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About 72 years and two months ago, 130,000 soldiers readied themselves to stream onto those beaches in France and repel the occupying German forces.

“It’s very haunting,” says McEwen. “You just have to see it with your own eyes.”

McEwen is one of several teachers touring the battlefields, cemeteries and monuments of France this summer in an effort to deepen her understanding of the First and Second World Wars.

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Windsor secondary teacher Megan McEwen and a group of her colleagues make the trek to the Vimy Ridge monument in France as part of a summer battlefield tour. PHOTO SUPPLIED the eight-kilometre expanse, trying to “wrap their brains around the immensity of the enterprise that was the D-Day landings,” she notes.

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Speaking to the North Shore News from France, the teacher described what those Allied soldiers might have

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Teachers huddle at Dieppe, France (above), the site of a disastrous Second World War raid that claimed the lives of more than 900 Canadian soldiers. Below, social studies teacher Megan McEwen stands among graves of Canadian troops interred at Bény-sur-Mer. PHOTOS SUPPLIED

seasickness and making it impossible to position their tanks. The Allies’ air assault was spotty and the assault fleet seemed to vanish behind them, leaving an empty expanse of ocean. Then they charged.

Canadian Sgt. Charles Cromwell Martin wrote in his book Battle Diary: “The boats began to look even tinier as the gaps widened with more than the length of a football field between them. … We had never felt so alone in our lives.”

The D-Day landing claimed the lives of 340 troops in the Third Canadian Division that day; another 574 were wounded. Still, McEwen is left with one question she may never resolve: “How did they do this?”

It’s something she’ll discuss with her students this fall, working her lesson plan into the province’s revamped school curriculum.

Tour organizer the Juno Beach Centre Association has provided McEwen with a suitcase full of books and postcards she’s planning to

Propaganda.

When it came to Canada, the focus was on dividing the French from English, a message that may have aided misinformation. “There’s this myth … and it’s propagated a little bit in our textbooks as well, that the French resisted participating in the war because they didn’t feel it was their war,” McEwen says.

“That is completely not true.”

When the new school year starts, McEwen says she’s eager to “right the wrongs that I’m guilty of teaching,” while helping students hone their critical thinking.

“Don’t just accept a superficial story … really question who’s saying it and why are they saying it.”

take back to her students at Windsor this September.

While viewing battlefield terrain has given McEwen some comprehension of the war’s physical and logistical trials, the trip has also added to her insight into the propaganda of the period – something discussed in tour workshops that she says is particularly relevant today. “(Students) don’t sometimes even know what propaganda is and when they’re being a victim of it.”

In Germany, the Nazi propaganda concentrated on turning “large sections of the population into passive consumers,” writes historian David Welch in The Third Reich: Politics and

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fter years of pressure from aboriginal communities, family members, advocates, human rights groups and frontline workers, the federal government finally announced details of the long-awaited inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.

It’s well positioned with B.C.’s first female First Nations judge Marion Buller at its helm, a $53.8-million budget and reasonable leeway when it comes to who it interviews or summons as witnesses and what documents it can request. It will also examine the roles of institutions, including the coroners’ offices, governments and police forces – a key issue in getting to the systemic roots of the issue.

Once the commission completes its mandate, it will make recommendations aimed at eliminating or reducing the disproportionate levels of violence suffered

by aboriginal women and girls. It’s an immense task and the commission has a big job ahead of it. But it will be up to the provinces to put the recommendations into practice.

Will change truly happen if it’s voluntary? The coalition on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, a group initially formed in response to B.C.’s Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, released a statement Wednesday sounding the alarm on “gaps in the framework that stand to undermine the good intentions that have led to the formation of the inquiry.”

We would argue, along with some First Nations leaders, not to let perfect stand in the way of good. But meaningful change takes political will too.

When the commission releases its recommendations, we will call for accompanying action. So should you.

When the car’s robot lady needs to “talk” Could it be that voice-activated robotic systems are just another ploy to keep women from attaining true equality?

Probably. Last week my dad and I took a long road trip so that we could be there for one of the final Tragically Hip concerts. I thought it was a neat idea given that the first concert I ever attended was a Hip show that my father drove me to more than 20 years ago. Also, I was curious to find out whether taking a road trip with an adult instead of my two very loud children would reduce the number of times per trip that I contemplated driving the car off a cliff.

