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City to replace Quay’s rotting boardwalk

Safety advocate raises concerns over wooden deck slated for refurbishment BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The wooden boardwalk traversed by thousands of tourists and commuters on the east side of Lonsdale Quay is set to be torn up and replaced as the existing one is rotting and chipping away.

“Facilities has had it on their agenda for a while and so has the Quay,” said Barbara Pierce, the city’s manager of special projects.

“There are a few spots that are really deteriorating and the Quay was doing some short-term measures to address those.”

The boardwalk is owned by the Lonsdale Quay but the city

has had a right-of-way on the property since the Quay was built for Expo 86. Under a cost-sharing agreement between the two, the Quay is responsible for day-today maintenance and replacement costs are split. It is expected to cost $30,000 to bring in and install new pressure-treated fir. The work is scheduled to start in late August or early September, after the rush of tourists has abated, and last for five days.

But the east deck should have been replaced a decade ago if you ask local safety advocate Richard Kinar.

Kinar has been lobbying the city to do something about the deck since the spring.

“It’s very difficult for people to navigate that walkway right now in high-heeled shoes. It’s very difficult for people that are physically impaired either visually or in a wheelchair . . . . There are signs up all over the place that say it’s slippery See Brick page 5

NV woman charged in Grand Blvd hit-and-run JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

A North Vancouver woman could be facing 10 years in prison stemming from an alleged hit and run in 2013 that put a 21-yearold woman in hospital for nine months.

Madeleine Beckett is accused of failing to remain at the scene after colliding with a pedestrian on a Grand Boulevard crosswalk on the evening of Dec. 4, 2013.

Beckett was spotted a few blocks away by a retired Edmonton police officer who was walking his dog when he noted the car’s smashed windshield and called 9-1-1, according to police.

Beckett was arrested at her home later that evening.

Police conducted a forensic examination of the vehicle and compiled witness statements.

“The key part is placing that vehicle at the scene,” said North Vancouver SeeVictim page 9

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Sufferers of hoarding disorder struggle to let go of past traumas and treasures

JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Shannon Studer stood in the living room of her mobile home, carried aloft by a rising tide of things.

There were piles of CDs and books, paintings, old Life magazines from the 1960s, Christmas decorations.There were hats, a vinyl record player, old telephones.There were things in tubs, things in piles, things on top of counters.

Studer grasped the paper mache angel that countless people have tried to toss in the garbage. “So many people have tried to huck him on me,” she said. “I have to retrieve him every single time.”

There were ripped canvases salvaged from the dumpster behind the craft store.There were pieces of scrap metal.

There were plastic bags of jewelry, stored in rubber containers. “It could cover my living room floor,” said Studer.

Studer, 52, doesn’t look outwardly like a hoarder.

She modelled when she was younger. She’s neatly dressed and put together.When people first come to her

Finders keepers home, “They’re kind of shell shocked,” she said.

She both hates and loves the piles of things that threaten to completely overwhelm her. “It’s like having a meal when you have nothing,” she said.

Studer doesn’t sleep in her bed — she can’t because it’s covered with possessions.

Instead she sleeps on the couch. She had to pick her way carefully to navigate a path through the living room.

Everything here is a “fresh horde,” she said. She cleared most of it out last year then fought with her mother and started filling it again.

Even so, “I’m so much better than I was,” she said.

“I can’t cook in my kitchen sometimes because I’ve covered the stove and I’ve blocked the fridge.”

Studer said recently the fire chief who visited told her on a scale of one to 10 for hoarding, she’s a 10. “It’s the worst you can get,” she said.

Studer came from a terrible background. She was in and out of foster care as a child and was abused physically and sexually.

Violence was part of her life from a young age, as was the

drug addiction and mental illness of people around her. She remembers being given money by her mother’s boyfriends sometimes to go to the store. “I had to keep my brother safe,” she said.

“I would take him up and down every floor (in their apartment building) and look in the garbage for pop bottles.We realized there were some really lovely things that you could find.”

Dumpster diving was a way Studer learned to survive.

Today she still feels compelled to go into dumpsters — to save things that she feels shouldn’t be thrown out or that she could give to someone.

She whispered the names of the dumpsters at the big box stores where she finds everything from furniture to craft supplies thrown away in spotless condition. “I could cry about it,” she said.

Sometimes she saves things she thinks she could sell, to supplement the meager disability pension she survives on.

Most things don’t get sold though. She gives many things away. But others remain stuck in her home.

Depression and a constant

state of financial crisis send her easily into a tailspin of panic and anxiety.

When that happens, “I’m out there (in the dumpster) big time,” she said. “I have to cheer myself up.”

After surviving so much, there are times “I felt the only thing left for me was out of the garbage,” she said.

“It was a blessed place for me.”

••• The first time a man told North Vancouver therapist Don Collett that he was a hoarder, Collett wasn’t sure what he meant.

But in the past five years, the former West Vancouver United Church minister and clinical counsellor has become the Lower Mainland’s go-to specialist in hoarding disorder. Collett consults on between 30 and 50 cases a year.

Hoarding is a “best kept secret,” he said. “It’s far more prevalent than people think.”

Recognition of hoarding disorder as a specific mental illness is very recent.There’s not much research on it and it was only added to the diagnostic manual used by psychiatrists a year ago.

Many people who have

problems with hoarding don’t even recognize they have a problem, said Sheila Woody, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, who is studying the issue.

The difference between average clutter and a hoarding diagnosis includes both whether rooms in the home can still be used for their original purpose and how distressed a person is at the thought of getting rid of their accumulated possessions.

For hoarders, “the very thought of actually moving the object from one pile to a dispose pile is very distressing,” said Collett.

One theory is that part of the brain, which governs decision-making, isn’t working properly in hoarders. Or they may assign value to an object — like an old receipt — that seems irrational. “A lot of people have trouble having compassion for somebody who would save these kinds of things,” said Collett. “It doesn’t make sense.”

But heavy-handed actions to clear a space rarely work.

“People think (by clearing things out) the problem’s going away,” said Collett. “It

doesn’t go away. It comes back twice as fast.”

Hoarders tend to be in their 50s, or older.The problem is often more acute for people who are poor.

“There’s this whole idea of scarcity. If I don’t hold it, I’ll lose it,” he said.

