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Fire CapU president, says letter Former faculty allege a philosophical shift at CapU BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A group of former Capilano University faculty members have signed a letter calling on the university’s board of governors to fire president Kris Bulcroft.

The letter cites Bulcroft for “failing to provide the quality of leadership Capilano University deserves.”

After running into a $1.3-million operating budget shortfall, the CapU board of governors cut

a number of non-degree granting programs from the curriculum in June including fine and applied arts.

The letter alleges Bulcroft has enforced a “philosophical shift” away from Cap being a place of comprehensive education for the North Shore, and that she has abandoned a policy of consulting with the Capilano community before making big changes.

Bill Schermbrucker, a former instructor, wrote the letter and 38 other retired profs undersigned it. “As faculty who are proud to have built an outstanding institution that functioned with a high degree of democracy, we strongly recommend that the board of governors remove Dr. Bulcroft from the position See Bulcroft page 5

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A NorthVancouver man who successfully fought to overturn an obstruction of justice conviction connected to a jaywalking ticket in the past has been found guilty of a second obstruction charge — after arguing with police about the same issue in the same location.

Don Sipes was found guilty Friday of obstructing police officers by Judge Judith Gedye in North Vancouver provincial court for refusing to give police his name after they stopped him for jaywalking near the corner of Chesterfield and Third Avenue on Oct. 30 last year.

Sipes said he still believes See Obstruction page 5

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Survivor wishes for strength Teen makes inspired choice after fighting off leukemia ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

DisneyWorld. Disney World. MeetWWE wrestler John Cena.Trip to Hawaii. DisneyWorld.

Mexico. Blue Jays tickets.

DisneyWorld. Disney World. Disneyland.

Browse through the list of recent wishes on the Children’s Wish Foundation’s website and a pattern starts to emerge.

“It’s hard to go wrong with Disney, it’s pretty darn magical,” says Katie Spencer-Lim, the wish co-ordinator for the foundation’s B.C. chapter.

“We have those three categories — travel, item and celebrity. Disney is probably our biggest wish. Electronic wishes are really popular as well, all the technology that the kids like these days.”

On a recent Tuesday afternoon 18-year-old leukemia survivor Brian Lau is living out his wish on a cool concrete floor inside a nondescript light-industrial building in North Vancouver.

There are no mice or princesses in sight, just a man standing a few feet away yelling at him.

“Big pull, let’s go,” says Anthony Findlay, owner of Level 10 Fitness, as Lau strains to get his face level with a chin-up bar.There’s a 15-pound weight strapped to his waist by a thick metal chain. “Up, up, up, up, up!”

It’s no Disneyland but there’s something magical happening here, too. It’s helping Brian Lau stay alive, thrive even, after doctors told him at age 14 that there was a 50-50 chance that he’d soon be dead. It just might be the smartest wish anyone has ever made.

••• The story begins in a far off land with a shock to the system: a cold shower.

Following his Grade 9 year at Vancouver’s Gladstone secondary, Lau went on a summer trip to China to visit his extended family.

His parents, who moved to Canada some 20 years earlier, did not accompany their Vancouver-born

Brian Lau works out on a stationary bicycle at Level 10 Fitness in North Vancouver as trainer Anthony Findlay looks on. Recovering from more than three years of chemotherapy, Lau asked the Children’s Wish Foundation for a personal trainer. Scan with the Layar app for video footage of the workout. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN son on this trip to their homeland, instead leaving him in the care of relatives.

A cold shower turned into a scorching fever and Lau found himself in a Chinese hospital.

“All my relatives said that I looked pale and that my lips were white,” remembers Lau. “Looking back at the photos, it was pretty scary.”

He thought there was something wrong, but no one knew, or no one would tell him, exactly what it was.

“It was scary. I didn’t know what was happening.

I got blood work, I knew something was wrong at that time.”

The teenager recovered enough to make it back home and attend the first two days of Grade 10 classes, but the problems persisted and he soon found himself back in hospital, this time at B.C. Children’s.This time there was no ambiguity. It was cancer.

“Shocked, scared,” recalls Lau. “I didn’t know what was going to happen.”

The diagnosis was acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Most common in children, there’s a high rate

of survival for kids who get ALL, but for adults the cure rate drops to around 30 or 40 per cent. Brian says his doctors pegged his survival chances as a teenager at around 50 per cent.

Immediately admitted to hospital, Lau first had a small port inserted just beneath his skin in his chest that would act as an insertion point for chemotherapy drugs for the next three and a half years.

Chemo treatments followed along with heavy doses of medication.

Two months later he was still alive and allowed to leave the hospital, but there was still a long way to go.

Lau says the side effects of the chemo weren’t devastating for him — his hair became soft and brittle but didn’t fall out completely — but there were complications along the way.

“There was this phase of time where I couldn’t eat, I had no appetite,” he says. “I would puke a lot.”

There were also the lumbar punctures every month, a procedure used to draw out cerebral spinal fluid for testing. Lau was knocked out for each of those procedures and needed a week of

recovery after each one before he felt energetic again.

It wasn’t fun, but it was working.

Weekly chemo turned biweekly, then monthly, then every three months.