Haha, just kidding. I would never allow an hour of nonstop screaming to convince me to drive my family off a cliff. Besides, our latest trek was through the Prairies so I couldn’t find any cliffs.

Laugh All You Want Andy Prest For this trip with my dad I had one job – program the audio system on his car, a nice little 2011 Toyota that he picked up last month. The plan was to spend a lot of the trip doing what we always do when we have long conversations: solve all the world’s problems, including but not limited to gender equality, Donald Trump, the unjust treatment of First Nations

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But first I needed to set up the stereo’s Bluetooth system so that we could play podcasts and music from time to time to break up the trip. It seemed simple enough. Given the law of electronics programing, I as a man in my 30s was the most qualified person for the job in the car. My father, wise and witty as he is, falls into the age category in which it is recommended he not attempt to program any electronic device more complex than an old tennis ball. Of course if a 12-yearold had been on the trip he could have programmed it all in 10 seconds while also converting the air conditioning system into a catapult for Angry Birds.

We hit the road and I

started pushing buttons to set up the Bluetooth system.

That’s when the trouble started. It soon became apparent that this model of automobile wasn’t going to let anyone – including me, the idle passenger – manipulate the controls of the audio system while the car was in motion. This was due to “safety concerns,” the helpful robot woman assured me.

Instead we were required to have the driver press the “talk” button on the steering wheel and then we could have a nice conversation with the robot woman about setting up the audio system.

Summing up: Passenger fiddling with buttons while driver focuses on the road = not safe.

My recently retired father taking his eyes off the road to find the talk button while we both yell “play Andy’s iPhone!” at the dashboard =

safe. Gotcha.

Complicating matters was that we were driving on the secondary highways of Saskatchewan, which as far as I can tell are maintained about as well as the secondary highways of hell.

The audio programming did not go well. The big problem was that the robot lady knew the exact words she wanted to hear from us but she certainly wasn’t going to tell us what they were.

“Pardon?” she’d say coldly when we uttered anything that didn’t meet her needs.

And when we somehow managed to get something right she a had a peculiar way of making us repeat and confirm all of our clearly stated choices until we weren’t even sure what we were talking about in the first place. I was about to point out to my dad that this would have been a very familiar situation to any

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man who had been married for any length of time, but I didn’t because of feminism and hegemony and male privilege and other such important things.

Things got hotter when we admitted defeat in the Bluetooth setup and simply tried to get back to the main system so that we could listen to the dang radio. The robot lady would not go back.

She would not go forward.

All she would do is ask us to “talk” to her. Clearly, she had won the argument.

All that was left for my dad and I was to talk to each other, which was actually the best part of the whole trip.

And we reckoned that when we turned the car off, the system would reset and we could at least pop in a few Hip CDs. This is when things got

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Dear Editor: It’s not just the impact of the pipeline route, but the impact of tanker traffic from the end of the pipeline to the open sea on people, sea life, salmon runs, tourism, and pollution from potential spills that must be taken into account.

The extra oil brought in by an expanded Kinder Morgan pipeline should not increase tanker traffic in Vancouver Harbour, but be piped down to U.S. customers and closer to the open sea.

It must be clear that any increased tanker traffic in sea narrows will bring more pollution, spills and sea life disruptions regardless of any advanced tanker technology.

On top of it, even minor accidents or spills in narrows can easily disrupt the oil delivery as well.

It would be smarter to spend more resources for better routing of pipelines to avoid any increased tanker traffic in sea narrows and danger of major losses due to oil delivery disruptions.

Five to 15 per cent of all large vessels are believed to break the law by discharging waste oil into the oceans.

There will always be some operators trying to save money by illegally dumping raw sewage and bilge oil and water in sea narrows.

The local facilities – beaches, sea walks, marinas and fishing areas will be gradually destroyed by excessive pollution from unnecessary large oil tanker traffic.

Chances of any oil spill will be exponentially increased. It will be virtually impossible to completely

clean up due to products spilled. Toxicity of diluted bitumen on sea life can increase 50-fold when illuminated with natural sunlight.

The diluted bitumen is hard to contain and collect for it’s not floating but sinking to bottom where its degradation becomes very slow. Bitumen’s high toxicity will start killing all sea life.

