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Man accused in Lynn Valley library stabbing spree pleads guilty Note: This story contains descriptions of violent attacks that may be disturbing to some readers.

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A man who went on a stabbing rampage in a public library plaza in North Vancouver two years ago pleaded guilty in court Monday morning to one charge of second-degree murder, five counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault.

Yannick Bandaogo, 30, looked straight ahead as he entered the pleas in French in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster before Justice Geoffrey Gaul. A three-day sentencing hearing has been adjourned until July, when psychiatric reports and victim impact statements will also be considered by the judge.

Because Bandaogo has pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder, he will receive an automatic sentence of life in prison. Lawyers expect to make a joint submission to the judge about when Bandaogo should be eligible to apply for parole – which can range from 10 to 25 years in prison.

Bandaogo has remained in custody at North Fraser PreTrial Centre since his arrest. His guilty pleas came more than two years since the shocking events involving the stabbing of

Residents gather at a memorial in the Lynn Valley library plaza paying tribute to stabbing victims one day after a deadly attack in March of 2021. The accused pleaded guilty to seven charges in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday. MIKE WAKEFIELD / NSN seven people that took place at the Lynn Valley library plaza on March 27, 2021 before horrified onlookers.

When police officers arrived at the scene, they found multiple victims in and around the library complex, ranging in age from 22 to 78, suffering from stab wounds.

Victims included a high school teacher, a North Vancouver mother of three and a young woman who was a student at Simon Fraser University.

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One woman in her late 20s later died of her injuries. She cannot be named, under a publication ban.

In court Monday, Bandaogo pleaded guilty to the seconddegree murder of that woman, as well as the attempted murders of Sheloah Klausen, Gary Mortenson, Susanne Till, Emma Henderson and Haya Newman. He also pleaded guilty to the aggravated assault of Mahnaz Kolahi.

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Widow decries vandalism of boat bearing husband’s name BRENT RICHTER

hammer it home,” she said.

When vandals tagged the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue’s main Horseshoe Bay vessel, it wasn’t just a piece of life-saving equipment they were damaging. It was also a floating memorial to a dedicated volunteer who delivered to the community.

Search and rescue vessel repaired The spray paint used in the graffiti can damage the structural integrity of the Zodiac’s inflatable hull, and in the days after the incident, it appeared the hull would have to be either repainted or fully replaced, which could cost upwards of $28,000.

As word of the damage spread, the team did receive a bump in donations to help cover the cost of repairs, but Gerard McKenzie, RCMSAR 1 president, said a local contractor has been able to remove the remnants of the paint.

“For the low sum, we consider, of $470.40, he was able to take the tag off and we don’t have to repaint it,” he said, adding that it comes as a “huge” relief for the team, which has to do its own fundraising.

“The real issue now is, how do we increase our security to make sure this does not happen again” he said. “We will be talking to the West Van District.”

McKenzie said Craig Rea’s name and reputation are still held in the highest regard on the dock.

“It was absolutely amazing what a human being he was,” he said. “For the people that worked with him in our station to name a boat after him is an indication of how much they thought of this man.”

With her husband’s legacy on water intact, Rea said she hopes to see others continue supporting the team through donations or by attending their 2023 Dinner on the Dock fundraiser on July 6.

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That’s the message from Geraldine Rea, widow of longtime search and rescue volunteer Craig Rea, who died in 2008 after living for years with kidney disease.

“He wanted one last adventure before he died and he got his skipper’s licence, and he joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary,” she said. “He really revamped the lifeboat society. He spent hours in his office, reorganizing everything, and he raised enough money to buy that lifeboat.”

When the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue launched the vessel in 2012, it was dubbed the Craig Rea Spirit. It cost about $650,000.

Sometime around 11:40 p.m. on Thursday, May 4, a group of three young people were caught on camera appearing on the dock in Horseshoe Bay. One of them was captured walking down to the RCMSAR boat and spray-painting the word “Jeans” on the hull.

Rea described her husband as someone who was always finding new ways to contribute to the betterment of his community.

“He liked to help,” Rea said. “And this was his swan song.”

That’s why Rea said her family was left feeling so “wounded” when they learned

Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue volunteers scrub spray paint from the hull of their main Horseshoe Bay search and rescue Zodiac on May 7. JASON KING /RCMSAR 01 the vessel he worked so hard to provide and which bears his name was deliberately damaged.

“To think anybody would attack a lifeboat when they might need it themselves one day, it just makes no sense,” she said.

Rea said she is speaking out now because she hopes it sends a message to those responsible.

“It may just prod their conscience a little bit more,” she said. “And they can

realize that there are people who contribute to the welfare of others.”

According to the West Vancouver Police Department, there have been no substantive updates in the criminal investigation.

Rea said if the suspects are ever caught, she knows what the appropriate punishment would be. “[The volunteers] put an awful lot of time and effort into this, so I think a little bit of community work would really

MOUNTAINSIDE SECONDARY

Grass fields at high school unlocked to public following complaint JANE SEYD

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Grass playing fields at Mountainside Secondary will now remain open to the public after hours – at least on a trial basis – after a complaint from a neighbour prompted a change in policy.

Until recently, two grass sports fields at the high school were among the very few such fields on the North Shore that weren’t fenced off.

That meant the fields were often used by neighbouring community members – for walking or kicking a ball around – when they hadn’t been booked by another group.

“I’ve been using it for the last 20 plus years,” said S.K. Lai, who lives on nearby Shannon Crescent.

Often neighbourhood kids would run around on the field or people would use it for jogging, he said.

But when Mountainside’s recent

seismic upgrade was completed, a new chain-link fence was put up around the field.

Lai noticed recently that the gates were kept locked and padlocked after hours, effectively shutting out the public. “It’s like Fort Knox or something,” he said.

Lai said he understands public use would be limited when the fields have already been booked by sports groups.

But he didn’t get why they would be limited during all times out of school hours.

The move also rubbed him the wrong way, he said, as such fields are ultimately paid for by taxpayers.

Lai sent an email to the school district asking for an explanation for the change.

But nobody was in a hurry to respond.

On Thursday, however, the school district appeared to change its mind, telling the North Shore News that the gates won’t be locked to the public – at least on a trial basis.

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North Shore baby eagles showing signs of recovery BRENT RICHTER

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About two thirds of North Vancouver and West Vancouver’s known eagle nests have chicks in them this spring, according to North Shore Eagle Network – potentially a good sign for the species locally.

There are 21 known mated pairs of eagles on the North Shore, and volunteer monitors for the A baby eagle in North Vancouver’s Inter River Park is fed by network have confirmed 17 one of its parents, May 21, 2023. ECEAGLEVIDEO / VIMEO chicks as of May 15. reached at 604-946-3171.

In past years, as many If you find a dead chick or eagle, as 90 per cent of the eagle pairs on the don’t touch it with your bare hands.

North Shore had chicks, but in 2022 Instead, report it to the province, which is there was a startling drop-off with just 13 monitoring for signs of avian flu, at 1-866hatched and only five fledged.

431-BIRD (2473).

It’s still not known exactly why 2022 Eagles are famously territorial, and was such a down year, but avian flu is Metro Vancouver may be at “maximum the prime suspect. Other environmental capacity,” according to eagle expert David concerns may have been factors as well, Hancock. When new out-of-town eagles including the 2021 heat dome or atmoshow up, they are liable to end up in fights spheric river, which could have impacted over turf with current residents. That’s the birds and the salmon they feed on. what happened last year with an eagle In any case, the volunteers are glad to who nests near Lighthouse Park. Annie, see the number trending upward again. as she became known, was rescued by “It’s better than last year,” said Sally the network’s volunteers and OWL, and McDermott, co-ordinator for the network. later was fitted by the Hancock Wildlife “Everybody’s optimistic.”

Foundation with a backpack-like tracker The numbers tend to fluctuate at device that allows us to see her location this time of year, in part because some in real time. chicks don’t survive their first few weeks, Annie has two chicks in her care this while other times, the monitors will spot spring. Normally she keeps to the nest another little head pop up in a nest where and her hunting grounds off West Grebe they previously only confirmed one.

Islet, but she recently made a couple This year’s chicks are now between unexplained sojourns to the Vancouver four and six weeks old – about half way to the age at which they’ll fledge and learn to Landfill in Delta.

