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‘All bets are off’ in West Van riding

Analysts point to a close federal election race in Sea to Sky BRADEN DUPUIS Contributing writer

While the West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky riding has long been considered a Conservative stronghold, several factors appear to be turning the tides ahead of Canada’s

42nd general election.

The 2012 electoral boundaries redistribution, a high-profile Liberal candidate and Canada’s first three-way federal election race have made for an interesting early campaign in the Sea to Sky, said David Moscrop,

VOTE 2015 a PhD candidate in the University of British Columbia’s political science department.

“Things seem to have

shifted a little bit, but the problem is you can’t really tell if that has to do with the nature of the riding changing or the party system in general changing, because we’ve never had a three-way race in Canada,” Moscrop said. “So from a purely research perspective, from a poli-sci perspective, the answer is we can’t really know what’s contributing to the change, because you

historical data used by political scientists is based on two-way races, Moscrop said.

“All bets are off, because it is the first three-way race we’ve ever had, and our models, our way of understanding and interpreting elections, are sort of based on two-way races,” he said. “It will be

can’t isolate the variables.”

Electoral boundaries are reviewed every 10 years by an independent commission to keep up with shifting demographics.

The number of voters in the Sea to Sky riding grew by 7.74 per cent after the 2012 redistribution, as Pemberton and Mount Currie were brought back into the fold.

But the majority of

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Injured ballerina awakes from coma MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

A young Argentinian ballerina seriously injured in a rollerskating accident in Upper Lonsdale two weeks ago is now awake and making strides with her recovery.

Lucila Munaretto, 20, awoke from her medically induced coma earlier this week and is slowly coming to realize the severity of her injuries.

“She is aware now of her limbs and other parts of her body. And the doctor said she may have pain from the top of her head to the last toe on her feet,” said Munaretto family friend Laura Lopez.

Munaretto was unconscious for the first couple hours after the accident on Aug.13, in which she collided with a van on Lonsdale Avenue See Doctors page 9

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Historical homes on the move Conservationists concerned as hot housing market puts pressure on heritage stock

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MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

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The aforementioned is an online listing and not a scam, but rather an attempt by a developer to prevent a piece of North Vancouver’s history from being demolished as they make way for a new home.

This type of offering has become somewhat of a trend recently — and a concern for heritage conservationists — after two turn-of-thecentury homes, purchased for a dollar, were moved from Lower Lonsdale to Maple Ridge in early August.

“We are in danger here of giving an easy out for developers,” said Peter Miller, president of the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society.

At the end of the day the offer might not seem so sweet when you factor in the costs of relocating the house, which can be upwards of $100,000.

The logistics to consider range from excavation to transportation to the less obvious: the temporary removal of the city’s power poles along the route or carefully taking out hazardous materials such as asbestos from the home.

About a hundred people, from retirees to young families, some as far away as Vancouver Island, have contacted the owner of the Dalton Residence, circa 1912, at 445 East 16th St. since the online listing was posted a couple weeks ago.

So far, Luvi Sandhu

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There’s a short window of opportunity here before Sandhu, president of Creative Homes and Development, carries on with his plan to build a new home on the site. However, he said he’s willing to hold off if a serious taker comes forward. “It’s (the Dalton Residence) a piece of history, right? It would be a shame to tear it down,” said Sandhu.

The venerable house, occupied from 1913 to 1945 by F.W. Dalton and his wife, still has the original windows, front doors and interior. On the main floor the rooms feature wainscoting, and there are stained glass windows on the staircase. A large “summer room” veranda outside adds to the character of the home.

The 103-year-old Dalton

Residence was on the market recently for $1.2 million.

Sandhu said he snapped up the home that sits on a 7,350-square-foot lot because of the prime southfacing location and the land value.

With land at a premium on the North Shore and more and more people looking to build here, local heritage conservationists are concerned heritage homes will become vulnerable to new development.

Relocating heritage homes is better than demolition, but only as a last resort, said Peter Miller, president of the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society.

“Developers cannot simply justify demolition of homes by offering them for free or for salvage,” he said.

The city’s heritage registry, updated in 2013, ranks historical buildings,

homes, churches and schools in “A” and “B” categories, many of which date back to the early 1900s when North Vancouver was incorporated, but only contains about 35 properties legally protected from demolition.

The heritage preservation society is calling on developers to get creative and explore a heritage revitalization agreement with the City of North Vancouver, that can offer incentives or “special privileges” such as subdividing the lot to allow for a new home while retaining the original one.

Looking at the back of the Dalton property, Miller said it’s feasible to put a second structure like a two-storey coach house there.

Miller said the GreenArmytage House, circa 1909, at Lonsdale and West 23rd St. — one of the oldest houses in the northern Lonsdale corridor — is a fine

example of incorporating heritage into a new residential development.

CNV planner Christopher Wilkinson, who looks after the heritage portfolio, said the city has no incentives to support carting away heritage homes outside of the community.

Conversely, city planners try to entice developers to rehabilitate and incorporate a historical home or building on the original site by dangling incentives such as extra density allowance, he added.

Such an arrangement was made for the historical Beasley/McDowell block, currently under redevelopment in Lower Lonsdale, where developers were given extra density in exchange for preserving Moodyville’s Café.

“It has to make financial sense for them (the developers),” said Wilkinson.

Restoration enhances salmon runs MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

Pink salmon are returning to the Indian River in record numbers — the result of extensive restoration work to the watershed in recent years.

In 2012 the TsleilWaututh Nation teamed up with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to restore trout as well as pink,

Cyclists crashing farmers market

chum and coho salmon populations in the Indian River, a sacred area that has cultural significance for First Nations people.

“For the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, it’s a continued stewardship of the valley that they have practised for generations,” said Bridget Doyle,TWN environmental stewardship co-ordinator.

Historical logging activities and the installation

of hydro transmission lines in the Indian River watershed have degraded sensitive fish habitats, according to the Tsleil-Waututh.

A huge area of offchannel and spawning habitats created last year — within the BC Hydro rightof-way that was otherwise brush — now connects to Indian River allowing fish better passage.

“It’s functioning quite

well, considering it’s such a low-flow year,” said Doyle.

This week, work began on a third consecutive fish habitat conservation project in an area spanning 10 kilometres, starting at the estuary in the remotely located watershed at the northern tip of the Indian Arm. A small work crew is repairing the new side channels that were damaged by heavy rainfall over the

winter, while also preparing for Phase 4 of the project, which involves enhancing or restoring existing rearing habits and spawning channels.

Since 2012, the TsleilWaututh has received approximately $150,000 each year for the projects from various sources, including BC Hydro, DFO, See Rodgers page 9

Organizers of the Ambleside Farmers Market want the marauding pelotons of MAMILs to stop crashing the barricade at the weekly Sunday market.

Most cyclists are happy to dismount and walk the 1500-block of Bellevue Avenue but there are a handful of road cyclists who flout the Road Closed signs and “come barrelling through,” said Lyn Hainstock, market manager.

Some Sundays are worse than others and this year has been much better than last year but there are still too many incidents, especially as the market’s vendors are getting set up between the hours of 8 and 10 a.m.

“We’ve had some really near-accidents with children, with customers, with vendors and with animals,” Hainstock said.

“What we’ve been doing is saying ‘Please, get off your bikes,’ and they don’t do it. We’re all standing in front of them and they told us to ‘F*** off, b****.’ Charming right?”

Hainstock said when she tried to confront another cyclist, he responded “I pay taxes in West Van and I’ll do what I damn well please,” she said.

Hainstock said crashing the market doesn’t make any sense when the cyclists could easily choose to detour to Argyle Avenue or Marine Drive instead.

“The only recourse we have is to go to the bylaw (officer) and ask them to come down and ticket, but I don’t want to do that. I don’t like that,” she said.

“But if they keep doing it, we’re going to have to because we can’t have people hurt.”

Crashing the barricades and hurling abuse at the market staff is “totally unacceptable,” said James Wilson, owner of Obsession Bikes in North Vancouver.

