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Second black bear killed in WV Bruin euthanized in BPs after feasting on kitchen garbage

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The Conservation Officer Service has killed a bear in West Vancouver after

it became “extremely habituated,” to surviving in human neighbourhoods — and human homes.

Last week, the bear pushed its way through a

screen door on a home near Hollyburn Country Club, grabbed a bag of kitchen garbage and made its way out on its own.

“If a bear goes into an occupied residence, essentially, we don’t have a lot of other options with that bear aside from destroying it,” said Sgt. Peter Busink,

conservation officer.

The Conservation Officer Service trapped the bear on Wednesday night and returned Thursday to confirm with the homeowner it was the same one that invaded the kitchen. Busink said he had no choice but to shoot the bear.

“I’ve been a (conservation officer) for 10 years — all in locations that are among the highest human/wildlife conflict areas in the province,” he said.

“I’ve got a lot of experience with habituated bears in traps and this was among the highest habituated bears I’ve ever seen. I thought, at

one point, it was going to lick my hand.”

Busink doesn’t assign any blame to the family whose kitchen garbage was raided because the property was otherwise free of bear attractants. But the bear had clearly learned its bad See Residents page 7

NV man in critical condition after Hwy1 crash BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A North Vancouver man is in hospital and police are looking for a suspect and witnesses after a serious motorcycle crash on Highway 1 Thursday.

The crash happened around 2 p.m., just before the westbound Lonsdale Avenue exit.

According to the RCMP’s Port Mann Highway Patrol division, a pickup truck lost a ladder it was carrying and the driver pulled over and ran out onto the highway to retrieve it.

As people were quickly changing lanes and slamming on their brakes to avoid the man and ladder, a 61-year-old motorcyclist lost control and hit the concrete median. The man went over the handlebars and had a hard landing See Police page 7

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New residency program aims to bring more family doctors to the North Shore

ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

Family doctors are scarce.

According to Statistics Canada, in 2013 more than 15 per cent of Canadians or approximately 4.6 million people reported they did not have a regular medical doctor.

Dr. Dean Brown, North Shore Director of the UBC Coastal Family Practice Residency, says there is a shortage of family physicians as there’s something of a shortage of physicians across the board.

“I guess everyone knows about how hard it is to find a family doc these days,” says Brown. “If you don’t have one already, it can be a bit of a challenge.”

UBC Family Medicine Residency is hoping to curb the shortage with a new program on the North Shore called Coastal Family Practice Residency, which aims to entice medical students into family medicine, or general practice.

“Family Practice Residency is a two-year program that happens all across B.C. in order to take a young doctor who’s just graduated from medical

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school and turn them into a proper family physician,” says Brown. “They’ve just got their MD degree and do two full years of training to take them to the point of being able to be licensed in the province to actually practise in family medicine.”

The program, which has eight residents each year, was started by a group of physicians from the North Shore, Pemberton,Whistler, Squamish, Sunshine Coast and Powell River.

Brown says the program is important not only because it addresses the need for family physicians, but also because of the enhanced partnership with some rural coastal-area communities.

“The hope is to (firstly), get them additional experience and practice in working in those communities because they’re wonderful primary care learning environments,” says Brown. “Secondly, by practising there they may have a chance and an opportunity to put down roots in those communities and end up working there.”

Brown says it could meet the need for more doctors in rural communities, which have an even greater need than urban centres.

The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada reports that towns with a population of less than 10,000 account for around 22 per cent of the nation’s population but are served by approximately 10 per cent of physicians. Canada’s larger rural and regional centres with populations between 10,000 and 100,000 make up almost 16 per cent of the population and have less than 12 per cent of the nation’s physicians.

“When the program is fully up and running a little over a year from now, there’ll be 16 residents running around in first and second year,” he says, adding that most of the physicians’ time throughout the two years will be spent on the North Shore as well as a significant portion in the rural communities.

“Of that time that they spend in the two years, 50 per cent of it needs to be in a family practice office, so basically one year out of the two years they’ll spend in family doc offices both on the North Shore and in the rural communities,” he says.

“The other essentially year of the time they’ll spend mostly around Lions Gate Hospital and on the wards and in the

emergency department and so on, gaining experience in the hospital environment.”

Phillip Simpson is a firstyear resident participating in the program. He says he wanted to become a family physician for a number of reasons, including his father.

“I was inspired by my dad,” says Simpson. “He was a family doc for 40 years and a big source of inspiration for me.”

Simpson was born and grew up in Kamloops and spent almost a decade in Vancouver. He attended Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney in Australia and is one of four international graduates in the program.

