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Geophysicist Dr. Graham Hill installs a sensor on the slopes of Mount Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica. The North Vancouver native, a Seycove secondary grad, led the Mount Erebus research team and was featured on a National Geographic Channel docu-series that premiered last fall and will re-air starting March 21. PHOTOS SUPPLIED DANNY UHLMANN

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The helicopter hovers over an icy and barren landscape on the slopes of an active volcano, the pilot searching for a patch of snow that won’t act as a trapdoor to a massive, chopper-eating crevasse.

The camera is rolling, ready to capture disaster.

“It’s a rough place,” a voice says over the sound of the rotors. “Either you’re safe and you come home, or you screw up and you don’t come home.”

The helicopter does a “bounce test,” touching down briefly and then lifting up again to see if the snow remains stable or falls away into frozen nothingness.

Everyone in the helicopter is following the lead of North Vancouver native Graham Hill, a Seycove secondary grad whose research on volcanoes has taken him to the bottom of the world where he has become an unlikely reality TV star. Hill’s project is one of a handful featured in a National Geographic Channel series called Continent 7: Antarctica.

Hill is there to study Mount Erebus to learn more about how volcanoes work in hopes that his research will help save lives in human populations near active mountains around the world.

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there to watch and learn as well, although as you listen to the narrator describe the situation, it’s obvious they’re also drawn by the danger of Hill’s work. Could one of Antarctica’s famously fast-moving storms sweep in and bury the team? Could a scientist take two steps in the wrong direction and fall into a crevasse? Heck, they’re on the side of a volcano – what if Erebus decides to erupt while they’re knee-deep in snow on its frozen slopes?

The helicopter touches down again, the pilot satisfied that they’re not all going to plunge to their deaths. The door slides open and the team is greeted by the sting of -40°C air.

Welcome to Antarctica. sss Dr. Graham Hill, a senior fellow with the Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, first set foot on Antarctica back in 2009. The thing that stands out about the moment is not a thing at all, but rather a colour.

“The first time you get out of the plane, it’s quite dramatic with how white everything is,” Hill says during a long conversation with the North Shore News. It’s early February, and he’s just returned from his third and final Antarctic summer for the Mount Erebus project.

Graham Hill digs a hole that will house a high-tech sensor and computer. His team often worked in -40°C weather in Antarctica.

In each of the past three years he spent more than three months on the frozen continent, an area that is devoid of many of the modern conveniences we all take for granted. Forget cellphone coverage, cable TV or WiFi – if you do manage a computer connection to the outside world, you’re on dial-up that can support nothing more than a short, text-based email.

“You’re not watching YouTube clips or anything like that,” says Hill with a laugh.

But he wasn’t there to watch cat videos. Antarctica was a long business trip for Hill, whose task was to place and then recover 132 hightech data collectors at sites scattered all over Erebus.

The data collected from each site will be woven together to

reveal a map of the inside of the volcano – essentially an MRI of a mountain.

It may seem strange considering that Antarctica is one of the most inhospitable places on the planet, but Hill chose it as the site of his research due to its easy access. Getting to the continent can be tough, but once you arrive, there are seven helicopters ready to go, and Mount Erebus is just a 15-minute ride away from New Zealand-run Scott Base.

And unlike other active volcanoes, Erebus isn’t burdened by such inconveniences as trees, brush or people.

“It’s probably the most logistically accessible volcano in the world,” says Hill. “It’s actually really accessible – once you get there.”

Erebus is also a mystery worth unravelling because it shares rare traits with some of the deadliest mountains in the world.

“Erebus is a weird volcano, it erupts a weird chemistry,” says Hill. “It’s poorly understood. It’s very low in the traditional components that make a volcano explosive, so it’s not a water-driven system, it doesn’t have a high quartz content in it. So it’s driven by carbon dioxide and … aluminum-based elements. These can erupt very explosively.”

Similar systems can be found in Mount Vesuvius, the mountain that buried the city of Pompeii and its roughly 2,000 inhabitants in 79 AD, and Mount Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, home to an 1815 blast that is the deadliest on record and also one of the most powerful.

“That killed a lot of people,” says Hill. All numbers are estimates, but the Tambora eruption is believed to have instantly killed approximately 10,000 people with another 60,000-90,000 dying of starvation or disease shortly thereafter.

Hill is hoping to better understand these blasts by examining Erebus from the inside out.

“We have this stuff erupting in a very controlled fashion in Antarctica, so it’s a good place to try and study

it, figure out where it’s being sourced and how it relates to the underlying tectonics that are going on there.”

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In the second year of the Erebus project, National Geographic showed up on Antarctica to begin filming their Continent 7 series. Hill and his team were doing cool stuff with helicopters and fancy computers, so they were thrust into the spotlight.

“We didn’t really have much of a choice,” he says.

“We were told. … I think they choose us because they thought it was something that people could relate to. And it would look good on TV.” Season 1 of the series aired last fall – encore showings will appear on the National Geographic Channel starting March 21 – documenting projects such as researchers tagging whales with underwater cameras, a trek to the middle of the Ross Ice Shelf to set up a new camp, and a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker cracking through 10-foot-thick ice to open up a shipping channel.

Hill has seen the first two episodes of the series and says it was cool to watch his South Pole pals on the screen, if not himself.

“I don’t know if it’s my favourite thing I’ve ever done,” he says about talking

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on camera. “It’s never fun watching yourself. But the people that I saw it with seemed to think it was done pretty well.”

Hill readily admits that the docu-series does follow the standard reality TV tropes of turning every vague deadline into a life-altering make-orbreak point, and emphasizing the worst-case danger in every situation.

“They of course skewed it to try to sell the tickets,” he says, adding that hovering in a helicopter on the steep slopes of an Antarctic volcano actually doesn’t faze him that much. “They’ve got really good pilots. You’re in good hands.”

The dangers of the work, however, are real. The show depicts mountaineer Danny Uhlmann, the man whose voice warns of impending doom, leaving the helicopter as a scout to make sure there are no hidden dangers in the work area. He’s on skis so that his weight is spread out, decreasing the chances that he’ll bust through the snow and fall into a crevasse.

“I’ve had very close friends die in crevasse falls in situations just like we’re dealing with here,” Uhlmann says on the show.

Once the work site is secure, Hill and his research partners must do fine-motor work with expensive sensors and computers while contending with snow, ice and temperatures that routinely

hover around -40°C and can dip down even lower.

