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Highway 1 no longer making the cut

Why afternoon Cut traffic is so bad, and why it’s hard to fix BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

It didn’t used to be this way.

Unless there was a stall or accident, cars used to zip down the Cut each afternoon, hit the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing and disappear to all points south of the Burrard Inlet.

Then, sometime in late 2012, the Cut started becoming routinely backed up to Westview Avenue, and other feeder routes to the highway along Keith Road,Third Street and Low Level Road became equally clogged.

“You talk to anybody on the streets of the North Shore and ask them, ‘What’s the major issue here?’

They’ll say it’s the traffic that emanates from the bridgehead,” says District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure hired a consultant more than a year ago to help figure out why the daily traffic flow between the top of the Cut in North Vancouver and Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby has gotten so bad in recent years — and what can be done about it.

It’s a question of numbers and a theoretical tipping point where a busy highway turns into a parking lot.

Traffic engineer Jason Jardine presented an update on the study to District of

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The increasing traffic woes on the North Shore aren’t caused so much by more people living here as they are by more people working here, the study suggests. And they’re coming to work in one industry in greater numbers than See More page 7

Lucky lab plucked from park by helicopter MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

A man’s best friend needed a little break Thursday evening while hiking in the North Shore mountains — and got the helicopter ride of a lifetime back home.

Fraser, a four-year-old golden lab retriever, was hiking with his human

companion near Norvan Falls in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park when he apparently began suffering from heat exhaustion.The dog was also finding the rugged trail conditions challenging. “And basically the dog collapsed and would not walk,” said Mike Danks, team leader with North Shore Rescue, which jumped into action

out of the woods, with the help of a Metro Vancouver park ranger and caretaker.

As nightfall closed in, rescuers made the decision to call in the big guns to expedite a safe end to the doggie rescue operation: a Talon helicopter.

Eight North Shore Rescue members hiked for

to rescue the pooped pooch before nightfall Thursday.

Fraser’s owner, a 20year-old man, was slightly panicked knowing he wouldn’t be able to carry his l20-pound dog for six kilometres back down the intermediate trail to the parking lot. A wheelbarrow and an all-terrain vehicle were brought in to try to help Fraser and his owner

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Canada Day celebration started early — at 1,400 metres

CHRIS SLATER reporter@nsnews.com

Greeting the sunrise

What better way is there to ring in our national holiday than standing atop a North Shore mountain singing O Canada as the sun slowly rises on a stunning summer day?

Turns out, more than 350 people couldn’t agree more.

That’s what took place early Wednesday morning as approximately 350 people scaled Mount Seymour to celebrate Canada’s 148th birthday with an impromptu singing of the country’s national anthem from an altitude of 1,400 metres.

“It was humbling, that’s kind of the word that would come. Exhilarating. It was just really cool to see that many people get up and go do something that most would think is outside of the box and a little bit crazy,” said Julian DeSchutter of Chasing Sunrise, the organization that organized the hike.

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Although the group has done about a dozen sunrise hikes now, it’s never

been done on Canada Day and there have never been anything like the numbers of people who showed up in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

According to DeSchutter, the idea to put on a Canada Day sunrise hike only came about nine

days before July 1, and was spread by word of mouth and through social media.

In the period of just over a week, DeSchutter said more than 350 people had signed up to take part.

“In the span of nine days it just kind of took a life of its own and went

phenomenally,” he said.

“People started showing up around 2:30 in the morning, which is awesome because we said show up at three and there’s very few things in life people show up early to.”

When the mass of hikers set out for the top, it was

still full dark, according to DeSchutter, who said Wednesday’s full moon helped to provide just enough light to navigate the trail, with help from headlamps.

Although nobody planned it, when the sun began to rise shortly after 5 a.m. the crowd began to break into the national anthem.

He said the singing of O Canada started with one person, then spread to 10 people, then to 100 “until 350 people all started diving in and singing the (national) anthem.”

DeSchutter said the unexpected chorus showed just how capable people are of rising to the situation on their own accord.

“If you just let go a lot of the control of stuff like this, you realize how capable people are in their own rights and everything just kind of takes care of itself if you just let people do their own thing.”

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Neptune Terminals is hosting an information meeting at the Rose Room at Park & Tilford Gardens on July 8, 2015 to provide more information about our permit amendment application.

Neptune project staff will be available to answer questions.

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Danks said North Shore Rescue’s main concern is to first make sure humans are safe, but they also never want to leave a best friend behind.

“We are not going to leave a dog back there, regardless,” said Danks.

“We will do whatever it takes to get that person and the dog back out.”

After the rescue, Fraser was taken to a vet by his owner to be checked out.

The dog is expected to make a full recovery, said Danks.

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With persistent dry conditions come more stringent watering restrictions.

Metro Vancouver announced Friday that sprinkling will now be restricted to once a week.

Water reservoirs, which include the Seymour, Capilano and Coquitlam, are currently 79 per cent full — water levels that are normally seen in early August. Creeks that flow into the reservoirs are also at lower-than-normal levels.

In addition to scaledback sprinkling, as part of moving to Stage 2 watering restrictions all public and commercial fountains and water features not using recycled water will be shut off.

