North Shore News February 16 2014

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Family expo SPORT 26

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LNG plant plan questioned

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

At least a few North Shore residents are voicing environmental concerns about a Liquefied Natural Gas facility proposed for the site of a former pulp mill

near Squamish.

Woodfibre Natural Gas Limited — part of the Pacific Oil and Gas group of companies owned by an Indonesian tycoon — is seeking to liquefy, load and export 2.1 million tonnes of LNG per year, beginning as early as 2017.

Under the proposal, natural gas would be sent to the facility to be liquefied through existing gas pipelines to Squamish.

Once operational, the $1.7 billion facility would ship the LNG in approximately 40 doublehulled, Asia-bound vessels

each year. Woodfibre’s parent company, Pacific Oil and Gas, owns an LNG import facility in China.

Not everyone is thrilled with the plan.

Some residents worry the facility could turn the tide for Howe Sound,

which they say has only recently seen the return of wildlife driven out by previous decades of industrial development.

Laurie Parkinson of North Vancouver attended a Feb. 4 information meeting at Gleaneagles Golf Course where she

was troubled to learn that part of the liquefaction process may take place on a barge.

“This would create a lot of sound that would carry into the water and scare away the marine mammals See Environment page 5

UBC files appeal of Binning decision JANE SEYD AND BRENT RICHTER jseyd@nsnews.com

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The court fight over the fate of West Vancouver’s iconic Binning House isn’t over yet.

On Thursday, the University of British Columbia filed an appeal of a B.C. Supreme Court decision handed down last month that dismissed the university’s claim to the house.

The appeal comes after a court hearing in December that pitted The Land Conservancy — the non-profit organization and owner of the house now in creditor protection— against groups ranging from the Ministry of the Attorney General to the District of West Vancouver.

The 1941 home is considered one of the first examples of West Coast Modernism and was a gathering place for artists See Land page 4

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Queen Mary’s regal rebirth

The grand old lady of schools once again takes centre stage JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Outside the grand dual entrances to Queen Mary elementary, children’s footsteps clatter down the massive stone steps, past a set of new planters.

Their shouts carry through the ornate pillars, elegant archway and beyond, to where workers hold up measuring tapes, readying the grounds for a final concrete pour and turf.

The kids are back, racing through double wooden doors at the front of the school that children have burst through for the past century.

Queen Mary is back too — after years of planning, debate about the school’s future and a lengthy restoration — to its central role in both the community’s past and its future.

With just over a month of classes at the rebuilt school under their belts, Queen Mary and its occupants are still getting used to each other.

Library books have now been unpacked — all 4,000 of them. The upstairs hallways still have that “new” smell to them.

A few finishing touches remain. A blue mesh construction fence still surrounds one of the gravel fields outside and basketball hoops in the courtyard are about to be installed. The totem pole in the entrance — a gift from a Haida carver in the 1950s — has yet to be set into place.

“It’s like moving into any building,” said principal Bill Reid. “At some point you just have to go in.”

For the past two and a half years, Queen Mary has undergone a transformation, with the sounds of children replaced by construction workers, machinery and power tools.

The school was essentially rebuilt inside — while retaining the heritage facade — at a total cost of $19.2 million.

Today its imposing brick face still stands sentry

from its hill, looking out over the North Shore as it has for the past 100 years.

Its ornamental windows, delicate stone moldings, pillars and crowning cupola are preserved.

Originally designed

by William Gillam, an English-born architect who also designed Ridgeway school nearby, Queen Mary speaks of permanence and order.

Built in 1914 in an affluent neighbourhood that had both a streetcar line and electric lights, the design of the school made a statement about its civilized community.

In contrast, at the time, “There were no schools in West Vancouver,” said Peter Miller, president of the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society. West Vancouver was the sticks.

And unlike temporary school structures that had been built previously, close to the waterfront mill sites, Queen Mary was here to stay.

When the school first opened to students in August of 1915, the First World War pre-empted any formal ceremony.

Kids were simply marched up the hill from their old school to new quarters.

Change has flowed around the school and its community over the past century.

Today, the school is a multicultural mosaic, in a way its founders couldn’t have imagined.

Throughout those changes, Queen Mary has continued to ground the community it serves. It’s managed to beat the odds.

As one of the oldest schools in North Vancouver, Queen Mary had been slated for replacement for more than a decade.

Prior to the rebuild, the list of problems was extensive.

It didn’t meet building codes. The old building had water seepage, trapped moisture and a lack of ventilation causing air quality concerns.

There was an ancient electrical system, inefficient floor plans, plus asbestos and lead-painted features throughout the building.

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“There was no thought to an environmental footprint or green space for kids. There wasn’t anything like that,” he added. Back when Queen Mary was built, “You were in a classroom and that’s where you spent all day.”

More significantly, by 2004, a review of seismic risk by the province indicated Queen Mary was among the schools with the highest risk of collapsing during an earthquake.

Initially, the province approved a plan to knock the old building down and replace it with a new one at a cost of roughly $16 million.

But community members and heritage advocates launched a campaign aimed at saving both Ridgeway and Queen Mary.

They were successful, with the school district funding the extra $3 million for Queen Mary’s heritage rebuild through the sale of land and density at both Chesterfield Avenue and Upper Lonsdale to developers.

The restoration process has been extensive.

Essentially, the interior of the school was gutted and rebuilt behind its heritage facade. Layers of walls and flooring were peeled back and the old bones of the building — support pillars made of

concrete and rebar — were tested for strength. Some were banded and clad with extra steel to meet today’s seismic standards.

Others were pulled out and replaced. A new skeleton of steel columns and beams was erected inside the old brick walls before concrete was added behind it.

New mechanical and electrical systems were installed. A secondarysized gymnasium was added.

Then behind the walls, a new school took shape inside.

From the outside, “The exterior is exactly the same as it was in 1914,” said Reid.

New doors at the front of the school were built

from the specifications of the original doors.

The trim around the windows has been painted an original shade of pale yellow. Windows have been put back in their original positions — although the panes in them are now safety glass.

There have been necessary concessions to safety — like the discreet metal handrails for the entrance steps. Windows above the ground floor only open six inches now — as required by current safety standards. “Even two and a half years ago, they opened up all the way,” said Reid.

Inside, however, the school has taken on a whole new aura.

