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For public school students on the North Shore, the endless summer ends Monday.

Kids are scheduled to be back in school next week after teachers voted 86 per

cent in favour of a six-year deal with the province Thursday.

North Shore schools are slated to swing their doors open to returning students for a brief orientation Monday followed by a full day of classes Tuesday.

Monday’s session will mainly serve as an opportunity for schools to confirm enrolment, which is a key challenge in North Vancouver, explained superintendent of schools John Lewis.

The district is attempting to register 250 students from private schools and other school districts who are still awaiting release from their

former school district.

“In order for us to register a student, they need to be withdrawn from the database in the former school district,” Lewis stated in an email.

Kindergarteners will start school Tuesday.

However, the gradual entry process — which is intended to ensure a smooth transition to the classroom — will be

slightly abbreviated in West Vancouver.

“The things that we normally do will still happen, it’ll just be a bit shorter,” said West Vancouver School District spokeswoman Bev Pausche.

Gradual entry normally stretches into the second week of the school year, but this crop of kindergarteners will

have two days of short sessions with small groups followed by a full day of kindergarten Thursday.

Despite the wishes of some parents, the school year will not be extended, according to Education Minister Peter Fassbender, who spoke to CFAX radio in Victoria on Friday.

“We’re not going to See Fassbender page 9

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The evenings may be cooling down but don’t pack up the sunglasses just yet.

The Lower Mainland is likely to bask in some continued balmy weather in the coming weeks, despite the official start of fall on Monday evening.

A weak El Niño weather pattern is pointing to warmer than usual temperatures and drier than normal conditions to continue into the fall, said Dayna Vettese, meteorologist with the Weather Network, which recently released its predictions heading into the autumn season.

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Sharing in the common language of creativity

Art for all abilities CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” resonates out of an open laptop at Ray Perrault Park in North Vancouver.

The King of Pop is preferred listening for Jeff Keast when he’s making art. Hunkered down at a collapsible table near the southeast corner of Moody Avenue and East 15th Street, Keast bobs his head along to the music as he squeezes colourful acrylic paints onto a makeshift palette. Across from him, Mary McLaughlin is concentrating on her own canvas. The two chatter away as they paint, drawing still-life inspiration from a bunch of bananas and a vase of flowers set out between them.

Every rain-free Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon throughout the summer, this grassy spot has been the site of a drop-in outdoor art group for people with developmental disabilities. Abled-Art in

the Park, as the program is called, is the brainchild of 24-year-old Lynn Valley resident Emily Macdonald.

After running a vocationalfocused day program for adults, acting as a respite contractor and working in the school system with children, she saw a need for a program that would provide an opportunity for participants to express themselves, engage with each another and wind down at the end of the day.

“It’s a way to sit and relax and focus on something that’s a little bit slower paced where people are able to use creativity and socialize as well,” Macdonald says.

“I think it’s also a really good opportunity for selfdiscovery for these guys as well, and to gain some skills.”

Today’s Abled-Art participants all have Down syndrome, but the group welcomes those with all types of developmental disabilities. During each session, Macdonald offers project ideas and technique

tips — colour mixing and creating perspective, for example — but for the most part she leaves things up to the artists.

“That’s nice Mary.

Which flower is that?”

Macdonald comments as she makes her rounds.

“What shape is an apple?” she asks Keast, who has decided to venture beyond the bananas and paint fruit from memory.

Macdonald has a diploma in classroom and community support from Douglas College and is

working on a degree in community rehabilitation and disability studies online through the University of Calgary. She has worked at North Shore Disability Resource Centre and North Shore ConneXions Society, both of which offer organized art activities for people with special needs through their various programs.

Kathy Nyoni manages the disability resource centre’s STAGE (Supportive Transition Adult Group Education)

program, designed for young adults with disabilities who want to improve academic, work and life skills after high school. The weekly schedule features a number of art-based activities — from dance and music, to photography and textiles — all with an emphasis on developing employment skills.

“We find that it’s good to have balance between being active out in the community doing their thing, and having some more creative time where they can sit down, they can chit chat with each other, more free,” Nyoni says, “but it’s also important to try to understand what their skills really are and try to develop some employment skills out of those.We are trying to think outside of the box.

You know, you see a lot of people with special needs doing the same kind of work and we’re trying to just develop new things that they could be doing. So we try it out with the art and

it’s been working.”

Participants, who must apply to STAGE through Community Living B.C., are currently building birdhouses from scratch.

After cutting the wood, assembling the pieces and decorating the walls with photographs taken around the community, Nyoni says the plan is to sell the birdhouses with the hope of making the project selfsustainable.

Another favourite activity among STAGE participants is producing and filming a regular news show. It’s a creative project that Nyoni says encourages sharing and communication.

“We find that the art is allowing that, that social opportunity to be typical, to be doing what other people are doing, and they love it, they absolutely love it.”

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After Marliave wrote a sixgill post for the Vancouver Aquarium’s blog, more sightings have been coming in. The aquarium hopes divers who spot them will report them via the aquarium’s website, or via the facebook group Six Gill Sharks.

Gathering data on their presence will help explain why they’ve decided to come to Howe Sound.

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pups, all of which have had local populations explode, Marliave said. But that’s only part of the question.

What’s driving the change in species the sharks feed off is a much larger one.

Marliave theorizes it’s natural warming and cooling of ocean currents known as the patterns El Niño and La Niña.

“It’s predicted there will be these unpredictable shifts in the balance of life on earth and in the sea because climate doesn’t stay the same all the time.

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“This is absolutely new and we have excellent scuba records from 1964,” said Jeff Marliave, vice-president of marine science at the Vancouver Aquarium.

Until this year, the sharks have been known to hang out around Denman and Hornby islands and in the waters around Seattle, Marliave said.

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ur Scottish cousins stood at a historic precipice this week and decided to stay put.

With the vote to separate from the United Kingdom failing by 10 percentage points, the question is supposedly settled for a generation.

It was a powerful concept.

Dismantling the ties to Westminster and taking real control of your destiny.

It’s not hard to see why so many Scots supported it.

But the day was won by those wanting to keep the status quo. Given the rocky and, at times, bloody relationship between the two nations, it wasn’t necessarily out of love. Much of the No campaign centred around not the Scottish identity, but the unknown economic woes that would befall the bonny country. Some bigger businesses

MAILBOX Shame on government Dear Editor: I have little respect for most people in government or business. The greed that abounds everywhere makes me sick.Your article B.C. Liberal Ex-staffer Stands

by Her Actions was like a breath of fresh air. Sepideh Sarrafpour, I am so proud of you. It takes strength to stand up for what you believe in. The pain of being blacklisted and publicly scorned cannot be imagined.You certainly did do the right thing. Never change who you are for eventually it will bring you just rewards. As for the fraud and hypocrisy taking place in this government — shame on them.

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threatened to uproot and head south.

The oft-repeated political lesson learned is that voters — regardless of how passionate they may feel about other issues — can usually be persuaded if they feel it’s in their economic best interest.

