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Thieves pull off drive-in heist Robbers drive through mall’s front doors to snatch jewelry BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Like a scene from The Blues Brothers, thieves in NorthVancouver drove through a mall to perform

a smash-and-grab at a jewelry store Thursday night.

Capilano Mall security called 9-1-1 just after 10:30 p.m. when someone in a red Jeep smashed through

the mall’s front doors, drove through the mall and punched through the security fence outside Fame Diamonds.

From there, thieves were able to break into a number of glass display cases. Police and store management were still doing an inventory Friday morning to determine how much

the thieves made off with, said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman.

The red jeep, which had been reported stolen, turned up ditched at Marine Drive and Fell Avenue, two blocks away. Officers brought in the RCMP canine unit, but the dogs could not pick up the suspects’ scent.

Police are reviewing mall security footage. All police could say Friday morning is that there were two suspects, wearing hoodies.

Regardless of how much the thieves got, it won’t be a good haul once the goods are sold, given the black market price offered for stolen jewelry, De Jong said.

“You’re going to get

almost pennies on the dollar for it,” De Jong said.

“Anytime you’re fencing stolen property, the biggest risk is getting caught with stolen property. Someone who’s fencing it off will accept any reasonable offer.”

De Jong said it’s not clear whether this was a cunning See Police page 9

Merchants worried over future ferry plans JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

While protests about B.C. Ferries service cuts have recently focused on smaller routes, merchants in West Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay village say they’re worried about changes that could hit major routes to Vancouver Island next.

Among the feared changes is the possibility of taking ferry traffic away from the Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay route and sending it through the Tsawwassen ferry terminal to Duke Point instead.

“We have a great level of fear here,” said Holly Kemp, manager of Troll’s restaurant in Horseshoe Bay and president of the Horseshoe Bay Business Association.

“About 70 per cent of my business is from ferry traffic,” said Kemp. “It would kill Horseshoe Bay as a village.There would be few of us left standing.”

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As you open the door at 141WestThird St. a familiar sound can be heard.

For 51 years the crack of balls slamming into pins has echoed off the walls below the small strip mall. Back in 1963 there were several locations to go bowling on the North Shore but today North Shore Bowl represents the last pin standing.

Going down the stairs is a bit like going back in time. It is exactly what

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you think a bowling alley should look like.The 16 lanes gleam and the whole setup feels decidedly retro.

There are the metal seats at the end of each lane forming a horseshoe around the scorekeeping desk.The rows of bowling shoes by the front desk, a few video games, some racks of snack food are all there but what is noticeably absent is a bar.

“I decided a long time ago that we would not serve liquor here,” says owner Richard Grubb. “It has always been a family place and it always will be.”

Grubb, 68, a three-time

Canadian champion, has a long history with bowling in Vancouver that goes all the way back to his teenage years.

“I remember going to Commodore Lanes on Granville to play pinball when I was 13 and my friends talked me into trying bowling. Pretty soon I was working there setting up pins,” he recalls.

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Grubb worked in a number of different bowling alleys.

“I worked for Morley Punchon who was the original owner. At one point he owned 10 bowling alleys,” says Grubb.

“He was a good boss and after 20 years of service he gave me a gold ring with diamonds.

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Traffic vital to village businesses Marshall said B.C. Ferries must cut $4.9 million from the major routes — which include the three routes to Vancouver Island — within the next two years.

“In reality we probably need two and a half to two and three-quarters (routes) to service the volume of traffic,” she said. “It’s something we’re going to have to rationalize.”

Sturdy said consideration of large capital costs have to be part of the discussion about the ferry system.

“The seismic upgrade of the upper deck (at Horseshoe Bay) and the quarter billion dollars associated with it is a significant expenditure.”

Sturdy said the question has to be asked, “Are there other ways to deal with it?”

One way to avoid paying for that upgrade would be to remove the upper terminal level in Horseshoe Bay, which would limit the number of cars that could be marshaled within the terminal, he said.

Sturdy said both B.C. Ferries and the province will have to look at the most cost-effective way to handle traffic to Vancouver Island over the next two years.

“Everything is on the table, yes,” he said. “What those outcomes are going to be I can’t say.”

West Vancouver Mayor Mike Smith said no one from the province or B.C. Ferries has raised the issue of taking some or all of the Nanaimo ferry traffic away from Horseshoe Bay with him.

“The Horseshoe Bay route is one of the profitable ones,” he said. “…I don’t know why they’d be making any changes to that route.”

“Obviously it would have an impact on Horseshoe

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While no official word has been floated yet on what might be considered for major ferry routes, Kemp said she was given a heads up by West Vancouver Sea-to-Sky MLA Jordan Sturdy that big changes for Horseshoe Bay ferry traffic could be on the agenda in future. Sturdy has a constituency office in Horseshoe Bay and is parliamentary secretary to Transportation Minister Todd Stone, who has presided over recent ferry cutbacks.

Kemp said Sturdy asked her at a community function, “What would I think if the Nanaimo ferry was no longer running out of Horseshoe Bay?” Kemp said Sturdy told her the idea has come up as a possible way for B.C. Ferries to avoid paying huge capital costs of $250 million for seismic upgrades at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in the future.

Now, “everybody is aware of this as a looming threat,” she said.

Deborah Marshall, spokeswoman for B.C. Ferries, said it’s premature to talk about any changes being contemplated for the Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay ferry route.

But she acknowledged projected capital costs for the Horseshoe Bay terminal may eventually be part of the debate.

Because of limited space, the Horseshoe Bay terminal is the only one that has a two-tiered marshalling area for traffic.

Last fall, the ferry corporation completed $2.2 million in seismic work on the upper deck at the

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But “it will eventually come to the end of its useful life.Then we do have to contemplate a large capital investment at Horseshoe Bay and we will be turning our attention to basically assessing the needs for the three major routes,” she said.

Currently, the Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay route carries about 1.2 million vehicles and 3.3 million passengers annually.

The Langdale and Bowen Island ferries — which serve nearby local communities

— carry another 1.5 million vehicles and 3.6 million passengers through the Horseshoe Bay terminal.

The Tsawwassen to Duke Point ferry carries much less traffic — about 600,000 vehicles and 1.4 million passengers a year.

About 13.5 per cent of the traffic on the Duke Point route is commercial truck traffic, compared to 2.4 per cent on the Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay route.

Unlike the other routes to Vancouver Island, the Tsawwassen to Duke Point route is currently a money loser for B.C. Ferries, costing between $24 million and $30 million a year.

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Bay if they were to take the Nanaimo ferry service out of Horseshoe Bay,” said Smith. “There’s an awful lot of ferry traffic that shops in Horseshoe Bay.” Kemp said the issue is one local merchants are keeping a close eye on since her discussion with Sturdy.

“He’s raising a red flag that says ‘beware,’ ” she said.

