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West Van teacher suspended Rockridge career counsellor had inappropriate contact with student JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

AWestVancouver high school career counsellor has been suspended for two months for inappropriate behaviour with a student, both before and after she graduated from Rockridge secondary.

Under an agreement with the Teachers Regulation Branch, Eddi Sponza must

stay out of the classroom until the end of May. The decision, published on the branch’s website, details how Sponza’s inappropriate conduct started after the female student, who came from a conservative background, started Grade 11 after moving to Canada in 2012.

The decision cited a number of “inappropriate interactions” between

Sponza and the student in her grade 11 and 12 years including having conversations about “cultural differences in respect to particular sexual topics” and “personal questions of a sexual nature.”

Sponza also hugged the student long enough to make her feel uncomfortable and offered her private counselling outside of the school although that was contrary to the district’s conflict-of-interest policy.

At the end of the school year, when the student asked several teachers to write in

her journal, Sponza kept the journal and asked for the student’s phone number so he could give it back.When the school year was over, he invited her to a park in West Vancouver to return the journal. Comments in the journal included inappropriate material, like the lyrics to Lionel Ritchie’s “Easy” which “expresses a man’s feelings as he ends a relationship” according to the decision. Sponza also added his phone number with the comment “if you ever in need…Or even if you are not.”

Teachers to start job action Wednesday

Sponza also sent the former student several text messages asking her out for drinks. In one of them, he wrote “Afternoon…how’s it going? Wat u doin? Time for a Christmas drink…

When r u free for a drink?

Downtown or West Van up to u?”

When the girl responded telling him “I don’t drink Mr. Sponza, I’m still 18 and very much under age” he wrote back telling her “Please, please call me Eddi. . . Drop the formality. Ok I’ll

After little progress in months of bargaining with the province, B.C. teachers have served 72hour’s strike notice.

Effective Wednesday April 23, teachers will begin Stage 1 job action, which

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United artists As you enter the building, you immediately smell the distinct aroma of oil paint.

A far-off stereo plays faint music.Walking down a slightly darkened hallway, a series of studio doors come into view, some with names and some with titles like “Artist,” or more specifically, “Painter” or “Sculptor.”

Any day of the week, you can find a number of creative people working on their respective projects in the 3,000 square feet of space that make up 195 Studios - Artists on Pemberton.

In most cases, a sample of the resident artist’s work, a box of business cards or a personal note decorates the entrance to each studio. If a door is ajar, chances are one of the creative types is at home, or at least at their home away from home, no doubt working on a canvas or assembling a three-

dimensional piece of some kind.This collection of artists’ workspaces is housed in one North Vancouver commercial building that was first opened in 2010.

Each artist works in their own medium and in their own style.With painters, sculptors, a jeweller and a knotting artist as members, the group creates work to share and enthusiastically engages with each other and the community at large.

The public is invited into the space April 26 and 27, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., as part of the fourth annual North Shore Art Crawl. Community members are invited to come by and witness for themselves the energy created by so many talented artists working in such close proximity to one another. 195studios.ca nsartcrawl.ca — MikeWakefield

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The federal government has earmarked funds to help restore the Lynn Creek estuary in North Vancouver.

Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea and North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton announced Monday at Mackay Creek that the government will provide up to $15,000 to the BC Conservation Foundation for the restoration work.

According to a press release, the Lynn Creek estuary project aims to restore productive intertidal and shoreline habitats in areas that are near parks and have high public value.

The project will result in “significantly improved habitat” for adult salmon, the release continues.

Restoring the habitat will take place over two years.

The first phase will consist largely of surveys and installation of large woody debris. The second phase will involve removing invasive species, re-vegetation with native plants, and installation of 100 pieces of large woody debris.

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link, and you would have missed it. On Monday, the B.C. Liberals made legislative changes without any public announcement or debate. The legislation would have allowed natural gas companies to build gas extraction plans without the environmental assessment most any other industrial project must go through.

At a time when the prevailing concern is that we don’t yet know enough about the health and environmental impacts we can expect from rapid expansion of our gas extraction industry, the province was entirely wrong to scale back scrutiny even more.

Upon learning of the legislative sleight-of-hand, B.C. First Nations, who were not consulted on the matter and have a direct stake in what the province and gas industry has in mind for their traditional lands, promptly escorted

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Thankfully, just a day after having been called out, the government reversed its decision and churned out a press release apologizing for failing to discuss the amendment with First Nations, and reaffirming the “strong, respectful and productive” relationship government has with them.

It’s hard to say exactly where the Liberals went most wrong on this: trying to sneak it through unnoticed, ignoring First Nations who have a constitutional right to consultation, or showing a flippant attitude toward environmental impact.

And they would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling First Nations, news reporters, opposition members and environmentalists.

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Playing field user questions dog bylaw Dear Editor: I go for countless walks with my little kids all the time.The other day we took a stroll down to the playing field in Kirkstone Park and as usual there was a dog on the field.

We moved to North Vancouver six years ago and accepted that this was the way it works around here even though there are at least five signs around the

field that clearly state “dogs not permitted.”

However, I had to ask myself again: what is the actual bylaw and why does it get completely ignored?

The dog owner was throwing the dog a ball and the dog was obviously enjoying it. He was very fast and throwing himself at the grass to catch the ball. I started to grow uncomfortable and moved

closer to my kids just in case the dog decided to take a different route to his ball. He was joined by three dogs from different owners and a small fight started. Now I was growing really uncomfortable and worried so I did what I have never even thought of doing before — went to the closest dog owner and nicely asked him to take the dog out. He left without a

word. I moved to another owner and did the same thing and to my surprise I got a few minutes’ of swearing and insults.

I am not an aggressive type and after listening for a bit and trying to understand where he was coming from, I took my kids and left the playing field, not willing to be yelled at any further.

That felt weird to have to leave from a place that was

created for kids and leave a dog behind that is not allowed in there.