Areas that were once dim and low-ceilinged have been replaced with open spaces and natural light, starting with a 40-foot atrium inside the entrance that spans the height of the school’s three floors, beneath its elegant domed ceiling.

Two totem poles — including one being carved by Squamish artist and Queen Mary First Nations support worker Maurice Nahanee, will also eventually stand here.

On one huge wall, a relief mural depicting scenes of Queen Mary, Upper Lonsdale and the North Vancouver waterfront will be created using tiles created by students, under the leadership of artist and teacher Todd Clark, funded by a $5,000 grant from the North Vancouver Community Arts Council.

To create more space, the first floor of the school was excavated and dropped to add ceiling height.

Views from the upper intermediate classrooms are stunning, taking in a vista of North Vancouver City, Burrard Inlet and downtown towers rising from a morning mist.

“These are the highdemand classrooms in the front,” said Reid, laughing.

“All the teachers wanted them for the view.”

The school is built to a LEED gold standard of energy efficiency. Lights and heat automatically dim or turn off when a room isn’t occupied or when ambient light is stronger.

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Land Conservancy has ‘another plan’ From page 1

and architects inspired by Bertrand Binning until the death of Binning’s wife Jessie in 2007.

The Land Conservancy acquired the home in 2008.

But, facing pressure from its creditors to pay back $7.5 million in debt, the conservancy went to court for approval to sell the Binning House for $1.6 million to a corporation controlled by developer Bruno Wall.

That bid failed when the judge concluded the house was transferred “on trust for the purpose of its preservation into the future for the public” and that the conservancy must demonstrate that it tried to find a new owner who

could keep the home with that intent.

The District of West Vancouver has since stepped up offering to take the home and maintain it in partnership with other yet-to-be-named non-profit groups.

But the legal arguments aren’t over.

The university joined the court fight this fall, arguing that according to Jessie Binning’s will, if the executors didn’t want to establish a society to manage the property, it should have been sold with the proceeds going to the university’s B.C. Binning Memorial Fellowship Fund.

Lawyer Amy Francis argued the way Jessie Binning’s trustees transferred the house to

The Land Conservancy — through an intermediary society only set up to satisfy the legal terms of the will — was improper.

The UBC appeal is based on the grounds Fitzpatrick made errors in law in interpreting Jessie’s intentions, ignoring her desire to benefit the fellowship fund, according to court documents.

The Land Conservancy, meanwhile, is not planning to appeal the court decision.

“No, we have another plan in mind that’s not an appeal,” conservancy manager John Shields said when asked about a potential appeal.

But Shields could “not yet” say what that other plan is.

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Environment assessment begins

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that have only recently returned,” she said. “Howe Sound is just so beautiful and I want it to stay unindustrialized.”

Woodfibre Natural Gas is working with environmental consultants to find out how much noise currently exists, according to Byng Giraud, Woodfibre’s vice-president of corporate affairs.

Woodfibre would likely do some of their work on a barge and some on land, he said.

The company is still months away from beginning the environmental assessment process, said Giraud.

But many questions brought up at the Gleneagles meeting — including queries about how the gas would be compressed — were not satisfactorily answered, according to Parkinson.

“A lot of them they hedged on quite a bit,” she said. “To be fair to them this is an extremely preliminary meeting.”

The company has not yet decided which liquefaction method it will use, said Giraud.

“Our preference is to go electric, we think the community’s preference is to go electric, but we also have to do a system impact study with B.C. Hydro to find out actually if that’s possible,” he said.

The gas company entered into a deal with Western Forest Products last year to buy the site of the former Woodfibre pulp mill, an 89-hectare water-access site on Howe Sound about seven kilometres from downtown

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“It was 100 years of debris offshore, woodchips and logs that basically denuded the foreshore of fish life,” he said.

Many impacts to the “highly disturbed” industrial site took place over the last century, he said.

“Maybe we can do things that would have less impact than the pulp mill,” he said. “This type of operation doesn’t really impact the foreshore.”

Given its deepwater port and existing gas pipeline, the site is ideal for an LNG plant, according to Giraud.

The company is working with Fortis to twin a 52-kilometre pipeline, which would loop from the top of the Coquitlam watershed to the Squamish site.

“After this current expansion, that’s the limit of the line. So we’ve applied to export all the gas Fortis is able to provide to us. There’s no more available,” Giraud said.

The sheer volume of proposals earmarked for Howe Sound is

disquieting, according to author and diver Bernard Hanby.

“We have something

precious there and we’re going to destroy it,” he said.

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Construction of the LNG plant would require 600 workers. Once operational, the plant would have a staff of 100 full-time workers.

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Four years on, most folks would be hard-pressed to recall the scores of the blowout hockey games, or exactly who placed where on the podium.

It’s the stories behind the competition or off the podium that make the Olympics memorable.

Who won gold in the women’s figure skating in Vancouver in 2010? Without doing a web search, we couldn’t tell you but everyone remembers the story of Joannie Rochette, the Canadian bronze medalist who skated to the podium just days after the death of her mother.

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—Unknown economist With the harbour looking serene on a weekday afternoon, Lonsdale Quay is a fine place to do a little work toward rethinking our local economy and saving our precious planet.

I’m meeting economic development consultant Liz McDowell here. She spoke recently at the Cool North Shore forum I mentioned last column.The event was surprisingly successful, unlike many civic meetings where the bores take over, tempers flare, or the agenda is stacked to produce the bland result that government organizers planned all along.

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development, no one dominated the floor, and a range of viewpoints emerged from all corners of the political spectrum — without rancour.

Residents from Lion’s Bay to Deep Cove talked oil pipeline issues and how the Kinder Morgan proposal could affect us on the North Shore.

People had pitched in

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with possible options to the deal now before the National Energy Board. I’d left shaking hands with a community representative with whom I’ve jousted often in the past. Next day, a colleague asked how things had gone.

“Excellent,” I reported.

“No politicians in the room, so no one primped for attention.You heard intelligent people address concerns that aren’t getting much play in the media.”

My attention was notably sparked when McDowell spoke. She’s young, bright, committed to sharing information. I’d checked her bio: finance graduate from McGill, sustainability and climate change research in Geneva with the U.N. Institute for Training and Research, former chair of the Green Jobs Alliance focusing on youth unemployment

in East London. Raised in the Lower Mainland, after six years working abroad she’s returned to B.C. and works with Conversations for Responsible Economic Development (CRED), a non-partisan collection of business owners, academics, landowners and everyday residents of British Columbia who support responsible economic development.

