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West Vancouver council has given a unanimous green light for a 17-storey residential highrise building in Ambleside, after the project’s architects trimmed away some width from the original design.

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Last July, in a 3-2 decision, council sent the tower proposal for 2290 Marine Dr. back to the drawing board. The dissenting councillors were concerned with the proposed width of the building – 111 feet – and the developers asking for an extra 11 feet beyond what West Vancouver currently allows in its bylaws. Cressey Seaview Development Ltd. came back to council Monday with a slightly slenderized design that hits the exact mark for maximum allowable width, 100 feet. In decreasing the width,

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The move pushes the final answer for Kinder Morgan from August to December of this year. The changes were part of the government’s Wednesday announcement on interim principles designed to restore trust in a process that has drawn ire from the public and politicians for months, according to James Carr, the federal minister for Natural

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Resources. Under the current rules, cabinet has the final say on whether the pipeline will proceed, and government’s own deadline will be extended by four months giving them a total of seven to consider the project. The government has no current plans to deal with downstream greenhouse gas emissions – only upstream at the point of extraction. When asked if and when the government plans to address

public complaints about the NEB’s hearing process, like the lack of oral cross examination or ability for the public to sit in on the hearings, Carr replied that the government can’t apply long-term NEB reforms to the current projects. “That would not be fair or responsible, but the comments, such as the one you just made, reflecting what your community is saying, will be very important to the Government of Canada as we look at the best way we can reform the regulatory system in the long-term, and all of the issues you mentioned will be considered,” he said. NDP MPs quickly accused the Liberals of reneging on

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Sarah Manvell spends a moment with her new baby, Hunter, four and a half weeks old. Having previously had a baby “born sleeping,” a gentle term for a stillborn baby, in October 2014, she has partnered with Lions Gate Hospital to ensure other families experiencing a similar loss are supported in creating as many memories as possible in the short time available to them. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Parents are aided in their grieving by being given a memory box to take home with them, containing memorabilia and other keepsakes honouring their late child. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

LGH initiative helps parents honour their babies in wake of miscarriage or stillbirth

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It was the moment new mother Sarah Manvell had long been craving.

“I just wanted to feel him on my chest and just hear that cry. So when that happened for me. . . . that was the most incredible moment of my life. Nothing else mattered, everyone else dissolved in the room. It was just the three of us,” says the 32-year-old North Vancouver resident. Manvell and her husband Simon experienced the usual flood of emotions new parents experience, overjoyed to be welcoming their little one, Hunter, the last baby of 2015 at Lions Gate Hospital, to the world and their family after long last. However, for the Manvells, their son’s arrival also marked another stop along their continued journey of healing. Just 14 months prior, in October 2014, the couple received devastating news. Then pregnant with their previous baby, they had excitedly gone in for a routine 20-week ultrasound. Having had a healthy pregnancy, they were hoping to find out the sex. Instead the couple was told their child had no heartbeat. Manvell was induced at Lions Gate and their baby boy was “born sleeping,” a gentle term used to describe stillborn infants. Regretful that she has few memories of her

late son, Wills, something she feels would have helped her better cope with her loss, Manvell decided to channel her grief and embarked on an effort to help other mothers with theirs. She partnered with Sherry Moon, the North Vancouver hospital’s perinatal program patient care co-ordinator, and together they’re instituting a number of changes at Lions Gate to ensure parents experiencing miscarriage or stillbirth are supported in creating as many memories as possible in the short time available to them, as well as walk away with tangible keepsakes representative of their young child. “I didn’t want someone to have to go through what I went through where I left with nothing. It’s hard enough you leave without a baby, but to just have some memories to hold on to I think is so valuable,” says Manvell.

Affecting change It all started with a stuffed bunny, a gift Manvell had received from a friend several weeks into her pregnancy with Wills. After hearing their child had no heartbeat (believed to be due to an umbilical cord accident), Manvell and her husband had to spend a couple of hours at home before going to Lions Gate to be induced. “It was just horrible because you’re sort of hanging in mid-air,” says Manvell, a small business owner in Edgemont Village.

She spent some time googling what was to come and somewhere along the way read that it would be advisable for her to take something to leave with her child. “All I had was the bunny,” she said. After delivering Wills and spending some time with him, Manvell asked a nurse to take the bunny with him. “She said to me, ‘Why don’t you keep the bunny because it’s going to mean more to you,’” she says. Taking her advice, Manvell took the stuffie home. A few days later she came across the package given to her by the hospital when she was discharged, containing some printed materials on supportive local resources. “I remember opening them and just throwing them away, thinking, ‘I can’t even deal with this.’ It was too raw. And then I found the bunny and suddenly I had a reminder of my baby,” she says. It has given her comfort ever since. Following Wills’ passing, Manvell sought private counselling. As her grieving continued, she came to realize she wanted to do something to help at least one other mother who had lost a baby. She initially came up with the idea of donating a number of bunnies and so got in touch with Lions Gate. She was connected with Moon and a meeting was arranged, with a couple of other hospital staffers sitting in.

“Sarah came in and she told us her story, very eloquently. ... She honoured the things that we did really well but she also had those suggestions that only a mom that is in her position could possibly give us. We all shed a lot of tears during that meeting,” says Moon. The more Moon listened to Manvell’s story, the more things started clicking in her mind. On average, Lions Gate sees 10 stillbirths per year. The concept of developing a memory box, something given to these parents that they could take home with them and keep memorabilia in, was something that had been percolating in her mind for some time. Feeling like this was the perfect time to launch the project, she asked Manvell if she’d like to join her in developing the boxes as well as reviewing the hospital’s policies, documents and written resources, looking at them through the lens of a parent who had gone through it, and offer feedback. “She graciously accepted the challenge,” says Moon. Manvell assembled the first 10 memory boxes for potential future stillbirths with each containing one of her bunnies, a quilt made by one of several local quilting guilds, an inkpad for hand and footprints, and a redesigned, more sensitive set of printed materials. Manvell also assembled 10 smaller packages for families

