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Or a garden in the midst of a brown landscape that’s a little too lush, a little too verdant.

But water use — both our own and our neighbours’ — has been very much on people’s minds lately.

Barbara Ohl was down at West Vancouver’s Ambleside early Wednesday morning when she noticed the sprinklers in front of the Ferry Building. “They had three huge big shooting sprinklers,” she said. “Half of it was going on the road.”

Nearby, close to John Lawson Park, “You could see they’d just watered the lawn,” she said.

Later on, Ohl posted pictures of the offending watering to social media.

“It was way excessive,” she said. “It wasn’t just a light sprinkling.”

Amanda Burton, who lives in the City of North Vancouver, also didn’t have to look far to see what she considers over-the-top water use at a nearby apartment building. “It’s the only building on the entire block with green grass,” she said.

While watering by hand with a spring-loaded hose is still permitted under Stage 3 watering restrictions, Burton said it makes her crazy to see one of her neighbours standing with a hose for hours every evening. “She’s

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Reservoirs at ‘mid-August levels’ From page 1

“grassholes” and “midnight hosers” who flout the rules with their water-hogging ways. At the District of North Vancouver, staff have been logging about 100 calls a day from citizens irate about excessive watering.

On Tuesday, Metro Vancouver banned all sprinkling, stepping up restrictions on outdoor water use in response to a recordbreaking drought and falling reservoir levels.

It’s the first time in 12 years the local government has put Stage 3 water restrictions in place and the first time that’s happened so early in the summer.

And while the five to 10 millimetres of rain that fell on Friday — the first since June 2 — was welcome, those responsible for our regional water system say it’s literally a drop in the bucket.

Normally, rainfall in May, June and July is more than 154 mm, said Lisa Coldwells, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.

This year, there’s been only 16 mm in that same time period. “Even if we add 10 mm to that, we’re still in a huge deficit,” she said.

To recharge the reservoirs it takes closer to 150 mm of rain.That’s nowhere in the long-range weather models so far, which still predict a continued hotter and drier than normal summer.

The North Shore’s Capilano and Seymour reservoirs — along with the Coquitlam — supply water to about 2.5 million people in the Lower Mainland, more than half the population of the province.

When it’s full, the Capilano reservoir holds the equivalent of 13,600 Olympic-sized swimming pools. But after almost three dry months, the reservoirs are draining fast.

On Tuesday, the combined reservoir levels had dipped to 69 per cent, and had been dropping at a rate of about four per cent per week. “We’re seeing levels that are typical of where we’d be at the end of August,” said Tim Jervis, Metro Vancouver’s water manager.

At Eagle Lake, the municipal reservoir that supplies half of West Vancouver’s water, a massive pipe snakes through baked earth where the eastern fringe of the lake has already been sucked dry, like the backbone of a prehistoric fossil. Bleached tree stumps dot the shore and the system’s usual water

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The lake is three metres below what it normally is at this time of year and the district is now pumping water from a deeper, floating pump station in the western part of the reservoir. It’s the same story everywhere, says Phil Bates,West Vancouver’s acting director of engineering and transportation, looking out at the parched shoreline: “This is the drinking water we have.”

At the beginning of the summer, water managers at Metro Vancouver plugged what they thought were worst-case-scenario figures into their computer models, using data from one of the driest years on record — 1987 — to predict the likely trickle of water from snow melt and high elevation streams that would flow into the system.

But this year is worse.

Snow pack in the local watersheds this spring was less than 10 per cent of the historical average, said Jervis.

“If you go up there now to the inflows, there’s virtually nothing coming into the lakes.”

This week, technicians opened the valve to one of the region’s back-up supplies, the high elevation Palisade Lake, which drains into the Capilano.The region could also tap into Burwell Lake and Loch Lomand, which feed into the Seymour Reservoir. But there are limits. Only half of Palisade Lake can be drained without risking water supplies in future years.

During the threemonth drought, the Lower Mainland has been drawing an average of 1.5-billion litres a day from the reservoirs — a 50 per cent increase from average winter usage.That’s not a figure that makes water managers happy.

When sprinkling was still allowed, a noticeable jump in demand and corresponding drop in water pressure kicked in around 4 a.m. — when automatic sprinklers were programmed to come on — even on days when sprinkling was forbidden.

In the few days the ban has been in effect, it looks like it’s working: demand has dropped to below 1.2-billion litres a day.

As its population has grown, so has Greater Vancouver’s water consumption. Overall use of a billion litres a day is more than 25 per cent higher than it was in thirty years ago. About 60 per cent of that water is used residentially, the rest by business and industry.

At the height of summer, water use can double. So far this year, water use on July 2 topped the charts, when the region dipped into the reservoirs to the tune of 1.7 billion litres.

The saving grace for the water system so far is while overall use has grown in recent decades, per capita water use has been falling.

In the mid-1980s, before conservation dented the public mindset, Metro Vancouver users flushed, sprinkled and showered their way through 743 litres

per capita daily and almost double that in summer.

In contrast, today’s average per capita water use across the Lower Mainland is about 471 litres of water, including business and industrial uses. Days of peak summer demand pump that average up to 655 litres per person per day.

Part of the change to water use has come through regulation — like those requiring new buildings to install low-flow toilets and sprinkling restrictions, first adopted in 1992.

Other societal factors have also played a role.

Across the region, fewer people live in big houses with big yards compared to earlier decades and condo-dwellers don’t have lawns to water.

In the big picture, the three North Shore municipalities take a comparatively small portion of the region’s water.

