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Art showcase set for waterfront Presentation House Gallery moves forward with bold design

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North Vancouver’s worldrenowned Presentation House Gallery took a critical step closer to its new home at the foot of

Lonsdale, where the city has a massive, multimillion dollar facelift planned.

Council reviewed the gallery’s plans for the site and charted out the rest of the surrounding plaza

Monday night.

Gallery and city staff can now go to work on detailed designs and come back to council with a rezoning application, like any other development project.

The main building is projected to be 24,000 square feet on two levels aligned with the west side of the 100-block of

Lonsdale Avenue. That includes 3,500 square feet of retail space, a cafe and bookstore.

The extra retail space in the building will allow the gallery to generate enough revenue to help cover the operational costs of running the gallery.

“If and when we are lucky enough to be an occupant of that building,

we won’t have to come back to the City of North Vancouver taxpayer for additional operational revenue,” said gallery director Reid Shier.

Today, the gallery occupies 6,000 square feet in its aging building at Third Street and Chesterfield Avenue.

The new gallery’s architecture threatens

to upstage the artistic photos inside, with an outer facade made of crumpled and unfolded stainless steel, designed to reflect as much light as possible during the low-light months of the year. The main level will have predominantly glass walls, allowing the public See Steel page 3

SD44 in the black JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

While many school districts are faced with deficits and having to make hard choices to balance their books next year, the North Vancouver School District expects its budget to come in squarely in the black.

Preliminary budget figures are projecting a $2.6-million surplus for the 2014/2015 school year based on an overall operating budget of between $139 million and $140 million, said superintendent John Lewis.

That’s largely a result of a forecasted $4.9-million surplus that will be left at the end of the current school year.

“We’re pleased with the position we’re in,” said Lewis, noting some of that surplus is the result of belttightening in previous years.

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Steel facade reflects light From page 1

at ground-level to see through. To the east of the proposed building is a public plaza and water feature, which can act as a fountain, reflecting pool or dry, open space.

The city is putting up the land and $2.5 million of the total $15 million needed for the gallery, which Shier said he was very confident would be covered by gallery fundraising. The building will remain a city asset.

While council mostly beamed at the sight of design drawings depicting people using the waterfront and plaza, Coun. Pam Bookham cast a dissenting vote over the gallery’s size, design and location, which has been a treasured place to look out on Burrard Inlet for centuries, she said.

“I don’t feel the design of this building — the scale of this building, reflects that public view and for that reason, among others, I won’t support it. I’m concerned about the lack of recognition of the historic nature of the site that this gallery is

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While the reflective steel facade wasn’t universally fawned over, the project as a whole won council’s support.

“I love the design,” said Mayor Darrell Mussatto. “I like the way staff have done some amazing work. I like

the access to the Spirit Trail — the way they’ve treated the water, the way they’ve treated the public between the Coppersmith Shop and what you’ve done here. It keeps the view corridors open down Lonsdale and I think it would be a great addition in that area.”

What the new foot

of Lonsdale design does not include, however, is the Pacific Great Eastern Railway station, which was recently moved from the site to a temporary home on Alder Street.

Heritage advocates had been lobbying the city to bring the railway station back to its original location as a nod to its historical

significance on the site; however, only Couns. Don Bell and Pam Bookham were in favour of bringing it back to the Cates deck at a cost of $1.4 million.

Instead, staff will report back on possible new uses for the centuryold building on the other side of Lonsdale Quay, in Waterfront Park.

Maison moves ahead in West Van

Sentinel Hill dementia care facility gets council’s support JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

A seniors care facility will go up, but property values won’t go down.

That was council’s decision Monday in offering near unanimous support for a three-storey, 103-bed seniors care facility on Keith Road and Taylor Way. There was a swell of opposition from neighbours who suggested they were subsidizing the project through their plummeting property values.

Coun. Mary-Ann Booth said she was “unequivocally convinced” property values wouldn’t tumble as a result of the project, which will occupy five lots currently zoned for single-family housing.

Other naysayers questioned the need for the development.

While there are vacancies at both Amica and the Westerleigh retirement residence, Maison Senior Living will offer a last

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resort to struggling families, according to Booth.

“There is a zero vacancy rate for those requiring enhanced assisted living and dementia care, and a six to nine month waiting list for a comparable facility in North Vancouver,” she said.

Coun. Michael Lewis agreed.

“Denying the need for this sort of facility, in this case, is a little bit comparable to being a climate change denier,” he said.

The project addresses a very specific service that is lacking in West Vancouver, according to Coun.Trish Panz.

“We’ve certainly heard from an awful lot of people how this just engulfs families, it consumes them,” she said.

Panz said she took courage from a previous council’s decision to rezone the Inglewood Care Centre.

“We’re better off as a community because that facility is in our community,” she said.

Booth noted the vague literature accompanying a well-circulated petition calling for the preservation of Sentinel Hill.

“Nowhere in the petition or accompanying materials could I find any mention of the name or nature of the facility,” she said.

Booth said she phoned a signee who knew little about the project.

Because the facility’s residents don’t drive and many caregivers favour mass transit, impact on traffic should be negligible, according to Booth.

There is nothing wrong with trying to preserve a cherished neighbourhood, according to Bill Soprovich, who cast the only dissenting vote.

“It’s typical of other things that we fought against . . . that one must have the courage to stand up for your conviction about individual family neighbourhoods that this community was based on,” he said.

The project is a case of spot-zoning, according to Soprovich, who asked council to bring forth a master plan for the Taylor Way corridor to assuage

the uncertainty faced by the neighbourhood’s homeowners.

Coun. Michael Lewis disagreed.

“I guess almost every development in West Vancouver is quote unquote ‘spot zoning,’” he said.

Council’s duties go beyond protecting property values, according to Coun.

Craig Cameron.

While noting that almost

all support for the project came from outside the neighbourhood, Cameron decided there was a higher purpose to be served.

While Maison Senior Living is a commercial enterprise, it is also a home.

“These are the things that these residents need to live in the community, and to live at all, for that matter,”

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The North Shore News is best in the west.

