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Artist Carol McQuaid presents a workshop on relief prints at West Van’s Ferry Building Gallery next Sunday.

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Carol McQuaid is showing her work in a dual exhibition, Bending Boundaries, with Heather Aston at the Ferry Building, Oct. 18 - Nov. 6. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Dozens of quirky collector’s items were on display at the 47th annual Heritage Classic Weekend held recently at North Vancouver’s Waterfront Park.

Junior judges learn what to look for on this 1956 Jaguar Xk 140.

The event, hosted by the Canadian XK Jaguar Register and Canadian Classic MG Club, is one of the last car shows of the season before these beauties are tucked away for the winter.

The three-day event is the longest-running Jaguar-MG show in North America.

The event includes a unique opportunity for “junior judges” to learn more about the classics, and choose their favourites for best-in-show.

A suitcase strapped to this 1950s-era MG shows the literal origin of the modern-day “trunk.”

A row of 1970s-era MGs brings the now-defunct British brand’s evolution into focus.

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Judges, above left, examine the quality of finish and historical accuracy of an E-Type Jaguar, while Vancouver Island’s Julie Bailey, above right, readies her 1969 E-Type for inspection.

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HOLIDAY HOPEFULS Perform Art Studios at Lonsdale Quay held auditions for the upcoming performance of the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker at Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. Young ballet dancers, ages seven to 17, were welcome to try out for the production. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

DEVELOPMENT: MARINE DRIVE

Trio of towers could rise near Marine Drive JEREMYSHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Just how three new towers will integrate into the land surrounding Park Royal and along Marine Drive is the subject of a recently released West Vancouver study.

A bow-tied shaped swath along Marine Drive bordered by Capilano Road to the east and Park Royal Shopping Centre to the west is ripe for development, according to the report.

The long-term plan is to build and connect two town centres, one on Taylor Way and another associated with the Lions Gate Town Centre.

“That area’s all going to develop in time,” said West Vancouver Coun. Bill Soprovich, who noted the scarcity of land left in the district.

The approximately twokilometre-long piece of land is bisected by the Capilano River and includes Klahanie Park.

Complicating the study is the relatively small portion of land controlled by West Vancouver.

The eastern portion of the bow tie is part of the District of North Vancouver, where approximately 2,500 new units are earmarked for the Lions Gate Town Centre.

The western reaches of the land are controlled by the

Squamish Nation, who could develop a project around Park Royal South, noted Soprovich.

“You never know when that’s going to come about,” he said, explaining there have been discussions of projects for several years.

Park Royal Shopping Centre has applied to build 27- and 12-storey residential buildings at 752 Marine Dr., formerly a White Spot restaurant. The development, which would comprise 254 units and 25,439 square feet of commercial space, would require an amendment to West Vancouver’s official community plan.

Plans for projects at 303 Marine Dr. near Klahanie Park and across the river at 657 and 675 Marine Dr. and 660 Clyde Ave. have been submitted to the district, but are undergoing revisions.

The Clyde Avenue/Marine Drive development would likely include a single tower with its height “deferring to” the 27-storey tower planned for 752 Marine Dr., according to a staff report. The tower would include a podium oriented towards Marine Drive.

The development at the Earls restaurant site at 303 Marine Dr. would also include a tower that would “respond in scale” to the 25-storey International Plaza tower.

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include lower-scale buildings fronting Marine Drive and terracing to the B.C. Housing site at 380 Klahanie Court. Future development at Klahanie Court could include infill housing such as townhouses, according to a staff report.

The most prominent towers should “earn density” with great design and environmental performance while meeting district housing goals, according to the staff report.

The area also needs extra paths for foot traffic, according to the staff report, which noted Marine Drive is “an undesirable environment” for pedestrians and cyclists.

“We’ve got to look truly at a major traffic plan, and everybody seems to be avoiding that,” Soprovich said. “You get certain times of day where you have massive traffic at Taylor Way and Marine and onto the bridge. … At night, in West Vancouver, there’s hardly anybody around.”

Soprovich estimated 150,000 people pass through the district on a weekday.

“It’s still a bedroom community. A flow-through bedroom community,” he said.

While preliminary, Park Royal has also expressed interest in “cluster towers” with a maximum height of 16 storeys to the west and south of the mall.

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Road rage at cop in unmarked pickup nets court conviction Lexus driver brandished knife after spitting on truck, judge finds JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A man who spat a “loogie” at a truck driven by an off-duty cop, then got out of his Lexus brandishing a knife in a moment of road rage, has been found guilty of assault with a weapon by a North Vancouver provincial court judge.

