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Trail bridge over Seymour lost to 2014 rock slide BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Metro Vancouver is moving ahead with plans to replace the Twin Bridge in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve.

The original bridge was a casualty of the December 2014 rock slide that sent 50,000 cubic metres of rock into the Seymour River, creating a new pond and washing out the Twin Bridge.

The new span, which will be dubbed the Fisherman’s Trail Bridge, will be a 75-metre-long, 2.5-metrewide rigid suspension bridge designed for people on foot, bicycle and horseback. It will be placed about 100 metres downstream from the old one.

“This has been an important part of North Shore residents’ lives. It provides a really good connection across the Seymour River to give that linear access right across the North Shore,” said Mike Mayers, superintendent of environmental management for Metro Vancouver. “I think staff are just as excited as the public to get this reconnection and to re-establish some very old, historic recreational routes for people.”

The first recreational bridge over the Seymour was built in 1908. A second one was added in 1926, hence the familiar name Twin Bridges. The most recent iteration was built in 2008. Its concrete pilings

Volunteers with the Seymour Salmonid Society make repairs to the Seymour River fish fence, part of the overall project to restore the river for fish habitat since it was blocked by the December 2014 rock slide. Work is also being done to reroute trail sections lost or damaged by rising waters. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD will remain in place.

As part of the $2.3-million project, crews will have to reroute some of the Bottletop and Fisherman’s trails that were lost or damaged by the rising waters.

The design of the bridge was partly shaped by consultations through two meetings held with the public and trail users groups

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Man on trial for alleged arson at CapU

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The trial for a man charged with arson for allegedly setting a fire in the Capilano University library opened before a judge this week in North Vancouver provincial court.

Shane Clifford Nendick,

34, is charged with deliberately setting a fire in the university library on Jan. 1, 2015, resulting in about $200,000 of smoke and water damage.

Nendick is also charged with multiple counts of mischief stemming from damage to a number of vehicles parked on residential streets

near to Capilano University that had their tires slashed in the early hours of Dec. 4, 2014. He is also charged with breaking into the Mountain Highway Esso station Jan. 10, 2015 and to Henry’s Grocery on Aug. 12, 2015.

In total, Nendick faces 28 charges. He has pleaded not guilty.

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Crown prosecutor Arlene Loyst told Judge William Rogers Wednesday the case hinges on DNA evidence.

In opening remarks in court, Loyst said on the evening of Dec. 4, 2015, 183 vehicles were damaged in the parking lots of Neptune

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Metro Vancouver is in the final design phase of a new 75-metre-long, 2.5-metre-wide rigid suspension bridge that will replace the Twin Bridge, lost to flooding after the December 2014 rock slide in the Seymour River. The bridge is designed for pedestrians, cyclists and people on horseback. PHOTOS SUPPLIED

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with one of the main criteria being that the new structure not be too imposing like a highway bridge.

“We collected feedback at both of those meetings.

What we heard was very favourable,” Mayers said.

Metro will also replace the existing footbridge at the top of Riverside Drive with a vehicle bridge for staff to access water infrastructure and do trail maintenance.

The project is in the detailed design phase with construction expected to start this summer. Mayers

said he is hoping to see both new bridges in service by the end of 2017.

Trail users are warmly welcoming the update from Metro Vancouver.

“It’s fantastic news.

Having no access between Lynn Valley and basically Rice Lake made people drive around. It contributed to more traffic. People can leave from Lynn Valley, go across and access all the trails. It adds connectivity.

It makes the trail network whole again,” said Vince Beasse, president of the North Shore Mountain Bike Association. “ Eric Godot Andersen,

chairman of the Blueridge Community Association, said people in his neighbourhood, many of whom used it multiple times a week, are thrilled at the thought of having the bridge back.

“I know for a fact this is something people have been waiting for, for a very, very long time – since that bridge had to be taken down,” he said. “Everybody has been missing it so much.

“I think, when you don’t have it, you realize how much it means to you.”

While trail users are looking forward to having their bridge back, the

Seymour Salmonid Society is headlong into a project that will make the portion of the Seymour blocked by the rock slide passable for spawning fish again by using explosives to break apart some of the boulders.

Volunteers were in the water on Tuesday, replacing the inflatable bladder on the fish fence they constructed to corral returning fish so they can be trapped and carried above the rock slide site.

“Mother Nature being Mother Nature, she didn’t allow us into the river earlier on and now with low water flows, we’re able to

A Metro Vancouver map depicts the locations of two new bridges and the 2014 slide site. IMAGE SUPPLIED get in and replace it,” said Shaun Hollingsworth, society president.

Steelhead trout will be arriving at the Seymour

River any day now, which Salmonid Society volunteers will catch for broodstock and transport above the rock slide site.

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Tires of multiple vehicles were also slashed, said Loyst, and blood was found on three of the vehicle tires from the area. DNA testing later matched that blood to Nendick.

Later that evening, said

Loyst, at Capilano University, a security guard noticed a suspicious man staring in through one of the windows at about 3:30 a.m. The guard also discovered four broken windows and a van with the driver’s side window smashed. Nobody was ever charged with those crimes.

Less than a month later, however, on Jan. 1, 2015 somebody broke into the

university library and lit a fire.

Security video shows a man inside the library, trying to forcibly open a safe with a crowbar, said Loyst. The man then takes some papers into a library office. As he leaves the room, “an orange glow can be seen,” said Loyst.

When police and firefighters arrived, they noticed

doors had been damaged, lockers had been broken into and books had been thrown off the library shelves, she said.

Total damage was about $209,000.

On the video surveillance, the man seen leaving the office where the fire started is observed drinking from a two-litre bottle, said Loyst. A bottle matching that

description was later found next to a door that had been smashed to gain entry to the library. Swabs were taken from the bottle and sent to a forensics lab. DNA samples matched those of Nendick, she said.

DNA samples were also taken after a man was observed bolting into the bushes, dropping a napsack, after the Esso Station

on Mountain Highway was broken into on Jan. 10, said Loyst, and after someone smashed their way into Henry’s Grocery on Aug. 12, leaving drops of blood at the scene.

“All the DNA evidence was linked to Mr. Nendick,” said Loyst.

The trial is expected to continue over the next month.

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Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Giles, from Seycove, and 16-year-old Zohrah Khalili, from Carson Graham, speak about youth mental health awareness Saturday at The Observatory on Grouse Mountain. PHOTO BEN BENGTSON

Student leaders gather for mental health summit Talk at the Top rallies teens to ‘make noise’ and create awareness BEN BENGTSON Contributing writer

Students from North Shore and Sea to Sky secondary schools gathered on Grouse Mountain Saturday for a summit devoted to helping youth become community leaders in mental health awareness.

More than 100 youth volunteered to attend the fifth annual Talk at the Top summit, a student-inspired and led initiative that encourages youth to open up and learn support strategies for what was described at the summit as one of the single most important health issues that exists for young people.

“I came out here pretty hesitantly because I wasn’t sure if I was comfortable in a new environment because I wasn’t even comfortable with my own struggles,” said Talk at the Top veteran and 16-year-old student leader Zohrah Khalili when describing her apprehensions about first attending the summit four years ago when she was

in Grade 8. “It was pretty turbulent and rocky and stressful.”

“But then I came here and I was honestly blown away because never before had I been invited into this safe-space where people could talk about their mental health and their mental illness so comfortably and casually,” added Khalili, who is now a Grade 11 student at Carson Graham secondary.

This year’s Talk at the Top was an all-day affair that took place at The Observatory on Grouse Mountain.

Student delegates, representing over 20 schools from across the North Shore and Sea to Sky, were first treated to breakfast before opening remarks and an introductory session called Mental Health 101 familiarized those in attendance on the concepts of stigma, self-care, and mental health awareness in oneself and others.

The morning’s keynote speaker was 15-year-old mental health advocate Maggie Harder from Calgary, Alta.

Harder’s campaign last year to get online retail giant Amazon.ca to remove shirts from its website that mocked suicide and mental illness received national attention.

“When I first saw the T-shirts, my blood ran cold,” Harder said in her keynote speech. “They featured slogans that invalidated mental

illness.”

Amazon has since removed the insensitive shirts from its online store.

“I was taking initiative and I was hopeful about it,” Harder said about her campaign. She is now a fierce advocate for mental health awareness and committed to ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Following Harder’s speech, student delegates were invited to participate in a number of workshops, including sessions on leadership skills, sharing mental health stories, and developing public speaking skills so they can become engaged advocates for mental health awareness in their schools and communities.

Khalili said that after first attending a Talk at the Top summit four years ago she’s had many opportunities to share her knowledge and skills on the subject.

“I’ve done quite a few educational presentations to teachers in our school district on mental illness, I’ve talked to the staff at my school, the principals, and started a mental health club at my school,” Khalili said.

“Personally, I would be ecstatic if a little Grade 8, like me, could walk away with that inspiration for initiative and being the start for

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Crescentview apartments a go for Edgemont Condos also approved for Lynn Creek industrial area

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The District of North Vancouver has approved two new condo projects, despite some misgivings from members of council.

In two separate votes Monday night, council gave the OK for a six-storey building containing 63 condo units over six commercial storefronts at 467 Mountain Hwy. and a 22-unit apartment building on Crescentview Drive near Connaught Crescent in Edgemont.

The lower Mountain Highway project by Wanson Development had provoked consternation at council in the past over the potential loss of the existing 9,000-square-foot industrial space at that site, but when it came down to a final vote Monday night, five of the seven council members voted for the rezoning.

District council approved on Monday a rezoning application by Mike Rakis for three residential lots on Crescentview Drive to be redeveloped to accommodate a 22-unit apartment building with 46 stalls of underground parking. IMAGE SUPPLIED The project was meeting the balance of providing housing in a neighbourhood where there is currently a shortage, Mayor Richard Walton said.

