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School start date still not determined

Parents asked to watch media, and have a back-up plan for Tuesday JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Parents are being asked to keep an eye on media and their email accounts this weekend as the start date of the 2014 school year hangs in the balance.

Schools in North Vancouver could open Tuesday if the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the province can work out a deal on class size, composition and compensation over the Labour

Day long weekend.

“Even as late as Monday evening, we would be able to open for Tuesday,” said Victoria Miles, communications manager with North Vancouver School District.

In the event of an 11th hour deal, the school district will contact as many parents as possible Monday night if it’s feasible to open schools in the morning, said Miles.

West Vancouver parents should be making plans for their children that don’t involve them being in school Tuesday, according to district superintendent Chris Kennedy.

“A deal before this Tuesday does not seem certain,” he See Talks page 8

Researchers find home for ‘Lucky’ the lobster BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

An Atlantic lobster fished out of the water off Bowen Island last weekend has gone from invasive species to death row inmate and finally, celebrated research subject.

West Vancouver resident Blair Calkins found the lobster, loaded with eggs, in one of his prawn traps while taking his son fishing on Aug. 23.

Calkins and his family were unsure of what to do with Lucky, as she was named.

“We called the aquarium.

They couldn’t help us.

They didn’t want anything

to do with it.We called (the Department of Fisheries and Oceans). … DFO told me we had to kill this thing,” he said.

“You can understand (my son) wasn’t exactly happy with that request.”

After the find generated some media buzz, Chris Harley, associate professor at the University of B.C.’s zoology department, contacted Calkins offering to adopt Lucky into his lab.

“We were very pleased and happy when Chris at UBC decided he could take this See Release page 5

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Release of non-native species a danger From page 1

on for teaching purposes so it’s a happy story for everybody,” Calkins said.

Especially the lobster.

Harley plans to study how native snails react when exposed to a foreign predator.

“Snails are pretty savvy about crabs.They know it’s bad news when you smell a crab around and so they have a response where they climb out of the tank,” Harley said. “We can see if they have the same response to the lobster or not.”

Harley has done a reverse version of the study where he placed local and

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until the 1960s but the population never got a foothold.

“That’s the interesting question. Is there a small population of lobsters now having some success in the waters around Bowen Island? Or is it just a few individuals that people have been letting go?” he said.

Harley said the second option is far more likely.

Possibilities being bandied about who might do that include animal rights activists, someone who intended to eat it and had change of heart or Buddhists who sometimes release caged animals as a

found only the non-native snails eaten.

“It takes some evolutionary time to recognize (trouble),” he said. “Over generations they’ll evolve the ability to detect and then have the behaviours to avoid important predators.’

Harley said he’s hoping another UBC researcher will attempt to hatch the eggs and research the larvae.

Marine scientists will be looking into whether there are more lobsters where Lucky came from.

The B.C. government released thousands of them into the water up

DNA hit solves decade-old mystery JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Human bones discovered near Mount Fromme almost 10 years ago have been identified this week as belonging to missing Thunder Bay, Ont. man Dante Ponzanetti.

Ponzanetti , 20, was in Vancouver visiting his grandmother when he went missing in June, 2003. More than a year later, a hiker

found ribs and a bone from a hand by Kennedy Lake “It was really surprising that we even got a profile out of those,” said Bill Inkster, manager with the B.C. Coroners Service identification unit.

Three years after Ponzanetti went missing, the B.C. Coroners Service spearheaded Canada’s only humanitarian DNA database.

The Vancouver Police

to the coroners service, they recently took a DNA sample from Ponzanetti’s mother and got an immediate hit.

“This came absolutely out of the blue,” Inkster said.

However, the DNA pattern was very common, so the coroners service initially reserved judgment until they could prove it wasn’t simply a “random chance hit.”

Department investigated Ponzanetti’s disappearance and the coroners service examined the remains but no one made a connection between the two, said Inkster.

“We try and bridge that disconnect between police missing persons investigations and our unidentified remains,” he said.

After Ponzanetti’s disappearance was reported

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“Once you become attached to an animal or understand it or like it in some way, you want to do what’s best for its welfare,” he said. “You have to think compassionately about all the native species too and not just the one thing you happen to have in a tank or in a trap.”

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t’s a common scenario.You open a your monthly bill, grimace at the charges and then insult is met with injury — the company is charging you a fee for sending your bill by mail.

The “pay-to-pay” scheme may soon be coming to an end as Industry Minister James Moore has announced the government will introduce a bill this fall to ban the practice.The bill is targeted at the country’s major telecommunications companies, which particularly favour the fees.We applaud the Conservatives for this plan.

The consumer-focused think-tank Public Interest Advocacy Centre released a report this week concluding Canadians pay more than $500 million in fees for the privilege of receiving their bills by mail.

That’s $500 million that’s not being spent on groceries, housing, entertainment or charity.

The telecoms can hardly plead poverty while they’ve been busy buying up naming rights to every arena and stadium in the country, not to mention a monopoly on NHL broadcasting for the next decade.

Yes, getting your bills via email is probably cheaper and certainly more environmentally friendly, but it doesn’t work for everyone and it should be up to the consumer to decide. And no one should be punished because they prefer paper.

We must note, however, the irony of the federal government coming to the defence of those who don’t mind getting bills in the mail just months after announcing Canada Post will soon phase out home delivery.

That’s something to think about when you’re soon making the long walk or drive to pick up your “free bill” at the neighbourhood super box.

Politics wafts in end-of-summer air

Isn’t “procrustean” the very definition of government?

— Albert Saijo Indian summer: we’re heading into autumn and already politics is in the air.

