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Unite NorthVan plans 2 slates for 2014 civic elections BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Expect to hear the “Aword” a lot more in the run-up to the 2014 municipal elections as a campaign is now underway to amalgamate the District and City of

NorthVancouver into one municipality.

Unite North Van founder George Pringle is planning to run a slate of candidates in the city and district whose sole purpose is sewing back together what was torn apart in 1907 when the city hived itself off, largely for

the financial interests of the more urban Lonsdale corridor.

“Basically, everything we do in North Van . . . is hampered by having two municipalities,” said Pringle, a longtime city council watcher and blogger, past mayoral candidate and political activist who has volunteered on scores of small-c conservative political campaigns. “Every issue flows out of amalgamation

— and until you get amalgamation right, you can’t do a proper job at addressing any other issue on the North Shore.”

Though Pringle doesn’t like seeing taxpayers funding two councils and two bureaucracies providing similar services along a zigzagging border, it is the hodgepodge of planning development, transportation and infrastructure that is his primary reason for launching

Unite North Van. If the party can elect four members to each council or persuade a majority on each council to pass a motion in favour of amalgamation, it will trigger the official process.The province will fund an amalgamation plan that covers the nuts and bolts of reconciling finances, bylaws, powers and services. Once that report is presented to the public, residents will have a chance

to see for themselves how their taxes and services would be affected under a single North Vancouver.

If they like what they see, they can show it in a simple majority referendum in each municipality to ratify amalgamation.

Those are several big “ifs,” Pringle admits, but he said he likes his chances of getting at least two members See Pringle page 3

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An online marketing consultant who has worked with some bigname corporate clients has been sentenced to serve 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to Internet luring.

Ian Edward Ruddle, 45, of North Vancouver, was handed the sentence in North Vancouver provincial court after admitting he chatted online with someone he thought was a 14 year-old girl in a sexual manner.

In fact, the “girl” was really an undercover police officer posing as a teen in a Yahoo online chat room.

Ruddle’s defence lawyer David Forsyth said his client is a sex addict with an addiction to See Lurer page 3

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George Pringle would like to see one town hall running North Vancouver. To that end, he intends to create a slate of candidates who favour amalgamation to run in both the City and District of North Vancouver. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

Pringle envisages grassroots campaign From page 1 elected to both councils.

The typical argument against amalgamation is that whenever it’s tried in other jurisdictions, it always ends up costing more for taxpayers, the whole always being more than the sum of its parts.

But, Pringle argues bringing the city and district together would be much simpler than the bungling stories of amalgamation in Ottawa,Toronto and Halifax, with only two governments to meld and only one union to negotiate with.Those

amalgamations also suffered from the fact they were imposed by their senior provincial government, rather than requested by citizens.

“I want to see a grassroots amalgamation that starts with the people,” he said.

Many of the old assumptions that were fought over in previous North Vancouver amalgamation attempts aren’t true anymore, Pringle added.

“The standard myth is the district is land-rich and cash-poor and the city is land-poor and cash-rich,”

he said. “It’s a question of destroying some of the myths.That’s task 1.The people in North Van are in a fairly educated riding. I don’t think they are easy to be fooled once there’s two sides of an issue, and right now we’re only hearing one side of the issue.”

Candidates who want to run under the Unite North Van banner will be vetted

by Pringle based on their electability, commitment to amalgamation and actual ability to carry out the duties of a council member — not where they stand on other municipal issues.

“One of the precepts of Unite North Van is we only have to agree on amalgamation. It doesn’t matter if you’re fundamentally against other things that I’ve been for,” Pringle said. “If somebody likes tall buildings but is for amalgamation, it doesn’t disqualify them.”

Pringle will be taking nominations for candidates in May 2014. In the meantime, he is looking to build up the Unite North Van party infrastructure and recruit members who will help in the November 2014 election push.

The District of West Vancouver thanked eight of the community’s most dedicated volunteers at a council meeting Monday.

The normally sombre council chambers turned festive as West Vancouverites packed the room to cheer on the octet of do-gooders.

Barbara Brink picked up a plaque for her work at the West Vancouver Community Centre where she helped implement a new governance model and helped turn the organization into a not-forprofit society.

“It doesn’t sound sexy, but I get really excited about constating (founding) documents,” said Coun.