While the Yes side is surely licking their wounds and contemplating a political future that looks and feels no different than the past 307 years, the Scots as a whole have won a number of victories on this road. They’ve won more legislative powers and posted a voter turnout and level of voter awareness simply not seen when Canadians choose which politicians represent them.

Scotland and the rest of the U.K. — like Quebec and the rest of Canada — are stuck with each other.

Let’s all make the best of it.

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Council shows its ignorance Dear Editor: There are many reasons to laugh at West Vancouver council’s decision to support a ban of LNG tankers in Howe Sound.

Firstly the municipality has no jurisdiction over the proposed site for the LNG plant. Secondly, the councillors show a ridiculous lack of knowledge on what LNG is all about. For years the B.C. Pilot Authority has been guiding major marine freighters up Howe Sound to Squamish terminals with no incidents or accidents. For years B.C. Ferries has plied the waters from Horseshoe

Bay to Bowen Island and Langdale with rarely an incident. To bring in the pollution of the waters off Britannia Beach caused by the mine there is ludicrous. It’s like chalk and cheese.

The councillors show their collective ignorance on this subject and rather than proposing a ban on LNG tankers they should be supporting this new industry and the jobs it will create and a boost to the B.C. and Squamish economies.

Angus Mitchell North Vancouver

Ambulance resources wasted on waiting Dear Editor: A few weeks ago you published some material regarding the problems with slow ambulance service. I think I can identify part of the problem.

A few years ago I had to take an ambulance to Lion’s Gate due to back spasms. I was in unbelievable pain and could not walk or even roll out of bed — I had to be taken out on a stretcher.

Once in hospital waiting for treatment, the ambulance

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crew had to stay with me until I was looked after. I’d guess they were tied up for an hour. Sure, I was in severe pain, but at no serious risk.Why could a triage nurse not see me, determine that I was not going to die on them, and release the ambulance for people who could be at serious risk?

I do not know how often this happens, but it struck me as a real waste of resources.

John Hunter North Vancouver

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“I just sincerely hope that any woman who’s being treated like this sees that it’s possible to go in and win.”

NorthVan server Stephanie Lipp is awarded $9,500 after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal rules her employer ousted her for being pregnant (from a Sept. 17 news story).

“While government is slow, that’s shameful.”

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If truth be told, go ask a four-year-old

Maybe all President Skroob needed was a four-year-old by his side at all times to tell it to him straight.

In the Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs, the unscrupulous president of Planet Spaceball gets talked into letting Snotty beam him down from his office to the control room.

“What the hell, it worked on Star Trek,” Skroob says. But it doesn’t go so well on Planet Spaceball — due to a “microconverter malfunction,” Skroob is reassembled with his head on backwards. Stunned to be looking at the world from a whole new perspective, Skroob has one important question: “Why didn’t somebody tell me my ass was so big?!”

Skroob, no doubt, was surrounded by yes men his whole life who would never dream of telling their boss that he could stand to lose a few boards off the back

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Laugh All YouWant porch, maybe focus a little more on the free weight squats and a little less on the free range chicken wings. I’ve discovered, however, that there is one form of personal adviser who will give you their honest assessment regardless of whether you’re a Druish Princess or a lowly Mog: the four-yearold human.

This all started a couple of months ago when I was idly scratching my nose and realized I’d been going at

it for a good while but still had a lot of unscratched surface area to cover. The thought that I might have a big nose never really occurred to me until that exact moment. The more I thought about it, however, the more I realized that all the telltale signs were there — Halloween masks not fitting quite right, small woodland creatures sheltering beneath my face during rainstorms, rhinoceroses banging at my door all hours of the night during mating season.

Plus a look at my family tree reveals one particular line blessed with athletic prowess, kind hearts and massive schnozzers. Was I included in that picture?

I’d never thought about it before.

I took a good hard look in the mirror. From the front I didn’t see too much out of the ordinary. From the side, though, there were troubling indications of honker gigantus. Up

top things looked pretty normal but down near the tip it looked a bit like someone snuck a ping pong ball in there one night whilst I slept.

No one, however, had ever mentioned it to me.

Were they being polite? Was it all in my head?

I asked my wife: do I have a big nose? The awkward silence that followed was telling, but not definitive. I dropped the subject — for good, I thought.

Just last week, though, I got my answer. It arrived, completely out of the blue, during a pleasant breakfast with my four-year-old son.

“Daddy, you have a big nose,” he said.

Thank you! Thank you for your honesty. It’s like a

breath of fresh air inhaled through giant nostrils. Now I know the truth, you little Abraham Lincoln, and I don’t care if you chopped down that cherry tree.

“My nose is small, daddy.” OK kid, that’s enough.

It was then that I realized that if I ever want the unvarnished truth about something I’ll need to find someone who hasn’t perfected the little white lie. It’s not that young kids don’t ever lie, it’s just that their lies are all terribly transparent ones, like “yes daddy, I asked mama and she said that I could have ice cream and cookies for breakfast. And coffee. And beer.”

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I don’t want to turn this into an episode of Kids Say the Darndest Things, but now that my oldest son has hit age four I’ve got to say that some of the things he says are amongst the darndest I’ve ever heard. A few minutes before giving me the nose news, my son took an interest in my new haircut.

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Fassbender rules out making up time From page 1

make up the lost time,” he said.

The deal struck between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the province left many teachers conflicted, said West Vancouver Teachers’ Association president Rob Millard.

“I heard one teacher saying they voted with their head and said yes, but in their heart they wanted to vote no.”

Asked about any sacrifices made by the teachers, Millard replied: “Just about everything.”

But while teachers didn’t get all they wanted, Millard said improvements to the education fund should allow for help with

class size and composition.

Mediator Vince Ready was integral in facilitating the deal, said Millard.

“Without (Ready) it would’ve been impossible because there was absolutely no trust there.”

Looking ahead, Millard said the school system must pay attention to the backlog of students who clearly need support but aren’t getting it because they haven’t been assessed.

While many parents are relieved at the prospect of getting the kids out of the house and back into the classroom, they should also be mindful of deficits faced by school districts, according to North Vancouver teacher and parent Jennifer Slack.

“School boards are not

allowed to run at a deficit, so that means cuts are coming,” she stated in a letter to the editor.

Citizens still need to hold the government responsible for funding education, according to Slack.

“Without your support, in five years’ time we will be right back where we started.”

North Vancouver school district has an operating surplus, according to John Lewis.

Drivers are reminded that when kids are back in school, speed limits are in effect in school zones.

North Vancouver RCMP will be out “in full force” patrolling school zones, according to a release from the detachment.

El Niño pattern an influence From page 1

when average temperatures were a couple of degrees above normal and only about half the usual rain fell.

Dry conditions were a result of “a big ridge in the jet stream” that remained semi-permanent over the West Coast for most of the summer — and also resulted in drought in California.

Expect a continuation of that trend, said Vettese.

