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Students launch worms in space JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

The kids plunged into the dirt and dug for worms.

And just what were those Westcot elementary students doing?

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Rocket science.

Grade 7 and 8 students Kristopher Kirkwood, Griffin Edward, Shania Farbehi, Vesal Farahi, and Joseph Piovesan are now nearing the culmination of an experiment that will take their science experiment from the soil to the stars.

The students – four of whom have since graduated from Westcot to high school – are planning to send the world’s most expensive worm cocoon into orbit early in 2017 in an effort to discover if worms can grow in zero gravity.

The project is one of 21 student experiments selected to blast off from over 2,400

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New grain terminal to be built in 2017 BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Construction is set to begin on a massive new North Shore grain terminal in the new year.

G3 Global Holdings has announced its final investment decision for a 180,000-tonne terminal at the foot of Brooksbank Avenue, where Western Stevedoring’s 65-acre West Gate breakbulk terminal now sits.

Once completed, it will hold 48 14-storey grain silos, an 80-metre tall work building, and a one-kilometre rail loop capable of holding three trains more than 130 cars long.

The new terminal will be quite unlike its competitors in the area including Richardson International, Cargill Canada and Viterra, according to Karl Gerrand, chief executive officer of G3. The rail loop means there will be no shunting of train cars

Overseas demand, increased production driving interest in boosting port grain capacity or revving of engines and the elevator and silos will be more advanced, meaning they should be less of a problem for neighbours down wind and in earshot.

“The last new terminal that was built in the Vancouver area was back in the 1960s. Man first took steps on the moon in 1969, to put things in perspective. It’s been a long time. There have been a lot of technology improvements since that time.

Our facility is going to be state of the art and everything we’ve learned in the last 50 years is going to be put into this facility,” Gerrand said. “We’re thrilled to be part of the North Shore and $

the City of North Vancouver and proud to be part of the community. We look forward to being good neighbours and good responsible citizens.”

Gerrand said he expects hundreds of employees will be hired for the three years of construction, plus “50-ish” full-time skilled employees on site once it’s online in 2020.

The exact total of the investment isn’t being released.

“I can tell you it’s an absolute megaproject and it’s hundreds of millions of dollars we’re spending on it,”Gerrand said.

Driving the investment is five per cent annual growth in grain production in the prairies and strong demand overseas.

Richardson nearly doubled its export capacity with new silos that came online this year.

G3 is a joint venture of U.S. agribusiness Bunge and Saudi

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YEAR IN REVIEW

Capilano Students’ Union members Michelle Gervais, Beatriz Miralles, Julian Kolstee and Emily Solomon (right) urge the province to come to the aid of cash-strapped students seeking housing. Seymour Salmonid Society president Shaun Hollingsworth stands atop a fish fence designed to help coho survive in B.C.’s most endangered river. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN

A chronicle of 2016’s bluster and luster – Part 2

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Look behind you!

Environmentalists watched their pipe dreams turn into nightmares this year as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau approved Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion.

But as much ink as we spilled on oil, no single story persisted like the North Shore’s untameable housing market, where prices heated up and vacancies froze.

We watched the City of North Vancouver commit to history, West Vancouver commit to the environment, and the District of North Vancouver pledge to create affordability.

But in terms of pure chutzpah, we were perhaps most captivated and exhilarated by the hard-headed Seymour Salmonid Society’s mission to move a mountain.

July Iranian authorities seize sculptor’s passport Celebrated artist Parviz Tanavoli, who divides his time between Tehran and West Vancouver, had his passport seized during a trip

to his home country.

The sculptor and author was on his way to London to promote his new book, European Women in Persian Houses, when he was barred from leaving Iran. While no reason was given for the prohibition, Tanavoli later noted: “There are some extremists in Iran, they’re very anti-art, Western culture, and they don’t appreciate people like me.”

Following international outcry, Tanavoli’s passport was restored and he returned home to West Vancouver.

“I can’t tell you how good it feels to be here … with my family. This is a paradise.”

District of North Vancouver responds to recklessness with irreverence Signs sporting phrases like: That Was Worth the Spinal Damage, Said No One Ever and Listen To That Nervous Feeling were erected around Lynn Canyon in an attempt to plant a rational thought in the minds of impulsive cliff divers.

The signs were installed months after a Coquitlam teen died after coming to the canyon to cliff jump. District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services were called to the canyon 70 times in the

first seven months of the year.

The old signs began to feel like “part of the furniture,” noted district spokeswoman Mari Welman, explaining the new signs are meant to spark an “internal dialogue.”

City council says OK to LoLo BIA After the much-maligned negative petition process drew opposition from a minority of the area’s property owners, city council approved a Business Improvement Area for Lower Lonsdale.

Coun. Holly Back had asked to delay the final vote after questioning why Lonsdale Quay Market will pay between 50 and 55 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value – roughly half the rate charged to other properties. Given the benefits provided by the Quay, Back ultimately backed the BIA. “The only negative I get is from non-business owners.

Sorry, they don’t count,” she said.

While Back warmed to the BIA, Coun. Pam Bookham opposed it every step of the way, blasting the Lower Lonsdale Business Association for failing to attract BIA supporters despite receiving a

$120,000 grant.

“I don’t consider 19 testimonials out of 600 to be a strong argument,” she said.

West Van goes into tree-age mode Approximately 48 per cent of surveyed West Vancouverites decried an interim tree protection bylaw as heavy handed, resulting in the formation of a task force to explore alternatives.

Dozens of mature trees were felled hours before the interim bylaw came into effect in April.

“It looks like they clear cut a section of Stanley Park,” said Liesa Norman, noting her Altamont neighbourhood smelled like “Christmas in spring.”

Commenting on residents fearful the new bylaw would affect their enjoyment of their homes, Mayor Michael Smith offered a prescription: “Take a couple of Aspirins and they’ll feel better in the morning.”

August Lions Gate towers get ready to roar After about a decade of consultation, construction kicked off on a 460-unit development at Capilano Road

and Marine Drive comprised of 18- and 12-storey towers, a community centre, commercial space, and low-rise apartments and townhouses.

The development was initially set to be phased over eight years, but the new plan is to finish it in 30 months.

Appraising neighbourhood traffic, District of North Vancouver Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn described the area as: “Very, very, very, very busy.”

West Van councillor Michael Lewis mourned Michael Lewis, the threeterm councillor and longtime autism advocate died of lung cancer at the age of 66.

During his tenure as president of the Autism Society of Canada, Lewis fought against what he branded a discriminatory and dysfunctional system that required parents with autistic children to pay out of pocket for support services.

As parents of an autistic child, Lewis’ widow Jean recalled him saying: “Just because we can afford it, what about everyone else that can’t?”

His council colleagues remembered him as softspoken and reasoned but possessed of the ability to

make a point with wit and clarity.

In calling for a ban on LNG tankers in Howe Sound, Lewis said he envisioned “the LNG tankers coming out from Woodfibre crashing into an oil tanker coming out of Burnaby; but it was all getting mopped up by the stuff coming off the garbage barge.”

Seymour rock slide blasting begins The Seymour Salmonid Society is moving mountains to clear the Seymour and remove the waterway’s status as B.C.’s most endangered river.

Low-velocity explosives and pneumatic drills were used to chip away at the 50,000 cubic metres of granite that tumbled into the river in 2014. The house-sized rocks made the river impassable for the huge quantities of coho that traversed Seymour on their way to the Burrard Inlet.

“We’re going to let Mother Nature, with those… water flows, move the rocks downstream to the deep pools that are situated in the canyon,” said society president Shaun Hollingsworth.

The society also invested in a $30,000 fish fence and

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YEAR IN REVIEW From page 4 other stop-gap measures to help the salmon and steelhead survive the rocky river.

Bus depot shows its tail lights to North Vancouver Despite protests from municipal governments, TransLink closed the bus depot at Third Street and St. Davids Avenue and dispatched the fleet to Burnaby.

The City and District of North Vancouver cited the challenges of moving buses over a bridge following an earthquake in their opposition, but TransLink decided the cost of a new plot of land on the North Shore would simply be too high.

“Current estimates put the cost at $100 million – something TransLink cannot presently afford,” said spokesman Chris Bryan.

September Cap U students launch housing plan The University’s student alliance is pushing the province to allow the school to take on debt in order to create dorms paid for by students.

“We’d gladly trade parking ability to have housing opportunities,” said Capilano Students’ Union president Jullian Kolstee.

Sewell’s project withdrawn at 11th hour after overseas marketing mixup A huge Horseshoe Bay development was abruptly yanked from West Vancouver’s council agenda after it was discovered Westbank was advertising the project overseas.

The 159-apartment and townhouse project was eventually approved, albeit with a “locals first” rule in place.

Addressing the overseas marketing, Westbank marketing manager Michael Braun apologized and attributed the oversight to “schedule changes.”

A heart stops and help rushes in West Vancouver Police Department Const. Jeff Palmer was back volunteering with the Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast a year after a heart attack felled the officer.

Palmer said he felt a warm rush, “Then the lights went out.”

Jamie McPherson, a B.C. Ambulance Service paramedic, saw Palmer fall and immediately administered CPR. “I’ve had some very good fortune to survive when most people don’t,” Palmer said.

