.

The PNE’s financial situation can be precarious: too much rain during the 17-day run of the fair can spell disaster, as happened several years ago.

If the PNE fair were to one day disappear, it would be a major hit to the economy of Metro Vancouver. The PNE is the largest employer of youth in all of B.C., and many young workers who work the fair make enough money in a short period to

pay for a big chunk of their post-secondary education (I was once one of those kids, having worked 10 consecutive fairs some time ago).

The PNE itself estimates it contributes about $140 million to the economy every year.

That includes about $25 million in taxes and $50 million in wages. As well, about 25,000 people from outside Metro Vancouver visit the fair, and stay an average of three nights in hotels and motels.

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Friday, August 22, 2014 - North Shore News - A9

Cup ends day atop Grouse

From page 1

awesome,” Jones said in a short media scrum during his visit to the club. “I think that’s what’s so special about this thing — it’s when you’re able to share it, especially at a place I spent a lot of time at as a kid.To come back and give back a little bit, it’s fun for them and it’s fun for me as well. . . .There were some happy kids out there.

That’s what it’s all about for sure.”

Jones then did a question and answer session with the young players — many of whom were sporting Winter Club T-shirts with the name

Jones and his No. 31 on the back — before posing for photos and making a brief appearance at a road hockey festival that broke out in his honour.

Jones and the Cup then made a quick trip to Seymour Golf and Country Club, where he is a member, before heading up Grouse Mountain for a cool photoop on top of the city.

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INQUIRING REPORTER Off with their helmets! That’s been the cry from pundits who believe B.C.’s mandatory lid laws hamper interest in cycling and may clip the spokes of Vancouver’s long, long-awaited bike share program. Bike helmets seem like a sensible way to protect cyclists from motorists who treat bike lanes and crosswalks like disputed turf in a gang war. Still, many major cities axed helmet regulations for adults. The result has been more cyclists and no appreciable increase in injuries. Have your say at nsnews.com. * #(!(") '%($%(!&

Maureen Powers North Vancouver “No. It’s important that we protect from unusual happenings.”

Should we get rid of mandatory helmet laws for cyclists?

Shari Nelson North Vancouver “No, as a cyclist I feel much more secure with a helmet.We should be teaching children to be careful and wear their helmets.”

Irene Penner North Vancouver “I’m torn.Yes, because people should have their individual choices. No, when they get hurt society at large pays.”

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Fair’s attendance in decline

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That’s a lot of economic activity, and it cannot be allowed to disappear.

To be clear, the PNE board is not asking for financial help from any level of government, at least not yet. But it’s important to note the PNE fair is the only major fair in North America that doesn’t receive a generous taxpayer-funded subsidy.

The organization reports a modest financial surplus every year, but attendance at the fair has declined three straight

years (from 962,000 in 2010 to 712,000 last year).

Of course, attendance figures can be looked at in a glass half-full way: attracting more than 700,000 customers is still a sign of impressive public support.

So visit the fair. Try to win a house or a car. Ride the roller coaster. Don’t let B.C.’s greatest annual celebration disappear any time soon.

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Friday, August 22, 2014 - North Shore News - A11

Reunification review needs volunteers

Citizens committee looking for experts in taxation, planning JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

How many North Shore residents does it take to erase the border between the City and District of North Vancouver?

Possibly nine.

The District of North Van is hunting for a nonet of volunteers with backgrounds in finance, taxation, planning and politics to form the North Shore Reunification Review Committee.

The group will have 39 days to finish a report that may put amalgamation on the ballot as a referendum question during November’s municipal election — pending further debate in District of

North Vancouver council chambers.

The committee may get a little help from City of North Vancouver Coun.

Guy Heywood and District of North Van Coun. Robin Hicks, both of whom support amalgamation.

The two councillors are examining the finances of the two North Vancouvers in an effort to uncover redundancies that could be exploited to lighten the taxpayer’s load in a unified North Vancouver.

“We are running two local governments in one community,” Heywood said.

The duo’s work has been made challenging by the disparate accounting systems used by the two

North Shore transit riders may want to check a bus schedule before heading out the door on Sept. 1.

That’s when TransLink’s bus service changes for fall take effect. Customers can expect new services or increased trips; service that better matches demand during non-peak periods; and the return of service to routes travelling to post-

secondary institutions.

Affected routes on the North Shore include the 209, 210, 211, 214, 236, 239 and C15.

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municipalities, which make it tough to compare line items, according to Heywood.

Despite some reluctance from the city government, Heywood said he made a successful freedom of information request to find city salaries by position and department.

The early findings reenforced his opinion on amalgamation.

Including the salaries of two assistants, the office of the city’s Chief Administrative Officer has a budget of $500,000, according to Heywood.

“At the very top level you get the biggest benefit

because you’d need only one CAO,” he said.

Front-line workers won’t be part of Hicks and Heywood’s report.

“It’s only in the back office and management levels that you have duplication,” Heywood said.

In terms of facilities, Heywood said their report may look at phasing out district municipal hall and zoning it for residential use, if they can find extra office space at 14th Street and Lonsdale Avenue.

Heywood and Hicks are planning to pass their work to the reunification committee in midSeptember.

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The review committee is a way for residents to wrest control of amalgamation away from elected officials, according to district Coun.

Doug MacKay-Dunn.

“It is time for us to take it away from the politicians and the bureaucrats and put it in the hands of the people,” MacKay-Dunn said at a July council meeting.

The committee is slated to include at least two members from each North Shore municipality, despite disinterest from the City of North Vancouver and West Vancouver.

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Party in the park ■ Deep Cove Daze, Sunday, Aug. 24, noon to 7 p.m. For more information visit musart.ca.

ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

The Musart Cultural Society is once again taking over Panorama Park on Sunday for Deep Cove Daze.

The all-day event will feature both a main stage and a kid’s stage, each with its own lineup of musical acts, as well as midway rides, a cardboard kayak race, a teahouse and more.

Annie Lehnart, event co-ordinator for the Musart Cultural Society, which organized Deep Cove Daze, says the event will feature a variety of artisan venders with everything from wooden bowls and jewelry, to handmade bags.

“We have an awesome artisan gallery,” says Lehnart. “We have somebody coming in and

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doing face painting, we have a photographer coming in.”

The main stage will have acts performing from 11:45 a.m. onwards and includes the Deep Cove Big Band, 45 Spacer,Téa Petrovic and Sorry Buttons, to name a few.

“And we have the DC Band Factory with the Storm Breakers and Power Outage,” says Lehnart, of the Deep Cove Music program, which gives music students the opportunity to perform in public, as well as boost their confidence.

The kid’s stage will feature the Vancouver Party Savers magic show and party games, as well as performer J.R. Kline.

There is also a Deep Cove Idol Contest at 4 p.m., says Lehnart.

“It’s basically where kids under 19, they perform to two judges and they get entered into a contest,” she says. “The judges give them some feedback and then the winner of each different

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section performs on the main stage.”

Deep Cove Daze also features a beer garden, which has gone through a transformation since last year’s event.

“Parallel 49 (Brewing Company) is coming and we’re really excited because it’s a local brewery,” says Lehnart, adding that they decided on a local brewery “to really bring more of the community out.”

Visitors can also feast their appetites on the numerous food trucks.

“We have some awesome food trucks coming out this year,” says Lehnart, including Tivoli Caterers, Fijian Fusion, Beljam Waffles, Cup a Corn and DougieDog. The Musart Cultural Society has organized Deep Cove Daze for the past 15 years.The Society is a non-profit organization established See Event page 17

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CALENDAR Galleries

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CAROUN ART GALLERY 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver.Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 8 p.m.778-372-0765 caroun. net Painting Exhibition:Works

by Fereshteh Shahani will be on display until Aug. 22.