“I love medicine itself, I love that you get to develop relationships with people over a course of their lifetime and really get to know them well,” says Simpson. “I like the fact that you get to do a little bit of everything, you get to do delivery, you get to do a bit of emergency, you can do a bit of sports med, you can really tailor your practice to whatever you want.”

Simpson says the people he has worked with in medicine have been “some of the most incredibly nice,

outgoing people I’ve had a chance to meet.”

“I think it’s just a really good fit for me,” he says.

After being interviewed in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Swift Current and Ontario, Simpson chose the North Shore not only to be back in B.C. but also to be closer to his family and the outdoors.

“I love being in the mountains, I love having access to so many outdoorsy pursuits whether it’s skiing, whether it’s going out to Deep Cove, going for a bike ride . . . It’s just a beautiful spot to live,” he says. “The other part is that most family practice programs have a two-month rural rotation but the North Shore program is a bit special in that we get four months rural, which is really great.”

Simpson says although the rural rotation can be more stressful because there is less support, other residents he had spoken to emphasized how much they had learned.

“It’s a chance to go to these places, which are stunning in the first place, and be able to spend a bit more time there and really get our hands dirty as family docs,” he says.

The program is also

meant to entice new doctors to stay long-term in rural communities. Brown says there’s a lot of experience and background that shows if people are trained in certain communities, they end up working there.

“These rural communities in particular are terrific learning environments,” says Brown.

“By being there for long periods of time — hopefully for four months at least — they will perhaps get interested in situating there in the long term.”

The College of Family Physicians of Canada states, “more than 90 per cent of Canadians indicate that a family physician is the first person they would turn to in order to address their medical problems,” and, “on average, one additional family physician per 10,000 people is associated with a 5.3 per cent reduction in mortality.”

Brown says it is becoming increasingly clear the health care system is best when someone has a strong GP looking after him or her.

“It’s important for the person’s care, it’s important for the right working of the See GP page 8

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ICBC refunds for overpayment

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

A lot of cars in B.C. defy description.

Difficulties in distinguishing between vehicles like the Honda Accord LX and the EX — which is the difference between a sedan and a coupe — cost ICBC $38 million this summer.

The province’s insurance provider is getting set to send out 309,000 cheques and a few apologies to customers who have been overpaying due to incorrect vehicle descriptions.

Refunds range from $1 to $350, with an average of $113, not including interest.

Another 132,000 customers will get letters informing them they have been underpaying but will not be asked to pay money back to ICBC. For 30 years, ICBC has used a manual process to register vehicle description, according to media advisor Adam Grossman. “When that system was first put in place it was a very effective system but over the years it’s become, like many of our systems, outdated,” he said.

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have been only two trim levels on any given model; now there are as many as 15 levels, according to Grossman.

“For the broker, it’s become increasingly complicated to select the correct vehicle make and model.”

Many cars were wrongly classified, causing some customers to pay more for optional insurance.

The refunds follow two independent reviews examining 24 million insurance transactions over the last six years.To stop the problem from recurring, ICBC plans to start using a system that will identify a car’s make, model and trim level based on the manufacturer’s vehicle identification number. “The potential for error is taken out of the transaction,” Grossman said.

ICBC made room for the refunds in their 2013 budget, according to Grossman. “There won’t be any impact on insurance rates for customers,” he said, explaining that insurance premiums are primarily driven by claims costs. “It’s only the optional side of our business, so only customers’ optional rates are affected,” he said.

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he time has come for the Vancouver Aquarium to let their mammals go.

Facing a rising tide of public sentiment, the Vancouver Park Board recently decided the aquarium could keep their whales and the dolphins, but forbade most breeding.

Presumably the cetaceans are now free to explore alternatives to mating, such as moodiness, lethargy and posting comments on Reddit.

This is the worst type of compromise.

If it’s wrong for a whale to be born in captivity, it’s wrong for a whale to be kept in captivity.

And as SeaWorld stockholders can attest, more and more people oppose cetacean incarceration.

However, before the Splash Zone runs dry, we should be mindful of what we’re losing.

The aquarium is a hub for research,

MAILBOX Save-on shopper grateful for help Dear Editor: On July 11, while shopping at Save-On-Foods Park & Tilford, I slipped on some water and fell heavily.

I do not appear particularly helpless, but, I suffer from fibromyalgia, and the combination of pain and acute embarrassment left me temporarily incapacitated.

