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The City has received a development application to amend the Official Community Community Plan (OCP) for the waterfront lands located at Harbourside Business Park. Park. The The OCP OCP amendment would add residential uses to the commercial uses currently permitted currently permitted on site, and allow a rezoning application to be submitted for a residential residential and and commercial mixed-use development. Interested members of the public are are invited invited to attend a Public Information Session to learn more about the proposal. As well, As well, Town Hall Meetings will take place on April 12 and April 30. More information information at www.cnv.org/HarboursideOCPAmendment.

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When the music’s over After more than two decades, the music therapy program at Lions Gate Hospital’s Evergreen House care facility will be cancelled this spring second floor of the 280-bed Evergreen House long-term care home. “Why would anyone take that away?” S TA F F R E P O RT E R The problem arose on March 7 when Fildes was told her position as the hospital’s music therapist was no lonydney Aguiton doesn’t remember all of his 81 years ger tenable, that by late spring she’d be gone, taking the but what he does remember are the important whole music therapy program with her. things. “When she told me last Wednesday what had happened Things like his father’s record collection, his years I felt as if a limb had been amputated,” the 81-year-old spent as a Roman Catholic priest and the day he met Trinidadian whispered. “I can’t even begin to think of Meg Fildes, a music therapist at Lions Gate Hospital’s what life in the facility will be without her here. It just Evergreen House. can’t be.” Music has been a common refrain in Aguiton’s life, Aguiton is one of 80 elderly residents at Evergreen who from his boyhood in Trinidad to his years of faith ministry participate in the music therapy program — a service the and all the way up to, he hopes, his eventual exit to the centre has provided for the past 23 years, with Fildes as the Beatles’ “Yesterday,” as sung and strummed by Fildes. sole department member for the last three and a half. “Music is a connection between God and a human “It’s such a huge part of the resident’s lives here,” Fildes being,” Aguiton told The Outlook from his room on the told The Outlook in a phone interview Monday. “Music can do so much for the geriatric population and it’s such an easy way to engage them.” EDITION But last Wednesday, Vancouver Coastal Health called curtains on her one-woman show. Gavin Wilson, spokesman for the regional health authority, told The Outlook that letting the music therapy program go was a regrettable decision to have to make, but ultimately the right CHECK OUT OUR one given the availability of resources at Evergreen. NEW eEdition @ northshoreoutlook.com “While we are unfortunately going to be losing that part-time music therapy position — and we do value the services A REAL PAGE TURNER that music therapists bring — we will • check out our eEdition online be adding increased dietician services, • flip through, as you would with a newspaper a full-time recreation therapist; we’re • zoom in on the text for a more detailed view also going to increase the accessibility of • the e-edition is fully searchable social workers,” Wilson said. But Stephen Williams, coordinator of • see an ad you like? click on it to check out the advertiser’s website the country’s oldest music therapy program at Capilano University, said too TODD COYNE

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SOUNDS OF SILENCE - Sydney Aguiton, 81, laments the loss of Evergreen House’s music therapy program. Todd Coyne photo often the work of music therapists is first on the chopping block when money is tight. “I would hope our profession would be considered essential but that doesn’t seem to be the case in terms of Lions Gate Hospital,” Williams said. “Music’s a very social and expressive element that people respond to. And it seems to cut through the fog or the chaos of dementia and it brings out their social strength in a way that you don’t get when you’re sitting there having a conversation with someone with dementia.” Started in 1976, Cap U’s music therapy program annually graduates 18 bachelor of music therapy students and Lions Gate Hospital has been a proving ground for recent grads since the very beginning. In fact, Fildes has two practicum students from Cap U right now who she said were devastated to learn that when their time at Evergreen is up in the late spring, so is the program’s. “I want to give them hope and inspire them for their future but it sucks when you’re in a workplace where your supervisor’s been cut — trying to learn when you feel like the profession is not maybe valued as much as it should be,” Fildes said. More than just playing band leader to singalong sessions, music therapists like Fildes regularly incorporate music into traditional counselling, deep relaxation, end-of-life grieving and memorials for friends and families of the recently deceased. “Meg made this not a hospital but a home,” Aguiton said finally, sitting at the switched-off electric organ in Evergreen’s amenities room. “And on this matter that affects us residents directly we were not consulted. So I owe it to everyone here who enjoys the music but can’t speak. I speak for those.” tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/toddcoyne