So far, daytime high temperatures are still hovering one or two degrees above normal for September, said Andre

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haircut,” he said. “You look like a different man. I’m going to call you Father.”

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Besson, meteorologist with Environment Canada.

Those will cool slightly, and we can still expect some day-to-day showers, but the overall warmer-anddrier pattern will continue, he said.

Normally, the Lower Mainland sees between 350 and 400 millimetres of rainfall between September and November. But this year, “We expect to be a lot drier than that going forward,” said Vettese.

It’s possible the same El Niño-influenced weather pattern will continue through winter as well.

To make seasonal predictions, meteorologists

look at long-range weather models that include patterns like El Niño or La Niña connected to ocean temperatures.They also look at statistics for past years that have had similar weather patterns.

In June, meteorologists predicted that summer would be hotter and drier than usual on the B.C. coast — which turned out to be accurate.

Other parts of the country probably won’t have such an enjoyable fall and winter season.

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Projects unlock internal landscape From page 3 special needs. North Vancouver resident Carolyn Simpson is a professional art therapist with Fraser Health Authority’s Developmental Disabilities Mental Health Services.

She works with clients one-on-one for a series of 12 sessions, during which they use art to express fears, release anxieties and frustrations, and tap into their creative selves.

“Art is a window to feelings and thoughts not usually accessible through language,” she says. “With the art therapy, we see it as an opportunity to express oneself imaginatively and spontaneously, and so with support we can facilitate new understandings and insights.”

Simpson does a variety of activities with her clients: painting, drawing, sculpting, sewing — even doll-making and maskmaking. And she’s always open to suggestions. She recalls one man with autism who, for several sessions, wanted only to trace pictures of cars and trains.

Finally, he expressed an interest in woodworking so Simpson jumped at the

chance to mix things up and helped him build a large shield.

“This was such an important piece for him on so many different levels. He was bullied throughout his school life and so he carried that with him through adulthood, so symbolically the shield was huge, it was so important,” she says.

“He would talk about it as well with a sense of pride once he had it complete.”

Art can be an effective therapy option for nonverbal people who can’t participate in talk-based methods, Simpson says.

And for those who do speak, art may lessen the intimidation factor that comes with some forms of therapy.

“There’s a client, there’s a therapist, and then there’s the art,” Simpson says.

“We can use that (art) as a vehicle to access their internal landscape.”

In her role as art therapist, Simpson records her clients’ progress, offers support during times of creative block and interprets symbolism in finished artworks. But she says making art itself, even without a professional art therapist present, is still a

healing activity.

“I do believe that the making of art by its very nature is healing. It can reduce stress, it can expand creativity and it motivates growth.”

At Ray Perrault Park, a latecomer arrives for the plein-air painting session.

Macdonald’s older sister Cait, who was born with Down syndrome, pulls up to the art table in her wheelchair with the help of a care aide.

“She’s more profoundly disabled than a lot of the people that do come, so she does what she can,” Macdonald says. “Mostly it’s just for the enjoyment of being social and being outdoors.”

Macdonald credits Cait as her inspiration for choosing the career path she has. She leans over her big sister, helps her grasp a paintbrush and together they push pink and purple paint around a piece of paper. Only as an adult has Macdonald reflected back and realized that she grew up in a very different environment than her peers.

“There were four kids in the family,” she says, Cait being the eldest. “Cait had a lot of health problems

growing up, so when I was little sometimes I would wake up in the morning and my grandma or another family member would be there because Cait would be in the hospital,” Macdonald recalls. “There were a lot of hospital trips.”

Just two years apart, the sisters have always shared a tight bond (as well as the same fiery red hair.)

Both of them attended St. Thomas Aquinas school. “. . . she doesn’t speak much, she doesn’t have much language at all,” Macdonald says of her sister, “. . . but (we) have a connection where it’s not necessary.”

As the art group paints and chitchats under the dappled shade of a tree, Macdonald notices the contentment Cait is expressing in her face and through her mannerisms.

“It doesn’t matter that she doesn’t have the language,” Macdonald says. “We know when she’s happy.”

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The healing power of art Program sees artworks adorn hospital walls

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Strolling down the hall known as the “art walk,” one might never guess they were in a health care facility.

From watercolour landscapes to photographs and floral oil paintings, walking the corridors of Lions Gate Hospital and its neighbouring buildings has a new, more calming feel.

The Lions Gate Hospital Foundation’s art program has been bringing artwork into the halls of the hospital, Evergreen House and North Shore Hospice for almost two years, and will soon be adorning the walls of the new HOpe Centre this fall.

Joanne McLellan, director of planned giving at Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, says the program was patterned after one at Vancouver General Hospital.

“The whole idea was that by making the environment in a hospital more beautiful with different kinds of art — right now we’ve got mostly paintings and photographs, but hopefully we’ll get other different kinds of art as we go forward — it just gives patients and visitors and

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The program was launched about two years ago, with help from VGH, on the basis of the HOpe Centre, she says.The new North Vancouver psychiatry and education facility is expected to be fully operational mid-November.

“It was going to be a brand new building, beautiful architecture, that needed some beautiful artwork,” says McLellan. “So we launched the program on the basis that we would be looking for art for the HOpe Centre but in the meantime it would be housed at Lions Gate.”

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has approximately 80 original pieces throughout the hospital.

“It was really all about the healing power of art,” says McLellan. “It was a way of creating a calming and attractive environment that if someone was having a bad day, whether it was staff or a patient or family member or visitor, it just gave them a

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Some of the artwork will be moved to the HOpe Centre, she says.

“The idea is to continue to expand the program so that all areas of all of the facilities have access to the art,” says McLellan.

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Your metabolism is the sum of energy your body expends each day.

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2014 General Local Election Notice of Nomination

Public Notice is given to the electors of the District of North Vancouver that nominations for the offices of: Mayor Councillor School Trustee

one to be elected six to be elected four to be elected

for a four-year term, December 2014 to October 2018, will be received by the Chief Election Officer or a designated person, as follows: When: 9am on September 30, 2014 to 4pm on October 10, 2014 (Excluding statutory holidays and weekends) Where: Clerk’s Office District of North Vancouver 355 West Queens Road North Vancouver, BC V7N 4N5 Nomination documents are available at the District of North Vancouver Clerk’s Office during regular office hours (8am – 4:30pm).

Qualifications for Office

Elector Qualifications

Resident Electors: • age 18 or older on general voting day; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a resident of the District of North Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and, • not disqualified by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law.

Non-resident Property Electors: • age 18 or older on general voting day; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a registered owner of real property in the District of North Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; • not entitled to register as a resident elector; • not disqualified by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law; and, • if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.

A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria: • age 18 or older on general voting day; • a Canadian citizen; • resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; and, • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from being nominated for, being elected to, holding office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

Beginning September 30, 2014 until the close of general voting for the election on November 15, 2014, a copy of the list of registered electors will, upon signature, be available for public inspection at the District of North Vancouver Clerk’s Office during regular office hours Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays.

