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to Const. Jeff Palmer, West Vancouver police spokesman.

When the officer pulled the man over and approached the vehicle, he became suspicious that drugs could be present and called in the K9 unit.

The officer told the man to stand outside his vehicle.

That’s when the 30-yearold Vancouver man bolted, leading to a foot chase.Two officers and the police dog eventually subdued the man and arrested him in the 200-block of Lawa Road.

When police searched the car, they found a loaded nine-millimetre pistol.

“There simply is no such thing as a routine traffic stop,” Palmer said.

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An routine traffic stop for West Vancouver police Tuesday morning escalated into a police chase and tackling of a suspect who is now facing multiple weapons related charges.

The officer was on patrol Tuesday morning when he noticed the suspect driving aggressively and running a stop sign near the 200-block of Capilano Road, according

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Twin Bridge taken out after rock slide BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The Twin Bridge that once spanned the Seymour River and was a popular connection for trail users is no more.

The bridge had been closed since the Dec. 7 rock slide that caused the river to begin pooling until some of Metro Vancouver’s staff were calling the body of water a new lake.

Contractors removed the bridge this week after geotechnical experts and engineers advised it was “completely substandard,” said Bob Cavill, Metro Vancouver watershed division manager.

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Superheroes, gaming, make comeback in new generation STEFANIA SECCIA newsroom@nsnews.com

Every other Saturday, a group of people gathers in the back of Big Pete’s Comic and Collectibles in Lower Lonsdale.

They’re here to talk ogres and elves, Batman, Storm and Settlers of Catan.

Some arrive with sheets in hand, ready to play a few hours of Dungeons and Dragons, a roleplaying game that was once condemned in the 1970s for being Satanic and has recently enjoyed a renewed surge in popularity.

In fact in recent years, the gamers, the geeks and the comic book readers have been a growing force on the North Shore.

As ‘dungeon master’ Matthew Seagle puts it, “old school is cool” again.

Seagle started played Dungeons and Dragons nearly 20 years ago with his wife and friends.

“I wanted a hobby that could be social, be creative and I could drink beer,” he said. “You don’t have to be a mathematician to play and that’s the appeal.”

New versions of the games are more accessible than they used to be, said Seagle. The ‘no girls allowed’ mentality of the past has gone, for instance, he said.

At Big Pete’s, the D&D crowd often shares space with others who show up to play Magic: The Gathering. It’s only the tipping point of what’s become a more mainstream and socially acceptable pastime: to read comic books, play games or a combination of the two.

“I consider this now the golden age of gaming,” said Seagle.

It’s not just games that are enjoying an upswing in popularity.

The authors of the 1938 Superman debut in Action Comics #1 most likely never suspected that 76 years later it would become the highest priced comic ever sold, at $3.2 million US. But last August, that’s

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Yet 20 years ago, comic book stores were struggling to make ends meet. It was on the heels of a string of movies that bombed at the box office — movies like Batman Forever, Batman & Robin and The Phantom to name a few.

The films relied on gimmicks and the comics being put out at the time did so as well, according to Peter Turcotte, owner of Big Pete’s.

One of the big turning points, said Turcotte, came with the TV show, The Big Bang Theory.

“That’s really what allowed closeted nerds to come out. There was a 20 per cent increase in our solid customer base.”

The popularity of that show paired well with comic-book-based movies — including Batman Begins, X-Men and The Avengers — taking a darker, more serious approach that led to success at the box office.

Comic books followed suit.

Not only did the major publishing houses Marvel and DC begin campaigns to re-launch their most well known titles

— including Thor’s recent re-imagining as a woman — but independent comic books have since taken off as well.

Image has released roaring successes such as The Wicked + The Divine, Saga, Rat Queens — a Vancouver-based series — and Sex Criminals. The company has attracted some of the industry’s top talent in artists and writers, who have more creative control over the final product.

Most people don’t realize how many products are out there, said Turcotte. “There’s all these great indie books.

They don’t look at it like a comic, they look at it like a novel just with pictures.”

The independent comic book series are the antidote for those who want to read graphic novels but aren’t into superheroes — and they’re filling the gap as the comic book audience has evolved, according to Turcotte.

The more serious story lines based on characters that would fall off the pages of traditional novels are keeping the aging comic book reading audience interested.