I was ignored by several store employees who stood near by. Fortunately, a fellow shopper immediately came to my aid, and did not leave me until she was sure I could get home on my own. I hope you are reading this, my Samaritan, because, though I did not express it in the confusion of the moment, I want you to know how much your kindness meant to me.

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and every marine maven who clicks through the turnstile to see the fishbowl’s bread and blubber attractions helps fund invaluable investigation.

For nearly a year the sea stars off the coast of British Columbia have been wasting away and dying in massive numbers.The Vancouver Aquarium is one of very few scientific bodies trying to solve that mystery.

The aquarium monitors depleted stocks, cares for sick and injured mammals and advocates for marine protected areas.

During a time when the policies of the federal government are increasingly and aggressively anti-science, we simply cannot afford to lose the aquarium.

But lose it we must.

Unless the park board reverses their breeding ban, our choice is whether or not to support animal cruelty.

We choose not.

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Boweners need commuter bus

Dear Editor: TransLink does not care about our Bowen Island community.

I asked them the other day what would it specifically take to implement a commuter bus from Bowen Island directly to downtown Vancouver. This has not been answered.

Instead, TransLink says they understand Bowen’s unique situation?!

It is OK for them to treat Boweners as third rate in their books.

They told me even buses on the Horseshoe Bay side

take precedent to follow a schedule that mixes well for Nanaimo and Sunshine Coast residents, rather than Bowen; however, what taxes do these people pay to TransLink?

Why are Bowen Islanders getting shafted again?

It is bad enough our local transit shuttle bus on the island ends service at 7 p.m.

If TransLink can’t provide necessary services to encourage less car usage, no wonder why overloads continue on our B.C. ferries on a daily basis.

Andrew Pietrow Bowen Island

Mosque’s token gift appreciated in Norgate Dear Editor: There was a slight jolt felt on Norgate’s 15th Street when the old St. Richard’s Anglican church building was sold to a North Shore Muslim group. Well, the pulpit came down, the mini-minaret went up after some rebuilding and life went on as usual.

There was a surprise the other day when a small bag of candy showed up on our doorstep.

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“You actually want a slow death.” Invasive plant manager Jennifer Grenz explains her preference for spraying knotweed with herbicide (from an Aug. 10 news story).

“If one of those girls had gone overboard, you probably wouldn’t have seen her again.That current can suck a giant tree under and spit it out.”

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Aquarium rescues 100th seal pup

STEFANIA SECCIA sseccia@nsnews.com

It’s only halfway through August, but the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre has already admitted its 100th seal pup — and it’s from North Shore waters.

On Aug. 6, Steve Davis, boat master for Port Metro Vancouver, with his colleague Mark James spotted the newborn on a derelict float about to be deposited into a debris bag, near Mosquito Creek Marina, according to an aquarium media release.

Almost every summer, the rescue centre will see between 100 and 150 seals.

The all-time record was 174 in 2005.

It’s very common for

newborn seal pups to be left alone while mothers gather food, said Lindsaye Akhurst, manager of the rescue centre, and the two men called ahead to assess if the pup on the float was in need.

Davis and James often encounter lone seal pups in their line of work, and this pup looked particularly emaciated.

With the help of Talia Smith, a biology graduate with the centre, the seal was safely removed from the waters and transported back for medical treatment.

And like the rest admitted to the centre, this pup was given a name: Praseodymium, or Pr for short, which is following the rescue centre’s summer theme of naming rescues

after elements on the periodic table. Pr is a soft, silvery metal.

In his new surrounding, Pr is being handfed nutrient-rich formula five times a day in an effort to bring him back to a healthy weight. If all goes well, Pr will be released this fall.

He joins Oxygen, another seal pup rescued near Mosquito Creek Marina, at the centre. Oxygen was found on July 15 and her expected rehabilitation period is two months, which is standard for most rescues.

The centre is also reminding anyone who comes across a stranded marine mammal to not approach it and keep any pets away from it, and to call the centre at 604-2587325 for assistance.

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The bear society can be reached at 604-990-BEAR (2327).

on the road, said Cpl. Garth Domm, Port Mann Highway Patrol spokesman.

“He is in very critical condition right now,” Domm said on Friday morning. “He was unconscious on scene.”

Police are now trying to find the driver of the pickup truck who left the scene.

“A number of persons would have witnessed this.

We have multiple witnesses but nobody obtained the licence plate of the pickup truck,” Domm said.

Police describe the vehicle as a light-coloured pickup truck with a “bubble type” canopy.

Investigators are also looking for the owner of a green Subaru who drove over the ladder, just before the collision, Domm said.