Bylaw enforcement officers will be patrolling North Shore neighbourhoods to ensure residents are complying with the new rules.

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Mussatto anticipates Stage 2 restrictions will stay in effect until the end of September and may even escalate. “If we have to go to Stage 3 we will, which is more severe water restrictions but hopefully we won’t have to,” he said.

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new study has found North Shore traffic woes are growing because so many people are commuting here for work.

The rules of land economics being what they are, our labour force is being chased out to far-flung suburbs where they are forced to commute long distances on a stressed road network.Whether they’re construction workers, teachers, nurses or police officers, they’re people we need on the North Shore.

It’s yet another reason government should be working to tether down the hot air balloon that is the cost of housing — it’s having a negative impact the quality of life even for those who are comfortably housed.

The study also highlights the need for collecting good data in order to hone sharp policy, rather than governing from the hip.

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$200 million to redesign and rebuild the Lester B. Pearson-era bridgehead interchanges at the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, which may help traffic flow in the short term. But let’s not kid ourselves that it will solve the traffic problem.The bridge itself is at or near capacity.We cannot build our way out of congestion.We can only spend ungodly amounts of money to shift bottlenecks around.

Unfortunately, these concrete legacy projects make for the kind of photo-ops politicians love.

That’s something to think about as we gaze at the gaping bullet wounds in our collective feet, having just turned down an opportunity to invest in a transit system that would actually get people off the road. It’s time for some forward thinking solutions — not ones that will simply lead to more gridlock.

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Locals priced out of real estate

Dear Editor: It is evident that an independent review of the ever growing cost of houses is required.

Locals are very concerned about the current lack of action by governments to protect them.

The monopolistic B.C. Real Estate Association recently produced a motherhood, feel-good review; it does not give us any specifics about the impact that wealthy buyers from overseas are having on the market. Why should they?

Agents have offices in China, flogging off our properties, which sure help to drive up prices and their commissions. Incredibly, no

authority has any idea of the extent of this invasion.

A recent Angus Reid poll indicated 40 per cent of locals are seriously thinking of leaving Metro Vancouver because of the high cost of owning a home. That is a major problem.

Two-thirds polled believe “foreigners investing in this real estate market” are the cause of high prices while the majority want the governments involved and more information.

The recent “Give us data” rally was asking all levels of governments to determine who is buying homes in Metro Vancouver. Locals do

not want to be driven out of Vancouver and wonder where the next generation will live.

While monster houses, vacant housing, and loss of neighbourhood character are important issues in the debate, the real issue is where do the locals go if they are priced out of the market? And who takes their place?

Just a small increase in demand over supply is sufficient to increase prices so surely all governments must look to controlling this demand from overseas before we are overwhelmed.

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Closed Gleneagles clubhouse makes no logical sense Dear Editor: As someone who plays golf at Gleneagles from time to time, I am frustrated that the clubhouse is still not operational more than six months after evicting the previous operator Sea View restaurants. Sea View was a family owned business run by Enzo and Alice Taffara.

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since the Sea View contract was terminated last November, with not even a hint of getting any refreshment at the height of the summer season. What kind of stupid logic is this from West Vancouver council?

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More people commuting to North Shore From page 1

ever before — residential construction.

Though that may conjure up images of work crews on highrises, the building boom is mostly being felt in singlefamily neighbourhoods.

“Quite often, the situation is a lot more complex,”Walton said. “We know a lot more information than we did a year ago and we have to understand that information before we can make meaningful solutions because they can take 10 or 15 years of shifting investment and policy to address.”

According to the last 10 years of data, the North Shore’s population has been growing by about half a per cent per year while the total number of daily trips over the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing grew at a slightly slower rate.

But, along with changing demographics and ballooning land prices, there’s been a shift in commuting patterns.

The percentage of North Shore residents who also work on the North Shore has risen from 46 per cent to 50 per cent, but the number of people commuting from south of the Burrard Inlet has gone up by 14 per cent from 17,260 to 19,660 according to the census data.

Jardine compared that number with the volume of building and demolition permits granted by the North Shore’s three municipalities and found similar growth, suggesting much of the new traffic is

building contractors coming to work on North Vancouver and West Vancouver homes.

“I would say there’s a strong pattern that tends to support that observation,” Jardine said.

The census numbers likely don’t capture many of the subcontractors who are only here working on a job site for a couple weeks at a time,Walton said.

The situation is likely to get worse before it gets better as many older single-family homes and apartments are considered tear-downs now.Walton estimated two-thirds to three-quarters of those permits and workers are related to rebuilding older homes, rather than highrise construction.

“The North Shore is now entering into a period where for the next decade, we’re very, very heavily building out old, wooden, family housing stock, which means we’re going to have significant numbers of trades folks working in neighbourhoods where they had no presence 20 years ago,”Walton said.

Those extra workers, combined with employment growth happening on the North Shore’s expanding industrial waterfront, have pushed the stressed highway beyond its tipping point — somewhere between 4,000 and 4,500 vehicles per hour.

