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Above left: West Vancouver seniors boys basketball head coach Brian Upson congratulates Highlander player Paul Kitchener after the team won the 1982 provincial championship game. Above right: Coach Upson stands beside assistant coach Tom Rippon, team captain Erik Lockhart, Paul Kitchener, and other members of the team as trophies are presented. PHOTOS SUPPLIED

Remembering coach Brian Upson and an epic basketball battle

“Seven seconds, six, five!

Marter: controlling, moving in, shoots! No! The Highlanders have won the provincial championship! The West Vancouver Highlanders are the champs!”

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It’s March 20, 1982, and a game many still remember as one of the most exciting high school sports events in recent history.

For the first time, the senior boys provincial basketball championship tournament is featuring two North Shore teams in the final. Played before a packed crowd of 5,000 at Vancouver’s PNE Agrodome, the battle is fierce and the outcome uncertain until the very end.

After a nail-biting nip and tuck game – one point here, one point there, back and forth – a steal by the Pipers with a little more than three minutes left marks the beginning of a roller-coaster ride to the finish.

Down by five points, the steal is followed by a series of shots, turnovers, and fouls

The final game

that results in Argyle closing the gap to just one point.

The score is 44-45 for the Highlanders.

The original cable broadcast of the game was recently digitized by Rockridge secondary film students and posted to YouTube, but despite the improvement in video and audio quality, it’s still sometimes hard to hear the voice of the game announcers clearly over the roar of the crowd.

“Anything can happen and probably will,” one of them accurately predicts in the final moments of the game.

At the three-minute mark, the tension is palpable, and a passing observation by one of the announcers holds more meaning than he intended or probably even knew: Both coaches are on their feet at the Highlanders bench.

What isn’t mentioned is the fact that Highlander head coach Brian Upson can barely stand. As the camera cuts from the court to the sidelines in the final minutes of the game, somehow Upson still looks professional in a sport coat that drapes his emaciated body like its two

sizes too big. Having coached basketball at West Vancouver secondary for more than 20 years, the popular teacher was battling a form of stomach cancer and was bedridden at the time, but somehow found the strength to attend this, his final game.

He died exactly two weeks later.

Highlanders team captain Erik Lockhart remembers what his coach, who he still calls “Mr. Upson,” told the team before the final game.

Coach Upson couldn’t climb the stairs to the team locker room so they met in a cow stable behind the basketball court.

“He said ‘Guys this is probably a once-in-a-lifetime,’” recalls Lockhart, who was a 17-year-old Grade 12 student at the time. “He said ‘Go out there and have fun and enjoy it.’”

He also told them to be like ducks on a pond: “Be graceful on the surface but paddle like hell underneath.”

And paddle they did.

Going into the finals, Argyle was the favourite to win, having beaten West Van three times in regular-season

play and at the North Shore finals tournament. But the Highlanders took a backdoor into the provincials by beating another team and came face to face with their longtime rivals once again.

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With just under two minutes left in the game, the score is 45-44 for West Van when an offensive foul gives Argyle possession of the ball.

They miss a shot but gain another foul to earn two free throws.

Lucky No. 13, Steve Pawlett, six-foot-two and 160 pounds, steps to the line for Argyle. With a minute and 34 seconds to go, Pawlett puts the Pipers ahead. The score is now 46-45 for Argyle and the clock is counting down from 1:25.

At this point, Highlanders player Paul Kitchener makes what his teammate Lockhart calls a “miracle shot.”

After a round of passing that can’t break through the Argyle defence, Kitchener sinks a desperation basket from outside the key with just three seconds left on the shot clock.

“He had to take it and he

turned around from way, way out,” explains Lockhart.

The result is two points for West Van and a new game leader with 43 seconds left.

Argyle then takes possession and the Highlanders try to hang on to their one-point lead, but it quickly slips through their grip.

The topsy-turvy ending is still up in the air with less than a minute of play to go.

Argyle’s six-foot-four centre Mark Marter is fouled under the West Van net and drains two free throws to put Argyle ahead again by one point.

“The big guy hits it when it comes down to it!” the announcer yells.

“This is no place for a weak heart,” notes the other, the excitement clear in his voice.

The camera cuts to the sidelines and coach Upson is still on his feet, as are most of the people in the stands.

With less than 40 seconds to go, the score is now 48-47 for Argyle. West Van forges in deep, can’t break the Argyle defence, but still manages to get off a few shots that don’t drop. Then Argyle catches a

rebound, sealing West Van’s fate. Or do they?

Fate is fickle and Argyle almost immediately loses possession of the ball.

And then it happens: another foul.

With less than a minute left to play, “miracle shot” Kitchener heads to the line and dumps two free throws to put West Van ahead. Again. By one point. Again.

Anyone not already biting their nails at this point probably started just then.

The Pipers charge down the court on a last-gasp effort with just seconds left in the game and the announcer starts the countdown: “Seven seconds, six, five. . . .”

Argyle feeds the ball to their 6-4 centre deep in the lane. Marter sets up and shoots.

“I put my hands up and prayed,” recalls Lockhart.

“And Mark missed the shot.”

Mark rarely missed shots, Lockhart reflects.

The ball hits the backboard and doesn’t fall. The game is over. The Highlanders win. Up in the stands,

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17-year-old Greg Upson looks at his dad and understands the real emotion he sees through the full smile.

“He barely had the strength to get out of bed at that point,” notes Greg. “It was the pinnacle of his coaching career and, of course, it was the final game as well.”

Greg says he hadn’t watched the game for years because his VHS version was in such bad shape, but has watched it since it’s been online thanks to Rockridge film students posting a digital version of it to YouTube.

“All the emotions come back,” says Greg, who attended the 1982 game with his two younger brothers, Gary and Brent, and their mom Paula. (The Upson brothers attended Hillside secondary, their catchment school.) The family all knew by then that Brian’s cancer was terminal. But they didn’t know how soon he would die.

Says Greg of the game: “It was one of the most exciting sports events I have ever seen, obviously with the extra emotion there it was incredible. It was unbelievable. The crowd was just on their feet going crazy.”

The game announcer would concur: “It would be appropriate to say that all hell has broken loose here at the Agrodome,” he reports after the final play of the game as

Team captain Erik Lockhart’s grad photo. PHOTO SUPPLIED fans fill the court.

It was a bittersweet moment for the Upson family and for both teams.

“To their credit, those guys were real gentlemen,” Lockhart says of the Argyle players. “I could tell that they weren’t bitter. They were extremely disappointed and, yes, they were trying to win. It was their final game too.”

