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YEAR IN REVIEW

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Top Stories of 2013 JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Big development toppled big outrage in 2013, with sizable projects approved across the ever-densifying North Shore.

While buildings rose, the B.C. NDP’s fortunes plummeted, as their pollsterguaranteed election win dissolved into sweet victory for the B.C. Liberals.

Pipelines remained a slippery topic before, after, and during the election.

B.C.’s oil spill readiness was assailed while Kinder Morgan applied for a major expansion.

Business boomed on North Vancouver’s port as Neptune Terminals doubled its coal handling while Richardson International won the right to grow bigger and wider — despite the misgivings of many neighbours.

But while some corporations maximized profits, others struggled to break even. Capilano University,The Land Conservancy and B.C. Ferries all came under fire for the ways they tried to shore up debt.

JANUARY Road rage bat wielder avoids jail A minivan driver who beat a motorist with a metal baseball bat was handed a six-month conditional jail sentence to be served at home.

Gerardo Arguello cut across two lanes of traffic, overtaking driver Ryan McCaffery and slamming on his brakes before getting out and hitting him four or five times with the bat, including once in the head.

“You did it in front of your own children,” Judge Doug Moss said.

Suspected armed robber arrested A Squamish man suspected of committing armed robberies at eight grocery stores was arrested at the Peace Arch border crossing on a 40-year-old warrant.

Thomas Schwartz had been wanted in the United States since June 1972, when he allegedly deserted from the U.S. Air Force — later settling in Squamish under the name Tom Stone.

He is suspected in four North Shore robberies.

WestVan stock promoter banned for life A West Vancouver stock promoter was banned from B.C. markets and fined $700,000 after lying to investors.

Myron Sullivan II, also known as Fred Myron George Sullivan, pocketed $1.74 million after telling investors Global Response Group had robotic oil spill cleanup technology and was about to go public.

None of the speculators who invested in Sullivan’s company saw their money again.

The website for Global Response Group listed a West Vancouver UPS mailbox as the company’s address.

Infections down Airplane crash survivor and West Vancouver resident Carolyn Cross oversaw her company’s infectionreducing technology used in a trial at Vancouver General Hospital.

Ondine Biomedical uses a non-antibiotic therapy called photodisinfection.

The method employs nonthermal light energy to kill bacteria in patients’ nasal

passages before surgery.The VGH trial saw a 39 per cent reduction in infections.

The approach allowed for more surgeries and yielded nearly $2 million in savings.

“I have a great technology that needed to get pulled out of the abyss and into a hospital system,” Cross said.

Port approves coal expansion Neptune Terminals got the green light to double the steelmaking coal handled at its North Vancouver location following Port Metro Vancouver’s approval.

Getting the OK means new equipment that will allow Neptune to move 18 million tonnes of metallurgical coal a year.

PMV approved the project over the objections of global environmentalists and local residents concerned about carcinogenic coal dust.

FEBRUARY Ferries deal reached on land values After being devalued to about the price of a large pizza — $20 — the Horseshoe Bay ferry

terminal was reassessed at $47 million.

West Vancouver had been set to lose about $250,000 in annual tax revenue and was on the hook for taxes paid by B.C. Ferries to the district for the three years prior to the reassessment.

The land was restored to its former value following an agreement between the B.C. Assessment Authority and the ferry corporation.

North Vancouver man faces murder charge in Bacon death A North Vancouver man with alleged gang connections was charged in the murder of Red Scorpions gangster Jonathan Bacon, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Kelowna in October 2011.

Jason Thomas McBride, 37, has been charged — along with two other men — with the first-degree murder of Bacon and the attempted murder of three of his associates.

MARCH Property taxes rise Residential and business taxpayers in the City of North Vancouver saw their

property taxes rise three per cent following a split council vote.

Expecting the federal and provincial government to help pay the bills is “whistling through the cemetery,” according to Coun. Craig Keating, who said raising taxes was necessary.

Council should have found that extra $400,000 by levying heavier taxes on developers or cutting out the “rather luscious council dinners, which happen every Monday night at taxpayers’ expense,” according to Coun. Rod Clark.

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Lighting on 34th Street

Deep Cove designer lands Macy’s gig JULES KNOX newsroom@nsnews.com

This year’s window display in Macy’s department store has roots in North Vancouver.

The lighting for Manhattan’s most wellknown winter wonderland, made famous by the classic Miracle on 34th Street, was designed by Mike Inwood, a lighting expert born and raised in North Vancouver.

The display, which is seen by as many as 75,000 people a day, chronicles a boy’s dream where he encounters fairies, a waterfall and animals made of “ice.”

“It’s a very vibrant scene with all these magical creatures,” said Inwood. “It’s quite peaceful.”

Inwood said the snow from his youth, which he remembers as very serene, helped inspire the mood of the lighting in the window.

“It was something pure and hopeful, and truly magical for me,” he said.

“That was what I tried to

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Inwood got into acting on Deep Cove’s stage, but when he was at UBC, he switched to the technical side of production. Since pursuing a master’s degree at NewYork University, he’s had tremendous success, including winning an Emmy as part of NBC’s team covering the Olympics in

Vancouver.

The display was built in a Brooklyn warehouse before being moved to the department store’s windows. It took Inwood about two weeks to install the lighting, working mostly nights, he said, although the warehouse setup took months.The team that worked on the million-dollar display included sculptors, animatronic specialists and

video designers.

