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Year-end track meet

Parents rally to save Swangard JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A group of parents in North Vancouver rallied to make sure elementary school track and field athletes got to have their district track meetTuesday — despite the rotating teachers strike.

“We made it happen,” said parent and organizer MattYoung at the end of the eventTuesday. “It was a great day for all the kids.”

Last week, when the teachers’ union announced a strike in NorthVancouver for June 3, school district officials cancelled the year-end track meet, which typically sees between 1,500 and 1,800 kids from 26 schools competing at Swangard Stadium.

When news came out that the event would be cancelled, many parents were outraged, saidYoung, whose own sons compete in track.

“This event is the end-of-theyear grand finale for the kids who have participated in track and

field,” saidYoung.

Some parents were doubly upset, because it would have been the second time in four years the Swangard meet has been cancelled over a teachers’ labour dispute.

Then something else happened.

Parents decided, “this is not OK,” said Desiree Kranenvijk, whose son also competes in track.

“The kids have worked so hard.

We just decided to take matters into our own hands.”

Parents spent the weekend getting the necessary liability insurance, permits and equipment in place and rounding up 100 volunteers to help with everything from measuring results to handing out ribbons.They worked with the 60 Minutes Kids Club, a national charity founded byYoung.

OnTuesday, the track meet went ahead, with over 1,000 participants.

“I don’t think most of the kids noticed a difference,” saidYoung.

See Ruling page 7

Elderly woman sexually assaulted in N. Van home BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

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North Vancouver RCMP are throwing resources into their investigation of a sexual assault on a North Vancouver senior in her mid-80s.

A lone male broke into a home in the lower Ridgeway neighbourhood early Sunday morning and assaulted the

woman, who lives alone.

The victim was released from hospital on Monday and is staying with family, but the brutal nature of the assault means police must be patient when interviewing the woman.

“Victim Services have spoken to her. Our investigators have spoken to her again (Monday), See Police page 5

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Family fights money transfer fraud Mother, son frustrated by efforts to recover missing funds BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A West Vancouver family says they have been defrauded in a substantial money transfer to the Philippines and Western Union has failed to help them recover the missing funds.

Tony Ando sent his mother Shigeko an email while on vacation in Angeles, Philippines on April 13, asking her to withdraw $5,000 from his account and keep it at their West Vancouver home.Two days later, she received another email, asking that she quickly send the money to Tony in Angeles via Western Union.

Although she was

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When Tony tried to collect the money, he was turned away by the Western Union agent because he

didn’t have his passport with him. At the time, it was with the Philippines Bureau of Immigration, getting Tony’s visa updated, which he has the documentation to prove.

In the meantime, Shigeko received another request, purportedly from Tony, for another $1,500 to be sent via Western Union to help him complete a

project he had been working on.

It was only after Tony retrieved his passport and contacted Western Union that they learned the money had already been collected and that someone was impersonating Tony by using a fake email address that closely resembled his.

Since then, the Andos have reported the suspected fraud to Money Mart, Western Union’s antifraud department, North Vancouver RCMP, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, the Angeles police, Manila police and the Philippine National Police, which has only resulted in getting an international runaround.

“They keep passing the buck and no one is able to help us,” Shigeko said.

“We’d like to get the money back.”

While there’s little she can do about the police in a developing country, Shigeko has been trying in vain to

get some help from Western Union.

“I keep emailing and phoning the anti-fraud department and they said it takes 20 days for the investigation. Last week I got a letter from (Western Union) . . . saying they have delivered the money as was requested and so there will be no further investigation,” Shigeko said. “And yet the company policy, which Tony has got, is that they have to show a passport in order to retrieve the money.Yet somebody was able to do that.”

The fiasco has been beyond frustrating for Tony who extended his stay in order to dog local police agencies and Western Union into taking action, though he has made little progress.

“Even if the emailer hacked into my mom’s email, they’re still not allowed to give money out without proper identification shown,” Tony said. “It’s so simple.

All they have to do is say to the outlet that gave the money away, ‘If you didn’t follow procedure, you’re responsible for it.’”

When asked how someone could collect the money without a passport or what the company is doing to help the Andos, a Western Union spokeswoman said the company cannot discuss specific cases.

“I can tell you, though, that Western Union works on a regular basis with law enforcement agencies from around the world.We’re committed to continuing this co-operation to help address the important issue of consumer fraud,” said Paula Barifouse,Western Union spokeswoman.

Typically, money is never refunded, Barifouse said, though agents complicit in fraud can be terminated.

In the meantime,Tony said he is preparing to pursue Western Union in a civil case when he returns to West Vancouver.

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Homeowners on trial over landslide JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

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Moodyville residents push for density STEFANIA SECCIA Contributing writer

A delegation of concerned Moodyville citizens called on council to increase density as a means of re-drawing the neighbourhood in the wake of the Low Level Road project.

On May 26, the City of North Vancouver’s council chambers were packed with about 50 Moodyville residents interested in the presentation made by their neighbours Michael Binkley, Michelle Binkley and Mike Wise.

The trio were asking for a better-designed Low

Level Road, include more density in the new official community plan and a green buffer to the upgraded road.

“During the past year, we have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the port, which will continue through to 2015,” said Michael

Binkley. “For decades, our neighbourhood has had a wide buffer of approximately two acres of heavily treed park.

That was removed for the new Lower Level Road. Now there is only a 15-foot-wide Spirit Trail See Green page 5

Neighbours of aWest Vancouver couple alleged to have caused a landslide with illegal landscaping work described in court their growing concern after watching dump trucks deposit massive amounts of fill on to a nearby property between January and March 2013.