Provincially we’re hogtied with the corporate payback-to-friends-in-bigbusiness scheme posing as something called “the Liberals.” Count your blessings that you don’t live near a big campaign-donor mine around Quesnel.

Federally there’s actually a promise of change in the wind.The heavy-handed Bonapartism practised

by Harper is falling out of fashion quicker than the independent thought Conservatives fear like Ebola virus, especially if it concerns ecological progress.

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Elizabeth May reminded us lately, when Harper became prime minister he cancelled all climate programs, repudiated our Kyoto targets, chose far weaker targets, weakened them again, legally withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, and then failed to meet the weaker targets.These are not Brian Mulroney’s Tories, whom you may recall May used to work for.

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As a result, Canada’s international reputation has been severely damaged.

Eighty per cent of Canadians want climate action and 80 per cent continue to be concerned about tackling the climate crisis. But energy money talks big in politics.

Enbridge Gateway gets a soft wave from Ottawa and Kinder Morgan isn’t floating its $5.4 billion pipeline-twinning proposal in expectation of a thumbsdown from the National Energy Board.We know the way these things stand at present doesn’t smell right.

In Oregon, our southern neighbours just told big government and big energy “No”, they won’t have a major coal export facility rammed down their throats, citing community health fears. Yet in Metro Vancouver we’ve just offered to do the dirty work for

them with another coal terminal on the Fraser River approved with nary a squawk.

Procrustes was the mythical Greek monster who stretched people’s limbs or chopped off hands and feet to suit his one-sizefits-all mattress philosophy.

Kinda like our three levels of government thinking these days.

How did this happen?

Coast to coast we’re known as the big boasters from B.C. who can’t stop crowing about how sweet life is here. But the plot-line tells a different story.Views of those beautiful mountains are fading quickly as more and higher towers get in the way; there’s increasing reliance on international student enrolments to pay the bills in our schools, when they’re not on strike; property taxes just get higher.

Aren’t the gangs twisting our arms for more big condo projects, more heavy industrial oil and LNG export terminals, and more dirty coal heaps simply in it for their personal financial benefit?

The only booming economic sector you hear about any more is in municipal service executive salaries where averagequality administrators earn more than Premier Clark and she only runs the entire province. Her salary?

Reasonable at $178,000, last look.

Meantime, without a vision except selling grungy fossil fuels to China, the federal Conservatives (don’t laugh) are thinking of legalizing pot. Wow! Only 43 years after Ottawa’s LeDain Commission recommended the repeal See Council page 7

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District of NorthVancouver Coun. Roger Bassam mulls a makeover of the “horrible” Phibbs Exchange (from an Aug. 24 news story).

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NorthVancouver provincial court judge Steven Merrick sentences MarkWebber to 60 days in jail in a ‘sextortion’ case (from an Aug. 27 news story).

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WestVancouverite Becky Findlay discusses efforts to have her 1,000-piece collection of Scooby-Doo memorabilia recognized in the Guinness Book ofWorld Records (from an Aug. 29 news story).

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The kids are alright, adults hopeless

Painful Truth

Adults are jaded, and cynical, and poisoned by either failure or success, both of which seem to be toxic.

Too much failure leaves you bitter and angry, resentful of anyone who’s done better than you.You delight in the failures of others, because it makes you seem less alone down in your misery pit. And of course, anyone who did well must have cheated to get where they are, scammed a corrupt system.

Success seems to make you feel entitled to your privileges, full of yourself, and it gnaws away at your compassion and empathy like a rabid, mangy sewer rat, until you’d rather watch someone starve on the street than toss them a coin.

Luck or help from others is forgotten the higher you

them, and randomly assign them to the government or teachers sides. Give both sides access to the demands and proposals, and the relevant budgets saying how much is really available.

Toss them an adult

accountant or two to help with the technical stuff.

I’ll bet you anything if we sat those kids down and let them go at it, they’d hash out a fair deal in a day or two.

The kids are alright.

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It’s the adults who are a mess.

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ascend, until you’re in an elite club of self-made snobs who owe nothing to anyone.

You can weave between the Scylla of self-recrimination and the Charybdis of pomposity, but it ain’t easy.

Adulthood, if you let it, slowly eats your soul.

It’s certainly taken a few bites from both sides in the teachers’ dispute, both of whom have considered the other side the enemy for so long they’ve lost sight of reason.The hatred from one side has fuelled the other. It’s been a toxic spiral of retribution.

To the adults out there: have you ever seen a model UN or met some of the kids who organize student councils or run charity events? They’re amazing, aren’t they? Bright, positive, convinced that they can make a difference.

And then they grow up and the world starts to wear them down, and before you know it, way too many of them have turned into sad sack adults like the rest of us.

Out of all this justified cynicism, I think I can put forward an idea to end this teachers’ strike.

We’ll replace the adult negotiators on both sides with kids aged 12 to 17.

Take about two dozen of

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There have been many letters to the editor in recent months from students worried about the labour dispute between teachers and the government.

These letters sometimes lean towards supporting the teachers, sometimes towards the government, but for the most part, the students just want the dispute to be over with.

Those students who are inspired enough to write letters are also the type who take their education seriously. So it must be a shock to these kids to see empty rhetoric, petty vindictiveness and unrealistic demands that come from the adults.

Ultimately, the kids seem to suggest that the grownups should, y’know, grow up and solve things.

Sorry, kids. I know you’re missing out on some schooling right now, but you are getting an irreplaceable lesson in what adults are actually like.

This is what people become once we turn 18, 30, 40 or 99: we’re jackasses.

It’s a credit to children that they have faith that adults are more emotionally mature, more rational, more reasonable.

We’re not, by any stretch of the imagination.

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Council challengers appear From page 6 of harsh laws against possession of a little grass for personal use, Peter MacKay, the Tory Elmer Fudd wannabee tells us they’re still “studying the issue.”