Inwood’s biggest challenge was figuring out how to navigate the small spaces in the window. “We were basically doing a series of dances to get through with the equipment,” he said. “It was lighting yoga.”

Weeks later, he’s still finding artificial snow clinging to his clothes.

Working on a window display is very different from his previous stage work, Inwood said. “In the window, everything is exposed, so it’s a real challenge to make sure everything is lit up properly without negatively impacting the overall design by putting lights somewhere visible,” he said.

This year’s lighting display used LED lights almost exclusively, and Inwood estimates that this probably cut the display’s power consumption by at least half.

Despite success in New York, Inwood tries to work in Vancouver whenever he can.

“I can never stay away from home long,” he said.

In May, he will return to the Lower Mainland to design the lighting for the premiere of Amber Funk Barton’s dance piece, The Art of Stealing.

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his time of year is traditionally the season of giving.

We’re used to the familiar sounds of the Salvation Army Christmas kettles. Many groups take part in campaigns to help the food bank or buy an extra toy for their local Christmas bureau. Meanwhile, almost all major charities make online donations easy.

Charities depend on that outpouring of Christmas spirit to sustain their operations year round.

It was sobering, then, to read a recent report that the percentage of Canadians who give to charities is down over the past decade and that the amount they give has also declined.

It’s not hard to figure out why. These are tough economic times.

Unfortunately, the same conditions that have resulted in less giving have also resulted in greater need.

Government programs that help people who are struggling are also feeling the pinch. The number of people relying on help from charities is growing.

Across the country, B.C. ranks seventh in the percentage of those who donate to charities — behind Nova Scotia and PEI. Better news is that we rank third in the percentage of income donated and second only to Alberta in the average dollar amount we give: $1,889.

That’s not bad, but we can do better.

This year Ottawa has actually made that easier for first-time donors by offering a bigger tax credit for those who haven’t donated before.

The hope is that a first-time donation will turn into lifelong habit of generosity.

That’s what we call a gift that truly keeps on giving.

Black and white memories are happy “City sidewalks; busy sidewalks/Dressed in holiday style/In the air, there’s a feeling of Christmas/Children laughing, people passing/ Meeting smile after smile/And on every street corner you’ll hear/Silver bells, silver bells/It’s Christmas time in the city. . . .”

Evans and Livingston, In Canada’s multicultural society, why do pollsters run annual surveys to ask us whether we think it is OK to wish someone Merry Christmas?

But run them they do.

Can you imagine the uproar if polls asked whether it was still kosher for our Jewish friends to celebrate Hanukkah, or for Muslims to respect the prayers and charity of Ramadan?

Does anyone question the relevance of Chinese New Year or the Sikhs’Vaisakhi Khalsa Day?

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Bah! Humbug! to you, Angus, Ekos and Ipsos.

Be off! Leave us in peace to cuddle down next to ourYule logs to create new family traditions and rekindle memories of childhood Nativity scenes and of movies like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and Damon Runyon’s riotous story, The Lemon Drop Kid. There’s a reason why

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sentimental black and white films still appeal to young and almost old alike. It’s because they remind each successive generation of all that is good in people’s hearts in our crazy world.

Religion-based or not, if Christmas does the same just once every year, what can be wrong with that?

None of that explains, though, why comedic gangsters, silver bells and miracles on the streets of NewYork City are so firmly entrenched in the heart of a London-born Canadian as a part of her Christmases past.

Could it be because all three films were released in the heady five years following the end of the Second World War? Despite all the blackened, bombed-out buildings, Londoners had taken a huge, cleansing

breath and burst into freedom. For a girl barely into her teenage years, the simplest new experience became an adventure.

Gone was the sense of danger and doom. Foodrationing was coming to an end. Imported bananas were an exciting new taste, and movies, made in faraway America no less, became the stuff of girlhood magic.

Judging from recordings being replayed today and from the performances of school choirs in our malls, millions of others have been similarly captivated over the ensuing six decades.

Ray Evans and Jay Livingston composed Silver Bells for the Bob HopeMarilyn Maxwell comedy, The Lemon Drop Kid which arrived in cinemas in 1951.

Rumour has it that although Evans and Livingstone

were reluctant to risk their musical careers by writing what they considered a fluff piece, their careers were in the doldrums and they needed the money. No one could have predicted we’d still be singing “Silver Bells” in 2013.

First released in springtime, it is remarkable the song became a Christmas classic so quickly.

Until I heard it again a week ago, I could not have explained why the song was so attached to Christmas in my mind. Only when I delved into the histories of these movies and others I’d watched along the way did I begin to understand the memories I’d bought for sixpence at the Splendid Cinema a mere 10-minute skip from home.

Unrecognized at the time, they had become subconscious markers for

some of the milestones in my life: the end of the war shortly after Bing Crosby first recorded “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”; the beginning of my teens; the last year of school in the 1951 of The Lemon Drop Kid; the new job I landed “in the City” in 1954 the year Bing crooned his way into Rosemary Clooney’s heart in the 1954 release of the movie White Christmas.

As the memories swirled around in my attempts to make sense of them for this story, they blended with those of a very different kind of Christmas — and with a recent Lower Mainland news item — an idea was born.

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YEAR IN REVIEW From page 3 tumble down a Hollyburn Mountain gully, snowshoer Terry Park gave $5,000 to North Shore Rescue to thank the volunteers who brought him to safety.

