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Hopes were lowThursday that a quick settlement to the teachers’ strike is in the offing after both sides in the dispute held news conferences this week blaming the other for refusing to budge on crucial issues.

North Vancouver social studies teacher Norm Nichols said the duelling press events didn’t give him a lot of optimism.

“I don’t see the schools are going to be open until October,” he said.

“Hopefully I’m wrong this time.”

Addressing the teachers strike directly for the first time since schools failed to open Sept. 2, Premier Christy Clark said Wednesday there are “no easy fixes and no short cuts,” to resolving the dispute.

“There’s no magic wand,” she said.

Clark called on the teachers’ union to suspend the strike and “come to the table with a proposal that’s realistic,” saying the union needs to get into the “affordability zone” similar to deals negotiated with other public sector unions.

She said she wants to see salaries negotiated before the two sides talk about classroom size and composition.

A short time later, B.C.Teachers Federation President Jim Iker blamed the government for the

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“It’s not about our members continually giving while government takes,” said Iker.

Iker pointed out the province has the money to put a new roof on BC Place stadium but still maintains there is no cash See Student page 9

District to buy Keith Lynn school site BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The shuttered Keith Lynn alternative secondary site is on its way to becoming a new highway offramp — part of a larger project aiming to reduce congestion in one of the most traffic snarled areas of the North Shore.

The District of North

Vancouver has inked a $5-million dollar deal to buy the property from the North Vancouver school district, which has the money pegged to fund a rebuild of Argyle secondary.

The school district was previously looking to sell the land to North Shore Studios but the municipality intervened, warning the land would

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have limited development potential and would likely be targeted for expropriation for a redesign of the interchanges north of the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, according to David Stuart, District of North Vancouver chief administrative officer.

The municipality has been working with the province for the last

two years on a plan to separate bridge traffic from people simply trying to cross the highway. Part of that project includes a Highway 1 off-ramp through the Keith Lynn property connected to Keith Road, which is in the process of being widened and connected See Site page 5

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Four homeless after fires Marine Drive businesses, Moodyville home damaged in two separate incidents

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BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Two North Vancouver structure fires have left at least four people out of home and three businesses shuttered in 24 hours.

The first broke out on a two-storey mixed-use building on the 1600-block of Marine Drive just after 7 p.m. Tuesday.

District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services and North Vancouver City Fire Department members both responded.

“The crews did a great job aggressively attacking the fire, getting it under control,” said assistant district fire chief Jason De Roy. “Initially, the residents were all unaccounted for. They were able to confirm once they searched that they were all out.”

The businesses — a piano store, Oriental rug store and a surveillance equipment store — all suffered fire damage. The three upstairs apartments took enough smoke damage to make them uninhabitable for the time being.

As of Thursday, the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

“It appears it started possibly in the basement area but exactly what the cause is is unconfirmed,”

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The two departments were working together again first thing Wednesday morning when a resident on the 700-block of Third Street called 9-1-1 reporting smoke and flames coming from a neighbour’s home.

By the time the crews arrived, the fire had done considerable damage to the laundry room and common area while heat and smoke damaged the rest of the first and second floor of the 70-yearold home, according to assistant city fire chief Bob Schreiner.

It will be up to

investigators to determine if the building is salvageable, he added.

Schreiner said the homeowner, who was alone at the time, made the right decision to get out quickly, ask a neighbour to call for help and then stay out. Fires tend to spread quickly in homes with open concepts, he said.

“As distraught as the person was, they absolutely did the right thing in getting out. People often think ‘I’ll make a quick play for the family heirlooms or the treasures’ and in my history, I’ve seen that go bad. Real bad,” Schreiner said. “People

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Unite North Van, says mayoral candidate BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A second challenger has stepped forward aiming to wrest the mayor’s chain of office in the City of North Vancouver.

George Pringle, a council watcher and blogger who ran in 2011, issued a press release last week declaring his campaign.

Pringle said he is running to provide an alternative for voters who don’t support the incumbent, Mayor Darrell Mussatto, nor

W. Van police salaries dip in 2013

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who battle weekly on how to spend more of our taxpayer dollars,” he

said in his release. “I will be running with a party name, Amalgamate North Van right on the ballot to inform voters clearly the most important issue to me. A vote for George Pringle is a vote for a binding referendum on a detailed amalgamation plan devised by the citizens.”

Outside of kickstarting the amalgamation process, Pringle said he wants to turn the city-owned Lonsdale Energy Corp. into a city department, making it more transparent and subject

to freedom of information laws.

He also wants to create a “rest from development” by proposing a ban on any developments taller than six storeys.

Pringle said, as mayor, he’d reduce his salary by $20,000, eliminate the mayor’s car allowance and donate any stipends he receives for attending Metro Vancouver meetings.

British Columbians will go to the polls on Nov. 15 to elect local government representatives for fouryear terms.

Most prices are rising but the cost of policing in WestVancouver may have dropped last year over 2012.

West Vancouver’s police officers who earn $75,000 or more received a total of $8.2 million in 2013, or $133,000 less than in 2012.

The number of officers making more than $100,000 also dipped, with 49 officers making six figures in 2012 compared to 41 in 2013.

The change may be caused by “accounting differences,” according to department spokesman Const. Jeff Palmer, who explained that an officer getting his salary through the Workers’ Compensation Board wouldn’t show up in the books.

Former Chief Constable Peter Lepine was the top wage earner for both 2012 and 2013, earning $193,000.

Lepine retired earlier this year and was replaced by former Abbotsford Police Department Chief Constable Len Goerke, who took over Aug. 5.

Insp. Michael Rattray, who resigned shortly after Lepine, following a 35-year career in law enforcement, earned $161,000 in 2013.

Both departures were preceded by an internal report that pointed to dissatisfaction by police officers and civilian employees with senior management at the department.

Expenses claimed by officers who earn $75,000 or more dipped by $10,000 in 2013, going from $118,640 in 2012 to $108,601. Most of that drop is attributable to Lepine, who claimed $16,687 in 2012. He claimed less than half that amount ($8,225) in 2013.

Most expenses go towards attending training sessions or conferences outside the department, according to Palmer.

Expenses varied wildly in 2013, with one constable claiming $2,479 in expenses and another claiming $4.05.

“Every expense is captured,” Palmer said.

Re-certification training, which is done within the department, is not included See Crime page 11

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“We know about 39 per cent of the vehicles coming down the Cut just want to go east-west. They don’t want to cross the bridge,’ Joyce said. “If you can take me out of the lineup, you’re going to get to the bridge quicker.”

Engineers are still studying the property to determine exactly what the new ramp will look like and where it will meet up with Keith Road, as well as what else may fit on the land. One of the considerations is a new combined fire hall and training facility to replace the Lynnmour fire hall on lower Mountain Highway at Hunter Street and the training and maintenance facility on St. Denis Street. Both of those neighbourhoods are in midst of residential redevelopment.

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“What we need to do is finalize the design from a technical standpoint so we can go to the community and say ‘Does that work for you? Are there suggestions you have?’” Stuart said.

Any decision about what happens with the land will have to get council approval. The total cost of the highway project is expected to be $140 million, though that would be shared with the province

and federal government, Stuart said.

The Keith Lynn site may offer operational and financial efficiencies for the fire department, said district fire chief Victor Penman, but we are still a long way from knowing if the site is even feasible.

“The opportunity may not present itself to do that but we think that would make a lot of sense.

We’re always evaluating sites with that lens,” Penman said.

The International Association of Firefighters local 1168, meanwhile, is warning the move could result in the department losing its ability to maintain its trucks in-house, resulting in expensive outsourcing.

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lthough those of us in the media are generally loathe to agree, there’s something to be said for media blackouts. Particularly when tense and complicated negotiations are at stake. It’s one of those circumstances in which no news is actually good news.

Reasons for media blackouts are well known in labour circles. By blabbing in public about your position, especially when being asked pointed questions, it’s easy to talk yourself into a corner that’s difficult to get out of at the bargaining table.

Bargaining thrives on give and take.

And also on wiggle room.That’s why people like veteran mediator Vince Ready demand blackouts when they’re at the table.This week’s duelling news conferences by the premier and the teachers’ union president amply demonstrate why bargaining in public

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isn’t likely to bring about a happy ending.

Both events appeared mostly about each side firing shots at the other and further entrenching positions. Eventually the public relations battle devolved into a discussion of how many massages should be included in health benefits.

Meanwhile, kids are still out of school.

Of the two sides engaged in the recent media skirmish, the province has to take more of the blame. Education Minister Peter Fassbender practically went on tour to sell the government’s position and anger teachers.

But the union doesn’t come out of this week smelling like roses either. BCTF president Jim Iker appeared to realize that near the end of his event when he said, “Maybe we’re in the media too much. Maybe we should be bargaining instead of being out here.”

Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

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Union oversteps its mandate Dear Editor: Why did the government tear up the existing collective agreement over a decade ago?

Were they mean spirited? Do they dislike children? Did they not think of the legal implications? I think not.

I believe they tore up the collective agreement because the clauses relating to class size and composition made schools extremely difficult to organize and annually wasted millions of dollars.