Mary-Ann Booth, who presented the award.

In a brief acceptance speech, Brink was one of several honourees to note the pleasure of volunteering.

“We always thank volunteers, but I think you need to know we always have a reason for what they’re doing and sometimes it’s quite selfserving,” she said.

While accepting a trophy

for his work in creating a salmon rearing pond in Memorial Park,West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society’s Bill McAllister struck a similar tone, quoting fellow streamkeeper Hugh Hamilton. “‘I didn’t do anything, I was just having fun.’ So it was with me,” he said.

Coun. Bill Soprovich praised McAllister for doing the onerous task of working with the district and securing donations.

McAllister’s work has also yielded an educational venue for students.

A few of the awards recipients couldn’t seem to stop working long enough to accept the award.

Clad in their uniforms, 20-year scout leaders Chris and Irene Nemeth picked up awards for contributing countless volunteer hours to West Vancouver’s first scouting program.

“I would just like to remind everybody that our Christmas tree sale starts— ” Chris began before laughter drowned him out.

Despite having served as president of the West Vancouver Historical Society, Ann Brousson was focused on current events.

While accepting her award she called the audience’s attention to the Hollyburn House restoration and invited concerned citizens to a Nov. 20 meeting concerning the future of the Point Atkinson Lighthouse.

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Lurer a sex addict, not a pedophile From page 1

pornography, but added Ruddle is not a pedophile.

Prosecutor Lindsay Herron said all of the online conversations happened between Aug. 20 and Dec. 2, 2012 while Ruddle was either at home, in his Edgemont office or travelling on business in the U.S. During the conversations, Ruddle sometimes trained a webcam on himself while describing for the “teen” what it might feel like if

she was sexually aroused.

In one chat session, he asked her is she had “warm feelings” and told her to “think about that tonight while you’re in bed. Send me an email and tell me about it.”

In another chat session when Ruddle was in New York on business he gave the “girl” specific instructions on how to masturbate and asked how she’d feel about sexually exploring with him. He then demonstrated on the webcam how she should rub her chest.

RCMP used Ruddle’s IP address to track him to his home and office in North Vancouver, then executed a search warrant at both places while Ruddle was still out of the country.

Ruddle was arrested when he returned to Canada and confessed to police immediately, said Herron.

Herron said Ruddle told officers he never intended to have sex with a teenage girl.

Forsyth said Ruddle acted out of “sexual

compulsion” as a sex addict who was in online chat rooms about five hours a day during that six-month period.

He said Ruddle never tried to meet the “teen” and no child pornography was found on his computer. He added the online chat sessions were “bad” but not “graphic” in content. A psychologist concluded Ruddle is not specifically attracted to young girls and is a low risk to re-offend.

Judge Steven Merrick handed Ruddle the

mandatory minimum sentence — 90 days in jail — to be served intermittently on weekends, plus two years probation.

Merrick said Ruddle’s lack of prior criminal record, early guilty plea and the fact he has sought treatment for his sexual addictions were factors in his decision.

While on probation, Ruddle is only allowed to access the Internet for work purposes. He is also banned from work or employment with children

under 16, must stay away from schools, parks and recreation centres where children are likely to be present, and must not be in the presence of any girls under 16 unless another adult is present.

Ruddle’s online profile lists him as having been a marketing strategist to some major U.S. corporations including Sony. Merrick has allowed Ruddle — who is a dual Canadian/U.S. citizen — to travel to the U.S. in December to meet with clients.

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months it could be taken over,” she said. “Come out if you’re at all interested in saving this important icon.”

Brousson was also instrumental in promoting West Vancouver’s historical coffee table book Cottages to Communities, which has sold 2,900 out of 3,000 published copies.

Barbara Kaiser earned

her hardware for working with numerous arts organizations as well as the West Vancouver Museum.

In her speech, she recounted that the job ended up being more demanding than she was first told when she asked about volunteer opportunities. “’You just come and you sit and you make sure nobody takes anything,’”

she recalled being told.

Following that conversation, Kaiser spent 10 years volunteering including five years as chairwoman of the museum advisory committee.

“I don’t want to put down what the museum was at the time. It wasn’t what it is now,” she said.

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Unfortunately we don’t speak Mandarin, Cantonese or any other Asian language, but apparently that is not a requirement to be B.C.’s trade commissioner in China. Having character and Christy Clark’s telephone number are more important.