And it also helps that the people walking into Turcotte’s store grew up

watching these movies and TV shows — unlike his generation whose parents didn’t see the value in comic books, alternative board games or collectibles.

“But now you’ve got kids who grew up with GI Joe and (Teenage Mutant Ninja) Turtles and they bring in their own kids.

All of a suddenly it’s not, ‘You don’t need that crap.’

It’s, ‘You can’t have Luke without Leia.’”

For the 35 years Turcotte’s been in business, his clientele has evolved from an all-male crowd to one that also includes young families, more women and a variety of different backgrounds.

“That brings huge buying power to the store,” he said. “All of a sudden the parent is a lawyer making tons of money and says to his kid, ‘Sure, we can buy that game,’ or, ‘No, you can’t just have the one comic book, you’ll have to read the whole set.’”

Turcotte said trade paperbacks — or larger graphic novels — have become more popular than ever before.

Jenna Oliver, who works at Big Pete’s, said at least half of the clientele is now women.

“When I was younger I was really into Spiderman and Batman,” she said.

“Those were really my two big things. I’d wake up every morning and watch Batman animated series, but it was definitely seen as a boy’s show.”

“Every time I was watching Batman, my dad would be like, ‘Why are you watching that?’”

Oliver fell out of comics for a long time until she started cosplaying — dressing up as your favourite fictional character — and attending some of the 10 conventions that now occur in the Lower Mainland every year.

Then four years ago, she found her way back into reading Batman comics.

“I’m more of an independent comic book person now over DC or Marvel,” she added. “It’s definitely changed a lot.

“There are still the stereotypes that comics are for guys . . . but a lot of women come in regularly buying comics, and they’re of all ages. We have young girls getting animated ninja turtles and Adventure Time.”

Comic book publishers across the board have been putting out more titles with strong female leads

— particularly Batwoman in the New 52 by DC; Rat Queens, which is about a group of women in a Dungeons and Dragonslike setting; and the recently released series Ms. Marvel, who’s the first-ever Muslim girl superhero.

As comic books are evolving with their readers, tabletop games with figurines are starting to see a steady base, as well.

That’s what Mike Tong, owner of the one-yearold shop Hammertime Hobbies, has been able to survive off of since first opening his doors on Third Street West, near Lonsdale Avenue.

Hammertime focuses on selling figurines to assemble and paint for the Warhammer 40,000 game, which uses small figures on a table that combat, using dice rolls, for supremacy.

The game is a mix of chess and Risk, according to Tong.

“A lot of people get into tabletop (games) for different reasons,” he said. “There are people who enjoy the hobby and modeling aspect. There’s people who enjoy just collecting the miniatures and there people who are really into the gaming aspect of it.”

Tong got into the tabletop games when he started to play Dungeons and Dragons at age 16.

“I’ve actually been working in toy stores and game stores since like ’99,” he said. “My first job out of high school was working in one.”

So far, his business has been steady and he’s focusing on creating a space where his clients can get their models, play and have a workbench to paint them.

“Another reason why I chose this spot is because just down the street is the Eagle’s Club and the Chop gaming club meets out of there,” he said. “They’re a miniature gaming club and they concentrate mostly on Warhammer fantasy.”

The club grew out of regulars who used to go to the Park Royal Games Workshop (Warhammer) store until it closed in 2012.

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West Vancouver police have arrested two men they say are connected to a cache of stolen construction materials missing from across the Lower Mainland.

After tracking thousands of dollars of stolen construction material across Metro Vancouver, including items taken from North Shore building sites, West Vancouver police closed in on two suspects.

They watched as the two men broke into a storage locker at a Richmond construction site on Jan. 24.

Police then executed a search warrant at a Vancouver storage locker and uncovered hundreds of items they suspect are stolen, ranging from expensive tools to bike helmets and reams of wire.

The most expensive items were likely worth around $400.

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Robert James Patrick Kinnear is now facing charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm without a licence, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and assaulting an officer — in this case, the police dog that tackled him.

“We’ll bring allegations the dog was being struck several times,” Palmer said.

The arrest has also caught the attention of the Lower Mainland’s anti-gang police.