Shortly after their neighbours, Mohammadreza Morshedian and Seyedeh Shahrbanoo Janani, bought the property at 2785 Chelsea Close, “There began to be truckloads of dirt coming in,” said neighbour Sam Schoenauer. “The pile kept getting higher and higher.”

Schoenauer testified that as work continued, with excavators pushing around more material on her neighbours’ property, she became increasingly worried.

“Every time it would rain, there would be mud flowing on the side of our property,” said Schoenauer. She added the material being dumped included large boulders.

“Our house was literally shaking like an earthquake on a daily basis,” she said.

Schoenauer said she told Morshedian she was concerned the large volume

of material being dumped could cause problems on her property.

“He said, ‘I’m an engineer.’ He brushed me off,” she said.

After that, Schoenauer told her husband, “From now on, you deal with him.”

Morshedian and Janani are on trial this week before Judge Bryce Dyer of the North Vancouver provincial court where they face more than 50 bylaw charges, including allegations they violated West Vancouver’s water course protection bylaw, creeks bylaw, building bylaw and soil deposit and removal bylaw, among others, when they began landscaping work on their property without permits and without a sediment control plan.

The district has alleged the illegal landscaping at the couple’s British Properties home continued after a stopwork order was issued and eventually led to a landslide and sediment dump into a fish-bearing creek.

The couple has pleaded not guilty.

In cross-examination, the couple’s lawyer questioned Schoenauer on what happened after the previous See Neighbour page 9

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Salmon, Trout, & More

Green space reduced to ‘buffer’ From page 3

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as a separation from our neighbourhood and the port.

“There is a way to restore this green space and make it a destination, not just a buffer.”

The delegation, comprising about 60 properties in the 500and 600-blocks of East First and Second streets on the east side of St. Davids Avenue, advocated for higher density than proposed by staff as the best option for the Moodyville community.

Wise said this level

Police at work on suspect profile From page 1 trying to get more information as far as the timeline as to what happened and, quite important, physical descriptors of this suspect,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Van RCMP spokesman. “Nothing is being released at this point.

The woman has been extremely traumatized, emotionally and physically, and is finding it hard to relive that moment. So we’re

respecting that and trying to move forward with our forensic examination.”

The RCMP’s forensic team has finished its search for physical evidence in the home and is requesting priority status for evidence sent to the crime lab.

Investigators have also called in a crime analyst, who has examined similar crimes across Canada, in hopes of coming up with a suspect profile, De Jong said.

It is unclear how the

suspect gained access to the residence, or if this was a targeted or random incident, De Jong said.

De Jong said residents should remember to keep doors and windows secured, even during the warm summer months, to prevent crimes of opportunity.

Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to contact the North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311. Information can also be reported

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eattle’s city council has made the audacious decision that if you’re going to work within city limits, you deserve at least $15 per hour.

With the highest minimum wage in the country set to be phased in over three years, all eyes will be on the city to see which prognosticators’ tea leaves are correct.

Business groups are decrying it, warning it will raise prices, push jobs out of the city and ruin the Seattle economy.

Labour groups are promising that this will be a boon to local business as employees will soon have more spending money to put back into the economy.

No doubt, some businesses already on the bubble won’t have the wherewithal to contend with the higher overhead.

That is the nature of venture capitalism.

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But the trend in the last 30 years has been for the cost of living to rapidly outpace growth in wages and we worry this represents a greater threat to the economy as a whole.

Every year the cost of living in the Lower Mainland is dragged ever higher by our already absurd real estate market. Every extra dollar spent on housing is one that could have been spent in a local business.

To her credit, raising the minimum wage to $10.25 was something thenB.C. Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark campaigned on and implemented shortly after becoming premier, though she has rejected recent calls to raise it any higher.

While $15 will hardly rescue the middle class, it’s nice to see at least one jurisdiction has decided that the race to the bottom has gone on long enough.

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Editorial’s political ‘correctness’ offends Dear Editor: The North Shore News is not an international newspaper. It is also not a city newspaper. It is a good suburban journal.

I therefore find it more than a trifle presumptuous for your editorial (May 23) to tell the most important

sports team in the capital of the most powerful country in the world that the name of their team — the Redskins — belongs in the dust bin!

I am sure that the people of that country are better placed to decide whether the name is offensive or whether it is appropriate or indeed

much loved by the people concerned.

Your brave editor goes even further and really puts her foot in it when she suggests that the Eskimos and the Blackhawks and the Chiefs and even the Braves should change their teams’ names.

I actually think these names might have been chosen because the people concerned admired the characteristics they stood for.

I doubt the Eskimos are offended that a team is named after them. Certainly no Danes would be offended by a team called “Vikings.”

And I doubt any man would not admire and respect a Brave.

I am afraid the only problem is the wacky political “correctness” so eloquently displayed in your editorial.

Elvin Jensen West Vancouver

Invasive plant pull draws thanks

Dr. Evil at work?

Dear Editor: I would like to thank the volunteer group that was clearing invasive vegetation in Mosquito Creek Park on Saturday, May 24. I was out for a morning run and wasn’t able to stop and thank them personally. I don’t know what the group was called

Dear Editor: When watching movies about evil would-be world conquerors or independently wealthy superheroes, I’ve always wondered how they built their underground fortresses without attracting attention. You would think someone would notice.

Well, after watching

but I’m assuming they were volunteers — and there were many of them, including young kids.

We should all be grateful for folks such as these because without them, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy our healthy and beautiful parks in North Vancouver.

Mosquito Creek Park is

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enjoyed by countless locals — runners, walkers, dogs, creek explorers — not to mention the wildlife both on land and in the creek. Thank you all for caring so much about our community — we are so grateful.

Rhea Rosario North Vancouver

months upon months of bike lane expansion on Mount Seymour Parkway, I’m convinced that Dr. Evil must be constructing a new super-secret lair under our very roads.