McDowell had responded to a question regarding energy issues, noting that Metro Vancouver now has more people working in information technology than in all B.C.’s natural resources extraction fields combined. “What’s happened to all the forestry, mining, fisheries and natural gas sector jobs?” I thought.

We’ve met for coffee.

“B.C. has a huge technology push on,” she says. “We still

have the legacy of being a resource-based province, but it’s not the same base for our economy that it once was. All through the Lower Mainland hightech is moving ahead.”

One example is HootSuite Enterprise, the world’s leading social media management system — they work with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Still new and they’ve already got about 300-400 hires and are looking at exponential growth, said McDowell.

Amazon has got offices in the big new Telus Garden project that’s going in downtown; there’s up to 1,000 high-tech jobs coming there. Sony’s Visual Effects department is looking at setting up Sony Picture Image Works there too. “And next month TED Talks is See Say page 7

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“Not this fresh.”

Snowboarder Maëlle Ricker is asked if she has ever competed with a broken bone.TheWest Van athlete will board in the Olympics three weeks after breaking her arm (from a Feb. 9 Sunday Focus story).

“What’s going on now in Russia is abusive to human beings, no matter what walk of life they’re coming from.”

WestVan Coun. Bill Soprovich calls on the International Olympic Committee to include non-discrimination based on sexual orientation in its charter (from a Feb. 9 news story).

“Barely detectable, but detectable.”

Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientist Robin Brown reports radiation from Fukushima in B.C. coastal waters (from a Feb. 14 news story).

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Say ‘no’ when projects don’t make sense From page 6

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She knows her field. So what is CredBC? “We’re a loose group of business associates from a diverse range of sectors.

We’re active because B.C. is a livable place to be, and we’re concerned, or frustrated with the way economic development is being discussed right now.

All you hear about is energy but the real estate sector and its related fields like construction, for example, is the single biggest contributor to provincial GDP with more than 220,000 people working across the province.

And small business is still the largest single employer of all, but what do we hear of that unless there’s an election looming?”

I observe that the debate over environmental and pipeline issues is getting increasingly pugilistic on both sides.

“There are very complex views,” McDowell says.

“The real question is how we move toward a calmer, more considered situation.”

She says she’s noticed a shift in the quality of civic dialogue in B.C.’s civic life. “There’s less spirited

What are our trade deals, our services really worth?

B.C.’s energy strategy should be one piece of the pie: for CredBC this is the particular issue we’re looking at now because it has a 40-year impact. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but aren’t we impacting Metro Vancouver’s brand as the world’s greenest city?

“When former prime minister Joe Clark spoke at Capilano University recently, he observed that some of the energy debate failures are those of the big energy companies, how they sell themselves as part of their social licence.

“Well, Kinder Morgan says its pipeline expansion will be a tax bonanza, but let’s unpack that a little.

Burnaby-North’s MP Kennedy Stewart has done extensive polling and found constituents there are overwhelmingly opposed.

They live near the terminal and don’t mind present production levels because it supplies about 90 per cent of our local domestic gasoline needs. Beyond that, they ask ‘What’s in it for us?’

“CredBC wants to better understand the risks of an oil spill as part of dialogue about the economic future

discussion than before.

If we’re serious about genuinely responsible economic development, let’s take the emotion out of it. Let’s look at the pros and cons. Let’s look at all our economic sectors and at what’s contributing to quality of life in B.C. Which components will foster our spirit of economic innovation, as well as jobs and wealth?”

Meantime, here on the North Shore, concerned North Shore residents like the new NOPE coalition — No Oil Pipeline Expansion — on the North Shore are alarmed about how Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline expansion routing Alberta bitumen through the inner harbour might affect daily life. Are there strategies for better development?

“First, provincially we’re not talking about an economic strategy: pipeline expansion is an export strategy, it’s not for our own domestic energy consumption. Shouldn’t we be focusing on the whole strategy, asking what our real wealth is?

What’s the opportunity cost of exporting Alberta dilbit when we’re giving up opportunities to refine here?

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Queen Mary gymnasium ‘heart of community’ The school runs off power from the Lonsdale Energy Corp., there are low-flush toilets and the roof is made from recycled rubber tires.

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plans for the original 1914 school included building a large gym “but they ran out of money and they didn’t,” said Reid.

A later addition was decidedly utilitarian.

This time, the gym has been built to blend in with the heritage exterior and rooflines of the school.

Most people are “awestruck when they walk in,” said Reid. “We wanted it to be the heart of the community.”

Another part of that equation was proper space for daycare, preschool and after-school programs run by the non-profit Queen Mary Community Association. Though the programs existed at Queen Mary before the rebuild, having a dedicated space away has made a world of

06`<(6S<L :<(.*"[ &$.L[ M.N6SLW& <6.(L $U[ &8U..N5& Y<8<6[= BIC'C MIKE WAKEFIELD difference. In one of the rooms, there’s a ping-pong table for older kids, while a Lego table and Waldo book greet younger children.

Karen Feaver, who runs the child care programs with her husband Doug, says there’s no comparison between this bright airy space and their previous facilities tucked into a lowceilinged corner of the old school. “Here, the light is amazing.”

The two-and-a-half year renovation hasn’t been without pain.

The school lost significant enrolment during the lengthy construction when students were bused to school at the district’s Cloverley site, 3.5 kilometres away. “The hit was to our (kindergarten) enrolment,” said Reid. “It’s a tough sell to tell parents when they’re registering their kids you’ve got to put your four-year-old on a bus.”

Enrolment is currently 265, while the school’s capacity is 410 — reflected in three spare classrooms See IB page 9

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IB fosters teamwork at ‘inner city’ school From page 8

that are currently empty.

As part of an attempt to bring students in, Queen Mary was recently chosen as an International Baccalaureate school — which emphasizes problem solving and global citizenship.

Some people initially questioned that choice for an “inner city” school with complex demographics.

Roughly 40 per cent of the school’s population is learning English as a

second or third language.

Persian, Filipino and First Nations students all make up large cultural groups within the school. The Queen Mary catchment area also has the lowest per capita income of any North Vancouver school.