But hoarding can also cut across wide swaths of demographics.

“There are people who have hoarding disorder who live in mansions,” said Collett. “I have clients who filled up a cottage.Who filled up a townhouse and moved on to another place.”

One time, Collett got a call from a fire department in Port Coquitlam about a middle-aged woman who had filled her townhouse with clothes from the Gap. Most of the clothing hadn’t even been taken out of the shopping bags.

Classic items people hoard include newspapers, magazines and pieces of paper. People hoard objects that belonged to family members who have died.

Men hoard tools or wood that might be used for a project, while women hang on to craft supplies. Spare See Compulsive page 4

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Compulsive hoarding a mental health issue From page 3 computer parts, cables and old electronics are common, “So if something breaks down they could repair it … it never happens,” said Collett.

For people with hoarding disorder, it matters where an item goes when it’s disposed of.The garbage is the worst.

“I don’t use that phrase, ‘Let’s get rid of’,” said Lynne Davidson, a professional organizer who works with hoarders about 30 per cent of her time. “I say ‘Let’s see if someone else can use it.

Let’s give it a new home.’”

Getting rid of things is difficult for hoarders. But so is not getting rid of them.

“When you wake up to a mess like that on a daily basis it’s very difficult on the brain,” said Collett. “The brain wants order. Often people in my groups will say ‘My fantasy is to live in a hotel room.’”

About 70 per cent of people with hoarding disorder are also depressed, he said.

“They’re trapped in this purgatory of not being able to stand it, but not being able to do anything about it.They want to be released from it, but they don’t.”

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Today, Ellen lives in a neat walk-up apartment that feels comfortable and cheery.

But getting there has been a long journey.

“It’s so shameful to have the problem,” she said.

When Ellen was growing up, “My mother threw everything away, including my stuff,” she said. “She wouldn’t understand why you would keep a book.”

Her neighbour, on the other hand, had a collection of postcards and fabric

scraps. “I could just look at those objects for hours and hours,” she said. “I wanted things like that for myself.”

Ellen’s family moved when she was in high school, leaving her behind to graduate with financial help but little emotional support.

She married young, split up, then later met her

second husband, who was considerably older than she was. Although neither of them knew it, he was also in the early stages of dementia.

And he was a pack rat.

“He didn’t like to shop for clothes but if he found pants that fit he would buy a dozen pairs all at once,” she said.

As her husband’s illness progressed, the mess in their house grew. Eventually she just gave up trying to clean up. “I left all the dishes on the counter. I left the laundry where he dropped it on the floor.

“Then I started going out collecting objects because my home environment was so ugly.”

Ellen found “treasures” in yard sales and thrift shops.

As she gathered things, she put them in boxes, intending to deal with them one day.

Her husband moved to a care home, and eventually died, but Ellen’s problem with things continued.

“I knew I had a problem with stuff,” she said.

At its worst, her living room was covered with boxes. “It would look like someone was moving out or moving in rather than actually living there,” she said.

“There’s just a certain amount of accumulation that it snowballs, that you just can’t get past it,” said Ellen.

“The shame was huge.”

She kept the yard as tidy as she could, so she wouldn’t attract attention.

Then one day, she heard Collett on the radio and See Firefighters page 8

STAY IN THE HOME YOU LOVE

As the North Shore population ages, the subject of ‘aging in place’ has become a more important issue for our seniors, their families and health and support agencies in North and West Vancouver.

In the United States, the Centre for Disease Control defines ‘aging in place’ as the ability for people to live in their own homes and neighbourhoods, safely, comfortably and independently. Research indicates that the very best thing for us as we age is to stay in the home we know.

Knowing our neighbours, being familiar with our surroundings and having access to medical services and shopping helps us maintain a sense of belonging and well-being.

Staying in place, however, is sometimes easier said than done. Because of our topography, many North Shore houses are multi-levelled and moving from level to level can become difficult- particularly for those of us with mobility issues.

People can find themselves faced with the difficult, life-altering choice of moving. Fortunately there are other alternatives.

Alan Bodnaruk and Cam Pomeroy of Western Elevator have been working with homeowners and occupational therapists to find in-home mobility solutions for many years.

“There are a variety of ways the home can be modified to help you move easily from level to level,” says Alan. “Stairlifts are a sturdy chair assembly unit that travels up and down on an aluminium rail mounted to the stairs and are the easiest to install. They may be straight, curved, or custom fitted.

They are very easy to use, very secure and can be folded out of the way when not in use.”

Straight stairlifts are reasonably priced, starting at $3,500.00 and are a great solution for most people, but if you have a family member in a wheelchair, you may need another solution.

Other in-home mobility solutions include platform lifts and elevators. Platform lifts or porch lifts are installed outside to assist a family member using a walker or wheelchair to travel from ground level to a deck or platform on another floor.

“This works well for many situations if you are coming to or going from the house, but it’s outside, so if you want to change levels inside you would have to go outside- sometimes in less than ideal weather.”

For those of us with the space and resources, there is the ultimate people mover: the residential elevator.

“To install a residential elevator your home needs an approximately a 5’ x 5’ area for a shaft. Rooms on the different floors need to line up above each other and leave enough room for the elevator,” says Cam. If the home is not large enough, the elevator shaft can be installed on the outside of the house. Installing an elevator is a fairly serious undertaking because of the construction and technology involved, but it gives total mobility throughout your home to everyone and adds lasting value to your property.”

There are a lot of options for you to consider when deciding whether to stay in your home. Moving is an expensive solution. You may find staying where you love, and making the necessary improvements is less expensive.

If you would like to find out more about the services provided by Western Elevator Ltd. and arrange a no-cost assessment of your home, call 604-777-3787 or check them out online at westernelevator.com.

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the central waterfront, Spirit Trail and Shipyards redesign projects, Kinar said.

“When it comes to these high-profile public areas, there should be a third party that’s doing an audit on them. I think the city has let down the residents of North Vancouver by not keeping up with that decking. It’s dangerous,” he said. “If we don’t get the language right, then we as taxpayers are going to be liable as we are right now

for a very, very expensive resurfacing of the Lonsdale Quay.”

Mathiesen said he expects the Quay and the city will continue to work together.

