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$4M ‘teardown’ fuels housing debate Red-hot real estate market spurs calls for speculation tax JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A $4-million “teardown” that sold for $1 million over asking price in West Vancouver this week is renewing debate about money flooding into the

top tiers of the Lower Mainland’s real estate market and its ripple effect on affordability.

Debate about issues like foreign buyers and real estate flipping is in the forefront after a home listed for $2.98 million in the Bayridge area

of West Vancouver prompted a bidding war and eventually sold for $4.1 million to a buyer from mainland China.

The 60-year-old, fourbedroom home with a swimming pool at 4130 Burkehill Place had never been listed before, said Viv Harvey of Royal LePage Sussex, who represented the sellers in the deal.

“It’s a lovely little rancher,” she said. But that

wasn’t what most of the real estate agents and prospective buyers who attended an open house last week were interested in.

“When you’re looking out from the lot, all you see is water,” she said. “There are no homes, there are no wires.”

“It’s basically a teardown,” she said. “The value is in the lot.”

Harvey said at $2.98

million, the property was “sharply priced.”

“It probably was under the value,” she said. “That is the best way to make sure you get full exposure.”

Harvey said she expected the property to perhaps fetch as high as $3.5 million, but having it reach $4.1 million was a surprise.

Nine offers were made on the property — the lowest among them for the full

asking price.

Harvey said having the house sell for $1.1 million over asking price is a first for her.

The buyer, from mainland China, already owns a home in the Lower Mainland, and plans to tear the existing home down and rebuild on the lot, said Harvey. He hasn’t decided See Profits page 9

Lynn Canyon rescue

Fire crews pull injured cliff jumper from water MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

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A cliff jumping accident in Lynn Canyon Park Monday evening sent a 20-year-old woman to hospital with spinal injuries and has local first responders once again highlighting the dangers of this perennial summer pastime.

The young woman was with friends when she jumped from a ledge nine metres above Lynn Creek, where water levels are considerably lower than normal for this time of year, according to District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services assistant chief Mike Cairns.

Around 5 p.m., fire and rescue crews arrived on scene, below Twin Falls Bridge — a popular swimming hole half a kilometre south of the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge — and found an injured woman stranded on a rock in the middle of Lynn Creek.

“She had some assistance from her friends who were with her,” said Cairns. “She tried to stand up and was unable to, so they laid her back down on the rock.”

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Woman sues for paternity proof

Murder victim acknowledged daughter as his child, claim states JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A Chinese woman who says a murderedWest Vancouver millionaire was the father of her child has filed a lawsuit demanding that DNA that could establish paternity be preserved.

XuanYang filed the lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday asking for a judge’s order preventing the Vancouver Police Department or the B.C. Coroners Office from destroying DNA from the murder victim.

Yang said in her lawsuit the DNA is needed to legally confirm that her infant daughter, born in California, is the child of GangYuan, a wealthy businessman

who was murdered and dismembered in his British Properties mansion May 2.

She added that since Yuan’s body was reportedly chopped into 100 pieces, she doesn’t know where his body parts ended up or whether DNA tests were done before remains were turned over to his brother.

She has asked in her legal suit that any DNA samples be submitted by authorities to a laboratory of her choosing so that a paternity test can be performed.

Yuan, who was 42, died without a will and the question of who will inherit his estate — estimated by lawyers at $20-$28 million and byYang at $50 million — hangs in the balance.

Yang said in the suit she is concerned DNA might be

disposed of before she can establish her daughter’s legal claim.

According to court documents,Yang first met Yuan in Beijing, then again in the U.S., where they spent time in Las Vegas together, then travelled to Miami and eventually to Cancun over a period of several weeks.Yang said the pair had sex multiple times during that time, which is when her daughter was conceived.

In the court documents, Yang statedYuan not only acknowledged the child as his during his life, he also flew to Beijing to meetYang’s parents, paid for her to come to Vancouver and live with him when she was pregnant and paid for her to fly to Los Angeles and give birth there at a clinic that caters to foreigners who want to make sure their children have U.S. citizenship.

The lawsuit states

evidence includes more than 250 pages of text messages in which the couple discuss the birth, his wish that she not get an abortion, exchanges of ultrasound images and discussions of their plans to have the child in the U.S. Yang notedYuan is also listed as the child’s father on the birth certificate. But Yang alleges in her lawsuit thatYuan’s brother — who is now executor of his estate — warned her followingYuan’s murder not to come to Vancouver and “not to speak of the claims to anyone.”

Yang came to Vancouver anyway and called the brother, demanding that a DNA test be done.

According to the lawsuit, the brother said he’d arrange it, and told her to go to a laboratory in Burnaby.Yang said she took her daughter there to give a blood sample, but added when she left the lab she was “contacted

immediately by the brother and told to go back to China and not speak of the test or her daughter’s claims to anyone.”

Yang became suspicious that authorities that had custody ofYuan’s body following the murder hadn’t supplied the comparison DNA sample.

She sought advice from a lawyer who later confirmed the brother had supplied the sample.

Yang also claims that subsequently, after she cut off contact with the brother, he called her mother in Beijing and saidYuan’s remains had already been cremated.

