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N. Shore Rescue teams ‘run off their feet’ Record call volume taxes team’s ability to muster searchers BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

It’s a summer North Shore Rescue’s members are probably glad to see the end of.

The all-volunteer team was called out for seven search and rescue missions over the Labour Day long weekend, ending what has been one of the busiest summers in recent memory.

“Oh man, it’s shocking,” team leader Mike Danks said with an

exasperated laugh. “August was three times the normal amount and for September, we’re already past our quota.”

The team typically gets between 80 and 100 calls per year. August alone saw 29.

The busy weekend started Friday afternoon when West Vancouver police asked for rescuers’ help in a “silver alert” — a senior with dementia walking away from home. Saturday afternoon saw a cascade of calls, starting with an RCMP request for help in finding an emotionally disturbed person on Mount Seymour.They then were dispatched to Whyte Lake on the eastern side of Hollyburn See Team page 3

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One NorthVancouver teen started his grad year in the hospital, after a booze-fuelled fight went wrong at one of NorthVan’s infamous Labour Day park parties.

A group of about 10 teenagers had gathered in the yard of their local high school late Monday night when two of the boys got into a fight. “A youth got knocked down and hit his head on a rock” and was bleeding profusely, said Cpl. Richard De Jong, spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP. Police were called out around 1 a.m. and the 17-year-old was taken to Lions Gate Hospital where he required stitches.

Police in North Vancouver were also called out to a large gathering

of about 30 teens who were drinking on a public property on Hamilton Avenue around midnight Monday night. “There was a lot of open liquor that was all poured out,” said de Jong. Marijuana was also seized from one teen who was later released into the custody of his mother.

Police believe both gatherings were likely related to a recent tradition among teens who meet in parks, at high schools or in the bush to hold alcohol-fuelled parties on Labour Day, before the first day of school. De Jong said a warning message to parents and teens from police last week that they intended to shut down such events may have helped keep a relative lid on the unsanctioned festivities.

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A Fraser Valley horseback riding outfit will have to pony up $8,000 to a North Vancouver fitness instructor who was injured while mounting one of their horses.

Sandra Starrett was seeking $250,000 in damages from Langleybased Back in the Saddle Again after a 2009 horseback ride went awry and, according to her, caused injuries that impacted her job as an aquatic fitness instructor.

Starrett claimed Back in the Saddle owner Kenneth Darcy Campbell, the defendant in the case, was negligent in allowing her to rent “Douggy.”

Before setting off on the trail, Starrett, who said she had considerable riding experience, looked “nervous” once she mounted the “cutting” horse that Starrett herself chose — according to Campbell’s testimony during a four-day trial in B.C. Supreme Court in mid-June.

Campbell said he was surprised at how “sloppy” Starrett’s technique was, and that it took her two or

three attempts to get seated on Douggy. Nonetheless, Starrett set off with the group but struggled once again while trying to remount the horse after a mid-ride break.

Starrett testified the group’s guide tried to help her by providing counterbalance on one of the stirrups, but inexplicably let go and the horse bolted forward at a gallop while Starrett was mid-mount.

Justice Susan Griffin said Starrett’s story seems “embellished,” when she described herself as standing on her left leg only while the horse was galloping, but still being able to swing her right leg over and then falling to the right.

However, Griffin concluded Campbell was negligent in: allowing Starrett to rent a horse that was too sensitive and unsafe for her to mount, given the difficulties she demonstrated to him; not warning Starrett to avoid dismounting during the ride, and failing to ensure his guide knew how to provide proper assistance to Starrett if she needed to remount.

In terms of her injuries, which are backed by doctors’ reports, Starrett claimed after the accident she was in immediate pain, in her right hip and sacroiliac joint area, and required crutches to get around for two weeks. Some instability in her right hip, Starrett said, prevents her from jumping or standing

on one leg like she could before the accident.

A couple of Starrett’s fitness instructor colleagues from Hollyburn Country Club and the West Vancouver Aquatic Centre who were called as witnesses testified that she was more active and fit before the horseback riding accident.

The reality is Starrett can perform as an aquatics instructor, concluded Griffin, who said the witness testimony convinced her of this.

Griffin said Starrett, 49, blamed her loss of function and subsequent income loss solely on the horseback riding injures while failing to disclose how other mishaps prior to 2009 may have affected her.

Starrett was involved in two motor vehicle accidents prior to the horseback riding accident, and a tear to her right ACL in 2008 took over a half a year to heal. She was also hospitalized in 2011 for an appendectomy.

However, Griffin did accept that Starrett suffered some pain and soreness for two months after the horseback riding accident, which is why she did not return to teaching four classes a week at the aquatic centre for the remainder of 2009, amounting to $1,187 in lost wages.

Griffin found Starrett was entitled to $855 in special damages, for years of physiotherapy and massage treatments, as part of the overall $8,042 awarded to her.

Team invites public to open house From page 1 Mountain where a woman was stranded on a cliffband.

The subject had two dogs with her, one of which was injured and couldn’t get out on its own. North Shore Rescue volunteer Scott Merriman loaded the injured pup, Sumi, into a backpack and hiked the dog out on foot.

Just 15 minutes after the rescue was concluded the team got a call for help from Lions Bay Search and Rescue to aid in a long-line rescue of someone who suffered a backcountry ankle injury. Before the Talon helicopter could even head for home, as darkness was setting in, the team got one more call — one of the most difficult ones of the summer.

A 68-year-old German

tourist had gotten off-trail between the BCMC and Bluff trails on Grouse Mountain and wound up stranded at the base of a 60metre cliff above a waterfall.

“They didn’t get him out until 5:30 a.m.,” Danks said. “I’ve got to say, ‘Huge respect’ to all the North Shore Rescue members that were out for nine hours on that call doing some very technical rope rescue skills and then went into work in the morning.”

Volunteers were back out again Sunday afternoon when they were called to Brothers Creek to rescue a woman with a fractured ankle and then back to Lions Bay to help find a Russian hiker reported missing.

Such heavy call volume is taxing the team’s ability to muster searchers, Danks

said. Before he died, former team leader Tim Jones had been lobbying the province to provide more sustainable funding and on-call pay for the team’s most active members.

“I think the challenge is we’re being run off our feet with calls and we don’t have the resources to fight that battle with the provincial government, but something needs to change because as it stands now, it’s not sustainable,” Danks said.

The biggest thing the public can do to help, Danks said, is donating, allowing rescuers to focus on rescues.

To celebrate the team’s 50th anniversary, North Shore Rescue will host an open house at its 61 Bewicke Ave. rescue base on Sunday. Danks said he hopes the public will come

gain an appreciation for the organization’s history and its early members.

“They’re the ones who shaped the team to what it is today.We’re really pushing for the public to come out and meet these guys and ask them about stories from the past where they had rescues that would last three to five days sometimes with little support from aircraft,” he said. “They were hard men back then.”

One of those old-timers, however, said the event is meant to be a celebration of North Shore Rescue’s many supporters. “We wouldn’t be able to do anything without the support of so many organizations and people, and the provincial government and (Emergency Management BC),” Gerry Brewer said.

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Grasshopper an uninvited lunch guest BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A NorthVancouver woman got a little more protein than she asked for in a Subway wrap last week — bugs, dead and alive.

Debbie Parhar was at Capilano Mall picking up supplies for her son’s return to daycare Thursday when she got the awful surprise in her lunch. As she bit into her usual spinach wrap, a fly flew out. She then looked down

and saw what appeared to be a “decaying grasshopper.”

The experience has left a lasting impact on Parhar.

“I have no problem with Subway. It’s a nice, cheap, quick lunch but I think I will not be eating there for a long time,” she said. “I can’t even eat packaged spinach that you buy from the grocery store. Every time I think about it, I get quite violently ill.”

The response from Subway staff was less than

impressive, Parhar added.

“No disrespect to the clerks.

They’re young.They’re probably just at their summer jobs. But the first thing they said was ‘This has never happened to us before’ and they didn’t want it to impact other customers,” she said. “They didn’t even throw the spinach away.

They just gave us a refund and sent us on our merry way.”

Since then, the owner of the franchise has sent a form

response to Parhar and the parent company has pledged to resolve the matter.

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Urine trouble I f there’s anything that the recent Tinklegate has taught us, it’s that political party machines would do well to have as much information on their own candidates as they do on voters.

In case you missed it, while the federal election begins to pick up steam this week, two Tory candidates have recently been forced out after decidedly un-parliamentary behaviour was revealed.

In one, a contractor was caught on a hidden camera, peeing into a client’s coffee cup. Another candidate was unmasked as someone who liked to tape himself crank calling strangers then recording their reactions to his sexual innuendo.