Instead, maybe they could study the urgent need for serious parliamentary debate about physician-assisted end of life care.

The courageous story of Bowen Island’s Gillian Bennett and her family has brought attention again to the quality of life issue in an age when we’re living way longer than ever before, frequently in ignoble situations. The report from the Canadian Medical Association announcing that 91 per cent of its members support debate on this issue says it all.

On the upside, the District of North Vancouver now has two confirmed challengers for council in November.

Blueridge lawyer Jim Hanson, who showed superior qualifications for office in an unsuccessful provincial bid last year, brings some desperately needed brainpower and ethical backbone to the campaign. And Glenn MacKenzie, a leader of the No High-Rises in Lynn Valley campaign, has also declared his interest.

Already this one is revving up.

Fortunately, creative life is percolating in North Vancouver. Last week at Café Artigiano’s cheerful patio in Edgemont Village, I enjoyed an illuminating conversation with North Shore UBC scholar Thomas Salumets.With the current turmoil in Ukraine, his new book on writer Jaan Kaplinski from the small Baltic state of Estonia is suddenly timely. Kaplinski has visited here several times, and his friend the

current Estonian President Toomas Ilves lived and worked in Vancouver in the 1980s. Unforced Flourishing; Understanding Jaan Kaplinski is published

by McGill Queen’s University Press.

At the Save the Salish Sea Festival a fortnight back where golden age rockers Chilliwack helped Vancouver find its old soul again, former North Shore News staffer and Greenpeace International co-founder Rex Weyler released his new Catch The Light CD recording. His “Bounty Hunter” tune is soulful to the max.

And how about a friendly chat with that elderly neighbour as we move into fall? Thanks to FrenchCanadian George at the bus stop for reminding me there’s no story like a good old story! poeticlicence.ns@gmail.com

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Talks continued Friday From page 1

stated in a letter posted on the school district’s website Friday.

Gleneagles and West Vancouver community centres are offering day camps for children between 5 and 12 during the first two weeks of September — or until the strike is resolved.

Parents should keep an eye on West Vancouver School District’s website and Facebook account for updates.

“If we receive last-minute notice of a resolution, we will open our schools as quickly as possible next

week,” Kennedy stated on the website.

Late notice will likely result in challenges finalizing student schedules, he added.

On Thursday, Education Minister Peter Fassbender proposed that teachers pack up picket signs and open classrooms during mediation.

But that proposal isn’t what teachers are looking for, according to North Vancouver Teachers’ Association president Carolyn Pena.

“What teachers would like to see is a resolution,” she said. “Not a temporary solution.”

Welcoming students back to school Tuesday may come with a few challenges even if a deal is reached, said Pena, who added teachers normally spend the last week of August prepping their classrooms for the school year.

Negotiators for the teachers’ union and the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association were continuing talks Friday at press time with labour mediator Vince Ready.

They were prepared to continue talks over the weekend, if Ready deemed discussions were going to be productive.

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In forensic work, an investigator might note two distinct markings when comparing fingerprints.

However, several other areas of the fingerprints need to be examined before a match is determined.

Similarly, the coroners service looked at 25 of what Inkster called DNA addresses, rather than the usual 15.

The odds of an incorrect match are 20 million to one, according to Inkster.

Circumstantial details, such as the age of the bones and the date Ponzanetti was last seen alive, were also consistent.

“The family’s very appreciative of what we’ve done here . . . but the first questions are: ‘Why did it take so long?’” Inkster said.

Despite the positive identification, the cause of Ponzanetti’s death remains unclear and under investigation, according to Inkster.

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Voyeurism trial wraps Lawyers disagree on whether filming was secretive or not JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

A Crown prosecutor urged a judge to find a North Vancouver man guilty of voyeurism this week for videotaping young gymnasts for a sexual purpose at a 2013 competition.

Andrew Greenwood, 53, was charged with the relatively new offence of voyeurism after being arrested outside a rhythmic gymnastics event held at Capilano University on March 24 last year.

Earlier in the trial in North Vancouver provincial court, Crown counsel Lori Ashton said Greenwood sat in an isolated area of the bleachers and filmed girls as they warmed up at the competition.

Ashton said several people who saw the video camera’s screen noticed he was zooming in on the gymnasts’ crotches, breasts and buttocks.

Many of the gymnasts

were between the ages of 7 and 13.

On Tuesday, Ashton told the judge in closing arguments Greenwood should be found guilty.

After picking a secluded section of the bleachers, Greenwood positioned the camera at the top of his thigh near his stomach, said Ashton.

He also obscured the red recording light with black tape.

“Mr. Greenwood is acting stealthily, slyly, and secretly,” she said.

Greenwood recorded some footage with a camera in his sleeve, noted Ashton.

Police recovered two cameras during Greenwood’s arrest.

Yet none of the witnesses observed a second camera, said Ashton, who suggested one of the cameras was successfully hidden.

The Peeping Toms of yesteryear have been replaced by voyeurs armed with remote cameras equipped

with zoom functions, said Ashton, arguing Greenwood breached the gymnasts’ privacy.

It is one thing to observe someone writing in a diary in a public park but quite another to use a powerful lens to read that diary, said Ashton.

Greenwood could have filmed the event, but his repeated close-ups of the girls’ breasts, buttocks and pelvises constituted a breach of a reasonable expectation of privacy, she said.

She added the girls being videotaped weren’t aware of his filming and didn’t consent to it.

Greenwood’s defence lawyer Michael Sanders disagreed, arguing Greenwood wasn’t surreptitious in his actions, nor did he breach the gymnasts’ privacy.