“As with any investigation involving weapons, we always work closely with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit,” Palmer said. “They are aware of the investigation and monitoring it closely.”

Kinnear was checked over by paramedics and didn’t need to be hospitalized and the Independent Investigations Office has not opened a file.

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H

ot on the heels of the latest round of Islamist attacks, this week the federal government introduced yet another anti-terrorism bill.

Stephen Harper told the country the bill will make us safer, painting a picture of jihadist terrorists lurking around every lamp post, their numerous diabolical plots narrowly thwarted by our national security agencies.

How many plots and what type are details the Canadian public will conveniently never hear about.

But like other similar measures that have gone before, the bill expands state powers of surveillance and detention of those security forces deem to be potential threats.

Now, targets in the line of security crosshairs don’t even have to be connected to a specific threat. General advocacy of an attack on Canada is enough to get them locked up. Even turning to “radicalized”

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beliefs could be enough to earn a visit from CSIS. Those are measures a portion of the population might support, but they also border on thought police.

The term CSIS and the government prefer is ‘disruption’ — which could now involve everything from deleting websites and twitter postings, blocking cell phone signals, bugging apartments and longer periods of ‘preventative detention.’

None of which seems threatening, until it’s your thoughts that are deemed unacceptable by the state.

Civil liberties groups have voiced concerns about the new powers being granted to CSIS. Lack of strong oversight is a major flaw in this process.

When Big Brother is watching, someone else needs to keep close tabs on the watchers in return.

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It takes a village to raise a child Dear Editor: I’m honoured to express my gratitude to StrongStart BC — an early learning drop-in program funded by the government.

I became a new mother when I first moved to North Vancouver and lacked friendships on the North Shore.The early days of breastfeeding, endless diapers and sleepless nights left me confined to the house and — lonely. I was in love with my newborn son, but a piece of me missed a part of my previous world — adult companionship.

I was happy to discover the local StrongStart program at Norgate elementary in my own neighbourhood. I brought my son, aged five months at the time, and met with Mandana Hezar, the facilitator, who welcomed me into her classroom. A beautiful setting for children — with different areas set up for art work, pretend play, blocks and building, books and an outdoor playground.

I attended StrongStart Norgate on a regular basis, each time looking forward to a warm cup of tea and watching my child engage with the stimulating environment — and grow. I was delighted to see my son socialize and sing the “Hello my, friends” greeting song in each of

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the several different languages of the cultures represented in the classroom during circle time.

Mandana encouraged me to conduct circle time occasionally — enabling me to use my Early Childhood Education background and become more involved in the classroom.

I met a wonderful group of mothers, fathers, caregivers and their children.We shared tales of wisdom, headache and heartache about the chaos and the joyful gratification of raising wee ones.

I consider a group of mothers I met through StrongStart Norgate among my cherished friends today. My son has also become “best friends” with the daughter of one of those mothers — since the first day he crawled over to see her.

Together we host play dates, exchange free babysitting, confide, share advice, dreams and fears. We invite new families to join us at activities I organize throughout the summer to support our growing network.

My son will be turning five this year, and I believe that StrongStart BC, along with his part-time preschool program, have helped him prepare for success in kindergarten this fall.Thank you StrongStart BC for enabling me to develop valuable friendships with parents and our children and build a strong sense of community, here in Norgate.

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More density not required for more rentals Dear Editor: It’s difficult to understand this urge for density in the face of all the opposition. This time it’s a Victoria Park condo three times what’s allowed in the Official Community Plan. Why? We are told it is to increase our city’s rental stock. This building will contain 44 per cent rental units. Well, guess what? All new buildings

have high percentages of property investors who rent out their property. The building where I live is more than 40 per cent rentals. The new Capstone is more than 65 per cent rentals.

Density and its many issues is not required to get rentals. The rentals evolve naturally.

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“He doesn’t recall hitting a house.”

William Dunn’s defence lawyer says his client was asleep while driving across a front lawn and smashing into a NorthVancouver house (from a Jan. 28 news story).

“We’re serving more than coffee.”

Sandra Severs, executive director of the CMHA’s North Shore branch, discusses the HOpe Café, a social enterprise offering employment for people who have experienced mental illness (from a Jan. 25 Sunday Focus story).