“We’ve got companies like Arc’teryx and Capilano University ... both of whom have 70 per cent employes who do not live in North Vancouver. They have to cross the bridges,” he said.

“Housing is a very, very loud call that we’re getting on top of having more light industrial lands. You can’t look at

light industrial without having housing. You can’t look at housing without having job lands as well. You have to build a community that considers both and tries to find that right balance, which is what we’re doing.”

Couns. Lisa Muri and Jim Hanson both voted against the project, however, on the grounds that it would erode a piece of the district’s threatened light industrial land base.

“Even though it’s a small development, I think it’s

triggering one of the worst decisions the municipality will ever make,” Muri said, noting the North Shore was once a destination for bluecollar residents looking to start business.

“Sustainable communities are not built on condos and housing. They’re built on mixed use and they’re built on jobs. And in this community, you need high-paying jobs,” she said.

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The vote split along similar lines for the Crescentview development.

The project had a measure of neighbourhood support at a recent public hearing and it is in keeping with long-held plans for that corner of the district, its supporters on council noted. What endeared it most to council, however, was the agreement by the developer to hold off on starting construction until the spring of 2018 to allow a number of other projects in Edgemont to be completed, giving residents a reprieve from construction fatigue “I really believe we should reinforce good behaviour on the part of developers,” said Coun.

Doug MacKay-Dunn. “If

they really do understand the community and are prepared to delay the construction until other projects are completed, that’s to be commended.

For those developers who are not prepared to do that, they can take a position at the back of the bus, as far as I’m concerned,” he said.

Still, that wasn’t enough to win a unanimous vote, with Muri and Hanson both voting nay, largely over the concerns that its approval would have on North Shore roads.

“Its too much, too fast. It brings too much congestion.

It creates to many uncertainties with the respect to traffic and it flies in the face, I say, of the need to take a pause, take stock before we continue with development in this area,” Hanson said.

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promise is a promise – except when it’s not. The federal Liberals have reneged on their crystal clear pledge that 2015’s would be “the last federal election conducted under the firstpast-the-post voting system.”

They struck an all-party committee and consulted with Canadians but the Liberals and Maryam Monsef, minister of democratic institutions, were roundly criticized for botching it at every available opportunity.

And when that committee put forward its recommendation for some form of proportional representation if Canadians approved of it in a referendum, Trudeau and his cabinet largely ignored it and claim now there was no consensus.

Perhaps they saw changing the system as a no-win outcome for the Liberal party.

Perhaps they’ve done some internal polling, which has led them to believe

that, apart from the really diehard poli-sci eggheads, no one really cares that much.

In any case, we expect they’ll be getting an earful in their constituency offices, and rightly so.

This has proven to be squandering of time, effort and political goodwill on a Parliamentary scale.

More than a broken promise, which frankly is not new to our system or any other one, this represents something worse. It was an opportunity to wash away generations of cynicism that have built up in Canadian politics.

Trudeau won his majority thanks, in part, to wooing back swaths of disaffected voters and people who typically support other parties, many of whom because they were enthused about the thought of a new election system that won’t waste their vote. They’ll surely remember this back-peddling when the go to the polls in 2019 – or don’t.

Step right up: the Trump Circus is in full swing

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ne circus closes down after 146 years; another, more sinister, is spawned to take its place.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will perform one last time in Uniondale, N.Y. on May 21, and that’s it. The Greatest Show on Earth is no more.

No matter, because it has been replaced by the Craziest Show on Earth, featuring the world’s foremost Scary Clown, Donald Trump.

And the Trump show is already playing right here on the North Shore, as with a flourish of his pen, the Wizard of Trump Tower has turned an entire North Shore community into second-class citizens.

Trump’s ban on access to the United States is a direct hit on the thousands of Iranian citizens and dual

The North Side Paul Sullivan citizens who live on the North Shore; it also affects those from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya.

This, um, initiative is allegedly aimed at terrorists, but it is interesting to note that since 2001, these nations have produced seven per cent of all terrorists attacks, responsible for zero deaths.

You could argue (as many

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have) that the ban is clearly directed at Muslims, as all of these countries are predominantly Muslim. So you don’t have to carry a passport from one of the seven to feel targeted and diminished.

Not long ago, I wrote a column about Weaving Our Humanity, a show held at Presentation House last November. It was a brave little thing, bringing together immigrants new and not so new, to tell their stories in words and music, and it was wonderful.

The woman who produced it, Meharoona Ghani, is the manager, community connections and diversity at the North Shore Multicultural Society. She is also a Muslimah, a Muslim woman.

When we talked in November, Meharoona irrepressibly promoted the positive virtues of Weaving

Our Humanity as a safe, warm inviting space where we can share our common humanity.

When we talked this week, that positive outlook was still firmly in place, but the foundations were rocking a bit. The task of the North Shore Multicultural Society is immigrant settlement and diversity training – it’s ground zero this week for the full impact of the Trump Circus – and that means freaked-out people are counting on Meharoona and her colleagues for strength and guidance.

“I’m focused on being strong and positive,” Meharoona told me. “Don’t feed the fear. Remain proactive. That’s what being human is all about.”

Meharoona admits her attitude is an act of will. She guards against “going down the rabbit hole” as she calls

it. She shut down a week ago, turned off the cable, turned away from the media because it was all so scary and sad that she was “teetering on the place of wanting to cry.”

Pause. “And I did cry.”

Instantly she rallied. “But I’m not going to be intimidated. Racism is not new. It’s always under the surface.

What is new is that a person in power has given permission to the old racists, and that is scary.”

As I write, Meharoona is thinking about a North Shore town hall to “bring everyone together.” Weaving Our Humanity writ large. The end result? Not quite sure, but bringing people back together is a start. And don’t leave it up to someone else.

Everyone has a part to play.

“The business community!” she exclaims. “Trump is a businessman. The business

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community has to take a stand and say: ‘We’re not good with this!’ They need to shake his bottom line.”

Meanwhile, as she and her colleagues at the North Shore Multicultural Centre are contemplating the grand gesture, a single-finger salute to the Craziest Show on Earth, Meharoona has opened up a smaller, more intimate space for co-workers at the agency.

“I’m telling people I’m just having lunch. I’m not facilitating or anything, but people can come and eat lunch too – and if they want to talk about how they are feeling there will be someone there to listen.”

With Meharoona, I constantly get this image of a candle in the rain: warm and brave, the sort of light people

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Will tougher sentences help with the drug crisis?

Earlier this week a North Vancouver man was handed a 14-year jail sentence for dealing fentanyl, the deadly opioid that in 2016 claimed almost 1,000 lives in B.C. alone. Since the opioid crisis began, this is the first major sentencing for an individual trafficking the drug. While some say longer, tougher sentences are key to deterring those who would deal drugs, others think that working to fix the social issues that might lead someone to use drugs in the first place should be the focus. What do you think?

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Lautens’ barbs aimed at cyclists do more harm than good Dear Editor: I would like to express my concern over the consistent vitriol and repeated insults Trevor Lautens’ hurls at “spandex speeding” cyclists (most recently, his Jan. 27 column).

In a time when all three North Shore communities have realized the need for, and the positive effects of promoting and supporting active transportation, his views are prejudiced, not based on traffic/accident statistics and encourage aggression against people who cycle.

As a 50+ registered nurse, mother, tax-paying, longtime North Shore resident, and homeowner, who rides her bike, runs, walks and drives

on the North Shore and commutes regularly by bike to work in Burnaby, Trevor Lautens’ comments at the very least insult me, at the worst endanger my safety.

I encourage Trevor to hop on his bike to experience the aggression bike riders who are well-lit and respect the law face every day through distracted, speeding people in cars. Among other benefits, it may reduce his grumpiness and instill compassion for the dangers law-abiding cyclists face.

Good for him for not falling off his bike in icy conditions 50 years ago, but with all due respect, it does not count as recent experience.

Kudos to “car guy” Brendan McAleer, who consistently provides balanced, fact-based views on the interactions between people in cars and people walking or cycling – in his automotive column none the less!

The North Shore News needs to take a stand and start supporting the vision of active and safe transportation for all traffic participants and contribute to a constructive dialogue around the issues North Vancouver residents in cars, on foot and on bikes face.

Trevor Lautens’ hatred against cyclists has nothing to add to this conversation.

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In the wake of the events of the past week, it must be easy for those directly affected by the Trump ban on Muslims to feel as if the candle has gone out; there is no warmth, no light. Lady Liberty shines a beacon no more – at least for more

than 200 million people for the next 90 days. Its cruellest blow is to Syrian refugees, who desperately need a safe harbour. There are thousands of stories – people barred from their homes, families estranged, individuals persecuted by enthusiastic persecutors.

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Metro eyeing stricter watering regs this year Clu

Less sprinkling and tighter rules for car washes proposed JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Metro Vancouver is tweaking its summer water conservation plan to include fewer mornings of lawn sprinkling, restrictions on sports field watering and restrictions on commercial car washes during summer droughts.

The proposed changes

were among those presented to the public at a meeting in North Vancouver Jan. 25.

The region began reviewing its water shortage response plan following the four-monthlong summer drought of 2015 that left water managers scrambling as reservoir levels dipped.

The biggest changes in the plans are starting sprinkling restrictions on May 1 each

year instead of May 15 and restricting lawn and garden sprinkling to two mornings a week, rather than the three currently allowed. Starting watering restrictions earlier will conserve water in years where there is a warm, dry spring, said Stan Woods, a senior engineer at Metro Vancouver.

While the current regulations provide a total of 15 possible watering hours each week, healthy lawns only require one hour of watering weekly, a Metro staff report notes. Many lawns in the

region are currently being overwatered, according to the report – when automatic in-ground sprinkling systems are set to water on all three days, for instance, regardless of whether the lawn needs it.

