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W. Van man arrested in fraud case Former high roller accused of ripping off $625,000 JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A 24 year-old high roller, formerly from West Vancouver, who allegedly bilked investors out of $625,000, is behind bars while waiting for his bail hearing on nine charges of fraud.

Adam Alexander Keller was originally charged by the RCMP’s commercial crime section in August

2012, following both a B.C. Securities Commission hearing and a criminal investigation.

But by the time charges were laid, Keller had already hightailed it out of the country and was living in Colorado — beyond the reach of Canadian authorities.

On Nov. 26 of last year, after answering to other charges in the U.S., Keller was sent back to Canada — and was promptly arrested.

His current accommodations are far cry from the lifestyle he allegedly enjoyed while defrauding a number of See Keller page 9

Deep Cove teens find Jesus at party BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

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They’ve found Jesus.

One week after He went missing from his manger at St. Pius X Catholic church in Deep Cove, the statue of baby Jesus is back with Mary and Joseph where He belongs.

Parishioners were dismayed to see the 24inch fiberglass icon had disappeared when they showed up for New Year’s Day mass.

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It appears to have been abducted from the crèche scene in front of the church the night before.

“He allegedly was found along the road close to the parish by a group of youths who took him to a party on New Year’s. Pictures were taken,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. “A young person from the parish attended the party and it wasn’t until a couple See Second page 4

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Building a community of sharing Collaborative consumption moves society towards a ‘culture of we’ CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Daniel Dubois must have been paying close attention in his kindergarten class because he is an expert at sharing with others.

As a post-secondary student, his capacity for lending and borrowing far exceeds finger paints and recess snacks. From formal shoes to snowboarding boots, from Spanish language lessons to a stepladder, the 23-year-old maintains a “what’s mine is yours, what’s yours is mine” view of goods and services.

Sitting in a student lounge at Capilano University, Dubois, a fourthyear bachelor of business administration student, reveals a telling statistic: the average usage of a power drill is a mere 15 minutes over its entire lifespan — and yet half of North American households have one.

“That does not make sense,” he says.

Why buy when you could borrow?

To get the wider community onboard the sharing train, Dubois is preparing to launch a website called Share Shed.The online social community will connect users who want to borrow something with users who have something to lend — and vice versa.

Share Shed was originally conceived as a class project, but Dubois has committed to the initiative outside of school. He senses a growing appetite for good old-fashioned sharing and thinks his website could take off as the sharing economy, also known as collaborative consumption, gains momentum.This new economic movement has been buzzed about for a few years as growing numbers of non-profit organizations and for-profit companies recognize the potential of sharing. Among the better-known ventures are carsharing services, such as Modo the Car Co-op,

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Dubois is hopeful the rise of collaborative consumption will redefine wealth from what people own to what people have access to.

“It’s actually changing the way people think about ownership and what they need and what they look for in life,” he says. “People go and they work so they can save up money so they can buy the item.They buy the item so they have less money so they have to work more.

It’s just a vicious cycle.”

On the surface, Share Shed is about accessing something you need — a painting easel, a knitting lesson. But ultimately, Dubois says, it’s about building reallife relationships. Making friends through sharing was normal for his grandparents’ generation, he says.

“If they needed something, they could just go knock on the neighbour’s door.There was such a sense of community there, and we’ve gotten so far away

from that,” he explains.

“We’re growing closer and closer globally, but we’re more and more isolated on a local level.”

Dubois recalls the first time he stepped out of his sharing comfort zone. He had connected online with a pair of travellers who were in search of two bicycles to ride around the Seawall. In an act of blind faith, and to get a better sense of how Share Shed users might interact, Dubois offered his own bikes to the strangers.

“I never took any ID or anything because I would be a bit of a hypocrite to not trust.”

The tourists left early in the morning and, sure enough, returned the bikes that evening along with a plastic container brimming with freshly picked blackberries — a token of their thanks.

Dubois kept in touch with the pair and through this connection scored the opportunity to visit Facebook headquarters in San Francisco last summer, during which time he filmed a documentary called The

Collaborative Project. His film project also took him to the offices of Google, Airbnb and online magazine Shareable.net. Naturally, he and his crew shot the entire documentary with borrowed camera gear.

• • • At a 2010 Ted Talk event, author Rachel Botsman gave a speech entitled The Case for Collaborative Consumption, which served as a big inspiration for Dubois.

In her talk, Botsman says sharing is human instinct.

“We’re monkeys and we’re born and bred to share and co-operate and we were doing so for thousands of years, whether it’s when we hunted in packs or farmed in co-operatives — before this big system called hyperconsumption came along and we built these fences and created our own little fiefdoms,” she says in her talk.

But the drive to own is waning, she continues, as GenerationY, who have grown up sharing digital files online, move society from a “culture of me” to a “culture

of we.”

Botsman points to four key drivers that are causing a shift from hyper-consumption to collaborative consumption: A renewed belief in the importance of community; a torrent of peer-to-peer social networks and real-time technologies; unresolved environmental concerns; and a global recession that has fundamentally shocked consumer behaviours.

Still, not everyone feels comfortable sharing, especially with strangers.

Dubois says trust, or lack thereof, is the biggest holdback.That’s why Share Shed will invite users to rate one another and provide online feedback, so potential lenders will be better able to judge whether their possessions will be respected and returned. Share Shed will also exist within pocket communities, such as the Capilano campus, Lynn Valley or Ambleside, so that neighbours are sharing and building trust among themselves.

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The North Shore is already home to a number of organizations driven by sharing. Zen Launchpad in Lower Lonsdale offers co-working space where entrepreneurs can rent “hot desks” for a specified number of days per week.

Carsharing services such as Car2Go, Modo the Car Co-op and Zipcar all have vehicles available for use on this side of the Burrard Inlet.

And last summer saw the launch of the North Shore Electric Bikeway, an electric bike share company.

In Vancouver, Chris Diplock has spent the last year or so investigating his city’s appetite to share. He is the founder of The Sharing Project, a multi-staged research project focused on developing Vancouver’s sharing economy.

The final research report, released in the fall, is intended to help entrepreneurs and grassroots organizers looking to develop new platforms for sharing. It concludes that Vancouverites are “highly interested” in sharing and anticipate they will be sharing more in the future.

“Without a doubt, Vancouverites are interested in sharing. As in other cities, sharing in Vancouver has the potential to improve our social and financial well-being, while reducing the environmental impact of our urban lifestyles,” the document states. “All the physical goods and spaces that a community needs exist within our own neighbourhoods. Sharing has the potential to connect the people who have these things with the people who need them in efficient and meaningful ways,” it continues.

Diplock’s interest in sharing began when he and his girlfriend decided to build a chicken coop in their backyard.They didn’t have any tools, but were able to borrow everything they needed from their landlord.

“It just made the project super easy and simple and we thought what a great model to help build some projects in the community.”

Encouraged by his chicken coop experience, in 2011 Diplock co-founded the Vancouver Tool Library, a non-profit co-operative that lets members borrow hand and power tools.

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days later when the press made a big deal of it that she connected the two and said, ‘Wait a minute. I know where Jesus is.’”

The teen then went back to the home where the party was and retrieved the statue for the church.

Police aren’t looking to lay any charges but Father John Horgan is pleased Jesus has been returned.