Reid doesn’t see any of that as an impediment to an IB program.

There is a wide range of supports in the school, including autism and First Nations support workers in addition to 13 education assistants. Half

the students take part in the school’s hot lunch program.

IB is “not an elite program. It’s a program designed to foster teamwork and collaboration and investigation,” said Reid.

Like most renovation projects, work on Queen Mary — originally scheduled for two years — ran into complications.

About a year ago, some of the core samples from the old concrete pillars came back with dubious

results. “They realized after the fact they needed to do more work,” said Reid.

Surprisingly, much of the structure of Queen Mary was in better shape than, for instance, Ridgeway had been during a similar renovation project.

“Most of what they found was pretty strong,” said Reid. “That’s why we kept most of our floor joists. They were still totally sound, 100

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Surprises unearthed during renovation From page 9

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Taking apart the old school was a bit of an archeological excavation.

It wasn’t unusual to find five or six layers of flooring — one placed on top of another.

A long-rumoured swimming pool under the floor turned out to be an urban legend. That floor, rather, had once been a military drill hall.

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would find surprises,” said Reid.

“Underneath panelling there’d be a layer of drywall and underneath that would be a great big archway window they had boarded over from the ’20s or ’30s.”

Boarded over radiators and fireplaces were uncovered.

When they were packing up the school to go to Cloverley, Reid said staff came across some old report cards from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s.

Some spoke poignantly of social issues of the day.

During the Depression, for instance, a teacher wrote of one Grade 9 boy, “Doubtful about going to Grade 10. Is doing fairly well but a large family that can’t afford it. Maybe get a job in camp.”

Others wouldn’t pass muster in today’s political climate. One girl was described by her teacher as “boy crazy” while another boy was written up as “an incipient anarchist.”

Alyssa Tanada, in Grade 7 at Queen Mary, and Danesh Irani, in Grade 6, have both been at the school since they were primary students.

It feels very different being back here after the rebuild, they said. And they gym, they agreed, is “amazing.”

Miller, who was among the heritage advocates who

C(SWSL<N &$[[N (..Y $("&&[& `[([ [^,.&[6 6"(SLW $U[ ([L.a<$S.L= BIC'C )%BBFH01 lobbied for the old school to be saved, along with Ridgeway, said his group is thrilled that the form of the building has been preserved.

Schools have emotional weight in a community, he said.

Those who built Queen Mary and Ridgeway understood that.

“They’re palaces,” he said. “It’s very indicative of the importance that was placed on education.”

••• Queen Mary will open its doors to the public at an open house on Feb. 25.

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Angela Santoro, a busy North Vancouver mother of two, knows firsthand the challenges of finding the time and means to check all the boxes when it comes to living a healthy life.

Knowing she’s not alone, Santoro has teamed up with two other moms to present the inaugural ModernFamilyExpo, Sunday, Feb. 23 at North Vancouver’s Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier. The event, suitable for all ages, is intended to offer solutions to families to help them become more active, healthy and eco-friendly.

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Clearly Prepared among exhibitors From page 13 connecting with hundreds of businesses in my local community, which I do already through Modern Mama, but this has taken it to a whole new level. I’m connecting with so many companies that give back to the community. They provide such important resources for families.

It just feels good to be promoting them.”

Among the local businesses featured at next weekend’s ModernFamilyExpo is Clearly Prepared, a North Shore-based company specializing in emergency preparedness and first aid kits for the home and vehicle.

Clearly Prepared was founded by North Vancouver residents Jennifer Jacquart and Carissa Boudreau in 2012.

“We didn’t just want people to have the supplies to be prepared, we wanted . . . everyone in the household to have a clear vision, a clear idea, a clear plan of what to do and how to respond in an emergency,” says Jacquart.

Their idea for the company came after Boudreau had expressed an interest in putting together an emergency preparedness kit for her young family.

She shared her plan with longtime friend Jacquart, who previously worked for the Red Cross teaching first aid and CPR, and she thought it was a great idea and decided to make one for her own family.

Boudreau’s parents heard what they were up to and asked whether they’d make one for them, as they were unsure how to go

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“We just also found that when we tried to build our own kits, it was very expensive and very time consuming and so that also helped form the company,” adds Boudreau.

The duo conducted a survey to gauge whether community members were prepared for an emergency and if not, whether they would consider getting prepared if a product was readily available to help them do so. The results gave them the green light they needed to move

forward confidently with the company.

“It seemed like we were really on to something at that point, and a bit of a niche,” says Jacquart.

The entrepreneurs spent months conducting research, took seminars at the North Shore Emergency Management Office, as well as underwent other training courses before launching their business.

Clearly Prepared is intended to make it easy for families and is a one-stop shop offering a variety of emergency kit options (each of which comes with a workbook to guide families in creating emergency plans) via the company website, getclearlyprepared.com.

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“Families — and families on the North Shore in particular — that’s our biggest target market. These are the people that we really want to help get prepared,” says Jacquart.

“We find that people, everyday, tell us how much they’ve had it on their list of things to do and it’s been there for a while but it’s not a top priority. The more people we touch and the more people that buy our kits and are getting prepared, I think we just get really excited that we’re helping somebody else do something for themselves and their family,” adds Boudreau.

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NorthVancouver movement coach and founder of RUN4ACAUSE, Sarah Jamieson, is once again calling on Lower Mainland residents to join her in celebrating InternationalWomen’s Day, this year marking its 103rd anniversary.

In partnership with CARE Canada (an international humanitarian organization fighting global poverty in more than 84 countries), Jamieson is inviting community members to participate in

the 2014 Walk in Her Shoes campaign, a 103-kilometre relay March 9, according to a press release.The relay is divided into eight legs, ranging from 10 to 12 km with each supporting a specific CARE project.

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Seek support from available community resources to reduce anxiety about your future My view of surveys is that they are often more entertaining than informative.

There are some exceptions. When people are asked what scares them the most, a fear of public speaking tops the list. Indeed for decades now across all age groups in North America the fear of public speaking is cited consistently as our number 1 fear.

Coming in a distant second is the fear of death.

That means, to borrow a line from comedian Jerry Seinfeld, that at a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than

standing beside it giving the eulogy.