Park also provided the rescuers with 40 boxes of apples from his farm.

Sultan replaces Yap Ralph Sultan, MLA for West VancouverCapilano, took over as minister responsible for multiculturalism following the resignation of JohnYap. Yap took the political bullet following the release of a controversial memo — leaked by the NDP — detailing a plan to use government resources to score “quick wins” in B.C.’s ethnic communities.

“It was judged this particular document was not OK,” Sultan said.

Onni highrise gets splitvote approval City of North Vancouver council granted the Onni Group the right to build a three-tower, 344-unit condo development on the Safeway site at Lonsdale Avenue and 13th Street.

Council gave Onni the

OK to erect the 24-, 18-, and eight-storey towers following a split vote that provided the climax to three years of will-theyor-won’t-they melodrama that included Onni representatives promising to pull the deal off the table as well as conflict of interest accusations.

The amenities — which include 6,100 square feet of childcare space and 12 units of affordable or assistedliving housing — were too good to pass up, according to Coun. Craig Keating.

Power line shocks residents Moodyville denizens were jolted after finding out BC Hydro and Port Metro Vancouver planned to use their neighbourhood as a corridor for high-voltage transmission lines.

Port Metro Vancouver neglected to mention the power lines when outlining the Low Level Road expansion.

“We were buying a pig in a poke and this is exactly the kind of poke that we’re getting. Poke, poke, poke,” said City of North Vancouver Coun. Rod Clark.

Asked if the port had

fulfilled its promise to work with the community when developing Low Level Road, PMV representative Justin Pedley was contrite.

“The port has to apologize a little on this one,” he said.

TransLink lacks accountability: report TransLink’s operations are “unique, and not in a good way,” according to a consultants’ report released by the TransLink Mayors’ Council.

TransLink’s unelected board receives funding from property taxes but offers little accountability, according to the report.

District of West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith trashed TransLink, calling it “completely dysfunctional.”

“They have a TransLink commissioner who costs $500,000 a year and nobody knows what he does,” Smith said.

Local wood to heat swimming pool Karen Magnussen Rec Centre swapped out its old natural gas boilers for a wood-fired pool heating system fed entirely by green clippings from around the

District of North Vancouver.

The new system should cut the approximately 500 tonnes of carbon dioxide belched into the atmosphere annually by 60 to 70 per cent.

Burning wood is considered carbon neutral because the carbon sequestered in trees is released naturally as a tree dies and rots.

APRIL NSR gets a new home North Shore Rescue opened the doors of its new headquarters, dubbed “the Embassy,” at 61 Bewicke, Ave., in North Vancouver.

The building will be used for training and logistics but could also function as a command centre in the event of a disaster.

City OKs secondary suites City of North Vancouver duplex owners were given the right to build secondary suites, turning every duplex into a potential four-plex.

At least 100 secondary suites already exist in the city but would escape the safety code if the lodgings were banned.

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YEAR IN REVIEW From page 7 and if the city wants to go down the road of saying, ‘Let’s start evicting people,’ I think we’re going to have revolution on our hands — and well so,” said Coun.

Craig Keating.

Richardson expands Port Metro Vancouver gave its blessing to Richardson International’s $120-million grain terminal expansion in Moodyville.

Richardson was awarded the right to build a bank of 54-metre silos stretching 172 metres from the east

side of the existing ones — big enough to hold an additional 80,000 tonnes of grain and oilseeds.

Beleaguered Moodyville residents greeted the news with dismay but not surprise.

“It just appeared from the last eight months of behaviour of both Port Metro Vancouver and Richardson International that the neighbourhood is acceptable collateral damage,” said First Street resident Michael Binkley.

When the silos are complete — likely in 2015 — full-time staff at

Richardson will increase by 40 to 50 positions.

CapU cuts courses Capilano University dropped the axe on a slate of courses and programs including computing science, textile art, medical assistance and geology to help shore up a $1.3-million deficit in the university’s budget.

A phalanx of 38 former faculty members called for the termination of university president Kris Bulcroft, accusing her of abandoning community consultation.

Bulcroft found a defender in West VancouverCapilano MLA Ralph Sultan, who said the president should be celebrated for guiding the school from a community college to a great university.

MAY North Shore Winter Club locks out 16 employees After going nearly a year without a deal, employees at the North Shore Winter Club were locked out after rejecting a contract.

Shift length was one of the original issues but,

according to CUPE, the club now wants to reduce the number of unionized staff.

Employees were still locked out at press time.

Council discussion dissolves after racial epithet Debate over Port Metro Vancouver was derailed at a City of North Vancouver council meeting when one councillor let loose with a racial slur.

“We’re getting shafted by Port Metro Vancouver on their paying of taxes because

they don’t like the assessed value and they’ve gone to court and they’re fighting us tooth and nail and we’re getting jewed down completely on the taxes that are owed,” said Coun. Rod Clark.

Clark defended his comment as being commonly used and carrying no religious overtones.

Mayor Darrell Mussatto rebuked Clark twice, saying his language was unacceptable.

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YEAR IN REVIEW From page 9 “Sure, dad,” Clark responded sarcastically.

Clark showed contrition the following day.

“I offer a heartfelt and profound apology to any and all who were offended by my words,” he wrote in an email.

Liberals triumphant Despite the best efforts of the NDP and the expectations of some woefully misguided pollsters, the B.C. Liberals formed a majority government, sweeping the North Shore in the process.