“We’re very glad to have it back. We may have to use it inside next year, unfortunately, after this has happened but we’re simply very grateful to have such a treasured image back in veneration,” he said. “We’re grateful for the one who returned it and we hope everyone else who was involved learns a lesson from this.”

While it’s a relief to have the Messiah back, He did suffer some damage during the party.

“It was mistreated and the left arm was broken off the statue and is missing.

It’s gone and we have to see if we can have that repaired in some way,” he said.

For that, Horgan is appealing to North Shore artisans to contact the parish and offer their expertise.

The theft was hurtful, not just because of the disrespect shown to a symbol of their saviour but also because the statue is an antique connected to the history of the Catholic church in Vancouver, said parishioner Kevin Smith.

For decades, it was part of the annual nativity display at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Vancouver before Horgan brought the set with him when he took over at St. Pius X. “That’s obviously the best ending we were hoping for and certainly the ending we were praying for,” Smith said.

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At least, no problem for Toronto Dominion and other major banks which have recently been driving full speed into the dubious practice of high-interest subprime car loans.

According to recent reports, the practice targets people who often can’t get regular credit yet still need a car to get around with.

The marks blunder in to car dealerships and — lacking alternatives — agree to car financing provided by the banks at interest rates that would make a loanshark blush.

Victims are promised they can renegotiate the loan in a year. Only many people have found out they can’t.

People who bought cars through the subprime schemes have been left with

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When a CBC story garnered national attention, the reaction was instructive. Many blasted the borrowers, noting the idiocy that eroded their credit was also evident in the decisions to sign those deals.

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Both sides have a point. But if the buyers were stupid, they were stupid to trust a bank, whose practices are regulated by Ottawa.

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Dear Editor: Years ago when W.A.C. Bennett became premier of B.C., there were two private ferry systems operating just two profitable routes: the Black Ball Ferry and the CPR Ferry.

They refused to operate ferries to the Gulf Islands and so Premier Bennett started the B.C. Ferry system, providing service to most of the Gulf Islands.

His motto was to unite all B.C. residents via an affordable and reliable transportation system.

They called it Bennett’s Navy.

It led to settlement of many of the Gulf Islands.

The service was expanded to many previously unserviced islands. They were water roads and vital to the communities.

Successive governments failed to recognize this as a service to the people.

They played with the concept and failed to honour the intent to be of service to residents.

They started building larger and more luxurious ships.

Then they started outsourcing the construction.

They loaded the ferry corporation with billions of dollars of unnecessary debt and they were forced to raise prices to cover their stupidity.

When they did that, they priced the cost of travel outside the reach of the non-government employee.

Ridership fell. They knew it would because it reached critical economic value.

Reduced ridership made the vessels too large for

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the service and too costly to maintain. To remedy the loss, the B.C. Ferries decided to . . . (wait for it) . . . raise the rates again.

Simultaneously it also decided to reduce ferry service on “unprofitable island routes.”

The present government intends to dismantle the ferry system so that it verts back to the two or three routes that were profitable before W.A.C. Bennett

reformed the system.

B.C. Ferries has a complicit partner in crime.

It falls back to Transport Canada, the federal department responsible for all the excess employees on board the vessels.

In the Washington State system a 200-foot ferry requires 17 employees, known as the crew. In B.C. that figure balloons to 48.

Logic dictates that if a crew of 17 can successfully

crew a ferry for 70 years without incident, that it should be emulated.

The B.C. Ferry Corporation and Transport Canada consortium are the partnership which resulted in a ship on the bottom of the sea. Washington State Ferries has no such failures.

We need a new W.A.C. Bennett. Now. Leo Vanderbyl North Vancouver

Lonsdale energy an unnecessary utility Dear Editor: This is my first letter to the editor but the article regarding the loan to the Lonsdale Energy Corp. got me sufficiently upset to write.

I hope my letter will increase public awareness

regarding a utility the city never needed to develop, which can never be unwound and which will never be sold without a significant loss to the city taxpayer. In your Jan. 1 editorial you mentioned a lack of belt tightening by

the city and the LEC is just another example.

Joyce Taylor North Vancouver P.S. My condo fortunately was one of the last buildings built before the LEC came into being for the Pier development.

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“It galls me quite frankly when the District ofWest Vancouver can blow its horn about a zero per cent tax increase, and yet doesn’t have enough money to fund Kay Meek.”

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Olympian Karen Magnussen on the coughing fits caused by breathing ammonia at North ShoreWinter Club (from a Jan. 10 news story).

“We’re hoping someone, out of good conscience, returns it to its rightful manger.”

RCMP Cpl. Richard De Jong calls for the return of missing baby Jesus (from a Jan. 8 news story) .

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Goal setting in a deadly hot fudge world

Andy Prest

Laugh All YouWant the sporting life for the life of going to the bar, getting rejected by girls who dressed like — but sadly didn’t look or behave like

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Through a lifetime of playing sports, writing about sports, and pretending to listen to my wife while watching sports, I’ve learned that it is important to set lofty goals.

Basketball star LeBron James recently revealed that his goal is to become the greatest player to ever play the game. The man he’s chasing for that title, Michael Jordan, famously made a vow when he was coming out of college to “literally murder in cold blood anyone who ever tries to hold me back, looks at me askance or even so much as sneezes within a 75-foot radius of any of my cigars, automobiles or golf clubs.”

What a competitor.

I used to set goals aimed at helping me become the best, to beat my opponents, to win championships.

Back when I was a teenager I was blessed with good hand-eye co-ordination and I was often one of the best players on the teams I played on.

“Congratulations on the hand-eye co-ordination,” they all used to say, “try not to get fat when you turn 20.”

I should have listened.

Instead I teamed up with my college roommate to decorate an entire wall of our apartment with empty pizza boxes and beer cases.

My friends and I eschewed

— Britney Spears, and then falling asleep on the couch while a VHS recording of old South Park episodes blasted on the TV. When I returned to the field in my mid-20s to play adult league soccer, I was shocked to discover that I was now one of the worst players on every team I played for.

“How did the skills of my youth deteriorate so quickly?” I wondered as I struggled to reach my feet to tie up my cleats. Oh yeah — hot fudge.

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quietly staring at a laptop computer much more often than traditional activities such as biking or skeet shooting, you will lose your athletic prowess.

It was time to adjust my thinking, make some drastic changes to my life, and so I set a new goal: find crappier leagues to play in.

That’s when coed recreational beach volleyball and floor hockey came into my life. For a while I was back on track, not in great shape but possessing enough residual ability to hit one hard spike every month or

so on the volleyball court and rack up goals in floor hockey with my innovative offensive technique of shooting any ball the instant it came within three feet of me, regardless of where the defenders were, how close I was to the net or how many times the security guard yelled at me “Sir, you can’t be in there.

That’s a children’s ball pit.

The police are on their way.”

“I hope they’re bringing a decent goalie,” I’d yell back. “I’m lighting these kids up!”

The goals I set for my rec league games were all

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Last year, my floor hockey team went on hiatus and so I had no games to play for almost a year. Naturally I took on other activities such as triathlon and recreational jai alai to fill my exercise gap. Just kidding.