That made me ask the question after many years of living here:Why do we have this law? And how come it is not being enforced? How come there are countless dog owners every single day that break that law and it is OK? Elena Cernicka North Vancouver

Reduction in personal exemption has tax increase effect Dear Editor: I read with interest your April 4 editorial April Fools regarding new cost increases to the average citizen.

One that was missing, while not a “tax increase” as such, has exactly the

same effect. For our 2013 income taxes, the provincial government has quietly reduced the basic personal exemption almost 10 per cent, from $11,354 for 2012 to $10,276 for 2013.These basic personal exemptions

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typically increase slightly each year, with inflation (the federal government’s basic personal exemption increased from $10,822 to $11,038 (+1.4 per cent).

These changes would probably not be noticed

by users of tax preparation software.

With a B.C. tax credit rate of 5.06 per cent, this $1,078 reduction in basic personal exemption takes more than $54 from the wallet of each and every one

of us.What a sneaky way to effect a tax increase for, as you say, “a government that prides itself on balancing the budget without adding taxes.”

Norm Watt North Vancouver

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“The senior leadership of Capilano felt they had no choice but to comply.”

Education expert Don Avison recounts the province taking $6.3 million off the table as Capilano was set to go from college to university (from an April 13 news story).

“The interest wasn’t mass production, it was very much small, in the same way you’d see a craft brewery.”

District of NorthVancouver Coun. Mike Little ponders future medical marijuana applications (from an April 13 news story).

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Rev. Stephen Muir describes the theft of six plants from St.Agnes church’s memorial garden (from an April 18 news story).

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Fair elections act anything but fair I am really loving the Stephen Harper government right now.

Not because of their politics or anything like that. Heavens no. I’m loving them because they’ve finally brought some humour to the usually staid political ring.

Recently they heeded the cry coming from zeroes and zeroes of Canadians begging for electoral reform and took it upon themselves to craft a bill to change the way that Canada holds federal elections.

The biggest challenge by far in the Canadian electoral scene is the lack of voter turnout at the polls. So, naturally, the new bill will make it harder to vote, particularly for young people and marginalized folks who don’t have access to identification such as a driver’s licence. It also aims to end the Elections Canada practice of conducting outreach campaigns to encourage people to vote.

Funny, right? It gets better.

Other doozies in the bill include taking power away from our elections watchdog to investigate potential wrongdoing on the part of political parties; a giant loophole that will allow parties to raise and spend more money on elections; and a stupefying provision that will allow the winner of each riding to hand-pick the people who will hold key positions in administering the polling stations in that riding during the next election. Hilarious.

The Harper government has crafted this without much input from people who are tasked with running

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Laugh All YouWant elections in Canada or political scientists and other experts whose job it is to examine and learn about how elections should be run.

In fact, 19 renowned researchers from around the world wrote an open letter denouncing the bill, arguing that it would “prove to (be) deeply damaging for electoral integrity within Canada, as well as providing an example which, if emulated elsewhere, may potentially harm

international standards of electoral rights.”

Canada’s own chief electoral officer, a man named Marc Mayrand who was appointed by the Conservatives, was not involved in the crafting of the bill.

When Mayrand voiced concerns about its contents, he was verbally attacked by Tory Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre who claimed that Mayrand’s recommended changes to the bill “really boil down to three broad requirements for him. . . . He wants more power, a bigger budget and less accountability.”

This is all the warm-up act though. Now we’re getting to the comedy gold. The name that the Conservatives have given the bill is . . . the Fair Elections Act. Wow. So brilliant.

Who’s writing this stuff, Jay Leno? Actually, that would make a lot of sense.

To honour the comedy stylings of our governing party, I’ve decided to try my own hand at policy making and see if I can decipher what bizarro bills those wacky guys are going to introduce next. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.

The Marijuana Legalization Act: Finally recognizing that the prohibition of marijuana is a futile battle that only serves to put police and the public in danger while making gangsters rich, the government moves to legalize it. The newly appointed “Minister of Do You, Like, Party, Man?” will in fact grow all of the marijuana himself, eschewing expert opinion on how to get it “extra sticky-icky-icky.”

One interesting wrinkle here: when passed, the act will stipulate that marijuana will be legal on any day of the week that doesn’t end in the letter Y.

The Glass Ceiling Reform Act: Tired of hearing about the pay discrepancies and obstacles faced by their daughters and granddaughters, a small group of the government’s oldest, pastiest male MPs get together to craft a bill that will “make life better for all the good-looking broads out there.”

The bill will include niceties such as a tax credit so that women can buy glue guns and glitter to decorate the glass ceiling once they bump into it. There will also be monthly stipends so that ladies can “maybe fix themselves up for a change.”

The Free Puppies for Kids Act: Every kid under 12 in Canada gets a free puppy, courtesy of our government. This will, in fact, be mandatory, and will include a small delivery fee for each puppy of $4,000. Also, the puppy

is dead.

The No More Monarchy Act: Canada will sever all ties with the British Monarchy, finally doing away with those outdated figureheads. We will have no king or queen, unless there is someone truly, truly special who comes along that, in the expert opinion of all Conservative MPs, would make a remarkable King of Canada. The strictest criteria would be set for this position, including provisions that any future king must love hockey and go by the noble name of Stephen.

These suggested acts are only guesses, of course. For now we can only wait with baited breath while government leaders consult thoroughly and deeply with a few guys down the hall from them to decide what is important for all of Canada. aprest@nsnews.com

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According to the decision, between January and June 2011, Sponza also displayed inappropriate behaviour to a female colleague who was a new teacher, including “using inappropriate language with sexual overtones.” In June 2012, the school district reprimanded Sponza and forwarded information to the Teacher Regulation Branch for further investigation.

Dave Eberwein, assistant superintendent of the West Vancouver School District, said after the former student came forward, the district took steps to ensure students were protected. A letter went home to parents this week assuring them student safety remained a top concern.