But at the same time, they knew coach Upson’s cancer was terminal. “I got the feeling that they sensed the bigger picture,” says Lockhart.

They were all seniors, this was their last game, and they all wanted to win. But although they wanted to win for their beloved coach, Lockhart admits they were teens in their final year of high school and they also wanted to win for themselves, their school, and their teammates. Lockhart doesn’t remember the final game as a sombre event. There was much celebration and

coach Upson even attended the team party the next day.

Team members continued to visit their coach throughout his final two weeks, and Brian’s wife Paula says it wasn’t unusual for students to stop by the house as her husband had become much more than a teacher and a coach: he was a mentor and a role model.

“He just loved basketball so much,” she says. “The team just loved Brian as a coach. He was a terrific person, he was very easy-going and involved in lots of sports and things, and was always interesting. He was a very easy person to like and that’s how the students felt about him.”

Three years before the big game, Brian had been diagnosed with an ulcer. A year later, that diagnosis changed to stomach cancer. He was told he had just one year to live, but he hung on for two.

Paula remembers the night she and her husband shared an important realization: “We were having dinner at the Park Royal Hotel, which isn’t there anymore, and that’s when we realized there was only so much time left.”

She is firmly convinced Brian was hanging on for the basketball. Her son agrees.

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Lower Lynn corridor project to ease eastwest congestion JANE SEYD AND BRENT RICHTER jseyd@nsnews.com brichter@nsnews.com

Plans to alleviate traffic on the Cut and Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing got a big boost Friday with the announcement of two new two-lane bridges over Lynn Creek shouldering the existing orange Highway 1 bridge.

The $60-million project announced Friday expands on the already-in-progress Mountain Highway interchange redesign. Costs of the project will be shared equally by federal, provincial and District of North Vancouver taxpayers.

When the project is complete, which is targeted for 2021, the Cut will be divided into express and collector lanes, similar to what’s used at the Port Mann Bridge now, with local east- and westbound traffic crossing the new bridges.

The design is meant to physically separate east-west traffic trying to get across the North Shore from traffic bound for the Ironworkers. It

will also mean less weaving and merging of vehicles at multiple entry points on the highway, which creates inefficiencies.

The total cost of the project is now nearly $200 million.

North Vancouver Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite described the project Friday as “one of the most complicated infrastructure projects in the province today” and one that’s critical to the North Shore. “Since 2009, this has been the number one issue I’ve been working on,” she said.

“We’ve been stuck in this forever and we’re finally going to fix it.”

Thornthwaite said the lower Lynn corridor is currently a choke point for the entire region – both for people driving from Horseshoe Bay to Burnaby and those going from shopping to soccer practice within North Vancouver.

“I live here and I know how busy Highway 1 can get,” she said “I’ve been stuck in traffic for hours.”

North Vancouver MP Jonathan Wilkinson described the project announcement as “very good news for all of us.”

He added he’d raised the issue of the significant bottleneck in the area and

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ith Friday’s announcement, almost $200 million is now being spent to widen Highway 1 and revamp our local interchanges in a bid to ease traffic congestion.

For drivers on the North Shore, this is a good thing. Traffic problems have escalated to the point of being untenable. The new corridor improvements have every possibility of making getting around North Vancouver – those picking up their kids from daycare, going to sports practice or grocery shopping – much less frustrating.

For the 80 per cent of traffic that’s heading over the Ironworkers, however, the fix is less clear. Politicians love road and bridge projects – big tangible stretches of asphalt, steel and concrete. But regionally, they’re also evidence of a mid-century way of thinking – that the solution to congestion is more road capacity.

Provincial statistics show the North Shore’s population has largely flatlined.

A 2015 traffic study put the blame for our worsening traffic woes on a big increase in people driving here for work.

If we continue the trend of exiling our working class to the suburban valley, it’s only a matter of time before our fancy new infrastructure will be at capacity again.

While we welcome Friday’s announcement, it won’t solve larger traffic problems over the long term. The best way to do that is to have people live closer to where they work – which means more affordable housing options. Improving our transit system and some form of road pricing will also be key.

As the revered city planner Lewis Mumford acutely noted in 1955, adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

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Support our First Nations on Kinder Morgan stance Dear Editor: Re: More Pipeline Suits Launched by First Nations, Jan. 18 front-page story.

As a former senior industrial hygienist at WorkSafeBC, I had direct experience with drafting parameters and criteria for the creation of industrial health and safety regulations in B.C. With regard to the suit launched by North Shore First Nations aimed at stopping the construction of Kinder Morgan’s expanded pipeline, Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief Maureen Thomas outlines various flaws in the federal government’s consultation process.

Among these flaws, she states that “the oil spill risks and health impacts were significantly understated.”

I strongly and unequivocally support this statement made by Chief Thomas.

In the event of an oil spill, quantitative and qualitative assessments of the impacts on human and environmental health have been understated to the point of being generally avoided or ignored.

How many of us have read a media report of any substantive statement on the risks and impacts of a potential oil spill in our waters?

Or have heard a government politician respond directly to that issue?

I believe the risks and impacts of an oil spill were “understated” to avoid dealing with the elephant in the room – which is the fact that diluted bitumen would have very detrimental, permanent

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impacts on the health of our environment, and that adequate technology is not even available to clean up that kind of ocean oil spill.

How can such a situation, on a greatly expanded scale, be in any way acceptable?

Based on my experience in the field of industrial health and safety, it certainly isn’t.

It is even less so in a large urban coastal area which is greatly dependent upon its environment for its economy.

Simply put, the issue is “understated” because it has been essentially whitewashed at our great peril and expense by political power brokers who have, wittingly or not, placed the corporate agenda ahead of the well-being of our communities. It is, in my estimation, an appalling situation

which defies rudimentary common sense. I also believe that many of us, as ordinary citizens, are feeling this at a gut level – which is the reason this proposed pipeline expansion has become so viscerally upsetting and frustrating for a very large number of Metro Vancouver residents.

Our mayors, councils and

other politicians, our newspaper editorial boards, our community and professional organizations and each of us – as ordinary citizens – must support our First Nations and follow their lead in sending a powerful message to the federal government and the world at large that we strongly oppose the construction of Kinder Morgan’s

Trans Mountain pipeline. It is critical that we marshal our resources in putting a stop to this project as we are not only protecting the physical, social and economic wellbeing of our communities, but our fundamental way of life on the West Coast of Canada.