And what political party wouldn’t be thrilled to have their candidates trending on social media under hashtags like #peegate while pundits make jokes about stories being “leaked”? Most, as it turns out.

While the two Conservative candidates are the most recent and vulgar examples of people you’d never hope to have represent you, they certainly aren’t alone. Earlier in the campaign, a Calgary

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Liberal was forced to quit after her nasty teenage tweets were recirculated.

In the past we’ve had our own share of disgraced candidates on the North Shore. One provincial Conservative was dropped from the ballot after a drunk driving incident. And who can forget the video of Dana Larsen lighting a mouthful of joints before driving that surfaced while he was running for the NDP? The fact is such transgressions are fair game when someone is seeking the important job of representing fellow citizens.Yet party databases that are bursting with info on average citizens repeatedly seem to lack red flags when it comes to those carrying their own banners.

It’s about time they started paying attention. If they don’t vet their candidates properly, chances are strong their political opposition will.

There are good reasons for weeding out problem candidates before they hit the ballot. As Rob Ford so amply demonstrated, behaviour that’s a problem before an election rarely gets better after.

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Leaf blower makes lousy coffee mate the man with the machine, all on different days. The machine that can only be described as the world’s noisiest dentist drill.

The machine that was designed to fill BC Place with noise so loud that it could, without any effort, drown out a heavy-metal rock concert.

Anybody out there with any reasonable suggestions? They can fly men to the moon; this problem does have a solution, doesn’t it?

OK, back to my morning coffee and I would listen to the birds, but sadly they have all gone deaf.

Willow Hayden West Vancouver

Dear Editor: While I do understand that I live in an area surrounded by apartment buildings and condos, please, please can someone tell me why we have to be subjected to the leaf-blowing guy constantly?

This used to happen in the fall but now it’s pretty much all year

round.

We do get some relief when it snows but I think, if they could, they would still show up and try and find the dastardly leafs.

This week (of writing, prestorm) is a prime example. Four buildings, all within a block have had their few leafs collected by

No butts about it

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Dear Editor: I would like to respond to the letter about drivers throwing out “butts” from car windows because of a lack of ashtrays in newer cars.

When I smoked in my car, I found a simple solution.Take a small glass jar, fill it two-thirds with baking soda, and place it in a cupholder.

Any butts can be poked into it.This eliminates any smouldering and extinguishes the cigarette promptly.

Mary Zulps North Vancouver

Dear Editor: This week, children all across Canada will be going back to school. But what of the now 59 million children around the world from grades 1 to 7, many in conflict zones, who won’t be able to go to school?

There is clear evidence that education is the single-most important factor in improving the quality of life in developing countries.

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Canada has supported education in developing countries through their contributions to the ODA (official development assistance) but, sadly, Canada’s contributions to ODA have steadily declined and now are at a deplorable 0.24 per cent of our gross national income instead of the 0.7 per cent that has been pledged. And only seven per cent of that 0.24 per cent goes to education.

That’s nowhere near good enough.

We have a federal election coming up. Plan to contact your candidates personally and go to all-candidate meetings to ask the candidates what they and their parties will do to correct this abysmal situation.

Now’s the time. Canada can, should and must do it.

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Be polite, take turns merging Dear Editor: Regarding the Sept. 2 letter to the editor from Malcolm Barnes about the Capilano and Lynn Valley accesses to the Upper Levels (Trans-Canada Highway), I have been meaning to write every time I witness that dangerous situation.They are “accidents waiting to happen” and if possible, I avoid both — trying for an alternate route.

The other nightmare is trying to get from Deep Cove on to the highway going west.Why is it that people lining up to go over the Lions Gate Bridge, as I do almost daily, are polite and merge, while almost no one (on the highway at Keith Road on-ramp) lets those vehicles in?

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Door canvassers not wanted here, thank-you Dear Editor: I’m already sick of having my evenings disturbed by door canvassers and we aren’t even close to the election.There is little I need to hear from these people and I suspect that I’m not alone in this.The choice is pretty clear. It’s either we let Harper continue to destroy this country or we choose a party that can actually stop him.

Nothing is more annoying then having someone tell me that vote splitting isn’t real.

I have had enough elections in my lifetime to know what I know and I know BS when I hear some professor tell me that she is the only one who opposes a pipeline. So what?

What makes more sense: electing a party that if pressured by the voters can actually make some changes or one person shouting loudly? There are enough people around that will still do something stupid like vote for Harper and it’s going to take all the smart people left to make the right choice and not risk another Harper government.

If this Lynne (Quarmby, Green Party candidate for Burnaby North-Seymour) really cared about getting Harper out she’d do the responsible thing and drop out.You can skip this door from now on.

Tabitha Clearly North Vancouver

Geography lesson, please Dear Editor: Readers of Mr. Cicha’s Friday (Aug. 21) letter re: gas pump stickers might be thinking that some further disaster in the ongoing destruction of West Van might be in the works: “…the trees being torn down on the slopes of Cypress Mountain to make room for more houses.”

What he was referring to was Hollyburn Ridge, which is the sight that greets us when we come back home over the Lions Gate Bridge — not quite as awful as Westwood Plateau visible from the Port Mann.

Cypress Mountain, as a geographical entity, lies in the Port Moody Forest District, about nine miles from West Van, as the crow flies.

“Cypress Mountain,” which appears so often in print is actually a commercial ski operation doing business in Cypress Provincial Park — the area including Cypress Bowl, and flanked by, west to east, Black, Strachan (pronounced Strawn) and Hollyburn mountains. One shock at a time, please.

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Make mine a vote for the planet Dear Editor: Kudos to Lucinda Jones who brought the 3E Film Festival to the Kay Meek theatre recently.

The outstanding speakers left us in no doubt that the planet is in dire straits, the technology for sustainable energy is available and that we could drastically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, while still boosting the economy, if there was the political will.

In northern B.C., extreme fracking is destroying our land, air and water.

Alarmingly, it is scheduled to continue for the next 45 years. By then, my children

will be in their nineties and my grandchildren in their sixties.Will a liveable planet still exist? Can we wait any longer for immediate action?

During the lead-up to the election, the major political parties, all of which support fracking and LNG, have been trying to jump on the environmental band-wagon by expressing great concern about global warming. It begs the question: “Where have they been until now?”

The only leader who has consistently expressed concern about our government’s lack of will to reduce fossil fuels is Elizabeth May.This brilliant,

articulate politician has always been a champion of the environment.

Unfortunately, with only two seats, Green Party power is limited, not only over environmental concerns but over all the government’s questionable economic and social policies.

Now, we have the consummate opportunity for change.We have three stellar candidates in our area — Ken Melamed, a businessman and former Whistler mayor who brought the message of environmental respect and sustainability to the world during the Olympics, Claire

Martin, an award-winning meteorologist and Lynne Quarmby, a highly respected SFU scientist.

Which major party will win the election is unknown, but should it be a minority government, a dozen new Green MPs would considerably bolster Elizabeth’s clout.

Sceptics who say: “A Green vote is a wasted vote” need reminding that three have already been elected.

This is not the time to vote for a party out of a sense of loyalty. It is a critical time to vote for the planet.

Rose Dudley Lions Bay

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“Official Community Plan Bylaw, 2014, No. 8400, Amendment Bylaw, 2015, No. 8431” (Text Amendment to Reduce Minimum Commercial Density in Harbourside Waterfront Area); and “Zoning Bylaw, 1995, No. 6700, Amendment Bylaw, 2015, No. 8432” (518166 BC Ltd./Concert Properties Ltd., 925, 889, 801 Harbourside Drive and 18 Fell Avenue, CD-646)

This rendering provided by applicant for illustrative purposes only. The actual development, if approved, may differ.

Group Homes of up to eight people are permitted in all single family residential areas of the District.

Bylaw 8124 proposes to amend the Group Home Regulation specific to the Burr Place site to permit 10 people (nine in care) in a single family home built under the site’s Single Family Residential 7200 (RS3) zoning.

When can I speak? We welcome your input Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 7 pm. You can speak in person by signing up at the Hearing or you can provide a written submission to the Municipal Clerk at input@dnv.org or by mail before the conclusion of the Hearing.

WHERE:

925, 889, 801 Harbourside Drive and 18 Fell Avenue, legally described as: PID 024-984-094, Lot 45, Block, DL 265/2654, Plan LMP49271; PID 024-984-001, Lot 43 of the Public Harbour of Burrard Inlet, NWD, Plan LMP49271; PID 025-120-581, Lot A of the Public Harbour of Burrard Inlet, NWD, Plan LMP51190; PID 025-120-590, Lot B of the Public Harbour of Burrard Inlet, NWD, Plan LMP51190

WHEN:

Monday, September 14, 2015, at 7:00 pm in Council Chamber

Notice is hereby given under the provisions of the Local Government Act, that Council will consider issuance of the above Official Community Plan (OCP) Bylaw and Zoning Amendment Bylaw.