In the two years since the new Port Mann Bridge opened in 2012, there have been disproportionate jumps of .6 per cent and 1.7 per cent in daily traffic over the

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When a road hits its maximum capacity, the queues of idling vehicles and the amount of time rush hour lasts both just get longer. “Rush hour” with near-to or overcapacity traffic on roads leading to the Second Narrows bridgehead now extends from 2 until 6 p.m., according to the study, and that’s assuming there are no accidents or stalls.

“I think we’ve been close

to that tipping point for many years now,” Jardine said. “You can get a certain amount of traffic through a bottleneck and when things fail, they fail very badly. . . ” Making matters worse is the 50-year-old highway interchange system that doesn’t reflect modern best practices, Jardine said.The worst choke point when leaving the North Shore in both the morning and evening: the weave between the Fern Street on-ramp and

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The study also looked into heavy trucks and found they only account for about two per cent of the crossings.

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The study, which the City of North Vancouver and the District of West Vancouver are also keeping a close eye on, should help focus the municipalities on how to resolve the problem. “‘Traffic’s a nightmare.

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That’s the standard mantra that we hear.Well, growth is not out of control but traffic is obviously getting worse so let’s get at the traffic and understand the issues and make sure any response we have on the North Shore from any of our local governments is based on a very cogent analysis of the facts, rather than the perceptions,”Walton said.

Taking a scolding tone against commuters won’t help, Coun. Roger Bassam warned. “Those are jobs.

Those are people who work here. . .” he said.

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“A lot of it is local traffic.

We could maybe make better choices around not driving six trips in a day.”

The study’s results come as massive dollars are about to be spent on bridgehead infrastructure.

The province, district and federal government have already announced plans to build a new $50-million interchange at Mountain Highway, scheduled to open in 2018.

The district is currently widening the Keith Road bridge to five lanes and connecting it to the Fern Street overpass at a cost of $12.7-million.That project is intended to create a new east-west route over the highway so commuters headed home to Seymour or Deep Cove aren’t sharing limited lanes of traffic with bridge commuters.

All three governments are also looking to share in the $100-million cost to update the remaining interchanges leading to the bridgehead.

The North Shore has long been overlooked by the province when it comes to transportation infrastructure spending,Walton said.

“The one place in the entireTransCanada Highway between Squamish and now Chilliwack that has not had virtually a nickel put into it is our community — Lynn Valley to the Ironworkers Bridge,” he said.

But, even if we untie all the traffic knots before the bridge, the Ironworkers itself

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When it came to looking for ways to mitigate the current mess, Coun.

Mathew Bond suggested the district focus on not just increasing the supply of road space, but also managing demand.

“Looking at these charts, if we took 400 vehicles off the road during the peak hour, that would solve our problem.We’d go back to where we were three or five years ago and we wouldn’t have these issues,” he said.

“How much does it cost to take 400 vehicles off the road compared to expanding all the infrastructure to supply another 400 vehicles?”

That question became especially relevant Thursday when Lower Mainland residents learned the results of the failed TransLink funding plebiscite. Had it passed, the North Shore would have got three new B-line bus routes, as well as 50 per cent more SeaBus service, and more regular buses.

The loss is being deeply lamented by Walton.

“There’s no doubt. If you’ve got a bus with 50 people on it, that replaces 50 cars.

That’s a huge shift,” he said.

The Lower Mainland’s mayors estimated the .5 per cent sales tax would have cost the average

Lower Mainland household between $150 and $250 per year. By comparison, if North Shore residents were asked to pick up one third of the cost of building a new wider Ironworkers Bridge, Walton estimated that would cost local taxpayers about $400 million.

“That’s an awful, awful lot of money for the North Shore tax base,” he said.

“Big concrete things and heavily engineered things are very expensive and it may be the champagne solution but there’s not even a guarantee that would suffice for more than five or 10 years before it reached capacity.”

One other way to manage demand is to introduce road pricing. Stockholm’s traffic congestion was remarkably similar to our own right up to the point its residents approved road pricing in a referendum.

“The next day, literally, the cars were back to . . . 100 kilometres per hour at a time when they were congested the day before.The impact of taking that much traffic out is profound,”Walton said.

Though our own plebiscite loss was deeply disappointing to Walton, he said the issue of transit improvement is far from dead.

“I’m not backing down for a second. I’m going to keep talking and pushing transit as a critical issue.

This is a set-back but it’s not a permanent set-back,” he said.

The final report on Highway 1 traffic gridlock is due this fall.

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Over the last couple of years, a group of primarily North Shore men has continued to take positive steps towards improving the personal health of its members.

Guided by two books (Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge’s Younger NextYear, and Joel Fuhrman’s Eat to Live), as well as through the support of one another and a shared love of cycling, group members are continuing to make positive strides. By eating better and exercising more, they’ve dropped a collective 140 pounds and are committed to instituting positive changes in their respective lives today to pave the way for a healthier tomorrow.

“We’ve all changed health-wise for sure.We’ve all lost a lot of weight, we’re all a lot fitter and enjoying ourselves,” says group member Keith Henderson.The 44-year-old West Vancouver resident and geologist is pleased to report he quit smoking as part of his adoption of a healthier lifestyle.

