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North Shore Recycling Program closing

One-time pioneering program to be phased out by year’s end JUSTIN BEDDALL newsroom@nsnews.com

The tri-municipal agency that pioneered curbside recycling on the North Shore and delivered a variety of innovative sustainability-focused

outreach programs – from backyard vegetable gardens to compost coaching – is being phased out.

North Shore Recycling Program, which began in 1990, will close at the end of 2015, leaving individual

municipalities to work directly with residents on questions or issues related to recycling, composting or waste reduction.

“The North Shore Recycling Program was conceived 25 years ago when residential recycling was a brand new concept,” NSRP’s acting manager Kathleen O’Malley said in a statement. “This upcoming transition to individual

municipal responsibility really reflects the changing landscape in waste reduction and recycling.”

Steve Ono, District of North Vancouver’s manager of engineering services, said several stewardship programs and regulations have been introduced in recent years that have helped to transform waste reduction and make recycling

mainstream, causing the municipality to revisit how it manages recycling.

“We’ve got to fine-tune our efforts to suit each individual municipality,” he said.

Ono noted that all three North Shore municipalities will continue to work together, sharing a tri-municipal recycling collection contract and operation of the drop-off

depot on Riverside Drive.

And while North Shore residents shouldn’t expect to see any change in curbside recycling collection, outreach and educational programs may differ.

“They may see different emphasis put on the different areas of outreach depending on what each See Recycling page 9

Prized butterflies donated to museum JUSTIN BEDDALL newsroom@nsnews.com

His butterfly collection is rare, immaculate, and decades in the making.

“They are morpho from Brazil,” explained George Paclawsky, 90, as he pulled out a tray containing 25 perfectly preserved butterflies with brightly coloured, intricately patterned wings.

It’s just a sample of his magnificent collection, which contains 600-plus specimens, mostly from South America.

Born in the Ukraine, Paclawsky moved to Argentina to work in 1946, shortly after the Second World War, when he was 21.

There, he fell in love with a beautiful young woman named Vera who became his wife. In South See A few page 21

George Paclawsky displays one tray from his expansive rare butterfly collection that he has donated to the University of Calgary’s Museum of Zoology.

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PHOTOS JULIE BERTRAND, teacher Ross Road elementary

When the artists performed everyone got out their phones, turned on the flash light and waved them in the air.

It looked like the stadium was filled up with stars. It all looked awesome with the bright colours, the amazing music, and everyone singing along!

Kiyana Salmi, centre of photo at left, Grade 6, Braemar elementary, photo supplied by Kiyani

We plan to make a difference in our community any way possible whether it’s just being kind to one another or being part of a greater idea.

Emily Bourgault Kennaley and her older sister Gabrielle meet with Craig Kielburger.We asked students to send us their impressions of the event, see some of them at left. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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Gracie Ivany and Conor O’Neill, Grade 7, Ross Road elementary In years to come I will probably look back at this experience and think about how it impacted me. WE Day shows you that you don’t need to be in a classroom to learn something important.

WE Day event has various performers and speakers, and plenty of inspiration

Sierra Haziza, Chartwell elementary

EMILY BOURGAULT KENNALEY contributing writer

I think the idea is great; it gets issues talked about. However, I feel it has turned too commercial. I feel as though I was more excited to see which celebrity had associated themselves with the organization than what I could be inspired to do.

As a Grade 12 student, I feel like I want to make my own voice heard and not be another student just selling supplies WE Day gave me. Perhaps that is what I learned: that I don’t need to be told what to get involved with, I just need to be involved.

Katie Little, Grade 12, Handsworth secondary The day began with a sea of yellow school buses descending upon Rogers Arena. It was an exciting sensory experience. The energy could not only be heard but felt.

Chas Huskilson, Grade 7, Ecole Cedardale As soon as I walked into the arena, I could hear the buzz. Everyone’s WE Day shirt had created a luminous rainbow throughout the stadium and excitement was everywhere.

Shyree Mehta, Grade 7, Westcot elementary As I walked through the entrance the feeling of inclusion and inspiration was all there to be felt, and I grasped onto those feelings because they were powerful. As I listened to the speakers tell their stories, it unlocked a part of me that would have remained a mystery otherwise. It unlocked my need to pass my dreams on to others who need them more than me.

Polly Campbell, Ridgeview elementary

When I woke up on Oct. 21, I jumped out of bed and hurried up to get ready for my day.

This was a day that I had been looking forward to with so much anticipation, today was WE Day and I was going as a journalist!

As soon as I arrived outside the gates of Rogers Arena there were already hundreds of smiling and very excited teenagers lined up to get inside. I could not wait to get inside too. Once through the doors, there were even more excited kids everywhere. I could hear music coming from inside the arena. I did not want to miss a thing so I hurried to get to my seat. Of course I panicked for nothing, the show had not started without me, phew!

At 9:30 a.m. the lights in the arena went out, the lights on the stage went on, and the buzzing sound of kids talking instantly stopped and the performances began.

When organizers Craig and Marc Kielburger jumped up onto the stage, they gave such an inspirational speech.

Throughout the day I continued to hear and watch life-changing performances from pop artists to inspirational speakers.

It was exhilarating.

A highlight of my day happened when not only did I get to be part of a press conference, but I got to ask Chris Hadfield and Jacob Hoggard of Hedley the first question. I was so nervous.

I asked them what causes they were passionate about when they were kids and what they did about it.

Chris shared his experience of living on a farm and growing up in a small community. He was raised to be a contributing citizen of his farm community. He praised Craig and Marc for taking the idea of a little farm and trying to be good citizens and extending it to a global scale and said that everyone should get involved. Jacob responded that WE Day has created such a great

network, a place where kids can now go to learn what they want to do, how they want to contribute and how they want to help, which was not something that was available to him when he was a kid.

Now by far the coolest and most exciting part of my day was when I had the unbelievable opportunity to interview Craig Kielburger. Although I had spent a week researching and preparing my questions for this moment, the butterflies in my stomach returned.

Craig talked to me about working with communities around the world with values that are very different from our own, such as some communities that don’t send girls to school. They cannot force them to send their girls to school, but by helping them with training and financial resources to build schools, put a water source at the schools, and give children lunches at the schools they can influence communities to choose to send their girls to school.

I loved my meeting with Craig. He is so dynamic, charismatic, kind, fun and so real. But what struck me the most is his immense happiness in helping others and sharing his passion to help others with all of us.

He left me with some advice: “In life be creative, have grit, perseverance and resilience. Change is not always made by the smartest, richest or most famous, it is made by the people who want it the most and will work the most for it and are determined and the most perseverant.”

The whole WE Day experience for me was awe-inspiring.