That use is expected to grow as in-ground watering systems increase.

Proposed regulations would also bring in restrictions on watering of public and school sports fields to between the hours of 7 p.m. and 9 a.m, when water is less likely to evaporate, according to the report. It will also set a

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Currently there are no restrictions on watering sports fields.

If the region is hit with a hot, dry summer and has to step up watering restrictions, to Stage 3, only commercial car washes that recirculate water or use hand-held wands would be allowed.

In response to questions from the audience, water managers at the meeting said they focus on lawn and gardening sprinkling because it accounts for large amounts of additional water use in summer months

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and it’s an area where it’s possible to make changes.

West Vancouver doesn’t hire additional staff to enforce Fr sprinkling regulations, said engineer Emily Willobee, but it tracks water use through its residential water meters and sends reminders to those using large amounts of water.

“In the vast majority of cases, people just don’t know,” she said. “They just don’t understand how much water they use when they water the garden or water the lawns.”

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Clubs bring mental health awareness into schools From page 5 change, being the instigator of their own mental health journey in the community.”

This year, Talk at the Top has partnered with the Ontario-based organization Jack.org in a bid to further help youth become instigators of mental health awareness in their schools and communities in order to save and improve the lives of young people.

Jack.org founder and executive director Eric Windeler said a big reason that Talk at the Top and his organization have joined forces is to help students stay engaged with mental health awareness all year long.

Maintaining a conversation on mental health that goes beyond the boundaries of the day’s summit on

Grouse Mountain can be accomplished, he said, by helping students from the North Shore and B.C. start “Jack Chapters,” which are essentially student-run clubs that meet up to make noise and raise awareness about mental health and engage as many people in the school and community as possible.

“What Jack.org is all about is building leadership skills among students who are passionate and want to take a lead in mental health,” Windeler said. “It’s really important that students across B.C., but also across the country, feel connected to something so they know there’s other students doing similar things to what they’re doing.”

According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, 20 per cent of Canadians will experience a mental illness

in their lifetime. And while Talk at the Top and Jack. org addresses this, the focus of the summit is primarily on how mental health is a constant for everyone and affects people to varying degrees – and as a young person there should be no shame in discussing mental health issues and trying to create a positive space for conversations on the subject.

In addition to the mental health club she already started herself, Khalili plans to start up her own Jack Chapter club, complete with swag, supplies, resources, and support provided by Jack.org, later this year.

“Creating an environment, starting with myself, to create casual conversations on mental health – it’s pretty amazing to be a person that can do that and have that impact,” Khalili said.

Notice of Alternative Approval Process

Park Dedication Removal Bylaw 8206, 2016 Portions of Keith-Lynn and Lynn Canyon Parks

What: When:

CLICK TO EDIT Alternative Approval Process for Park Dedication Removal Bylaw MASTER TITLE 8206, 2016

Deadline for submission of Elector Response Forms is 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Where: Elector Response Forms can be picked up from the District Hall or

www.dnv.org/park-approval beginning February 3, 2017 and must be returned to the District Hall by the deadline.

Water meters a hard sell: mayor From page 10 Staff also talk to irrigation companies about setting up in-ground sprinkling systems correctly, she said.

“Most of the people who were given tickets have in-ground systems,” added Femida Hudda-Musani, water co-ordinator at the District of North Vancouver. “They’re not programmed right.”

Installing water meters was also on the minds of attendees. Darrell Mussatto, City of North Vancouver

mayor and chairman of Metro’s utilities committee, said it’s a complex issue.

Water meters are expensive, he said – including costs of installing, reading the meter and billing residents. While they could delay the need for much larger infrastructure projects like a deeper water intake system on the Coquitlam reservoir, they are a hard sell, politically.

“It’s going to be a tough message that you have to pay more for less water,” he said.

North Vancouver resident

Corrie Kost said he thinks water is already too expensive and the regulations vague and ineffective.

Subsidized rain barrel programs are “ludicrously ineffective,” he added.

Those who want to water their gardens outside of regulations will continue to do so, he said “at night, in the back. Nobody’s going to find out, unless we snitch on our neighbours.”

Mussatto replied, “It may shock you but there’s some of those comments I agree with.”

What is it?

Notice is hereby given that the District of North Vancouver intends to adopt Park Dedication Removal Bylaw 8206, 2016. This bylaw proposes to remove: a) the dedication for park and recreation purposes, as set out in Bylaw 6578 “Keith-Lynn Park Dedication Bylaw”, of a 0.1974 ha (1974.8m2) portion of Keith-Lynn park as shown on the plan above; and, b) The dedication for park purposes, as set out in Bylaw 6338 “Lynn Canyon Park Dedication Bylaw”, of a 0.0195 ha (195.1m2) portion of Lynn Canyon park as shown on the plan above.

The District intends to remove the park and recreation dedications in order to accommodate the reconfiguration of the Highway 1 interchange at Mountain Highway and associated works.

How can I comment?

Council may adopt Park Dedication Removal Bylaw 8206, 2016 unless at least 10% of the electors of the entire District of North Vancouver sign elector response forms and submit them to the District by the deadline of 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017. If at least 10% of the electors sign and submit elector response forms by the deadline, Council may not adopt the bylaw unless the assent of the electors is then obtained (a referendum).

The District estimates that 5,962 is the number of electors who must submit signed elector response forms in order to prevent Council from adopting the bylaw without the assent of the electors.

Elector response forms must be in the form established by the District of North Vancouver. These forms are available on request at the District Hall or may be obtained by visiting the District web site at www.dnv.org/park-approval. Forms may be submitted in person at the District Hall, by mail (355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver, BC V7N 4N5), or by email to gordonja@dnv.org. The only persons entitled to sign the forms are electors of the District of North Vancouver.

Need more info?

Copies of the proposed bylaw and related documents are available for public inspection at the District Hall, office of the Municipal Clerk, during regular business hours or the District website at www.dnv.org/park-approval.

Who can I speak to?

For more information on Park Dedication Removal Bylaw 8206, 2016 or this alternative approval process, please contact James Gordon, Municipal Clerk, at 604-990-2207 or gordonja@dnv.org.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath West Van business mixer The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce held its Business After 5 networking event at Hearthstone Brewery Wednesday, Jan. 25. Chamber members and guests from various other businesses mingled at the newest craft brewery on the North Shore. Guests enjoyed appetizers and craft beer tastings as they took in a tour of the brewery facilities at the Marine Drive establishment.

Realtor Lois Marie Suliivan and son Liam Firus, an Olympic figure skater

West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce vice-president Kevin Manning, president Gabrielle Loren and Hearthstone Brewery operations manager Darren Hollett

Mitch Foster, Doug Cottier and Owen DeVries of Sager Legal Advisors

Patrick Lenouvel and West Van Chamber of Commerce executive director Leagh Gabriel

Capilano Golf and Country Club’s Kyla Rose and Alex McNeill

Cypress Mountain Resort’s Julia Toren and Joffrey Koeman with Rob Jenko

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Please direct requests for event coverage to: cgoodman@nsnews.com. For more Bright Lights photos, go to: nsnews.com/community/bright-lights

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Actors Nicola Lipman, Stefania Indelicato and Kaitlin Williams are featured performers in Corleone: The Shakepearean Godfather.

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Pacific Theatre presents a very different Godfather

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Whether you should leave the gun and take the cannoli or vice versa is the only thing you should worry about when you watch Classic Chic’s all-female stage production of Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather.

Gender shouldn’t be a part of the equation.

“We’re about telling the story first,” explains artistic director Christina Wells Campbell.

“You can’t get away from the gender part, but I

always come back to gender doesn’t have to be a value. Being womanly or manly isn’t good or bad. It’s not important.”

In their upcoming play, Wells Campbell and her castmates are telling a tale first explored in the film The Godfather, which is about what she calls an underground kingdom. In this case, the kingdom is a mafia-run empire led by the Corleone family.

Although the play follows the main storyline of the popular movie, it adds Shakespearean elements in keeping with the Bard’s traditions. For example, much of the dialogue is presented in iambic pentameter, and a chorus appears occasionally throughout the play to explain the action. Wells Campbell explains that the original story lends itself to the themes of classic history plays, so the

Shakespearean elements fit right in.

Certain roles also enjoy a Shakespearean makeover of sorts, and Wells Campbell points to the character of Michael Corleone as an example as he takes on the essence of a King Lear character in the stage production.

In the movie, Michael returns home to New York as a war hero and is slowly, over the course of the film, drawn into the family crime business despite originally aiming to avoid it.

By the end of the first film, Michael has chosen to become “the Godfather,” the head of the family empire.

“In a (classic) tragedy they make that one decision or they can’t escape their fate and you can see it’s inevitable, how it’s going to end, but they can’t do anything to stop it,” explains Wells Campbell, comparing Michael Corleone

to traditional tragic figures. There’s a moment when Michael makes that high-stakes decision to take over the family business and everything else comes from that one moment of decision.

Wells Campbell calls the play a “real mashup” of styles, and something she hopes the audience will have fun with because she has had fun working on it.

“It’s been fun reinterpreting it, reimagining it,” she reports.

And although she admits she hadn’t watched the original Godfather movie before starting work on the play (she has now watched the first two films in the series and is debating watching the third due to its poor reviews), Wells Campbell read the book for

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ROOTS ROCK CALYPSO Trinidadian/Canadian singer/songwriter Drew Gonsalves brings his band Kobo Town to the West Coast for a gig at the Biltmore Cabaret on Saturday, Feb. 4. Their new album, Where the Galleon Sank, produced by Belizean maverick Ivan Duran, is out today on Stonetree Records.

