North Shore News December 19 2014

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in the list of highest-paid school district employees across the province — is now eligible to collect both a full pension and a salary comparable to what he previously earned.

The practice — known as “double dipping” — is one that has been questioned when practised by federal civil servants and senior municipal staff.

Bill Bell, a North Vancouver blogger, said Lewis’ position raises similar issues.

“He’s getting his pension fund and he’s getting paid,” said Bell. “When a taxpayer looks at that, it is wrong.

You don’t retire people then hire them back. It’s just bad policy.”

Bell blames the former school board for that, noting while the situation was

SD44’s rehire of retired superintendent draws criticism

JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Questions are being raised about how the NorthVancouver school district recruits and pays its top senior staff after it was recently revealed superintendent John Lewis officially “retired” at the beginning of September, only to be immediately hired back in the same job as a contract employee.

The situation means Lewis — who earned more than $246,000 in salary and benefits last year and who often ranks second or third

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Friday, December 19, 2014 - North Shore News - A3

Utility rates to see modest rise in 2015 Water, sewage fees set to go up in WestVan and NorthVan District

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

The cost of water is rising in the districts of West and North Vancouver — although not by enough, according to one councillor.

The median West Vancouver household will pay $99 more for water and sewer in 2015, for a bill totalling approximately $757.

Those rates aren’t sustainable, according to

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Craig Cameron. “I’m vehemently against this approach,” he said. “We’re effectively subsidizing present residents at the expense of the future.”

Sewer rates are set to go up by six per cent in 2015 with water fees notching up five per cent.

Cameron suggested a 10 per cent increase would be more appropriate as the district prepares to adapt to more frequent extreme weather events.

“It’s going to be less affordable later because there will be a funding shortfall,” he predicted.

West Vancouver’s new rate structure passed 4-3 with Couns. Bill Soprovich and Nora Gambioli joining Cameron in his opposition.

West Vancouver’s 2015 fees are affected by Metro Vancouver’s lower-thanpredicted sanitary sewer costs, explained district director of engineering Raymond Fung The wild card in future sewer costs is the unknown price tag on the Lions Gate secondary wastewater treatment plant, which is set to be built by 2020.

“Depending on the amount of senior government cost sharing that we obtain . . . those numbers could increase very significantly but they have not been factored into the Metro Vancouver increases,” Fung said.

The Eagle Lake membrane filtration plant has been taking care of half the district’s water needs, bringing water to residents at lower prices than those offered by Metro Vancouver, according to Fung.

The district is scheduled to pay off the last of the Eagle Lake loans in 2017.

While West Vancouverites are paying

higher rates, most bills are dipping due to water metering, which has resulted in a 25 per cent reduction in water consumption, according to Fung.

Utility rates were far less contentious in the District of North Vancouver.

The council passed a 1.7 per cent increase for water, sewer, recycling and solid waste, adding up to an average increase of $25.70 per homeowner over the year.

A “more modest” capital program and larger contributions to reserves are the main reasons for the small increase,

according to the district’s chief financial officer Nicole Deveaux.

Single family homes will pay two per cent more for water and 2.2 per cent more for sewer and drainage. The cost of disposing of waste and recycling is slated to inch up by 0.6 per cent.

Secondary suites will be subject to a one per cent bump for water but no increase for sewer, adding up to a total hike of 0.6 per cent.

There will be no extra charge for homeowners with swimming pools. A water use study on pools is ongoing.

Board to review ‘double dipping’ From page 1 discussed by trustees last spring and became official in September, it was only alluded to in a vaguely worded press release issued one day before the new school board was sworn in.

Barry Forward, the new chair of the North Vancouver Board of Education, acknowledged the arrangement to hire Lewis back after his official retirement is one that will be looked at carefully by the new board. “I am not a fan of double dipping, personally,” he said.

“Taxpayers are demanding high accountability from its public officials.There’s only one taxpayer.”

Lewis, who has worked in the North Vancouver School District for 35 years, said the decision to officially retire was a personal one, but also one that was influenced by his role as superintendent.

“I’m always giving that heavy consideration,” he said.

Lewis said maximum contributions have already been made to his teachers pension plan. But there have also been a number of recent changes in senior management positions at the school board leaving him as the only employee who’s been there longer than five years. Lewis said staying on allows a new board of education to hire a deputy superintendent who can gradually take over. He added he could have probably gone to work at other Metro Vancouver school districts but, “This was my preferred option.”

Lewis said under the new arrangement, he is still employed directly by the school district, but the public

body is no longer required to make pension contributions on his behalf.This way, Lewis said he’s saving the school district money.

According to public reports, last year the school district paid more than $30,000 towards Lewis’ pension benefits.

Lewis refused to say how much he is being paid under the new contract, except to say it’s similar to the salary he was earning before. He also refused to say if he has started drawing his pension.

But he added that since mandatory retirement was outlawed, more people who are eligible for a pension are continuing to work.

“It’s not an uncommon situation,” he said. “There’s mutual benefit.”

Jordan Bateman, director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, agreed the practice is becoming more common — especially among former public servants where pensions are generally “far and away better than anything you could get in the private sector” and can be drawn at an earlier age.

Pensions are no longer just considered an income for those who have retired, he said. “Now it’s become yet another income source.

This is where people become uncomfortable about double dipping.”

Bateman added the practice often indicates a failure of proper succession planning.

Forward said that’s something the new board will be examining more closely in the new year.

So far there is no timeline attached to a plan to recruit someone who will eventually replace Lewis.

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Murals adorn Low Level Rd. Art installations reflect area’s past and present STEFANIA SECCIA sseccia@nsnews.com

While the Low Level Road project nears completion, two new art installations have gone up along the newly constructed roadway and along the Spirit Trail.

The new pieces were chosen through the City of North Vancouver’s art selection process that had

to hit two marks: engage the travelling public and provide a sense of place.

On the Low Level Road’s retaining wall is a more than 30-metre long mural featuring an original design by Musqueam Nation artist Susan Point.

The design elements were created including Coast Salish iconography in a storybook form.

The pre-cast concrete panels were created to interact with each other while reflecting the area’s past, its ever-changing present and its natural surroundings, according to Port Metro Vancouver.

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installation draws on Moodyville’s past by incorporating repeating shapes of saws in reference to the sawmill that first brought residents and jobs to the area.

Randall Anderson’s precast concrete wall panels of his piece Milling Time were installed last April and can be seen on the southern abutment of the Spirit Trail overpass, at the east end of the project.

While two new art installations have gone up, two existing ones are finding new homes along the Spirit Trail.

Peter Pierobon’s and Sibeal Foyle’s 2002

installation Essential Elements has been refurbished and relocated along the new Spirit Trail, in the 300-block of Esplanade.

The last boulder of Site Memories – Murmuring Crows, by Ingrid Koivukangas, which currently sits beside the trail near the point where it joins East Third Street, is slated to relocate to the new Spirit Trail alignment in Moodyville Park, near the new East Third overpass.

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ritish Columbia’s energy minister Bill Bennett took to the airwaves the morning after his government announced it will build the Site C dam on the Peace River near Fort. St. John.

It is a sizable public investment, at close to $9 billion.

At capacity, it will generate enough power to provide electricity for 450,000 homes per year, which will be needed as B.C.’s population grows by another million people, Bennett told the CBC. That’s pretty tantalizing when you think about that same energy coming from coal or nuclear plants, which bring costly, and perhaps deadly, long-term environmental impacts.

However, there is a more pressing need that’s going to gobble up most of those kilowatt hours, and that is the massive amount of energy needed to convert natural gas into a liquid form for export.