Jesse James Stanislaw Skierka, 24, was found guilty of the charge Sept. 8 by Judge Bryce Dyer following a trial in North Vancouver provincial court.

According to Dyer’s written decision, the road rage incident broke out Jan. 27, 2015 around dusk, as Sergeant Sean Powell, a 19-year veteran of the RCMP, was driving an

unmarked pickup truck across the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing after a day of work at RCMP headquarters in Surrey.

Powell was driving north in the middle lane of traffic just after the Cassiar Tunnel when a green Lexus driven

by Skierka tried to cut in on the right. When Powell didn’t let him into the lane, Skierka passed traffic by driving on the paved shoulder of the road and cutting in quickly to the left, Powell testified during the trial.

A few minutes later, the two vehicles found themselves side by side, stuck in bridge traffic gridlock. That’s when Skierka leaned across the passenger seat of his Lexus, stuck his head forward and spat on the fender of Powell’s truck.

When Powell moved his truck behind Skierka’s Lexus to get the licence plate, Skierka slammed on the brakes, Powell testified. Skierka then got out of his vehicle and pulled what

Powell described as a knife from the driver’s side door cubby and moved toward him.

Concerned that Skierka wanted to stab him, Powell grabbed his police badge and yelled “police.”

Powell testified Skierka looked shocked, went back to his vehicle and drove away.

Powell called 9-1-1 and followed the Lexus. He testified Skierka continued to drive erratically, stopping abruptly in traffic and making crude gestures at him. North Vancouver RCMP arrested Skierka as he turned on to Lonsdale Avenue.

Testifying in his own defence at the trial, Skierka told the judge he spat on Powell’s truck because he felt Powell had “disrespected him” for not allowing his Lexus to merge into the lane. He agreed under questioning that it was “a childish gesture, a disgusting action on his part and not a nice thing to do,” according to the judge.

Dyer agreed, finding the

decision to lob a spitball at Powell “a very aggressive act on his part and a highly inflammatory one.”

Skierka denied in court he grabbed a knife in the resulting confrontation, telling the judge he grabbed a glue stick instead, which was also in the cubby.

But the judge didn’t believe him, stating it wasn’t reasonable that Powell would confuse a knife with a glue stick. Dyer said it was clear Skierka was angry and used the knife to threaten Powell.

Dyer found Skierka not guilty of a second charge of dangerous driving, commenting there was no evidence he hit anyone or caused an accident.

“The court must distinguish between driving that is merely negligent and that which is sufficiently dangerous to attract a criminal sanction,” he wrote in his decision. A sentencing hearing for Skierka is scheduled for December.

Print and paint explored at Ferry Building Paint and print are set to collide as the Ferry Building Gallery opens their Bending Boundaries exhibition with a Tuesday, Oct. 18 reception, starting at 6 p.m.

Printmaker/painters Carol McQuaid and Heather Aston

are set to examine the connection between their mediums.

Aston makes relief prints with wood, linoleum, and “anything that can be gouged,” according to her website.

“Making art is a physically exciting process for me,” she

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That’s because the Liberals have opted to skip the fall legislative session in favour of campaigning.

They don’t overtly call it that, of course.

But suffice to say door knocking and selfpromoting photo ops feature prominently, all geared toward a provincial election still months away.

The session that’s been cancelled wasn’t exactly a back-breaking schedule.

It was to total 20 days, running only four days a week (not including breaks!) until Nov. 24. Most people would likely be happy to swap their own work schedule for that one.

But now MLAs have been relieved of the

onerous task of showing up, giving them more time to make announcements and promote themselves on social media.

It’s not the first time sessions have been cancelled, nor is it limited to one political party. But it’s part of a disturbing trend in which governing is skipped in favour of messaging. Campaigning used to be a mercifully time-limited event. Now it is almost constant.

Some politicians argue that the legislature sittings involve as much theatre as real work. True enough. But the legislature is also the one place that laws are passed and resources divvied up. It’s where the government is formally called to account for its actions, where they’re forced to answer questions.

That is an integral part of democracy that shouldn’t be taken lightly, or dispensed with so easily in favour of sound bites and political selfies.

Fowl play can lead to deadly results As we count our blessings following another Great White North Thanksgiving, I’m left with two questions:

1) Who decided people should celebrate the biggest family holidays – Christmas and Thanksgiving – by cooking and eating a giant, greasy bird that could easily poison your whole family and burn your house down? And 2) Can I have this person plucked, stuffed and roasted?

Let’s find some answers.