Painting Exhibition: Works by Saba Orouji will be on display from Aug. 24 to 30 Opening reception: Saturday, Aug. 23, 4-8 p.m.

CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. MondaySaturday, noon to 5 p.m.

604-988-6844 nvartscouncil. ca Urbanity: An exhibition featuring paintings, sculpture and graffiti by Thompson Brennan, Mark Ollinger, Jon Shaw and Scott Sueme will run until Aug. 30.

The Gift Box: Buy local from two display cases dedicated to local artisans who specialize in high quality, hand-crafted and unique gift items.

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

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 until Sept. 7. Meet the artists: Saturday,Aug. 23, 2-3 p.m.

Time & Place: Paintings and prints of the urban landscape

by Richard Tetrault will be on display from Sept. 9-28. Opening reception:Tuesday, Sept. 9, 6-8 p.m. Meet the artist: Saturday, Sept. 13, 2-3 p.m.Art insider series:Wednesday, Sept. 24, $15.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Streetscapes capture changing times New exhibit documents Vancouver in transition ■ Main + Hastings: Photographs by Ross den Otter, until Sept. 6 at Seymour Art Gallery, 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. More info at seymourartgallery.com.

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

If you want to get your car repaired, try on wedding gowns and enjoy a waffle brunch, all without walking more than a few metres, then look no further than the 2600 block of East Hastings Street.

Or perhaps you’d like to enroll your child in ballet lessons, purchase a vintage Wurlitzer jukebox, then catch a live band play at an X-rated movie theatre turned nightclub.The 2300 block of Main Street is your one stop shop for all of this.

These two city blocks are among those featured in Ross den Otter’s latest photography exhibit, Main + Hastings, which documents the eclectic mix of businesses and residential properties along two of Vancouver’s oldest corridors.

Sixteen of den Otter’s panoramic streetscapes are on display until Sept. 13 at Seymour Art Gallery in North Vancouver.

Den Otter has worked near the corner of Hastings and Richards streets for 25 years and came up with the concept for his current exhibit while chatting with a friend outside Harbour Centre.

“It was just interesting reflecting on how the neighbourhood had changed in those 25 years and I thought I probably should record the buildings that are changing,” he says.

“We have an image when

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Gallery visitors won’t see any shots of the notorious Carnegie Centre corner, but they will see plenty of other images that range from the 900 block of West Hastings all the way out towards Burnaby, and from the northern tip of Main Street down to about 38th Avenue.These two thoroughfares are home to many older buildings which “seem to have the most eclectic banding of uses” when compared with newer developments, den Otter says.The use of these buildings has also changed over time, he noticed. For example, South Main Street, once known as “Antique

Row,” is now home to a blend of antique stores plus clothing boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants.

A Port Alberni native, den Otter has lived steps away from either Hastings or Main street since he moved to Vancouver in 1989 to study photography at

Langara College.

“It’s a couple of streets that I have a fondness for,” says the Strathcona resident, who teaches photography and runs a commercial photo studio with his wife in addition to his personal artistic pursuits.

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series, rather than taking long horizontal photos, den Otter instead shot several portrait-oriented slices of

each block and overlapped the edges to assemble a panorama.This technique allowed him to overcome his camera’s technical limitations, and also meant he could exclude passing cars and pedestrians giving the images an almost timeless quality.

“The photos don’t necessarily reveal a period,” he explains.

The changing face of the Downtown Eastside is a topic surrounded by controversy, but den Otter says his exhibit is not meant as social or political commentary. In fact, that’s part of the reason he’s exhibiting his work at Seymour Art Gallery.

“I think that the advantage of showing (the photos) in Deep Cove was to provide a venue that was outside of the context of the images. It sort of removed some of the perhaps political nature of the changes that are going on there. I didn’t really want the show to be about that, I wanted it to be more about the interrelationship between the mix of uses of buildings and I didn’t want it to be about gentrification,” he says. “It just makes people focus on the content of the photos a little more I think.”

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Maziar Mehrabi develops a graphic hybrid in new series ■ Maziar Mehrabi: Evolution of the Emoticon at LynnValley Main Library, Aug. 27-Oct. 21.

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

More than 70 years after his face first cracked into a rictus of dark glee as Batman’s mocking adversary,The Joker has slithered into the world of high art.

Maziar Mehrabi is the

artist responsible for bringing one of the most frightening faces to ever adorn a comic book panel into the Lynn Valley library’s gallery.

The exhibition, titled Evolution of the Emoticon, features 31 faces of the villains who threaten to doom Gotham City and the heroes who keep finding a way to save it.

Each face is drawn to

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resemble an emoticon — those frowny, smiley faces that infuriate grandparents and dominate the vocabulary of the text message.

The emoticons are a creature of the present but the roots of the exhibition go back more than 20 years into Mehrabi’s childhood.

Cartoons came on in the afternoon in Kuwait.

Growing up attending a British private school, Mehrabi got his first artistic inspiration from the animated images that stood for justice or competed to become Pokemon masters in the hours after school and before dinner.

“To me that was art,” Mehrabi says. “I never took it seriously, I just did it for fun.”

The notion of pursuing art for his livelihood was alien to Mehrabi — as far-fetched as the notionThe Joker might one day kill Robin.

But without shouldering the expectations that afflict the ambitious, he was free to draw what interested him with nary a second thought.

He sketched, he scribbled, he lovingly reproduced the illustrations that accompanied Playstation video games.

“It starts from there,” Mehrabi says with a laugh.

Still, art wasn’t a viable

career for Mehrabi until Christmas day, 2001 — the day he arrived in North Vancouver.

He applied to Emily Carr, and as good fortune had it, was rejected, which forced him to enroll at Capilano University.

“I know the program doesn’t exist anymore. It’s a shame because it’s by far the best,” he says.

Working with instructors likeToni Latour and satirical sculptor George Rammell helped him hone his craft.

He also found a world of comic book stores.

“Where I lived, there’s literally one place,” he says of his life in Kuwait. “And it wasn’t like here where you have everything.”

He was thumbing through back issues one day while waiting on a friend when he stumbled on the HumanTorch, issue #3.

“I didn’t know you could draw comics like that,” he says, his eyes widening as he describes the flashy, graffiti influenced cover art.

He delved deeper into superhero comics, admiring Alex Ross’ ability to weave realism into the Marvel Universe and smiling at the playful exaggeration of Spider-Man illustrator Humberto Ramos.

Not everyone shared Mehrabi’s appreciation for comics.

After transferring to Emily Carr at least one instructor told him to stay away from superhero books.

“He was really against me creating art the way I did,” Mehrabi recalls.

Undeterred, Mehrabi sketched faces on the bus and snapped photographs to help him visualize challenging angles.

If a character’s hand is in the foreground, Mehrabi soon realized it should loom enormous to create depth, like Jack Kirby’s rendering of Galactus reaching off the page.

When it came to creating the emoticons for his exhibition, Mehrabi used Adobe Illustrator to get clean lines.

He begins with a square and adds the eyes, mouth and hair. He goes over each feature, adding small details and playing with shading to make the face seem threedimensional.

With square jaws and bold colours, the heroes were fairly easy.The villains were more challenging, and in the case of the Joker Mehrabi realized his first pass was too tame.

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CALENDAR From page 14

by Carolyn DiPasquale will be on display from Sept. 7 to Oct. 26.

GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.WednesdayFriday, noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Adult admission by donation/children free.

604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca A Journey Exposed: Gu Xiong, a transcultural artist with a strong sense of global interconnectivity will examine the effects of globalization with an exhibition until Aug. 23.

Gallery Tours: Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. Registration required.

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. 6.

Curator’s Talk: Every Thursday at noon there will be a 20-minute curator’s talk with background on the current show in the gallery.