What keeps seniors on the North Shore awake at night? In 2011, as part of an Age Friendly survey, the Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society (lionsviewseniorsplanning. com) asked 1,200 North Shore seniors aged 55 and up what worries them the most.

Health issues topped the list. By far the biggest fear of those surveyed was losing their independence.

Illness or incapacitation, declining health, falling and losing one’s driver’s licence, in that order, rounded out the top five

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At the bottom of the worry list was growing old alone, finding transportation to get around, not being busy enough and death.

When the survey results were released, many expressed surprise

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that death ranked at the bottom of the worry index across all age groups. In the comment section of the survey one senior wrote that she thought about death but she didn’t worry about it. That view seemed to be reflective of the group polled.

What we are afraid of changes over the years. Those aged 55 to 74 were most worried about moving into more suitable housing, financial concerns, transportation and having someone to look after them in their later years.

Seniors aged 75 and over were most concerned about falling, losing their driver’s licence and having difficulty getting around.

Now, I’m not sharing these results with you to make you more anxious.

My hope is that this information will spur you to take some action. We all have fears and the best way to deal with them is to be proactive. And for most of us the sooner we deal with our fears the better.

If you have a fear of falling, for example, then make some modifications in your home or your routine to reduce your risk of having a fall.

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What worries your seniors columnist? Well, from my perch I have a number of worries, as you might imagine. If I had to narrow it down to just one thing it would be that our public policy neglects the safety of our seniors, but that’s a topic for another column.

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Look beyond real estate investment The ever-popular topic of real estate in Vancouver is showing no sign of letting up, as it continues to dominate headlines.

For example, the longtime controversial program that gave immigrant investors a fast-track to citizenship has now been abolished as of the 2014 federal budget. Most applications were headed for B.C., and as a result I expect Vancouver’s highend housing and condo markets to see downward pressure on prices. This is yet another reason to think twice before buying real estate for investment purposes.

Contrary to what investment industry professionals recommend, Statistics Canada shows that half of our country’s personal wealth is now sunk in property. Many Canadians continue to feel that the real estate market is safer and will give a better return over the long run compared to the stock

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Canada’s New AntiSpam Legislation: Implications for your Business takes place Feb. 20, 6-7:30 p.m. at 1133 Lonsdale Ave. (fourth floor), North Vancouver.

Speaker Paula Skaper, president of Kinetix Media Communications, will discuss Canada’s new antispam legislation, which comes into effect July 1, and what businesses can do to bring marketing and sales communications into compliance. Email events@ blueshorefinancial.com or call 604-982-8000 to register.

Small business awards Several North Shore businesses have been named top five finalists for the 11th annual Small Business BC Awards.

AZ World Translation & Interpretation (North Vancouver) is a finalist in the Best Company category.

Xanatos Marine Ltd. (North Vancouver) is up

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market; however, there are a number of reasons why investors should reconsider this notion.

There have been times in the past, particularly in Vancouver, where one could see annual double digit returns from property.

Unfortunately this appears to be changing and real estate investors need to be prepared for lower returns over the next decade. For those in disbelief, consider a report from TD Bank projecting an annual rate of return to be roughly two per cent for real estate

for the Best International Trade Business award.

And CCN Bikes (North Vancouver) and i-worx (North Vancouver) are both in the running for Best Workplace.Winners will be announced Feb. 27 at an awards ceremony at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver.

Best financial reporting The District of West Vancouver has won the Canadian Award for Financial Reporting for its 2012 annual report.

The award is presented by the Government Finance Officers Association, an independent organization that promotes best practices in financial reporting, including clarity and full disclosure.

This is the eighth consecutive year that the District of West Vancouver has received this award.

The award program was established to encourage municipal governments in Canada to publish highquality financial reports and to provide peer recognition and technical guidance for officials preparing these reports.

Compiled by Christine Lyon To submit information on North Shore business groups or events to our weekly Briefcase section, email clyon@nsnews.com.

payments. Once you’ve factored in the headaches of being a landlord, it can make the experience all the more undesirable.

When you look at your ability to “get defensive,” a stock portfolio is actually safer. For example, when the U.S. housing market crashed, many people were stuck with real estate that they couldn’t unload.

Consider how long it can take to sell a home and the actual cost in selling it? With an investment portfolio of stocks and bonds, you can quickly sell at any time, raising cash in a single day if necessary.

Many investors worry about possible volatility and

over the next decade when taking inflation into account. In my opinion, better returns can be achieved by investing in stocks over the same period.

When it comes to rental properties, many believe you can generate a great deal of extra income from this type of investment.

Unfortunately many rentals are barely cash flow positive, as the expenses and mortgage payments are higher than the income generated. The trouble is, the amount you get paid from your tenants isn’t necessarily your return, it’s what you are making after expenses and mortgage

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The bull market for real estate may be losing

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Lori Pinkowski is a portfolio manager and senior vicepresident, Private Client Group, at Raymond James Ltd., a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.This is for informational purposes only and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Raymond James. Lori can answer any questions at 604-915-LORI or lori. pinkowski@raymondjames. ca.You can also listen to her every Friday on CKNW at 5:35 p.m.

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Sonoma shares some of its best Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables Last week’s Sonoma in the City tasting yielded no shortage of evidence as to why Sonoma County continues to be well received up here on our somewhat wetter and undeniably less foggy patch of Pacific coastline.

Maybe in part it’s that natural affinity with B.C. that helps us keep a place in our hearts for

our neighbour’s wines.

But beyond that there’s no question that Sonoma appeals in terms of both style and value, as well as (which also makes sense) being well suited to our own West Coast style of cuisine.

It’s been interesting to watch Sonoma County’s evolution over the years.

Especially in regards to Chardonnay, whose fruit now receives a much better chance to shine under more sophisticated and dutifully restrained oak programs, while Pinot Noir continues to flourish in its own right, with plenty to tempt now not only from Carneros, where it gained its foothold, but also from elsewhere.

The fog that rolls in like clockwork is key to Sonoma County’s cooler climate pedigree, particularly in Sonoma Coast. While the

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Bring your family and friends to The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel in North Vancouver for Community Charity Night on Monday, February 24.

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fog burns off more quickly in the warmer, inland areas such as Russian River, the coast can be reliably socked in until well into the day.