“That had a lot to do with the people who were there to help me.”

October West Vancouver homes are greenhouse monsters West Vancouver committed to lowering the district’s carbon footprint 40 per cent by 2040 after monster houses were identified as the main contributor to the 260,000 tonnes of greenhouse gasses emitted by the municipality.

The district’s per capita emissions are 4.8 tonnes per year, compared to 3.1 tonnes per year in the rest of Metro Vancouver.

Council approves final funds for Green Necklace More than 10 years

after city workers put the first patch of tarmac on Keith Road, City of North Vancouver council unanimously approved the final piece of the Green Necklace cycling and pedestrian path.

The unanimity came after Coun. Rod Clark, who had previously dubbed the trail “the black necklace,” opted to throw in the towel and support the project’s completion.

Construction is set to get underway in the summer of 2017.

Warnings issued over ‘creepy clown’ pranks Creepy clowns are no laughing matter in North Vancouver, according to teachers and principals who warned teens about the dangers of the penny-ante Pennywises.

Clown pranks “truly (are) terrifying for people and can spark violence,” wrote North Vancouver school district superintendent Mark Pearmain.

Former North Van MP bids for Tory leadership Following a 2015 election loss to Liberal MP Jonathan Wilkinson, Andrew Saxton joined the running to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Saxton indicated he’ll tout his record of fiscal stewardship as he seeks to “have significant input into keeping Canada great.”

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Dollarton land swap aids terminal growth From page 1

Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co., which also has xport terminals in eastern Canada.

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority gave approval for the project in June, subject to 74 conditions, something Gerrand said the company is on track to meet.

Still, a group of residents who lobbied heavily against the project is regarding the news as a “very sad day in North Vancouver.”

“We still believe there’s been no public consultation on this G3 terminal,” said Holly Cole, spokeswoman for Stop G3. “This is being done to us, not with us or for us.

It will be an ugly scar on the North Shore harbour that will spew dust and chemicals into our air and add more noise with 24/7 trains and 24/7 operations.”

As G3 takes over the property, Western Stevedoring will start moving its West Gate breakbulk operations over to the East Gate terminal at the foot of Mountain Highway.

This will require the port authority will to expand its land holdings, enveloping a number of light industrial properties north of the East

Gate terminal.

Those properties are owned by developer Darwin Properties.

The port and Darwin are now planning to conduct a land swap, trading the industrial lots for an undeveloped plot owned by the port north of Dollarton Highway.

The convoluted property trading comes as the District of North Vancouver is planning long-term changes for the Maplewood area, involving new residential development, commercial space and light industrial land.

The land swap means a large portion of the Dollarton land will now fall under district jurisdiction instead of federal control.

“All of a sudden we’re now able to do a town plan that stretches from virtually the Tsleil-Waututh reserve all the way down to the Seymour River,” said Mayor Richard Walton.

District council, however, is lamenting the loss of the businesses that are being evicted to make way for port expansion in the meantime.

“Were we pleased? Not particularly,” Walton said.

Western Stevedoring president Bred Eshleman said the land swap, evictions and

Above: An image of what the new G3 grain terminal will look like on the current site of Western Stevedoring’s Westgate terminal. IMAGE SUPPLIED. Below: An image showing the location of the new G3 terminal. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION MYRA MCGRATH changes to his company’s terminals were likely inevitable.

“Whether G3 went ahead or not, this was still going ahead,” he said.

Eshleman said he understands the concern about the evicted light industrial tenants but said there will be a net increase in industrial land on the North Shore once all of the development is complete.

“It’s going to be a plus at

the end of the day,” he said.

The District of North Vancouver is being compensated $8.1 million – the market rate – for the streets it’s giving up next to East Gate, which will become part of the expanded waterfront industry.

That money is being set aside for future strategic land purchases for the district’s benefit, Walton said.

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Scientists hope idea opens a can of worms From page 1

proposals created by students throughout North America.

Westcot’s vice-principal Matt Trask worked with the National Center for Earth and Science Education to bring the space experiment program – designed to foster interest in science, technology, engineering and math – to the West Vancouver school district.

After the school district solicited ideas for the project from budding young scientists throughout West Vancouver, the Westcot group first considered a Ziggy Stardust-like spider experiment. It was at that point Trask asked a critical question: “Why?” “It’d be cool but you don’t get funded because you have a cool idea,” he reminded them.

Worms were initially mentioned a joke but the idea truly hatched when the group considered compost toilets and the role worms play in growing food.

In 2015, NASA reported the International Space Station had been successfully transformed into a salad bar, allowing astronauts to snack on red romaine lettuce grown under blue and red panel lights in space.

With harvesting food an increasingly critical part space exploration, the Westcot team pondered combining worms with human waste to create fertile soil.

“If they can make the dirt from the worms eating their waste, then they wouldn’t need to keep bringing food up,” Kirkwood said. “They’d be able to go for longer

because they have a continuous supply of dirt.”

Out of 100 submissions received from students across the West Vancouver School District, three were chosen by a selection committee from the science education program. With a spot on the International Space Station on the line, NASA engineers picked Westcot’s worms.

The cost of sending their cocoons into space in a tube is $25,000. “You can imagine what it costs to ship food,” Trask said.

The cocoon is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Dragon rocket Jan. 21 and be on a space station for between four and six months. Astronauts will run the experiment and

the team is set to review the results. The project took the better part of a year and included a trip to present their project to NASA engineers at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. But when asked about her favourite element of the experiment, Farahi recalled that day in the dirt. “The part I really liked was trying to find worm cocoons,” she says, eliciting laughter from her teammates.

Because of its unique nature, studying the growth of worms in zero gravity presented its own challenges.

“The hardest part was probably the research because there wasn’t much on the Internet,” Farbehi said.

“I even went to Page 2 on the Google search, so you know how serious I am,” Edward added.

The team ran experiments on dirt, reviewed pH levels and food sources to find what constituted optimum conditions for worm growth.

Their work was funded

by Boeing and Magellan Aerospace, vetted by NASA engineers and approved for blastoff shortly before Christmas.

Transport will be handled

by NanoRacks, which is “like FedEx for space,” Kirkwood said.

The experiment required an enormous amount of work, Edward said.

While the assignment

began as science, language arts became critical in the researching and writing of the proposal.

“At least 10 Shakespeares worth of writing,” said Edward.

“And then it turned into math,” Piovesan added.

Piovesan and Edward

said that while some student science groups didn’t want to be together, their quintet embraced the spirit of collaboration. Asked about moving forward in science, Edward spoke up first.

“If we’re able to collaborate once again, maybe we could do something even bigger.”

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raditionally, Christmas is a time when many people think about giving to charity.

That’s a good thing, because charities rely on those seasonally-inspired acts of generosity to keep them going through the rest of the year.

You can bet that groups from international aid agencies to local non-profits helping the homeless will still be making use of that Christmas cash to spread comfort and joy when the giver is lying on a beach in July.

But recent reports on charitable giving suggest that Canadians are increasingly feeling the economic pinch.

Both the percentage of those giving and the amounts they give are down from previous years.

Those in B.C. have been hit especially hard – not surprising considering our ballooning costs of living.

Of course there are many ways to give without handing over actual cash.

Volunteering time and effort towards a worthy cause can be equally important. Most organizations welcome helping hands, and not just at Christmas.

Hank Brennan, the North Van recycler with a big heart, whose story we recently featured, is someone who epitomizes that spirit. Brennan is as near to an elf as most of us will encounter – using elbow grease to turn 25,000 recyclables a month into gift cards to help those in need.

He also gives something equally valuable: his attention and his presence.

Those are qualities in short supply in our frantic lives sometimes but gifts available for all of us to give, whether to those in need in our communities or to our own nearest and dearest.

A seasonal trio of NV spirits come calling

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ere it is the night before the night before Christmas and I’ve just been visited by the traditional Three Ghosts: Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Christmas Past bears a passing resemblance to Don Bell, who has represented both the district and the city for a zillion years, but he’s still going strong as a city councillor, so maybe I’ve got my ghosts mixed up.

Anyway, Christmas Past took me back to our first Christmas on the North Shore. It was 1989, and earlier that year, we’d moved into a house in Norgate, which we purchased for $167,000. It’s probably “worth” over a million now.

Previous Christmases were spent in deep freezes in Winnipeg and Toronto, where giant furnaces that took up

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The North Side entire basements kept us warm. In the Norgate house, there was a little closet in the living room that hid a furnace about the size of a pomelo.

The house also featured a “Florida room,” which is real estate-speak for “unheated, uninsulated lean-to tacked onto the back of the house.”

It was one step up from a tent, but because it was 11

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degrees on Christmas Eve, we were snug as bugs.

But there’s no time to enjoy that sense of smug relief that comes with enjoying Canada’s only green Christmas, as Christmas Past dumped me onto the sled with Christmas Present, who also resembles Don Bell. We were immediately stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Upper Levels.

“If you think this is bad,” chuckled Christmas Present, “wait until Christmas Yet to Come, specifically 2041 when there will be 63,000 more people living on the North Shore. And every one of them wants a Lexus for Christmas.

Ho ho ho! Might as well take the bike lane.”

