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CNV council green-lights Green on Queensbury JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
A trio of four-storey buildings on East Third Street were approved Monday following a City of North Vancouver council debate that spanned mould, millennials, and the esthetics of Soviet-era forced labour prisons.
BRASS BLAST The Little Mountain Brass Band (including musicians Joni Joyner, Hilary Crowther and Don Harder) will perform a 90-minute concert at Mount Seymour United Church this Sunday, April 2 at 2:30 p.m. in celebration of 150 years of British brass band music. Admission is by donation. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
The 157-unit Green on Queensbury design suffers from similarities to the wall of grain silos at Richardson International, according to Coun. Rod Clark. “This design is more appropriate to a gulag than it is (to) Third Street,” he said. A 1,000-square-foot twobedroom unit might sell for about $700,000, according to a representative from developer Qualex-Landmark. The city’s commitment to density has failed to achieve affordability, according to Clark. Following the vote, QualexLandmark vice-president
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10-bed youth mental health unit opens JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
A foosball table tucked in a corner of the HOpe Centre’s bright and airy third-floor hospital wing is just one of the outward signs of the new approach to youth mental health care taking place on the North Shore.
But it’s the program that will operate here, starting next week, which offers often-desperate families a lifeline. On Thursday, health officials marked the opening of a new 10-bed facility for youth with concurrent mental health and substance abuse problems. The new youth facility, the first of its kind in Western Canada and only the second in the country,
HOpe Centre’s new Carlile Youth Concurrent Disorder Centre first of its kind in Western Canada
will offer short stays of between 10 days and three weeks during which patients can be assessed and stabilized. West Vancouver philanthropists Jack and Leone Carlile donated $2 million last year to kick-start the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation’s $5-million fundraising drive to cover capital costs of the new youth mental health wing. The provincial government has also committed to providing $3.1 million in annual operating
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costs. “I do believe we’ll make an impact, a big impact on the lives of patients and their families,” said Dr. Jordan Cohen, medical manager of the new unit and one of three psychiatrists who will work with youth and their families, along with a team of doctors, nurses, social workers. Treating concurrent disorders in youth at the same time is crucial – yet relatively rare in the medical system, said Cohen, who was previously in charge of a youth in-patient unit at a Calgary hospital. “Sometimes you can’t tease them apart,” he said. In some cases, substance abuse can bring on mental illness
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