It simply can’t take that long to widen a road.

Glen Terrillon North Vancouver

Post those bills, but please do remove them Dear Editor: Now that the fine weather is here again, we will have the usual crop of garage sales, and signs advertising the location attached to lamp posts and telegraph poles.

However, many people don’t bother to remove the signs after the sale is over and they are left there to rot in the wind and the rain.

Please, remove these unsightly messages after the sale and keep our city looking beautiful.

You found the time to stick them up; it won’t take any longer to remove them.

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Ruling on teachers’ pay cut expected today From page 1 Kranenvijk said she’s not blaming the teachers for the cancellation, although some other parents were.

“They have spent hours training and practising with these kids,” she said. “I understand where they’re coming from but I am a little bit exasperated with the two parties not being able to come to consensus.

“We are caught in the middle whether they like it or not.”

Young said since word got out, he’s been receiving emails from parents in other

districts who are also learning their school events have been cancelled and are looking to him for advice.

Daniel Storms, president of the NorthVancouver Teachers Association, said the teachers didn’t deliberately pickTuesday to strike. Decisions are made provincially by the teachers’ union, and “it would be difficult to not impact some event somewhere,” regardless of the date, he said. “We wouldn’t be deliberately setting the date to cancel a track meet,” he said. “Obviously, some people are upset.That’s

understandable.”

Storms added the effort of the parent volunteers in pulling off the track meet is still “built on hundreds of hours that teachers give to prepare the students for that track meet.”

On the picket line outside Lynn Valley elementary Tuesday, Grade 4 teacher Carol Tallman said while the track meet is a very visible event for parents, “there’s lots of other things that are going ahead” despite the strike — from grad ceremonies to field trips.

“It’s unfortunate we have to be out here,” she said.

“Many of us feel strongly we’re fighting for kids education.”

Class size and composition are key issues in the dispute, she said. “Each year, classes have been full to the max.”

With high numbers of special needs kids and fewer supports, “It’s almost impossible to do a good job,” she said.

According to Ministry of Education statistics, there are 629 classes in North Vancouver schools with four or more special needs students, compared to 209 classes six years ago.

Tallman said she’s seen

Residents propose apartment-style buildings From page 5 Road project.

As one example, the group proposed plans for more density by removing 18 townhouse units and replacing them with fivestorey apartment-style buildings.

“Not only does it accommodate for townhouses, stacked townhomes . . . it also allows for smaller dwellings such as lockoff suites and rental apartments to provide

housing for a wide range of new residents,” Wise added.

Mayor Darrell Mussatto and councillors stressed that while they could not give any compensation to the residents for losses incurred by the Port Metro Vancouver construction, they were open to ideas.

Mussatto said he supported higher density for Moodyville, partially due to enhanced transit planned for nearby Third Street. The Spirit Trail’s

path through Moodyville Park and the new central waterfront were also factors for the mayor.

Michelle Binkley said there are about seven groups in total from the Moodyville area that have their own ideas about how to shape the neighbourhood, but are either in the planning stages or getting ready to speak to council in the near future, as well.

The city is aiming to hold public hearings regarding the OCP in

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classes with as many as 10 special needs students.

Besides issues of class size and composition, teachers have asked for a 13.7 per cent wage increase over four years. The government has offered 7.3 per cent over six years.

OnWednesday, the Labour Relations Board is expected to rule on whether it is legal for school boards to cut teachers’ pay by 10 per cent on the days they work as a

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Casses said the material being dumped “He said, ‘The officials of this city are just a wasn’t topsoil, as originally described by bunch of bureaucrats.The only thing they Morshedian, but construction fill, that want is my money.’” included pieces of concrete and PVC pipe, Casses said he responded, “The bylaws buckets, boulders and clay. and regulations are there to protect you and to protect me, as well as all the other But Casses said when he tried to talk to his neighbour, Morshedian told him he knew citizens.” what he was doing.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to HOME & GARDEN

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Nature reveals glorious worlds of sounds and colours — beauty for which mere words are unable to describe.

And we need not travel to distant lands to find such amazing beauty, it’s right here on the North Shore.

Recently, the Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia held its annual Dawn Chorus nature event at The Conservation Area at Maplewood Flats and simply put, it was wonderful.

Most birds do much of their singing at sunup and so by 6 a.m., when we began counting, the chorus was well underway. Some of the first birds to greet the rising sun were the American robin with its familiar “cheerily, cheerily, cheer-up”; the black-capped chickadee with “tea-time”; and, the Swainson’s thrush whose beautiful voice has been described as flute-like.

Both the hermit thrush and the Swainson’s thrush have hauntingly beautiful songs.The hermit thrush passes through areas like the conservation area, but to hear its song, you’ll need to visit sub-alpine forests of local mountains (Mountain Hemlock Zone).

A few of the other birds noted at the Dawn Chorus included red-winged blackbird, black-headed grosbeak, western tanager, spotted towhee, song sparrow and warbling vireo.

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Different habitats feature different mixes of bird species, whether it’s forest, pond, meadow, seashore or stream.That’s why it’s important to visit as many habitats as possible to get a good list.

The question quickly arises:Why do birds do much of their singing in the early morning? Why not noon?

It should be pointed out that there is also an evening chorus but it doesn’t compare to the intensity of the morning chorus. It’s nice to think that birds sing to greet a new day, but they have more practical reasons.

It all has to do with breeding, establishing territory and attracting a mate. Morning is a good time to sing because the air is cool and still. Birds also make a variety of calls that serve different purposes from songs (contract calls,

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warn of danger, etc.). For example, the black-capped chickadee is a name sayer.