Lau went back to school and resumed somewhat of a normal life, although the previously sports-mad kid couldn’t play the games he loved — basketball, hockey, tennis, baseball, badminton, volleyball — at any kind of intensity because of his fatigue as well as the port stuck in his chest.

“It sucked,” he says. “I wanted to join teams once I got back to school in Grade 11, but my mom would tell me not to in case anything happened.”

He graduated high school on time though, and enrolled at Simon Fraser University in the fall. In the meantime he was put in contact with the Canadian-based Children’s Wish Foundation and told he met their criteria for wish granting. He could have the experience of a lifetime, completely paid for by generous donors.That news coincided with another piece of news that was even better — he was cancer free.

On Dec. 31, 2012, Lau

sat down for a chemotherapy session for the last time.

Doctors now say he is basically cured, but Lau has learned that you can never turn your back on cancer.

“Every cancer there’s still a chance it could come back; you can’t say for sure it’s gone,” he says.

It’s time to make a wish.

••• The folks at the Children’s Wish Foundation say they never heard of such a thing.

“Before (cancer) I was pretty active,” says Lau. “Once I got diagnosed all of that died off. I want to slowly pick it back up and get stronger, get healthier.”

So, given the ability to choose whatever his heart desired, Lau asked for the services of a personal trainer.

The foundation did its research, OK’d the plan and picked one man for the job.

Anthony Findlay grew up in West Vancouver, captaining West Van secondary in football, rugby and basketball before focusing on football at UBC and later in the CFL with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He started

Level 10 Fitness in 1997 and since then his athletes have done everything from winning Olympic gold to playing in the Super Bowl.

The call from the Children’s Wish Foundation came out of the blue.

“My answer was, of course, I’d love to,” says Findlay. “I’d be grateful and honoured to do it.”

But there were concerns.

“Lots of concerns,” he says. Somewhat surprisingly, however, Lau’s health wasn’t the major concern for Findlay. Drawing on years of experience that included working with other cancer patients and survivors — though none with leukemia — and working with Lau’s doctors, Findlay was confident in his ability to create and tweak a fitness program to fit his client’s unique needs.

The pressure Findlay felt the most was to make the experience a worthwhile one, to live up to the word “wish.”

“This is his wish — you want him to look forward to it, you want it to be excellent and rewarding and, basically, awesome,” says Findlay. “I don’t want it to be average, I don’t want it to be like you could pick up some muscle (magazine) and see some exercises.”

The first meeting in early May of this year involved the quiet teenager doing most of the listening while the friendly trainer did most of the talking. But Findlay got what he was looking for.

“I had him laughing in the first five minutes,” he says. From there it was time to get to work. Calling Lau’s fitness level “kind of average or below average,” Findlay got him working on a full-body program. “Put it this way: he needed work on his core, he needed work on his upper and lower body strength, he needed work on his flexibility and mobility.”

There were a lot of curious onlookers as well.

Longtime Level 10 client Jason Garrison of the Vancouver Canucks stopped by to meet the young man, as did Chris Spencer of the Tennessee Titans. All three of the famous young hockeyplaying Reinhart brothers, Max, Griffin and Sam, hung out with Lau.The national snowboard cross team was there for a team workout one day and they invited Lau to join in.

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Bulcroft has board’s confidence CLEANING CARPET & UPHOLSTERY

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of president, and take the steps necessary to ensure that Capilano University appoints a leader who honours the culture and tradition of consultation, educational openness, and comprehensive curriculum offerings,” the letter reads.

The letter is addressed to board of governors chairwoman Jane Shackell, who has since read the letter but doesn’t expect the board will act on it. “I imagine that the board will have occasion to discuss the letter. I would be extremely surprised if

the board were inclined to fire the president,” she said.

“The board has complete confidence in Dr. Bulcroft.”

The axed courses, while valued by the community, were cut out of a financial necessity, Shackell said.

“I think it would be fair to say that everyone at Cap — board, faculty, staff, students, and probably the Ministry of Advanced Education as well, regret the fact that some of our programs were suspended in the spring as a result of insufficient funds to offer them this year,” she said.

When the province

reclassified Cap from a college to a university in 2008, it never increased its funding. On a grants-perstudent basis, Capilano ranks 24th out of 26 post-secondary institutions in B.C. at roughly $7,000 per student. Conversely, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology receives around $14,000 per student.

“We are anxious to work with the ministry as partners in this project to ensure students at Capilano receive an equitable share of provincial resources for advanced ed.,” Shackell added.

Obstruction appeal planned

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he’s being unfairly harassed by police, and plans to appeal the case.

In the most recent incident, two North Vancouver RCMP officers told the judge they watched Sipes step on to Chesterfield Avenue and narrowly avoid traffic before the altercation between Sipes and police began.

Sipes, who did not testify in court, disputed that his actions presented any hazard, and argued the police had no grounds to stop him for jaywalking.

Sipes successfully fought later to get the jaywalking tickets dropped.

But the judge said the validity of the officers’ decision to arrest Sipes must be based on the information they had at the time.

She sentenced Sipes to six months probation and 20 hours community work service, while acquitting him of a second charge of causing a disturbance.