With higher fitness levels under their belts, the men decided to band together to inspire others as well as give back to a cause close to Henderson’s heart: Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver. Henderson has served as a board member with the organization since 2013 and the men viewed it as the perfect charity

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Reached Friday morning, the men were well on their way to their destination and were fast approaching the B.C. and Alberta border.While on schedule, Henderson had one injury to report: McCall Sr. had unfortunately taken a tumble between Pemberton and Lillooet, coming off at high speed going downhill and landing in a ditch.While he broke his collarbone, he hadn’t abandoned the quest, rather was happily riding shotgun

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“It was kind of unfortunate, but the rest of us are good to go,” he adds, with all remaining riders committed to completing the challenging trek: 1,375-kilometres in duration with 10,000 gruelling metres of elevation gain.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING Seaspan is proposing to construct a new head office at 10 Pemberton Avenue, next to their existing offices. You are invited to a meeting to discuss the project.

Date: Time: Location of meeting:

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015 5:30-7:00pm Chief Joe Mathias Centre 100 Capilano Rd., North Vancouver

Seaspan proposes proposes to to construct construct aa 44 storey, storey,7,800 7,800sq. sq.metre/ metre/ 84,000 sq.

84,000 ft. office building at 10 Pemberton ft. officesq. building at 10 Pemberton Avenue. Avenue.

The New Head Office will be located directly south of its existing head office building on the western spit of Seaspan’s Burrard Inlet Property.

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

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Looking for art and music lovers who want to ensure West Vancouver remains a vital and thriving cultural community. Applications are currently being accepted for a volunteer co-ordinator with excellent communication skills who can co-ordinate and manage the volunteer schedule, and train new volunteers. Experience dealing with cash is an asset.

CATES PARK CONCERT SERIES ASSISTANT The Cates Park Concert Series takes place every Saturday between July 18 and Aug. 29.These concerts give bands a chance to play their music to an enthusiastic community. Musart Cultural Society is looking for volunteers to help with set up and take down, moving and handling of musical and technical equipment, setting up stages, collecting donations, distributing CDs and helping bands sell merchandise, etc.

TECHNICAL VOLUNTEER The Tetra Society of North America is a non-profit organization

founded in 1987 in Vancouver that recruits skilled volunteers to create customized assistive devices for people with physical disabilities.Volunteers will attend monthly volunteer meeting; meet clients (sometimes with a third party) to discuss client need; design and build an assistive device based on identified need; make adjustments to assistive device as needed; and complete follow-up paperwork on completed project.

LUNCH PROGRAM VOLUNTEER A volunteer is needed to help with cooking and prepping lunch; assisting the main chef in the kitchen and working with other volunteers.

THRIFT SHOP VOLUNTEER Volunteers

are required to meet and greet customers and assist with purchases in a very busy community thrift shop located in the Upper Lonsdale corridor.

COMMUNITY RUN ORGANIZER Terry Fox Run Day is Sept. 20.The North Vancouver Run takes place at Inter River Park.

The West Vancouver Run takes place at Ambleside Park.The run organizer will oversee and delegate everything as required and liaise with head office.Work will include insurance; permits; dignitary invites; paperwork; media interviews prior to, on, and after run day; and cash reconciliation.

information and referrals to seniors through one-onone discussions regarding programs provided by community agencies and government programs.

Volunteers in this position will liaise for seniors with the agencies by telephone and/or in writing. Assist seniors with completion of forms, such as pension applications, housing, bus passes, etc.

Compile statistics on work performed.

BOARD MEMBER Volunteers are needed for the West Vancouver Community Arts Council board of directors.The council is looking for enthusiastic and dedicated individuals with a desire to enrich the community.

Directors on the board are volunteers, serve for a two-year term, and help make important decisions concerning the arts council’s policy, fundraising,

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Movies influence dog breed popularity The red, white and blue patriotic movie Max, about a military service dog suffering from PTSD, is a wonderful story about loss, love and loyalty that recently hit theatres for the summer.

The film is touching, pulling at your heartstrings at just the right moments and making your heart swell at others, causing you to leave the theatre cheering for Max and dogs like him everywhere . . . and wanting a dog like Max. And therein lies the problem with the glorification of animals in movies. That acute endorphin-induced adoration spurs a desire to

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Canine Connection acquire such a dog without any common sense or forethought.

Every time a particular breed of dog is featured as some sort of hero in a movie, that breed suffers at the hands of thoughtless

humans who make the uninformed, uneducated assumption that the dog’s behaviour in the movie represents what the dog is like in real life and they go and get one. Nine months later, when they realize how challenging and difficult the breed is, these dogs are then dumped at local shelters and rescues by the hundreds, many left to be euthanized after living only months of their expected 10- to 15-year lifespans.

This is such a common quandary that there is a term for it: the 101 Dalmatians effect. The trend to acquire a “movie star dog” started after that particular film came out

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and everyone wanted a Dalmatian. Less than a year later, shelters where brimming with these dogs as people realized they were nothing like the movie portrayed them to be.

This phenomenon also occurred after the Air Bud movies featuring golden retrievers and after Snow Dogs featuring Siberian huskies — basically any movie that portrays dogs in a way that glorifies them or turns them into superheroes.