The paper received top honours for overall excellence in its circulation class — the largest among community newspapers in the province — at the Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards.

Awards were presented Saturday in Vancouver by the British Columbia &Yukon Community Newspapers Association.

The News also took home two golds, one silver and one bronze award.

Reporter Jane Seyd claimed gold in the Outdoor Recreation Writing category, for her feature story on Loutet Farm.

Judges noted the feature was “beautifully written, almost poetic,” and said it would “certainly inspire many people to better appreciate locally grown food and perhaps take up community gardening.”

Photographer Paul McGrath also collected a gold, winning the Spot News Photo Award for his page 1 photograph of a canyon rescue, which judges praised as “tight and dramatic.”

Reporter Andy Prest was awarded silver in Sports Writing for his profile of leukemia survivor Brian Lau, which judges called a “superb feature and well written story.”

Trixi Agrios and Deborah Foster were recognized with a bronze for Classifieds.

Go to our website, nsnews.com, to view the winning entries.

Tot caught up in roadside arrest JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Police in North Vancouver arrested two adults for public drunkenness and called in the Ministry of Children and Family Development after the pair was discovered in a car with a three-year-old child Thursday night.

An RCMP traffic officer noticed the adult driver and passenger inside a parked car, drinking alcohol in the 100-block of West Third Street at about 10:30 p.m.

Thursday night.

The 43-year-old female passenger — the mother of the child — and the 39-year-old male driver, both from Victoria, were highly intoxicated, said Corp. Richard De Jong, spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP. De Jong said the keys to the car were in the ignition.

Even more alarming, he said when the officer spotted the pair, the three-year-old had managed to get out of the car and had been wandering around on the nearby sidewalk, unsupervised.

The driver — who

police determined had “care and control” of the vehicle — failed a roadside breathalyzer test and was issued an immediate 90-day driving ban.The car was also impounded.

Police determined neither of the adults was sober enough to care for the three-year-old, and called provincial authorities to take custody of the child.

“Both adults were arrested for being drunk in a public place and lodged in police cells until sober,” said De Jong.They have since been released.

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management,” he said.

“Everyone contributes to that.”

Lewis said the surplus from this year will be used to maintain staff levels next year and pay for increased costs like the approximately $700,000 in provincially negotiated CUPE wage increases, and Hydro rate hikes.

The school district has managed to keep a lid on staff costs by not filling some vacancies in management and other non-union positions, said Lewis.

Last year, the school district laid off eight union support staff and 13 more casual staff at the North Vancouver Outdoor School

examined in budget deliberations this year is the district’s summer school, which also operates at a loss, partly because of low funding from the province and a historical arrangement to pay summer school teachers under terms of the collective agreement rather than on contract. Summer school for elementary grades is most likely to come under the microscope, said Lewis, because high-school classes generate more revenue through international student fees. Many of the elementary-grade summer school classes are also offered by other agencies in the community, he added.

The band and strings program is not being

near Squamish, and turned over management of the site to a private company in a bid to cut down on the $500,000 being lost by the program each year. Lewis said progress has been made on that front — revenues are up and the outdoor school will only lose about $150,000 this year.The school district wants the program to break even by the end of the next school year.

Another belt-tightening measure made last year was the move to axe the 25-year-old continuing education program, a noncore offering that provided English language course for adults and cost the school district about $200,000 a year.

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The rosy financial outlook is not expected to last indefinitely, though.

Unless the school district manages to squirrel away more money, increase revenue or cut costs, it is forecasting a potential deficit of just under $1 million by the 2015/2016 school year.

considered for cuts as it is very close to breaking even.

Parents pay an annual $425 fee for that program.

Lewis said there’s no provision in next year’s budget for increases to teachers’ wages.The school district expects the province to fund any negotiated increases for teachers, he said.

He added that isn’t the case for any salary increases

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he said.

Mayor Michael Smith concurred.

“We cannot, if we call ourselves a community, be content with shuffling off people as they come to the end of their life and they’re infirm,” he said.

project’s opponents felt the deck was stacked against them from the beginning.

“I think these perceptions should concern us as a district and I would like us to do better in the future,” she said.

Final adoption is tentatively scheduled for May.

The mayor noted an academic paper that called the lack of dementia care a crisis in the making. Anyone who thinks that crisis will be solved by the federal or provincial government is “dreaming in Technicolor,” according to Smith.

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on’t listen to what public health officials and doctors have been warning for years. The Fraser Institute knows better.

The venerable think tank has produced a study that finds there is no obesity epidemic in Canada (and even if there is, government shouldn’t attempt to do anything about it.)

This, after we only just stopped laughing at their assertion that raising a child only costs $3,000 per year, if you don’t factor in things like housing costs or childcare.

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The free market being the deity in their monotheistic religion, they often conflate something being profitable, with that same thing being good or right.

The Fraser Institute, in its miserly ways, is guilty of being penny wise and pound foolish. Government intervention to encourage healthy living means less strain on the healthcare system — the granddaddy of all taxpayer funded spending. Other than the cockpit of a fighter jet, there isn’t a place more expensive for taxpayers than a hospital bed.

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Building permits doled out ‘too easily’ Dear Editor: We have been residents of the Edgemont Village area for more than 25 years and are writing to register our dismay to the changes in the area.

On our street, we presently have three large developments taking place.

In each instance, all trees and vegetation

have been removed and excavation is right up to, and sometimes over the property line, causing concern for adjacent structures.

During excavation of one property, we have noticed ground water mixed with sand and silt being pumped directly into the grids with very

little regard to filtering and protecting the underlying streams.

How often are projects being inspected and do we need a change in bylaws so that municipal engineers, planners and environmentalists have more control in the future developments on the North Shore?

Excavation and demolition permits are handed out too easily in the district. Building plans are also being approved without any consultation with — or consideration of — established homeowners.

We need a mayor and council whose loyalty is more with the

residents of the District of North Vancouver than with developers and contractors.

We urge all concerned residents who are witnessing these negative changes to let our municipal elected officials know how you feel.