According to ancient lore passed down from mothers to daughters to Wikipedia, the tradition of eating turkeys for Christmas gained fame when King Henry VIII became the first British monarch to gobble up to celebrate the holiday. This seems plausible, given his well-documented affinity for chopping the heads off of things, as well as

Laugh All You Want Andy Prest his later-life affinity for being a tubby greasewad.

He also burned his way through six wives, so by the end of it all he would have had six mothers-in-law there every Christmas, telling him that he was carving the turkey wrong. This is likely what led to him to becoming very angry and unstable, causing him to engage the Pope in a

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Turkeys eventually became the Christmas meat of choice in England because the peasant farmers didn’t want to eat their cows and chickens, animals made more valuable than turkeys given their milk and egg production, as well as their usefulness as props in the castle-storming scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Thanksgiving, meanwhile, was invented by Pilgrims who landed in America after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.

When they arrived they threw huge parties to give thanks that they could finally go to the bathroom after holding it in all the way from England because the latrines on their ships were an “unholy mess.”

Forsooth.

Turkeys were the animals of choice for Thanksgiving

because they were easy to grab running wild all over the New World, and Pilgrims weren’t very good at catching lobster – they didn’t want to get their pantaloons wet.

Somehow these traditions have stuck around even now when catching a delicious lobster is as easy as going to any grocery store and asking the 70-year-old deli manager to grab one from the tank, and rounding up a succulent steak won’t cost you your head (although my butcher is happy to charge me an arm and a leg for one).

Anyway, the turkey remains, and so now nearly every major holiday it falls upon me, the man of the household, to reach into the middle of a giant bird and pull out a bag of “giblets,” which I believe is a French word that literally translates to “ha ha, made you grab a bloody pile

of goo.” After pulling out the Carcass Surprise, it’s time to reach inside once again to “stuff” the bird, something that always feels a little too intimate to be done with grandparents watching and little kids running around.

Hey guys, I’m elbow-deep in this fellow. A little privacy, please?

My last two turkeys have hit the hotspots of potential full-family death.

At Christmas I was tasked with cooking a giant bird in a fancy brand new oven in my mother-in-law’s fancy brand new house. I put the turkey in at a reasonable hour, knowing that with two conscientious mothers – my wife and sisterin-law – there watching over three young children, dinner needed to be delivered on time or else we’d face the wrath of three starving little Christmas Chernobyls.

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That’s why a little sweat started to tingle down my spine when I pulled the bird out four hours later and the meat thermometer was registering a reading of “Donald Trump’s heart.” Uh oh.

Three hours later, with the little ones barely surviving on rations of saltine crackers and handfuls of snow, I pulled the turkey out again and the reading on the thermometer was in the safe zone. Barely.

Good enough, though, so let’s get this thing carved and – oh my God one half of the turkey is gushing so much pink juice all over the counter that it looks like I just murdered the Kool-Aid man! Oh yeah!? Oh no!

It was about this time that I was informed that the new oven “runs a little cold.” So does revenge, I thought to

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Rail beats pipelines for safer transport of Alberta oil

Dear Editor: Pipelines occasionally leak, while transport by rail has caused several terrible fires.

There is a much safer way to export Alberta’s oil: transporting it as raw bitumen, called neatbit, by rail. Neatbit has the consistency of peanut butter.

During derailment it won’t flow, or ignite. Altex Energy ships 20,000 barrels per day of neatbit from Saskatchewan to U.S. refineries. Several companies plan to ship it from Alberta to the U.S. The cost is still high. It requires special loading and unloading stations and insulated rail cars with heating coils to allow unloading.

Since Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline is still iffy, we should look at the alternatives for export to Asia. The Alberta and federal governments are aware of the neatbit advantage and have seen fully estimated proposals based on designs from well-known

engineering companies. They also have seen estimates of other options. Green electric railways could remove their energy objections. There are two proposals to ship neatbit by rail to Kitimat. Another neatbit proposal is the Canadian G7G railway, which, with eight trains per day, can transport the combined volume of the Northern Gateway and Trans Mountain pipelines via Alaska, thereby avoiding additional tanker traffic through B.C. waters.

There are three proposals to ship via the Arctic but the volumes are low. One is via the railway to Churchill another one is by railway to Hay River.

There are two pipeline proposals. One is from Eagle Spirit, which will upgrade bitumen to unsinkable synthetic crude and pipe it to Prince Rupert.

The other is a pipeline to Tuktoyaktuk.

Despite many efforts, there are no reliable instruments to detect pipeline leaks.