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CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Art Rental Show: Rent or buy artwork right off the gallery walls at this semi-annual salon-style exhibition featuring 200 new works by local artists until Feb. 4.

DISTRICT FOYER GALLERY 355 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca You Are Here: Wall calendars containing 12 images created by 10 local artists depicting North Shore scenes are on display until Feb. 6. Proceeds from sales support the North Shore Cultural Mapping Project. Calendars are available at CityScape Community Art Space and the Silk Purse Gallery for $22.

EDGEMONT VILLAGE JEWELLER 3012 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver.

Art Installation: A small installation featuring the work of sculptor and painter Marcus Bowcott is on display until Feb. 3.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed

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LE MOZART NOIR In honour of Black History Month, Early Music Vancouver presents the music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier Saint-George, also known as “Le Mozart Noir,” at the Vancouver Playhouse on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. The concert will be preceded by a free screening open to the public of a Canadian-made documentary on the composer’s life, directed

by Raymon Saint-Jean and featuring Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Bologne (1745-1799), born in the French colony of Guadeloupe to a sugar plantation owner George de Bologne, Saint-George and Nanon, an African slave, moved with his family to the Saint-Germain quarter of Paris at a young age. For more information visit earlymusic.bc.ca. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Configurations: An exhibition of mixed media works by Diane Isherwood and Tannis Turner and oil and board and shell

by Audra Ann Ricketts runs until Feb. 19. Meet the artists: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2-3 p.m.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 2-4 p.m. 604981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Art Exhibition: Margot Brassil’s works are on display MondaysFridays, until Feb. 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver.

604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 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 until Feb. 19.

My West Coast: Painter Elizabeth Austin shows her acrylic on canvas landscapes of the West Coast and potter Jochen Schliessler shows large vases, jugs, bowls and planters Feb. 19-April 9.

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

604-924-1378 seymourartgallery. com I Spy Wild/Life: Artist Sarah Ronald shows new drawings, paintings and installations which spur viewers to seek out the contradictions around our relationships with wild animals until March 5. Reception: Sunday, Feb. 5, 2-4 p.m. Artist talk/tour:

Sunday, Feb. 19, 2 p.m. Free dropin landscapes workshop: Sunday, March 5, 2-4 p.m.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Time and Life: Elaheh Jourabchi and Wan Li Zhang present paintings of their views of the world outside until Feb. 12.

Spectrum: A celebration of the varied and diverse artists in the community runs from Feb. 14 to March 5. Opening reception: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 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 – Outside to Inside: Fibre art and paintings by Jane Kenyon runs until Feb. 19 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: Mixed media paintings by Monica Gewurz are on display until March 1.

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

Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7270 westvancouvermuseum.ca Drawing the Line – North Shore Works 1962-1967: An exhibition featuring ink, gouache, mixed media drawings and

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REVIEW: THE SALESMAN

Iranian masterwork speaks for itself ! The Salesman. Directed

by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti.

Rating: 8 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

The Salesman is nominated for an Academy Award. But if the film wins, the director won’t be there to receive his prize.

Asghar Farhadi, already an Oscar-winner for his 2011 film A Separation, is from Iran, one of seven majority-Muslim countries whose citizens have been denied entry to the U.S. under Donald Trump’s hastily assembled executive order.

Farhadi released a statement saying that even if he was granted special dispensation to attend, he would not. “To humiliate one nation with the pretext of guarding the security of another… has always laid the groundwork for the creation of future divide and enmity,” he said.

And, “I believe that the similarities among the human beings on this earth and its various lands, and among its cultures and its faiths, far outweigh their differences.”

The controversy has overshadowed the release of Farhadi’s film, which won Best Screenplay and Best Actor at Cannes and opens today.

A middle-class couple in Tehran has to flee their apartment block when fissures suddenly appear in the walls and window panes crack menacingly. We know right away that Emad is a good guy: he runs back in to carry out a neighbour’s handicapped adult son on his back.

During the day Emad (Shahab Hosseini) is a schoolteacher and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) stays at home. By night they are both talented members of a theatre troupe putting the

Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti star in Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman which won Best Screenplay and Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

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finishing touches on Death of a Salesman, where Emad plays hapless salesman Willy Lomax and Rana plays his wife.

One of their fellow actors comes to the rescue and offers his flat, recently vacated by a woman who left all her belongings behind.

“She led a wild life,” is all that neighbours will say of the former tenant. Emad and Rana move in; the woman’s belongings are left out in the rain.

One night Rana answers the buzzer, thinking it must be her husband, and then goes for a shower. But it isn’t Emad who enters.

There is a brutal assault, followed by a complex series of emotions but little discussion about what actually happened, even between

husband and wife. Cultural dissimilarities are clear in the way there is no direct mention of sexual assault (in fact, it isn’t even clear that Rana was examined in hospital).

“She slipped in the shower,” is the first lame reason for Rana’s injuries given to neighbours and cast members.

Scenes of the play are juxtaposed with scenes of the couple’s now-joyless daily life, with Emad focused obsessively – Willy Lomax-style – on finding the attacker and Rana afraid to be alone in the apartment. There is an unconventional, un-Hollywood resolution of sorts that is sure to spark discussion.

Small moments give the film texture and paint a fuller

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Following the Trump ban Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has said he will not attend the 2017 Academy Awards in L.A. on Feb. 26, despite The Salesman being nominated for the best foreign-language film.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2017 | 8PM Grosvenor Theatre at Kay Meek Centre Tickets: $29 Adult | $25 Senior | $10 Student The Quiring Chamber Players, Reg Quiring, viola, and Rosemary O’Connor, piano, are joined by Geoff Nuttall, violin, (First violinist of St. Laurence Quartet) and Marina Hoover, cello (Founding cellist of St. Laurence Quartet) for a memorable evening of Fauré, Mozart and a contemporary piano quartet.

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LoLo general store steps back in time New shop a reincarnation of North Van’s first mercantile MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

A rich piece of Lower Lonsdale’s history merges with modern life on the corner of Lonsdale and Esplanade.

Housed in a reconstructed historical building from 1903, recently opened Mo’s General Store is a reincarnation of the area’s first mercantile, McMillian Grocers. North Vancouver’s first newspaper was produced in this building in 1905.

The idea to open a general store at that location had been percolating for a while for its proprietor Mithra Sawyer.

The longtime North Shore resident was enamoured with the old-fashioned façade and distinctive octagonal architecture of the two-storey wood frame building that bookends North Vancouver’s first commercial block.

“Life sometimes doesn’t allow you to go ahead and then all of a sudden I had a great opportunity and the place was still available,” says Sawyer. “I love the heritage aspect of it. I love this neighbourhood. This neighbourhood is really blossoming.”

Before you step back in time inside the general store, you get a taste of nostalgia

Mo’s General Store proprietor Mithra Sawyer stands in front of a large mural showing Lonsdale’s first mercantile, McMillian Grocers. from the street. Beautiful displays of curated art, home décor and hand-crafted confections are seen through eight floor-to-ceiling windows from both the Lonsdale and Esplanade sides.

The concept of Mo’s General Store harkens back to a time when people from the

town would stop by the local mercantile for staple food items and general goods.

“Just to be able to walk out your door and be able to shop for pretty much anything in your house, I think that’s the Manhattan feel,” says Sawyer.

Of course, Sawyer isn’t selling sacks of flour in burlap

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“We love making sure that if a product makes it to the shelves we have already

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Raffle funds support North Shore Rescue From page 23 space with lofty ceilings is compartmentalized into themes.

Canadiana abounds in the back nook, with a selection of fun toques, cosy socks and oversized mugs which scream Saturday morning comfort zone.

“I envisioned it as a cabin with a comfy feel,” says Sawyer.

Upstairs is the art and home décor haven, accented by a thronelike king chair crafted in Pennsylvania.

Tapestry from a local weaver hangs on the wall.

Other home goods at the general store include laundry detergent made from natural ingredients, sustainable bamboo dental floss and artistic candles that break off into multiple wicks as they melt.

Mo’s also arranges custom gift packages placed in wooden crates made in Cumberland, B.C. The real show stopper is an oversized black and white mural – a blown-up photo of handlebar-mustached men in vests behind the counter of the original Lonsdale general store – stretched across a main downstairs wall.

At the base of the mural is another conversation piece steeped in rich B.C. history.

It’s a custom Sea to Sky railway table, designed by local artist Benjamin Lumb, who crafted it using pieces from the railway line that runs between North Vancouver and Squamish.

Weighing approximately 550 kilograms, the long table showcases railway ties underneath the glass top and is finished with a singular gold spike, paying homage to the West Coast’s railway history and the era of the Royal Hudson 2860 steam locomotive.

You can take a seat at the table and savour a cup of java from North Vancouver roaster Moja Coffee and one of the homebaked goodies Mo’s sells.

Sawyer says her foray into entrepreneurship has been fun so far and she’s looking forward to meeting the neighbours.

“As the community repeats its history as being the heart of the North Shore, we are excited to be a part of the face of the exciting LoLo,” she says.

Mo’s General Store grand opening weekend runs Feb. 3-5 and will include a meet-and-greet with local artists, product sampling and a raffle benefiting North Shore Rescue.

COSY IN THE COVE Lux loungewear proprietors Paper Label have made a semi-permanent move to Deep Cove.

After occupying the Artemis Gallery as a pop-up shop since November, Paper Label will take over the space for the next two years, says the brand’s marketing manager Nicole Ninow (pictured above with Teresa Lake). The office/atelier operations will be in the back of the gallery, while the front will be maintained for retail. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN

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The Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market pre-season market will feature local foods, crafters and artisans Saturday, Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. You will be able to make a custom glass

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REVIEW: AS I LAY DYING

Arts Club gets physical in Southern Gothic tale ! AsILayDying, Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre until Feb. 12. For tickets, call 604-687-1644 or go to artsclub.com.