Businesses intend to fight back if the idea of taking traffic away from Horseshoe Bay starts holding water, she added. “I think he’s fishing to see what kind of response he’s going to get and he’s hooked on to a shark. It’s not going to be pretty.”

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f you’re driving down Lonsdale, keep watch that you don’t run over someone smoking a cigarette standing in the middle of the road.

If the City of North Vancouver follows through on its intended plan to ban smoking 7.5 metres away from all doors, opening windows and air intakes, as well as in public parks and trails, that’s about the only place left where someone will be able to legally light up outside their own home.

The city did make an exception for a handful of pub patios and veteran’s hangouts, contrary to the wishes of Vancouver Coastal Health.

Now, we won’t jab the city for making life inconvenient for smokers. In an ideal world, smoking would be left to Humphrey Bogart movies.

Second-hand smoke is noxious, and a known health hazard and there’s nothing more annoying than trying to enjoy a meal,

focus on work or tuck into bed and having someone’s tobacco stink wafting up from the street outside.

And the less kids see it happening, the less likely they’ll take it up. It isn’t an accident that smoking rates have fallen in the decades since smoking largely slunk out of public view.

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Money, ecology trouble political waters “Perhaps humanity will do the right thing, but only after it has exhausted all other possibilities.”

- Winston Churchill IT’S EARLY SPRING and the crocuses are up. Predictably in this mettlesome Year of the Horse, already political waters are troubled.

In a surprise move, both North Vancouver municipalities are talking warily about the implications of municipal “restructuring.”That’s amalgamation in clear speech.The financial implications are gigantic and they’re critically far apart here. Apart from two mayors and a dozen councillors, most of whom bluff and worry about losing their jobs, there are two self-interested bureaucracies that’ll fight tooth and nail to sabotage anything that

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As Chancellor Bismarck said, there are two things the average citizen should never know: how sausage is made, and how government really works. Still, as veteran North Vancouver City Coun. Don Bell says, “It never hurts to do an update.”

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In the half hour it takes to drive from Deep Cove through the two North Vancouvers,West Vancouver, with a wave to Bowen Island en route to Lions Bay, we’ve got five mayors and 28 councillors — serving fewer than 200,000 people. That’s as wacky as in the Balkans or China. We know how efficient they are.

Under the provincial Community Charter there can be no forced amalgamation of municipalities. It’s worth noting, however, that in 1995 folks in Abbotsford and Matsqui felt the urge to merge after a referendum.

That created the City of Abbotsford, now B.C.’s fifth largest. In a crazy year anything can happen.

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city and district, as well as West Vancouver have all applied for intervener status at hearings into the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

So there’s agreement on some things — but only with the public mood in clear opposition to the location of the expanded Trans Mountain terminus at Burrard Inlet’s Westridge marine site.

It’s good to see all three mayors and councils finally get religion on this brief.

Say it out loud: it’s the wrong location.The existing site dates back to 1956 when Elvis had his first hit — practically a previous incarnation. Since then, everything has changed utterly.

Meanwhile, Ottawa’s rejection for the second time of the Taseko Lake’s New Prosperity open-pit copper mine near Williams Lake has some of B.C.’s Chamber of

Commerce types and B.C. Liberals tearing their hair out.This decision follows a comprehensive assessment by the federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, but already Premier Christy Clark is crying the blues, despite the respected scientific advisory panel’s recommendation. Is this deal really over? Alas, the Conservatives say they’re willing to devolve control over such decisions to the provinces. If the dodgy Enbridge northern gateway can get approval subject to more than 200 mainly environmental conditions, you wonder how awful a proposal would be to suffer rejection by our Madam Premier.

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“Employees of theWest Vancouver Police make their own career decisions on an ongoing basis.”

WVPD Police Chief Peter Lepine declines to comment on the abrupt retirements of two senior officers (from a March 9 news story).

“I suggest the mayor send the letter over and say, ‘Don’t bother us again with that nonsense.’”

WestVan Coun. Bill Soprovich responds to a request to study amalgamation (from a March 14 news story).

“All I want is all you got.

They gave me that and more.”

Girls basketball coach Anthony Beyrouti recalls his pre-game speech before St. Thomas Aquinas fell to B.C. championWindsor Dukes in overtime (from a March 12 sports story).

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up shortly after and did a great job at unplugging a blocked pipe that had caused the flood in the first place. The crew worked under horrible, rainy conditions and was both professional and efficient.

Good work boys!

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the district, showed up on the scene.

Andy and I were assessing the situation when I noticed a BC Hydro crew working in the lot behind us. The crew were looking our way and I said to them that we had a flood situation.

Within five minutes they had a pump hooked up and were pumping the water out of the flooded area.

This action of civic duty saved the day. We were able to catch the flood in time and there was minimal damage done to the room.

The activity room was expected to be back up and running 100 per cent by Wednesday.

It is also worth noting that the District of North Vancouver crew showed

Dear Editor: When my boss, Helen Wait, went away last week she entrusted me with the operations of Mollie Nye House.

Before she left she said “Just don’t set the place on fire.”

She didn’t say anything about flooding.

On Thursday, March 6 I discovered eight inches of water flooding both doors of our activity centre.

Mollie Nye House is operated by a non-profit charity board called Lynn Valley Services Society and owned by the District of North Vancouver.

I called the district’s property manager and within a short time Andy Ciecielski, the supervisor of facilities maintenance for

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PM’s petro-politics are polarizing voters

From page 6

costly advertisements we’re hearing ad nauseam telling us what a great deal it’s supposed to be.The 71 per cent foreign ownership of Alberta’s oil sands operations couldn’t agree with them more.

Now there’s talk of opening up new coal mines in the Comox Valley north of Nanaimo. It’s the dirtiest of fossil fuels, and even China is attempting to cut back on its use of coal-fired energy. But with the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant — a story that’s far from over — industrialized

nations in Asia and Europe are reassessing coal as fuel.

In the U.S., where coal is rapidly being replaced by cleaner-burning natural gas, declining coal demand has received a shot in the arm as Germany and other nations are suddenly buying up U.S. production as a hedge against reliance on nuclear power. Coal is back, at least temporarily, and Vancouver Island’s dormant coal sector is getting a fresh look.

In B.C., the increasing authoritarian nature of Prime Minister Harper’s polarizing petro-politics has become disturbing to swing voters who decided to give him a chance with a

majority. Harper’s belief that the problems we create by over-producing fossil fuels in Canada can be rectified by technological solutions is looking suspect. Ask the folks living in low-laying coastal areas around the Pacific. I note this since the World Bank is funding a $3 billion study into sea-level change.

Despite our long B.C. coastline we don’t hear much about this subject.

You do in the South Pacific world — Australia, New Zealand and a score of small island nations, along with the Indo-Pacific region’s Sri Lanka, the Maldives and much larger countries like

Bangladesh, Pakistan and India’s south. Scientists are predicting a 35-year window before large-scale human migration issues commence in regions likeliest to be affected.

