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MUNICIPAL ELECTION

Iranian-born councillor sets a new benchmark for B.C. politics BRENT RICHTER

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When Shervin Shahriari saw the final tally of votes in the 2018 City of North Vancouver civic election, he’d placed 11th overall. The comments he got after were discouraging, to put it mildly.

“Some people told me that I may not have been successful because of my last name, essentially,” he said.

But he felt compelled to run again in 2022, not just for his own political ambitions, but to set an example for his daughter and others from diverse communities who may follow.

When he’s sworn in with the new council following his Oct. 15 election win, it will be a new benchmark.

“I am the first Iranian-born Canadian elected in B.C., apparently,” he said. “It’s quite encouraging not just for me, but for the Iranian Canadian community that they have now somebody elected that they can look up to.”

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SAVE THE DATE North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks shares one of the cartoon panels from a 2023 fundraising calendar created by North Shore cartoonist Graham Harrop. See story page 18. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

FIRE INVESTIGATION

West Vancouver’s Eagle Ridge wildfire ‘human-caused’

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West Vancouver’s largest wildfire in recent memory was human-caused, firefighters say.

It’s likely that an open flame, or embers related to camping and cooking activities, were the cause of the Eagle Ridge fire that

started on Oct. 14, said Carrie Gadsby, spokesperson for the district.

“An established camp existed in the area of origin,” she said, as results of an investigation became available Thursday morning.

“The burnt remnants of the camp contained evidence of open-flame cooking materials, with structures such as a cooking pit and

table also found.”

But Gadsby said there was no evidence to suggest that someone had been living at the camp. According to the investigation, the camp layout and organization suggest that it was used for recreational activities.

“It is probable that the camp user failed to extinguish an open-flame fire

completely,” she said. “The remaining embers and the recent drier-than-normal weather conditions led to the growth of the Eagle Ridge fire.”

The wildfire, which burned through a two-hectare section of forest southwest of Eagle Lake, was “completely extinguished” before rain hit the North Shore last week.

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Vancouver city council is set to enact a historic document involving the Musqueam, Squamish and TsleilWaututh nations that aims to create a pathway to implement a long list of recommendations to address the city’s colonial past and recognize rights and title of Indigenous peoples.

The document – the first of its kind for a Canadian municipal government – proposes 79 recommendations that include returning land to the nations, creating revenue-sharing streams and having representation on the Vancouver Police Board and other agencies in the city and region.

In a ceremony Oct. 19 at the Museum of Vancouver, which is located on land once home to a Squamish village that was burned to the ground by government in 1913, members of the nations celebrated the release of what is called the City of Vancouver UNDRIP Strategy.

“Whether it’s on economic development, whether it’s on culture, whether it’s on fighting discrimination, there’s all kinds of things that we all win from our nations and our governments working together,” said Khelsilem, chairperson of the Squamish Nation council.

“I’m very excited about the future ahead.”

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Khelsilem and Vancouver Coun. Christine Boyle are co-chairs of a task force created last year by the city and nations to develop a strategy to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and use it as a framework towards reconciliation.

The comprehensive document, which has been endorsed by the three nations, passed at city hall yesterday with near-unanimous support. (Coun. Colleen Hardwick

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As financial storm clouds gather this fall and costs of everything from mortgage payments to groceries remain high, the majority of North Shore readers say they’re worried about a possible recession.

Nick George and Syrus George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation drum at an Oct. 19 ceremony at the Museum of Vancouver. MIKE HOWELL / VANCOUVER IS AWESOME voted against one part of the report.) Now, an implementation plan will be drafted and inter-governmental committee created to ensure action is taken on the recommendations.

Some of the recommendations include: ■ Have the city work with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh to identify parcels of land which are “culturally, economically and socially significant” and return them to the Nations.

■ Identify options for revenue sharing to the three nations via property taxes collected by

the City of Vancouver.

■ Redistribute fees to the nations that the city collects from developers; this would be seen as redress for lands lost that cannot be developed by the Nations.

■ Expand the Vancouver Police Board membership to include representatives from the three Nations.

■ Provide funds, staff and space for the Nations to train liaisons with the Vancouver Police Department, particularly in the Downtown Eastside, where there is a large Continued on page 40

Economists appear to share that concern, with widespread financial bad news predicted to get worse before it gets better. In the midst of this unpleasantness, the North Shore News polled 2,757 North Shore News readers and asked the question: Are you worried about a possible recession?

Of those who responded, more than 33 per cent of local readers said investments they count on for retirement income are losing value, and that’s a significant worry. Another 33 per cent said they’re struggling with the rising costs of living and rising interest rates contributing to greater costs of debt. A further seven per cent said they work in a field that’s very susceptible to economic downturns.

Perhaps surprisingly, about 17 per cent of local respondents said they don’t expect a recession to impact them personally, while nine per cent of local readers said they’re hoping a recession will bring down housing prices.

The poll ran at nsnews.com from Sept.

29 to Oct. 25. Of the 2,757 votes, 978 are from within the community. Results are based on an online study of adult North Shore News readers who are located on the North Shore. The margin of error is +/1.85 per cent, 19 times out of 20.

DISTRICT OF NORTH VANCOUVER

CAO David Stuart takes on dual role as Port Moody councillor JANE SEYD

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District of North Vancouver chief administrative officer David Stuart has won a spot on Port Moody council by a razor-thin two-vote margin following a recount.

He says he doesn’t see any problem taking on an additional municipal role as elected councillor for the City of Port Moody.

“I don’t foresee any divided loyalties,” said Stuart this week, after being confirmed Monday as a councillor-elect in Port Moody.

“I’ve been active politically in Port

Moody for 20 years,” as president of his community association, said Stuart. “None of this is going to be new to me.”

Stuart said in order to minimize any potential conflicts of interest, as councillor he won’t be sitting on any regional committees and boards, where Lower Mainland communities can sometimes find themselves in competition.

Stuart added he also won’t be doing any council business during his working hours with the District of North Vancouver.

Stuart, 66, is a longtime resident of Port Moody, where he ran on a platform of having a strong official community plan that has

the support of the community.

On the North Shore, however, he’s best known as a top civil servant, who’s been chief administrative officer of the District of North Vancouver since 2008. Before that he was CAO of West Vancouver from 2000 to 2007.

The pressing issues in Port Moody – climate change, housing, transportation – aren’t that different than the ones on the North Shore, or in many other Lower Mainland communities, said Stuart.

As a condition of his employment contract, Stuart said he discussed his plans to run for office with District of North

Vancouver mayor and council prior to making that decision and was given their approval.

He added he has no plans to retire from his role as CAO in the “foreseeable future.”

“At some point I’m going to retire,” he said. “But I haven’t fixed that date yet.”

District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little acknowledged this week the district would have to be cautious if there were any circumstances where the two municipalities were directly dealing with each other. But he said he wouldn’t expect that to happen very often.

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Spawning salmon that have been waiting for river levels to rise will soon be returning to our local creeks and rivers. SEYMOUR SALMONID SOCIETY

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Rains to trigger delayed salmon spawn on South Coast rivers JANE SEYD

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The rain that brought relief to the parched South Coast starting this past weekend will also trigger a delayed start to the annual migration of spawning salmon on many streams.

Luckily, fish are surprisingly resilient, say local stream keepers and biologists who work with fisheries.

“There’s quite a bit of flexibility in terms of when they spawn,” said Chuck Parken, area chief of stock assessment for the Fraser and Interior area with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

“Coho salmon can delay their spawning activity, all the way into late January, early February,” he said.

In many cases, if the creeks are too dry, “they’ll just stay out in the ocean” and wait until the rains arrive, Parken said. In other cases, the fish will spawn lower in the river system.

But the prolonged drought has also stressed many salmon runs more than usual, said Shawn Hollingsworth, president of the Seymour Salmonid Society.

That’s something to keep in mind as the rivers start to fill with fish again, he said. “We should be mindful of allowing our dogs to go into the creeks,” for instance, he said.

Chinook salmon tend to spawn on larger river systems like the Capilano, Squamish, Harrison and Chilliwack, said Parken. On both the Capilano and Seymour rivers, DFO requires Metro Vancouver to release minimum amounts of water into the river from upstream dams during periods of drought.

The salmon are already in the rivers, said Parken.

Hatcheries operate on both the Seymour and Capilano rivers. A fish ladder operates on the Capilano.

On the Seymour, volunteers with the Salmonid Society and Metro Vancouver have also been successful in reintroducing wild runs of coho and steelhead on the river.

They also worked to reopen the river and

create new channels for spawning salmon after a massive rock slide in 2014 nearly ended the river’s viability as fish habitat.

This summer, volunteers have been capturing salmon in the mouth of the Seymour and at the estuary near Maplewood Flats with a beach seine and moving them upstream for spawning, said Hollingsworth.

Chum and coho tend to spawn in smaller creeks, where it’s been very dry, said Parken.

Those salmon will have been waiting at the mouths of the creeks for the rains to come, he said.

Surprisingly, the salmon can wait out the rains for several months.

In drier years, “they’ll spawn lower down in the river system,” as well. In some cases, salmon will even divert to a nearby creek if dry conditions persist through to late November.

Fortunately, November is just the beginning of the usual run for chum salmon, said Parken.

When rains raise the river levels, starting this week, “we’ll see a big number of fish,” he said.

Some other salmon runs are facing more of a challenge, however.

One sockeye salmon run on Weaver Creek in the Harrison-Agassiz area relies on a spawning channel and currently water levels there are very low. “Hopefully they get some rain up in that area,” said Parken.

Other runs – like the Adams sockeye run on the Fraser River – have also been delayed as salmon wait for temperatures to cool on spawning grounds in the river.

Juvenile salmon in smaller creeks can also be stressed by prolonged drought, said Parken, as the young salmon are likely hatching into less-than-optimal food conditions.

In many of the smaller streams especially, “it can become very difficult for them,” he said.

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North Van restaurant fined $2,300 for skirting COVID-19 vaccine passports JANE SEYD

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A North Vancouver restaurant has been fined $2,300 for refusing to check customers for vaccine passports when they were in effect last fall.

The Anatoli Holding Company Ltd., corporate owner of Anatoli’s restaurant, agreed to pay the fine in front of a judge in North Vancouver provincial court Oct. 12.

The restaurant was handed a ticket for violating COVID-19 laws in effect in October 2021, under the Emergency Program Act, alleging it was failing to request vaccine passports from patrons, as required at the time by a public health order of Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s medical health officer.

Last fall, the City of North Vancouver confirmed bylaw services had received 16 complaints from the public about Anatoli’s not checking for vaccine passports or identification.

In cases where businesses didn’t comply with rules voluntarily, investigations were sent on to Vancouver Coastal Health.

One North Vancouver woman, Anne

Bauer, told the North Shore News she was surprised when she went to Anatoli’s with her sister for a birthday lunch last fall and was told by staff they wouldn’t be checking for vaccine passports.

“I was shocked and really disappointed,” she said. “This is a place I’ve been going to for years.”

Bauer said she hasn’t been back since the incident. “I still miss going there, but cannot support a restaurant that has such a flagrant disregard for the law,” she said.

Iani Makris, owner of Anatoli’s, previously blamed the failure to check for vaccine passports on “a lack of education” rather than a deliberate decision to sidestep the rules at the time.

“After talking to a lawyer, we decided to pay the ticket,” restaurant manager Bryan Jacobs told the judge.

The judge gave the restaurant until the end of April to pay the fine.

B.C. brought in a requirement for customers in public restaurants – as well as at gyms and other non-essential indoor gatherings – to show proof of vaccination in September of 2021.

The requirement was lifted at the beginning of April 2022.

A number of North Shore residents were also handed tickets for violating restrictions on private gatherings in the earlier phases of the pandemic.

As COVID-19 cases surged, in November of 2020, Henry banned all gatherings of over 10 unrelated people – a ban which lasted through to the spring of 2021.

Some people who received those tickets have since disputed them in court.

Former tennis great Grant Connell failed to lob a disputed $2,300 COVID19 ticket out of the court earlier this year. The ticket was handed out in May 2021 for hosting a “non-compliant” gathering at his home on Southridge Avenue in West Vancouver, after West Vancouver Police got a complaint about a party at his house.

In another case, prosecutors later dropped a $2,300 fine against a West Vancouver real estate agent who was handed a fine in Jan. 8, 2021 after police responded to a complaint about loud music coming from his office on Clyde Avenue shortly before midnight.

The agent told the North Shore News he was fighting the ticket because there was no gathering.

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Continued from page 4 Little said he also thinks Stuart has the ability to manage both his full-time job in North Vancouver (where Stuart earned over $292,300 last year) and his part-time councillor role.

“That’s not without precedent,” he said, adding many municipal mayors and councillors also have full-time or part-time jobs outside of their political roles.

Gerald Baier, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia, said being an elected councillor while also working at the top job for another municipality is unusual.

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“He’s allowed to have outside interests,” said Baier. “You wouldn’t want to discourage people from running for council.”

Stuart said this week he’s looking forward to the challenge of his two civil roles.

“I think it’s going to be an exciting experience, and I’m looking forward to it,” he said. “And I’m looking forward to continuing to serve North Vancouver District residents.”

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here are about 13,000 immigrants from Iran living in North Vancouver and West Vancouver, and many more who descend from them – all of them very much a part of the fabric of the North Shore. It’s more than kebab koobideh. It is a language, a set of cultural values and a way of seeing the world.

But, until this most recent municipal election, that piece of the fabric has never been woven into our political tapestry. Though many have tried, Shervin Shahriari is the first Iranian-born Canadian elected to government in B.C. To this, we say mobârake.

The North Shore became a destination for Iranian émigrés who fled the Islamic Revolution and ensuing war with Iraq in the 1970s and ’80s. They chose this place because the mountains reminded them of home. Who can blame them?

Having a diaspora of one nationality concentrated in a community makes us inextricably linked to their home country.

That seems especially so when that country is run by a dictatorship with no respect for human rights.

When Iran shot down Flight 572, the grief was felt immensely on the North Shore.

Today, as the Iranian government rightly faces revolt from within over the murder of Mahsa Amini and their continued refusal to recognize the rights of women, our local Persian community continues to demand change.

It is high time this community has earned some representation. We congratulate Shahriari on his achievement and we celebrate with the Persian community who, after contributing so much to life on the North Shore, now see a leader with similar lived experience in government.

Amazing Halloween costume ideas for the cheap and lazy When you’re a grown adult, dressing up for Halloween is a fraught exercise.

There are ways you can do it without embarrassing yourself and your family members, but to do so you are going to need to spend at least a couple of these things: time, thought, or money.

If you’re Richie Rich and choose the money route, it’s a simple proposition to walk into a costume shop, drop $150 and come out looking presentable. Way to go, Monopoly Man. Or if you would rather invest your precious time, you can spend a week at the sewing machine and then wake up early in the morning on Halloween and spend another two hours crafting exquisite banshee makeup. Sure, it’s hard work. But it does feel a little bit sweeter when you drop your kids off at school and a couple of classmates burst into tears at the sight of you. Your effort will earn you a place in the Halloween afterlife, which is like heaven but everything is “sexy” (say hello to “Sexy St. Peter” for me!).

