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Shipyards on track, Seaspan says Shipbuilders ready to begin work on federal vessels JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Top brass at Seaspan Shipyards insist they are on track to start building federal ships within the next month — despite recent reports that pointed to Ottawa considering giving one important supply ship contract to a Quebec shipyard because of delays in theWest Coast shipbuilding program.

Seaspan Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Whitworth said Wednesday the shipyard is “absolutely ready” to begin work on federal vessels.

“The facilities are ready.

The people are ready,” he said.

“We look forward to starting construction of the first ship in less than four weeks.”

“I think we’ve always looked forward on being measured on our skill and our quality and our production.That is going to start here very, very soon.”

Whitworth’s comments came after recent Ottawa news reports suggested the federal government is considering giving Quebec’s Davie Shipyards a fill-in contract to quickly build some kind of supply ship that could be used while the government waits for Seaspan to complete the two massive joint supply ships that are part of its noncombat national shipbuilding program.Work on those ships isn’t expected to get underway until 2017. But

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In the years since Seaspan was awarded the right to negotiate approximately $11 billion in federal shipbuilding contracts, there have been numerous announcements at the North Vancouver See First page 9

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Fisheries research gets funding boost JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

The federal government announced Friday that it will spend up to $2.2 million on upgrades to its West Vancouver fisheries research facility.

The new funding, announced by Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, is part

of “up to” $18 million being committed by Ottawa to upgrade West Coast fisheries research facilities.

That includes up to $13 million for the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney and up to $2.9 million for Nanaimo’s Pacific Biological Station.

The announcement Friday also made

reference to federal plans to strengthen Ottawa’s $37 million five-year Marine Protected Areas program and $2 million for the Pacific Salmon Foundation announced in this year’s federal budget.

That money will go to studying factors affecting survival of juvenile salmon in the Strait of Georgia and surrounding marine

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In the late 1930s, a fiveyear-old Ralph Sultan rode the streetcar with family to what is today the site of Capilano Lake, well before it had been dammed.

“I remember what seemed like a long walk up there and here’s the Capilano River. My brothers explained to me ‘That’s our drinking water.’

They didn’t seem to worry too much about running down and having a pee by the side,”West VancouverCapilano’s MLA said.

“We’ve come a long way.”

The anecdote drew raucous laughter from the dozens of dignitaries, engineers, bureaucrats and media gathered at the edge of Capilano Lake last week to mark the completion and operation of the SeymourCapilano Water Filtration Project.

The $800-million undertaking to provide drinking water to Lower Mainland residents has been in the works since 2002.

Since the On switch was hit earlier this month, the system has been taking water from the Capilano Reservoir, pumping it 7.1 kilometres under Grouse Mountain and Mount Fromme to the SeymourCapilano Filtration Plant at the top of Lillooet Road where it is filtered, chlorinated and disinfected before being pumped back to the Capilano end.

There is some flexibility in the system but, generally, the Capilano water mains service West Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, Vancouver, Richmond, Delta and Point Roberts during the high-demand summer months.

City of North Vancouver Mayor and chairman of the Metro Vancouver utilities committee Darrell Mussatto called it “one of the most significant missions Metro Vancouver has ever undertaken.”

“With the twin tunnels now in operation, we’ll have the capacity to treat up to 1.8 billion litres of water a day — enough to fill 750 Olympic-sized swimming

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After three years of engineering and design work, drilling and blasting for the first shaft at the Seymour end started in 2005.When crews reached 180 metres down, they dug a cavern big enough to hold two massive tunnel boring machines that would slowly grind away 3.8-metre twin tunnels to connect the system.

“It’s just an unbelievable feeling.You get down there, 180 metres underground

and you board the train and at one point, it was a 40-minute ride to get to the excavation point,” said Goran Oljaca, a Metro engineer who has worked on the project since its inception.

Things were going as smoothly as a machine grinding through rock could until late 2007 when a worker was hit on the head by a falling fragment of rock. Contractor Bilfinger Berger’s workers walked off the job in January 2008, citing safety concerns.The

company had dug just over half of the tunnels and been paid $44 million of their $99-million contract.

Metro insisted its own consulting engineers had deemed the tunnels stable and eventually fired Bilfinger and hired a new contractor.The company responded with a $22.5million lawsuit against Metro and the District of North Vancouver for work already completed, damages and the return of its $5million tunnelling machines.

In 2009, the Metro Vancouver board upped the original $600-million budget to $820 million, reflecting the increased costs resulting from the delay and launched a countersuit against Bilfinger for the difference.

With the lawsuits outstanding and a new contractor in place, work resumed boring the rest of the way to the project’s western edge. Litigation in the suits continues today.

Once the tunnel machines reached the Capilano end, crews at the surface drilled a pilot

hole 270 metres down to the cavern and rigged up a raiseboring machine that would cut away the rock bit by bit from the bottom up.