Eventually we were able to get off the highway at Lonsdale, but if you ask me, we should have stayed stuck in traffic, as we ended up in

Lions Gate Hospital and its weekend contingent of drug overdoses. If you’ve ever been to Lions Gate ER on a weekend, it’s likely many of the beds are occupied by people with self-inflicted damage. And so it is tonight, where alcohol and drugs are the featured crisis.

The greatest mindblower of Christmas Present, apart from the fact that Donald Trump will be the president of the United States in the new year, is the fentanyl crisis.

So far in 2016, 755 people have died of drug overdoses, more than 60 per cent involving fentanyl, a dangerous opioid which has found its way into other drugs like heroin, cocaine, crystal meth and oxycontin. So many ways to die.

This is an unbelievable number. Last week, 13 people

in B.C. died in a single night, six of them on the cold streets of the Downtown Eastside. In North Van, “only” five people have died of overdoses this year, but each one has a family who will never get to spend Christmas together again.

You’d think that with so many dying, people would simply stop with the fentanyl.

Yet good sense and fentanyl don’t mix. Here at Lion’s Gate, though, they do their best to save lives that people seem intent on throwing away. It’s not the best place to spend Christmas Eve. So, after another couple of hours in Upper Levels traffic, I’m standing on the corner of Esplanade and Rogers in Lower Lonsdale, where I’m met by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and whaddaya know? He bears a resemblance to Don Bell.

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We are standing at the corner where the past meets the future. It’s the site of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives, which will be housed in a condo development scheduled to open in 2019.

It’s only fitting that this ghost looks like Don Bell too, as the actual Don Bell calls the museum approval the culmination of a 30-year-dream.

But we don’t stand around because this Christmas, it’s not 11 degrees. Global warming, my, um, foot.

We’ve ended up at another place where yesterday, today, and tomorrow do a meetup – the End of the Line Coffee Shop on Lynn Valley Road at the entrance to Lynn Headwaters Park.

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INQUIRINGREPORTER What are your Christmas traditions?

Elf on the Shelf, milk and cookies for Santa, mistletoe, Advent calendar, orange in the stocking, carolling, Christmas cookie exchange, turkey dinner, fruitcake ... OK, that last one is an acquired taste, yes? Whether you have inherited holiday rituals from your parents’ motherland (Did you know in Japan they eat Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas Day?) or made new memories with your family, we asked: What are your Christmas traditions?

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“We like to go to the Stanley Park train and bake Christmas cookies and watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

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Sara Gunnsteinsdottir North Vancouver

“My family opens one present on Christmas Eve.”

“We do the opposite. We open all of our presents on Christmas Eve and one on Christmas Day.”

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Miles Bowyer North Vancouver

“We do an Italian Christmas on Christmas Eve. So we all dress up nice, open presents, eat lots of food and go to midnight mass.”

“We hide the pickle in the Christmas tree. It’s a glass ornament. Whoever finds it gets to open a present on Christmas Eve.”

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SOCIAL MEDIA NSN STORY: West Vancouver SPCA seizes dog left out in sub-zero temps (Dec. 18) Pamela Manson: Thank you WV SPCA. You are all amazing!

Marion Elliott: Hope they don’t return the dog to him.

Pine Gulch: We need even more details than the story holds. If this is only a winter coated dog outside on the coast the SPCA is being really stupid. Are they going to go capture the cougars? The deer? The foxes? The bears? The horses? The cows?

The sheep? The llamas? The squirrels? The bunnies? The raccoons? The seagulls? the eagles? Etc etc. It’s idiocy to get upset about a dog being outside. Now, no care, no food, no water breaks, beatings etc. is a very different story. My neighbour’s dogs kept tearing up the doors last week to go outside and play at -36 and wouldn’t come back in when called until THEY decided it was time. And then, later, they clamoured to go back out. Dogs know.

Linda Wark: Well thank goodness for others who saw what was going on and reported it. Now the dog is in capable and caring hands. Hope the person who had this dog will be banned from going near any animals.

Holly Vipond: I get that they’re saying he didn’t have enough food, etc. But being outside is not on its own a bad thing. Plenty of dogs live outside and in far colder temps than this. If they have a proper dog house and a thick coat they’re fine. This one is a shepherd, which does just fine in the cold. Not all dogs live indoors.

Margaret Lilly: Any decent dog owner would NOT leave a dog out in these below freezing temps.

Nicole Adams: My big dog was happiest in the snow and cold.

Isaac Lues Dogs are not people. Whereas we evolved to be comfortable on the plains of Africa, dogs have physiological adaptations for cold weather beyond a coat of fur.

They can be perfectly fine in temperatures far below what we would.

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holiday season. You’ll discover that North Vancouver already has a museum of sorts – a place, maybe the only place on earth, where

you can buy a latte and jawbreakers, licorice whips and Pez. It’s a combination candy store and toy catalogue from 1956 plus a panorama of the sights and sounds of North

Vancouver when it was very young. I can’t decide if I feel young or old. But I guess that’s the point: I’m all of that.

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YEAR IN REVIEW From page 5 Corporation posted No Trespassing signs around the former Blair Rifle Range.

After an outcry from elected officials and unhappy trail users, CMHC reversed their call to restrict passage onto the 644-acre plot.

Tower power prevails in Central Lonsdale City of North Vancouver council split in approving a 187-foot, 144-unit Central Lonsdale rental project.

More than 300 residents – one of whom dubbed the development “trickle-down housing” – signed a petition opposing the project.

However, Coun. Holly Back noted Hollyburn Properties’ previous development attracted 840 hopeful renters.

“I’m afraid my heart goes out to the people who need housing,” she said.

The rental building won support from retired District of North Vancouver planner Phil Chapman, who stressed the need for housing options as he spoke to council: “as a concerned parent with two millennials I can’t get rid of.”

Police find firearm following school threat

North Vancouver RCMP recovered a gun after an international student at Seycove secondary was accused of threatening to “do harm” to a teacher. Police were tightlipped on how the student got the gun, whether it was loaded, and what motivated the threat. The student was subsequently expelled and deported. Another student who was investigated also returned to his home country.

Spike in property crime Theft from North Vancouver autos ratcheted up nearly 40 per cent over 2015. Approximately 60 per cent of the violated vehicles were left unlocked, according to North Vancouver RCMP Supt. Chris Kennedy.

Residential break-ins were up 43 per cent over 2015 and bike thefts were up 13 per cent.

Residential break-ins were up more than 30 per cent in West Vancouver. Shoplifting, fraud and theft from auto were also on the rise in West Vancouver.

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Elderly tenants in a West Vancouver apartment went two months without an elevator – only to watch the newly-fixed elevator break days after being repaired.

“We’re back to square one,” said Sydney Rose, 85.

Broken elevator strands elderly tenants - again

Rescued rescuer recuperating North Shore Rescue

volunteer Jay Piggot is on the mend after a surgeon removed his gall bladder and 85 per cent of his liver to remove his cancer.

The community rallied behind Piggot, contributing $100,000 to a crowd-funding trust intended to allow his family to face treatment without financial worries.

Piggot is planning to return to NSR early in 2017.

“I make the cancer live by my rules. I don’t live by its,” he said.

Trudeau green-lights pipeline Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced federal approval of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline

expansion, which will triple the amount bitumen bound for Burnaby’s Westridge terminal and increase Aframax tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet 700 per cent.

The expansion will help fund a “carbon-free world,” according to Trudeau.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation promised to stand between the earth and the pipeline.

“We’re willing and able to go to court,” said Rueben George, spokesman for the band’s Sacred Trust.

The federal court quashed a previous application by the nation to have the National Energy Board process declared unlawful.

A $1.5 billion anti-spill plan did little to allay the fears of pipeline protester Janice Edmonds, who suggested safeguards would be ineffective when it comes to air quality.

“You can’t put a boom around the air,” she said.

Discussing the issue in May, Burnaby North-Seymour MP Terry Beech noted that he had a voice, “But I don’t have a veto.”

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YEAR IN REVIEW From page 10 Handsworth secondary students observed the U.S. election of new president Donald Trump from Whatcom County, Wash., where they met with the county auditor and heard from both major parties.

“That was a very somber, sad place,” principal Dave Overgaard said of the local Democrat headquarters.

Student Eva Wardell likened seeing a man in a Make America Great Again shirt to “seeing the tooth fairy.”

Chlorine leak at North Van plant sends two to hospital A minor chlorine leak at the Canexus plant in North Vancouver sent two employees to hospital while a third was treated for respiratory

issues. The plant’s sirens sounded before dawn after the discovery of a small leak.

West Van elects Lambur to council Peter Lambur, a 65-yearold architect and urban planner, was elected to West Vancouver council in a byelection, replacing the late Michael Lewis.

Lambur’s campaign focused on managing growth without disturbing community character.

Teachers applaud ruling on class size, composition The Supreme Court of Canada came down on the side of the teachers’ union on class size and composition, ending a 14-year legal battle.

“A whole generation of kids have gone through

the system where we could have done better things for them,” said West Vancouver Teachers’ Association president Rob Millard, discussing the case early in 2016.

The province previously warned that the cost of the teachers’ victory could amount to $500 million in retroactive liabilities.