Outside the court, Sipes said he doesn’t plan to let the case rest there.

In July of last year, he succeeded in B.C. Supreme Court in overturning a similar obstruction conviction stemming from an almost-identical incident in North Vancouver. In that case, the judge ruled Sipes wasn’t guilty of a crime for

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In 2009, the West Vancouver Police Department was also forced to pay Sipes damages after a provincial court judge ruled he had been illegally arrested as he was walking down the street in January 2006. In her decision, the judge criticized the police, saying Sipes was arrested “without any grounds at all.” Sipes said he also thinks people in his neighbourhood of Lower Lonsdale are being disproportionately targeted for jaywalking as a way for police to be seen as “being active in the neighbourhood,” known for its street-level drug activity.

As for the criticism that Bulcroft, failed to consult faculty members, Shackell said, “The budget last year received a thorough and detailed scrutiny by the senate budget advisory committee.The faculty had opportunities to provide input and they did so,” she said.

Bulcroft was not available for comment according to CapU spokeswoman Jane MacCarthy.

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The greater harm O nce again, the Conservative government charged blindly into ideological battle this week with a decision to deny heroin to Vancouver addicts involved in a clinical research project.

The government’s decision came shortly after Health Canada had approved the program, which deals with addicts in lifethreatening situations for whom previous therapies have failed.

In this case, the strategy clearly fell under the heading of harm reduction which generally acknowledges addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal one and seeks to reduce the harm created by it — recognizing that eliminating the problem is often not possible.

The Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are not fans of harm reduction.They have fought health authorities repeatedly on the issue, most notably challenging

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the existence of Vancouver’s supervised injection site, despite evidence that it has reduced harm to some of our most vulnerable citizens.

Medical science has consistently backed up harm reduction as a sound philosophy.

But the Tories have never been particularly interested in scientific evidence, much preferring ideological crusades.

It’s a pattern that’s been repeated by the Tories in all areas where science has yielded a result that likely won’t appeal to its base of political supporters.

There is, of course, no logic to this particular decision.The fact the study participants are all long-term chronic addicts who have failed to respond to other treatment would indicate they will be taking heroin regardless.The only difference will be whether that occurs in a safe and controlled setting or on the streets.

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John Lawson Park playground is amazing Dear Editor: The kids and grandkids of West Vancouver will be so surprised now that the play area at John Lawson Park is finally open. As a close resident to the park and a granddad to five children I have waited with bated breath to see the results. Well, I was not disappointed.

The park is absolutely amazing, and watching the looks in the parents’ eyes when they saw the park for the first time was a thing to behold.

I am so proud of what West Vancouver has created

Watch for lemmings Dear Editor: With darker mornings and evenings preceded by an earlier dusk, the Greater Black Shrouded Lemming may once again be observed making its way at varying speeds along the roadways of the North Shore. These shadowy creatures are usually picked out at the last minute as they saunter along the road toward oncoming vehicles oblivious to their invisibility.

Perhaps they believe that the miniscule luminous patches which occasionally flash on their feet or a dime-sized reflective insignia is enough to provide warning of their

here at John Lawson. It will be the place for the children of West Van and the North Shore to be. My hats off to the municipality and the workers who put so much thought into this project.

Peter Black West Vancouver

Siblings Emerson Chan, 3, and Mei -Lin, 5, try out the new waterpark at John Lawson Park. Scan the photo with Layar to watch a video.

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Breaking bad in fantasy – and life I’m practically a pacifist — I’ve never been in a fist fight and never held a gun — but I must admit that I found it a little thrilling to pull a stranger from his car and kill him in the street.

This, of course, was done in the imaginary world of Grand Theft AutoV, a video game that has turned more normally docile people into psychopaths than a Stanley Cup loss to the Bruins.

I’m not particularly fond of, or good at, video games but at an engagement party I attended recently the evening wound down to a small group of people playing Grand Theft Auto — what a lucky bride-tobe, by the way — and I was handed the controller and told to go nuts. My extended stretch of perfectly legal driving — “which button makes me wave thanks to that guy who just let me merge onto the freeway” — was not much of a crowd pleaser. So I was instructed to run up to another car then hit theY button to open the car door followed by the L button to pull out a pistol followed by the W button to wave goodbye to my childlike innocence followed by the R button to shoot the unsuspecting motorist in the face.

It was thrilling and mortifying all at once.

Seconds later I myself was

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This was one night before the series finale of the wildly popular TV show Breaking Bad. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil the ending if you haven’t seen it yet.The series is about Walter White, a middleaged chemistry teacher who one day “breaks bad” and becomes a drug dealer to make money for his cancer treatments.Two questions the series seems to centre around are 1) Does Walter break bad because he has to or because he wants to? and 2) How many times is too many times to see a middleaged chemistry teacher in his saggy underwear?

The confluence of Breaking Bad and Grand Theft Auto got me thinking about good vs. bad. Is it

better to be the friendly leprechaun who just wants to feed nutritious marshmallows to children or is it more fun to be the low-life thugs who are always after his lucky charms? Is it more fun to be a giant friendly nerd like Big Bird or to be a grouch like Oscar, the Grouch? Is it more fun to be a straight shooter like Dudley DoRight or pure evil like Miley Cyrus?