But whether it’s for charging smartphones or supporting the province’s adventures in LNG, we have our doubts about how soon, or even if, this project will proceed. It has cleared the regulatory hurdles but local First Nations and residents are only just gearing up to fight.

Bennett told the CBC that the lawsuits pending by three local First Nations are “just something you’re going to have to work through,” when dealing with any large project in Canada today.

That could be costly optimism in the wake of the landmark Tsilhqot’in Nations vs. British Columbia ruling in the Supreme Court this summer, which affirmed First Nations have title to their traditional lands.

Bennett claimed construction should begin sometime in the summer of 2015.

Thank you, Bill. We appreciated the laugh.

Character and characters abound on DTES Dressed — in sports jacket and tie, a disappearing theatre uniform — for a ballet matinee sold out at my price point, I took an unscheduled stroll to the Downtown Eastside.

Perhaps “stroll” can be misunderstood in this context. A walk.

The Lotus Hotel marks a fair border crossing. Half a century ago at this Chinese restaurant a new Vancouver Sun recruit hosted some mates from the nearby Sun Tower to a cheap lunch marking Shakespeare’s birthday — April 23, 1564, forget to send a card? Now repurposed, attractive, featuring a gay/lesbian bar.

The striking Pennsylvania Hotel nearby would be a heritage treasure elsewhere in town. Here it’s handsomely propped up with taxpayer money as (mantra ahead!) low-cost housing.

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In the mid-1960s the area was flatly still called Skid Road. “Downtown Eastside” was and remains mainly an ashamed city’s real-estate euphemism — with admirable audacity (or sagacity?), the office of uber-real estate broker Bob Rennie is at 51 East Pender, the gentrifying end.

The old Woodward’s on Hastings is the Ghost of Vancouver Past.Wraith-like words below each storey

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Dry Goods,” the downto-earth things that made the store hugely popular with ordinary people — and destroyed it, as it did Eaton’s, when the up-selling New Affluence struck.

Character, and characters, abound. A dusty bearded man holds a cane and a fabric grocery bag, contents peeking from the holey bottom, in one hand, and in the other a leash attached to a Labradorcross dog solemnly gripping a green tennis ball. A women’s centre is festooned with signs offering all manner of support.The Downtown Eastside anomaly: Nowhere will you find so many dumped meals and half-eaten sandwiches, careless waste of free food.

The New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton played the Regent Hotel in this area nearly a century ago.Would

Morton be astounded that his music was evoked in a graduate course at UBC this autumn? Maybe not.

Vain, he knew his greatness.

The striking block is Hastings Street near Columbia. A block of street vendors, so achingly poor it punishes the heart. Old everything. Old clothes, electronic bits, stray car parts, CDs, suspect food — one salesman holds a coffee concentrate, cries “Makes seven cups of coffee!” It’s merchandising’s subsub-basement floor, pure cowboy capitalism: No rent, no rules, no regulations, no HST, no PST, no questions.

A book offers a title innocent of irony: 10,000 Ways to Be Happy.

The Carnegie Community Centre at Hastings and Main is Downtown Eastside’s unchallenged capital.

Finished in 1903, it was

one of magnate Andrew Carnegie’s thousands of worldwide libraries. It sits like a deposed queen. Its stairs are gorgeous white marble. Shakespeare, Milton, Scott stare down from stained-glass windows on passing humanity.

A sign at the men’s washroom reads: Transgendered Welcome.

Up the circular stairway a dining room charges meals at prices of decades ago: Breakfast $2, lunch $2.25. A UBC poster for Humanities 101 offers free tuition, transit, meals, even child care. “Ordinary” students can only gasp.

Another poster notes a woman’s death. Someone has written under the name: “Ted’s friend.” A falling-apart community yet so fiercely close-knit.

It’s reported that almost $1 million a day is spent to help 6,500 Downtown

Eastside residents. Also that a couple of helpers helped themselves to society funds they used for high living.

Not so unlike “mainstream” society after all.

Obviously in no immediate need of food or help, I stand out, but am invisible.Wary glances, maybe. Except one middleclass woman, One Of Us, likely Carnegie staff or volunteer. Her eyes are messages. Like a bonding.

Outside, just over my shoulder, a passing woman’s voice (aimed at my ear?) says almost like a secret: “Anybody want 10 off?” Off what, for what, I didn’t ask.

But segue into this: A really edgy and historically noteworthy production of a play, imaginatively staged too, occurred this year at the well-worn Rickshaw Theatre, steps from HastSee Busing page 10

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VIEWPOINT

‘Yes’ vote on transit tax would be epic

If a majority of Metro Vancouver voters endorse TransLink’s proposed halfpoint increase in the sales tax to fund transportation projects, the ramifications could go well beyond the region and the specific issue being voted on.

A successfulYes vote will have meant people actually voted for a tax increase, which has been an unheard of proposition for a decade now. Governments of all stripes have tried to outpace each other in cutting taxes, not raising them, the theory being give the people what they want.

But if people actually support a tax increase because they equate it with clearly outlined service improvements, it may embolden governments to at least revisit some tax policies.

Revenue streams of various sorts have been drying up for years, and money has to come from somewhere if government services are to be maintained or expanded.

Of course, getting that majorityYes vote to materialize is going to take some doing.

Keith Baldrey

View from the Ledge Even though it can be argued that Metro Vancouver mayors opted for the cheapest, if not most timid, option to raise money for projects, the idea of even a tiny tax increase is going to rankle many.

Voters have long seemed cranky when it comes to tax hikes.They feel they already pay enough in taxes (and user fees) and don’t get enough of a return on what they pay right now.

When taxes are imposed on people in the way property taxes or income taxes are, voters can take out their resentment in an election and penalize the

politicians who imposed those taxes, should they choose to do so. But in this case people are being asked beforehand to accept a tax hike, and that is a considerably different situation.

The reasons to vote yes will no doubt strike many as sound and sensible, but that can matter little in a referendum. And it has been clear for some time that while many, many people want more and better transportation options, they see no inconsistency in their view that someone other than themselves should pay for them.

Potentially even more problematic for theYes side is that this referendum may actually become, for many people, a referendum on TransLink itself.The organization is every transit user or stuck-in-traffic motorist’s favourite whipping boy, and even the mayors who run it aren’t exactly keen fans of the company either.

Leading the No side will be the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which tends

to paint almost all public spending and taxation as questionable and don’t really provide alternatives to what they are criticizing (other than simplistically saying stop spending or stop taxing).

Nevertheless, the organization is good at getting its message out through effective media campaigns, and already it has dubbed its referendum campaign the “NoTransLink Tax Campaign.”

Funding transit through referendums is fairly common in many cities in the United States, but it’s a new concept here.The successful referendums in the U.S. (which have resulted in funding hikes) usually occur after lengthy campaigns — sometimes lasting more than a year — to shape public opinion accordingly.

But in TransLink’s case, theYes side will only have several months to make their sales pitch.

A broad-based coalition is forming to support the Yes side, and it includes politicians of all stripes as

coalition of strange political bedfellows band together to ensure theYes side won in a referendum.That would be the Charlottetown Accord, a proposed change to the Canadian constitution,

well as business leaders and several key unions. But it’s unclear whether they can convince the people they purport to represent to actually mail in a ballot markedYes. More than 20 years ago, we saw another broad

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Hidden camera used for recording From page 1 behaviour as “sordid, invasive, deeply troubling and offensive.”

A more complicated question to answer is “was it criminal?” she said.

At the gymnastics competition, Greenwood sat in an isolated area of the bleachers and filmed girls ranging in age from seven to 13 as they warmed up for events, said Crown counsel Lori Ashton during the trial.

Several people who saw the video camera’s screen noticed Greenwood was zooming in on the gymnasts’ crotches, breasts and buttocks. Other video footage was filmed with a camera hidden up his sleeve.