More complicated, absolutely, but Metro staff identified it as the best option to use after residents in the area lobbied to keep the blasting and truckloads of debris out of their neighbourhood.

But that didn’t stop noise complaints from flooding in to the District of North Vancouver and Metro Vancouver over the course of the project.

People reported a grinding or humming noise that kept them up at night, though Oljaca said the noise wasn’t coming from the tunnel boring machines.

“When we were doing blasting at the Seymour shafts, yes, the blasting was definitely heard.When the tunnel boring machines started work or when the raiseboring started, that was not heard at all.We monitored that.We did noise measurements during See Tunnel page 7

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Murder suspect’s lawyer denies allegations of family dispute JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A lawyer representing Li Zhao, the 54-year-oldWest Vancouver man charged with the second-degree murder of his wife’s cousin in a British Properties mansion, says his client is “very concerned” by many of the “sensational and outrageous claims” made this week in a news conference by a lawyer representing the victim’s family.

Brent Olthuis — who represents Zhao, his wife Xiao Mei Li and their daughterYiming Zhao civilly — made his comments after a lawyer for the brother of the victim, GangYuan, suggested that a family dispute about money and assets may have played a role inYuan’s killing.

Brock Martland, Zhao’s criminal defence lawyer, also called it “bizarre” and “highly unusual” that a lawyer hired by the victim’s family had put out alleged details of the case not released by the police — likely without seeing “police reports or the evidence to support spurious allegations.”

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respect that evidence gets put forward in a judicial process in a careful and thoughtful way, instead of simply throwing around mean-spirited allegations in press briefings,” he said.

Zhao has not yet entered a plea to the murder charge or a second charge he faces of interfering with a dead body by cutting it up. None of the charges has been proven in court.

But Olthuis said Friday his clients deny all of the allegations made by the victim’s family at the press conference, adding the allegations are “inconsistent with the charges Mr. Zhao faces.”

On May 15, lawyers for Yuan’s estate filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court

asking that the $5.8-million mansion at 963 King Georges Way be turned over toYuan’s estate.

In the lawsuit,Yuan’s estate alleges the money to buy the house came fromYuan, who paid the mortgage, taxes and all the bills associated with the property, even though Zhao and Li are the registered owners.

Yuan — a wealthy businessman whose estate is estimated at more than $20 million — was found dead in the West Vancouver mansion May 3 after police received information about a violent confrontation at the home.

A bail hearing for Zhao will be held within the next two weeks in B.C. Supreme Court.

West Van centre to get $2.2M upgrade From page 1 investments.Weston said he’s been working with fisheries advocates to understand and promote sustainable fisheries in B.C. The West Vancouver research centre, located on the waterfront at 4160 Marine Dr., focuses on research that examines issues in aquaculture and marine ecosystems. That can include everything from detecting toxic algal blooms to studying

interactions between wild and farmed salmon.

Staff at the West Vancouver research centre work with faculty and students from the University of British Columbia and staff from the Vancouver Aquarium.

Dr. John Nightingale, president and CEO of the Vancouver Aquarium, applauded the announcement Friday, calling the West Vancouver lab a “unique lab” that’s considered “one of strategic importance” to

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y this time next week, you could be telling your friends about the glamorous new North Shore ’hoods called the “Bridge District” and “Capilano Village.”

That’s what District of North Vancouver council will be voting on Monday night.What they mean, of course, is Lynnmour and Lower Capilano — or at least the developments springing up there.

Rebranding is a delicate process, and handing down a name for a neighbourhood from above has a habit of backfiring. Ask the Vancouver residents of SoGra, SoMa and the East Village about that.

Sometimes governments or businesses will turn the honour of naming something over to the public, which has an amusing habit of backfiring even more spectacularly. People tend to pick a name

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Bridge District brings to mind a quaint and old part of a European city where canals and cafes line the streets. Our bridge district is famous for traffic and not much else. How about the Slower Eastside?

When a neighbourhood adopts a nickname, it tends to spring up organically like LoLo. Some people may hate it with the heat of a thousand suns, but it appears it’s here to stay. And unlike Bridge District, LoLo is something that residents gradually started using on their own until it became part of the North Shore vernacular.

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Family humbled by kindness Dear Editor: Words cannot possibly begin to convey the appreciation and heartfelt gratitude my family has for the kindness demonstrated by a multitude of strangers we will most likely never be able to thank in person.

Thank you to the bikers who found my father lying unconscious on a trail near Mosquito Creek and Montroyal Boulevard in the early morning of Friday, May 15.

Thank you to the firefighters and EMS who feverishly worked to revive my father’s heart with multiple rounds of defibrillation.

Thank you to the RCMP officer who drove to my parents’ home to inform my mother of what happened, who assisted her in getting things together and offered to drive her to the hospital.