I believe the basic issue in the current dispute is, “who runs the B.C. educational system?”

This round of bargaining is about power and not about education. The

BCTF wants to manage the school system through the terms of the collective agreement. This is wrong!

It is a classic example of the inmates running the asylum. It is the people of the province, through the elected government and its employees who have both the responsibility and the accountability to deliver quality public education in the province.

The BCTF seeks to manage education in the province using terms of a collective agreement. Certainly, relaying countless stories about conditions in various classrooms gains public support. This is an easier message for the public to accept than demanding higher

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salaries and enhancing working conditions. The tactic moves the public to empathize with the BCTF while believing the BCTF’s focus is on the students.

However, the BCTF’s mandate, like other unions, is singularly to better the welfare of its membership.

In any other union jurisdiction class size and composition clauses would be counted as job creation clauses.

In spite of the unions mandate it appears the BCTF wants the public to believe that the BCTF is the only party capable of managing the educational system. However, in order to manage the system they also must be accountable both for the outcomes and for the funding required.

This is not within a union’s mandate. Conversely, the government is accountable for the quality of the educational system and the fiscal management of that system.

If class size and composition is removed from the bargaining table I believe a settlement to the current dispute will follow quickly. A collective agreement void of class size and composition restrictions is required.

Once in place taxpayers must hold the government accountable for the quality of education and for the fiscal management of the system in B.C. Paul Killeen North Vancouver NVSD44 assistant superintendent (retired)

Government needs to abide by court ruling Dear Editor: Re: Teachers lockout and strike.

The latest information we have on the dispute is that the government is going to dig in their heels on this one.

Mediator Vince Ready cannot deal with the gap between the two sides.

I think a few wellmeaning individuals on both sides have forgotten something. We, the taxpayers, pay all their salaries and we are their employers.

It is our students going to these schools and we are teaching them lawlessness and bullying.

First of all, Minister Peter Fassbender should realize that there will never

be a deal if he keeps filing legal appeals ad infinitum.

The two court cases sided with the teachers on class size and composition and Minister Fassbender had better get used to the idea that he better abide by the rule of our court law or simply throw all laws out the window.

Teachers also had better get reasonable on this issue. I went through the entire school system in the 1950s and 1960s. Our class sizes were always around 30 students per teacher.

Five rows of desks six deep.

Most of us graduated.

Students are still learning today so the situation is not so dire as to See Taxpayers page 7

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This fight is about classroom control Whatever the outcome of the messy fight between teachers and the B.C. government (and as I write this, the two sides are negotiating but no end is in sight), it’s likely the provincial education system won’t see any significant improvement in the near future.

And for this, we can blame both the government and the BC Teachers’ Federation.

The two sides have been locked in a war for more than a decade, and even a negotiated contract will not end the acrimony and bitterness that characterizes their relationship.

When we strip away the rhetoric, it all comes down to this: control. As in, who controls the classroom and the system itself — the teachers’ union or the government?

This struggle for control is not a unique one in education. Ontario is experiencing a similar fight, and most states in the U.S. are also mired in wars between elected governments and various teacher union

Keith Baldrey

View from the Ledge organizations.

Pushed to the sidelines in this widespread fight are students and parents.

Forget the rubbish talk from both the union and the government that “this is all about the kids” and forget the boasts from both sides that they feel for “kids caught in the middle.”

It is not about the kids and never has been. It is about control.

And it is perfectly understandable why both sides are fighting for control.

From the government’s perspective, the education system is a spending priority but it also a huge

consumer of tax dollars.

Of course, there are voices (particularly from BCTF members) who claim the government is hell-bent on “destroying” the education system and is secretly conspiring to drive everyone to the private school system.

The fact that $4.7 billion of tax dollars are poured into the public education system every year (second only to health-care spending) demolishes this hysterical notion, yet the mantra from the ideologues keeps being chanted over and over again.

Nevertheless, the BC Liberals can be faulted for not keeping pace with the need for even more funding. While not destroying the system, the argument can be made the government has allowed considerable fraying around the edges.

Class composition remains an urgent issue in some classes (though certainly not all), and school trustees find that balancing their budgets becomes more difficult every year as cost pressures

exceed any funding increase.

As for the BCTF, it looks out for the interests of its members as any union should, but it doesn’t have a good track record on that front.

Every other publicsector union has received higher wage increases than the BCTF has won over the past dozen or so years.

The union has also fought a never-ending public relations war against the BC Liberal government (which has gobbled up millions of dollars of union dues) without any evidence of success (the government has won four consecutive elections).

While it’s true the BCTF has won two important court challenges against the government, the final ruling on that issue has yet to be made, so any celebrations of victory there are premature. The union is locked into a fight for smaller class sizes, which among other things, translates into hiring more teachers, which in turn

inflates the union’s treasury.

The BCTF also zealously guards its members’ job security, even if in so doing it protects poor teachers at the expense of better ones.

The actual interests of students is not held as high a priority, in the BCTF’s view, as a teacher’s job security.

Again, the BCTF is not unique in this aspect compared to other teachers’ unions. Its American counterparts are notorious for resisting any threat to their control of the system.

The struggle over who controls a school and who controls a classroom will not end anytime soon, even after the current contract battle ends.

Because governments of all stripes and philosophies are loathe to raise taxes in any significant way, revenues become more and more precious, which will inevitably put more pressure on the education system.

I suspect the public increasingly takes the view

of “a pox on both your houses,” which reflects the frustration and impatience of watching this soap opera go on for so many years.

All about the kids?

Forget it.

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

Taxpayers keep schools running From page 6 lead a parade to the funeral chapel, or mental hospital.

We, the taxpayers, own the schools and pay all the salaries, utilities, support staff etc. to keep the school system running.

If our employees cannot play fair in this system it is time for the taxpayer to revolt and simply withhold all tax money from all levels of government.

Leo Vanderbyl North Vancouver

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Student worried over marks From page 1 for education. “It’s about choices,” he said. “It’s about making education a priority.”

But the news conferences are unlikely to help reach a deal, said Nichols. “They paint themselves into situations they can’t get out of,” he said.

Doni Gratton, a West Vancouver elementary school teacher librarian, said she’s seen firsthand the impact of more kids with special needs in the classroom while supports for teachers have been shrinking.

Teachers are dealing with far more students with special needs — ranging from autism to learning disabilities to mental health problems — and students for whom English is a second language, she said — and “you’re lucky if you have

an (educational assistant) helping you.”

North Vancouver parent Jacquie Stebbings has also had personal experience with the lack of support available in the classroom. She pulled her own 10-year-old son out of public school and enrolled him at Kenneth Gordon, a private school specializing in learning disabilities, when she realized he would not get the help he needed in the public system.

Stebbings said without support, it was too difficult for both her son and the teacher to have him continue in a regular classroom.

Stebbings, who has two other children in the public system, said she’s seen some teachers who were “miracle workers” and others who were “just drowning” in the number of issues they were expected to manage in

the classroom. “I can only imagine how difficult it must be,” she said, acknowledging many families can’t afford the $21,000-a-year she pays for private school. “Many kids, I think, slip through.”

Meanwhile, North Vancouver student Cooper Rowe, 17, has been worrying this week what a delayed start of the school year might mean to her.

Rowe, who is going into Grade 12 at Handsworth,

said she’s hoping to apply to dramatic arts programs and will need good first-term marks by November to get accepted.

Some of her friends whose families can afford it have been looking into the option of private school, she said. But most students just have to wait. “This is a severely important year,” she said. “For it to just not start … I don’t find it very acceptable.”

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The West Vancouver library also offers access to online courses and lectures.

For students in French programs, Canadian Parents for French have launched a crowd-sourced resource at bc-yk.cpf.ca to help youth brush up on the French language during the strike.

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INQUIRING REPORTER Following 14 years with Wendy’s, Tim Hortons returned to us like a wayward son, moving their head office from Delaware to Ontario.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper dubbed the doubledouble dealers: “the essential Canadian story.” Now they’re leaving again, this time to be a pawn in Burger King’s flamebroiled commonwealth.

For those who feel true patriot love every time they bite into a previously frozen fritter, the deal is a $12.5billion contradiction to the hockey-centric Canadiana commercials they’ve happily swallowed. Weigh in at nsnews.com. * #(!(") '%($%(!&

Wendy Pickering North Vancouver “Yes,Tim Hortons, when they’re over at military bases, it just makes me think ‘Oh great, Canadian.’”

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Adrian Leung Vancouver “No, businesses sell all the time.”

Steven Dommann North Vancouver “I’ve never actually thought about it.”

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Dear Editor: We live in one of the most beautiful places in the world, but is it not sad that we insist on turning this beauty into the banal and boring? The big trees in North and West Vancouver have given way to endless oversized homes and highrise towers.The mayors will insist that they are replacing trees, but we need to ask ourselves with what? Ornamental shrubs and pretty cherry trees, that if you travel can be found in any large city on the planet.