NORTH VANCOUVER MUSEUM 209 West Fourth St., North Vancouver. Open by appointment only. 604-9903700 x8016 NorthVancouver Experience, an ongoing exhibit defining life in North Vancouver.

RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Mixed Bag: Photographs, watercolours, prints and necklaces

by Ingalora Dwyer; pottery tea pots by Barbara Matthews; and pottery in a variety of shapes by Sue Rankin will be on display until Sept. 7.

Share the Bounty: Landscapes and abstracts on canvas by Maureen Coles and clay vessels and decorative items

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday to Sunday, noon-4 p.m. 604925-7292 silkpurse.ca Surrender: Textile artist Fariba Mirzaie’s work will be on display until Aug. 24.

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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AMBLESIDE PARK Foot of 13th Street,West Vancouver.

Ambleside Live Concert Series: Music from Ed Sheeran with special guest Rudimental Aug. 23 at 7 p.m.

Admission: $62.48.Tickets: amblesidelive.com.

CATES PARK 200-block Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver.

Cates Park Concert Series: A free summer concert series with original bands Saturdays from 4 to 7 p.m. until Aug. 23. Info: musart.ca.

CLEVELAND PARK Capilano Road at Prospect Avenue, North Vancouver.

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Music in the Park Finale: A free summer concert of jazz, folk, blues, rock, gypsy and Celtic swing Monday Sept. 1 from noon to 5 p.m.

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Event growing each year From page 13 in 1992 with a mission to “create opportunity and exposure for local Lower Mainland artists, musicians, dancers and poets with a focus on the North Shore community.”

Lehnart says the event has been growing ever year.

“We get many emails each year (from) performers wanting to participate, so it’s great,” she says.

Deep Cove Daze is a great way for artists, who

can sometimes find it difficult to gain exposure, says Lehnart, to perform or exhibit their crafts in their own community.

“Deep Cove has a great community base, everybody knows each other, it’s like one little big giant bubble,” she says. “If you’re a Cove person you know everybody in the Cove. So it just was a place that we also wanted to support all the local businesses and have a place one year where they can all come together.”

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Harmony Arts Exhibition will run until Aug. 25 in conjunction with the annual festival.

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

Some renderings too dark From page 16

“He has that smile . . . you know he’s smiling, but he’s not smiling because it’s funny,” he says.

He broadened the mouth until the Joker’s grin was almost too big for his face, later picking a font that gave the background a rough, corrupt look.

His renderings of villains like Scarecrow andTwoFace were a bit too dark for the gallery’s taste, according to Mehrabi, but he said he insisted on including Batman’s oldest enemy.

“The Joker, to me, had to be in the show.You can’t have Batman withoutThe Joker.”

The show runs from Aug. 27 to Oct. 11.

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FILM

Dancing around The F Word

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Rating: 5 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD ContributingWriter

Frankly I’m rooting for Daniel Radcliffe to someday shed his Harry Potter cloak and plant his foot firmly in adult roles. But his character in The F Word is so cloying, so gratingly ingratiating, that I wanted to blast him back to Hogwarts.

The most likable character in Michael Dowse’s film is the city of Toronto, playing itself, as a bustling, 24/7, multicultural city of — surprisingly — romance. In this metropole are Chantry (Zoe Kazan), an animator, and English ex-pat Wallace (Radcliffe), who isn’t much of anything.

He enjoys staring at the CN Tower from the rooftop of his sister’s house, where he sleeps in the attic bedroom.

They meet cute at a party given by Wallace’s college roommate Allan (Adam Driver) and do some pseudo-insightful fridge-magnet poetry.

Wallace has spent more than a year mourning his ex; Chantry is really clear about the fact that she has a serious boyfriend. Like, live together, five years serious.

The two shake hands and decide to be friends, “like a business

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And they talk.They talk a lot. For some reason a lot of the talk is poop-centric.

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according to Wallace. One thing is certain: Bruce Willis never cried this much.

It’s clear that they totally get each other, though Chantry refuses to admit it. “Love is dirty, baby.

Sometimes it’s downright filthy,” says Allan’s girlfriend Nicole (Vancouver’s Mackenzie Davis), who advocates laying all those

pent-up feelings on the line.

She and Allan are the wacky (and horny) extroverts to Chantry and Wallace’s more tentative brand of courtship.

Untimely love is not a new conceit and nothing particularly original is brought to the table here.

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Showtimes ■ LANDMARK CINEMAS 6 ESPLANADE The Hundred-Foot Journey (G) — Fri-Thur 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:50 p.m.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D (PG) — Fri-Thur 1:30, 4, 7:05, 9:45 p.m.

Let’s Be Cops (14A) — FriThur 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 p.m.

Into the Storm (PG) — FriTue 1:20, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 p.m.

If I Stay (PG) — Fri-Thur 1, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 p.m.

The Giver — Fri-Thur 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 p.m.

The November Man (14A) —Wed 1, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 p.m.

■ PARK &TILFORD Lucy — Fri 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40; Sat-Sun,Tue-Thur 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40; Mon 3, 5:15, 10 p.m.

Guardians of the Galaxy (PG) — Fri-Sat 12:30; SunThur 1:30 p.m.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3D (PG) — Fri-Sat 3:25, 6:30, 9:15; Sun-Thur 4:15, 7:05, 10 p.m.

The Expendables 3 (PG) — Fri-Sat 1, 4, 7:05, 10; SunThur 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:55 p.m.

Boyhood (PG) — Fri-Sat 12:40, 4:20, 8; Sun-Thur 1:20, 4:50, 8:20 p.m.

Frank Miller’s Sin City:A Dame to Kill For 3D (14A) — Fri-Sat noon, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Sun-Thur 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 p.m.

The FWord (PG) — Fri-Wed, 1:40, 4:10, 7, 9:30;Thur 4:10, 7, 9:30 p.m.Thur 1 p.m.

Slugterra: Return of the Elementals (G) — Sat 12:55 DoctorWho: Deep Breath (G) — Mon 7:30 p.m.

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A20 - North Shore News - Friday, August 22, 2014

MUSIC

The Beatles flew off the radar in ’64

Fab Four punched their own ticket to ride on summer tour ■ Some Fun Tonight!

The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America:The Historic Tours of 1964-1966 by Chuck Gunderson. For more information visit somefuntonight.com.

JOHN GOODMAN jgoodman@nsnews.com

It was 50 years ago today that The Beatles performed at Empire Stadium in Vancouver as part of their first North American tour.

Prior to their summer gigs the band had visited the U.S. East Coast in February to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show and do a couple of concerts in Washington, D.C. and New York City but that was just a taste of what was to come later in the year.

The ambitious itinerary, put together by their manager Brian Epstein, involved John, Paul, George and Ringo travelling 35,000 kilometres to perform 34 shows in 33 days in 24 cities. It was one long nonstop blur accentuated by the fact that Epstein knew almost nothing about North American geography.

The band began the tour at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 1964 less than 48 hours after a gig at Blackpool in the U.K. In between those two shows they spent almost 24 hours in the air including a fuelling stop in Winnipeg. Once they’d landed the boys and their entourage travelled for

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the rest of the tour on a 90-seater Lockheed Electra turboprop charter flown by American Flyer Airlines in a most non-linear fashion from coast to coast to coast.

Not big fans of flying to begin with The Beatles were living in an era when airplane technology was still in its conceptual infancy — things could go wrong and often did. On the ’65 tour the same plane blew an engine while The Beatles were enroute to Portland.

In April, 1966, the AFA charter crashed while carrying military personnel killing 83 people.

Even with the best of planning there was more than a little shake, rattle and roll involved in getting from Point A to Point B.The day before their show at Empire Stadium The Beatles had partied long into the night helping Jackie DeShannon celebrate her 23rd birthday in Seattle. DeShannon on tour as one of the opening acts, told an interviewer that she danced until 5 a.m. partying with the Beatles

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Later that day everybody got on the plane for a short hop to Vancouver made longer by the fact that the pilot had not cleared customs correctly and had to return to SeaTac to complete paperwork.They touched down in Vancouver sometime around 6 p.m.

