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The 83-metre ship, currently undergoing maintenance work at Seaspan’s Vancouver Drydock, is the largest in the Coast Guard’s West Coast fleet. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Left: Edward Camilleri, senior vessel maintenance manager with the Canadian Coast Guard, checks out a piece of the multibeam sounder being installed on the Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Right: a worker at Vancouver Drydock walks beneath the hull of the icebreaker, which rests on keel blocks. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD

Canadian icebreakers chart an ocean that is literally off the maps

A ship for all seasons

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Sitting on keel blocks in Vancouver Drydock’s 30,000-tonne lift, the towering hull of the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Sir Wilfrid Laurier looms against the North Vancouver skyline.

It’s about 36 metres from the bottom of the hull to the tip of the mast.

The ship’s smart red and white colours have been temporarily replaced with a mottled, pixelated appearance – loose paint on the hull has been spot-blasted off, then recoated with primer before a final coat of epoxy paint goes on.

There’s a newly welded scar on one side of the hull where a two- by three-metre hole was cut to take out the old auxiliary generator and put a new one in.

The rounded icebreaking bow at the front of the ship rises above an angled “ice knife” in a shape designed to reduce friction and push the ice slabs under the vessel.

With a displacement of more than 5,000 tons and

Two massive fixed-pitch propellers can power the ship through 1.2 metres of ice at a speed of three knots. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD a length of 83 metres, the Wilfrid Laurier is the largest ship in the Coast Guard’s West Coast fleet.

And when it comes to icebreakers, size matters.

Powered by three massive diesel electric engines capable of creating about 9,000 horsepower, the ship’s generators power motors which turn two

huge propellers made of a nickel-aluminum-bronze alloy.

“A lot of Coast Guard ships have variable pitch (propellers) but for an icebreaker you want fixed pitch,” says Randy Morford, the ship’s chief engineer. The fewer things that are moving in the ice, the fewer that can go wrong.

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than an inch thick in places.

The Wilfrid Laurier isn’t as big as some of the Coast Guard’s heavy icebreakers, but does well in the western Arctic, where water is shallow.

In some places, “You can’t get close to shore, even in a small boat,” says Capt. Bill Noon, who grew up in West Vancouver and has been

captain on the Laurier since 2009, making his first trip into the Arctic as chief officer on the vessel in 1994.

First-year ice is “fairly soft,” says Noon. “We have no problem working in that ice.”

The Laurier can power through ice up to one and a quarter metres thick at a speed of three knots.

Older ice that’s frozen and thawed over multiple years is a lot more trouble. “It gets a lot thicker. Hard as concrete,” says Noon.

When the ship is on its regular summer patrol of the western Arctic, an onboard helicopter helps to scout paths through the worst of it.

The ship is fully self-sufficient, and can stay at sea for 120 days at a time.

“We hold about a million litres of fuel,” says Morford.

A desalination and reverse osmosis system onboard can make up to 240,000 litres of water a day.

The ship also has a pretty good machine, welding and pipefitting shop on board, says Morford. When the ship is in the Arctic and something breaks down, “We can’t call someone,” he says. “We have

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Chief engineer Randy Morford and acting captain Simon Dockerill examine a portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier given to the ship by Seaspan employee Wade Baker. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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up under emergency flares.

“There was debris floating all over,” he said. “It’s one of those things you don’t ever want to see, but when you do see it, it’s burned into your memory.”

In the Arctic, one of the ship’s jobs is to support the economy of the North by ensuring passage for a small armada of barges, tugs and commercial vessels like container ships that provide a lifeline to communities like Taloyoak, Gjoa Haven, Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk scattered around the western Arctic.

During a six-week summer window, ships bring in everything from food to pickup trucks, televisions to outboard motors and a year’s supply of fuel.

Most goods arrive by ship because air travel is still very expensive.

Adventure tourism is another area that’s booming.

“Believe it or not there are cruise vessels in the Arctic,” says Morford. “Next year, Disney is going up.”

Many of the ships are “ice strengthened” but often still require an escort.

The Canadian government provides that free of charge, as part of its mandate to facilitate trade and promote the economy of the North.

These days it’s not uncommon to see five to eight cruise ships during a summer season, says Noon.

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In the meantime, maintenance like the work carried out in Vancouver Drydock since the end of February is key to extending the life of the existing ships. Major refit work can add another 10 to 15 years.

Built in a Great Lakes shipyard in 1986, the Sir Wilfrid Laurier is no exception. Around that same time, several other polar icebreakers were built for the Coast Guard in North Vancouver shipyards.

The Amundsen and the Pierre Radisson were both built at Burrard Drydock in 1978 and 1979 while the Martha Black was built at Versatile Shipyard in 1986.

“A (bulk carrier) you’ll see out here in the harbour, you might get 20 years out of it if you’re lucky,” says Dockerill. “Government ships are designed for much longer lives. You can get 40 or 50 years out of them easily.”

The work that makes that possible doesn’t come cheap.

A regular refit like this one – done every two or three years – usually costs about $1 million, says Edward Camilleri, senior vessel maintenance manager for the Coast Guard.

Special projects this time – including the generator replacement and installation of a specialized multi-beam sounder that can create three dimensional maps of the ocean floor – have pushed the cost to $4.8 million.