Those are all fictional characters but as a father of two young boys I feel like I’m watching an ever-evolving, real life experiment in human nature. My little North Vancouver basement suite is like a petri dish except with more mucus.

It’s too early to tell if my seven-month-old is good or bad — the giggles and smiles are all good but the 5:45 a.m. screaming could be a chilling foretaste of a deeply troubled life to come.

Or it could just be poo.

My older son’s path is a little more telling. From age zero to three he was practically a saint, a little Baby Theresa. Even when his little brother was born he didn’t display any of the typical sibling jealousy, instead turning tiny baby kisses and hugs into his own little cottage industry.

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What’s better than saying “OK Daddy” in an adorable little voice? Saying “I don’t like your hair Daddy” in an adorable little voice.What’s more fun than kissing your little brother? How about double knee drops to the ribs?

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At least, not while my son is watching. He’s never been to a UFC fight or seen a violent movie either. He barely watches TV at all — just a little Blues Clues and the movie Cars.

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Lau’s choice is life changing: trainer From page 3 Four months after that first session the changes are evident as Findlay and Lau go through one of their twice-a-week workouts.

Findlay keeps up the chatter as Lau silently — “he’s a real Chatty Cathy” the trainer jokes — works through a routine of squats, stationary bike, bicep curls and a curious-looking machine that astronauts use to stay in shape in space.

Lau has added four and a half inches to his vertical leap and packed on 10 pounds of muscle.

“I’m glad to say that everything has improved dramatically, if not doubled and sometimes tripled in certain areas,” says Findlay.

“It’s been surprising. He’s had a very linear path of improvements — we’re talking weekly. It builds, builds, builds. . . . He was just learning how to do a squat and now he’s squatting 250 pounds!”

Findlay seems a little staggered by what he’s seen the past four months.

“He was just trying

Brian Lau, 18, pushes to complete a set of dumbbell presses during his twice-weekly sessions at Level 10 Fitness.

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to stay alive,” he says, “and now he’s actually excelling and getting more flexible and improving his endurance and his aerobic capacity and strength and power. How exciting is that for me to be there watching him do it and helping him do it? There’s something about when you’ve gone through a physical trauma where you’re absolutely vulnerable and there’s nothing you can do about it,

to having the position he’s in where you can feel like you’re in control — that’s something unique.”

••• Let’s make one thing clear — the Children’s Wish Foundation and Level 10 Fitness did not save Brian Lau’s life.That honour goes to the doctors who worked for years executing a plan to eradicate the cancer.

But Lau’s wish? Skipping Hawaii, saying “no thank you” to the Canucks and dropping the free Xbox so that he could drive through heavy bridge traffic twice a week and rip through an exhausting, hour-long workout? That’s some kind of wish.

“Could you think of a better one?” Findlay asks.

“I know it’s an experience when you go to, say, Machu Picchu — that’s awesome and that can be inspiring as well — but this, what we’re doing, I know is life changing. It’s not ‘can be,’ it is. It’s doing nothing but making him better and healthier and increasing his energy levels and increasing pride and self respect. . . . Not only has he already overcome the battle that he had with leukemia and going through the treatments, but this is just reinforcing that he is stronger than a lot of people who haven’t gone through any of that stuff. I would think that this is probably the most wonderful choice that he could have made for himself. I think the benefits

will keep coming up in the years to come for him versus riding on the Scream Machine or whatever they have at Disneyland or Magic Mountain or whatever. ” Even the folks at the Children’s Wish Foundation who work to make magic happen every day are taking notice of what’s going on here.

“Personally I find it quite inspiring,” says SpencerLim. “Day-to-day, so many of us in our regular lives find a lot of excuses to put our health second, so to look at a teenaged boy who’s had health struggles that nobody his age should ever have, who’s had this chance to do anything and chosen something so positive for his health was really great to see. I think it’s amazing.

He’s obviously very driven, which is really cool. It’s a lot of hard work. A lot of the wishes that we grant, they’re fun and easy but he chose one that certainly involved a lot of work on his part.”

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“I would hope that this would inspire people to make that move or do what they need to do in order to be more fulfilled in life,” says Findlay. “People don’t have to be weightlifters, they don’t have to be runners, they don’t have to do any of that stuff. But you have to do things that are going to help your basic quality of life. . . . Grab (life) by the horns now and then and see where it can take you, or see where you can take it, instead of being a bystander. I think that’s what Brian has done. Stuff happened, tragedy — he’s turned it around to being an advantage. And not only that, he’s turned around his wish to something that can propel him.That’s neat stuff.”

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Humpbacks, which are finding ample food here and no longer face the threat of whaling, used to frequent the sound in the early 1900s, drawing in the first commercial whalewatching business.They were later hunted until local populations were largely extinct.

“We hope, as humpbacks show up a little bit more in each area, that we’ll see humpbacks using this area like they used to historically,” she Caitlin Birdsall, network co-ordinator.

In the meantime, if you see a whale, dolphin or porpoise, you are asked to report it at 1-866-I-Saw-One and give the animals a wide berth.