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appointment ever dispensed, but it serves as a closer-to-home illustration of why rewarding political allies may not get you the best man or woman for the job.

Take the Canadian Senate — please — where the government of the day appoints loyalists, not independent thinkers, to the chamber of sober second thought.

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The meatiest NBA preview ever

I was all set this week to write another classic column about parenting and poop and getting drunk on the sly or whatever, but then basketball happened.

I had a story all teed up about this dinner I attended last weekend that paired a bunch of beers from North Vancouver’s Bridge Brewing Company with food from The Meatery in Edgemont Village. By the way, if you invite me to a beer tasting meal at a butcher shop, the only way I’m saying no is if my wife is giving birth at that very instant. And even then I might ask for a take-out bag.

“Push push push sweetheart! Great work! Pork chop?”

Anyway, at last weekend’s big meating I was seated next to some old friends, a married couple who have a one-year-old daughter, and we possibly set a new-parent

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Laugh All YouWant world record. Likely spurred on by the amazing meat and beer coming our way, we proceeded to have a lively discussion for at least 31 minutes without mentioning our kids once.The DiMaggio-esqe streak was finally broken in spectacular fashion by a story about potty training that included the words “spray” and “floor” and would normally not be appropriate table talk.

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None of us cared though — poo happens, amiright parents?

I sat down to write this splashy tale Tuesday night but just couldn’t get anything going because it was opening night of the NBA season. In the very first game of the new campaign a Canadian player named Andrew Nicholson stole the spotlight for a short stretch, hitting eight out of nine shots to score 18 points for his Orlando Magic in a little more than 12 minutes of playing time in the first half.

Nicholson didn’t score again and his terrible Magic lost to the Indiana Pacers, but that little stretch got me fired up and now I can’t think of anything but hoops, so that’s where this column is headed.

I’m prepared to say that this may be the most intriguing and anticipated basketball season in at least the last year or so. It’s

a particularly interesting season for Canadian sports fans. Even Canadian sports fans who don’t care about basketball — that’s roughly 99 per cent, give or take Toronto — should care about this season. Here’s why.

Reason 1: Canadians!

Canadians are great at two things: 1. Running up Senate expense accounts and 2. Cheering for other Canadians. Since most of us will never get the thrill of charging the government $4,700 for a ham sandwich, we might as well settle for No. 2. Good news on that front: the NBA this year is a great place to find Canadians to cheer for.This summer Anthony Bennett became the first Canadian ever picked first overall in the NBA draft and he’s ready to help Cleveland finally forget about that LeBron James guy. All he’ll need

to do to accomplish that is just keep working hard on his three-point shooting, his conditioning, and some sort of memory-erase laser.

Other Canadians ready to break through include Bennett’s Cleveland teammate Tristan Thompson, the aforementioned Nicholson and exciting Boston rookie and B.C. boy Kelly Olynyk. Don’t forget North Vancouver’s own Robert Sacré and his teammate Steve Nash either, the only two Los Angeles Lakers signed to contracts past this season. Sacré is worth watching for his sideline celebrations alone and Nash may finally be slowing down a bit at age 39, but hey — Steve Nash!

Reason 2: Greatness Some pundits have been known to take shots

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B.C.Wildlife and Rescue Association spokeswoman Yolanda Brooks laments a rare spotted skunk that was mortally wounded by a snap trap (from a Nov. 1 news story).

“Before we venture off to spend $36 million, it’s my feeling we better get this right.”

WestVancouver Coun. Bill Soprovich raises concerns about the design for the district’s new public safety building (from an Oct. 27 news story).

“We redeem ourselves through our erotic love for others.”

Author Anne Rice discusses the underelying themes of her new novel (from a Nov. 1 Pulse story).

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Great job team. Pass the pork chop From page 6 at LeBron for a variety of reasons, but to them I say “Hey listen, jerk — there’s no such thing as a memoryerase laser!”

LeBron is one of the greatest players ever, and with every passing year he slowly narrows the gap on THE greatest ever.Watch LeBron reel in Michael Jordan while you can,

because in 15 years LeBron will either be retired or exposed as a cyborg.