“As a representative of the cycling community, I find that reprehensible behaviour,” he said. “What an incredibly selfish act See District page 5

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Sea to Sky historically Conservative riding From page 1

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very, very interesting to see what happens.”

The election is still weeks away, but recent polls show Conservative support slipping in several ridings.

One poll commissioned by activist group LeadNow and conducted by neutral third party Environics Research has the Liberals’ Pam Goldsmith-Jones holding a narrow lead over the NDP’s Larry Koopman, 29 to 26 per cent.

Incumbent Conservative MP John Weston is third with 22 per cent, while the Green Party’s Ken Melamed is not far behind with 18 per cent.

The poll interviewed 582 eligible voters between Aug. 15 and 18.

Participants were asked: “If the federal election were held tomorrow, which one of the following parties would you vote for here in the riding?”

The margin of error — which measures variability — is 4.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

But as with any poll — especially one so far from the election — the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, said Brenda Sharpe, senior research associate with Environics.

“Polls are always a snapshot, and the closer you get to them the more accurate they will be,” Sharpe said. “Events can influence how people feel,

so right now it is a snapshot of what these people in these ridings are saying.”

While the Sea to Sky riding has historically voted Conservative — with a good portion of those votes coming from West Vancouver — the 2012 boundary redistribution could serve to level out the vote.

“But I suspect that the redistribution is less important than the fact that we have a three-way race,” Moscrop said. “To me that’s the big takeaway.”

Braden Dupuis is a reporter with theWhistler Pique. A written report of the survey results is available for download at leadnow.ca.

District review of bicycle paths urged From page 3

— especially when there’s loads of options to get through that area.”

Barricades are put up for the safety of people inside the market as well as for the cyclists, themselves, he added.

Wilson suggested the district can help resolve the issue by changing their signs to include detour information. And, he said, it’s also an opportunity for the district to review

its bicycle paths in a big picture perspective.

“The current cycling route is a bit arduous.

There’s absolutely no flow to it,” he said. “It jigs and jags. It goes up. It goes down. It seems to make no sense.”

District of West Vancouver spokeswoman Donna Powers said staff will work on spreading the message that cyclists need to dismount if they want to pass through the market.

“If a cyclist chooses to ignore that, they’re choosing to break the law,” she said.

“We are closing the road for a reason. The traffic and parking bylaw prohibits them. We expect

cyclists and motorists to obey the posted law.”

More than having their training interrupted, cyclists who get caught riding on the closed street can be given a $45-fine, Powers said.

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f you make a visit to Victoria this fall, you may find yourself with a little more elbow room at the tourist hot spots.

The editorial board of The Seattle Times is suggesting a tourism boycott of the quaint B.C. capital because of the city’s apparent refusal to stop dumping raw sewage into the water they share.

Decades of foot dragging and goodold-fashioned NIMBYism have slowed or halted construction of a wastewater treatment plant and the newspaper decided they’d had enough of Victoria’s crap. We can’t blame them.

And while we wouldn’t tell folks to stay away from Victoria, we will point out an equally odious double standard.

The feds have mandated that our new $700-million Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant be online by 2020 but

they haven’t committed to chipping in any money to pay for it. Under Canada’s 1867 breed of federalism, Ottawa has almost all of the authority to collect taxes.

And even though they collect just eight cents of every tax dollar, municipalities are typically asked to pay one-third of the cost for major infrastructure projects.

Victoria’s never-never plant, meanwhile, already enjoys a one-third funding commitment from the feds.

It seems in their barrage of pre-election spending, the Conservatives forgot the North Shore’s top infrastructure priority.

If Victoria can’t get their game together in order to earn those federal dollars, we’ll gladly take them over here.

There are more than a dozen would-be MPs out knocking on doors for the next seven weeks. Don’t hesitate to ask them who should be paying for infrastructure.

Now-infamous bump rattles the teacups

We in West Vancouver put the world’s crises in calm perspective.

Global markets falling. Faith in the prime minister shaken, or stirred, depending on your martini recipe. Is Greece collapsing — still, since the Peloponnesian War? Is UBC’s ivory tower only plastic? Is Justin Trudeau more than a pretty haircut?

Mike Duffy, saint or sinner?

The above do not ruffle West Vancouverites. The great issue recently rattling our teacups was: The bump.

Yes, the construction bump on Lions Gate Bridge. It threatened to destroy Western civilization, even West Vancouver, which is harder. (Did it affect North Vancouver people too? We didn’t notice.)

Bump, bump, bump-ade-bump. Bumps without

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the grinds.

Someone must be screaming: “This would never have happened if the transportation plebiscite had passed!”

Others bellowing: “I blame Stephen Harper!”

Only in West Vancouver would this amount to more than a hill of beans.

Jiggling our crystal set, we learned of this impudent bump while

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on an island where the gods forget to wind the clock. On returning to what is called reality, the bump crisis led us to consider driving home via the Second Narrows.

But, in my dedication to investigative journalism, I chose to brave the bump.

No question. It was a bump all right. As Gertrude Stein memorably (if you remember) said about a rose: A bump is a bump is a bump.

My long 29-year-old English car might have undignifiedly scraped bottom. No problemo for our workhorse domestic van, though.

The road people said they’d fix the bump. Didn’t.

Some drivers claimed they made it worse.

A second shot at smoothing the man-made pesky pothole was declared a success. But irreparable

damage has been done to public confidence. In West Vancouver.

•••

L’affaire Arvind Gupta, the University of British Columbia’s abruptly departed president, is so mysterious that I repaired to 221B Baker Street in London to consult the genius whose profile is said to be the most recognizable everywhere in the world: Deerstalker hat, curved pipe, aquiline nose.

Speeding from Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross Station, I soon found myself in the reception room where Mr. Sherlock Holmes was debating the effects of his daily cocaine fix with his pleasantly dim foil, Dr. John Watson. I explained such facts as were known.

Holmes, emitting puffs of his paralyzingly foulsmelling shag, his powers

of ratiocination undimmed by age, wasted little time.

“There is not one mystery but three, entwined,” said Holmes.

“First, Dr. Gupta’s hasty departure. Second: The unusual incidents of three UBC vice-presidents leaving in obscure circumstances during Gupta’s brief presidency.

Third: Why haven’t the hotshots in your local media tracked down those three men?”

I was struck by Holmes’s very un-19th century use of the word “hotshots.”

“Surely the greenest reporter could winkle out some pertinent information from them that would likely lead to the solution of the Gupta mystery. Find those men,” concluded Holmes, accompanied by a wincing, as if stabbed by pain.

“Mr. Holmes has been

suffering from an ailment,” Dr. Watson explained.

“And what is your diagnosis, my dear Watson?” Holmes asked, with a touch of asperity, or possibly amused condescension, or perhaps both.

“Holmes, you should have consulted me sooner.

I have quietly observed your habits. My diagnosis is that you have sat around solving mysteries in cold Victorian rooms for so long that you have developed a chronic blockage. In simple terms, constipation.”

A vast new respect for Watson invaded Holmes’s face. “Wonderful, absolutely admirable! And how did you come to that conclusion?”

“Alimentary, my dear Holmes,” replied Dr. Watson.

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Expect election interest to pick up soon

Even for a political observer, it’s difficult to get too excited about an election campaign during the dog days of summer.

With the exception of political operatives, I suspect it’s the same thing for most people. Minds are elsewhere right now: the beach, barbecues, vacations etc.

The pronouncements coming from politicians right now are background noise. They are being heard, but the volume is turned down low.

It’s not just because it’s the summer that the federal election campaign appears sluggish and distant. It’s also because its record length (11 weeks) means many folks are putting off “paying attention” in any serious way until voting day draws nearer.

I suspect the interest and energy will pick up after Labour Day, when vacations end, kids go back to school and a more

Keith Baldrey

View from the Ledge normal routine — which includes the consumption of more media news stories — kicks into gear for many.