Greenwood was so intent on his recording that he did not notice police who were called by competition

organizers until they were standing right beside him. Police recovered two cameras when they arrested Greenwood.

Video seized from Greenwood’s camera was played during the trial, as was a videotaped statement from Greenwood taken at the North Vancouver RCMP detachment.

Defence lawyer Michael Sanders argued that when Greenwood made his onehour recording, he was at a public event, where many other people had cameras.

Sanders said under those circumstances, Greenwood wasn’t being secretive and the competitors had no reasonable expectation of privacy.

The judge, however, disagreed.

Gedye said when Greenwood entered the gym

with a camera up his sleeve, the recording was clearly being done surreptitiously.

While filming, Greenwood held the camera on his thigh, close to his body the whole time, and never brought the display up to his eye or held it in the air to watch, Gedye noted. She concluded Greenwood did that to try to conceal what he was recording.

The judge agreed with Sanders that at an international competition open to the public “there is an expectation you will be seen, looked at and even photographed.”

But she added there is still some expectation of privacy in public, noting the use of technology can transform that from what is expected to “something completely different.”

Greenwood’s extensive

use of the zoom feature had the effect of placing the viewer “inches away from (the competitors’) groins and buttocks,” said the judge.

None of the recordings appeared related to the sport itself, said Gedye, noting the only positioning of the camera seemed to be in anticipation of being able to zoom in on the girls’ bodies.

“Competitors and their coaches and parents had a reasonable expectation that their privacy wouldn’t be invaded in the way and to the extent it was,” said the judge.

Gedye ordered that a psychiatric report be prepared before Greenwood is sentenced.The sentencing hearing will take place in March.

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INQUIRING REPORTER The federal government came up on the wrong side of the gavel in their most recent attempt to keep medical marijuana users from getting high on their own supply.

Former police officers (and we stress “former”) have dubbed prohibition a failure.

Is it in Canada’s interests to keep marijuana out of the pipes and brownies of the nation’s euphoria-chasers? Or should we make an exception under extreme conditions, such as for cancer patients or people getting ready to watch Pink Floyd’s $!# "*11?

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Judith Netscher North Vancouver “I would say yes for medical use.”

Should Canadians be allowed to grow their own medicinal marijuana?

Bryan Gault Toronto “One hundred per cent.

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Sean Guinn Nara, Japan “I don’t think so. It’s not good for the body.”

Margot O’Hara North Vancouver “I don’t have enough information to make a decision.”

David Philip North Vancouver “Let people know what it does to people and let them choose.”

Busing it back to Fat City From page 6 ings and Main. It was George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs.Warren’s Profession — so anger-generating that it had only two nervous London performances in 1902 and wasn’t staged again until 1925.

The audacity was putting it on in this of all Vancouver locales. Story: A highly privileged young woman discovers with horror that she’s living off the avails of prostitution — that the mother living abroad who pays for her expensive ways

owns a string of brothels. I admit to examining some colourful fellow playgoers intently.

Some Downtown Eastside residents are as heroic as battlefield soldiers in their struggle to get out of the place. “Drowning,” wrote Emily Dickinson, “is not so pitiful/As the attempt to rise.” On the bus back to Fat City from this land of a perpetual dateless calendar it hit me — I’d seen no sign of Christmas. Enjoy yours.

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which went down to defeat despite the fact the “establishment” insisted it was a worthy endeavor.

We may be about to witness the same thing again, with a situation where the “leaders” insist they know best, while a suspicious public feels otherwise. But if theYes side beats the odds and actually pulls off

a victory, perhaps the days of tax revolts may finally be nearing an end and governments will stop being leery about even talking about tax hikes.

It’s a long shot, I know, but a majority vote for a tax increase — no matter how small — may well prove to be groundbreaking.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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People started to respond and we managed to pick up his trail again.

People weren’t just posting on Facebook though. On a day and night of torrential rain, people came out in cars, on foot, with their own dogs, with head lamps and flashlights to help in the search. Many were people we had never even met.

On Thursday morning around 10 a.m. someone posted to the NSR

Facebook page that Hudson had been seen on Ridgewood Drive in Edgemont Village.

Amazingly, he had travelled through the night and somehow made it across many busy streets, including the highway overpass at Fell Avenue, and was now kilometres away from where he first bolted. The whole crew of friends and strangers converged in the area.

People walking their dogs, construction workers, posties, surveyors and pedestrians, each one who was approached was, without fail, willing to help.

It was the most extraordinary feeling to experience the generous support of so many people.

Hudson was finally found and jumped into my van and into my lap. That was one hundred pounds of happy, wet, tired, scared dog licking my face.

It was a moment of happiness and relief and it would never have happened without the assistance of the folks at NSR and all the

wonderful, kind generous people who came out to help us.

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This is a letter of heartfelt thanks to the many, many people who helped search for Hudson over the next 26 hours and without whom we would not have had a happy ending to this Christmas tale. This is what happened.

Hudson was lost at Welch Street and Bowser Avenue. We were able to track him for a short while but then lost him.

We were sick with worry when we called North Shore Rescue and asked if they could help.

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David James and Big River pay tribute to Johnny Cash

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The tour bus is coming, it’s rolling ’round the bend, and David James ain’t seen the sunshine since he don’t know when.

But if he had to say just when he started toting his guitar along roads with dust and sand and every other road in this here land, James would say it was probably seven or eight years ago now, back when Joaquin Phoenix was singing Johnny Cash’s songs in Walk the Line.

“I fell in love with what he did,” James recalls.

“It inspired me how this guy could live this way and come around and get it all back and make great music throughout.”

James had spent most of his musical life guitar soloing through his cover band’s classic rock playlist, but something about that movie made him sing along.

“I fell into a burning ring of fire. I went down,

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James is an Alberta native but his water-well deep voice takes on a southern twang from time to time, like when he says “fella” or guitar (“geetar”). Maybe that’s why June Carter Cash’s hillbilly poetry sounded so at home in James’ tumbling bass.

Still, he might not have paid the moment much mind if his girlfriend hadn’t taken notice.

“She was absolutely blown away when I started to sing along. She’s like, ‘You sound better than Joaquin!” he recalls.

A little while later he talked to his cover band about working in some Johnny Cash.

James sang a medley of “Ring of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Cocaine Blues.”

“I watched the dance floor light up,” he says.

Asked how the guys in the band reacted, James laughs.

“They knew they were going to lose me at that point,” he says. “I even told them, I said, ‘In one year’s time I’ll be playing casinos and showrooms.’

They kind of chuckled at me.”

About one year later James looked out at a crowd and said, “Hello, I’m almost Johnny Cash,” from the stage of a Calgary casino during the Stampede.

But while James had a handle on Cash’s bloody

baritone he still needed a band that could give him the Tennessee Three’s boom-chicka-boom beat.

His first recruit was Colin Stevenson.

Stevenson is a singer/songwriter and guitarist, but there’s something about the way he handles Cash’s rhythms.

“I tell you what, the guy can play the drums like nobody.There’s way better drummers than him but I’ve hired drummers to fill in for him and it never works out. He’s just got something.”

Todd Sacerty plays and bass and leads the band when it comes to business (“I’m the band leader on stage,” James clarifies).

Rounding out Big River’s sound is Duncan Symonds.

“We got a young fella . . . he’s only 25 but the kid can play guitar just like a-ringin’ a bell,” James says, a famous Chuck Berry melody creeping into his voice.

In order to get enough material for his band, James dug into the lifetime of music Cash left behind.

“I went on the Internet and just stole a bunch of songs and then I bought a bunch of CDs as well,” he says. “It took me quite a while to figure out what was the popular stuff and what was just

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“The whole United States . . . . ain’t big enough.There ain’t room enough for you an’ me, for your kind an’ my kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat.”