Mail Ballot Voting

Request to Omit Personal Information

Mail ballot voting will be available to voters with disabilities who cannot travel to a voting place and to voters who will be absent from the District on the General Voting Day (November 15) and all three Advance Voting Days (November 5, 8, and 10). In order to receive a mail ballot package you must first complete a Mail Ballot Application available online at dnv.org/vote2014 or in person at the District Hall.If you are not able to pick up a mail-in ballot package, please have your application to the Chief Election Officer by October 24, 2014 to allow sufficient time for a package to be mailed.

For further information visit dnv.org/vote2014 or contact: James Gordon, Chief Election Officer - 604-990-2207

List of Registered Electors

An elector may request that their address or other information about them be omitted from, or obscured on, the list of electors. Upon request, the Chief Election Officer will amend the list, which is available to the public and candidates, by omitting or obscuring the elector’s information.

Objection to Registration of an Elector

An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act until 4pm on October 10, 2014. An objection must be in writing and may

only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the District of North Vancouver and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is not qualified to be registered as an elector of the District of North Vancouver.

Linda Brick, Deputy Chief Election Officer - 604-990-2212 Shannon Dale, Election Coordinator - 604-990-2213

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From page 15 chemistry deals with caffeine well, consider drinking two to three cups of green tea or coffee per day. Of course, you should still go light on the cream and sugar! These brews each contain other healthy compounds as well, and it’s even possible to buy concentrated green tea extracts.

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The pieces are chosen by an art committee made up of art professionals, medical staff and a couple of board members, she says, as well as psychiatric medical staff for anything going into the HOpe Centre. Artists submit an image electronically and all the pieces are juried.

“Generally there’s a certain criteria that there are some things that are not acceptable for a health care setting,” says McLellan.

“Those are eliminated with an explanation to the artist that this is why it’s not acceptable.”

The committee tries to keep a balance so they don’t end up with all landscapes or all flowers, she says, so they have a comprehensive mix of different subjects in the artwork.

The feedback from patients, visitors and staff has been “fantastic,” says McLellan, remembering one particular incident when the first pieces were being installed around a year and a half ago.

“We had cords running across the hallway to the drill and the vacuum and so on,” she says. “So I was standing there with my name tag on, sounding like a traffic officer

saying ‘watch your step, watch your step,’ thinking the last thing I need is the first pieces of art that go out and somebody trips over the cord.”

An elderly woman approached McLellan and asked if she was involved in the art program.

“I said ‘yes,’ and she said ‘well, I have to tell you, I live over on the 13th Street side of the hospital and my husband is in Evergreen and I walk through the hospital at least twice, often more every day, and every time I leave him, I cry on my way home,’” McLellan recalls.

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“I think many people have this fear of hospitals, for all sorts of reasons, and usually the old story about ‘well it smells like a hospital and it’s a very clinical environment and everything’s pretty sterile looking,’ and I think the art sort of softens that,” says McLellan. “It brings the outside world into the hospital to sort of make it more of a welcoming environment. It gives you a minute to put life in perspective and gives you a bit of a diversion from what’s often a very stressful situation.”

Following is a list of North Vancouver District upcoming public meetings. Please note that this list is subject to change and new agenda items/meetings may be added during the month.

Public Hearings:

(rescheduled) Tuesday, October 7, 7pm - Rezoning and phased development agreement - 2035 Fullerton Avenue (Larco)

The 2014 Annual Tax Sale that was to be held in the Council Chamber of the District of North Vancouver Municipal Hall at 355 West Queens Road at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 29, 2014 has been cancelled as all delinquent taxes have been paid. For more information please contact our Tax Department at 604-990-2488.

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including Ross Penhall, Bobbie Burgers and Cori Creed. “It’s a way for their work to be shown, although in most cases they’re pretty well-known artists so they don’t necessarily need the exposure from us, but they’re happy to have their work here and they’re happy to be a part of the collection with the other artists that we have here,” says McLellan.

“The collection, as it grows, is becoming more well known, so people want to be involved.”

The foundation already has plans in the works to expand the collection to include sculptures and three-

Public Meetings

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McLellan that it was the first time she was able to enjoy the walk home.

“I was almost in tears and I thought ‘whoa, this really does make a difference,’” she says. “It’s having that kind of an impact.”

The response from the artists has also been very positive. “They’ve been really pleased,” says McLellan. “Most of the artists we’ve had so far are from the North Shore or the donors are from the North Shore, so it’s their community hospital.”

There are approximately 50 artists that have contributed their work,

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Committee of the Whole: Monday, September 29, 7pm For more information: • visit dnv.org for agendas, minutes and schedules of upcoming meetings • call 604-990-2315 for a recorded listing of agenda items • visit dnv.org/agendanotice to have agendas delivered to your inbox • visit any District Library to view a copy of the agenda which is available the Friday before the regular Council Meeting

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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS

Jaclyn Guillou – A Tribute to Dinah Washington

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Rehearsals are Monday evenings at West Vancouver United Church. Contact Gillian: 778-847-1210 or gillianhunt1@shaw.ca.

AMBLESIDE FARMERS’ MARKET Every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Oct. 26 in the 1500 block of Bellevue Avenue,West Vancouver. Market includes

bread, honey, organic and traditional produce, jams and more. Celebrate organic week at the market Sept.

28, with old time accordian music by Heart and Soul.

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10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 415 West Esplanade, North Vancouver. Event features more than 150 boats, display booths, hospitality tents and demo slips for sea trials. $12. 604-987-4113 mosquitocreekmarina.com

LONSDALE QUAY FARMERS’ MARKET Every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Oct. 25 at 123 Carrie Cates Court. Market includes conventional and organic produce, jewelry, photography and more.

Celebrate organic week at the market Sept. 27, including folk music

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BICYCLE TREASURE HUNT RIDE Sunday, Sept. 21 10 a.m.to 1 p.m.at Shipbuilders’ Square, 15 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver. Collect your clue sheet and follow it around Lower Lonsdale answering cryptic questions and collecting a few items of treasure. Prizes will be given at 12:30 p.m. Free. bikefun. wix.com/treasure

BOAT SHOW AT THE CREEK Mosquito Creek Marina presents this annual show Sept. 21,

Friday, September 26 | 7:30 p.m.

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Friday, October 17 | 7:30 p.m.

Doors open at 7 p.m., come early for best seating.

No tickets required. Supported by a generous bequest from the estate of Robert Leslie Welsh, through the West Vancouver Memorial Library Foundation.

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Find an advisor who fits your needs Many investors have trouble finding a good financial advisor but by asking a few important questions, I believe you can increase your chances of hiring one of the good ones and also be more sure that they are the right fit for your needs.

The initial meeting with an advisor involves you explaining your situation to them. Once they know more about you, it’s your turn to see if they are a good fit for you. Not all advisors are able to offer the services you need so it’s important to work with someone who matches your needs.