But of course, the campaign has been underway a few weeks now and even if it’s not on everyone’s radar screen 24/7, it has displayed some glimpses of what to expect when things begin to heat up out on the trail.

This month is like a lengthy warm-up before the big game actually begins. The key players

have shown their campaign style and tactics.

Judging from what we’ve seen so far, we can expect the NDP’s Tom Mulcair to continue to be cautious in terms of policies and in dealing with his own side.

He’s been emphasizing things like law and order and child care and not taxes, and has ignored or kept out of sight his party’s sizable pro-Palestine and anti-development factions.

Mulcair wants to make sure he doesn’t look threatening or radical, and simply wants to present a viable and reasonable alternative to a governing party that appears to be teetering.

The Conservatives’ Stephen Harper will continue his tightly scripted, uber-control approach to campaigning.

He will continue to try to appeal to a minority of voters, most of them in southern Ontario, Alberta and parts of B.C.

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And his policy roll-out will continue to be aimed at older voters, who tend to vote in far greater numbers than younger ones. Harper is focused on the 39 per cent of the electorate who keep him in power, not on a majority of people.

The Liberals’ Justin Trudeau will continue just trying to be heard. He’s likely felt the slow start to the campaign the most negatively, as he appears to have the most ground to make up and so he needs people to pay attention.

But because he seems to be the underdog, any sign of rising fortunes for Trudeau may allow him to portray himself as the

“comeback kid,” which can take on a momentum in the latter stages of an election campaign (just ask Christy Clark).

So far, the three leaders are mostly shadow-boxing with each other. The lack of a mass audience televised debate (the one that did occur had less than a third of a regular audience) has meant little direct interaction for them.

No issue has dominated so far. The Duffy trial has received, by far, the most media attention (nationally more so than locally) of anything, but it’s unclear whether it will cut into Conservative support come Oct. 19, which is still a

long, long ways off.

I suspect scandals don’t move voters from one party to another as much as many folks in the media seem to think. In the end, the economy usually trumps everything else and you can count on hearing a lot about that for the next seven weeks or so.

Make no mistake, the campaign will heat up next month. But until then, feel free to be focused more on the barbecue and the beach than on federal politicians.

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

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Books worthy of artful display Dear Editor: Re: Harmony Arts Festival in West Vancouver.

Missing from the arts on display are books. Our Canadian writer Alice Monroe won the Nobel

Peace Prize in 2013 and put Canadian literature on the world map, but that map seems to exclude West Vancouver.

How do the organizers of the Harmony Arts

Festival have the nerve to ignore this art form, but to give ornamental and other art so much space?

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Sewage is not generally a vote-getter.

This may be why North Vancouver’s current Member of Parliament is not talking much publicly about the ticking tax bomb that is the Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The plant provides only primary sewage treatment – state of the art in the 60’s. Today, the minimum standard in Canada is secondary treatment. And getting there is expensive - $700 million for the Lions Gate facility.

The pressure is on because the federal government has mandated that the new facility be built by 2020.

But the lack of a funding commitment from that same federal government is a key reason why the project is now in danger of missing the 2020 deadline if construction does not begin soon.

Potential for “significant” tax increase North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto says that if Ottawa and Victoria do not commit soon to their one-third each share of the plant upgrade, District and City ratepayers will be stuck with a “significant” property tax increase in a few short years – in the range of hundreds of dollars each year for the average North Vancouver household.

Mayor Mussatto, who also chairs Metro Vancouver’s Utilities Committee, says Metro has been waiting for Ottawa’s response for about a year now.

There was hope that the Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant would be a beneficiary of Stephen Harper’s preelection fury of spending announcements.

But, again - it would appear – sewage is not generally a vote-getter.

Part of a pattern North Vancouver resident Don Mavinic,

a UBC civil engineering professor and one of Canada’s leading experts on wastewater treatment, pollution control and resource recovery, says the Harper Government’s funding silence on the Lions Gate plant is part of a pattern.

“The environment is not a priority on the infrastructure shopping list for the Conservatives,” he says.

At the same time, Professor Mavinic worries that deep funding cuts to Environment Canada and the Department of Fisheries have eliminated the capacity of federal scientists to monitor how Metro Vancouver’s sewage pollution is affecting our ocean waters.

Under the radar This is an issue that has been flying under the radar in North Vancouver for too long.

Sticking North Vancouver property taxpayers with the entire bill for a new Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant is unfair and unacceptable.

Subjecting our local marine environment to the outflow of obsolete 1960’s wastewater treatment technology is wrong and dangerous.

Yesterday, Justin Trudeau announced a Liberal government will make the largest new infrastructure investment in Canadian history – including green infrastructure like wastewater facilities.

Finally – a promise of real leadership from Ottawa. One that can diffuse North Vancouver’s ticking tax bomb, spur our local economy and protect our coastal waters.

Jonathan Wilkinson is North Vancouver’s Liberal candidate in the upcoming Federal election. He is a Rhodes Scholar, former clean-tech CEO and North Shore soccer coach Authorized by the official agent for Jonathan Wilkinson.

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Doctors amazed at Rodgers Creek estuary enhanced 3 pace of recovery From page

From page 1 while on roller skates. She was later put in a medically induced coma in the ICU at Lions Gate Hospital to ease the swelling on her brain.

Doctors slowly, over the course of the two weeks, reduced the amount of sedation to encourage Munaretto to wake up on her own. During that time Munaretto managed to communicate with her loved ones through small movements, including raising her leg and winking.

Munaretto is now able to talk, and even recorded an audio message to her supporters, which has surprised not only her family but also her medical team.

She can explain to doctors any pain she is feeling and recalls some memories.

“She keeps saying that she is very thankful to everyone,” said Lopez of the few words Munaretto is able to muster in her condition.

While comparing Munaretto’s brain scan results from right after the accident and the ones taken this week, her neurologist has downgraded her brain injury from severe to moderate. However, any lasting medical effects the accident will have on Munaretto have yet to be determined.

Still, how far Munaretto has come with her recovery — attributed to her young age and physical strength — in such a short period of time is surpassing her doctors’ expectations.

“I mean, the other

day Alicia was crying,” said Lopez of how happy Munaretto’s mother is to see her daughter improving each day.

Working with a physiotherapist, Munaretto is able to sit up in a wheelchair and lift her legs on her own.

After undergoing reconstructive surgery on her jaw, which was “smashed” in the accident, doctors expected there would be nerve damage, but there isn’t any. Instead, Munaretto made in 10 days what should be a five-week recovery from a jaw injury, said Lopez.

Munaretto might spend a few more weeks in the neurology ward at Lions Gate before being transferred to a general hospital bed and then eventually released to go home, from where she’ll undergo daily outpatient rehabilitation.

“But the timing is hard to say,” said Munaretto.

Lopez has opened her home in the Edgemont neighbourhood for Munaretto, her sister and their mother, who are visiting from Brazil, to come live for the long-term while Munaretto recovers.

Munaretto’s father and her eight-year-old sister remain in Brazil where the family relies on income he makes as a self-employed carpenter. So far close to $37,000 has been raised through an online fundraising campaign (gofundme.com/Lucila) to help with Munaretto’s longterm care.

Pacific Salmon Foundation, Port Metro Vancouver and Fortis BC. Another salmon stewardship project is underway this week on the North Shore.The West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society has officially started work on the $150,000 Rodgers Creek Estuary Enhancement Project at the foot of 29th Street.

A valuable spawning habitat for chum, pink and coho salmon, Rodgers Creek has experienced higher stream flows in recent years, due to urbanization in the area, and has therefore become inhospitable for salmon. Erosion and flattened beach elevations on the West Van shoreline, meanwhile, have eliminated a natural channel through the estuary.

“Returning salmon can only get in at high tides, so there is a brief window (a few hours every two weeks) that these fish can get in,” explained society treasurer Bill McAllister.