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Mothers working with LGH to institute positive change From page 4 experiencing earlier losses like a miscarriage. The memory box program was launched in October 2015, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month as well as the first anniversary of Wills’ passing. The Lions Gate Hospital Foundation has committed to funding the initiative into the future and is welcoming community donations. Moon is hoping to continue to expand the program and is currently in search of a community collective to volunteer to craft the boxes from wood or some other quality material. As well, she’s looking to organize a group of volunteers to be on call to cast three-dimensional models of hands and feet for interested families experiencing perinatal loss. “I really want parents to feel that it’s not only the hospital that is providing the support but it is the entire community,” she says. In addition to the memory box initiative, Manvell was invited to give a presentation at a hospital staff meeting in December 2015. “It’s nice when the information is delivered from somebody that’s gone through it. There’s more impact. It certainly made the nurses aware in regards to how we guide the parents through their delivery,” says Moon. While Manvell was grateful for the care and compassion she received while in the hospital, she wishes she had spent more time with her baby. As well, in a moment of fear, she regretted accepting some pain medication that altered her mental state to the point of having few memories of her time with Wills. “That was what has been so difficult. I vaguely remember holding him, but I don’t remember all the other small details. My husband shares with me all the details I missed,” she says. In light of her experience, she shared her view that it is important that pain medication and the effects it may have on mothers are discussed with them because in the moment they might think they want to wipe out the memory, but later they might need to remember. “As a mom you need to feel

that pain; that pain is part of healing and nothing will ever truly numb that,” she says. Moon also says it’s important for her staff to take time to grieve these sorts of losses that they can encounter on the job. “It’s extremely impactful. It never fades in the care provider’s memories. It’s something that carries with them forever. We encourage people to feel, our staff to grieve, and not deny their feelings because we are in a caring profession and sometimes we get caught up in the politics of things and we need to remember why we’re here, which is to care,” she says.

Moments in time For the last two years, North Vancouver’s Felicia Chang has served as a member of a team of professional photographers who volunteer their time to shoot families with a child approaching end of life at Canuck Place

“I feel like there’s something way more emotional when you capture a picture of family life the way it is, very authentic. It just brings back way more emotional impact for you down the road,” she says. Chang is currently working with Moon to bring a similar team of volunteer professional photographers to Lions Gate, the members of which would be on call. Her goal is to have free memory-keeping photography become an added component of the new memory boxes, offering families an opportunity to “come back to it any time they’re ready to go through the motions of processing what has happened, visually,” she says. Chang encourages interested local professional photographers to contact her through her website, felicia changphotography.com. “If there’s help and local photographers who want to give their time to local moms, I think that’s a really beautiful gesture,” she says. Vancouver resident Noel

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An artist’s rendering of a 17-storey residential highrise at 2290 Marine Dr. in Ambleside approved by council Monday shows a glass, stone and wood design esthetic. IMAGE SUPPLIED an eyesore, personally,” said Mayor Michael Smith. Coun. Michael Lewis said Cressey should be complimented for repurposing plans for storage lockers into additional parking spaces. “I think, architecturally, this is a very attractive building,” he said. In making the highrise a “showcase for the district,” Gambioli encouraged Cressey to incorporate solar panels and “spend as much money

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Grieving mother grateful for support From page 5 and new baby photos for B.C. Women’s Hospital’s Fir Square Combined Care Unit, which offers care to women using substances and their infants who are exposed. In the last 10 months, MacDonald has photographed 35 families at B.C. Women’s Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital with Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. He knows he’s in a very sacred space when he’s with these families. “It’s a moment of respecting that child. It’s a moment of closure and it’s a time where we can step back from a lot of the medical stuff that’s going on and really spend some time focusing on that child. ... For the families that want it, it’s a very important time ... for the parents to be able to have a bond with that child in that short time that they have with them,” he says. While of course MacDonald endeavours to capture the child’s “beautiful little feet” and “beautiful little hands,” his main focus is to find the emotional connection between the baby and his or her parents. “There’s a phrase in photography called ‘the decisive moment.’ The decisive moment is that moment when I’m in the room with Mom and Dad and the child and they’re communicating in a way that only parents and an infant can communicate. If I can get that, that’s when I have those moments that I say, ‘Oh my gosh, look at how lucky I am to be part of this,’ ” he says.

When I said to her, ‘I haven’t felt the baby move today,’ she would send me for monitoring. She really supported me in my journey,” she says. In addition to her involvement at Lions Gate Hospital, Manvell is also working to share her experiences on a more grassroots level, encouraging other women to voice their own journeys of fertility and pregnancy. “A lot of women don’t talk about their losses and they feel that they shouldn’t. And I feel that women should, the same as post-partum depression and things like that,” she says. On a number of occasions, Manvell has found herself engaged in conversations with other women who’ve experienced a miscarriage or some other challenge and they downplay their experience with, “but it wasn’t as bad as what you went through.” She’s quick to set them straight. “I always say to them, no. There’s nothing that’s worse. As a parent it’s difficult. Whether you just found out you were pregnant, whether your baby was full term, whether it was 20 (weeks), it’s all varying degrees of being upset and sad and vulnerable. And people, they have to feel what they feel.”

Perinatal program’s Sherry Moon prepares Sage Room, which houses women experiencing losses at Lions Gate Hospital. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (nowilaymedowntosleep. org) is also always looking for new professional photographers to come on board. “It’s not a place for everybody to be from a photography standpoint but for the people who feel comfortable and feel drawn to this work, it’s really rewarding,” he says.

Moving forward “I hate the word ‘closure’ because there is never closure. It’s just a journey to where you can feel at peace with yourself and where you are,” says Manvell. Despite what they went through with Wills, deciding to try to get pregnant again was an easy decision. “We desperately wanted a baby, so we went in as soon as we could and started

trying again,” she says. That said, the process was difficult at times due to the multitude of feelings that continued to arise. Manvell remembers the first month she and her husband started trying and it didn’t result in pregnancy. “It was just devastating. It was like losing the baby all over again,” she says. “That was when I realized, ‘OK, you need to make space for this baby.’ ... As soon as I opened that up, we were pregnant the next month,” she adds. She was grateful to her support network, her husband, her family and her friends, who gave her space to grieve, as well as to her doctor. “When I was feeling anxious about something she never made me feel like I was going crazy or anything.

Rainbow baby Hunter, now four-and-ahalf weeks old, is happy and healthy. He’s what’s referred

to as a “rainbow baby,” a child born after a family experiences a miscarriage or other loss. Manvell was quick to notice a small white patch of hair on the back of his head. “I like to think it was his brother giving him a little kiss on his way down,” she says. To make a monetary donation to the Lions Gate Hospital memory box program, visit lghfoundation.com. To volunteer, email Sherry Moon at sherry.moon@vch.ca.