If you don’t want to spend any effort or money, though, you can just show up to work in your normal clothes, say you’re an

“office worker,” slink to your desk and stuff your face full of the mini chocolate bars that other employees brought in (note that this is 100 per cent what I Laugh All You Want typically do).

Andy Prest There is another option, though. And that is to put a little thought into it, and blow people away with your clever mind costume.

“But Andy, I don’t want to spend money or time and I can’t think of anything clever to dress up as,” you might say. Don’t worry, my simple one – I’ve got you covered. Here are some ideas, ripped from today’s headlines, that you can use free of charge – a little bit of fun from your favourite community newspaper. All I ask is that you support local journalism, and send me money. Ha ha! Just kidding. I’ll also accept beer. Here are the costumes: Hockey Canada: This is an easy costume with an important note of protest behind it.

All you need to do is wear a Hockey Canada jersey and carry around a bunch of Slurpee

cups. Then you ask people to put money in the cups, and when they ask you what the money is for, you tell them it’s for your “slush funds.” Ha ha! And if they ask you if the slush funds are for payouts to sexual assault victims, you pull the person’s shirt over their heads and you feed them a flurry of punches! And then you go sit in a box for a couple of minutes, and you feel shame.

Couple’s costume: If you and your pal want to tag-team the evening, one of you can dress up super hot and the other one can stand beside the hot one all night, ignoring them. The hot one keeps screaming “why are you ignoring me!?” The other one never responds. When people ask you what you are, you say “climate change.” Then you all have a good laugh and shoot off some fireworks. Pew! Quiet riot: Find a sticker or print off a little piece of paper with that megaphone-looking computer icon with an X through it. Make it small so people don’t see it right away.

Then whenever you meet a new person, start moving your mouth as if you are talking, but don’t make a sound. If they’re quick to pick up the gag, they’ll yell “you’re muted!” and then you can tap the “button” and

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North Shore special: This one is quite location-specific, but for those who know, it is absolutely nightmare-inducing. Print out a road map of the North Shore and stick it on your chest (or have a T-shirt made if you feel like dipping into the “spend a bit of money” camp). The key to the costume, though, is that you colour all the major roadways and bridges dark red. Locals will get it. The red is their blood, boiling.

There you have it, a few cheap and easy costumes to get you out the door. And before you say, “Those costumes are stupid – no one would do that,” know that I actually did something like this a few years back, dressing as the average price of a house in Vancouver. It was, well, yeah, kind of stupid.

And depressing. And sad. And even a little scary, for me at least. So all in all, I’d say that’s a winner. A Hallowinner!

Whatever you dress as, have fun out there. And if you really can’t think of something, just try anything and make it “sexy.”

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MAILBOX WEST VANCOUVER, WHO DO WE WANT TO BE? Dear Editor:

Full disclosure: I volunteered on Marcus Wong’s mayoral campaign, my first foray into local politics. People reading this may dismiss my words as biased or sour grapes; I would have written this win or lose. I speak only for myself.

I wish I could say the experience was a good one and that I would do it again.

Yes, I met some great people. Yes, I learned a lot. But most of what I learned has left me shaken. During this election cycle, I observed: ■ intimidation, both verbal and written; circulation of disinformation and misinformation; racism; homophobic and hateful graffiti on candidates’ signs; ■ social media sites that became little more than venues to spout vitriol and attack candidates; ■ organizations (whether registered as a third party sponsor or not) supporting candidates even though their websites or newsletters claim they are nonpartisan and/ or claim they do not endorse candidates; ■ all-candidates meetings of questionable efficacy and three of the four meetings consisted of pre-formulated questions without opportunity for attendees to participate; ■ candidates who appear to have violated the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act by failing to include the mandatory financial agent information on campaign materials that require it; and ■ mayoral and council candidates who ran as a slate, which, while efficient, carries potential risks if/when elected.

Have election campaigns in the District of West Vancouver always been like this?

Maybe. Or have we adopted the United States’ playbook of division and “win at any cost” while convincing ourselves that we, as Canadians, are better than this and would never engage in this kind of politics?

Election campaigns like this will not help turn around voter apathy and low turnout (35.2 per cent of eligible residents voted this election, down from 38.3 per cent in 2018).

This community faces urgent issues. I would add another one: Who are we? Who do we want to be? How will the answers be reflected in our values, behaviour and elections going forward?

Melanie Hess West Vancouver

Dear Editor:

I could add a number of my own troubling observations to the above letter-writer’s campaign experiences (posted to nsnews.com on Saturday). But rather than add to this depressing list, I’d like to focus on an aspect that deserves a bit of praise.

I think the Ambleside and Dundarave Residents Association did a great job with their all-candidates meeting. It is no small undertaking to organize such an event, and I am grateful for the effort this entirely volunteer-run neighbourhood organization puts in to make this happen. They do not receive

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any financial support and rely on membership dues and donations to cover the cost of the room rental and other expenses.

While intended to primarily benefit ADRA members (who were invited to submit their questions in advance), ADRA also graciously encourages non-members to attend.

I appreciate the efficiency of having a moderator ask the questions, rather than taking them from the floor. Not only is it frequently difficult to hear a speaker from the audience, there is a tendency for people to drone on or go way off topic. (A classic example of this was at the West Van Seniors’ Activity Centre all-candidates, where a few audience members attempted to turn a meeting about a municipal election into a forum for international political issues.)

Given the time constraints of trying to hear from 17 council candidates, anything that can be done to expedite questions is imperative.

To those who complain that attendees didn’t have an opportunity to participate or who were irked that ADRA members (who had RSVP’d to attend the meeting) were seated first, a suggestion: Why not join ADRA? The $10-per-household annual membership fee is money well-spent.

Melinda Slater West Vancouver

I’M DISAPPOINTED WITH MY PARTY’S TREATMENT OF ANJALI APPADURAI Dear Editor:

I am so disappointed in the B.C. NDP. A brave, intelligent, energetic, creative citizen offers her talents and the only thing they can think of to do with Anjali Appadurai is to act like a big business party.

I have been an official member for almost 40 years. I belong to Leadnow and Dogwood too, and I get more useful information from those non-profits than I ever do from the party in power, though I have the best MLA (Bowinn Ma) I’ve ever had in my life in three provinces, in my 72 years of voting.

All those young people tell you what matters to them, and we B.C. NDP members can’t think of anything more creative than to dump their candidate.

I respected Premier John Horgan and leadership candidate David Eby until this happened, though I did notice they weren’t doing anything very concrete about mitigating climate change. I certainly thought they were an improvement on their predecessors. But now it is clear they are finding it hard to care about anyone but oil and gas revenues, and workers for whom they have not made any other preparations.

The behaviour of this provincial government is too much like the federal Liberal Party’s: just cosy up to the oil and gas people and ignore the future of the planet that sustains us all.

Donna Stewart North Vancouver

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ACCESS TO MEDICAL SCANS

MLA Karin Kirkpatrick raises alarm on wait times for MRIs JANE SEYD

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West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Karin Kirkpatrick is raising the alarm on increasing wait times for medical imaging in B.C.

Lengthy delays for diagnostic scans like MRIs, mammograms and ultrasounds mean serious medical conditions like cancer are being caught later, said Kirkpatrick.

“The wait lists are extraordinary now,” she said. “Much higher than they have been in the past.”

Radiologists she’s spoken with are warning, “There’s going to be a tsunami of Stage 4 cancer,” down the road, she said.

Kirkpatrick is also questioning why a successful fundraising campaign for a new MRI at Lions Gate Hospital has not yet translated into having that equipment installed a year after funds were available, despite the obvious need.

Dr. Charlotte Yong-Hing, president of the B.C. Radiological Society, said the crisis in wait times for medical scans is like that affecting other parts of the medical system.

“Right now there are hundreds of thousands of patients waiting for medical imaging throughout the province.... The wait times are dangerously long,” she said, adding those lists apply to most types of imaging.

Radiologists are particularly worried about waits that are delaying cancer

Lions Gate Hospital is waiting on the installation of a second MRI machine.

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diagnoses and treatment. “The longer you wait, the more it spreads,” said Yong-Hing.

For people who are called back for abnormal results on screening tests like breast mammograms that need further investigation, delays are particularly worrying, she added.

“I’ve talked to a number of patients who had a six-month delay,” she said.

Yong-Hing said the delays are being caused by lack of imaging technologists to run the machines and lack of radiologists to interpret the scans, as well as outdated equipment. People in some areas of the

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Yong-Hing said radiologists are also worried about the strain on community imaging clinics that perform scans like ultrasounds and diagnostic mammograms outside of hospital settings. Already some of those clinics have had to cut their hours because staff just aren’t available, she said.

Kirkpatrick said she’d also like to know why it’s taking so long to get a new MRI machine into Lions Gate Hospital after a successful fundraising campaign by the foundation.

“The money has been raised,” she said.

The Lions Gate Hospital Foundation completed a successful campaign last year to raise $7 million to purchase a second, more technologically advanced MRI machine and pay for renovations for a new MRI suite at the hospital.

According to information put out by the foundation during the campaign, the existing MRI at Lions Gate does more than 8,000 scans a year, but half of all patients needing one still must travel elsewhere for an appointment.

The new MRI would also provide better diagnostic images for conditions ranging from brain conditions like dementia and multiple sclerosis to cancer to joint conditions.

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But installation of the new MRI isn’t scheduled to be finished until 2024.

In response to questions from the North Shore News, Vancouver Coastal Health issued a statement saying the highest priority patients – who need to be seen urgently either within 24 hours or within seven days – are still getting their MRIs within the clinical guideline time frame.

Wait times are longer for less urgent cases. Patients supposed to be seen within 30 days currently have wait times of between three to five months, and patients supposed to be seen within 60 days are currently waiting four to six months, according to VCH. Patients can also choose to book their MRIs and other diagnostic tests at locations throughout the Lower Mainland in order to get an appointment sooner.

Kirkpatrick, who was diagnosed with and successfully treated for breast cancer last year, said the process of patients having to track down available appointments is both stressful and frustrating.

“It was like the Hunger Games,” she said.

“I would go anywhere, anytime – in the middle of the night in Abbotsford. As soon as someone tells you you probably have cancer, you just want to get it out of you.”

Vancouver Coastal Health stated in an email it is “reviewing options for the installation of the new MRI machine at Lions Gate Hospital.”

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Artist creates shimmering tributes to the natural world MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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It would take a certain amount of restraint to not be allured by one of Wayne Buhler’s paintings.

Reflective of light and vivid in colour, looking at them is more of a compulsion than an active choice. Certainly his use of eye-catching copper, a recurring motif in all of his pieces, is novel among his North Vancouver contemporaries. It has become his glinting trademark. But Buhler attests that use of the malleable metal in art is no new concept – the material has been used by Indigenous artists for centuries.

The 79-year-old is an artist of the Simpcw First Nation, a part of the Shuswap, or Secwepemc, Nation based in B.C.’s Thompson Okanagan region. The nation’s main community resides in Chu Chua, a mining town rich in copper, where much of Buhler’s family are from.

The connection between First Nations arts and mined materials is strong. Copper would often make up much of the Simpcw nation’s tools, jewelry and home ware. Buhler said he was drawn to the metal because of its bond to his ancestors, and continued with it because of its capacity to enhance his art.

“All of my paintings consist of oil paint on sheet copper,” he explained. “Light travels through translucent paint pigments I apply, is reflected by the worked copper, and returns as a super-intense colour.”

Buhler was born in Vancouver,

Wayne Buhler, of the Simpcw First Nation, is particularly inspired by sockeye salmon, with their “beautiful red bodies and green heads.” PAUL MCGRATH / CU and works from a quaint North Shore studio, but hints of his native soil still remain, peppered throughout all of his creative works. Alongside the liberal use of copper there are references to the Thompson River itself.

His very first series, Rivers to the Sea, is an ode to the thousands of spawning chinook, coho, pink and sockeye salmon that travel its

“I have difficulty moving around like I used to.”

liquid highway each year.

“It is a series that focuses solely on the fish, and their successful return,” he said, adding the paintings are designed to represent all the salmon that run through the river, not just the sockeye that he singles out. He couldn’t paint any other salmon, he said, because “none are as colourful as the sockeye.” His

vibrant technique would be lost on any fish that doesn’t bear those “beautiful red bodies and green heads.”

Whether obvious or abstract, nods to the natural world can be found throughout all of Buhler’s paintings. He is influenced by his memories of the lakes in Kamloops, where he would often go fishing with his uncle, or the

lush forests where the two would hunt deer and elk.

Even tobacco crops contribute to his inspiration. His grandparents on his father’s side had lived on the Totem Farm in Sumas Prairie, an area previously owned by the Totem Tobacco Farm Company, which still bore the crops and totem pole in the front yard. In more recent years, Buhler has been garnering inspiration from the First Nations lands where he’s worked as a construction worker. No matter the time and place, it is Indigenous community and the local environment that remains at the core of his memories and creative expression.

“My understanding of the history of British Columbia has inspired me, and I think, more than anything, it’s my understanding of land, of life, of nature, that gives so much creativity,” he said.

“My art envisions a healthy and natural world, and I believe we must make efforts to achieve and maintain that.”

For now, Buhler’s pieces remain at his North Shore studio.

He’s still relatively new to the scene, so he spends his time “building bonds, creating, making connections” with others in the art world. He plans on selling his Rivers to the Sea series, meaning art lovers have the chance to gain a small piece of Simpcw First Nation glimmering in their homes.

Mina Kerr-Lazenby is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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Police seize stolen bikes from Vancouver storage locker JANE SEYD

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A sharp-eyed North Vancouver bike shop owner who spotted his stolen bicycle for sale on Facebook has We encourage Marketplace led police to the anyone who discovery of a has been storage locker full of stolen victim of bikes and bike bicycle theft parts. to go online

The high-end bike was originally stolen from a SGT. PETER DEVRIES North Vancouver bike shop during a break and enter on Jan. 20, said Sgt. Peter DeVries, spokesperson for North Vancouver RCMP.

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Following the theft, the bike shop owner continued to check popular resale websites for the bike. When the owner spotted it for sale, they notified RCMP. Police quickly identified a suspect – a 51-year-old man of no fixed address.

As a result of the investigation, officers executed a search warrant on a storage locker in Vancouver, where they found over 15 high-end bikes, frames and assorted bike parts.

Police are now attempting to identify the owners of the bikes.

DeVries said it’s unfortunately common in bike thefts for criminals to dismantle the bikes and put the parts back together to create “new” bikes that can make the stolen bicycles more difficult to identify.

Most high-end bikes targeted by thieves are worth over $1,000, with some worth over $5,000, DeVries said.

“We encourage anyone who has been victim of bicycle theft to go online and search for your bike,” he said. “If you see it, please contact your local police.”

The arrest and subsequent search warrant also highlights the value of recording serial numbers, taking photos and marking bicycles with identifiers, DeVries said.