OCP BYLAW, 2015, NO. 8431 would reduce the required commercial floor area in the Harbourside Waterfront area for the purpose of permitting a Seniors’ Assisted Living Facility.

SUBJECT AREAS ZONING BYLAW, 2015, NO. 8432 would permit a Seniors’ Assisted Living Facility and Seniors’ Rental Housing on the northern portion of 18 Fell Avenue, with an associated reduction in parking. The application will reconfigure residential and commercial density between the CD-646 sub-areas with no overall increase in site density.

All persons who believe they may be affected by the above proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person and/or by written submission. Written or email submissions should be sent to Jennifer Ficocelli, Deputy City Clerk, at jficocelli@cnv.org or by mail to City Hall.

Submissions must be received no later than 4:00 pm, Monday, September 14, 2015, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Hearing. Once the Public Hearing has concluded, no further information or submissions can be considered by Council.

The proposed Official Community Plan and Zoning Amendment Bylaw, including background material, will be available for viewing at City Hall between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from September 1, 2015, and online at www.cnv.org/publichearings.

Please direct inquiries to Michael Epp, City Planner, Community Development, at mepp@cnv.org or 604-982-3936.

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Relevant background material and copies of the bylaw are available for review at the Municipal Clerk’s Office or online at dnv.org/public_hearing. Office hours are Monday to Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm.

Who can I speak to? Natasha Letchford, Development Planner, at

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The nursery at Klee Wyck Park on Keith Road is an underutilized District asset. EcoUrbia, a North Shore not-for-profit and community-based sustainability portal, has proposed to use the Klee Wyck nursery for an EcoCentre, to be called Klee Wyck Farm.

The programming at Klee Wyck Farm would produce food, demonstrate gardening methods, provide community garden space, host educational workshops and offer sales of fresh produce.

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no critical violations, Chong said. VCH will follow the “food chain” back to the spinach processors and will refer the case to the appropriate health authority in that jurisdiction, he said.

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Greening your approach Optional: Lily grass and faux greenery tape (available at floral supply stores)

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There is no written rule that all flower arrangements must be in colour.

In fact, I find that some of the prettiest ones, especially in modern decors, are quite simple and monochromatic.

I recently came across an all green flower arrangement at a party and loved the simplicity of it. It’s so easy to assemble and you can choose whatever favourite greens you prefer at your local floral supplier.

Materials One clear, circular or square glass vase Green floral (examples: green hydrangea, green chrysanthemums, green ball dianthus) Floral preservative Floral wire Sharp floral scissors or a sharp knife Aspidistra leaves or hosta leaves

Method Clean your floral container of any dirt or debris. Let it dry and set aside.

This next step has two options.The first is to line the inside of your clear vase with the faux, green floral tape.The other option is to use a fresh aspidistra leaf or hosta leaf.You will need to trim both options to properly fit inside the glass vase.

Once you have completed this step you can then fill your vase threequarters full with room temperature water. Set aside.

Remove your green flowers from their wrappings and be sure to remove any leaves from the stems.

Holding your flower stem in your right hand, begin to place one stem at a time into your left hand.

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Exploring a garden’s political colours Does your garden reflect your political views?

To help figure that out, I went through a purely metaphysical and existential exercise to complete the hypothetical political colour of your garden. I searched each federal political party’s website for their principles, not necessarily their constitution or policy,

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Each political party advocated their principles in relation to “issues” of concern for Canadians.

Due to extensive writings from each party it is not possible to include every single party principle in this column.

Let’s start with the Conservative Party of Canada’s and what their garden might look like based on their party’s principles. The Conservative belief in “the equality of all Canadians” was tempered by their “goal of building a national coalition of people who share these beliefs and who reflect the regional, cultural and socio-economic diversity of Canada.” Therefore, a Conservative garden would include plants from all regions of Canada, as long as those plants held the Conservative belief, meaning maple trees — yes, but cedar trees only if there was a species native

to Eastern Canada. “A belief in our constitutional monarchy,” would assure that a Conservative garden would include an English rose and perhaps clematis as long as the clematis behaves. The Conservatives also believe, “Responsible government must be fiscally prudent and should be limited to those responsibilities which cannot be discharged reasonably by the individual or others.”

Meaning Conservatives will sell you competitively priced plants but they likely won’t help plant them. They also believe “the greatest potential for achieving social and economic objectives is under a global trading regime,” which means the plants in their garden may be supplied from international sources.

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A Liberal Party of Canada garden, based on their party’s principles, might look something like this. The Liberals believe “a long-term vision is important for a sustainable society at home and abroad;” therefore, their garden would be designed to mature in 20 or 30 years, unlike the average of 10 years. This would mean wide spacing of primary plants with lots of filler in between until the main plants mature.

Liberals are stated as being “compassionate and responsible social stewards, committed to providing a good and fair balance between the economy and social justice.” Accordingly, their garden would contain marijuana for personal use, but not for commercial sale. And plants would have to be obtained from fair trade sources.

A Liberal garden might include the sugar maple (Acer saccharum), which most closely resembles the leaf on the Canadian flag. Liberals also believe: “Social, economic and environmental issues are interconnected and society is strengthened when we take action on all three.” Therefore, their garden would allow the use of organic or environmentally friendly

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fertilizers and pesticides as long as those products were manufactured in Canada. And since “every person has the right to be heard and represented in a democratic society,” according to the Liberals, plants in their garden would be spaced so that each plant had its own room to grow and could be easily seen from anywhere in the garden.

An NDP Party of Canada garden, based on their party’s principles, might look something like this. The NDP espouses, “Human and civil rights, including equal rights for LGBT citizens, people with disabilities, workers and aboriginals.”

Therefore, an NDP garden may include clematis in the gay pride colours, a wheelchair ramp, social workers to help everyone understand what the purpose of gardening is, and partial ownership of the garden by Aboriginals under treaty. Gardeners in the NDP garden would be paid higher than the private sector gardeners next door, so you could be assured of a high-quality, unionized gardening crew to care for the plants. Marijuana would be allowed in their garden, as long as you take a one-week course on how to properly use medical marijuana. Plants in the NDP garden would SeeWriter page 16

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Add one at a time as you rotate the bouquet until the desired size is achieved.Tie off the stem as high as you can, closest to the top of the flower heads as possible.

Trim the bottom ends of each stem to the desired height of the vase.The bouquet should be able to fit snugly inside the vase.

Fill the vase with more water.

Fold over one aspidistra leaf and tie off with the wire.

Use the free end of the wire to insert into the side of the flower arrangement.

At this point you may add the lily grasses beside the aspidistra leaf if room permits.

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And let’s not forget the Green Party whose party principles are so far reaching, pragmatic

and based in fairness and interconnectedness that we may not realize how beautiful a garden could be until we stepped into theirs.

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Community Bulletin Board

music and great food Saturday, Sept. 12, 6-10 p.m. at The Pipe Shop at Shipbuilder’s Square, 115 Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver. Tickets $60 each or two for $100. In support of Family Services North Shore. RSVP at familyservices.bc.ca or contact Frederica 604988-5281 x242 ngf@familyservices.bc.ca.

THE BANK OF MOM AND DAD: MONEY, PARENTS AND GROWN CHILDREN Author Derrick Penner will discuss the financial issues that families are currently facing and provide valuable suggestions for clear, honest communication Wednesday, Sept. 9, 7-8:30 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. 604-925-7400, westvanlibrary.ca CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMENNORTH VANCOUVER Meeting will feature information and sign-up for interest groups and a report on this year’s session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women Thursday, Sept. 10, 7 p.m. at Royal Canadian Legion, 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. Guests welcome. 604-980-1274, cfuwnvwv.vcn.bc.ca TASTE OF DUNDARAVE Purchase a passport and support more than 35 local businesses Thursday, Sept.

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Chamber of Commerce for a delicious breakfast, networking and a kickstart to business after the summer break Friday, Sept. 11, 7:15-9 a.m. at Holiday Inn and Suites, 700 Old Lillooet Rd., North Vancouver. $25 Members, $35 Nonmembers nvchamber.ca

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FESTIVAL 2015 AMBLESIDE PARK WEST VANCOUVER

Sunday, September 13 11AM-6PM

Famous Salmon BBQ, live music, Coho Swim, Coho Walk, Coho Run, Kids’ Park, Squamish Nation Village, and Stewardship Zone – with hands-on activities, and so much more!

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September 13

AMBLESIDE PARK

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This year we will be host to many exciting activities that will make your experience at the Festival the best ever.