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omplaints of drug use and domestic disputes were up on the North Shore’s Capilano reserve last year while all other crimes appeared to be in decline. That’s according to the West Vancouver Police Department’s 2011 crime statistics comparing last year’s police call-outs to the previous five-year average. The crime stats divide the Squamish Nation’s Capilano reserve into two areas, commercial and residential. The commercial zone is the high-traffic Park Royal South shopping centre lands south of Marine Drive between the Capilano River to the east and Rutledge Field to the west. The residential area is everything east of the Capilano River as far as Whonoak Road, south of Marine Drive. That’s where the majority of the Capilano reserve’s 2,500 residents live — only onethird of whom identify as aboriginal, two-thirds as non-aboriginal. In the commercial zone, police saw a 49-per-cent rise in the number of drug-related charges over the five-year average, with a total of 22 drug offences in 2011 compared to the annual average of 15. All other reported crimes were down at Park Royal South, with property crimes like theft and vandalism — always the most prevalent crimes in the area — dropping by 16 per cent over previous years. Violent crime was also down 12 per cent in the commercial zone and general assistance calls were down by one-third from 191 calls on average to just 128 in 2011. Overall, calls for police response to the Park Royal South area were down two per cent from an average of 1,596 calls to 1,565 last year. However, the same was not true of the Capilano reserve’s largely residential area to the east, where total calls for service were up a staggering 22 per cent from the usual 799-per-year to 921 in 2011. The rise in call-outs to the Capilano neighbourhood is partially attributable to a 10-per-cent increase in non-assault domestic dispute calls, while other crimes like property crimes and drug offences were down more than 30 per cent in the area. The whole Capilano reserve accounts for about six per cent of West Vancouver’s total population and 16 per cent of calls for assistance from the West Vancouver Police Department, making the reserve one of West Van’s crime hotspots. “This area would be higher than some other areas, taking into consideration as well that Park Royal South is a higher area of traffic,” West Vancouver police crime analyst Michelle Brander told a March 7 police board meeting. “The area as a whole — as you can see in the totals compared to the overall — accounts for a significant portion of what we’re responding to.” In fact, the Capilano reserve suffers disproportionately from all types of crime, accounting for 29 per cent of all violent crime in West Van, 24 per cent of all property crime, 22 per cent of general assistance calls and 15 per cent of West Van’s drug calls. The Capilano residential area was the source of 29 per cent of West Van’s non-assault domestic dispute calls in 2011. “When you look at the area of domestic disputes, it’s still disproportionately higher compared to the rest of the community,” West Van police chief Peter Lepine told the police board meeting. “But the resolve is there by the police department and the community to deal with those systemic issues that tend to lead to those calls.” Calling his Capilano neighbourhood a “mirror image” of what goes on in the wider communities of West Vancouver and Metro Van, Squamish Chief Byron Joseph thanked the West Vancouver Police Department, the RCMP and the combined task force of the Integrated First Nations Unit for their work on the reserve. “We don’t agree with drugs in our community or anything for that matter because it’s a bother to all of us,” Joseph said. “That’s why we choose to collaborate together because we know there is strength in numbers and we can’t allow these guys to take over our neighbourhoods.”