Yang claims the conduct of the brother is “highly questionable,” noting that if a child’s paternity can be proven, under British Columbia estate law, that See Fate page 5

Canyon visitors cautioned

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It is unclear how the woman sustained her injuries, added Cairns, and whether or not they were caused upon impact with the water or by hitting the bottom of the creek. “We took the spinal board and basket out to the rock and stabilized her. . . .We were treating her for possible lower back and spinal injuries with early onset hypothermia,” said Cairns.

The woman, who is a local, was taken to Lions Gate Hospital for treatment, and the extent of her injuries is unknown.

Local or not, however, there are plenty of cliffjumping warning signs — along with memorials for those who lost their lives to the canyon — throughout the park.To reach the ledge at Twin Falls, explained Cairns, the woman had to climb over a fence with a sign that reads: Extreme Danger, Don’t Go Behind This Point. Cairns said there is often an element of bravado or peer pressure at play in these cases.

Witnesses reported the young woman didn’t look comfortable and was apprehensive about the jump into the canyon. “And her friends were like, ‘Come on, you can do it,’ sort of thing,” said Cairns.

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It was a close call for the forests on Grouse Mountain Friday night after an intense brush fire threatened to spread out of control.

Grouse Mountain resort staff noticed the fire burning about 100 metres north

of the parking lot next to Grouse Grind trailhead and called 9-1-1 just after 11 p.m. District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services members were on the scene quickly but faced a formidable fire.

“When the first crew arrived, they came upon a fire that was probably 40 feet by 40 feet with 15-foot

flames and the intensity was growing,” said assistant fire chief Mike Cairns.

Firefighters dragged hoses up to the site, which was clear cut by BC Hydro last year to protect power lines, and knocked down the flames. “This was real close.

It was just getting to the edge of the forest area again and there was a lot of very dry,

thin material,” he said. “Even with five to 10 more minutes without getting water on it, it would have been up the side of the mountain quite rapidly and we probably wouldn’t have been able to get control of it if we didn’t get at it when we did.”

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Speed likely a factor in fatal crash on Sea-to-Sky JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Speeding is being investigated as a probable cause of a fatal motorcycle accident over the weekend that left a 22-year-old Surrey man dead.

Emergency crews were called to the accident on Highway 99, just north of Horseshoe Bay, shortly before 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

Witnesses said the motorcycle rider lost control and collided with a roadside barricade, then was thrown off his motorcycle several metres into a roadside embankment.

The rider was pronounced dead at the scene.

Const. Jeff Palmer, spokesman for the West Vancouver Police Department, said speed is believed to be the likely cause of the accident.

Witnesses who saw the motorcycle before the crash estimated it was going between 30 and 40 kilometres an hour over the posted speed of 90 km/h.

“There were a couple of other motorcycle riders who had seen him pass,” said Palmer.

Palmer said the rider was wearing a helmet-mounted camera when the crash happened and police have recovered the footage.

Investigators plan to analyze the video more closely to determine more precisely how fast the motorcycle was going.

Palmer noted the good weather means it’s prime motorcycle riding season on the roads.

“There’s a strong temptation to crank a little harder on the throttle,” he said — sometimes with tragic results.

Family of the Surrey man killed has been notified.West Vancouver police are not releasing his name.

Palmer noted speeding remains a leading cause of crashes that result in injury and death in British Columbia. Motorcyclists are at extra risk, being far more physically vulnerable in a crash than drivers or passengers in a car.

“Anytime you’re on a motorcycle, you’re very vulnerable,” said Palmer.

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Dry spell sparks wildfire concern

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fire departments responded to at least seven other brush fires over the weekend, most at trailheads and off roadways where smokers tend to flick their butts.

The fires aren’t always as threatening as Friday’s but they needlessly tie up resources, Cairns said. And a prolonged dry spell means the risks posed by even small fires grows exponentially.

“These are conditions that we generally start seeing in late July or early August.

If things continue the way they’re forecast, we’ll be at extreme (fire danger rating) early in the summer.”

was that district crews, along with Grouse Mountain staff, Metro Vancouver firefighters and the B.C.Wildfire Management Branch, had held training sessions meant to address fires of this type.

Cairns said the fire was caused by humans though the exact cause will likely remain unknown. “Smoking material would be the most likely.There was no evidence of campfires or anything like that. Cigarettes butts are the No. 1 cause, especially in this area,” he said.

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child stands to inherit Yuan’s multimillion-dollar estate. If no paternity can be proven, the brother will likely inherit the estate. “The brother then stands to gain access to a $50-million estate by disproving the infant’s claim,” according to the lawsuit.

Mark Thompson, lawyer for GangYuan’s brother, refused to comment on the case, saying he’d been asked not to say anything further.

The day before,Thompson told a Province reporter that Yuan had at least one child and possibly as many as five.Thompson added one of those children has had a DNA test that confirms paternity.Thompson didn’t say whether that test result

came fromYang’s daughter or another child.

Li Zhao, the husband ofYuan’s cousin, has been charged with second-degree murder and interfering in human remains inYuan’s killing. He is in custody, pending a bail hearing.

The lawsuit to establish paternity is the latest twist in legal battles that have erupted among family members since the grisly murder.

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he howling about the price of housing in the Lower Mainland has gotten so loud these last few weeks, our political class can no longer pretend not to hear it.