“Chick-a dee” is one of its calls, but its song is “teatime” or “fee-bee.”

Some birds make non-vocal sounds such as the drumming of woodpeckers and winnowing of snipe, nighthawks and hummingbirds. More than a few folks have heard a flicker tapping on their rooftop or corner street light cover.

June is such a wonderful month to be outdoors at Maplewood with colourful wildflowers, bees buzzing, dragonflies dashing about

and butterflies dancing in the breezes. Rufous and Anna’s are two commonly seen hummingbirds, but always check carefully around nectar plants like black twinberry (a honeysuckle) for the rare Calliope hummingbird.

Cedar waxwings love to eat the berries of twinberry, so watch for them amongst the bushes as well.

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When scanning the mud (tidal) flats for purple martins (which were flying about) we also saw turkey vultures (regulars on the North Shore), bald eagles, great blue herons and ospreys.

A good spot at the conservation area to observe birds and other wildlife is Osprey Point.There is a bench you can sit on to listen and watch. It’s very peaceful at Osprey Point, a favourite place of mine to enjoy nature. Along with birds, watch for butterflies, like the mourning cloak, western tiger swallowtail and Lorquin’s Admiral.

Deer, otters and seals — it’s all wonderful and yours to enjoy. Keep safe.

Al Grass is a naturalist with theWild Bird Trust of British Columbia, which offers free walks at The Conservation Area at Maplewood Flats on the second Saturday of every month.The next walk will be June 14 at 10 a.m.

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June is a wonderful time for many couples to get married and start their life together.

It’s the time of year where wedding fairs are bursting with ideas and young brides are counting down the days until their big day.

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Wedding favour boxes can be purchased at Michaels and other wedding supply shops.

These little white boxes come in various shapes and sizes and provide the backdrop for creative decorating ideas.

It’s always nice to tailor your wedding favour to the theme of the wedding.

A seaside wedding, for example, is a wonderful backdrop for seaside accessories and favours.

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Arm yourself with natural control methods Lush foliage and growing gardens invite nature’s creatures to dine, and insects bad and good will visit the garden this growing season.

Perhaps the most important pest and disease management philosophies to understand are balance between predator and prey, patience for controls to work and tolerance for all life forms in the garden. But before I get too far gone on lofty ideals, here are a few safe, common sense, practical and affordable pest and disease control methods for your garden.

Tools you will need: A one-litre water sprayer for home use — not a chemical sprayer.

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A metal soil probe that can penetrate at least 12 centimetres/one foot into the soil, to check soil moisture as related to pest or disease diagnosis.

A 20 times or stronger hand magnifier to accurately

Spittle bugs: Those little buggers run off at the mouth and secrete a foamy covering to protect themselves from predators. Spittles attack a number of plants, but they are often seen on overfertilized plants.

The single most effective, beneficial and cost-effective way to remove spit bugs from your plants without harming the Mother Earth is to water-wash gently with a pressure-controlled garden hose and nozzle, or use a one-litre sprayer and wash until the foam washes off and the tiny orange or green spittle bug is washed off the plant onto the ground to become food.You may have to hold the leaf and spray gently as you learn how to work the procedure. Severe damage may have to be cut off.

Aphids on anything: Water-wash carefully in a targeted manner at reduced pressure but use a sharp stream for accuracy. Most aphid colonies can be removed with a one-litre

sprayer of water. Harder to reach or severe colonies may require a garden hose and controlled nozzle. Or, use a shop vacuum to remove large colonies.The shop vacuum can be modified to accommodate enhanced aphid removal, i.e. extra vacuum tubes for better reach.

For easy to reach plants, even a hand-held vacuum can remove aphids. It is important to remember that some aphids should be left in the garden to provide food for predatory insects, creating a self-sustaining cycle of predator and prey for long-term control.

Weevils: I have hunted, trapped, counted and controlled weevils and even trained students to do the same. I have come to believe that weevils are not that serious of a garden pest — in a nursery setting yes, in the backyard garden, not so much. Sixty years of the chem-kill-way has done nothing to solve the problem.Yes, weevils are around and do some damage, but often the damage is short-term with many shrubs outgrowing the weevils. Longer-term infestations require a diagnosis of the underlying growing conditions to determine what is out of

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Stack together for a wedding cake effect From page 14

Materials Rectangular or squareshaped white wedding favour box Artificial white rose Chocolate or candy Glue gun and glue

gun, apply a small amount of glue to the top of the box and gently press the rose bud to the glue until it is firmly adhered.

Be sure to spread out the flower petals to cover the whole top of the box.

You can also decorate these boxes with white tulle and miniature white roses.

This idea presents well when all of the boxes are stacked together so that they look like a wedding cake. Check out nsnews. com for a photo.

Method Place the candy or chocolate inside the box and seal.

Using your hot glue

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Green Guide VEGETABLE GARDENING COURSE Learn how to gather knowledge by observation in your garden: a new approach to weeding, Saturday, June 7, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Cultivate Sharing Garden, 644 Queensbury Ave., North Vancouver. cultivateprojects. com/events/vegetablegardening-course/ CAPILANO GARDEN CLUB meets the second Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Canyon Heights Christian Assembly, 4840 Capilano Rd., North Vancouver.The June 9 meeting will be a wind up social with guest speaker Elspeth Bradbury. New members welcome. Guests $5. 604-980-4964 Compiled by Debbie Caldwell

Practice and patience required From page 16

hours minimum, preferably eight hours per day, of direct sunlight to grow roses.You will also need ample depth of rich soil, a bed design that provides airflow across the base of the roses and mulch on the soil. If you can not provide those specific conditions then grow something else.