The beaches will be closed to swimming indefinitely.

Total collapse of healthy living in Great Vancouver should be expected after any bigger diluted Bitumen oil spill.

The Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project is testing British Columbian’s people intelligence by offering them to take huge risks with minimum benefits.

Bede Kosman North Vancouver

Oil spill biggest pipeline issue Dear Editor: I believe that by far the biggest issue regarding the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project is the possibility of a major oil spill from an oil tanker that would devastate the beaches and the ocean in the Vancouver/

Gulf Islands/Victoria area.

In addition to damaging the region’s natural ecology, a major oil spill would greatly harm the quality of life for the people living in the most populated area of British Columbia as well as the area’s vital tourist industry.

The only sure and safe way to avoid huge oil tanker spills in the Vancouver/ Gulf Islands/Victoria area is not to allow the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project to proceed.

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Apology note to C3P0 is coming From page 8 nasty. We stopped for lunch, came back out and the robot lady still wouldn’t budge off the impenetrable setup screen without hearing the secret password. That’s when I lost it. “Just let us listen to a CD, you robot b****!” I shouted.

I felt bad, like I’d wronged all women. And robots. I made a mental note to send an apology note to Hillary Clinton. And C3PO.

It was then that I started wondering why the annoying, rage-inducing voice had to be a woman.

Was this a ploy to make women take all the blame when dummies like me couldn’t figure things out?

Would I have reacted in the same way if the robot had been voiced by James Earl Jones?

Before we hit the highway again I finally figured out the secret word we needed to say to make all our troubles

go away. It was “go back,” which was kind of funny because I was wishing I could “go back” to 1997 when cars didn’t talk, no one listened to Donald Trump, and there was nothing tragic about The Tragically Hip. If only I could get my time machine working. Well, maybe I could give it one more try. Let’s see here – “to manipulate the time space continuum, press the ‘talk’ button. …” aprest@nsnews.com

QUOTES OF THE WEEK: Very, very, very, very busy.”

— District of North Vancouver Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn offers his assessment of traffic at Capilano Road and Marine Drive (from an Aug. 3 news story).

You’re looking at David and Goliath here.”

— Pacific Pilotage Authority CEO Kevin Obermeyer discusses a near collision between a recreational boat and a freighter near Lions Gate Bridge (from an Aug. 5 news story).

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Ann Hamilton Rescue Fest Rescue Fest at Shipbuilders’ Square in North Vancouver was a great place to be for family fun on June 25. North Shore Rescue, along with Deep Cove Brewers and Distillers, hosted the event with proceeds going to the Tim Jones Legacy Fund, administered by the West Vancouver Community Foundation. The event was attended by approximately 800 people and festivities included children’s activities, live entertainment, dancing and socializing, plus a raffle and silent auction. Food trucks offered a variety of fare and, for the third year in a row, North Shore Rescue and Deep Cove Brewers and Distillers partnered to create Legacy Lager, honouring the late rescue leader Tim Jones, with partial proceeds donated to the cause. The prevailing atmosphere was laid back, happy and very community focused – a perfect brew of fun and fundraising.

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Prayer can take many forms.

“Prayer isn’t just asking for things.

Prayer is ‘thank you’ and awe is a form of prayer,” explains Rev. Roberta Fraser from St. Stephen’s Church in West Vancouver.

“Prayer can be a poem, something beautiful like a sunset, (a) sense of awe, part of something greater.”

Prayer doesn’t just have to be a request.

It can be a thought of appreciation or simply an observation, she adds.

“My sense is that there are lots of people who have a sense of the spiritual, they have a sense that there is something more in life. And whether or not they are the kind of people who walk in the door on Sunday morning into a church or a synagogue or a mosque, they have a sense that there is God, in my parlance, a divine spirit, something greater. And I guess in my own tradition I would think of God as the deep listener, who wants to hear and know and experience our longings or joys.”

This summer, St. Stephen’s Church is inviting the community to express their prayers, thoughts, wishes, and observations in a somewhat public fashion.