Stamp collectors will recognize that most of these states threatened by rising sea-levels are British Commonwealth members.

They’ll expect to emigrate to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Britain. Are we prepared for that degree of impact? It’s one of the sleeper issues that are part of the climate change situation.

It was instructive therefore to meet federal

Liberal environmental critic and former party leader Stephane Dion 10 days ago during his B.C. visit.

I went to hear him speak to university students, a natural environment for the NDP, right?

Consider: a visit by a high-ranking Liberal MP like Dion to an audience the other guys have owned for decades. It tells you that thinking has changed at the top among Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

They’re showing street smarts, gearing up to take on the NDP in a generational campaign that won’t fully kick in until these students have left school and become fulltime workers and potential Liberal voters.

Mark it up to Obama’s Democrats from the U.S. who’ve been advising the Liberals on defeating the Conservatives in October 2015.

North Shore Liberals still like Dion. He wasn’t national leadership material, yet no one doubts his integrity and his Green Shift program in 2008 was innovative. I asked him about the Liberals’ position

on Western Canada’s energy debate.

“The world is changing, but our way of discussing it is not,” he said. “It’s sad to see so many people investing so much hope resisting the pipelines.What we need is a climate change policy — there are ways to develop that are sustainable.

“My Green Shift plan put a price on carbon, on pollution. (Today) the National Energy Board is linked very closely to the producers, more than the scientists.

“The issue is not a pipeline, yes or no. It’s to decrease our dependency on oil. (But) if we’re using the fossil fuels, we need to transport it. . . . My view is that you don’t do it if the environmental assessment says it’s not safe. If the communities are not on board, you don’t do it.”

That’s a softer, pragmatic version of the current situation, but still not what North Shore pipeline critics expect to hear from federal Liberals seeking their vote.We’ll see what Justin Trudeau tweets next. poeticlicence.ns@gmail.com

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Grubb was an assistant manager, then the manager and in 1997 he bought North Shore Bowl. He’s made few changes over the years.The focus has always been on providing a place where you could feel comfortable bowling with your family. Shortly after becoming owner, Grubb added glow bowling.With the lights turned off and the black lights turned on, the place is transformed.

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service the lanes no longer have teenagers hidden behind them but they’re still vintage.

“Those machines are 51 years old and they still work great. I’ve got parts stored to maintain them that I bought from other bowling alleys when they went out of business.”

Spare parts aren’t the only extras needed to keep things working.There are more than 240 pins, more than a hundred balls and several hundred pairs of shoes.The pins are no longer made of wood, they’re now made of plastic.

“These pins never break.

Not like the old ones. I used to give the broken pins away for firewood.”

A couple of years ago there was some water damage that resulted in new floors having to be installed.The old wooden lanes were removed and new synthetic flooring was put down. “Those floors will last forever.”

With varying degrees of success, the Early Bird league toss the balls onto the gleaming lanes without leaving a mark.There are nine different leagues playing now.

“It used to be about 66 per cent women playing here, now it’s a more even split between ladies, men and kids.”

There is a strong social connection with many of the bowlers playing together for 30 or even 40 years. Four bowlers are in their 90s.

Ruth Robson, who Grubb describes as the queen of the bowling alley, has been bowling since she was nine. Now, at 79 years old, she still bowls three times a week, and has an average of 180. “It used to be 235 but age has caught up with my game,” she says with a smile.

Robson has a huge scrapbook of photos and

newspaper clippings from her long bowling career.

“I made many really great friends through bowling.

We have had a lot of good times here and bowling in competitions, we still do have fun.”

Birthday parties are a big part of the activities. “Every Saturday and Sunday there are several parties each day,” says Grubb.

“It’s an affordable way to have a kids party, so the parents like it and the kids come in and have fun. It’s great to see them.

“I see parents bringing in their kids and I remember when they were the kids being brought in.”

Thursday evenings the Special Olympics group come in, filling all the lanes with 80 bowlers at play.

The elusive perfect game is the Holy Grail of bowling and Grubb has managed to bowl four of them in his career but none of them at North Shore Bowl.To his knowledge there has only ever been one perfect game bowled there and that was

by Bob Oughton, about 10 years ago.

Grubb still bowls competitively on a Lower Mainland team maintaining a 250 average and his love of the game.

With a single employee — his manager, Neil Richards — Grubb keeps the doors open 364 days a year. “We only close on Christmas.”

Grubb says, “I just renewed our five-year lease with an option for another five years so I plan to keep it going for at least that long.”

Another ball thunders down a lane and scores a strike. Followed by a cheer from Lane 10, then back go the pins ready for the next ball.

Hopefully, for these loyal bowlers, North Shore Bowl will continue as it is for a long time.

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Knife attack aboard freighter nets attempted murder charge JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

One sailor is in hospital recovering from stab wounds and another is in custody, charged with attempted murder, after an argument on board a freighter docked at Neptune Terminals in North Vancouver turned violent in the early hours of March 9.

Eduardo Jose, 40, of the Philippines was charged with the attempted murder of shipmate Edward Sison after allegedly stabbing Sison several times with

a knife while telling him, “I’m going to kill you.”

Ambulance paramedics and North Vancouver RCMP were called to the Philippine-registered freighter Mini around 5 a.m. Sunday after the violent incident.

North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Corp.

Richard de Jong said Sison had been stabbed several times and a significant amount of blood was observed at the scene.

Sison was rushed to Lions Gate Hospital for emergency surgery.

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Police are still investigating what prompted the stabbing.

The probe has been complicated by the need to translate witness statements into English.

De Jong said violent incidents on board ships in port are a relatively rare occurrence.

Jose is scheduled to appear in North Vancouver provincial court for a bail hearing on March 21.

The bulk coal carrier Mini left the port March 10, the day after the incident.

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HEALTH NOTES page 14 WHERE DANGER LURKS The Pedal Pushers share findings from a recent North Shore cycling survey. page 16

Willie Cromack had an idea.

The well-known community leader has worn a number of hats over the years, including high-level soccer player, bike shop owner, philanthropist, charity founder and community fundraiser.

Through his many life experiences, it became clear to him the willingness of people to go the distance if they thought it could help someone else. Last summer, tasked with serving as one of the coaches of his eldest son Henry’s U11 North Vancouver Football Club team, the Falcons, Cromack saw an opportunity to put his theory to the test.

Trying to figure out a way to help his young charges improve their technical skills, Cromack wanted to institute an incentive program. Rather than give the boys a personal reward for playing better, he wanted to offer them an opportunity to help someone else. “I wondered what it would be like if these 10-year-olds had a cause that they might play for,” he says. “So what I did was, I said to the parents, ‘Look,

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around cause, something they care about.’”

With the parents agreeing to the pilot program, next, Cromack and his partner coaches chatted with the boys about what causes mattered to them. Many of the boys expressed their feelings around being impacted by cancer within

their family and friend circles.

From then on, a series of expectations were set for the players each game, for example, increasing their number of passes.