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based on rainfall and, to a lesser extent, settling of the boulders from the rock slide, Cavill said. Even with the variances, the bridge had to go.

“The depth of the river is far deeper than it’s ever been in recorded history.

The bridge was designed for a much different river than what exists there now,” he said.

Engineers contracted to remove the bridge did so in such a way that it could be kept intact and stored for possible reuse down the road (or river), Cavill said.

District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services members are being briefed on the new dangers the body of water will present to adventurers who are tempted to treat it as a new swimming hole when warm weather arrives.

As it stands right now with unstable banks, falling tree snags, and unpredictable water flow, the area remains dangerous, Cavill said.

“Until we get a better handle on just how that new piece of gorge responds to intense rainfall events and that type of thing, our advice will be

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the fish to their spawning grounds.

Metro staff are also still trying to figure out the long-term plan for the trails lost to flooding.

The Fishermans’ Trail on the east side of the river remains closed, as does the connecting Bottle Top Trail.

“I don’t think there will be an early decision on trail connectivity but we’re the maintainer of those trails.

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That’s a critical link in the recreational trail system,” he said.

Because the water still flows, it’s technically not correct to call it a lake, Cavill said, and the appropriate term would be “pondage.”

As for what to call the pondage: “We haven’t turned our mind to it,” Cavill said.

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Indie animation on edge of geek trends

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supplies without having to travel across several cities,” he added. “And also to provide a place for new people to get started.

“Miniature gaming has always been really niche.

I’d like to grow it.”

Another new business that’s gaining traction in North Vancouver in the realm of “geek” is Plan B Production House, which is an animation studio.

The studio is releasing Goblins, three mischievous characters named after tea — Earl, Herbert and Peeko — whose stories unfold on different platforms from a 3D-animated TV/web series, an iOS Game/App and graphic novels.

Aron Robinson, Plan B’s CEO and producer, said he and his partner formed the studio to take their love of being artists to the next level.

Through a successful Kickstarter campaign, Plan B was able to secure funding to launch the first of a series of 110-page graphic novels, which will have shelf space at Big Pete’s when they’re out in the next few months.

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Computer software has a come a long way for graphic design for comics, games and animation, Robinson noted.

“So having the ability to create that stuff quickly and efficiently at a really, really high quality and being able to spit that stuff out, send it off and with a little hard work you can get this thing printed and on the shelf,” he said. “It’s a really promising thing for kids these days.”

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Gleneagles collaborative initiative brings movement to the classroom ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

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A new initiative underway at West Vancouver’s Gleneagles elementary is incorporating the arts into everyday classroom learning.

Approximately 85 students in grades 6 and 7 are participating in the Social Friction Project, an inquiry-based program exploring the concept of friction and the forces that can cause physical and social change, expressed through choreographed dance.

The Social Friction Project follows the success of another initiative undertaken by Gleneagles Grade 6/7 teacher Laura Odegaard with a colleague last year.Thanks to an ArtStarts grant, students explored the concept of identity through the visual arts.

“It was a wonderful project, I absolutely loved working on it. Our whole school is pretty passionate about learning through the arts and arts integration,” she says.

With that experience, as well as in response to the new K-9 curriculum for science, social studies and arts education, last May, Odegaard and two fellow 6/7 teachers started collaborating on how to once again put the arts at the core of their learning. “We were interested in looking at dance and how we could integrate some of these other subjects,” she says.

Thanks to being awarded another ArtStarts grant, and support from the Gleneagles Parent Advisory Council, the Social Friction Project launched Jan. 12.Three classrooms

are involved — one Grade 6 class, and two Grade 6/7 classes.

From a science perspective, the three participating classrooms are looking at the concept of force in motion and studying things like the physics of friction.

From a social studies perspective, they’re looking at social friction, including tensions between societies and different historical events that show conflict between people, countries or groups.

Then, they’ve been further exploring all of what they’ve learned through dance with the help of West Vancouver dancer and choreographer Troy McLaughlin.

An additional component of the project is the incorporation of aboriginal learning and Squamish Nation’s Eagle Song Dancers worked with the students for two days, teaching choreography, as well as offering further insight into their historical and cultural classroom lessons.