“Make sure you slow down, stay 100 metres away and give the animals their space,” Birdsall said.

Scan this story with Layar to see video of a humpback whale breaching in House Sound or go to nsnews.com.

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Fight evil with healthy snacks and a good nap From page 7 and guns for the sequel.

Uh, OK.The FCC receives more than half a million complaints when Janet Jackson’s nipple is exposed for half a second but nobody cares if the most popular movie series of the past decade aimed at very young children features machine gun battles and a rocketlaunching submarine?

Don’t they know that Cars hero Lightning McQueen is Christ-like to little kids?

He’s frickin toddler Jesus, the kids worship him, and you’re going to put him in a movie full of gunfights?

Oh, America.

If my son didn’t learn violence from us and he didn’t learn it from TV, then those kicks and punches seem to have been conjured from the depths of his little toddler soul. I hope it’s just a phase, but I don’t really know. Maybe in four years he’ll be cooking meth with his Grade 2 chemistry teacher.

What I do know is that my boy always seems to go back to being a sweet little angel whenever we get his sleep and snacks right. In fact, sometimes he’s the best at calming his little brother down with a beautiful

song after, say, the baby gets kicked in the face or something. Maybe that’s the answer to all of this. Maybe all Walter White needed was a couple of Fruit Roll-Ups between classes. Maybe if Grand Theft Auto had a Nap button we could stop all the violence.

In fact, that’s a great idea.Who’s ready for Grand Nap Auto? Anyone? Anyone?

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Motorcyclist wins accident suit One driver’s bad decision behind the wheel has ended up costing more than $100,000 after an accident in the British Properties caused permanent injury to a motorcyclist’s arm.

In a decision recently handed down in B.C. Supreme Court, Koosha Rezaei was awarded $110,000 for injuries to his right arm suffered in the crash six years ago.

Rezaei was riding his motorcycle north on Stevens Drive in West Vancouver on Sept. 15, 2007, following

a Toyota Camry driven

by Michael John Leland, when Leland suddenly did a U-turn in front of the motorcycle.

Rezaei tried to brake and steer to the left, but ended up T-boning the car, striking it with his right handlebar and hand.

The impact broke his forearm near the wrist, requiring surgery and insertion of a metal plate.

Rezaei later sued the driver, arguing that his ability to earn income at his business doing BMW mechanical repairs has been

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presence. Despite their often accompanying canine escorts demonstrating the sense to stay on the sidewalk, these foolhardy creatures persist in ambling along the tarmac.

Ironically in the daylight of the spring and summer months these same scampering bipeds

permanently hindered by continuing pain from the accident.

Rezaei said heavy work like replacing engines and frame work involving use of high-impact tools has been much more difficult in the years after the accident.

He said the pain has also kept him awake at night and reduced his participation in some sports.

Justice Robert Punnett awarded him $25,000 for past loss of income, $40,000 for future loss of income and $45,000 for other damages.

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We can only hope that this darkened form is part of a Darwinian natural selection process that will eventually promote self preservation in the more sensible of the species.

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Supportive husband helps with wife’s return to art world ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

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To mark their 25th wedding anniversary June 11, Eric and Kathryn Bozman exchanged silver necklaces.

Eric’s is a figaro chain and Kathryn’s came with a heart pendant, symbolic of their love and unbreakable bond.

Despite the healthrelated challenges they’ve faced over the years, just like their new necklaces, the Edgemont Village couple’s positive outlook is solid.

“Right now is important,” says Kathryn, 57, of their philosophy.

“If you look at the past you can have regrets,” says Eric, 54, adding that if you also look too far into the future you can waste time worrying. “Right today, right now, everything’s good.”

In addition to their marital milestone the “soul mates” have recently been celebrating something else and that is Kathryn’s triumphant return to a lifelong passion: painting.

Kathryn, who moved to the North Shore at age 11, exhibited an early talent for art, and went on to study at Capilano University and the University of British Columbia where she had an opportunity to study under Lionel Thomas.

Edgemont Village’s Eric and Kathryn Bozman, self-described “soul mates,” have faced a number of health-related challenges over their 25 years of marriage, following a devastating car accident that left Kathryn a quadriplegic. Through it all they’ve maintained a positive outlook on life and are currently celebrating Kathryn’s triumphant return to the art world (her paintings hang behind them) as her recovery journey continues. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN Prior to meeting Eric, the landscape painter endured a life-changing car accident. Driving home on NewYear’s Eve in 1980 during an intense rainstorm, she was involved in a head-on collision on

the Pattullo Bridge that left her a quadriplegic. At the time, Kathryn had been married to someone else and had a young daughter.

Despite having to use a wheelchair to get around, Kathryn had been able

to continue her artistic pursuits. The first work she produced in the wake of her accident was The Living Hand, a watercolour depicting a barren tree with a hand growing out of the top, reaching skyward, a

metaphor for her survival.

Eventually divorcing her first husband, she continued to paint, show and sell her work. She and Eric met in 1986 and they See Artist page 12

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Artist remains committed to her recovery From page 11

say it was “love at first sight.” Two years later they were married and from the beginning he’s been her biggest fan, both in art and in life.