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From page 13 Our mouths were on the ground. It was like watching a sasquatch ride into the soccer park on a unicorn.

There was no comparison to what it looked like,” says Cromack.

Prior to the initiative, the team was making approximately 46 passes per game.With the new incentive, the players racked up more than 140.

The Falcons have one more tournament this season and are finishing with an impressive record.

“They played at the top end of the spectrum,” says Cromack. “Their style of play has been massively wellreceived and each player has individually improved at a very high level.”

In addition, they’re all displaying good sportsmanship with each other and their peers.

The Falcons have raised more than $2,100 for cancer research (they plan to decide which organization their funds will be forwarded to this weekend) and Freekicks, which helps youths play soccer around the world.

Coaching staff plan to continue the program next season, which runs from September to March.

One other local team, the U14 North Shore

THE NORTH SHORE THIRTY SOMETHING WOMEN’S SOCCER LEAGUE, a recreational soccer league on the North Shore for women over 30, is looking for new players for the spring/summer league.

All levels of soccer skill are welcome.The season runs from April to early July and games are played mid-week in the evenings. thirtysomethingsoccer.com WOMEN/MEN GOLFERS WANTED The Gleneagles Golf Club Society has a number of openings for the 2014 season. Players of all ages will be accepted although the majority of members are seniors.Women play Tuesday mornings and men play Monday,Wednesday and Friday mornings at 6190 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. gleneagles51@ gmail.com

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So far, Cromack has received interest from clubs in the Halifax, London and Toronto areas, and has nine Lower Mainland clubs on board for September.

Focused on soccer for now, he hopes to see Play Better eventually expanded to incorporate a variety of sports.To sign up a soccer team or club to Play Better, email Cromack at willie@ chimp.net.To support the Falcons’ fundraising efforts, visit chimp.net/groups/teamfalcons.

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Foundation and conducted by the Norwest Cycle Club, the survey was a perceptual study, asking cyclists to identify where they felt most endangered.

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the road extends across all three municipalities and is a key east-west route, many cyclists on the North Shore would have tried to ride it — at least once.

The survey asked cyclists to identify factors that contribute to the sense of danger. On Marine Drive it is vehicle speed, traffic volume and no marked bike lanes.While there are bike lanes on portions of Marine Drive, they do not extend throughout the corridor on either side.The ICBC crash map shows that all along Marine Drive there have been crashes involving cyclists. No other single road can boast as many crashes as Marine Drive.

The District of North Vancouver’s 2013 cycling safety study showed many collisions with cyclists on the Marine Drive sidewalk, indicating that people ride along the sidewalks to avoid the road.

Most Dangerous Bike Lane I thought this was an interesting question.

Presumably, if there’s a bike lane, most cyclists would feel safe. However, there are bike lanes that make cyclists feel unsafe too.

The only actual bike lane on Marine Drive runs along the south side from Mackay Road at Capilano Mall, east to Fell. Cyclists gave the following reasons for feeling unsafe on this route: heavy traffic, vehicles moving too fast and a narrow roadway.

Hmm, this is beginning to sound familiar.

We looked at the crash map along this bike lane and it does not show any cyclist crashes between Mackay and Fell. Perhaps the bike lane markings do deter accidents.

We travel this route often enough to know that a main hazard on the new bike lane is right-hand turning vehicles, which may cross the bike lane without looking for a cyclist. Our rule is to never get between a vehicle and an intersection — no matter what.

While there are many other interesting statistics in the report, the take home message for us Pedal Pushers is: Marine Drive feels dangerous to cyclists and for the most part is dangerous, according to ICBC records.

Fifteenth Street is an alternate route just south of Marine Drive, although it ends at Tatlow in the west and Mackay in the east.

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Your Community, Your Budget!

Opportunity for Input

Join us at Council’s March 24 meeting to provide your feedback on the District’s Draft Financial Plan.

The District’s Draft 2014 – 2018 Financial Plan contains our proposed operating and capital budget, highlights of our work program, and the proposed tax increase for 2014.

Did you know that core services, such as garbage collection and fire protection, and large, multi-year projects associated with infrastructure replacement and capital investments are primarily funded by your tax dollars?

Your feedback plays a critical role in shaping our budget.

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“For a very small amount of money — often only a few dollars — these small projects help bring people together.

We take great pride in helping create a sense of community, where before, there may have been none.

We hope to expand the Neighbourhood Small Grants program into four more communities this year,” said Vancouver Foundation president and CEO Kevin McCort in a press release.

For more information, or to apply for a small grant, visit vancouverfoundation. ca/nsg.

The deadline for applications is April 7.

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DELBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF ‘64 will celebrate its 50 year grad with a reunion in April. If you are a 1964 grad and have not yet received an invitation call 604-929-3374 for details by March 21.

LENTEN BOOK STUDY A study based on Henri Nouwen’s book CanYou Drink the Cup? Mondays until April 14, 1:30 p.m. at West Vancouver Presbyterian Church, 2893 Marine Dr. 604-926-1812 BROWN BAG LUNCH Jan Harvey will present her illustrated story of A Journey of the Heart Wednesday, March 18 at noon at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, 885 22nd St., West Vancouver. Bring your brown bag lunch and friends. Tea and coffee provided. 604-926-4381 ststephenschurch.ca/events

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LOCAL HEROES SPEAKERS SERIES The West Vancouver Historical Society will host Claudia Cornwall, author of At theWorld’s Edge, who will profile Curt Lang — poet, logger, fisherman, inventor and photographer — Wednesday, March 19, 7

p.m. at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre, 695 21st St. wvhs.ca

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Canada’s inquest system lacks teeth We live in an upside down world.

We can split the atom and explore space but keeping seniors in care safe continues to be a challenge.

Sprinkler rules for seniors’ facilities are back on the agenda after a deadly Quebec fire earlier this year.

We know that sprinklers save lives.The National Fire Protection Association in the United States says, unequivocally, that their organization has no record of a fire killing more than two people in a completely sprinkled public assembly, educational, institutional or residential building.

In the United States all federal care homes are now required to have automatic sprinklers. In Canada, only Ontario has comparable rules.

We know what to do here.We choose not to act.

Across Canada we are getting reports of fatal attacks on residents at nursing homes by other residents, usually suffering from dementia. Most of these cases are reviewed to see if they warrant an inquest or a deeper examination by a death review panel. Ontario’s geriatric and long-term care review committee warned in a report in 2011 that, with our aging population, long-term care homes were becoming the new “mental health institutions.”

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Older andWiser Almost a decade ago, two residents in care in Ontario were killed by a senior who had a history of aggression and suffered from dementia.

An inquest jury made 81 recommendations.

Key findings were that the province give increased priority to managing residents with cognitive impairments, that people who are at risk should not be admitted to any facility until they have been assessed and a care plan developed, and that specialized facilities for residents with behavioural problems should be developed.

Again we know what to do here and we choose not to do it.