Thank you to the chief steward and crew onboard the B.C. Ferries 8:30 a.m. departure to Nanaimo on the first day of the May long weekend, who were bombarded with annoyed travellers, yet took the time to listen to my needs, help me get turned around and returned to the North Shore so I could get to the hospital.

Thank you to the ER and ICU doctors, nurses and staff for their compassion, honesty and care of my father until his death three days later.

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whom played a key role without realizing it, my family would not have been able to come together to be with my father.

As a result of these actions, my father passed away with his family by his side.

How blessed was he, how blessed were we.

Amongst all the daily chaos we experience, I am humbled by the kindness of strangers that prevail on the North Shore.

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AYes vote supports Blue Bus An open letter to Mr.Trevor Lautens: You, sir, are a hypocrite!

In recent columns you have consistently denigrated contentions of theYes side, yet I see you regularly using our local bus service to get around.

I am proudly votingYes in the referendum, to ensure that our excellent Blue Bus service stays that way. From your comments I infer that you would be happy for it to just fall apart.That must not happen.

Mike Millard West Vancouver

Seeing red over not-so-green green can program Dear Editor: Where is the green in this (green can) program? We have separate garbage, separate waste, separate paper, separate blue and grey boxes.We have so many huge trucks running by picking things up, that I wonder if the diesel exhaust is causing more toxic material than garbage as well as noise and beeping.

I wonder too, as a senior, there will be a time I will not be able to drive.What do you suggest I do to get to the many recycling depots? Why are there different depots for different garbage? And

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before you smugly suggest I ask family or friends to drop off the junk (like the Post Office) I have none. All are gone, too ill, or live far away. I could hire someone but what assurances do I have the junk will not be dumped in a secluded area?

What does the staff do during the day — sit around dreaming up the next “rule?”

I suggest everything be curbside that is not a large item.

Just saying.

Doreen Box North Vancouver

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Tunnel not source of noise complaints

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the project,” he said.

Perhaps the one positive that came from the lawsuits and year-long delay in the work was confirmation that it wasn’t the tunnel boring machines keeping people up.

“Interestingly enough, we had those complaints even when the tunnel boring machines were stopped,” Oljaca said.

In late 2011, the raiseboring cutterhead punched through the earth, effectively ending the tunnelling portion of the project.

All the excavated material had to be removed out of the tunnel by train, brought to the surface by elevator and then trucked to an open pit four kilometres north of Seymour Lake — a byproduct of the Seymour dam built in the 1950s.

All told, more than 75,000 cubic metres of granite debris from each tunnel — about the same capacity as two of Shell Oil’s B Class LNG tankers — had to be disposed of.

With the tunnels done, crews began installing steel pipes to send the water to the filtration plant at the Seymour end

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In 2006, the Lower Mainland’s water system was hit with a turbidity event that resulted in the

largest ever boil-water advisory issued in North America. It would be four more years before the filtration plant would come online.

Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health, praised the public health leaders and politicians of 2002 for pushing to build a system that prevents future

illness when more visible cracks in the health-care system like overflowing ERs and long wait times for surgery dominate the discourse.

“There were people who, in the absence of a crisis — we didn’t have a big outbreak of disease from this watershed, had the foresight to recognize that we needed to invest

over $800 million to build the filtration plant,” she said. “It’s going to make our lives a lot easier in public health. We know we won’t have to worry about those heavy rainfalls in the fall anymore.”

Just before the water enters the mains destined for homes and businesses, it accomplishes one final feat. The western end of the tunnel is about 40 metres deeper than the eastern end, resulting in water picking up speed and pressure. To harness this and dissipate the pressure, engineers designed a turbine that would recapture between 28 and 44 per cent of the energy required to run the Capilano pumps and feeds it right back into the system. The trip takes about six hours, one way.

People on the western half of the Lower Mainland whose taps are connected to the Capilano station will notice the difference this summer if the response Metro Vancouver got when the Seymour filtration plant came online in 2009 is any indication.

“People started complaining that they had blue in their tubs. It was definitely noticeable. The

blue was coming because that’s how clean and clear the water was. Before that, we had a bit of a reddish colour and that was coming from turbidity and natural iron in watershed,” Oljaca said.

The cost of the project has been borne by Metro Vancouver’s residents through utility bills. Today, Metro charges 64 cents per 1,000 litres of water.

While Metro Vancouver’s 2.4 million residents are entering a new era of stable access to clean water, Metro staff are already in the planning stages for future upgrades of the system as the population grows by another million people over the next 20 years, Oljaca said.

“To provide potable water to an additional one million people, we would have to be continuously improving our system and some point, we’ll have to tap into new sources of water supply,” he said.

The next project on the horizon is increasing the capacity from Coquitlam Lake with a new intake and treatment plant, though Metro isn’t projecting to See Engineer page 8

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Our City Library has been awarded LEED® Canada Gold Certification by the Canadian Green Building Council. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a rating system for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings. The Library is one of only four buildings on the North Shore to receive LEED Gold certification. By incorporating green building practices into our community’s civic buildings, the City is actively creating a sustainable future.