Maarten Jansen North Vancouver

Casino not condos at NorthVan’s Harbourside development Dear Editor: Why does the City of North Vancouver not allow casinos to be built? They are constantly whining about money woes for their pet projects.

They are also making decisions about density that

go way beyond the OCP to accommodate the shortfalls.

Seems like a “no brainer” to me.

A casino in the empty lots in the auto mall would make perfect sense.

The idea of putting hundreds of residences

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in that location is very simplistic and shows this council has no real vision for our city.

I can just hear all the people who move there, crying about the noise and lights as soon as the shipyard starts full production.This

location was never meant for homes.The traffic in that area is already at its limit.

We are soon going to be hit with a huge bill for the sewage treatment and with the Harper government in charge in Ottawa, we will be footing that bill ourselves.

The city would receive 10 per cent of the revenue from a casino.

Maybe the citizens will wake up before the next municipal election and vote for new blood.

Terry Muldoon North Vancouver

Slowing down not such a bad thing Dear Editor: I am what I would have in my youth called an old codger (pre-PC). I might even be a little senile (ask my kids). But there is one thing I don’t understand and that is this unbridled development phase we seem to be tied to.

In my youthful days of innocence I used to ask: “How many people can they cram in the North Shore?”

The answer, now, seems to be: unlimited. Now I ask: to whose benefit is this? I am afraid I do not find my quality of life improving.

Exactly the opposite.

Is there a virus causing this frenzy? Is it in the water?

Perhaps we have been seduced by mind control.

This old codger believes slowing down would not be a bad thing.

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Council exchange goes beyond ‘A’ word “The NorthVancouver Chamber of Commerce would like to express its support of Councillor Heywood’s motion that both North Vancouver municipalities join forces and ask the provincial government for guidance and funding to undertake a restructuring and feasibility study…”

So began the courteous letter chamber president Louise Ranger addressed to City of North Vancouver council at its regular meeting on Feb. 24.

Copied to the board of directors, the letter made a case for the chamber’s endorsement of Coun.

Guy Heywood’s motion and sought a “fact-based analysis” of potential opportunities for “better integrated planning on shared issues such as transportation planning, economic development, funding of non-profit programs and recreational facilities and services.”

The letter recognized that although a study might not recommend

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outright amalgamation, “the North Vancouver community would be in a better position to make that decision based on current and relevant information.”

By implication, Heywood and Ranger acknowledged that citizens have a right to discuss how they are governed.

Little did they know their efforts to resolve what has been a 50-year debate would raise issues way beyond amalgamation of the two North Vancouver municipalities.

Prior to every council meeting, most mayors remind speakers they “may

not speak disrespectfully” of any council or staff member or other presenters.

Ranger’s words and content were positive and respectful.

Neither she nor the broader community deserved the tone of the email she received from Mayor Darrell Mussatto the following morning.

Over the years, whenever the “A” word surfaced within hearing distance, oblivious to the fact that his is only one of seven voices on council, Mussatto has vehemently rejected any suggestion that it even been countenanced, let alone adopted.

So unfortunately, in his deep-seated aversion to the idea, Mussatto also lost sight of the fact that all members of council

have a right to participate in the action to be taken on a delegation or letter addressed to them.

But none of that background excuses the thinly veiled threat of retaliation against the chamber’s position.

Having taken Ranger’s presentation as a personal affront to his own opposition to amalgamation and saying he had “led the charge on Council to ensure that the Chamber receives a tax deferral. . .,” Mussatto’s later comment that he would “certainly have to reassess this relationship if . . . you can say that we actually have one” was disturbing.

Equally presumptuous was his other claim that: “if I had not shown the leadership the (Low Level Road) expansion project

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The first point is fundamental to the process: no one mayor, no council has the authority to deny citizens their democratic right to raise and discuss matters they believe are important to their community.

Indeed, the preamble read before every regular council meeting states: “The Public Input Period provides an opportunity for the public to speak directly to Council . . . and to any topic the speaker feels is of relevance to City Council.”

Next, although not covered in the Community Charter, any member of council who denies citizens an opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of amalgamation is de facto in a conflict of interest because they

stand to lose their income should consolidation occur.

The legislation also lacks a comprehensive definition of the word “censure” but the spirit of the charter suggests Mussatto was also in conflict when he voted on Coun. Heywood’s subsequent motion that “council dissociate itself ” from the mayor’s Feb. 25 letter to Ranger.

I would be remiss if I ended this column without the following addendum: For many years, I benefitted from the chamber’s extended health plan and, in the early 1990s, sat on one of the body’s small committees.

More recently, I have been unhappy with the chamber’s approach to several communitychanging issues.

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The basis for that disagreement was that the chamber failed to survey the will of its membership prior to taking those positions.

Political kiss-and-make up photo-ops are not enough.

We were all diminished by the side-swipe the chamber received after it had followed due process by merely agreeing with a “restructuring” analysis and discussion before the final step is taken.

What is needed now from the mayor is a public and sincere apology to everyone concerned. rimco@shaw.ca

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to HOME & GARDEN

Rhodo society offers rare types Upcoming sale to showcase exotic varieties

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Columnist Barb Lunter seeks an expert’s advice. page 14

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Writer KevinVallely discusses the continuing evolution of local architecture. page 16

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According to some people, green is the colour of human will, red is the colour of passion, yellow is the colour of friendship and white is the colour of purity.

Trying to find one group of plants that represents all of those ideas and feelings is difficult, but if there is one it would be rhododendrons. Unlike many other shrubs, rhodos come in many sizes, shapes and colours, and they are beautiful and easy to grow.

If you visit a local garden centre there is always a reasonable selection of rhodos. Most of them are the more common species and hybrids found in local gardens. The nursery supply system is based on what wholesale nurseries can grow efficiently and what is thought to be the most popular sellers. There is nothing wrong with those selections — they are good for any garden — but for people with a more discerning taste, the quest to find rhodos that are more exotic or unusual always leads to sources that are a little farther afield.