There’s no shortage of opinions about what’s causing the home values to so far exceed typical incomes in this region: Foreign millionaires looking for can’tlose investments, speculators flipping properties for a quick profit, homes being left empty, record low interest rates, the bank of mom and dad, and good oldfashioned supply and demand.

The trouble is we don’t actually know a lot about what’s happening because our political leadership has been exhibiting world-class foot dragging on even collecting data on the most basic information.

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With huge amounts of money to rake in from property transfer taxes, community amenity contributions from developers, a real estate industry experiencing its golden age and untold billions of dollars in equity being generated out of what used to be modest middle-class homes, there’s plenty of motivation to keep the party going.

But like any good party, this one is coming with a massive hangover and it’s being felt by a generation that’s been priced out of the market.

These are people who do important work in the community and contribute to the economy but can’t get basic shelter needs met.

Most jurisdictions that have experienced an overheated housing market collect data on who is buying and make policy accordingly.

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Cougar killing questioned Dear Editor: I’d appreciate expressing a viewpoint on the killing of a cougar recently, the event which took front page of your newspaper.

I live right on the edge of the Capilano northern rainforest, at Park Royal, thus the big cat was in my neighborhood.When I read your print, saw the photograph of this beautiful cat given with the first-hand report by the cyclist who met up with the cougar, I was enraged that the only option the wildlife conservationist and local police could come up with, was to shoot and kill this animal.

You cannot relocate cougars, said the wildlife conservationist. But there’s

no reason given as to why this is not possible.The cougar was not displaying the aggressive traits of a cougar. No, it showed no interest in attacking the cyclist. “He seemed timid.”

I googled to try and find out why you cannot relocate a cougar, especially one that is a first native of B.C. and we have encroached on its turf. Do we not owe it as true wildlife conservationists to protect these cougars? Is the cougar at fault, especially for not being aggressive but respectful in the encounter?

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Some garden questions best left to masters “Gardening is learning, learning, learning.That’s the fun of gardens; you are always learning.”

– British actress Helen Mirren (1945-) For all her wonderful acting, Dame Helen Mirren never spoke a truer word.

How often have you visited a local nursery and found yourself stumped for an essential piece of information? Caught in that situation, did you turn to the master gardeners you’d seen sitting around a table piled high with their gardening reference books?

I did so mid-May after online research failed to identify a pink-flowered perennial I wanted to add to others I’d planted in a small garden that used to be a gravelly horsetail patch.

Fortunately, gardeners are happy and friendly folk, ever willing to share the tips they’ve gathered over their own years of learning by trial and error.

But although I’ve queried master gardeners before,

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I’ve never gone beyond my immediate question to ask what the designation really means.

Are they professional horticulturalists or “just” enthusiastic gardeners?

What special training do they have? Are they volunteers?

This time, although noone could run my mystery plant to ground, we decided to adjourn our conversation in favour of satisfying some of my curiosity over a cup of coffee — and that’s how I met Linda Marshik, a master gardener since 1994, and MG-in-training Brenda Anderson.

Recently moved to the

North Shore, Anderson became interested in the program as a way to learn about the differences between gardening practices in our coastal climate and those of her previous home in Smithers — a much harsher growing zone.

The master gardener program (mgabc.org) is available in several centres throughout B.C., in most other provinces, in Washington and Oregon and in the United Kingdom.

Marshik explained that, with a heavy focus on volunteer service, interested gardeners first take the theory component of a three-month basic training program. Hosted by Vancouver’s world-famous VanDusen gardens, classes are held one day a week and instruction includes volunteering and 10 hours of homework. The course offers training in the areas master gardeners encounter when they are faced with questions home gardeners ask: topics such as choosing and caring for woody and herbaceous perennials;

lawn care, pesticide use, composting and growing plants successfully in shady versus sunny gardens.

Continuing education and volunteering are necessary to maintain certification.

Volunteers enjoy interacting with the public as they share their knowledge at garden centres, clinics, schools and care homes.

Arising out of people’s interest in recent 100-mile diet initiatives, the sharp spike in questions about growing vegetables has been especially encouraging.

Rewarding, too, are the excited reactions of kindergarten to Grade 3 children when volunteers teach them about different types of pollinators — bees being especially important.

For me, there was a bonus hidden in the information Marshik and Anderson shared.

“If you’d like to know more about the program,” they said, “you should call West Vancouver master gardener Roy Holloway.”

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Profits from ‘flipping’ should be taxed: mayor From page 1

neighbourhood and does not create a community.”

Money made by quickly flipping real estate should also be taxed as business income, he Smith.

“There’s too much of an incentive right now for people buying houses and flipping them.

“I don’t personally believe in speculating in houses. It’s a house. It’s a place to raise your family.”

But Smith said any such measures would need approval from the province, something that hasn’t happened yet.

Angell said if it wanted to preserve affordability, the government should have brought in those kinds of measures before the market exploded. “By the time they bring this in, the market will have changed,” he said.

Wachsmuth said the issue isn’t about where buyers are coming from, but what they’re doing with the properties.

“The housing market’s a weird thing,” he said.

“Houses are simultaneously a possible investment and a human necessity. Because they are both of these things at the same time, you can get some really tough situations.

Vancouver’s in the face of one of those right now.”

country, he said.

Others are making money by quickly flipping properties — sometimes assigning their contract of sale to a third party for a premium.

