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Blustery night caps stormy week 3,000 homes lose power, tree on Causeway closes bridge BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Just when we thought we were out of the woods, heavy winds started blowing the trees down.

What was supposed to

be the tail end of a storm week ended up creating a blustery mess across North Vancouver and West Vancouver Thursday night.

“For four hours, right across the North Shore,

all the crews were busy with dealing with windrelated hazards,” said Mike Cairns, assistant chief with District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services. “From 8 p.m. to midnight, I think there was close to 50 calls across the North Shore from medical aid calls to downed power lines and trees across roads and

transformers blowing.

We had multiple areas of power outage.”

BC Hydro was tasked with restoring power to close to 3,000 properties in North Vancouver and West Vancouver, most of them due to branches coming down on wires.

At one point in the night, a tree blew down across the Stanley Park

Causeway resulting in the Lions Gate Bridge being closed. West Vancouver police took to social media, encouraging people to stay home if possible.

Though there was plenty of concern from municipal staff that the storm might result in flooding, the North Shore generally “got off lucky” in the words of

West Vancouver fire chief Martin Ernst.

The Village of Lions Bay, however, remained in a water crisis as of Friday afternoon. Landslides badly damaged one of the small municipality’s water intakes and reduced the other one to steady but reduced capacity.

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Seniors’ facility staff rally on wages JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

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Approximately 80 Inglewood Care Centre employees rallied outside the seniors’ facility Thursday to protest what they say are the low, stagnant wages offered by employer Carecorp.

After more than 12 months of failed contract negotiations, the Hospital Employees’ Union served strike notice in November, prompting Carecorp to pursue mediation through mid-January. Job action is currently suspended.

However, if a new contract isn’t commensurate with the salaries and benefits of union workers in other long-term care facilities, a strike is a distinct possibility, according to Neil Monckton, communications officer with the Hospital See Benefits page 5

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Seaspan’s $155 million upgrade atVancouver Shipyards is fuelling renewal of the industry

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You don’t have to go far to see the most visible sign of Seaspan’s $155 million two-year overhaul of Vancouver Shipyards.

Just look up — way, way up.

Since the spring, a massive new gantry crane — the largest in Canada — has stood 80 metres tall on the shipyards site at the foot of Pemberton Avenue.

Its presence on the North Vancouver waterfront sends a message: that the shipyards are back as an economic engine, on a scale not seen since massive federallysupported contracts halted 30 years ago.

This time around, Ottawa is again fuelling the resurgence of the West Coast shipyard industry, with its national shipbuilding program.

In 2011, Seaspan won the right to negotiate contracts to build seven federal non-combat ships, worth an estimated $8 billion.

Those ships include two massive navy joint support ships and a polar icebreaker.

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But to ready itself to do that work, the shipyard had to reinvent itself. It had to “go big.”

The $18 million gantry crane is indicative of that new scale. It was shipped in three pieces from China in a heavy lift ship.

To put it up, the company contracted by Seaspan to provide it had to first take apart a second 1,600-tonne 110-metre-tall crawler crane in Russia, put it on a ship, then offload it at Lynnterm Terminal.

“It took 82 trucks to get it from Lynn Terminal to our property,” said Tony Matergio, vice-president and general manger of Vancouver Shipyards. “It’s just a monster.”

The crawler crane is long gone now, but the permanent gantry crane, dubbed “Big Blue”, will do the heavy lifting when building for the first national shipbuilding contract gets underway next year.

Its job will be to move massive pieces of ship, weighing anywhere from 80 to 300 tonnes, into place for final assembly.

That approach to building ships would be foreign to those who

worked at places like Burrard Dry Dock and Versatile Pacific — North Vancouver’s iconic shipyards of the past.

“If you wind the clock back quite a number of decades, ships were built one piece of wood or one piece of steel at a time and erected on the berth,” said Matergio. “Pipefitters and electricians would show up when the ship was floating.”

Those days are gone, he said. Today, large shipyards operate more like manufacturing plants, building modular pieces on what is essentially an assembly line.

Vancouver Shipyards has gone from a yard that mainly built and repaired barges and small vessels to one designed for large ship construction — a very different facility.

To help with the design of the new system, Seaspan brought over experts from STX Korea — a huge modern shipyard — for advice early in the process.

“For shipyard design, part of it is how much land you have to deal with.

Part of it is the particular type of ships (you will be building),” said Matergio.

“Shipyards are designed to build the particular product they’re good at.”

In the new shipyard, steel plates that arrive on a flatbed truck come first to the sub-assembly building, where they are cut by two new state-of-theart computer-controlled cutters, including a plasma cutter.

Steel is brought to the shipyard as it’s needed.

“Years ago we’d buy all the steel for the ship the same day and it would show up and we’d store it,” said Matergio. “We don’t do that anymore. We just have it delivered as required.”

A computer program with instructions on how to cut each piece of steel is transmitted to the robotic cutter remotely from the shipyard’s technical office.

The machine is extremely accurate — down to millimetres, said William Clewes, Vancouver Shipyards’ director of operations.

When it comes out, each piece of cut steel is automatically etched with a number indicating which project it is for and how it fits together with other components. Then it gets collected with other pieces

needed for the next step in assembly and put together in a kit.

Once the shipbuilding program is fully up and running, there’ll be pieces of steel continuously moving on to the next station. Most parts of the shipyard will operate 16 hours a day, five days a week.

Everything in the subassembly building is new, said Clewes. “Including the building.”

About two-thirds of the $155 million spent modernizing Vancouver Shipyards and about $15 million spent on Seaspan’s Victoria Shipyards — where final sea trials and testing of vessels will take place — was spent on new buildings and facilities.

One-third was spent on equipment, which came from countries around the world.

A new 1,000-tonne Nieldand cold forming press in the forming shop next door, for instance, came from Holland.

It’s technology used throughout the world that allows shaping of steel into three-dimensional pieces without heating it — even the two-inch thick steel

that will eventually be used for the polar icebreaker.

Another centrepiece of the modernized shipyard is the “panel line” — where large flat pieces of steel are welded together and reinforced with angle bars.