Start by asking “Do you have experience in dealing with financial situations like mine?” Financial advisors choose the type of business they do. Some will specialize in retirement planning, some will focus on small cap, higher risk stocks and some may concentrate more on bonds and GICs. This makes it especially important to ensure that the advisor is not just knowledgeable in

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the area that you require, but specializes in your situation.

You should inquire as to why they became a financial advisor? In any business, you want to deal with people who are passionate about their profession. Look for that passion when they answer this question.

It’s a good idea to ask “What services can you provide me and how will my account be managed?”

You need to know if the advisor needs to call you every time they make a change in your portfolio or if the account will be managed on a discretionary

basis (which means they make the decisions for you). Will they charge commission or will it be fee based? Can they provide you with a financial plan, insurance or new issues?

To learn more about the client servicing, ask how often you can expect to hear from them or their team? Within our office, clients are personally met with twice a year to review their portfolio and performance. In between these meetings, we schedule phone calls to get an update on their situation and also provide a market update and general overview of their portfolio. In our opinion, we believe that meeting once a year isn’t enough.

Be sure to ask “What do you do about a losing investment or stock?”

This might be the most important question as it relates to risk management.

You don’t want to hear that they don’t worry about it because it always bounces back or that they never choose a bad stock. Nobody has a

want your advisor to have skin in the game. A good response is to hear that all their liquid investments are in the same things you are going to be. This makes sure they are on the same page as you are.

perfect batting average so you need to understand the process that they will implement so that your portfolio is protected. After every bull market comes a bear market and you need to make sure you are prepared.

And the final question to ask is “What percentage of your net worth is in these investments?”You

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Options for Volunteers

Ideal for individuals who have the time to commit to a longer term friendship with a child or youth.

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

SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANT A volunteer is needed to assist the recreation staff with activities in a special care unit where the residents have dementia. An application process is in place.

ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING Matches children and youth with a volunteer Big Brother or Big Sister in a one-to-one mentoring relationship.

Generally requires a commitment of one to four hours a week up to one year. Activities can be as varied as one’s imagination.

EDUCATIONAL EVENT COORDINATOR Volunteer will work closely with members of the Vancouver Oxfam Committee.

The Educational Event Co-ordinator will organize weekly speakers, presentations, films and reading circles for the Oxfam Thought Cafe.

James Ltd., a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.This is for informational purposes only and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Raymond James. Lori can answer any questions at 604-915-LORI or lori. pinkowski@raymondjames. ca.You can also listen to her every Friday on CKNW at 5:35 p.m.

The Thought Cafe is an opportunity to discuss ideas and explore issues related to international development with like-minded people.

Some administrative duties may be required.

RESTORE VOLUNTEERS Habitat for Humanity North Vancouver ReStore is located at 126 Harbour Ave. in North Vancouver.

Volunteers are needed for a variety of tasks. Open to the public Monday to Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Refer to the website for further details. habitatgv.ca If you are interested in these or other possible volunteer opportunities, call 604-9857138.The society is a partner agency of the UnitedWay.

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Permissive Tax Exemption Council will be considering adoption of the following bylaw on October 6, 2014 Proposed Bylaw: 2015 - 2018 Royal Canadian Legion Branch 114 Lynn Valley Taxation Exemption Bylaw 8083, 2014 The proposed bylaw will provide the following property with a 100% exemption from the payment of municipal taxes for the years 2015 - 2018.

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The tax figures above are estimates only and will be modified based on changes in assessment, as supplied by BC Assessment, and tax rates as determined by Council.

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Community Bulletin Board From page 19 Emergency Management Office, 147 East 14th St. Learn how to respond during a disaster, what to think about if asked to evacuate and more. 604969-7000, nsemo@cnv.org

Maplewood House, 399 Seymour River Place, North Vancouver. $125, materials not included. For anyone who would like to explore their own subject, with professional guidance and instruction. Register online nvartscouncil.ca or phone 604-988-6844.

AWARD NOMINEES AND BUSINESS AFTER FIVE RECEPTION A networking reception Tuesday, Sept. 23 5-8 p.m. at Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier, 138 Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver, for

FALL ART CLASSES ACRYLIC STUDIO Tuesdays, Sept. 23 to Oct. 21 6:30-9 p.m. at

the 17th annual Business Excellence Award nominees.

Three finalists will be announced. Event includes appetizers and a cash bar. $20 members, $27 for nonmembers. Register at business. nvchamber.ca TIME, PLACE AND SPACE Join artist Richard Tetrault Wednesday, Sept.

24 7-9 p.m. at the Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver, for a disucssion and visual presentation on how he sources visual material and draws inspiration from

the Downtown Eastside.

For more information visit ferrybuildinggallery.com FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY LECTURE SERIES Join historians Garrett Poman and Allan Orr for lectures Thursdays, Sept. 25 and Oct. 2, 9 from 6:30-8 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Lectures cover causes of First World War and its peace arrangements in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. westvanlibrary.ca

FISHING DERBY Hosted by the District of North Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society Friday, Sept.

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Applications for financial support will be accepted until Oct. 15 from community programs and services, which must be run by registered charities, educational institutions or government agencies.

This year, the NSCF has more than doubled the amount of money available for discretionary grants.

In addition, $56,500 has already been earmarked for scholarships and directed grants. When added to the $50,000 given to the Turning Point Recovery Society as a result of funds raised at the North Shore Mayors’ Golf Tournament, the foundation will be distributing more than $184,000 this year.

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FOLKTALES AND LAUGHTER A storytelling series with humorous folktales from around the world takes place the second Sunday of every month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. After the tales, a yoga therapist will

NORTH SHORE CRIC CRAC STORYTELLING EVENINGS presented by the North Shore Storytellers take place the first Sunday of every month, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Each month

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SENIORS

WV woman continues to forge ahead I caught up with Iola Knight a few days before the 22nd Annual Pioneer Skiers Reunion, held Wednesday, Sept. 17 this year on Hollyburn Mountain.

A photograph from her collection takes us back to the spring of 1946.

Here is Iola alongside Frances Vajda on Grouse Mountain, both women in the ski-wear of the day, Frances on skis and Iola wearing her “little white hiking boots.”

Iola Musfelt was 23 years old in 1946, a hiker and a mountain

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climber, soon to take up skiing thanks to her future husband, Gordon Knight, a fellow member of the University of

British Columbia’s Varsity Outdoors Club.

It’s a wonder Iola had time for anything extracurricular. She was studying sciences at UBC, exceptional for women at the time. Even more exceptional, Iola was working towards a master’s degree with a PhD on the horizon. Each weekday included an early morning trek from the family home on Dundas Street across the city to the university campus and a full day of study that ended when the library closed. Saturdays, she earned 35 cents an

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That attitude, helped along by the close bonds forged over time with fellow Hollyburners, saw Iola through the Pioneer Skiers Reunion this year, the first without Gordon by her side. Iola’s husband, best friend and companion for 68 years, died in May, two months before his 93rd birthday.

“You’ve heard how we got involved with Hollyburn, haven’t you? Gordon and I had developed an exercise program of cycling, hiking, skiing and swimming.”