The accident nearly closed off the highway as emergency crews allowed only a single lane of traffic to sneak by on the shoulder.

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view and a system point of view and then those reasons are even more so perhaps in rural communities where it’s really critical that that central person be there to make everything work and make everything happen.”

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The Canadian Medical Association reported in 2014 that more than 38,000 physicians practise family medicine or general practice.

Of those, more than 41 per cent are age 55 or older.

“The demographics tell us that a large percentage of health professionals are going to retire in the next 10 years — not only physicians but others — so that’s part of it,” he says. “Another part is that it’s tough work; being a GP is not easy because again you do have to understand everything and there’s an expectation that you will be around and available for people, and a lot of doctors just find that a really hard task to meet up to.”

In some ways, being in a specialty can be a little easier, explains Brown, in the sense that there may be a lot of technical, challenging information but your task is clearer.

“It’s a little more narrow in scope and a little easier to get a handle on,” he says.

“The third thing is money frankly, that the specialties pay more and general practice pays less.”

Brown says although it is changing worldwide, including in Canada, there remains a big difference between the earnings of a specialist and a GP. “If you’re coming through medical school and you have a six-figure debt, the inclination would be to go towards a specialty perhaps and have a chance to pay that off more easily,” he says.

Medical students these days have to decide what they are going to do by third or fourth year, says Brown, so they can slant themselves towards their specialty, whether it’s cardiology, urology or family practice.

“They need to start thinking about that early in their medical school, which is not always the best time,” he says. “They haven’t had a chance to sample everything yet but already by third or fourth year they’re starting to choose their electives and frame themselves into the kind of doc they think they want to be.”

But Brown says interests have changed and more graduates are looking to become family physicians.

“The kind of interest in family practice bottomed out somewhere around 2003 and since then the interest has been rising steadily in the number of docs who want to take up family practice,” he says. “People are realizing it’s challenging and it’s fascinating.”

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Interest in family medicine on the rise From page 8 There has also been an increased awareness at the system level, says Brown, that family practice needs to be supported.

“There’s more money being put towards it,” he says. “More effort is going into it in the curriculum at the medical school.”

Unemployment among specialists upon graduation has also fuelled the rise in interest, adds Brown.

“There’s about a 20 per cent unemployment rate among young specialists graduating from their specialty programs because, frankly, all the positions in the big cities are full,” he says. “Specialists often feel that they can’t practise in smaller communities; it’s tough for them to practise there as well, so there’s a lot of unemployment among young specialists now.”

Simpson, already in the midst of the program’s first year, says the biggest challenge so far has been the scope of family practice.

“It’s a bit of a blessing but also a bit of a challenge that you can’t narrow down your focus as much as you’d like to because you have to know a little bit about everything,” he says. “Staying on top of that volume of material can be daunting and staying up to date with that many areas is going to be challenging.”

The internet is also proving to be interesting — and challenging — says Simpson. “Patients with the internet these days are

then I’ll decide from there,” he says. “Long term, I definitely want to open my own practice.”

Simpson says for the first few years, new family physicians will often fill in for other doctors on vacation, thereby avoiding having to commit financially to a practice right away.

“It gives you a chance to get exposure to different practices, different cities, different patients and really just kind of see where you want to be and see what kind of medicine you want to practise,” says Simpson.

“Often after two or three years people will eventually find a place they want to settle down and then maybe think about joining an existing practice or starting their own.”

Brown says UBC is committed to what they call “a distributed approach to training,” which is taking training out of central hospitals, including Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s, and into community hospitals.

“Getting the training out into community hospitals and into communities is a big thrust for the faculty of medicine these days because I think it’s recognized that getting out into the real world and in different environments really provides better learning and a better impression about the care,” says Brown. “So it’s actually a conscious approach that UBC is taking to post-grad training.”

so much more educated about their illnesses than they used to be,” he says.

“So being able to work with them, understand, manage their information sources and their knowledge against our own, but also be open to learning from them too.”

Simpson says being a family physician is a lot less patriarchal then it used to be, where patients knew little and doctors had to explain everything. “It’s exciting because you get to learn a lot from them and it’s nice to have patients that are educated,” he says.

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The partnering agencies include Hollyburn Family Services, the West Vancouver Community Centre and the District of West Vancouver, as well as the West Vancouver Memorial Library, Vancouver Coastal Health, North Shore Community Resources and North Shore Neighbourhood House.

“We brought all of these community partners together and we’ve created the space where we’re fueling programming and energy in and drawing from all of our respective clientele,” she says. “So everything that’s happening in this hub is generated by all of these partners.”