Because of their massive popularity and “unruly” fans The Beatles tour plane usually landed at secondary airports avoiding the expected huge crowds but also confusing transportation plans on the ground. In more than one city arranged transportation was waiting

SUMMER FEST 2014

at the wrong location and sometimes people (Ringo, The Righteous Brothers) were forgotten in the haste to get moving. In Vancouver their plane landed at the RCAF base on Sea Island in Richmond before their scheduled concert but hours after their planned arrival.They drove around aimlessly killing time, got some burgers and shakes and headed for the PNE at the allotted time.

The show began at 8:15 p.m. with the Bill Black Combo, the Exciters, The Righteous Brothers and Jackie DeShannon all performing before The Beatles finally took the stage at 9:25 p.m.

Chuck Gunderson, author of Some Fun Tonight, a new book that looks back at The Beatles recordbreaking run, talked to the North Shore News about what has been described as the first rock’n’roll tour.

North Shore News: Paul McCartney just closed Candlestick Park.

Chuck Gunderson: Yes he did. I really wanted to go to that show. I saw him in Salt Lake the week prior and I tell you for a guy 72 years old he really knows how to put on a great show.

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North Shore News: San Francisco really bookended The Beatles experience in North America.They started there in ’64 and had their last show there in ’66.

Chuck Gunderson: And they were there in ’65 as well at the Cow Palace. It was kind of the beginning, the middle and the end.

North Shore News: How did you get involved with writing about the tours?

Chuck Gunderson: Number one, I’m a huge fan. Number two, I’m a product of the sixties and my older siblings were spinning the records so it’s sort of embedded in me.

Number three, I’ve been a collector for many years and one of the things I like to collect is the North American tour ephemera.

I’ve been waiting for someone to write a tour book and no one ever did so I thought you know what I’m going to do it. I’ve had a career in advertising and my passion is history. I have a masters in history so I just thought I’m going to use those skills and write it, research it and publish it myself. It’s the book I always wanted to see come out.

North Shore News: Perfect time. It’s the 50th anniversary of the first tour.

Chuck Gunderson: (This week) is the official anniversary of the tour starting with the Cow Palace in San Francisco. on Aug. 19.

North Shore News: I was just reading a chronology of The Beatles that year and

wow what a whirlwind.

Chuck Gunderson: What’s interesting about that is they did 34 shows, 24 cities, 26 venues in 33 days.

North Shore News: What was involved in researching your book?

Chuck Gunderson: It’s about eight years of research. I always tell people that if The Beatles toured in the social media age we would have had everything, photos galore, we would have a lot more information.

When I was researching the book I really had to dig in a lot of archives in universities, libraries and newspapers. I would be really excited when an archivist would tell me ‘We’ve located photos from the Vancouver show or whatever’ and they’d bring the folder back to the phone and say, ‘Oh I’m sorry there’s a note the photos were stolen’ or they were lost in 1974. One of the goals for the book is I wanted to have lots of photos for every stop they made during the three years and I accomplished it which was a huge task. Most of the photos in the book are previously unpublished. I went through a lot of the photographers that shot them originally and a lot of them had passed away so they’re not around. I went See Beatles page 26

Friday, August 22, 2014 - North Shore News - A21

AUSTRIAN

FINE DINING

Jagerhof Restaurant

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

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Hugos, Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas

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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.

SEAFOOD

The Observatory $$$$ www.grousemountain.com Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. | 604-998-4403 The Salmon House $$$$ www.salmonhouse.com 2229 Folkestone Way, W. Van. | 604-926-3212 Serving spectacular views & fine, indigenous west coast cuisine for over 30 years. Lunch, dinner & Sunday brunch. Live entertainment in Coho Lounge on weekend evenings.

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Pasparos Greek

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Handi Cuisine of India

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

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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.

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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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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.

The MarinaSide Grill

The Black Bear Neighbourhood Pub

www.blackbearpub.com 1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van | 604-990-8880 Voted your “Favourite Neighbourhood Pub” 17 years running. Our daily commitment provide a fun, safe, friendly eatery with 20-plus draughts. We do great food, not fast food!

Pier 7 restaurant + bar

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.

WATERFRONT DINING

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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!

www.marinasidegrill.com 1653 Columbia Street, N. Van. (Under 2nd Narrows Bridge) | 604-988-0038 Enjoy waterfront dining & extensive menu - eggs benny to burgers, popular brunches to famous prime rib, hot scallop salad, clam chowder, king crab, steaks, seafood style cordon bleu. Party rooms. Ample free parking.

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A22 - North Shore News - Friday, August 22, 2014

CALENDAR From page 17 noon-12:45 p.m.;The Grand Trine, 1-1:45 p.m.;Winsome Kind, 2-2:45 p.m.; Fowlie and Friends, 3-3:45 p.m.; and BlackberryWood, 4-4:45 p.m.

There will also be art displays and demonstrations.

EDGEMONTVILLAGE Edgemont Boulevard, North Vancouver.

Edgemont Summer Concerts: A free weekly summer concert series Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. Schedule: Aug. 22,Terminal Station. edgemontvillage.ca LONSDALE QUAY 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. lonsdalequay.com Concert Series Sundays: A free summer concert series Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m. and 3:30-5:30 p.m. on holidays.

Schedule:Aug. 24, Studio Cloud 30; and Aug. 31,Youth Showcase.

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Live in LynnValleyVillage: A free weekly summer concert series Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m.

Schedule:Aug. 22, Hot Lucy.

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Blueridge International Chamber Music Festival: A series of concerts until Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. (with the exception of Aug. 23 which is at 2 p.m.) Schedule:Aug. 23, FiveYears in the Zoo. Tickets: $20/$10. Festival pass: $50/$30. Reservations: blueridge.chamber@gmail.com or 604-779-6737.

SHIPBUILDERS’ SQUARE 15 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver.

Summer Sessions: A free weekly summer concert series Fridays from 5 to 10 p.m. until Sept. 27. northshoregreenmarket. com/ Saturday Summer Sessions: A free weekly summer concert series Saturdays from 7 to 10 p.m. Schedule:Aug. 23, HB Wild, featuring Henri Brown and Luisa Marshall’s Tina Turner tribute band and Aug. 30, March Hare.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca The JazzWaves Festival will run until Aug. 30 at 7:30 p.m. with a variety of styles

including jazz, blues, boggiewoogie, bossa-nova, R&B and more. Schedule:Aug. 23, Kate Hammett-Vaughn;Aug. 28, The Jennifer Scott Trio; and Aug. 30,The Lady Larks.

Tickets: $20.

WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY CENTRE 2121 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver.

Atrium Concert: Daniel Tones and Ed Reifel will lead participants from the 2014 Contemporary Percussion Intensive in a program of works

by Canadian and international composers Friday,Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Free.

Other events

CHAPTERS INDIGO BOOKSTORE Park Royal south mall,West Vancouver.

Book Signing: Michael Pond, author of the The Couch ofWillingness:An Alcoholic Therapist Battles the Bottle and A Broken Recovery System and Judy MacFarlane, author ofWriting with Grace: A Journey Beyond Down Syndrome will be signing books Saturday,Aug. 30 from 1 to 3 p.m.

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

Radcliffe out of his element From page 18 romantic-comedy thing: Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan certainly did a lot of talking in When Harry Met Sally, but somehow that was less irritating. Sure, it took them over a decade to get together but at least decisions were made in the interim; poor Wallace has no such gumption.That, and at least Crystal could grow a decent beard.