During winter months, one of the Laurier’s tasks is to check and repair navigational and weather buoys along the Pacific coast, including three weather buoys anchored about 500 miles offshore that provide information for West Coast forecasts.

The ship does similar tasks on its Arctic route, where it’s responsible for both buoys and land-based beacons.

“Winters are pretty harsh,” says Noon. “Sometimes polar bears will knock down towers.”

The ship also serves as a moving van and supply ship for remaining manned lighthouses along the B.C. coast and provides marine search and rescue.

The Wilfrid Laurier was already working in waters of the central coast on the night of March 22, 2006 when an ominous call came over the radio. The Queen of the North had struck Gil Island and was taking on water. Passengers and crew were preparing to abandon ship.

“I remember it like it was yesterday,” said Morford.

“The captain phoned me. He said, ‘We need full power right away. A B.C. ferry is sinking.’”

Engineers cranked up all three engines to top speed, arriving on the scene after the ferry had already slipped beneath the water. When he got out of the engine room and up on to deck, Morford remembers an eerie flat calm hung over the scene of lifeboats and small vessels lit

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CNV approves 3.4% tax hike across the board Tax jump to be shared equally by residents, businesses

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

The average City of North Vancouver homeowner is going to be out of pocket $1,811 in 2017, following council’s debate Monday on where to put the tax burden.

Council was unanimous in their approval of an acrossthe-board 3.4 per cent tax hike that will cost the average homeowner $60 more than in 2016.

The tax may cause a

strain for small businesses, many of which are “hanging on,” as higher rents have left proprietors with shrinking profit margins, according to Coun. Don Bell.

The tax jump means small businesses will be paying $178 more in 2017, bringing the average tax bill to $5,342.

However, Bell ultimately inclined to “minimize” the burden faced by homeowners grappling with soaring assessments.

Home assessments have jumped at more than twice the rate of business properties, according to a city staff report that pegged the increase in city home assessments at 34.6 per cent.

Council considered shifting the burden from businesses to homeowners,

Coun. Don Bell resulting in a 4.6 per cent hike for homeowners and a 1.4 per cent increase for businesses.

The staff recommendation earned the ire of council watcher Kathy Lewis, who suggested the plan was

“indifferent” to the residential class. “It’s clear that we have no regard for the huge debt burdened on the homeowner,” she said.

The tax shift was rebuked by council, with Coun. Rod Clark saying he was unconvinced the business property class needs a “further break.”

Moving forward, council should advocate to senior levels of government for permission to introduce a tax rate that distinguishes between large and small businesses, according to Coun. Linda Buchanan. In contrast to the city’s mom and pop shops, corporate businesses “can absolutely pay more,” she said.

Council’s unanimity on the tax rates follows the

Bait car snares auto thief in West Van

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A car thief took the bait early Monday morning and ended up getting caught by West Vancouver police.

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Monday, a suspect broke into a bait car police had stationed between West Vancouver’s

Sentinel Hill and Cedardale neighbourhoods, tripping a silent alarm that alerted police. A man was arrested minutes later and was found in possession of stolen items, according to West Vancouver police spokesman Const. Jeff Palmer.

Palmer said there’s been a “fairly substantial” increase in car break-ins and auto thefts in

the District of West Vancouver this year. Police recommend taking precautions, such as not leaving valuables in cars, especially overnight.

“We as police will do our part actively working to investigate and arrest offenders, but very much need people in the community to consider how they can protect themselves against theft from auto,” he

said. “So many of our recent thefts from auto have involved valuables left in unlocked cars.”

Terry David Zimmerman, 53, of Surrey, has been charged with theft under $5,000 in connection with the bait car incident. He is scheduled to make an appearance in North Vancouver provincial court April 26.

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The combined budgets for police and fire are rising by $674,000 for 2017.

The fire department is boosting operations costs by $264,000, as well as investing more than $51,000 in fire prevention. The department submitted a request for $157,677 in maintenance and replacement for the fire hall, and $350,000 for breathing apparatuses.

The city is on the hook for $187,796 for the Gerry Brewer police building, a price that includes some new equipment. For the

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The chief administrative officer’s $6.6-million budget is expected to cost $169,100 more than in 2016. That jump is attributed to $80,000 in salary obligations and an IT contract ticking up by $51,400.

The city is anticipating a $245,000 drop in revenue due to the closure of the parking lot at Carrie Cates Court.

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Specifically, the Liberals are promising to cap annual tolls on the Port Mann Bridge to $500 per year. Not to be outdone, the NDP are promising no tolls at all for the 10-lane, $3.3-billion bridge that already loses money every year.

The foreseeable impact of this is more people south of the Fraser River opting to hop in their cars. Many of them undoubtedly will be headed for our congested streets.

The point of tolls isn’t just to pay for the infrastructure we drive on but rather to make people question whether the single-occupancy vehicle is really the most efficient way for them to get around (hint: it’s not.)

The only party that doesn’t seem to have it out for North Shore residents, as tolling goes, is the Greens.

So why the toxic one-upmanship to the detriment of the rest of us? Surrey is littered with battleground ridings that tend to flip by small margins and so the parties are more concerned with polls than tolls.