With an ease that surprised some of her own supporters, Naomi Yamamoto notched a win in North Vancouver-Lonsdale — projected as a closelycontested swing riding.

West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan eased into office for the fourth straight time. Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy became the West VancouverSea to Sky MLA and Jane Thornthwaite returned to her seat in North VancouverSeymour.

NDP leader Adrian Dix’s opposition to Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion

may have factored in his election day drubbing.

“It will scare away future investment,”Thornthwaite said of Dix’s stance.

The Liberals spent approximately $319,000 in the four North Shore ridings during the monthlong election campaign, compared to $184,000 spent by the NDP. While the election outcome shocked almost all pundits, the results were accurately predicted

by North Shore News columnist Trevor Lautens.

Lighthouse Park killer sentenced The man responsible for the 2009 stabbing death of a woman in West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park was given a 10-and-a-half year sentence.

Alexander Lawrence LaGlace pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of Tammy Lynn Cordone after stabbing her in a tent the homeless couple was sharing.

LaGlace spent the better part of the 10 years prior to the crime living in a forensic psychiatric hospital in Port Coquitlam. He was released six months before killing Cordone.

Criminal charges for tree cutters Two North Vancouver homeowners and an arborist are facing criminal charges after allegedly cutting down a swath of trees in Capilano River Regional Park.

The trio either cut down or damaged 35 trees to increase the westward view from their homes, according to the RCMP. If convicted, the wouldbe lumberjacks could face 10 years in prison.

Bringing the trees down, some of which were upwards of 145 years old, put the slope above Capilano River at risk of a landslide and wildfire.

DNV green lights treatment centre Despite opposition from neighbours, District of North Vancouver council unanimously approved the municipality’s first womenonly alcohol recovery centre.

The nine-bed North Shore recovery house offers abstinence-based treatment with an emphasis on employment and education.

A former Vancouver Police Department beat cop in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn championed

the project.

“We spend too much money on enforcement and not enough money on treatment, and not enough money on recovery, and not a 10th of what we should be spending on prevention,” he said.

Future of Lower Lynn District of North Vancouver council unveiled a 20-year plan to bring 120,000 square feet of new retail space and 50,000 square feet of office space to Lower Lynn town centre, sparking “tremendous excitement” in the development community.

The neighbourhood is centred around the strip of Mountain Highway between Crown and Hunter streets.

NVSD cuts Outdoor School staff After losing nearly $1 million in two years, the North Vancouver school district elected to lay off eight union support staff and fire 13 casual staff at the North Vancouver Outdoor School near Squamish.

The school district has owned and operated the 420-acre site for 40 years.

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Save the old movies but save the movie houses too From page 6

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While there, we explored the day-to-day activities of Hawaiians who live in the neighbourhoods outside the oft-maligned touristy areas of Waikiki.

One of our discoveries was the Movie Museum in Honolulu. Close by Ala Moana Beach Park, it is a tiny cinema that seats about two dozen people and shows classic movies; Casablanca was one I remember, but many others were enjoyed during that stay.There was a full house each time we visited and early lineups were already forming for the next showing as we blinked

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Could we not treasure and save heritage buildings like Vancouver’s Hollywood Theatre? Or respect the decades of work contributed by local theatrical icon Red Robinson? Could we stage the plays and films of yesteryear in honour of those who had the affection and wisdom to build the theatres? Then, perhaps, we could recapture our memories in the smiles and merry wishes bestowed on us each December by family, friends and strangers alike.

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Pretty packages make nice first impressions.

This year, impress your recipient with a beautifully wrapped gift. When these are placed under the tree they double as lovely holiday decorations.

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DIG DEEP Garden columnist Todd Major makes some Christmas wishes page 14

Duplicate the look of a fresh eucalyptus wreath with this miniature version of eucalyptus leaves in a garland design.You can also make the shape into a wreath on a square or rectangular package.

Materials: 2 shades of green craft paper (available at Michaels) Craft glue, scissors, Scotch tape Miniature glitter dots (available at Michaels) Green wrapping paper Cut your two shades of green paper into 10centimetre wide strips.

Fold the strips in half and make a crease down the centre. Using your scissors cut half-petal shapes along the fold line. When the fold is open you are left with a full shaped petal.

Continue to cut halfpetals along the whole folded side of the paper.

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Repeat this with the other coloured green craft paper.

Wrap your gift in the green wrapping paper and set aside. Using your craft glue apply petal on top of petal in a wreath or garland shape on the topside of your gift. Let dry. Add your glitter dots in a random fashion along the garland.

WinterWreath This is a pretty winterwhite themed gift idea.

Using a small snowflake hole punch and some silver dots you can create this gift in minutes. Look for snowflake hole punches at your local craft store. For larger gifts choose a snowflake punch in a large size.

Materials: White glossy wrapping paper (available at Michaels) Scotch tape Silver beading thread Silver miniature dot stickers White and powder blue shades of craft paper Silver beads (optional) Snowflake hole punch Wrap your gift in the white, glossy paper and set aside.

Punch out enough snowflakes to create a wreath the desired size for your package. If you plan to alternate the snowflakes in powder blue and white then cut out in equal amounts.

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To finish off the wreath, tie a small bow with the silver beading thread and glue to the bottom of the wreath. Let dry.

Barb Lunter is a freelance writer with a passion for home decor, entertaining and floral design. Contact Barb by email at barb@lunter.ca or follow her on her blog at lunter.ca.