Don’t forget about catching as much of Kevin Durant as you can too, because he has an outside shot at going down as the greatest scorer ever. And to think, he was slated to play his whole career just down the highway in Seattle before the Sonics moved to Oklahoma. Oklahoma!?

Argh! Where’s that damn memory-erase laser?

Reason 3: West Coast time If you were to compile a list of the most exciting teams to watch this season, the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers would both be at or near the top. If you haven’t seen much basketball the past few years you might think that either I’m making a joke

about these two normally awful franchises or that I’ve got a belly full of crack (or wherever you put crack).

This is no joke though — these two teams are super fun and their late starts are perfect for us westerners to watch without having to stay up until 2 a.m. like all those suckers in the East.

Reason 4: Pelicans!

That’s the actual team name of an actual franchise

as of this season. Laugh if you like, but then search YouTube for “Pelican eats bird” and see who’s laughing now.

Reason 5: Teams trying to lose It’s called tanking, and usually it’s reserved for the end of the season for struggling teams so that they can improve their draft position. But the 2014 draft should feature a player

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CityScape’s Pushing Boundaries

Ellena Neel with exhibiting artist Cody Lecoy and his piece Survival Caught in a Glimpse

Exhibiting artist Vanessa Walterson with her piece Thunder-Aurora Representatives of CityScape Community Art Space presented their second biannual exhibition Pushing Boundaries with an opening reception Oct. 10. The show features a range of emerging and established First Nations artists. The mixed media contemporary works will remain on display until Nov. 16. nvartscouncil.ca

Featured artist Xwalacktun (Rick Harry) with North Vancouver Community Arts Council board member Reyhaneh Bakhtiari

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Jordan Gildersleeve (left), Ben Frisby and Kevin Shaw left the Lower Mainland on their bicycles Oct. 17 and are battling the elements headed for Toronto, Ont., aiming to raise funds and awareness for men’s health through Movember Canada. PHOTO SUPPLIED PAUL YATES

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Ride of a lifetime

Jordan Gildersleeve felt helpless.

Reached via Skype close to a year ago at his current Toronto, Ont. home, the North Vancouver native was at a loss when his parents broke the news that his 55year-old father, John, had been diagnosed with

colon cancer.

“I could tell it was a very difficult thing for my mom and dad to share with me because it’s always been their job to protect us from things as parents do and so it was clearly something that was really difficult to share because it was out of his control,” says Gildersleeve, 26. “I’m a very naturally inquisitive person

so I bombarded them with questions and they didn’t know all the answers and it’s a time of uncertainty, challenge and scariness and all of those things so that was really tough.”

When, approximately four months ago, doctors found a tumour on his grandfather Grant’s colon, Gildersleeve could sit idly no more.Teaming up with

two of his lifelong friends, fellow Argyle alumni Ben Frisby and Kevin Shaw, both of whom have also had someone in their family affected by men’s health issues — Frisby’s father is a testicular cancer survivor and Shaw’s grandfather recently passed away due to kidney and lung cancer — they’ve embarked on a cross-

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Goal is to raise $100,000 From page 9 testicular cancer as well as mental health challenges, including those offered by Prostate Cancer Canada.

The trio left the Lower Mainland Oct. 17 and plan to arrive in Toronto by Nov. 29, aiming to cycle an average of 110 kilometres a day.They hope to raise $100,000.

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Health Notes From page 12 with persistent pain, and their families and friends, to

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Kay Dixon is at her kitchen table across from her husband, Del, in the house he built for them in North Vancouver’s Pemberton Heights.

At 87, Del is handsome and Kay, 84, is as beautiful as when she was crowned

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into entering the beauty contest and she was crowned before an enthusiastic crowd at the Odeon theatre on Lonsdale.

It was thrilling to wear the Miss North Vancouver crown and join the Miss PNE contestants in the parade downtown, waving to the crowds from their float, a cornucopia representing “The Full Harvest of Western Progress.”

“We got to meet Jimmy Durante and Frankie Laine.

We stayed in the Vancouver Hotel and went to the Palomar and the Cave,” recalls Kay. “Del and I were used to going to a show downtown on Saturday and to the White Lunch after, then going back to North Vancouver on the ferry.”

Kay Spees and Del Dixon were saving up to finish building their house.