A new 65-metre channel starting at the Dundarave Park shoreline will provide returning salmon more of a chance to reach their spawning grounds during moderate tides, according to the society.The project will be managed by the District of West Vancouver and is expected to be mostly completed by the end of this week. Funding for the project came from various organizations including the Pacific Salmon Foundation, West Vancouver Community Foundation and the Coho Society of the North Shore.

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INQUIRING REPORTER As we enter the final stages of summer, three words that first appeared in the minds of kids and parents alike a month ago begin to work their way to the forefront: Back to school.

Yes, school begins the day after Labour Day (Sept. 7 this year) meaning we’re less than two weeks away from early mornings, bus schedules and everyone’s favourite, homework! Yes, it’s a tough transition to make after two months of fine weather and sleeping in late, but it’s an inevitable one. So, parents and students, are you ready for back to school? Tell us at ,+,#)+'&0..

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Talia Coombes North Vancouver “No.We still need school supplies.”

Noelle Natraoro North Vancouver “We’re ready physically with everything that she needs for school. Emotionally, not really.”

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Tae’Aliya Natraoro North Vancouver “Yes.”

Keith Wright North Vancouver “No. My dad still needs to get me new clothes.”

Kevin Wright North Vancouver “Absolutely, yes we are, seeing as school stuff came out in July in all the stores.”

Beware the ‘higher purpose persons’ From page 6 ••• For a less frivolous take on the Gupta matter and the insane developments therefrom, above all the media’s gobbling up the self-acknowledged ignorant remarks — plain ideological cant — of a woman gender and feminist issues professor and vomiting them up as the imminent crumbling of UBC’s alleged worldwide reputation … for that, read Pete McMartin’s gorgeous column in the Aug. 20 Vancouver Sun. Not to be missed.

Damaging revelations may emerge about this issue, but these aren’t.

Maybe what this country needs more than Senate reform is a wholesale cleaning out of the newsrooms, with our reporters’ and editors’

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(and of course columnists’) tired orthodoxies, our reflexive seizure and escalation into pseudoimportance of any cause or nitwit remark issuing from what the late Denny Boyd beautifully called the “higher purpose persons.”

Have you noticed, fellow journalists? The media are necessary, but we’re not popular.

••• Which appropriately leads to a mea culpa. In my last time at bat, I stated that the North Vancouver Community Players’ home is Presentation House.

Not. It’s the Theatre at Hendry Hall, a classically enthusiastic and doughty little theatre. A strange forgetfulness — a few years ago it graciously offered a reading of a play of mine that, like my life, is a work in very slow progress. rtlautens@gmail.com

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Residents band together Dear Editor: Re: Parking Space Battle Pitting Residents Against Each Other, Aug. 7 news story.

We have the same problem on the 400block of East 12th St.The difference is our cones were to keep parking for residents, who could move them to park on their street, and to keep employees of the hospital and businesses on Lonsdale from using our street as employee parking.

Residents of West 14th must join together and focus on the problem, which is not each other; rather,

others using the street for work-related parking.

Instead of demanding the hospital and Lonsdale businesses to provide their staff with adequate parking, the city responded to us by taking our cones away, then fining us for putting them out.The city also offered us to pay to park in front of our own houses.They punished us, rather than the ones causing the problem. Stick together West 14th residents and go after the perpetrators and demand your council act for you.

Glenys Stuart North Vancouver

Friday, August 28, 2015 - North Shore News - A11

DNV audit gets glowing review

District ‘a leader’ in ensuring value for taxpayers’ money: auditor general’s report The District of North Vancouver is among the best in the province when it comes to how it handles capital assets.

That’s the conclusion of the province’s auditor general for local government, who released a report on the district’s capital procurement and asset management last week.

The audit delved specifically into the Fire Hall No. 3 upgrade and the replacement of artificial turf at William Griffin sports fields as well as the district’s practice of keeping an eye on the depreciation of its infrastructure and setting money aside to replace it.

“The report found that the district’s processes and controls protected the interests of taxpayers and helped it ensure value for money,” said Arn van Iersel, acting auditor general for local government. “We see that North Van (district) can be interpreted largely as a leader in this particular area and we’re happy to see that.”

Despite the largely glowing review, the office did make some recommendations for improvements including better cross-referencing the conflict of interest policy with its policy on the reporting of fraud, and a method for staff to evaluate vendors’ performance, although there had not been any specific problems with

conflict or poor vendor performance to cite.

District Coun. Robin Hicks, who is a former director of finance for the cities of Chilliwack and Coquitlam, said there was never any doubt that the district’s capital procedures were in order.

District citizens already have an internal audit committee, and twice annual audits working on their behalf, Hicks said.

“We’ve never had any serious critiques of our accounting controls and procedures and I think this is a validation of what we do,” Hicks said The province created the AGLG in 2012 against the protest of many in municipal politics. The minister of community, sport and cultural development fired thenAGLG Basia Ruta in March this year after her office had cost the province more than $5 million and only produced two reports. Since then, van Iersel has taken over the office on an interim basis and several other reports have been issued.

A Union of B.C. Municipalities survey of local governments that have gone through an AGLG audit, criticized the AGLG’s staff as being totally inexperienced with local governments.

“I don’t think, when the organization was set up, they really understood the exact nature of accounting in a large-scale municipality,” Hicks said.

Hicks said the creation of the AGLG appeared to be a “knee-jerk reaction”

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to criticisms from groups like the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and Canadian Taxpayers’ Association that municipalities are bad managers of money.

“I don’t think that’s the case and I think that’s been proved by the audits that are being carried out,” he said.

Large municipalities, like the district, tend to have high-calibre staff and well-honed processes. It’s the smaller communities that need some outside help, Hicks said.

Audits into the District of Sechelt and the City of Dawson Creek produced scathing reports.

In Sechelt’s case, the auditor criticized the previous council for, among other things, meeting with potential contactors behind closed doors before accepting bids to build a wastewater treatment plant.

Dawson Creek’s quest to turn an old postal office into a centre for performing arts ran way over budget because staff never made a proper business case, van Iersel said.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE

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— A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media — Tickets for Capilano University’s upcoming 2015-2016 season at BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts and other venues around town go on sale today.

See story page 30: ■ Rolling Stones’ Get YerYa-Ya’s Out live at Madison Square Garden: http://bit.ly/1APVYxQ ■ Elizabeth Shepherd performs “Across the Universe”: http://bit.ly/1JlY7Su ■ Noura Mint Seymali — “Tzenni”: http://bit.ly/1NJQBG8 ■ Cannonball Adderley Sextet live in 1963: http://bit.ly/S9mT3P ■ Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn — “Take the ‘A’Train”: http://bit.ly/TPyCFv

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Artistic Kisses join forces at the Ferry Building

All in the family ■ 3 Kisses: paintings, ceramics and sculptures

by Jytte, Peter and Zoltan Kiss, Sept. 8-27 at the Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Opening reception:Tuesday, Sept.

8, 6-8 p.m. Meet the artists: Saturday, Sept.

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Zoltan Kiss makes a mean martini.

His liquid concoctions are famous in his family, so much so that they have earned their own name — Zoltinis. As the story

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goes, it was over a round of Zoltinis that the artistic WestVancouver Kiss family hatched the idea to hold a joint art show.

Their collaborative exhibit was on the back burner for a few years, but it’s finally happening. For the first time ever, Zoltan, his wife Jytte, and their son Peter will be displaying their paintings, ceramics and sculptures together from Sept. 8 to 27 at the Ferry Building Gallery.

The exhibit is called 3 Kisses.

Peter, who runs a gallery on Granville Island with his wife, artist and jewellerTania Gleave, plans to show his painted wood sculptures in addition to a couple of wall

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hangings that he describes as “two-and-a-half-dimensional paintings.”

“Dad will be showing predominantly paintings, but I think a few of his ceramic pieces,” Peter notes. “My mother will be showing monoprints and some pencil and ink sketches.”

While the three artists may share a surname, Peter says there is little similarity between the work he and his parents create.

“We’re quite independent, we’ve found our own little niches,” he says.