I keep hearing adults say that it is my generation that is going to make the change, but the truth is the world needs our help now so why wait? I encourage the busy adults in our community to join the WE Day movement. No matter how big or small our contributions, it all counts and it all matters!

Emily Bourgault Kennaley is a Grade 6 student at Collingwood School. She attended the WE Day event as a special reporter for the North Shore News.

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area Service

Council initiative to undertake a local area service—Business Improvement Area Public Notice is hereby given pursuant to section 213 of the Community Charter that the District of West Vancouver Council proposes to undertake a local area service on its own initiative, specifically the Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area Service.

What is the Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area? A Business Improvement Area (BIA) is a defined commercial area, where local business and property owners work together to promote the area to increase customer traffic, and undertake a broad range of programs, including: area branding, marketing, physical improvements, promotional events, commercial tenant recruitment and advocacy on behalf of the business community. A BIA is managed by a not-for-profit society and its operations are primarily funded through a special tax levy on all commercial properties within its boundaries. This is a self-funding mechanism in that 100 per cent of the levy collected by the local government is granted to the BIA to fund its own programs.

The Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area Service is the provision of grants to the Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Association (the Association) for the planning and implementation of a business promotion scheme as defined in Section 215(1) of the Community Charter. The Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area Service includes the development and undertaking of projects and initiatives to encourage business in the Ambleside and Dundarave commercial districts.

Boundaries of the service area (commercial properties subject to the annual BIA levy): The boundaries of the Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement

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Proposed Method of Cost Recovery: For the purpose of recovering the monies granted to the Association, in any year, the District will impose a property value tax on land or improvements (or both where both are present) in the Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area that fall within the Class 6 (Business and Other) property classification under the Assessment Act, sufficient to yield the full amount of the grant in each calendar year.

Opportunity to Petition Against: Council may proceed with the adoption of the proposed Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area Service Bylaw No. 4847, 2015, unless a sufficient petition or petitions against the service are presented in writing to the Manager, Legislative Services/Municipal Clerk, District of West Vancouver Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3, on or before 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 2015. The petition may be in the form of a letter or petition that clearly states the opposition to the bylaw, the address and/or legal description of the property within the Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area, the names of all owners of the property, and must be signed by the majority of the property owners for each property. If a sufficient petition or petitions against the service are not received within the required time period, it is the intent of the District of West Vancouver Council to consider adoption of the proposed Ambleside-Dundarave Business Improvement Area Service Bylaw No. 4847, 2015 at its December 14, 2015 regular meeting.

The proposed bylaw and report received by Council at its October 5, 2015 regular meeting are available for viewing: on the District’s website at westvancouver.ca; at Municipal Hall at 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC on regular business days (Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; and at the West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver BC.

Enquiries: Manager of Community Planning at 604-925-7056 S. Scholes Manager of Legislative Services/Municipal Clerk, October 26, 2015

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NEB to release oil spill response evaluation Board will make public the results of this week’s Kinder Morgan marine exercise JENNIFER MOREAU contributing writer

It was all-hands on deck Thursday morning, as Kinder Morgan staff and marine crews simulated an oil spill cleanup under the watchful eyes of the National Energy Board.

The scene was part of an NEB-mandated drill the company conducts every three years, but for the first time, the board will make the evaluation results public.

“We just believe we need to be more transparent when we go forward,” said NEB chair Peter Watson. “People need to see what we do in our life cycle of regulatory oversight, that was one of the things I heard over and over again when I travelled across the country last year.”

Watson couldn’t speak to Kinder Morgan’s track record from past drills, however, as he didn’t have that information on hand.

(Check back for updates.)

“While we evaluate them, and we will also be clear about the areas

they’ve done well on and the areas we think they need to improve upon, the purpose is really for them to improve, and for them to bring the learnings back into their emergency management program,” Watson said.

The evaluation results should be ready in December.

In the wake of criticism from the public and politicians, the NEB is now posting more information online.

“So this is just another step in helping the public understand what’s happening through our regulatory oversight and what we’re finding, so they can come to their own conclusions and they can also ask the tough question to us,” Watson said.

Kinder Morgan’s drill scenario did not involve releasing any substances on the water, but crews responded as if roughly 1,000 barrels of oil spilled from the loading dock at the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby.

The response included circling the area with an extra containment boom and calling in Western Canada Marine Response Corp., which arrived with three vessels and an extra containment boom.

Meanwhile, back at the Executive Plaza Hotel on North Road, Kinder Morgan set up an incident

command post that was buzzing with staff from a wide variety of agencies and organizations, including Western Canada Marine Response Corporation, the NEB and the Coast Guard.

The City of Burnaby was invited but declined to participate, according to Mike Davies, Kinder Morgan’s senior director of marine development.

“We’ve been inviting them since last May,” he said. “We’d prefer if they could come. It’s a great opportunity to practise co-ordination and communication.”

As part of the emergency response, Kinder Morgan would contact the public

Canadian Coast Guard and oil spill response vessels attend Kinder Morgan Canada’s emergency exercise on Burrard Inlet Thursday. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH and the City of Burnaby as soon as possible.

Jennifer Moreau is a reporter with the Burnaby Now, a sister paper of the North Shore News.

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Breaking the habit W hen it comes to thefts from autos, the North Shore has become a bull’s-eye for car thieves in recent months.

Since July, there have been nearly 700 instances of criminals helping themselves to iPhones, wallets, sunglasses – anything that isn’t welded down – from vehicles.

And for the most part, we have only ourselves to blame.

Despite news reports about the break-ins, and repeated warnings from police, North Shore residents aren’t changing their bad habits, believing their neighbourhoods won’t be targeted. But from quiet leafy streets in Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay, thieves continue to find easy pickings in unlocked vehicles with valuables left in sight.

It’s become such an epidemic that police held a news conference this week

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reminding the public to essentially grab a brain. To restate the obvious: theft from autos is a crime of opportunity. Police say the thefts can occur in less than a minute and usually take place between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Police noted one car thief told them when he found a string of cars with no valuables obvious, he’d immediately move on to the next neighbourhood.

The tips are painfully obvious, but so many residents are ignoring common sense that they need to be underlined: lock your vehicle and remove valuables and electronics. Sure, it’s easy to let your guard down living in low-crime communities.

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Continue to leave shiny gadgets and cash in vehicles, and the cycle will selfperpetuate. As we should have learned by now, there’s a difference between feeling safe and being stupid.