It’s not the supporting performances that are the problem: Spall as Ben is game enough to be pushed out of a window and take jalapeno juice in the eye before he’s shipped out of the picture; Driver owns the weird things said by his character. And though Kazan’s kewpie doll mug gets her through some of the more saccharine scenes, Radcliffe is completely out of his element as a romantic lead. It’s difficult to stay interested when our lead characters seem tired of their own game.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

Procedure helps vanquish fat NorthVan clinic is first provider in the province

ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

FASHION FILE Our weekly roundup of fashion and beauty events and activities. page 25

A North Vancouver clinic is offering a new treatment to help people literally burn off their stubborn belly fat.

RSVP Beauty Clinic’s new machine, Vanquish, the first in B.C., uses radiofrequency to heat up fat cells until they die, a natural process called apoptosis.

Dr. Giselle Villar, owner of RSVP and acting department head of obstetric anesthesia at BC Women’s Hospital, says the new technology reduces fat by killing the cells permanently.

“It was created specially for abdominal fat, for people who want to lose about one to four inches of abdominal fat,” says Villar. “It’s not for people who are morbidly obese or people who have fat that’s distributed all over the body.”

Vanquish works by selectively heating fat cells, or adipose tissue, to between approximately 44 C and 45 C, while the surrounding areas remain a few degrees cooler.

The machine does not come into direct contact with the body. Instead, the machine’s half-moon shaped arm hovers over the skin, covering an area of approximately 10 inches, or about 25 centimetres.

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The technology is based on conductivity, or how much heat accumulates within the cell, and the type of cell tissue.

“The skin and the muscle, they conduct 10 to 20 times more than the fat cells, so the heat is not going to accumulate in the skin or in the muscle,” says Villar. “If you touch the patient’s skin, it’s going to

be about 100, 101 degrees (approximately 37.9 C to 38 C) but the fat cells will go up to 120 degrees (approximately 49 C) and that heat is going to burn the cell, it’s going to destroy the cell.”

The side effects are minimal but can include skin redness and a warm sensation at the treatment site.

Patients with prior health conditions, including heart disease and diabetes, can use the machine, but Villar says people with pacemakers or any other metal in the body

cannot, though some types of orthopedic replacements might be OK. “It’s non-invasive, there’s no down time, it’s completely painless,” she says. “The only feeling that the patient feels is a warm feeling, like a warm blanket or a heating pad.”

According to the Mayo Clinic’s website, socalled “belly fat” is made up of two types of fat, subcutaneous and visceral.

Subcutaneous is more cosmetic, while visceral, an inter-abdominal fat that surrounds the organs, can be dangerous.

Dr. Ali Zentner, a specialist in internal medicine and obesity, says these types of treatments are truly esthetic procedures.

“Any kind of subcutaneous fat removal does not offer metabolic benefits of actual weight loss,” says Zentner. “So physically removing fat from the body, whether it’s by a plastic surgery or a liposuction or a laser, doesn’t offer the metabolic benefits of actual weight loss.”

See Treatment page 25

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through every archive and depository I thought would have photos from the tours.

I left no stone unturned so to speak.

North Shore News: A lot of the film footage you can see onYouTube looks like Second World War coverage, Pathé newsreels and stuff from another era.

Chuck Gunderson: Exactly.

North Shore News: Did The Beatles know what to expect from that first tour of North America? They were big in the U.K. Ed Sullivan gave them a taste but still it must have been quite a shock in August ’64 when they landed in California.

Chuck Gunderson: You have to remember when they were playing concerts in the U.K. they were playing to an average of 2,500 to 3,500 fans.The largest number was 8,000 people at the Empire Pool in Wembley.

They started this world tour before they came to America and they went down to Australia and they played to 12,000 people which at that time was the biggest but when they came to America it busted open.

The first show at the Cow Palace had 17,000 people.

What’s interesting, in the tour planning before The Beatles even got here, Brian Epstein was offered some incredible venues in size — one of them Fenway Park 30,000 people,Tiger Stadium 50,000 people. He was even offered the L.A. Coliseum 80,000 people — Brian doesn’t get a lot of credit for this but he could have gone for broke and tried to milk as much money out of the tour as possible but he did it a different way.What he did was really smart — he booked average size venues, sports arenas, outdoor amphitheatres.

What he wanted to do was sell out the tour obviously but he also wanted the fans hungering for more when they came back in ’65.The average size venue on the ’64 tour was 17,000 people.

North Shore News: The ’64 North American tour has been described as the first rock’n’roll tour. Elvis had already played stadiums — what was the difference in ’64?.

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played stadiums, he played the Cotton Bowl and things like that. I think the difference in ’64 was the modern-day rock touring industry was invented during The Beatles tour.

No one had ever done a tour of that scale and playing venues of that size night after night. Brian Epstein kind of invented things as they went along.

Of course he had help from a NewYork talent agency called General Artists Corporation that helped him book the tour.The tour riders back then were archaic compared to now.

Rock stars today want this, they want that, they want this kind of water. All The Beatles wanted back in 1964 were four army cots, a couple of cases of cold Coca-Cola, some clean towels and that was about it.

North Shore News: Airplanes and airports play a big part in visual documentation of the tour.

Chuck Gunderson: From London back to London in the 33 days they travelled over 22,000 miles.When booking the tour I think Brian Epstein thought the United States was the size of the U.K. It was a really haphazard journey they took.Thy started out west, went up north, then down south, back up north, across the country. It was really strange when you look at

the overall tour.They put in a lot of miles on that tour.

North Shore News: Epstein seems to have been in total control of what was going on. He even agreed to add a show in Kansas City on an off day near the end of the tour.

Chuck Gunderson: They really relished their days off because they didn’t have a lot of days off. A businessman in Kansas City, Charlie O. Finley, just didn’t want to give up. He met Brian Epstein at the very start of the tour in San Francisco and he offered them $60,000, which was about twice what they got at the Hollywood Bowl. It was a great offer but Epstein said ‘I’m sorry Mr. Finley but the tour is booked.’ He met him again in L.A. and offered him $100,000 and Brian said, ‘No I’m sorry the tour’s booked.’ Finley said ‘OK, I’m going to make you one more offer’ and he wrote out a check for $150,000 which was five times over the amount that they were getting.The big stars of the day, such as Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland were getting about 10 to 15,000 dollars a night, so when The Beatles came Epstein had heard about these guarantees and he told the NewYork talent agency ‘When you go book my boys I want you to ask for double.’That was pretty

ballsy at that time.They were getting guarantees of $25,000, $30,000, $40,000 so when Finley came in at $150,000 they just couldn’t say no. It was the largest guarantee in entertainment history up to that point.

Break down over a 30minute show that’s close to $5,000 a minute.

North Shore News: On the ’64 tour the setlist didn’t vary much. John would open with ‘Twist and Shout’ and Paul would close with ‘Long Tall Sally.’

Chuck Gunderson: That’s right.They would do the same 12 songs every night.

In a couple of cities they added a song or two — in Las Vegas they added “Till There WasYou.” Charlie Finley actually asked them if they could extend the set considering he was paying them $150,000 and in true John Lennon fashion he looked up at him and said ‘Chuck I’m sorry we only do 12.’

North Shore News: In Vancouver their time was very brief. Apparently they came in and drove around before the show and afterwards they headed straight off to Los Angeles.

Chuck Gunderson: Vancouver was known as a drop-in date but actually in the beginning they had actually scheduled to stay there.They were going to

stay at the Hotel Georgia.

Peter Hudson, general manager of the Hotel Georgia, had seen the chaos all over the world where The Beatles stayed and he literally spent weeks fortifying his hotel. He put plywood up at certain entrances, barbed wire on fire escape ladders.

He wanted to be prepared when The Beatles came.

They had to cancel their reservation and the reason for that was they had to play Seattle the night before and when they left SeaTac to come up to Vancouver half way into the flight the customs officials radioed the airplane and said, ‘Listen you didn’t get the customs forms filled out properly.