From the Coho Swim, Run and Walk to the Salmon BBQ, there’s something for everyone.

This year’s BBQ features wild sockeye salmon, corn-on-the cob and salad greens all provided by Save-On-Foods.

Again this year the Squamish Nation Canoe Family will give their traditional ‘Blessing of the Salmon’ at the Opening Ceremonies. At the Village, Nation Ambassadors will share stories.

A beautiful salmon wood carving donated by Squamish Nation will be raffled off so make sure you drop by the Village to get your ticket. The Squamish Nation’s new activity will be Nature Walks with a Nation language speaker.

The Kids’ Park will be full of fun again this year. Help create a community chalk mural while learning about salmon and their habitat led by Tin Can Studio, Sand Art Party and the Vancouver Aquarium’s Touch Tank. A new activity is the Crazy Trikes where kids of all ages can race each other! Come try the popular climbing wall and super fun Save On Foods bouncy castle and there’s popcorn, cotton candy and ice cream to enjoy!

The Stewardship Zone has more than 30 exhibitors eager to share their knowledge and expertise on how you can be Stewards for our environment. Look for ‘Tent Talks’ located at the back of the Stewardship Zone. Starting at 12:45pm and every 45 minutes, we will have presentations

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The Coho Festival is a Zero Waste Event, so please take home what you bring and deposit all used items in the appropriate bins at one of the recycling stations. This year we are selling coffee – but please bring your own cup to this zero-waste event!

The main goal of the Coho Festival is protecting the environment to sustain our salmon. All money raised provides funds to North Shore salmon stewardship groups.

Keith Fenton, Coho Society President and Sherry Parrott, Festival Chair, get ready for the festival.

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September 13

AMBLESIDE PARK

Seniors & Handicapped Drop off Area No Vehicles Beyond This Point

Festival 2015 Site Map

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Coho Squamish Nation Village

3:45 - 4:00pm

Cops For Cancer

4:15 - 5:55pm

Adam Woodall Band - Vancouver’s Legendary rock and folk band with solid pop roots.

6:00pm

Closing Remarks

Pond Stewardship Zone

Garden dining area

Coffee

Climbing Wall Kids Park Tickets $

Kids Park

Bike Lock-Up

Info Tent

Ambleside Beach

Coho Walk Ends Here

Walk

Vanleena Dance Studios Mike Battie – Childrens’ Entertainer Mardi Gras Minstrels Vanleena Dance Studios Mardi Gras Minstrels Mike Battie – Childrens’ Entertainer Vanleena Dance Studios

Trike Races

• BC Cetacean Sightings Network • BC Salmon Marketing Council • Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) • David Suzuki Foundation • DFO – Adult Salmon Tank Truck • DFO – Ground Fish Display • DFO – Hovercraft Tours • DFO – Salmon: The Vital Link • DFO – Storm Drain Marking & Water Quality • Fraser Riverkeeper • Friends of Cypress Park • Georgia Strait Alliance • Green Chair Recycling • Lighthouse Park Preservation Society • Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre • Nature Vancouver • NatureKids BC • North Shore Black Bear Society • North Shore Fish & Game Club

• North Shore Recycling Program • North Shore Streamkeepers • North Vancouver Outdoor School • Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society • Old Growth Conservancy Society • Pacific Salmon Foundation • Parks Canada • Raincoast Conservation Foundation • Seacology • Seymour Salmonid Society • The Kidney Foundation of Canada (BC) • The Pacific Streamkeepers Federation • Vancouver Aquarium • West Coast Environmental Law • West Vancouver Forage Fish • West Vancouver Nature House Society • West Vancouver Shoreline

TENT TALKS See us in the Stewardship Zone 12:45pm Vancouver Aquarium Cetaceans, Citizen Science and You

Come out watch Mike Battie entertain the crowd, sway along to the music of the Mardi Gras Minstrels (Gary Comeau & Gerry Cook). We welcome everyone to join in with the dance energy of Vanleena & martial arts with Champions Way of Life demonstrations!!

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Opening Ceremonies Opening address from emcee, Dan Burritt from CBC News.

Squamish Nation Welcoming Speech by Chief Ian Campbell and the traditional Squamish Nation “Blessing of the Salmon” ceremony.

Eli “Tigerman” Williams – Everyone love Elvis! Come sing a-long!

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1:00 - 1:45pm

Mike Battie – You’ll laugh along with this popular street performer.

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Coast Guard Hovercraft

The Stewardship Zone will be full of exciting and interactive displays from the following community groups involved with conservation, protection and enhancement of our water and forests and the animals within:

Coho Runners Breakfast & Medal Presentations

1:45 - 2:15pm

BBQ

Coho Swim

STEWARDSHIP ZONE

11:00 - 11:45am

squamish nation village

Main Stage

Coho Run Finish Line

COHO FESTIVAL STAGE

Tent Talks

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COHO KIDS PARK - ACTIVITIES What to see & do!

1:30pm

Electrameccanica Innovative, Clean Transportation

2:15pm

Seymour Salmonid Society Seymour Salmon Survival

3:00pm

Echo Ecological Undoing a Lifetime of Damage

3:45pm

David Suzuki Foundation

COHO SQUAMISH NATION VILLAGE

• Bouncy Castle - Save On Foods $ • Photo Booth & Tattooes – Parks Canada • Giant Jenga – North Shore News • Edge Climbing Wall $ • Vancouver Aquarium Touch Tank • Sand Art Party $ • Fish creations - Tin Can Studio

• Henna $ • Face Painting $ • Crazy Trike Races $ • Vanleena Dance display • Mike Battie – street entertainer • Mardi Gras Minstrels ... and much more!

Welcome all to Swá7wi (Ambleside Park)!

• Squamish Nation Ambassadors will share Squamish stories showcasing our sacred connection to the salmon • The Squamish Nation K’xwu7lh (Seagoing) Canoe Family will be part of the Blessing of the Salmon along with displaying their 45 foot sea-going canoe Salmon Art donated by Squamish Nation

$ = Tickets needed. Purchase your tickets from the Kids Park Ticket booth

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with Rebecca Duncan of Coho’s Squamish Village Hear the Legend of the Salmon People as you are taken on a guided tour.

Legend of the Salmon People 12 noon 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm

Educational and informative… and definitely interesting!

Children under 12 years old must be accompanied by an adult.

Tour will be approx 20 mins.

This beautiful hand crafted art piece will be raffled off… come by the Squamish Nation Village to get your tickets. * ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO THE SEYMOUR SALMONID SOCIETY

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY EVENT ZERO WASTE This year’s Coho Festival will be a zero waste event. All products on site will be organic or recyclable, no products used at the festival will be headed to a

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September 13

AMBLESIDE PARK

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Coho Swim 1.5km or 3km

Choose from 1.5 km or 3 km options starting and finishing close to the iconic welcoming totem pole that marks the entrance to the Capilano watershed. Swimmers can register same day on site but are encouraged to pre-register online for a bonus rate at www.cohoswim.com Coho Swim is wetsuit mandatory.

PACKAGE PICK-UP

7:45 - 8:30 AM on the east side of Ambleside Beach

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RACE START

9:00 AM

AGE GROUPS

All ages, a letter of consent from a guardian is required for minors

4.5k Walk 8.5k Walk Start

Cleveland Dam

Coho Run 14km

This incredible 14 km journey starts from Kitsilano Beach, takes you through Vanier Park along the seawall, then over the Burrard Street Bridge along the English Bay seawall to Second Beach in Stanley Park, and finally, over the Lion’s Gate Bridge and into Ambleside Beach Park to the birthplace of the North Shore Coho salmon. The 14K distance provides a great challenge for the 10K runner and a fabulous training run for the ½ marathon trainer.

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7:30 - 8:45 AM at Start Line

RACE START

9:00 AM

START LOCATION

Kits Beach, Kitsilano

FINISH LOCATION

Ambleside Beach, West Vancouver

AGE GROUPS

Under 19 to 80+ in ten year age groupings

SHUTTLE BUS

From Ambleside to Kitsilano before event. Bus leaves at 7:45 AM. The buses depart from the intersection of Bellevue Ave and 13th Street across from the West Vancouver Police station. Shuttle service will also be available back to the start line at about noon. You may purchase your ticket for the shuttle at the time of registration. Cost $5.

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Follow the journey of salmon from hatchery to ocean with this walk/hike. Visit stations along the route to learn about salmon and the environment. Both hikes start at Cleveland Dam. The short hike is a 4 km loop that starts and finishes at the dam. The long hike is 8.5 km, starting at the dam and finishing at Ambleside Park, site of the Coho Festival. There will be a shuttle bus from the parkade at Taylor Way and Clyde Avenue. Shuttles will run continuously between 9:00AM and 2:00PM. Admission is $2/person and $6/family. Children 6 and under free. All proceeds directly support protecting and enhancing salmonid habitats. You should begin your hike before noon in order to catch the last shuttle back.