It’s true, in the last term, the Liberals put up almost $200 million to finagle the on- and off-ramps at the Ironworkers bridgehead but this is tantamount to buying a bigger belt to combat obesity.

However, there is a way to lower our commute times and our blood pressure.

We challenge our political parties to stop thinking about mass appeal and start thinking about mass transit. We need to expand transit, consider congestion pricing, and reduce urban sprawl. Any doctor will tell you, congestion is a symptom. It’s time we started treating the disease.

No olive branch for Olympics-ruining NHL It’s amateur hour over at the NHL lately, as the commissioner and team owners have unilaterally decided that they will spurn the IOC and not allow the league’s players to suit up for their countries at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The sting of that decision was felt across Canada, although the pain quickly receded in many regions of the country as hockey fans threw themselves right back into the NHL to cheer on their teams in the playoffs. We’ve got no such Stanley Cup concerns here in Vancouver, so let’s revisit the decision and figure out how we got here.

It’s a twisted story with a lot of interested parties, so let’s break it down with some

Laugh All You Want Andy Prest definitions of the key players and concepts that led to this point.

Olympic hockey: This is hockey in its purest form, played at breakneck speed and high skill with no need for the seedier parts of the game such as fighting and Gary Bettman. For many years Olympic hockey was played by “amateurs,” until

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1998 when the contest was opened up to elite professional players, as well as Rob Zamuner. These tournaments unite our country: more than half of all Canadians tuned in to the Olympic men’s gold medal final during the 2010 Olympics, making it the most-watched TV broadcast in our history.

Gary Bettman: Classified as a simple “nuisance rodent” by the American Society of Sniveling Stuff (ASSS), the Gary Bettman is much more vilified in Canada where researchers have accused it of stealing our most valuable resources and moving them to Freaking Glendale Arizona.

No Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since the first year this socially awkward member of the weasel family became commissioner of the NHL 24 years ago.

Bettman is often credited

with “growing the game” during his time in charge, although motion cameras also caught him last night digging through my compost bin.

NHL owners: A pack of distinguished gentleman headlined by the guy that was just accused of offering a Brazilian model a movie role in exchange for sex. These guys worked countless minutes to inherit their fortunes from their fathers and they’ll be darned if they’re going to risk any of their hard-earned Crosbys for something as trivial as the collective enjoyment of millions of enthralled fans around the globe watching brilliant hockey.

The IOC: The International Olympic Committee is a sexy male model who you’ll meet online and fall madly in love with. When he finally comes to visit you in real life he’ll

take you out to the finest hotel, share with you the finest champagne, and wear you out with two straight weeks of the finest two-man luge. Then he’ll burn your house down and send you a hotel bill for $5.6 billion.

No one can resist the IOC’s charms. No one, it seems, except for Gary Bettman, who obviously hates all winter sports, particularly ice hockey.

Amateurism: Pure sport conducted by pure gentlemen with pure urine samples.

Also: pure B.S. Forget for a moment the state-sponsored Soviet hockey teams that made a mockery of the sport’s “amateur” rules for decades; the concept of amateurism has been a sham from the start. Amateur ideals supposedly began with the original Olympics, but historians have concluded

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that ancient Greek jocks loved getting paid for their feats of strength, sometimes winning prizes such as – and I’m not making this part up – huge vats of olive oil that were worth a small fortune.

The concept of amateurism as we know it is less about ancient Greece and more about British upper class twits being really bad at sports. Tired of losing to peasants, the aristocrats created “amateur” rules that forbade anyone who worked for a living from competing in their games. Who works for a living? Everyone! Except for upper class twits. Game, set and match for the Duke of Suckington!

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Teach your tykes cycling etiquette Dear Editor: To the dad who was cycling on the Garibaldi Drive sidewalk with his two young sons (on Saturday, March 18) around 5:30 p.m.

I appreciate that you are actively involved with your boys, but I would like to point out that as I was also walking on that sidewalk and didn’t hear any of you come up behind me, you need to get bells for your bikes so that

you can give pedestrians a fair warning of your presence.

Or if that’s too much bother, you can always shout a warning and make sure pedestrians have time to react properly, and teach your kids to do the same.

And a thank-you is always appreciated when pedestrians have to move out of your way.

Karen Foster North Vancouver

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Sting simply not funny Dear Editor: Re: Distracted Drivers Busted in Undercover Sting, April 7 story.

I was about to send you kudos on the excellent April Fool’s about policemen camouflaged as construction workers nabbing “distracted” motorists at Capilano and Marine, but then I realized that the article was (published) on April 7. I am amazed that this type of police deception is legal in Canada.

Walter Cicha West Vancouver

ONLINECOMMENT NSN OPINION: Bike Lane Spending Shows Lack of Fiscal Responsibility (March 12) Brett (at nsnews.com): You say “unwanted project.” I want it. As do many others. So it’s unreasonable to suggest that just because you don’t want new bike lanes, no one in the city does.

If you live near Jones you’ll notice the roadway is also designated as a bike route for faster cyclists, while the path is for walkers and slower cyclists (like kids or those just getting into cycling). The Jones path isn’t as well used as other routes in the city because it lacks connection to the rest of the network. That’s what the Keith Road path is for.