Let me assure you that Max is just an ordinary dog, not a superhero. In the movie itself, all of the dog’s seemingly intuitive reactions and behaviours are nothing more than trained stunts. On set, the dog had no less than three handlers/trainers directing it to perform all of those behaviours that stole your heart once the final editing of the movie was done.

I encourage everyone to watch “Max: Behind the Scenes Making of Dog Movie” onYouTube to see how those tricks were trained.

But also, let me assure you that a Belgian Malinois is not an ordinary dog.

The Belgian Malinois is not for first-time dog

owners. In fact, it isn’t even for second-time dog owners. This is a very powerful breed and not for the inexperienced or faint of heart. There is a reason they are used by the military.

The Belgian Malinois is a tough dog. It is strong, agile, incredibly quick, intently focused, highly predatory driven and, in uneducated and inexperienced hands, can be dangerous. Bite inhibition is not one of its strongest qualities.

It is an extremely high-energy dog. Take the physical energy and mental focus of a Border Collie and multiply that by at least 50 and you have a Malinois.

One of the reasons I think people are attracted to the breed after seeing the movie is the degree of loyalty the dog bestows on his deceased handler and then the subsequent family members who take over his care.

But that kind of loyalty is not born into a breed, it is made.

Having the pleasure of working with police service dogs for a number of years in the past, I can say that the type of human-dog relationship depicted in

Max does exist. But it is created, because the bond that develops is a bond based on mutual trust between the human and dog formed from living together 24/7. These dogs live the pack life in its truest form.What that means is that no one, other than the handler, walks the dog, feeds the dog, trains the dog or plays with the dog on any given day. These dogs live with routine and consistent boundaries every day. These dogs learn to rely on their handler for everything and in return reward them with unprecedented loyalty.

Service dogs are not walked by a dog walker, nor do they go to doggie daycare or dog parks.

They don’t get away with breaking rules and boundaries and they don’t get rewarded with cuddles and treats because they are cute.

A breed of dog won’t give you the loyalty depicted in the movie Max. Only time and effort will.

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

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Over the next few months, District of North Vancouver staff will be going door-todoor to determine how many dogs are living in the municipality and to emphasize the need for proper licensing.

Bylaws require that all dog owners who live in the district have a licence for

their pet, but, according to a press release, statistics show up to 50 per cent of households have dogs, yet only 20 per cent of owners license their dogs.

Because of the steady increase of dogs in local parks and the costs incurred by the municipality to deal with clean-up, safety concerns

and animal welfare, district staff are stressing the importance of licensing.

Annual fees are $37.50 for a spayed or neutered dog, and $80 for a dog that is not fixed. Licences may be purchased at District Hall (355 W. Queens Rd.) or the Animal Welfare Shelter (299 Mansfield Place).

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List features sips with significant value

Tim Pawsey

Notable Potables It’s time to catch up on a number of worthy recent tastes, with no common theme except that they all represent significant value in their class.

Here are some of my suggestions for wines to check out: Chateau Beaulieu Rosé 2014 (Coteaux D’Aix enProvence AOP) On the tail end of B.C. Liquor Stores’ Provence promo, here’s one of the best rosé values around, from an impressive 16thcentury chateau not far from Aix. A blend of 40 per cent Grenache, 25 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon, 20 per cent Syrah, 10 per cent Cinsault, and five per cent Mourvedre, this wine sports a pretty pale salmon colour with wild fruits and rhubarb aromas, followed by good acidity and some assertive mineral notes from volcanic soils. Juicy and refreshing. Pack up some cold cuts and good cheeses for a picnic (BCLS $17.99, 90 points).

Château la Tour de l’Évêque Petale de Rose 2014 (Côtes de Provence) Mainly Cinsault and Grenache with a cocktail of other varieties, including Rolls, Semillon and Ugniblanc, this is a wonderful, delicate pale, orange-tinged rose colour in the glass, with a delicate entry of

citrus and red fruits and just enough heft to keep things interesting. Just sip it or match with fresh shrimp and a mild cocktail sauce (BCLS $20.99, 90 points).

Howard Park Flint Rock Chardonnay 2013 Here’s a beautifully balanced Chardonnay from southwest Australia with a distinctly elegant personality. A combo of stainless steel and large, older French barrels keeps the oak nicely in check with some malolactic for added mouthfeel. Lifted stone fruit and mineral notes before a well-textured palate of peach and melon, with a clean acid core and lingering end. Try it with halibut and lemon dill sauce (BCLS $26.09, 92 points).

Moon Curser Syrah 2012 One of the south Okanagan’s most reddriven producers rightly takes its Syrah pretty seriously.Yes, that will be Syrah as opposed to Shiraz, dry, mediumbodied and well-balanced, with approachable, integrated tannins, and wonderfully peppery and spicy. This wine comes from three Osoyoos East Bench vineyards, with lots fermented separately, plus a splash of viognier, just to be polite! One of the best so far, from a wickedly good

vintage. How about a nice pepper steak? ($26.90, 91 points) Poplar Grove Cabernet Franc 2012 This is the wine that put Cabernet Franc on the Okanagan radar back in 1994, and scooped the Okanagan Wine Festival’s first platinum medal.

Look for vibrant plummy notes up front, followed by a supple, plush but structured palate of red and black fruit with a hint of herbs and spice ($34.90 at the winery, 92 points).