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Angus T bakery, now open in Park Royal in West Vancouver, specializes in decadent croissants. Displayed here are the Pistachio and Raspberry, Dark Chocolate Raspberry, and Double Baked Almond. ANDY PREST / NSN

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West Van bakery specializes in decadent croissants ANDY PREST

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Croissants have a special place in my family life, a little French flair for my wife and two children, all of whom are fluently bilingual.

My French is only comme ci comme ça, but I do speak the language of flaky pastry very well. And we’re not talking about those folded butter sticks they label croissants and cram into plastic packs in the grocery store. We’re fans of fluffy, flaky goodness – that delicate combination of lightness and richness that you can’t find in the bread aisle.

Croissant connoisseurs in West Vancouver now have a flaky new option with the opening of Angus T bakery on Park Royal’s Main Street in a light-filled corner spot that formerly housed Faubourg Cafe.

This is the second Angus T location, following the opening of the original location in Yaletown, and it follows the flagship’s unabashed mission of crafting decadent handmade pastries.

The bakeries are “quality driven, niche, and unapologetic” in this pursuit, according to their website. Some of their key ingredients are imported from France, they say, so they do seem serious about this business.

Hearing about the Angus T location on the North Shore – they opened in late September – my family decided we needed to try it.

We came home with a box – no plastic packaging in sight – containing six croissant creations. On the savoury side we had a Ham & Gruyere and a traditional butter croissant, while on the sweet side we opted for Double Baked Almond, Pistachio and Raspberry, Dark Chocolate Raspberry, and a classic Pain au Chocolate.

We started with savoury, cutting the classic butter croissant up to share. In doing so, we were able to take a peek at the croissant in cross section and enjoy the lovely layers of light pastry weaving inside the flaky outer shell. The Ham & Gruyère was well done too, boasting the same flaky shell

and filled nicely with the savoury ingredients – enough to give you a proper taste, but not so much as to make the croissant overly bloated.

On the sweet side, the Pain au Chocolat was a tasty treat, following the traditional design as more of a roll than the classic crescent-shape – croissant translated to English is “crescent,” after all. The Chocolate Raspberry croissant boasted an intriguing design, half-dipped in chocolate and topped with a solitary berry.

For me, the two show-stoppers were the nutty offerings. The Pistachio and Raspberry featured a healthy dollop of pistachio cream on top, which combined with the raspberry filling to provide an eye-opening sweet and savoury mix (well-weighted towards the sweet side though).

My favourite of the bunch, however, was likely the Double Baked Almond, filled with an almond paste and topped with slivered almonds and powdered sugar. It was decadent, rich and delish.

The evidence of our enjoyment – and the skill of the baker – was left all over our countertop, where messy flakes of croissant goodness were scattered in a wide swath of contentment.

Before you head over there to buy a baker’s dozen, though, know that these are special treats, with price tags to match the flavour. Our box of croissants came to a little more than $32, and that was after the bakery took 10-per-cent off because we bought at least six.

If you are looking for something quick and cheap to fill your flaky pastry quotient, feel free to grab the grocery store plastic.

But if you want a croissant crafted with care, give Angus T a try.

The Park Royal location, at 794 Main St. in West Vancouver, is open 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

Monday-Wednesday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. ThursdayFriday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday and holidays.

This food review was conducted anonymously, with the order paid for by the North Shore News.

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What happens after a massive earthquake hits B.C.? lose $647 million in cargo – something that “would have cascading effects across the country.”

Economic losses range from $30 billion if Metro Vancouver were the site of the earthquake’s epicentre, to $20 billion if Victoria were hit hardest.

The report notes that overall economic fallout would likely be much higher, with other studies noting Vancouver alone could face a potential $10 billion in damage.

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It’s 1:59 p.m. on a wet Thursday in January. Three straight days of heavy rain have dropped up to 300 millimetres on British Columbia’s coastline. In the alpine, temperatures are climbing, sending meltwater downriver.

All that water is triggering landslides across the region. Vancouver’s North Shore and Chilliwack Valley are hit particularly hard. Water levels rise in the Squamish, Seymour, Chilliwack and Coquihalla rivers.

Dikes are under siege.

In the province’s capital, too much rain has broken water mains and flooded basements. Many farms are under water. The Malahat highway is covered in rockfalls and volunteers are stacking sandbags as rivers flood the Cowichan Valley.

On the road, many routes are blocked or diverted so drivers can avoid flooding.

Parents are picking up their children at school early, but in downtown cores, it’s business as usual after a break for the holidays.

The minute hand slips to 2 p.m.

“For many, the earthquake is heard before it is felt,” imagines the B.C. government in its latest disaster plan, updated for the first time in seven years as part of its Provincial Earthquake Immediate Response Strategy.

“The low, rumbling sound is similar to that of a freight train, immediately followed by 10-20 seconds of violent shaking that knocks people located closest to the epicentre from their feet – except for those who remember to ‘drop, cover, and hold on.’”

In one scenario, provincial emergency planners modelled what would happen in the event a magnitude 7 earthquake struck the Metro Vancouver region. In another, Greater Victoria is hit with a magnitude 7.3 quake.

In both cases, the destruction is like nothing the region has seen in modern history.

Roads crack as ruptures open up in the ground. Unsecured objects fly through the air.

In low-lying places like Richmond, liquefaction is likely. That’s where the shaking ground forces water up through the soil, sand and stones, instantly turning once solid terrain into a semi-liquid stew. Anything that land once supported gives way, sinking into

Here’s a ShakeMap for a quake of 7 magnitude near Vancouver. PEIRS/EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT BC the morass.

Rockfalls cut off transportation routes.

Dikes fail. Fires spring up at the site of ruptured gas and electric lines.

“A small number of buildings collapse, many shift and crack, and others are destroyed by fire,” says the PEIRS report.

On the ground, the government document describes urban landscapes strewn in broken glass and roadways choked in the debris of collapsed buildings.

Some of the worst tragedies are magnified by panicked choices.

“Many of those who try to run outside suffer extreme injury or death from falling and flying objects and thousands are trapped or injured,” the report says.

A devastating human and financial toll Planning for a collision between climate-driven flooding and a large earthquake leads to some sobering numbers.

If the earthquake were centred in Vancouver, the province projects 2,000 people would be killed, with 1,000 critically injured. Another 6,500 are expected to require hospitalization and 21,000 more would need help from a paramedic or someone who can provide first aid.

Across the province, the combined

atmospheric river and earthquake would make over 16,000 buildings uninhabitable and push 70,000 families and individuals from their homes.

An epicentre in Victoria, meanwhile, would lead to 1,000 deaths, 3,700 hospitalizations, and another 10,000 injured. Roughly 43,000 households would be displaced.

In both scenarios, first responders and hospitals would be quickly overwhelmed, and many would likely face deteriorating health as their injuries go untreated.

None of the casualty estimates consider the effects of underlying medical conditions or secondary hazards like “vehicle accidents, falls, explosions, fires, landslides, washouts, tsunamis, or psychological impacts,” notes the report.

Anyone in the backcountry, in the North Shore mountains or beyond, would likely struggle to escape as search and rescue crews would be overwhelmed or incapacitated.

Structural damage would be everywhere.

Up to 1.7 million people would find their homes damaged from the shaking and its aftermath.

Economic activity would screech to a halt. For every day the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is out of operation, it would

Aftershocks would ‘likely continue for months’ The initial devastating 20 seconds of shaking wouldn’t end there.

For shallow earthquakes in the magnitude 7 range, strong shaking is expected to cause most of the damage, though landslides, liquefaction, flooding, fires and the outbreak of disease would make things worse.

Aftershocks beyond magnitude six “would likely continue for months,” causing further mayhem and psychological damage to already traumatized residents.

“There is a small chance that an ‘aftershock’ could be larger than the initial event,” write the authors of the government report.

In the meantime, small businesses would be severely impacted by supply chain disruptions and bank services – including ATMs – could be left largely unavailable, the report notes.

Basic services like water, electricity and gas would likely be cut or disrupted “for many months.”

With cell networks overloaded, text messaging would probably be one of the easiest ways to communicate. Even radio communication could face congestion as non-sanctioned operators and emergency services compete for airwaves.

“There may be increased reliance on backup communication methods, such as satellite phones and amateur radio services,” notes the report.

In the city, congested shelters and a lack of waste disposal could lead to outbreaks of disease. On the other hand, isolated communities with one road or bridge in and out of town could be entirely cut off for long periods of time.

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FUNNY FUNDRAISER

Cartoonist’s calendar pays tribute to North Shore Rescue NICK LABA

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There’s no pencilling in a date for when someone needs saving on the side of a mountain.

That often bleary-eyed reality is reflected in a comic strip, one of 12 in a new calendar that honours the critical work done by North Shore Rescue, with all proceeds from sales going to the team.

“It’s Mike Danks,” reads the comic. “He says that if you’re not doing anything, would you mind strapping on a 50-pound pack, climbing to the top of Mount Seymour

in the rain and rescuing a couple of stranded hikers?”

The illustration, drawn by prolific cartoonist Graham Harrop, pictures the reversed scenario of someone other than NSR team leader Danks having to get out of bed at some ungodly hour to make a rescue.

“That’s the reality of what we’re actually dealing with,” Danks said. “Because more often than not, it’s either when you’re dead asleep, or you’re sitting down to dinner with your family, and then a call comes in.”

Other strips satirize various aspects of the work that NSR does.

One shows two skiers carving “HELP” into a snowy slope. “If you have any more room, write: ‘Sorry we skied out of bounds and please send North Shore Rescue.”

Some are just plain satire. A comic shows a female customer holding up a T-shirt with the text “MY WIFE TOLD ME TO GET LOST AND I DID,” with the vendor saying, “I donate all the proceeds from that one to the North Shore Rescue.”

Danks said the calendar is a nice balance of getting his team’s safety message out there and providing some humour at the same time.

“Each one of them resonates with us and tells a bit of a story, for sure,” he said.

Another positive force the calendar provides is a source of revenue for the organization, which depends on community funding to operate. Danks said the release of the calendar comes at a time when donations have been down for the past while.

“We could really use the boost, especially with the approval of night hoisting,” he said, referencing approval that came in October after months of silence from the province. “It’s a costly venture, but we Continued on page 39

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022 | SPONSORED CONTENT

Lynn Valley’s newest affordable rental housing for independent seniors Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society’s six-storey Lynn Woods offers one-bedroom suites Home. At its most fundamental, it’s a sense of place.

Where your apartment isn’t “just” an apartment, but a place you feel proud to call home. It’s community. It’s social when you want, like your morning ritual coffee with neighbours, active as you wish, think a spirited game of bocce, or serene when you crave quiet, like the peaceful pleasure of tending to your garden plot.

North Vancouver’s Lynn Woods at 2551 Whiteley Court is all this, and more.

Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society (KNSHS) has been providing these experiences—empowering seniors to live their best life independently—for more than 70 years.

To retire affordably in high-quality housing has been one of Greater Vancouver’s seemingly insurmountable challenges.

However, KNSHS continues to move the needle in the right direction while strengthening community connections with affordable housing options.

Lynn Woods is their latest example of delivering a renewed sense of belonging to seniors in belowmarket rental housing, a pillar of their developments in both North and West Vancouver.

“This project is partially funded by BC Housing and is a collaborative partnership with the District of North Vancouver and Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society,” says Stefan Baune, executive director, KNSHS. “It’s part of a bigger province-wide plan to address housing shortages and housing affordability in the province at large.”

Baune explains that Lynn Woods is part of the Community Housing Plan program. “Under this program, non-profit organizations have an opportunity to develop affordable housing with three tiers of income for their renters. So, there’s a tiny

percent of units that are deep subsidy, rented for $375/month.”

Allocation of units is structured for mixed-income level households. Out of 106 one-bedroom units, 53 units (50%) have been rented to residents who pay 30% of their income for rent, and 30% of units are market rental units.

“32 units are earmarked for tenants who have income between $57,000 and $77, 000, so suites are priced at $1,570/month, which is slightly over the average rent in the District of North Vancouver, according to CMHC research,” reveals Baune.

“In addition, the District of North Vancouver’s Council has adopted a motion to reduce the minimum age requirement for the 53 RGI units, and the 32 Market-Rent units to 55 and older. This opens up the units to a larger pool of applicants, especially individuals or couples in their early 50s who are still working and looking for an affordable rental unit in Lynn Valley.” Baune adds.

“However, if you look at the development that we’re offering, $1,570 for a one-bedroom spacious unit is still far below what you would typically pay in this area for a new product.”

Comfortable and contemporary living The entire building is designed exclusively with seniors in mind. You’ll not only find senior-specific elements within the units but in all the common areas, too. For example, there are extra wide hallways which allow walkers to pass unencumbered.

Units are adaptable to seniors’ needs and average 579 square feet, including a large in-suite storage room. “We have thought a lot about design material

Lynn Woods by Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society. PHOTOS VIA KNSHS

and layout for people with mobility aids,” says Baune.

“Entryways and bathrooms are designed for easy access with a walker.”

Bathrooms are large with a wide turning radius, and spacious showers have either a built-in seat or pulldown bench. There’s no tub by design, convenient for people with or without mobility issues. Plus, there are a minimum of two grab bars within reach wherever you are in the space.

Natural light streams through floor-to-ceiling windows, filling your open-concept living room/ dining room and functional, spacious kitchen.

Balconies (or patios) provide an inviting refuge to relax or entertain.

Building & community amenities There’s no shortage of building amenities to make your life easy and enjoyable, including two elevators, in-suite storage, a bike and scooter storage room, and community garden. Both underground parking and basement storage lockers are available for additional fees. The arts room and great hall with fireplace and TV are welcoming social spaces.

Lynn Woods is in close proximity to transit and Lynn Valley Centre with the shopping mall, public library, health-care services and restaurants all within walking distance.

“We intend to dedicate our services as a housing owner and operator—doing business for a purpose,” says Baune. “Housing is an integral part of our mission, but it’s not everything. Our organization is trying to reach out and be part of a broader community that allows tenants to not just enjoy and enrich their lives, but for Kiwanis to do our part of service to our community.”

For more information, visit kiwanisnorthshorehousing.org

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Blues women chase repeat soccer championship on home turf ANDY PREST

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The Capilano University women’s soccer team will get a chance to go for back-to-back provincial titles on home soil when they host the PacWest Soccer Championships this coming weekend, Oct. 29 and 30.

Last year the Blues women claimed their first championship since 2007, scoring a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory over the Douglas College Royals to win the title and a berth in the national championships. That’s a sensation that the Blues are hungry to taste again, according to Lauren Grey, a team co-captain and graduate of North Vancouver’s Carson Graham Secondary. Now in her second year with the team, the defender wants more gold after helping the Blues win a title in her rookie season.

“To be able to be a part of that and see how much it meant to all the girls and to Dennis [head coach Dennis Kindel], it was awesome to be a part of,” said Grey. “It was such a grind – so yeah, we gotta do that again this year.”

Grey is part of a strong contingent of homegrown North Shore players pushing the Blues on their

Sophie Pather makes a play for the Capilano Blues in a match against the Langara Falcons during the 2022 PacWest soccer season. PAUL YATES / VANCOUVER SPORTS PICTURES

path back to the championship final.