Also, pointing out that some cyclists don’t fully stop at a stop sign while turning right, and using it as an argument makes no sense. It’s like me pointing out people speed on Highway 1 and therefore proposed new highway interchanges shouldn’t be built.

NSN STORY: CNV Mulls Harry Jerome Redevelopment (April 12) David Taylor (at nsnews.com): Curling? Lawn bowling? Yes, and Norseman Park is used by a wider group that is not even mentioned. What about all the little kids who play soccer on the weekends? Hundreds of kids use that park weekly. Based on the article the new Harry Jerome open space will likely be smaller. ... Then, if you live in the city and want to go to a park, you have to go to the district. ... Going from the city to the district usually entails dealing with gridlock as almost all the ways to go to the district involve crossing Highway 1.

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team owners). Through their players’ association, the NHL’s star attractions voiced their collective displeasure about being denied their Olympic dreams. Hey guys,

you’re grown-ups – why don’t you just go?

The fans: Lol, I said we were going to discuss the “key players” in this situation.

No one cares what the fans think. All we can do is make it known how important this

tournament is to us and reinforce to the players that it is worth the effort and strife to keep fighting to get there.

Maybe we can sweeten the deal for them a little bit. Got any spare olive oil? aprest@nsnews.com

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK: How much is the community willing to pay?”

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— Lookout Emergency Aid Society manager Ken Falconer suggests North Shore homeless counts are an underestimate, citing the many people without shelter who avoid the count out of pride or are in denial about being homeless (from an April 12 news story).

It took me forever because turning that dial, I knew the (incinerator) would turn on.”

— Until We Meet Again pet crematorium founder Kevin Woronchak recalls the trauma of saying goodbye to a beloved pet (from an April 9 Focus story).

You won’t smell it.”

— City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto touts the filtration system of the new Lions Gate wastewater treatment plant (from an April 14 news story).

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Fate of backyard chickens rests with public DNV council sends proposed chicken bylaw to public hearing, bear educators urge controls BRENT RICHER brichter@nsnews.cm

Distinct of North Vancouver council is giving the public one more go-around on whether chicken coops ought to be permitted in neighbourhood backyards.

Council was set to vote Monday, yay or nay, on whether to allow hens but instead decided to send the

matter to public hearing.

It’s been roughly a year since council first started exploring the idea, at the request of the Canadian Liberated Urban Chicken Klub.

The City of North Vancouver welcomed chickens four years ago and the District of West Vancouver one year ago.

A survey of residents found 226 in support of

“We believe that a mandatory inspection is very, very important,” said the society’s education coordinator Christine Miller.

“The North Shore Black Bear Society doesn’t want chickens predated upon and we certainly don’t want bears killed as a result.”

Still council opted to turn the matter over to a yet-to-be-scheduled public hearing. Few on council expected there to be much uptake for the backyard hens, even among supporters of the bylaw.

“I think if the district was looking at a large number of potential coops being

backyard chickens and 63 opposed. A number of would-be practitioners of chicken husbandry showed up to lobby council, although the familiar concerns about the coops being attractants for predators remain.

There was also some confusion over whether the change would have the support of the North Shore Black Bear Society. The society had given tentative approval, if the bylaw required a mandatory inspection of the coop and fee but those provisions were not in the bylaw given first reading Monday.

ALL-CANDIDATES MEETINGS CANDIDATES PANEL DISCUSSION Meet some of B.C.’s electoral candidates from the North Shore and learn their views on how to create a greener economy in B.C., address climate change and protect our natural environment. A facilitated panel discussion will engage Green Party and NDP candidates on these important topics before audience members have an opportunity to present their own questions to candidates.

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Tuesday, April 18, 7-8:30 p.m. in Room 120 at North Vancouver City Library, West 14th St., North Vancouver.

ELECTORAL DEBATE Young adults in the community have organized a debate and invited candidates of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties from the ridings of North VancouverSeymour, North VancouverLonsdale and West VancouverCapilano on Thursday, April 20, 7-10 p.m. at North Lonsdale

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established in the district, I would probably hesitate to endorse this motion...” he said. “I think we’re looking at a dozen registrants, at most, and the regulations in terms of noise, smell and safety of enclosure seem to me, from the report, to be fairly vigorous,” said Coun.

Robin Hicks.

Coun. Roger Bassam, however, was deeply skeptical.

“I don’t think there’s any need. As a matter of fact, I know there’s no need for us to be introducing chickens as backyard livestock,” he said. “We do have a need for safety and security and

bringing an alpha predator attractant into our community just don’t make any sense to me.”

Sardonically, Coun.

Mathew Bond suggested the district was being asked for onerous levels of regulation for backyard hens while taking a much more hands-off approach to other known bear attractants.

Bond questioned whether bird feeders and fruit trees should also be fitted with electric fences and subject to inspections and fees, as some on council and in the community were seeking from the proposed chicken bylaw.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath CapU Blues athletic banquet The 25th annual Capilano University Blues Athletic Banquet took place at the Seymour Golf and Country Club April 5, with athletes from the three Blues men’s and women’s teams in basketball, soccer and volleyball in attendance, along with coaches and university faculty. Student athletes were honoured for their sport and academic achievements from the Pacific Western Athletic Association (PacWest), the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) and Capilano University. The event featured a buffet dinner and guest speakers as well as a video presentation of the season’s achievements along with the awards presentation ceremony.