Unlike filming an unsuspecting victim through a keyhole, Greenwood made his one-hour recording in the bleachers at a public event, said Sanders.

“He’s in the stands with a camera where a lot of other people have cameras,” Sanders argued.

Several witnesses testified to seeing Greenwood’s camera from the gymnasium floor, and another witness said Greenwood was not being covert, Sanders said.

“This camera is plainly visible and what is being recorded is plainly visible,” he said.

He added some of the girls being recorded appeared to look directly into the camera.

“Mr. Greenwood was highly conspicuous here,” he said. “There is some zooming in on the pelvic areas . . . but that’s not always happening.”

Given that the event was public, the elements of consent and awareness should not weigh in the final decision, according to Sanders.

Greenwood is due back in North Vancouver provincial court Nov. 24 when Judge Judith Gedye is expected to deliver her verdict.

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STEPTEMBER Participants in Pedometer challenge take steps to stop Cerebral Palsy. page 12

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Randy Thomas is taking the steps to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease and he’s hoping others will join him.

Thomas, of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, is participating in the 19th annual Parkinson SuperWalk on Sept. 7 in Stanley Park. This will be his second time walking with his team, the TWN Wolf Pack.

Thomas, who was diagnosed with young onset Parkinson’s disease more than two years ago, says he’s doing the walk to find a cure.

“It’s my everyday struggle,” says Thomas. “I don’t want anybody else to go through the same thing I do.”

The SuperWalks — which take place in 110 communities across Canada, including 21 B.C. communities — run from Sept. 6 to 13. It is the largest national

fundraising event for Parkinson’s disease, raising $2.76 million last year and around $27 million since 2000.

Thomas individually raised more than $4,700 last year and was joined by 67 walkers from his team, including family and friends.

“This year our goal was to reach at least 100 people to join the walk behind me, supporting me, and to raise over $5,000,” he says.

The number of team members had reached more than half of Thomas’s goal by Aug. 14.

Around 14,000 participants from across the country organize and take part in the walk.

This year’s goal is to raise $425,000 in B.C. and $3 million nationwide.

Proceeds from the walk go towards research, education and support services provided by Parkinson Society B.C. The walks are a good See Community page 13

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Steptember an uphill climb against CP ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

Corinne Craig is lacing up her running shoes and clipping on her pedometer in the hopes of conquering a mountain for a good cause.

Craig is taking part in the Steptember challenge, an initiative to help raise

funds for Cerebral Palsy, a disorder caused by an injury in the developing stages of the brain that can affect both body movement and muscle co-ordination.

The North Vancouver resident and client service manager for BFL Canada Insurance Services Inc. is taking part along with her coworkers. Craig says it all started when BFL’s

Calgary office challenged their Vancouver colleagues.

“They have a great group there that are all participating as well and so we were challenged, the whole office in Vancouver, to ‘step up,’” she says.

“So we met them and we now have 16 teams here, I think, of four people, so 64 employees in total in Vancouver all participating

for Steptember. It’s great.”

Participants can sign up individually or in teams of up to four members and, using provided pedometers, track their daily step count and record their results on the Steptember website.

Everyone is challenged to walk 10,000 steps a day for 28 days in September and, as a team, climb one of the virtual Seven Summits,

including Mount Everest.

Craig says she practised the day she got her pedometer and racked up about 3,000 steps.

“I was impressed by that but I definitely want to meet the 10,000 steps a day,” she says. “I think that’s going to be great going walking with my son and my husband and definitely getting out and enjoying the North Shore.”

Teams can do more than just walk too, as running, cycling, swimming, yoga and even lawn bowling contribute to the daily

step count; more than 40 activities can be converted to steps, including activities for those with disabilities.

Andy Yu, president of the Cerebral Palsy Association of B.C., says their goal this year is to raise $30,000 and have 70 teams, beating last year’s totals of $24,000 with 56 teams.

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“It just shows that people are aware of it and are willing to help find a cure,” he says.

It means a lot to him, Thomas says, having so many people taking part in the walk.

“It shows how my community helps one another no matter what the situation is,” he says. “The

feelings are overwhelming.”

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative neurological disorder with symptoms that include tremors, postural instability and difficulty talking, walking and swallowing. There are an estimated 11,000 British Columbians living with the disease and there is no known cause or cure.

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Craig says BFL sponsored their employee’s participation fees.

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What’s got people talking here, apart from the lousy weather, is the province’s new made-inOntario pension plan. The province decided to go it alone after Ottawa declined to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).

Ironically, 30 years ago it was the Ontario government of the day along with business opposition that blocked CPP reform. The Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) will launch in 2017 and phase in over two years.

Workers would contribute 1.9 per cent of their incomes which would be matched by employers, up to a $90,000 income maximum. A $90,000 earner would pay $137 a month into the plan and after 40 years get $1,068 a month in addition to their

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We don’t know what the program will cost. CPP is lauded as a model of efficiency but it really isn’t — the CPP spends more than $600 million a year in operating expenses. The plan only covers about half of Ontario’s work force of six million people and those who need the program the most, low-income workers, will benefit the least from the plan.

And of course, the new benefits will not be fully available for 30 or 40 years. That’s not much help to those retiring in the next decade. Any pension consultant will tell you that when it comes to pension reform we can pay now or we can pay more later.

Those same experts have produced dozens of reports over the years on how to improve pension coverage for Canadians. For the

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Ontario, at least, has taken some action. But we have another problem here.

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We’re not saving enough for our own retirement.

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HIV education for aboriginal youth Program strives to be fun and culturally relevant

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Yúusnewas means “taking care of each other” in the Squamish language and it’s a fitting name for a peer-based sexual health program for aboriginal youth.