Eberwein said Sponza is entitled to come back to his job at Rockridge, but has not indicated yet whether he intends to do that.

Attempts to reach Sponza by the North Shore News were unsuccessful.

Sponza holds a master’s degree in counselling psychology and is a certified counsellor.

Hockey dad faces charge for threat JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A hockey dad from the BurnabyWinter Club has been criminally charged with threatening a 10-yearold hockey player following a locker room incident at NorthVancouver’s Karen Magnussen Arena.

Terry Mukhtiar Singh Litt, 57, was charged with threatening a 10-year-old player on his son’s Atom 3 Burnaby Winter Club team following a 3-5 loss to a North Vancouver Atom 1 team at the arena Feb. 21.

Richard DeJong, spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP, said police were called after an incident in which Litt allegedly walked into the dressing room and “verbally assaulted and threatened” one of his son’s 10-year-old teammates.

DeJong said the incident, which allegedly happened in front of the other players, was both rare and unfortunate.

The incident happened when tempers were running high following the Burnaby team’s loss during

a playoff game.

The hockey dad’s verbal assault was allegedly aimed at one of the defencemen on his son’s team, made of nineand 10-year-olds.

Len McNeely, manager of the Burnaby Winter Club, called the incident “really sad.”

“This doesn’t happen very often,” he said, adding there is a code of conduct including proper behaviour that parents are supposed to follow. According to that code of conduct, “parents must be positive role models” and “verbal abuse

Report cards, extracurricular not affected From page 1 will be “administrative in nature only and will have no impact on students’ learning,” B.C.Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker announced on Thursday.

During the strike, school administrators will have to provide supervision in schoolyards, teachers will not attend any staff meetings and have no written or electronic communication with

management.They will also never show up more than one hour before class starts and never stay for more than one hour after.

Volunteer extracurricular activities and report cards won’t be affected, Iker added.

Iker would not speculate how long Stage 1 job action would last or what would lead to escalating to Stage 2 — rotating daily strikes around the province.

Teachers voted 86 per cent in favour of

strike action in March after a court ruling in their favour stating it was unconstitutional for government to strip them of the right to bargain for class size and composition.

“Let me be clear. Our patience is running out. By initiating job action, B.C. teachers have sent a clear message to our government: Negotiate in good faith.

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of players, referees, coaches, team managers, hockey officials or other parents will not be tolerated,” as stated in information posted on the club’s website.

Yelling at a young player — as is alleged in this case — is “totally unacceptable” under that code of conduct, said McNeely.

McNeely said after the incident, the club banned

Litt from attending further Burnaby Winter Club hockey games.

He has since chosen to withdraw his son from the team, said McNeely.

Calls to Litt’s lawyer Phil Riddell were not returned by press time.

None of the allegations have been proven in court and Litt has not entered a plea to the charge.

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Group gathers support for skatepark

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Can you spare some change for an old skatepark?

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“Over the years the elements have done a serious number on the ledges and the surfaces,” he said. “That park, so to speak, got left in the dust.”

Leading the charge to restore the park is Supra Distribution.The North Vancouver skateboardapparel distributor pledged $50,000 to replace the dilapidated bowl.

Savics is hopeful West Vancouver will match funds raised by the Ambleside Skatepark Project.

The West Van boarder took part in a community workshop earlier this month in an attempt to find a vision for the new park.

“There was an awesome range of skaters there from young kids with their parents all the way to the older dudes in their 40s who are still skating,” Savics said.

Besides trading asphalt for smoother concrete, many attendees were hoping for a more colourful, visually interesting park.

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If designed properly, the new park would be replete with swaths of colour layered over obstacles like stairs and rails — all of it designed to give the impression of a section of city road.

Savics is currently at work on a crowdsourcing campaign as well as fundraising events to benefit the park.

West Vancouver council has been supportive of the initiative, according to Savics.

He is planning to unveil a more concrete plan later this spring.

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Polygon gets OK for West First midrise Condos, office space approved for Lower Lonsdale BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The entire block of West First Street and Esplanade between Semisch and Mahon Avenue is soon to be knocked down and replaced with a mixed-use commercial/residential development.

Polygon’s project will house 208 condo units over 44,000 square feet of commercial space.The structure will peak at seven storeys measured from Esplanade or five measured from West First.The site is now home to Family Services of the North Shore and Hollyburn Family Services.

Though there were some lingering concerns about commercial space outpacing local demand as well as the potential for neighbourhood

noise conflicts with nearby industrial buildings and Sailor Hagar’s pub, council voted the project through 6-1.

The vote followed a three-hour public hearing, with more than 30 residents, business owners as well as staff and volunteers from Family Services of the North Shore and Hollyburn Family Services, who turned out en masse wearing pink. Project supporters outnumbered detractors about three to one.

One of the big selling points for council was the extra 15,000 square feet of office space, which Polygon must rent to non-profits at rates 25 per cent below market value.This is the first time council has offered extra density in exchange for below-market non-profit office space.

“Very creative. I’d like to see if this could be a bit of a template to how we can do others in a way that’s going to keep those non-profits that do such valuable work in our community,” said Mayor Darrell Mussatto.

The Lower Lonsdale development discussion

took an unexpected turn: there was some concern the building contained too much parking. Reducing the number of parking spots would have made the building cheaper and provided an opportunity to pass the savings on to the non-profits, Coun. Pam Bookham argued.With the project just two blocks from the SeaBus terminal and shopping and amenities in walking distance, residents wouldn’t have the same need for a car as those outside Lower Lonsdale, she added.

“This would have been an ideal site on which to test those values we keep talking about.We want people walking more.We want people out of their cars,” Bookham said, Though she approved of all the other aspects of the Polygon’s project, Bookham cast a nay vote in protest.