Blues men’s volleyball teammates Jonathan Lee, Zarley Zalusky, TheAnh Pham and Simon Friesen

Women’s basketball teammates Ashley De La Cruz Yip, Amber Kavanagh, Marti Chambers and Brittany Wertman

Men’s basketball teammates Moe Karimirad, Whitman McAllen and Chris Loreth

Women’s basketball coaches Ramin Sadaghiani and Chris Weimer

Men’s volleyball coach Emmanuel Denguessi and CapU athletics and recreation manager Milt Williams

CapU athletics events officer Chris Raeside and awards night MC Steven James

North Shore News sports editor Andy Prest, former CapU athletics director Joe Iacobellis and wife Laura

Women’s soccer teammates Juliana Mannella, Cassidy Ludlow and Arin McIdoon

Women’s volleyball teammates Faith Aziz, Anika Kolybaba, Tracy and Trina Ewashkiw, and Taya Mikado

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Looking for a fun new activity for your child with the side-benefit of potentially saving the world?

North Vancouver start-up BrainSTEM Learning Canada may have just the thing.

Tucked into a storefront on Marine Drive, the company offers workshops, parties, camps and other programs for children ages 4-14 focusing on the four pillars of STEM: science, technology, engineering and math. It’s not all protractors and spreadsheets though – the classes get kids into action with projects like building water bottle rockets; crafting roller coasters; and designing, programming and building (and sometimes fighting!) robots.

“It’s a great opportunity to teach children, open their eyes to the different possibilities of engineering and being creative,” says co-founder Sarah Baldwin, a North Vancouver native, adding that the building really gets rocking when the kids get their robot creations into a mini sumo ring.

“The sound level really

goes up,” she says.

But it’s not just battle bots either, Baldwin says.

The company – the brainchild of engineers Oscar Bustos (Baldwin’s husband) and Enrique Cordero, along with company owner David Terron – has the lofty goal of developing the minds of future engineers who may someday solve the world’s greatest problems.

Baldwin cites the examples of the California 12-year-old who built an innovative and cost-effective braille printer using his Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit, and the Arkansas 14-year-old who became the youngest person to produce nuclear fusion.

“We like that kids don’t have our set logic – as we get older it gets set that this is the way things are and this is the way it should be,” says Baldwin. “But kids come into it bright eyed and bushy tailed, they don’t have pre-conceived notions about how things are supposed to be. So they can come up with all sorts of ideas that maybe we as adults haven’t thought of.”

What results is an interesting alternative to a bouncy castle birthday

party or a generic summer camp. The hope is that the children are building more than just robots, rockets and roller coasters – they’re building self-confidence and creativity as well.

“We don’t tell them exactly how to do it – we allow them to design, build, test and improve their own creations,” says Baldwin.

“You’re not necessarily saying, ‘OK, now you’re going to do math. … We bring in acceleration and velocity and these concepts and allow them to figure it out through learning. And then they remember those concepts and why those things work.”

Prices start at $25 for a drop-in session or $135 for a six-week course for the younger learners, a little more for older kids.

Topics covered range from robotics and stop-motion animation to aerospace, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental and chemical engineering.

For more information visit brainstemlearning.ca.

BrainSTEM co-founder Oscar Bustos talks his son Ridley through a lesson in robotics.

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FREE YOURSELF Co-owners Hailey Lamb and Hannah Johnson invite the public to a weekend of free yoga at their Lower Lonsdale studio. All scheduled classes at Moksha Yoga North Vancouver, located at 217 West First St., will be free of charge April 22-23, with donations and proceeds from towel and mat rentals going to the David Suzuki Foundation.

The festive weekend will also include a barbecue and tailgate party Saturday afternoon, as well as a live music class Sunday evening. For more information or to register for a class, visit northvancouver.mokshayoga.ca. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

Dr. Recycle performs plastic surgery at Lonsdale Quay Dr. Recycle, a.k.a. British Columbia’s “Mad Junkologist” Oliver Samonte, will be performing plastic magic April 21-22 at Lonsdale Quay to celebrate Earth Day.

Families are encouraged to bring four-litre milk jugs to Kids Alley at the Quay 11 a.m.-7 p.m. next Friday or Saturday and watch Dr.

Recycle turn them into creatures such as a whale, shark or duck.

“I won’t be able to bring enough junk in my car trunk,” says Samonte. “I will bring the fun, if they can bring the junk.”

Dr. Recycle says that all funds raised at his annual Recyclethon will be donated to B.C. Children’s Hospital.

WHAT’SGOINGON EASTER BUNNY AT LONSDALE QUAY Kids register at Easter Headquarters located at the Cheshire Cheese restaurant at 10 a.m. Sunday April 16. Children may collect the correct number of coloured eggs in the retails stores and redeem them for a treat bag 1011 a.m. There will also be crafts and face painting, a visit from the Easter Bunny 10:30-11:30 a.m. and an egg decorating workshop 11 a.m.-noon.