Enbridge’s 2010 Kalamazoo River, Mich., spill lasted 17 hours. The Keystone XL pipeline was cancelled partly because undetected leaks could cause contamination of ground water. A rather new Nexen line leaked undetected for two weeks, in northern Alberta in the summer of 2015, spilling 60 per cent more than Kalamazoo. The Husky oil spill in July 2016 contaminated the North Saskatchewan river after the pipe leaked 14 hours.

Following the G7 and Paris agreements, most fossil fuel reserves will remain unused.

Financial institutions warn about stranded assets. The G7G will survive. It provides access to huge ore deposits and will also be used for grain, potash forest products and general merchandise. Alaska, which spent $6 million on studies prior to G7G, looks forward to be connected to the South.

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Community paper remains a trusted source for local news Dear Editor: Re: Ottawa Gets Message that Local News Matters, Oct. 9 Other Voices guest column.

Kudos on (publisher Peter Kvarnstrom’s) column in last Sunday’s edition.

I am a long-term resident of North and now West

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Thank you for taking your compelling arguments to Ottawa.

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If the mayor and council want the District of North Vancouver to become another West Vancouver - you’re on the right track.”

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This Board of Inquiry has been appointed by the Grizzly Bear Foundation, a new non-government organization interested in research, education and conservation. For more information visit grizzlybearfoundation.com

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RING RECOVERED One ring in an evidence locker bound. One rightful owner needed for the ring to be found.

North Vancouver RCMP are proposing to put a woman’s wedding ring back on its rightful finger. The symbol of marriage was recently found in a public place by a Good Samaritan who elected to forsake all others and turn the wedding band in to police.

“They could’ve pawned it off as their own, but realizing

that it had some emotional, sentimental value they gave it to the police,” said North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong. “It’s very encouraging, especially if you lost it.”

The ring has three diamonds, gold wedding and engagement bands, and looks “fairly worn,” he said.

“It looks like it could be from an elderly person.”

Anyone who believes they lost the ring should contact police and explain where

it was lost and describe what is written in the ring’s inscription.

If their story has the ring of truth, the band will be returned. However, the rightful owner must come forward within 90 days or the symbol of love and commitment will revert to the person who found it.

NEW HIGHWAY FLOATED Would you rather face chop or gridlock?

That’s what the Ministry

of Transportation and Infrastructure is asking as they explore the feasibility of a highway between the Sunshine Coast and the mainland.

Ideas include a highway around Jervis Inlet and a bridge connection along the coast, according to a release from the ministry.

An open house is slated for 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Gleneagles Community Centre in West Vancouver. Ministry representatives will be there

to answer questions about the missing link.

The ministry is also planning to solicit feedback through an online form available at gov.bc.ca/ sunshinecoastfixedlink.

The form will be available between Oct. 18 and Nov. 8, according to the ministry.

A final report on the feasibility of the plan is expected to be delivered to the provincial government before the end of the year.

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myself.

So anyway, I carved the non-gushing side of the bird – the obvious food-safe choice – and served it to the gathered guests who were doing a great job of masking their homicidal hunger thoughts. I then spent the night worrying that the police would arrive the next morning to find a house full of salmonellapoisoned corpses dressed in their merriest pyjamas. But it was a Christmas miracle – no one died!

Last week there was more

excitement at my house as my wife had me try out a fancy new roasting pan for our Thanksgiving bird. I didn’t see any problems with the old roasting pan, but, well, you know. It was on sale, probably.

Halfway through, though, juice started jumping off the bird and into the pan, and then right back out of the pan and onto the floor of the oven. Then smoke filled the oven. Then smoke filled the house. That’s when I said, “Enough of this turkey business,” and headed to the park with my boys, leaving my wife

with a few simple instructions – toss some potatoes in the pan, add a little water, open the windows, stop, drop and roll. In the end it was another holiday miracle – no one died! But I’ve had just about enough of this fowl business.

Come Christmas, I’m going to talk to the deli man and see if we can’t come to an agreement on a nice market price.

And if I ever see that Henry VIII, I’m going to come at him with a carving knife and a handful of cranberry.

At least I know the Pope will have my back. aprest@nsnews.com

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath Music therapy program anniversary The 40th anniversary of the Capilano University Music Therapy program took place on the night of Sept. 30 at the Bosa Centre for Film and Animation. More than 120 guests (including faculty, students and alumni), were in attendance, enjoying the evening of celebration. The event started off with guests strolling the red carpet at the entrance to the Bosa Centre while being serenaded with musical performances by current program students. Appetizers, cocktails, mingling and speeches followed, along with the screening of a documentary created by faculty member Kevin Kirkland, highlighting the evolution of the program, co-founded by Carolyn Kenney and Nancy McMaster, who still serves as an instructor. Music therapy uses the creative process involved in making, participating and listening to music to improve the mental, physical and emotional well-being of individuals and groups.