You’re going into another country so you better turn around we need to get these custom forms done.’They had to go back to Seattle and do the customs work and then fly to Vancouver so they are running late already.

They land in Vancouver, they get in the cars to travel to Empire Stadium and they were hungry so they stopped at King’s Drive-In and they got hamburgers and milkshakes for the road.

When they finally got to Empire Stadium the press had been waiting and they were kind of put off.The Beatles had been late so they got there, did the press conference and then they did the concert in front of 20,000 fans.They caught a

plane that night and headed back to L.A. North Shore News: The other acts on the bill included Jackie DeShannon.

Chuck Gunderson: They had the same support acts for each stop on the ’64 tour.They would open up with the Bill Black Combo.

Bill Black wasn’t actually on the tour he was sick at the time and he had to be replaced. Bill Black used to be Elvis’ bass player.They stayed on stage and they were the instrumental part of the next support acts.

The next ones to come out were The Exciters, they had a big hit called ‘Tell Him’ back then, after that were The Righteous Brothers and then Jackie DeShannon came on. It was about a two hour show and when The Beatles came on they played 30 minutes and it was over. Another interesting thing about Vancouver is Empire Stadium was the first outdoor show The Beatles had ever played in North America and it was a stadium. It wasn’t as big as Shea Stadium but it was still a stadium.

North Shore News: It must have been one long blur for the band — was there anything that stood out from the chaos?

Chuck Gunderson: Well number one they made over one million dollars in advances which was incredible for that time.The tour was record-breaking, it was precedent-setting and it was money-making.The Beatles broke new ground on the ’64 tour.

North Shore News: The ’65 tour they went even bigger.

Chuck Gunderson: Because of the demand for tickets Brian Epstein decided to book bigger venues and if they came to an arena they would do two shows.They would do an afternoon show and an evening show which rock’n’roll artists do not do today.They did half as many shows as they did in ’64 but made as much or more money.

— Red Robinson, the original MC of The Beatles show at Empire Stadium in 1964, hosts the 50th anniversary of their appearance at the PNE tonight with Beatles tribute band Revolver performing at 7:30 and 9 p.m. For more information visit pne.ca.

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Tesla cranks warranty up to infinity Tesla upgrades warranty to cover infinite miles You know Martin Prince, that insufferable know-itall kid from The Simpsons?

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Instead of building a secret lair in a hollowedout volcano, as would any rational human being with

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The Model S is properly excellent, and the upcoming SUV will likely be as well.

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While the BMWs and Mercedes that the Model S goes up against aren’t exactly paragons of reliability either, let’s just say that an infinite-mile powertrain warranty isn’t as crazy as it might seem. And say, if it was a secret volcano lair, we wouldn’t know about it. Hmmm. . . .

Chevy Corvette tattles on valets One of the most expensive machines to cross the block at this year’s Gooding & Company auction was a bright red Ferrari 250 California Spider. It sold for $15.18 Million (ouch), and if you remember the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that’s some pretty expensive sheetmetal to hand over to a valet.

However, Chevy’s got your back here, at least if you elect to go for a considerably less-expensive 2015 Corvette Stingray.

As part of their High Performance Data Recorder system — front camera and cabin microphone — they now offer a valet mode which does a number of interesting things.

First, entering the code locks out the on-board audio and navigation, and also locks all internal storage.That just makes sense.

Next, it also activates the forward-facing camera, which ordinarily is intended to capture trackday heroics, and displays through Gmetres and so forth just what your car’s been up to while you’re lunching at the buffet.What’s this bit where the car went airborne? I’m going to need to speak to a manager.

A Hellcat for everything The specs on the expected Hellcat Charger are out, and they are phenomenal. For a family sedan to produce these figures is just ridiculous, let alone a four-door Dodge in a time when gasoline is ever more expensive and everybody else seems to be focusing on hybrid technology.

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of 328 kilometres per hour (204 miles per hour).That’s faster than an F40.That’s faster than a lot of stuff.

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With the development costs of the Hellcat supercharged V-8 already paid for, where else might we see this mighty motor?

Remember, Chrysler’s the company that put their turbo four-cylinder engines in everything including a manual-transmission minivan — might we see a Hellcatized Caravan? Oh, that’s a terrible idea. I really hope it happens.

Too young for a driver’s licence, headed for Formula One At the tender age of 16, Max Verstappen will not be allowed to legally operate a motor vehicle in his native Netherlands for two more years. However, he just got handed the keys to a Formula One racecar.

The Toro Rosso team has just confirmed Verstappen’s seat for next season’s racing calendar, making him the youngestever driver to compete.

It’s a move that’s likely to ruffle a few feathers, but with both Lewis Hamilton and Sebastien Vettel also joining F1 early, and having tremendous success, the young Dutchman certainly has a shot at proving himself at the highest level of racing.

If ever there was refutation of the idea that millennials aren’t interested in cars, here it is. Some kids still dream of growing up to be racecar drivers. And some of those dreams come true.

Watch this space for all the week’s best and worst of automotive news, or submit your own auto oddities to mcaleer.nsnews@gmail.com Follow brendan on Twitter at @brendan_mcaleer

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From page 32

18-inch alloys tend to say the most about this car’s sporting intent, but the rest is a collection of performance hints, rather than shouty plumage. If you’d prefer to fly under the radar, this is that sort of car.

Environment Inside the GTI, we find much the same story. No red seatbelts or endless swaths of tacked-on carbon-fibre trim here: just an all-black interior that’s a little too austere, if anything.

The steering wheel is the best-looking one this side of a Porsche Macan Turbo, a flat-bottomed, hefty helm with metallic spokes, and a GTI badge worked into the metal.

The rest of the cabin now cants towards the driver like a 1980s BMW (in a good way), the red-stitched seats are comfortable and well-bolstered, and there’s a more modern looking touchscreen for audio and navigation functions.

There’s also quite a lot of room for a car that debuted as the performance version of the tiny little Rabbit. The trunk space is larger than that of a WRX sedan to start with, and then the split-folding rear seats and pass-through come into play to create an evenmore-flexible cargo area.

Or, leave it all buttoned up, and fit a rear-facing child seat or four adults with ease.

Performance But that’s just the level of practicality that makes the regular Golf such a hot seller overseas. Built on the bones of a European family car, the GTI also needs a bit of steam for when its driver is alone on some winding back road.

That shove comes from a familiar powerplant: a 2.0-litre four-cylinder featuring direct injection and turbocharging. Here, redesigned to incorporate the exhaust manifold directly into the head, it makes 210 horsepower at 4,500 r.p.m. (not much of