LEGAL MATTERS A talk about power of attorney and representation agreement, the key documents used to plan for

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take place Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Carson Graham Secondary, 2145 Jones Ave., North Vancouver. Canadian Blood Services is looking to meet the clinic target of 101 donations. blood.ca LAWN BOWLING ORIENTATION DAY The North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club will present information on the sport as well as club activities Sunday, April 23, 1:30 p.m. at 2160 Lonsdale Ave. Lessons for new bowlers will begin on April 24. All ages welcome. 604-6303300 northvancouverlawnbowlingclub.ca

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Captain recalls moment of seeing Erebus sonar From page 5 Some adventurers are better prepared than others.

“People have tried to row through and people have taken jet skis through. People have done all kinds of crazy things,” says Dockerill. “That’s generally not recommended.

That didn’t end well.”

In February, a federal court judge dismissed a claim against the Canadian government, filed by the Bahamas-based owners of an Arctic cruise ship that ran aground on a rock shelf in August 2010. Instead, the judge fined the ship’s owners about $500,000 for the costs of environmental cleanup.

The Wilfrid Laurier was part of the salvage operation for the damaged cruise ship, after passengers were evacuated.

One of the less tangible parts of the job is simply being there. “It’s waving the flag, doing sovereignty patrols,” says Morford. “It’s a Canadian presence.”

During the summer Arctic patrols, teams of scientists and hydrographic crews swell the ranks of those onboard the Wilfrid Laurier to over 50.

Scientists from Sidney’s Institute of Ocean Sciences do ocean water studies up to the Arctic coast every year from an onboard laboratory. The ship has also been deployed in research projects to study ice dynamics in the Beaufort Sea. Climate change is visible in the north, says Noon. In 1996, for instance, the changing sea ice was so thick in the Arctic “we had to come back via Halifax and the Panama Canal,” says Noon. “I don’t think that will ever happen again.”

But as one of the few truly uncharted places on the planet, the Arctic still has a pull. Only about 13 per cent of the Canadian Arctic is charted. “We’re still finding dangerous shoals every season,” says Noon.

Working with the Canadian Hydrographic Service to chart the ocean floor is a key task during summer patrols.

That is primarily how the Wilfrid Laurier found itself at the centre of the Parks Canada search for the lost ships of the expedition led by Sir John Franklin – the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror – which disappeared without a trace in 1845 with 129 men on board.

Since they were sounding uncharted waters where the ships might be, researchers suggested looking for the ships at the same time. “Every year the project got bigger and bigger,” says Noon. By the summer of 2014, “It became a

giant very busy project that was super intense and active.”

That summer, the plan was to search in a northern area of Victoria Strait off King William Island. But when they got there, “It was completely frozen in. We went south because the ice wouldn’t let us search in the north,” said Noon.

It was there – shortly after a helicopter pilot found an old ship’s davit on a beach – that an archeological crew identified the ship later identified as the Erebus on a sonar image. The find was kept secret for a few days, while a strict protocol was followed detailing who would be informed. Noon recalls being summoned to his own cabin by the team of archeologists and being shown the sonar image of the ship on the ocean floor. As a history buff familiar with the Franklin story, “It was an incredibly emotional moment,” he said.

Later the archeologists secretly brought the ship’s bell on board into the science lab. Noon recalls knocking on the locked door. “They said ‘No, we’re busy.’ I said ‘I’m the ship’s captain.’”

When he saw the bell, Noon recalls it was a beautiful, powerful sight. There was no ship’s name on it. But there was a date: 1845.

One of the big projects underway now on the ship at Vancouver Drydock is installation of a multi-beam sounder on board the Wilfrid Laurier – a specialized instrument that will create three-dimensional maps of the ocean floor. A console will also be installed in the wheelhouse, so officers on the bridge will see the images being sent to the on-board science lab. Under the bottom of the ship, a round valve marks the spot where the sounder will be lowered from a new watertight compartment.

Two small GPS receivers are also being installed on the satellite dome to ensure the location of the images is precise.

Last year, in September 2016, the Sir Wilfrid Laurier was again in the area when another search vessel under the command of a non-profit foundation discovered Franklin’s other vessel, the Terror, in Terror Bay. But there was no time to explore, said Noon, because the weather soon moved in. “Once winter hits you have to get out of there,” he says.

Part of the allure of the Arctic has always been its mystery, says Noon.

The area where Franklin’s ships were found was still a white space on the charts, he says. “The charts haven’t

really improved since he came though.”

“Partially you feel like you’re still exploring a bit,” he says of the annual trips to the Arctic on board the icebreaker. “It feels like you’re carrying on a historical legacy.”

The Sir Wilfrid Laurier is expected to go back in the water this week, departing North Vancouver by the end of April.

The rounded bow of the ship is designed to minimize friction and increase manoeuvrability in the ice as well as push ice slabs underneath it. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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If you want to cut fat, avoid plateaus If you are motivated to improve your fitness levels and reduce your body-fat, here are some tips to get on track.

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Diet and exercise go hand in hand when it comes to lowering your body fat, so take a dual approach to get the best results.

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body’s most efficient calorie burner, and after the age of 30 we lose approximately half a pound of muscle per year. The good news is that working out can help reverse this process!

If you want to know if you are gaining or losing muscle, a body-fat test can provide great insight. If you start working out and your weight does not change, don’t lose hope, you could still be losing fat.