“It’s tough on the hands, that’s for sure,” says Hill.

“There are times when your hands get really cold and you just have to stop what you’re doing and put them inside a jacket or something for a few minutes.”

The biggest danger, says Hill, is Antarctica’s famously fickle weather. Winds can whip up in an instant, and if conditions get too bad it can be impossible for a helicopter to take off or land.

“It can change in 15 minutes,” says Hill. “It can go from beautiful blue sky to ‘you’re not going anywhere’ in a couple of minutes.”

The team was always prepared to spend the night on the mountain and it got dicey a few times.

“We got stuck for hours at a time, but never overnight,” says Hill. “We got close a few times.”

They got their data, though – Hill and his team are done with Antarctica and have moved back to civilization to start analyzing the data. At the moment the scientist, who has a PhD in geophysics, has no idea what mysteries will be revealed once they’re done.

“All we know is that we’ve collected good quality data at this point,” says Hill. National Geographic has collected some good stuff too – they filmed Season 2 of the series this year and will likely release it next fall.

Hill knows what they

filmed but says the finished product will remain a mystery to him until he sees it on the screen.

“You don’t have a clue,” he says with a laugh, adding that the thought of making an on-screen gaffe still makes him nervous. “It’s not the best thing, (although) it’s in their interest to not make you look bad.”

One thing that never looks bad is the backdrop – there’s a reason why National Geographic chose Antarctica for the series. It’s one of Earth’s last great pioneer fronts, the only continent with zero permanent residents.

Everyone who goes there can feel the magic of the land, the thrill of stepping into shelters set up more than a century ago by legendary explorers, of setting foot on ground that has never before felt a human footstep.

“It’s a very special place to go and work,” says Hill.

“There’s a lot of history there when you get to visit places like the Nimrod Hut and the Discovery Hut and all those things from Shackleton and Scott 100 years ago. You get that sort of appreciation because you go to those places and it looks like they could have walked out of there a few days earlier. It’s a privilege to get to go and work in a place like that.” sss Season 1 of Continent 7: Antarctica will re-air Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. starting on March 21 on the National Geographic Channel.

Many factors influence traffic on the North Shore. Whether it’s through traffic from the Sea-to-Sky corridor and the ferry terminal, or an accident on the cut or the highway, or a stall on one of the bridges, active construction projects, or infrastructure being replaced, it all contributes to the delays and backups we’re experiencing. And sometimes, fairly small issues are causing much larger traffic impacts than one would usually expect.

For its part, the District actively manages the use of its roads through its Traffic Management Office. This small, dedicated team was formed in 2014, and is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all activity on District roads to do what we can to keep local delays and congestion to a minimum. Our team is tasked with protecting the interests of residents while ensuring that approved construction and critical infrastructure projects move ahead.

The Traffic Management Team uses a permitting system to track and schedule all of the third-party activity on our roads.

Anyone wishing to use or occupy a roadway, lane of traffic, parking lane, alley, sidewalk or boulevard must get a permit.

And the team can ensure that work is completed in a particular way, at a particular time, or delayed altogether if there are other projects already underway nearby. Because we don’t operate in a traffic vacuum, the team also liaises regularly with neighbouring municipalities, First Nations, the Province, Metro Vancouver, Port Metro Vancouver, Provincial Ministries, and utilities such as BC Hydro, Fortis, Shaw and Telus, all of which need to access their infrastructure next to, above and under our roads.

When it comes to congestion, making upgrades to our thoroughfares and managing road use is important, but it will only take us so far. If we really want to get ahead of the congestion problem in our growing region, we also need what’s called ‘modal shift’, and that means, among other things, making serious and significant investments in transit infrastructure. And, to secure serious investment in transit we have to meet Translink’s density thresholds to justify new service. This is one reason why we’re concentrating our growth in town centres, instead of allowing it to sprawl up the mountainside as low-density single family homes. So, while it may not be obvious on the surface of things that the District is actively managing traffic and planning ahead, we are indeed doing so, every day. To learn more, visit dnv.org/ocp.

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Chinese woman claims she was spouse of murdered WV tycoon Multiple lawsuits filed by alleged heirs to Gang Yuan’s $20M estate JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A Chinese woman has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court claiming that she is the common law spouse of a murdered West Vancouver millionaire.

The woman, identified in court documents as Mother1, filed the lawsuit against the estate of Gang Yuan Feb. 10, claiming that as his wife, she is entitled to more than half of Yuan’s estate.

The woman states in her claim that her child, born in December 2008, is also Yuan’s child.

The body of Yuan, a wealthy businessman with ties to both China and Canada, was found chopped up inside a British Properties mansion at 963 King Georges Way on May 3, 2015.

Li Zhao, the husband of Yuan’s cousin, who also lived in the house and was listed on title as a registered owner, was later charged with second-degree murder and interfering with a dead body.

Yuan, who was 42 when he died, left no will directing how his large estate should be divided. The value of that estate has been estimated at more than $20 million.

In the months following the grisly discovery of Yuan’s body, five women came forward to claim that their children were fathered by Yuan and are therefore heirs to the fortune in his estate, currently being administered

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According to the most recent claim filed in court, Mother1 first met Yuan in China and moved into his parents’ home with him shortly after they started dating. They split up in 2004 but reconciled and began living together again in August 2007, according to the claim.

The woman states that the couple were common law spouses, calling each other husband and wife and sleeping in the same bed.

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She stayed in China, looking after their child and Yuan’s parents while Yuan travelled to Canada on what she described as extended business trips. The woman said in court documents Yuan told her that he planned to move the entire family to Canada once his business became more stable. But

Yuan was killed before that could happen.

Mother1 said she travelled to Canada to attend Yuan’s funeral and has maintained close relationships with his family since his death.

Her lawsuit asks for a declaration that she is Yuan’s spouse, noting that if a person dies without a will, their spouse is entitled to half of their estate, while the remainder is usually split among their children.

In an earlier lawsuit, a different woman claimed Yuan flew her to meet his parents, lived with her in Vancouver when she was pregnant then paid for her to fly to Los Angeles to give birth at a clinic that caters to foreigners seeking U.S. citizenship for their children.

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here’s Pink Shirt Day. Then there’s the North Van parents in the stands at a minor hockey game who ably demonstrated last week why we have so much work still to do.