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Replace foreign oil with domestic Dear Editor: Canada imports about 650,000 barrels per day of oil from some of the most despotic and culturally intolerant countries in the world. The money we spend on this oil supports slavery, homophobia, suppresses

women and much more. At the same time we leave our oil and jobs in the ground.

We export by rail and at a 25 per cent discount.

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Real cost of distracted driving measured in lives Dear Editor: Are you the person who was driving north on Chesterfield Avenue in North Vancouver, and turning east onto 16th Street on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 1 p.m.?

You were alone. You were intent on what you were doing.

But you were not intent on the business of properly controlling your vehicle.

You failed to notice the elderly lady with a cane at the southwest crosswalk who was clearly waiting for the traffic to stop so that she could safely cross the road.

No, you were too busy

talking on your cellphone. It was in your left hand, to your ear, as you wheeled through the crosswalk, and turned right onto 16th Street. No attention being paid to anyone but yourself. Was your phone conversation more important than the safety of that lady?

Are your needs more important than everyone else’s security?

Fortunately, the lady was able to cross the road safely after you drove away. But I was left shaking my head at what I had witnessed. If a member of the RCMP had been around, you would have

received two tickets – one for failing to stop at the crosswalk when a pedestrian was trying to cross ($167), and a second for distracted driving (using an electronic device while driving – $368). And you would have received seven points on your driver’s licence – points that add up and increase the cost of your car insurance.

All of us need to be aware of what we are doing on the roads, as drivers, pedestrians or cyclists. Please help to make 2017 a safer year on all the North Shore roads.

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ONLINECOMMENT NSN STORY: Campaign On For 30 km/h on Residential Streets (Jan. 22) TreadingLight (at nsnews.com): Yes! 50 to 30 would make a world of difference for pedestrians, kids playing, bikers and reduce sound levels significantly. As an avid biker, I don’t think drivers understand how scary and defeating it is to have a half ton machine rip by you on a quiet residential street.

Han-Lin Yong (at nsnews.com): The article mentioned residential streets. Since most of the commuting distance for drivers is on major roads, travel times shouldn’t increase too much.

It saves money on speed limit signs too.

Peter Teevan (on Facebook): Interesting that he (Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, medical health officer) doesn’t mention that it’s also never acceptable to step into a crosswalk without looking, to walk in the street amid traffic while wearing earphones, to still walk even though the pedestrian lights say “stop,” to pass a right-turning vehicle on the right on a bike, etc., etc.

Does the medical officer think that vehicle speed is the only contributing factor to accidents?

Or perhaps does he/she just think it’s a politically correct opportunity to fight the automobile.

NV (at nsnews.com): I’d rather have stricter eyesight tests for drivers. It’s not speeders that are the problem, it’s people who literally can’t see someone crossing the street. I have to turn on my phone flashlight to get people to stop at the crosswalk sometimes, even in good conditions.

Vivien Virginia Garlick (on Facebook): This speed limit of 30 km/h is the norm in many cities in the U.K. And in Europe. In my own city, Bristol, it’s enforced and it makes for a nicer, safer neighbourhood. I also know someone who was hit by a car recently whilst on their bike and as the car was doing the 30km/h limit was injured but not killed. Everyone of course resisted it to begin with, but now it’s accepted and people have adhered to and embraced it.

Guy Trotter (on Facebook): I’m in favour of this proposal. I assume the proposal is referring to the speed on side streets, rather than on main thoroughfares (i.e. Mountain Highway and others). Consider this: on a “typical” side street in North Vancouver (or, at least in Lynn Valley, where I live), most houses have rental suites, which means more cars parked on the road.

Also consider that most roads don’t have sidewalks, which necessitates pedestrians to share the roadway with cars. So, you have narrow streets, lots of vehicles, and pedestrians walking on the road. Naturally, this necessitates lower speed limits. . . . A 30km/h limit will have an almost negligible impact on anyone’s time to get around on the North Shore. The side streets are the shortest segment of anyone’s commute (I’d hazard), so a reduced speed for this hazardous area seems completely reasonable.

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North Vancouver Lonsdale MLA Naomi Yamamoto said the full project will create 600 jobs over a four-year period.

The new express/collector distribution system will be an adjustment at first, with a few people likely getting caught in the express lanes and missing their desired exit, said Gavin Joyce, the District of North Vancouver’s general manager of engineering.

“You have to make that decision early,” he said.

“You’ll get used to it pretty quickly if you live on the North Shore.”

According to traffic studies, about 20 per cent of the drivers on the Cut during the evening rush hour are exiting before the bridge.

Part of the $20 million going towards the project from District of North Vancouver taxes will go towards the purchase or expropriation of private land on the north side of the existing bridge, and more trees will have to be removed from Bridgman Park to accommodate the new bridges.

There had been talk of replacing the orange 1960 Highway 1 bridge over Lynn Creek, but the structure has at least another 15 years of life left in it.

Compared to previous iterations, the concept unveiled Friday adds the ability for Mountain Highway drivers to get on Highway 1 eastbound, though it does not offer a

way for drivers exiting the Cut at the new interchange to turn north onto Mountain Highway.

Eventually, the province will also look to totally revamp the Main Street/ Dollarton Highway interchange as well, although what that might look like hasn’t even been put on paper yet.

According to a provincial traffic study, the Ironworkers Bridge itself is almost at capacity now. In theory, the bridge can handle 1,800 vehicles per lane, per hour heading eastbound. But the bridge already accommodates more than 5,000 vehicles per hour in its three eastbound lanes during peak periods.

Seymour North Burnaby MP Terry Beech acknowledged Friday’s announcement won’t eliminate traffic congestion on the North Shore.

“It’s not the only solution to solving our traffic problems,” he said, adding housing affordability and transit also play key roles. “All of these issues affect traffic and they affect each other,” he said.

District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton said while “the future isn’t just in building roads and highways … you have to invest in your infrastructure.”

Walton said the project will make a difference to traffic congestion on the North Shore.

“You’re always going to have to spend some money on roads,” he said. “There’s a huge amount of lost productivity with people sitting in traffic.”

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Central Motor Service started in the 1930s MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

Jeremy Thorp manually lowers the service bay garage door at the end of another day in Deep Cove.

He’s got one last piece of business to attend to before calling it quits. For Deep Cove’s longtime community mechanic, this transaction is personal.

Thorp has found a suitable owner for his teenage daughter’s first car. The black Golf had been driven by Reilly for a couple of years, before she headed off to university in Calgary last fall.