The best things that humans on the hunt on their own. ground can do to support eagles is make “They’ve gone from the white fuzzball sure they are given plenty of space and to the grey fuzzball. Now they’re starting keep their habitats protected, McDermott to get a bit of brown,” McDermott said. said, which is best done by having plenty “They’re eating a lot more so the parents of watchful eyes out. The monitors train are having to bring a lot more food in…. their lenses and webcams at each of the They’re standing. They’re more alert. known nests to keep tabs on the adults They’re looking out.” and their chicks, which is easier said than At this age, there’s some risk of the done. chicks falling from the nest. If they surThe group is always looking for vive, McDermott said it’s best to leave more monitors to help but, McDermott them where they are, as chicks have warned, volunteers tend to become rather been known to make their way back up attached. It makes it’s all the more difficult through the branches. They should also when one of the chicks doesn’t make it, be reported to the Orphaned Wildlife she said.

Rehabilitation Society or OWL, which “It’s life,” McDermott said. knows how to care for them. They can be

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Police have determined driver error was the cause of a Tesla that crashed into the Horseshoe Bay BC Ferries terminal last January.

“Following an analysis of the vehicle data, the investigators determined the collision to be human-caused,” said West Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Mark McLean. The driver, a 68-year-old Vancouver man, was issued a ticket for driving without due care and attention under the Motor Vehicle Act, McLean said.

McLean said at the time of the collision the estimated damage to the ferry structure was over $30,000; on Friday, BC Ferries would only say that the damage was “in the thousands.”

Police described the car as having “suddenly accelerated” into the terminal on Jan. 14, leading to speculation as to what occurred.

BC Ferries spokesperson Deborah Marshall said the incident occurred at a closed gate at one of the berths.

Paramedics arrived at the scene and took the passengers to the hospital, she said.

In January 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concluded an investigation of sudden accelerations of Tesla vehicles, finding driver error to be the source.

“More than 200 incidents involving Teslas unexpectedly accelerating and crashing were the fault of drivers confusing their brake and accelerator pedals, not a defect with the electric vehicles,” reported the Washington Post.

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Man charged after MEC hatchet attack NICK LABA

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A man has been charged after he allegedly threatened to kill other people with a hatchet at a Mountain Equipment Company store in North Vancouver.

The suspect first appeared in North Vancouver Provincial Court on May 24, on the charge of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Just after 7 p.m. on May 23, police arrived at the store after receiving multiple 911 calls about a man swinging a hatchet at customers.

The man first entered the store, asking to buy bear spray and a knife, according to witness reports given to North Vancouver RCMP. Once he was denied by staff, he became upset and threatened to kill people there, said Const. Mansoor Sahak, adding that there were fewer than 50 customers in the store at the time.

The man left the store briefly, but then returned moments later “swinging a hatchet at people inside the store,” Sahak said.

Police were on scene minutes after

A customer parks their bike outside MEC in North Vancouver on Thursday morning. According to police, a man allegedly threatened to kill customers in the store Tuesday. NICK LABA / NSN the first 911 calls, Sahak said, and the man was taken into custody “without any further incident.” No one was injured, he added.

“He was initially apprehended under the Mental Health Act and taken to [Lions Gate Hospital] where he was then released shortly after and … transferred into police custody,” Sahak said.

Sahak said the man has a “history” with police, and lives with no fixed address in Vancouver.

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“Obviously, this person is a danger,” Sahak said. “[His actions] put a lot of people’s lives at risk at the business with the hatchet, and quite a few customers were scared, and they were hiding inside the store – it’s obviously very frightening for those witnesses.”

Regarding the man’s mental health, Sahak added that police wanted to make sure he was taken care of and is “getting the help that he needs.”

Eldon Maxine Lemaigre, 43, appeared in court again on Thursday, Friday and Monday. Lemaigre has continued to face mental health crises in custody, and has been certified under the Mental Health Act by a psychiatrist. His bail hearing has been postponed several times, while attempts to stabilize his condition have been made.

His next scheduled court appearance is Wednesday morning.

MEC released a statement commending its staff and security team for their immediate response to the incident.

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wo years after the horrific stabbing attacks in the Lynn Valley library plaza, this week’s guilty pleas in court mark a significant milestone, one we’re thankful to see behind us.

The French-language trial originally scheduled for 10 weeks would have been long and complex.

The pleas will likely come as a relief to the victims, who will now be spared having to testify and relive their experience. It allows them to concentrate on moving forward, rather than on the worst day of their lives. It will also come as a relief to the community at large, as it continues to move forward from that terrible day.

So far, what the guilty pleas haven’t done is answer the biggest question remaining – why? Random attacks on

strangers are extremely rare. Most serious assaults and even murders are committed by people who know their victims. So when actions this horrific occur without any obvious reason, they threaten our feeling of safety.

Randoms acts, by their very nature, could happen to any of us at any time.

We hope that the sentencing hearing scheduled for July – when psychiatric reports and details about an accused’s background are usually presented – will help us understand more. But it’s equally possible we may never get answers that will really satisfy our community.

After the attacks, we made the decision not to let one man’s actions define us. That message remains as relevant today as it did two years ago.

We remain Lynn Valley Strong.

Byelections are wild cards in province’s political game

On paper and based on the voting history in general elections, the two provincial byelections set to be held on June 24 should lack drama and excitement.

After all, both the ridings – LangfordJuan de Fuca and Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant – are longtime BC NDP strongholds.

Only the NDP has won the Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant riding since it was created in 1991, and the NDP has lost the Island riding (it has gone through various name and boundary changes) just once, and that was in the historic near wipeout of the party in the 2001 election.

And yet byelections are different political animals than general elections.

Since 1987, for example, the sitting government of the day (Social Credit, NDP and BC Liberal) won just four of 25 byelections. That’s a View From The Ledge failure rate of more Keith Baldrey than 80 per cent.

Byelections are often seen as mini referendums on a sitting government’s performance. A government’s unpopularity can undo its hold on even some of its traditionally strongest ridings if the voters want to send a message.

In the 1980s, for example, the Social

Credit government (led by then-Premier Bill Vander Zalm, a lightning rod for controversy) lost six consecutive byelections, including the usually safe ridings of the Cariboo, Boundary-Similkameen and Oak Bay-Gordon Head.

The NDP government of the 1990s also lost six straight byelections, but none of them were in ridings where the party had enjoyed any previous political success.

The BC Liberal governments under Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark lost five byelections and won two (both wins

by Ms. Clark).

One of the more interesting and historical contests took place in April 2012 in the usually strong BC Liberal riding of

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Perhaps as a sign of voter fatigue with the ruling BC Liberals, the NDP was able to score an upset victory where it had not even come close to winning before (its win was helped considerably by the strong showing of a BC Conservative Party candidate, who undoubtedly stole votes from the BC Liberal side).

If the BC United, BC Green and BC Conservative candidates in the upcoming byelections want to see any reason for hope on victory on June 24, they should remember what happened in Chilliwack (and Oak Bay and Cariboo more than 30 years ago) as evidence that even the safest Continued on page 9

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PARK MOMENT PUTS LOVE IN PERSPECTIVE Dear editor:

It was one of those perfect Deep Cove summer afternoons, and my wife and I had settled in at our favorite spot at Little Cates.

Our blanket spread out on the grass under the shade of a tree, overlooking the ocean.

My wife had fallen asleep beside me, and I was sitting up watching the boats cruising by, and the kids playing at the site of the old Dollar Mill. It was then that I noticed a couple slowly approaching one of the benches that was at the edge of the grass above the beach.

They were maybe late forties. And she was wearing her house coat, and had a scarf tied around her head. She looked very frail, and I could tell was suffering from a serious illness. She was moving very carefully, but had a look of determination on her face.

The man had one arm around her shoulders, with his other hand firmly holding the woman’s arm. His face told a whole story. This woman was the most precious thing in his world, and he was going to make sure she got to that bench without anything happening to her.

It was a moment I will never forget.

And the feeling was very strong that this was possibly their only chance to make this happen. She wanted to visit this one beautiful spot one last time, and her partner was going to make sure that she got her wish.

In spite of whatever she was faced with when she left this place, I knew that she had a partner that had given her all the love

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that one could hope for in life.

I couldn’t take my eyes off them as they sat side by side on the bench. Her gazing out at the ocean, and him watching only her. So much love! When they left, I felt like I should have thanked them for the gift they had given me.

I would never take for granted, the wonderful person on the blanket beside me.

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‘NOBLE SOULS’ HELP SOLVE CAR WOES Dear editor:

As I was about to turn the corner from 25th Street to Lonsdale on a very warm day recently, my vehicle experienced a vapour lock.

There is no alternative but to wait five or ten minutes for the engine to cool. The honking quickly began, then a pedestrian called to us, asking what the problem was.

He knew exactly what needed to be done, then motioned to a van behind, saying that he knew the crew in it and would get them to help us around the corner so we could coast to the Chevron station.

Another pedestrian came to my window to make sure we were in neutral, than all three pushed and in no time we were out of the way.