It was only three days after the annual anti-bullying love-in, which aims to remind us all to “make nice,” that local hockey parents were banned from a game over their decidedly ungracious verbal high sticking.

And rightly so.

One of the primary ways kids learn how to conduct themselves is from the behaviour they see modelled by their parents.

All the pink shirt school assemblies in the world will be for naught if parents can’t learn to curb their own hot-headed boorishness.

An internal investigation is now

underway on what happened to send the parents into the penalty box. Reportedly it involved haranguing of teenaged referees at a hockey game for 11- and 12-year-olds.

We wonder in whose world is it OK for adult goons to harass and belittle children who are themselves still learning their role in the game.

Parents of future NHLers would do well to heed the signs now posted at many arenas reminding them that the game they are watching is just that – a game played by kids – and that referees are human.

It may be a small group of parents who are actually responsible for the verbal rock ’em sock ’em incidents like the one last week, but they send exactly the wrong message to everyone involved.

They also give hockey and the culture that goes along with it another black eye.

Applying some TNT to the hunt for politicians

It seems as if the bar has been lowered for politicians in the last year or so.

In the good old days we looked for such noble traits as a grasp of the issues of the day, good hair, and the ability look sincere whilst lying to us.

Now thanks to a certain spray-tanned potato sack filled with ketchup and confusion, it feels like a victory if we can just find a political leader who can form a complete sentence, keep the sexual assault allegations in single digits and refrain from handing the keys to the kingdom over to Commie Nazis.

Actually, it seems many people down south have no problem with a leader that can hit all those low notes while not forgetting to throw the global order into chaos, alter the meaning of the word

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We’ve got a crossroads moment coming up here in Canada as the federal Conservative party is choosing a leader to fight against Justin Trudeau’s broken promises and sexy eyes.

Right-wing politicians around the world have found success in recent years pitching hyper-nationalism

and xenophobia – many seem less interested in fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets and job creation and more interested in policing what women are wearing and where kids are peeing. But so far we’ve mostly avoided that type of fear-based, exclusionary politics here in Canada.

Stephen Harper tried to make it the focus of the last election and now he’s locked in a barn on a ranch somewhere in central Alberta trying to convince the animals that they all need to be suspicious of the brown cows.

This week offered a closeup look at the Conservative contenders as they met for a debate in Edmonton. Being the hard-working, truthseeking journalist that I am, I watched a solid 30 minutes of the proceedings (consuming at most three beers to take the edge off) to get a

feel for these would-be prime ministers and grade them on a simple TNT scale. Can they form one complete sentence, avoid pinning all of life’s problems on immigrants, and stop themselves from grabbing genitals while on stage?

If they can do those things, then they get a certified TNT rating: Totally Not Trump.

First up was Lisa Raitt, who I assume is the love child of country singer Bonnie Raitt and noted rightwinger Maurice Richard.

She started off with a joke that was pretty good, for a politician, and followed it up by not sounding too insane.

“I will hammer on Justin Trudeau every single day,” she said. I bet you will. It was standard political fare, actually, and delivered with competence. Easy ranking for her: TNT. Next up was Kellie Leitch,

who almost certainly is not a mannequin that someone stole from Reitmans, brought to life and taught to speak and move around a bit.

“Freedom! Prosperity! A unified Canadian identity!”

Leitch shouted to begin her opening remarks. She seemed ready to keep on shouting random things for her entire 90-second statement.

“Churches! Zippers! Rough sex with Gordon Lightfoot!”

She did stop shouting things long enough to start talking about … immigrants!

“I think we should interview each immigrant, refugee, and visitor to Canada!”

Interview, huh? Like, George Stromboulopoulus? Do the visitors get to keep the Hockey Night in Canada towel when the interview is over?

“I have a video,” she said.

“Go and take a look at it on my website.”

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Oh my. She mentioned the video. I did take a look at the video, and wow *dramatic pause* it’s special. And so is Leitch, in the same way that Weekend at Bernie’s 2 is special. Not special enough to get a TNT rating though.

Next came French guy with an Irish name, slight lisp guy, Oilers jersey guy (say wieners and beans again!), wise-crackin’ scarf guy, baldie, angry Saskatchewan guy with the cherubic smile, and Niles Crane from the hit show Frasier. (Sorry, there are 14 of these go-getters – they don’t all get names.

This crew, however, does get certified TNT status because none of them said the word “bigly.”)

Michael Chong was next, describing how he’s the “most conservative” on every

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Wellness well-placed, pub proximity no problem Dear Editor: Re: Location of Youth Centre Next to Pub Questioned, Feb. 19 Mailbox.

Brian Reidlinger’s letter to the editor on the new Foundry North Shore facility proves there is more work to do in stopping stigma for mental health in this province.

Foundry’s one-stop shop wellness centre for children, youth and families in Lower Lonsdale is exactly what the North Shore needs to help people navigate the mental health system.

Foundry North Shore is one of five sites announced in June 2016 as part of a provincial network of easily accessible youth service centres. These centres provide primary care and sexual health services, mental health and substance use support, youth and family peer support,

youth outreach support, social work services for youth transitioning from government care, occupational, group and individual therapy, income assistance and housing, resources for youth with developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation programs such as group recreational activities, independent living skills and food preparation.

The focus needs to be on the wellness aspect and the fact that this is a multiservice site providing a full range of support services to youth and families on the North Shore. It is not simply a drug and alcohol counselling centre.

The site was chosen for several reasons; storefront which is very difficult to find, proximity to where youth congregate, proximity to other youth services such as the Ministry of Children

and Family Development and Hollyburn Family Services (within one block), proximity to John Braithwaite Community Centre (half a block away) and for its proximity to a transit hub.

Youth and family reps were engaged in the planning process for this site including having them visit the location and provide their feedback.

At no time did the issue of a private liquor store get raised as a concern. This particular area of North Vancouver has multiple liquor outlets and medical marijuana stores. This is the societal reality our youth live within.

Hopefully this does not reinforce the stigma that discourages youth from accessing the right supports when they need them.

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issue, including the environment (going after the rural fish vote?). Pierre Lemieux came out pushing pipelines, and then it was North Van’s own Andrew Saxton, who before selflessly getting into politics was the bad guy in Adam Sandler’s film Billy Madison. Saxton sounded in control on stage – nice O’Leary dig! All of these guys, in fact, seemed to be fine Conservative gentlemen with their original hair and good credit ratings, so TNT approval for them all.