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Christmas in the capital

Victoria’s Inner Harbour getting into holiday spirit MICHELLE HOPKINS ContributingWriter

Who doesn’t love a ghost story? Best known for high tea and its landmark position in Victoria’s Inner Harbour, it seems the Grand Lady herself, the Fairmont Empress Hotel, has a resident ghost or two.

Well, I for one love a good phantom tale even at Christmas. So, when I was taking part in local historian John Adams’ Discover Christmas tour I asked if he could tell me about the untimely death of the hotel’s chambermaid Lizzie McGrath.

Adams says that indeed Lizzie fell to her death in 1909 after stepping out of her sixth-storey room to stand on the fire escape that she didn’t realize had been removed for construction.

The history buff went on to add that many an employee of the hotel says Lizzie likes to roam the sixth floor.

It’s not all ghosts and goblins though. Adams’ 90minute stroll through Old Town weaves through the festive streets to hear true stories about the season, including reminiscences of Emily Carr’s Christmases as a little girl.

The provincial capital is aglow with brightly coloured lights — every building, hotel and the Parliament Building along the waterfront sparkles. I can’t think of a better place to get into the holiday mood.

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he destination of Air Transat flight TS903 on Dec. 10 was the North Pole, which made its passengers, kids and adults, giddy with excitement.

For this was a flight to find Santa.

Organized by the Children’s Wish Foundation, 100 children and their families were invited to board the plane at Vancouver International Airport, but not everything was smooth on the tarmac. The pilots first had to get around the Grinch on the runway before taking off and reaching cruising altitude.

A half an hour into the 90-minute flight, a tremendous bump didn’t just mean turbulence but also the arrival of Santa and his elves, straight from the cockpit.

During the flight, which circled the Lower Mainland, a throne was set up at the back of the plane and the children received gifts from the special visitor in a red suit.

Lynn Valley resident Diego Ibanez, 7, was among the passengers of flight TS903, and he jumped with excitement as he waited to board the plane. There was no doubt in his mind their mission to find Santa and bring him back to Vancouver would be successful.

Born with a genetic disorder, Diego had a liver transplant at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children when he was a toddler. On this day, there was no sign of frailty as he staged a dual between the two puppets on his hands, Santa and Frosty the Snowman.

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rides, particularly the one organized by the Children’s Wish Foundation last year that sent him to Orlando, where he and his family embarked on a Disney Cruise.

While waiting for the Santa flight to board, his mother Maria recounted the highlight of the Orlando trip: “During the voyage, Mickey Mouse gave Diego the news he was going to have a baby sister.”

Another North Shore resident, Kaelyn Thomson, 5, nervously anticipated finding Santa on this special flight. Her mother Tara was

grateful to the Children’s Wish Foundation for granting Kaelyn, a cancer survivor, her wish for a Disney Cruise two years ago.

“The cancer took away a year of her life,” she said. “The cruise was a time for us to be together as a family without all the pokes and tests and stresses of being sick. It was a week to forget all that happened.”

While the children waited to board the airplane, some listened to stories read by characters dressed as Disney princesses, while others had their faces painted and played with rescue dogs.

On this festive day, thoughts of illness were a little farther away and in their place were joy, excitement, and the magic of life.

Deanna Regan’s blog is at motherstonic.com

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Rink in operation on Empress lawn From page 18 Christmas finest, you are seated in the stately Tango Room. A culinary journey starts with sea scallops, followed by an entrée of wild B.C. salmon fillet with winter kale, corn and red potato hash.

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until Jan. 19.

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Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.9 p.m.

Art Opening: Over a dozen local artists and a wide range of original art works will be for sale until Dec. 31.

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PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 604-986-1351 presentationhousegallery.org Lee Friedlander’s photographs and books will be on display until Feb. 8.

PRESENTATION HOUSE SATELLITE GALLERY 560 Seymour St.,Vancouver.

Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. satellitegallery.ca Mainstreeters —Taking Advantage, 1972-1982: An exhibition that brings to light an under-recognized chapter ofVancouver art history will be on view from Jan. 9 to March 14. Opening reception: Thursday, Jan. 8, 6-9 p.m.

Tour and conversation with See more page 36

A stroll through gingerbread masterpieces: The Inn at Laurel Point is hosting its sixth annual Great Gingerbread Showcase, benefiting Habitat for Humanity Victoria.This year’s theme is interpretations of Where Things Live.

From the simplest works made by amateur fingers to mind-blowing works of pastry art by professional bakers, the fairytale gingerbread creations are worth checking out.You can’t help but marvel at the intricacies of the fairy tale characters, aliens and pirates in the imagination of a little boy; the picturesque Mexican village; or the replica of the Ewoks &Wookies Forest Moon of Endor.

If you go: The easiest, fastest and most scenic way to get to Victoria is by Harbour Air. Seaplanes depart from Richmond and Vancouver.

Book online at harbour-air. com.

The Fairmont Empress Hotel, 721 Government Street Victoria, BC V8W 1W5 Phone: 250-3848111 or Website: fairmont. com/empress. Check out the 23rd Annual Festival of Trees, which spreads cheer to everyone who comes by for a visit.The beautifully festooned trees raise funds for BC Children’s Hospital

Foundation.There is no admission cost, but a minimum $2.00 donation to vote for your favourite tree would be appreciated. The Skating Rink is open now until mid-January 2015.

— Discover The Past, 634 Battery St.Victoria, BC V8V 1E5. Phone: 250-384-6698.

Website: discoverthepast.com.

Blessed with a radio voice, John Adams, Historian and Guide, is a walking encyclopedia about some of the most interesting Christmas stories of the past and present.

— The Inn at Laurel Point, 680 Montreal St.,Victoria V8V 1Z8.Toll free: 1800-663-7667 Website: laurelpoint.com.The Sixth annual Canada National Gingerbread Showcase is open now to Jan. 1, 2015 in the lobby of the hotel. Entry is by donation to its charity.

— Butchart Gardens, 800 Benvenuto Ave. in Brentwood Bay. Its 20-km south of the Swartz Bay ferry terminal. Phone: 250-652-7751 or online at butchartgardens.com.The Magic of Christmas at The Butchart Gardens runs from now to Jan. 6, 2015.

— The Royal BC Museum’s Old Town exhibit is an ode to Christmas past. Step through the doors of the province’s oldest house to get an idea of what Christmas would have been like on the streets of Victoria more than a century ago. Royal BC Museum is located at 675 Belleville Street, Phone: 250-356-7226 or website: royalbcmuseum.bc.ca.

For more information about what to see and do in Victoria over the festive holidays, visit tourismvictoria.com/christmas.

Voice has become second nature From page 13

the next song.”

There were backwoods legends about a woman in a black veil, damned cowboys chasing red-eyed cows, tunes about being hurting and lonely on a Sunday morning, and songs about damned men staring at a prison wall and thinking about where things went so wrong.

“It was neat to dig in and find all these obscure songs and we do a few of them in a night, but just a few,” he says. “I realized it’s not just

the song, it’s how you bring it across, too.You can take a piece of junk and turn it into something pretty nice if you kick it, and I’ve got the right voice to do that. So that’s nice to know.”

Turning into the Man in Black took a lot of work, right down to studying videos of the way Cash walked, talked, and held his guitar.

“The voice has developed as well where it’s just second nature now,” he says. “One of my French Canadian friends said ‘You better

watch out.You keep talking like that you’ll sound like Johnny Cash all the time.’ I said, ‘Well that’s better than sounding like you, Guy.’” The concert starts in 1955 and wraps up around 2002.