Fortunately, there is one local group of rhodo experts who regularly offer rhodos for sale. Theirs

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are rare, more exotic and considerably more beautiful and colourful than their commercial supply cousins’. The Vancouver Rhododendron Society has a long history in our region of promoting the value and virtue of rhodos for coastal gardens.

As a former member, director and newsletter editor, I can honestly say their members have extensive access to unusual sources of plant material supply and they grow some of the most beautiful rhodos in British Columbia. Fortunately for rhodo lovers like me, once each year the society holds an annual plant sale that is open to the public offering a rare opportunity to purchase some cool rhodos.

Before I tell you where and when the society sale is being held this year, let’s talk about some of the many uses See Few page 15

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I’m not embarrassed to say that I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner when we decide to go out for the evening to a favorite restaurant.

But many times I find the wine list quite overwhelming. Do we order a glass or a bottle? Which wine is best with the chosen entrees?

These are just a few of the questions we all ask ourselves when we dine out.

Of course there are many people out there who are quite knowledgeable about wine.

But for those of us who may require a little assistance, here are a few helpful tips from North Shore resident and wine enthusiast, Charlie Cleghorn of Bimini’s Liquor Store in Kitsilano.

Probably one of the first questions we ask ourselves is do we prefer red or white? Most often it really is a question of personal taste. If you’re unsure, you may like to ask your server or wine steward to provide a suggestion based on your menu selection.

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Just be prepared to pay more for the glass of wine as many restaurants have a considerable mark up on their wines by the glass as compared to bottles.

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For coastal B.C. gardens, few other plants offer the dependability and versatility that rhodos do. Most rhodos with an average leaf size can be grown in full sun; however, the general rule is largerleaved rhodos need more shade and smaller-leaved rhodos need more sun.

A leaf is essentially a solar collector and therefore when you plant a large-leaved rhodo species in full sun it can burn in our climate due to overexposure. As well, some of the larger-leaved rhodos need some protection from winter temperatures, which is why those species are planted under the shade of large conifers, like cedar, or under deciduous trees, like oak. Small-leaved rhodos are adapted to more sun than their largeleaved cousins and tolerate

increased exposure to wind and winter temperatures, which is why you can plant small-leaved rhodo species in full sun.

Contrary to all of the overdone and incorrect information about growing rhodos, they are one of the easiest plants to grow in the garden. Just plant them high, keep them mulched year-round and avoid chemically fertilizing them.

Rhododendrons are arguably one of the best plants to use when trying to build the main body of a garden’s design. Most rhodos are evergreen and therefore provide yearround interest and stability to the garden’s design.

The colour burst rhodos display in April and May is unparalleled in the plant world and with colours like white, red, purple, pink, fuchsia and yellow, there is one to suit any taste.

The mature height of any given rhodo must

be carefully understood when designing with them to avoid the unnecessary and damaging pruning practises that often accompany poorly placed rhodos. Think of layers in the garden when designing with rhodos by using them to fill in the transitional height level between small shrubs or perennials and the taller height of trees.

The creation of layers in the garden is one of the most dynamic and widely used design techniques applied by good landscape designers.

Beyond those design issues, the beauty and exotic look of rhodo leaf type, size and shape is one of the primary reasons that designers and gardeners use rhodos in the garden.

My favourite rhodo leaf type would have to be those leaves that have indumentum, which is a downy, hairy or fuzzy growth that naturally

Seek an expert’s opinion From page 14 bottle. However, these days many restaurants are employing a new dispensing technology that keeps the wine fresh for longer periods of time and there is less worry of spoiling. This new technology has also allowed many restaurants to offer a broader selection of wines by the glass.

As far as ordering an expensive bottle of wine over a relatively inexpensive choice, Cleghorn states that the expensive wine often has a place in a celebratory dinner or special occasion.

Yet many restaurants are incentivized to move volume and the mediumto lower-priced wines may often be a better value.

At the lowest end of the range are the house wines and they are often selected to give the restaurant its greatest profit margin.

What this means is that without any brand association, the restaurant can still charge a reasonable amount for what they rate as being relatively lower quality wine. In the end, Cleghorn feels that sticking to the name brands is usually a safe bet.

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There are many other guidelines and rules you can follow when ordering wine in a restaurant. If this is something you would like to learn more about contact Charlie at Bimini’s Liquor Store, 2018 West Fourth Ave.,Vancouver or the helpful staff at the Dundarave Wine Cellar, 2448 Marine Drive,West Vancouver.

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West Coast modernist style endures Regular readers of my column are likely aware of my interest in the West Coast modernist movement and its evolution.

For me,West Coast modernism is a stylistic expression of where we live and is as architecturally valid now as it was 70 years ago when it began.

I studied architecture in the late-1980s at McGill University in Montreal and from the get-go was exposed to a stylistic direction that drew heavily upon the architecture of antiquity. I was academically trapped in the so-called post modernist era where proponents made direct reference to the classical architecture of the past, incorporating classical elements and forms in what

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could be best described as caricature rather than a formal rethinking.The style never inspired me and I found the work of its major practitioners, architects like Michael Graves and Robert Venturi, to be visually awkward and fundamentally lacking poignancy. Fortunately for

our architectural landscape (in my opinion anyway) post modernism went the way of its references and moved quickly into antiquity.

As a young designer, it was a strange time for me. I knew instinctively what didn’t work for me, stylistically, but hadn’t yet found what did. Real inspiration came when I moved out to the West Coast and experienced first-hand the modern masterpieces that have defined the West Coast modern movement.

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I just read a tweet from @NorthShoreNews that asked about fantastic mothers.

I immediately decided to e-mail you because I think my mother is unrivaled aled in her awesomeness.

My mom was married at 18, had her first child (me) at age 19, and at age 21 she moved to Vancouver from Tehran, Iran, with her young and new family. mily.

Not speaking a word of English, she quickly picked up the language and lingo go by watching Sesame Street with me (we’re best buds).