Maxime Bernier, the “Albertan from Quebec” who apologized for his French accent and sounded pretty sensible doing it, was the last candidate to hit the stage.

TNT for sure.

Of course, the elephant in the room was actually a shark. A reality TV celebrity who likes to say shocking things? An ass grab caught on camera? An American?

That’s a few too many Trump marks to declare Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank fame as certified TNT. His political leanings seem to be much more, well, liberal than those

of President Twitter Troll, but he does seem to have some of that “I’ll burn your house down and you’ll like it” charm to him. He is, however, leading the race, according to the polls, so he’ll need to be taken seriously whenever he decides to stop by our country.

Whoever is chosen as the winner of this contest will say a lot about where Canada ranks on the TNT scale right now. Here’s hoping we aren’t poised to blow our lovely country up. That would be SAD! aprest@nsnews.com

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Abusive comments reportedly made to teenaged referees by a number of North Vancouver parents at a Burnaby hockey game Feb. 25 are being investigated by the association that oversees minor hockey in the Lower Mainland.

Lynn Kiang, president of the Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association, said the organization is looking into the incident to determine if any further sanctions are warranted for the unsportsmanlike behaviour that broke out in the stands during a game at Burnaby Lake Arena.

Adult fans were watching a game between peewee teams – 11- and 12-yearolds – from Burnaby and North Vancouver when “it appears there was inappropriate behaviour on the part of multiple parents in the stands watching that game,” said Kiang.

Parents from the North Vancouver team reportedly made abusive comments to

three 15-year-old referees who were on the ice at the time. “All three were subject to the situation that was going on,” said Kiang.

The incident in the stands resulted in the referees stopping the game and reporting it to the head referee, who called it in to the Pacific hockey association and BC Hockey.

That resulted in the parents of the North Vancouver team being banned from a game at the Burnaby Winter Club the following day.

Burnaby RCMP were also called to the arena to make sure no trouble broke out.

Kiang said the president of the North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association came to Burnaby to explain the situation. “He talked to the team. He explained the situation,” she said. “He explained the expectation of the league and his association in terms of parent behaviour.”

Kiang said if parents receive further reprimands, that won’t happen publicly.

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Fresh air, friendship a winning combination Deep Cove’s Jennifer Hewlett honoured with Tim Jones award BEN BENGTSON reporter@nsnews.com

A Deep Cove resident, who for the past two decades has been leading groups of women on outdoor excursions and adventures primarily around the North Shore, has been awarded the Tim Jones Community Achievement Award for her community service.

Jennifer Hewlett was presented the award at the opening night of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival on Feb. 10.

In 1997, Hewlett founded Fresh Air Life, an organization devoted to providing women on the North Shore and Lower Mainland with the opportunity for fresh air, friendship, outdoor recreation, and social action.

The fourth annual award, presented by the VIMFF and North Shore Rescue, honours an outstanding North Shore individual who hasn’t

necessarily received extensive attention for their efforts in the past.

“There have been many hundreds of life-changing stories,” Hewlett says about the women she’s encountered over the years with Fresh Air Life. “People who have lost their partners, they’ve lost their jobs, their children have moved on, they’ve lost their children through tragic events ... walking and talking has really helped settle a lot of souls and what I am actually most proud of is the relationships that have developed while on the trail. People become lifelong friends.”

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realize that “this sort of behaviour is not appropriate.

Respect is required and we’ll take sanctions if necessary.”

Inappropriate behaviour on the part of parents doesn’t happen very often, said Kiang, who added she isn’t sure why some parents lose it during games.

“Hockey is a very emotional game. It’s a game where there is contact between the players. That creates additional stress,

perhaps,” she said.

“Emotions do run high,” she said – especially during playoffs at the end of the season.

“It’s perhaps part of the history of the game, but I think it needs to change.”

Kiang said minor hockey associations run parent meetings at the beginning of the season, explaining behaviour expected, but sometimes parents appear to forget that code of conduct.

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Nobody at North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association responded to a request for comment on the incident.

According to the association’s website, hockey parents are required to complete an educational program encouraging “positive behaviour” called Sportsmanship Starts in the Stands when their child registers for hockey.

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Standing in a room with a group of people she didn’t know, Maureen Elliott took in a deep breath and let it out with a laugh: “Ha.”

She breathed in again and laughed again: “Ha, ha.”

Beside her, her mom Lorraine threw her head back and starting full-on laughing. It was contagious. Pretty soon, the whole group was laughing so hard some of them had tears in their eyes.

It’s called laughter wellness, and was just one of the exercises offered at a recent LIFE program workshop designed for people with cancer. The free event was presented by InspireHealth Supportive Cancer Care at its main office in Vancouver.

Participants are allowed to bring a support person to the free event, and Elliott brought her mom, who is a retired nurse. On Tuesday, InspireHealth is offering a oneday version of the workshop at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

“It’s amazing, and when I

left I felt a bit more in control of an uncontrollable situation,” says Elliott of her experience with the event.

In January, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, a friend introduced her to someone who also had breast cancer, and that person recommended the LIFE program as a positive resource. A longtime business owner in West Vancouver, Elliott had closed her Bellevue-area boutique, Prelude Fashion, last year for reasons not related to her illness, but realizes now it was a blessing in disguise as it would have added more stress to her current situation living with cancer.

The LIVE group Elliott attended in February consisted of a mix of people of varying ages, some who had been recently diagnosed with cancer, some who had cancer longer, and some who were in remission.

“I think it’s a valuable tool,” she says of the workshop.

“Unless you’re going through this journey, as we like to call it, it’s difficult to really understand how it kind of turns your life upside down and the people around you.”

North Vancouver resident Maureen Elliott prepares a healthy meal from the Inspired Cooking cookbook with her mom Lorraine and daughter Emily. Maureen was diagnosed with breast cancer in January and is just starting treatment, which includes surgery. She recently attended an informative workshop for cancer patients. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH Like many people would these days, Elliott turned to the Internet for information when she was first diagnosed but found a lot of conflicting

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SOUP ’N BUN A Lenten series with guest speakers Thursdays until April 6 from noon to 1 p.m. (except March 9, 12:30 p.m.) at St. Anthony’s Parish, 2347 Inglewood Ave., West Vancouver. Cost: $5,

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LET’S TALK Develop English language skills by discussing current events at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Beginners: Mondays, March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 10:15-11:15 a.m. or 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Intermediate: Tuesdays, March 7 and 28, 7-8:30 p.m. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca SFU WRITING CONSULT E. R. Brown, finalist for the Edgar and Arthur Ellis Awards, will

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Augustin Wright recently went on TV to perform a magic trick of sorts.