The City of Vancouver, for instance, uses almost six times the water that’s used in the District of North Vancouver — the North Shore’s biggest water user.

To give a sense of water habits in different sized populations, water managers prefer to look at how much water is being consumed per person each day. One oftenoverlooked detail is those figures also contain water used by industry.While that water is separately metered and paid for, it comes from the same water reservoirs as everyone else’s.

While more than 80 per cent of West Vancouver’s water use is residential, in

the City of North Vancouver, port industries account for about 45 per cent of total water used. In the District of North Vancouver, industrial companies like Canexus and Erco use about 25 per cent of its water.

Those statistics are something people like Ron Sander, vice-president of major projects and environment at Neptune Terminals, are keenly aware of. “We recognize that people drive by here and are going ‘I’m being told not to water my lawn and you guys are watering coal piles,’” he said.

Neptune is one of those large industrial users in the City of North Vancouver.

The company uses water primarily to control dust from the coal piles — the most visible use — but also to wash down the dry bulk system when changing between different types of potash, for instance.

But Sander says the company, which employs about 350 people, is working to reduce water use.

In 2013, Neptune used 1.27 million cubic metres of water and paid more than $1.1 million for that.

In 2014, that number was down to 928,000 cubic metres and costs dropped to about $912,000.

Part of the way the company has achieved that was to install systems that recycle more of the water.

Two weeks ago, Neptune turned off a company car wash, which normally removes coal and wheat dust from the cars of up to 400 Neptune and Cargill workers

before they leave the site each day.

The company has also done some exploratory drilling on the site to look into the feasibility of tapping into the aquifer.

It’s not just large industrial companies that are falling under the watchful eyes of citizens.

Joyce Taylor emailed the City of North Vancouver after watching water being sprayed over a Polygon demolition site on Esplanade. “It’s a high use of water that really doesn’t have a huge benefit,” she said.

In this case, according to a follow-up letter from city staff,WorkSafeBC required the dust control.

Industrial misters do give the impression of using more water than they actually are, the letter added. But the site foreman was told to minimize water use as much as possible.

Taylor said she’s happy to hear that.While she lives in a condo building where the sprinklers have been shut off, she sometimes questions whether neighbourhood water snitches are targeting the right people.

“It’s out of proportion who’s being shamed and who’s being made to feel bad,” she said.

But the majority of those doing the tweeting and outing of neighbours on social media clearly don’t agree.

North Vancouver resident David Schreck took to Twitter last week to See Enforcement page 5

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Water managers say cutting unnecessary outdoor water use in summer is one of the easiest and cheapest ways governments have to head off a serious water shortage.

Residential use soars anywhere between 50 and 100 per cent in summer months — the same time as heat and lack of rain put pressure on reservoirs. In the District of North Vancouver, where single-family homes use about 300 litres of water per person per day over the year, about 40 per cent of the total residential water use happens in three summer months.

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denounce the neighbour of a friend who refused to shut off the sprinkler. Schreck said he alerted the city only after his friend — who walks by the sprinkler hissing away at 5:30 every morning — had been told in less than polite terms to “take a hike” when she pointed out the sprinkling ban.

While he agrees that “it doesn’t build a strong community” when people are ratting out the neighbours, Schreck said anyone who ignores polite advice deserves what they get. Schreck added he’s been watering his own garden the hard way. “I run around with

that we can make immediate gains on,” says Gavin Joyce, manager of parks, engineering and facilities for the District of North Vancouver.

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This is what political spin doctors and crisis managers refer to as “getting in front” of an issue.

We can see why he might want to do that and in particular why the PM might want to use a summer announcement ahead of an election to distance himself from the august senators.

Or should we make that August senators?

August being the time that the infamous trial of disgraced former senator Mike Duffy is set to resume.

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Harper said Friday he’s heard Canadians aren’t happy with the Senate.

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Dear Editor: In my humble opinion, pollsters will have difficulty in being accurate in their forecasts both federally and provincially. Why? The term “vote conflict” comes to mind. In the old days we used to vote for whomever we thought would do their best for our community. Now, unfortunately we are forced

to vote for whomever we hope will inflict the least amount of damage.

The conflict arises from the power that the party leader has over his elected members. For example, in West Vancouver, we have a Conservative MP, John Weston, who has done an admirable job for his community. Sadly for him, we have a prime minister

who has ambitions to dismantle the democracy that exists in Canada. Until this (election) year, he and his lawyers have fought veterans in court.When he was not prime minister, he stated that he would not act the same as Liberals and appoint senators as favours. Once in power, he reversed direction. If I vote for Mr.Weston, I am

in effect voting for Harper — big conflict. If I vote for Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, I vote for Justin Trudeau, who is a pale imitation of his father. I have not voted Liberal since Paul Martin.

The Liberal leaders since then have been gifts to the Conservatives. Sad to say, Justin appears to utilize his mouth prior to engaging his brain. I blame his team for

not correcting that major fault.

Give us a political system where the leader can be deposed by his elected officials — and we solve the conflict both federally and provincially.

If I do not vote, after 55 years of voting, I would feel guilty. Help!

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Cats get a bad rap but are just as amazing as dogs Dear Editor: Re: Cats Licensed, Sterilized and Indoors Only, July 10 Mailbox.

I just had to respond to these issues on cats in our community. It seems cats always get a bad rap.Why is that? When was the last

time a domestic cat was in the news for violence against humans like our “best friend” the dog? I find it hard to believe bird hunting (which is an instinct, by the way) is causing a decrease in our bird population on the North Shore. Humans

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be out at night. Owners may consider using a harness/lead to keep their cats safe in their neighbourhood. Cats need to get outside.