Rhiannon Weiman, Kate Chan and Dan and Caitlin Monument

Former instructor Shelley Stewart with husband Fred Galloway and program co-founder Carolyn Kenney

Program students Sierra Gladu, Marty Winkel and Alana Pou

Program students Amanda Kuzyk, Olivia Nussey, Aliya Visscher and Gillian Longman

Program student Kayla Turnbull

Alumni Brendan Shields and Louise Cadrin

Program alumna Lyndia Scott (centre) with program students Amara Samchinsky (left) and Kathleen McLeod

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Installation adds some whimsy to walking trail ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

There’s a tyrannosaurus rex ready to devour a trio of terrified joggers on the Green Necklace trail right in front of an elementary school in North Vancouver, and everyone who walks by it does nothing except stop and laugh.

“People don’t expect to see a dinosaur on the path,” says Mia Weinberg, the woman responsible for placing the king of the dinosaurs right next to a school. Weinberg, in fact, has placed a lot of interesting characters along the Green Necklace as part of a public art display entitled Whatever the Weather. The permanent installation includes more than two dozen scenarios drawn on the path that at first glance resemble typical way-finding path markers, but upon closer inspection reveal characters who are up to much more than simply riding a bike in the proper direction or sharing the path with pedestrians.

Visitors first become aware that something different is happening when they reach the trail in front of Queen Mary and notice a way-finding man who has managed to break out of his circle. He’s walking away, waving goodbye to the circle, and that’s when the fun starts.

“There’s just something so simple and humorous and deeper fraught with meaning in that little two-stencil thing – it’s a man and then a circle,” says Lori Phillips, the City of North Vancouver’s Public Art Officer who helped come up with the artwork plan for the Green Necklace, a partially-completed trail that will eventually form a ring around central Lonsdale. “In the signage world generally the instruction is inside the circle. You know – ‘no smoking,’ this or that, whatever – the rules are laid out in the circle with a line across. I think (Mia’s) idea is start enjoying your life. Maybe head off for a walk in the woods. Whatever it is you’re going to do, the message is to feel free to explore your life. Maybe you’re stuck in a rut – try something new.”

City of North Vancouver parks department worker Jeff Lavis tidies up one of the whimsical drawings from the Whatever the Weather permanent art installation on the Green Necklace trail around central Lonsdale. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN The city made a call for artists to submit an idea for artwork to mark the path and, through a juried process, Weinberg’s whimsical way-finding scenarios won the bid.

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Lonsdale up for Great Street Award JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Voters are taking it to the streets this election.

Lonsdale Avenue is one of seven streets across Canada in the running for the 2016 Great Street award, presented by the Canadian Institute of Planners.

“Significant bragging rights” are on the line for the city with the winning street, according to CIP vice-president Lindsay Chase. “It’s an opportunity to recognize the contributions of planners by celebrating the places (they) create.”

Streets will be judged on esthetics, walkability, vibrancy, history and commercial activity.

Winners will be judged by a jury of five certified planners. However, a people’s choice award will also be handed out based on online voting. Online polls are scheduled to close Monday.

The contest is “an opportunity for the community to really band together and identify these places and celebrate them,” Chase said.

In an application submitted to the CIP, City of North Vancouver deputy director of community development Emilie Adin touted the street’s views, proximity to trails and tradition of shipbuilding. The application also promoted the slated transformation of The Shipyards, the “thought provoking” Walking Figure sculptures that line

the street, Lonsdale Avenue’s multicultural makeup and the city’s low per capita carbon emission rate.

The CIP received seven applications for this year’s great street contest. Other streets in contention include Rue de Petit Champlain in Quebec City, Que.; Historic Main Street in Newmarket, Ont.; Fourth Street in Calgary, Alta.; and Dock Street in Shelburne, N.S. New Brunswick has two entrants, with Historic Water Street in St. Andrews and Bridge Street in Sackville both up for the award.

Anyone interested in casting a ballot can vote at greatplacesincanada.ca/vote/.

Winners are scheduled to be announced Nov. 8.

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Lonsdale Avenue is one of seven streets across Canada in the running for the 2016 Great Street Award presented by the Canadian Institute of Planners. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

skateboarding dog and trail-running T-Rex to more sentimental stories of families meeting, playing and growing old together. The design of the trail made the installation work because the path is divided into two sides with one-way traffic in each lane.