I was actually unable to get much exercise in at all over the year due to a series of unavoidable conflicts such as my parenting duties, new

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Mayor Darrell Mussatto Councillor Don Bell Councillor Pam Bookham Councillor Linda Buchanan Councillor Rod Clark Councillor Guy Heywood Councillor Craig Keating Karla D. Graham, MMC kgraham@cnv.org

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NOTICE is hereby given by the City of North Vancouver that a Public Hearing will be held on MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014 AT 7:00 PM in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, BC, to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendment to “Zoning Bylaw, 1995, No. 6700”.

ZONING BYLAW, 1995, NO. 6700, AMENDMENT BYLAW, 2013, NO. 8315 (STABURN LOWER LONSDALE WEST GP LTD. / ROSITCH HEMPHILL ARCHITECTS, 101-149 LONSDALE AVENUE, CD-647) STABURN LOWER LONSDALE WEST GP LTD. / ROSITCH HEMPHILL ARCHITECTS has applied to rezone the property located at101-149 Lonsdale Avenue, legally described as E of Lots 16 to 19, Block 156, DL 274, Plan 951, D of Lots 16 to 19, Block 156, DL 274, Plan 951, Lot 15, Block 156, DL 274, Plan 879, Lot 14, Block 156, DL 274, Plan 879, Lot 13, Block 156, DL 274, Plan 879, B of Lots 10 to 12, Block 156, DL 274, Plan 7017 A of Lots 10 to 12, Block 156, DL 274, Plan 7017. The amendment to “Zoning Bylaw, 1995, No. 6700” will have the effect of reclassifying the said property FROM: LL-2 (Lower Lonsdale Mixed Use 2) Zone TO: CD-647 (Comprehensive Development 647) Zone to permit construction of a six-storey mixed-use development with 64 stratified residential units, 5 non-market rental units, office space, and commercial retail units on the ground level. This application will also designate the existing heritage building at 101 Lonsdale Avenue. A pedestrian mews is incorporated in the design to connect Lonsdale Avenue to the rear east-west lane. Access to the underground parking is proposed from the north-south lane.

This Public Hearing is held under the provisions of the Local Government Act. All persons who believe they may be affected by the above proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person and/or by written submission. Written or electronic (email) submissions should be sent to the attention of the City Clerk at kgraham@cnv.org or by mail to City Clerk, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 1H9. Electronic submissions must be received no later than 4:00 pm on Monday, January 20, 2014, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Hearing.

The proposed bylaw and relevant background material may be inspected at the office of the City Clerk between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from January 9, 2014. If you wish to view the material online, please visit www.cnv.org/publichearings. Please direct any inquiries to Michael Epp, Planner 2, Community Development, at mepp@cnv.org or 604-982-3936.

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Condos floated for N. Van shipyard site

Foreshore remediation part of Dollarton project plan JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

first reading Monday, and will take it to public hearing later in the year, contingent on Polygon Development clarifying their plans for public shore access and foreshore remediation.

Spanning four industrial lots currently occupied

by Dollarton Shipyard and McKenzie Barge and Marineways, the development would consist

A trio of four-storey apartments with a vista of the Burrard Inlet has been proposed for Dollarton Highway, but at least one District of North Vancouver councillor took a dim view of the development plan.

Council gave the project

complaints; we were here first,’” he said.

A public information meeting in June drew a packed house to Seymour Golf and Country Club.

Concerns included parking, traffic, the effect of construction, and the lack of a commercial component in the development. Polygon’s reaction to those concerns was unsatisfactory, said MacKay-Dunn.

“Some responses, quite frankly, seemed to be rather cavalier. . . ‘That’s

of 80 condos and 15 townhouses.

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After reading a letter from Port Metro Vancouver, MacKay-Dunn concluded the agency is unlikely to turn down the volume.

“What the port is telling us is ‘We don’t want any

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The buildings may range up to 53 feet in height, but the rents will be sky-high, according to Coun. Lisa Muri.

“The cost of renting one of these units is going to be astronomical. A house next door is listed on the market right now for $3.49 million,” she said.

Two-bedroom condo suites would range from 997 to 1,426 square feet. Three-bedroom townhouses would range from 2,728 to 3,008 square feet.

The development would include 15 docking spots at the marina. Muri said she was disappointed to see so few, as the district loses boat traffic in the summer because of a lack of mooring space.

The building will include a flood construction level of 5.3 metres in order to mitigate rising sea levels, erosion, and the effect of a tsunami.

A traffic study found the effects of the development would be negligible, and that Dollarton Highway would remain free-flowing during rush hour.

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Despite a few misgivings about creating a “procedural marsh,” council voted 6-1 to move the project forward with MacKay-Dunn as the lone voice of dissent.

For Mayor Richard Walton, the development offers a chance to reclaim the shore for public access.

“One of the really compelling things for this community is the fact that you’re taking basically a dead beach, which has suffered a hundred years worth of pollutants on it, and cleaning it up.”

If Polygon takes over the nearly five-acre strip just west of Cates Park, the port will require the foreshore be rehabilitated.

The site is labelled high-risk on the province’s contaminated sites registry. Paints, blasting grit, creosote, fuels and lubricants can be found in the soil and sediment due to the long history of shipbuilding on the site.

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Sunday, January 12, 2014 - North Shore News - A9

Keller banned from market

From page 1

investors.

Back in 2009 and 2010, Keller lived in an opulent brick mansion on Sentinel Drive in West Vancouver and was known for wearing designer clothing and driving an expensive car.

Keller told investors he was an expert foreign exchange trader who would invest their money through his company Great White Capital Corp. He promised high returns and no risk to investors’ capital, taking money from nine investors — most of them in West Vancouver — between June 2009 and July 2010.

According to the B.C. Securities Commission, “Keller lied about his background, telling them he was an expert foreign exchange trader who made millions while attending the University of Southern California in 2001.” But none of that was true. As the securities commission panel pointed out, in 2001 Keller would have only been 12 or 13 years old.

One West Vancouver woman told a reporter she cashed in RRSPs, got a mortgage on her home and a line of credit to give money to Keller to invest.

She and her brother ended up losing hundreds

of thousands of dollars.

Keller never invested any of the money he took from investors. Instead, he transferred all of the money into his personal bank account and spent it while preparing false account statements for investors to get them to hand over more money.

In June 2011, a B.C. Securities Commission panel permanently banned Keller and ordered him to pay back the money plus a $1.6 million fine for the fraud.

By then, however, Keller was no longer in Canada.

In April of last year, Keller was arrested in

New York City, where he’d apparently fled after skipping out on minor charges laid against him in Colorado.

Keller has remained in custody by consent since his arrest by RCMP in November.

Kevin Marks, the prosecutor handling Keller’s case, said it’s likely he will be seeking Keller’s detention at his bail hearing later this month in North Vancouver provincial court.

If Keller is convicted of the crimes he is charged with, he could be facing a sentence of three to five years in jail.

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■ Consider the adoption of fees and charges bylaw Regular council meeting, Monday, Jan. 13, 7 p.m. dnv.org Reports: ■ Official community plan design guidelines for multifamily housing and lower Lynn town centre built form and streetscape design guidelines.