The list includes second-year goalkeeper Megan Thitchener, an Argyle grad who was thrust into a featured role after her goalkeeping partner Sabrina Lam was injured in a collision in September. Lam is now back, forming a formidable tandem in goal.

Other key North Shore players include Alanah Dulong, a fourthyear midfielder and Seycove grad who is a two-time PacWest allstar;

Mya Fraser, a third-year defender from Argyle who has a knack for scoring headers, placing her among the team’s leading scorers; Sophie Pather, a rookie midfielder from Sutherland Secondary who has seen big minutes in her first year; and Handsworth grad Aynsley Hurtado, another midfielder who has played a major role as a regular starter.

“It was awesome to join the team and see those names, because a lot of them I have known of and

a field that we’re really familiar with and that we’ve had a lot of success on, and then also just hopefully getting a lot of fans out as well.”

The Blues and Royals will be joined by the Vancouver Island Mariners in a three-way fight for the championship this year, with all three teams posting strong records in the regular season in the four-team PacWest league. Second place Capilano will play third place Douglas College on Saturday (Oct. 29) at 1:30 p.m. at Mulgrave, with the winner moving on to face No. 1-ranked VIU in the championship final Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

Grey said it will be challenging for the Blues to score a repeat championship, but she’s confident the team has the ability to win at all again.

“It’s going to be tough, obviously – it always is – but I think we can totally do it. We’ve beaten every team in this league this year, so it just kind of comes down to on the given day, who wants it more.”

On the men’s side, Capilano finished fourth and did not advance to the PacWest championships.

Top-seeded Langara College will play the winner of No. 2 VIU vs. No. 3 Douglas in the men’s final Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at Mulgrave.

really, really wanted to play with for a long time,” said Grey, about the North Shore players joining together on the Blues after years playing with and against each other in the club and high school systems. “It’s cool to be friends with them and play alongside them.…

Representing the North Shore as well is so cool, because I’ve grown up here my entire life. Just being able to represent them and have lots of family and friends out at games has been awesome.”

Grey is hoping there will be a decent contingent of North Shore soccer fans at the championships, as all games will be played on the artificial turf at West Vancouver’s Mulgrave School. The Blues traditionally played their home games on the grass field beside the university’s Centre for Sport and Wellness, but this season they moved their home field to Mulgrave to take out the unpredictability of a grass surface. The move to Mulgrave has made for a faster game, swapping out the slower grass field and large playing surface at Capilano for a smaller artificial turf field at Mulgrave.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022 | A21

North Shore ski hills get first dusting of snow JANE SEYD

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Well, that was quick!

It’s time to put away the shorts and sandals and dig out the snowboard and puffy jackets. After record-breaking high temperatures and drought during most of October, the North Shore Mountains have been greeted with their first dusting of … snow?!

Images captured by webcams on Mount Seymour early Friday showed a sprinkling of snow at the Mystery Peak cam.

Later in the day, temperatures warmed up and the snow disappeared just as quickly as it appeared. By Monday morning, another storm brought a centimetre more snow to Mount Seymour. A mix of rain and snow is anticipated to continue on the North Shore mountains this week.

The sight of snow was enough to get some eager snowboarders and skiers excited, with some taking to social media to applaud the shift towards winter.

“It’s time to get this party started,” wrote one fan on Instagram.

North Shore mountains aren’t expected to really start accumulating snow until next month, however. Typically, local ski hills open anytime between mid-November and early December, depending on snow conditions. Grouse Mountain and its Skyride are currently closed for maintenance to Nov. 4. Last year, Grouse and Cypress ski hills – which both have snow-making capacity to supplement Mother Nature – opened on the weekend of Nov. 19.

So far, early indications are pointing to a good year for skiers and riders. Meteorologists have pointed to the presence of cooler-than-normal waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, signalling a third La Niña winter in a row.

In B.C., La Niña typically means a colder winter with above-average precipitation.

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Faked suicide in Halloween decoration results in 911 call BRENT RICHTER

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A shocking Halloween decoration in North Vancouver’s Edgemont neighbourhood resulted in a police response and a call for better taste in how we mark the season.

Rose LeMay was at the stoplight near Edgemont Boulevard and Ridgewood Drive, Oct. 5, when she saw the scene play out in silhouettes projected onto a window.

Over the span of about seven seconds, she saw what appeared to be a man donning a noose and hanging himself.

“It created for me a whole bunch of response that I thought I’d actually seen a suicide. It was that good in terms of level of detail,” she said.

LeMay jumped out of her car and ran to the front door to intervene. Her passengers called 911. It was when she reached the door that she saw the scene change to one of a woman murdering a man, and later, zombies.

“All I know is I walked away thinking that I witnessed a It’s important suicide that I couldn’t stop,” she for people, as said. well, to realize LeMay said it’s important for people to know that suicide is that there not a rare thing in Canada and are certain tricking people into believing topics that they’ve witnessed one can be a some people source of very real trauma, espemight find a cially for those who have lost trigger, and loved ones to suicide.

“It is literally true that at least one of those is one in 10 people walking down suicide. that street or driving down that NORTH VANCOUVER street will have known somebody RCMP SGT. who has [died by] suicide and PETER DEVRIES this scene is immensely triggering,” she said.

People in First Nations communities, particularly Inuit people, are disproportionately affected, LeMay, who is Indigenous herself, added.

Halloween decorations shouldn’t be a source of trauma, LeMay said, encouraging others not to use ones that portray suicide, especially ones that are intended to be taken in by the general public.

“Canadians need to understand that this is not what we do to each other as neighbours. This is way beyond the pale. It’s horrific. It’s just incredibly cruel,” she said.

North Vancouver RCMP Sgt. Peter DeVries said officers attended and confirmed everyone was safe but he said the owner is entitled to freedom of expression and it’s not for police to say how people decorate their homes.

DeVries added people can take a more trauma-informed approach to the season.

“It’s important for people, as well, to realize that there are certain topics that some people might find a trigger, and one of those is suicide. There’s room to argue that it’s in poor taste, to use an image of suicide as Halloween decoration, which is supposed to be fun and light-hearted.”

If you – or someone you know – is in crisis or distress, know that you are not alone. There is help and there are people who will listen. Talk to a family member, a teacher, a doctor, a coach or a person you trust. Call 9-1-1 or go to the nearest hospital emergency department.

Call the Crisis Centre at 604-872-3311 or B.C.-wide at 1-800-SUICIDE. Young people can call the Kids Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868 to speak to a professional counsellor.

Families dealing with mental illness can call the Pathways Serious Mental Illness Society at 604-926-0856.

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Avid haunted house decorator Christopher Smith has returned with an even bigger Halloween set-up for 2022, located at 1336 15th St. West in North Vancouver. CHRISTOPHER SMITH

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One North Vancouver homeowner is going the extra mile this spooky season with a Halloween display set to leave nightmares.

Over at 1336 15th St. West, between Pemberton and Phillip Avenues, one house sits out from the rest. In its front garden, a group of variously sized skeletons are lumbering across the grass in the fog, while others scale the fence in a bid to escape out onto the streets. It is an alluring welcome for those looking for a fright, the marking of a large walk-through scare zone that has all the spooky bells and whistles.

“Live actors, jump scares, creepy things, and special effects to tingle almost all of the senses will be utilized this year,” said owner and avid decorator Christopher Smith.

The large display out front leads to a covered haunted walk that travels the perimeter of the house and back to the driveway, where plenty of jump scares and photo opportunities await.

Smith is no stranger to the Halloween decorating business – for the previous two years his noteworthy creations have been the talk of the town. In both 2020 and 2021, he harnessed the fear of real-life events by transforming an address into a quarantine tent. This year, Smith promises, the decorations will be “considerably bigger and much more immersive.”

The haunt will run on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday evening, from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m., with sweet treats available for the bravest trick-or-treaters on the night of the 31st.

With the hopes of raising $5,000 for the BCSPCA, Smith and his team of haunters will be collecting donations at the end of the walk-through.

Across the North Shore haunted houses are vying for the spotlight, with homes everywhere from Lynn Creek to West Vancouver getting in on the spooky action.

Events continue throughout the region too, with scare-fest Canyon Frights at the Capilano Suspension Bridge providing scavenger hunts and themed games, the Ecology Centre hosting spooky and educational family-friendly events, and pumpkin decorating sessions being held at local supermarkets.

Visit nsnews.com/in-the-community to find an interactive map showing some of the best-decorated gardens and homes in North and West Vancouver. Each house is pinpointed with a black ghost, and includes a photo of its display.

Keep your pumpkins indoors until Halloween night Too many bears have left our earthly realm this year, and your diligence this spooky season can help keep others from becoming accustomed to human sources of food. As part of its Halloween guidance, the District of North Vancouver is asking residents to consider keeping pumpkins inside until Oct. 31.

“Love pumpkin pie? So do the local bears,” reads a social media post. Right now, it’s the fall hyperphagia stage for bears, which means they’re eating as much as they can to bulk up for winter. Residents should be prepared for increased activity as hungry bears try to pack on the pounds.

Last month, a bear in Deep Cove was put down after becoming famous for raiding a fridge inside someone’s home. Bear watchers in the community said the bear had gotten used to finding food in people’s yards first. The best way to steer bears clear of your property is to rid it of anything that smells like food. Experts suggest things like storing your bins and freezers inside secure sheds, and freezing extra smelly scraps before putting them out on collection day.

And on collection day after Halloween, compost your pumpkin so it doesn’t end up in the landfill.

Visit nsnews.com/in-the-community for more tips for a happy Halloween.

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Shervin Shahriari was elected to City of North Vancouver council on Oct. 15, giving the North Shore’s Iranian Canadian community a voice at the council table. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

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North Shore home to one of largest Persian populations in Canada Continued from page 1 It’s been a long-awaited achievement for the North Shore’s sizable Persian community, said Nassreen Filsoof, president of the Canadian Iranian Foundation.

“They’re all very happy and overjoyed that he has been elected,” she said. “This is a multicultural country, isn’t it? And we have so many different ethnic groups here and I think sometimes their voices are not heard very well. It is important that they have someone to send their voice.”

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with 12,835 of B.C.’s total 18,890 Iranian immigrants making their homes here.

The North Shore became a destination for Iranian emigres during the country’s Islamic Revolution in the late 1970s, and through the Iran-Iraq war in the ’80s. They chose to come here, in part, because North Vancouver is nestled up to mountains, just like Tehran.

“Iranians, they have very good taste,” Filsoof said.

Both Filsoof and Shahriari said Iranians on the North Shore haven’t been particularly engaged in civic matters before, Continued on page 29

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Continued from page 28 although that’s now likely to change.

“Especially for the younger generation, for sure.... It has taken a very long time but I think we are we are finally here,” he said.

“You can make a difference and participate in elections. And once you participate, then obviously, politicians will take note and your needs and wants will be heard more.”

Although he had some dedicated Iranian Canadian volunteers on his team, most of his votes were from the broader community, Shahriari acknowledged.

“I just look forward to putting my skills to work for the entire North Vancouver city population,” he said.

Shahriari’s joining council isn’t the only first from this election. Herman Mah now likely has the distinction of being the first person of colour elected to District of North Vancouver council.

“I looked at some of the [council] photos in the lobby the other day, and yeah, it could be,” he said. “If I’m the first person of colour to be elected to the district council, that’s pretty cool.”

Mah was born in East Vancouver to immigrant parents. The values he holds today are derived from the values he learned from his family, he said.

“I think this brings some more variety and depth of personal experience,” he said. “It brings a different perspective and, hopefully, we get a fuller understanding of issues.”

Herman Mah now likely has the distinction of being the first person of colour elected to DNV council. HERMAN MAH While North Vancouver doesn’t have quite so large a Chinese community, Mah said he hopes his being elected will encourage others to become more engaged. And he added, he hopes people voted for him based on his message, not the origin of his name.

“I respect my cultural background but I feel like I’m Canadian first,” he said.

The North Shore’s school boards both became a bit more diverse in this election, with Felicia Zhu, originally from China, elected to the West Vancouver school district and Lailani Tumaneng, who is from the Philippines, elected in North Vancouver.

In the 2018 election, Marcus Wong became the first person of colour elected to West Vancouver council and Tina Hu the first Chinese-born immigrant elected to City of North Vancouver council.

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HERITAGE GEM

Carefully preserved Craftsman was reeve’s home 100 years ago NICK LABA

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Life looked differently in District of North Vancouver in the first half of the 20th century. For one, the newspaper was delivered on horseback.

If you lived in the Upper Lonsdale area back then, you may have received a copy of the North Shore Free Press from Wendy Woods.

She lived in a home, called Norwood at the time, that was designed around 1920 by her grandfather, a man named William Henry Woods. A war veteran and statesman from the U.K., Woods continued his political career in North Van, serving as alderman from 1928 to 1930 and as reeve in 1931.

Today, Woods’s legacy lasts not only in documents, but also in the Norwood home itself, which has been incredibly preserved by several generations of residents.

Its owners today – Richard Brail and partner Adrien Ross – who came in possession of the home 34 years ago, have received heritage awards in 1996 and 2021 for their efforts, which include recently restoring the roof back to as it originally appeared.

Brail estimates around 75 per cent of the home has been preserved. The large living room, with its large wood beams across the ceiling and granite fireplace, is in its original condition. A couple rooms have been added over the years, but the original doors and windows were

Saundra Potter displays an old photo of the heritage home that Adrien Ross (left) and partner Richard Brail have owned since 1988. Potter’s ancestors built and lived in the house when it was a farm in the woods of Upper Lonsdale. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN incorporated into the new construction.

Visual comparisons are possible through a catalogue of photographs kept by Saundra Potter. Her grandfather Graham helped Woods build Norwood. A picture of Graham and his two brothers, Jack and Eric, in cowboy hats recalls a time when the property was a riding academy.

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“My grandfather was a big entrepreneur,” Potter said, naming several businesses that were run from the property. “Woods Hauling, Woods Dairy – they were into it all.

Also the horses, and they had a farm there.”

After Norwood was sold around 1945, it changed hands a couple times before Brail and Ross bought it. Then, in 1990, Potter

knocked on their door, and gave them a picture of the house when it was newly built.

The three have kept in touch ever since, and Potter has brought relatives by on several occasions to the heritage home. Those include her aunt, now Wendy Nielson, who used to deliver the paper on horseback.

“Every time I go there – it’s sacred – I feel my family there,” she said. “And because my dad grew up there, it’s extra special.

He’s no longer with us.”

“All the stories he told us of the bears, and going out to feed the horses in the morning,” Potter continued. “These boys were all six-foot five, living in that small house. I don’t know how they did it.”

Potter showered praise on the home’s current owners. “They’re curators of my family history. They’ve just done such a beautiful job. I’ve given them lots of photos, when I’ve come to visit them ... and they’re always so open and willing to host my family.”

Brail said that he and Ross are driven by the usual reasons people are interested in heritage: recognizing the importance of the past, and being able to preserve it to the degree that they’re able to.