A robotic single-sided welder at one end of this assembly line can weld two 18-millimetre thick plates together in one pass — and take a fraction of the time it would have before — 20 minutes as opposed to several hours.

As the large steel panels move down the conveyer, hydraulic arms press angle bars into place on the panel, where they are automatically “tack welded” into place before moving down to a final station where a robotic welder with six welding heads can weld three bars at a time.

There are fewer people doing this work than there would have been on the task in the past. Each machine generally has one welder and one crane operator.

But neither Clewes nor George MacPherson, president of the B.C. See Skilled page 9

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Parliament passes national fitness bill WestVan MP-sponsored bill leads to creation of national health day CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Mark your calendar: June 6, 2015 is a day to get off the couch and get active.

The first Saturday of every June will now be known as National Health and Fitness Day after the House of Commons this week unanimously approved a bill sponsored

by John Weston, Conservative MP for

West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country.

Weston has long championed the creation of an annual day to promote health and fitness in Canada and teamed up with B.C. Conservative Senator Nancy Greene Raine to introduce a bill that would do just that.

Raine, an Olympic gold medal skier and Canada’s Female Athlete of the 20th Century, tabled the private members bill in the Senate

obesity and inactivity at $7 billion.

“We should not be burdening our health care system with the results of unhealthy lifestyles.

Education also plays a big role, and quality physical education will be increasingly important to ensure children grow up with the skills needed to enjoy physical activities,” Raine states in a press release.

“We always aimed to rally our nation to be the fittest nation on earth, and this is a giant leap in the right direction,” Weston said.

last December.

Citizens and municipalities across the country are encouraged to mark National Health and Fitness Day with events that promote the use of local health, recreational, sports and fitness facilities.

The newly established day aims to inspire Canadians to become fitter. The bill is also an attempt to curb the growing trend towards sedentary living.

Canada’s Public Health Agency recently pegged the cost of health care for cardiovascular problems and diabetes arising from

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Benefits reduced, says HEU

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Employees’ Union.

“These wages are not even a living wage,” he said. “It’s not a dirty little secret, but it’s certainly an unpleasant surprise when people find out what’s been going on with these workers.”

An Inglewood care aid earned $15.82 per hour in 1994. Two decades later, the hourly wage for a starting care aid at the West Vancouver centre is $15.83. But while salaries are stationary many benefits have been reduced and some pensions eliminated, according to the union.

Low wages ensure a high turnover rate among the centre’s 200 employees.

That constant state of flux sometimes affects the facility’s 235 residents, according to Monckton.

“The quality of care is not what it could be,” he said.

Employees are frequently not replaced on sick days, resulting in care aides and licensed practical nurses working shorthanded, he added.

Carecorp has yet to offer any increases to salary or benefits, according to the HEU. “We’d like to just get a deal and they’d like to get on with their lives but until

we have a fair deal I think they’re pretty much dug in,” he said.

Essential service levels at the centre would be maintained in a strike, according to Monckton.

Unicare, which oversees seniors facilities in B.C. and Alberta, is the owner of the Inglewood Care Centre, although services were contracted to Carecorp in 2011.

The HEU may demand more transparency from Unicare before signing a contract, according to Monckton.

“If they’re saying there’s no more money then what they need to do is put all their financial records

on the table,” he said. “If there’s a bigger funding problem we need to know.”

The Inglewood employees have worked through “great instability,” according to Monckton.

“There’s been several contract flips and every time there is everybody gets laid off. A new contractor comes in and hires people back and then we re-unionize,” he said.

The Inglewood Care Centre provides care for residents who can’t live independently due to chronic illness. The centre opened in 1964 and is staffed by 250 workers.

Carecorp declined to comment for the story.

Lions Bay told to conserve and boil water

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Residents have been under a boil water notice and strict water conservation orders from Vancouver Coastal Health since Wednesday.

“Resident compliance with water restrictions will be absolutely critical into

the weekend. Use only what water is absolutely necessary,” a recorded message posted by village staff stated on Friday afternoon.

Despite the overall nastiness, there weren’t any local weather records set. West Vancouver accumulated 123

millimetres of rain since Monday, which is a lot but doesn’t meet the threshold for a rainfall warning, according to Environment Canada.

“I think the thing that jumps out at me is not that any one storm was a record… What really stands out to me is there

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omeone in our government must think scientific researchers have had it too good for too long.

How else to explain the murky new plan that sends lab coats to tap dance for funding from the private sector before they can get on with their research?

Traditionally, hordes of hopeful scientists applied to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for funding. Grants would be given to the brightest 15 per cent following a grueling peer review process.

But now scientists may need to find 50 per cent of their funding (and this doesn’t include administration or overhead, traditionally paid for by philanthropists) from some other source before the institute will pony up their share.

Essentially, this plan forces scientists to be salesmen. Besides the fact that

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their energy would be better spent over a microscope than cold-calling money men, we can’t help but wonder if ideas of great merit will be discarded simply because they aren’t marketed well.

If you’ll forgive us for being flippant: Would you buy a used car from someone who looked like Albert Einstein?

Science and the private sector have and will continue to collaborate.

However, this feels a bit like a poorly arranged marriage.

Financial empires have been built on products that are ruinous to our health and environment. Can we really expect those same empires to fund the research that may pinpoint the causes of disease or ecological degradation?

In science, failure is said to be the greatest teacher.

If that’s true, we should learn a lot from this new funding approach.

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Taxi cabs provide valuable service Dear Editor: Re:Taxi Firms Must Adapt or Accept Their Fate, Oct. 31 mailbox.

In response to the (letter writer’s) complaints about North Shore Taxi in support of Uber: I am a non-driver who is taxi dependent and have never had a complaint about their service. My transportation consists of my legs, bus or taxis which

has proven to be far cheaper than owning a car. I have never waited longer than 10 minutes for a taxi.When referring to the lack of safety specific to taxis never being available, did the writer do his research about the North Shore Taxi account services?