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High housing costs tied to traffic woes

Dear Editor: Re: New Lynn Creek Bridge Key to Cut Traffic, Oct. 25 front-page story I think Mayor Richard Walton’s comments in reducing traffic on Highway 1 (Upper Levels) by pursuing other means of commuting is very simplistic. As a long- (and I mean long) term resident of the North Shore I have witnessed the explosive growth of traffic coming over the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing heading west during the morning

through to Taylor Way where it tends to lessen and then reverse itself in the afternoon with backups eastbound frequently to Westview.

I suspect the high volume of construction activities is drawing trades and suppliers from outside the North Shore and the Sea to Sky Corridor.

Ferry traffic arriving at Horseshoe Bay also contributes to a major bulge of traffic heading eastbound from about 3 p.m. onward.

The cost of housing on the North Shore

makes it prohibitive for many of the tradespeople to reside here and this factor can and will only become greater in the future.

Therefore, I think experts need to undertake a study to determine the origination and destination of the traffic to better identify proactive measures necessary to facilitate growth that surely will continue at the current pace for the foreseeable future.

Don Weber West Vancouver

Murray McLauchlan a treasured Canadian music icon

Dear Editor: I attended the Sunday evening performance of Murray McLauchlan on Oct. 25; it was a delightful few hours. I was only aware he was a Canadian singer of many decades and wasn’t familiar with his songs. I expected simply to listen to one song after the other; the show was so much more.

Mr. McLauchlan could do stand-up comedy with his sardonic twist to many of the anecdotes he told prior to another of his songs. There were many occasions where the laughter of the audience was a fun aspect of the evening

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His expertise on his guitar was superb with varying strumming styles and accompaniment with a harmonica as well. Much to my surprise he also used a grand piano for numerous songs with a pleasing command of the keyboard.

He presented one of his songs for a proposed musical of his composition with his versatile voice projecting as if in the musical already – for me, a highlight of the show. Accompanied only by one other musician, Victor Bateman, playing a very stripped-down double bass with only

steel structure for the strings. The two blended sounds seamlessly.

Following the show, it was gracious of Mr. McLauchlan to spend some time in the lobby to speak to some who were delighted to have his latest CD, “human writes,” signed. I was among those happy to compliment him on the show.

In Canada there is a wealth of excellent singers, composers and musicians. Murray McLauchlan is indeed a treasure in our country and proved why in the show on Sunday evening.

Wendy Alden North Vancouver

“ It destroyed my career politically and nearly destroyed my family’s entire life.”

Former West Vancouver MP Blair Wilson speaking about a Province article at the centre of a defamation suit (from an Oct. 30 news story).

“He fell and he wasn’t seen again.” North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks describing how a 60-year-old hiker fell down a gully on the Grouse Grind (from an Oct. 30 news story).

“For me, this change means 140 hours more per year spent on a bus.”

West Vancouver resident Stephen Price reacting to the possibility of a direct bus from Dundarave to UBC being cancelled (from an Oct. 28 news story).

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Meat: a worthwhile pain in the butt

This week you have to wonder if the outgoing Conservative government was really on to something with that whole muzzling of scientists thing.

How else to explain the fact that, one week after the party was swept out of power, news came down from World Health Organization researchers that processed meats such as deli meats, sausages and bacon definitely can cause colorectal cancer? On top of that, the scientists also said that all red meats – beef, pork, lamb, Chuck Norris – probably cause cancer as well.

These scientific facts differed from the commonly held, evidence-based belief amongst the general population that anyone who touches our bacon is at a greater risk of getting stabbed in the neck with a fork.

Now I’m starting to understand why some politicians choose to ignore facts and instead go with their “gut.” What good are facts when they don’t align with your lifestyle choices?

My gut tells me that it freaking loves bacon.

At least I think that’s what my gut tells me. I don’t really know – I don’t speak gurgle. I suppose my gut could be saying “I have cancer.”

Scientists, however, claim they do speak fluent gurgle, and as a result, this

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Laugh All YouWant disturbing bacon-hater conclusion has bubbled to the surface. They seem to be presenting a clear choice: You can eat your favourite meats and maybe you’ll get cancer. Or you can stop eating meat and maybe you’ll live long enough to open a yoga studio, buy a Volvo wagon and drive it off a cliff. By accident, maybe.

What a mess. This never would have happened if Stephen Harper were still alive. Is it too late to call up the Conservatives to see if they’ve got any of their old muzzles lying around?

No doubt the Department of Fisheries and Oceans packed up a huge crate-full and shipped them back to Conservative HQ. DFO muzzles shouldn’t be too hard to pick out – you’ll know them by the smell. It’s kind of a combination of kelp and rage.

Speaking of smell, I don’t know if anyone is too surprised that deli meats and sausages could potentially

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be bad for your health.

Nobody starts a health kick by unwrapping a big old coil of farmer’s sausage. Except for, maybe, a farmer.

And deep down inside we all knew bacon was bad for you. It’s kind of a giveaway when you cook a food and then after you’re done you need to pour the leftover juice into a tin can and freeze it instead of pouring it down the drain because it will harden in the sewer pipes and clog them shut.

Who could have predicted that such a food could kill you? Everybody, that’s who.

But steak? Really? Filet mignon?

Let’s take a closer look at the cow. From what I can recall from 10th grade biology, Darwin’s theory of evolution champions survival of the fittest. No one, however, would ever accuse a cow of being fit. Big, slow, loud clanging bell: for hungry predators, a cow is basically a mobile Arby’s. So how did cows survive? They were so incredibly delicious that humans decided to guard and protect them, showing great restraint by

not immediately turning all of them into kebobs.

If you’re more into “facts” than facts, we can break it down creationist style as well. Six thousand years ago, when God was building all the animals in the Play-Doh Fun Factory, why would God roll out an animal called a cow whose meat is the most delicious thing in the world, then make this animal incredibly slow and stupid so that there is no problem catching it and eating it, and then arm this wonderful, beautiful heat-‘n’-eat beast with a bunch of cancer bombs?

You’d have to think that God would have been too busy for such devious shenanigans, what with all the time God had to spend scattering fake fossils around the world.

Alas, the scientists have spoken, and meat may be our undoing. For me, the old saying “pick your poison” comes to mind. In terms of things that could kill me, I’d rather go with beef than, say, crack. No one is breaking into cars and stealing loose change from

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Oh yoga pants: you’ve always covered our butts in style.

The Globe also printed a guest column from the executive director of Colon Cancer Canada who said the most important thing by far out of all of this is reminding people to get early screening.

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Health columnist André Picard made the bold journalistic decision to actually read the study he was reporting on, and he unearthed this bit of data that puts the discovery into perspective: 66 out of every 1,000 people who eat a lot of red meat or processed meat will develop colorectal cancer in their lifetime; but 56 out of every 1,000 who eat very little meat will also develop colorectal cancer.