Standouts from an array of Sonoma County Pinot Noirs include: Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2012 Aromas of bright, ripe berries and cocoa hints, followed by blue and black fruit with cassis notes in perfect fruit/acid balance (91 points).

Siduri Keefer Ranch Russian River Pinot Noir 2012 Up-front red berries, followed by complex blueberry and cassis notes with superb, juicy acidity and great length, with definite savoury edge (92 points).

Some value Sonoma drops worth tracking down: Kunde Sonoma Valley Chardonnay 2012 Creamy notes on top followed by tropical and melon notes with good mouthfeel (Everything Wine, $24.99, 89 points).

Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc 2012 Floral and stonefruit up front with tropical kiwi and citrus lime notes on a vibrant, juicy palate, with a touch of oak to add texture and interest. Never too late for Valentine’s Day, for years this was one of my go-to crab wines. It’s wicked with Dungeness and drawn lemon butter (BCLS $24.99, 90 points).

Pedroncelli Dry Creek Sonoma County 2011 Zinfandel Luscious forward cherry and dark fruits with some nice peppery notes, mouthfilling and a good close.

Excellent value, PWS $20ish, 89 points.

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notes with balanced acidity and understated oak.Think sautéed scallops or grilled halibut (BCLS $29.99, 91 points).

Foppiano Lot 96 Petite Sirah 2011 Forward blackberry, dark chocolate, mocha

and spice notes with easy tannins and juicy acidity ($20-ish, 89 points).

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Book boasts about benefits of juicing

SuperJuicing by Tonia Reinhard (Firefly Books) 240 pages, $24.95 TERRY PETERS tpeters@nsnews.com

Adding nutrient densefoods to your diet is a big step forward in improving your general health.

Offering a collection of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals with a minimal amount of calories, juicing stands apart from most methods of food

preparation.Tonia Reinhard draws on her many years of experience as a clinical dietitian and nutritionist to explain the many benefits of juicing in her book SuperJuicing.

She discusses the way the body processes food, the advantages of juicing, the different types of juicers available, analysis of the recipes, and much more.

One of the advantages of juicing is that while many of us may want to eat better, if it doesn’t taste good chances are we won’t

bother.With juicing there are many options to put foods together into delicious tasting combinations.

Reinhard provides 100 recipes, 82 sweet and 18 savoury, that will tempt any palate.

There are plenty of familiar fruits and vegetables, such as carrots, apples and beets, as well as some that may surprise you like romaine lettuce, kale, zucchini and papaya.

The easy-to-follow recipes all include a detailed nutritional analysis, as well

as daily recommended intakes of vitamins and minerals included in each serving.

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Perast spent moments. much of its history in the shadow of larger neighbours

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PERAST, Montenegro — Less than an hour southeast from the pretty limestone palaces of Dubrovnik, Croatia’s top tourist attraction, the road along the Adriatic coastline crosses the border with Montenegro and turns inland to follow the improbably canal-like mouth of the entrance to the Bay of Kotor.

Car ferries shuttle back and forth between two promontories, but by initially turning northwest, almost back on its tracks, the road eventually loops round the rim of a vast natural harbour enclosed by the Dinaric Alps, its waters placid even by Mediterranean standards, to a point opposite its mouth.

Here the route climbs to the little town of Perast — a jumble of limestone walls and terracotta roofs tumbling down to the waterside. It’s Dubrovnik in miniature, but without the crowds.

Perast spent much of its history in the shadow of a larger, heavily fortified neighbour Kotor, but thrived in the 17th century (during more than 300 years of Venetian control), building palaces and churches with obvious Venetian architectural influences, some now roofless and abandoned.Today Perast is all but forgotten, its population only about 120.

Its Bujovic palace is now a fine museum charting the history of Perast’s noble families.The town’s reputation for excellent seamanship was such that even the Russian imperial court sent naval officers for training at its academy, and still today many of its men are merchant sailors.

Dignified portraits look down on cabinets of maps and weaponry, sea chests and figureheads.

The palace’s broad balcony, like the range of waterside restaurants below, looks out on two tiny islands

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that dominate the view and draw the eye whether from the top of one of several bell towers or from the steep, stepped alleys that lace the hillside.

On the left is the Island of St. George, almost completely occupied by its abbey.What little land remains is shrouded in pines and for centuries has been the chief burial place of Perast’s worthies.

On the right is the largely man-made Our Lady of the Rock. Originally merely a crag, it became an object of veneration following the recovery from illness of a citizen who had discovered an icon of the Virgin Mary there. From 1452 the people of Perast began to scuttle ships and deposit stones until there was a platform large enough for a church.The island was also intended as a rival to St. George, owned by Kotor, and construction accelerated as a penance for

the 1535 murder of a Kotorappointed abbot.

The present building is 17th century, small but magnificent, topped with a striking blue dome. Local boatmen ferry visitors out for only a few euros to view its ornately carved and painted interior, as well as an incongruous display of artifacts left in thanks for dangers avoided and sicknesses survived, including kitchenware, clocks, keys, a sewing machine and an ancient gramophone.

Every July 22 a procession of gaily decorated boats re-enacts the creation of the island by depositing fresh stones to ensure its continued security and the continued good fortune of Perast’s sailors.

If you go: For more information on Perast visit perast.com, a non-profit site provided by neighbouring Kotor.

For information on travel in Montenegro visit the National Tourism Organisation of Montenegro website at montenegro.travel.

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Toonie

7 yr old neutered male Shih Tzu X. Enjoys walks and giving kisses but is happiest when he is curled up on a lap.

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Sari

11 month old S/F Brown Tabby. Confident around dogs. A bit of a bully around cats.

Loves to play and snuggle with kids.

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Rabbits

Singles, pairs & small groups. February is Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month.

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Buddy

4 yr. old N. M. German Shorthair Pointer who loves everybody and has a mellow personality. He has a seizure disorder which is controlled by medication.

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Skye

She won’t miss a chance to hop on your lap, cuddle and get a tummy rub. Shy at first, she slowly becomes more confident. No dogs or other cats.

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Scruffy & Agnes

10-12 yrs old, spayed females. They both have kidney disease and we would like to have them spend their final years in a loving home.

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Gerdie

Would love a nice quiet home with rat knowledge.

She is shy and will need time to adjust to her new home. Very sweet and curious girl.