My cat never used to use our garden as a bathroom, she preferred her litter box.

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Cats are so amazing and intelligent — just like dogs.

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There’s no place like home, thankfully One day earlier this month I came home from work to find my two sons choking each other out trying to decide who would get to pull down our Christmas tree.

It was the same thing they were doing when I left the house in the morning.

“Merry Christmas-inJuly!” I said.

“I quit,” my wife replied.

It was then that I remembered a conversation I had a few months back with an inquisitive friend who wanted to know what my typical day was like. He asked me specifically what was going through my head when I arrived home from work each day and I told him, with no hesitation, that the moment I walked through the door of my house each evening was always the best part of my day, every day.

“There’s no supper, we have no food,” a voice inside my wife croaked, snapping me out of my reminiscing.

Best part of my day, eh?

Is it really? I decided to take a closer look at that

Andy Prest

Laugh All YouWant statement. It’s an important question for anyone taking stock of their life choices: How do you feel when you walk through that door?

I sometimes feel a bit guilty because another great part of my day is when I leave the house in the morning, throwing on my headphones and settling in for a lovely walk to work. The guilt comes on those days when I’m about to leave and I can tell the house is moments away from catching fire due solely to the sheer heat of the insane shenanigans my two boys are getting into.

My wife looks at me with

the desperate, pleading eyes of a zebra being attacked by two young lions and all I can do is keep on walking.

It’s the circle of life.

But what about that return home? Is it really the best part of my day? Not every day is the same, so I’ve broken it down into a few general examples that every parent will recognize and every prospective parent should prepare themselves for:

The “Hi, here’s the baby”

This is a classic move that all new parents must face when they return home after a long absence.

The partner who has been home all day, covered in week-old spit and stink and fear, immediately offloads the baby and then goes to pee for the first time in 10 hours.

The partner who receives the baby should not expect to move for the next six to eight hours. Note: don’t count on getting the “hi.”

The utopia

As kids get older

parenthood gets, in theory, a little less terrifying, and sometimes it’s downright magical. Recently I came home from work and arrived at the perfect time, my four-year-old son popping up in the window just as I was heading up the walk.

“Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!

Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!”

I could hear him through various open windows as he followed me around the side of the house to our entrance, where he was joined by my two-year-old who also started joyously yelling “Daddy!”

We played a bit of basketball on their mini hoop and then came inside to find a wonderful dinner on the table. Pure familial bliss, and further proof that my wife is capable of orchestrating order out of chaos in ways that I can only dream of duplicating.

When I’m in charge of the whole operation my only hope is that I don’t burn anything too badly on the barbecue, children included.

The nuclear meltdown

Here are common thoughts upon arriving home in the middle of a meltdown: What’s going on? Who’s screaming? Why is momma locked in the closet? Where’d you get a crossbow?

On the rare instances when I’ve come home and encountered one of these nuclear explosions I always try to just cool down one of the reactors so that my wife can at least have a second to get her hazmat suit on. I worry that one day I’ll be too late and I’ll have to watch her melt away through the window like Captain Kirk watching Mr. Spock at the end of

TheWrath of Khan.

“I have been, and always shall be, your friend,” she’ll say with her dying breaths, to which I’ll reply, “Is supper ready?”

These examples are the extremes, the truth almost always landing somewhere in between. What never changes, though, is that someone will scream “Daddy!” and there will be hugs. The screams might not always be happy ones — seriously, where did that crossbow come from — but it’s the hugs that always go straight to the heart.

So yes, without a doubt: best part of my day. aprest@nsnews.com

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Water meters cut use by 25% in WV From page 5

time watering offenders.

For those who ignore those warnings, tickets range from $100 in the District of North Vancouver to $400 in West Vancouver. So far, the District of North Vancouver has sent out nearly 500 pointed reminders to homeowners. More than 80 households in West Vancouver have been given warnings.

West Vancouver also has a tool that most municipalities don’t when it comes to water regulation: water meters.

So far, water metering has been adopted in relatively few communities in the Lower Mainland, despite evidence that price influences behaviour.

The cost of retrofitting homes with meters has proved a deterrent, at least compared to Metro Vancouver’s relatively cheap bulk water rates.

West Vancouver is an exception. Prior to 2006, the affluent community with more than its share of infinity pools, hot tubs and five-bathroom homes had a reputation for being water hogs.

To make matters worse, the top one-sixth of users were consuming more than

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After water meters were installed, usage patterns changed.

Not everyone was pleased when the first metered water bills arrived. But in the nine years the meters have been in, consumption has dropped by 25 per cent, to 546 litres per capita on average.

An escalating tariff

structure means the more water used, the more expensive it becomes.

But for West Vancouver, curbing summer use is still a challenge.

While winter water use in the municipality has been pegged at about 325 litres per person per day, in June of 2014 that figure climbed to more than 600 litres per person per day.This June,

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Until recently, regulations under B.C.’s building and plumbing codes around such “grey water” systems were confusing and complex. But recent changes mean it’s much more do-able to install a separate “purple pipe” grey water system, said Schreier, which feeds into an outside storage system. “Why do we use bacteria-free water to put on plants and yards?” he said. “That’s wasting as far as I’m concerned.”

And given climate-change projections, “Now is the time to start initiating these ideas.”

Changing our behaviour makes much more sense than rushing to develop new sources of water, said Schreier — most of which (like raising the height of the Seymour Falls dam) would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and be environmentally challenging.

“We use so much water,” he said, that there’s a lot of room to make small changes that “get us out of trouble.”