Those kinds of issues recently promptedVancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson to call for a speculation tax on real estate.

Houses that sit empty until they are flipped is another issue garnering attention.

That can contribute to the problem of housing affordability by putting pressure on housing supply, said David Wachsmuth, an urban geographer at the University of British Columbia. “It exacerbates the whole affordability crisis the city faces,” he said.

It can also lead to problems because people who leave their homes empty aren’t participating in the community, he said.

West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith said he’d support measures like a higher tax rate for homes that aren’t used as a principal residence — a practice common in other parts of the world.

“We hear that people are buying houses and they’re not renting them out,” he said. “That does not create a

if he’s going to live in the house or resell it, she added.

While a deal like this is still unusual, it’s indicative of what’s going on in high-end real estate markets like West Vancouver.

“It’s a market on steroids,” said Harvey. “The market has gone a little crazy.”

Increasingly the West Vancouver real estate market is attracting offshore buyers.

“With things escalating in the world, there’s a real need for people to put their money in a safe haven,” said Harvey. “Our dollar is so low that Canada is really on sale.”

Just how much real estate is being sold to foreign buyers isn’t clear, because it’s not well tracked by government statistics.

Harvey estimates about 15 per cent of her business comes from overseas buyers.

Allan Angell of Angell Hasman, a West Vancouver real estate company that caters to the high end of the market, puts that figure higher. “I’m selling 80 per cent of my high-end houses to Chinese,” he said.

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Retired Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie is a terrific example of the highperformance team of candidates Justin Trudeau has strategically attracted who will be ready to govern well should the Liberal Party of Canada be elected in October.

To General Leslie, being in the service of fellow Canadians - both home and abroad - is second nature. Born into a multi-generational military family, General Leslie has had a decorated 35 year career in the Canadian Armed Forces.

And now, he again finds himself a “new recruit”, ready to once again serve his country - this time as a Liberal Member of Parliament for an Ottawa-area riding.

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Stephen Harper’s leadership style is “command and control”. Virtually all decision-making is prescribed from the centre. Individual MPs and ministers are highly scripted in everything they do and they are told to stick to the script.

Justin Trudeau practises a very different style of leadership. For him, the role of a leader is to ensure “the right people are on the bus” with the skills required for the job at hand. It is to lay out a galvanizing vision and strategy and to then empower his team - while holding them accountable for outcomes.

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enlightened businesses and nonprofit organizations. It produces better results by ensuring that a strong group of people are involved in decision making - each bringing unique skill sets and experiences to the deliberations.

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You may have seen Mr. Harper’s recent U.S. attack-style TV ads snidely stating that Mr. Trudeau “just isn’t ready.” I want to tackle that one head-on.

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Lt. General Andrew Leslie knows a thing or two about leadership. And, like me, he has found Justin Trudeau to be an impressive and inspiring figure who should not be underestimated.

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Two silver alerts in one day for North Shore Rescue BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Two seniors with dementia are safe at home thanks to two seperate North Shore Rescue missions in a single day this past weekend.

The first “silver alert” came at 9 a.m. Saturday when the team was requested to help in the search for a 74-year-old Lynn Valley man with dementia.The man had apparently driven from his home to Lynn Canyon Park and left his car parked outside the locked gate.

Fearing the worst, North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks called in two

teams to search both sides of the creek. “Luckily one of our teams located him in between the suspension bridge and Twin Falls. He was on the east side of the creek, just sitting there,” he said.

The man had apparently hiked down via trails and then slid down a steep threemetre section of the creek bank. “It was quite clear very quickly that he was not able to make it out on his own so we ended up putting him in a stretcher and doing a stretcher carry the rest of the way out,” Danks said.

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Authorities dispatched North Shore Rescue again at 2:30 p.m. when an 81-yearold man with Alzheimer’s disappeared from his home in Deep Cove. After two hours of looking in parks and residential neighbourhoods in the area, a search team found the man walking on Plymouth Drive.

Requests for the allvolunteer team to aid in the search for wandering seniors are becoming more frequent, Danks said.The only solution, he said, is for family members to keep a close watch.

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The City of North Vancouver has balked on loosening up the process for child-care providers setting up shop in residential neighbourhoods.

Under the old city bylaw, anyone wanting to open a child-care business in a residential area was required to produce a traffic management plan satisfactory to the city engineer, distribute information and solicit feedback from every neighbour within 100 metres and have the application be subject to a public meeting and council’s consideration.

Aiming to encourage more child-care spaces in

the city, staff recommend council eliminate the public meeting, reduce the notification distance to 40 metres and remove the need to collect comments.

But following public input at council May 25, those changes went down to defeat, with Couns. Rod Clark, Pam Bookham, Don Bell and Holly Back, who broke ranks with her council allies, voting in the majority.

At issue was large-scale group child-care businesses, which can hold up to 20 children and don’t require the owner to live on site.

There are nine group child-care facilities in the city now. Although most have never been the subject of complaints, one on East Fourth Street has produced

a steady stream of noise and traffic complaints from neighbours.

Coun. Pam Bookham moved for council to establish a one-year moratorium on any new such facilities if they included spaces for nine or more children.When it came to a vote though, only Clark supported the motion.

Coun. Don Bell then moved a compromise that would see neighbourhood notification reduced to 40 metres but the public meeting requirement stay in the bylaw.That was enough to win enough votes to pass.