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September 13

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Street Banner and Mural Art Project Have you noticed the beautiful street banners along Marine Drive in North and West Vancouver? This colourful artwork was created by North Shore elementary students as part of salmon conservation and education workshops put on by the North Shore Streamkeepers in collaboration with the Salmonid Enhancement Program and Artists for Kids. About 300 students participated in this year’s workshop and more opportunities will be offered again in the fall and spring 2015/2016.

For the second year, the Coho Society is pleased to showcase these colourful banners to highlight the upcoming annual Coho Festival. According to Coho Festival Chair Sherry Parrott, “The amazing artwork on these banners was created by elementary school students as part of the Coho Society’s ‘Salmonids in the Classroom’ program.”

The Coho Society is a strong supporter of educating students about the importance of salmon enhancement and habitat restoration.

What better way for students to become environmental stewards than by learning with their classroom aquariums and then seeing the results of their initiatives firsthand in the streams of North and West Vancouver. The workshops introduced students to local wildlife corridors along creeks and rivers, looking at innovation around urban and natural coexistence. This year’s banner and mural project received funding from the Coho Society, Environment Canada and the City of North Vancouver Art and Recreation. The City of North Vancouver’s contribution will support the creation of a 30’ x 100’ community art mural on the Spirit Trail beside the Mosquito Creek Estuary.

Limited edition banners and totes will be available for sale at this year’s Coho Festival. Funds raised from banner and tote sales will go towards salmon conservation workshops offered to local elementary schools in 2015/16.

COHO SOCIETY ACHIEVEMENTS 2014/15 This year the dollars raised at Coho Festival 2014 went towards some very exciting salmon conservation initiatives across the North Shore in the spheres of education, habitat restoration and salmon conservation infrastructure replacement.

• Inaugural year of the Jim McCarthy Scholarship. 2015 recipients were Kayley Hollyer, Lauren Bauman and Farron Rickerby - $2000 • Coho Workshops offered to elementary schools across the North Shore - $5000 • North Shore Streamkeepers, Mosquito Creek weir enhancement project - $5000 • West Vancouver Streamkeepers , Rogers Creek Estuary project - $7500 All proceeds raised at Coho Festivals go towards salmon conservation initiatives aimed at protecting returning salmon populations on the North Shore for future generations.

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Why serve salmon at Festival?

Every year at the Coho Festival people ask us why we serve salmon when in fact we are trying to increase their numbers. Salmon is an important food source for the sustainability of humans as well as animals such as bears and eagles. Strong salmon runs also ensure that our fishing industry is healthy and prospering.

Our entire ecosystem depends upon strong salmon populations.

All types of salmon provide a good source of high quality protein and the heart healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Salmon is also a good source of a variety of vitamins and minerals.

Canned salmon that contains bones is also a good source of calcium.

By serving salmon at the festival, we hope to remind you how delicious it is to eat and why we

need to learn about the ways we can all do our part to protect salmon and their waterways.

This year the Coho Barbeque will offer Wild Sockeye salmon from Save-On-Foods.

There are many groups on the North Shore that are stewards in helping our salmon flourish. The Coho Society of the North Shore uses this festival as a main fundraiser to be able to fund those groups.

We encourage you to come by and learn about salmon sustainability, stay for the salmon barbecue and enjoy all the other wonderful festivities at this year’s Coho Festival. By taking the time, you will be a part of the solution to ensure our rivers, streams and oceans are healthy for the salmon to thrive for future generations.

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The family have invested significantly and improved on the original design, drainage and turf care to the point where Kings Links by the Sea is as good a test of your shot-making and imagination as you will find anywhere in the world.

Anywhere else, Kings Links would be regarded as one of the premier golf destinations available for public play.Yet with the embarrassment of riches available to local golfers and its relatively remote location, it is one course of many trying to attract local players.

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According to scottishgolfhistory.org, “a links golf course refers to the type of soil and terrain on which it is built. Only 17 per cent of the courses in Scotland are true links courses, though this includes most of the historic courses.”

The word links comes from the Scottish dialect via the Old English word hlinc, which referred to rising ridges of coastal sand dunes that were of little use for agriculture but good for

grazing sheep and absolutely perfect for the obscure pastime of knocking a little ball around.

By any definition, the only true links golf course in Western Canada is Kings Links by the Sea on the western shores of Boundary Bay in Delta, just south of the Boundary Bay airport. Holes 4, 5 and 6 run right along the seafront, separated from the incoming tide by a local public trail.

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In about a month, Kings Links’ brand new 4,200-square-foot clubhouse will open to the public and provide golfers with a pre- and post-game experience heretofore unavailable. The views from the patio of the mountains that ring the Lower Mainland and the tidal flats of Boundary Bay promise to be spectacular, and I anticipate the experience inside the building will match the view.

I like a course that makes you think, and at 6,797 yards from the back tees, this is a course that gives you plenty to think about. If the wind is up, you have to calculate every shot to allow for both the velocity and direction of the breeze as well as your own natural hook or fade. With the rolling fairways and thick fescue on the verges, it rewards good shots and makes you pay if you stray.

It had been a number of years since I last played Kings Links and arranged to meet up with friends to see how it was coming along. The four of us were part of a group who made the trip to Scotland in 1999 to play St Andrews and Carnoustie. They had never played Kings Links before so I was interested to get their opinions.

One of the big differences between Kings Links and other local courses is the likelihood of having to play in a strong breeze or better. Our tee time was on Saturday, Aug. 29, the day of the big storm.

The morning began with a slow drizzle on the North Shore, but Delta gets significantly less rain than we do, and the closer we got to the course, the more it began to clear.

“Gee,”I said to my companion, Dan Rothenbush,“I wonder if the clearing skies means we are in for some wind?”

Well.

We were joined by friends David Hanley and Lance Olsen in the Kings Links parking lot and the wind was blowing at about 40 kilometres an hour.

Swarms of small birds soared in the gale and the wind-whipped fescue whistled and flapped.

We opted, under the circumstances, to play from the white tees.

Holes one, two and three led us to the southeast, into the full force of the storm. I remembered the wind coming

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into play, but this seemed a little unusual. Tee shots that would normally go a good couple of hundred yards hung in the air, were pushed to the right and died well short.

The opening hole, a 389-yard par-4, was a slight dogleg left and it was all we could do to keep our shots from greedy clutches of the fescue. The force of the wind even came into play when putting and you had to calculate your stroke very carefully.

Holes four through six ran along the bay and by the time we hit the par-3 fourth tee, we were getting the hang of playing the wind. It was actually a lot of fun. We would each estimate how far left we would have to aim to make the fairway and our plans worked out reasonably well.

Hole 7, a 472-yard par-5, led back toward the clubhouse and the wind was blowing to the left from our backs. As most of us were slicers, it helped keep tee shots long and straight. We walked off the green with two pars and a pair of bogeys.

Number 8, a 308-yard par-4, took us back into the wind, but our confidence had grown and we all recorded bogeys, a very good result in the increasingly strong tempest.

The back half of the course began with the 355-yard par-4 10th hole. With

the wind at our backs, tee shots were spectacular but putting was a real challenge. Carefully judged strokes with the wind kept running past the hole. Shots against the wind died well short.

One of the most delightful sights was a pair of revetted bunkers to the right of the landing area on the fairway on the 495-yard par-5 11th. It reminded me very much of The Spectacles, a pair of fairway bunkers on the 14th hole at Carnoustie in Scotland, and added to the real links feel of the course.

Scores reflected wind direction: number 12 into the wind, result misery.

Number 13 with the wind, result happiness.

Revetted bunkers made another appearance guarding the 14th green. By the time we were on the 14th fairway, rain was added to the elements and just carrying on was the biggest challenge.

The final three holes, the par 421yard par-4 16th, the 327-yard par-4 17th and the 375-yard par-4 18th are ranked first, third and fifth most difficult on the course and would present a significant challenge in mild weather.

That day, we managed to hold our own, but we left anxious to return when the weather was in a better humour and the clubhouse was open.

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superb condition to attract paying customers, and most are, but layouts are similar and variety is generally a function of topography: mountain golf or parkland golf.

To play links golf, real links golf, is almost another sport entirely. The wind, the fescue, the rolling dune land are unlike anything else you can experience. It gives you insight into the

heartbreak and triumph experienced by the best golfers in the world when they play courses like St Andrews, Carnoustie and now Chambers Bay in Washington state.