PFHS also has a partnership with the North Shore Multicultural Society.

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“North Shore Multicultural Society particularly is a key one because we need to reach out to these families as they acculturate to the community.”

The multicultural society’s services and goals in this project are really important as well, says Shortall, as they provide translation and cultural supports.

“That’s another intricate part of this that I think makes it a bit different than anything that we’ve done in West Vancouver,” she says.

Deanna Hilder, an early learning facilitator at Eagle Harbour StrongStart Centre, will be teaching at the PFHS preschool. She says the preschool, which will operate three afternoons a week, is one of several programs that are trying to create a place for families to connect and the preschool “just seems like an obvious part of that.” “(It’s) for families to be able to connect through a preschool,” says Hilder.

“And an offering for children so they can participate in an early learning program that’s in their community, in the local school providing sort of a natural transition into kindergarten and the early years of elementary school.”

It’s equally important for children as well as for families to develop a connectedness, says Hilder, within the community, meeting new people and being able to actively participate.

Shortall says it will be interesting in a year’s time to reflect back on what programs worked and what didn’t.

“Our vision is certainly not one year sink or swim, we’re looking long term and knowing that it takes a few years for many societies to kind of really grow and flourish,” she says. “But we’re very hopeful that this is going to take off quickly because it’s one of a kind and it’s unique to that particular neighbourhood.”

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Shortall is excited about the hub and is hoping people take part in the programs.

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Photographer always in right place Railbird: A horseracing enthusiast, especially one who watches races at the outer rail of the track.

Railbird is Ralph Bower’s nickname, or as the veteran photographer might say, it’s his moniker.

There’s an aura of the old time newshound about Ralph that is also present in his photographs.

In Ralph’s era, news photographs told a story.

To get that story, he had

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to be in the right place at the right time. It isn’t easy,

but Ralph made it look that way, perhaps especially in his racing photographs.

Ralph has provided some of his most memorable turf photographs to support the Hastings Jockeys Benevolent Fund. Portraits of riders, trainers, celebrity horses like the B.C.-bred champion George Royal, and human celebrities too, are on display at the new Ralph Bower Horse Racing Photo Gallery at Hastings Racecourse. The gallery

is open on race days, admission is free, the PNE is in full swing next door and all proceeds from sales of prints go directly to the fund.

The man who created this visual record of the sport of kings lives just across the inlet. One block in North Vancouver’s Queensbury area has always been home for Ralph. He’s had the same neighbours for all of his 80 See Love page 16

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Joan Clark met Ralph for the first time in elementary school and again in high school. That first time, “he offered to show me how to play croquet,” Joan remembers.

“Years and years later, I found out he made it up.

He didn’t know how to play croquet.”

“I knew enough,” her husband chips in.

From the Bower family home he hopscotched to the next house over where he and Joan raised their own family. Forty years later, the couple hopscotched again to a home they designed together. Their five grandchildren make it four generations of Bowers to

live on the north side of Burrard Inlet.

“I had a path from my house through the bush right down to the water,” Ralph recalls, “until the war time houses zoomed in everywhere.” He and pals Barry and Buddy Bird — “we were the three main sailors,” Ralph explains — stashed their flatbottom rowboat and a set of paddles in the bush at the water’s edge. Climbing aboard their hand-built craft along with Ralph’s canine sidekick Pudge, a husky mix with a sporty patch over his eye, they would voyage across the inlet, a journey that took one hour going and four to return.

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pals, Ralph was earning cash to pay for the first of his many cars. Summer jobs at North Vancouver gas stations taught him how to get on with people.

“In those days, you’d meet the public, pump gas, get the windows, do it right.”

Joan concurs. “He does have a nice way about him when he’s asking people to do things for his photographs.”

Working on the North Vancouver high school newspaper, the Nova High News, snagged Ralph and pals Arv Olson and Johnny Walls summer jobs at the Vancouver Sun. Arv and Ralph worked as copyboys until a decision came down from on high: one was to be a writer and the other a photographer. Ralph wanted to be the writer.

“No,” came the answer.

“We’ve chosen. He’s the writer.You’re going into the dark room.” Arv went on to a distinguished career as a sports writer and author. Ralph picked up a camera and has rarely been without one ever since.

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“That’s like choosing a person in your family you love best,” he says.

“I always liked working with children and animals — you never knew what they were going to do.”

From a squirrel on skis to the tragedy of a collapsed bridge, from sports hero Harry Jerome to national hero Terry Fox, from Karen Magnussen to Phil Esposito, a pair of stars on skates, the moment

Ralph’s camera captures is always the right moment.