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That’s a point watershed expert Hans Schreier of the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability agrees with.

“We use far too much water and we have no real water accounting,” he said.

Water hasn’t been metered so we haven’t valued it, he said. “Everything else is metered which is of value,” said Schreier — Hydro and natural gas, for instance.

So far, the District of North Vancouver has 100 homes on a pilot water meter program.The City of North Vancouver believes it’s a good idea — just too expensive to put in place on all older homes. But, says Schreier, “Sooner or later we’re going to have to do that.”

Communities that put in water meters see an average decline in use of about 30 per cent, he said. Another relatively simple fix would be requiring that all homes have low-flush toilets, he said.

That could easily account for another 30 per cent drop in water use, said Schreier.

“That’s massive.”

Beyond that, in other jurisdictions where sustained

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School hosts top junior physicists From page 1 are the next generation of exceptional physics talent,” said Greg Dick, director of educational outreach at the institute. “The ISSYP program is meant to spark their imaginations, challenge their physics knowledge, and prepare them for the pursuit of physics at the university level.”

Over the last two weeks, Mahinpei has sat through lectures from some of the world’s top minds looking at where the Newtonion understanding of physics breaks down and Einstein’s paradigm-shifting general and special relativity theory begins.

The lessons are typically followed by experiments that help them to derive physics formulas on their own.

“Normally what you do in school is teachers write the formulas and tell you the theories but here it’s more like us trying to understand the theories ourselves, very much like how the scientists themselves originally came up with these ideas,” she said.

The students have also been able to visit some of Canada’s premier destinations for physicists including the Institute for Quantum Computing and SNOLAB, a laboratory two kilometres underground for particle physics research — cosmic dark matter and supernova neutrinos. That old stuff.

It’s been a unique experience to share the

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theoretical physics.

Beyond working out the formulas that will simplify the mysteries of the universe, Mahinpei has another more applied goal — getting more girls involved in physics.

“I think one of the biggest reasons for that is a lack of confidence.

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Team Canada goes for gold North Shore sends two athletes and three coaches to Special OlympicsWorld Games in L.A.

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When asked whether he expects to return to North Vancouver with a medal strung around his neck, Special Olympics Team Canada 2015 basketball player Nick Kellof says he’s feeling pretty good about his chances.

“They had a gold rush in California state a long, long time ago and I think there’s still some left,” he laughs.

Kellof, 35, is currently in Los Angeles, Calif., for the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games, running July 25 to Aug. 2.

Special Olympics works to enrich the lives of people of all ages with intellectual disabilities through sport. Across the country, there are more than 38,000 children and adults who participate, supported by more than 17,000 volunteers.

The world games (held in similar fashion to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, alternating between winter and summer every two years), are described as the “largest sports and humanitarian event anywhere in the world in 2015” and are attracting an estimated 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coaches from 177 countries.

This year’s games will feature 25 Olympic-style sports in

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Kellof was called up to the team at the eleventh hour in light of an unfortunate injury affecting another player.

Kellof and Klein are among five North Shore residents that are members of Special Olympics Team Canada 2015, comprised of 165 athletes, mission staff and coaches from across the country.

Joining Kellof on the basketball court is Sangeon Yoo, 19.

The players made it through a number of qualifying rounds — regionals, provincials and nationals included — to make it to Team Canada.

The team is comprised of 10 players — nine males and one female — from

the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.

Joining Klein as assistant coaches on the team are Jimmy Peterson and Jayne Baggott. All are volunteers.

“It was quite an honour (and) it was very humbling,” says Klein on being chosen to be part of the team. “It’s definitely a special feeling to know that you’re one of three coaches across Canada being selected to represent your country.”

Klein, a 25-year-old North Vancouver resident, got involved with Special Olympics B.C. — North Shore at age 15 in the wake of a car accident and resulting injuries to his knees.

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Familiar with the organization, he started volunteering with their soccer program, though soon after, he recruited Peterson, his best friend, to help him launch a basketball program to both fill a gap in the local chapter’s programming as well as in light of his personal passion for the game.

“That’s just kept me in ever since. It’s my favourite sport and these are some of my favourite people and it’s just a wonderful time,” says Klein.

In addition to his volunteerism with Special Olympics, he works as a special education assistant at Lions Gate Christian Academy.

“Basically if I’m not working, I’m volunteering,” he says.

“This is my 10th year now of coaching and it’s pretty much the ultimate celebration of a decade volunteering. It’s been incredible to see all the hard work that these athletes have put in over the past few years come to fruition and now they get to show their stuff on a world stage,” he adds.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games’ opening

ceremonies were held yesterday and Team Canada’s basketball players will begin competing today.

“We’ll play our divisioning games to see where we stack up against other competition. Once we play a couple of those divisioning games, then

we’ll get our schedule and we’ll know who we’re matched up against,” says Klein.

Yoo is likewise hopeful regarding their chances of bringing home a gold medal.

“We’ve been practising three times a week . . . for nine months. . . . We play

well together, we play hard and we run hard,” he says.

The team will return home Aug. 3.

For more information on this year’s games, visit LA2015.org.

For information on Special Olympics B.C. — North Shore, visit sobcnorthshore.ca.

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CELEBRATION OF PRIDE The library invites everyone to join them in celebrating pride Friday, July 31, 2-4 p.m. at each NVDPL location: Lynn Valley, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., Capilano, 3045 Highland Blvd. and Parkgate, 3675 Banff Court.

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For years it stood, its columns forming a familiar foursided tribute to the Greek goddess Athena.