Three noble souls, plus the fourth who had to stay with his van, prevailing over the impatient honkers – never think the world has lost all its heroes.

Larry Dyke North Vancouver

NDP remains popular under Eby

Continued from page 8 party stronghold can be toppled.

Of course, the NDP government under Premier David Eby remains popular, according to recent polls. And Eby’s approval numbers continue to shine.

Throw in the fact that the newly named BC United Party is an unknown brand and that it will be fighting against the BC Conservatives over largely the same pool of voters, and the NDP must be heavily favoured to win both contests.

And yet history shows some strange and unforeseen byelection outcomes can occasionally occur.

Voter turnout in byelections is often low, which gives an advantage to any

candidate who can put together a well-organized campaign and ground game on election day.

The byelections themselves also pose no threat to the sitting government, as its majority is so large that losing one or two seats would not really weaken its grip on the provincial legislature. Look for the Opposition parties to seize on that point, and to plead to the voters in both ridings to “send a message to the government.”

They face a steep uphill battle, but every now and then a government can get bitten by the electorate, providing it is angry or frustrated enough.

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Exhibit tells story of beloved Coast Salish woolly dog MINA KERR-LAZENBY

MKerrLazenby@nsnews.com Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

If you had been wandering the Coast Salish territories of British Columbia some 4,000 years ago, rambling dense woodland and visiting village longhouses, you would likely have spotted a number of small, white, flocculent pooches.

Not just three or four, but packs of up to 20, their white fluff set against the flourishing green of the land like soft cumulus clouds against a clear blue sky.

The Coast Salish woolly dog was an integral part of community living for the Indigenous groups who lived throughout the province, on Vancouver Island, in the areas around Puget Sound, and along the border of Washington State.

Similar to a modern day Spitz, they were of small to medium build, with thick ivory hair, pointed ears and a question mark curled tail.

Kept and bred for their lustrous coats, their fluffy fleeces were sheared like the jackets of sheep and spun with the hair of mountain goats to create wool.

With it, Coast Salish women wove blankets and clothing that would become symbols of status and wealth, items that were displayed and gifted on ceremonial occasions and passed down through generations as prized heirlooms.

Now, some 4,000 years later, the Coast Salish woolly dog has ceased to exist and those blankets and robes are all that remain, the final relics of a treasured breed scattered across the world’s museums.

This month, the Museum of North

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MONOVA’s cultural programmer Senaqwila Wyss will include a digital art piece of the prized Coast Salish woolly dog alongside the exhibit. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN Vancouver opened an exhibition that is a requiem for the woolly dog, comprising two, rare, ceremonial robes woven with its fur.

One, from the collection of Indigenous activist Maisie Hurley, has been in MONOVA’s archives for years, while the other is on loan from Vancouver-based artist and textile collector Terrence Loychuk.

Also on display are a number of contemporary artworks from various First Nations artists, who each pay homage to the dog by diving into the significance it holds within their own communities.

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Senaqwila Wyss, the Museum of North Vancouver’s cultural programmer, says the woolly dogs extinction does little in the way of diminishing its presence within Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) culture.

The pa7Pa7iḵn, literally translating to “fluffy haired dog” in the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim (Squamish language), is omnipresent, embedded within accounts, tales and legends that have been orally passed down through generations for thousands of years.

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photographs, where they can be found curled up on the floors of the longhouses or sitting atop the knees of proud owners in monochromatic family portraits, their cotton ball bodies bright and white like spectral figures.

Their portrayal in art and photography verifies the relationship oral tales tell of man and dog, says Wyss. An animal so highly regarded that it was fed a rich diet of salmon, both raw and cooked, and kept isolated on small islands to keep them from interbreeding with local, hunting canines.

“Yes they were a source of wool but they were so much more than that. They were great companions to us, they were members of the family,” she says, attributing the Nation’s cherishment of the dogs to their personality, not just their appearance. The Coast Salish woolly dog was calm but playful, she says, and extremely loyal.

Wyss quotes influential Squamish chief Louis Miranda, who once explained the dog’s value by describing how, in an emergency, a woman would grab her child first, and her woolly dog second.

Eliot White-Hill, who will be showcasing his fine art and printwork as part of MONOVA’s exhibition, comes from the Snuneyumxw First Nation in Nanaimo. He says has been hearing stories about the Coast Salish woolly dog ever since he was a child.

He describes one in particular that sounds like fantasy fodder: A tale of a small island just off the coast that was like a dog sanctuary, littered with white, woolly editions of man’s best friend. Cameron Island translates to Solexwel in Snuneyumxw Continued on page 20

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Fencing allows the fields to be closed after periods of heavy rain or when needed for the grass to recover following a sport event, she said. It limits damage to vehicles and property by errant balls.

The fence was also a way to keep dogs off the field, said Dalla Vecchia.

Dogs aren’t allowed on school district property or sports fields, she said.

“However, at Mountainside, the reality is many dog owners allow their dogs to run on the fields, and this has led to field damage (e.g., holes dug in the sports fields, uncollected dog waste or poop bags left on the fields).”

The grass sports fields at Mountainside are owned by the school district and operate under a joint use agreement with the North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission which oversees scheduling of all the sports fields owned by the school district and North Vancouver municipalities.

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That means if dog owners let Fido poop and dig on the grass field, the gate could be locked up again.

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North Van trailblazer claims Women of Distinction award MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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A local trailblazer, whose unrelenting efforts have helped shift how Indigenous communities are represented and regarded across the Vancouver area, has won the Reconciliation in Action Award at the 40th edition of the YWCA Metro Vancouver Women of Distinction Awards.

For the best part of 20 years, Ginger Gosnell-Myers, a Nisga’a and Kwakwak’awakw woman who resides in North Vancouver’s Mosquito Creek neighbourhood, has married her own culture and history with her background in public policy to decolonize and Indigenize policy and planning across Vancouver.

Gosnell-Myers said the award was a surprise, especially given the “incredible” line-up of people in the running for awards this year, but a welcome one after years of tireless effort.

“I’ve been doing this work for over 20 years, and so winning this award makes me feel a little relieved, and a little validated,” she said. “In fact, validation is probably the biggest feeling that I have right now, because sometimes it feels like your work can go unnoticed no matter how hard of an effort you put in.”

Gosnell-Myers certainly has been putting in the hard yards: her research was the bulk of the Environics Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study, a pivotal source of data on urban Indigenous communities, and her reconciliation framework created while working for the City of Vancouver has overhauled policy

in all of its departments, guiding them to better incorporate Indigenous relationships, culture and identity.

Under Gosnell-Myers’s guidance, the city was the first government to truly acknowledge that it resided on the unceded lands of Indigenous people, and by the time she had finished working in her role as manager of Indigenous relations, more than 75 new policy changes or initiatives had been put into the framework.

“The framework was implemented in 2014 and cut across every department,” she said. “It created a space for departments to change their internal policies to ensure they were meeting and advancing reconciliation with Indigenous communities, at a time where not all city policies were supportive.”

Now Gosnell-Myers works for Simon Fraser University as its first ever Indigenous fellow, working with developers, planners and architects to create pilot projects that determine how Indigenous knowledge can be incorporated into urban planning and capital development projects.

It has been rewarding, she said, to be able to create so much change in such a short period of time, but that has been a feat only made possible due to the meagre efforts that had been in place prior.

“Sometimes it feels like I shouldn’t be one of the first people to be doing this work, because it should have been done already,” she said.

“But unfortunately we haven’t lived in a society that has really respected or valued indigenous knowledge until recently. It’s creating a lot of opportunities for those of us who have been doing this work for decades now, to finally be recognized and validated.”

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Shiva Manish Mudaliar pled guilty to the charge Feb. 1 in North Vancouver provincial court and was sentenced May 15 by Judge Joseph Galati.

According to an agreed statement of facts read in court, Mudaliar and a co-accused – Gurpinder Vicky Johal, 27 – first came to police attention while North Vancouver RCMP were conducting surveillance on a rooming house at 462 East 11th St. because of that address’s association to previous drug activity.

That morning, police saw a white Jetta driven by Johal approach the area, stop briefly and interact with someone who then walked away, said Crown counsel Lisa Dumbrell.

Police then started surveillance on the car, following it around the North

Shore through several brief stops including some in West Vancouver.

Surveillance continued until the Jetta went back to the alley behind the house on East 11th Street where a man appeared to be waiting, getting into the back seat of the car and leaving a minute later.

Police eventually moved in on the car when the drug dealers went through the Tim Horton’s drivethrough at 2177 Dollarton Hwy., blocking the exit and arresting the two men in the car.