December West Van OKs first rental in 40 years Council voted 5-1 to allow Hollyburn Developments to build 41 rental suites in threeand four-storey buildings, surrounding another rental tower. ”I don’t think it’s good enough to tell people to bugger off if they can’t afford to be here,” said Coun. Craig Cameron.

Lynn Headwaters road closed for months It could take months and millions of dollars to restore access to Lynn Headwaters Regional Park from Lynn Valley.

The District of North Vancouver closed Lynn Valley Road at Evelyn Street on Dec. 1 over landslide fears.

The closure cuts off access to about 175 parking spots.

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Museum officially approved North Vancouver’s itinerant history finally found a place to hang its hat after city council unanimously approved a new museum in Polygon’s development at 131

West Esplanade.

The vote represented the end of “30 years of a dream,” according to Coun. Don Bell, who said the city could expect a “first-class modern museum and not just … a repository of dusty artifacts.”

The approval came nearly a year after council – citing financial sustainability concerns - nixed plans to put the museum into the Pipe Shop building.

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prices soar, vacancy rates sink Sales of single-family homes in West Vancouver plummeted 58 per cent over the summer with some observers attributing the cooling market to the newly enacted tax on foreign homebuyers.

One real estate agent dubbed the 15 per cent tax: “One of the most shocking events that’s ever arrived in our industry.”

But despite indications of a cooling market, many

homeowners watched their assessments from July 1 jump between 30 and 50 per cent.

But while values spiked, North Shore vacancy rates notched lower, with the District of North Vancouver’s vacancy rate sliding to 0.1 per cent.

In order to reverse the downward spiral, District of North Vancouver council united on a plan to build between 600 and 1,000 affordable units over the next decade.

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North Shore native Emily Chambers has seen her recently released EP Magnolia earning acclaim on both sides of the border.

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With her recent release Magnolia, Emily Chambers feels like she’s made a bit of a return to her roots – ones that can be traced all the way back to lunch hours at West Vancouver secondary and a wellknown neighbour on the North Shore.

“This album is the truest representation of my sound that I want moving forward, and it’s much more soul-based,” the 27-year-old said earlier this month, having just returned

from a two-month U.S. tour in support of the five-song EP. “This was really about taking a step back, starting over and deciding what I really wanted to put out there in the world with my name attached to it.”

The result is a fresh, captivating 21-minute listen that pays homage to Chambers’ classic soul influences and puts her soaring voice at the forefront.

With evocative lyrics, Chambers paints vivid pictures – a sweet-smelling rose or a lazy afternoon spent people-watching are among the images conjured effortlessly – that are coloured in by her compelling vocal delivery.

Teaming up with producer John Raham, who has helmed albums by B.C. acts The Be Good Tanyas and Frazey Ford, Chambers put

the tracks to tape at Vancouver’s Afterlife Studios.

“He definitely has these warm tones in his music and this underlying, laid-back soul vibe, an off-the-floor feel, and that’s exactly what I wanted to go for,” said Chambers, who indeed recorded live takes with her backing band, featuring a full horn section, for the EP. Chambers co-wrote each of the songs with Philip Laessoe, her former bandmate in the group Champagne Republic, and new collaborator Benjamin Parker.

With Champagne Republic and on a solo record before that, Chambers said nuances of soul could always be found in her music but fused with elements of pop and funk.

Considering the early introduction to the genre she received from a local legend, the

seeds had been planted for a true soul release like Magnolia long ago.

When Chambers was born, her parents lived across the street from jazz icon Joani Taylor and she started taking singing lessons from the Juno nominee at eight years old.

“Joani had a huge influence on me, stylistically,” said Chambers, who dedicated the EP to Taylor. “She introduced me to Motown and classic soul music, Stevie Wonder. She used to make me learn how to scat horn lines and read lyrics out loud to hear and decide what they meant to me when I was like 10. So Joani definitely opened up those doors for me in a huge way.”

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Her potential as a performer was obvious early on. As a Grade 9 student at West Vancouver secondary, she was the winner of a “West Van Idol” competition that ran during the school’s lunch periods and later earned invites to sing anthems at Vancouver Giants and BC Lions games. After high school, she spent time studying at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.

“I’m very happy to have grown up in the place I did, I feel very fortunate to have been raised on the North Shore,” said Chambers.

“It’s interesting to think: if we were born somewhere else or had different circumstances, would we still be following or be anywhere near the same path we’re on now?”

Until recently, Chambers had been travelling her path in a powder-blue Dodge camper van, which she bought earlier this year, named it Bessie and spent part of the summer living out of it and travelling on the U.S. fall tour.

The self-booked tour saw her performing at a number of music hubs across the States, with stops in Los

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Angeles, Austin, Nashville and New York. A gig opening for Prince protégé Andy Allo in L.A. was among the highlights of the trip, along with plenty of positive feedback on her songs.

“People dug it, which was really cool … It was definitely

time ago. So this was exciting for me, for sure.”

Although Chambers doesn’t get to spend much time on the North Shore these days, she will be performing at West Vancouver’s Pastameli Restaurant on Jan. 14. She is also running a

encouraging to hear that people were into the sound,” she said.

“I’ve never really played – especially not these songs – outside of B.C. I’ve never played in the States except for when I was at school in Boston, which was a long

benefit show for Parkinson Society British Columbia on Jan. 27 called “Shake, Shake, Shake!” featuring four bands at The Imperial in Vancouver.

Chambers, whose father has Parkinson’s disease, raised more than $16,000 when she put on the show last year.

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Story of lost child in keeping with year’s theme ! Lion. Directed by Garth Davis. Starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman.

Rating: 7 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

If there’s a theme running through the winter season’s awards contenders, it’s the primal fear all parents have about losing a child.

Manchester By The Sea is rooted in a parent’s inability to recover from that loss; the fate of humanity in Arrival hinges on a mother being able to overcome the death of her child; Collateral Beauty puts Will Smith on the same grief-paved path, while Moonlight showcases a mother unable to save her child from poverty and prejudice.

Our eyes barely dry from those weepy titles, here comes another tale – this one a true story – vying for the title of Year’s Best Tearjerker.

While their mother works all day smashing rocks in a quarry in India, five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) scavenges with his older brother, Guddu (Abhishek Bharate).

The best pickings are at the

train station, where people in a hurry leave discarded rubbish and food. The brothers get separated, and Saroo finds himself on a deserted, moving train, hurtling thousands of miles away.

He arrives in Calcutta, 1,600 kilometres away from home, calling for his mother.

It’s a dangerous place: the sight of a child wandering alone is all too common, no one stops to offer help.

Compounding the problem is the fact that Saroo doesn’t speak Bengali.

Every kindness turns to peril: he finds solace briefly with a group of children at the train station, who are then rounded up by childsnatchers while disinterested train station officials look the other way. Saroo escapes, using a piece of cardboard as his bed and scavenging what he can. A motherly woman takes him in and feeds him, only to hand him over to a lecherous pimp the next day.

Finally a Good Samaritan delivers Saroo to an orphanage (fraught with its own dangers) and when efforts to find Saroo’s mother via newspaper ads fail, he is adopted by a family living in Hobart, Australia.

Rooney Mara and Dev Patel star in Lion, the latest award-season release to centre on the story of a lost child.

“I’m sure it hasn’t been easy … one day you’ll tell me all about it. You’ll tell me who you are,” says his new mother Sue (Nicole Kidman, going determinedly de-glam for the role).

Flash-forward 20 years and Saroo, now played by Dev Patel, is studying hotel management, grappling with identity (“I’m adopted, I’m not really Indian”) and

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something concrete.

Lion’s screenplay is spun from Saroo Brierly’s autobiography A Long Way Home.

It’s a lean plot, and interest definitely sags once Patel takes over, despite asides about a second, adopted brother and adopted mom Sue’s past. Patel is compelling in the role, certainly, but his character is not.

Thankfully, though the second half of the story centres on an online search, there is blessed little time

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with characters staring intently at computer screens.

Much hinges on the performance coaxed from Pawar, the year’s littlest big star, who is ridiculously adorable and natural in the role.

Overall, and especially if you’ve ever lost a child for a few minutes in a big-box store (guilty), you’ll find yourself sniffling through the credits, which feature real-life footage of Saroo’s long-anticipated return to his village.

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A different spin on the nativity JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

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“You are the audience! I am the author! I outrank you!”

Issues of hierarchy didn’t need to be addressed during rehearsals for Holy Mo!, director Kerry van der Griend reports from his East Vancouver abode.

Van der Griend has what appears to be the delicate task of giving stage directions and taking script advice from the same person: actor and Holy Mo! author Lucia Frangione.

Frangione initially unveiled the characters Follie, Buffoona and Guff during her first foray into professional theatre more than 20 years ago.

Frangione wanted to create a piece “as epic as Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments on a shoestring budget with three women and no camels,” she states in a Pacific Theatre blog.

As decades drifted by, Frangione found herself missing her three stooges in search of a Moe. She opted to gather the clown trio for new version of Holy Mo! which examines what Frangione calls “the dark underbelly of the nativity story.”

Some renditions of the nativity story conclude with three wise men bestowing gifts on the newborn saviour.