A piece of architectural folly, it may have seemed out of place nestled on the waterfront of the quaint neighbourhood of Caulfeild in West Vancouver, but many remember “The Parthenon,” as it was called, a replica (not scale) of the ancient temple of the same name (the real one is located in Athens).The Caulfeild version was mainly caught in glimpses as it came in and out of view if one drove along Marine Drive. Rumour has it the structure was built by the homeowner at the time, and he or his wife may have originally been from Greece. It was reportedly seen until the 1990s when suddenly it was no longer there.

Resident Barb Lunter doesn’t remember The Parthenon statue, but she would describe the neighbourhood of Caulfeild as having more of a British flavour than a Greek one. She compares it to the Cotswolds in England, a popular tourist destination known for its clusters of limestone cottages in a string of rural villages.

“We thought that it was just one of the most beautiful neighbourhoods in terms of feeling like you’re in the country, and yet you’re only seven minutes from Dundarave and 20 minutes from downtown, but you really get the sense that you’re far away,” says Lunter of her impression of the neighbourhood before she moved there 14 years ago.

Raised in Lynn Valley, Lunter moved to Dundarave when she got married then shuffled west to Caulfeild.

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From page 14 “It’s like the neighbourhoods that are described in the Huckleberry Finn book,” she notes, adding it’s not unusual to catch residents walking around carrying kayaks, or wearing gumboots or swim towels.

“For all the changes that have been happening in the world, this neighbourhood managed to stay like it was over a hundred years ago. It’s just the same, and it never changes and I think that’s why people love this neighbourhood.”

Her favourite memory is regularly taking her two kids to the waterfront wharf in Tiddly Cove over the years for swimming.

Originally known as Skunk Cove, Caulfeild Cove, with its inner beach stretch known as Tiddly Cove, served an early important function. Because the waterfront from Cypress Creek to Lighthouse Park is so rugged and craggy, ships entering and leaving the harbour in the early days needed a local pilot to help guide them. Pilot boats would wait in Skunk Cove to escort ships in and out. Many houses in the area are still centred around the cove, and Lunter says there’s still lots of activity coming in and out.

“There’s always something going on in the cove,” she notes.

Many property lots are considered estatesized in Caulfeild, and there are plenty of trees and green space, but driving there can be a challenge thanks to a series of winding, one-way, narrow roads. Lunter admits this can be a problem for some, but she has lived in the area long enough that navigating and parking aren’t issues for her.The homes in this area were originally built as summer cottages with plywood frames, singlepane windows, and no insulation. Lunter remembers how drafty her home was when she and her husband first moved in until the couple remodelled and later rebuilt.

Some homes in Caulfeild remain close to their original design, while others have been completely redone, but renovations are not a sure thing in this neighbourhood.

The Lower Caulfeild Advisory Committee is an extra layer of procedure homeowners must go through before getting approval for changes. Lower Caulfeild is a designated Heritage Conservation Area, for which the LCAC acts as an advisory board to the District of West Vancouver council and planning department.The committee makes recommendations to the district about permits for changes in this area.

“It’s good for the neighbourhood because it keeps our heritage feel here,” says Lunter, but admits it can be an extra hurdle for homeowners trying to make changes to their property.

Caulfeild’s loose boundaries start at Cypress Creek to the east just before Bayridge and hit water in the west just before Eagle Harbour northwest and Lighthouse

Park in the southwest.The ocean forms a natural boundary to the south, while the Upper Levels Highway acts as the northern boundary just before Cypress Park.

As with all areas of the North Shore, Caulfeild was originally the territory of the Coast Salish people, including the Squamish Nation. As European settlers moved in and areas were pre-empted, Caulfeild eventually became a destination for summer cottagers.

According to the book Cottages to Community, by Francis Mansbridge, its current name came from settler Francis Caulfeild who was originally from England and purchased a large swath of property in 1899. He then set out to develop a residential area that incorporated the surrounding natural features. His preference for following natural contours rather than the more common surveyors’ straight lines probably contributed to the neighbourhood’s current curvy maze of streets. Caulfeild returned to England in 1926 and died there in 1934, but not before donating 25 hectares for parks, as well as a site for St. Francis-in-the-Wood church.

Another early resident who recently made news again was Howard Martin, a developer who died in 1994. According to a previous North Shore News story, Martin donated 10 acres of land in 1954 to establish Caulfeild elementary with the condition that the eastern end of the property be kept as forest for the kids to play in. Martin built homes around the school in the 1960s and ’70s, and was instrumental in bringing together the owners in a process that led to the 1978 approval of the development of the Caulfeild neighbourhood. In 2014, the West Vancouver Community Foundation was a recipient of $3.6 million from Martin’s estate, as part of a $27-million endowment to four different organizations.

Although residential now, at one time Caulfeild did host some industry. In the late 1800s, the Great Northern Cannery occupied a large waterfront property in Caulfeild. It operated until the 1960s when residents pushed for its closure partly due to the associated smell and noise.The area was bought by the federal government and replaced with a Department of Fisheries and Oceans laboratory that is still there today.

Marine Drive opened in 1915, and ferry rides brought visitors over from Vancouver, but there were still only about 50 homes in the area by the 1940s. However, the population grew to 2,700 by the mid-1970s, and a new subdivision was eventually added to the Caulfeild Plateau, just north of Lower Caulfeild, where 270 acres (110 hectares) were developed, according to Mansbridge’s book.The subdivision helped boost the population, and in 1987 the Caulfeild Village Shopping Centre opened providing a local retail and commercial destination.

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SENIORS

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Reality of some results leave readers scratching their heads Our fifth annual Seniors Quiz, which ran July 12, was a big hit.