Support services Examples of local options for families seeking support in the wake of a miscarriage or stillbirth include:

• Family Services of the North Shore, which offers grief counselling to parents regarding the loss of a child, among its host of services. familyservices.bc.ca • Empty Cradle, which offers support for parents who have experienced the loss of an infant or failed pregnancy. emptycradle.bc.ca • Still Life Canada, a stillbirth and neonatal death education research and support society. still-lifecanada.ca • Pacific Post Partum Support Society, which supports mothers and their families experiencing postpartum/perinatal distress, depression and anxiety. postpartum.org

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Dear Editor: Re: Neighbourhood Plan for Moodyville East, Jan. 24 front-page story. For those taking an interest in and following developments on the industrial waterfront, the proposed higher density housing focused on families above Low Level Road in the area east of St. Davids and south of East Second Street is alarming. On Oct. 3, 1975, a major fire and explosions at the Burrard Terminal elevator, the site of the current grain terminal run by Richardson International, killed workers and rained down chunks of concrete and debris on the adjoining neighbourhood as far away as Ridgeway school. A commission of inquiry on health and safety in grain elevators conducted by Liam Finn made a number of findings G3 Global Holdings Ltd.’s planned terminal at Lynnterm West Gate would feature a rail and recommendations in a lengthy report, loop that can accommodate three trains of up to 150 cars each per day. IMAGE SUPPLIED including municipal zoning and the advisability of having people living so close to known industrial sites prone to combuswhat would the estimated casualties be in built-up urban areas tion. Even though safety measures and monitoring systems have and is the city and district first responder emergency response improved considerably in subsequent decades, the presence of adequate for such a catastrophic event? Who would be legally grain dust, friction from multiple moving parts, and high-voltage liable in the event of deaths? power sources are still a dangerous combination. These basic questions apply to the new G3 Terminal proposed The Richardson International grain terminal is an older facility that has been recently updated and expanded. Given the potential blast radius in the event of an explosion, See Residents page 9

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‘Two-tier’ system undermines education Dear Editor: B.C. has been falling behind on public education funding levels compared to its provincial cohorts since 2004 and the effects are noticeable. Overworked teachers struggle to keep overcrowded and underresourced classrooms functional while after-school programs are being starved out of existence. More parents are finding the need to fill in the gaps with private programs — programs that families can afford to highly varying degrees. Special needs programs are in dire straits while adult literacy programs and lunch programs are being sliced paper thin. Schools in poorer areas fare the worst, but even wealthier areas like North Vancouver have been forced to cut programs. The primary role of many parent advisory committees appears to now be fundraising for the school. It is commonplace for parents and teachers alike to donate thousands of dollars a year to keep their schools functioning. Cuts to public education are likely to continue if we fail to object to the shift

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Electric bike subsidy urged Dear Editor: I tip my hat to 86-yearold Neil Heesterman, Jan. 17 Mailbox . If he bought his electric bike 10 years ago, that means he was still riding a pedal bike at 76! I run and bike at 63, but am always inspired by my elders doing both and more. Re: the bike lift cost/ benefit, I would strongly suggest that the City and District

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at the Lynnterm West Gate as well. Moodyville Park at least provides a buffer for the Cargill grain terminal and the eastern part of Richardson International, but this will not be the case if the plan presented by Brent Toderian on behalf of Seacliff Properties goes ahead. International corporations like Richardson take opportunities to renew infrastructure, and Grain Workers Local 333 (ILWU) makes sure safety regulations are scrupulously observed and dust accumulation prevented to protect their own unionized members. Who is speaking up on behalf of residents? The city council was powerless

when Port Metro Vancouver approved Richardson’s addition of another 28 silos in 2013, creating a wall of concrete for residents in the area. The Lower Level Road project completed last year also brought more tracks serving the terminals and increased rail traffic, with the improved Spirit Trail and a small suspension bridge as a sop. It is no surprise that so many existing homeowners in the area adjacent to the Richardson International Terminal are ready to sell, given the diminished view lines, impact on property values, constant noise and pollution, and significant risk of catastrophic industrial accident. Chris Madsen North Vancouver

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Nicklas Harkins couldn’t help but feel a little nervous when it was his turn to speak.

He had been asked to give a presentation at a panel discussion, entitled A Rare Disease Strategy for All Canadians, organized by representatives of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders and the Economic Club of Canada, held at Vancouver’s Fairmont Pacific Rim Jan. 19, and the room was full of well-known and accomplished advocates and doctors. “I tried to take away the pressure and just relax and I think it went pretty well. I was a little embarrassed in the beginning because someone’s phone rang, but I think that lightened the mood,” he laughs. The event was timed with the recent meeting of Canada’s health ministers held in the city Jan. 20-21 and called for the implementation of Canada’s Rare Disease Strategy. Approximately 2.8 million Canadians have a rare disease and face many barriers in their journey to find an accurate diagnosis, specialist and treatment, according to CORD and the Economic Club. Launched last May in Ottawa, the strategy is intended to ensure those with rare diseases are provided with the same access to and quality of health care as those facing more common issues like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Giving his address marked a big moment for the 20-year-old North Vancouver native who was diagnosed with MPS 1, a rare genetic

disease, at age five. His parents have been involved in rare disease advocacy ever since, for example, calling for access to better treatment, and his mother Kirsten served in a variety of capacities with CORD and the Canadian MPS Society. The family also presented the MPS Cup Fantasy Hockey Game and Gala for 12 years, bringing together NHLers and community members alike, raising close to $1 million for the society. The Jan. 19 event marked the first time Nicklas took a stand on his own. “Ten years ago, my parents and I, along with many other families, rallied at a similar health ministers meeting so that all Canadian patients with MPS I could access the same life-altering treatment I was receiving. We knew treatment would make the difference between progressive loss of mobility, hearing, and sight and a normal life. We were all thrilled when the health ministers agreed not only to fund the therapy, but also to bring in a national rare disease drug plan. “Today, I am happy to be proof that the drug works, but I am also sad that rare disease patients are still standing in picket lines and appealing for life-saving treatment on a caseby-case basis. I urge the health ministers to honour their promise made in 2005 and provide other Canadians with rare diseases the same chance for life,” said Nicklas in his presentation as quoted by CORD and the Economic Club in a post-event press release. Nicklas currently attends the University of Northern British Columbia, studying English and communications, and is working for the

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Avoiding sports specialization in children Engaging in a variety of sports at a younger age helps instill skills for life JENNIFER HOOD Contributing writer

When kids are learning math neither their teachers nor their parents focus on one aspect of math only, such as addition, to the exclusion of subtraction, multiplication and more.