The couple maintained an active lifestyle for many years: Kathryn was able to drive; they were avid travellers and enjoyed camping and flying in glider planes. She even tried adaptive skiing and parasailing.

“We did do everything,” says Eric.

Kathryn had also been able to continue working, most notably she worked as an accounts receivable clerk from her home office.

“I was known as a ‘pit bull who drools honey,’” she laughs.

“She could manage to get people to pay without pissing them off,” adds Eric.

Through the years, art was a constant and she continued to produce work.

However, the couple faced tragedy in 2008 after Kathryn was diagnosed with double pneumonia and spent close to a year

in hospital, including six months in a coma, finally going home on her birthday.

Everything was different.

“When Kathryn first came home from the hospital, she couldn’t drive her chair, she couldn’t speak, she was on a ventilator 24 hours a day.

She couldn’t scratch her head,” says Eric.

However she and Eric remain committed to her recovery and slowly but surely she’s continuing to make progress and increase her level of ability.

“She is a fighter that’s for sure,” says Eric.

Kathryn has regained her speech, is able to navigate her chair once more and her control of her hands is continuing to improve. Eric has been able to return to work full time at CP Rail in Port Coquitlam.

She’s also started painting again and once a week sits at their kitchen table and with the use of splints to hold pens, pencils and brushes, works at regaining her ability.

“It’s been going well

but it’s kind of frustrating too because I have a hard time making straight lines and controlling my hand,” she says. “I use splints on my hand and like I said it’s frustrating not to be able to be as detailed as I’m used to. But it’s nice to work with colour again.”

Kathryn refuses to give up. “I love doing it,” she says.

Kathryn took an important step in her return to the art world last month, after Eric pointed out a call for artists issued by North Vancouver’s Caroun Art Gallery (1403 Bewicke Ave.), published in the North Shore News.

Eric points out the irony of their timing. “The only reason we got an art show was because the guy who was supposed to have the date got into a car accident and broke his legs. So here’s a guy who breaks his legs and can’t go up and down the stairs so he gets somebody in a wheelchair who can’t go up and down the stairs to have an art show,” he says.

Caroun displayed 24 of Kathryn’s works, pre-

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While she’s always been a cheerful person, Eric’s noticed a change in his wife since the show. “She just seems more excited with life,” he says.

The exhibition was Kathryn’s first in 15 years, her last at Maple Ridge’s Sunflower Gallery.

“I am so proud of her,” says daughter Rebecca, 35, adding it’s been amazing to see her mother putting herself out there again.

Like Eric, Rebecca has long been a strong support to Kathryn.

The Bozman household is a lively home, bought by Kathryn back in 1985. Her paintings hang throughout.

Care aides come and go, as do members of their church family from St. Agnes’ Anglican Church, dropping in to say hello.

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The District is looking for new members to join a wide variety of advisory committees and panels.

Here’s a list of North Vancouver District advisory committees which need members: North Shore Advisory Committee on Disability Issues – a joint North Shore Committee that advises on ways to make the community more accessible for residents with disabilities.

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Advisory Design Panel – reviews and comments on the site layout, exterior design, landscaping, and environmental quality of applications for development made to the District.

The Panel also provides input on municipal policies such as community plans, heritage issues, major subdivisions, and District infrastructure projects.

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Garden a favourite place From page 12

All are entertained by a 50-year-old double yellow-headed Amazon parrot named Captain, a charismatic, opera-singing, flirtatious, chatterbox-ofa-thing that was previously owned by Kathryn’s father.

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A favourite part of their outdoor space is a large

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West Vancouver firefighters Fraser Ray, Gary Yuen, James Holmes, Mike Fraser and Otto the dog The B.C. SPCA West Vancouver branch celebrated 30 years of service at its current location, 1020 Marine Dr., Sept. 22. The day was a bit soggy, however celebrations forged ahead with West Vancouver firefighters washing dogs, volunteers cooking up food on the grill, children enjoying activities, guests going on facility tours and adopters making new furry friends. spca.bc.ca/branches/west-vancouver

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on something else. Divide allowance money among saving, spending and sharing. n Ages nine to 14: Time for the young’uns to learn the difference between needs and wants.Time to set up a savings program for immediate and longterm goals, building on the “limited funds” lesson taught earlier. Identify regular family financial commitments; point out the relationship between income and expenses.

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Creative-minded parents pave the way for artistic eye Kate Clifford shares a memory that exemplifies life as it was in West Vancouver.

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Her parents, Hugh Clifford and Jane Billaux, were well-known in the close-knit community. A socialist by politics and by nature, Hugh was a perennial NDP candidate and an early advocate of environmental causes.

He turned to fitness after retiring from the framing business, winning the Canadian masters medal at the 1981 Vancouver International Marathon at the age of 74.

Kate’s mother was an artist. Jane’s portraits of family, friends and neighbours, some in the West Vancouver Museum’s collection, are an invaluable visual record of the people See Couple page 21

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Kate’s parents were London born: Hugh, an adventurer with six brothers, all dentists; and Jane, raised in luxury and determined to be an artist. In 1934, the two individualists with their daughter Julia in hand and Kate on the way, left England aboard a tramp steamship bound for Vancouver.