City of NorthVancouver Regular council meeting, Monday, Jan. 13, 6 p.m. cnv.org ■ Rezoning Application: Six story building at 117-135West First (Fairborne Properties/ Shift Architecture, CD-648)File: 3360-20 REZ2013-0001117-135West 1st.

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Childhood Kool-Aid stand sparks spirit

From page 3

The Sharing Project, he discovered that sharing conjures up different ideas for different people.

“When we think of some older models of sharing we think of the public library, parks, community centres are certainly areas where we share a lot of equipment and

space,” he says.

But technology, namely the Internet, has paved the way for new models of sharing facilitated by online networks.

“Those platforms are definitely something that’s new that’s kind of allowed people to share amongst people outside of their immediate friend group,”

Diplock says.

In addition to technology, the financial downturn of 2008 has also caused people to consider sharing as they reassess whether they need to own things, or just access them, Diplock says.

Increased environmental consciousness has buoyed sharing too, he adds. Less consumption equals

less waste.

Whatever the reason for its rise, Diplock believes the sharing economy is more than a fleeting trend.

“I think that this is a movement that’s developing, definitely, this is long-term.”

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You’ll remember the name Daniel Dubois for sure,” says Capilano business instructor Carolyn Stern, in whose class Dubois originally came up with Share Shed.

He may not be running the country yet, but he has brushed shoulders with some very influential world figures. Last October, Dubois spoke about his Share Shed project in front of 20,000 youth at WE Day,

where he shared the Rogers Arena stage with Kofi Annan, Martin Luther King III and Romeo Dallaire.

Despite its potential for profit, Dubois plans to keep Share Shed free for users. He and his team are investigating ways to monetize the website just enough that it can sustain itself.

“I’m not doing it to make millions of dollars,” he says, explaining his goal is to create a social enterprise for the public good, “but I do want it to have a business model where it can make money so it can expand.”

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Gravy-fuelled binge benches this athlete From page 7

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When I stepped on the bathroom scale at my parents’ house over the Christmas holiday I was shocked to see it noticeably wince and then immediately get on its mobile phone to make an emergency appointment with its chiropractor. I was in the worst shape of my life, and it was all the more disturbing because our floor hockey team was scheduled to spring back to life in a couple of weeks with a new season starting in the new year.

Luckily my parents own a treadmill and so I hit that, although I’m not sure how much my fitness improved due to the fact that I capped off every wind sprint by devouring another turkey leg and pounding a beer. And I’m really going to have to rethink my decision to fill my squirt bottle with gravy.

When our first game of the new season rolled around this week I had

another new goal in mind, a goal I had never dreamed of setting for myself: don’t die.

I really was a little nervous that after sprinting up and down the tiny elementary school gym floor a few times I might just sit down on a bench, have a quiet little heart attack and die. How embarrassing would that be?

Luckily I didn’t die.

The crisis was averted by my new innovative game technique: run very slowly, don’t play defence and, if need be, forget about offence for a while too.

It actually felt good to get my heart racing a bit and discover that it could handle the heat.You could say I’m the greatest ever at not having a heart attack during my floor hockey game. Tied for greatest, at least.

So, for all you athletic kids, weekend warriors, or Maëlle Rickers out there, remember to keep on setting those goals. Maybe you, too, can be just like me — the Michael Jordan of not dying. aprest@nsnews.com

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Vandrico Solutions Inc., a company that specializes in creating workplace applications for wearable technology, discovered a small flaw in the picture colours projected by the high-tech glass while working with one of the prototype sets.

Bayan Bennett, a former intern now working for Vandrico, was the person who discovered the problem.

“He noticed it right away and it kind of bothered him,” said Kenny MacKenzie, cofounder of Vandrico.

But Bennett, an engineering graduate from the University of British Columbia, knew how to fix the problem.

“He wrote a white paper and actually did the physical calculations as the light was being passed through the prism to determine exactly how it was being distorted and then how to correct for it,” said MacKenzie.

MacKenzie said there were parts of the Google Glass screen that throw up a little bit of red and other parts that throw up a little bit of blue because the light is not bending properly through the prism.

Bennett corrected for it by essentially shifting the pixels that are being sent out of display very slightly, said MacKenzie.

Once corrected, the company was able to

advance the sharpness of the Google Glass image by up to 35 per cent.

He said the 35 per cent improvement on the sharpness of the image comes from the background composition.

“It’s really quite simple at the end of the day. It’s surprising that Google hadn’t fixed it themselves already,” said MacKenzie.

MacKenzie said Vandrico has shared its findings with Google, but Google has not yet released anything publicly.

Vandrico does research and development and consulting, specializing in wearable technology in the industrial workplace.

“We’re looking at Google Glass applications for things like mine sites, shipping (and) receiving, logistics, engineering, construction, that sort of stuff,” said MacKenzie.

He said the advancements the company made on Google Glass took less than three weeks to complete.

“The science behind it is actually relatively simple,” he said.

MacKenzie said the work his company did would be considered fine tuning.

The Google team itself would be more likely to work on significant hardware adjustments, and would be focusing more so on the user experience than doing fine tuning, he said.

“The reason we went after it is because we thought this was a pretty interesting improvement to make.

It was part of our analysis that we were doing anyway to understand how all those components worked and what they were capable of.”

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Couple running for a cause Set to tackle Costa Rican Coastal Challenge for cancer research

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DRYLAND TRAINING A local physiotherapist offers tips to ensure you’re ready to hit the cross-country ski trails. page 15 HEALTH NOTES page 16

A local couple is heading to the jungle to race against cancer.

North Vancouver resident Shannon Penway and boyfriend Joel Payeur will be flying down to Costa Rica on Jan. 30 for the Coastal Challenge, a five-day, approximately 130-kilometre race through challenging terrain. Their goal is to raise money for cancer research.

The couple was inspired by tragic circumstances. Payeur’s mother was diagnosed with colon cancer a few years ago.

“It’s tough,” Payeur says. “I didn’t know how to deal with it. I was mad at the world.”

His mom is now in remission, and the couple wants to raise money to help find a cure, Penway says.

They first got the idea when they heard about the race through their friends.

“Neither of us have been to Costa Rica or tried to run for five days in a row,” Penway says. “We thought we’d give it a shot.”

They’ve been training all summer to be in peak form by the time they arrive in Costa Rica, she says.

Although they’re both used to racing — they’ve participated in several half-marathons, and Penway is a member of the national team for mountain running — this is unlike anything they’ve

ever done, Penway says.

“We want to push our bodies to see how far we can go,” she says.

The couple first met after a local race, when Penway had chased Payeur to the finish line for the last kilometre. They finished first and second.

“My first thought was I couldn’t let a girl win,” says Payeur.

His second thought was that at least he’d still be the first male if she did beat him, he says.

They high-fived at the end of the race, and they’ve been running together ever since.

“Before we met, I didn’t have the confidence to run for longer distances,” Payeur says. “But when we started running together, it was easier to go for longer and longer.”

Training for the race has been intense, says Penway. “We’re in the gym at five in the morning almost every day and running every weekend,” she says.

The couple doesn’t know how many hours they’ll be on the trails each day, but they expect it to be gruelling. “It’s going to be up and down,” says Penway.

Payeur finds the idea of the race nerve-racking.

“It’s the unknown,” he says. “You don’t want to let people down, but it might happen that you have a bad day sometimes.”