People pay thousands of dollars to visit the United Kingdom and plan years in advance to play what we have in a quiet corner of Delta. Take advantage of it while you can. Once the clubhouse opens, its popularity will go nowhere but up.

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Family meetings keep school year organized The first day of school came this week and one of the big challenges is getting the family organized.

When 10-year-old Kaylee has band practice before school and 12year-old Oliver needs a permission slip signed, you want to be calm and collected.You have a plan in place.

On the weekend, when Kaylee is going to be marching in a parade and needs to get across town for 8 a.m. and Cody has to be on a soccer field at 8:30 a.m. you’ll have the rides organized. No yelling, scurrying, name-calling and blaming, right?

No? Well, let’s solve the chaos that can come from trying to co-ordinate the conflicting schedules from today’s busy family members.

The trick is regular family meetings.We have all watched a scene in some family sitcom or another in which there is a problem and someone, usually a parent, yells, “Get down here, we’re going to have a family meeting!” Cue laugh track and you just know someone is going to get into big trouble. So who would ever want a family meeting?

Now is a great time to get started to make this an organized school year for the family.

This is very different from the idea that family meetings only happen occasionally. I recommend

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In terms of your kid’s activities, you may need to discuss how they’re each going to get to band practice and soccer, whether there’s a car pool arranged and when you’ll have dinner on that busy night. Also on the agenda are chores.Who’ll do what and when? The more you plan (and yes I am one of those planning freaks) the calmer things will be around the house. And, as a bonus, your children will learn to start thinking ahead. If they need a ride to an activity, they will talk about it at the meeting instead of three minutes before they need to leave the house. And this planning will start to be part of their lives. Not bad,

eh? They may even end up actually organizing class projects or studying for exams.

There are some considerations in order to have successful family meetings.

A regular time — weekly is normally best. This way it’s not a question of calling a meeting because someone is upset, confused or overwhelmed. It’s a typical thing, it just happens.

Make all participants equal. This does not mean voting. It does mean that all members have equal opportunity to introduce topics and to speak.

Decisions are reached by consensus. If there is no option (a non-negotiable family rule) children can express their opinions but must know that this is a non-negotiable item. An example of this might be drinking and driving or, more prosaically, being rude to another family member.

Rotate the chairmanship.

Children not only enjoy having a turn to chair, they will also learn about meeting procedures and rules.

Build an agenda. An agenda will keep you on track and organized (remember, organization is one of the goals of this activity!). It’s a great idea to build the agenda during the week. So when Duncan comes to you to talk about going to a volleyball meet, you suggest he add it to

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Decide ahead of time the length of the meeting. If you determine it will last 30 minutes, the children know exactly when they can leave.

If you haven’t covered all items by then, either get permission from the whole group to continue or hold some items over until the next week.

Take minutes. A written record of decisions solves disputes and permits a follow-up evaluation. Oh, and a real bonus.Years later, these minutes are a priceless reminder of the growth of your family. In our home, our minute books are as interesting as our photo albums.

Have a follow-up time for re-evaluation. It is very important for everyone to know exactly when a decision can be reevaluated and changed if necessary.

Finally, family meetings are not a time for parents to dump on the children!

Have fun, lighten up, do some planning and enjoy the time together as a family.

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With the exception of travel-related culinary adventures, I find it increasingly rare to encounter something completely, unequivocally new to me when I dine out.

There are many fantastic riffs on themes, to be sure, and I do often marvel at the creativity exhibited by local chefs as they dish up their inspired takes on proven recipes, but scarce are the occasions on which I am completely left without context or comparison when served a dish.

The so-called Bubble Waffle, however, a Hong Kong and Macau-inspired treat that resembles a golden brown rectangle of fragile goods packaging, was completely new to me when it was presented at Zestea, a bustling, charmingly bright and insouciant little bubble tea, smoothie, shake and dessert joint on Lonsdale Avenue at 15th Street.

I visited Zestea late on a weekday evening with my wife DJ and kids in tow.

We were lucky to find a seat in the busy restaurant, which seems to host a broad demographic of patrons, all united in their apparently insider knowledge of just how fun Zestea and their improbably enjoyable reinvention of waffles can be.

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shakes to start, generously portioned, thick and frosty, boldly flavoured beverages to which you may add all manner of tapioca pearls or fruit jellies. Our unanimous favourite, the vibrantly orange-coloured mango slush, came dressed with a dollop of whipped cream and an assortment of berries. I opted for passionfruit-flavoured jellies to accompany the mango concoction and found their perfumed, slightly tangy flavour to be a great complement to the drink.

Another slush, this one with Nutella and banana, paired with custard-flavoured jellies, whipped cream, chocolate drizzle and a wonderfully indulgent frozen profiterole, was like dessert in a cup: rich, creamy and eminently shareable (I’d be hardpressed to down an entire one of these on my own).

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To eat the waffle, you simply tear off a sphere or two and dip the light pastry into an accompanying sauce; Zestea offers either strawberry or caramel sauces, both of

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In addition to the original Bubble Waffle described above, we also sampled a BubbleWaffle Sundae, which involved waffle spheres piled into a tall cup, perched on a bed of crunchy corn flakes, interspersed with ice cream, chunks of banana, and chocolate drizzle, served with a long cookie straw.The kids went to town on the sundae and have become champions of the unusual treat within their circle of friends. Other sundae options include strawberry and mango.

Beyond its sweet offerings, Zestea serves one savoury dish, salt and pepper-tossed deep fried chicken nuggets, which the restaurant’s staff tell me are made in house, also to order.

Our dessert of shakes, waffles and sundaes was $28.

Zestea is located at 1544 Lonsdale Ave.

••• The Glowbal Group, responsible for the consistently enjoyable Trattoria Italian Kitchen at Park Royal, as well as a carefully curated collection of other high-end, imposing restaurants, including chophouse Black & Blue and ode-to-B.C.-seafood Coast, has opened a brand new flagship restaurant

at the much-ballyhooed Telus Garden on Georgia Street at Seymour.The eponymous eatery, Glowbal, is a sprawling, no-expensespared signature room for the group, boasting two stories of elegantly appointed private dining spaces, an enviable patio, and an impressive, custom-built robata grill at the centre of its enormous kitchen.

At a recent opening event, which felt like an Oscar pre-party in its assemblage of toned, tailored, tattooed and tanned beautiful people (I felt positively frumpy, nearly toad-like, in fact, in my casual blazer and khakis ensemble) I watched Glowbal’s proficient staff deftly manage hundreds of hungry, thirsty patrons that simultaneously infiltrated every corner of the huge restaurant.There is a See Opulant page 34

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Homemade after-school snacks to consider Granola Nugget Bars

Angela Shellard

¼ cup butter 2½ cups old-fashioned oats ½ cup sliced almonds 1⁄3 cup honey ¼ cup packed brown sugar ½ tsp vanilla ¼ tsp salt ½ cup chopped dried cranberries ¼ cup mini chocolate chips

Another school year is up and running, and most parents are familiar with the plaintive cry of kids returning home from a day of hitting the books: “I’m hungry!”

Rather than reaching into the freezer for additiveloaded microwaveable junk food, try one of these easyto-prepare snacks that kids will love.

They’re portable too, so if you have soccer/hockey/ football/gymnastics on the calendar after school, you can pack these along.

Preheat oven to 350º F. Toast the oats and almonds on a foil-lined baking sheet for seven minutes. Remove them from the oven and transfer them to a large mixing bowl.

In a saucepan over medium heat, melt together the butter, honey, brown sugar, vanilla and salt, stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved. Pour the mixture over the oats and almonds.

Stir together until completely combined with no dry spots.This will take two or three minutes.

Add the cranberries and

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1½ cups grated, sharp cheddar cheese 4 Tbsp butter, softened, cut into four pieces ¾ cup all-purpose flour ½ tsp coarse sea salt 1 Tbsp milk Preheat oven to 350º F. Using a pastry blender, combine the cheese, butter, flour and salt in a large bowl until mixture forms peasized crumbs. Stir in the milk and form the dough into a ball using your hands.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to one-eighth-inch thickness.

With a pizza cutter (or mini cookie cutters to make it more fun), cut the dough into small shapes.

Place the crackers on an ungreased baking sheet, leaving about one-quarterinch space between them.

Awesome Trail Mix 2 cups popped microwave kettle corn style popcorn ½ cup whole, natural almonds ½ cup honey-and-nut flavoured “O”shaped cereal ¼ cup banana chips ¼ cup dried cranberries or blueberries ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl until well combined. Package halfcup servings in individual snack-size plastic food bags.

Makes eight servings.