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Ambleside waterfront concept plan unveiled

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How does snacking on fish and chips from a seaside bistro at Ambleside sound?

Or going for a stroll or bicycle ride for blocks along a continuous scenic path with places along the way to stop in distinctly themed Ambleside waterfront zones: heritage, kids, green, arts and marine.

After chipping away at it for 40 years West Vancouver district planners are ready to unveil the Ambleside Waterfront Concept Plan to the public, after receiving unanimous council approval on Wednesday.

“I think this is very exciting, an integrated vision for the waterfront will really enhance West Vancouver residents’ quality of life,” said West Vancouver director of planning Jim Bailey.

West Vancouver has taken a piecemeal approach to opening up the waterfront since 1975 when a policy with that mandate was formalized.

Consecutive councils

stayed the course and to date have secured 30 out of a desired 32 private waterfront properties along Argyle Avenue between 13th and 18th streets for future public use. At the same time council adopted strategies in areas of arts and culture, shoreline protection and streetscapes, to name but three, to integrate into the overall plan.

Now there is a clearly defined vision for those six waterfront blocks in Ambleside. Improving connectivity for pedestrians coming from the commercial area to the waterfront is a key component of the plan.

“I do hear from people ... they really feel that they only need one car and are starting to walk about in a 5, 10, 15-block area,” said Coun.

Bill Soprovich.

Soprovich’s concern with the waterfront plan is the removal of parking on Argyle to make way for the Spirit Trail, which he doesn’t think is significant enough in length to justify losing those parking spots.

Bailey said they would be looking at phasing the removal of parking on Argyle and finding alternative places for people to park, including a proposed underground parkade at 13th Street below

the existing tennis courts.

Coun. Christine Cassidy called for a parking strategy that would help offset the cost of the Ambleside redevelopment. “You only have to ask the City of Vancouver how much money they are making off of their parking in their parks,” said Cassidy, adding she has learned White Rock’s waterfront parking revenues are close to $2 million.

Soprovich expressed apprehension about this size of any future buildings along the Ambleside waterfront.

There could be one or two new buildings, in and around the Ferry Building Gallery, that would be small in stature and keeping with the scale of existing buildings, one or two storeys, explained Bailey.

Soprovich also broached the question on many meeting attendees’ minds: “Did you have a consulting process with Hollyburn Sailing Club?”

Bailey said he has walked the sailing club site with the commodore to better understand their needs. “The Hollyburn Sailing Club to be clear is a valued, important part of this waterfront and we’ll be working with them as we move forward,” said Bailey.

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The intention for the sailing club, said Bailey, is to have non-motorized boats, with plans for the new facility to include a bistro and public facilities.

Cassidy said she was pleased to see waterfront plans that include preserving a knoll west of the Ferry Building, adding there was a 3,500-signature petition to save the green space.

During question period West Vancouver resident Scenery Slater sparked a later debate with her plea to council about keeping the proposed Centre for Art, Architecture and Design, for which council has given conditional approval for the

John Lawson Park parking lot site, as part of the waterfront consultation. “To consult on this separately when so much of this waterfront plan is arts based doesn’t make sense,” said Slater.

Fielding the CAAD question, West Vancouver CAO Nina Leemhuis said the proposed centre, which is to be privately funded, has been talked about a lot but in isolation of any arts and culture strategy for the waterfront because more clarity is needed.

Council was divided on including CAAD as part of the public consultation for the Ambleside concept plan.

“To involve it now with

the waterfront plan I think is wrong, it’s an entirely separate consideration,” said Soprovich. Cassidy disagreed, saying “It’s again what’s been happening in this community which is … the horse is always coming after the cart.”

Mayor Michael Smith talked about Ambleside waterfront achievements to date, including upgrades to the John Lawson Park playground. “And what we are talking about tonight is taking the good work from the past and adding more good work in the future to something where we have a complete plan for our waterfront,” said Smith.

Accused kidnapper released on bail A 21-year-old Richmond man charged with kidnapping Peng Sun, a young man later found dead in North Vancouver Sept. 29, has been released on $25,000 bail.

Casey James Hiscoe was released following a bail hearing in North Vancouver provincial court Thursday.

Hiscoe must abide by conditions including living with his mother in Richmond, obeying a house arrest curfew, handing over

his passport to authorities and having no contact with three men who are coaccused in the case.

Another man, Tianyi Zhang, 23, has been charged in the first-degree murder of Sun in North Vancouver Sept. 28. Zhang remains in custody and is expected to apply for bail in B.C. Supreme Court in November.

Two other men – Dyllan James Green, 20, and Jacob Michael Gorelik,18, both of

Richmond – have also been charged with interfering with a body in connection with the case and have been released on $5,000 bail.

Conditions for them include an 11 p.m. curfew and orders not to communicate with any of the co-accused.

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Recycling program a community-building catalyst From page 1 municipality decides is their priority,” said Ono. Ono, a long-time North Vancouver resident and municipal employee, is well aware of the positive legacy NSRP leaves behind.

“Really successful, the Blue Box program – things like that stand out. Just knowing where to go any time you had a question about where you could take something or put something to get it properly recycled you always had that one-stop shop – you go to the North Shore Recycling depot or go to their website to get the answers,” he said. “The program has been very successful over the years and it’s got a lot of name recognition.”

O’Malley said most of NSRP’s employees will be repositioned to one of three partner municipalities.

The annual administrative and outreach cost for NSRP was $740,000, which included salaries, programs and administration of the recycling collection contract.

Overall, the cost of the recycling contract, operating the drop-off

“I think what will be missed is this one-stop shop ... a place you could go or phone and talk to people who kind of know everything about everything,” says Liz Leboe of the pending closure of North Shore Recycling. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD depot, administrative and outreach cost $5.8 million annually and was shared between the three municipalities.

Elizabeth Leboe, who worked at NSRP from 2006

to 2013 and volunteered for the Natural Garden Tours from 1999-2006, described the agency as a communitybuilding catalyst on the North Shore.

She noted that NSRP

delivered a variety of programs and green initiatives on the North Shore over the years, from GardenSmart workshops and garden tours to rolling out the Green Bin organics

collection and supporting the North Shore Black Bear Society to reduce humanbear conflicts.

“All the municipal services are going to continue, they are still

going to be collecting the stuff people put at the curb that they don’t want anymore, dealing with that responsibly. I think what will be missed is this one-stop shop ... a place you could go or phone and talk to people who kind of know everything about everything.”

Those questions, Leboe explained, could range from recycling and garbage collection to “what do I do with this weird stuff I found in my grandfather’s basement when we were cleaning out his house that looks like an unexploded bomb?”

Christine Miller, education co-ordinator for the North Shore Black Bear Society, said the two groups worked closely together over the years.