As they did so, Mudaliar, who was in the passenger seat, dropped a bag of drugs on the floor of the car, said Crown counsel Lisa Dumbrell. Both men were taken back to the detachment and the car was towed and searched.

Inside the car, police found about $1,100 in cash along with bags of drugs and a collapsible baton.

The drugs included 13 baggies of fentanyl benzodiazepine with a total weight of 1.6 grams, six baggies of fentanyl with a weight of 0.6 grams, five baggies of fentanyl benzodiazepine with a weight of 1.2 grams, and

48 bags of cocaine with a weight of 15.4 grams, said the Crown. The drugs were estimated to have a value of about $2,000.

Dumbrell said Mudaliar does not appear to have a drug addiction himself. Selling drugs “appears to be for profit and simply for easy money,” she said.

She added Mudaliar is a “low level drug trafficker” without a criminal record.

“He is not at the top of any food chain.”

Mudaliar’s defence lawyer Marvin Stern told the judge his client was just 19 when he committed the drug offence and was going through an aimless period of his life. He now works for a company in Surrey that imports and exports vehicles, said Stern.

Judge Joseph Galati placed Mudaliar on house arrest for the first six months of his 18-month conditional sentence, with exceptions for medical care, work and school.

Johal, the other man in the car during the dial-a-dope operation, received a similar sentence in March.

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North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA Bowinn Ma has announced she and her spouse are expecting their first child, due this November.

Ma, who is in her second term as MLA, announced her pregnancy on Facebook on May 16.

“This is an exciting time for me and my spouse, and we are looking forward to growing our family with our first child,” she said.

Much of the statement, however, focussed on how the change in life circumstances will impact her role as Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness as the province enters high season for disasters.

“I’m also acutely aware of the threat of flooding and wildfires that are currently and will continue to impact people and communities across British Columbia. My focus on the challenges and needs of people through the hazard season and beyond remains unbroken,” she wrote.

In an interview, Ma said a lot of work has gone into continuity plans that will make sure the government and her ministry are planning around the knowns and unknowns of her pregnancy.

North Vancouver-Lonsdale NDP MLA Bowinn Ma is sworn in as minister of emergency management and climate readiness in Victoria, Dec. 7, 2022.

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“It’s a weird job where your premier knows you’re pregnant before your parents do,” she said. “There’s all sorts of considerations to line up.”

Plans are in place for Environment Minister George Heyman to step in as acting minister as needed, particularly in the weeks following the birth of her child, while parliamentary secretary Roly Russell and Minister of Forests Bruce Ralston will continue to support disaster preparedness and recovery, the River Forecast Centre and BC Wildfire

Service in their respective roles.

“We have a great team that can ensure that communities are well supported,” Ma said, adding that she intends to keep working right until her baby arrives in mid-November, at which point, she will go on leave for the rest of 2023 and return to work, gradually in January.

“This will give me about two-and-a-half months to get my feet under me as a new mother before returning to the legislature with the baby for the spring of 2024,” she said. “That being said, I’ve certainly heard from experienced mothers that this is ambitious and so I know that I have to be prepared to be flexible about it as well… I’m also told that babies don’t care very much about our schedules.”

When former Nelson-Creston NDP MLA Michelle Mungall gave birth while she was serving as minister of energy, mines, and petroleum resources in 2018, the government of the day had to amend the rules of the house to allow her bring her infant son into the chambers.

“There were a number of changes that came about as a result of her pregnancy, that I’ll be able to benefit from,” Ma said.

Ma, 37, said her older colleagues in the

legislature are now encouraging her to take the time and space that she needs and they are advising her to set boundaries.

“I’m working on that,” she said.

Ma said new remote work options created through the pandemic will help, and she said she and her partner will be spending more of their time in Victoria with less back-and-forth to North Vancouver.

That will mean less time in the constituency office in Lower Lonsdale, but Ma said her very capable staff will make sure that local residents’ voices are still carried to their MLA. “That won’t change,” she said. “I am having a having a baby and I am super excited about it but also, it doesn’t change my commitment to my community and to the province – that commitment I made to be there for them and to ensure that they are supported.”

With a year-and-a-half left until the next scheduled election, Ma will be leaving her options open.

“I’m going to continue to be the MLA for the remainder of the term. There will be an election, and we’ll see what happens after that because anything can happen in an election,” she said.

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Continued from page 13 language, literally meaning “little wool dogs,” White-Hill says, and had been one of the designated homes for the animals to keep them from mixing with the more undesirable breeds.

“Knowing that the people and my ancestors in Solexwel had access to wool dogs in that way speaks to the wealth that the village had, and how rich we were in that way. They had an entire island just for their dogs, and they had that access to the wool from them, which was a really significant economic resource,” he says, explaining how the blankets had been “like currency” for First Nations communities.

“They were prized belongings, dogs that were passed down matrilineally that were just really, really highly regarded.”

Legends, myths and tales which centre around the “cheeky” nature of the Coast Salish dogs were equally as rife, he says, their mischievous and loyal nature making them prime candidates for any hero or heroine character.

And yet in various academic sources mention of the Coast Salish woolly dog is scant, and on the rare occasion the breed is mentioned its depiction is a far cry to the picture painted by the likes of Wyss and White-Hill.

History books and academic papers claim the Coast Salish people abandoned their woolly dogs following the establishment of trading posts and the introduction of England’s Hudson Bay to B.C. in 1827. The arrival of the store, and in turn the arrival of sheep wool blankets that were quicker and easier to make, encouraged Coast Salish women to give up rearing their dogs and weaving their wool, eventually allowing them to interbreed.

It’s cited as the reason for the population’s decline in the 1800s and eventual demise by the early 1900s, but Wyss attests that was not the case.

“To me, the stories I had heard growing up were completely different to what I would read online, which would say the Salish Indians gave up, they didn’t want to do weaving anymore and they thought it would be easier to buy a blanket than to weave,” she says.

“This research just did not resonate with me at all in terms of how important these dogs were to Coast Salish people. It was just so shocking that these narratives were out there, diminishing our whole relationship, and the significance of the blankets and the woolly dog itself.”

Instead, Wyss says the woolly dog’s dwindling population coincided with the government’s implementation of Indian Agents, representatives hired to enforce the Indian Continued on page 21

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Selective breeding could bring back the woolly dog Continued from page 20 Act on reserves.

Iain McKechnie, a zooarcheologist with the Hakai Institute and the University of Victoria, says attributing the breed’s extinction to something as simple as the arrival of a Hudson Bay blanket collapses and condenses what is actually a long, complicated history.

“There is a lot of written documents and information out there.

There is a lot to consider, but the voices of the people who experienced the trauma of the 20th century, of the 19th century for that matter, who experienced this humongous rupture in the world,

they are the ones we should be listening to,” he says.

That such tall tales are commonplace isn’t surprising to McKechnie, given he had been one of the few to convince academic circles of the dog’s existence and prevalence in the first place.

It was McKechnie who, in 2019, led a study examining thousands of mammalian dog bones collected from across the Pacific Northwest.

Many of the bones had initially been thrown into the catch-all category of “canid” but upon closer inspection McKechnie and his colleagues found that the majority of the bones had been from domestic dogs – not wolves or coyotes, as

originally presumed.

Small dogs, hundreds of them, found across Coast Salish territory. It was physical evidence of a dog that some history books had practically delegated to mere myth. Since then, McKechnie has been invested in extensively researching the Coast Salish woolly dog, and he is currently working alongside Wyss on a project that examines its genetic history. He remains tight-lipped on the project’s specifics, but Wyss says looking into the dog’s genetics could potentially help bring about its return.

In recent years, she says, she has been collaborating with the

Smithsonian Natural History Museum, currently home to the only known remaining woolly dog fleece, to explore possibilities.

“It is not possible to have an exact clone,” she says, “but if you did selective breeding you could look at all the certain traits of the dog, like the fluffiness of the fur, the size, the personality traits, and it could be possible that after ten years or so of selective breeding of different dog breeds we could be looking at a dog that closely resembles it.”

With breeds that still exist that are similar in body and temperament to the woolly dog, like the Pomeranian or Siberian husky,

curating something that is as close in nature to a breed that once existed isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem.

“I think that it absolutely can happen and it should happen,” remarks White-Hill.

White-Hill envisions a future where the woodlands of Coast Salish territory are once again littered with fluffy white clouds.

Where cultural centres filled with women gathering together to chat over an afternoon of, dog-wool weaving, just like they did some 4,000 years ago.

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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An earlier incident that resulted in the closure of Highway 1 and the Mosquito Creek Trail had been the result of a man suffering an apparent mental health crisis, say North Vancouver police.