The pair have acquired many photos of people who have lived in the home before them. “And when we’re sitting in our living room, we have a sense of who’s been sitting in it for the last hundred years,” Brail said.

“We wonder who will be sitting in it a hundred years from now.”

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was charged with getting rid of the rest of their mom’s possessions.

He took what he thought was leftover jewelry to a North Shore antique store in mid-August, without examining it too closely.

“I can’t tell a diamond from a coke bottle,” he admits.

It was only last month the family discovered to their horror that the sapphire ring promised to Emma was missing.

Realizing his mistake, Paul Paquette said he went back to the antique store, but was told the ring was gone – having sold relatively quickly.

“I could have just puked. My heart was in the pit of my stomach,” he said.

Now with no way to trace the new owner, the family is hoping someone on the North Shore might recognize the ring they bought – and be prepared to sell it back to the family.

“It’s a family heirloom,” said Linda, although she added the family knows they have no legal claim on the ring. “It would be up to them if they wanted to return it.”

It would be particularly special if the ring was returned in time for Emma’s wedding next June, she added.

Anyone who thinks they might have bought or received the ring and is prepared to part with it, can contact the family through Linda Paquette at ljpaqu58@gmail. com.

“We’ve looked into replacing it,” said Linda Paquette. “But it’s just not the same.”

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For decades, it held a special place in Linda Paquette’s family. It had been given to her mother by her dad, an RCMP officer, and was part of her mom’s jewelry collection during the many years they lived in North Vancouver.

It was to have been passed down to Linda’s sister Anne, and then to her daughter Emma, who planned to wear it on her wedding day.

But in a devastating mix-up, after the family matriarch’s death in North Vancouver this summer, the ring was inadvertently taken to a local antique shop and sold.

Now the family is hoping whoever bought it might be willing to sell it back.

Linda Paquette said when she was alive, her mother had long promised the sapphire ring to her sister Anne, one of her four surviving siblings. But over a decade ago, in 2009, Anne became gravely ill while she was living in Victoria and her family rushed to her bedside. Paquette said her mother brought the ring and placed it on Anne’s finger as Anne lay dying in hospital. Anne told her daughter Emma, then just 17, that she would one day inherit the ring.

Emma promised her mother she’d wear it on her wedding day. Anne died the next day.

Following Anne’s death, Paquette said her mother took the ring back to North Vancouver.

Years passed, until her mother – who had been living at Amica seniors’ residence in Edgemont Village – died in June.

Three of the four Paquette children, and granddaughter Emma Phillips, gathered at the matriarch’s apartment to go through her possessions, all taking some items of sentimental value. Paquette said her brother Paul thought their niece had already taken the ring. But she hadn’t – believing it would be given to her after the estate was settled.

Paul Paquette, who lives closest to their mother’s former home in North Vancouver,

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ALL FALL DOWN

West Van art exhibition has climate optimism at its crux MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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The latest exhibition to be housed at West Vancouver’s Art Museum may be centred around climate change, but it’s creator – artist and West Van local Martha Sturdy – assures it is anything but “just another disaster story.”

Sturdy, contemporary sculpture artist, homeware creator and applauded accessories When you designer, is an etercome in nal optimist. She is here, what I forever searching want people for the silver lining to feel is that in every cloud and elegance, the the solution to every problem, and mystery of the climate crisis is the forest, no exception. the beauty All Fall Down of the forest comprises four large and sadness sculptures crafted from wood that has of what is been salvaged from happening. the forests near ARTIST Sturdy’s weekend MARTHA STURDY home in Pemberton.

Treated with fire, black stain and resin, each log is a soot black, stark reminder of the unprecedented rate of global warming and the natural disasters – like incessant

Martha Sturdy’s exhibition All Fall Down will be showing at the West Vancouver Art Museum until mid-December. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN wildfires – it brings.

Three of the sculptures reside indoors, set against an audio of gusty wind and installed alongside steel pieces that represent a dry, cracked earth floor.

Yet in front of the museum, where a sizable stack of logs can be seen by

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museum-goers and passersby, a glimmer of hope can be spotted between the trunks: a lush sapling, emerging from the ash. It is a small but mighty nod to a hopeful future.

“When you come in here, what I want people to feel is that elegance, the mystery of the forest, the beauty of the forest and

sadness of what is happening,” explained Sturdy.

“It has this effect on you, and I’m hoping that when people are reminded of the problem, they will be urged to think of a solution. I’m optimistic that we will fix this.”

For Sturdy, 80, being in the unique position of having lived through many doomsday events brings about a peculiar sense of positivity. She compares the current crises to the Great Smog of London, a severe air pollution event that thwarted the British city in the 1950s, and the acid rain disaster that occurred throughout Canada in the 1990s.

“There have been all these things that have happened before. Not in the way that they are now, but there are still issues we’ve had that we have learned how to solve,” she said.

Rather than dwell on the negative, Sturdy hopes the exhibition will inspire guests to look to the future – to look for a solution. “It can be in whatever little way you can,” she said, going on to add how every positive choice makes a change, even if it is simply using a keep cup or learning more about recycling.

All Fall Down is now open to the public and will run until Dec. 17.

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Continued from page 18 Government responds, military launches CONPLAN PANORAMA After a catastrophic earthquake, the B.C. government is expected to shift all its priorities to disaster response, notes the document.

The Office of the Premier and cabinet would direct the Provincial Emergency Coordination Centre in Victoria, which in turn, would pass information to regional and local emergency coordination centres, municipalities and First Nations.

In the worst-case scenario, the province may set up a Catastrophic Emergency Response and Recovery Centre to provide unified command and share information with the press and public.

Emergency Management BC (EMBC) would activate the province’s earthquake response strategy, recommend government declare a state of provincial emergency, and contact Public Safety Canada for federal assistance.

The federal government would almost certainly activate CONPLAN PANORAMA, a contingency plan for the Canadian Armed Forces in the event of a catastrophic earthquake on the coast of B.C. That would mean deploying soldiers to staging areas across Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland or the Southern Interior.

The military would be tasked with supporting communities directly hit by the earthquake or cut off from its effects. In the same way military units were flown into parts of B.C. during last year’s floods, the armed forces may also be deployed to Indigenous communities, but only after consultation with their leadership.

Earthquake early warning system could soften the blow The scenario does not consider the use of an earthquake early warning system – one that is already partially deployed and expected to become operational across parts of B.C. in the coming years.

Once up and running, that system could give people a warning “on the order of minutes,” allowing many to escape collapsing buildings and buckling tunnels and bridges.

With warning, SkyTrains could be halted, surgeons would have a chance to stabilize patients, and firefighters would open fire hall doors, giving them a head start.

At the same time, the provincial report notes, the modelled scenario makes a lot of assumptions.

In the event of a real earthquake, “it may take hours or even days to collect situational awareness equivalent to what is presented here.”

A response in progress The report and its hypothetical scenarios come the same week millions of B.C. residents had the chance to practice their own reaction to an earthquake (the annual Great British Columbia Shake Out encourages people to practice how to drop, cover and hold.)

And this February, municipal governments across B.C. will join their B.C. and federal counterparts to hold a large-scale earthquake dry-run dubbed Exercise Coastal Response 2023. Working with First Nations, it’s meant to “validate elements of the new strategy and reinforce the importance of cross-jurisdictional partnerships in emergency situations,” according to a recent press release from the province.

As part of its plan to seismically upgrade infrastructure like bridges and highways, the Ministry of Transportation has earmarked $5 million a year.

School seismic retrofits, on the other hand, still have a long way to go, despite $2 billion in approved and promised funding.

As of Sept. 22, 204 B.C. schools had been seismically upgraded, while 22 were under construction. Another 268 schools across the province have yet to receive retrofits and remain vulnerable to a catastrophic earthquake.

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GREAT BC SHAKEOUT

Students drop, cover and hold on during drill for ‘the Big One’ MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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Last Thursday morning, schools across North and West Vancouver played host to the Great BC ShakeOut, an annual earthquake drill that saw 500,000 people across the province practise their earthquake emergency response.

Students and teachers put into action the Drop, Cover and Hold On response, recommended

by Emergency Management as the We did drills safest in such sceabout five narios. With more than 3,000 earthtimes in quakes each year, Grade 1, and now I’ve done British Columbia being the most seisthis one for mically active area earthquakes of Canada, studying I know I am up on what to do to remain safe in such ready for situations is as anything. vital as any school SEVEN-YEAR-OLD curriculum.

EMMA “Every classroom has these conversations at the beginning of every school year,” said Laine Anderson, vice-principal of West Vancouver’s Irwin Park Elementary.

“Obviously these students live in an area where earthquakes are a very real

Students from West Vancouver’s Irwin Park Elementary joined classrooms and workplaces across the province in taking part in the Great BC ShakeOut on Oct. 20. MINA KERR-LAZENBY / NSN possibility, so this practice is all about making that muscle memory so that we know what to do if an emergency was to happen.”

For the most part, Anderson said, the children are unperturbed by the practice.

Previous drills and a “be prepared, not scared” approach instilled into students has ensured even the youngest of them are accustomed to emergency procedures.

In one Grade 2/3 class on Thursday morning there was an air of excitement, with kids whispering, smiling and

exchanging knowing glances as Anderson’s voice rang out over the PA system.

“Good morning Irwin Park. In just a few moments we will have our first earthquake drill of the school year,” she said.

Anderson reminded the students that once the earthquake begins – indicated by a sound recording of rumbling and falling debris – they should put their learning into action and “drop, cover, and hold on.”

Students in a space without tables, like in the hallway or gym, should move to an

interior wall, kneel down against it, bow their head and cover their neck and head with their hands. Those in the library or music room should move away from the shelving, she said.

Immediately after the sound recording had begun, the Grade 2/3 class had burrowed themselves under the tables, each student bunched up into a small ball with their hands folded across their heads.

Together the classroom counted 60 seconds, long enough to determine the safety of the area outside the table, and Anderson gave permission for the standard school day to resume.

Especially quick into action was sevenyear-old Emma, who said she feels “very ready” for any emergency event as the latest drill was one of many she has experienced during her time at Irwin Park.

“We did drills about five times in Grade 1, and now I’ve done this one for earthquakes I know I am ready for anything,” she said.

Emma said she wasn’t scared at the prospect of an earthquake occurring because she knew what to do, and could give advice to those who didn’t.

“Drop down immediately. Get into focus.

Don’t talk. Hold on tight. And fully cover your neck and head,” she said.

Mina Kerr-Lazenby is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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The year is 1966, it is Halloween and young people are looking for something to do. Edgemont Village had become a gathering spot on Halloween in previous years, and this year was no different.

Local radio stations began reporting on the growing crowds, which only intrigued more youth from neighbouring areas to come check out the scene. It wasn’t long before the rowdy crowd started throwing eggs and bottles, causing damage to many store fronts and prompting the arrival of police cars and fire trucks. Fire hoses were turned on the crowd, and eventually several were charged with unlawful assembly.

This photo shows an intersection in Edgemont Village, ca. 1965, that one year later would be filled with teens. Can you spot the skeleton?

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A pigeon rests on the City of North Vancouver’s air raid siren in Victoria Park, an artifact of the Cold War. BRENT RICHTER / NSN

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Why is there an air raid siren in North Van’s Victoria Park?

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North Shore residents of a certain age will remember conducting not just fire drills when they were growing up, but also what to do if a nuclear attack were imminent.

Standing about six metres off the ground at the east end of North Vancouver’s Victoria Park is the massive siren that would let them know when it was time. The air raid siren was installed at the site in 1960 as part of a national early warning system to let citizens know if the Soviets attacked.

As tensions with the Reds eased, the siren was decommissioned in 1988, and City of North Vancouver and Department of National Defence allowed the lease to expire.

Since then, it’s mostly been home to nesting birds.

OK, but the Russians are no longer a threat. (Or are they?) Why is it still there?

It was slated for removal in the 1990s but North Vancouver resident Bob Scott led a successful campaign petitioning the city to acquire the siren from the Department of National Defence. The Cold War artifact was later designated as a municipal heritage site.

“It now stands – silently alerting us to be mindful of the past so that we can work together to create a peaceful future,” reads a plaque at the base of the pole.

In 2010, the city temporarily brought the siren down to repaint it and make some structural repairs. That triggered a debate from the public about whether it should be put back up.

When the city conducted public consultations, they found a 60/40 split separating those who wanted it returned and those who wanted it removed. Nearby residents said it was an eyesore and a reminder of a bleak time in Canadian history that besmirched the nearby cenotaph. Others saw its value for future generations.

“In some ways, those were kind of desperate times where we lived with this prevailing fear of an atomic war that haunted our nighttime dreams. I know even in the ‘80s I was practising duck and cover drills,” city resident and teacher Jeff Stuart told council at the time. “And I always lived with that fear that that mournful wail could take place and, one day, we’d have only 30 minutes left to say goodbye to everyone we really cared about.”

Stuart said that the people who marched for peace and those who delivered the world safely through the Cold War deserve monuments in their honour as well.

“Those are times we don’t want to forget,” he said. “Not all history is pretty or beautiful.”

Council voted 6-1 to reinstall the alarm as a memorial.

“For some, looking at the air raid siren, it brings back some rather negative, unpleasant memories and, I want to recognize that. However, I think there’s much to be learned by having the air raid siren there. I remember as a child when it was going off.

It was quite eerie, actually,” said then-mayor Darrell Mussatto, prior to the 2010 vote. “I think it’s something that should be remembered as a time when things were unstable, and we need to fight for peace as much as we possibly can on this planet.”

In 2022, the city posthumously awarded Scott one of its annual Heritage Awareness Awards for his work in seeing the alarm preserved.

Incidentally, the air raid siren isn’t the only lasting legacy of the Cold War on the North Shore. The founders of North Shore Rescue first met in 1965 as part of a civil defence group established to help rescue people from collapsed buildings, a likely consequence of nuclear attack. Thankfully, they discovered their skill set was in greater need for mountain rescues, which they still carry out today.

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ABSOLUTELY GOURDGEOUS

North Vancouver man grows B.C.’s prettiest pumpkin

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“Bibbidi-bobbidi-beau,” said the Fairy Gourdmother, as she waved her wand over what would become the most precious pumpkin the North Shore has ever seen.

If someone had told North Vancouver resident Jeff Pelletier he would win the Howard Dill award for best looking pumpkin, he would have said they’re out of their gourd. But that’s just what he did after B.C.’s official weigh-in at Krause Berry Farms in Langley on Oct. 8.

There, his entry – affectionately dubbed Betelgeuse after the orange gas giant star – was praised for its classic pumpkin shape and deep orange colour, which can fade in larger contenders.

Although his voluptuous vine crop (at 739 pounds) came in seventh overall for weight, it was an exceedingly fruitful day. The infamous mad horticulturalist of Queensbury also won prizes for biggest squash (243 pounds) and most giant tomato (2.7 pounds).

Considering the bumps along the road this year, Pelletier is pleased with the way Betelgeuse shaped up in the end. Wetterthan-average weather well into late spring impacted early growing stages of the plant, but the end of the growing season was good as it warmed up through the summer.