He had purchased the lot from the Weddells, who lived down the street, across from Lloyd Market, now the Corner Store.The Spees family shopped there and at McLeod’s general store and post office, the Red & White store and Murphy’s Butcher shop at the top of School Street, all gone now, including the street itself.

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Couple made their home in North Vancouver From page 14

Longtime Pemberton Heights residents Kay and Del Dixon were married at Capilano United Church in 1949, a year after Kay was crowned the first Miss North Vancouver.

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that she would be known henceforth as Kay. Del and his father worked at the shipyards alongside Kay’s father.

On weekends, Del played baseball with Kay’s brothers, Ken and Ivan. Everyone played baseball in those days, including Kay who played catcher and centre field because she was the player who could throw the furthest.

When there was no baseball, the Capilano River was the gathering place. A steep trail led from School Street down to a little beach at the river’s edge.With carrots and potatoes roasting in a fire, there was time for the kids to weigh themselves down with heavy stones and make their way across the river to the opposite bank or to hike up to the Capilano rapids and bounce all the way down under the wooden bridge that crossed the river at Keith Road, past the salmon pool to the clay bank where another path led back up to the road.

Kay and Del first met at the Capilano community

hall on School Street in 1943 when she was 14 and he was 17. On their first date and on most others, Del biked from his house to Kay’s.The Dixon family lived in a wartime house on Churchill Street, south of Marine Drive at Fell Avenue, another street and neighbourhood long gone.

From Pemberton Heights, Kay and Del would walk to Lonsdale for a movie, to the Tomahawk restaurant afterwards for a hamburger and milkshake and back up the hill to Kay’s home.There wasn’t much time for dating — Del joined the army in 1944 just before his 18th birthday and was posted to Ontario and then Victoria with the Princess Pat’s before he was discharged.They were married at Capilano United Church in 1949.

The house wasn’t finished until about 1954, Kay remembers, but there would be room for the four children that came along and for all their friends and family to visit. “We lived very sparsely, building on when we saved enough money.We had parties when there were

still studs in the living room.

It didn’t matter. In those days, nobody had anything.”

“I didn’t go very far, did I?” laughs the former beauty queen, as the sun shines in on the family gathered in the kitchen. Del is feeding the local seagull, sister-in-law Doreen Spees is visiting and son Scott has just finished

putting up the Halloween decorations. Kay is right.

She did not travel far but everything that matters is within walking distance of the little house in Pemberton Heights.

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Musée GalloRomain LyonFourvière next to two ancient amphitheatres

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LYON, France: It seems odd to suggest a museum dedicated to a vanished 2,000-year-old civilization could be full

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of fresh ideas, but the Musée Gallo-Romain Lyon-Fourvière is.

Many museums about Rome are built next to former military outposts, which influence the story told. After a while, there is a sameness to the displays: how a legionnaire was outfitted, armed and lived; Roman weaponry and military tactics.

In Lyon the message is coloured not by a local garrison, but by the theatrical setting.

The museum is dug into the Fourvière hillside, overlooking a pair of two-millennia-old amphitheatres.

Lyon, known to the Romans as Lugdunum, was an important city in the province of Gaul because of its strategic location on a fertile agricultural plain at the convergence of the Rhône and Saône rivers.

Roads led to the north, south and east.

With so much movement and commerce, two theatres were constructed next to each

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The mosaic floors at the Musée Gallo-Romain Lyon-Fourvière are among the best preserved in the world, and show how artistic styles changed over five centuries.

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out tree stump fitted with a bronze piston to pump 60 litres of water a minute.

One item of information that may surprise is how ecumenical the empire was to foreign religions.

While Christians could end up fighting gladiators or wild beasts for the public’s amusement, Rome treated Greek, Egyptian, Asian, Celtic and other gods with equal standing to their own domestic deities.

Consider the Musée Gallo-Romain LyonFourvière the first stop in a Roman Trail running south down the Rhône

Valley to Provence. The story continues at a sister museum, the SaintRomain-en-Gal in Vienne, and finishes in Arles with open-air structures like its 20,000-seat amphitheatre (circa A.D. 90), still in use.

If you go: For more information visit the museum’s website at www.musees-galloromains.com.

For information on travel in France visit the French Government Tourist Office website at www.franceguide.com.