People can get an account so they can be picked up in Vancouver from the North Shore and billed later.This

alleviates a huge amount of worry for parents concerned about youth getting home safely from the downtown night clubs at 3 a.m.

Stop to consider for a moment that many cab drivers are new Canadians, with high levels of education and skill, who cannot find suitable jobs in our country.

And the allegation that taxi drivers use cellphones

when driving is false.They work very long hours, have families too and may need to make calls to them — but never when driving. All the cars I have been in recently are new and so is their new pin pad payment system.

Regarding the comment: “Just because they are trapped in an expensive regulated business model doesn’t mean the customers

should suffer.” In a truly green world, shouldn’t governments be providing incentives to assist such a highly-regulated and expensive business model, a business that helps people live without cars? Thank you North Shore Taxi for getting me around for all these years in the rainy season.

Elise Roberts North Vancouver

It’s time to rid ourselves of our defeatist addiction to oil Dear Editor: Re: Keith Baldrey’s View from the Ledge column Lost in All the Oil Rhetoric is Realism, Dec. 5.

Keith Baldrey is correct; the oil industry will not be out of our lives in our

lifetime, mainly due to the fact that our dependence on oil is accelerating the approach of that ultimate day. Most of us are aware of oil’s supremacy in our daily lives but, increasingly, people are

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trying to wean themselves from it. This column exhorts the retrograde, defeatist rationale that one continually hears.

It is exasperating to be subjected to this point of view considering all that

we know about climate change and threats to our health. (The opinion column) provides an excuse to avoid the effort needed for positive change.

Mr. Baldrey has made an impressive list of oil’s

worldly trespasses. Perhaps this can be a checklist with which to cross off our dependencies and to begin to rid ourselves of petroaddiction.

Robert Partridge North Vancouver

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“A big boulder fell down and created it.”

MetroVancouver superintendent of environmental management Mike Mayers discusses the formation of a new lake where Seymour River used to be (from a Dec. 12 news story).

“There is no plan B.” District of NorthVancouver Mayor RichardWalton implores MetroVancouver voters to support a referendum that would use a sales tax increase to improve transit (from a Dec. 12 news story).

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WestVancouver Mayor Michael Smith explains his opposition to the upcoming transit referendum (from a Dec. 12 news story).

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Fighting fire with fire: the big reveal

Anyone who follows the North Shore News closely will no doubt have noticed a gaping hole in our coverage recently.

I’m going to pull back the curtain a little bit and reveal how things work around here and why we missed one of the hottest stories of the year.

We have a dedicated team of reporters who work tirelessly to dig up little details, make connections in the community and manage massive information networks.They’re waiting, spider-like, to feel a little ripple in the web that will lead them to a juicy morsel that they can pounce upon, digest and then spin out for the world to see. And also sometimes someone from another newspaper will write something interesting with a vague North Shore connection and we’ll basically just copy it.We make a huge deal of the local angle, take a cool photo and voila — community news.

Sometimes a North Shore-related story pops up that is so hot, so explosive that it gets passed around the newsroom and generates instant buzz.This was one of those occasions.The exposé appeared last week in none other than the venerable Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of record.

It contained exclusive information on a series of top-secret video recordings of — I hope you’re sitting down for this — someone tending to a small fireplace.

Most of you no doubt have seen the fire log

Andy Prest

Laugh All YouWant television channels that pop up around Christmastime.

They’re wildly and bafflingly popular.Well, they’re at least wildly and bafflingly something that exists. I’m not sure about the popular part.

This particular story was about the Shaw fire log, credited with being the first widely broadcast burning pile of wood in Canada (Shaw first filmed it in 1986, copying a popular log that had been a hit in NewYork since the 1960s). And to be fair, the Globe and Mail’s story was really quite good.

There were ins and outs, twists and turns, secret locations and a mystery man calling all the shots.

Best of all, for us at least, there was a North Shore angle.The fireplace in question just happened to be found inside a cabin at an undisclosed location deep in the backwoods of North Vancouver. No one knows where it is, or even if it exists, except for a few folks at Shaw. And, perhaps, a few District of North Vancouver staff members.

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Oh, and the entire cast and crew of Stargate. Other than that though, the cabin is a veritable X-Files mystery (also, it was probably used on the X-Files).

Anyway, it was a cool, fun, interesting Christmas story with strong North Shore ties — a no-brainer copy job.The story was assigned to intrepid reporter Jeremy Shepherd (quick aside: I’d love to meet the world’s first unintrepid reporter). Jeremy quickly went to work trying to track down a Shaw employee or two who could basically tell us the same things they told the Globe.That’s when things got weird. I’ll turn it over to Jeremy to describe how he spent the better part of a busy deadline day: “My phone calls went unreturned, emails led nowhere and one hopeful tweet yielded nothing, like pretty much every other tweet. I made more phone calls and started writing emails in all-caps so the powers that be would know I meant business. Eventually, a very nice representative from Shaw called me up to say they weren’t doing any more interviews on the fire log. Apparently, they See The top-secret page 10

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Skilled workforce will swell to 1,000 From page 3 Shipyard General Workers Federation — which represents many of the trades at the shipyard — are concerned about that.

Work is simply concentrated in other areas of shipbuilding, farther along in the process, said Clewes.

“Stuff that’s left requires higher skill,” said MacPherson. “There’s still a lot of manual labour.”

There are about 200 people working in trades at the shipyards today, but that is expected to dramatically increase to about 1,000 people within the next three years.

The company, which currently has 17 apprentices working in Vancouver Shipyards, expects to hire more apprentices by next year and re-train those who are already qualified with transferable skills from other industries.

Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of interest.

“It’s a well-paid job and it looks like it’ll be a well-paid job,” said MacPherson, citing an average rate of pay of about

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Unlike many existing jobs that fit that description, a job at the shipyards lets local workers stay home and see their families, says MacPherson, “as opposed to going to Fort McMurray.”

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North Vancouver,” he said.

“The opportunity to have that many jobs accessible potentially for a long period of time is huge for any community.”

Of the 35 people who report to him now “probably eight or 10 of those could be in Alberta or up north, but they’re here,” he said.