The very beauty of nature that defines a place is removed and “tamed” so that everything looks like anywhere else. I have never understood this need in us, to sink to the lowest common denominator. I believe that it is easier to deal with a cherry tree than a majestic Douglas fir.

We allow the developers to remove every plant when they build and there are no consequences for their removal.These trees are as important as our lungs, they clean the air we breathe and make it bearable on a hot day to walk down the sidewalks, as well as aiding with runoff water on

rainy days.

What about the views people whine on endlessly about, such as the Burrard with its busy shipping lane.

What we really see are big tankers and soon to be more, belching yellow plumes of bunker fuel that create pretty sunsets.The denuded Cypress Mountain, or the twinkly lights of Downtown Vancouver through a haze of smog. If you want a view to wake you up, go down Third Street towards Park & Tilford and take a long, hard look at what is left of that area.

Every year the air quality deteriorates; if you do not believe me just gaze out your window on a hot day. It is time that we grew up as a species and realized that we are our environment.The cities could easily supply tax incentives, to those homeowners who green their properties and give the indigenous species an opportunity to return.

Let those of us who are still able get out of our artificial lifestyles and begin to change our environment and our health.

Margot Brassil North Vancouver

Act of kindness appreciated Dear Editor: The milk of human kindness lives on in North Vancouver — if not in other parts of the planet.

I want to say thank you to Theresa who stopped to help me after a trip and fall on Lonsdale last week.

She got ice from a local food outlet to help ease the swelling in my hand and

stayed with me until my husband arrived to take me to Lions Gate Hospital.

And my thanks also go to the ER staff at the hospital as well. It was clearly a busy afternoon, but I received the care that was appropriate without undue delay. Thank you all.

Alison Watt North Vancouver

Friday, September 5, 2014 - North Shore News - A11

Crime rates take a dive From page 3

among expenses, according to Palmer.

Including salaries and expenses for the district’s top-earning officers,West Vancouver taxpayers saved $143,453 compared to 2012.

The dip in expenses comes as Canada’s crime rate continues to dive — the violent crime severity index plunged by 10 per cent in 2013 compared to 2012.

When ranked from worst to best according to the violent crime severity index,West Vancouver was ranked 215 out of 304 Canadian municipalities.

The North Shore’s three major municipalities each witnessed a decline in crime rates compared to 2012.

While salaries slid among WVPD officers, the number of District of West Van municipal hall employees earning a six-figure salary shot from 66 in 2012 to approximately 104 in 2013.

The majority of that increase is due to retroactive salaries, as well as employees who only worked part of 2012, according to communications director Jeff McDonald.

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BRIGHT LIGHTS

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Bev Holmes cW$Y 0W&$(W7$ -] !_&$ #;O7-"e_( G;B-( Michael Smith Representatives of the Ferry Building Gallery hosted an opening reception for their latest show Hollyburn Ridge: Celebrating Mountain Art and Culture Aug. 19. The mixed media exhibition by the Hollyburn Ridge Association will remain on display until Sunday. ferrybuildinggallery.com

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“Because it’s in the public domain, everyone has an opinion and that’s part of what public art is about.”

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The Vancouver Biennale has a unique way of bringing people together while at the same time dividing public opinion.

Since the 2014-2016 public art exhibition launched this past spring, contemporary sculptures by world-renowned artists have been popping up all over the Lower Mainland — North Vancouver included. As with all art, not every piece appeals to every taste, and that’s a good thing as far as festival founder and president Barrie Mowatt is concerned.

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The Vancouver Biennale is a non-profit charitable organization funded through grants, corporate sponsorship, in-kind gifts, philanthropic donations and the sale of art after each of its bi-annual exhibitions.This is the third time Vancouver has been transformed into an openair museum, and Mowatt says he continues to be surprised by which pieces generate the most debate.

“Did we think Miss Mao was going to be controversial? Not really,” he says, referring to a stainless steel sculpture by China’s Gao Brothers installed in Richmond in 2009 that depicted Chairman Mao Zedong as a diminutive figure perched atop a giant Vladimir Lenin head. Did

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

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It’s back to school time, and all you want as a parent is for your kids to break away from the pack and distinguish themselves a little.

At this time of year it’s what movie studios want, too: fall is the unofficial start of the Oscar race, when films clamour for recognition and start sucking up to Academy voters in the hopes of a stellar recommendation.

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The Skeleton Twins Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader get serious (mostly) as estranged twins who find themselves under the same roof and having to get to know each other all over again.Won the screenwriting prize at Sundance.

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Kill the Messenger opens in October From page 16

Kill The Messenger True-life tale of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) who made the link between the growing crack epidemic in the U.S., the funneling of money to arm rebels in Nicaragua, and the CIA’s complicity, at great risk to his family and himself.

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Men,Women and Children Director Jason Reitman looks at how teenagehood has changed thanks to the Internet, and how parents and teens navigate the complex new world of dating, sex and peer relationships on- and offline. Stars Jennifer Garner, Kaitlyn Dever, Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgot, Judy Greer and Dean Norris.

Gone Girl David Fincher directs Gillian Flynn’s twisty novel about a seemingly perfect marriage unraveling at the seams.When Nick Dunne’s (Ben Affleck) wife of five years (Rosamund Pike) goes missing, he’s the prime suspect. But which lies are actually truths?

This Is Where I Leave You Siblings brought together by the death of their father are forced to live under the same roof and work out their issues. Let’s hope it’s as funny as its cast – Jane Fonda,Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Adam Driver, Corey Stoll and more — suggests.

Fury Second World War period drama starring Brad Pitt as a battle-weary sergeant nicknamed Wardaddy who commands five men in a Sherman tank dubbed “Fury.” Outmanned and outgunned, Fury’s crew pushes through Nazi front lines and finds themselves fighting against some 300 enemy fighters. Featuring Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal and Scott Eastwood.

Judge A hot-shot lawyer (Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.) returns to his small-town roots following a death in the family, only to discover that his father (Oscar winner Robert Duvall) – a longtime county judge – is the suspect in a murder trial. Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton also stars.

St.Vincent If gambling and prostitution are among your criteria for a babysitter, Bill Murray is your man. Murray plays a war vet seriously in debt who becomes the after-school caregiver to 12-year-old Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher) against the good sense of mom Maggie (Melissa McCarthy).

The Imitation Game The Weinstein Company is hoping that this Second World War biopic about famous code-breaker Alan Turing will follow in the footsteps of The Artist and The King’s Speech and win Best Picture. Benedict Cumberbatch is Turing, who cracked the Nazi codes at a crucial juncture in the war; Keira Knightly is a fellow codebreaker who becomes more.

Laggies Megan (Keira Knightly) is a 28-year-old who never really grew up after high school. A proposal from her boyfriend throws Megan into an introspective tizzy: she hides out in the home of her 16-year-old friend (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her bewildered dad, played

by Sam Rockwell.

Kingsman:The Secret Service Colin Firth as a super-secret agent?Yes, please! Firth stars as a ruthless taskmaster to a street tough (Taron Egerton) who is recruited into the top-secret fold.

Based on the comic books and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass).

Birdman Another film billed as an Oscar contender is Birdman, written and directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu and starring Michael Keaton (in an inspired bit of casting) as an actor best known for playing a superhero.That was decades ago, and now

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closing night of the exhibit.

the artist: Saturday, Sept. 13, 2-3 p.m.Art insider series:Wednesday, Sept. 24, 7-9 p.m., $15.

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

Atmosphere: Paintings of whimsical nature scapes

by North Shore artist Dana Irving will be on display from Sept. 6 to 30. Opening reception: Saturday, Sept. 6, 2-4 p.m.

THE GALLERY AT ARTISAN SQUARE 587 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island. Friday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. or by appointment.

604-947-2454 biac.ca Faces & Places: A debut art show by Diana Izdebski including photography by Rafal Izdebski will run until Sept. 14.

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 Work is Art: Fall exhibition curated by Gordon Smith.

Andrew Alvarez,Wing Chow,Warren Goodman, Dirk Heiss, Bill MacDonald, Frank Mayrs, Less McKinnon, Neil Prinsen, George Rammel, Richard Turner and AnneWatt from Sept. 10 to Oct. 15. The 3rd Annual Smith Foundation Fall Gala will take place on Wednesday, October 15th, the

LIONS BAY ART GALLERY 350 Centre Rd., Lions Bay. Featuring established and upcoming artists. MondaySunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 604921-7865 lionsbayartgallery. com NAVA ART CENTER 1355 Main St., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 5-9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 2-8 p.m. 604-9856282 NORTHVANCOUVER COMMUNITY HISTORY CENTRE 3203 Institute Rd., North Vancouver.TuesdaySaturday, noon to 5 p.m.

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Public Meetings Following is a list of North Vancouver District public meetings for this month. Please note that this list is subject to change and new agenda items/meetings may be added during the month.