We know they need to learn all the different aspects of math. So why the pressure for them to specialize in sport at an early age rather than letting them experience all the different aspects? After all, science shows that allowing them to develop all their motor pathways makes better athletes, more creative players and keeps them active for life. There is more and more pressure on parents to have their kids get a leg up on a specific sport from a younger and younger age, but research proves that in order for your child to have the best chance of success in sport they should be focusing less, not more. In fact, early specialization, or only doing one sport for 11 months or more of a year, increases a child’s chance of burnout, getting injured, and becoming sedentary as an adult. So what is the best way to foster a budding athlete? Kids up to age five should get a chance to participate in the big three: gymnastics or a gross motor development program; swimming, so they have exposure to water sports; and some kind of ice or snow-based sport. And those programs need to be balanced with as much free outdoor play as possible. The focus at this age

is developing fundamental movement skills and letting them play. From six to 12, kids should be allowed to explore as many different sports as possible, and schools and community centres offer great, cost-effective ways to do that. During this age range the focus should shift to kids learning really great basics and developing their fundamental sport skills with as little focus on competition as possible. Once they hit puberty until around age 15, kids can start specializing more and at age 16 and above is when specialization actually becomes important. It’s much easier to sit down with a teenager and say, “You seem really interested in hockey, what’s that going to look like for you?” than it is with a five-year-old. There are a few exceptions to the specialization rule. With some sports, such as figure skating and gymnastics, kids have to master those motor pathways before they hit their greatest growth spurt/puberty, but for almost all other sports late specialization is better. As parents who want only the best for our kids this can be really anxiety-inducing as no one wants their child to be left behind. And indeed their development may be slower in the short term but it will be better in the long term. In order for your child to have the best chance of success, have them do less, no matter how counter intuitive that seems. Let them play! Let them try badminton at school or join the crosscountry team and if they keep coming back to one

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their promise of a new process. Terry Beech, MP for Burnaby North-Seymour responded in an interview with a reporter. “First of all this is a new process. This is a revised process. In order to do a full revision of the National Energy Board process, that’s going to take significant more time. We have to remember there are a large number of community groups that have spent money and thousands of hours preparing their presentations, right?” he said. Ian Anderson, president and CEO of Kinder Morgan Canada responded to the federal announcement late Wednesday. “While we have concerns about how this delay could impact the project schedule, we support the principle that public confidence in the review process is crucial and look forward to working with the Government of Canada on how our years of work in the area of consultation will be considered,” he said in a statement. While the entire process is now somewhat muddled, the City and District of

North Vancouver, TsleilWaututh Nation and North Shore No Pipeline Expansion took their one and only chance to address the panel at the NEB hearings this week. The common theme in their arguments was the catastrophic impacts a spill would have. On Monday, lawyer Maegen Giltrow, speaking for the City of North Vancouver, pointed to Trans Mountain’s failure to model a diluted bitumen spill in Burrard Inlet. Instead, she said, Trans Mountain only emphasized the low likelihood of a spill, rather than the consequences of one, going so far as to oppose independent spill models commissioned by the TsleilWaututh Nation. “From the City of North Vancouver’s perspective, the glaring question is why would you not model spills of that size and in those locations? Why would you not look at what the spill trajectory would be, what the clean-up implications would be, the human health impacts would be? The people of the City of North Vancouver live here and from the perspective of the residents of North Vancouver, it would be

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reckless to avoid or ignore this evidence.” Tsleil-Wautuh Nation, which is currently in the midst of a lawsuit against NEB, the Crown and Trans Mountain over their lack of constitutionally mandated consultation, made its final arguments on Tuesday. Their lawyer Scott Smith led his presentation with a reminder that the TsleilWaututh have been the People of the Inlet and stewards of the land and water they depend on for survival since “time out of mind.” “It will deprive past, current and future generations of Tsleil-Waututh people of the control and benefit of water, land, air and resources in their territory and second, it does not represent the best use of their territory and their water, land, air and resources to satisfy the needs of their ancestors or present and future generations of TsleilWaututh people,” he said. North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton’s presentation later that day highlighted the value North Vancouver residents place on their waterfront, which “already shapes the economy, ecology and lifestyle of the entire North Shore,”

he said. He went on to specifically mention the risk posed to the protected but still environmentally sensitive Maplewood Flats Conservation Area, just east of the Second Narrows. North Shore NOPE’s final arguments on Wednesday raised the foreseeable shot and long-term impacts on human health should a spill happen. “When there is an oil spill, all those chemicals vapourize and they’re in the air like a mist. The skin can absorb them,” said NS NOPE founder Janice Edmonds, noting no spill response is fast enough to combat the immediate exposure. Long-term health effects common in people who have experienced an oil spill include changes to hormones and the immune system, birth defects, blood and liver illness, chronic respiratory effects, mental health impacts like anxiety and depression and genotoxic effects – changes in DNA – as well as the known carcinogenic properties of benzene and hydrocrabons, which are mixed together in diluted bitumen, she added. – with files from Brent Richter

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Not every dog wants to stop and say hello

There seems to be a growing epidemic in the new-age dog world.