Thorp imparts some advice to the young man, who himself is navigating early adulthood, and tells him to hold onto the Golf since it’s a good car.

Inside Thorp’s humble office, framed pictures of various community sports teams he sponsors hang on the weathered walls. He has treats in a jar for customers’ furry companions in this dogfriendly community.

Central Motor Service has been a fixture at the intersection of Deep Cove Road and Mount Seymour Parkway since the 1930s. As a young apprentice, Thorp discovered the unassuming mechanic shop in 1988, not knowing that one day he would inherit an enduring piece of Deep Cove history.

In the early days, when Deep Cove was a summer cottage community, Central Motor Service was only a onebay garage with gas pumps.

“It definitely would have been a slower pace back then,” says Thorp, sitting behind the desk in the original office built almost 90 years ago.

Thorp tells the story of a recent afternoon when two generations of Covers collided. He and his mechanic trio had finished lunch together – the boss will often order the penne chicken from nearby Arms Reach Bistro – when an older gentleman showed up at the shop.

They learned the man was one of the first mechanics at Central Motor Service in the 1930s. He had a little place in the Cove and would unwind on the weekend at dances

in Lynn Valley. He said they would fix one or two cars a week in those days.

On the day Thorp met him, the retired mechanic had brought his grandkids out to show them the special shop that still stands from a bygone era.

The island that once supported gas pumps still remains, many years after the pumps were removed.

Thorp once found a big box of handwritten receipts from the 1940s, when gas was two cents a gallon. That was four decades before Thorp arrived at Central Motor Service.

Thorp enjoyed tinkering around with cars from a young age. Growing up in Lions Bay, he and his friends would cruise up the Sea to Sky Highway for some skiing in Whistler.

The Hillside secondary grad went to BCIT after high school, with that innate interest in car mechanics in hand.

When it came time to do an apprenticeship, Thorp drove to Deep Cove to see Tony Yamashita, the third owner of Central Motor Service.

Yamashita took Thorp under his wing and, along with mechanic training, taught him a most valuable life lesson. “(Tony) was as honest as the day is long,” recalls Thorp. “He always preached, you’ve got to be honest.”

When Yamashita retired he passed the torque wrench to Thorp about five years ago.

All told, Thorp has been fixing cars in the Cove for 30 years.

“We fix everything, all years, makes and models,” he says. “We get lots of cars from the ‘60s, we’ve had some cars from the ‘50s, and a Pantera (sports car). “There’s a guy in the neighbourhood who had a car from the ‘30s, a Daimler.”

Thorp’s personal preference is mid to late ‘60s General Motors cars, “just because they look good,” he says.

The ‘60s was when the second bay was put in at Central Motor Service. Underneath the shop, where there used to be an old hardware store, has since been repurposed with more service bays for a total of eight.

A wave of nostalgia washes over longtime Seymour resident and District of North

Jeremy Thorp stands in the doorway of Central Motor Service, where he first arrived as a young apprentice in 1988.

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Vancouver Coun. Lisa Muri when asked about Central Motor Service’s history.

Her grandfather built the business and owned it along with the hardware store and the lumber yard until about 1970.

“He found Deep Cove reminded him of the fjords of Norway,” says Muri.

She remembers Cove residents knocking on the door of the family home, saying their hot water tank had burst, and her dad heading up to open the hardware store to get their part for them.

Thorp also answers the call on his days off, proving that fixing cars is a passion for him, and customers are more than just invoice numbers.

Ninety per cent of Thorp’s patrons live in the Seymour area and many remain loyal even after they move away.

“I’ve got a guy coming in from Ladner tomorrow who

used to live in the Cove,” says Thorp.

After he closes up shop for the weekend, Thorp spends time with his wife and two children in Lynn Valley. They hike the Headwaters with the family dog, Jasper. Though these days it’s just Jeremy and his wife Angela at home.

Twenty-year-old Dylan plays college baseball for Bellevue University in Nebraska – he was named pitcher of the week in the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association last spring – while his sister Reilly, 18, studies sciences in Calgary.

Thorp knows Central Motor Service may only have a few more years left in its original location.

“I always start to think about that and there’s so much going on that you don’t think about it,” says Thorp.

In December, Darwin

Properties submitted a development application to North Vancouver District for the Central Motor Service site and other properties on that block of Deep Cove Road down to the Raven Pub. The district has sent out a notice to residents within a 100-metre radius of the site asking for initial input on the preliminary application.

The deadline for submitting input on 1012-1110 Deep Cove Road is Jan. 31. If the application moves forward, a public info session is required at the next stage, the detailed application phase.

The proposal is to redevelop the properties and create a new restaurant (The Raven) and 27 total townhomes and rowhomes in two phases to a maximum height of three storeys.

Thorp says he’s working with Darwin Properties and is hoping they will find Central

Motor Service a new home in the Dollarton area.

“Even if we do move to a newer, better building, I will still feel kind of sad. I’ve been here most of my life,” says Thorp.

In the meantime, Thorp concentrates on what he can control – helping keep customers safe on the road.

Thorp stands in Central Motor Service’s doorway, the threshold into manhood he crossed all those years ago.

He hands the Golf keys to the young man and asks if he has any questions before sending him on his way.

The kid says no.

Thorp tell him the most important thing to do is keep up with the oil changes and to keep the tires inflated.

The kid nods. Thorp turns and walks back inside his office.

He genuinely cared about that car.

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Michelangelo inspired art in Maplewood MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

Stone sculptor Michael Binkley had an epiphany in Italy.

He was 20 years old and floundering through life when he decided to study in the epicentre for early Italian Renaissance art.

It was in the hallowed halls of the Accademia di Belle Arti that Binkley had his premonition. He stared at Michelangelo’s four unfinished slave sculptures.

“I had this epiphany that I could see inside rock,” says Binkley. And my epiphany was I realized I could see those half finished sculptures the way that everyone else could see (Michelangelo’s) David finished.”

Binkley came home inspired from that experience and spent the summer of 1980 in a friend’s studio learning how to carve stone. He was a quick study and has since earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most successful self-represented artists.

The Lynn Valley resident’s work can be found in private collections on every continent.

“You will even find a Michael Binkley on Antarctica,” he says.

Binkley maintains his studio in Moodyville, where he works in a wide variety of stone and idiom. His collection contains figurative, abstract and wildlife works, however Binkley’s favourite subject to sculpt is the human nude.