When James talks about the show, he sounds a little like the radio pitchman at the end of Cash’s “The Night Hank Williams Came to Town.”

“We’ll sell you the whole seat,” James promises.

“You’re only going to need the edge.”

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

Add sparkle to your style

Dear Mattie: What should I wear this holiday season?

Ready to celebrate in Lynn Valley

PERSONAL SHOPPER Claudia Alan eyewear supports children’s charity. page 34

Dear Lynn Valley: The holiday season is always tricky as we have so many different types of parties to attend. Lucky for us, there are also many styles in fashion for holiday dressing. Rest assured, you have options for the office party, the cocktail party and gatherings for friends and family. It is a nice time of year, so why not celebrate? Dressing up feels festive.

A clean line is a great place to start. Holiday trends are layered with details, yet the overall look is not messy.

The silhouette of your outfit should be long and lean.

Skirts can be either short or long with a bit of flair at the hem, creating a gentle swing. Popular holiday fabrics include velvet and lace. Add your accessories and get into the spirit of the holidays.

Wearing a dress always looks more formal. Adding some glitz and colour makes a statement. The cocktail dress is often the “go to” dress for the holiday season. This dress is sparkly with crystals and metallic threads. Don’t mix metals, though. Choose one and maintain it throughout your outfit, thus creating the long and lean look. Mixing metals breaks the line. A slinky lamé dress with fewer accessories also does the trick as the dress itself is the statement piece.

A red or black dress is always in style for special occasions. This can be an investment piece that gets updated with trendy accessories party after party.

New dress looks include the empress style with an

embroidered bodice, a bit of a ruffled collar and a full skirt.

Chiffon, silk and satin dresses with patterns are festive and very modern. These dresses can have a structured line or a loose fit.

There is also a dress for the office party that makes a fashion statement without being too glitzy. A fabric with a jacquard print looks classy and professional. Tuxedo-style pantsuits are another great option. The pants can be narrow and cropped or long and wide.

Don’t limit yourself to black — a white tuxedo makes quite a bold statement. Try to infuse colour into your outfit as it adds dimension to your professional persona.

This season’s blazer is fitted, as is the blouse and sweater. The blouse should have a modern motif and the sweater should have some embellishment. These tops could also be worn at a less formal event with casual pants and a rocking pair of shoes or boots. These options can be dressed up or down with your choice of accessories.

For the less formal party, you might wear a leather skirt or pants. There is also a new fabric that is coated to look like the real thing, but is less expensive. Leather can also have a lacy look as some of the skirts have a hem with a cutout pattern. Lace tops always look great with leather.

The holiday season is a fun time to dress up and enjoy a party with your friends, family and co-workers.

MUSICAL MALL Last minute holiday shoppers will be entertained by Singing Trio Noel on Dec. 21 from 1-3 p.m. outside Park Royal South and the Village at Park Royal, part of the free holiday programming at the shopping centre.

COAT DRIVE Mountain Health and Performance will be collecting new and gently used winter jackets to be donated to the Lookout Emergency Aid Society and the Spectrum Mother Support Society until Dec. 22. Coats can be dropped off at 100223 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. 604-984-0014.

SHIPYARDS MARKET More than 50 local artisans are selling their wares at the Shipyards Christmas Market until Dec. 23 at 19 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver. northshoregreenmarkets.com GIFT GALLERY The Seymour Art Gallery will be selling a selection of holiday gifts by local artists until Dec. 24, 10 a.m.5 p.m. at 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. seymourartgallery.com CLOSING SALE West Vancouver men’s clothing store Baracos + Brand is closing its doors as of Feb. 28, 2015 and is currently holding a close out sale.

Owned by Christine Baracos, the store has been open for two years at 1411 Bellevue Ave. in the same space that for 19 years housed The Mensroom, coowned by Baracos.

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

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DINE IN LIKE IT’S TAKE-OUT Restaurant mussels made simply at home

Why not stay in tonight and experiment with making your favourite restaurant dish at home? That way, you can select the ingredients you are using and control how much to put in, season to your liking, and make healthier substitutions. Spending time in the kitchen and around the dinner table can be a great way for family and friends to connect. For kids, cooking can also help teach some key skills like literacy and creativity.

Mussels are typically ordered as an appetizer or main dish when dining out, and not used in home-cooked meals often enough. They can be a nutritious option, providing vitamin B12, which plays a role in maintaining blood cell and nerve health in the body. Each 75g (2 1/2 oz.) serving contains 18 mcg of vitamin B12. Adult men and women need 2.4 mcg per day. This serving also counts as one serving of meat and alternatives for the day.

Even more, mussels are easy to prepare! They only need a few minutes of cooking time, and are a beautiful addition to many dishes. They can be steamed in a small amount of liquid, like white wine, clear broth, or a coconut curry broth. They can also be simply sautéed with some basil and olive oil. Add some elegance to pasta dishes by cooking mussels into the tomato sauce before serving. Make a mushroom barley risotto and garnish with a few cooked mussels to add some culinary flare.

Making your favourite dine-out dishes at home allows you to fully control what you put into your dish.

Visit our Seafood Department to pick up some Mussels for tonight! Try this delicious recipe for Tomato Fennel Mussels with Sausage. Pair with a salad and a whole wheat baguette for a complete meal. Visit Loblaw CityMarket’s Facebook page for this recipe!

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Claudia Alan supports children’s charity CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

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North Vancouver eyewear designer Carla D’Angelo is helping to feed hungry children this holiday season through the sale of a limited-edition sunglasses gift set.

D’Angelo is the founder and president of Claudia Alan, creator of the Aya Eyewear line of First Nations inspired accessories.

The company recently released a Hope Belongs to Everyone gift set ($65) that includes a pair of polarized aviator style sunglasses, an embossed case, a cleaning cloth and an informative thank you card.

For every set sold, a donation will be made to feed a hungry child for one week through the OneXOne Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of children locally and globally.

“I started the company with a mission to create beautiful eyewear that makes a difference,” D’Angelo said in a press release. “This holiday season, through the sale of the Hope Belongs to Everyone gift set, we are able to provide a week’s worth of much needed nourishment to a child, giving them the chance to

excel and the energy to just be a kid.”

Over the years, Claudia Alan has raised more than $90,000 for OneXOne

through the sale of Aya products. The Hope Belongs to Everyone set is available while quantities last at claudiaalanstore.com.

It’s a Boy! Come and Celebrate

Christmas Eve at Highlands: 4:30pm–Pageant 6:30pm–Choirs Galore 8:30pm–Old Fashioned Christmas 10:30pm—A Celtic Christmas

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trumpets with pianist Miri Lee Friday, Jan. 16, 11:45 a.m.

Free.

curators: Saturday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com A Traditional Christmas: TheVancouver Symphony Orchestra will perform holiday music Friday, Dec. 19 at 4 and 7:30 p.m.Admission: $42/$37.

Tickets: 604-876-3434 or vancouversymphony.ca.

Gloria! A Christmas Celebration: Lions Gate Sinfonia will perform traditional carols followed by a singalong Saturday, Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $39$35/$18/$12.

RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Blue Sky Meets Fired Earth: Landscape paintings by Cathy Roddie and ceramic forms

by Liz De Beer will be on display until Jan. 11.

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Winter Gift Gallery: The gallery will be selling a selection of holiday gifts by local artists until Dec. 24, 10 a.m.-5 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.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604925-7292 silkpurse.ca Gifted: An exhibit of works by the volunteers who work at

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That Go: Images of boats, buses, trains and cars from the library’s historical photograph collection will be on display until Jan.12.

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CD Release Show: Alex Balanko will kick off his new album Distance Saturday, Dec. 20 at 8 p.m.