Today the City is hosting the first of two Rain Barrel events. The City encourages residents to conserve water and help protect our creeks and streams.

Subsidized rain barrels are $45 for City residents with a valid ID (retail value $90) and $55 for nonresidents.

Not able to make it today, don’t worry, there is another rain barrel event on Sunday, June 14th.

Barrels can also be pre-ordered online to save time on pick up day. So come on down, do your bit for water conservation and become a barrel user. Also, we have a rain barrel contest online, and you could win one of two rain barrels.

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Engineer has the last word

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have that online until 2028 with hopes of delaying it even longer by encouraging water conservation among Metro residents and businesses.

It’s usually the politicians who are quoted upon completion of a great public works project but Oljaca has a close relationship with the Seymour-Capilano Filtration Project. He started as a senior engineer on the project in 2002, and has since been promoted to Metro Vancouver’s director of engineering and construction in water services. Last word goes to him.

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In accordance with Section 26 of the Community Charter, the District of West Vancouver further gives notice of its intention to dispose of the Closed Road, in fee simple, to Susan Joan Richardson for the purpose of consolidation with Ms. Richardson’s adjacent property at 4435 Stone Crescent, legally described as Lot 6 Block E District Lot 582 Plan 9350. Consideration for the disposition will be $50,000 plus GST. The bylaw closing the portion of District highway and removing its dedication will be considered for adoption by Council at its regular meeting to be held at the Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC, on June 8, 2015, at 6 p.m. Persons who consider they are affected by the bylaw will be provided an opportunity to make representations to Council at the meeting, or by written submissions addressed to Mayor and Council and delivered to the Municipal Clerk prior to the meeting.

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region,” he said. “It’s just a huge undertaking that we can all be proud of for generations to come.”

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Copies of the proposed bylaw and other related documents may be inspected from May 12 to June 8, 2015, at the Municipal Hall on regular business days (Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

For convenience only, some of the documents may also be available for viewing at westvancouver.ca or in the Reference Department of the West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver BC (call 604-925-7400 for current hours).

Submissions to Council will be included in the public information package for Council’s consideration.

Enquiries? Director of Lands, Bylaws, First Nations & Legal Affairs: 604-925-7098

Sunday, May 24, 2015 - North Shore News - A9

First contract not yet signed

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shipyard.

In February 2013, thenMinister of Public Works Rona Ambrose told workers she expected the government to place its first order by the end of that year.Various points in 2014 were also later suggested as dates for the start of construction.

So far, however, Ottawa and Seaspan have yet to sign a formal contract for construction of the first vessel.

Whitworth said he expects that will happen within the next two weeks, adding it’s not unusual for a first contract to take time.

“We are setting a precedent for all future contracts,” he said.

Whitworth denied that Seaspan has been responsible for any delays in starting the shipbuilding program, adding that suggestion may have its roots in other shipyards hoping to wrangle contracts out of Ottawa.

“There were two winners of the national shipbuilding strategy, Irving for the combat vessels and Seaspan for the non-combat vessels.

Other shipyards that were not successful at winning those bids are working very

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Federal politicians joined workers and Seaspan brass at the shipyard Wednesday to announce that the federal and provincial governments are kicking in $582,000 in Canada Job Grant funding to help train workers at Seaspan. Currently there are 200 tradespeople working at the shipyard.The workforce is expected to grow to between 500 and 600 tradespeople in the next year and to 1,000 in two years.

But that is dependent on getting contracts for federal ships signed and getting the

shipbuilding program off the ground.

Tony Matergio, vicepresident of Vancouver Shipyards, told politicians gathered on Wednesday, “We are standing in a world-class facility. It’s currently the best facility in North America to build ships.”

Andrew Saxton, Conservative MP for NorthVancouver, said he doesn’t expect Seaspan to lose any part of its national shipbuilding contract. “As far as I’m concerned, Seaspan is getting the non-combat contracts,” he said. “Davie (Shipyards) was a bidder.

Seaspan won out ahead of

Davie fair and square.”

But Saxton also didn’t rule out the possibility of other federal shipbuilding contracts going to other shipyards like Davie, as long as those ships aren’t formally part of the national shipbuilding program.

“The government as a whole does have other contracts which it may put out for tender,” he said.

Nobody in the federal Public Works department was available by press time to say when the contract will be signed for the first federal vessel to be built at Seaspan under the national shipbuilding program.

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A10 - North Shore News - Sunday, May 24, 2015

BRIGHT LIGHTS

NSNH AGM and awards

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Attendees gathered to celebrate the North Vancouver community service organization’s accomplishments from the last year, elected the new board of directors, and saw the presentation of the Heart of the Community Awards to deserving members of the public as well as those in the business community. The non-profit neighbourhood house, located in Lower Lonsdale, provides a host of services and programs to community members of all ages. nsnh.bc.ca

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Foundation seeks support Fundraisers dedicated to sending children to camp

ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

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North Shore residents have three upcoming opportunities to support an organization working to ensure all children, no matter what medical challenges they may be facing, have the opportunity to go to summer camp.