“We will be involved in making any changes necessary as we continue to partner for the betterment of the Lower Lonsdale area,” he said. “I’ll assume we’ll continue to work on the same model where we maintain anything on our property.”

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It’s almost always slippery,” he said, noting it is the main pedestrian route to the SeaBus. “There should never be a walkway surface that’s slippery when wet.”

The city did take Kinar’s concerns to heart and sent an engineer down to the boardwalk to have a closer look but that wasn’t the impetus to get the project started, Pierce said. “(We) determined it wasn’t an immediate safety hazard. It needed to be replaced but it was not something that required the closure of the decking,” Pierce said.

The city set aside money for its share of the replacement during the 2013 budget process.

Kinar is also calling for the Quay to redo the brick walkway immediately north of the boardwalk — a piece of land where the city has no right-of-way. “It’s in really bad repair. That one is particularly troublesome because it is so uneven and sagging,” he said.

But the deck and the brick area’s safety are judged by the same standards and the brick walkway is safe according to the Quay’s management.

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n RBC study released this week concludes people aged 35 to 45 are, thanks to their mortgages, carrying dangerously large debt levels that could put them in deep trouble if interest rates go up or the housing market comes down.

These grown-up Generation Xers largely bought their homes from 1999 onward. After two decades of an average home appreciation of 0.3 per cent per year, appreciation jumped to 4.6 per cent per year since that time, the study noted.

This news will come as cold comfort to Generation Y, which now finds itself priced out of home ownership entirely.

Whether you assign blame to foreign millionaires or local ones, the effect is the same. People making middleclass wages are either overextending

MAILBOX Logging sustainable on Gambier Dear Editor: I totally agree with Bill Errico’s letter regarding woodlots on Gambier Island (Gambier Woodlot Program ‘Makes Sense,’ July 24).

If these logging permits were awarded to a major timber harvester such as Weyerhauser, I would share the concerns of the opposing vocal group on the island.

But small woodlots are different.This group of onedimensional conservationists are exaggerating worst-case scenarios, and a lot of their strident scare language is being economical with the truth.This issue deserves clear, pragmatic consideration.There is no place for activist rhetoric.

Earl Matheson Gambier Island

themselves or becoming resigned to the fact they will rent forever.

The problem is, Generation X is in so deep now, they’ll fight ferociously any effort to bring housing values back into the realm of sanity. And anything that brings the housing market back down in a hurry is likely going to crush more than a few sectors of the economy with it.

There’s no one person or policy to blame for this conundrum.

It’s simply the free market playing out.

The cost of housing is ever present either in the foreground or the background of most any debate we have now, whether it’s at the council table or the dinner table.

It’s just sad that there’s no way to have the debate without pitting one generation against another.

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Kayaks, log skidders don’t mix Dear Editor: At the information meeting on the new woodlots on Gambier Island, the forestry reps did not mention the existing woodlot at all. They referred us to woodlots at Port Alberni and Sumas Mountain, which I felt were not comparable to a woodlot on Gambier. Gambier has very high recreational value, is extremely scenic and on the doorstep of Metro Vancouver. As a kayaker and hiker, I have visited it many times.

There are not many beaches on the northeast side of Gambier for kayaks and other boats to land. Personally, I would prefer not to share what small beaches are there

with a skidder or a booming ground. Hikers generally avoid logging roads.

But that’s missing the point. Gambier’s value lies in its environmental benefits — fish-bearing streams, herring spawning areas and old growth trees. And in its recreational benefits. The area of the proposed woodlots is very beautiful and should not be marred by new roads and logging. And it is a healthy, educational playground for the kids who attend the camps on Gambier.

These new woodlots are totally inappropriate and should be cancelled.

Janice Wilson, North Vancouver

Gov’t should pass along savings to schools Dear Editor: The recent “gift” of $40 to parents with young children is almost the exact amount of the per pupil funding each child is given in the budget for a day.

This $40 gift will cover the costs of one day’s daycare or one hour of tutoring or some private music, dance and drama lessons.

Children are in school for six hours. What a bargain for the taxpayers when we multiply six times $40 per hour and we get $240 in instruction and childcare costs

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per pupil per day.

This same $40 per pupil also has to cover school and district daily operating costs.

The government costs of the ongoing dispute and the upcoming court case could be going directly to the schools to pay for the specialist teachers who provide support for children who need more individual help.

There needs to be a settlement.

Pat Kotush North Vancouver

YOU SAID IT

“Instead of being cat people, we had bikes.”

NorthVan cyclist Andrew Prenty plans to spend 10 years bicycling around the world (from an Aug. 3 news story).

“My legendary impatience sometimes gets the better of me after over an hour of going around in circles on a debate.You get desperate to call a question, any question.”

WestVan Mayor Michael Smith admits council was hasty in calling for a ban on LNG tankers in Howe Sound (from an Aug. 8 news story).

“We’re turning youth away.”

Hollyburn Family Services executive director Nanette Taylor discusses the increasingly overwhelmed North Shore youth safe house (from an Aug. 8 news story).

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Complaining Dane may just have a point So Denmark, our Canadian cities aren’t good enough for you, eh?

What’s the matter?

Unimpressed by our children’s use of Lego? Not enough food trucks selling pickled herring? Wish there were more paths for your precious little Euro bicycles with your sensibly padded seats and festive paniers?

What say you, Great Danes?

Oh, just the bicycle thing.

OK. Well, let me tell you something, you happiest people on earth; you liverpaste-on-rye-bread-scarfing Vikings; you well-employed, socially mobile, fairy-tale telling weirdos: I kind of agree with you.

I know that it’s not all Danes who are complaining.

In fact it’s just two. And they didn’t say a thing about herring or Lego or Thumbelina. But they did call us fat. And they have a point.

Danish tourist Holly Chabowski wrote an open letter to the Ottawa Citizen and several Canadian politicians following a

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Laugh All YouWant five-week trip that she and her girlfriend took through Eastern Canada.Their complaint was that the Canadian cities they visited weren’t livable places, they were parking lots.

“As humans trying to enjoy Canada’s major cities (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa and Halifax) we were treated like secondclass citizens compared to cars . . . .We heard that the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, is actually tearing up bicycle lanes to make way for more cars!”

First of all, Danish humans: let’s not go judging the entire country based on

the actions of Rob Ford.