Then there’s the growing problem of seniors who simply wander away from care homes. Late last year the body of Joan Warren was found in Lynn Canyon Park after she wandered

away from the Sunrise Senior Living facility in Lynn Valley.

There was a similar incident in 2009 in Alberta. A fatality inquiry recommended that the province develop a comprehensive strategy for people with dementia, that the use of GPS monitoring devices be reviewed, and when there is a marked change in a patient’s health that health-care providers and family members are notified immediately.

The judge recommended that the findings of the inquiry be published by Jan. 31, 2010.The study was not published, and Alberta’s provincial dementia strategy is still a work in progress.

Fatality inquiries not only help expose problems in elder care, their recommendations are a prescription for a solution.

Why then do the findings of inquests and fatality inquires often go unheeded?

One final case study gives us our answer. In 2011, in response to recommendations of a death inquest in Ontario, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care committed in writing to implement a drug information system to track all medications prescribed and dispensed in the province.

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But what if your health needs change over time? That’s where Independent Living+ comes in. It’s a new option we’ve introduced along with our new company name: PARC Retirement Living (formerly Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities).

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NorthVancouver’s Gail Roxburgh is continuing to lead the charge regarding the importance of brain health as people age.

Over the last decade, the longtime North Shore fitness instructor has carved out a niche for herself, continuing to undergo training and offer programs combining fitness for both the body and brain at a host of North Shore community centres serving seniors.

Roxburgh, 71, feels being a senior herself helps community members take her message to heart. “I’m kind of in there knowing what these seniors are going through because at any time I could develop Alzheimer’s,” she says.

Roxburgh hopes community members will attend her upcoming free workshop, Memory and the Aging Brain, Friday, March 21, 10:30-11:45 a.m. at Lower Lonsdale’s John Braithwaite Community Centre.

“Over the years, I’ve worked with a lot of people with Alzheimer’s and dementia and what’s happening now is there’s not enough awareness for seniors

or the baby boomers about Alzheimer’s. People are getting a little bit scared that the minute they forget their keys, they’re going to get Alzheimer’s,” says Roxburgh, who primarily works out of John Braithwaite and North Shore Neighbourhood House.

In her upcoming workshop, Roxburgh plans to discuss memory lapses that are normal age-related changes, differentiating them from the warning signs of dementia, to ease worry.These sorts of fears concern Roxburgh as she feels they could prevent people from seeking medical attention due to the stigma that is at times associated with Alzheimer’s disease, preventing early diagnosis.

“A lot of people think of it still as a disease they don’t want people to know they’ve got. . . . Sometimes they think they’ve got it, and they might have something else that is causing memory loss.

They’ll think, ‘I’m not going (to the doctor) because I know I’ve got Alzheimer’s and I’m scared,’” she says.

A main goal of all Roxburgh’s courses is to disseminate up-to-date findings regarding brain health, and Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias; for example, that there is much that can be done to preserve and sharpen mental function as people age. As well, she shares research that suggests the human brain

has the potential for change and development in later stages in life.

At Friday’s workshop, Roxburgh also plans to offer strategies to help participants improve their memories.

Other programs Roxburgh leads on the North Shore includes: Memory Games for Body,

Balance and Brain through John Braithwaite and North Shore Neighbourhood House; and Alzheimer Society B.C.’s Minds in Motion at Mollie Nye House and West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre.

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In 2012 the ministry quietly abandoned the idea, deeming it too costly.

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The problem with the inquest system in Canada is that it doesn’t have any teeth.There is no requirement that the authorities accept, comply

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To permit a mixed-use development, including residential (market and rental units) and commercial uses (office, hotel and retail). Most of the proposed buildings include a ground floor of commercial uses and 3 to 8 storeys of residential use above.

A maximum of 4 buildings shall exceed 21.4 metres and no buildings shall exceed 27.6 metres in height. A Gross Floor Area of 2.05 times the lot area with 0.15 times the lot area as rental floorspace is proposed, as follows:

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This Public Hearing is held pursuant to 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 Tuesday, April 1, 2014, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Hearing. Once the Public Hearing has concluded, no further information or submissions can be considered by Council. 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 March 13, 2014. If you wish to view the material online, please visit www.cnv.org/publichearings. Please direct any inquiries to Barbara Westmacott, Planning Technician II, Community Development, at bwestmacott@cnv.org or 604-990-4212.

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WHAT: DEVELOPMENT VARIANCE PERMIT

social media or an e-reader Tuesday, March 18, 2:30-4 p.m. at Parkgate library, 3675 Banff Court, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. Registration required. 604-929-3727 x8168 nvdpl.ca

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WHERE: WHO: WHEN:

WHY:

518 East 5th Street, legally described as Lot 23, Block 12, DL 273, Plan 1063

Monday, March 31, 2014 Council Chamber at City Hall 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, BC The Public Meeting has been WAIVED and it is the intention of Council to consider issuance of these applications at the Regular Council Meeting on March 31, 2014.

The Development Variance Permit (DVP) would permit a Level-B Coach House at the rear of this property.

The Coach House would be 982 sq.ft., 1.6 storeys, and within a 20 ft. height envelope.

The Development Permit (DP) would ensure that the Level-B Accessory Coach House, described above, is constructed in compliance with the Level-B Accessory Coach House Development Permit Guidelines and all other applicable bylaws and guidelines of the City. Building and structures will be developed in accordance with the Council approved plans.

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 should be received no later than 4:00 pm on Monday, March 31, 2014. The proposed Development Variance Permit and Development Permit application and any 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 March 13, 2014. If you wish to view the material online please visit www.cnv.org/publichearings. Please direct inquiries to Karen Wong, Planning Technician I, Community Development, at kwong@cnv.org or at 604-9823904.

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JOIN JANE Drop in to Lynn Valley library’s fireplace area for informal one-on-one chats with North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite Thursday, March 20, 10-11 a.m. at 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver.

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Drop by if you have no idea what an app is and are interested in finding out more Wednesday, March 19, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. at Parkgate library, 3675 Banff Court, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. 604-929-3727 x8168 nvdpl.ca

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LOCAL HEROES SPEAKERS’ SERIES The West Vancouver Historical Society will host Claudia Cornwall, author of At theWorld’s Edge, who will profile Curt Lang — poet, logger, fisherman, inventor, and photographer Wednesday, March 19, 7 p.m. at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre, 695 21st St. wvhs.ca

NEW WAYS OF SHARING PHOTOGRAPHY Learn new ways of sharing digital images and videos online, in social networks, digital photo books, collages and panoramas Thursdays, March 20 and 27, 7-9:30 p.m. at the Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Production of multimedia slide shows and music sources will be demonstrated. $65. Registration required. 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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How to profit from the sliding loonie Recently the weaker loonie has dominated headlines and is becoming a growing concern for many Canadians.

My team and I continuously monitor the strength of our dollar, particularly how it will fare against our U.S. counterpart, as there can be positive and negative effects on our country’s economy as well as your investment portfolio.