Polygon had originally come to council with two proposals for the block, one of which was a highrise tower with a park.That plan was scrapped after it did not test well with members of the public.

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The show, the brainchild of West Vancouver secondary art teacher Jackie Wong, features works by Douglas Coupland, Ian Wallace, Tony Pantages and other internationally known artists, all former West Vancouver School District students. Pieces by West Vancouver K-12 students are also being exhibited at the show, running until May 31. A satellite exhibition, featuring the display of students’ works in shipping containers along the West Vancouver waterfront, will run May 3-21. westvancouvermuseum.ca

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Little boy beats the odds NorthVan couple inspired by child’s strength following rare disease diagnosis

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CT SCANNER CAMPAIGN LGH Foundation seeks community support. page 14 HEART-MIND PROJECT To offer a Kindness Room at the upcoming WestVan Ready, Set, Learn event. page 15 HEALTH NOTES page 16

This spring, there’s nothing that makes four-year-old Nico Kline happier than riding around outside his LynnValley home on his push tricycle.

For his parents, Marcela and Derek, there’s nothing that makes them happier than watching their son do so.

“He’s doing so well,” says Derek.

It’s only been the last year that Nico has been able to walk.While he still has some balance issues, he’s able to motor about on his bike with their assistance, just one of the many milestones his parents are continuing to celebrate in light of their son’s diagnosis with a rare disease.

After Nico was born at Lions Gate Hospital, his pediatrician, concerned with some of his physical attributes as well as difficulties with feeding, started investigating his condition. Initially Nico was diagnosed with a mitochondrial disorder. “They told us basically just to be prepared for the worst, that he probably wasn’t going to make it to six months. . . . But as the time went on, he was getting stronger and he was able to do more things that they didn’t think he would be able to do,” says Marcela.

Nico is continuing to beat the odds and as the years have progressed, his medical team has rediagnosed him with kabuki syndrome, affecting one in 32,000 births.The condition has resulted

in developmental delays and low muscle tone overall and his eyesight, hearing, mobility and ability to eat are affected. Nico is also non-verbal, though is learning sign language and is excelling in a preschool program offered through Burnaby’s Deaf Children’s Society of B.C. He’s not on any medications, though sees a number of therapists, including occupational, physical and speech.

Nico is a joy to his parents, as he is an incredibly happy, friendly and positive little boy. “He has taught us so much — just compassion and acceptance,” says Marcela.

However, having a child with a rare disease can be isolating, according to the couple. A continued source of support and resources has been the Rare Disease Foundation.

Despite the fact that approximately three million Canadians have a rare disease, attracting research dollars proves challenging in contrast to more common diseases.There are believed to be more than 7,000 diagnosed rare diseases, which are defined as conditions affecting fewer than one in 2,000 people, according to the foundation. Comprised of parents, caregivers and clinicians, the foundation seeks to fill a needed gap for rare disease patients and families by running a microgrant program, supporting research on patient-focused projects for rare, under-studied diseases. As well, the foundation offers Parent 2 Parent Resource Networks, offering regular roundtable discussions and guest

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“All the parents are in the same boat,” she says. “It’s so nice to share some of the experiences because those parents understand,” she adds.

Marcela also appreciates that the

sessions are webcast or posted online so if she’s unable to attend, she can still access the information.

The foundation is presenting their fifth annual fundraiser, Rare Finds, A Feast for the Senses, featuring a number of Vancouver’s top chefs and mixologists, as well as entertainment and an auction, Saturday, April 26 from 7 to 11 p.m. at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

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Aging CT scanner needs replacing ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

Representatives of the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation have hit the million dollar mark in their current quest to support the highest quality health care on the North Shore.

The foundation’s latest goal is to raise $2.5 million to replace the hospital’s current CT (Computed Tomography) scanner, which is in year seven of its projected eight-year lifespan.

“The CT is the backbone of the hospital,” says Dr. Simon Bicknell, head of diagnostic imaging at Lions Gate Hospital. “We need

that CT scanner functioning for all emergency care work and we need it for our inpatients and we need it for our out-patients. I cannot over-emphasize that.”

The scanner, which serves patients of all ages, performs 24,000 scans annually, more than the regional average of 14,000.

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robust algorithms that allow us to see smaller things in the body, such as little blood vessels, most notably the coronary arteries, in a very reliable way,” says Bicknell.

Upcoming fundraisers for the campaign include a car wash and bake sale, Saturday, April 26, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Real Canadian Superstore Gas Bar in North Vancouver.

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West Vancouver community agencies focused on children are continuing to collaborate to cultivate kindness and compassion in the early years.

The Heart-Mind Project in West Vancouver is an initiative of the West Vancouver Child and Family Hub, a partnership of a host of community agencies (including the District of West Vancouver and Vancouver Coastal Health) working to promote the healthy development and well-being of families and young children, and the Vancouver-based Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education.

Initially a pilot,West Vancouver was one of seven B.C. communities chosen to participate.The community’s interest in the project was the result of findings from 10 years worth of data from the Early Development Instrument, a developmental survey regularly completed

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opportunities for growth and development for young families so that every child has equal, enriching opportunities to grow socially and emotionally,” says Sandra-Lynn Shortall, district principal of early learning at the West Vancouver School District.

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work with our community to ensure that we’re creating optimal opportunities for young children and for families,” she says.

Those involved with the West Vancouver Child and Family Hub Heart-Mind Project are continuing to target local children five and under by participating in West Vancouver community events, as well as offering workshops and resources to families with young children, and those working with them.

The project will be showcased at the upcoming Ready, Set, Learn event at West Vancouver Community Centre.

Ready, Set, Learn is a B.C. Ministry of Education program.

The West Vancouver School District and its community partners are presenting Ready, Set, Learn Saturday, April 26, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the West Vancouver Community Centre.The free morning of learning and activity is designed for parents and their threeand four-year-olds. Early

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Representatives of the Heart-Mind Project will be running a Kindness Room.Visitors can engage in a community art project, music circles, co-operative games, storytime, and other activities focused on heart-

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Health and diet crazes come and go, but a recent gluten-free trend appears to be gaining ground with large strides.