“What people forget is what happened in the

Lucia Frangione’s Follie, Buffoona and Guff take the place of the three wise men in Holy Mo!, which offers a new take on the nativity story. PHOTO SUPPLIED ensuing months,” van der Griend explains.

King Herod, who was a real-life king of Judea, is portrayed in the Bible as a tyrant and decidedly not a baby person.

In Holy Mo!, Caesar lectures Herod about Pharisees being “up in my grill,” as well as Herod’s role as Caesar’s “client king” of Judea.

“Hey, you’re a heebee, right?” Caesar asks.

“We prefer the term Children of God,” Herod responds.

The tension in Holy Mo! is rooted in what the characters want to talk about and what they want to ignore.

Amid biblical bloodshed and Flashdance references, we find one character who loves Santa Claus, another who hates Christmas, and a third chasing the truth of the

nativity story.

“Some of them want to tell this dark part of the story and some of them don’t so it’s kind of a mirror of what goes in on each of us,” van der Griend explains, describing the theme as “inner conflict between the darkness and the light, between the sorrow and the joy.”

Asked how he brings those concepts to the stage, van der Griend laughs.

“With a lot of help,” he says.

Besides Frangione, the play is also buttressed by actor Anita Wittenberg, who first played Guff in 1996.

Jess Amy Shead plays the “mischievous, lively, spritely clown” Buffoona.

Part of the challenge for the director was to remain faithful to the script while invoking the feeling of spontaneity, as though the cast were

a wandering troupe of Italian comedians zigging and zagging through a bygone era.

“We had to … completely master the language, the movement, the blocking and everything to make it look as though it was improvised,” he says.

For Frangione, the play is a mash-up of the nativity, Santa Claus and a few “modern-day narcissists.”

While the play is silly and satirical, Frangione also views it as a direct examination of her faith.

“We put God on stage,” she states.

And between the flourishes and political ranting, Frangione peels back the layers of the nativity and what it means to her.

The play is scheduled to end its run with a final performance Dec. 31.

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The North Vancouver Story: Experience an ongoing exhibit defining life in North Vancouver.

PARKGATE LIBRARY 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. 604-929-3727 x8166 nvdpl.ca PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 604-986-1351 presentationhousegallery.org RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver.

604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Animal Crackers: Clay artist Sue Rankin shows her new pottery and 3D compositions and visual artist Leonid Rozenberg presents his humorous, satirical, comic style paintings and drawings until Jan. 8.

Realms of the Imagination: Painter Antonio Dizon presents his newest abstract compositions on canvas and Kate Whitehead and Connie Cunningham show their pottery and whimsical creations in clay Jan. 8-Feb. 19.

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Discovery Balance: A juried exhibition for new and emerging artists Jan. 7-28. Reception and awards ceremony: Sunday, Jan. 8, 2 p.m.

SHIPBUILDERS’SQUARE Foot of Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca The Art Studios — Renewal: An exhibition featuring works

by Rosemary Briggs, Colin C.L., Julian Kim, Colleen McNeil and Jaz Pawa. The Art Studios is a mental health and addictions unit that uses the creation of art as therapy. Opening reception: Thursday, Jan. 5, 6-8 p.m.

STUDIO E 161 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver.

TARTOOFUL 3183 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver. 604-924-0122 tartooful.com WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver.

604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca In the Gallery — Views and Vistas: Scenes of West Vancouver from the libraries historical photo collection runs until Dec. 30.

WEST VANCOUVER MUNICIPAL HALL 750 17th St., West Vancouver.

Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604-925-7290 Art in the Hall: A series of landscape photos both local

and from around B.C. by painter Sheree Jones are on display until Jan. 6.

WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St., West Vancouver.

Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7270 westvancouvermuseum.ca A Decade of Collecting Art: An exhibition that provides an overview of the breadth of the museum’s art collection and highlights recent donations runs until Jan. 14.

YEATS STUDIO & GALLERY 2402 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 778-279-8777 yeatsgallery.ca

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BLUEDOG GUITARS 121-60 Orwell St. at Lynnwood Marina, North Vancouver. 604971-2893 CD Release Concert: Adam Dobres performs with The Gabriel Dubreuil Trio SwingGrass Band featuring Jay Knutson Tuesday, Jan. 17, 4-8 p.m. Admission: $25. Tickets: 604-971-2893.

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Cap Classics: Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet performs a light program of music Friday, Jan. 13 at 11:45 a.m. Free.

Cap Jazz: The Bad Plus performs an intersection of jazz, indie rock and contemporary classical music Friday, Jan. 20 at 8 p.m. $32/$29.

Cap Classics — The Classical Quartet: Performances of Mozart and Beethoven Friday, Jan. 27 at 11:45 a.m. Free.

Cap Jazz: A tribute to New Orleans with “A” Band & NiteCap Friday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $30/$27.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc. ca/centennial-theatre Tugging at the Heart Strings: Lions Gate Sinfonia will be joined on stage by the North Shore Celtic Ensemble for a concert Saturday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $39/$35/$18/$12.

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

IntimateEvenings: Fundraising concerts for First Impressions Theatre with Jim Byrnes and Mainstreet Muze featuring Babe Gurr Jan. 19 and 20, 8 p.m.

Admission: $35. Tickets: 604-9299456 firstimpressionstheatre.com GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca Classics at the Smith — A Violin Alone: A gallery tour followed by a performance by Marc Destrube Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. Admission: $10/$8. Tickets available at the door.

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Bluetooth heat socks and defogging goggles among new products ERIC MACKENZIE emackenzie@nsnews.com

Last-minute Christmas shopping is never a simple task but the blast of winter that arrived on the North Shore this month can act as inspiration to check off the powder hound on your list.

If you’re looking for a gift that can help its recipient keep warm or hit the slopes in style, there are plenty of options that you can pick up locally and have under the tree before Santa’s arrival.

Any skier or snowboarder who spends plenty of time on the North Shore knows that the local mountains can offer up a variety of conditions on any given day, so a pair of versatile goggles can be a huge help.

The Prizm technology in lenses made by Oakley fits the bill. First appearing in Oakley’s goggles last season, Prizm lenses cover a wider range of light conditions while enhancing contrast and definition in the snow.

“You can go from a foggy, West Coast, North Shore Mountains day to partly sunny without changing your lens, which is pretty sweet,” explained North Shore Ski & Board manager Casey Nicholson.

The company’s Flight Deck model has been a popular pick, incorporating the Prizm technology into a frameless look. But if it’s added function you’re looking for, new for this year is the Line Miner Inferno, which has heated lenses that combat internal lens fog.

Much like a defroster on a car window, the Inferno goggles clear condensation in seconds

with the push of a button, without reaching a temperature high enough that makes the wearer uncomfortable. The strap-mounted battery pack is barely noticeable once stretched over a helmet.

During a long day out in the cold, using a base layer can make all the difference. For Justin Bungag, assistant manager at The Boardroom in North Vancouver, the Ninja Suit made by Airblaster has been a “game changer.”

The performance onesie provides a full seal against the elements, coming in merino wool or polyester, with or without a hood. The Ninja Suit works to wick moisture away from the skin, while the merino wool model contains antimicrobial properties to help fight odour.

“I didn’t wear base layers before these and would get really cold. Then I got my hands on one and it changed my life,” said Bungag, adding that the suit often provides enough warmth for him to ride in a hoodie overtop.

“I went to Big White for three or four days and didn’t take it off. I lived in it.”

Airblaster makes the product in men’s, women’s and youth sizes.

Some of the most popular winter gear flying off the shelves can make a great gift even for people who don’t spend their free time playing in the snow.

Although the Bluetooth-enabled heat socks made by Lenz can help feet stay cosy on a chilly day skiing, they can also keep toes toasty inside a normal boot or around the house. The socks have a flexible battery pack at the top and can be controlled by a smartphone app, providing three heating levels.

“You can be sitting on the chairlift – or wherever – and think, ‘Oh, I’m getting a little warm,’ and (change it) from a Level 2 to Level 1 from your phone,” explained Nicholson, adding that North Shore Ski & Board has seen the socks selling quickly this season.

FASHION FILE WRAPPING FOR A CAUSE Capilano Mall has holiday gift wrapping available at its Guest Service desk, by minimum donation to North Shore Community Resources, in support of family programs.

LAST-MINUTE GIFT IDEAS Today is the last day of the Shipyards Christmas Market at The Pipe Shop, featuring clothing, jewelry, home decor, baked goods, and other unique items made by local artisans.

TOYS FOR TOTS Park Royal is collecting toys for Family Services of the North Shore, until Dec. 24 are in South Centre Court and near Simons.

– mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 20

Saskatchewan singer/songwriter Andy Shauf’s The Party was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize in 2016. The album has also made many top-10 lists this year. Shauf tours Europe and the U.S, in the new year. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Andy Shauf projects himself into The Party KRISTI ALEXANDRA Contributing Writer

Imagine this: you host a party and find a little piece of yourself reflected in every guest you have a conversation with. That’s what happened to Regina-based songwriter Andy Shauf when recounting his latest album, which was released in May of this year.