His actions essentially told the audience “look at what the right hand is doing because it’s playing a lot of notes while the left hand does something important and plays what’s supposed to be heard.”

Augustin was actually playing piano in front of a live audience as a contestant on the French-language CBC TV show Virtuose. The song he performed was called “Winter Wind,” and host

and coach Gregory Charles helped him interpret the piece by telling him to think of it as a magic trick because it’s essentially a tune in which the right hand plays a lot of notes and the left hand plays a melody in the lower part of the piano. Charles also helped him envision various scenes to interpret the theme of the music, such as picturing an empty sidewalk with snow.

“It just helped me interpret it and play the piece better,” explains Augustin.

The Mulgrave School student and West Vancouver resident plays both piano and cello. He has

participated in and won many competitions, including three that resulted in performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the latest performance in February.

Augustin was selected to be a contestant on the TV show because of his musical abilities and also because he speaks fluent French (his mom is French).

He described the show in this way: “It’s basically like Survivor but for music.”

Augustin filmed the TV show in multiple parts in Montreal in the late summer and fall, and although he reveals that he appeared in the premiere episode he wouldn’t provide any more details about the show since it was a competition and he didn’t want to give away the results.

Filming a TV show was a fun and interesting experience, notes Augustin, and he looks forward to more live stage performances and maybe even more TV appearances.

He also suggests B.C. should host a performance competition show for young musicians to offer a broader and bigger showcase for home-grown talent.

BOARD REUNION Fanny Patterson, Kathleen Scales, Bernie Lauser, Ken Haycock, Joanne McKenna, Juanitia Tupper, Paul Tutsch, and Harry Greenwood were among the group of past library board trustees of West Vancouver Memorial Library who met at Mangi E Bevi Ristorante in West Vancouver in January. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

Treatment will include mastectomy From page 13 Elliott says she left with a better sense of how to navigate the next phase of her life.

She has been told her tumour is significant, but doctors are not yet sure exactly what stage of the disease she is in so, although a mastectomy is scheduled, the specifics of further treatment are unknown. But with plenty of support from family and friends, Elliott says she is on the beginning of her journey and ready to

face it with a whole-body, positive approach to healing.

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A world away in Czechoslovakia, life for Libor Kriz was very different. “Our situation at home was not desperate. Our standard of living was OK, but there was no freedom.”

Czechoslovakia at that time was part of the Soviet Bloc and under communist rule.

Libor’s aunt, Jana Spur, proved that freedom was possible. In 1968 Jana was permitted to go to France on holiday and she didn’t return. Instead, she made her way to Canada, to Lynn Valley in fact, where she opened Westlynn Optical.

Around the time of Jana’s escape to freedom, Libor watched a travelogue about Canada. “The film started in Vancouver and went over the Rockies and the prairies.

I saw lakes with moose in them. Everything was green and beautiful. My aunt and that film planted a dream of freedom in me.”

Like his aunt, Libor trained as an optician and, in 1979, he was allowed to go on holiday to Yugoslavia. “First and last time that was permitted,” he says with a laugh. “I phoned my aunt from the post office, the first time I had talked freely on the telephone. It took six hours to get through.

“I said ‘I don’t want to go back’ and she said, ‘I’m coming.’”

Jana travelled to Europe to meet her nephew.

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I can remember (it) as if it was today. She pulled up in a little sports car and I jumped in.”

They drove to the Italian border. “The car before us went through and then the phone rang in the booth. As the guard turned away to answer it, Jana stepped on the gas and we banged right through the border. The gates to the Italy side were closed, but open coming the other way. Jana slalomed through the traffic cones and then those gates and we were in Italy. The Italians granted me asylum and a big stone fell off my chest. I was in the free world.”

Seven months, two

detention camps and a brisk conversation with Canadian immigration later, Libor arrived in Canada Jan. 30, 1980. He found a place to live in Jana’s building and she helped him find work. In those days, the Vancouver optical community was growing.

Around the same time Libor was hired at Tru-Valu Optical on Broadway, Elaine Hutchings walked into the shop with a pair of broken eyeglasses. The manager offered to replace them if she would start work there the next day. Elaine agreed.

To a sheltered young woman from North Vancouver, Libor Kriz, with his trench coat and briefcase (lunch inside) resembled a spy. To Libor, North Vancouver, where

Elaine lived and Jana worked, was “far away, exotic.”

Their courtship began with English practice on the bus to North Vancouver, blossomed with late-night skates at the Robson Square ice rink and led to marriage in 1984.

Since 1991, Elaine and Libor have been fitting people with eyewear at North Shore Optical, only the second owners of this Lonsdale institution.

They live in Lynn Valley.

“Optical opportunities brought us together in marriage and in business and made our dreams come true,” says Elaine with a smile.

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women in

business This year’s theme of International Women’s Day is #BeBoldForChange.

As described by the International Women’s Day organization, this day is an opportunity to “celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women because visibility and awareness help drive positive change for women.”

In businesses small and large, women are leading the way – innovating, championing and mentoring others. There are many incredible women on the North Shore who contribute positively through both business and community involvement.

Here at the North Shore News, women play vital roles in many aspects of operations, and work hard to make sure the people of North and West Vancouver continue to receive an award-winning newspaper.

On March 8 let’s celebrate all women on the North Shore: the leaders, followers, thinkers, doers, and those who serve as an inspiration to younger generations of girls and women.

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defining contemporary sustainable beauty Meet a trio of women who know something about what it takes to run a successful business. Partners Alison Alexander Heyes and Christina Thomson opened The Dye Lot hair salon in Lower Lonsdale in 2010: Caitlin Merryfield, a stylist with the salon since it opened, became a partner last year. All three are proudly born-and-raised on the North Shore, deepening their special CHRISTINA, CAITLIN, ALISON

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The business has not just survived – it’s thrived. As a perennial finalist in the Reader’s Choice awards, The Dye Lot offers the works: gorgeous colours, precision cuts (and bonus head massages during shampoos).

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The Dye Lot also offers a full wig, hairpiece and extensions service for clients seeking hairpieces for hair loss or for fashion.