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It’s a definite improvement over downturns in the past where he’s had to lay people off. “You build a team then you lose that team,” he said. “Hopefully (now) the crew I have will see the start of the vessel and the end of the vessel.”

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From here, bigger assembled pieces might go into a new paint shop — where state-of-theart ventilation and dust recovery systems have been installed. Or they may head into one of several “pre-outfit” bays, where the mechanical parts of the ship including engines, pipes, cables and electrical systems will be installed before the large modular blocks are put together — a radical departure from shipbuilding of the past.

The systems going into the large ships will

come from around the world. Seaspan already has partnership agreements with the Canadian subsidiaries of a number of multinational companies —ImTech Marine Canada, Thales Canada, Computer Sciences Corporation and Alion Canada — specializing in marine technology and defence contracts.

Two new self-propelled modular transport systems — up to 32 rolling axles that can lift 1,000 tonnes and are operated by remote-control chest backs — will then take the massive blocks of the ship to the pre-erection area of

the yard to be put together under huge multi-storey shelters.

When the blocks are 150 or 200 tonnes, the gantry crane will lift them on to the berth. “That’s when they form a ship, when they put them together,” said Clewes.

“Those blocks will be put together like large Lego blocks.”

When the ship is built, it will move on to a load-out pier, be put on a floating dry dock, taken to deep water and floated off.

The last five per cent of the build, including final testing, will be completed at Seaspan’s Victoria

Shipyards — near to the Canadian navy base at Esquimalt.

The joint support ships won’t be the first ships built at the modernized yard, but they are certainly the biggest ships that are part of the contract and ones that have attracted the most attention.

Both the parliamentary budget officer and the auditor general have questioned whether $2.6 billion set aside by Ottawa will be enough to build two ships, noting the government hasn’t adjusted that figure in a number of years, despite delays in deciding to build the ships.

The political ante in getting the ships built was also recently upped when Ottawa announced it will decommission two of its existing support ships earlier than expected over concerns about their structural integrity.

When finished, the 173-metre ships will be the biggest vessels ever built in western Canada.

But depending on when contracts get signed with Ottawa, Seaspan isn’t expected to start building those ships until late 2016 or early 2017.

To start off, Seaspan will ramp up its production with three fisheries science vessels. The contract for the first of those — a 55-metre research vessel — and production on it is expected to start in earnest in the spring.

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The top-secret skinny on burning wood piles From page 7 were afraid of running the whole fire log thing into the ground.Well, that makes one of us.”

Intrepid and funny, that Jeremy Shepherd.

We all, however, were dumbfounded that the folks at Shaw were uninterested in making someone available for a five-minute chat about firewood.That short chat would very likely have become a front-page article in the finest community newspaper west of the Mississippi (and north of Burrard Inlet, south of that windmill thing on Grouse Mountain and east of Horseshoe Bay).

Our stolen scoop may have been stolen right back from us, but we weren’t about to lie down and die.

We’re a newspaper — we’ll never die! Or at least not for the next six months!

We decided that instead of chasing the ghosts of fire logs past, we’d kindle

our own fiery future.We made our own fire log video, recorded by our own mystery stoker whose identity is photographer Mike Wakefield. I mean, secret.

As Jeremy pointed out to me, we decided to literally fight fire with fire. Consider it our Christmas gift to you.

You’re welcome, everyone.

If you want to know how we shot it, by all means give us a call.We’ll gladly tell you all about it in our next print edition. Heck, a few days later we might even put it up on that new internet thing.

That’s how we roll over here in the newspaper biz.

Happy holidays everyone.

You can find the North Shore News fire log video attached to the online version of this column at nsnews.com. Special thanks to Jeremy Shepherd for his contributions to this column, and to MikeWakefield for crafting one of the best damn burning piles of wood you’ll ever see. aprest@nsnews.com

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Society extends a helping hand Organization serves local mothers facing challenges ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

Nina Hemmes recently enjoyed a family vacation to Hawaii.

While sun-soaked getaways are common for many local residents, hers was special as it marked a much-desired return to normalcy, good health, and light at the end of a very dark year.

Hemmes experienced a number of health issues after she got pregnant with her second son, Lukas, now 11 months. From week nine, she was in and out of the hospital and racing from one medical appointment to another. In a lot of pain, she was on bed rest and faced isolation, all the while trying to care for her eldest son, Sam, now three years old.

“It was very, very challenging for everybody,” says Hemmes, 30, a former North Vancouver resident who recently moved to White Rock.

“It was the worst time of my life,” she adds.

While her extended family is not in the Lower Mainland (she’s from Sweden originally), her husband, Colin, did what he could, though was hampered by a full-time work schedule. Local family and friends likewise offered assistance when possible.

A further worry was that Hemmes had experienced post-partum depression following the birth of her first son. Concerned for her well-being and realizing she needed more help, Hemmes’ medical team referred her to the North Vancouverbased Spectrum Mothers Support Society as part of her care.

From that moment on, everything changed.

The non-profit society provides a host of free services to North Shore mothers caring for children under age five who find themselves in challenging situations. Spectrum was founded by North Vancouver’s Sally Livingstone, who serves as executive director.

Examples of challenges faced by society clients can include health issues, as in Hemmes’ case, or be related to mental health, abusive relationships,

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Services include caregivers who go into the mothers’ homes, offering respite, as well as mentorship, phone support, driving services, and doulas, on hand both before and after the baby is born.

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particular mother and could mean holding a crying baby while she has a shower, lending a compassionate ear, or transporting her and her child to a drop-in support group, a medical appointment or the grocery store.

Livingstone was inspired to launch the Spectrum Mothers Support Society following her experiences as a nurse, going back 40 years to when she was working in London, England, at Westminster Children’s Hospital. During that See Fundraising page 15

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time, she witnessed a young mother who had had twins — a healthy baby and a second born with spina bifida.The healthy child was taken home whereas the sick baby was left behind, passing away a few weeks later in hospital.

Her goal ever since has been to provide children in need with a loving and caring environment.