Originally from Hungary, Zoltan left his native country during the SecondWorld War while he was still an

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architecture student and spent five years in Denmark, where be met Jytte and trained in pottery, before moving toWestVancouver in 1950. He completed his architecture degree at UBC in 1951 and worked for the firmThompson, Berwick, Pratt before launching his own practice. Although long retired from the industry, architectural motifs remain prevalent in his paintings.

Meanwhile, Jytte has always been an avid crafter, dabbling in stained glass, weaving, enameling and the like.The upcoming Ferry Building show marks her first formal exhibition of framed artworks.

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Needless to say, Peter grew up in creative household.

“I have no training in art, so I always say it came from being surrounded by it,” he says.

“Everybody was making something and putting it up on the wall or on a shelf.”

Through osmosis he developed an understanding of art. “You just begin to appreciate form, shape, colour, that sort of thing.”

Before venturing into the professional art world, Peter earned a degree in zoology and worked as a marine biologist. He later went See Kisses page 20

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CALENDAR Concerts

CAPILANO RIVER REGIONAL PARK Cleveland Dam, North Vancouver.

Music in the Park: Live music and art demos Monday, Sept. 7 from noon to 5 p.m.

Schedule: noon,Winsome Kind; 1:15 p.m., FamiliarWild; 2:15 p.m., LukeWallaceTrio; 3:15 p.m., Jen Hodge All Stars; and 4:15 p.m., Coldwater Road. Info: nvartscouncil.ca or metrovancouver.org.

CATES PARK 4000-block Dollarton Highway, NorthVancouver.

Deep Cove Daze: Free outdoor concerts Saturdays until Aug. 29, 2-5 p.m. Each concert will feature three local bands and the final concert will showcase nine singer/ songwriters. Schedule:Aug. 29, Vicky Sjohall,The Echos, CJ Nash, Sam Cave, Saul Chabot, Robynne Dreyer, KC Jones, Taboo Queen, Ranj Singh.

GLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH 1110 Gladwin Dr., North Vancouver.

TheWest Coast Harp Society will present South American harpist Alfredo Rolando Oritz in concert Saturday,Aug. 29, 7:30-9:30 p.m.Admission: $35 at the door.

HIGHLANDS UNITED CHURCH 3255 Edgemont Blvd., NorthVancouver.

Doin’ It All Again: Thora Rogers will celebrate the upcoming release of her new CD Saturday,Aug. 29, 2-6 p.m. Partial proceeds from the sale of the CD will go to

Parkinson Society B.C. and Cerebral Palsy Association B.C. THE IMPERIAL 319 Main St.,Vancouver.

604-428-2272 Cap Global Roots: A world music showcase featuring Alex Cuba, Harry Manx,African Guitar Summit, Locarno and VahagniWednesday, Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.Admission: $20.Tickets: ticketweb.ca, Highlife Records, Zulu Records and Red Cat Records.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver.Tickets: 604-9816335 kaymeekcentre.com The Lonely: A tribute to Roy Orbison performed by Mike Demers Friday, Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $34.50.

LONSDALE QUAY 123 Carrie Cates Court, NorthVancouver. lonsdalequay.com SummerFest 2015: Free live concerts featuring a different music genre each week Sundays and holidays, 1-3 p.m.

Schedule:Aug. 30,The Emily Chambers Band (R&B, blues, acoustic).

LYNN VALLEY VILLAGE PLAZA Lynn Valley Road and Mountain Highway, North Vancouver.

Summer Concert Series 2015: All concerts will run from 7 to 9 p.m. on Fridays and may be cancelled in the event of rain.

Schedule: Aug. 28, Adam Woodall Band (folk rock).

Info: northvanrec.com/ publications-and-resources/ community-concerts.aspx.

PANORAMA PARK Deep Cove, North Vancouver.

Summer Concert Series 2015: All concerts will run from 7 to 9 p.m. on Fridays and may be cancelled in the event of rain. Schedule:Aug. 28, Steel Toe Boots (country). Info: northvanrec.com/publicationsand-resources/communityconcerts.aspx.

PARK ROYAL SHOPPING CENTRE Park Royal South,West Vancouver. shopparkroyal.com The Summer Music Lounge: Saturdays and holidays, 1-5 p.m. and Sundays 1-3 p.m.at TheVillage, and weekends and holidays, 1-5 p.m. at The Plaza until Sept.

6, featuring a variety of live musical entertainment.

PARKGATE LIBRARY 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. 604-929-3727 x8166 nvdpl.ca Summer Music at the Library: Local musicians John Lyon and Friends will play tunes from the 1960s and moreWednesday, Sept. 23, 7-8 p.m.

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Summer Sessions: A concert series on Saturdays with a support act from 7 to 8 p.m. and a headliner act from 8 to 10 p.m. Schedule:Aug. 29,The Boom Booms (party Brazilian and rock). Info: cnv. org/summersessionslineup.

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MUSICAL THERAPY CX*_ e912Z e.39S#3 GZ.1S D_44_.1U2 X3 2.VXS\ 7.42 XS 2ZX3 c_.4#3 !Q2Z =SS1.U e13X+ FZ_4.7c HX*_ .3 . +_U_,4X2c \1_32 .U9S\ /X2Z +91S24c ,.S* jX\Z D.UU_c% FZ_ e13X+ FZ_4.7c HX*_ Z.3 ^1S*_* 2Z_ +4_.2X9S 9^ R <.S*/.\9S3 .S* .33X32_* T13X+ 2Z_4.7c 749\4.T3 .+4933 <%;% FZX3 c_.4 2Z_ 4X*_ ,_\XS3 .2 2Z_ 8*\_/.2_4 ;.3XS9 XS D.S+910_4 .S* _S*3 .2 2Z_ k.4X,.U*X fX^2 ;9% XS CZX32U_4 ^94 . ,.4,_+1_ U1S+Z .S* UX0_ .1+2X9S% 694 T94_ XS^94T.2X9S 0X3X2 @"'#;%&+)A,.)#:+2-)(% `jbFb GE``fi8: From page 13 SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series: Lyric baritone Jason Cook and pianist Annabelle Paetsch will perform a selection of opera, art songs and musical theatre hits Thursday, Sept. 3, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

Classical Concert Series: Trio Primario comprised of flutist Jeff Pelletier, clarinetist Julie Begg and pianist Karen Lee-Morlang will perform Thursday, Sept. 10, 10:3011:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

Classical Concert Series: Pianist Krystuna Tucka will perform Russian chamber music Thursday, Sept. 17, 10:3011:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

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Now Showing: Diana Zoe Coop’s acrylic “Iris” painting series and Laura Murdoch’s glass works will be on display until Sept. 25.

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DISTRICT FOYER GALLERY 355West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Art Exhibit: Works by painter and photographer Mauricio Villamil and origami by Joseph Wu will be on display until Sept. 15.

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From page 15 The NorthVancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition titled Huaca: Spirit of Place with artwork by Janet Strayer until Sept. 29.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Corvus &Wolf: A solo exhibition of sculptures in wire, rubber and wood by Lee Roberts will run until Sept. 6.

3 Kisses: Paintings, ceramics and sculptures by Jytte, Peter and Zoltan Kiss will be on display Sept. 8-27. Opening reception:Tuesday, Sept. 8, 6-8 p.m. Meet the artists: Saturday, Sept. 12, 2-3 p.m.

Call for Artists: Past and present North Shore, Sea to Sky Corridor, Bowen Island and Sunshine Coast artists are invited to submit work for 2016 exhibit consideration. Drop-off will take place Sunday, Sept.

6, 9-11 a.m. and pick-up same day 3-4 p.m. atWestVancouver Community Centre, 2121 Marine Dr.

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604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca Progression of Form Fundraising Exhibition: A solo exhibition of works by Robert Davidson will run until Aug. 29.

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SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604925-7292 silkpurse.ca Art of the Sacred Feminine: MayaTelford’s acrylic paintings of symbolic representations of female

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For the Love of Animals: Artist Andrew Rayner’s work featuring animals found in our own backyard will be on display Sept. 1-20. Opening reception: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m.