Even more than their extensive services, though, The Dye Lot is a congenial gathering place. Clients are made to feel welcome and animated conversations contribute to a steady hum and a happy vibe.

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Alison, Christina and Caitlin run a special kind of business: it’s hands-on and heart-full.

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March 8 is International Women’s Day, and the North Shore News is pleased to acknowledge and celebrate contributions of women on the North Shore.

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Dr. Sharnell Muir continues to help men and women of all ages with their Snoring and Sleep Apnea problems.

In her practice at 212-700 Marine Drive, North Vancouver, Dr Sharnell Muir treats patients with Snoring and Sleep Apnea using the non-CPAP non-surgical treatment of Custom made Oral Appliances.

“Snoring not only disrupts the patient’s quality of sleep it disrupts the entire family”.

us 83% of the respondents reported they have had a snoring bed partner.

“One of my roles in the community is to help patients learn about the Oral Appliance treatment option for both Snoring “Snoring not and Sleep Apnea and understand how it might be only disrupts appropriate for them. Sadly the patient’s some don’t even know this quality of sleep option is available on the it disrupts the North Shore. Many don’t entire family.” know it is covered under their Extended Health benefit plan.”

“Snoring can be embarrassing and can often be the elephant in the room when it comes to addressing relationship frustrations and health concerns”.

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Healthy Way Natural Healing and Acupuncture Centre As owner of North Vancouver’s premier acupuncture and natural healing clinic, Feng Li, MD in her native China, a BC Certified Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner has spent over 20 years serving her local community.

Feng Li comes by her love of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) honestly.

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It was her grandfather, a Chinese doctor who specialized in dermatology, and her grandmother, an obstetrician, who inspired Li to pursue a career in the ancient art of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Li graduated from Nanjing Medical University in her native China in 1988 and practiced as a physician there before immigrating to Canada in 1994. She has been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture here in the Lower Mainland ever since.

For the past five years, Feng has been carefully studying ancient Tao medicine, and has integrated important Taoist principles into her natural healing practices.

Tao medicine emphasizes “universal energy” whereby healing is done through harmony with nature to achieve wellness.

As part of the practice, Feng practices Tai Chi, Chigong and meditation each day to ensure her clients receive the greatest benefit from her acupuncture treatments.

Acupuncture and herbal medicines can successfully treat a wide variety of issues, the most common being allergies and skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis. One of Feng’s most popular herbal supplements is KF, a highly effective capsule formula used for treating cold and flu. KF along with various other herbal remedies are unique

“I believe in treating the entire mind, spirit and body of each of our patients.” products created by and only available at Healthy Way. As well, Feng has helped many women with infertility issues and with menopause symptoms such as insomnia, hot ashes, mood swings, fatigue, stress, anxiety, and depression. With the aid of Chinese herbs, Feng has helped countless people with chronic urinary infections, incontinence, and prostate issues. If you find yourself suffering from conditions like fatigue, discomfort or other ailments, our clinic will be able to help you.

Feng will take due care during a free 15 minute

consultation to review your causes for concern, including pulse diagnosis, examining your tongue and providing professional advice.

Feng recently returned from a two month meditation trip at Viriya Ch’an Monastery in Taiwan and gained a renewed focus on healing through small lifestyle changes, minimizing stress and emotional strain, and connecting spiritually with nature and within.

Feng is available for appointments Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays, and is offering free 15 minute consultations. !

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Long, Long Night raises big, big cash

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It’s always darkest before the dawn, and it’s always bleakest before the cash comes in.

A small group of St. John’s Anglican Church parishioners recently raised $10,400 for the Lookout Emergency Aid with the Long, Long Night of Hope sleep-out.

The seven sleep-deprived Good Samaritans raised money through social media by volunteering to sleep in

their cars or in the church the night of Feb. 25.

“I had a feeling I wasn’t going to sleep very well and I was right,” said Donna Lawrence, estimating she enjoyed two hours of shuteye.

“The night was amazing.”

Lawrence said she opted to spearhead the event after realizing how slight the separation is between her and the people’s she’s helping.

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After gathering in the church for songs and support in the midwinter evening, the lights went out and Lawrence closed the door on her bedroom: a Nissan Rogue SUV. But even in a comparably spacious vehicle the experience was a bit of an awakening, according to Lawrence.

“It was eye-opening that people live like this every day,” she said.

She’d brought along a romance novel to while away the wee hours but found she was uncomfortably attuned to her surroundings.

“You hear every footstep of every person,” she said.

“Every time there was some kind of a noise I woke up.”

Lawrence had packed the Nissan with every blanket she owned but as the temperature

hovered around 0 C, she found it impossible to get warm.

“How does somebody do this and survive?” she asked.

The Lookout Emergency Aid Society has been dealing with that question a lot, according to North Shore shelter manager Bailey Mumford.

The shelter is increasingly being forced to turn away families, women, seniors and young people, according to Mumford.

“Turn-aways are definitely on the rise … that’s just because of a lack of affordable housing stock right across the board for all demographics on the North Shore,” he said.

Mumford said he was “blown away” the event raised more than $10,000.

“I told Donna she should be moving into a job in fundraising,” he said.

The money will hopefully go toward a second North

Christie Smith bunks under a piano at St. John’s Anglican Church during the Long, Long Night of Hope. PHOTO SUPPLIED Shore Lookout site, according to Mumford.

“Whether that’s housing or what it looks like we’re not sure yet,” he said.

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The Myrtle Park games are meant to be fun and safe, and no score is kept, according to a release from Challenger.

Players are assigned a buddy who assists with such tasks as pushing wheelchairs around the bases and helping hitters swing.

There is no cost to participants.

Registration is now open and the league is hoping to recruit more volunteer buddies to get in the game.

To register for the adult division, go to msll.ca. To volunteer email imcl@ shaw.ca. Youth players can register at highlandsbaseball.com

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Pemberton Heights’ Corner Stone Bistro is the heart of the neighbourhood.

If someone had told Tracey Cochrane years ago that she would someday run a corner store and restaurant, she wouldn’t have believed you. But in 2007, Tracey and a partner were compelled to purchase the old corner store structure in the lush Pemberton Heights neighbourhood that has been home to a corner store since the 1920s.