••• The Similkameen Barbecue King, July 11, is one of the year’s most enjoyable food and wine events, and is a great way to taste the best of Similkameen. Each wine is paired with fare from local Okanagan chefs, who compete for top honours.

It’s a lovely, laid-back affair in the beautiful grounds of the historic Keremeos Grist Mill. But tix, as always, are going fast. More info at similkameenwine.com/events.

••• Belly’s Budget Best Pares Balta ‘B’ Blanc de Pacs 2013 (Penedes) When the mercury climbs the way it is right now, this is what you want to be drinking: an edgy drop, with orchard fruits on the nose, an apple palate,

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Welcome to Deep Cove, a true nature lover’s paradise, a community where hiking, boating, and water sports reign supreme among residents lucky enough to call this laidback, artsy community home sweet home.

Comprising the area on the far east side of the North Shore, Deep Cove lies nestled in the shadow of Seymour Mountain to the north and the placid waters of Indian Arm to the east.

Only 13 kilometres from Downtown Vancouver, this quaint seaside village feels light years away from the crowds and traffic of city living. The traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples, Deep Cove eventually became a popular cottage destination as Vancouver grew with European settlement in the early 20th century. Following the completion of the Second Narrows Memorial Crossing

Kayaking and other water sports are popular activities among residents and visitors in Deep Cove.

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neighbourhoods From page 18 bridge in 1960, the village saw a build-up of residential neighbourhoods surrounding the area as more and more people chose to call this idyllic setting home, according to the Deep Cove Heritage Society.

Deep Cove is a community with distinctly West Coast vibes with many of the homes dotting the area’s shorelines sporting their own boat slips, whether for lavish sport boats or a couple of saltstreaked kayaks. Inside the pint-sized village, a series of funky businesses can be found.

One thing this nature-loving community does particularly well is food, whether it’s loaded pizza and craft beer at the Raven Pub, mouthwatering treats from Honey’s Doughnuts and Goodies, or hearty fare from the Arms Reach Bistro Restaurant, a local dining favourite. All that outdoor recreation keeps Deep Covers hungry.

With recreation reigning supreme in the area it’s not surprising that “the cove” offers one of the largest selections of water sport rentals in the country with Deep Cove Kayak offering rentals of kayaks, paddle boards, and dragon boats, something that Amy Harris, communications manager for the company, says is a booming business.

“It gets pretty busy down there.We’ve been selling out pretty much every weekend so far this year and been very busy during the week as well,” she notes, explaining the business, which operates on the village’s waterfront from March to October books between 30,000 and 40,000 rentals per See page 20

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Arts and culture Stroll down the last block of Gallant Avenue before the water’s edge and you’ll come across a pale yellow building with a red steepled window at the front.This is the Deep Cove Cultural Centre.

The unique space is home to four community groups: Deep Cove Heritage Society, First Impressions Theatre, Deep Cove Stage, and the Seymour Art Gallery.

The non-profit public gallery has existed as an organization since 1985, and moved into its current location when the cultural centre opened in 1992.

Before that, it occupied an exhibition space in a hallway at Seycove school and filled other spaces when available.

Curator and director Sarah Cavanaugh says the cultural centre is unique and great for the community.

“I know people worked really hard to get the space designed and put up, and all the groups that started it are still in here and going strong,” she notes.

Cavanaugh has been with the gallery for five years, and agrees that Deep Cove is an artistic community.

“There’s definitely a lot happening artistically in this community,” she says. “In this building alone there’s a lot happening artistically, but in many other spaces as well.There are a lot of interesting groups working in and around the cove and well-known artists living here.”

Artists often take their inspiration from nature and

Deep Cove is particularly suited to serve as muse.

“Who wouldn’t want to be here? It’s beautiful,” adds Cavanaugh. She believes location is part of the reason the little gallery does so well, welcoming about 25,000 visitors a year.

“For a small little gallery like this those are big numbers,” notes Cavanaugh.

The gallery presents 11 shows a year, most running four weeks with some special exhibitions running for five.The most recent show of Iranian door knockers ended this weekend.The next show will feature an exhibition of oil paintings and sculptural felt-making by two artists who live in the Gulf Islands.The collections throughout the year are diverse by design.

“We’re really trying to bring forward ideas and artwork that we think will interest the community,” says Cavanaugh.

Volunteers help boost the small staff, and Cavanaugh easily recites the numbers: Last year 80 volunteers gave 3,743 hours of their time. She says community support, including that from volunteers (they are always looking for more) is key to the operation.

“We couldn’t do what we do without them,” she adds.

When talking about the gallery, it’s clear Cavanaugh is proud of the work being done there.

“I may be a little biased but I think it’s an absolute gem,” she says.

— Rosalind Duane

From page 19 year, even more in recent years.

“Especially in the last couple of years it’s been getting up there to 40,000 plus,” says Harris.

She attributes the area’s popularity as a water sport destination to two main reasons, both having to do with its location.

“It’s a pretty protected area so the water is usually pretty calm,” she explains. “Obviously having that calm water means that a lot of people who aren’t familiar with water sports, beginners, can still go out and feel very safe out on the water.”