Water-washing does help control powdery mildew, especially if the soil is dry, which exacerbates the condition. Spraying fungicides to control black spot is a lifetime sentence, because fungicides do

not cure plant diseases, fungicides only prevent the initial infection. Otherwise replant a new, fragrant and disease-resistant rose.

One final note about rose diseases: products do not grow healthy, robust and floriferous roses, knowledge and skill does.

Those are only a few of the simple, sustainable and effective techniques to deal with pests and diseases in the garden. It should be understood that mastering a technique only requires practice and perhaps patience over time to learn it as a skill for life.

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As for a cost/benefit of the chem-kill-way versus the organic control ideas I’ve discussed, gardening is supposed to be fun, not a hazard.Water-washing and shop vacuuming control many pests and when you weigh the cost of fuel to drive, the purchase of poison and tax, water-washing and shop vacuuming are just as effective, less expensive, safer for our children and gentler on Mother Earth.

Todd Major is a journeyman horticulturist, garden designer and builder, teacher and organic advocate. stmajor@shaw.ca

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NEW HELP WITH HOME FIRE PREVENTION If you’ve been following the news in the last six months, you’ll notice there have been a number of house fires in North and West Vancouver. In fact, across the country, a house fire is reported every 26 minutes.

Andrew and Michelle Howie also noticed and decided to do something about it.

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After studying some of the disturbing statistics about the frequency of home fires and often tragic consequences, Andrew and Michelle became convinced that home owners needed to be better educated and prepared about fire safety. Fire Medx is designed to provide you with the right knowledge and equipment so you can protect your homes and ensure the personal safety of those you love.

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Dale, your North Shore manager indicates most home owners understand the need for emergency preparedness but lack the expertise and time to put something in place.

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Community Bulletin Board AUTHOR TALK Sanford Osler will present his book Canoe Crossings Wednesday, June 4, 7:30-8:45 p.m. at Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Free.

Registration required. 604984-0286 x8144 BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION Celebrate the winner with wine and cheese, special Baileys drinks, prizes and excerpts from the six shortlisted books Wednesday, June 4, 6:308:30 p.m. at the North

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GETTING STARTED WITH AUDIOBOOKS Learn how to use library downloadable audiobooks with the OneClickdigital website Thursday, June 5, 2-3 p.m.,West Vancouver Memorial library, 1950

MUSIC IN HOLLYWOOD Join local composer, Michael Conway Baker for his entertaining series on music for the movies. Each presentation includes a live special guest musician Thursday, June

BEGINNERS PAINTING CLASS Sketching in watercolour — the language of light and colour, a six-week course taught

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Extending a Hand Up, Not a Hand Out. SINCE 1993 HELP US SAVE LIVES + MAKE THE NORTH SHORE AN EVEN BETTER PLACE We reach out to residents challenged by family

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Neighbours helping neighbours – We’re a

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A client’s story – ‘Jane’ is a single mother with

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Although emotionally and physically very fragile, Jane began getting counselling for herself and her children - utilizing support from Harvest Project. Jane has persevered. She has just graduated from university and has several excellent job offers. Jane says: “I couldn’t have done it without Harvest Project!”

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Masterworks presentations Island Pacific School invites you to attend our

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The most recent report is from Active Healthy Kids Canada. They used their annual report card to compare our results with those from other countries.

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Teach children how to walk to the park From page 22 more active overall.”

So we know that our kids are simply not active enough. We know that their health is likely to suffer if we don’t allow them to get out and play. What can we be doing? What is the problem?

We have created a culture of fear. We are afraid to let our children out of our sight or the sight of a qualified supervisor.

So, organized sports fit the bill. They are taken to the sports venue, and either the parent stays and watches or they know that the coach will be with them the entire time. So they get some exercise in a safe environment.

And there is nothing wrong with that, unless it’s the only exercise your child is getting. In my book, But Nobody Told Me I’d Ever Have to Leave Home, I write: “We run the risk of making children’s play so organized, supervised and academic that the value of play gets lost. Children have always played — and it’s not instead of learning and growing, it’s actually how they do it. Play is the essence of childhood. And because it brings alive our

curiosity, exploration and passion, play is something we should continue throughout our lives.

That’s play. In all play we see children learning multiple skills and having fun doing it.”

If we want our children to play, to get away from their screens and become active, we need to both encourage it and permit it.

On a beautiful spring day after school the parks should be ringing with the sound of kids playing. We should hear laughter and shouting. We should see kids throwing and kicking balls, pick-up games of soccer or softball breaking out or climbing equipment alive with children scrambling up and down like little monkeys.

All too often what we see is little kids with nannies or parents but once they are school-aged they virtually disappear from public play spaces.

Instead of giving kids a mix of organized and structured activity and free play we have dropped the free play component.

We need to street-proof our kids, teach them how to walk to the playground.

We need to organize the kids in the neighbourhood

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to walk together and play together. We need to let them go and play.

A group of three or four eight-year-olds who know the rules of the road, who know the safest route to the playground can head off to play and they will benefit.

So let’s street-proof our

kids so they know how to walk from home to school or the playground and then let them go and play.

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A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE NORTH SHORE NEWS

McCleery offers urban golf at its finest

Mark Hood, contributing writer

The Vancouver Parks Board owns and operates three championship-length public golf courses. All have been updated to meet the demands of the golfing public, and each has its own charm. Fraserview, one of the busiest courses in Canada, maintains a high degree of playability on a challenging layout.

In the 1860s, the area was settled by the McCleery brothers — one of the first pioneer families to settle in British Columbia — who operated it as a dairy farm until the 1950s.

In 1956, the Vancouver Parks Board purchased the land and developed it into a golf course, which opened for play in 1959.

Langara, which I visited last month, is B.C.’s oldest public course and a piece of living history in the heart of Western Canada’s largest metropolitan area.