The epidemic is excessive canine greeting behaviour. It arises when a dog owner feels the need to have their dog meet and greet every single dog they see while out on a walk, disregarding whether or not the two dogs actually want to greet. Many first-time and new age dog owners seem to be under the impression that all dogs want to meet other dogs simply because they are dogs. Well that’s not the case. Sometimes dogs just don’t want to be bugged by another dog. As responsible and aware dog owners, we need to acknowledge this by knowing and respecting the body language of a dog that does not want to say hello,

Canine Connections Joan Klucha despite our encouragement. I know it seems hard to believe, let alone understand, that dogs may not want to say hello to one another, but it’s true. They really are not much different from humans in that regard. As a human being, I consider myself a well-socialized person. In one day, I may see

50 or more people whom I will exhibit proper social behaviour towards. I will say “excuse me,” “please” and “thank you,” and “I’m sorry.” I will open doors for people regardless of their age, gender or physical ability. I will never impinge on another person’s personal space by using my cellphone in public (especially on speaker phone – please stop doing this humans!) and I am always on time. I will be cordial and polite during all of my daily impersonal interactions with the public. What I will not do is invade their personal space uninvited and greet them with unsolicited affection and play. I doubt anyone would! But here’s the thing: not one person I see during my day would care if I didn’t engage in what a human

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What’s Going On DARE TO BE HEARD — LITERARY SALON Come read your story, poem or memoir piece Monday, Feb. 1, 6:30-8:45 p.m. at North

Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St., North Vancouver. These free sessions, hosted by the North Shore Writers’ Association, celebrate local writing without critiquing. Authors at all

stages of the writing journey and interested listeners are welcome. nswriters.org TOQUE TUESDAY Raising the Roof will hold its annual toque campaign Tuesday, Feb.

would consider an odd, even neurotic greeting behaviour. Not one of them would get upset that I didn’t ask how their day was or think I was rude for not giving them an affectionate hug and kiss. When I pass someone on the sidewalk without stopping to say hello, they don’t stop and say, “Hey, hey you in the pink jacket and cowboy boots! You didn’t say hello to me, what’s wrong with you? Didn’t you see me looking at you? Are you unsocialized? Are you aggressive? Are you afraid?” But with our dogs, we kind of do that. In a way, we expect dogs to say hello to pretty much every dog that walks by, whether that dog shows an interest or not. It’s really unfair to both dogs. It’s unfair because when a dog shows another dog clear body language that indicates

it is not interested in saying hello, and we ignore this body language and force the greeting, it causes both dogs undue stress and anxiety. When a dog owner continues to misread and ignore a dog’s disinterest in saying hello, the stress and anxiety has the potential to turn into aggression and now we have a problem when there was not one before. It is completely normal for a dog to not want to say hello to another dog. It does not mean it is anti-social, aggressive, timid or afraid – it just doesn’t want to say hello. Just like us humans. There is nothing wrong. When a dog is uninterested in greeting, it is very obvious. It will not look at the approaching dog and will turn its head, then its shoulders and eventually

its back from the other dog. It will show no curiosity in the other dog, no desire to approach and will show no body language of invitation. Respect that. There is nothing wrong, other than the dog does not want to greet. Don’t judge, just move on. Part of proper and healthy social behaviour is accepting that sometimes dogs do not want to meet one another. By understanding this, we continue to allow healthy, respectful communication between dogs, which in turn is healthy, respectful social behaviour. Joan Klucha has been working with dogs for more than 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her at k9kinship@gmail.com.

2 , 7-10 a.m. Representatives will be selling toques and mittens at the SeaBus terminal for this cause which supports long-term homelessness. raisingtheroof.org THE WRITER’S STUDIO Author E.R. Brown will be available for 45-minute consultations to give opinions on your writing Tuesday, Feb. 2 and March 1, 4-6 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Registration required. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca OUR LIBRARY’S FUTURE — OUR FACILITY West Vancouver Memorial Library will hold an open house to present plans to preserve and enhance the West Wing Wednesday, Feb. 3, 6:30-8 p.m. at 1950 Marine Dr. 604-9257400 westvanlibrary.ca

Health Notes VIRTUAL GASTRIC BAND Hypnotherapist Caroline Sutherland will give a free introductory lecture on hypnotherapy for weight loss Wednesday, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. at Churchill House, 150 West 29th St., North Vancouver. Space is limited. 604-926-7956 carolinesutherland.com STILL FALLING — A PLAY ABOUT DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND YOUTH Wednesday, Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m. at Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. This event is for parents and teens in Grade 8 and older. Service provider and fair registration at 7 p.m. Panel discussion with youth and service providers at 8 p.m. Service provider fair 8:45 p.m. Info: greenthumb.bc.ca. Free event, registration required: vch.event@gmail.com.

HEELS OVER HEAD Einar Snorri takes a photo of his friend Rebecca Halls sticking a handstand on the pier at John Lawson Park in West Vancouver. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN STRESS AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN A free interactive lecture discussing stress and how it affects the brain Thursday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m. at Marine Drive Naturopathic Clinic, 101-1277 Marine Dr., North Vancouver. 604-929-5772 marinedrivenaturopathic.com SHAPING THE JOURNEY — LIVING WITH DEMENTIA A five-session education series for people with an early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia and their care partner to explore the journey ahead in a positive, informative and supportive environment starting Feb. 6 from 10 a.m. to noon in North Vancouver. Learn about dementia, explore strategies

for coping with changes and maximizing quality of life, review information on planning for the future and meet others who are going through similar experiences. Registration required. 604-984-8347 SNOWSHOE GRIND MOUNTAIN RUN An opportunity for snowshoers of all abilities and fitness levels to take to the trails Sunday. Feb. 7, 10 a.m. at Grouse Mountain. There will be five- and onekilometre routes. Participants must be at the tram at 9:45 a.m. at the latest with the race starting at 10 a.m. There will be an after party and awards to follow. Registration in advance recommended. grousemountain.com

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A big part of what makes the North Shore one of the best places in the world to live is the diverse selection of small businesses throughout North and West Vancouver.

In the following pages, you will ﬁnd 26 ways to support small businesses located in your community.

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t Couch Potato, our passion is your creation of a comfortable, stylish and homey atmosphere. Choose your Canadian made upholstery, from the smallest apartment sofa to the largest Sectional, or sofa bed, in your style, your colour and your comfort. As well you can choose from Ready-to-Go upholstery and occasional tables. We promise a quality product and assistance with your needs in mind, that’s why Couch Potato is “The store that Friends tell Friends about.” JOANNE, RITA AND SHIRLEY

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We achieve this by ﬁrst having a casual open dialog about your vehicle and any issues it may have before we start work. Our knowledge of vehicle systems will lead us to ask questions that will help identify the problem. The root cause of a problem may not be what is easy to assume or what you have been told. This dialog can often save you both time and money!