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Home no longer an option in Backcountry ■ Backcountry.Written and directed by Adam MacDonald. Starring Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop and Eric Balfour.

Rating: 8 (out of 10).

JULIE CRAWFORD ContributingWriter

Weekend warriors contemplating an end-ofseason camping trip would do well to see Backcountry beforehand — then spring for an RV rental instead.

Adam MacDonald’s first feature is an unexpectedly tense look at what happens when a romantic camping trip in Ontario’s backcountry goes terribly wrong for a supposedly seasoned outdoorsman and his jittery girlfriend.

At first, Jenn and Alex (Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop) appear to be the type of people who have it coming: Jenn’s hair and makeup are ridiculous for an off-the-grid trip, Alex arrogantly refuses a map.

She’s on her phone until the very last second and he badgered her into the trip in the first place: one last selfie

and then they take off by canoe, without life jackets.

By the 10-minute mark we’re hoping something bad will happen.

But what? Should the couple fear the creepy park ranger (Nicholas Campbell) who warns them that their trail of choice is closed and that a hefty fine awaits if he catches them?

As the trail gets narrower and fellow campers become scarce, the twosome morphs into a reluctant threesome after Brad (Eric Balfour), a cocky Irishman who claims to be a for-hire backwoods guide, strides into their campsite with a bounty of fish and a really big knife. A pissing match between the boys ensues, revealing some of Alex’s insecurities. Brad takes his sweet time vacating camp, and we suspect he’ll be back. Is he the danger lurking in the dark woods?

Next, Jenn worries about bears. Alex dismisses her concerns, saying “we’ll be lucky to see anything bigger than a chipmunk.” After the couple stumbles across See Tension page 19

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Tension builds in woodsier version of Jaws From page 18 a bear bed, however, the film becomes the stuff of fairy-tale nightmares. (The two black bears who share credit as the one stalking our duo tear up the screen, so to speak, and do for the woods what Jaws did for the water.)

The couple becomes lost, dangerously so. MacDonald makes the most of snapping

branches and night shadows to build tension as the couple’s unknown predator closes in. “Let’s get back in the tent,” is their lame strategy, as if a thin layer of nylon is defense against anything.

Despite doing a few things right (like hoisting their food cache up a tree) Jenn and Alex do a lot wrong (no compass). But

the number one failure on Jenn’s part is not to have listened to her instincts in the first place, after her first “I want to go home” was swept aside.

The director knows that crisis tends to strip people down to basics, and honesty rolls out of our campers as soon as the danger rolls in.

We suspected judgment would be meted out right

from the get-go, as Jenn mulled over one of those dreaded rate-your-boyfriend quizzes during the car-ride up. Jenn’s character defies our expectations by film’s end; Peregrym (Rookie Blue) is compelling emotionally but also dives headlong into the physicality of her role, with breathless results.

Congrats to the makeup and effects departments,

who have created perhaps the most disgusting bigtoenail moment ever, as well as a few others I won’t mention.

Lascivious Irishmen, poor communication, lonely park rangers and bears: armed with these few devices MacDonald gamely shows us how a romantic camping trip gone wrong is no walk in the woods.

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“But there was just too many straight lines for me, too many rules,” he says.

Peter has been a full-time artist for the last 26 years and opened his Granville Island gallery in 2001. He gravitated toward sculpture, in part, he says, because no one else in his family was doing it.

“My dad was so good at everything else. He wasn’t doing any wood sculpture, so it was a niche that was available.”

The accessibility of wood sculpture was also appealing.There’s no need for a kiln or expensive welding equipment.

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“The title arrives either while I’m working on the piece, because I’m thinking about it, or it arrives when it’s finished and I stand back and look at it and I figure out what its story is.”

Before the 3 Kisses exhibit was titled as such, Peter put forward his own suggestion, but his play on the family name was promptly vetoed.

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

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Designs exude earthy elegance CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Like many jewelry makers, Alison Higgins was introduced to the craft through beading.

From there, she graduated into wire working, metalsmithing and shaping precious metal clay.

“My work today combines all of those pieces, which is, I think, one of the things that makes it kind of unique,”

Higgins says. “There’s a lot of variety, I don’t just do one thing.”

In her West Vancouver home studio, she designs and produces an eclectic assortment of earrings, necklaces and bracelets under the Alison Higgins Handcrafted Jewellery label. But one of her favourite parts of the whole creative process happens outside the studio.

“I like hunting down cool stuff and turning it into jewelry,” she says.

Organic materials, sourced from home and abroad, are present throughout her collection.

“I love finding interesting fossils and shells and pieces of glass,” Higgins says. “Often I’ll just start with the material rather than a vision of a finished piece and the process just kind of flows naturally.”

One of her top local spots to acquire materials is Capilano Rock and Gem on Pemberton

Avenue where large bins of New Zealand paua shells present Higgins with endless creative possibilities.

“I just love digging through and I’ll line up pieces and I’ll try and find pieces that are a similar hue and pattern that I can shape into earrings.”

In addition to natural materials, Higgins is also fond of incorporating vintage finds into her work. She has travelled to Paris to scour the city’s

legendary flea markets for antique buttons, chandelier crystals, and copper and brass filigree. And from Hell’s Kitchen in New York she brought home some cutlery and sawed off the tips of hollow-handled dinner knives to make bellshaped pendants.

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Jeweller focuses on wearable design From page 25 workbench, torches, pliers and other tools. In the dining room, she’s installed a hand-cranked rolling mill that can flatten wire or impress delicate patterns onto sheet metal.

“It’s a really cool, heavy piece of equipment that’s coveted by jewellers.”

When designing and assembling her pieces,

Higgins says she always keeps the wearer’s comfort top of mind.

“Wearability is a really key part of my jewelry and I do test drive all of my pieces just to make sure that they’re comfortable.”

Versatility is also an important consideration.

“I like pieces that you can just put on and wear,” Higgins says. “I find that (my pieces)

transition really well from day to evening and that contributes to the wearability. So it’s not just comfort, it’s that they’re pieces that you can wear every day, but they also look really great dressed up.”

Although Higgins uses adjectives like “diverse” and “eclectic” to describe her collection, she notes that all her pieces adhere

to the same basic design principles.

“They generally have elegant clean lines and a subtle organic flavour.”

Look for the Alison Higgins Handmade Jewellery table at the Shipyards Night Market on Friday, Aug. 28. For future market dates, or to browse the collection online, visit etsy.com/ca/shop/ AlisonHiggins.

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Tickets go on sale today for Capilano University’s Global Roots Series, a six month musical extravaganza that will bring some of the best talent from around the world right here to the Lower Mainland.

Featuring 11 different acts, the 18th season of the Cap Global Roots Series kicks off Oct. 2 and runs until April 14. It will feature a barrage of artists, both from Canada and countries as far abroad as Mauritania, Portugal and Ghana, a line up Cap’s

director of programming, Fiona Black, has worked hard to ensure will be a very special experience for those in attendance.

“I set the bar pretty high, I have to say,” says Black on the line up she has selected for this year’s series.

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A32 - North Shore News - Friday, August 28, 2015

MUSIC

Concerts feature local and international acts

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This is a home-grown project with Steve who I enormously respect and we have so many wonderful local artists and I think it just shows how strong our music, our roots scene is in this city. Sometimes we under-appreciate our local heroes.”

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Oct. 2 at the Kay Meek Grosvenor Theatre in West Vancouver and will be going for a second night Oct. 3.

Roughly half the shows will be performed at Cap’s own BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts while others will take place in other North Shore and even a couple Vancouver venues.

Closing the series in April will be Lemon Bucket Orkestra, a 15-piece folk band out of Toronto that Black says will make a great bookend to cap off the series.

“I’ve seen them perform in Montreal, they’re excellent musicians, they sure know how to get an audience excited and having fun — I love the two bookends this year, the beginning and the finale, because they’re both really big sort of celebratory nights.”