The Party is Shauf’s third full-length record, and his first to make the Polaris Prize’s shortlist (or longlist, for that matter). The disc has been hailed by critics as a near-perfect concept album, one that’s told through the lens of several different characters over the course of one evening. There’s the magician, there’s the wallflower, there’s the jilted lover, and several others – and they all convene at Shauf’s unintentionally solipsistic party. The thread they all share is a sense of social anxiety and awkwardness.

“I think there are a lot of awkward characters because I’ve projected myself onto them,” the Saskatchewan folk-singer says. “In my mind, they’re just normal people but filtered through my social awkwardness, I suppose.”

In each of the record’s 10 tracks, Shauf shows off his storytelling chops, effortlessly executing the personas and partially-fictional stories, from album opener “The Magician” to closing tracks “Alexander All Alone” and

“Martha Sways.”

“I’m a little bit more interested in writing fiction than I am in writing autobiographical songs,” Shauf says, “but I try to use a lot of characters. I always think that I’m writing fiction, but after the fact. I kind of rewind and find a subconscious me in there.”

The singer’s indirect adoption of other identities could be in part to his own modesty – he reluctantly accepts praise for The Party’s success, and downplays his hard-earned musical talent.

Before The Party, Shauf was responsible for playing every instrument heard on his albums, from his debut Darker Days (2009) to sophomore album The Bearer of Bad News (2012), and the EPs in between. “I play everything by ear, so I just pick something up and figure it out and make a noise with it,” he says. A meek shoulder shrug is almost audible over the line.

“On The Party, I got my friend to come and play the violins and cellos,” he digresses. “That stuff’s a little out of my league; it requires, like, 20 years of learning, so I don’t have that much time,” he adds with a laugh.

As for snagging a spot on the 2016 Polaris Prize’s shortlist – where he kept good company alongside the likes of PUP, Black Mountain, and Grimes – Shauf doesn’t readily admit to being caught in a surreal moment. Ultimately, it was Haitian-Canadian DJ Kaytranada

who went home with the winning title after the Polaris Prize Gala on Sept.

19. “The Polaris Prize, in my mind, is a big deal, and I’ve paid attention to it in the last number of years and I’ve dreamed about being on the shortlist,” he admits, “and it feels great, but it still feels like incremental little jumps even though it’s really started to come together in the last year and a half.”

Having performed music professionally since 2006, playing “DIY shows,” regaling his songs to coffee-shop audiences, and later moving on to support Wake Owl and the Lumineers on tour, the Regina native has been relentless in his pursuit of music. “It was a really gradual process… and I just worked at it for a long time, and gradually it got better and a lot of people started listening, and here we are today,” he says.

Today, the songwriter has three fulllength albums under his belt, a couple of EPs, and a whole roster of characterbased ballads – like those heard on The Party – that seem to exorcise Shauf’s own demons.

“It’s an indirect way to write about me – sometimes I don’t even realize I’m doing it,” he says. “The situations that they find themselves in, some are familiar to me and others are imaginings of scenarios, but I’ve definitely encountered a lot of these emotions and circumstances.”

– Kristi Alexandra writes for our sister paper the Westender

Jazz at the Gallery: A tour of the current exhibit followed by a concert with the Jennifer Scott Trio Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. Admission: $10/$8. Tickets available at the door.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com The Canadian Guitar Quartet performs original music and classical masterpieces Friday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $25.

Pro Nova Ensemble performs Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Admission by donation.

LYNN VALLEY COMMUNITY ROOM 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver.

FridayNightLive:An improv comedy variety show for all ages every Friday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10 at the door. Info: fnlnorthvan.com.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series: Pianist Boris Konovalov takes the stage Thursday, Jan. 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

Classical Concert Series: Svetlana Ponomareva and son, prodigy Antoine Villeger perform complex works for piano Thursday, Jan. 19, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

Classical Concert Series: Wind Song Trio plays Mozart for voice, clarinet and piano Thursday, Jan. 26, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

Classical Concert Series: Cellist Heather Hay, violinists Nancy DiNovo, Carolyn Cole and Marcus Takizawa on the viola perform chamber music Thursday, Feb. 2, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

WEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCH 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver.

Collaboration Concert: The Vancouver Chamber Music Society performs Saturday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. Admission: $25/$20. Tickets: vancouverchambermusic.com/

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ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org Bodacious: A monthly reading series of new plays by and about women the last Saturday of every month at 8 p.m. Admission by donation.

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-990-7810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Cap Theatre — Arts Club on Tour A production of The (Post) Mistress about a small-town cabaret of sealed secrets will be performed Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $43/$39/$20.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc.ca/ centennial-theatre The Comic Strippers: A male stripper parody and improv comedy show Friday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $42.

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

Captain Hook’s Revenge: A panto classic from the Deep Cove Stage Society, Shows Dec. 23, 26-31 Tickets: $16 at deepcovestage.com HIGHLAND’S UNITED CHURCH 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre. com KMC Play Readings: A series of readings Jan. 9-12 and 17 at 7 p.m. with an additional show Jan. 12 at 5 p.m. Schedule: Jan. 9, Ocean Blue View; Jan. 10, Two Part Intervention; Jan. 11, The Shoplifters; Jan. 12 (5 p.m.), Seabird is in a Happy Place; Jan. 12, Poor; and Jan. 17, A Fortunate Son. Tickets: Pay-what-you-can with a suggested donation of $10.

Arts Club on Tour A production of The (Post) Mistress about a smalltown cabaret of sealed secrets will be performed Jan. 30 and 31 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $50/$43/$15.

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CHILE: PUNTA ARENAS

Mansion brings a bit of Paris to Tierra del Fuego

PETER NEVILLE-HADLEY Meridian Writers’Group

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile— José Menéndez came to Punta Arenas in 1875 to collect a debt. The town, overlooking the Strait of Magellan, was bleak and windswept.

It had been founded in 1848 for two reasons: to reinforce Chilean sovereignty in Tierra del Fuego, more than 3,000 kilometres south of the nation’s capital, Santiago; and to serve as a penal colony.

Menéndez saw this, but his reaction was different from most visitors’. He returned home to Buenos Aires, got his wife and two daughters and moved here.

What others had missed was the region’s potential.

Menéndez got involved in numerous businesses, but his main line was sheep farming. By 1910, he was grazing sheep over more than a million hectares of pampas and was the “King of Patagonia.”

Today, wool no longer drives the city’s economy.

Punta Arenas (pop. 150,000) is better known as the starting point for expeditions into the rugged Patagonian landscape and for cruises to see penguin colonies.

Traces remain, though, from the age of the golden fleece. The city’s early-1900s, neo-classical core sits just inland from warehouses along the shoreline, now often converted to restaurants and cafés. A number of mansions show how a few families profited from the wool trade. The most impressive one, from its elegant pale stone exterior to its stained-glass ceilings, is of astonishing opulence for such a remote location.

The Casa de la Familia Braun Menéndez is named for two families to reflect the marriage of José’s daughter

A portrait of Maria Behety Chapital, the wife of José Menéndez, the “King of Patagonia,” in the reception room of the Casa de la Familia Braun Menéndez. Her gaze takes in gilded French furniture in assorted 15th- and 16th-century styles, French tapestries, chandeliers and vast sweeps of French silk brocade.

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Josefina to Mauricio Braun, whose father controlled two million hectares of land. Menéndez had it built between 1903 and 1906 at the same time as the centre of the city. Its materials were mostly imported from the finest sources: marble from Italy, timber from Belgium, fabrics from France and furniture from London and Paris. The architect was French.

Through its entrance, a

high-ceilinged central room with walls painted in classical motifs provides direct access to all of the house’s main rooms, adapting the idea of the Spanish courtyard to the frigid local winters. The ceiling fresco depicts sun and sky, and stained glass lets in light.

Menéndez’s study, all mahogany and leather and dominated by a vast desk, has a private entrance from the garden enabling discreet

business meetings with other grandees.

José’s wife, Maria Behety Chapital, gazes from multiple portraits overlooking gilded French furniture in assorted 15th- and 16th-century styles in the reception room, which is also decked with French tapestries, chandeliers and vast sweeps of French silk brocade.

Even the servants’ quarters were lavishly equipped for the time: fine beds and

marble nightstands for the cook and housekeeper, and a bathroom with hot and cold running water.

The family donated the house and contents to the state. It’s now part of the Museo Regional de Magallanes, and several of its rooms tell the story of the area’s European colonization. But in the portion preserved as a home, the atmosphere is so authentic it seems as if Menéndez, who

died in Buenos Aires in 1918, might return at any moment.

If you go: For more information on the Casa de la Familia Braun Menéndez visit the Museo Regional de Magallanes website at museodemagallanes.cl.

For information on travel in Chile visit the government’s Sernatur (Servicio Nacional de Turismo) website atsernatur.cl.

–More stories at culturelocker.com

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FRANCE: ROUBAIX

The most delightful exhibition space in La Piscine museum is its art deco pool.

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Public bath restored as art museum with water feature ALLAN LYNCH Meridian Writers’Group

ROUBAIX, France—Most people travel to northern France to visit the battlefields and war memorials that litter Flanders.

During the First World War, this area was the epicentre for years of trench warfare. They don’t come expecting fine arts.