“They helped people develop practices to build a more sustainable future and always provided guidance on how to prevent wildlife conflict with their outreach on garbage collection, the Green Can program and backyard composting,” she wrote in a note.

“We will miss the visibility of the NSRP, and we will miss the opportunities to work so closely with their amazing staff.”

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Claudette Barclay and Vivien Bridger The Capilano Grandmothers to Grandmothers’ annual Bridge to Africa event was held Oct. 21. The bridge luncheon and silent auction raises funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which works with community-level organizations aiming to turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa by providing care and support to women, orphaned children, grandmothers and people living with HIV and AIDS, through its Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign. grandmotherscampaign.org

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The Movement — One Man Joins an Uprising: Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports will present a screening of the film and an information session on their organization Friday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m. at Capilano University’s BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets ($15/$10), visit vass.ca.

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Quite often when Tom Mooney meets someone new, he’ll ask them whether they ski or snowboard.

The longtime Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports (VASS) instructor and current board member is always on the look out for new people to get involved with the organization. “Either they ski or they snowboard or they don’t. If they don’t, we can talk about something else,” says Mooney, 57.

“We’ve got places for everybody,” he adds.

The non-profit society runs a variety of ski and snowboard programs for people of all ages with physical or developmental disabilities on all three North Shore mountains: Grouse, Seymour and Cypress.

“The benefits of what we do at VASS . . . actually transmit into other areas of the participants’ lives. The people that come and ski with us as students, the confidence that they get through our program

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“For my daughter it’s almost like a recreational therapy. I would equate it to when my daughter was younger, she did horseback riding therapy. And so skiing for my daughter has the same type of concept in that it’s building on your strengths and having successes, and making developmental progress,” he says.

Those involved with VASS aim to make the mountain experience accessible to all and contribute to inclusion.

“A child with autism or Down syndrome, when they go back to school on Monday morning and they have their lift ticket on their coat, the other kids are going ‘Wow! You were skiing?’ This might be a non-verbal individual that can’t say to the other kids in the school, ‘Hey I was at Grouse on the weekend in the powder,’ but they know it when they see the ticket on the coat,” says Mooney.

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Rick Finkelstein carves down Aspen’s Snowmass mountain after being paralyzed in a ski accident six years earlier, in a scene from The Movement: One Man Joins an Uprising. A screening of the film is being presented Friday at Capilano University by Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports. PHOTO SUPPLIED GREG POSCHMAN

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will be held in January 2016, ensuring volunteers are certified, and wellversed in the use of the adaptive equipment and knowledgeable regarding specialized teaching techniques. Programs will begin thereafter and run for six weeks.

“We’re constantly recruiting and training more volunteers,” says Mooney, in light of the demand.

Many of their instructors come on board with VASS in their 20s, volunteer for a few years, go on to have families of their own and gradually fall away from the organization. “I’d like to really invite any previous volunteer instructors to come back and get involved in VASS again,” he says.

VASS is supported by the three participating mountains, through community partnerships, private donations as well as from the proceeds of an annual fundraiser, the VASS Cup, held in March.

To raise awareness of the organization, those involved are presenting a film screening and information night Friday, Nov. 6 at the Capilano University BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

The evening’s featured documentary is The Movement: One Man Joins an Uprising, which follows the journey of Rick Finkelstein who, in 2004, was paralyzed in a ski accident on Aspen Mountain. Six years and nine surgeries later, he makes a return to Aspen. The film also showcases four of his mentors who overcame their own disabilities and likewise found freedom through skiing. The 2011 documentary was narrated

by Robert Redford and Warren Miller. In addition to the film screening, the evening will feature food and refreshments, door prizes and information booths.

For more information or to get involved in this winter’s season, phone Ellen Fulton at 604-646-VASS (8277) or visit vass.ca.

Local property management and development company, Hollyburn Properties Ltd., has donated $1 million to Lions Gate Hospital Foundation to bring new state-ofthe-art MRI technology to the Radiology Department at Lions Gate Hospital.

Hollyburn Properties’ gift will make Lions Gate the first hospital in British Columbia to employ the very latest generation in MRI technology – the GE Signa Explorer.

“This is an extremely generous gift that will have a significant impact on patient care,” said Judy Savage, President, Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. “It will allow considerable quality improvements and greater patient comfort, bringing first-class diagnostic imaging capability to the North Shore.”

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Several Sander family members were born at Lions Gate Hospital and continue to reside on the North Shore, creating strong personal ties to the community and to LGH.

“Hollyburn Properties is very proud to serve the North Shore community,” said Stephen Sander, Hollyburn founder. “We have lived here and provided rental housing here since 1975. The donation towards a new MRI machine for Lions Gate Hospital is a way for us to give back to the people and their families of this community, who have supported us for the past 40 years.”

The new MRI technology is scheduled to arrive at Lions Gate Hospital in April. The advanced software will feature algorithms allowing for increased contrast differentiation that will greatly enhance image quality for more accurate diagnostic scans. In addition, many scans will be produced faster, allowing more scans to be completed each day.

The noise level during some scanning will be reduced by 97.5% – from 108 to 3 decibels. This has been shown to reduce anxiety in claustrophobic patients and patients with dementia. Currently, up to 3% of imaging time is lost to patients who are too stressed by the close environment in the scanner to continue with the exam.

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SENIORS

Federal election’s impact on local seniors

The federal election is over.

What’s a new government led by the Liberals likely to mean to seniors? Let’s start with the pocket book issues.

The middle class ($45,000$90,000) will pay a little less tax and the wealthiest Canadians ($200,000 and up) will pay a little more.

The Tax-Free Savings Account increase to $10,000 is cancelled and the decision to increase Old Age Security eligibility to age 67 is repealed.

A new Seniors Price Index will ensure that OAS and the Guaranteed Income Supplement keep up with living costs.

The Home Accessibility Tax Credit and pension splitting remain on the table.

Three other issues, healthcare, housing and assisted dying, bear watching.

I don’t know which was

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Older andWiser more surprising: the fact that the Conservatives barely mentioned healthcare in the campaign or that most voters didn’t seem to notice. The Liberals want to negotiate a new long-term health accord with the provinces.

The NDP and the Greens wanted to restore the loss of the six per cent annual increase to healthcare transfers to the provinces.

With a core inflation rate of 2.4 per cent and a price tag

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of about $35 billion over 10 years that’s a big ask.

The Liberals are also promising more money for home care and there is a commitment to reduce prescription drug costs and to improve mental healthcare.