The Social Friction Project will culminate with a performance open to the public Friday, Feb. 13 at 1:45 p.m. in the school gym. Each classroom has been tasked with creating its own dance, attempting to tell a story of social friction through original choreography.The three themes being workshopped include: the introduction of a disease into a First Nations village, climate change and the concept of invasion.

As many of the participating students are first time dancers, it’s been fantastic to watch them not only rise to the occasion, but excel.

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Mix investments to suit your situation A best and worst investment can often be the same.

For example, one of our family’s best investments was to pay off non-deductible debt as quickly as possible because of the guaranteed non-taxable return this strategy provides and the increased flexibility of being debt-free.

But this strategy also meant we didn’t set aside money for a second car when our son Matt was born which would have made my wife Mandy’s life so much easier, and would have enabled us to visit Disneyland before Matt turned 21!

Definitely a best move was to have a “don’t invest past your sleeping point” mix of investments: from low-risk guaranteed instruments to higher-risk equities and (on a small scale) residential and commercial property, from a lower-risk combination of having regular employment plus our own business to the higher risk of 100 per cent

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But those were only the best and worst financial investments. Far more important was the investment of time and money in our education; the “investment” I made in a date with Mandy, the nurse I met at Lions Gate Hospital; the investment in Matt’s education; our investment in family travel.

While the various experts and famous people will sometimes name specific stocks, pieces of real estate and so on as a best or

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SENIORS

Mentors a guiding light to this day

Sometimes one profile of a North Shore senior inspires another.

George Stickney read about his high school teacher Jim Thomson in this column last September, a couple of weeks before B.C.’s striking teachers and their students returned to their classrooms.

George has firsthand experience about the positive influence adults can have on the lives of children. As a boy growing up in West Vancouver, two men, Jim Thomson and Ted Baines, “showed me what a man and a father could, and should, be.”

George and his parents moved from Alberta to B.C. in time for his father to go overseas with the Canadian army in the Second World War. Post-war, he turned his hand to building houses in West Vancouver. George’s mother encouraged her son’s studious and creative interests. He drew cartoons of The Whistler and Superman while absorbing their adventures on radio

serials and created his own comic books. He built model planes. “I liked building the ones I could fly, like gliders,” he says, recalling the boy he used to be.

In 1949, with the Stickney house at 13th Street and Gordon Avenue (still standing) under construction, the family set up in the Ranch Motel on Capilano Road and George entered West Vancouver high school.

He rode to and from school on his Raleigh bike until the November day when the Capilano River rose, reportedly six feet in one night.The flood washed out the bridge, isolating West Vancouver.

Enter George’s shop teacher, Jim Thomson, also living in North Vancouver at the time. “We walked to the end of Keith Road, pushed through the hole in the fence and crossed the river on the old foot bridge.That’s how George and I got home,” says Thomson.

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George’s potential. “Behind that cockeyed grin, there was a sharp mind,” he says, and became a mentor to him, as he would to many students during his 35-year teaching career.

Through Thomson, George and his schoolmates got summer and after-school jobs with the school board.

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“Jim and Ted gave me confidence in my abilities,” says George. “Without that, we would never have taken on such a challenge. It would have been a loss we would always regret.”

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George turns 79 on Feb. 4. Jim will be 94 in March.

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Okanagan vintner going for ‘first growth’

Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables With three of the best vintages in recent memory (2012, 2013, 2014), most agree: it’s a pretty good time to be making red wines in the Okanagan Valley.

However, it’s already been several years that Bill Lui has been thinking seriously about what it would take to make the best red wine the Okanagan can produce.

After building a successful pharmaceutical business and working in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, Lui (who moved to B.C. as a youngster) decided to study wine.

He schooled locally, took winemaking courses at California’s UC Davis and tasted extensively through Bordeaux’s First Growth wineries.

Late last year, Lui launched the inaugural bottling of One Faith, a project undertaken with the aid of pioneering Harry McWatters (consultant, VQA guru and founder of Sumac Ridge estate).

The name is a reflection of Lui’s devout religious conviction, as well as an homage to famed Opus One, the RothschildMondavi Napa Valley

collaboration. There’s no question that Lui is truly dedicated and unswervingly passionate about his goal: “To produce Canada’s first First Growth, an exceptional wine of unparalleled quality.”

However, his comments have pushed a few buttons in wine circles.