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an urban residential district. The book, they decided, should also include a comprehensive appendix of West Van place names and lots of photographs, both past and present. Originally, Carter, along with Barker and Barry Lindahl, a retired history teacher who taught at WVSS, planned to do the book on their own. “We realized it would be a good project for the society,” says Barker. But the crew of “dedicated amateurs” soon realized they needed reinforcements. With the centennial deadline ticking, Carter worried the book wouldn’t be completed until 2112 because the group had become so ardently immersed in their research. So, the society hired author/archivist Francis Mansbridge who’d previously penned books about the North Shore and John Moir, a photographer/writer and longtime West Van resident. Later, they added Bruce Young, an inveterate fact-checker. Next came weekly book committee meetings in the archives room of the West Van Museum. Researching, writing, rewriting, editing, debating, fact-checking and photo-hunting ensued. “I think I knew every word in the book,” Barker says of the arduous process. During the research phase there were some satisfying surprises, like when Barker got to read a transcript of an interview that Rupert Harrison, West Van’s first archivist, conducted with his grandmother. “I found out some things about her life I didn’t already know. A lot of interesting people lived here.” As well as conceiving of the vision for the book, Carter also ensured the society could pay for it. Concerned printing costs could bankrupt the small society, he set out on a tireless fundraising campaign, enlisting both individuals and companies in West Van to help bankroll the project through donations. The community bought in. The original print run was 3,000 books and there are only about 600 left. Any profit from the book, adds Carter, goes to a trust fund to help preserve West Van heritage. “To see it all together was a really wonderful feeling,” says Carter about flipping through the pages of the book for the first time. For Brousson, the book offered a chance to time-travel back to the days when her family rented a cottage at 11th and Mathers while they built a place on Esquimalt Avenue after her father returned from the war. “It was all farms up there then,” she recalls. And even for a longtime resident like her, the centenary book offers some interesting, littleknown facts, like the origins of the name of the street where she currently resides: Nelson Avenue. “[Nelson] was the first reeve of West Vancouver, I never knew that until I read the book.” Today (March 15) there will be a family-friendly 100th birthday celebration from 2-4 p.m. at the West Vancouver Memorial Library. For further info on West Van’s centennial celebrations, go to westvan100.ca. To find out where to purchase Cottages to Community, visit wvhs.ca.

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o help lock an offender away is, in part, to do one's job as a police officer. With every prison sentence, the wrongfully convicted notwithstanding, society is free of one less danger. Victims and their families are given the closure they so desperately seek. Hurt, the minor and the monstrous, will forever be a difficult thing to completely reverse but the knowledge that the cause of one's harm is behind carefully guarded bars should provide some solace. Not all who step outside the boundaries of the law are good candidates for the prison system. And not all crimes are worthy of incarceration. The courts, backlogged and drawn-out as they may be, hand down a myriad of penalties, again, intended to punish the bad guys and let victims know their pain doesn't go unacknowledged. A tried and tested system, indeed. Yet last year, 95 North Shore criminal cases, ranging from assault to mischief, were handled by another sphere of justice — one removed from the traditional cop-lawyer-judge arrangement on which we've come to rely. "First off, restorative justice allows the victim's voice to be heard. It re-balances the power in the victim-offender relationship," says Laura Glover, a board member of the North Shore Restorative Justice Society. "And it allows an opportunity for transformation." *** Glover, a Vancouver resident, was only eight years old when she and a friend were sexually assaulted in the woods near their elementary school in Vancouver's West Side. The two had been roller skating on the school's grounds that day, a regular after-school activity. The pair were briefly separated when Glover skated down a hill. As she came back up, she saw a man talking with her friend. He said he was a police officer. He wasn't. He was John Horace Oughton, the man eventually dubbed the "paper bag rapist" for his method of placing a paper bag over his or his victims' heads to obscure his identity. The grown Oughton easily overpowered the young girls and took them into the nearby woods. Glover says Oughton was armed with gun, rendering any plans she may have had to fight or flee the scene moot. Instead, she froze. Before he left,