A day of cycling on the mountain in 1992 happened to coincide with the first Pioneer Skiers Reunion. “We noticed a lot of people our age

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To adopt a new Official Community Plan for the City of North Vancouver. This bylaw would have the effect of rescinding the current City of North Vancouver Official Community Plan, Bylaw, 2002, No. 7425 and replacing it with a new Official Community Plan, including an updated Regional Context Statement. The Official Community Plan is the City’s long-range planning tool for guiding the growth and development of the City. It includes a broad vision for the community’s future, with supporting goals and objectives. The Regional Context Statement outlines how the City’s Plan aligns with the Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy.

The Official Community Plan applies to the entire City. Major policy areas and chapters within the Official Community Plan include: • Foundation (Community Vision) • Parks, Recreation & Open Space • Land Use/Density • Arts, Culture and Heritage • Transportation, Mobility & Access • Economy and Economic Development • Community Well-Being • Municipal Services and Infrastructure • Natural Environment, Energy and Climate • Regional Context Statement The update of the Official Community Plan has involved the active participation of over 4,600 community members through the CityShaping community engagement process. This Public Hearing is the final opportunity for public input on the updated Official Community Plan.

This Public Hearing is held under the provisions of the Local Government Act. Persons who believe they may be affected by this proposal will be heard in person and/or by written submission. Send submissions to the City Clerk at kgraham@cnv.org or by mail. Electronic submissions must be received no later than 4:00 pm on Monday September 29, 2014. Please note that no further information or submissions can be considered by Council after the conclusion of the Public Hearing. The proposed bylaws and material may be viewed at City Hall from September 18, 2014. If you wish to view the material online, please visit www.cnv.org/cityshaping. Please direct all inquiries to Neal LaMontagne, Manager of Long Range and Community Planning, at nlamontagne@cnv.org or 604-990-4219.

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Knights helped to preserve local history From page 24 floating around. It turned out Gordon knew some of them from his early days on the mountain.”

A memoir by pioneer skier Naomi McInnes is posted with others on the Hollyburn Heritage Society website. She begins, “In the late 1930s we were one big family, we who hiked, skied, chopped wood, built log cabins and escaped each weekend to the marvelous play land fondly referred to as ‘up the hill.’” Such memories inspired Naomi and her husband Bud to reunite that family and recall those halcyon days on Hollyburn.

Gordon and Iola participated in the reunion every year after that auspicious day at Hollyburn Lodge. As the seasons rolled on, their connection with the mountain deepened. In 1998, with Bob and Greta Tapp and other cabin owners, they set up the Ski Camp Heritage Project to restore Hollyburn Lodge at First Lake. A few years

later, the Knights joined with the Tapps to establish Hollyburn Heritage Society, dedicated to the celebration of mountain life on the North Shore.

“We were always mountain people,” says Iola. “A happy day in Gordon’s life was the day our son said he’d rather stay home and ski than go to Hawaii.”

The Knights raised their children in a house they built in 1964, one of West Vancouver’s rare “Alcan” houses, constructed with aluminum window frames and cladding. With Tony and Tami in school at Irwin Park elementary and Hillside secondary, Iola had time to return to the sciences, this time as a volunteer at the Vancouver Aquarium, a commitment that continued into the 1980s. By then, with Gordon retired from his career as a civil engineer, the Knights had added snowshoeing, cycling and cross-country skiing to their rota of outdoor activities. There was See Couple page 27

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BRAIN-BODYBALANCE CONNECTION A unique program designed to strengthen the brain, body and balance Thursdays until Dec. 4, 13 p.m. at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver. The first half of the class will be physical exercises, which will include cardio, balance, core strengthening and flexibility. The second part of the class will include discussion and games on how to sharpen memory and boost brain power as you age. This program is suitable for the active senior. $7 drop-in.

HELPING MATURE ADULTS LIVE INDEPENDENTLY AT HOME A presentation that describes how Philips Lifeline helps those living alone and vulnerable to falls, Thursday, Sept. 25

GETTING TO KNOW DEMENTIA For people with early symptoms of dementia and/or family and friends Thursday, Sept. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Alzheimer Resource Centre, 212-1200 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Registration: 604-984-8347.

time to give back to their community too, through their work with Hollyburn Heritage Society and with the preservation of local heritage in all its forms, including the memoirs that Iola is currently

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Iola Knight continues to forge her path through life.

Its foundations are love and respect for the natural world, active participation in society, recognition of the importance of the past and the ability to meet what life brings with

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Smaller wineries a draw at Top Drop

Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables Last week saw the unveiling of a new beverage festival in the form of Top Drop Vancouver.

The initial two-day event, which focused on terroirbased smaller wineries, was well received and looks set for success.The key was the selection of smaller wineries (and breweries) that appealed to a more curious taster, not to mention the ever more sophisticated sommelier community looking to liven up their list.

Top Drop organizers chose Main Street’s Heritage Hall to launch the event.

It’s a warm and welcoming space that suited the small but select group of wineries and breweries (and often their principals) on hand. I have a hunch that based on the response it’s a space they might quickly outgrow.

Here’s just a snapshot of what you would have discovered at Top Drop, an event defined as much by who was there as who was not. Some of these less commercial names may be a little more challenging to track down, but you should go out on a limb occasionally to taste something different and even esoteric. Maybe pretend you’re a sommelier and surprise your friends.

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2013 (Mendoza) A very different take on Torrontes, this wine is fermented for three months in French Oak, which gives a little added heft. Mix in some toasty aromas with precise stonefruit and lime notes on the palate, and you might find yourself re-thinking Argentina’s mainstay white ($22, private wine stores, including Everything Wine, 91 points).

Ben Marco Expresivo Malbec 2012 (Mendoza) Blend of mainly Malbec with 20 per cent Cab Sauv., plus Syrah,Tannat, Petit Verdot and Bonarda yield intense dark cherry and mocha notes up front followed by a plush and opulent palate with generous but elegant black fruit, and toast and anise notes in a lingering finish (BCLS $41.99, 92 points).

Kunde Sonoma Valley Chardonnay 2012 Californians love to come north and tell us they’ve pulled back on the oak, but this one really has. Gentle toast and vanilla notes on top, followed by tropical and citrus with lively acidity, some creaminess and a clean, lingering finish. An excellent balance of fruit and acidity, with quite restrained oak and with a definite mineral hint (private wine stores, $25-$29, 90 points).

Vina Gravonia Blanco Crianza 2004 (Bodegas Heredia, Rioja) White Rioja you say?Yes indeed, and I can assure you this is one of the most intriguing Spanish wines you’ll ever taste. Plus it’s 10 years old. It gets left in oak for four whole years. Nutty, layered and complex, almost fino-esque, with herbal and stony mineral notes through a very focused palate.Try it with a piece of Spanish

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cheese. Unquestionably the most intriguing wine of the day (BCLS $39.50, 92 points).