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Molly

Sweet, active, approx. 2 yr. old S. F. Weimaraner who was found starving. She lives with other dogs but is nervous of cats, little kids and certain men.

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Judd

Shy, attention loving cat. He’s a nice lap cat that loves to be petted. Likely okay with children but may be frightened by a dog or another cat.

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Rupert

Loves a lot of attention and loves to play. He is a bit nervous around new people but soon makes himself right at home. No dogs, kids or other cats.

They bewilder us, but we love them anyway

Dogs are amusing creatures aren’t they?

Just when you think you have them figured out they do something that makes you ask yourself, “really?”

I find it interesting that they have the most accurate mouth-to-eye co-ordination when I toss them a piece of peanut butter cookie the size of a Tic Tac from 10 feet away.

Yet when I toss them a piece of celery from three feet away it bounces off the top of their head, or off their nose, or they simply watch it fall to the floor in front of their feet.

It’s interesting how they can’t seem to hear me hollering at the top of my lungs to “Come here!” when they are chasing after something — like a coyote!

Yet when they are in a dead sleep in the bedroom down the hall, they can hear a dollop of softened butter hit the kitchen floor. Can you say capable of moving at the speed of light when motivated?

I’m curious why they hate going out to “do their business” in the pouring rain and will stand at the threshold of the door looking outside and then at me with an expression that says “I’m not going out in that, I will hold it all day long if I have to!”

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Canine Connection Yet they will eagerly go for a walk in said rainstorm while enthusiastically splashing through every single puddle they come across. Even more thought-provoking is how they request to go out to do their business, in a downpour, during the middle of the night, every two hours! (Sleepdeprived owners are less demanding.)

Why is it that when they are soaking wet from either a swim or playing in the rain, they must stand as close as they can to you while they shake?

When you attempt to run away from them to prevent getting covered in wet dog spray, they frantically run after you as if you are trying to leave them behind. But try running away from them while they are at the dog park in the hopes that they will come

to you and they just stand there watching you leave.

“Bye Mom . . . it’s been swell!”

It’s also odd how they can fit underneath the bed at the sight of the nail clippers, yet can’t seem to reach a ball that has rolled under the same bed.

Picture a dog whining, laying sideways with its head and two front legs extended under the bed while barking . . . “Mom, I can’t reach it!”

“Whatever!”

How about when they stare longingly at their water bowl refusing to drink out of it because there is something in the water, like a piece of toy, food or other unknown substance, yet they will lap up dirty puddle water as if they had just come back from a week in the desert.

And when you do refill the water dish with clean water they promptly walk into the bathroom and drink out of the toilet.

They can sleep through me vacuuming the entire house, including the dog bed they are lying on, yet are irritated by a squirrel running along the power line extending from the house to the hydro pole. (“Damn squirrel woke me up for the last time!”)

I love how my dog Piper eats an apple, like a

human, holding the entire apple between his front paws and taking bites out with his front teeth. He eats everything but the core — it’s hilarious! Yet when I feed him his raw food chicken carcasses he won’t eat them unless they are chopped up into bite-sized pieces.

I read an article recently about a dog’s pooping patterns. It claimed that dogs will aim either their front or back end towards the magnetic north 75 per cent of the time when going number two. I find it peculiar that there was actually money spent on researching such a subject, but on observing my own dogs, oddly enough, it is true!

It’s funny how I will hear them playing and roughhousing in the living room, yet when I walk into the room to see what they are up to, they are all curled up in little balls as if they had been sleeping all afternoon. Hooligans!

Amusing creatures dogs are, but they do keep us smiling!

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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The BC SPCA is participating in the second annual National Cupcake Day on Feb. 24 and is inviting members of the public to “bake a difference.”

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“We were thrilled with the response in B.C. last year and can’t wait to get even more bakers and animal lovers involved in National Cupcake Day this year,” said Kim Monteith, manager, animal welfare, BC SPCA, in a press release.

Celebrity participants include chef Anna Olson of Food Network Canada’s Bake with Anna Olson and Kristina Matisic, co-host of Anna and Kristina’s Grocery Bag. — Christine Lyon

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19, 7 p.m. at Alcuin College, 1044 St. Georges Ave., North Van. By donation.

604-360-8656 alcuin.ca

CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN — WEST VANCOUVER BRANCH Welcoming guests the third Monday of each month, 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, 885 22nd St., West Vancouver. Feb. 17 the speaker will be Graham Barron, UBC urban planner, talking about “Design Driven Laneway Housing.” cfuw.westvan@gmail.com

LAND, LEARNING AND LIVABILITY The North Vancouver Board of Education is seeking public input as it undertakes a land management process that will identify options

SOUP TENT INITIATIVE Members of the Sacred Circle of the Great Mystery Shamanic Society will be distributing hot soup and coffee for those in need Monday, Feb. 17 from noon to 2 p.m. at Waterfront Park (north side), North Vancouver.

CAPILANO UNIVERSE LECTURE SERIES A presentation that follows the journeys of Catherine A. Evans to Jinhua, China, to instruct students in hospitality and tourism studies Tuesday, Feb. 18, 78:45 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr.

for repurposing the Lucas Centre and Cloverley school sites Feb. 19, 5-8 p.m. at Lucas Centre, 2132 Hamilton Ave. and Feb. 20, 5-8 p.m. at Cloverley school, 440 Hendry Ave. 604-903-3444 blog44. ca/landmanagement/ LYNN VALLEY TOWN CENTRE PROPERTY

INFO MEETING Bosa Development Corp. will host an information meeting to present the draft development proposal for their Lynn Valley Town Centre property Wednesday, Feb. 19, 7-9 p.m. at the former Zellers store at Lynn Valley Shopping Centre, 1175 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. dnv.org

THE ULTIMATE TRAVELLER — REMOTE ISLAND WORLDS A series of travel talks accompanied by photographs with world traveller Peter Langer Wednesdays, 7 p.m. at the Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver.

Schedule: Impressions

of Madagascar, Feb. 19 and Impressions of Sri Lanka, Feb. 26. Fee: $15 per session. 604-925-7270 ferrybuildinggallery.com Compiled by Debbie Caldwell Email information for your non-profit, by donation or nominal fee event to listings@nsnews.com.

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SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESSES Ben Abel, Vancouver Gadgets blogger will discuss tips and tricks on how to use social media to take the next step in your business Tuesday, Feb. 18, 7:30-8:30 p.m. at Capilano library, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver.