Those involved with the Mel Jr. & Marty Zajac Foundation have organized three fundraisers in the next month, all of which are benefitting its Zajac Ranch for Children.

The foundation was launched in 1987 following the deaths of Vancouver resident Mel Zajac’s two sons in separate sporting accidents, eight months apart, in 1986 and 1987.

“My dad and my (late mother) had this vision to create a foundation that would go on in perpetuity in memory of them and create a legacy that will continue to serve the community,” says daughter Carmen, president of both the Mel Jr. & Marty Zajac Foundation and Zajac Ranch for Children.

The foundation has supported a variety of initiatives over the years and the current focus is its Zajac Ranch for Children, a 41-acre, western-themed

camp that opened its doors in 2004.The ranch, located in Mission on Stave Lake, is dedicated to giving children and young adults with chronic, life-threatening and debilitating conditions the opportunity to experience summer camp.

“This is something that’s really important for this community.There are other camps for sick kids, but they’re very specific to one disease, whereas we’re very inclusive. Any child with a medical condition can come to camp.The idea is to get as many kids there as possible,” says Carmen, a North Vancouver resident.

In its first year, the camp program served 50 kids and this year 500 are expected to attend from across the country. Applications are currently being accepted for the 2015 season, 10 weeks in duration and kicking off June 29.

The Zajac Ranch for Children offers specialized programming, accessible facilities and an around-theclock, on-site medical centre, run by volunteer medical professionals. Doctors and nurses interested in lending a hand for the upcoming summer season are encouraged to apply, as well as community members at large to volunteer in other capacities.

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maybe similar conditions to them,” she says.

“At Zajac Ranch they can just feel at home. It’s really transforming for the families and the children themselves,” she adds.

For many campers it’s the first time they’ve been able to participate in certain recreational activities, things other kids can take for granted, like getting into a

kayak or on a horse.

“Kids that are ablebodied and healthy have no issues with that but if you’ve got a medical condition, there are some challenges there,” she says.

All the campers are encouraged to try new things in a safe and supportive environment.

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LIVE Health Notes BIKE DAY IN CANADA A group ride with some DNV staff and North Shore Mountain Biking Association directors Monday, May 25, 5:30-7 p.m. Meet at the District of North Vancouver Municipal Hall, 355 West Queens Rd.There will be the

option of two routes: an easy short one to Princess Park and back; or, an intermediate ride to do a lap of Expresso and back. canadabikes.org BIKE TO WORK WEEK Registration is now open for this spring event that takes place from May 25 to 31 to encourage people to try biking to work and

to celebrate with those that already do. There will be a celebration station at Mackay and First Street on Tuesday, May 26 from 4 to 6 p.m. Participants will be able to enjoy free refreshments, prizes and mechanic services. cnv.org/biketoworkweek bikehub.ca THE B.C. BALANCE AND DIZZINESS DISORDERS SOCIETY SUPPORT GROUP will meet Thursday, May 28, 2 p.m. at The Summerhill,

135 West 15th St., North Vancouver. Instructor Teruko Ueda will give a demonstration of tai chi for balance. Free. 604-878-8383 604-770-2131 bettymacm@ shaw.ca LUNCH AND LEARN John Tolkamp, president of Cycling Canada, will speak about the health and environmental benefits of cycling and how to get involved in this recreational activity Thursday, May 28 from noon to 1 p.m. in

the cafeteria at Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Free.

Attendees will be entered into a free prize giveaway.

UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT A free talk to learn the signs and symptoms, hear about effective management tools and learn how to support your loved ones with depression Thursday, May 28, 7-8 p.m. at Capilano library, 3045 Highland Blvd.,

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“That increases independence, it increases their self-confidence, it increases their selfesteem.We hope those characteristics and those attributes that they get from camp, carry them on into their adult lives,” says Carmen.

The cost to cover each camper for a week is approximately $1,500. In most cases, children attend for free, made possible by the foundation, and as a result of partnerships with other health organizations that provide funding.

The first of the three upcoming foundation fundraisers is the 2015 Zajac Nights Fundraising Gala, June 6 at 7 p.m. at Vancouver’s Terminal City Club.The third annual event

is led by the foundation’s ZajacYoung Professionals, an under-40 group working within the organization out of an interest in making an impact in the community and getting involved with philanthropy.This year’s theme is AYear In A Night and each of the venue’s rooms will be dedicated to a holiday of sorts, including NewYear’s Eve and Valentine’s Day. The evening will also see the Raising the Bar Award given out, intended to honour a member of the local business community who exemplifies leadership, business savvy and a strong social conscience.This year’s honouree is family physician Dr. Mel Bruchet, who has been practising on the North Shore since 1967.