Apple “Cookies” 1 large, crisp apple cup peanut, almond or cashew butter Toppings: Chopped dried cranberries, cherries or blueberries, mini semisweet chocolate chips, chopped toasted pecans or walnuts, granola 1⁄3

Use an apple corer

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Serve immediately or place each “cookie” in a small plastic container (if you’re not going to serve these right away, it’s a good

idea to brush the apple slices with a 50/50 mixture of water and lemon juice so they don’t go brown). Makes about four to six cookies, depending on how big the apple is.

Angela Shellard is a selfdescribed foodie. She has done informal catering for various functions. ashellard@hotmail. ca

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chocolate chips and stir again until combined.

Spray the inside of two plastic ice cube trays lightly with nonstick spray. Press the granola mixture firmly into the ice cube trays; let the nuggets cool completely before removing them from the trays. Store in an airtight container or plastic food bags in the refrigerator.

Makes about 24 nuggets.

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decidedly opulent quality to the place, captured, in part, by the dinner menu, which includes dishes like sustainable White Sturgeon Caviar, King Crab Rockefeller, and Wagyu Beef Striploin priced at $19 an ounce.This latter was on display in glass-ensconced, illuminated jewel cases situated at the entrance to the restaurant, perhaps giving a knowing, insider nod to the value Vancouver puts on exclusive foodstuffs.

The restaurant also offers more accessible fare, such as pasta (Trattoria fans will be pleased to find the popular

Truffled Spaghetti and signature meatballs on the menu here), salads and a long list of goodies cooked on the aforementioned robata grill, including various prized creature parts like beef tongue, pork cheek and lobster tail.The variety makes the very polished Glowbal a suitable home for both Vancouver’s scenesters as well as confirmed foodies. glowbalgroup.com. 604-602-0835 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. hungryontheshore@ gmail.com

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What’s On Wednesdays AMBLESIDE ORCHESTRA rehearses Wednesdays 3:15-5:30 p.m. at Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver.

Intermediate level of musicianship required.

Bring a music stand. David, 604-922-1035.

CAROUN PHOTO CLUB Meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month 7-9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.

Visitors welcome. carounphotoclub.com CHESS CLUB All levels are welcome to play chess Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-4 p.m. at Parkgate Community Centre, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver. 604-983-6350 myparkgate.com CIRCLE DANCE Learn easy dances with music and steps from many traditions the second Wednesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. (arrive 6:45 p.m.). Admission by donation. Registration and location:Wendy Anne, 604988-3522.

THE DUTCH KOFFIECLUB meets the third Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m. to noon at the food court, at Park Royal South,West Vancouver. Meet new people and keep up your

Dutch language skills.The club also welcomes Flemish and South African people.

Used Dutch magazines and books will be available.

Hans, 604-990-5433.

GLENEAGLES SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Classes every Wednesday for experienced dancers, 7-9 p.m. at Hollyburn Elementary School, 1329 Duchess Ave.,West Vancouver. For more information, contact Norm Haug 604-984-7458 NORTH SHORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA meets Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Sutherland secondary, 1860 Sutherland Ave., North Vancouver, and is looking for new string players (especially bass players). 604-980-3132 jeanaireland1@hotmail.com SPEAKERHUB TOASTMASTERS meets every Wednesday, 6-7:45 p.m. in the Silver Harbour Seniors Centre, 144 East 22nd St., North Vancouver, to help participants improve their public speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Guests are welcome. speakerhub.ca

Thursdays BINGO: Every Thursday, 6-10 p.m. at the North Shore Alano Club, 176 East Second St., North Vancouver. 604-987-4141

HOW ENCHANTING =*2943 H*922 =V7_T .T) h9.T g9_,_V V99W 9T .3 f_.TT_ g1aUYT3WY .T) <4c*_ `.1V eYVV3 ]_2 ^4Y3Wc )14YT] . 4_[_.43.V ^94 2[_ d942[ E.T*910_4 ;9UU1TY2c `V.c_43 749)1*2Y9T 9^ /:7$>:#)4 3*'"@% G[_ 49U.T2Y* *9U_)c 41T3 H_72% !! 29 lP .2 G[_ G[_.24_ .2 j_T)4c j.VV' N!Q 8% !!2[ H2%' d942[ E.T*910_4% GY*W_23J @!N$@!P' .0.YV.,V_ 9TVYT_ .2 :+'#$D>:*@>,)'%.7> 94 ,c *.VVYT] P"R&LNS&lPSS% `jbGb PAUL MCGRATH BYOV (BRING YOUR OWN VOICE) COMMUNITY CHOIR rehearses Thursdays (except July and August), 7:309:30 p.m. at St. Clements Anglican Church, 3400 Institute Rd., North Vancouver.The choir sings a broad range of music

with a focus on fun and the love of singing. $55 per term. 604-987-2114 lynnvalleychurch.com COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS PROGRAM North Shore Multicultural Society (207123 East 15th St., North

NaomiYamamoto in a press release.

The program is funded by a $2.4-million investment the province is making in community adult literacy programs across B.C. in 2015/16.

That money is distributed to non-profit community groups to offer free literacy training in accessible places such as schools, aboriginal friendship centres and community centres.

These community organizations collaborate with a public postsecondary institution in the region to encourage the transition from literacy programs to post-secondary studies or employment training.

Anyone interested in the Lower Lonsdale Literacy Outreach Program should call 604-986-1911 x7245 or email clerner@capilanou.ca.

— Christine Lyon

COMMUNITY LUNCH Experience lunch with other people in the

neighbourhood Thursdays, noon to 1 p.m. Hosted

by St. Andrew’s United Church at 1044 St. Georges Ave., North Vancouver.

Free, but donations are accepted. 604-985-0408 st-andrews-united.ca See more page 36

Public Information Meeting

Grant supports adult literacy in North Van The Lower Lonsdale Literacy Outreach Program has received $29,600 from the provincial government to help North Vancouver residents improve their literacy skills.

The outreach program, a collaboration between North Shore Neighbourhood House and Capilano University, runs twice a week at John Braithwaite Community Centre and offers free, one-on-one tutoring and small group classes to adults who want to improve their reading and writing.

Students my also work on math and computer skills.

“This program is a key component of our province’s adult literacy strategy, and covers everything from upgrading basic reading and writing skills to completing high school,” stated North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA

Vancouver) is looking for volunteers to participate in a variety of community events with newcomers.

604-988-2931 or sochellr@nsms.ca

A redevelopment is proposed for 3600 Mahon Avenue (a surplus portion of Braemar School site) to create 4 bareland strata single family lots. You are invited to a meeting to discuss the project.

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2015, 7:00pm - 8:45pm Place: 3600 Mahon Ave (Braemar Elementary School Activity Room) The applicant proposes to rezone a surplus portion of the Braemar school site from Public Assembly zoning to a Comprehensive Development Zone to permit 4 bareland strata single family lots. The site area is reduced from a previous proposal, with more tree preservation & fewer proposed houses.

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For more details go instore or online @thebrick.com.

Information packages are being distributed to residents within a 75 meter radius of the site. If you would like to receive a copy or if you would like more information, contact Kathleen Larsen of the Community Planning Department at 604-990-2387 or James Fox of Wedgewood Ventures Ltd at 604-649-5658.

This is not a Public Hearing. DNV Council will receive a report from staff on issues raised at the meeting and will formally consider the proposal at a later date.

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What’s On From page 35 CONTRACT BRIDGE Every Monday and Thursday, 12:30-3 p.m. in the Cedarview Room at Delbrook Community Centre, 600 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver.

Drop-in fee: $1. 604-9877529 DADS PARENTING: Westcoast Family Resources Society offers a free group on Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.

604-417-3407 DUPLICATE BRIDGE Every Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30 to p.m. in the Cedarview Room at Delbrook Community Centre, 600 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. $3. 604-9877529

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DROP-IN FUN DARTS Play darts every Thursday, 7 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion #118, 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver.

Free. 604-985-1115 EMPLOYMENT MENTORING PROGRAM North Shore Multicultural Society (207123 East 15th St., North Vancouver) is looking for volunteers to share their passion for their career with newcomers. Recruitment

Traffic Pattern Changes: Highway 1 and Sea-to-Sky Highway 99 GranFondo Cycling Event Saturday, September 12, 2015

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure notifies the public of a planned cycling event taking place Saturday, September 12, 2015, on Highway 1 and Highway 99, between Vancouver and Whistler.

Riders in the RBC GranFondo Whistler event will start at 5:30 a.m. in Vancouver, travel over the Lions Gate Bridge up Taylor Way and Cypress Bowl Road, along Highway 1 and Highway 99, to finish in Whistler.