That’s like judging the Louvre based on a huge turd someone left in the gift shop washroom.You do know that he really loves crack, don’t you?

Anyway, you’ve got a good point about the rest of it.We should be doing more to reduce the number of cars in use and get more people walking, cycling and taking public transit, clearing up our shared spaces for fun European-style things like picnics or raves or soccer riots or whatever.

We here in Vancouver claim to have the whole healthy lifestyle thing figured out but there are many of us too who spend two hours a day in our cars, furious at how long it is taking to drive up the mountains so that we can go mountain biking.

We have decent bicycle infrastructure and public transit here in the Lower Mainland but the whole system is having a shocking time of it lately.There was that thing where the whole SkyTrain system just stopped working due to a computer glitch. And

here I was thinking that I was the only one who had a terrible work computer — maybe the TransLink guys committed one of my cardinal sins like opening Twitter and Facebook at the same time. Rookies.

Then there was that thing

where the whole system shut down again a few days later. Passengers stranded, commuter chaos. Not good.

Things are a little different here on the North Shore where we don’t have to worry so much about transit shutdowns because

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Firefighters regularly visit hoarded homes From page 4 sent him an email, asking for help.

Today, “I’m still working on it,” she says. Although she moved from her former home to an apartment, she still pays for five storage lockers containing things she hasn’t been able to part with.

“The problem is the stuff that nobody else values,” she said, like canned food past its expiry date. “You can’t even give it to the food bank.”

There are the objects with heavy emotional ties.

The hardest thing she ever got rid of was “all the clothes that I knitted and crocheted for the baby I never had,” she said. “I had a hope chest full of things . . . those things were made with love.”

She eventually gave them to a hospital auxiliary that sells baby clothes in a hospital gift shop.

Like Studer, Ellen has trouble with the throwaway society we live in. “If we weren’t that kind of society, I don’t think I’d be in this place at all,” she said. “It’s the ease of stuff and the constant push of stuff.”

Ellen said she finds it weird that people consider hoarders — “people who

keep old and broken things” — disgusting, but those who are driving the consumer society aren’t regarded as obscene.

“What we find disgusting is completely inappropriate,” she said.

Collett also sees a relationship between hoarding and a societal obsession with consumption.

Houses are bigger than they ever were and the garages attached to them aren’t used to park cars. “All of them are filled with things,” he said.

“When I came to the North Shore in 1998 there were no storage places. Now they’re everywhere.”

••• Firefighters are often the first contact hoarders have with authorities.

In his 28 years as a firefighter,West Vancouver’s Assistant Fire Chief Martin Ernst said he’s seen a lot of hoarding.

When he first encountered it, prior to reality TV shows, “we just called it ‘overstored’,” he said. “We didn’t even have a name for it.”

Today, about a quarter of Ernst’s time is spent dealing with hoarding.There are 15 addresses in West Vancouver alone where hoarding has been noted and six active

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“I hate calling them hoarders. It’s such a nasty term,” he said. “I like calling them owners.They own the property and they own their lives.”

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In the past, authorities were more heavy-handed about hoarding. People would be told, “’You must change it.You have to do this.You have to do that,’” he said. “It didn’t work.”

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hoarding is a disorder, said Ernst, and they work in a gentle way to get to reasonable safety standards.

They try to ensure no electrical cords are being squished, that there are passable hallways, working smoke alarms and fire extinguishers.

Hoarded spaces are both more likely to catch fire — through a compromised electrical cord for instance — and more deadly when it breaks out. If a fire starts in a regular home, “you have one to three minutes to escape,” said Ernst. In a hoarded home, “you might not even have 30 seconds.”

One of the first things Ernst does is talk to people.

“We say, ‘What’s going on in your life?’” he said.

Many hoarders have suffered emotional trauma that hasn’t been dealt with, he said. “People build things up around them to protect themselves.”

Ernst sees a wide cross section of people who hoard.

Years ago, he was called by an apartment manager to a unit occupied by a psychologist and a nurse, and the couple’s young daughter. “You’d think they had their lives in order,” he said. “But the suite was completely hoarded.”The daughter’s room was so full of things, she had to sleep on a mat at the foot of her parents’ bed.

Ernst said he doesn’t aim for perfection. “On a scale of zero to 10, zero is a hotel room,” he says. “We walk into fives all the time. I’m not worried about a five.”

Often he’ll make people do the helicopter test. “If I can spin around with my arms out and have my arms not touch anything, they pass the test,” he said.

As a firefighter, Ernst has observed the relationship between people and their possessions intimately. “You realize when you’re sifting

through the debris (after a fire), how much stuff they have,” he said. “When it’s ash, there’s no turning back.

It’s gone.

“Most humans have the capacity to move on.”

Studer says she’s determined to get there too, little by little.

Time has passed since the first visit to her home.This time her kitchen counters are clear.There’s nothing piled on her sofa. It’s lighter in her home as well — she spent a day scraping off a frosted coating she’d painted on the windows. Now she can see out and a warm breeze blows through the open window, tickling the fringe of a lampshade.

She got rid of so much, she says. But it’s hard.

Her bedroom is still crammed and there’s everything from an old vacuum on the porch to a plastic horse in the bathtub.

She still has her paper mache angel. He hangs above the porch, a shy smile on his face, with outstretched arms.

Working with hoarding, Ernst said one of his tasks is to help people realize that there is a better life than living under mountains of things. “It just needs to be uncovered.”

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Berry pickers bemoan Time to clear the potholes summer pesticide use From page 7

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Lynnmour residents say they were caught from the blind side this week when MetroVancouver crews used a herbicide to commit invasive species homicide.

Metro crews targeted swaths of Japanese knotweed in Inter River Park, leaving some outdoor enthusiasts wondering about the toxicity of newly ripe blackberries and the long-term health effects of glyphosate exposure.

Eager to try a new blackberry cordial recipe, Elise Roberts ventured into the woods when she saw a sign warning of herbicide application.The sign is small, faded and vague, she said. “They do not say (glyphosate) is being sprayed, they say it’s being applied,” she said.

Lynnmour resident and blackberry picker Brenda Barrick also overlooked the signs. “If they sprayed, I had no idea,” she said. Barrick declined to pick this year’s Inter River blackberries because of the spray.