At 9:30 a.m. on Monday police were made aware of a man acting erratically and causing public alarm along the Mosquito Creek Trail under the Highway 1 overpass, said North Vancouver RCMP in a statement.

The man, seemingly suffering a mental episode, was in possession of a number of makeshift weapons and had

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Ask any creative what qualifies as art and they will tell you that art is multifaceted, spanning everything from music and performance to paintings, sculpture, sketch and – to some especially green-thumbed creatives – a meticulously curated garden.

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On May 27-28, gardens across the North Shore celebrated all things aesthetically pleasing for Arts in the Garden, a community event that fuses all facets of artistic creation by putting together visual artists, musicians and live performers in the same space.

The annual event, presented by North Van Arts, comprised 13 blooming gardens that traversed themes from “engaging” – a garden with thought-provoking artwork and an active garden with bubbling ponds – to “connected” – another filled with interconnected, meandering trails and musicians who sang on the on the healing power of trees.

“This natural environment lends itself so well to art. Galleries are very restrictive, you’re in a very sterile environment, but this inspires creativity, more authentic conversation,” said Garrett Andrew Chong, a photographer whose images had poked out from flourishing flower beds in a garden on West Vancouver’s Marine Drive.

For the artists participating, the event gave them the opportunity to get out of the stuffy confines of gallery and

Susan Bath’s whimsical garden had hanging chandeliers and silvered elements throughout. MINA KERR-LAZENBY / NSN workspace, and allowed their wares to be viewed and appreciated by a wider audience.

“This is a really, really nice opportunity. This is a very different demographic to where I live, a much different crowd, and it means I can showcase all the different things that I work on,” said Emily Picard, an artist from the Sunshine Coast.

Like many of the artists participating, Picard’s creations complemented the space it inhabited. The eclectic nature of her work – Picard’s mediums span acrylic paint, spray paint, watercolour and marker pens – slotted in seamlessly to a garden that was anything but minimalistic.

Aptly categorized under “ethereal,” the North Vancouver garden, number 7 on the tour, had been like a scene from Alice’s Wonderland, complete with

chandeliers hanging from the trees – 75 in total – birdcages protruding from flower beds and crystal dinnerware scattered large silvered tables.

Gardener Susan Bath, who has spent 27 years putting the outdoor scene together, said she hopes her mystical greenspace will inspire creativity within all who enter, and will encourage them to embrace whimsy in all its forms.

“I hope this shows that you don’t necessarily have to hire a professional, or be a professional, to create in this way. You don’t need a landscape artist, you don’t need money or a large garden, you just need time and a sense of playfulness,” she said, adding how most pieces had been gifted, bought from charity stores, or picked up from the side of the road.

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The art of growing and preserving your own grapes LAURA MARIE NEUBERT

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Most certainly, grapes are garden pantry staples, ranking high alongside herbs, tomatoes, storage vegetables and fruit, and winter greens.

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Born in 1872, Sewinchelwet (SophieatFrank) was a renowned weaver from the In 1914, a group of men working the Wallace Shipyardsbasket formed a baseball team, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation). simply named Úxwumixw “The Wallace Shipyards,” and joined the North Shore Baseball League. The She remembered to have dailybut to Vancouver from Eslha7an to sellWorld and trade teamis disbanded after this travelled first season, reformed following the First War. her work.

These trips resulted in her meeting Emily Carr in 1906, with whom she enjoyed a close friendship.

In 1919, led by star players Jack Wyard, Ernie Jolliffe and ace pitcher Art Gourlay, the Sewinchelwet’s work showcases the high skill and specialized knowledge of Coast Salish “North Shore Nine” went on to win the Vancouver Commercial League and the Senior weaving, and her designs feature motifs and styles of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, passed Championship Pennants. The latter was in photo a series against the Vancouver Sunfamily at in down through generations of weavers.

Thewon above shows Sewinchelwet with her Athletic Park, saw the WallacesHistory handily defeat the Sun 13-2 and 8-2. the 1930s.

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Oven-dried Interlaken raisins preserved in an ice wine syrup are a staple in Neubert’s home. LAURA MARIE NEUBERT which they can struggle somewhat.

Grapes also love to climb — walls, pergolas, fences, trellises and trees. Grape vines (plants) can be trained to grow espalier style against a sunny wall — taking advantage, long into the night, of stored energy captured by the wall’s thermal mass during the day.

Grape vines are, in my books, one of nature’s perfect food plants. Birds nest in grape vines and in tandem they fertilize and cool soil, shelter underplantings like native berries, wild greens, and tender herbs, and Continued on page 27

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Grape plants can be used in their entirety — vines for shade, structure and decor; leaves for tannin (keeps pickles crunchy), salad greens, and for wrapping meat, cheese, rice and grain bundles; and grapes for eating, preserving, pressing, providing us with resveratrol and many other health and wellness preserving phytonutrients and natural medicines, and of course for making wine.

Bacchus, the celebrated mythical Greek god of wine (grapes), music, and ecstasy certainly had it going on — wandering about as he apparently did (naked perhaps), waving his fennel stalk-shaped, honey-soaked sceptre, anointing followers with happiness and abandon. I can think of worse fates.

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Grape vines also provide shade Continued from page 26 ultimately send nutrients back into the soil food web through decomposing leaves.

Grape vines grown along eaves cool homes naturally and energy-efficiently through dappled shades of green, white and purple all summer, and when the weather turns in the fall, shed their leaves to welcome the low-lying and warming winter sun. We accomplish a similar end with native honeysuckle.

Living on the edge of the forest as we do, we harvest grapes a few days before they are ripe. Of course we are tempted to leave them to perfect sweetness, but we know better. Racoons, bears and other wild creatures will come calling if we let any fruit ripen fully, so we don’t, not ever.

A small price to pay for the privilege and responsibility of living on the north shore among the wild things.

Some years ago, our friend Chef Robert Bartley gifted us some spectacular Interlaken grapes that he had preserved simply, in Muscat wine and dark maple syrup. They inspired me.

Today, after much experimentation, I have landed upon a new family favourite pantry staple — oven-dried Interlaken raisins preserved in a simple syrup of filtered water, British Columbia ice-wine, dark

maple syrup from Quebec and whole split vanilla bean (or extract).

The secret is in slow-roasting (110 C) the grapes (Interlaken, Coronation, or other smallish variety) on a sheet pan lightly oiled with extra virgin olive oil and then dusted with sea salt. Prop the door open a bit to allow moisture to escape, and toss the mixture now and then over the course of three hours or four hours.

Dilute ice-wine 50/50 with filtered water, add maple syrup to taste plus a split, scraped and chopped vanilla bean.

Simmer the syrup to marry flavours, reduce slightly, and burn off the alcohol.

Rehydrate the roasted raisins momentarily in the hot syrup and then store the cooled mixture in the fridge, or freeze for later use.

Bring the roasted grapes to room temperature before serving on a small plumpy cake of beautiful goat cheese, atop a savoury meat or vegetable tourtière, with sour cream ice cream, or on a charcuterie board. Sweet, salty, and unctuous.

Bacchus would have approved.

Laura Marie Neubert is a West Vancouverbased urban permaculture designer. Learn more about permaculture by visiting her website upfrontandbeautiful.com, or email hello@upfrontandbeautiful.com.

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Sentencing hearing scheduled for early July

Continued from page 1 Bandaogo entered the guilty pleas on what was to have been the start of a 10-week French-language trial before a judge without a jury.

In court Monday, prosecutors read from an agreed statement of facts in French, detailing the events on the day of the stabbing.

Attacks detailed in court According to the statement, Bandaogo first came to B.C. in February 2021 and had spent time at the Lynn Valley Library during the month of March 2021. On March 27, Bandaogo first arrived at the library in the morning, where there was a book sale going on in the community room.

Just after 1:40 p.m. that day, a woman referred only by initials was working on her laptop near the entrance to the book sale, when Bandaogo went straight towards her and suddenly started stabbing her, according to the statement of facts read by prosecutor Jean-Benoit Deschamps. Bandaogo stabbed the woman 12 times, resulting in injuries

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that led to her death.

Klausen was in the library corridor with her daughter during the attack and tried to stop the attack by hitting Bandaogo with her umbrella.

Bandaogo grabbed the umbrella from her hand and pushed Klausen to the ground, said Deschamps in French.

While Klausen was on the ground, Bandaogo repeatedly stabbed her.

Bandaogo then attacked and stabbed two more people in the library before following a witness outside near Browns Social House restaurant, said Deschamps, where he stabbed another victim.

Bandaogo then went towards Lynn Valley Road, where he hit a woman in the face with the umbrella that he had taken from Klausen, said Deschamps.