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DEEP COVE COFFEE HOUSE Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver. 604-3635370 jane@nsrj.ca Pearl: Kathy Francis and Andrea Smith will perform “cool” tunes, harmonies and multi-instruments Friday, Dec. 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 See more page 38

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EveryDay Music marks milestone Local YouTube channel will post 1,000th video Dec. 26 CHERYL ROSSI Vancouver Courier

Rod Matheson was feeling isolated in 2012.

His daughter spent her evenings doing homework on her computer, his wife would drift toward the TV, and Matheson found himself feeling down and disconnected in front his own computer screen.

So he switched off the computer and picked up his video camera and headed to a concert at theVogue Theatre, where he shot the local opening act Maria in the Shower.

It felt good.

“I’ve struggled with depression throughout my life and I was just at a point where I was feeling kind of bleak.Whenever I was around music, it just made me feel wonderful,” Matheson said. “I basically gave up myTV time in the evenings to go out and make this happen and when you stop taking in that daily dose of negativity that isTV, everything from the news to dramas to reality shows — and you replace that with something inherently positive like music, that just lifts your

spirits in phenomenal ways.

I’ve found that music is my medicine.”

On Boxing Day, Matheson will post his 1,000th video of the 1,000th song he’s shot in 1,000 days on hisYouTube Channel, EveryDayMusicTV. His offerings range from bootlegged videos of Roger Waters, Ben Harper and African superstar Kidum in concert, to lesser-known indie bands playing in bathrooms, elevators and kitchens.

Once Matheson upgraded to a camera with a stereo mic, he hit a snag.The more established venues weren’t so keen to have him shoot there anymore (while operators of the Rogue Folk Club, the Rickshaw and the Rio theatres welcomed him). He also discovered artists who were signed to record labels were much more difficult to access.

But lack of access to bigname acts became a blessing in disguise.

“One of the things most surprising to me is how doing this and . . . just trying to find everything I can out there, has completely altered my taste in music,” the 50-yearold said. “I was a mixed tape guy in the ’80s and made my mixed CDs in the ’90s, so I’ve always sought out music and compiled it and shared it since my college days. But listening to recorded music is completely different from the live music experience.”

Watching performances at cozier venues, Matheson gained a new appreciation for country music, folk and bluegrass.

“Especially at the smaller acoustic performances, they… affect me in a completely different way.”

Indie bands began to approach him, sending MP3s and links to their websites.

Matheson wasn’t interested in having a listen.

“I like to be a clean slate,” he said. “That’s part of what’s truly exciting about it for me.”

Matheson lets artists choose the location and he records most of the songs in a single shot.

“It’s a real challenge and I’ve gotten real good at it,” said Matheson, who worked as a videographer from 1985 to 1992, adding that he focuses on making the footage feel unpolished and intimate.

Robyn Jacob of Fist Full o’ Snacks contacted Matheson and he shot her and three other women singing “Bird Song” a capella in the Bloedel Conservatory at Queen Elizabeth Park, while birds whirred around them.

At the recent EastVan Opry show at the Rio, Matheson shot Seattle group Squirrel Butter in the backstage bathroom.

Matheson has an eye for talent. He posted recent Peak See Project page 39

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CALENDAR AUSTRIAN

Jagerhof Restaurant

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

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BISTRO

Hugos, Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas

www.eagleharbour.ca 5775 Marine Drive, W. Van | 604-281-2111 Join us in front of the fire or outside on our enclosed Nordic-style deck for great global comfort food.

We welcome everyone to try authentic dishes from our unique menu we’ve designed based on our love of travel and living abroad. Live music Thursday & Saturday evenings..

Blue Eyed Marys

www.blueeyedmarys.com 1735 Marine Drive, W.Vancouver | (604) 921-2583 Come enjoy our seasonal unpretentious menu and BC wine list. Lunch 11:30-2:00 Tuesday -Friday Dinner Tuesday-Saturday from 5:00 pm. Early bird special: 3 courses $29, Happy Hour Fridays 5:00-6:30

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

SEAFOOD 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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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver.Tickets: 604981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com A Traditional Christmas: TheVancouver Symphony Orchestra will perform holiday music Saturday, Dec. 20 at 4 and 7:30 p.m.Admission: $42/$37.Tickets: 604-8763434 or vancouversymphony. ca.

David James & Big River will perform a tribute to Johnny Cash Monday, Dec. 29 at 7:30 p.m.There will be

a special guest appearance by Hilary Beckett as June Carter.

Tickets: $36.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.Tickets: 604990-3474 phtheatre.org Cap Global Roots: Multi-instrumentalist, singer/ songwriter Don McGlashan will perform Friday, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $28/$25.

ST. DAVID’S UNITED CHURCH 1525 Taylor Way,West See more page 39

Off the Cuff: Top five rappers/DJs From page 13 2 Ranking Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=4ScdX5YknxQ&index=2&list=RDVyYp--7ZU8k and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyYp--7ZU8k plus Nas: Time is Illmatic https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_VNFCnS9c1E Papa Levi: (with Tippa Irie and Daddy Freddie in Bristol) https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=vuGHQEphdGw and SoundChat TV: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=EMSe0tQ9Ki4 and Mi God Mi King: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqNaABE7QM plus Earl Sweatshirt: Chum https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=FCbWLSZrZfw. 1

THAI

Chef Hung Taiwanese Beef Noodle $$ 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.

FINE DINING

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

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

FRENCH

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

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Northlands Bar and Grill

Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub

www.blackbearpub.com 1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van | 604.990.8880 “Favourite North Shore Neighbourhood Pub” 18 years running.

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We do great food, not fast food. Reserve your Christmas party today.

C-Lovers Fish & Chips

CHINESE 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.

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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.

Neighbourhood Noodle House

The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub

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!

BRITISH

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www.golfnorthlands.com/bar-grill 3400 Anne MacDonald Way, North Vancouver | 604.924.2950 ext 2.

Casual West Coast dining where nature is your dining partner.

Sweeping views of Northlands 18th hole.

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

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

Celebrate the Holidays With JAY BRAZEAU and

His Merry Elves!

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 - 11 pm.

WATERFRONT DINING

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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Music and Song! Laughter & Merriment Galore!

“Jay Brazeau had me in stitches. Don’t miss this great show!”

“Great sing-a-longs and just a fabulous show all round!

Loved the festive spirit that flowed through the theatre!”

“The rock and roll segment was a standout!

Couldn’t stop laughing.”

“Great interaction with the audience- couldn’t wait to sing along with the cast.”

December 18-21 7:30 pm evenings; 2:00 pm matinees (Saturday & Sunday)

Presentation House Theatre

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Box Office: 604-990-3474. Online at www.phtheatre.org. $10 for children under 10!

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CALENDAR From page 38 Vancouver.

A Christmas Story: Musica Intima will perform traditional holiday favourites and contemporary works Saturday, Dec. 20 at 2:30 p.m.Admission: $35/$30/$10.

Tickets: 604-731-6618 or musicaintima.org.

Theatre

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-3200 deepcovestage.com Rumpelstiltskin: A pantomime version of this classic fairy tale will run Dec. 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, Jan. 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. with matinees Dec. 20, 21, 27, 28 and Jan. 3 at 3:30 p.m.

Tickets: $15.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Don Pasquale: An opera performed byVenture Opera of NewYork Friday, Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m.Admission: $40/$30/$20. Following the opera there will be an after party featuring The Boom Booms from 10 to 11 p.m.

Admission: $40/$30/$20.

The Odd Couple: The classic comedy of mismatched roomies Jan. 12 and 13 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $50/$39/$25/$15.