Therefore in Livingstone’s personal life she serves as a foster mother, offering a safe-baby home for drug and alcohol-exposed and medically fragile babies.

She currently has three foster babies in her care in addition to an adopted daughter Devon, 8, who she started caring for at birth, adopting her at age three.

“It’s a challenge, but there’s a saying when you’re passionate about something, you just make it work and I think that’s just always been my life, you just make it work. I could not do it without the incredible caregivers that I have in my own life and with Spectrum,” says Livingstone.

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further encouraged her to launch the society in 2006.

“As a foster mom and knowing what it’s like for moms to be separated from their children, whatever the reason, and just wondering if you were able to put support in early enough if we could just keep families in tact,” says Livingstone, of her motivation.

Spectrum currently has 19 caregivers working with 40 families. A family’s time spent with the society ranges from three months to three years, dependent on need.

Mothers are referred by professionals, including local doctors, nurses, social workers, police officers and community agencies.

Community members are welcome to get involved with the society. Interested caregivers must undergo an application process and criminal record check, and be CPR-certified, in addition to having relevant training and experience. Many prove to be mothers themselves, some of whom previously faced challenges in their own lives, and are interested in giving back.

What’s been a pleasant surprise to Livingstone are

the friendships that develop between the mothers and caregivers who stay connected long after their official Spectrum-related relationship is over.

“That to me is sort of building the community because now these moms who may well have felt very isolated before now have a friend and that to me is huge,” she says.

In the lead-up to her son’s birth, Hemmes was assigned primary doula Jessica Sloan, a North Vancouver resident.

“She was just there and that felt really good,” says Hemmes, explaining how helpful it was to have such a knowledgeable resource at her disposal around the clock.

Both Sloan and Hemmes’ backup doula were there for Lukas’ birth, which happened early at 36 weeks.

While Lukas stayed in the hospital for seven days, he is now a healthy, happy boy.

Hemmes too is doing well and fully recovered, despite experiencing some shortterm post-partum depression and requiring a surgical procedure three months after giving birth. She’s grateful for the support of a society

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“If we can give a mom of any age a positive birth experience, as positive as we can, and put them into a feeling of having control over the situation where often they don’t feel like they have any control whatsoever, the outcome after the baby is born is usually a lot better,” says Sloan. She also serves as a society board member and works as a nurse. She’s been part of Spectrum since its launch, attracted to its mission. “We should be taking care of each other as much as we can and giving the support to those that aren’t as fortunate to have it,” she says.

Society representatives continually hear from mothers regarding its “lifechanging” and “life-saving” impacts. “That to me sums it up, that we are able to get in there, help the moms in crisis, and stay long enough to help them to make those changes in their life that they need to continue to be the moms that they want to be.

That’s what it’s all about,” says Livingstone.

Her goal is to one day open a six-bedroom house, giving her additional space

to care for her own foster children, as well as offer space and respite to society mothers and their children.

The house could also prove useful for mothers who, due to their circumstances — like mental illness — require around the clock support in caring for their babies.

Spectrum is currently in the midst of a holiday hamper drive. Interested donors are encouraged to contact Livingstone and will be matched with one of their mothers, asked to fulfill the woman’s specific holiday wish.

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In addition, the society has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fundrazr in support of its ongoing operations.To donate, visit fnd.us/c/4tNQ7.

“Our family is back now on track,” says Hemmes.

“It was really amazing what Spectrum could do. . . . It was really nice to find out that there are selfless people in this world that actually help others, that look after you. It’s sort of like mothers helping mothers. I owe them the world really.They’re a wonderful, wonderful organization.”

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“I became her pupil in a class of one as the two of us walked for miles on the African veld, sketching the scenery and the animals,” she says.

At home, the two spent hours recreating in miniature all they had observed. They built clay models of hippos, antelope and leopards, and placed them outside the Bantu villages and European-style farms they constructed on a landscape made of papier mâché.

“I was a funny little girl, my mother told me, interested in things other people weren’t. I’m the last one who spoke to the grandparents. I’m the last one who remembers,” she says.

Sue’s family goes back six generations in South Africa. On the maternal side, they were medical missionaries of the Methodist persuasion.

She was delivered into the world by her grandfather, Dr. Ernest Daniel. His father, known as John Daniel the Missionary, guided David Livingstone from the Orange Free State to the Zambezi River. Sue’s father, James Thompson, was a founder of the 1820 Settlers Museum in Grahamstown. All its contents vanished when independence came to South Africa.

By the time apartheid divided South Africa, Sue was in England where she met and married Hugh Fraser, whose own family history in Africa goes back seven generations. The couple returned to their homeland in 1955 to take up farming.

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“The distance was too far to go back and forth again, so I stayed with the children and helped out.

That’s how I found my life’s work,” she says.

In the 1960s, East Africa’s progress toward independence could turn violent. Two ambushes on the daily drive to the children’s school convinced Sue and Hugh to find a new home, somewhere in the British Commonwealth. A letter from a friend describing Christmas celebrated with champagne on a Gulf Island beach made the decision easy.

By 1964, the Frasers

were settled in West Vancouver. The children, eventually numbering four, attended West Bay elementary. Hugh went into business and Sue embarked upon her life’s work. She enrolled at the University of British Columbia in the emerging field of early childhood education and founded West Bay Play School, which operated for 23 years along those British Infant School principles first encountered in an East African school.

Sue was one of the first Canadian delegates to visit the preschools of Reggio Emilia in Italy. The freedom of expression and creativity that arose from the interaction of children and adults transported Sue back to her own childhood, walking with her grandmother under the hot African sun.

“I realized the importance of listening closely to children’s conversations and collaborating with them in realizing their ideas,” she says.

The Reggio Emilia approach to children’s education was the crucial piece in Sue’s pedagogical puzzle and inspired her influential book, Authentic Childhood: Experiencing Reggio Emilia in the Classroom.

Sue received the Child

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In October of this year, she became the first Canadian to receive a lifetime achievement award from the North American Reggio Emilia Association.

Sue Fraser has lived in West Vancouver for 50 years. It seems long, 50 years, though the span of time is within living memory. Time to raise a family with husband Hugh. Time to build a distinguished career in early childhood education.