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other to appease the masses. The larger, built around 15 B.C., and expanded in A.D. 120, had 10,000 seats and was used for plays and grand entertainments. A more intimate 3,000-seat venue, dating from 100 B.C., provided a setting for poetry, music and political gatherings. In an act of ultimate recycling the two ancient sites have been wired so they can be used for the Nuits de Fourvière, a festival of theatre, music, dance and cinema held every June and July.

Inside the museum the galleries mimic the outdoor marriage of old and new.

Displays of sarcophagi, statues, currency, ceramics and household items are punctuated by screens presenting clips from classic Hollywood films about the ancient world: Spartacus; I, Claudius; Masada; Gladiator; BenHur; Ulysses; Cleopatra and others.

Instead of warriors and weaponry, the museum is about people, daily life and the adornment of homes. Its star features are the extensive mosaic floors, among the best preserved in the world. The various styles found in the collection flow from the traditional school (circa the second century B.C.) to the latest in third-century A.D. fashionable flooring. There are artistic representations of frolicking fish and other aquatic creatures, fantastical optical illusions and radiant designs, which change with your perspective.

Visitors are told about the early organization of civil society and see examples of domestic innovation. A rare item is a Roman household pump, one of only 10 left in the world. It used a hollowed-

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Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables Lost in the hubbub surrounding the close of comments for the provincial government’s liquor review is the reality that quiet but measured liberalization of some laws has been well underway for some time now.

No better proof can be found in the unveiling of Odd Society Spirits, Vancouver’s new smallbatch distiller, which has quietly opened the doors to its impressive tasting room in East Van. Sitting at the nicely black lacquered, long black bar and gazing at its backdrop that mirrors the

distillery’s first label, it’s not hard to be impressed, even if a little surprised, that this polished operation has popped up at 1725 Powell St. (604-716-6745).

Of course, it’s not quite that simple.

When still in high school, co-founder and distiller Gordon Glanz was a keen home winemaker, an interest which, he says, was a short but logical step to home distilling. It was only a matter of time before he looked farther afield, eventually working in a winery in Germany for a year.There, naturally, beyond the grape harvest and fermenting was a chance to learn how to make Schnapps and more.

Watching the rise in the interest in craft distilling south of the line (which has seen six-fold growth to some 300 micro-distilleries in the last 10 years, Glanz and his wife Miriam felt the time was ripe to plan for a craft distillery in Vancouver.

Gordon left town to learn further the intricacies of distilling in (well, where else?) Scotland, where

Edinburgh’s Heriot Watt University helps shape tomorrow’s distillers. He graduated with an MSc, and got to play in more than a few hallowed haunts along the way. He also met up with Joshua Beach, production manager and distiller, who has an invaluable background in breweries and equipment.

As he walks me through the business end of the operation, with its gleaming 350-litre Holstein copper stills and 15-foot vodka column, Glanz says he reckons the arrival of Odd Society is, “A culmination of at least five years of work and planning, with no shortage of loops and hoops to be jumped through.”

B.C.’s newly designated Craft Distillery licence, he explains, comes with certain tax breaks, but there are strict requirements attached to it: “You have to use 100 per cent B.C. agricultural products.We use malted barley from Prince George.

You have to ferment on site.You have to distill traditionally, and you can’t

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Hence Odd Society is the first (though by no means the last) true Craft Distiller to open in the city under the recently introduced new rules.

Right now you can drop by for a distillery visit to check things out. Grab a seat at the bar for a taste of the distillery’s very smooth, gently viscose and reasonably priced East Van Vodka (cleverly labelled by tattoo artist Shwa Keirsted), and hopefully buy a bottle or two before you leave.

In a few months or so, Glanz suggests, you’ll also be able to drop by what will by then have morphed into a cocktail lounge to taste some concoctions (created by Homer Street Café’s JS Dupuis) again with ingredients all produced on site.You can be sure in there somewhere will be a Creme de Cassis, modelled on a family recipe courtesy of French Table restaurant owner Hervé Martin. And even if you can’t make it down for a taste, you can already find East Van Vodka on quite a few private

Gordon Glanz is a co-founder of Odd Society Spirits, a small-batch distiller in East Vancouver. PHOTO TIM PAWSEY store shelves.

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Piper is a disaster in obedience. His instinct is to be acutely aware using the sight, sound and scent of his surroundings which may yield the slightest movement of a bird, rabbit or deer.