Monday, September 8, 7pm Monday, September 15, 7pm

Tuesday, September 16, 7pm - Rezoning 26 undeveloped lots to parkland - Rezoning 2975 & 2991 Fromme Road - Rezoning 3053 Edgemont Boulevard Tuesday, September 30, 7pm - Rezoning and phased development agreement 2035 Fullerton Avenue (Larco)

Committee of the Whole:

Monday, September 29, 7pm

visit dnv.org for agendas, minutes and schedules of upcoming meetings call 604-990-2315 for a recorded listing of agenda items visit dnv.org/agendanotice to have agendas delivered to your inbox visit any District Library to view a copy of the agenda which is available the Friday before the regular Council Meeting

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PRESENTATION HOUSE SATELLITE GALLERY 560 Seymour St.,Vancouver.

Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. satellitegallery.ca Welcome to Screenland: Artists explore how the internet affects personal lives until Sept.

13.

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

Book review

Council Meetings:

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PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave., NorthVancouver.

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■ Natural Architecture Now by Francesca Tatarella. Princeton Architectural Press, 222, pages, $47.95.

Fifty projects from around the world share a vision of how architecture can connect people and nature while staying true to the designer’s artistic vision. The designers work in natural materials, often site specific, and create structures that will blend in with the environment or in the urban settings, offer a respite from the concrete and glass world that is their backdrop.

Porky Hefer has created

giant nests in South Africa that mimic the natural surroundings so well they can be used as blinds to observe wildlife.

Marco Casagrande has constructed on the dunes of Belgium’s Wenduine coastline a massive, 45 metre-long Sandworm, which offers shelter from the sun and wind while

evoking a natural cathedral setting inside. Big Bambu is an evolving sculpture created by Doug and Mike Starn. It has taken the shape of a giant wave that overlooked Central Park, later it was moved to Venice where it took the shape of a spiraling tower that continued to grow throughout the length of the exhibition.

Each installation is presented through a series of colour photographs accompanied by descriptions and comments; some also include artists’ drawings.

— Terry Peters

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CALENDAR From page 20 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.

Reinventing the Classics: Contemporary responses to old master prints featuring six artists will run from Sept. 10 to Oct. 18. Reception: Sunday, Sept. 14, 2-4 p.m. Public lecture: Sunday, Sept. 28, 2-3 p.m.

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.

SILENT POETRY ART STUDIO 1079B Roosevelt Cres., NorthVancouver. MondayFriday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. 604312-1184, 604-781-4606 silentpoetryartstudio.wordpress. com Original art, mentoring and classes with Sharka Leigh and Sandrine Pelissier.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday to

Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604925-7292 silkpurse.ca In Our Midst: Painter RoseMarie Goodwin will present an exhibit of abstract expressionist paintings until Sept. 7.

SPACE EMMARTS STUDIO 1432 Rupert St., North Vancouver.Wednesday and Friday, 2-5 p.m. or by appointment. 604-770-2545 originals@emmarts.ca STARFIRE STUDIO 6607 Royal Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-922-5510 starfireattheferries.com 195 STUDIOS — ARTISTS ON PEMBERTON 195 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver. 195studios.ca TARTOOFUL 3183 Edgemont Blvd., NorthVancouver. 604-9240122 tartooful.com WESTVANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca WestVancouver District Art Instructors Exhibition: Works using a variety of media, styles and approaches by teachers will be on display until Oct. 20.

MUNICIPAL HALL 750 17th St.,West Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604925-7290

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Concerts

CAULFEILD COVE HALL 4773 South Piccadilly Rd., WestVancouver. 604-8127411 caulfeildcovehall.ca Shari Ulrich will perform Saturday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $28.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 PurcellWay, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Cap Classics — DiNovoSmith Duo: Violinist Nancy DiNovo and pianist Stephen Smith will perform a free recital

WESTVANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St.,West Vancouver.TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca YEATS STUDIO & GALLERY 2402 Marine Dr.,West

One NightWith Elvis: Ultimate Elvis tribute artist Ben Portsmouth will perform Sunday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $43.

Carlos Nunez in Concert: Nunez will perform the gaita, or Galician bagpipes Friday, Sept. 19 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $29.75/$26.75.

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TRAVEL

It takes a village to raise a beer festival Whistler builds on last year’s success with four-day bash ■ Whistler Village Beer Festival. 150+ beers, 50 breweries, Sept. 11-14.

For more information visit wvbf.ca.

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A cultural experience, not a chug fest, is how Liam Peyton describes next weekend’s second annual Whistler Village Beer Festival (Sept.

11-14). That’s not to say the four-day celebration is solely for purists: Far from it.

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more than 4,000 visitors still allow him to attend a showdown or two.

“The cask showdowns feature one-offs, rare brews created for the event,” says

Peyton. “You meet the brewmasters, sample the ales and vote on what you like.” The festival hosts three showdowns – Best of the Island, Best of the

Mainland, and Best in West (U.S. West Coast breweries).

Cask showdowns are among several new additions to the festival, which is significantly bigger than the 2013 edition.

“Last year we had six events between four venues.This year there are 31 events spread over 11 venues,” says Peyton.

He offers several reasons for the growth. “Last year we went from scratch to a sold-out festival in 10 weeks. Some people were skeptical to begin with but then participating venues saw their revenues jump 40 per cent and the 31-degree weather didn’t hurt either.”

Now familiar with navigating B.C.’s quirky liquor laws and with 12 months to organize this year’s festival, Peyton says he’s confident he’s ahead of the curve. “It’s a little unnerving at times, but we’re far ahead in organization and in ticket sales now compared to where we were this time last See Best page 27

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

Luxe pillows amuse and inspire Entrepreneur turns from kids’ wear to home decor

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

FASHION FILE Our weekly roundup of fashion and beauty events and activities. page 26

Erika Pantages was lost in North Vancouver, trying to find a birthday party, when she stumbled upon some graffiti near Marine Drive and Capilano Road that made her stop and take a photo.

The words “Every day is a blessing” were scrawled onto the side of a building.

“I just thought it was great,” says Pantages, who added that snapshot to a collection of graffiti photographs she had taken around B.C. From the inspirational to the funny to the downright kooky, some of Pantages’ other photogenic finds included “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” “Made you look” and “Relax!”

After amassing quite a few images, the Strathcona resident decided it was time to do something with them. Always passionate about home décor, she opted to transfer her favourite spray-painted sayings from their cold concrete canvases onto fluffy pillows.

“I just wanted to take that hard aspect and make it soft,” she says.

Last spring, Pantages launched Pillow Fight.

Her seven-year-old daughter Tallulah (and self-proclaimed company president) came up with the name. The Pillow Fight graffiti collection includes nine luxury toss pillows that each feature one of Pantages’ photos digitally

printed onto a frayed cotton panel and sewn onto a Turkish linen pillow case with a feather down insert.

This new venture comes a few years after Pantages wound down Dirty Laundry, a successful children’s clothing line she had co-founded with Teresa Findlay.

“The T-shirt industry was fun, but it was a very hard market to make here in Vancouver and ship around the globe.”

Over the past few years, she has watched the home renovation and interior design market explode, and has grown fond of Love It Or List It and other TV shows that offer insight into the industry.

“I think for a lot of us it’s not feasible to redo your whole house, but you throw a couple of new pillows in your living room and it changes the whole look,” she says. “You can just add that little touch and it just changes the room.”

Working on this collection has allowed Pantages to preserve bits of graffiti that have captivated her imagination and that stood out from the sea of tags found in every alley.

“I don’t want to be glamourizing graffiti, because I understand that that is not so good,” she says, recognizing it costs property owners money to cover up the vandalism.

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Tickets: $100 at alumni.ubc. ca/fashion.

OPEN HOUSE Crystal Connections Jewelry will hold an open house Sept.

27-28, noon-8 p.m. at 4561 Prime Pl., North Vancouver.

Designer Margot J. Leviton will be selling her modern jewelry made with healing stones. crystal-connections. myshopify.com Compiled by Christine Lyon Send North Shore fashion and beauty info to clyon@ nsnews.com.

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CALENDAR From page 21 NorthVancouver. 604-3635370 jane@nsrj.ca Jazz Musicians Kate Hammett-Vaughn and Bill Coon will perform Friday, Sept. 19 at 9 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and warm-up acts start at 7:30 p.m.Admission: $10 which includes coffee and goodies.

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

One Guitar and One Voice: Roy Forbes will showcase his new live CD which features a few tunes recorded at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre Sept. 12 and 13 at 8 p.m.Admission: $30.

Tickets: 604-929-9456 or firstimpressionstheatre.com.

SHIPBUILDERS’ SQUARE 15Wallace Mews, North Vancouver.

Summer Sessions: A free weekly summer concert series Fridays from 5 to 10 p.m. until Sept. 27. northshoregreenmarket. com/ SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series — Duets,Arias and Song: A concert dedicated to the music of composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini performed by soprano

Robyn Driedger-Klassen, baritone Joel Klein and pianist Karen Lee-Morlang Thursday, Sept. 11 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

Classical Concert Series — Cordei: Harpist Albertina Chan and violinist Janna Sailor will perform works by local and contemporary composers Thursday, Sept. 18 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

Classical Concert Series: Cellist Heather Hay will perform a program of delightful and powerful music Thursday, Sept. 25 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 1068 Inglewood Ave.,West Vancouver.