The lower Canadian dollar will certainly be welcomed by exporters, as it makes our products cheaper for those abroad.

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I believe the Canadian dollar will continue to struggle, in fact we may see it go as low as 80 cents against the American dollar over the next 12 to 24 months. What does this mean to you and your portfolio as a Canadian investor? You’ll want to ensure you have U.S. exposure in your investments in order to benefit from this move and if you have little to no U.S. stocks now, you should look to add some.

Not only is the American economy and stock market outperforming ours,

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There are some Canadian companies that will do well, so don’t move your entire portfolio into U.S. investments. At the end of the day, your strategy should allow you to gain exposure to where the strength lies, and right now there is strength south of the border.

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A26 - North Shore News - Sunday, March 16, 2014

TASTE

Kiwi winemaker making his mark

Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables Meeting with Brent Marris is a little bit like trying to lasso a small cyclone, albeit a pretty friendly one.

You may not recognize the name but Marris is a

modern-day powerhouse Kiwi winemaker who grew up in the wine business. His father was one of Marlborough, New Zealand’s first contract grape growers.You could say Marris began his training in the vineyard at an early age.

He went on to become Marlborough’s first locally born and raised qualified winemaker who helped put several major Kiwi producers on the path to success. He eventually built his own world-beating Wither Hills brand (which he sold in 2002).

Home to most of New Zealand’s Sauvignon Blanc plantings, Marlborough has

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seen a few ups and downs in recent years, although things are definitely on the upswing these days. And Marisco Vineyards (which Marris runs with his wife) has a fair bit to do with it.

Since 2006 Marris has been busy putting his latest project (The Ned) on the world wine map.

The wine is named after one of the region’s tallest peaks, where Marris used to hike, hunt and ride horses. The idea behind the The Ned was to recreate the lively and vibrant fruitdriven style of Sauvignon Blanc (and other wines) that propelled New Zealand to international prominence, explains

Marris. His hallmark has been to maintain close quality control, growing all the fruit for The Ned (and for the next tier “Kings Series”) on a single 268hectare parcel on ancient glacial-terraced deposits on the Waihopai River.

In more evolved markets, such as the U.K., The Ned has taken on a life of its own, where, jokes the winemaker, it’s talked about “almost like Fifty Shades of Grey.”

Considering it sells more than half a million bottles in the U.K., you could say it’s pretty popular. As Marris explains this latest project of he and his wife’s, his mood takes

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Realizing the demand was outstripping their ability to supply, the couple purchased Leefield Station, a historic, high country, 2,000-hectare sheep and cattle ranch.

They’re in the process of planting about 600 hectares to vines. But the balance will be left in a natural state (with native plants reintroduced) to allow for running Aberdeen Angus cattle and Romney sheep.

“This company will never be sold,” insists Marris, who says these days it’s very much about legacy. The couple have four daughters, the eldest of whom is in the process of completing her winemaking studies (also at Roseworthy). The youngest, at 13 years old, has already announced her intention of running the company.

As we tasted through the wines, I was struck by their artful balance of approachable sophistication, all delivered with value pricing.

Here’s some of what you can find:

The Ned Sauvignon Blanc 2013: Tropical and lime notes on top follow through to a juicy, mineral-toned palate with a luscious, viscose feel and dry finish. Fuller on the palate than before, it’s a product of slower ripening, says Marris (classic Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc value; 90 points, BCLS $15.99).

The King’s Favour Sauvignon Blanc 2011: The next step up (from the terraces) yields passionfruit and mineral notes before an intense but focused palate of citrus and tropical notes, with appealing mineral core (91 points, private stores $20-$23).

The Ned Pinot Gris 2013: Pretty salmon colour with floral and stone fruit aromas, followed by juicy pear and peach notes wrapped in juicy acidity.

The perfect spring-intosummer sipper, and a great match for lightly spiced dishes (89 points, $16-$18 at private wine stores).

Tim Pawsey writes about wine for numerous publications and online as the Hired Belly at hiredbelly.com.

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Jeremy Budd and Austin Glenn are bringing amazing new foods to the Market at Lonsdale Quay. When they first met in 2001, they knew they had something in common.

provide fresh BC Fiddleheads, Wilf Asparagus, Wild Onion, West Coast Sea Beans and Nettles and their dried and frozen products are available year round.

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ALATEEN MEETING A group for ages 10-18 for whom alcohol is a problem in the family meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at St. David’s United Church, 1525 Taylor Way,West Vancouver. 604-688-1716

NORTH SHORE CRIC CRAC STORYTELLING EVENINGS presented by the North Shore Storytellers takes place the first Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. Each month features a different theme. $7-$12. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca POLYNESIAN DANCE CLASSES Beginner classes for adults and children, Sundays and Mondays at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145

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From page 29 DROP-IN CRIB Play crib every Monday (unless it’s a statutory holiday), 7:30 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion #118, 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. $5.

604-985-1115 ENGLISH CONVERSATION CORNER Drop in to the Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver and practise and improve your English language skills Mondays, 7:30-8:45 p.m. 604-9840286, x8144 604-644-9621 nvdpl.ca ESPIRITU VOCAL ENSEMBLE This high profile community choir that performs a wide variety of music is looking for motivated singers.

Rehearsals take place Mondays, 7-9 p.m. at West Vancouver United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Ave. Singers should have basic music reading skills. Call 604-9222513 to set up an audition time.

FRIENDSHIP TOASTMASTERS CLUB meets to improve communication and leadership skills every Monday, 7:15-9:15

GLENEAGLES SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Beginner and intermediate classes every Monday, 7:309:30 p.m. at Hollyburn elementary, 1329 Duchess Ave.,West Vancouver. 604987-3792 ISRAELI DANCE Every Monday, beginners 6-7:15 p.m., intermediates and open dancing, 7:15-9:30 p.m. at Congregation Har El, 1305 Taylor Way,West Van. $6. 604-568-4771 LOGOS TOASTMASTERS CLUB meets every Monday, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at 659 Clyde Ave.,West Vancouver. Gain selfconfidence, overcome the fear of public speaking and improve presentation skills. logostoastmasters.org LYNN VALLEY BLACK BEAR BAND rehearses every Monday, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Argyle secondary, 1131 Frederick Rd., North Vancouver.Woodwind, brass and percussion players are always welcome to join at any time. No audition required. 604-980-6896. info@blackbearband.ca blackbearband.ca

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NORTH SHORE WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION meets on the third Monday of every month (except during December and summer months) from 7-9 p.m.

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TOWN HALL MEETING

725 Marine Drive (Rezoning Application) and 843-855 West 1st Street (Rezoning Application and OCP Amendment) Darwin Properties Ltd. and Dick Irwin Group invite interested members of the public to attend a facilitated Town Hall meeting for an early opportunity to review the proposal and offer comments.