This means he can’t sit still for longer than 10 seconds without being distracted by a leaf blowing in the wind.

Some people might say he is hypersensitive or has ADD, but in fact he is brilliantly in tune with his environment as he was bred to be.

On the other hand, Zumi is so singularly focused and obedient that if a rabbit ran past her while she was in a down-stay position, she would not move. According to current canine IQ tests she would be in the top three per cent. But unless she is given a “job” she is on constant alert and requires continuous management and is just “too much dog” for most people.

Now for Raider, or as I like to call him, Mr. Independent. Put him in a field of cattle and ask him to move that herd to the next pasture and he gets the job done in no time. But ask him to sit/stay and he looks at you like you are a stone statue. Some might call him stubborn or aloof, but it is just his cattle dog confident independence.They are bred to be able to stand alone in front of a herd of 1,500-pound cows and say “Move! Now!” All three of my dogs are brilliant at what they have been bred to do but ask any one of them to do the job of the other and they all fail and look stupid. Judging a dog’s intelligence based on human values of intelligence does a disservice to the efforts made over hundreds of years to create the breeds we have now.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Blues are back for more

Cap returns strong team to defend title ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

THREE TO SEE THIS WEEK Field hockey North Shore AAA final WestVan vs.

Handsworth Nov. 4, 3 p.m., Rutledge Field PJHL hockey Port Moody @ NVWolf Pack Nov. 6, 7:45 p.m., Harry Jerome Arena PacWest basketball Langara @ Capilano Nov. 8, 6 p.m.

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At the start of the PacWest volleyball season the league sent out a neat little preview package that broke down each team in the league.

Included was a little summary of how each team had done since the 2007-08 season, a starting point that has some interesting meaning for the Capilano University men. That was the last season for coach James Sneddon, who successfully piloted the program for several years. For the next five years each season began with a different head coach. Not all that surprisingly, each season ended outside of the medals, often outside the playoffs. The one exception was last year, the first season for yet another new head coach, Nathan Bennett. Acting as a head coach for the first time ever, the former British national team player (he grew up in Alberta with dual citizenship) led the Blues to a surprise provincial championship and a fifth-place showing at nationals.

That great result was good news for the program. The even better news for the Blues: Bennett is back. So, too, are most of the key players from last year’s run. In just over a year, the program has gone from a wandering nomad to a high-powered machine, and their second-year coach has his sights set even higher now that the team has tasted success.

“Medal at nationals,” Bennett quickly answered when asked how the team can top their impressive showing in his debut year. “That’s always what we’re looking for here.

This program is a program that wants to compete for a national title every year, it doesn’t matter what we have on the floor. I think if people aren’t willing to compete for that title and do the work that needs to be done to get there, then this isn’t the place for them.”

The Blues displayed that championship skill and desire last weekend when they hosted a pair of matches against Vancouver Island University, they team they beat in last year’s PacWest championship game. This time around it was no contest as the Blues racked up 3-0 wins on consecutive nights.

Fifth year player Dan Caverly led the way Friday night, blasting big kills from his left side position as well as exciting bombs from the back row — a play the Mariners seemed powerless to stop.

Capilano’s Alex Harvalias watches teammate Ben Ricketts make a perfect pancake dig in a 3-0 win for the Blues over VIU Saturday, Oct. 26. The Blues won the PacWest last season and most of the team is back. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH Caverly was named a first-team PacWest all-star last season while also winning PacWest playoff MVP honours and a spot on the first all-star team at the national championships. Caverly provides a very unique mix of superb defence and explosive offence — he put that on display as a member of the winning beach volleyball team at the Canada Games over the summer — that is hard to find at this level.

“He’s just Dan Caverly,” Bennett explained with a laugh.

“He’s a guy who passes well, he serves well, he attacks the ball well,

he comes with speed. He’s still got some parts of his game that need work and hopefully we’ll have those parts ironed out, but he’s a good leader for us by example, the way he plays.”

With that assessment Bennett displayed another trait that seems to be a part of his coaching style.

A former elite player himself, he’s quick to praise but always offers up the flip side of what the team or player needs to work on.

Here’s Bennett on middle blocker Spencer Kyte, a fourth year player who seemed dominant both in hitting and on the block

against VIU Friday night: “He had a good game today, he followed the game plan properly. He was there with some speed today, which is something we harp on him for.”