Though he downplays his photographic expertise, “some were fuzzy and some weren’t,” North Vancouver’s own Ralph Bower admits, “my era was the best of times. It gave me the nice little special pictures and all these little happinesses that I had.”

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The VRCA selects three silver award winners in most categories for their use of “innovative techniques, new materials or exceptional project management,” a press release states.

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Concrete fermenters do a fine job Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables I know some dynamos in the wine business.

But few compare to the indefatigable Christine Coletta, who never ceases to amaze with what she undertakes.This week we spent a few hours together as she updated me on the latest happenings at her Haywire Winery in Summerland, also the home of Okanagan Crush Pad and Bartier Brothers.

If Coletta’s name sounds familiar, as executive director of the B.C.Wine Institute (and one of the key players in founding VQA) in the 1990s she was a driving force in the industry. She later forged a successful wine-driven marketing and PR company before buying a vineyard site in 2007 and opening her own winery in 2010. Haywire’s far-reaching industry connections are already paying off. Its team (which includes former senior liquor board portfolio manager David Scholefield) is working with consultants Alberto Antonini and Pedro Parra, who are engaged in regions around the world.

Their most innovative move to date has been to switch from stainless steel and barrel to concrete

fermenters, mainly at Antonini’s behest. At the time there was much ballyhoo and not a few cynics who dismissed the concrete fermenters as somewhat gimmicky.

However, a few years into the program, the results are beginning to show and quite dramatically at that.

Supporters like concrete for its neutral state and tendency to preserve the wine’s real character without it being masked by oak.

Being porous, the concrete allows the wine to breathe just as if it were in oak but without any flavour being imparted.The spherical shape of the tanks also makes for a gentler fermentation process, they suggest. Haywire was so convinced they went out and purchased another six 4,500-litre fermenters, making Haywire the biggest “concrete” winery in Canada. Oh, and they’ve also embarked on an amphora program, with initial trials already under way.

On this trip I was lucky enough to be able to taste some comparisons between 2013, where concrete was used almost exclusively, and 2012 and earlier, when it was used only partially.The results are pretty interesting.

The wines that have spent time only in concrete (in particular Chardonnay) seem to present more assertive aromas, more broadly textured mouthfeel, and overall less angular, more integrated wines.

While Haywire went to work implementing Antonini and Parra’s suggestions to make the most of their

home-estate terroir, they also purchased nearby 312-acre Garnet Valley Ranch.

It’s a stunning tract of land that Parra’s surveying suggests could yield up to 60 acres of prime vineyards.

The highest elevation vineyard site in the valley (600-680 metres), it’s virgin land and organically farmed with a gentle south-facing slope.The plan is to leave the site in as natural a state as possible with wildlife corridors already in place

and a man-made pond attracting plentiful birdlife.

Here’s a few Haywire drops (with varying degrees of concrete influence) worth hunting down: Haywire Baby Pink Bub Rosé The winery’s sparkling wines have quickly become popular, and this wine is just one reason why.This cheerful, cherry, strawberry and apple-toned bubble (50/50 Chardonnay/Pinot Noir) is a refreshing summer

sipper or flexible food partner in a handy halfbottle size (375 millilitres), 90 points.

Haywire Pinot NoirWhite Label 2012 (Secrest, Oliver) Bright cherry notes up front, followed by a medium-bodied palate with good structure and earthy undertones, wrapped in easy tannins (89 points, $2).

Haywire Canyonview Pinot Noir 2011 One of just 12 wines

awarded in this year’s B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Awards, from low yield, with judicious use of used French oak, dark cherry notes with some mineral hints, well-structured but very approachable (91 points, $35 from the winery (haywirewinery.com).

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Greet an unfamiliar dog with peaceful gestures “You know, your dogs are a reflection of you, down to the T.” That was a close friend talking. He was commenting on how my dogs interact with people and how they allow people into their personal space, or not.

It is true, all three of my dogs are indeed a reflection of my different personas.

Raider, my border collie cross, for example, is pretty easygoing. He thinks everyone is friendly but knows not everyone is a friend. He is reluctant to allow anyone to touch him without a sniff of the hand first.

Zumi, my German shepherd, on the other hand, will look anyone square in the eye, sizing them up as friend or foe, daring them to touch her.

It’s as if she is saying, “I am very good natured once you get past my gruff exterior.

If you have the courage to touch me we may be friends, but if you lack the courage, don’t waste my time.”