“I can’t explain it but it’s just my favourite art form and that probably goes back to Michelangelo,” he says. “I think that the human body is one of the most beautiful things in nature.”

Over the years Binkley has begun offering stone carving workshops, including one coming up in the Seymour area in

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early February. Undoubtedly, the most unique environment Binkley has taught in was out at sea.

He plied his craft in the Mediterranean, in Alaska and across the Atlantic, teaching stone sculpting aboard cruise ships, including the stately Queen Mary 2. Binkley was selected to represent Canada in the $5-million onboard permanent art collection for that ship. He completed that commission at the end of 2003, when the ship was ready for unveiling and christened by Queen Elizabeth II. Binkley strives to create sculptures which will seduce the viewer’s eye, stir the soul, and entice the viewer to touch. With his upcoming course at Maplewood House, Binkley is hoping to spark some imagination.

“To this day most workshops … they will all follow a pattern,” he says. “I would prefer to encourage creativity.”

Instead of going in with a concept, Binkley will study the rock and envision what form it should take, that’s his method.

“I would like to see students engage with a piece of stone,” he says.

In past workshops students have created everything from a lighthouse to a self-portrait of a left hand out of stone.

The Maplewood course will run three Tuesday nights and at the end of it students can go home with a piece of soapstone art.

“Because it’s so soft, participants will be able to work quickly and hopefully realize a piece from start to finish,” says Binkley.

He will teach students how to create a masterpiece from soapstone using files, rifflers and sandpaper, Tuesdays, Feb. 7-21, 7-9 p.m. at Maplewood House, 399 Seymour River Place. The course cost is $130 and includes materials. Register by Jan. 31 by calling 604-988-6844 or emailing programmes@nvartscouncil.ca. appies and door prize entry.

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Seniors also at risk for losing homes Homeless seniors on the North Shore? Never, it’s unthinkable, right?

At a recent presentation at the Services to Seniors Coalition participants heard some alarming statistics about the issue.

We were told that Hollyburn Family Services Society served 215 clients last year who were homeless or in danger of losing their housing. The average age of these clients was 65 with an almost equal split between men and women, and 99 seniors were about to be evicted from their homes.

Seniors at Housing Risk was a participatory research project finalized in 2013, in a partnership with Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society and Hollyburn Family Services Society. A number of recommendations came out of that report and Hollyburn took these on with some success under the leadership of Leya Eguchi, a co-author of the report and presenter at the coalition meeting.

Included in the list was a recommendation to increase senior-specific outreach

Older and Wiser Margaret Coates support, and Hollyburn has done that by adding four outreach support staff to their team. They have put into place a rent bank that subsidizes an average of 12 seniors a month. Hollyburn has also opened a Safe House for seniors in partnership with the District of North Vancouver.

The Safe House has been at nearly full capacity since it opened in 2015.

More than half of the clients were referred by a medical professional and many had significant health issues such as cancer, post heart attack complications and diabetes.

The Safe House gave them a chance to stabilize their health crisis.

At the presentation we learned that homelessness, or being at risk for homelessness, can be attributed to

unexpected circumstances such as illness, loss of a job, death, system glitches, availability and affordability of housing, cost of food and other living expenses, lack of social support, and barriers to housing.

Some would argue that housing affordability is the number one factor.

In a Jan. 24 Vancouver Sun article by Sam Cook, it is reported that a 2017 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey shows Vancouver is considered to have one of the third most expensive housing costs in the world behind Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia.

“There are serious consequences for residents,” the survey said. “The higher house prices reduce discretionary incomes, which reduces potential standards of living and raises relative poverty rates.”

On the North Shore, studies done by the City of North Vancouver and Districts of North and West Vancouver have shown it is increasingly more difficult to attain affordable housing for seniors who are at risk of homelessness or seniors who simply want to downsize but stay in their community. The City of North Vancouver Housing report

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A recent presentation showed 215 North Shore seniors accessed services last year because they were homeless or in danger of losing their housing. PHOTO MARIA SPITALE-LEISK

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says that “Seniors are expected to experience the largest proportional growth amongst all age groups in the City of North Vancouver in coming decades. The aging population is already evident in the number of non-market housing units dedicated to independent and frail seniors and the growing wait list for seniors-oriented housing.”

People have been coming up with their own innovative solutions to cope with rising housing costs.

According to a Jan. 23 Toronto Star, article one solution is called Shared Housing. Think Golden Girls, the TV show in which four older women lived together and shared housing costs and expenses thus contributing to their overall well-being.

In Paris, in an arrangement called homeshare, two people, a student and a senior,

share the senior’s home, one for assistance in daily living and one to be able to afford the rent. They were matched by an organization called Ensemble2Generations. A BBC news report said: “The concept is simple, yet it attempts to bridge an intergenerational divide that exists in many parts of the world.”

If we want to keep seniors safely housed then we will need groups like Hollyburn, groups who provide below-market rental housing such as Kiwanis, government-sponsored affordable housing strategies, and innovative solutions.

Margaret Coates is the co-ordinator of Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society. She has lived on the North Shore for 47 years and has worked for and with seniors for 20 of those years. Ideas for future columns are welcome by sending an email to lions_view@telus.net.

SENIORS CALENDAR EXERCISE FOR MOBILE SENIORS The Keep Well Society offers free classes at seven venues across the North Shore. The programs include one-hour of fitness followed by blood pressure checks, health coaching, massage, speakers and social times. 604-988-7115 X27 keepwellsociety.ca SINGALONG MONDAY Drop in and singalong with pianist Donna Crook Mondays, 10-11 a.m. at Parkgate Community Centre, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver. Songbooks will be provided. Free.

ACCESSING SERVICES A workshop for family caregivers currently supporting a person with dementia who is living at home Saturday, Feb. 11, 1-3 p.m. The session will review strategies for accessing support from a variety of sources in the community. Info and reservations: 604-984-8347 or info.northshore@ alzheimerbc.org.

SENIORS GATHERING — GLUTEN FREE A free drop-in program for an informal get together and chat from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday of every month at the North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. During the Feb. 14 talk, Mountain Top Bakery’s Bruce Jones discusses gluten free and other specialty baking techniques and challenges. 604-998-3460 nvcl.ca SENIORS GATHERING — A PERFECT CUP OF TEA A free drop-in program for an informal gettogether and chat, 10-11:30 a.m., on the second Tuesday of every month at the North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. At the March 14 drop-in, Kyla Wilson from Murchie’s Tea and Coffee will discuss the history of tea and how to brew that perfect cup. Bring your sense of humour. 604-998-3460 nvcl.ca

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The following is a selection of volunteer opportunities from various community organizations, made available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society.