Since our move to Canada in 1988, my mother’s main priority has been making sure that her family is safe, well fed, happy, and without a single unfulfilled want or need. She sacrificed her whole life for us, and you can see how much she cherishes that decision every time you look her in the eyes.

She devoted her 20s, 30s and now 40s to her children. I moved out on my own a couple of years ago, but my brother (who is 20 years old) is still living at home under the watchful eyes of my parents. After 28 years of beingg a mother (to a pain in the butt kid: me), she is still happy to wake up at 5 a.m. to make sure my brother isn’t late for work.

Her life’s work has been her family, and aside from the occasional Sepy Bazzazi, indulgence in shopping, travel with my dad, or her personal care (which his brother she deserves), she has devoted her every moment to us; every breath, every thought. It was really annoying to have such an “overbearing” (as I Soroush and would have called her then) mother when I was a teenager, but now I’m their mother 28 and I know the difference between saying you love someone and really Sherry Matin loving someone with everything you are. I understand that all of her actions were for my own good and were totally selfless.

My parents fled a war zone in Tehran in 1988 to come to a better place so their kids could have better opportunities.They have come so far, impacted so many lives, created so many happy and positive memories, and pulled themselves up beyond what they had probably even imagined for themselves: From flat broke living in a hotel room on Robson Street to running two successful businesses on the North Shore, living in a beautiful home in Deep Cove, and providing my brother and I with everything we have ever needed (and everything we never needed too).

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growing up and I still continue to have today, I wouldn’t be half the man I am now. I realize that many years later. Love you mamma.

Thanks for the opportunity to share, Sepy Bazzazi This letter was sent in by Sepy Bazzazi after he read a call-out for submissions on the North Shore News Twitter feed. We kept it a secret from his mom, until now.

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North Van mom remembers the early years Rosalind Duane rduane@nsnews.com Dads were generally not allowed in the delivery room when Joyce Mulligan’s daughter Kelly was born.

But Joyce’s husband Terry insisted on being in the room to watch the birth of his first child.

Unfortunately for Terry, he walked into the wrong room and ended up at the delivery of another child.

“There I was wondering where he was,” recalls Joyce with a laugh.

She explains that back then everyone in the room wore surgical masks and Terry wasn’t let close enough to see much so he didn’t realize he was in the wrong room. Fortunately, he did eventually make it to the right room in time to watch his own daughter being born.

Joyce and Terry later had two more kids, Ryan and Erin, with no deliveryroom mix-ups.

A young mother, Joyce says she was ready to have kids and felt prepared to be a mom. “It was really easy.

I wasn’t a worrisome mom at all.”

But she admits she had some help: “Parenting is pretty easy when your kids are good and mine were good.”

Born in Winnipeg, Joyce moved to Vancouver when she was 19 and met Terry not long after her arrival. She was working at a telephone company for about a month when she sat next to Terry on the bus one morning. He was also heading to work.

“We ended up sitting side by side and said hello,” says Joyce.

About a week later, the couple ran into each other

again at a local restaurant.

“We said hello again and he asked me for my phone number and three years later we got married.”

The couple settled in North Vancouver and kids soon followed.

When asked if she always wanted to be a mom, Joyce answers quickly: “Oh yes, oh yes, definitely.”

Joyce says her parenting style was very much like her own mother’s.

“She was a terrific mom, we got along great,” she says. “And I think that’s the way my kids and I are. We get along great.”

The best piece of parenting advice she got from her mom: “Love your kids like crazy. Just love them like crazy and let them know it.”

Although Joyce says she and her husband didn’t face any real hardships

Tips to put together a family potluck This Mother’s Day, consider a family potluck to celebrate the special mom in your life.

The following are some tips: Organize Participants: Divide the meal by categories so guests will have a balance of appetizers, entrees, sides and desserts from which to choose. Cooks needn’t commit to a specific recipe but it’s helpful to know up-front that a well-rounded meal is in the making.

Agree on Advance Prep: All dishes should be cooked prior to

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Everything should also hit your doorstep ready for presentation to avoid last-minute searches for serving bowls and platters.

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as a young couple, her husband’s job took him out of town on business often and that was sometimes difficult for the whole family.

In addition, the family moved a lot for Terry’s job and lived in a variety of locations including South Africa. Joyce says the moves were sometimes difficult for the kids, but she believes they now appreciate their experiences meeting different people in different parts of the world.

When her youngest daughter was just three months old, the family was transferred to Quebec and drove across the country to get there, exploring along the way.

“We really had a lot of fun doing that,” says Joyce.

All three kids are now adults with children of their own, and Joyce says she loves being a grandmother. “They’re just a delight,” says Joyce of her three grandchildren.

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She says her two daughters are great moms and adds with a laugh: “Trust me, I’d interfere if they weren’t.”

Joyce says she really enjoys when the family gets together as they likely will to celebrate Mother’s Day.

When asked what the best part of being a mom has been, Joyce pauses to think, sorting through her long mental list.

“I guess the best part about being a mom is that you have them to take care of and mold, and try to see that they follow the right path. They don’t always, but you do your best.”

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PARENTING

Giving kids choice elicits co-operation “Put on your sweater before you go outside.”

“I hate this sweater, it scratches me.”

“Put on the sweater!”

“No.” Mom then grabs her angry pre-schooler and manages to get the sweater on her. Of course, as soon as Mom lets go, our feisty four-year-old is pulling it off.

There has to be a better way.

“It’s chilly outside, do you want to wear this sweater or the jacket?”

“I hate the sweater, it scratches me. I’ll wear the jacket.”

“Great, just put it on and let’s go.”

Offering kids choices is a positive way to elicit their co-operation.They feel they have some control in their lives and your need to have them dressed warmly is also met.

Also when we offer a choice, the response “no” just isn’t on the table.

When you say put this on or else, then a refusal is possible.When you offer a choice, then it’s one or the

other.

This is one of the most effective skills a parent can develop but is also fraught with problems and misunderstandings.

Here are the basics: Never offer a child a choice when health or safety are at risk. “You can cross the street with me or figure it out on your own.”