They have loosely tied ribbons and twine to the branches of a Japanese maple just outside the main door of the church and anyone is invited to attach their prayer to the tree. A box at the foot of the tree holds

Rev. Roberta Fraser looks over some of the messages that have been left on a prayer tree at St. Stephen’s Church in West Vancouver. Anyone is welcome to attach a prayer to the tree, and it doesn’t have to be specifically religious as long as it’s respectful. PHOTO LISA KING paper, pens, and pencils for users to write down messages, thoughts, and prayers, and then attach them to the twine and ribbons using clothes pegs.

“The idea is that it’s kind of prayer made

visible,” says Fraser. “The hope is that people in the neighbourhood will feel invited to come and add a prayer to the tree, their own prayer.”

She adds that anyone can add something

of their deep longings, joys, or hopes in words, pictures or some other way, without harming the tree. All messages are

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North Vancouver Olympian Taylor Curran had a fervour for field hockey coursing through his veins at a young age, inherited from his mother.

His mom Wendy played varsity field hockey and was inducted into UBC’s Sports Hall of Fame along with her 1982-83 teammates who went undefeated en route to winning the national championship. Naturally, she introduced her son to the sport and taught Taylor the basics of field hockey.

At eight years old, Curran took to the grass fields at Hugo Ray Park with the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club and never looked back.

Curran’s younger brother Spencer played field hockey alongside him and they were both coached by their mom until Curran was 16.

In those days, before West Vancouver had a dedicated field hockey turf, mother and son made countless hour-long drives to Surrey or UBC for games. Those were priceless moments for the two of them to talk field hockey, not so much about the fundamentals of the sport, but rather some standard motherly advice.

“She’s just really supportive and put a lot of things into perspective because it’s easy to get inside your own head and stress over mistakes.

But even at the highest level in field hockey there’s dozens and dozens of mistakes every game. … She helped me put that in perspective so I could play more freely,” says Curran, 24, who sat down with the North Shore News a couple of days before leaving for the Rio Games.

The Olympic dream came into focus for Curran, a midfielder, when he hit his teenage years and a couple of coaches saw some early

potential in him.

“I think any kid that plays a lot of sports dreams of going to the Olympics,” he says. “The dream focused in on field hockey when I was 13 or 14 and I was making provincial teams.”

The drive to step up his game started with Sean Campbell, a former national team player, who took a 12-year-old Curran under his wing and onto the U16 WVFHC team. Playing against older, better players was so beneficial for his development, says Curran.

The following year, Indy Sehmbi, Curran’s first field hockey camp coach, took a chance on Curran, picking him as the final reserve player for his U18 provincial team. As fate would have it, some players withdrew their spot in the national championships, so Curran stepped in as a 13-year-old competing against 17- and 18-year-olds.

“A prospect my mom probably wasn’t terribly excited about,” says Curran.

From there his star kept rising. Curran was invited to play for the Burnaby Lakers in the Vancouver Men’s Field Hockey League’s Premier division – the highest level of club competition in Canada.

“I wasn’t there as a token youngster,” explains Curran. “Indy gave me major playing time in the midfield, where I played against many of the best players in Canada.”

After graduating from Argyle secondary, Curran, following in his mother’s footsteps, played field hockey for UBC while studying for his civil engineering degree.

“If you want to go far in field hockey and have the grades to get in, you go to UBC because that’s the place to be,” says Curran.

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“There’s a lot of fans. You don’t get paid well, but you do get paid to play there,” explains Curran, who went to Europe in 2014 to improve his game.

A seven-year vet of the Canadian men’s national team, Curran’s most memorable moment came last year when his teammates wrote their own epic Olympic story.

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Along with written messages, someone has attached a photo of a loved one who passed away, and so far that is Fraser’s favourite item, although she has been pleased with all the offerings.

“I’ve been pleased that people have felt invited to (contribute) because that is the intention,” she says, noting if she just wanted members of the congregation to be involved they would have presented the project on a wall inside the church. “The idea of having it outside is that it is part of the wider community and you don’t have to be a Christian.”

She explains that the prayer tree is open to any prayerful intention and doesn’t have to be specifically religious.

Using a written medium is also a bit different.

Prayer is commonly thought of as being about speaking words either said out loud or in your head, notes Fraser.

Pieces of paper contain thoughts, prayers, and messages from members of the community in West Van. PHOTO LISA KING “But prayer is so much bigger than that. Prayer, in some sense, is just connection with the divine however you understand that ‘greater’ to be.”