Recent popular books such as Wheat Belly and Grain Brain have helped fuel concerns about gluten and an over-use of it in the typical North American diet. Along with a link to weight gain, some information suggests gluten can also contribute to serious health issues.

According to the Mayo Clinic website, gluten is a protein that is found in grains, such as wheat, barley, rye and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye). It is also found in many other products that are not bread related, including condiments and even makeup.

While the negative and positive effects of a gluten-free diet are still being debated, at least in the media, gluten-free products are making more appearances in grocery and health food stores.

“It’s just a protein and for most individuals that aren’t sensitive, it’s absolutely fine to include gluten,” says Diana Steele, longtime West Vancouver resident and registered dietitian (seen in the photo below). “But a lot of people have thought, well, this is a trend I can hop onto.”

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She explains that most people break gluten down into amino acids and use it for protein turnover, muscle building and tissue repair. Normally gluten is broken down and digested and utilized, she adds, but for people who have celiac disease orr a gluten-intolerance, it interacts with ith the microvilli in their intestine.

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nutrients,” she notes, explaining that when they go flat it can cause some malabsorption of nutrients and also symptoms of cramping, bloating and diarrhea.

“If you suspected that you had celiac disease, or gluten sensitivity, then you would go see your doctor and they can do a blood test to check for the actual disease,” says Steele.

But not all gluten-free products are necessarily healthy, she adds.

“Without the knowledge, people are starting to think, well, maybe I should be eating more gluten-free products,” she says. “The challenge is that some people who don’t need to be glutenfree are perhaps thinking that the gluten-free muffins or the gluten-free brownies are suddenly health foods and those are still treat foods.”

Steele says these types of “treat foods” are still made with tapioca and potato starches and white rice flour, and are not necessarily healthy foods.

“They’re just an alternative for those people peop who can’t have gluten to have their thei treat foods too so they can still have ha the joy of eating like everyone else,” she says. el

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Microvilli are similar to tiny hairs that run along the inside walls of intestines. When someone has a reaction to gluten it affects the microvilli, says Steele.

“These little filaments with a big surface area, they go completely flat and they stop absorbing

Products can also contain hidden sources of gluten, such as hydrolyzed vegetable and plant hy proteins, modified starch, malt and pr malt flavouring.

Steele St le recommends checking with your doctor for testing and a nutritionist for diet recommendations if you believe gluten is a problem for you.

“I do believe that it’s important to go in and actually get tested if you feel that by eliminating gluten it is making you feel better. Go find out for sure if you have celiac disease or not.”

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He touches on his own journey to health, and outlines why he believes it’s important to follow certain guidelines when choosing what you eat.

Some of those guidelines include avoiding highly processed foods; avoiding adrenal stimulation from certain foods and substances such as coffee; and choosing alkalineforming foods to maintain a balanced pH in the body.

This book contains 150 interesting, simple recipes that follow Brazier’s plan for eating well. The recipes are presented in an easy-to-read format with colourful photos.

Symbols note if the recipe is identified as a “transition” recipe, for those new to this type of diet; as well as raw, gluten-free, proteinrich, or “super nutrient dense.”

The book also contains a section about pantry staples, and the recipes include categories such as soups, sandwiches, salads and dressing, smoothies, desserts and more.

The end of the book includes a one-day sample menu each for a transitional meal plan, a standard meal plan and an athletic meal plan.

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What should every person be doing each day for basic good dental hygiene?

People should be brushing thoroughly at least two times per day and definitely flossing at least once per day.

Why is flossing important and how often should it be done?

Flossing removes food and bacteria that brushing alone can miss, and should be done at least once per day.

Are there other things people could be doing at home to help with dental hygiene that are not as commonly known?

Since we’ve become a grazing society where we are often snacking between meals, it is really important that we rinse after snacking.

Try to drink lots of water to prevent dry mouth.

What is the best thing people can do to help maintain good dental hygiene?

Maintenance is key to a healthy mouth, a smooth running car, and a vital body.

People need to get their teeth professionally cleaned at least twice per year to remove calculus/plaque and help maintain their bone and gum levels. Your hygienist will show you where your bone levels are reduced and those areas that need more attention to prevent plaque buildup.

Monitoring the conditions of the mouth and teeth is essential as the ultimate goal is to keep one’s teeth for a lifetime. After all, bone loss = tooth loss=dentures (or implants) = expense and inconvenience.

Are there any foods that help with dental hygiene?

What is the worst thing people can do for their oral hygiene?

The worst thing that people can do with regard to their oral hygiene is not getting their teeth cleaned regularly by a professional hygienist. It’s not dissimilar to changing the oil in your car or regularly getting your blood pressure checked.

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A healthy diet, including crunchy fruit (such as apples) and veggies (such as celery), that encourages salivation will help with your dental hygiene.

Are there any foods that are particularly bad for dental hygiene?

Sticky, sugary products such as caramels, toffee, raisins and the like are particularly bad for your dental hygiene as they stick to your teeth for lengthy periods and encourage tooth decay.

Do you know of any common misconceptions about dental hygiene?

Many people assume that problems with their teeth will just go away in time.

They don’t. Additionally, you don’t feel gum disease, and if allowed to progress you will very likely lose your teeth.

Dental hygienist Elizabeth Jones helps four-year-old Suraiya Nieken-Spence learn proper toothbrushing technique as she sits on her mom Yolanda’s lap. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

What are some warning signs that may indicate it’s time to see a dentist or hygienist?

Inflammation, swollen gums, and/or bleeding may

Athletes are used to pushing themselves and stretching their limits, but aging can pose some new challenges to staying active. The following are some tip for older athletes.