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The indoor bistro, which boasts high ceilings and rotating artwork by local artists, opens up onto a 16-seater terrace via a rolling garage-style door. “We have one of the nicest decks on the North Shore, and in the summer it’s a little piece of paradise next to the forest,” says Tracey.

The menu options are diverse, and are made with care by an award-winning chef who hails from France. For brunch there are Bennys with cute names like ‘The Grouse Grinder,’ which comes with rosemary mushrooms, spinach and feta. Dinner features French and West Coast-influenced items like French onion soup, grilled sockeye salmon and steak frites. The restaurant is also known for its healthy frozen takeaway meals such as ribs and pasta, which are often picked up by local residents on the way home from work.

Along with the ambiance and food, what makes this establishment so special is the hub it has become for the community. “We know 90 per cent of the people who walk through the door. We get people on their way to work for coffee and a muffin, then stay-at-home moms, then kids come after school for penny candy; and then there’s the dinner crowd,” says Tracey.

The Corner Stone Bistro is also an avid supporter of Capilano Elementary School, donating prizes for silent auctions and providing sandwiches for the school’s lunch program.

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Teaching new tricks to an old dog

With a bit of trepidation, reluctance and stifled enthusiasm I found myself boarding an early morning ferry, heading to the island to meet and bring home Carter, a German Shorthaired Pointer.

It had been a while since I had adopted an adult dog.

Over my more than 20-year career I have helped countless dog owners who adopted adult dogs, but during those 20 years I had always had puppies enter my home between the ages of eight and 12 weeks.

At that age, it is easy to establish a bond between the young dog and owner as that puppy comes with a mind void of experience and is completely open to accept, learn and bond with their new human. Creating a

Canine Connection Joan Klucha bond with an adult dog, on the other hand, takes time, patience and understanding that their history – be it negative or positive – can affect that bonding process.

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was returned to the breeder, due to no fault of his own, simply because he was too much dog for the former owners. He was well socialized with other dogs and people, good with children but not so good with cats. He clearly came from a good home, was loved and well cared for, maybe a bit too much as over time it became clear that his boundaries of acceptable behaviour were very loose.

Within the first week with me, I learned he had little understanding of what a leash was. This means he was probably walked on a retractable leash or an e-collar. In any case, he had no concept of checking in with me while on a walk, unless some sort of aversive technique was used.

In the home it was clear that he was allowed to either eat off plates or was hand

fed from the dinner table. In my home dogs are allowed to be around when humans are eating, but they must remain on their beds – not trying to mooch or steal food.

Carter assumed that a fork full of food was meant for his mouth, not mine, and tried with great insistence to get it.

Bonding with Carter was going to be tricky as he really had no reason to want to bond with me. He had a good life and as far as he was concerned, humans catered to him. I had to find a way to establish a bond but not at the expense of manners.

So as hard as it was I had to implement the advice I had given to dog owners over many, many years. Carter had to learn to work for his dinner, otherwise known as ... tough love.

For the first six weeks we

struggled, as we both tried to figure each other out. Carter would naturally behave in a way that he had been used to and when he didn’t get his way would simply flit off like a bird, not caring much about me. I, of course, had expectations, at three years of age he should be over many of the puppy-like behaviours he displayed.

During those first six weeks he was walked exclusively on leash. I worked with him as I would any puppy, teaching him how to walk politely on a leash, but he was a 70-pound dog, not a 15-pound puppy, so it was very challenging for both of us. His off-leash time was in the large fenced yard and local fenced dog park where I worked every moment we were out there on his recall and focus exercises. Trail

hikes were done on a long leash so he learned to check in with me often, instead of running off until he felt the sensation of the e-collar reminding him to come back.

We have now been working together for almost 12 weeks and the hard work is paying off. Today the gate to the yard was ajar due to a buildup of snow and instead of running the gate like a bull, he sat next to it, looked over his shoulder and waited for me to tell him it was OK. We are definitely on the right track.

Next column I will address bonding training in greater detail.

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

Long Night of Hope may become annual event From page 20 shone light on the issue of homelessness.

“It focused on raising awareness about people sleeping on cars which is definitely something we see a lot of,” he said, explaining many homeless people on the

North Shore are couch surfing or spending nights in parking lots. In the parking lot outside St. John’s Anglican Church, the car doors swung open at about 8 a.m. and the volunteers piled into the church following their long night.

“There was already coffee on, thank goodness,”

Lawrence says.

Lawrence had been hoping 20 volunteers would take part, and that they would be from outside the church.

“The No. 1 thing we wanted to do was take the pressure off the actual parish,” she said.

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The Long, Long Night of Hope officially ends March 15 but Lawrence suggested it might become an annual event.

“My immediate thought was: Just think what we can do next year.”

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A quartet of high-powered fifth-year players with the Capilano University women’s volleyball team ended their final season in a familiar spot: third place.

The third-seeded Blues bashed their way into the PacWest semifinals at Vancouver Island University last weekend but their bid for gold was ended in a heartbreaking five-set loss against second-ranked Douglas College. Capilano held a 12-9 lead in the fifth set but couldn’t finish off the Royals, eventually losing by a score of 25-18, 18-25, 23-25, 25-21, 16-14.

The Blues bounced back to score a resounding 25-18, 25-18, 25-18 win over College of the Rockies in the consolation final to earn PacWest bronze for the third consecutive season.

“The girls said they’re getting mixed up, they keep on thinking bronze is gold,” said head coach Cal Wohlford with a chuckle. “Any time you’ve got your goals set a little higher and you don’t get that opportunity it’s a little tough for sure. But that’s the nature of sports – not everyone can

Capilano University’s Sarah Hughes, recently named a CCAA All-Canadian, crafts a clever tip during the PacWest provincial championships played last weekend at Vancouver Island University. The Blues won bronze for the third straight season. PHOTO SUPPLIED NORTHFIELD PHOTOGRAPHY go out there and win a gold medal.”

The bronze medal match brought a close to a distinct era for the Blues, as it marked the final contest for fifthyear players Sarah Hughes,

who was recently named a CCAA All-Canadian, Kolby Richter, Kira Sutcliffe and Kelsi Boroevich. The seniors stepped up when it came time to claim their final provincial medal, said Wohlford.

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“Our fifth-year players are not going to end off playing terrible their last game of the year,” he said. “It’s been outstanding having them as part of my program. It’s tough, it’s like losing part of your family.

They’ve been there right from the beginning when I started (at Capilano). They helped build the program, they helped with recruiting, they helped with setting our standards.”