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An Xmas plea to be kind to Mother Earth Here’s what I would ask him to give me for Christmas.

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And it turns out that many of those pretty weeds give food to all of the good bugs.

Thirdly, if you would please drop a letter in everyone’s mailbox, because I don’t know if you have email, and tell everyone that all trees should be loved and cared for. It seems that my dad and many other dads are always going into the garden to cut down trees and I don’t understand why. My mom tells me that some trees don’t behave the way people want them to, so Dad goes out and cuts off some branches or cuts down the whole tree.

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the same thing in his garden and so does Jenny’s dad. I asked my mommy, “Why don’t people just plant a nice tree that behaves the way they want it to?” Mommy said, “People are not always willing to listen or to respect things they should.”

Fourthly, if you would please give everyone a new package of vegetable plant seeds in their Christmas stocking so they can grow some food in their garden. I don’t know how, but Daddy tells me that the way people grow food on farms and in greenhouses has become unsafe and he’s worried about feeding me fruits and vegetables from those places.

Daddy says that if we grow food in our own garden we can be sure of what is used to grow the food and what’s in our soil, so we can eat healthy and not have to worry. It’s kinda funny because now I see that lots of my friends have vegetable gardens instead of lawns in their yards. I guess if the people who run the world won’t listen to what everyone wants, then the smart people will do things for themselves.

Daddy also says that we buy organic food because it’s better to eat than food grown with poisonous pesticides. I also asked Mommy if organically grown food has more good things in it than the other food.

Mommy said, “Organically grown food sometimes has a similar nutritional value to conventionally grown food but we choose it because no dangerous pesticides are used to grow organic food and that’s healthier for our bodies.”

I know if you could give those gifts this year, Santa, then Jonny, Jenny and me could go play in the shade of those lovely big trees, maybe snip a veggie or two from Jonny’s garden and not have to worry about getting poisonous pesticides on our little shoes or on our delicate and fragile little hands.

Love from Toddy Major.

P.S. Santa, I hope your garden is growing good things for you and the reindeer to eat.

Toddy Major is just a kid who wants to make the world better place. stmajor@shaw.ca

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Techniques enrich our experience A number of years ago a child development expert strongly suggested that it was people like me who were causing problems for parents.

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They would instinctively know. In other words, if your child throws a tantrum at the mall and you do not instinctively know how to respond, it says you are not properly connected to your child.

In her recent book, The Conscious Parent, Shefali Tsabary suggests that we see parenting our children as a way to raise our own consciousness. She believes that the information needed to raise a child is found within the parentchild relationship. “For this reason,” she says, “parenting is learned not through reading books that offer quick fixes or taking classes that specialize in techniques.The conscious approach embodies values that emanate from the relationship.”

There is certainly important value in understanding the importance of being attached to and connected to your child.There is certainly important value in being consciously aware of what we are feeling and learning as we raise our children.

But I cannot simply hang up my shingle and go away. I do not believe these concepts need to be separated and can’t understand why these professionals believe it is an either/or situation.

If I believe that good nutrition is essential to

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I find it frustrating and demeaning that professionals taking a different look at child-raising do not include or consider the traditional books and courses that have been helping and supporting parents for the past decades.

Parenting speakers respect the concepts of attachment and consciousness.We may use slightly different language but we know that parents need to understand the importance of attachment, of the connection between themselves and their children. And we certainly understand that nothing teaches us more about ourselves than raising our children.

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support, educate and inform parents?

I believe it is a question of respect.Those of us who are running courses, delivering keynotes and workshops and writing books, newsletters and blogs about child-raising are offering an excellent service to parents and more particularly to children who need quality parenting.

In The Conscious Parent the author suggests that “traditionally the relationship between parent and child has been hierarchical and linear: the parent issues rules and orders like a military general, and children either obey or find themselves punished.”

She suggests that the relationship between parent and child is paramount, not specific techniques.

I would suggest first that certainly in any material I have written about discipline I have discussed the difference between discipline and punishment and that punishment is not an effective way to raise children.

I would also suggest that knowing some respectful techniques for healthy childraising actually frees parents to focus on the relationship and to be conscious about what is motivating both them and their kids.

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I appreciate that all parenting authors would agree that it is never appropriate to just let kids figure it out on their own or do whatever they wish or want.

I am simply suggesting that adding tips, techniques and concepts into the mix is a positive and enriching move.

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A shift is underway in Vancouver dining, one that has been developing for years.

Those who were watching the scene closely in 2013 might have noticed that in the midst of this shift, the North Shore emerged as an instructive microcosm, shedding light on what is happening at ground level to affect the change.

You see, the type of experience that Vancouverites seek from a restaurant is changing.

To gourmands, Vancouver may intuitively seem like the ideal city for fine dining. It is spectacularly nestled between ocean and mountains, providing prized locations for restaurateurs.

Its raw goods, from some of the best seafood on the planet to glorious seasonal produce, are a chef’s dream.

To boot, it has a thriving wine industry with new, award-winning labels emerging yearly.

And yet, despite this enviable mix, the list of fine dining restaurant closures in our city over the last several years is a hefty tome that includes the efforts of many highly accomplished players in the culinary world.With a few notable exceptions, fine dining establishments in Vancouver have found the market exceedingly tough.