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“That gave me the idea that I could do a narrative, because if people were following the arrows they would actually be walking in one direction on one side of the path and another direction on the other side of the path,” says Weinberg, adding that it was important to make the figures look similar to the markers painted on most any path around the world. “I wanted something that was that language so it comes up as a surprise.

That’s the reason it’s in white, so that it fits in with what’s already there. But then you suddenly see that it’s not what you’re expecting. That element is using the same language, but with a little twist – shifting things a little so that you can have a chuckle.”

The drawings also needed to be a little different so that people didn’t take them literally.

“It was important to me that all my scenarios were outside the circles – they’re not confined, they are doing their own thing,” Weinberg says. “Obviously I didn’t want to confuse people. I didn’t want them to feel like, ‘Oh, there’s a dog on a skateboard. You have to have a dog on a skateboard on this side of the path.’”

Weinberg says her favourite scenario is a simple chain that involves a couple getting caught in the rain and re-emerging down the path with umbrellas in hand.

“It’s a short one, it’s just three panels, but to me it’s very much North Vancouver,” she says.

“People go out in the rain. If they don’t go out in the rain, they don’t go out. If you live in North Vancouver you have to go out in the rain, otherwise you’d stay in all

A trail-marking man leaving his circle begins the fun on the Green Necklace path.

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the time.”

The scenarios provide a laugh, but there’s more to it than that, says Phillips. The drawings include people in wheelchairs, seniors, kids, dogs, men, women – all aspects of a thriving community.

“The idea was that you’d see yourself in there,” Phillips says. “The deeper message really is to get out, interact with your community, feel welcome, talk to your neighbours. And here’s a little thing to spark those conversations.”

Weinberg got a thrill when she and her team started drawing the scenarios on the trail.

“This is the first project I’ve done where I’ve actually been installing it in the public realm while people are walking by,” she says.

“There was a man who had a baby in a snuggly and we were telling him about the romance story of the guy who is walking a dog, and the woman who meets him pets the dog, they go for a walk together. I explained the scenario, and he said ‘Oh, that’s my life. I’m just taking my baby to my parents-in-law.’ That was really wonderful for me, because that was exactly what I wanted people to feel – that this represents them, and they can connect to it.”

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High school and intermediate elementary school students from across the North Shore are invited to submit a bright and colourful piece of festive artwork that embodies the North Shore as part of the annual Lions Gate Hospital Foundation Christmas Card Design Contest.

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Ten pieces will be shortlisted for consideration by a panel of judges that includes acclaimed North Shore artist Cori Creed, Karin Olson, chief operating officer of Lions Gate Hospital and the Coastal Community of Care, and Edith Warner, curator of the foundation’s in-hospital art program.

Judges will choose two winning pieces of artwork to be featured on foundation Christmas cards this holiday season.

In addition to the honour of having their artwork featured on approximately 20,000 cards, each winner will receive a $100 gift card from Park Royal.

Deadline for entries is midnight, Wednesday, Oct. 19.

Entries are to be submitted in JPEG format (take a photo with a phone or scan the original), and sent via email to info@lghfoundation.com. Info: lghfoundation.com.

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HEALTH NOTES STRACHAN HARTLEY LEGACY RUN A 10-kilometre run will start at 9:15 a.m. and a stroller-friendly five-km fun race at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 16 at Handsworth secondary, 1044 Edgewood Rd., North Vancouver. Participants are encouraged to fundraise and all proceeds will go to Streetfront Alternative for at-risk youth. shlf.ca/run MONDAY NIGHT SPIRITUAL PRACTICES A different contemplative practice to quiet the soul and nurture the

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I’m not sure if there will be a birthday cake or balloons next year when the RRSP celebrates its 60th birthday.

But the event is worth noting even if only to refocus attention on this tax-favoured investment.

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Most people don’t think about RRSPs at this time of the year. But if you have a plan, consider reviewing it around now as well as during the usual RRSP contribution sales campaign in January and February. And if you don’t have a plan, consider whether you should.

Best strategy: (1) Make the (fully deductible, within limits) contributions when you are in a high tax bracket. Extra tip: contribute up to 14 months ahead of the annual March 1 deadline, including monthly during the year.

If that will create or increase a tax refund, you can apply to have less tax withheld from your paycheque.

(2) Use the tax savings to pay down non-deductible

debt or to make an additional investment.

(3) Leave the money in the RRSP to grow tax-free for a relatively long time.

(4) Make the (fully taxable) withdrawals when you are in a lower tax bracket.