And how about fourth year middle blocker Ben Ta, who also made a number of big plays as the Blues routed the Mariners? “He’s probably the fastest middle in the league on offence. He still needs some work on the blocking side of things but he did a good job today.”

And rookie Taylor Howe, a See Blues page 22

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World titles for North Shore racers

SENTINEL SUCCESS Sutherland’s Ty Barbieri (left) challenges Sentinel’s Peter Goumeniouk in the North Shore senior boys soccer championship final played Tuesday at Sutherland. Goumeniouk blasted in the winning goal from distance in a 2-1 victory for the Spartans. Scan with the Layar app to see more photos as well as a schedule of upcoming provincial qualifier games. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

District of North Vancouver firefighter Carla Penman scored two world titles and just missed a third at the Firefighter Combat Challenge held recently in Las Vegas.

In the big show, the individual race, Penman posted a time of two minutes 34.36 seconds to finish second on the grueling course behind multiple world championship winner Amber Bowman of Ontario’s Central York Fire who scored a time of 2:14.94.

Penman and Bowman then teamed up to win gold in the women’s tandem race, finishing in 1:55.67, just one second off of a world record time. Penman and Bowman were key member of the gold medal winning squad in the team relay competition.

The race, known as the

toughest two minutes in sports, includes obstacles such as a stair climb, dummy pull and hose drag all conducted in full firefighter gear, including an air mask.

••• West Vancouver’s Christa Bortignon was named the female athlete of the year

by World Masters Athletics following another golden performance at the WMA World Championships held last week in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The super senior won eight gold medals in the 75-79 age category, including a win over 15 other racers in the 100-m dash. Bortignon competes in sprints, jumps and throws and holds numerous age-group world records. She will receive her award at a gala scheduled for Nov. 16 in Monaco.

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power hitter inserted straight into the starting lineup in his first season out of Calgary’s Dr. E.P. Scarlett secondary? “I think he hits the hardest ball in the league at this point as a rookie. He’s got some technical issues we’ve got to deal with still but I’m not too worried about putting him out there.”

The one starter who earned praise with no caveats was setter and team captain Ben Ricketts, another fifth year player who had the team’s offence humming.

“He’s just very cerebral,” said Bennett.

“He understands the game so well, he understands the opposition, he knows who’s hot, who’s not, what kind of set to run against what defender. And he’s a really good leader.”

It’s not that Bennett doesn’t think his team players are talented, it’s just that he knows they don’t have a huge margin for error because they send out one of the shortest lineups in the league. A quick glance at the lineup card for last weekend’s matchups showed VIU with

10 players listed at sixfoot-three or more while Capilano had only five such players. The Blues need to rely on execution, not brute force, said Bennett.

“We need to play a fast game. We need to be able to beat the other team to the ball before they have a chance to defend it. . . . If we take care of the things that we’re supposed to take care of then the results that we’re looking for come. If we decide to ad-lib a little bit or do something that we’re not supposed to do then it makes things a little tougher on our side.”

They may be short in stature but they certainly aren’t short on experience.

Five of the team’s seven starters on Friday were third-year players or older.

“It helps a lot,” said Bennett. “It helps with the speed of the game — they’re used to the speed, they’re used to the velocity of the ball, they’re used to the set speed to the pins — it’s good for us. And the fact that they’ve played together for a long time is helpful too.”

Put it all together and the Blues are aiming to be back in the PacWest final. They’ve got some

extra incentive to get there this year as Capilano was awarded hosting duties for the men’s and women’s volleyball championships.

The Blues are pumped to defend their title on their home floor but Bennett is quick to point out that they aren’t guaranteed a berth in the playoffs just because they’re hosting.

The Blues, however, seem well poised to get there the old-fashioned way. Through three weeks of play they stood in first place with a 4-2 record.

They’ll be back in action on their home floor Nov. 15 and 16 for a pair of contests against the University of the Fraser Valley. And though Bennett is always willing to offer constructive criticism of his team and players, he’s unequivocal in his belief that the Blues are a team that North Shore volleyball fans will enjoy watching this season, all the way up to that championship final.

“I think we have a good product here, I think we play an exciting style of volleyball,” he said. “We want to make sure we get some more people here to see the quality of players we have here at this time.”

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