Oughton made sure to get both their names and addresses and threatened to kill their families if either girl ever said anything. "We thought we wouldn't tell," says Glover, plainly. "But I came home white as a ghost and my mom knew. I said there was a man and she asked me 'Did he touch you?' That opened it." In 1987, about eight years after she crossed his destructive path, Oughton would be convicted of 14 sex-related crimes. Glover and her friend were counts one and two. It was the end of Oughton as a free man, the death knell on a reign of terror many believe involved more than a hundred attacks. And it was the curtain call for the drawn-out nightmare lived by his victims. The man that had preyed upon them would never again indulge himself at the expense of an innocent girl. It was over. So why wasn't Glover satisfied? *** "After we went through the court process the first time, I saw he was up for parole about 15 or so years after his incarceration. I was shocked," says Glover, sitting back in her seat inside a South Granville restaurant. "I went to the hearings and realized it wasn't over for me. I needed answers. People have this notion that justice via the court system brings a notion of closure. There is closure in the sense of safety, but it didn't transform the harm he'd already caused." Glover knew then she'd have to find some other method of healing. She even thought of meeting Oughton. But as she attended his subsequent hearings — Oughton is considered a dangerous offender and as such has an indefinite prison term, but he is up for parole every two years — Glover realized she'd never be able to connect with him. His behaviour at the strictlyregulated hearings has been erratic over the years, culminating in a 2003 appearance when it took three officers to subdue him after it appeared he was going to make a break for the exit. Glover chose instead to contact Oughton's brother. They'd shared a quick elevator ride once, back when the trial was happening. It was the longest four floors she'd ever travelled, recalls Glover. And it was a silent ride, as one would expect. But just before they parted ways Oughton's brother turned to Glover's family, looked her mother in the eyes and said "I'm sorry."

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*** There will forever be, as Glover calls it, a "closed system" of pain between herself and Oughton. But because of his dangerous offender designation, she has the ability to read reports detailing his progress, or lack thereof, in jail. She says she's grateful for that access, as it gives her some current information about the man that's played an omnipresent role in her life. Without it, no amount of counselling and time would ever change that relationship. She'd always be the eight-year-old on the schoolyard. "Now, if I read he's doing classes or whatever, my opinion of him might change. But if I don't hear anything, then what? I can do whatever I want but the second I get a parole letter and I have nothing new to work with I go right back to where I was years ago," she explains. "Unless you bring people together it doesn't change that victim-offender bond."

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staff, which frees up officers to pursue other issues. And by diverting cases from the courts, the restorative justice society can be a cost-saving measure as well. According to WVPD calculations, every case they re-assign to restorative justice saves the department about $8,000. Every file presented, however, isn't one the society ends up pursuing. There is a thorough screening process involved, including separate meetings with police, victims and offenders, before any decision is made. If a case is deemed appropriate, only then are both parties brought together. "It takes something from both parties, both *** have to want to be there," says Abramson. "It takes empathy on the part of the offender And therein lies the power of restorative justice, Glover says. She's been a champion of the and questions from the victims. Offenders often method for years and involved with the North don't get what they've done at first but if they Shore Restorative Justice Society since 2007, after have an openness to it then we'll do it — we'll go the society reached out to her about sitting on ahead with it." A routine question from the public, admits its board. The group wanted, she notes, a person Abramson, is the likelihood of an offender prethat's been a participant in a restorative process. The cases handled on the North Shore aren't tending to accept restorative justice only to avoid typically of the severity of Glover's. According to the traditional system. After all, the resolutions Alana Abramson, the society's executive director, a restorative process often levies — financial restitution, community the lion's share work or a written of the files that land on her desk “Restorative justice allows the victim's apology, amongst — could be are of the breakvoice to be heard. It re-balances others seen as getting off and-enter, theft or assault variety. But the power in the victim-offender easy. But, she stresses, the ethic remains relationship.” that hasn't been her the same — vicexperience. These tims and offendLaura Glover meetings are emoers are brought NS Restorative Justice Society tional. Everyone's together to give nervous and there's those who've been wronged the forum to ask the questions they've often shame on the part of the offender. And that's the point. People need to know why never had the chance to. The system has proven popular with both they were harmed. They need to know why they North Shore police departments. Last year, the became a target. For some, it means everything. "We're always asking the wrong things — 'Who restorative justice society handled 95 cases, 61 of which came from North Vancouver RCMP, did it?' or 'How do we punish them?' But restor28 from West Van police, three directly from the ative justice asks others. 'Who's been hurt? What community and three from Vancouver Coastal are their needs?'" says Abramson. "And 'How do we heal?'" Health. The cops, she says, have really come around skolenko@northshoreoutlook.com to the program, its values and its efficiency. All twitter.com/seankolenko of the paperwork related to each case the society oversees, adds Abramson, is handled by their

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