Time to be welcomed into, and contribute to, a close-knit community and time to witness its See Fraser page 18

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eight months after that, work on a third will begin.

A 78-metre oceanographic vessel will follow.

In fact, two of the large modular blocks currently being built at the shipyard alongside the new cable ferry will eventually form part of the hull of the first fisheries vessel. Building the two blocks — which will each measure 12 by 12 by 10 metres — allows the company to test its equipment and procedures before production pressure mounts.

Not that anyone’s complaining.

To date, Ottawa has signed an “umbrella agreement” with Seaspan, indicating its intention to go ahead with the first

its large new ferries in European shipyards.

At the end of this twoyear upgrade however, Matergio has no hesitation saying, “We are Canada’s most technologically advanced shipyard.”

In the short term, “Our order book is full,” he said.

But in the long term, he sees the federal contract as the beginning, not the end, of the future for the shipyard industry.

Burnikell is looking

forward to working on the big ships. “There’s something extremely special about building a vessel and launching a vessel,” he said. “Knowing that vessel is going to be around for a long time.

At the end of the job you know it’s going to have some adventures behind it and it’s going to be because of you.”

He likes talking about the heydays of the shipyards with some of

the old-timers. They tell him about the best days, he said, “‘When we were building ships. When everyone was going.’”

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Sunday, December 14, 2014 - North Shore News - A23

WINTER GIFT G A L L E R Y A unique selection of gifts by local artists in the Seymour Art Gallery and Gallery Shop

OPEN UNTIL DECEMBER 24, 2014 Seymour Art Gallery

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A24 - North Shore News - Sunday, December 14, 2014

Tips for choosing a Christmas tree ROSALIND DUANE rduane@nsnews.com

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trolling through rows of fragrant Christmas trees looking for the perfect one to take home is a popular holiday tradition for both adults and kids.

Sometimes a special fir finds its way into your heart, and other times you need a little help choosing.

David Perrigard, the manager at Maple Leaf Garden Centre in North Vancouver, says many people know what type of tree they want when they head to the store.

And this year, three- to six-foot trees are very popular.

“We find a lot of people are going with smaller trees,” notes Perrigard, adding it may be due to shifting demographics or smaller house sizes.

Plus, smaller trees tend to be cheaper as trees are generally priced by size.

The height often correlates to the age of the tree as well, he explains. “An eight-foot tree will be several years older than a five-foot tree.”

Christmas tree stock usually arrives in late November, and the first two weekends of December are the peak times to pick one up.

There are four main types of trees to consider: Douglas, noble, Fraser, or grand fir.

Perrigard says the most popular type of tree tends to be the Douglas fir, but they are not necessarily the nicest.

They grow fast so their branches aren’t as stiff, which means they don’t hold ornaments as well, he says. They also drop a lot of needles, but they have the best fragrance.

“The Douglas fir, you walk into a room you can smell them,” he says.

The noble and Fraser firs have stiffer needles that don’t have as much oil in them, so they don’t smell as much. But Perrigard calls these the “premium” trees.

“The nice thing is they’ve got much tougher branches

so you can hang heavier ornaments on them and lights and things like that much better. And usually there’s a little bit more space in between them too, so they show off ornaments a little better.”

The Fraser firs have a silver underside to the needles, which a lot of people like, he adds. And nobles are usually sturdy with a perfect pyramid shape and a strong green hue.

A grand fir sits somewhere in the middle of the Douglas and the Fraser with some attributes of both, he explains. They too have silver undersides, but grands have a softer, more elegant look and longer needles.

“They look quite nice,” says Perrigard adding, “All four trees are quite different.”

He suggests when choosing a tree to consider the height of the room it will be in and leave at least 18 inches from the ceiling.

Most trees for sale at various spots right now are local and fresh, but watch for lots of bare needles on the inside of the tree, which could be an indication that it’s older.

“If there’s still a lot of needles inside the tree then it’s probably fresher, stronger,” explains Perrigard adding, “You shouldn’t be seeing brown at this point. They should all be green.”

Once the tree is home, it’s important to water it every day, says Perrigard. And it should be given a fresh cut, which can be as little as half an inch at the bottom.

“The fresh cut allows the tree to start drinking water again and that will prolong its life through Christmas,” he explains.

The tree should be placed in water within an hour of getting a fresh cut, even if it’s placed in a bucket of water and left in the backyard.

“It’s a lot like a floral rose when you cut it it’s going to want to start drinking water,” says Perrigard.

There are four main types of trees to consider: Douglas, noble, Fraser, or grand fir.

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Sunday, December 14, 2014 - North Shore News - A25

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

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Immigrant Services Society of B.C. has a vast range of opportunities that can accommodate volunteers who have a broad variety of skills and interests.

Short-term opportunities include agency receptionist; administrative assistant; field trip leader; community outreach/special events; ESL teacher/assistant/tutor; translator/interpreter; settlement services assistant; volunteer program assistant.

Long-term opportunities (three-six months) include settlement mentors; learning in action mentors and mentees.

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Five student startups from Capilano University and BCIT have been selected to compete for $5,000 in cash and prizes after impressing “the grizzlies” at a recent Dragons’ Den-style event in North Vancouver.

The annual Grizzly Den competition, which took place Nov. 28 at Zen Maker Lab in Lower Lonsdale, is an elevator pitch contest designed for student entrepreneurs, social enterprises and early-stage startups.

Fifteen teams were

allotted 100 seconds each to convince a panel of three judges to invest in their business.

The top five winners will be invited to compete at the North Shore Tech Innovators Night on March 27 at Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier for at least $5,000 and in-kind prizes. They are, in order of rank, Flood Hats (Jessica Liebenberg from Capilano University), Smart Tea (Manjot Dhillon and team from BCIT), UBrew (Adrien Nichol from Capilano University), People’s Tutoring Platform (Penny Li from BCIT) and HomEship (Danielle

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Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables In case you missed it, the holidays are here.