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The notion that researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago would trip seniors on purpose, tripped up — if you’ll pardon the pun — a number of readers.

Participants were strapped in safety gear and motion sensors while walking on a treadmill that occasionally skipped, training them to avoid falling. The result: a 50 per cent reduction in the fall

rate up to a year later.

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ALONG AMBLESIDE’S SPECTACULAR WATERFRONT For complete schedule of events see our Festival Guide online.

PERFORMING ARTS CINEMA IN THE PARK Experience the excitement of watching movies under the stars at Cinema in the Park, proudly sponsored by West Vancouver Optometry! John Lawson Park transforms into an outdoor cinema, showcasing a variety of films from classics to children’s films to blockbusters!

JOHN LAWSON PARK @ 9 P.M. Friday, July 31 Mamma Mia (2008) Saturday, August 1 The Princess Bride (1987) Sunday, August 2 Big Hero 6 (2014) Monday, August 3 Skyfall (2012) Tuesday, August 4 Casablanca (1942) Wednesday, August 5 Back to the Future (1985) Thursday, August 6 The Theory of Everything (2014) Friday, August 7 Dirty Dancing (1987) Saturday, August 8 The Sandlot (1993)

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Starting at 8:30 p.m., popcorn will be sold by the West Vancouver Kiwanis Club and Starbucks Coffee will be providing complimentary beverages to cinema guests.

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If there’s one thing of which you could never accuse Bertus Albertyn it would be taking himself too seriously.

Albertyn is winemaker, viticulturist and co-owner of Maverick Estate Winery, a gem of a new winery in the South Okanagan that’s impressed me from the word “go” and is already turning heads. As I tasted through his wines last week, it occurred to me that, while I’ve met more than my share of winemakers, few are as driven by such joyful passion in their work.

At just 37, Albertyn already has plenty of experience under his belt, having worked in several of the world’s major regions.

“I know just enough to get myself into a lot of trouble,” he says with a laugh.

Between several vintages, first as winemaker at Wellington Cellars and then as head viticulturist and winemaker at Avondale, a leading-edge, ecologically aware Cape producer, he worked the “off seasons” in Sonoma, Italy, Cotes du Ventoux and Northern Rhone.

Schalk de Witt, Albertyn’s father-in-law, had recognized the Okanagan’s potential, as well as many similarities to South Africa, when he first came to Canada almost a couple of decades ago. He and his wife Lynn purchased 48 acres in Osoyoos in 2005.

After Albertyn met his wife in 2007, they also decided to investigate possibilities in Canada.

“We drove through the valley and said this looks

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Notable Potables very similar to home.We tasted some of the wines and they were quite drinkable,” jokes Albertyn. (“No, there were some very good wines,” he’s quick to add.)

The couple purchased an old, neglected organic farm and spent long hours clearing the property of remains of greenhouses and old sheds, one of which was converted into a winery, just to get going.

“We planted everything from scratch,” says Albertyn.

“Luckily, because of my background we actually dug the soil and planted in about one-acre lots, with everything specifically geared to what we felt would grow here.We picked the varieties based on the soils.”

As a seasoned winemaker, Albertyn had no problem finding people interested in hiring him (such as Donald Triggs at Culmina and Burrowing Owl’s Jim Wyse) while they were getting going. Maverick Estate Winery came to fruition with about 400 cases made in 2011, growing to some 4,000 cases this year.

Ever modest, Albertyn says the reason behind his

passion for wine is simple: “I’m actually a wine drinker.

I just love wine.Winemaking is an easy way to get to drinking wine,” he jokes.

But he notes making wine is a way of life for him.

Maverick’s wines continue to impress me.

They’re some of the cleanest and well-made, value-driven drops coming out of the south valley. If you’re in the area, make sure you drop by the family’s exquisite, justcompleted tasting room.

Here’s a couple to track down locally: Maverick Estate Origin 2014 Equal parts Sauvignon Blanc and Gewurztraminer, with 10 per cent Viognier and a splash of Pinot Gris, yields citrus and floral aromas before a juicy, quite textured tropical and lime palate with mineral hints ($17, 90 points).

Maverick Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2014 More gooseberry and citrus than grassy on top; vibrant gooseberry and citrus wrapped in a broad mouthfeel, with a lengthy, gently mineral end ($19, 92 points).

Also tasted and of note: 2014 Pinot Gris (92 points); 2013 Pinot Noir (91 points); Sophia Port-style (91 points). Oh, and keep an eye out for Ella, a wicked, traditional-method Pinot Noir-Chardonnay 2013 Brut Rosé (92 points), coming in the fall.

Tim Pawsey writes about wine for numerous publications and online as the Hired Belly at hiredbelly.com. Contact: info@ hiredbelly.com.

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Marketing meets altruism in the U.K. LONDON — “No charge” . . . “It’s on the house” . . .

“Nothing to pay.”

I’ve been pleasantly surprised to hear these responses from some businesses here in one of the world’s major cities.

For example, on more than one occasion when I’ve ordered a coffee at the Prêt à Manger “natural food” chain, started in London in 1986 and with some 350 shops worldwide, my offer to pay has been waved away.

Business commentators are not sure whether this approach is more effective than the more common

Mike Grenby

Money Matters loyalty card program, which provides companies with information about their customers.

The Prêt program relies randomly on employees’

decisions from one customer to the next. But it does encourage you to return and spread the word.

On a smaller scale, a new restaurant in London’s Covent Garden, The Black Penny café, invited its investors and friends to a pre-opening lunch. Along with some other curious passers-by who happened to walk into the restaurant I was also willingly offered a complimentary meal.