Obviously impossible.When dealing with issues of health, safety or the law, you are the parent and you make the decisions. No discussion.

Once a choice has been offered, allow only a reasonable length of time for the child to decide.

We all know that children

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BOOKTOPIA GOES TO THE MOVIES All are invited to watch this heartwarming page-to-stage Mary Poppins adaptation of Saving Mr. Banks Saturday, May 3, 2 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Drop in, space limited. westvanlibrary.ca

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can procrastinate for an incredibly long time. So it’s a simple, “It’s time to leave.

Either you decide whether to have an apple or orange for a snack or I will decide for you.” Polite, respectful and clear.

Don’t offer a child a choice that will seriously inconvenience other people.

“You can sleep wherever you want.” Unless you are prepared to turn any part of your home into a bedroom, offer instead the choice of red pyjamas or yellow pyjamas.

Language is everything.

“If you don’t eat your dinner you can’t have anything until morning and then you’ll be hungry,” is a threat and lecture all in one.Try to avoid using the word “if” because it connotes a threat and can easily develop into a power struggle. Instead offer a real choice and allow the child to figure out the consequences. “You have a choice, you can either eat your dinner or you can wait until the next meal.” Or, “You have a choice, you can eat your dinner now or

you can have it for bedtime snack.” By using this option the child is still waiting until the next regular eating time and is eating the nutritionally sound meal rather than a less healthy snack option.

Rarely offer an open choice. “What do you want for dinner?” She is likely to choose something that is simply not appropriate but you are stuck with it. So offer between two choices or how the meal will be cooked. But keep it simple and offer few choices.

Never offer a choice that is an empty threat.There are times when you must become involved with the decisions your children make. In other words, there are times when misbehavior is not one of the choices and you must be prepared to remove the child from the situation.

For example, when you are visiting friends your child needs to understand that appropriate behavior is a pre-requisite to staying and playing.The choice is, “You can change your behavior and stay or we

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CITYFEST 2014 celebrates its 11th annual event as part of national Youth Week. North Shore’s largest youth festival includes the first sanctioned longboard race and the largest amateur skate competition in Vancouver, Saturday, May 3 from noon to 4 p.m., Lonsdale Skate Park, 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

POST-IT BLITZ Teens are invited to put their creativity down on Postit notes and cover the wall of Room 14 with art Friday, May 2, 5-6 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. westvanlibrary.ca

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can go home.” Don’t make this statement unless you are prepared to leave.You may have a responsibility to leave a good party in order to help your child learn how to handle social situations in the future.

Choices need to be offered within the context of house rules, safety and health.There are some choices children cannot make and some that they can.The trick is to

recognize the difference, maintain our responsibility as parents and allow our children choices in all appropriate situations.

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ROMANCING THE STOVE Angela Shellard presents recipes for grilled cheese. page 26

Breakfast in bed.

The concept positively brims with trite and saccharine images of lazy Sundays, cosy pyjamas, and some bumbling but wellmeaning spouse or child assembling a tray of goodies in the kitchen to be lugged up the stairs and presented to a gently awakening, warmly grateful recipient.

We’ve all seen the TV commercial.

In reality, I find the whole affair objectionable. If there is time for a leisurely breakfast in the morning, then there is time for more sleep. I prefer the latter.

Also, the meal service itself is awkward and impractical, with shifting pillows, an unstable eating surface, and an unnecessarily high risk of coffee spillage. And don’t even get me started on the crumb factor; returning to bed in the evening to discover that one’s bed sheets have the texture of a coarse gravel road is irksome.

However, there are times in life when one must put one’s own eccentricities aside and think of others.

Such a time is nearly upon us as Mother’s Day looms.

As it happens, my wife, the lovely and incomparable DJ, mother of our two children, rather fancies the whole breakfast in bed ordeal.

Accordingly, I have spent some time sourcing a few

choice morsels with which to populate a Sunday morning tray.

Mother’s Day research afforded me the excuse to finally check out the classic Viennoiserie of the recently opened Faubourg Paris, the elegant and lively pastry shop in the burgeoning new wing of Park Royal South.

The shop is a fragrant and colourful bastion of Parisian confection, stocked with golden brown baguettes and croissants, twisty sticks of chocolately brioche, a bright spectrum of airy macarons, cakes, and the sort of labour-intensive, frustratingly dainty pastries you are unlikely to ever attempt to make at home (at least not more than once).

After a healthy sampling of many of these delights, three emerged as top-tier candidates for Mother’s Day offerings. My favourite was the Bordeaux canele, a ridged, three-bite cake originally hailing from one of France’s most celebrated wine regions. If you have not tried a canele before, please make it a priority to do so; life is too short to miss out on these things and Faubourg does an excellent rendition.

The cake resembles a crepe in texture, light and springy, with a caramelized, mahogany exterior and rumscented, custard-like interior.

If this sounds like a far cry from suitable breakfast food, rest assured, the canele is actually not terribly sweet and pairs brilliantly with a strong morning coffee. Also of note from Faubourg is their pistachio croissant, a rectangular and perfectly flaky (read: likely to leave crumbs in bed) riff on the traditional breakfast item, filled with pistachio cream and topped with crumbled nuts. As a sweet gift idea, Faubourg’s macarons,

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of English lemon curd, and salted butter caramel, a firm reminder of just how good this de rigueur combination of flavours can be when created by experts.

For an almost unforgivably decadent, oncea-year addition to breakfast in bed, I propose a visit to

another West Van gem, C.C. Violin Patisserie on Marine Drive and 15th Street, where intricate gateaux that would be equally at home in an art gallery are created daily.

The Triple Caramel gateau, a beautiful little See Artisanal page 27

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Cradle them between marble rye, brioche, soda bread or a rustic multigrain, and try interesting condiments like aioli, curry mayonnaise or tapenade. The easiest way to cook a grilled cheese is in a hot skillet. I like to use my countertop grill so the finished product is more like a panino, but if your grilled cheese of choice contains lots of oozing ingredients the skillet is a better option.

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sandwich: on one slice of bread layer half the cheese, the roasted vegetables, then the remaining cheese.