For example, meditation and music can also be forms of prayer as well, she adds.

The materials being used for the messages are naturally degradable and all the messages will be ceremoniously disposed of at the end of the summer.

In the meantime, the papers are protected quite well by the tree’s leaves and branches and so far the weather has been cooperating so rain hasn’t ruined them. But Fraser isn’t worried about nature taking its toll on the prayer tree messages. It’s just part of the greater connection.

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The investment industry has changed since the ’80s Long gone are the days when stockbrokers spent their time earning commission by pitching stocks and providing “tips” promising huge returns.

Today, most investment advisers are switching to a fee-based holistic approach when providing portfolio management advice. This will often include how to structure your entire portfolio while managing risk, as well as creating a complete estate and financial plan for you and your family.

If you’re an investor and are still investing “the old way” with your stockbroker, have you considered what services your stockbroker provides you, other than giving you an exciting story about why a specific stock or mutual fund promises big returns? Do you hear from your broker only when they want to sell you something?

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Debt levels rising among those aged 65+ Are seniors as well-heeled as people think they are?

I don’t think so. Neither does the Seniors Advocate for B.C. “Since 2013, B.C. senior families saw their annual median income fall 5.7 per cent and for a B.C. single senior, the decline is even steeper, with a 6.3 per cent drop since 2013,” said Isobel Mackenzie, B.C. Seniors Advocate, in a July 13 news release, entitled “StatsCan Income Data Good News for B.C. Families ... Bad News for B.C. Seniors.”

This seems to fly in the face of prevailing attitudes that seniors are rich, golfplaying world travellers.

Mackenzie went on to say that, “We have to start paying attention to what the data are telling us and stop listening to generationally divisive inaccurate generalizations that portray seniors as rich.”

The reasons for the decrease in income include low interest rates, which make borrowing an attractive and sometimes necessary option, increased life expectancy, which can outlast savings, and private sector pensions unable to provide cost of living increases.

Seniors debt has also been increasing. A June 29, 2015 CBC Almanac report stated that there has been a 400 per cent increase in a 15-year period in seniors declaring

Older and Wiser Margaret Coates bankruptcy. A Statistics Canada report shows the number of seniors in debt aged 65 and over jumped by 40 per cent between 2012 and 2015.

Reasons for rising debt, says Scott Hannah of the Credit Counselling Society, are that seniors may be assisting adult children in tough economic conditions, retiring with a substantial debt load, including a mortgage, or experiencing an unforeseen crisis such as an expensive medical problem.

On the North Shore it is not as rosy as we might expect.

The three municipalities are experiencing a shortage of affordable rental housing. Those seniors on a fixed income who rent on the North Shore may not be able to afford to continue to live here despite their desire to do so.

The City of North Vancouver’s City Shaping document says “rental housing is often insecure, increasingly in need of repair and challenging to find at affordable rents.”

Not every senior can afford a country club membership.

So, what can be done for seniors with declining incomes?

Hannah thinks that seniors, after assessing their debt and income, could curtail their working life spending habits, sock away funds for life events and plan for extended illnesses, medications and insurance.

Those seniors who are fortunate enough to own their own home, but are on a fixed income can avail themselves of the deferred property tax payment offered by the province as a way to reduce expenses.

The community and government can create and maintain support services and programs as a way for seniors with shrinking incomes to live with dignity on the North Shore. Seniors organizations such as Silver Harbour Seniors’ Activity Centre and West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centres offer low-cost programs and services in order to achieve this goal.

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I write that with a fair amount of contempt as I sit here with my 12-year-old dog Piper’s head on my lap. His declining health has ravaged his body and my hand rests on a bony shoulder that was once covered in dense, strong muscles that carried him like a gazelle through the forest. The now atrophied muscles support his weight long enough for him to walk to the garden where he must lie down for a rest in the shade. His body has changed and no longer resembles that of a strapping young bird dog, but my devotion to him has not changed.

In fact, I’ve rearranged my life as he transitions into the final stage of his life cycle, so I am available to offer comfort as needed. Given the lengths I am going for the sake of my senior dog’s well-being, in my opinion, there is no excuse for abandoning a senior dog – ever.

Witnessing the aging process and eventual death of animals is not new to me.