He’s just trying to visualize crossing the finish line.

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Snow has finally dusted the local mountains and many people are getting out there, excited about the opportunity to hit the local slopes.

We’re fortunate to be nestled at the south end of a snow enthusiast’s dream: The Sea-to-Sky corridor.

Cross-country skiing opportunities abound with 19 kilometres of nordic skiing on Cypress Mountain, more than 90 km of trails combined between the Whistler Olympic Park and Callaghan Valley, and an additional 32 km of trails in and around the Lost Lake area in Whistler.To fully enjoy the relatively short West Coast season, pre-season exercises and conditioning are recommended.

Cross-country skiing is a fantastic full-body activity. Both classic and skate techniques provide a challenging workout.

Although nordic skiing is primarily an endurancebased sport, strength,

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stability and flexibility are all required for proper technique. Most of the preseason programs that one can find on the Internet are for serious racers. As more of a recreational crosscountry skier who does the occasional fun race, I wanted to focus on a few key exercises. For the following exercises, start with three sets of 10 repetitions, unless

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Couple up to the challenge From page 13 through rivers and running up and down mountain trails.

“There’s nothing like being out there,” Penway says. “Each time you get out, you become a bigger person.”

Everything that the couple raises is going to the B.C. Cancer Foundation. More than $1,600 has been raised so far.

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Lunges, calf raises, squats will help you prepare From page 15 ■ Lunges: Stand with feet parallel. Step forward, landing heel to toe, with the heel of your back foot coming up slightly off the floor. Bend both knees, bringing the hips down toward the floor until the front thigh is parallel to the floor. Make sure the front knee does not pass over the ankle. Push off the front leg to return to the starting position.

More challenging: Jump into the lunge position, then up to standing, then jump into the lunge position with the other leg forward.

Keep in mind that the front leg will hit the ground toe to heel.To really up the ante, jump from lunge position straight to lunge position, alternating which leg is forward.

■ Calf Raises: Stand with feet parallel and hip-width apart. Rise up onto toes of both feet and lower back down into starting position.

Feel free to place hands on a counter or wall to

help with balance.

More challenging: Pause at the top of the calf raise, then quickly drop down, keeping heel contact very brief, then rise back onto both toes. Alternatively, slowly rise up and down on one leg at a time.

■ Squats: Stand with feet parallel and hip- to shoulderwidth apart. Keeping the torso as upright as possible, bend your knees and stick out your bottom as if sitting in a chair. Ensure the knee caps track over the corresponding second toes and the knees do not bend more than 90 degrees.

To make squats more cross-country ski specific, add arm movements with resistance bands. Anchor elastic tubing or banding at its midpoint around a doorknob and close the door with ends of the band on the other side. Grab both ends with arms straight out in front of the body when in the squat position.While returning to the standing position, draw arms back, leading with the elbows

in a rowing motion, then straighten the arms with a triceps extension like the end of a freestyle swim stroke.

Return to initial position.

More challenging: Hold weights in each hand for the basic squat. For the second modification, start with the squat position and arms out in front. Return to standing position on one leg only while performing the row/fly with the arms.The other leg can go straight out behind the body to simulate classic technique, or out and back at a 30-45 degree angle, toes slightly turning out.

Alternate standing legs with each squat.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING New William Griffin Community Recreation Centre What:

The District of North Vancouver in association with the North Vancouver Recreation Commission is planning to replace the existing William Griffin Community Recreation Centre (851 W. Queens Road). This public information meeting is your opportunity to view the draft building design, floor plans and parking redesign, and discuss the proposal with District staff and the architects, in person.

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Pre-season training can help decrease injuries From page 17 under the heels. Push back up to the starting position.

Repeat on the other side.

More challenging: Hop and hold by standing on one leg, keeping both hips in one line. Bend the stance leg slightly and push off and to the side, landing on the other leg. Stay in the landing position until balance is attained (a second or two).

Straighten the stance leg, bringing the hip forward.

Repeat back to the original spot. Count that as one repetition.

■ Planks: Front: Start on the ground with the belly to the floor. Forearms are close to the body, palms down.Toes are pointing to the ground.

Engage the abdominal muscles and lift the body up until it’s a straight line from head to shoulders to hips to toes.The shoulders should be drawn away from the ears and aligned over the elbows. Hold the body without the hips sagging down or bending up for five seconds. Repeat five times.

Build this up to 10 seconds for 10 times.

Side: Lie down on one side in a straight line with the legs on the ground and the upper body propped up onto the downward facing elbow, which is directly under the shoulder. Keep the downward forearm perpendicular to the body and the upper forearm resting on the upper hip.

Engage the core and lift hips toward the ceiling with the body in a straight line, weight between the lower forearm and the outside edge of the downward facing foot. As above, perform five for five seconds, building to 10 for 10 seconds.

More challenging: Only try these modifications once 10 planks can be held with proper technique for 10 seconds.

Front: From standard front plank position, raise toes of one leg several centimetres off the ground and hold without allowing a twist in the body for 10 seconds. Rest and repeat, lifting the other leg.

Alternate until five have been done with each leg up.

Side: From standard side plank position, lift top leg off the bottom leg a few centimetres, without allowing the hips to dip towards the floor, for 10 seconds. Rest and repeat on the other side. Alternate until five have been done on each side.

In addition to the above exercises, it’s advisable to incorporate some cardiovascular training to decrease the early season lungburn when you first hit the trails. Running, biking, roller skiing, roller blading, swimming, rowing and elliptical or step machines are all activities that can increase aerobic capacity.

Since cross-country skiing usually involves some hills, it’s a good idea to add hill or interval work to the above endurance activities.

For those skiers who are thinking of competing in a few races, plyometrics are a great way to increase speed and power. Plyometrics are challenging, explosive exercises that should only be performed after adequate strength has been attained,

and ideally with proper instruction. Nordic Racers (nordicracers.ca) is a local club that runs free, selfpaced pre-season workouts for their members.These Sunday morning sessions incorporate the use of ski poles with bounding, plyometric-type exercises.

Whether competing in short Tuesday Night Races at Cypress or in a longer Loppet race such as the P’ayak at the Whistler Olympic Park, plyometrics can help give skiers a

competitive edge. Pre-season training allows skiers to make the most of the actual ski season. There are many different programs out there, but with the above exercises, a few cardio sessions, and a regular stretching regime, one doesn’t have to start from absolute scratch at the beginning of the season.

Pre-season training also can help decrease injuries during the season. If injuries do happen, remember the RICE principle of rest, ice, compression and elevation

to speed up healing and to get back to the trails as soon as possible. For lingering or more complex injuries, a physiotherapist is only a web search and/or phone call away. Safe skiing, everyone!

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TASTE

Sonoma visit among upcoming events

Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables The Hired Belly’s tasting calendar is filling up as should be yours.

Vancouverites enjoy a long association with Sonoma County. As a popular wine touring destination, Sonoma features a laid-back feel, as well as an amazing range of varieties.

Sonoma County vintners descend on Vancouver in force on Feb. 5 with a full

slate of events and a score of winemakers pouring wines from across the region.

I’m always impressed by what Sonoma has to offer.