“We’re hoping that a lot of people that know him . . .

come and honour him,” says Carmen.

Bruchet has long been a supporter and volunteer with the organization and currently serves on the Zajac foundation’s board of directors. “If we have issues that we need to talk about in terms of the children, he’s a great resource for that.

And he connects with the community to try and get us some volunteer doctors and nurses as well,” she says.

Gala tickets are $200 and festivities will include themed food, live music, deejays and entertainment.

The second upcoming foundation fundraiser is the 51st Annual Zajac Golf Classic, June 17 at Richmond Country Club.The long-running tournament has raised more than $2 million for local charities. Registration is

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Lynn Valley Days

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ver a hundred years ago, the Lynn Valley pioneers who planned the first community day for their fledgling community could hardly have imagined the bustling and diverse community that Lynn Valley would become, or the thousands of families who enjoy Lynn Valley Days every year.

We hope they would approve of today’s celebrations!

Many of the original events remain: parade, bands, maypole dancing and races; even the ladies can still

participate in the nail driving contest. Today up to 10,000 people enjoy the festivities, with many hundreds of community minded volunteers helping out at the parade, carnival, and cookshack.

Back in 1912, the first Lynn Valley Day ended with a community dance. Now we dance to help raise money and give back to our community. Perhaps the biggest change for Lynn Valley Days is the fundraising gala which takes place on the Friday evening before the carnival. Drawing on the original concept of a community dance, today 600 friends and neighbours enjoy a magnificent magnificent dinner, music, silent auction, raffle raffl e and dancing, and it is perhaps the biggest social event

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in the Lynn Valley calendar.

But our gala is more than an opportunity to party with friends.

With the proceeds of the gala and the carnival, we give back to a worthy cause in our community. Nestled up against the North Shore Mountains, who amongst us isn’t aware of the wonderful work of North Shore Search and Rescue.

We have supported NSSR in past years, and now, for the second year we are supporting the Tim Jones Legacy Fund,

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ne of the most popular areas to live on the North Shore is also one of the oldest. Somewhere between 1860 and 1870, British Engineer John Lynn settled on a piece of land at the mouth of a North Shore creek that would come to bear his name. Over the next few decades, the population of the North Shore grew and in 1912 a streetcar line was completed to Lynn Valley where Lynn Canyon officially opened as a municipal park.

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Further upstream at the end of Lynn Valley Road, the Lynn Valley Headwaters Regional Park is the largest park in the Metro Vancouver Regional Parks network. Visitors can enjoy 54 kilometers of hiking trails, fishing fishing at Rice Lake, BC Mills House Museum, picnic tables and rock hopping along the river.

Other recreation options include biking trails, skateboard park, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, soccer pitches, playgrounds and more – as well as the North Shore’s only wave pool, located inside Karen Magnussen Recreation Centre.

nights in Lynn Valley Village draws people of all ages and heightens the positive vibe of this vibrant community.

Lynn Valley is also a great place to dine and socialize, as the community is home to a wide variety of dining options and family-oriented events. In the summer, the weekly concert series on Friday

With its history and natural beauty, there’s a real sense of community shared by those who live here. The annual Lynn Valley Days celebration – held each May since 1912 – is an annual reminder of the community pride that continues to resonate with residents and visitors alike.

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Girl donates hair to remember sister SHANNON LYNCH Vancouver Courier

Four weeks ago, David Shannon had to say goodbye to his baby daughter.

Elizabeth passed away on April 22 because of a knot in her umbilical cord. She was expected to be born a month later by cesarean. But after Shannon’s wife couldn’t feel her baby moving, she went to the hospital. When Shannon and their two daughters came to meet his wife there, the ultrasound showed no heartbeat.

They got to hold her for the first and last time.

“We had our moment of absolute despair and tragedy,” said Shannon.

“We got to hold Elizabeth for over 24 hours before it was time.”

After such an immense loss, the family wants to give back. Shannon’s fiveyear-old daughter Mila has donated her long, blonde hair to Wigs for Kids, a charity for children with cancer. So far, Mila’s fundraising campaign total has surpassed $5,000.

Shannon said it’s been overwhelming.

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overwhelming, the loss had been overwhelming,” he said.

“We have everything set up for this baby to come home and it’s gone.

That’s been completely overwhelming and then you get this response . . . and that’s been overwhelming because you’re just like, ‘whoa, there are some amazing people out there.’”

Shannon and his wife, Caitlin Grange, both teachers, took to social media to get the word out about their story and cause. Through Facebook, Twitter and community groups, they’ve received a lot of support from friends, family, colleagues, and even from strangers.

“We’ve had strangers come to the house and deliver food,” he said.

“There isn’t enough words to describe how grateful we are for all their compassion and support at this time.”

Mila had her hair cut on May 21, the day Elizabeth was expected to arrive.