Date: Thursday March 20th, 2014 Time: 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

Location of meeting: Lonsdale Quay Hotel 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver Darwin Properties Ltd. and Dick Irwin Group are proposing to construct a new car sales and service centre at 843-855 West 1st Street. Once built, the existing North Shore Kia at 725 Marine Drive will be closed and a new 5-storey (plus loft) mixed-use building comprising approximately 100 residential units and commercial space on the ground floor will be constructed on the site. Parking will be provided via an underground parkade accessed from the new Mosquito Creek bridge plus surface parking via Marine Drive.

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City of North Vancouver Contact Christopher Wilkinson, Planner Community Development Department T: 604-990-4206 cwilkinson@cnv.org

This is not a Public Hearing. Council will receive a report from staff on issues raised at the meeting and will formally consider the proposal at a later date.

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PETS PETS FOR ADOPTION

Dogs are everyday heroes I don’t think anyone adopts or rescues a dog thinking that the dog is going to rescue them.

We focus our attention on envisioning our growing puppy joining us on hikes, resting its head on our lap and growing old by the fire. Or we vow to give the best new life to an adult dog that has come from a questionable past.

We tell ourselves that we chose the dog we did for a reason.There was something in its eyes, the wag of its tail, the crooked ear. Something about that dog touched our hearts and we tell ourselves that we rescued it to give it a better life.

The thought that this dog could have possibly chosen us for a purpose other than being a companion never crosses our mind — until the day it does.That’s the day you realize your dog has saved your life.

There are the stories of dog heroes who save their owners from death.

Like the dog that drags its companion off a railway track, sacrificing its own life in return.There are those dogs that alert their owners

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Canine Connection in the middle of the night and lead them out of a burning home. And there’s the faithful family dog that remains with a lost child, keeping the child warm and protected until help arrives.

We quietly acknowledge the incredible bond between these “superhero” dogs and their people, yet still don’t consider our own bond.

The dog sitting at our side, out on walks with us, or riding in the passenger seat beside us may not be the hero of headlines, but it is a hero nonetheless.

Every single day our dogs rescue us from the madness of the world we live in. A world, if we took the news as the gospel truth, that is filled with daily threats of terrorism, betrayal,

skyrocketing debts and increasing violence. A world where material objects conjure up feelings of love.

We worship a phone and criticize anyone who chooses to believe in a spiritual entity. From the moment we wake to the moment we fall asleep our minds are bombarded with negative images of how the world is unfolding around us. Even the weather is something we are supposed to be afraid of.

Over time we view the world as a fearful place and everyone in it as a predator.We judge before we meet someone because, according to statistics, we are all eventually going to be a victim of some sort of crime.

Yet in the middle of all this chaos we have our dog — peaceful like the still waters of a lake.

Every day, whether we are conscious of it or not, our dogs save us from a fear that unconditional love, forgiveness and endless devotion are mere figments of our imagination.

Just their sheer presence in our lives — asking for nothing more than the simplest of things: love, trust

and empathy — keeps us in touch with our authentic selves. Dogs keep those feelings alive. If it were not for dogs — or any pet we grow emotionally attached to — our lives would indeed be in a sad state.

They wait for us patiently to take them out for a walk.They don’t care if you skip your workout or if you didn’t finish cleaning the house. If we take our frustrations out on them they forgive us, leaving the past behind with speed and grace that most of us could never fathom.

When we have days where everything seems to go wrong and we feel that no one cares, we look up and see our dogs. Standing in front of us with that eternal look of hope deep in their eyes, we are reminded that something does care, that we are good enough, we are worthy of loyalty, love and trust. And that is when we realize that our dogs have rescued us.

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MIDGET HOCKEY PROVINCIALS NorthVancouver’s Harry Jerome Arena will be the host site for the Midget Tier 1 hockey provincial championships March 16-19. Opening ceremonies will be held Sunday, March 16 at 8 p.m. followed by a meeting between North Shore rivals NorthVancouver and Hollyburn.

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North Van Wolf Pack head coach and general manager Matt Samson may never know exactly what happened in the third period of Game 4 of their PJHL playoff series against the Richmond Sockeyes.

It’s not that he doesn’t have the opportunity — the video is right there waiting for him to watch it. Heck, the highlights are even up onYouTube for anyone in the world to see.

But for Samson those highlights are more like a vile horror film, too gruesome to watch.

“I couldn’t stomach watching it this morning, and definitely not last

night,” he said Thursday, still reeling more than 12 hours after the fateful period ended. “I’m at a loss for words. I can’t watch that third. I kind of know in my head, remembering how I think it went, but that may not be the case.”

The details are this: the Pack was behind 0-3 in their conference finals series and in all likelihood headed out of the playoffs soon, but on Wednesday it appeared they’d get a reprieve as they took a 6-3 lead into the third period.

Then Richmond scored four minutes and 52 seconds into the period.

Then again 22 seconds later.Then again 25 seconds after that.Three goals in 47 seconds, and the score was now tied.The game

winner for Richmond came three minutes later and the insurance marker, the fifth goal of the period for the Sockeyes, followed four and a half minutes after.

It was a stunning turn of events, all the more stunning for Samson who said that his team actually wasn’t playing all that poorly. All three of the Richmond goals that came in the one-minute flurry were scramble plays in the North Van zone that ended with the puck finding a Sockeye stick.

“Any of those three plays I think we make the play to get it out of the zone more times than not. . . . Our backcheckers were in position, we were all defensively where we wanted the guys — they just

made the plays, got some bounces,” said Samson.

“We just couldn’t get a bounce. I hate to use that complaint, but the first goal we had a great backcheck, (North Van’s Kyle) Hoekstra goes to make a play on the puck and it hits his stick and basically it’s a tape-to-tape pass to (Richmond’s Liam) Lawson with a wide-open net. It’s just a bad bounce there. . . .They weren’t all over us.We would get a chance and then they would come down, they wouldn’t have numbers, they’d just throw a puck to the net and it would hit somebody and they’d have a chance.We didn’t have any big breakdowns, it wasn’t breakaways, it wasn’t two-on-ones, it wasn’t 30 seconds of sustained pressure to wear us out.

It was just kind of off a transition, off a rush.”

It all left Samson scratching his head.

“Did we do anything wrong? I don’t know.We got the matchups we wanted, we had the guys on the ice. It wasn’t a situation where we were just getting outplayed, it was all just kind of real quick, some plays, some bounces and it’s in the back of the net.

That’s junior hockey.”

The hard luck period put an end to a hard luck series for the Wolf Pack that saw them lose the first three games by identical 4-3 scorelines, including two double overtime games on the road in Richmond.

“We definitely were right there with them. Bounces here and there — three one-goal games, had leads in three of the four games,” said Samson, adding that the Pack almost took control right from Game 1, a double overtime loss.