The Liberals who, unlike the Conservatives, are on side with the Supreme Court decision on physicianassisted death want to set up an all-party committee to study the issue. It may be too late for that. The one-year grace period the Supreme Court gave Parliament to draft a new law on assisted suicide expires in February 2016. The best course of action, in my opinion, would be to allow a free vote in Parliament on physicianassisted death. If the government dallies here the court, not Parliament, will decide this issue.

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start from the Liberals with a new 10-year $20 billion investment in social infrastructure. Whoa! Are we talking about a national housing strategy here?

Maybe, I’m not sure. It’s been so long since I’ve seen one of those that I’ve forgotten what it looks like.

The NDP’s campaign seems to have confused a lot of voters, myself included.

When was the last time you heard of a socialist party arguing for a balanced

budget and a tax cut for small businesses? Taxing the tooth fairy is more their style.

While the three mainstream parties play a game of musical chairs with OAS age eligibility rules — it’s down, it’s up, it’s down again — the Green’s platform included a guaranteed livable wage for seniors, a national seniors strategy and a focus on aging in place. No party has a monopoly on good ideas but the Greens, in my opinion, are the party that

gets it when it comes to seniors issues.

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T

Aging and driving Getting behind the wheel and enjoying the freedom to travel is a luxury few are anxious to abandon.

But there comes a time in nearly every person’s life when he or she must take inventory of his or her driving and assess if that next drive is a safe and smart decision.

Driving may help older adults remain independent and mobile, but the chance for a motor vehicle accident increases as one ages. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says fatal crash rates per mile traveled increase starting at age 75 and increase notably after age 80. This is largely due to increased susceptibility to injury and medical complications among older drivers rather than an increased tendency to

Driving may help older adults remain independent and mobile, but the chance for a motor vehicle accident increases as one ages.

get into crashes. Road accidents tend to increase around a person’s 65th birthday.

Authorities in Canada require physicians to warn patients if they have any concerns about their patients’ ability to drive. Doctors also must report these concerns.

There are no such requirements in the United States, where individual drivers and families must use their own judgement to decide if it is still safe for a particular person to be on the road.

Minor fender benders, traffic citations, trouble remembering directions or frequently visited stores, may be early indications that a driver is no longer at his or her best behind the wheel.

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SENIORS

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Home is an important place for everyone and even more so for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

A familiar environment can help a person connect with the past and maintain a sense of who they are, according to a press release from the Canada Safety Council.

This National Senior Safety Week, Nov. 6-12, the Canada Safety Council and the Alzheimer Society of Canada, are aiming to provide families and caregivers with a list of home safety tips to make their home safe and dementia-friendly.

People with dementia can become lost even in familiar places so it’s important to strike a balance between safety and independence.

Home Safety Tips • Have fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors tested regularly to make sure they’re working.

• Use appliances that have

an automatic shut-off feature and keep them away from sinks and other sources of water.

• Use child-proof locks and doorknob covers on drawers and cupboards that contain dangerous materials such as knives, cleaning liquids and appliances.

• Store dangerous equipment like grills, lawn mowers, power tools, knives and firearms in a secure place.

• Lock any hazardous areas or cover the doors or locks so that they’re disguised.

Place locks either high or low on doors to make them less obvious.

• Remove locks in bathrooms or bedrooms to prevent the person with dementia from being locked inside.

• If you’re concerned about someone using the stove, install a hidden gas valve or circuit breaker that prevents it from being turned on.

Consider removing the knobs from the burners.

• Remove all toxic plants

or decorative fruits that the person might mistakenly try to eat.

• Remove all medications or other substances from open areas such as the kitchen table and counters, including vitamins and prescription drugs.

Even sugar, sugar substitutes and seasonings may pose a risk to the individual. Keep medications in a locked area.

• Supervise the person when using tobacco or alcohol as these may have harmful side effects and interact with certain drugs.

Always supervise the person with dementia if they’re a smoker. They may forget a burning cigarette and start a fire.

• Check the temperature of water and food as the person may have difficulty telling the difference between hot and cold.

This applies to bath water and hot food.

• Install safety equipment in the bathroom. Grab bars for example help prevent falls.

• Add non-slip stickers

to slippery surfaces such as tile floors and loose rugs. Or remove rugs completely.

• Use contrasting colours at the beginning of a staircase to make steps and transitions easier to see.

Avoid dark rugs as they may appear to be a hole.

• Install good lighting at entries, outside landings, between rooms, on stairways and in bathrooms.

• Keep emergency numbers by the phone for quick access.

• Remember that symbols like skulls, crossbones, “toxic” and “poison” lose their meaning.

• Consult an occupational therapist for additional safety tips on how to make your home as safe and accommodating as possible.

• Some areas of your home may pose more risks than others.

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The Okanagan is not the only place for wine

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The Okanagan gets all the buzz at harvest time, and rightly so.

However, it’s easy to forget that there’s a handful of wineries within easy reach of Vancouver, where you can go get your crush fix in a whole lot less time than it takes to drive to the Okanagan, or even to Similkameen.

Last week I found myself shoulder to shoulder with a friendly bunch at Backyard Vineyards, deep in the heart of Langley. The occasion was an informal dinner laid on by Vikram Vij’s My Shanti restaurant from nearby Surrey.

I’ve watched the ups and downs of Backyard over the years with some interest.

It used to be known as Neck of the Woods and for a while bounced around between the two names.

However, a change in ownership has it now firmly in the Backyard camp, and a few more changes have helped set it on the right course.

One particularly worthy match turned out to be a Vikram riff on pumpkin soup, with garam masala and cinnamon. It was a spot-on match with Backyard’s 2014 tropicaltoned Gewurztraminer (89 points). Drop by and you’ll find a pretty stylin’ (recently much expanded)

also sources judiciously from the Similkameen and Okanagan and has built a considerable portfolio with production now approaching 50,000 cases annually. What to taste?

Estate-grown Bacchus, reserve Siegerrebe and Gewurztraminer, Okanagan Syrah and more.

Almost around the corner is the Township 7, which refers to the community’s original name in the late 19th century.

The vineyard is planted for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir (used mainly for a sparkling wine and rosé), while most of the production takes place at the Naramata Bench winery, purchased in 2003. Winemaker Mary McDermott recently came on board from Niagara, where she’s made premium wines for Hillebrand, Thirty Bench and Peller Estates. McDermott was looking to work with a smaller winery and her first releases suggest she’s a very good fit. Of note in particular is the juicy, floral and tangerine-toned 2014 Muscat, with structure, acidity and great length (91 points).