Black has long been trying to secure American folk artist Greg Brown to perform in the series and finally got her wish this year, with Brown performing Oct. 10 at Vancouver’s Electric Owl. Brown’s material has been covered by the likes of Carlos Santana and Willie Nelson.

“Greg Brown is a pretty eclectic singer/songwriter out of the U.S. I’ve been a big fan for. He’s one of those artists I’ve made inquiries about for years and it just, for whatever reason, hasn’t happened until this year. So I’m thrilled to have him come.”

Making his Vancouver debut at Vancouver’s St. James Hall on Feb. 11 is Australian artist Jeff Lang who has gained international attention in the music world for his unique blend of genres he incorporates into what he calls “disturbed folk.”

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On top of the Global Roots Series, Cap will also be hosting its Jazz Series, Theatre Series and Classical and Choral Series over the same time period. Among the Jazz series, which begins Sept. 26, is Louis Hayes &The Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band out of the U.S., Norma Winstone out of the U.K. and the Brad Mehldau Trio, also out of the U.S. Just in time for Halloween, Cap’s theatre department opens the Theatre Series with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, running for four dates between Oct. 14- 17 at the BlueShore Financial theatre, just one of four shows it will be performing over the course of the series.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased in advance at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts box office at Capilano University.

Showtimes From page 19 10 p.m.

Fantastic Four (PG) — FriTue 9:40 p.m.

Shaun the Sheep Movie (G) — Fri-Tue 2:20, 4:50, 7:20;Wed 1 p.m. Thur 1 p.m.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (PG) — Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:30, 7, 9:40 p.m.

Straight Outta Compton

(18A) — Fri-Sat 2:30, 6:45, 10; Sun-Thur 1:30, 4:40, 8, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:40, 8 p.m.

Sinister 2 (14A) — Fri- Sun 2:35, 5, 7:30, 10:05; MonTue 2:35, 5, 7:30, 9:50;WedThur 3, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 p.m.

A Walk in the Woods (PG) — Wed-Thur 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10 p.m.

Jurassic World 3D (PG) — Fri-Thur 9:30 p.m.

Friday, August 28, 2015 - North Shore News - A33

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.hugosvancouver.com 5775 Marine Drive, W. Van | 604-281-2111 Showcase your musical talents Thursday evenings in our beautiful chateau-style room or simply enjoy our reopened heated patio. Global fusion menu inspired by our love of travel, warm atmosphere inspired by our love of the community.

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Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub www.sailorhagarspub.com 86 Semisch Avenue, N. Van. | 604-984-3087 Spectacular view of Vancouver harbour & city, enjoy great food in a Brew Pub atmosphere. 18 beers on tap including our own 6 craft-brews. Happy Hour Specials Every Day 11am – 6pm!

Satellite sports, pool table, darts & heated patio.

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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!

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Gallery planning art tour to New Mexico West Vancouver’s Ferry Building Gallery is planning an in-depth tour to Santa Fe, Taos, and Abiquiu, New Mexico, from May 6 to 13, 2016.

Led by gallery director Ruth Payne and guide Jerry Rightman, the tour will be a veritable feast of the senses for art lovers, culture aficionados and

From page 29 Vancouver.Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Santa Fe Art Tour: An information meeting about an art tour led by Ruth Payne to New Mexico in May, 2016 will take placeWednesday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. RSVP. PARKGATE LIBRARY 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. 604-929-3727 x8166 nvdpl.ca Now Playing at the Library: Felix and Meira (adults) will be screened Friday, Aug. 28, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Registration required.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway Baker will share showbiz, film

history buffs.

Interested readers can learn more about the trip on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Ferry Building Gallery, at 1414 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver. RSVP to 604-925-7290 or email gallery@westvancouver.ca.

For more information visit ferrybuildinggallery.com.

and concert music stories past and present the thirdWednesday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Admission by donation.

WESTVANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Jazz Talk with Neil Ritchie — Alberta Hunter/Count Basie: A seminar touching on various aspects of jazz from across the decadesTuesday, Sept. 15, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

SFU Philosophers’ Cafe: Everyone is welcome to join a discussion with moderator Randall Mackinnon Friday, Sept. 18 at 10:30 a.m.Topic: What statement best tells us why Canada should exist and what its focus should be? Info: 778-782-8000 or philosopherscafe.net.

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

The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar $$ cheshirecheeserestaurant.ca 2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-987-3322 Excellent seafood & British dishes on the waterfront. Dinner specials: Wednesday evenings - Fresh halibut & chips.

Thursday’s Pot Roast. Friday & Saturday- Prime Rib. Sunday - Turkey. Weekends & holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny.

Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

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

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

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Neighbourhood Noodle House 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 MSG operated for over 18 years. Conveniently located in central Lonsdale.

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Woon Lee Inn www.woonleeinn.com 604-986-3388 3751 Delbrook Ave., North Vancouver

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

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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.

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 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.

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On the upswing: the crossover segment. Sliding down the sales-chart banisters: the minivan market.Thus, where the two meet, a nexus is formed.

Meet the new Honda Pilot, bigger, longer, more CRV-like in appearance, and more capable of taking your family on an — ahem — Odyssey than ever before.

It’s still an all-wheel-drive

crossover, but Honda has sanded the edges off their largest all-wheel-drive machine in hopes that it’ll find favour with those who’ve been migrating over to the Korean competition.

It’s a farewell to sliding doors, of sorts, a declaration that neither the minivan nor the mid-sized sedan is a staple of the Canadian family. According to market results, the Pilot should sell

very well.The question is, has it landed at the right runway, or is it bound for turbulence?

Design Anonymously handsome.

That seems to be the design brief of Honda’s styling crew, and they’ve pulled it off for good and bad.Where once the Pilot was squared off and angular, this new car makes the outgoing

model look like the shipping container for the new, curvier generation.

Except, of course, that the new one wouldn’t fit inside the old one.The Pilot is now 20 millimetres longer than before, although 90 mm less tall, and you can certainly see the bump in interior space despite the smoothed-off appearance.

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The car so shocking it’s named after a swear BRENDAN MCALEER ContributingWriter

Once upon a time, two Italian gentlemen had an argument, and Lamborghini was born.This much you likely already know — but like all really heated arguments, things really got interesting when somebody started swearing.

A recap of gearhead lore: Ferrucio Lamborghini, tractor magnate and passionate car aficionado, pops over to see Enzo Ferrari and complain about the gearbox in his 250GT. Enzo tells him to stick to driving tractors. Much angry arm-waving ensues.

The direct result is Automobili Lamborghini, and the first cars like the 350GT.These were V12powered Grand Tourers, designed for the road, as opposed to Ferrari’s race cars for the street. As a fan of the Mercedes-Benz 300SL and the Jaguar EType, Ferrucio sought to create a more genteel Italian thoroughbred to compete with the high-spirited, hot-blooded steeds from Maranello. Speed yes, but also comfort.

Behind the scenes, however, Lamborghini’s employees had rather another idea.Two young engineers, Paolo Dallara and Paolo Stanzani, came up with their own idea of a twoseater race car for the street as a prototype. Surprisingly, Ferrucio approved it for production, thinking it would become a low-volume machine to support the brand.When it was shown off at an auto show in Turin in 1965, designer Nuccio Bertone hurried over to shake Lamborghini’s hand.

A partnership was struck, and the Miura was born.

It is, perhaps, the most beautiful car ever made. More than slightly

temperamental, the Miura remains at the top of the list for collectors around the world, and has a delicacy and curvaceousness not seen since that heyday of 1960s design. An utterly wonderful car — so how do you design a follow-up?

Well, here it is, a dagger-stroke compared to the Miura’s caress.

It’s outrageous. It’s gobsmacking. It’s as iconic as the statue of David and as fractured as a Picasso. It makes no sense now, and even less by 1970s standards. It is the Countach.