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Ellison Travel & Tours opened in 1980 and now employs more than 80 full and part time travel professionals in 3 locations: Exeter and Goderich, ON and North Vancouver, BC. Today, the family-run company covers a broad swath of the travel market including vacation and corporate travel, and specializes in customized tours for adult and student groups. Marcie Ellison-Outerbridge manages her team of 10 in the North Vancouver ofﬁce and, their Carlson Wagonlit Travel branch offers vacation travel, tours for women and corporate travel in addition to their group travel services. Ellison Travel also offers online bookings. Visit their website at www.ettravel.com for all your travel needs.

Since opening in 2006 in the Lonsdale Quay, FAVOURITE has been a hit with treasure seekers across the North Shore and beyond. An independent Designer Collective, FAVOURITE showcases the talents of over 30 Lower Mainland based designers and craftspeople. Our member artists take turns working in the store so you might just ﬁnd your favourite local artist behind the counter.

With our unique and often one-of-a-kind selection of jewellery, accessories, baby gifts, leather goods, and home decor, a gift from FAVOURITE is sure to become a favourite!

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he Great Canadian Landscaping Company is a local company that has proudly been serving the North Shore for over 15 years! We service residential, commercial and strata properties. We do it all – from design to installation and maintenance, we have got you covered. For small and big jobs, be sure to give us a call! Call today for more information or to book a free on-site consultation.

We believe that by visiting individuals in their own environments we are able to make an assessment of individuals and their “real life listening needs”. We can then provide them with the best hearing advice that suits their lifestyle and budget. We will perform a number of easy tests using state of the art equipment that shows us how you hear. At the end of the hearing assessment we will explain the results and discuss options which are best for you.

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What is integraty? There’s a force behind everything we do. It’s about showing pride in our work and being accountable to our customers. It’s achieving what we set out to accomplish and always striving to improve the customer experience—from start to ﬁnish. It’s about making our community a better place

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pper Level Plumbing is a North Vancouver based company and we’ve been proudly servicing the North Shore and Lower Mainland for over three years. We offer complete plumbing services including drain cleaning, camera scoping, new construction, renovations, gas work and light commercial.

Kirmac is proud to support BC Children’s Hospital Foundation by donating a percentage of earned income from every repair to help the kids.

At Upper Level Plumbing we strive in giving our clients the highest quality of workmanship from friendly, knowledgeable staff. We take pride in going the extra mile for our clients and making your customer experience a positive one.

Kirmac Cares for Kids has raised over $1,000,000 for BCCHF. For 2016, Kirmac has set a goal of $500,000 dollars.

We look forward to providing upper level service to all of our clients while taking care of your plumbing and gas needs.

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hether you are a youngster exploring you love of animals and the outdoors or and adult looking for a new activity, the owners, staff and horses at the North Shore Equestrian Centre are willing and able to get you in the saddle.

From pony play dates and summer camps for kids to public lessons, Hunter/ Jumper and Dressage training, their certiﬁed instructors can help you reach the highest levels if that is your dream.

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Action required today on issues that dominated the news over the last year Early in the year I like to hit what I call the reset button.

Forget about what happened with the seniors file in 2015. It’s time to look forward. I’m not sure the Supreme Court of Canada did us a favour when they ruled that Ottawa could have an extension to craft legislation on assisted death. Parliament, through their dithering, fumbled away the right to make the decision on this issue. Thanks to a ruling

from the Supreme Court, Canadians now have a right to assisted death. Parliament has until June 6 to get a new law in place. Jane Philpott, the federal Minister of Health, wants to wrap up a new health accord with the provinces. The provinces want more money. The challenges the provincial ministers face are threefold. By international standards they haven’t done a great job with the $40 billion they received from the first health accord. They

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Older And Wiser Tom Carney all have different priorities and for the first time since the 1930s the federal Health Minister, Philpott, is a physician who knows how the health-care system is supposed to work. The Office of the Seniors Advocate is scheduled to release four new reports in 2016. When Isobel MacKenzie was appointed as the first seniors advocate in Canada, observers – myself included – wondered how the relationship between the advocate and her boss, the Minister of Health, would play out. Now we know. The advocate makes recommendations (lots of them) and the government ignores most of them. Sooner or later one of them has to blink. What a difference a few months makes. Pension reform, a key plank in the Liberal election platform will now be “studied” by the government for the next 12 months and if they decide to move forward it could take years to get the program up and running. Canada is the only industrialized country with universal health insurance that does not have a national drug coverage policy. Philpott has said recently she wants prescription drug plans to be affordable but it’s too soon to commit to a national drug plan.

There’s better news on the veterans file. Veterans Affairs Canada is drawing up plans to offer ex-solders the choice of lump sum pension or lifetime pensions when they leave the military. I’m less hopeful that service cuts to Veterans Affairs centres and counselling staff made under the previous government will be reversed. I’ve heard from a number of seniors in the last few weeks who are upset with their property assessment notices. There is another way to look at it. If you are a senior in your 60s, 70s or older and you have an asset that is worth a couple of million dollars that is not a bad place to be. What’s the number one complaint I get from my readers about hospitals? Wait times, cleanliness or lack of it, the food or problems around discharge planning? Nope. It’s the charges for parking. Readers will be interested to learn that Ontario hospitals that charge more than $10 a day for parking have been ordered to immediately freeze rates and to start offering multi-day discount passes by October. By the fall, Ontarians are looking at a savings of at least 50 per cent on hospital parking charges. So what have we learned? Looking at the seniors issues that dominated the news last year with a fresh set of eyes brings a little more clarity but not a lot of resolution. For that we need some action. Let’s hope we see more of that in 2016. Tom Carney is the former executive director of the Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society. Ideas for future columns are welcome. tomcarney@telus.net

Dementia Friends

Many North Shore residents are this month making one of their most important New Year’s resolutions ever.