It really boasts the best of both worlds: a lengthy growing season, with ideal cool climate influence from maritime fogs that waft in from the Pacific daily like clockwork and help drive acidity.What to expect: Balanced Chardonnays that truly have pulled back on the oak; juicy Pinot Noirs; spicy Zinfandels, fruity but crisp Sauvignon Blancs and everything in between. Plus, organizers promise “a few surprises.”

Sonoma in the City takes place at Terminal City Club (837 West Hastings St., Feb 5,6:30-9 p.m.).

Tix $55. Partial proceeds support the B.C. Hospitality Foundation. Also on the roster, on Feb 4, a couple of excellent wine dinners:

Sonoma County’s Siduri Wines and Novy Family Wines at Blue Water Café ($165, call 604-688-8078); and Rodney Strong at Brix Restaurant and Wine Bar, with winemaker Rick Sayre pouring a selection that includes three awardwinning single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons ($110, call 604-915-9463).

••• Dine Out Vancouver (Jan. 17-Feb. 2) moves into high gear next week with a slew of special events and, of course, no shortage of wellpriced three-course menus, many of which feature optional B.C.VQA wine pairings.

Every year, some restaurants seem to take a little more time in their menu planning to match plates properly with some decent drops, which is a fair indication of the area’s growing culinary

on the palate ($16.45, 89 points). From the winery or private wine stores. Also well worth a nod: the intense, more late-harvest style, off-dry Gewurztraminer 2012 Reserve (estate and Similkameen fruit) $17.45, 90 points.

Tim Pawsey covers food and wine for numerous publications and online as the Hired Belly at hiredbelly.com. Contact: info@hiredbelly.com.

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••• Belly’s Best: Domaine de Chaberton Bacchus Reserve 2012 The Fraser Valley’s original winery continues to up its game.This estategrown wine shows why Bacchus works well here on the coast (and on the Island). Stonefruit and citrus on the nose with plush orange and citrus

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sophistication. Scroll through the wealth of choice on offer (you can narrow your search to the North Shore if you choose) and you’ll find the likes of Arms Reach Bistro paired with Orofino; Cheshire Cheese with Peller Estates; Fishworks, The Pinnacle Hotel and The Observatory at Grouse Mountain, all with a wide range of wineries, and several more. More info at dineoutvancouver.com.

••• While several B.C. wineries have turned their attention to Hong Kong and the broader mainland Chinese market in the last couple of years, few have pursued the significant Canadian Chinese market here at home. It’s no surprise that one of the first out of the gate are the folks at Haywire, who last week unveiled a special label celebrating theYear of the Horse for the current release (2012) of Pinot Noir.

They’ve also come up with some helpful basic food and wine pairing dos and don’ts, which can be applied not only to Chinese cuisines but any other style.

They include:The acidity in sparkling wines and bubbles pairs very well with a wide selection of food.

When in doubt, grab the bubbles. Aromatic, sweeter wines pair well with hotter, spicier dishes. Crispier, drier whites enhance lighter dishes without overpowering the flavour and texture.

Juicy, fruit-forward reds with depth and complexity match nicely with intense-flavoured dishes, deep-fried or braised.

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SENIORS

Avoid falls by keeping legs strong

Falls are the most common cause of injury for the elderly We gain wisdom as we age, but we also lose muscle mass and bone density.

This can lead to decreased balance and postural stability, and also to serious injuries following a fall.

Luckily, leisure walking and gentle leg exercise can help keep our senior years golden.

Your body responds naturally to fulfill its daily demands. But as activities become less vigorous, you can quickly lose strength.

If you have been too inactive, your muscles might fail when you need them most.That’s why sedentary lifestyles are arguably the greatest health risk for seniors.

According to Health Canada, falls are the most common cause of injury for Canadian seniors who suffer nine times more fall injuries than younger populations.

The Public Health

Agency of Canada reports that one in three seniors living in the community and approximately half of those living in institutions experience a serious fall each year. And the repercussions can be significant, as falls cause more than 95 per cent of hip fractures among seniors and 50 per cent of those individuals never regain their pre-fracture hip functioning.

Even without an injury, a fall can lead to shaken confidence and reduced activity.

But this should be avoided because maintaining mobility and stability really is a case of use it or lose it.

First and foremost, maintaining a baseline of physical demand on our bodies, especially the legs, is needed to retain mobility.

This could simply mean taking walks on quiet streets, treadmills, nature

■ Chair Squats Stand facing away from the seat of a sturdy chair.

In a controlled motion, sit in the chair and then stand back up while breathing steadily.Work toward not using your arms for support and not resting in the seat.

Start with a few repetitions and progress to 10 performed twice per day.

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■ Chair Leg Extensions: Sitting upright in a supportive chair, slowly straighten one leg and hold it horizontal before lowering it back down.

Work toward holding for 10 seconds while breathing normally. Start with a few repetitions and progress to 10 performed three times per day.

trails, in shopping malls, and at indoor or outdoor running tracks. But walking alone likely will not be enough to provide the challenge your leg muscles need to retain postural stability.

For that, you will require regular performance of at least moderately strenuous strength exercises.

To start, try these daily chair movements:

■ Chair Hamstring Curls: Holding firmly to the back of a chair, stand tall

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Start with a few repetitions and progress to 10 performed three times per day.

If needed, the difficulty of either of the last two exercises can be gently increased with the addition of light ankle weights.

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SENIORS

Former Scot a ‘damn good Canadian’

Laura Anderson

Memory Lane

Mae learned to snare rabbits to supplement the family rations. She learned everything by doing. Her aunties and her gran taught her knitting, embroidery and sewing. After the war, renovating the tenements still standing after the Glasgow Blitz, she learned the basics of plumbing, electrics and carpentry.

In spite of post-war shortages and the need to rebuild Glasgow, Mae and her friends enjoyed life.

She learned her trade at the Singer sewing machine factory, leaving weekends free for dancing, riding her ex-war motorcycle, hiking and fishing.

A visit to her brother in 1970 prompted Mae’s decision to immigrate to Canada. It took five years.

Evidently, a single woman in her 30s with the profession of seamstress just wasn’t Canadian material.

“What makes you think you’d be a good Canadian?”

“Because I’ve been a damn good Scot up to now so I see no reason why I

wouldn’t be a damn good Canadian,” Mae replied.

After that exchange, Mae flatly refused to take no for an answer but it was not until Mae’s brother’s employer guaranteed her a job that she was granted permission to become Canadian.

Mae never took that job.

She started at Hager’s, a well-known Montreal dress shop, and went on to a steel company, where she worked alongside 19 FrenchCanadian men.Weekends and holidays, she was off hiking, camping, fishing — oh, the regret at leaving her beautiful fly rod behind — and square dancing. “It was grand. Ears, eyes, feet, hands, everything has to cooperate,” she says.

Mae moved west in 1994. A self-described car racing nut, she had already visited Vancouver twice to attend the Molson Indy Vancouver.The city wasn’t Montreal but the climate was better for her health.

Mae settled in North Vancouver and was volunteering at Silver Harbour Seniors’ Activity Centre within a week of her arrival. Mae is at the centre most days, wearing the apron she made on Big Thunderguts, working alongside the men in the wood shop, preparing for the annual Christmas bazaar. Look close and you’ll see her officiating at the bazaar as Mrs. Claus.