This event will result in temporary traffic pattern changes, delays and some stoppages on September 12, 2015, as follows: Traffic Pattern Changes: Downtown Vancouver - 5:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

North and West Vancouver - 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Squamish - 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Whistler - 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

West Vancouver: Highway 1, Upper Levels Highway - Eastbound Lanes Closed Highway 1, Horseshoe Bay to Taylor Way - two eastbound lanes only, closed from 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. *Use Marine Drive eastbound as alternate route.

Motorists are asked to allow extra travel time or plan alternate routes.

Please exercise caution, watch for traffic control personnel and follow all signs along the route.

Your patience during the event is appreciated.

For more information, visit the DriveBC web site at www.drivebc.ca or www.september12.ca

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is ongoing. 604-988-2931 homas@nsms.ca IMPROMPTU is a community rock choir that sings classic and contemporary rock, pop and Motown songs and operate on a drop-in basis.

There is no need to have any musical experience.

The group meets each Thursday night at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Gathering from 6:30 and singing from 7:30 to 9 p.m. $10. 604-6136842 impromptumusic.ca ST. MARTIN’S CHURCH CHOIR Choristers of all ages and abilities are invited to sing with St. Martin’s Church choir, at St. Georges Avenue and Windsor Street, North Vancouver.

Rehearsals are on Thursday evenings.The choir sings at the 10 a.m. Sunday service.

David Millard, 604-9905289 WEST VANCOUVER ADULT POPS BAND meets every Thursday, 7:30 p.m., at the West

Vancouver Community Centre music room, 780 22nd St.,West Vancouver.

New members are wanted for the woodwind and brass sections. No auditions are required. Phil, 604-9802403

Fridays ARGENTINE TANGO Learn to dance the Argentine tango Fridays, 8:45-9:45 p.m. at Presentation House, 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. $10. 604-6000657 argentinetangolab.com CONNECT NOW BUSINESS LUNCHEON An opportunity to meet other professionals and business owners the fourth Monday of every month, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Black Bear Pub, 1177 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. $10 nonmembers/$5 members plus lunch.

FRIENDLY FRIDAYS An informal group that meets every Friday, 9:3011:30 a.m. for coffee

160 Artisans Live Music

Sponsoring Merchants: • Muddy River Landing • Fancy This Gift

• Sonia’s Flowers • Stir Coffee House • Hawaiian Beach Tanning • Michael Abraham Studio Gallery • Elite Repeat 2 • Vagellis Grill • Lux Food • Heritage House Interiors • Dragonfly Gallery

ROOYESH GROUP meets every second Friday to discuss matters such as psychology, immigration, teenagers, music, poems, cultural issues and more.

Meetings are in Farsi with English translation available, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Room 203, Capilano Mall, 935 Marine Dr., North Vancouver. Free. Zara, 604980-1290 Email listings@nsnews.com

RAIN OR SHINE

• South Coast Casuals

• The Blue Door Interiors

FRIENDSHIP MEETINGS Those looking for a friend or a helping hand settling into the community are invited to group meetings with people from around the world every second Friday, 1-3 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, 885 22nd St.,West Vancouver. 604926-4381 ststephenschurch.ca

19th Year

There is always new and fresh creations each market

• The Flower Shop in the Village

and conversation at Mollie Nye House, 940 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Participants work on their own knit, crochet or other small projects. $4/$2. 604-9875820 mollienyehouse.com

on 48th Avenue Historic Ladner Village Sundays 10am - 4pm

September 13 LAST MARKET OF THE SEASON www.ladnervillagemarket.com 5028A - 48th Avenue

Thank you to our volunteers and staff for making this such a great event!

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

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Wolf Pack ready for a fight

Big changes as defending champs lose top players and head coach ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

This season the North Van Wolf Pack will test the old sports cliché that the only thing harder than winning a championship is repeating as a champion.

As tests go, however, this one will certainly be demanding.The Wolf Pack, coming off their first-ever Pacific Junior Hockey League regular season and playoff championships, will attempt to reach the top again this year except they’ll be without their top seven scorers from last year.

PJHL superstars such as Spencer Quon, who holds most of the team’s all-time scoring records, his twin brother Dyllan Quon, captain Brodyn Nielsen and last year’s scoring leader Mitch Crisanti all maxed-out their junior B

eligibility, while youngsters such as Alex Ambrosio, Henry Cleghorn, Matthew Hermary and Scott Munroe parlayed strong rookie seasons with the Pack into promotions to the junior A level.

The departures extend onto the bench as well with Matt Samson, the only head coach and general manager the franchise has ever known, moving on to take an assistant coaching position with the Merritt Centennials of the BCHL. Elias Godoy, entering his fourth year with the team, has taken over GM duties while maintaining his spot on the bench as an associate head coach. Bayne Koen, who joined as an assistant coach last season, will take on head coaching duties.

With all that turnover you could forgive the team for setting their sights a little

lower than last year, but that is definitely not the case with the Wolf Pack this year, according to Godoy.

“We’re the team to beat because we won it last year,” he says. “We’re going to have that target on our backs, but we’re excited for the challenge. Our goals are to be right back where we were last year and just have a better showing at Cyclone.”

That would be the Cyclone Taylor Cup, the provincial junior B championship tournament.

After winning the PJHL title last year the Wolf Pack finished fourth out of four teams in their first trip to the Cyclone Taylor Cup. The team knew that several of those players would not be back this year but the big surprise came in late July when it was announced that Samson

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“My initial thought was it’s a lot more work for me,” Godoy says with a laugh, recalling the moment he found out Matt was leaving.

“I was excited for him. It’s obviously a big thing for

him and his family and the organization to see him move up the ladder and go on to the next level.

Obviously it’s something he’s looked forward to for a while here. It’s exciting. Me and Matt grew up together so I’m excited for him and his family. And I’m excited for the new role for me as well. Getting into GM See Revamped page 38

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stuff is something that has always intrigued me and I was excited to take on that role.”

Godoy and Matt Samson worked as a coaching team during their three years together and that type of system will continue with Koen as the head coach, Godoy says.

“I’ve known Bayne probably 15 or 20 years,” he says. “We’ll continue to do the same things that me and Matt did….We make all the decisions together — it’s just more paper pushing for me than Bayne.”

Koen’s coaching helped the team claim its first title last year, Godoy says.

“He was a big part of the team.

He helped out with the D corp, he comes from an experienced background coaching and playing hockey. It was big for us to have him and knowing that we had a team that could win a championship and go the distance, having that experience on the bench helped us as well.”

On the ice the coaches will be counting on forward Nyshan Basra and defenceman Shane Kumar, two 20-year-olds in their final junior seasons, to lead the way.

“They’ve been around the

league, played for us a few years, know what’s expected,” Godoy says, adding that Kumar will wear the captain’s C. “He’s a very passionate player, very solid on the back end. Good defensively, and then has that offence ability, which is hard to find — A lot of guys are either one or the other, defensive or offensive.

The fact that he can do both, like a Dyllan Quon last year, it’s huge to have that back there.We can rely on him for big minutes, especially down the stretch this year. He’s a big guy, he likes to lay body. He can get out there and calm things down when the game gets a little wild at times.”

Other leadership will come from a group of second- and third-year players including forwards Mitchell Ledyard, Ian Creamore and Jackson Tadey and defencemen Troy Ring and Connor Pasco.

“We’ve got a good, young core,” says Godoy. “Our young guys from last year, this is the year they’re stepping up and going to become leaders….We’re looking for them to show the rookies how things are done.”

One area where there will be a lot of continuity is in the crease with Trevor Withers, last year’s starting goaltender, back with the team. In the regular season

8VY.3 k9)9c 2.W_3 90_4 .3 2[_ D9V^ `.*W#3 ]_T_4.V U.T.]_4% Withers was top-four in the league in wins, save percentage and goals-against average and he kept it up in the playoffs, posting a 12-3 record with a 2.56 goals-against average and .913 save percentage during the championship run.

This year Withers will be backed up by Brock Leach-Moore, who performed well when he saw some action last season as an affiliate Wolf Pack player.

The team’s rookie crop is headlined by defencemen Shane Kime and Samuel Atkins.

“They’re good players, (we’re) excited about them,” says Godoy.

“Offensive guys, good speed, see the ice well.

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The team has already played a pair of exhibition games against the Langley Knights — a 4-3 overtime loss on the road and 6-2 win at home — and will begin the season on the road Thursday against those same Knights.The home opener is scheduled for Saturday starting at 7 p.m. against the Abbotsford Pilots at Harry Jerome arena.

“The team is looking good,” says Godoy. “We have a lot of speed.We’re looking to play a fast game this year, quick transitions and just get on the offence when we can.We have a lot of D-men who can move the puck and a lot of speed up front.That’s a good combination.”

Godoy hopes fans are going to like a lot about this team, building on the strong support North Shore hockey folks provided the Wolf Pack during last year’s championship run.

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