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Back to school
Students share their advice and expectations for the new school year TASTE 27
Five and Dime Cantina
‘Pop-up’ provides plenty of good food fare SPORTS 29
Field hockey fever
North Shore’s field hockey hotbed gets hotter
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RIO 2016
Simmerling hits podium in track cycling ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com
West Vancouver’s Georgia Simmerling can add one more achievement to her already mind-boggling biography: Olympic medallist.
On Saturday Simmerling joined with Allison Beveridge, Jasmin Glaesser and Kirsti Lay to blast past New Zealand in the bronze medal race in women’s track cycling team pursuit at the Rio Olympic Velodrome. Simmerling had already made history just by showing up for the event, becoming the first Canadian ever to compete in three different sports in three different Olympic Games. The 27-year-old previously competed in alpine skiing in 2010 and ski cross in 2014.
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WET ’N’ WILD Slide the City slid back into North Vancouver this weekend with hundreds of people riding the 300 metres of vinyl snaking down Lonsdale Avenue and landing in a wading pool at the bottom. This year’s event stretched into two days in conjunction with the Fun City Festival, which also featured live entertainment, food trucks, vendors, and more. Visit nsnews.com to view video and more photos. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
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Black bear chases fleeing hiker 2 km JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
Hikers are being warned to stay out of Capilano River Park after a black bear chased a North Shore man approximately two kilometres down a trail early Monday morning.
The 35-year-old hiker was walking in the wooded area west of the Capilano River when he saw “what he initially thought was a large dog,” said Const. Jeff Palmer, spokesman for the West Vancouver Police Department. After realizing the dog was a 200-pound black bear, the hiker started making loud noises in an attempt to “bluff the bear” out of the area. The bear was not bluffed, according to Palmer, who
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Hiker left bumped and bruised after close encounter with 200-pound black bear said the man briefly came face to snout with the bear. The young black bear followed the retreating hiker, and as the hiker switched gears from walking to fleeing, the incident turned into a chase. Nearby hikers heard screams and dialed 911 as the man attempted to outrun the bear, tumbling over uneven terrain. “He had scratches and bruises all over him,” said West Vancouver assistant fire chief Martin Leduc.
The bear sniffed and nuzzled the man’s groin but did not scratch or bite. “Fortunately, his only injuries were superficial scrapes,” Palmer said. Police arrived on the scene and escorted the man to safety but did not locate the bear. Conservation officers set up a trap in the hopes of snagging the approximately three-year-old bear but to press time had not made a decision to kill the bear, according to conservation officer Murray Smith. If the bear is unafraid of people and attracted to human foods he will likely be destroyed, according to Smith. While they like to give the animal the benefit of the doubt,
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