(That prompted me to take

some photos for them, and do an initial TripAdvisor review so they could be listed for future reviews.)

And at the official opening a few days later, The Black Penny charged only one penny per item ordered.

Whether such strategies will spread remains to be seen. But in one sense they could reflect a welcome shift toward altruism in our predominantly dollars-andcents world.

Berkeley’s Karma

Kitchen, started in 2007 and with several locations around the world (karmakitchen.org) operates on a pay-it-forward basis.

You receive a zero bill for your meal with a note that it was paid for by a previous customer.You are then invited to pay for the next customer’s meal.

Many random acts of kindness use a similar if less structured approach.You simply give a restaurant (or other business) money to

cover another customer’s purchase.

I’m sure we could all profit if this unconditional attitude became more prevalent. As Gandhi said: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mike Grenby is a columnist and independent personal financial advisor; he’ll answer questions in this column as space allows but cannot reply personally. Email mike.grenby@gmail.com

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

VARIOUS VOLUNTEER POSITIONS North Vancouver will welcome up to 4,000 participants in 24 different sports for the 55+ B.C. Games to be held Aug. 25-29. Participants will engage in everything from archery to whist.Volunteer positions include: hosting at opening and closing ceremonies, games village, sporting events, medals, accreditation and results, transportation (driving), marshalling, lost and found, food concessions, warehouse and more.

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A variety of time schedules are available including weekends, evenings and daytime opportunities.

Volunteer members of the auxiliary to Lions Gate Hospital assist in the hospital, Evergreen House residential care facility and in the off-site auxiliary thrift shop. Opportunities are available for adults and students after completion of high school graduation.

If you are interested in these or other possible volunteer opportunities, call 604-9857138.The society is a partner agency of the UnitedWay.

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Lessons in courage from an aging canine friend My shepherd Zumi is closing in on her 13th year and as I look into her aging, weary-looking eyes, I wonder to myself if I gave her the best life she could have.

I never imagined her looking so tired. She had always been full of piss and vinegar, eager to fearlessly take on whatever was presented to her. But now her legs are weak, her hearing is challenged and her enthusiasm for chasing anything is weighed against the effort of having to lift her arthritic bones off the comfy bed.

It breaks my heart, but she doesn’t seem bothered by it, accepting her senior years with as much grace as she can.

She still tries to put on a good show when the dastardly squirrel runs along the power lines, but she tires quickly and the squirrel knows this. He now taunts her, flicking

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Canine Connection his tail and chirping a few feet away, knowing full well she can no longer move as quickly as she used to.

She now just gives one last bark, lays down and watches the furry bugger watching her. In essence, she has learned to turn the other cheek, something she would have never considered doing as a youngster. She was always the one to make sure her voice was the last one heard, her presence the last

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one felt and her menacing “I dare you” stare the last thing seen.

I have learned so much from her about dog behaviour and myself. She has by far been the most challenging of dogs I have had in my life and the most loyal, at times to a fault, putting herself in harm’s way for my safety. She was always an honest dog that played by the rules, but she played with her whole heart.

I love her.

I miss her.

Even though she is still here with me, I miss the tough-as-nails, believe-inyourself-and-expect-thebest, four-legged cowgirl she was. She still is that cowgirl in a way, but she chooses her battles more carefully now. Much like me, I guess.

She enters conflict only after great consideration no longer with the intention of winning, but rather after ruminating whether the battle is worth the pain of the fight, or if there is a more peaceful way of settling the conflict. If not, then she just walks away.

Peace is achieved through tolerance rather than physical conflict.

When physical strength no longer reigns then intuition does.

We have been soul sisters, Zumi and I. She openly and eagerly expressed anger and frustration that I never could. She never held back to tell someone (dog) off for crossing the line, when I did.

She never looked back in regret on her choices to speak up, yet I often looked back in regret for not speaking up.

No dog ever took advantage of Zumi. They never even tried. She was unabashedly confident with a “you mess with me and you are in for a whole lot of hurt” attitude that I did not have.

I envied her, until I found the courage to be her.

From her, I’ve learned to be unafraid to speak up. Whether she (or I) was right or wrong didn’t matter. What did matter was that I had a voice and an opinion that was worthy of expressing, simply because it was an opinion.

She taught me the true meaning of freedom of expression.

It’s a freedom that has nothing to do with my “right” to express myself, but the freedom of the soul when I am heard, when I don’t hold back and bottle up emotions and thoughts to the point where they become ugly, resentful bitterness inside.

As I have said, Zumi is almost 13. That is almost 90 years old in human years. For a 90-year-old dog, she does not have a stitch of grey hair on her.

She is still as black as coal.

Outside of her weary eyes and her arthritic walk she doesn’t look older than a dog of five. There is a lesson in aging gracefully in this as well.

Zumi has lived fully. She has lived openly and she has lived with no regrets.

She has lived a good life.

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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The West Vancouver branch of the B.C. SPCA has cancelled its dog wash fundraiser scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 16 due to the current water restrictions.

Pending rain and the lifting of water restrictions, the shelter hopes to reschedule the dog wash in the fall, date to be announced.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

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Little League squad first North Shore team to win 9/10 provincial title ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

An all-star team from North Vancouver’s Highlands Little League

won the provincial 9/10 championships in emphatic fashion Sunday, scoring a 12-1 win over Hastings in the final held at Vancouver’s

Carnarvon Park.