Recognize your new recovery time: Veteran athletes tend to have a sixth sense about their bodies, knowing how long they need to recover from common ailments like ankle sprains, knee pain, back pain and shin splints. Despite the body’s remarkable ability for recovery, it’s not immune to aging, and that recovery time will increase as the body ages. Returning too quickly from an injury may make things worse so don’t push yourself.

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More inportantly, don’t wait until these signs appear because of possible bone loss

Elizabeth Jones is a dental hygienist who runs an independent dental hygiene clinic within the North Vancouver office of dentist Daniel How of Village Dental.

Focus on flexibility: As the body ages, it becomes less flexible, which makes it less capable of successfully handling the repetitive movements common to exercise. Aging athletes should focus on their flexibility, stretching their muscles before and after a workout. In addition, activities such as yoga may help improve flexibility.

Don’t stop strength training: The body gradually loses muscle mass as it ages, and that loss puts the joints under greater stress when performing other exercises. That stress can put people at greater risk for arthritis, tendinitis and ligament sprains. While you no longer need to max out on a bench press or challenge yourself with a bicep curl, it is important to continue to make strength training a part of your fitness regimen as you age.

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The first true breakthrough in fitness gaming came in 2008 with the introduction of Wii Fit, which has since sold more than 20 million copies and spawned two sequels.

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PETS

Dog ownership is a big responsibility “I want to find a new home for it,” were the words that brought me back to reality.

It was a Sunday afternoon when I returned a “desperate dog owner’s” anxious phone call. The conversation started off decently. “I’m a big fan of your column, I’ve been reading it for years . . . and I’m having a big problem with my two-year-old dog.

Can you help?”

I listened for the first minute to the dog owner’s endless excuses and then I tuned out the drone voice on the other end of the phone. I gazed out my kitchen window and allowed my attention to wander to my horses grazing in the pasture and my dogs lounging in the warmth of a rare sunny spring day. I thought to myself, “I should go to the garden centre and buy some Shasta daisies.”

Then I heard the words, “That’s why it has to go,” followed by a pregnant pause and the sound of crickets chirping in the background.

I know what the dog owner was waiting for — me to speak for the dog, to offer my services at a discount, to bend over backwards to help, to compromise my time with my dogs, my horses, my family, my personal time on a Sunday afternoon in the hopes that I would be able to transform this dog into Lassie and therefore

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But instead I said, “Yep, that’s probably the best thing. Just bring the dog down to your local shelter with a little note explaining in the most sincere, heartfelt words how upset you are that you have to turn your dog over to the shelter and hope it finds a new home.”

More crickets . . .

The conversation continued, albeit silently in my head, and went something like this: “Then when you get home and realize you are finally free of the burden you created you can start to shop for a new dog and start the irresponsible cycle all over again. Because I guarantee that you won’t reflect on your behaviour and wonder how you contributed to the situation which resulted in you dumping your dog off at a shelter. Maybe you can buy a dog that is trendier, like a chihuahua that you can stick it in your pocket or stuff under your arm like a newspaper. Or

how about a labradoodle, or goldendoodle or anything-doodle — they are still a trendy breed.

The trendier the breed, the more it is able to sprinkle magic responsible dog ownership fairy dust all over the place, don’t cha know! Then once you bring the puppy home you can screw up the house training because you are working all day and on the weekends you are too lazy or busy to follow a proper training routine. Then after six months of your dog peeing in the house you can call trainer after trainer, until you find one who is cheap or free, then blame the dog. When you fail to follow the trainer’s advice and your dog is still urinating in the house after a year, you can then blame the trainer. Oh, and because you decided not to spend the money on a puppy socialization class, you can then begin to blame the dog again when it starts to show aggression towards other dogs at the dog park. And then you can blame the breeder when your dog bites you — because the dog must be mentally unsound. It certainly could not be because you have failed to provide proper leadership and training.”

So no, no I won’t help you.

More crickets . . .

But what I will do is wait. I will patiently wait for that person or

the shelter and see your burden — which they will see as a treasure. I will wait for their phone call asking for pro-active assistance to correct your mistakes.

And I will help them on a Sunday afternoon,

family who has made a decision to adopt a dog.

Who understands what a huge responsibility and commitment it is to care for a dog properly for its entire life. I will wait for that person to walk into

instead of shopping for daisies.

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Late on the dark and stormy night of April 28, 1947,Trans Canada Airlines Flight 3 confirmed its approach to Vancouver airport.

Minutes later, the twinengine Lockheed Lodestar, with a crew of three and 12 passengers aboard, had vanished.

Then, as now, aircraft would make a loop out over Georgia Strait on their final approach to Vancouver airport. Did TCA Flight 3 come down in the salt chuck? No wreckage, no floating debris and no oil slick was found. Intensive searches by land, sea and air covered more than 12,000 square miles and failed to turn up even a trace of the aircraft.

En route from Lethbridge to Vancouver, Flight 3 had originated in Winnipeg, where David Vance came onboard.

Vance, a lumber buyer supplying the post-war pre-fab housing market, was travelling on business.

He left his wife, two young children, four elder sisters and his nephew, Dennis Reid, in Winnipeg.

“The big thing I remember is the search,” says Reid, who was 10

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years old when his uncle went missing. “All this technology today, we didn’t have then.”There were no black boxes, no emergency locator transmitters, in those days. The search area, over mountains and ocean, was huge and largely inaccessible.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, is still missing, presumably somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. Despite the aircraft’s sophisticated onboard technology and that employed by reportedly the largest multi-national search and rescue effort ever deployed, the vastness of the area of possibility makes the search for Flight 370 as formidable as that presented by the Lower Mainland’s rugged terrain.

TCA Flight 3 lay where it crashed, deep in the North Shore mountains, for 47 years.

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It was assumed the plane’s location was known and the find was not reported until two years later.When Flight 3 was discovered on Sept.