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Her dancing days are over, almost. Mae gets around on her electric scooter or by foot, navigating with a baby

stroller. She’s the centre’s go-to person for bus routes.

“I’m down on Hastings Street at Dressew or off to Granville Island. I love it there, so much activity,” she says.

On Saturday, Jan. 18, Silver Harbour will celebrate Scotland with their Rabbie Burns Day dinner

and dance. Burns’ actual birthday, a week later, gives the Scots another chance to celebrate. Mae is already selecting her tartan from among her vast collection.

For more information, call the centre at 604-980-2474.

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What she’s handled in her life is incredible.”

With all the friends Mae Thomson has in this world, you’d think she’s talking about a woman.You’d be wrong. Mae is talking about “Big Thunderguts,” her sewing machine.

In 1975, Mae left her first sewing machine, split-cane fly fishing rod, motorcycle, friends and family at home in Scotland and immigrated to Canada.

“I bought a new sewing machine in Montreal but it was a toy, all plastic, of no use to me,” she says. Mae exchanged that machine for an industrial-strength Singer model and the two have been together ever since.

Born in Glasgow in 1933, Mae remembers waking up in the night during the Second World War, being dressed in her siren suit and carried off to the air raid shelter.The bombardments flattened most of the city and Mae and her family, her cousins and aunt fetched up at “gran and granda’s, the only house in the family that still had a roof.”

One of thousands of child evacuees, May remembers the identification label hung round her neck and the smell of the rubber gas mask she carried in a “wee cardboard box on a string.” She ate porridge for seven years, vowing that when she became a big lady, she’d never eat it again — and she never has.

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Sole Girls founder honoured by DNV North Vancouver’s Ashley Wiles has been recognized for her efforts to positively change the lives of young girls in the community.

On Jan. 6, Wiles received the District of North Vancouver’s Certificate of Appreciation, which is presented to an individual or organization in acknowledgement of their commitment and contribution towards the district.

Wiles is the founder of Sole Girls, an organization that gives girls ages eight to 12 the opportunity to build confidence and positive

body image through physical activity in a noncompetitive, supportive environment. Participants go through eight weeks of running training, culminating in a fivekilometre fun run. Over the course of the program, the young girls learn about goal setting, healthy living habits, and how to deal with peer challenges, media and self-doubt.

Wiles, a trained life coach and avid runner herself, founded Sole Girls as a way to reach girls when they are at a critical point in their lives, navigating tweenhood

and facing demanding challenges.

North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton presented Wiles with the certificate at a district council meeting.

“By exposing our youth to strong role models, and by providing positive influence and guidance, she exemplifies the core values and spirit of our community,” Walton said in a press release.

This is the first of several Civic Recognition awards that will be presented over the coming months.

— Christine Lyon

Community Bulletin Board

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LIONS GATE QUILTERS GUILD meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, 2641 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Guests and new members welcome. 604-926-7098 or lionsgatequiltersguild.com MEET YOUR MAYOR Drop in to Lynn Valley library’s fireplace area for one-on-one chats with North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Check nvdpl. ca for updates as dates and times may be subject to change.

TOWN HALL MEETING A meeting to learn about a proposal for a development

WEST BAY PARK OPEN HOUSE Find out about the draft vision for this small waterfront park Tuesday, Jan. 14, 6:30-8 p.m. at West Bay elementary, 3175 Thompson Pl.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7130 parks@westvancouver.ca ADVENTURES IN THE HIGH ARCTIC George and Selma-Jo Richards will describe their adventures aboard a Russian ship travelling from Cambridge Bay to Greenland Wednesday, Jan. 15 from noon to 2:30 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, 885 22nd St.,West Vancouver. Bring a “brown bag” lunch; coffee and tea

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I woke up the other morning clinging to the side of the bed.

It wasn’t a bad dream about climbing the Himalayas that left me perched on a full five inches of an oversized queen mattress, nor was it the result of my significant other after a night out with the boys. It was my dogs.

All three of them were completely stretched out in various positions with six pairs of paws and three heads shoved against my back, legs and head.

As I carefully straightened out my spine from its contortionist position I could see my chiropractor just shaking his head at me as I explained why my back was the way it was.

I have always allowed my dogs on the bed and although some trainers consider this a faux pas I actually don’t have a problem with it, as long as the dog does not have any behavioural problems and proper rules are in place.

Dogs live in a world of hierarchy and the top dog is the one that gets the best

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Canine Connection of everything. Even though dogs know that we humans are not dogs, they still understand and respect that we are part of that hierarchical system.

The consistent nature of our daily interactions with our dogs establishes our leadership role and hierarchical position. We are — in essence — a two-legged top dog and the bedroom is one place where we inadvertently assert our top dog status as part of our daily interactions. Since the best sleeping place is where the top dog sleeps, when we crawl into bed we are claiming our space and asserting our position.

Most dogs get this and have no need or desire to challenge that position because they are comfortable where they are within the hierarchy and the dog owner has done a good job establishing the leadership position in other areas of the dog’s life.

Therefore, if your dog doesn’t have any behavioural issues, allowing it onto the bed with you should not be a big deal. Insisting your dog sit and wait to be invited up is all that should be necessary.

All of my dogs have been taught to ask permission before they jump up on the bed when I am in it. When I am not in the bed, they are allowed to jump up on their own accord and no permission is necessary.

But they don’t have any behavioural issues.

When I enter the bedroom they don’t feel threatened in any way and if I were to ask them to move, they would willingly comply. If I don’t want to crawl into bed, they remain were they are and

I feel no need to tell them to move.

If, however, one of them was to growl at me as I entered the room or when I asked it to move, not only would bed privileges be revoked, they would also not be allowed to enter the bedroom.

Dogs that display aggression to anyone at any time should not be allowed on the human’s bed and the owner of that dog should seek professional help to deal with the aggression. If aggression is only displayed while the dog is on the bed, the dog is most definitely showing territorial aggression and possibly dominance aggression as well. In either case it is inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour that will escalate if ignored.

Working with a qualified trainer, the dog should be taken through a series of behavioural modification exercises to correct the aggression. In time, the bed privileges may be reinstated.

Many new puppy owners will bring a puppy into the bed with them because the puppy cries through the night. Although I don’t condone this, as all it does is reinforce a puppy’s insecurities, there are times when it can be beneficial to a pup’s development, such as when it has just come home from the breeder’s. Just a few hours before, that little pup had the security of its littermates and mother and now it is surrounded with the unfamiliar.

Bringing a pup into the bed for a short period can actually help the puppy adapt to its new surroundings and bond with its people faster.

Oh, and getting a king sized bed does not guarantee room for all dogs and people. It just gives the dogs more room to sprawl.

Joan Klucha has been working with dogs for more than 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her through her website k9kinship.com.

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Blues up for a challenge Rookies forced to grow up fast for Capilano ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

THREE TO SEE THIS WEEK Sr. boys basketball Argyle @ Sentinel Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m.

PacWest basketball Camosun @ Capilano Jan. 17, 6 and 8 p.m.

VIU @ Capilano Jan. 18, 1 and 3 p.m.