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Wohlford. “I was sad that we didn’t make it to nationals. … I wanted them to play a couple more times together. I really enjoy watching them play together.” sss The Blues men also took a swing at the PacWest championships, losing their opening match 25-13, 25-16, 29-27 against Camosun College. The third-ranked Chargers went on to win the provincial title with a 3-1 upset over the host VIU Mariners.

university level next season, so the last month has felt like a farewell tour for the Blues, said Wohlford, particularly for the four players about to end their post-secondary careers.

“You have four that are emotional about their last game, emotional about their last road trip, last time on the ferry – every little thing – everybody gets involved about it, everybody gets emotional about it,” said

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CAROLAN, Beatrice January 13, 1927 - February 23, 2017

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Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Bea was raised of Irish weaver stock in the city’s woollen mills district. She loved music and was always a beautiful singer.

From her early work at Barraclough’s Bakery, she gained a lifelong talent for cooking and baking.

She survived air-raids during the war and this gave her a love of the outdoors and gardening. In 1950, she married John, of Co. Cavan, Ireland and seven years later followed him with their two children Trevor and Glenys to BC where they established themselves in The Royal City.

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During their lean, early years, the family travelled and camped around BC in summers with John’s work in the building trade. Two more children, Dan and Sean, followed and family outings to the beach at White Rock were always a favourite event. Bea kept life simple, said her prayers in Gaelic, and was devoted to her family and to Our Lady. John and Bea had many friends within the Lower Mainland’s Irish community and were famous for their old-time house-parties, where folks still rolled up the rugs and danced their cares away. They counted Tommy Douglas, Ma Murray, and Bill Vander Zalm among their friends. Bea loved travel and visited Europe, the Holy Land, Mexico, and Hawaii. Some of her happiest times were spent during Bea and John’s years living on New Westminster Quay.

Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Bea lived for the last 8 years at Cedarview Lodge in Lynn Valley, where for a time she was part of the legendary “Golden Girls” at Pine Forest. Predeceased by John, Bea is survived by her four children Trevor (Kwangshik), Glenys (Trenton), Dan (Vanessa), and Sean (Tianna); nine grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.

FRIEND, Joseph (Joe) M. May 10, 1923 − February 10, 2017

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Born in Manitoba, passed away peacefully in White Rock, BC. Predeceased by his wife, Evelyn, daughter Marilyn, three brothers and four sisters.

Survived by his children Elaine, Ken (Concetta), Karen (Stan), four grandchildren, two great grandchildren, sister Mary and many nieces and nephews.

Joe was raised and educated near Melfort, Saskatchewan. In 1941 he moved to BC to work for Britannia Mines. Joe joined the RCAF in 1942, serving overseas with 409 Squadron. After discharge in 1946, he began his career with Marwell/Dillingham in Vancouver. Joe married Evelyn in 1947, raising his family in North Vancouver.

In 1970, he joined CP Rail in their Development Division, Marathon Realty, retiring in 1988. During his life, Joe enjoyed curling, gardening, camping and travelling.

A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 12 noon at the Royal Canadian Legion, 2643 128 Street, Surrey, BC

As you share the stories and the memories of how they lived their lives and how very much they meant, may you find comfort...

The family wish to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at Cedarview Lodge, in particular the Pine Forest and head office staff for their exemplary care. Thanks also to Fr. Mark Schwab of St. Stephen’s. Bea carried on smiling, whistling and singing to the end.

She joins husband John in God’s keeping overlooking the River in Fraser Cemetery. No service by request.

Aloha mom, we’ll see you in our dreams.

CRITTENDEN, Verna April 17, 1929 - February 24, 2017 The family of Verna Marguerite Crittenden (nee McFarland) wishes to share the news of Verna’s passing on February 24, 2017 at 6:40am. Verna was born and raised on a dairy farm north of Huntsville, Ontario where she developed a deep and abiding relationship with nature. Her formative experiences on the farm nurtured the basis of Verna’s longstanding love for the fresh air of the coastal mountains, North Shore beaches, and every garden she encountered.

After leaving Huntsville at the age of seventeen, Verna completed her nursing studies at Montreal General Hospital and ultimately ventured west to the Okanagan with her dearest friend, Margaret Estabrooks. At a Penticton hospital auxiliary dance in 1952, Verna met Albert Crittenden, a young teacher whom she later wed on her birthday in 1954. The couple eventually left Penticton to raise their three children in West Vancouver and Christina Lake where it was not uncommon to observe Verna maneuvering her canoe with Willy, their golden retriever, at the helm before the log cottage that she and Al assembled.

Hardworking and adventuresome, Verna never shied away from a challenge that would see her travel into the depths of local mountain ranges and breadths of trail systems further afield in Asia, Europe, Africa, and New Zealand, Throughout her life, Verna tended to many. She was as generous and compassionate as she was thoughtful and sensitive. Though she was trained as a nurse to administer to her patients, it was in Verna’s nature to give. She lived by the credo “Aren’t we blessed? We have so much to be thankful for,” which epitomized her enduring positivism. During hardship, Verna could see that “This too shall pass,” and she trusted in her belief that we could brave life’s setbacks if we live “one day at a time.”

Verna is survived by her husband Al; her three children - Peter, Laurie (Rod), and Tara (Tim); and her four grandchildren - Taylor, Jordan, Teagan, and Mac. The family would like to express their thanks to Dr. Andrew Cheng and to the entire staff of the West Vancouver Care Centre, and to publicly recognize how grateful we feel for having Verna as our wife, our mother, and our grandmother, for her unconditional kindness was a blessing to experience and a virtue to emulate.

At Verna’s request, there will be no service. Family and friends will gather for tea and reminiscing at a date to be announced.

MARTER, Joan September 6, 1940 − February 23, 2017

Long−time resident of Lynn Valley, Joan passed away on 23 February, 2017 surrounded by her family. She is survived by her sons: Peter (Joan), Paul and Mark (Mary); grandchildren Caroline and Louis; sisters Irene (Glenn) and Betty (Dick). She will be missed by her extended family and many friends. Joan loved life and spent many hours volunteering at Molly Nye House and other community organizations, perusing cookbooks and cooking for family and friends. We will miss her love of life and especially her kind and generous nature.

She will be missed by all those whose life she touched. A Celebration of her Life is planned for an unscheduled date in the weeks to come.

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