Like all the Vancouver Park Board courses, it has been rejuvenated over the years to keep the playing experience enjoyable. In 1996, McCleery was completely redeveloped to a Ted Baker design.

The new facilities were opened by Kathy Shave, a great-granddaughter of the founding McCleerys who had also unveiled the course to the public in 1959.

The third, McCleery, is on the north bank of the north arm of the Fraser River and tends to fly under the radar a bit with recreational golfers.Yet, in its own way, it is every bit as historic as Langara and kept in as good condition by the grounds crew as almost any course (public or private) in the Lower Mainland.

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Unlike the other city courses, McCleery is located alongside the last vestige of farmland in the city of Vancouver: the Southlands neighbourhood.

Dan Rothenbush and Lance Olson. For Olson, it was a return to his golfing roots. His very first rounds as a young teen were played at McCleery and he knew the course well.

With semi-agricultural zoning, Southlands is home to livestock, mostly horses, and an active equestrian community. The pace of life is a little slower and the roadside waterways home to frogs and fish, attracting herons and eagles, songbirds and coyotes.

It had been wet and we were expecting a semi-soggy round, but the course was in spectacular shape, well drained and ready for play. The fairways and greens were in excellent condition and the rough was thick, lush and grabby.

The terrain is ideal for golf. It is no surprise that there are four other golf destinations nearby taking advantage of the topography: the private clubs at Marine Drive, Point Grey and Shaughnessy and the bustling golf learning centre at Musqueam.

If you have downloaded the Vancouver Golf app on your smart phone, the GPS system gives you accurate distance readings on each hole for greens and hazards.

It’s a big help, is free and well worth doing.

Today McCleery is a lively centre of play, practice and instruction. There is a 32-stall driving range, a golf academy, a fully stocked pro shop and a beautiful clubhouse from the 1996 renovation with a licensed patio looking out on the 9th and 18th greens.

Designed by the venerable AV Macan, who also designed next-door Marine Drive and nearby Shaughnessy, McCleery remains an expression of his egalitarian philosophy that the people who worked hard and paid their taxes should have the opportunity to get out in the fresh air and play the sport he loved.

This is a course without gimmicks. There’s no need. The setting is the star of the show and the relaxed rural vibe is contagious, adding to the enjoyment.

I was joined on a recent weekend by friends Ed Zoblotny,

The course begins with a 501-yard par-5 that leads south away from the clubhouse towards the river. It’s a nice start and gives you a chance to find your rhythm.

There is a pair of bunkers guarding the putting surface and I can tell you for a fact that they are well tended and make for a nice shot to the green.

Holes 2 and 3, a 337-yard par-4 and 216-yard par-3 respectively, thread their way back and forth along the east side of the driving range and lead you to the first real water hole, the 4th. see more page 27

The 4th hole at McCleery is a longish dogleg right with water on the left. The prettiest hole on the front half of the course is the 161-yard par-3 7th, with a generous green fronted by a good-sized pond.

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At 415 yards from the tips, it’s rated ninth most difficult. It’s a longish dogleg right with the water on your left from the back tee boxes. The frogs and red-winged blackbirds add to the soothing ambience. A tee shot to the left centre of the 150-yard marker gives you a good look at the pin. Too far right and there are trees and the driving range netting.

At 410 yards from the black tees, Number 6 is rated most difficult on the course. Its narrow fairway snakes along the western boundary of the course and there’s water on the left of the landing area. The rightward bend toward the green makes it look tighter than it actually is and the right side is blocked by a big cypress tree.

side is trouble. The green is slightly elevated and just beyond is the Fraser River. It’s a nice spot to pause and simply enjoy the moment.

The front ends as it began, with a par-5. Number 9 is a straight-away 482-yards with water down the right.

It’s easy to over-correct and go too far left into the trees. There’s also a sign by the 9th tee box with the phone number for the kitchen so you can call ahead and have a snack waiting for you after you putt out. It’s another good idea courtesy of the parks board and helps with pace of play. We see more page 28

The prettiest hole on the front half of the course is the 161-yard par-3 7th.

This generous green is fronted by a good-sized pond and you’re better off long than short. Rothenbush made it look even prettier with a well-judged tee shot for birdie.

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Holes 14 and 15, at 534 yards and 388 yards, lead you south along the western edge of the Marine Drive club and back to the river. Here the tee box gives you a good look at the ships and barges scuttling back and forth along the busy waterway. It’s a 190-yard parthree with water left and right and a trio of bunkers to the left of the green.

The back nine begins with a 435-yard par 4. It’s a long trek to an elevated green at the north end of the course property. It’s ranked second most difficult, but the four of us managed to make an eloquent case for moving it up to top spot.

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Beside the 11th tee box at the highest point of the course is a rock wall made from parts of the original McCleery farm house. It’s a nice reminder of the area’s history and a touchstone to a vanished age.

Number 11 gives you a lovely panorama of the course as you look south to the river and Richmond beyond. At 536 yards, it’s the longest hole on the course and there’s water before the fairway begins and another pond down the left. If you tend to hook off the tee, you might want to club down a bit.

The 12th hole has water left and right and curves left around a stand of evergreen to the putting surface.

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Olson’s putter was on fire and he made a very nice sand save for par.

The final hole is a very nice finish to your round. At 378 yards, there’s water down the left and the course’s largest bunkers to left and right of the green. With the clubhouse and mountains in the distance, it’s a quietly charming prospect.

Afterward, over a beer on the patio, we were all very impressed with the level of service and conditions of the course. It may be a little farther from the North Shore than the other two city courses but McCleery is exceptional value for your golfing dollar.