Council will also meet behind closed doors to be briefed by staff on the history of issues with the East Fourth child-care and explore enforcement options.

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Sitting in the back corner of the yard whirring away is a lonely sprinkler trying in vain to keep up with the drying weather of our seasonal drought.

By contrast in the neighbour’s yard, a high pressure underground sprinkler system pulses out water at several litres a minute, showering the garden in glistening dew drops.

In still another yard down the street, the constant drip, drip of a soaker hose can be faintly heard underneath a hedge by the sidewalk.

By comparison to those sounds, a couple thousand kilometres south in California, the multiyear drought is forcing tough choices on everyone.

Farmers are ploughing under farm fields to make fallow for lack of water.

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The Interior of B.C. is also facing water supply pressures caused by population growth and natural resource extraction that demands more water from finite resources.Water is not always abundant when and where people need it, hence the need for summer watering restrictions which began on June 1 in the Metro Vancouver region.

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Bird songs and calls include musical warbles, chips and twitters. One help in learning is to translate the songs and calls into words.

Thus, the black-capped chickadee’s song is “teatime” and the robin sings “cheerily, cheerily, cheerup!” And who can forget the “quick-three beers!” of an olive-sided flycatcher?

Some birds, like the chickadee, call “chick-adee-dee” and the towhee’s “towhee,” making them “name sayers.”

On a visit to the conservation area trail, you will be led through and past a nice variety of habitat types. In the woods listen for birds like the warbling vireo, Swainson’s thrush, brown creeper, western tanager, black-headed grosbeak, black-throated gray warbler and Pacific-slope flycatcher.

Wetlands feature the red-winged blackbird’s “onk-a-ree!”, the peeping of ducklings and with a little luck the “kidick-a-dick” of a Virginia rail. Recently bluewinged teal were spotted in the west pond.

The viewpoint over the

salt marsh is a great place to watch for swifts, swallows, turkey vultures, hawks and to listen for the mellow croaks of ravens. And maybe a spotted sandpiper too.

Glancing over Burrard Inlet, listen for the cries of gulls, chirps and whistles of eagles and osprey, and the raspy calls of the Caspian tern.

At Osprey Point listen for the liquid warbling notes of the purple martin, and note their nesting boxes on dolphins. Martins winter in South America, making an amazing journey northward to breed.

Other interesting sounds associated with marine habitats incudes the “rattle” calls of the belted kingfisher, the “groonk!” of a startled great blue heron, or the “teer-teer-teer” of a greater yellowlegs.

Across the barge channel bridge listen for the “potato-chip” flight calls of goldfinches, “fitz-bew” of a willow flycatcher or the musical warble of a purple finch.

When the sun warms everything up, watch too for lovely butterflies.

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GRAND OPENING Celebrate the opening of the Sutherland Schoolyard Market Garden Friday, June 12, 3:30-6 p.m. at 1860 Sutherland Ave., North Vancouver.Tour the garden, meet the team and enjoy fresh snacks.

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Circle of unexpected friendships widens From page 7

and the good fortune we each had to find good jobs before the money ran out.

If you’re wondering whether I found the answer to the question that led to this story — yes, I did.

During a later trip to a different garden centre, on a small table at the back, I found two, one-gallon pots of a plant called silene (pronounced sy-lee-nee), a variation of rose campions.

Alongside their cousins, they now have a new home and are blooming right

because someone expended effort on them.”

Remarkably, Bailey’s biography at: en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Liberty_Hyde_Bailey notes: “He dominated the field of horticultural literature, writing some 65 books … efforts to explain botany to lay-people …”

Isn’t that the epitome of the master gardener torch now being carried so ably

by Holloway, Marshik, Anderson and, no doubt, by their colleague Nigel Bunning?

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outside my door.

Holloway’s parting advice was for me to plan a call to another West Vancouverite,VanDusen member Nigel Bunning, “He’s been a master gardener longer than I have.

He was a farmer, came from Herefordshire, I think.”

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attacked people but generally and to quote the wildlife expert conservationist “are afraid, fearful of humans.”

This particular cougar didn’t realize it was going to be killed, for being there, but if it had been aggressive or fearful like cougars are suppose to be, would it have been relocated?

Sheryl Bjerre West Vancouver

Editor’s note: Conservation officer Chris Doyle responds: “The reason the cougar was destroyed was because of its behaviour.

Unfortunately this cougar decided to be frequently in an urban environment and its behaviour was a bit concerning in that it was approaching humans and it had no fear of humans.

We could tranquilize a cougar and move it but we wanted to do the right

thing. Given what would be that cougar’s natural home range on the South Coast, there are very few places where you could guarantee there would be no interactions with humans.

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PARENTING

How to help your kid make friends It was a lovely summer day. I was just five years old and my mother and I were standing under the rose arbour at the side of our new home.

I was just in front her, leaning against her legs.

We were facing another mother and daughter combo and the two adults were grinning delightedly.

The talk had started when the neighbour welcomed us to the neighbourhood and ended with the two women deciding that because Sue and I were only six months apart in age we would be able to become friends.

For young children, friendships are more about proximity than shared interests. They end up playing with the children of their parents’ friends, with neighbour kids or with the other children at daycare. Mind you, while proximity may start a friendship sometimes

I be your friend?” And then he was playing with the other kids.