Friendship provided the family with a home, one of two beachfront cottages at 2264 Bellevue Ave. owned by fellow socialist and lawyer W.W. LeFeaux.

Architect Ned Pratt and his wife Bunny lived in one cottage.The other, with its canvas roof and sawdustburning stove, fronting the beach from a patch of berry bushes, would be the Clifford’s home for 17 years.

In 1952, to accommodate the needs of their growing children

— now including brother Ben, born in 1944 — Hugh and Jane built a Pan Abode house on 22nd Street, which is still standing.

In a memoir of her mother, Kate writes, “Those fond memories of both of us creating together.You painting at your easel and I at the table with pastels, crayons, paints and paper unless of course I was your next model — five cents an hour! Maggie Muggins on the radio helped pass the time, as I tried to sit motionless for yet another of your wonderful portraits.”

Kate graduated from West Vancouver high school in 1952 inspired by her parents’ influence to become a hand-lettered sign writer. After a couple of years of learning her craft, she set up in the frame shop and later at her home.

Making her way as a commercial artist, working on commissions with her babies beside her in a box, Kate would remember those days at her mother’s

side — the smell of paint and turpentine, the postage stamp-sized easel, everyone crammed into the cottage’s tiny kitchen after a day on the beach.

When Kate was in her late 40s and on her own, her two children grown, she joined the North Shore Hiker’s club. Hiking gave Kate two gifts: a restored appreciation of the natural world and her life partner, retired teacher Henry Meester. Kate’s eyes light up as she describes their life together — folk dancing, meditation, music and travel, including an annual backpacking journey in Asia.

Kate and Henry share their creative gifts with the community. Henry plays clarinet with the Dundarave Players in concerts at seniors’ residences.This year, Kate dug out her paints and brushes to help West Vancouver’s Pumpkin Fest. Look for the Coffee and Hot Dogs signs, they’re Kate’s handiwork.

She wishes it would be as

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generosity, qualities that defined the community of West Vancouver as it was, are personified in Kate Clifford and Henry Meester, and in others who came for the natural beauty

easy to refresh the West Vancouver sign at 13th Street and Marine Drive, commissioned in 1990. “It’s a good sign,” says Kate, “It just needs a facelift.”

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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

Shirley and Franz Britsch take the North Shore News to North Cape, Norway, one of the most northern points in Europe.

Lori and Peter Chapman take the North Shore News to the city of Bet She’an while visiting Israel for their 25th wedding anniversary.

Marg McCrea catches up on some news with two city founders at London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

Imke Huebner shares the News with some kangaroos in Brisbane while on a trip to Australia.

Madaline Robathan takes the North Shore News to Buckingham Palace while visiting London.

Shane Patterson and Kathy Minehan take the News to the peak of Ben Nevis in Scotland.

Susan Hyam and her son Cameron Funnell stand in front of statues of government leaders in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Going on a trip? Take the North Shore News with you and we’ll try to publish your photo in our News Around the World feature (there is no guarantee photos will be published). Due to the amount of photos received, it may take several weeks for your photo to appear in the paper.Take a photo of yourself outside (keep close to the camera but with the background still in view) in a location outside the province holding a copy of the paper, with a background that distinguishes the location. Send it to us with the first and last name of everyone in the photo (left to right) and a description of where the photo was taken. Email to rduane@ nsnews.com, or drop off a copy at the North Shore News building.

Kate Henriksen Ayers and Linda Shier visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City while on a trip through Italy and France.

Jane Thornthwaite and her daughter Zoey take the North Shore News to Disneyland in California.

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Judges take notice of Okanagan wines

Tim Pawsey

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History has a way of repeating itself.

That’s the first thing that came to mind when I heard that Mission Hill Family Estate Martin’s Lane Pinot Noir 2011 scooped top honours for the World’s Best Pinot Noir in the under 15 pounds category at the Decanter World Wine Awards in London, England.

I couldn’t help but think back to 1994 when, fresh off the boat from New Zealand, Mission Hill winemaker John Simes brought home Best Chardonnay in the World from the International Wine & Spirit Competition in London. At that time, not only did most of the judges not even know where the Okanagan Valley was, they demanded a re-taste to

make sure they’d been poured the right wine.

Suffice it to say the wine world now knows very well where the Okanagan is these days: no re-tastes this time. Celebrated British wine critic Stephen Spurrier (of Judgement of Paris and, more recently, Bottle Shock, fame) proclaimed: “This is a groundbreaking achievement for Mission Hill. To receive an award at this level is quite an achievement and an important recognition for the quality of Pinot Noir produced in British Colombia’s Okanagan Valley.”

Mission Hill proprietor Anthony Von Mandl agreed: “I am still in awe that a wine from the still emerging Okanagan Valley could win against the best Pinot Noir in the world from Burgundy, Sonoma Country, Oregon, and New Zealand. This is a seminal moment for the entire Canadian wine industry.”

It’s also testament to the winery’s very focused Pinot Noir program, which has been placing special emphasis on the varietal.