“Her hair is that white, golden blonde, that precious golden colour,” said Shannon.

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Notable Potables A couple of key happenings underscore just how muchVancouver’s premium liquor culture continues to surge and grow in popularity.

The biggest to date, the fourth annual Vancouver International Tequila Expo (VITE), pours into the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Saturday, May 30.The event is highlighted by a hotly contested cocktail competition featuring the cream of the crop of bartenders and mixologists from around the Lower Mainland.

However, the days prior (Vancouver Agave Week) are packed with all kinds of temptations for

the avid sipper, including the Downtown Food & Agave Safari, and seminars such as Tequila 101 and Mezcal 101, which explore the history, geography, and culture.

If you’ve never been, this is quite a remarkable event as it showcases only the best in premium tequila. But that covers a surprisingly wide range of superlative sips.

Proceeds from the Grand Tasting benefit the B.C. Hospitality Foundation.

Co-founder Eric Lorenz says the process of educating Vancouver consumers about the pleasures of Tequila and Mezcal has been immensely rewarding.

What’s more, this year they are focusing on fuelling passion through education, he says, adding they are looking forward to working with the hospitality foundation to create two new scholarships that will engage trade professionals and increase local excitement for agave spirits. Find more info and tickets at vantequilaexpo. com. See you there!

••• Closer to home, Forage Restaurant (foragevancouver.

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Forage has unveiled a flight of three one-ounce tastes, each paired with a small bite.Vancouver’s Odd Society, Okanagan Spirits (Vernon, Kelowna) and Wayward Distillation of Courtenay are the gins being poured.They’re matched respectively with a gently briny-sweet Read Island oyster, pork scrunchions and Sweet Cicely; and a small but delicious taste of Sweet Cicely ice cream.

The flight of three one-ounce pours and accompanying bites is offered for $25. And even if you can’t make it into Forage, chances are you can taste these remarkable gins (after 9 a.m.) at some of the more prominent farmers markets around the province this summer.

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Marleen Cotterill has lived in Canada since 1963 and inWestVancouver since 2001.

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Marleen’s family goes back a long way in that part of the world, to the 1700s. Her father was “pure Amsterdam” and her mother half Dutch and half German.

She had uncles who fought for the Allies and for the Axis forces during the Second World War.Twelve years old when the war ended,

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There was no food. In the attic was a big, round yellow cheese.

“We never touched it. It was there if we really needed it. I still see that yellow cheese but I don’t remember what happened to it. Mainly,

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we ate potatoes. My sisters would go out to the fields and search for potato plants that mother made into soup and even cookies,” she says.

When there were no potatoes to be found, they ate “rabbit food” — wild greens that her mother transformed into a dish she called “spinach.”

“My father would take his bicycle without rubber tires and go for food from the farms. Once he went off with a friend, pulling a wagon. After two days, they returned with eggs, meat and potatoes.There were no fridges so we cooked the meat and put everything in the basement.The smell of the cooked meat; I guess that’s how it happened.The next morning, everything was gone. Only the potatoes were left.The thieves must have put a child through the iron bars on the basement windows.The only time I saw my father cry was that day and on the day I left for Canada,” she says.

Life went on during the Nazi occupation.When the German army took over the

schools to house its soldiers, the Dutch children learned their lessons in neighbours’ houses, “except on sunny days when the bombers flew over us,” remembers Marleen.

“Our parents were always very social.Towards the end of the war, they would slip out under cover of the neighbourhood gardens to friends’ houses where they could ‘bridge’ and have a bit of fun.”

On May 5, 1945, the First Canadian Army

liberated Holland.They brought peace and with it, food, coal and medical supplies. “The Canadians were so friendly, always smiling, and generous, always giving us all the food they had with them.”

The war left its mark on the family. Marleen’s feet ache from years of wearing shoes she had outgrown.

Her bones ache from that wartime diet of potatoes and little else. But, she and her brother and sisters, still living back in Holland, remain as

closely connected as they had been in childhood, through Skype, phone and email. Marleen attends St. Stephen’s Anglican Church and continues to “bridge” at the seniors’ centre, where she also volunteered for many years.

Her sons and grandsons live nearby. Life for Marleen Cotterill continues to be productive and fulfilling, and in her refrigerator there is always a wedge of Dutch cheese.

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Dogs who are left alone for any great length of time on a repeated basis with little or no exercise beforehand often bark, all day or all night long. A wellexercised dog rarely exhibits

excessive barking because it is too tired to bother. A dog that lacks adequate leadership and guidance in its life can be a nuisance barker. It feels as though it is its job to protect its pack and often becomes hyper-vigilant and begins to bark at the slightest noise, whether it’s another dog, a person walking down the street, kids playing in the lane or even a squirrel running along the power line. The insecurity brought about by not having an adequate leader promotes excessive barking.

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Next, don’t leave the dog in the yard all day, especially in an attempt to give the dog exercise.