But, it’s not so easy for all children. The first thing we need to do is recognize that some kids have one or two close friends and that is plenty for them, while other kids will be surrounded by friends. If you were a kid who was part of a large group it can be difficult to watch your child hone in on only one or two other children. But accept that he is different from you.

Support whatever extra-curricular activity interests your child chooses. Shared interests and activities will foster relationships. Whether it’s a pottery course, soccer team or acting studio, she will meet kids with her same interests.

Welcome visiting children into your home.

If he does invite a new friend to your home you want them to feel

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it’s also the start of a wonderful relationship.

In this example, our friendship has lasted 63 years and is still going strong.

Once kids are in elementary school, they start to look for other children who share their interests.

Some kids make friends easily. I recall my nephew coming for a visit. He saw some other kids outside and simply walked up and said, “Hi, I’m Aaron. Can

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NOTICE OF STOPPING UP AND CLOSING A PORTION OF HIGHWAY WHO:

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to EXCEPTIONAL CUISINE

Tapas room changes it up Chris Dagenais

The Dish

ROMANCING THE STOVE Angela Shellard offers recipes for Taco Tuesdays. page 24

The downtown Vancouverite notion that the North Shore is a sleepy suburb when it comes to dining has been the source of no little annoyance to me over the years.

Writing about food and restaurants, I experience this attitude quite a bit.

“Haven’t you run out of places to visit?” they’ll ask, facetiously. “What time does the mayor shut off the power?” they’ll quip. Which mayor, smart guy: District, City or West Van? Look, I get it.Vancouver is the big urban centre on Canada’s West Coast. It has a reputation to uphold. But consider this: the North Shore has just shy of 800 businesses registered as food establishments. That’s one restaurant for every 217 people on the Shore. Even a small restaurant of, say, 40 seats, could service its segment of the population in just five nights of operation.

We are not shy on dining options over here and the scene is growing constantly.

More than this, the scene is getting cooler.

Progressive menus, a hyper local ingredient focus, a thriving craft beer scene, and a savvy dining population all contribute to the slickening of the North Shore’s dining environment.

In my opinion, one

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El Matador has just 40 seats and securing one on a busy Friday or Saturday evening can be a real challenge. That said, in my dozen or so visits to this little space, I have only once given up entirely because of the wait. On other occasions, I simply checked back in and was eventually seated, albeit intimately close to another diner; this place gets packed

and elbows will not enjoy free rein. That said, there is something appealing about El Matador’s heaving weekend traffic. Perhaps it is the authenticity of the experience, as Spanish tapas bars can often be similarly boisterous and jam-packed.

For a number of years, it was de rigueur for many Vancouver restaurants to call their small plate offerings tapas, even though the fare scarcely resembled the bitesized morsels typical of the original Andalusian approach. In the past few years (beginning, I would like to point out, with El Matador) there has been a shift in thinking about what constitutes tapas and those

venues that claim to offer it tend now to more closely follow the Spanish roots of this style of eating.

Tapas is the plural form of the Spanish word tapa, which means lid or cover.

Traditionally, patrons of Spanish bars would order sherry, the great fortified wine of Andalusia.While sherry ranges widely in style, many iterations of the drink are quite sweet.

In the baking summer heat of the region, sherry drinkers found the need to cover their glasses in order to prevent flies from partaking of the sweet spirit. Accordingly, bar owners would provide their patrons with a small morsel of food, often on a small round of bread topped with

something salty, in order to cap their glass. The practice became so popular, that an entire cuisine evolved from it and the food became every bit as popular as the drink it was meant to accompany.

El Matador, which serves a nice range of wines, sherries, and beers, preserves the traditional style of tapas and offers a long list of bite-sized items ranging in price from $5 to $7. The restaurant is currently gearing up for a mid-summer menu launch, one of the first major initiatives from owner Mike Parker, a former silent partner in the restaurant who took See New page 25

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Turn Tuesdays into family taco night

Somewhere along the line I think all home cooks fall prey to the “what can I make for dinner?” dilemma.

Most of us have a few trusted family favourites that we can fall back on in a pinch, but having a themed dinner for each night of the week makes meal planning easier and is kind of fun, especially if you have kids.

Get the family together and figure out what particular food or type of cuisine you’d like to feature for each night — say, Meatball Monday, Taco Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday (which could be a daring new recipe you’ve been dying to try) — you get the idea.

Tacos are super easy to make and don’t require any exotic ingredients, and if you set the ingredients out

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Romancing the Stove in a salad bar format it’s even more fun. Feel free to adjust the amount of spices in the recipes below. If your kids aren’t big on spicy food you might want to cut down on the chili powder.

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1 lb lean ground beef or ground turkey ½ tsp salt ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper ½ tsp ground cumin 1 tsp chili powder ¼ tsp garlic powder 1 ⁄3 cup salsa 1 head romaine lettuce, washed, base trimmed, separated into individual leaves (the smaller inner leaves are the best size for this recipe)

Toppings: Additional salsa Chopped avocado Chopped tomato Chopped red or green onion Sliced olives Sour cream Shredded cheese (Monterey jack or cheddar) In a large frying pan heat the oil over medium

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ground meat and sauté until browned and cooked through. Pour off any excess fat, then stir in the salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, garlic powder and salsa. Let mixture simmer for two minutes, then scoop some of the taco meat mixture into the lettuce leaves. Serve immediately; makes four servings.