Bandaogo then went towards the entrance of the library on Lynn Valley Road, where he attacked and stabbed another victim. As he went south in the direction of 29th Street, Bandaogo was pursued by multiple witnesses.

At the intersection of 29th Street East and Lynn Valley Road, Bandaogo was surrounded and arrested by police.

Guilty pleas first step Outside court, Crown counsel JeanBenoit Deschamps described the guilty pleas as the first step in the healing process for the community.

Prosecutor Daniel Loucks said the guilty pleas would likely provide “tremendous relief for a lot of the people involved – the victims and the community – to have this result rather than having to go through the uncertainty and anxiety of a lengthy trial.”

Bandaogo agreed in the statement of facts entered in court that he didn’t know any of the people he attacked in the Lynn Valley library plaza. There was no information in Monday’s court hearing about what motivated the stabbings.

Outside the court, Georges Rivard, Bandaogo’s defence lawyer, said Bandaogo had accepted responsibility for his actions by pleading guilty. Rivard described the case as “tragic.”

Bandaogo, who is from Montreal, had no connection with any of the victims and no home in B.C., according to statements made by police. At the time of the attack, he was wanted on warrants in Quebec and Manitoba, according to police.

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Public Hearings

OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AND ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENTS

When: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 7pm.

Where: Council Chamber, 355 W. Queens Rd, North Vancouver, BC How: The Public Hearing will be held in a hybrid format with a combination of in-person and electronic participation by some of all members of council, staff

and the public. The public are invited to attend at the Council Chamber where they will be able to see and hear the entire proceedings. Those wishing to view or to participate in the meeting electronically may do so at https://dnvorg.zoom.us/j/67910218298 or by phone by dialling 1-778-907-2071 and entering Meeting ID: 679 1021 8298

Two public hearings will occur consecutively in the following order:

1541-1557 Bond Street and a portion of lane allowance

What? A Public Hearing for Bylaw 8626, an amendment to the Zoning Bylaw to create an exception to Section 403A “Uses Prohibited in All Zones”, Subsection (1)(f) “the manufacture of hazardous materials” to allow the manufacturing, liquefaction and storage of hydrogen with a maximum storage capacity of 180,000 US gallons on the portion of 100 Forester Street outlined with the black dashed line on the map, below.

What? A Public Hearing for Bylaws 8623 and 8622, proposed amendments to the Official Community Plan (OCP) and Zoning Bylaw to permit the creation of a six-storey, 65-unit residential rental housing development and a contribution to the Green Spine Linear Park at 1541-1557 Bond Street and a portion of lane allowance.

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Bylaw 8622 proposes to amend the District’s Zoning Bylaw by rezoning the portion of the subject site and lane allowance outlined in red from Single Family Residential 6000 Zone (RS4) to create a new Comprehensive Development Zone 144 (CD144) and the portion of the subject site and lane allowance outlined in green to Neighbourhood Park (NP). The CD144 Zone addresses permitted and accessory uses, conditions of use, and Zoning provisions such as density, amenities, setbacks, height, site and building coverage, landscaping and stormwater management, flood construction requirements, and parking and loading requirements.

Questions?

Kevin Zhang, Development Planner 604-990-2321 or zhangk@dnv.org

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What changes?

Bylaw 8623 proposes to amend the OCP land use designation of the portion of the subject site and lane allowance outlined in red from Residential Level 5: Low Density Apartment (RES5) to Residential Level 6: Medium Density Apartments (RES6) and the portion of the subject site and lane allowance outlined in green to Parks Open Space and Natural Areas (POSNA).

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When and How can I provide input?

We welcome your input on June 13, 2023 at 7pm. You may sign up to speak at the hearing by contacting the Municipal Clerk at signup@dnv.org prior to 3pm on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. You may also provide a written submission at any time prior to the close of the public hearing by sending it to the Municipal Clerk at input@dnv.org or by mail to Municipal Clerk, 355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver, BC, V7N 4N5. After the speakers list has been exhausted, there will be an opportunity for additional speakers who had not signed up in advance to make submissions. Please note that Council may not receive further submissions from the public concerning these applications after the conclusion of the public hearings.

Need more info?

Relevant background material and copies of the bylaws are available for review at the Clerk’s Office, 355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver, BC, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm, except holidays, from May 30, 2023 to June 13, 2023 or online at DNV.org/public-hearing.

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Distressed hummingbirds prompt warning to clean feeders JANE SEYD

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A North Vancouver woman is urging backyard birdwatchers to keep their hummingbird feeders clean after recently coming across two hummingbirds that appeared to be showing telltale signs of fungal infection.

A rufous hummingbird approaches a feeder in Britannia Beach in May 2023. MARK TEASDALE

Anna Cho lives in an apartment on East 12th Street, near Lions Gate Hospital.

She usually has a hummingbird feeder out on her balcony to attract the Anna’s hummingbirds that are year-round residents in the Metro Vancouver areas, along with the rufous hummingbirds that migrate to the area in summer.

“We usually keep it out all year,” she said – being careful to change the feeder and thoroughly clean it every three days.

Hummingbird showed signs of infection Recently, Cho said she became concerned when she saw one of her regular

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hummingbird visitors showing signs of what looked like a fungal infection.

The hummingbird’s tongue was hanging out, she said, and the bird appeared weak, flying slowly and heavily, in contrast to the tiny bird’s characteristic quick helicopter-like movements. Eventually the hummingbird ended up sitting on a nearby tree and appeared extremely lethargic. “It wouldn’t move,” she said. “I haven’t seen it since.”

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Dirty feeders breed infections, wildlife rescue association says Continued from page 30 symptoms.

Cho said she’s no bird expert, but with a background in biology, is aware that hummingbirds can catch a fungal infection if feeders aren’t adequately cleaned.

“It made me worry,” she said.

Kimberly Stephens, hospital manager with the B.C. Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C., said hummingbirds can contract a fungal infection if feeders aren’t cleaned properly.

Sugar water that’s left out too long in the heat is the perfect breeding ground for problems, she said.

Typically, the infection causes a hummingbird’s tongue to swell, so it can’t be retracted. Often the tiny birds will appear uncharacteristically lethargic, she added,

and might be observed spending more time than usual on the ground. The swollen tongue means the bird won’t be able to eat, Stephens added, and will result in the hummingbird starving to death.

The wildlife rescue organization recommends that feeders be cleaned every three to five days – more often in hot weather – including a thorough rinse with hot water and scrubbing with a bottle brush. Once a month, a feeder should also be washed with a 10 per cent bleach solution and left to dry, said Stephens.

As for what goes into the feeder, a solution of one-part white sugar to four parts water is ideal. Don’t use honey or brown sugar or any other sugar substitute, said Stephens, as they can be much more susceptible to bacterial and fungal infections.

Solutions with too much sugar can also be harmful to the hummingbirds, which also eat insects as part of their diet to provide protein.

“They can overload on that sugar water,” she said. Red dye isn’t necessary to attract the hummingbirds. Planting native plants can also be beneficial.

If someone spots a hummingbird with obvious signs of fungal infection, they should call the wildlife rescue association’s hotline, said Stephens, and get instructions on how to safely transport the bird to the rescue centre. In some cases, volunteers can come and get the bird. If a hummingbird is treated with anti-fungal medication early enough, it can recover, said Stephens. But a tiny bird with that type of infection is unlikely to make it on its own.

Cho said she wonders if hummingbird feeders left behind at a nearby apartment building on East 12th, where residents were forced to flee from a fire, might be behind the recent infections, although that’s pure speculation.

Meanwhile, she’s hoping to get the word out to locals to make sure their hummingbird feeders are properly cleaned – especially in the hot weather.

Typically, hummingbirds are much more reliant on feeders during colder winter months and into the early part of spring, when young hummingbirds typically hatch in February.

Most backyard feeders are less likely to see as much activity in summer, when hummingbirds have many other natural sources of nectar available.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

Proposed amendments to the Official Community Plan and zoning bylaws to streamline and clarify development applications and processes WHAT: A public hearing will be held regarding proposed: Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 4985, 2018, Amendment Bylaw No. 5231, 2023; and Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw No. 5230, 2023.

WHEN: 7 p.m. on June 5, 2023

WHERE: West Vancouver Municipal Hall Council Chamber (750 17th Street) and via electronic communication facilities (WebEx video conferencing software).

Members of the public may hear, or watch and hear, the hearing by attending the Council Chamber, or via electronic communication facilities through the link provided on the District’s webpage.

SUBJECT LANDS: The proposed Official Community Plan (OCP) bylaw amendments apply to the Whitby Estates and Future Neighbourhood Development Permit Areas as per the designation maps in Schedule ii of the OCP bylaw. The proposed zoning bylaw amendments apply to all lands within the District of West Vancouver subject to Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010.