“First growth” is a term rarely, if ever, used outside of Bordeaux, where it designates a parcel of vines known to produce wine of the highest possible quality.

Introduced in 1855, it can be employed by only the legendary châteaux of Bordeaux: Haut-Brion, Lafite Rothschild, Latour, Margaux and MoutonRothschild.

Even though he’s already declared “One Faith Vineyards is Canada’s premier First Growth wine,” Lui is anxious to clarify that he uses the term as an aspiration rather than a fait accompli.

“It could be some years before that,” he says.

Lui was anxious to source the best fruit available, so he turned to McWatters for Bordeaux varieties grown in his Sundial Vineyard (the portion of the original Black Sage vineyard that McWatters declined to sell to Constellation Wines, retained for his own Time Estate winery).

For winemaking he turned to Anne Vawter, a respected Napa vigneron.

Vawter (whose grandfather was born in Trail, B.C.) visits the Okanagan six times a year to work on the project from vineyard to barrel. Despite being from elsewhere, the winemaker

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bringing to the market a singular wine heralded with such a bold statement.

Only time will tell (as will blind tasting beside comparable wines and vintages) if One Faith can justify its gutsy “first growth” Okanagan claim or its equally bullish price: $495 for a three bottle case. More at onefaithvineyards.com.

Belly’s Best Racine Minervois 2012 (Languedoc) Another great example

cent Merlot, 30 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon and 25 Cabernet Franc) yields vibrant aromas of vanilla, damson and dark berry fruit, with a still-youthful palate showing sweet fruit, cassis, leather, and chocolate notes, appealing viscosity with good balance of oak and fruit, integrated tannins, and a lingering, slightly mineral finish (91 points, limited supply).

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says she’s “passionate about finding that Okanagan character and not making a global wine.”

Vawter adds that she likes the iron ore (almost oxide) streak she sees in the Black Sage character.

The last thing she wants to do, she says, is to make perceptibly sweet, overunctious wine. So far, she’s been impressed with the quality of the fruit she’s had to work with.

Opening up in the glass, One Faith 2012 (45 per

of what’s up in doc: mainly Grenache with 20 per cent Syrah, yields spice and plummy notes before a juicy, well-rounded, and gently spicy palate. Think cassoulet, grilled herbed sausage or just anything meaty, red and barbecued (90 points, BCLS $18.99).

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Set your dog up for success from day one Bringing a new puppy or adult dog into the home can feel a bit overwhelming, especially if you are a first-time dog owner.

We all start off with great intentions wanting to raise and train a wellmannered dog that will be a welcomed member of the family and community.

Yet, regardless of those good intentions, life gets in the way and it can be challenging to keep up with the goals we set for ourselves and our new canine companions.

First off, there is lots of time, even if it feels like you are running short of it.

There are lots of stress-free things that can easily be done to set your new dog up for success. Remember, one of the reasons we bring a dog into our home is to find quality time to relax and just hang out with

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Whether you have adopted an adult dog or embarked on the task of raising a puppy, take the first two weeks to bond.

We all get excited about the new four-legged critter in our home and feel the need to rush out and show the world, but those first

two weeks should be taken slowly. Allow the new dog to adjust to the changes in its life and give it time to get to know you before it gets to know anyone or anything else.

Don’t be in a rush to get to the dog park (not a good idea for pups anyway) or the puppy class or obedience class.You are not going to be “too late” if you give your pup or adult dog time to settle into its new digs.

Certainly sign up for and set those training dates into your schedule in the near future, but not within the first two weeks. Those activities are important, but it is more important that you spend quality time bonding with your dog so that you can start the relationship off on a solid foundation of trust.

Your dog has to learn that you are its provider

of safety, guidance, boundaries and of course food!

Take those first two weeks to play with your pup, go for leashed walks around the neighbourhood, maybe even go to the local pet store.

Spend time at home observing your dog, hanging out with it, giving it the chance to trust that it can rest its head on your lap and take a nap. The simple act of observing your puppy or adult dog while in your home gives you the chance to learn its quirks, likes and dislikes, and discover its personality.

It is a vital part of a strong relationship/partnership with your dog.