Piper, my German shorthaired, is just indifferent.

He will approach with his tail wagging exhibiting body language that invites touching, but you can’t touch him. And he doesn’t care. He ducks away just at the last second if you try to reach out and touch him. He is saying, “Yes, I’m friendly, but I don’t care if you are, you are not part of my pack.”

These behaviours tend to throw people off when

Joan Klucha

Canine Connection they meet my dogs as most people seem to think that all dogs love to be touched by anyone. This is just not the case. It doesn’t mean the dogs are anti-social or fearful of humans (although in some cases it might), it simply means they don’t want to be touched.

You see, dogs are a lot like humans. Like most people, we have a wall of personal space around us that we don’t like people invading, especially strangers.We invite others into our space with body language that reflects our willingness to engage or not.We would never consider invading another person’s space without invitation, but we do it to dogs all the time and if/when they act in a way that we do not deem as acceptable, we think there is something wrong with the dog. As dog owners or simply dog lovers without dogs, we can’t take it personally but instead should recognize and respect that dogs have a greeting ritual that they share with other dogs and

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they expect us to follow the same rules!

There are times when a dog does have a fear response when it comes to greeting a new person. The behaviour will resemble a dog not wanting to be touched, but also with a bit of an agitated or anxious energy. It seems restless and weary. This type of dog needs to build a new neural pathway in its brain that allows it to view people as non-threatening.

When greeting a friendly yet unfamiliar dog, the best course of action is to simply ignore the dog but stay in the area. This gives the dog a chance to size you up, since you are not trying to invade their space. That simple act of indifference from you can make all the difference to the dog you are wishing to say hello to. More often than not, that dog will turn towards you and invite a greeting. It may even come up to you and ask for attention in a very calm yet friendly way. Having a treat readily available is a great icebreaker and if you

position your hand with the treat just below the dog’s nose (whether the dog is sitting or standing), it is a far more peaceful gesture than holding it way above the dog’s head and expecting it to reach up.

When you try to pet the dog, gently rub under its chin and along the sides of its cheeks instead of on top of its head. Again, this is a peaceful gesture that instills calm and acceptance as dogs typically sniff noses and cheeks and avoid the top of each other’s heads or shoulders when the greeting is peaceful.

Dogs who are fearful or mistrusting of humans need to be greeted and interacted with in a different fashion, which I will discuss next week. Until then, if you want to give a strange dog some attention, reconsider your actions and follow a non-threatening and peaceful approach.

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Three Capilano members aiming for Canadian rugby history ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

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It’s one of the most electrifying rugby plays you’ll ever see, and it put Canada’s national team into the championship final of theWomen’s Rugby World Cup. It’s also got North Shore fingerprints all over it. Leading their semifinal against the host team 11-6 early in the second half Wednesday at Stade Jean Bouin in Paris, the Canadians were in a tight spot, facing a French scrum in the shadow of their own goalposts.The Canadian front eight, including Carson Graham grad and Capilano Rugby Club member Hilary Leith at tighthead prop, blasted back their French counterparts on contact, stealing the scrum in decisive fashion.

Canada’s Elissa Alarie scooped up the ball and scooted to her right before dishing off to Andrea Burk, another Carson Graham grad and Capilano member, who deftly passed again

in one swift motion to a charging Mandy Marchak, the third member of the Capilano Rugby Club playing in the biggest game in the history of Canadian women’s rugby. Marchak ran straight at a tackler, drawing her to the inside before shooting a pass outside to Magali Harvery who then lit a trail of fire on an amazing 80-metre run, juking a tackler with a wicked head fake at midfield before sprinting the rest of the field and diving into the corner for an incredible try.

Harvey topped it all off by kicking the convert from an extremely tight angle to give the Canadians an 18-6 lead.

Those two points on the convert would prove crucial as France battled back with two late tries.The French, however, missed their converts and Canada held on for a historic 18-16 win to send them to their firstever World Cup final.

Watching it all unfold at home on the North Shore was Brad Baker, the longtime girls’ rugby coach at Carson Graham.

“I’ve been involved in rugby now for 20 years and it’s one of the best tries I’ve ever seen, men or women,” said Baker. “Mandy and Andrea kind of exploited the channels which opened up the wide one for Magali. It was pretty cool to see.”

Baker was on pins and needles as he watched the game, not just as a rugby fanatic but as a nervous coach — he helped kickstart the careers of both Burk and Leith. He coached them both as Carson Graham teammates — Burk graduated in 2000 and Leith in 2001.The Carson Graham girls’ rugby team is a dominant force in the province, recently winning seven championships in a row, but the two grads who are on the cusp of a World Cup win never actually took home a B.C. high school title.