Marcello Gandini, the young pen behind the Miura, is an example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing.Young, talented, and impetuous, he gave little consideration to either driver comfort or functionality of his follow up work, seeking only to build a car that would shock the world. He’d done wedge-shaped designs before, stilettos like the Alfa Romeo Carabo concept; this, however would be a

production car.

Almost all Lamborghinis, from Miura to Huracan, take their name from fighting bulls. Ferrucio was a Taurus, thus the badging, and thus the naming convention. However, the Countach would get its name in a different way.

The story goes that young Gandini revealed his stunning concept to Nuccio Bertone, causing the head of one of the world’s finest design studios to lose his cool. “Countach!” exclaimed Nuccio in surprise and delight, a semi-profane description that doesn’t have a direct English equivalent.

It’s basically “My goodness, what an attractive young lady,” except much more R-rated. Incidentally, if you’ve ever wondered, it’s pronounced “Cown-tak.”

This particular one belongs to Jeff Dow of Burnaby, who has owned it since 2007. It’s a 1984 5000S, the Euro-spec model, and is therefore quad-carbureted rather See Iconic page 40

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Pilot pleasantly handsome

From page 38

The front is essentially the same as the new CR-V, except embiggened. Honda’s three-bar corporate grille is due to start making its way through the fleet, so you can expect an Accord coming shortly with this new look.

It’s not bad at all.

From the side, the Pilot’s profile ends up being dominated by wheel choice.

Twenty-inch alloys are part of the top-spec Touring, a trim Honda says sells in surprisingly large volume in the Canadian market.

Eighteen-inch alloys are standard on the car, and while they don’t quite have

the flash, they’re still a goodlooking, split-spoke, five-arm design.

Environment Inside, the Honda is pure Honda. If you’re seeking an upgrade from your CRV, this vehicle will offer a pleasant familiarity.

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Iconic Countachs have Canadian connection

From page 38

than fuel injected. It’s also missing some of the horrid U.S.-spec bumpers that were required later in the Countach’s life.

Dow regularly brings his dream car to various shows around the Lower Mainland, weather permitting, which is something of an act of bravery these days. It’s not so much that the Countach is temperamental (although it is a 30-year-old Italian car after all), it’s more that Countach values have absolutely skyrocketed in recent years. Putting a firm price on things is tricky, but auction results indicate this car is worth closer to half a million than the quartermillion it might have fetched last year.

Dow, however, has no intent of selling this machine for profit and you can see why. It’s the exotic, the dream machine he’s always wanted.What would you replace it with?

As the 5000S’s mighty 4.8 V-12 crackles to life and honks the car up the hill towards UBC, it’s worth reflecting on the Canadian connection to the Countach.

If you’d been present at a European Formula One race in the 1970s, you’d likely have seen a custom-bodied Countach wearing Maple Leaf insignia.

These were the Walter Wolf cars, essentially privately funded testbeds for Lamborghini’s R&D time.They were always ahead of the curve, and they always wore Canada’s national flag as AustrianCanadian oil baron Walter Wolf was deeply proud of his adoptive country. He claims to have introduced Gilles Villeneuve to Enzo Ferrari, and certainly was excellent friends with the young Québécois racer.

Wolf’s cash infusions kept Lamborghini afloat for several years, but the Countach lost some of its shock and awe as the years went on.The high water mark, apart from the clean-lined perfection of the LP400, is probably the last of the Wolf cars, a 500 h.p. brute with F1derived rear suspension and a madcap 8-to-1 steering ratio. It’s currently located in Japan, freshly restored and tucked away. Lamborghini only made 2,000 or so Countachs over a 15 year period — they sold nearly as many Aventadors in two years.The latter owes a great deal to its mighty ancestor; every year, Lamborghinis get more usable, faster, more competent. Still, they once created a machine that still echoes through the ages, bellowing even when it’s standing still.

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Zippy Honda takes on sturdy Toyota From page 40 Honda’s gone to a single touchscreen rather than its confusing multi-redundancy twin screen layout as found in the Accord.

This last has a tendency to smudginess, thanks to an ultra-glossy finish. However, it’s so much faster than previous, and while there are a few menu quirks to get around (the audio-level adjustment is pretty deeply buried in sub-menus), it’s overall a huge improvement for the brand. Look forward to this tech proliferating throughout Honda’s lineup.

However, where the Pilot needs to deliver is not so much the front seats but the rear, and here it’s very good.

Both second and third-row space is big enough for even taller kids, and the higherspec cars have an easyfolding function that beats pretty much everything on the market. Instead of pulling a lever, just push a button on the side of the seat bottom, right in line for shorter kids, and everything slides easily. It even lights up at night.

Also clever is the rear cargo area when all seats are deployed. Ordinarily, threerow crossovers have little space when fully utilized, but the Pilot’s two-stage rear floor drops down to create a bit more room.

Official figures are 524 litres, about the same as most hatchbacks, but the size and shape of the space seems to handle larger strollers with ease.

Performance Under its smoother snout, the Pilot carries a V-6 that’ll be familiar in specification to any Honda fan: 3.5-litres in displacement, variable valve-timing (VTEC), 280 horsepower at 6,000 r.p.m., and 262 foot-pounds of torque at 4,800 r.p.m. No surprises here.

Perhaps a little more unusual are the transmission

choices. A conventional six-speed automatic is the standard offering, but there’s also an Acura-style nine-speed automatic, one that comes with paddleshifters for added theoretical sportiness. I can’t imagine owners actually using these, but there they are.

Further surprises abound in the form of a selectable terrain system that’s like a simplified Range Rover — choose from sand, snow, gravel, or tarmac.Wheelspin control, throttle response, and starting gear are all part of this easy-to-use setup.

Additionally, the Pilot comes with a proper torquevectoring system to aid in cornering.

Add in a lightened curb weight and the Pilot turns in a surprisingly spirited performance.You won’t be yanking and banking like a Honda S2000, but this big rig is actually light on its feet, driving much like the current Accord does.

The performance envelope is set by the low-rollingresistance tires, but forward acceleration is better than average.

Roll into the throttle on the highway and revs come up quickly, with a hissing VTEC kick-in that helps you zip past a dawdling semi-trailer with ease.This is more than adequate power for this size, and a considerably sprightlier drive than you’ll find in a Toyota Highlander.

Features Even more interesting than the Pilot’s standard driving characteristics are its semi-autonomous features, which are all but standard.

Lane-keep assist will nudge you back into your lane, and it’s good enough not to pingpong between the lines.The automatic cruise control makes longer drives in heavy traffic a cinch.

Again, the new eightinch infotainment system looks great (when clean) and operates simply. Not so great

is Honda’s decision to only put navigation in the top model: people are starting to expect satellite navigation as a mid-grade feature, and if they wander over to the Nissan showroom, they’ll find it. Perhaps we’ll see that trickle down in a future update.

Pricing for the Pilot starts at $35,490, but Honda points out base-model sales are very low.Touring-spec will cost you a little more than $50K. Official fuel economy figures for the Pilot are 9.3 (litres/100 kilometres) on the highway, and 12.4 in the city.

Mixed-use mileage seemed to hover in the 11s, which is not really all that much worse than the current crop of four-cylinder crossovers.

Green light Surprisingly nimble; quiet on the move; usefully sized; plenty of safety features.

Stop sign Screen prone to smudges; satellite navigation only on top-spec car; very firm seats.

The checkered flag A double dose of CR-V; Honda avoids any stunts, but sticks the landing.

Competition Toyota Highlander ($32,775) Heavier-handling than the Pilot,Toyota’s claymore of a sales weapon is a very clever machine with plenty of interesting features. Its dashboard storage shelf, for instance, is something to be wished for in all familyoriented machines.

While it’s a much slowerreacting machine thanks to a heavier curb weight, there are those who will like the Toyota’s sense of solidity. It’s excellent 3.5-litre V-6 also has little difficulty in pulling off a passing manoeuvre.

Honda lightness or Toyota steadfastness — the classic contest. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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