With them comes the chance to celebrate in style, but there’s no need to break the bank. Here are some suggestions to help you make the right choices when it comes to planning your festivities.

There really is no substitute for answering the door with a glass of something sparkling. And if you’re not going to drink Champagne at this time of year, well, when?

Champagne Hubert Paulet Brut 1er Cru NV The current trend is very much towards small producers such as this fourth-generation family in Rheims. This bubble brims with personality.

It has citrus and honey

notes up front before lemon and floral notes underpinned with keen minerality (limited, private wine stores, around $60, 90 points).

Easier to find, a delicious drop (and Best of Show at last year’s Vancouver Magazine Wine Awards): Le Mesnil Blanc De Blancs Grand Cru Brut, which sports citrus and nutty notes with biscuit hints and a long finish (BCLS $54.99, 91 points).

From the big names, I’m headed back to Piper Heidsieck NV, a perennial fave that just happens to be on sale right now. Look for a fine stream of bubbles with some toasty and nutty notes on top, followed by elegant mouth-filling apple and citrus notes with just a touch of mineral and a lengthy finish. It’s a great festive treat. Think foie gras or lobster canapés (BCLS $59.99, 91 points).

When it comes to sparkling wines there’s no end of great choice, from Cava to B.C. bubble and more. Another winner that also delivers excellent organic value is organic Pares Balta Cava Brut. It is well textured, quite fullbodied, with toasty notes

on top followed by fresh apple and pear over citrus hints ($19.99, 90 points).

Riesling, Chardonnay Musqué and Pinot Blanc make up the blend in this traditional method sparkler that sees 16 months aging on its lees (fermentation).

The result is a robust but crisp bubbly bursting with citrus and apple aromas.

More citrus and brioche flavours abound before a lingering, slightly off-dry finish.

Just like Champagne, what better time of year could there be than this to drink Riesling? It’s lower in alcohol, among the most food-friendly of wines, is often a crowd pleaser and is generally downright delicious. Riesling is also coming very much more into the mainstream these days. Here are some suggestions to help the festivities along.

Kung-Fu Girl Riesling 2013 A lip-smacking, fruitdriven Riesling from Washington State, this one sports up-front floral and stone fruit with a juicy palate of peach and zesty orange notes. It has a fun package too. Think sushi (duh!), as well as lightly spiced Asian flavours or

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Quails’ Gate Chenin Blanc 2013 One of B.C.’s most underrated whites, here’s a great alternative to Chardonnay that (with 10 per cent Sauvignon Blanc) adds up to a pretty tasty drop. Packed with zesty lemon-lime citrus notes, it sports a generous palate without being clumsy before a crisp and clean end. Chill it down (not too much, though) and get shucking those oysters ($18.99, 91 points).

The (interesting) party red: Jean Maurice Raffault Chinon Rouge 2013

(Loire). The last thing you really want to do is drink a heavy, oaky red for half the night, so try this one instead. This Cabernet Franc suggests bright red berries up front, followed by a savoury mid-palate with mocha and peppery notes wrapped in lively acidity. It’s a perfect match for cold cuts or even cranberry sauce (BCLS $21.99, 90 points).

For something a little bit different try Wychwood’s Hobgoblin Ale (U.K.).

This light to mediumbodied red or ruby ale is reminiscent of English bitter, with a nice hoppy component and some

gentle roasted notes (BCLS $3.50, 500 millilitres).

Here’s a few more party planning tips: ■ Make a list and rough out a budget before you go to the store and stick to it.

■ Choose wines lighter in alcohol and that are foodfriendly.

■ Have on hand tasty, non-alcoholic options for designated drivers and other non-drinkers.

Above all, always be a responsible host.

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Joan Klucha

Canine Connection a local rescue or shelter or contact a reputable breeder.

That has been my advice for years. But after the email I received a few days ago I am beginning to have a change of heart.

You see, not everyone’s Christmas is busy and hectic. There are some people who spend Christmas alone and not only have the time to bring a puppy or adult dog into their lives, but also a big lonely heart filled with great desire to do so.

Richard (not his real name) lost his wife to cancer around Christmas two years ago. They had no children, but they had a dog that had passed on just before his wife got ill.

They chose not to bring another dog into their lives due to the circumstances.

A couple of years have passed and Richard has found himself wanting a companion in his life.

In Richard’s email he writes, “I’m not ready to share my life with another person yet, and I may never be, but a dog. . . .” He told me about his former dog and how it was like a child to him and his wife. He also shared how alone he felt at this

time of year and adding to his loneliness was the reluctance of rescues to adopt dogs out.

Yes, it’s true that he could have considered adopting at any other time of the year, but often it’s Christmas, the season we all honour as a time for family, that opens that door of loneliness that many people have closed tight throughout the year.

“I want to adopt a dog at this time of year as a way to change how I feel.

I’m never going to forget about my wife and I don’t want to,” he says. “I just know a dog will help me.”

I do respect the closed-door policy that rescues and most shelters have when it comes to adoptions at this time of the year, but sometimes there can be an exception to that rule. Maybe by opening the door just a crack to let someone like Richard tell you his story, you can create a little bit of Christmas magic to heal

a broken heart and assist someone who wants to move forward in his life and knows that a dog will help him take those steps.

Isn’t that what the true meaning of Christmas is all about? Giving the gift love?

Taking care of a dog takes your mind off of your troubles and that heavy heart for a little while and during that time you smile, feel the warmth of unconditional loving companionship and don’t

feel so alone.

I directed Richard to a shelter out of town that I knew would listen to him and possibly help bring some Christmas joy into his life because we all deserve to be loved, especially by a dog.

Joan Klucha has been working with dogs for more than 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her through her website k9kinship.com.

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For most people, Christmas is anything but a relaxing, peaceful time of year. It is filled with shopping, right up until the eve of Christmas.

There is a mixture of work parties, festive events with friends, and entertaining family from out of town.

And let’s not forget kids being out of school and the extra commitment that adds to the holiday schedule. Then it’s New Year’s and bam! . . . back at work. This endless activity makes it challenging to bring a new puppy or an adult dog into an unfamiliar home. That new dog, especially a recycled mature dog that may come with baggage, needs stability and calmness to bond with its new people and to feel safe. A puppy needs consistency — and lots of it — to get issues like house training and good manners off on the right foot.