PROPOSED OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW NO. 4985, 2018, AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 5231, 2023: would update the development permit exemption criteria in the Whitby Estates and Future Neighbourhoods development permit areas (DPAs) to meet the intent of those DPAs. PROPOSED ZONING BYLAW NO. 4662, 2010, AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 5230, 2023: would improve, provide flexibility and streamline development processes; address inconsistencies; clarify interpretations; and correct inadvertent errors and omissions.

COUNCIL WELCOMES YOUR INPUT: All persons who believe their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaws will be given an opportunity to present written submissions and to be heard during the public hearing regarding the proposed bylaws.

To participate in person, please attend the Municipal Hall Council Chamber at the date and time listed above.

To participate by video-conferencing software, please call 604-925-7004 on June 5, 2023 to be added to the speakers list. Detailed instructions on how to participate in the public hearing are available at westvancouver.ca/government-administration/mayor-council/attending-council-meeting-or-public-hearing.

MORE INFORMATION: The proposed bylaws and other relevant documents that Council may consider in deciding whether to adopt the proposed bylaws may be inspected at westvancouver.ca/news/notices and at Municipal Hall from May 18 to June 5, 2023 (Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.).

PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING YOU MAY PROVIDE YOUR SUBMISSION: via email to correspondence@westvancouver.ca; via mail to Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3; or place your submission, addressed to Legislative Services, in the drop box located at the main entrance of Municipal Hall. Please provide written submissions by noon on June 5, 2023 to ensure their inclusion in the public information package for Council’s consideration. No further submissions can be considered by Council after the public hearing has closed.

QUESTIONS? Megan Roberts, Assistant Planner maroberts@westvancouver.ca | 604-921-3453

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KidSport sale set for June 24 Residential Indoor Wood Burning Seasonal Prohibition May 15 to September 15 If you operate a residential indoor wood burning appliance in Metro Vancouver, Residential Indoor Wood Burning Emission Regulation Bylaw No. 1303 applies to you.

What you need to know: •

Users of residential indoor wood burning appliances (fireplaces, wood stoves, etc.) must use best burning practices.

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Residential indoor wood burning appliances cannot be used between May 15 and September 15, every year, unless: ¡

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There is an emergency (such as a gas or electrical outage lasting more than 3 hours)

Bylaw 1303 aims to reduce the impact on public health and the environment due to smoke from residential indoor wood burning.

As of September 2022, if you burn, you must declare your use of best burning practices and, in urban areas, register eligible wood burning appliances.

For more information, scan the QR code, go to metrovancouver.org and search ‘Residential Wood Burning’, call 604-451-6677 or email riwb@metrovancouver.org.

Metro Vancouver offers rebates to reduce emissions from wood burning appliances.

For more information, go to metrovancouver.org and search ‘Community Wood Smoke Reduction’.

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KidSport North Shore is set to hold their first ever New and Used Sports Equipment Sale on June 24, and the group is now in the process of collecting equipment for the sale. The fundraising sale is a double play for the local sports scene, providing an opportunity for athletes to pick up quality equipment at low prices while also serving as a fundraiser to help KidSport get more young athletes in the game. The registered charity covers registration fees for North Shore children and youth from low-income families to be able

to participate in sports.

KidSport will be accepting donations of new or gently used equipment from May 27 to June 4, with drop-off bins accessible during operating hours at several locations across the North Shore and Bowen Island, including the Delbrook, Harry Jerome, Karen Magnussen, Ron Andrews, Parkgate, West Vancouver or Gleneagles recreation centres, as well as the North Vancouver Tennis Centre and Hollyburn Country Club. Find donation details, including all of the drop-off points and what items are and are not accepted, on the KidSport North Shore website.

The sale itself will be held Saturday, June 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the gym at Carson Graham Secondary.

KidSport is also looking for volunteers throughout June to help prepare for the event, as well as volunteers to help on the day of the sale. Any interested volunteers can email kidsportnorthshore@sportbc.com.

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KELLY SPICER In Memory of Our Beloved Parents: R0011906983 GC07

Idena Margaret Sheehan &

Allan Thomas Sheehan TOMLINSON, Lorraine Fay September 21, 1954 - May 16, 2023

NEILL, Norma June June 20, 1933 - May 24, 2023 Passed away peacefully in North Vancouver on May 24, 2023. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Norma and her family moved to various places in Eastern Canada before settling in BC in 1980.

Our Mom and Dad first met and fell in love in Ontario. They headed out to BC with their young family and started a new beginning in North Van. Their only move was to our wonderful home at 864 where we celebrated many happy occasions and parties.

Our kind, quick-witted Dad passed on May 31, 2014 and our generous, precious Mom passed last year on a sunny St. Patrick’s Day morning, March 17, 2021. We have peace knowing they are once again reunited.

We miss Mom and Dad every day and cherish our many happy memories. We were very blessed with such loving and supportive parents.

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Norma was beloved by family and friends alike.

Norma was the mother of two sons, and was an exceptional wife and mother. She cared deeply for her family, friends, and neighbours. She was always the first to offer to help and was known far and wide for her kind heart and care and attention to all things at home.

Norma loved flowers and gardening and for years played key roles in flower arranging clubs. She volunteered for charities such as the Heart Foundation and Cancer Society. Norma also loved travelling and saw many countries of the world that way. Trips to Japan to visit her son and daughterin-law were annual highlights of her year. She loved music and would always join in on a song. Her laughter was infectious and always made those around her feel a sense of warmth and lightness.

Norma was predeceased by her husband of over 50 years, Walter Neill. She is survived by sons Lawrence (Janet) and Geoff (Keiko) and grandchildren Amelia and Warner.

A Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, May 31 at Hollyburn Funeral Home (1807 Marine Drive, West Vancouver). In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the United Way (www.uwlm.ca).

May the Sunshine of Comfort Dispel the Clouds of despair

With profound sadness, our family announces Lorraine’s passing in the early hours of May 16, at North Shore Hospice. In November, 2020, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and in July 2021 had a successful stem cell transplant. Later that year, a bile duct tumor was discovered, which continued to grow despite all treatment. In April, she chose to let it run its course, supported and surrounded by family and friends until her final hours.

Lorraine was born in North Vancouver, but moved to Victoria in her 20’s, living some of her happiest years in Metchosin with Dale and Nico (her dog).

Their house parties were epic. Eventually, she returned to Vancouver to be close to family. She enjoyed a career in Payroll and HR with both BC Ferries and the North Vancouver Recreation Commission, where she made many life-long friends. She retired in 2014.

Her warm, outgoing personality was a pleasure to be around and she made friends easily. She was kind, generous, fair minded, engaging, realistic, a bright spirit with a great sense of humor who loved to laugh. She was also determined and tenacious, traits that kept her going in the years it took to adopt her two precious daughters, Yuxiao and Kim Chi. They were her joy and will carry her spark throughout their lives. As a single, adoptive parent, she inspired and earned the respect and admiration of many.

Lorraine faced her health challenges with optimism, courage, realism and even humour. She is predeceased by her parents Clive (1967) and Flo (2004) Tomlinson, brother Wayne (2015). Forever missed by her daughters Yuxiao and Kim Chi, brother Darrell (Pat), sister Cheryl, many nieces, nephews and friends.

Profound thanks to Dr. Sasha Smiljanic and the amazing nurses at Lions Gate Hospital Chemo Clinic, who cared for Lorraine with such compassion and friendship. Thank you also to the pharmacists at Davies Pharmacy, who took a warm interest in Lorraine’s treatment and provided excellent service for the last two and a half years.

There will be no service, per Lorraine’s request.

Any well-wishes for the family and her girls may be sent to her loving sister Cheryl, guardian of Yuxiao and Kim Chi. (Email moose000@telus.net)

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SHARE YOUR CELEBRATIONS AND MEMORIES CURRIE, Sandra Ruth September 24, 1945 - April 18, 2023

SCHLEIMER, Johann (John) Johann (John) Schleimer left us on May 25th, 2023.

John was born March 10, 1928 in Yugoslavia, now Slovenia. He came to Canada in 1951 looking for a new life and new opportunities.

John was well known for being a barber at Sportsman’s Barber Shop, which he opened and operated for almost 40 years at 14th Street and Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver. He was an avid outdoorsman.

He loved salmon fishing - mostly in and around Pender Harbour as well as hunting in northern BC. John was the Executive Director for the Sport Fishing Advisory Board. He was also a member of the BC Wildlife Federation, Ducks Unlimited, and the North Shore Fish and Game Club. In the latter part of his life he loved lawn bowling with both the North Vancouver and West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Clubs.