Aghast at seeing children picking berries, Roberts registered her complaints only

to be told the blackberries were safe. However, at least one sign on the site states: Do Not Eat Berries Found Near Treatment Site.

Eliminating knotweed in a safe way allows nature to “reboot itself,” according to Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver project manager Jennifer Grenz.

“Blackberries in the area are fine.We’re not spraying the blackberries,” she said.

Some municipalities including West Vancouver have banned spraying glyphosate, opting for stem injection. Stem injection uses 500 times more herbicide than spraying and is far less effective, according to Grenz, who says one of the flaws of stem injection is its nearinstant effect. “You actually want a slow death,” Grenz explained. “If it kills too fast the product doesn’t actually translocate right down to the end of the root, so you end up with live root fragments left in the soil that will give rise to more plants.”

Spraying is only permitted when wind is calm and glyphosate can be controlled, according to Grenz. “You can see great examples where we spray one plant

and the tree and plant beside it are alive and thriving,” she said.

That’s not the case at Inter River, according to Roberts. “There’s a whole swath of blackberries right next to the knotweed that’s all brown and dying.”

Inter River Park is safe, according to Grenz. “You’d be more exposed to pesticides walking in a grocery store,” she said, discussing glyphosate’s prevalence in agriculture.

Failure to control a monoculture like Japanese knotweed can mean loss of wildlife habitat and disruption of spawning channels, according to Grenz. Spraying glyphosate helped rejuvenate formerly infested sites in Cates Park and Mosquito Creek, she said.

The knotweed problem is particularly acute in Inter River, which is used as a park storage area. If Japanese knotweed intermingles with gravel or sand, the species could be trucked to other district parks.

Roberts plans to advocate mayor and council for a moratorium on the use of pesticides and herbicides in Lynnmour.

trailers hitched to the back of their bikes. At least we now have those expensivelooking gates that never close guarding the SeaBus station. Good to know that free-loading hippopotamuses (hippopotamusi?) won’t be able to sneak onto the boat anymore.

There is actually some transit available on the North Shore.That thing that goes through your neighbourhood seemingly once every three days is called a bus. But really, neighbours, who wants to walk five blocks, wait three days and then pay $2.75 to sit beside other humans on a bus when we all have perfectly good Ferraris for quick trips to the coffee shop, and if we need to get across town we can get the chauffer to bring the Rolls around. Or hell, if traffic into Vancouver is a little sticky, Jeeves can just fire up the helicopter. Am I right?

Seriously though, transit options here should be better, and they should be free. Or really cheap at least.

And it should be so across the country.The public apparently agrees. As a sign of good faith after causing commuter chaos with

the SkyTrain shutdowns, TransLink caused holiday chaos by making all transit free on Monday’s B.C. Day holiday. Lines were once again huge as cheapskates took advantage of the offer.

It proved, though, that we aren’t above taking transit, we are all just, in fact, cheapskates.That’s also why drivers grumble about the thought of having to subsidize transit with gas and vehicle taxes and the like.

We’re always asking what it would take to get drivers out of their cars. How much would gas have to cost to make you think about taking the bus or riding a bike?

But for people set on driving — due to necessity or principle — the question just needs to be presented a different way.We need to ask drivers sitting on Taylor Way in minute 45 of a two-hour traffic jam how much they would pay right now to take half those cars off the road.

Would they pay $5? $80? $4,000? Maybe.

Making transportation work is a — wait for it — two-way street. It’s time to clear the potholes.

And as for you, Denmark: your input is welcome.

Thanks for getting the conversation started. And

don’t forget to visit other parts of Canada — like our beautiful North, the Rocky Mountains or the majestic Prairies — where traffic jams are more likely to be caused by moose than motors. Just remember to pick up your damn Lego. aprest@nsnews.com

Victim in rehab centre From page 1 RCMP Cpl. Richard De Jong.

Following the collision the victim was rushed to an intensive care unit for head trauma and internal injuries.

The North Vancouver woman remains in a rehabilitation facility.

“She has a long road ahead,” De Jong said.

Failing to remain at the scene carries severe punishment — in part because drivers can provide valuable assistance, whether it’s giving first-aid or providing information for police, according to De Jong.

“It is looked on quite strongly by the courts as a serious offence,” he said.

Beckett’s arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 27.

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Taking your pet for a walk is a great calorie-burner

Having a dog can be like having a personal trainer.

Well, one who can’t talk or show you how to do a reverse dumbbell fly on a stability ball. But they are motivating!

According to a 2011 study in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, people who take their dogs on regular walks are more likely to be in better physical shape than people who walk with people, or not at all. In fact, the study showed that dog walkers are more active overall than folks who don’t have canine companions.

Another 2008 study, published in Preventative Medicine, found dog owners who take time to walk with their dogs may average 150 additional minutes of exercise every week.

One hundred and-fifty minutes of exercise a week — or 21 minutes a day — can have a huge impact on your fitness level. Dog owners who spend this time walking at a brisk pace will burn 14,300 extra calories in a year.That’s four pounds just from walking the dog.

Owners who run with their pets, based on the rate of calories burned during strenuous exercise, will burn an extra 52,000 calories each year.That’s approximately 15 pounds.

Getting your kids to walk or jog with the family dog is also a great way to encourage fitness in children. Especially for parents whose children would rather play video games than a game of soccer, regular dog walking can play a role in preventing a sedentary lifestyle. It can also imbue kids with a sense of responsibility.

Just as it’s a good idea for people to consult their doctor prior to beginning a new exercise routine, dog owners should consult their veterinarians before starting canines on an exercise plan.

Some breeds are not suitable for strenuous exercise — think short-nosed bulldogs or pugs — as they can have trouble breathing.

If you are already in great shape, don’t assume your dog is. Gradually increase your dog’s endurance. Dogs have a tendency to keep up with their owners, even to the point of overexertion.

Try to avoid exercising midday, as dogs can get heatstroke and burn their paws on hot pavement.

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Chef keeps it interesting at Silver Harbour Lunch at Silver Harbour Seniors’ Activity Centre may be one of the North Shore’s best kept secrets.

People come in twos or groups of three or four or more, perhaps before or after a class. Others come because the centre is a great place to meet for a meal.The full course menu, different every day, is always delicious, nutritious and gentle on the budget.