If you do venture into a dog-friendly zone, be prepared for advice from well-meaning and sometimes opinionated dog owners. Don’t listen

to people who tell you to take your dog off leash and let it run free. It is more important to work on the skill of walking politely on leash. This is an underrated and highly overlooked training tool that teaches your dog to not feel threatened and to stay close to you. It is so much easier to teach the right thing first — which is to stay close — than to allow your dog off-leash freedom too soon and constantly be having to chase it down or call it back because you did not build a foundation of staying close.

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Dutch gallery hosts world class exhibit European Fine Art Fair held annually in March JOHN MASTERS MeridianWriters’ Group

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands — The Landau Fine Art shop has the perfect location for a commercial art gallery: the corner of Champs Élysées and Madison Avenue. This ideal juncture — where taste and marketing meet — really does exist, but for just 11 days each year.

The rest of the year Landau Fine Art is on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal. But for almost two weeks annually, in the middle of March, some 90 of its finest pieces are on display at the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht.

TEFAF is the world’s most important annual art fair. About 275 art dealers from 20 countries bring a selection of their stock and set up shop on “streets” with names like Sunset Boulevard, the Faubourg Saint-Honoré and the Königsallee. It’s a mall where you can wander past Rembrandts and Monets, ancient Greek statues and modern Italian jewelry, a silver soup tureen owned

by Russia’s Catherine the Great and a prayer book made for Charles V. For art lovers it’s a supercharged day of gallery-going, from Old Masters to contemporary art, from furniture to photography.

The fair attracts the world’s richest and most serious art collectors. More than 200 institutions send

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This crème-de-la-crème of the art world has its own Vernissage, or preview day (and some 10,000 of them show up for it), but after that the fair’s next 10 days are open to the public.

The 2015 dates are March 13-22. You don’t have to buy anything, but if you’re

thinking you might like to become a collector at some point, or simply want the heady experience of wandering through an eyepopping Disneyland of fine art, this is the place.

Admission is 55 euros for a day, but a better deal is the passe-partout ticket for 115 euros, good for all 10 days. Either comes with a copy of the fair’s catalogue, which will about double the weight of your carry-on bag. For an extra 5 euros there’s

an hour-long orientation tour daily at noon, or the free Dealers’ Choice tour at 4:30 p.m., taking in five or six shops whose gallerists will expand on some of their items. Not all are riveting, but if you get a good one — Robert Hall, say — you can be brought up to speed on Chinese snuff bottles in 10 entertaining and educational minutes.

Quite a bit of what’s on sale at TEFAF is out of most people’s range

— Robert Landau says that his items start at $400,000 and go to $25 million.

A good Van Gogh costs more. It’s not always the case, though. At Thomas Heneage Art Books, from London, I could have put down £70,000 for a volume of Max Beckmann etchings, but I also found a book for £14.95.

Maastricht, two hours by train south of Amsterdam, is where the Dutch come to shop and eat when Paris is too

much effort. It’s also the birthplace of the euro.

What better place to spend a few?

If you go: For more information on the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), visit its website at tefaf.com.

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High school senior boys basketball has subdivided in the past couple of years with schools now grouped into four different tiers based on size.

The move made it easier for smaller schools to compete for provincial glory without having to take on any Goliaths, but it also took a bit of fun out of local leagues. It’s a little bit tougher these days to figure out who holds the championship belt as the best team on the North Shore because each tier has a league and there’s no need for teams to play out of their league.

The championship belt, therefore, now takes on a more mythical quality with the top AAAA school likely given the benefit of the doubt unless a smaller school can prove otherwise through tournament results, exhibition games and provincial rankings and

the like. A school like, say, AA Collingwood.

This season the Cavaliers are undefeated in North Shore AA league play, outscoring their opponents by an average of 38.5 points per game.

They’re ranked No. 4 in the province at the AA level and they’ve already played exhibition matches against two of the North Shore’s four AAAA teams — last year’s Howe Sound finalists Handsworth and West Vancouver — and beaten them both by double digits, including a 25-point win over West Van in December.

How’s that for a best of the North Shore resumé?

“I guess based on the results you could say that,” Collingwood head coach Virgil Hill said with a suspicious laugh when asked if his team holds the North Shore belt right now.