North Vancouver resident Jessica St. Jean, 28, has managed the program for almost three years and spends her days in different communities delivering educational workshops about HIV and Hepatitis C to groups of young people. Last year alone, the program carried out 85 workshops and reached 500 participants.

St. Jean says it’s important to have a sexual health program that caters specifically to the aboriginal population.

“We are a disproportionately affected group,” she explains. “We

make up about five per cent of the population in British Columbia and 15 per cent of new diagnoses of HIV, so we’re definitely a group that needs a little bit more attention.”

“Also, the experience of being an indigenous youth is definitely a unique one that needs to be addressed in a unique way to fit the needs of the group,” she adds.

Yúusnewas is a program of Vancouver-based YouthCo AIDS Society, a non-profit organization that works in youth communities most affected by HIV and Hep C.The grassroots organization is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

St. Jean focuses on delivering fun and engaging workshops that leave groups with plenty of questions and the resources to find the answers.

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Yúusnewas also strives to take a culturally relevant approach to the issue of sexual health among aboriginal youth.

“Some of the values

we have, because of colonization, are pretty harmful to our health, so I hope to break down some of those barriers and help youth to see that we have been affected, but also that all of us can be happy and healthy,” St. Jean says. “The creator gave us the gift of

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St. Jean describes her own high school sexual health education experience as “confusing”

and “negative.” So she’s pleased to be working with an organization that counts “sex-positive” and “youthdriven” among its core values.

“We definitely do a great job at making sure youth have fun and take away relevant information to their lives.”

St. Jean says young people today are far more open about discussing sexual health than they were when she was younger.

“It’s so great to see youth openly talking about having (HIV) positive family members, or openly speaking out against homophobia. Our youth are amazing.”

But she also knows that there is still lots of work to be done.

“We have a ways to go and accessing the health care itself, such as testing or contraception, we still need to keep encouraging youth to do that and supporting them to do that.”

For more information or to book a workshop, visit www.youthco.org.

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‘Working’ wines to whet the whistle

Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables While Labour Day poses as the last hurrah of a spectacular summer, I beg to differ.

Chances are warm days and nights will continue for a while, which is all the more reason to keep that barbecue primed.With the holiday firmly in mind, here’s a few “working” wines that will fit the sipping and grilling bill well into fall, a few weeks away yet.

Laya 2012 (Almansa, Spain) Perennially good-value Spanish blend of Garnacha and Monastrell sports forward black fruit with a slightly reductive note, followed by a juicy palate with definite oak notes. Great value (BCLS $13.99, 89 points).

Santa AnaTorrontes 2012 (Mendoza, Argentina) Floral and citrus on top, followed by a clean, zesty and juicy palate with a crisp end (BCLS $14.99, 89 points).

Matchbook Dunnigan Hills Syrah 2011 This affordable, full-

bodied California red delivers more than you might expect, thanks to a splash of Cab Sauv that adds a little more interest. Slightly dusty on top with loads of black fruit and spice on the palate, and some nice meaty, peppery varietal notes in the end.Think braised red meats for sure.

A perfect barbecue partner ($BCLS $17.99, 89 points).

Nk’Mip Cellars Pinot Blanc 2012 (OkanaganValley) One the most widely planted white vinifera, Pinot Blanc has been shunted aside by more commercially appealing Chardonnay, which is a pity.Try this lively, tropical-toned drop just packed with vibrant citrus and mineral hints and you’ll see why.Think salmon ($15.99, 90 points).

Happy Camper Chardonnay 2012 (California) Here’s a fun drop with a cute lifestyle theme, and a label that draws you in in a late-summer kind of way.

Plus, I kind of like the vintage trailer.Tropical and orchard notes up front, followed by a slightly buttery and citrustoned palate. Not fancy but easy sipping, or a good match for aWaldorf salad (BCLS $13.99, 88 points).

••• A decade goes by in a flash in the wine industry.Two even quicker.This year marks 20 years sinceTinhorn Creek built its impressive winery high on (I suspect soon to be officially designated) Golden Mile Bench. Here’s a couple

of worthy drops from their Diamondback, Black Sage planting, just across the valley: Tinhorn Creek Merlot 2012 (OkanaganValley) Lifted berry fruits on the nose followed by a welltextured, quite full-bodied palate, with approachable tannins, well-balanced fruit and oak, and a good close.

This is one of the workhorse wines that very much helped put B.C. reds on the map. It’s easy to see why ($19.99, 89 points).

Tinhorn Creek Cabernet Franc 2012 (Okanagan Valley) Tinhorn has been one of the driving forces behind this variety’s rise in B.C. popularity, having been among the first to plant and make it as a single variety.

Raspberry and dark cherry up front, followed by a nicely structured palate with a clean core and good acidity, underpinned by appealing earthy and herbaceous notes that continue throughout the finish ($24.99, 90 points).

••• September’s calendar brims with activity as harvests and festivals of every kind kick into full gear. Here’s one very good reason to hop back on a ferry: Sip & Savour Salt Spring runs Sept. 19-21, with a wealth of delicious distractions throughout the island.

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Exploring B.C.’s KispioxValley KISPIOX Kispiox is a Gitxsan village of approximately 550 in the Kispiox Valley, at the confluence of the Kispiox and Skeena Rivers in British Columbia. Kispiox is perhaps most known to outsiders for its totem poles, some of which were the subject of Emily Carr paintings in the early 20th Century.

The original and traditional name of KispioxVillage is “Anspay’axw,” loosely translated from the Gitxsan language, meaning “The Hiding Place.”

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Northern delights MICHELLE HOPKINS ContributingWriter

Before arriving in Northern B.C. I thought I’d write about all of my exploits, a little bit about the natural beauty and maybe about something new and exciting.What I didn’t count on was how much this rugged raw land and its people would pull me in. It’s simply impossible not to write about the region and its residents without saying how spectacular it is.