Try to avoid the opposite approach of contributing in a low tax bracket, leaving the money in the plan for only a short time and then making withdrawals when you are in a higher tax bracket.

Competition for the RRSP includes other vehicles like the TFSA and RESP, and other approaches like putting money into your business and then selling the business’s shares for a tax-free capital gain.

Mike Grenby is a columnist and independent personal financial adviser; he’ll answer questions in this column as space allows but cannot reply personally.

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COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD CLASSIC ROCK CHOIR All are welcome to try out this group any Thursday, 7-9 p.m. at Canyon Heights Church, 4840 Capilano Rd., North Vancouver. harmonyhousemusicstudio.com THE NORTH VANCOUVER COMMUNITY BAND invites new members to join the group which rehearses Thursdays, 7:30-9:15 p.m. at Carson Graham secondary, 2145 Jones Ave. The group performs about 10 concerts a year. saxalamode@ msn.com ENGLISH CORNER Enjoy

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Having a variety of formats for seniors to access is important – seniors who don’t use the Internet need to be able to phone for information. They also need to obtain information at easily accessible sites such as seniors’ centres or libraries.

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Praise and affection key for canine training

Over the last couple of columns I have been discussing how to achieve a reliable recall with your dog.

I’ve done this by pointing out how to set your dog up for success rather than failure and how to show consistent leadership so we don’t leave our dogs confused and indifferent to our requests to come when called.

In this second-to-last segment of the recall lesson I will give the training steps involved to teach, train and reinforce a reliable recall.

Hopefully everyone who is reading this and has been struggling with their dog’s recall has taken my last two columns to heart and has started addressing their leadership position with their dog by implementing some basic boundaries and rules for their dog to live within.

Part of leadership training also means taking note of how, when and why attention and affection is doled out towards a dog. Dogs view praise and affection as a reward and these gestures are just as effective as treats at shaping behaviour, so it is very important to be aware of how

Canine Connection Joan Klucha praise and affection are used and when.

For the recall training, I incorporate both food rewards and verbal praise. But, as I just mentioned, the timing of both is very important, not only for the recall exercise but in all training that is done, be it formal commands such as “sit” or “down” or just management such as “leave it” or “off” or “no jumping.”

To begin this exercise you will need 15 small treats.

Use something special that is not the dog’s dinner. Start with your dog on a leash and sitting in front of you. The leash is to prevent your dog from wandering off if it gets distracted, which is one of the main reasons you are doing

this exercise.

Next, if your dog does not know how to sit, then you need to be teaching that basic leadership tool first. Then, once your dog is sitting in front of you, have your dog focus on you. If your dog does not know how to or is unwilling to give you eye contact, then you need to work on that basic leadership tool before you start the recall exercise.

Make sure you start the training in a low-distraction area like your backyard or inside the house. Having established that your leashed dog is able to remain sitting and focused on you, have five treats in your left hand held at your navel. This hand is also holding the leash or you can have the leash tethered to your waistband.

With your right hand take one treat and place it at your dog’s nose. Then, once your dog notices the treat, bring it up to your nose and say your dog’s name and “come.” Then immediately give the dog the treat before it looks away.

Repeat this with the remaining four treats.

Step two: With your dog still focused on you, take five more treats held the exact

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same way as step one. With your dog still sitting in front and focused on you, say your dog’s name and “come” while placing the treat at your dog’s nose and then lure it quickly backwards 10 paces. If your dog refuses to move, the leash is there to give it gentle

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encouragement as you back away. Stop after 10 paces and give the dog the treat immediately. Wait for your dog to sit, then repeat the exercise exactly with the remaining four treats. The final step will require a helper unless your dog has an adequate stay command. Start as you have, with your dog sitting in front of you and the remaining five treats in your left hand. Unleash the dog, but have the helper hold the collar. Place the treat at your dog’s nose, say your dog’s name and “come” and then run away from the dog as fast as you can. Then turn and face your dog and, at the same

time, have the helper release their hold and allow it to race to you. Once the dog reaches you, give the treat immediately and lots of praise. Have the helper hold the dog again and repeat with the remaining four treats. At the end of the exercise, praise your dog and offer some play. In my next column I will discuss how to set your dog up for success while practising in areas of greater distraction.

Joan Klucha has been working with dogs for more than 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. k9kinship@gmail.com

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The last of volleyball’s Royal family Sisters, father set the pace for Kayla Oxland ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

There’s no place Handsworth Grade 11 student Kayla Oxford would rather be than on a volleyball court, which is good news for her given that she was practically born on one and had basically no choice in the matter.