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The Capilano Blues women’s volleyball team finished tied for fifth at the 2014 CCAA National Championships held March 5-8 at Seneca College in Toronto, Ont. Though they left with a 1-2 record, the Blues can take some solace in pushing the eventual champions from Red Deer College to the brink in their opening round matchup. The No. 6-ranked Blues and thirdranked Queens met on opening day in what turned out to be one of the best matches of the tournament.

Red Deer stormed out to a 2-0 lead but the Blues battled back to win the next two and force a fifth set.

In the deciding set the teams were dead even again. With the score tied at 15-15 the Blues were burned on a hard luck play that saw the ball rolling along the net cord before finally deciding to hit the floor on Capilano’s side. A few points later it was all over as Red Deer claimed a 25-17, 25-18, 13-25, 18-25, 18-16 victory. Red Deer went on the defeat the Grand Prairie Wolves 3-0 in the final.

Now on the consolation side, the Blues again went the distance to earn a fiveset win over Mount Saint Vincent. Sydney Thorton led the way for the Blues with 25 kills as Capilano claimed a 25-19, 23-25, 2325, 25-22, 16-14 win.

Capilano’s tournament came to an end in the bronze bracket semifinal where they ran out of gas, falling 3-0 to No. 1-ranked

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all year — but couldn’t keep up in the second half as Langara turned a 40-35 halftime lead into a 75-51 blowout by the end of the third quarter. Asher Lewis led the way for the Blues in a losing effort, scoring 17 points with four rebounds and three steals.

The Blues then fell 9577 to the Quest University Kermodes in the bronze medal match. Capilano’s Andrew Morris earned player of the game honours for his 18 points and six rebounds.

Morris, a forward from Burnaby, was named a PacWest second team allstar and a member of the all-rookie team before the provincial championships began.

On the women’s side Capilano’s championships ended early as the fourthseeded Blues lost to the fifth-seeded Douglas College Royals on opening day. The Royals, tournament hosts, built a 44-25 lead by halftime and cruised to an 82-58 win. Capilano’s Carmel M’Bikata was named player of the game for the Blues for her 11 points and five rebounds.

Capilano’s Elise Horton, who didn’t play in the provincial championships, earned PacWest first team all-star honours for her stellar regular season that saw her lead the league with an average of 10.24 rebounds per game. The Blues also placed two players on the all rookie team with Carson Graham grad Karyn Nelson and Argyle grad Chelsea Dekleer earning the honour.

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Cegep Garneau. Thorton was named a second team all-star for the tournament.

One North Shore link did crack the medals at the tournament as North Vancouver’s Leanna Gildersleeve, a Sutherland grad, ended her collegiate career by leading her Vancouver Island University Mariners to bronze at the national championships.

Gildersleeve, the PacWest player of the year, was named an All Canadian before the national championships began and earned a first team all-star nod for her showing at the tournament.

••• The Capilano men’s and women’s basketball teams were also in action recently, battling for provincial glory at the PacWest championships.

The fourth-seeded Blues men won their opener, topping Camosun College for a tight 71-67 victory.

The Blues held a narrow 37-36 lead at halftime and started to pull away in the fourth quarter with a Gino Pagbilao layup making it 67-55. The Chargers, however, raced back to get within two points at 69-67 with 21 seconds left in the game but that was as close as they’d come. Warren Liang led the way for the Blues with 16 points and seven rebounds.

Capilano’s run for gold ended the next day in the semifinals as the No. 1-ranked Langara Falcons earned a 97-76 victory. Capilano kept it close against the eventual champions — the Falcons lost only one league game

made 50 saves, our powerplay scored two goals and we didn’t give anything up on the PK (penalty kill), you’d probably think we won the game. Nine times out of 10 that’s a recipe for getting a win. But we didn’t.”

The coach, however, admitted in the end the Wolf Pack didn’t defend well

enough against Richmond’s balanced attack. Five different Sockeyes scored in the fateful third period of Game 4.

“We gave up 20 goals in four games,” he said.

“That’s not good enough.

We didn’t defend well enough, we didn’t keep the puck out of our net as a group. It wasn’t all on our goalies or on our D-men — as a group we didn’t do a

good enough job of keeping the puck out of our net.

When you score six goals at home, you’ve got to win that game.”

Richmond, the defending league, provincial and national champions, will now move on to their third PJHL championship series of the past four years where they’ll meet the See North page 35

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North Van will look to build on best finish in club history From page 34

Aldergrove Kodiaks who knocked off the Abbotsford Pilots in their conference finals series.

The young Sockeyes are on a major roll, having won 15 straight games.

They’ve only lost twice since November, putting up a 34-2 record during

that stretch.

“They’re a good team,” said Samson, adding that he hopes North Van is on a similar path having finally experienced a little success in the playoffs.The Wolf Pack’s opening round win over Delta was the first playoff series win in the sixyear history of the franchise.

“When you have a winning

tradition (like Richmond’s) you’re able to recruit players to come play for you, and that’s what we’re starting to be able to do.”

The sting of Wednesday night’s loss, however, will keep Samson from savouring North Van’s success for a while.

“It’s the best season we’ve had — it’ll take me

a while to really appreciate that, but it’s good for the franchise,” he said. “I’d like to thank all the fans who supported us and all the sponsors who helped us have the success we did this year.”

Samson also tipped his hat to the team’s three graduating 20-year-olds.

There may be more

turnover before next season as younger players come and go, but scoring ace Marcus Houck, captain Jamie Creamore and assistant captain Patrick Payne have all played their final games with the Wolf Pack.

“All three of them played huge roles on our team,” said Samson. “They all

played different roles and they’re all great.They all wore a letter on their jersey so we’re going to have to find a new leadership group.”

Houck, Spencer Quon and Mitchell Crisanti led the Wolf Pack on the scoresheet in the playoffs, each racking up 12 points in 10 games.

The BC Government is proposing to offload the province’s world-class recycling programs, run by local municipalities, to an association led by big multi-national corporations. The idea is that we’ll get a better, more efficient program that costs taxpayers less.

Unfortunately, what we’ll really end up with is anyone’s guess.

Heads: you get a worse recycling program.

Tails: you get to pay more for it.

The association isn’t guaranteeing that we’ll get a better program, or even one as good as the current Blue Box program already in place. Since the association is led by big businesses outside of BC, many of whom are not even headquartered in Canada, one could presume that profits will come before environmental stewardship. They usually do.

They also won’t guarantee that there won’t be any job cuts here in BC. And how is this supposed to make things better for BC? Currently, BC homeowners only pay, on average, $35 a year for curbside recycling.

Under the proposed regime, you’ll pay more.

Every time you bring home a pizza, buy toilet paper, or pretty much anything else that comes in a package, businesses will be passing their increased costs on to you.

How much more? Well, nobody’s saying.

Here’s the only thing anyone does know: we already have a Blue Box program that works, is efficient, managed locally and puts the BC environment first. So why is the BC government flipping a coin, bringing in a questionable recycling program that some of our local elected officials are already calling a “scam?”

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