Top with the other slice of bread. Place the sandwich into the melted butter for just a second, then flip it over. Cook that side for about two minutes or until browned to your preference, then flip it over and cook the other side until browned and cheese is melted. Makes one sandwich.

Grilled Ham, Onion & Tomato One thin slice from a large red onion 1 Tbsp white vinegar 1 Tbsp mayonnaise mixed with 1 tsp Dijon mustard 2 slices rye or marble rye bread 1 slice provolone cheese 2 thin slices of ripe tomato 2 thin slices Black Forest ham ¼ cup shredded sharp cheddar See Italian page 27

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Italian style uses Fontina From page 26 2 Tbsp soft butter Separate the onion slice into rings and place in a small bowl. Pour the vinegar over top and let sit at room temperature for about 10 minutes (the vinegar mellows the onion flavour).

Drain and blot onion dry with a paper towel before assembling sandwich. To assemble the sandwich, spread the mayonnaise-mustard mixture on one side of each slice of bread.

On one bread slice, layer the provolone, tomato, ham, marinated onion slices and shredded cheddar. Top with the

other slice of bread.

Spread butter on the top of the sandwich. Place it in a hot skillet (over medium heat) buttered side down.

Butter the piece of bread that’s now on top.

Grill until golden brown on the bottom, then flip over and grill the other side until brown and cheeses have melted (place an empty skillet on top of this sandwich while the second side is cooking to weigh it down and help the cheese melt). Makes one sandwich.

Grilled Cheese Italiano 2 slices crusty Italian bread ½ cup shredded Fontina cheese

2 large fresh basil leaves 6-8 thin slices Italian salami (slices should be about 1½-inches in diameter; if salami is larger use just enough slices to cover bread) ¼ cup sliced roasted red peppers ½ cup warm marinara sauce for dipping (optional) In a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat, cook the salami until crisp, about 30 seconds on each side. Drain salami on paper towels. On one slice of bread, layer the ingredients as follows: half the cheese, basil, the crisped salami, sliced red pepper, and then the other half of the cheese. Top

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Their chocolate truffle cake, a deep and dense, multi-layered number, is no slouch either and is one of the few items that prompt me to reach for a cold glass of milk, a rarity in my adult life. C.C.Violin’s more traditional baked goods include an outstanding

cinnamon raisin brioche, a lighter (but equally sticky and satisfying) take on a cinnamon bun.

I would also recommend a quick stop at Jimmy’s Fruit Bar at Lonsdale Quay for an assemble-ityourself box of ready-cut, fresh fruit, including exotic items like dragon fruit, lychee and pomegranate, to add some colour and welcome nutrition to Mom’s breakfast.

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TRANSPORTATION VISIONS for North Vancouver, future, present and past. Join Dave Perfitt for an informative 2.5 km walk to discuss a proposed greenway overpass between Lynn Valley and Lonsdale Town Centres on Sunday, May 4, 1 p.m. Meet at Loutet Park, E. 17th and Rufus. janeswalk.org/canada/ vancouver/transportationvisions-north-vancouverfuture-present-and-past/

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One more plan to Hatch Collingwood rugby coach gets set for final game that bears his name

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The Argyle vs.

Handsworth senior boys rugby game that was listed for Thursday, May 1 in the last edition of the North Shore News has been moved toWednesday, April 30. Kickoff will be today at 4 p.m. at Handsworth secondary.

ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

Roger Hatch had a little inside information when he went looking for a job at Collingwood School in West Vancouver 29 years ago.

A high-level rugby player, Hatch was applying to Collingwood one year after the school opened and had heard through the grapevine that the man doing the hiring, founding headmaster David Mackenzie, was himself a former international rugby player. Hatch hatched a plan.

“I happened to be wearing my BC Rugby tie into the interview,” Hatch recalled when contacted by the North Shore News last week. “I got hired on the spot.”

He’s been there ever since. One of his first

big tasks was whipping together a rugby team out of thin air. For a persuasive guy like Hatch, it was a snap.

“I was uber-enthusiastic and that kind of rubbed off on a few boys and a few more boys and a few more boys and we started going.” Five years later David Speirs joined on as a co-coach and they’ve stayed that way pretty much since then.

What followed was many seasons of dominance in AA rugby, interrupted only by the introduction of a fierce new rival, West Vancouver’s Rockridge secondary.

Rockridge started as a middle school in 1996 but became a full secondary school in the early 2000s and, with hot shot coach Tim Murdy at the helm, their rugby team was a threat almost instantly.

Sensing something special was brewing, the coaches from both sides decided to make the first meeting between the two teams each season into an event, a grudge match that would continue through the decades.

What Hatch didn’t know was that Speirs and Murdy, both great friends from years spent coaching and playing together, conspired behind his back to name the game after him to honour all he had done for the sport at Collingwood and as a coach and player with the Capilano Rugby Club.

Thus was born the Hatch Shield.

“I was really honoured, particularly because it was two of my best friends who did it,” said Hatch.

On Friday Hatch, still a co-coach of the school’s senior boys rugby team,

will be on the sidelines for his final Hatch Shield.

He’s retiring from teaching and coaching after this school year. He’s seen some great rugby played by elite teams over the years — Collingwood and Rockridge combined to win the provincial AA title nine times during a 10-year stretch from 1998 to 2007. The rivalry is still as strong as ever — the two teams met in last year’s provincial final with Collingwood taking the win.

“The rivalry is amazing,” said Hatch.

“The kids from both schools will get together on the weekends and they’re friends. But when they get out on the field they’re not friends anymore. And then when the game is over, it’s over. They’re friends again.”

Winning the Hatch Shield is all about winning bragging rights the next time the kids all get together to hang out.

That’s fitting considering that, according to Speirs,

the best talker of the whole bunch might be Mr. Hatch himself.

“He’s not just a great tactical coach, but he’s always joking around with the guys,” said Speirs.