“Probably the benefit that we’ve had is that we’ve played those teams on a one-off. . . . If we were in their league it would be a

different story because you see common opponents, you’ve got to play them twice or sometimes three or four times. That becomes a different dynamic than just a one-off.”

The Cavaliers, however, are certainly not afraid to take on any opponent in the province.

“To me it doesn’t matter what tier you’re in, whether it’s A or AAAA, basketball is basketball,” said Hill.

“You want to know that you can play against anybody.

The difference is just school size. It doesn’t matter how big your school is, there’s still only five guys on the floor. To me it doesn’t really matter if you’re a big school or a small school — if you can play, you can play.”

And it’s becoming quite clear that these Cavaliers can play. In their four AA league games they are averaging more than 98 points per game and have cracked 100 twice — very rare numbers for high school basketball. Scoring

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The Cavaliers need to score and play at a high

pace because they lack the size to bang inside with bigger, stronger teams, said Hill, estimating that the tallest Cavalier is a slim six-foot-three, while most of the players hover around the five-foot-11 mark.

“Our Achilles heal is our ability to rebound the defensive glass,” he said. “If there’s any team that has any amount of size, that really causes us problems.”

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Ricker slowed by injury Snowboard cross star Maëlle Ricker says she still has a strong desire to compete on the world stage but is currently taking time off the sport to recover from injury.

The West Vancouver native and 2010 Olympic champion missed both the World Championships held earlier this month in Austria and last week’s X Games in

Aspen, Colo.

“I was really looking forward to competing at the World Championships and at the X Games this season.

However, I’ve decided to follow the advice of Canada Snowboard’s medical staff and continue to train and recover from a pre-season injury,” Ricker stated in a Canada Snowboard release.

“My plan is to return to

competition and I want to be sure that I give myself the appropriate time for a full recovery.”

Ricker suffered a compound fracture of her left arm just 19 days before the Sochi 2014 Olympics but still managed to compete in the Games. She finished fourth in qualifying but crashed in the quarterfinals.

— Andy Prest

Cavs piling up the points From page 22 Collingwood’s answer is to try to run those opposing big guys right off the floor.

Leading that charge is Aman Mehat, a Grade 12 guard who is the only member left of the 2012-13 Collingwood senior team that went to the provincial championships. Mehat was only in Grade 10 back then but he was already a key member of the squad. And he’s even better now, says Hill.

“He’s bigger, stronger, faster. Not much taller, but he can play the whole game pretty much at full pace. He makes his teammates better.

He scores in a variety of ways now, and defensively he must average about four steals a game. He’s become a much better defensive player.”

Grade 11 guard Jaden Narwal keeps the offense flowing alongside Mehat.

“He’s an all-around scorer,” Hill said of Narwal.

“He’s a guy who can really shoot the ball, he can

penetrate the ball, he can finish midrange and he’s good in transition. He’s a very tough guy to guard. If you put a small guy on him he’ll post him. If you put a big guy on him he’ll take him outside.”

Rounding out Collingwood’s power trio is Grade 12 forward Hunter Welsh, the team’s muscle.

Hill calls him the team’s best defender.

“He can defend all positions on the floor, generally,” he said. “He’s the one guy that can muscle up, go inside and is really a handful for the other team.

He is quite skilled — he can shoot the three, midrange, he scores in a variety of ways and they’re all high percentage.”

With their strong play in the North Shore AA league the Cavaliers have already wrapped up first place and have won the right to host the league’s championship tournament starting Feb. 17. Collingwood appears to be the clear favourite heading into the playoffs but

they aren’t taking anything for granted.

“We’ve beaten all the teams in the league already but you never know what can happen,” said Hill.

“You’ve got to stay sharp, stay hungry and not take it for granted that you’re going to get (to provincials).When it’s the kids’ Grade 12 year everybody plays hard and everybody is fighting for that chance to extend their season.”

The Cavaliers certainly want to extend their season as far as it will go.With the squad he’s put on the floor Hill is hoping Collingwood will still be running and gunning when it’s down to the provincial final four.

“We won the league title but that’s one step in where we want to go,” he said.

“Hopefully we can get to the medal round and win a medal.That’s what our goal is.”

The Cavs will battle for North Shore bragging rights again Monday when they host AAAA-level Argyle in a 7:30 tip-off.

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