Chateau de Montfaucon Les Gardettes Rouge 2011 Blend of mainly Syrah, vibrant berry fruits on the nose followed by juicy blackberry and cherry notes wrapped in easy tannins before a good close

(excellent value, private wine stores $18-$20, 90 points).

Finca Decero Syrah 2011 (Mendoza) This is one more reason why, when it comes to Argentina, you should (at least occasionally) think beyond Malbec. From this single-vineyard specialist comes a not-so-shy Syrah with enticing black fruit and toast on the nose followed

by an intense but polished palate with good focus and acidity.Think serious grilled red meat ($25.99, Everything Wine, 91 points).

Vina Koyle Syrah Reserva 12 (Colchagua) Chile’s Vina Koyle has a well-earned reputation for good-value wines, and for under $20 this certainly delivers. Classic, meatygamey varietal notes on

top, with a generous but structured palate of plum and mulberry, pepper spice and coffee notes wrapped in easy tannins (tremendous value, BCLS $18.99, 90 points).

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PETS

Dogs find joy in everything they do While chatting with a friend, he commented on how stressful his weekend was.

I asked him if he read my column from last weekend about how dogs actively seek joy in every situation presented to them. And he said “Yes.” I then said, “Well do it, be more dog!” His reply was, “If someone can be me, then I can find the time to be more dog.”

And that is one of the conundrums of the human experience. In order to be one thing, you have to exclude the other. My philosophy is that one is not exclusive of the other.

Being more dog has nothing to do with getting the crappy stuff over with so that you can sit around with your tongue hanging out and wagging your tail all day long. Rather, instead of looking at the routine experiences of the day as mundane, look at them from the point of view of a dog.

To a dog, going to work would be just as amazing as going to the

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Canine Connection dog park because the dog would find something to be happy about. No matter how unexciting a situation may be to us, dogs enter it with a joyful mindset. The idea of “oh man, this is gonna suck” just isn’t in their mental framework. Everything is amazing. This may seem like looking at the world through rose coloured glasses, and it is. What is so wrong with that?

What is wrong with expecting the best (not materially, but emotionally) in every situation? What is wrong with looking for something to be happy about even

though the rest of the people want you to see something to be unhappy about.

We have been conditioned to easily accept sayings like “no pain no gain,” “can’t have the good without the bad,” and “everything good must come to an end.” These are all sayings from pessimists! And we accept them. But to say something like, “there is always a silver lining” is considered a hedonistic approach to life instead of a realistic one.

Well, my reality doesn’t include pessimism and if that means that I live a hedonistic life because I prefer optimism like my dogs, I say bring it!

Life throws us curve balls, it is part of our journey, and we have a choice to either take them with unhappiness and pessimism or to look for that silver lining, make lemonade out of lemons, see the light at the end of the tunnel . . . be more dog. And that means that no matter how bad things

get around you, you work as hard as you can to find something to be happy about, something to feel joyful about.

Are you feeling down because you only have hotdogs in your fridge?

Instead of saying “poor me, I have these nutrientvoid mystery meat logs to feed myself,” tell yourself that you get to experience what it was like to be five years old once again and joyfully eat a hotdog without caring what it is, but just because it tastes so darn awesome.

If you are going through a rough patch in life right now and having a tough time finding happiness, then go to YouTube and search for “Two Legged Boxer Duncan Lou Who” for inspiration on finding joy in a situation that seems impossible. When you watch it you may at first be shocked, even repulsed by the sight of the dog, and that is OK. You are just not ready to see the joy yet. But if you do watch it, allow yourself to fully and completely

feel the feelings that come from watching it. Are the tears running down your cheeks out of empathy for the dog? Do you feel sorry for it? Well don’t. The dog is happy! Watch it over and over again until you feel the unabashed joy that the dog feels.You will feel it in your heart and when your heart swells, it means that you have connected to that immeasurable joy within that dog, and that dog’s life, as it is presented, has fulfilled its purpose.

We have become so conditioned to see the gloom in everything that we have forgotten how to seek the good and how to

feel good. Feeling good is our natural state of being, so seek it in everything you do. Be more dog!

And thank you Jonathan for the inspiration for this week’s column. Remember to be more like Seymour!

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

Contact her via her website k9kinship.com. Scan this page with the Layar app to watch the video of twolegged dog Duncan LouWho making his first trip to the beach.

Dirty dogs wanted The West Vancouver branch of the BC SPCA is holding a dog wash fundraiser this weekend.

On Sunday, Sept. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. pet owners are invited to bring their pooches to the shelter, located at 1020

Marine Dr., for a good scrub down. A minimum $20 donation is required and all proceeds will help the animals.

There will also be 50 per cent off cat adoption fees on Sept. 21.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Beer leaguer hits NHL ice Tweet lands NorthVan goalie on ice with Canucks ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

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North Vancouver’s Tristan Jones is a veteran beer league hockey goalie, so he knows the drill — someone is out sick or on vacation and the frantic call comes in late looking for someone, anyone, to get between the pipes.

“That’s pretty much the life of a beer league goalie,” says Jones. “You kind of jump from one team to another.”

Last week, however, Jones made a jump he never imagined he’d make.

“The boys need a goalie for the 11:30 skate at Britannia,” was the call that came out over Twitter on Sept. 8. Jones had a day off from work and saw the message instantly. It drew his attention because of the sender: @aburr14, known outside of the Twitterverse as longtime Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows.

“First one that shows up will get a great workout and a free lunch from @ zkassian9,” the tweet ended.

“I’ll strap up but I don’t wanna leave from North Van unless I know I’m gonna be playing,” Jones tweeted back, mostly joking. He didn’t think anything would materialize, but he was also showing his North Shore sensibilities.

“Anyone who lives in North Van knows — nobody wants to cross that bridge unless they have to,” he says.

The reply came quickly in the form of a direct message from @zkassian9, better known as Zack Kassian, one of Jones’s favourite players on the Canucks.

“The boys are waiting so come on over.”

That was all Jones needed to hear. He ran to his storage locker to retrieve his goalie equipment, zipped over

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“For a goalie it takes a while to get ready but I managed to speed that process up,” he says.

Approximately 45 minutes after reading the first tweet from Burrows, Jones stepped onto the ice with several members of the Vancouver Canucks. It all happened so fast that he didn’t have time to get nervous.

“The reality was I went in there as a nobody,” he says. “The worst case scenario was that I’d leave as a nobody.”

And it’s not like Jones had never faced a tough shooter before. The North Vancouver native got his start by playing inline hockey, switching to ice at the relatively ancient age of 14.

“It was difficult,” he says. “I had to learn to skate.” He fell in love with it right away though, and threw himself into the sport.

“After the first year when my parents realized that I loved it they just put me in as much training as I could handle. Whatever I wanted to do, I was in it. I was in goalie camps constantly. I just kind of worked my way up, one year after another.”

He moved up, year-byyear, through the house and rep leagues of North Vancouver Minor before going on to junior B and junior A, ultimately ending up at the University of Alberta – Augustana Campus to play college hockey. Two serious, earlyseason injuries suffered in two successive years put an end to that dream almost before it began, and Jones returned home to get a business degree at Capilano University.