Some Enchanted Evening — Mozart, Musicals and More: A concert of opera arias, musical theatre selections and solo and instrumental music Sunday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.Tickets: $25/$20.

Proceeds to benefit music at St. Christopher’s. Info: 604-9225323.

ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Grand Theft Impro: An improv sketch show that uses audiences suggestions to create 90 minutes of stories, scenes, songs and comedic chaos, the last Saturday of every month at 10:30 p.m.Tickets: $12.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org SinceYou Left Us: A comedy about a family reunion and a dog named Jack Sept. 17-28 at 8 p.m. with Sunday matinees

at 2 p.m.Tickets: $14-$28.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca ThreeViewings: A dark comedy Sept. 5, 6, 10-13, 1720 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $18/$16.

Reservations: northvanplayers. ca or 604-983-2633.

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SCOTIABANK DANCE CENTRE 677 Davie St.,Vancouver.

Open House: North Shore resident Colleen Lanki will give a demonstration/workshop in nihon buyoh (Japanese classical

dance) at the annual Open House Saturday, Sept. 13, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info: 604606-6400 or thedancecentre.ca.

Clubs and pubs

BEAN AROUND THE WORLD COFFEES/ BEANS ON LONSDALE 1802 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Live music every Thursday, 8 p.m.

604-985-2326 CASA NOVA CAFÉ 116 East 14th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2223 info@casanovacafe.ca CAULFEILD COVE HALL 4773 South Piccadilly Rd.,West

Vancouver. 604-812-7411 caulfeildcovehall.ca THE EAGLES CLUB 170West 3rd Street, North Vancouver.

Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast Fundraiser: The DieHards, a rock ‘n roll combo, will perform Saturday, Sept.

6 at 5 p.m.Admission: $25.

Tickets: Cst. Carlos Rockhill or Sandy Potter at the RCMP detachment.

ELECTRIC OWL 928 Main St.,Vancouver.

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WESTVANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Friday Night Concert: Jaclyn Guillou will perform a tribute to gospel, jazz and blues icon DinahWashington as part of North Shore Culture Days Sept. 26, 7:30-8:45 p.m.

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Best in Fest breweries win draught contracts From page 22 year.”

At 27, the transplanted Birmingham native comes by his love of both Whistler and beer honestly, having worked as doorman, barman and manager of The Longhorn Pub before joining Gibbons Hospitality Group in 2009.

The company represents many of Whistler’s bestknown pubs and created the annual beer festival to drive more business to the area, as well as forge new partnerships.Top placing breweries in Saturday afternoon’s Best in Fest voting, for instance, win one-year draught contracts to supply local venues. Local hotels are participating, including the Westin Hotel, (westinwhistler.com) which is hosting beer seminars and the Summit Lodge and Spa, (summitlodge.

com) which presents nightly beer tastings.The festival also offers a food voucher program, allowing festivalgoers to get $5 off meals in local restaurants.

As for Peyton’s favourite brews, IPAs are a good start.

After a birthday pilgrimage in April-May to brewing hot spots in Washington, Oregon and northern California, he returned a dedicated fan of Deschutes, Lagunitas and Pyramid breweries.

“For my 27th birthday we stopped at Deschutes Brewery in Portland,” recalls Peyton. “They made me a Black Butte Porter ice cream float as a birthday cake!”

You’ll find all three breweries at the second annual Whistler Village Beer Festival, Sept. 11-14.

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CALENDAR From page 27 FINCH AND BARLEY 250 East First St., North Vancouver. finchandbarley. com Dino Dinicolo will perform a solo show Thursday, Sept. 18 from 8:45 p.m. to midnight.

HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Open Mic: Every Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Live Music: Every Saturday evening with jazz on the second

and last Saturday of each month.

JACK LONSDALE’S PUB 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Live music every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. 604-986-7333 LARSON STATION RESTAURANT Gleneagles Clubhouse, 6190 Marine Dr.,WestVancouver. 778279-8874

105-100 Park Royal,West Vancouver. 604-926-2326 DJs spin classic dance music from the ’80s, ’90s and today.

QUEENS CROSS PUB 2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. queenscross.com AdamWoodall performs acoustic music every Sunday, 8-11 p.m.

THE RAVEN PUB 1052 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver. theravenpub.com RED LION BAR &

MIST ULTRA BAR

GRILL 2427 Marine Drive,West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Open Mic Night: A variety of talent fromWestVancouver and beyond Tuesdays at 8 p.m.

Participation welcome. Info: ethosproductions@shaw.ca.

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

RUSTY GULL 175 East First St., North Vancouver.

Live MusicWednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly

FREE ADMISSION!

Sunday, Sept. 7 | 11am-6pm FESTIVAL 2014

AMBLESIDE PARK, WEST VANCOUVER

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COHO SWIM 1.5km or 3km

COHO RUN 14km

COHO WALK 4km or 8.5km

Race Start Ambleside Beach

Approx Finish Time Ambleside Beach

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9:00am

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COHO FESTIVAL STAGE

11:00 – 11:45am Coho Runners Breakfast & Medal Presentations 11:45 – 12noon Freddy Fuddpucker – Let’s get this Coho started!

12noon – 12:45pm Family Arntzen – Multi-piece band with the great, top-tapping sounds of roots & blues.

1:00 - 1:45pm Opening Ceremonies Opening address from emcee, John Friezsen Squamish Nation Welcoming Speech by Chief Ian Campbell and the traditional Squamish Nation “Blessing of the Salmon” ceremony.

2:05 - 2:50pm Deep Cove Big Band – everyone loves that traditional big band sound.

3:10 – 4:25pm Gary Comeau & the Voodoo Allstars – new Orleans rockin roots & blues.

4:40 - 5:55pm Adam Woodall Band - Vancouver’s Legendary Arnt Arntzen rock and folk band with solid pop roots. and Bonnie 5:55- 6:00pm Closing Remarks

COHO KIDS PARK - ENTERTAINMENT STAGE

11:30 am 12 noon 12:30 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm 3:00 pm 3:30 pm 4:00 pm 4:30 pm

Lisa Corriveau of Phoenix Stilt Performance Vanleena Dance Studios Lisa Corriveau of Phoenix Stilt Performance Mike Battie – Childrens’ Entertainer Lisa Corriveau of Phoenix Stilt Performance Vanleena Dance Studios Champions Way of Life Mike Battie – Childrens’ Entertainer Champions Way of Life Vanleena Dance Studios Champions Way of Life

Hardgreaves will be strolling around the grounds playing their sweet music!

Come out watch the dance & martial arts demonstrations and we encourage you to join in!!

Visit Jack the Clown’s tent. Who knows... you may be able to get a really cool balloon!

Also in the Kids Park: • Show & Tell “Aquatic Life from Ambleside” • iRide Bike Program • North Shore News Photo Booth • Edge Climbing Wall

• Vancouver Aquarium AquaVan • Coho Kids Scavenger Hunt • Collage – A Wet Coast Creation • Life of a Salmon Animation Workshop • Fishing games and more!

Watch what to see at Coho Festival with

COHO NATURE WALKS with Rebecca Campbell of Coho’s Squamish Village

STEWARDSHIP ZONE

The Stewardship Zone will be full of exciting and interactive displays from the following community groups involved with conservation, protection and enhancement of our water and forests and the animals within:

• Artists for Conservation • BC Conservation Foundation • Invasive Plants Outreach Project • BC Salmon Marketing Council • Bee Friendly Native Bee • British Pacific Properties • CPAWS – Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (BC) • David Suzuki Foundation • DFO - Adult Salmon Tank Truck • DFO - Ground Fish Display • DFO – Hovercraft (tours on the beach) • DFO – Salmon: The Vital Link • DFO - Storm Drain Marking • Fraser Riverkeeper Society • Friends of Cypress Park • Green Chair Recycling (Encorp Pacific) • Lighthouse Park Preservation Society • Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre

Tent Talks 12 noon 12:45pm 1:30pm

• Nature Centre Society • Nature Vancouver • North Shore Black Bear Society • North Shore Recycling • North Shore Streamkeepers Federation • North Vancouver Outdoor School • Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society • Old Growth Conservancy Society • Pacific Salmon Foundation • Pacific Stream Keepers Federation • Seymour Salmonid Society • Vancouver Aquarium – AquaZone (Kids Park) • West Coast Environmental Law • West Van Shoreline Preservation Society (Kids Park) • West Van Streamkeepers Society • Wildlife Rescue Association of BC • Young Naturalists Club of BC

NEW THIS YEAR!

Seymour Salmonid Society Estuaries, Gateways to the Sea Pacific Salmon Foundation People are Projects David Suzuki Foundation Conserving Pacific Salmon

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SAILOR HAGAR’S BREW PUB 235West First St., North Vancouver. 604-984-3087 Live Music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

TWO LIONS PUBLIC HOUSE 2601Westview Dr., North Vancouver.

AdamWoodall performs acoustic music everyWednesday, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

COHO SQUAMISH NATION VILLAGE

THE VILLAGE TAPHOUSE The Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver. 604-9228882.