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Community members are invited to attend the upcoming SDCWinter Gala 2014, intended to raise funds for programs working to empower children with disabilities.

The SDC Blue Ribbon Foundation International was launched by former high school students from the Lower Mainland to support youths with disabilities, according to a press release.The non-profit organization is based upon youth empowerment and mobilization, with a focus on mentoring and financial aid.

The youth-led organization has helped more than 100

children with disabilities locally and globally through fundraisers, disability awareness projects and tailored alternative therapy programs. Gala proceeds will help fund the organization’s current programs for children with disabilities as well as to start new programs in other communities.The gala will be held Dec. 21 from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront Hotel. Festivities will include entertainment, keynote speakers, and a presentation by motivational speaker, Spencer West.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

A true Hall of Fame life Many obstacles faced and beaten by Denny Veitch

STEFANIA SECCIA sseccia@nsnews.com

All his life, the late Denny Veitch managed to thrive despite facing seemingly impossible odds from a very young age.

On Thursday it was announced that Veitch, who passed away from Alzheimer’s disease in 2011 at the age of 80, will be inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in the builder’s category for his lifetime’s worth of contributions to soccer, rugby and football at both the professional and amateur levels.

The longtime North Vancouver resident was general manager of the BC Lions from 1967 to 1970 and then went on to become co-founder of the Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club and the team’s first general manager, holding that post from 1973 to 1977. He’s also credited with coming up with the team’s name, the word Whitecaps springing to his mind one day as he drove over the Lions Gate Bridge and saw foaming waves below and snow-capped mountains above.

On top of the sporting accolades and achievements that have him headed to the Hall of Fame, he was, above all, a family man, according to his daughter Deanne Lenarduzzi.

“He raised us family first,” she said. “My mom died very, very young. She was only 45 and so he had to continue raising a family after that.”

Following the death of his wife, Veitch raised Deanne, her brother Danny and sister Karen on his own.

“He was the ultimate parent,” says Lenarduzzi, who met her husband, a fellow named Bobby, through her father’s soccer connections. Deanne describes her father as a lifelong athlete as well as a survivor with a difficult past.

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“He was a very young child when he lost his arm,” she said. “To be normal, to be able to be like everybody else way back in those days, was what drove him.”

As a young boy Veitch lived near the train tracks in Kitsilano with four siblings, and they’d often hop on the boxcars to get around. One day, when he was six years

old, his brothers and friends challenged him to hop on the train with them.

“Him being such a little athlete right out of the gates, any challenge — he was up for it,” she noted.

However, at the time Veitch’s mother was very sick and at the last second he thought he heard her calling for him — so he jumped off the train.When he fell, the moving train ran over his arm, severing it

from his body.

“He just decided that’s what was handed to him and it was tough times anyway as a kid,” she said. “He just lived life and played it out as hard as he could. He was the ultimate competitor, he thrived on competition.”

His mother died a few years later and at age 12 he wound up living in a boarding house.Veitch started working at a bakery before school to pay for the

boarding house.

“His outlet was sports,” Lenarduzzi noted. “My father was involved with sports his whole life. . . .

There was no handicap with him.”

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a reputation as a fierce tackler and represented Canada internationally.

It also didn’t hinder his ability to encourage his own children to take part in an active lifestyle, according to Lenarduzzi. “He taught us how to ski, water ski, swim.

He taught me how to use a stick shift.”

Veitch’s family-first policy was what had him pull back from the Whitecaps just two years before their first major victory because he wanted to take care of his wife when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1977.

“He pulled back actually because he had three kids and he was trying to figure out how he was going to carry on,” Lenarduzzi added.

Veitch spent his life dedicated to professional and amateur sports organizations, including Rugby Canada and the Rick Hansen Foundation.

But one day during a tennis match with old buddies he took a fall and fell ill. It led to several strokes causing memory loss, which led to a misdiagnosis, his daughter recalls.

It wasn’t until his memory loss worsened that the doctors caught on.

For the last six years of his life, Lenarduzzi said it was hard watching her father struggle with Alzheimer’s

because he was always used to overcoming obstacles in his life.

“It was a hard way for him to finish his years because he never let anything take him down before,” she said. “But he did fight it for sure. He was an impressive guy. He was bigger than life.

“That’s how I choose to remember him as that big personality that I grew up with and taught me how to make sure you don’t take no for an answer.”

••• There will be a distinct North Shore flavour to the 2015 B.C. Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony as Veitch will be joined on the slate by two other honourees with strong local ties.

North Vancouver native Paul Kariya will be inducted in recognition of his stellar hockey career in the NHL and with Team Canada.

Kariya, who retired from the NHL in 2010 after 15 seasons, will go down as one of the greatest B.C.-born players in league history.

He scored 989 points in 989 regular season games, including 402 goals, was named a first-team league all-star three times and a second-team all-star twice.

He was also twice named the winner of the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct and sportsmanship.

Kariya played for Canada in two Olympic Games,

winning silver in 1994 and gold in 2002.The smooth skating forward is already in the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame as a member of that 2002 Olympic team that included other provincial links such as Eric Brewer, Scott Niedermayer, Joe Sakic, SteveYzerman and recently deceased West Vancouver resident Pat Quinn who was the team’s head coach.

The other North Shore link headed to the Hall is longtime North Shore Twins head coach John Haar.

The Vancouver native has earned countless honours as a baseball coach, having launched the careers of several B.C.-born major leaguers. He served as Canada’s manager at the 1986 World Cup held in Cuba and helped the team qualify for the 1988 Olympic Games.

Haar was named Baseball Canada’s coach of the year in 1991, the International Baseball Federation’s top coach in 1992, and was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.

He coached the Twins to three straight B.C. Premier Baseball League titles from 2007 to 2009.The 71-yearold is still the head coach of the premier Twins, having guided them to a secondplace finish in the BCPBL this summer.

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