At Vista d’Oro, husband and wife Patrick and Lee Murphy offer a broader

BREW CREW Kerry Dyson (left) and Jeremy Taylor (second from left), brewers at Bridge Brewing in North Vancouver, accept one of the three awards they recently won at the B.C. Beer Awards held in Vancouver on Oct. 24. Bridge took home two golds for its Black Rye IPA and Imperial White IPA, and a silver for its Wee Tipsy Scotch Ale. PHOTO SUPPLIED winery and farm experience that showcases their small winery and dedicated “preservatory,” where Lee makes small-batch preserves, that are pectinfree and sourced from their own fruit as well as from nearby farms. The D’Oro is a fortified walnut wine that pairs perfectly with blue cheese and more (90 points). Currently underway is a major project to restore the 100-year-old dairy barn located on the property, to be refurbished as a tasting room, cellars and a multi-purpose

reception and performance centre.

Further east, it’s not far to Abbotsford where you’ll find newly launched Singletree and longerestablished Mt. Lehman Winery just a couple of minutes apart and each well worth a visit.

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A few butterflies kept in memory of sweet days From page 1

America, he discovered another passion: studying and collecting butterflies.

“I always loved nature, even as a little kid,” he said.

When his job took him to Brazil, his penchant for butterflies grew.

“Because I liked nature I went to the Brazilian forest and I’d see these butterflies.”

Paclawsky picks up a notebook from a desk and pulls out a map of Sao Paulo that details every mountain and forest he travelled to in search of butterflies.

For every butterfly in the collection he has a journal entry recording the scientific name of the butterfly, sex, providence and date.

It’s a lifetime’s work.

But recently Paclawsky decided to give it all away.

His beloved wife passed away three years ago and he began to worry about what would happen to his collection when he was gone.

“If the good God called me, these go to the garbage,” he said.

Paclawsky is a member of the Lepidopterists’ Society, a group dedicated to the study and appreciation of moths and butterflies, and one of its members inquired about buying his collection.

Paclawsky wasn’t interested.

“I want the butterflies to go to some public place,” he replied.

“Quite frankly it’s the best private collection I’ve ever seen,” said the Museum of Zoology

at University of Calgary’s John Swann of Seymour resident George Paclawsky’s impressive butterfly collection. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

So with the help of some friends – he doesn’t have an Internet connection, he explained – Paclawsky began contacting Canadian universities and museums to find out if there was any interest in his prized collection.

“Everything goes. I donate the whole story.”

The University of Calgary’s Museum of Zoology called back.

On Thursday, John Swann, manager of the invertebrate section of the museum, arrived to Paclawsky’s Seymour area apartment to collect the collection.

When Swann first

heard about the rare butterfly collection in North Vancouver he was intrigued.

His museum began acquiring private collections in 2009, and averages three or four new additions each year. The museum has 1.5 millionplus specimens valued at approximately $8 million.

When he pulled out the first tray of Paclawsky’s collection, Swann was stunned.

“Quite frankly it’s the best private collection I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen a lot,” he said. “The people that told me about it are very reputable themselves but even what they said about

it doesn’t do it justice.”

After looking at the first tray, Swan said to himself, “It can’t all be like this, because it’s just immaculate.”

“I just kept pulling out more drawers… it’s just stunning.”

But it’s not just the beauty of the butterflies that had Swann so excited.

“It’s a case of it has all the scientific data with it. It’s absolutely immaculately prepared.

There’s no tatters on the wings or anything like that,” he said. “If you’re trying to document biodiversity, all the seasonality data, all the location data. It’s just

unbelievable in terms of education and outreach.”

Swann said another private collection donation a few years ago – coincidently also from North Vancouver – that contained butterflies from Southeast Asia is “a very close second to this.”

“It’s the perfect bookend to George’s collection. Suddenly we have stuff from around the world that’s for education and outreach. I do a lot with school groups.

This stuff will just floor children. It’s that age you want to inspire kids about nature.”

Swann is appreciative of the donation, knowing that the butterfly collection could easily have been sold privately.

In the late-1980s, Swann attended a butterfly and insect auction in Toronto with his mentor and watched as showy specimens got snapped up.

“It was crazy money.”

“It was dirt common stuff, George’s… this is the scientific stuff so it has a double-whammy of value. It’s that esthetic showmanship, yet it’s scientifically significant.”

Swann added, “To me it’s the consummate sort of immigrant story of someone wanting to give back to their adopted country. And this is a huge return for that sort of welcoming of a person to Canada. This is an incredible resource.”

Asked about his fascination with butterflies, Paclawsky

paused for a moment.

“I don’t know, because the beauty of them, then I started to buy books.”

When he and his wife arrived in North Vancouver in 1996 the first thing he asked: “What kind of butterflies do we have in Canada.”

Soon, he added a book on B.C. butterflies to his collection and started hiking around Cypress, Grouse, Seymour mountains to observe Canadian butterflies.

“There’s not another place like it in the world,” he said about North Vancouver’s backcountry.

When he hiked around the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve area Paclawsky felt there should be more species of butterflies.

So he asked for permission to plant more flowers to attract butterflies and also bring in butterflies from Cypress or Seymour to let go there.

The area in now known as Butterfly Garden and Paclawsky and his longtime friend, photographer Ian Lane, have been honoured for their work propagating the local butterfly population there.

Before Swann arrived to pick up the collection, Paclawsky set aside a few butterflies to keep in his home.

“I will take a few butterflies for me, to stay with them,” he said. “I want it for a memory of the sweet days, just for me.”

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PETS

Dogs affected by time change

With their hectic schedule of continually juggling between eat, sleep and play throughout the day, you wouldn’t think dogs had time to be affected by the time change.

But, they are. And that one hour time change can cause some confusion to dogs who are really in tune with their owner’s schedules.

Dogs, just like humans have an internal clock, a normal biological function called the circadian rhythm.

This internal clock is typically set by exposure to natural sunlight. But since our dogs live in our homes, they aren’t exposed to natural sunlight on a regular basis for their bodies to adapt to waking and sleeping to the rise and fall of our sun. Like us, they are exposed more often to artificial light. The result is that they tend to follow our circadian rhythm, which is dictated by the alarm clock.

When we get up at the same time every day, they also get up at the same time. And this rhythm is what sets their

Joan Klucha

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You are all probably aware of this on the weekends when you try to sleep in but as you lay in bed, your dog is either sitting on you or resting their muzzle on the side of the bed while sighing heavily in an attempt to wake you and keep with their learned schedule.

They do this because they have become accustomed to their human’s routine, because it also sets their routine. Getting up at 7 a.m. leads to a walk, which leads to food, which leads to a nap, for the dogs I mean.

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Lucky dogs!)

When there is a time change, the dog is expecting to get up at 7 a.m. for their walk, but now has to wait an hour later (for the fall) or will be woken up an hour earlier (in the spring).