If you weigh 160 pounds and your body-fat goes down five per cent but your weight stays the same, that still indicates a fat loss of eight pounds. This is why many health professionals remind you not to place too much emphasis on the scale!

2. Change your workouts regularly. This is a very important tip, if you find yourself performing the same exercises each workout you will quickly reach a plateau. Our bodies can be quite good at adapting to the stresses we put on it, so if you don’t continually change exercises your body will adapt which will make it difficult to reach your goals. At minimum, try changing your workouts each month. Another option is to have a handful of workouts

NESTING SEASON Echo Ecological’s Krystal Brennan helps Grade 4 Cleveland Elementary student Malcolm Lowen build a nesting box for swallows at the school’s Earth Day event. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH you rotate so you are not doing the same exercises each time.

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North Vancouver’s Gary Robbins tackles the briar-strewn climb known as “rat jaw” during the 2016 Barkley Marathons in Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park. Robbins almost finished the nearimpossible race last year and came even closer this year, his agonizingly close encounter with the “yellow gate” finish line making him a viral sensation. PHOTO SUPPLIED KEITH KNIPLING

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North Vancouver’s Gary Robbins became an instant sensation earlier this month when he just missed becoming a finisher at the ridiculously hard Barkley Marathons, known by many as the toughest foot race in the world.

Images of the highly decorated ultra-marathoner lying motionless beside a yellow gate – the event’s finish line – went viral, along with the story that he came in just six seconds late in a 100-plus mile race with a strict 60-hour cut-off limit.

That wasn’t the whole story, however, as Robbins also took a wrong turn in the final two miles of the five-lap course in Frozen Head State Park in eastern Tennessee.

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come in on the wrong trail – barely surviving a swim across a river to get there – meaning regardless of the time he clocked, he would have been deemed a non-finisher because he did not complete the correct route.

This was a huge deal because only 15 people – including John Kelly this year, who teamed up with Robbins for the first four laps – have ever finished the Barkley

since it was first held in 1984.

Robbins didn’t complete the race according to the Barkley’s devilishly tough rules, but his agonizing finish may well have made him the most famous participant in the event’s history.

This week Robbins was finally well enough to conduct extensive interviews about the race and the North Shore News caught up with him on a day that also saw him sharing his story with media outlets across the country.

Here’s what he had to say about his famous finish:

North Shore News: How is your body feeling? What feels worst?

Gary Robbins: It’s tough to distinguish what feels the worst. Everything just feels horrible. The hardest part in the days following is that you’ve gone from the strongest you’ve been in your

entire life to pretty much the weakest you have been.

Everything hurts – you can’t do anything but baby steps.

Everything is swollen. You can hardly do anything but sneeze without it hurting your body somewhere.

NSN: This was your second time at the Barkley Marathons.

How much more comfortable were you this time?

GR: It’s actually quite difficult to go back to an event this challenging a second time because the first time it’s like ignorance is bliss a little bit – you just kind of let things unfold and everything is new.

This time I had to remind myself that three laps at the Barkley is harder than any 100-mile race I’ve ever done.

That was my observation a year ago and it stayed true this year. I had to remind myself while I was in it that I had to go through the second,

if not the hardest, race of my life just to get to the fourth and fifth laps of the race. I found through the first couple of laps I was wavering a little bit mentally and I had to really buckle down and I had some internal conversations about how to start blocking things out and focusing on the task at hand.

NSN: So you can never assume that you’ve got things figured out?

GR: No, not at all. The benefit this year was having seen the course last year. My navigation was much more dialed, I understood what things looked like and how to get between books (used as check-in points) a little bit better. But certainly the physical challenge, no matter how fit you are, it takes a toll on you pretty quickly.

NSN: You talked last year

about the hallucinations you had on the course. Racing for 60 straight hours, obviously it’s going to get really tough.

Did it start going wonky for you at some point this year?

GR: I used music this year, really got a loud beat-style music going in my ear, and that helped to focus the mind a little more. The hallucinations I did suffer from on the fifth lap were I started seeing bright flashes of light in my peripheral as I was blinking.

And then when I was listening to this music, which was very much beat-based and not lyrically-based, all of a sudden I started hearing this voice overlaid on the music. It took me a second to realize that my mind was construing this, but it was the voice that you hear when you call in to get your messages on your cellphone. She was just chatting

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away about something.

NSN: Was she following the beat?

GR: No, she was just talking over it, just getting in the way.

NSN: Have you figured out how you got lost there at the end?

GR: Basically what happened was I had been pushing hard for not only three days, but my extreme limit for the last four hours of the race because halfway through the last lap fog had set in and I lost an hour at one of the books. I had no time left to make any errors – with four hours left in the race I found myself where I had to move as fast or faster than I moved on the very first lap to have a chance to finish the race. I managed to pull that out of myself and I collected the final book.

As I collected the final book, there’s one small climb you go up and over, then you intersect with a trail and you run down to the finish to the left. It’s pretty straightforward. And as I got the final book I saw the fog rolling in on top of me and it just was a whiteout. I went over the final knoll … I was a few degrees

too far to the west – or to the right – of the trail, and when I hit the trail I drifted into it from the wrong side and then in the fog I was on the trail and I saw blazes on the trees and I started running on the trail.