PJHL hockey Aldergrove @ NVWolf Pack Jan. 18, 7 p.m., Harry Jerome Arena

A quick examination of the mottos used by last year’s and this year’s Capilano University women’s basketball teams gives an insightful look into where the program was then and is now.

Head coach Ramin Sadaghiani, who took over the Blues before the 201213 season, likes having a team motto, and for his inaugural season it was “hold the rope,” a popular sports metaphor that imagines a scenario with a team on top of a mountain.

Players are instructed to think about who they would want “holding the rope” if they were dangling off the side of a cliff and in risk of falling. It speaks to everyone doing their job and working together to stay on top.

It was fitting, given that last year’s Blues team was stacked full of veteran talent and went on to finish first in PacWest regular season play and win silver at the provincial championships.

So what’s this year’s motto? “Rise to the challenge,” says Sadaghiani, a not so subtle nod to the drastic changes that one offseason can bring. With graduations, transfers and other turnover, the 201314 Blues were left with only four returning players.

The team that just one year before was working to stay on top of the mountain was now at the bottom staring up at the peak that seemed miles away.

“We’ve got a very young team,” says Sadaghiani, whose Blues went 3-5 before the Christmas break and sit in the league’s sixth and final playoff spot as the season resumes this weekend. “We have eight rookies this year so obviously there’s been some growing pains with that as far as the girls

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The Blues are on the road this weekend for important games against Langara and Douglas, two teams that are very close to them in the standings.

Next weekend they’ll be at

home for a pair of tough contests against third-place Camosun, ranked No. 14 in the country, and first place Vancouver Island University, ranked No. 4 in Canada.

Playing teams like VIU, whose entire starting lineup is composed of fourth- and fifth-year players, reveals the gap between veterans and rookies.

“We have like 18-

year-olds playing against 22-, 23-year-old women.

Physically it’s just a different game,” says Sadaghiani. “We have to kind of grow up really quickly because we’re obviously a lot of firstyear players but we can’t have that first-year player mentality. . . . There’s a lot on these players’ plates and they haven’t really experienced it before.”

All that being said, the Blues are not in any way treating this season as a write-off. They are currently in a playoff spot, and as the season rolls on, Sadaghiani expects the rookies to continue upward on a steady learning curve.

“We’re getting better every day and I think in the second half we’ll start to See Steep page 35

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SPORT Field Notes

North Shore junior stars make their marks internationally North Vancouver’s Jansen Harkins put up some big numbers as Team Pacific earned silver at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge held Dec. 29Jan. 4 in Cape Breton, N.S. The West Coasters dropped their first game 43 to Team Quebec but then ripped off wins over Team West, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Russia to earn a berth into the championship final against the United States. The winning streak stopped there, however, as Team U.S.A. cruised to a 4-0

tournament to feature Canadian regional teams as next year Canada will be represented by three national teams.

••• North Vancouver’s A.J. Blackwell helped lead the B.C. provincial under-18 football team to a 45-7 win over Team Europe at the 2014 FBU International Showcase held last weekend at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

The Carson Graham Grade 12 student scored two touchdowns as Team B.C. put up 45 unanswered

win in the final played at Centre 200 in Sydney, N.S. The U.S. team outshot Pacific 52-12 in the final, romping to victory to earn their fourth gold medal in the tournament’s history. Team Pacific has earned silver six times, a tournament record.

Harkins, a first-year member of the Western Hockey League’s Prince George Cougars, led Team Pacific with five assists in the team’s six games, adding one goal to finish tied for second on the team with six points.

This was the final

points after giving up the first score of the game.

Blackwell took over lead rusher duties after starter Jamel Lyles from Surrey left the game with an injury.

“A.J. Blackwell from Carson Graham ran very well for us,” said head coach Tom Kudaba in a Football B.C. release. “He had to fill in for Jamel Lyles who has a suspected broken collarbone.”

The game against Europe was the provincial team’s only full contest of the tournament. B.C. was scheduled to play Texas

East but the game was turned into a controlled scrimmage.

Handsworth quarterback Michael Lemoine was also on the B.C. roster for the tournament.

••• Several members of Capilano Rugby Club’s youth program will represent the B.C. Elite Youth Sevens Program at the U.S.A. Sevens High School Invitational scheduled for Jan. 23-25 in Las Vegas.

Sutherland secondary’s Cole Keffer, one of 10

returning players who competed in last year’s event, will suit up for the provincial under-18 team.

At the under-17 level West Vancouver secondary’s Niko Blomberg and Liam Mahon, Collingwood’s Elias Ergas and Mulgrave’s Ryan Gray will all make the trip.

The event will be the first major tournament of 2014 and will be geared towards identifying and developing players to represent Canada at future World Cup tournaments and Olympic Games.

— compiled by Andy Prest

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Steep learning curve for big rookie class From page 33

mature a little bit and we’ll be a lot better,” he says.

And it’s not all rookies.

The team is led by point guard Jennafer Palma who is now in her fourth year.

“She just brings that toughness on the defensive end,” says Sadaghiani.

“She’s been our leader on and off the court.”

Second-year guard Francis Penafiel has also stepped up and taken on a much bigger role. The Blues were expecting the same for Stacey Graham, a second-year guard who was named to the PacWest all-rookie team last season, but she has missed large chunks of the season so far with a concussion. Her absence has left the team

with only three returning players.

“She’s only a secondyear player but we get even younger without her in the lineup,” says Sadaghiani with a laugh.

Starting forward Elise Horton is technically new to the team but she’s no rookie either, having played at the University of Calgary before taking a few years off.

“She’s kind of coming out of retirement,” says Sadaghiani, laughing again.

Horton is leading the team in rebounding. “It took her a little while to kind of get going. Obviously with her being away from the game for a long time it takes a while to come back.

She’s been great, and also somebody that the girls

look up to off the court because she’s a little bit older.”

And then there’s the rookies, some of whom are already making their mark. Argyle grad Chelsea Dekleer is leading the team in scoring with an 11.38 point-per-game average despite typically coming off the bench.

“She can shoot the ball really well, she’s got a really good skill set,” says Sadaghiani.

Point guard Ashley dela Cruz Yip is in a similar situation, leading the team in assists despite acting as a backup.

“She’s got a lot of speed, sees the floor really well.

A good playmaker,” the coach says.

The Blues, in fact,

don’t have any players putting up huge stats because they play nine or 10 players deep with a lot of players sharing equal time, Sadaghiani says.

He’s chosen to play a deep rotation because there is a lot of talent spread through his lineup and he likes players to go all-out in a high tempo style.

“We kind of spread it out — everybody has kind of had their games,” he says. “We have a lot of depth. . . . Everyone is kind of the same — we don’t lose a whole lot when we sub.”

The Blues aren’t built to challenge for a title like last year’s team did but Sadaghiani sees a bright future ahead for the program as long as the young talent sticks around for a while.

“I think if we keep working hard and keep developing our skills, especially during the spring and summer, I think that we’ll be one of the more competitive teams in our league,” he says. “I’m really happy with our rookies, I think we have lots of skill and lots of potential to improve. I think the future is bright for sure. It’s going to pay off in the long run.”

The way Sadaghiani sees it, there’s nowhere to go but up. It all comes back to that motto.

“We’re trying to all rise to the challenge,” Sadaghiani says, adding that he has enjoyed leading this season’s squad just

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