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Chris Dagenais

The Dish

ROMANCING THE STOVE Angela Shellard presents recipes for homemade rubs and sauces. page 30

There are few places as cynical and depressing to me in modern Western culture than the food court at a mall.

Typically these places are populated by fast food chains doling out over-salted, fatty, highly standardized fare in assembly line fashion.

The food is just another consumable, targeting people who are already in spending mode.

I’m guilty of patronizing the odd food court now and again, mostly when I haven’t planned the day’s meals well and find myself feeling peckish while shopping. By and large, however, I try to avoid these places and the guilty feeling of conspicuous consumption that they elicit in me.

Lonsdale Quay Market, which has evolved its offerings considerably in recent years to include many retail shopping options, has nevertheless managed to sidestep the big chain food court approach and hosts instead an inspiring roster of food stalls that offer thoughtful, fresh and inspired fare from largely family run, small businesses.

My most recent eating experience at the Quay was at Cilantro and Jalapeno, a combination restaurant and retailer that specializes in the traditional foods of Mexico.

Cilantro and Jalapeno’s space is small, with limited

seating. However, as tables and chairs abound at the Quay, take-out needn’t be an onerous affair. On my visit, my wife DJ and I enjoyed the sunshine on the nearby pier with our take-out meal spread across an oceanside bench.

On one side of Cilantro and Jalapeno you’ll find both fresh and packaged Mexican sundries including pickled cactus, assorted cheeses, fresh tortillas, an array of jalapeno peppers, homemade tortilla chips, and a large assortment of dips and sauces, including an absolutely gorgeous salsa verde.

This latter is a traditional salsa made from tomatillo, a small gooseberry-shaped fruit indigenous to Mexico that yields a tart flavour that is ideal for service as a condiment. DJ and I tried the salsa verde with Cilantro and Jalapeno’s homemade tortilla chips, which they sell in small bags for just $1.95.

The chips are delicious, with a stoneground corn richness and conservative application of salt that puts them in a different category entirely from the massproduced, store bought chips to which so many of us have grown accustomed.

In combination with the salsa the chips were sublime, forming part of a formidable duo of ingredients that ranks among the world’s greatest snack foods.

Cilantro and Jalapeno offers a number of traditional Mexican dishes that may not be familiar to those whose experience is limited to Tex-Mex, Baja-style, or California-influenced Nuevo Latino cuisine. Among their traditional offerings is Caldo Tlalpeno, a soup of spicy, reddish chicken stock, shredded chicken meat, sliced avocado, onions, rice, cheese, crema (a salted, more fluid-like

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Next up DJ and I shared a dish called Chilaquiles, a Mexican riff on lasagna comprised of layers of tortilla chips topped with cheese, fresh cilantro, onions, enchilada sauce, and crema.

The dish is served as a meal with a generous side of rice, lovely refried black beans, pico de gallo, and guacamole.

For a main dish, I had a chicken chimichanga, a deep fried corn tortilla stuffed with black and pinto beans, cheese, crema, salsa, guacamole, and tender, slowly braised chicken topped with a dollop of

chipotle mayo.The dish was overwhelmingly large, but very tasty, the homemade guacamole and coarsely chopped tomato salsa lending a welcome vegetable freshness to a truly rich creation.

For her main, DJ chose a veggie platter, another voluminous dish featuring meal-sized helpings of the sides that accompanied the Chilaquiles as well as a handful of those fantastic tortilla chips.

Cilantro and Jalapeno makes use of a feta-like cheese on many of its dishes, certainly on three of the items DJ and I sampled. Most often, they seem to grate it atop the refried beans. It is a minor complaint, but for my taste, amidst all the fresh flavours on each plate, the cheese is too pungent, almost breathtakingly heady and concentrated.

While this may appeal to some as a sharp contrast in

flavours, I am inclined to ask them to hold off on it when I next visit.

I was interested to learn that Cilantro and Jalapeno supplies numerous North Shore schools with healthy, fresh and hot lunches as a means of introducing kids to Mexican culture through authentic food. I commend this progressive initiative and hope that my own children are fortunate enough to participate in such a program at their school.

Our meal of chips and salsa verde, a shared appetizer and two mains came to $42 before gratuity.

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Romancing the Stove It’s time to clean up your outdoor grill in preparation for another season of cooking al fresco.

If you’re stuck in the store-bought barbecue sauce rut, it’s time to branch out and try some homemade rubs and sauces. Spice rubs impart deep and rich flavour to meats, poultry and fish.

The only downside is that a bit of planning is required since the rubs have to be applied to meat at least an hour or preferably several hours before grilling.

For best results use fresh herbs and spices (not those dusty jars that have been in your pantry since the glory days of bell-bottom pants), and a coarse salt, either kosher or sea salt (a far better choice than regular iodized table salt).

Ideally meat should be at room temperature (a short turn in the microwave on low would take the chill off). Massage the rub firmly all over the meat and under the skin of poultry, then place in a plastic sandwich bag and refrigerate until ready to grill.

Since most rubs contain sugar it’s best to keep your grill at medium temperature so the sugar doesn’t burn. A barbecue sauce can be applied towards the end of the cooking time.

I’ve included a recipe for a delicious sauce below, as

Homemade rubs and sauces are not difficult to make, and they allow home cooks to combine their own favourite flavours rather than rely on store-bought options. CKD(D MIKE WAKEFIELD well as two all-purpose rubs (good on meat, chicken or fish). One more tip: a pretty glass jar of your favourite rub makes a great Father’s Day gift.

Kansas City Rub ½ cup light brown sugar ¼ cup paprika 1 Tbsp freshly ground black pepper 1 Tbsp kosher or sea salt 1 Tbsp chili powder 1 Tbsp garlic powder 1 Tbsp onion powder 1 tsp cayenne (reduce or increase according to taste) Combine all ingredients together in a medium bowl.