QUEEN MARY FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM This intergenerational program in the Lower Lonsdale area delivers learner-centred literacy programming to the parents, grandparents and caregivers of Queen Mary elementary students. Its goal is to provide opportunities for participants to be more involved in their community, to support their children’s learning and to improve their ability to access services.

BOARD MEMBER Capilano Community Services Society seeks volunteers interested in being involved with a non-profit society, available for board meetings held the third Thursday of each month (except July and August); able to serve a minimum of two years, four-eight hours per month. Experience in accounting or fund development welcome.

FRONT DESK VOLUNTEER Chinese Community Policing Centre is looking for a front desk volunteer to assist clients reporting non-emergency crimes over the phone or through the Internet. The volunteer will also provide English, Cantonese and/or Mandarin interpretation and translation, assist in completing victim impact statements and make referrals to

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MEALTIME ASSISTANT A volunteer is needed at the Lynn Valley Care Centre from Monday to Sunday, 6-6:30 p.m., to assist a blind woman with meals.

DROP-IN HOST VOLUNTEER 411 Seniors Centre seeks volunteers to greet members and clients attending its diverse programs and activities, and create a welcoming environment on weekdays during regular hours of operation from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

If you are interested in these or other possible volunteer opportunities call 604-985-7138.

WHITE CANE WEEK Amy Amantea and Rosamund van Leeuwen, with guide dog Rory, will be participating in the White Cane Week presentation upstairs at Park Royal’s south mall on Feb. 7, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. The event will feature information about resources, including assistive technology, service animals, adaptive sports, and accessible library materials, for people with sight loss.

Sighted guides from the Park Royal north and south bus stops are available by calling Amy Amantea in advance at 604-763-2695. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING A 3 unit development is being proposed for 3030 Sunnyhurst Road to construct a residential townhouse project. You are invited to a meeting to discuss the project.

Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 Time: 6:45 p.m.

Meeting Location: Karen Magnussen Community Centre, Eagle Room 2300 Kirkstone Road, North Vancouver The applicant proposes to rezone the site from single-family zoning to a comprehensive development zone to permit a three unit ground oriented townhouse development, consistent with District of North Vancouver’s Official Community Plan. The proposal includes two buildings (one single unit and a duplex). Units range in size from 1500sq.ft. to 2400sq.ft.

All three units will have a two car garage and storage.

The meeting is being held by Brody Development (S & B) Ltd. in compliance with District of North Vancouver Council Policy. The applicant will present details of the proposal and discuss any concerns residents may have.

Information packages are being distributed to residents within a 100 metre radius of the site. If you would like to receive a copy or if you would like more information, please contact: Brianne Brody of Brody Development (S & B) Ltd. at 604-980-2954; Emel Nordin of the Community Planning Department at 604-990-2347; or Duane Siegrist of Integra Architecture Inc. at 604-688-4220; or bring your questions or comments to the meeting. *This is not a Public Hearing.

Council will receive a report from staff on issues raised at the meeting and will formally consider the proposal at a later date.

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And then once the game was done and they’d won that championship I think he just felt he could go,” says Greg.

Brian died exactly two weeks after the championship win. It was a blow to the family, but they carried on.

“You do the best you can. My mom was unbelievable. My mom was a trooper.

She was incredibly strong,” explains Greg.

When asked how she faced losing her husband and raising three teens on her own, Paula admits: “That’s what I was wondering at first.”

But she is quick to add: “You know something? I had three great kids, so, well, it wasn’t easy, but they made it easier for me. They were great.”

Paula, who was at the final game with her three sons, remembers when the final buzzer went. She watched her husband stand for the entire trophy ceremony despite the fact that he had arrived to the venue in a wheelchair.

Assistant coach Tom Rippon was by his side, ready to hold him steady, but Paula thinks her husband wanted to stand on his own. And he did.

“I believe he willed himself to live those final days,” she reflects on the emotional time.

Memories of coach Upson are particularly poignant for Lockhart right now as his own father battles cancer. He says the struggle has brought back strong memories of that final game in 1982, and the time he spent with his team

Rockridge secondary film students Tavish Kelpin and Meryl Stevens directed and produced the student documentary Longshot: The Brian Upson Story, about the coach of the 1982 West Vancouver secondary senior boys basketball team. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN and his coach.

“He always taught us about poise,” notes Lockhart.

“Be calm and remain focused on exactly what you need to do.”

His approach to coaching was very strategic. Having been a player himself, including captain of the UBC Thunderbirds, coach Upson was very good with reacting and strategizing at half-time and during time outs, adjusting to what was working and what the other team was doing, explains Lockhart.

Now living in Ontario with two young daughters, one of

whom he is already coaching in a junior basketball league, Lockhart regularly visits his parents, who still live in West Vancouver, and recalls the lessons he learned from Brian Upson.

“One of the other things he pushed, along with poise, was to maintain confidence in our abilities,” says Lockhart.

“He always taught me about what he called the ‘must-take shot.’ In other words, if you find yourself in an open spot in a high-pressure situation: go ahead and take the shot.”

Lockhart says he carried that message through

university and into a business career. “You set yourself up and prepare for success and rely on your abilities and don’t pass up that opportunity.”

Although the basketball game is over, the memories live on.

“I think of it as a really rewarding time in terms of all the work paying off. I think of it as bigger than basketball.

And there were some life lessons that have stuck with me a long time around playing fair, being a good sport, and being a gentleman on the court and off the court. And

I think much of that was the way he carried himself as a coach and sort of a mentor,” says Lockhart.

All three Upson boys are now grown and have families of their own. All still live on the North Shore, as does Paula, who has six grandkids ranging in age from five months to 22 years old, including Greg’s son Matt, a 17-year-old senior on the basketball team at Rockridge secondary.

When he watches his son play, Greg says he can imagine how his dad would have coached Matt, as he did

Greg and his two brothers in their driveway. But although Matt and his brother Ryan know about their grandfather, younger generations of students may not know why there is a studentathlete scholarship at West Vancouver secondary in honour of coach Brian Upson.

They soon will.

Students in Rockridge secondary’s film class have recently completed a documentary called Longshot: The Brian Upson Story, which follows the saga of the West Van coach as he leads his team to the 1982 provincial championships while living with cancer.