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With Cameron’s elixirs in hand, I might next pick up a case of organic, dry-aged meats from Two Rivers Specialty Meats, now offering limited, direct-toconsumer sales.Two Rivers is a North Shore butcher and distributor of 100-percent ethically raised, limited production meats from B.C. farms that has earned a loyal following among chefs for the flavour of its products and the sustainable practices of its partner farms.

With my shopping list nearing completion, I might consider a beverage to accompany my meal. I’d likely head to Old Dollarton Highway where I’d find two purveyors of small batch, seasonal craft beer: Bridge Brewing and Deep Cove Brewers. From the former I’d be inclined to pick up a bomber of North Shore Pale Ale, a hop-forward but nevertheless rich and toasty, food-friendly beer, while Deep Cove’s Quick Wit Wheat Ale, with its citrusy effervescence, is an ideal aperitif.

Where I once had to rely on a fine dining restaurant to provide me with the very best foodstuffs available in our market (at two to three times the cost of buying it directly) I can now find for myself the very same

ingredients that are being used by Vancouver’s best chefs.

More than this, I am also able to learn how to use these ingredients just like my favourite chefs do.

Chefs are heavily influenced by culinary traditions from all over the world.

In Vancouver, it is not unusual to find Southeast Asian, Italian, Indian, or South American cooking techniques and ingredients co-existing on a single menu. And frankly, there is no better way to familiarize oneself with the influences that sway our favourite chefs than to sample key ingredients transformed at the hands of those who have mastered their particular culinary tradition.

With this in mind, a place like the small, familyowned Hanoi Bistro on East Second Street becomes a must-visit destination.With the use of simple herbs and spices, all widely available in local shops, co-owners and chefs Ken and Thuy Nguyen transform everyday ingredients into remarkably tasty, fragrant dishes in the Northern Vietnamese tradition. For me, each visit to Hanoi Bistro, and countless other specialty restaurants of the North Shore, yields new insights into the best uses of my favourite ingredients.

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■TheWhite Spot Cookbook, by Kerry Gold, Figure 1 Publishing, 158 pages, $24.95 What began in 1928 has grown into Canada’s longest-running restaurant chain.While staying true to their roots, the chefs at White Spot have also evolved the menu to reflect current tastes.Their signature hamburger with its Triple-O sauce remains a key menu item but is joined with Prawn Risotto and Halibut with Black Bean Sauce.

This book features classic dishes and specialty items that have shown up as seasonal promotions over the past decade as well as recipes from the White Spot menu.

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■Treme, by Lolis Eric Elie, Chronicle Books, 240 pages, $34.95 This companion book to the HBO series offers much more than a look behind the scenes. Central to the book is the extensive collection of recipes presented from the perspective of the characters of Treme and special guest chefs. Covering a full range of New Orleans cuisine, the recipes are a celebration of

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The recipes are presented by 13 chefs, both real and fictional, but there is nothing make-believe about the meals they offer. Detailed instructions on how to make authentic gumbo or bisque are mixed in alongside Cajun traditional meals and contemporary takes on heritage recipes.

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Many of the skills are shown with accompanying photographs. From the best way to crack open a crab and extract the meat to the best way to peel an avocado, they provide a wealth of valuable information that will make your time in the kitchen more efficient and more fun.

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Sylvie Lanmark-Kaye has been playing the clarinet “forever.”

Not surprisingly she is a fan of bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman and loves listening to jazz and classical music.

She also loves playing it.

“It’s really fun, it takes you away to another space.

And it’s great for that right side of the brain,” she says.

Playing music, any music, is “really soothing for the soul,” she adds.

A musician for more than 30 years, Lanmark-Kaye is also a member of the North Vancouver Community Band, and she is the band president.

“Our mandate is just to bring music to as many people who are interested in it and share with our love of music and enjoy putting back into the community like we do,” says LanmarkKaye of the band.

Community members in Lynn Valley started the North Vancouver Community Band in 1992.

It was originally an alladult band, but eventually dropped the word “adult” from its name and now accepts musicians of all ages.The group currently meets at Carson Graham secondary and has about 35 members who range in age from 13 to 78.The diversity of age is a fact that

distinguishes them from other bands.

“It’s just the love, the passion of playing music and sharing the same interest with a group of people,” says Lanmark-Kaye of why such a variety of musicians are drawn to the band.

“When you’re playing with a large group it’s almost like a team effort.You have to listen to each other and try to maintain the balance,” she explains. “It’s a neat challenge and it’s very satisfying to hear what all of us together can produce.”

Some of the group members have played semi-professionally in their younger days or are currently playing in other bands.

Some are retired and some are students. “We have 10 secondary school students and they just mix right in,” says Lanmark-Kaye.

She talks about one family whose son joined the band and the parents soon followed even though they couldn’t really play an instrument. Members don’t have to have an instrument to join this band.

“Three years later they are playing amazing,” says Lanmark-Kaye of the parents who picked up instruments the band had on hand and learned to play them.

The band plays a wide range of music from intermediate to advanced, and Lanmark-Kaye explains they are not a beginner

group per se but they do welcome everyone from those who are just starting to those who have played for a long time.

Each year, the band performs at a variety of community events. In the past the group has performed at the Vancouver Marathon, Lynn Valley Days, Bright Lights at Stanley Park, and many other community events.They also regularly play at seniors centres and community centres. “We’re really a group that wants to put back into the community,” explains says Lanmark-Kaye.