In either case, it can be confusing for a dog, just like it is when you try to sleep in on the weekends and they keep tossing their toys at you, trying to coax you out of bed.

Not only will the change in waking and sleeping time throw them off for a few days, but meal times may be affected as well. If you tend to feed your dog according to the clock, when 5 p.m. comes around, Fido may be pacing in the kitchen looking for his dinner even though the fall time change says it’s only 4 p.m. If your dog does his potty business at particular times of the day, you might find a not-sowelcome present waiting for you when you walk in the front door — when Fido expected to go out for a piddle at noon and you were still having brunch at the café at 11 a.m. If this

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Remember, dogs don’t understand the concept of daylight savings, or the switch back to standard daylight time. Well, let’s be honest, most of us don’t either. At one time in history it proved worthwhile, but in today’s lifestyle it seems more of a bother than a benefit.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Chris Loreth (right) of the Capilano Blues battles a Kwantlen player during exhibition action. The young Blues were on fire in preseason play, posting an 8-1 record, and will look to stay hot when the regular season begins this weekend. For more photos visit nsnews.com. PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH

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New Capilano University men’s basketball coach Cassidy Kannemeyer is no stranger to the PacWest league, but as a firsttime head coach with a young team, he probably was expecting a few speedbumps right from the start.

He most likely wasn’t expecting the Blues to go 8-1 in preseason play, their only loss coming against Trinity Western University, a CIS team. That, however, is exactly what the young Blues did, going undefeated against PacWest competition in the leadup to this weekend’s regular season openers. It’s an eye-opening mark, but Kannemeyer isn’t about to start sizing himself up for championship rings.

“Preseason, who knows,” he said with a laugh. “People aren’t showing certain things, holding things back to not give you an edge when you play them in the regular season. They kind of give you vanilla looks…. It’s hard to gauge.”

Kannemeyer, who took over as Blues head coach after spending five years as an assistant with the Quest University men’s team, may not be convinced that he’s assembled a young dynasty here, but Capilano’s killer preseason has shown him one crucial trait in his team: they play hard all the time.

“There’s lots to work on but the guys have shown that they’re going to bring a high competitive level every game,” he says. “What I take from preseason is more about the effort level. The Xs and Os will be something

that we gradually put in throughout the season. The basic concepts of offence and defence are what we have in now and I think the group that we have has shown that they grasp concepts quickly and also are able to take those concepts and bring it on the court and play fluid and play together. They’ve shown that right away. I think that’s part of why we’ve had early preseason success, which I would say from my experience at Quest doesn’t always translate to regular season success. But it’s a good start.”

On offence the Blues are expecting big things from second year co-captain Martin Bogajev, a Burnaby South grad who is the reigning PacWest Rookie of the Year. The combo See Rookie page 24

New Capilano head coach Cassidy Kannemeyer talks to his troops during exhibition action at the Sportsplex.

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SPORT

Rookie of the year returns

From page 23

guard finished seventh in the league last year with an average of 15 points per game.

“Martin is what I would call an elite college shooter,” said Kannemeyer. “No matter what the scope of the game, or the competitive level of who we’re playing against, or what his matchup is, no matter what the situation, Martin always will shoot the ball. That’s a good mentality to have when you’re a shooter. With Martin, he always believes that his next shot is going in. Shooting has a lot to do with confidence, and Martin Bogajev has extreme confidence in his jump shot.”

The other co-captain is Graddy Zubaidi, the team’s only North Shore product.

The second year Sutherland grad will be counted to lead on and off the floor, said Kannemyer.

“Graddy has shown that he is going to be our leader by example, he’s consistently going to bring good effort and good energy to the floor,” he said. “He’s also shown that he has the ability to be a teacher on the floor and be a leader on the floor.”

The Blues may be young overall – no one on the team has played more than one season of college ball – but there are a number of second-year players who will be running the show alongside Bogajev and Zubaidi. That list includes Reese Morris, another Burnaby product who will start as a forward.

“Reese Morris has really grown in his role as a stretch four,” said Kannemeyer.

“He’s shown a knack for really doing the little things – getting deflections, making plays for other people, not

turning the ball over and rebounding at a very high rate.”

Two transfers – Brendan Bailey from Kwantlen and Parm Bains from Douglas – add to the experience level.

Bailey, a gifted scorer, will be a starting guard while Bains will come off the bench as the team’s sixth man.

“Brendan has shown that offensively he’s a gifted player and has all the skills to be a legitimate scorer in this league,” said Kannemeyer. “(Bains) is primed to have a good year this year. He’s been electric in preseason.”

Rounding out the starting lineup will be E.J. Mabone, a rookie from South Burnaby who will play in the wing.

“For a guard, E.J. rebounds at a very high clip,” said Kannemeyer.

“He plays with a high level of intelligence and he can make plays for himself and other people. He’s the consummate team player, which I value very highly.”

The Blues have nine players who make up their main rotation, including six second-year players and three rookies. If nothing else, the team’s hot start shows that they’ll be competitive right away against more experienced PacWest teams.

“We play hard as a unit, we play pretty collectively, we share the ball,” said Kannemeyer. “We’ve shown that those nine players can play in this league and compete at a high level. I think our good start can be attributed to players buying into the systems that I’ve put in place and hopefully they can continue to do that as the regular season gets underway.”

Kannemeyer pinpointed Quest and Vancouver Island University as elite teams in the league this season with Langara and Douglas also fielding top-level squads.

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“I think that would be a good goal with a young squad,” he said. “There are strong teams across the board. It’s really up to us whether we’re going to be at that top-four level based on how hard we compete every game.”

After five years as an assistant, Kannemeyer sounds like he’s primed to give it his all in his first crack at a PacWest head coaching job.

“I’ve had a long time to think about it,” he said.

“I’ve been dreaming about it. It’s here, and I’m taking advantage of it.”

••• The Blues will hope to carry their preseason success over to the regular season when they make their league debut Oct. 31 at home against Douglas College. They’ll be back at home for a pair of contests next weekend. On Friday, Nov. 6 the Blues will host Camosun with the women starting at 6 p.m. followed by the men at 8 p.m. The VIU Mariners will be in town Nov. 7 with the women tipping off at 1 p.m. followed by the men at 3.

Sentinel’s Andres Caicedo battles Handsworth’s Willem Kok during North Shore senior boys AAA league action Thursday at Ambleside. Gallery: nsnews.com. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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The North Shore senior boys soccer playoffs are all set with the AA Sutherland Sabres and AAA West Vancouver Highlanders claiming pole positions in hotly

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While the Sabres and Highlanders will take on Burnaby’s No. 1 squads next week, this week the action gets underway with Elphinstione facing

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