During this overheated summer, salads are popular at Silver Harbour. B.C. salmon and prawns might appear on the menu one day.

On the next, an Indonesian dish with spices dialed down and flavours enhanced.

Apply a little imagination and picture tucking into duck with wine sauce or roast beef with all the trimmings on a dark and rainy winter day.

Producing a tasty, healthy, affordable meal is easily done. Doing so consistently and with variety five days a week, year in and year out, is a challenge. Ask anyone who has had the task of preparing three meals a day, every day for a year or even for a month.

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The challenge of cooking in quantity for a specific group is also a factor.While everyone of every age is welcome to enjoy lunch at Silver Harbour, diners are primarily seniors, some with dietary restrictions, others with cultural preferences, and still others with eating habits developed over a lifetime.

For head cook Zoltan Csapkay, who has been running the kitchen and designing the menu five days a week for 11 years, it’s like cooking for a large family, a very large family.

Last year the centre served approximately 70 people per See Chef page 16

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604-984-8347 www. alzheimerbc.org YEW LAKEWETLAND WALK The Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia will host a free two-kilometre walk with North Shore Wetland Partners Friday, Aug. 15 at 10 a.m. Learn about the wonders of local wetlands and their importance in

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Chef compares job to cooking for big family From page 14 day and 17,000 meals over the year, reports executive director Annwen Loverin.

Csapkay was born in Hungary in 1946, just after German occupation and just in time to grow up under the communist regime.

Ten years old before he tasted butter for the first time, the future chef already knew that the heavy labour of soviet farm and factory life was not for him. “Only the kitchen attracted me,” Csapkay recalls. “I don’t even have any tools in my home today.”

He entered the world of cooking and kitchens in Budapest at a four-star hotel where each type of food service required its own menu and style of cookery.

Training completed, Csapkay cooked his way around the world.

“I travelled with two suitcases,” he explains. “One was for my clothes.The other was for work.”

That suitcase held Csapkay’s knives and tools, including a spaetzle maker, a spare uniform and his copy of Larousse Gastronomique.

Armed with these tools of his trade, he worked in all forms of cuisine and cookery, from high-end and bistro fare to hotel banquets and institutional food service.

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Running a large, productive kitchen requires mental and physical energy as well as skill with pots and pans — and people.

As Csapkay says, “nothing at Silver Harbour is a singular effort.” He works alongside assistant cook, Don Do and the volunteer crew that prepares and serves food, makes change and ensures the coffee is always fresh. Holly Gagnier in the front office notes those annual holidays and events that can be celebrated by sharing a meal.With his considerable experience in cooking and knowledge of the cuisines of the world, Csapkay is the right man to run Silver Harbour’s kitchen.

When he signed on 11 years ago, “I remembered all the

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Outings BOOK CLUB Read and discuss a wide variety of books on the first Wednesday of the month, 1-2 p.m. at Mollie Nye House, 940 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Non-members $4/members $2. Coffee, tea and cookies provided.

places I worked in my life that enabled me to meet every condition for the job.”

One condition is perhaps the most important.Though it cannot be taught, a love of food and its preparation is the essential ingredient for a true cook. For Csapkay, “Everything to do with cooking, and making food tasty and nutritious, always meant fun to me. If I see people are enjoying my food, then that is my reward.”

Lunch is served at Silver Harbour Seniors’ Activity Centre, 144 East 22 St., North Vancouver, Monday through Friday from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call 604-9802474.

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Know your investment time horizon Investment success generally depends more on time than timing.

While most of us don’t have the ability (or luck) to consistently time the market — buying low and selling high — we can allocate our investments according to the time needed to grow, and hopefully recover from any market slumps.

For example, if you might need cash over the next few years to make a major purchase (education,

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Money Matters car, home, travel, transition to retirement and so on),

volunteer dishwasher to help support food services.

The following is a selection of volunteer opportunities from various community organizations, made available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society.

VOLUNTEER North Shore Salvation Army seeks

FOOD BANK VOLUNTEER Food bank runs on Wednesday mornings at North Shore Neighbourhood House. A volunteer is needed for room set up, lifting and moving boxes from the truck to the gym and organizing them.

FESTIVAL ASSISTANT Deep Cove Daze is a oneday summer festival that takes place Sunday Aug. 24

you should probably leave that money in a money market fund or relatively short-term guaranteed deposit.

The low interest rate of perhaps one to two per cent (and an after-tax return which won’t even keep up with inflation) is the price you pay for safety and knowing you can access all that money when you need it.

Only when you won’t need money for a longer period should you

consider the stock market, real estate, a business, collectibles and so on. But then the question is: “How long?”

If you are a conservative investor, the minimum time horizon would generally be five to 10 years. While there are never any guarantees, this should allow time for the investment(s) to recover in case the market drops, and also cover the costs of selling.

A study byYale professor Jeremy Siegel showed that

between 1802 and 2012, the worst inflation-adjusted one-year loss in the U.S. stock market for stocks was 38.6 per cent (the best gain was 66.6 per cent), bonds’ worst was 21.9 per cent (best, 35.2 per cent) and treasury bills’ worst was 15.6 per cent (best, 23.7 per cent).

But the spread changes over five years. The worst five-year return for stocks was 11.9 per cent (best gain, 27.3 per cent), bonds’ worst was 10.1 per cent

(best, 17.7 per cent) and Tbills’ worst was 8.3 per cent (best, 14.9 per cent).

“Stocks, in contrast to bonds or bills, have never delivered a negative real (after-inflation) return over periods lasting 17 years or more,” said Siegel.

at Panorama Park in Deep Cove.This is a community event dedicated to breathing life into the community and getting everybody out and supporting the bands and artists in the area. Musart Cultural Society is looking for volunteers for set up and take down; handling musical and technical equipment; collecting donations; selling raffle tickets,T-shirts and more.

assist and encourage seniors with participation in social and recreational activities by supporting them with program registration, organizing transportation and initial participation in the new activities.

skills and knowledge of secretarial duties is needed.

The volunteer needs to be available to attend the Friends’ regularly scheduled board meetings on the second Tuesday of every other month at the North Vancouver City Library.

would include attending committee meetings; providing guidance and suggestions on how to continue to promote literacy initiatives throughout the society; and assisting the literacy coordinator with participant assessments in September and June.