One yard maintenance crisis had a

burgeoning Betelgeuse hanging by a thread (a vine, actually).

“My next-door neighbour had a tree that was hanging over my house, and cut it down,” Pelletier said. “It was a coniferous tree, so there were needles all over my roof.”

A roofer came to clean up the mess, but rather than rake it up, he used a leaf blower and blew everything into Pelletier’s garden.

“And the week that he did that, the plant just started to shut down,” Pelletier explained, adding that typically he prunes the vine constantly through July and August because it grows so fast.

“This is the first time I’ve ever had anything like that happen. All the secondary vines self terminated – they just stopped growing,” he said. “So the size of the vine I had in July was what I had to work with for the rest of the season.”

Pelletier is confident that without this setback, Betelgeuse would have topped 1,000 pounds, like his pumpkins from previous years, including Grawp, Neptune and Ella.

Growing a monumental vegetable is not a task for the casual gardener. Pelletier likens his competitive agronomy to a sport.

“Giant pumpkin growers like to say we have a six-month pet that we take care of,” he said. “Once the plant goes in the ground, you’re watching it quite closely until you harvest.”

Even with a watchful eye, pesky critters

Jeff Pelletier shows off his pretty pumpkin, named Betelgeuse. COURTESY OF JEFF PELLETIER prevent rot.

But clearly all the doting has paid off, with an orange orb fit for Cinderella’s trip to the ball.

And Betelgeuse’s pageantry isn’t over yet. The pumpkin was on display at It’s About Thyme Nursery in Burnaby, before being made into a giant jack-o-lantern on Sunday by professional carver Gerry Sheena.

can chew up plans. His first Atlantic giant squash of the year sank after a squirrel attacked the vine. But he still managed to grow prize-winning Yoda by pollinating a secondary part of the vine.

Another enemy is powdery mildew.

“Once you see that it’s arrived, it’s already too late,” he said. Pelletier also soil tests every year, and adds a mixture of calcium and magnesium while watering his plants to

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Is this the tallest tomato ever grown on the North Shore?

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“Everything we do is big,” says backyard garden grower Chris Coyne.

After honing his horticultural knowledge taking university classes, reading books and watching countless YouTube videos, he’s been able to get his tomato plants in recent years to reach heights around three metres (10 feet) “I usually have to get a ladder, but this is ridiculous,” he said, explaining that this year his tomato towers at 4.4 metres (14.5 ft.) tall.

Coyne describes himself as a modest gardener, but said he definitely shows off his colossal crops in the neighbourhood.

“A lot of people come by and see what we’re up to,” he said. “I definitely think we have the biggest garden on the North Shore.”

Other than tomatoes, Coyne grows sunflowers that grow up to 4.2 metres tall, with flower heads 60 centimetres in diameter.

“There was a guy from Saskatchewan that told me you couldn’t grow corn in North Van – we proved him wrong,” he said. “I grew the biggest corn you’ve ever seen – these things were monsters.”

But Coyne growing monster vegetables isn’t just about showmanship, it’s about growing food for his family and community, and sharing the knowledge with others.

“We’ve got a young family. I want to provide that food,” he said. “We started doing it when my wife was breastfeeding, so that I could have the best health for our babies.”

Pulling off more than 500 tomatoes from the one plant this year has meant months of tomato lunches for his kids.

“What I tell people is: everyone that goes out and buys a $3 or $4 clump of kale, for $3

Chris Coyne has been growing towering tomatoes for several years in the yard of his home in the Greenwood Park area of the City of North Vancouver. MELANIE COYNE in kale seeds I can feed the entire block kale all summer,” Coyne said, adding that he’s donated surplus crops to Westlynn Baptist Church as well as family and friends.

“Garden ego is a real thing,” he said. “But if I could ever just give back to my community, and encourage people to get out there and do it themselves – if I could do anything, that I would like to give back.”

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest tomato plant ever was grown by Nutriculture in Lancashire, U.K., reaching 19.8 metres (65 ft.) tall in May 2000.

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Continued from page 18 know it’s one that will make a very positive difference, not only for the safety of our members, but for the community as a whole.”

Danks said it’s an honour to work with Harrop, who has tipped his hat to NSR in past cartoons.

“I did an editorial cartoon for The Vancouver Sun that gave credit to NSR,” Harrop said. “Tim Jones, who was then head of the team, got in touch and he came up with the idea of a calendar. Sadly Tim died, but the idea lived on.”

Twice, NSR has rescued him from his hide-a-bed, Harrop said, stating that the

12-month collection is a humorous take on the critical work done by the team.

“Living on the North Shore makes you more aware of what NSR volunteers do,” he said. “Cartoon ideas came from news stories and including the bears gave rise to humorous situations. The cartoon of the bear promising not to root through the garbage echoes my concern for our North Shore bruins.”

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■ Prioritize affordable housing for the Nations that go beyond reserve lands.

■ Undisputed access to municipal services for reduced or minimal fees to affordable housing projects on reserve lands.

■ Reconciliation curricula in schools that teach the relationships between the three Nations and the land and its people.

■ Identify and address barriers including but not limited to parking fees and time limits.

■ Improve recruitment, retention and advancement of Indigenous peoples in City of Vancouver careers.

■ Shape a process for the Vancouver Economic Commission to bring its policies and procedures in alignment with UNDRIP to include and reflect the Nations and support their economic prosperity.

■ Update City of Vancouver procurement policies to ensure contract opportunities are reserved for businesses owned by or partnered with the three Nations.

Boyle said she was honoured to be a co-chair of the task force and was confident council would pass the strategy. It will be the last formal meeting of the current council before mayor-elect Ken Sim and the newly elected council is sworn in Nov. 7.

“The task force has had representation from multiple political parties through its work and has always very intentionally not been political,” she told reporters after the ceremony. “So I’m optimistic it will pass unanimously and that the next council will

step in to continue the work in that same spirit.”

‘Broken systems’ During the ceremony, Boyle described the City of Vancouver as a colonial institution that for decades upheld harmful colonial practices and laws. She pointed out the city’s homeless population continues to be overrepresented by Indigenous peoples, while others live in precarious housing situations.

“Implementing UNDRIP at every level, including the city level, is an important act of redress and reconciliation,” said Boyle, who was re-elected in Saturday’s election. “It’s also a transformative opportunity for all of us together to fix broken systems and build stronger relationships with one another, and the land and the water.”

Several members of each nation spoke during the lengthy ceremony, including Musqueam Elder Larry Grant, who said he was hopeful the UNDRIP strategy would address the city’s colonial past, present and future.

“One hundred and fifty some odd years after Confederation, we are being given consideration as human beings of this land, of this country, of this world,” he told the crowd, which included Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, Regional Chief of the Assembly of BC First Nations Terry Teegee and Vancouver-Point Grey MLA David Eby, who is expected to become B.C.’s next premier.

Teegee commended the City of Vancouver for taking the lead on a strategy with the nations, adding that he hoped it would influence other municipalities to do the same.

“You’re blazing the trail, and that’s really important,” he said.

Archibald welcomed the nations and the city joining together to draft the document but cautioned that reconciliation is still a work in progress.

“The other day I did an interview about reconciliation, and I said, ‘If reconciliation is a 12-chapter book, we are on the first chapter,’” she said. “But we are only on the first sentence of the first chapter, and that’s what this event is about.”

Former city councillor Andrea Reimer was overcome with emotion as she spoke, pointing out Indigenous leaders such as Lillian Howard, who died last year, couldn’t be present to witness the ceremony.

“I’m thinking a lot about this importance of the past and the future, and you can’t create a future that doesn’t have a past as its foundation,” said Reimer, who spent her years on council pushing for reconciliation and improving relations with First Nations.

‘Racism within our city’ After the ceremony, reporters asked members of the task force what recommendations they believed would bring the most concrete change.

Councillor Charlene Aleck of TsleilWaututh: “Having the representation of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh

within their territories and being prevalent in not only the land ... art, or the culture that’s present within the city, but being present at tables and implementing our Coast Salish laws in economic [ways], in education, in corporations, organizations and it cascading down into all the other fields within the city.”

Councillor Allyson Fraser of Musqueam: “One of the calls to action that I would like to see worked on is racism within our city.

As my family member Wade Grant [said during the ceremony] is that I come from a background of an Aboriginal person, as well as Chinese ancestry. So we know that within the City of Vancouver, there has been a lot of racism going on. And I’d like to see that our children are being brought up in a community where we can all work together and live together, and I think that this document will bring that forward.”

Councillor Dennis Thomas of TsleilWaututh: “The economic and revenue sharing is one thing that I’d like to see being fulfilled. And another one is the generational transformative work that we’ve put into this document needs to be shared with different organizations, different committees and different workforces like the parks board and VPD.” The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2007. Since then, the Canadian government passed the UNDRIP Act in 2021 and the B.C. government passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in 2019.

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DOUGLAS, (nee Bell) Sharon Faith Kathleen April 8, 1956 - October 23, 2020

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Sharon Faith Kathleen Douglas (nee Bell) passed away in the early hours of October 23, 2020 after a six year struggle against a Neuropathy that slowly ravaged her body and left her an invalid at 62.

Sharon is survived by her husband and partner of 38 years Earl Douglas. Her brother Joe Bell (Jan), her sister in law Janice Doyle (Art), and many nieces and nephews.

Sharon loved many things: camping at Niskonlith Lake, then later when we bought the little Boler trailer, she loved “Glamping” even more. We went all over the place with that trailer. Sharon also loved gardening. She was also a very talented quilter, of which she mostly gave away to friends. But what Sharon most loved to do, when the time was right, to go down to the local animal shelter and rescue some frightened lonely puppy, which she nursed back to become a loyal happy contented dog.

Sharon was also an avid skier when younger, and spent many hours on Mt. Baker with her besties.

We can take solace that Sharon is no longer in pain, and has gone to a better place.

Sharon is missed by all who knew her.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to your local animal shelter in remembrance of Sharon.

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PIERCE, Walter (Wally) William Wally was born in Vancouver on February 27th, 1936. The city was experiencing an unprecedented snow and ice storm - roads were impassible - and a trip to the hospital impossible. Dr. Walter Baird braved the steep streets on foot. Agnes and Frank were so grateful - they named their beautiful baby boy Walter.

Wally grew up in Point Grey in a happy home with his parents, two older brothers, Alan and Dick, and his loyal British Bulldog, Rex. He attended Queen Elizabeth Elementary School and Lord Byng High School, graduating in 1954.

There, he was not only the Lord Byng School President but also a star athlete, excelling in football, rugby, and track.

He graduated from UBC in 1959 with a degree in Commerce and Forestry and began his career with Cooper Widman Forest Products. It was at an interview for this position, he met 17-year-old Sharon Martin. Five years later, she would become his cherished wife, best friend, and soulmate for 58 years.

After working for Cooper Widman in New York and Chicago, Wally opened a branch office in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There, he and Sharon bought their first home, and their first child, Elizabeth was born. In 1967 they returned to Vancouver and built their dream home on Madrona Crescent in West Vancouver. It served as a very loving and happy home for their children, Elizabeth, Adrienne and Graham.

The family enjoyed many years of wonderful holidays together - California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Europe with skiing adventures in Manning Park, Big White, Silver Star, Mt. Washington and Whistler. Wally and Sharon loved to hike and enjoyed many memorable trips to Scotland, Italy, and Spain.

Wally had a very successful career in the lumber industry where he was universally known as a hard working, honest person with incredible integrity.

A true Renaissance man, Wally was as comfortable arranging wedding flowers as he was discussing books and politics, building a cedar and glass greenhouse or a beautiful playhouse for his granddaughter, Bella. No task was too big or small. He was a gracious host who loved cooking, sharing a glass of wine or a meal with family, friends, and neighbours in the beautiful garden he had created.

Wally and Sharon’s home was always warm and welcoming, and they hosted countless events, parties, and celebrations.

Wally was a true gentleman who always believed the glass was half full. Upbeat and with a true zest for life, he was non-judgemental and saw only the good in others. He was a prince of a man. His smile and the twinkle in his eyes were a joy to witness - his curiosity for life was infectious. Wally will also be remembered for his intelligence and his great sense of humour.

Wally was the best husband, father, and grandfather. His love for his family is providing support and helping us to move forward. He had so much to teach us about loving life and each other. Wally will be dearly missed by his family, friends, and neighbours.

McDONALD, Evelyn Jean (nee Rea) December 3, 1931 - October 11, 2022 It is with deepest sorrow we announce the passing of our beloved wife, mother, grandmother and GG. Ev is survived by her husband of 68 years Doug; her 4 children Joan (Mike), Cam (Nicole), Susan (Peter) and Sharon (Jamie); her 9 grandchildren Laura, Meagan, Sean, Chanel, Justine, Bryan, Chloe, Lauren and Neve; and one great granddaughter.

Ev was born and raised on a farm near Herschel, Saskatchewan. She trained as a nurse at Saskatoon City Hospital. After moving to the North Shore in 1967, she worked at LGH in the Special Care Nursery.

Ev passed peacefully in the North Shore Hospice surrounded by her loving family.

A celebration of her life is planned for Saturday, November 5th at 2:00 pm at the Lynn Valley United Church.

McILVEEN, Esther Edna (Willems) Esther (Willems) McIlveen passed away peacefully on October 17, 2022, surrounded by her children.

Esther was born on March 28, 1933, to a large, blended Mennonite family. We remember Esther for her poetry and prayers, her beautiful soprano harmonies, her delight for her grandchildren, and of gardens, of quirky hats and of whimsey. A memorial service will be held at 6:00 pm on Thursday, November 3 at Emmanuel Christian Community - 10351 No. 1 Road, Richmond, followed by light refreshments.

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He will be lovingly remembered forever by Sharon. His children, Elizabeth (husband Tom), Adrienne (husband Ari) and Graham are ever grateful for his compassion, thoughtfulness, love and support. His grandchildren, Bella, Reid and Adrian Devereaux, and Griffin and Grady Pierce know they were deeply loved and appreciated for who they are. He will also be lovingly remembered by sisters and brothers-in-law Marlene and Bud Stewart, Lee and Miles Hollingbury, and his many nieces and nephews.

Wally left us on October 9th, He was at peace surrounded by his loving family.

His loss will be reverberating with us for a long time, and we are so grateful for his wonderful life and the time we had with him. The family wishes to express their deep gratitude for the kind and compassionate care Wally received from the amazing staff at the North Shore Hospice. They are truly angels. Any donations made to the Hospice in Wally’s memory would be appreciated.

A Celebration of Wally’s life will occur on Saturday, November 26th from 2:00-4:00 pm at the Eagle Harbour Yacht Club, 5750 Eagle Harbour Road, West Vancouver.

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SCHWANG, Ruth (nee Becker/Southworth) October 10, 2022 Ruth was a leap year baby, born February 29th, 1932 in Berlin, Germany. She celebrated her 22nd +.5 birthday this year.