Regardless of what you expect, the Kispiox Valley will draw you in. Nestled between the mountains of the Skeena River and the Kitwanga Valley, the Kispiox Valley cradles swamps, five rivers and a chain of crystal clear lakes. For centuries, its chilly waters have provided a perfect home for the world’s largest strain of wild steelhead and salmon.

Its mountainous backdrop is surrounded by a mossy

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(Although one day, while river rafting we caught sight of three rambunctious black bear cubs, there is no need to worry; no close bear encounters have been recorded in years).

The first evening after a day of rafting and exploring my surroundings, I sat quietly on the deck of my room at the Bear Claw Lodge. I listened to the sound of the Kispiox River

as it flowed past me.The river doesn’t rest, never sleeps as it tumbles over rocks. I imagined what it must have been like for the pioneer men and women who came here in the late 1800s as they braved the elements to homestead in the harsh, sometimes unforgiving landscape.

I would soon hear tales of some of those who led the way.

My odyssey to the northern interior began

when I caught a flight to Smithers. From there it was a 90-minute drive through stunning vistas and dusty back roads.

We stop for lunch in Old Hazelton at the Boat’s Soup and Juice Bar located in a riverboat replica on the banks of the Skeena River.

This small town eatery offers up a selection of organic juices (I tried the delicious carrot ginger), as well as salads, sandwiches and home-baked cookies.

This quaint town is set amongst the backdrop of the Roche de Boule mountain range. Also dubbed the Seven Sisters, the mountains are magnificent.We lunched outside and watched other visitors marvel at the scenery.

Along the way to our destination, we crossed the old Hagwilget Bridge that crosses the canyon on our way to the Kispiox River.

Before we headed too far, we explored the region.We stopped at the Ksan Historical Village and Museum located near the ancient village of Gitanmaax, where the Bulkley and Skeena rivers flow into each other. For centuries, this was an important fishing site and transportation hub.This is a replica of the ancient village that for centuries, and even longer, the Gitxsan people lived in and around the canyons and junctions See Swimming page 23

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on the Skeena River.You can take a guided tour and learn all about their sacred ceremonies and everyday lives.

In the later afternoon, we arrived just in time to unpack before we meet our hosts in the dining room.

Bear Claw Lodge’ hosts: For three nights, over wine and locally inspired cuisine, I listened to Joy and Gene Allen recount inspiring and colourful tales about the brave men and women of the north. It’s clear that these raconteurs delight in telling their guests about this land they love so much. If you’re lucky enough to dine with the couple, ask to hear the story of Lillian Alling, a 25-yearold mysterious Russian immigrant. In 1926, she set out to NewYork but got homesick. A year later, with no money, she set out on foot to hike across the continent, ending up in the wilderness of B.C. Alling is a legend in these parts because it seems after she left the Great North, she seemed to vanish. Many books and articles have been written about her.

I’m enchanted by the passion in which its residents regale guests with tales of folklore.

Hiking: This first morning, bright and early I met up with Danielle Bradford, a 21-year-old who doubles as guide and waitress, for a hike.There are endless trails to choose from. Bradford and I hit the dirt road and followed the Kispiox River as it wound through forest, mountains and ranchland.

We pass an old trappers’ cabin, dubbed Beartail, and she told me it’s where I will stop for lunch during my horseback ride later in the day.

Horseback Riding: When I was a teenager, I was fearless astride a horse.

But after a nasty fall in my 20s, you couldn’t get me back on a horse if my life depended on it. Over the years, I’ve cured myself of my fear of horses.

However, I didn’t count on Moose. Moose is big and stubborn and often wouldn’t heed to my demands — OK, I have to admit I’m a softy here — my lame attempts at

steering him away from the bramble bushes and the branches of the powerful spruce and the thirsty cedars, were greeted with a full stop. No matter, riding through rivers and unspoiled forested territory, with a picnic lunch in the Beartail, was a wonderful adventure not to be missed.

Somehow, over the fourhour ride Moose and I bonded.

Snorkelling with the Salmon: I’ve snorkeled in Hawaii, Nicaragua and Mexico and always marveled at the sheer variety of colourful native fish I would get to see up close.When I heard that I could snorkel with the salmon … well, that takes snorkeling to a whole different level!

From July to October, these rivers are teaming with salmon, some weighing as much as 60 pounds. So, we venture out. Soon, our guide/owner of Kispiox Fishing Company Jim Allen anchors and assures me I’ll acclimatize pretty quickly. I go in very gingerly … the water is freezing.

However, the speed in which the salmon move and the rainbow-like colour of their scales as they hit the sunlight, make it reason enough to jump into the frigid waters. P.S. I suggest you wear a wetsuit.

The Cuisine: At the helm is the Allens’ 26-year-old daughter Kaleigh Allen.The fourth generation Kispiox native spent seven years traveling and attending medical school before realizing the only place she wanted to live was in the Kispiox.

Besides being an active conservationist, keen on preserving the pristine wilderness in the Skeena Watershed, Kaleigh is an

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More about the Kispiox Region and Bear Claw Lodge: Flights: From the Lower Mainland, it’s a little more than an hour flight to

Smithers and then you’ll be picked up at the airport by the lodge’s shuttle for a 90-minute drive. There is also a private airstrip at Bear Claw Lodge.

Bear Claw Lodge: Website kispioxriver.com This eco-friendly, 15,000 square foot cedar lodge features authentic totem poles and art work from famed Aboriginal artists including Roy Henry Vickers. It has eight guest rooms all with handcrafted beds and furniture. No television but you won’t

miss one, trust me.