John was a dedicated family man who will be missed by his family more than words can express.

John is survived by his daughter Kristina, son John (Andrea), grandsons Justin and Jeffrey, sisters Hildegard Winkler and Erika Krois. He is pre-deceased by his wife Herma, brother Henry, and brother-inlaw Joe Winkler.

In lieu of flowers, John would appreciate if you make any contribution towards the integrity of BC’s beautiful outdoors.

We announce with great sadness the sudden passing of Sandra. Sandy was born in Kamloops.

After graduating high school Sandy moved to Vancouver to work in the building industry where she met Gord through her cousin on a blind date.

During 50+ years together with daughters Shannon, Tara we cherished every moment spent together. Sandy supported the Capilano Rugby Club, members including John and Tim, and she donated to the Lions Gate new build in her honour.

Survived by sister Pat (Dale), and her nephews, Christine (Michael), Clint (Nina), and family. Thanks to those who sent messages, all in support.

Sandy was loved.

JAMES, Barbara Anne July 7, 1933 − May 4, 2023 It is with great sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Barbara James on May 4, 2023, after a brief illness. She was born and raised in Victoria and attended Royal Jubilee Hospital nursing school. She raised a family, taught preschool, nursed and volunteered over the next 60 years on the North Shore. Barbara will be forever loved and missed by her sister Grace; children Greg, Mark (Tracey), and Sarah; and her grandchildren Sam, Ben, Nicolas, Kevin and Leanne. We appreciate those who provided care for Barbara in her final days, in particular, those who fought for and provide MAID services.

An informal celebration of life will be held on June 18, 2023, from 2 to 4pm, in the Mt Seymour United Church Gallery.

SMALLEY, Laura Marie.

May 1, 1923 − May 14, 2023 Laura Smalley passed away on Mother’s Day, two weeks after her 100th birthday and was the last member of her family of 12 siblings from the Laboucane family in St. Paul, Alberta.

We wish to honour her and the legacy of love she created as the family Matriarch in North Vancouver.

She shared her love of supper clubs and socializing in Vancouver in the 1950s with her husband Bill and always looked glamorous! She was a devoted wife and Mother of three sons − Gary, Craig and Clay Smalley. Laura enjoyed sports and adventure travel with friends and family through many golfing vacations and lots of golf games at the Seymour Golf & Country Club in North Vancouver. She was also obsessed with hockey and is probably one of the oldest Canucks fans there is! She brought many extended family members together through her love of cooking and family and cooked big family dinners into her early 90s. Laura was a no− nonsense type of woman, she was honest, bold and beautiful, and we love her for it.

Laura was a devout Catholic, and we know she is with Jesus now. Rest in peace.

A Celebration of Life will be held on June 5th at the Devlin Funeral Home in Gibsons, BC, at 1:30pm.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club, 650 20th St, West Vancouver on June 15th at 2:00PM.

PARKES, Doreen S. December 17, 1935 − May 23, 2023

MORRISETTE, Mary C. July 17, 1932 − April 30, 2023 LITTLE, Mary K. Mary K. Little (Rollheiser) passed away January 14, 2023 in Calgary, AB. She was 89 years old. Born June 4, 1933 in Fusilier, SK, Mary was a long time resident of both Chilliwack and North Vancouver.

Funeral services for Mary will be held at 11:00 am on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Chilliwack BC. After the service, refreshments will be served from 12:00-2:30 in the school gym. St. Mary’s Church and school are located at 8909 Mary Street, Chilliwack, BC.

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

Celine Morrisette, "the Dancing Queen," has danced her last Samba. She was born in Ottawa and travelled by train to Vancouver in 1954, where she met her future husband, Dean. She is survived by her children Judy (Norman), Diane, and David; grandchildren Darren (Shauna), Kevin (Danielle), Brittany (Jeff), Nadine (Jeff), Nikki, Michael, Trevor, and Mathew; great−grandchildren Chase and Davena; and nieces Debbie (Bruce) and Sharon (Angelo). Her passions were dancing, music, and ocean cruises. Celine raised her family and then began working at the Royal Bank. She baked the best pies and brownies. She was a classy lady who dressed beautifully. For the past five years, she resided at Amica, West Vancouver, where she was treated tenderly.

Celine will be missed by all who knew her.

It is with profound sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Doreen Sylvia Parkes (née Neville) on May 23rd at the age of 87. She was surrounded by family at the time of her passing.

Doreen is survived by her husband, Gordon; sister Pat; children Sharon, Donna (Bob), Janice (Kevin), Debbie (Steve) and Corky (Lisa); grandchildren Jason, Crystal, Brandon and Amanda, Graham and Derek, Tanner, Bianca and Juliana; and great− grandchildren. Born in Winnipeg to Richard and Selma Neville on December 17th, 1935, Doreen had a deep love for family and dedicated her life to being a wonderful daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great−grandmother. Throughout her life, she was a strong, thoughtful and caring woman and the foundation of our family. She will be missed dearly by family, friends and everyone who knew her. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the SPCA in Doreen’s name.

A celebration of Doreen’s life will be held at the Holiday Inn & Suites, 700 Old Lillooet Road, North Vancouver, on Saturday, June 10th, at 5:30 pm.

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REMEMBRANCES Obituaries

Funeral services ZEIPPER, Peter

HUBNER, Leo January 14, 1926 − May 10, 2023 Leopold Hubner (Leo) died peacefully at home, surrounded by family. He was 97.

Born in Rokytnice, Czechoslovakia, Leo spread his beloved hometown culture everywhere he went.

Surviving a concentration camp in WWII, Leo next escaped communism, travelling to Denmark, where he met Laura Agnete Monrad Moller.

Peter Zeipper passed away peacefully on May 25, 2023, at the age of 79 years. Peter was born in Austria and immigrated to Canada as a young man. Peter built many houses, and he was a hard worker. He enjoyed skiing, music, and working in the garden. He will be missed by everyone who was lucky to know him. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Central Okanagan Hospice House, hospicehousekelowna.com.

Condolences, photos, or memories may be sent to the family by visiting www.springfieldfuneralhome.com Springfield Funeral Home • 250-860-7077

Leo was a very unique individual whose hard work and positive attitude inspired many. He will be fondly remembered and missed, especially by his children, grandchildren Karyn, Tobin, Amelia and Annika, daughter−in−law Allison, and nephew Arne.

A memorial will be held later this spring. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to your local school breakfast program.

Gordon Ivan Zavediuk passed away peacefully with his family at his bedside, May 26, 2023, at the age of 90, just in time to be with his wife, Nancy who passed in March, for their 62nd anniversary on May 27th. Dido was the father and grandfather that was always there to watch a game, offer business advice, or try to create a smile or a laugh. Gordon lived life with class and dignity and supported the family’s every dream. Dido, we see you in everything we have become. We will miss you dearly, but your love is a part of us forever. Funeral Service: Friday, June 2, 10:30 AM - Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. Internment: 12:30 PM - Capilano View Cemetery. To write a condolence to the family, please visit: www.mckenziefuneralservices.com

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604-922-1221 HollyburnFunerals.com JOLLY, Keith P. August 17, 1957 − May 20, 2023 It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend at the age of 65 after a brief and devastating illness. His family surrounded him at the time of passing at Lions Gate Hospital on May 20th, 2023.

He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Linda; daughters Mimi and Gabrielle; and brother Kevin.

Keith was born in the UK and moved to Canada in 1980, where he was an active member of the sporting community, racquet sports and rugby, respectively. He spent most of his professional life working in the Hospitality Industry for both Delta Hotels and the Vancouver Rowing Club.

Keith had a true zest for life and was always happy to sit down with anyone for a good chat, a laugh, and a beer. He was deeply loved and will live in our hearts forever.

ZAVEDIUK, Gordon Ivan August 22, 1932 - May 26, 2023

George & Mildred McKenzie

taking care of each other

The couple married in 1952, emigrating to Canada and starting their family in Kitimat by adopting Dorothy Anne and David. The family settled in West Vancouver in 1969. Leo was a popular teacher at Howe Sound Secondary, an entrepreneur, and a volunteer who felt strongly about giving back to community. This included serving 16 years in the RCMP Auxiliary.

In retirement, Leo and Agnete ran "Hotel Hubner" − a sought−after homestay, and travelled the world.

After Agnete’s passing in 2008, Leo continued volunteering and enjoyed gardening and spending time with family.

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The family would like to thank the staff at Lions Gate Hospital ICU for their care during Keith’s final days.

His celebration of life will be held on June 23rd at 2pm at First Memorial Funeral Services & Boal Chapel in North Vancouver.

Keith asked that his life be celebrated rather than mourned and to raise a glass in his honour.

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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.

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