See GTI page 37

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*Offer available to all qualified retail customers who lease or finance (and take delivery) of a new 2014 Versa Note/Sentra/Altima/Rogue/Pathfinder/Titan models on approved credit, through Nissan Canada Finance from a participating Nissan retailer in Canada between Aug.1-Sept. 2, 2014. Not available for cash purchase buyers. 1$750 Bonus Cash applicable to customers who lease or finance any new 2014 Versa Note/Sentra/Altima/Rogue/Pathfinder/Titan models through Nissan Canada Finance on approved credit on units in stock. The $750 additional Cash Bonus will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Offer available for qualified customers only. Offer available from Aug.1-Sept. 2, 2014 inclusively. Offer not available for cash purchase buyers. Conditions apply. Qualifying customers must be approved to lease or finance through Nissan Canada Finance. 2First four (4) semi-monthly lease payments and first four (4) bi-weekly finance payments of a new 2014 Versa Note/Sentra/Altima/Rogue/Pathfinder/Titan (including all taxes) will be waived, up to a maximum of $750/$750/$900/$900/$1,200/$1,200 for the 2 months or 4 semi-monthly/bi-weekly payments. Consumer is responsible for any and all amounts in excess of $750/$750/$900/$900/$1,200/$1,200 (inclusive of taxes). After four (4) semi-monthly/bi-weekly payments, consumer will be required to make all remaining regularly scheduled payments over the remaining term of the contract. This offer is applicable to NCF contracts only. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. 3No charge extended warranty is valid for up to 60 months or 100,000 km (whichever occurs first) from the warranty start date and zero (0) kilometers. Some conditions/limitations apply. The no charge extended warranty is the Nissan Added Security Plan (“ASP”) and is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (“NCESI”). In all provinces NCESI is the obligor. NCESI offers a Gold and Platinum level of coverage. This offer includes the Gold level of coverage, be sure to see your local Dealer to identify the difference in coverage from a Gold to the Platinum level. Retail value of added security plan based on MSRP. $1,440/$1,380/$1,380 for a new 2014 Nissan Sentra/2014 Versa Note/2015 Micra®. Dealers are free to set individual prices. ††CASH DISCOUNT: Get $2,500/$1,850 cash discount on the cash purchase of any new 2014 Sentra models (except Sentra 1.8 S MT, C4LG54 AA00)/2014 Versa Note models (except 1.6 S MT, B5RG54 AA00). The cash discount is based on non-stackable trading dollars when registered and delivered between Aug.1-Sept.2, 2014.

The cash discount is only available on the cash purchase, will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance rates. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Conditions apply. ≠XRepresentative semi-monthly lease offer based on new 2014 Sentra 1.8 S MT (C4LG54 AA00), M6 transmission. 0% lease APR for a 39 month term equals 78 semi-monthly payments of $59 with $0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First semi-monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Prices and payments include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $4,607. $2,100 NCF Lease Cash, $300 in dealer contribution and $750 Bonus Cash from the My Nissan My Choice program included in advertised lease offer, applicable only on 2014 Sentra 1.8 S MT (C4LG54 AA00), M6 transmission through subvented lease through Nissan Canada Finance. This offer is only valid from Aug. 15 – Sept. 2, 2014, and to customers who whose the $750 Cash Bonus from the My Nissan My Choice program. Conditions apply. ±Representative finance offer based on a new 2014 Versa Note 1.6 S (B5RG54 AA00) manual transmission. Selling Price is $14,165 financed at 0% APR equals 182 bi-weekly payments of $74 for an 84 month term. $1,499 down payment required. Cost of borrowing is $0 for a total obligation of $14,165. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Conditions apply. ≠MSRP starting from $9,998/$15,748 for a 2015 Nissan Micra® 1.6 S (S5LG55 AA00), Manual Transmission/2015 Micra 1.6 SR (S5SG55 AA00), manual transmission excluding Freight and PDE charges and specific duties of new tires. ◆11,398 Selling Price for a new 2015 Micra® 1.6 S (S5LG55 AA00), Manual Transmission. Conditions apply. ▲ Models shown $25,765/$20,585/$17,148 Selling Price for a new 2014 Sentra 1.8 SL (C4TG14 AA00), CVT transmission/Versa Note 1.6 SL Tech (B5TG14 NA00), Xtronic CVT® transmission/2015 Micra® 1.6 SR (S5SG55 AA00), Manual Transmission. ◆±≠▲Freight and PDE charges ($1,567/$1,567/$1,400), air-conditioning levy ($100) where applicable, applicable fees (all which may vary by region), manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Retailers are free to set individual prices. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. Offers, prices and features subject to change without notice. Offers valid between Aug.1 – Sept 2. #Offer is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (NCESI) and applies to new 2014 Nissan Sentra models (each, an “Eligible Model”) leased and registered through Nissan Canada Finance Services Inc., on approved credit, between Aug.1-Sept 2, 2014 from an authorized Nissan retailer in Canada.

Offer recipient will be entitled to receive a maximum of six (6) service visits (each, a “Service Visit”) for the Eligible Vehicle – where each Service Visit consists of one (1) oil change (using conventional 5W30 motor oil) and one (1) tire rotation service (each, an “Eligible Service”). All Eligible Services will be conducted in strict accordance with the Oil Change and Tire Rotation Plan outline in the Agreement Booklet for the Eligible Vehicle. The service period (“Service Period”) will commence on the lease transaction date (“Transaction Date”) and will expire on the earlier of: (i) the date on which the maximum number of Service Visits has been reached; (ii) 36 months from the Transaction Date; or (iii) when the Eligible Vehicle has reached 48,000 kilometers. All Eligible Services must be completed during the Service Period, otherwise they will be forfeited. The Offer may be upgraded to use premium oil at the recipient’s expense. The Eligible Services are not designed to meet all requirements and specifications necessary to maintain the Eligible Vehicle. To see the complete list of maintenance necessary, please refer to the Service Maintenance Guide. Any additional services required are not covered by the Offer and are the sole responsibility and cost of the recipient. Offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain offers NCESI reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Additional conditions and limitations apply. Ask your retailer for details. °Nissan is the fastest growing brand in the non-luxury segment based on comparison of 12-month retail sales from July 2013 to June 2014 of all Canadian automotive brands and 12-month averages sales growth. †Based on GAC (AIAMC) Compact segmentation. All information compiled from third-party sources, including AutoData and manufacturer websites. July 30, 2014. ^Based on 2014 Canadian Residual Value Award in Subcompact Car segment. ALG is the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, www.alg.com. +Based on GAC (AIAMC) Compact segmentation. All information complied from NR Can Fuel Economy data and third-party sources, including manufacturer websites. Gasoline engines only, excludes hybrids, diesels and electric vehicles. July 30, 2014. iPod® is a registered trademark of Apple Inc. All rights reserved. iPod® not included. Offers subject to change, continuation or cancellation without notice. Offers have no cash alternative value. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. ©1998-2014 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc.

Friday, August 22, 2014 - North Shore News - A35

A36 - North Shore News - Friday, August 22, 2014

TODAY’S DRIVE

Harbourside Show and Shine set for Sunday muscle cars and everything in between.

The event is open to the public and admission is free.

Those interested in showing off their rides should arrive between 12 and 12:30 p.m. to be positioned for the exhibit.

There are no vehicle registration fees.

For more information visit harboursideshowandshine. com.

Star cars are ready to go on display Sunday in the largest annual, multi-car show on the North Shore.

The 13th annual Harbourside Show and Shine will run from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the foot of Fell Avenue, south of the Northshore Auto Mall.

Nearly every type of vehicle imaginable will be on display ranging from hot rods and custom builts, antiques and classics, sports cars, racing cars, BUY ONE, GET ONE

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*Offer available to all qualified retail customers who lease or finance (and take delivery) of a new Rogue model on approved credit, through Nissan Canada Finance from a participating Nissan retailer in Canada between Aug.1-Sept. 2, 2014. Not available for cash purchase buyers. 1$750 Bonus Cash applicable to customers who lease or finance any new 2014 Versa Note/Sentra/Pathfinder/Rogue/ Titan models through Nissan Canada Finance on approved credit on units in stock. The $750 additional Cash Bonus consists of $750 NCF cash and will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Offer available for qualified customers only. Offer available from Aug.1-Sept. 2, 2014 inclusively. Offer not available for cash purchase buyers. Conditions apply. Qualifying customers must be approved to lease or finance through Nissan Canada Finance. 2First four (4) semi-monthly lease payments and first four (4) bi-weekly finance payments of a new 2014 Rogue/Pathfinder/Titan (including all taxes) will be waived, up to a maximum of $900 for the 2 months or 4 semi-monthly payments. Consumer is responsible for any and all amounts in excess of $900 (inclusive of taxes). After four (4) semi-monthly payments, consumer will be required to make all remaining regularly scheduled payments over the remaining term of the contract. This offer is applicable to NCF contracts only. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. 3No charge extended warranty is valid for up to 60 months or 100,000 km (whichever occurs first) from the warranty start date and zero (0) kilometers.