Kayla is the youngest of four sisters, all of whom grew up playing volleyball together.

Kayla’s memory does not go back far enough to recall a time when volleyball wasn’t a huge part of her life.

“I’ve been watching my sisters forever,” she says with a laugh. “But I love it still.”

Eldest sister Sarah played in high school, while Rebecca and Emily both starred for the Royals – each earning MVP honours at the provincial championships – with their father Tom, also an elite player in his day, as the head coach.

At the CIS level Rebecca put together a strong career at Western University while Emily is in her final season with UBC Okanagan, a relatively new program that won bronze at the national championships last season. Those accomplished players have been Kayla’s tutors throughout her life, particularly in the family’s famous backyard matches.

“I’ve got video from the backyard where she was probably five years old playing volleyball with her older sisters,” says Tom. “She used to always be the little one who was trying to keep up.”

Kayla definitely remembers those matches.

“We would set up the net in the summer outside and my sisters would start playing,” she says. “I would really want to play, because our family is super competitive. So I’d always want to play and they would just teach me the fundamental skills and then I just started to play. I was really bad, but they played with me.”

Kayla Oxland of the Handsworth senior girls volleyball team gets ready for action in a North Shore league match against Elphinstone Thursday. Shown below with her father Tom, who is Handsworth’s head coach, Kayla is the last of four volleyball-mad sisters to pass through the school. PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH Her sister were patient with her, to a point, says Kayla.

“They sure did push me. … It helped me a lot. Because they were really tough on me, it made me better.”

That impressive pedigree is paying off. In her Grade 10 year last season Kayla was a starter for the senior Royals, earning tournament all-star honours as the team claimed the provincial AAAA title.

This summer she played in Volleyball Canada’s youth national development program, and back at Handsworth she has helped the Royals stay ranked at No. 2 in the province despite losing the six other starters from last year’s championship team.

“She’s a pretty dynamic player,” Tom says of Kayla, who like Rebecca and Emily is

a setter who can also smash spikes with the best power hitters in the province. “(She) has a lot of energy, pretty competitive kid, and gets really excited. She does all the basic skills well and is one of our strong hitters.”

This year Kayla has extra motivation standing across the net from her at practice, as Rebecca has returned to Handsworth to help her dad coach the team, bringing that backyard competition into the gym every day.

“It’s really fun with Rebecca because some days we won’t have enough players and so she’ll start playing with us,” says Kayla. “Since I’m a setter/ right side, she’ll be playing power so she’ll always get

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these big blocks on me, and I’ll get big blocks on her. We push each other a lot when we play.”

The Royals lost 11 players to graduation at the end of last season, meaning Kayla is one of only four returning players.

They haven’t slipped much though, scoring a secondplace finish at the prestigious UBC preseason tournament and finishing fourth against 44 top teams at last weekend’s UBC Okanagan tournament.

Grade 12 setter Brooke Cheng and power hitter Sarah Curliegh, both returning players from last year, are the team’s co-captains, with libero Maggie Lawson and power hitter Danica Dickenson joining them in the starting lineup and Alyssa Murdock,

Leah Schwartz and Hanna Donaldson sharing time at middle blocker. It’s a new group, but they are coming together quickly, says Kayla.

“I’m so excited. It’s been only a month and the team has really connected. It’s been so much fun so far, we really push each other at practice.

We all know our goals and we all really want to be competitive with the top teams in the province.”

The Royals will have a chance to stake their claim when Handsworth and West Vancouver co-host the provincial championships Dec. 1-3.

“We’re really gunning for provincials and to see how well we can do there,” says Tom. “Given that we graduated so many kids it’s not like we’re saying, ‘OK, we’re going to go win another provincial

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Kayla knows the rebuilding Royals have their work cut out for them, but she’s also driven by the success she tasted at last year’s championships.

“It was indescribable,” she says of last year’s golden run.

“Going onto a team with all Grade 12s was kind of scary at first. They pushed me a lot because I was younger, but it was such a fun team. It was a crazy run.”

All that experience has helped make her the player she is today.

“I’m definitely more confident and more ready to go,” she says. “I want to go after things and I’m very competitive now. I also know what you have to do to win. You just have to know the fundamentals and play with a passion for the game.” !!!

The Royals will face stiff tests on the North Shore in the next couple of weeks against some longtime rivals.

On Tuesday they’ll face the Argyle Pipers starting at 7:30 p.m. at Carson Graham, while on Oct. 25 they’ll meet St. Thomas Aquinas for a match starting at 7:30 p.m. at West Vancouver secondary. The North Shore championships are set to begin the first week of November.

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