AdamWoodall performs acoustic music every Thursday, 8-11 p.m.

Environmentally Friendly Event

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7270 ferrybuildinggallery.com Art Insider Series — A Woman of Spirit: Carol Cram, author of The Towers of Tuscany, will discuss her novel about the story of 14th century woman painter Sofia Carelli Tuesday, Sept. 16, 7-9 p.m.

Admission: $15.

Welcome all to Swá7wi (Ambleside Park)!

• Squamish Nation Ambassadors will share Squamish stories showcasing our sacred connection to the salmon • The Squamish Nation K’xwu7lh (Seagoing) Canoe Family will be part of the Blessing of the Salmon along with displaying their 45 foot sea-going canoe • Wood carving, cedar bark weaving and wool weaving will be demonstrated and interpreted by Squamish Nation artists

Hear the Legend of the Salmon People as you are taken on a guided tour.

12noon Legend of the Salmon People Educational and informative…

1:00 pm Legend of the Salmon People and definitely 1:30 pm Waterfront Discovery (30 minutes. Adults only) interesting!

2:00 pm Legend of the Salmon People 3:00 pm Legend of the Salmon People

ZERO WASTE This year’s Coho Festival will be a zero waste event. All products on site will be organic or recyclable, no products used at the festival will be headed to a landfill. We thank Green Chair & Encorp who have helped to make this possible.

Be environmentally responsible & come by bike (Lock up area available) Walk or take public transit.

Children under 12 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Tour will be approx 20 mins.

Waterfront Discovery Adults only. Walking on sand over a long distance. Tour will be approx 30 minutes.

PARKING Very limited parking available on the site.

Other events

NORTH VANCOUVER CITY LIBRARY 120 West 14th St., North

Vancouver. 604-998-3450 nvcl.ca Local Author Series: A reading with Michael Pond, author of The Couch ofWillingness: An Alcoholic Therapist Battles the Bottle and A Broken Recovery System and Judy MacFarlane, author of Writing with Grace: A Journey Beyond Down SyndromeWednesday, Sept.

17, 7-9 p.m.

ROUNDHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver.

Project Everybody: A film, art and culture festival Wednesday, Sept. 10 with four films and musical performances from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and an art exhibit and sale 2-6 and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Admission by donation.

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

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

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‘You know, I’ve really grown a fondness of these works and I’m really afraid to see them go now.’”

Take for example Amaze-ing Laughter.The 14 bronze laughing men created

by Beijing-basedYue Minjun were placed near English Bay as part of the 2009-2011 Biennale.

“I got nothing but eight hours of verbal abuse from citizens when we were installing them,” Mowatt recalls. But the figures grew wildly popular among residents and visitors alike and when the exhibit drew to a close, Lululemon founder Chip Wilson pitched in $1.5million to make the artwork a permanent beachside fixture.

This round, the Biennale has expanded to the City of North Vancouver, transforming the historic Pipe Shop building at Shipbuilders’ Square into an exhibition space for rotating groups of Brazilian artists. Additionally, Rey Sargent Park outside the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art is now home to The Meeting — a circular

formation of eight red squatting figures by Chinese sculptor Wang Shugang. And the most recent North Shore installation is Walking Figures — a set of nine cast iron sculptures dispersed along Lonsdale Avenue between 13th and 23rd streets.The headless, armless human forms are the handiwork of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, who Mowatt

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He values the series at about $2 million — “a rather expensive artwork.”

Abakanowicz’s sculptures have appeared in public venues and museums worldwide. Her largest permanent installation is Agora, a set of 106 walking figures in Chicago’s Grant Park. A smaller group of her leggy sculptures can also be found near Broadway and Cambie Street in Vancouver.

Despite Abakanowicz’s reputation in the contemporary art world, not all North Vancouver residents are fans of their new nine-foot-tall neighbours. Local painter Dene Croft was so affronted by their appearance, he decided to write a letter to the city expressing his distaste.

“They’re just plain ugly, and I don’t care who created them or how they got there,” he says, describing the sculptures as anti-esthetic art, an acquired taste more suitable for a museum than the public realm.

“It’s great being provocative to a degree, and it’s great waking public tastes to what’s out there in terms of art, but I think, for the most part, when we’re trying to pretty-up our community or add something esthetic to it, perhaps those walking men statues weren’t the best choice.”

While Croft understands the Biennale is an international exhibit, he would like to see local artists afforded more opportunity to create public art that reflects the community in which it’s installed.

“Above all else, I feel that our local artists need as much support as they can get and I would love to see local art with a North Shore flavour, or a Vancouver or B.C. flavour.”

The temporary nature of the new iron statues is no conciliation for Croft.

“Even two years, I think, is too long.We’ve got to suffer those damn things for two years and they, to my mind, are bloody horrific.

They really are. I hate the damn things.”

Artists exhibiting in the Biennale were handpicked by a curatorial team headed up by Shengtian Zheng of China and Marcello Dantas of Brazil.

Mowatt explains that while politicians and developers may have to pander to conventional tastes when considering new public art, the Biennale curators do not.That provides a unique opportunity for the exhibitors, Mowatt explains, likening the Vancouver Biennale — and all art biennales for that matter — to Academy Awards for artists.

“For the established artists, it gives them an opportunity to do works in a scale that they might not have the flexibility to do otherwise.”

A handful of Vancouverarea artists are exhibiting in the current Biennale, but the majority of participants are international in keeping with the festival’s Open Borders/Crossroads theme.

In addition to very visible public sculptures, the Biennale program also includes new media, film, music and performance works, as well as residencies for visiting artists.

Mowatt says the exhibit creates a consciousness of Vancouver as an art capital and opens doors for local artists to show their work outside of Canada.

“You now have people talking about art in public spaces,” he says. “That doesn’t happen unless you have something that could be an alley to excite that discussion.”

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Nothing can get between a singer and his guitar, at least not in the case of Roy Forbes.

“It chose me and I just lucked onto it one day. I’ve tried others, I’ve had guitar makers make guitars for me, but this one, it’s my buddy,” says Forbes. “It’s just sort of a part of me — its like a relationship, right, not all roses, but it just, it’s got the sound.”

Even his cat is a fan, curling up for a nap in the open guitar case while he’s rehearsing.The singer has been using his trusty Gurianmade guitar since 1972 and has no intentions of stopping now.

“I’ve played it forever,” he says. “It’s just the two of us and we’ve done this many, many, many times.”

Forbes will be returning to the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre Sept. 12 and 13 to perform his latest album, Strikin’ Matches Live! The theatre is not only a spot Forbes has played before, but also holds a place on the

album itself.

“In a way, it’s a home for this album because most of it was recorded there,” he says.

“And they are a great bunch, Michael and Eileen (Smith).”

In his latest album, Forbes brings together live renditions of his songs from a variety of shows. He says he had been toying with the idea of doing a retrospective for a long time.

“I wanted to pull versions of songs from different sources including live recordings or maybe a radio show I had done or whatever,” says Forbes. “Plus I wanted to include bits from all the soundtrack stuff I’ve done and maybe some unreleased.”

Forbes started recording his shows with a handheld Zoom recorder, with guitar on one track, vocal on another and the audience through the microphone.

“I’ve worked in the studio all my career and you get a little fussy and it just wasn’t quite what I wanted,” he says. “So in 2011, I went to the Deep Cove ShawTheatre and was doing a series of shows celebrating 40 years in the biz.”

It was September and Forbes decided to hire record producer Dave Meszaros to come to the theatre and record his two shows.

“I was much happier with the sound and got a version of ‘LoveTurns Right’ that I liked,” he says. “Then I started listening to the other stuff and I thought ‘Hey wait a minute, maybe I should switch tracks here.’”

Forbes recorded more shows that fall, figuring out which songs met his standards and which ones he thought he could do better.

The album, once complete, included songs from a show on Salt Spring Island, Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam and a show in Northern B.C., he says.Then Forbes returned to the ShawTheatre in September 2013.

“The Saturday night last September was one of those nights and thank god we were recording, everything was just going great,” says Forbes. “I was singing in tune and the sound was good and so that’s actually where we got the majority of the album was from mostly the second set.”

By that time Forbes says he had listened to so many live shows he had to step away from it for a while.

“I started looking at it again in April of this year and it just started to fall together,” he says. In July, Forbes and Meszaros started mixing.

“I feel like, with this, that I’ve got a good representation of what I do,” says Forbes. “It really covers a lot of musical territory and

it’s just me and my guitar and a bit of foot.”

The album covers Forbes’ material from the mid ’80s up to now, from the country fuelled ‘DaysTurn to Nights,’ to the lively ‘Lifting my Heart.’

“These songs just kind of happen to flock together into one little herd, tomorrow it could be a different batch,” he says. “I’m happy with it and I think that my fans will be happy, they’ve been bugging me about this for years, ‘we want to hear you just like we heard you tonight.’ So now they can do that.”

Though Forbes has thought about songs that did not make the album, he says he doesn’t think he would do another live one.

“I think now it’s time to write a batch of new stuff,” he says.