JOLEDINGHAM Contributing writer

I don’t remember ever thinking William Faulkner spun good yarns. But that’s what Toronto’s Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s physical theatre adaptation of Faulkner’s novel, As I Lay Dying, is: a good yarn.

Act 1 is more like the Faulkner I remember: bleak, squalid stories of the Deep South in the 1930s with death, poverty, “retardation” and infidelity all in there. But, adapted from the novel by company founders Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour, Act II takes the Bundren family – father Anse and kids Darl, Dewey Dell, Cash, Jewel and Vardaman – on a wild wagon ride with the coffin of the recently-deceased (and rapidly decaying) family matriarch, Addie, in the back.

Addie demanded to be buried in Jefferson, Miss., 60 miles away, with the rest of her kin.

In Act 1, Addie breathes her last while her favourite son, Cash (Eli Ham), saws the coffin boards outside her window.

She tells us – from beyond the grave – that she had little use for her other children or her husband. Nevertheless, they are all committed to getting her

body to Jefferson, come hell or high water.

And that’s what they get.

Storms, floods, washed-out bridges, drowned mules, heat (with the smell of Addie rotting) and a spectacular barn fire.

Co-artistic directors Smith and Gilmour are Jacques Lecoq-trained performers so, naturally, their adaptation of Faulkner’s novel uses mime and, to a lesser extent, clowning. Minimal props.

Barefeet. Some fake noses. But there’s lots of text, too, and it’s delivered with deep southern (sometimes hard-to-understand) accents. Addie (Smith) has such a strong French accent that it’s easy to miss very important plot points.

But what is extraordinary in this Theatre Smith-Gilmour/ Arts Club production is the gorgeous physicality of the work.

Benjamin Muir plays both Jewel and Jewel’s spirited, bucking, lunging, whinnying horse. It’s a remarkable performance that leaves no doubt that there’s a horse – and a wild one at that – on stage. Scenes of the family swimming for their lives in a raging river or simply bumping along in the old wagon are amazingly realized.

Gilmour, as the father Anse, is the kind of miserable old cuss you love to hate. He’d rather squander money – and waste precious time – spending money on floozies in the bar than call a doctor for Cash’s broken leg. And the 10

bucks he spends on women and booze he has taken from daughter Dewey Dell (Nina Gilmour), unmarried, pregnant and hoping to buy something from a drugstore to end the pregnancy.

Darl (Julian De Zotti) is daft; Vardaman (Daniel Roberts), the youngest, thinks – by a convoluted string of extremely illogical thinking – that his mother might be a fish, and he drills holes in her coffin so she can breathe. Not highly skilled with a drill, he manages to drill a couple of holes into her face.

It’s difficult to say what tone the creators of this production hoped to strike. Are we laughing at or weeping for this family? Despite the levity of Act II, the future of Faulkner’s fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County folk looks grim: a bastard child on the way, one of the boys jailed, another with a leg that will probably never work again, a goofy child with a tenuous grasp on reality and a “new mom.” Do we care? Not enough.

– Jo Ledingham writes for our sister paper the Vancouver Courier

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s production of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

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Meghan Drew and Jesse Redmond (in right photo) rehearse a scene for Exit 22’s production of Fawlty Towers while Taylor MacKinnon, a technical theatre student, puts the finishing touches on a set piece. The comedy opens at Capilano University on Feb. 8. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN

Exit 22 having fun with British comedy Capilano University students perform two complete scripts of Fawlty Towers on stage

! Exit 22 Productions presents Fawlty Towers Feb. 8–11 at 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on Feb. 11. at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets: $22/$25/$10 and available at tickets.capilanou.ca or by calling (604) 990-7810.

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Fawlty Towers, and director Bob Frazer couldn’t be more excited to stage a show about the best-loved bad hotel in the world.

“Without a doubt the best thing about the original show was the combination of ridiculous situations and iconic characters,” says Frazer. “Who can forget Basil, Sybil, Manuel, Polly and the Major? Basil was constantly creating hilarious situations that I still laugh at today.”

Fresh from directing Othello with Bard on the Beach this past season, Frazer has checked into Fawlty Towers and prepped a diverse cast of second and third year

students from the Acting for Stage and Screen and Musical Theatre programs at Capilano University.

All the beloved Fawlty characters audiences have come to love will be on the BlueShore stage: manic Basil, his wife Sybil, the poor mistreated Manuel, calm and capable Polly – and of course a steady stream of harshly abused guests.

Frazer’s intent is to have John Cleese and Connie Booth’s famous TV sitcom jump seamlessly from screen to stage. Each show features two complete scripts: “A Touch of Class” and “Psychiatrist” with subtle references snuck in for the keen-eyed Fawlty fan.

Have no fear, this is the Fawlty Towers everyone knows and loves: frantic pace, saucy banter and snooty wisecracks.

“A Touch of Class” is of course the pilot episode of Fawlty Towers. Hilarity ensues when hapless Basil checks in to Fawlty Towers a man who he thinks is a Lord but is really a trickster who attempts to steal his collection of rare coins. Basil bends over backwards to please his ‘upstanding’ guest, to the exclusion of other guests.

“The script is the exact script from the TV show,” promises Frazer. “We’ve also added in little moments from other episodes that fans will remember. During scene changes, the audience will get to watch favourite moments from their favourite episodes.”

Argyle secondary grad and third-year CapU stage and screen student Meghan Drew steps into the role of Raylene Miles, an Australian with a sense of humour.

“Raylene is very sweet but when she gets provoked and has had enough, I just want people to come watch it and find out,” says Drew. “It’s very funny. I think she brings some comic relief.”

To create an Australian accent, Drew went on a dialects website and found a tutorial that matched a Brisbane accent.

“Every few days I listen to it and try to imitate it so I can get the vowels down.

It’s really hard though,” she admits.

Drew’s physical skills were put to the test last November when she performed in CapU’s production of A Christmas Carol. The director took the Dickens classic and turned it on its head, in an inventive circus adaptation.

“It was really physical, so basically everyone was

on stage for the whole time and everyone was doing cartwheels and somersaults,” recalls Drew.

With three years of acting training at CapU under her belt, Drew says she has come out on the other side with more confidence and praises the program’s instructors.

Along with acting training, Drew learned invaluable skills including set etiquette and how to be professional.

In preparing for Fawlty Towers, Drew and Frazer report that the entire cast has been laughing all the way through the one-month rehearsal period.

“We laughed hard and we’ve worked hard. I think it’s always an exciting thing to watch the new performers of tomorrow develop their craft.

It’s been a delight to direct this show,” says Frazer.

BEYOND WORDS UBC’s Chan Centre presents Manual Cinema’s Ada/Ava on Tuesday, Feb.7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Telus Studio Theatre as part of the Beyond Words series. The Chicago company’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit merges puppetry, multimedia and live ensemble music to animate a gothic tale. For more information visit chancentre.com/events/manual-cinemas-adaava. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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Foreign Radical levels the playing field

Interactive production gives power to the people

! Theatre Conspiracy’s Foreign Radical, Studio 1398, Granville Island, Feb. 6-11. For more information and showtimes visit conspiracy.ca.

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Say what will you about Donald Trump, but there’s every reason to believe his presidency will be a boon for subversive theatre.

Foreign Radical is a ChooseYour-Own-Adventure drama where the audience’s feelings of paranoia, persecution and prejudice define their experience.

“It’s a theatre game with a show host,” explains actor Aryo Khakpour as he readies for rehearsal. “The beauty of it is with each audience … it can actually shift.”

Khakpour plays Hesam, an Iranian/Canadian engineer awaiting interrogation at the border.

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In Foreign Radical, Milton Lim acts as the production’s game show host. PHOTO SUPPLIED be bent before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms looks like a to-do list Canada’ll get around to when it has a few minutes?

Rather than answering those questions directly, the play elevates the rabble in the pit to the role of dramaturgical decider.

Foreign Radical’s audience doesn’t disappear when the

lights go down, in fact, the 30 theatre-goers who file into Studio 1398 may find themselves playing some very weighty roles as they’re scattered among the stage’s four quadrants.

The intention is to have the audience and artists meet on an “equal level,” Khakpour explains.

Originally from Iran, the

actor says he’s well versed in racial diversity, but he’s also a great believer in what he calls “diversity of form.”

In the British theatre tradition, the text is the bible and the director is the prophet, gathering acolytes in the form of actors who pass on the show’s sacred message to an audience, according to Khakpour.

“The British drama has been very strong … but to subvert it we need different forms of making theatre.”

This particular subversion likely began three years ago in the offices of the Theatre Conspiracy company, where Khakpour and playwright/ director Tim Carlson talked about working together.

“We sat down, we had a

couple of beers, and we just talked about the world … what we care about, what kind of theatre we like.”

After exchanging their takes on philosophy and somewhat left of centre politics, Carlson started developing an idea.

“Maybe he had something in mind before he met me, but in my mind, in my story, it was just me and him.”

As Carlson’s ideas of national security and personal insecurity started to take shape, Conservative-backed anti-terrorism legislation Bill C-51 opened the door for preventative arrests. During a bitter presidential campaign, Trump’s ideas of torture as justifiable revenge went mainstream.

“I think the politicians really like what we do and they find a way to support us,” Khakpour jokes.

A wide range of ideas and sensibilities shaped the show, which confronts the audience with Canada’s $15 billion sale of military vehicles to Saudi Arabia while charming the crowd with a high-energy game show host.

“It’s fun after all,” Khakpour says. “It has to be nuanced, it

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc. ca/centennial-theatre CD Release Party: The High Bar Gang performs acoustic bluegrass music in celebration of their album Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind Friday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $28.

Beatles Experience: The Day Trippers, a Beatles tribute band performs Saturday, Feb. 25 at

7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20.

GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca Classics at the Smith – J. S. Bach Suites for Cello: A gallery tour followed by a performance by Lee Duckles Tuesday, Feb. 7.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performance is at 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10/$8. Tickets available at the door.

Classics at the Smith – J. S. Bach Suites for Cello: A gallery tour followed by a performance by Cristian Markos Tuesday, Feb. 21. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performance is at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $10/$8. Tickets

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Jazz at the Gallery: A tour of the current exhibit followed by a concert with the James Danderfer Trio Tuesday, Feb. 28. Doors open at 7 p.m. and performance is 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 Piano Quartet Evolution: The Quiring Chamber Players and friends perform Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $29/$25/$10.

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To Marcus with Love: A benefit concert for Marcus Mosely featuring many musicians Friday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. Admission: $15. Tickets: 604-770-1088 or brownpapertickets.com (under To Marcus with Love).

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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.

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Cap Theatre – Arts Club on Tour: A production of Bittergirl: The Musical, a comedy about getting over getting dumped Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $43/$39/$20.

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The Marvelous Wonderettes: A musical featuring over 30 classic ’50s and ’60s hits WednesdaysSaturdays, Feb. 23-March 10 at 8 p.m. with a matinee Saturday, March 11 at 2 p.m. Admission: $20. Tickets: 604-929-9456 or firstimpressionstheatre.com.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Arts Club on Tour: A production of Bittergirl: The Musical, a comedy about getting over getting dumped Feb. 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $50/$43/$29/$15.

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Top Hats and Tales: A musical romance that follows a show business love relationship through time ThursdaysSaturdays, March 2-12 at 8 p.m. with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

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background information and says she understands why the characters do what they do.

“I have some sympathy for the gangsters because often these organized crime things come about because there’s something in the established system that isn’t working for them,” she says.

There has never been a full stage production of The Godfather, but Wells Campbell assures fans their show doesn’t seek to mimic the film performances of Al Pacino and Marlon Brando.

“We’re not trying to reinvent the film, we’re trying to pay a little bit of homage,” she explains. “This is a very different Godfather.”

This creative reinterpretation of the film was written by David Mann for a male cast, but in keeping with Classic Chic’s MO, the production is being presented with female actors only.

Similar to an all-male cast playing female roles in Shakespeare’s time, all the characters remain male but are played by women.

Pronouns are male and the costumes feature stereotypically male attire, namely suits.

“Since we’re all about the classics, we thought that this was an opportunity for women to take on some real classic roles that hardly any actors ever get to do,” says Wells Campbell, who was one

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of four co-founders of Classic Chic. The theatre company was formed to give women the opportunity to play powerful roles typically assigned to male actors. Since its inception in 2014, the group has also performed their versions of Glengarry Glen Ross and The Winter’s Tale.

As an actor, Wells Campbell, who also plays a number of thugs in the play, including Barzini, Clemenza, and Luca Brasi, says the opportunity to take on a powerful role from a male perspective has been interesting.

Generally, the idea of what a powerful female character is versus a powerful male character can be very different.

And while there is a familiar female “strong woman” trope, it’s still being defined by a man writing it, notes Wells Campbell.

“I guess I’m just tired that my stories always have to have ‘female’ in front of them,” she notes. “I just want to have ‘human’ in front of it.”

Both on and off stage, she says what matters most in the big picture is simply who you are as a person.

“It’s what we’re bringing to the world. It doesn’t matter whether we’re coming at it from ‘woman’ or ‘man’ or some combination therein.

And for us to all get so bent out of shape about it all the time is like we keep trying to solve this completely fictional problem. It’s not a problem.”

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From page 30 and pre-professional dancers Sunday, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $28/$22.

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc. ca/centennial-theatre Under the Shadow will be screened Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. In Farsi with English subtitles. Tickets: $12.

Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: A series of extreme adventure films and presentations runs Feb. 10-18 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $21/$19. Schedule: vimff.org.

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Longshot: A screening of the story of former West Vancouver basketball coach Brian Upson as he leads his team in competing in the 1982 B.C. provincial championships, meanwhile facing a battle with cancer Friday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m.

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has to be spiced up so people can actually take it and reflect on it, because otherwise they just shut down immediately.”

The show is intended to be as anarchistic in its performance as it was in its formation, which accepted ideas from everyone in the theatre company, according to Khakpour.

Theatre, as the great

novelist Kurt Vonnegut once noted, is generally a consensual timequake in which actors and audiences agree to travel through an unchanging terrain again and again. Whether it’s Our Town or The Iceman Cometh, the end is always the end.

Foreign Radical offers the audience a different opportunity, one that even includes changing the show’s ending.

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The play is also distinct in that it’s not striving for immortality, in fact, quite the opposite.

In discussing the rise of Trump, Khakpour allows the show is more relevant today, “but it was also relevant last year,” he points out.

He pauses a moment before adding: “I hope it ends up being irrelevant someday.”

DREAM TRIP Sophie Sedlacek (left) and Kiana Bell of the Ballet Bloch Canada school will be performing as soloists in the Youth America Grand Prix semifinals in New York in April along with 12 other Ballet Bloch dancers in the ensemble piece, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Fluffy bliss is yours for the taking at interior B.C. resort MICHELLE HOPKINS Contibuting writer

Scarcely a cloud in the sky, fresh powder snow and pristine backcountry trails to ourselves – sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Those were the conditions that greeted us on a two-hour sledding adventure with Sun Peaks Snowmobile Tours.

Experiencing untracked fluffy bliss is every bit as magical as stories make it out to be, and sitting atop a powerful machine dashing through alpine heaven brings a whole new level of excitement to a winter adventure.

Our snowmobiling guide, Tyhran, picked us up at the resort’s Adventure Centre for a short drive to the base camp where we were outfitted with balaclavas, boots, helmets and all the necessary gear required for a 20-kilometre tour into the backwoods of Mt. Morrissey on McGillivray Lake logging roads (at an elevation of 1,219 metres).

We arrived in mid-December for what was to be three

Après Ski: Kevin Tessier, an affable fellow FrenchCanadian opened up his popular Classic Canadiana eatery, The Voyageur Bistro, in 2012 and hasn’t looked back.

Heavily influenced by his French roots, the cuisine is focused on traditional ingredients such as bison, bannock, pea meal bacon, maple syrup and root vegetables. Brent raved on and on about the elk wellington., saying it is a “prized meat, more flavourful than beef.”

The décor alone will have you feeling sentimental about our country – the walls are adorned with a collection of Canadian artifacts including a 1930s Peterborough canvas cedar strip canoe and a richly woven tapestry depicting a Hudson Bay fur trapper.

days of non-stop winter fun – exactly what we were looking for.

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING:

While we strapped on our skis for a cross-country traverse through pristine, snow-capped trails, the rest of our group headed out snowboarding where there was never a lineup worth mentioning.

Sun Host Mountain Tour pairs first-timers to the mountain with a guide for a three-hour introduction to the runs.

Après Ski: Head to the spectacular Sun Peaks Grand Hotel & Conference Centre, the resort’s luxury hotel.

A visit to the lower lobby’s Mantles restaurant for its hearty morning breakfast buffet is worth every penny.

And while you are at it, wander through the magnificent sprawling estate. Although built in 2002, it has the airs of a grand old dame with its rich wood panelling, grand foyer and stellar service.

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Dogsledding tours are available daily at Sun Peaks resort. PHOTO SUPPLIED Après Ski: Bottoms Bar & Grill is a favourite local watering and dining hole and for good reason. In fact, it’s where we met up with Nancy Greene, a true ambassador for Sun Peaks. Greene was Canada’s top ski racer through the 1960’s, winning gold and silver medals at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics and overall World Cup titles in 1967 and 1968. Today, she is the director of skiing at Sun Peaks and is passionate about the resort.

We were told by several locals that Bottoms consistently rates high on offering the best service, and food of the pubs on this hill (with generous portions) and hands

down had the best atmosphere. Well, they were right – in fact, we ate there twice and both times I ordered the soup of the day and the fish tacos, which were some of the best I’ve eaten. P.S. A word of caution: Don’t ring the bell over the bar unless you feel like buying a round.

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Dog sledding was the highlight of the trip. Chris and Taryn Schwanke, founders of Mountain Man Adventures, have a team of about 50 Alaskan huskies who are as good-natured as pets, relishing the challenge to

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lead visitors into the snowcovered wonderland. After a short safety and instruction briefing and after being encouraged to show them some love and affection, the anticipation was building.

It’s not just a job for these dogs; its their way of life and they love it. You can hear it in their yelps of excitement as they tugged on their tethers awaiting their adventure and yours.

The rush of being led on a blanket of the white stuff, hugging the edges of treelined trails, up and down some hilly terrain was one of those bucket list moments.

After burning a portion of their 6,000-12,000 calorie daily intake – the equivalent of 12-24 Big Macs – the dogs were rewarded with a big tasty chunk of beef fat.

As we petted these beautiful dogs, we were told their diet consists of Trout Farm fish, Aldergrove chicken and dry mix produced in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Off season, the huskies live on the couple’s 40-acre property.

Après Ski: Power Hounds Restaurant in the Fireside Lodge features a Germaninfluenced carte du jour.

There’s a cosy rustic pub atmosphere and the menu is small but well curated, featuring a delicious Schnitzel, alongside some West Coast seafood dishes, pastas and more. I highly recommend the grilled B.C. wild salmon and drunken prawns.

Declared the No. 2 ski destination in Canada by Canadian Living Magazine’s Readers’ Poll, Sun Peaks is truly a postcard perfect kind of place where the vibe is laid back and the people friendly and helpful.