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Mike Grenby is a columnist and independent personal financial advisor; he’ll answer questions in this column as space allows but cannot reply personally. Email mike@ grenby.com

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South African winemaker impresses

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Notable Potables It’s been a few years since I was in South Africa.

But I vividly recall a visit to KWV’s hallowed Cathedral Cellar, for so many years the heart of the “old” South African wine industry. At the time, the post-apartheid era was changing at a startling pace in any number of ways.

One was the increase in female winemakers who had been almost unheard of in that very male-dominated world, especially at KWV. Those thoughts crossed my mind this week when I met dynamic, young KWV winemaker Izele Van Blerk, who very much epitomizes

the new face of South African wine.

Van Blerk, who grew up surrounded by viticulture, says her team of six at KWV (all under 32 years old) is evenly balanced between the sexes. She thinks that’s pretty healthy, especially, as she puts it, “The guys appreciate (the) women’s attention to detail, and their focus on quality and that we know what we want.

“As a group, we’re very passionate. And we want to conquer the world,” she says with a laugh.

Signs are they’re on their way, as KWV (which started out almost a century ago as a co-operative) has started to garner more medals in important home and international competitions.

Here’s a few to check out: Cathedral Cellar Sauvignon Blanc 2012 “One of (my) favourite varietals,” says Van Blerk.

“Although it’s very hard work. For me, it’s the most undiscovered varietal in the world, and I think South Africa can compete with the best . . .We get those cooler and warmer climate styles, as

with mocha and coffee notes underpinned by easy tannins (BCLS $13.99, 89 points).

Van Blerk’s truly favourite variety?

“Petit Verdot: it’s a nightmare in the cellar but makes the most beautiful wine. In fact, some people call it Pretty Verdot. It’s floral and violet with a lot of structure.

“I always say it’s a lot like a woman,” she adds. “It has feminine flavours, but it’s also got determination.”

South Africa is in the spotlight at BC Liquor Stores through Aug. 23.

Also worth tracking down: Glen Carlou Grand Classique 2010 (Paarl) This perennially popular Bordeaux-styled blend is always a beacon of Cape value.

Well-matched mix of Cab Sauv (43 per cent), Petit Verdot (20 per cent), Malbec and Merlot (16 per cent) and Cab Franc (five per cent) delivers red and dark fruits with plum, cassis and mocha notes wrapped in easy tannins (BCLS $20.99, 90 points).

well as many others.”

This wine sports tropical and citrus notes on top followed by a bright and juicy palate, with hints of lime and mineral and a clean, zesty close (BCLS $16.99, 90 points).

Cathedral Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 “Multi-regional with fruit from mainly warmer areas. Sixteen months in French oak with a touch of American oak.”

This wine shows how South Africa often falls neatly somewhere right in between new and old world styles. Good varietal character, with some herbal notes, good fruit acid balance and some decent grip beneath the plushness.

A perfect barbecue companion ($16.99, 89 points).

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When you believe it, you will see it I think we all tend to take our canine companions for granted from time to time.

Sometimes it is only when they are sick or injured that we fully recognize or remember just how much they mean to us.

It’s hard to watch them limp and yelp in pain with an injury or to see them listless due to an illness. And it is especially hard when we are feeling a sense of helplessness because although we can ask them where it hurts or what we can do to make it feel better, they can’t tell us.

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The idea of animal communication is a bit of a contentious issue.You either believe in it or you don’t, there is no grey area. Often those who believe are labelled as a bit cuckoo and “way-outthere” — a “one can short of a six-pack” kind of person.

Truth be told, I was one of those who labelled the believers and their ideas as “a bunch of hooeydoey” until the passing of my dogs Harley and Alex many years ago.

Unexplainable coincidences revolving around their deaths lead me to question many things in life, one of them being the esoteric connection between animals and humans.

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What I have learned in my limited yet growing experience of esoteric animal communication is that, without sounding crazy, we are able to speak to them in our language and get answers back in their language — yet the understanding is universal.

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What I can do is use my own personal experiences to show how this is possible.

Now, I’m not talking Dr. Doolittle stuff here.

The communication I am referring to is far more subtle than that.

So open your mind and stay with me here . . .

As my readers know, I have three dogs: Zumi, Piper and Raider. Over the last 10 days, each of them has injured themself.

Each of them presented their injuries to me as most dogs do, by limping and showing signs of distress such as panting, restlessness, yelping upon movement and clinginess.

As I worked with each dog to diagnose the injury they each displayed unique behaviours to indicate a “yes” or “no” to my question, “Is this where it hurts?”

When I ran my hands across Zumi’s shoulder, she turned her head and looked at me intensely then gently licked my hand when I stopped at her shoulder. When I ran my hand along Piper’s legs, he didn’t move. But when I touched his thoracic spine he squinted his eyes and licked his lips. With Raider, I palpated his paw, his forearm and then the back of his elbow. When I reached his tricep he

feverishly. I then asked him if he had an ulcer while touching his stomach and he lowered his head and licked his lips, which in horse language is a sign of acknowledgement.

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King Marcos reigns again Baghdatis wins second VanOpen title ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

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If Marcos Baghdatis keeps up his current pace, we can pencil him in as the 2019 champion of the Odlum BrownVanOpen tennis tournament.

The tournament has had big names before — Maria Sharapova and Andy Murray both played here — but almost always those appearances came before the players hit the big time. Baghdatis, however, had already made a name for himself before ever setting foot onto the grounds of West Vancouver’s Hollyburn Country Club. Now 29, the Cypriot’s biggest breakthroughs came in 2006 when he made the final at the Australian Open and the semifinals at Wimbledon. In 2009 he was coming back from injury and needed to pick up ranking points so he stopped by the VanOpen, brought a bunch of buzz to the tournament and then lived up to his billing and won the whole darn thing.

In 2014, coming back from injury and looking for wins and confidence, Baghdatis again decided to swing by the VanOpen and, once again, thrilled the fans with a championship performance. On Sunday Baghdatis made use of his sneaky-good serve, strong defensive game and sumptuous drop shots to beat Farrukh Dustov of Uzbekistan 7-6 (6), 6-3 in the final.

One telling tidbit of information illustrates how Baghdatis is on a different level than the rest of the players who he took on in this year’s VanOpen: despite his long tennis resume, Baghdatis said he had never before faced any of the five players he played at the VanOpen.They were all gunning for him, and he gunned right back.