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NorthVan draws Delta again in PJHL playoffs ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

The matchup is the same but the North Van Wolf Pack hope the results will be different as they take on the Delta Ice Hawks in a first round Pacific Junior Hockey League playoffs series for the second year in a row.

Last season the secondseeded Hawks completed

a four-game sweep of the third-place Pack, denying them their first ever playoff win in franchise history.

A lot has changed in a year, however, as North Van scored second place in the league’s Tom Shaw Conference this season, earning home ice advantage and potentially a mental edge as they try to get their revenge starting Tuesday at the Ladner Leisure Centre.

“It’s nice that we’re now the two seed and, maybe some would say, the favourite in the series but they’ve got a good team and they work hard, so we’ve got to make sure that we take care of the little details against them and play our game,” said North Van head coach and general manager Matt Samson, adding that he likes how his team stacks up against Delta this season as compared to last.

“I like the matchup better, I like our skill level better now. In terms of scorers, I think we’re a little bit better. I think our

defence as a whole is a little bit ahead of them as well.”

Several of North Van’s top players from last year are back again, one year older and wiser and looking for redemption.The goaltending duo of Braden Krogfoss and Anders Ten Vaanholt is still intact, with both goalies coming off strong seasons again.

Both ranked top five in the league in wins, goals against average and save percentage.

The Pack’s defence saw a lot of turnover but they’ve come together well, led by Dyllan Quon who is first in the league in scoring for a

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defenceman with 42 points in 40 games. Up front the team is lead once again by the one-two punch of Spencer Quon and Marcus Houck. Spencer Quon — Dyllan’s twin brother — broke his own franchise record in points, notching 69 in 43 games heading into Saturday’s regular season finale to rank second in the league. Houck, meanwhile, racked up 25 goals and 49 points in 38 games, notching more than a point a game in a season that was shortened by injury.

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Firus finishes 28th in first Olympics ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

North Vancouver figure skater Liam Firus finished 28th in Thursday’s Olympic men’s short program at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, failing to advance to Friday’s free skate.

The 21-year-old, skating in his first Olympic competition, faced a tough task as the first skater to hit the ice in Sochi. Dressed

in a pink shirt with a white flower tucked in the pocket, Firus performed to “Fascination” by Fermo Dante Marchetti.

He fell on his opening jump, the difficult triple Axel, before balking on the second jump of a planned combination. Needing to make up for the missed jump, he then fell on an attempted combination.

His score of 55.04 left him more than five points back of the top-24 spot needed to qualify for Friday’s

free skate.

“Not the Olympic moment I was hoping for, (but I) had much fun and gave it my all!!” Firus wrote on his Twitter account following the competition.

“Thanks for all of the support!!”

Firus qualified for the Games after finishing third at the national championships in January, a result that came after an intense rehab effort from a groin injury that kept him off the ice for much of

2013. Sochi was only the third senior international competition of his career.

The individual men’s competition was only slightly kinder to his teammate, North Vancouver-born Kevin Reynolds who grew up in Coquitlam and trains in Burnaby. Reynolds struggled in his short program Thursday, falling on his opening quad jump and then hitting the ice again later in the program.

His 68.76 points put him

into 17th place.

The high flyer rebounded in Friday’s free skate, staying on his feet while landing several big jumps — Reynolds packs more quad jumps into his programs than any other skater.

His score of 153.47 was the 10th best of the day and moved him up to 15th place overall.

Reynolds, like Firus, had a tough season, struggling with a skate problem for much of the

year — he couldn’t find a pair that fit his narrow heels. He sorted it out in time to put together a wonderful free skate to help Canada earn silver in the Olympic team competition last weekend. He finished fifth at last year’s world championships.

Canadian Patrick Chan, the three-time defending world champion, finished second overall behind Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu to win his second silver of the Sochi Games.

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“Obviously Delta is going to know about these guys and they’re going to be concentrating on them,” said Samson. “I think you need some of those third and fourth line guys to pitch in, and I think we have the depth this year whereas I don’t think we quite had the depth up front last year.”

On the other side of the ice the Hawks no longer have Anthony Brito or Aaron Merrick, two players who came up huge in last year’s sweep.They do, however, have Mak Barden back, their leading scorer last season. Barden started this year in the BCHL but returned to the Ice Hawks in January, notching 13 points in the 12 games he played with the Hawks.

“He’s getting back in the swing of things.We’re going to have to focus on him,” said Samson. “(Last year) they had two very skilled lines.This year they’re spread out a little bit but they’ve got some good shooters. Obviously with Mak there he’s a guy that can take the game over. He’s a game-changer, he’s got great vision. He’s a 21-year-old so obviously I expect him to have a good series in his last year of junior hockey.”

The Ice Hawks had a bit of a tumultuous season.They dropped head coach Roger Ross in January following a stretch of seven losses in eight games, replacing him with Derek Chichak.They still, however, had a small edge in the season series against North Van, scoring three wins while the Wolf Pack picked up two wins and one overtime victory.

“They’re a hard working team and they’re a physical team and they’ve got two really talented goaltenders,” said Samson. “It’s going to be a tight series for sure.”

Handling the emotions of a playoff series will be crucial, said Samson, adding that his team now has the experience to do just that.

“There are going to be ups and downs — we’re going to get a call from the officials we don’t like, we’re going to get a bad bounce, we might be behind in some games. It’s (important) to keep that emotional focus and stay up, just really be balanced that way.”

As long as his team executes their systems on the ice and stays out of the penalty box, Samson believes they can finally get over the hump and win a playoff series. In fact, he’s aiming for more than that this year, but first thing’s first.

“It would be huge for us,” he said. “We’ve never had a playoff series win as a franchise. I’d be really excited to get that accomplished.We won’t be satisfied with that, but it would be the next step and hopefully (we’ll go) beyond that this year.”

The series comes back to North Vancouver’s Harry Jerome recreation centre for game 2 Friday night at 7:45 p.m. and game 3 Saturday night at 7 p.m. Samson said he’s hoping North Shore hockey fans will come out and see the action.

“We feed off the crowd so we’re hoping to get good support for the playoffs,” he said. “It’s not going to be a sweep either way this year, we’ve just got to be ready. I think the boys are ready to

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