The film includes interviews with family members, former players, and local reporters who reflect on the effect Brian Upson still has on the community today. The film will have a screening at Kay Meek Theatre on Feb. 24, and Paula hopes it will be a full house.

“I think he’d be so happy,” she says of what might have been Brian’s reaction to the film and to renewed interest in the story. “He’d be so happy for his team. Not for him, but for his team. That people still remember it.”

Because of his love of teaching, she adds: “I think it was wonderful that students wanted to do this. That they came up with the project and they wanted to do it. I think he would be so pleased with that.”

Tickets to the show are available online at kaymeekcentre.com. Both the trailer for the film and the original cable version of the 1982 game are available on YouTube.

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BANDING TOGETHER Kulvir Mann, Julia Staub French, Caroline Schut and Joanna Zelichowska link up to show their support for the North Vancouver-based Jessie’s Legacy Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness Program. The program, run by Family Services of the North Shore, is the provincial leader for the annual Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness Week traditionally launched the first week in February. Events this year include a PEDAW promotion night during a Vancouver Canucks game Feb. 4 as well as a purple day on Feb. 3. The public is encouraged to wear purple and don a purple wristband on that day and post photos taken in front of purple-lit landmarks around B.C., including several locations around the North Shore. For more information visit jessieslegacy.com. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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WHAT DOES COMMUNITY LOOK LIKE ON CANVAS? High school students throughout North Vancouver were recently asked this question by the RCMP Youth Intervention Unit and asked to interpret the question with paintings. The works are on display in the North Vancouver RCMP detachment lobby at 147 East 14th St. The public is invited to view the artwork and anonymously vote on their favourite piece. Voting is open until Feb. 3 when the top finalists will be determined.

LIBRARY SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM is a program offered by North Vancouver City Library targeted at promoting connection among newcomers and longtime residents of the city. The program provides up to $500 to support creative ideas for projects, events and initiatives that use the library’s space and resources to promote learning, understanding and friendship among the city’s diverse residents. Details, eligibility criteria and how to apply: nvcl.ca/usingthe-library/library-small-grants. Deadline for applications: Feb. 15.

WRITING CONTEST The North Shore Writers’ Association is currently running its annual contest for fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

Fee: $20/$15. Deadline for entries: Tuesday, Feb. 28. nswriters.org CLIMATE CHANGE Learn about municipal leadership on climate change on the North Shore Monday, Jan. 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver. Representatives from the District of West Vancouver and City and District of North Vancouver will discuss the measures they are taking to significantly lower community and corporate greenhouse gas emissions through their strategic plans and targeted actions. $10. nsclimateaction.eventbrite.ca INFORMATION MEETING Learn about West Vancouver’s proposed 2017 budget Jan. 30, 6-8 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr.; Feb. 1, 2-4 p.m. at the Seniors’ Activity Centre, 695 21st St.; and Feb. 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Gleneagles Community Centre, 6262 Marine Dr. westvancouver. ca/budget LET’S TALK Develop English language skills by discussing current events at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Beginners: Monday, Jan. 30, 10:15-11:15 a.m. or 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Intermediate: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 7-8:30 p.m. westvanlibrary.ca TIPS FOR SMALL AND HOME-BASED BUSINESSES The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce and West Vancouver Memorial Library invite the public to a business breakfast with speaker Cyri Jones who will discuss marketing and branding for small business Tuesday, Jan. 31, 7:30-9 a.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Free, but registration is required: 604-926-6614 or info@westvanchamber.com.

URBAN HOMESTEADING SERIES — HOMEMADE LOOMS AND BASIC WEAVING Learn how to build a homemade loom using recycled materials, and how to create a string-art piece Wednesday, Feb. 1, 7-8:30 p.m. at North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. Registration: nvcl.ca.

THE GALA ON 12TH STREET — 1001 NIGHTS St. Agnes Anglican Church will host a fundraiser to benefit REST, a group that sponsors refugees coming to Canada Saturday, Feb. 4, 6-10 p.m. at 530 East 12th St., North Vancouver. Cost: $60 per person, which includes a three-course dinner, Original Blend performance, live and silent auctions and more. 604-250-6658 PUB QUIZ NIGHT Make up a team or join one for a quiz night Saturday, Feb. 4, 7-10:30 p.m. at Caulfeild Cove Hall, 4773 South Piccadilly Rd., West Vancouver. Proceeds will go to Family Services of the North Shore. Cost: $25, which includes a pub dinner. 604-812-7411 caulfeildcovehall.ca.

VEX ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT Watch high school students from around the Lower Mainland competing in a robotics tournament featuring approximately 70 teams Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at West Vancouver secondary, 1750 Mathers St. robotevents.com WRITING WITH WRITERS The North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th street, hosts an informative evening with novelist Diana Stevan Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7-8:30 p.m. Learn what is involved with creating and completing a work of fiction.

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Royals rise in Howe Sound hoops

Handsworth knocks off Sentinel to stake early claim to top spot ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

The Handsworth Royals senior boys basketball team finished off a hot month with a tough win over Sentinel Thursday, shooting themselves into top spot in the Howe Sound AAAA league as the playoffs approach.

The Royals actually trailed the Spartans by three heading into the fourth quarter Thursday at Handsworth, but their offence woke up in time to score 24 points in the final 10 minutes to secure a tough 64-55 win.

“That was a crazy game for sure,” Handsworth head coach Cam Mowat said after the contest. “Sentinel is a tough team, they’re pretty good. … It was a defensive battle, which you’ll see against good, tough teams.”

The Royals were led by the dynamic Grade 11 duo of point guard Blake McLean and forward Ben Grant. Centres Baptiste Grandjean and Amir Hajisafar also helped provide the interior muscle that pushed the Royals past the Spartans.

The win moved Handsworth, 16-5 for the season, to 3-0 in Howe Sound play and gave them their ninth straight win overall.

In January the Royals posted a 9-1 record, a run that included a gold medal win at the Cavs classic tournament hosted by Collingwood School last weekend. Handsworth claimed that title with a 74-52 win over fellow North Vancouver school Carson Graham in the final on Saturday. The Royals continued their North Shore reign three days later with another win over Carson, this time by a score of 86-52 in Howe Sound league play.

“We expect them to be a bit tougher the next time around,” Mowat said of the Eagles, who had several players fighting the flu bug during Tuesday’s game. “They’re a talented group. If you let them get their shots, they’re capable of winning on any given night.”

Rounding out the Howe Sound AAAA contenders is Argyle, a team that has just two Grade 12 players on its roster.