But before the Axis and Allies dug in, the region was rich from mining and milling. In its peaceful heyday, wealthy mill owners and industrialists splashed money on paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.

Their generosity formed the basis of a collection housed in the National School of Industrial Arts in Roubaix.

After the Second World War, the area fell on challenging times economically, the building closed and the collection was dispersed.

Fortunately, what was done has mostly been undone thanks to the opening in 2001 of La Piscine Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent.

La Piscine is a delicious surprise. It is a facility that has gone from hygiene to high art. The most architecturally interesting part is the former public bath, opened in 1932. It closed in 1985 and sat decaying for

more than a decade, alongside what was once a mill.

Eventually, the community combined a desire to find a use for this block of derelict buildings with the wish to see its handsome art collection once more on display and decided to create La Piscine.

Behind its factory façade, which faces the city’s central plaza, La Piscine opens up to show its eccentric, elegant art deco bones. The museum’s “art and industry” tag line is confusing. There are no machines on display.

Mostly the collection reflects the region’s golden era, showcasing what were then contemporary late 19th- and early 20th-century works, alongside Old Master–like paintings of notable local people at work, or at play as the result of the profits of their labours.

While the depth, scope and quality of the collection is unexpected, so is the presentation. The various galleries are woven throughout the complex, encircling a central garden reached via the excellent Meert Restaurant and Tearoom.

The biggest surprise is the main “gallery,” which employs the now-modified former swimming pool as a feature. Juliet balconies flourish under the vaulted

ceiling, book-ended by art deco stained-glass sunbursts.

Along the pool deck are rows of sculptures of Greek goddesses, modern nymphs and foppish, pre-revolutionary aristocrats. The tiled men and women’s changing cubicles have become micro galleries. Beyond is a warren of art-filled niches and galleries displaying the local collection as well as travelling exhibitions from Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, Louvre and Rodin Museum, among others.

It is such an interesting repurposing of a building, you have to at times force yourself to focus on the art.

Its multiple, odd spaces allow for a sense of discovery beyond that offered by traditional galleries.

Roubaix is a community that lives in the shadow of the larger, better-known regional capital, Lille, 14 kilometres to the southwest.

In addition to the galleries and restaurant, La Piscine has a fabric library and gift shop and is next to a design centre where new and emerging artists sell their creations.

If you go: For more information visit La Piscine’s website at roubaix-lapiscine.com.

–more stories at culturelocker.com

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 22 PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org Salmon Girl An exploration of the world of water and salmon through theatre, dance, music and puppetry Jan. 27-Feb. 5, Fridays at 7 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m. Tickets: $15-$25.

ST.MARTIN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 195 East Windsor Rd., North Vancouver.

Beauty and the Beast: A traditional pantomime show Jan. 12-14, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. with matinees Jan. 14, 21 and 28 at 2 p.m.

Admission: $21/$17/$14. Tickets: 604-767-0665 or smpdramatics.com.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca Charley’s Aunt A period English farce Feb. 2 (preview), 3, 4, 8-11, 15-18 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $18/$16.

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Dino DiNicolo performs a solo show Thursday, Jan. 19 from 8:45 p.m. to midnight.

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Dino DiNicolo performs a solo show Friday, Dec. 23 from 5 to 8 p.m.

HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Open Mic Night every Thursday 7-9:30 p.m.

RED LION BAR&GRILL 2427 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Celebrate New Year’s Eve with R&B singer Dutch Robinson and guest musicians Rob Nuemann, Chad Mathews, Zack Brannon, Amber Mae and Randy Doherty Saturday, Dec. 31 Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty performs every Friday and Saturday starting at 7 p.m.

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Cap Global Roots — Banda Magda: Singer, accordionist and composer Magda Giannikou performs with her band Sunday, Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. Admission: $30/$27. Tickets: 604-990-7810 or capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/.

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver.

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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre. com KMC Films: Holiday double bill films. Schedule: Dec. 26, Love & Friendship, 4 p.m. ; Meddler, 6:30 p.m.; and Dec. 27, Meddler, 4 p.m.; Love & Friendship, 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $10.

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The North Shore International Film Series: The North Shore Community Arts Council screens Canadian, independent and foreign films throughout the winter.

The Eagle Huntress shows Jan. 18 and L’Avenir — Things to Come (French/German with English subtitles) plays Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $11. Info: 604-988-6844 or nvartscouncil.ca/events/north-shoreinternational-film-series.

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BARRETT, John J. February 10, 1948 − December 18, 2016

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of John Barrett, 68, of North Vancouver. Beloved husband of Debbie, proud father to Mark Barrett (Nicole) and Lindsay Primrose (Ritch).

John had a long career as a registered nurse at the West End Community Mental Health Team. He enjoyed 3 decades of soccer officiating in the Lower Mainland and was a passionate lifelong Celtic FC supporter.

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HORTON, David Joseph June 9, 1936 - December 16, 2016 The world is a little less fun now. David Joseph Horton, son of Jack and Grace, younger brother of Jack and Margaret, husband of Barbara, father of John (Stacey), Andrea (Ron), and Geoff, grandfather of J.C., Cheney, Haley, Tatum and Sarah passed away quietly on December 16, 2016. He was beloved and he was a star in all his roles. An opportunity to celebrate, ideally in costume, and assuredly with a game, was always foremost in his mind. He was a loving and loyal friend among his own generation as well as the generations that succeeded him. He was a connoisseur of a good joke, a fine wine, a ski and apres ski, a golf game (always with a wager), fishing (always with beers), monthly poker games with his fraternity brothers and whenever possible, a wonderful lunch or dinner.

He mentored a generation of financiers at Canaccord Capital before retiring and taking up his new-found passion, painting, which gave him such pleasure in his later years. If riches are friends you would be hard pressed to find a wealthier man. His optimism until his last moment was irrepressible we have all been enriched by the time we spent with him and are deeply saddened by his passing.

The family would like to thank Drs. Ruanna Mitchell, Jorge Denegri, Saul Isserow, David Taylor and Michael Copland for quarterbacking his medical needs with such compassion. We would also like to thank Roque Capito, David’s caregiver and trusty sidekick these past 2 years. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

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JACKSON, Kathleen Phyllis (née Maltby) August 11th,1916 to December 11th, 2016 Our lives go on without you But nothing is the same We have to hide our heartache When someone speaks your name Sad are the hearts that love you Silent are the tears that fall Living our lives without you, Kay is the hardest part of all You did so many things for us Your heart was kind and true And when we needed someone We could always count on you Those special years will not return When we were all together But with the love within our hearts You will walk with us forever.

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MACPHEE, Roderick January 14, 1932 - December 16, 2016 Rod passed away peacefully at the Kiwanis Care Centre in North Vancouver on Friday, December 16th where he was so lovingly cared for during the past 7 months.

He was predeceased by his parents, John and Marion Macphee, his brother Ewen Macphee and his sister Annbelle Connor. He will be lovingly remembered by his siblings Ken (Claudia) and sisters Katie-Ann Cornish and Norma Macphee, his brother-in-law Jim Connor (Louisa), his nephews, nieces and many dear friends.

Rod was born and lived in North Vancouver his entire life. As a young man Rod enjoyed playing soccer. He really enjoyed the time he spent playing with the North Vancouver Celtics. Rod was a carpenter by trade. The majority of his working career was spent first with Falconbridge Nickel Mines and then as a carpenter with the North Vancouver School District working with their maintenance Department. Rod will be remembered for his strong moral compass, his integrity and his quick-witted sense of humour.

Left to remember Rod - our loving husband and father, with beautiful and treasured memories that will be held close in the hearts of his wife, Anita, his son Dan (Kim) and a very proud “Poppa” to his wee grandson, Declan and his son Mark (Kara).

May the Sunshine of Comfort Dispel the Clouds of despair

SMITH, Alison Margaret June 24, 1926 - December 12, 2016 Immigrated to Canada in November 1949 and met Ken in Edmonton (at a youth hostel corn roast on the banks of the Saskatchewan River). They married March 4, 1952 and moved to BC shortly afterwards - first to Kelowna, then Deep Cove on Vancouver Island and finally North Vancouver.

Survived by her devoted husband of almost 65 years Ken; 4 children; Heather (Bruce), Malcolm (Alicia), Robyn (Mike) and Val (Roger); 2 granddaughters Kristen (Eric) and Meghan; and 1 great granddaughter Bridget.

Alison was involved in Flicka Gymnastics for many years and volunteered in a reading program at Highlands Elementary School. She was part of the committee that established the North Shore Indoor Tennis facility due to her passion for the sport.

Alison also was a member of the Dundarave Players, leader in the local Brownie and Guide Troop and was one of the kindest people you could ever meet, she opened her heart and home to many over the years and will be sorely missed.

Many thanks to all the staff at Kiwanis Care Centre for the kind and compassionate care delivered over the last 12 months.

No service. Family and friends will gather for tea and reminiscing, date to be announced.

No service by request. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

Life’s work, well done!

Rest in peace, Sweetie

PLUNKETT, Maureen Elizabeth Maureen passed away peacefully on December 18, 2016. She had a long and full life filled with wonderful family and good friends. She leaves behind her two daughters Sheila and Vivienne and her beloved grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Maureen resided in Kiwanis Care for her last years and we are forever grateful for their loving care.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Alzheimer Society or Kiwanis Care Facility. Service is at Holy Trinity on December 29, 2016 at 11:00am followed by a Reception at Lonsdale Quay Hotel.