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Larry Campbell said, “The wreckage trail is not very big. . . . Unless you’re right over top, you wouldn’t see it.”

“Not many go back in there behind Mount Seymour. It’s remote,” says North Vancouver’s Clary Jensen, who remembers

the search planes flying overhead. Jensen has been hiking the North Shore mountains since he was 10. Jensen, 85 now, is still a hiker, a member of the North Shore Senior Ramblers Club.

On April 28, 1995, a memorial was dedicated to the crew and passengers

who perished aboard Flight 3. Dennis Reid, now a West Vancouver resident, was there with the Vance family, remembering his uncle Dave. “It made it hard on the family, not knowing,” recalls Reid. During the intervening years, some See Ramblers page 24

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Earlier this year, Reid, Jensen and John Nixon were hiking with the Ramblers in the vicinity of the memorial. In his account of their trip to the area, John Nixon writes, “The trail climbed steadily northwards through tall stands of Douglas fir and spruce, with the trunks of many trees blanketed in thick green moss. Among the conifers were the rotting stumps of trees that had been logged long ago, and the accumulation of downed timber and dense vegetation so typical of

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rain forests. . . .We came to the memorial located just off the trail. One stone describes the tragedy with the co-ordinates of the crash site N 49’24”34 / W 122’56”84. The other records the names of the 15 victims in tribute to their memory. To the northeast through a gap in the trees, the ridge of Mount Elsay, where the wreck was discovered, can be seen in the distance.”

The North Shore mountains are crisscrossed with trails, yet Flight 3 lay undisturbed for almost half a century.

During the almost 30 years the Ramblers have been exploring our own backyard, they have

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I am on a beautiful beach caressed by a gentle surf, reading about the problems of the world in the International New York Times but really more interested in which of the nearby restaurants will do the best lobster dinner.

A smiling young man comes by and offers to clean my sunglasses. Now there are some places where this is a high-risk proposition, but this is Bali, and the beach fronts the Four Seasons Hotel, so my glasses are in good hands.

It is a long way to Bali but worth it for this beach.

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Add a Bintang beer, or two, and what more could you want?

Well, that lobster dinner.

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while the hotel itself has one where the staff can leave offerings. Bali is 95 per cent Hindu and the people live their religion daily with every home having a small shrine.

Another 10,000 temples are sprinkled around this little island of four million gentle, smiling people, whose devotion and rituals seek a balance between humanity and spirituality.

And while the capital, Denpasar, and the main tourist hub of Kuta beach, have grown tremendously since I took my two-year son there on his Asian pool tour, navigating the traffic is more bearable because the sea of small motorbikes runs quietly (Harley-Davidson owners please note) with hardly a horn ever heard. Out in the country the uncrowded roads rise to majestic temples and volcanoes, and offer vistas of rice

paddies where ducks gaggle under their flags.

The duck walk must be seen once. It starts in the morning when a farmer, with a flag on a tall stick, walks his ducks to a rice paddy for a day’s foraging and leaves the stick. The ducks will remain in sight of the flag until he returns, for they know that where the stick goes there is food.

Best way to see it is on an early departure to the craft town of Ubud, where Four Seasons has another hotel, this one with a setting both spectacular and whimsical not unlike the sister hotel in Chaing Mai, Thailand, the latter built around a working rice paddy.

Four Seasons Ubud, like the one at Jimbaran Bay where we are staying, has several restaurants offering authentic local dishes as See Good page 28

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The French boxed up the best of the treasures they had plundered for shipment to Emperor Napoléon III, and the Empress Eugénie is said to have been present at the opening of the crates.

She personally selected items to display in a purpose-built museum, mixing together pieces from the Summer Palace with items from Siam, Japan and Tibet, and with other Chinese items confiscated from aristocratic families during the French Revolution. She commissioned new display cabinets inset with Chinese panels bought from Paris’s

antique shops, and gave pieces of Chinese cloisonné to a master craftsman to incorporate in a vast chandelier that 150 years on still glitters overhead.

Ask Salmon how many items in the Fontainebleau collection come from the plundering of the Summer Palace and he answers immediately and unblushingly: “We think between six and eight hundred.”

This forthrightness about the number and source of its Chinese treasures is striking when compared to the often-timid response of museums in the Englishspeaking world.There, curators are usually kept well away from journalists looking for reactions to

Chinese demands for the unconditional repatriation of treasures. Mentions of Summer Palace provenance are increasingly scarce in catalogues and cabinet labels, and replies to enquiries on this topic are often slow and incomplete, when they arrive at all.

Salmon’s candour is necessarily imprecise.The French expeditionary force provided lists of what it had packed for Napoléon III, but these contain very little in way of description.

Much was later added which did not come from the French forces, including items plundered by the Chinese themselves, many subsequently appearing in antique markets from Beijing to London. “(Eugénie) didn’t have an historic or artistic vision for these objects; she had a very personal vision,” says Salmon. “She didn’t have the sentiment of a curator or art historian. It is she who created this atmosphere, this ambiance, in mixing up techniques and colours in a manner to which her eye responded and which was of the China of her imagination.”

Eugénie’s dazzling creation, Salmon firmly asserts, is therefore now part of French patrimony, and cannot be broken up.

“Here everything is presented as Eugénie wished.

This is not an analysis of Chinese art. It’s Chinese art as perceived by the French.”

If you go: For more information visit musee-chateaufontainebleau.fr.The Chinese Museum is not open every day. Call in advance.

— More stories at culturelocker.com

Good diving on Bali’s west coast From page 27 well as fare for the weary traveller such as steak frites, hand made by the resident French chef.

En route you might like to play the lush Bali Handari golf course, one of seven on an island that lends itself to challenging designs by the likes of Greg Norman and Peter Thomson.

There’s also good diving on the west coast, but most visitors are happy to go to the beach, perhaps for a bargain massage, to

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Sentinel coach vows to stay on despite serious surgery ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

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Sentinel secondary super coach Rob Inman loves to talk soccer.