He stayed in the game through Behind the Mask — a goaltender training business he started while attending Capilano — and by playing in various men’s leagues around the Lower Mainland.

So how did he do when he jumped back out of the beer league and onto the ice with NHL stars?

“I did pretty well, had some fun out there,” he says with a laugh. “I made a few big saves, I had a couple of bad goals against.

I think that’s the same for any goalie in practice.”

His opponent at the other end of the rink was six-foot-six Jacob Markstrom, one of the players who came back to the Canucks in the Roberto Luongo trade.

“It was really weird,”

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“Pretty much anywhere I’ve played you’ll see one or two guys kind of stand out. If you stand out in this See Story page 32

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Hadwin headlines West Van Shootout Adam Hadwin, Canada’s newest golf star, is on his way to the PGA but first he has to make a stop in West Vancouver.

The Abbotsford resident will headline the third annual Vancouver Golf Tour – Golf West Vancouver Shootout scheduled for Sept. 27 at Gleneagles Golf Course. Other golfers set to shoot it out include a pair of North Vancouver stars in young PGA Canada phenom Eugene Wong and Vancouver Golf Tour dominator Bryn Parry.

The unique event will once again feature a door-die format with all 12 participants teeing off at the same time on the first hole.The two players with the highest total scores after holes No. 1 and 2 combined will be eliminated and then, starting on No. 3, the player with the highest score on each hole will be out of the competition.The event will culminate in a two-player showdown on the ninth hole.

Throughout the shootout all ties will be broken with one-shot closest-tothe-pin competitions from pre-selected locations — on the green or off — on each hole.

Hadwin will be playing in the tournament as a newly minted PGA player, having received his tour card in late August after clinching a top25 finish on the Web.com Tour’s money list for 2014.

He’s currently second on the list heading into the final event on this year’s Web. com Tour, the circuit that is one step below the PGA. “(Having) Adam Hadwin, arguably Canada’s hottest pro golfer, in the field will really make this year’s event exciting,” said Vancouver Golf Tour commissioner Fraser Mulholland in a release.

“It is such an amazing opportunity for fans to watch Adam up close and in person and see just how talented he and all the pros in the field really are. I know Adam is pretty keen to

knock last year’s champion — and good friend — Nick Taylor off the podium at this year’s event. It should prove to be a great battle between Canada’s golf superstars.”

The players will tee off at 2 p.m. with the final showdown expected around 5 p.m.The winner will receive $1,000 of the $2,500 total purse while the player with the longest drive on No. 1 will receive a $100 prize.

The shootout is a fan friendly event, with free admission for all spectators and free hot dogs and Haagen Dazs ice cream for the first 200 through the gates.The event will also give four fans a chance to compete alongside the pros in a hole-in-one contest with $100,000 up for grabs: $75,000 for the ace-maker and $25,000 being donated to Lions Gate Hospital.

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crowd it’s probably not for the best reasons. They’re very, very, very good. It was very consistent amongst the entire team — they all have high-end talent.”

The biggest difference was in the pace of the play, he says.

“The speed is just that next level. Keeping up from a cardio perspective, you can understand why they are elite athletes. . . .

In a practice I don’t think I’ve ever put out that much effort.”

Jones was also impressed by the players off the ice.

“They’re kind of like this one big, happy family,” he says. “Everyone was coming by and saying

thanks for coming out.

It was really cool. In the dressing room it was fun to see that the guys you watch on TV — their dressing room talk is just like locker room talk for any hockey team. . . . They were all planning on hanging out after the practice. They just wanted to be together.

That’s a good sign for any team.”

Jones showed so well that Burrows asked him to come back the next day for another practice.

“That was a pretty easy decision,” says Jones. When he showed up the next day there was a camera crew from CTV Vancouver there to get in on the fun.

As the story of the beer leaguer playing with the big leaguers gained speed,

Jones found himself sitting down for interviews with TSN 1040 radio, Sonic radio and even CTV National.

The only problem stemmed from the original tweet — Jones had to leave quickly after the second practice so he never got that lunch with Kassian.

Jones isn’t worried though — fuzzy future plans for potential meals and Canucks games have already been discussed, and Jones has made it clear that he’s ready any time that the boys need a body.

“I told them, any time you need a practice goalie, even if it’s just a couple of you guys, let me know — I’ll come out and you can shoot some pucks at me.”

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Save BIG on our 2014s before they’re gone for good.

Model: Accord Touring CR3F9EKN

Model: Pilot Touring YF4H9EKN

Starting from MSRP $25,685** includes freight and PDI

* UP TO CASH PURCHASE INCENTIVE ON SELECT 2014 MODELS

Starting from MSRP $36,685** includes freight and PDI

$3,000

CASH PURCHASE INCENTIVE ON EVERY 2014 MODEL

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Model: CR-V Touring RM4H9EKNS

Model: Civic Si FB6E5EKV

Starting from MSRP $27,685** includes freight and PDI

Starting from MSRP $19,990** includes freight and PDI

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*$2,000/Up to $3,000/Up to $3,000/$5,000 Honda cash purchase incentive is available select 2014 Civic models (2D LX, 2D EX, 2D EX-L NAVI, 2D Si, 4D LX, 4D EX, 4D Touring and 4D Si), every 2014 CR-V model, select 2014 Accord models (2D EX, 2D EX-L Navi, 4D LX, 4D Sport, 4D EX-L and 4D Touring) and every 2014 Pilot model. Honda cash purchase incentive will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance offers. #Limited time lease offer based on select new 2014 Honda models through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Lease example based on a new 2014 Civic 4D DX 5MT model FB2E2EEX and a 48 month lease term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: 0.99% lease APR for 48 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $99.33. Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $10,330.32. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 96,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres.†Limited time 0.99% finance offer based on select new 2014 Honda models only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Finance example based on a new 2014 Civic 4D DX 5MT model FB2E2EEX and a 48 month finance term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: $17,185 at 0.99% per annum equals $410.46 monthly for 48 months. Freight and PDI of $1,495 included. Cost of borrowing is $393.01, for a total obligation of $19,702.08. Down payment of $0.00, first monthly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at finance inception. Taxes are extra. Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only.**MSRP is $19,990 / $27,685 / $25,685 / $36,685 based on a new 2014 Civic 4D DX 5MT FB2E4EEX / CR-V LX 2WD RM3H3EES / Accord 4D L4 LX 6MT CR2E3EE / Pilot LX 2WD YF3H2EE including $1,495 / $1,695 / $1,695 / $1,695 freight and PDI. */** Prices and/or payments shown do not include PPSA lien registration and lien registering agent’s fees, which are due at time of delivery. Dealer may sell for less. Dealer trade may be required. For all offers levies (air conditioning tax of $100 and tire/battery tax of $25), license, insurance, applicable taxes and registration are extra. Offers valid from September 3rd through September 30th, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your BC Honda retailer for full details.