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The Audi R8 is all-new for 2017, although the changes are evolutionary more than revolutionary. A taller nose, bolder grille and more aggressive air intakes highlight the exterior changes, while on the inside it is still the supercar best suited for daily driving, boasting a comfortable and luxurious cabin without sacrificing any speed. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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According to WorkSafeBC, the independent provincial agency overseeing workplace safety, companies are beginning to move away from using traditional backup alarms.

You know the thing: beepbeep-beep at 6 a.m. as the delivery trucks begin their rounds.

Consider your beauty sleep likely to be less disturbed in the future. Instead of the piercing sounds we’re all used to, some employers are using broadband and white noise alarms. These are directional systems, focusing a pulsing noise (psssht-psssht) behind the reversing truck. Workers still get the warning, but the neighbours stay asleep.

Nearly the entire fleet of maintenance vehicles at the University of Victoria has been switched over to the new system, after receiving complaints from nearby residents.

Now, those noise complaints are gone, and the new multifrequency noise is being heralded as better at alerting workers to the hazards of a reversing truck.

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Grinding Gears Brendan McAleer in the history of workplace safety, the white-noise reversing sound rates perhaps a nod and a slip of the page.

However, there’s a larger issue here, one that will soon affect us all.

In the good old days, a pedestrian might pause at a crosswalk, alerted by the sound of an approaching car.

If it’s the 1970s, it’s the rumble of a V-8 displacing eight litres and making less power than a modern Honda Civic. If it’s the 1980s, it’s the offbeat chug of a K-car four-cylinder. If it’s the 1990s, it’s the whoosh of a turbocharger.

These days, assuming the

pedestrian in question isn’t checking texts or listening to a podcast about ancient cheese-making, they might hear nothing at all. A pure electric vehicle emits next to no noise at city speeds, nor does a hybrid when operating in battery mode.

Motorcyclists have a saying: loud pipes save lives.

The idea is that if you’ve got a small visual cross-section, at least they can hear you coming. I’m not so sure about that, especially as many of the most serious motorcycle collisions happen at intersections with cars turning left in front of oncoming bikes and vice versa. Loud pipes probably help with drivers losing motorcycles in their blindspots, but they can also just be obnoxious.

Riders, however, do have a point. Human beings are primarily visual creatures, but most of us also rely on sound to warn us of upcoming hazards. It’s why walking around with your headphones on all the time is so dangerous; it’s also why emergency service vehicles use sirens. It’s why your car’s got a horn.

With all that in mind, what do we want our cars of the future to sound like? While gasoline-powered cars will fade slowly from the street rather than disappear overnight, the odds are that either full battery electric or fuel-cell vehicles are the future.

Currently, manufacturers spend a lot of time getting their cars to sound right to their passengers. Luxury brands aim for quiet, sporty brands aim for invigorating – everything from tubes connecting the cabin to the engine compartment, to piped-in audio simulations.

On the exterior, most car companies are simply bound by regulations to not make too much noise. Minimum sound levels are only really required for heavy trucks.

As of last month, however, there’s a new regulation on the books. The U.S. National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration now requires that all new electric passenger vehicles emit sounds when travelling at less than 30 kilometres per hour in either forward or reverse. The idea is to cut down on accidents where pedestrians and cars are interacting, like in parking lots and what have you.

But should they hum, or should they growl, or should they whoosh like the Starship Enterprise? The new regulations don’t specify what the EVs should sound like, merely that they should alert pedestrians to their approach.

Think of it: some years in the future, traffic could sound like a murmur of beeps and boops, like a robot convention. Or a Canadian EV startup might program its electric cars to be overly polite. “Pardon me, I’m sure. Sorry to have run you over a bit just then.”

Or perhaps you’d be able to get aftermarket solutions to make your car sound like whatever you wanted. Maybe your futuristic Nissan Leaf would come howling down Georgia’s canyon of glass like a Ferrari LaFerrari. Or maybe it’d rumble like an old-school muscle car.

Or maybe all our cars will just emit the white-noise warning least likely to offend our neighbours in this built-up city. From honks and revs to psssht-psssht.

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and automotive enthusiast. If you have a suggestion for a column, or would be interested in having your car club featured, please contact him at mcaleeronwheels@ gmail.com. Follow Brendan on Twitter: @brendan_ mcaleer.

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That’s more than enough power to provide plenty of excitement for most people.

However, if you have plans to visit a track regularly and want more, the R8 Plus is for you.

With its V-10 tuned to make 610 h.p. and 413 foot-pounds of torque, it is now the most powerful and fastest production Audi ever built.

But how fast is it? Well, the R8 V-10 Plus can accelerate from a standstill to 100 kilometres per hour in just 3.3 seconds, and reach a top speed of 330 km/h. With that much power, a racetrack is the only environment where you can truly exploit all of the car’s performance.

The seven-speed S tronic transmission is standard and is a great match for the power band of the R8’s V-10. Gearing is spot-on and shifts are fast, yet smooth, regardless of the drive mode.

While the quattro all-wheel drive system in the R8 is still rear-biased, it’s capable of sending 100 per cent of the power to the front or rear wheels if the computer feel it’s necessary. What this means for the driver is that you have massive amounts of grip at your disposal.

As a result, the Audi R8 is still one of the easiest cars to drive fast. It remains perfectly flat through bends, and stays mostly neutral regardless of the road condition. On exit, there’s instant power to push it down a stretch,

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with only a little throttle-on oversteer to deal with.

In terms of everyday driving, the R8 is still great for a supercar. The automatic gearbox makes traffic less taxing than it can be in a car with a heavy clutch, and its steering is not too burdensome. The steering wheel is one of the best parts of the car.

ENVIRONMENT The cabin of the Audi R8 redefines what it means to be ‘driver-centric.’ It also feels lightly inspired by its Italian partner, Lamborghini.

Audi is known for building brilliant interiors, and it doesn’t disappoint with the newest R8 as it personifies refinement and sports luxury.

The comfortably supportive sport seats have a low riding position and the dashboard wraps around the driver.

Carbon fibre and brushed aluminum inserts accent the cabin, and the gear lever looks like an aircraft throttle.

It’s striking how clean the dash appears. Aside from the three climate control dials, all other controls are located on the steering wheel. Starting and stopping the engine, entering a destination into the navigation system, or answering a phone call, it is all done through the steering wheel.

The second generation R8 gets Audi’s virtual cockpit, which first debuted in the latest TT. All driving information is now presented on a 12.3-inch TFT screen where the gauge cluster would usually be found, rather than with traditional dials.

You don’t buy a supercar for its practicality, but the R8 offers two people enough space for a long weekend.

There’s a small shelf behind the seats for odds and ends, and a few generous cubbies in the centre console and doors.

The trunk is in the nose of the car, and provides enough space for a pair of small weekend bags. The space itself is quite deep, but its narrow opening and shape limit what it can carry.

FEATURES Starting price for the base model R8 V-10 is $184,000, and the R8 V-10 Plus starts at $213,900.

Standard equipment includes heated leather seats, leather multifunction steering wheel, dual-zone climate control, cruise control, LED headlights, 19-inch wheels, auto-dimming mirrors, heated

exterior mirrors, rearview camera, SiriusXM satellite radio, and Bluetooth.

Additional features, available as options or on the higher trim, include 20-inch wheels, ceramic brakes, sports suspension, laser light headlamps, fixed rear spoiler, and carbon fibre exterior and interior accents.

Fuel efficiency numbers (litres/100 kilometres) for both trim levels are 16.5 city, 11.2 highway, and 14.1 combined.

THUMBS UP The Audi R8 returns with sharper looks and more cutting-edge technology. Not only that, but it offers more performance from its big V-10 and superb handling.

THUMBS DOWN The loss of a V-8 option means it’s no longer the “bargain” it once was. While practicality is not as important for this class of car, the R8 is lacking storage space compared to its rivals.

THE BOTTOM LINE If you are in the market for a supercar, the 2017 Audi R8 is even better than the original and should be on your shortlist.

Competition PORSCHE 911 TURBO One of the longest-running sports cars in existence, the latest Porsche 911 is faster and more composed than ever. Yet it also boasts impressive efficiency and surprising practicality. The 911 Turbo’s 3.8-litre twin-turbo unit brings the fight to the Audi R8.

Turbo coupe models range from $181,800 to $214,800, while cabriolet models range from $195,800 to $228,800.

MERCEDES-AMG GT Stunning to look at and sublime to drive, the GT harnesses Mercedes-AMG’s success in motorsports.

Staying true to its history, this sports car has many creature comforts and is easy to drive fast.

Available in two trim levels, starting prices range from $133,600 to $150,700.

NISSAN GT-R If you want supercar levels of performance, but don’t have the budget to afford one of the traditional names, the Nissan GT-R offers good value.

While it may lack the comfort of others in this segment, few cars can match its outright speed, going 0-100 km/h in just 2.7 seconds.

The GT-R in only available in one trim level, with a starting price of $125,000. editor@automotivepress.com

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