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DEL MAR, Boris R. May 27, 1934 − January 28, 2016 Dad, miss you everyday and love you forever. xo All of Us

FAWCETT, Marjorie Irene August 11, 1935 - January 29, 2017 Our beloved Marj passed away January 29 surrounded by her loving family. Survived by her love, Wilf and their two children Jeff (Cindy Lou), Colleen (Rob Butler); three grandchildren Samantha Fawcett, Sean Butler, Eric Butler and her brother Wayne Pearce (Annette). Born and raised in Regina. She worked for the RCMP prior to moving to Vancouver in 1957 with her girlfriend Ev. Former co-owner with Wilf of Fawcett Insurance, where she managed the finance Dept. Marj enjoyed bowling, reading, hosting countless BBQ dinner parties and spending time with all her dear friends and her grandchildren. Her happiest place was Maui. She will be dearly missed.

Special thanks to her dear friends Rosemary, Barb and Brian, the staff at Evergreen, Leila and Dr Hughan.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Boal Chapel First Memorial, North Vancouver on Friday, February 10 at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Parkinson’s society would be appreciated.

LOVELY, Doreen L. (nee Jamieson) January 18, 1920 - January 17, 2017 We are celebrating the life of our beloved family matriarch. Doreen was predeceased by her husband, Don, brother, Stewart, and son-in-law, Garry. Doreen is survived by her children; Jane (Ray), Don (Doreen), Margaret (Ross), and Dave (Janine), thirteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

She is also survived by her sister, Claire, brother, Keith (Jo), and many loving relatives and friends.

Doreen cherished family, friends, neighbours, church, and the wider world.

A celebration of life will be held at Comox United Church on Saturday, March 4th at 1:30. A memorial tea will be held at Highlands United Church, North Vancouver on March 11, 2:00 to 4:00. Donations may be made to Glacier View Lodge, (glacierviewlodge.ca) in recognition of the loving care provided Mom or to First United Church, Vancouver (firstunited.ca) in honour of Mom and Dad’s commitment to those less fortunate.

MOORE, Winnifred

Winnifred Jean Moore (McKillop), aged 93, died with her family close by at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC on January 26, 2017.

Win was the third youngest of 18 children of Archie and Winnifred McKillop of Arcola, Saskatchewan.

She was predeceased by her loving husband, Allan and is survived by her adoring children Bonnie (Frank), Allan (Linda), Tom (Leslie), Margo (Clive) and Robert (Diana) and her four grandchildren, Alison, Andy, Thomas and Alastair, who will miss her love and guidance.

Win and Allan met in Montreal and were married in 1946. They created warm and lively homes in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and North Vancouver before settling into their West Vancouver retirement condo in 1980 where Win lived in determined independence until her death.

The family wishes to thank Amor and Pemmy, her caregivers in the last several months of her life, for helping Win with patience and consideration. In addition, the family is very grateful to the Cardiac Care staff of St. Paul’s and Lions Gate hospitals for their diligent and kind care of our mother.

In lieu of flowers, contributions made be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association or the CNIB. At Win’s request, the memorial service will be a private family affair.

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POWERS, Sylvia Yvonne Georgette March 24, 1946 - January 28, 2017 HOYLE, Marianne Alma March 3, 1927 - January 28, 2017 Marianne passed on peacefully at home in West Vancouver surrounded by loved ones. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, daughter of Reba and Frank Maxwell, sister to Norm, she married her highschool sweetheart John Hoyle in 1949, and had daughters Becky & Nancy. The family lived in Toronto, Buffalo (NY), then moved to West Van in 1966. Marianne began her career as a teacher, and continued inspiring and guiding youth coaching volleyball, basketball and as Explorer leader. She was an active member and volunteer of her church UCW and couples club, organizing and performing in talent shows both at St David’s and Hollyburn CC. She loved hosting parties and events for any occasion. Marianne lived her life to the fullest; even as her health deteriorated she kept her positive sunny disposition. Lovingly remembered by husband John Thomas Hoyle, daughters Becky Knapton (Craig), Nancy Rielly (Keith), grandchildren Lori, Dan (Maggie), Lindsay & Janessa (Phil) and six great-grandchildren Noah, Royce, Caleb, Grayson, Easton & Quinn. The family wishes to thank all those who so lovingly cared for Marianne, especially Estela and Lorenza. There will be a celebration of life Sunday, February 12 at 2pm at St. David’s United Church, 1525 Taylor Way, West Vancouver. In lieu of flowers, donations gratefully accepted to St David’s outreach or charity of your choice. Marianne, Mom, Grandma, Grammy, we are eternally grateful for the love you gave so selflessly to us all and know you are with us today and always.

MARSHALL−WHITE, Fiona E. April 4, 1959 − January 22, 2017

After a brave battle with ALS, Fiona Marshall−White C.M.P., born April 4, 1959, passed away peacefully January 22, 2017, at home in North Vancouver surrounded by her loving family. She is survived by her husband, John, and adoring daughters Stephanie and Lindsay. Fiona was a prominent member of the tourism and meeting’s professional industry in BC and internationally, including past MPI President and Foundation BM. Fiona continuously gave back to the community through schools, sport organizations, and as Seymour District Commissioner for Girl Guides. The family would like to extend heartfelt thanks to all the doctors/nurses who were so kind to her caregiver.

In addition; huge thanks extended to her large community of friends who supported her through every moment. Fiona tackled ALS with positivity, grace, and courage. She will be greatly missed by her family whom she dedicated her life to and will be remembered as an amazing mother and wife.

Public service will be held February 9 at Christ Church Cathedral, 2:30 PM with a Celebration of Life to follow. In lieu of flowers, Fiona requested all donations be given to ALS Society of BC.

MINTER, Charles Edward January 28, 2017

Charles passed away peacefully. He is lovingly remembered by Sherry, his family and many friends. A service will be held February 5, 2PM at Boal Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver (First Memorial Funeral Services).

Fond memories linger every day, Remembrance keeps them near.

Sylvia passed away peacefully after a prolonged battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Thank you to the staff at Capilano Care Centre for their excellent treatment of Sylvia during her stay.

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The old boxy Volvos are long gone, replaced by stylish offerings like the 2017 S90. The Swedish automaker is looking for a new niche to fill with this luxury sedan, which boasts beautiful exterior styling and a clean and refreshing cabin with a very useful infotainment system. It is available at Jim Pattison Volvo in North Vancouver. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

Volvo sedan comes back in style At one time, the purchase of a Volvo sedan suggested several things about your personality.

Grinding Gears Brendan McAleer

First, you were probably a big fan of the 90-degree angle.

Like, a reaaaally big fan.

Secondly, you probably also enjoyed bumper stickers. Maybe you had a cardigan or two. Or 12.

Perhaps you owned a tweed jacket with suede elbow patches. Maybe you enjoyed

debating literature and smoking a pipe. Maybe you did both semi-professionally.

Once upon a time, the Volvo sedan represented quiet, outside-the-box thinking. It also looked like a box.

It was a car for college professors and the like, those who spurned the thrusting image of the fast BMWs, or the decadent luxury of a Mercedes.

Over the years, however, two issues arose. First, the

Germans got very good at expanding their offerings to include interesting niche models, including some excellent diesels. Further, as Volvo moved upscale to match the Teutonic competition, Subaru swooped in and started offering its own take on what constitutes a niche vehicle. Sales drooped, even as curvier designs like the S80 appeared in the early 2000s.

Now, however, Volvo is back. With the XC90 crossover and this related S90 sedan, Volvo is trading on other attributes of its Swedish heritage: style, design, luxury. Can it still find enough of a niche to get a foothold in the market?

DESIGN Things look good initially, with the S90’s handsome front end. The headlights

have a well-executed signature T-shape, and the diagonally slashed grille and circular Volvo symbol give the car some character.

This still is, however, a softly-spoken Swede.

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times each, the S90’s appearance is muted and soothing. It is no longer a box, but it does tend to fade into the background somewhat.

To my mind, that’s a benefit. The last thing we need is yet another mid-sized luxury sedan with a front end that looks like the result of a box fan having an affair with a cyborg. The S90 continues its good looks around the sides, stumbling slightly with a taillight treatment that’s a little too fussy.

Nineteen-inch alloy wheels are standard, with 20-inch wheels optional. Neither are particularly overwrought, but I’d just stick with the 19s for slightly better ride comfort.

ENVIRONMENT Volvos have always had some of the best seats available at any price. Of particular excellence were the thrones in the old V70R. The S90 doesn’t have quite the amount of bolstering you get in the R models, but it does feature seats that both look and perform beautifully. This would be a great car for long distance travel, leaving the driver refreshed rather than feeling like their spine was an Ikea bookcase assembled without instructions.

Throughout the interior, the S90’s designers have clearly made an effort to achieve a cohesive feel. Using plenty of matte-finish wood creates a warm-feeling cabin, with the proviso that lighter materials are harder to keep looking fresh and clean as the car ages.

Cargo space is solid at 500 litres, though the back seat isn’t quite as roomy as you’d expect. The middle seat in the rear is basically a jumpseat, compromised by both elevation and the raised transmission tunnel.

Central to the clean-feeling design of the dash is the main infotainment control, a vertically-oriented touchscreen. This isn’t a

new idea, and in something like the Tesla Model S you can get a much larger screen.

The Volvo’s screen, however, is both better integrated and less distracting than the Tesla’s massive pad. As with most portable touchscreens, you can navigate right and left between different menus; that you can do so while wearing gloves points to where this car comes from. The screen system is mostly intuitive, but as there’s a great deal of depth here that the owner’s manual doesn’t cover clearly, make sure you pick a dealer with a good reputation for thorough delivery procedures.

PERFORMANCE To start the S90, the driver twists a faceted knob to clockwise, rather than pushing a button. With a far off thrum, the four-cylinder engine hums to life.