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There’s also another more nuanced reason why it’s good to see the Okanagan again thrust into the international spotlight. Behind the scenes in the valley there’s ongoing spirited discussion (in some cases outright disagreement) about how and when the valley should move to a more precise appellation system.

If Canada truly wants to be taken seriously on the world stage, there’s no time like the present.

Bargain drops The Hired Belly recently sleuthed out a new crop of good value wines. Here’s a few to pin to the fridge for the next time you’re in a wallet-conscious mood.

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Ask yourself if your dog really needs that gemencrusted collar, then put that money into something more useful like training!

Training really isn’t a place to scrimp and save a few bucks because in the dog training world, you do get what you pay for. A poorly trained dog will end up costing you way more money in the long run.

But if your dog has a good foundation of socialization and you are committed and diligent, there are a few really great training books and videos that are available.You have to be highly motivated to make the effort though.

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coffee table and hoping the dog is going to read it and follow directions on its own is just a tad unrealistic.

A good socialization foundation can be achieved by attending a puppy preschool. Some trainers call these puppy kindergartens or use fun acronyms of some sort.

Not all puppy kindergartens are the same and I do suggest that you shop around for the best value for your money — and that does not mean getting the most for the cheapest price! It means getting the most information and education from the class.

What you should be looking for is a class that focuses on all stages of a young dog’s development.

An eight-week-old puppy is going to behave considerably differently than a 12-weekold puppy. If the trainer isn’t able to recognize this fact, then look elsewhere.

Socialization tends to be the main focus of most puppy classes, but it should not be all about playtime.

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North Shore field hockey fans could get a good workout in this Tuesday afternoon running around Ambleside Park to catch all the action as four of the best teams in the province square off at the same time on two different fields.

On Ambleside’s Rutledge Field,West Vancouver will take on defending provincial champions Handsworth in an important AAA matchup while a wind sprint away, on Ambleside E, Sentinel will meet the defending provincial AA champions from Collingwood. Both matches start at 3:30 p.m.

“There’ll be two big, competitive games,” said Handsworth head coach Paul Winstanley. “Both those games will go a long way towards determining the league this year and provincial placings. It’s a big day.”

All four teams have shown well in early season play.West Vancouver and Handsworth are tied for first in the tiny AAA league (Argyle is the other leg of this three-legged race) while Collingwood and Sentinel are both undefeated in the more robust AA league.

“There’ll be a lot of provincial players out there — could be as many as 25 maybe,” said Winstanley.

“There’s a lot of good players amongst the

Argyle’s Christina Stewart (left) chases Handsworth’s Emily Martin during a North Shore AAA league game Tuesday at Rutledge Field. Handsworth, the defending provincial champs, won 2-0. PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH four teams.”

The Royals are trying for their third AAA provincial title in a row but Winstanley reckons West Van will be one of the biggest obstacles blocking their path.

“They’re well coached,” he said. “They were a younger team last year — they lost some players but they’ve got some good returning players and they’re very keen and motivated.

They’ll be very competitive this year and a good team.

It’ll be a tough game.”

West Van, in fact, beat Argyle 5-1 to open the season while Handsworth topped the Pipers by a

closer score of 2-0. In the tiny AAA league — each team will only play four games before playoffs start — every game matters because you don’t get many chances.

“The game on Tuesday is a big game,” said Winstanley. “Whoever wins Tuesday, that’s already half the league games done.

There’s no potential to recover if you lose.”

The Royals have seven returning and 11 new players from last year’s championship team.Their goal is to win again but See Collingwood page 26

Collingwood’s goalie and defenders scramble to stop a Windsor scoring opportunity in North Shore AA play Thursday at Rutledge Field. Collingwood claimed a 5-2 win.

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Collingwood set to host AA provincials From page 25 they’ve got a lot of work to do, said Winstanley.

“We’ve got some talent but I think we need to gel as a team and learn to work hard.We’re not working hard enough.We’ve got 11 new players so they’re not used to the senior high school level of competition.”

Down in AA Collingwood also returns seven players from last year’s championshipwinning team, losing a few superstars who led them to the title.The players have responded by spreading the responsibility around this season, said co-head coach Ashleigh Gold.

“Our team has totally stepped up and learned how to play as a team and not rely on individuals,” she said. “It’s very much a different team but it’s almost more cohesive as a team.”

Collingwood has the added incentive this year of hosting the AA championships.That gives

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them an automatic berth — they know they’ll be there at the end of the season but they’ll be looking for more than participation ribbons.

“The girls have big goals for themselves,” said Gold.

“We’re building momentum and every game we play we learn something from it. . . .

The hope is that they peak at the right time.”

The hard slogging begins Tuesday against a tough Sentinel team and it won’t stop until the provincial trophy is awarded. It’s a wide open field this year at the AA level, said Gold.

“At this point it’s anybody’s game for the province,” she said. “We’ve seen a lot of the top AA teams in the province and all the games have been 1-0, 2-1. It’s a very cool season — going into provincials there’ll be 12 teams going in and it’s anybody’s to take.

There’s no clear leader. . . . It’s cool to go into provincials knowing that it’s up for grabs. Our girls are fighting hard, training hard to make it happen.”

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