If necessary, pass through a sieve to remove lumps from brown sugar. Transfer to an airtight container. Makes approximately one cup.

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For much of this season the Rockridge Ravens

senior rugby team was slugging away like a boxer unable to throw his best punch.

They were still winning

bouts — including the Lower Mainland title with a win over their powerful cross-town rivals from Collingwood — but knew they could do even more damage if only they could unleash their most dangerous weapon: a swift uppercut named Adam

Martin. The Grade 12 scrum half was practising with the team mostly in a non-contact role, unable to get into the real action as he came back from a fully torn ACL he suffered in November of 2012 that required surgery and intensive rehab. It was

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all the time playing touch and it’s like, ‘Oh, when can Adam come back?’”

Last week, Adam came back. It was a knockout.

Martin’s first action since the injury was last weekend’s provincial championship tournament and all he did was earn a spot on the Commissioner’s XV team as Rockridge’s MVP while guiding the Ravens to their first B.C. title since 2010. Rockridge clinched

the crown with a 28-15 win over Collingwood Saturday at Abbotsford’s Rotary Stadium. Zambon lauded Martin’s efforts to get back on the pitch in time to finish his high school career with a championship.

“We knew he was a great player, it was just a matter of would he be able to come back in time,” he said. “He just committed himself to being able to get back to those provincials in Grade 12. I thought it was very fitting that he

came back, played a great tournament and was our Commissioner’s XV.” Martin, who didn’t have his surgery until September 2013, admits that he wasn’t given full clearance from his medical team but he and his parents decided to take a chance at the provincial championships.

“My surgeons and my physio both said to wait a year, so I was pushing it,” he said. “My physio said it was a 50/50 chance. If I played I could re-injure it, or I could be fine.”

Martin took the chance and came up lucky.

Battling some nerves, he still managed to score in the first game and the Ravens cruised through their opening round opponents. Their first stiff test came from a talented St. Michaels team in the semifinals when Rockridge raced out to a 20-0 lead but barely hung on for a 20-17 win.

Coach Zambon said his team chose to view the win as a testament to their strength rather than an almost collapse.

“That was a huge win for us, it really gave the guys confidence that if they keep their heads on and keep their discipline, they could beat anybody,” he said. “These kids are good kids that we get to coach and teach, they’re tough kids mentally and physically. Rather than looking at that as a thing

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The good vibes did carry over to the final as the Ravens battled to a 7-3 lead at halftime — Martin opened the scoring with a diving try — before building up a 28-10 lead in the second half.

Collingwood scored in the final minute to make it 28-15 but that was the end of the action. Rockridge’s other tries came from Wyatt Vickerstaff, Jackson Claridge and Brandon Leschert while Angus Carroll, co-captain along with Mitch Melenbacher, kicked four tough converts in the swirling Fraser Valley wind.

“Collingwood was defending and doing what they do really well, which is hold onto the ball through multiple phases,” said Zambon. “Our guys just relied on their defence and

in the second half managed to get a couple of scores and develop a bit of a lead. . . . Our forward pack as a group played well.

Charlie Macdonald played well. Brock Duncan was a boy who started playing rugby for us in Grade 12.

He had just an incredible tournament. Incredible year, considering that he started in Grade 12.”

As for Collingwood, they cruised through the tournament until slamming up against the Rock.

“Rockridge just played really good rugby,” said head coach David Speirs.

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Rockridge gets final revenge against rivals from Collingwood From page 32 some good rugby from there.”

Carlos Sheppard and Bailey Speirs scored tries in the final, with Speirs earning a spot on the Commissioner’s XV team.

“He had a great game,” coach Speirs said of MVP Bailey, who also happens to be his son. “He was really strong on offence, made a lot of good runs and was outstanding defensively.

It’s a bad sign when your scrum half has to make a lot of tackles. And he had to make a lot of tackles.”

The game marked the final Collingwood contest for co-coach Roger Hatch who is retiring this year after a 29-year run with the program that included 15 provincial medals.

“The storybook ending didn’t occur,” said Speirs, “(But) he went out going to five straight B.C. finals.

A record of seven golds, six silvers and two bronze medals. That’s a pretty amazing record.”

This year’s final was just one more chapter in the Rockridge/Collingwood rivalry that ebbs and flows with neither team ever gaining full control. The Cavaliers won last year’s final over the Ravens.

“I definitely think both programs drive each other to get better,” said Zambon. “Because the expectations are high for each program, I think we do kind of force the other one to keep pace. It’s always kind of a challenge back and forth to see who can better the other one.”

The win was especially sweet for Martin who had to watch from the sidelines last year as the Cavaliers claimed the championship.

“I really felt like I let down the team not being able to play there — all this year I’ve been trying to get back on it,” he said, adding that the contests against Collingwood are always the most intense matchups of the year.

“All of our guys know each other from Capilano (Rugby Club) and all of the other leagues so there’s a massive rivalry,” he said.

“We’ve always been out to get them. It’s always the most physical game and always a really close game.”

As for winning the team’s MVP award in his first action in 18 months, Martin deflected the praise onto his teammates.

“I’m still surprised,” he said of earning the award.

“Our team is full of so many good players. It was just an amazing game for our entire team. At the end of the year everything just clicked. I can’t really say it was just me.”

Martin also seemed content with his decision to take his chances on the field knowing his knee wasn’t back to 100 per cent.

“It was definitely worth the risk,” he said, adding that he owes a lot of thanks to his coaches for the faith they had in him. “I was a year and a half without playing rugby and they still had the confidence to put me back out there. That really just made me want to prove to them that was the right decision.”

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