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Canine Connection Joan Klucha growing up on a farm. Death doesn’t frighten me. One also learns the ethical responsibility of caring for animals until the very end. It’s a code of honour, really.

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They are unprepared for what dying looks like because, other than a house plant, they have never been exposed to death.

When they see it, it frightens them.

Maybe talking about caring for a dog in the final stages of its life should be given just as much emphasis as talking about the beginning stages of its life.

I admit that I am guilty of

glamourizing puppyhood and finding joy in adolescence within this column. I do this to prepare new dog owners for the stages of raising and training a young dog by teaching them how to find the good during these difficult periods.

I’ve rarely, if ever, brought attention to a dog’s senior years and prepared owners for the inevitable difficulties.

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As you look into eyes that are a little bit cloudy, you can still see the unquestionable, unconditional, never-ceasing love and loyalty he has for you.

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“We were just so hyped up and just shaking with adrenaline and pretty much hyperventilating,” says Curran, recalling the moment the team qualified for Rio. “Guys were covering their eyes. Guys were crying. It was the craziest emotional roller coaster that I’ve ever been on.”

Serendipitous timing allowed Curran to finish his classes at UBC in December 2015 and concentrate on field hockey full time and training for a spot on the Olympic roster. “It just makes a difference in terms of sleep and nutrition,” says Curran, of how late-night studying sessions can interfere with field hockey performance.

Curran could also take the time to cook nutritious meals to fuel him on the field. So how many calories can a pro field hockey player burn through?

Curran was putting away 5,000 calories a day during his heaviest training period earlier this year. A lot of pasta would get him there.

Fortunately for Curran, who grew up in the Parkgate area, training with the men’s national team on home turf at Rutledge Field didn’t take him too far from home. Passersby in the Ambleside area may have spotted a sign saying “Going to Rio” on the Rutledge Field fence.

“Having the partnership with the men’s national team and West Vancouver Field Hockey Club in the build-up to Rio has really inspired the next generation of field hockey players on the North Shore,” states Geoff Matthews, WVFHC technical director, in an email.

The men’s national team started with a squad of 28, with room for only 16 to bring to Rio. The final roster was going to be announced, fittingly, on July 1. The day

North Vancouver field hockey player Taylor Curran is off to the Olympics with the national men’s team. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

before, Curran got a call saying he needed to head to the Team Canada office at UBC, but only because he forgot to fill out some paperwork.

Curran found himself in the company of six fellow teammates, but there was no paperwork to be found.

He recalls them all growing slightly frustrated after sitting around for a while. The players were escorted to another room where other players were gathered. The door closed behind them. There was video rolling.

“And you look around and there’s 16 guys here. And then they close the door and the coach says, ‘Look around the room. These are the 16 guys that are going to go the Olympics,’” replays Curran.

Shock evolved into hugging and high-fiving amongst the new Team Canada field hockey teammates, and obviously no hard feelings for being lured out to UBC under false pretenses.

Curran says he is always giving his mom a hard time for not answering her phone. June 30 was no different. Curran had called his mom first to tell her the good news. Voicemail.

His mom said it was good she didn’t get the call at work, explains Curran, given all the screaming she did in her car when she finally heard her son had become an Olympian.

As part of its preparation for Rio, Canada’s men’s Olympic field hockey team hosted the United States for a series of games at Rutledge in July, giving local fans a chance to see the elite athletes in action. The Canadian team also showed up at WVFHC

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Curran’s fellow WVFHC teammates Scott Tupper and Mark Pearson also made the final cut for Team Canada.

Tupper, a Vancouver native, is the team’s captain while Pearson, a Tsawwassen product who has suited up for the West Van club since his teenage years, is one of the national team’s most experienced players.

Curran and Pearson actively coach for the WVFHC Boys Wolves spring league, as well as the recently established girls’ field hockey

academy through the North Vancouver school district.

Rooting for Curran in Rio is a family contingent including his parents, two brothers and an aunt. There will be plenty of friends in the Seymour area and across the North Shore cheering Curran on as well.

Curran has fond memories of growing up near Deep Cove.

“When we were in high school if me or one of my friends wanted to hang out we’d say, ‘Let’s go to Honey’s Doughnuts,’” says Curran.

When asked if he is ready for Rio, Curran tries hard to contain his excitement.