Forbes says his biggest challenge when writing is his internal editor.

“I have an over-active editor,” he says. “I need to just beat that editor back See Forbes page 32

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Forbes keeps it simple when writing material

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and just relax with it and just let the stuff come out.

I’ve got many, many, many unfinished tunes.”

Forbes often refers to one of Irving Berlin’s rules of writing.

“The song must be perfectly simple,” says Forbes. “When you take the song and play it, people can’t hear the sweat, they don’t want to know about that, they don’t even want to think about it.They want to be moved.”

Forbes says the process is like any song or piece of art, “it doesn’t just happen.”

“Sometimes it does, once in a while, when you’ve really got the muscle and shape, sometimes it will happen but generally you’ll get a good idea and you need to let that idea come out and form itself without any fiddling about from the dreaded editor,” he says. “But then you go in and you just work it.

“Songs, they’re like worker bees, once you write it and you put it out there, then they go out there and they become a part of people’s lives,” says Forbes.

“That’s the payoff for me is when I get feedback on how that’s happened with my songs, that’s better than any Juno award, or any of that other stuff which has

meaning in one way but not in the other.”

Forbes has been playing music since he before left his Dawson Creek high school in 1971. He had a rock band called Crystal Ship, covering garage band songs like “Psychotic Reaction” by the Count Five and tunes by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Forbes was also writing too, arranging the drum builds and bass parts. Crystal Ship broke up in 1970, but Forbes says he kept that band mindset with his solo work when he moved down to Vancouver.

“I remember when I was first down here playing and one of the local producers, a guy who was in Chilliwack, said ‘Oh we could orchestrate your guitar parts,’” says Forbes. “What he was saying was that there was so much there that you could really take, split it up and write arrangements based on the guitar parts.”

He grew up in a “country and western household,” listening to the likes of Hank Williams, Hank Snow,Wilf Carter and ErnestTubb.

“Then I was for years the youngest in the family, I had four older sisters and they were bringing home Elvis and Buddy Holly, GeneVincent and the Everly Brothers,” says Forbes. “The Everly Brothers — big, big

deal.”

As Forbes began to have more control over his musical experience, he says, it turned toThe Beatles,The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

“Dylan was a real big one when I was 14,” he says, and of course the garage bands that his own band would cover.

Forbes’ early career would take him on the road with the likes of Santana, Supertramp and famed blues artist John Lee Hooker.

“I was 18, just out of high school in Dawson Creek and I came down here and I ended up on a tour with John Lee, we were travelling in the same station wagon,” says Forbes. “I was kind of familiar with him and I knew that Bob Dylan had gotten a break opening for him in the (Greenwich)Village back in 1961, so I knew he played in Bob Dylan’s mythology and here he was becoming a part of my mythology as well, I liked that idea.”

Forbes says music, for him, is 24/7 and there’s always a soundtrack going in his head.

“To me it’s just a way of being and its always been that way,” he says. “What drives it? I guess it’s a passion, I think it’s a love of music. It’s all I’ve done since I left school, this has been my job.”

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Arcade Fire’s Pallett steps out on his own

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Baroque avant-garde pop musician Owen Pallett has been moving back and forth between the macro worlds of superstardom and the micro perspective of a solo indie career for some time now.

Pallett has been an integral component in Arcade Fire’s sound from the very beginning, adding his know-how and expertise to Funeral and everything they’ve done since. At the same time, when not on tour with Win Butler and Régine Chassagne’s uberband he’s done his own thing.

His second solo album, He Poos Clouds, released under the name Final Fantasy, won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for Best Canadian Album.

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I think more than anything that’s informed pretty much every decision that I’ve ever made. A preference towards high-content baroque sort of writing. I don’t mean ‘baroque’ in the way that term has been wantonly applied to anything that could possible feature harpsichord but, you know, in sort of the denseness of the material.

Very early on baroque music inspired me the most and I think that informed the content of the music that I write from when I was a preteen to current day.When I was a teenager writing music it was more influenced by what I was interested in at the time which depends on the year.The most productive period when I was a teen was when I was preparing to enter into composition school so I was really trying to get a portfolio together and at the time I was interested in 20th century composers who were seeking to represent the infinite, either through atheistic ideas or theistic

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Pallett started latest recording in Iceland

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ideas, these being Ligeti, Ustvolskaya, Messaien, and on an electroacoustic level Paul Dolden and Gastr del Sol. North Shore News: How do lyrics enter into the writing process?

Owen Pallett: Kind of like intruders. I write simultaneously but never at the same time. I’m always writing lyrics and I’m always writing music but the two of them don’t intersect until the very end of the process.What the songs will be about is always informing the way the music is coming together but often times the melodies get new lyrics after I’ve recorded the vocals. I will go back and redo — it’s always a hard part that adds two or three months extra to production finalizing the way the lyrics are going to sit.

North Shore News: You’ve worked with Arcade Fire from the beginning what’s that experience been like?

Owen Pallett: It’s been all

sorts of things. Because the band has changed, because I have changed, I’d have a different answer for you at different times of day. In the initial outset working with them was very inspiring.

Win was taking the sounds and tools of the music that he loved and putting it together into music that he wanted other people to love.

That to me was inspiring.

I’ve thought of these dichotomies as male and female, gay and straight and Canadian and American but ultimately it’s breaking out of an introspective method of making music and turning into a more outgoing way of making music — and that was kind of what they did in the early days.

These days now that I’m out on tour with them I’m learning other new lessons. On some days it’s a bit of a bummer to feel like a cog in a wheel I’m not an essential part of. And to be on stage singing a song I find to be incredibly beautiful like ‘Tunnels’ and also feel like I have no part in it and that I am an

invisible person onstage singing a song I didn’t write.What has come out of that is that I have started to value small business models locally-oriented music production. I look to my friends in Toronto like Alex Lukashevsky and Tom Gill and see their scene of making music for the same 50 to 100 people every weekend. I see how valuable that is and it makes me feel very secure and righteous in what I’m doing.

North Shore News: How much of your new album was done in Iceland?

Owen Pallett: We went to Iceland to record it because that’s where I’d recorded Heartland. Heartland was awesome so let’s go back to Iceland because I loved working at The Greenhouse but when we were there it was like a combination of two things: first the songs just weren’t ready, we weren’t ready as a band.

You have to understand this is the first record the three of us have made together in a room since 2003. Our entire sound

world and all of our tastes have changed so we were dealing with a lot of performative stuff and production stuff and just trying to figure it out.

The studio is essentially a digital studio and works really great for classical stuff and it wasn’t working for stuff like ‘Riverbed’ or ‘Infernal Fantasy’ which really kind of need a real drummer. So that’s how it started. I still have those recordings we did in Iceland.They sound good, the sound world is really interesting but there’s less of a feel of a performance in it.

On the plane ride back I was listening to Electrelane and it was a revelation: ‘We’ve got to record this in a room and we’ve got to record it to tape and record it with no click, it has to be live and that’s going to work well.’ I don’t know if you know my drummer Rob but he has a very loose human sort of feel to him.

He’s more like a heart than a metronome. In Iceland we were doing everything to click and we were doing

everything separately and it wasn’t really coming together. So then we recorded at Hotel2Tango and also at Arcade Fire HQ we kind of did two sessions back to back just to try them in one room and then in another room.We ended up using almost entirely Hotel2Tango stuff with a couple of things we did at Arcade Fire HQ because we kind of got it the first time this time.

North Shore News: So most of it is live off the floor?

Owen Pallett: All the band ones.The vocals I did afterwards and the strings and then Eno did some stuff after the fact.

North Shore News: Is this the first time you’e done it like that.

Owen Pallett: No, not exactly, but yes. He Poos Clouds was done off click.

We did that entirely in the air and then Heartland and Spectrum and all that kind of stuff we all did to click but I was so dissatisfied and unhappy and my mind

has just never got into it. I love music that is done to metronomes but it always just sounds so functional to me.Whenever I hear music that’s sort of got a driving beat and that beat doesn’t change then immediately I’m transported to the dance floor or I’m at the gym. I feel that music is physically accessorizing certain things and I don’t make music for the dance floor or the gym.

Even when we started doing Swedish Love Story I was actually working with modified clicks. I started taking a lot of songs that had drums on them that I really vibed with, like a lot of Motown songs, and I took loops from them and broke down exactly where the beats fell over an eightbar period. I created these tempo templates and I gave them to Shahzad Ismaily, a NewYork drummer. He was playing along with these clicks and having no trouble doing it and eventually I just realized this was really stupid and I should just get a good drummer to play it like a human.

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Midge Ure offers a sobering lesson Veteran NewWave musician returns with new album and rare North American tour ■ Midge Ure, Rickshaw Theatre, Sunday, Sept.

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The trunk swings open, revealing the merchandise.

The prices of the amps are low — low enough to make a cynical buyer question the ethics of the seller, a would-be music impresario with a practised sinister streak.

Midge Ure, who would go on to play keyboards and sing for new wave band Ultravox, recalls inspecting the “dubiouslysourced equipment.”