I was running and wondering why things were taking so long, why things weren’t unfolding as they should, and before I knew it I came to a staircase on the course and at that point I realized that I had gone the wrong way on the final trail and did not have time to turn around and go back up and over the mountain correctly to get to the finish in under 60 hours. I had blown my finish.

NSN: How much time was left?

GR: From that exact moment I think there was 20 minutes left on the clock.

NSN: Did you know that you were done or did you tell yourself that you could possibly figure out a way to do it?

GR: I knew that I didn’t have time to go back over the mountain and I knew that that was the only way to finish. But in that moment of being hyper-focused – and exhausted and sleep deprived – I took a bearing and shot down the mountain to get to

the gate for 60 hours.

There’s a part of me that believes I only had 60 hours of energy and resolve in me and if I had gone over that margin by even a couple of minutes I would have just collapsed. I got myself to the finish in 60 hours and six seconds, from the wrong direction, and I did not finish the race.

My two regrets are I wish I would have turned around and gone back over the mountain and finished in maybe five minutes over time, and then the discussion would be that Gary Robbins finished the Barkley five minutes over, not he came in the wrong direction. And going the wrong direction I came to a river crossing and made a terrible decision in that moment to swim the river, which thankfully didn’t play out negatively but certainly could have. Those are the things I would change if I could.

NSN: How close did you come to losing it in that river?

GR: It was sketchy. The river was definitely chest-deep, and when I jumped in to swim I started getting washed downstream right away. I recognized that I wasn’t moving across the stream and I had kind of a tree that was protruding on the other side a

ways down from me and that was going to be my only shot at getting through. I managed to put in enough of a kick to grab that tree and pull myself out of the river.

From an experienced backcountry enthusiast perspective, that is the worst possible thing you could think about doing and I would never do that on a clear state of mind. And I would never do that again even on a deprived state of mind.

NSN: Even after all that, you were sprinting in. How did you manage to sprint to the finish line?

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I could see when I was going through the park I was about to run out of time, and I managed to dig a little deeper still and sprint to the gate.

And then once I hit the gate I had absolutely nothing left.

NSN: When you touched the gate, were you thinking at all that there was a chance that you’d done it?

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Gary Robbins is intent on becoming just the 16th finisher in the Barkley’s 37-year history. PHOTO SUPPLIED KEITH KNIPLING GR: There was like a two per cent thing in my head. I was 98 per cent certain that it was done and it didn’t count, and two per cent of me was like, ‘Oh well, maybe. You’ve gotten here.’ That two per cent evaporated in about 10 seconds.

NSN: What was the moment like when Laz (race organizer Lazarus Lake) said the words “six seconds”?

GR: I was six seconds over, and both of us kind of regret that because it made it sound like I had missed the finish by six seconds.

It’s certainly a flood of emotions then, and even now, to have come that close to things and to still have been so far away. Incredibly difficult to process and just juxtapose the feeling of pride and accomplishment with the knowledge of absolute failure at the last moment in time on the course.

NSN: The story took off in a huge way. Are you more famous now because of the way the race finished than if you’d just been a finisher like John Kelly?

GR: Definitely the story has taken off because of that.

That’s the interesting part about it. I would rather have gotten a lot less press and just finished the race. … I just wanted to finish and then be able to walk away.

NSN: People in Canada and around the world were following along on Twitter, and there was a huge response after the finish. What do you think of the way people attached themselves to this year’s event?

GR: Last year was a shock. It was incredible and unexpected. This year to have it even more has been surprising – it feels like it’s been 10 times the attention that we had a year ago.

It’s pros and cons. It’s wonderful that it has spoken to so many people, and so many people got to follow along and share the journey with me, but it’s also nice sometimes to be able to just go about your

post-race by yourself, rather than having it be so public.

NSN: Speaking of that, how did you manage to write such a lovely and precise blog post explaining what happened so soon after the race?

GR: I literally woke up the next morning after one night’s sleep, like seven hours, and I just felt compelled because of how it had all played out. I did it off my phone. I told my wife it was going to take five minutes and it was obviously like an hour before it was done. I was happy I did. It was nice to be able to clarify some of the details right away before it snowballed in the wrong direction.

NSN: You’ve been interviewed by everyone in the last couple of days. Are you Canada’s ultra-marathoner now?

GR: If anybody in the country knows nothing about ultramarathoning, it involves knowing me.

NSN: Are you going to go back to the Barkley? When?

GR: My wife and I have had that discussion, and we’re definitely going to return. …

It’s going to take about two months to feel my toes – I don’t think I need to make this decision before I can feel my toes again. When I wake up and all of the sensation is back, I’ll know that day whether I want to go back and do this again next year, or wait a year.

NSN: Do you love the Barkley?

Hate the Barkley?

GR: I 90 per cent love the Barkley. I don’t think anybody can love the Barkley with all their heart, but I do love what it is and how it is structured and the people that are involved with it and what it takes out of you and gives back to you while you are pursuing that elusive finish line.

NSN: Is it the toughest race in the world?

GR: Yeah, 100 per cent. It’s the fact that it gets harder every year and it has a 60-hour cutoff. That’s what makes it the hardest race in the world.

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