In fact, through all my years of conducting interviews, I’ve met very few people who love to talk — about nearly anything — as much as Rob Inman loves to talk.

Usually when I call him up to talk soccer I barely have time to get a question out before Inman launches full speed into a detailed analysis of whatever particular team he’s working with at the moment.

Ten minutes later he’ll still be going, having covered such topics as how he likes his kids to run the pre-game warm-ups, what the weather might be like for upcoming games, and how he figures out what position each player should play.

By then he may have even segued into his days with the B.C. Lions, way back in the early 1980s when he was team director and earned his very own Grey Cup ring.

It’s charming, but to be very honest my mind does sometimes wander when Inman is already a couple of minutes into a story about taking the kids to Dairy Queen and the end of the tale seems nowhere in sight. On Tuesday, during one such conversation, Inman caught my attention in the strangest of fashions as he was explaining why one of the games for the team he is coaching now, the Sentinel senior girls, needed to be moved up one day.This was already at least 10 minutes into our conversation.

“I’m going into hospital next week because I have cancer and I’m getting a tumour out,” he said. “I got the game moved from Wednesday to Tuesday so I could be there with the girls. I’ll be there for the West Van game on Tuesday and hopefully I can be there on Friday.”

He then continued right on into a description of how his team, currently second place in the North Shore AAA league, is doing so well this year despite the fact that he starts five Grade 10s and has only three Grade 12s total.

Hold on Rob. Cancer?

Inman has actually been coaching the team while undergoing treatments to get rid of cancer cells on his face. And yes, he did politely request that the league move next week’s game from Wednesday to Tuesday so that he could be on the sidelines the day before his April 23 surgery to remove a tumour that’s near his eye.

Sentinel athletic director Glenn Johnston said that when he found out Inman’s predicament before the season started, he immediately assumed that the school would need to find another coach for the team. Inman was having none of that.

“He was adamant — no,” said Johnston, adding that Inman has continued to go above and beyond his expected duties as a community coach despite some severe side affects from his treatments leading up to next week’s surgery.

“It just lit his face up — his whole face started peeling and cracking because the chemo was attacking the cancer cells in his face. . . . I know he felt a little embarrassed with it but he still has been up every day helping out, getting the team ready.They’re having a great season too.”

For the folks at Sentinel, Inman is more than just a coach. Johnston confirmed my own assessment that he is, among many other things, a

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“Rob talks so much,” he said with a laugh.

“You get Rob talking, you won’t be able to get away. . . .That’s Rob. He’ll chat you up.The kids always roll their eyes, but they love it. He’s like a second dad to them.”

Whether it be the kids, fellow coaches, or random reporters that he’s talking to, Inman always has a story. Johnston said when he first See Inman page 30

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met Inman, who has been coaching at Sentinel for 15 years, he wasn’t sure if the tales were true. Now he knows.

“The stories are insane but they’re actually all true,” said Johnston before listing off some of his favourites.

“Sure enough, I went to his house and there he is, he’s got that Grey Cup ring. . . . At one point he owned a hotel in Waikiki. . . . Do you know about the cats? He’s got like 35 cats in his place.

He’s like a cat shelter. He’ll come to Sentinel in the morning, back to work for a few hours, then go coach, then go home for dinner and then he’ll go back out to feed, like, 30 cats. He literally spends like $2,000 a month on animal food and spaying and neutering. He’s the most interesting guy I know.”

Johnston said that Inman is following in the footsteps of his highly regarded father Derek, the namesake of North Vancouver’s Derek Inman Park who was named to the Order of Canada for his work with many different North Shore organizations.

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Coach set on attending team’s next match From page 30

another great turnaround.

Sentinel finished last in the league one year ago but now they are battling for first as this season passes the midway point.The team’s next game is Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at Ambleside Park against West Van, the winner of which will take sole possession of first place.The next day is surgery day. “(The tumour) is attached to the corner of my eye, so I have to have two surgeons and an eye doctor and a plastic surgeon,” said Inman. “It will be 10 hours on and off.When it’s all over I want them to say to me, everything is good, we got it all and it won’t come back and it won’t spread.

They seem to be pretty confident.”

Inman has been told the surgery is nearly 100 per cent successful.That’s great for him, because he’s nearly 100 per cent sure he’s going to be back at Ambleside for the team’s next game, Friday at 3:30 p.m. against Argyle.

“My intention is to be on the field on Friday,” he said.

“I’m not too sure what I’m going to look like. I’m really counting on the skin-craft guy to do a good job.”

There is one part of Inman’s appearance that will be certain whenever he makes it back onto the field. Since his skin cancer diagnosis he’s been ordered to wear sunblock, sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat whenever he is on the sidelines. His hat choice, like the man himself, is pretty interesting.

“I’m wearing my Indiana Jones hat I got at Disneyland,” said Inman.

“The girls all think I look really goofy when I’m wearing my Indiana Jones hat.They want me to have it when we do the team picture.”

The situation has been a little tough on the team.

With the scarring on his face Inman was forced to let them know exactly what was going on. It was the coach who ended up consoling the kids.

“I got hugs from a few of the girls at the time and they started tearing up and I said ‘Don’t worry guys, I’m fine.

I’ll be there with you for soccer.’ My two co-captains, Nicola (Bonnell) and Jenn (Lesage), they’ve been with me since Grade 8.”

It may seem like a stretch to think that the coach actually will be back on the sidelines three days

after such an operation, but Johnston has a lot of faith.

“Knowing Rob, my gut tells me he’s going to be

there, I don’t think this is going to stop him,” he said.

“His (own) kids have all graduated, he’s not a teacher

has an important game plan drawn up for Friday’s game.

“The priority for the girls is that I’ll still be there for them,” he said. “And after the game we can still go to Dairy Queen.”

His passions are basically working with kids, and soccer.”

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