RICHMOND GATEWAY THEATRE 6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond. 604-270-1812 gatewaytheatre.com Crazy forYou: North Shore native, dancer Afton Toler will perform in this Gershwins’ musical until Dec. 31.Tickets: $48.

ST. MARTIN’S HALL 195 East Windsor Rd., North Vancouver. 604-7670665 smpdramatics.com Space: A StarWars and Star Trek style pantomime Jan. 1517, 22-24 at 7:30 p.m. with matinees Jan. 17 and 24 at 2 p.m.Tickets: $17/$13/$10/$7.

Dance

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Nutcracker: Royal City Youth Ballet will perform this holiday tradition Sunday, Dec. 21 at 1 and 4 p.m.Tickets: $35/$25.

Other events

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Twerk the Halls — A Toddy Halliday: YouTube sensation Todrick Hall will bring his most viral videos to life and perform holiday tunes with a new twist Monday, Dec. 22 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $44.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com LONSDALE QUAY 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. lonsdalequay.com LYNN VALLEY LIBRARY 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. 604-9840286 x8144 nvdpl.ca NORTH VANCOUVER CITY LIBRARY 120 West 14th St., North Vancouver. 604-998-3450 nvcl.ca PARKGATE LIBRARY 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. 604-929-3727

x8168 nvdpl.ca PARK & TILFORD CINEPLEX ODEON THEATRE 200-333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver.

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.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca SFU Philosopher’s Cafe: Everyone is welcome to join a discussion with moderator Randall MacKinnon Friday, Dec. 19 at 10:30 a.m.Topic: What are the pros and cons of philanthropy? Info: 778-7828000 or philosopherscafe.net.

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

Showtimes From page 14 Interstellar (PG) — Fri 8; Sat 4:15, 8; Sun, Tue 12:45, 4:15, 8; Mon 11:55 a.m., 3:25; Wed 11:50 a.m., 3:25 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (PG) — Fri 7, 10; Sat-Tue 1:10, 4:05, 7, 10; Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:10 p.m.

Penguins of Madagascar (G) — Sat-Wed 12:30 p.m.

Penguins of Madagascar 3D (G) — Fri 7:30, 9:55; Sat-Tue 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55; Wed 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 p.m.

The Theory of Everything (G) — Fri 6:50, 9:45; SatTue 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Wed

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Unbroken (PG) — Wed 7; Thur 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 p.m.

Big Eyes (PG) — Thur 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 p.m.

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Pastor turns church into a shelter

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Williston was unprepared for the flood of new arrivals.

There’s little infrastructure to house the men who do find work, never mind the men who don’t. House prices have more than tripled.

Taking up the cause of the migrants is Jay Reinke, pastor ofWilliston’s Lutheran church. He has turned the church into a shelter at night, and the parking lot into a dormitory of men living and sleeping in their cars, waiting for sanctuary.

The “Overnighters”

program is dividing the congregation and the wider community. Members of the church dislike the mess, the smell of men sleeping on the church pews and on the floor.

They take issue with a holy place being used as a hostel.

Neighbours voice safety concerns about so many single, idle men living in one place, near their homes and their children. Many have criminal records; there are sex offenders, too. It’s a crime spree, waiting to happen, they argue.

Christian charity only extends so far.

But Pastor Reinke can’t do enough. He invites a sex offender into his home, where he lives with his wife and school-aged children.

The paper gets wind of it and things really begin to unravel for Reinke, professionally and personally.

It’s fascinating how the film funnels in focus from the wider issue faced by the town, to the political fights and deceits within the church community, and finally settling on a very personal revelation at the film’s end.

Director Jesse Moss was given unfettered access to

Reinke’s life and obviously built up a great deal of trust; a megastore snack bar confession by the pastor to his wife, however, hints that the filmmaker may have crossed the line.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Intuitive Filmmaking at Sundance film festival, The Overnighters shines a light on the underside of capitalism and prosperity in America, all the while debating thepossibility of redemption and reinvention after the wellspring of “love thy neighbour” runs dry.

Clyde Mitchell, conductor

Gloria!

A Christmas Celebration

Project captures music in context

Lions Gate Sinfonia and special guest North Shore Chorus

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Saturday, December 20 at 7:30pm

Performance Project winners Good For Grapes on day 77 and last year’s Peak winner, Rykka, on day 251.

Matheson has curated the songs in the way they relate for him, creating a “video album” for himself, an archive of B.C. indie artists and capturing a slice of the city’s history.

His channel features everything from Big Band ensembles to solo artists.

EveryDayMusic has seen nearly two million views

and listed 3,598 subscribers earlier in December.

While Matheson hopes viewers enjoy his videos, he wouldn’t encourage anyone to passively digest what they see for hours online. Instead, he hopes a taste of what’s available will encourage everyone to get involved in their community and to see who’s playing at their local café, community centre and coffee shop.

With the finale of EveryDayMusic in sight, Matheson is dreaming of

his next project. He’d like to travel across Canada as a “random musical adventurer” and shoot what he finds and, perhaps, create a “webisodic” series.

He envisions a documentary that touts music as food for the soul.

“The commodification of music is very similar to the commodification of food,” Matheson said. “(Labels) have taken everything that’s good out of it and they just keep force-feeding us the same crap. Pop music is very

much like junk food and soda these days. No matter how much we realize it’s bad for us, we can’t get enough of it. “(Chef and food educator) Jamie Oliver said real food comes without a label, and I’m starting to think the same thing’s true in the case of music,” he continued. “Music is absolutely integral to our health and well-being and that there’s a kind of music that’s particularly good for us … this acoustic, homegrown type of stuff.”

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Infinity puts quality in Q What’s in a name? In the case of Infiniti’s lineup, either not much, or everything.

Just as Acura did years ago, Infiniti has cleaned house of their old badging, with all crossovers now dubbed QX and all sedans labelled Q. Initially, this move ruffled a feather or two, not just among the critics, but among the fans. Infiniti

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Grinding Gears

isn’t as big a company as Mercedes or BMW, so a major change in the nomenclature is bound to cause a little confusion.

Even so, now that the dust has settled, you can kind of see that a rename might have been the right move. QX80? That’s something big. Q50?

That’s something on the smaller end of the Infiniti scale.You might once have

known it by G, and fans of Nissan’s luxury brand probably miss calling their machine by the seventh letter of the alphabet, but perhaps this newly redesigned machine is good enough to brand its own name on the public’s consciousness.

Design Infiniti’s fluidic style of design works in some

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Want to see an example of it not quite making the grade? Check out the bulbous QX80 mega-SUV. Here on the smaller end of the scale, however, the Japanese 3-Series-fighter actually looks pretty good.

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Tractor Girl drives to South Pole A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Dutchwoman drives tractor to South Pole Massey Ferguson was formed by merger in 1953, with roots stretching back to the 1800s. Originally based out of Brampton, it’s an agricultural company known for building durable tractors suitable for tilling fields. And, apparently, driving to the South Pole.

Dutchwoman Manson Osservoort is known as “Tractor Girl” to friends and fans, for reasons that will soon become apparent.

In 2005, she left her native Holland in her beloved tractor, and drove it all over Europe and Africa over a four-year period. As one does.

This year, having finally secured backing from Massey Ferguson, she drove a bright red beast fitted for cold weather operation all the way to the South Pole, towing trailers of fuel and supplies. The trip took a surprisingly short two weeks, and followed in the footsteps of Sir Edmond Hilary in 1958. Fun fact: when Sir Hilary first sighted the pole, he radioed the code word “rhubarb” back to home base. I realize that seems pointless, trivial, and silly, but we’re talking here about driving tractors to the South Pole.

Porsche 918 Spyder sells out I’m sorry. I was totally going to buy you all one of these for Christmas. So sad. Désolé.