Dogs don’t run laps in the backyard in their owner’s absence to exercise themselves. They sit around and listen to the sounds around them. A nuisance barker has become habituated to barking at sounds and sights in the neighbourhood.When left alone outside, it starts to listen for those sounds to start its barking marathon.

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Adequate exercise, proper leadership and quality social interactions are all basic needs that can satisfy many unwanted canine behaviours.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Ravens hunting a repeat

Rockridge ranked No. 1 heading into provincial championship ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

The Rockridge Ravens senior boys rugby team is soaring into this week’s provincial AA championship tournament as the No. 1 seed and defending champions following a win over their talented cross-town frenemies from Collingwood in the Lower Mainland final.

The Rockridge program has had runs of extended dominance — they won four AA titles in a row from 2004 to 2007 — and a provincial championship win this season would be their first title repeat since those glory days.

“The potential is there,” said Rockridge head coach Perino Zambon with a laugh before launching into a long list of reasons why it’s way too early to talk about a repeat of the dynasty days. “We are ranked No. 1 going in, but the tournament is such a completely different animal.You’ve got that compressed time period where you’re playing four games in a week so there are all kinds of factors that come into it. Can you stay healthy? We’re relatively healthy right now, but that can change. And then just the draw — you can run into someone who is pretty hot.

And also I just think the quality of competition is really quite deep at the AA level.You’ve got a number of good schools that are quite close to each other.There’s very good parity.”

Right near the top of that list of strong opponents is Collingwood.

The Cavaliers are ranked No. 3 heading into provincials following a tight 24-17 loss to Rockridge in the New Zealand Shield Lower Mainland final played May 14 at Klahanie Park.The Cavaliers looked to be outmatched early on in the final as Rockridge built a 17-0 lead by halftime, but a stirring second half comeback made the match an intense one right down to the final whistle.

“We warned our guys to expect that there would be a bounce back (from Collingwood) in the second half,” said Zambon. He was right — in just a few short minutes following the break, Collingwood pounded in three tries to tie the game at 17.

“They scored quite quickly,” said Zambon. “You could see their confidence — they just clicked. And the things that they were doing well in the first half, they kind of built on that. . . . Collingwood carried a

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Collingwood erased their lead in furious fashion, but Zambon admitted there were some tense moments.

“I was a little worried, but it was not completely unexpected.They’re really well coached,” he said.

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“Our guys managed to keep their composure,” said Zambon. “I was proud that they did respond and put together that try, but I think it was a wakeup call for our guys that they can’t sit on their laurels.

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the provincial tournament, teams will raise their level of play. Our competition will be better because it’s the tournament and also there’s the pressure of playing in bigger, more important games as the season progresses.”

The Ravens lost more than half of their starters from last year’s championship team so there are new faces in the lead roles, although several key players are back for a repeat attempt.Team captain Jackson Claridge and No. 8 Charlie Macdonald were both key contributors last year and have taken the lead this season, along with other standouts such as Tom Peiffer, Sean Cameron, Chase Taylor Robbins and Jake Lan. “A lot of our kids have played a lot of rugby,” said Zambon. “Not only at Rockridge, but a lot of our kids are pretty active at the Capilanos in their junior program and have played for Team B.C. or rep rugby.”

Rockridge earned the No. 1 seed heading into the

tournament and will start their title defence with a matchup against No. 16 Smithers Monday starting at 4 p.m. at Klahanie Park.

They aren’t taking anything for granted, said Zambon. “(Being No. 1) has got its benefits, but at the same time there is a bit of pressure,” he said. “I know we’re going to have to get through a Smithers team that we know nothing about on Monday. Even though they’re the No. 16 team, we have very little information on them.”

From there the tournament will move to Abbotsford Exhibition Park for quarterfinals Wednesday, semifinals Thursday and the championship final scheduled for Saturday starting at 2:30 p.m. at Rotary Stadium.

Seycove secondary is also in the tournament as the 15th-ranked team.They are playing No. 2 St. Michael’s University May 23 following North Shore News press deadline.

As for Collingwood, the Cavaliers will also open their tournament May 23, taking on 14th-ranked

R.E. Mountain secondary from Langley.The thirdranked Cavaliers are on the opposite side of the draw from the Ravens, setting up a potential rematch of last year’s all-West Vancouver final. Zambon knows, however, that there’s a long way to go before any team can start making championship game plans. “(We’re) cautiously optimistic,” he said with a laugh. “It’s going to be a tough tournament.There are a number of teams that have stepped forward. St. Michaels on the Island looks very strong, Collingwood has the pedigree of always doing well in the tournament as well.”

••• Three North Shore schools are taking part in the AAA provincial championships being held alongside the AA finals. Handsworth leads the way as the No. 8 seed followed by West Vancouver at No. 10 and Carson Graham at No. 13. All three are scheduled to be in action May 23 following North Shore News press deadline.

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