It was the mid-1970s and London boutique owner Malcolm McLaren was scanning the streets of Glasgow for a band that would eventually become legendary nonmonarchists the Sex Pistols.

McLaren asked Ure to join and then, seemingly as an afterthought, inquired if he was a musician.

“I declined the offer to join . . . and bought an amplifier instead,” Ure recalls with a laugh.

For 40 years Ure has had a Forest Gump-like existence in the United Kingdom music scene — sharing songwriters with the Bay City Rollers, penning humanitarian tunes with Bob Geldof and upsetting punk rockers by bringing a synthesizer to practice.

Ure has spent nearly 10 years working on his emotional and experimental new album, Fragile.

He questioned his desire to make a new album and the public’s desire to hear it. But before he could surround himself with the toys of his trade and craft new music, Ure had to stop drinking.

“There’s an awful lot of talk about, ‘Did your father drink?’ and ‘Was

it your upbringing in Glasgow?’ No, it wasn’t, it was none of those things, it was because it was there,” he explains.

“I was a latecomer to drinking. I remember standing in the Whiskey a Go Go back in 1979 when some lovely bar lady came up and said, ‘What are you guys drinking after the show?’ And I said, ‘I have no idea because I don’t really drink,’ and she gave me my first Jack Daniels and Coke,” he recalls.

“Once you give a child a chocolate, that’s it, it’s all over.You don’t go back.”

For Ure, stopping his drinking and recording music are both things he could only do for himself.

“I was trying to stop for everybody else and then I realized that I had to stop for me,” he says. “There’s a switch on your head, and . . . no one could throw that switch but me.”

Asked about the audience for his new album, Ure answers simply.

“Me,” he says. “The only person who has to live with this for the rest of their life is me.”

He’d recorded a lifetime of songs “with my old pal Jack Daniels next to me,” but eventually realized that not only could he do without that crutch, he wanted to.

The result is an album “full of hope.”

“If you’re going to write about stuff, write about something that someone somewhere will tap into and go, ‘That’s my life he’s talking about.

That’s my life he’s singing about.’ Because that’s what music should do.”

Ure is sticking to hits like “If I Was” and “Vienna” on his current retro tour.

“It’s a bit like turning an old friend away from a party,” he said. “You’ve got to remember that that old friend changed your life forever,” he says. “What I’m trying to avoid is that tumbleweed moment when you say,

‘Here’s something from my new album!’ And everyone goes, ‘Oh God.’” Still, he can’t wait to play the new tunes.

Ure is decidedly independent — which caused a little friction in his relationship with BMG International.

“The first thing they did was suggest that maybe I shouldn’t write all this new album on my own, and that maybe I shouldn’t produce it myself, and maybe I shouldn’t do it in my studio . . . and then I thought, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t sing it, either.”

He and the label have since parted ways.

“Why buy a dog and try to turn it into a cat?” he asks. “I’m back being a dog again and quite enjoying it.”

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

Trip Advisor recommended. Air Conditioned.

Pasparos Greek

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

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Neighbourhood Noodle House

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

Family owned and operated for over 18 years. Conveniently located in central Lonsdale.

Chef Hung Taiwanese Noodle

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

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The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar

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C-Lovers Fish & Chips

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

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Montgomery’s Fish & Chips

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

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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.

WEST COAST

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.

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

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

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.

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The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub

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Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub

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

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

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

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.

The MarinaSide Grill

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

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

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Outback scrubs up nicely Outback: the name conjures up a desiccated, heat-stroked landscape of dust and scrubby shrubs, with perhaps a single bleached sheep skull lying on the ground, a home for some highly poisonous spider or snake.

Strewth, that’s some seriously kangaroo-infested terrain you’ve got to cross there.

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However, this vehicle is not so much a desert explorer as it is a denizen of the rainforest. They should have called it the Subaru Damp.

For more than two decades, the Outback has been a sort of antiSUV, providing all the capacity of a large wagon with a little extra ground clearance, with the side bonus of some sweet two-

tone paintwork. OK, so maybe that last part was more questionable than attractive.

Even with Forester sales doing very strongly, the Outback is an important car for Subaru, and now there’s a new one. Time to see if it’s fair dinkum, or a bit of a dingo.

Design In the mid-2000s, the

Legacy was probably the best-looking Subaru that the company produced (admittedly, they aren’t known for building beauties). The car that followed was somewhat chunky, but some of the svelte shape has come back: the Outback’s a pretty handsome-looking rig up front.

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Nicely trimmed Subaru still breezes over sand dunes From page 42 The plastic trimmings around the base of the car are all you get to indicate a rugged nature — no more two-tone paint — and the raised suspension still doesn’t make this car as tall as most crossovers. There are integrated, swing-out crossbars for carrying kayaks and the like, and they’re actually reachable.

The only demerit that might be offered is that Subaru’s new corporate grille is remarkably similar to that found on most Hyundais. It makes the Outback a little less distinctive than it was before.

Environment On the inside, things get even less Subaru-y, and that’s a good thing. In the company’s model hierarchy, the Outback actually sits slightly above the Forester, something you can tell as soon as you step into the Outback’s interior.

The cabin trimmings are very nicely finished, with brushed metal or a matte-finish wood that’s very classy, and fit and finish appear very good. It’s uncomplicated but upscale, and there is a bit of that two-tone nature available: tan seats come with black carpets so you don’t mark them up with muddy boots.

The front seats are quite comfortable, and the rears have plenty of space.

Subaru calls their sunroof panoramic, but it’s smaller than you’d find in older Outbacks, although that does mean more headroom for rear passengers.

In the very back of the Outback, there’s a whacking great trunk, one that comes with all sorts of optional accessories including a divider so you can keep your pooch from clambering over the seats.

The space is approximately 75 centimetres tall, and a little more than one metre wide between the wheelwells.

Performance Two engines are on offer for the Outback, either the ubiquitous 2.5-litre flat-four, or the smooth 3.6-litre flat-six.

The latter makes 256 horsepower at 6,000 r.p.m., and now comes bolted to a continuously variable transmission for a little

more fuel economy and even smoother operation.

The 175 h.p. 2.5i also gets bolted to a CVT except where Canadians are concerned — we have at least the option of choosing a six-speed manual. However, most Outbacks will leave the showroom with the 2.5 and the CVT, so that’s how I drove it.

It’s hard, at first, to believe that the Outback shares any DNA with the WRX it’s likely parked beside in the showroom.

This is a big, relatively heavy car (approximately 2,000 kilograms), so 175 h.p. is just adequate in terms of acceleration. If there’s a short passing space on a winding country road, it might not have quite enough gumption to take advantage of a small gap.

What’s more, that raised suspension does contribute to more than a bit of body roll, meaning that hustling the Outback along a curving road is a bit of a chore. Grip is plentiful and everything feels nice and safe, but this is not the Outback’s natural habitat.

Don’t be put off, this is a very amiable car to drive. It simply favours a different driving style, the kind that has you pull over every second time you see a historical marker, to check it out and take a picture or two. It’s made for the explorer-style road trip, rather than hammering down the highway to make time.

Speaking of the highway, here it is very comfortable indeed, soaking up bumps with that soft suspension.

There is a little more wind noise than expected at speeds faster than 80 kilometres per hour, but it’s a much quieter car than almost any other Subaru has been. The CVT keeps engine revs low, and you just cruise on to your destination, getting decent fuel economy.

When you get there, should the last few miles be gravel or sand, the Outback is as ridiculously capable as you’d expect from a Subaru. I drove it out through drifts of soft sand on the coast of Oregon and it wasn’t fazed in the slightest.

Features The 2015 Outback,

starting at $27,995, is available with Subaru’s new Starlink infotainment system, which is just as intuitive as any other on the market, and maybe even easier to use. It works with pinch-and-swipe gestures just like a smartphone, and is easy to navigate through the various menus.You also get a small display in the instrument cluster which repeats navigation directions.

Also handy for exploration is the availability of quad heated seats and plenty of USB and 12-volt power outlets for all sorts of mobile devices.There are enough cubbies to more than adequately outfit your expedition.

The Outback has legs too. Official fuel economy ratings are at 9.4 litres/100 kilometres in the city and 7.1 l/100 km highway.

My real-world testing saw figures in the mid-six l/100 km.With a 70-litre fuel tank, that’s plenty of range for your adventures.

Green light Roomy, comfortable interior; easy-to-use navigation system; excellent off-road ability.

Stop sign Moderate acceleration; no push-button start except on top-trim models; power tailgate is a bit slow.

The checkered flag Still a proper adventure vessel from Subaru, but you’re no longer roughing it.

Competitor Toyota Venza ($29,510) The Venza doesn’t really have much in the way of offroad aspirations, but it’s a surprisingly capable vehicle for on-road operations.

Towing capacity is good, there’s stout V-6 power on offer, and there’s plenty of stylish space for the whole family.

The Outback isn’t quite as snazzy on the outside as the Toyota, but it’s got a nicer interior, and then there’s that off-road capability should you need it.The choice will depend on whether you’re wearing a suit, or Gore-Tex. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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