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A day in Deep Cove

Douglas Musselman, Dylon Matthews, Samuel Rook, Iain McTavish and Andrew Garnett cool off on a hot day in the photo at left; Honey’s Doughnuts’ patio below; 12-year-olds Meena Goundrey and Paige Fraser beachcombing bottom right; Judith Captein and Yuri Tsumori paddle boarding; and business in the cove. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN

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Longtime resident recalls his early days in the cove ROSALIND DUANE rduane@nsnews.com

In the late 1940s, Deep Cove played host to a lot of regattas and speed boat races.

Wilfred Fawcett was a teen at the time and often made the trek from his home in Vancouver to watch the action on the water.

He also regularly attended the Saturday night dances held at a local hall. They played swing music, including Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. Fawcett was a fan.

An amateur musician at the time, he went on to play clarinet semi professionally, but gave it up to get a steady gig as an insurance salesman to support his family.

Deep Cove became part of his official sales territory, which started at Grand Boulevard. After years of working and playing in Deep Cove, Wilfred moved to the area with his wife Marge and their two kids in 1970. Their Cove Cliff home cost $60,000. The house was 10 years old when they moved in, and although it seems low relative to today’s house prices, it was not cheap for the time.

“Deep Cove in those days was (made up of) little settlements. There was a settlement around Panorama, then there was Cove Cliff, CliffMont, Strathcona, and the new sub-division in the Dollarton area,” recalls Wilfred. “The beach houses weren’t all that favoured because it took a lot to keep them up because of the shoreline, it was quite difficult. Now those lots are

Wilfred Fawcett (centre) poses with members of the Old Time Jazz Band, which is based in Deep Cove. Fawcett is a longtime Deep Cove resident. FILE PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD worth about $2 million.”

The family enjoyed a variety of outdoor activities. “In my earlier days as a youth I used to hike and ski all over Seymour. It was just a lovely place,” says Wilfred.

As teens, his kids would row over to Belcarra and sometimes party with their friends on a nearby little island.

“The provincial police in those days would yell to the kids to get off the island and the kids would just laugh at them.

They finally got the marine unit out there

and the kids just scattered,” recalls Wilfred with a laugh. “They weren’t hurting anyone. There was no vandalism.”

Now 85, Wilfred lives at Cedar Springs retirement residence, and is a member of the Deep Cove Old Time Jazz Band. His wife is at Evergreen and he visits her often.

When asked what his favourite part of living in Deep Cove has been he answers quickly: “I think it was the people. It was just a lovely place to raise a family. It was just great.”

From page 20 The other reason is the scenery.

“We’re very lucky in Deep Cove to have such spectacular scenery right on our door step,” she says.

Deep Cove also supports a thriving arts community, with three separate galleries located in the village alone. Among those is the Seymour Art Gallery that contains both a gallery and a store, which sells works by local artists.

“The community is very tightly knit here. It’s very supportive of the arts,” says Vanessa Black, gallery assistant at the Seymour Art Gallery.“I think that definitely encourages artists to stay and to work and to contribute to this community in particular.”

Black says she believes it’s the area’s natural beauty that contributes to the many artists that call this community home.

“I think it’s just (the) scenery. Definitely nature. That’s the subject matter of a lot of the art in the shop. I think that really speaks to a lot of creative people.”

Hiking is also popular in the area, particularly the two-kilometre Quarry Rock hike, which takes trekkers high above the community and offers stunning views of surrounding waterways.

Deep Cove is also the eastern terminus for the 48-kilometre Baden Powell Trail, which spans all the way west to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver.

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Everything is relative biking in L.A. Exploring the City of Angels’ neighbourhoods on two wheels NEVILLE JUDD ContributingWriter

At the corner of Cynthia Street and North Doheny Drive in Los Angeles stands a bland-looking triplex.With so much architectural extravagance across the road in Beverly Hills, the gated compound at 882 North Doheny is on theWest Hollywood side of the street and barely warrants a second look.

Until Erick Martinez tells us to take a second look.

We dismount our bikes and catch our breath.We’ve been following our guide, Erick, mostly uphill from Bikes and Hikes L.A.’s store on Santa Monica Boulevard.

“In 1952, this used to be a five-unit apartment complex with a very famous resident in apartment 3,” says Erick. “Any guesses?”

The Judd family is still catching its collective breath.

“James Dean?” I offer between gasps. “Bette Davis?” guesses my wife, Leah.

“None other than Marilyn Monroe lived here,” says Erick.Turns out she wasn’t the only famous resident because Frank Sinatra lived next door.

Today, the building is on the market for $4.2 million, a modest amount compared to the Carolwood Estate up the road in Holmby Hills.

Once owned by Walt Disney, it’s now selling for $92 million.

On a 32-mile (51 kilometres) bicycle tour of Los Angeles, you quickly realize that everything is relative. And everything has a price.

Unsurprisingly for a city synonymous with smog and freeways, L.A. is not known for cycling. One magazine has described it as “a pathologically unfriendly bike city.” My friend Lars, a long-time L.A. resident now living in Canada, offered to rent us a car when he heard of our bike plans. He also wondered whether we were crazy.

But then getting somewhere wasn’t the point.