Bear Claw Lodge is an all-season resort offering heli-skiing, salmon and steelhead fishing, conservation camps, horseback tours/riding, rafting and rafting expeditions, as well as luxury and relaxation at the lodge.

For more information or to make a reservation, there’s

a reservation request form online or contact them at info@kispioxriver.com If the matter is urgent, call direct at the lodge: 1-604629-9578 or its mobile 1-250-842-8829.

Note: Cell phones do not work up here. The lodge telephone is a satellite phone, so it can take awhile before anyone responds.

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A fearful dog needs an owner who it can trust For the past couple of weeks I have been delving into the development of fears and insecurities in dogs.

First I touched on the issue of a social, friendly yet unfamiliar dog who may avoid interaction with a human due to a need for a proper greeting ritual. In last week’s column I discussed how fears develop in dogs to get a better understanding of the difference between a fearful dog and a dog displaying peaceful avoidance behaviour.

This week I’ll touch on how we can help alleviate fears and move forward into a future rooted in a place of peaceful presence.

Whether it’s a dog, a horse or a human, letting go of fear boils down to one simple thing: trust — a trust that says, “I have faith that no harm will come to me if I allow myself to let go of this fear, a fear that I believed kept me safe, even though it left me living in a stifling, anxious, petty world.”

Of the three creatures mentioned, humans have the most difficult time letting go of their fears, for one reason: that loud

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Canine Connection negative voice in our heads that we listen to far more than the soft peaceful one.

Dogs and horses have been blessed with a mind that is referred to as “the still waters of a lake.”They don’t have to actively seek out that place of peace because they are that place of peace. Even when the fear is so great that it may seem like they have forgotten how to be at peace, given the chance they will seek peace and trust every time.

The best chance a dog has to overcome its fears is if its caregiver, owner, leader (whatever terminology you want to use) is also working from a place of trust and peacefulness. A fearful leader cannot instill

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trust in anyone or anything when they do not have it themselves.

This means that an owner must leave their personal baggage at home when training a fearful dog.They must also leave the dog’s baggage at home when out with a fearful dog.

Walking into any situation from a place of implicit trust is very hard, but it is what is required.

You cannot go through a walk thinking the next bad thing to trigger your dog’s fear is just around the corner. It might be, but you have to have the confidence to find that peace within the storm so that if something triggers a fear response in your dog, you can think calmly and effectively apply the training you have worked on up to this point.

Training should have included basic obedience that the dog performs exceptionally well. Training should have been purely positive and, yes, with treats!

— or at least a favourite toy so the dog’s mind is triggered into a positive endorphin-filled state when the owner says, “Fido sit and watch me!”

The neural pathway that was created in the training scenario around the “sit and watch me” command was purely positive, trusting and fun! This is the magic switch that turns the dog’s once

fear-filled response at the sight of a man in a black hat, for example, into a joyful, peaceful response.The man with the black hat did not trigger peacefulness in the dog, and probably never will. Rather, the command to “sit and watch me” from an owner whom they trust triggered the new neural pathway in the dog’s brain.

Through repetition, the dog does not become less fearful around the man in the black hat. Remember that memory has been created and won’t ever be forgotten.

But when the dog sees the man with the black hat it will choose to sit and look at its caregiver.The man in the black hat becomes insignificant as the dog faces a trusted leader.With time, the man in the black hat could possibly greet the dog, as long as the dog remains in a state of trusting peacefulness instilled by the owner’s calm confidence and control.

The fear will never become extinct, but over time it is moulded into something much more placid and tolerable.

More life lessons, courtesy of our dogs.

Joan has been working with dogs for more than 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

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Bennett headed to HOF NorthVancouver native gets call for Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

NorthVancouver native Chris Bennett is going into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame this fall, recognition for a long and successful career as a player, coach, and organizer across Canada and around the world.

Bennett is being honoured in the builder category, although if he had his druthers he’d also be going in as a player. Either way, you can add on that he’s also become a Hall of Fame storyteller as well.

Now a retired firefighter living in Coquitlam and working as the technical

director for North Coquitlam United Soccer Club, Bennett stopped by the North Shore News office last week and proceeded to guide a storytelling tour through 50 years of a soccer life full of great games, teams, and, of course, characters.

The journey started in London, England, where, strangely enough, Bennett did not play soccer.When Bennett was five his father left for Canada, flying 34 hours to make it all the way to the West Coast.

“They got to Winnipeg to refuel and his buddy says, ‘let’s get off now, I’m fed up with this flight.’” Bennett recalls. “My dad convinced

him to stay on the plane and go to Vancouver. Best move he ever made.”

Chris and the rest of the family soon followed and, as the family slowly settled in, the youngest of the crew found a home on the soccer field. Bennett remembers trying out for one of the teams run by the Burdett Construction Company — “to play for Burdett’s was the place to be,” he says — and going on to score 52 goals in his first season.

“I fell in love with the game, totally, completely, utterly,” he says. His dad, meanwhile, helped him out by making him a weight set — they couldn’t afford to buy one so he used the tools

at the shipyard.

“He got a burning torch and cut out plates of steel.

Then he got a bar and put the plates onto the bar and made sleeves and all that sort of thing.”

By his teens Bennett was a local star and, as a 15-yearold, made his debut with North Shore United, a semipro adult team in the Pacific Coast League. Famous North Vancouver tailor Paul Minichiello, who died Aug. 1 of this year, helped welcome him to the team.

“Paul was a great guy,” Bennett says. “My signing fee to play for North Shore, Paul made me a custom leather jacket right down to my calves.That was one-ofa-kind.”

Bennett showed well in those games and his goal-scoring talent earned him a spot at England’s

famous Chelsea FC where he worked with the reserve team, standing out not for his flashy skills — the team was full of elite internationals — but because of his fitness.