Some conditions/limitations apply. The no charge extended warranty is the Nissan Added Security Plan (“ASP”) and is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (“NCESI”). In all provinces NCESI is the obligor. NCESI offers a Gold and Platinum level of coverage. This offer includes the Gold level of coverage, be sure to see your local Dealer to identify the difference in coverage from a Gold to the Platinum level. ≠Representative semi-monthly lease offer based on new 2014 Rogue S FWD (Y6RG14 AA00), CVT transmission. 2.99% lease APR for a 60 month term equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $139 with $0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First semi-monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Prices include freight and fees.

Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $25,128. Models shown $32,628 Selling price for a new 2014 Rogue SL AWD Premium model (Y6DG14 BK00), CVT transmission. ≠ Freight and PDE charges ($1,630), air-conditioning levy ($100) where applicable, certain provincial fees, manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Retailers are free to set individual prices. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. Offers, prices and features subject to change without notice. Offers valid between Aug.1-Sept. 2, 2014. °Nissan is the fastest growing brand in the non-luxury segment based on comparison of 12-month retail sales from June 2013 to June 2014 of all Canadian automotive brands and 12-month averages sales growth. Based on 2014 Canadian Residual Value Award in Subcompact Car segment. ALG is the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, www.alg.com. XAll information compiled from third-party sources including manufacturer websites. Not responsible for errors in data on third party websites. Offers subject to change, continuation or cancellation without notice. Offers have no cash alternative value. Visit North Vancouver Nissan or www.northvancouvernissan.ca for details. ©1998-2014 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc.

Friday, August 22, 2014 - North Shore News - A37

TODAY’S DRIVE

GTI ready to grip and rip winding roads From page 35

a bump there), and 258 foot-pounds of torque at just 1,600 r.p.m.

That’s an extra 50 footpounds of low end grunt over last year’s model, and it makes the GTI much more tractable and willing at street speeds to haul itself out of a corner or down an onramp with gumption. High-revving engines are fun too, but as a quick point-to-point car, the GTI’s new engine provides real-world speed without looking like you’re pulling a Vin Diesel.

Grip is simply excellent, although later-release cars will be available with even more, thanks to a Performance Package that includes a true front differential, larger brakes, and a slight bump in horsepower. As it is, the GTI handles with aplomb, albeit with a little less feedback from the steering than in past hydraulically assisted systems.

Transmission choices include either a six-speed manual, which is far and away the most fun, or a six-speed dual-clutch automatic that does a good

job in still giving the driver control while purring away happily in traffic.

As always, the GTI proves itself a jack-of-alltrades, tackling stop and go traffic with good sightlines

and a comfortable ride, hitting up the highway with relatively little windnoise, and then tackling a winding backroad with scrappy handling and a nose-full of boost.

Essentially, it does everything you ask of it.

The only real caveat here is that the GTI might be a little too competent to be characterful. Like the current-gen 911, it’s so

polished as to not have any of the rough edges that can make you fall in love with a car.

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until September 2, 2014. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on toyotabc.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. 2014 RAV4 Base FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A MSRP is $25,685 and includes $1,815 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. *Lease example: 2.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $123 with $2850 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $17,610. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. **Finance example: 0.9% finance for 60 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 RAV4 FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A. Applicable taxes are extra. ***Up to $1500 Non-Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 RAV4 models. No cash back available on 2014 RAV4 Base FWD LE Automatic. 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A MSRP is $17,540 and includes $1,545 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, and battery levy. †Lease example: 2014 Corolla CE 6M with a vehicle price of $16,840 (includes $700 Toyota Canada Lease Assist, which is deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes, and $1,545 freight/PDI) leased at 0.9% over 60 months with $0 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $85 with a total lease obligation of $10,900. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. ††Finance example: 0.9% finance for 60 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A. Applicable taxes are extra. 2014 Tacoma Double Cab V6 5A SR5 Power Package 4x4 Automatic MU4FNA-B MSRP is $35,660 and includes $1,815 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. ‡Lease example: 3.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $165 with $4,900 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $24,640. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. ‡‡Finance example: 0.9% finance for 48 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Tacoma Double Cab V6 5A Power Package 4x4 Automatic MU4FNA-B. Applicable taxes are extra. ‡‡‡Up to $1000 Non-Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 Tacoma models. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. Non-stackable Cash Back offers may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be able to take advantage of Cash Customer Incentives. Vehicle must be purchased, registered and delivered by September 2, 2014. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. †††Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 24, 36, 48 and 60 month leases of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. First semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. Toyota Financial Services will waive the final payment. Semi-monthly lease offer can be combined with most other offers excluding the First Payment Free and Encore offers. First Payment Free offer is valid for eligible TFS Lease Renewal customers only. Toyota semi-monthly lease program based on 24 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 120 payments, with the final 120th payment waived by Toyota Financial Services. Competitive bi-weekly lease programs based on 26 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 130 payments. Not open to employees of Toyota Canada, Toyota Financial Services or TMMC/TMMC Vehicle Purchase Plan. Some conditions apply. See your Toyota dealer for complete details. Visit your Toyota BC Dealer or www.toyotabc.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less.

A38 - North Shore News - Friday, August 22, 2014

TODAY’S DRIVE

Hot hatchback rivals less practical, more colourful than GTI From page 37

just compared a family hatchback to a Porsche 911 twice. Enough said.

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JIM PATTISON TOYOTA NORTH SHORE 849 Auto Mall Drive (604) 985-0591

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JIM PATTISON TOYOTA SURREY 15389 Guildford Drive (604) 495-4100

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LANGLEY TOYOTATOWN LANGLEY 20622 Langley Bypass (604) 530-3156

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OPENROAD TOYOTA PORT MOODY 3166 St. John’s Street (604) 461-3656

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PEACE ARCH TOYOTA SOUTH SURREY 3174 King George Highway (604) 531-2916

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REGENCY TOYOTA VANCOUVER 401 Kingsway (604) 879-8411

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Features For launch, VW Canada has requisitioned a batch of GTI’s that are fairly pricey, but very loaded.

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SUNRISE TOYOTA ABBOTSFORD Fraser Valley Auto Mall (604) 857-2657

WEST COAST TOYOTA PITT MEADOWS 19950 Lougheed Highway (866) 910-9543

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VALLEY TOYOTA CHILLIWACK 8750 Young Road (604) 792-1167

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SQUAMISH TOYOTA SQUAMISH 39150 Queens Way (604) 567-8888

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climate control, and a giant panoramic sunroof are all standard. Leather seating and a 5.8-inch touchscreen satellite navigation are optional.

Fuel economy is rated at 9.5 litres/100 kilometres in the city and 7.2 l/100 km on the highway for the DSG automatic, and slightly better for the manual. Surprisingly, and perhaps the cherry on top, is that the GTI will actually hit these mileage targets even if driven with a bit of spirit. Premium is recommended, of course.

Green light Usable cargo space; excellent dynamics; refined ride and polished interior; strong, efficient engine.

Stop sign Somewhat small touchscreen; more refined than out-and-out fun; options can drive up price.

The checkered flag

The king of the hothatchbacks is back on the throne.

Competitor Ford Fiesta ST ($24,599) While it’s technically a segment below the GTI as a subcompact, it could be argued that the Fiesta ST is the VW’s biggest rival in terms of original intent.

Where the GTI feels planted, solid, refined, the ST feels snappy and jumpy and a little frantic.

And, in a scrappy little compact terror, isn’t that what you want? While the Ford’s Recaro seats are outrageously overbolstered, and its interior space considerably less than the GTI’s, it’s simply a hoot to drive, every single time.

However, with a sixspeed manual the only offering available, it’s a bit less practical all around.

More fun, but less practical — your call! mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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