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New offerings more traditional From page 23 the spot over entirely from co-owner Paul Mon Kau (of District fame) back in February. I notice that of the dishes that have been stricken from the current menu, most didn’t really fit the bill of traditional tapas (chicken wings, smoked salmon mousse), suggesting, perhaps, a shift towards an even more authentic Andalusian dining offering. I look forward to seeing where Parker and his kitchen team take the menu in the coming weeks.

I dropped in recently on my own for a quick bite and ordered a glass of lovely Rioja, which I married with a number of pleasing little dishes. My favourite of the lot was a trio of crostini topped with rounds of spicy chorizo sausage and fried quail eggs, served sunny-side up. The yolks burst as I bit into them, offering a wonderfully rich ‘sauce’ for the salty, smoky sausage. Another

winning dish was a plate of plump and succulent prawns, simply fried with garlic and served with the tail attached, making them the ideal finger food. A bowl of seasoned olives was a welcome salty treat to take in with a cold bottle of Alhambra beer, a pale Spanish lager. An order of grilled goat’s cheese with salsa fresca revealed generous mounds of soft, crumbly cheese with a subtle tang and a refreshing, house-made tomato topping.

My meal of tapas, beer and wine was $55 before gratuity.

El Matador is located at 131 West Esplanade. 604770-1717 elmatador.ca Chris Dagenais served as a manager for several restaurants downtown and on the North Shore. A self-described wine fanatic, he earned his sommelier diploma in 2001. Contact: hungryontheshore@gmail. com.

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Sharing a treat can help break the ice From page 20 sidelines while you are watching a game. Choose a child your son seems to talk to at soccer and set it up. The beauty is that there is no pressure on the kids because you are simply driving the other kid home.

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CRAFTERNOON WITH DENISE CORCORAN Join upcycling crafter Denise Corcoran to create one-of-a-kind gift and decorative items for

PHILIPPINE DAYS FESTIVAL Experience various Filipino cuisine, arts and music Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at

Waterfront Park, 200block West Esplanade, North Vancouver. philippinedaysfestival.com WALK FOR NEPAL EARTHQUAKE The KamalaYonzon Tahrayli Foundation will hold a fundraiser for rebuilding shelters Saturday, June 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. from Panorama Park to Quarry Rock, North Vancouver. $25. kytfoundation.org

DISCOVERY WATERFRONT WALK A moderately difficult walk that starts in Cates Park and ends at Deep Cove Sunday, June 14, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Following the walk, participants can return to Cates Park with a free boat ride on the Ocean Watch until 3 p.m.

Participants are advised to wear sturdy walking shoes and weather-appropriate clothing. nv-saveourshores.

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rainfall, snowmelt and streams in the mountains of the Capilano, Seymour, and Coquitlam watersheds.

Water from those reservoirs is then cleaned of harmful organisms and piped and pumped to homes and businesses. Our water supply system is one of the best in the world, but it has limitations, especially during peak demand from June to September.

I think it’s important to note that watering restrictions currently apply to lawns only. Gardens, veggies and trees are exempt.

As a matter of fact, our watering restrictions were originally started to conserve water excessively applied to the region’s lawns.

Lawn sprinkling regulations are in effect from June 1 to Sept. 30 and they apply to all residential and non-residential users in the

Metro region. Residents can water on alternating days depending on their street address. Residential watering can occur between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. on appropriate days. Non-residential watering can occur between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on certain days based on address, as well as Fridays between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m.

Since I have no grass to water I water in the evening for one simple reason, it’s when I am home and have time to water. I have never agreed with telling people to water between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. in the morning.Who gets up that early to water?

Watering of garden plants and veggies can be done in the evening without cause for bylaw infraction or increasing plant disease.

While it is true that a few plants will have increased incidence of disease if watered in the evening, people have taken such

knowledge and applied it universally to all watering, which is quite simply wrong.

I would like to tell everyone how to water their lawns efficiently and sustainably, but I simply don’t care if every last bit of lawn grass in Canada dries up and blows away, or at least goes dormant for summer. But when it comes to keeping trees, gardens and veggies watered, here are two effective and sustainable techniques to lessen watering requirements in the garden.

Dig deep: Yes I know that’s easier to say than to do, but dig you must, and dig deeply if you want to provide optimum growing conditions for your plants over the long-term.

When planting new plants, dig twice as wide and deep as the size of pot you are planting. Amend the volume of the planting hole by 30-50 per cent with soil amender,

compost or animal manure — never mushroom. Use any excess soil to build a watering dam/bowl on the soil’s surface around the plant to collect and hold water from irrigation or rainfall.

Mulch forever: The more mulch the better; there is no downside to mulching unless you bury perennial plant crowns.

Never use the hideous

ground cloth or landscape fabric, just nude mulch.

Mulch can be anything organic that decomposes slowly and is more woody than soily. Mulch should be applied eight to 10centimetres deep over the entire planting bed and up close to the base of all plants.