“I was 165 pounds of tungsten carbide back in those days,” he says. “I was very fit.”

The Premier League dream, however, didn’t come true and Bennett returned to Canada and eventually found himself on Team B.C. at the 1973 Canada Summer Games where he was back facing players his own age rather than adults.

“It was like taking candy from a baby,” he says.

Bennett scored the winning goal in the tournament’s quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals, the last one giving B.C. the gold in front of See CONCACAF page 26

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CONCACAF win causes Mexican fury From page 25 a raucous home crowd at Swangard Stadium. He remembers it vividly.

“The ball popped loose and I jumped on it in a heartbeat. The goalie came out to block it and I hit it with my left and it went straight through his legs.

Nutmegged him.”

That performance earned him a spot on a brand new pro team called the Vancouver Whitecaps, beginning play in the North American Soccer League in 1974. The team brought in a few international stars but for the most part calling it “professional” was a bit of a stretch, says Bennett.

“The rest of us were all loose ends, firefighters, school teachers, city workers,” he says. “The money we were making was very small. . . . There wasn’t a lot of pressure on us as soccer players. It’s not like it is today with the media.”

Bennett played half a season before asking for a chance to train with England’s Arsenal. He never played again for the Whitecaps, instead heading

down south a few miles to sign with Seattle.

“I left (the Whitecaps) simply because of money — I was broke,” he says, adding that Seattle was offering something that was at least livable. “It was enough money for a single guy so we could afford to take a girl out, party, wear nice clothes and put gas in the car. We didn’t really have to worry about too much else in life.”

Bennett joined a Seattle team that featured real stars, like England’s Geoff Hurst, still the only man to ever score a hat trick in a World Cup final game.

“I really felt that I had arrived in life,” says Bennett, adding that his next-door neighbour was another English teammate named Harry Redknapp, now a famous Premier League manager.

“I had no idea he would turn out to be the Harry Redknapp who he is today,” says Bennett before launching into stories, Redknapp’s cockney accent included, such as the episode with the coho salmon that Bennett

brought home from a fishing trip and tried to give to Harry. (“Nah, mate, I’m not puttin’ me finger in that. Look at the teeth on that.”)

Pro stops in Memphis and Cleveland followed, as well as stints on the Canadian Olympic team and national team, before Bennett’s playing career was cut short by injuries.

Addicted to the sport, Bennett says he had no problem jumping off the field and into the coach’s box.

“I wanted to learn, I wanted to improve, I wanted to get better. For me to read and study and listen and go on courses was what I wanted to do. It wasn’t hard work for me.”

He quickly moved up through local, provincial and national programs and, in 1996, scored an epic victory as coach of the national U20 team, beating Mexico in Mexico to win the CONCACAF U20 title. It’s a trip he won’t ever forget.

“It’s not like going into Austria or something like that,” he says. “You’re

going into a Third World environment and they will do anything, anything, to win. Anything. When they didn’t win the gold it was like somebody had killed their first born. They were so upset. We were hiding under the seats in the bus.”

The next year he took that team — which included familiar names like Dwayne De Rosario and Paul Stalteri as well as Steve Kindel, who’s now the technical director of North Van FC — to the FIFA U20 World Cup in Malaysia. The Canadians advanced out of the group stages, narrowly losing 2-1 against the eventual champions from Argentina, before losing to Spain in the playoffs.

The successes kept coming for Bennett,

including in 2004 when he guided the Vancouver Whitecaps women to a North American championship. That team — including players like Erin McLeod, Martina Franko, Andrea Neil, Brittany Timko and a young Kara Lang — earned a spot in the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

Now Bennett has bumped his Hall of Fame credentials up a notch, going national. A ceremony at the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame is scheduled for November.

“I’m very proud,” says Bennett, still radiating the passion for soccer that he discovered while scoring all those goals for Fen Burdett’s team some 50 years ago.

“Before you start out

in anything you’ve got to love what you’re doing,” he says. “First I was a soccer player, a dedicated player.

The only reason I went into coaching was because I couldn’t play anymore. If I could still play, I wouldn’t be coaching. If I could still play I wouldn’t be sitting with you here right now.”

The sport has engulfed his life, he says, again recalling those days back in North Vancouver.

“If you didn’t have a car you walked to Kinsman Stadium, and then you jumped that goddamn fence and you’re inside playing,” he says. “I wanted to become the best player in the world. I never made it, but that’s your goal.”

He may not be the best in the world, but he’ll always be a Hall of Famer.

Traffic Pattern Changes: Highway 1 and Sea-to-Sky Highway 99 GranFondo Cycling Event Saturday, September 6, 2014

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure notifies the public of a planned cycling event taking place on Highway 1 and Highway 99, between Vancouver and Whistler.

Riders in the RBC GranFondo Whistler event will start at 6:00 a.m. in Vancouver, travel over the Lions Gate Bridge up Taylor Way and Cypress Bowl Road, along Highway 1 and Highway 99, to finish in Whistler.

This event will result in temporary traffic pattern changes, delays and some stoppages on Saturday, September 6, 2014, as follows: West Vancouver: Highway 1, Upper Levels Highway - Eastbound Lanes Closed Horseshoe Bay to Taylor Way - Highway 1, two eastbound lanes only, closed from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. *Use Marine Drive eastbound as alternate route — 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Downtown Vancouver — 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

North and West Vancouver — 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Squamish — 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Whistler — 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Motorists are asked to allow extra travel time or plan alternate travel routes.

Please exercise caution, watch for traffic control personnel and follow all signs along the route.

Your patience during the event is appreciated.

For more information, visit the Drive BC web site at www.drivebc.ca or www.september6.ca.

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