“You play field hockey and you play sports in general

because you love competing and sort of testing yourself against the best teams, and that’s what the Olympics is,” says Curran. “We have an opportunity to play at least five, hopefully more, of the best teams in the world and see how we stack up. It’s super exciting.”

You can catch Curran and the rest of the Canadian men’s field hockey team in action when they take to the field in Rio this week: On Monday they will play against Argentina; on Tuesday they will face the Netherlands; on Thursday they’ll go against Ireland, and on Friday they’ll play against India.

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CAPRICORN DEC 22 – JAN 20 Capricorn, resist the temptation to dive in when you sense a potential conflict brewing. It may be difficult to stay out of the fray, but you will ultimately be glad you did.

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JAN 21 – FEB 18 Aquarius, you need to be more assertive at work, especially if you want to receive the acclaim you feel you deserve. Be confident in your abilities.

FEB 19 – MAR 20 Pisces, it may take some time for things to develop, but plans will start to go your way.

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Offer(s) available on select new 2016/2017 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery from Aug 3 to 31, 2016. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers are subject to change without notice. All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,740, $22 AMVIC, $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Excludes taxes, licensing, PPSA, registration, insurance, variable dealer administration fees, fuel-fill charges up to $100, and down payment (if applicable and unless otherwise specified). Other lease and financing options also available. Φ0% financing on select 2016 models. Available discount is deducted from the negotiated purchase price before taxes. Certain conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. Representative Financing Example: Financing offer available on approved credit (OAC), on a new 2016 Soul LX+ MT (S0553G) with a selling price of $20,857 is based on weekly payments of $56 for 84 months at 0% with a $0 down payment and first monthly payment due at finance inception. Offer also includes $500 loan credit. Cost of borrowing is $0 and total obligation is $20,357. Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. *Cash Purchase Price for the new 2016 Optima Hybrid LX (OP74AG)/2016 Sorento 2.4L LX FWD (SR75AG)/2016 Forte EX AT (F07460) is $24,000/$25,55/$19,377 and includes a cash discount of $7,777 (including $1,000 ECO-Credit)/$4,000 (including $500 competitive bonus** or loyalty bonus¶)/$4,500 (including $500 competitive bonus** or loyalty bonus¶). Includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,740, $22 AMVIC and $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Dealer may sell for less. Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. Cash discounts vary by model and trim and are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. ≠Representative Leasing Example: Lease offer available on approved credit (OAC), on the 2016 Optima LX AT (0P741G) with a selling price of $25,377 (includes $500 lease credit discount and $750 competitive bonus** or loyalty bonus¶) is based on 260 weekly payments of $52 for 60 months at 0.9%, with $0 security deposit, $2,100 down payment and first payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation $13,597 with the option to purchase at the end of the term for $9,128. Lease has 16,000 km/yr allowance (other packages available and $0.12/km for excess kilometres). **Competitive Bonus offer available on the retail purchase/ lease of any new 2016 Rio, 2016 Rio5, 2016 Forte, 2016 Forte Koup, 2016 Forte5, 2016 Sorento, 2017 Sportage, and 2016 Rondo for the amount of $500, and 2016 Sedona and 2016 Optima for the amount of $750 from participating dealers between Aug 3 and 31, 2016 upon proof of current ownership/lease of a select competitive vehicle in the relevant class/category.

Competitive models include specific VW, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Honda, GM, Ford, Jeep, Pontiac, Suzuki, Saturn, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Subaru, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Land Rover, Infiniti, Acura, Audi, Lincoln, Volvo and Buick vehicles. ¶$500/$750 loyalty bonus offer available on the retail purchase/lease of any new 2016 Forte, 2016 Sorento, 2017 Sportage, 2016 Rio, 2016 Rio5 and 2016 Rondo/2016 Sedona and 2016 Optima from participating dealers between Aug 3 and 31, 2016 upon proof of current ownership/registration of Kia vehicle. Some conditions apply. See your dealer or kia.ca for complete details. ‡Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2016 Optima SX AT Turbo (0P746G)/2016 Forte SX AT (F0748G)/2016 Sorento SX Turbo AWD (SR75IG) is $35,195/$26,695/$42,295. The Bluetooth® wordmark and logo are registered trademarks and are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.

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