Bravely emigrating to Canada at the age of 19, landing in Edmonton where she became governess to 4 active youngsters. The Southworths soon made her an official member of the family and Ruthie became their German speaking sister. Ruth met and married her Henry and together they made their way to Vancouver where they found their promise land. Ruth was famously one of the first to sport a bikini on the beaches of the city’s West End. Days spent with family and friends on “Bikini Beach” were some of her most cherished.

Ruth was the much beloved wife of Henry; mom, of Rebecca (Craig) and David (Heather); Oma of Jackson, Mischa and Kassy; sister of Keith (Joan), Mac (Chris), Jane and Susan; neighbour and friend.

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SMITH, Wayne Daniel August, 1944 - August, 2022 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dearly loved brother, uncle, greatuncle, and friend, Wayne Daniel Smith. He was born in Vancouver, the eldest of three siblings. He grew up in South Vancouver on Commercial Drive and graduated from Gladstone Secondary School.

He later went on to complete a Political Sciences degree from Simon Fraser University.

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RICHARDS, Peter Colin Graham October 31, 1927 - August 8, 2022 It is with deepest sorrow we announce the demise of Peter after a short stay at Lions Gate Hospital.

Peter’s early school years were in Trail, he spent one year at St. Andrew’s College in Aurora and entered the Naval Academy at Royal Roads graduating as a midshipman in 1947. He graduated from UBC with a law degree in 1951.

Peter articled to Reginald Tupper at Bull Housser and upon being called to the bar practised on his own until forming a partnership with his father, Russell. The firm continued to grow, finally merging in 1985 to form Richards Buell Sutton, where Peter practised until 2002.

Peter belonged to the West Vancouver Yacht Club, where he was an active sailor until turning to power, and the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and he was a founding shareholder of Centre Bay Yacht Station Ltd. where he served as a director and Secretary for 49 years.

Peter was past President of the Naval Officers’ Association of BC and of the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, he was a founding member of Capilano Winter Club, now North Shore, he served as a director of The Universary Club, The Vancouver Club, the Vancouver Opera Association and the Opera Foundation. He was Past Master of Masonic Lodge Prince of Wales No. 100 and Pacific Conclave No. 22 Red Cross of Constantine.

Peter enjoyed skiing until he was 89, boating, traveling, trips to Maui, gardening and carpentry.

He is deeply missed by his loving wife, Barbara, his soul mate and full partner in everything he did, and his daughters, Cindy Richards, Beth Hynes (Bob), grandchildren Gordie (Valen) and Rachelle, his two great grandchildren, Paxton and Dexter, and his many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Russell and Annie Richards and his sisters, Virginia Bazilli and Shirlie Barnett.

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STEPHEN, Betty Menai (Mop) March 4, 1920 - September 26, 2022 After a long and remarkable life, our beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed peacefully at the age of 102.

Mop was our rock - a positive thinker and amazing listener who made each of us feel so loved and uniquely special. Daughters Johanna (Ron) and Lib (Jonathan) and their children Andrew (Steph), Emily, David and Kate loved her to pieces.

Betty was born in Porth, Wales. Drawn by an undeniable sense of adventure, she left for Bristol at 18 to train as a nurse. She joined the army nursing corps during WWII and worked in a tent hospital close to the Front in Normandy. She met her future husband, John (1923-2004), a British Officer with the Royal Engineers, in Bruges. Their romance continued by letter until they were both stationed in India. They married in 1946 in the foothills of the Himalayas.

John’s work as a civil engineer took Betty and family to London, Sierra Leone, Baghdad, and Athens before they settled permanently in West Van in 1973.

Betty was a great friend to many, compassionate and wise, an avid reader, letter writer, WV library volunteer, Jane Austenite, bridge player and human being extraordinaire. All who knew her will be forever touched by her spirit.

We are so grateful for the devoted care Betty received from the staff at Inglewood Care Home.

But a very special and loving thank you to Mop’s private companions - you are angels who showered her with love and made her feel safe and cherished throughout her journey with dementia. Words are not enough to express our depth of gratitude.

A celebration of Betty’s life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, a donation to BC Cancer Foundation or the Alzheimer’s Society would be profoundly appreciated.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the West Vancouver Yacht Club, 5854 Marine Drive, West Vancouver on October 31, 2022 at 1:00. Any donations can be made to the charity of your choice.

Wayne had a great passion for trains. As a young man, he worked for CN RAIL, travelling all across Canada. He then worked as a SkyTrain attendant for over 20 years, proudly serving the City of Vancouver which he so loved. All who knew Wayne will also recall his love for, and detailed knowledge of the extended Royal Family and its history.

Wayne is survived by his sisters Bonnie (Nairn) and Sherry (Bruce); his nephew, Neil (Christine); and great-nephews Jack, Sam and Ben; and his niece Sarah (Shaun); his great-niece Claire; and his great-nephew Jamie.

Wayne’s quiet manner and gentle good humour will be sorely missed by all who knew him. A private family Service of Remembrance will be held in the New Year.

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DOHM, Thomas Anthony June 2, 1946 − August 29, 2022 A private service was held for retired Judge Thomas Anthony (Tony) Dohm, who passed away peacefully on August 29th, 2022, in North Vancouver, BC. Tony is survived by his loving wife of over 50 years, Sue; his brothers Louie and Barney; sisters Terri, Rosanne, Faithanne and Gioia; sons Anthony and Aaron and their wives Gracey and Suzette; and three grandchildren Sabina, Aidan and Anya.

He was a kind and compassionate person with a tremendous sense of humour. Tony will be missed dearly by his loving family and friends.

MACARTHUR, Jay (James) Thomas January 7, 1957 − October 12, 2022 We will deeply miss our husband, brother, dad, and grandpa. Jay is survived by his wife of almost 40 years, Lucy; sister Brenda Moretto; daughters Janine Koldyk (Simon) and Deanna MacArthur; and grandkids Lilia, Hazel and Luke James. He graduated from UBC Electrical Engineering in 1979 and worked for BC Tel & Telus for 40 years. Jay loved his family and God’s creation. He will be remembered for the many hours he volunteered for the Alpine Club of Canada, Federation of Mountain Clubs BC, and North Shore Alliance Church. We will miss skiing, hiking, swimming, and climbing with our grandpa. A Celebration of Life will be held on November 5 at 2pm at North Shore Alliance Church. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the ACC, FMCBC, or LGH Foundation.

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FISHER, Deborah Jane (nee Ratzlaff) June 30, 1954 − October 17, 2022

GOSDEN, John Kincaid August 11, 1939 − October 17, 2022

REILLY, Hazel I. August 20, 1931 − September 29, 2022

It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and friend. Deb was predeceased by her father Jack in 2001; mother Eleanor in 2006; and brother Sandy in 2008. She left us peacefully with family by her side on Monday, October 17th.

She will be dearly missed by her husband Marcus; daughter Niki (Dave); son Jason (Melissa); granddaughters Mackenzie (Dylan) and Samantha (Calvin); great−grandson Jay; brothers Philip (Judi), Scott (Lorna), Doug (Lee) and Graham (Vivian); nieces Natasha and Chelsea; and nephews Spencer and A Jay. Born in Vancouver at VGH, she went to school in West Vancouver and held various administrative positions on the North Shore eventually retiring from BC Ferry Authority. Deb was well known in the community as a youth soccer coach, loved spending time exploring the beautiful BC coastline on the the family yacht and thoroughly enjoyed travelling across Canada in their motorhome.

She had a very large presence in the Multiple Sclerosis community, having battled the disease since the age of 17 and will be dearly missed by all of her wonderful friends. Many thanks to the astonishing team at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver for the care, compassion and empathy over the last year of cancer treatments.

A private family Celebration of Life will be held at a later date, but we encourage you to share your wonderful stories and memories with all of us.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to MS Society of Canada or the BC Cancer Society.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Gosden at the age of 83. John passed away peacefully with his children by his side. A much−loved husband, father, and grandfather, he is survived by his wife, Julia; daughter Alexandra (Neil); sons Matthew (Sarah) and Stephen (Jenna); and grandchildren Henry, Miles, Penny, Fraser, Fletcher and Teddy.

John was born in Sutton, England, to Caizley George Gosden and Janet Kincaid Lang. He and his elder brother Lionel attended Lancing College, where John’s great interests were competitive swimming and playing the clarinet. Upon finishing school, John qualified as a chartered accountant and, in 1965, moved to Vancouver, where he took a position at Griffiths & Griffiths.

John quickly adapted to West Coast life, developing interests in skiing and, particularly in, sailing. He joined the Kitsilano Yacht Club and spent his evenings and weekends racing his Star, serving as Commodore of the club from 1978−79.

In 1970, John married Julia Mary Fitzjohn, a high school French teacher also from England. The couple made their home in North Vancouver in the upper Delbrook area. John was gifted with a green thumb, and every spring and summer, his garden boasted a spectacular display of flowers, much admired by passers−by.

John was very much a family man and especially enjoyed supporting his children’s musical interests, faithfully attending their numerous piano recitals and choir and band concerts over the years. Along with another parent, he started and helped to run a local Beaver colony for his sons to join and continued to volunteer for the Scouts at the local and district level for many years.

John had an enjoyable and rewarding career as a chartered accountant, mainly spent at Alberta Distillers Ltd., where he was the company controller. He took early retirement in 1999, which gave him more time to spend, not only on his garden but also on his great passion: music. He played both the clarinet and alto saxophone in several groups, including the West Vancouver Concert Band, the Sea to Sky Wind Ensemble and The Jazz Connexion. Though not a singer himself, John also served as treasurer for the Laudate Singers Society.

Finally, a heartfelt thanks to all the staff at Amica Lions Gate for the wonderful care they provided to John in his final years; it was greatly appreciated by him as well as his family.

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In loving memory of Hazel Irene Reilly, who passed away on September 29, 2022. Hazel was loved and adored and will be greatly missed by all of her family. Predeceased by her beloved husband of 60 years, Melville Reilly, and her eldest daughter, Trish Irvine. Survived by son David (Wendy) Reilly; daughter Carole (Gary) Galpin; son−in−law Scott Irvine; grandchildren Jason (Sarah) Irvine, Crystal Fletcher, Kevin (Emme Lee) Reilly, Gregg (Petra) Reilly, Rebekah Galpin and Chad (Madeleine Elkins) Galpin; and great−grandchildren Sage Fletcher, Ty Fletcher, Adam Irvine, Jesse Irvine and Kate Irvine.

Hazel was born on August 20, 1931, in Cabri, Saskatchewan, to Harley and Celia Spink. As one of nine children, she is also survived by her only remaining sibling, Ron Spink. Her family moved to Vancouver when she was 11, and once the November fog lifted and she first saw the ocean and the North Shore mountains, she was hooked and wanted to live there. Her happy place was Ambleside Beach, with the mountains at her back and the ocean at her feet.

She met the love of her life, Mel, and together they built their home in Edgemont Village. They moved into it when they married on May 7, 1953, and remained until health issues placed them in care.

Mel and Hazel established deep roots in their neighbourhood, where they happily raised their three kids. Hazel’s priority in life always was her family, and she lovingly welcomed her kids’ spouses as her own, without distinction or partiality.

Her heart was always ready to expand and welcome another into love − a stranger was just a friend she hadn’t met yet.

A consummate hostess, always ready to entertain, be it coffee for two, family dinner for thirty, the annual summer barbecues of one−hundred of her "nearest and dearest" friends, or the many festive parties she hosted over the years. She did them all with enviable natural ease making sure everyone felt special.

Throughout the years, Hazel had many interests and hobbies, including gardening, Beta Sigma Phi sorority, ballroom dancing, fishing, camping and travelling throughout much of BC. When Hazel and Mel got their boat, "The Limit," they explored as much of the BC Coast as they could, having fun wherever they went.

The family would like to express our immense gratitude to the staff at Inglewood Care Centre for the care and compassion they gave Hazel for the last 7 ¾ years, but especially for the past 3 years, when they went above and beyond dealing with COVID regulations and Hazel’s declining health.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donating to the Alzheimer’s Society of BC. A private family celebration of life will be held at a later date.

MARTIN, Lois B. December 23, 1943 − October 13, 2022 Born in Montreal, Quebec, on December 23rd, 1943, Lois was a long−time resident of North Vancouver, BC, where she passed away on October 13th, 2022.

Lois is survived by her daughter Rochelle (Steven); son Dale (Ingrid); former husband Dick; sister Beverly; and her nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her father Leroy; mother Thelma; and sister Sandra.

Lois graduated from North Van High in 1962 and worked for 25 years sorting mail at Canada Post in Vancouver. She was a good listener with a big heart and a sense of humour, and she will be dearly missed by all.

There will be no service by her request.

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Cleaning Business is looking for RELIABLE HOUSE CLEANERS. 604.987.9970 Seeking friendly & caring caregiver for my mother in Vancouver. Must have basic knowledge of elderly care.

Casual or P/T. $15-28/hr.

Email davevance090@gmail.com for job description.

West Vancouver Baptist Church 450 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver

Part time Office Administrator Position The Office Administrator performs administrative duties requiring initiative, independence, and confidentiality in the areas of office management, phone and alarm systems, networking, website and database management, and meeting facilitation. This position provides clerical functions including answering phones, data entry, compiling information and assisting other staff members, and works closely with the Lead Pastor.

During the Christmas season 2020, I lost an oval white opal pendant that my grandfather had made for me when I was 7 years old. I’m a senior now so you will understand the sentimental value this pendant has for me. I’m posting the ad again in the hopes that someone will recognize it from the very poor-quality picture. I covered a lot of ground the day it was lost, Capilano Mall, Lonsdale, Park Royal. The setting is both white and pink gold with a tiny leaf motif. The gold chain it was on broke, obviously I didn’t notice until later.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

778-886-0227

All advertising published in this newspaper is accepted on the premise that the merchandise and services offered are accurately described and willingly sold to buyers at the advertised prices. Advertisers are aware of these conditions. Advertising that does not conform to these standards or that is deceptive or misleading, is never knowingly accepted. If any reader encounters non-compliance with these standards we ask that you inform the Publisher of this newspaper and The Advertising Standards Council of B.C. OMISSION AND ERROR: The publishers do not guarantee the insertion of a particular advertisement on a specified date, or at all, although every effort will be made to meet the wishes of the advertisers.

Further, the publishers do not accept liability for any loss of damage caused by an error or inaccuracy in the printing of an advertisement beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by the portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred. Any corrections of changes will be made in the next available issue. The North Shore News will be responsible for only one incorrect insertion with liability limited to that portion of the advertisement affected by the error. Request for adjustments or corrections on charges must be made within 30 days of the ad’s expiration.

For best results please check your ad for accuracy the first day it appears. Refunds made only after 7 business days notice!

Please submit applications and resumes to Pastor Chris Kibble at wvbc@westvanbaptist.com. Position to start ASAP.

LEGAL LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES

WAREHOUSE LIEN ACT The following Registered Owners are indebted to Mitchell’s Towing Ltd. for storage and towing on the vehicles listed below. A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale that may accrue. Notice is hereby given that on November 2, 2022 or thereafter, the said vehicles below will be seized and sold.