“It was kind of weird because they have nothing to lose and they just go for shots,” he said of facing one new challenger after another.

“They’re more relaxed, and you feel it.They’re pumped up to be there. . . .They were very aggressive and I was kind of defensive the whole week and kept fighting. I’m very, very happy I went through. It means a lot.”

Dustov, ranked No. 127 in the world and seeded fourth in the tournament, used his power game — at six-four he was a good six inches taller than Baghdatis — to his advantage in the first set as he held the lead throughout, but Baghdatis battled back and forced a tiebreaker.

“The first set was very crucial for me because I played a long match yesterday and didn’t want to go through another fight of coming back,” said Baghdatis. “Mentally it

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Dustov jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second set but Baghdatis took control from there, winning six of the next seven games to run away with the match. All eyes were on the Cypriot throughout the tournament but being the fan favourite and top seed didn’t faze the veteran.

“I think the pressure is where you expect to win,” he said. “That’s where the pressure comes. It’s not

mostly what people say, it’s what you expect from yourself. And sometimes you expect to play better and you get frustrated that you don’t match your expectations. I’ve been very, very happy with the way I’ve handled things this week. I’m not saying I played my best tennis but I know where I am at at the moment. . . . I’m not at my 100 per cent best so we’re trying to get through it.”

Baghdatis, now ranked 106 in the world, had fond memories of 2009 in mind when he decided to come back to the VanOpen to go for title

No. 2.

“The vibe,” he said, when asked what he liked about the event.

“The vibe of the people and the atmosphere here. It’s honestly one of the best events, there’s so much energy going on throughout the week here.”

Baghdatis is obviously hoping that at this time next year he’ll be back at a level far above the VanOpen’s Challenger status, but what about a return, just for fun, maybe five years See Tournament page 22

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from now for a shot at a triple crown?

“Listen, we will see,” he said with a laugh. “I hope I won’t be back just for the good reasons, not anything else. Maybe if I am in the top-whatever, maybe I can come back for other reasons.We’ll see. It’s a great tournament, it’s a great city.”

••• In the women’s final Australian Jarmila Gajdosova topped Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3) in a match that started quietly — fans couldn’t muster much more than a polite clap even on important points early on — but built to a dynamite finish capped off by a third set tie-breaker.

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player followed up her toe tape job by winning four straight games to earn a 5-3 lead and a chance to serve for the match. Gajdosova battled back again, however, with two breaks of her own to take a 6-5 lead. One more break from Tsurenko forced the tie-breaker where Gajdosova, ranked No. 103 in the world, finally finished the job.

“I just kept fighting and in the end I came back,” she said after accepting her championship trophy. “I knew she was going to be a tough match.”

Gajdosova is on the way back up the rankings after a few calamities knocked her off the radar.The native of Slovakia moved to Australia at the age of 13 and reached a high ranking of No. 25 in the world in 2011. But then her marriage to an Australian tennis player ended, her mother passed away and she missed a year of playing with a case of mono. She now lives in Dallas and is hoping this win will keep her heading in the right direction.

“My last year and a half wasn’t very peachy,” she said, adding that she was happy with the mental toughness she showed in winning the VanOpen. “I did all I could, I ran all I could.

I think my coach would be proud of me that I can still run after all this time, that I’m not too old. I kept trying and trying and somehow it paid off in the end.”

Other winners included

Austin Krajicek of the United States and JohnPatrick Smith of Australia who teamed up to win the men’s doubles title and the American duo of Asia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez who won the women’s doubles crown.

The tournament also marked the end of the road for longtime fan favourite Rik De Voest, a South African native who won the VanOpen in 2006 and now lives in North Vancouver.

He met his wife Carolyn at the tournament — she was Hollyburn’s athletic director at the time — and the two now have a Canadian-born baby son named Morgan.

De Voest announced that

he would retire following this year’s tournament and was greeted by his family and a bottle of champagne from tournament organizers after losing to Australian youngster Thanasi Kokkinakis in the second round.

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Offer(s) available on select new 2014/2015 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery by August 17, 2014. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers are subject to change without notice. All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,665, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies) and $100 A/C charge (where applicable) and excludes licensing, registration, insurance, other taxes and variable dealer administration fees (up to $699). Other dealer charges may be required at the time of purchase. Other lease and financing options also available. ≠Representative finance example: 0% financing offer for up to 84 months available O.A.C. to qualified retail customers, on approved credit for the new 2015 Forte LX MT (FO541F)/2015 Rio LX MT (RO541F) with a selling price of $16,252/$14,352 and includes delivery and destination fees of $1,485, tire tax and AMVIC fee of $22 and a $1,250 loan rebate. 364 weekly payments of $45/$39 for 84 months with $0 down payment. Credit fees of $0. Total obligation is $16,252/$14,352. See retailer for complete details. *Cash bonus amounts are offered on select 2014 and 2015 models and are deducted from the negotiated purchase price before taxes. Available on finance, lease or cash purchase offers. Offer varies by trim. Certain conditions apply. $7,000/$5,000/$5,500/$4,000 maximum cash bonus amounts only available on the 2014 Sedona EX Luxury (SD75CE)/2014 Sportage SX AT (SP758E)/2014 Rondo EX Luxury 7-seat (RN757E)/2014 Forte SX AT (FO748E). †Loan rebate amounts are offered on select 2014 and 2015 models and are deducted from the negotiated purchase price before taxes. Available on financing offer only. Offer varies by trim. Certain conditions apply. Offer ends August 17, 2014. See your dealer for complete details. ΔModel shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2015 Forte SX (FO748F)/2014 Forte SX (FO748E)/2015 Rio4 SX with Navigation (RO749F)/U.S. Sedona shown, equivalent to a 2014 Sedona EX-L BA (SD75CE)/2014 Sportage SX AT Luxury AWD (SP759E)/2014 Rondo EX Luxury 7-seat (RN757E) is $26,695/$26,395/$22,395/$40,095/$38,295/$30,795. Highway/city fuel consumption is based on the 2015 Rio LX+ ECO (A/T)/2015 Forte 1.8L MPI 4-cyl (M/T). These updated estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods.

Refer to the EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.

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