“They’re a young team, but they’re aggressive, which can give us problems from time to time,” said Mowat. “Just like any team on the North Shore, anyone can win on any given night.

No game is a given. They’re quite a capable team when they’re firing.”

One more wrinkle will be thrown in the mix when the perennial dog fight known as the Howe Sound playoffs begin. The West Vancouver Highlanders have not been playing league games, just exhibition contests, but they’ll be thrown in the mix again once the playoffs start and a trip to the AAAA provincial championships is on the line.

“We don’t really care who we face, we just want to play our game,” said Mowat about his team’s potential playoff opponents. “We want to prepare, and win any game we can, whether it’s against West Van or Carson or Sentinel or Argyle, we’ll come out and play Handsworth basketball.”

No matter how it all shakes out, Mowat knows his Royals will have to be at their best to keep their spot on top of the Howe Sound heap.

“I don’t think it’s safe to make predictions, just because on any given night, anyone can win,” he said. “Sentinel gave us our biggest test – that was a very exciting game. But that said, Argyle, Carson – they can surprise you.”

As for the Royals, all they want to do now is keep preparing

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Sentinel’s Andrew Davis and Handsworth’s Baptiste Grandjean battle during a AAAA Howe Sound senior boys game Thursday at Handsworth. The host squad won 64-55. For more photos visit nsnews.com. PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH

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Snowboarders find some fresh powder in an unlikely place during the fifth annual Uncapped Rail Jam held at Capilano University Thursday. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD

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It was a snow day this week at Capilano University as the students’ union put on the fifth annual Uncapped Rail Jam Thursday, bringing some of the North Shore’s famous mountain life into the middle of campus.

Tourism student Carmina Tioseco was the lead organizer in charge of setting up a short ski and snowboard course in one of the school’s central courtyards. The tricky part, of course, is getting finding snow on a campus that is normally soaked in rain during the winter months. The team trucked in a bunch of the white stuff the night before, loading up a 26-foot truck on Mount Seymour.

“We just shovelled it into a U-Haul. It took a long time,” she said with a laugh, adding

that the snow move took nearly 10 hours to complete. “I had a really good team that helped me out. They stayed late to shovel.”

It was all worth it to see the campus come together to enjoy food, music and fun while watching 25 local riders show off their best tricks.

“It was great community,” said Tioseco.

“All the hard work that me and my team put in all paid off in the end. It was nice to see everybody having a good time.”

The event was used to raise funds and awareness for the Chill Foundation, a Vancouver-based organization that provides opportunities for underserved youth to build self-esteem and life skills through snowboarding and other board sports.

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BC Hydro technicians need to be able to quickly and easily access these ground-level transformers when there’s an outage or emergency. The required clearance area is 2.5 meters from all doors and 1 meter from all other sides.

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Sentinel’s Dylon Matthews looks for an opening during a Howe Sound senior boys AAAA matchup against Handsworth Thursday. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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“You can never be comfortable, it’s never good enough,” said Mowat. “But we’re improving, we’re getting to the point where we want to be, but we’re not there yet.”

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Action continues this week in the AAAA ranks with Argyle hosting West Van Monday night and Sentinel hosting Carson Graham Tuesday. Both games begin at 7:30 p.m.

Handsworth will be back in action Thursday when they’ll host Argyle in a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.

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MITCHELL, Sadie Doreen It is with a great sense of love and loss that we acknowledge the passing on January 17, 2017 of a wonderful mum and nana, Sadie Doreen Mitchell (née Toghill).

Born and raised in Exeter, England, Sadie later moved to Montreal with her husband, James Ronald Mitchell, where only daughter Cheryl was born. After a family move to Toronto, she liked working as a fashion consultant.

Sadie enjoyed her family, especially during fun-filled vacations such as those in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey. She liked to relax via knitting and colouring, as well as having a chat and laugh with people.

Sadie loved watching her favorite movies - The Sound of Music and An Affair to Remember - and listening to favorite songs such as Puccini’s La Bohème and her wedding song, Schubert’s Ave Maria. She was beyond thrilled to become a nana, devoting countless hours to nurturing her grandchildren. Being a nana gave her joy and an even deeper sense of being needed and valued.

Sadie is survived by daughter Cheryl, son-in-law David, and grandchildren Mitchell, Dylan and Nicole.

MOSS, Gordon William February 17, 1946 - January 2, 2017

A Celebration of Life will be held on Thursday, February 2 at 1:30pm at the auditorium of Evergreen Hamlets at Fleetwood, 8382 156 Street, Surrey. Support for the Huntington Society of Canada and the Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness is greatly appreciated.

Rose was born in Calgary Alberta, the only child of Anna and Peter Kasper, who had emigrated to Canada from Russia during the communist revolution. She moved to Vancouver with her mother at age 16 after the death of her father. She met Gale MacRae, the love of her life, in 1958 through mutual friends. Rose and Gale were married in 1960. Rose loved her family and friends, especially close friends Susan and Keith Hillman.

She enjoyed playing golf with Gale and with her girl friends, as well as spending many happy times with friends at Whistler, Las Vegas, Reno and Palm Desert; almost as much as her unbelievable regular winnings at the casino. She loved her house parties, dancing with Gale, cruising and travels around the world. We will miss her quiet spirituality, forever bright smile and her unwavering positive attitude.

At her wishes cremation will be performed, with internment in the North Vancouver Municipal cemetery.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

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Gordon, who was born and raised in North Vancouver, passed away peacefully with close family at his side. Gordon is dearly missed by his devoted son Erik, spouse Kristina Vandervoort, extended family and friends. He was predeceased by his parents George and Emma Moss and sister Georgina Crompton. Gordon was a committed trade unionist and NDP supporter who worked in the shipbuilding industry. He was also an accomplished musician and singer known for his kindness and sense of humour.

The family wishes to extend gratitude and appreciation to: Dr. Henry Wong, Surrey Memorial Hospital’s respiratory therapists and ICU doctors and staff, Susan Tolley and the Huntington (Disease) Society of Canada and Diane Cameron and staff at Evergreen Hamlets.

MACRAE, Rose Nona It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Rose MacRae on Sunday, January 15, 2017 in Lions Gate Hospital. Born March 26, 1930. She was surrounded by her loving husband of 56 years, Gale MacRae, her niece and nephew Marnie and Ken, grand nephews Kevin (Sophie), Daniel (Elizabeth) and grand niece Michelle (Otto).

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