They’re becoming Dementia Friends, committing to learning a little bit about dementia so they can be supportive and inclusive toward people with the illness, which has become one of the country’s most pressing health issues, according to a press release from the Alzheimer Society of B.C. Statistics suggest three out of four area residents know someone living with dementia. People affected by dementia continue to live in and be a part of our communities, and we can support them to stay connected in ways that are meaningful for them, says Kerri Sutherland, regional education and support co-ordinator for the non--profit society’s North Shore and Sunshine Coast region. Through individual actions we can raise awareness of dementia and reduce the stigma attached to it, she says. The Dementia Friend campaign is the cornerstone of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, which takes place in January. Becoming a Dementia Friend is easy, says Sutherland. The process starts by signing up at DementiaFriends.ca. The next step is to understand five simple things about dementia: • It is not a natural part of aging. • It is not just about losing your memory. Dementia can affect thinking, communicating and doing everyday activities. • It is possible to live well with dementia. • There is more to a person than a diagnosis of dementia. • The Alzheimer Society of B.C.’s North Shore and Sunshine Coast branch is available to help area residents with dementia and their care partners. That knowledge can easily translate into action at home and work, Sutherland adds. The society has supported people living with dementia for 35 years. One of its initiatives, First Link, connects people affected by dementia with information, society support services and programs such as Minds in Motion, and dementia education sessions at any stage of the journey. North Shore area residents can find out about upcoming education sessions by contacting Kerri Sutherland at 604-9848348 or ksutherland@alzheimerbc.org, and visiting alzheimerbc. org.

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Here are some tips to help you when you are connecting with a person living with dementia: • Patience is key for dementia-friendliness. • Use respectful language. People living with dementia are not “sufferers” or “patients.” • Address the person with dementia, rather than those around them, when talking about their experience living with the disease. • Connect, don’t correct. Respond to feelings being shared. • Use precise language when describing actions or tasks. • Give directions slowly and clearly. • Focus on a person’s strengths and share tasks with them, like washing dishes or helping them to order at a coffee shop or restaurant. • Become educated about dementia and on how to help, by visiting alzheimerbc.org.

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P.E.I. museum part of lighthouse history

JOHN MASTERS Meridian Writers’Group

WOOD ISLANDS, P.E.I. — “Late one evening, approaching dusk, a ship was sighted in (Charlottetown) harbour which appeared to be a huge three-masted vessel ablaze from bow to stern. A group of men boarded a small boat and rowed toward the flaming ship, in hopes of rescuing as many of her crew as was possible. While they were still some distance from the craft, it disappeared into the mist.” The story is told in Folklore Prince Edward Island by Sterling Ramsay (1975) and is just one of many accounts from the past 200 years of a sailing ship, almost always said to be three-masted, seen in the Northumberland Strait, a 225-kilometre channel separating the island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Sometimes the vessel is fully engulfed when first seen,

sometimes the fire catches hold and climbs the masts as onshore viewers watch. I learned of the legend of the burning ship in the Wood Islands Lighthouse Museum, 60 kilometres southeast of Charlottetown. The 1876 lighthouse, which still functions, overlooks the strait not far from where the ferry to Caribou, N.S. docks. The stories are recounted in one of the 10 small rooms of the museum (once the living quarters of the lightkeeper). Two of the spaces, the kitchen and a bedroom, are kept the way they would have been decades ago. The rest are given over to themes: boat-building on the island; how the Fresnel lens, invented in 1822 and still used in many lights, including this one, works; how to tell the difference between various sailing ships: barques, brigantines, schooners, etc. You can learn about sea glass, the bits of smashed bottles that time and tide have turned into jewels (orange is the rarest colour),

and kids can sift through sand and shells to find their own example, which they can keep. A popular room tells the story of Island rum-runners. P.E.I. had prohibition the longest of anywhere in Canada (1901-1948). Among its most famous rum-runners was the Nellie J. Banks, a schooner that carried $100,000 worth of liquor per trip to the Island and to the equally dry United States. One of the crew’s tricks was to put the hooch in sacks weighed down with salt and toss them overboard. The salt would gradually dissolve and the bottles would bob to the surface to be retrieved by dogs originally trained to rescue drowning men. But to get back to the burning ship mystery: some think it’s the ghost of the barque Colbum, lost during a storm in 1838. Others say it’s ignited gases from submarine coal beds. Most ingeniously, someone has speculated that it could be ink from a squid under attack, its phosphorescence

becoming electrically charged by the wind. Whatever it is, the sightings continue. The most recent one to be documented was in January 2008 in Tatamagouche, N.S. The Truro Daily News quotes 17-year-old Mathieu Giguere

as saying, “It was bright white and gold and looked like a schooner with three masts, like the Bluenose. I was like, ‘that’s cool to see a ship there.’” If you go: The Wood Islands Lighthouse Museum is open

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Cavaliers in charge on North Shore

New coach keeps high-flying squad in top gear ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

They may have a new head coach but the players on the Collingwood senior boys team are playing like they have an old score to settle in provincial AA basketball this season.

Andy Wong moved up from coaching junior to senior prior to this season because former head coach Virgil Hill, who led the program for eight successful years, took the huge step into the NCAA ranks as head coach of the men’s team at Simon Fraser University. “It’s definitely big shoes to fill,” Wong said with a laugh. “I hadn’t coached senior in about six years. The time commitment that goes into not just coaching senior but trying to oversee what happens in the entire program has been a lot. … It’s been a hectic year.” It’s also been a productive year, particularly on the North Shore where the Cavaliers have yet to lose a game. Their resume includes not just a perfect 4-0 record so far in AA league play but also exhibition wins over AAA and AAAA powers like Windsor, Sutherland, Handsworth and West Vancouver. “This year it seems like one of those years where AA, AAA, AAAA, a lot of teams are able to beat teams at different levels,” said Wong. “It’s fun being able to have those exhibition games and keep the North Shore competition up and develop some good rivalries, even if it’s not in league.” Collingwood’s claim to the unofficial North Shore championship belt could be solidified this week after a league game Monday against fellow AA powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas followed by an exhibition game Wednesday against Sentinel, the first-place team in the

Collingwood’s Carter Armstrong muscles his way to the hoop during a North Shore senior boys league game against Elphinstone Jan. 19. Collingwood, a AA team, has staked its claim as the top squad on the North Shore with an undefeated record, including a win over AAAA West Vancouver. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN North Shore AAAA league. Wong, however, is expecting big battles in both matchups. The Cavaliers will play STA twice in the next two weeks with the winner claiming top spot in the league and the right to host the AA playoffs. “STA, I’ve seen them play,” said Wong. “They look like a really nice team. I think it’s going to be a pretty intense game.” The Cavaliers have made themselves frontrunners by posting a 20-5 record this season that includes first-place wins at their home tournament last week and the Okana-Qen Invitational in Oliver in Decemeber, as well as a third-place showing at the prestigious No Regrets tournament held on the North Shore in December. Collingwood is currently ranked No. 2 in the province at the AA level. Leading the charge for the

Cavaliers is Grade 12 Jaden Narwal, a 6-4 swingman who can do it all on the court. Narwal was named tournament MVP at the Collingwood and Okana-Qen tournaments while earning all-star nods at two other events. “He honestly plays everything from (point guard to centre),” said Wong. “He’s putting up some monster stats. He’s really spent a whole lot of time in the offseason to transform his body so he’s ready to play at the next level.” Grade 11 point guard Carter Armstrong is the other half of Collingwood’s potent one-two punch. He’s coming off a 32-point performance on Tuesday against Seycove, a career high. “Like Jaden, he spent the entire offseason improving his game,” said Wong. “He’s getting better and better as the season goes along.”