1121413 B.C. Ltd. - 2004 Mercedes Benz ML350, VIN: 4JGAB57E54A478889 - $14,471.09 MCMILLAN, Brock - 2005 Ford Focus, VIN: 1FAFP36N25W309201 - $7,961.74 MIHALICZ, Riley - 2010 Honda Accord, VIN: 1HGCS2B89AA800895 - $13,134.25 RASK, Michael Richard - 2008 Pontiac Wave, VIN: KL2TW65628B015405 - $15,685.42 CAO, Lin - 2009 Nissan Altima - VIN: 1N4AL24E89C163462 - $12,329.60 BARONI, Donna Marcia - 1992 Dodge Stealth - VIN: 1N4AL24E89C163462 - $8,468.19 HOOGEVEEN, Douglas - 2009 Pontiac Torrent - VIN: 2CKDL33F596206647 - $14,646.31 MOHAMMAD, Ashraf Shabnam - 2012 Hyundai Accent - VIN: KMHCT4AE3CU242568 $5,178.92 HEREON, Taylor - 2000 Honda CR-V - VIN: JHLRD1872YC809385 - $8,001.01 MILLEN, Megan Chantal - 2016 Ford Escape - VIN: 1FMCU9FX1GUB49400 - $9,374.48

The vehicles are currently stored at Mitchell’s Towing Ltd, 1255 Welch Street, North Vancouver, BC, V7P1B4. For more information call Mitchell’s Towing Ltd at 604-982-0115. management@mitchellstowing.ca

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To set up an appointment call

604-653-9585

REAL ESTATE

RENTAL

industriAl/ CommerCiAl

ApArtments/ Condos for rent

INTEGRITY POST FRAME BUILDINGS since 2008. Built with concrete posts. Barns, shops, riding arenas, machine sheds and more. sales@integritybuilt.com. 1866-974-7678. www.integritybuilt.com.

LOOKING TO FREE UP SOME

West Vancouver Condo Entire 12th Floor 360° VIEWS 3 BR, 3.5 bath, 2,760 sqft floor area, 300 sqft of balconies.

Adult oriented building.

No pets. Long Term OK. Available now. $6495.

Wheel Chair Accessible.

Email: regill@telus.net or call 604-880-3125

604-653-7851

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ST. PIUS X ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 4.50000X2 R0011917020 :: #729628 CRAFT FAIRS/BAZAARS

Squamish Nation Presents:

2022 Holiday Craft Fair Shop and support local artists and small businesses!

For qualifications and details please visit www.westvanbaptist.com

Please recycle this newspaper.

SUDY’S BEAUTY 2.00000X2 R0011917027 :: #729629 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES High end spa in coveted Ambleside location has a space to share.

This is a great opportunity to operate your own business.

AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES! DRAWN EVERY 15-20 MINUTES HOME BAKED CHRISTMAS TREATS PICTURES WITH SANTA TALENTED ARTISANS & LOCAL BUSINESSES SCHOOL CHOIR 12:15 HOT BRUNCH & REFRESHMENTS SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

10:00AM TO 2:00PM ST. PIUS X ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 1150 MOUNT SEYMOUR RD., NORTH VANCOUVER FOR TABLE RESERVATION CONTACT ILEANATM@YAHOO.COM

November 19th 10:00am – 6:00pm November 20th  10:00am – 6:00pm Location:

Chief Joe Mathias Centre 100 Lower Capilano Road, North Vancouver, V7P 3P6 $5.00 Admission for adults (18–55) Students, elders & children are free!

Admission is cash only

         CALL FOR VENDORS!

Looking for local artisans and craftsmen to come sell, share and promote your business.

$30.00 / table per day, 2 tables max per vendor Elder vendors recieve 50% off

Tables are limited - first come, first served

To book your booth please email cjmcevents@squamish.net or call 604-980-6338

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HOME SERVICES exCavaTing

CARPENTRY, ADDITIONS, decks, 32 yrs exp, licensed.

Call Ken, cell 604-928-3270

Cleaning 18 YRS Professional cleaner.

Excellent refs 604-9801495 or 604-809-3598 www.maidinheaven.ca

ConCreTe

AGGRECON SPECIALTIES

• Polished Concrete Floors • Pumping • Placing • Sealing • Acid Staining • Decorative Concrete • Forming • Demolition • Foundation Pouring Professional Work

778-919-7707

dryWall

#1 Backhoes & Excavators Trenchless Waterlines Bobcats & Dump Truck & All Material Deliveries Drainage; Video Inspection, Landscaping, Concrete, Stump/Rock/Cement/Oil Tank & Demos, Paving, Pool/Dirt Removal, Paver Stones, Jackhammer, Water/Sewer, Line/Sumps, Slinger Avail, Concrete Cutting, Hand Excavating.

Basements Made Dry Claudio’s Backhoe Service

604-341-4446

flooring

ELECTRICIAN

DAVE 778-230-0619

TESLA HOME-CHARGER INSTALLATIONS Panel changes/ upgrades.

Paul Jennings Red-Seal Certified, 10 years experience

Complete Landscaping • Lawn Cuts • Gardening • Pruning • Power Washing

778-688-1012

laWn & garden

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Experts • Repairs • Staining • Installation • Free Estimates

604-376-7224 centuryhardwood.com GOLDEN HARDWOOD, LAMINATE & TILES. Install Hardwood, Sanding/Refinishing, Tiling. + Home Renovations.

• 778-858-7263 •

www.serafinagardens.ca 604-984-4433 contact Cari GREAT LOOKING Landscapes. Full service landscape & garden maint.

Call Dave: 604-764-7220

maSonry

Call Simon for prompt & professional service 30 yrs exp.

ROCK • SLATE BRICK • GRANITE • PAVERS Incl. Landscaping, Stone Structures, Patios, Pools

604-230-0627

20 years years exp. - No job 25 job too toosmall small

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www.northlandmasonry.com

Painting Specials

10%

OFF

your total bill

• Glass and mirror cut to size • Wood and metal customized frames • Storefront glass replace • Windows and screens replacements • Patio door screens and rollers • Canopy/skylight • Shower doors and railing glass • Emergency board ups

604 -230 -3539 778 -895-3503 604-339-1989

Interior Exterior Book& Your Fall Specials Exterior Now BOOK NOW.

604-299-5831 or 604-833-7529 D&M PAINTING .

Exterior/Interior Specialist Many Years Experience.

Fully Insured.

Top Quality • Quick Work.

Free estimate.

604-724-3832

Interior-Exterior-Repairs Professional - Reliable Lifelong North Shore Resident

Mark 604-250-1234

Bros. Roofing Ltd. Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

Liability Insurance, WCB, BBB, Free Estimates

604-946-4333

atozglass1451@gmail.com | 604-770-0406 • 236-777-8994 1451 Marine Drive, North Vancouver, BC V7P 1TS

Michael

604-802-7850 Time for a

touch-up?

Re-Roofing & Repairs Specialists

20 Year Labour Warranty Available

604-591-3500

ALL RENOVATIONS: •Kitchen •Baths •Additions •Patio •Stairs •Deck •Fences •Painting •Drywall & MORE

778-892-1530

a1kahlonconstruction.ca

MASTER CARPENTER

•Finishing•Doors •Moulding Decks•Renos•Repairs Emil: 778-773-1407

primerenovation.ca

NEW ROOFS & REPAIRS Gutter Cleaning • $145 Free Est. • GLRoofing.ca

604-240-5362

Tree ServiCeS ALL WEST TREE SERVICE

Topping, trimming, hedges pruning, cleanups and take away. Free est.

604-726-9152

WindoW Cleaning

Will-- 604.805.1582 604.805.1582 Wil

HandyperSon

RES & COM • INT & EXT Best Quality Workmanship 1 room from $178.

WCB. Ins’d. 25 yrs exp.

.

Capilano Home Improvement Small and big ig jobs jo

Kitchen and Bathroom remodeling Plumbing, Tiling, Paving Drywall, Carpentry, Deck, Fence Door and Window ood, Laminate Hardwood,

Insured & WCB

604.219.0666

604-727-2700

plumbing

Refer to the Home Services section for all your home improvement, decorating, and design needs.

604-644-9648

Find the professionals you need to create the perfect renovation.

• Hot Water Tanks • Plumbing • Heating • Furnaces • Boilers • Drainage • Res. & Comm.

• 24/7 Service

604-437-7272

DELBROOK PLUMBING & DRAINAGE

ALP ELECTRIC

Find it in the Classifieds!

painTing/ Wallpaper

Mark’s Painting Services

Gutter Cleaning, Power Washing, Window Cleaning, Roof Cleaning

(604)374-0062 Simply Electric

Need help with your Home Renovation?

Rubbish Removal $45/hr per Person.24/7 • 604-999-6020

18 Years serving the North Shore Walls, Fireplaces, Brick, Stairs & Patios New & Repairs

All Electrical, Low Cost.

604-765-3329

Jag • 778-892-1530

Serving the North Shore Serving the North Shore forover 20 20 years for years

• Fall Clean-Up & Maintenance • Pruning, weeding etc.

• Design & advice • Professional & experienced

A-1 Contracting & Roofing New & Re-Roofing • All Types All Maintenance & Repairs GUTTER CLEANING Gutter Guard Installations • RENOVATION WORK • WCB. 25% Discount • Emergency Repairs • a1kahlonconstruction.ca

ABE MOVING & Delivery &

RAIN FOREST STONE MASONRY

Garden Services

To advertise in Home Services

call 604.630.3300 604-653-7851

renoS & Home improvemenT

RICKY DEWAN PAINTING

Licensed. Res/Com. Small job expert. Renos, Panel changes.

Low price, big/small jobs, satisfaction guar. Free est

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SERAFINA

604-281-0758

#89724

Call Simon for prompt & professional service 30 yrs exp.

Call Sukh

604.726.9152 604.984.1988

roofing

Gutter Cleaning, Power Washing, Window Cleaning, Roof Cleaning

$350, 2 coats any colour 2 rooms for $400, (Ceiling & Trim&extra) Price incls (Ceiling Trim extra) Cloverdale Premium quality quality paint. paint.

Price incls premium NO completed.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed.

We do allAsk sorts of wood us about ourflooring and Flooring all types&ofMoulding mouldings.

Laminate Services.

Moss, Power Raking, Trims, Pruning, Lawn maintenance, Aeration, Topping, Clean-Ups Moss, Power Raking, Trims, Pruning, Topping, Clean-Ups free estimates

guTTerS

Res/comm. Fully lic. 40 yrs. Local exp. Bonded, Ins, WCB. Great rates. All work guaranteed 2 yrs.

Free est. 7 days 8 am midnight. Small to mid size jobs and service calls.

SHAW LANDSCAPING LTD

GARDEN SERVICES LTD. Lawn maintenance, Aeration, SPRING SERVICES

A & A Millwood Quality Drywall Service. Repairs, renos, new construction. Prompt service.

A CLASS

Affordable Moving From $45/hr 1,3,5,7,10 Ton Trucks Licensed & Insured Local - Long Distance Free Est. Senior Disc.

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28 Yrs experience.

Retaining Walls, Paving Stones, Fountains/Ponds, Fences, Irrigation, more.. www.yklandscaping.ca

A.A. BEST PRO

INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar.604-518-7508

eleCTriCal

poWer WaSHing

.

Boarding & Taping, Good Rates! Reliable, Free Est. Reno’s & Small Jobs Welcome! Call Gurprit 604-710-7769

Richard cell 604-671-0084 or 604-986-9880

moving

Y.K. Landscaping Ltd Young, 604-518-5623 Free estimates

N.C.B. CONCRETE LTD. Specializing in residential concrete. Repair, removal and new installation.

Patio specialists 604-988-9523 or 604-988-9495

landSCaping

PROMOTION

CarpenTry

• Licensed & Insured • No Job Too Small • Hot Water Tanks • Specializing in Waterline

BONDED & INSURED EXPERIENCED EMPLOYEES PROFESSIONAL, SAFE AND RELIABLE

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Handyman on the North Shore Fully Insured & WCB 604−551−4267 www.nv−handyman.ca

Find all the help you need in the Home Services section

604-729-6695 take a d load off Find help p in the Home Services section

To advertise call 604-653-7851 604-630-3300

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Limited time finance offer is from Honda Canada Finance Inc. (HCFI), on approved credit. Finance example: $35,000 at 4.42% for a 24-month period, for a total of 24 monthly payments of $1,526. Total finance obligation is $36,634. Finance payments include freight and PDI of $1,950 and applicable fees, but do not include lien registration fee (up to $85 in certain regions) and lien registering agent fee (up to $6), which are due at time of delivery. No down-payment required. Taxes, insurance, license, and registration fees (all of which may vary by region) are extra. †Enhanced Loyalty Honda Bonus is available to eligible customers who: (i) are the current owner/lessee of a Honda or Acura vehicle and reside in BC, AB, SK, MB or ON; and (ii) have a current Honda Financial Services (HFS)/Acura Financial Services (AFS) lease or finance account, or a previous HFS/AFS account that expired within the past year (365 days). This offer is not transferable to any other person. Proof of eligibility is required and must be submitted to HFS to qualify for this loyalty offer. Loyalty Honda Bonus will be applied only to a Honda brand vehicle leased or financed through HFS, on approved credit, as follows: $500 bonus HR-V models. Loyalty Honda Bonus: (i) will apply only to current payments advertised by HFS in Canada; (ii) cannot be combined with other existing loyalty offers, unless otherwise indicated. Offer ends October 31, 2022 and is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Limited time finance offer is from Honda Canada Finance Inc. (HCFI), on approved credit. Finance example: $35,000 at 3.42% for a 24-month period, for a total of 24 monthly payments of $1,511. Total finance obligation is $36,260. Finance payments include freight and PDI of $1,950 and applicable fees, but do not include lien registration fee (up to $85 in certain regions) and lien registering agent fee (up to $6), which are due at time of delivery. No down-payment required. Taxes, insurance, license, and registration fees (all of which may vary by region) are extra. †Enhanced Loyalty Honda Bonus is available to eligible customers who: (i) are the current owner/lessee of a Honda or Acura vehicle and reside in BC, AB, SK, MB or ON; and (ii) have a current Honda Financial Services (HFS)/Acura Financial Services (AFS) lease or finance account, or a previous HFS/AFS account that expired within the past year (365 days). This offer is not transferable to any other person. Proof of eligibility is required and must be submitted to HFS to qualify for this loyalty offer. Loyalty Honda Bonus will be applied only to a Honda brand vehicle leased or financed through HFS, on approved credit, as follows: $1,000 bonus on Pilot models. Loyalty Honda Bonus: (i) will apply only to current payments advertised by HFS in Canada; (ii) cannot be combined with other existing loyalty offers, unless otherwise indicated. Offer ends October 31, 2022 and is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Offer available only at participating Honda dealers in Western Canada. Limited quantity of 2022 models available, dealer trade may be necessary. Models may not be equipped as shown and are for illustration purposes only. Visit Honda.ca or your Honda dealer for details.