Pitcher Anthony Setticasi shut down the talented Vancouver squad in the final, allowing just a solo home run, while the

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watch them celebrate and be rewarded for their hard work.”

It was a sweet victory for the whole team but in particular the core four of Mackenzie Lake, Gabe Nelson, Sam Aslanowicz, and Setticasi, team leaders

Highlands offence came alive to secure the mercy rule win. Setticasi struck out the final batter he faced, setting off a wild celebration.

“I was very proud,” said head coach Steve Lake.

“They had worked very hard for this and it was a very special moment to

See Players page 22

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Players avenge loss in last year’s provincial final From page 21

who all suited up for the Highlands team that lost to Hastings in last year’s provincial final.

“Last year we endured the opposite effect when we were in the final in Trail,” said Lake. “The boys knew what was at stake, they knew they didn’t want to have that feeling again.”

The win was the first provincial title for a Highlands team at any age level and the first time a team from District 5 (North Shore) has won a 9/10 provincial championship, according to district officials. The victory, however, seemed a long way away at the start of the tournament after Highlands — considered one of the favourites — lost their opening game 5-3 against Hastings.

“After that game I talked to the boys and discussed that this is part of baseball, that’s why it’s a long tournament,” said Lake. “We came out the next day and played a good, fundamental game, didn’t make any mistakes, and pretty much built from that. Every game I thought the boys got better and better and better and better.”

The Highlands squad was really flying by the end of the tournament, making the final with an 11-0 win over Little Mountain in

the semifinals.

The four championship veterans were the driving force, said Lake, adding that they all pitched for team and played the key defensive positions when they weren’t on the mound.

“They really set the tone for the other kids,” he said. “They really stepped up and led this team right through the districts and provincials in every aspect — hitting, pitching, fielding. They were my leaders all the way through and without them and without their leadership and their play, I don’t know if the boys would have been able to push through the provincials.”

That’s the end of the road for this team as there are no national championships for this age group, but Lake said he’s hoping to make a splash at the Majors level (12 and under) next year when North Vancouver will host the provincial championships and Hastings will host nationals.

“Hopefully we’ll be around until mid-August playing baseball, instead of early or mid-July,” he said with a laugh.

For now though the team is happy to revel in this year’s well-earned victory.

“Something like this takes a lot of effort along the way.You don’t just get

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Sunday, July 26, 2015 - North Shore News - A23

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North Van man wins crazy Red Bull climb ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

Brandon Crichton is climbing fast in the world of extreme racing.Very fast.

The North Vancouver resident, a former professional cyclist who now works in real estate, won the Red Bull 400 race held July 19 at Whistler Olympic Park. Dubbed the “steepest 400-metre race in the world,” the event involved two sprints — one qualification heat and one final — 400 metres straight up Olympic Park’s ski jump and landing area.

Crichton ran the fastest time in the heats, four minutes and seven seconds, and then outraced Shaun Stephens-Whale in the 40-man final, clocking a time of 3:53. Red Bull officials told Crichton it was the fastest time ever recorded in a Red Bull 400 during the four years that they’ve been held at similar locations around the world.

So how did he prepare himself for the world’s steepest 400-m race?

“You can’t really train for something like this.

When do you get a chance to run on a 45-degree slope?” Crichton said with a laugh when the North Shore News caught up with him after the race.

“But we’re lucky enough here in North Van to have arguably the best terrain to potentially train for something like that. We’ve got the Grouse Grind right

here in our backyard.”

Crichton said he hit the Grind hard in the weeks and months leading up to the Red Bull 400 to work on his climbing skills and stamina. He also entered the O2X Summit Challenge, a technical and rugged 8.8 kilometre trail race, with 840 m elevation gain, held on Grouse Mountain July 11. Crichton said that was his first ever running race. Naturally, he won it too.

“That kind of gave me a little bit of confidence,” he said. While the O2X Summit Challenge was a unique trail race, the Red Bull 400 was a very different animal.

“They didn’t let you pre-walk any of this stuff.

You really just show up, you stare at this big behemoth mountain and you’re like, ‘Crap, I’ve got to run up this. What’s the plan?’” said Crichton.

The race started at the bottom of the grass and dirt landing area under the ski jump and climbed from there, ending up on a custom-made wooden plank laid over top of the actual ski jump.

“Little baby steps, and you’ve got to pick your line,” Crichton said about how he attacked the hill.

“You’re constantly looking at where the best foothold is….You definitely have to worry (about falling backwards). A lot of people were using their hands in the dirt. I found that leaning forward and

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It was such a weird experience.”

In the final Crichton reached the final wooden climb first but StephensWhale reeled him in with 50 metres to go, setting up a classic duel to the finish.

“The fans were insane on the final run,” said Crichton. “There were probably 100 people up

there on the little ski jump bleachers, hanging over the rail and screaming. It felt like the Tour de France when they’re climbing some of the mountain passes….

As soon as I felt him alongside me and heard the crowd roar, it gave me this extra gas and I just kind of opened up a little gap.”

Crichton said he collapsed in a big pile of pillows, kindly provided by

event organizers, as soon as he crossed the finish line.

“It’s unbelievable, like a total out-of-body experience,” he said.

“The effort you put out, you’re dizzy, you don’t see anything. I curled up in a ball and stayed there for a minute or two.”

The win earned Crichton and women’s winner Zoe Dawson of Squamish a trip to Spain in

November for a showdown against six other Red Bull 400 champions from other events held this year.

They’ll all go head-tohead at a “secret location,” according to event organizers.

“I would imagine they’re going to heli us in to some weird location,” said Crichton with a laugh.

“Sounds very Red Bullish.”

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