Recently, the band was awarded a grant that will allow it to bring in some professionals to work with various sections of the band.

“Everyone’s there for the love of the music,” says Lanmark-Kaye. “Together we’re growing and getting a better and better sound.”

The North Vancouver Community Band is always looking for new members.

Anyone who is interested can drop by to observe for free.The fee to join the band is $80 a year for students, and $200 a year for adults.There are also some subsidies available for those who cannot afford the membership fee.The band meets Thursdays at Carson Graham secondary from 7:30-9:15 p.m. For more information visit the website at northvancommunityband. com.

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Sarah-Jane Redmond is the instructor for a new North Shore acting program, but she doesn’t teach kids how to act.

“I’m not teaching them how to act,” she explains. “I’m teaching them how to be truthful in front of the camera. How to just be themselves in a particular situation but not layer that with acting.”

Redmond is a professional actor herself and says when adults act they can find ways to manipulate certain situations a little bit easier, but kids are so in the moment that it just has to come naturally.

“I think it’s so lovely when you see an honest, truthful moment from a child rather than something that is predicted,” she says.

In January, Redmond will start a new 12-week program called Let’s Make a Movie that is run out of the Music Box art facility in West Vancouver. The program is a partnership with the District of West Vancouver. A group for kids ages 9-12 will meet on Wednesday afternoons and a group for kids ages 13-17 will meet on Thursday afternoons.

Although it’s an acting program, participants will also do exercises like improv, script writing, storytelling, and character building in the first quarter of the program.

“It’s a chance for them to express themselves and be creative, but it’s also a chance for me to get to know them as well because what I’m really trying to do with the program is find out what’s unique about each child and really nurture that and have the best of them come out,” says Redmond.

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Redmond says the program is suited to kids who are interested in learning how to express themselves more and who want to build their confidence. She says the curriculum will try to embrace who each child is individually and

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2013 SPORT YEAR IN REVIEW: JULY TO DECEMBER Read the continuation of this series in Sunday’s edition of the North Shore News.

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In part 1 of our look back at the year in sports we scan the headlines from January to June to see who was scoring on the Shore. Snowboarders were in peak form as they prepared themselves for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and North Shore high school kids were busy showing that they are the most talented bunch in the province.

Merry Christmas from the North Shore News sports department.We hope you stuffed yourself with turkey and are ready to loosen the belt a couple of notches while you relive these great moments. Bon appetit!

January The Vancouver North West Giants often have a chance to score the

first entry in these North Shore sports year in review articles with their annual participation in the Mac’s Midget AAA Tournament and 2013 was no different as the North Shore/ Burnaby-based squad won the whole shebang for the second time in team history on NewYear’s Day. The Giants claimed the tournament’s massive trophy with a thrilling double overtime 3-2 win over the Carolina Junior Hurricanes in the final played at Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome.

Vancouver trailed 2-1 late in the game but a goal from New Westminster’s Brandon Del Grosso with just 13 seconds left in the third period sent it into overtime. Both goaltenders shut the door in the first overtime — West Vancouver’s Bo Didur stopped 32 of the 34 shots he faced in the game

— before West Vancouver’s Jackson Cressey ended it with the championshipwinning goal five minutes into the second overtime period.

The annual event is known as the best midget hockey tournament in the world.

In March the Giants continued their dominance of the B.C. Major Midget League by claiming their fifth straight championship with a 2-1 series win over the Okanagan Rockets at Burnaby Winter Club.

The Giants, with 15 of their 20 players hailing from the North Shore, clinched the series with a thrilling 1-0 win in the deciding game. North Vancouver’s Anthony Conti tipped in a power play point shot in the second period for the game’s only goal and Didur shut the door in goal to clinch the championship with a shutout win.

••• North Vancouver’s Hannah Miller suited up for Team Canada as they scored a thrilling 2-1 victory over the United States in the gold medal game at the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship held Jan. 5 in Heinola, Finland.

Quebec City’s Catherine Dubois scored with 12.7 seconds left to send the game into overtime and Karly Heffernan of Belleville, Ont. recorded the winner just 40 seconds into the extra frame.

At the world championships Miller was the youngest player on the Canadian team and was used as an offensive specialist, racking up a goal and two assists in five games while earning a lot of power play time.

The championship final was an epic battle with the United States

taking command early, outshooting the Canadians 20-1 in the first period while taking a 1-0 lead.

As the game wore on the Canadians held the Americans off the score sheet long enough to turn things around and pull off their late-game heroics. At the end of it all came that unforgettable tradition of lining up on the blue line while the national anthem plays.

“It was the most amazing experience of my life,” said Miller. “I don’t think I’ve ever sung it that loud before.”

••• West Vancouver native Maëlle Ricker won gold at the Snowboard FIS World Championships Jan. 26 in Stoneham, Que., claiming the one title that had so far eluded her in her illustrious career as a snowboard See Local page 32

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Ricker’s trophy case was already stocked with Crystal Globe season-championship awards, numerous World Cup medals and, of course, a shiny hunk of gold won on Cypress Mountain at the 2010 Olympics, but before this year she had never earned gold at the world championships. She placed fourth three times, going all the way back to her first worlds in 1997, and won bronze at the 2005 race in Whistler but never world gold.

That changed when the 34-year-old put in a dominant performance in Quebec, finishing as the fastest qualifier before carrying that speed into the six-woman elimination races and coming out on top in the final. Dominique Maltais of Petite-RiviereSt. Francois, Que., finished second to join her teammate on the podium while Norway’s Helene Olafsen won the bronze.