We were on vacation and with just four full days in the

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We crossed Sunset Boulevard, stopping briefly to look east at the Whisky a Go Go nightclub, where The Doors, Motley Crüe, and Guns ‘n Roses got their start. A block farther east is the Viper Room, where actor River Phoenix died of drug-induced heart failure in 1993.We cycled west, passing the 31-storey Sierra Towers, where Lindsay Lohan lived for a while after being kicked out of the venerable Chateau Marmont for partying too hard.

At least she got out.The Chateau Marmont, built on Sunset Boulevard in 1929, is where actor John Belushi partied even harder and died of a drug overdose in 1982.

You don’t have to scratch L.A.’s surface too hard to find its seedy underbelly, which delivers titillating fodder for Erick’s tour.

Even the handsome-looking Greystone Mansion — 55 rooms behind a mock Tudor façade, amid 16 acres of exquisitely manicured gardens — has a scandalous past.

Oil tycoon Edward Doheny paid $3 million to have Greystone built for his son Ned in 1928, making it

California’s most expensive home at the time. In 1929, four months after he and his family moved in, Ned died in a murder-suicide with his secretary, Hugh Plunket.

There are plenty of theories for the tragedy and Erick knows all of them. More memorable for me though was a different tale about a large spotlight mounted on Greystone’s roof. So concerned with security was Ned’s widow Lucy, she had the spotlight mounted as a means to alert Beverly Hills police down the hill in case of intruders. According to Erick, the spotlight later inspired the Bat-Signal used by the Gotham City Police Department.

Today, Greystone is owned by the City of Beverly Hills and is maintained as a park. It’s a glorious place to dismount a bike and wander the grounds, and it’s no surprise to learn that the location appears in dozens of movies, including The Big Lebowski,The Bodyguard, XMen, and The Social Network.

Erick led us west, stopping briefly to look at homes once owned by Tom Cruise, David Beckham and Lucille Ball, who used to personally answer trick or treaters at the door every Halloween.We cycled past the Bel Air Golf Club, where membership hinges on a tidy $2.1-million fee and approval by the board, and

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then past UCLA, built in 1919.

Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood and Westwood all have their share of climbs, but the most pleasant surprise to us was the bikefriendliness of these quiet neighbourhoods. And even back on Santa Monica Boulevard, where we headed west to the coast, a dedicated bike lane made for smooth passage.

More hair-raising was cycling the beach path from Santa Monica Pier to Venice Beach (think Stanley Park seawall in summer and directionally challenged pedestrians) where we stopped for a picnic and watched boarders defy gravity in the skateboard park. Inland a few blocks, we lingered at Venice Canals, my favourite part of the tour.

To me, the audacity of attempting to recreate Venice, Italy, almost 10,000 kilometres away in Los Angeles, California, epitomizes the American dream at its eccentric best.

Developer Abbot Kinney built the canals in 1905, complete with decorative lights, gondoliers and arched bridges. Promoted at the time as “America’s most unique attraction,” Kinney’s vision of a cultural mecca failed to materialize.

Amusement parks and freak shows proved more popular with the locals and the

advent of the automobile led to most of the canals being filled in to create roads.The canals are a fraction of their former size, but restoration work in the 1990s has since made the neighbourhood one of L.A.’s most desirable.

We circled Marina del Rey and its seemingly endless flotillas of yachts and speedboats to Ballona Creek.

Now entering the seventh hour of our tour and with the December sun setting behind us, we picked up the pace on the Ballona Creek Bike Path. Like the canals of Venice, much of the Ballona Creek corridor succumbed to concrete in the 1930s,

with dire results for the area’s wetlands.What’s left of the estuary has been contested by developers and environmentalists for decades. Oblivious to the numerous ongoing court battles over the area, and in spite of being surrounded by dense development, Ballona Creek still supports a surprising array of wildlife, including monarch butterflies, and great horned owls.

On our final leg of the tour, the indefatigable Erick continued to supply us with an impressive array of anecdotes. In Culver City we stopped at the Culver Hotel, whose six storeys made it a “skyscraper” in 1924 when it opened. Legend has it that Charlie Chaplin lost ownership of the place to John Wayne in a game of poker, while in 1939, the hotel was the scene of wild parties thrown by The Wizard of Oz cast, most notably, the Munchkins.

It was dark by the time we returned our bikes to the Bikes and Hikes outlet on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. After nearly seven hours on and off a saddle, I felt tired but elated to have seen and learned so much. I spent weeks in this city during visits as a backpacker in the 1980s.Yet in one day on a bike, I’d discovered more of L.A. than all those trips combined.

If you go: The L.A. in a day bike tour costs $162 per person, covers 32 miles (51 kilometres), and takes about six hours.Visit bikesandhikesla.com for more details.

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Race, an epic seven-day single-track competition that winds its way along the West Coast.

The course took the racers from the start/finish line at Argyle secondary through a two-mountain loop of Mount Seymour

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Spooner began the day nine strokes off Ben Silverman’s 54-hole lead, but came out on fire with four birdies and an eagle in a front-nine 30. After adding three more birdies at the 10th, 12th and 15th holes, Spooner made par at the par-5 18th for a nine-under 63 and a 16-under total. He

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