Capping off a year that saw surging sales and a profit margin that has their overlords from the Volkswagen Group cackling with slightly Scrooge-like glee, Porsche can now also celebrate having sold out of its hybrid supercar experiment, the 918 Spyder. All 297 of the cars are now spoken for, with roughly a third of deliveries

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The brain reels to think how much money Porsche makes off each one of these million-dollar machines — they’ll be decking the halls with boughs of money in Stuttgart. Let me just wrap up by pointing out that next year you’ll be able to buy one of these machines in Lego form, and that the plastic brick version will be much less likely to catch on fire.

Next-gen Civic Si to go turbocharged?

Here’s something to both excite and dismay Honda fans, depending on how you feel about the purity of the highrevving, naturally aspirated engine. What’s that?

“Rhubarbrhubarbrhubarb” from the angry mob?

Perhaps they’ve spotted the South Pole.

The Civic Type R coming to European customers is an absolute beast, and while it’s not the same machine we’ll get here, there is some hope to be had. Honda’s last real performance hero is the Civic Si, and while that car is still plenty of fun, line it up against the current crop of turbocharged sport compacts and it falls a little flat.

But what if some of the Euro-Civic’s TypeR-ness were to make it over here? That’s what the rumour-mill appears to be suggesting, with indications that the Type R’s powerplant might be the replacement for the stout 2.4-litre four-cylinder in the current car.

That means a 2.0litre turbocharged engine See Jaguar page 49

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Cabin sets up more for comfort than speed From page 45

is let down a bit by the 17-inch alloys fitted as standard to my non-sport tester.

A shame that. Like many cars, the Q50 is clothed in the imagination of a designer who immediately sees the car wearing huge blinged-out rims, and by the time you strap on a set of realworld shoes, the effect is somewhat blunted. Even so, the Q50 stands apart from other manufacturers, and even has its own signature details, such as the serpentine kink in the rear window.

Environment That curvy effect continues to the Q50’s insides, but in a slightly reduced fashion when compared to the previous G-branded model. This is a more conventional layout than Infiniti’s previous swooping dash, and slightly better for it.

The centre stack is controlled primarily through two large

screens, with the lower one handling most of the touchscreen controls. There’s a lot of information here, but the icons are large, the menus can be “swiped” like a smartphone, and there’s a high degree of customization to be fiddled with.

Moreover, if you’re somewhat suspicious of all this touchscreen nonsense, the Q50 has redundant regular button controls for almost all of its functions.

There’s an iDrive-like controller set down between the seats, and a swathe of buttons on the steering wheel for quick access.

In a physical sense, the Q50’s main cabin attribute is comfort. The seats don’t pinch, they support, providing more in terms of cushiness than aggressive lateral bolstering. Not that there isn’t enough sidesupport here for a sport sedan, just that the Q50 feels luxurious enough to appeal to those who want to drive South for the winter rather than fly.

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From page 46

making somewhere around 280 horsepower, and an even footing with cars like the Focus ST, Golf R, and even the rumoured production version of the Sentra Nismo. Quite frankly, Honda could use the mojo — they’ll still sell plenty of CR-Vs and Accords, but a frisson of that old small-but-fast magic could be great.

India’s tiny Nano gets boosted What’s small, blue, and the result of a really bad idea? No, not Santa’s frost-bitten pinky toe after opting for sandals this year.

It’s the Super Nano: a 230 h.p. version of an Indianmade, incredibly cheap little car.

It has slicks. It has a roll-cage. It has enormous fender-flares

and smurf-blue paint. The turbocharged engine (rearmounted) makes nearly eight times as much power as the standard unit.

It is, in short, both a rapid and slightly embarrassing way to leave this mortal plane. And, at approximately $40,000 — or 20 times more costly than the standard Nano — is also expensively silly.

Jaguar invents seethrough A-pillars If you’ve ever hopped from an old car into a new car, one of the first things you might have experienced is a sharp drop in visibility.

To keep up with modern safety standards, the front pillars surrounding our windshields have gone from toothpick to baseball bat, with the result that you often feel like you’re wearing blinders.

But here’s Jag with

a solution: why not use cameras and pillarmounted display screens to show what’s missing from view? Land Rover already did something similar with a “disappearing” front hood for off-road maneuvering, and here that technology finds an even more practical everyday application.

Might it be that someday our entire car becomes a display, making you feel as though you’re whizzing along in an invisible box? Wait, that’d also mean a front-row seat to what happens when you run over a squirrel. Ergh.

No thanks.

On December 12th Pacific Honda celebrated a milestone 40th Anniversary. These days that is quite an accomplishment and they have become a cornerstone of business in North Vancouver.

Steve Hui (L), General Manager of Honda Canada Western Division, presents a plaque to honour the special achievement to Jack Irwin (R), President of Pacific Honda and the staff.

Congratulations

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7,000 r.p.m. It both sounds great and has very strong acceleration feel, falling in line with its ancestral G’s strengths.

However, start hucking the Q50 through the corners, and it becomes apparent that Infiniti has also been benchmarking Mercedes as a brand. This standard version of the car doesn’t have a surfeit of lateral grip — there’s enough to qualify it as a premium product, but something is missing of the old razor-sharp feel.

The old car was a bit of a four-doored 370Z, all dressed up in a tux and ready to go to the ball.

This new car seems built to recognize a new age, one where sport is slightly further down the scale than comfort.

Still, it is plenty fast, and in the slippery conditions that accompanied a snap of cold weather, the Infiniti’s Attessa all-wheel-drive system certainly proved its worth. Having campaigned a number of all-wheeldrive cars in racing for several decades, Nissan/ Infiniti have managed to create a four-pawed system that doesn’t feel frontbiased, nor prone to an over-eager traction control system.

The steering is the one major disappointment, although that too is like most modern BMWs. The standard system, as fitted here, provides only modest feedback, and the optional Direct Adaptive Steering is completely divorced from the road.

This latter is quite a clever piece of engineering that makes the Q50 entirely drive-by-wire.

Heck, if it’s good enough for a fighter jet, it’s good enough for a car, right?

Sort of — this is one of those areas where demands for driver’s aids and the potential for autonomous steering control are influencing some of the basics on cars.

Personally, I’d take a little more road feel, but in Sport mode, the Q50 delivers the kind of grunt that base 2.0-litre

turbocharged competitors can’t touch. It’s more comfort-oriented than the G, but the speed is still there.

Features Pricing for the Q50 starts at $37,500. Along with the touchscreen interface and various downloadable apps, the Q50 comes bundled with all sorts of interesting tech.

Bluetooth streaming and smartphone integration are a cinch.

While this standard model was light on options, it’s worth noting that Infiniti’s available around-view 360-degree camera system is excellent, and their forward-looking traffic detection and active lane control are as good as the Mercedes versions.

Fuel economy gets scores of 12.5 litres/100 kilometres city or 8.7 l/100 km highway. Realworld results were closer to the city mileage figure, even with some highway cruising, but with the thermometer dropping, that’s to be expected.

Green light Strong acceleration; smooth, comfortable ride; easy-to-use infotainment.

Stop sign More luxury than sport; lack of steering feel; V-6 can be a little thirsty.

The checkered flag Not the G redux, but a new kind of sedan from Infiniti. Quick and quality, that’s Q. Competition Lexus IS350 ($47,000) From Infiniti’s main rival comes a strong sport sedan contender with the face of a Cylon. The IS is fast, sporty, and well-puttogether. It’s also fiercely aggressive in the styling department.

However, the Q50 represents both great value at its significantly lower pricepoint, as well as excellent performance.

The IS is probably the sportier of the two in terms of feel, but the Infiniti’s mighty V-6 heart can’t be discounted. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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