Rounding out the team’s core is a group of talented athletes that includes forward Dillon Cooper, who is a scratch golfer and elite rugby player; Elias Ergas, who plays rugby in the national junior system; Brendan Artley, who is a junior national javelin champion; and Ben Basram, who is a talented baseball player and golfer. “One of our strengths is our athleticism,” said Wong. “Jaden and Carter are basketball guys, they live for basketball, but the rest of our guys are very good athletes, and that’s what’s helped us.” Collingwood’s team leaders are all working to erase the memory of last season’s AA provincial championships that saw the talented Cavaliers finish just out of the medals in fourth place. Most of the key cogs on this year’s

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Jaden Narwal gathers for a leap during a recent North Shore league game with the Collingwood Cavaliers.

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North Van’s Dean Valli retires from CFL

North Vancouver’s Dean Valli is hanging up his cleats after 10 season as an offensive lineman with his hometown BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.

Dean Valli patrols the line for the BC Lions. The Windsor grad is calling it a career after 10 years in the Canadian Football League, all with his hometown team. PHOTO SUPPLIED BC LIONS

The Windsor secondary grad is retiring after playing 155 games with the Lions, earning Grey Cup rings in 2006 and 2011. “It was an incredible honour to have been able to play my entire career for my hometown team,” said Valli in a BC Lions press release. “The memories that I take away from this decade of professional football will be with me

always and I’m excited about what the future holds for me both professionally and personally.” The SFU graduate was selected sixth overall in the 2006 CFL draft. “Dean gave us everything he had for 10 years and I’m grateful for his contribution to our club both on the field and in the community,” said Lions general manager and head coach Wally Buono. “I know he steps away from the game with a very bright future ahead of him and we wish Dean the very best as he moves into the next phase of his life.” – Andy Prest

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North Vancouver’s Jane Channell just missed the podium while also setting a track record competing in her first World Cup skeleton race on her home track at the Whistler Sliding Centre Jan. 22.

Channell, a former sprinter at Handsworth secondary and Simon Fraser University, is credited as the first athlete to reach elite status training at the Whistler centre that was created for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The recent World Cup race was the first one held in Whistler since 2012 and Channell showed well, posting a two-run time of 1:49.87 to finish fourth. Channell has already racked up World Cup silver and bronze medals during the 2015-16 season, her second year on the circuit, and after the Whistler race she admitted that she was feeling the pressure of being the hometown favourite. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous,” she stated in a Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton release. “You never

want to disappoint the hometown crowd. It would have been great to stand on the podium, but I can’t be disappointed with fourth place. I’ll have a smile on my face tonight.” Channell was in fifth after her opening run but moved up after a strong second pass. “The first run I had a couple of big mistakes so on run two I knew I needed to put it all together,” she said. She did just that, blasting out of the blocks on her second run to post a start time of 4.84 seconds, set a new start record time for the Whistler Sliding Centre. “I know how to get down this track. It was a matter of keeping my composure (after the first run), stay relaxed and let the sled fly,” said Channell. World Cup leader Tina Hermann of Germany won the event, posting a two-run time of 1:48.90, while Anne O’Shea of the United States took silver in 1:49.09 and Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling finished third in 1:49.48. – Andy Prest

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squad were on that team. “That was the tone that we set right from the beginning,” said Wong. “We had a pretty good six or seven returning players and we put the image into their minds of what it was like in the change room after having lost at provincials. We said ‘this is our

year where we have a chance to be able to get redemption and win a championship.’ They’ve been thinking about that a lot. That’s our end goal for sure.” !!! The Cavaliers will look to continue their charge back to provincials Monday when they host STA. Tip-off is at 7:30 p.m. at Collingwood.

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SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 – DEC 21 Sagittarius, expect some welcome developments in your romantic life. This may be the week you meet someone new. If you’re involved, expect your romantic energy to grow.

CANCER

JUN 22 – JUL 22 Expect a change of circumstances at work, Cancer. This change may come by way of a transfer or a promotion, or it might be something less significant. Embrace it in any case.

CAPRICORN DEC 22 – JAN 20 Capricorn, you’re ready to spread your ideas and plans to others, but the public just may not be open to what you have to share at this time. Don’t force the issue at present; give it a few days.

LEO

JUL 23 – AUG 23 A close friend of yours may suggest a last-minute trip, and you just may be game for an adventure, Leo. Pack all of your essentials and do not think too much, or you might back out.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 – FEB 18 Sacrifices will be well worth the effort this week, Aquarius. Keep in mind that these sacrifices are temporary and not that disruptive. The reward awaits.

VIRGO

AUG 24 – SEPT 22 Virgo, a financial windfall may seem like a great thing on the surface, but it doesn’t come without a price. Resolve to be responsible with your newfound largesse.

PISCES

FEB 19 – MAR 20 Pisces, success at work paints you in a new light with your colleagues. You may finally receive the recognition you deserve.

19 LAST SUNDAY’S ANSWERS: A. snow B. sledding C. luge D. skis

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell something pertaining to heart health.

SPSEERRU LAST SUNDAY’S ANSWER: COMPETE

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OFFERS END FEB 1

Model YD4H2GJNX

Model TB4H3GJNX

Lease the 2016 MDX from

Lease the 2016 RDX from

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5,000

†

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Monthly payment

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$28,800

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2016 Acura ILX Premium STK #IL60228 Company Car

Savings of

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$7,500

2,500

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Customer Cash Rebate on select 2016 RDX models Includes $1,000 Winter Driven Credit

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