“It’s extremely satisfying,” Ricker said of finally winning a world championship. “It’s definitely something that was missing, just not performing on the right day.

It was a little bit of a thorn in my side and a big goal

February The Capilano University men’s volleyball team topped off a dramatic turnaround season by winning the PacWest provincial championship tournament and finishing fifth at the CCAA national championships.

The Blues earned the provincial title, the team’s first since 2005, by topping No. 1-ranked Douglas College in a five-set thriller in the semifinals before beating No. 2-ranked Vancouver Island University in the final. Rookie head coach Nathan Bennett was named the PacWest coach of the year while fourth-year power hitter Dan Caverly was named MVP of the provincial championships and earned a spot on the first all-star team at the national championships.

March Helen Crofts burned up the track for Simon Fraser University at the NCAA Div. 2 indoor track and field national championships in March, winning gold in the women’s 800-metre race.The West Vancouver middle-distance runner left competitors chasing her footprints as she notched a time of 2:05.96 in the final

race at the Birmingham, Ala. track meet.

Crofts ended her SFU running career in fine style two months later when she won the 800-m title at the NCAA Div. 2 Outdoor Track and Field Championships held in Pueblo, Colo. Crofts led wire-to-wire, coming home in 2:08.18 to take the win by more than a second.

“I couldn’t be happier,” she said, summing up the triumphant finish to her SFU career. “I’m sad to see it go but I’m very happy I’m going to be able to continue training with the team for the foreseeable future. SFU proved to be a really great experience and I definitely wouldn’t have done things differently.”

••• Windsor secondary’s gymnastics team nailed it at the provincial championships held March 7-9 in Powell River, vaulting over the competition to win the boys, girls and combined team titles. At the provincial championships the team was led by a trio of boys who scored allaround podium finishes in their levels. Justin Tan finished first in the boys Level 1 (lowest) all-around competition, Braeden Massullo finished third in Level 2 all-around and Greg

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••• North Vancouver native Manuel OsborneParadis won the national downhill title at the Sport Chek Alpine Canadian Championships in Whistler March 23, capping off a season that showed that his racing career is back to full speed after a few slow years.

Osborne-Paradis whipped through the brand new Raven/Ptarmigan downhill course in a time of one minute 1.97 seconds, besting second place finisher Jeffrey Frisch by more than half a second with veteran John Kucera placing third.

Manny also showed well in Kvitfjell, Norway on March 2 where he finished fourth in a World Cup downhill, missing the podium by one-hundredth of a second.The results were welcome news for a racer who tore his ACL and broke his fibula in a crash during a World Cup race in January of 2011.

This month, Manny again proved he is among the world’s best racers heading into the 2014 Olympics, finishing fourth again in a World Cup race held in Beaver Creek, Colo.

April Any NHL debut is special, but circumstances aligned to make West Vancouver’s Max Reinhart’s first game in the big show almost perfect.

The 21 year old suited up for the Calgary Flames April 6, playing a regular shift in Rogers Arena against his hometown Canucks with cameras from the famed Hockey Night In Canada catching all the action.

“It was honestly everything I dreamed of,” Reinhart told the North Shore News. “I still can’t really put a lot of my emotions into words — I think the best way to describe it was it was pretty much a dream come true.”

Friends and family — including his mother Theresa and father Paul, himself a former NHL star — were on hand to see him play.

“Growing up the dream was always to play in that building,” Max said.

“Obviously as a kid growing up I always wanted to play for Vancouver but I’m not going to complain that I was playing with Calgary.”

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••• In April, Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame announced their class of 2013 and included on the list was North Shore mountain biking legend Alison Sydor.

Sydor was inducted during a ceremony in October alongside other sports superstars such as Joe Sakic and Russ Howard.

“It’s pretty special news, it’s a very special honour,” Sydor told the North Shore News after learning she’d be the first mountain biker to be inducted into the hall.

“In my cycling career I probably ended up being the first of a lot of things . . . back when I started, mountain bikes weren’t even invented,” she said with a laugh.

June The Argyle Pipers senior girls soccer team got to celebrate on home soil after beating the Oak Bay Breakers in the provincial AAA championship final played June 1 at North Vancouver’s Inter River Park.

Jessie Blanchard scored the game’s only goal on a long blast late in the first half that sailed over the head of the Oak Bay keeper before dropping just under the crossbar in the top

left corner.

“I’m speechless. I’m so excited. It’s crazy,” Blanchard told the North Shore News after the final whistle sounded. “I did not think (that shot) was going in. I was just like, smash it as hard as you can.”

With shutouts in both the semifinal and final as well as only two goals allowed in five total games, goalkeeper Austin Studer was named the tournament MVP. ••• It was an all-West Van showdown in the provincial AA rugby championship final played June 1 with the Collingwood Cavaliers coming out on top against their neighbours and longtime rivals from Rockridge. In the final, played in Abbotsford’s Rotary Stadium, Collingwood jumped out to an early 10-0 lead but Rockridge roared back to tie it at 10 early in the second half.

With time winding down, Collingwood captain Marshall Fuller scored his second try of the game to make it 15-10 and the Cavaliers took control the rest of the way, bashing out a 20-10 win.

See Sunday’s North Shore News for the continuation of the 2013 SportYear in Review series: July to December.

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