Yes, four-cylinder. While many cars in this class are transitioning from eight cylinders to turbocharged V-6s, Volvo has jumped straight into the boost cycle with In the flashy world of luxury sedans, the Volvo S90 stands out because of its muted and soothing style. a twin-charged 2.0-litre engine.

The taillight treatment is a bit fussy, but otherwise the S90 shines on all sides. PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH Twincharging combines both supersounds plenty boosty, but feels relatively charging and turbocharging to cram plenty of FEATURES linear. An eight-speed transmission handles air and fuel into an engine, while avoiding the Volvo calls its top-trim S90 the Inscription, shifts smoothly, and while there are optional lag of turbocharging and inefficiencies of beltand it comes very well equipped. Optional driving modes to make things more aggresdriven supercharging. packages include three-level heated and sive, everything feels relatively light and lively cooled seats to semi-autonomous lane-keepIt’s an unusual technology, but the folks at in standard mode.

Volvo are past masters of forced induction. ing features, with the total price tag for my On one hand, a less vault-like feel than The old Volvo 240 even did battle in Group tester cracking $80,000. Oddly for a safetyyour run-of-the-mill Mercedes can be refreshA racing, fitted with a massively force-fed focused company, blind-spot detection is ing. On the other hand, the Volvo’s slightly engine. optional.

In terms of power delivery, the S90’s engine heavy steering and firm-riding 20-inch wheels Fuel economy is very good for this class might not please everyone shopping for a of vehicle, helped out by that small-displaceluxury sedan. ment engine. Achievable official figures are However, removing weight off the nose 10.8 (litres/100 kilometres) in the city and 7.6 has imbued the S90 with a character that’s on the highway. lighter than the competition. All-wheel drive is standard, and combined with the well-crafted GREEN LIGHT interior, it’s a car that feels well-balanced and Beautifully styled; clean, refreshing cabin; composed in any weather. useful infotainment.

STOP SIGN Smallish rear seats; ride is a little harsh on 20-inch wheels; engine sound lacks character.

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Matte-finish wood creates a warm-feeling cabin, and the useful vertical touchscreen can be operated with gloves on.

BMW 5 SERIES ($61,500) Long the choice for those looking for a sporty business suit, the all-new 5 Series offers a huge range of engines stretching all the way up to the mighty twin-turbo V-8 of the M550. A plug-in hybrid is on offer, as are four and six cylinder versions.

Compared to the S90, the new 5 Series is a bit more of a sprinter, with a cabin designed in typical Bavarian spartan style. There’s a great deal of redundancy to the controls, making it fairly flexible (though Volvo’s solution is simpler).

Essentially, the S90 is warmer and less sporting, while the BMW still feels made to hunt out the best backroads. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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Elon Musk: visionary or super villain?

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird:

ELON MUSK DIGGING TUNNEL TO LAX It’s a good thing Elon Musk seems distracted by his rocket program and car company, because otherwise he’d probably be a Bond supervillain. His latest idea? Stuck in traffic on his way to Los Angeles International Airport last month, the billionaire genius tweeted out his intent to build a tunnel to reduce commute times.

I’m 90 per cent sure I saw this idea in an episode of The Simpsons, but basically, a tunnel would allow Musk and/ or various other Tesla/SpaceX employees to skip the traffic and shuttle back and forth underground. As they’d probably all be doing so in electric cars, you don’t have to worry as much about ventilating the fumes you’d get from internal combustion engines.

Perhaps, at some point, they’d simply put in a train, or some version of Musk’s proposed supersonic Hyperloop transport. For now, the tunnel digging project is poised to start within the next month. If he starts tweeting about hollowed out volcano lairs, we’re going to

Braking News Brendan McAleer need to have the Queen call up Special Branch.

DODGE DEMON: A MORE HELLACIOUS HELLCAT With carbon dioxide emissions and environmental concerns high on every manufacturer’s list, we’re seeing a barrage of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and pure electric vehicles. Everyone is concerned about projecting the image of a cleaner, more efficient future. And then there’s Dodge.

The 707 horsepower Hellcat versions of the Charger and Challenger are already ridiculous (in the best way), offering 1960s-style outrageous muscle in a straight line. Sure, electric luxury cars like the Tesla Model S 100D have the holeshot at present,

but the success of the Hellcat proves that at least a few people still want a little rumble in their life. Maybe they spend the rest of the week cycling to work as a form of carbon offset. Let’s not judge.

Recognizing that if too much is good then more must be better, Dodge is now teasing out details of an evenmore-extreme Hellcat called the Demon. Lighter than the standard Challenger Hellcat by some 90 kilograms, the Demon wears 31.5 centimetrewide drag radials at all four corners, the widest front tires ever fitted to a production car.

Back seat? Optional.

Passenger seat? Optional.

Giant fender flares? Standard.

And as to the power. ...

Well, that we don’t yet know. However, given that tuning companies have pretty easily made more than 900 h.p. by tweaking the standard Hellcat, who’s to say we won’t see more than a 1,000 h.p. from the demonic Dodge.

That’s ridiculous, of course, but as a last hurrah for the internal combustion engine, what a sendoff.

FINLAND MAKES FUEL FROM HAM Finnish people are the best. Often laconic in

nature, they are nonetheless equipped with a very odd sense of humour, and are mostly excellent drivers.

Think how boring F1 would be if Kimi Raikkonen wasn’t around to serve up bon mots like, “Leave me alone, I know what I am doing,” as he turns off his team radio for the rest of the race.

Apparently, Finns are also extremely fond of Christmas ham (I mean, who isn’t?).

When oil refining company Neste put out a campaign called Kinkkutemppu – literally “ham trick” - they expected to get a few litres of ham pan drippings, which they could then convert to biodiesel as a nice publicity stunt.

The company also partnered up with the Finnish Water Utilities Association, who point out that pouring fat down the drain just leads to all kinds of revolting sewage problems. It is to be expected that this information was relayed in suitably blunt Finnish fashion.

In the post-Christmas period, a scarcely conceivable 12,000 kg of rendered pork fat was collected, which was converted to 10,000 litres of biodiesel. That’s enough to lap the world several times, even if your car is a bit of a

pig (sorry).

Several question arise.

First, how is the rate of heart disease in Finland not effectively 100 per cent? They must have arteries like pool noodles. Second, if collecting and rendering fat like this makes sense as a one-time event, could collection not occur regularly? With many communities trying to figure out ways to get cooking fat out of the sewage pipelines, maybe this is just one more thing we could be recycling.

CANADA HAS A WORLDCLASS SUPERCAR The new Ford GT is built

by Multimatic, an experienced racing company based out of Markham, Ont. So, while it was engineered in Dearborn, Mich., that makes this twin-turbo, mid-engined supercar a Canadian affair.

They ought to offer a livery based on the Avro Arrow.

Already a success in international endurance racing, race-spec versions of the Ford GT have won several important races, including coming first in its class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Now, it would appear that the street version will be taking the fight directly to competition like Ferrari and McLaren.

Powered by a twin-turbo

V-6 making 647 h.p., Ford is claiming the production street version of their car is some 3.1 seconds faster around the challenging Calabogie track near Ottawa than either a Ferrari 458 Speciale or a McLaren 675LT. That may not sound like a lot, but 3.1 seconds is an eternity in lap times. Further, the Ford GT is a bit old school in the transmission department: the competition has lightning fast dual-clutch gearboxes, the GT has a six-speed manual.

That means the GT’s active suspension and aerodynamics must be paying off hugely at the track, especially as the car weighs a little more than either the Ferrari 458 or McLaren 675LT. Granted, the supercar world is one of constant one-upsmanship, but it’s nice to see that a Canadianmade machine can take on the world’s best.

Watch this space for all the best and worst of automotive news, or submit your own auto oddities to mcaleer.nsnews@ gmail.com.

Proposed Amendment to the Environmental Assessment Certificate for the Woodfibre LNG Project Invitation to Comment The Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) invites the public to comment on an application for an amendment to the Environmental Assessment Certificate (EAC) granted to Woodfibre LNG Limited (Certificate Holder) on October 26, 2015, for the construction and operation of the Woodfibre LNG Project (Project).

The intention of seeking public comments is to ensure that all potential effects – environmental, economic, social, heritage and health – that might result from the proposed amendment are identified for consideration as part of the assessment process.

All comments within the scope of the application for amendment will be considered as part of EAO’s review.

The Project is located approximately 7 km west-southwest of Squamish, British Columbia, involves construction and operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the previous Woodfibre Pulp and Paper Mill site, which would have a storage capacity of 250,000 m3 and would produce 2.1 million tonnes per year of LNG.

EAO accepts public comments through the following ways:

The Certificate Holder is proposing the following design changes:

BY ONLINE FORM: eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/index.html

BY MAIL: Michael Shepard, Project Assessment Manager Environmental Assessment Office | PO Box 9426 Stn Prov Govt Victoria BC V8W 9V1

• Changing from seawater cooling to air cooling of the plant;

BY FAX: Fax: 250-387-0230

• Upgrading an existing intake on Mill Creek rather than constructing a new intake; and,

An electronic copy of the Certificate Holder’s EAC Amendment Application is available at:

• Short-term use of water from Woodfibre Creek during construction.

EAO website: http://a100.gov.bc.ca/appsdata/epic/html/deploy/epic_project_home_408.html

The proposed changes would require an amendment to the EAC under British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act. The purpose of the amendment is to enable the Project to proceed with these proposed changes.

There are 30 days for the submission of comments by the public in relation to the EAC Amendment Application, from February 9, 2017, until March 11, 2017. During this period, the public is invited to submit concerns regarding new or additional potential effects that might result from the proposed amendment.

Certificate Holder website: woodfibrelng.ca NOTE: All submissions received by EAO during the comment period in relation to the proposed Project are considered public and will be posted to the EAO website.

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