Good mulches include: bark, mixed or straight Douglas fir; bark chips (a little 1970s but still nice); composted

bark (the dark brown version of regular bark); wood chips from arborist operations but not walnut or cedar, peat moss, only on dry or rocky soils; leaves from any garden tree that is not diseased (shredded preferably but whole is nice too); and shredded plant stalks and stems. And remember — mulch is the canvas upon which the garden is painted.

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It’s not because he’s blocked out the memory or suffered some horrific injury (we’ll get to that big scar on his face later),

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“When I started walking I started climbing,” the North Vancouver resident told the North Shore News Saturday, adding that he has no idea how it went the first time he tried speed climbing. “I was only four years old. I’m pretty sure what happened is they just

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age of eight. By his early 20s he held three speed climbing world records.

He just turned 26 and still is the record holder in the 90-foot and 100-foot speed climbs, events that involves shimmying up a smooth wooden pole using spiked shoes and a rope belt and then plunging back to earth while tapping the wood every 20 feet or so to slow the descent ever so slightly. When he set his world record in the 90-foot climb, Hart touched the tree just five times on the way down.

“You’ve got to be a little bit crazy, I think,” said Hart about the secret to speed climbing. “There’s no safety in it. When you’re doing it you climb up that high, if you slip, you’re going to be on the ground.

In order to be the fastest, you can’t be afraid to fall.”

Climbers have been clocked at 40 miles per hour on the way down the pole and the landing can do a lot of damage even though there’s a big crash mat at the bottom.

“When you hit the ground you still feel it,” said Hart, who has suffered serious injuries to his feet and ankles in the sport.

For that reason he shifted his focus away from climbing into the chopping and sawing events that are featured in the Stihl Timbersports series. It was a bold move for a few reasons, the first being that he was walking away from his status as the best speed climber in the world.

The key word for Hart, however, was walking.

“I’d done everything I wanted to achieve in climbing,” he said. “I want to be able to walk by the time I’m 40 and have kids.”

The other eyebrowraising aspect of Hart’s event switch was his size.

He’s a strapping fellow but many of his competitors tower over him at the Timbersports events.

“Everybody knew me as a tree climber,” he said. “If you look at Timbersports, the climbers are all kind of skinny athletic guys, and the Timbersports guys are all big, daunting guys. . . .

The top five to eight guys in the world are all sixfoot-six and 280 pounds.

And then there’s me — I’m 5-11, 170 pounds soaking wet.”

No problem though — Hart went out and proved it’s not the size of the lumberjack, it’s how you swing the axe. In his first Timbersports Canadian championships he finished second, and last year he was crowned Canadian Champion, earning a spot on the national team for the World Championships.

How did he do it?

“Heart.You’ve got to have heart,” he said with a laugh, adding that his experience and training have a little something to do with it as well.

“The sport is all about technique. Brute strength definitely plays a part in it, but it’s all science. The way you present that axe to the wood, or the way you pull on that saw — it’s all technique. I just had to make my technique perfect, and that’s how I’ve been able to keep up with the best guys in the world.”

Hart’s decision to

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move from climbing to Timbersports to protect his body got an ironic twist five years ago when he suffered his most gruesome injury while wielding an axe.

“I know you’re dying to ask,” Hart said with a laugh when he caught me sneaking a glance at the scar on his face during our interview.

He was in Australia competing in a springboard event — a supreme lumberjack test that sees competitors slot two springboards into a tree trunk, hopping up to the top where they balance and chop through a block of wood. On that occasion, however, it all went wrong for Hart.

“I chopped that notch, stuck the axe in the tree and went to grab the board and the axe fell out of the tree. Just the tip of it caught me in the face,” he said. “That was a lot of blood and a lot of stitches.”

The axe luckily missed his eye and his neck but it left a scar that starts about an inch away from his right eye and runs right

down to his mouth. It was a dangerous accident but Hart admitted that he now wears it as a lumberjack badge of honour.

“I don’t have a beard, so I had to get a scar,” he said with a laugh. “It’s become my predominant marking.

Everybody recognizes me in public: ‘Oh yeah, the kid with the scar across his face.’ It’s worked out good for marketing as well. . . .

Climbing I’ve torn both ankles, broken both feet.

Shoulders, knees, hips.

None of them were quite as dramatic as taking an axe to the face.”

The injury hasn’t slowed him down at all.

The day after we spoke Hart took the stage for the Stihl Timbersports Western Qualifier held at the PNE in front of an appreciative crowd taking in the massive Vancouver Craft Beer Week finale.

He finished first in the pro competition, earning a berth in the 2015 Stihl Timbersports Canadian Championships scheduled for July 19 in Niagara Falls where he’ll attempt to defend his national title

and earn another world championship berth.

Lumberjack fans who missed him at the Beer Week event can still catch Hart in action most every day working his summer job as a performer in Grouse Mountain’s Lumberjack Show. He’s been performing three shows a day, seven days a week, six months a year for close to a decade now. In the winter he keeps himself sharp working as a tree topper for West Vancouver’s Burley Boys Tree Service.

It all adds up to enough for him pay the bills, including some expensive, cutting edge equipment.

He may not have had any choice in climbing that first tree, and there have been some nicks along the way, but Hart said it’s a dream come true that he’s been able to turn his “glorified hobby” into a career while also proudly carrying on his family’s legacy.

“I get to travel around doing the sport I love and I even get paid for it,” he said. “It’s really cool for me to be able to carry on in (my family’s) footsteps.”

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