“He’s always having fun with them. The banter and the insults — it’s a twoway street that goes nonstop. The guys love being around him. He’s very quick on his feet — he tells the same jokes over and over again but he’s very quick when it comes to banter with the kids. He’ll get in some shots, and if they come back he’s pretty quick with the reply. The guys, they just love him.”

A favourite running gag is Hatch’s call to action during training sessions.

The division of coaching duties has always been that Hatch works with the big, beefy forwards while Speirs coaches the smaller, quicker backs.

“Backs over there, the men here with me,” or some variation of the See Coach page 32

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Coach stays young keeping up with kids From page 31 phrase, is often Hatch’s call.

“He’s a forward through and through,” said Speirs with a laugh. “He knows that his guys have to do the work to make my guys look good.” Hatch’s role with the team, however, and in the school in general, goes way beyond being the chief barb thrower.

“My favourite thing, and the most impressive thing, about him is that he’s as passionate now as he was 24 years ago when I started coaching with him,” said Speirs. “He just loves being with the guys and he just loves rugby and he wants to get the guys out. If somebody is unsure, he’s going to try to convince him to play. He goes out to the rugby field every day with a big smile on his face because he loves it so much.”

Speirs admitted that it will be very tough to find anyone who can come close to filling Hatch’s shoes once he retires, although he did so in real Hatch-like fashion.

“We would never tell him that, but yes — we will

definitely miss him.”

The school will hold a Rugbyman’s Roast for Roger June 14 and Speirs is expecting a big turnout of former players and students. All those kids, some now pushing past 40, are the reason that Hatch hung around for nearly three decades.

“I just love being around the kids and being able to find the different button that makes them tick,” he said. “Whether it’s an arm around the shoulder or a kick in the backside or sharing a little tear, I like finding the little button that makes kids tick.”

Crafting those kids into a smoothly running rugby team is another story altogether.

“It’s a sport that has 15 guys on the field — 30 if you count both teams — so developing that continuity is not an easy task,” said Hatch. “It’s great to be able to mould a team into something that has a little bit of precision.”

Hatch will be hoping for precision when his Cavaliers take on the Ravens this Friday in his

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final Hatch Shield as a coach. Losing the game that bears his name really stings.

“It never feels good to lose any time, but when you lose the Hatch Shield game that’s probably the epitome of the lowest that I would get coming off of the field,” he said. On the flip side, there’s nothing much better than grabbing hold of that Hatch trophy.

“It’s a little bit embarrassing and humbling, but very, very gratifying,” he said with a laugh. “I’d like to say it’s not more important than any other game but I’d probably be lying. I’m as competitive as anybody. . . . It doesn’t matter what it is. I’m a guy that played first division rugby until I was in my mid-40s and just would never quit. It means a lot, it would be huge.”

••• This year’s Hatch Shield game is scheduled for Friday, May 1 starting at 4 p.m. at Rockridge secondary. The game will likely determine who finishes first in regular season play in the Lower Mainland AA league.

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West Van made the Cup semifinals but a 50-0 loss to St. George’s in the semifinals and a 33-12 defeat at the hands of Robert Bateman dropped

them out of the medals.

Argyle was next with a sixth-place finish, losing 22-5 to Cowichan in the Plate (fifth place) final.

Handsworth dropped to 10th after a 20-5 loss to Lord Tweedsmuir in the

Bowl (ninth place) final while Carson Graham was the only North Shore squad to win their last game, topping Elgin Park 24-0 in the Shield (13th place) final.

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Burnaby bests Cap in playoff semifinal The Capilano Rugby Club’s elite men’s team lost their semifinal matchup against their over-the-bridge rivals from Burnaby Lake Rugby Club Saturday, bringing an end to their 2013-14 campaign.

The Caps, ranked fourth heading into the playoffs, still hold the distinction as the only team to knock off No. 1-seeded Burnaby Lake this season — they beat them back in November — but couldn’t muster a repeat performance Saturday at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex, losing 30-17.

Burnaby jumped out to a 15-0 lead on tries from Cole McQueen and Admir Cejvanovic and a penalty from Geoff Ryan, before Capilano rallied back to make it 18-12 at halftime.

Substitute Matt Alexander scored for Burnaby in the second half and Cejvanovic added his second of the day to push the lead to 30-12.

Capilano again fought back with a fantastic try from Gareth Dyer on a long kickoff return making the score 30-17, but that’s how it would end up.

The same two teams met two weeks earlier at Capilano’s Klahanie Park with Burnaby claiming a 2519 victory.

On the other side of the playoffs, second-seeded James Bay topped Castaway Wanderers 16-13 in a tight, all-Island battle to set up a rematch of the 2013 premier league final. James Bay beat Burnaby 18-10 to claim the Rounsefell Cup last year. Burnaby has never won the provincial premier title.They’ll get their next shot at claiming the Cup on Saturday, May 10 at Klahanie Park, 4 p.m. kickoff.

••• Capilano is still alive in men’s first division action.

The No. 2-ranked Caps will host the third-seeded UVic Norsemen in a playoff semifinal this Saturday starting at 2:45 p.m. at Klahanie.The first division final is scheduled for May 10 at 2 p.m., also at Klahanie.

On the women’s side fourth-seeded Capilano will travel to Victoria to take on the No. 1-ranked Velox Valkyries at Velox RFC in an Adidas Women’s Premiership semifinal matchup Saturday starting at 1 p.m.

In men’s third division action Capilano’s Tier A team won their quarterfinal

Velox Valhallians Saturday at Klahanie, kickoff at 1 p.m.

— Andy Prest

away with a quarterfinal win Saturday, topping the Brit Lions 36-3.They’ll host the

at Klahanie.

At the third division,Tier B level, Capilano also came

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Council reviewed the gallery’s plans for the site and charted out the rest of the surrounding plaza

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“We’re pleased with the position we’re in,” said Lewis, noting some of that surplus is the result of belttightening in previous years.

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Monday night.

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The main building is projected to be 24,000 square feet on two levels aligned with the west side of the 100-block of

Lonsdale Avenue. That includes 3,500 square feet of retail space, a cafe and bookstore.

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