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North Van rainbow crosswalk painted with hateful message BRENT RICHTER
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For the second time in two years, one of North Vancouver’s rainbow crosswalks has been defaced with hateful messages targeting the LGBTQAI2S+ community during Pride Week.
The graffiti, which was sprayed on the crosswalk at 14th Street and Lonsdale Avenue around 4 a.m. on Aug. 2, is being roundly condemned by the North Shore Pride Alliance and City of North Vancouver. The message appeared to mimic biblical language, although the words themselves aren’t in the Bible. Pride Alliance founder Chris Bolton said he’s gone through something akin to the stages of grief since he learned of the vandalism. “We just had this huge high with Pride and we did so much hard work and we did so much outreach, and we spread so much joy and love. And it almost feels like a little bit of a death yesterday,” he said. “I’m really hurt. It brings me back to that eight-year-old at Ridgeway Elementary school being told that I was wrong, and I Continued on page 20
North Shore Pride Alliance founder Chris Bolton, a.k.a. “Conni Smudge,” defiantly sashays over the City of North Vancouver’s newly repainted rainbow crosswalk, at 14th and Lonsdale, days after it was defaced with hateful messages. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN
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Affordable rental units for seniors sitting empty
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Dozens of affordable housing units in a brand new seniors’ building in Lynn Valley are sitting empty because the non-profit organization operating the site cannot find enough seniors who meet eligibility requirements.
“Intuitively, most people would say, there’s got to be lots of people on the North Shore who are looking for affordable housing,” said Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society president Patrick McLaughlin. “In the meantime, we have 61 of these units that are sitting vacant when we believe that there are residents in the
community who are in need of affordable housing.” In 2018, Kiwanis received $10.6 million from BC Housing toward its 106-unit, six-storey Lynn Woods seniors housing project on Whiteley Court. When the District of North Vancouver rezoned the property in 2019, the bylaw specified that
the building would be for residents 65 and older, which is in keeping with the mandate for the Kiwanis society. McLaughlin appeared before a special meeting of District of North Vancouver council on July 28 of this year to request that council amend the bylaw and lower Continued on page 5
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