“We just hadn’t cracked the seal yet,” said Baker with a laugh. “Our program didn’t start until 1996 so they were just in the beginning stages. . . .The championship run started

after them, which is kind of interesting. Nothing against them or anything — it’s just weird.”

Even though they didn’t take home titles, Baker said both players seemed destined for big things. Burk was a speedy back-row player who ran hard with the ball and tackled hard without it. Baker remembers taking her to a tryout for the B.C. U19 team, her first crack at making a rep squad.

“She was extremely nervous,” he said. “She was the only Carson kid going to that tryout. I remember she was really nervous but she lit it up a little bit. She was fit back then, as she is now. . . .The coaches knew right away that they had a very physical and fast rugby player.”

Leith was a dual-sport star at the school, winning provincial titles on the wrestling mat. She took that powerful approach with her onto the rugby field, said Baker.

“You’d get the ball in her hands and she’d kind of run over girls constantly. Good

tackler, ran the ball hard.”

Marchak grew up in Winnipeg but moved to the North Shore to join the Capilano Rugby Club to improve her game by training year-round alongside elite players like Leith and Burk. In recent years all three players have committed fully to a training program that has seen them sequestered for long stretches of time at the national training facility in Victoria.

“All three girls have put a lot of time in to get where they are,” said Baker.

“Their full time job over the past three or four years has been rugby.They’ve put everything on the back burner to achieve a goal of hopefully winning a World Cup and they’re 80 minutes away from doing that.That’s pretty cool.”

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B.C. teams rock rugby national finals

ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

British Columbia’s provincial rugby teams ran over the competition with several North Shore players leading the charge at the National Festival age-grade Canadian championships held last week in Calgary.

Players from North and West Vancouver were all over the field at the U16 boys tournament as eight locals suited up to help British Columbia win gold. Riley Burns, Elias Ergas, Flynn Heyes, Sam Hughes, Tyler Nylander, Nick Pearce, Christoper Stangl and David Wensley all took part as the U16s went undefeated in the tournament, securing the title with a 26-0 win over the host Albertans in the championship game Sunday. Nylander scored a second-half try in the final to help push B.C. to the top.

The provincial U17 boys team also had a powerful North Shore presence as seven local players helped

the team win gold while playing against older competition in the U18 Tier 2 championships.

Jackson Claridge, Liam Doll, Nick Frost, Tyrone Karius, Joe Sourisseau, Chase Taylor-Robins and Tamar Tucker-Harrison were all on the Team B.C. roster for the tournament with Claridge serving as team captain. The U17s faced Quebec’s U18 team in the final and fell behind 7-0 just 10 seconds into the game, but took control the rest of the way en route to a 35-10 win. Tucker-Harrison and Doll both recorded tries in the final.

Liam Mahon was the sole North Shore representative on the men’s U18 provincial team as they fought their way to gold in the U18 Tier 1 championships. The tier included only two teams, B.C. and Ontario, and the West Coast squad won all three meetings during the tournament, outscoring their opponent 160-59.

Ontario pushed back in the final match but the B.C. squad held on to win

38-24. B.C. also took home first place in the women’s U18 championships with no North Shore players on the roster.

One other North Shore link hit the podium at the festival as Zoe DeFaveri helped the provincial girls U16 team take silver. The U16s lost to Ontario 31-7 in the championship final.

North Shore players Jake Lan and Ryan Hanley also took part in the tournament, suiting up for the U16 boys B.C. No. 2 team that finished fourth.

Curry Hitchborn, a longtime Capilano Rugby Club member and head coach of this year’s U17 boys provincial team, said this was one of the province’s best ever showings at the National Festival.

“To win gold at four of five finals and have the North Shore help aid in that is a monumental success for rugby in general,” he told the North Shore News. “It speaks very well to the level of commitment to rugby as well as the competition of

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Hitchborn pointed to a few factors that have helped the North Shore produce so many talented young players.

“The bonus is that

they have all been playing with and then against one another for years either at the club or at their high schools,” he said.

“The dedicated teacher volunteers and community coaches that put their time

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“It’s not very often you’ll have three club members playing for a World Cup final, men or women,” said Baker before dropping back into his coach persona for a few motivational words.

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“This might be their only shot.Take advantage of it. . . .Win or lose, we’re going to be proud of the girls. But obviously we want them to win, bring the World Cup trophy back to the North Shore.”

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